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March 20, 1954

The Hockey News March 20, 1954

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Verdun Canadiens and Quebec Frontenacs are sure bets to meet in the finals of the Quebec Junior Hockey League playoffs.</p><p>Each team has taken a commanding 3-0 lead in games in their best of-seven semi-final series.</p><p>The Baby Habs have disposed of the third-place-finishing Three Rivers Reds in their three meetings to date, two in Montreal and the other in Three Rivers. In the third contest, the Habs piled up an 11-1 count as defenseman Bob McCord pumped home four goals and Henri (Pocket Rocket) Richard a pair.</p><p>Frontenacs too have had little trouble with the fourth-place Montreal Royals and have shown that they will be plenty hard for the pennant-winning Habs to handle in the finals. They took their most recent game form the Regals by a 5-3 count as Richard Bouchard connected for four of the tallies, Stan Parker getting the other.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IN THIS ISSUE

Habs, Fronts Lead QJHL Series’

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-09" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0913/1045838-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg"></div><p><b>My selection for the NHL ALL-STAR left wing (names In order of preference) is as follows:</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Hockey News 1953-54

<div class="byline">By CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Despite the loss of veteran Tommy Burlington via a broken right leg, Owen Sound Mercurys continue their victory string in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA playoffs and rule odds-on favorites to eliminate Chatham Maroons in their quarter-finals, after taking the first two games of their best-of-seven series. Burlington, who finished the regular schedule with 108 points, to le the parade by 17 points over Ken Laufman of the Kitchener Dutchmen, may have a suitable replacement in Bill McComb at centre ice.</p><p>Well-stocked with reserves, something which they sadly lacked last season, especially on the defence, Mercurys have in McComb a versatile player who can perform quite capably at any of the forward positions or on the rearguard. In fact, he has done so this season, although he has been favoring a gimpy leg.</p><p>&ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Forslund, who teamed up with Burlington at left wing, may be the key figure in Owen Sound&rsquo;s drive for the title. He finished ninth among the scorers with 6 2 points, and while this pair, along with Gerry Reid, were teamed together it was the highest scoring trio in the loop.</p><p>Finishing the regular schedule in second place behind Owen Sound, Kitchener Dutchmen, reigning OHA and Allan Gun champions, are co-favorites with Mercurys to take it all. Lengthy-injuries to Clare Martin, Charlie Brooker and Maurice Levesque cramped the Dutchmen&rsquo;s style, but now that the &ldquo;Cripples&rdquo; are all back, together with Don Bauer, a late starter, they have been going along smoothly. Kitchener split its first two games with Hamilton Tigers in their best-of-five playoff series, but are considered to have too much power and defensive strength for the Bengal veterans.</p><p>One of the key figures in the Dutchmen&rsquo;s championship hopes is Ken Laufman, ironically enough a Hamilton native, who finished out his junior hockey career with Guelph Biltmores, and later centered an Ottawa Senator front-line trio in the Quebec Senior League. Laufman was second high in the league&rsquo;s scoring race, and before that was always a prolific scorer and classy playmaker.</p><p>The third bracket of the first-round playoffs shapes up right now like a fifty-fifty proposition between Windsor Bulldogs and Stratford Indians, with the former conceded the edge, because they earned the right to the odd game of the best-of-five series, which may go the limit, because they finished higher than the Indians in the regular schedule.</p><p>In two games to date, Stratford won the first 9-2 on home ice and two days later Windsor chalked up a 7-3 victory. A reversal of form like that protends that anything can happen.</p><p>Bulldogs definitely have the bulge in experience and have been capitalizing on costly penalties to the Indians all season, and with their well-executed power play that could be a determining factor.</p><p>In Don Head, goal; Ron Ingram, defence, and Lou Bendo, Bob Mader, Ted Pletsch and Gerry Price, forwards, Stratford has six players who graduated from junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; ranks this season. This sextette has not weakened the Indians any, and while they lack the experience of their older opponents, one factor in their favor is their youth and skating legs.</p><h2>Key Figure</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0432/1047005-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="592" height="612"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BUCK FORSLUND</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Mercurys and Dutchmen Favored To Clash In OHA Senior Finals

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio.&mdash;</p><p>Even though the end of the international Hockey League season is just about here, there still are a few important questions to be decided.</p><p>Actually, the only club that knows exactly where it will finish s the Cincinnati entry, which elinched its second straight championship some time ago.</p><p>The other five playoff berths are very much in doubt although Marion, Johnstown and Toledo are assured of gaining spots in the post-season extravaganza.</p><p>This threesome currently is fighting it out for second, third and fourth, with Marion a good bet for the runner-up position, johnstown for third and Toledo for fourth.,</p><p>The biggest struggle involves fifth and sixth, the final two playoff spots. Ft. Wayne, Grand Rapids and Troy are waging a neck-and-neck battle, with the issue right now looming as a great, big questionmark.</p><p>The Komets of Ft. Wayne apparently are almost &ldquo;in,&rdquo; as they have taken nine out of their 11 most recent starts to move from a bad seventh up to fifth. Only two Ft. Wayne losses came at the hands of Cincinnati.</p><h2>Two Games In Hand</h2><p>Grand Rapids, although it currently is in sixth, faces a tough battle from Troy before it makes the grade. Troy has two games in hand on Grand Rapids, which is a slim two points in front of the Bruins. Moreover, the two clubs will come to grips once more in an all-important fracas in Troy&rsquo;s Hobart Arena.</p><p>It fell to Toledo&rsquo;s unpdedictable Mercurys to put a halt to Cincinnati&rsquo;s record-breaking winning streak, after it had reached the amazing total of 15 in a row. A goal by Rookie Val Walker was all that All-Star Merc net-minder Bill Tibbs needed as the northern Ohioans prevailed, 1-0.</p><p>That shutout was the first of the campaign scored against the powerful Cincinnati outfit and only the second in 122 games in IHL competition over a two-year period. Guy LeClerc, then of Troy, had the other in January, 1953. It was Tibbs&rsquo; seventh whitewash job, leaving him two behind Charlie Hodge of the Mohawks in that department.</p><p>With a great deal of importance attached to almost every game in the waning days of the season, Johnstown&rsquo;s Arnie Schmautz was credited with the greatest individual spree of the year, as he unloaded no fewer than five goals in the Jets&rsquo; 9-3 conquest of Grand Rapids. In establishing a new one-game mark at Johnstown, Schmautz waited until the third period to tally four of his markers, soloing in for three against Goalie Julian Klymkiw of the Rockets.</p><p>Troy&rsquo;s Red McBiroy, formerly of Milwaukee, was another standout, as he fired home two overtime goals to salvage the Bruins a 6-6 standoff with the Chiefs. McElroy&rsquo;s second marker came with just six seconds left in the extra period.</p><p>They just don&rsquo;t seem to be able to stop Marion&rsquo;s Gordon Vejprava in the IHL. Vejprava poked in his fifty-second and fifty-third markers of the season to spearhead the Barons to a key 2-1 triumph over Johnstown.</p><p>Don Hall of the Pennsylvania Jets passed the century mark in points scored to cement his IHL scoring lead over Dick Pontarollo of Toledo. Other front-runners are Ken Schultz and Vejprava of Marion, Billy Goold and Kenny Biggs of Cincinnati, Roy Hammond of Toledo, Schmautz, George Edwards of Troy and George Hayes of Grand Rapids.</p><h2>In Top Ten</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0282/1046881-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="573" height="601"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GEORGE EDWARDS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Cincinnati Win Streak Broken With Shutout Loss To Toledo

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0148/1047306-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NO GOAL FOR GORDIE</b>&mdash;Gordie Howe, the National Hockey League&rsquo;s top point maker, didn&rsquo;t manage to score on this play, as Harry Lumley of the Toronto Maple Leafs deflected his shot into the corner. Looking on are rival centres Tod Sloan of the Leafs and Alex Delvecchio of the Wings. <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Turofsky)</span></figcaption></div><h2>How To Stop Howe<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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NHL “Have Nots” To Have

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>If Terry Sawchuk of Detroit and Harry Lumley of Toronto finish the regular 70-game NHL schedule with the same goals-against average, it&rsquo;s going to cost the National Hockey League an extra G-note, regardless of which goal-keeper has played the most number of games.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0236/1047358-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="282" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Lumley</b></figcaption></div><p>Last week, president Clarence Campbell was asked what would happen if this oddity occured, and he said that there was no provision in the NHL awards constitution. &ldquo;But,&rdquo; said the president, &ldquo;now&rsquo;s the time to do something about It.&rdquo;</p><p>It was decided that if they did finish in a tie the obvious next step of figuring out which goalie played the most number of games would be discarded. &ldquo;It wouldn&rsquo;t be fair,&rdquo; said Campbell. He was referring to the three games missed by Sawchuk through injuries and the one game that Lumley sat out while Gil Mayer subbed for him. Both have played terrific hockey for their clubs this year. Lumley has never won the Vezina nor has he been named to an All-Star team. Sawchuk has taken the Vezina award twice (losing out to Rollins once by a goal) and has been named to three All-Star teams.</p><p>Lumley has three games remaining while Sawchuk has four more to play.</p><p>Lum faces the Montreal Canadiens, highest scoring team in the league, as does Sawchuk. The Toronto netminder will also be called upon to repel the thrusts of Detroit and Rangers, while Sawchuk faces the Bruins twice.</p><p>Then there&rsquo;s the last game of the season for each club. Who do they oppose? Each other! That could be the deciding game and each goaler will be shooting his best with $1,000 going to the winner.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0319/1047351-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="283" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Sawchuk</b></figcaption></div><p>Although this is his tenth season in the big time, Lumley has yet to win the coveted award. One time he lost out on the last day of the season when he was with the Wings and Turk Broda with the Leafs.</p><p>This time, he hopes, the luck will favor him.</p><h2>Lumley&rsquo;s Record</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0411/1047344-1-eng-US/cover-042.jpg" title="Cover-04" width="1004" height="270"></div><h2>Sawchuk&rsquo;s Record</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-054/1047337-1-eng-US/cover-052.jpg" title="Cover-05" width="984" height="272"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Lum And Terry Making Merry In Torrid Scramble For Vezina

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIB</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Hockey&rsquo;s &ldquo;New Deal&rdquo; is now a fact.</p><p>At its regular Spring playoff meeting the National Hockey League Governors passed the necessary By-Law amendments to put into effect the plana which have been formulated throughout the past four years with the objective of making playing talent available to any club requiring it at a reasonable price.</p><p>Stripped of the legal phraesology here is how it works:</p><p>On August 31 all NHL clubs will declare their Protected Lists consisting of not more than 1$ players and two goalkeepers. Clubs will have about 10 days in which to study the lists and on &ldquo;D for Draft Day&rdquo; every hockey player in the world over Junior age (20 years) not on those Protected Lists may be claimed for $15,000 by other clubs in a fixed order of priority starting with the lowest club.</p><p>Now how will this work out?</p><p>Chicago, New York and Boston, the three National Hockey League clubs commonly referred to as the &ldquo;have nots&rdquo; are bound to benefit from this new deal.</p><p>The main purpose of this draft is to insure continuous availability of talent for the NHL and to prevent this talent from being hidden or buried in the minor leagues. The draft will eliminate all practices which retard the advancement of a player to the calibre of hockey his skill warrants.</p><p>Before the six National League clubs submit their list of 18 protected players on August 31 considerable trading and selling is expected to have taken place. The summer of &lsquo;54 should be the most lively in the history of the league.</p><p>It&rsquo;s a certainty that the three strong clubs, the &ldquo;haves&rdquo; of Detroit, Toronto and Montreal will not sell or trade any players to one of their closest rivals. What they will do, however, is release their surplus material to weaker clubs. They will make all the deals possible with the &ldquo;have nots&rdquo; before &ldquo;D Day&rdquo; actually takes place during the second week of September.</p><p>Let&rsquo;s take the sixth-place Chicago Black Hawks as an example. Detroit, Toronto and Montreal would far rather do business with the hapless Hawks than they would among themselves. The Hawks will have the opportunity to buy players from the three top teams as it is obvious that these teams cannot protect all their good talent. Chicago will also have many spaces to fill up on their protected list as it would be mighty tough to find 18 players worth protecting among the current Chicago crew.</p><p>The Hawks will land the players they have the chance as it may not always be possible to get the players required at the draft. The time to buy is when the pressure is on the &ldquo;haves&rdquo; who are busy trying to unload their surplus material. Chicago will have two out of the first three choices on Draft Day. It is worth money to them to have the first choice and the more players they can buy during the summer the better position it leaves them in when they attend the draft meeting.</p><p>Both Chicago and Rangers will have two picks of the best talent available before the other clubs get one. The method of drafting will be as follows: 6-5-6-5-4-3-2-1. Detroit will get the eighth choice. The drafting will continue just as long as any club is still anxious to obtain a player. The draft price of $15,000 is cheap for an experienced major leaguer. That&rsquo;s another reason why the &ldquo;haves&rdquo; will sell as many of their on-the-fringe players as possible during the summer. Depending on their business sense and bargaining power they may be able to collect more than $15,000 from the Hawks, Rangers and Bruins for a player.</p><p>All amateur players on A and B agreements not signed to a contract, or a C form on the club&rsquo;s negotiation list will be automatically released on August 1. These players who are ready for &ldquo;immediate professional purposes&rdquo; can be signed up by any pro teams. The minor pro teams should reap a harvest from this arrangement. It won&rsquo;t cost them a cent for these players providing of course they plan to turn them pro immediately. This will pry many players loose from the NHL clubs and spread the wealth around.</p><p>Players under the age of 20 cannot be touched by anyone. These players are automatically protected. No sponsored junior clubs have to sign players anymore other than their regular CAHA form. This means that the salaries paid to junior players will likely be brought down to a sensible figure. National Hockey League clubs won&rsquo;t have to bid against each other for these players on sponsored clubs in future.</p><p>Once a player Is drafted by a National Hockey Leaugue team at the meeting in September that team must keep the player for the complete season. He cannot be sold or loaned to clubs in the minor league unless all clubs waive on him at the original price of $15,000. The price is high enough to ensure that the claim Is bona fide but if the club claiming finds that the player isn&rsquo;t of NHL quality it not only will have suffered a financial loss but will have wasted a draft choice besides, that is why good hockey savvy in assessing the skill of both present and prospective players is so important.</p><p>There is no drafting after the one-day session until the next year. All claims must be made on that one day. After that clubs can sill buy players from the Reserve Lists of other clubs other than the protected 18 on any terms mutually agreeable. Or else they may pick up some of the players on the Reserve Lists at the waiver price of $7,500 when said players are offered throughout the season.</p><p>It costs $15,000 to draft a player from the National or American Hockey Leagues, and it costs $10,000 to draft a player from the Western or Qubec Hockey Leagues.</p><p>National League teams will still be able to bring amateur players up for three-game tryouts. But if they bring up minor professional league players this will mean sidelining one or more of the 18 protected players.</p><p>What happens to the sidelined players? Well, they could be waived out of the league and sent to the minors. That would mean that no other NHL club would want them at $15,000, and of course that would mean a minor league salary. If the player is sidelined for indifferent play the club has two choices. To ask waivers and run the risk of losing the player or it may suspend the player for indifferent play and the player will receive no remuneration. Clubs have the power to do this now but it is seldom enforced as it is easier to send the player on loan to a minor league club.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

New Hockey Deal Made to Bolster Loop’s Weak Clubs

<p>TORONTO&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen Harry Lumley racked up his 13th shutout of the season against the Montreal Canadiens in Montreal on March 11, he became the new holder of the Toronto shutout record.</p><p>His total of 13 eclipsed by one the mark originally held by the late Lorne Chabot who had 12 whitewash jobs during the 1928-29 season.</p><p>Also, it marked the second best record ever compiled in the NHL, and tied with the one hung up by John Ross Roach in 1931. The records for shutouts in NHL play belongs to George Hainsworth to racked up the almost unbelievable total of 22 in 44 games back in 1927.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Harry Lumley Betters Mark For Shutouts

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>For every hockey player who eventually reaches the National League, there are hundreds who fall short of the goal.</p><p>Today those legions have a new hero in Keith Allen, a 30-year-old veteran who is living a true Cinderella story with Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Every man who has hung up his skates with regrets about never reaching the big-time can&rsquo;t help but find some comfort out of Allen&rsquo;s million-to-one shot.</p><p>Since 1942&mdash;11 seasons ago&mdash;Allen toiled in the minors. All the time was spent in the American League, at Buffalo, Springfield and Syracuse, except for three years in the Canadian Navy.</p><p>At first he had hopes that he&rsquo;d he grabbed off by an NHL outfit and get his big chance.</p><p>&ldquo;It Just never seemed to happen,&rdquo; Allen reminisced as he sat in the Detroit clubroom fingering a Red Wing Jersey. &ldquo;As the years went by I became resigned to the tact that I never was going to make it.</p><p>***</p><h2>Don&rsquo;t Kid Yourself</h2><p>&ldquo;Oh, I realize I should say that I still thought my turn would come. But when you get this old, you don&rsquo;t kid yourself any longer.&rdquo;</p><p>It was a strange series of events which led to Allen&rsquo;s break, including a rebellion against Eddie Shore and then &ldquo;retirement&rdquo; from hockey &ldquo;for good&rdquo;.</p><p>For the past three years Allen had been captain and defenseman for Shore&rsquo;s club at Syracuse. Came the day in February when Shore decided to make a wholesale shift of nine players to Springfield, of the Quebec League, and Allen refused to go through with it.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t want any part of that deal,&rdquo; he commented. &ldquo;I packed my wife and the baby (a 10-month-old son) into the car and we drove to Saskatoon.</p><p>&ldquo;I realized that it would be the end of hockey for me, that I was all through.&rdquo;</p><p>***</p><h2>Suspended</h2><p>Shore promptly suspended Allen and three other rebels. Word of this drifted back to the Red Wing headquarters and it was recalled when an emergency developed in the farm system. Jake Forbes, playing coach at Sherbrooke, of the QHL, was injured and a replacement badly needed.</p><p>A phone call from Jack Adams to Shore swung the deal. Johnny Mitchell, Detroit&rsquo;s chief scout, located Allen in Saskatoon by telephone and gave him the news.</p><p>&ldquo;Detroit has bought your contract and we want you to go to Sherbrooke,&rdquo; Mitchell told him.</p><p>Allen caught the first plane to Montreal, bussed to Sherbrooke and played three games before getting another phone call. This time it was Ivah Dugre, who had taken over as Sherbrooke coach, with a message that he had been recalled by Detroit and was to report at once.</p><p>&ldquo;I thought he was kidding me&mdash;what else could I think,&rdquo; Allen laughed.</p><p>It was no gag. Marcel Pronovost had been lost to the Detroit defense for the rest of the season with a displaced vertebra and Adams wanted a defenseman. Allen was picked because he had &ldquo;experience and a reputation for steadiness&rdquo;.</p><p>Actually he was slated for duty as the fifth defenseman, which on the Detroit club means mighty little action. Allen didn&rsquo;t care about that when he checked in. The big point was that he finally had made the NHL, even if it meant sitting out every game on the bench.</p><p>&ldquo;I often wondered what the feeling would be like to skate out for an NHL game,&rdquo; he remarked after his initial test against Toronto. &ldquo;I guess it was no different than if I was just a 19-year-old amateur&mdash;a terrific thrill.&rdquo;</p><p>But Allen wasn&rsquo;t slated for bench duty. In the first period of the Maple Leaf encounter All Star Red Kelly was hurt and Allen was pushed into full-time service. He teamed with Bob Goldham and quickly proved that he wasn&rsquo;t out of place in the big leagues.</p><p>His first three games were against Toronto and Montreal and he survived those tense tests with distinction. The quiet type, Keith quickly gained popularity with the other players while Adams and Tommy Ivan were almost as delighted as if they&rsquo;d discovered a new Gordie Howe.</p><p>As for Allen, who found at 30 that it&rsquo;s never too late for the big break, well&mdash;you know how he feels.</p><h2>Made It</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0167/1045121-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="600" height="612"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEITH ALLEN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Veteran Keith Allen Finally In Big Time After Lengthy Wait

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>When the Boston Bruins traded Jerry Tpppazzini to the Chicago Black Hawks this winter, they made a deal which Hal Laycoe will long remember. As a result of the deal, the dignified defenseman became the roommate on road trips of Leo LaBine.</p><p>The new alliance had been formed only a couple of days when Laycoe, a man of steady habits, decided upon a quiet evening of reading in bed. Stretched on the adjacent bed, presumably asleep, was his young roommate. Between the two beds stood a table on which was a reading lamp.</p><p>As Laycoe buried himself in his book, he failed to notice the cautious lifting of the LaBine left eyelid. He also failed to see the stealthy left hand which slipped from under the LaBine covers. Suddenly the room was dark.</p><p>&ldquo;Darn that lamp,&rdquo; grumbled Laycoe. &ldquo;The bulb must have blown out.&rdquo;</p><p>He groped to the light switch, snapped it on, and examined the lamp. After several bewildered minutes he looked under the table and saw the plug was out.</p><p>&ldquo;Must have slipped,&rdquo; he muttered, as he climbed back into bed after replacing it.</p><p>Within 10 minutes the lamp &ldquo;blew&rdquo; again, and again Laycoe replaced the plug. But when it happened a third time, the tall defenseman flung his book in disgust, picked up the offending lamp and deposited it on the bureau. Then he turned in.</p><p>Within five minutes LaBine popped upright in bed and complained, &ldquo;Hal, I can&rsquo;t sleep in the dark. Do you mind if I turn the overhead light on?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never seen anyone like him,&rdquo; says Laycoe with a shake of his head. &ldquo;He even laughs in his sleep, as is he were dreaming of practical Jokes to play tomorrow.</p><p>***</p><h2>Creates Pandemonium</h2><p>There is no tension in the Bruins&rsquo; locker room, as well as the Laycoe-LaBine room, with the Haileybury Hurricane around. The least he generally creates is pandemonium.</p><p>&ldquo;Armstrong, you&rsquo;re insipid,&rdquo; he growled at the big defenseman one night.</p><p>&ldquo;Is that so? Let&rsquo;s hear you spell it, Leo,&rdquo; countered the University of Western Ontario student.</p><p>After thinking briefly, LaBine spelled, &ldquo;I-n-s-i-p-i-t&rdquo;, as Coach Lynn Patrick rocked with laughter on the rubbing table and the other Bruins collapsed from mirth.</p><p>As the noise subsided, LaBine observed, &ldquo;Well, maybe I can&rsquo;t spell it, but I can pronounce it.&rdquo;</p><p>Twenty-two year old Leo was a funnyman from the day he first joined the Bruins three winters ago. Puzzled by his obviously Celtic countenance which belied his French name, a writer asked him, &ldquo;What&rsquo;s your mother&rsquo;s name?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Mrs. LaBine,&rdquo; was the prompt reply, to be clarified later by the explanation that his mother&rsquo;s maiden name had been Nora Horan.</p><p>***</p><h2>Bizarre Tale</h2><p>LaBine and Real Chevrefils, his long-time sidekick who is sidelined this year by a broken leg, were the central figures in a bizarre story last winter. En route to Boston, the pair climbed off the train in Buffalo for a pre-bedtime snack. Their attire was pajamas, covered by topcoats.</p><p>Midway through sandwiches an uncooperative engineer decided it was time to leave for Boston, so the train pulled out leaving the twe behind. With the aid of amused railroad people, Leo and Chevvy boarded another train and sat in a coach, obvious to the stares of startled passengers. When the Bruins&rsquo; train pulled into Rochester, there were the two wanderers, looking sheepish but otherwise unflustered.</p><p>One of LaBine&rsquo;s favorite topics is the Barrie Flyers, the junior team for which he played with other present and ex-Bruins like Doug Mohns, Jim Morrison, Toppazzinl and Chevrefils. When any discussion of great teams arises, LaBine introduces the Flyers. Since the departure of Toppazzini and the injury to Chevrefils, he is shouted down by a vote of 16 to 1, Mohns the silent only grinning.</p><p>LaBine and Coach King Clancy of Toronto have carried on a running conversation all season, and it dates back to their minor league days, when Leo was at Hershey and Clancy at Pittsburgh. Then LaBine used to offer Clancy his arm on the King&rsquo;s between periods trips across the ice. One night a casual LaBine nudge sent Clancy sprawling.</p><p>During a Bruins-Toronto game in which LaBine was helping beat the Maple Leafs, Clancy leaned over the boards during a faceoff and squeaked, &ldquo;You&rsquo;re a busher, Leo, that&rsquo;s all you are.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe I am, King,&rdquo; replied the brash youngster, &ldquo;but at least I&rsquo;m playing for a big league coach.&rdquo;</p><p>***</p><h2>Wit Not One-Way</h2><p>LaBine wit is not a one-way proposition. He can take it as well as dish it out. One night, while the Bruins were awaiting the return to the ice of an opponent, he picked up the puck which Referee Red Storey had left in the faceoff circle and shot it at a net, making no move to retrieve it.</p><p>Storey, who noticed the action, winked at Defenseman Bill Quackenbush, then rumbled, &ldquo;La-Bine, go get that puck.&rdquo;</p><p>Leo ignored the order, so Storey said again, &ldquo;Get that puck, LaBine.&rdquo;</p><p>Casting a cautious look at the towering referee, Leo skated down, got the puck and flipped it to Storey, saying, &ldquo;Here it is, sir.&rdquo; Everyone on the ice laughed, including LaBine.</p><p>The Hurricaine will tell a story on himself without prompting, and one of his best concerns his experience as an apprentice electrician in Barrie last summer. He worked for Hap Emms, his Barrie coach, and his partner was Paul Meger of the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>&ldquo;Hap sent us out on a Job installing floor plugs,&rdquo; relates Leo, &ldquo;and he told us that it was the new house by the railroad tracks. We did the Job&mdash;a good one, too&mdash;and reported back. A few minutes later Hap got a call from a woman who wanted to know where the electricians were who were going to wire her house.</p><p>&ldquo;Hap hadn&rsquo;t told us on which side of the tracks the house was, and it turned out that we had wired the wrong one. We went back to the house we had wired, and the people who owned it thought we had done such a good Job that we sold them some appliances.&rdquo;</p><p>At the start of last season, Patrick summed up his outlook on the LaBine situation by saying, &ldquo;Before the year&rsquo;s over one of us will be in a strait jacket, and I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;ll be Leo.&rdquo;</p><p>But Patrick has no fears about his Laughing Boy&rsquo;s conduct on the ice, for in games he&rsquo;s all business. He plays with an enthusiasm which needs no prompting and he digresses entirely from the old vaudeville slogan, &ldquo;Leave&rsquo;em laughing.&rdquo;</p><p>As far as Leo is concerned, he leaves his laughs in the dressing room, where all the Bruins can enjoy them without profit for the opposition.</p><h2>Boston&rsquo;s Berle</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0352/1045176-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="585" height="902"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LEO LABINE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Laughing Boy Leo LaBine Qualifies As Hockey’s Magnificent Screwball

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The fortunes of the Toron to Maple Leafs are gaily wrapped up in a three-color package of red, green and blue.</p><p>Under the red there is the trip to Russia which was proposed by Leaf Managing Director Conn Smythe in a plan to regain the Canadian hockey prestige which slipped somewhat when Toronto Lyndhursts were beaten 7-2 it the world amateur hockey tournament final. The plan fell through however when it was learned the Russians would not be able to supply ice in May.</p><p>Under the green there is the green His Irish Excellency King Clancy will be thinking of wearing and the green his Leafs will be thinking of sharing when Toronto and Montreal Canadien debate second place money in the NHL standing on St. Patrick&rsquo;s Day.</p><p>Under the blue of Maple Leaf uniforms are the Toronto players themselves whose first boal is the Stanley Cup.</p><p>***</p><h2>Armed for Playoffs</h2><p>To that aim, the Leafs are already arming themselves for the NHL playoffs. Jim Morrison is in practise being groomed as a point partner for Tim Horton on a revised power play and Hugh Bolton, who filled in brilliantly while Jim Thomson was sidelined at Christmas, has been added to the defense list. Having suffered from a shoulder separation and a cracked wrist since the turn of the year, Bolton is now working himself back into condition so that he may be ready to toil for the Torontos if they need him.</p><p>In their new power play. Leafs are meanwhile putting together two the league&rsquo;s highest scoring defensemen. Jim Morrison&rsquo;s nine goals represent the highest output by a Leaf rearguard in a decade, or since Babe Pratt fired 17 goals during the 1943-44. And Horton&rsquo;s seven goals heas been surpassed in that time only by Morrison and tied only by Gus Mortson in 1947-48 and Bill Barilko in 1949-50.</p><p>&ldquo;They could become one of the best point combinations of all-time, hazards Leaf Assistant General Manager Hap Day, who currently reserves that distinction for the Max and Doug Bentley combination as it played for Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>***</p><h2>Three Lines</h2><p>Leafs&rsquo; offensive was given another shot in the arm through the capable work of young Earl Balfour, hurried from Pittsburgh Hornets to replace left wing Cordie Hannigan, who is suffering from a kidney ailment. Balfour has fitted smoothly into the Bob Bailey-Eric Nesterenko combination which has suddenly started to carry its own weight, giving the Leafs three balanced forward units.</p><p>Defensively, the Leafs are gunning at another target as goal-tender Harry Lumley the first Vezina Trophy of his career.</p><p>That aspiration was seriously set back when Lum suffered a severe bruise on his knee, over the pad, stopping a screemed shot from Leo Reise March 3. The Rangers then proceeded to score two goals and tie Leafs in that game.</p><p>Gil Mayer was hustled from Pittsburgh the following night to pinch-hit for Lum in Detroit and played a superb game to hold the Wings to a 3-3 tie while Leafs ended a year-old scoring drought after playing 352 minutes and 51 seconds of scoreless hockey in the Olympia. But when Lum hurried his convalescence so he could play against Wings in Toronto that Saturday, he surrendered three goals and. fell seven behind Terry Sawchuk in the Vezina Derby.</p><p>Lum is now fashioning his own comeback. Although the damaged knee still troubles him when he remains stationary, such as he must do in the nets, he scored his 12th shutout to virtually eliminate the Rangers in New York March 7 and created a personal record in the shutout department.</p><p>From such determination it can he concluded only that the Leafs are ready for the playoffs.</p><h2>New High</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0257/1045207-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="567" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY LUMLEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hugh Bolton Added To Leaf Rearguard For Playoff Grind

<p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ETROIT, Mich.&mdash;It was 10 years ago at training camp that Benny Woit first met Jack Adams and he still remembers their initial conversation.</p><p>&ldquo;It was one-sided,&rdquo; Woit says. &ldquo;Jack told me &lsquo;Don&rsquo;t forget this, boy, in the big leagues you have to play defensive hockey, pick up your man and go with him.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Those words still are the best advice you can give any young player,&rdquo; Benny adds.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Took Adams Advice

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0167/1045238-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>If formalities were handled properly some one would take Benny Woit around and introduce him to all the goal-tenders in the National Hockey League.</p><p>There are goalies who don&rsquo;t even have a nodding acquaintance with Woit, even through he&rsquo;s working his third full season for Detroit Red Wings. And he should be one of the most popular players with them, considering some phases of his record.</p><p>Currently, Woit is the only man in the NHL who has worked every game this season without scoring a goal. In three seasons he has scored only four times.</p><p>&ldquo;I can remember every one of those four and I don&rsquo;t think I was closer than 60 feet to the goalies when they got by&mdash;all blueline shots and screened,&rdquo; Woit comments without a sign of Complaint.</p><p>For the record, his last one tame more than a full year ago, On March 2, 1953, against Boston.</p><p>&ldquo;Can&rsquo;t say it was a big one, either that was 14 games ago. I was about the last to score in a 10-3 game,&rdquo; he grins cheerfully.</p><p>Since most players take deep pride in their scoring feats and brood when they aren&rsquo;t connecting, Wolt&rsquo;s unsuffering attitude needs some explaining. And, in his case, the reason is logical.</p><p>&ldquo;I team with Red Kelly on defence.&rdquo; he points out, &ldquo;and let me asked you, which defenseman should be carrying the puck up under those circumstances? You know the answer-it&rsquo;d be a waste I was carrying instead of Red.&rdquo;</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t always thus. Dig back d&#1077;&#1077;&#1088; enough into Woit&rsquo;s early Career and you find that he was the league scoring champion three Straight seasons&mdash;in bantam, that is.</p><p>While Woit never gets closer than shouting range to goalies, there are others in the NHL who have made his acquaintance the painful way. A burly 192-pounder, bard and muscular, he&rsquo;s about as movable as a small tank if you&rsquo;re Intending to wade through him. There is an ever-growing group of Opponents who contend that his body checks are as stunning as any thrown around the league.</p><p>If fact. It was his hard checking which earned him a pro contract and a starting place in the Detroit system. General Manager Jack Adams, who has an understandable appreciation of such qualifies, points out that he was Convinced of Woit&rsquo;s ability the spring he saw him wreck a Barrie team in the Memorial Cup playoffs. That was when Benny played for the Fort William (Ont.) Bruins who won the Cup.</p><p>&ldquo;There aren&rsquo;t many players left these days who can throw as powerful a check as Wolt does,&rdquo; Adams insists. &ldquo;When I saw him in that series I decided right then it would be a lot smarter to have him playing for the Wings than against them.&rdquo;</p><p>Of all things, Woit credits football with teaching him how to dish out bodychecks. He played Center and halfback throughout high school, then moved to tackle at Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s where Kelly played end, Ed Sandford fullback and Fleming Mackell halfback on the same team.</p><p>&ldquo;They used to bawl me out in football for not using my hands more. but I had learned to hit with my body in hockey and it just seemed natural to do the same on the football field,&rdquo; Woit recalls.</p><p>There is one subject which Woit always will discuss without a single trace of modesty. That&rsquo;s his home town of Fort William and there are suspicions that he draws extra pay from the Fort William Chamber of Commerce.</p><p>&ldquo;Anywhere we go and anything we see&mdash;the building in New York, the harbor in Boston, the stockyards in Chicago&mdash;as far as Ben&rsquo;s concerned, Fort William has it bigger and better,&rdquo; Tony Leswick claims.</p><p>&ldquo;Of course,&rdquo; Leswick hastened to add, &ldquo;since he&rsquo;s a Westerner, naturally he has plenty to brag about.&rdquo; (Tony halls from Saskatoon, himself.)</p><p>&ldquo;That bragging got him into trouble once,&rdquo; interrupted Benny&rsquo;s pretty wife, Julie. &ldquo;Once when we were living in Indianapolis, he kept telling some fans who were friends of ours that Fort William was a real paradise. One summer they drove all the way up to visit us and see that paradise.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;They heard only the truth and then saw it for themselves,&rdquo; Benny confidently pointed out.</p><p>Then he continued, &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll have to excuse Julie. She comes from Port Arthur, you see.&rdquo;</p><p>As far as the perpetual Lake-head rivalry between Fort William and Port Arthur goes, Woit is in for some rough times ahead. There once was a time that he and Alex Delvecchio could gang up on anyone. And if help was needed, they could call on Jack Adams, another Fort William native. But now the word is leaking out that Woit is building his home in Port Arthur, a traitorous act, according to Delvecchio and Adams.</p><p>It was Adams&rsquo; brother, Walter, who scouted Woit and first started him into the farm system. That was when he was 16 years old and had been in organized hockey for four seasons.</p><p>&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t help but become a hockey player,&rdquo; Woit insists. &ldquo;I was the baby of 10 children and my three brothers coached me and bought equipment while my six sisters came out to the games and gave me solid support.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>Walter Adams picked up Woit and Rudy Migay out of midget ranks and shipped them to the 19 44 Detroit training camp at Windsor. Some of the other youngsters also attending their first camp there were Ted Lindsay, Gordie Howe and Marty Pavelich.</p><p>&ldquo;That was my first sight of pro hockey and the Wings had Syd Howe, Flash Hollett, Mud Brune-teau and Carl Liscombe as the big stars,&rdquo; Benny recalls. &ldquo;I remember how I thought they were super-human and could score every time they got the puck.</p><p>&ldquo;I was still listed as a forward and just before camp broke up, got my big thrill when I played right wing for Detroit against Cleveland.</p><p>&ldquo;Before leaving camp I signed a B-form but for some reason, Migay didn&rsquo;t. We went back to Fort William together and started in juniors.&rdquo;</p><p>That Woit-Migay combination, stuck together for four more years. After two seasons with the Fort William Flyers, Migay got a bid to go to St. Michael&rsquo;s. He wanted Woit to come along; too, and Adams OK&rsquo;ed the switch. Thus they teamed on St. Mike&rsquo;s 1947 Memorial Cup champs, returned to Fort William and repeated as Cup winners with the Bruins in 1948.</p><p>The following fall Woit turned pro and headed for Indianapolis for three seasons of grooming there. He broke in with Detroit for a pair of games in 1950-51 when Kelly was injured and the next season made the jump to the NHL to stick.</p><p>Along the way Woit credits four coaches for his development&mdash;Ed Lozon in junior at Fort William; Joe Primeau while at St. Mike&rsquo;s: Ott Heller as a rookie pro at Indianapolis, and Tommy Ivan since reaching Detroit.</p><p>&ldquo;Lozon converted me from a forward to defense and he really had his hands full teaching me the first couple of years,&rdquo; Woit says.</p><p>In practice he&rsquo;d never allow us to pass in that zone, making us carry out instead. I think that&rsquo;s where Kelly picked up his knack.</p><p>&ldquo;Primeau taught me about controlling the puck in my own zone.</p><p>&ldquo;Heller pounded in the fundementals about how to play an opposing forward. .. watching him, not the puck and that sort of thing.</p><p>&ldquo;Then Ivan put it all together for me&mdash;sort of a post-graduate course in how to really play defense.&rdquo;</p><p>There is one phase of Woit&rsquo;s development, however, for which Ivan disclaims all credit.</p><p>&ldquo;I certainly never taught him to tell those tall tales about fishing,&rdquo; Tommy insisted. &ldquo;He could win a &lsquo;liar&rsquo;s contest&rsquo; any day of the week. Why just yesterday he was telling me how he fished for trout by baiting his hook with leaves.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Why, coach,&rdquo; Woit broke in innocently, &ldquo;That was a true story, same as the time back home when we kids used to catch 185-pound sturgeon in the river with, pitchforks while they&hellip;&rdquo;</p><p>Which is where Ivan and I left.</p><h2>He Lets Red Score The Coals</h2><div class="sidebar"><h2>Vital Statistics</h2><p><b>Benedict Francis Woit.</b></p><p><b>Born: January 7, 1928.</b></p><p><b>Weight: 192; Height: 5&rsquo;11&frac12;&rdquo;.</b></p><p><b>Married May 6, 1950.</b></p><p><b>Wife&rsquo;s name: Julie Francis.</b></p><p><b>One child: Debbie, 16 months.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Bashin’ Benny-Detroit’s Durable Defensive Defenseman

<div class="byline">By AL NICKLESON</div><p><b>(As Seen in The Toronto Globe and Mall)</b></p><p>THEY CALLED HIM &ldquo;Hockey&rsquo;s Babe Ruth&rdquo; a quarter-century and more ago. He had a shot that could paralize through pads, and goalkeepers shivered when he pulled the trigger.</p><p>Yet, as a mere 150-pounder, he never did look the part off the ice. Perhaps that&rsquo;s one reason why the dapper, little man walked unrecognized through the hockey crowd at Chicago Stadium recently.</p><p>The city directory of Chicago, where he now resides, dignifies him as &ldquo;Cecil Henry Dye.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s misleading. Oldtimers will recall him as Babe Dye, an ice phenomenon who probably could have become a major-league baseball player if he hadn&rsquo;t leaned toward hockey.</p><p>He hasn&rsquo;t changed much, really since he was a right-wing great with the old Toronto St. Pats and Chicago Black Hawks back in the 20&rsquo;s. The shock of black hair now is grey. He still sports the slightly flattened nose that was smashed six times during his sports career. He weighs only five pounds more than his fantastically light playing weight.</p><p>Hamilton-born and sports-raised in Toronto, the Babe attends few hockey games now. For one thing, he favors the style of his era when he won the National League goal-getting title three times. For another, his Chicago-born wife, whom he wed in &lsquo;28, isn&rsquo;t too partial to the sport.</p><p>&ldquo;I think it was a better game to watch in my time,&rdquo; said Dye, shortly before sitting through the Hawks&rsquo; 2-1 win over the Leafs. &ldquo;There were more passing plays and more individual play.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;No player could be ahead of his own puck-carrier after crossing his blue-line. You had to carry the puck practically the whole length of the rink. There was no shooting and rushing in. Now, with the forward passing there&rsquo;s little individual play.&rdquo;</p><p>The Babe admitted that hockey today is faster and more open, &ldquo;but it hasn&rsquo;t produced any more scoring than in the old days of shorter schedules.&rdquo;</p><p>Dye, like many present-day hockey brass, can&rsquo;t figure out why there isn&rsquo;t more shooting on the net.</p><p>&ldquo;They hold their shots trying to get into position, or they shoot into the corner,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;My idea would be to shoot at the goalie everytime. Make him do the work.&rdquo;</p><p>That&rsquo;s exactly what Coach King Clancy and his boss, Hap Day, have been trying to impress on the Leafs.</p><p>&ldquo;That Dye never wasted a moment,&rdquo; recalled Day, who played left-wing on Dye&rsquo;s St. Pat&rsquo;s line that had Jack Adams, now Detroit manager, at centre. &ldquo;He got the puck and shot it on the net from anywhere. He had a terrific shot&mdash;maybe the hardest of all time. I was the back-checker on his line.&rdquo;</p><p>Dye turned pro with St. Pats in 1919, and led the league in goals the following season, with 35 over a 24-game schedule. Two seasons later he was tops again with 26. It was another two season before he won his third title, with 38 goals in a 30-game schedule.</p><p>During a span of seven NHL seasons he amassed a total of 189 goals and a mere 38 assist. Of course, assists were all but disregarded in those days.</p><p>Dye played on only one Stanley Cup team and he was an integral part of the victory with nine goals in the five-game series. That was in the spring of &rsquo;22, when St. Pat&rsquo;s beat Vancouver. The Babe scored four of his goals in the series&rsquo; finale.</p><p>That feat put him in the record book, His name was erased, however, by a fellow name of Rocket Richard. The Rocket scored all Canadien&rsquo;s goal in a 5-1 win over the Leafs during the playoffs 10 years ago this month.</p><p>A Black Hawk original, he was purchased from St. Pat&rsquo;s during formation of the Chicago team by the late Major Frederick McLaughlin in the fall of &lsquo;26. His centre was Dick Irvin, now the dour dean of NHL coaches who masterminds Montreal Canadiens. Will-o&rsquo;-the-wisp George Hay was on the other wing.</p><p>Then disaster struck. In fall training at Winnipeg for the following season, Dye suffered a compound leg frarture in a collision. Around Christmas the great Irvin fractured his skull during a game, and was forced to retire as a player.</p><p>Dye came back to finish out that season, but he was through as a hockey great. He was sold to the now-defunct New York Americans, ended his career with minor-league New Haven the following season.</p><p>Hockey graduate of Jesse Ketchum, De La Salle and Aura Lee in this city, Dye also was famed as a baseball and football player. He was an outfielder with Buffalo Bisons from 1921 to 1925, and later played briefly with Toronto, Baltimore and Syracuse. His forte was his solid hitting.</p><p>In 1924 he hit International League pitching at a .318 clip for 155 games and blasted 16 home runs. Yankees offered Buffalo $25,000 for the Babe and when the Bisons decided to hold out for more, it proved a costly stand. Dye slipped in some oil in his garage during the off-season, injuring his shoulder. He was never the same ball player as a result.</p><p>It&rsquo;s not likely the Babe, one of Canada&rsquo;s best all-round athletes, will be back this way, He&rsquo;s &ldquo;pretty well rooted&rdquo; in Chicago, where he&rsquo;s road superintendent for a construction company in the summer, and truck dispatcher for the same firm dealing in fuel oils over the winter.</p><p>It doesn&rsquo;t give him much time for hockey. Or, at least, he gives that as the excuse.</p><p>&ldquo;Most spectators today haven&rsquo;t seen anything but the modern game, so they wouldn&rsquo;t know what the old game looked like,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The game today is too slam-bang. The players don&rsquo;t take time to think. It looks to me as if they&rsquo;re trying to get rid of the puck.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Old Game Better, Avers Cecil Dye

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>In a vote to determine the most popular Ranger player &ldquo;on and off the ice,&rdquo; the Ranger Fan Club chose Goalie Johnny Bower over Paul Ronty, the team&rsquo;s high scorer. Balloting for the two was so close that a recount was necessary.</p><p>Bower&rsquo;s selection helped to kill the myth that New York is a &ldquo;graveyard of goalies,&rdquo; that a good goalie is not properly appreciated by Gotham fans. In his first year here, Bower has made the fans forget his predecessors, Chuck Rayner and Gump Worsley, in spite of the fact Worsley last year won the Calder Memorial Trophy as rookie of the year.</p><p>Bower&rsquo;s popularity is derived not only by his steady, sometimes spectacular work in the nets but also by his affability towards fans in informal gatherings as well as personal appearances at banquets, smokers and father-and-son get-togethers.</p><p>Johnny becomes the third Ranger to have his name inscribed on the Frank Boucher trophy which the Fan Club put into compettion. Earlier winners were Bones Raleigh and Waly Herge-sheimer. Bower will receive a wrist watch as well as temporary possession of the trophy in formal ceremonies Sunday, March 14, before the Ranger game with the Red Wings.</p><h2>ICE CHIPS</h2><p>Don Raleigh&rsquo;s hat trick was the first by a Ranger this season. Also the first by anybody in Maple Leaf Gardens this year&hellip;Bonesy not only scored three, but another deflected drive off his stick shook up the rosy-cheeked goalie and cut him for ten stitches over an eye. Wally Hergesheimer&rsquo;s goal output reached an abrupt halt after he reached No. 2 7. The little guy went five straight games thereafter without lighting the lamp&mdash;for him a bad slump&hellip;If anybody has more friends on the road than Frank Boucher, it must be Muzz Patrick. The coach finds&rsquo;em everywhere. In Chicago, Muzz cut up touches with an old six-day bike partner, the famous Torchy Peden&hellip;and in Toronto, two days earlier, Butch Keeling dropped by to pay his respects. Butch, like Boucher, is proud of the fact that he never lost a tooth in action.</p><p>Ivan Irwin, never one to start a fight, has proved quite a handy guy with his fists in recent games&hellip;He took on Cal Gardner here, then racked up Lee Fogolin in Chicago. It doesn&rsquo;t pay to pick on Old Baldy&hellip;When the Canadiens visited the Garden on Feb. 28, neither the Rangers nor a visiting team had been shut out. That night the Habs took a 2-0 horse-collar&hellip;Next time the Rangers played in the Garden, it was their turn to be shut out&mdash;Leafs handing it to&rsquo;em, 4-0&hellip;Red Storey, whose officiating at Garden games hasn&rsquo;t pleased the customers, watched this one from the press box. Nobody could blame him for the shellacking.</p><h2>Affable</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01135/1045317-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="593" height="612"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHNNY BOWER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Boucher Trophy To Bower As Most Popular Ranger

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0188/1045348-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Raleigh&hellip; &hellip;Earns A Chapeau</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>If the Rangers&rsquo; tremendous drive for a Stanley Cup play-off berth runs out of gas&mdash;and as this is written the meter gauge is flickering around the &ldquo;empty&rdquo; mark&mdash;blame it on the Chicago Black Hawks. Too many times this sea-ion Sid Abel&rsquo;s collection of &ldquo;they&rsquo;re either too young or too old&rdquo; players have come up with an inspired game to set the New Yorkers back on their heels.</p><p>Over the season the Rangers&rsquo; record doesn&rsquo;t seem bad at all. They&rsquo;ve beaten Chicago eight times, lost only thrice, and tied in two others of the first 13 played. That adds up to 18 points out of a possible 26. But if this is good, compare Boston&rsquo;s record with these same Hawks. The Bruins have merely gone unbeaten in the first 12, winning 10. In other words, 22 of a possible 24 points.</p><p>There is the difference between a playoff spot and also-ran position for the Rangers. And it hasn&rsquo;t bolstered Ranger morale to look ahead to the closing stage of the race and find that Boston plays Chicago in its final weekend games.</p><p>&ldquo;You gotta give the Bruins those four points,&rdquo; coach Muzz Patrick said. &ldquo;Those Hawks just can&rsquo;t beat&rsquo;em.&rdquo;</p><h2>Jam On Brakes</h2><p>One way or another the Windy City lads have managed to jam the brakes on the Ranger push. The latest happened on Friday, March 5. The Rangers went into this game only a point out of fourth, with the Bruins holding a game in hand. If they had won it, they would have climbed over Boston for the first time since the season had any substance. What happened? A scoreless tie.</p><p>To say that Patrick was somewhat taken aback by this development would be the understatement of the year. He had warned&rdquo; his players, of course, not to take the Hawks lightly. Nor was there any indication that the Rangers did. They&rsquo;ve been burned too many times in the past. But whatever their attitude they couldn&rsquo;t beat Al Rollins, and in fact, had Johnny Bower not been on his game, the Hawks might easily have won.</p><p>After the game Bower revealed his wife, Nancy, is expecting a first child any minute. In fact Johnny was wondering if it would be possible to get some news photographers up to the hospital to take pictures of the heir. If thoughts such as these couldn&rsquo;t strike up any jitters in the Rangers&rsquo; rookie goalie, probably nothing will.</p><p>The Rangers entered this game under somewhat dramatic circumstances. It was the first visit to Chicago by Doug Bentley since he had left the Hawks for his home in Delisle, Sask., suffering from various injuries&mdash;a fact which led to his appointment as player-coach at Saskatoon.</p><p>Doug, called Chicago&rsquo;s greatest player, almost proved it again that night. With only a minute to go he took a pass from Edgar Laprade at the blue line and raced in to a point only 25 feet from goal before letting go a bullet drive. The shot had Rollins beaten. But it missed by inches.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d have given a hundred bucks to win that one,&rdquo; Doug said. &ldquo;We needed it bad.&rdquo;</p><p>The tie, in any event, had a depressing effect on the team. They had beaten the Canadiens in New York and then tied the Leafs in Toronto through Bones Raleigh&rsquo;s hat trick, and the way things were moving the Rangers seemed once again about to convince their worst critics they had been buried alive&mdash;very much alive.</p><p>But they couldn&rsquo;t beat the Hawks and they followed it up with their worst exhibition in months against the Leafs in New York two nights later. Meanwhile, the Hawks folded&rsquo; once more against the Bruins.</p><p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t believe that Chicago team can be so bad against Boston,&rdquo; Patrick said. &ldquo;They give us fits.&rdquo;</p><p>Be that as it may, the Bruins have fed regularly on Black Hawk meat. It has been a long time since any team went a whole year without winning a game from another team. But that&rsquo;s the <i>way</i> Chicago is headed against fourth-place Boston.</p><h2>Had Big Night<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Hawks’ Inability To Beat Bruins May Cost Rangers Playoff Berth

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The ol&rsquo; Soo Ghost of the Boston Bruins isn&rsquo;t what he used to be. He&rsquo;s a high scorer, now.</p><p>At the mature hockey age of 32, Joe Klukay has embarked on a new career, as one of the National league&rsquo;s most prolific goal-getters.</p><p>For seven years&rsquo; the taciturn forward ghosted through a routine of inconspicuous assigments, killing penalties, covering high scoring opponents, keeping out of the spotlight.</p><p>This season, as if in reward for long and faithful service, the tide has turned for Klukay.</p><p>Joe became a forward of distinction a few nights ago in a game with the Chicago Black Hawks when he scored two goals. The second, a characteristic draw-and-shoot goal, was his 20th of the season.</p><p>The 20-goal mark is generally accepted as the line of demarkation for major league forwards. Those who top it are the stars, those who don&rsquo;t the supporting cast.</p><h2>Starts Discussion</h2><p>The industrious veteran&rsquo;s first-time feat was warmly received by the rest of the Bruins, and it prompted a discussion. Why, it was asked, had a player with Klukay&rsquo;s all-round skill never scored that many goals before?</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s easy,&rdquo; replied center Cal Gardner, a long-time teammate, here and in Toronto. &ldquo;He has always had the skill, but until this season he has never had the full opportunity.</p><p>&ldquo;In his early years with Toronto, Joe was used largely as a penalty-killer. He teamed with old Nick Metz, and they may have been the best pair anyone has ever had. But killing penalties doesn&rsquo;t lead to many goals by the players who kill them.</p><p>&ldquo;Then later on he played right wing on a line with Max Bentley, and when Bentley&rsquo;s on the ice he has the puck. Joe didn&rsquo;t get many passes. He never had a chance to play regularly with a center who&rsquo;d feed him until he came here a year ago.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He made a good scoring start with us last season,&rdquo; related coach Lynn Patrick, &ldquo;but I burned him out. I had to use him for killing penalties as well as his regular turn, and when February came along he was all in.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He hasn&rsquo;t played out of turn very often this year, and his condition shows it,&rdquo; added defense-man Hal Laycoe. &ldquo;He can go out and fly up and down that wing without tiring, and when he isn&rsquo;t tired he&rsquo;s magician with the puck.&rdquo;</p><p>Gardner figured prominently in the Klukay discussion, and he has also figured prominently in the Soo Ghost&rsquo;s scoring success story this season. Gardner is a sonofagun of a thinker, and the crafty center and his slender right wing have combined for some of the most spectacular pass-score plays ever seen here.</p><h2>Hounds Opponents</h2><p>Gardner is a master at hounding an opposing puck-carrier, and on numerous occasions he has harassed opponents sufficiently for Klukay to snap up loose pucks. On other occasions they have collaborated on rink-length or near-rink-length plays for goals.</p><p>Klukay had never come nearer than five goals to the 20-mark before, and the quiet chap admitted that he has been looking forward to breaking the ice at long last.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve gotten off to good starts before but run out of them toward the end,&rdquo; he confessed, &ldquo;so I wasn&rsquo;t talking about it this time. Now I feel like talking because I have&rsquo; no more jinx to worry about.&rdquo;</p><p>Klukay&rsquo;s increase in goals production, coupled with the comeback of John Peirson and the improvement of young Leo LaBine, has increased considerably the lustre of the Bruins&rsquo; right wing squad. After Joe&rsquo;s 20-goal night against Chicago, the only team in the league with a higher scoring right wing corps was Montreal. No other team&rsquo;s right wings had combined for as many goals as the three Bruins.</p><h2>20-Coal Man</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0273/1045379-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="533" height="624"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOE KLUKAY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Klukay Embarks on New Career As Top-Flight Scoring Threat

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, I11.&mdash;</p><p>With the proposed establishment of a direct farm club next season at Indianapolis, the Black Hawks loom to have a setup of affiliate teams to help-them on the comeback trail that will be second only to the vast, often domineering system of the Montreal Canadien organization.</p><p>The entry in the American Hockey League for the Hoosier city is slated to give Chicago connections with&mdash;like the Habs&mdash;squads in each of the three minor professional loops. Working agreements with Calgary in the Western League and Quebec in the Quebec circuit were previously-developed.</p><p>In considering the pacts with these clubs, those with such amateur units as the Galt Juniors and Chatham Seniors, both of the Ontario Hockey Association, and still others with western Canada teams, General Manager Bill Tobin of the Hawks was quick to brand Charley Conacher&rsquo;s charges as &ldquo;Ridiculous!&rdquo;</p><p>Conacher, the former Toronto great who later coached two editions of the Chihawks, criticized the club for, among other things, &ldquo;the lack of a real farm system&rdquo; in an exclusive interview story in THE HOCKEY NEWS March 6.</p><h2>Blast Charges</h2><p>Chicago officials, in blasting such charges, pointed to the names of no less than 10 skaters who have been brought up from the minors during the fruitless campaign now ending. Three, Jack Price, Ken Wharram and Fred &ldquo;The Chief&rdquo; Sasakamoose, showed enough to stick while several others such as Murray Costello and Hec Laionde will doubtless be back after more seasoning.</p><p>Indianapolis will be returning to the AHL after an absence of two seasons. The sponsoring and operation of the old Capitals was dropped by Detroit at the close of the 1951-52 schedule after the squad finished last. The Caps were a charter member when the league was formed as it stands now in 1940.</p><p>The Black Hawks are most enthusiastic about the entry which will become their No. 1 farm club. &ldquo;We are forming the team ourselves,&rdquo; reports Tobin, &ldquo;and so we will have all the say on its handling, personnel, etc. We&rsquo;ll have plenty of veterans and kids to give the new squad plenty of chances to make good.&rdquo;</p><p>It is Coach Sid Abel that observes, &ldquo;Indianapolis is within, easy motoring and train distance from Chicago and so we will have no loafers with the Black Hawks. Some of the fellows that have thought their jobs were so safe may have another thing coming next season.&rdquo;</p><p>The Indianapolis team is expected to be drawn from some proven performers that have been with the Hawks and Calgary and youngsters due for promotion from the amateur ranks. No names have yet been mentioned for the job of coach.</p><h2>&lsquo;No Loafers&rsquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0357/1045410-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="582" height="597"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SID ABEL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Extended Farm System Planned By Chi-Hawks Says GM Bill Tobin

<p>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</p><p>Founded October 1st, 1947</p><p>By Kenneth W. McKenzie and Will V. Cote</p><p>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY 301 Empire Life Building 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West.</p><p>Montreal 25, Que.</p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 In Canada and the British Empirer: S4.00 in the U.S.A. and Foreign Countries.</b></p><p>Entered as Second-claas matter, October 3, 1963 at the Post Office at Rouees Point, N.T., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879. Authorized as second-class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa.</p><p>Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations</p><p>Printed in Canada<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01161/1045486-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="429" height="429"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>W</span>HEN ART ROSS</b> heard that Connie Smythe was thinking of taking the Toronto Maple Leafs to Russia he had this to say. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s fine. I&rsquo;ll do all I can to arrange for the Russians to keep him there.&rdquo;&hellip;New York Rangers haven&rsquo;t won a game in Toronto since November 3, 1951, and Boston Bruins failed to win a contest in Montreal this season. In seven outings at the Forum the Bruins lost five and tied two&hellip;Sid Abel has been scoutirffe several American Hockey League players lately. When the Chicago coach is away from bis club Captain Bill Gadsby takes over the role of playing coach&hellip; Abel&rsquo;s two-year contract with the Black Hawks ends this Spring. &lsquo;&lsquo;Haven&rsquo;t heard anything about the fortune up to now,&rdquo; Abel reported&hellip;The six AHL clubs have used 13 different goalkeepers this season. Injuries and illness were the reasons for the many netminders&hellip;Buffalo&rsquo;s Steve Wochy is the only active player in the American League with 500 scoring points&hellip;Ray Ross of Cleveland called his youngster Glen after former teammate Glen Sonmor who is now with New York Rangers&hellip; If Boston Bruins played Chicago every night Sugar Jim Henry would win&rsquo; the Vezina Trophy. The Hawks haven&rsquo;t beaten &lsquo;the Bruins all Beason. Three of Henry&rsquo;s eight shutouts were against the Hawks&hellip;The Blue Line Hockey League of New York consists of the Hawks, Arrows, Torpedoes and-Tigers. The nucleus of these teams are made up of former Met League players. Games are played Friday nights at the Brooklyn Ice Palace.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0262/1045479-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="267" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Cadsby</b></figcaption></div><p>* * *</p><p><b>JIM THOMSON&rsquo;S</b> goal on March 11 against Canadiens was his first since March 14, 1951. The veteran Toronto defenseman had taken part in 202 games prior to the March 11 tussle without notching a counter&hellip;This has been a great season for shutouts by National Hockey League goalies. Sixty shutouts had bee-recorded by the loop&rsquo;s twinetenders after 195 games this season. This is more than twice as many shutouts as were recorded for the same if number of games two years ago. After 195 games in 1951-52 the goalies had registered 29 shutouts. For the same period one year ago 43 shutouts were turned in by the netmen&hellip;Goalie Johnny Bower has been voted the Most Popular Ranger, both on and off the ice, by members of the Rangers Fan Club. For this he wins the Frank Boucher Trophy&hellip;Paul Ronty was runner-up and Wally Hergesheimer finished third in the voting&hellip;Hergesheimer and Bones Raleigh are previous winners&hellip;Bob Chrystal has been dubbed the &ldquo;Herb Shriner of the Ranger&rsquo;&rsquo;&hellip;Bob never stops talking about his ten month old daughter Linda Lou. Bob says she looks like a real tough girl when she wears a miniature replica of her Dad&rsquo;s jersey&hellip;Harry Howell of the Rangers was offered a hockey scholarship by the University of Michigan two years ago but turned it down&hellip;Camille Henry of Rangers became one of the few rookies to score 20 goals in his first season&hellip;The NHL will set a new high in penalties this season. Already there has been more than 12 and a half hours spent in the penalty box by the six teams than for the corresponding period a year ago&hellip;A total of 4678 minutes had been racked up compared to 3853 minutes a year ago&hellip;Montreal&rsquo;s swashbuckling Canadiens have already established a new league record for most penalty minutes by a team in one season. The Canadiens had 981 penalty minutes on the morning of March 13. Toronto Maple Leafs held the former mark set in 1951-52 when Leaf Players sat out 841 minutes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0334/1045472-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="292" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Bower</b></figcaption></div><p>* * *</p><p><b>A WONDERFUL GENTLEMAN</b> and true sportsman passed away in Vancouver recently in the person of J. C. &ldquo;Pop&rdquo; Grant. We first met &ldquo;Pop&rdquo; in the summer of 1948 on our first visit to Vancouver. He was called Vancouver&rsquo;s Number One Hockey Fan at that time, but became even more closely associated with the sport during the following years. He was the greatest booster that THE HOCKEY NEWS had on the West Coast, along with Leo Ornest, and was instrumental in securing a great many subscriptions to the Hockey Bible. &ldquo;Pop&rdquo; will be greatly missed along the hockey front in Vancouver&hellip;This has been a bad season for broken legs in the National League. Wally Hergesheimer became the fourth player to suffer a serious leg break. The others were Bill Quackenbush, Real Chevrefils and Ike Hildebrand. Jean Beliveau and Elmer Lach of Canadiens also suffered greenstick fractures of the ankle this season&hellip;However, their breaks weren&rsquo;t as serious as the other four&hellip;Chicago players don&rsquo;t care who wins the Stanley Cup this year as long as it isn&rsquo;t the Maple Leafs. .. Coach Sid Abel thinks Ted Kennedy gets away with murder out on the ice. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s always talking out there, trying for the edge and he has more elbows than any player In the league. He asks for everything he gets,&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0421/1045465-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="264" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Kennedy</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0517/1045517-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>Pocket Again</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I always read THE HOCKEY NEWS and like it very much.</p><p>When is Pocket Rocket coming up to the big time?</p><p>Richard McNeil. New Waterford, N.S.</p><p><b>(Probably only GM Frank Selke or Coach Dick Irvin could answer that one, for you, Richard, but Selke has said that it shouldn&rsquo;t be too long until young Henri is ready for the NHL.)</b></p><p>* * *</p><h2>Brennan Fund</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>This is my first letter to the Fan Forum.</p><p>I would like to commend you on your generous support of Mr. Porteous and his very worthy cause on behalf of Tommy Brennan. As long as there are people such as mister Porteous and his friends and a consciencious organization such as THE HOCKEY NEWS, the grand ice sport will continue to flourish.</p><p>Niles Dougall.</p><p>Montreal, Que.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Inside stuff</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Reading a past HOCKEY NEWS I noticed Inside Stuff about Dick Irvin by Margaret Scott, who always has an interesting article. I pity all the players on the Montreal Canadiens who have to work for a boss like that. A person so ignorant as not to read the newspaper, books, or enjoy good music doesn&rsquo;t deserve to hold such an important job.</p><p>A person in this day and age almost can&rsquo;t live without the radio. He must be in a daze about world problems, as he doesn&rsquo;t listen to the radio or read the paper.</p><p>It also says that he hates to work. That, alone tells that he isn&rsquo;t fit for such a important job.</p><p>The last thing that<sub>|</sub> really makes me made is that he hates Foster Hewitt. I am a Toronto Maple Leaf fan and think that Mr. Hewitt Is the finest announcer In the business.</p><p>Keep up the good work.</p><p>Ira J. Sheier.</p><p>Albany, N.Y.</p><p><b>(Don&rsquo;t be too hard on mister Irvin, Ira, we&rsquo;re quite sure that he made all those statements with tongue in cheek. As for not liking Foster Hewitt, Dick has long been the number one needier of anything or anybody in any way connected with the Toronto Maple Leafs.)</b></p><p>* * *</p><h2>Team Rosters</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>No complaints. Leave the paper exactly as it is.</p><p>I would like some help from you or from some fan. If anyone has the rosters for Detroit&rsquo;s teams of. 1931-2 & 1932-3, I would appreciate it if they would send it to me. I would thank them very much.</p><p>Keep up the good work.</p><p>Paul Marcus.</p><p>New York, N.Y.</p><p><b>(Anyone who can help Paul can write him at 8957 Gouverneur Ave., New York 63, N.Y.)</b></p><p>* * *</p><h2>A Goal</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>A friend of mine any myself got into a friendly argument recently about just what is a goal and what isn&rsquo;t.</p><p>He insists that the puck has to go two inches past the red line before a goal is allowed. I say no, that the puck need only pass the goal line an eighth of an inch to be a goal, Just as long as the puck is over the red goal line.</p><p>Please tell me which one of us is right.</p><p>Cpl. E.G. Labossiere.</p><p>U.S.M.C.</p><p>Camp Lejeune. N.C.</p><p><b>(If any part of the puck crosses the goal line, then it is a goal.)</b></p><p>* * *</p><h2>AU-Star Ballots</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>My problem is that there are more than one of us in the family that would like to vote for the All-Star team. However, we don&rsquo;t agree on our choices. I&rsquo;d like to know if they can send their choices in on separate sheets of paper.</p><p>I think it would be helpful if you informed the fans as to what can he done in this case. I have several friends in the same predicament.</p><p>Louise Melone.</p><p>Detroit, Mich.</p><p><b>(It says in the voting rules. Louise, that reasonable facsimiles or tracings of the original coupons may be used.)</b></p><p>* * *</p><h2>High Priced Gnys</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Would you please send us information as to how much a hockey club has paid for any one player? That is, the highest price paid by any hockey team for any one player.</p><p>Didn&rsquo;t the New York Rangers pay $75,000 for Allan Stanley?</p><p>CFN. G. Floria.</p><p>ROEME,</p><p>Kingston, Out.</p><p><b>(Clubs do not publish the actual figures involved in player purchases but the Stanley deal was reported to be somewhere in the neighborhood of the price you mentioned but wasn&rsquo;t a straight cash deal. Players were involved too.)</b></p><p>* * *</p><h2>Nomination</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>As the hockey season draws to a close there will be many nominations for various honors in the NHL. I would like to add to this large list an award of my own; &lsquo;Crybaby Of The Year.&rsquo;</p><p>Of course there are many who might be selected but my own personal choice must be the &lsquo;popular&rsquo; coach of the Montreal Canadiens, Dick Irvin. Any man who would have the nerve to say that the Rangers, the lightest team in the NHL, are pushing around his poor little bully boys, who are the roughest, toughest team in a rough and tough league, must receive some sort of an award.</p><p>Make no mistake, I think that Irvin Is a fine coach, his record proves that, but he could act a little more like a good sport. I would like to trade programs with fans in Canada and the US. My address is 35 27 Mermaid Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.</p><p>Carl Yanowitz.</p><p>Brooklyn, N.Y.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Gee Thanks!</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I&rsquo;d like, to thank you for the coverage you&rsquo;ve given to the Rangers and the Rangers Fan Club. We now have extra copies of our Club paper, the RANGERS REVIEW, available and any fan interested can obtain a copy by writing to the Club c/o Madison Square Garden, New York 19, N.Y.</p><p>I have a number of hockey programs to trade including over a hundred Ranger programs and inserts. Every letter will be answered. My address is Jerry Weiss 35-07 82nd St. Astoria 6 N.Y.C. U.S.A.</p><p>Jerry Weiss.</p><p>Astoria, N.Y.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Acrobatic Al</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>How about an article on the best goaler in the National Hock-key League, Al Rollins of the Chicago Black Hawks?</p><p>Otherwise everything is perfect and I enjoy reading all your interesting articles from all around the NHL, even if sometimes I do not agree with some of your writers&rsquo; opinions.</p><p>Leonard Fontaine</p><p>Chicago, II.<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/f0006-0614/1045548-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="597" height="277"></div><p><b>March 20 to March 27</b></p><p>28&mdash;TAYLOR, Harry, Buffalo, forward, 1926.</p><p>29&mdash;MATHERS, Frank, Pittsburgh, defense, 1924.</p><p>31&mdash;HOWE, Gordie, Detroit, forward, 1928; MacPHERSON, Bud, Montreal, defense, 1927.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday to you

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>If Gus Bodnar of the Bruins were awarded a goal for every thousand miles he has traveled this season, he&rsquo;d be one of the leading scorers in the National league.</p><p>The little forward has travelled well over 26,000 miles this season in the pursuit of his hockey duties, or more than all the way around the world.</p><p>In one space of eight days alone last month Bodnar covered more than 4000 miles with a routine of train and plane travel which had his head spinning.</p><p>When the Bruins acquired Bodnar from the Chicago Black Hawks in exchange for Jerry Toppazzini Gus and the Black Hawks were in Detroit. Bodnar promptly returned to Chicago to acquaint his family with his new status, then hopped a plane for New York where the Bruins were playing. After participating in the game with the Rangers, he returned by plane to Chicago while the Bruins moved on to Toronto.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0290/1045586-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="274" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gus Bodnar</b></figcaption></div><p>Gus next herded his flock to their summer home in Toronto, rejoining the Bruins there for the remainder of a four-game road trip which included further stops in Chicago and New York.</p><p>After eight days of incessant travel, Bodnar found himself able to converse on equal terms with Clarence Whitehead, the Canadian Pacific passenger agent who arranges the Bruins&rsquo; trips.</p><p>His biggest problem, however, was not in making connections but disposing of the pedigreed dog which the Bodnars had been keeping for a Florida-bound Chisago neighbor.</p><p>&ldquo;The traveling was tough,&rdquo; he related, &ldquo;but I really worried about the dog. We finally found a good kennel for him, but I&rsquo;m afraid our ex-neighbor will think I let him down.&rdquo;</p><p>But that, it seems, is hockey.</p><p>Meanwhile Woody Dumart has been honored by a nationally known sports organization for his &ldquo;high priciple and achievement&rdquo; over 15 seasons with the Boston Bruins.</p><p>Dumart received an award presented by Bobby Bauer, his onetime mate on the Bruins&rsquo; famed Kraut Line, at the annual dinner of Boston Sports Lodge of B&rsquo;nai B&rsquo;rith. Capt. Milt Schmidt of the Bruins, the third member of the Kraut Line, was last year&rsquo;s recipient.</p><p>Among others honored by the group were Tom Yawkey, owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, and Henry Brenner, University of Rhode Island&rsquo;s deaf football star.</p><p>The 37-year-old Dumart, a resident of Needham, Mass., has been a leading figure in innumerable sports benefits, charities and other worthy affairs in his many years here.</p><h2>They&rsquo;ve Found&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01112/1045579-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="534" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERNIE GEOFFRION</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bodnar Travels 25,000 Miles In One Season

<div class="byline">By FRED ROBERTS</div><p>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;</p><p>Its becoming increasingly evident that all Jean Beliveau needed to nan down a permanent niche in the National Hockey League was a little time, a sound body and a pair of sharp-shooting wingers.</p><p>Since Beliveau came into the NHL practically embalmed in yards of glaring press notices, he was denied the usual courtesy accorded most rookies&mdash;time to prove him-a $100,000 Flop.</p><p>While it was expected that Beliveau would come under a raking cross-fire by scriveners from five NHL cities it was also surmised that he would at least be given a sympathetic press in Montreal. If he was nursing that hope in his ample bosom he was sadly mistaken. When he was creased by a Bill Mosienko-directed slash in Chicago he drew a few lines of sympathy. When he felt the impact of Johnny Bower&rsquo;s broad blade smash his cheek-bone a few tears were shed on his behalf in print. But through it all, there was an Impatient undertone. The general feeling was prevalent from the very beginning. It seemed to cry out loud. &ldquo;Come on now Beliveau. You&rsquo;re a big wheel from Quebec. Let&rsquo;s see what you can do.&rdquo;</p><p>Hockey writers in Montreal, some of them who had seen Beliveau play only one or two games before he joined the NHL, suddenly knew all about him. He lacked apparent desire. He appeared lazy. He wasn&rsquo;t aggressive enough. He didn&rsquo;t dig. In other words, he didn&rsquo;t have enough qualities to draw his pay cheque each week.</p><p>Well Beliveau hasn&rsquo;t changed, in a general sense except he&rsquo;s starting to prove something that his former coaches, Phil Watson and Punch Imlach, have been telling people all along. &ldquo;Give him time to find out where he&rsquo;s going and then try and stop him from getting there,&rdquo; is something Imlach said two years ago.</p><p>Since the first of the year, Be-Hveau&rsquo;s record not only speaks for itself but is unmatched in the NHL. He has scored 10 goals and picked up 17 assists. Why the sudden splurge?</p><h2>&hellip;Each Other&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0364/1045617-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="575" height="597"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICKIE MOORE</b></figcaption></div><p>For one thing he&rsquo;s apparently found a pair of linemates who are starting to capitalize on his perfect passes. Dickie Moore, hampered by injuries, made his return to action last week and was moved into left wing along with Beliveau and Boom Boom Geoffrion.</p><p>They took a few games to introduce themselves to each other then the pattern began to form. Against the Hawks in a pair of week-end games, the trio accounted for six goals with Beliveau getting three of them. Dick Irvin, who very often makes an off-hand statement that has resounding effects, casually mentioned last week that Beliveau could be the key to Canadiens&rsquo; playoff chances. Does Tommy Ivan speak of Earl (Dutch) Reibel in such glowing terms or does Muzz Patrick hold Camille Henry in such high regard? Remember, these two are most commonly mentioned as the 1953-54 Calder Trophy winners.</p><p>Only last week Lynn Patrick doubted out loud that Henry (a 24-goal scorer) would be in the NHL last season, and from all accounts he was echoing his brother Muzz&rsquo; sentiments. Reibel has tailed off considerably.</p><p>Still, Beliveau, started a little late to win the Calder which might be just as well, since the historic Trophy carries a kiss of death as well as a $1,000.00 bonus.</p><p>Gros Bill&rsquo;s apparent lack of aggressiveness stems from an Intense desire to play the game he truly loves. Besides, the guy doesn&rsquo;t possess a belligerant nature. All the coaching in the world won&rsquo;t change that and Dick Irvin has probably realized that fact. But make no mistake about the guy&rsquo;s ability to take care of himself or his intestinal fortitude. Being one of the biggest men in the league has its assets. When Tony Leswick, a pugnacious little checker attempted to ride Beliveau down recently by jumping his full weight at him, Beliveau merely stuck out an elbow and Leswick bounced off.</p><p>He can take a square body-check and can dish one out although he&rsquo;s reluctant to throw his weight around. If Beliveau had a reputation among the players of being &ldquo;chicken&rdquo; everybody would know about it by now because in the NHL when you&rsquo;re a &ldquo;marked man&rdquo; somebody goes after you; and Beliveau hasn&rsquo;t been drawn into a fight yet. Not because he won&rsquo;t if he has to but because he commands respect as a clean, business-like workman.</p><div class="sidebar"><p>SELECTED FOR QUALITY</p><p>borby&rsquo;s</p><p>SPECIAL SELECTED WHISKY<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

f0007-03

Habs’ Qros Bill Lives Down Riding, Detractors Jump On Bandwagon

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>ew York&rsquo;s rabid rafter rebels were back in business last week, this time hurling lethal metal shuffle-board discs at members of the Tor onto Maple Leafs.</p><h2>&hellip;At Last</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0541/1045655-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="571" height="602"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JEAN BELIVEAU</b></figcaption></div><p>Made of chromium-plated cast iron and shaped like a puck, the first of these one-pound discs landed behind the Leafs while Madison Square Garden was in darkness during the playing of the National Anthem. The second landed near the Leaf cage during the final minute of play.</p><p>Tod Sloan turned the first disc over to King Clancy, the Leaf coach, who said: &ldquo;This thing could crush a man&rsquo;s skull.&rdquo;</p><p>The second disc was turned over to Ranger coach Muzz Patrick.</p><p>Leafs made no issue of the incident, which might have had serious results. They allowed that even by tightening vigilance after beer cans and other debris rained on the ice during the infamous Boom-Boom Geoffrion incident, the Madison Square Garden officials might have missed one or two troublemakers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0458/1045648-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="307" height="480"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eric Nesterenko</b></figcaption></div><p>* * *</p><h2>Quick Recovery</h2><p>Eric Nesterenko, the revitalized Toronto Maple Leaf right winger, was suffering severe chest pains as the result of a chest-on collision with Benny Woit in Toronto March 6.</p><p>As a result, coach King Clancy of the Leafs Was wary about employing the kid in New York the following night. But upon Eric&rsquo;s insistence, the King permitted Nester to play one shift in the first period to test his ailing chest.</p><p>Nesterenko responded by firing his 13th goal of the season less than 15 seconds after hitting the ice and played regularly thereafter.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Lum One Behind</h2><p>Harry Lumley meanwhile has pulled to within a goal of league-leading Terry Sawchuk in the race for the Vezina Trophy and the $1,000 that goes with it. Although the Leafs were beaten twice by the Boston Bruins on the weekend of March 13-14, Lumley had only five goals scored on him compared to Saw-chuk&rsquo;s seven for the weekend. The Wings also lost a pair in the two day series to the New York Rangers.</p><p>Lumley was beaten 3-1 In Maple Leaf Gardens on the Saturday and in the Sunday game in Boston the Leafs were blanked 2-0. The Rangers dumped the Wings 5-2 in Detroit and then bounced back to muzzle the big Detroit siege guns to the tune of a 2-0 victory in Madison Square Garden.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-05

Gotham Fans Throw Discs At Toronto

<div class="byline">By Marshal. Dann</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01145/1045686-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="318" height="462"></div><p>DETROIT, Mich&mdash;</p><p>Seems as if our Canadian cousins don&rsquo;t take their defeats in prescribed sportsmanlike fashion these days.</p><p>Not one word of congratulations toward Russia was heard here in the neutral zone after the Soviets replaced Canada as the new sovereign of the ice-ways.</p><p>The horrified uproar which followed the Stockholm deal was louder than if a new atom-spy scandal had been uncovered.</p><p><b>Nothing but howls came across the border. We thought the firmest note was sounded by Elmer Ferguson when he spoke of &ldquo;a national calamity, a national humiliation and a mortifying experience&rdquo;. Pure Churchillian, that phrase deserves preservation as a classic.</b></p><p>Conceded, Canadian officials carelessly sent boys out to do a man&rsquo;s job. So they got beat. The game was on the level to all reports so Russia obviously deserves the hour.</p><p>And all that talk about Canada having sent across a fifth-rate team to do battle. The Russians were quick to spot it as a desperation alibi by a &ldquo;decadent democracy&rdquo; in an effort to explain off the defeat to the citizens back in the Dominion.</p><p>Otherwise Pavel Korotkov, chief puck-carrier for the Kremlin, never would have stickhandled out with the statement about wanting the best available Canadian team to barnstorm in Russia.</p><p>Korotkov is a wise one and he knows that he&rsquo;s already seen the best Canada can offer.</p><p><b>It was heart-warming the way Conn Smythe answered</b> the <b>bugle and rushed to Canada&rsquo;s defense. His offer to personally lead a battalion of Toronto stick-bearers on a summertime safari into deepest USSR was a daring gamble&mdash;a calculated risk as the military say.</b></p><p>It would mean that Canada, already stripped of its amateur hockey supremacy, was staking its professional hockey reputation as well. Only the Montreal Canadiens would remain in reserve and the Canadiens rarely suit up for overseas duty.</p><p>While we in the United States aren&rsquo;t embroiled in this particular bit of international intrigue, we definitely are interested.</p><p>Especially since sinister undertones were noted in the Stockholm statements. Not about Russia winning but the claim that victory meant the &ldquo;World&rdquo; championship.</p><p><b>Just because they licked Canada was no reason for the Soviet to get so grabby. It should be called to their attention that the best team in hockey is in the U.S., the Detroit Red Wings.</b></p><p>Furthermore, the Wings also are interested in that so-called &ldquo;World&rdquo; title since it has been the custom to pin it on any team &bull;which wins the National Hockey League crown and the Stanley Cup the same season.</p><p>After the events at Stockholm we can&rsquo;t picture Pravda giving much ink to any future Detroit claims which might result. Russia would point out that it got there first.</p><p>And if Jack Adams should persist in his claims, the Qlympia might gain priority on the Kremlin&rsquo;s atom-bomb list.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-01

On Thin Ice

<p>MONTREAL, Que. &mdash;</p><p>Picking the All-Star left wingers this year is going to pose as something of a dilema for HOCKEY NEWS selectors.</p><p>While Ted Lindsay seems to be a far and away the best port-sider in the business today, he&rsquo;s getting a closer run for first place money than at any time in the past.</p><p>Canadiens&rsquo; Bert Olmstead, who placed second to Ted last year, has recovered from a slow start and right now is the second-highest scoring left winger in the league. But he&rsquo;s got two twenty-or-better goal scorers to contend with. Harry Watson, the big Toronto left Winger has already fired 21 goals and so has Sid Smith, also a Leaf portside bomber.</p><p>The Bruins top contender for All-Star left wing honors is big Eddie Sandford having one of his best seasons.</p><p>Another player who doesn&rsquo;t get too many rave notices yet is consistently a high-scorer is the Rangers&rsquo; Nick Mickoski. Big Nick has already fired 17 goals past opposing netminder this season.</p><p>Those are the top left wingers at this writing but the situation could conceivably change before the schedule runs out.</p><p>That&rsquo;s why we ask you to please note: Do not send in any ballots until all six have appeared. Any ballots received before that time will not be counted!</p><p>When you have filled in all the ballots, including the final one which will appear in the March 27 issue, you must send them in all together. There is one stipulation that is worthy of note, however. All letters containing ballots must be post marked no later than midnight March 31.</p><p>Each ballot has space for you to write the names of your first, second and third choice for each position. In the case of the right wingers you will be asked to fill in three names&mdash;and 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 bassis, with five points allotted for each first place vote, three for second and &lsquo;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 teorrid, 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 evtra time to make up your mind.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0299/1045752-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="286" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Sandford</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0374/1045745-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="290" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Horry Watson</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0446/1045738-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="297" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Smith</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0526/1045731-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="279" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bert Olmstead</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0622/1045724-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="306" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Nick Mickoski</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0718/1045717-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="283" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0008-02

Portsiders Next in All-Star Spotlight

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

Voting Rules

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0815/1045807-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="277" height="452"></div><p><b>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIES:</b></p><p>&ldquo;Mutiny on the Bounty&rdquo; & &ldquo;The Quiet Man.&rdquo; Prefers adventure pictures & those based upon the lives of well known people.</p><p><b>BEST ACTORS:</b></p><p>John Wayne, Gregory Peck & James Stewart.</p><p><b>BEST ACTRESSES:</b></p><p>Deborah Kerr & Vivien Leigh.</p><p><b>FAVORITE HOBBY:</b></p><p>Cars&mdash;repairing engines, tinkering with motors or working on anything mechanized.</p><p><b>BEST GIRL VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Rosemary Clooney.</p><p><b>BEST MALE VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Tony Bennett.</p><p><b>FAVORITE TYPE OF MUSIC:</b></p><p>Likes anything from semi-classical to Dixie. Is partial to South American music, especially tangos.</p><p><b>BEST CLASSICAL COMPOSITIONS:</b></p><p>&ldquo;Barber of Seville&rdquo; & &ldquo;Trees.&rdquo;</p><p><b>BEST POPULAR COMPOSITION:</b></p><p>&ldquo;Frenesl.&rdquo;</p><p><b>BEST COMPOSER:</b></p><p>George M. Cohan.</p><p><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRAS:</b></p><p>Guy Lombardo & Sammy Kaye</p><p><b>LIKES TO READ:</b></p><p>Stories by Erle Stanley Gardiner & Mickey Spillane.</p><p><b>BEST RADIO PROGRAM:</b></p><p>Jack Benny.</p><p><b>BEST TV PROGRAM:</b></p><p>Ed Sullivan&rsquo;s &ldquo;Toast of the Town.&rdquo;</p><p><b>WHEN RETIRED FROM PLAYING WOULD LIKE TO:</b></p><p>Has no plans at the moment.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</b></p><p>Sundridge, Ont.</p><p><b>AS A SUMMER PASTIME:</b></p><p>Likes boating, water skiing & swimming.</p><p><b>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY:</b></p><p>Being selected on 1949-50 All-Star team.</p><p><b>IN THE OFF-SEASON:</b></p><p>Lives in Toronto and relaxes.</p><p><b>SUPERSTITION:</b></p><p>Will not autograph a programme after he goes on the ice.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-08

Inside Stuff About Gus Mortson

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Lynn Patrick, coach of the Boston Bruins, doubts very much if sensational rookie Camille Henry of New York Rangers will be around the National Hockey League next season, but he was forced to admit that the youngster&rsquo;s feat of scoring four goals in a game against the Detroit Red Wings was indeed quite remarkable.</p><p>&ldquo;Henry&rsquo;s feat is remarkable in Itself,&rdquo; said Lynn. &ldquo;The fact that he has scored 24 goals is even more remarkable because he has been on the ice for such limited periods. Muzz is using him only on power plays, and these are not frequent. So he gets no regular turn. Yet he&rsquo;s scored more goals than a lot of players who are on there regularly. But the fact that he&rsquo;s on for power plays only helps him, in a way. He gets better chances for sniping when his team has a manpower advantage.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Four Goals For Henry

<h2>Stewart Did Too!</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen Cammille Henry pumped home four goals for the NY Rangers against the Detroit Red Wings, veteran hockey observers attempted to find out if any other rookie had accomplished the feat. Nets Stewart of Maroons did it in his rookie reason.</p><h2>Grateful Johnny</h2><p>When NY Hangers fans turned out to honor Johnny Mower, their great young twine-tender he promptly responded by hanging a shutout on the Detroit Red Wings. It marked the second straight night In which Dower repelled the high-scoring Detrolters.</p><h2>HOW THE RAGE GOES</h2><h3>(STANDINGS ON TUES. A.M. MAR. 16)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01129/1045977-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="590" height="183"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3><p>Wed Mar. 10th&mdash;Chicago 2 at Rangers 4</p><p>Thurs Mar. 11th&mdash;Toronto 3 at Cdns 0</p><p>Thurs Mar. 11th&mdash;Rangers 0 at Boston 1</p><p>Thurs. Mar. 11th&mdash;Chicago 2 at Detroit 6</p><p>Sat. Mar. 13th&mdash;Chicago 0 at Cdns 4</p><p>S&#1072;t. Mar. 13th&mdash;Boston 2 at Toronto 1</p><p>Sat. Mar. 13th&mdash;Rangers 5 at Detroit 2</p><p>Sun. Mar. 14 th&mdash;Cdns 6 at Chicago 0</p><p>Sun. Mar. 14th&mdash;Toronto 0 at Boston 3</p><p>Sun. Mar. 14th&mdash;Detroit 0 at Rangers 2</p><h3>SCHEDULED GAMES</h3><p>Tues. Mar. 16th&mdash;Detroit at Boston</p><p>Wed. Mar. 17th&mdash;Canadiens at Toronto</p><p>Thurs. Mar. 18th&mdash;Boston at Detroit</p><p>Fri, Mar. 19th&mdash;Boston at Chicago</p><p>Sat. Mar. 20th&mdash;Detroit at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Mar. 20&mdash;Rangers at Toronto</p><p>Sun. Mar. 21st&mdash;Canadiens at Rangers</p><p>Sun. Mar. 21st&mdash;Toronto at Detroit</p><p>Sun. Mar. 21st&mdash;Chicago at Boston.</p><h2>WEDNESDAY MARCH 10</h2><p><b>Chicago 4 at New York 4</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02109/1045970-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="588" height="570"></div><h2>THURSDAY MARCH 11</h2><p><b>Toronto 3 at Montreal 0</b></p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Horton. Flaman, Boivln, Morrison; forwards: Kennedy, Stewart. Bmith, Watson, Migay, Armstrong, Bloan, Nesterenko, Bailey, Balfour.</p><p><b>Montreal</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Bouchard. Johnson, Harvey, MacPher-lon; forwards: Mosdell, Davis, MacKay, Lach. Richard, Olmstead, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Moore, Meger, Masnick, Curry.</p><p>Referee: Red Storey; Linesmen: Bill Morrison and Bill Roberts.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0378/1045963-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="596" height="362"></div><h3>Boston 1 at New York 0</h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Relse, Irwin, Howell, Chrystal, Evans; forwards: Ronty, Hergesheimer, Prentice, Laprade, Mickoski, Guidolin, C. Henry, D. Bentley, M. Bentley; Kullman.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: J. Henry; defense: Quackenbush, Laycoe, Armstrong, Godfrey, Martin; forwards: Crelghton, La-bine, Mackell. Sandford, Gardner, Dumart, Schmidt, Bodnar, Mohns, Klukay, Peirson.</p><p>Referee: Bill Chadwick; linesmen: Doug Davies, Sam Babcock.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0467/1045956-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="586" height="314"></div><h3>Chicago 2 at Detroit 6</h3><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Gadsby, ogolin, Mortson, Zeidel. Price; forwards: Wharram, Jankowskl, Toppazzlni, Dewsbury, Mosienko, Conacher, L. Wilson, Gee, MacIntyre, Sas-akamoose.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham. Kelly, Woit, Arbour, Allen; forwards: Skov, Leswick, Pavelich, Reibel (Lindsay, Howe, Delvecchio, J. Wilson, Prystai, Dineen, Peters.</p><p>Referee: Jack Mehlenbacher; linesmen: George Hayes. Doug Young.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0555/1045949-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="588" height="590"></div><h2>SATURDAY, MARCH 13</h2><p><b>Chicago 0 at Montreal 4</b></p><p><b>Chicngo:</b> Goal; Rollins; defense: Mortson, Zeidel, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Gadsby; forwards: Wilson, Jankowskl, McIntyre, Mosienko, Conacher, Wharram, Gee, Toppazzinl, Price, Sasakamoose.</p><p><b>Montreal:</b> Goal; Plante; defense: Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson: forwards: Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Moore, Masnick, Curry, Meger, McCormack, Davis, Mazur.</p><p>Referee: Gerry Ollnsk; linesmen: Bill Roberts, Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0648/1045942-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="588" height="444"></div><h3>Boston 2 at Toronto 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0742/1045935-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="590" height="343"></div><h3>New York 5 at Detroit 2</h3><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Woit, Arbour, Allen; forwards: Skov, Leswick, Prystal, Pavelloh, Lindsay, Howe, Reibel, Delvecchio, Wilson, Dineen, Peters.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal: Bower; defense: Howell, Evans, Reise, Irwin, Chryta); forwards: Raleigh, Kullman, Mickoski, Laprade, Guidolin, D. Bentley, Ronty, Sonmor, Prentice, Henry, M. Bentley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01144/1045928-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="590" height="549"></div><h2>SUNDAY, MARCH 14</h2><p><b>Detroit 0 at New York 2</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02111/1045921-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="589" height="315"></div><h3>Toronto 0 at Boston S First Period</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0394/1045914-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="586" height="433"></div><h3>Montreal 6 at Chicago 0</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0469/1045907-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="598" height="617"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. MARCH 14)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0837/1045900-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="594" height="3121"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0937/1045893-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="590" height="654"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>amille Henry may not be the biggest player in the NHL but he&rsquo;s most certainly proving in his rookie season that ho&rsquo;s one of the scoringest.</p><p>To date the young Hanger rookie has fired 24 packs past opposition netminders and what makes this feat all the more remarkable is the fact that Camille the Eel isn&rsquo;t even a New York regular in the strict sense of the word. Oh, he dresses for almost every game but a good part of his time in every contest is spent on the bench watching the bigger members of the Blues perform.</p><p>They say that little Camille is a specialist, strickly good when the Rangers have a man advantage. That may be so, but if he&rsquo;s a specialist, then he&rsquo;s certainly one of the best in the business right now. With Henry, the Bentley brothers, Paul Ronty, and Wally Hergesheimer before his injury, the Rangers had one of the best ganging attacks in the NHL.</p><p>Probably the biggest thrill of Camille&rsquo;s short career thus far came on Saturday March 13 against the league champion Detroit Red Wings. That night the Rangers defeated the Wings by a 5-2 count and The Eel scored four of his team&rsquo;s goals, two of them within 33 seconds of each other in the third period to salt away the victory for the Blueshirts.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1035/1046008-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="286" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Camilla Henry</b></figcaption></div><p>These four goals, coupled with the marker he picked up in Rangers 4-2 win over Chicago on March 10th and his assist in the 2-0 win over Detroit on March 14, gave him five goals and an assist for the week and boosted his totals to 24-15-39.</p><p>In the half-way voting for the Rookie-of-the-Year award, Earl Reibel of the Detroit Red Wings won the balloting with Henry running second. The way the Ranger rifler has &lsquo;come-on&rsquo; in the second half of the schedule, it&rsquo;s going to be very hard indeed for Reibel to hang on and win the Calder Memorial Trophy and the $1,000 that goes with it.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IN THIS ISUSE

Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The question of whether the coach makes the team, or the team makes the coach will probably be argued as long as sports exist.</p><p>Most coaches will admit that it takes the &ldquo;horses&rdquo; to win. In that respect Frank Eddolls, doesn&rsquo;t differ from his coaching brethern.</p><p>But Eddolls does stand apart this season from the rest of his profession in the way that he has led Buffalo&rsquo;s rags-to-riches climb from the AHL basement to first place.</p><p>In short, the one-time New York Ranger captain has turned in hockey&rsquo;s coaching job of the year.</p><p>The statement is easy to make; but even easier to prove.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0557/1046053-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="287" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Slowinski</b></figcaption></div><p>The doughty little helmsman spent last summer selling every Buffalo hockey fan he came in contact with that the Bisons were going to be the &ldquo;Cinderella Club&rdquo; of hockey this season. Last season, Eddolls&rsquo; first as Buffalo bench boss, the Herd finished a sad last.</p><p>Now he was on record as predicting nothing short of a complete reversal. And he had to produce&mdash;Or lose face.</p><h2>Cleaned House</h2><p>Talent wise, Eddolls and General Manager Fred Hunt cleaned house. Only Jacques Plante, Pierre Pilote, Gord Pennell, and Eddolls himself remained from the 1952-53 crew.</p><p>When Big Ed Slowinski and Gaye Stewart former teammates of Eddolls in New York, were secured by the Bisons, many felt Frank would run into trouble in handling old buddies as subordinates in the ranks.</p><p>It&rsquo;s sufficient to say that the three still remain the, best of friends, and Ed and Gaye have been the class of the league in their positions.</p><p>So-called castoffs, Harry Taylor, Joe Lund, and Steve Wochy, also were secured by Buffalo&mdash;and Eddolls has had them operating at peak effectiveness all season.</p><h2>Rookies Come Through</h2><p>Rookies Don Marshall, Russ Kowalchuk, Pete Wright, and Rollie Rousseau all have developed under Eddolls&rsquo; handling. Marshall has been so outstanding that he&rsquo;s a sure bet for &ldquo;Rookie-of-the-Year&rdquo; honors.</p><p>Right winger Ken Hayden, who some tried to smear as a &ldquo;hard to handle&rdquo; guy, has been a valuable cog in the Bison machine&mdash;and has brought the coach no grief at all.</p><p>&ldquo;The credit for the way the club has performed all year belongs with the players,&rdquo; Eddolls modestly insists. &ldquo;That they&rsquo;ve come through for me is to their credit not mine.</p><p>&ldquo;Everyone without exception has done a good job, and I&rsquo;m proud to have been the guy giving the orders.&rdquo;</p><h2>Bisons &ldquo;Up&rdquo;</h2><p>While Eddolls shies away from his just due, no one can deny that he&rsquo;s had his club &ldquo;up&rdquo; for every key game the Bisons have played this season.</p><p>In the early weeks of the campaign when Hershey and Pittsburgh were threatening Buffalo&rsquo;s claim on first place, the Eddolls-men knocked them over in each important tilt.</p><p>Then, when Buffalo&rsquo;s archrival and moreoften-than-not conqueror Cleveland took up the chase, Eddolls really had his club going in strong fashion.</p><p>Three times the two clubs clashed with first place riding on the outcome, and although two of the games were in the Ohio City, Buffalo roared through to victory.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0741/1046046-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="294" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gaye Stewart</b></figcaption></div><h2>Best Road Record</h2><p>Other feathers in the coaching cap of the 32-year-old Eddolls include the fact that the Bisons have won the season&rsquo;s series from every other team without exception, and the team currently boasts the best road record in the history of hockey in the city.</p><p>And just to make the Eddolls story complete, Frank himself is just six assists away from becoming the greatest palymaking defenseman the AHL has ever boasted.</p><p>Yes, bossing others or doing the job himself, Eddolls has turned in THE outstanding coaching performance of the year.</p><h2>&ldquo;Credit Belongs With Players&rdquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0653/1046039-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="1166" height="1834"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANKIE EDDOLLS&hellip; &hellip;Moulded A Winner</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Eddolls Key Figure In Bisons’ Rags-To-Ritches Story

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“Captain organ’s intown”

<p class="dropcap"><span>P</span>ALMERSTON, Ont.&mdash;You can&rsquo;t tell the players even with a program in the Intercounty Intermediate Hockey League, because eight of them on the Teviotdale Tigers are all named Ross.</p><p>The eight cousins, who have been playing together since the days they batted broomsticks at frozen apples, led their team to the top of the league this year.</p><p>The number one forward line, Ray, Bert and Ralph, finished one-two-three in the league scoring race with a total of 181 points.</p><p>The Ross family Includes a set of forwards, two defense-men, a coach, and a goalkeeper.</p><p>Allan Ross, who sold his skates, Is the coach. Ray, Bert and Ralph make up the line and Gordon, Lloyd, Sinclair and Warren help out.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Unique Team!

<h2>Made It</h2><p>Hershey Bears capped an uphill climb when they Jumped into second place, three points ahead of Cleveland Barons.</p><h2>New Record</h2><p>George (Red) Sullivan set a new AHL assist record when he tallied his 79th helping of the season.</p><h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><h3>(STANDINGS TUES A.M. MARCH 16)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01143/1046223-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="588" height="212"></div><h2>TUESDAY MARCH 9 Pittsburgh 1 at Hershey 8</h2><p>KERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Hershey Hears took ever second place in the American Hockey League standing from Pittsburgh by&rsquo; trouncing the Hornets 8-1.</p><p>The Hershey victory clinched first place for the idle Buffalo Bisons.</p><p>Arnie Kullman paced the winners with three goals. AHL scoring leader George (Red) Sullivan got two, despite suffering a gashed cheek from an OPPONENT&rsquo;s stick that kept him out of action for most of the second period.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02109/1046216-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="600" height="652"></div><h2>WEDNESDAY MARCH 10 Hershey 1 at Pittsburgh 4</h2><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;Hershey Bears spotted Pittsburgh a one-goal lead at the end of the first period but roared back for a 7-4 victory in an American Hockey League game.</p><p>The Bears took a commanding threepoint grip on second place in the AHL standings as a result of their victory ever the third-place Hornets, their second in as many nights.</p><p>Arnie Kullman scored twice for the winners, whose other goals were scored by Andy Branigan, Lorne Watters, Dune Fisher, Don McKenney and Obie O&rsquo;Brien. Frank Mathers, Bobby Hassard, Willie Marshall and Andy Barbe were the Hornet Marksmen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0389/1046209-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="600" height="696"></div><h3>Cleveland 2 at Providence 6</h3><p>PROVIDENCE, R. I.&mdash;Providence Reds left the American Hockey League cellar by downing Cleveland Barons 6-2.</p><p>Paul Lariv&eacute;e, Tod Campeau, Zellio Toppazzini, Ken Davies, Al Bacarri and Bd Kryzanowski ran up a 6-0 lead for the winners before Gus Karrys and Eddie Olson put the Barons on the scoresheet is the last period.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0466/1046202-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="592" height="645"></div><h2>FRIDAY, MARCH 12 Pittsburgh 2 at Cleveland 4</h2><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;An 80-foot floater by defenceman Tommy Williams found the net for the clinching goal as Cleveland Barons downed Pittsburgh Hornets 4-2.</p><p>The victory moved the Barons within a point of third-place Pittsburgh.</p><p>Andy Bathgate, Chuck Blair and Ray Ceresino were the other Cleveland marksmen while Willie Marshall and Frank Sullivan tallied for the losers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0556/1046195-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="590" height="580"></div><h3>Providence 2 at Hershey 7</h3><p>HERSHEY&mdash;George (Red) Sullivan broke the American&rsquo; Hockey League record for assists by setting up three goals as Hershey Bears walloped Providence Reds 7-2.</p><p>While Sullivan&rsquo;s total of 79 assists wiped out Ab Demarco&rsquo;s mark of 76, set three years ago with Buffalo Bisons, line-mate Lorne Ferguson paced the Bears with his fourth three-goal performance of the year.</p><p>Dune Fisher, Skip Teal, Arnie Kullman and Don McKenney completed the Hershey total as the Bears broke loose in the last period after being held to a 1-1 tie in the first two frames. Pete Kapusta and playing coach Pat Egan were the Providence goal-getters.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0652/1046188-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="586" height="724"></div><h3>Buffalo 3 at Pittsburgh 5</h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Coach Aldege (Baz) Bastlen, who hasn&rsquo;t worn a player&rsquo;s uniform for years, received a misconduct penalty as his Pittsburgh Hornets game from behind to nip Buffalo Bison 5-3.</p><p>The Hornet coach received his sentence for slapping the side of the Tink with a stick during the third period. Defenceman Chuck Lumsden served the sentence for his boss, who hung up his skates as the team&rsquo;s goaltender in 1949.</p><p>Eddie Slowinskl, Ken Hayden and Gaye Stewart staked the Bisons to a three-goal lead in the first period but two goals by Parker MacDonald and singletons Andy Barbe, Bob Sabourin and Johnny McLellan accounted for the Pittsburgh Victory,</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0843/1046181-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="586" height="761"></div><h3>Providence 2 at Cleveland 6</h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Cleveland Barons Providence Reds 6-2 in a penalty-studded game that saw five men in the cooler at one stretch during the second period.</p><p>Eddie Olson sparked the Baron attack with his 34th and 35th goals of the year. Fred Shero, Ed Reigle, Andy Bathgate and Jack Gordon were the other Cleveland goal-getters. The Red marksmen were Ken Davies and Gerry Couture.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0942/1046174-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="583" height="688"></div><p>SYRACUSE&mdash;Lorne Ferguson scored three goals for the second time in as many nights but rookie Ken Schinkel&rsquo;s third period goal gave the lowly Syracuse Warriors a 4-4 tie against Hershey Bears.</p><p>Don Perry, Eric Pogue and Sheldon Bloomer got the remaining Syracuse tallies while Skip Teal accounted far the fourth Hershey marker.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1038/1046167-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="586" height="786"></div><h2>SUNDAY MARCH 14 Pittsburgh 3 at Cleveland 4</h2><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Late third-period goals by Fred Glover, his second of the game, and Fred Shero gave Cleveland Barons a 4-3 victory over Pittsburgh Hornets that moved the victors past Pittsburgh into third place in the American Hockey League.</p><p>Eddie Reigle fired the fourth Cleveland goal while the losers&rsquo; marker! were scored by Bob Sabourin, Willie Marshall and Frank Sullivan.</p><p>Pittsburgh forward Johnny McLellan was taken to hospital with a three-inch gash in the back of his head after a third-period collision with rookie Baron defenseman Murray Wilkie.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1229/1046160-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="578" height="573"></div><h3>Syracuse 2 at Providence 3</h3><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Three goals by Paul Larivee helped Providence Reds to turn over the American Hockey League cellar to Syracuse with an 8-1 victory over the Warriors.</p><p>Tod Campeau added two Providence tallies and Chuch Scherza. Ken Davies and Pete Kapueta got the others. Eric Pogue and Ted Power were the Syracuse Marksmen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0470/1046153-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="582" height="690"></div><h2>Record Breaker</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0745/1046146-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="580" height="606"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RED SULLIVAN</b></figcaption></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN., MARCH 14)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1131/1046139-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="589" height="557"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Lorne Ferguson, Hershey, 42.</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> George Sullivan, Hershry, 82.</p><p><b>Most Penalties by a Player:</b> Larry Cahan, Pittsburgh, 165 mts.</p><p><b>Most Penalties by a Team:</b> Cleveland, 784 mts.</p><p><b>Best Goalie:</b> Jacques Plante, Buffalo 55, 148, 3. 2.69.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> Emile Francis, Cleveland, 4.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HUGH WATSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01156/1046254-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>POP&rdquo; GRANT&hellip; &hellip;Greatest Day</b></figcaption></div><p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>John C. (Pop) Grant, 84, whose hockey playing career never advanced any higher than, &lsquo;shinny,&rsquo; died March 1 in a downtown club surrounded by the men he adored.</p><p>He died of a heart attack shortly after greeting, and being greeted affectionately, by members of the Old Timers&rsquo; hockey faction at a luncheon given in their honor the afternoon of the big game at the Vancouver Forum.</p><p>Pop, who had his ticket to the Old Timers game that night, had even hired a photographer to have his picture taken with the greats of yesteryear. He even made a little speech, said a temporary &ldquo;goodbye, see you at the game,&rdquo; and walked into the lobby and died.</p><p>Jimmy Ward was the first to reach his side. &ldquo;Jimmy,&rdquo; said Pop, &ldquo;this has been the greatest day of my life.&rdquo; While his idol, Lester Patrick, stood by. Pop was taken to Vancouver General hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.</p><h2>Suffers Heart Attack<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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John ‘Pop’ Grant Dies In Vancouver

<div class="byline">By AL OSTROM</div><p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>When the boys begin picking the All-Stars in the Western Hockey League this season, they are going to find a most unusual situation confronting them.</p><p>This situation concerns two Seattle Bomber forwards&mdash;center Guyle Fielder and left wing Wayne Brown.</p><p>Guyle is having a terrific year; ditto for Brown. As a playmaker, nobody in the league can touch Guyle when it comes to stick-handling. And what is more important, when it comes to laying perfect passes on the sticks of his teammates.</p><p>As for Brown, he not only has scored more goals than enyone in the WHL, but more than any sniper in pro hockey. Now in his third season among the play-for-pay boys, Brownie&rsquo;s success can be attributed to three things: 1&mdash;his tremendously powerful shot, 2&mdash;his great skating speed, and 3&mdash;Guyle Fielder.</p><p>As for the problem confronting the All-Star selectors, here it is&mdash;</p><h2>1-2 In Scoring</h2><p>Fielder and Brown are 1-2 in scoring. Fielder leads in assists and total points and Brown, in second place, has a big lead in goals.</p><p>By all rights, both should be a lead-pipe cinch for All-Star, but how can you put both on the elite team when they play for a cellar club? Seattle has been in the WHL basement since shortly before coach Muzz Patrick pulled stakes and left for New York.</p><p>It seems to be a question of &ldquo;how can you put them on and how can you leave them off?&rdquo;</p><p>At the moment, Fielder seems to have the greatest backing among the various WHL hockey reporters and &lsquo;casters. Since Patrick left early in January, Guyle has been going at a fantastic clip. As the Bombers headed for their final eight games of the year, he was hitting for an average of 2.47 points per game On five occasions he picked up four or more points, and although not a prolific scorer, nabbed one hat trick.</p><p>If he continues his present pace, he will erase the all-time WHL scoring record of 101 points, set by New Westminster&rsquo;s Bobby Love in 1948-49. That total may elude him, as the Bombers must play most of their games on the road from here on in, but the league assist mark will surely fall to this play-making magician. Mel Read of Tacoma set the record (67) in 1949-50.</p><p>Fielder&rsquo;s recent performance in Seattle against Edmonton, which, saw him set up four scoring plays, caused Edmonton broadcaster Art Ward to remark&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;There should be a law against Fielder.&rdquo;</p><h2>Big Following</h2><p>Brown, who was a favorite at nearby Tacoma before it withdrew from the league, now has a tremendous following in Seattle. Always a hustling performer, but never a severe threat to the opposing goalies, the little demon left wing has developed a shot which now causes them to shiver when he lays his stick on the puck anywhere inside the blue line.</p><p>Many of Brown&rsquo;s goals have come from the point, where he has been used consistantly all season. However, his favorite shooting place is from about 35 feet out and off to the side. He aims for that upper right hand, corner and really unloads a brutal shot.</p><p>Along with playing-coach Bud Poile of Edmonton and New Westminster&rsquo;s Gordy Fashoway, Brownie is usually credited with having the most powerful drive in the league.</p><p>His pace since January has been only a little less sensational than Fielder&rsquo;s. His average of 2.1 per game, plus three hat tricks, will be hard to overlook. He is also nearing Doug Adam&rsquo;s season goal record of 53.</p><p>And that&rsquo;s the problem&hellip;which one should be given the most consideration for All-Star, Fielder the play-maker, or Brown the goal-maker? Both are equally important to the game. Where would one be without the other?</p><p>It would seem extremely unlikely that the voters would consider both of them in view of the fact their club is in the cellar, and has only an outside chance of finishing as high as sixth.</p><p>And yet, how can you overlook either of them when both may set new scoring standards for the league?</p><p>Any suggestions?</p><h2>Top Sniper</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02110/1046285-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="487" height="862"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WAYNE BROWN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Brown-Fielder One-Two Punch For Cellar-Dwelling Bombers

<div class="byline">Watson</div><p>VANCOUVER, B. C.&mdash;The &lsquo;Blues&rsquo; defeated the &lsquo;Whites&rsquo;</p><p>8-3 before a packed house at the Forum in the third annual Old Timers&rsquo; hockey game.</p><p>Once again it was a personal triumph for Neil and Mac Colville and Alex Shibicky, the former New York Ranger greats.</p><p>That one line picked up six points between them.</p><p>Lester Patrick, The Stiver Fox, directed the winners, and Duke Keats prodded the Whites.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Oldtimers Pack Forum

<h2>Quakers Lead</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>askatoon leads all clubs in scoring goals when an opponent was in the penalty box. The Quakers have scored 31 goals with the man advantage. They have also scored the most goals when playing at a man disadvantage, 9.</p><h2>Gump on Top</h2><p>Lorne Worsley continues to lead the goalkeepers with a 2.41 goals against per game average. Bill Bren-nan&rsquo;s 7 shntputs looks safe at this time. Lloyd Durham of New Westminster has taken over the &lsquo;bad man&rsquo; honors with 145 minutes in the penalty coup.</p><h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><h3>(STANDINGS WED. A.M. MARCH 10)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01163/1046445-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="608" height="230"></div><h3>RESULTS</h3><p><b>Monday March 1st</b></p><p>Edmonton 3 at Victoria 4 Calgary 1 at Saskatoon 8</p><p><b>Thursday March 4th</b></p><p>Calgary 3 at Saskatoon 2</p><p><b>Friday March 5th</b></p><p>Seattle 1 at Vancouver 4 New West. 1 at Victoria 8</p><p><b>Saturday March 6th</b></p><p>Vancouver 3 at New West. 6 Edmonton 4 at Calgary 2 Seattle 4 at Victoria 2</p><p>Seattle home game</p><h2>MONDAY MARCH 1 Edmonton 3 at Victoria 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02130/1046438-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="594" height="572"></div><h3>Calgary 1 at Saskatoon S</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03108/1046431-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="592" height="362"></div><h2>THURSDAY, MARCH 4 Calgary 3 at Saskatoon 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0492/1046424-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="592" height="384"></div><h2>FRIDAY MARCH 5 Seattle 1 at Vancouver 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0576/1046417-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="590" height="414"></div><h3>New Westminster 1 at Victoria 8</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0665/1046410-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="584" height="681"></div><h2>SATURDAY MARCH 6 Vancouver 3 at New Westminster 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1050/1046403-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="592" height="598"></div><h3>Edmonton 4 at Calgary 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1145/1046396-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="586" height="466"></div><h3>Seattle 4 at Victoria 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1241/1046389-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="590" height="400"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAME SAT. MARCH 6)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1331/1046382-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="590" height="1412"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1431/1046375-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="592" height="314"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1526/1046368-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="594" height="330"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1616/1046361-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="588" height="266"></div><h2>No Coal</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0756/1046354-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="1770" height="1310"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>THWARTED&mdash;Victoria goalie Ralph Almas reaches away out and knocks the puck off the Bomber sniper down enough for Almas to get (4), just visible behind Marquess, slowed the stick of Seattle&rsquo;s Mark Marquess. Ross Lowe himself out of danger. In the background is Victoria S Doug Anderson (6).</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photo)</span></figcaption></div><h2>WHL&rsquo;s Top-Assisters</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0851/1046347-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="534" height="1238"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUYLE FIELDER</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0950/1046340-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="532" height="1244"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE DOROHOY</b></figcaption></div><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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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By LLOYD McGOWAN</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Note to Ken McKenzie, one of my favorite goffing partners and publisher of The Hockey News:</p><p>Kenneth, if you ever decide to run a feature in your very good paper entitled, &ldquo;What Are They Doing Now?&rdquo;, I wish to lead off with Jack Cain, a rugged defenseman who campaigned in Ontario junior and senior circles and in the Quebec League.</p><p>You see, Mr. Cain will shortly make his debut as a tenor on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House.</p><p>Hockey players have for years skated to fame on the ice and used the pastime as an elevator to fortune in later life.</p><p>Jack Cain, you guess, is the first puckchaser to skate onto stage of The Met. Jack&rsquo;s vocal teachers in New York told him that perhaps the healthful exercise in playing hockey had undoubtedly contributed to the development of his voice.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01168/1046483-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="270" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jock Cain</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02116/1046476-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="276" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lloyd McGowan</b></figcaption></div><p>You have known hockeyists in the past who fancied themselves like the barber in the &lsquo;Barber of Seville&rdquo;, but the only one who almost made the Met was Ken McAdam, once the property of the Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>Then there was Wildor Larochelle, the Sorel Skyrocket, who always attended performances at the Metropolitan whenever possible on visits to New York with Canadiens. The Skyrocket often paid as much as $10 for a ticket, but always attended alone. Nobody else on the club was operatic-minded. They went for the movie Westerns.</p><p>Larochelle always regretted tht he never caught up with Caruso.</p><h2>Was Rough, Tough Rarguard</h2><p>Anyway, here we are with Jack Cain, about as tough a defenseman as they came a dozen years ago, about to sing tenor at The Met.</p><p>Cain now lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children. They are all fighting hard, he said in a recent letter, against talking Brooklynese.</p><p>Jack sent along the letter because he was going through some hockey clippings recently and found several reports that I had written. Jack Cain of The Met once called Lloyd McGowan&hellip;&ldquo;my favorite sports writer&rdquo;.</p><p>You might as well let that go, Kenneth, for if I don&rsquo;t say it nobody else will!</p><p>Five years ago Cain was told that he &ldquo;had a voice&rdquo; and he has been studying to make the Metropolitan. Only recently he was assured of success - &ldquo;As a tenor, no less&rdquo;, he wrote, &ldquo;and that&rsquo;s a far cry from Sylvio Mantha&rsquo;s Concordias of the Quebec Hockey League&rdquo;.</p><p>Jack said to tell Ernie Mundey, an old teammate, that if he sees him on a television screen shortly not to be frightened&hellip;&rdquo; because he usually dies before the end of the performance&rdquo;.</p><p>So, what parts did Mr. Jack Cain hope to sing?</p><p>Well, he wasn&rsquo;t choosy, he said. He couldn&rsquo;t be the barber in &ldquo;Seville&rdquo; because he was a baritone. He might be the Don Jose, the corporal of the dragoons, in Carmen&hellip;or Lieutenant Pinkerton, the American, in Madame Butterfly or the tenor in Faust.</p><p>&ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t matter&rdquo;, Jack wrote, &ldquo;but you may be sure I&rsquo;ll be in good voice on payday&rdquo;.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Former QSHL Player Now Singing At Met

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Since the dark ages when cavemen tossed rocks at one another&rsquo;s noggins, there has been no game played where it was possible to pocket the marbles before they were won.</p><p>Not until the sharp-thinking solons of the Quebec Hockey League found a way. The Val-leyfield Braves faced by the law of rapidly deminishing returns were in financial straits, needed help from league to carry on.</p><p>When it was suggested that the QHL dip into its reserve fund, which, it is now whispered, has passed $40,000, and come to the aid of the Valleyfield party to the tune of $10,000, most of the QHL owners were deaf, and none had hearing aids.</p><p>The meeting to consider the pleas of the Braves was adjourned for a week, mainly so the boys could talk things over in the backroom. A week later, realizing full well that the Braves must get help or have extreme difficulty finishing out their schedule, the adroit financiers of the QHL came up with a novel plan.</p><h2>High Finance</h2><p>It was decided to advance the Braves $6,000 of their expected share of the playoff pool, which it is anticipated will be more than this sum, whether the Braves finish fifth or sixth in the final standing.</p><p>Another $5,000 to carry the Braves through on their well-shaved budget plan was advanced out of current league account. This is secured by a lien on Braves&rsquo; assets in the league; equity in the reserve fund, etc.</p><p>Thus the Braves will finish out their schedule going full belt, and everyone connected with the Slater circuit wound up appeased, or sympathetic.</p><p>As the loop free-wheeled into its last week the tense battle for first place by the Chicoutiml Sagueneens and Montreal Royals was maintained and there is a general opinion that this will be a nip-and-tuck race right down to the wire.</p><h2>Coaches Take Bows</h2><p>On all sides Pete Morin is taking well-deserved bows for the fash he has kept steam up among his athletes and made it a powerful fighting force despite the frequent changes caused by jockeying with his talent by Dick Irvin of the parent NHL Canadiens. There were many Saturday mornings when Morin wasn&rsquo;t sure of his line-up for two weekend games until Irvin had a roll call of his Habitant battle strength.</p><p>At the same time kudos is due, too, to Rollie Hebert for the man-sized job he has done with, this Sagueneens. Recent past performance charts indicate few repeaters for first place from year to year and the fact that the Chicks have been either in first place or tied for first place the better part of the season, put him among the game&rsquo;s outstanding leaders.</p><p>While the two teams were thus see-sawing for the top honors as the schedule was grinding towards its end, there was a spirited struggle going on between Royals Bob Perreault and Sagueneens Phil Hughes for the Vesina Memorial Trophy.</p><p>Perreault held a slight lead, but things were in Hughes&rsquo; favor because The Chicks had played two more games. This difference of course will be erased in the final week, and it appeared certain that the winner would only boast a scant margin of one or two tallies at the final audit.</p><h2>Kudos Due</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0383/1046514-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="538" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROLLIE HEBERT</b></figcaption></div><div class="sidebar"><p>Lloyd Percival, Director of Sports College, endorses BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Braves Get Advance From League In Order To Finish Out Season

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0650/1046545-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Perfect Combination&hellip;Geoffrion, Beliveau, Moore Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; new &lsquo;Big Line&rsquo; of Jean Beliveau, Bernis Geoffrioa and Dickie Moore exploded last week for fourteen points between them. Big Jean scored a total of three goals and had a pair of assists for five points, the Boomer had a pair of goals and three helpings while Moore chipped In with a goal and three assists for four points.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0014-06

The Perfect Combination—Quality! Freshness! Price!

<h2>Chics Lead</h2><p>Chicoutimi Sagueneens have taken four point lead over Montreal Royals in the tight QUI. race.</p><h2>Irish Boy!</h2><p>Pick Wray of Royals, born in Rashee, Ireland, celebrated St. Patrick&rsquo;s day by scoring two goals.</p><h2>HOW THE RAGE GOES</h2><h3>(STANDINGS TUES. A.M. MARCH.16)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01137/1046688-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="600" height="238"></div><h2>TUESDAY MARCH 9 Sherbrooke 4 at Montreal S</h2><p><b>Sherbrooke:</b> Goal, Gatherum; defence, May, Bownaas, Palamar, Ehman; forwards, Dube, Rawlyk, Podolsky, Brown, McLean, Irving. Stankiewlcz, Brune-teau, Johnson, Malo.</p><p><b>Montreal:</b> Goal, Perreault; defence. Roche, Harmon. Hollingworth, L&eacute;ger; forwards, Frampton. Wray, Tessler. Blaine, Denis, Litzenberger. Desaulniers, Burcbeli, Gamble, Laplants.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02107/1046681-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="594" height="818"></div><h3>Sherbrooke 1 at Ottawa 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0391/1046674-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="604" height="676"></div><h3>Vallyfield 5 at Springfield 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0467/1046667-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="596" height="662"></div><h3>Chicoutimi 2 at Quebec 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0640/1046660-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="596" height="526"></div><h2>THURSDAY MARCH 11 Chicoutimi 4 at Valleyfield 1</h2><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal; Hughes; defense: Glaude, Talllefer, Roy, Lamlrande; forwards: White, Buchanan, Perreault, Leger, L. Smrke, S. Smrke, Locas, Duesault, Groleau, Moore.</p><p><b>Valleyfield</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette; defense: Ernst, Irvine, Collins, Needham; forwards: Joannette, Bisaillon, Corriveau, Bougie, Thomson, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Leclerc.</p><p>Referee: Bibby Mundey; linesmen: Percy Reynolds, Marcel Bessette.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0733/1046653-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="594" height="566"></div><h2>SATURDAY MARCH 13 Montreal 3 at Sherbrooke S</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0827/1046646-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="590" height="720"></div><h3>Springfield 8 at Ottawa 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1124/1046639-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="592" height="618"></div><h2>SUNDAY, MARCH 14 Springfield 8 at Montreal 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1319/1046632-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="594" height="960"></div><h3>Ottawa 5 at Quebec 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1418/1046625-1-eng-US/f0015-142.jpg" title="f0015-14" width="590" height="702"></div><h3>Vallyfield 0 at Chicoutimi 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1518/1046618-1-eng-US/f0015-152.jpg" title="f0015-15" width="592" height="428"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN., MARCH 14)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1618/1046611-1-eng-US/f0015-162.jpg" title="f0015-16" width="594" height="1158"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1718/1046604-1-eng-US/f0015-172.jpg" title="f0015-17" width="606" height="708"></div><h2>These Three&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0551/1046597-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="574" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SKIPPY BURCHELL</b></figcaption></div><h2>&hellip;Fighting&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0927/1046590-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="566" height="1364"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RIP RIOPELLE</b></figcaption></div><h2>Top Scorer</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1025/1046583-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="536" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LEO GRAVELLE</b></figcaption></div><h2>&hellip;For Lead</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1222/1046576-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="532" height="554"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ANDRE CORRIVEAU</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0015-01

QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Northern Ontario re-acted very favorably to the news that the OHA vs NOHA winner in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; would be awarded the beautiful W. A. Hewitt trophy &hellip; it will be up for competition for the first time this year&hellip;popular Mr. Hewitt, of course, has long been recognized as one of the finest men in sport anywhere&hellip;the North is proud to be able to compete for such a fine trophy &hellip; so at last the All-Ontario senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; champions &ldquo;Will have a trophy to shoot for in addition to an advanced step along the tough Allan Cup trail&hellip;Trouble for Sudbury!&hellip;fiery Pete Horeck slugged referee Doug McCullough of Timmins after receiving a minor penalty in the fourth game of the Southern Division senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; semi-finals in North Bay &hellip; he received a match penalty and automatically suspended until the NOHA hears his case &hellip; it came at a very inopportune time since the Southern Division finals follow, and, if Horeck is out any length of time it will break up the vaunted forward line of Eddie Harrison, Bob Dawes and Pete Horeck &hellip; on top of that the Sudbury Wolves are not &ldquo;out of the woods&rdquo; yet in the semi-finals and need players like Horeck to see them through &hellip; at this writing North Bay was still in there pitching against the power-packed Sudbury crew&hellip;Horeck slugged the ref on the jaw twice in a fit of anger&hellip;bad business:&hellip;bad business!! &hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01142/1046719-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="586" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PETE HORECK</b></figcaption></div><p>Port Arthur Bearcats and Fort Frances Canadiens hooked up in quite a battle in the Thunder Bay Senior Hockey League semi-finals&hellip;Fort Frances grabbed the series opener, but the &lsquo;Cats came back to tie it up on a sizzling 4-3 triumph&hellip;Mat Vukovich, one of the finest players in the circuit, emerged the top star on two goals for Port Arthur&hellip;Mike Hupchuck continues to sparkle for Fort Frances, long a stellar name in Ontario senior hockey&hellip;Norm Berglund and Pete Polowski are playing with Port Arthur&hellip;both very fine players with a wonderful competitive spirit &hellip;. Red Ink!&hellip;don&rsquo;t mention that kind of ink to Pete Palangio, immensely popular Boss of North Bay Trappers!!&hellip;his club was something like $11,000 in the red toward the end of the schedule&hellip;fans held a &ldquo;MEET YOUR TRAPPERS&rdquo; banquet and raised $2,000 via a $25-per-plate setup &hellip; it was quite a &ldquo;do&rdquo; and a real tribute to the mighty fine hockey fans in the splendid Gateway City&hellip;but that deficit! Wow!!&hellip;</p><p>Bracebridge Bears eliminated Gravenhurst from the Intermediate &ldquo;B&rdquo; playoffs in a thrilling series and zoomed right into the next round against the strong Sundridge Beavers&hellip;Sundridge won the series opener, but Bracebridge came back to win the second game &hellip; at this writing, Sundridge leads 2-1 in the series after a hard-fought third game won by Sundridge, 5-2 before a lorge crowd in Bracebridge&hellip;Anderson, Mogridge, Hill and Kidd starred for Sundridge, while Ronnie Rowe once again was brilliant for Bracebridge&hellip;It didn&rsquo;t pay Walter Grant, manager of the Porcupine Combines, to use a player under suspension&hellip;the NOHA slapped a one-year suspension on Grant for using a player under suspension pending a ruling on a match penalty &hellip; a protest was filed by New Liskeard &lsquo;Cubs of the Porcupine Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; League&hellip;actually, the protest was disallowed but Grant was suspendedAmos for the 1954&hellip;</p><h2>Wilf Cude Reinstated</h2><p>Wilf Cude, coach of Noranda Toilers in the NOHA Juvenile &ldquo;A&rdquo; League, was reinstated by the NOHA&hellip; Cude was suspended indefinitely after he yanked his team from the ice during a playoff contest with Rouyn&hellip;. Lorne Miller, secretary-treasurer of the NOHA, explained that Cude was not given the mandatory two-minute warning by the referees to return his team to the ice&hellip;Cude said he pulled his team to thwart play getting out of control&hellip;referees Frank St. Laurent and Al Couture, who had been suspended along with Cude, were also put back into the good graces of the NOHA&hellip;Cude formerly played in goal for Montreal Canadiens and Detroit Red Wings, later doing an outstanding job as scout for the two organizations&hellip; I had the pleasure of meeting Wilf a number of years ago and can say that he has done a tremendous amount of good for minor hockey&hellip;many a youngster has been helped up the ladder by Wilf Cude!!&hellip;.</p><p>It&rsquo;s been a stormy season!&hellip;Amos Beavers threatened to withdraw from the Northwestern Intermediate &ldquo;A&rdquo; playoffs because they were not permitted to use Bert Scullion and Charles Lanlirande&hellip;the players who acquired by Amos several weeks ago&hellip;while Val d&rsquo;Or Red Wings and Rouyn Flashes agreed to let Amos use the two starry players, Lasalle Cyclones, league champions, disagreed&hellip;Lome Miller, NOHA prexy, warned Amos that failure to fulfill playoff obligations would result in the banning of Amos for the 1954-55 season&hellip;this did the trick!!!!&hellip;</p><p>Watch out Southern Ontario!!!&hellip; some classy junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; teams are on the march up North&hellip;the ever-dangerous South Porcupine Gold Diggers smashed their way to a 2-0 lead in the NOHA Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; finals over Porcupine Combines&hellip;Frank Butler indicated he&rsquo;s a boy to be reckoned with this season as he exploded three big goals for the Gold Diggers&hellip;Pete Gazzola and Red Douglas also starred with two goals apiece, while Moe Forget and Carl Daly looked impressive&hellip;the winner of this series could be tough to handle!&hellip;</p><p>It&rsquo;s time to extend congratulations to Coach Johnny &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty for the way he handled his team in the rugged series against Pembroke Lumber Kings in the NOHA Southern Division Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; semi-finals&hellip;although his Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds swept the best-of-seven series in straight games, the Kings put up a dandy fight&hellip;this victory for &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; follows closely on the heels of his victory in the league schedule&hellip;at this writing, North Bay Trappers were still in the thick of their semi-finals against Maxie Silverman&rsquo;s powerful Sudbury Wolves&hellip;after losing 8-0, 8-2 in the first two games at Sudbury, North Bay came back to win the third game in North Bay, 3-2 in overtime&hellip;and in the fourth game. North Bay led 4-1 with 13 minutes left in the final period only to see Sudbury roar back to fire four fast goals and win 5-4 in a dramatic comeback&hellip;win, lose or draw, North Bay must receive credit for their fight and determination.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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MONA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Members of the Moose Jaw Millers, runaway leaders of the Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League, dominated the annual league All-Star team as selected by sports writers and broadcasters in the four league cities.</p><p>The Millers placed five men on the first team with fiery Vic Kreklewetz of the Yorkton Terriers being the only player to crash the select Moose Jaw circle. Adding more Moose Jaw flavor to the squad was the selection of Millers&rsquo; Vic Myles as coach.</p><p>Miller goalkeeper Bob Lalonde got the votes of the scribes for the netminding job, with George Hunchuk and Dale Anderson, who starred during a three-game trial with the Saskatoon Quakers, on defence. Harvey Stein, the league&rsquo;s point-getter, was named at centre with Bud Andrews on right wing and Kreklewetz on left.</p><p>Goalie Lalonde and Stein topped the poll with 12 votes apiece, according to league secretary Red Sims who announced the results of the balloting. The Millers, who enjoyed a 20-point bulge at the top of the standings, are currently standing by awaiting the winner of the semi-final playoff between the Melville Millionaires and Yorkton.</p><h2>Second Team</h2><p>The second All-Star team consists of Melville&rsquo;s Ted Gilchrist in goal. He nosed out Regina&rsquo;s Cliff Dobson by one point. Blueline berths went to Ken Barlow of Melville and Shiner Chernoff of Yorkton.</p><p>Cap veteran Bill Kyle is back at centre on the second All-Star team for the second straight year and is flanked by Regina teammate Ted Yarnton on right winy, and Melville&rsquo;s Johnny Kotzma at left. Wilf Field of Yorkton was named coach of the second team.</p><p>The high-flying Moose Jaw-squad also captured two of the four individual player trophies. The rookie-of-the-year award went to centre Norm Johnson of the Millers. A graduate of the) junior Canucks, he finished fifth, in the scoring race and will receive the Tom Boyle Memorial Trophy, emblematic of the rookie award.</p><p>Another Miller, goalie Lalonde, had the best netminding average to win the Lang goalkeeping trophy.</p><h2>Loop MVP</h2><p>Another goalkeeper, Ted Gilchrist of Melville, was voted the league&rsquo;s most valuable player and will receive the Mickey McSherry Memorial trophy. The former Brandon junior netminder had much to do with Melville&rsquo;s second-place finish in the league standings.</p><p>For the second time in three years, the most gentlemanly player award has been won by Staa Obodiac of Yorkton. He won the award two years ago, but didn&rsquo;t play in the circuit last year as he went overseas to act as playing coach of a Swiss team. The award carries with it possession of the Temple Gardens trophy, donated by George Nellis of Moose Jaw.</p><p>The following are the two All-Star teams, with number of votes received in brackets:</p><h3>FIRST TEAM</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0463/1046764-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="581" height="244"></div><h3>SECOND TEAM</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0536/1046757-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="583" height="239"></div><h2>Second Team</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0295/1046750-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="592" height="602"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN BARLOW</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Six Millers Named To All-Stars In Saskatchewan Senior League

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0373/1046819-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>Y</span>ou know right well that you&rsquo;ll want to know what your favorite hockey star is doing during the summer months; what players are being traded; what players are being given, their unconditional release. You&rsquo;ll also be eager to find out what plans your team is making for the coming season and what players they plan to bring up next season.</p><p>The Only Way To Know &ldquo;All This is by becoming a Year-Round Subscriber to THE HOCKEY NEWS. You see, THE HOCKEY NEWS is not sold at arenas during the summer months or on the newsstands and the only possible way you can get a copy is becoming a regular subscriber. This way you yill be sure of receiving the five snappy monthly summer issues just as soon as they&rsquo;re off the press.</p><p>THE HOCKEY NEWS features plenty ow of lengthy profiles on players in the summer issues and oodles of candid pictures showing that favorite the puck star of yours in such poses as playing baseball, on the golf links, milking cows, pitching hay, running the store, and countless others. We at THE HOCKEY NEWS do our utmost to see that you don&rsquo;t lose tracks of your favorite players during those five months that THE HOCKEY NEWS suspends weekly publication (May to September).</p><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.</p><p><b>Canadian Remittances</b>&mdash;$3.00 Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money. Order.</p><p><b>U. S. A. Remittances</b>&mdash;$4.00 Payable by Postal Note Bank or Express Money Order or personal cheque in U.S. funds. Postal Money Orders must be drown on the Postmaster at New York in U.S. funds.</p><p><b>Fill in Form Above and Send Postal Note or Money Order</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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YOU’LL BE SORRY!

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>The long trek is over and teams in the Maritime Major (Big Four) Hockey League prepare for the playoffs. It will be pennant winner Halifax Atlantics versus tail-end Char-lottetown Islanders, and runner-up Sydney Millionaires versus third place Glace Bay Miners.</p><p>After trading positions with Sydney in the first three weeks, Halifax stepped into the league lead and held it throughout the season. It marked the second straight pennant for Halifax-born playing coach Douglas (Dugger) McNeil.</p><p>Three new coaches came up this year, leaving McNeil as the only holdover. Terry Reardon took over at Sydney and restored hockey to its old high level at the Steel City. After winning many Maritime titles the Mills slumped badly the past two years. Now they&rsquo;re back in the running and could take it all.</p><p>Don Penniston made his debut in the Maritime as bench coach for Glace Bay Miners. He had a tough season, plagued by suspensions, injuries and player recalls. Then his wife took sick and he had to leave. Whether he&rsquo;ll be tack again remains to be seen.</p><p>Bucko Trainor, native of Charlottetown and formerly with New York Rangers, St. Paul Saints and New Haven, returned to his native city as playing&rdquo; coach after a year out of major hockey as coach in Newfoundland. The Islanders started slowly and never got out of the cellar, but in the last two months they played as well as anybody.</p><p>Halifax took all the goal-scoring honors and left winger Bill Ford established season records for goals and total points. Sydney footed the list in scoring goals but lead in goals against. Halifax scored 100 more goals than Sydney, but in the closing 10 days the Mills were hitting the target at the best rate they&rsquo;ve shown all season.</p><h2>Bugged league</h2><p>The Maritime League is a rugged one. It plays a long Bchedule, 78 games, and each team plays four games every week. Travel is wearying and sometimes baffling.</p><p>In the closing forthnight, after beating snow and ice pretty successfully all winter, the teams were caught in the mud. Char-lottetown and Glace Bay executives flew at each other for missing play dates. On successive nights there were postponements at the Bay and Charlottetown. At one stage the Miners had only one game in 11 nights, had to ask the league for financial assistance. They were also paid 3650 by Islanders for failing to keep a date.</p><p>There were the usual squabbles over replacements. Halifax was given permission to get a replacement for Bobby Pepin, called home by sickness. The A&rsquo;s popped up with Marcel Clement, who in other years had starred with Charlottetown and Moncton.</p><p>Glace Bay got replacements for defenseman Bill Needham and forwards Johnny Lumley and Bobby Brown. Lumley and Brown were high scorers, were definite losses.</p><p>Sydney won a fight over the eligibility of Charlie Marshall, a fight waged viborously by Glace Bay. The Cape Breton feud between these teams is red hot; hotter than ever it might be said and they&rsquo;ve been at each other&rsquo;s throats for years. Drawn against each other in the semi-final playoffs both should make money. And there is no travelling worry, they&rsquo;re only 15 miles apart.</p><p>Charlottetown came up with defenseman Dan O&rsquo;Connor as a replacement for Tod Campeau, assigned to the Islanders. Tod never reported.</p><p>Glace Bay is now seeking a replacement for Tommy Files, out for the season with an injury. Sydney officials say they will oppose any move along these lines.</p><h2>Rearguards Fined</h2><p>Halifax defencemen were in the news. A couple of weeks ago Carroll Bloom was tagged for 11 games and $100 for engaging in a sticking duel with Glace Bay&rsquo;s Bill Needham. The latter got four games and ordered to pay $50.</p><p>Atlantics said the longest suspension in Maritime major hockey history was unjustified. President C. Roy MacDonald said he&rsquo;d review the case. He reduced the sentence to seven games but there was no reduction in the fine.</p><p>Needham was recalled after sitting out only one game. Again Atlantics pressed for a reduction. This time President MacDonald chopped it to four games. But Bloom had to pay the full $100.</p><p>Then Billy Arcand dumped linesman Reg Beazley over the boards and into the laps of rink-siders the night Sydney Mills whacked the Atlantics 8-0 before a horrified Halifax audience, the worst defeat a local team has suffered on city ice in years.</p><p>Arcand was tagged with a misconduct penalty, later drew a three-game suspension. Joe Lepine has been in and out of the lineup. At one time the A&rsquo;s plugged along for two full weeks with only 10 men. It was because their roster was. so depleted&mdash;the club never had more than 14 players at any time&mdash;that Atlantics were granted the right to seek a replacement for Pepin.</p><p>Everything pertaining to hockey in the Maritimes, especially in the major league, is colorful. Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; Kenny Reardon popped up for a game in Halifax and his eyes nearly came out of his head. That was the night there were brawis over the ice; more arguments in you could shake a stick at; goalie Roy McMeekin tangled with a spectator; an excited fan threw a bottle and Arcand dumped the linesman over the boards.</p><p>Then there is the story from Glace Bay where 2,500 fans had assembled to watch the Miners play the Islanders. The latter got stuck in the mud and failed to keep the date. Twenty-five girl pipers lined up&rdquo; to play a lament on the bagpipes as the fans filed sadly out of the rink after waiting for hours in the hope that Islanders would complete the trip.</p><h2>Two In A Row</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01112/1046850-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="590" height="613"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DUGGER McNEIL</b></figcaption></div><div class="sidebar"><p>The Toronto Maple Leafs use BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Atlantics Favored To COP MMHL Title

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<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0360/1046943-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="584" height="1006"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>E</span>ver dream of great discovery&hellip;like finding a <i>man&rsquo;s</i> ale that really deserves a <i>man&rsquo;s</i> attention? Dream no longer&mdash;have an I.P.A. Here&rsquo;s the ale that&rsquo;s mellow and tangy, zestful and satisfying&mdash;a real man&rsquo;s drink at last. Enjoy this vigorous ale at home or in your favourite hotel or tavern. Call for Labatt&rsquo;s* India Pale Ale, the man&rsquo;s ale that&rsquo;s opening new worlds of satisfaction. John Labatt Limited.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0441/1046936-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="583" height="765"></div><p><i>The swing is <u>definitely</u> to</i></p><p><b>LABATT&rsquo;S</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-03

The ALE of a MAN’s dreams

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01121/1046974-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HAPPY KID</b>&mdash;Young Mario Marianna, second from right, grins happily in the Calgary Stampeder uniform he won by writing the best essay on the subject &ldquo;Good sportsmanship&rdquo;. Sen with Mario are left to right: Mayor Don MacKay of Calgary, Ronald Thomas, the runner-up, and Joe Carbury, sports director of Station CKXL, who promoted the essay contest.</figcaption></div><p>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>An essay on Good Sportsmanship earned 1,000 Calgary youngsters a chance to see the Calgary Stampeders play the Victoria Cougars recently.</p><p>The contest, promoted by radio station CKXL in Calgary as part of &lsquo;Young Calgary Night,&rsquo; was limited to boys, and boys only, between the ages of eight and fourteen, and was won by a little immigrant boy who has only been in Canada for about four years. He was 12&ndash;year old Marco Marianna.</p><p>As his prize, besides seeing the game along, with the rest of the contestants, Mario was given a complete Stampeder uniform. He was out fitted from head to toe, including Calgary sweater, stockings, skates, pads, and all the equipment necessary to put a big league hockey player on the ice.</p><p>On his big night, young Mario skated out along with the Stampeders for the pre-game warm up, and 1,000 kids raised their voices in recognition of the winner. He took his warm-up shots along with the rest of the Calgary team and there wasn&rsquo;t a prouder kid in all Canada than little Mario was that night. and second periods, Mayor Don MacKay of Calgary read his composition over the public address system.</p><p>The over 7,000 fans in attendance gave the kid and ovation he will never forget.</p><p>Sports Director Joe Carbury of CKVL, who m.e.&rsquo;d the affair, said, &ldquo;The response to the contest was terrific. And on the actual night of the game, there probably never was a happier kid than young Mario Marianna.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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‘Young Calgary Night’ A Success As 1,000 Kids Watch Stamps Play

<div class="byline">P.S.TOMLIN</div><p>PENTICTON. B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Penticton V&rsquo;S, defending Western Canada Senior Hockey Champions and Allan Cup finalists against the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen last spring, completely dominated, the OSAHL All-Star team for the season of 1953-54. Results of the balloting showed that the league leaders placed three men on the first team and three on the second. Grant Warwick, playing-coach of the V&rsquo;s, as well as being named right-winger on the dream-team, was also voted coach of the second team. Besides Grant, Hill Warwick and Kevin Conway won All-Star recognition. Bill was the left winger and Conway teamed up on defense with veteran Tom Stecyek of the Vernon Canadians. Other first team members were George Agar, playing coach of the Vernon Canadians at centre and Doug Stevenson of the Kelowna Parkers in the nets.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0264/1047036-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="298" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>P. Hergesheimer</b></figcaption></div><p>The second team was composed of Penticton&rsquo;s Ivan McLelland in goal, Jack Taggart of Kamloops and George McAvoy of the V&rsquo;s on defense, Jack Miller of Vernon at centre and Mike Durban of the Packers at right wing. The left wing position was split between Kelowna&rsquo;s Jim Middleton and Jack McDonald of the V&rsquo;S. Phil Hergesheimer, coach, of the Packers was the coach of the first team.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Penticton Places Six On OSAHL Dream Team

<p class="dropcap"><span>P</span>aris&mdash;A team of Canadians from the British Hockey League won the Jean Potin Cup by defeating Toronto East York, Canada&rsquo;s official representatives, 6-5 before a crowd of 6,000.</p><p>The expatriate Canaidans won the three-day Paris tournament in which Sweden was also represented. The East York club, which finished second to Russia in the world championships at Stockholm a week ago, also finished second here, having defeated Stockholm Three Crowns 8-7 before 12,000 fans.</p><p>Moe Galand, leading scorer of the world tourney in which Canada was second to Russia, scored four goals in the Canada-Sweden game. His fourth was the deciding tally.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Lyndhursts Lose Again

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0198/1047091-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(Solution Next Week)</b></p><h2>ACROSS</h2><p>1&mdash;Bruin player shown in centre.</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of Fowler, ex Toronto defenseman.</p><p>8&mdash;This Detroit player is a native of Renfrew, Ont.</p><p>11&mdash;George Armsrtong is sometimes called this.</p><p>12&mdash;Initials of Hodge, who subbed for Plante at Buffalo.</p><p>13&mdash;Initials of Langelle, former N.H.L. player.</p><p>14&mdash;Land measure.</p><p>15&mdash;Name given 8 across.</p><p>16&mdash;NHL club with whom Jack Portland first played (abbr).</p><p>17&mdash;Pronoun.</p><p>18&mdash;Johnny McCormack holds this degree.</p><p>19&mdash;Short for given name of Harwood, ex NHL referee.</p><p>21&mdash;Another Ehrhardt Heller, ex Ranger star.</p><p>23&mdash;Teams get a point for this.</p><p>24&mdash;This NHL manager will retire shortly.</p><p>26&mdash;Short for Slowinski&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>27&mdash;Fontinato of Saskatoon is called this.</p><p>29&mdash;Bill Stewart was once a referee in this league (abbr).</p><p>32&mdash;Dick Gamble&rsquo;s native province (abbr.).</p><p>34&mdash;Jimmy Peters is one during the summer.</p><h2>DOWN</h2><p>1&mdash;Name given a Boston rearguard.</p><p>2&mdash;Given name of player known as &ldquo;Bones&rdquo;.</p><p>3&mdash;A WHL coach.</p><p>5&mdash;Steve Kraftcheck likes to do this in the off season.</p><p>7&mdash;One of the Rangers is called this.</p><p>9&mdash;Bobby Copp is often referred to as one (abbr).</p><p>10&mdash;Initials of McNabney, last season with Syracuse.</p><p>12&mdash;Marty Pavelich is of this descent.</p><p>13&mdash;Wright of Buffalo is called this.</p><p>14&mdash;This member of Victoria Cougars is called Reg.</p><p>15&mdash;One of the Pittsburgh Hornets.</p><p>20&mdash;Short for first name of Douglas, ex AHL player.</p><p>22&mdash;Hal Laycoe wears this number.</p><p>25&mdash;Lavitt&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>26&mdash;All clubs have these.</p><p>28&mdash;Number of games Olmstead missed last season.</p><p>30&mdash;Initials of Starr, once a member of the Rangers.</p><p>31&mdash;Musical note.</p><p>33&mdash;Upon.</p><h2>Solution to Lost Week&rsquo;s Puzzle</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p>1. Watson</p><p>5. J.A.</p><p>7. Cahan</p><p>9. Ivan</p><p>12. Vic</p><p>13. Gadsby</p><p>14. K.S.</p><p>16. Mel</p><p>17. Ted</p><p>19. To</p><p>20. S.W.</p><p>24. O.H.A.</p><p>26. Len</p><p>27. Dorohoy</p><p>30. G.T.</p><p>31. Perk</p><p>32. Eel</p><p>33. Car</p><p>34. Tulsa</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1. Wright</p><p>2. Traded</p><p>8. Oc.</p><p>4. Navy</p><p>5. Jackets</p><p>6. An 8. Hi</p><p>11. N.S.</p><p>10. V.A.</p><p>15. Slowinski</p><p>18. Ed</p><p>21. Hodge</p><p>22. Mar.</p><p>23. Flyers</p><p>25. Hotel</p><p>28. Or</p><p>29. Opal</p><p>33. Cu.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey Crossword Puzzle

<h2>OHA JUNIOS (STANDINGS ON MARCH 1)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0352/1047192-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="598" height="247"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0442/1047185-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="592" height="556"></div><h3>MANITOBA JUNIOR Semi-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0531/1047178-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="595" height="241"></div><h3>OKANAGAN SENIOR (STANDINGS MARCH 3)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0620/1047171-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="590" height="131"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0719/1047164-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="598" height="414"></div><h3>INTERCOLLEGIATE (STANDINGS ON MARCH 10)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0817/1047157-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="591" height="139"></div><h3>QUEBEC JUNIOR Final Standing</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0914/1047150-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="587" height="162"></div><h3>NEW BRUNSWICK SENIOR</h3><p>Saint John 2, Fredericton 1. (Best-of-nlne finals tied 2-2).</p><h2>THUNDER BAY SENIOR</h2><p>Port Arthur Bear Cats 5, Fort Frances 8.</p><p>(Fort Frances wins best-of-five semifinals 3-2).</p><h3>MANITOBA SENIOR</h3><p>Winnipeg Maroons 4, Portage La Prairie Memorials 2.</p><p>(Winipeg wins best-of-seven finals 4-0)</p><h3>MOUNT ROYAL JUNIOR</h3><p>Canadiens 10, Royals 1.</p><p>(Canadiens win best-of-five final series</p><h3>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE (STANDINGS ON MARCH 8)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1010/1047143-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="595" height="269"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-119/1047136-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="589" height="295"></div><h3>NOHA SENIOR (Final Standing)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-129/1047129-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="591" height="162"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-139/1047122-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="595" height="289"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Amateur Puck Parade… …At A Glance

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-14" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-149/1047223-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOP PLAYMAKER</b>&mdash;Stan Baliuk, right, of the fort William Columbus Canadiens, is shown here being congratulated on having won the Lakehead Junior league scoring title. Offering the congratulations is Mickey Hennesty, coach of the Canadiens.</figcaption></div><p>FORT WILLIAM, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Stan Baluik officially became the scoring champion of the 1953-54 Lakehead Junior hockey campaign with the release by Arnold Southern, league statistician, of final complete figures showing the Fort William Canadien centre in possession of 85 points.</p><p>His total is made up of 35 goals and 50 assists, which not only gave him the title by a margin of 10 points over his closest rival but also established a new district record, representing an increase of six points over the old mark.</p><p>In a late-season surge, D. Chiupka of Port Arthur Bruins pulled up into second place with 30 goals and 45 assists, thus edging out Peter Gvora of Canadiens for the runner-up spot by four points.</p><p>Gvora, however, with 45 goals to his credit, carried off honors as the leading goal-getter, five tallies ahead of Alvin Jorgenson of Bruins in this department.</p><h2>Top Playmaker</h2><p>Baluik also had the added distinction of finishing as the league&rsquo;s top playmaker, his 50 assists being <i>fixe</i> more than Chiupka&rsquo;s total.</p><p>Still another honor went to the league champion Canadiens. Lynn Davis emerging as the outstanding goaltender for the second year in succession on the strength of an impressive 2.4 goal average in 33 games. Included in Davis&rsquo; brilliant record were six shutouts, another league record.</p><p>Canadiens also had the somewhat dubious distinction of being the most-penalized club in the league with 716 minutes in the penalty box charged against them, 170 of which were accounted for by Marcel Goyette.</p><h2>&ldquo;Congratulations, Champ!&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Lakehead Junior Scoring Title To Baliuk

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0122/1047275-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="248" height="296"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0221/1047268-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="268" height="300"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0321/1047261-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="2915" height="1784"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0417/1047254-1-eng-US/f00c4-042.jpg" title="f00C4-04" width="2907" height="1800"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ARF ARF</b>&mdash;Looking somewhat like a trained seal about to partake of some tasty morsel, goaler Johnny Bower of the New York Rangers looks up at defenseman Ivan Irwin after stopping a shot by Toronto&rsquo;s led Kennedy (9). The other Rangers in the photo are Eddie Kullman, left, and Leo Reise. In the lower photo, Bower backs right into the net as he sets himself for a drive off the stick of the Leafs&rsquo; Harry Watson (4). That&rsquo;s Tod Sloom waiting for any possible rebound and Leo Reise peering over the cage. <span class="photo-credit">(Photos By Turofaky)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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