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September 1, 1954

The Hockey News September 1, 1954

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01189/1321161-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">CAL GARDNER&hellip;&hellip;Ambition Fulfilled</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Cal Gardner is a shining example of that old adage &ldquo;Better Late Than Never.&rdquo; As a youngster his dream was to play with the Boston Bruins and have his idol, Milt Schmidt as a teammate. Though he got sidetracked en route he eventually realized his ambition&mdash;even if he did have to wait ten years for it to materialize.When Gardner was a small, sorrel-thatched boy in his native Transcona, Manitoba, his one aim. in life was to be an NHL player. One might say he was born to play the game. The clicking of skates on the smooth surface of a hockey cushion was music to Cal&rsquo;s ears and he would practice diligently with visions of one day performing in the biggest league of all. Gardner not only had a natural love for the game, but a father who shared his enthusiasm. &ldquo;Dad always wanted me to be a hockey player,&rdquo; said Cal. &lsquo;&lsquo;He was my first coach and gave me terrific training for years.&rdquo;Shortly after he helped Winnipeg Rangers win the Memorial Cup, Gardner was signed by Bill Kocken, then a New York Ranger scout. Instead of continuing with his hockey activities, Cal joined the RCNVR and spent considerable time in Scotland. While overseas he played hockey with the Navy team and frequently opposed the RCAF squad. Just to show that fate works in strange ways, who should lead the Air Force attack, but the famous Kraut Line. After all his years of hero worshipping out West, Cal was net only able to see Milt Schmidt perform, but was actually pitted against him. It was a thrill of a lifetime for Gardner.Cal gave some excellent performances with the Navy club and caught Schmidt&rsquo;s fancy. &ldquo;Milt told me he would like to see me playing with Boston,&rdquo; Gardner related. &ldquo;He said he would try and get me on the club once we got back home. I was overjoyed at the prospect, but things didn&rsquo;t work out. The Rangers wouldn&rsquo;t release me.&rdquo;Once back in civilian life. Gardner joined the N.Y. Rovers and played on a line with Rene Trudel and Church Russell. That threesome was promoted to the Rangers at the start of the 1945-46 campaign and gave the league some lively action. In fact, they were so good, Conn Smythe is said to have offered $50,000 for the entire line and Hal Layce After spending three years in Gotham. Gardner was obtained by the Maple Leafs as a replacement for the retired Syl Apps. At first, Cal wasn&rsquo;t too happy about the deal. &ldquo;You just don&rsquo;t like being traded,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;I always had the hope that 1 would spend my entire career with one club, so I was disappointed when the Rangers let me go.&rdquo; As it turned out the move was good for Gardner. He stepped from a team in the cellar to a Stanley Cup winner. To make it even better, he had the honor of scoring the goal which actually won the Cup for Toronto. &ldquo;That was my biggest thrill,&rdquo; he stated. &ldquo;It was a wonderful feeling and I&rsquo;ll always remember it.&rdquo;<h2>Big First Year</h2>Gardner&rsquo;s first season with the Leafs was an eventful one. In addition to figuring prominently in the Cup victory, he garnered considerable in for his efforts in the famous New Year&rsquo;s Night fight with Canadiens&rsquo; Kenny Reardon, an episode he now regards as water under the bridge. Another interesting feature is the fact that he suffered a fractured cheekbone during the training season. That sent him to Toronto&rsquo;s Wellesley Hospital where he met a pretty, competent nurse named Marv Malone. Their romance didn&rsquo;t blossom until some time later, and although it is hard to visualise the robust Mr. Reardon in the role of Dan Cupid. he does rate an assist in the whole affair. It was a careless Reardon elbow which broke Cal&rsquo;s jaw on November 10, 1949, thus enabling him to enter hospital once again and renew his friendshin with. Miss Malone. They were married in Holy Name Roman Catholic church in the summer of 1951.A much travelled man, the 31-year-old centre has seen service with four NHL clubs, been on two Stanley Cup teams and enjoyed every moment of his life in the big league. He has had his share of injuries and disappointments, but his effervescent manner and boyish face shows that he faces life with a grin and is not easily perturbed. One thing is certain, Gardner is not a worrier. He hates to lose a game or go into a scoring slump, but he is not one to get tense and keyed up, over the situation. &ldquo;The way I look at it, you must try to rectify mistakes as soon as possible and not make the same blunder twice, but I can&rsquo;t see any point to being a worrier.&rdquo; said Cal.The Gardners spend the summer at their home in Leaside, Ont., a district which is becoming a favorite residence for hockey players. For the past few months Cal has been employed by O&rsquo;Keefe&rsquo;s Brewery, but he has plenty of spare moments for pursuing his many athletic endeavors. Sports play a major role in the life of the irrepressible Gardner. As he puts it: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what I&rsquo;d do if I didn&rsquo;t take part in sports. I love them all.&rdquo; He is adept at golf, tennis, badminton and swimming, and finds time to play ball with Gus Mortson&rsquo;s NHL All-Stars, a group which plays many benefit games. Luckily, Mary Gardner is a sports enthusiast and is quite at home on the tennis court and golf links. Among the Gardners&rsquo; best friends are the Harry Watsons. who live just two blocks away. Harry was best man at their wedding and is also a member of Mortson&rsquo;s ball team.Cal and Mary Gardner have a young son, David, who is just two years old. He is a terrific talker and has blond hair which will probably turn the same auburn shade as his father&rsquo;s. It wouldn&rsquo;t be surprising if this hockey ruinded couple are raising a future baseball player. Young David has already developed quite a pitching arm and demonstrates his ability by hurling a ball from dining room to living room at a mighty fast pace. &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t mind if he turned out to be a ball player,&rdquo; said Cal. who is obviously pleased that his son is athletically inclined at such a tender age.Mrs. Gardner and David accompanied Cal to Boston last season and expect to do the same this fall. An ardent hockey fan, Mary enters into the excitement of the game and cheers loudly for her favorite player She admits the tension frequently gets the better of her. &ldquo;I started going to the games when, Cal was with the Leafs. We weren&rsquo;t married then and I used to go with Lillian Watson. I didn&rsquo;t know much about the game, so I kept quiet. I&rsquo;ve been getting sort of rowdy recently.&rdquo; Cal backed up this statement by saying: &ldquo;Mary may have been quiet before, but she sure shouts now.&rdquo;Gardner&rsquo;s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gardner, are now living in Osbawa, Ont., having moved from Transcona three years ago. Cal has one brother, but he is not a hockeyist. &ldquo;He would have been a good player, but he had a terrible temper on the ice and that really ruined his chances.<h2>After 10 Years, A Bruin! &#9632;</h2>

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IN THIS ISSUE

It Took Him 10 Years To Get A Bruin Jersey

QUEBEC, Que.&mdash;Lionel Fleury, president of the Quebec Junior Hockey League announced at press time that the league would definitely operate with four teams this year and that the Que-oec Frontenacs, who had threatened to call it quits, would be a part of the loops.The league, which will place a 48-game schedule this year, is composed of Quebec, Montreal Canadiens, Three Rivers Reds and the Jonquiere Marquis.The Honorable Gerald Martineau and his Bobby, who held stock in the Quebec club, sold their shares to Gerald Couture when arrangements for an interlocking schedule with the Ontario Junior league fell through.Playing in Quebec only with four teams was a suicidal venture according to the Martineaus in announcing their withdrawal Ontario at one of its earlier meetings agreed that the interlocking schedule idea, the brainchild of Montreal&rsquo;s Sammy Pullock and Ken Reardon was too costly a venture and involved too much travelling time for Ontario juniors.Meanwhile, the Frontenac club, with Phil Watson back in the coaching saddle have completed negotiations to form a working agreement with the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League.As for Phil Watson, he expressed himself as happy with the new tie-up. He is particularly pleased that the parent team is operated by his former coach, Lester Patrick, and as a result relations will be greatly facilitated and on a more friendly basis.Primary goal of this affiliation is to make it easy for players who are not yet of junior ago to follow up their hockey career, providing they have the necessary talent and capacity. According to the terms of the agreement, the Victoria club may place the names of 18 Quebec players on their negotiating list and when these players have outgrown junior ranks, they will be invited to the Cougars&rsquo; training camp where they will have the opportunity to prove their worth. In return the Frontenac may receive from this team on loan, players of junior age. Certain other clauses are also in this working agreement.A young defenceman who is expected to make the local fans sit up and take notice this coming hockey season has signed a contract to play for the Frontenac Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Hockey Club. He is an 18-year-old rookie, Henry Harbinson whose exceptional talent drew the raves of all the scouts during the hockey school held here in Quebec City, last spring by Les Sports Frontenac Inc.HENRY HARBINSON was born in Montreal April 14th, 1936, which makes him eligible for two more seasons with the Frontenac club. Last year, he attended Loyola College. He is a solidly built chap, five foot ten inches tall, and weighs 189 lbs., who was highly recommended to President Emile Couture of Les Snorts Frontenac Inc., midway through last winter. However, because of his studies, Henry preferred remaining in Montreal where he played for the Loyola College team, taking part in the Montreal Iatercollegiate League. He attended the Frontenac Hockey School last spring arid it was after watching him in action in several workouts that Phil Watson went to work to sign him to a contract.<h2>Quebec Rookie</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0440/1321843-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="579" height="897"><figcaption class="caption-body">HENRY HARBINSON</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Big Disappointment Voiced At Inter-Locking Failure

MARION, Ohio.&mdash;The International Hockey League will operate with six teams this year, President Frank Gallagher announced recently.Milwaukee and Marion dropped out, asking that their franchise be suspended for the coming season.Wilson Scott, president of the Milwaukee club, said the reason the Chiefs were giving up this year was because they couldn&rsquo;t get an ice plant in operation by the time the season opened. The Chiefs had leased the State Fairgrounds Coliseum which is not equipped with an ice-making machine.For the last two years they had played their games in the Milwaukee Arena, but high rent and unsuitable playing dates had forced the backers to find another building.Marion gave up operations because of financial difficulties, Pete Hendy, the Barons&rsquo; publicity director, said.It has been reported the Barons lost $32,000 last year. Lou Jacobs, of the concession firm of Jacob Brothers from Buffalo, had a big financial chunk of the team last season, and it was understood he did not want to risk losing more money this year.Most of the Marion players are owned by the Cleveland Barons of the American League and just how many would be available was problematical.Andy Mulligan, general manager of the Sports Arena, said he had already contacted Jim Hendy, general manager of the Barons, about some of the players coming to Toledo. Much depends, he said, on how many would be able to earn a spot with the Cleveland club.Mulligan added that he did not know how many of the Milwaukee players, if any, would be picked up by the six other IHL clubs.Gallagher said he was working on a 60-game schedule, calling for 30 games at home and 30 away, bringing each club here six times during the season.He said he had just finished a schedule for seven teams, when Marion decided to pull out. The league will open around Oct. 16 and close the week of March 9. Toledo will open its home schedule Oct. 30.Last year the IHL operated with nine clubs at the start, with Louisville becoming a road club in the tail end of the season when its backers pulled out. In addition to Toledo the other towns in the IHL will be Troy, O., Cincinnati, Johnstown, Pa., Ft. Wayne, Ind., and Grand Rapids, Mich.<h2>6 Team Boss</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01244/1321712-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="594" height="609"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRANK GALLAGHER</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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IHL Down To 6 Clubs, Chiefs, Barons Quit

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0254/1321805-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="254" height="300"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0155/1321812-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="239" height="285"></div><h2>But This Was 2 Years Ago</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0352/1321798-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="1699" height="1510"><figcaption class="caption-body">IF IT APPEARS that Sid Abel (right) is going over the present roster of the Chicago Black Hawks with his successor, Frankie Eddolls, we hasten to point out that this is not the case. The above photo was taken at an NHL draft meeting two years ago which both Abel and Eddolls attended. At the time they were both rookie coaches, Abel with the Hawks and Eddolls with Buffalo. Two years makes a difference. Now Eddolls has Abel&rsquo;s job.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Martineaus Sell Out Stock In Fronts; Fleury Reports Juniors Ready To Play

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Summer’s Over….. By John Collins

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;The Chicago Black Hawks may not win the National Hockey League championship or the Stanley Cup this year as the loop prepares for the 1954-55 season but they&rsquo;re making pretentious plans to bring home the bacon in the not too distant future.In acquiring Tommy Ivan and Frankie Eddolls as general manager and coach, the Black Hawk management has taken the first step in a giant rebuilding plan that will cost thousands and create a far-flung farm system. Money at this point, is no object.Vice-president Bill Tobin announced that the Chicago Hawks would gladly pay $100,000 or even more for any of five players in the NHL now. He listed them as Gordie Howe and Red Kelly of Detroit and Jean Beliveau, Maurice Richard and Dernie Geoffrion of the Canadiens.He said another 15 big league players would be worth $50,000 each to Chicago, but that the other teams just aren&rsquo;t interested in cash deals. Ivan agreed and added, &ldquo;We had a big money of fer for Terry Sawchuk when I was at Detroit, but we knew darn well he couldn&rsquo;t be replaced in the net by a pile of money.&rdquo;Tommy Ivan and Frankle Eddolls plan to go ahead with the talent available now in as host a way possible while also getting a farm system underway that will help for years to come. &ldquo;And we might surprise many people this year if we can get that etra bit of effort from each member of the club,&rdquo; Tommy predicted.Ivan, who became accustomed to icing championship squads in his seven seasons at the Detroit helm, announced his foremost objective as the development of an improved farm system to Chicago something more comperable to the personnel numbers available to such as Toronto and the Canadiens.He indicated the Black Hawks currently have about 112 skaters under control as against approximately 260 each by the Habs and Maple Leafs. &ldquo;If we can add three more amateur affiliates to the three we already have we would be within 60 players or so of their necessities,&rdquo; be stated.&ldquo;We need a farm system that will stretch from one end of Canada to the other and that&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;m out to get and we also want to establish working agreements with teams in each the other professional loops. Our present amateur tieups are at Calt Moose Jaw and Jonquiere, but they just aren&rsquo;t enough.&ldquo;We are attempting to make an agreement with one of the American League entries to supplant the pacts we have in the other pro circuits&hellip;Calgary in the Western League and Quebec in the Quebec League. This is a long range program and we can&rsquo;t expect immediate results, but it&rsquo;s a start in the right direction.&rdquo;Ivan and Eddolls have agreed taht Chicago will play the positional type of hockey that has proved so successful at Detroit and Montreal. &ldquo;It must be the best for it&rsquo;s the method these two top squads have used and Frank made it pave the way to two titles at Buffalo,&rdquo; Tommy pointed but.&ldquo;When the players man their positions and don&rsquo;t stray very much they are better off defensively and then, when they do get the puck, they&rsquo;re in the right position offensively. We are going to work this way as much as possible&hellip;really force the play.&rdquo;Eddolls indicated that he plans to stress physical condition strongly. &ldquo;Every skater on the squad will have to show he is able to go hard for the full 60 minutes and there will be strict training discipline, if necessary. Faceoffs rae important too and we&rsquo;re not going to have anyone just going through the motions.&rdquo;Asker what he thought it would take to make Chicago a top contender, Ivan replied, &ldquo;Three good players.&rdquo; He indicated a sizeable degree of satisfaction with the youth movement begun last year by Vice-President Bill Tobin, but said he felt the need for one or two more proven defensemen.&ldquo;Bill Gadsby and Gus Mortson represent our only sure things along the blue line. With a pair we hope we&rsquo;ll be able to acquire, there will be four battling for the fifth rearguard post. Al Dewsbury, Lee Fogolin and Jack Price from last season&rsquo;s team and Clare Raglan who was at Quebec.&ldquo;With Al Rollins we&rsquo;re all set in the nets and we should be strong down the center with Red Sullivan and Bob Hassard, secured in cash deals during the off season, added to Larry Wilson nad little Kenny Wharram.&rdquo;The Ivan-Eddolls combine is particularly high on Sullivan and big Jack McIntyre as the likely injectors of some real color into Chicago play. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll like Red right away,&rdquo; said Frank enthusiastically. &ldquo;He goes into the corners after the puck all the time&hellip;he set a new AHL scoring record last year.&rdquo;Ivan singled out McIntyre as the man most responsible for the Red Wings elimination in the Stanley Cup playoffs two years ago by Boston with whom he was then playing. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s real big. knows how to use his body and you can never tell what he is going to do next,&rdquo; quipped Tommy.&ldquo;I remembre one night in those playoffs when he came in on Red Kelly who had the puck. Red thought he was going to use his stick,. instead Jack hit him so hard that I know he would have been better sitting beside me on the bench the rest of the evening.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0282/1321929-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="290" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Ivan</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Tobin Says Chicago Would Pay Amount For Any Big Star

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Bruins, for whom high scorers have been a rarity in recent years, faced the start of their fall training period with the uninviting prospect of losing their highest.Johnny Peirson informed Manager Lynn Patrick the other day that he was retiring from hockey to devote his full time to the furniture business.Peirson&rsquo;s lyrics were the familiar ones of the professional athlete seeking &ldquo;more money, or else&rdquo;, but the music sounded different to Patrick&rsquo;s trained ear.In the first place Peirson is not the type to make such a silly, trite threat, just on the chance that he might frighten the Bruins&rsquo; front office into raising his considerable pay.In the second place, Peirson doesn&rsquo;t have a sideline job in the furniture business, he is actually in the business.A highly-intelligent young man with a McGill University background, the black-haired right wing literally married into furniture, for his father-in-law is the president of the Shaw Furniture Company of Cambridge.John has been learning the manufacturing business from the ground up for the last three years, and his future is probably wrapped up in it.Patrick was jarred but not panicked by Peirson&rsquo;s declaration, his proximity to his veteran scoring ace&mdash;they live in the same town&mdash;helping him keep his feet on the ground.&ldquo;I know he isn&rsquo;t kidding or threatening,&rdquo; declared the Bruins&rsquo; manager, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;m going to try to change his mind. He like to play and he&rsquo;s young enough still to have several good years ahead of him.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll keep him on our roster at least through the draft meeting in Montreal this month and see how he feels about playing then.&rdquo;Peirson first came to the Bruins after World War II, and he has been a regular right wing since the latter part of the 1947-48 season. In six full seasons as a regular he scored 123 goals for an average of 20.5 per year.In his early years the slender native of Montreal was overly aggressive, with the result that he acquired a number of painful injuries. Wiser of late, he was still sidelined for a period of weeks two years ago with a badly broken jaw.Peirson at 29 had been cast in a stabilizing role for this season, for the Bruins in all likelihood will have a predominantly youthful forward squad, but his unexpected announcement could force Patrick to revise his plans.When a 20-goal scorer tells a manager that he&rsquo;s decided to retire, that&rsquo;s enough to make anyone think twice.In the National league 20-goal scorers are rare birds, and in the case of the Bruins, Peirson will leave them with only Joe Klukay having such a carry-over distinction if he does quit.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02153/1320975-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="360" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Peirson</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Peirson’s Decision To Terminate Puck Career Deprives Bruins of Consistent 20-Goal Scorer

MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;The six teams in the National Hockey League came up with their protected lists this month and three surprises were in store for fans.The Boston Bruins failed to place Hal Laycoe, their veteran defenseman on their list while the Rangers failed to protect Max Bentley, who reverted to the Toronto list when he reiterated claims to retire. Detroit faded to list Tony Leswick, scorer of the Stanley Cup winning goal last spring.<h2>TORONTO</h2>George Armstrong, Robert. Bailey Max Bentley, Leo Boivin, Hugh Bolton, Lawrence Gahan, David Creighton, Gordon Hannigan, Myles Horton, Ted Kennedy, Rudy Migay, Jim Morrison, Eric Nesterenko, Martin Sloan, Sid Smith, Ronald Stewart, Jim Thomson, Harold Watson, Harry Lumley and John Henderson.<h2>MONTREAL</h2>Jean Beliveau, Emile Bouchard, Floyd Curry, Bernie Geoffrion, Doug Harvey, Cordie Hollingworth. Tom John-son, Eddie Litzenberger, James MacPherson, Don Marshall, Paul Masnick. Eddie Mazur, Paul Meger, Dickie Moore, Ken; Mosdell, Bert Olmstead, Maurice Richard, Dollard St. Laurent, Gerry McNeil and Jacques Plante.<h2>DETROIT</h2>Marcel Bonin, Alex Delveechio, Bill Dineen, Bob Gold; ham, Gordie Howe, Red Kelly, Ted Lindsay, Marty Pavelich, Donald Poile, Marcel Provovost, Metro Prystai, Earl Reibel, Glen Skov, John Wilson,; Benedict Woit, Terry Sawchuk and Glenn Hall.<h2>BOSTON</h2>Robert Armstrong. Real Chevrefils, Lome Ferguson, Fern Flaman, Cal Gardner, Warren Godfrey, Joseph Klukay, Leo Labine, Fleming Mackell, Frank Martin, Donald McKenney, Douglas Mohns, John Peirson, Bill Quackenbush, Edward Sandford, Milt Schmidt, Jim Henry.<h2>NEW YORK</h2>Andrew Bathgate, Bob Chrystal, William Dea, Jack Evans, Dick Gamble, Aldo Guidolin, Camille Henry, Wally Hergesheimer Millard Houghton, Harry Howell. Ivan Irwin, Edgar Laprade, Daniel Lewicki, Nick Mickoski, Dean Prentice, Don Raleigh, Paul Ronty, Allan Stanley, Johnny Bower and Lome Worsley.<h2>CHICAGO</h2>Walter Blaisdell, Charlie Conacher Jr., Murray Costello,; Albert Dewsbury, George Ferguson, Lidio Fogolin, Bill Gadsby, Robert Hassard, Alex Pucul, Louis Jankowski, John McIntyre, Gus Mortson, Bill Mosienko, George Sullivan, Lawrence Wilson. Edwin Rollins and Henry Bassem. &#9632;

NHL Teams Protected Rosters

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01169/1320944-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">GUIDING THE DESTINIES of the &ldquo;new&rdquo; Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League are, left to right: Frankie Eddolls, coach; Arthur M. Wirtz, president, and Tommy Ivan general manager. They&rsquo;re faced with the task of rebuilding the team from a cellar-dwelling club to a playoff contender.</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;A small man kept a date with a large job when he arrived in Chicago last month to become manager of the Black Hawks. Tommy Ivan brought along an outstanding record of success from Detroit, but he walked straight into his new club&rsquo;s long string of failures.It was this meeting of such opposite forces that had many people in hockey wondering. Will Ivan be able to administer a man goal touch on the Hawks and lead them out of their shackles in the National Hockey League cellar and, if so, how long will the transition take?Ivan will undoubtedly be thinking in terms of producing a winner since this became his habit during seven years as Red Wing coach. The teams he led at Detroit captured six consecutive NHL crowns and skated off with the Stanley Cup on three of these occasions.There are those who still feel that making even a contender out of Chicago is too much to ask of anyone, but the situation with the Hawks may now actually be better than it has been in years. The combination of Ivan as manager and Frankie Eddolls as coach should represent the best leadership in the league.With Jim Norris and Arthur M. Wirtz heading up the front office, there should be no shortage of any funds required to develop a stronger farm system and acquire better players. Ivan was certainly not lured away from his close and fine association with Detroit for a song!As for the club&rsquo;s skating personnel at present, there will be definite benefits to reap from the youth movement that was begun in the middle of last season by Vice-President Bill Tobin. This trend toward fresher talent has been continuing regularly and new aspects are being considered even as this is being written.The revamping process seems to have given the Hawks an adequate supply of promising and proven forwards and. of course, the squad is well set with Hart Trophy winner Al Rollins in goal. It is in front of Rollins, however, that-improvements are most necessary and urgent.Tobin indicates that Capt. Bill Gadsby, a member of the second NHL All-Star team the past two years, and Gus Mortson appear to be the only fixtures as rearguards. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re still negotiating to improve the defense since we are not one bit satisfied with it the way it stands now,&rdquo; he says.Along with the one or two men that it&rsquo;s hoped will be secured through deals, Chicago plans to give young Bill Shvetz, a starrer along the blue line with the Calgary Stampeders the past two seasons, every chance to make the grade. Only 24, he&rsquo;s a tough, hard-hitting defender.Calgary is the Black Hawk affiliate which won the Western League championship and then went on to capture the Duke of Edinburgh trophy by whipping the Quebec League titlists, the Quebec Aces, last spring. Shvetz broke in as a pro with the ill-fated Milwaukee entry in the U.S. circuit in 1950-51.The continued careers of such as Al Dewsbury, Lee Fogolin and Larry Zeidel as members, of the Chicago defense thus seem in definite jeopardy. The latter, however, could make the grade on fight alone for Hawk fans reveled in his fistie showings several times last season.When Tommy Ivan arrived at Pembroke, he was met by only one forward over 30 years of age. Bill Mosienko is the sole survivor of the thorough housecleaning which has sent a handful of veterans elsewhere. Nearing 33, he has apparently been talked out or plans to retire.While he is getting old and probably doesn&rsquo;t possess the great talent he had a few years ago, &ldquo;Mosie&rdquo; is actually all the more valuable to the squad. With the advent of so many youngsters, all &lsquo;the experienced teachers available will be needed and he should be about the best while remaining an active player.The Hawks group of young for, wards will include &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan and Bob Hassard, secured for cash since the end of the 1953-54 schedule, and such others as Larry Wilson, Pete Conacher, Jack McIntyre, Lou Jankowski,. Ike Hildebrand, Ken Wharram, Murray Costello, Fred Sasakamoose, Jerry Toppazzini and several ethers.With the ability that Tommy Ivan has shown in the past, he may very well immediately start developing another Gordie Howe or two from among those just named or perhaps from still farther down in the Chicago farm system. Yes, the Black Hawks may be on the move with the emphasis on young, hustling skaters.<h2>Chicago&rsquo;s &ldquo;Little Big Three&rdquo; &#9632;</h2>

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Tommy Ivan Sees Only Four Vets As Sure Starters

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01168/1321044-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">DANNY LEWICKI&hellip;&hellip; A disappointment</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;While life holds many complexities, one of the most tantalizing mysteries concerns the inability of the talented and much publicized players to make the grade in the NHL, while a comparative unknown can steal the spotlight.What causes this confusing state of affairs? If we knew the answer we could make a fortune by slipping the magic formula to the six NHL managers who have probably spent many sleepless hours trying to solve the problem. However, we can delve into the matter and see how frequently this aggravating situation has occurred in recent years.Let&rsquo;s review the case of Leo Gravelle who had an erratic and somewhat dismal career with the Canadiens not too long ago. As a junior, Gravelle was a top notch performer with St. Michael&rsquo;s College. In the opinion of the most astute hockey critics he had all the requisites for a future star. He was a scoring artist, a crowd pleaser who possessed that intangible natural knack for hockey. The Canadiens had great plans for Leo when they secured his services and sent him to Montreal Royals for seasoning. A little extra experience in senior company and the Habs would have another Rocket to hurl at the opposition. Things didn&rsquo;t work out that way. Gravelle turned pro at the start of the 1945-46 season, and with the exception of one year when he scored 19 goals, he didn&rsquo;t exactly set the league on fire.Just what happened is anyone&rsquo;s guess, but instead of blossoming into the expected sensation, he faded almost instantly. There were rumours that being a mere 5&rsquo;8&rdquo; and weighing 158 pounds, Gravelle was not anxious to go full speed against husky defensemen, thus losing some of the zip of his junior days. Whatever the cause, Canadiens left no stone unturned in their efforts to put him on the road to fame. They nicknamed him &ldquo;Tiger&rdquo; and had Kenny Reardon impart some of the finer points of dealing with rough company, but after five years of having him commute between the NHL and the minors, the Habs threw in. the towel. In 204 games Leo collected 43 goals. Perhaps this could have been overlooked if he had been a back-checking specialist, but he was not outstanding in that department. In 1950-51, he was traded to Detroit for Bert Olmstead, a player who had entered the league without an abundance of drumbeating. Olmstead not only turned out to be of immense value to Canadiens, but All-Star material.The Toronto Maple Leafs have had their headaches dealing with a similar case. Danny Lewicki was their problem child. One of the most publicized players in junior hockey, Lewicki was acclaimed near and far as a sure fire bet to go places in the NHL. After much wrangling over his contract the harassed Leaf management finally straightened out a series of complicated events and secured this hockey gem. In the summer of 1947, Conn Smythe bought the rights to Lewicki from Lou Pieri of the Providence Reds for a reported $20,000. It was announced as &ldquo;The greatest price ever paid for an amateur.&rdquo; Lewicki&rsquo;s display as a Junior indicated he was worth every cent. As far as the Leafs were concerned he was money in the bank. After watching George Armstrong and Lewicki perform. Conn Smythe was quoted as saying: &ldquo;They are the best pair I&rsquo;ve seen togother since Conacher and Jackson. And that&rsquo;s a span of 20 years.&rdquo; In October, 1949, the Leaf manager predicted: &ldquo;Lewicki is certainly no more than two years away from the NHL.&rdquo;Those words came from one of the most sagacious men in hockey. A man who has sometimes shocked his followers by making daring and apparently disastrous changes which invariably turn out to be strategic classics. A man whose shrewd bargaining and keen judgement has made rivals hesitate to barter. Yet Lewicki has not lived up to his expectations. Danny has been a professional since 1950-51. He has been given expert coaching and the opportunity to show his ability, but so far he has been a mere shadow of the starry junior who dazzled the experts.Many times the Toronto organization has expressed alarm and bewilderment over his inability to orient himself to NHL company. After innumerable attempts to solve the riddle the Leafs have finally admitted defeat. A few weeks ago Lewicki was sold to the New York Rangers. If he gains fame in Manhatten it may be due to the change of scenery or methods in coaching, but it is still a mystery how such a bundle of talent could be so unsuccessful with one club.Apparently all the teams have had a taste of pinning their hopes on a much ballyhooed player. In December, 1949, the Rangers obtained Allan Stanley from Providence in a fabulous deal which involved players and cash amounting to an estimated 60,000 to $70,000. According to Frank Boucher it was the biggest deal in NHL history for a minor league player, and the biggest deal in the history of the New York club. At 22, Stanley was a promising 6&rsquo;2&rdquo;, 185 pound rearguard who had drawn praise from coach Terry Reardon and manager Lou Pieri. Through a sudden surge of publicity he leaped into the limelight and became a central figure. Boucher declared: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t expect Stanley to be an Eddie Shore overnight, but I do think he will be one of the greatest players in the NHL.&rdquo;Stanley had an optimistic attitude when he joined his new club and made the following statement: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be working harder than ever to please my folks and the Ranger management.&rdquo; For Those who were inclined to agree that the press notices had not exaggerated, the first few games his play was scrutinised by a galaxy of critics. However, he failed to soar to the predicted heights and has since departed to the WHL. It may have been a combination of attempting to live up to the colossal build-up and overcoming the crowd&rsquo;s ire which caused his downfall. Still, he must have been gifted with a little extra talent, for hockey wise men like Pieri, Reardon and Boucher, who had ample opportunity to study his style, saw him as a potential star.Those are just a few of the more obvious cases which comes to mind but there are many others. Remember how Eddie Sandford and Fleming Mackell were regarded as the cream of the crop when they played with St. Michael&rsquo;s College? Mackell was the colorful, prolific scorer, while Sandford was the team captain and clever playmaker who was rated as one of the smoothest prospects to come along in years Yet when the NHL scouts went into action and signed up their choices, Carson Cooper&rsquo;s selection of &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Kelly turned out to be the prize. Kelly was an Instantaneous success and has kept up a pace which makes him one of the league&rsquo;s greatest performers, while Sandford and Mackell are just now beginning to get their bearings.There are an amazing number of examples of how a practically unheard of player has gained fame over his more publicised counterpart. Back in November, 1942, the Montreal Canadiens visited Toronto and gave the Gardens&rsquo; fans their first glimpse of Maurice Richard. One Toronto paper carried a small picture of the Hab rookie with the following caption: &ldquo;Richard is a Quebec right wing product. At the game many fans were heard murmuring &ldquo;Who&rsquo;s Richard? I never heard of him.&rdquo; Little did they realize that a future record maker was launching a career which would make his name a by-word from coast to coast.Even last-season showed that this trend is continuing. Early press releases had &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Reibel and Jean Beliveau battling it out for the Calder Trophy. The careers of both players were well known and they were heralded as the boys to watch as the season progressed. But who won the rookie award and caused everyone to sit up and take notice? A young man who had barely been introduced to the Hockey audience.<h2>He Got The Raves</h2><h2>He Made The Grade</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02139/1321037-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1137" height="1904"><figcaption class="caption-body">CAMILLE HENRY&hellip;&hellip; A surprise</figcaption></div><h2>Out Of Nowhere!</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0395/1321030-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="819" height="868"><figcaption class="caption-body">MAURICE RICHARD</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Glitter Kids Quite Often Fail As NHL’ers While Obscure Names Become Big Stars

NEW YORK&mdash;Camille Henry, the biggest surprise of the National Hockey League season last year, was a unanimous choice for the rookie of the year award. He finished up the season with 24 goals.In one game against the Detroit Red Wings, he hit for four goals in a game, a feat matched only last year by Canadiens&rsquo; Bert Olmstead. &#9632;

Henry Was NHL’s Top Rookie

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll (As Seen in the Montreal Gazette)</div><h2>Hockey Promotion in Boston</h2>The Boston Bruins operated a tryout camp at the Lynn Sports Center for for four days in the last week of the month.&ldquo;For the first time the local kids will get a chance to deevlop into a major league hockey player through the proper training,&rdquo; says Walter Brown, president of the Bruins. &ldquo;The boys chosen at this camp were given the same opportunity to advance up the hockey ladder as the Canadian boys. The American boy makes good in everything else he tries. No reason it can&rsquo;t be the same in hockey. The only reason they haven&rsquo;t before is the lack of proper development channels such as the Canadian junior leagues.&rdquo;The affable Walter is so enthusiastic about the tryout camp that he calls it one of the most progressive moves ever made by the Bruins. He feels that it will encourage interest in hockey among youngsters in the Boston area and give them a goal at which to aim.&ldquo;Lynn Patrick is a good man with kids,&rdquo; he points out. &ldquo;It was Lynn who started the Pee Wee leagues around New Haven while he was coaching there. He built the groundwork for those championship Connecticut schoolboy teams.&rdquo;It&rsquo;s good promotion, even if it doesn&rsquo;t produce any hockey players who will find their way eventually into the National League.It&rsquo;s no secret that hockey attendance has slumped badly in recent years in Boston, Chicago and New York. They haven&rsquo;t had winning teams, to be sure, which has had a lot to do with the decline in attendance. But a number of American-born players might do a lot in those cities to needle the gate.<h2>Native Players Help</h2>Attendance at baseball games here has been doing a nose-div for several years and many explanations are being advanced. Maybe they are all partially right. But there is one which hasn&rsquo;t been emphasized perhaps as much as it should be, and that&rsquo;s the lack of Canadian players.&ldquo;The Forum is ayways jammed for hockey games and I think it&rsquo;s because the players are all Canadian, many of them from right here in the city,&rdquo; a fan was pointing out to us recently. &ldquo;The ball players are all from the United States&mdash;here today and gone tomorrow.&rdquo;&ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; we said, &ldquo;but the ball club used to draw well. Have you forgotten that?&rdquo;&ldquo;No, but you &lsquo;ve forgotten something,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve forgotten that we used to have players on the Royals from right around here. Guys like Jean-Pierre Roy, Roland Gladu and Stan Breard. They built up interest in the club. The Royals never drew more than 250,000 a season until they came alon. Even after they left, the club continued to draw on the momentum they gave it.&rdquo;This led to an examination of the football-situation in Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa. Attendance has been increasing steadilyl since 1946, the year Big Four clubs started to bring in players from the United States in a big way.&ldquo;But there are still plenty of Canadian-born players left in the game,&rdquo;he argued.&ldquo;Yes, but there is a move now to bring in an unlimited number of imports. If that happens, the Canadian-born player may soon become extinct.&rdquo;&ldquo;When that happens the fans will stop going to the games,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They might continue to go for a couple of years, but not any longer.&rdquo;<h2>They Must Go All the Way</h2>Would it be possible for a club like the Bruins to develop American-born players to the point where they could make the grade in the National League? We think it would, if they outlined a program and went all the way with it.Most sports are alike in some respect and a knowledge of one can be used to become proficient in another. That&rsquo;s the firm conviction of Mercer Beasley, the internationally-famous tennis instructor who developed players like Frankie Parker, Ellsworth Vines, Doris Hart, Wilmre Allison and Gardner Mulloy.&ldquo;My teaching associates tennis strokes, body movement and footwork with the swings and movements in other sports with which the beginnner is familiar,&rdquo; he said recently. &ldquo;The youngsters love it and because of this association of ideas with something they know they are able to pick up the basic fundamentals of tennis in short order.&ldquo;In golf, for instance, the pivot, stance, relaxed body, swing and follow-through are the same as in tennis. The back and forth movement is the same in boxing and tennis. A good player moves with little, springy steps, running on the balls of his feet just like on the track.&ldquo;The stance for the overhead smash in tennis is the same as a fielder in baseball takes for a catch and a throw. A tennis player skipping back for a lob must keep his eye on the ball just as a quarterback fading back to pass must watch his receivers.&rdquo;We think the American-born youngsters who is proficient in other sports can be taught to play hockey. Bald Bill Stewart, the major league umpire who was once a referee In the National Hockey League, told us years ago that he&rsquo;d seen high school hockey players in New England who were just as good as any he&rsquo;d seen in Canada.&ldquo;But that&rsquo;s about as far as they get,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;If they had the same kind of gradded competition down there as you have up here, you&rsquo;d soon have any number of American-born players in the NHL.&rdquo;If the Bruins go all the way with their program, they will have to take their most promising youngsters and send them up here where they will get the kind of gradded competition necessary for their complete development. &#9632;

playing the field

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;When the Montreal Canadiens, rarin&rsquo; to avenge the loss of the Stanley Cup to the Detroit Red Wings last spring, report to training camp in suburban Verdun on September 13, the theme will be quality and not quantity.A selective group of about 60 men will tryout for the Canadiens of the National Hockey League and the Royals of the Quebec Hockey League. This squad will be augmented by 25 amateurs, most of them seeking to gain berths with the Cincinnati Mohawks of the International Hockey League.Last year more than 120 players cavorted on ice in vast platoons in the training setup which included some members of the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League and the Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League.This year Victoria personnel will train on the coast and, although the Bisons will use the Verdun Auditorium facilities, they will not be part of the Montreal organization, a working agreement between the two clubs having been dissolved on friendly terms.Only three of last year&rsquo;s regulars will be missing from the main body of the Canadians&rsquo; camp. They are Dollard St. Laurent, who will be-temporarily sidelined while recuperating from a severe case of poison ivy; Elmer Lach, the veteran and durable centre who is retiring from the NHL but may remain in the organization in another capacity, and Dick Gamble who was traded to the New York Rangers for Hy Buller in an off-season deal.St. Laurent might not even be ready for the opening of the 1954-55 season in Montreal on October 7. After acquiring the poison ivy at his summer home, St. Laurent was in bed for two weeks and during that tenure he lost 25 pounds.Playing weight for the youthful, hard-hitting defenseman is 178 pounds and even if the painful blisters, which cover him nearly from head to toe, heal faster than expected, he will hardly be able to take his place on the squad for some time.Twenty-five pounds is a lot to gain so, as insurance, Bucky Hollingworth, a rookie with Royals last season after a distinguished career with the Memorial Cup-winning Baby Habs, will work out with the NHL team.Hollingworth was protected by the Habs in their draft list submitted to NHL headquarters at the end of the month.Lach has definitely retired from NHL competition after 14 years in the big-time, all of them spent with the traditionally colorful Habs as a top pivot man. However Elmer desires to retain an affiliation with hockey and he is due to confer with Frank Selke, managing director of the club, soon.It is thought likely that he might spend a year with the Royals or become a coach with one of the minor farm clubs.There is no place with the Habs for Dick Gamble and, as Buller has notified the Montreal team that he intends to retire, the deal with Rangers would appear to be null and void. But with Wally Hergesheimer still suffering ill-effects from a broken leg, the Rangers need forwards and likely will retain Gamble, consummating the deal for straight cash. Rangers placed him on their draft-proof list, which would seem to indicate that they value him at $15,000.With Lach out, there will be a battle for the centre spot among Donnie Marshall, rookie of the year in the AHL last season, Jackie Leclair and Skippy Burchell.Other centres available are Ken Mosdell, who earned an all-star berth last season; Paul Masnick, Goose McCormack and Jean Beliveau.Masnick underwent plastic surgery for facial scars and a nose injury in the off-season and is said to be in fine shape. Mosdell has been working hard at manual labor all summer and Beliveau is nearly at playing weight. Last year he reported at 225 pounds but this year, having spent some weeks tossing heavy crates around in a brewery, he isn&rsquo;t carrying much excess avoirdupois on his big frame.Anxious to get going again is Rocket Richard, the greatest goal-scorer of all time. The speedy rightwinger with the bullet shot, underwent a knee operation during the summer and it was successful beyond his fondest expectations.<h2>Doubtful&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01239/1321130-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="888" height="1995"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOLLARD ST. LAURENT</figcaption></div><h2>&hellip;Hopeful</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02214/1321123-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="882" height="1991"><figcaption class="caption-body">BUCKY HOLLINGWORTH</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Professor Irvin Calls The Role, 60 Shooting for Shot with Habs

TORONTO. Ont.&mdash;Asked if his immediate Leaside neighbors were rabid Boston fans, Cal Gardner of the Boston Bruins looked somewhat surprised. &ldquo;Gosh, no,&rdquo; he smiled. &ldquo;The fellow next door never even bothered with hockey until I persuaded him to see a few games, and there&rsquo;s a kid on the next block who wears a Maple Leaf sweater with number 9 on it. He even wears it during the hot weather.&rdquo;Now that he has joined the club of his choice, Cal is hoping to stay with them for some time. &ldquo;I waited ten years for this chance and I&rsquo;m really happy to be with the Bruins,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I always liked playing in Boston Garden and had a fair amount of success there, although last season I was pretty lucky on Toronto ice.&rdquo;It&rsquo;s a cinch that Cal won&rsquo;t quibble over where he scores goals. As long as the red lights keep flashing he&rsquo;ll be satisfied and so will his many Boston supporters who are anticipating a successful season for the likeable redhead. &#9632;

Cal Was Good in Boston But Shone in Toronto Too!

MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:&ldquo;High Noon.&rdquo;BEST ACTRESSES:Jane Wyman & Debbie Reynolds.BEST ACTORS:Gary Cooper & Bob Hope.BEST GIRL VOCALIST:Dorothy Collins.BEST MALE VOCALIST:Perry Como.BEST POPULAR COMPOSITION:McGuire Sisters singing &ldquo;Goodnight Sweetheart.&rdquo;FAVORITE ORCHESTRA:Louis Prima & Ralph Flanagan.FAVORITE HOBBY:All sports.FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:Florida.LIKES TO READ:Murder stories (Mrs. Gardner claims Cal does nothing but watch TV)FAVORITE RADIO PROGRAM:&ldquo;Dragnet.&rdquo;FAVORITE TV PROGRAM:&lsquo;I Love Lucy.&rdquo;GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY:Scoring Stanley Cup winning goal in 1948-49 play-offs.IN THE SUMMER:Lives in Toronto, works for O&rsquo;Keefe&rsquo;s and takes part in all sports.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02166/1321216-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="312" height="469"><figcaption class="caption-body">Cal Gardner</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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INSIDE STUFF About CAL GARDNER

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st 1947Published Weekly, except monthly May through September byKen-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.1434 Ste. Catherine Street WestMontreal 25, Que.Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire:$4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.Entered as second-class matter October 3 1953 at the Post Office at Rouses Point. N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, OttawaMember of the Audit Bureau of CirculationPrinted in Canada &#9632;

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01261/1321271-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="446" height="488"></div>JOHNNY PEIRSON has definitely retired from the Boston Bruins according to the usually reliable Herb Ralby of the Boston Globe&hellip;&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t ask me why but he&rsquo;s really through, Ralby told us over the telephone from Boston last week&hellip;Incidentally, it was Ralby who predicted two years ago that Tommy Ivan would be the next general manager of the Chicago Black Hawks&hellip;Out of the 15 4 players who participated in the 1953-54 campaign, only 28 players took part in all 70 games. The champion Red Wings had eight robust representatives in Howe, Lind-say, Prystai, Woit, Dineen, Wilson, Skov and Leswick. There were five players on Canadiens who played in all 70 games&hellip;Richard, Olmstead, Curry, Bouchard and Johnson were the five hardy Habitants Boston Bruins had the same number&hellip;Sandford, Godfrey, Mohns Gardner and Klukay&hellip;Raleigh, Ronty, Reise and Kullman were the four Rangers to play in all the games, while Smith, Sloan, Watson and Horton were the Leafs to take part in 70 contests&hellip;Pete Conacher was the only member of the Black Hawks to withstand the entire schedule&hellip;Spike-haired Jimmy Conacher, former forward with Detroit Chicago and New York, now works in the classified advertising dept, of the Toronto Telegram&hellip;Morden (Ducky) Skinner younger brother of Jimmy, Detroit&rsquo;s new coach, will handle the coaching reins of the Hamilton Jrs. in the OHA this season&hellip;Ducky formerly coached clubs at San Diego and New Haven&hellip;Ian (Scotty) Morrison, top referee in the Western Hockey League for the last two winters, is moving up to the NHL and will be a regular official in &lsquo;54-55&hellip;Morrison was married last month in Vancouver.WHEN FRANK EDDOLLS was signed as coach of the Chicago Black Hawks it was one HOCKEY NEWS Coach of the Year winner succeeding another HOCKEY NEWS Coach of the Year award winner&hellip;Sid Abel was picked as the top coach in hockey in 1952-53 by the editors of THE HOCKEY NEWS while Eddolls was singled out for similar honors last season&hellip;. Eddolls&rsquo; debut into the NHL coaching ranks brings to three the number of former Rangers now masterminding in hockey&rsquo;s top loop. The others are Lynn Patrick at Boston and Muzz Patrick at New York&hellip;Three coaches will be starting their first complete season as mentors in the NHL this fall. They are Muzz Patrick, Jimmy Skinner and Eddolls&hellip;Quite a turnover in National League coaches of late!&hellip;Lynn Patrick is the second oldest coach in point of service and he didn&rsquo;t start until December of 1948 when he succeeded Manager Frank Boucher&hellip;Canadiens&rsquo; Dick Irvin is the greybeard of the coaches&hellip;Terry Sawchuk has completely recovered from his automobile accident and has been playing golf every day to assist his conditioning&hellip;Norman Ullman, 18-year-old center who was recently tabbed by General Manager Jack Adams of the Red Wings as &ldquo;one of the most promising juniors in the organization&rdquo;, will miss the Wings&rsquo; training camp due to a chipped bone in his ankle suffered as a result of a sliding accident in a softball game&hellip;Rangers&rsquo; Camille Henry regards tennis as an important summer pastime for keeping in condition. He has spent several summers on the court in the backyard of his summer cottage and has developed a wicked backhand&hellip;Nine players spent 100 or more minutes in National Hockey League penalty boxes last season&hellip;Lindsay, Howe, Richard, Harvey, Mortson, Gadsby, Zeidel, Irwin and Sloan were the loop&rsquo;s &ldquo;bad boys&rdquo;.WONDER IF HAL LAYCCE will have a chance to live in the new house he&rsquo;s been building this summer near Boston?&hellip;He wasn&rsquo;t included on the Bruins&rsquo; protected list and Chicago might pick him up for the $15,000 waiver price&hellip;The absence of his name from the Bruins&rsquo; protected list was a surprise to many&hellip;Danny Lewicki, Rangers&rsquo; latest recruit, spent the summer selling cars in Toronto&hellip;New York Rangers will start their training camp at Kamloops, B.C. and move to their permanent base at Vancouver a week later&hellip;The selection of Vancouver as a training site marks the first time a National Hockey League club has chosen the west coast Canadian city as a training location&hellip;Rangers plan to play 10 exhibition games in western Canadian cities this fall&hellip;These games stir up a lot of NHL interest among the fans&hellip;Andy Mulligan is determined that Toledo will pick up the fan patronage lost last season. He has a good club lined up this coming season&hellip;Barney O&rsquo;Connell, former member of the Toledo Mercurys, was recently appointed to a key post with a large Toledo department store &hellip;Jack Adams spent a few days last month as guest of his pal Otto Wagner up at Rawdon, Que&hellip;. Howie Morenz inked his first pro contract for $1,500&hellip;How about that!&hellip;In 1943-44 Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, Fern Majeau and Gerry Heffernan collected 25 scoring points in two games for Montreal Canadiens&hellip;Boston fans are pleased to have Fern Flaman back in the fold&hellip;While they hate to lose Dave Creighton and his 20 goals they figure Flaman&rsquo;s acquisition will win them 20 fights, and that&rsquo;s just what those rabid Bruin fans relish&hellip;Boston brought Flaman East from Regina at the age of 16 to line up with the Olympics and he has a big following in the Greater Boston area. &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02151/1321302-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg"></div><h2>&ldquo;Sizzle Club?&rsquo;&rsquo;</h2>Dear Sirs:In the last edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS a reader mentioned about someone starting a fan club for Montreal&rsquo;s &ldquo;Sizzle Line&rdquo; of Jean Beliveau, Boom Boom Geoffrion and Dickie Moore.Is this possible? I&rsquo;ve never heard of one before. But I think it&rsquo;s a good idea.If someone would start it, I would be only too happy to help boost it around Toronto.MARILYN BELL. TORONTO, Ont.(Editors Note)&mdash;If you&rsquo;re the Same Marilyn Bell who set the county on its car this month by swimming Lake Ontario, we&rsquo;re sure the &ldquo;Sizzlers&rdquo; would be proud to think that you&rsquo;ve taken an interest in them. And if we know Jean, Boom Boom and Dickie, they&rsquo;ll probably turn right around and form a &ldquo;Marilyn Bell Fan Club.&rdquo; After all, famous people should do each other a good turn.From all the staff at THE HOCKEY NEWS Marilyn, if it&rsquo;s you, a belated congratulations. You swam right into our hearts.<h2>A Minor Gripe</h2>Dear Sirs:During the fore-gone hockey season, it was a pleasure to read THE HOCKEY NEWS each week as it kept me up to date on all the events of the world of ice, as well as giving the very interesting personal facts of numerous players. But&egrave; believe me, it is even more of a pleasure to have my favorite newspaper with me during the off-season.Perhaps, I am one in a hundred, but I miss the hockey games greatly and it is certainly a mar-cellous lift to hear is going on during the summer.There is one item I hold against THE HOCKEY NEWS. Not enough coverage on the juniors. In Montreal for exemple, we have two junior A teams, one of which is outstanding. I know I am not alone when I say that a little news about our juniors would be more than welcome.In a previous issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS, the New York Rangers&rsquo; plans for the summer were published.This was a most interesting feature, and may I suggest your covering something similar in the next few publications.PATRICIA BUTLER. MONTREAL, Que.<h2>Boost For Gerry</h2>Dear Sirs:I read THE HOCKEY NEWS every week and think it is a real &ldquo;Jim Dandy&rdquo; paper. I would like to see a story on Gerry McNeil, the Canadians great net-winder. Some of my friends say that Jacques Plante will be the regular netminder and they can send Jake the Snake to RoyalsTOM BEVAN. MONTREAL, Que.<h2>X-Word Fan</h2>Dear Sirs:I read THE HOCKAY NEWS every issue and have been a subscriber for the last four years.There is only one complaint that I can see and that is the fact that you cut out the crossword puzzles during the off-season. Why it this?I for one think that the crosswords are one of the best features in the paper.DAVID ROBERTS. BELLEVILLE, Ont.<h2>Consider it Done!</h2>Dear Sirs:I&rsquo;d greatly thankful to you if you published this letter.I&rsquo;ve had the misfortune of being ill and spend much time in bed.With so much time on my hands and very little to do, I&rsquo;ve enjoyed corresponding with hockey fans from all parts of the country. I hockey and have built up quite a collection of photos and programs.If any of you fans want to drop me a line, I&rsquo;d enjoy corresponding with you.SIMON P. DOELL, PO Box 119, HEPBURN, Sask.<h2>Black Jack Line?</h2>Dear Sirs:Half of last year I waited for this weekly to pin an offical name sons&mdash;the Canadien line of Boom-Boom&mdash;Dickie Moore&mdash;Beliveau. How about either pinning a title on them or running a contest. My choice would be the &ldquo;Black Jack Line&rdquo; because Moore is number 12, Bernie number five and Big Jean number four which add up to 21&mdash;the winning hand in the card game of Black Jack. How about it?LES WALKER. TORONTO, Ont.<h2>Yes, They&rsquo;re Back!</h2>Dears Sirs:I wish to congratulate you on your fine paper. I particularly enjoy &ldquo;Fan Forum&rdquo; and the crossword.What happened to &ldquo;Inside Stuff&rdquo; by Margaret Scott. I though it was one of your best features.Incidentally, in the May issue you had a piece on the OHA champion teepees, in which you said that Hugh Barlow centres the Cullen boys. I have watched the team play often enough and was always under the impression that Brian Cullen centred that great junior line. Wasn&rsquo;t he?How about a story on Tim Horton?RAY MACNAMARA. TORONTO, Ont.(Editors Note)&mdash;Right you are. Brian Cullen certainly was the centre on the Teeps torrid triumvirate. About that Inside Stuff. We&rsquo;re happy to report that Margaret Scott has dug a few more features for us and they&rsquo;ll appear weekly in the HOCKEY NEWS. A Tim Horton feautre will be forthcoming soon.Dear Sirs:I am a regular year-round subscriber to THE HOCKEY NEWS and would like to see a story on Jacques Plante, who I think will be the best goaler in the National Hockey League if Dick Irvin keeps Plante and sends McNeil down to some other league. Did not Plante prove he was the best goaler in the N.H.L. during the play-offs last season?PAUL HOULE OTTAWA, Ont.<h2>What&rsquo;s With Buller?</h2>Dear sirs:When I read that Hy Buller refused to come to the Montreal Canadiens after the New York Rangers traded him for Dick Gamble, I couldn&rsquo;t help but wonder what possesses a hockey player to turn down a chance to play for a topnotch big league team.It&rsquo;s true that I&rsquo;m not familiar with the underlying circumstances in this instance. Unless Mr. Buller has a business affiliation that looms more profitable than a hockey career I&rsquo;m frankly, puzzled at his attitude.I have occasion to spend quite some time in New York during the winter months and very often, I was a visitor at Madison Square Gardens, to watch the Rangers play. I was always impressed with Buller.Since I follow sports closely in Montreal I&rsquo;m sure Buller would have quickly gathered a following among the Jewish fans. I wonder if there is another reason why he didn&rsquo;t want to play for Canadiens?Can your fine publication enlighten me?Moe Adelson Montreal, Que.(Sorry Moe but we&rsquo;re in the dark too. Apparently Hy just doesn&rsquo;t want to play any more NHL hockey). &#9632;

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0387/1321333-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="594" height="282"></div><h2>SEPTEMBER 15 TO OCTOBER 3</h2>September15&mdash;LUND, Joe, Providence, defense, 192q.16&mdash;CHAD, Johnny, Calgary, forward, 1919; KELLY, Roy, St. Louis, forward, 1925, SENICK, George, Saskatoon, forward, 1929.21&mdash;SULLIVAN, Barry, Providence, forward, 1926.23&mdash;UNIAC, Jim, Edmonton, forward, 1928.26&mdash;STODDARD, Jack, Cleveland, forward, 1926; BACKOR, Hank, Edmonton, forward. 1925.28&mdash;KAISER, Vern, Syracuse, forward, 1925.October3&mdash;HEBENTON, Andy, Victoria, forward, 1929. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday To You

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Three youngsters representing a possible trend in the search for major league hockey talent are attending the Bruins&rsquo; junior tryout camp at Galt, Ontario, this month.The difference between the three and the hordes of other prospective Bruins at Galt is that they are natives of Greater Boston.Myles Cassidy, Mike McDonough and Lorne Johnson, Jr. are products of what may have been the first operation of its kind in the United States, a tryout school which the Bruins conducted in nearby Lynn last month.For four consecutive nights Manager Lynn Patrick, Capt. Milt Schmidt and Fleming Mackell, Hal Laycoe, John Peirsoie, Bill Quackenbush and Ferny f1aman of the Bruins scanned, analyzed and graded the talents of 115 youngsters from all parts of New England at the North Shore Sports Center.Johnson, Cassidy and McDonough were the three finally chosen to attend the camp which Patrick is supervising in Galt.Junior hockey in this area is as old as it is in Canada, but until the Imaginative Patrick announced the Bruins&rsquo; tryout camp earlier this summer, it had never been recognized as a potential source of major league material.The success of the first undertaking&mdash;disregarding the further development of the first three selectees&mdash;indicates that the Bruins will put the sectional tryout on an annual basis, at least.&ldquo;Frankly, I&rsquo;m highly pleased at the way the thing went,&rdquo; said Patrick, who founded the widely-hailed little fellows&rsquo; hockey program in New Haven, Conn.&ldquo;We saw some potentially good players and found an interest and enthusiasm which actually surpassed our expectations. Every boy who attended the tryouts wanted to play hockey, and many of them made personal sacrifices to be there.&ldquo;If anyone needed proof of the hold that hockey has on boys in this area, those four nights at Lynn should have been convincing.&rdquo;Two of the three youngsters selected by the Brains board of strategy have schoolboy hockey backgrounds, and the third is the son of an ex-professional.Cassidy is an 18-year-old defenseman standing five-10 and weighing 160 pounds who played for Boston English school and drove his own motorcycle to and from Lynn for the tryouts.McDonough is a 19-year-old center and defenseman who played on a New England championship team at Malden Catholic High school. A six-foot 180-pounder, he was a schoolboy cross country champion and last winter he played on the Providence College freshman hockey team.Johnson is a 16-year-old right wing standing five-eight and weighing 165 pounds and entering his first year at Lynn Classical. High school. He plays both football and baseball and his father once played both professional football and hockey, for the Providence Reds in the old Can-Am league.Since the building of the North Shore rink a half-dozen years ago, Lynn has become the amateur hockey capitol of New England, with the hearty encouragement of Manager Frank Anderson.The Lynn hockey schedule is an around-the-clock affair, with leagues playing at all hours of the day and night and operating 12 months a year. Many of the youngsters attending the Bruins&rsquo; camp had been playing all summer.Johnson, McDonough and Cassidy are joining a fourth Greater Bostonian at Galt, Don Rigazio, a goaltender from Cam-bridge, had a good season at Kingston a year ago.Among those who participated in the tryouts were six boys from New Haven, all veterans of the evtensive program which Patrick set up there when he was coaching the New Haven Ramblers shortly after World War II.If any of these boys ever wind up wearing a Boston uniform 11 will represent a major achievement. US cities are always seeking American-Born hockey players.<h2>Their Search</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01212/1321371-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="591" height="597"><figcaption class="caption-body">LYNN PATRICK</figcaption></div><h2>Not In Vain</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02185/1321364-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="549" height="567"><figcaption class="caption-body">MILT SCHMIDT</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bruin Brass Tabs 3 Boston-Born Kids As Prospects

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Who will be in the nets for the Montreal Canadiens when they open the 1954-55 National Hockey League schedule at home on October 7?That&rsquo;s more than a $64 question. It will be a decision involving thousands of dollars, including two salaries, and the answer likely won&rsquo;t be available until the last-few days of training camp.Although the Habs will have seven goaltenders in their training sessions at the Verdun Auditorium, there are only two top candidates&mdash;Gerry McNeil and Jacques Plante.With more experience handling the sizzling drives of NHL marksmen, McNeil probably is the better man but late last season, after suffering a painful injury in a game in Chicago, his nerves yielded to relentless pressure and he was benched in favor of the aerobatic Plante.Hoisted up from Buffalo, Plante allowed only 27 goals in 17 games for an average of 1.59, better even than the over-all average attained by Toronto&rsquo;s apple-cheeked Harry Lumley in winning the Vezina Trophy.Plante was less brilliant in the playoffs. Although he shutout the hapless Boston Bruins twice in the semi-final round, he was nicked for 15 goals in eight playoff games, five of them being poured into his cage in one night by the championship-bent Detroit Red Wings.Told that he had to fight for his job or quit, McNeil went back into action and played brilliantly, allowing only three goals in three games.Had the Habs won the final game of the Detroit series in overtime instead of the Red Wings, McNeil undoubtedly would have emerged as the hero. Instead the honors went to Tony Leswick on a shot deflected past McNeil by one of his own defenders.As the training camp battle looms between the two men, one thing is certain. Both will remain in Montreal&mdash;one with the Habs in the NHL, the other with the Royals in the QHL. Bob Perreault, with the Royals last year, is expected to be retained by the Canadien organization, as a standby goalie.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03139/1321409-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="305" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Geery McNeil</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04113/1321402-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="322" height="478"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jacques Plante</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Habs Have Early $64?? Who’ll Be In Nets When Team Opens Season Oct. 7

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;The Black Hawks have become the first team to use the services of two winners of the Coach-of-the-Year award made annually by THE HOCKEY NEWS. The latest is their new bench boss, Frank Eddolls, who recently succeeded the first, Sid Abel, tutor of Chicago hockey endeavours the past two years.The 33-year-old Eddolls, a regular with the Canadiens and Rangers during earlier days in the National Hockey League, was accorded the honor this spring after coaching and playing Buffalo to the American League championship. His duty on defense won him a berth on the AllStar squad.This was only his second coaching campaign and followed a freshman season that found the Bisons finishing a disappointing last in AHL ratings. The club&rsquo;s climb to the top last year was thus a miraculous achievement. Eddolls had already signed another one-year pact at Buffalo when the Chicago offer came along.Abel preceded Frank as Coach of the Year when he led the Black Hawks out of the depths in the NFL to a fourth place finish and his aging, but gallant group of skaters nearly eliminated the Stanley Cup champion Canadiens in the first round of the 19 53 playoffs.His resignation after tentatively accepting a third term pact with Chicago came as a surprise to virtually everyone in hockey. All that&rsquo;s been said about his departure is that it was for business reasons and Manager Tommy Ivan has stated, &ldquo;I believe he got a good deal in the tool and die field.&rdquo;At the luncheon that introduced both Ivan and Eddolls to the Chicago press for the first time late last month, Tommy announced that there were a number of applicants to succeed Abel, but that the Buffalo leader was picked as the best man available. &ldquo;And I might add,&rdquo; Ivan said, &ldquo;he wasn&rsquo;t easy to get.&rdquo;In reviewing his background in hockey, Eddolls stated that he started out in junior ranks as a hard-hitting defenseman, but that it didn&rsquo;t take long for him to realize that, due to his size (5&rsquo;8&rdquo;, 175 pounds), he was usually getting, the worst of it. &ldquo;1 decided to be a student of the game,&rdquo; he added.It&rsquo;s no secret that he developed into one of the best stick handling rearguards in pro ranks during his three years with the Habs and five with New York. This type of play continually kept him within the good graces of officials and he never was sentenced with more than 24 minutes in penalties in one year. &#9632;

2 HN Coach-Of-Year Winners Successive Coaches At Chicago

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;George M. Slater presided at the early September meeting of the Quebec Hockey League, and then took a week&rsquo;s holiday from his regular job with a large Montreal industrial concern.He felt he needed a week to concentrate on the league&rsquo;s affairs and repair damaged fences.The senerity of the loop which in mid-summer had been calculated to be all set compact six game circuit was severely jolted when Forest Keene arose at the session held in a Montreal hotel and announced that due to business conditions in his city the Sherbrooke Saints asked permission to suspend operations for one year.An umeployment situation in the Eastern Townships center of Quebec province was caused by the shut-down arid part time operation of several big factories.Keene pointed out that this situation was only temporary, that he looked for a return of prosperity shortly. He wanted the league to grant this suspension without putting his club&rsquo;s franchise in jeapordy or disturbing the Sherbrooke Saints&rsquo; equity in the league&rsquo;s finances.Sanction was grudgingly granted, but it was a blow to the league&rsquo;s propects. The very next day things looked brighter when Slater announced that one, possibly two. new clubs sought to enter teams in the League.It was an open secret that Shawinigan Falls&rsquo; Cataracts were ready to return to the fold. The Falls was represented in the QHL for several campaigns, but a day or two before the start of the 1953-54 campaign withdrew.Slater refused to divulge the other city seeking affiliation, and curtly announced that he expected the league to stand on solid footing again within a week.The Valleyfield Braves came out with the appointment of Ekrhardt &ldquo;Ott&rdquo; Heller as their new coach, successor to Hector&ldquo;Toe&rdquo; Blake. Added was the rather startling note that Heller, who is 44 according to old records books, will be on the active player roster. He is expected to take his turn on the defense.It&rsquo;s likely that Roger Leger, one of the bulwarks of Royals&rsquo; back division for the past two seasons, and like Heller an ex-National Leaguer, will get the coaching assignement at Shawinigan Falls.Leger was promimently mentioned for the Valleyfield post, befor Heller&rsquo;s appointment, but he and Arthur Vinet, president of the Braves failed to come to terms.In Quebec City George &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach caused a slight furore when he gave out statements to newsmen that the Aces might drop out of the QHL unless a better financial arrangement in respect to visiting teams sharing gate receipts was settled.Visiting clubs take a 15 cents per capital on paid admissions in the Quebec loop.&ldquo;It is impossible to run a club here if we must give practically all our receipts to visiting clubs and the Quebec Coliseum.&rdquo;This failed to disturb the harassed Mr. Slater who was stolidly preparing a couple of new chedules, one for six teams, the other for seven.&ldquo;The Aces pay visiting clubs exactly the same as all other clubs do&rdquo;, Slater said. &ldquo;Naturally they are paying more, because their crowds are giving them more revenu. Their deal with the Coliseum has nothing to do with the league.&rdquo;Slater didn&rsquo;t add, though representatives of the Royals might so stridently&mdash;that in the past seasons it was the Royals and the Montreal Forum which carried the heavy load. And only in the past few seasons have the Aces been the &ldquo;top draw&rdquo; in the circuit.Royals were ready to start practice at Verdun Auditorium along with other clubs in the Canadiens&rsquo; chain, while the Forum is involved with other commitments.Pete Morin is counting on a host of new talent to make are remnants of last year&rsquo;s crew hustle for their jobs.Valleyfield president Vinet along with Heller plans to visit the St. Thomas, Ont. training camy of the Cleveland Barons the latter part of this month. The Braves will be working closely with Barons in the coming season, and it was upon the strong reccimmendation of the Cleveland club president, Jim Hendy, that Ott was hired by Braves.A deal which caused some surprise was the purchase of Ralph &ldquo;Bucky&rdquo; Buchanan&rsquo;s contract by Quebec Aces from Chicoutimi Sagueneens. Now 32, Bucky, always a high scoring right hand shot, will be playing for his fourth QHL club. He has been previously with Montreal Royals and Shawinigan Cataracts.<h2>Toe&rsquo;s Spot Coes to Ott</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01246/1321471-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="596" height="912"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOE BLAKE</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02189/1321464-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="564" height="880"><figcaption class="caption-body">OTT HELLER</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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“Ageless Ott” Heller Takes Over From Blake As Valleyfield Coach

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;The appointments of Tommy Ivan as manager and Frank Eddolls as coach to replace Sid Abel are moves that have won sports headlines for the Black Hawks in abundance recently. While these changes have been most important, there have also been a couple of other involving front office arrangements.One finds the office itself, as of September 15, quitting its long residence in the McLaughlin coffee plant at 610 N. LaSalle st. in favor of quarters in the Chicago Stadium. Another change has made Johnny Gottselig publicity boss succeeding Joseph Farrell who had held the job since the team organized in 1926.Transfer of club headquarters means the Hawks are finally bowing to the tradition established by other National Hockey League representatives for many years. They had preferred location of their offices in the same buildings with the ice rinks, but not so Chicago.When he became the club&rsquo;s first president a year after its entry into the NHL, the late Major Frederic McLaughlin was more a fan of polo. He had only to witness a few displays of hockey action, however, to quickly admit that it was a sport in which he wanted to cultivate a strong interest.&ldquo;No, I don&rsquo;t think Joe will be able to come back this season,&rdquo; Tobin admitted regretfully last week when asked by this writer. Now near 80, Farrell has apparently decided to stay with his wife in their home at Rockford, Mich., for the first winter in many years. &ldquo;Neither of them are too well&rdquo;, Tobin says.Farrell and Tobin represented a combination born out of the establishment of the establishment of the Black Hawks. Their thousands of gin rummy sessions and countless quipes at each other on every subject imaginable had turned their association into something legendary. Farrell&rsquo;s absence will be keenly felt.Johnny Gottselig is the natural choice to succeed Farrell for he had been working into the task for the past several years. His stay with the Hawks dates back to his great puck-raging days as a star NHL winger. He has never been seperated from the Chicago organization since then.In addition to his 15 seasons as a Hawk player, John was player-coach for Chicago&rsquo;s farm club at Kansas City in the old United States League for years. He moved up to coach the Black Hawks from 1945 to &rsquo;47 and then scouted for a time before preparing for the publicity duties.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03141/1321502-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="264" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Farrell</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Gottselig Takes Over As Hawk Publicity Boss

PROVIDENCE, Ri.&mdash;The Providence Reds of the American Hockey League dealt off veteran Gerald (Doc) Couture to the Calgary Stampeders in a deal that took place early this month.Couture, a veteran of the Detroit Red Winge and Montreal Canadiens, is 29 years old and hai1s from Saskatloon. He became his hockye career with the Red Wings during the 1944-45 season.He was traded to Canadians for Bert Hirschfeid in June, 1951.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04104/1321533-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="297" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry Couture</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Doc Couture Sold By Reds To Stampeders

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01230/1321564-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tony Leswick&hellip;&hellip;Fame is Fleeting</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;The world champion Detroit Red Wings thoroughly rested up after a summer of fishing, golfing and other warm weather activities, will open the defense of their title at the Detroit Olympia, October 7 with the Toronto Maple Leafs their first opponents.And the Wings will be skating for the first time in league competition under the scrutinizing eye of their new coach, Jimmy Skinner, who came out of nowhere this summer to take over one of the most lucrative coaching jobs in hockey when the Black Hawks electrified the hockey world with the terse announcement that they had completed negotiations with the Detroit Red Wings to hire Tommy Ivan as their General Manager. Ivan was the Red Wing pilot for the six straight seasons they won the NHL crown.The Detroit front office had another surprise for the hockey populace when they released their list of protected players. Missing from the glittering squad was the name of Tony Leswick, the little pepper-pot who scored the big goal that kayoed the Montreal Canadiens in last season&rsquo;s Stanley Cup finals.Perhaps the Wings figure that no team would want to pick up Leswick since he&rsquo;s past the age where he can be considered a good three-year bet. At 32 Tony is hockey veteran but still a mighty valuable asset to any team.The Detroit home schedule is in substance Identical with recent ones. Week-end play will predominate, with 21 of the 35 home contests carded for Saturday and Sunday nights. A dozen Thursday tilts, and one game each on Monday and Tuesday will complete the schedule.The Monday and Tuesday dates are annual one night break-ins during the February appearance of the Hollywood Ice Revue in Detroit.Sunday night will again be the principal week-end night, with 11 games scheduled, while ten will be held on Saturdays. This latter marks an Increase of four in the number of Saturday night games.Two doubleheaders, wherein the Wings will meet two different opponents on succesive nights are Included. Boston will visit Olympia on Saturday, December 18th, with Montreal coming in the following night. Chicago and Toronto will provide Saturday&mdash;Sunday opposition on March 12th and 13th.Missing are several traditional Holiday games. The Wings will not be at home on Christmas night, but will face Toronto at Olympia, Sunday, December 26. Also Detroit is not scheduled for home play on either New Year&rsquo;s Eve or Day, but will be in action at home Sunday, January 2 against Motnreal. Toronto, however, will play in Detroit Thanksgiving night.A departure will bring two series to Olympia, wherein the same opponent will play two successive games on Detroit ice. New York Rangers will appear locally on Thursday, December 9 and remain for a Saturday tilt. Toronto will play in Detroit Sunday, December 2 6th and return the following Thursday.<h2>Unprotected! &#9632;</h2>

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Last Year’s Stanley Cup Hero, Tony Leswick, Not Mentioned on Detroit’s New Protected List

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Once one of the most flourishing amateur hockey leagues to be found anywhere, the Eastern United States Amateur Hockey League will return to the hockey realm in 1954-1955.As a result of two subsequent meetings, one on September 12 in New York and one on August 22 in Springfield, Mass., it was decided that enough cities were anxious and ready to return to the fold. The cities planning on participating in the revamped Eastern Amateur League are Lake Placid, N.Y., Clinton, N.Y., and Schenectedy, N.Y. Springfield, Mass., Worcester, Mass., and New York and Boston. Baltimore Washington, Atlantic City and Hershey also plan to take part in hockey&rsquo;s most ambitious program along amateur lines for many years.More than 50 per cent of the players staffing these 10 teams would be American born and developed. The caliber of play would be similar to Intermediate hockey as played in Canada. The players would all work at regular jobs as well as play and there would be no out and out pros on hand.None of the clubs would have have professional sponsorship. The main purpose of the league besides providing first-class entertainment would be to develop U.S. players. Evryone agrees that there is no reason why more United states deevloped players shouldn&rsquo;t hit hockey&rsquo;s professional teams and it is figured that with close competiiton, good coaching and a well organized circuit such as the proposed new Eastern Amateur League this mey someday become an eventuality.Hershey, Atlantic City, Washington and Baltimore will form one section of the U.S. amateur loop. It will be the Tri-State division. The New York State clubs and the New England teams will form other divisions.It is expected that hockey will be played at Lewiston, Maine, Troy, N.Y., Potstdam, N.Y. and Canton, N.Y. this winter. New York&rsquo;s entry in the revamped Eastern League will be as a road club and the Rovers will play all their games away from New York. Boston&rsquo;s entry will play at home only during the week and will always be on the road over the weekends. Every ewwort will be made to curtail travelling as much as possible for the clubs.Tommy Lockhart, guiding light and president of the former Eastern Amateur League, will more then likely head this new organization. It was Lockhart woh pioneered high class amateur hockey in the United States starting back in 1933. Such former NHL stars as the Colvilles, Shibicky, Cooper, Muzz Patrick and Bert Gardiner came out of Lockhart&rsquo;s original U.S. amateur loop.A schedule is presently being drawn up and it is planned to have the new league get underway the last week of October. It would be an unbalanced schedule and the league standings would be carried on a percentage basis.A good brand of amateur competition would be welcomed by hockey followers in the Eastern United States and it is hoped that the early planning will not be in vain and that hockey will once again be back in the limelight in such locales as Atlantic City, Washington and Baltimore.<div class="sidebar">The Toronto Maple Leafs use BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape. &#9632;</div>

Flourishing Eastern United States Hockey Loop Plans To Operate With 10-Teams This Season

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02210/1321619-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg"></div>FEATURES-PICTURES-STATISTICS-INTERVIEWSCARTOONS-COMPLETE REPORTS ON ALL TEAMSOnly $2.50 for 26 consecutive issues.Published weekly for 20 straight weeks during football season and once a month during off season months, January to June inclusive.It doesn&rsquo;t matter when you start, you still get your 26 issues. &#9632;

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FOOTBALL NEWS

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;The &ldquo;Big Seven&rdquo; senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; O.H.A. seems to be back to normal again following entry of a new club from Chatham. Doubts existed that Chatham would enter after Jack Stewart, last season&rsquo;s mentor, was refused an increased split of gate receipts and transferred his franchise and players to Sarnia.Since that time there were moves to purchase the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; franchise held by &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Emms at Barrie, along with his player roster, which petered out. Then the Chatham arena commission decided to ice a senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; team and had gone to the extent of hiring Don Grosso of Sault Ste Marie, Ont. as coach.This caused considerable opposition from Chatham fans and players resident in Chatham, and they combined their forces by guaranteeing the arena $15,000 for 20 home games in senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; company, and from there on the players took over.Along with these eight players and Frank Uniac, former Chatham player, a new club has been organized, the executive consisting of only players and Uniac, who has been designated as coach. They were succesful in securing the releases of five players owned by Jack Stewart for $1,500, with the old Chatham uniforms and five sets of skates tossed into the bargain.From here out the player are figuratively on their own, as they propose operating the team on a share-the-wealth basis, similar to the Owen Sound Mercurys, and a plan proposed by Stewart with his team in Sarnia. The players have agred to complete a satisfactory financial arrangement with Grosso, whom they do not want as coach, and, of course, will be obliged to deposit the required $2,000 bond with the OHA for franchise rights.With Ken Soble and George Redding withdrawing for one season at least, the Hamilton Tiger players were allotted in a draw, according to constitution, to the six active clubs at the time, Niagara Falls, Kitchener, Owen Sound, Sarnia, Windsor and Stratford.Sam Kennedy and Murray Comfort were claimed by Niagara Falls, as last-place finishers last seasoin. Sarnia chose Eddie Busch, Frank Liscombe, Frank Bergeron and Lloyd Ferguson, Stratford picked Dong McKay and Billy Hammond; Windsor selected George McKeagen, Bud Kemp and Fritz Fraser. Hub Anslow, Harold Hurley and Al Buchanan were awarded to Kitchener, while Owen Sound named only Harvey Jacklin, veteran defenceman-forward.Belated entry by Sarnia means that the tentative schedule will have to be re-drafted, but is not expected to change the playoff arrangements which call for the first four teams to battle it out for the OHA crown, at present held by Owen Sound The schedule is slated to open Oct 22, and probably will consist of 48 games for each club.Some of the clubs plan starting training camp Oct. 1 and, in Stratford Pat Wilson former Stratford Indian coach, now pilot to Fort Wayne Komets of the International League, has completed a deal whereby his team will also work out at Stratford for two weeks. This will not interfere with the Indians, because the Komets intend to practice morning and afternoon daily, while the Indians engage In their preseason developments at night.There will be at least five new coaches, with Elwin &ldquo;Moe&rdquo; Morris, with Owen Sound as a player last season, taking ever at Stratford, to succeed Howie Meeker, who is slated to handle Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League; Norm Tustin appointed the Niagara Falls coach; Frank Uniac at Chatham, Jack Stewart at Sarnia and no Successor named as yet to replace Bob Rafferty at Kitchener.Just how many of the Hamilton Tigers bought by the other clubs upon withdrawal ot the Bengal entry will report to their new clubs is not known, but several of them are almost certain to remain in Hamilton, where they are gainfully employed the year round, but may commute for games.Kitchener Dutchmen and Owen Sound Mercurys appear to have been the most active to date in lining up reinforcements. Kitchener has signed Hugh Barlow Jr., Hamilton, winger on the St. Catharines Teepees&rsquo; Memorial Cup champion ace line with Brian Cullen, now owned by Toronto Maple Leafs, and his brother, Barry Cullen. Pete Kovalchuk, 20-year-old rightwinger of the Galt Black Hawks&rsquo; junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; team, is another winger who inked a Kitchener contract.In addition to Tom Jamieson, who sat out all of last season and remained in Owen Sound, rather than report to the Niagara Falls Cataracts, to whom he was assigned when the Sarnia Sailors folded halfway through last season, one of Mercurys&rsquo; new players, Don Rope, who has accepted a teaching position in the Owen Sound Collegiate Institute. Ed Louttit and Ted Reid, younger brother of Jerry Reid, both members of the Hamilton Tiger Cubs last season, have also signed with Owen Sound, where the former manager, Jack Ingolsby, has retired due to business reasons end has been succeeded by one of the Mercurys&rsquo; farmer centres, Doug Gillespie, who is expected to quit as an active player. The veteran Herb Carnegie of the Mercurys has also announced that he has retired from senior hockey.In Windsor, Coach Murph Chamberlain, is concentrating on a youth movement and has placed a number of his veterans from last season on the action book. In addition to the players he purchased from the defunct Hamilton Tigers, he has added Steve Brklacich, who was denied a playing certificate for the Tigers and wound the season as a member of the Marion entry of the International League.Stratford has signed but one new player so far, Stan Stoddart, of Hespeler, who played for the Elmira Polar Kings in intermediate &ldquo;A&rdquo; ranks for the last two seasons, and led his team in points both times. He is a six foot, one inch, 190-pound rightwinger. The Indians figure that Howie Meeker will take youthful defenceman, Ron Ingram with him to Pittsburgh.It would appear from the above brief survey that Jack Stewart had Frank Uniac will be obliged to start almost from scratch in lining up teams at Sarnia and Chatham respectively, although Uniac, in addition to the five players released to him by Stewart, is also counting upon the services of three other former Chatham Maroons, George Edwards with Troy and Clift McArthur with Johnstown of the International League. Dick Piatowski, a goalie with Chatham two seasons ago, acted as sub-goalie in the same loop a year ago. The five players living in Chatham released by Sarnia coach Jack Stewart to the Maroons are Ernie Dick, Albert Plopffe, Jim Connelly, Frank Bonello and Jimmy Campbell.<h2>Chatham Coach</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01244/1321650-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="586" height="1316"><figcaption class="caption-body">DON GROSSO</figcaption></div><div class="sidebar">BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape are used and endorsed by the University of Toronto Football Club. &#9632;</div>

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Big Seven Still Big Seven as Chatham Stays in League

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The FOOTBALL guide

CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;Calgary Stampeders of the hockey lanes started training for the defence of their President&rsquo;s Cup and Duke of Edinburgh trophy this month.Currie said that all members of last season&rsquo;s championship team except Bill Shvetz and Sid Finney would be on hand for the start of the training camp.Shvetz, an invaluable asset during the Western League playoffs this spring, has received his call to report to the Chicago Black Hawk training camp in. Pembroke, Ont., early in September&hellip;It is not known as yet where Finney will report for training. While the two may not be around for the start of training camp it doesn&rsquo;t mean that they have been lost to the Stampeders.As in past years, Stampeders will open their 70-game schedule on the road. They will play their first game in Victoria on Oct. G and follow against New Westminster and Vancouver. They will play in Saskatoon upon their return from the coast prior to their home opening Oct. 16 against the same Quakers.The first tour to the coast will be the only one where only three games will be played. The other three trips will be comprised of four games. Stampeders playing twice against one of the three clubs. The change was necessitated since Seattle Bombers withdrew from the circuit.Stampeders, who finished back of Vancouver Canucks in the league standing, swept past all opposition in the league playoffs and dropped only one game in the initial best-of-nine series against Quebec Aces for the Duke of Edinburgh series.Currie also said that he expecterd 25 players to report to camp on Sept. 20. The additional players will be from the Chicago camp.The Black Hawks will probably open camp on Sept. 8. Among those who have been offered an NHL tryout and who may later report to the Stampeders are Buffalo junior graduate Dave Duke and Moose Jaw star Fred Sasakamoose. &#9632;

Currie Drills Western Champs For Opening Of 1954-55 Session

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It’s Getting Close!

BUFFALO.&mdash;The Buffalo Bisons, champions of the American Hockey League, determined to avenge their playoff elimination of last year have started building for the coming campaign from the nets out.In a surprise move this month they acquired Charlie Hodge, the diminutive goal-tending star of the Cincinnati Mohawks of the International Hockey League.Hodge set all kinds of records last year with the Mohawks and will fill a long felt need in Buffalo since Jacques Plante left.Another popular move was the naming of Gaye Stewart as player-coach, succeeding Frankie Eddolls who moved up to Chicago. &#9632;

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