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October 2, 1954

The Hockey News October 2, 1954

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Temporarily out of action with a cracked leg bone and shattered dreams, the Canadiens&rsquo; Donnie Marshall probably is bemoaniing the quirk of fate that pushed him to the sidelines even before he got a chance to play in the National Hockey League.But Marshall, one of the bright prospects for the pivot spot vacated by Elmer Lach, can find consolation in the fact that two other Montreal stars, Maurice Richard and Jean Beliveau, suffered similar crippling injuries in their rookie years.The Rocket practically came into the league on crutches. In his first game with the Hab team in the old Quebec Senior Hockey League, Richard survived only two periods against the Aces. At the start of the third he was checked heavily, fell and snapped his left ankle.He returned to action in 1941 and was going splendidly until he again faced the Aces. On a daring play behind the Quebec goal, he stumbled into the boards and fractured his left wrist. He got back into uniform just in time to play the final game of the season.<h2>They Started&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01165/1106833-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="576" height="592"><figcaption class="caption-body">MAURICE RICHARD</figcaption></div>But lack of play in those formitive years didn&rsquo;t retard the Rocket who had the natural ability to overcome such setbacks. He looked so good in training camp in the Autumn of 1942 that he was given a pro contract.But fate interred in his seventh game in the NHL. He walked into a hard check tossed by Johnny Crawford of the Boston Bruins.It was a legai chek but Richard, off balance as he hit the defense, fell. His skate tip lodged in a flaw in the ice and his right ankle snapped like a peppermint stick.The Rocket recovered, returned to the Habs to become the great rightwinger of the famed Punch Line, the highest scoring trio of all time, and the most prolific scorer in the annals of hockey.That should be cheering news to Marshall who was still struggling with his books in grade school When the Rocket was making his first headlines&mdash;not as a star but a brittle limbed rookie with a dubious future.Marshall probably is more aware of the injury Jinx that pursued Beliveau last season, his first year in the National League.A a junior and later as a well-paid amateur, Le Gros Bill never suffered an injury, save for a Charley horse in a junior playoff between the Quebec Citadelles and the Barrie Flyers.But soon after joinnig the Habs a year ago, Beliveau incurred his first major injury, cracking an ankle bone in a game with the Black Hawks in Chicago. It was an injury similiar to the Rocket&rsquo;s first broken bone as a pro and similar to Marshall&rsquo;s cracked the tibia, the main bone of the leg, near the ankle joint.Returning to the Montreal line-up seven weeks later. Big Jean was checked into a goal post in a game, against the New York Rangers. He came out of the melee with a shattered cheek. Sidelined again, he finished the first half of the campaign with only nine games to his credit.To take a cheerful view of Marshall&rsquo;s&rsquo;Injury, if Indeed injuries can be viewed with objective optimism, maybe the rookie&rsquo;s misfortune is a good omen. Maybe like Richard and Beliveau he will return to hockey to win a place with the Habs and go on to carve an niche in hockey&rsquo;s hall of fame.<h2>&hellip;On Crutches</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02130/1106826-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="591" height="606"><figcaption class="caption-body">JEAN BELIVEAU</figcaption></div><h2>Centres of Attraction</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03108/1106819-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="1132" height="608"><figcaption class="caption-body">DONNIE MARSHALL, JACKIE LECLAIR</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Marshall Follows in Rocket, Beliveau’s (Broken) Footsteps

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, Ill&mdash;With his plans for positional hockey continuing, Manager Tommy Ivan of the Black Hawks had a place for such as John &ldquo;Goose&rdquo; McCormack long before the NHL draft meeting was held in New York City earlier this month. The loose-limbed ex-Canadien was the only player selected at the session.Chicago made him its choice for the $15,000 set figure and his worth may very well prove to be much higher before the 1954-55 National Hockey League campaign has progressed very far. An important part of Ivan&rsquo;s thoughts these days is devoted to the formation of a strong forward line for defensive action.&ldquo;I had just such a trio at Detroit and all I asked those guys to do was keep pressing. I didn&rsquo;t care if they scored or not, but they got their share of goals anyway.&rdquo; Just as Glenn Skov centered the Red Wing unit, McCormack seems a virtual cinch to handle the chore with the Hawks.It will not be an unfamiliar task for &ldquo;Goose&rdquo; since he has firmly established himself as a top defensive skater. His sweeping stick has been known to look as though it were reaching halfway across the ice to tip the puck from an enemy stick and such displays are sure to delight Chicago fans.The question of just who will play with him seems to be unanswered at this point. Chicago has a number of likely candidates, but most have exhibited talents mainly bent on scoring. Strong and big, Jerry Toppazzini might be one of the best possibilities since he has played most any position.<h2>Top Defender</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03100/1106608-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="560" height="908"><figcaption class="caption-body">McCORMACK</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hawks Had An Eye On Goose Long Before NHL Draft Meeting

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0189/1106028-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="893" height="892"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG HARVEY</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0271/1106021-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="864" height="892"><figcaption class="caption-body">KEN MOSDELL</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0344/1106014-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="861" height="904"><figcaption class="caption-body">MAURICE RICHARD</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;The 1953-54 All-Star team which opposed to the world champion Detroit Red Wings is one of the starriest arrays of puck talent that ever gathered under one roof.Three members were picked on the official All-Star team last year. Kenny Mosdell, Canadiens&rsquo; veteran centre, will face-off against Alex Delvecchio, the newest member of Detroit&rsquo;s Production Line.On Mosdell&rsquo;s right, will be Maurice (Rocket). Richard, who was nosed out by Gordie Howe on the first team last year. Flanking Mosdell on the left will be Boston&rsquo;s Eddie Sand-ford, who was runner-up to Ted Lindsay.On the blueline will be Doug Harvey, a perennial All-Star defenseman and replacing Red Kelly will be Bill Gadsby, the hustling Hawk rearguard. The Stars will have the edge in the nets in that Harry Lumley was the No. 1 All-Star goaltending choice last year.But their talent doesn&rsquo;t stop with their starting lineup. Bolstering this glitter crew will be such great players as Ted Kennedy, the captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Tim Horton, the Leafs sensational young defenceman, Jean Beliveau, Boom Boom Geoffrion. Doug Mohns, Sid Smith and several other performers.The 1953-54 season marked the first time that three of the members of the Second Team ever made a National Hockey League All-Star sextet. Horton, Kennedy and Sandford are making their debut as All-Stars, although the veteran Kennedy has been close many times before. Sawchuk moved back from the First Team where he held the goalie s post for the last three years. Gadsby is a second-year repeater on the Second Team. Richard is right wing on the Second All-Star Team for the fourth year in succession, after having been right wing on the First Team for six years in a row before that.Voting was closest for the right wing position on the First Team and the center slot on the Second Team. Howe nosed out Richard for right wing with a total of 144 points to 142 Richard had a one-point edge, 72 to 71, for the first-half, but the four-time NHL scoring champion held a. slight lead in the second-half. Ted Kennedy and teammate Tod Sloane of Toronto finished only one-half a point apart. Sloan held a comfortable first-half lead, 39 to 11, but Kennedy finished the season strongly and his point total at the end was 43 to Sloan&rsquo;s 42.5.The voting strength is identical in each of the six NHL cities. The first, second and third place votes garnered by each player are not shown because they have no corresponding value owing to the different number of selectors in each city. Toronto, Detroit and Chicago for example, each had three selectors, which is the minimum number of selectors per city, while New York and Boston had six selectors each and Montreal had 22.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0429/1106007-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="567" height="579"><figcaption class="caption-body">HARRY LUMLEY</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0520/1106000-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="515" height="529"><figcaption class="caption-body">TED KENNEDY</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0612/1105993-1-eng-US/f0003-062.jpg" title="f0003-06" width="534" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERNIE GEOFFRION</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-077/1105986-1-eng-US/f0003-072.jpg" title="f0003-07" width="592" height="612"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG MOHNS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-085/1105979-1-eng-US/f0003-082.jpg" title="f0003-08" width="592" height="608"><figcaption class="caption-body">JEAN BELIVEAU</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-094/1105972-1-eng-US/f0003-092.jpg" title="f0003-09" width="528" height="543"><figcaption class="caption-body">SID SMITH</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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1953-54 All-Star Aggregation Loaded With Speed and Experience

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Do you remember?…

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0161/1107616-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><h2>Can A Rookie Dethrone A King? &#9632;</h2>

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Wings Only Team To Beat Stars

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Thrills, spills and excitement galore will undoubtedly be served up in large quantities at the 1954 NHL All-Star Game played at Detroit&rsquo;s Olympia Stadium, when the 195354 Stanley Cup champion Red Wings clash with the League&rsquo;s All-Stars.This 1954 spectacle marks the eighth annual All-Star Game and Detroit will attempt to duplicate their outstanding performance of 1950 when they trounced the top glitter guys of the circuit, 7-1, to become the only club in the short history of these annual AllStar Games to defeat the League All-Stars.On two other occasions the Stanley Cup champions have come close to upsetting the pick of the players from the five other team and supplied countless thrills in their efforts, but always the very proud and talented Stars ganged together to come out on top.The first of these annual affairs, played in Toronto in 1947, almost saw the Maple Leafs sweep past the Stars. As a matter of fact they almost had the game in the bag and were leading 3-2 going into the third period when they elected to bump and try to push around such NHL greats as Maurice Richard, Milt Schmidt and Max and Doug Bentley. That was too much for this band of. super-star and temperamental hockeyists. They really poured it on the Leafs during the final session and scored twice without a reply to win a 4-3 victory over the Stanley Cup champions.Last year&rsquo;s game played at the Montreal Forum between the 1953 Stanley Cup Canadiens and the League All-Stars probably provided more thrills per minute than any game yet, as two evenly-matched teams went at it hammer and tong throughout the entire 60-minutes as a cheering throng of 14,153 yelled themselves hoarse. These 14,153 fans, incidentally, contributed a gross gate of $26,794.90, which is the record for gate receipts at an All-Star Game.The All-Stars won in 1953 by a core of 3-1 but it was the phenomenal play of Terry Sawchuck in the Stars nets that thwarted he Canadiens goal-scoring at-tempts time after time. Wally Hergesheimer, New York Rangers&rsquo; high-scoring right winger, was the scoring hero of last year&rsquo;s contest with two of the three All-Stars goals.The only time that the NHL All-Star Game was not played prior to the start of the regular championship schedule took place in 1948. That was the year it was held in Chicago on the day following the United States presidential election. It was played on November 3, three weeks after the regular schedule had commenced.Chicago Is also the only city on the National League to play hosts to this colorful attraction that didn&rsquo;t have a Stanley Cup winner the season before. When the idea of the All-Star Game was first dreamed up it was planned to have the game played in a different city each year on a rotating basis among the six League members.It was found in Chicago, however, that the only time the fans became excited was when a member of the Black Hawks was on the ice as a member of the AllStars. They failed to show any enthusiasm at other times during the game when the League AllStars defeated the Stanley Cup champion Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-1. The NHL Governors then decided that the game should be played each year in the arena of the club that won the Stanley Cup the previous Spring.The Maple Leafs won their third Stanley Cup in a row in 1949 and were again the host club for the 1949 show. This time All-Stars downed the Leafs by the identical score of a year before, 3-1. Toronto and Detroit have been the sites of more of these All-Stars Games than any of the other NHL cities. With this year&rsquo;s game in Detroit, each city has played hosts three times. New York and Boston have yet to stage one of these games.After Detroit&rsquo;s crushing victory over the All-Stars in 1950 it was decided to change the makeup of the game somewhat. It was changed for two years, 19 51 and 1952, and failed to prove as satisfactory an arrangement as the original plan of having the Stanley Cup kings meet the League&rsquo;s All-Stars.The short-lived in vogue in &lsquo;51 and &lsquo;52 the First All-Star Team meet the Second Team. Players who were members of the First All-Star Team the season before had their squad strengthened by players from the four United States teams in the League&mdash;Detroit, Chicago, Boston and New York. Members of the Second Team had their side augmented by players from the two Canadian member teams&mdash;Montreal and Toronto. The coach of the Stanley Cup Champions would handle the First Team, while the Second Team would be piloted by the coach of the Cup finalists.Both games ended in draws. In 1951 the game was played in Toronto and ended 2-2. In 1952 it took place in Detroit and finished in a 1-1 stalemate.In 1953 the original plans were again adopted and it was the NHL Governors&rsquo; thoughts that this is the best and most feasible plan on which to operate this All-Star Game each year.The Players Pension Fund receives two-thirds of the gate receipts from these All-Star Games. One third is deducted for building rental. The National Hockey League pays all costs involved in staging the game and events connected with it such as the pregame dinner etc.There is $1,200,000 in the Players Pension Fund at the present time. This is approximately $175,000 more than at this time a year ago. 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Glitter Guys Defeated 7-1 In 1950 Game

PEMBROKE, Ont.&mdash;&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know where we&rsquo;ll finish in the standings, but one thing the Chicago Black Hawks will have this season will be discipline, desire and harmony,&rdquo; said Tommy Ivan, new General Manager of the Chicago Black Hawks, over the luncheon table at the Hawks&rsquo; training camp last week.You might add dash, too,&rdquo; broke in Frank Eddolls, freshman coach of the Hawks. &ldquo;That would give the Hawks a three D theme of&mdash;Discipline, Desire and Dash,&rdquo; continued Eddolls, &ldquo;and you can say we will be strong in all three departments.&rdquo;Ivan and Eddolls, hockey&rsquo;s newest one-two combination are both starting their first campaign with Chicago and both have an overwhelming ambition to get the Hawks out of the cellar. They figure their efforts will be futile of they cannot improve on the Hawks sorry plight of last season when they ended up with 12 wins in 70 games.&ldquo;Just imagine a team only scoring 133 goals in 70 games, why, that averages less than two a game,&rsquo;&rsquo; Ivan stated in amazement. &ldquo;And look at the goals-against record. Two hundred and forty-two goals scored against them.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s too early for me to start making any predictions but Frankie (Eddolls) and I see eye to eye on things and we&rsquo;re both going to give it everything we&rsquo;ve got to get them up there,&rdquo; the new G.M. continued.It is no secret that the Hawks are looking for the services of two rough and ready defensemen. &ldquo;A couple of good defensemen would really help this club a lot.&rdquo; Eddolls told us &ldquo;We have a young team this season. Now that Mo-sienko has retired there isn&rsquo;t a player on the roster who has reached the age of 30,&rsquo;&rsquo; Eddolls pointed out. &ldquo;We haven&rsquo;t checked the NHL ages yet but we would imagine right now that Chicago will ice the youngest team in the circuit this season.The Hawks were very pleased with their amateur camp this fall. &ldquo;There were some fine young players on view but they are all still a year or two away unfortunately and not much use to us right now,&rsquo;&rsquo; said Ivan in appraising his embryo talent.After Ivan returned from the National League&rsquo;s draft meeting in New York and prior to the first scrimmage session of the Chicago regulars of last season, he spent nearly half an hour behind closed doors talking to the players and emphasizing what he expected from them this term.Al Rollins and Hank Bassen were the goalkeepers working out the day we watched the team practice. Bassen is a Calgary boy who starred with Chatham Ma-rooms last winter. Defensemen on hand were Captain Bill Gadsby, Gus Mortson, Lee Fogolin, Al Dewsbury, Clare Raglan, Jack Price, George Ferguson, Sandy Hucul and Bob Wilson. The last three players are amateurs who were invited to stay over after the amateur camp ended to practice with the pros.Larry Wilson, George (Red) Sullivan, Bob Hassard, Ken Wharram and Nick Gilday were the centers. Gilday is an amateur from the Calgary Buffaloes. The left wingers were Pete Conacher, Jack McIntyre, Fred Sasakamoose, Walt Blaisdell and Hilleray Menard. The Hawks could stand a little more strength on this wing. Sasakamoose, Blaisdell and Me-nard are all amateurs. Murray Costello, Lou Jankowski, Jerry Toppazzini, Ike Hildebrand, Eric Pogue and Dave Luke were the right wingers in action. Luke is a most promising amateur from Calgary Juniors.Ivan picked up a winning complex while with Detroit&mdash;six NHL championships and three Stanley Cups in seven years&mdash;and everyone in the Chicago camp hopes some of it will run off on the Black Hawks. &#9632;

‘DDH’ to Exist With Chicago Says GM Ivan

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0277/1105879-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK ADAMS and JIMMY SKINNER, the Red Wings new coach talk over their plans for defeating the highly-touted all-stars in the 8th annual game. Jack&rsquo;s experience and Jimmy&rsquo;s desire should prove a hard combination to beat.</figcaption></div>Amid flurries of publicity and speculation, Detroit Red Wings encounter the AllStars in hockey&rsquo;s annual classic&hellip;but it&rsquo;s going to be a tough job to determine just which team has the most &ldquo;Stars&rdquo; on the ice.For this year the Olympia-dwellers will ice Red Kelly, Ted Lindsay and Gordie Howe, naturally. The grimmick, though, is this: all three are All-Star players. So the Wings will actually have half as many All Stars on their team as the so-called All Stars themselves. Confusing maybe, but not to the Detroiters, who have their sights set on a big sweep this year.Kelly, Lindsa and Howe were chosen to the All-Star team last year&hellip;the team that defeated Montreal Canadiens 3-1 in a wild burst of power. For Kelly, the honor was an accustomed thing. He was first winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy, a beautiful new piece of silverware presented annual to the defense player showing the greatest all-round ability. And as if this honor wasn&rsquo;t enough, Kelly also proved himself the best-mannered gent on the ice-lanes in the 1953-54 season (no mean feat for a defenseman) by capturing the Lady Byng Trophy. With both these cups went a solid reminder of the N.H.L.&rsquo;s esteem in the form of two cheques for $1,000.This was the second time the 5&rsquo;, 11&rdquo; redhead, who jumped straight to the Wings after an illustrious junior career, had taken the Byng. So outstanding is Red&rsquo;s ability that, since the beginning of his big league career in the 1947-48 season, he has been selected for a post on four All Star teams, and was a member of the second squad in 1949-50.And just to prove that virtue is sometimes more than its own reward, Kelly has pocketed $7,000 beside his regular salary during last year.Now 28, Kelly deposited $3,000 in his bank account by being a member of the team that won the N.H.L. playoff series and the coveted Stanley Cup. Another $1,000 went into the family coffers when Red received, together with other members of the team, a bonus from Miss Marguerite Norris.By being picked on the first All-Star team for the fourth time, Red collected another G note. This, added to his award monies, made life a cheery thing for the former Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s junior.Ted Lindsay, a Wing parennial, is on the All-Star listing for the fifth consecutive year, while Gordie Howe, whose name rhymes with Detroit, made the grade for the fourth time.Ted Lindsay comes up with an almost unique distinction in this eighth all-star game. Along with Canadiens&rsquo; Rocket Richard, they are the only two players to ever perform in all eight annual classics.Lindsay, the tough little piece of hockey leather from Renfrew, will undoubtedly go down in hockey annals as one of the greatest left wingers of all time. Year in and year out, he is close to the top of the scoring column and he&rsquo;s a regular take-charge guy with the Wings.Howe, Lindsay&rsquo;s easy-going teammate has accomplished a tremendous feat these past four years in that he&rsquo;s been able to nudge the fabulous Rocket out of the No. 1 right wing all-star spot.Howe, Lindsay and Kelly gives the Wings three first team all-stars to match Mosdell, Lumley and Harvey. It should be quite a game.<h2>Strategically Speaking</h2><h2>First Team</h2>G&mdash;Harry Lumley, Tor. (127)D&mdash;Red Kelly, Detroit (177)D&mdash;Doug Harvey, Mont. (130)C&mdash;Ken Mosdell, Mont. (107)RW&mdash;Gordie Howe, Det. (144)LW&mdash;Ted Lindsay, Det. (103)<h2>Second Team</h2>G&mdash;Terry Sawchuk, Det. (95)D&mdash;Bill Gadsby, Chicago (84)D&mdash;Tim Horton, Toronto (83)C&mdash;Ted Kennedy, Tor. (43)RW&mdash;Maur. Richard, &Mu;. (142)LW&mdash;Ed Sandford, Bost. (04) &#9632;

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Wings Or Stars, Which Are Really The Stars?

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0189/1105910-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Shown above are the Detroit Red Wings, NHL champions for six straight years and 1953-54 Stanley Cup winners. Shown from left to right are: front row: Bob Goldham, Ted Lindsay (Captain), Jack Adams (General Manager), Terry Sawchuk, Tommy Ivan (Ex-coach, now with Chicago as General Manager), Marty Pavelich, Len Kelly. Second row: Ross Wilson (Assistant Trainer), Alex Delvecchio, Benny Woyt, Gordie Howe, Glen Skov, Marcel Pronovost, Jim Peters since retired, Carl Mattson (Trainer), Rear row: Earl Reibel, Metro Prystai, Jim Hay, Bill Dineen, John Wilson, Tony Leswick.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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The Champs Who’ll Play The Stars

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div>SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich.&mdash;&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t worry about Jimmy!&rdquo;That was the cry as Detroit Red Wings prepared to leave Pullar Stadium here for the opening of the 1954-55 NHL season. It related to Jimmy Skinner, new coach of the world champions who is trying to fill the shoes of Tommy Ivan, the high-successful coach who now is general manager of Chicago Black Hawks.The reason officials and fans alike felt there was nothing to worry about is that Skinner proved himself at the fall training camp. He made everyone like him, he made everyone realize he was going to work hard at the new job of coaching a world championship hockey club. He has become the third regular Red Wing coach in the Detroit club&rsquo;s history. He follows in the footsteps of Jack Adams and Ivan. However, Jimmy&rsquo;s entire association with professional hockey has been with the Detroit hockey organization. He first turned pro in the fall of 1941 and was sent to the Wings&rsquo; farm club at Indianapolis as a rearguard. Previously he had been playing in the senior amateur ranks at Flin Flon where he was scouted by the late Fred Pinkney.Leadership qualities immediately began to assert themselves, In 1945 he was sent to Omaha to captain the club on which Ivan made his professional coaching debut. Within two seasons, Skinner was given the choice of continuing as a player with little chance of getting into the bigtime, or of beginning a coaching career.Jimmy took to coaching and after a fine junior career, is now coach of the world champions. The Best of Luck to a swell fellow!Cully Simon met his old boss again!The fellow who played some fine hockey with Detroit during the war years, Cully Simon, found himself back in hockey again as coach of Pembroke Lumber Kings in the rapidly-expanding NOHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit. He went on a scouting junket and visited the Detroit fall training camp.He was warmly received by General Manager Jack Adams and called &ldquo;the type of sincere, honest hockey men who will do much for amateur hockey.&rdquo; At the same time, Cully hoped to pick up a couple of players for his Lumber Kings. The Soo (Mich.) Indians also looked to the Detroit camp for considerable help. Jack Adams has always had a warm spot in his heart for the city and said he would do all he could to help the amateur team.<h2>Making Grade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-103/1106059-1-eng-US/f0003-102.jpg" title="f0003-10" width="504" height="819"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIMMY SKINNER</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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“Don’t Worry About Jimmy Skinner”

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01157/1106090-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="300" height="448"></div>DETROIT&mdash;Victory, according to some sports philosophers, is contagious.In which case, the Red Wings appear to deserve considerable thanks for spreading such a pleasant &ldquo;disease&rdquo; around the City of Detroit.For six years now the Detroit Hockey Club has been able to claim the biggest hockey title of all&mdash;the National Hockey League championship. Three of those years, as a sort of after thought, the Stanley Cup was won in the playoffs.In that span, several other teams and Individuals have got into that victory spirit and as a result Detroit today can reel off an impressive list of championships which rest here.For the moment, let&rsquo;s skip across hockey and look at some of those other titles.The Detroit Lions have embarked into the same sort of long-range winning program. The Lions have dominated the professional National Football League for the last two years and are installed as favorites in the current campaign which got underway last week.Nearby Michigan State College was rated national champion in collegiate football last season after winning the coveted Rose Bowl crown, and are topranked for the coming season.Stroh is the national match-game bowling champion. (Incidentally, Stroh is the sponsor of the radio broadcasts and telecasts of the Red Wing home games.)A couple of other teams which got the idea were Briggs Beautyware in national softball competition and Arthurs in national junior sandlot baseball ranks.While hockey players like Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay and Red Kelly are recognized as the best and football players like Bobby Layne, Doak Walker and Leon Hart enjoy the same acclaim, Detroit also has champions in individual sports.<h2>They Have Golf Kings Too!</h2>Norb Schemansky is the greatest weight-lifter in the world, a national and Olympic champion. Chick Harbert and Wally Burkemo are two local boys who have handled one of golf&rsquo;s top crowns, the National PGA championship, for the past two years. Ed Furgol, current National Open golf champ, was a local fixture until two years ago. Bill Mihalo is America&rsquo;s leading exponent of the recondite sport of walking. Howard Confer is the national skeet shooting champion.There may be more to that list, but that&rsquo;s enough to give an idea of the stature of athletics and the caliber of athletes in these parts.And of them all, the Red Wings have the brightest record. Detroit has been a member of the NHL for 28 years and the first few were lean ones. But in the last 21 years the Wings have taken the league championship 10 times plus six Stanley Cups. The present string of six NHL titles in a row is unparalleled in league history.Credit for this record rests almost entirely on one man&mdash;John James Adams. While it is true that men like Howe, Kelly & Co. are the ones who are directly winning the titles now and while Adams always insists that the late James Norris is the real reason for all the success, you can&rsquo;t duck the fact that Jack Adams is your man when you sift all the evidence.Although there was hockey in this state for 30 years before Adams came on the managerial scene&mdash;at the turn of the century teams in the Upper Peninsula rivaled Canada&rsquo;s best&mdash;it was Adams who steered the sport to its present promotional plane.It must be recalled that hockey is not a native sport in the Detroit area. Very few youngsters have the opportunity to participate in the game although the number is growing under a juvenile and pee-wee program cooked up by Adams and the city&rsquo;s recreation department.There are only a half dozen outdoor rinks in the city, all of them dependent upon natural ice. And those are designed for public skating, not hockey. Actually, the only place where youngsters can play the game under anything remotely resembling normal conditions is the frozen lagoon at Belle Isle Park. That ice is available for only a few weeks in the dead of Winter.<h2>600 Youngsters Take Part</h2>That was the only place until Adams invited the recreation program into Olympia&mdash;free. Now about 600 youngsters participate in that program and they are the first in Detroit who have had any real opportunity to develop in the game.When the program was unveiled three years ago, Adams openly explained what he called a &ldquo;selfish&rdquo; interest.&ldquo;Of course, I believe that boys who want to should have the chance to play hockey. But in opening our building to them, I am thinking more of the time when these youngsters grow up and become potential fans.&ldquo;Canada has great hockey interest because so many of the male adults played the game when they were boys. The United States has great baseball interest for the same reason. I&rsquo;m just trying to slip some hockey into their youth here.&rdquo;The wisdom and value of such a promotion is obvious. It is just another example of the many promotional methods Adams has employed to make hockey &ldquo;big time&rdquo; in Detroit. To prosper, an imported game like hockey had to be sold as a sport, not as entertainment. That was Adams&rsquo; philosophy from the start.Olympia Stadium, home of the Red Wings, is just as much a landmark in Detroit as Briggs Stadium, home of the baseball Tigers and football Lions, In other U.S. cities, indoor stadium are regarded more as auditoriums than as sports settings. Even in two other NHL cities Madison Square Garden and Chicago Stadium are more renowned for boxing than hockey.Olympia wasn&rsquo;t available for the Detroit hockey team until the second year of its existence. The first year, when the club was known as Cougars, all home games were played in Windsor, Ont., one mile away across the Detroit River.Then the Olympia was built some three miles northwest of the downtown section and within a year it had become the permanent home of the NHL representative. Their name was changed to Falcons and later, after Norris took over the club, became Red Wings.The Olympia has a seating capacity for hockey of about 12,600 and that figure also is close to the average per-game attendance for the last several years. The building record for hockey is 15,791, set no the last game held there&mdash;the seventh and deciding game of last year&rsquo;s playoffs against Montreal. &#9632;

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Detroit…“A City Of Champions”

<div class="byline">MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02141/1106121-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg"></div>(As seen in the Toronto Star)<h2>The Banana Belt Is All For Brian</h2>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;An unidentified woman phoned Mrs. Joseph Cullen and told her: &ldquo;I pray every day that your boy, Brian, will catch a place with the Leafs.&rdquo; Another woman sent a scrapbook from Niagara-on-the Lake. It was filled with clippings from newspaper and magazine stories of Brian&rsquo;s feats on skates. Mom Cullen accepted it gratefully, because she knows the work that goes into a scrapbook. She happens to be pasting up four of them herself.No rookie ever had greater moral support than young Mr. Cullen in his bid to make a big-league team. The whole Niagara peninsula seems to be shouting: &ldquo;That&rsquo;s our boy-go&mdash;go&mdash;go.&rdquo; And Cullen has been going at a pretty fair clip. Even that slave-driver with the heart of flint, Mr., Clarence &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Day, was heard to mutter yesterday: &ldquo;When Cullen gets out there something happens.&rdquo; In this specific instance what happened was that Cullen flipped a pass to George Armstrong, a first-time papa as of yesterday, who rifled the puck into the net.On the opposite side of the rink, a little woman in a pink coat applauded the play, too. She agreed she might be biased since Brian is her son. So, it&rsquo;s her frankly partisan opinion that Brian Cullen is far from the worst-looking player she&rsquo;s seen on skates at the Leaf camp to date. There are nothing but partisan opinions in the Cullen clan on this subject, she warns. Brother Barry, who played on the same line with Brian for the title-winning St. Catharines TeePees last season, thinks Brian is doing O.K. He&rsquo;s on hand for all the drills. Younger brothers Ray, 13, and Bruce, 14, don&rsquo;t have to look. They know Brian will make the Leafs.&ldquo;Brian&rsquo;s heart is set on playing for Toronto. So he just has to make it,&rdquo; Mrs. Cullen decided defiantly. &ldquo;Other boys have made it from junior to the NHL. Ted Lindsay did it. So did Bill Dineen, Doug Mohns and others I could name. You say Tod Sloan couldn&rsquo;t? Not even George Armstrong? Well, if Brian goes to Pittsburgh, it&rsquo;s all right. But his goal is the Leafs.&rdquo;<h2>Cold Beef and the Morning Works</h2>BRIAN&rsquo;S hockey endeavors have had a marked effect on the consumption of roast beef in the Cullen diggings. The Leafs, showing a callous disregard for the schedule of a housewife, hold morning workout at 10.30. Mom Cullen scarcely has time to wash the dishes and sweep up the cereal from the kitchen floor before she has to dash away to the rink. When the scrimmages are finished, there&rsquo;s no time for cooking a noon-day meal. So, by mutual agreement, lunch consists of cold roast beef along with eye-witness reports by Mom and Barry of the morning works.On his side of the arena, Day was remarking that it&rsquo;s nice to see a young player who thinks. He had just noticed that when Sid Smith shifted from his wing to make a play, young Cullen had swung over and covered Smith&rsquo;s beat on her side of the rink, Mrs. Cullen was saying she thought Erian&rsquo;s chances might be a trifle better than average because he seemed to size up situations instantly and decide what should be done.&ldquo;When he lived in Ottawa,&rdquo; she laughed, &ldquo;Brian played for a bantam team. He would be 12 or 13, I guess. The next season he was over-age. It looked for a while as if the bantam team might fold. So Brian went out and canvassed the neighborhood. He told the people the boys needed donations to keep their team going. They wound up with uniforms and the equipment they required. Brian even took over as coach.&rdquo;There&rsquo;s only one subject on which there&rsquo;s dissension in the Cullen family. That&rsquo;s football. Pop Cullen loves it. Mom says no dice. If she&rsquo;s bringing up her boys to play hockey, she doesn&rsquo;t want them dislocating their shoulders at football. So far, the evidence is all in her favor. Last season, their four sons played for championship teams. When even Ray, 13, and Bruce, 14, came home with $150 gift watches, Pop despaired of ever rescinding the family ban on football. &#9632;

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Speaking On Sport

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01110/1106159-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Depending very much on your point of view, the mention of the word &ldquo;Detroit&rdquo; conjures up visions of two things.To the average man on the Street, engrossed in scraping up the down payment for a Detroit product (you name it, they have it), Detroit means cars&hellip;cars of all sizes, colors, descriptions, the most wondrous example of mass production the modern world has ever seen.But to the sports fan (he&rsquo;s usually spent all his money on season tickets and can&rsquo;t afford a car, anyway,) Detroit means winners, great-hearted teams that have emblazoned the name of this booming industrial city in every field of athletic endeavor.And this year the name has special significance again, for at Detroit&rsquo;s Olympia the Red Wings&rsquo; Stanley Cup holders and a crew of puck chasers that has always spelt threat in capital letters to their foes in the National Hockey League, will show their fans and the hockey world just what to expect in the forthcoming season, if you can judge future performance on the outcome of the All-Star classic.It has been said that hockey has changed the face of this great metropolis, and those who make this claim usually seem to be under the impression that this change was a recent and tempestuous thing. It wasn&rsquo;t. Michigan&rsquo;s Upper Peninsula has had outstanding hockey teams for more than 60 years, and the sport was a familiar sight on open-ice rinks within the Detroit city limits long before the N.H.L. was even dreamt of.<h2>Tradition Runs Strong</h2>In fact, Detroit is one of those rare big league cities where the sport has a traditional tinge, so that its fans are &ldquo;old steadies&rsquo;&rdquo; men and women who approach the game with an intelligent and well-informed outlook that often amazes their Canadian neighbors, who seem to be under the impression that everything to do with the ice sport must have a strong Canadian background to justify it.It was 19 years ago that Detroit began billing itself the &ldquo;City of Champions&rdquo;, and enthusiasts with long memories and gray in their hair can still recall, with a thrill of pride, the victories that brought this cognomen to full bloom. For it was in 1935 that the baseball Tigers won the World Series, the football Lions the pro title, the Red Wings the Stanley Cup and the basketball Eagles the professional cage crown.A heritage like this makes an imprint on a city, long after the glory has worn smooth and the victories have dwindled. Pro basketball has died an uneasy death, but the National Football League Lions are still blazing a glory trail, carrying the title for 1952 and &rsquo;53, and promising to give their opposition a sound battering this year. Not so rosy, of course, is the position of the American League baseball Tigers, who are currently in the second division, but sports fans, with the first bitter whip of winter air tingling in their nostrils, are looking forward to what this town will do when the blueline is down on Olympia ice and the great arena echoes to the clatter and hiss of stick and skate.Well may they regard the future. The Red Wings, always a taut, highly-strung organization, have taken generous nibbles from the Table of the Giants. In the 19 years since the Stanley Cup was first Red Wing property, teams managed by Jack Adams have been winners four more times and have finished on top of the league eight times, six of those in a row for a league record.In a history such as this, it&rsquo;s only reasonable that some one mar must stand above the others, and Adams is that man, beyond a doubt. If he had never wandered onto the scene, hockey still would be a popular sport in Detroit, but there can be no doubt but that the Wings would have less to look back on, less to regard in the future. For Adams has fitted himself into the Detroit scene as one of its leading sports figures, a man who breathes, eats and talks as if Detroit and hockey were synonymous, and in so doing he has encouraged many of his players to adopt the thunderous panorama of Detroit as if they had been born there.<h2>Death Great Blow</h2>But the great saga of the Wings was given a sad and mournful note two years ago. On Dec. 4, 1952, Jim Norris, a legend in Hockey, died, and what many have viewed as a new generation took over the reins of the Red Wings.President of the club for 20 years, Norris died of a heart attack. A tycoon with vast holdings in wheat, sugar, steamships, banks, hotels and other enterprises, Norris&rsquo; death was a great blow to the sports world. Although Norris never lived in Detroit, his avowed ambition was to make this city the capital of US hockey, and who, scanning the record, can deny that he succeeded? Using the managing genius of Adams as a lever, Norris pried Detroit&rsquo;s hockey from the bottom of the heap to the top. He demanded winning teams, spent lavishly to get them, and at his death, he had them.Most surprising of all, perhaps, was the immediate announcement that his daughter. Marguerite Ann, had been chosen to succeed him. The youngest of the four Norris children, she was chosen at a meeting of the heirs in Chicago, and at once decided to make her permanent home in Detroit. She was then, and still is, the first woman executive in the history of the NHL, and no one can say that the feminine touch has done anything to soothe the rough and rugged Red Wings, who seem just as inclined to win for Marguerite as they did for her father.With the changing of an era, Detroit seems even more determined to prove that the &ldquo;City of Champions&rdquo; is still that. And will be, for many more years to come.<h2>Seat of Norris Ice Empire Still a Throne</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0293/1106152-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="2319" height="1744"><figcaption class="caption-body">SCENES OF GLORY that bring the memories crowding back to Detroit sports fans are the Olympia, hockey arena where so many Red Wing triumphs have been graven in history (bottom), and the city that hockey has helped to make famous.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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New Era Challenges ‘City of Champions’

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, 1879 Authorized 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/f0006-01183/1106235-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="392" height="418"></div>LARRY CAHAN, Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; rookie defense-man, looks like the type of defenseman Conn Smythe has been seeking since Bill Barilko was lost in the north in 1951&hellip;Cahan, who is bigger than Barilko, is a rough, tough defender who loves to rock incoming forwards. He is also a very adept puck carrier and is as fast if not faster than Barilko&hellip;Last year Cahan starred with Pittsburgh of the AHL. He was still eligible for junior competition and is only one year over the junior age limit now&hellip;Muzz Patrick calls Andy Bath-gate &ldquo;the best-looking forward in the Ranger camp.&rdquo; &ldquo;I know he has failed to make the grade in two earlier chances, but he&rsquo;s just turned 22 and right now he is the best prospect in camp,&rdquo; Pat-rick stated at the New Yorkers West Coast training site early last week&hellip;Nick Gueronovich, talented trainer of the Chicago Black Hawks, has had his name legally changed&hellip;From now on he is known as Nick Garen&hellip;Nick will be passing out the cigars later this month&hellip;Jack McIntyre of the Hawks became a father for the first time during the summer&hellip;Providence Reds of the American League are starting their 29th season of uninterrupted pro hockey. The Reds trained right in Providence this year for the first time in many years. &hellip;Don&rsquo;t be too surprised if Allan Stanley winds up with Chicago.&hellip;The Hawks would like to have him as a member of their blue-line brigade, and it&rsquo;s expected that New York fans will boo him so unmercifully that the Rangers won&rsquo;t dare play him in Madison Square Garden.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0279/1106228-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="288" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Muzz Patrick</figcaption></div>A COMPLETE overhaul of the New Westminster Arena will take place within a year to place it on a competitive equal with other WHL arenas&hellip;When Frank Dotten, ex-owner of the Seattle club was appointed coach this season of New Westminster he brought along the best players from last year&rsquo;s Seattle team&hellip;Boston Bruins are hoping some of their younger forwards will pick up the slack caused by the loss of 41 goals due to the departure of Dave Creighton and Johnny Peirson&hellip;Lynn Patrick hopes Real Chevrefils will be O.K. after his bro-ken leg and will add some punch to rightwing&hellip;&ldquo;Don McKenney and Junior Wilson up from Hershey will help, too, I hope,&rdquo; said Lynn.&hellip;Ranger coach Muzz Patrick was banged against the boards during a practice recently and suffered two broken ribs&hellip;Doug Mohns, Boston&rsquo;s ace sophomore winger, drew ohs and ahs from railbirds at the Bruins&rsquo; practices with his blistering shot&hellip;The Bruins players are amazed at the power Mohns gets into his hard shots. He does it all with his wrists, much like a good hitter in baseball or a golfer&hellip;New York Rangers employ 13 scouts and last year sponsored seven teams in addition to having working agreements with Vancouver and Saskatoon&hellip;A total of 43 different banners made their appearance at Madison Square Garden last season&hellip;Camille Henry, Johnny Bower, Wally Hergesheimer and Paul Ronty topped the list.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0343/1106221-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="284" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Real Chevrefils</figcaption></div>TOMMY IVAN had his Chicago players trying out the new penalty-shot rule recently and was highly elated with the results&hellip;Toronto players also spent some time working on it during practice sessions at St. Catharines&hellip;Terry Reardon, general manager of the Providence Reds, is trying to form a line known as &ldquo;The Wreckers&rdquo;&hellip;His first member of the unit is Russ Kowalchuk&hellip;&ldquo;We will have three tough guys on &lsquo;The Wreckers&rsquo; and it makes no difference if they score any goals or not. All this line will have to do is get on the ice and knock down everything in the way, wearing enemy colors, of course,&rdquo; Reardon related&hellip;Bill Ezinicki, the former Leaf and Bruin, has been trying out with Providence&hellip;If the Reds wish to have him on their roster they will have to deal directly with Pittsburgh for his services&hellip;Ezinicki is owned by Pittsburgh&hellip;Hap Day believes Bob Sabourin, a right-winger with Pitts-burgh last season, is a National Leaguer if he possessed more desire&hellip;Jerry James, star defenseman with Toronto Marlboro Jrs., is having his greatest season in football this fall&hellip;James is one of the best backfielders with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. So far he hasn&rsquo;t decided yet whether to make hockey or football his career.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0428/1106214-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="282" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Ivan</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0621/1106297-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="600" height="278"></div>October 2 to October 96&mdash;MALONEY, Phil, Ottawa, centre, 1927.7&mdash;BOUCHER, Frank, Rangers, General Manager, 1901.9&mdash;KULLMAN, Arnie, Hershey, centre, 1927.9&mdash;ROLLINS, Al, Goalie, Chicago, 1926. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday To You

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-073/1106328-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg"></div>and every true-blue hockey fan will want to be a regular reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS &ldquo;Official Organ of All Hockey&rdquo;. The Hockey News carries stories on all the teams and the star players written by the foremost hockey writers in Canada and the United States. Besides outstanding features and stories The Hockey News runs more action pictures and cartoons than any other publication. Interesting Crossword puzzles also appear in each issue.THE HOCKEY NEWS it published for 35 consecutive issues during the season and 5 monthly summer issues. It doesn&rsquo;t matter when you start, you still get your 35 issues.A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.Canadian Remittances&mdash;$3.00 Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order.U. S. A. Remittances&mdash;$4.00 Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or personal cheque.Fill In Form Above and Send Postal Note or Money Order &#9632;

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YES, HOCKEY FANS, THE 1954-55 SEASON IS HERE AT LAST

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0524/1106266-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>Pre-Season Roundup</h2>Dear Sirs,I see the hockey season is opening once more, and now is as good a time as any to get a few things off mu chest, and possibly on your presses for public approval.I see hockey as one of the best and fastest games or all sports, but one which is more tolerant of mayhem, deliberate attacks on opponents, malicious and intentional injuries, and outright hooliganism.It&rsquo;s understandable, of course, that great stars, giving their utmost, are at fever pitch and are often hard to control. But men of this calibre are usually sufficiently cooled off by a penalty or two to resume a game of rugged fair play.But there are some players who are not satisfied with breaking the ordinary rules of play but must use violence to justify themselves against an opponent who may have provoked them slightly. I see others who, for a longstanding grudge, will wait the opportunity to resort to foul play as a means of retaliation.I see sadistic spectators enjoying this type of encounter between two rivals, and in some cases, even try by their cheers and encouragement to spur them on to what can result in nothing but hatred, loss of time on the ice and possibly loss of money through fines.I see fans who like a clean, well-played game of rugged hockey who, when tempers flare, sit back hoping that no unnecessary foolish act on the part of the players will cause undue delay In the game or needless bloodshed; but when it does happen, these fans sit back dejectedly or take sides.I see two kinds of publicity for hockey, and of the two I like the type that relays to me selling points of good sportsmanship, hard, rugged games with no quarter given or asked. I like the satisfaction of coming home after a game, be it win, lose or draw, convinced that I saw a good game and not just slaughter at express train speed.I would like to see the referees and general managers empowered to lodge complaints against intentional injuries to the president of the NHL, with the stipulation that after three proven acts of violence toward any other players, the offender is to be penalized by having his contract canceled. He could even be banned from pro hockey for life.Finally, I&rsquo;d like to express my thanks to your paper for its full coverage of my favorite sport.Roger Dubour, Montreal, P.Q.<h2>Waving the Leaf Flag</h2>Dear Sirs:I would like to know if the Toronto Maple Leafs have a fan club, and how I may join it.How about stories about Johnny Bower, Camille Henry, Ted Kennedy and Jean Beliveau? Meanwhile, don&rsquo;t forget to keep up the great work.And to close, you can have your Stanley Cup teams. I&rsquo;ll take the Leafs anytime. In my estimation, they&rsquo;re the best.Helen Close Toronto, Ont.(The Maple Leafs have no official fan club. Stories on the stars mentioned will appear in forthcoming issues, and for mention of Camille Henry, see page 12 of this issue.)Dear Sirs,I have enjoyed THE HOCKEY NEWS very much since I started getting it about three years ago. There is one item I would like to see added, however. It is the listing of players that are on the ice for each team when a goal is scored.This would give a good indication as to the overall and not merely the scoring ability of a player and would tend to give credit to a lot of players who make scoring plays possible but seldom get in on the actual goal or assists.It also would give credit to defensive specialists whose job it is to check players like Howe and Richard. These figures could be totaled and listed each week in the scoring standings to help fans rate the overall ability of the players and especially the defensive ability of the defensemen.Keep up the good work.Robert C. Tuer, Detroit, Mich.<h2>Keeping Up To Date</h2>Dear Sirs,&ldquo;During the past hockey season it was a pleasure to read THE HOCKEY NEWS each week, as it kept us up to date on all the events of the world of ice, as well as giving the very interesting personal facts on numerous players.But, 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 marvelous lift to read what is going on during the summer.Here is one item I hold against your paper. There is too little on junior hockey. In Montreal, for example, 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 plans for this summer were published This was a most interesting feature, and may I suggest your covering something similar in the next few publications.Once again, I thank you for keeping us informed on our favorite sport, when most people are concentrating on baseball.Patricia Butler, Montreal, P.Q.(Because of space limitations, hockey news must be treated ac-cording to its general interest. But we&rsquo;ll do our best to give junior league as much of a break as we can this winter.)<h2>Too Much Bickering</h2>Dear Sirs:Congratulations on your fine coverage of the past season. Your paper is definitely in the big leagues. Wish I could say the same about the hockey owners and players. They are losing more fans than they are making.There is too much bickering, and slandering of officials. They should uniform the referees in circus-clown suits, for they are only puppets performing in a carnival under the auspices of Messrs Selke, Adams and Smythe.What really made it a three-ring circus was when Mr. Smythe openly wrote in your letter box that the 70-game schedule winner meant very little. We Statesiders have often wondered if that was true, and now Mr. Smythe cleared it up openly and perfectly. I have cancelled my three-seat season pass for next season. What&rsquo;s the use?Hockey should put those three down a few pegs and give their president complete charge.As for handshakes, I think Montreal &ldquo;goofed&rdquo; there. The Cleveland Brown pro football team had no love for our Detroit Lions, yet they were out to the last man in extending the customary hand.Come on, Canada. Your game is bigger than three men.Ted Lyons Detroit, Mich.<h2>Shut-in Wants Mail</h2>Dear Sirs,I&rsquo;d be very thankful indeed It you&rsquo;d be kind enough to publish my letter in your Fan Forum column.Unfortunately, I&rsquo;m not one of those hockey fans who can get out and around much, being afflicted with a heart ailment which keeps me in bed most of the time.Because of this, I find myself with a lot of time on my hands, and would appreciate it very much if all you good hockey fans who are interested in correspondence would get in touch with me. I can assure you that I&rsquo;ll answer each and every letter.I have some hockey photos and. programmes that I&rsquo;d like to exchange. While I&rsquo;m on the subject of writing, I&rsquo;d like to thank all those who have written in the last year.My address is P.O. Box 119 Hepburn, Sask.Simon P. Doell, Hepburn, Sask.<div class="sidebar">Sports College has tested and approves BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tope. &#9632;</div>

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THE FAN FORUM

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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE SCHEDULE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01166/1106432-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"></div><h2>&mdash;1947&mdash;</h2>Played at Toronto, October 13, a crowd of 14,169 contributed a gross gate of $25,865.40. Score was 4-3 for the All-Stars.<h3>NHL ALL-STARS:</h3>Goal, Durnan (Canadiens), J. Stewart (Detroit) and Quackenbush (Detroit); Forwards, &Mu;. Bentley (Chicago), D. Bentley (Chicago), Mosienko (Chicago), Warwick (Rangers). Richard (Canadiens), Laprade (Rangers), Lindsay (Detroit), Dumart (Boston), Schmidt (Boston), Bauer (Boston) and Leswick (Rangers). Coach, Dick Irvin (Canadiens).<h3>TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS:</h3>Goal, Broda; Defence, Goldham, Stanoswki, Mortson, Thomson and Barilko; Forwards, Watson, N. Metz, Poile, Kennedy, Apps, Ezinicki, Lynn, Meeker, G. Stewart. Klukay and Mackell. Coach, Hap Day.Referee. King Clancy: Linesmen, Ed Mepham and Jim Primeau.<h2>&mdash;1948&mdash;</h2>Played at Chicago, November 3, a crowd of 12, 794 contributed a gross gate of $23,018. Score was 3-1 for the All-Stars.<h3>NHL ALL-STARS</h3>Goal, Brimsek (Boston) and Durnan (Canadiens); defence, J. Stewart (Detroit), Quackenbush (Detroit), Colville (Rangers), Reardon (Canadiens) and Bouchard (Canadiens); forwards, Lindsay (Detroit), I). Bentley (Chicago), Richard (Canadiens), Laprade (Rangers), Howe (Detroit), G. Stewart (Chicago), Dumart (Boston), Schmidt (Boston), Lach (Canadiens), Leswick (Rangers) and Poile (Chicago). Coach, Tommy Ivan (Detroit).<h3>TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS:</h3>Goal, Broda; defence, Thomson, Mortson. Boesch, Barilko, Mathers and Jnzda; forwards, Watson, M. Bentley, Klukay, Kennedy, Meeker, Ezinicki, Costello, Mackell and Gardner. Coach, Hap Day.Referee, Bill Chadwick; linesmen, Sam Babcock and Mush March.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02116/1106425-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="1096" height="304"></div><h2>&mdash;1949&mdash;</h2>Played at Toronto, October 10, a crowd of 13,541 contributed a gross gate of $25,920.75. Score was 3-1 for the All-Stars.<h3>NHL ALL-STARS:</h3>Goal, Durnan (Canadiens) and Rayner (Rangers); defence, Stewart (Detroit); Goldham (Chicago), Egan (Rangers), Quackenbush (Boston), Harmon (Canadiens) and Reardon (Canadiens); forwards, O&rsquo;Connor (Rangers), R. Conacher (Chicago), D. Bentley (Chicago), Mosienko (Chicago), Richard (Canadiens), Laprade (Rangers), Abel (Detroit), Howe (Detroit), Lindsay (Detroit), Leswick (Rangers) and Ronty (Boston). Coach, Tommy Ivan (Detroit).<h3>TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS:</h3>Goal. Broda; defence, Thomson, Boesch, Jnzda and Barilko; forwards, Watson, &Mu;. Bentley, Klukay, Meeker, Lynn, Mackell, Kennedy, Gardner, Timgren. Dawes and Smith. Coach, Hap Day.Referee, Bill Chadwick; linesmen, Ed Mepham and Jim Primeau.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0386/1106418-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="1100" height="238"></div><h2>&mdash;1950&mdash;</h2>Played at Detroit, October 8, a crowd of 9,166 contributed a gross gate of $17,512.80. Score was 7-1 for the Detroit Red Mings.Goal, Rayner (Rangers) and Broda (Toronto); defence, Stewart (Chicago), Mortson (Toronto), Thomson (Toronto), Harmon (Canadiens), Quackenbush (Boston) and Bouchard (Canadiens), Laprade (Rangers), Kennedy (Toronto), Leewick (Rangers), Ronty (Boston), Peirson (Boston) and Smith (Toronto). Conch, Lynn Patrick (Boston).<h3>DETROIT RED WINGS:</h3>Goal, Sawchuck; defence, Goldham, Kelly, Reise, Fogolin, Pronovost; forwards, Lindsay, Gee, Howe, Peters, Stewart, Abel, Prystai, Pavelich, McFadden, Carveth, Black. Coach, Tommy Ivan.Referee, George Gravel; linesmen, George Hayes and Doug Young.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0456/1106411-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="1104" height="360"></div><h2>&mdash;1951&mdash;</h2>Played at Toronto, October 9, a crowd of 11,455 contributed a gross gate of $25,259.75. First All-Stars team against second with first team being augmented by players from the four American clubs and the second by players from the two Canadian clubs. Score was 2-2 tie.<h3>FIRST TEAM:</h3>Goal, Sawchuck (Detroit) and Lumley (Chicago); defence, Kelly (Detroit), Quackenbush (Boston), Eddolls (New York), Fogolin (Chicago) Dewsbury (Chicago); forwards, Schmidt (Boston), Howe (Detroit), Raleigh (New York), Sandford (Boston), D. Bentley (Chicago), Bodnar (Chicago), Peirson (Boston), Sinclair (New York), Stewart (New York).<h3>SECOND TEAM:</h3>Goal, Rayner (New York) and McNeil (Montreal); defence, Thomson, (Toronto), Reise (Detroit), Bouchard (Montreal), Harvey (Montreal), Mortson (Toronto); forwards, Kennedy (Toronto), Richard (Montreal), Smith (Toronto), &Mu;. Bentley (Toronto), Sloan (Toronto), Watson (Toronto), Mosdell (Montreal), Curry (Montreal), Meger (Montreal).Referee. Bill Chadwick: linesmen, Sam Babcock, Bill Morrison.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0532/1106404-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="1098" height="264"></div><h2>&mdash;1952&mdash;</h2>Played at Detroit, October 5, a crowd of 10,680 contributed a gross gate of $17,469.76. Score was First Team 1, Second Team 1.<h3>FIRST TEAM:</h3>Goal, Sawchuk, (Detroit); defence, Kelly (Detroit), Harvey (Canadiens), Mortson, (Chicago), Quackenbush (Boston), Reice (Rangers), Goldham (Detroit); forwards, Lach (Canadiens), Howe (Detroit), Lindsay (Detroit), Creighton (Boston), Sandford (Boston), Pavelich (Detroit), Mosienko (Chicago), Leswick (Detroit) and Sinclair (Detroit). Coach, Tommy Ivan (Detroit).<h3>SECOND TEAM:</h3>Goal, Henry (Boston) and McNeil (Canadiens); defence, Thomson (Toronto), Buller (Rangers), Johnson (Canadiens), Flaman (Toronto), Bouchard (Canadiens); forwards, Schmidt (Boston), Richard (Canadiens), Smith (Toronto), Watson (Toronto), Geoffrion (Canadiens), Sloan (Toronto), Curry (Canadiens), Reay (Canadiens), Mosdell (Canadiens) and Meger (Canadiens). Coach, Dick Irvin (Canadiens).<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-108/1106397-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="1110" height="340"></div><h2>&mdash;1953</h2>Played at Montreal, October 3, a crowd of 14,153 contributed a gross gate of $26,794.90. Score was 3-1 for the All-Stars.<h3>NHL All-Stars:</h3>Goal, Sawchuk (Detroit); defence. Kelly (Detroit), Quackenbush (Boston, Gadsby (Chicago), Thomson (Toronto), Heise (Rangers), Mortson (Chicago); forwards, Howe (Detroit), Lindsay (Detroit), Delvecchio (Detroit), Sandford (Boston), Smith (Toronto), Prystat (Detroit), Hergesheimer (Rangers), Mosienko (Chicago), Ronty (Rangers), Watson (Toronto). Coach, Lynn Patrick (Boston).<h3>Montreal Canadiens:</h3>Goal, McNeil; defence, Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, Macpherson; forwards, Moore, Carry, Olmstead, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Gamble, Richard, MacKay, Lach, McCormach, Mosdell, Meger, Davis, Mazur. Coach, Dick Inin.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-118/1106390-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="1101" height="406"></div> &#9632;

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Past Seven Games

<h2>BAILEY BENEFIT</h2>Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens, February 14, 1934 Toronto 6, All-Stars 3All-Stars: Goal, Gardiner (Chicago) defence, Johnson (Rangers), Shore (Boston); centre, Marenz (Montreal); Wings, W. Cook (Rangers), Joliat (Montreal); subs., Shields, Conacher, Dutton, Smith, Ward, Stewart (Maroons); Aurie, Lewis (Detroit); Himes, Finnigan (Ottawa).Toronto: Goal, Hainsworth; defence, Clancy, Horner; center, Primean; Wings, Sands, Jackson; subs., Day, Levinsky, C. Conacher, Blair, Cotton, Doraty, Kilrea, Boll, Thoma.Referees: Mike Rodden and Bobby Hewitson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0627/1106477-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="542" height="610"></div><h2>MORENZ MEMORIAL</h2>Montreal Forum, November 3, 1937 All-Stars 6, Montreal 5All-Stars: Goal, Thompson (Boston); defence. Goodfellow (Detroit); Horner (Toronto); center, Boucher (Rangers); Wings, March (Chicago), Shriner (Americans). Subs., Smith, Barry (Detroit); Shore, Clapper, (Boston); Conacher, Jackson (Toronto); Chapman, Day (Americans); Gottselig (Chicago); Dillon (Rangers).Montreal: Goal, Cude (Canadiens); defense, Siebert (Canadiens); center, Blinco (Maroons); Wentworth (Maroons); Wings, Gagnon (Canadiens); Northcott, (Maroons); subs., Beveridge, Clancy, Ward, Robinson, Trottier (Maroons); Joliat, Buswell, Lepine, Haynes, Blake, Mantha (Canadiens).Referees: Albert Leduc, Mickey Lon, Eusebe Daignault.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0722/1106470-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="552" height="610"></div><h2>SIEBERT MEMORIAL</h2>Montreal Forum, October 29, 1939 All-Stars 5, Canadiens 2All-Stars: Goal, Brimsek (Boston); defence, Goodfellow (Detroit), Seibert (Chicago); center, N. Colville (Rangers); Wings. Drillon (Toronto) Anderson (Americans); subs., Shore, Clapper, Bauer (Boston); Coulter (Rangers); Gottselig (Chicago); Jackson (Americans); Howe (Detroit); Apps (Toronto).Canadiens: Goal, Cude; defence, Buswell, Wentworth; center, Getliffe; Wings, Blake, Robinson; subs., Drouin, Lorran, Trudel, Young, Haynes, Mantha, Gagnon, Goupille, Mou-dou.Referees: Bill Stewart and King Clancy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0817/1106463-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="554" height="654"></div> &#9632;

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The First Three Benefit Games

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All-Star Game History in a Nutshell

Leading Scorers and penalty men in past seven All-Star games:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-12/1106539-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="584" height="1187"></div> &#9632;

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Ted Lindsay Heads Parade Of Scorers In All-Stars

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Having failed to snap the first twig he trod as a Maple Leaf coach, Francis Clancy this year steps onto a higher limb.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll finish one, two or I&rsquo;ll take a kick in the pants,&rdquo; he says, omitting the &ldquo;or three&rdquo; of last season&rsquo;s prediction since that station was attained.It will not likely be necessary to express concern over the Ir-repressible Irishman&rsquo;s posterior. He has a club which would indeed be unfortunate if it did not at least place in the 1954-55 NHL derby.If the King has a real problem at all, it will be pairing his defense. He has six outstanding candidates and will require only five.Clancy&rsquo;s senior officers, General Manager Conn Smythe, and Assistant GM Hap Day will likely attend to the problem for him. But even they should lose some sleep since any one of Tim Horton, Jim Thomson, Jim Morrison, Leo Boivin, Hugh Bolton and rookie Larry Cahan would be well worth the $15,000 waiver price to some other NHL club if Leafs can find no way to avoid removing him from the protected list.Up front, King has a more experienced attacking system than in his freshman year. And in the nets&mdash;well, Harry Lumley won the Vezina Trophy, didn&rsquo;t he?At least two newcomers and possibly three seem destined to stick. Dave Creighton, acquired on a mid-summer trade wind from Boston for Fern Flaman and cash, is one. The other is rookie Brian Cullen, who scored a record 68 goals and 161 points while leading St. Catharines&rsquo; OHA Junior A club to the Memorial Cup last year, and who won the Red Tilson Memorial Trophy as the league&rsquo;s MVP.If Larry Cahan, up from Pittsburgh Hornets, also sticks, it may be less because he&rsquo;s ready for the NHL than because he is an exceptional prospect who shouldn&rsquo;t be set out Into the wild hockey woods without a &ldquo;protected by Toronto&rdquo; stamp.The rest of the defense staff has shown no inclination at training camp to make room for Cahan, however. Jim Thomson and Hugh Bolton have provided the tightest defensive combination, Bolton becoming more and more like a youthful Bob Goldham by utilizing his exceptional reach as a second goaltender. And Thomson is showing the flash and savvy that preceded his injury last year. And wonder of wonders, this pair has also shown some scoring power too.Horton and Morrison are the free-wheelers and indicate they will resume their scoring habit where they left off last year as the highest scoring Leaf blueliners in a decade.Boivin and Cahan are the bashers. The lion-hearted Leo has distributed more bruises per head than anyone in camp and shows a greater tendency to calculate his moves before barging this year. Cahan, as solid as a steel door, is chiefly lacking experience. But he&rsquo;s big, at 199&frac34; pounds, solid and fast&mdash;fast enough to beat the jet-tubed Sid Smith on occasion in wind sprints.The front line received its biggest boost when Smythe gave Ted Kennedy the arguments and cash to bring him back to the game. The man who has given out with every ounce of his energy for the past 11 years, has an additional 112 ounces to give with this year.Reunited with left winger Sid Smith and right winger Ron Stewart, he leaves no question mark about Leafs&rsquo; front line.Smith, Harry Watson and Eric Nesterenko are the trio from which Clance expects 20-goal seasons.If The King is as right as he has been in the past, Nesterenko will celebrate his first such success. He looked like a victim of the sophomore jinx in mid-season last year, but has shown the speed and a new inclination to stick to his wing that should give him a fast start.He has been placed on the right wing of a new Kid Line with Centre Bob Bailey and left winger Creighton. Bailey, 12 pounds heavier than last year (now 197) is showing the form that inspired so many superlatives about his late surge last year. Creighton, however, has been slow so far in adapting himself to the Leaf system and in learning to patrol his position. But as a 20-goal man with Boston last season, he has to be an asset when he does master the Leaf style.As for the SAW line of Tod Sloan, George Armstrong and Harry Watson, It&rsquo;s as smooth as ever. And it was the club&rsquo;s big pointmaker last season.Rudy Migay, the tireless workhorse, is fighting Cullen for the fourth centre spot. The rookie is encountering the inevitable junior&rsquo;s trouble in adapting himself to the faster, tighter-checking pro game. But he has proved in practise that he can still score goals.Gord Hannigan is a slow starter at left wing and Bob Sabourin at right has shown the ability, but not enough desire to please Day.Another sub-par record at camp belongs to Lumley, who just happens to be the key man. But Lum is a notoriously slow starter and so doesn&rsquo;t cause too much concern. And in the chuckling chap&rsquo;s favor is his new weight, a positively emaciated 200 pounds.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01151/1106577-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="574" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body">KING CLANCY</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02131/1106570-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="576" height="754"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRIAN CULLEN</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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KING MAY GET BIG KICK IF LEAF PROPHECY FAILS

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div>MONTREAL, Que&mdash;As his team prepares with autumnal exuberance for the opening of the National Hockey League season on October 7, Coach Dick Irvin of the Canadiens wears the doleful expression of a man beset by grave and almost insoluble problems.He has a weight problem. Most of his players reported with excess poundage on their frames.He has a centre ice problem as he seeks an adequate replacement for Elmer Lach, the smooth play-maker who has stepped jauntily into the athletic Valhalla.He also has a problem arising out of early injuries as both Eddie Mazur, a raw-boned left winger, and little Donnie Marshall, one of his best centre ice prospects, will miss the first six weeks of the season.Irvin can do something about the weight. He subscribes whole-heartedly to the theory that there is no substitute for hard work and there is nothing like hard practices to reduce avoid upoids.It is the other matters that concern him most as the Habs tour the Maritimes to prep for their opening engagement against the improved Chicago Black Hawks at the Forum.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0486/1106674-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="282" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Elmer Lach</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0569/1106667-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="276" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Marshall</figcaption></div><h2>Mosdell, Gros Bill, Masnick Prospects</h2>With Marshall out of action with a cracked tibia (don&rsquo;t rush to the dictionary; that&rsquo;s the main bone of the leg) Irvin still has two candidates for the centre spot along with three of last season&rsquo;s regulars&mdash;Kenny Mosdell, the All-Star pivot, Jean Beliveau, the club&rsquo;s top scorer in pre-season drills, and Paul Masnick, one of the stars of last spring&rsquo;s Stanley Cup games.Gone, of course, are Lach, now coach of the junior Canadiens, and Johnny McCormack, who was grabbed by the eager Black Hawks for $15,000 at the recent NHL draft meeting. The Goose, whose stock In trade includes a devastating sweep check and a nimble wit, was the only unprotected player to switch uniforms.Marshall, voted the American Hockey League&rsquo;s most valuable rookie last season with Buffalo, cracked his leg near the ankle in a tangle with Bucky Holling-worth, a rookie defenseman from the Royals. In hospital he joined Mazur, who has undergone surgery on his right knee. Plagued by a floating cartilage, which misbehaved in the first practice, the Spider is expected to miss six weeks of the new campaign. And Marshall, whose leg will be In a cast for a month, is expected to be out just as long.Skippy Burchell, a Royal lightweight who has had a few lend-lease spells with the Habs, was hoisted to the big team, joining Jackie Leclair as a prospective centre. Leclair was acquired by the Pittsburgh Hornets in the deal that sent Brian Cullen, the St. Catharines&rsquo; junior sensation, to the Toronto Maple Leafs.Irvin has been using both Burchell and Leclair with Maurice Richard, hockey&rsquo;s all-time high scorer, and the self-sacrificing Bert Olmstead on a revamped Punch Line. They have worked too with Eddie Litzenberger and Paul Meger.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0661/1106660-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="282" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Beliveau</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0753/1106653-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="276" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Mosdell</figcaption></div><h2>Other Lines Remain Intact</h2>Irvin&rsquo;s two other lines&mdash;the Sizzle crew of Beliveau, Dickie Moore and Boom Boom Geoffrion and the Wrecker Line of Mosdell with Calum MacKay and Floyd Curry&mdash;have remained intact except for a few experimental shuffles.Masnick has worked with several combinations although the temporary loss of big, blond Lorne Davis with a painful shoulder injury, described as a pinched nerve, has retarded&bull; the coach&rsquo;s plans.Once Irvin tried a combination of Beliveau, Geoffrion and Meger.&ldquo;I thought I had a great line,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They scored six goals, all dandies. Believe me, they were really flying and I saw a tinge of red, white and blue on the Stanley Cup.&ldquo;Then what-happened? Well, I revived the Wrecker Line and put them against the Beliveau line. The kids were held scoreless while the Wreckers picked up three goals.&rdquo;Those are the problems a coach faces in training camp. But Irvin, a shrewd judge of talent, likely will resolve them all before the opening game.NOTES AND JOTTINGS: Dickie Moore missed several of the early workouts. His mother died suddenly just a few hours before he was scheduled to report. It was a sad note to mar the start of a new campaign&hellip;Beliveau checked in at 221 pounds, the heaviest man in camp. Marshall was the lightest at 159&hellip;Four players have been released to the Royals&mdash;Gary Blaine, who was with the QHL farm club last season; Guy Talbot, with the Quebec Aces last season; Bob Turner, who played defense for the Regina Pats; and Kelly Burnett, acquired in a deal with Syracuse. Burnett is happy about his transfer to Montreal as he is assistant pro at the Summerlea Golf Club in nearby Lachine in the summer&hellip;Bert Olmstead flew in from Scepter, Sask., without harvesting his precious wheat crop. He had to arrange for others to do the reaping as rains had delayed the harvest.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0848/1106646-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="278" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Calum McKay</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0948/1106639-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="284" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Floyd Curry</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Doleful Dick Views Habs With Alarm, Sees Problems Galore

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;Even before the Detroit Red Wing fall training camp started here at Pullar Stadium, General Manager Jack Adams had a warning: &ldquo;There will be fewer new faces in the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; lineup than at any other time in their championship span.&rdquo; This meant a tremendous struggle for key positions on the different lines among the established stars themselves, but more exciting, an intense fight for one open rearguard location and the vacancy left by the departure of Jimmy Peters.With this advance warning 88 players got down to the esrious business of nabbing positions on the world-champion Wings, their top farm club, Edmonton Flyers, and two junior squads, Edmonton Oil Kings and Hamilton.<h2>Don Poile Makes Bld</h2>Of all the newcomers to hit the well-organized camp, young Don Poile, brother of Bud Poile and a Rookie of the Year with Edmonton last sea-son was the first to start the railbirds talking. Marcil Bonin, who played with the Wings for two-thirds of the 52-53 season, then all of the 53-54 season with Ed-monton, served notice he was going to give Poile a hard fight for a forward position. In connection with the one open defense spot, it was between Al Arbour, Jim (Red Eye) Hay and Keith Allan.So, the stage was set!And right in this tense situation, in the camp of the World Champions, sat Jimmy Skinner&mdash;a newcomer himself. Many observers felt loquacious, volatile Jimmy compared himself to a guy thrown into a lions&rsquo; den. Tommy Ivan left behind a remarkable record as coach and now Jimmy had to produce to maintain the powerful Detroit championship drive. As the camp wore on, it became obvious that Jimmy Skinner had the makings. He won the respect of his players, knew how to handle his men and could be a hard taskmaster. Looking down on the camp was Jack Adams, one of the greatest figures big-time hockey has ever seen. What would happen? Who would come out on top? What would the Wings look like on opening night?<h2>Alec Delvecchio Moves In</h2>Of course, much of the attention of the hundreds of hockey fans from the Michigan and Canadian sides of St. Mary&rsquo;s River centred on the Production line. Last year, Earl Reibel captured the prized position between two of the greatest hockey players the game has ever known&mdash;Captain Ted Lindsay and Gordie Howe. Through the season he was injured, replaced by Lelvecchio and saw the Lakehead flash star the rest of the season, especially in the playoffs. As the camp opened, Delvecchio started out between Lindsay and Howe, held on so tenaciously to the pivot location, played so well in camp and during the exhibition games that as the camp broke up, Jimmy Skinner told The Hockey News: &ldquo;Delvecchio will definitely start the season betwen Lindsay and Howe.&rdquo;So, that settled the Big Line!Now for the second line. Skinner had a bigger problem here. He eased into the problem and formed a line composed of Metro Prystai at centre with Johnny Wilson and Bill Dineen on the wings. Skinner was quick to point out this unit could be changed around considerably relative to the second-line business. Another line had the immensely-popular Marty (Sabu) Pavelich playing with Glenn Skov and Lon Poile. This line went so well it appeared at the end of the first week it may edge the others out for the number two rating. But, another line also looked good, including veteran, scrappy Tony Leswick, Earl Reibel and Marcil Bonin. So, you can see Skinner&rsquo;s dilemna with one week gone.<h2>The Picture Gets Clear</h2>Gradually the picture came into focus. There seemed to be something missing in each of the three lines&mdash;that extra &ldquo;something&rdquo; which makes the difference between greatness and average-rating. Skinner moved quickly and made changes. He took Leswick away from Reibel and Bonin to move him into another line with Pavelich and Skov. Presto, railbirds saw the same line that played such an important role in Detroit&rsquo;s march to the Stanley Cup last season. And this was a break for Pavelich because &ldquo;Sabu&rdquo; is dreaming of getting 20 goals this season. He feels that by lining up on a second attacking force along with Skov and Leswick he can do it. Just as soon as this line started to roll, everyone in camp felt Detroit had a line which is going to score plenty of goals for the world champions. Leswick was particularly frisky all through camp.&ldquo;This is line will score a lot of goals for us,&rdquo; said Skinner. &ldquo;Skov, in my book, is one of the most improved players in hockey today.&rdquo;With two good, solid lines going, with Howe and Lindsay almost certain to have another superlative season, with Delvecchio looking better than ever in his fourth season with the. Wings, Skinner could settle down and worry about the rest of the team. Metro Prystai, one of the few players in the Detroit lineup who has not progressed through the Red Wing farm system, found himself on a line with Bill Dineen and Johnny Wilson. In one tough scrimmage, Metro blasted five goals and toward the end of the second week of camp was being hailed, &ldquo;better than ever.&rdquo; He worked in like a glove with Dineen and Wilson and this combination appeared set to take over the third-line slot as the camp broke up.Where did all this leave Earl (Dutch) Reibel? He gained glory&rsquo; as the hub of the Big Line at the start of last season, but at this camp he was apparently destined to play a different role on the NHL stage. He started out slow at camp, but quickly started to show the same brilliance he dis-played last season after the first week. Poile and Bonin worked with Reibel on the wings to make up a fourth line. Skinner said he felt Reibel was one of the finest defensive forwards in the game today and would likely see considerable action as utility forward. Poile was digging in all this time realizing it was going to take a good fight to nab a berth on the champions&rsquo; roster.&ldquo;Poile is a hard-worker, he wants to make good and he has the ability,&rdquo; said Jack Adams. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m looking forward to great things from Don.&rdquo;<h2>No Worries on Defense</h2>I left the matter of the Detroit defense until the last of this article simply because it&rsquo;s still the best in the business and Adams is not worrying one bit about it. With fellows like Red Kelly, rated the greatest defenseman of all time with Detroit, Bob Goldham going into his 11th year of major hoc-key, Marcel Pronovost looking better than he ever did, and rugged, hard-driving Genny Woit, Detroit had four of the finest in their training camp.<h2>Heads Will Fall</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01166/1106719-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="574" height="892"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK ADAMS</figcaption></div><h2>Wants a Job</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03111/1106712-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="588" height="609"><figcaption class="caption-body">KEITH ALLEN</figcaption></div><h2>Watch This Line!</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02131/1106705-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="1132" height="1010"><figcaption class="caption-body">Howe, Lindsay and new centre Delvecchio</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Wings Wage Epic Struggle To Nail Down Key Positions

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:&ldquo;Gone With The Wind,&rdquo; &ldquo;The War of the Worlds&rdquo; & Walt Disney&rsquo;s &ldquo;Living Desert.&rdquo;BEST ACTRESSES:Joanne Dru & Mona Freeman.BEST ACTORS:Robert Taylor & Tyrone Power.BEST GIRL VOCALIST:Kay Starr.BEST MALE VOCALIST:Walther Ludwig, an Austrian tenor who sings with the Wurtemberg State Orchestra in Stuttgart.FAVORITE TYPE OF MUSIC:Likes everything from swing to opera, but has a decided preference for the classical type.BEST CLASSICAL COMPOSITION:Anything by Mozart.BEST POPULAR COMPOSITION:Stan Freiberg&rsquo;s &ldquo;C&rsquo;est Si Bon.&rdquo;FAVORITE ORCHESTRAS:The original Glenn Miller band & the London Philharmonic.BEST COMPOSER:Mozart.LIKES TO READ:Books on the Civil War.BEST RADIO PROGRAM:&ldquo;Classical Concert&rdquo; from WQXR New York.BEST TV PROGRAMS:&ldquo;Dragnet,&rdquo; Arthur Godfrey & &ldquo;Victory at Sea.&rdquo;FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:His own cottage&mdash;&ldquo;Lazy Bones&rdquo; at Sandy Hook, Manitoba.GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY:Scoring overtime goal against Detroit in play-offs of 1949-50.IN THE SUMMER:Lives in Winnipeg and plays golf & baseball.SUPERSTITION:Always takes first shot in the pre-game warm-ups.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0482/1106750-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="276" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">DON RALEIGH</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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INSIDE STUFF

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;It Was only a short time after his arrival in Chicago to become manager of the Black Hawks when Tommy Ivan was asked how many goals he thought the club would have to score to safely leave the accustomed quarters in the National Hockey League cellar. His answer was rather magical 200.To reach such a peak, the team will have to better alst season&rsquo;s output of 133 by a full third and such an achievement might well send them right to the top of the NHL heap. It should be remembered that Detroit finished on top in 1953-54 with only 191 markers tallied in its 70 regular games.Two hundred goals aren&rsquo;t, how-ever, as rare a thing as might be suspected. Detroit accounted for 23 6 in 1950-51 and they represent the existing record for the league. The peak effort in the history of the Hawks, 203 in 1949-50, ironically still left the team in the last slot.In breaking down the 200 goals he would like to see Chicago skaters get, Ivan feels he would have to counte on a total of 30 or about six each from the club&rsquo;s five regular defensemen. Assuming that last season&rsquo;s ambitious effort was no accident, this should not be too much to expect at all.The Hawks rearguards were tops in the goal-getting department among such contingents with Capt., Bill Gadsby nabbing 12 of the 28 total. While keeping up such a pace this fall, these blue line clouters are also figured to give Al Rollins considerably more protection in the nets than he received last year.Ivan says he would have to expect around 85 goals from one big forward line with the two other attacking trios getting 45 or 40 each to lead to a 200-goal campaign. With the genius he has exhibited before in developing stars, there are many who feel that 200 goals wouldn&rsquo;t be out of the reach of any team he handled.And as Frank Eddolls, the new coach, points out, &ldquo;We can be a definite threat all the way if we can get just that little extra effort from each player. Wasn&rsquo;t that basically what got the Black Hawks into the playoffs in such surprising fashion in 1952-53?&rdquo;Tommy is looking to his young group of forwards&mdash;undoubtedly the most youthful in the NHL this year&mdash;with the whole-hearted aim of giving the &ldquo;Windy City&rdquo; the kind of a hockey team that will return thundering crowds to the Chicago Stadium every hockey night.&ldquo;Although it&rsquo;s not official yet, it appears that Bill Mosienko is not coming back for that final fling,&rdquo; states Cice-President Bill Tobin, &ldquo;and that would mean that means every one of our forwards will be under 30. No one can say that we aren&rsquo;t going with the kids&rdquo;.In looking across the docket, we wouldn&rsquo;t hesitate to estimate the average of all the wings centers who&rsquo;ll wear Injun regalia this fall at below 25. A year ago, the Hawks began the season with four front liners over 30 and another three over 25.<h2>200--Or Else</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0570/1106788-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="573" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOMMY IVAN</figcaption></div><h2>Sharp Shooter</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0666/1106781-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="582" height="591"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL GADSBY</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Ivans Magic Figure Could Skyrocket Hawks

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;To score or not to score&mdash;again this season that&rsquo;s the big question with the Boston Bruins.For five consecutive years&mdash;or as long as he has been coaching the Bruins&mdash;Lynn Patrick has been working to develop a sustained offense.During that time Patrick has had some proficient scorers, but seldom has he had more than a couple at a time, and even more rarely has he had the same good scorers from one season to the next.A year ago the Bruins boasted three 20-goal scorers, and while 20 goals does not represent the acme of firepower in these days of the 70-game schedule, it is still a presentable figure.The three were Dave Creighton, a center, and John Peirson and Joe Klukay, both right wings.But when Patrick counted noses at the Bruins&rsquo; Hershey training camp earlier this month he found himself with not three 20-goal holdovers but only one, the veteran Klukay.Creighton was traded to Toronto during the summer for defense-man Ferny Flaman, and Peirson retired to the furniture business.Not only does Patrick face the problem of having to make up for the goals represented by Creighton and Peirson, he actually must find replacements who can better their output of a year ago, for the Bruins were not a high scoring team then.A rundown of the Bruins&rsquo; forward squad seems to indicate that the prospects for offensive improvement may be tied up in three young men. The rise or fall in Bruins&rsquo; punch may depend upon the fortunes of the Messrs. Fleming Mackell, L&eacute;o LaBine and Doug Mohns.Mackell, the scrambling center, was a 27-goal scorer two years ago, but last season his goals total dwindled to 15. More than half the 15 were scored in the last six weeks of the schedule, when he played left wing.LaBine, the picture-skating Tight wing, played his first full Beason with the Bruins a year ago and finished with 16 goals.Mohns, the pink-cheeked left Wing who jumped directly from junior hockey to the National lea-gue, completed his freshman year with 13 goals.As a trio they represent a potential pickup which can create the offensive pressure desired strongly by Patrick.&ldquo;They can end our scoring problems, all right,&rdquo; observed the Bruins&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;My theory has always been that a team needs at least three 20-goal men to get very far, and those three have the possibilities.&ldquo;Mackell had a big season two years ago, and he didn&rsquo;t match it last year. But if he could be a leading scorer once, there&rsquo;s actually no reason why he can&rsquo;t do it again.&ldquo;LaBine gave us a good job last season,&rdquo; continued Patrick, &ldquo;but his scoring percentage was low. Leo missed an awful lot of open nets, as he&rsquo;ll be the first to say. With the full year of experience he has had, he may be able to take better advantage of his openings this year, and if he were to make 20 or more goals I wouldn&rsquo;t be the least bit surprised.<h2>Vastly Improved</h2>&ldquo;Mohns may not have had the greatest rookie year statistically, but his figures are deceiving. This young fellow had to learn the ropes first, and he was a vastly improved player the last half of the season.&ldquo;The thing to remember about Doug is that he had only three goals by New Year&rsquo;s Day, but he scored 10 more from then on. I believe he has the makings of a great scorer, and now he has the experience to go with his ability.&rdquo;Patrick spent much of the time at Hershey experimenting with his forward lines, and he&rsquo;ll probably open the season with all units working on a conditional basis.At last look he had Mackell centering for R&eacute;al Chevrefils and L&eacute;o LaBine, Cal Gardner centering for Lorne Ferguson and Ed Sandford, Don McKenney centering for Mohns and Klukay and Capt. Milt Schmidt and Gus Bodnar working as spares.His only defense pairing with a permanent appearance was that of the giant youngsters, Warren Godfrey and Bob Armstrong. He was using a rotating policy on the veterans Hal Laycoe, Bill Quackenbush and Flaman and young Frank Martin.Just what degree of stability will be attached to Patrick&rsquo;s lines remains to be seen, but it is obvious that the governing factor will be their production&mdash;of goals.<h2>HeWantsPlenty</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0481/1106864-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="580" height="592"><figcaption class="caption-body">LYNN PATRICK</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bruins Lose Two of Three 20 Goal Men As Peirson Quits, Creighton Traded; Joe Klukay Sole Survivor of Trio

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01177/1106916-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAUL RONTY</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The question of who to play with center Paul Ronty is uppermost in the minds of the Rangers&rsquo; brain trust as a new campaign approaches.There were other pre-season problems for Manager Frank Boucher and Coach Muzz Patrick to wrestle with, but most of them seemed inconsequential and easily disposed of.And then there was the brighter side. For instance:Danny Lewicki, acquired from Toronto, flashed brilliantly during the exhibition games.Edgar Laprade was back from the start. Nobody with the Rangers could help but recall how the Blues played the best hockey in the NHL from Jan. 1 on, or just about when Edgar decided on a comeback.The defense corps seemed exceptionally strong with Jack Evans, Harry Howell and Ivan Irwin heading for their best season, and Allan Stanley, Bob Chrystal, Lou Fontinato and Jim Ross battling for two open spots.Nonetheless, the absence of Wally Hergesheimer cast a pall over the Rangers&rsquo; training camp. Hergy&rsquo;s leg fracture in the closing days of the preceding season hadn&rsquo;t fully healed. X-ray pictures made it seem doubtful he would play before Christmas.In his three years with the Rangers, the little right wing has scored 26, 30 and 27 goals, respectively, high mark on the club each season.<h2>Made For Each Other</h2>Even with a succession of different left wings, Ronty and Hergesheimer teamed up as if they were made for each other. Nobody ever completely stopped them. Boston&rsquo;s Lynn Patrick called them the &ldquo;scavenger twins&rdquo; with a touch of acerbity in the beginning. Later he modified the observation.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re scavengers all right,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The best darn scavengers I ever saw.&rdquo;Without Hergesheimer for active duty, at least in the early weeks, the Rangers lose the key to their top scoring line of a year ago and must find two new wings to complement Ronty&rsquo;s skillful forechecking and heady playmaking. Who will it be?In the exhibition games Patrick tried various combinations. He had Dick Gamble, Glen Sonmor and Ron Murphy on Ronty&rsquo;s left flank: Andy Bathgate, Vic Howe and Jackie McLeod on the right.Starting his first full season as an NHL coach, Patrick admitted he had an open mind on all the lads.Gamble, picked up from the Canadiens, was a fast, good-sized winger, but Muzz wondered how well he would team up with Ronty. Sonmor was rugged, earnest, a real digger but lacking in speed. Murphy had the earmarks of greatness but still seemed uncertain of his moves.Bathgate, in the training period, looked like one of the best all-around wings in camp. A star in junior hockey, Andy just missed out in two previous whirls with the Rangers but he came on with pro clubs in Vancouver and Cleveland to display steady improvement. He seems ripe today for the big league.<h2>No Answer Yet</h2>But whether Andy belongs with Ronty rather than Bones Raleigh or Edgar Laprade was a point Patrick could not quite answer yet.Then there was McLeod, an allstar at right wing in the Western League last season while with Saskatoon. McLeod had been dealt off to Cleveland but refused to report. If he can&rsquo;t make the NHL, he prefers the West. Jackie was up before with the Rangers, and the only rap was his brittleness. Now he seems smarter, better equipped to ride with the body blows.Howe, who has lived for many hockey seasons in the shadow of his illustrious older brother, gives off many signs that he is ready to step out on his own. He is tired of all small talk that begins and ends with famous Gordie. Vic has the size, the skating ability, the shot. He could be a big leaguer if he maintains the determination he has shown in the Ranger camp.Of all the forwards, Patrick and Boucher seem most pleased with Lewicki. There are few who can skate with him. And he looks good playing on a left wing with Raleigh at center and Nick Mic-koski switched from the left lane to right.During the training period the Rangers have carried three castoff big leaguers strictly on a look. Eddie Dorohoy, Canadien property; Woody Dumart, a free agent whose entire NHL life was spent with the Bruins, and Fred Glover, Cleveland property who gave some years to Detroit and Chicago. All have a chance of sticking&mdash;Dumart perhaps as a penalty killer to team with Laprade.With a revision in the rules making it possible to play 18 players aside from goalies, two over last year&rsquo;s limit, the Blues may hit the road with as many as 13 forwards.This means four so-called spares over three lines, unless the coach decides on rotating four lines. Thus a player whose sole value might be in diminishing the effects of penalties stands a chance of full employment.The Rangers will also carry their specialist on power plays&mdash;rookie of the year Camille Henry. Camille the Eel bagged 24 goals last season in probably less time than ever was recorded by any 20-goal scorer in NHL history.Darkhorse in the Ranger squad was a swifty from Vancouver, Larry Popein, who should have an &ldquo;m&rdquo; in that name. He is quick and alert and he can &ldquo;pop &rsquo;em in.&rdquo;Of all camp positions, least talked about was goaltending, maybe because it seems the strongest spot on the club. Johnny Bower, who won the job from Lome (Gump) Worsley a year ago. has everything he had then plus a touch of assurance. And colorful Gump, most valuable player in the Western League last year, is making Bower work hard for retention. In the opinion of most scouts, Worsley was the best goal-tender in the minors last season.Defections in the Ranger ranks via retirements have bothered Boucher only because they make it that much tougher to care for minor league affiliates&hellip;Leo Reise, a Ranger for two years, indicated he was more Interested in a coaching Job than in playing NHL hockey&hellip;Eddie Kullman forwarded his request to be retired, too&hellip;First Ranger casualty of the training period was the coach. Patrick got jammed against the boards and cracked two ribs during a workout. And Muzz looked young and svelte enough to play hockey again&hellip;Rangers spent first week of training in Kamloops, B.C., then transferred headquarters to Vancouver where Coley Hall and Art Chapman proved wonderful hosts&hellip;Mild climate on West Coast came closest to approximating weather conditions in New York.<h2>Pre-Season Problem</h2><h2>Best Season Ahead?</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02129/1106909-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="1158" height="1852"><figcaption class="caption-body">IVAN IRWIN</figcaption></div><h2>He&rsquo;ll Be Slow Starter</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03107/1106902-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="1179" height="1666"><figcaption class="caption-body">WALLY HERGESHEIMER</figcaption></div><h2>Power Packer</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0480/1106895-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="592" height="1196"><figcaption class="caption-body">CAMILLE HENRY</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PARTNER FOR RONTY PATRICK’S POSER

HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Although neither Lynn Patrick nor Murray Henderson will venture a prediction at this early date as to how their clubs might finish in the forthcoming hockey wars, they are certain that if spirit and enthusiasm have anything to do with it, both will have teams in the thick of the National and American Hockey League flag chases.As the Boston Bruins and Hershey Bears moved toward the end of their first week&rsquo;s training grind, both were impressed with the vim and vigor displayed by rookies and veterans alike as they battled for regular jobs. Harold Cotton, Bruin scout, likewise was highly pleased and predicted that the Bears will start slow, but gradually pick up momentum as the rookies gain experience.Cotton, it will be remembered, made a similar forecast a year ago, which was borne out. He based his prediction then on the fact that youngsters like Don McKenny, Skip Teal, Lorne Watters, Arnott Whitney and Ralph Willis would meet AHL standards as they learned the ropes of the pro game.This season, Cotton is again high on the amateurs he picked up on his winter tour of the Canadian provinces, and the reliable hockey ivory hunter believes such newcomers as Bob Attersly, Jim Robertson, Fred Pletsch, Ed Nicholson and Stan Parker will plug the gaps left by the departure of such Hershey stalwarts as Red Sullivan and Murray Costello and possibly Don McKenney, Lome Ferguson and Dune Fisher.The Bears may get some help on the defense, too, with kids like Don Cherry, up from the Barry Flyers, and Lionel Heinrich, late of the Humbolt Indians, as likely prospects. Heinrich has looked particularly impressive, playing on both the blue line and up front. A husky lad of 20, Heinrich is touted as one of the top prospects of all Canada by Scotty Munro, his coach at Humbolt last year. &#9632;

Rookies, Vets Go All Out For Posts with Bears, Bruins

<div class="byline">By JACK HOGAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01184/1106947-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">STEWART puts his name on the dotted line to the unaffected delight of Fred Hunt, Bison General Manager, and Lou Jacobs (standing).</figcaption></div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;The choice of Gaye Stewart as coach of the Buffalo Bisons, defending American League champions, came as no particular surprise.While Buffalo General Manager Fred Hunt had a field of over a dozen candidates from which to pick his man, Stewart stood head and shoulders above the group for a number of reasons.His popularity with the Buffalo fans, whose respect he won by his all-out play last year after starring for many years in the National League, was no small factor. Then too, his long tenure in the NHL enabled Stewart to absorb the teachings of such coaches as Hapy Day, Dick Irvin, Tommy Ivan, and Lynn Patrick.Add to this Gaye&rsquo;s own desire to embark on a coaching career, and it&rsquo;s easy to understand why Hunt picked him to succeed Frankie Eddolls at the helm of the club he captained last season.Hunt, in revealing his choice recently, praised Stewart as &ldquo;the type of man a father could justifiably point out to his son and tell him to emulate him.&rdquo;&ldquo;Through Gaye&rsquo;s long association with hockey, he has always conducted himself in such a manner as to bring credit on the game and himself. He has proven his ability as a player and I believe he&rsquo;ll be equally as successful as a coach. At least, he certainly deserves the opportunity.&ldquo;Frankly, I&rsquo;m more concerned over seeing that Gaye has the material to produce a winner than I am over Gaye himself. I&rsquo;m sure he&rsquo;ll hold up his end.&rdquo;<h2>Had Meteoric Career</h2>Stewart had a meteoric rise as a player, starting the 1941-42 season with the Toronto Marlboro Juniors, moving up to the Seniors, then the Hershey Bears, and finally playing one Stanley Cup game with the Maple Leafs.The next season, he was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL&rsquo;s &ldquo;Rookie of the Year&rdquo; as he established himself with Toronto by scoring 24 goals and 23 assists for 47 points in 48 games.The long-striding Port Arthur. Ont. native flicked 37 goals into Maple Leaf opponent goals during the 1945-46 campaign to lead the NHL in that department and set a team record that stands today.During his 8&frac12; years with Toronto, Chicago, Detroit and New York, he scored 20 or more goals five times, and in 1946-47 missed by a single tally.<h2>Twice An All-Star</h2>His unquestioned ability to put the puck past enemy goalers twice earned Stewart the left wing position in NHL All-Star teams and last year on the AHL top sextet with Buffalo.At a press luncheon shortly after his hiring to coach the Bisons, Stewart expressed elation over &ldquo;the opportunity to coach in a city I learned to like so well last year.&rdquo;&ldquo;It has been pointed out to me that the last two Buffalo coaches&mdash;Fred Hunt and Frank Eddolls&mdash;have been promoted in the hockey ranks,&rdquo; he began. &ldquo;Freddie is now Buffalo&rsquo;s General Manager and Frank is the (Chicago) Black Hawks&rsquo; coach. Believe me, I&rsquo;m only Interested in establishing myself in Buffalo and making good in this job that has been given me.&ldquo;To succeed in the wake of a championship year is a challenge, know. But that has to be the aim of everyone who wants to play on the Buffalo club this rear.&rdquo;Stewart grinned when asked what he thought would be the re-action of the players he was a teammate of last year.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll get along fine, I am sure. But in the event anyone gets out of hand, he&rsquo;ll know I&rsquo;m around.&rdquo;The handsome, black-thatched Bison bench boss shied away from any prediction as to where his club would finish.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll do our limb climbing liter training camp and those exhibition games with National League clubs,&rdquo; he concluded.<h2>Buffalo Cay And So Is Stewart &#9632;</h2>

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Stewart’s Choice No Surprise To Bisons

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01188/1107002-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">THE TALL AND THE SMALL of the Providence Reds, Jack Stoddard rests his gloved mitt on the unprotesting head of Jean Leclerc, during a recent workout at Rhode Island Auditorium. Stoddard is six-foot, three, while Leclerc comes in at five-foot, six.</figcaption></div>National Hockey League fans may obtain copies of the 1954-55 N.H.L. Schedules free of charge.These N.H.L. schedules are handy sized for the pocket and room is available to mark in the score of each game.Requests should be mailed to: N.H.L. Information Bureau, 603 Jun Life Bldg., Montreal, Que.<h2>The Hand of Providence? &#9632;</h2>

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N.H.L. SCHEDULES AVAILABLE FOR FANS

The International Hockey League, starting its tenth consecutive year of operation, embarks on a 180 game schedule on Saturday October 16.Each team will play 30 games at home and 30 games on the road, with the season ending on Sunday March 13, 1955.Saturday once again is the &ldquo;big&rdquo; night with three games to be played every Saturday night, with Sunday being the next heaviest.Both Johnstown and Cincinnati are experimenting with several home games on consecutive Saturday and Sunday nights.The League is looking forward to the 1954-55 season as a banner year. The competition will be much keener, due to the fact that Marion, Milwaukee and Louisville will not operate this year.The remaining teams of the IHL have drafted the better players of the teams that have suspended operations for the coming season. &#9632;

I.H.L Opens ’54-55 Slate With Emphasis On Weekends

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01158/1107057-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">SIGNED AND SEALED, a contract as playing-coach of the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts is presented by Kenny Reardon (left) to Roger Leger. Reardon, a former NHL all-star with the Canadiens, now is general manager of the Shawinigan Falls club which is returning to the Quebec Hockey League after a year&rsquo;s absence.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;A deal offered by Frank Selke, generalmanager, of the Canadian Arena Company, which solves the knotty television problem has been cordially received by the five clubs in the Quebec Hockey League outside of Montreal.For the past two seasons the Forum has been televising Sunday afternoon home games of the Royals, and a fall-off in attendance, blamed by the visitors on the arch-enemy TV, has resulted in a shorter take-home-pay for the guest teams.In the QHL the visitors receive 15 cents per capita on paid admissions, and when the cheques from the Forum treasurer became smaller, there were loud outcries.Various suggestions have been offered at league meetings, none of which seemed sensible, or equitable, until Selke recently came along with a solution.The Forum will pay $500 into the league coffers for each of 16 home games played by the Royals in the Forum on Sundays. The aggregate $8,000 will then be divided among the five teams&mdash;Ottawa Senators, Chicoutimi Sa-gueneens, Quebec Aces, Shawinigan Falls Cataracts and Valleyfield Braves.The equal divvy was agreed upon after it was pointed out that the teams do not all get an equal number of Sunday dates in Montreal. Senators for instance come into the Forum four times on the Sabbath, while some of the others make it only twice.And the teams will still get their 15 cents per capita. Selke makes it clear that this is not to be considered as a split of the sponsor&rsquo;s fees for the television shows; it&rsquo;s merely the Canadian Arena Company&rsquo;s plan to bring the visiting team&rsquo;s take up to approximately the same figure as in the banner years when Sunday games at the Forum drew packed houses.Since each team will receive $1,600 it&rsquo;s a shot in the arm for the operation of all, especially the clubs in the smaller cities.Meantime all teams in the loop are busy with training schemes. Roger Leger has been installed as usual at Shawinigan Falls, under Kenny Reardon as general manager. Back to the Falls with Leger went Dick Wray, high scoring center-man and Ted Hodgson, tall defenseman, who switched to Royals last fall when the Cataracts suspended operations on the eve of the opening of the season.At Chicoutimi Rollie Hebert is launching a youth movement. At least he seems disposed to unload some of his older players, Bucky Buchanan, Sagueneens&rsquo; top scorer, with 29 goals, who was second to Jimmy Moore in total points, 75 against 63, last season, has been sold outright to Quebec Aces, and Pete Tkachuk, a 27-goal man in 1953-54 has been placed on the waiver list along with defenseman Andy McCallum.George Slater, league president, announces that the QHL has altered its waiver procedure. In future $750 will be the figure between clubs in the loop while the price will be $2,000 for a man picked up by a club in another league.<h2>Team-Mates Again &#9632;</h2>

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Selke Solves the TV Problem, Visiting QHL Clubs Get Hike

<h2>OCTOBER</h2>10 Chicoutimi at Quebec Shawinigan at Valleyfield Ottawa at Montreal13 Valleyfield at Quebec14 Montreal at Shawinigan Valleyfield at Chicoutimi15 Quebec at Ottawa17 Ottawa at Shawinigan Valleyfield at Montreal Quebec at Chicoutimi19 Quebec at Valleyfield20 Ottawa at Quebec21 Montreal at Valleyfield Ottawa at Chicoutimi22 Shawinigan at Ottawa24 Shawinigan at Quebec Ottawa at Valleyfield Chicoutimi at Montreal26 Montreal at Chicoutimi28 Valleyfield at Shawinigan Quebec at Montreal29 Montreal at Ottawa31 Quebec at Valleyfield Ottawa at Montreal Shawinigan at Chicoutimi<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02126/1107123-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="552" height="1099"></div><h2>NOVEMBER</h2>1 Montreal at Quebec2 Montreal at Shawinigan3 Chicoutimi at Valleyfield4 Quebec at Shawinigan Chicoutimi at Montreal5 Chicoutimi at Ottawa7 Valleyfield at Quebec Ottawa at Shawinigan Montreal at Chicoutimi9 Ottawa at Valleyfield Shawinigan at Montreal11 Montreal at Valleyfield Quebec at Chicoutimi12 Valleyfield at Ottawa14 Ottawa at Quebec Valleyfield at Shawinigan Chicoutimi at Montreal17 Quebec at Ottawa18 Quebec at Valleyfield Shawinigan at Chicoutimi19 Montreal at Ottawa21 Quebec at Shawinigan Valleyfield at Montreal Ottawa at Chicoutimi23 Shawinigan at Valleyfield24 Montreal at Quebec25 Chicoutimi at Shawinigan Quebec at Montreal26 Chicoutimi at Ottawa28 Shawinigan at Quebec Ottawa at Valleyfield Montreal at Chicoutimi<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03110/1107116-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="561" height="1338"></div><h2>DECEMBER</h2>1 Shawinigan at Ottawa Montreal at Quebec2 Montreal at Shawinigan3 Valleyfield at Ottawa5 Quebec at Shawinigan Montreal at Valleyfield Ottawa at Chicoutimi7 Shawinigan at Montreal8 Shawinigan at Valleyfield Quebec at Chicoutimi9 Chicoutimi at Quebec10 Montreal at Ottawa11 Valleyfield at Chicoutimi12 Valleyfield at Quebec Chicoutimi at Shawinigan Ottawa at Montreal14 Montreal at Chicoutimi16 Ottawa at Shawinigan Quebec at Valleyfield17 Chicoutimi at Ottawa18 Shawinigan at Quebec19 Ottawa at Valleyfield Quebec at Montreal Shawinigan at Chicoutimi21 Valleyfield at Montreal22 Chicoutimi at Quebec23 Valleyfield at Shawinigan Quebec at Chicoutimi26 Montreal at Quebec Ottawa at Shawinigan Chicoutimi at Valleyfield28 Shawinigan at Montreal29 Shawinigan at Ottawa30 Valleyfield at Chicoutimi31 Quebec at Ottawa<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0481/1107109-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="570" height="1495"></div><h2>JANUARY</h2>2 Chicoutimi at Quebec Shawinigan at Valleyfield Ottawa at Montreal4 Montreal at Shawinigan6 Ottawa at Quebec Montreal at Valleyfield Shawinigan at Chicoutimi7 Valleyfield at Ottawa9 Ottawa at Valleyfield Shawinigan at Montreal Quebec at Chicoutimi12 Chicoutimi at Ottawa13 Chicoutimi at Shawinigan Valleyfield at Montreal14 Montreal at Ottawa15 Valleyfield at Chicoutimi16 Valleyfield at Quebec Ottawa at Shawinigan Chicoutimi at Montreal19 Chicoutimi at Quebec20 Quebec at ShawiniganChicoutimi at Valleyfield21 Shawinigan at Ottawa23 Shawinigan at Valleyfield Quebec at Montreal Ottawa at Chicoutimi26 Shawinigan at Quebec27 Valleyfield at Shawinigan Chicoutimi at Montreal28 Chicoutimi at Ottawa 30 Ottawa at Quebec Chicoutimi at Shawinigan Valleyfield at Montreal<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0563/1107102-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="564" height="1558"></div><h2>FEBRUARY</h2>1 Montreal at Valleyfield Shawinigan at Chicoutimi2 Valleyfield at Ottawa3 Montreal at Shawinigan4 Quebec at Ottawa6 Valleyfield at Quebec Ottawa at Shawinigan Montreal at Chicoutimi8 Chicoutimi at Valleyfield10 Montreal at Quebec Valleyfield at Shawinigan11 Montreal at Ottawa12 Ottawa at Quebec13 Quebec at Shawinigan Montreal at Valleyfield Ottawa at Chicoutimi15 Shawinigan at Montreal16 Quebec at Ottawa17 Chicoutimi at Quebec Montreal at Shawinigan18 Shawinigan at Ottawa19 Quebec at Chicoutimi20 Shawinigan at Quebec Chicoutimi at Valleyfield Ottawa at Montreal22 Quebec at Montreal24 Chicoutimi at Shawinigan Quebec at Valleyfield25 Valleyfield at Ottawa27 Quebec at Shawinigan Valleyfield at Montreal Ottawa at Chicoutimi<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0650/1107095-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="573" height="1437"></div><h2>MARCH</h2>1 Valleyfield at Chicoutimi2 Montreal at Ottawa Shawinigan at Quebec3 Shawinigan at Valleyfield Chicoutimi at Montreal4 Chicoutimi at Ottawa6 Ottawa at Valleyfield Quebec at Montreal Shawinigan at Chicoutimi9 Montreal at Quebec10 Valleyfield at Shawinigan Montreal at Chicoutimi11 Quebec at Ottawa13 Ottawa at Quebec Chicouitmi at Valleyfield Shawinigan at Montreal15 Valleyfield at Chicoutimi16 Shawinigan at Ottawa17 Quebec at Valleyfield18 Valleyfield at Ottawa20 Valleyfield at Quebec Chicoutimi at Shawinigan Ottawa at Montreal<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0743/1107088-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="591" height="982"></div> &#9632;

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QUEBEC LEAGUE 1954-55 Season

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WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE 1954-55 Season

EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;Edmonton Oil Kings, western Canada junior hockey champions last season, will operate on a player-pool basis.The Edmonton Exhibition Association has announced that no one was willing to sponsor the team and the association will take over sponsorship.The association will post a $2,500 guarantee to be split among team members it the end of the season. Gate receipts will be split on an 80-20 basis with the largest share going to the club and the remainder to the association for rink operating expenses. Travelling, equipment and other expenses will come out of the team&rsquo;s 80 per cent.Last year the split was 75-25 and there was a $21,000 deficit with the association, Detroit Red Wings and Ross Motors each absorbing a third. &#9632;

Player Pool For Oil Kings

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02114/1107209-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">AL RITCHIE</figcaption></div>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;With the signing of Paul Bozak, of Fort Qu&rsquo;appelle, Saskatchewan, the officiating staff of the Western Hockey League has been completed for the 1954-55 season.Eddie Powers, who has been with the league the past few seasons will be back again. Powers has proved to be a very capable official, He makes his home in Vancouver. He is 5&rsquo; 10&frac12;&rdquo; tall and weighs 180 lbs. Powers is the only one of last year&rsquo;s referees to return.Another new man has been signed. He is George Cullen of Regina. Cullen has had several years experience in amateur hockey and last season was referee in chief of the Okanagan League. Officiating has been a full time job with him recently.The past summer he was Umpire-in-Chief of the Mandak Baseball League and at present he is working as an official in the Western Inter-Provincial Football League. He is 31 years old, 5 ft. 11 inches and weighs 185 lbs.Bozak has worked several seasons as the top amateur official on the Prairies working many Memorial Cup and Allan Cup games last spring. He is 36 years old, 5 ft. 10&frac12; inches and weighs 200 lbs.One new linesman will work this season. Gordon Hamilton of Flin Flon Manitoba, an experienced official who has worked in Northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan for the past few years will handle the linesman work in both Vancouver and New Westminster. Hank Wilson will be back in Edmonton as will Ross Valliere in Victoria, Hedley McDonald in Saskatoon and Eddie Wares in Calgary.<h2>Behind-Scenes Figure &#9632;</h2>

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WHL Officials Complete With Signing Of Bozak

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0390/1107264-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg"></div>FEATURES-PICTURES-STATISTICS&ndash;INTERVIEWSCARTOONS-COMPLETE REPORTS ON ALL TEAMSOnly $2.50 for 26 consecutive issues.Published weekly for 20 straight weeks during football season and once a ponth 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 HARVEY DRYDEN</div>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;The City of Regina will definitely be entered in the Western Pro Hockey League for the 1955-56 season. That was the good news to come out of a recent meeting of the league directors in Calgary.A last-minute Regina drive to ice a team this season didn&rsquo;t bear fruit. However, the Saskatchewan capital was granted a franchise for the 1955-56 campaign.Ever since the prairie cities of Saskatoon, Edmonton and Calgary joined with the coast teams in the expanded circuit back in 1951, there have been reports and rumors of Regina joining the pack. Unfortunately, however, most of it was just talk emanated in other cities than Regina. Nothing concrete was done in Regina about putting a team in the league. In fact, the people of Regina showed very little interest in the proposal.Possibly they were too wrapped up in their football Roughriders.Late in August, a definite bid to ice a Regina team was forthcoming. Ironically enough, the financial backing for the club cams from Saskatoon, not from Regina.Jim Piggott, a wealthy Saskatoon contractor who formerly lived in Regina, expressed an interest in backing a Regina entry. With the help of Al Ritchie, the veteran Regina sportsman and scout for the New York Rangers, he got together a group of Regina businessmen to discuss the project. They were enthusiastic so Piggott&rsquo;s next step was to meet with the Western league directors.Piggott, Ritchie and Regina businessman Don Pells represented the proposed entry at the Calgary meeting where they received a favorable response from the WHL, Piggott, a real enthusiast, was all get to proceed with a team for this season. However, when they looked over the names of players offered them by the other WHL teams, they decided it was best to wait for another year.<h2>Material Not Good Enough</h2>He explained that the player material he and his associates were after &ldquo;was not available, or good enough to ice a contending team which we wanted.&rdquo;&ldquo;We explored avenues of getting player material,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;but rather than operate on any other basis except that of producing a contender, we decided to wait a year&rdquo;.&ldquo;As of today&rdquo;, Piggott concluded, &ldquo;we&rsquo;ll start the spadework to line up next year&rsquo;s team&rdquo;.League president Al Leader said, &ldquo;The Regina club was willing and ready to operate the coming season but it was felt that due to the time element involved, it would provide an almost impossible task to assemble a competent hockey club at such a late date&rdquo;.Previously, other WHL clubs, anxious to have Regina join their group, had made promises of help in the way of players. However, with the new hockey season almost upon them, they were not able to offer too much.Ritchie explained that the club, for this year, was after two good defencemen, three capable forwards and an outstanding goaltender as the nucleus of their club.The Regina Exhibition Association, owners of the Regina Stadium, had often in the past declined to take on the sponsorship of a pro team. They had promised, however, a good financial arrangement to anyone willing to back the club. It is believed that Mr. Piggott has obtained such a deal from the rink. &#9632;

Regina Will Have WHL Team But Outsider Foots Bill

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01129/1107295-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">MONTREAL CANADIENSstars Jean Beliveau and Doug Harvey are amused by the antics of Bernie [Boom Boom) Geoffrion, shown here getting a little exercise. The trio dropped in to the studio of Bernard Rheaume (right) in Verdun to wish him luck in his venture of promoting the biggest weightlifting contest ever staged in Canada which will be held at the Verdun Auditorium on October 15. All agreed that the contest was sure to be a huge success. P.S. Maybe Boom Boom was just practicing so that he could enter the contest himself.</figcaption></div>EDMONTON, Alta.DON POILE, Edmonton rookie, won the &lsquo;Rookie of the Year&rsquo; award polling 86 of a possible 105 votes. Second place was evenly contested between Mid Houghton of Vancouver with 42 votes and Aggie Kukolowicz of Saskatoon with 40 votes.Poile enjoyed a very good season scoring 26 goals and assisting in 33 others for a total of 59 points. He is the property of the Detroit Red Wings. He plays right wing.<h2>Habitant Hercules &#9632;</h2>

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Poile MVP

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;In-and-out tactics of Barrie Flyers in junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; and Chatham Maroons and Sarnia Sailors in senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey have delayed release of 1954-55 O.H.A. schedules, but matters have been finally resolved with Barrie returning to the junior group and Chatham to the senior group.Sarnia will suspend operations for one season at least, after Jack Stewart transferred his franchise from Chatham to Sarnia, and the resident Chatham players decided to go it alone.Whether Stewart will take any active part in hockey this season is doubtful, although rumor has it that he may succeed Bob Rafferty as coach of the Kitchener Dutchmen. Kitchener has still to appoint a coach, while Doug Gillespie succeeds Jack Ingoldsby as manager of the Owen Sound Mercurys; Norm Tustin replaces Ken Campbell as coach of the Niagara Falls Cataracts; Frankie Uniac will coach the new Chatham Maroons and Elwin &ldquo;Moe&rdquo; Morris succeeds Howie Meeker as pilot of the Stratford Indians.With both Hamilton Tigers and Sarnia Sailors suspending operations, players on these two clubs were drafted by the other six clubs for stipulated prices, but how many of them will report to their new clubs is not known. This, together with a raft of other players available from minor pro clubs, which have folded this season, makes it extremely difficult to name the personnel of the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; O.H.A. rosters with any degree of accuracy.However, there&rsquo;s little doubt that all six clubs will be adding quite a few reinforcements. Owen Sound Mercurys seem to be all set, as they bid in but one Hamilton player and none from Sarnia. A recent addition to the Mercs is Jack Kirk, who played defence for Kelowna, B.C.Stratford Indians&rsquo; latest addition is Ted O&rsquo;Connor, the former Oshawa General, who played for Tacoma last season. Ted is 23 years old, a defenceman who had previous experience with Tacoma of the Pacific Coast League. Right now Stratford has 12 defencemen, including those allotted to them from the defunct Hamilton and Sarnia teams, but not half of them are expected to sign Indian contracts.Sticking to his announced intentions, Windsor Bulldog coach, Murph Chamberlain is cutting ten veterans from his roster and re-placing them with younger players, preferably graduates from the O.H.A. junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; group. Chamberlain intends to retain the services of Walt Pawlyshyn, LyleWiseman, Gord Haidy, Frank Bathgate Wally Kullman and Earl Keyes. Slated to get the axe are Alec Birukow, Clarence Jaster, Fred Hildebrand, Dick Kotanen, Bob Hayes, Jack Power, Ollie Haddon, Carl Evon, Nick Pidsodney and Monty Reynolds, the latter pair goalies. Windsor is also angling for John Bailey and George Robertson, property of the Pittsburgh Hornets and New York Rangers respectively.Kitchener Dutchmen appeared to have landed a plum when they reported having signed Hugh Barlow, jr. of Hamilton, leftwing mate of Brian Cullen, last season with the St. Catherines Memorial Cup champion Teepees, now the property of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Kitchener outbid Cleveland Barons for Barlow&rsquo;s services and Cleveland was forced to raise the ante and add a cash bonus to sign Barlow to a pro contract. Subsequently, the Barons swapped Barlow to Pittsburgh Hornets for Johnny McLellan.Latest puckster to join the Niagara Falls Cataracts is 35-year-old Ken Kilrea, brother of the former pros, Wally and Hec. Ken played his hockey overseas with the Canadian Army last year, and prior to that served with Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Indianapolis of the American League and also performed for one season with Ottawa Senators of the Quebec Senior League.<h2>Insctive List</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0299/1107326-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="558" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK STEWART</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Barrie Rejoins Juniors, Sarnia Out For Year

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01136/1107357-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="926" height="956"></div><h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Pictured NHL coach.7&mdash;First name of a Ranger forward.8&mdash;One of the Leafs answers to this.11&mdash;Pictured coach once played with this NHL club (abbr.)13&mdash;First two letters of vulgate.14&mdash;Boston&rsquo;s trainer.15&mdash;First name of a New York forward.16&mdash;Anno Ordinis (abbr.)17&mdash;Girl&rsquo;s name.18&mdash;Howard Ripelle&rsquo;s nickname.19&mdash;Pronoun.20&mdash;Former NHL referee.22&mdash;First name of Lundy of Calgary Stampeders.23&mdash;Initials of Hrymnak of Edmonton Flyers.24&mdash;Played with Cleveland in 1953-54 play-offs, called Tony.27&mdash;Small rodent.29&mdash;Short for first name of a Boston forward.30&mdash;Played on Barry & Aurie line for Detroit.32&mdash;NHL manager.33&mdash;First name of McAuley, ex Ranger netminder.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;Short for first name of Slo-winski of Buffalo.2&mdash;Billy Taylor once played with this NHL team.3&mdash;Initials of Adam of Vancouver Canucks.4&mdash;Number of times Edgar Laprade won Lady Byng Trophy.5&mdash;First name of Thomson, last season with New Westminster.6&mdash;Ray Timgren played&mdash;hockey with Toronto Marlboros (abbr.)9&mdash;An NHL manager.10&mdash;Sullivan of Chicago won this AHL trophy in 1953-54.12&mdash;Indefinite article.14&mdash;A Boston rearguard.15&mdash;One of the Montreal Canadiens.21&mdash;&rdquo;King&rdquo; Clancy&rsquo;s birthplace.23&mdash;Hyrmnak&rsquo;s first name.25&mdash;Preposition.26&mdash;Initials of a Canadien veteran who recently retired.27&mdash;Nickname of Sullivan of Chicago.28&mdash;Name given a Leaf defenseman.30&mdash;Initials of Aurie, ex NHL star31&mdash;Initials of a Toronto forward. &#9632;

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<div class="byline">PINER</div>SAULT STE MARIE, Mich.&mdash;What does a guy do that coaches a senior baseball team in the summer, urges his players to drive hard and play to win, then finds himself at an NHL training camp with the same baseball players looking on. Well, in Marty Pavelich&rsquo;s case, he got in for some good-natured ribbing.It was during the first exhibition game of the camp that Marty felt the same sting he had placed on some of his players during the baseball season.One player kept shouting from the stands: &ldquo;Come on, Pavelich, show some of that drive and will to win!&rdquo;Another shouted: &ldquo;Come on Marty&hellip;come on Pavelich&hellip;let&rsquo;s go&hellip;where&rsquo;s that drive&hellip;where&rsquo;s that drive!&rdquo;Marty was a little surprised because he&rsquo;s always noted for his great drive and hustle.The same thing went on for the next game, so Pavelich decided to put his players back in their place. He turned on the steam, played a tremendous game and by the time the camp had ended had silenced his tormentors once and for all.Marty, with a twinkle in his eye, said: &ldquo;Wait till I get those ball players next year. I&rsquo;ll fix &lsquo;em!&rdquo; &#9632;

Pavelich Takes Ribbing As Players Turn Tables

<h2>OCTOBER</h2>9 Cleveland at Hershey Buffalo at Pittsburgh Providence at Springfield10 Cleveland at Providence13 Pittsburgh at Hershey Cleveland at Springfield14 Buffalo at Providence16 Providence at Hershey Cleveland at Pittsburgh Buffalo at Springfield.17 Cleveland at Buffalo Springfield at Providence20 Providence at Buffalo Springfield at Cleveland Hershey at Pittsburgh21 Springfield at Hershey22 Spring-field at Pittsburgh23 Pittsburgh at Cleveland Buffalo at Hershey Providence at Springfield24 Pittsburgh at Buffalo Cleveland at Providence27 ALL-STAR GAME AT HERSHEY29 Providence at Cleveland30 Buffalo at Cleveland Providence at Pittsburgh Hershey at Springfield31 Springfield at Buffalo Hershey at Providence<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0278/1107447-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="530" height="746"></div><h2>NOVEMBER</h2>3 Springfield at Buffalo Hershey at Cleveland4 Cleveland at Hershey5 Springfield at Pittsburgh6 Springfield at Cleveland Providence at Hershey Buffalo at Pittsburgh7 Hershey at Buffalo Pittsburgh at Providence Cleveland at Springfield10 Pittsburgh at Cleveland Buffalo at Hershey11 Cleveland at Buffalo Springfield at Providence13 Buffalo at Cleveland Hershey at Pittsburgh Providence at Springfield14 Pittsburgh at Buffalo Hershey at Providence17 Pittsburgh at Hershey20 Pittsburgh at Cleveland Buffalo at Hershey Providence at Springfield21 Buffalo at Providence24 Hershey at Cleveland Buffalo at Springfield25 Cleveland at Buffalo Pittsburgh at Hershey Springfield at Providence27 Buffalo at Cleveland Providence at Hershey Pittsburgh at Springfield28 Hershey at Buffalo Pittsburgh at Providence<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0350/1107440-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="476" height="867"></div><h2>DECEMBER</h2>1 Providence at Buffalo Hershey at Pittsburgh4 Providence at Cleveland Buffalo at Pittsburgh Hershey at Springfield5 Springfield at Buffalo Hershey at Providence8 Hershey at Buffalo Springfield at Pittsburgh10 Hershey at Cleveland11 Springfield at Cleveland Hershey at Pittsburgh Buffalo at Providence12 Springfield at Buffalo Pittsburgh at Providence15 Cleveland at Hershey Pittsburgh at Springfield17 Cleveland at Pittsburgh18 Pittsburgh at Cleveland Buffalo at Hershey Providence at Springfield19 Pittsburgh at Buffalo Springfield at Providence25 Buffalo at Cleveland Springfield at Hershey26 Cleveland at Buffalo Hershey at Providence Pittsburgh at Springfield28 Springfield at Providence29 Springfield at Cleveland Pittsburgh at Hershey30 Buffalo at Providence<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0437/1107433-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="471" height="802"></div><h2>JANUARY</h2>1 Providence at Cleveland Buffalo at Hershey Springfield at Pittsburgh2 Hershey at Buffalo Pittsburgh at Providence Cleveland at Springfield5 Pittsburgh at Buffalo Cleveland at Providence7 Hershey at Pittsburgh8 Buffalo at Hershey Cleveland at Pittsburgh Providence at Springfield9 Cleveland at Buffalo Pittsburgh at Providence12 Cleveland at Hershey Pittsburgh at Springfield14 Pittsburgh at Cleveland15 Providence at Cleveland Springfield at Hershey Buffalo at Pittsburgh16 Providence at Buffalo Hershey at Springfield19 Cleveland at Pittsburgh22 Cleveland at Hershey Providence at Pittsburgh Buffalo al Springfield23 Cleveland at Buffalo Providence at Springfield26 Pittsburgh at Hershey28 Springfield at Providence29 Providence at Hershey Buffalo at Pittsburgh Cleveland at Springfield30 Hershey at Buffalo Cleveland at Providence Pittsburgh at Springfield<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0527/1107426-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="453" height="909"></div><h2>FEBRUARY</h2>2 Providence at Buffalo Springfield at Cleveland Pittsburgh at Hershey4 Springfield at Pittsburgh5 Providence at Cleveland Springfield at Hershey Buffalo&rsquo; at Pittsburgh6 Pittsburgh at Buffalo Cleveland at Providence Hershey at Springfield9 Springfield at Buffalo Hershey at Cleveland Providence at Pittsburgh10 Pittsburgh at Hershey12 Buffalo at Cleveland Providence at Hershey Springfield at Pittsburgh13 Hershey at Buffalo Pittsburgh at Providenc&bull; Cleveland at Springfield16 Hershey at Cleveland Buffalo at Providence18 Providence at Pittsburgh19 Providence at Cleveland Hershey at Pittsburgh Buffalo at Springfield20 Cleveland at Buffalo Springfield at Providenc&bull;22 Hershey at Providence23 Cleveland at Pittsburgh Hershey at Springfield25 Hershey at Cleveland.26 Buffalo at Cleveland Hershey at Pittsburgh Providence at Springfield27 Pittsburgh at Buffalo Springfield at Providenc&bull;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0624/1107419-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="470" height="936"></div><h2>MARCH</h2>2 Springfield at Buffalo Pittsburgh at Hershey4 Springfield at Cleveland5 Buffalo at Cleveland Springfield at Hershey Providence at Pittsburgh6 Providence at Buffalo Cleveland at Springfield9 Hershey at Pittsburgh10 Cleveland at Hershey Buffalo at Providence12 Providence at Hershey Cleveland at Pittsburgh Buffalo at Springfield13 Cleveland at Providence Buffalo at Springfield16 Providence at Buffalo Pittsburgh at Cleveland Hershey at Springfield19 Buffalo at Cleveland Springfield at Hershey Providence at Pittsburgh20 Cleveland at Buffalo Hershey at Providence Pittsburgh at Springfield<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0723/1107412-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="423" height="631"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE 1954-55 Season

SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;Lome Worsley, Vancouver&rsquo;s outstanding goalkeeper, won the &lsquo;Most Valuable Player&rsquo; award for the past season. He will receive $100 from the League. Worsley is the third goalkeeper to win this award. Last year, Emile Francis, also the Vancouver goalkeeper won the award and the year previous Lucien Dechene of New Westminster was chosen the &lsquo;Most Valuable&rsquo;.Worsley polled 87 of the possible 105 votes and led his nearest competitor, Guyle Fielder of Seattle, by 55 votes. Fielder&rsquo;s 32 votes gave him second place.<div class="sidebar">The Toronto Maple Leafs use BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape.c &#9632;</div>

Worsley Wins MVP Award

<div class="byline">By BILL DANE</div>OWEN SOUND, Ont.&mdash;How well the Owen Sound Mercurys do this year in search of the Allan Cup and the Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey championship of Canada will depend to a considerable extent on how well a broken leg has mended.The fractured underpinning belongs to terrific Tommy Burlington, a 33-year-old veteran who has electrified hockey audiences in many a rink despite the fact he has the sight of only one eye. From Providence to Edmonton, and St. Louis to Sault Ste. Marie this former professional has amazed fans with his hockey wizardry. In Owen Sound, his home town since 1939, he&rsquo;s Mr. Hockey. And this is the birthplace of Harry Lumley.Last season Burlington appeared to be a shoo-in to set a new scoring mark in the O.H.A. Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series. In 50 games he compiled 108 scoring points, including 45 goals, and he had six games left to play. The record was 111 points, set a couple of seasons earlier by Mickey Roth of Stratford.But in his 51st game, at Niagara Falls, Burlington broke his lower right leg when he went in too close on goal, caught the post with his leg and crashed into the boards. He was through for the season, and hockey fans here feared he might decide to hang up his skates for good.Without Burlington, the Mercurys clinched first place, knocked off Chatham four games to two, and then took Stratford in four straight games in the O.H.A. final. Still without their pivot ace, the Mercurys went seven games with the strong Sudbury Wolves before losing out in the all-Ontario final, and the Wolves went to the Allan Cup final.After a long period with a heavy cast on his leg, and getting about on crutches, Burlington got rid of his crutches at the first of July. He started to walk on the leg at the end of the month. Now he says he&rsquo;ll be ready for the first practice soon.The Mercs scored a ten-strike when they obtained centre Jack Taylor of the now-defunct Hamilton Tigers.<h2>Terrific</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0284/1107509-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="580" height="918"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOMMY BURLINGTON</figcaption></div><h2>Old Reliable Returns</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01115/1107502-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="1146" height="1108"><figcaption class="caption-body">EDGAR LAPRADE</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0130/1107561-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="240" height="282"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0229/1107554-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="250" height="298"></div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;Few of the 570 professional hockey games Frank Eddolls took part in were as exhaustive as the crisis he faced when offered the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; coaching job.Eddolls&mdash;winner of the Hockey News&rsquo; Coach of the Year award last season&mdash;already had agreed to direct the Buffalo Bisons of the American League for the third season.On the surface, there appeared no wordly reason for the scrappy-little ice director to stay in Buffalo once the club gave Chicago General Manager Tommy Ivan permission to talk to FrankBut there was Eddolls, already established in Buffalo, being one of the most popular individuals ever connected with the sport in the Queen City of the Great Lakes. He had survived a disastrous initial season when someone whom the fans, press, and front office thought less o&pound; would have been given the gate.Eddolls, himself, liked the city so well that he had established his permanent residence there, and had a lucrative position with an automobile agency in the offseason.All this, plus the fact that the Chicago picture from a coaching standpoint has long been synonymous with the team&rsquo;s nickname&mdash;Black Hawks, gave Eddolls plenty of reason to back off the proposition.Why then did lie accept it. Aside from a natural desire to reach the top league as a coach after attaining recognition as a. player with Montreal and New York, Eddolls couldn&rsquo;t refuse the challenge.His whole hockey career has been a case of accepting &ldquo;the challenge.&rsquo;&rsquo; Not endowed with what might be called ideal size for the rugged, contact sport, Frank refused to accept a &ldquo;you&rsquo;re too small&rdquo; edict.Again when he was badly injured before the start of the 194849 season in an automobile accident, he wouldn&rsquo;t listen when doctors told him his playing days were at an end. He was back in the Rangers&rsquo; lineup before the season was half completed.Frank Boucher recognized Eddolls&rsquo; leadership qualities and ha was chosen to captain the Broadway Blueshirts.The Rangers showed further evidence of liking Frank&rsquo;s teaching potential when they dispatched him to Saskatoon during the 195-52 season to serve as interim coach of the Quakers, a job a handled well.The following season he took over at Buffalo, which was then operating under a working agreement with the other NHL team Eddolls played for&mdash;Montreal.<h2>Proved His Merit</h2>There are many who felt that although his Bisons were at rockbottom in the final league standings, Eddolls proved himself as a. coach right then.For despite their lowly position, the Bisons were a hustling crew and none of the games was considered lost until the opposition&rsquo;s superior manpower proved itself on the ice.Last year, while still combining the difficult tasks of playing and bossing, Eddolls led the Bisons to the AHL regular season championship&mdash;a feat unmatched in the league&rsquo;s history.An affable, earnest individual, Eddolls can be a firm taskmaster when the occasion demands.&ldquo;Since I&rsquo;ve been coaching I&rsquo;ve tried to treat my players the way I wanted to be treated myself as a player,&rdquo; he has stated repeatedly. &ldquo;Or course, there are those who play best under whip-like treatment, and those who respond best to a pat on the back. A coach&rsquo;s success sometimes depends on how quickly he senses what player responds to which type of treatment.&rdquo;Eddolls expressed belief that with Chicago the chief problem will be developing &ldquo;our young talent quickly.&rdquo;&ldquo;We have several young players, in fact, the squad as a whole is a young one with only Al Rollins, Bill Gadsby, Gus Mortson, Bill Mosienko being in what you would consider the veterans class.&ldquo;Fellows like Red Sullivan, Bobby Hassard, Pete Conacher, and just about anyone else you might mention, have yet to reach their peak. If we can bring these players along, we&rsquo;ll be an improved club.&rdquo;<h2>Wheelchair or Not, He&rsquo;s In The Swing Of Things</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0328/1107547-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2337" height="1750"><figcaption class="caption-body">EARL PIERCE, a hockey fan of the Rhoda Island Reds since 1931, shakes hands with Coach Pat Egan at the opening practise of the team. Pierce, crippled by a recent illness, visited the workouts in a wheelchair and plans to watch the Reds during the coming season. At left, Claude Roy, 21-year-old goalie up from Milwaukee, chats with Egan as the Reds tune up for the coming season.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0420/1107540-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="1158" height="1774"></div> &#9632;

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Eddolls Accepts Chi Job As Supreme Challenge

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Eddie Sandford may open the season for the Boston Bruins at a new position for the third time in the last four years.The 26-year old Sandford came to the Bruins originally as a center fresh from junior hockey in the fall of 1947, and he played that position until the spring of 1952.Then, in an effort to profit more front the big fellow&rsquo;s potential ability, Coach Lynn Patrick shifted him to left wing, and Sandford started the 1952-53 season at that post. A year ago he was the left wing on the National league&rsquo;s second All-Star team.But when the Bruins assembled at Hershey early this month for the start of their training period, Patrick had to compensate for the retirement of Johnny Peirson, so he moved Sandford again, this time to right wing.Big Ed has been working regularly on a line for which Cal Gardner is the center and Lome Ferguson the left wing since.Thus Sandford, who started the 1951 season as a center and the 1952 season as a left wing, is likely to start the 1954 season as a right wing, a development which may not have a precedent in hockey history. &#9632;

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October 2, 1954

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