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February 20, 1954

The Hockey News February 20, 1954

<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><h3>(STANDINGS ON FEB. 8)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02187/1545674-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="591" height="267"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03144/1545667-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="589" height="260"></div><h2>QUE. PROVINCIAL LEAGUE</h2><h3>(STANDINGS ON FEB. 9)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04124/1545660-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="589" height="133"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05106/1545653-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="583" height="259"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0689/1545646-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="593" height="167"></div><h2>OKANAGAN SENIOR</h2><h3>(STANDINGS ON FEB. 8)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0784/1545639-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="587" height="140"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0879/1545632-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="589" height="291"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS AVERAGES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0969/1545625-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="592" height="140"></div><h2>N.Y.-ONTARIO SENIOR</h2><h3>(STANDINGS ON FEB. 7)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1059/1545618-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="586" height="137"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1152/1545611-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="586" height="311"></div><h2>QUEBEC JUNIOR</h2><h3>(STANDINGS ON FEB. 11)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1247/1545604-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="590" height="156"></div><h2>ONTARIO JUNIOR</h2><h3>(STANDINGS ONJ EB. 11)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1340/1545597-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="586" height="213"></div><h2>INTERCOLEGIATE</h2><h3>(STANDINGS ON FEB. 11)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1440/1545590-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="590" height="115"></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Amateur Puck Parade… …At A Glance

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div>SAULT ST. MARIE, Ont&mdash;Money is the root of all evil! That famous saying appears to apply to the attitude of hockey leaders in Pembroke and North Bay relative to the feverish scramble for players on the part of the wealthy Sudbury Wolves and Sault St. Marie (Ont.) Greyhounds in the Northern Ontario Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Hockey League. Backed by tremendous support of the fans (Sudbury drawing, 5,520 fans; Sault Ste. Marie 6,000) the Wolves and Greyhounds are going all out to win the Allan Cup this Beason, peeling off big bills from their fat bankrolls. The hollers you can hear all across Canada are coming from Pembrooke, North Bay and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, the other three teams in the NOHA senior circuit.Britt Jessup, well-known sports and news editor of the colorful North Bay Dally Nuggett, states there is a definite danger of the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Southern Division folding if Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, continue to fight one another for outstanding talent. Sudbury managed to acquire Eddie Harrison, Bob Dawes and Pete Horeck before the deadline, while the Greyhounds nabbed Pentti Lund, all being former NHL stars. The boys reportedly are drawing big salaries.Britt says: &ldquo;Teams with smaller rinks and from smaller cities simply cannot match the bankrolls of the big teams from Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Who would have ever believed that players like Bob Dawes, Ed Harrison and Pentti Lund, just out of NHL ranks a couple of years, would be playing in our league? The wealthy Sault and Sudbury teams are able to pay these reinstated pros high salaries. It&rsquo;s pretty much a two-team affair now, the &ldquo;Battle of the Bankroll.&rdquo;Roily Ethier, capable aide-de-camp of Britt Jessup on The Nuggett, states: &ldquo;The Greyhounds and Wolves have been bolstering their ranks with little or no though at all of the future of the league itself. The selfish attitude of the big arena squads has put the entire league on a shaky footing for next year. What sense is there operating a league where it&rsquo;s strictly a two-team race every season because those clubs have such a terrific financial advantage.Art Bogart, manager of Pembroke Lumber Kings discussed the present 10 per cent pool system now in effect in the NOHA Southern Division. This system has all teams put 10 per cent of their gate in a pool to be evenly divided by all teams. Bogart pointed out: &ldquo;All it means to our club is that our money is tied up for a month. Last month we got back $1,760 from the pool, but we had put $1,680 into it. That meant we made $80, and that doesn&rsquo;t buy any last-minute replacements to match Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.&rdquo;Bogart went on to say that unless some new deal Is made on financial assistance he doesn&rsquo;t feel that Pembroke could compete in the player market.Interviewed by THE HOCKEY NEWS some time ago, Don Macintosh, sports editor of the Sudbury Daily Star, thought the smaller clubs should receive more help from the bigger clubs with bigger arenas and more money. Don later said: &ldquo;Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie are going to have to start thinking about the other smaller clubs soon or the Southern Division might become a two-team league. the Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Indians are shaky financially, and Pembroke Lumber Kings are hoping to break even this year so they can quit clean. With a new rink in the offing, North Bay will probably string along for a while, but it&rsquo;s only a matter of time until the cold facts and figures of Big Rink vs Small rink rule them out. The Golden Egg is rapidly turning into lead.&rdquo;In face of this raging controversy and Its overall signifigance to Northern Ontario senior hockey, THE HOCKEY NEWS interviewed several hockey leaders on the question to come up with a solution, if there is one. First of all, we find the big teams, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds and Sudbury Wolves in a predicament. Thousands of hockey fans turn out for every game, giving their teams tremendous support. Their supporters want The Allan Cup and nothing else and are willing to pay for it. So officials are working hard to give their loyal supporters the national crown. That seems logical enough. When the Ontario Allan Cup finals roll around, and the NOHA champions fall by the wayside the fans immediately cry for a better team. The solution, according to many, appears to be a bigger subsidy for the smaller rinks so they can compete on the player market. Barring this, Maxie Silverman may have the answer in his longtime bid to have an interlocking schedule with the OHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; so the big teams up North can expand operations. Maxie is dead set against subsidies. He states: Why should we let other clubs use our money to bid against us for players?&rdquo; Maxie voted against the present 10 per cent pool. He was the only team official who voted against, the other four teams voting in favor of the present setup.The entire question is currently the Number One topic in Northern hockey. Where will it end? &#9632;

Scribes Claim NOHA Now “Battle of The Bankroll”

<div class="byline">by Bay Omedra (Sports Editor, The Montreal Star)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02286/1544012-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="297" height="473"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01318/1544019-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="176" height="230"></div>IN DETROIT they call him &ldquo;Dick The Disturber&rdquo; &hellip; He is Dick Irvin of course &hellip; His latest charges in the New York papers regarding the Detroit scorer are old hat around here but Dick always manages to give them a new twist&hellip; Anyway he has Jack Adams jumping &hellip; The latter wants to bet that his man named Jewell who so far as Howe is concerned seems to be a Jewell of consistency, is more impartial than Lambert Mayer who is scorer here&hellip; Jack wants to spring for a bet of $200 to prove his point&hellip; That suggestion will come under advisement from cautious Dick who is no betting man &hellip; We don&rsquo;t know how they could settle that kind of a betIrvin claims that all Gordie Howe has to do to get an assist at his home bailiwick, is to be on the ice at the time a goal is scored. There have been hints from other quarters that Howe has come in for softies, but that&rsquo;s just like trying to prove the magician didn&rsquo;t have all those rabbits in the rat.There&rsquo;s usually a reason behind an Irvinian pronunciamento. Dick Is neither loud nor lachrymose. Rather, he is something of the psychologist, who has shown he can do marvels with a little superior thinking as regards to the man. The fact that he is pumping for Richard and blasting the Howe contingent, is not exactly earth-shaking news. Dick is no doubt anxious to stir the stew pot among his gang to keep the Rocket roaring.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03212/1544005-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="265" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Howe</figcaption></div>The league Is also heading toward the playoff stretch. Canadtens can&rsquo;t afford to slide with those rushing Leafs on their heels. Irvin knows there&rsquo;s little chance of his team overtaking the Detroiters for first place In the standing. So he is concentrating on the second best thing for good reason. The team that finished second plays the fourth-place finisher, while the other playoff series involves first and third place finishers.A little deduction on this count would give ample support to Irvin&rsquo;s anxiety to hold second place and go into the Stanley Cup semi-finals against either Boston or Rangers. The plot in the Irvin cranium is that Leafs and Wings would meet and hammer all the starch out of each other so they&rsquo;d be easy pickin&rsquo;s in the final.Simple, what.<h2>Beliveau Ready to Wheel</h2>Jean Beliveau thinks that if he can get a couple of goals some night that he will start wheeling In expected fashion&hellip; He showed in New York that he was ready to make a real splurge for rookie honors &hellip; He isn&rsquo;t a worrying type but those two injuries set him back so far he is bound to worry &hellip; In a recent trip to Wrightville which is near Hull he discussed his prospects with complete frankness&hellip; He admitted he had trouble finishing off his plays&hellip; He conceded he had plenty of scoring chances but few of them came off in the explosive fashion he used to show in the Senior Group&hellip; He recalled that he had been a slow starter in other years &hellip; Which is natural for such a big man who accumulates weight so easily.&hellip; He finds that in the NHL. the players seem to break faster with the puck &hellip; He finds it a lot tougher to get wheeling &hellip; While the goalies are a lot better but figures that playing with Richard and Olmstead he will soon solve their defences &hellip; He rapped Leafs as a tough &ldquo;holding&rdquo; team&hellip; &ldquo;They&rsquo;re the worst at holding,&rdquo; he said&hellip; Still he thinks they were a great team here on their last appearance &hellip; He remembered that he had a real scoring chance in that game but somebody put his arms around him &hellip; In his book Leafs that night looked even better than Detroit.The Canadian National Magazine has a story on Aurel Joliat written by W. A. Howard&hellip; He reports that Aurel now weighs 130 pounds or five pounds below his old-time playing weight&hellip; Aurel lasted sixteen seasons which was pretty fair for a man of his poundage &hellip; In all that time he didn&rsquo;t take fifty real good body checks &hellip; It is a fine article and very factual&hellip; Howard recalls the little known fact that Aurel was quite a rugby half back &hellip; His specialty was drop kicking &hellip; Reports from Quebec hint at an alliance of Quebec sporting interest to buy the Coliseum &hellip; This is a new twist to an often repeated tale &hellip; It could mean that Black Hawks would be moved there but why should they abandon Chicago? &hellip; There is nothing wrong with the Chicago setup that vigorous promotion such as they showed last year won&rsquo;t cure &hellip;. Dollard St. Laurent Is a &ldquo;No luck&rdquo; player&hellip; He was coming to his peak when he was hurt again &hellip; Big Bud MacPherson who takes his place lacks just one requisite of being a top liner &hellip; He lent aggressive enough for a man of his size &hellip; He plays it smart, cosy and often too easy &hellip; If he lashed out with a few body checks oecasionnally he could be a lot better than Ivan Irwin or some of the other more publicized defensemen in the league. &#9632;

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The Passing sports show

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON (The Toronto Telegram)</div>TORONTO, Ont&mdash;The big hoax and a tip from the coach has put a red-hot shooting iron in Hopalong&rsquo;s hand.Gordie Hannigan, alias Hopalong, hadn&rsquo;t ruffled enemy rigging through 23 games this season when the Toronto Maple Leafs introduced the Big Hoax, a threat to completely revise their leit wing parry, i who games later Hoppy had four goals.The Big Hoax itself originated two days before a raid on Montreal, where Leafs hoped to loot Canadiens of second place in the NHL standing. Reassignment of left-winger Hannigan to centre was part of it. Another part was the transfer of Sid Smith from the Ted Kennedy line to Hoppy&rsquo;s left elbow, thereby breaking a five-year alliance bewtixt Smitty and the Teeder. The last part of the shift involved the versatile Rudy Migay&rsquo;s switch from centre to left wing beside Kennedy.For two days the club practised this way and the deposed left wingers, Hannigan and Smith, worked like evicted beavers ack cllmatizing themselves to their new stations.But on the day of the game, Leaf Assistant General Manager Hap Day first Indicated an ulterior motive in the big switch when he said: &ldquo;We might just be trying something new. Psychology.&rdquo;Sure enough, when the Leafs hit the Ice to face the Habs, Hannigan was back on left wing, Smith back with Kennedy and Migay back at centre. And sixty minutes later the needled left wings had blasted four goals as Toronto won 4-2 and wrested, at least temporarily, second place from the Canadiens.Hannigan, who hadn&rsquo;t scored all season, connected twice in the first period. Sid Smith, who had been suffering from a month-long drought, scored once. And the third portsider, Harry Watson, who hadn&rsquo;t even been associated with the hoax, got Into the act with the fourth goal.It didn&rsquo;t stop there. Leafs next engaged Chicago Black Hawks in Toronto two nights later. Before the game, coach King Clancy took aside Hopalong for a briefing.You know as well as I do that you&rsquo;re not an old smoothie as a player,&rdquo; The King said man-toman. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t fool those other guys with the big dipsy-doodle, but you can beat then if you dig and work and forget about the fancy stuff. Just like you did in Montreal.Hoppy dug. He dug two more goals. Smith and Watson made their contributions of one each again and the Leafs coasted to a 6-0 triumph in the only game this season in which the King has afterward admitted &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t have to chew my heart in my mouth until the final whistle.&rdquo;With the eight goals in two games the much maligned left wing patrol had suddenly become Toronto&rsquo;s most potent department. Watson&rsquo;s 19 goals. Smith&rsquo;s 15 and Hoppy&rsquo;s four yielded the portsiders a total of 38, surpassing by two the total count right wingers George Armstrong, Rx&gt;n Stewart and Eric Nesterenko had produced.And the singular return of Hopalong in such a blaze of fire had reinforced Toronto&rsquo;s weakest link. Plagued by injuries to his ribs and leg through the first half of the season, and slow attaining condition after that, Hoppy was suddenly taking charge in every department.No matter what he did or what he hit, Hannigan was coming up with the puck like it was tied to his stick. He was a terror in the corners. And he was bodychecking fiercely and even upended the sturdy Butch Bouchard twice in the surprising Montreal contest.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01291/1544323-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="551" height="563"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rides AgainGORD HANNIGAN</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what&rsquo;s happened,&rdquo; the bewildered sophomore admits. &ldquo;I guess maybe I&rsquo;m getting my legs back. But I seem to be winding up in the right place more than I was. It could be the law of averages.Being in the right place can&rsquo;t be attributed to the law of averages or coincidence, according to Hoppy&rsquo;s centreman, Rudy Migay. &ldquo;All the big scorers are in the right place at the right time,&rdquo; Rudolph says. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s why they&rsquo;re the big scorers. You can&rsquo;t tell me that&rsquo;s any accident or luck.&rdquo;And it isn&rsquo;t. Hoppy has merely abandoned trick riding for the nonce in order to use some real bullets and join the serious business of the playoff roundup.Incidentals&hellip; Leafs wound up their six-game series against their first-division colleagues with a stitch total of 3 4&hellip; Ten of these were divided between Jim Morrison&rsquo;s nose and eye, another nine located in Leo Boivin&rsquo;s forehead, six in Harry Watson&rsquo;s eyebrow, five over and under Hannigan&rsquo;s eyebrow and four on Rudy Migay&rsquo;s temple&hellip; In payment for their long layoff at Christmas, Leafs undergo two four-game-in-five night series within the next three weeks&hellip; Chicago Stadium&rsquo;s rafter rebel connected on Harry Lumley with one of the three rotten eggs he tossed during a recent Leaf visit there. The same urchin who has thrown a chair, other eggs and sugar on the ice, was wearing a Maple Leaf windbreaker when caught. &#9632;

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“Operation Big Hoax” Pays Off For Leafs

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0158/1545757-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Harried By Cagey CalSTOPPED AT THE DOORSTEP &mdash; Harry Lumley of the Toronto Maple Leafs goes down to make a close in save off the stick of Boston&rsquo;s Cal Gardner (9). Down on one knee, arms spread apart and sorrowful expression on his face, Lum looks like he&rsquo;s ready to spring through a couple of choruses of &lsquo;Mammy&rsquo;. (Photo By Turofaky)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Boucher Evolves Modified Waiver System

<div class="byline">By KEN MCKENZIE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0250/1545788-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Wings Least Injured</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Ever since the National Hockey League Pension Society was formed on October 1, 1947, an accurate record has been kept each season on the number of games missed through Injuries by the different players. This record is computed game by game and at the end of the season the final totals of the number of games missed through injuries by each team is tabulated.Commencing with the 1947-48-seasons, first season this record was kept, up until the two-thirds mark of the current season, 3,613 games were missed by NHL. players through injuries.Clubs were heaviest hit by Injuries during the 1951-52 campaign when no less than 645 games were missed by players unable to take their place in the lineup due to injuries. The 1947-48 season was a particularly rough one and hard on the athletes. The teams were playing 10 games less that season than they have since 1949-50, but it didn&rsquo;t prevent the players from sitting out 606 regular scheduled tilts due to injuries.Last season with the team playing a 70-game schedule, a total of 604 games were missed by players sidelined with various hurts. After 139 games had been swept by the boards this season, exactly the two-thirds mark, the 120 some-odd players in the National Hockey League were forced to sit out 360 games through a varied assortment of injuries.* After 139 games&mdash;two-third mark of season.The players suffered less injuries during the 1948-49 semester when 369 games were missed. That figure was upped by exactly 100 games the following season, and close to another 100 games the following season. The number of games missed through injuries jumped from a total of 369 games in 1948-49., to 560 in 1950-51.Checking over the number of games missed through injuries by teams, it is discovered that the Montreal Canadiens have been hit the hardest by the detested injury bug. From the 1947-48 season until January 27, 1954, 871 games have been missed by players on Canadiens due to injuries. Whether it&rsquo;s the-wide-open style of play employed by the Montreal club that exposes its members to injuries more than the other teams, or whether the Montreal players aren&rsquo;t as rugged as on some of the other teams is hard to say. Who can supply the answer why players on Canadiens have missed 871 games through injuries, while players on the Detroit Red Wings over exactly the same period have missed only 264 games as a result of injuries.Detroit players have missed the least number of games due to injuries. Who can come up with the reason for this? Do the Detroit players take less chances than those on other teams? Has the early and strenuous conditioning routine adopted by the Red Wings at their training camp each Fall developed a resistance against injuries to the Detroit players? The Wings are always the first NHL. club to open their Fall training camp, and they are also noted for the heavy schedule of exhibition games they play prior to the National League opener each year.It&rsquo;s tough to figure out just why one team should be felled so much harder by injuries than another playing exactly the same number of games and under identical playing conditions.After Detroit, Chicago has the least injuries. Players on the Black Hawks have missed 501 games since October 1, 1947. Chicago holds the record for most games missed by injuries for a single season, however. The Hawke found 1950-51 a particularly disastrous season. Hawk players missed 202 games as a result of injuries. Chicago also holds the record for least number of games missed by a team throug injuries in one season. Last year Black Hawk players missed only 13 games.Detroit has a chance to better the Hawks record this season. Their players had missed only seven games at the two-thirds mark.Boston Bruins&rsquo; players have miseed 605 games as a result ot injuries during the same time that Canadiens&rsquo; racked up 871 games and Detroit 264. The Bruins have had three seasons in which they&rsquo;ve missed over 100 games. A total of 680 games have been missed by members of the New York Rangers which can be attributed to the Dept, of Injuries. Roughest single season the Rangers had was last year, when 180 games were played with players missing on account of injuries.Toronto Maple Leafs have been hit hardest after Canadiens. The Toronto players have missed 692 scheduled games through injuries. Last season was the Leafs&rsquo; worst from an injury standpoint, missing 176 games. The Leaf players have missed more than 100 games a season on only two occasions, 1950-51 and 1952-53. &#9632;

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Canadiens Hardest Hit By Injuries

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;When Arthur M. Wirtz, president of the Black Hawks, cried earlier this season for a means to insure a fairer distribution of players in the NHL, no one offered a solution. Frank Boucher has one now, for what it is worth. He thinks his modified waiver system is the answer.The Ranger manager proposes that the intra-league draft be junked. It hasn&rsquo;t worked out. In its place would be a new waiver setup whereby each of the major league clubs would be able to protect a maximum of only 18 players.Boucher&rsquo;s proposal it this, in essence:(1) The number of protected players on each NHL club to be no more than 18. This would allow for 17 players to dress and a spare in case of iniury.(2) All other players owned by each NHL. club that were not protected on the list of 18 must first be waived out of the league before they could be loaned, traded or sold to a minor league club.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0329/1545819-1-eng-US/f0001-032.jpg" title="f0001-03" width="253" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Boucher</figcaption></div>(3) All those on the original list of 18 protected players would be protected only so long as they be kept on the parent club. Before they could be loaned, traded or sold to minors, waivers would have to be received.(4) The waiver price in each instance would be fixed at $15,000.(5) The 18-player protected list must be submitted to a central agency prior to the start of semi-seasonal waiver meetings. Waivers will be sought for all unprotected players at these meetings, to be scheduled as near as possible to Sept. 15 and Jan. 1.(6) Rights of waiver call are to be given to NHL teams in the reverse order of the standing at the time of each meeting. However, in each instance where a player is purchased on waivers, the selling team would be allowed first call on the resulting overage, or unprotected, player of the purchasing team. The reverse order of standings would then apply.(7) Although the formal waiver meetings would be held only twice a season, a continuous waiver rule must apply to the 18 protected players.(8) For the purposes of insuring a workable waiver system, there will be no distinction made among the three minor leagues. As such, the NHL will be the only league allowed to draft players from any of the minor leagues. In this case, the draft price shall be standardized at $15,000.&ldquo;There undoubtedly are some kinks in this thing,&rdquo;Boucher admits. &ldquo;But I think it can operate. If the clubs are sincere about getting a fairer distribution of players, I think they should give this plan some serious thought. If they&rsquo;re not, then what&rsquo;s the use of having anything &mdash; like an unworkable intra-league draft?&rdquo;Boucher claims that the main fault with the present intra-league draft is that it is conducted only once &mdash; before the start of a season. &ldquo;A team lines itself up with assurance in the Fall,&rdquo; he points out. &ldquo;Therefore there are few or no draft calls. The players made available just don&rsquo;t seem to be worth $15,000 apiece.&ldquo;Under this waiver proposal, only 18 pro players of all those owned by each major league club can be protected. There would certainly be more action at a Fall waiver meeting since no good, young players could be covered up in the farm system.&ldquo;But where there would really be action would be in the midseason meeting,&rdquo; he adds. &ldquo;It is at that time that clubs, because of certain injuries or their low standing in the league, realize they need help. Moreover, they know by then just what type of help is needed.&rdquo;The waiver proposal is flexible enough to answer One quick question: what if a club loses several players by injury and needs quick help from its minor league?&ldquo;In case of injuries,&rdquo; Frank specifies, &ldquo;then the club can call up any player it owns, providing the same player or players be returned to the same minor league club upon the return of the injured player. Should the NHL. club want&rsquo;to keep the substitute player and send down any of its 18 protected players, then the player to be sent down would lose his protection and he&rsquo;d have to be waived out of the league.&rdquo;Boucher has certain conclusions about his new plan. &ldquo;Under this system,&rdquo; he emphasizes, &ldquo;there will be no players in the minors who are considered good enough by any major league team to be abl eto play in the NHL.&ldquo;Moreover, the NHL teams that have a big farm system will bet more than a fair return on their investment, should one of their players be picked up on waivers. And, of course, the poorer teams are assured of a fair distribution of players, at a reasonable price.&ldquo;This waiver arrangement would in no way affect the operation of amateur or pro hockey as it now exists,&rdquo; he concludes. &ldquo;The overall system of sponsorships, negotiation and reserve lists would operate as usual.&rdquo; &#9632;

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NY GM Suggests Protected Limit Be Reduced To 18

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The question has been raised as to whether higher prices, a dwindling dollar and an unusual 12-month stress on baseball are not waging a successful campaign to kill hockey in New York. The answer is very much in the negative.As a bonus for trying to show some improvement in a game they&rsquo;ve misplayed for many years, the Rangers drew their first sellout in five years at home on Feb. 7. That was a fine vote of confidence in a team which, though moving up, was still in fifth place.Unfortunately, the 15,925 fans present did not give the road weary Broadway Blues a sufficient lift on the ice. They wound up paying a high price for having finally beaten the Canadiens in Montreal the week before. Richard and Company came right back and completed a weekend sweep.That development cooled off the Rangers considerably. However, since it may have been merely a temporary reaction from some hard, fine hockey played on the road, the outlook was hardly foreboding.&ldquo;We had a bad game or so due us,&rdquo; Muzz Patrick said. &ldquo;I have all the confidence in the world that we&rsquo;ll get into those playoffs. Not by a point or two, either. We&rsquo;ll be in fourth place, solidly. We&rsquo;re a better team than the Bruins.&rdquo;One very good reason for the coach to be secure in the games to come was the continued improvement of his best line. Paul Ronty and Wally Hergesheimer, who&rsquo;d worked With eight or nine different candidates on their left wings, seemed to have found just the right guy.The emergence of Dean Prentice as a solid member of the Ronty line came about as an accident. The accident was to rookie Glen Sonmor, who injured a hip and had to be replaced.<h2>A Roamer</h2>Prentice had kicked around for one and one-half seasons, getting spot duty on the other two lines. A roamer, he didn&rsquo;t seem to fit in with anyone. He scored only nine points all last season, although he got into 55 games.A hard, honest player who&rsquo;ll give 100 per cent every moment, Dean suddenly got &ldquo;religion&rdquo; with Ronty. For the first time, he began to play position. Not only did he quit his roaming in order to protect the left alley, but he quickly adapted himself to Rooty&rsquo;s and Hergesheimer&rsquo;s two-man forechecking scrambles. They were covered up &mdash; by Prentice.The results have been noteworthy. In nine games through Feb. 7, Prentice has gotten two goals and seven assists with Ronty and Hergy. The center had four goals and six assist and little Hergy seven goals and five assists. Of the nine games, seven were on the road. The Rangers wound up with five victories and a tie.ICE CHIPS: With 18 games left to play, Hergesheimer had an outside chance of catching Bill Cook&rsquo;s all-time Ranger goal-scoring record. Hergy had 24 goals. Bill made 33 in his rookie year of 1926-27 and repeated five seasons laterFrank Boucher was impressed with 11 players he saw down on the farm during a recent scouting trip. &ldquo;All of them are of major league calibre,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If we needed them, I wouldn&rsquo;t hesitate to call on any of them.&rdquo; The list comprises: Saskatoon &mdash; Hy Buller and Lou Fortinato, defensemen; and forward Vic Howe, Aggie Kukliwicz, Chuck Holdoway and Ron Murphy. Vancouver &mdash; goalkeeper Gump Worsley; defensemen Allan Stanley, Mid Houghton and Jim Ross and forward Larry Popein. The latter Is owned by Vancouver &mdash; all others by the Rangers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01249/1543764-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="556" height="570"><figcaption class="caption-body">Solid MemberDEAN PRENTICE</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Recent Spurt By Rangers Shows At The Box-Office

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;After 54 games, Toronto&rsquo; Harry Lumley and Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk are tied in the race for the Vezin Trophy, each having had 93 goals scored against their respective team.Although the odds are against it, the two could end up at the close of the season in a dead heat. What; would happen thenIf they should end all even, the trophy would go to Lumley. The reason is simple enough. The trophy is awarded annually to the goaler who has played the most games for the team least scored upon.Lumley has played all 54 of Toronto&rsquo;s games whereas Sawchuk has participated in only 51 of Detroit&rsquo;s games, Dave Gatherum having played the other three while Terry was on the shelf with injuries. At that, it might have been worse for Sawchuk, for Gatherum allowed but one goal in his three appearances whith the Red Wings.It could be settled a lot easier however, and probably will be, if one of the terrific twosome were to end up on top without the benefit of having to resort to the official wording of the award. &#9632;

Sawchuk - Lumley Running Abreast In Vezina Race

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Of all the places to find help, look where the first-place Detroit Red Wings picked up their newest player &mdash; from the last-place Chicago Black Hawks.The Wings rescued Jimmy Peters, who played with them once before, in a swap for a junior amateur to be given Chicago after the season ends.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03214/1543819-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="538" height="567"><figcaption class="caption-body">A Wing AgainJIMMY PETERS</figcaption></div>A question to puzzle the fang was how a 31-year-old veteran from the floundering Hawks was supposed to help the high-flying Wings.Manager Jack Adams answered that Peters definitely should strengthen his club, especially in &ldquo;those tight-checking games with. Montreal and Toronto&rdquo;. Which was strong tribute to Peters&rsquo; noted checking ability. In addition Adams figured he had gained expert help in the penalty-killing department.&ldquo;When the chance came to get Peters, I talked it over with some of the older players and they agreed that it would be a smart move,&rdquo; Adams revealed.Sentiment was involved also. A nervous, fidgety little scrapper known as &ldquo;Shaky&rdquo; by the players, Peters was extremely popular in Detroit. Adams once assured him that he always could get a chance with Detroit if the other National League teams passed him by.That time had come. Peters waa next to go, headed for the minora or retirement, in the for-better-or-worse shakeup in Chicago which already had seen two other veterans, Jim McFadden and Vic Lynn, depart.Actually it was homecoming for Peters in several ways. He maintains his year-round home near Detroit and also has an off-season job here as salesman for a tool and die company.&lsquo;This is wonderful,&rdquo; his wife said excitedly when news of the deal was relayed by telephone to their home in suburban Union Lake Village. Peters has three children, Jimmy and June, nine-year-old twins, and Myrna, three.Incidentally, Peters, isn&rsquo;t the first player to return to the Wings to end his career. Joe Carveth same back from Montreal a few years ago under similar circumstances.A native of Verdun, Que., Peters could stage a homecoming with several NHL. teams. He is a much-traveled player who started with Montreal, was traded to Boston and then to Detroit the first time before being exiled to Chicago.<h2>Scored 21 Goals</h2>Last season, strangely, was his best in the league for he scored 21 goals.At the time of the trade Peters had hit for six goals and six assists with Chicago.To make room for him on th. squad, Adams shipped Vic Stasiuk back to.Edmonton in the Western League once more. Which could mean new woes for Edmonton rivals and the WHL goalies. Stasiuk was farmed out to Edmonton a year ago after the season started but proceeded to lead that loop in goals scored despite the late start.This year he lined up with Rookie Bill Dineen and Veteran Tony Leswick to wage a fight for the right-wing position on a line with Glen Skov and Marty Pavellch. Leswick finally won the job regularly and Stasiuk was used only infrequently since as a free-lence spare. Under such a limited setup, Vic had scored five goals and two assists at the time of his move to Edmonton. &#9632;

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Red Wings Will Utilize Peters’ Adept Checking

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;There&rsquo;s been both good and bad news concerned with the Black Hawks recent acquisitions from the Rangers and Boston &mdash; Ike Hildebrand and Jack McIntyre. While both have given good accounts of themselves since arriving in Chicago last month, they have not been able to escape the ravages of bad luck.This has unfortunately been very apparent in the case of plucky, little Ike who was sidelined for the remainder of the season February 6 at Toronto when he suffered a broken left leg in a collision with Eric Nesterenko. It was only his sixth game in Chihawk regalia.Ike was circling behind the goal and, since he&rsquo;s not one to avoid bodily contact, he stepped into the Maple Leaf winger. He appeared to trip over Nesterenko&rsquo;s legs and crumpled in a heap. He was carried from the ice and taken to a hospital where x-rays disclosed a fracture just above the ankle.About the only favorable aspect of the accident is the fact that Hildebrand, who had a &ldquo;We Like Ike&rdquo; banner hanging from the Stadium balcony in his honor less than a week after he joined the Hawks, will apparently not be permanently hampered by the injury &mdash; It was a routine, simple break.<h2>Plenty Of Time</h2>&ldquo;In a way, it&rsquo;s good that it happened when it did,&rdquo; said Coach Sid Abel. &ldquo;Now he should have plenty of time to get back in good condition. If he&rsquo;d have received the break early in the season, we no doubt would have wanted him back as as soon as possible and he might have returned too soon.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02233/1543850-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="525" height="849"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fractures LegIKE HILDEBRAND</figcaption></div>Ike has all the equipment to be a real star and was well on the road to a good year as an NHL. rookie when he was hurt. In five years in the minor Pacific Coast, United States and American leagues, he averaged over 30 goals per season. He led both the AHL and old USHL in goals in seperate campaigns.McIntyre&rsquo;s luck has been on the good side, but he has not completely eluded trouble. Wmen he tallied his third goal in his sixth game with Chicago February 4 against the Rangers he flew into Johnny Bower&rsquo;s cage and came up with five stitches in a head cut as un unjust reward.<h2>Collapsed</h2>He was able to climb from the net himself and accept hand slaps from his teammates, but he then collapsed over the boards at the Hawk bench. The mishap could very well have been as bad as that which felled Hildebrand, but big &ldquo;Moose&rdquo; showed that his head was as hard as his power-driven shots.<h2>Breakaway Artist</h2>Jack has proven a real breakaway artist, using his 180 pounds of heft to good advantage in galloping through opposing defenders. When he lifted the puck over a deserted Harry Lumley two weeks ago in the Hawks&rsquo; 2-1 win at the Stadium, it was his third counter out of four via the solo dash.A rearguard in his earlier days in organized hockey, McIntyre has shown why he definitely deserves a thorough chance to make good in the National League. He was with the Bruins throughout the 1952-53 campaign, but Beantown bosses farmed him to their Hershey (AHL) affiliate before the start of the current schedule. &#9632;

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Both Hawks Newcomers Injured, Hildebrand Is Out For Season

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Are the Boston Bruins paying the piper this season for knocking the Detroit Red Wings out of the Stanley Cup playoffs last season?Judging by the pattern of Bruins-Detrolt games to date, it appears that they are.The Red Wings have been making life miserable for the Bruins this season, and they haven&rsquo;t been hesitant about letting them know the reason. It&rsquo;s the shellacking in the seml-final round of the playoffs which th Bruins gave them last spring.&ldquo;Sure we&rsquo;re out. to get even,&rdquo; admitted Detroit&rsquo;s Marty Pavelich. &ldquo;They gave us quite a ribbing when they licked us.&rsquo;&ldquo;Even if they tie us it hurts them,&rdquo; chortled Ted Lindsay, the Detroit captain.Detroit&rsquo;s emotional carry-over toward the Bruins was illustrated expensively &mdash; for the Bruins&mdash;in the three-game series which the two teams played a few days ago. Detroit won two of the games and tied the third.At no time did the Red Wings relax and in one game, in which they acquired a two-goal lead in the second period, they threw up a zone defense of Stanley Cup proportions.With only two games of the 14-game sesonal series left, the Bruins have taken only six of a possible 24 points from the league champions, and at this point they haven&rsquo;t beaten the Red Wings in nine consecutive tries.If the Bruins took something out of Detroit with their upset of last spring, as some observers were contending earlier In the season,, it hasn&rsquo;t been visible in the games between the two. &#9632;

Bruins Paying For Last Season’s Faux-Pas?

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01248/1543905-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Living Up To The Name</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Charles William Conacher Jr., Pete that is, has been under the pressure of being compared with the past greats of the famous hockey family to which he so proudly belongs ever since he made his first brief appearance in the National League with the Black Hawks late in 1951.&ldquo;Who&rsquo;ll he be like?&rdquo; many asked as he arrived in Chicago amid more than ordinary amount of fanfare. For comparison there were the rather aged memories of the stardom of his dad, Charley, and uncle, Lionel, and fresh recollections of another well known uncle, Roy, who had just retired.When Roy had stripped off his Hawk uniform a few.days before. club officials saw the chance to keep the respected name of Conacher in the headlines. It was thus that Pete got the call for a tryout after he&rsquo;d been setting a torrid pace at left wing with the Galt (OHA) Juniors.Observers hoping to see immediate flashes of his family predecessors in hockey fame were somewhat stymied, however, for the 19-year old skater&rsquo;s tenure with Chicago lasted only two games. He played creditably, even notching an assist, but it was obviously too early to tab him as the spittin&rsquo; image of anyone.<h2>Needed Seasoning</h2>Comparing hopefuls got a better chance to make decisions from the start of last Beason when Pete officially turned pro as a Black Hawk after showing ample spark at training camp. Unfortunately for their overly eager expectations, he looked to be little more than a good minor leaguer.General Manager Bill Tobin and Coach Sid Abel saw this after he had accounted for only five goals and six assists in 41 games and they farmed him out to St. Louis in the American League for What they hoped would be profitable experience. The gamble has paid off this season as handsomely as any Chicago has ever made.Pete has been at the top in goal-getting with the squad through virtually all of the schedule for 1953-54 to date and has Bhown plenty of the aggressive spirit that seemed to be one of his lackings last campaign. The lightning shot he&rsquo;s apparently always possessed appears even harder now.Although, at 21, he lias established himself as a solid fixture In the NHL, Pete is far from completely satisfied with what he&rsquo;s accomplished. As quiet and sincere a young fellow as can be found slapping a puck in the big time today, he&rsquo;ll unhesitantly admit, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve still got much to learn about this game.&rdquo;&ldquo;I must improve my checking Quite a bit to stay in this league. I didn&rsquo;t do much at all as an amateur and I guess it didn&rsquo;t matter too much then, but up here In the National League you must otay with your man as much as possible and really go after him when he has the puck &mdash; and Without drawing an unnecessary penalty!&rdquo;<h2>Bora In Toronto</h2>Pete Conacher has known Toronto as home throughout his life. He was born and raised there and still spends the summers there with Charley, his stepmother and two brothers still some distance from hockey careers. Bradley is just three and Scott&rsquo;s only a year old.One of thousands with such a background, Pete got his start in the ice sport in the famous Toronto Hockey League that starts youngsters off while they are still in grade school. He was just Into Iris teens when he began with the Leaside Lions in the peewee division of the THL.He later saw action with another version of the same club in the bantam section and went on from there to the Williams Tobbaco sponsored squads In the minor midget and midget divisions. In the course of two years, his teams captured the Clancy and THL trophies three out of four times.Pete was 17 when he moved to the Galt Black Hawks for the first of three great seasons. He was a standout during each of the schedules and in the last, 1951-52, he wound up third in OHA Jr. scoring with an astounding 120 points off 53 goals and 67 assists with Red Hamill&rsquo;s third place finishers.That stellar climax to his career as an amateur saw Pete and linemates Kenny Wharram and Bill Macintosh give every net-minder in the circuit countless nightmares of flying pucks. Kenny, incidenally, is now getting his first real chance with the Windy City crew.Pete graciously credits just about every coach and manager with whom he has ever been associated as definitely aiding his climb to the top. Among them would be Chris Wahlroth and George Smith from the THL and at Galt, among others, Normle Himes, Al Murray and Hamill.Those with the thoughts of comparing have now had plenty of time to rate Pete with any of the past performers in the Conacher clan. And yet, they. are unable to specifically liken him completely to Charley, Lionel or Roy. It seems, Ideally, that he might very well turn out to be a combination of all three.Pete himself won&rsquo;t say, but we rather imagine he wants to play like just one person &mdash; Pete Conacher. His dad, whom he calls, &ldquo;the man who has helped me most in my attitude toward the game,&rdquo; undoubtedly feels the same way. &ldquo;Let Pete play as Pete and no one else,&rdquo; he would likely say. &#9632;

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Black Hawks’ Pete Conacher Carries On Where Charlie, Lionel and Roy Left Off

Born, Toronto, Ont., July 29, 1932.Forward. Shoots left. 5&rsquo;10&rdquo;. 150 lbs.Last amateur club: Galt Black Hawks (juniors).<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02207/1543943-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="553" height="127"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03140/1543936-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="521" height="147"></div> &#9632;

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Conacher, Charles William Jr. (Pete)

JACK EVANS. New York's vastly improved young defenseman, will be profiled in an article in next week's Hockey News by Dana Mozley.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0488/1543974-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="241" height="378"></div> &#9632;

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COMING next week

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNEL-SPORTS EDITORA Seen in the Toronto Star</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04161/1544064-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg"></div><h2>Getting Down to Cases &mdash; No Dice</h2>THERE are weeks a bloke can&rsquo;t save up a buck. There are seasons when a left-winger in the NHL can&rsquo;t pot 35 goals. Getting down to cases, there isn&rsquo;t a portsider on the puck ponds today who has bagged 35 in any one turn. Robert Theodore Lindsay, the scar-faced captain of the Detroit redbirds, got his count up to 33 at one time. Even last season he had 32. Sid Smith of the Leafs has a mark of 55, as they say on the grand circuit. But he hit that jackpot at Pittsburgh. Which is a hoss of a different hue. So Mr. Harry Percival Watson of our side can&rsquo;t seem to work up a case of frustration because of his failure to net 35.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05142/1544057-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="274" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bert Olmstead</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06117/1544050-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="290" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Watson</figcaption></div>That&rsquo;s the potential which is employer, one Conn Smythe, gave him a year or two back. Mr. Smythe, at the time,&rdquo; was suffering some frustration himself. watson, he exclaimed, with despair in his voice, looked like a 35-goal man. But Harry appeared to have pegged his proa action At 20. Which was grossly unfair to Watson, by the way. Any person with a big league hockey handbook and a penny pencil can figure it out for himself. In seven full seasons as a Leaf, Watson has pumped in 141 goals. That&rsquo;s 20 and one-seventh goals per season. Let&rsquo;s be fair about such things. It&rsquo;s a pretty significant average, too. No matter how many goals a boss thinks a winger SHOULD get, he&rsquo;s not going to trade away a sedf who DOES get better than 20 over a seven-year haul. A puck in the net is worth 10 in your hat. Anytime.Handsome Harry is flattered to think his master would place his target so high. But he&rsquo;s not optimistic over his chances of hitting it &mdash; even though he&rsquo;s enjoying one of his very good years.&ldquo;To get 35 goals, a fellow would need a lot of breaks,&rsquo; Watson sighed. &ldquo;He&rsquo;d need some like the one I got against Johnny Bower recently. (It was a blooper and a bouncer from the blue line.) The very next night in Chicago, 1 walked in from the blue line and Al Rollins beat me. So things have a way of evening up.&rdquo; (Let&rsquo;s hope he doesn&rsquo;t include referees.)<h2>There&rsquo;s Lettuce Waiting to Be Picked</h2>WHILE he doesn&rsquo;t mind being labelled a potential 35-goal shooter, Watson does heat up over any inference that he&rsquo;s the kind of player who paces himself. And he has logical arguments to refute the charge. Why, he wonders, would any person who could score 25 goals settle for 16? A 25-goal left-winger would be almost a cinch for the second All-Star team. Bert Olmstead, the second team left-winger of last season, won the election with lq goals. There&rsquo;s a certain amount of prestige attached to the position &mdash; to say nothing of a cheque for 500 bucks. Mr. Watson intimated he could get interested in that cheque. If he could get 30 goals, he might even make the first team. That would involve greater honor and one grand in money. So why would a man scale his production to 16 goals, where he might suffer a shrinkage in take-home pay. Watson did suffer a salary cut one year &mdash; after scoring 18 goals. He took it without squawking. His stiped had gone up when he bagged 26 goals, he recalled. So he couldn&rsquo;t scream when it came down to match an output of 18.The trade that brought Harry to Toronto from the Red Wings was one of the surprises of his hockey career. He had heard rumors that Billy Taylor might leave the Leafs for Detroit. Harry told his wife: &ldquo;I hope I get a chance to play on the same line as Billy. He&rsquo;s the kind of centre I like.&rdquo; At training camp, the following autumn, Jack Adams called him into the office and said: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what you&rsquo;ll think of this, but you&rsquo;re going to Toronto. We get Billy Taylor in the deal.&rdquo;The Leafs, were short of defence men, so Hap Day, who was coaching the club, asked Watson to take a fling at blueline patrol in training chores. That lasted about a week &mdash; until one day when Syl Apps came roaring in and gave rearguard Apps breezed in for a goal. Next day, Watson was at left wing, with Apps at centre and Bill Ezinicki, the human crusher, at right wing.&ldquo;We kept one eye on the puck and one on Ezzie,&rdquo; Watson recalled. &ldquo;Sometimes his bodychecks hit his own men. After he was traDded to Boston, I was telling Milt Schmidt and Porky Dumart they&rsquo;d have to watch they didn&rsquo;t get nailed. That very night, Ezzie took a lunge at me and missed. He hit Porky and really corked him. Just like I said.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div>MONTREAL, Que.-Frank Selke, managing director of the Canadiens, sat in his office in the Montreal Forum, studying statistics released by the National Hockey League on games missed by players through injuries.His brows knitted quizzically as he noted that commencing with the 1947-48 season up to the two-thirds mark of the current campaign, 3,613 games were missed by NHL players due to injuries.Seiko&rsquo;s Canadiens were the hardest hit in that span, missing 871 games.&ldquo;Whether it&rsquo;s the wide-open Style of play employed by the Montreal club that exposes its members to injuries more than any other teams, or whether the Montreal players aren&rsquo;t as rugged as those on the other teams Is hard to say,&rdquo; the league statistician commented. &ldquo;Who can supply the answer why players on Canadiens have missed 871 games through injuries while players on the Detroit Red Wings over exactly the same period have missed only 264 games as a result of injuries&rdquo;Selke sat back in his chair. &ldquo;I car-tell you why Detroit hasn&rsquo;t been as hard hit as the Canadiens,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The Red Wings are lucky because they have three or four players in their line-up who can contribute their best efforts without trying hard.&ldquo;Gordie Howe is one. He hasn&rsquo;t missed a regularly scheduled game in five years because he takes It easy. He&rsquo;s a good skater with a smooth, deceptive style. He can give his checker the puck and take it away again. When he tries to go all out the puck elides off his stick. Ted Lindsay Is another and so&rsquo;s that kid from Fort William, Alex Delvecchio. And look at Red Kelly. He carries the puck without effort.&rdquo;Canadians haven&rsquo;t got many men like that. Bert Olmstead is an effortless player and so, frequently, is Doug Harvey. On the other hand a man like Calun? MacKay, who isn&rsquo;t a smooth skater, has to give that extra ounce of effort in every rush. Consequently he has been hurt twice this season. And take Tom Johnson. He doesn&rsquo;t rush like Harvey, weaving and stick-handing, always alert for an opportunity to give a pass. Johnson bulls his way down the ice, frequently gets trapped against the boards and is bodied.Selke went on, &ldquo;a lot of our men &mdash; Elmer Lach, for instance &mdash; have been special targets for other teams. Clubs, not wishing to give Maurice Richard the credit he deserves, contended for a long time that if you stopped Lach, you stopped the Rocket. So they concentrated on Lach and consequently he has played only one full season in the period under review.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01269/1544109-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="268" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tom Johnson</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t say he has been deliberately Injured. But he has been a deliberate target.&rdquo;Canadiens&rsquo; managing director explained, too, that his club plays aggressive all-out hockey because the fans in Montreal demand it. They want nothing but victories and the higher the score in Canadiens&rsquo; favor, the better.&ldquo;In a recent game,&rdquo; Selke commented, &ldquo;the Toronto Maple Leafs were leading us 3-0, the first time this season that we were down three goals on our own ice. I heard a man sitting near me remark, &lsquo;enough of this. I&rsquo;m going to a show.&rsquo; He did, too. Got up and left.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02243/1544102-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="1084" height="849"><figcaption class="caption-body">Special TargetELMER LACH&hellip; &hellip;Concentrated On Him</figcaption></div>Because Canadiens play robust hockey at all times, they are crowd-pleasers on foreign ice as well as at home. They help to fill other rinks as well as their own.Madison Square Garden enjoyed its first capacity crowd since Jan. 25, 1949, on a recent Sunday night when the Habs provided the opposition. And it was the Canadiens, too, who drew the previous packed house five years ago.In that last capacity crowd there were many people who couldn&rsquo;t even identify the players. One Montrealer, In New York on a visit, was surrounded by casual fans who kept asking, &ldquo;which is Maurice Richard? What number is Beliveau? When is that Boom Boom fellow (Geoffrion) coming back?&rdquo;Could Rtchard command that attention and help to fill Madison Square Garden if he weren&rsquo;t a colorful player, a man who goes all out at all times, striving for more and more goals? Could Geoffrion? Could Beliveau?<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03189/1544095-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="275" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Horvey</figcaption></div>The NHL release points out that the Red Wings have missed the least number of games due to injuries. &ldquo;Who can come up with a reason for this?&rdquo; it asks. Do the Detroit players take less chances that the players on other teams? Has the early and strenuous conditioning routines adopted by the Red Wings at their training camp each Fail developed a resistance against injuries to the Detroit players? The Wings are always the first NHL club to open their training camp and they are also noted for the heavy schedule of exhibition games they play prior to the league opener each season.&rdquo;Frankly, we&rsquo;ll go along with Selke&rsquo;s explanation. The Wings are lucky in having fellows, particularly Howe and Kelly, who can perform effectively without having to knock themselves out. Canadiens, in addition to playing aggressive hockey, nave been the target for somes vicious checking on the part of the other clubs with Lach frequently being the victim of misdeeds. &#9632;

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Habs’ Wide Open Style of Play Reason For Numerous Injuries

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH (Sixteenth in A Series!</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04146/1544147-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="248" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gaye Stewart</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05100/1544140-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="277" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, III.&mdash; ILet&rsquo;s again take a few moments to look back at events that made headlines in the world of hockey in the not too distant&rsquo;past.Six years ago this week &mdash; Charley Conacher&rsquo;s resurgent Chicago Black Hawks picked up 11 points in a month to move within two of the fifth place Canadiens in NHL play &hellip; The veteran Phil Hergesheimer of the Philadelphia Rockets joined the American Hockey League&rsquo;s 200 goal club.Top candidates for left wing on the National League&rsquo;s 1947-48 All-Star team were Ted Lindsay of Detroit, Gaye Stewart of Chicago, Jim Conacher of Detroit, Phil Watson of the Rangers, Porky Dumart of Boston and Harry Watson of Toronto. The honor eventually went to Lindsay with Stewart runnerup.Four years ago this week &mdash; The aftermath was more extensive then the bout itself when Charley Conacher threw a punch at Detroit writer Lew Walter following a game between his Hawks and the Wings at the Olympia. The Chicago coach later telegraphed an apology to Walter.The regretable incident actually resulted from a dispute in the game, which Detroit won, 9-2, when Conacher chided Referee Bill Chadwick for not giving Red Wing George Gee a penalty after he had injured the left eye of Hawk Doug Bentley. Conacher reportedly went into action when Walter revived the matter.Two years ago this week &mdash; Gordie Howe was transferred to center with Detroit with Fred Glover and Ted Lindsay as flankers as Red Wing bosses looked into the future and an eventual replacement for the aging Capt. Sid Abel. Max McNab, George Gee and Glen Skov had earlier chances centering the Production Line.Bossman Kenny MacKenzie of the Pacific Coast League&rsquo;s New Westminster Royals rated Gordie Fashoway and Guyle Fielder of his squad as future major leaguers &hellip; &ldquo;He is better than 65 per cent of the centermen in the big league today,&rdquo; said Frank Boucher of one Jean Beliveau of the Quebec Aces, of the QSHL. &#9632;

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Hawk Coach Slugged Scribe

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Lynn Patrick has been doing more grimace than smiling in recent weeks, but occasionally a blond young forward for the Boston Bruins puts an optimistic look on his face.He is Doug Mohns, the 20-year old speedster playing his first season as a professional.Mohns, who may be Boston&rsquo;s answer to Montreal&rsquo;s Boom Boom Geoffrion as a server of sizzling shots, has been scoring at a 20 goals-plus pace since the first of the year.In addition, the stalwart youngster has been maturing as a major leaguer at a pace which has prompted his coach to say, &ldquo;Right now he looks as though he may develop into an outstanding player.&rdquo;<h2>Conspicuous</h2>Patrick has purposely refrained from showering Mohns with superlatives in his rookie year, but Doug has become increasingly conspicuous as the season has progressed.Starting as a spot forward, he has become a regular left wing and a member of the Bruins&rsquo; power play team, to which his hard shot has become the big gun.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0665/1544178-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="575" height="599"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sizzling ShotDOUG MOHNS</figcaption></div>Mohns had only three goals at the change of years, but since then he has been clipping them off on an average of one every three games, a good pace for one of his comparative inexperience. For the first six weeks of this year only Johnny Person among Bruins was hotter.<h2>Used Slapshot</h2>Mohns&rsquo; chief weapon in the early weeks was a slapshot, spectacular but not guaranteed to fool goal-tenders today keep their eyes on him constantly.Despite his quiet mien and streamlined physique, Mohns tolerates no nonsense and takes no pushing around. He weighs a muscular 180 pounds which he applies with authority when disturbed.<h2>Bruin Bits</h2>Ray Gariepy, stocky defenseman from Barrie, Ontario, has pursued a peculiar scoring path this season.The 25-year old Gariepy played 34 games for the Boston Bruins without scoring. Then he made this first major league goal in his next &mdash; and last &mdash; game for the Bruins, against the Chicago Black Hawks.He was loaned to Hershey of the American league at that point and promptly scored his second goal of the year &mdash; his second in the space of three games &mdash; for the Bears against the Providence Reds.The Bruins sent Gariepy to Hershey subject to immediate recall when Bill Quackenbush and Bob Armstrong recovered from injuries which had sidelined them for extensive periods. &#9632;

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Doug Mohns’ Rapid Development Earns Him Regular Bruin Berth

<div class="byline">BY Ken Mckenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01340/1544230-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="405" height="402"></div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYBy Kenneth W. McKenxie and Will. V. Coto301 Empire Life Building 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Montreal 21. Que.Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 In Canada and the British Empire: $4.00 In the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.Entered as second-class matter October 3, 1851 at the Post Office at Rouses Point, M.Y.. under the Act of March 3rd, 1879.Authorised as second-class mail. Post Office Department. Ottawa.Member of the Audit Bureau of CircnlationsPrinted In CanadaVOL. 7 MONTREAL. FEBRUARY 20. 1954 NO 21&bull; SIX PLAYERS in the NHL have averaged 20, or more goals a season for the last five years &hellip; Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe tops the list with an average of 37.2 goals per season. He is followed by Canadiens&rsquo; Maurice Richard with a 32 goal average. Ted Lindsay, Detroit captain, is next with an average over the five-year span of 27 goals a season. Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; most consistent scorer, Bill Mosienxo, has an average of 20.8 goals per season. Johnny Pelrson of the Boston Bruins Is next with a 20.4 average, and Harry Watson ot loronto Is the sixth player with a 20 or better average. Harry has a 20.2 average &hellip; Edgar Laprade has played under three different Patricks. The veteran Ranger forward was lured to the pro ranks by Lester Patrick. He later played under Lynn, Lester&rsquo;s elder son, when he was coaching the Boys from Broadway, and now he&rsquo;s toiling for Muzz Patrick, Lynn&rsquo;s younger brother &hellip; Two American Hockey League greybeards recently played their 600th AHL game. They were Andy Branlgan of Hershey Bears and Bill Gooden of Syracuse &hellip; Branigan and Gooden are both natives of Winnipeg &hellip; Bus Gagnon was the first player in the AHL to see action with two clubs this season. He started the season with Syracuse, spent a little time with Springfield of the QHL, and then was sent to vieveianu Barons &hellip; New York fans feel Bob Chrystal, an excellent defenseman, is being ruined by playing on the forward line&hellip; After Rangers lost to Canadiens in New York the other night a bugler in the Garden played taps. The bugler is a young lad who attends all Ranger games. He often plays charging music when the Rangers rush up the ice.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02227/1544223-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="232" height="402"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Peirson</figcaption></div>&bull; LEAFS&rsquo; HAP DAY and King Clancy were discussing a fighter. &ldquo;The guy is a bit punchy,&rdquo; Clancy confided. Day deadpanned his reply: &ldquo;And what do you think they&rsquo;re saying about you?&rdquo; &hellip; Rookie Johnny Bower, Ranger goalie, manages a restaurant at Waskesiu Lake, Sask., during the summer. That&rsquo;s where he and Gordie Howe go fishing during weekend in the summer. &ldquo;That Howe has been getting some big ones Bower was telling Harry Stapler of the Detroit News &hellip; Johnny Gottsellg Bays the fire has gone out of the Black Hawks &hellip; Several of the Chicago veterans were complaining in Toronto recently about the lack of all-out effort on the part of some of the younger players &hellip; &ldquo;Some of those guys must have more money than I&rsquo;ve got to be able to play like that remarked Goalie Al Rollins &hellip; Rollins is so exhausted from stopping rubber these nights that he can barely stagger to the showers &hellip; Gordie Bell, Syracuse goalie, earned himself an assist on a goal by Kelly Burnett recently. Bell made a save in front of his own net, passed to Burnett who drove a 130-foot shot the length of the ice into the empty Hershey goal &hellip; Ike Ildebrand learned his wife had given birth to a daughter while in a Toronto hospital recuperating from a broken leg. Ike is through for the season &hellip; Tommy Ivan is using Jimmy Peters with Glen skov as a penalty-killing combo for Detroit&hellip; They will share duties with Tony Leswick and Marty Pavelich &hellip; &ldquo;If anybody told me I&rsquo;d be back in the NHL. two years ago I would have told them they were crazy,&rdquo; Doug Bentley told us the other night &hellip; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s my last fling in the Big Time and I&rsquo;m really enjoying myself this time,&rdquo; Bentley added.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03143/1544216-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="250" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Bell</figcaption></div>&bull; ALTHOUGH THIS is his ninth season in the NHL" Ken Mosdell just scored his 100th goal the other night. The tall Montreal center is enjoying his greatest season by far and if he can keep away from injuries he will be tough to keep off the All-Star team &hellip; Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings have had the longest undefeated streaks this season. The Leafs went eight games without a setback and the Wings went seven. The Leafs won five and tied three during their streak while the Detroits won five and tied two &hellip; Instead of playing the point on the Detroit power play as he did for years, Gordie Howe now takes his regular right wing position. Metro Prystai is used as the fourth forward on the point&hellip; Bill Cowley made his first visit to Boston last week since he left the Bruins. Now the proud father of two boys and two girls, Bill planned to stay around Boston for 10 days&hellip; Balloting commences in this issue for the annual NHL All-Star team as selected by readers of THE HOCKEY NEWS &hellip; This will be the seventh team picked by the fans and it is the only NHL. AllStar team selected entirely by the paying public &hellip; When Frank Martin and Doug Mohns play the points on Boston&rsquo;s power play it gives the Bruins the youngest point combination in the league. Both players are just 20 years old.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04100/1544209-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="256" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Mosdell</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0592/1544261-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>Note From Germany</h2>Dear Sirs,This Is my first yearly subscription to THE HOCKEY NEWS and I enjoy it very much.I used to be a Pittsburgh Hornet fan but now I am in the Army in Germany. I would like to a story on Willie Marshall, one of my favorite players on the roster last season and this season also.I sure enjoyed the article on Tim Horton In the January 2 issue since Tim was one of the best Hornet players a while back. Would also like to see you put a Player-of-the-Week in your paper for the American League.Ken McKenzie&rsquo;s column is very enjoyable reading. How about a life story on George Armstrong of Toronto.PFC Donald Koval.Germany.(We will see wliat can do about filling all your requests, Don, in the meantime we are happy that you are enjoying your subscription.)<h2>Ontario Jr.</h2>Dear Sirs,How about some stories and pictures from the Ontario Junior League?I have received THE HOCKEY NEWS from its beginning and have enjoyed every one of them. Keep up the good work.Wes Wilson.Brownsburg, Que.(We do carry a weekly OHA junior roundup, Wes, and in this issue there is a fine picture of the highest scoring line in organized hockey, the Cullen-Barlow-Cullen unit of the St. Catherines Tee-pees.)<h2>Missing Number</h2>Dear Sirs.I enjoy reading THE HOCKEY NEWS very much. I hope you will keep up the fine work.I would like to know why the Montreal Canadiens have no player wearing number seven. Could you explain why.Claude Braulx.Father, Alta.(Number seven was the numeral worn by the late, great Howie Morenz. Following his tragic death, the Montreal Canadiens retired the number permanently in his memory. No Canadien since that time has ever worn number seven.)<h2>Autographed Photos</h2>Dear Sirs,I would like any fans who have any autographed photos for sale of the New. York Rangers to write me at 49 Livingston Street, in little old Clifton. I have already saved 73 autographed photos of Hockey, Baseball and Football players.I am a member of the New York Ranger&rsquo;s Fan Club.Jack Kievit.Clifton, N.J.<h2>T&rsquo;Ain&rsquo;t So Says He</h2>Dear Sirs,In your January 30, 1954 edition you carried an article by Mr. Jack Horrlgan of Buffalo, N.Y. about the improvement of one Pierre Pilote.Toward the end of his column he indicates or refers to a skirmish last year between Pierre and Ray Timgren of Pittsburgh, in which Ray was flattened by one punch. In all fairness I think it should be pointed out that obviously Mr. Horrigan received his account of this affair second hand as that wasn&rsquo;t exactly what happened.True, there was not much of a fight put on by Timgren as he was lying on the ice holding his bleeding head which Mr. Pilote has crashed open with hi sstick. It might also be pointed out that it was the back of his head, not the front. Ray was not able to throw any punches and thus the brief fight.John E. WaunemackerPittsburgh, pa.<h2>Likes Fix</h2>Dear Sirs,I am most delighted to see such a selection of hockey pictures in THE HOCKEY NEWS. I am most Impressed with them.Could you please send me information on how to obtain these pictures? I would like to get them in glossy form.For example, the pictures on the last page of your edition of January 30, 1954. They&rsquo;re wonderful. Why I am asking this favor is that we have a new home and are now in the process of building a recreation room. I would like to hang up these pictures and many more on the walls.Please send me some information and the price.Gerry Capriotti.Hamilton, Ont.(The pictures to which you refer were taken by Turofsky of Toronto and we agree that they were terrific pix. You can write to Turofsky at 293 King St. West, Toronto and they may be able to give you the information as to availability and price, etc.)<h2>No Break Up</h2>Dear Sirs,I read recently in THE HOCKEY NEWS several articles as to why the Canadiens don&rsquo;t call up several of our league-leading Buffalo such as Gaye Stewart.Don&rsquo;t you think this would be a mistake to break up a winning combination such as the Bisons have? I can almost safely say that Buffalo fans would be upset over such a move.We have a winning team for a change to I see no reason why it should be broken up.Betty WismerBuffalo, N.Y.<h2>Not First</h2>Dear Sirs,I read with great Interest your article about the recent hockey stamp issued by Sweden.Some of your readers might like to know, however, that Sweden was not by any means the first country to issue stamps picturing the sport of hockey. I believe at least a half a dozen countries had done so before Sweden. Among these were Switzerland in 1948 and Romania in 1951.I think all sports-on-stamps collectors and hockey fans in this country will wholeheartedly agree with every word in your article. It is high time we should start asking our Government for a stamp commemorating our national pastime. Let us see if we can get some sports minded MP&rsquo;s moving on this. Perhaps the next Olympic Games in 1956 would be a good occasion. What about it?(Miss) Y. LaplanteVerdun, Que.<h2>Give Him a Break</h2>Dear Sirs,Why don&rsquo;t the Montreal Canadiens give Jean Beliveau a break and sell him to New York or Boston or even to Detroit to centre Howe and Lindsay? At least he could do something worthwhile there.With teammates like &lsquo;Cry Baby&rsquo; Richard and &lsquo;Boom-strick-a-Boom&rsquo; Geoffrion he can&rsquo;t show his best. These two glory guys can&rsquo;t afford to let little Jean get in their way.How about an article on our &lsquo;Scoring Splinter&rsquo;, Camille Henry?Bud WhiteQuebec City, Que.<h2>Barry A Bruin?</h2>Dear Sirs,Did Ray Barry, Boston HOCKEY NEWS correspondent play for the Bruins in 1951-52?Bernie Ziegler.Montreal, Que.(To the best of our knowledge, our Boston correspondent, ROGER Barry, never played for the Bruins and has no Intention of doing so unless of course coach Lynn Patrick should seek to bolster his defense with a hard working, eager-beaver type member of the Fourth Estate. Then he&rsquo;d have to call on Riflin&rsquo; Rajah.)<h2>Never Catch Them</h2>Dear Sirs,May I make a suggestion to ths Montreal Canadiens.Although the Canadiens have had a fairly good team every year, they will never catch the Detroit Red Wings.The reason? Dick Irvin will never make the changes that Tommy Ivan will.Right at the moment the Montreal team is carrying at least five players who would have a hard time making the last place Chicago Black Hawks. Granted some of them are old veterans and nobody likes to see them leave the scene, but hockey, like most every other professional sport, is big business.You would never see George Weiss or any of the other New York Yankee braintrust hesitate a minute about getting rid of a veteran if they thought they could bring in a youngster who would do the Job better.Unfortunately the Canadiens, and Irvin in particular, think, not twice but ten times, before they ever get rid of a veteran.Joe Murrow.Brooklyn, N.Y.<h2>Gee Thanks!</h2>Dear Sirs,I am a subscriber and hav. been for three years. I find that THE HOCKEY NEWS Is the best all-around source of Information on the greatest game in the world and I especially enjoy the feature stories on the various players which the dallt papers couldn&rsquo;t possibly carry because of space commitments.While on the subject of feature stories, how about an article on the &lsquo;forgotten right winger,&rsquo; little Wally Hergesheimer of the New York Rangers, who makes up for what he lacks in size by scoring goals, the language understood by almost every hockey fans.Gerry Johnson.Toronto, Ont.<h2>Not His Son</h2>Dear Sirs,Please tell me if Dollard St. Laurent of the Montreal Canadiens is the son of our Prime Minister.Also please tell me how many goals Ken Mosdell has scored in the NHL.Brendan Broderick Corner Brook, Nfld.(Dollie is not the son of Prime Minister St. Laurent although he does toss out those stiff bodychecks quite liberal-ly. Ugh!&hellip; Ken Mosdell has scored 102 goals in the NHL by Friday, February 12.) &#9632;

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0680/1544292-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="593" height="275"></div><h2>February 24 to March 2</h2>27&mdash;FOGOLIN, Lee, Chicago defense, 1926.28&mdash;DENIS, Jean-Paul, Providence forward, 1924.1&mdash;HIRSCHFEL.D, Bert, Providence forward, 19 29; STANLEY, Allan, Vancouver defense, 192 6; BENTLEY, Max, New York forward, 1920.1&mdash;QUACKENBUSH, Bill, Boston defense, 1922. &#9632;

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The Happybirthday to You

ORONO, Ont.&mdash;Orono Orphans are probably the most unique team in all organized hockey.The Orphans, an Intermediate &lsquo;A&rsquo; team, boast of of a starting squad composed entirely of the members of one family, the Wests.Ab West, 47, the father, is the goaler while the starting defense is made up of sons Ron and Ab Jr. Three other sons. Dean, Keith and Ray make up the number one attacking unit.Just to keep it all in the family, the mother, Edna West, acts as timekeeper while daughter Diane handles the coaching reins. The team manager. Dean Found, says that he has checked through all available OHA records and can&rsquo;t find a family act to match the Wests. &#9632;

Orono Orphans Really Unique

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02258/1544378-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Lindsays Of DetroitPROUD FOPPA &mdash; Robert Blake Theodore Lindsay Jr. doesn&rsquo;t seem the least bit interested by all the attention he is getting here from proud parents Mr. and Mrs. Ted Lindsay. It is the first child for the couple and no doubt Captain Ted can hardly wait to get Ted Jr. on a pair of skates.</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Never, no matter how hard they try, can the Red Wings ever get full revenge for the humiliating way the Boston Bruins treated them last spring in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Still, the Wings Haven&rsquo;t forgotten and they have been slapping at the Bruins in such fashion this season as to do some personal avenging.In the playoffs, you&rsquo;ll recall, Boston won in six games in what was hockey&rsquo;s biggest upset of the season. Also one of. the most resounding flops in Detroit hockey history. The National League champs, favored for their second straight Stanley Cup, failed to get by the first round. All of which stung, and stung plenty. An idea of just how much can be gathered from looking at the results of the Detroit-Boston games this season. After some preliminary sparring, Detroit won seven straight before the Bruins managed to end that streak with a tie.No team, not even week Chicago, has been treated as harshly by Wings this season. With two games still remaining in the series, Wings hold an 8-2 edge plus two ties.<h2>Not Full Revenge</h2>As mentioned before, this isn&rsquo;t suitable and full revenge from a Detroit viewpoint since no matter how long or complete the domination, there never will be any way for the Wings to get into the 1953 Stanley Cup finals.But the Bruins still may pay plenty. Could be, the way things are going at present, that the sad record against Detroit will cost Boston its 1954. playoff chances. Deduct the results of the Detroit games and the Bruins would own a season record well above 500 and suitable enough to earn any club a Stanley Cup berth.The series of beatings from the Wings, however, have been the biggest reason why the Bruins find themselves locked in a tight fourth-place battle with New York.Such results don&rsquo;t particularly mean anything to the Detroit players, but Boston players can&rsquo;t help but feel that they&rsquo;re paying thate hard way now for those prized victories in April.ICE CHIPS: A victory and a tie over the Bruins in Boston gave the Wings an auspicious start to their longest road stand of the season. That pair of games opened a run of nine out of 10 games away from home while an ice show occupies the Olympia.<h2>Unbeaten Streak</h2>Those two games also ran Detroit&rsquo;s latest unbeaten streak to seven straight games &mdash; longest by any NHL club this season.But while the team works on a string of that type, Gordie Howe had a much less desireable streak going. Earlier this season he went 10 games between goals &mdash; the longest scoring famine of his NHL career. Then he rammed in five goals in five games before encountering another drought. The latest streak was lengthened to six games with no goals by the big gun of the Motor City team.In an effort to shake Howe out of his slump &mdash; which has been analyzed by most observors as a bad-luck stretch since Howe&rsquo;s playing habits seem unchanged &mdash; Coach Tommy Ivan devised some new tactics.For two seasons&rsquo; Howe has worked the point on power plays. Even when the Production Line was on the ice Howe used to drop off right wing to handle the rear position. Ivan signaled for Howe to return to right wing and stay there, Metro Prystai being given the point to handle alongside Red Kelly.&ldquo;This should give Gord closer-in chances on the power plays and maybe help get his scoring luck back,&rdquo; Ivan pointed out. He added that the team would be helped, too, since the rugged 198-pound Howe will be available to dig pucks out in the corner on power plays. &#9632;

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Wings’ Revenge May Hurt Bruins, Could Aid NY’s Playoff Chances

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash; Every year around about the middle of February, it has become a custom with hockey fans to sit down and start to try and figure out just which NHL players are worthy of All-Star recognition.Also each year at this time, it has been the custom of THE HOCKEY NEWS to commence the balloting for the annual HOCKEY NEWS NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01324/1544444-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="264" height="407"><figcaption class="caption-body">All-Star Candidates AUGerry McNeil</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02264/1544437-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="267" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Lumley</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03200/1544430-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="269" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuck</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04151/1544423-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="259" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Bower</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05107/1544416-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="251" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Henry</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0683/1544409-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="251" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al Rollins</figcaption></div>ALL-STAR POLL, in which we ask you the readers to pick those players you deem worthy of AllStar recognition.As in the past six polls, we are starting from the goal out. In the next five Issues, we will have ballots for the defensemen, centres, right wings, left wings and the coaches.The leading candidates in each section will be named each week in order to aid you in your choice but in the long run your selections will depend on the performances of each and every NHL player throughout the entire season.The final weeks of the schedule could make or break a player in his bid for All-Star recognition so please note: DO NOT SEND IN ANY BALLOTS UNTIL ALL SIX HAVE APPEARED. Any ballots received before that time wilt not be counted!When you have filled in all the ballots, including the final one which will appear in the March 27 issue, you must send them in all together. There his one stipulation that is worthy of note, however. All letters containing ballots must be postmarked no later than midnight March 31.Each ballot has space for you to write the names of your first, second and third choices for each position. In the case of the defensemen you will be asked to fill in six names &mdash; rated in the order you judge their ability.After all the votes are tabulated the All Stars will then be selected on a point basis, with five points allotted for each first place vote, three for second and one for third. The six players and the coach with the highest point totals in their positions win the First Team berths, with the runner-up candidates being named to the Second Team.The first ballot appearing in this issue is for the goaltending job on the Big Team&mdash;a selection which may cause some head scratching if puck blocking in the premier puck loop keeps on at Its present place. While veteran Harry Lumley is currently heading the list in the goals-agalnst department, he is closely pursued by Terry Sawchuk.So remember, don&rsquo;t send in your selections now. Wait until the last possible minute, so you can follow the torrid goaltending race and pick the best man over the season&rsquo;s play.In the meantime, here are brief thumbnail sketches on the six goalie candidates, just so get you better acquainted with them.HARRY LUMLEY &mdash; The former &ldquo;boy wonder&rdquo; of the league, Lumley broke into NHL play with Detroit for two games in 1943-44 when he was only 17 years old (born at Oven Sound, Ont., November 11, 1926). He played 37 games the next year, then was a brilliant regular for the next five seasons before he was supplanted by the up-and-coming Sawchuk and was traded to Chicago. The porous Hawk defense played havoc with his goals-against average. Last season he was traded to Toronto and has been going great all through the current campaign.TERRY SAWCHUK &mdash; The youngest of the NHL goalie brigade at 24, the crouching-styled Red Wing was born in Winnipeg on December 28, 1929. He has racked up a startling record since breaking in with Omaha of the defunct United States League in 1947-48. He captured the outstanding rookie award in that league, repeated with Indianapolis of the AHL the following year, and won the Calder Trophy in his debut in NHL. ranks. Last season he won the Vezina Trophy as the loop&rsquo;s top goaler and was picked for the first All-Star team. He is hoping to repeat this season.GERRY McNEIL &mdash; Quebec City born on April 17, 1926, the fairhaired boy of Montreal Canadiens is now hitting his stride. He played two games on trial in 1947-48, and filled in for Bill Durnan during injuries for six games in 1949-50, between toiling 5 5 games for the AHL Cincinnati Mohawks. Now an NHL veteran, Gerry hopes to retain the spot he earned on the second glitter squad last season.SUGAR JIM HENRY &mdash; Winnipeg-born, on October 23, 1920, the Boston goalie is now in his seventh season of NHL play. Henry broke in with New York Rangers in 1941-42, spent three years in military service before coming back to share Blueshirt duties with Chuck Rayner. Traded to Chicago, he played the 1948-49 campaign with the Hawks, then was ousted by the Harry Lumley trade. He joined the Bruins for the 1951-52 season.AL ROLLINS &mdash; Born at Vanguard, Saskatchewan on October 9, 1926, Al Rollins has come to be known as one of the outstanding cage custodians in the NHL today. Al started in pro company with Kansas City in 1948-49, moved from there to Cleveland and Pittsburgh of the AHL the next season and in 1950-51 joined the Toronto Maple Leafs, splitting the goaling duties with the veteran Turk Broda, and winning the Vezina Trophy with a 1:75 average. He was traded to the Chicago Black Hawks last season.JOHNNY BOWER &mdash; The only newcomer to the NHL goaltending ranks this season is Johnny Bower, the colorful cage cop for the New York Rangers. He beat Rookie-of-the-Year Lome Worsley for the job this fall and has been more than adequate ever since. All Johnny&rsquo;s previous experience was in the minors and all with the Cleveland Barons of the AHL, where he played sensationally for eight seasons before getting his chance at the big time. &#9632;

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Choice Of Six For Goaler’s Role In Seventh Annual All-Star Poll

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;The biggest member of the Bruins official family is no longer Defenceman Frank Martin (six-one, 198 pounds), but Buster.A seven-foot black bear, Buster has been the inanimate mascot of the Bruins since earlier this month.Buster&rsquo;s inability to backcheck rapidly made him a victim to five shots from a 32 caliber rifle in Millinocket, Maine, in October. The stuffed giant was presented to the Bruins by Gov. Burton M. Cross of Maine before a recent Bruins&rsquo; game at the Garden.He is now being outfitted for a towering glass case, and he 11 hold a prominent position in the Garden lobby.Buster is the first Bruins&rsquo; mascot since 1928, when the team was given a live cub which attended games regularly on a chain. When the little fellow became a big fellow, he was given to a zoo.The Bruins acquired their name originally because it appealed as &ldquo;ferocious&rdquo; to the late C. F. Adams, founder and first president of the team. The name itselt was coined by Mrs. Hyman Gould, wife of the secretary of the Montreal Board of Trade.Mrs. Gould was secretary to Art Ross, Bruins&rsquo; general manager when Ross, then the operator of a Montreal sporting good store, was first named coach of the Bruins. Adams asked Ross for a suggestion for a name for the first major league hockey team in this country, and Mrs. Gould provided the one which stuck. &#9632;

Biggest Bruin Just That, Club Acquires New Mascot

1 &mdash; Anyone is eligible to cast ballota for the National Hockey League All Star Team, but each reader may submit ONLY ONE ENTRY, naming first, second and third choices.2 &mdash; One ballot will appear each week in the following order: goaltender, defensemen, right wing, center, left wing and coach. Final ballot will appear in the March 27 issue.3 &mdash; Ballots for the choice of three players at each position (six for defensemen) must be filled as indicated, with the names of players and their clubs. Use blanks published each week, or reasonable facsimiles or tracings of same if you do not wish to deface your copy. Space will be provided on the sixth and final ballot for your own name and address.4 &mdash; Ballots must be held until all have appeared, and selections for all six positions, plus coach, must be submitted at the same time.5 &mdash; Ballots must be mailed to &mdash; All Star Editor, THE HOCKEY NEWS, Room 300, 14.34 St. Catherine St. W., Montreeal.6 &mdash; All ballots must be mailed and postmarked NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31. &#9632;

Voting Rules

Just like the great Citation, Gordie Howe does his best running in the stretch. Unlike the great thoroughbred however, who received a garland of flowers after a victorious race, Howe is loping to a precedent-shattering fourth straight scoring crown and th.$1,000 that goes with it.Although seriously threatened at one point by his traditional rival for right wing honors, Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadians, Howe has now pulled away from the field and leads the second-place Richard by a commanding nine point margin.Besides adding to his general scoring average, Howe has also shaken off a scoring slump that saw him fall away behind his goal production figures of the last few seasons. As of last week, the easy-going winger had scored only 21 goals, but during the past seven days, he popped in four more to bring his season total to 25, which coupled with his 38 assists, gives him 63 scoring points.With Howe scoring in old time fashion and the Rocket continuing to add to his total, it should be a terrific fight to the wire for the right wing position on the first All-Star team, a post Howe has held for the last three seasons.This season the NHL inaugurated a new system for picking the stars, dividing the voting into two parts. The voters in the first half of the campaign awarded the All-Star berth to Richard, but only by the margin of a solitary point, which makes the final weeks of the schedule just that much more interesting.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1425/1544666-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="243" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Howe</figcaption></div>One thing is certain. If Detroit&rsquo;s Mister Production continues to thunder down the home stretch in the form he displayed over the past two weeks, it&rsquo;s going to be pretty hard to deny his right to the first AllStar berth. &#9632;

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Player - of - the - Week

<h2>13 For Max</h2>Mat Bentley, considered at the end of a glittering: career last year, already has scored 13 goals for the New York Rangers and could easily reach the 20 goal mark.<h2>Bert Moves Up</h2>Bert Olmstead, Canadiens left wing star, who was voted to the as second All-Star Team last year, has moved Into second place among left wingers in NHL. He Is second to Gordie Howe in assists.<h2>HOW THE RAGE GOES</h2>(STANDING ON MON. A.M. FEB. 15)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01309/1544635-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="584" height="186"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Wed. Feb. 10th&mdash;Boston 3 at Toronto 2Wed Feb. 10th&mdash;Detroit 2 at Rangers 3Thurs Feb ilth&mdash;Cdns 2 at Chicago 2Thura Feb 11th&mdash;Toronto 3 at Boston 1Sat Feb. 13th&mdash;Canadiens 2 at Toronto 2Sat. Feb. 13th&mdash;Rangers 0 at Boston 1Sun. Feb. l4th&mdash;Canadiens 1 at Boston 4Sun. Feb. 14th&mdash;Toronto 3 at Rangers 3Sun. Feb. 14th&mdash;Detroit 5 at Chicago 0<h3>SCHEDULED GAMES</h3>Mon. Feb. 15th&mdash;Chicago at DetroitWed. Feb. l7th&mdash;Detroit at TorontoWed. Feb. 17th&mdash;Boston at RangersThurs. Feb. 18th&mdash;Detroit at CanadiensFri. Feb 19th&mdash;Rangers at ChicagoSat. Feb. 20th&mdash;Detroit at CanadiensSat. Feb. 20th&mdash;Boston at TorontoSun. Feb. 21st&mdash;Toronto at RangersSun. Feb. 21st&mdash;Boston at Chicago<h3>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 10</h3>Boston 3 at Toronto 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02287/1544628-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="597" height="491"></div>Detroit 2 at New York 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03240/1544621-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="593" height="431"></div><h3>THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11</h3>Montreal 2 at Chicago 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04199/1544614-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="604" height="465"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05151/1544607-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="595" height="87"></div>Toronto 3 at Boston 1BOSTON &mdash; The Toronto Maple Leafs climbed into a second place tie with the Montreal Canadiens as they trimmed the Boston Bruins 3-1 before the smallest Boston Garden crowd of the season, 5,830.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06127/1544600-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="589" height="412"></div><h3>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13th</h3>New&rsquo; York 0 at Boston 1New York &mdash; Goal: Bower; defense: Reisef Irwin, Evans, Howell, Chrystal; forwards: Ronty, Hergesheimer, Prentice, Raleigh. Mickoski, Guidolin, Kullman, C. Henry, M. Bentley, D. Bently, Laprade.Boston &mdash; Goal: J. Henry; defense: Armstrong, Godfrey, L.aycoe, Quackenbush, Martin; forwards, Mackell, Peirson, Sandford, Creighton, Lablne, Schmidt, Gardner, Klukay, Mohns, Toppazzini, Dumart.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07117/1544593-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="592" height="309"></div>Montreal 2 at Toronto 2Montreal &mdash; Goal: Plante; defense: Bouchard, Johnson. Harvey, MacPherson; forwards: Mosdell, Davis, Meger, Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Beliveau, Curry, Masnick, Mazur, McCormack.Toronto &mdash; Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Horton, Flaman, Morrison, Boivin; forwards; Kennedy, Stewart, Smith, Sloan, Armstrong, Watson, Migay, Nesterenko, Hannigan. Bailey.Referee: Red Storey. Linesmen: Jim Primeau and Red Dunn.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08108/1544586-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="593" height="512"></div><h3>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14th</h3>Montreal 1 at Boston 4Montreal: Goal: Plante; defense: Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, MacPherson; forwards: Beliveau. Richard, Lach, Olmstead, Mosdell, Davis, Meger, Masnick, Curry, Mazur, McCormack.Boston: Goal: Henry; deTense: Laycoe, Quackenbush. Armstrong, Godfrey, Martin; forwards: Schmidt, Peirson, Sandford, Gardner, Klukay, Labine, Creighton, Mickeil, Dumart, Topazzini, Mohns.Referee: Bill Chadwick; linesmen: Sam Babcock, Herb Gallagher.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02265/1544579-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="591" height="466"></div>Toronto 3 at New York 3Toronto: Goal: Lumley; defense: Flaman, Morrison, Thomson, Horton, Boivin; forwards, Sloan, Armstrong, Watson, Smith, Kennedy, Stewart, Migay, Nesterenko, Hannigan, Bailey.&rsquo;New York: Goal: Bower; defense: Howell, Evans, Irwin, Reise, Chrytal; forwards, Ronty, Hergesheimer. Prentice, Raleigh, Mickoski, Guidolin, D. Bentley, Kullman, Hennv, Max Bentley, Laprade.Referee: Jerry Oliniki; linesmen: Doni Baolto, Bill Roberts.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03223/1544572-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="594" height="232"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04171/1544565-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="598" height="401"></div>Detroit 5 at Chicago 6Detroit: Goal: Sawchuk; defense:Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Hay; forwards: Leswick, Skov, Payelich. Lindsay, Howe, Prytai, Wilson, Peters, Dineen, Delvecchio, Reibel.Chicago: Goal: Rollins; defense: Fogolin, Gadsby, Mortson, Dewsbury, Price, Zeidel; forwards: Mosienko, Wilson, McIntyre, Jankoski, Wharran, Conacher, Bodnar, Hildebrand, Gee.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05138/1544558-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="595" height="548"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. FEB. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09105/1544551-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="590" height="2271"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1092/1544544-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="583" height="1007"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1175/1544537-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="573" height="257"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2>FOR SEASON 1953-1954<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1245/1544530-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="585" height="445"></div><h2>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1335/1544523-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="531" height="158"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div>HERSHEY. Pa.&mdash;The Hershey Bears, seeking their fourteenth Calder Cup playoff berth in fifteen years of American Hockey League competition, were clinging tenaciously to third rung in loop standings as the club embarked on an all-important eight-game road trip during the engagement of Ice Capades at the local Sports Arena.Coach Murray Henderson&rsquo;s skaters held a slim two-point spread over the challenging Pittsburgh Hornets, who snapped out of a bad slump to replace the Syracuse Warriors in fourth place.As they headed for three weeks of activity on foreign Ice, the Bears were sporting a four-game victory streak. And, indicating the determination of the Hershey ice men to earn themselves a crack at the play-off money, they catne from behind in their last three encounters to tie the score and then go on and win in overtime.Little Dune Fisher, who had failed to find the range of enemy cages in seven games, was the hero of two of the overtime battles. In the first, against Providence, he broke his slump by firing the winning goal at 4.25. Three nights later, with Syracuse providing the opposition, he earned himself a &ldquo;hat&rdquo; by banging his third goal home at 1.28 of the &ldquo;sudden death&rdquo; period.George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan, who set up all of Fisher&rsquo;s scores, won the third contest against the Cleveland Barons. His score, his 20th goal of the season, came after only 32 seconds of the overtime period had elapsed.In addition to Fisher, Lome Ferguson and Norm Corcoran each chipped in with &ldquo;hat&rdquo; tricks to help the Bears win nine of fourteen games after they had snapped a six-game losing streak&rdquo;.Hershey&rsquo;s resurgence to a position of contention for a play-off spot was given a considerable lift when Ray Gariepy, the joltin&rsquo; defenseman, was loaned to the Bears by the Boston Bruins. And, as expected, Ray has proven to be just the medicine the doctor ordered. Opposition forwards aren&rsquo;t taking the chances they did earlier in the season, not with Ray around to dish out his bone-crun-ching body cheks.Like their AHL opposition, the Bears have doe well on home ice, while playing poorly away from home. In 28 home engagements, the Bears have emerged victorious 17 times, tied twice and dropped nine decisions. On the road Hershey has brought home the bacon but seven times in 16 tries.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01323/1544697-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="545" height="557"><figcaption class="caption-body">Found RangeDUNC FISHER</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Dune Fisher Sparks Bears In Bid For Playoff Berth

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO, N.Y. &mdash; Big Ed Slowinski plunked a sweating, ruggedly constructed 200-pound frame onto the Buffalo Bisons&rsquo; dressing room bench. The American League leaders had just handed their arch-rival Cleveland Barons their eighth licking In 12 games, and Slowinski had been picked for one of the three-star awards.&ldquo;What time do we practice, tomorrow, Frank?&rdquo; he called to Buffalo Coach Frank Eddolls seated diagonally across from him.&ldquo;That certainly is a fine way to talk about celebrating an important win,&rdquo; a writer sitting next to Eddolls quickly commented.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the way Big Ed has been all&rdquo; season, thinking about that next game,&rdquo; Eddolls answered. &ldquo;If he doesn&rsquo;t win the right wing spot on the All-Star team it will be a bigger robbery than the Brinks job. He&rsquo;s done a tremendous job for us&hellip; both offensively and defensively.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06119/1544735-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="520" height="766"><figcaption class="caption-body">PluggerED SLOWINSKI</figcaption></div>Eddolls, once a teammate of Slowinski&rsquo;s with the New York Rangers, not only has the big guy skating his regular turn and on for the power play but also killing penalties.&ldquo;Egseems to get stronger as a game progresses and is terrificallj hard for anyone to ride out of a play or go around.&rdquo;The &ldquo;Little General&rdquo; of the Bisons keeps complete statistics on all his players and used them to show just how effective Slowinski has been on offensive. The index showed:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0793/1544728-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="593" height="215"></div>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ll notice that Big Ed has averaged a point a game or better against every club in the league without exception,&rdquo; Eddolls pointed out.&ldquo;It also should be pointed out that he has scored more of hie goals on the road than at home, proof that&rdquo; he&rsquo;s a full-time plugger and not just a &lsquo;hometown hot shot.&rsquo;&ldquo;Buffalo, incidentally, has become home to Slowinski, his pretty wife and their two children. Shortly after the start of the season, he moved family and furniture to the Queen City of the Great Lakes.&ldquo;We like Buffalo, and the way we&rsquo;ve been treated by the club and the fans, and have decided to settle here year around,&rdquo; Big Edrelated.<h2>Credits Linemates</h2>Slowinski credited his linemates Gaye Stewart, another ex-Ranger, and young Donnie Marshall for a &ldquo;good share&rsquo; of his success this season.&ldquo;When you&rsquo;re playing on a line with a real cutie like Gaye and a youngster with Donnie&rsquo;s potential, everyone operates with just a bit more confidence and it shows up in your scoring totals,&rdquo; Big Ed stated.&ldquo;Our whole club, in fact, baa worlds of confidence and that la primarily why we&rsquo;ve been able to go out and win every &lsquo;big&rsquo; game we&rsquo;ve had to this season. Everyone just feels that we can do it, and so we do.&rdquo;At 28 years of age, Slowinski may still earn another shot in the National League (he&rsquo;s actually Montreal property, and Chicago in reported interested in purchasing him) as it was only two years ago that he was a 20-goal man for New York.&ldquo;Playing in the National League again&hellip; that&rsquo;s one of those bridges you cross when you come to it. Meanwhile, I&rsquo;m happy in Buffalo and want to see the Bisons win the American League championship.&rdquo; &#9632;

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‘Big Slo’ No Hometown Hot Shot, Scores More Goals On The Road

<h2>First Two Team Player</h2>Charlie (Bus) Gagnon, now with Cleveland In the American Hockey league, became the first player to see action with two different teams this season, rare In intra-league trades. Gagnon started the season with Syracuse, went to Springfield of the Quebec League and then to Cleveland.<h2>Veteran Performers</h2>Two veteran members of the American Hockey League, Andy Branigan of Hershey, and Billy Gooden of Syracuse recently participated In their 600th league games. Branigan reached the mark on January 27, while Gooden joined him as the only two active players to reach that figure on February 2.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2>(STANDINGS TUES. A.M. JAN. 16)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01322/1544836-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="587" height="193"></div><h3>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13</h3>Buffalo 3, at Cleveland 4CLEVELAND &mdash; Eddie Olson tipped in a long shot by Eddy Relgle at 9:39 of a 10-minute sudden death overtime period as Cleveland Barons stopped the first-place Buffalo Bisons 4-3 in an American Hockey League game.Barons defenseman Fred Shero tied the score 3-3 at 19:01 of the third period after Goalie Emile franci of Cleveland bad been withdrawn.Charlie Hodge, 20-year-old rookie goalie subbing for Buffalo&rsquo;s Jacques Plante, made 37 saves. Plante is with the Montreal Canadiens replacing Gerry McvNeil, who was injured.Other Cleveland scorers were Tommy Williams and Cal Stearns.Ken Hayden, Joe Lund and Eddlowtakl scored for Buffalo.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02281/1544829-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="593" height="615"></div>Providence 7 at Syracuse 4SYRACUSE &mdash; A first-period penalty to Ted Power of Syracuse proved costly As Providence Reds took advantage of the extra man to score three goals in a minute and 21 seconds In their 7-4 victory over the Warriors.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03221/1544822-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="589" height="440"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04173/1544815-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="583" height="315"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05141/1544808-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="1674" height="1461"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wildlife Comer: Bison Vs. BearSQUEEZE PLAY &mdash; Gaye Stewarf of the Buffalo Bisons squeezes Hershey playing-coach Murray Henderson up against the boards, freezing the puck for a face-off. That&rsquo;s big Eddie Slowilski moving in to aid Stewart while being watched himself by the Bears&rsquo; Skippy Teal. (Photo By Bud Glunz)</figcaption></div>Hershey 9 at Pittsburgh 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06127/1544801-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="586" height="441"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07111/1544794-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="588" height="349"></div><h3>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14</h3>Syracuse: 4 at Buffalo: 14BUFFALO &mdash; Buffalo Bisons, led by Pete Babando&rsquo;s four goals, consolidated first place in the Americain Hockey League with a 14-4 victory over the Syracuse Warriors.After being held to the first of rookie Don Marshall&rsquo;s two goals in the first period, Buffalo exploded for six in the second and seven In the third.Kenny Hayden was second high scorer of the evening adding three tallies to Bisons already substantial edge in the final frame.Contributing markers to the winners in the Second period besides Babando and Marshall, were Steve Wpchy, Frank Eddols and Harry Taylor.Taylor added his second goal in the third and Ed Elowinski got one.Ken Echinkel tallied twice for the Warriors and George Ford, and Ted Power each made one.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02176/1544787-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="591" height="1105"></div>Pittsburgh 7 at Providence 3PROVIDENCE &mdash; Pittsburgh Hornets moved a step closer to clinching an American Hockey League playoff berth by defeating Providence Reds 7-3The Hornets came up with a high powered attack, scoring two goals In the first period, three In othe second and two more in the finale. Bob Solinger and Bob Hassard paced their attack with two goals each.Zeillo Toppazzine scored twice for the Reds and Paul Larivee once. Danny Lewicki, Willie Marshall and defenceman Frank Sullivan netted the other Pittsburgh tallies.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03110/1544780-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="593" height="675"></div>Hersheyt 3 at Clevland 1CLEVELAND &mdash; Lorne Ferguson scored twice In the last period as Hershey Bears Trimmed Cleveland Barons 3-1 in an American Hockey League game.George (Red) Sullivan, the league&rsquo;s leading scorer, sank Hershey&rsquo;s first goal at 3:27 of the first period and the Barons never were able to tie the count. Sullivan, with assists on Ferguson&rsquo;s goals, boosted his league total to 55 points.It was Hershey&rsquo;s first victory In Cleveland in six tries this season, and puts the Bears In position to threaten the Barons&rsquo; hold on second place.Cleveland&rsquo;s Fred Glover and Hershey&rsquo;s Arnie Kull man fought in the first period.Ray Ross scored Cleveland&rsquo;s lone goal.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0478/1544773-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="596" height="481"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN.. FEB. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08106/1544766-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="589" height="622"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3>Most Goals: Ed. Slowinski, Buffalo, 32,Most Assists: George Sullivan, Hers. 63.Most Penalties by a Player: Rarry Cohan, Pittsburgh, 137 mts.Most Penalties by a Team: Cleveland,630 mts. Best Goalie: Jacques Plante, Buffalo, 55, 148, 3, 2.69.Most Shutouts: Emile Francis, Clev., 4. &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HUGH WATSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01318/1544867-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Finally Gets SilverwareLORNE WORSLEY&hellip; &hellip;NHL&rsquo;s Calder Cup Kid</figcaption></div>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;Lome (Gump) Worsley, crew-cut goalie with Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League, established something of a precedent here Feb. 5 when he was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy by Frank Boucher, general manager of New York Rangers.Selected the most outstanding freshman in the National Hockey League last season in a poll of 18 writers and broadcasters, Worsley became the first player to receive the trophy while a minor league.Gump, who replaced Charlie Rayner as regular goalie of the New York Rangers early last season, couldn&rsquo;t hold the job this year as veteran Johnny Bower moved up from the Cleveland Barons to take over.Worsley, one of the smallest goalies in pro hockey at 145 pounds, was farmed out to Vancouver Canucks. He didn&rsquo;t let the demotion worry him. He was the mainstay behind Vancouver&rsquo;s early drive to the top of the WHL. ladder and has been the top goaler all season, leading his closest rival. Bill Brennan of Calgary Stampeders, by a wide margin.What does he figure his chances are on winning back the Ranger job?Up To Muzz&ldquo;Good,&rdquo; says Gump. &ldquo;Of course, it&rsquo;s up to Muzz Patrick and Frank Boucher but I think I&rsquo;ll get back there. Bower&rsquo;s a good goalie. I don&rsquo;t think there was much to choose between us in training camp. He got the call and has done fine. He&rsquo;s been everything the Rangers expected.&rdquo;Worsley, who will be 25 May 14, is having the best season of his career with a goal average hovering around the 2.26 mark.He credits a strong defence, composed of Allan Stanley, Harry Dick. Jack Lancisen and rookie Mid Houghton, and the system of hockey employed by coach Art Chapman for his success.<h2>Lots Of Protection</h2>&ldquo;I got lots of protection,&rdquo; explains Gump. &ldquo;Our forwards backcheck all the time and my defence seldom crowds me, which means I don&rsquo;t often get beaten by screened shots. Stanley is amazing. I can&rsquo;t understand the New York fans ever booing him out the NHL. He&rsquo;s big league all the way.&rdquo;Boucher, out here to present the, Calder Trophy and a silver tray to Worsley, said Gump would attend the Ranger camp again next Fall.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s five years younger than Bower,&rdquo; says Boucher. &ldquo;He has a fine chance to make the NHL. His record speaks for itself.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Worsley Praises Canuck Defense For Makins His Job Much Easier

Trots Rivieres, Que.&mdash;A player for the Quebec Frontenacs of the Quebec Junior Hockey League was arrested and charged with assault immediately following a game between the Fronts and the Three Rivers Reds.The player, Fernand Turcotte, was seized by the local. constabulary and whisked off to the bastille as the result of a fan&rsquo;s complaint that Turcotte flung his stick into the stands, hitting him on the head.Turcotte was later released after posting bail of $40. It wasn&rsquo;t announce when trial would be held on the charge of assault. &#9632;

Junior Star Put In Pokie!

<div class="byline">By HY ZIMMERMAN (The Seattle Times)</div>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;Every hockey player should wear a necktie, says Marcel Pelletier.Not on the rink, to the rink, continues the Seattle Bomber goalie, with a touch of Gallic. Cravats are no part of puck panoply but players should be attired with decorum before and after the game, to lendignity to their sport. Fans should see them at their tailored best.That&rsquo;s the way fans see Marcel. Le monsieur is no dandy or fop but always is well turned out. He was voted the best-dressed player in the Quebec Hockey League last season.He also was voted the most valuable. He had the best goais-a-game average, 2.53, and won the Vezina Trophy while helping Chicoutimi win the flag and the playoffs.In the process, Marcel poured a pail of whitewash on the league &mdash; 12 shutouts. This season, with Seattle, it&rsquo;s been like aiming at long-necked bottles. The Western Hockey League chase is half over, and Marcel has only two blankings.But zeros mean nothing to him, he says. It&rsquo;s the team victories which count, where the club finishes. What good are a bunch of shutouts if the team sags and the gate lags. No money in the till, no money for Marcel.That sober, off-the-ice opinion doesn&rsquo;t quite square with the fans&rsquo; size-up of the French-Canadian while he&rsquo;s in hockey habiliment. Then he&rsquo;s the flashiest thing in pads. He catches the puck with sweeping gestures and kicks it out with exaggerated follow-through. And, all the while, he infuriates enemy forwards with his studied, silent scorn and dead-pan disdain. And with sheer ability.He has needed that ability. Until recently, the Bomber forwards frittered, the defense dawdled. Opposing wings set up housekeeping in the Seattle zone. Marcel, in his bent English, says he has seen more rubber this season than ever before in his career. Only Marcel&rsquo;s activities kept the Bombers from thudding into the cellar.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02245/1544922-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="586" height="849"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARCEL PELLETIER</figcaption></div>He has had to stop more shots than his opponent in every Bomber game. But Marcel, 26, loves it or he wouldn&rsquo;t play. He can step into the grocery business with his father in Sorel, Que. But, like most Canadians, he has been in hockey since kid days and wants to stay in as long as possible.He got to be a goalie because he was a baseball catcher in grade school. The two hazards are similar&mdash;a matter of timing, health of nerves and clearness of eye. The most troublesome shot is one which comes while the goalie Is screened.The Bombers drafted Marcel, 5-10&frac12; and 175 pounds, last fall and he ran into a spray of pucks.On January 2, Mrs. Pelletier arrived. In Seattle with their 2-month-old daughter, whom Marcel saw for the first time.Marcel met his wife, Dorothy, while playing for Milwaukee in the United States League. They live in Milwaukee during the off season but plan to move to Sorel to he near the elder Pelletiers. There little Denise will learn to speak French. Marcel&rsquo;s folks came from Normandy.Of course, there&rsquo;s a possibility Marcel may choose Seattle for permanency. In what other hockey town can you play golf nearly the year around? Marcel&rsquo;s on the links often&mdash;without a necktie. &#9632;

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Puckish Monsieur Pelletier Suggests Players Wear Ties

<h2>Standings</h2>Vancouver retained first place In the hectic between themselves and Calgary. The Canucks won their only game of the week. The best the Stampedercould do was a tie in three games. They now trail by two points and have played one more game than the Canucks.<h2>Intersectionl</h2>With all clubs having completed three Intersect ional trips with the exception of Saskatoon who have one game left on their third trip the Prairie Clubs hold an 8 game advantage over their Coast rivals. Saskatoon lias the best record, winniug 13, tieing 3 while losing 7.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2>(STANDINGS MON A.M. FEB. 8)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01323/1545058-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="587" height="217"></div><h3>RESULTS</h3>Monday February 1stVictoria 1 at Saskatoon 1Tuesday February 2ndVictoria 2 at Edmonton 8Wednesday February 3rdVictoria 1 at Calgary 1Edmonton 2 at Saskatoon 9Friday February 5thSeattle 1 at Vancouver 3.Saskatoon 3 at Victoria 4Calgary 2 at Edmonton 4Saturday February 6thSaskatoon 2 at New Westminster 3Edmonton 5 at Calgary 3Sunday February 7thSaskatoon 2 at Seattle 10<h3>MONDAY FEBRUARY 1</h3>Victoria 1 at Saskatoon 1SAsKATOON &mdash; Wally Clune scored early in the third period to give the Victoria Cougars a 1-1 tie with the Saskatoon Quakers.Victoria: Goal, Almas: defence, Lowe, Lavitt, Schnieder. Clune; forwards, Doxohoy, Bettio, Kuzma, Hebenton, Macauley Abbott, Anderson, Achtymichuk, Kilburn, Sinnett.Saskatoon: Goal, Rayner: defence, Buller. Milford. Fontinato, Parker, Ross; forwards, Kaleta. McLeod, Manson, Kukulowicz, Howe, Holdaway, Kobussen, Adam, Lynn. Murphy.Referee, Scotty Morrison; linesmen. Porky Huime.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02281/1545051-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="595" height="367"></div><h3>TUESDAY FEBRUARY 2</h3>Victoria 2 at Edmonton 8EDMONTON &mdash; The Edmonton Flyers moved into fourth place as they thumped the Victoria Cougars 8-2.Victoria: Goal, Almas; defence, Laritt, Schneider, Lowe, Clune; forwards, Macauley, D. Anderson, Hebenton, Achtymichuk. Abbott, Kuzma, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Bettio.Edmonton: Goal, Hall; defence, Hrymiak, Coflin, Folk. Thibeault, Bucyk; forwards, nlac. Hannigan, J. Anderoon, D. Poile, Mcllizzl Stasiuk, Bonin, Haley. O&rsquo;Grady.Referee, Scotty Morrison; linesman, Hank Wilson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03252/1545044-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="597" height="667"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 3</h3>Victoria 1 at Calgary 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04223/1545037-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="605" height="315"></div>Edmonton 2 at Saskatoon 9<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05191/1545030-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="595" height="697"></div><h3>FRIDAY FEBRUARY 5</h3>Seattle 1 at Vancouver 3VANCOUVER &mdash; Vancouver Canucks moved Into so)e possession of first place when they downed the Seattle Bombers 3-1.Seattle &mdash; Goal, Pelletier; defense: Zenfuk, Conn. Sprout, Davidson, Lofvendahl, forwards: Bell, Fillon, Jeffrey, Fielder, Sweaney, Brown, Marquess, Wall.Vancouver &mdash; Goal, Worsley; defense: Stanley, Houghton. Dick, Landen; forwards, Popein, Dea. Nadeau, Brown, Wylie, McCulough, Hickey, Rouse, Kaiser, Kerr.Referee, Ross Morrow; linesman, Merrick Cranstoun.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06162/1545023-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="593" height="385"></div>Saskatoon 3 at Victoria 4VICTORIA &mdash; For the first time In six games against Saskatoon Quakers this season, the Victoria Cougars came out on the long end of a score, winning 4-3.Saskatoon &mdash; Goal: Rayner; defense: Fontinato, Milford, Parker. Roes, Buller; forwards: Kobussen, Kukulowicz, Manson, Howe, McLeod, Kaleta, Holdaway, Murphy, Adam, Lynn.Victoria &mdash; Goal: Almas; defense: Lavitt Schneider, Lowe, Clune; forwards: Dorohoy, Bettio, Kuzma, Abbott, Hebenton, Anderson, Kilburn, McCauley, Reay, Sinnett, Achtymichuk.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07150/1545016-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="589" height="543"></div>Calgary 2 at Edmonton 4EDMONTON &mdash; Glen Hall was a standout in the Edmonton goals as the Flyers downed the Calgary 8tampeders 4-2.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08141/1545009-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="587" height="438"></div><h3>SATURDAY FEBRUARY 6</h3>Saskatoon 2 at New Westminster 3Saskatoon &mdash; Goal: Rayner; defense: fontinato, Ross. Milford, Buller, Parker; forwards: Kukulowicz, Kobussen, Manson, Lynn, McLeod, Murphy, Kaleta, Holdaway.New Westminster &mdash; Goal: Duchene; defense: Matthews, Bedard, Bergeron, Durham; forwards: Boyce, Fashoway, McNab, Dorohoy, Love, Hamilton, Brilliant, Booth, Paul.Referee: Lou Farelll; linesman, Merrick Cranstoun.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09134/1545002-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="999" height="1575"><figcaption class="caption-body">Cagey Canuck Cage CopAND AWAY SHE GOES &mdash; Lorne (Gump) Wortley of the Vancouver Canucks here deflects a shot from the stick of the Seattle Bombers&rsquo; Dave Wall. Worsley is the WHL&rsquo;s top netminder this season.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10128/1544995-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="588" height="479"></div>Edmonton 5 at Calgary 3Edmonton &mdash; Goal: Hall; defense: Hrymnak, Coflin, Bucyk, B. Poile, Thibeault; forwards: Unlac, Sclisizzl, D. Poile, Haley, Bonin, Anderson, Hannigan, O&rsquo;Grady, Stasiuk,Calgary &mdash; Goal: Brennan; defense: Kyle, Quackenbush, A. Michalk, Coburn; forwards: Pargeter, Trentini, Lundy, Black, Wltiuk, Barry, McFadden, Ashworth, scott, J. Michalk.Referee: Scotty Morrison; linesman; J. Shannon.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11112/1544988-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="588" height="83"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1536/1544981-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="594" height="474"></div><h3>SUNDAY FEBRUARY 7</h3>Sabkatin 2 at Seattle 10SEATTLE &mdash; Guyle Fielder scored twice himself and assisted on four other goals as the Seattle Bombers blasted the Saskatoon Quakers 10-2.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1634/1544974-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="588" height="675"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. FEB. 7)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1298/1544967-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="577" height="1359"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1378/1544960-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="589" height="230"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3>Most Goals: Wayne Brown, Sea 36Most Assists: Guyle Fielder, sea, 43Most Game Winning Goals: FreddyBrown, Van. 6Most First Goals of Game:Bobby Love, NW 4.Wayne Brown, 8ea. 4Hat Tricks: Gordon Fashoway, NWColin Kilburn, Vlo 2; Steve Black, Ce 2; Jack McLeod, Sask 2.Most Shutouts: Bill Brennan, Cal 5<h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES GP MIN</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1472/1544953-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="593" height="383"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Andre Corriveau got his name back on a Quebec Hockey League scoring sheet for the first time in more than two weeks when Valleyfield Braves trounced Royals 3-1, February 10 at the Cotton Town.The reason this factual note of history is riven here is that there was more than a little apprehension felt by Corriveau&rsquo;s legion of supporters because of his inability to put the puck in the net, which had at the same time been co-incidental to a drop in Braves&rsquo; fortunes and a general depression in esprit de corps.Including his three game stint with Canadiens in a National Hockey League whirl, slim Andre was much overworked. He had played 14 games in the two circuits (Quebec and NHL) in 18 days, which would be a lot of hockey even for a more sturdy citizen. To Corriveau at 135 pounds It was a real ordeal.During his slump Corriveau, who had been running away with the QHL scoring honors, and had at one point put 13 points between himself and his closest pursuer, had seen his lead shrink to a seven point margin over Fred &ldquo;Skippy&rdquo; Burchell. waith-like centre-ice artist of the Royals.<h2>$100 Plate Dinner Helps</h2>The Braves look for a fine run from here on to the end of the league race on March 21, and their finances were given a healthy boost when $5,100 was poured into their coffers by a $100 per plate dinner at which Clarence Campbell, the National Hockey League president was the guest speaker.Toe Blake, the Old Lamplighter, was all smiles when he realized that the jinx or gremlins of whatever It was had left Corriveau, but at the same time the Valleyfield coach made no secret of his quest for another rightwinger. The Valleyfield grapevine Indicates that the starboard department has not been satisfactory, largely due, it&rsquo;s hinted, to the poor showing of Georges Bougie, in other seasons a most satisfactory performer.<h2>Malone Suggested</h2>Frank Carlin, manager of the Royals, suggested that Blake consider employing Cliff Malone, veteran of many campaigns with the Royals.Malone has been unattached since he withdrew from the lists of the Ste. Therese club a few weeks ago, at the time all club in the (Quebec) Provincial League were ready to toss in the towel.When Frank Arnett, the back division player from Carman, Man., was injured Blake brought in Maurice Collins from Ste. Therese and stated that this youngster would be a regular defenseman for the balance of the campaign, even after Arnett returns. For Braves had only three other blue line sentinels &mdash; Jack Irvine, Jacques Deslauriers and Bingo Ernst.The Braves weren&rsquo;t alone in a defense dilemma. For Royals were reduced to two able-bodied guardians of their backyard at the time Bud MacPherson was recalled by the NHL Habitants. Roger Leger was ailing with bruised hip and Bucky Holling-worth was slowly recovering from a back ailment. In this emergency Pete Morin summoned aid from Sammy Pollock, coach of the Junior Canadiens, who loaned Bobby McCord.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01323/1545089-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="529" height="546"><figcaption class="caption-body">Smiling AgainANDRE CORRIVEAU</figcaption></div>McCord made a very impressive debut in the one game he played. He handed out a couple of teeth-jarring checks and indicated he&rsquo;s ready for faster company as soon as he graduates from junior ranks. This is likely to be next season. &#9632;

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Corriveau Snaps Prolonged Slump To Jolt Braves’ Playoff Chances

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02248/1545120-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="511" height="681"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hews To HimTURK BRODA</figcaption></div>Players in the first EastWest professional hockey series since 1926 will be competing for more than marbles it&rsquo; now seems assured by a joint announcement put out this week by Al Leader, president of the Western League and George M. Slater of the Quebec circuit.As previously stated a new trophy is to be put up, yet to have a name, and it is now arranged that the series between the Western and Quebec champs will be of nine games. But more interesting to the athletes is the fact that there will be established a warchest containing $17,500 good Canadian dollars.The winner will get $10,000 of this fat sum to divvy among the performers and the loser&rsquo;s share of the swag will be the residue, or $7,500. Next to the Stanley Cup swag there is no bigger pot of gold in which the players of hockey share.The target date for the playoffs between &lsquo;he eastern and western champs to start hostilities has been set for mid-April and each league will of course set its house in order to settle domestic difficulties by that date.Since both expect to start league playoffs March 23, there should be no hitch. The first Tuesday after March 21 will see the QHL playoffs underway according to Mr. Slater&rsquo;s plans and the same goes for Leader&rsquo;s loop.If a Prairie team should win the Western League title all EastWest games are to be played In Prairie cities, but should a Coast club emerge as the standard-bearer for Western Canada, then there&rsquo;ll be single games played at Edmonton and Calgary and the balance on the Pacific Coast.Six teams will participate in the playoffs of each league.Parsley &#9632;

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QHL-WHL Pot 0 Gold Will Sse Champions Split Up 10 Gees

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div>OTTAWA. Ont.&mdash;Will Walter (Turk) Broda be coaching the Ottawa Senators next season, or will the Fat Man return to Toronto to handle Toronto Marlboro Juniors?It&rsquo;s a rather touchy subject with Broda these days, and understandably so. The guy is still in Ottawa and at the moment in the employ of T. P. Gorman, not to mention being concerned over his Barber Poles and the coming Quebec League playoffs.It all started this way. Bob Hesketh, columnist with the Toronto Telegram, dropped the word from Quebec City one day that Broda would be back in Toronto next season &mdash; permanently. His source Staff Smythe, manager of the Marlies, farm club of Toronto Maple Leafs.Hesketh said Smythe was fed up with Coach Reg Hamilton&rsquo;s inabality to make the road trips into the wilds of Quebec and wanted a man who could do it. He named Broda as his man.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03181/1545151-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="553" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body">His EmployerT. P. GORMAN</figcaption></div>Maybe it&rsquo;s Smythe&rsquo;s idea, but it isn&rsquo;t Broda&rsquo;s. The Fat Man hit the roof when the report trickled into Ottawa, and immediately denied that he would be moving to Toronto next season.&ldquo;Why doesn&rsquo;t samebody ask ME about these things&rdquo;, demanded the irate Broda. &ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t heard a word of it, and anyway, I got more to worry about than moving to Toronto. We&rsquo;re not finished the season here by any means.&rdquo;Sir Walter also went on to point out that T. P. Gorman had been very good to him and why should he want to make a change And furthermore, the Quebec League was pro hockey. Who wants to go back to junior?&ldquo;The funny part of the whole thing,&rsquo; said Broda, &ldquo;is that last year Smythe (Staff) didn&rsquo;t want me. Said I wasn&rsquo;t good enough. Now he changes his mind. Personally, I don&rsquo;t know anything about the rumor at all.&rdquo;Even though denied, the rumor stayed around for several days and the popular Ottawa coach took quite a ribbing from, everyone, especially Frank Gorman. Every time Frank spotted Turk at the rink he told him there was a long distance call from Staff Smythe waiting over in the office, and was there any truth in his leaving?It finally died out, of course, as do most rumors. But you can bet your last nickel Turk hasn&rsquo;t forgot the incident and will have something to say next time he runs into Smythe Jr.Actually, Broda has had a very good season in the Capital and there appears to be very indication he will be brought back Popular as they come, and pretty fair in the masterminding department considering his limited coaching experience, the Fat Man has acquired quite a following around these parts and would be sorely missed.Hesketh, in his column, gave Broda all the worst of it as far as coaching ability goes, dubbing him the silent strategist. Considering the source of his information, it is perhaps easy to explain. Broda certainly isn&rsquo;t the best in the business when it comes to driving home tactics, but he does all right and the team&rsquo;s standing at the moment proves it.If there is one thing they can&rsquo;t say about the ex-L.eafian, it&rsquo;s that he hasn&rsquo;t given Ottawa officials and fans 100 cents for every dollar. No one can dispute the fact, and no one has tried.Commenting on the point recently, Frank Gorman said:&ldquo;You have to hand it to Turk.Never saw a guy who worked as hard at the job of coaching as he does. He&rsquo;s here any hour of the day, asking questions about some injured player, chacking equipment, arrangements, etc. He takes nothing for granted. Hockey is his business and with him it&rsquo;s a full-time job.&rdquo;What with Injuries and players being recalled, Broda has had his ups and downs this season, but at the moment things appear to be finally breaking for him. He is gradually getting all his cripples back into the line-up and the team has started to climb back into the more rarefield air of that first division.The addition of Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Phil Maloney was a big held and since Phil has arrived, the third line has picked up considerable momentum and should be a big asset in the playoffs. Maloney has been centering Bep Guldolin and Gerry Foley.What Broda is waiting for, though, is the return of big Hugh Bolton, the elongated rearguard who has been on the shelf for several weeks with his arm in a cast. Bolton should break into the line-up in another week and Broda thinks it will make the difference.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a great man back there,&rdquo; says the Turk, &ldquo;and a fellow who can get you out of a lot of tough spots. Right now he&rsquo;s what we need, &mdash; a guy who can get that puck out of there.&rdquo;Only other item of interest around the Senator camp was the recent announcement of the sale to Toronto of goalie Ray Frederick. No amount was mentioned. It was merely stated that Leafs had purchased the classy Frederick as insurance.Frederick has enjoyed a great season with the Senators and has been the leading goalie so far this year. In addition to having the newest goals scored against him (something rare for Ottawa net-minders) Frederick has also posted eight shutouts, tops in the loop.He&rsquo;d be pretty fair insurance, at that. &#9632;

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Broda Fumes Over Toronto Report That He’s Ticketed For Marlie Job

When Jack Gelineau blanked Chicoutimi at home last week it marked the first time the Sags have been shut out on home Ice this year.The Valleyfield Braves are still using the two-goalie system with Andy Payette working the home games and Paul Leclerc the road custodians<h2>HOW THE RAGE GOES</h2>(STANDINGS ON TUE8. A.M. FEB. 16).<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01295/1545294-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="589" height="213"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 10</h3>Montreal 1 at Valleyfield 3VALLEYFIELD &mdash; Coaler Andy Payetto was a standout for the Valleyfield Braves as they knocked the Montreal Royals out of first place in the QHL with a 3-1 victory.Montreat: Goal, Perreault; defence, Holllngworth, Harmon, Leger, McCord; forwards, Blaine, Roche, Litzenberger, Desaulniers, Tessier, Burchell, Wray, Penis, Frampton, Laplante.Valley field: Goal, Payette; defence, ernest, Deslauriers. Collins, Irvine; forwards, White, Joannette, Bisalllon, Corriveau, Bougie, Thomson, Kwong, Haworth, Kline, Leclerc.Referee. Dexiel; linesmen, Reynold, Whitehead.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02258/1545287-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="603" height="413"></div>Ottawa 1 ot Springfield 9BPRINGFIELD &mdash; With Verne Kaiser ocoring a three goal &lsquo;Hat Trick&rsquo;, the ftpringfield Indians walloped the Ottawa Senators 9-1.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03234/1545280-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="586" height="661"></div>Chicoutimi 4 at Quebec 1QUEBEC &mdash; The Chicoutimi Chios ellmbed into sole posession of first place in the Quebec Hockey League as they defeated the Quebec Aces 4-1 before a crowd of 7,461.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04186/1545273-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="587" height="382"></div><h3>THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11</h3>Montreal 7 at Sherbrooke 2SHERBROOKE &mdash; Dick Gamble and Eddie Litzenberger scored a pair of goals apiece as the Montreal Royals defeated the Sherbrooke Saints 7-2.Montreal &mdash; Goal: Perreault; defense: Holllngworth, Leger, Harmon, Roche; forwards: Burchell, Lapiante, Litzen-bcrger, Blaine, desaulnlers, Tessier, Wray, Denis, Frampton, Gamble.Sherbrooke &mdash; Goal: Cotnoir; defense: Arbour, Bownass, Palamar, Forbes; forwards: Dube, Stankiewicz, Malo, Ehman, Johnson, McLean, Irving, Podolsky, Bruneteau, Glesebrecht.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05151/1545266-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="575" height="603"><figcaption class="caption-body">Still StarringSKIPFY BURCHELL</figcaption></div>Referee: Len Corriveau; linesmen: Lalonde, Therriault.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06131/1545259-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="581" height="539"></div>Ottawa 2 at Chicoutimi 0CHICOUTIMI &mdash; Ray Frederick rang up shutout number nine as the Ottawa Senators blanked the Chicoutimi Chicks 2-0.Ottawa &mdash; Goal: Frederick; defense: Stahan, Arundel, Robertson, Hudson; forwards: Gravelie, Johnson, Blair, Hugh Riopelle, Howard Riopelle, Glesebrecht, Kuntz, Maloney, Foley, Guldolln.Chicoutimi &mdash; Goal: Hughes; defense; Glaude, Roy, Talllefer, Lamirande; forwards: White, Buchanan, S. smrke, L. smrke, Groleau, Moore, Locas, Leger, Dussault.Referee: Erie Milford; linesmen: Bolleau, Scullion.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07123/1545252-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="583" height="379"></div><h3>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13</h3>Montreal 4 at Springfield 1Montreal &mdash; Goal: Perreaultj defense: Lager, Holllngworth, Roche, Harmon; forwards: Burchell, laplante, Litzenberger, Blaine, Gamble, Desaulniers, Tessier, Wray, Denis, Frampton.Springfield &mdash; Goal: O&rsquo;Hearn; defense: Summer, Tottle, McMurdy, Currie; forwards: Horvath, Atenas, Kaiser, McNab, Franche, Bobenio, Hogg, Hastings, Leler.Referee: Stbby Munday; Mneemen: Charlie Ghedi, Bill Cote.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08112/1545245-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="585" height="393"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-09104/1545238-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="579" height="59"></div>Sherbrooke 7 at Ottawa 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1090/1545231-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="585" height="917"></div><h3>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14</h3>Chicoutimi 0 at Quebec 2Quebec &mdash; Goal: Gelineau; defense. Crozier, Caron, Burega, Talbot, Houle; forwards: Brown, Powell, Labadie, Kelly. Tremblay, Hucul, Boone, Nadeau.Chicoutimi &mdash; Goal: Hughes; defense: Glaude, Boy, Talllefer, Lamirande; forwards: Buchanan, White, S. Smrke, L. Smrke, Perreault. Dussault, Locas, Moore, Tkachuk, Leger.Referee: Jim Slater; linesmen: Levesque, Boivin.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1174/1545224-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="577" height="317"></div>Ottawa 5 at Sherbrooke 3Ottawa &mdash; Goal: Frederick; denfense: Copp, Arundel, Stahan, Robertson; forwards: Blair, Gravelle, Howard, Riopelle, Hugh Rlopelle, J. Giesebrecht, Kuntz, Maloney, Foley, Guidolin, R. Johnson.Sherbrooke: &mdash; Goal: Gatherumi defense: Hay. Bownass, Arbour, Palamar, Forbes; forwards: Stankiewicz, E. Johnson, McLean, Irving, Ehman, Podolsky, Bruneteau, B. Giesebrecht.Referee: Georges Gravel lisesmen: Laionde, West gate.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1256/1545217-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="589" height="439"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1348/1545210-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="585" height="249"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1440/1545203-1-eng-US/f0015-142.jpg" title="f0015-14" width="527" height="543"><figcaption class="caption-body">Top ScorerLEO GRAYELLI</figcaption></div>Springfield 2 at Valleyfield 4Springfield &mdash; Goal: O&rsquo;Hearn; defense: Tottle, McNab, Bummers, Currie; forwards: Kaiser, Powell, Hastings, Franche, Horvath, Bobenic, McMurdy, Hogg, Leler.Valleyfield &mdash; Goal: Payette; defense: Ernst, Lesiauriers, Irvine, Collins; forwards: White, Joannette, Bisalllon, Corriveau, Bougie, Thomson, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Leclerc.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1533/1545196-1-eng-US/f0015-152.jpg" title="f0015-15" width="587" height="631"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>LEADING SCORERS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1632/1545189-1-eng-US/f0015-162.jpg" title="f0015-16" width="587" height="1031"></div>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1730/1545182-1-eng-US/f0015-172.jpg" title="f0015-17" width="587" height="447"></div> &#9632;

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div>SAULT ST. MARIE, Ont.-Sudbury Wolves are howling for the Allan Cup! Not since 1937 when Sudbury Tigers won the coveted national senior hockey crown has the rich Nickel Belt hugged the piece of silverware &hellip; willy Maxie Silverman &ldquo;The Silver Fox&rdquo; of Northern Ontario hockey, has formed a new forward line composed of former NHL stars &mdash; Eddie Harrison, Pete Horeck and Bob Dawes &hellip; said Maxie: &ldquo;This line could make the difference!&rdquo;&hellip; Meanwhile, Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.) Greyhounds, hungrier than ever for an Allan Cup (last won away back in 1924) have Pentti Lund, former Rookie of the Year in the NHL, in harness Pentti has worked out steadily the past few days, and looked impressive when he broke into a Greyhound uniform for the first time &hellip; Crowds at Sudbury and Greyhound games continue to beat any senior hockey crowds in the entire country &hellip; Sudbury hitting the 6,000 mark; Greyhounds hitting 5,000 &hellip;This is the year of The Big Upheaval in Northern Ontario hockey! &hellip; First Don Grosso resigned as coach of Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) Indians&hellip; then Frank &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Stahan resigned as coach of Pembroke Lumber Kings &hellip; then Jack Houston resigned as manager of Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds &hellip; NOW, Whiz McNaughton has resigned as president of Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) Indians &hellip; of late, we&rsquo;re resigning ourselves to resignations!!!&hellip;This week we salute the little-known but very aggressive Michi-picoten Senior Hockey League &hellip; playing at Wawa (Ontario), Canadian Legion, Sinter Kings and Athletics have formed a splendid circuit despite the fact they are fairly isolated from the rest of the big hockey centres&hellip; Frank Commanda, who gained quite a reputation as a schoolboy sensation in Garnier Residential School at Spanish, Ontario, is burning up the ice-lanes as a star forward with the Canadian Legion team &hellip; he exploded five goals and got two assists to spark his team to a convincing 11-5 triumph over Sinter Kings the other night&hellip; Charney, Simon, Cizinoski, Tremblay, Coyne, Wheatley and Spreng are only a few of the many stars operating in a league worthy of much more prominence &hellip; Hats off to the fine Michipicoten Senior Hockey League away up there in Wawa! &hellip; And while we&rsquo;re in the mood for cheering, lets give a big one to dashing young Jimmy McBurney, former junior star with Galt Black Hawks (who almost made Chicago Black Hawks), who fired no less than five goals to lead Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds to a walloping 8-1 win over Pembroke &hellip; Jimmy equalled the record established by Fred Valenti of North Bay Trappers, on January 5, of 1952.A terrific individual performance by the youngest and most popular player in Northern Ontario senior hockey today &hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01281/1545325-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="575" height="591"><figcaption class="caption-body">PENTTI LUND</figcaption></div>Just a couple of hours before writing this column, Dean McBride, formerly with Sydney Millionaires of the Maritimes Major Hockey League and now with Sault Ste. Marie Indians, broke his nose, requiring nine stitches &hellip; He rammed Into the boards on a goalward thrust &hellip; He couldn&rsquo;t stop in time &hellip;<h2>Canucks Clip Royals</h2>Biggest upset of the NOHA Intermediate &ldquo;A&rdquo; League this season was engineered by the cellar-dwelling RCAF Canucks who clipped the front-running Temiskaming Royals 8-6. &hellip; it was the first loss at home ofr Temiskaming &hellip; Tremblay pulled the hat-trick, while Kotzma got a deuce &hellip; Orville Kelly was star for Temiskaming &hellip; watch out for these boys by the time the playoffs roll around &hellip; Swinging the NOHA Puck Parade spotlight a little farther north into the great hockey world of The Gold Belt, thousands of hockey fans are singing the praises of young Graham Savord, rated a surefire NHL prospect&hellip; He forged his fifth hat-trick of the season against some of the best teams in the Gold Belt Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; League&hellip; Graham snapped the. previous record held by Joey Richards of Noranda Toilers &hellip; By the way, looking at the Big Ten Scoring Parade, Savord of South Porcupine Gold Diggers has no less than 64 points on 29 goals and 35 assists in only 19 games &hellip; Graham is well on the road to setting a new record &hellip; Bob Tilley&rsquo; of Kirkland Lake has spent the most time in the penalty box with 98 minutes &hellip;In the Porcupine Mines Senior Hockey League, Abitibi Eskimos clinched first place at this writing by defeating the second-place South End Porkies,4-0.&hellip; Sully Porter turned in a superlative job again in the Eskimos&rsquo; net&hellip; Jerry Labell gets better with every game for the Eskies &hellip; He leads the field on 26 points &hellip;North Bay Black Hawks will be a power to be reckoned with when the NOHA Intermediate &ldquo;A&rdquo; playoffs roll around &hellip; They have former senior stars In harness now and three of them combined to pile up no less than 14 points In a single game&hellip; Joe LaFrance fired one goal and four assists, Vic Jackson (formerly of North Bay Trappers) had two goals and three assists. Bill White had two goals and two assists&hellip; Crandall Is turning In some nice netminding for North Bay &hellip;. &#9632;

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NONA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;Fines, suspensions, injuries &mdash; the Maritime Major (Big Four) Hockey League was as rough as the weather in late January.Glace Bay&rsquo;s Johnny Lumley cracked Sydney&rsquo;s Ted O&rsquo;Connor over the head with his stick and was promptly given a match penalty. Lumley was automatically suspended. A couple of days later league president C. Roy MacDonald slapped on a three-game suspension and a $50 fine.&ldquo;Inadequate&rdquo; stormed the Sydney executive. It was Glace Bay&rsquo;s second match. Earlier in the season Tommy Fyles had been set down three games and $50. At that time, Sydney said, President MacDonald warned players that any further outbreaks with sticks would mean a stiffer sentence.While Glace Bay lost Lumley for three games, Sydney&rsquo;s O&rsquo;Connor may be out longer. His head is healing slowly. In the same game Sydney winger Specs Chorley was injured and is still on the shelf. The Millionaires are down to 11 players, forcing coach Terry Reardon to get back into action. Terry had been out for two weeks with a groin injury.<h2>Watson Breaks Nose</h2>Sydney&rsquo;s Dune MacIntyre, the league&rsquo;s largest player, was given a cross-checking penalty against Halifax&rsquo;s light but peppery Ross Watson and the latter came up with a broken nose. Halifax oficials promptly charged the referee was lax in his duty, should have tagged MacIntyre with a match.Halifax was down to 10 players for a swing on the road. Johnny Morrow, whose release for the season from Sydney has been confirmed, is still out and has been joined by veteran Pete Wywrot, also an ankle Injury, and little Muckle Hollett with a sore back. Watson wants to get back into action but must await a special noseguard on orders of the club doctor.January 29 Halifax Atlantics were storm-stayed at New Glasgow and were unable to keep a playing date at Charlittetown. Islanders protested, saying the A&rsquo;s could have made it by train, as a referee had done although he arrived late, that night.President MacDonald slapped on a $500 fine, which Atlantics are protesting because, they say, coach Dugger McNeil had done all in his power to make the trip.With Terry Reardon playing a major role, Sydney Mills knocked off Glace Bay&rsquo;s bid for second place. But the Moneymen promptly were tagged for 8-3 and 7-3 defeats but the resurging Atlantics, now over the losing ways and building another substantial lead atop the league table.Charlottetown Islanders hit a losing streak but came out of it with a timely victory over Miners which moved them to within six points of third place Miners who in turn are only three points behind the Mills.And Reardon&rsquo;s men consolidated their hold on the runner-up spot with a 4-2 win over Atlantics at the Steel City. Sydney dressed 11 men, Halifax 10 for this game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02226/1545356-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="589" height="607"><figcaption class="caption-body">Set DownJOHNNY LUMLEY</figcaption></div><h3>Pepin Joins Halifax</h3>Just before the new player deadline Halifax added veter on Bobby Pepin to their depleted lineup. The one-time scoring star for Montreal junior Canadiens fitted neatly into the machine and posted five scoring points in his first two games.The Mills dropped Roger Guay, their second highest scorer, and picked up Don Ashbee, late of the Cleveland Barons. Another man is coming as a replacement for John Bobenic, who never saw Sydney. Assigned to the Mills, he filled in with Eddie Shore&rsquo;s Springfield Indians and scored three goals. Next day he was a regular and Shore was scouting a replacement for the Mills.Halifax, still seeking a replacement for Stan Maxwell, who refused to report here and is currently with North Bay, would have snapped up Guay but Sydney released him after the player deadline.It seems that slight Gene Leclerc, who started the season with Providence Reds and then was shuffled to Halifax, needed only confidence to become a good producer.For many games Leclerc held his own as a defensive centre. Then he started to flick in the goals, had a big night February 3 when he scored three and assisted on a pair against Sydney.Glace Bay some time ago picked up two points when Islanders failed to keep a playing date in the mining town. Islanders were originally fined $5,000 but It was reduced to $500. The game may yet be played. The Islanders in turn picked up two points when Atlantics failed to keep their date January 29 but this, too, may be played before the schedule ends. The $500 fine tacked on will pro bably be protested by Atlantics, who claim they made every effort to make the trip.<h3>Lack Scoring Punch</h3>Although he has made many changes &mdash; more than any other coach this season &mdash; Terry Reardon is still lacking a scoring punch at Sydney. The team has the lowest scoring rate in the league. On the other hand they have been the hardest to score against.Bill ford fired his 60th goal the night of February 3 and is now within four of the Maritime record held by four-time scoring champion Buck Whitlock. After a two week&rsquo;s slump the free-skating left winger has come back with a big bang. Also within his grasp is the league scoring record of 128 points set by Whitlock last winter.The scoring derby is dominated by four players &mdash; Ford, Pete Wywrot, Whitlock and Paul Saindon. Nobody else seems to have even an outside chance And right now Ford&rsquo;s chances of finishing on top are very bright indeed. &#9632;

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Fines, Suspensions, Injuries Plague Maritime League Clubs

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;The two extremities of the International Hockey League &mdash; pacesetting Cincinnati and cellar-bound Milwaukee &mdash; provided the recent news as the conference passed the three-quarter mark of the season.Cincinnati, defending United States senior hockey champion, continued to pull away from the field as the Hawks moved into a commanding 14-point lead.Hapless Milwaukee, doomed to finish in the basement of the league, rose up with a vengeance to win four out of five starts, including spectacular victories over the co-holders of third place, Johnstown and Toledo.Some airtight goal-tending by little Charlie Hodge was the No. factor in the Cincinnati surge, which saw the Hawks go unbeaten in seven straight contests and win six in a row.Hodge held the opposition scoreless for 168 minutes and 35 seconds, a new mark, and also recorded his sixth and seventh shutouts of the campaign to move one in front of Toledo&rsquo;s Bill Tibbs in this department, where both net-minders already have surpassed the former record of five. Tibbs still has the edge in actual average, however with a 2,46 average to 2.54 for Hodge.During its latest spree, Cincinnati has outscored its foes, 46 goals to 14, in raising its season&rsquo;s aggregate of goals to an imposing 270 total. Highlight of the string was a 5-0 triumph over Ft. Wayne before the IHL.&rdquo;s largest 1953-54 crowd &mdash; a Testimonial Night gathering of 9,479 &mdash; at Cincinnati Garden.Thus far, eight different players have cashed in 20 or more goals for the Hawks, with two others, Coach Roly McLenahan and Duke Edmundson, just short with 19 apiece. Art Rose has 30, to rank on top, closely followed by 19-year-old Eddie Kachur and Connie Broden, each with 28; Willie Pawchuk, 27; John (Bun) Smith and Billy Goold, each with 23, and Kenny Biggs and Reg Grigg, each with 22.Over inMilwaukee the fired-up Chiefs, able to win but seven out ofc their first 44 starts, erupted to take four out of five, much to the dismay of Ft. Wayne, Lou Trudell&rsquo;s skaters started the Louisville, Johnstown and Toledo, fireworks by beating their favorite &ldquo;cousins&rdquo;, Ft. Wayne, 5-3, and then made it two in a row at the expense of Louisville, 9-1. After bowing to Cincinnati, they came right back to stun red-hot Johnstown, 5-3, and nose out baffled Toledo, 2-1.Milwaukee also was involved In the highest-scoring deadlock in IHL history when the Chiefs, with Roger Hayfield supplying the needed punch twice, fought to an 8-88 overtime standoff with Grand Rapids. Hayfield first knotted the count with six seconds of regulation play remaining and then registered the tleing marker again In the extra period.Marlon, a goal behind to Ft. Wayne In the final minutes, first tied it up and then won out in overtime, 3-2, led by Kenny Schultz&rsquo;s two goals. The Barons now have taken seven in a row at home, while Cincinnati has reeled of 10 straight on its own ice to make It 24 out of 27 on the full Beason.Present IHL standings find the Mohawks with 74 points, runner-up Marion with 60, Johnstown and Toledo tied for third with 67, Grand Rapids fifth with 61, Troy sixth with 44, Ft Wayne seventh with 41, Louisville eight with 40 and Milwaukee last with 22Toledo&rsquo;s Dick Pontarollo still is in front in the race for individual scoring honors with 839 goals and 47 assists for 86 points, but Johnstown&rsquo;s Don Hall is closing in on him with 80 points on 83 goals and 47 assists in six fewer contests. Roy Hammond and John Kovich of Toledo, Schultz and Gordon Vejprava of Marion, Goold of Cincinnati, Arnie Schmaut of Johnstown and George Hayes of Grand Rapids also are among the leaders.Vejprava&rsquo;s 40 goals are tops, as are his five hat tricks. Pontarollo shows the way in points and winning goals, with eight. The IHL&rsquo;s bad man is Ed (Monte) Montigny of Grand Rapids, with 157 minutes in the cooler.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01247/1545387-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="553" height="597"><figcaption class="caption-body">AirtightCHARLIE HODGE</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Cincinnati Wins Six In A now Charlie Hodge Sets Record

CINCINNATI, Ohio.&mdash;&ldquo;Break up the Cincinnati Mohawks!&rdquo;That&rsquo;s the cry in Grand Rapids these days &mdash; and they really mean it, THE HOCKEY NEWS has learned.Grand Rapids is up in arms about the Cincinnati Hockey Club, which it feels is much too good for the rest of the International League and should be ousted.Both of the dally newspapers in the Michigan city, the Herald and the Press, are solidly behind the move, as is Phil Simon, president of the Grand Rapids team.&ldquo;There is a proposal before the league right now that the number of players Cincinnati can get from its parent Montreal Canadien club be limited,&rdquo; Charlie Clapp, sports editor of the Herald, stated. &ldquo;This proposal is aimed primarily at getting the Mohawks out of the IHL. They&rsquo;re just too good for the rest of us, who do not have equal opportunity to get the top-notch brand of talent Cincinnati does.&rdquo;The two Grand Rapids papers have been waging a steady battle of Ink to have some action taken about the strong Mo hawks, who captured the United States senior championship a year ago and right now are 12 points ahead of the runner-up Marion Barons in the IHL race.&ldquo;We are seriously thinking of omitting Cincinnati&rsquo;s name from the top of our International League standings from now on and placing the next team (Marion in this case) in first. We would then refer to all future Mohawk games as exhibitions,&rdquo;What the sports editor of the Grand Rapids Herald neglected to say was that Cincinnati has been the best drawing card in the IHL right along and has only been able to break even with the Rockets in four starts this season in the Michigan arena.Joe Minster &#9632;

Grand Rapids Behind Move To Oust Mohawks From IHL

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div>STRATFORD, Ont&mdash;With but ten scheduled games left and mired deep in the cellar of the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA group, it&rsquo;s possible but hardly probable that Niagara Cataracts can make the grade for the playoffs.If that mathematical chance proves enough for Niagara Falls to forge ahead of the sixthplace Stratford Indians it would be ample reward for the energetic Dr. &ldquo;Biff&rdquo; Potter and his associates.Nevertheless, the Cataracts, after a somewhat disastrous entry this season, occasioned partly by injuries to players, have no intentions of withdrawing next season, despite lack of patronage at their home games.Word from the &ldquo;Honeymoon City&rdquo; Is that a sounder financial structure Is being erected, which will bring in more hockey enthu-sisasts prepared to gamble some of their money on icing a winning team, and already contacts have been made with future playing talent.<h2>Olsen Out</h2>Just when the Cataracts appeared to have rounded out their roster for stretch battle for the playoffs through the acquisition of Castelane and Gerry Horton of the defunct Sarnia Sailors, and Danny Nixon, a reinstated pro., their stalwart defenceman, &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Olsen crashed feet first into the end boards and fractured a bone in &ldquo;his instep, which renders him hors de combat for the balance of the season. Olsen has the inijured foot in a cast and it will not be removed for at least six weeks and by that time the schedule will be history because it is slated to conclude three weeks hence.The majority of the fans, and the attendance this season is possibly better on the whole, with the exception of Niagara Falls and Hamilton, than it was a year ago, figure that the final standing will present a picture almost similar to that of today. Kitchener Dutchmen are leading the pack, followed by Owen Sound Mercurys, Windsor Bulldogs, Hamilton Tigers, Startford Indians, Chatham Maroons and Niagara Falls&rsquo; Cataracts.Inexplicable is the lack of patronage accorded the Hamilton Tigers, who have a new sponsor and a revamped arena this season. Ken Soble, the Hamilton radio station owner, took over the Hamilton senior and Windsor junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; franchises this season, wrought real changes in the old Barton street arena, and still the fans are staying away from the games in droves.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02211/1545442-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="537" height="873"><figcaption class="caption-body">PuzzledGEORGE REDDING</figcaption></div>This lack of interest in Hamilton and Nigara Falls is a bit mystifying, because there was a time when George Redding was icing Allan Cup champions in the Ambitious City, as was the late Gene Fraser in the Big Roar Town. Names like &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Farrell, Carson &ldquo;Shovel-shot&rdquo; Cooper and &ldquo;Beef&rdquo; McKay of former Tiger teams, and &ldquo;Wart&rdquo; Mayo, the late &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Seibert and the late George Pennie are to be conjured with when one thinks of the old-time senior hockey greats in these two cities.As for the balance of the clubs in senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; O.H.A. company this season, the Owen Sound Arena is sold out for practically every game, as it is in Chatham, Windsor and Kitchener, with greater seating capacities, are averaging better than 3,000, while in Stratford the average attendance is over 2,500. &#9632;

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Fans Figure Dutchmen To End Atop OH A Heap

<div class="byline">By REX STIMERS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01255/1545497-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terrific Teepee ThreesomeHUGH BARLOW BRIAN CULLEN BARRY CULLEN</figcaption></div>ST. CATHERINES, Ont.&mdash;It used to be that a parliamentary investigation was needed eveny time a change was mooted for the record books. Althletes of today take their records, make them, break them and re-write the book in stride in the course of a season.Down here in Canada&rsquo;s Banana Belt &mdash; the Niagara Peninsula &mdash; the St. Catharines Tee Pees have a threesome that are the scourge of the opposition from Jonquiere up in Lake St. John to Kitchener at the Western end of the combined Ontario-Quebec hockey loop.At the present time the threesome have amassed a total of 279 scoring points, 130 goals and 149 assists. The trio, two brothers and a close friend. Captain Brian Cullen, Barry Cullen aud Hugh Barlow today rate as the most prolific goal scoring threesome in the world of hockey.Brian Cullen in his third year with the Garden City Tee Pees could have turned pro &mdash; or gone up hockeys ladder &mdash; anyway he chose at the end of last season but on the premise that you&rsquo;re only a junior once, he decided to finish out his teen-age time with the Tee Pees. Cullen leads the league in scoring and is developing a finesse in play-making, goal scoring and defensive ability that should save him a whole year on his way to the big time. To date, February 8th, his 52 goals and 66 assists for 116 points place him at the head of the league, well on his way to an all time junior or organized hockey record.On the wings are a pair of converted center men, Hugh Barlow and Brian&rsquo;s brother, Barry Cullen. Barlow, son of the one time great Hamilton hockey star and present day referee, has worried 87 points out of opposing netminders, 36 goals and 51 assists. On right wing, 18 years-old Barry Cullen plays the trailer and safety spot on the line. He has connected for 74 points, 42 of them being goals.Naturally, such a unit is strongly checked and given the business on many occasions. But these kids aren&rsquo;t pantywaists either. The Cullen boys have 28 and 27 minutes, that&rsquo;s Brian and Barry while Barlow, the son-of-a-referee has 48 minutes in the sin bin, an honest Indication that he isn&rsquo;t getting any breake from his father&rsquo;s friends.Many times it&rsquo;s been suggested that some of the better junior hockey players ocassionally develop their hockey to the detriment of their brain? But all three of these youngsters have their heads well and firmly fixed. On the side, Brian Cullen is preparing for a business career. Barry leans towards the scholastic and could wind up preparing for a profession at University while Barlow is already established with his father in a successful Turkey farming venture.New records, making them, breaking them, re-writing the book all seem to be part of the program these youngsters have in the 1953-54 hockey season. Brian Cullen&rsquo;s 52 goals and 66 assists and the lines 279 points are going to take a lot of beating wherever red lights register goals in organized hockey, I don&rsquo;t think there is any better. &#9632;

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New Records Galore Being Set by Cullen-Barlow-Cullen Line

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0561/1545528-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">This Pivot A DefensemanED SONGIN&hellip; &hellip;VERSATILE</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;With only a brief pause for changing uniform, Ed &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Songin has stepped directly from Canadian professional football into United States amateur hockey.Last fall Songin was the star quarterback for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, who beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers In the Grey Cup game ror the Canadian professional championship.This winter the one-time Boston college athlete is the star defenseman for the Feloney Club of Cambridge, winners of the United States amateur championship last season.Despite his football skill, with which most Canadian fans are familiar, Songin became prominent here first through his hockey ability. He was the outstanding schoolboy player of his time at Walpole High School, and an AllAmerican defenseman at Boston College.The 190-pound husky was being considered for a defense position with the Boston Bruins untili he received a serious knee injury in the annual North-South All-Star football game as a BC senior.Canadians may have the opportunity of seeing Songin in his hockey role in the near-future, since the Feloney Club is planning a tour of the Dominion. &#9632;

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Gridder Butch Songin Also A Hockey Player

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01233/1545559-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div>(Solution Next Week)<h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Detroit player shown in centre.5&mdash;Initials of Hart Trophy winner of 1946-47.7&mdash;A county in England.9&mdash;Bill Gadsby played amateur hockey with&mdash;Canadians.11&mdash;Fans occasionally threaten to &mdash; players.12&mdash;Goalies seldom get one. (abbr).13&mdash;&ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Bouchard&rsquo;s initials.14&mdash;Ray Timgren is a former member of Toronto Marlboro&mdash;.16&mdash;Real Chevrefils has a broken one.18&mdash;Each (abbr).19&mdash;Wally Hergesheimer&rsquo;s native province (abbr).20&mdash;Once coached the Maple Leafs,2&mdash;Many goalies prefer gloves that are&mdash;.23&mdash;This commodity helps sponsor Maple Leaf home games.24&mdash;Utilize.26&mdash;Initials of Labrie, ex Ranger player.27&mdash;&ldquo;Turk&rdquo; Broda&rsquo;s real name.30&mdash;Comparative ending.32&mdash;Syracuse ended 1952-53 season In this position.83&mdash;Ivan Irwin was born in this country (abbr).84&mdash;Initials of a Detroit forward.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;Nickname of Mohns of Boston.2&mdash;Norm Dusault, ex Canadien player, is sometimes called &ldquo;Le&mdash;.&rdquo;.3&mdash;Girls Name.4&mdash;A requisite for hockey.5&mdash;Fleming Mackell&rsquo;s birthplace.6&mdash;Initials of Nattrass, ex Chicago player.8&mdash;Outstanding rookie of 1932-33.10&mdash;Once played for Canadiens, first name Gilles.15&mdash;A member of the Boston Bruins.l7&mdash;First name of W.H.L&rsquo;s outstanding rookie of 1952-53.19&mdash;Frank Boucher was once one.20&mdash;Short for first name of Powell of Syracuse.21&mdash;These can be found in hockey rinks.25&mdash;Victoria Cougars are sometimes called this.28&mdash;&ldquo;Comet&rdquo; Haley&rsquo;s initials.29&mdash;To make mistakes.31&mdash;Initials of Victoria&rsquo;s goalie.<h2>Solution to Lost Week&rsquo;s Puzzle</h2>ACROSS1. McNeil4. J.T.7. Rangers11. One12. Doug14. Ted16. Ste18. Hec19. He20. Son21. Rod23. E.M.24. Apr.26. Train28. Strain30. F.O.31. E.P.32. Dea33. DelDown1. Marois2. Nineteen3. Iced4. J.T.5. Toe8. An9. Ro10. Sutherland13. Gee15. D.C.17. Thompson20. Sea22. Duncan25. R.T.26. Tape27. R.I.28. Red &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword Puzzle

VOLUME 7 MONTREAL, FEBRUARY 20, 1954 NUMBER 21<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01151/1545726-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="262" height="297"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0291/1545719-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="263" height="317"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0374/1545712-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="2799" height="1533"><figcaption class="caption-body">No Rest For Ranger Rookie</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0460/1545705-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="2775" height="1541"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry&rsquo;s Slide Stops SloanGOALMOUTH ACTION &mdash; Johnny Bower, The rookie netminder for the New York Rangers, seems to be enjoying a well-earned rest in the top photo, but actually he&rsquo;s just stopped a shot by Sid Smith (81 of the Toronto Maple Leafs. In the lower photo the Montreal Canadiens Gerry McNeil slides away out of his cage to deflect a shot by the Leafs&rsquo; Tod Sloan, Maurice Richard (9) and Butch Bouchard hurry around into th. corner to pick up the loose disc. (Photo by Turofaky)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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February 20, 1954

Amateur Puck Parade… …At A Glance

Scribes Claim NOHA Now “Battle of The Bankroll”

The Passing sports show

“Operation Big Hoax” Pays Off For Leafs