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April 17, 1954

The Hockey News April 17, 1954

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>At press time Vancouver needed only one more victory to wrap up their semi-final series with New Westminster and advance into the finals for the President&rsquo;s Cup&hellip;Art Chapman&rsquo;s league winners lead Alex Shibicky&rsquo;s hot-and-cold Royals, 4-2, in their best-of-nine series&hellip;All but two of the games have been close, two went Into overtime, and there hasn&rsquo;t been too much to choose between the league kings and the sixth place Royals.</p><p>Chuck McCullough, Vancouver center, broke up the first game at 4:06 of overtime to give the Canucks a 2-1, win. The Royals surprised in the second game when they rocked the Hallmen, 6-3, when ironman Bobby Love scored three goals, the first &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; of the playoffs and only seventh in league&rsquo;s history&hellip;all this at the Forum in Vancouver&hellip;The Canucks bounced back the following night, March 27, and humiliated NW, 6-1, before the Royals&rsquo; home town fans.</p><p>Led by veteran Max McNab, who has been terrific for NW, the Royals came from behind to win, 4-2, and deadlock the series at two games apiece, March 31 in NW&hellip;Lome Worsley was sensational in the Vancouver goal&hellip;The first two periods were dominated with penalties, Doug Adam, Vancouver, getting three minors, but the final period was slightly less than terrific&hellip;Vancouver won its third and fourth games by scores of 3-1 and 4-3, winning the latter in overtime&hellip;Billy Dea, who has scored more than a dozen goals against Luce Dechene in the NW goal, got the winner in the 3-1 game, while Harry Dick, all 210 pounds of him, stunned a packed NW Queens Park Arena crowd, with his overtime tally before a partisan Royals&rsquo; crowd. Van. needs only win to wrap up the series.</p><p>Vancouver doesn&rsquo;t have too much scoring power. On paper they don&rsquo;t &ldquo;belong&rdquo;, but as was its custom all season the Canucks come through with the big goal, scored usually by some unheralded forward or defenseman&hellip;Vancouver is the team that gets that &ldquo;big goal&rdquo; in the game they HAVE to win&hellip;A sign of a champion!</p><p>McCullough, Doug Adam, Dea and Dick have pulled the trigger for Vancouver&rsquo;s winning goals&hellip;Hamilton has done it both times for the Royals&hellip;the goalkeeping has been sensational&hellip;Stanley, Dea, Popein, McCullough, McNab, Hamilton, Love, Dorohoy, Matthews, Dick and Houghton have been starring.</p><h2>Diversified Scoring Punch</h2><p>An example of Vancouver&rsquo;s diversified scoring punch was never more clearly illustrated than on April 3 in NW when Hickey, McCullough, the clubs&rsquo; top sniper with four goals; Houghton and Dick scored&hellip;NW&rsquo;s scorers were Pierre Brilliant, Gord Fashoway and Jackie Hamilton&hellip;The lesser lights have been shining in the playoffs.</p><p>Hannigan (Edmonton) and Hamilton (NW) lead in game winners with two each&hellip;Bucyk and Dick are the only defensemen to score game winners&hellip;Pete Durham, NW rearguard, who paced all defensemen in goals with 17 in league play, was moved to a wing spot after the second game&hellip;NW played with only three defensemen&hellip;Durham and Dick gave Bobo Olson and Kid Gavilan a WHL version of how to fight when the two &ldquo;bad boys&rdquo; of the league went to it a few hours after Olson decisioned Gavilan on April 2&hellip;. Both received majors and Dick&rsquo;s protests to referee Eddie Powers earned him an additional 10-minute misconduct.</p><p>At different stages of the Van.&mdash;NW series the folowing players have been injured&hellip;Lancien, Dick, Adam, Kerr, Dea and Kassian of Vancouver and Matthews, McGill, Boyce and Thorson of NW&hellip;A leg injury to Worsley, April 2, which forced the All-Star goalie and MVP to receive medical assistance, didn&rsquo;t stop the gamecock from returning to action and closing, the door on the Royals.</p><h2>Pair of Game-Winners</h2><p>Bill Shvetz of Calgary didn&rsquo;t score any game-winning goals in league play&hellip;He got a pair against Victoria&hellip;Dick didn&rsquo;t pop in any pay-off counters during Ieague play but he got that all-important goal April 3 for Van&rsquo;s second straight overtime victory over NW&hellip;Lundy and Love, each with a &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; in the playoffs, had one and no &ldquo;hats&rdquo; in league competition&hellip;Montreal Royals, Quebec Aces and Ottawa Barber Poles, have several ex-WHLers in their lineup&hellip;Guyle Fielder and Wayne Brown, who saw action with Boston in the Stanley Cup playoffs, didn&rsquo;t figure in the scoring. Each received one minor penalty.</p><p>Last year Art Henderson and Ed Whalen, Saskatoon sportscasters, correctly selected the WHL all-star team for the 1952-53 season&hellip;None of the 21 selectors from the seven member cities hit the jackpot this season&hellip;Cam MacKenzie, sports editor of the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, who named Aggie Kukolowicz as the top rookie instead of Don Poile and Erwin Swangard, sports editor of the Vancouver Sun, who picked Carl Kaiser as the MVP over Lorne Worsley, came the closest&hellip;Most of the voters missed on Jim Ross for defense, Enio Sclisizzi for left wing and Don Poile as rookie of the year.</p><p>Ken Booth, rookie NW center, who was injured late in the league schedule, returned to the Royals&rsquo; lineup March 31, which was the fourth game of the NW-Van. series&hellip;Five Stampeders are setting the playoff scoring parade&hellip;Lundy, McFadden, Ashworth, Finney and Scott&hellip;Uniac, Hannigan, Bonin and Haley of Edmonton and Kobussen of Saskatoon are up there too&hellip;Lundy leads in goals with seven, Uniac in assists with eight.</p><p>Vancouver could have a new 11,700-seat arena in downtown Vancouver for the 1955-56 season if present plans are approved by the city. Coley Hall, owner of the Canucks, is one of the promoters ot a Vancouver syndicate behind the move&hellip;Former WHLers in the Quebec League are Phil Hughes (Calgary), defensemen Roger Leger (Victoria) and Joe Crozier (Vancouver).</p><p>Muzz Patrick, NY Ranger coach, has been scouting the WHL playoffs and the Quakers and Vancouver Canucks in particular&hellip;Saskatoon and Vancouver are Ranger farm clubs as are Flin Flon and Prince Albert Juniors&hellip;Muzz saw two Edmonton-Saskatoon games&hellip;witnessed a pair of games between Flin Flon and P.A&hellip;, watched Calgary defeat Victoria at the B.C. capital and Patrick has seen most of the Vancouver-NW series&hellip;Other Rangers scouts watching the WHL playoffs are Al Ritchie of Regina, John Walker of Saskatoon and Scotty Milne of Vancouver.</p><p>Before the series Bud Poile predicted his Flyers would defeat Saskatoon in seven games, the maximum&hellip;They did it in six, winning one game on Saskatoon ice as Poile prophesied&hellip;defenseman Bill Folk won&rsquo;t see any more action this season and center Frank O&rsquo;Grady, Edmonton, may not go to the barrier again this year.</p><p>So far none of the playoff series have gone the limit&hellip;The Calgary-Victoria series developed into a real grudge battle before the round was two games old&hellip;Larry Popein, Vancouver&rsquo;s great two way center and leading scorer, was also his club&rsquo;s most popular player in the opinion of the fans. For being so chosen Popein received a wrist watch. Luce Dechene and Blinky Boyce won similar awards from NW fans&hellip;A report in a Vancouver newspaper says Muzz Patrick will be back coaching NY Rangers next year and his opinion after watching Allan Stanley play: &ldquo;He would look good in any league.&rdquo;</p><p>The other night in NW the press box was overloaded with guests, including President Al Leader, Muzz Patrick, Babe Pratt, Ike Hildebrand, Dale Sweaney, Doug Stevenson, Leo Ornest, Scotty Milne, Art Jeffred, plus Ken McConpell (Vancouver Province), Jim Gilmore (Vancouver News-Herald), Alex McGillvary (Vancouver Sun), John Ward (Burnaby Weekly)&hellip;When Calgary eliminated Victoria it was the first time Calgary had advanced past the first round&hellip;George Senick, Saskatoon, leads in playoff hat tricks&hellip;Senick got two against Victoria, April 19 and 23, 1952&hellip;Jim Uhiac, Edmonton captain, assisted on four goals, March 27, while his club was defeating Saskatoon, 9-5, to tie a play-off record&hellip;At the start of the post-season play the visiting teams dominated, winning five of the first eight games&hellip;After the first 17 play-off games the home team leads by the slimmest of margins, 10 to 7&hellip;Two gamts, both in overtime, decided by one goal&hellip;four decided by two goals&hellip;five by three goals&hellip;three by four goals&hellip;two by five goals and one by seven goals.</p><p>Vancouver is favored to meet Calgary for the President&rsquo;s Cup.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IN THIS ISSUE

WHL Blue Line Banter

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0619/1100214-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg"></div><h2>Orchid For Dann</h2><p>Dear Sirs.</p><p>I would like to comment on Marshall Dann&rsquo;s column of March 27th &ldquo;On Thin Ice&rdquo;.</p><p>I agree whole-heartedly with Mr. Dann. For several years now it seems to me that more and more all the emphasis is being put on the Stanley Cup. True, it&rsquo;s wonderful for any team to win this coveted Trophy, but to claim the winner the &ldquo;Champion of hockey&rdquo; seems a little far-fetched to me. If winning the Stanley Cup makes the team that wins it the &ldquo;Champs&rdquo;, then why do 6 teams play 70 games just to eliminate 2 teams for the Playoffs? This I cannot understand. I think a little more emphasis should be placed on winning the Prince of Wales Trophy. The team that wins this trophy must be the champions or they couldn&rsquo;t heat the other 5 teams in the league so consistently.</p><p>Therefore I say give the winners of the Prince of Wales Trophy a little more credit for their achievements, instead of saving all the applause for the winners of the Stanley Cup.</p><p>I know the Stanley Cup Playoffs are referred to as the &ldquo;World Series of Hockey&rdquo; but they are not run like the so-called World Series in other sports. What we need is 2 major hockey leagues, and until that comes about I guess we&rsquo;ll have to content with the present system of playoffs. But if and when the N.H.L. becomes 2 leagues, the winner of the Stanley Cup will then have more right to claim themselves the &ldquo;Champions of Hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>Joanne Julien Detroit, Mich.</p><h2>On His Side</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have been reading with interest the last few weeks the comments of several fans who have been taking Dick Irvin, the Montreal coach, to task for several of the statements he made in the Inside Stuff&rsquo; column by Margaret Scott.</p><p>Most of them, obviously not Canadien&rsquo; fans anyway, have been taking pot shots at Irvin, saying that a man who would say such things is not worthy of coaching an NHL team.</p><p>I have one comment. Tommyrot! Irvin is not only worthy but also extra highly capable. There isn&rsquo;t a coach in the game today with as much knowledge of the game as Irvin and anytime he takes potshots at any of the other teams or their personell, he does it with a purpose.</p><p>Incidentally, you stated in your write-ups on the coaches for the All-Star poll that Lynn Patrick was the greatest playoff coach of them all. Has he had his team in the Stahley Cup final four years running? Dick Irvin has.</p><p>Douglas Green. Montreal, Que.</p><h2>All-Stars</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I think your Fans&rsquo; All-Star poll Is a great idea and I have made it a point to be one of the first to mall in my votes for the last few years. I mail them just as soon as I get my copy of THE HOCKEY NEWS with the final ballot in it.</p><p>Now I have a question to ask. Why doesn&rsquo;t the NHL adopt the results of your poll as the official All-Star team? Your All-Stars are the ones chosen by the fans and they are the ones who pay the freight ni the NHL and what they say should go. Like in any other business, the customer is always right. Also you would this way avoid some newspapermen voting for their personal friends among the hockey players for the sole reason that they are their friends instead of voting for the player who actually deserves the honor.</p><p>What do you think of this suggestion? I would be anxious to see your comments on same.</p><p>Gus Flagler.</p><p>Winnipeg, Man.</p><p><b>(In most cases, Gus, the Hockey News Fans&rsquo; All-Star teams are pretty close to those chosen as the official NHL All-Stars. The fans are pretty good at knowing who is and who isn&rsquo;t an All-Star. Incidentally, you will find this year&rsquo;s team on page 3 of this issue.)</b></p><h2>Survivors</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>How about a list every week with the survivors in the Allan and Memorial Cup races as you did in former years?</p><p>Otherwise paper perfect.</p><p>Toronto, Ont. James Cavanagh</p><p><b>(No sooner said than done. See page 10 this issue.)</b><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/c4-0128/1101610-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="244" height="286"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0227/1101603-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="253" height="302"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0326/1101596-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2672" height="2000"></div><h2><b>Pronovost Prone</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0418/1101589-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="1042" height="1540"></div><h2><b>Harvey Hurt</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-054/1101582-1-eng-US/c4-052.jpg" title="C4-05" width="1040" height="1540"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TORRID ACTION</b> in the Stanley Cup final is depicted in the three photos on this page. One of the top attacking units thus far in the series for the league champion Detroit Red Wings has been the trio of Marty Pavelich, Glen Skov and Tony Leswick, who usually find themselves in the role of a checking threesome. In the photo above, Skov is seen toppling to the ice on top of Montreal Canadien netminder Jacques Plante as the latter deflects his shot (circle) off to the side, Butch Bouchard is shown moving in to help Plante while Pavelich is shown rounding the cage. At left Maurice (Rocket) Richard (9) stands overt the prostrate form of the Wings&rsquo; defenseman Marcel Pronovost who is still a little shaken up after being checked into the boards by Richard. Bob Goldham, Pronovost&rsquo;s defense partner, also loks on. At right, Doug Harvey skates over to the Montreal bench for repairs follow. ing a run-in with Gordie Howe during which the latter&rsquo;s stick knicked the Hab rearguard. Howe drew a major penalty for drawing blood.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Photo Highlights Of Stanley Cup Finals

<div class="byline">By FRED ROBERTS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01186/1101075-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOBBY PERREAULT&hellip;great in clutch</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Dick Gamble and Glenn Harmon were missing from the Montreal Royals&rsquo; line-up as they dropped their semi-final opener, 2-1, to Ottawa Senators&hellip;Both were on the injured list&hellip;When Red Johnson scored the winner for the Barberpoles at 3:49 of the first overtime period, he was lying on the ice after being checked by Regals&rsquo; Bucky Hollingworth&hellip;Bruce Giesbrecht, Called up from Pembroke, played for the O&rsquo;s&hellip;Ernie Roche&rsquo;s goal for Royals was his first of the series&hellip;Both of the game&rsquo;s first two goals were 20-footers, Dusty Blair getting the first for Ottawa and Roche the second to tie the score&hellip;Senators outshot Royals 24-21 and there were only four penalties called in the entire game, two to each team&hellip;Coach Pete Morin sent out Bob Frampton, Gerry Desaulniers and Lulu Denis to check Ottawa&rsquo;s torrid trio of Leo Gravelle, Rip Riopelle and Dusty Blair&hellip;Bep Guidolin was highly effective for the Brodamen.</p><h2>Aces Oust Sagueneens</h2><p>Meanwhile Quebec Aces were eliminating, last season&rsquo;s champs and this season&rsquo;s first-placers, Chicoutimi Sagueneens, five games to two, in their best-of-nine semi-final&hellip;Aces won the final game 4-2&hellip;Buddy Boone, ex-St. Louis Flyer star, scored a pair for the Quebecers&hellip;Roy Kelly and Mike Labadie added singles while Bucky Buchanan and Sherman White scored for the Chicks&hellip;Jack Gelineau handled 26 shots in the Quebec cage to 19 for Phil Hughes at the other end of the rink&hellip;From here it looks like Aces, with their defensive style play, will be hard for either Ottawa or Montreal to handle in the finals.</p><p>When Royals trooped into their dressing room after knocking off the Ottawa Senators, 4-0 in the third game of the semi-finals, coach Pete Morin hallered to his perspiring athletes: &ldquo;They haven&rsquo;t scored a clean-cut goal against us yet.&rdquo; Bobby Perreault, Royals&rsquo; fiery goalie, played probably his best game of the year in that third game&hellip;Gary Blaine, the square-shouldered lad who has been filling in so well for Morin as an alternate defenseman-forward is about the best bet to hit the big time. He can skate, shoot and is rugged enough to stand the NHL&hellip;</p><p>Rollie Hebert, coach and General manager of the eliminated Chicoutimi Saguenees, a visitor in Montreal for the Royals-Ottawa fray&hellip;The biggest problem for Punch Imlach and Gerry Brown in Quebec is to keep the Aces from going stale while awaiting the winners of the semi-finales&hellip;</p><p>Frank Carlin, Royals&rsquo; GM, recovering from a painful shoulder which has kept him from travelling with his favorite sons and as if things weren&rsquo;t bad enough coach Morin decided to utilize an off-day last week by skiing in the Laurentian mountains. Pete went down the hill on his nose and came up with a cut face and bruised leg&hellip;Ah Pierre, hockey was never so rough!.. Glen Harmon has branched out into the gimmick field with a nifty little camera&mdash;made in Germany which depicts the entire Canadiens hockey club on slides inside&hellip;Roger Leger, the grand old man of hockey is marvel for his age. He can still show a lot of young squirts a few tricks.</p><h2><b>A Royal Stopper</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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QHL Playoff Bits

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0159/1101641-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY SAWCHUK,</b> Detroit&rsquo;s terrific cage custodian, is shown here making one of the many magnificent saves he made in the fourth game of the Stanley Cup finals against the Montreal Canadiens. Here he is shown blocking a shot off the stick of Calum (Baldy MacKay) while Lome Davis (14) stands by awaiting a rebound that didn&rsquo;t come. The puck can be seen at Sawchuk&rsquo;s elbow (circle).</figcaption></div><h2>Sawchuk Saves On Baldy&rsquo;s Blast<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

Cover-01

McNeil Answers Irvin’s SOS

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The story of the Stanley Cup&mdash;the battered old mug that stands supreme in hockey&mdash;is the yarn of a nomadic trophy.</p><p>The cup which was originally priced at $50.00 now is insured for $2500.00.</p><p>Since Canadiens are holder of the famous mug it was in their possession when the current Detroit-Canadiens final got underway. When it appeared as if the Wings would end the series in Detroit the night of April 11, the trophy was placed on board the &ldquo;Hockey Special&rdquo; with the team returning to the Motor city for the fifth game.</p><p>Everything was in readiness. President Clarence Campbell of the National Hockey League was wearing his best suit for the impending occasion. His speech was tucked in his pocket. But the event didn&rsquo;t happen as the Detroiters had hoped for. Ken Mosdell scored in overtime for a sixth game in Montreal April 13 and the Trophy was going back to Montreal.</p><p>During the 1945 Stanley Cup series, the trophy travelled three times. And it could make its third trip this year&mdash;if Montreal wins the sixth game, forcing the final game in Detroit April 16.</p><p>The Wings were ready to celebrate in true championship fashion. A reception for them had been planned for a downtown hotel.</p><p>But as is often the case, the team that isn&rsquo;t figured to win comes through under pressure as Canadiens did and now the Detroiters can either celebrate in Montreal or, failing this, delay the home celebrations until after the seventh game&mdash;if they get by the Montrealers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0247/1101672-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="885" height="1527"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>THE STANLEY CUP</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hockey’s “Most Travelled Trophy”

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>If Canadiens go on to win their second straight Stanley Cup this year, little Gerry McNeil will probably go down in hockey history as the only player to ever live through the horrendous experience of the &ldquo;electric chair&rdquo;.</p><p>For when Dick Irvin made his most daring desperate gamble, la the fifth game of the current series with Detroit by placing Mo-Neil squarely on the &ldquo;hot-seat&rdquo; with the not-too-gentle admonition, &ldquo;Are you ready to go out and fight for your job as a major league goaler, or are you ready to give up,&rdquo; McNeil had no other alternative but accept the challenge.</p><p>That he did in such noble fashion, by holding the high-powered Detroit Red Wings scoreless through 65 minutes and 45 seconds of tension-packed hockey, is a credit to this courageous little warrior.</p><p>What did he have to gain or lose?</p><p>Consider his position this way.</p><p>Somewhere between Montreal and Detroit Jacques Plante had lost the rabbit&rsquo;s foot and four-leaf clover which had stood him in such good stead since he took over from McNeil February 11.</p><p>His decline began in the third game of the series when the Wings rapped five goals past him&mdash;including Metro Prystai&rsquo;s &ldquo;around-the-netter&rdquo;&mdash;(Man, h* really blooped on that one.)</p><p>Then in the fourth game, when it was pretty obvious that a goal one way or the other would decide it, Plante allowed a soft shot by Johnny Wilson to beat him and the writing on the wall didn&rsquo;t need to be deciphered. <b>A</b> change was imminently emergent.</p><p>Irvin made the gamble but Mo-Neil took the chance.</p><p>Anything short of a sensational performance would find him relegated to a career in the minor leagues. Even holding the Wings off to a 1-0 score wouldn&rsquo;t gain him any further accolades.</p><p>Simply and forthrightly, he had to come up with the game of his life against Detroit in Detroit with Canadiens a game away from elimination. If Gerry has a tendency to suffer from a severe case of the jitters under less harrowing circumstances, the guy was just about ready to announce a duodenal ulcer in this situation.</p><p>Irvin has been hailed as a master strategist throughout this series but we&rsquo;d like to point out in this particular case that had Canadiens lost that fifth game McNeil stood to take the rap as the fall guy.</p><p>As far as the Montreal coach was concerned it was a matter of gambling and risking losing. <b>As</b> far as McNeil was concerned, <b>a</b> major league job was at stake.</p><p>Plante had proven that while he has shown flashes of greatness, he&rsquo;s Inclined to stumble under pressure. And since Stanley Cup hockey is pressure-loaded, one stumble can be fatal.</p><p>The fourth game called for shut-out hockey. The game could conceivably have been won by Canadiens in overtime had Plante not fumbled Wilson&rsquo;s 25-foot loft shot.</p><p>Was he beginning to come apart at the goal-crease? Those two mistakes indicated strongly that he was beginning to waiver.</p><p>It was on the train to Detroit that Irvin mulled the situation over. Changing goal-keepers in mitf-series wouldn&rsquo;t be a novelty for him. He&rsquo;d done it last year against Chicago&mdash;yanking McNeil for Plante. Again in the finals against Boston, he reversed the procedure by derricking Plante for McNeil. But was McNeil ready?</p><p>A goal-keeper whose puckstopping activity has been restricted to practice sessions for two months was hardly a worthy candidate for a Stanley Cup game. Still and all, Irvin must have decided that McNeil had what it took to step into such a dangerous situation. Either that or else he had decided that Plante just didn&rsquo;t have what he wanted in that fifth game&mdash;one of the greatest goal-tending exhibitions in hockey history.</p><p>Perhaps many other goal-keepers have turned in better games but none has come through under such tension-wracked circumstances.</p><p>Remember it took a single goal to win the game. On three separate occasions McNeil made super stops. Once off Tony Leswick, another off Glen Skov and finally his greatest save of the game a point-blank thrust by Gordie Howe, hockey&rsquo;s most prolific marksman. And all the while, running through his mind was the thought that if he blooped once, he might go through the rest of his days being spoken of as an ex-National Leaguer.</p><p>Did you every try to do a day&rsquo;s work with a raging tooth-ache?</p><p>If so, you get a pretty good idea just how McNeil felt the night of April 11 when Canadiens beat Detroit 1-0 in overtime.</p><h2>Scored Big One</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0380/1101703-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="555" height="996"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN MOSDELL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Shuts Out Wings In Great Display of Goal-Tending

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>In a matter of just two years Terry Sawchuk has tasted both extremes of the publicity which goes to professional athletes.</p><p>The 24-year-old Red Wing goalie has bounced from hero to goat and back to hero again In. Stanley Cup action.</p><p>With three games gone in the Detroit-Montreal finals, Sawchuk loomed as Red Wings&rsquo; No. 1 performer of the 1954 playoffs. Which is something different from his position a year ago. And that in turn was a far change from his rating in 1952.</p><p>Sawchuk wrote one of the most brilliant chapters in Stanley Cup history in the 1952 series. Detroit swept through Toronto and Montreal in a record eight games and the two rivals together got only five goals. Four of his games were shutouts.</p><p>While that record looked like one which never would be matched, local fans still were hoping for and expecting some-, thing like It the following spring.</p><p>The Boston Bruins were the first-round foes and the Wings never got by them. Several Detroiters were far off form, Terry among them. He caught most of the blame, however, considering that he was nicked for 21 goals in the last five games after starting off with a shutout.</p><p>So when the current spring festival opened, the fans had mixed reactions. Some were apprehensive whether Sawchuk was dogged by some strange failing at playoff time; others regarded last year as a rare exception and presumed that Terry would continue along his usual smart lines as shown during the regular season.</p><h2>ICE CHIPS</h2><p>For a tight-checking series the finale between Detroit and Toronto had a wide-open start with six goals in the first 30 minutes. Then followed 51 minutes of scoreless play until Lindsay gt the winner in the second overtime period.</p><p>Howe had a big night. He scored the opener in record time for a playoff game, just nine seconds. Then he added another for a 2-0 lead. Finally he joined Pronovost to help set Lindsay up for the clincher.</p><p>The opening game of the finals saw Reibel snap out of a long slump. After feeding Lindsay a perfect pass for the opening goal, he cashed the winner himself. It was the chunky rookie&rsquo;s first goal in 24 games&mdash;the last 18 of the regular season plus six in the playoffs. Reibel came off the bench to do it for he had lost his regular job some time before and was appearing only as a spare and occasionally on power plays.</p><p>Second game of the Monteral series will be remembered as the 60-minute game played in 56 seconds. That&rsquo;s how long it took&rsquo; for Canadiens to score all three goals in a 3-1 triumph.</p><p>The first two came while Detroit had two men short at 15:03 and 15:38 of the first period and one of the men still was in the penalty box when the third landed at 15:59. Rocket Richard got the final pair for his first playoff goals. Dickie Moore powered in, the first and assisted the Rocket on the two others.</p><h2><b>In Full Stride</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0276/1099699-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="900" height="934"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY SAWCHUK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0002-02

From Hero-To-Goat-To-Hero Saivchuh’s Role in Two Years

<div class="byline">By ELMER FERGUSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0371/1099730-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY SAWCHUK&hellip; &hellip;In Good Books Again</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ETROIT&mdash;Late in the afternoon of April 11, coach Dick Irvin of Canadiens called in to conference goaler Gerry McNeil, who hadn&rsquo;t played a game since Feb. 11, and asked him, point-blank: &ldquo;Are you ready to go out and fight for your job as a major league goaler, or are you ready to give up?&rdquo;</p><p>What Irvin meant, and indeed, what he said, was that if McNeil didn&rsquo;t wish to play, then he was through as the regular goaler of Canadiens, and would be replaced by Plante. In brief, he was asking McNeil whether he wished to gamble on a major league future, or admit the Inference that he was content to go to the minors.</p><p>It was shrewd psychology by Irvin, for McNeil, as game a little fellow as ever played in the majors, snapped back angrily: &ldquo;Certainly I&rsquo;ll play. Tell Hector (the Canadien trainer) to get my pads and stuff ready. I&rsquo;ll be there.&rdquo;</p><p>That was just what Irvin wanted to hear. For Irvin knew he was taking just another gamble as last spring, when similarly facing elimination from the Stanley Cup hunt, that time at the hands of Chicago Black Hawks, he daringly pulled out his regular goaler McNeil, and shot in a minor league rookie, Jacques Plante. Then, when Plante showed signs of weakness in the Boston series a year ago, he pulled out Plante, put in McNeil, and little Gerry came through with two shut-outs out of three successive winning games, the last of these in overtime.</p><p>And so the long arm of Old Man History reached over the trail of a year. Once again McNeil came back to replace Plante, and once again, the little fellow came up with a brilliant shut-out. And the veteran Kenny Mosdell, the league&rsquo;s best centre-ice player in the regular season came up with the winning goal on a brilliant end-to-end rush, and a lightning turn to foil the Red Wings great defence player Bob Goldham with a wicked back-hand shot that streaked past Terry Sawchuk in the Red Wings net, the first goal Canadiens had scored against Sawchuk in 130 minutes of play.</p><p>But the triumphant return of McNeil, and Mosdell&rsquo;s winning goal were not the only fashions in which history repeated. For Dame Fortune, usually a fickle jade, has ridden with Canadiens in overtime cup games in Detroit over the years. Three years ago, Canadiens battled the Wings in two long overtime duels here. Both those games they won, by goals off the stick of Rocket Richard. Last night, they followed the pattern as Mosdell, a veteran and closest pal of Rocket Richard in a hockey way, blasted home the winner.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-03

Red Wings “Jinxed” In Overtime Especially at Home against Habs

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>No one ever will be able to accuse Dick Irvin, the do-or-die coach of the Montreal Ca&rsquo;nadiens, of standing still in the face of adversity.</p><p>Always ready to adopt drastic measures in times of stress, Irvin shuffled lines with reckless abandon in the Stanley Cup final against the Detroit Red Wings when first slumping stars and then Injured players beset the club.</p><p>Like a candidate for the Miss America title, you can tell a hockey club by its lines. But even writers who followed the hustling Habs all season had to look twice at some of the weird combinations in Montreal uniforms.</p><p>Irvin used at least a dozen forward algnments, six in one game, and Maurice Richard, hero of many playoff engagements, appeared with four different sets of linemates.</p><p>The first drastic shake-up was prompted by the Rocket himself and his regular partners, Ken Mosdell and Bert Olmstead, who failed to garner a single point in Habs&rsquo; first five playoff games&mdash;four against the Boston Bruins and one against the Red Wings.</p><p>In the Boston series it didn&rsquo;t matter too much. Others, among &lsquo;them Dickie Moore, Bernie Geoffrion and Jean Beliveau took up the slack.</p><p>When the Punch Line was held scoreless again in the first game against the Wings, the Rocket began to worry about himself. He brooded and scowled and appeared ready to explode. Only quick action on the part of level-headed Tom Johnson kept him away from Refree Bill Chadwick in one game when the Rocket seemed bent on molesting the official.</p><p>Probably the only parallel slump by a big-name athlete at a crucial time was the slump of Gil Hodges, first baseman of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1952 World Series. Hodges paraded to bat 21 times against the New York Yankees and failed to get a hit.</p><p>Irvin worried too. &ldquo;If I had another line,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d bench the Rocket and his mates.&rdquo;</p><p>But Canadiens didn&rsquo;t have another line with the potential of the Punchers and Irvin resorted to the only possible solution. He broke them up, sending the Rocket out with Paul Masnick and Eddie Mazur.</p><p>With Paul Meger missing a game with a gimpy left knee, Baldy MacKay filled a left wing spot with Lome Davis on the opposite side, Mosdell and Goose McCormack alternating at centre. Mosdell also saw service with Floyd Curry and Bert Olmstead.</p><p>Prior to the shake-up coach King Clancy of the Toronto Maple Leafs was talking about Habs&rsquo; big line.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure I don&rsquo;t know what&rsquo;s wrong,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But the Rocket will snap out of it and then watch him go. He&rsquo;ll get goals in clusters and probably beat the Wings single-handed. Don&rsquo;t write him off. I wish I had him on my team, slump or not.&rdquo;</p><p>Well the King proved to be a prophet. The Rocket erupted in the second game of the series, scored two goals and, along with Dickie Moore, the other marskmen, gave the Habs a 3-1 victory.</p><p>The club seem set. &ldquo;If the Unseen Hand doesn&rsquo;t interfere with us, we&rsquo;ll be all right,&rdquo; said Irvin.</p><p>But the Unseen Hand&mdash;or rather, the Unseen Knees&mdash;upset all calculations. Doug Harvey limped out of action with a wrenched knee and Jean Beliveau, the pivot of the Sizzle Line, developed a charley horse and water&rsquo; on the knee.</p><p>Up came another shuffle. The Rocket appeared on a line with Dickie Moore and Paul Meger but later Dick Irvin shifted Moore from centre to left wing and put Mosdell back at the pivot spot.</p><p>Habs were not the same without Harvey and Beliveau. The area behind the Montreal blueline looked as bare as a park without a monument and Moore and Geoffrion were like a tricycle minus the front wheel.</p><p>&ldquo;I hope Canadiens will appreciate Harvey now,&rdquo; said jolly Jack Adams, manager of the Red Wings. &ldquo;I know the rest of the leagire does. He&rsquo;s the key man of their defense and he takes a lot of abuse.&rdquo;</p><p>Frank Selke, managing director of the Canadiens, had an answer for that charge. &ldquo;We do appreciate Harvey,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;As a matter of fact he&rsquo;s the highest paid defenseman in the league. And he doesn&rsquo;t have to depend on phoney assists to win bonuses to augment his salary like some of those poorly paid Red Wings. Two years ago Detroit had the second lowest payroll in the league. It has improved somewhat but it still doesn&rsquo;t come up to Canadien standards.&rdquo;</p><p>So this has been a series of charges and recriminations and attacks on the officials. Bill Chadwick and Red Storey, the two best whistle-tooters in the business, were assigned to the game but Canadiens didn&rsquo;t like Chadwick&rsquo;s work in the first contest and the Wings protested against Storey in the second.</p><p>But the silliest charge of all was made by Adams who told Detroit writers that Storey was on Canadiens&rsquo; payroll. Adams was quoted in the Detroit Free Press as highly critical of Storey&rsquo;s work even at a league meeting when playoff arrangements were made.</p><p>At that meeting, Adams was quoted as stating Selke had replied &ldquo;that&rsquo;s right&rdquo; when Adams had proclaimed that Storey was on Habs&rsquo; payroll.</p><p>&ldquo;I thought Adams was kidding,&rdquo; said Selke when he read the story. &ldquo;I merely went along with the joke. His remarks to Detroit writers were in extremely bad taste, to say the least.&rdquo;</p><p>Canadiens tied the series 1-1 when they scored three goals in 56 seconds to beat the Wings 3-1 in the second game, the one in which Richard shook his slump. The first two goals, by Moore and the Rocket, were scored with Gordie Howe and Tony Leswick in the penalty box. Rocket got his second tally after Howe had returned.</p><p>Detroit fans booed Storey all night and when a mob milled around the referee&rsquo;s room after the game he was given police protection.</p><p>The fans are entitled to boo. But Storey didn&rsquo;t make the rules, he simply enforced them. He dind&rsquo;t cross-check Richard, Howe did. He didn&rsquo;t slash Beliveau, Leswlck did.</p><p>So, in the final analysis, the boos should have been directed at Howe and Leswick who jeopardized their team by incurring successive penalties in a crucial ggame.</p><p>If fans would lay off the officials and vent their spleen on players who break the rules, hockey would acquire more balance. But, maybe, that&rsquo;s too much to ask.</p><h2><b>Hits Slump</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0187/1099668-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="880" height="948"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAURICE RICHARD</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0002-01

Stars Slumping And Injuries Forced Irvin To Juggle Lines

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>H</span>ere are the vote tabulations, showing how the fans rated them in the 7th Annual HOCKEY NEWS All-Star Poll. Only the leading contenders at each position are shown with the number of first, second and third place votes they received and their point totals. Five points was awarded for a first, three for a second and one for a third.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-076/1099890-1-eng-US/f0003-072.jpg" title="f0003-07" width="840" height="527"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-084/1099883-1-eng-US/f0003-082.jpg" title="f0003-08" width="836" height="532"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0003-07

How The Fans Picked Them

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Probably a sign of things to come was the fact that in last season&rsquo;s poll, Frank &lsquo;King&rsquo; Clancy, then not eligible, drew the votes of 50 fans. This season, now eligible, having coached Toronto Maple Leafs to third place in his rookie season as a mentor, Clancy was a solid choice for the coaching spot on the first team.</p><p>Clancy took over the reins of the Leafs this season from</p><p>Joe Primeau and took the team from fifth place last season to the Stanley Cup playoffs this year.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

OMEN?

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Just for the sake of comparison, here are the names of the players who were picked on the 1952-53 Fans&rsquo; All-Star team:</p><p>First Team</p><p>Goal: Terry Sawchuk; Defense: Red Kelly and Doug Harvey; Centre: Fleming Mackell; Right Wing: Gordie Howe; Left Wing: Ted Lindsay; Coach: Sid Abel.</p><p>Second Team</p><p>Goal: Gerry McNeil; Defense: Bill Quackenbush and Jim Thomson; Centre: Paul Ronty; Right Wing: Maurice Richard; Left Wing: Bert Olmstead; Coach: Tommy Ivan.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Last Season’s Stars

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0187/1099852-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="873" height="900"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RED KELLY, Detroit, Defense</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0427/1099845-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="877" height="898"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG HARVEY, Montreal, Defense</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0269/1099838-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="936" height="950"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY LUMLEY, Toronto. Goaler</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0518/1099831-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="900" height="914"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN MOSDELL, Montreal, Centre</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0342/1099824-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="828" height="870"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAURICE RICHARD. Montreal, R. Wing</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0610/1099817-1-eng-US/f0003-062.jpg" title="f0003-06" width="864" height="891"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED LINDSAY. Detroit, L. Wing</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>It took them a long, long time but they finally did it!</p><p>The &lsquo;them&rsquo; in question are a couple of guys named Harry Lumley and Ken Mosdell who this year, for the first time in their lengthy NHL careers, have been named to the First Team on the Seventh Annual HOCKEY NEWS Fans&rsquo; All-Star team.</p><p>The other four positions on the &lsquo;dream team&rsquo; are manned by All-Star team veterans. Red Kelly is back on defense for the fourth straight year and he&rsquo;s teamed with Doug Harvey, a three time winner.</p><p>On left wing is the dean of the glitter guys, Theodore Lindsay, making his fifth straight appearance with the Fans&rsquo; All-Star brigade.</p><p>HOCKEY NEWS readers also saw fit to return Maurice (Rocket) Richard to his old post at right wing, a spot he last held in 1949-50 before giving way to Gordie Howe for the last three campaigns.</p><p>Another newcomer besides Lumley and Mosdell to the All-Star team is the coach of this year&rsquo;s squad. He&rsquo;s Frank &lsquo;King&rsquo; Clancy and this marks the second consecutive year that a rookie coach has copped the honor. Last season it was Sid Abel.</p><p>There are four changes from last year&rsquo;s team. Besides Clancy replacing Abel, Richard took over from Howe, Mosdell from Fleming Mackell and Lumley from Terry Sawchuk.</p><p>Only two members of last season&rsquo;s team are back at their old stand. They are Paul Ronty at centre and Bert Olmstead at left wing. Newcomers to the second squad are Howe at right wing, Terry Sawchuk in goals, and the defense pair of Bill Gadsby and Tim Horton. They replace Richard, Gerry McNeil, Bill Quackenbush and Jim Thomson. Coach of the second team is Tommy Ivan.</p><p>This season the honor of having the biggest point total went to fiery Ted Lindsay, captain of Detroit Red Wings, who amassed a total of 16,542 points to nose out teammate Leonard (Red) Kelly. The honor of having the most first place votes however, went to Kelly as he amassed 3,054 to Lindsay&rsquo;s 3,000 even. Kelly ended with a point total of 16,536.</p><p>Closest battle of all came between Howe and Richard as the Rocket came up with a point total of 14,796 to Gordie&rsquo;s 13,200, Richard, however, had a fairly decisive edge in first place votes, 2,124 to 1,578. These two were head and shoulders above the rest of the field, as Bernie Geoffrion and Wally Hergeshelmer fought a tight battle for third place. Boomer winning out by a narrow margin.</p><p>At left wing it was pretty much a one man race with Lindsay running away from the pack. Montreal&rsquo;s Bert Olmstead, the runner-up, had a pretty fair margin over third place Harry Watson of the Leafs. Lindsay had 16,542 points, Olmstead 7,584 and Watson 4,080.</p><p>Ken Mosdell&rsquo;s victory as All-Star centre was pretty decisive also as he polled 11,142 points to Paul Ronty&rsquo;s 6,384. Not too far back of Ronty was Tod Sloan of the Maple Leafs with 5,736. Mosdell greatly outstripped the field in the matter of first place votes, getting 1,638 to Ronty&rsquo;s 594.</p><p>This year&rsquo;s four top defensemen too were off by themselves in the tabulations. Detroit&rsquo;s Kelly and Montreal&rsquo;s Doug Harvey polled 16,536 and 12,906 points respectively while Chicago&rsquo;s Bill Gadsby had 9,660 and Toronto&rsquo;s Tim Horton 9,846.</p><h2>Big Margin</h2><p>Toronto&rsquo;s Harry Lumley, the Vezina Trophy winner, had a margin of almost 4,000 points over runner up Terry Sawchuk of Detroit. Lum had 13,274 to Terry&rsquo;s 9,396. Al Rollins of Chicago ran third in the goaling derby with 5,394 points.</p><p>Although Frank (King) Clancy of Toronto had the first team berth almost cinched at the halfway mark in the tabulations, a stiff battle was waged for the second team coaching spot with Montreal&rsquo;s veteran mentor, Dick Irvin, and Tommy Ivan of the champion Red Wings running neck and neck. Ivan finally edged Irvin 7,722 to 7,686 in points although Irvin had more first place votes, 1,002 to 906.</p><h2>Third Team</h2><p>If a third team were picked then, Al Rollins would be the goaler, with Detroit&rsquo;s Bob Goldham and Toronto&rsquo;s Jim Thomson on the defense. The attacking unit would be made up of Tod Sloan at centre between Bernie Geoffrion and Harry Watson. Dour Dick Irvin would be the coach of the team.</p><p>All in all, in summing up, it was one of the better years as far as the Fans&rsquo; AU-Star Poll is concerned. The voting was heavy and there were a few nip and tuck battles for some of the spots.</p><p>Don&rsquo;t despair if some of your personal favorites did not make it this year. Remember, there&rsquo;s always next season as they say in Brooklyn.</p><h2><b>Coach</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-093/1099810-1-eng-US/f0003-092.jpg" title="f0003-09" width="576" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KING CLANCY Toronto Maple Leafs</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Second Team</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0473/1099803-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="574" height="892"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOMMY IVAN Detroit, Coach</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0553/1099796-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="296" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Sawchuk Goaler</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0640/1099789-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="296" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Paul Ronty Centre</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0734/1099782-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="284" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bert Olmstead L. Wing</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0833/1099775-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="290" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe R. Wing</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0929/1099768-1-eng-US/f0007-092.jpg" title="f0007-09" width="294" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Gadsby Defense</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1026/1099761-1-eng-US/f0007-102.jpg" title="f0007-10" width="282" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tim Horton Defense</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0003-01

Kelly, Lindsay, Harvey Repeaters On First Team

<div class="byline">BY MILT DUNNELL-SPORTS EDITOR</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01155/1099976-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><p>(As Been in the Toronto Star)</p><h2><b>Kennedy Will Get the Maloney Treatment</b></h2><p>PRIDE is on Conn Smythe&rsquo;s side in his campaign to keep Teeder Kennedy from packing his tack as skipper of the Torontos. So is Larkin Maloney, head of the construction company with which Kennedy envisions an attractive business future. Mr. Maloney has practised his persuasion before on Leafs who had their hearts set on retirement from hockey. Joe Primeau had enough, after one season of coaching the Leafs. He confided to friends that, win or lose in the Stanley Cup scuffles, he wouldn&rsquo;t be back at Maple Leaf Gardens. Joe did go back&mdash;for two more seasons. After absorbing several hours of Maloney&rsquo;s Irish oratory, Primeau became convinced of what a privilege it was to get his ulcers from coaching the Leafs. Some people have to do terrible things, like directing those Hollywood cuties, to get ulcers. If you had your choice between coaching the Leafs and coaching the flicker dolls, which would you pick? The Leafs, of course&mdash;if you&rsquo;d been talking to Maloney, who not only is a long-time friend of Smythe&rsquo;s, but also a director of the Gardens.</p><p>In the Kennedy case, Maloney&rsquo;s task is so easy that it&rsquo;s scarcely worthy of his talents. Teeder, apparently, figures he&rsquo;s too old for the big apple. He&rsquo;s 28. Dit Clapper played in the NHL when he was 40. At 34, he was picked all-star defence for the third season in succession. And Milt Schmidt, one of the players most frequently involved in comparisons with Kennedy, won the Hart trophy at 33. The Hart, of course, goes to the player adjudged to have been most valuable to his employers. Elmer Lach, another centre, led the league in scoring when he was 30. And that was despite injuries which included a crack in his skull.</p><h2><b>He&rsquo;s a Kid Compared to Bill Cook</b></h2><p>KENNEDY won&rsquo;t have to be reminded that Bill Cook led the league in scoring when he was 36. That&rsquo;s been told so often, every player has it embossed on his birthday cakes. Of more recent years, there&rsquo;s the success story of Buddy O&rsquo;Connor. At 31, Buddy won both the Hart and the Byng, although he never was one of the league&rsquo;s top men in pucks and pesos, as Kennedy has been. Toe Blake is another who instilled respect for the oldsters. Toe was 32, when he established an NHL playoff scoring record. The book is full of players who discovered life begins at 30. Kennedy actually can&rsquo;t plead age as a factor in his proposed retirement. Nor will his argument that he hasn&rsquo;t been producing&hellip;hasn&rsquo;t been earning the dough Smythe now pays him&hellip;stand up in debate. Smythe himself has the best answer to that. The Leafs&rsquo; boss is waving more G-notes than Kennedy or any other player ever collected before. And it isn&rsquo;t because he likes the way Kennedy used to comb his hair before the recession of the hairline set in. If Teeder signs the two-year pact which the Leafs offer, he&rsquo;ll be earning more daught than 75 per cent of those poor little rich boys of sport, the big league ball players. Even Smythe emphasizes Kennedy&rsquo;s desire to quit has no connection with money. On the other hand, money shouldn&rsquo;t discourage him.</p><p>In the long run, though, the thing most likely to bring the skipper back is his sense of responsibility. That&rsquo;s something of which he never has been short, especially since they sewed the capital &ldquo;C&rdquo; on his jersey. He&rsquo;d never enjoy retirement with a fifth-place Toronto club on his conscience. And that&rsquo;s about what he could expect. When Syl Apps quit, the Leafs were pretty well stocked with name centres. They&rsquo;d be thinner than boarding house soup if Kennedy quit. And there are no centres on the market. Mr. Maloney, we&rsquo;d say, has the strongest case since Sergt. Friday&rsquo;s last pinch for Dragnet. All he needs is the facts, ma&rsquo;am.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02140/1099969-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="1153" height="985"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED KENNEDY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0004-01

Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><p>(As Seen in the Montreal Gazette)</p><h2>Like a Hockey Convention</h2><p>If you wandered through the lobby of the Mount Royal Hotel, you might have thought a hockey convention was in progress.</p><p>In the Boston group were Walter Brown, president of the Bruins and general manager of Boston Garden; Lynn Patrick, manager-coach of the Bruins, and Herb Ralby, the Boston newspaperman who looks after the Bruins&rsquo; publicity. Conn Smythe, managing director of Maple Leaf Gardens, represented the Leafs, Jack Adams, general manager of the Detroit Wings, was huddling with Tommy Ivan, the Wing&rsquo;s coach, and Johnny Mitchell, who succeeded Carson (Shoved Shot) Cooper as the Wings&rsquo; chief scout. Bruce and Marge Norris, owners of the Wings, were expected in by plane.</p><p>We didn&rsquo;t see anyone from the New York Rangers or the Chicago Black Hawks, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean they weren&rsquo;t there.</p><p>There was such a welter of hockey writers, sports-casters and news photographers, to say nothing of the characters looking for hockey tickets, that Frank Boucher or Bill Tobin could easily have been lost in the crowd. Even a man of such stature as Col. John Reed Kilpatrick, the old Yale blue who presides over the affairs of Madison Square Garden Corporation, might have escaped detection by Jock Fleming, who doesn&rsquo;t need a geiger counter to locate an ore body.</p><p>&ldquo;If we were allowed to bet,&rdquo; said Lynn Patrick, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d have put my money on Canadiens to take this series, even after they lost the first game. When we met them in the first playoff round they were the best team we&rsquo;d seen all season.</p><p>&ldquo;But they&rsquo;re in trouble now. If Harvey and Beliveau are out with injuries, it will make a big difference. No team can lose players like them and not feel it.&rdquo;</p><p>Lynn was asked if he thought the new Beliveau-Moore-Geoffrion line could be hockey&rsquo;s next great line.</p><p>&ldquo;Any line with Beliveau on it could be hockey&rsquo;s next great line,&rdquo; was the answer.</p><h2>Who Needles Whom?</h2><p>The conversation was interrupted momentarily by the ringing of a bell and a rush of uniformed porters and bell-hops for the elevator. Suspecting a fire, everybody edged over towards the elevators, but it turned out to be only a routine drill. Conn Smythe stepped out of a descending elevator.</p><p>&ldquo;I saw you go up a few minutes ago, Lynn Patrick said to Conn: &ldquo;I thought you might have started something.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Always needling me,&rdquo; said Conn. &ldquo;Come on over here. I want to talk to you.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re always ahead of me,&rdquo; said Lynn, as he followed along.</p><p>Some of the Detroit players, among them Jimmy Peters, walked through the lobby. Jimmy noticed Tommy Ivan in deep discussion with Jack Adams.</p><p>&ldquo;Probably deciding whether they&rsquo;ll let me shoot or not tonight,&rdquo; he grinned.</p><p>Finally Adams and Ivan broke it up and came over to speak to the players. Tommy announced that he needed two tickets the worst way and could anyone sell him a pair. Jimmy Peters produced them.</p><p>&ldquo;Just remember that one good turn deserves another,&rdquo; he said as he handed them over.</p><p>But the Red Wings have already done Jimmy&rsquo;s good turn by rescuing him from the Black Hawks and making it possible for him to dip into the playoff pool for a good handful.</p><h2>On Yanking Goalkeepers</h2><p>Someone asked Jack Adams if he&rsquo;d locked himself in his drawing room on the train here from Detroit. No one had seen him.</p><p>&ldquo;I was reading a book,&rdquo; Jack said. &ldquo;Believe it or not, I was.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Did you find any new words in the book to apply to Red Storey?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s not go into that&mdash;it was brutal,&rdquo; Said Jack. &ldquo;I read somewhere where Harvey and Beliveau might not be able to play tonight. I ll believe that when I see the teams on the ice.&rdquo;</p><p>Little Johnny Mitchell, the Detroit scout, was asked how he liked the first two games of the series.</p><p>&ldquo;They were good games, but I got a bigger thrill out of the last game of the schedule between Detroit and Toronto,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The Red Wings are winning, 6-1, and they took Terry Sawchuek out of the net and put on an extra forward to see if they couldn&rsquo;t score again and get Terry the Vezina Trophy. Lumley was so jittery he nearly blew it.&rdquo;</p><p>Doesn&rsquo;t that rover in the Canadiens&rsquo; nets give you any thrills?&rdquo; he was asked.</p><p>&ldquo;If he keeps that up he&rsquo;ll find himself out in left field some day without a mitt,&rdquo; Johnny laughed. &ldquo;Say, did you hear about Rudy Pilous?&rdquo; He&rsquo;s coaching the St. Catharine&rsquo;s juniors and they&rsquo;re behind, 3-2, near the end of the second period with a faceoff in their own end of the rink. He yanks his goalkeeper, but they get the draw and go up the ice to score.</p><p>&ldquo;But I heard a better one that that about Babe Pratt when he was coaching New Westminster in the Pacific Coast League. Jakie Forbes was telling me about it. I&rsquo;ll see if I can find him.&rdquo;</p><p>He went away for a moment and came back with Jakie. who coached the Sherbrooke Saints this past season.</p><p>&ldquo;Yeah, it happened like this,&rdquo; said Jakie. &ldquo;New Westminster is behind going into the second period, 5-1, when Babe first took out his goalkeeper. New Westminster scored a couple of goals and he put him on again. Then he kept taking him off and putting him on until the last minute of the game. New Westminster kept picking up the odd goal and finally won the game, 6-5. They&rsquo;re still talking about, it there.&rdquo;</p><p>Here, too, for that matter, and probably wherever hockey people huddle.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="byline">By Marshall Dann</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01108/1100031-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="310" height="464"></div><p><b>DETROIT&mdash;</b> Sometimes this writing business gets melancholy.</p><p>I&rsquo;m thinking about my compatriots in Toronto. They just finished burying their Maple Leafs for the season, then had to dig one of them up and give him a private burial.</p><p>Referring of course to Ted Kennedy&rsquo;s announcement that he was retiring as Maple Leaf captain and center as of right now period.</p><p>Only one possible benefit of this conies immediately to mind. That &ldquo;Come-on-Teeder&rdquo; guy at Maple Leaf Gardens will be put out of business.</p><p>Everything else connected with his announcement is a loss.</p><p>Kennedy knows his own business. Still he becomes the first true star, at least in modern times, to say quits while still the best player on his own team.</p><p>There&rsquo;s a flowery expression about getting out while still on top. But really, it&rsquo;s the bunk.</p><p>No great athlete ever leaves the chase while still owning the ability to become greater. Hockey players hit their peak between the ages of 28 and 32. Kennedy is only 28, thus about to enter an era when he should add luster to an already shining career.</p><p>You can&rsquo;t help but recall some Of the best centers of late who were reaping glory after 30&mdash;Milt Schmidt, Sid Abel, Syl Apps, Elmer Lach and Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, to mention a few.</p><p>Those evasive All Star and Hart Trophy awards probably would be coming to Kennedy, too, if he&rsquo;d just stick around.</p><p>Something was said in his farewell speech about not being able to deliver any more. I know Kennedy could not truthfully have said that had he sat in the same seat I did for the five Detrqit-Toronto playoff games this spring.</p><p>There never was a better Toronto player on the ice than the Leaf leader. Not only was he the playing star, but it was just as Obvious that he also was the heart and guts of the club. No one else was close to him, and that&rsquo;s not throwing rocks at the others either.</p><p>Being a great competitor, Kennedy doesn&rsquo;t take defeat easily. It is understandable that tills might get him down, but not to the point of tossing in his skates.</p><p>Maybe he just got tired of Conn Smythe&rsquo;s whip. Ted has been &bull;round the club 10 years. Still, that&rsquo;s long enough to become hardened to any lash.</p><p>Or maybe he finally fell victim to that poison Dick Irvin has been dishing his way for several seasons. Kennedy ought to know better than swallow that stuff. He must realize that were he a Canadian serf, Irvin would be hugging him even tighter than he does Jean Beliveau.</p><p>Kennedy is no great favorite in these parts. Detroit fans love to boo him oddly next to Rocket Richard. Much of that feeling dates back to the Kennedy-Gordie Howe accident some four years ago about which everyone still has his own version, some mighty heated.</p><p>Still no one here likes the idea of a Toronto team coming around without Kennedy in uniform. The bitter rivalry wouldn&rsquo;t offer much zest if the Leafs can&rsquo;t offer a dangerous enough team to make it interesting.</p><p>And without Kennedy, next year it won&rsquo;t.</p><p>You can bet that the boys at the Forum, Boston Garden, Chicago Stadium and Madison Square Garden also feel the same.</p><p>I only hope the Toronto scribes sprinkled plenty of ifs and maybes in their hockey obituries about Teeder. Maybe after a rest the guy will change his mind and see it differently.</p><p>Smythe says he&rsquo;s waving the fattest contract in NHL history to get Kennedy&rsquo;s attention. Ted might as well sign. There&rsquo;s no one else on the Toronto team worth it.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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On Thin Ice

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0291/1100062-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WHEN MONTREAL CANADIENS</b> went to Boston for the fourth and final game of the Stanley Cup semi-final series, they didn&rsquo;t lack vocal support. Shown above are four pretty young maids who left their jobs at the Montreal Forum where they act as usherettes to cheer their favorite hockey players. From left to right they are: Suzanne Lussier, Madeleine Lussier, Betty Lomas and Pierrette Lussier.</figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO. Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Jim Norris, head of the International Boxing Club besides being&rsquo; chairman of the board of the Black Hawks, took a brief respite from preparations on the eve of the Bobo Olsen-Kid Gavilan title bout April 2 at the Chicago Stadium to confer with General Manager Bill Tobin and Coach Sid Abel.</p><p>The confab, it was later disclosed, resulted in the naming of Abel to again lead the Chicago skaters in National Hockey League warfare next season. The two-year contract to which the exDetroit star was originally signed in July, 1952, expired with, the end of the past disasterous campaign for the Hawks.</p><p>With the recent sudden departure of Phil Cavaretta as leader of baseball&rsquo;s disappointing Chicago Cubs, some speculation concerning Abel&rsquo;s chances of survival immediately arose. His superiors in the Black Hawk front office, however, were quick to clear Abel of blame for the club&rsquo;s failings in 1953-54.</p><p>During the meeting in Norris&rsquo; IBC offices in the Stadium, it was apparently agreed that the Hawks would be willing to go along with Abel if he still felt the same way about the team. <i>&ldquo;We</i> actually didn&rsquo;t hand Sid a contract this time, but we reached an understanding,&rdquo; says Tobin.</p><p>The decision to retain Abel, who did such a fine job in his freshman year that he was honored by HOCKEY NEWS as the Coach of the Year, should have the full support of Chicago puck followers. They&rsquo;re still thanking him for pulling the squad into the playoffs in 1952-53 after a lapse of too many seasons.</p><p>Indications, even without the more extensive draft plan, are that Abel will have quite a bit more talent with which to work next fall. The first of a series of deals, in fact, may be announced to the public before this reaches print. The biggest shakeup in team history appears in the offing.</p><p>With a decent disbursement of major league players to Chicago in the future, Sid Abel will have the chance to show fans a brand of hockey confined in the past more often than not to visiting clubs at the Stadium. That&rsquo;s the fervent hope of everyone from President Arthur Wirtz on down to the stick boy.</p><h2><b>They Cheered For Habs (In Boston)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Abel To Lead Chicago Again in 1954; Gets Vote of Confidence, No Contract

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO. N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The four-faced clock in Buffalo&rsquo;s cathedral-domed New York Central railroad station fingered the time as 7:48 the morning of February 13, 1954. Small clusters of well-dressed athletic-appearing men stood in idle conversation, or so it appeared to the casual observer.</p><p>Actually, they were all discussing a sportspage headline in the morning paper. It read: &ldquo;Bisons Surprised by Plante Recall For Two Games.&rdquo;</p><p>If the front office of the Buffalo team of the American League was surprised by its stellar goaltender Jacques Plante being recalled by the parent Montreal sextet, it had nothing on Plante himself.</p><p>The hollow-cheeked, sharp-featured Plante stood with his Buffalo mates ready to depart for Cleveland. Clamped underneath the right arm of his gray overcoat was the newspaper which proclaimed he had been called up to fill in for the Injured Gerry McNeil.</p><p>&ldquo;Am I to join Canadiens?&rdquo; he asked Montreal Farm Director Ken Reardon, who was traveling with the Bisons at the time.</p><p>Plante&rsquo;s Impassive face betrayed none of his thoughts. After enquiring about transportation, he yelled &ldquo;good luck, I&rsquo;ll see you in a couple of days&rdquo; to his mates, shook hands with a few well-wishers and turned on his heel.</p><p>Behind, he may have Left his minor league career, a brief career at that since he only joined the professional ranks with the Bisons on January 8, 1953, and, ironically, against Cleveland, the team he was to have faced that eventful February night of this year.</p><p>When Plante stepped between the pipes for Buffalo for the first time, the Bisons were badly mired in last place in the AHL.</p><p>By his colorful antics, and outstanding netininding, he immediately caught the fancy of the Buffalo fans. With him serving as a bulwark on defense, the anaemic Bisons spurted to six straight victories.</p><p>During the skein Jacques, who was quickly nicknamed &ldquo;The Snake&rdquo; because of wriggling from a crouched position, allowed five goals and scored two shutouts behind the most porous defense in the league. Then the Bisons leveled off, and even a Plante couldn&rsquo;t pull them out of the basement mire.</p><p>This year, the Frank Ed-dolls crew and Plante broke from the barrier in fine style, and on the day Jacques departed under the &ldquo;emergency&rdquo; recall rule held a comfortable lead over the rest of the pack.</p><p>Plante, who never did return to the Herd as McNeil&rsquo;s injury proved more serious than first thought, allowed 148 goals and had three shutouts in 55 games for a 2.69 goals-against average with the Bisons. It was the best mark of any goalie in the league, and earned him All-Star rating&mdash;although a technicality deprives him of official recognition.</p><p>Once in the colors of the Habs, Plante left no doubt that he wanted to stay under the National League tent.</p><p>In 17 games, the wiry, darkhaired Plante allowed only 27 shots to get past his steely eyes and well-coordinated body, and also registered five shutouts.</p><p>He embellished this remarkable 1.59 goals-against average even further in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs by twice blanking Boston and being a key figure in the quick ouster of the Bruins.</p><p>Always possessed with quiet confidence, Plante spoke freely and easily of his National League experiences while riding with Buffalo General Manager Fred Hunt and this writer from Toronto to Buffalo during the final week of the regular season.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s tough, real tough,&rdquo; he began in clipped tones. &ldquo;The practices are almost as hard as the actual games. I&rsquo;ve lost six pounds since leaving Buffalo, and most of that in the practices&hellip;but I always wanted to play in the National League with Montreal, and now I am.&rdquo;</p><p>Plante expressed regret at leaving the Bisons &ldquo;as I like Buffalo and the players, and I wanted to be on the championship club after last year&rsquo;s poor team.&rdquo;</p><p>Then with a rueful grin, he added:</p><p>&ldquo;But the Royals also were in first place when I left them to come to Buffalo last year so maybe I&rsquo;m just not meant to be with the first place teams.&rdquo;</p><p>Asked how he felt about the possibility of being farmed out again once McNeil regains his health next season, Jacques gave a typical shrug.</p><p>&ldquo;While I&rsquo;m in the nets, I&rsquo;ll do my very best all the time,&rdquo; he stated in matter-of-fact fashion. &ldquo;The rest of the playing is up to the team, and the decisions to Mister (Frank) Selke and Mister (Dick) Irvin.&rdquo;</p><p>Plante, who has always shown a tendency towards rushing out of his net to grab loose pucks, admits that he&rsquo;s had to curb himself with Canadiens.</p><p>&ldquo;With the Royals, I used to come way out of my net&hellip;even up to near the blueline,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Then, with Buffalo I cut the distance down some and didn&rsquo;t go out as often. Now, I only do it when it&rsquo;s absolutely necessary.</p><p>&ldquo;Like when Detroit shoots the puck in on their power play&hellip;I stop it behind our net and prevent the wingmen from picking it up along the boards. The first time I did that, they were really surprised.&rdquo;</p><p>Then, as if belatedly defending the leaving of the safety of the crease, Jacques added:</p><p>&ldquo;But I never lost the puck or got scored on when I came out anyways.&rdquo;</p><p>While the turn of events which began February 13th have left Plante happily be-wildered, no single triumph to date has given Jacques the thrill he received when he shutout Chicago in his first Stanley Cup game last year.</p><p>&ldquo;When I was told I was going to play that night, I could hardly keep my hands from shaking, I was that nervous,&rdquo; he recalled.</p><p>&ldquo;But once the Chicago fans began throwing eggs and garbage at us when we took the ice, I relaxed. It was tougher dodging the eggs than stopping the Black Hawks.&rdquo;</p><p>And chances are that many an egg will splatter Chicago ice before this &ldquo;Golden Egg&rdquo; the Canadiens found in their own backyard leaves the Montreal henhouse again. Little Gerry McNeil, as outstanding as he is, will have a tough time winning back his job come next fall, and if he doesn&rsquo;t Montreal has a good prospect for &ldquo;Rookie of the Year&rdquo; honors.</p><h2><b>How Jake Does It!</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0531/1100100-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="956" height="652"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Plante Deflects Shortie Sizzler</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Short Stay?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0371/1100093-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="558" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACQUES PLANTE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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When Plante Left Buffalo For Montreal He Expected To Be Back In A Few Days

<p><b>Founded October 1st, 1947 By Kenneth W. MeKenxie and Will V. Cote</b></p><p><b>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY</b></p><p><b>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West. Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire; $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.</b></p><p>Entered as second-class matter, October 3, 1863 at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879.</p><p>Authorized as second-class mall. Post Office Department, Ottawa.</p><p><b>Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations</b></p><p>Printed In Canada</p><p><b>VOL. 7 MONTREAL. APRIL 17. 1954 No. 29</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-072/1100245-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg" title="f0006-07" width="592" height="278"></div><h2>April 25 to May 2</h2><p>25&mdash;EGAN, Pat, Providence coach, 1918.</p><p>26&mdash;ALMAS, Ralph, Victoria goaler, 1924.</p><p>29&mdash;BACKOR, Pete, Pittsburgh defence, 1919.</p><p>30&mdash;MCLEOD, Jackie, Saskatoon forward, 1930; MACKELL, Fleming, Boston forward, 1929.</p><p>1&mdash;BRENNAN, Bill, Calgary goaler, 1925.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday to YOU

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-08/1100276-1-eng-US/f0006-082.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 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 will 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 of lengthy profiles on players in the summer issues and oodles of candid pictures showing that favorite 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 track 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.</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 Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01181/1100183-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="446" height="490"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>ETROIT&mdash;</b> Well this Stanley Cup final between Canadiens and the Red Wings has certainly developed into a epinetingling thriller. It&rsquo;s been a series fraught with the unexpected&mdash;a classic of hockey at its best.</p><p>When the Wings smashed through with a pair of wins in Montreal to come home for the fifth game with a 3-1 lead. it was practically a foregone conclusion that Canadiens wouldn&rsquo;t see the familiar confines of the Forum again this year. But hockey is the kind of a game where that mysterious quality known as form can change overnight. Canadiens were in the hole and they knew it and played like it. When Kenny Mosdell, a grand guy who simply refuses to allow his advanced years to interfere with his play, scored the overtime marker that forced a sixth game, the Red Wings were vividly aware that the series was far from over.</p><p>That fifth game was undoubtedly the &ldquo;tension game&rdquo; of the series so far. Spectacular goal-tending by Terry Sawchuk and Gerry McNeil kept the huge crowd (14,623) on the edges of their seats for 65 minutes and 45 seconds. On several occasions during the close-checking, hard-fought game, both goalies were called upon to make sensational saves. Then in the short overtime, it looked over when Gordie Howe wheeled around the Hab defense and coasted in on McNeil. His save, a spectacular stop saved the game for Canadiens.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t long afterwards that Mosdell broke in on the Detroit defense, was partially stopped by Bob Goldham and as he spun around off balance, he carried the puck with him and whirled a 25-foot backhander towards Sawchuk. Terry apparently wasn&rsquo;t expecting Mosdell to get a shot away and he said in the dressing room after-wards. &ldquo;It was strictly a blind shot.&rdquo;</p><p>Gerry McNeil&rsquo;s return to duty after being hors de combat since February 11, will go down in hockey history as one of the greatest goalkeeping comebacks in history. In fact, we doubt very much if you&rsquo;ll find a parallel anywhere in sports. By comparison you can imagine Casey Stengel of the New York Yankees, flagging a pitcher from the bullpen in the fifth and. crucial game of a World Series and although he hadn&rsquo;t completed a game in two months saying to him: &ldquo;This is your big chance kid to become a major leaguer. Go out there and let&rsquo;s see what you can do.&rdquo; All the while expecting him to pitch a near-no-hitter, the equivalent hockey feat accomplished by McNeil.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0277/1100176-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="274" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Earl Reibel</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0341/1100169-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="292" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marcel Pronvost</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0426/1100162-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="290" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gaye Stewart</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0522/1100155-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="292" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Floyd Curry</b></figcaption></div><p>Floyd Curry, an indefatigable worker, sounded the keynote for Canadiens when he said, &ldquo;If you bump &lsquo;em you&rsquo;re bound to wear &lsquo;em down.&rdquo; The Canadiens&rsquo; strategy in the series has been simply this. By using four lines they hoped to wear down Detroit&hellip;And another series oddity was that the night McNeil took over from Plante, April 11, it marked exactly two months to the day since he played his last game&hellip;The Detroit hockey writers figured that the save McNeil made off Howe in the overtime was a $35,000 stop.</p><p>Bob Goldham has been the outstanding defenseman of the series&hellip;. He made nine stops in the fifth game and has been a tower of power on the Wings defense. Harvey has been playing great for Canadiens&hellip;Canadien players figure that they&rsquo;re starting to catch onto Goldham. Instead of shooting now, they&rsquo;re starting to move around him&hellip;Incidentally, Goldham and Benny Woit wear special boots made by former Kraut Bobby Bauer. They&rsquo;re padded so that they don&rsquo;t absorb any punishment in making those saves&hellip;</p><p>The Habs dressed another NHL. veteran, Gaye Stewart, who had&rsquo; a great season with Buffalo Bisons in the AHL, and he acquitted himself very well, having several excellent scoring chances.</p><p><b>MONTREAL&mdash;</b> It may or may not be significant but the team which won the third game of the Stanley Cup finals went on to win the historic trophy for 11. consecutive years. The last time the form didn&rsquo;t apply was during the 1942 series when the Toronto Maple Leafs blew the first three games to Detroit and came back to win the next tour&hellip;Here&rsquo;s proof that the Wings are a great road club. They took both games in Toronto and duplicated the feat in Montreal, winning only there out six at home during the current final and semi-final series.</p><p>The Chicago minor officials are working the games in Detroit with the New York boys handling the Montreal engagements Earl Reibel suffered a fractured cheek-bone in the fourth game here and after watching; the fifth game at home from the press box went into hospital to have it set&hellip;A special train carrying both teams, NHL offiicals, the press and some fans, left here at midnight following the fourth game. Gerry Gleason, CPR passenger agent was in charge of the &ldquo;hockey special.&rdquo;</p><p>The NHL held an open-house party for visiting firemen in Montreal during the day of the fourth game and we had the pleasure of welcoming two grand old guys. Dickie Boone and Newsy Lalonde, spry for their years, showed up and renewed acquaintances. Dickie told us that he had the pleasure of signing both Art Ross and Lester Patrick to their first professional hockey contracts&hellip;All four are hall-of-famers&hellip;Three Toronto papers aret covering the series&hellip;</p><p>As is often the case in these tense sets, Richard and Howe, the two greatest right wingers in the game today, are not dominating the series. The lesser lights are shining brighter&hellip;</p><p>A morque-like atmosphere prevailed in the Detroit dressing room immediately following the fifth game. The gloom was finally shattered by Jack Adams when he boomed: &ldquo;Never mind boys. I&rsquo;m proud of you. You played a great hockey game.&rdquo;</p><p>The goal that beat Jacques Plante in Montreal in the fourth game&mdash;the one by Johnny Wilson, was probably the &ldquo;softest&rdquo; of the series. In fact, we&rsquo;re convinced that it was that goal&mdash;and the one scored by Metro Prystai in the third game&mdash;that prompted Irvin, in a last desperate measure, to call on McNeil&hellip;Had Plante stopped wilson&rsquo;s 25-foot loft shot, they might be playing that fourth game yet&hellip;The puck, lofted from a face-off struck the front of Plante&rsquo;s pads and trickled through. Red Kelly&rsquo;s loft into the empty net with seven seconds to go was anti-climatic.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Ted Kennedy announced the end of a brilliant career shortly after the Maple Leafs had been bounced from the Stanley Cup playoffs by the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>It was dropped like a bomb by managing director Conn Smythe in an otherwise peaceful Sunday afternoon press conference where the scribes were also shown movies depicting how another referee had failed to call another penalty, a deed which could only have prolonged the inevitable. This, however, is the only place you can see a movie in Toronto on a Sunday.</p><p>&ldquo;Kennedy,&rdquo; Smythe announced with unaccustomed quiet, &ldquo;has told me he has retired.&rdquo;</p><p>It would have had the same effect if he had said: &ldquo;I am flying TCA to Mars to do some scouting.&rdquo;</p><p>Everyone close to the Leaf scene has been coucious that Kennedy must retire sometime. Adopting escapist attitudes, however, they have shuddered and dismissed the thought from their minds.</p><p>The Leafs, without Kennedy and particularly at this crucial stage of rebuilding would be like attempting to fly a B-36 with an outboard motor. He has, dramatically perhaps, been called the heart of the Leafs on many occasions. It is not a title which sprung from a typewriter for the lack of something better to say.</p><p>Leaf and Kennedy supporters have only one bright spot to seek. Smythe, who first had an ink ling of the announcement last November, still refused to believe it. He announced that he had directed Kennedy to take a month to six weeks to think it over and to talk it over with his wife, Doreen. At that time it can be anticipated that Kennedy will either hang up number nine forever or accept an offer which Smythe made, on a two year term at prices which would stun even real estate brokers. Smythe says that it is the highest offer, to his knowledge, that has ever been made a hockey player. This puts it over the 20G mark by a fair margin. Eddie Shore once took $22,000 for one year with the Boston Bruins.</p><p>It is a juicy bait. And it is actually for only 18 months if you calculate it on straight time. Kennedy admitted amazement when Smythe herded him into the visiting players&rsquo; dressing room at the Gardens after the team&rsquo;s breakup picture had been recorded and told him the proposition. But he remained adamant and, in fact, informed Smythe that he was not even of the opinion that he had earned the money he was paid this season so why should he expect to make any more?</p><p>Afterwards he reiterated that it was not the cash. He is not by any means financially Independent though hockey, at the prices he has labored for, has set him up comfortably in the more basic things in life, like a small estate outside Toronto and, undoubtedly, various investments.</p><p>He has been anticipating retirement for the past three years. He says he told Smythe at the beginning of the season that he would give it one last good shot would do his best to help win a Stanley Cup but that would be it, finis and 30. Twice during the season Smythe felt him out. Twice Kennedy told him that he hadn&rsquo;t changed his mind. The third time was the financial bait in the dressing room. No change.</p><p>The time limit can be construed as being a bit of Smythian strategy. He knows that at the end of a schedule a player retches at the thought of next season. Even looking at a skate can bring on an attack of the screaming meemies.</p><p>So let Kennedy relax for a month. Hit a few golf balls and mull it over. Being human he might spend some time contemplating how nice and green all that money looks.</p><p>There is another angle which has been publicized in the Toronto prints. Kennedy is employed by the Canada Building Materials as a salesman. It is with this company that he wishes to devote 100 percent of his time in a search for security. It may or may not be significant that Larkin Maloney, an executive of this company, is also a director of Maple Leaf Gardens.</p><p>Thirdly, and possibly this is the most significant, is the effect that public opinion will have on Teeder&rsquo;s decision. No sooner had he reached for his carpet slippers than one Toronto newspaper launched a contest entitled the Come On Back Teeder contest, a slight modification of the cry that has shattered the Gardens&rsquo; rafters on these many Saturday nights.</p><p>The idea is to get as many fans as possible to submit letters stating their opinions why Kennedy should not abide by his decision. Assuming that Kennedy will not cancel his subscription to the paper, it is highly probable that he will be exposed to the storm of indignation which is undoubtedly being fostered on the tips of many pens. Being the kind of competitor he is, and being such an ardent team spirit man, he could succomb and accept the Smythe offer.</p><p>Meanwhile bookmakers will be in a tissy. They can&rsquo;t even get an early line. Kennedy holds the answer under his own thinning hair.</p><p>We caught him while he was still hot for the decision he had made.</p><p>&ldquo;No one can tell what the future holds,&rdquo; he told us, &ldquo;but as far as I&rsquo;m concerned now, I&rsquo;m all through. I set the deadline for myself and this is it. It&rsquo;s as simple as that.&rdquo;</p><p>He was informed that we had accepted a friendly wager that he would change his mind and needed the money for The Wife and starving kids.</p><p>&ldquo;You had better,&rdquo; he said as a parting shot, &ldquo;lay it off with somebody.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>May Reconsider Later</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01131/1100307-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="745" height="1189"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED KENNEDY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Teeder Says Retirement Definite But Leafs Hope To Lure Him Back

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>With the National Hockey League&rsquo;s draft revisions cutting the number of players that can be held by any club to 18 (exclusive of two goalies regardless of age) a potential high of 72 skaters could be claimed by teams other than those with whom they have previously been designated as property.</p><p>Naturally, nothing near this number are expected to be effected, but it is evident that definite help should no longer be too far from the grasp of Chicago and the other squads that have often Bhown need for assistance. The Black Hawks, by virtue of their cellar finish this year, will have first pick.</p><p>It is interesting to note that 25 players over the 18 limit saw action this season in the NHL with five of the six league members. Only Boston was able to get along with the new maximum and while doing so was hard pressed to hold on to fourth place.</p><h2>HAWKS USED MOST</h2><p>Exclusive-of-goalie personnel on other teams ranged as follows: Chicago, 27; the Canadiens and Rangers, 24 each; Toronto, 21, and Detroit 19. While many expendables would not help even such as the Hawks there are others that would very likely give a good boost to the last placers.</p><h2>PROBABLE ENTRIES</h2><p>Probable entries in this category could include Allan Stanley and Hy Buller of the Rangers, Bud MacPherson and several other Canadiens, Danny Lewicki, Hugh Bolton and possibly a couple of other Toronto Maple Leafs and Marcel Bonin of the Red Wings. All could conceivably be cut loose in the draft.</p><p>With these names and the countless other players that were confined to action in the minor American, Western and Quebec loops, the 1954-55 schedule could see a vast shakeup toward eventual stabilization of all talent in the National League. The draft could strengthen the ice sport-everywhere.</p><h2><b>Will They&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02109/1100345-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="546" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ALLAN STANLEY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;Be Drafted?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0380/1100338-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="576" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BUD MacPHERSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Five Teams Used More Than Twenty Players Allowed Under Draft

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>No changes will be made in the roster of the Boston Bruins for next season for the sake of making changes.</p><p>That&rsquo;s the stock answer that Lynn Patrick has been making to inquiries since the Bruins were put out of the Stanley Cup playoffs in four straight games by the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>&ldquo;The outcome of our series with Montreal figures in our thoughts for next season, but that&rsquo;s all,&rdquo; declared the new general manager on his return from a post-playoff scouting trip.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not being stampeded into doing anything hastily on the strength of those four games,&rdquo; he elaborated, &ldquo;As far as I&rsquo;m concerned our season consisted of 74 games, and we won 32 of the first 70.</p><p>&ldquo;During the regular season we won as many games as Toronto, only three less than Montreal and only five less than Detroit. That indicates that we had a pretty good team.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not saying that I&rsquo;m in a stand-pat frame of mind, because I&rsquo;m not, but I want to emphasize that I&rsquo;m not going to jump Into any trades just for the sake of making trades.</p><h2>Have Nucleus</h2><p>&ldquo;We have a nucleus of good players from which to work,&rdquo; added Patrick, &ldquo;and that&rsquo;s the group around which we&rsquo;ll build for next season.&rdquo;</p><p>A year ago at this time Patrick announced a list of players whom he termed &ldquo;key men&rdquo; for the season just finished. It may or may not be significant that this spring he has not chosen to announce such a list.</p><p>Yet it is logical to assume that certain players may belong to an &ldquo;untouchable&rdquo; class, and in that group it is safe to list three 22-year-olds, Forward Leo LaBine and Defensemen Bob Armstrong and Warren Godfrey, and 20-year-old Doug Mohns, also a forward.</p><p>Capt. Milt Schmidt, the playing assistant coach, and Goalie Sugar Jim Henry must also be considered fixtures for another season.</p><p>That&rsquo;s a skeleton group to which the naming of the four youngsters is made obvious both by their play during the past season and their youth. Schmidt, of course, cannot be considered on a player basis, and Henry reportedly has already agreed to terms for next year.</p><p>Anticipating the makeup of a squad for next fall is complicated this spring by the prospective player draft, which will probably be in effect by the fall. Just how it will involve members of this year&rsquo;s team is something on which Patrick has not speculated.</p><p>On an over-all basis the 195354 season was one of general statistical improvement for most Bruins, despite the team&rsquo;s speedy departure from the playoff picture.</p><p>For the first time in several years it boasted three 20-goal scorers in John Peirson (21), Joe Klukay (20) and Dave Creighton (20). The only opponent with as many high scorers was Montreal, which also had three.</p><p>Bruins who increased their goals totals and the number of goals&rsquo; increase were Creighton (12), LaBine (8), Klukay and Peirson (7), Godfrey (4), Cal Gardner and Schmidt (3), Ed Sandford and Armstrong (3) and Hal Laycoe (1).</p><p>Among the season&rsquo;s highlights were the inspirational play of the veteran Gardner over the last three months, thet development of young Mohns in his first year of professional hockey, the maturing of the big defense team of Armstrong and Godfrey and the stabilization of LaBine, a good bet to be a 25-goal man a year hence.</p><h2><b>Has Answer</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01164/1100376-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="573" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LYNN PATRICK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Patrick Won’t Be Stampeded Into Making Any Big Changes

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Apparently working on the theory that they may be able to pick up some players now better than those who will be available in the draft, the Black Hawks recently announced the purchase of 25-year-old center Bob Hassard from the Maple Leafs for &ldquo;over $20,000&rdquo;</p><p>The deal was disclosed soon after the arrival of General Manager Bill Tobin of Chicago in Toronto for what was reportedly to be only the first stop in a tour of National League cities to discuss possible player changes &ldquo;now that the pressure of the regular season&rsquo;s competition is over.&rdquo;</p><p>A spokesman for Tobin stated that he was next slated to stop in Boston and then Montreal. Undenied rumors have listed center Red Sullivan, leading American League scorer with Hershey, and Montreal rearguard Jim Macpherson as likely transfers to the Hawks. Sullivan is Bruin property.</p><h2>Deal with Norris</h2><p>Conn Smythe, manager of Toronto puck fortunes, was quoted as saying in connection with the deal for Hassard that the sale was actually consumated with Jim Norris, Chicago vice-president, during the annual winter meeting of NHL moguls last December in Florida.</p><p>The six-foot, 180 pound blonde forward had been up and down between the Leafs and their AHL affiliate at Pittsburgh ever since he turned pro from the Toronto Marlboros in 1949. He looked very good in accumulating eight goals and 23 assists in all of Toronto&rsquo;s 70 games in the 1952-53 campaign.</p><h2>Given Chance</h2><p>He was given a chance to continue in the big time this season with the Leafs, but was sent back to Pittsburgh&rsquo; when he could garner no more than a goal and four assists in 26 games. His overall professional record and that of the past campaign are shown below.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0455/1100414-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="594" height="250"></div><p>Tobin, Coach Sid Abel and other Hawk leaders might well be hoping that Hassard&rsquo;s career will somewhat parallel that of Jack McIntyre whom Chicago purchased from Boston earlier this year. Jack, like Hassard, looked pretty good in the NHL two seasons ago, but seemed set to do nothing in the 1953-54 schedule.</p><p>A change of scenary worked wonders, however, and big Jack skated off with eight goals in his 23 games as a Black Hawk. In similarity to McIntyre, Hassard has youth, a good build and is a satisfying skater&mdash;all factors that could make him a permanent big time fixture and definite asset for Chicago.</p><h2><b>Off To Chi</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0385/1100407-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="552" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB HASSARD</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0008-04

Hassard Deal Only The First In Hawk Quest For New Blood

<div class="byline">MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>While their second-half rush fell short of a place in the playoffs, the Rangers did manage to make friends and influence people. At the season&rsquo;s end, they showed an increase of 22 per cent in home attendance and about 25% in the gate. They played before 373,098 (average, 10,660) in 1953-54, as compared to 305,451 in 1952-53.</p><p>Bones Raleigh is acting as both captain and coach of a team of Rangers that is touring the Maritime provinces. His squad comprises Nick Mickoski, Eddie Kullman, Harry Howell, Leo Reise, Jack Evans, Ivan Irwin, Paul Ronty, Dean Prentice, Camille Henry, Aldo Guidolin, Johnny Bower and trainer Frank Paice.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02114/1100445-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="296" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Raleigh</b></figcaption></div><p>Wally Hergesheimer-was allowed to leave the hospital just long enough to receive the West Side Trophy (for Rangers&rsquo; MVP) prior to the final game against the Canadiens. Hergy&rsquo;s broken leg was incased in a &ldquo;walking&rdquo; cast&hellip;By getting 13 points in the last 14 games, Raleigh finished with a 15-30-45 record, just a single point behind Ronty.</p><p>Bower wound up with a 2.60 goals against average in his rookie year. No Ranger goalkeeper has done better since Davey Kerr produced a 1.60 mark in 1939-40. Bower just missed tying Boston&rsquo;s Sugar Jim Henry when Paulie Meger scored in the last 20 seconds of the season while Johnny was off the ice&hellip;Rangers just missed a .500 record on the final day of the season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-02

Season Cate Receipts Up in New York

<h2><b>Sizing Him Up!</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ony Leswick, the tenenacious little terrier of the Red Wings can&rsquo;t bo accused of picking on somebody smaller than himself. In a recent Stanley Cup game he tackled Jean Beliv eau of Canadiens a six-feet three inch, 205-pound giant.</p><h2><b>Mr. Stopper!</b></h2><p>Bob Goldham, hailed as &ldquo;Detroit&rsquo;s second greates goalie, proved the point in the fifth game of the series by accounting personally for nine stops during the hectic, 1-0 overtime thriller. Along with Woit he wears specially built boots to make saves.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>FINAL, BEST-OF SEVEN</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02129/1100532-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="599" height="81"></div><h3>TUESDAY, APRIL 6 Montreal 3 at Detroit 1</h3><p>(Best-of-seven. finals. tied. 1-1)</p><p><b>Montreal</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defence: Bouchard. Johnson. Harvey, MacPherson; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Moore, Mosdell. Richard. Olmstead. McCormack, Davis, Mackay, Masnick, Curry, Mazur.</p><p><b>Detroit&mdash;</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defence: Goldham. Pronovost. Kelly, Woit, Allen; forwards: Skov, Leswick, Pavelich, Dinsen, Delvecchio, Howe, Lindsay, Wilson, Peters, Reibel, Prystai.</p><p><b>Referee&mdash;</b> Red Storey; linesmen: Sammy Babcock, and Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0398/1100525-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="610" height="601"></div><h3>THURSDAY APRIL 8 Detroit 5 at Montreal 2</h3><p>(Detroit leads best-of-seven final 2-1)</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Woit, Allen; forwards: Delvecchio, Howe, Lindsay, Leswick, Prystai, Pavelich, Skov, Reibel, Wilson, Dineen, Peters.</p><p><b>Montreal&mdash;</b> Goal: Plante; defense Bouchard, MacPherson. Johnson, St. Laurent; forwards: McCormack, Curry, Olmstead, Geoffrion, Richard, MacKay, Moore, Davis, Mosdell, Meger, Masnick, Mazur.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Chadwick; linesmen, George Hayes and Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0484/1100518-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="602" height="698"></div><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 10 Detroit 2 Montreal 0</h3><p>(Detroit leads best-of-seven final 3-l)</p><p><b>Detroit&mdash;</b> Goal Sawchuk; defense: Kelly, Goldham. Pronovost, Woit, Allen; forwards: Delvecchio, Howe, Lindsay, Leswick, Prystai, Pavelich, Skov, Reibel, Wilson, Dineen, Peters.</p><p><b>Montreal&mdash;</b> Goal: Plante; defense: Bouchard, Johnson, St-Laurent, Harvey; forwards: Mosdell, Davis, Mackay, Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Belivean, Geoffrion, Moore, McCormack, Curry, Mazur.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey: linesmen: George Hayes and Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0567/1100511-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="599" height="376"></div><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 11 Montreal 1, Detroit 0</h3><p><b>Montreal&mdash;</b> Goal: McNeil; defense Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Ton Johnson; forwards: Lach, Richard, Ma zur, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Stewart, Mos dell, Curry, Moore, Masnick, Davis, Olm stead.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal, Sawchuk; defense Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Woit, Allen: forwards, Skov, Leswick, Pavelich, Del. vecchlo, Howe, Lindsay, Dineen, Wilson, Prystai, Peters, Earl Johnson.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Chadwick; linesmen: George Hayes and Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0846/1100504-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="597" height="378"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><h3>PLAYOFFS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0659/1100497-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="597" height="1637"></div><h2><b>From One End&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01149/1100490-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="1020" height="518"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SAWCHUK STOPS MOORE</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;To The Other</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0751/1100483-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="962" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PLANTE BALKS HOWE</b></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1043/1100476-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="2959" height="1368"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-02

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>W</span>hen Gerry McNeil stepped into the breach created by Coach Dick Irvin when he suddenly yanked Jacques Plante just prior to the fifth game of the Stanley Cup final against the Detroit Red Wings, it marked the third time in McNeil&rsquo;s tattered career that he&rsquo;s been called upon to stem the tide under emergency conditions.</b></p><p><b>Back in 1950, Gerry stepped between the pipes against the New York Rangers in the play offs to spell off Big Bill Durnan.. Last year, after the amazing Chicago Black Hawks came back after losing the first two games to Canadiens in the semi-finals and won the next three, Gerry found himself yanked in favor of Plante.</b></p><p><b>However, on April 12, after Plante had been beaten, 4-1 in the second game of the final series against Boston, McNeil was pressed into service and he scored a 3-0 shutout.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0946/1100563-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="275" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gerry McNeil</b></figcaption></div><p><b>His stint in the fifth game of the current series rates as the most amazing of all. He had been inactive since February 11 and exactly two months to the day he was called upon to stop the high-powered Red Wings in Canadiens&rsquo; last, desperate bid for the title. He held them scoreless for 65 minutes and 45 seconds, making several spectacular stops off the sticks of the greatest sharpshooters in hockey.</b></p><p><b>Gerry will probably go down in hockey history for his performance In that one game and the honor couldn&rsquo;t befall a gamer little guy.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Undoubtedly the two biggest surprises of the American Hockey League this season were: 1. The rise of the Buffalo Bisons. 2. The fall of the same Bisons.</p><p>The Bisons, under the deft direction of Frankie Eddolis, startled the hockey world when they climbed from the AHL basement right to the league championship in one year. It was the first time any team ever accomplished such a feat in league history.</p><p>The fall of the Buffaloes came in the first round of the post-season playoffs, and at the hands of the archrival Cleveland Barons. Bun Cook&rsquo;s crew enabled the Bisons to make another &ldquo;first&rdquo; by eliminating Buffalo in three straight games&mdash;the first time a first place finisher has ever been so treated.</p><p>Just happened to the &ldquo;Cinderella Club?&rdquo; Did Cleveland always have the Indian sign of it?</p><p>On the contrary. Coach Eddolls and his boys manhandled the Barons pretty well during the 70-game schedule, capturing nine of 14 games. And during those 14 clashes the Barons never were able to win by more than two goals, and then only twice, while Buffalo trounced them by scores of 8-2, 6-1, and 9-2.</p><p>How then can anyone account for Cleveland&rsquo;s quick&mdash;and decisive&mdash;elimination of the once thundering Herd.</p><p>Eddolls, himself, offered no excuses.</p><p>&ldquo;We just weren&rsquo;t the team we were during the regular season, and like Detroit last year, we bowed to a club we beat anytime we had to during the regular season,&rdquo; he stated.</p><p>Indeed it wasn&rsquo;t the same club, least not healthwise.</p><p>Needless to say, the absence of Jacques Plante, the AHL All-Star goalie, was felt although Jean Paul Renaud turned in a commendable job in the playoffs. But knowing that Plante wasn&rsquo;t in the nets gave the Clevelanders&mdash;who always experienced difficulty getting the puck past the agile Plante&mdash;a psychological edge.</p><p>Then too, the Bisons incurred costly Injuries in the final two games of the regular season.</p><p>Big Ed Slowinski, the &ldquo;digger&rdquo; on Buffalo&rsquo;s record-shattering &lsquo;Big Line,&rsquo; had his right shoulder badly bruised in the season semi-final against Hershey, and had to be a bit cautious in the Cleveland series. The effectiveness of the &ldquo;Big Line&rdquo; naturally was below its seasonal par.</p><p>A three-stitch cut on his left foot in the windup game with Hershey left Ken Hayden, the fast-stepping right winger, operating without his ability to &lsquo;break&rsquo; from his own zone.</p><p>With Slowinski and Hayden dogged by injuries, Eddolis had. only one healthy line to call upon&mdash;Pete Babando-Gordie Pennell-Steve Woolly&mdash;and this was not enough to stop the Barons who smelled payoff dirt.</p><p>To add to the problem of Coach Eddolls, Center Harry Taylor was forced to retire midway through the second game of the series with a Charley horse, and Pennell, one of hockey&rsquo;s real honest workmen, had his left leg fractured at the end of the second period of the third game.</p><p>That left Eddolls with Slowinski, Hayden, Taylor, and Pennell either out of uniform, or playing while hurt. It&rsquo;s unlikely that any team would have come through under those conditions, and certainly can be considered no blot on the coaching mark Eddolis established in guiding Buffalo to the league title.</p><p>The gritty little Bison boss earned recognition as &ldquo;Coach of the Year&rdquo; in all of hockey by his last-to-first direction, and only would have added a little icing to the cake if he could have pulled a second miracle with his cripples in the playoffs.</p><h2><b>No Excuses</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01164/1100618-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="575" height="891"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANK EDDOLLS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Rise And Fall Of Buffalo Bisons Year’s Biggest Surprises In AHL

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Here is the list of survivors in the hunts for the Allan and Memorial Cups.</p><h2><b>ALLAN CUP</b></h2><p>Matane Red Rocks, Sudbury Wolves, Winnipeg Maroons, Moose Jaw Millers, Penticton V&rsquo;s, and Nelson Maple Leafs.</p><h2><b>MEMORIAL CLP</b></h2><p>Quebec Frontenacs, St. Catherines Teepees, Toronto Marlboros, Fort Wiliam Columbus Canadians and Edmonton Oil Kings.</p><p>The Alexander Cup has already been awarded to the Halifax Atlantics, winners of the Maritime Major Hockey League championship. MMHL is now the only league of &lsquo;major series&rsquo; status.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Survivors

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>&bull; The stage was set for the finals of the American Hockey League Calder Cup Championship, when the Hershey Bears defeated the Pittsburgh Hornets, three games to two, in as thrilling a series as the league has witnessed in years. The Cleveland Barons had already clinched their berth in the final round by eliminating the regular season title holders, the Buffalo Bisons in three straight games. Hershey, after losing the first two games of their series in their own home rink, seemed on the brink of elimination with the next two contests set for Pittsburgh. However, the Bears, displaying an amazing &ldquo;never say die spirit&rdquo;, put on a remarkable comeback to take both games in Pittsburgh and then returned home to win the fifth and series deciding engagement.</p><p>Right up to the very end, the Hershey players had. to overcome psychological effects which would have disheartened many a team. In the final game, they held a 2-1 lead until the last 30 seconds, when Hornet goaltender Gil Mayer was removed for a sixth skater, and Bobby Hassard tied the score. In the first overtime session. Lome Ferguson had a breakaway, and the regular Beason&rsquo;s leading goal scorer seemed about to end it then. However, the puck just wouldn&rsquo;t roll right and the teams went into the &ldquo;sudden death&rdquo; overtime. In the sixth minute of the period, rookie Skip Teal slammed the puck into the net, but it was ruled &ldquo;no goal&rdquo; by referee Frank Udvari, as Teal&rsquo;s stick was over his shoulder on the shot. This would have ended the game and series and put Hershey into the finals. However, the Bears still weren&rsquo;t discouraged and five minutes later, at 10:08, Teal&rsquo;s linemate Murray Costello finally scored the winner that counted, aided by Teal and the other member of Hershey&rsquo;s Kid Line, Don McKenney. The youngsters sparkled throughout the entire series.</p><h2>Took Courage</h2><p>&bull; Most neutral observers agreed that referee Udvari was quite correct in disallowing the first Hershey score in &ldquo;sudden death&rdquo;. Whether or not anyone disagreed with the decision, no one could question his courage, what with 7,500 screaming Hershey fans in attendance. To call a goal like that back with the series in the balance takes a bit of doing by any referee.</p><p>By winning, Hershey assured themselves of at least 32% of the playoff pool. Pittsburgh had to be content with only 13% by losing. The playoff pool gives 30% of the total for regular season finish, with the league leader getting 11%, second place 8%, third place 6% and fourth 5%. The winners of series A and B get 12% each, the losers 8%. The winner of the finals and Calder Cup gets 18% and the loser 12%. Thus if the Bears win everything they will be in for 38%, if Cleveland wins they get 36%.</p><p>A strange coincidence in the fourth game saw roommates Andy Branigan and Lome Ferguson each get three stitch cuts over their right eye. Looks like that&rsquo;s a hard luck room. Bobby Davidson, Chief Scout for the Toronto Maple Leaf organization and former star player attended the series. He enjoyed the fine defensive play of the Hornets in the games they won, being one of th best back-checkers of all time when he played. In one Stanley Cup series against Montreal, Bob was nicknamed the &ldquo;human adhesive plaster&rdquo; the way he stuck to Maurice Richard, his check. Jim Hendy the General Manager of Cleveland attended the final two games of the aeries, scouting his team&rsquo;s future opponent in the finals. Jim is always welcomed in hockey crowds as his many stories of hockey through years of experience and acquaintance are enjoyed by the press, officials and everyone. The Hershey team spirit was amazing all through the series. Although two games down, the players were full of life in the bus traveling from Hershey to Pittsburgh for game three. They felt that all they needed was that first big goal. For two periods in the third game they were shutout and trailed 2-0. Then Dunc Fisher got the &ldquo;big one&rdquo; came back in 32 seconds for the tying marker and then the Bears couldn&rsquo;t be stopped, winning that game 4-2.</p><h2>Win On Road</h2><p>&bull; The two preliminary rounds were unique in that, of the eight games played, the visiting team won six. Arnie Kullman of Hershey is one of the most underrated players in the league. A smart fine playmaker, he scored 40 goals as well this season. In addition, he is Hershey&rsquo;s number one penalty killer, along with Normie Corcoran who also played well in the playoffs. Killing penalties seems to run in the Kullman family, as cousin Ed performs the same duties with New York Rangers and is one of the best at it in the NHL.</p><p>Many Hershey fans were in Pittsburgh, and Hornet fans in Hershey, due to the closeness of the cities and the fine Pennsylvania Turnpike between them. Hershey&rsquo;s eliminating Pittsburgh was in the form of revenge, for in the three previous years, the Hornets had ended the season for the Bears in the playoffs. Gordie Henry, the veteran red head in the Hershey goal was outstanding and kept his team in the games and series. His saves bordered on the miraculous and in the third game he saved 54 shots and Increased the total to 57 in the finale. His netminding rival for Pittsburgh, Gil Mayer, was also brilliant and was beaten on shots that were almost impossible to stop. The loss was not the Needle&rsquo;s fault. Little Gil displayed a bruise in the dressing room on his arm, where Costello&rsquo;s terrific hard shot had bounced off, to win the series.</p><p>Cleveland, March 28&mdash;While Hershey was winning its way into the finals, the Cleveland Barons surprised the league by taking Buffalo in three games. The Bisons were highly favored on their regular season championship and also their year long edge over the Barons. However, the Barons combined high offense, stellar goal-tending by little Emile Francis, a good defense and the famous Bun Cook strategy to win. The Cook strategy came in the form of his checking line of Chuck Blair, Andy Bathgate and Ed Reigle, playing against Buffalo&rsquo;s and the league&rsquo;s big three of Don Marshall, Ed Slowinski and Gaye Stewart. The Cleveland line limited the highest scoring unit in league history to a pair of goals, one each to Marshall and Slowinski in three games. Stewart couldn&rsquo;t break away from Blair for a single tally. It reminded the fans of Cook&rsquo;s last defensive setup of three years ago, when also against Buffalo in the playoffs, Ed Olson, Lloyd (Red) Doran and Harry Taylor skated Ab DeMarco. Knobby Warwick and Vern Kaiser bowlegged.</p><p>Jackie Gordon of Cleveland was superb in the series with five goals and seven assists for 12 points. The league record for a playoff is 18 points. Jackie is one of the finest stickhandlers left in the game. He set a new Cleveland team record of 102 points during the Beason. The inability of Stewart to score hurt Buffalo tremendously, as Gaye had 42 regular season markers for a new Buffalo record. In all, the Bisons had eight players with 20 or more goals during tlie season with Stewart, Marshall, Slowinski, Pennell, Babando, Wochy, Lund and Hayden passing that total.</p><p>Glen Sonmor, former Baron, now with Rangers was at the games. The February and March slump of Cleveland was attributed to the trade of Sonmor to New York in January, as he had been their team spirit man. Glen is like a bundle of dynamite, ready to explode, and his value as an inspiration in a dressing room and on the ice is tremendous. The Barons picked up someone similar in Murray Wilkie from Marion of the IHL, and then broke their slump, with nine in a row in the win column.</p><p>Penalties hurt Buffalo in the series, as Cleveland took advantage of almost every occasion when the Bisons were shorthanded. As a matter of fact both series were the same, as most of the Pittsburgh goals against Hershey came with extra Hornets on the ice, but it did not effect Hershey as it did Buffalo. The hex that Cleveland holds over Buffalo is best shown by the record, as the Bisons have beaten the Barons only once in their last 16 playoff tussels.</p><p>All of the coaches in the two series handled their teams with top efficiency. Two of them, the playing variety, Murray Henderson of Hershey and Frankie Eddolis of Buffalo did a doubly fine job, both in playing and masterminding. Baz Bastien of Pittsburgh is a constant inspiration to his men from the bench and is well schooled in hockey lore. Bun Cook&rsquo;s record speaks for itself, with more titles than any other coach in league history.</p><p>Emile Francis is the spunkiest goaltender in years. He will fight at the slightest chance, unusual for netminders, and woe to the opponent that comes too close with a skate or stick. Emile never lets his small size hamper him. He is a fine pepper pot for his teammates and they all think highly of him, both on and off the ice, as a player and a personality. Cleveland is lucky to have him. Praise from an opponent is always welcomed, and Eddolls gives it to Francis. They roomed together when both played for Rangers and Frank claims that Emile is now playing the greatest game of his career.</p><p>Hershey, Pittsburgh and Cleveland all maintain fine press rooms for the scribes and radio sportscasters to gather in between periods and at the end of the game. Buffalo of course plays in a municipal auditorium and can&rsquo;t have such a setup in the building, but they have periodic luncheons for their newspaper and radio men. Gaye Stewart received a $250.00 bond for leading the Buffalo team in scoring this season. Originally Marshall was credited with two more points than Gaye, but the mistake came in a scorekeeper&rsquo;s error, and Gaye had 95 points to Don&rsquo;s 94. Marshall was voted the most popular player in Buffalo and. Gordie Pennell the most valuable. Pennell ended his season on a hard luck incident, suffering a broken leg in the second period of the final game. The Bison Polish players, Slowinski, Wochy and Russ Kowalchuk are the favorites of that nationality in Buffalo.</p><p>Another master stroke of Bun Cook&rsquo;s was moving Eddie Reigle from his long time defensive post to left wing the past month. Ed is scoring.and doing a terrific checking job besides. Rugged Ed Olson and Freddie Glover are fine linemates for the slight Jackie Gordon, and his deft passes set them up for many goals. Bobby Solinger 1s the leading active playoff scorer, and third of all time.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

AHL Playoff Notes

<h2>Who&rsquo;s Next?</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>as Bastien has quit as coach of the Pittsburgh Hornets, necessitating a coaching change for next year. Conn Smythe has gone on record with the statement that Howie Meeker will get a coaching Job next year. Could be be Pittsburgh&rsquo;s next?</p><h2><b>Silent Sale!</b></h2><p>George (Red) Sullivan, top point man in the AHL this year is reported already sold to the Chicago Black Hawks although the report has neither been confirmed or denied by both Chicago and Hershey.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>Semi-Finals</h3><h3>Series &ldquo;A&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01163/1100729-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="594" height="156"></div><h3>Series &ldquo;B&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02128/1100722-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="602" height="146"></div><h3>Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03106/1100715-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="608" height="148"></div><h3>TUESDAY, APRIL 6 Cleveland 4 at Hershey 2</h3><p>(Best-of-seven finals tied 1-1)</p><p>HERSHEY, Pa.,&mdash;The Cleveland Barons defeated the Hershey Bears 4-2 here and evened the best-of-seven series for the championship of the American Hockey League.</p><p>Eddie Olson scoured from scrimmage In the first period to give the Barons a lead. Murray Costello tied the score for the Bears before the period ended.</p><p>In the second period the Barons flashed their best brand of hockey and took the lead when Fred Glover and Charles Blair scored on two smashing drives that carried the attack into Hershey&rsquo;s defense zone.</p><p>Cleveland boosted its count, when Olson scored his second goal in the final period. With one second left to play. Norm Corcoran scored the Bear&rsquo;s final tally.</p><p><b>Cleveland&mdash;</b> Goal: Francis; defence: Shero, Williams, Kraftcheck, Reigle, Karry&rsquo;s; forwards: Gordon, Glover, Olson, Blair, Bathgate, Ceresino, Ross, Stearns, Posta.</p><p><b>Hershey&mdash;</b> Goal: Henry; defence: Branigan, Gariepy, Whitney, Henderson, Matthews; forwards: Kullman, Corcoran, O&rsquo;Brien. Sullivan. Fisher, Ferguson, Teal, Costello, McKenney.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0661/1100708-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="596" height="568"></div><h3>THURSDAY APRIL 8 Hershey 3 at Cleveland 5</h3><p>(Cleveland leads best-of-seven final 2-1)</p><p>Cleveland, Ohio.&mdash;Cleveland Barons took a 2-1 lead in the American Hockey League&rsquo;s final playoff for the Calder Cup by trimming the Hershey Bears, 5-3.</p><p>The Barons came up from behind after Hershey ran up a two-goal lead on Shots by Arnie Kullman and Lome Ferguson early in the second period.</p><p>Andy Bathgate finally scored for Cleveland at 7:23 and Ray Ross made it 2-2 at 12:12. Defenseman Steve Kraftcheck bulleted a hackhander at 16:30 to put Cleveland in the lead to stay.</p><p>In the last period, Eddie Reigle and Chuck Blair boosted the Barons margin through the fading Hershey defense.</p><p>Dune Fisher rammed a goal for Hershey at 16:08.</p><p>The game&rsquo;s start was delayed 20 minutes while Hershey Goalie Gordon (Red) Henry had an injured knee repaired. He was hurt in a pre-game workout.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0754/1100701-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="600" height="694"></div><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1954 Hershey 1 at Cleveland 3</h3><p>(Cleveland leads best-of-seven final, 3-1)</p><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Cleveland Barons beat Hershey Bears 3-1 and moved ahead, three games to one, in their hest-of-seven Calder Cup Playoffs in the American Hockey League.</p><p>The fifth and possibly deciding game of the series will be played In Hershey, April 13. If necessary, the sixth game will be played here Wednesday and the seventh at Hershey next Saturday.</p><p>Eddie Olson shot Cleveland into a 1-0 lead in the first period, But Ellard O&rsquo;Brien tied the score after only 56 seconds were gone in the second.</p><p>The winning goal was scored at 16:13 of the second period by Tony Poeta, rookie right wing. Centre Ray Ross added the clincher at 17:41 of the third period.</p><p>A crow&rsquo;d of 7,675 saw&rsquo; the game.</p><p><b>Hershey&mdash;</b>Goal: Henry; defense: Henderson, Whitney, Gariepy, Branigan, forwards: Sullivan, Kullman, Teal, Ferguson, O&rsquo;Brien, McKenney, Fisher, Corcoran, Costello, Mathew.</p><p><b>Cleveland&mdash;</b> Goal: Francis; defenses: Williams, Kraftcheck, Shera, Karrys; forwards: Gordon, Stearns, Bathgate, Ross, Olson, Reigle, Ceresino, Glover, Blair, Poeta.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mehlenbacher; linesmen: Bernie Lemaitre, Mike McMahon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0852/1100694-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="594" height="569"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><h3>PLAYOFF LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0479/1100687-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="608" height="954"></div><h2><b>Still On Top</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0567/1100680-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="598" height="904"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACKIE GORDON</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>In Top Form</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0948/1100673-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="1186" height="740"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EMILE &ldquo;THE CAT&rdquo; FRANCIS</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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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<p>A steaming cup of rich, creamy Stafford&rsquo;s Hot Chocolate is the ideal drink for frosty weather.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1042/1100760-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="570" height="618"></div><p><b><i>Ask for Stafford&rsquo;s Hot Chocolate at your favorite fountain</i></b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Baby It’s Cold Outside!

<div class="byline">LEO ORNEST</div><p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>The New Westminster Royals have taken part in more WHL Playoff Series than any other team. Since the league turned professional in 194849, the Royals have been in all six of the post-season classics, the only team in the circuit to hold this distinction. Co-owner and President Kenny MacKenzie has been the man at the head of the Royals the past half-dozen seasons. &lsquo;</p><p>On past performances, the Vancouver Canucks which finished in first place during the regular season, are favorites to annex the playoff title and President&rsquo;s Cup and represent the WHL and the West against the QHL winner and Eastern representative Tor the newly-acquired Duke of Edinburgh Trophy. In the five previous years of playoffs, the first place team has. emerged on top twice, the second place finishers two times and the fourth place team once. Never has a team lower than fourth gone on to win the WHL playoff championship, and unless NW, who are down, four games to two to Vancouver in a best-of-nine series, perform a minor miracle, this record will not be broken this year. NW finished sixth in league competition.</p><p>New Westminster holds several playoff records. The Royals had participated in the most playoff series (10), games (55) and overtime games (12) prior to this year. The Royals have added to each of these marks in their semi-final series with Vancouver.</p><p>No team has won two WHL playoff titles. Edmonton could become the first club to do this by defeating Calgary in their semi-final series, which is now underway, and then triumphing over the winner of the Vancouver-New Westminster series. Vancouver leads, 4-2, in their best-of-nine series.</p><p>The five previous championship clubs have had a playing coach&mdash;Ducky Skinner, San Diego, 1949&hellip;Babe Pratt, NW, 1950&hellip;Roger Leger, Victoria, 1951&hellip;Doug Bentley, Saskatoon, 1952&hellip;Bud Poile, Edmonton 1953&hellip;Poile could, as mentioned earlier, repeat in &lsquo;54&hellip;Art Chapman, Vancouver, and Frank Currie, Calgary, both bench mentors, could win their first WHL title if their club goes all the way&hellip;Chapman won three titles at Buffalo, Currie one with the Edmonton Flyers when that city had an amateur team and won the Allan Cup, only time Edmonton has won a major amateur hockey championship.</p><p>In 1952-53 Saskatoon defeated New Westminster, 11-4, for the most goals ever scored in a single playoff game by two teams. Edmonton and Saskatoon tied this record last March 27th when the Flyers walloped Saskatoon, 9-5, at Edmonton.</p><p>Alex Kaleta, veteran Saskatoon center and former NHL star, entered the 1954 playoffs with the record for total points&mdash;42, consisting of 15 goals and 27 assists. Alex scored five assists against Edmonton to raise his point total to 47 and assists to 32. His point and assist records seem certain to survive this year&rsquo;s playoffs, as no active player is within reach. However, Ken Ullyot, who coached Kamloops Seniors this season, but who scored 21 playoff goals for New Westminster, could see his goal scoring record broken. There are several players within reach of this mark. Bobby Love, NW&rsquo;s and the WHL&rsquo;s &ldquo;ironman&rdquo;, sets the pace for most playoff games. Love had 55 going into this year&rsquo;s playoffs. At this writing Love had upped this to 61.</p><p>The longest WHL playoff game was between Saskatoon and Edmonton at Edmonton, March 21, 1952, the Quakers winning 3-2, after 31:24 minutes of sudden death overtime. So far this year there have been two overtime games, with Vancouver being on the long end of the count twice against New Westminster. Up to this year NW had won 12 straight overtime games!&hellip;Vancouver had won none.</p><p>There aren&rsquo;t many players from the previous five championship clubs who have a chance of being on their second WHL title team. From the 1950 NW Royals there are three; Bob Bergeron, Bob Love and Ollie Dorohoy. From the 1952 Saskatoon Quakers there are four and all are with Vancouver: Lorne Worsley, Carl Kaiser, Cy Rouse and Chuck McCullough&hellip;From the 1953 Edmonton Flyers there are nine: Glen Hall, Bill Folk, out for the year; Bud Poile, Jim Uniac, Len Haley, Jim Anderson, Ray Hannigan, Frank O&rsquo;Grady, who may not see any playoff action; and Vic Stasiuk.</p><h2><b>Seeks Crown</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01175/1100815-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="591" height="915"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ART CHAPMAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Canucks Favored To Take Title And Represent WHL Againts QHL

<div class="byline">By STAN MOHER</div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>Word had just come through that Don Poile was the winner of the Western League&rsquo;s rookie award (monetary emolument: $100) and some of his teammates were needling the fleet, 21-year-old Edmonton Flyer forward.</p><p>&ldquo;What are you going to do with the hundred bucks&mdash;get married?&rdquo; he was asked. The young man shook has head. Then he grinned broadly as team captain Jim Uniac, an &lsquo;old&rsquo; married man, cautioned:</p><p>&ldquo;Marriage is a pretty expensive proposition these times. I&rsquo;d advise you to wait until you have at least a hundred and a quarter in the sock.&rdquo;</p><p>Don Poile, it so happens, is &lsquo;married&rsquo;. He&rsquo;s married to his work, to hockey. He lets nothing interfere.</p><p>He wants to go to the majors&mdash;and the sooner the better.</p><p>He wants to follow in the footsteps of brother Norman (Bud) Poile, currently his coach, Gus Bodnar, Gaye Stewart, Edgar Laprade and other Lakehead (Port Arthur, Fort William) puck products who wound up in hockey&rsquo;s Who&rsquo;s Who.</p><p>And is he a crazy, mixed up kid for wanting to gallop In the NHL with the Howes, Richards, Sandfords, and Gadsbys? Has he anything to offer a prospective National League employer&mdash;apart from his dreams and that WHL rare-rookie tag?</p><p>He has plenty to offer, according to competent observers.</p><p>Today&rsquo;s hockey frequently accentuates the physical. Don Poile measures up. He&rsquo;s a compact 180 pounds and still growing. He can scoot. He&rsquo;s durable.</p><p>Is he smart? Does he know what to do with the puck in that last 30 feet? A year ago Don Poile, then laboring for Milwaukee, notched 41 goals in the International League. This season he flicked the red light 26 times, including four goals in one game.</p><p>That&rsquo;s 76 goals in two years. You might say he has the habit.</p><p>The Flyer forward lines have been about as stable as the Egyptian government as coach &lsquo;Bud&rsquo; Poile sought payoff combinations. For D. Poile&rsquo;s part he has played both wings and centre&mdash;at different times, of course. He&rsquo;s a letfhand shot but nevertheless looks best operating in the right lane.</p><p>As the Flyers eliminated Saskatoon Quakers from the playdowns in the opening round&mdash;four wins to two&mdash;Poile secundus frequently performed in a pivot capacity between wingers Vic Stasiuk and Enio Sclisizzi, each with NHL experience.</p><p>It&rsquo;s in the cards that young Poile will get a thorough trial in the Detroit training camp next fall. Jack Adams and Tommy Ivan, of the Red Wing hierarchy, have a good line on their Edmonton Flyer farmhand. And while no one is going to take Gordon Howe&rsquo;s right wing job away from him, a kid can dream about chasing one of the other right flankers off the squad.</p><p>Under hockey&rsquo;s new draft plan Don Poile might wind up in the camp of naother NHL team. This becomes a $15,000 outlay inasmuch as it&rsquo;s understood the Detroit bosses mean to &lsquo;protect&rsquo; their promising young forward to the hilt of the draft legislation.</p><p>For this reason all signs point to Don Poile turning out with the Red Wings, come September. He might still be there for a good many Septembers to come, only as a regular, not a farmhand trying to break in.</p><p><b>MOHER</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rookie Don Poile Aiming For Berth With Red Wings

<h2><b>Most Goals In One Game</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>P</span>at Lundy of Calgary scored four goals against Victoria to establish a new record for individual scoring in a play-off game. Several players were previously tied with 3 goals each. Teammate Archie Scott tied the record for most assists in one game during the same game when he picked up four.</p><h2><b>Shutouts</b></h2><p>Three shutouts have been recorded to date in this years play-offs. All in the Saskatoon-Edmonton series. Glenn Hall of Edmonton has two to his credit and Chuck Rayner of Saskatoon one.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>RESULTS</h3><p><b>Wednesday March 31st</b></p><p>Vancouver 2 at New West, 4</p><p>Edmonton 1 at Saskatoon 4</p><p><b>Thursday April 1st</b></p><p>Victoria 4 at Calgary 7</p><p><b>Friday April 2nd</b></p><p>Saskatoon 4 at Edmonton 8</p><p>New West, 1 at Vancouver 3</p><p><b>Saturday April 3rd</b></p><p>Vancouver 4 at New West. 3</p><h3>WEDNESDAY MARCH 31 Vancouver 2 at New Westminster 4</h3><p>(Best-of-nine semi-final tied 2-2)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01182/1100961-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="595" height="526"></div><h3>Edmonton 1 at Saskatoon 4</h3><p>(Edmonton leads best-of-seven quarter-final 3-2)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02149/1100954-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="596" height="557"></div><h3>THURSDAY APRIL 1 Victoria 4 at Calgary 7</h3><p>(Calgary wins best-of-seven quarter final 4-1)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03126/1100947-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="585" height="693"></div><h3>FRIDAY APRIL 2 Saskatoon 4 at Edmonton 8</h3><p>(Edmonton wins best-of-seven quarter-final 4-2)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04109/1100940-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="603" height="737"></div><h3>New Westminster 1 at Vancouver 3</h3><p>(Vancouver leads best-of-nine semi-final 3-2)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0590/1100933-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="605" height="436"></div><h3>SATURDAY APRIL 3 Vancouver 4 at New Westminster 3</h3><p>(Vancouver leads best-of-nine semi-final 4-2)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0677/1100926-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="595" height="609"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3>PLAYOFFS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0960/1100919-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="598" height="524"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1059/1100912-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="590" height="562"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1151/1100905-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="594" height="554"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1246/1100898-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="588" height="422"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1335/1100891-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="598" height="510"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1434/1100884-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="600" height="468"></div><h2><b>They&rsquo;re Tops&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0768/1100877-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="546" height="842"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAT LUNDY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;For Stamps</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0862/1100870-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="570" height="882"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIM MCFADDEN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

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NOW ON SALE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1529/1101044-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="288" height="626"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1618/1101037-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="294" height="630"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1713/1101030-1-eng-US/f0013-172.jpg" title="f0013-17" width="598" height="1274"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>niversary Ale.was brewed for just such an occasion. The lightest and smoothest of all ales, it leaves no regrets. Yet Anniversary contains all the traditional Labatt&rsquo;s* body and character to brighten an already glad occasion. Luckily there&rsquo;s no need to be a sales manager with a rising sales curve to celebrate with Anniversary. The combination of a thirst and a bottle, or better still a case, of lighter, smoother Anniversary Ale is an occasion in itself. Ask for it next time. John Labatt Limited.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1911/1101023-1-eng-US/f0013-192.jpg" title="f0013-19" width="267" height="207"></div><p><b><i>*The swing is <u>definitely</u> to</i> LABATT&rsquo;S</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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An occasion for celebrating!

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The biggest upset in the Quebec Hockey League this year took place last week when the Quebec Aces knocked off the defending champion Chicoutimi Sagueneens in a best-of-nine semi-final to earn the right to meet either Montreal Royals or Ottawa Senators in the final round.</p><p>In a way, it was sweet revenge for general manager George (Punch) Imlach of the Aces who saw his team sunk by the same Chicks in the 1953 finals.</p><p>More amazing still was the performance of the Aces in that playoff series. Ever since Jean Beliveau made the pro jump it was more or less figured that it would be a while before Quebec moved back into top ranks. That they have the very first year that Beliveau left, is a credit to the astute front office management of Imlach, who moved up this year and named Gerry Brown as his coach.</p><p>Jack Gelineau, the ex-Boston goalie drew most of the credit for eliminating the Chicks. He was practically unbeatable in the low scoring, tight-goal-keeping series. Now the Aces sit back and wait for Montreal and Ottawa to settle their differences.</p><p>And the wait could be a long ons since it doesn&rsquo;t appear to be a runaway series with Ottawa holding a slight, 2-1 edge after the first three games.</p><p>Royals lost the first game of that series at home by a 2-1 score in overtime. It was a similar story when they made their first invasion of Ottawa, only the score this time was 3-1.</p><p>Then with the chips on the line they hit their stride in the third game in Montreal, knocking off Turk Broda&rsquo;s warriors, 4-0 with Bobby Perrault, in the Royals&rsquo; cage, turning in a sensational display.</p><p>Perrault could be the main cog in the next two games. When he&rsquo;s good he&rsquo;s verry, very good but when he&rsquo;s bad&hellip;</p><p>Coach Pete Morin of Royals has finally come up with a lineup that&rsquo;s comparatively Injury-free. He had Dick Gamble, his top scorer and defenseman Glen Harmon on the shelf for a while but they both played in the third game and didn&rsquo;t agrevate their wounds.</p><p>Royals managed to do something that practically no other club has accomplished this year and thus won the game, 4-0. They handcuffed Ottawa&rsquo;s sensational sniping trio of Leo Gravelle, Howie Riopelle and Dusty Blair, a feat any day or night.</p><p>Broda dispelled all rumors that he was going to be given the bounce as Ottawa coach and he got the full support of owner T.P. (Tommy) Gorman who said. &ldquo;Turk&rsquo;s got a job with us just as long as he wants to stay.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Aces (Without Beliveau) Knock Off Chicks: Await Winners Of Royal-Ottawa Series

<h2>Biair Leads</h2><p>Blair of Ottawa Senators leads playoff scorers with 11 points on five goals and six assists.</p><h2><b>Shutout</b></h2><p>Bob Perreault of Montreal Royals had a shutout in the third semi-final game against Ottawa Senators, Royals winning 4-0.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01156/1101193-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="590" height="136"></div><h3><b>SERIES &ldquo;D&rdquo;</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02124/1101186-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="592" height="133"></div><h3>TUESDAY, APRIL 6 Ottawa 2 nt Montreal 1</h3><p>(Ottawa leads best-of-seven semi-final 1-0)</p><p><b>Ottawa&mdash;</b> Goal: Fredericks; defense: Arundel, Robertson, Copp, Hudson; forwards: Blair, Gravelie, Howard Riopelle, Johnson, Giesebrecht, Kuntz, Maloney, Foley, Guidolin, Hugh Riopelle.</p><p><b>Royals&mdash;</b> Goal: Perreault; defense: Hollingworth, Leger, Blaine. Roche: forwards: Desaulniers, Denis, Frampton, Hodgson, Martan, Litzenberger, Tessier, Burchell, Wray, Laplante.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Sibby Mundey; linesmen, Eric Milfor dand Paul Moreau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0561/1101179-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="593" height="447"></div><h3>Quebec 4 at Chicoutimi 2</h3><p>(Quebec wins best-of-nine semi-final 5-2)</p><p><b>Quebec&mdash;</b> Goal: Gelineau; defense: Crozier, Talbot, Houle, Raglan; forwards: Brown, Cabana, Grosse, Powell, Regan, Labadle, Kelly, Tremblay, Hucul, Boone.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Hughes; defense: Lamirande, Taillefer, Glaude, Roy; forwards: White, Buchanan, 8. Smrke, L. Smrke, Dussault, Moore, Locas, Tkachuk, Perreault, Groleau.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Roberts: linesmen: Demers, Boileau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0648/1101172-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="593" height="463"></div><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 10 Ottawa 3 Montreal 1</h3><p>(Ottawa leads best-of-seven semi-final 2-0)</p><p><b>Montreal</b>&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defense: Hollingworth, Blaine, Harmon, Roche, Leger; forwards: Martan, Litzenberger, Desaulniers. Tessier, Burchell, Wray, Denis, Gamble, Laplante.</p><p><b>Ottawa</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defense: Copp, Hudson, Robertson, Arundel; forwards: Blair. Howard, Riopelle, Gravelle, Maloney, Guldolin, Foley, Johnson, Giesebrecht, Hugh Riopelle, Kuntz.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Charlie Deziel: linesmen: Gordie Pranschke and Ching McDonald.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0741/1101165-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="596" height="460"></div><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 11 Montreal 4, Ottawa 0</h3><p>(Ottawa leads best-of-seven semi-final 2-1).</p><p><b>Ottawa&mdash;</b> Goal: Frederick; defense: Arundel, Robertson, Hudson, Copp; forwards, Howie, Riopelle. Blair, Gravelle, Hugh Riopelle, Johnson, Kuntz, Giese-brecht, Foley, Maloney, Guldolin.</p><p><b>Montreal&mdash;</b> Goal: Perreault; defense: Roche, Leger, Harmon, Hollingworth; forwards: Burchell, Litzenberger, LaPlante Desaulniers, Gamble. Denis, Frampton, Tessier, Blaine, Wray.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Len Corriveau; linesmen: Jim Haggerty, Gordie Whitehead.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0835/1101158-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="595" height="397"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3>PLAYOFFS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03108/1101151-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="594" height="652"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0479/1101144-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="599" height="244"></div><h2><b>Blitz By Litz</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0933/1101137-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="1562" height="964"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>A GOAL</b> for Eddie Litzenberger of the Royals as he eludes a check thrown at him by Gordie Hudson and blasts a shot by Ray Frederick in the Senator cage. This was the first goal in a 4-0 win for Montreal that put them back in the series after they dropped the first two to the Ottawans. <span class="photo-credit">(Montreal Gazette Photo)</span></figcaption></div><h2><b>One For The Regals</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1030/1101130-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="1031" height="1212"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NO SIT DOWN STRIKE</b> here although it might so appear at first glance. Actually Ottawa netminder Ray Frederick is still <b>a</b> little bewildered following a shot by Ernie Roche of Mont-real (not shown) which got past him for the goal that tied the first game of the best-of-seven semi-final at l-l. Later, in overtime, Red Johnson scored for the O&rsquo;s to give them 2-1 victory over the Royals. That&rsquo;s Eddie Litzenberger with his stick upraised signifying the goal.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>For the second straight year, Cincinnati&rsquo;s Mohawks have completed a sweep of top honors in the International Hockey League.</p><p>This time, however, it was no easy task, as the Hawks received a bitter fight right down to the wire by an inspired Johnstown Jet sextet in the best-of-seven championship playoff series.</p><p>Cincinnati finally prevailed four games to two, in a well-played set that saw only 22 goals scored in the six contests&mdash;14 by the winners and eight by the losers.</p><p>In the final analysis, it was slightly superior defensive work that paid off for the champs, who now have won the IHL&rsquo;s regularseason and post-season titles for an unprecedented two straight times.</p><p>An indication of the true nature of play in the finals can be found by a glance at the scores of the six games, in none of which the winner managed to tally more than three times.</p><h2>Mohawks Got Jump</h2><p>Cincinnati got the jump in the opener, 3-0, but Johnstown retaliated by evening the series with a 3-2 triumph in the next tilt, which marked the home finale for 1954 for the Mohawks. The scene then shifted to the Pennsylvania city, with Cincinnati taking the next two verdicts, 1-0 in overtime and 3-1.</p><p>Johnstown prolonged matters with a thrilling 3-2 overtime conquest in the fifth battle, but Cincinnati clinched the series with a come-from-behind 3-1 win in the sixth and final encounter.</p><p>There was little or no question about it. Everyone agreed&mdash;players of both clubs and spectators alike&mdash;that the series was one of the best-played, exciting In the history of the league.</p><p>The two goaltenders&mdash;Charlie Hodge of the Hawks and Dan (Dippy) Simmons of the Jets&mdash;were spectacular in the nets every time out, and they got plenty of assistance from their respective defenses. -</p><p>A glance at the cold figures reveals that Hodge allowed only eight goals in the six contests for a sensational 1.33 average that Included two shutouts, to give him 12 whitewash jobs for the campaign. Simmons, a late-season addition to Johnstown&rsquo;s forces, let just 14 pucks get past him for an outstanding 2.33 mark.</p><p>Insofar as scoring was concerned, It was evenly divided on both clubs, with 17 different players sharing in the total goal, production of 22, 11 Hawks and six Jets.</p><p>Cincinnati Coach Roly McLenahan, a defenseman, was the only one to get as many as three, while Duke Edmundson of the Mohawks and Don Hall and Cliff McArthur of the Jets all had two apiece.</p><p>Pacing the Queen Cityans in point-making were Edmundson, Winger Willie Pawchuk and Defenseman Butch Bouchard, with four each, all of Bouchard&rsquo;s coming on assists. Hall&rsquo;s three were tops for Johnstown.</p><p>Pawchuk&rsquo;s lone goal was a highly important one, since it proved to be the winner to the sixth and final skirmish. The speedy little left winger, who actually only played 15 seconds in that game, got his marker midway through the last period to break a 1-1 deadlock when he raced on the ice as a hurried replacement for Right Winger Art Rose, temporarily stunned after a vicious body-check.</p><p>There was only one serious injury during the series, to Art Dorrington of Johnstown. Dorrington, flashy Negro winger bruised his back severely when he crashed into the boards in the fourth tilt and was hospitalized for several days until he returned to watch the finale from a wheelchair.</p><p>Connie Broden, hard-working Cincinnati center, missed most of one game and all of another, the fifth clash, after being given a match penalty for allegedly kicking a Jet skater. The penalty was assailed on all sides as being uncalled-for, since all witnesses, including the Johnstown puck-chaser involved, said that Broden had given no signs of kicking his foe.</p><p>All in all, it was a fast, well-played set that kept the spectators on the edge of their seats throughout. Good Johnstown crowds ranging from about 2,500 up to almost 4,000 watched their team battle the heavily-favored Cincinnatians to a virtual standstill.</p><h2>Led Mohawks</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01161/1101248-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="577" height="1249"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROLY McLENAHAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Cincinnati Wins Second Straight International Loop Championship

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“a real Canadian Beer!”

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>What&rsquo;s the magic jinx that Owen Sound Mercurys hold over Northern Ontario teams ? ? ?&hellip;that&rsquo;s a question many fans in the Northland are asking themselves as this column is being prepared. Sudbury Wolves walloped Mercurys 4-1 and 4-0 in Sudbury to start the All-Ontario Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey finals, but when the series shifted to Owen Sound, the Mercs came back to tie it up on 5-2 and 3-1 victories&hellip;the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds had the same trouble when they fought the Mercs In the Ontario finals three seasons ago on Owen Sound ice&hellip;at this writing, one game is left in Owen Sound, before the best-of-seven series returns to Sudbury&hellip;you have to give those Owen Sound Mercurys credit&hellip;they can really come back at you with sizzling attacks when they&rsquo;re behind&hellip;this is the year the North figured the coveted Allan Cup would return up here&hellip;but another loss to Owen Sound now, would force Sudbury Wolves to take two straight on their home-ice if they hope to continue along the Allan Cup Highway!!!&hellip;</p><h2>Horeck Explodes</h2><p>Veteran Pete Horeck, former NHL stalwart, exploded three goals to lead Sudbury to their second win&hellip;Al Millar was terrific in goals to get his first shutout of the playoffs&hellip;actually, the only goal Owen&rsquo; Sound scored against Al in the first two games came with Sudbury playing two men short&hellip;but the Mercs penetrated his armor once the BIG SERIES went South!&hellip;&rsquo;a new record for Northern Ontario hockey was established in the second game to smash the previous mark&hellip;demand for tickets was so great, trouble erupted in the long lineups for ducats&hellip;it got so bad police had to be called&hellip;some fans charged that people broke into the lineup just before the wickets opened and that many who had stood in line for 12 or 13 hours were robbed of tickets&hellip;the matter went to city officials&hellip;six scalpers were arrested and fined $25 and cost sin court&hellip;yes, fans, it&rsquo;s been the most hectic and controversial season in Northern Ontario hockey&mdash;suspensions, resignations, rhubarbs by the score, and then some!!!&hellip;hockey can really do something FOR you and TO you!!!&hellip;Playing without their one-eyed wonder Tommy Burlington, on the injured list, Owen Sound were led by Herbie Carnegie and Bill McCombe. In our last column we pointed out that Noranda was plenty burned up over having three teams disqualified in the Northern Ontario Playground Association tournament held in North Bay recently&hellip;failure to produce birth certificates led to the fuss&hellip;the Noranda teams came to the tournament with baptismal certificates and team officials pointed out these were considered legal in Quegec and should have been recognized&hellip;I sided in with them because I felt it was unfair to disqualify three teams, and all that this meant to them, because of the slight difference between the two type of certificates&hellip;Tom Blundell, the popular and hard-working commissioner of the NOPHA, has replied&hellip;Tom points out that a NOPHA meeting held in 1953 established a rule requiring birth certificates&hellip;&ldquo;Noranda was not represented but copies of the rules were sent to E. E. Orlick, manager of the Noranda Recreation Centre. Three other Quebec teams came to our tournament equipped with Quebec birth certificates. So, it would seem that Noranda did not go to the trouble to obtain the necessary certificates which were obvioulsy available on request.&rdquo;&hellip;I realize rules were made in this connection but I still feel the kids could have been given a break especially when they travelled so far for the tournament and did have baptismal certificates which could have been recognized&hellip;I also feel that Tom and his fine association did what they felt was the right thing because they have always worked hard for hockey&hellip;at any rates, let&rsquo;s hope such a drastic measure does not become necessary again&hellip;GOOD LUCK TO THE NOPHA.</p><h2>Great Intermediate Psason</h2><p>Northern Ontario had a great Ilitermediate season!&hellip;but two Quebec teams stole the show indicating northern Quebec is still a real powerhouse in hockey&hellip;after Temiskaming Royal eliminated Sault St. Marie Algoma Contractors they took on the well-organized Lasarre Cyclones for the Northern Ontario crown&hellip;Lasarre came through three games to one in their best-of-five series&hellip;Claude &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; Seencal turned in a brilliant performance in goal to emerge the top star&hellip;he stopped no less than 36 shots in the final game, won by Lasarre, 5-3&hellip;Marcel Houde, leading marksman in the Northwestern Intermediate League, scored two goals for Lasarre, while Ken Collins continued his sparkling wor for Temiskaming by firing two&hellip;two great Intermediate teams!!!</p><p>A famous name has cropped up again in Northern Ontario&mdash;DON GROSSO!&hellip;this time in minor hockey&hellip;young Don Grosso, a nephew of Don Grosso, former NHL star, is going great guns as a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Black Hawks, now fighting. Temiskaming Barons for the right to enter the Minor League finals for the Northern Ontario championship&hellip;in some ways young Don is displaying the same characteristics as the former NHL great&hellip;and Sault Ste. Marie is also proud of another home-town product, Donnie McLean, who is doing so well with St. Catharines Tee-Pees in the scrap for the Ontario junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; crown&hellip;</p><p>Three Northern Ontario hockey players, Bernie Tomie, Dickie Gioia and Carmen Tuicci have returned home following a very successful season in Europe playing hockey&hellip;all three hail from Sault Ste. Marie and are well known throughout the North&hellip;they recalled the hectic battle between their Italian team and Germany in one game&hellip;a player clipped Tuicci over the head with his stick, a fight broke out, all the players joined in and before peace restored an international incident almost developed&hellip;it seems Germany would not allow any more Italian teams in the country, then Italy refused to allow a famous figure skater into Italy in retaliation&hellip;finally, everything was smoothed over&hellip;the Northern Ontario bays stated that hockey is really catching on in Europe&hellip;in one game in Germany a. crowd of 14,000 was on hand&hellip;crowds in Italy average well over 5,000&hellip;they say Rome is planning a big Arena like Maple Leaf Gardens&hellip;in Europe they count goals and don&rsquo;t bother with assists&hellip;</p><p>I received a letter from Mickie Skovran, 15 Queen Street East, Pittsburgh 12, PA&hellip;she is quite a hockey fan and would like to hear from hockey players, officials and fans about their various teams and outstanding players&hellip;it would be a good idea to let Mickie have your programs and clippings to start with&hellip;then follow up with a line or two about your teams&hellip;it would be nice to see Northern Ontario come through for Mickie, an enthusiastic 20-year-old bundle of hockey personality&hellip;thanks, Mickie!!!&hellip;a letter from Clarence Janke, Walsh, Alberta, states that he was able to keep in touch with NOHA activities this season through NOHA Puck Parade&hellip;he wrote: &ldquo;I believe I speak not only for myself but many other Westerners when I say that the NOHA has definitely gained popularity in Western Canada and now interests us as much as our own hockey clubs.&rdquo;&hellip;thanks a lot Clarence. It was nice hearing from you!!!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0374/1101341-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="428" height="538"></div><p>WILLIAM H. CHALMERS, General Manager</p><p><b>FAMOUS FOR FINE FOOD</b></p><p><b>800 Rooms&mdash;800 Baths</b></p><p>Moderately Priced</p><p>Hockey Headquarters<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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DETROIT LELAND HOTEL

<div class="byline">By DAWSON WINCHESTER</div><p>FREDERICTON, N.B.&mdash;</p><p>Hot stove leagues in this Capital City will not want for &ldquo;fuel&rdquo; for a goodly number of years thanks to the efforts put forth by the 1953-54 edition of the Fredericton Caps.</p><p>Playing-coach Joe Macintosh&rsquo;s hustling squad not only set local fandom agog by bringing Fredericton it&rsquo;s first New Brunswick senior puck title since 1908 but they added orchids to the bouquet of posies they had already won by marching all the way to the Maritime senior crown.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0297/1101372-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="294" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Bartlett</b></figcaption></div><p>The Caps obtained the N.B. silverware for their trophy mantle by eliminating the Moncton Flyers and then polishing off last year&rsquo;s Maritime champs, the Saint John Beavers. In the Maritime final the Caps dropped the first game in a best-of-seven series to the Stellarton Royals of the sister province of Nova Scotia and then bounced back to walk over, around, under and through the N.S. titleholders in four straight contests.</p><p>The &ldquo;Macintosh Machine&rdquo; bogged down along the Allan Cup trail when they were rocked, but good, by the Matane Red Rocks, winners of the Quebec-Ontario playoff, in four straight games.</p><p>The fact that the Caps were bounced out of Allan Cup competition by Gerry Plamoudon&rsquo;s Matane outfit paced by Jim Bartlett, didn&rsquo;t in the eyes of Frederictonians, take any of the glory away from the Caps, for after all, they&rsquo;ll tell you, &ldquo;a Maritime title is quite a thing to come by&rdquo;.</p><h2>Half Home-Brews</h2><p>Frederictonians are proud too of the fact that half the boys on the roster are &ldquo;home-brews&rdquo;. They point with pride to the names of Willie O&rsquo;Rea, Ralph Miles, Timmy Bliss, Doug and Neill Sewell, Laurie Menzies, Roily Rickard and Dick Yeomans. Then there&rsquo;s Dick Snow, a resident of Fredericton for the last half-dozen years and Pat Rowers who made his home here over a year ago. But the pride that swells within rabid supporters when they think of their &ldquo;home-grown hockeyist&rsquo;s&rdquo; does not in the least diminish when they recount the exploits of the new faces on the &rsquo;53-&rsquo;54 squad. The names of Bill McDonagh, Rheal Grenon, Tubby Halverson, Gerry Smith, Archie Burton, Bill Russell and of course the &ldquo;boss-man&rdquo; Joe Macintosh will figure in their fair share of hot stove league discussions through the coming months.</p><p>The caps of Fredericton fandom are off to their title-winning Caps and it&rsquo;s a lead-pipe-cinch that they&rsquo;ll flock to the York Arena come next fall to cheer their heroes on in their games leading to the defence of the much-sought and finally-won Maritime crown.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Fredericton Caps Enjoy Best Season In Years

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Think Toronto East York Lyndhursts had trouble at the World Hockey Tournament when they lost to Russia?</p><p>At least there they won every game except one, the important one.</p><p>Last week, in Ontario Senior &lsquo;B&rsquo; playoffs, the Lyndhursts were knocked off three straight in a best-of-five series by the Stouffville Clippers (?).<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Toronto Lyndhursts lose!

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0452/1101427-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg"></div><p><b>The Perfect Combination&hellip; &hellip;Sawchuk, Goldham</b></p><p><b>Sawchuk and Goldham&mdash;Although this may be something of a departure from the usual practise of picking a line as the perfect combination can you think of a better combine right now that Terry Sawchuk and his &ldquo;second goalie&rdquo; stout-hearted Bob Goldham who makes more &ldquo;saves&rdquo; than any other defenseman In hockey 7 They&rsquo;re played a tremendous role in the Red Wings success and deserve to be rated with the big perfect combinations In the NHL.</b></p><p><b>ALWAYS FRESH&mdash;Everyone is talking about this modern, air-tight, styrene plastic humidor. Keeps the cigars fresh, and conserve* their rich smoking qualities.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Perfect Combination-Quality! Freshness! Price!

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01127/1101310-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>VICTORY SPOILS&mdash;</b> Shown above is Douglas (Dugger) McNeil, playing coach of Halifax Atlantics, being presented with one of the three major trophies after the A&rsquo;s had won the MMHL playoff finals against Sydney Millionaires. Aiderman J. E. (Gee) Ahern is making the presentation while an usher holds the cup. It was the second straight victory for Atlantics, the second such title for teams coached by McNeil. <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Pete Sullivan)</span></figcaption></div><p>HALIFAc N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Halifax Atlantics are again Canada&rsquo;s major hockey champions. The A&rsquo;s defeated Sydney Millionaires five games to two to win the Maritime Major (Big Four) Hockey League championship and three handsome trophies.</p><p>They are the Alexander Cup, for the Canadian title; Starr trophy for the Maritime crown and the Landry trophy for the Big Four championship.</p><p>Playing coach Douglas (Dugger) McNeil and captain Carroll Bloom were presented with the trophies by Aiderman J.E. (Gee) Ahern, vice president of the Big Four, immediately following the seventh game, which had been delayed a half hour by a power failure.</p><p>Atlantics defeated Terry Reardon&rsquo;s Mills by the same margin as they had eliminated Charlottetown islanders in the semi-finals. The difference here was while the Islanders led two-one in games at one time, in the finals the Mills lost the first four before they finally won a pair.</p><p>The series was dying on its feet after Halifax had racked up four straight wins when Reardon made a dramatic move. He removed regular custodian Norm Defelice, who had the best goals-against record over the regular season, and brought up rookie Giles Boisvert.</p><p>Boisvert had played nine games with the Mills during the season, while Defelice sat out an injury and when he played briefly with Providence. In that time he registered three shutouts and during the schedule was named All-Star goalie in the New Bruns-wick League as a member of the Amherst Meteors.</p><h2>TERRIFIC</h2><p>As a replacement he was terrific. In his first game he shut out Halifax 1-0 on their home ice. Next night he was outstanding again as Mills skated to a 2-1 triumph.</p><p>Halifax fans, who had expected the A&rsquo;s to win in a breeze after their quick start, began to get apprehensive. And they were kept on tenterhooks until the third period when young Jean Leclerc broke through for two goals, one into an empty net as Reardon pulled his goalie.</p><p>The final game was played in a dramatic setting. Atlantics beat Boisvert on their first shot. Sydney tied it up in the second period. Then, as they battled tooth and nail for the big goal, the lights went out.</p><p>They were out for nearly half an hour. When the lights came on again the teams took up where they had left off.</p><p>Big play of the night came when Leclerc fed a long pass to Clements, picked up the return at the edge of the crease and tucked the puck behind Boisvert. The time was 9.03, and it was running out on the battling Moneymen.</p><p>They tried everything to get the puck into the Halifax cage but pudgy Roy McMeekin, one of the outstanding stars in the entire playoffs, held firmly. Reardon pulled his goalie but the move backfired when Leclerc stole the rubber off the Sydney coach, coasted in and tapped the pock into an empty net.</p><p>Back came Boisvert. Back roared the Mills. But the second hand crept closer to zero. Finally, with one second to go and one shrot left, Neil Amadio banged the puck into the Halifax net.</p><p>Officials praised Dugger McNeil for his able leadership as they presented the big awards. Coming in for special mention were two-goal Leclerc, who came in late after a short stand with the Providence Reds; McMeekin and Halifax native Jack (Muckle) Hollett, hero a year ago in the final game against Charlottetow&rsquo;.</p><p>Crowds swarmed onto the ice, budding stars snatched sticks from the players hands. So great was the din that nobody heard the announcement on the final game over thepnbllc address system, if it was ever made.</p><p>It was a great clipiax to a grand season for the Atlantics who used fewer players than any other club, led the league throughout the season, topped them all in scoring goals, furnished double record breaker Billy Ford in goals and total points (76 and 138), and took 10 out of 14 playoff games.</p><p>Furthermore, the club will come close to finishing even in the financial league, a rare accomplishment in these parts these days. Due to the astute handling of general manager Harry Butler and playing coach Dugger McNeil, the Atlantics had another great season in all respects.</p><p>Only once did they lag in the playoffs, when they lost the second and third games to Charlottetown after winning the first. Then they went on a rampage, scoring four straight wins over Charlottetown to run out that series and winning the first four against Sydney before Millionaires took a brace.</p><p>Outstanding men in the playoffs were goalies&mdash;McMeekin and Boisvert. Others who shone were veteran centre Pete Wywrot, young centre Jean Leclerc and young Sydney native Duke McDonald, playing his first season in major company.</p><p>The championship club is community owned and operated. City businessmen took over when brewer Viv Oland said he hadn&rsquo;t the time to go it alone any more. Viv remained as a director. George Tingley served a second year as president. Harry Butler directed the club behind the scenes.</p><p>McNeil, a product of St. Mary&rsquo;s junior teams, played for four seasons with Montreal Royals before accepting the Halifax post a year ago. He selected his men so carefully than in two seasons only one man failed to measure up to standards. &ldquo;</p><p>So highly was he respected by the players that the team spirit was unusual, and contagious. Bobby Pepin, who was forced to return to his home in Quebec, was replaced by Marcel Clemente, who came in just before the playoffs and fitted in neatly into the scheme of things.</p><p>Whether they play major or senior hockey next season, and nobody knows right now, Halifax will be represented again. Assured of his old post is McNeil. He&rsquo;s the most popular man in town.</p><h2><b>&ldquo;To The Winner&hellip;&rdquo;</b></h2><div class="sidebar"><p><b>The Toronto Maple Leafs Use BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

f0017-01

Atlantics Defeat Millionaires, Maritime Major Loop Champions

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01134/1101458-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL JUZDA&hellip; &hellip;Color-Guy</b></figcaption></div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Big Bill Juzda, an &ldquo;old pro&rdquo; from the National Hockey League, stole the show in the western Allan cup semi-final series between the Moose Jaw Millers and the Winnipeg Maroons.</p><p>A battling bruiser of the old school, the veteran Juzda proved the real &ldquo;color-guy&rdquo; of the series with his slam-bang tactics on the Winnipeg blueline. He was the player the fans in Saskatchewan came to see (and boo) and he was the player who won the most respect from his Moose Jaw rivals.</p><p>&ldquo;When Juzda&rsquo;s out there, you have to keep your head up when you cross that Winnipeg blue line&rdquo;, said Bud Andrews, high-scoring Moose Jaw forward. &ldquo;Otherwise you&rsquo;ll get blonked but good&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;He nailed me a couple times&rdquo;, added teammate Baldy Smith. &ldquo;You just have to watch out for him&rdquo;.</p><p>Saskatchewan fans bad never seen anything like it since the days of Pug Young, the Edmonton clutch-and-grab rearguard from the days of the old Western Canada Senior League. After the first minutes of the opening game, they booed Juzda every time he made a move.</p><p>Juzda took it all right in stride. Actually he seemed to enjoy it. After&rsquo; all he has been booed many times before in his lengthy hockey career with the New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><h2><b>Natural Athlete</b></h2><p>A product of Winnipeg&rsquo;s hockey ranks, Juzda first won his spurs in junior competition with the old Elmwood Maple Leafs. He never learned to skate until his mid-teens, but he was a natural athlete and he came along quickly after he took up the ice game. He was a terrific plunger in football and he would have gone far in the gridiron sport if he had stuck to football.</p><p>From the Elmwood Maple Leafs, Juzda went to the Kenora Thistles where with a starry team that Included Prince Charlie Rayner in goal, they went all the way to the Memorial cup final before losing to the Oshawa Generals. After wartime service, Juzda moved up with the New York Rangers.</p><p>From the Rangers, he was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs along with centre Cal Gardner. He was regarded as just an extra package in the deal and was expected to wind up in Pittsburgh with the Hornets. However, his battling style of play won favor with bossman Conny Smythe and he remained with the Maple Leafs.</p><p>Now he&rsquo;s back in Winnipeg working at his railroad job and playing amateur hockey with the Winnipeg senior club.</p><p>Juzda himself feels that the red line is the cause of most of the rough stuff and high sticks in modern hockey. &ldquo;With the red line&rdquo;, he explains, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s tough to hand out a solid bodycheck anymore at incoming forwards. They just shoot the puck in the corner and chase after it. And the defencemen have to get back there first to grab that puck. That leads to these rugged jamming sessions in the corner.&rdquo;</p><p>But Big Bill is one guy who really hold his own in the slam bang business.</p><p>The addition of such rugged rearguards as Juzda, Tom Rockey and Ward Brandow has made the Winnipeg seniors a strong contender in the Allan Cup race. One year ago they had a silck passing attack but lacked &ldquo;moxle&rdquo; on the blueline. Now they have the blueline policemen to prevent their rivals from running wild in on their goal.</p><p>The Winnipeg forwards as just as potent as ever, too. Pete Langelle, another &ldquo;old pro&rdquo; from the Toronto Maple Leafs, pivots a swift line with Ken IJttle and Ken McKenzie on the Wings. Playing coach Odie Lowe, a real cutie with the puck, has Bill Robinson on one lane and Jimmy Young on the other.</p><h2><b>Still Rocking &rsquo;Em</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

f0018-01

Veteran Bill Juzda Is Standout In Allan Cup Semi-Final Series

<div class="byline">By PETER TOMLIN</div><p>NELSON, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Willie Schmidt&rsquo;s Nelson Maple Leafs held the Penticton V&rsquo;s to a 4-4 overtime tie in the second game of the best-of-seven Savage Cup final series played in Nelson. The tie enabled the Maple Leafs to maintain the one game edge that they built up over the V&rsquo;s by winning the series openei&rsquo; 5-4 in Nelson.</p><p>The Leafs had to overcome an early 3-1 lead by the Penticton team to gain the split in. points.</p><p>In the series opener, the Leafs took an early lead when Don Appleton scored 46 seconds after the game started. Jack McDonald tied the score for the V&rsquo;s at the 11 minute mark of the period and Jack McIntyre gave Penticton a 2-1 lead just before the session ended. In the second period, goals by Appleton and Fritz Keohle of Nelson and an unassisted effort by Billy Warwick of the V&rsquo;s increased the ante to 3-3.</p><p>Jack McDonald scored for the V&rsquo;s while they were a man short and the one goal lead began to look good. Then a costly Pentic ton penalty gave the Maple Leafs their chance and they made no mistake as Bruno Pasquolatto hammered in two games goals to give the Leafs the game.</p><p>Penalties were the cause of the V&rsquo;s down-fall. They did a masterful job of killing several penalties, including a five minute fighting penalty to Grant Warwick, but the third period penalties to Bernie Bathgate and Kevin Conway proved to be their undoing.</p><p>Special mention should be made of the fine work of Nelson&rsquo;s playing coach Willie Schmidt and defensive standout Lloyd Allsby, Ailsby was particularly effective in slowing up the famed Penticton offense. Jack McDonald and goalie Ivan McLelland were the pick of the V&rsquo;s.</p><p>Next game in the series goes in the mamoth Cominco Arena in Trail, and the fourth game also in Trail.</p><p>An ankle injury to Don Berry, hustling right winger, and the disadvantage of foreign ice for all games has put the Penticton entry very definitely behind the eight-ball in their attempt to retain the Western Canada crown and the Patton Cup which they won a year ago by taking four of six games from the Fort William Beavers. Regardless of who wins the series and the Savage Cup, British Columbia will have a worthy representative in the Allan Cup race.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0276/1101496-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="282" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Grant Warwick</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0348/1101489-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="294" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lloyd Allsby</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0018-02

Nelson Wins Opener From Penticton V’S

<div class="byline">By CLEON WALFOORT</div><p>MILWAUKEE, Wis.&mdash;</p><p>With losses of about $60,000, including a $20,000 deficit from a year ago, the future of minor league hockey in Milwaukee appeared dim at the close of the city&rsquo;s second season in the International League. The last place Chiefs drew only 36,000 paid admissions to 32 home games this winter. Total receipts were $2,000 more than last year, however, due to fewer special nights and bargain attractions at which spectators had been admitted for as low as 25&cent;.</p><p>There also was a reduction in rental at the five million dollar downtown Arena, from $1,100 to $950, Including ice, tickets and services. But this saving was more than offset by extra money spent for players as 33 athletes were tried in an effort to get Lou Trudel&rsquo;s club out of the cellar.</p><p>Other clubs in the league operated with varying success, estimates of season attendance totals indicate. The approximate home totals follow:</p><p>Fort Wayne, 192,000; Cincinnati, 140,000; Johnstown, 73,000; Troy (Ohio), 72,000; Grand Rapids, 66,000; Toledo, 52,000; Marion, 42,000.</p><p>From the standpoint of class, there was little doubt as to the superiority of the Cincinnati Mohawks, champions for the second straight year. Supplied with talent by the Montreal Canadiens, the Mohawks may not have had more than their share of the league&rsquo;s really outstanding players but they certainly had more good ones, including the crackerjack little goalie, Charlie Hodge.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Milwaukee May Drop Out Of International League

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01113/1101551-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(Solution Next Week)</b></p><h2>ACROSS</h2><p>1&mdash;Detroit player shown in centre.</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of Bouchard of Canadiens.</p><p>7&mdash;Al Dewsbury was horn under this sign of the Zodiac.</p><p>9&mdash;One of the Guidolin&rsquo;s.</p><p>11&mdash;To make mistakes.</p><p>12&mdash;Given name of pictured player.</p><p>14&mdash;Another name for Elwyn Morris.</p><p>15&mdash;Name given one of the Maple Leafs.</p><p>17&mdash;Tony Leswick was born in this month (abbr).</p><p>18&mdash;Tennis term.</p><p>19&mdash;short for Sandford&rsquo;s given name.</p><p>21&mdash;Native province of Wayne Brown&rsquo; of Boston.</p><p>13&mdash;Initials of Armstrong, ex Detroit forward.</p><p>24&mdash;Expressing negation.</p><p>25&mdash;This W.H.L. coach once played with Canadiens.</p><p>28&mdash;Second name of pictured player.</p><p>30&mdash;&rdquo;Red&rdquo; Storey once played football with Toronto&mdash;(abbr).</p><p>81&mdash;Initials of 2 down. sh</p><p>33&mdash;Name given a New York rearguard.</p><p>34&mdash;Nickname of a former Toronto netminder.</p><h2>DOWN</h2><p>1&mdash;Vic Stasiuk&rsquo;s native province.</p><p>2&mdash;One of the N.Y. Rangers.</p><p>3&mdash;Initials of a Detroit centre.</p><p>4&mdash;Short for Mickoski&rsquo;s given name.</p><p>6&mdash;Floyd Curry&rsquo;s nickname.</p><p>8&mdash;Tony Leswick is a good one.</p><p>10&mdash;Comparative ending.</p><p>13&mdash;Type of frog.</p><p>16&mdash;Once played for Canadiens, called Buddy.</p><p>20&mdash;Short for first name of Get-liffe, ex N.H.L. star.</p><p>22&mdash;Most defensemen could be described as this, e</p><p>23&mdash;An A.H.L. netminder.</p><p>25&mdash;This I.H.L. club is nicknamed Bruins.</p><p>25&mdash;Initials of Noble, old time star.</p><p>27&mdash;Ells English (abbr).</p><p>28&mdash;One of the Boston Bruins is called this.</p><p>29&mdash;Initials of a Maple Leaf forward.</p><p>32&mdash;Initials of a defenseman on 1953-54 All-Star team.</p><h2><b>Solution to Last Week&rsquo;s Puzzle</b></h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p>1&mdash;Masnlck</p><p>8&mdash;Almas</p><p>9&mdash;E.S.S.</p><p>11&mdash;Once</p><p>12&mdash;Totttle</p><p>13&mdash;Pts</p><p>14&mdash;E.R.</p><p>16&mdash;At.</p><p>17&mdash;Wes.</p><p>20&mdash;G.A.</p><p>21&mdash;Leg</p><p>23&mdash;Jim</p><p>24&mdash;V.A.</p><p>25&mdash;On.</p><p>26&mdash;Bodnar</p><p>30&mdash;Napoleon</p><p>32&mdash;E.L.</p><p>33&mdash;S.W.</p><p>35&mdash;Shill</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1&mdash;Matthew</p><p>2&mdash;Al</p><p>3&mdash;Smith</p><p>4&mdash;Na.</p><p>5&mdash;Is</p><p>6&mdash;Ken</p><p>7&mdash;Use</p><p>10&mdash;Scott</p><p>11&mdash;O.E.</p><p>13&mdash;Paul</p><p>15&mdash;Regina</p><p>18&mdash;Sam</p><p>19&mdash;Agar</p><p>22&mdash;Evans</p><p>23&mdash;Jones</p><p>26&mdash;Boll</p><p>27&mdash;O.L.</p><p>28&mdash;Det.</p><p>29&mdash;No.</p><p>31&mdash;P.E.I.</p><p>34&mdash;W.B.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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