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February 27, 1954

The Hockey News February 27, 1954

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0020-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0367/1453038-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01143/1453052-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="129" height="156"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0283/1453045-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="137" height="161"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0453/1453031-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="1558" height="943"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Photos by Turofsky)</span></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>J</span>ACQUES PLANTE,</b> Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; top emergency goal-keeper answered a hurried SOS last week when regular Gerry McNeil came down with an ankle injury. His first assignment was against the Toronto Maple Leafs. In the top photo he makes a sliding save off the stick of George Armstrong while defenseman Doug Harvey looks on. In the lower picture Plante brushes Jim Morrison aside as he watches the flight of the puck. That&rsquo;s Harvey behind Morrison with Eric Nesterenko in the background. Gordie (Hopalongl Hannigan Is the Loaf player In the foreground.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Jake The Snake Puts On The Brakes

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>When Lynn Patrick makes up his mind to shake up his forward lines, he seldom stops at halfway measures.</p><p>Simple processes like exchanging wings or centers on different combinations may do for most coaches, but not for the big custodian of the Boston Bruins.</p><p>He thinks no more of moving a player from his customary position to a new one than he does of tieing his eye-catching bow ties without a mirror. He does both deftly.</p><p>Two years ago he took a mediocre center named Ed Sandford and moulded him into a left wing with All-Star potentialities.</p><p>A year ago he shifted a banjo-hitting right wing to center and Fleming Mackell made the National League&rsquo;s All-Star team in his first crack at the new position.</p><p>Back in October he moved Dave Creighton from center, the position at which he had scored 20 goals two years ago, to a less familiar post at left wing.</p><p>In early December he ended Capt. Milt Schmidt&rsquo;s 17-year stay at center by shifting the great Bruin to left wing in an exchange of positions with Creighton.</p><p>Then out of a clear sky on a recent night in Toronto, Patrick picked up his personnel manipulations where he left off with Schmidt and Creighton in December and made some more changes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05116/1450834-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="313" height="321"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>No &frac12; Measures</b></p><p><b>LYNN PATRICK</b></p></figcaption></div><p>He returned Schmidt to center, but not in Creighton&rsquo;s place. Instead, he installed his battle-scarred veteran in Mackells place, between Sandford and Johnny Peirson. Mackell, last year&rsquo;s All-Star, was made a left wing, On a line with Creighton and Leo LaBine.</p><p>Ordinarily, Patrick prefaces his changes with an advance announcement to that effect, but his latest shuffle developed between periods at Maple Leaf Gardens. And like so many others which he has made in his four seasons as^coach here, it returned a speedy profit.</p><p>The Bruins beat the Maple Leafs that night, the second time they&rsquo;ve won in Toronto this season, and when they did it no other team could make the same claim. Then they won two of their next three games, one of which was a highly important one with the New York Rangers.</p><p>The night after their conquest of the Rangers, provided by a LaBine goal and Sugar Jim Henry&rsquo;s fifth shutout, the Bruins closed up the Garden for the month by beating the Montreal Canadiens behind another dazzling exhibition by Henry.</p><p>Then they took off on a four-game road trip, their last long one of the season, with a five-point lead over the Rangers for a cushion. Their tour included two games in New York, where five previous visits had netted them only one victory.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Lynn’s Juggling Means Mass Shake-ups

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10114/1452215-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="938" height="766"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Photo by John Lumiy)</span></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>H</span>EAVE HO !</b> &mdash; Vic Lynn, ex-National Leaguer now with the Saskatoon Quakers, crashes into Victoria&rsquo;s Ralph Almas after taking a shot which the latter deflected (arrow). Jackie Mc-Leod (II) waits in vain for the rebound.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Ralph Rocked As Lynn Lunges

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><h2><b>&ldquo;Lucky to Finish Fourth&rdquo;</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>eing gullible, we believed the story in a recent paper that the turning point of the winter had been reached last week and that spring was definitely in the air. But when we walked out into that blizzard after lunch we knew we&rsquo;d been had. If any doubt remained it was dispelled when we saw Dick Irvin in the Forum.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be lucky if we finish fourth,&rdquo; he said, a gloomy prediction he is accustomed to make much earlier in the season. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be lucky if we win five of the next 15 games.&rdquo;</p><p>We expressed some doubt, but he held up a finger and called Bill Head down in the clinic. Bill is the fellow who keeps a chart of Canadiens&rsquo; aches and pains. The longer Dick listened to him the longer his face grew and we wondered if the entire hockey club had perished in a plane crash.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s it,&rdquo; the coach said when he&rsquo;d hung up. &ldquo;McNeil will be out for another three weeks and Geoffrion for two. St. Laurent may be ready by a week from next Saturday.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;How about Baldy MacKay and Dickie Moore?&rdquo; he was asked.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ll start working out with us any day now,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but it will take them a while to get in shape.&rdquo;</p><p>Gerry McNeil didn&rsquo;t suffer a fracture of the foot when Pete Conacher crashed into him in Chicago Stadium, but ligaments were torn and bones were badly bruised. Boom Boom Geoffrion&rsquo;s foot was damaged when he stopped a slapshot from Tim Horton&rsquo;s stick in a game here against the Toronto Leafs.</p><p>&ldquo;What most people don&rsquo;t know is that Boom Boom was hit twice on the same foot in that game and he says the second one was the worst,&rdquo; said Dick. &ldquo;St. Laurent got hurt in New York when big Mickoski threw him into the fence. He damaged his shoulder and can&rsquo;t lift his arm.&rdquo;</p><p>Dickie Moore has been injured so often that some say he is brittle, or &ldquo;accident prone&rdquo; as the medicine men say. Dick doesn&rsquo;t agree.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s been hurt a lot,&rdquo; he admitted, &ldquo;but. all the injuries were a little different. They might have happened to anybody.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>The Hospital Box Score</b></h2><p>Dick declares flatly that the reason the Detroit Red Wings are leading the parade is that they have suffered less from injuries than any of the other clubs. He had facts to back up his argument.</p><p>&ldquo;Ten of their fellows haven&rsquo;t missed a game,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re Howe, Lindsay, Reibel, Kelly, Wilson, Skov, Prystai, Leswick, Goldham and Woit. Three of them&mdash;Delvecchio, Pavelich and Dineen&mdash;have only missed one. So they&rsquo;ve got 13 men who have played practically every game on the schedule. Pronovost and Sawchuk each missed four games.&rdquo;</p><p>Did he have any similar data on Canadiens? Yes, he said.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve only got six guys who have played all our games,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re Richard, Olmstead, Mosdell, Mazur, Curry and Johnson. Bouchard has missed one and Harvey two. But listen to this:</p><p>&ldquo;St. Laurent has missed seven games and he will miss more. Geoffrion has missed nine and he&rsquo;ll miss more, too. Masnick has missed 15 and MacKay 16. McCormack has missed 17 and Lach 18. Gamble missed 23 and Meger 26. MacPherson also missed 26 and Beliveau missed 28. Dickie Moore has played only three games for us.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t say every game was missed because of injuries, but every game missed by Bouchard, Harvey, St. Laurent, MacKay, Lach, Beliveau and Moore was the result of injuries. Geoffrion missed quite a few games because he was hurt, but he&rsquo;s already missed five against the Rangers because of Campbell&rsquo;s edict and he&rsquo;s going to miss three more against them. We lost two of our last three games with the Rangers when we were without him.</p><p>&ldquo;You know who&rsquo;s really getting hurt by Boom Boom&rsquo;s suspension? Boston. They&rsquo;d have a better chance to clinch fourth place if Boom Boom were able to play against the Rangers.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>&ldquo;Too Many Quiet Guys&rdquo;</b></h2><p>Not only do Canadiens miss the Boomer on the ice, but, according to Dick, they miss him in the dressing room.</p><p>&ldquo;The minute he comes in the place lights up,&rdquo; said Dick. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got too many quiet guys on our club. Geoffrion is like Chamberlain and Reardon used to be. He&rsquo;s a ribber and a stirrer-upper. Baldy MacKay is somewhat the same. They put a little life in the room.</p><p>&ldquo;We miss those two on the ice. Boom Boom&rsquo;s like Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle. He can break up a game. I&rsquo;ve seen him play 58 minutes of terrible hockey and then win the game with a couple of goals in the last two minutes. MacKay was playing the best hockey of his career when he got hurt. They say I&rsquo;m a cry baby, but who wouldn&rsquo;t cry with all those injuries? Why do they always happen to us and to key players?&rdquo;</p><p>This was the dark side of the picture, to be sure, but wasn&rsquo;t there a brighter side? How about the improvement in Jean Beliveau?</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s coming along, but maybe I haven&rsquo;t got him on the right line,&rdquo; said Dick. &ldquo;He can&rsquo;t quite keep up with the Rocket and maybe it&rsquo;s taking a little off both of them having them on the same line. I&rsquo;d like to see the big fellow hold that puck a little longer, the way Elmer used to do. He&rsquo;d juggle it until the Rocket was in the clear and then he&rsquo;d give it to him. The trouble with us right now is that we haven&rsquo;t got what you&rsquo;d call one good solid line.&rdquo;</p><p>With all their Injuries, Canadiens are leading the league in penalties. Wasn&rsquo;t that something of a paradox?</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s nothing funny about that,&rdquo; Dick said quickly. &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t get hurt when you do the hitting. You get hurt when you do the catching.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Then how do you explain all the penalties?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;A lot of them were misconducts,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;They add up to a good many minutes in the penalty box.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Then you&rsquo;ve developed some lawyers on the club. They&rsquo;re doing too much talking and not enough hockey playing. Is that it?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;You may have something there,&rdquo; he said, nodding his head. I&rsquo;d settle for less talk and more effort out on the ice.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01149/1453083-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Photo by Turofsky</figcaption></div><p><b><i>All-Star Poll</i> (See Page 8)</b></p><p><b>The Hockey News</b></p><p>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY VOL 7&mdash;No. 22 Entered as Second Class Matter Post Office, Rouses Point, N.Y. MONTREAL. FEBRUARY 27. 1954 PRICE; FIFTEEN CENTS</p><p><b>THE TORONTO MAPLE LEAF</b> goal-mouth looks more like a football line of scrimmage after the ball was snapped. Goalie Harry Lumley scampers to get back in position after Boston&rsquo;s Leo LaBine trys to wriggle free from a tackle delivered by Jim Thomson. That&rsquo;s Tim Horton falling to the ice while Ted Kennedy and Fleming Mackell are in the background. Eric Nesterenko stands behind and to one side of the nets. The official calling the play is Jack Mellenbacher.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Scrimmage On Skates

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;No, I&rsquo;m not going to quit&hellip; I&rsquo;ll stay if they&rsquo;ll have me,&rdquo; a fearlessly sincere Sid Abel said in response to a query February 14 after his hapless Black Hawks lost their 40th game to be mathematlsally eliminated from any chance to make the playoffs.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02106/1453121-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="164" height="248"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Abel</b></figcaption></div><p>Sid&rsquo;s twoyear contract as Chicago coach ends next month and there has not yet been any official word on whether or not it will be renewed. Despite the dismal showing of his club this year, however, chances are that he will receive a new, even sturdier pact.</p><p>He accomplished what many felt was the Impossible in the 1952-53 campaign when he led the Hawks into the Stanley Cup series for the first time in seven years and as a freshmen coach! It was this feat that paved the way to his being honored by THE HOCKEY NEWS as the NHL&rsquo;s coach of the year.</p><p>Jim Norris and Chicago fans alike have at no time placed any of the blame for Chicago&rsquo;s poor record this year on Abel. He, most everyone has agreed, has done just about all that could be conceivably be accomplished with a squad that has apparently gone well past its prime almost to the man.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0346/1453114-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="159" height="248"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Norris</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;This will be the first year I have ever missed a playoff series in close to two decades of competition,&rdquo; Sid disclosed sorrowfully last week. Thia, he disclosed, included his several years in amateur ranks, 14 campaigns with Detroit and last year as Black Hawk mentor.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Abel Will Stick With Chi-Hawks As Long As They’ll Have Him

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;Youngsters in Canada nowadays aren&rsquo;t showing the interest in hockey that present stars of the game did when they were kids and the situation hag all the organized teams worried !&rdquo; This bombshell opinion was dropped by Black Hawk Scout Bob Wilson when he paid a brief visit to Chicago February 4.</p><p>He made the trip with his eon. Bob Jr., who wag being given a one-game tryout on defense with the Hawks. Bob made the rather startling observation after the game, adding that it was a problem that would become very serious unless something is done to strengthen interest in the near future.</p><p>Eyeing Chicago rearguard Gus Mortson who wag standing nearby he went on, &ldquo;Take Gus there. When he was still learning to skate there were rinks in every vacant lot and available space, but now the kids aren&rsquo;t enthusiastic enough to play outside la the weather that is often below zero.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0418/1453152-1-eng-US/cover-042.jpg" title="Cover-04" width="150" height="247"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gus Mortos</b></figcaption></div><p>An overhearing Gus came over to add, &ldquo;Yes, that&rsquo;s the way It seems. I guess the youngsters don&rsquo;t feel like playing unless they&rsquo;ve got a nice, big heated arena today. We used to ignore the cold and found that we could keep warm by skating and playing hard.&rdquo;</p><p>While Wilson&rsquo;s comments on the future of the ice sport are bound to stir up some talk both agreeing and against, it seems doubtful that the situation is <b>as</b> far reaching as he indicates. Nevertheless, it appears to take in the rather important region containing the Ontario and Quebec provinces.</p><p>In a more personal vein, Bob revealed that it was quite an experience to see his son, 19, getting his first chance in the big time. &ldquo;I saw the dads of such <b>as</b> Tod 9loan and George Armstrong go through it, but this was the first time for me and it was <b>a</b> pretty thrilling thing.</p><p>&ldquo;Young Bob isn&rsquo;t ready yet, of course, but this at least gave the Hawks a chance to get a good look at him in NHL competition. He has only been with the <b>Galt</b> Juniors two years and he will need at least a season of minor pro league experience before standing any chance to Join Chicago.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hawk Scout Says Today’s Youngsters Lacking Interest

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01215/1450734-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="287" height="300"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>New Twist</b></p><p><b>DICK IRVIN</b></p></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;Why can&rsquo;t a scorer be given an assist on his own goal ? asked Dick Irvin as his eyes twinkled merrily.</p><p>&ldquo;Now before you say I&rsquo;m nuts, look at it this way,&rdquo; he went on. &ldquo;Suppose Jean Beliveau carries the puck down the ice for Canadiens, splits the defense and passes to Bert Olmstead. Bert shoves the puck back to Maurice Richard and he scores. Who gets the assists ? Beliveau and Olmstead, of course.&rdquo;</p><p>Your correspondent nodded.</p><p>&ldquo;Now,&rdquo; said Irvin, the master strategist of the Montreal Canadiens, &ldquo;supposethe Rocket does his own puck carrying. Suppose he carries it the whole way, splits the defence and passes to Olmstead. Bert shoves it back to him and he pokes it into the net. Who gets the assist ? Olmstead yet Richard did as much work as Beliveau on the other play.</p><p>&ldquo;I think in a case like that the summary should read:</p><p>Canadiens &hellip; Richard (Olmstead, Richard.) And why not T&rdquo;</p><p>Someone remarked that maybe in Detroit, summaries would read like this:</p><p>Detroit&hellip; Howe (Howe, Howe.)</p><p>Irvin smiled, recalling his recent charges that Gordie Howe, the league&rsquo;s top point-getter, Is given phoney assists in his home rink. He turned to a recent copy of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s official statistics.</p><p>&ldquo;At this stage of the race,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;Detroit&rsquo;s big line of Howe, Ted Lindsay and Earl Reibel have 69 goals and 9 6 assists. Now take our big line of Richard and Olmstead and we&rsquo;ll put Kenny Mosdell at centre because he has played more games with those linemates than any other centre. They have 62 goals, three more than the Red Wing line, but only 72 assists, 24 less.</p><p>&ldquo;Why ? Well, there&rsquo;s only one answer. Phoney assists in Detroit.&rdquo;</p><p>Dick Irvin figures that the solution is to abolish the position of official scorers in each rink and let the referee announce goals and assists. Too often, he claims, the referee&rsquo;s opinion is ignored by official scorers to the detriment of visiting teams.</p><p>&ldquo;Let the referee decide on all points after consultation with his linesmen and let those pencilhappy characters who call themeelves official scorers go fly some kites,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>Irvin outlined the background of his feud with the Detroit scorer.</p><p>&ldquo;Back in 1952,&rdquo; he explained, &ldquo;we played the Red Wings in the last game of the season. Elmer Lach went into the game one point behind Ted Lindsay in the battle for second place in the scoring race. The game was only a few minutes old when the Rocket scored on aplay set up by Lach. But Lach didn&rsquo;t get an assist.</p><p>&ldquo;I screamed. The players pleaded and the referee agreed with us. &lsquo;Lach earned an assist,&rsquo; he said. But the official scorer didn&rsquo;t give it to him.</p><p>&ldquo;Detroit beat us 7-2 and after Lindsay had picked up enough points to cinch second place and the $500 reward, the scorer relented and gave Lach his point. A very empty gesture at that stage.&rdquo;</p><p>Your correspondent suggested that much of the furore over assists could be eliminated by limiting &lsquo;assists to one per goal. Just give a point to the last man to touch the puck before a goal is scored. <sup>1</sup></p><p>Irvin didn&rsquo;t think much of that. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not the solution,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;because you&rsquo;d penalize a lot of centres. Men like Lach and Mosdell who set up plays on crisscross patterns and pass to one winger who relays the puck to the man on the opposite side of the ice. You can&rsquo;t ignore them in the scoring summaries.</p><p>&ldquo;No, the solution is to give the responsibility of determining assists to the referees. They are supposed to be neutral, althqugh sometimes I have doubts. But at least they would be more neutral than the official scorers who are too closely allied with the home clubs and who like to see their home town players high in the scoring lists.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;There is too much money involved.&rdquo; Irvin continued, &ldquo;to allow official scorers to juggle summaries to suit themselves. There&rsquo;s an award of $1,000 for finishing on top and that is matched by the player&rsquo;s club. So that&rsquo;s $2,000.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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“Howe From Howe and Howe?” Wow and How! Could Happen Under Darin’ Dick Irvin’s Devise

<div class="byline">ROGER BARRY.</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>This has been a turnabout scoring year for Cal Gardner, the wiry center of the Boston Bruins.</p><p>A year ago Gardner made a fast scoring start for the Chicago Black Hawks, then tailed off in his goals later in the season.</p><p>This year with the Bruins Gardner has reversed the procedure, scoring rarely earlier but frequently of late.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02199/1450765-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="231" height="566"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Passes Up Passes</b></p><p><b>CAL GARDNER</b></p></figcaption></div><p>In his one year with Chicago, the veteran center made nine goals in the first two months of the schedule, 11 for the entire 70 games.</p><p>Cagey Cal made only one goal in his first two months with the Bruins, but since mid-December he has been his team&rsquo;s leading scorer.</p><p>His mid-season turnabout here hasn&rsquo;t been entirely coincidental, but the result of pointed suggestions from other members of the Bruins&rsquo; cast.</p><p>&ldquo;The fellows were telling me earlier that I was doing too much passing and not enough shooting,&rdquo; related Gardner, &ldquo;and I finally decided that maybe they were right.</p><p>&ldquo;Anyway, for the last few weeks I&rsquo;ve been doing more shooting and taking advantage of the opportunities we&rsquo;ve been getting. The goals have been taking care of themselves.&rdquo;</p><p>Gardner has been a major cog for the Bruins in their JanuaryFebruary fight with the New York Rangers, and the compliments which have been heaped on the durable veteran have been many.</p><p>He has been praised by Coach Lynn Patrick for his hustle and leadership, by his defensemen for his defensive skill and by Bruins&rsquo; adherants in general for his allround work.</p><p>&ldquo;He has done a good job with young wings like Doug Mohns, Leo LaBine and Real Chevrefils when Chewy was playing,&rdquo; observed Patrick. &ldquo;Having someone out there to tell them what to do has helped them lots.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a great team man,&rdquo; maintained Defenseman Hal Laycoe. &ldquo;We know he&rsquo;s always in position to take clearing passes, and his forechecking has been wonderful. Sure he&rsquo;s scoring, but he&rsquo;d have even more goals if he weren&rsquo;t so unselfish.&rdquo;</p><p>Gardner has had a variety of linemates since young Chevrefils was hurt in November, and earlier this month Patrick gave him a new one which put the two outstanding buys of the last two years on the same line.</p><p>He inserted Joe Klukay at right wing, and just as Gardner was purchased for hockey&rsquo;s equivalent of a song from Chicago last summer, so was Klukay purchased from Toronto two summers ago. Since joining forces, Gardner and Klukay have combined for some of the niftiest passing plays of the campaign.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Cal Gardner’s Mid-Season Turnabout Style Results In Pleasant Increase In Scoring

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The sight of Gordie Howe leading the National League in scoring reacts upon Montreal Coach Dick Irvin about the same way a red flag does to a bull.</p><p>Could be that, because of his scoring feats, Howe has nudged Montreal&rsquo;s Rocket Richard out of the All Star right wing position the last three seasons.</p><p>At any rate, Irvin has been beating the same old drum all the way around the NHL this season. His reasoning is that Richard is leading Howe in goals, but since Howe leads Richard in total points, then there simply has to be something tainted about Howe&rsquo;s assist total.</p><p>In that way Irvin has attempted to make Ross Jewell, the official scorer of games at Olympia, the villain of the story.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03182/1450803-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="148" height="244"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 148px"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><p>He sounded off against Jewell here a few weeks ago, then repeated his statementsrecently in New York (where Irvin thoughtfully realized that they probably would get even wider circulation).</p><p>&ldquo;Howe never would be leading the league if they had an impartial scorer in Detroit,&rdquo; Irvin flared. &ldquo;Every time there&rsquo;s a Wings&rsquo; goal while Howe is on the ice he almost, automatically gets an assist.&rdquo;</p><p>Irvin neatly closed his eyes to the fact that NHL President Clarence Campbell keeps careful records of the scorer&rsquo;s work in the various cities, that Campbell indicates firm faith in Jewell&rsquo;s judgement.</p></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04151/1450796-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="151" height="254"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption></div><p>Also that Howe ranks just as highly as a playmaker as he does a goalge 11 er, always has since he first achieved stardom. Which means Howe always will be getting more assists than Richard, whose great ability is from the blue line in while setting up his own scoring plays.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Howe Repeats Despite Bleats About Cheats

<p><b>Born, Morriston, South Wales, April 21, 1928. Defense. Shoots left. 6&rsquo;, 185 lbs. Lost amateur club: Lethbridge Maple Leafs (Sr.).</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02180/1450896-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="659" height="130"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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EVANS, WILLIAM JOHN

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01214/1450865-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>A New Broom That Sweeps Clean</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>For a good many reasons, hockey as it should be played came back to New York this season. Muzz Patrick came back. The Bentleys and Edgar Laprade, elder statesmen of the game, came back. And so did Jack Adams. The lanternjawed defenseman has made the biggest comeback since Little Sheba.</p><p>Who would have thought, two years ago, that this shy Welshman would so soon return from Saskatoon to jab the Rangers&rsquo; playoff hopes? At that time there was considerable concern over his future way of life.</p><p>Certainly not those Ranger fans, who had seen the husky but hesitant Evans commit tomfoolery for two awful NHL seasons. They predicted he&rsquo;d make a good ditch digger. Others, who were familiar with Jack&rsquo;s fine baritone outbursts of cowboy ballads, guessed he might wind up singing on the radio.</p><p>Fortunately, there were two dissenting votes. One came from the Rangers, who felt they had a diamond in the rough that could, with patience and fortitude, be smoothed to perfection. The other was Evans, himself. He never gave up hope that major league hockey would still be his particular cup of tea.</p><p>Although the &ldquo;new&rdquo; Evans Wasn&rsquo;t recalled until Dec. 9 last, the word was around he was now ready for major league hockey any time the Rangers needed him. Frank Boucher, who&rsquo;d seen Jack play a few games on the Coast last year, was well aware of it. If the manager hadn&rsquo;t been briefed before, he certainly received irrefutable proof in this little telephone conversation with Detroit&rsquo;s Jack Adams last September:</p><p>BOUCHER, picked up phone in Saskatoon: &ldquo;Hello.&rdquo;</p><p>ADAMS, answering from Sault Ste. Marie: &ldquo;Hello, Frank, how are things ?&rdquo;</p><p>BOUCHER: &ldquo;Just fine. How about the Wings ?&rdquo;</p><p>ADAMS: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll do, I guess. Oh, by the w&rsquo;ay, I could use another defenseman for Edmonton. How about selling me Evans? You have no use for him.&rdquo;</p><p>BOUCHER: &ldquo;Evans ? Who&rsquo;ll you give me for him ?</p><p>ADAMS: &ldquo;Guyle Fielder. You peed forwards.&rdquo;</p><p>BOUCHER: &ldquo;He&rsquo;d help us some. But Jack, you&rsquo;re not serious about needing Evans for Edmonton, are you? You&rsquo;d like him for Detroit, now wouldn&rsquo;t you?&rdquo;</p><p>ADAMS: &ldquo;Well, yes, I guess we could fit him iu as our fifth defenseman.&rdquo;</p><p>Evans is not the Rangers&rsquo; fifth defenseman. He is very definitely a regular worker who, since midDecember, has formed a paying partnership with Harry Howell. According to the records, they are the club&rsquo;s best team of defensemen.</p><p>What happened to the Evans that New York knew two years ago? Let&rsquo;s ask Boucher.</p><p>&ldquo;When Jack came up before,&rdquo; Frank Explains, &ldquo;he was raw and crude. He lacked confidence. He was hesitant every time the occasion arose for him to pass out or carry a puck. He was very uncertain on defense and became so overanxious he made foolish penalties. He tripped and hooked and held when he should have been in position to make a good check.</p><p>&ldquo;Evans now has confidence,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;He is a really fine puck carrier, and now is making use of this talent. He is still rough, without being silly. He&rsquo;s respected by the players in this league because the word of his days tn Saskatoon has gotten around fast. Jack had some terrific fist fights out West and I guess he won them all. However, as most good fighters, he doesn&rsquo;t go out of his way to find trouble.&rdquo;</p><p>Let&rsquo;s ask Muzz Patrick, who saw much of Evans in the Western League and whi is now very happy to be coaching him.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s become very fast and</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s become very fast and quick,&rdquo; the younger Patrick remarks. &ldquo;He anticipates plays well now, and is always loose, relaxed and confident. He packs that puck up about as well as anyone. Potentially, I&rsquo;d say he is now one of the finest defensemen in the league.&rdquo;</p><p>Doug Bentley, who coached Evans at Saskatoon and who appointed him captain of the</p><p>Quakers at the start of this season, had an important part in Jack&rsquo;s development. Boucher gives Doug credit, arid so does Evans.</p><p>&ldquo;When he joined us in Saskatoon, Jack lacked confidence,&rdquo; Doug concedes. &ldquo;He was getting bad penalties out there, too. We started working on him, and he soon learned. Instead of standing still and clutching, he learned to turn and move with the guy coming in. He wound up as an All-Star defenseman last year and, boy, he was a good one.&rdquo;</p><p>Although he was a fine defenseman in Saskatoon, Evans will long be remembered in that part of hockeyland for one particular incident. He was involved with Larry Zeidel, now a Black</p><p>Hawk, in one of the bloodiest fights in history. It happened last season in Edmonton.</p><p>As Doug remembers it, &ldquo;Zeidel, who was the league&rsquo;s bad man, had been picking on a couple of our small players this night. Jack came to their rescue and before you knew it, they were swinging both fists and sticks. The officials couldn&rsquo;t stop it. No one could. It must have lasted from five to 10 minutes. By then, there was blood all over the Ice. Jack definitely had the best of it.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Yeah, it was a pretty good scrap,&rdquo; Evans verifies. &ldquo;But we both got hurt. Cost us a $100 apiece and a one-game suspension. That&rsquo;s the only time I&rsquo;ve ever been fined or suspended.</p><p>Evans will agree with every opinion that he wasn&rsquo;t much of a hockey player two years ago. He, too, thinks he has improved enough to play in the NHL. &ldquo;I got more confidence, and I&rsquo;m skating&mdash;better now,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I guess I was overweight at 19 0 pounds two years ago. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m now playing at 182, and I find I&rsquo;m much quicker.&rdquo;</p><p>Where Jack, who is as shy and quiet as a church mouse, will agree to most anything, he denies two generally accepted tales. He says there is no truth to the reports he swears at referees in. Welsh. And he says he does not carry a guitar around with him so he can serenade his mates in the dressing room.</p><p>&ldquo;I can understand Welsh but I can&rsquo;t speak it,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;As for that guitar story, I never owned one of those things in my life. If I did, I wouldn&rsquo;t know what to do with it. Whenever I try to sing, I usually strum on a broom stick, just for effect.&rdquo;</p><p>Evans was born in Morriston, South Wales, almost 26 years ago. He crossed the Atlantic at a tender age. and was brought up in the mining town of Drumheller, Alta.</p><p>Although Jack didn&rsquo;t begin to play hockey until he was 14, he has a couple of younger brothers.who didn&rsquo;t wait so long. Edgar, now 18, shows promise as a ipnior at Drumheller. He is already as big as Jack. And Luther, Jr., only 15, is a stickout in juvenile hockey. Both, of course, are defensemen.</p><p>The Evans hockey talent doesn&rsquo;t stem from Luther, Sr. &ldquo;He never played hockey,&rdquo; Jack points out. &ldquo;Rugby was his game over in Wales. I gues he was pretty good. At least he says he was.&rdquo;</p><p>Jack didn&rsquo;t miss a grade in his advancement through hockey to the majors. He played with the Alberta midget champions. Then came junior-B in Drumheller and junior and senior amateur hockey at Lethbridge. He also played three games with the New York Rover seniors before reaching the Rangers for the first time in 1948-49.</p><p>Evans spent most of the next season at New Haven and then started the next one in Cincinnati. He was finally recalled in November of 1950 when Wally Stanowski suffered a leg injury and had to be replaced.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Rangers’ Latest Diamond In The Rough Returns As Polished Big Top Player

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01285/1450958-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="299" height="372"></div><p><b>make PHILIP MORRIS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02257/1450951-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="274" height="354"></div><p><b>the most pleasing cigarette you can smoke!</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The world’s finest tobaccos

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>HE NAME OF TONY LESWICK</b> appears nowhere on the base of any of the cups, trophies and other bric-a-brac awarded each year by the National Hockey League.</p><p>But shed no tears for tiny Tony. He looks like a cinch for the Red Wings&rsquo; own trophy, a handsome little item showing a hockey player hoisting a bronze bull high in the air with a handsome smile&mdash;on the player. Not the bull.</p><p>Leswick&mdash;the Wings call him Mighty Mouse&mdash;was far ahead in the unofficial balloting even before the other night when he became embroiled in a little scuffle with Larry Zeidel, of the Black Hawks.</p><p>He received no points for the scuffle. But when Zeidel took a swing at Tony and hit Linesman Mush Marsh because Iv-swick got out of the way, he pulled down a terrific batch of marks toward the award.</p><p>As you can see, this trophy is just a little different. It-has no real name. But if you try to pin down the Wings as to exactly what it takes to win it, the best explanation you&rsquo;ll get is that it is handed out to the player who does one thing when it was thought he was going to do another.</p><p>Like the night he was carrying the puck down the ice in a scoreless battle with Toronto. Fern Fhiman, of the Leafs, batted him into the boards and tried to hold him there.</p><p>He did. But while he was giving Tony&rsquo;s nose a rubbing acquaintance with the wire screen Leswick deftly kicked the puck out to Matty Pavelich, who swept in to score the goal that won the game.</p><h2><b>Off with Gloves&mdash;Like a Gentleman</b></h2><p>AS SOON AS the goal was made Leswick pulled off his gloves&mdash;the traditional hockey gesture meaning: &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s fight.&rdquo;</p><p>Flaman squared away. Leswick promptly stuck out his right hand and grabbed Flaman&rsquo;s in a warm handshake. &ldquo;Congratulations,&rdquo; he grinned. &ldquo;That was a very fine play&mdash;tying me up so we could win the game.&rdquo;</p><p>As I said, It&rsquo;s hard-to define the award, but it&rsquo;s a fact that Leswick received close to 100 points toward it right then and there.</p><p><b>You can pick up a few for being banged into the boards and acting as if you are stunned to the point where you are unable to multiply your Social Security number immediately by the last four figures on your 1951 license plate and come up with the right answer.</b></p><p>If you twitch a muscle as if it really hurts when the doctor does some crochet work on a cut, that subtracts. But if he gives you 10 stitches when eight would have closed the wound, you&rsquo;re really in clover.</p><h2><b>Who Wants Goals with Tony Around ?</b></h2><p>DESPITE HIS STRANGLEHOLD on the local award Leswick is one of the littlest big reasons the Wings again are running away with the NHL title.</p><p>He&rsquo;s not a scorer. But Manager Jack Adams is author of the bold statement that Leswick Ts the most underrated player on the star-studded Detroit roster.</p><p><b>At 5 feet 6 and 158 pounds he&rsquo;s one of the smallest players in the league, but he plays both wings as if the had &lsquo;em and is Mr. Big when it comes to shadowing rival threats like Maurice Richard and the other potent scorers of the league.</b></p><p>He was the first winner of the Wings&rsquo; award. Fact is, he was handed It three years ago by then-captain Sid Abel shortly after Leswick had been received from New York In a trade.</p><p><b>The previous year Gaye Stewart, then a Wing, had broken his wrist when he and Leswick collided. It was strictly an accident. But it handicapped Stewart so much after his wrist had healed that the Wings had to get someone to take his place.</b></p><p>They made a deal for Leswick. So when he came to the champions from one of tire league&rsquo;s weak sisters to take the place of the player he had accidentally put out of commission, the Wings figured he deserved a trophy.</p><p>They still do.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Lyall Smith Speaks…

<p>&ldquo;Boston&rsquo;s One Armed Bandit, is the subject of an interesting article in next week&rsquo;s Hockey News by Margaret Scott. It&rsquo;s a profile on <b>Bill Quackenbush.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03184/1451013-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="231" height="321"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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COMING Next Week

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02211/1451075-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="320" height="330"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>In Playoffs ?</b></p><p><b>GUS BODNAR</b></p></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>After seven years, the Black Hawks dealt veteran center Gus Bodnar to Boston earlier this month in exchange for younger wingman Jerry Toppazzini. Both sides are happy&hellip; Gus to suddenly be with a playoff contender and Chicago to acquire another promising rookie for its youth movement. &lsquo;</p><p>Bodnar represented the Hawks&rsquo; last remnant of the famed five-for-two trade that sent Max Bentley to Toronto in November, 1947. All others involved had previously changed scenery at least once. Max is now with the Rangers while Cy Thomas, who went with him to the Leafs, retired several seasons ago.</p><p>Besides the popular Gus, who is nearing 31 and the twilight of his career, Chicago also received Bob Goldham, with Detroit the past four years; Gaye Stewart, reportedly ready for a comeback with the Canadiens, and Bud Poile and Ernie Dickens, now in the minors.</p><p>One of the numerous skaters to be jinxed by winning the Calder Trophy as a top rookie, Bodnar has never been able to come up to his record 62 points as an NHL newcomer with the Leafs in 1943-44. A constant hustler, he scored 87 goals and 42 assists as a Black Hawk. He has often been hampered by injuries.</p><p>In Toppazzini, Chicago has a player sohiewhat similar to Jack McIntyre who was purchased from the Bruins&rsquo; American League farm club at Hershey last month. Both men are over six feet and tip the scales at around 180 pounds and in addition, played as rearguards during their earlier days in organized hockey.</p><p>Jerry, younger brother of Zellio Toppazzini who has played with Boston and the Rangers and is now with Providence in the AHL, debuted with the Beantowners as a regular last season and collected five goals and as many assists in 36 games. He was a defenseman some of this time.</p><p>Like McIntyre, however, he was shipped off to Hershey at the start of the 1953-54 schedule and seemed destined to stay there until costly injuries to Bill Quackenbush and Real Chevrefils brought about his return to the big time. He caused quite a stir with a hat trick in his fifth game back.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bodnar Last Remaining Member of Famous 5 for 2 Deal, Dealt To Bruins for Youth

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich&mdash;</p><p>Bruce Norris, youngest son of the founder of Detroit&rsquo;s hockey dynasty, has stripped off his Chicago Black Hawk jersey to join the champion Red Wings.</p><p>Norris, 29, has taken over the role of Detroit&rsquo;s representative to the National Hockey League board of governors. He succeeds General Manager Jack Adams in that top&mdash;level policy position.</p><p>That much was announced officially when the NHL owners huddled in sunny Palm Beach, Fla., while the serfs were toiling in the frozen north.</p><p>To make the move Bruce dropped all his interests in the Black Hawks, where he had been a member of the board ot directors for 18 months.</p><p>But it also was learned unofficially that Norris&rsquo; local role was to be much bigger than just as governor. In quiet stock transactions he is becoming co-owner of both the Detroit Hockey Club and Olympia Stadium along with his sister, Marge.</p><p>Miss Norris, 26, will continue in the capacity of president, a post she has filled for 14 months since the death of their father, James Norris, who bought the Wings in 1932 and built them Into hockey&rsquo;s top team.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01235/1451044-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="163" height="250"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Norris</b></figcaption></div><p>Feb. 28 is revealed as the date when the stock tranfer will be completed to give Bruce his half Interest. His term as governor, however, started Feb. 11, the day he was so appointed.</p><p>Most important to the NHL in this move which indicated that the wide-spread multi-million dollar Norris estate is being settled is that a full-fledged split finally can be discerned between ownership of the Red Wlngs-Olympia setup and the similar operation In Chicago with the Black Hawks and the Stadium.</p><p>True both still are a Norris family operation in the main, but the lineup now has Marge and Bruce here with James D. (Young Jim) Norris, another brother, a half-owner in Chicago along with Arthur Wirtz. It is the most sharply defined split in many years. Critics long have howled about &ldquo;syndicate hockey&rdquo; because of the family holdings. This dates way back to the depression when the Senior Norris got control at a time when both teams were in or on the verge of bankruptcy and well might have folded out of the league, at least temporarily.</p><p>He first picked up the Olympia In 1932. The building which had cost some $2,250,000 five years before went for the bargain price of $500,000 and the hockey franchise was part of the package.</p><p>Later on, in 1935, he got control of the Chicago Stadium in a similar bargain, buying into that $5,500,000 enterprise for another $500,000&mdash;apparently his standard buying price in those days when anyone with real money to spend could just about name his own terms.</p><p>Eventually his sons got into the picture, both being executives of Detroit and Chicago at various times.</p><p>This often criticized family operation became fairly well straightened out in August of 1952. The senior Norris relinquished all his Chicago holdings to Young Jim, Bruce, Wirtz and other unnamed stockholders (General Manager Bill Tobin may be one of these) and in turn bought out everyone else&mdash;Wirtz, Young Jim and possibly others&mdash;in Detroit.</p><p>But his death in December, 1952, threw the ownership into a snarl again. Details never have been revealed but it is understood that his four children inherited equal shares. They are Marge, Jim, Bruce and Mrs. Eleanor Kneibler, of Chicago. They decided to have Marge run the show, named her president and Adams as governor.</p><p>Apparently it was impossible to untangle all the legal aspects of the estate until the present time and thus pave the way for Bruce&rsquo;s decision to join Marge in a two-way venture.</p><p>Several times in the past Miss Norris has asserted that the name of Norris would stay with the club. This in answer to rumors that outsiders were Interested in buying the Wings. She always denied that any concrete offer had been made.</p><p>Furthermore, she Indicated that she might even take over 100 percent control herself. There never was any question about whether she had the required financial resources for she is one of the wealthiest women in the world.</p><p>Bruce will be an absentee executive and the Wings, just a sideline. His home is in suburban Chicago, from where he directs the vast grain-livestock-shipping empire built by his father. Some believe the tottal holdings go well beyond the $250,000,000 mark.</p><p>But Bruce, a husky 6-foot-4 blond who once was a weight star on the Yale University track team, is no stranger to the Detroit picture. He sat in on many councils with his father and used to travel with the club at playoff time when he was a youngster.</p><p>There is every indication that the shuffle still leaves Adams as the key figure. In his 2th year as general manger, he has served as Marge&rsquo;s advisor since the day she took over. In fact, she often has said that she has no intention of dabbling into the hockey wc^&rsquo;<sup>r</sup>Ings but has concentrated instead on executive duties of running the Olympia.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bruce Norris Succeeds Adams As Voice Of Wings In NHL

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont&mdash;</p><p>If the Teeder were foddering, not an eyebrow could justifiably arch.</p><p>But the amazing part of it all is that he isn&rsquo;t.</p><p>Captain Teeder Kennedy, the greatest road show producer since P. T. Barnum, has been Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; most useful and most used two-way stretch figure all season and almost invariably the key Leaf on the road.</p><p>Although he is only 28 years old, Ted is already in his second decade as a big leaguer, but instead of conserving his energy and pacing himself, the game captain plays every game like it were the final Stanley Cup final.</p><p>In each contest he plays himself into virtual exhausion, then always recovers in time to drain himself dry once again in Toronto&rsquo;s next engagement. And just when it seemed impossible to demand any more from this workhorse centre, Leafs last week were obliged to issue him extraduty orders to meet an unprecedented emergency.</p><p>One of the greatest checking forwards in the game, Teeder was assigned to play time and a half during Leafs&rsquo; first four-game in five-day sprint of the season when an incredible wave of double penalties required the type of penalty-killing talents which only he possesses.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03166/1451106-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="149" height="243"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 149px"><b>Ted Kennedy</b></figcaption></div><p>In those four games, Leafs served two men shorthanded for a total of 451 seconds. It doesn&rsquo;t sound like much when it is broken down into seven and a half minutes, but it creates a job demanding one forward do the work of an entire line.</p><p>Most times that one man was Kennedy. The rest of the time it was his brilliant understudy and right winger, Ron Stewart. Between them they had to assume the responsibility of checking not just any forward unit, but the best their opposition could muster in power plays, including the fabulous Montreal Canadien collection of Maurice Richard, Elmer Lach, Bert Olmstead, Jean Beliveau and Doug Harvey.</p><p>Although those Habs enjoyed two-man advantages for seiges of 33-second and 44-second duration, they mustered only two shots while Kennedy or Stew, along with the extraordinary Leaf defense combinations, faced them.</p><p>In two games against the Bruins, Kennedy and Stewart were just as stingy although Leafs were reduced to three skaters for a total of 162 seconds. Only New York Rangers, who enjoyed the two-man advantage for 212 seconds in one game, could beat the pair for two goals. And that was when the strenuous pace of the fourth such game in five days began to tell.</p><p>Sixteen overlapping penalties in those games left the Leafs shorthanded two men eight times. And this of course is in addition to another 16 times the Torontos played one man short. Kennedy and Stewart shared the load there too. And with their regular play on a line that includes Sid Smith, it brought their ice-time per game average close to 24 minutes.</p><p>Every conceivable sin, from slashing to falling on the puck, brought on that extra load and the extraordinary Kennedy, who was supposed to have passed his peak, was always ready to respond.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the greatest competitor I&rsquo;ve ever seen in hockey,&rdquo; salutes Leaf Assistant General Manager Hap Day, who has seen a lot of hockey in building his reputation as an honest, unbiased appraiser. &ldquo;And because he doesn&rsquo;t have ths flair of a Richard, he&rsquo;s Buffering.&rdquo; Even most Toronto fans can&rsquo;t realize this because to fully appreciate the Teeder, they would have to see him on the road. Some players are more colorful in games at Maple Leaf Gardens, but many of them conserve their energy for home consumption while Kennedy gives everything everywhere.</p><p>Referring to the Leaf road sumniaries, coach King Clancy points out: &ldquo;There hasn&rsquo;t been three games on the road this year when Kennedy wasn&rsquo;t our first star.&rdquo;</p><p>Teeder himself refuses to believe his playmates do uot all work as hard on tour as at home. He has a different theory to account for Toronto&rsquo;s mediocr road record.</p><p>&ldquo;Most of our road games are played on Sundays, after we&rsquo;ve played Saturday at home, &ldquo;he says. &ldquo;Those double headers take a lot out of you and it&rsquo;s my thought you just can&rsquo;t keep up the same pace two nights in a row.&rdquo;</p><p>Perhaps he is right, but Kennedy himself, whose long career and long working hours give him more reason to be weary than anyone, never seems to show the pinch In those pullman paydays.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Teeder Refuses To Todder, Top Toronto Road Performer

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Three years ago this month the Bruins made a pitch for the Stanley Cup playoffs by trading a promising young defenseman for a veteran.</p><p>The youngster they traded was Ross Lowe, a fast, strong 22-year-old. He went to the Montreal Canadien</p><p>The veteran who came to the Bruins was bespectacled Hal Laycoe, seven years older but a comparative unknown despite his greater experience.</p><p>When the Bruins announced the deal, Coach Lynn Patrick said, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re taking a chance on giving up a promising prospect, but we&rsquo;re trying to make the playoffs. We feel that Laycoe will help us more right now than Lowe.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0658/1451137-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="154" height="245"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hal Laycoe</b></figcaption></div><p>Subsequent developments have made the swap of youth for experience a winning gamble for the Bruins. Lowe failed to stick with Montreal, and today he is playing in the Western league. Laycoe helped the Bruins make the playoffs three years ago and he is still helping them.</p><p>Now the Bruins are hopeful of hitting the playoff jackpot a second time with a transaction which parallels the Laycoe-Lowe deal of three seasons back, the exchange of Jerry Toppazzini for Gus Bodnar.</p><p>Toppazzini, only 22 years old, seldom played regularly during his two seasons here. But the personable youngster may develop as a regular With the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>Bodnar is 30 and his best days are probably behind him, but he may provide the extra bit of help which the Bruins need to. beat out the New York Rangers. Patrick hopes so.</p><p>&ldquo;If this trade works out as well as the trade of Lowe for Laycoe, I&rsquo;ll be delighted,&rdquo; said the Bruins&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re hoping for the same quick result.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not expecting anything spectacular from Bodnar, but I feel that he can help us immediately. He&rsquo;s experienced, a hustler, he can play right wing or center and he can kill penalties. I can use him in a number of ways.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0005-06

Lynn Hopes Cus Will Turn Out As Good As Hal

<div class="byline">MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich&mdash;</p><p>A line on Detroit&rsquo;s playoff chances was expected to come from that stiff finishing test. It was interesting to see Whether the club could shift gears when going against better opposition. For it was no secret that the fancy record against the tail-enders came with just routine play.</p><p>The Wings have split up their scoring punch up fairly well this season when it comes to picking the pacesetter against each opponent. Howe Las been the leader against New York with 10 goals. Dutch Reibel is tops against Chicago with eight; Glen Skov against Boston (7), and Ted Lindsay against Montreal (6) and Toronto (4).</p><p>On the defensive note no player has counted more than four goals against Detroit this season but seven of them have managed that. They are Wally Hergesheimer, Camille Henry and Paul Ronty, of Rangers; Pete Conacher and George Gee, of Black Hawks; Ed Sandford and Cal Gardner, of Boston.</p><p>Montreal&rsquo;s leaders against Terry Sawchuk have been Rocket Richard and Ken Mosdell. with three each. Toronto has been paced by George Armstrong and Harry Watson, also with three each.</p><p>Last year Hergesheimer and Bill Mosienko were most effective against Detroit, gathering six goals each. The year before they also got six and Sid Smith equaled that. In 1950-51, Richard, Calum Mackay and Buddy O&rsquo;Connor got seven.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04132/1451175-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="159" height="249"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>W. Hergesheimer</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0592/1451168-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="155" height="242"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Sawchuk</b></figcaption></div><p>Most made by any player against Detroit in the post-war era were the eight racked up in 1949-50 by Metro Prystal, then with Chicago. The Wings promptly made a deal to get Prystal on their side.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Shifting Gears Against Top Clubs Should Be Stretch Test For Wings

<div class="byline">By Kew McKenzie</div><p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p><b>Founded October 1st, 1947</b></p><p><b>By Kenneth W. McKenzie and Will V. Cote</b></p><p><b>301 Empire Life Building</b></p><p><b>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West.</b></p><p><b>Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire; $4.00 In the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.</b></p><p>Entered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953 at the Poet Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879. Authorized as second-class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa.</p><p><b>Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations</b></p><p>Printed in Canada</p><p><b>VOL. 7 MONTREAL, FEBRUARY 27, 1954 No. 22</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01307/1451227-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="229" height="229"></div><p>CYCLONE TAYLOR, John Ross Roach, Eddie Shore and Frank Boucher were the official hockey representatives at the 3rd annual Ontario Sports Celebrities Dinner held in Toronto last week&hellip; Roach, who was called the &ldquo;Port Perry Woodpecker&rdquo; when he played goal for Toronto St. Pats, is now an auto salesman in Detroit &hellip; A former star goalkeeper with New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings as well as the St. Pats, Roach still follows hockey closely and sees Jack Adams of the Red Wings nearly every day&hellip; Roach thinks Tim Horton of the Maple Leafs is the closest thing to Eddie Shore to ever come along&hellip; Jim Hendy, Cleveland Barons GM, was also on hand for the dinner and denied rumors that he was offered a front-office position with a National League club. The popular Hendy has just moved into a new house in Cleveland and the NHL offer would have to be mighty attractive for him to leave Cleveland&hellip; Discussing the controversial Eddie Shore, owner of two pro hockey clubs, Hendy said: &ldquo;When he gets an idea no one can change his mind. If he suspends a $3,000 player you can offer him $10,000 for the same player but he won&rsquo;t listen. His standard reply is; &ldquo;Let him sit on his rear till he barks like a fox&rdquo;&hellip; Hendy told us that Ott Heller, who is plaiyng coach of the Marion Barons, and is now 4 5 years old, plays close to 40 minutes of every game and is the outstanding man on the ice. He also drives the team bus&hellip; Bill Mosienko will be tendered a &ldquo;Night&rdquo; by his many Windy City friends at the Chicago Stadium on March 19, last home game of the season for the Hawks&hellip; Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe became a father for the first time last week. He was notified that his wife had given birth to a seven pound boy in Detroit between the first and second periods of the recent Canadiens-Red Wings game in Montreal.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02197/1451220-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="142" height="236"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 142px"><b>Tim Herton</b></figcaption></div><p>JERRY TOPPAZZINI was very disappointed when he was traded by Boston to Chicago. He was popular in the Hub and had played all his NHL hockey there. He had hope he could have been a member of the Bruins for a good many years&hellip; Doug Mohns, the Bruins&rsquo; outstanding rookie, is looked upon by Boston hockey writers as the only player with the team today who is capable of taking over from Milt Schmidt some day&hellip;</p><p>Gerry McNeil of Canadiens is said to be suffering from a bad case of nerves. The tiny Montreal goalie finds the strenuous 70-game NHL schedule pretty rough &hellip; In a recent Canadiens-Chicago wild and wooly fistic affair, Hawk coach, Sid Abel, emerged as the only one in need of medical treatment. He suffered a three-stitch shin gash from an unknown skate amid the penalty box fracas between Gus Bodnar and Tom Johnson&hellip; &ldquo;Darn it, this was a new suit, too,&rdquo; Sid moaned afterwards&hellip; The combined disgust with basketball doings and the success of the Rangers has zoomed hockey interest in New York to its highest peak in years&hellip; Over half the coaches and many of the scribes in the Western Hockey League pick Frank Currie&rsquo;s Calgary Stampeders to finish first in</p><p>Al Leader&rsquo;s loop&hellip; About 10*days ago a story broke out of Portland about the revival of hockey in the Oregon city. If Portland voters approve a proposed $8 million sports and exposition center next May there may be hockey in Portland in two years from now&hellip; Bruce Norris, recently named the Detroit Governor on the National Hockey League&rsquo;s Board of Governors, is only 29. This makes him the youngest Governor in the League.</p></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03119/1451213-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="149" height="243"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 149px"><b>Tom Johnson</b></figcaption></div><p>TED REEVE, ace columnist with the Toronto Telegram wonder why Canadien coach, Dick Irvin is always singing the blues. This is what Reeve had to say: &ldquo;Irvin was a great hockey player, and an old soldier and a very good coach. He has one of the three best front-offices in hockey behind him. Managers, as Casey Stengel has shown with the Yankees&rsquo; five Btraight pennants after 10 years In the second division with other clubs, can be made by the material at hand. Irvin has been fortunate in that respect and has the.knowledge to know a good one when he sees tne moves and the excellent judgment as to how to place them and pace them.</p><p>Yet, jn spite of the gifts he has, and the help received, he goes &lsquo;about in aggrieved fashion as though the world was all against him. If that Is the way to keep a show on the road we must have been on the wrong side of the street all our life. The Canadiens in the days of Lalonde and Pitre, and later with Morenz, Mantha, Joliat and Lepine, played with fire and dash to win, proudly, the name of The Hurtling Habitants. Boom-Boom and the Rocket and the rest have the same lift and go. Why should coaching a club like that make one so sad?&rdquo;</p></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0484/1451206-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="134" height="216"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 134px"><b>Dick Irvin</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></div>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0578/1451258-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="912" height="121"></div><h2><b>Submits Plan</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>To develop a more balanced league will take some generosity from the teams high in the standings at present by may be of great help to them in the future.</p><p>The plan I believe would help most is all National Hockey League teams to prove that they are attempting to keep the league balanced, should have working agreements with one team in each of the professional leagues and at least three or four sponsored junior hockey league teams In different sections of Canada. This should Insure a good supply of talent for the National Hockey League.</p><p>Drafting of players which is a delicate subject would be very helpful. This can best be accomplished by a consensus of opinion. I believe that each team in the league should provide a list of six players in organized hockey other than those already in the National Hockey League that they believe have earned the right for a promotion to the bigtime. From these lists the president of the league will select six players to be set up for draft by the last three teams in the standings&hellip; three players for the sixth place team, two for the fifth place team and one for the fourth place team.</p><p>This type of draft will be helpful in more than one organization will be selecting the players for the draft. Fans from every league city will see many hard fought games instead of easy wins or sloppy losing.</p><p>High ranking teams should find this draft acceptable as it will not hurt their present teams and in case of a catastrophy to a team there would be player help coming in the near future other than their own farm teams which sometimes are not very productive.</p><p>Managements should find their players doing their utmost to keep their teams high in the standings for if the team does have a poor season there will be no need to keep a player who was not up to par.</p><p>Franz H. Goeransson.</p><p>Chicago, Ill.</p><h2><b>Look Out!</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I wouldn&rsquo;t want to worry any of the Eastern coaches but the St. Boniface Canadiens (junior) have power to burn on the forward lines and a good goalie. The Winnipeg Maroons (senior) have a defense&rsquo; that would scare you.</p><p>My guess is that both clubs will go all the way or do they still play for the Allan and Memorial Cups.</p><p>Jim Henry Batt, Winnipeg, Man.</p><h2><b>Whole Line</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I get the HOCKEY NEWS every week and my favorite team is the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>I read in last week&rsquo;s.paper In Ken McKenzie&rsquo;s column that some fans in Montreal are asking why they don&rsquo;t bring up Gaye Stewart. I have a better idea. Why not bring up the whole line of Gaye Stewart, Don Marshall and Ed Slowinski? If they do not want to break up the Buffalo hockey team, they could bring them up for the playoffs anyway like they did last season with Lome Davis, Eddie Mazur and Calum McKay.</p><p>Barry Forbertson Toronto, Ont.</p><h2><b>Signs Again</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>A few weeks ago you said that New York was the only place they hang signs in the arena.</p><p>I would like to inform you that they also hang signs in the Montreal Forum, for such well known players as &lsquo;Imperial Earl,&rsquo; &lsquo;Export Cigs&rsquo; and &lsquo;Hygrade H. Dogs.&rsquo;</p><p>Who says we&rsquo;uns ain&rsquo;t as loyal as the next ones?</p><p>Dave Kushner,</p><p>Montreal, Que.</p><h2><b>Number Four</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Well, the Bentleys are back and buzzin&rsquo; and the Rangers might just scrape in. I think you got a terrific paper and I certainly appreciate it.</p><p>Who wears a number four sweater on New York?</p><p>How about a story on goaler Harry Lumley of Toronto or maybe of Gerry McNeil of the Canadiens?</p><p>If any fans want to discuss the news and views of the NHL or want to trade pictures and programmes with me, they will be answered promptly. My address is: P.O. Box 77, Hearts Content, Trinity Bay, Nfld.</p><p>Ronald Smith, Hearts Content, Nfld.</p><p><b>(Hy Buller was wearing number four but just who has it now we aren&rsquo;t sure.)</b></p><h2><b>No Crowds</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Can you please tell me what has happened to junior hockey in Quebec? As far as I can see the brand of hockey is just as good as it ever was, if not better, and yet the attendance figures seejn to get smaller with, every game.</p><p>It&rsquo;s in a bad state when a team like the Toronto Marlboros, who were then leading in Ontario, play Canadiens, the top team in Quebec, before only slightly more than 800 fans.</p><p>I can remember when eight or nine thousand used to watch Junior hockey at the Montreal Forum. As big a drop as that in such a short time can not all be blamed on television.</p><p>David Webster, Montreal, Que.</p><h2><b>She No Like</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I read and enjoy every issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS and I have but one complaint.</p><p>Most of the stories in The Hockey News are pretty fair but the ones from Toronto are overly biased.</p><p>Mr. Stan Houston can write all he wants about how good Flaman. Morrison and all the rest of the Toronto defense is but I wouldn&rsquo;t trade Red Kelly for the whole bunch of them.put together. The only one good enough to rate anywhere near Kelly, Doug Harvey, Bill Gadsby or Bob Goldham is young Tim Horton.</p><p>Shirley Weir,</p><p>Detroit, Mich.</p><h2><b>No Complaints</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>No complaints. Leave the paper exactly as it is.</p><p>I for one am very glad to see the crosswords back. I find them relaxing and after having read THE HOCKEY NEWS right through, I usually find them fairly easy to do. Maybe that&rsquo;s why you put them on the second to last page.</p><p>Keep up. the good work.</p><p>Fred Reid.</p><p>Montreal, Que.</p><p>March 3 to March 9</p><h2><b>Where&rsquo;s Bud?</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>What is Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, the former New York Ranger hockey star doing now? Is he coaching anywhere or has he left organized hockey?</p><p>I have always Deen an admirer of this type of small hockey player, who played like a gentleman and was a star despite his size.</p><p>It would be a great pity if he has retired completely from the game as I think that we need this type of clean player in the game to keep the fine name of Canada&rsquo;s national past-time.</p><p>Pete Sloboda.</p><p>New York, N.Y.</p><p><b>(Buddy is now In the stationery business and has severed all ties from organized hockey. There have been reports however, that he intends to become a referee and to that end will soon become a linesman in the Quebec Hockey League.)</b></p><h2><b>Not Marc</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>It always amazes me that Montreal sports writers&mdash;who should know better&mdash;often refer to Jean Beliveau as Jean Marc.</p><p>Where they get the &ldquo;Marc&rdquo; from Is a question mark, and that&rsquo;s no play on words. Jean Beliveau himself has said on many occasions that he is not Jean Marc Beliveau. What other names he may have in addition to the Jean is something that he&rsquo;s never mentioned, but he has pointed out the error of giving him a second name he never possessed.</p><p>Perhaps it would be a good idea If you asked Le Gros Bill what his second name is. It would straighten out a lot of people and then perhaps we&rsquo;d see the name right in the sports columns.</p><p>Jean Barre</p><p>Verdun, Que.</p><h2><b>Best Left Wing</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>How about an article on the best da-n left wing in all hockey?</p><p>I refer to Ted Lindsay, the sparkplug of the Detroit Red Wings. If it wasn&rsquo;t for Ted&rsquo;s ability to &lsquo;spark&rsquo; the team, many games would be lost. He is the inspiration, the leader. Every team has to have a man that they look to as the fellow who will provide them with the proper lift to win games. On Detroit, Lindsay is the man and that&rsquo;s why Jack Adams made him the captain, not because he wanted to curb his fiery temperament.</p><p>Incidentally, I think your publication is just about tops in the sports field.</p><p>David Giguerre.</p><p>Moncton, N.B.</p><h2><b>Likes Both</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I for one am very glad that Maurice Richard has quit his job writing for that newspaper.</p><p>However I am not happy in the same sense that some others are. I am glad that all he will have to do now is play hockey and fight Gordie Howe for the right wing spot on the All-Star team. Don&rsquo;t get me wrong, I am neither a Richard nor Howe supporter but rather an admirer of both and figure that this pair are the ones that are helping keep big league hockey the great sport that it is.</p><p>Barry Monteith.</p><p>Winnipeg, Man.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0670/1451289-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="321" height="153"></div><p>3&mdash;KRAFTCHECK, Steve, Cleveland defense, 1929; GORDON, Jackie, Cleveland forward, 1928.</p><div class="sidebar"><p>BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape are used and endorsed by the Toronto Argonaut Football Club.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Happy Birthday to YOU

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORY, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Since the Rangers have suddenly begun to move in an opposite direction from the price of coffee, there has been a certain amount of alarm spread in New York. The hockey management, with its ear to the ground and its nose to the wind, quickly took action by recalling two farmhands from Saskatoon.</p><p>Whether the return of Vic Howe and Aggie Kukulowicz, just inside the Feb. 15 deadline with the Western League, would ease the decline was questionable. It was a concrete move, at least, and certainly something had to be done. The Rangers had tapered off to a slow walk after climbing fast through the first five weeks of the new year.</p><p>&ldquo;We know now that we can&rsquo;t stand pat,&rdquo; Muzz Patrick explained. &ldquo;The team has started to slump and it&rsquo;s too late now for us to afford one of those things. Several of the players seemed to have lost all their drive. They act tired, although I don&rsquo;t see why they should be. Maybe a little new blood will help.&rdquo;</p><p>At this writing, it was undetermined if the new blood would be used only as a single-game transfusion against the Bruins on Feb. 17. This was Howe&rsquo;s and Kukulowicz&rsquo; decision to make. They were recalled officially for a one-game trial, but would be kept if they proved some help to the team. If they weren&rsquo;t sent back to Saskatoon, then adequate replacements must be provided the Quakers.</p><p>Howe, 24-year-old right winger and younger brother of Gordie, and Kukulowicz came back highly recommended. Doug Bentley, for one, put in a good word for the two young forwards he&rsquo;d coached earlier in the season. But the clincher came from manager Frank Boucher, who scouted Saskatoon two weeks ago.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be surprised if both the kids don&rsquo;t help us,&rdquo; Frank said. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll be astonished at their Improvement. (Each had previous trials in New York).</p><p>&ldquo;Aggie is one of the most determined forwards I ever saw. He&rsquo;ll do anything to get the puck and score. He&rsquo;s so tall he looks slight (6-2, 175) but he throws his body around. And he can put the puck in the net.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always known a lot of Gordie&rsquo;s talent rubbed off on his younger brother,&rdquo; Frank added. &ldquo;All Vic has needed&rsquo; for the last couple of years is confidence and drive. He seems to have them now, to go along with his fine skating, stickhandling and shooting abilities.&rdquo;</p><p>Kukulowicz a 20-year-old center, had a two-game trial with the Rangers last year while playing for the Quebec Citadels. He scored in the first game. Howe, a former Rover boy here In New York, played three major league games late in the season two years ago. At that time, he lacked the drive Boucher has been waiting so long to see.</p><p>Kukulowicz and Howe played on a line at Saskatoon with Chuck Holdoway. They were to be kept intact on the Rangers, with Doug Bentley on their left.</p><p>Doug and Max Bentley, incidentally, were not to be included among those whom the coach listed as &ldquo;acting tired and driveless.&rdquo; At least up to now, they&rsquo;d made Lynn Patrick look bad as a prophet. The Bruins coach had been quoted as saying: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not worried about the Bentleys helping the Rangers very much. They&rsquo;re old men and they&rsquo;ll be dead before this season is over.&rdquo;</p><p>For the record, Max and Doug had played eight games together with the Rangers, in that time, Max got six goals and two assists and Doug scored once and assisted on seven goals. With a total of 13 goals, Max already had more than he made all last season.</p><p>Edgar Laprade, the third of the oldtimers, showed no cause for concern, either. It was the younger fellows like Camille Henry, Wally Hergesheimer, Aldo GuidoUn and Nick Mickoski who were slumping. In fact, Henry and Guidolln were told to take a rest when Howe and Kukulowicz reported for the Bruins game.</p><p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t understand it,&rdquo; Patrick remarked. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been following their weight charts closely, and I can&rsquo;t see where anyone is drawn too fine. In fact, a couple are heavier now than when they started the season&mdash;and yet they complain they&rsquo;re tired.</p><p>&ldquo;Frankly, I think it&rsquo;s more mental than physical,&rdquo; he concluded. &ldquo;Something had to be done to give them a jab. Maybe the fact that their jobs aren&rsquo;t secure and that Howe and Kukulowicz have been called in will feed us the right medicine.&rdquo;</p><p>ICE CHIPS: It may have been more than mere coincidence that several Rangers were fed liver injections prior to the only game they won in the last five. Bones Raleigh, for one, was particularly active in the 3-2 victory over Detroit. As a result, the injections will be standard procedure down through the stretch.</p><p>The Rangers&rsquo; power play continues to run ahead of their opponents&rsquo;. They&rsquo;ve scored 39 times with an advantage, while the opposition has made 34 goals in a similar situation. Since the reunion of the Bentleys, the ratio has been 9 to 3&hellip; Patrick is toying with the idea of moving defenseman Jack Evans inside on the power play. &ldquo;He handles the puck well and he&rsquo;s strong enough to dig it out of the corners,&rdquo; Muzz explained.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Muzz Calls For Howe and Kulky To Stem Rangers’ Latest Slide

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich&mdash;</p><p>Just one year ago Gordie Howe was making headlines as he entered the final month of the hockey campaign in chase of a 50-goal season.</p><p>The powerful Red Wing star fell short&mdash;by just one goal&mdash;in an exciting bid which packed considerably more drama than if he had knocked off say 55 or 60 goals. His total of 49 was second fiighest in National Hockey League history and the record so revered in Montreal still belonged to Rocket Richard at 50.</p><p>This season the headlines have been telling a different story:</p><p>A scoring &ldquo;slump&rdquo; by Howe.</p><p>Now if any other player could be knocking in goals at Howe&rsquo;s present pace he would be receiving congratulations all the way around and dreaming about his salary contract for 1954-55. After all, Howe had 26 goals, second high in the NHL and six behind the Rocket.</p><p>But, by Howe standards, this is called a slump, indeed a strange story.</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS:</b> A nine-game run at second-division teams in the NHL fattened up Detroit&rsquo;s hold on first place. The Wings were three points in front when they went in to that stretch and 10 points ahead when they finished.</p><p>During that time they beat Chicago four times, defeated Boston twice and tied another and had a tie and defeat against New York. That&rsquo; was 14 out of the possible 18 points&mdash;a pace which the</p><p>Toronto and Montreal challengers were unable to match.</p><p>From that softest stretch of the entire schedule, the Wings immediately went into the toughest portion. Booked with eight out of nine games against the Maple Leafs or Canadiens. In fact, nine of the last 15 games on the 1953-54 card were against those two.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Howe Hits Scoring “Slump” Has ONLY 26 Goals!

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ontreal.&mdash;Gordie Howe, Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; ace scorer, became a father but he wasn&rsquo;t told about it during progress of the Detroit-Montreal National Hockey League game. Word reached Detroit officials just before game time that Howe&rsquo;s wife had given birth to a boy in a Detroit hospital. The officials said Howe wasn&rsquo;t told until after the game.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Another Howe

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p><b>(14th in a series)</b></p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01258/1451399-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="142" height="214"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 142px"><b>Dutch Reibel</b></figcaption></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02226/1451392-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="153" height="214"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill-</p><p>Let&rsquo;s again take time out from the latest in hockey news to glance backward at the happenings that made the headlines in the not too distant past.</p><p>Six years afo this week&mdash;President Maurice Podoloff announced that the American Hockey League would begin making annual awards for the most valuable and outstanding rookie players, the leading scorer, the goalie with the best average and the most sportsmanlike skater in the circuit.</p><p>NHL players already into the 20-goal bracket were Ted Lindsay of Detroit. 27; Max Bentley of Toronto, 25; Elmer Lach of the Canadiens, 23; Buddy O&rsquo;Connor of the Rangers, 22, and Gaye Stewart of Chicago and Grant Warwick of Boston, 21 each&hellip; Kansas City Coach Reg Hamilton was arrested as the aftermath of a fight at Omaha in USHL action.</p><p>Four years ago this week&mdash;Metro Prystai of Chicago&rsquo;s Black Hawks was rated the most improved player in the National League&hellip; New York rearguard Pat Egan gained recignItion as an iron man or the ice after playing in 242 games consecutively.</p><p>Dutch Reibel of Windsor was pacing the OHA Jr. scoring race with 48 goals and 6 5 assists in 43 contests&hellip; Tops in netminders in the Eastern Amateur circuit was Lome Worsley of the New York Rovers with a 2.83 mark&hellip; Doug Harvey was tabbed as possessing all the attributes for stardom except drive.</p><p>Two years ago this week&mdash;Frank Boucher blasted the presentation of the Vezina Trophy in the National Hockey League &ldquo;to the goaler of the team with the lowest goals-scored against record&rdquo; by reminding that most netminders are usually no better than the team in front of them.</p><p>Montreal bosses were reportedly Interested in trading defender Bud MacPherson to the Black Hawks for Billy Mosienko, but not for George Gee&hellip; Afternoon hockey seemed a success in Chicago with an average of 12,117 patrons turning out at the Stadium for four such games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AHL Began Making Awards

<div class="byline">Houston</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>All Canadian newspapers and periodicals would be able to declare appreciable dividends in saved newsprint costs if they had the foresight to set a stand-up story dealing with the transfers of Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; Rudy Migay. Two blanks could be left in the story, one for the position Rudy played yesterday, another for the spot he&rsquo;ll occupy tomorrow.</p><p>The versatile Toy Terrier has been shifted again.</p><p>While the Leafs played for the first time in two months before their managing director. Conn Smythe, in New York Feb. 14, Rudy was in mid-game switched from centre to left wing on a new combination with Bob Bailey at centre and Eric Nesterenko on right wing.</p><p>Immediately thecombination clicked and coach King Clancy revealed afterward he&rsquo;d retain it in subsequent games.</p><p>For Rudy, It&rsquo;s only one of an innumerable number of switches and shifts to which he has cleverly adapted himself since the oneping day of fall training. He has pinch hit for almost every forward on the taeam, played centre and wings, on the power play and as a penalty killer. The only thing left for him now involves a fitting for a set of goaltending pads.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rudy Migay Logical Choice To Take Over for Lumley

<p>1&mdash;Anyone is eligible to cast ballots for the National Hockey League All-Star Team, but, each reader may submit ONLY ONE ENTRY, naming first, second and third choices.</p><p>2&mdash;One ballot will appear each week in the following order: goaltender, defensemen, right wing, center, lleft wing and coach. Final ballot will appear in the March 27 issue.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>5&mdash;Ballots must be mailed to&mdash;All-Star Editor, THE HOCKEY NEWS, Room 309, 1434 St. Catherine St. W., Montreal.</p><p>6&mdash;All Ballots must be mailed and postmarked NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Voting Rules

<div class="byline">By Margaret Scott</div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0931/1451558-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="129" height="209"></div><p>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:</p><p>&ldquo;Roman Holiday&rdquo;.</p><p>TWO BEST ACTORS:</p><p>John Wayne and Robert Montgomery.</p><p>TWO BEST ACTRESSES:</p><p>Joan Fontaine and Anne Baxter. Also likes Myrna Loy and years ago was an Ann Harding fan.</p><p>PREFERS TO WEAR:</p><p>Sports clothes, loud ties and overalls.</p><p>FAVORITE HOBBY:</p><p>Livestock of any description.</p><p>BEST GIRL VOCALIST:</p><p>Deanna Durbin.</p><p>BEST MALE VOCALIST:</p><p>Bing Crosby.</p><p>FAVORITE TYPE OF MUSIC:</p><p>Popular&mdash;especially jazz.</p><p>BEST CLASSICAL COMPOSITION:</p><p>Dislikes all classical music.</p><p>BEST POPULAR COMPOSITION:</p><p>Has no favorite.</p><p>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA:</p><p>Did not select one.</p><p>BEST COMPOSER:</p><p>Is not interested in music and has no favorite composer.</p><p>LIKESTO READ:</p><p>As little as possible. Does not beleive what he reads in the papers. Never reads books & soldom looks at a magazine. On occasion will read sports stories and anything pertaining to livestock.</p><p>BEST RADIO PROGRAMS:</p><p>Dislikes radio programs&mdash;particularly Foster Hewitt talking about the M. Leafs. Has only one preference&mdash;anyone talking about the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>WHEN RETIRED FROM COACHING WOULD LIKE TO:</p><p>Be a second guesser.</p><p>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</p><p>England & California.</p><p>SHOOTS GOLF:</p><p>In the 180&rsquo;s.</p><p>IN THE SUMMER:</p><p>Hates the summer because he has to go to work.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

f0008-09

Inside Stuff About Dick Irvin

<p><b>My selection for the NHL ALL Star goalkeeper (names in order of preference) is as follows:</b></p><h2><b>FIRST CHOICE</b></h2><p><b>Name&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; Club&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;</b></p><p><b>Name&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; Club&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;</b></p><h2><b>SECOND CHOICE</b></h2><p><b>Name&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; Club&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;</b></p><p><b>Name&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; Club&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;</b></p><h2><b>THIRD CHOICE</b></h2><p><b>Name&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; Club&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;</b></p><p><b>Name&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; Club&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;</b></p><p><i>Hold until all six ballots have appeared.</i></p><p><i>DO NOT MAIL YOUR SELECTION NOW.</i><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News 1953-54

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Picking All-Star defensemen poses a problem. Most fans are inclined to seriously consider a rearguard&rsquo;s scoring potential and very often, forget that his job is usually won on his ability to prevent other forwards from scoring.</p><p>Each year THE HOCKEY NEWS conducts a poll in which the fans come up with their dream team. This team, once compiled becomes THE HOCKEY NEWS NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE ALLSTAR Team. It&rsquo;s the team picked by the fans and gives them a chance to match their ability against the experts.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01290/1451503-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="141" height="233"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 141px"><p><b>They&rsquo;ll be Shooting&hellip;</b></p><p><b>Bill Gadsby</b></p></figcaption></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02232/1451496-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="139" height="235"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 139px"><b>Tim Horton</b></figcaption></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03173/1451489-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="145" height="240"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 145px"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04130/1451482-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="152" height="244"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly</b></figcaption></div><p>As in the past six polls, we started last week with the goalkeepers. This week It&rsquo;s the defensemen and so on until we have run the full gamut of positions.</p><p>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 performance of each and every NHL player throughout the entire season.</p><p>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 will not be counter!</p><p>When you have filled in all the ballots, Including the final one which will appear in the March 2 7 issue, you must send them in all together. There Is one stipulation that is worthy of note, however. All letters containing ballots must be postmarked no later than midnight March 31.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Remember, don&rsquo;t send in your selections now. Wait until the last possible minute, so you can follow the torrid the close race for positions as long as possible. It might be that at the moment, you&rsquo;re undecided about a certain position, this way you have that much extra time to make up your mind.</p><p>In the meantime, here&rsquo;s a brief sketch of the defensemen eligible for All-Star recognition.</p><p>DETROIT:&mdash;Red Kelly, Marcel Pronovost, Bob Goldham, Benny Woit and Al Arbour.</p><p>Kelly is generally accepted as the best all-round rearguard in the NHL. A perennial All-Star, the mild-mannered red-head is invariably the top scoring defenseman Inthe league each year.</p><p>Pronovost is often referred to as one of the real future greats of the game. A good defensive deienseman, he Is one of the fastest skating rearguards in the league.</p><p>Goldham can best the described as &ldquo;ole reliable.&rdquo; He came to Detroit from Chicago and has been with the Wings these past three seasons. He is often called &ldquo;Detroit&rsquo;s Second Goalie&rdquo; since he&rsquo;s extremely adept at stopping pucks. Not much of a scorer, Bob is nonetheless, a tremendous rearguard.</p><p>Benny Woit is a solid, although unspectacular sophomore. He partners Pronovost.</p><p>Al Arbour, sent down to Sherbrooke of the Quebec Hockey League for more seasoning, lie was recalled Jater in the season. Coming along nicely.</p><p>CANADIENS:&mdash;Doug Harvey. Along with Kelly he&rsquo;s rated one of top defensemen in the league today. Doug gets a lot of adverse criticism because of his &ldquo;hot and cold&rdquo; performances but nevertheless lie&rsquo;s rated Canadiens&rsquo; top blue-line defender.</p><p>Butch Bouchard. One of the club&rsquo;s real veterans. Still a power on the Montreal defense. A good solid defenseman. Tom Johnson. Started out the year in sensational fashion when switched to a forward line. Has moved back on defense where he partners Bouchard. A good, strong skater. Bud MacPherson. Here&rsquo;s a defenseman who gets more credit away from home than In the familiar confines of the Forum. He plays his best hockey on the road. A big guy who has improved much this year.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0593/1451475-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="152" height="244"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>&hellip;For All-Star Berths</b></p><p><b>Bill Quackenbush</b></p></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0670/1451468-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="154" height="242"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Goldham</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0754/1451461-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="159" height="247"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Thomson</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0843/1451454-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="152" height="243"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hal Laycoe</b></figcaption></div><p>Dollard St. Laurent. Doug Harvey&rsquo;s youthful partner. Dolly is a fine skater, puck-carrier and good scorer. He&rsquo;s about a year away fro mstardom but a great prospect.</p><p>TORONTO&mdash;Tim Horton. Toronto&rsquo;s answer to Eddie Shore. A good puck-carrying defenseman he&rsquo;s one of the big reasons why the Leafs are up there this year.</p><p>Jim Thomson. Toronto&rsquo;s old reliable. The last of the old guard. Best reference. A steady performer. Jim Morrison. A pleasant discovery. Fitting Into the Leaf pattern nicely and scoring some important goals.</p><p>Leo Boivin. Tailed off from last year&rsquo;s performance. Still a good solid rearguard.</p><p>Fern Flaman. The Leaf&rsquo;s &ldquo;Bad-man&rdquo;. Fern is a solid thumper who can make it rough on opposing forwards.</p><p>BOSTON&mdash;Bill Quackenbush. A veteran of the NHL and former all-star, Big Bill is the Bruins steadying influence on defense.</p><p>Bob Armstrong. Given a great chance to become a really outstanding rearguard. Bob has finally gained confidence in the NHL.</p><p>Warren Godfrey. Armstrong&rsquo;s partner and also a much improved rearguard. A boy with a good future in the big top.</p><p>Hal Laycoe. Traded by Canadiens to Boston, Hal has never allowed Dick Irvin to forget the move. He rises to his greatest heigths In the playoffs. A sound, clever blue-liner.,</p><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Leo Reise. Still the.veteran of the Broadway brigade. Leo is a solid defender. Commands the respects of practically all NHL forwards.</p><p>Harry Howell. A pleasant surprise to Frank Boucher and Muzz Patrick. Finall} found the league to his liking. A power on the NY defense all year.</p><p>Jack Evans. The Welshman from Saskatoon. Finally made the NHL with something to spare. Has been outstanding in the Rangers&rsquo; bld for a playoff spot.</p><p>Ivan Irwin. The big rugged Westerner was brought back to the NHL by Boucher this year and is proving that he belongs there. He&rsquo;s fearless and the Broadway Blues&rsquo; &ldquo;policeman on skates.&rdquo;</p><p>CHICAGO&mdash;Bill Gadsby. Might make It this year. Named to the second all-star team last year, Bill has been one of the few outstanding men with the Hawks this year. A good scorer and topnotch defenseman.</p><p>Gus Mortson. Still a very effective rearguard with Chicago. Gus is a veteran who has experience plus desire.</p><p>Al Dewsbury. Shifted from forward to rearguard to forward by Sid Abel, Al can skate and score.</p><p>Larry Zeidel. The bad boy from the West was given a thorough trial with the Hawks this year. The fans like his ruggedness.</p><p>Lee Fogolin. The ex-Detroiter is also a fan&rsquo;s favorite. Rough and ready, Lee earns a lot of respect with his slam-bang style.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-04

Starry Array Of NHL Rearguards May Create Problem For Fan Voters

<h2><b>Record Bound</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>ocket Richard could easily surpass Canadiens&rsquo; Club record for penalties. Ken Reardon holds the mark of 129 minutes. Richard already has 108.</p><h2><b>Still Tied</b></h2><p>Terry Sawchuk of Detroit and Toronto&rsquo;s Harry Lumley are still tied in the Vezina Trophy race. They have allowed 101 goals to get by them.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. FEB. 21)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07103/1451738-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="321" height="1708"></div><h2><b>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1953-54</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0894/1451731-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="319" height="284"></div><h3><b>Penalties in minutes by clubs</b></h3><p>Boston &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 577</p><p>Ranger &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 601</p><p>Detroit &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 650</p><p>Chicago &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 650</p><p>Toronto &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 797</p><p>Canadiens &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 893<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-07

THE POINT PARADE

<p><b>Someone has to watch players like Gordie Howe or Maurice Richard or else they&rsquo;ll ruin you every time.</b></p><p><b>Unfortunately for Eddie Kullman, but fortunately for the New York Rangers, these players usually become perfectionists at the |ob and as a result, their steilar work is oft-times overlooked in the scheme of things. Usually they are so busy preventing the opponents&rsquo; big stars from scoring that they have little or no time to go about scoring themselves. Of course the fel!ows who get the goals are the fellows who also get the publicity.</b></p><p><b>Such has been the career of Kullman, whose job it is a &lsquo;shadow&rsquo; stars such as Howe, Richard and others. As a result, the energetic, hardworking Ranger left winger hos never been very high in the NHL scoring column. His is the type of unglamorous job that, is very seldom brought to the attention of the public, yet plays a very important part in his team&rsquo;s rise or fall.</b></p><p><b>Of recent weeks the Rangers have &lsquo;come on&rsquo; and are now only one point out of fourth place with a game in hand over the incumbent Boston Bruins. The press has been full of reports on the work of the Bentleys the Hergesheimers and the Rontys. As usual, Kullman has just quietly gone about his business in the workmanlike fashion which fans have taken for granted for so long.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0993/1451769-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="151" height="243"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Kullman</b></figcaption></div><p><b>But then came the game of Sunday, February 21, against the Toronto Maple Leafs, a &lsquo;big&rsquo; one for the Rangers, as they sought to take over fourth p&rsquo;ace or at least stay within striking distance of a playoff berth.</b></p><p><b>Kullman scored two goals and had one assist to lead the Broadway Blues to resounding 6-1 victory over the Clancymen. A pretty good night fror the &ldquo;Shadow&rdquo;, who had only scored one goal previously while helping on seven others.</b></p><p><b>Youth movement or no youth movement, the &ldquo;Shadow&rdquo; will be around for some time to come.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-09

Player - of - the - Week

<h2><b>(STANDINGS MON. A.M. FEB. 22)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01275/1451700-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="319" height="100"></div><h2><b>RESULTS OF GAMES</b></h2><p>FEB. 15th&mdash;Chicago 2 at Detroit 3</p><p>FEB. 17th&mdash;Detroit 0 at Toronto 0</p><p>FEB. 17th&mdash;Boston 1 at Rangers 2</p><p>FEB. 18th&mdash;Detroit 2 at Canadiens 4</p><p>FEB. 19th&mdash;Rangers 3 at Chicago 0</p><p>FEB. 20th&mdash;Detroit 0 at Canadiens 2</p><p>FEB. 20th&mdash;Boston 2 at Toronto 3</p><p>FEB. 21st&mdash;Toronto 1 at Rangers 6</p><p>FEB. 21st&mdash;Boston 4 at Chicago 3</p><h2><b>WEEK ENDING. FEB. 28ht</b></h2><p>FEB. 22nd&mdash;Canadiens at Detroit</p><p>FEB. 24th&mdash;Boston at Rangers</p><p>FEB. 25th&mdash;Toronto at Canadiens</p><p>FEB. 25th&mdash;Detroit at Chicago</p><p>FEB. 27th&mdash;Rangers at Canadiens</p><p>FEB. 27th&mdash;Chicago at Toronto</p><p>FEB. 28th&mdash;Canadiens at Rangers</p><p>FEB. 28th&mdash;Toronto at Chicago</p><p>FEB. 28th&mdash;Detroit at Boston</p><h2><b>MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15</b></h2><h3><b>Chicago 2 at Detroit 3</b></h3><p>DETROIT&mdash;Rookie Bill Dineen scored what proved to be the winning goal within two minutes of play in the second period as the Detroit Red Wings dumped the Chicago Black Hawks 3-2.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Gadsby, Fogolin. eidel, Mortson, Price; forwards: Bodnar, Mosienko, Gee, Conacher. Jankowski, &lsquo;Wharram, Dewsbury, McIntyre, L. Wilson.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost. Woit; forwards: Dineen, Leswlck, Skov, Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Prystal, J. Wilson, Peters.</p><p>Referee&mdash;Red Storey; linesmen&mdash;Doug Young, George Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02256/1451693-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="321" height="282"></div><h2><b>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 17</b></h2><h3><b>Boston 1 at New York 2</b></h3><p>NEW YORK&mdash;The New York Rangers picked up two points in their fight to displace the Boston Bruins in fourth place in the NHL standing as they edged the Beantowners 2-1.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03212/1451686-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="323" height="183"></div><h3><b>Detroit 0 at Toronto 0</b></h3><p>TORONTO&mdash;Terry Sawchuk racked up shutout number 11 of the season and Harry Lumley number 10 as the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings battled to a scoreless tie.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04175/1451679-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="319" height="154"></div><h2><b>THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18</b></h2><h3><b>Detroit 2 at Montreal 4</b></h3><p>MONTREAL&mdash;The Montreal Canadiens climbed back into a tie for second place with the idle Toronto Maple Leafs as they downed the Detroit Red Wings 4-2.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Arbour; forwards: Skov, Dineen, Leswlck, Lindsay, Howe. Reibel, Wilson, Del Vecchio, Peters, Prystal.</p><p><b>Montreal</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Bouchard. Johnson, Harvey, MacPherson; forwards: Beliveau, Richard, Olmstead, Mosdell, Curry, Mazur, Masnick, Davis. Meger, Lach, McCormack.</p><p>Referee: Frank Udvari; linesmen:</p><p>Sam Babcock and Bill Roberts.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05132/1451672-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="322" height="325"></div><h2><b>FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19</b></h2><h3><b>New York 3 at Chicago 0</b></h3><p><b>(Played at Indianapolis)</b></p><p>INDIANAPOLIS&mdash;Nick Mickoski fired two goals as New York Rangers defeated Chicago Black Hawks 3-0 to move within one point of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s fourth and last playoff berth.</p><p>The shutout was the second of the season for New York goalie Johnny Bower, both at the expense of the tail-end Hawks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06113/1451665-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="317" height="181"></div><h2><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20</b></h2><h3><b>Detroit 0 at Montreal 2</b></h3><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Wolti, Arbutt; forwards: Skov, Dineen, Leswick, Reibel, Lindsay, Howe, Delvecchio, Wilson, Peters, Prystai.</p><p><b>Montreal:</b> Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, Macpherson, Bouchard, Johnson; forwards: Beliveau, Richard, Olmstead, Mosdell, Mackay, Curry, Lach, Davis, Meger. MacCormack, Masnick, Mazur.</p><p>Referee: Bill Chadwick; linesmen: Sam Babcock, Doug Davis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02233/1451658-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="326" height="216"></div><h3><b>Boston 2 at Toronto 8</b></h3><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal: Henry; defence: R. Armstrong, Godfrey, Bodnar, Laycoe: forwards: Sandford, Mackell, Gardner, Quackenbush, Klukay, Peirson, Mohns, Schmidt, Dumart.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Flaman, Horton, Morrison; forwards: Watson, Smith, Kennedy, G. Armstrong, Stewart, Sloan, Nesterenko, Boivin, Hannigan, Bailey, Mlgay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03200/1451651-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="334" height="261"></div><h2><b>SUNDAY FEBRUARY 21</b></h2><h3><b>New York 6 at Toronto 1</b></h3><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Lumley; defense: Flaman, Morrison, Thomson, Horton, Boivin; forwards: Migay, Nesterenko, Bailey, Watson, Smith, Kennedy, Armstrong, Stewart, Sloan, Bower; defense: Relse, Chrystal Irwin, Howell, Evans; forwards: Laprade. Henry, Guidolln, Raleigh, Ronty, Mlckoski, D. Bentley, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Kullman, M. Bentley.</p><p>Referee: Bill Chadwick; linesmen: Sammy Babcock, Baolto.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04155/1451644-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="319" height="268"></div><h3><b>Boston 4 at Chicago 8</b></h3><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal: Henry; defense: Laycoe, Quackenbush, Armstrong, Godfrey; forwards: Sandford, Schmidt, Pelrson, Mackell, Gardner, Dumart, Labine, Creighton, Mohns, Klukay, Bodnar.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal: Rollins; defense: Mortson, Zeidel, Fogolin, Gadsby, Price; forwards: Toppazzlnl, Gee, Mosienko, Wharram, Wilson, McIntyre.</p><p>Referee: Red Storey; linesmen: George Hayes and Harold March.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05125/1451637-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="324" height="286"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-01

HOW THE RACE GOES

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>With George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan showing the way, at least three other Hershey Bears are sure bets to beat their all-time individual scoring marks this season.</p><p>And, Sullivan, who has already topped his best performance of 84 points in 1950-51, stands an excellent chance of surpassing the AHL mark of 68 assists, held jointly by Wally Kllrea, of Hershey; Les Douglas, of Cleveland, and Carl Llscombe, of Providence. Sully had 63 assists going Into the Bears&rsquo; last fifteen games. Likewise, he can exceed Kllrea&rsquo;s all-time Hershey mark of 99 points, set in 1942-43.</p><p>In 55 games, the play-making redhead had collected 22 goals and 63 assists for a total of 85 points. If he can average a point a game throughout the remainder of the regular season, he&rsquo;s a cinch to set a new Hershey scoring mark.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01289/1451800-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="198" height="361"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RED SULLIVAN</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Kullman All Even</b></h2><p>Arnie Kullman was all even with his previous high water mark of 32 goals and 33 assists, which he compiled in 1950-51. In the first 55 games, Arnie had gathered 29 goals and 36 assists for a total of 65 points.</p><p>Next in line is Dune Fisher, who, after snapping a seven-game scoreless slump, pulled within one point of his best campaign with New Haven back in 1947-48. Dune had fired 28 goals and collected 80 assists in fifty-five contests, compared with 25 goals and 34 assists in 19474 8. He needs only two goals to beat his high mark of 29, set last season with the Bears.</p><p>Fourth member of the Hershey squad who can better his own previous mark is Lome Ferguson. Fergie, who has scored three &lsquo;hat tricks&rsquo; this, season, needs eleven points to go ahead of his 35-35&mdash;70 mark, set with Tulsa in 1949-50. He had a 80-30&mdash;60 record with Hershey in the first fifty-five games.</p><h2><b>Now In Third</b></h2><p>With the four mentioned players on a scoring rampage in recent games, the thirdplace Bears moved out to a four-point lead over the fourth-place Pittsburgh Hornets. And, they did it the hard way, winning three out of four games on the road. They walloped Pittsburgh, 9-2, and edged Cleveland, 3-1, on foreign ice, turning a trick which has been most difficult for them this season. As they headed for the last four games of their current eight-game road trip, they had won six out of their last seven games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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‘Red’ Sullivan Has Good Chance Of Breaking AHL Assist Record

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y&mdash;</p><p>The American Hockey League again has an outstanding array of first year rookies this season. In past years, the league&rsquo;s rookie award winner has in most cases gone on to star in a future career in either the NHL or some other professional circuit. Among the standout former freshmen are Wally Hergesheimer, Terry Sawchuk, Earl Reibel and Paul Meger, now in the National League, Bobby Solinger still In the AHLa and Guyle Fielder in the Western League this season.</p><p>With the exception of a goaltender, the AHL could ice a starry team of rookies from this season&rsquo;s six clubs. First year centers are Don Marshall, Andy Bathgate, Skip Teal, Don McKenney, Jackie LeClair and Bill Jones. The wing positions would be manned by Russ Kowalchuk, Lome Watters, Parker MacDonald, Bill Matthew and Murray Costello. On defense the freshmen team would also be well fortified with Pete Wright, Rollie Rousseau, Gus Karrys, Arnott Whitney, Ralph Willis, Larry Cahan, Camille Bedard and Don Perry. The closest candidate for goaltender would be Jacques Plante of Buffalo, who has been leading the netminder averages all season. Plante in his second season played 33 games last year and is not eligible for rookie honors.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06112/1451831-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="153" height="244"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Marshall</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>800 POINT PLAYER</b></h2><p>Freddie Glover of the Cleveland Barons scored his 300th American Hockey League point on February 6th, at which time he had 139 goals and 161 assists.</p><h2><b>LIKE OVERTIME WORK</b></h2><p>The Hershey Bear players of the American Hockey League seem to enjoy working overtime. They won three consecutive games in overtime on January 30, February 2 and 6, and most pleasing to their loyal followers, all were at home.</p><h2><b>LONG TIME COMING</b></h2><p>Two Providence Reds defensemen, Jeo Levandoski and Ed Kryzanowski scored their first goals of the American Hockey League season recently. Levandoski&rsquo;s came on February 7 in his 44th game while his teammate tallied his first on February 10 in his 54th game Levandoski&rsquo;s was a game winner.</p><h2><b>USUAL OVERTIME SUCCESS</b></h2><p>The American Hockey League is enjoying its usual success this season, with the use of overtime periods to settle games tied at the end of regulation time. The circuit had only nine ties in its first 100 games, or one in every eighteen played. There were ten contents settled in the extra session, which ordinarily would have gone into the books as deadlocks, without overtime.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AHL Rinkside Revealings

<h2><b>Should Make It</b></h2><p>The Buffalo Bisons loom as sure champs of the AHL. With only 10 grames to go they have a 16 point load.</p><h2><b>Well Rested</b></h2><p>Syracuse defenseman Ron Perry sat out all but 53 seconds of a game due to penalties. Then he scored the winner in overtime.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0892/1451973-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="614" height="650"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Bud Glunz)</span></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>H</span>ORNET HELD&mdash;</b> Frankie Eddolls, playing-coach of the league-leading Buffalo Bisons, makes sure that Bob Sabourin of the Pittsburgh Hornets stays put while Gordie Pennell moves in to pick up the loose puck.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Frank Falls To Block Bob

<p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN, FEB. 21)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0986/1452004-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="321" height="297"></div><h2><b>LEADERS</b></h2><p><b>Most Goal:</b> Ed Slowinskl, Buffalo, 33.</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Geo. Sullivan, Hershey, 65.</p><p><b>Most Penalized:</b> Player; Larry Cahan, Pittsburgh. 147 mts.</p><p><b>Best Goalie:</b> Jacques Plante, Buffalo 65, 148, 2.69.</p><p><b>Most Shutout:</b> Emile Francis, Cleveland, 4.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<p><b>(STANDINGS TUES. A.M. FEB. 23)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01288/1451942-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="318" height="99"></div><h2><b>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24</b></h2><h3><b>Syracuse 0 at Pittsburgh 7</b></h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Rookie Parker Macponald tallied three goals to lead Pittsburgh Hornets to a thumping 7-0 victory over the revamped Syracuse WarMors.</p><p>Syracuse, reorganized recently by manager Eddie Shore, never was in the fame after the first period in which the Hornets scored two goals. They picked up four more in the second.</p><p>Bob Sollnger collected two markers and Ray Timgren. and Willie Marshall One each.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02248/1451935-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="324" height="338"></div><h3><b>Hershey 2 at Buffalo 6</b></h3><p>BUFFALO&mdash;Buffalo Bisons boosted <b>their</b> American Hockey League lead to <b>14</b> points with a 6-2 victory over Hers&gt;ey Bears.</p><p>The loss was a double blow for the Bears whose goalie, Gordon (Red) Henry, Was felled early in the second period by a olose, hard shot from the stick of Buffalo&rsquo;s Gaye Stewart. The puck hit Henry above the right eye and he was <b>taken</b> to hospital here.</p><p>Veteran Hershey trainer, Scotty Alexander, 46, finished the game in the Bets for the Bears. He gave up four goals in the last two periods as the Bison attack easey up after the Injury to Henry. Stewart end Harry Taylor tallied for the Bisons in the first period. Don Marshall and Ken Hayden in the second and Ed Slowinskl and Pete Lund in the finale.</p><p>Hershey&rsquo;s goals were by Arnie Kullman and Don McKenney.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03194/1451928-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="320" height="281"></div><h2><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20</b></h2><h3><b>Providence 4 at Cleveland 3</b></h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Providence Reds revived their waning play-off hopes in the American Hockey League by edging the slumping second-pl ace Cleveland Barons 4-3.</p><p>Two former Cleveland players, Gerry (Doc) Couture, and Ken (Buck) Davies, each scored twice for the Reds. Chuck Scherza picked up three assists.</p><p>Davies gave Providence a 1-0 lead In the first period, and Couture made it 2-0 early iu the second period.</p><p>The Barons rallied to tie the score twice with boala by Andy Bathgate and Charlie Gagnon but the rangy Couture sank the winning score at 7:28 of the last period.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04150/1451921-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="320" height="318"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 1 at Pittsburgh 4</b></h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Danny Lewlcki scored his 30th and 31st goals of the American Hockey League season to lead Pittsburgh Hornets to a 4-1 victory over league-leading Buffalo Bisons.</p><p>Defenseman Chuck Lumsden and Earl Balfour scored the other goals for Pittsburgh. Gaye Stewart got the only goal for Buffalo.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05123/1451914-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="318" height="269"></div><h3><b>Hershey 3 at Syracuse 7</b></h3><p>SYRACUSE&mdash;Ken Schlnkel rapped in three goals to help Syracuse Warriors end a five-game losing streak by whipping Hershey Bears 7-3 in an American Hockey League game.</p><p>Eric Pogue netted two for the winners and Ted Power and Mike Narduzzi each added one.</p><p>Hershey scored all its goals in the third period. Red Sullivan got two and Don McKenney one.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06110/1451907-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="317" height="390"></div><h2><b>SUNDAY, FERRI ARY 21</b></h2><h3><b>Providence 2 at Syracuse 3</b></h3><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Defenceman Don Perry, well rested after sitting out all but 53 seconds of the third period as a result of penalties, fired the winning goal at 1:22 in the overtime session to give Syracuse Warriors a 3-2 victory over Providence Reds.</p><p>Perry drew two major penalties and a misconduct in the dying moments of the second period for his part In a battle involving Morley MacNeil and Chuck Scherza of the Reds. The tvro Providence players escaped with minors.</p><p>Al Baccari gave the Reds the lead in the first period but Jack McLeod tied the score in the second. Erie Pogue put the Warriors in front midway through the third frame but Tod Campeau knotted the count again five minutes later.</p><p>It was the second victory in two nights for the fifth-place Warriors, virtually a new team since owner Eddie Shore sent most of their regulars to his Springfield club in the Quebec Hockey League and brought up a flock of roakies to replace them.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0797/1451900-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="320" height="240"></div><h3><b>Hershey 5 at Cleveland 3</b></h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Hershey Bears, with three regulars sidelined b.v Injuries, scqred four times in the last eight minutes to defeat Cleveland Barons 5-3 ia an American Hockey League game.</p><p>Lorne Ferguson and Arnie Kullman each scored twice for the winners and AHL scoring eorge (Red) Sullivan fired their remaining tally. Eddie Olson, SGteve Kraftcheck and Jackie Gordon were the Cleveland marksmen.</p><p>Goalie Gordon (Red) Henry and forwards Obie O&rsquo;Brien and Dune Fisher were missing from the Hershey line-up. Cleveland played without high-ecsring defenceman Rred Shero.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01213/1451893-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="322" height="324"></div><h3><b>Pittsburgh 2 at Buffalo 3</b></h3><p>BUFFALO&mdash;Buffalo Bisons stretched their American Hockey League lead to 16 points, defeating Pittsburgh 3-2 in overtime.</p><p>Steve Wochy scored the winner at the 35-second mark, driving home his own rebound after a power play.</p><p>The Hornets outshot Buffalo 50 to 24, but the Bisons got a lift late in the third period when Gordie Pennell tied the score 2-2 on a dispute goal.</p><p>He slid Into the Pittsburgh net after his shot and the Hornets claimed he flipped the puck in with his hand. Goalie Gil Mayer rushed out of the net, and protested long enough to draw a 10-minute misconduct penalty from referee Jack Mehlenbacher.</p><p>Gaye Stewart scored Buffalo&rsquo;s first goal in the second period. Andy Barbe and Willie Marshall were the Pittsburgh marksmen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02171/1451886-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="320" height="289"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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HOW THE RICE GOES

<div class="byline">By STAN MOHER</div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>It could be the smell of playoff money or it might be nerves are wearing thin from the strain of the long Western league schedule.</p><p>But whatever the cause, a number of off-the-ice, incidents have threatened of late to completely submerge the competitive aspects of the race for playoffs spots.</p><p>Coach Norman (Bud) Poile and his defending champion Edmonton Flyers have been right in the thick of several of these &lsquo;incidents&rsquo;. There was, for instance, the night Billy Reay brought the snarling Victoria Cougars to the Gardens.</p><h2><b>Involves Fans</b></h2><p>This one broke out in a rash of third period roughand-tumbles that involved fans, as well as players. Cougar forward Colin Kilburn, a onetime Edmonton hero, seemed all for minding his own business until a number of the customers got &lsquo;on&rsquo; him, near the end of the game.</p><p>Then he made as though to take a swipe at one of the box-seat holders, only to be pulled away by referee &lsquo;Scotty&rsquo; Morrison and rerouted to the penalty box. After the game&mdash;in the runway leading to the visitors&rsquo; dressing quarters&mdash;he again became embroiled. This time Kilburn pursued at least one alleged heckler Into the furnace room, whereupon the heckler grabbed a heavy wrench and dared the aroused Victoria forward to further action. The timely arrival of coach Reay broke this one up before events took a more serious turn.</p><h2><b>Bad Blood</b></h2><p>There&rsquo;s bad blood between the Flyers and Cougars, dating back to an earlier road trip to the coast city when Marcel Bonin, of the Flyers, tangled with rookie Cougar rearguard Tony Schneider.</p><p>Bonin and Schneider later renewed hostilities and subsequently a second Victoria defenceman. team captain Ross Lowe, jumped into the feud. It was a sizzling Billy Reay&rsquo;s contention at the finish of the aforementioned lively tussle in the Edmonton Gardens that &ldquo;Bonin doesn&rsquo;t even try to play hockey anymore,.he&rsquo;s so busy beiug a tough guy.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01287/1452035-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="303" height="481"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Involved</b></p><p><b>MARCEL BONIN</b></p></figcaption></div><p>The Flyers and the Saskatoon Quakers have<sub>v</sub> taken to snarling at each other, too. Poile brought this one on by accusing the Saskatchewan aggregation of being &ldquo;the biggest cry-babies in the league.&rdquo; For good measure he likewise charged Quaker fans with &ldquo;cry-baby&rdquo; tendencies.</p><p>Alex Kaleta, co-coach (with &lsquo;Chuck&rsquo; Rayner) of the third place Quakers, and team captain Jackie McLeod, were singled out by Poile as &ldquo;the biggest cryers&rdquo;. As he said: &ldquo;Everytime a decision goes against them those Quakers are all around the referee, yelping and begging. It&rsquo;s high time someone cracked down on them?&rsquo;</p><p>Polle&rsquo;s charges backfired first time Flyers played the Saskatoon arena, following their public airing. Quakers walloped the Albertans 9-2 and the fans made life miserable for Poile.</p><p>However next time the teams faced each other&mdash;at Edmonton&mdash;the Flyers edged the hustling Quakers 4-3. The hometown fans waved towels everytime the Quakers questioned a decision and a number of the customers Unfurled banners, reading &lsquo;Cry Baby Quakers&rsquo;.</p><h2><b>Won&rsquo;t Hurt Gates</b></h2><p>The Flyers vs. Victoria and Flyers vs. Quakers schemozzles are not likely to hurt attendance over the rest of the route. This is all to the good, particularly as it looks as though the Flyers and Quakers will tangle in the opening round of post season play.</p><p>With 13 games remaining, the Flyers were steaming comfortably along in fourth place, three points behind Saskatoon. They had won 14 and tied one of their last 20 starts&mdash;the swiftest pace in the league&mdash;and coach Poile had set his sights on a second place finish.</p><p>At the time Vancouver had 68 points, Calgary 62, Saskatoon 59 and the Flyers 56. New Westminster 51, Victoria 50, and Seattle 42 trailed. Six teams qualify for the playoffs, first taking on sixth second clashing with fifth, and the three-four teams engaging one another.</p><h2><b>Redline Ramblings</b></h2><p>Here are Poile&rsquo;s most-valuable-player choices: Vancouver&mdash;&rsquo;Gump&rsquo; Worsley; Calgary&mdash;Jim McFadden; Saskatoon&mdash;Jackie McLeod; Edmonton&mdash;Enio Sclisizzi; New Westminster;&mdash;&rsquo;Bull&rsquo; Durham; Victoria&mdash;Eddie Dorohoy; Seattle&mdash;Wayne Brown&hellip; Flyer followers are plugging. forward Don Poile for the rookie-of-the-year award&hellip; A good skater, coach Poile&rsquo;s younger brother notched his 20th goal sometime back.</p><p>Play of the Bonin&mdash;Jim Uniac&mdash;Ray Hannigan line has featured recent Flyer successes&hellip; Bonin&rsquo;s forechecking and rugged way of going have taken a lot of the heat off linemates Uniac and Hannigan&hellip; Flyer defenceman Bill (The Grim Reaper) Folk is on the injured list and may be out for tlxe balance of the season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Edmonton Flyers Right In Middle Of Several ‘Incidents’ In WHL

<p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>Guyle Fielder, Seattle playmaker, moved into first place in the individual scoring race the past week with 16 goals and 45 assists for a total of 61 points just one more than Eddie Dorohoy of Victoria and Alex Kaleta and Ray Manson of Saskatoon. Fielder&rsquo;s 45 assists is tops in that department. Wayne Brown, Seattle sniper, continues to lead in scoring goals with 37 to his credit. Two more than Gordie Fashoway of New Westminster. Ray Manson of Saskatoon was &lsquo;player of the week&rsquo; with 2 goals and 6 assists for eight points. Mark Marquess of Seattle scored the winning goal February 14 when Seattle was defeating New Westminster 6-1 and moved back into a tie with Freddy Brown of Vancouver for the honor of scoring the most game winning goals. Each have 6 to their credit. No hat tricks were scored in the past. Lou Fontinato of Saskatoon continues to set the penalty pace and now has spent 137 minutes iu the &lsquo;cooler.&rsquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02222/1452066-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="157" height="237"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Guyle Fielder</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&lsquo;GUMP&rsquo; LEADS</b></h2><p>Lorne Worsley of Vancouver continues to lead Guyle Fielder the goalkeepers in goals against average per game by a considerable margin and is well on his way to establish a new league record. Worsley has allowed an average of 2.28 goals per game. The record, now held by Lucien Dechene, for a complete season is 2.82 per game. Set during the 1950-51 season. Bill Brennan leads in shutouts with 7.</p><h2><b>CLOSE SCORING RACE</b></h2><p>The battle for individual scoring honors promises to be just as close as that for first place in league standings. Twelve players are within a range of 10 points and all pose an individual threat for the honor of leading the league in scoring. It appears that Wayne Brown of Seattle and Gordie Fashoway of New Westminster will battle it out for the goal scoring honors altho Enio Sclisizzi of Edmonton and Jackie McLeod of Saskatoon, who both have 2T have a chance. Guyle Fielder of Seattle will have to keep setting up goals if he expects to beat out both Eddie Dorohoy of Victoria and Alex Kaleta of Saskatoon for play-making honors. Dorohoy has 49 assists and Kaleta 42.</p><h2><b>NO PENALTIES</b></h2><p>Victoria played their secondpenaltyless game of the season Friday, February 12 in Victoria against Seattle. It was the second time the Cougars have escaped the referee&rsquo;s finger this season&mdash;both games were played in Victoria and both against Seattle.</p><h2><b>TEAM PENALTIES</b></h2><p>Saskatoon continues to lead in team penalties and now have spent 705 minutes in the penalty box as compared with Calgary and New Westminster with 4 minutes. The Quakers lead in minors with 240, majors with 13 and misconducts with 15. New Westminster players have only received three misconduct penalties to date.</p><h2><b>TEAM SCORING</b></h2><p>Calgary regained the goal scoring lead after trailing Edmonton for a couple of weeks. The Stampeders have scored 207 goals in 56 games as against Edmontons 206 in 57 games. Edmonton leads in assists with 306 and total points with 512. They have also had the most goals scored against them 213. Vancouver have had the fewest scored against them, 132.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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WHL Ice Chips

<h2><b>First Goal</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>urray Parker, Saskatoon defenseman. got his first goal of the season in Edmonton February 12. It was his 57th game. Bill Davidson of Seattle picked up his first goal in his 54th game played in Seattle against Saskatoon on Sunday February.</p><h2><b>Record Gate</b></h2><p>The largest crowd of the past two seasons and the second largest since Edmonton Joined the pro league turned out in Edmonton on February 5 to watch the Flyers beat Calgary 4-2.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

WESTERN LEAGUE

<p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. FEB. 14)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1198/1452260-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="326" height="776"></div><h2><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1285/1452253-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="322" height="110"></div><h2><b>LEADERS</b></h2><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Wayne Brown Sea. 37</p><p><b>Most Assists*:</b> Guyle Fielder, Sea. 45 Vancouver, 6; Mark Marquess, Seattle</p><p><b>Most Game Wining Goals:</b> Freddy Brown 6.</p><p><b>Most First Goals of Game:</b> Bobby Love New West. 6; Wayne Brown, Sea. 6.</p><p><b>Hat Tricks:</b> Gordon Fashoway NW 2: Colin Kilburn Vic 2; Steve Black Cal 2; Jack McLeod Sask 2.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> Bill Brennan Cal 7.</p><h2><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES GP MIN</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1366/1452246-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="320" height="169"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<p><b>(STANDINGS MON. A.M., FEB. 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01295/1452184-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="323" height="110"></div><h2><b>RESULTS</b></h2><h3><b>Monday February 8th</b></h3><p>Vancouver 4 at Victoria 2</p><h3><b>Tuesday February 9th</b></h3><p>Saskatoon 6 at Vancouver 2</p><h3><b>Thursday February 11th</b></h3><p>Saskatoon 4 at Calgary 2</p><h3><b>Friday February 12th</b></h3><p>Seattle 1 at Victoria 2</p><p>Saskatoon 3 at Edmonton 4</p><p>New West. 2 at Vancouver 4</p><h3><b>Saturday February 13th</b></h3><p>Victoria I at New West. 8</p><p>Calgary 5 at Saskatoon 5</p><h3><b>Sunday February 14th</b></h3><p>New Westminster 1 at Seattle 6</p><h2><b>MONDAY FEBRUARY 8</b></h2><h3><b>Vancouver 4 at Victoria 2</b></h3><p>VICTORIA&mdash;Cy Rouse scored two goals to pace the Vancouver Canucks to a 4-2 victory over the Victoria Cougars.</p><p><b>Vancouver</b>&mdash;Goal. Worsley; defense: Stanley, Houghton, Dick, Lucien; forwards, Popein, Dea. Brown, Kassian, Wylie. McCullough, Hickey, Rouse, Kaieer, Kerr.</p><p><b>Victoria</b>&mdash;Goal: Almas; defense: Lavitt. Schneider, Lowe, Clune; forwards: Dorohoy, Bettlo. Kuzina. Reay, Hebenton, Kilburn, Abbott, Anderson, Sinnett, Achtymichuk. MeCauley.</p><p>Referee: Scotty Morrison; linesman Ross Valliere.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02256/1452177-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="323" height="249"></div><h2><b>TUESDAY FEBRUARY 9</b></h2><h3><b>Saskatoon 6 at Vancouver 2</b></h3><p><b>Saskatoon</b>&mdash;Goal: Rayner; defense: Fontinato, Milford, Parker, Buller, Ross; forwards: Kukulowlcz, Kobussen. Manion, Howe. McLeod, Lynn, Kaleta, Adams. Holdaway, Murphy.</p><p><b>Vancouver</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Stanl.ey, Houghtort: Dick, Lancien, Kaiser; forwards: Dea. Popein, Kassian. Brown. Wylie, McCullough, Hickey, Rouse. Kerr.</p><p>Referee: Scotty Morrison; linesman, Ross Morrow.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03228/1452170-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="324" height="321"></div><h2><b>THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11</b></h2><h3><b>Saskatoon 4 at Calgary 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04201/1452163-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="323" height="221"></div><h2><b>FRIDAY FEBRUARY 12</b></h2><h3><b>Seattle 1 & Victoria 2</b></h3><p>VICTORIA&mdash;The Victoria Cougars celebrated &lsquo;Ed Dorohoy Night&rsquo; by edging the Seattle Bombers 2-1 on a pair of goals by Alex Kuzma.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05173/1452156-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="317" height="166"></div><h3><b>Saskatoon 3 nt Edmonton 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06144/1452149-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="320" height="322"></div><h3><b>New Westminster 2 at Vancouver 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07133/1452142-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="320" height="250"></div><h2><b>SATURDAY FEBRUARY 13</b></h2><h3><b>Victoria 1 at New Westminster 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08125/1452135-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="320" height="377"></div><h3><b>Calgary 5 at Saskatoon 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09119/1452128-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="318" height="376"></div><h2><b>SUNDAY FEBRUARY 14</b></h2><h3><b>New Westminster 1 at Seattle 6</b></h3><p>SEATTLE&mdash;Guyie Fielder scored two goals and had as many assists as the Seattle Bombers bombed the New Westminster Royals 6-1.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-2020/1452121-1-eng-US/f0019-202.jpg" title="f0019-20" width="320" height="269"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>As the Quebec Hockey League teams thundered into the home stretch, of its 72-game schedule it appeared certain that all seven starters would cross the finish line March 21.</p><p>The carpring critics who viewed black ruin and withdrawl of one or two clubs along the course were routed in utter confusion. The same snide pessimists may rant that it will take the Quebec loop boys 252 games to eliminate one of their members from the playoffs which are to start March 23, but the practical-minded sponsors sagely point out that they have yet to find a substitute for money. And legal tender can only be gathered in respectable quantities through the post-season games on which the league has always thrived.</p><p>The customers in the Quebec League cities always go handsomely for the extra-money series no matter how involved or prolonged.</p><p>It seems that the race for first place between the Montreal Royals and Chicoutimi Sagueneens will be carried right down to the closing weeks of the schedule.</p><h2><b>Good Road Clubs</b></h2><p>George M. Slater points out that its significant that both these teams are rugged performers on the road, and according to his calculations, have won 4 8 per cent of possible points in the other guys&rsquo; rinks. Oddly the Chicks haven&rsquo;t fared too well in their own bailiwick recently, after startng thel season all but invincible in their Coliseum with its spacious ice area.</p><p>Going into the last week of February the Royals and Chicks were once again locked for first place, after Royals had held the peak briefly by themselves.</p><p>Hat-trick.performers played important roles in the manufacture of this runaway of the draw. For on the night of February 17, Jacques Locas of Chicks and Dusty Blair of Ottawa Senators both collected goals in trios.</p><p>Ironically, Locas, traded to the Chicoutimi club, by Springfield for Delphis Franche, midway through the season, chose his old mates of the Indians as victims for his triple-barreled marksmanship. This was the big blast in a 5-1 win for the Sagueneens. It gave them the needed two points to square the account with Royays who succumbed to a 6-2 lacing from Ottawa Senators with Blair in the Annie Oakley act.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01295/1452291-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="309" height="749"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Closing In</b></p><p><b>RIP RIOPELLI</b></p></figcaption></div><h2><b>Quick Goaler Sliift</b></h2><p>Senators triumph over Royals, a success that has seldom been their lot during the campaign was incidental to quick change in goalers.</p><p>Ray Frederick, the loop&rsquo;s top twine custodian who was boasting ten shutouts as these lines were typed, and was recently sold to Toronto Maple Leafs for autumn delivery, was admittedly suffering battle fatigue.</p><p>Frederick need a thorough rest in the opinion of coach Turk Broda. The smart goaler&rsquo;s nerves were frazzled and he was complaining of a shoulder misery. The club trainer worked on his shoulder with the daithermy machine and Paul Leclerc, 32-year-old Valleyfield veteran was borrowed from the Braves.</p><h2><b>Waited Two Hours</b></h2><p>Leclerc reported at the Montreal Forum where Senators were booked against Royals on February 16, but he had a long wait.</p><p>En route to Montreal, the Ottawa team ran into the heaviest snowstorm of the winter, were ditched in their bus at Dorion. Another bus was sent from Montreal to bail out the Senators, who arrived mere than two hours late.</p><p>It was 9.30 when they reached the big Montreal rink, whereas visiting teams usually appear at 7.30, or one hour before game time.</p><p>Anyway Leclerc played in that game which began at 9.40, and did a pretty fair job, even though Senators were nosed 4-3. But apparently Broda had little confidence in any substitute for Frederick, for Ray was back in the, cage the next night.</p><h2><b>Rip Chases Corriveau</b></h2><p>In retrospect it seems that Frederick and the &ldquo;big line&rdquo; Leo Gravelie, Dusty Blair and Rip Riopelle are the main factors in keeping Senators blazing along in the middle of the pack. They swept into third place by their win over Royals as Blair fashioned his millinery confection.</p><p>In the same game, Leo Gravelle scored his 40th goal and Riopelle got a cluster of assists to move within a handfull of points of Andre Corriveau, the pacemaker at Valleyfield who has been practically a perennial scoring champion in the Quebec loop if you forget the two years Jean Beliveau ruled the roost.</p><p>It&rsquo;s going to add liveliness to the run down the stretch this personal duel between Riopelle and Corriveau <i>tor</i> that individual championship in the points parade.</p><div class="sidebar"><p>George Stockwell, Trainer of the Toronto Argonaut Football Club, uses and endorses Bike supports and Bike Trainers Tape.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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<p><b>(STANDINGS ON TUES. A.M. FEB. 23)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01266/1452485-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="320" height="115"></div><h2><b>TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16</b></h2><h3><b>Ottawa 3 at Montreal 14</b></h3><p>MONTREAL&mdash;The Montreal Royals maintained their two point lead atop the Quebec Hockey League as they edged the Ottawa Senators 4-3.</p><p><b>Ottawa</b>&mdash;Goal: Leclalr; defense: Copp, Arundel, Stahan. Hudson, Robertson; forwards: Blair, Gravelle, Rlopelle, Johnson, Glesebrecht, Kuntz, Maloney, Foley, Guidolin.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defense: Hollingworth, Leger, Harmon, Roche; forwards: Burchell, Laplante, Litzenberger, Blaine, Tessier, Desaulners, Wray, Denis. Frampton, Gamble.</p><p>Referee: Gordon Whitehead; linesmen: Jim Haggerty and Jim Slater.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02231/1452478-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="322" height="254"></div><h3><b>Chicoutimi 6 at Valleyfield 3</b></h3><p>VALLE7YFIELD&mdash;Chicoutimi Sagueneens once in the first period, three times in the second and twice In the third as they downed the Velleyfield Braves 6-3.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Hughes; defense: Glaude, Taillefer. Roy, Lamlrande; forwards: White, Buchanan, Perreault, L. Smrke, S. Smrke, Locas, Dussault, GroJeau, Tkachuk, Moore.</p><p><b>Valleyfield</b>&mdash;Goal; Payette; defense: Arnett, Ernst, Collins, Irvine; forwards: White, Joannette, Blsaillon, Corriveau, Bougie, Thomson, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Leclerc.</p><p>Referee: Charlie Dezlel; linesmen: Marcel Bessette, Percy Reynolds.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03209/1452471-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="321" height="336"></div><h2><b>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 17</b></h2><h3><b>Montreal 2 at Ottawa 6</b></h3><p>OTTAWA&mdash;Dusty Blair scored a three goal &lsquo;hat trick&rsquo; as the Ottawa Benators turned back the Montreal Royals 6-2.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04164/1452464-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="319" height="323"></div><h3><b>Chicoutimi 5 at Springfield 1</b></h3><p>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;Chicoutimi sagueneens climbed back into a share of first place in the QHL as they dumped the last place Springfield Indians 6-1.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05131/1452457-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="319" height="277"></div><h3><b>Sherbrooke 3 at Quebec 2</b></h3><p>QUEBEC&mdash;Ed Bruneteau scored at the 16.09 mark of the third period to give the Sherbrooke Saints a 3-2 victory over the Quebec Aces.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06114/1452450-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="317" height="236"></div><h2><b>THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18</b></h2><h3><b>Montreal 3 at Sherbrooke 2</b></h3><p>SHERBOOKE&mdash;Lulu Denis fired a hotly disputed goal at 3.25 of the sudden-death overtime as the league-leading Montreal Royals edged the Sherbrooke Saints 3-2.</p><p><b>Montreal:</b> Goal, Perreault; defence, Hollingworth. Leger, Harmon, Roche; forwards, Burchell, Laplante, Lltzenberger, Blaine, Desaulniers, Tessier, Wray, Denis, Frampton, Gamble.</p><p><b>Sherbrooke:</b> Goal, Gatherum; defence. Hay, Bownass. Palamar, Forbes; forwards, Stankiewicz, Dube Johnson, McLean, Brown, Irving, Ehman, Bruneteau, Glesebrecht.</p><p>Referee, Charlie Dezlel; linesmen, Therriault, Westgate.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07105/1452443-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="318" height="304"></div><h3><b>Springfield 2 at Chicoutimi 4</b></h3><p>CHICOUTIMI&mdash;Pete Tkachuk fired a pair of goals as the Chicoutimi Sagueneens downed the Springfield Indians 4-2.</p><p><b>Springfield:</b> Goal, O&rsquo;Hearn; defence, McNab, Tottle, Summers, Currie; forwards, Kaiser, Hastings, Horvath, Bobenlc, McMurdy, Franche, Hogg, Leir.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Glaude, Roy, Lamlrande, Taillefer; forwards, White, Lopas, Smrke, L. Smrke, Dussault, Groleau, Tkachuk, Perreault, Leger.</p><p>Referee, Len Corriveau; linesmen, Scullion, Boileau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0894/1452436-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="318" height="248"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0988/1452429-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="293" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Top Goalie</b></p><p><b>RAY FREDERICK</b></p></figcaption></div><h2><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20</b></h2><h3><b>Quebec 4 at Ottawa 5</b></h3><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Gelineau; defense: Raglan, Crozier, Talbot, Houle, Burega; forwards: Nadeau, Brown, Grosse, Powell, Regan, Labadie, Kelly, Tremblay, Boone.</p><p><b>Ottawa</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defense: Stahan, Robertson, Copp, Hudson; forwards: Blair, Howard, Rlopelle, Gravelle, Johnson, Glesebrecht, Kuntz, Hugh Rlopelle, Maloney, Foley, Guidolin.</p><p>Referee: Georges Gravel; linesmen: Gordie Pranske and Yvon Renaud.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1075/1452422-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="320" height="380"></div><h3><b>Sherbrooke 6 at Springfield 3</b></h3><p><b>Sherbrooke</b>&mdash;Goal: Gatherum; defense: Hay, Bownass, Palamar, Forbes; forwards: Dube, Stankiewicz, Johnson, McLean, Irving, Ehman, Podolsky, Glesebrecht, Brown, Bruneteau.</p><p><b>Springfield</b>&mdash;Goal: O&rsquo;Hearn; defense: Summers. Tottle, McNab, Curie; forwards: Hastings, Bobenic, McMurdy, Franche, Hogg, Leier, Lumley.</p><p>Referee: Jim Slater; linesmen: Charlie Ghedi, Bill Cote.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1161/1452415-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="317" height="364"></div><h2><b>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21</b></h2><h3><b>Quebec 3 at Montreal 1</b></h3><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Gelineau; defense: Raglan, Crozier, Talbot, Houle; forwards: Nadeau, Regan, Brown, Cote, Grosse, Powell, Labadie, Kelly, Tremblay, Boone.<sup>7</sup></p><p><b>Montreal</b>&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defense: Hollingworth, Harmon, Roche, Leger; forwards: Blaine, Wray, Frampton, Lltzenberger, Burchell, Laplante, Denis, Desaulniers, Tessier, Gamble.</p><p>Referee: Bill Roberts; linesmen: Gordie Whitehead, Bob Sleeth.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1245/1452408-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="317" height="259"></div><h3><b>Ottawa 2 at Valleyfield 2</b></h3><p><b>Ottawa</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederic; defense: Stahan, Arundel, Robertson, Hudson; tor wads; Gravelle, Johnson, Blair, Hugh Riopelle, Howard Rlopelle, Glesebrecht, Kuntz, Maloney, Foley, Guidolin.</p><p><b>Valleyfield</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette; defense: Arnett, Ernst, Irvine, Collins; forwards: White, Joannette, Blsaillon, Corriveau, Bougie, Thomson, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Leclerc.</p><p>1&mdash;Ottawa: Blair &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12:33</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1339/1452401-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="317" height="290"></div><h3><b>Chicoutimi 7 at Sherbrooke 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1433/1452394-1-eng-US/f0015-142.jpg" title="f0015-14" width="319" height="286"></div><div class="sidebar"><p>BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape are used and endorsed by the University of Toronto Football Club.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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<p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN., FEB. 21)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1528/1452516-1-eng-US/f0015-152.jpg" title="f0015-15" width="323" height="586"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="byline">By CHICK&#x2019; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Buried deep in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA group&rsquo;s seventh and last place, 11 points to the rear of Chatham Maroons, with but six scheduled games remaining, Niagara Falls Cataracts playoff chances hang by the flimsiest thread.</p><p>Added to injuries being nursed by key players, Cataracts will be further weakened for their last three games, because Goalie Don Lockhart and centre Eric Unger are slated to leave by plane to join Toronto Lyndhursts, Canada&rsquo;s representatives, for the wor1d&rsquo;s hockey championship, which opens in Stockholm, Sweden, Feb. 26.</p><p>Accompanying the Falls pair will be Bill Shill, a member of the Lyndhurst team, who was unable to cross the Atlantic when his teammates departed. The fourth reinforcement for the Canadian squad Is Tom Jamieson, who played for the Sarnia Sailors until they withdrew from the senior OHA group the first of the year, but who has been idle ever since, because he refused to report to the Niagara Falls Cataracts, to whom he was allotted when the Sarnia team folded. Instead, Jamieson moved to Owen Sound, only to have the OHA sub-committee refuse him transfer, with the ultimatum he would have to play for Cataracts, or not at all.</p><p>Lockhart, Unger, Shill and Jamieson should add considerable strength to Lyndhursts, because all of them rate with the top performers in senior OHA company, despite the lowly position of the Niagara Fails Cataracts.</p><h2><b>No Defence</b></h2><p>With a good defence ahead of him, Lockhart would be right up with the leaders in the net-minding records, while Unger figured in the top ten point-scorers until he was laid low by a temporary injury. Jamieson had one of the better records with Sarnia, while Shill finished within the top ten scorers during the 1952-53 season, when he wore a Brantford Redmen sweater in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA.</p><p>Two separate battles continue In the senior OHA group for first place and third and fourth spots, with Owen Sound and Kitchener waging a see-saw fight for the top berth, as Mercurys held a one-point margin at time of writing could be changed considerably, so close is the battle for first, third and fourth berths.</p><p>With six more games to play, the veteran Tommy Burlington, one-eyed pivot for Owen Sound Mercurys, is a cinch ts set a newscoring record for the modern senior OHA group.</p><p>Although reports have it that &rsquo;Mickey&rdquo; Roth of Stratford Indians holds the record with 112 points, which he compiled in the 1951-52 season for 47 games, actually the official mark is 111 points, from 50 goals and 61 assists. Burlington, who finished second high that season with 97 points, has registered 107 points to date, and with five more games left he should have little difficulty picking up five more points, which would create a new record. In fact, judging by the consistent manner in which Burlington is potting goals and setting up others he should finish well ahead of 112 points.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01261/1452547-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="316" height="322"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Of To Europe</b></p><p><b>BILL SHILL</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Manager &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Meier and Coach Howie Meeker of the Stratford Indians trekked up into the Northern Ontario Hockey Association area Saturday, and witnessed a league game at Sudbury between the hometown Wolves and Pembroke Lumber Kings, and a report from Sudbury says they were not too favorably impressed with what they saw.</p><p>They are quoted as saying the NOHA hockey they watched was not as fast as that dished up in the OHA, nor did they believe the goal-tending was on a par with that in their own group. Meeker expressed surprise at the lack of boychecking, and announced that &ldquo;we hit them down our way and they stay hit.&rdquo;</p><p>Skeptics, however, feel that perhaps the two Stratford officials attended one of the poorer games of the NOHA, and much thought still persists that whether Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds or Sudbury Wolves, the teams favored to battle it out for the northern championship, emerge with the honors either team will prove a large-sized handful for the OHA title-winners in the all-Ontario playdowns.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0016-01

OHA Stars Join Lyndhursts In Time For World Tourney

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>The big hero, the man to emulate by local kids on backyard ponds, is not Maurice (Rocket) Richard or Gordie Howe. The man of the moment is curly-headed Bill Ford of Halifax Atlantics of the Maritime Major (Big Four) Hockey League.</p><p>On the night of February 11, ford equalled a Maritime hockey record established by Charlottetown&rsquo;s great Buck Whitlock back in the 1949-50 season, when he skated for Saint John Beavers. That year Buck scored 64 goals. That, said the experts, would last a long, long time.</p><p>Along came Ford, steady producer for four years with Halifax teams and this season a scoring sensation. Ford tied the record with a three-goal outburst, his eighth hat-trick of the season.</p><p>Next night in Sydney he bagged two goals to send his total to 6 6. Every time he scores he adds to the record. The all-time points record, also held by Whitlock, is 128, set last season.</p><p>After the two goal burst in Sydney the fast skating Halifax winger was a cinch to erase that mark. The Ford total that night was 125. with 59 assists added to his 66 goals.</p><p>Ford has been a big producer. Here is his record to date:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02208/1452585-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="324" height="190"></div><h2><b>To Have &lsquo;Night&rsquo;</b></h2><p>In recognition of his feats Halifax Atlantics have designate Tuesday, Fe. 23 as Bill Ford Night. The club will lead off with a substantial cheque. Halifax firms and Halifax fans will come in strongly. If figures to be the biggest night in Halifax hockey history.</p><p>Ford is 26, a native of Toronto and formerly with Marlboros. He came here with Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s to start the 1949-50 season, became an instant hit and has been here ever since.</p><p>At the start of the 1951-52 season he was late in reporting due to salary differences but finished the season with70 points, 38 of them goals. He has been a terrific producer, and his goals outnumber his assists despite the fact he has worked with many centres.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03171/1452578-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="320" height="322"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Record Broken</b></p><p><b>ROT WHITLOCK</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Along with his fancy scorjng feats Ford is regarded as the best defensive letftwinger in the Maritime League. Witk every two steps forward he takes one backward. So those 237 goals shot in regular league competition is definitely on the credit side; he doesn&rsquo;t give up more than he bags himself.</p><p>Ford is a sprightly, modest and quiet fellow who goes about his work in a silent, workmanlike way. He is seldom in the penalty box, the type of player a coach beams at game after game.</p><p>Club officials, announced the special Ford Night, said Ford was a credit to his club, his league and to hockey. Fans re-echoed these words as they made longrange plans to honor the great gunsel who in a league in which high scores are almost daily features has been a star of stars.</p><p>There was other interesting news along the Maritime hockey front. Halifax Atlantics were fined $500 for failing to keep a play date in Charlottetown the night of January 29. When league officials got the complete facts on the case they promptly cancelled the fine and announced that the game would be replayed on a later date.</p><p>A few days later league president C. Roy MacDonald announced from Glace Bay that Atlantics would be fined at the rate of $100 a game and maybe even suspended if they didn&rsquo;t get their playing certificates into the hands of hockey officials. But it was all a mistake; the cards turned up in the right hands and everything is okey-dokey.</p><p>President MacDonald announced that the league is keeping a close check on player rosters and any club using an ineligible player past the February 1 deadline would forfeit any game won. Halifax has been under-staffed all season, but Charlottetown and Glace Bay have had large rosters. The Sydney roster has also been large but most of the traffic has been to and from pro leagues.</p><p>Pete Wywrot, veteran Halifax centre sat out two weeks with an ankle Injury but returned so quickly to top form when he got back that he regained his brifly lost runner-up position in the scoring. Charlottetown&rsquo;s Paul Saindon slipped into third place ahead of slumping team-mate and four-time scoring champion Buck Whitlock.-</p><p>Crowds were increasing all over the circuit and especially in Cape Breton, where the Sydney-Glace Bay rivalry. was at its hottest again. In the early days of the schedule Halifax and Sydney roared far ahead of the other two clubs and crowds fell off. But Don Penniston made a lot of player shuffles in the Bay and Bucko Trainor kept the wires busy between the games so that now it is a well balanced league playing crowd-pleasing hockey.</p><p>Johnny Morrow, controversial Halifax player who has been in and out of the news all winter, is officially Atlantics&rsquo; property for this season but next season reverts to Sydney, with whom he played last winter. He is currently out with an ankle injury, has seen little action in the last month.a</p><p>He came back briefly one night, had a fight with Charlottetown&rsquo;s Claude Robert, back from Ottawa Senators, and was forced out again.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0016-02

Ford Breaks Goal-Scoring Mark Formerly Held By Roy Whitlock

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Well, it finally happened !&hellip; two referees will handle the remaining senior hockey games in the NOHA instead of one referee and two linesmen&hellip; this is designed to enaole officials to maintain a tighter control of games&hellip; another point is that it will give the teams getting into the playoffs a chance to get used to the two-referee system before the playoffs when the system is always used&hellip; the move was decided at a special meeting of the NOHA in the North Bay just a couple of hours before this column was prepared for the February 27th edition of The Hockey News&hellip; still more important news was embodied in a special ten per-cent pool of all semi-final games (a best&mdash;of-seven affair, by the way!)&hellip; while only four of the five teams in the Southern Division get into the playoffs, all five teams will split the ten per cent pot in order to give such teams as North Bay Trappers, Pembroke Lumber Kings and Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) Indians, the similar clubs, much-needed financial assistance&hellip; The 6emi-finals start March 2 and 3, the first-place team meeting the fourth, and the second-place team playing the third&hellip;however, the finals will not see a pool in operation, only the semi-finals&hellip; the idea of lengthening the semi-finals to a best-of-seven series is designed to allow the ultimate losers in playoff competition longer so they can reap as much financial assistance as possible out of the &ldquo;money series&rdquo;&hellip;</p><p>All NOHA senior playoff games will be played until a winner is declared&hellip; this is a departure from the old system of a ten-irfinute overtime in case of a tie and no more time being allowed if a tie still exists&hellip; previously, if a tie developed in playoffs the round took on the complexion of a point-series with one point allowed each team for a tie&hellip; however, starting next month during the playoffs all games will be run out until a winner is declared&hellip; this will make for more exciting hockey&hellip; the finals will be a best-of-seven series also, but if the sehmi-finals do not finish by March 8 then the finals will be shortened to a best-of-five steup&hellip; another development at the important special meeting was a two-game suspension imposed on Ron Hurst, fiery forward on Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.) Greyhounds for his part in hitting George Defelice of Sudbury Wolves over the head with his stick&hellip; those are the highlights of that special NOHA meeting and bring you up-to-date on latest developments in Northern Ontario senior hockey&hellip;</p><p>Jimmy McBurney, leading goal-getter on the Soo Greyhounds, has been taken off the Chicago negotiation list but placed on the Providence Reds&rsquo; negotiation list by Jim Brown, former scout for New York&hellip; Jim is going through the Northland looking for top players to aid Lou Pirie&rsquo;s Providence Reds&hellip; McBurney captured the Eddie Powell Memorial Trophy last year for amassing the highest point-total in OHA Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; ranks as a flashy member of Galt Black Hawks&hellip; now, the &ldquo;kid&rdquo; just out of junior ranks is making a tremendous name for himself in NOHA senior hockey&hellip; at this writing, McBurney has 27 goals and 18 assists, the top goalgetter on the Greyhounds&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01227/1452616-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="294" height="337"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOE KLUKAY</b></figcaption></div><p>We had the very great pleasure of meeting George McDonald, sportscaster of Radio Station CHNO in Sudbury, and Bill Kay, sportscaster of Radio Station CHOV in Pembroke when they accompanied their home teams to our bailiwick to look things over and make plans to broadcast playoff games away from home&hellip; George calls Sudbury to win the league championship over the Soo Greyhounds&hellip; Bill feels an interlocking schedule with the OHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit would do a great deal to increase the scope of interest in senior hockey all through the North&hellip; both George and Bill made a great many friends on their visit up here&hellip; both very fine sportscasters and radio personalities&hellip;</p><p>Emile Dagenais is the latest outstanding NOHA senior star to run into the injury jinx&hellip; suffering a knee injury in a game against Sudbury, Emile has been forced out of action&hellip; at this writing it is doubtful whether he can return much before the playoffs&hellip; he had 20 goals and 22 assists when forced out, and no hockey team in a tight playoff fight can afford to lose players of that calibre&hellip; All through Northern Ontario people are talking about the great number of youngsters who appear headed for the big-time&hellip; the latest boy to attract the spotlight is young Paul Lapointe of Noranda Lions&hellip; he fired two goals within 10 seconds and turned the &ldquo;hat-trick&rdquo;&hellip; Paul has been drawing rave notices all season&hellip; keep It up, boy!&hellip;</p><p>Watch out for the Gold Belt along the Allan Cup Trail!&hellip; that&rsquo;s the warning hockey fans are sending out as the time draws near for that well-known, incurable &ldquo;hockey fever&rdquo;&hellip; South Porcupine Porkies clinched second-place In the Porcupine Senior Hockey League and with Abitlbi Eskimos a dangerous threat, along with Kirkland Lake Techs, the Southern Division teams better not count their chickens before they&rsquo;re hatched as far asthe All-Ontario finals are concerned&hellip; Ray Marshall and Kenny Joy have been going great for Kirkland Lake lately, while well-known stars such as Bobby McNeil, Kenny Trevenna, Eddie Kulik and Larry McKay are picking up steam for the Porkies&hellip; remember that rugged series between North Bay and the Porkies a few years back?&hellip; whatta battle that was!!&hellip; and the Soo Greyhounds will remember Gold Belt teams for a long time &hellip; all in all, a terrific battle for the Northern Ontario senior title is looming&hellip; the North has to have a champion ready for the OHA winner by March 27&hellip;</p><p>Joe Klukay, one of the finest hwkey players ever developed in Northern Ontario, is receiving a lot of praise from hockey fans all over the great Northland for his tremendous performance with Boston Bruins this season&hellip; sometimes Joe is overlooked when glittering stars hog the spotlight, but when you come right down to brass tacks, Klukay is one of the soundest players In the bigtime today&hellip; we enjoyed reading in Ken McKenzie&rsquo;s column (nice plug, eh Boss?) that he considered Klukay one of the most underrated players in the NHL&hellip; Klukay Is also quite a ball player having turned-ln many sound baseball games In the outfield around these parts&hellip; Hockey fans in Northern Ontario are still talking about that outstanding feature article about Marty Pavellch which appeared In Sport Magazine&hellip; the color pic on Marty was the finest we have ever seen&hellip; still another tribute to a fine Northern Ontario product&hellip;</p><p>A letter came in from Robert Hamlyn, 5 Smith Avenue, St. John&rsquo;s, Nfld&hellip; Robert wants to know the whereabouts of former hockey stars, Jack Portland, Charlie MacDonald, Len Halderson, &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Jones, Wingy Johnston, Charlie Mason, Norm Larson, Lionel Hitchman, Pete Leswlck, Tony Llcari, Thain Simon, Gordon Reid, Red Beattie, Jack Shill, Art Duncan and Wally Stanowski&hellip; writes Robert: &ldquo;I am very anxious to contact any of these players; please help!&rdquo;&hellip; will any of the players mentioned please get in touch with Robert as soon as possible&hellip; and If any of you fans know the whereabouts of the players please write Bob direct, or let me know (write Box 175, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) so I can pass on the information to him at St. John&rsquo;s, Nfld.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-01

NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>Playoff time is just around the corner in the International Hockey League, with the first five clubs in the standings virtually assured of berths in the post-season classic.</p><p>Still very much in doubt is the sixth, and final playoff spot, which Is featuring a hard-fought battle between Troy&rsquo;s Bruins and Ft. Wayne&rsquo;s Komets. Louiseville, too, has an Outside chance to sneak in. Cincinnati has taken a 16-point stranglehold on first place, ahead of runner-up Marion. Johnstown and Toledo share third, with Grand Rapids fifth, Troy sixth by a single point over Ft. Wayne, Louisville eighth and Milwaukee&rsquo;s improved outfit last.</p><p>Actually, the. way matters stand right now, second, third and fourth places are just about as much in doubt as sixth and seventh.</p><p>Only three points separate Marion, Johnstown and Toledo, with the Pennsylvania Jets slightly favored to finish in front of the other two because of the fact that they have played five fewer games than their two closest foes.</p><p>Among the most interesting recent developments in the International League has been the wholesale switch of goalies. Johnstown got Dan Simmons from Galt and sent Claude Roy to Milwaukee to replace Bob Arniel. Simmons proceeded to mark up two successive shutouts, against Grand Rapids and Toledo.</p><p>Then, Troy and Louisville exchanged net-minders, with Al Bennett going from the Stars to the Bruins and Julian Klymkiw reversing that procedure. Even Cincinnati got into the act, when Paul Bibeault, who serves as ticket manager at Cincinnati Garden, was called on to fill in for Charlie Hodge, the league&rsquo;s No. 1 shutout artist. Hodge went to Buffalo of the American League as a replacement for Jacques Plante, summoned to Montreal to substitute for the injured Gerry McNeil.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02193/1452647-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="317" height="328"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>To Stars</b></p><p><b>Julian Klymkiw</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Grand Rapids and Ft. Wayne right now are standing pat with the goalies, Doug Coxon and Ivan Walmsley, respectevely, but both, clubs are said to be interested in strengthening themselves betweenthe pipes. No goal-tending changes are in sight at Cincinnati; Toledo, where Bill Tibbs holds forth, and Marion, where Lou Crowdis is well-liked.</p><p>There were an unusually high number of shutouts during the week&mdash;three&mdash;with Simmons getting credit for two and Hodge for one, over Milwaukee. Hodge, who now tops the league with eight whitewashings for a new IHL record, had three shutouts in a six-day period and yielded only one goal in four contests.</p><p>He blanked Grand Rapids, 7-0, and Ft. Wayne, 5-0, before stopping Louisville, 9-1, and Milwaukee, 4-0.</p><p>With an eye to the playoffs, Toledo added two young forwards to its roster, Vai Walker and Archie Richardson from Smith Falls. The move paid off immediately, as Walker fired the hat trick to pace Toledo to a onesided 10-1 conquest of Milwaukee.</p><p>Cincinnati continues to make a runaway of the IHL race that was so close for most of the first half. Undefeated in their last 10 starts, the high-flying Hawks have equaled two club records In registering nine straight victories and 13 in a row on their home rink. On the entire season, the Mohawks have 27 out of 30 at home. Coach Roly McLenahan, a defenseman, became the ninth member of the team to score 20 or more goals when he poked in No. 20 against Louisville. Three Cincinnati players, Art Rose, Willie Pawchuk and Connie Broden, already in are the 30-goal class.</p><p>Troy, fighting it out with Ft. Wayne for sixth place, finally ended a seven-game losing streak by beating hapless Louisville, 4-1. The Bruins, who had fallen a point behind Ft. Wayne the previous night by losing, 5-3, to the Komets, regained sixth with the victory the next day.</p><p>Dick Pontarollo maintained his role of scoring leader in the IHL by becoming the first skater to surpass the 90-point mark. His linemates, Roy Hammond and John Kovich, also are near the tope as Don Hall and Arnie Schmautz of Johnstown, Ken Schultz of Marion, Billy Goold and Kenny Biggs of Cincinnati and George Hayes of Grand Rapids.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-02

Komets And Bruins Fight It Out For Last Playoff Berth In IHL

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>n old pro with many years of service in the American Hockey League behind him is one of the leading contenders for &ldquo;coach of the year&rdquo; honors in Saskatchewan hockey.</p><p>Wilf Field, former A.H.L. defenceman, has taken a Yorkton senior hockey outfit that could win only five games last season and lifted them into a playoff spot In the Saskatchewan Senior League. To do that, Field had to survive a shaky start last fall in which his club all but fell out of the bottom of the league.</p><p>Yorkton dropped 10 of their first 14 games. They are the only club in the four-team circuit which still lacks artificial Ice and they had no place to practice in the mild weather last fall. But once they worked themselves Into condition, thpre was no holding them.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re setting our sights on second place&rdquo;, exclaimed Fiejd the night they overtook the thirdplace Regina Caps, the defending champions. To reach second-place, they&rsquo;ll have to beat out the speedy Melville Millionaires. No matter what the outcome of that battle 1b, Yorkton will still meet Melville in the best-of-seven semifinal series. The winner will then take on league-leading Moose Jaw in the final.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03151/1452678-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="313" height="319"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Rugged Season</b></p><p><b>GARTH BOESCH</b></p></figcaption></div><h2><b>Home Crews</b></h2><p>In moulding his team, coach Field didn&rsquo;t have as many highly-rated performers as the other clubs. A native cf Winnipeg, he brought such &lsquo;Peg hockey products as defenceman Ron Heindl and forward Alf Lewsey with him to Yorkton. But there &ldquo;was still a large homegrown flavor to the Yorkton lineup.</p><p>He was fortunate In having forwards Stan Obodiac and Vic Kreklewetz stay home to do their puck-chasing this winter after a year overseas. Both Yorkton boys, Obodiac coached a hockey team on the continent last year while Krekly played in England.</p><p>Goalie Red McPhedran, picked up from Melville; veteran rearguard Shiner Chernoff, and forwards Bill Yanchuk and Jackie Shave were holdovers from last year&rsquo;s cellar-dwelling squad.</p><p>On February 13th, Yorkton cracked their biggest jinx when they finally turned in a victory over the leading Moose Jaw Millers, 8-5. Twice they bowed to the Millers in heart-breaking overtime thrillers and on another occasion they blew a two-goal lead in the third period to lose 6-5.</p><p>Championships are old stuff to Field, now in his first term at the helm of the Terriers. &lsquo;Way back in 193 5 he held down a defence post for coach Harry Neil&rsquo;s Winnipeg Monarchs as they captured the Memorial Cup, emblematic of Canadian junior supremacy. From there Field went on to star in minor pro company while a younger brother, Harvey, carried on with the Monarchs. The younger Field was a member of the 1937 Monarch team which wonthe Memorial Cup for the second time in three years.</p><p>Saddest plight in Saskatchewan senior hockey this winter has been that of the Regina Caps. From provincial champions and western Allan Cup semi-finalists one year ago, they dropped to the bottom of the pack this season. From January 6th through to the third week in February, they didn&rsquo;t win a game, dropping 13 in a row.</p><p>It was a rugged season all round for former Toronto Maple Leaf defenceman Garth Boesch, who is making his bow in coaching ranks. The Caps figured to do better but injuries left them badly crippled.</p><div class="sidebar"><p>The Toronto Maple Leafs use BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

f0017-03

Field Leads Yorkton Terriers To Saskatchewan Sr. Playoffs

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>There was a big hue and cry around Alberta and Saskachewan when the playoff arrangements were finally announced for the Western Canada Junior League.</p><p>For the first time in their history, league moguls decided to let all six teams compete in the playoffs. This meant that even the lowly Calgary Buffaloes, with a mark of only three wins against 33 defeats in 36 league games, were given a chance to compete for the league title. And to add Insult to injury, they were drawn against the first-place Edmonton Oil Kings in the first round.</p><p>Edmonton&rsquo;s record is just the reverse of Calgary&rsquo;s&mdash;33 victories against only three defeats.</p><p>Most observers (even those from Calgary) felt that the Calgary juniors didn&rsquo;t deserve to be in the playoffs. But league moguls went ahead with their plan and pitted Calgary against Edmonton in a best-of-nine series. They are. worried up in Edmonton because they fear the series won&rsquo;t draw peanuts.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01234/1452709-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="276" height="397"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Strategist</b></p><p><b>SCOTTY MUNRO</b></p></figcaption></div><h2><b>Canucks vs Pats</b></h2><p>Meanwhile, there was no complaint about the other two rounds. Moose Jaw Canucks will clash with Regina Pats, while Lethbridge Native Sons play Medicine Hat Tigers. The winners will then clash to earn the right to play Edmonton (natcherly) in the league final.</p><p>Actually. all three pairings were decided on a basis of geographical proximity. The circuit is a far-flung one. covering the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. and the long jaunts on the road eat into club treasuries. In the three pairings being followed. there is only a short jump between cities.</p><p>Regins Pats, who finished second in the final standing, will be favored to take out Ab McDougall&rsquo;s Canucks,.&rsquo;nd ditto Lethbridge over Medicine Hat. The best b&rdquo;t for the eventual finalists are co eh Murray Armstrong&rsquo;s Pats to go against Edmonton.</p><p>Edmonton&rsquo;s three losses came at the hands of Regina. Moose Jaw and Calgary (of all terms). And Moose Jaw planned the setback on the Oil Kings right in Edmonton.</p><p>In the Northern Saskatchewan Junior league, they were also let tin&rdquo; all four teams in the playoffs. But there was no opposition there as this is an old custom. Prince Albert Mintos and Flin Flon Bombers are battling it out for first place.</p><p>One of the brightest prospects In tile northern loop is Lionel Henrich of the Humboldt Indians. Originally a defenseman, Henrich was moved up to left, wing by coach Scotty Munro when he started potting a flock of goals. Now in his last year of junior. Henrich belongs to fie Boston Bruins.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-01

All Six Teams To Compete In WCJL Playoffs

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Toronto Marlboros and Barrie Flyers manage to convey the impression that they are bitter enemies most of the time but, in moments of adversity, they seldom hesitate to help out each other. Between periods of name-calling they can be right neighborly.</p><p>For instance Hap Emms, the misunderstood coach of the Flyers, would do anything for Staff Smythe, Marlboro&rsquo;s manager, except play hockey in Toronto on a Sunday.</p><p>Emms, It is understood, has a tatooed note on his underwear advising all and sundry that if he, heaven forbid, should collapse in Toronto on a Sunday his body is to be immediately transported to the nearest border. Emms, who will probably live to be 105, would not even be found dead in Toronto on a Sunday.</p><p>But there are times when Emms calls on his Toronto adversaries for assistance. Surprisingly enough his entreaties are seldom refused which might be a tip to hockey fans not to take these supposed feuds too seriously.</p><p>Recently Emms was far up Shinny creek without a paddle. His goalie, Jack Spencer, had stopped a puck with his forehead and suffered a fractured skull. The injury was sufficiently serious to keep Spencer out of action for this season. That left Emms without an experienced goal-keeper to complete the schedule.</p><p>Realizing his dilemma he applied to the nearest aid &ldquo;station which happened to be Marlboros. Another junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; manager remarked several months back that you have to go to Marlboros when you need help because &ldquo;they have all the players.&rdquo;</p><p>Staff Smythe, with appropriate grumbling of course, looked through his larder, and offered Emms his Weston Duke&rsquo;s goalie, Doug Hardy, a 13 2-pound stripling who helped the Dukes win a provincial championship last season in junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; ranks.</p><p>Emms, who always pretends he knows nothing about a player&rsquo;s record although he could probably tell you confidentially how many fillings the particular player has in his biscupids, accepted Hardy with alacrity.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02158/1452740-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="261" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Tatooed Note</b></p><p><b>HAPPY EMMS</b></p></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s only a little guy,&rdquo; remarked Emms. &ldquo;But if he can help us get in the playoffs I won&rsquo;t care.&rdquo; Emms, incidentally, won previous championships with pintsized netmindefs like Gil Mayer, Lome Howes and Merve Edwards.</p><p>Officiating in the OHA, junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; loop has been panned, as usual, this season which is not a barometer any more of good or bad refereeing but merely that people are attending hockey games. And since cash customers</p><p>are almost extinct in some places their opinions on referees, politics or sex are usually given wide circulation.</p><p>But the referees have one staunch supporter in Pat Patterson, the personality man who happens to be referee-in-chief of the OHA. Pat, a veteran arbiter himself, would have you believe that every referee arrives and departs in each rink with a built-in halo.</p><p>&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t seen anything wrong with the refereeing this year,&rdquo; Pat observed recently. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s not too many good referees coming along but there&rsquo;s nothing wrong with those doing the job now. All they need is a boost. They&rsquo;re still calling them as they see them.&rdquo;</p><p>Patterson, who showed signs of eloquence even when he was a referee, had an explanation for the scarcity of referees being developed in minor ranks.</p><p>&ldquo;Nobody wants, to be a referee,&rdquo; he related sadly. &ldquo;Can you blame them ? Every time you pick up a newspaper you read where somebody is criticizing them. There are too many newspapermen who know little about the rules who are willing to pick a referee to pieces every time their team loses.&rdquo;</p><p>Patterson also had a word for the club heads. &ldquo;First they break into print and tell everybody that the referees should crack down.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;As soon as the referees start calling all the penalties they begin to moan that they are spoiling hockey. You just can&rsquo;t please them.&rdquo;.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-02

Flyers Get Hardy From Marlboros To Replace Injured Jack Spencer

<div class="byline">By CHUCK ROUNTREE</div><p>VERDUN, Que.&mdash;</p><p>It&rsquo;s official now.</p><p>Verdun Canadiens are pennant winners in the Quebec Junior Hockey League for the third straight season.</p><p>The Habs nailed down the flag by dumping the Quebec Frontenacs 5-3 at the Verdun Auditorium, the fourth first place finish tor the team In the last five seasons.</p><p>Coach Sam Pollock was prettypleased after the game.</p><p>&ldquo;The pressure&rsquo;s off,&rdquo; said the usually pessimistic Pollock. &ldquo;We have 12 more games before the playoffs come along and I&rsquo;m going to use them to find out just what some of my junior B&rsquo;s can do. We may need some reserve strength come playoff time.&rdquo;</p><p>Big gun for the Baby Habs in the pennant wrap-up was Henri (Pocket Rocket) Richard, who scored a three goal &lsquo;hat-trick,&rsquo; his 48th, 49th and 50th goals of the season. Coupled with his 51 assists, it gives the Rocket&rsquo;s kid brother 101 points for the campaign thus far and virtually assures his winning the scoring derby.</p><p>The next day the Canadiens left for their second tour of Ontario, a junket that was to take in Barrie, Galt, and St. Catherines.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03102/1452771-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="298" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>50 Goals</b></p><p><b>HENRI RICHARD</b></p></figcaption></div><p>This tour was expected to give Sad Sam some inkling as to his chances in the Memorial Cup playdowns, especially the game against the St. Catherines Teepees, whom the Habs hadri&rsquo;t met previous to their departure.</p><p>One point that was sure to prove of interest to junior hockey fans was the clash, between the two &lsquo;Big&rsquo; lines of Quebec-Ontario junior hockey. The Teepees&rsquo; terrific threesome of Brian CulleuBarry Cullen-Hugh Barlow was to be matched against the Habs&rsquo; torrid trio of Henri Richard-Claude Vinet-Claude Provost.</p><p>Unlike the Teeps however, the Canadiens scoring strength isn&rsquo;t confined to one line. The second line of Phil Goyette, the team captain, Andre Pronovost and Denis Boucher rank right behind the Richard unit in total scoring.</p><p>So spread out is the Hab scoring in fact, and so potent is it as well, that the first six rungs on the QJHL scoring ladder are occupied by members of the Pollock Powerhouse.</p><p>When the playoffs in their own league do roll around, the Hab will be overwhelming favorites to represent the QJHL In the Memorial Cup hunt.</p><p>They have suffered only three defeats against teams of the Quebec circuit, once each by Quebec Frontenacs, Three Rivers Reds, and the lowly Montreal Royals, who pulled an upset earlier in the season. Their other two losses came at the hands of the C.uelph Biltmores and Kitchener Greenshirts on their last swing through Ontario. They also have one tie marked in their record, that a 2-2 stalemate against the Frontenacs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-03

Baby Habs Have Enviable Record; Four Flags In Last Five Seasons

<div class="byline">By DAWSON WINCHESTER</div><p>FREDERICTON, N. B.&mdash;</p><p>There were a couple of surprises, but for the most part the selections for the All-Star &ldquo;dream team&rdquo; of the New Brunswick Senior Hockey League were the ones expected by Mr. Joe Fan.</p><p>The Saint John Beavers and Fredericton Capitals, who came under the wire in a dead heat with 2 6 wins, 18 losses and four ties for identical 56 point totals after the completion of the 4 8 game season schedule, placed five men in the six slots alloted the All-Star squad.</p><p>For the record, here&rsquo;s how the final league standings read: Beavers copped first place by dumping the Caps 6-0 in a sudden-death playoff for the &ldquo;top rung&rdquo; of the ladder; Caps were the runners-up; Amherst Meteors finished third and the cellardwellers were the Moncton Flyers,</p><p>Tending the twines on the mythical NBSHL &ldquo;dream sextet&rdquo; is Giles Boisvert who does his &ldquo;actual&rdquo; goal guarding for Jack Atchison&rsquo;s Amherst Meteors; the All-Star defence duo selected was Don (Buck) Rogers of the Beavers who was handed a similar honor last year and Pat Powers of the Caps who, for his outstanding work on the blueline this year was awarded the J. J. MacDonald Trophy as the loop&rsquo;s most valuable defenceman; Charlie Knox, who wears the colors of the Beavers, captured the centre position for the second consecutive year by virtue of his sparkling performance as the circuits top pointgetter&hellip; his total of 96 points was made up of 38 goals and 58 assists; another who made the All-Star tdam two Years running is hard-working Nick Nicolle of the Beavers who grabbed off the right wing position; one of the most dangerous men on the ice anytime, Bill McDonagh of the Caps, took the honors for the left wing post; coach selected to handle &ldquo;dream team&rdquo; is firey Lou Kiley, the playing-mentor of the Port City Beavers.</p><h2><b>Second Team</b></h2><p>The second or alternate team selected by writers and sportscasters in the four centres in which the NBSHL operates is as follows-: Goal, TubbyHalverson, Caps; defence, Lou Kiley, Beavers and Fred Weaver, Moncton Flyers; centre, Mike Demchuk. Flyers; right wing, Gerry Smith, Caps; left wing, Emmet Kennedy. Meteors; coach, Jim McDonald, Flyers and Joe Macintosh, Caps (tie).</p><p>The biggest surprise to come out of the All-Star selections was the fact that diminutive Doug (Crow) Hewey, who. from his left wing berth with the Beavers, fired a league-leading total of 4 2 goals and finished right up with the leaders in the point parade at the end of the season&rsquo;s regular play, failed to be picked for either the first or second All-Star squads.</p><p>The four teams in the circuit are now engaged in two best-fivein-nine semi-final series with the Saint John and Amherst outfits meeting in one matching and Fredericton and Moncton clashing in the other for the right to-continue into the NBSHL finals and then along the Allan Cup trail.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Beavers Take Top Spot In NB Senior

<h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1. Dineen</p><p>5. M.R.</p><p>7. Devon</p><p>9. Edmontons</p><p>11. Sue</p><p>12. Asst.</p><p>13. E.B.</p><p>14. Srs.</p><p>16. Leg.</p><p>18. Ea.</p><p>19. Man.</p><p>20. Day</p><p>22. Old</p><p>23. Oil</p><p>24. Use</p><p>26. G.L.</p><p>27. Walter</p><p>30. Er.</p><p>32. Third</p><p>33. U.S.A.</p><p>34. E.R.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1. Diesel</p><p>2. Nome</p><p>3. Edna</p><p>4. Nets</p><p>5. Montreal</p><p>6. R.N.</p><p>8. Voss</p><p>10. Dube</p><p>15. Sandford</p><p>17. Guyle</p><p>19. Mountie</p><p>20. Doug</p><p>21. Aisles</p><p>25. Cats</p><p>28. L.H.</p><p>29. Err</p><p>31. R.A.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Solution to Lost Week’s Puzzle

<h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE (STANDINGS ON&rsquo; FEB. 15)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03130/1452962-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="317" height="142"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04110/1452955-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="321" height="156"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN SENIOR (STANDINGS ON FEB. 14)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0593/1452948-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="318" height="68"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0677/1452941-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="321" height="223"></div><h2><b>NOHA SENIOR (STANDINGS ON FEB. 14)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0773/1452934-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="315" height="86"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0869/1452927-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="319" height="153"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR. LEAGUE (STANDINGS ON FEB. 18)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0960/1452920-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="316" height="85"></div><h2><b>WESTERN JUNIOR FINAL STANDING</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1050/1452913-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="318" height="101"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN Junior (STANDINGS ON FEB. 14)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1143/1452906-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="318" height="71"></div><h2><b>OHA JUNIOR (STANDINGS ON FEB. 15)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1239/1452899-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="317" height="126"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1333/1452892-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="318" height="312"></div><h2><b>N. B. SENIOR LEAGUE (FINAL STANDING)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1433/1452885-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="318" height="98"></div><h2><b>OKANAGAN SENIOR (STANDINGS ON FEB. 13)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1530/1452878-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="317" height="74"></div><h2><b>OHA SENIOR (STANDINGS ON FEB. 15)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1627/1452871-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="316" height="115"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1726/1452864-1-eng-US/f0019-172.jpg" title="f0019-17" width="315" height="155"></div><h2><b>N. Y. ONTARIO SENIOR (STANDINGS ON FEB. 12)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1825/1452857-1-eng-US/f0019-182.jpg" title="f0019-18" width="316" height="72"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1923/1452850-1-eng-US/f0019-192.jpg" title="f0019-19" width="320" height="153"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0019-03

Amateur Puck Parade At A Glance

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-2114/1453000-1-eng-US/f0019-212.jpg" title="f0019-21" width="314" height="581"></div><p>&ldquo;If you can dream and not make dreams your master&hellip; you&rsquo;ll be a MAN, my son.&rdquo; When you dream of the kind of Ale our fathers enjoyed, mellow, tangy, zestful and satisfying&hellip; don&rsquo;t make dreams your master. You, too, can enjoy that old-time goodness&mdash;at home or in your favourite hotel or tavern. Call for Labatt&rsquo;s* India Pale Ale and taste&hellip; taste and realize at last you have a MAN&rsquo;S drinkl John Labatt Limited.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-2213/1452993-1-eng-US/f0019-222.jpg" title="f0019-22" width="317" height="421"></div><p>*<i>The swing is <u>definitely</u> to</i>&nbsp;<b>LABATT&rsquo;S</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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February 27, 1954

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