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October 9, 1954

The Hockey News October 9, 1954

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IN THIS ISSUE

The Canadian FOOTBALL NEWS

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0230/1110625-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="246" height="300"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0131/1110632-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="238" height="284"></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill&mdash;</p><p>The Chicago Black Hawks announced last week that they have drafted youthful defenceman Gordon Hollingworth from the Montreal Canadiens to help fill the gap left by injured Lee Fogolin.</p><p>The Hawks bought Hollingworth, 21, a 180-pound six-footer, for the $15,000 draft price. Hollingworth played for the Montreal farm club in the Quebec League last year and before that for the Montreal junior team.</p><p>Fogolin, who was hurt in pratice at Pembroke, Ontario, Thursday, will be operated on today at Detroit for a separation of the right elbow.</p><p>Coach Pete Morin of the QHL Royals had dreamed of getting Bucky. Hollingworth back to help his Royals on defence but his hopes went up in smoke when Chicago drafted Bucky for $15,000.</p><p>The loss of Bucky dealt a cruel blow to the Morin clan but they gained a good forward from the parent Canadiens who sent winger Lome Davis back down to help out. He is subject to 24 hour recall.</p><h2><b>Bucky A Black Hawk</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0329/1110618-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="1154" height="1644"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BUCKY HOLLINGWORTH</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hawks Take Hollingworth On Waivers

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01184/1109141-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="402" height="418"></div><p>&bull; REASON WARREN GODFREY failed to take part in the eight annual NHL All-Star Game was because he broke a bone in his foot a few days earlier&hellip;Bill Quackenbush, Godfrey&rsquo;s defense mate on the Bruins, filled in for Warren&hellip;It marked Quackenbush&rsquo;s eighth appearance in these All-Star classics&hellip;Fleming Mackell has adopted contact lenses this year. He used them for the first time in a game in the All-Star tilt&hellip;Jimmy Skinner, Detroit&rsquo;s rookie coach, is very popular around the Motor City&hellip;Sid Abel, retired coach of the Chicago Black Hawks, is reported to have landed a $12,000 a year job with a Detroit company&hellip;Abel will also appear on the Stroh hockey telecasts throughout the season&hellip;Fred Huber, who is rapidly becoming known as Mr. Hockey through-out Michigan as a result of his excellent work on television and radio for the Stroh hockey broadcasts, is now the National Hockey League&rsquo;s senior publicity directors, since Joe Farrell retired&hellip;. That is in point of service not in years&hellip;Huber, incidentally, is becoming some shakes as a song writer. He has written the lyrics for two numbers and is working on his third&hellip;Lee Fogolin, hustling Chicago defenseman, will be out of action from six to eight weeks because of a dislocated shoulder. He had an operation on it in Detroit earlier in the week&hellip;Tommy Lockhart, president of the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States, was in Detroit for the All-Star Game and was very pleased at seeing Frank Nighbor again&hellip;Nothing would do but for Tommy to telephone his mother in New York and have her speak to Nighbor, one of her all-time favorites. Tom&rsquo;s mother is in her 88th year&hellip;Nels Stewart received a big hand when introduced at the All-Star dinner.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0280/1109134-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="300" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fleming Mackell</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS are expecting big things from Eric Nesterenko and George Armstrong this season. Both have stood out at the Leafs&rsquo; training camp and both appear to have acquired polish and poise since the end of last season&hellip;Nesterenko underwent an operation this summer to remedy varicose veins which bothered him last season. He also worked on a construction gang in Saskatchewan which has done a lot to toughen up his long lean frame&hellip;Hugh Bolton is another player the Leafs hope will find himself this year. He has. looked impressive in workouts teamed with Jimmy Thomson, the youthful veteran of the Maples&hellip;Thomson has been the best defense-man in camp so far&hellip;Fern Flaman has been throwing his weight around in Bruins&rsquo; practices since he joined them from the Leafs. One day he and Bob Armstrong started throwing fists at each other&hellip;Dave Creighton has been slow rounding into shape at the Toronto camp and will have to go all out to make the team according to Toronto hockey writers&hellip;Lome Ferguson, unable to earn a regular berth with Boston Bruins over the last three years will start the season with Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s charges&hellip;Plans call for him to be a regular left winger this term&hellip;Don Poile, kid brother of Bud, will start with Detroit Red Wings and he and Coach Jimmy Skinner are the only authentic newcomers to the Wings&hellip;Marcel Bonin, a relative newcomer, will play left wing for Detroit this season&hellip;The veteran Keith Allen will also stick with the team as a defenseman&hellip;Murph Chamberlain is hoping to land Jimmy Peters and George Gee, both retired National Leaguers living in Detroit, for his Windsor Seniors.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0344/1109127-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="284" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Abel</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; GORDIE HOWE&rsquo;S favorite athlete is Ab Welsh, ex-forward on the Saskatoon Quakers Seniors&hellip;Howe hasn&rsquo;t seen Welsh since he was 15 years old but he still stands out as his favorite athlete&hellip;&ldquo;I used to watch the Quakers practice after school and of all the fellows who asked him for a stick, I was the only one he would give one to,&rdquo; Howe related&hellip;&ldquo;He saved his broken or cracked sticks for me and the ones whose lie he didn&rsquo;t like. He used a No. 7 lie. That&rsquo;s probably why I use a No. 7 lie now,&rdquo; the NHL scoring king informed&hellip;Those close to the scene say Lome Worsley has looked better than Johnny Bower in New York Rangers&rsquo; exhibition games this fall&hellip;Some even think Worsley might be back in Ranger nets again this year&hellip;The decision on who will play goal for the Rangers may not be decided until the day before they play their first game&hellip;Larry Popein, last year with Vancouver Canucks, will start the season at center for the Rangers&hellip;Nick Mickoski will play right wing instead of left wing this year&hellip;He will play on a line with Danny Lewicki and Don Raleigh&hellip;Allan Stanley is the oldest member of the Rangers and he is only 28&hellip;Turk Broda is now selling sand and gravel for Conn Smythe as well as coaching the Marlboro Jrs&hellip;Harry Lumley is starting his 11th season as a full-fledged National Leaguer and he won&rsquo;t be 28 until November 11&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0429/1109120-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="280" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0162/1110753-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>THAT&rsquo;S A LOT OF LOOT,</b> and it all belongs to the NHL champion Detroit Red Wings. Here Clarence Campbell, president of the league, Bruce Norris, a director of the Red Wings club, charming president Marguerite Norris and Jolly Jack Adams survey their prize possessions, the James Norris Trophy won by Red Kelly, the Prince of Wales Trophy, emblematic of the league title, and the queen of them all, the Stanley Cup.</figcaption></div><h2><b>Ogling The Silverware</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Will Hawks Woo St. Louis?

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Every year, hockey&rsquo;s prolific writers and radio casters, stick out their collective chins and come up with their pre-season selections on how they believe the National Hockey League will end up next March.</p><p>They&rsquo;ll be back next week in THE HOCKEY NEWS with their fearless forecasts of 1954-55 and before pick in&rsquo; them this year they&rsquo;re going to have to give the matter a little more thought than usual.</p><p>Several changes have taken place in the last three weeks that may play a leading role in the eventual outcome of the National Hockey League standing.</p><p>In other words, will the combination of Tommy Ivan and Frankie Eddolls at Chicago achieve what Sid Abel couldn&rsquo;t do last year&mdash;namely, get the Hawks into the playoffs?</p><p>Wil the sudden retirement of Gerry McNeil, one of the real great little goal-keepers of all time, make a difference to Canadiens speedy crew? Jacques Plante, McNeil&rsquo;s successor, proved last season that he can keep goals with the best of them but too, he showed at times that he didn&rsquo;t possess McNeil&rsquo;s consistency. The 70-game schedule should answer that-one!</p><p>How about the Bruins? Will the trade of Dave Creighton, a 20-goal scorer last season help Toronto and weaken Boston or will Fem Flaman make the difference defensively?</p><p>Those are some of the considerations at this time. Go easy boys, the applecart could be upset!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hockey’s Fearless Forecasters Start Crystal-Crazing Next Week

<p>ST. LOUIS, Mo.&mdash;</p><p>There may be a good deal more significance than meets the eye (or the NHL schedule) in the decision of the Chicago Black Hawks to play five of their home games in the St. Louis Arena.</p><p>The significance, if indeed it does exist, is this: St. Louis, a rabid hockey town suffering from a deficiency of franchise, may well be the testing ground in the latest Chicago move, which was announced by Clarence Camp-bell, president of the National League as he released the slate.</p><p>The possibility is that, should these five games indicate a fever pitch of interest in the game here, that a franchise, either in the American Hockey League or in the NHL, will be sought, this year or next.</p><p>St. Louis, long one of the finest hockey towns in the US, has been hoping for the return of the Flyers to action. While this did not materialize, the promise of top-calibre play has been drawing rave notices from fans.</p><p>Chief trouble with St. Louis as a holder of an AHL franchise hasn&rsquo;t been due to lack of audience interest, in fact. But the long distances other teams in the American circuit would have to travel for weekend games proved a great stumbling block, and so far this problem has not been solved.</p><p>So the slogan that&rsquo;s passing from citizen to citizen these days is &ldquo;Adopt the Black Hawks&rdquo;, and adopt them St. Louis undoubtedly will, if response at the box office is any criterion. To date the response to the five game schedule has been little short of sensational, and it is expected that better than seventy thousand fans will see the five contests.</p><p>The Hawks will play Montreal Canadiens here Tuesday, Nov. 23, are slated for a clash with Toronto Maple Leafs Wednesday, Dec. 15, meet Detroit Red Wings Sunday, Jan. 9, play the Wings again on Saturday, Jan. 29 and complete the out-of-Chicago junket Wednesday, March 16 against New York Rangers.</p><p>Interest in this experiment isn&rsquo;t confined to the hockey fans by any means. Press, radio and television authorities have viewed the move with a good deal of attention, and there is some talk that KMOX, St. Louis&rsquo; largest and strongest radio station, will broadcast the final period of all the Hawks games here. This would mean that not only the St. Louis area, but almost all the US and Canada, would be covered.</p><p>A large contingent of press and radio men will travel to Chicago for the Hawks&rsquo; opening league game. They&rsquo;ll be joined by members of the St. Louis Flyers booster club.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Chicago Schedules Five Home Dates In Missouri City

<div class="byline">By ELMER FERGUSON</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Back-grounded by a brilliant triple display of goalers, the National Hockey League&rsquo;s All-Stars, and the champion Red Wings, battled to a 2-all draw here October 2nd in what was, possibly, the best All-Star game ever staged. It was played before 11,188 spectators, a new record for such games in Detroit.</p><p>Three goalers put up tremendous performances in the nets, Terry Sawchuk throughout the piece for Wings, Harry Lumley of Toronto Leafs and Al. Rollins of Chicago Hawks, operating for the All-Stars on a 50-50 basis.</p><p>Rollins came off with a shutout in his 30 minutes of play. But his display was not greater than that of Lumley, who probably saved the All-Stars from defeat by a smashing display while he was on, even though scored on twice.</p><p>Lumley started the game, and before the Stars could co-ordinate their forces under the direction of Frank &ldquo;King&rdquo; Clancy, Wings had put on tremendous pressure, looked like over-powering the greats of other teams and, favored by penalties, ran in both their goals in the first period. Mackell was off for a trip when Delvecchio centering the Lindsay-Howe wing division, belted in the first goal. Harry Howell and Tim Horton were both off, late In the period, serving hooking penalties, when Howe flipped home the champions&rsquo; second counter.</p><p>But from the start of the second period, the All-Stars gained power steadily. Dineen, the slim, black-haired Wing forward, got an interference penalty, and Gus Mortson, ex-Leaf now with Hawks, was quick to capitalize. He blasted a low shot that hit Bob Goldham&rsquo;s skate, took a sharp upward break, hit inside the cross-bar at the top of the nets with a clang that could be heard all over the house, and dropped into the back of the cage.</p><h2><b>MOHNS BEATS SAWCHUK</b></h2><p>Later in the same period, Doug Mohns of Bruins threw a streaking cross-fire that beat Sawchuk cleanly. It was the only goal scored with both teams at full strength. Beliveau started the scoring play with a smooth pass to the Bruin youngster.</p><p>When Lumley departed after 10 minutes play in the second period, he had made only two saves, indicating the gathering strength of the Stars. When the period was ever, Sawchuk had stopped nine, against five for Rollins, two for Lumley. But in the first period, Lumley handled 14 shots against six for Sawchuk.</p><p>It was a hard-checking but clean game. Only resemblance to a flare-up came when fiery Teddy Lindsay clinched with Teeder Kennedy. No punches were thrown, and the other players separated them so rapidly that referee Bill Chadwick gave no penalties. Lumley made two great saves the first period. One was off &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Kelly, the other off Lindsay, who became the spearhead, almost in the goal-mouth, for a fast-passing Howe-Lindsay crisscross passing-bee.</p><p>It was thought the previous day that Al. Rollins wouldn&rsquo;t be able to play. He appeared with a long strip of bandage close to one eye, but took his utrn. Near the end of the game, he made two stand-out saves, stopping a terrific Delvecchio shot at close range, another off Lindsay, who was flattened on the play by Howell&rsquo;s body-check, and limped off.</p><p>Doug Harvey was best of the All-Star defense players, Kelly and Goldham played well on the backlines for Wings. Harvey wasn&rsquo;t on for either of the goals scored by Wings.</p><h2><b>They Produced Coals In Classic</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0190/1108727-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="548" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ALEX DELVECCHIO</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0278/1108720-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="532" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOWE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0373/1108713-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="594" height="614"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG MOHNS</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0454/1108706-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="582" height="604"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUS MORTSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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11,188 Fans See 8th Annual All-Star Game

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All-Star Game History in a Nutshell

<h2>ALL-STARS</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>G</span>oal: Lumley, Rollins; Defence: Harvey, Horton, Mortson, Gadsby, Howell, Quackenbush; Forwards: Mosdell, Sandford, Richard, Geoffrion, Mackell, Smith, Kennedy, Beliveau, Ronty, Mohn, Raleigh.</p><h2>DETROIT</h2><p><b>Goal</b>: Sawchuk; Defence: Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Woit, Allen; Forwards: Skov, Pavelich, Leswick, Delvecchio, Howe, Lindsay, Prystai, Dineen, Wilson, Bonin, Poile, Reibel.</p><p><b>Referee</b>: Bill Chadwick. Linesmen: Dong Young, George Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0628/1108789-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="606" height="866"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Result Of 8th Dream Game

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Gerry McNeil, who always has contended that a hockey netminder has the toughest job in sports, has retired, leaving his post with the Canadiens to rookie Jacques Plante.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve hung up my skates,&rdquo; said McNeil. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m through with hockey and I don&rsquo;t intend to change my decision.&rdquo;</p><p>So after four full seasons in the National Hockey League McNeil follows his predecessor, the great Bill Durnan, who quit for similar reasons, into retirement. &middot;</p><p>He feels that his frayed nerves can no longer endure the relentless pressure of tendings goals and, while he has no immediate plans, he recently acquired a service station on the Metropolitan Boulevard.</p><p>Like1y he will devote his full time to it.</p><p>McNeil telephoned this writer and calmly made known his decision. When the Habs defeated the Buffalo Bisons 6-1 in an exhibition game at the Forum recently, Gerry sat with Mrs. McNeil in the stands.</p><p>The Canadiens left on a pre-season exhibition tour, their itinerary including Quebec and the Maritimes. McNeil stayed home and at his Borden Avenue abode he reiterated his decision.</p><p>&ldquo;I have a nervous temperament,&rdquo; he declared, &ldquo;and I want to do something that involves less worry. I want, too, to be able to spend more time with my family.&rdquo;</p><p>Injuries never bothered McNeil. He has played with a shattered cheekbone and a puffed eye stitched nearly closed. He has played with a sore hand throbbing under his glove. He has played with a cracked ankle searing like a twist of red-hot steel.</p><p>Injuries never bothered Durnan either. But when his nerves became as taut as trout lines he quit right in the middle of the 1950 playoffs, giving his place to a rookie&mdash;McNeil!</p><p>So history repeats. With the retirement of the 28-year-old netminder, Plante likely will become the team&rsquo;s regular goalie. He was hoisted up from Buffalo late last season, when McNeil was suffering from a combination of injuries and frayed nerves, and acquitted himself well, allowing only 27 goals in 17 league games.</p><p>Plante, however, was less brilliant in the playoffs. Although he blanked the Boston Bruins twice in the semi-finals, he was nicked for a total of 15 goals in eight playoff games, five of them being poured into his cage in one game by the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Told that he had to fight for his job or quit, McNeil went back into action and played brilliantly, allowing only three goals in three games.</p><p>McNeil started his career with Quebec&rsquo;s St. Fidele bantam team as a forward when he was only 10 years old.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t remember when I switched to the nets,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but I recall that no one wanted to goal among the kids and the coach made us take turns. I guess I had some natural ability because he kept me in longer and longer.</p><p>&ldquo;The permanent change was inevitable, I suppose, because as a kid I was always collecting photographs of goalies. I still have a cardboard box full. The Canadiens have been wonderful to me. <i>I</i> leave hockey with a certain amount of regret. My wife and I have talked it over and my decision is final.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>His Predecessor</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0190/1108841-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="561" height="606"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL DURNAN</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>He&rsquo;ll Be Remembered!</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0272/1108834-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1140" height="1675"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>He Played When Injured&hellip;note face.</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0345/1108827-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1161" height="1215"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>His Style Was Flawless&hellip;note Smoothness</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0430/1108820-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="1164" height="820"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&hellip;And he wasn&rsquo;t immune to injury.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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History Repeats—McNeil Quits As Nerves Give Out!

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>MAX BENTLEY has stunned his ulcer! In fact, Max feels so chipper and bright since he went on a dairy food diet, he has volunteered his services to C. Smythe of the Maple Leafs. At a fee.</p><p>Yes sir, the old war horse just couldn&rsquo;t stay in his stall. Wants to come back and join Ted Kennedy and trot with him into the sunset of his career. At a fee.</p><p>The unhappy part of it is that he and Smythe can&rsquo;t come to an agreement as to how much his services should be worth.</p><p>There is a slight discrepancy amounting to thousands of dollars and a few other considerations which Maxie feels should ba made.</p><p>Taxes, for instance. Taxes will kill you. Max wants the Leafs to make his gross pay his take-home pay. Pay the taxes, says Max. Also his contribution to the National Hockey League pension fund, which should amount to about a thousand dollars.</p><p>The fact that it&rsquo;s his pension and the amount is matched by the club, giving him a comfortable old living in his comfortable old age, is not important to Max.</p><h2><b>Might Snow, Ya Know</b></h2><p>Also, says Maxie, it would be only fair if the Leafs provided him with a house while he was here. Got to have a roof over your money, you know.</p><p>It all began when Max wrote Smythe and asked his advice on what he (Max) should do about playing hockey. Bentley had spent a miserable season with the Rangers, demonstrating a great adversity to playing on the road. And leaving pills all around the dressing room floor where someone might step on one and break a neck.</p><p>He was there on a three-year basis. In other words, if he didn&rsquo;t perform for New York his first year, the Rangers would only owe Leafs a portion of the purchase price. Maxie&rsquo;s name turned up on the Leafs protected list.</p><p>Smythes would like to have him. Moans and all, Maxie is probably still the best point man in the league. In view of the fact the Leaf&rsquo;s power play last season was for the birds, Bentley could be a sound investment.</p><p>Max, speaking from Delisle last night, proclaims that Smythe&rsquo;s offer wasn&rsquo;t nearly enough. By the time all the deducts had been made, says Max, there wouldn&rsquo;t be enough to live on. A fellow could starve.</p><p>Smythe is just adamant. After several years of clucking over Max, he has decided that friendship should end where business begins.</p><p>Max says he has despatched another letter to Smythe. In it, we must presume, is a compromise offer. If Smythe doesn&rsquo;t like it, the case will go before league president Clarence Campbell. Smythe has done his part by sending Hentley a reasonable contract offer before the Oct. 1st deadline.</p><p>If Campbell finds that a man of Max&rsquo;s stature needs more money, Smythe will be obliged to make a fresh offer. That&rsquo;s an eventuality, though, that is hardly likely.</p><p>If he decides that Smythe&rsquo;s offer is fat enough, Bentley will be forced to report to the Leafs and take his medicine.</p><p>If he is recalcitrant about coming, ha may never lift a hockey stick again. As ha would dearly love to play for the Saskatoon Quakers, coached by his brother Doug, this could be a sad blow to Maxie. Any coach can fix it so that any hockey player who refuses a reasonable offer and fails to report doesn&rsquo;t play hockey anywhere.</p><p>Terrible dictatorship that! Monopoly I Enough to make a fellow mad enough to kick the fender off his Cadillac.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Maxie Stuns His Ulcer And Conn Smythe Too! Volunteers Services!!!

<div class="byline">MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01158/1108910-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><p>(As seen in the Toronto Star)</p><h2><b>Never Break Curfew, Use Fire Escape</b></h2><p>ST. CATHARINES, Sept. 24&mdash;It&rsquo;s Murph Chamberlain&rsquo;s pious boast that he never breached a club curfew in all the years he played hockey. Murph always contended there was no execuse for checking in late. It was much simpler to report on time&mdash;and leave again by the hotel fire-escape. Now that he&rsquo;s a coach himself, the one-time Hardrock suspects he may have players who use the same route to thwart club regulations.</p><p>&ldquo;If I catch them, I&rsquo;ll fine them,&rdquo; Murph vowed. &ldquo;And I don&rsquo;t even have to catch them. You generally can tell, next day, if a player has been out on the town. Our club (the Windsor Bulldogs) has a 12 o&rsquo;clock curfew when the team&rsquo;s on the road, and I don&rsquo;t pull any punches in enforcing it.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02142/1108903-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="268" height="472"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0381/1108896-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="286" height="458"></div><p>Murph got enthusiastic backing from Eddie Bush, another former extrovert of the NHL, who has become tough as a drill sergeant since he commenced coaching. Bush, recently appointed pilot of the Guelph Biltmores, was a rail-bird, like Murph, while the Leafs went through their daily chores at the Garden City arena.</p><p>&ldquo;There used to be time for a few quick beers, but there ain&rsquo;t any more,&rdquo; Eddie proclaimed, by way of explaining his conversion. &ldquo;They play more games today. The clubs don&rsquo;t have as many lay-overs as we used to have. That&rsquo;s when a fellow had a chance to relax a little. Now, there are so many games that nobody gets time to celebrate a win or drown some sorrow. It&rsquo;s business, and that&rsquo;s how it should be treated. I always played tough, and that&rsquo;s how I coach. If you&rsquo;re gonna be boss, you gotta be a boss. I&rsquo;ve seen good guys lose their jobs because players took advantage of them.&rdquo;</p><p>The two puritans, Chamberlain and Bush, looked at each other and wagged their heads in solemn agreement. It seemed a shame that James Dickinson Irvin, the old pigeon fancier from Montreal, couldn&rsquo;t have listened in on the testimonial. It&rsquo;s Irvin&rsquo;s lament that Chamberlain is responsible for every gray hair in Irvin&rsquo;s snowy-thatched noggin.</p><h2><b>Irvin Saved Him From Exile In Chicago</b></h2><p>&ldquo;DICK probably saved me from being traded to Chicago,&rdquo; Chamberlain mused. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s what he told me, anyway, but he could have been using some of his well-known psychology. I was with Leafs at the time, and Irvin was coach. He said Smythe wanted to include me in the deal for Doc Romnes. Irvin claimed he talked him out of it. Then he warned me: &lsquo;I saved your hide, so you&rsquo;d better get in shape.&rsquo; I know people think I gave Irvin a rough time, but, actually, he only fined me once, and even that wasn&rsquo;t serious. Bill Duman and I missed a practice while Canadiens were in Boston. We were playing cards on the train and didn&rsquo;t hear Irvin when he announced the workout. Next morning, Toe Blake and Elmer Lach rapped on our door and asked if we were ready to go to the rink. We thought it was a gag, so we slept in. Irvin was furious.&rdquo;</p><p>Murph got the heave-ho from two leagues as a coach before he discovered the correct balance between aggressiveness and rowdyism. He was under suspension in the coast league for some uncensored and unbridled comment which he had given the reporters. Coley Hall, the Vancouver owner for whom he has a high regard, got him transferred to Buffalo. There, he was told by Art Chapman, the general manager: &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t be afraid to cause a little excitement.&rdquo;</p><p>Murph complied. Within a few days, he threw a puck at a referee, because he suspected Terry Reardon, the Providence coach, had tossed an extra puck on the ice and Providence had scored. The league brass served Mr. Chamberlain stern warning. When he brawled with a referee on his next trip to Cleveland, the league suspended him.</p><p>&ldquo;It was the best thing that could have happened,&rdquo; Murph Insisted. &ldquo;It slowed me up and made me realize there&rsquo;s a difference between color and burlesque.&rdquo;</p><p>The Messrs. Chamberlain and Bush wagged their heads again. They wagged so vigorously that their halos rattled.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Speaking On Sport

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA teams will be somewhat revamped for the 1954-55 season, with new faces dotting each of the six clubs, largely due to the withdrawal of the Hamilton Tigers and Sarnia Sailors, whose players have been allotted the other clubs in the senior council draft.</p><p>Owen Sound Mercurys have bolstered their squad with Tommy Jamieson, who sat out all of last season rather than report to Niagara Falls Cataracts to whom he had been allotted when Sarnia Sailors folded. Other additions to the Mercury roster are Ed Louttit and Ted Reid, with Hamilton junior Cubs last year; Jack Kirk of the Kelowna, B.C. team, and Jack Taylor of the Hamilton Tigers.</p><p>Kitchener Dutchmen come up with a raft of candidates in Eugene (Bun) Martin, attempting a comeback after losing an eye in a hockey accident last year; Jack Movak, of Toledo Mercurys; Doug Ashley and Pete Kowalchuk, of the Galt Black Hawk juniors; &ldquo;Duke&rdquo; Edmundson, of the Cincinnati Mohawks; Gary Gordon, of the Windsor Bulldogs; Bill Hammond and Al Buchanan, of the defunct Hamilton Tigers; Bruce Simms, Jim Green, of the Soo, Mich. Indians; Buddy Horne, Mike Delich, of the Stratford Indians, and Jim Olinski, of the Belleville senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; team.</p><h2><b>Youth Movement</b></h2><p>Windsor Bulldogs, concentrating on a youth movement like Kitchener Dutchmen, have goalie Bill Harrington, of Kitchener; Andy McCallum, of Chicoutimi, Que.; goalie Al Reddoch, of Oshawa; Steve Brklacich, of Marlon, Ohio; Floyd Hillman, of Oshawa; Fritz Fraser, George McLagen and Frankie Liscombe, of Hamilton Tigers; Bob Cooper, of the disbanded Sydney Millionaires; Bobby Brown, of the Sherbrooke Saints; Bill Lee, of the Chatham Maroons, and Jack Armstrong, of the St. Catharines Teepee juniors.</p><p>Chatham Maroons have scouted Ontario, Quebec and the USA for talent and have come up with leftwinger Rod McElroy and defenceman Dave Lucas, of the Troy&rsquo; Bruins, defenceman Frank Hughes, of the Toledo Mercuries, centre Remi Brisson, of the Allan Cup champion Penticton V&rsquo;s.; Bernie Hill, of the Louisville Flyers; goalie Al Bennett, of the Hamilton Tigers, and Frank Bettlol, of the Galt Black Hawks.</p><h2><b>Cats Keep Mum</b></h2><p>Niagara Falls Cataracts have not divulged all the reinforcements they are counting upon, but they have landed seven players who should do them a lot of good. From former pro ranks they have secured Ken Kilrea. They also reached down into the Maritimes and plucked Lorne Pirie from the Sydney Millionaires, whom Coach Murph Chamberlain figured he had in tow for his Windsor Bulldogs; Ralph Markarian, who played for the Memorial Cup champion St. Catharines Teepees last season; Eddie Mulligan, of the Soo, Ont. Greyhounds; Sam Kennedy, Murray Comfort and Eddie Busch, of the Hamilton Tigers.</p><p>Stratford Indians have come up with Stan Stoddard, rightwinger with the Elmira Polar Kings for the last two seasons; Ted O&rsquo;Connor, a defenceman from Oshawa; coach &ldquo;Moe&rdquo; Morris, defenceman with the Owen Sound Mercurys last year, and John Ashley, property of Eddie Shore&rsquo;s Springfield Indians, who sat out last season. In addition, the Indians have signed two former players, both of them native sons, Jack White of the 1953-54 Valleyfield Braves, and Bruce Burdett, who played no hockey last season. Another prospect is Bob White, kid brother of Jack White, Stratford centre, who is attending the Mitchell District High School and played for Barrie Flyers the last three years.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

New Faces Dot Teams In Senior OHA

<div class="byline">By KEN MCKENZIE</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>ETROIT, Mich.&mdash;THE EIGHTH</b> annual National Hockey League All-Star Game rates as one of the best ever played in these early season skirmishes&hellip;It looked for a while as if the Red Wings were going to repeat their 1950 performance and top the League All-Stars, but once King Clancy&rsquo;s charges got used to playing together it was a different story&hellip;The All-Stars played very well from the second period on and had several opportunities in the third period to win the contest&hellip;The League All-Stars didn&rsquo;t even have a practice together prior to the game itself&hellip;They assembled in Detroit on the day of the game and met King Clancy, the All-Star coach in the 1954 game, in the afternoon&hellip;NHL President Clarence Campbell presented miniature gold pucks to all members of the First All-Star Team in a center ice ceremony before the game started&hellip;The two coaches, Clancy of the Stars and Jimmy Skinner, rookie mentor of the Detroit, Red Wings, also were the recipients of gold pucks&hellip;Skinner wasn&rsquo;t close by when his name was announced and made an auspicious entrance a couple of minutes after his name was called. He received a big hand from the 11,188 on hand&hellip;Bill Chadwick, senior NHL referee, handled the game and Doug Young and George Hayes were the linesmen&hellip;It was the fith All-Star Game refereed by Charwick&hellip;He was the man in charge of the 1948, 1949, 1951 and 1952 games&hellip;Ted Kennedy and Maurice Richard were the only members of the All-Star Team who were booed by the partisan Detroit fans when the players of both clubs were introduced before the start of the game.</p><p><b>THE GOAL</b> Scored by Boston&rsquo;s Doug Mohns in the second stanza to tie up the contest for the Stars was the result of a terrific shot by the sophomore Bruin winger&hellip;&ldquo;What a shot that Mohns made,&rdquo; said a tired Terry Sawchuk following the game&hellip;&ldquo;It dipped, it curved and I also think it was a slider, too,&rdquo; the ace Detroit goalie laughingly remarked&hellip;Mohns blasted it from about 40 feet out&hellip;All three netwinders, Sawchuck in the Wings&rsquo; goal and Harry Lumley and Al Rollins who divided the goaling honors for the Stars played exceptionally fine games&hellip;Rollins operated in goal with a fractured cheek bone and an ugly four-stitch cut which he incurred in an exhibition game in Buffalo a few nights earlier&hellip;It didn&rsquo;t affect his play any, however&hellip;Lumley made many clever saves in the opening session when the wings were buzzing all around the Stars goal&hellip;Lumley looks in the pink of condition and appears lighter than usual for the start of a ngw season&hellip;Rollins replaced Lumley in the All-Stars goal at exactly 10.59 of the second period&hellip;Stafford Smythe and Bruce Norris, sons of men who played vital roles in the formation and growth of the National Hockey League, sat together in the Norris box just behind the Detroit players bench&hellip;Miss Marguerite Norris, president of the Red Wings and only member of the distaff side at the dinner the evening before, sat in the same box with Smythe and brother Bruce&hellip;Peppery Marcel Bonin of the Wings picked up three minors&hellip;At one stage it looked as if Ted Lindsay and Ted Kennedy, respective captains of Detroit and Toronto, were going to engage in a bit of a brawl&hellip;Gusty Gus Mortson stepped in as the peacemaker&hellip;Mortson&rsquo;s goal at the 4.19 mark of the second period was only the third goal scored by a defenseman in the history of these annual All-Star Games&hellip;Bill Barilko and Bob Goldham were the other defensmen to tally in All-Star play&hellip;Chicago defense mate Bill Gadsby received an assist on Mortson&rsquo;s counter&hellip;The three members of the Black Hawks who performed for the All-Stars were standouts, Rollins, Gadsby and Mortson.</p><p><b>JEAN BELIVEAU</b> played a strong game for the Stars. He received an assist on Mohn&rsquo;s goal and made several dangerous sorties into the Detroit end&hellip;Bill Quackenbush also played a fine game for the All-Stars&hellip;Quackenbush and Ted Lindsay are the only players in the NHL who have played in all eight All-Star Games&hellip;Lindsay holds a most unique record&hellip;Besides taking part in all eight games he has also never been on losing side&hellip;Alex Delvecchio fitted in as center with Howe and Lindsay as if he belonged there from the start&hellip;This was Detroit&rsquo;s best line as all three performed well&hellip;Delvecchio made a sensational rush in on the Stars goal one time, was upset and flew into the end boards. One of his skates got caught in the boards and he had a little difficulty In prying it loose. Nothing serious developed but it was the type of accident that a player breaks a leg on&hellip;Red Kelly and Bob Goldham played well on the Red Wings defense&hellip;The ice at Olympia Stadium rates as the most colorful in the circuit&hellip;Instead of the conventional white it is a soft green shade which eliminates any glare&hellip;Around the bottom of the boards extending about six inches up from ice level is an orange band&hellip;This is to make it easier to follow the puck when it is up against the boards&hellip;This new innovation worked out very well&hellip;Red Tonkin, competent ice maker at the Olympia Stadium, is to be congratulated for the fine job he does with the rink&hellip;The seventh annual Players Pension Society was held on the morning of the game at the Detroit Leland Hotel, hockey headquarters in the Motor City&hellip;Clarence Campbell president at the meeting&hellip;Players in attendance were Bob Goldham and Marty Pavelichi of the Wings, Ted Kennedy of Toronto, Bill Quackenbush, Fleming Mackell and Ed Sandford of the Bruins and Gus Mortson of the Black Hawks.</p><p><b>FIVE MEMBERS</b> of the International Hockey Hall of Fame were guests of the NHL at this year&rsquo;s All-Star Game&hellip;Newsy Lalonde, Joe Malone, Frank Nighbor, Dickie Boon and Nels Stewart attended All-Star dinner on the Friday, the Game on Saturday and also the Army-Michlgan football game at Ann Arbor on Saturday afternoon&hellip;The NHL chartered a bus from the hotel to Ann Arbor and back for these who wished to attend the football game as guests of the League. A tasty box lunch was handed out to everyone on the way out&hellip;also on the return journey for those who so desired&hellip;The Hon. Paul Martin, Minister of Health and Welfare for Canada, was supposed to be a guest at the All-Star dinner but had to fly to the United Nations for an emergency meeting&hellip;John Digby Chick, president of the American Hockey League, was a head table guest as were Tommy Ivan, Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; new General Manager, Col. William MacBrien of Toronto, Bruce and Marguerite Norris of Detroit, Frank Sleke of Canadiens, Walter Brown of Boston, Jack Adams of Detroit, Leo Reise, vice-president of the Society&hellip;Clarence Campbell was chairman of the dinner&hellip;Gen. Kilpatrick in his interesting remarks about the players Pension Plan stated that as it stands now any 10-year player can collect $75. a month for life starting at age 45. If he leaves the money in the round until he is 65 he can collect $225 a month. Kilpatrick said that 10 per cent could now be added to the planned benefits&hellip;Leo Reise also spoke about the plan from a players angle&hellip;Reise also paid great tribute to Clarence Campbell for the work the NHL president has done on the Pension Society. He then proposed a toast to Campbell&hellip;Montreal and Toronto had more press and radio representatives on tap for the game than any of the cities outside Detroit&hellip;Bill Grimes, dean of the Boston hockey writers and one of the best informed hockey chroniclers around, was accompanied to the All-Star Game by Mrs. Grimes.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

All-Star Highlights

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01111/1108989-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don McKenney&hellip; &hellip;From Hershey To Boston</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>For the seventh time in eight years the Boston Bruins are opening their National League schedule with a bona fide rookie in a regular position.</p><p>The athlete of distinction this fall is Donald McKenney, a 20-year-old alumnus of the Hershey Bears.</p><p>Only two years out of junior hockey&mdash;he played for the Barrie (Ont.) Flyers&mdash;McKenney is entirely lacking in major league experience. In that respect he is following in the footsteps of 11 other Bruins of recent vintage who received their major league baptisms on opening night.</p><p>McKenney is a center, and three of his predecessors as Bruins&rsquo; rookies were also centers when they debuted in opening games. The three were Ray Barry (1950), Phil Maloney (1949) and Ed Sandford (1947).</p><p>The largest entrance of novices was on opening night of the 1947-48 season, when the Bruins&rsquo; lineup contained four players completely lacking in major league seasoning. Besides Sandford, fresh, from junior competition at St. Michael&rsquo;s School in Toronto, there was Sandford&rsquo;s cousin Ed Harrison and Pete Babando and Walter Wilson, also forwards.</p><p>The novice a year later was Defenseman Ed Kryzanowski, and between Maloney and Barry there was a pair of rookie defensemen, Ed Reigle and Steve Kraftcheck.</p><p>A year ago opening night was coming out night for Left Wing Doug Mohns and Defenseman Ray Gariepy, just recently traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>But for an Injury, the Bruins would have had an eightyear streak of having a rookie on the opening firing line, for Warren Godfrey was scheduled to start as a regular defenseman two falls ago until an ailing knee kept him inactive until the second game.</p><p>The Bruins have started seasons with other rookies in their lineup, as the word is interpreted officially, to mean a player who hasn&rsquo;t played more than 20 games in any one previous season.</p><h2><b>A Bona Fide Rookie</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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McKenney Joins B’s Entirely Lacking In NHL Experience

<div class="byline">BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Boston Bruins are going into their National League season with two separate courses of training behind them, if persistent reports are true.</p><p>Much of their time at their Hershey (Pa.) training camp was devoted to sharpening the reflexes they&rsquo;ll need to play major league hockey on a winning basis.</p><p>But some of their time, it has been reported, was devoted to sharpening reflexes used as a matter of business by Tony DeMarco, Boston&rsquo;s welterweight boxing contender.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0294/1109034-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="294" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fleming Mackell</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0372/1109027-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="285" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Armstrong</b></figcaption></div><p>According to stories from Hershey, the Bruins have gone through one of the roughest training periods any major league team has ever had. Coach Lynn Patrick won&rsquo;t enlarge on the reports, but he won&rsquo;t deny them, either.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll admit that we had some rough scrimmages at Hershey,&rdquo; chuckled Patrick, never a Lady Byng character in his own playing days, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;ll admit that we may have had at least one full-scale fight (reportedly between Defense-man Bob Armstrong and Center Fleming Mackell), but I have no complaints.</p><p>&ldquo;I file such affairs under the heading of aggressiveness, and I like an aggressive team, which I think this one will be.</p><p>&ldquo;Sometimes those outbursts of temper in training camp peter out when the regular season starts, but I have the feeling that this team will continue to be aggressive.</p><p>&ldquo;After all, fellows like Ferny Flaman, Leo LaBine, Milt Schmidt and Ed Sandford are naturally aggressive, and if others find their attitudes contagious, far be it from me to interfere, as long as there is no lasting damage.</p><p>&ldquo;As a matter of fact,&rdquo; added Patrick with a fresh chuckle, &ldquo;I rather enjoyed those lively interludes. I was never hit once.&rdquo;</p><p>The suspicion has been growing here since the summertime acquisition of the two-fisted Flaman that the Bruins may be difficult to handle at times this season, for Patrick has the wherewithal to ice a formidable array of musclemen.</p><p>By dint of a habit of juggling, he can put out a team of Armstrong and Flaman on defense and Schmidt, LaBine and Sanford at the forward positions which seems capable of smoothing out any trouble which might arise.</p><p>At any rate, the Bruins presumably survived the Hershey scrimmages with a minimum of visible damage, since no fist prints were noticeable on their arrival here.</p><h2><b>Didn&rsquo;t Get Hit!</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0455/1109020-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="576" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LYNN PATRICK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Mackell And Armstrong Set-to Features Intensity Of Bruins’ Scrimmage Sessions

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0536/1109065-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY GARIEPY&hellip; &hellip;A Rocker Joint Leafs</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Boston Bruins&rsquo; long search for goal-tending &ldquo;insurance&rdquo; for Sugar Jim Henry, may finally be at an end.</p><p>Only a week before the close of their fall training period at Hershey, Pa., Coach Lynn Patrick announced the acquisition of Long John Henderson from the Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>Henderson, a 20-year-old native of Toronto, was acquired in exchange for Ray Gariepy, a colorful defenseman who played briefly for the Bruins a year ago.</p><p>Patrick hailed the addition of Henderson as &ldquo;A move which we hope will enable us to relax a little.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Harold Cotton (Bruins&rsquo; chief scout) says he&rsquo;s the best goal-tender in hockey, outside of the National league,&rdquo; declared the Bruins&rsquo; coach.</p><p>Long John, who played for Eddie Shore at both Syracuse of the American league and Spring-field of the Quebec league a year ago, is a six-foot product of the Toronto organization. He finished his junior days two years ago with the Toronto Marlboros.</p><p>When the Maple Leafs filed their reserve list at the September draft meeting, Henderson was the other goal-tender besides Harry Lumley on the list. The expectation here is that he will open the season with the Bruins&rsquo; Hershey farm club.</p><p>Patrick&mdash;and Cotton&mdash;have been searching for a potential replacement for the 33-year-old Henry for the past three years, on the logical basis that the great veteran cannot go on forever. The acquisition of Henderson has not affected Sugar Jim&rsquo;s status, however.</p><p>Gariepy, whose winning attitude earned him Patrick&rsquo;s respect and the plaudits of Boston fans during his brief stay a year ago, has spent the remainder of his professional career with minor league teams. He has been a Hershey regular for the last four years, except for his short visit here.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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B’s Get Insurance For Sugar Jim, Swap Mr. Bop to T’s for Long John

<p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p>Founded October 1st 1947</p><p>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.</p><p>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West Montreal 25, Que.</p><p>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire: $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.</p><p>Entered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879</p><p>Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa</p><p><b>Member of the Audit Bureau cf Circulation</b></p><p>Printed In Canada<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0622/1109203-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="592" height="276"></div><h2>October 10 &ndash; October 17</h2><p>10&mdash;Laprade, Edgar, Rangers, centre, 1919; Irvine, Jack, Valleyfield, wing, 1924.</p><p>11&mdash;Morrison, Jim, Toronto, forward and defense, 1931.</p><p>13&mdash;Giesebrecht, Bert, Ottawa, centre, 1929.</p><p>16&mdash;Ashworth, Frank, Calgary, centre, 1927.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-074/1109234-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>a</span>nd every true-blue hockey fan will want to be a regular reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS&mdash;&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.</p><p>THE HQCKEY NEWS is published for 35 consecutive issues during the season and 5 monthly summer issues. It doesn't matter when you start, you still get your 35 issues?</p><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive Issues.</p><p><b>Canadian Remittances</b>&mdash;$3.00 Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order.</p><p><b>U.S.A. Remittances</b>&mdash;$4.00 Payable by Postal Noto. Bank or Express Money Order or personal cheque.</p><p><b>Fill In Form Above and Send Postal Note or Money Order</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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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/f0006-0525/1109172-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>Sorry, But Not Surprised</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I was very sorry although not particularly surprised, to learn of the cancellation of the Syracuse Warriors American Hockey League franchise. There will undoubtedly be quite a few Syracuse fans sorry to see hockey leave. It was becoming quite a popular sport In the city, as it was in the days of the old Syracuse Stars, but, like most other places, the fans wouldn&rsquo;t turn out time after time to see a poor team play.</p><p>This business about Shore not being able to procure enough dates for home games is strictly the bunk. If he had produced a winning team, he would have received the support of the fans.</p><p>As it is, he came into Syracuse three seasons ago with a poor team and did very little to improve it. What players he did have that were any good, were treated miserably by Shore. You&rsquo;ll recall the case of Kenny Hayden, a pretty fair hockey player, jumping the club and going home during the Warriors first season in Syracuse. He was apparently fed up with Shore and didn&rsquo;t want to play for him any longer.</p><p>The following season, he was sent to the St. Louis Flyers. Players like Ralph Nattress, Gordon Haidy and Frank O&rsquo;Grady refused to report to Syracuse. They probably figured that they were all washed up if they had to play for Shore. Another example is Sammy Casanato, whom Shore wouldn&rsquo;t allow to have a cyst removed because he wouldn&rsquo;t pay the hospital expenses.</p><p>Bep Guidolin wasn&rsquo;t interested in proposals by Shore to coach the Warriors and went to the Quebec League last season.</p><p>To top it all off, this past season Shore sent most of his hockey players to Springfield when it became apparent that the Warriors weren&rsquo;t going to make the AHL playoffs. Among them were Harry Pidhirny, who at the time was leading the league in goals. I don&rsquo;t think, however, that Pidhirny reported. It was certainly a wonderful way for Shore to treat the Syracuse fans, wasn&rsquo;t it?</p><p>If Shore had treated his players a little better and had not been so close with his nickles, it wouldn&rsquo;t have been at all hard to produce a winner in Syracuse. Unfortunately, one gets out of something what they put into it so, Shore has nobody but himself to blame for the Warriors failure in Syracuse.</p><p>As it is, he doesn&rsquo;t even belong in hockey and I&rsquo;m glad to see him leave Syracuse, but, I hate to see a good game go with him. Let&rsquo;s hope someone a little more decent and considerate gets hockey back in Syracuse. Someone besides Mr. Eddie Shore.</p><p>William S. Read, U.S.N.A.S. Agana, Guam, M.I.</p><h2><b>Another Overseas Fan</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>You may remember I wrote to you before, asking for line-ups of the various Canadian hockey leagues. I am very sorry that it&rsquo;s taken me so long to thank you for all the Information you so kindly sent to me.</p><p>You may also remember you said that I could write again if you could be of furthuer assistance to me, and I&rsquo;d like to take advantage of that offer now.</p><p>I would like to correspond with hockey fans in certain parts of Canada, exchanging news, newspaper cuttings, programs, magazines, photos, etc. I support the Paisley Pirates, and also travel to other rinks when possible. My address is 143 Bellshill Road, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland.</p><p>Andrew Cowan, Lanackshire, Scotland.</p><h2><b>English Fan Wants Mail</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>Since Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh toured Canada, I have become very interested in your country, also in a game which seems is mostly played by natives of Canada&hellip;namely ice hockey. Hockey and ice-shows are quite popular in England, too.</p><p>Now I feel I would like a penpal in Canada. I wrote to the editor of the Ice Hockey World asking him the address of a newspaper or periodical that runs a pen-pal club, and he game me yours.</p><p>I would therefore be very grateful if you could help me. My address is 28 Rockwood Road, Stamford Hill, London N. 16, England. I&rsquo;m 18-years-old, by the way.</p><p>Marie Beard London, Eng.</p><h2><b>She&rsquo;ll Answer Every One</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>I am a regular subscriber to THE HOCKEY NEWS and enjoy reading it very much.</p><p>I am writing this note to the Fan Forum as a request for pen pals who are interested in exchanging opinions and information about their favorite hockey teams. I am interested in just about any class of hockey from Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; to N.H.L., so I&rsquo;d like to hear from fans from all over.</p><p>I promise to answer every letter. Please write to me at 87 Malvern Ave., Toronto 13, Ont. And thanks very much to the Fan Forum for their help.</p><p>Beth Shaver Toronto, Ont.</p><h2><b>Fan Forum Fan</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>I enjoy reading your paper very much, and think it&rsquo;s one of the best things that ever happened. I still have every copy since it was first published.</p><p>I&rsquo;d like fans interested in trading programs of NHL, Saskatoon and Vancouver to write to me. I have pictures of NHL players old and present, and perhaps, we could make dickers. My address is R.R. No. 4, Langham, Sask.</p><p>Henry Thiessen Langham, Sask.</p><h2>He Doesn&rsquo;t Like ..</h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>As a regular reader of your paper I would like to register a few complaints:</p><p>1&mdash;Your poor coverage of the Western, Quebec and American hockey-leagues. Your NHL coverage is excellent. But out of twenty pages you give ten to the NHL and ten to the many other hockey leagues in Canada and the U.S.A. Is this fair? I think your paper should be called the NHL news.</p><p>2&mdash;The stoppage of weekly publication while most playoff series are in full swing.</p><p>Also, I was most disappointed after reading your May issue. You carried pictures and write-ups of practically every championship team from the Stanley Cup winners to the Alexander Cup winners, and also the victors of smaller leagues. And yet you left out the Calgary Stampeders, winners of the Presidents Cup and the Duke of Edinburgh Trophy, emblematic of the professional hockey championship of Canada.</p><p>Don&rsquo;t you think such series are Important enough to warrant more than the small summaries you gave them in your paper?</p><p>I would appreciate hearing your views on these matters.</p><p>Ray Kemp Calgary, Alta.</p><p>(Phew! That&rsquo;s quite a list of beefs. To take them in order: If we were to cut down on NHL coverage, every National Hockey League fan on the continent would complain, and the aim of any publication is to please as many of its readers as it possibly can. Space is something that can&rsquo;t be stretched. We cram as much in as we can, and balance it by demand on the widest scale. Weekly publication, therefore, ends with the close of the NHL season. The Calgary Stampeder picture was omitted from the May issue for a very good reason&hellip;we didn&rsquo;t receive it from the club. However, it was carried in a later issue.)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Montreal Canadiens, the oldest club in professional hockey and traditionally the most colorful, are opening the National League season with a revamped lineup and high hopes of knocking the champion Detroit Red Wings from the lofty perch they have occupied for six years.</p><p>Whether these hopes, so fondly entertained by everyone in the Habs organization, are realized will depend largely on two players&mdash;the goaltender and the centre on the revamped Punch Line.</p><p>Gerry McNeil, having quit hockey to give his taut nerves a chance to get back to normal, created a void in the nets.</p><p>But Jacques Plante, entrusted with the chore of stopping rival sharpshooters, is no stranger to the team. He stepped into the nets last year when Gerry was hurt and his nerves were as raw as a freshly cut side of beef. Plante acquitted himself well and even before McNeil&rsquo;s sudden resignation after ten days&rsquo; of practice, the Forum had announced that the netminding job would be decided in a battle between the two.</p><p>Plante is spectacular and fearless. If he polishes up his technique and corrects a tendency to wander from his post he might develop into an important cog in the Hab machine.</p><p>The other key player is Jackie Leclair, a 25-year-old rookie, acquired by Canadiens in the deal that gave Brian Cullen to the Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>It will be his job to fill the spot vacated by Elmer Lach, who retired after 14 years with the Habs to coach the junior Canadiens. When training camp opened, Coach Dick Irvin wasn&rsquo;t sure who would centre Maurice Richard and Bert Olmstead.</p><p>&ldquo;Filling Lach&rsquo;s shoes is the biggest problem we face,&rdquo; said Irvin. &ldquo;We depend a lot of the Rocket&rsquo;s goals and Olmstead&rsquo;s all-round effectiveness. I&rsquo;ve got two candidates, Leclair and Donnie Marshall.&rdquo;</p><p>Shortly afterward Marshall cracked a bone in his leg and Irvin had no alternative but to leave Leclair in the main centre slot.</p><p>It was a tough spot for the rookie but he responded to the test, showing natural aptitude and an enormous capacity for work.</p><p>&ldquo;I think he&rsquo;s the man we need on that line,&rdquo; said Irvin during a pre-season trip to the Maritimes. &ldquo;He plays like he belongs in there.&rdquo;</p><p>Irvin isn&rsquo;t making any predictions about his team which finished second last year after being picked by most experts to end the schedule on top.</p><p>&ldquo;Sometimes they look like champions,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But with all those injuries&mdash;well it&rsquo;s impossible to tell how things will work out.&rdquo;</p><p>Irvin is a cautious spokesman but observers could detect an undertone of optimism in his voice.</p><p>Marshall, of course, will be out of action for five or six weeks and so will big Eddie Mazur who recently underwent surgery on his right knee. A tricky cartilege slipped from its socket during his first workout and it was decided to have the operation performed.</p><p>Two other players&mdash;righ winger Lorne Davis and defenseman Bud MacPherson&mdash;also were injured in practice but they were ready for the opening night. Davis suffered a pinched shoulder muscle and MacPherson had knee trouble.</p><p>Apart from Leclair, 22-year-old Eddie Litzenberger, up from the Royals of the Quebec Hockey League, is the only rookie who might break into the line-up.</p><h2><b>Leaves Big Boots Behind</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01134/1109265-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="865" height="910"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Elmer Lach&hellip;Now A Coach</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Plante Faces Full Schedule As Canadiens’ Goal-keeper

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The Quebec Junior Hockey League, a spankling new four-team league, launched it&rsquo;s 48-game schedule last week with two new coaches at the helm of two clubs.</p><p>Elmer Lach, the tireless centre of the Montreal Canadiens, finally hung up his famous skates and decided on a coaching career. E1raer, who gave the parent Mtl Canadiens some great service, takes over from Sad Sam Pollock who has been elevated to the position of chief scout of Canadien&rsquo;s hockey empire.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02111/1109296-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="564" height="823"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY PLAMONDON</b></figcaption></div><p>Gerry Plamondon, another former Canadien star, has taken over the coaching reins at Three Rivers from Jack Toupin who was given the coaching job of the Quebec Aces of the Quebec Hockey League this fall.</p><p>The other two coaches remain at their old stands. Swede Paulsen, holds forth at Jonquiere where he will be guiding the Marquis, now sponsored by the Chicago Black Hawks, for another year while Phil Watson has returned to pilot the champion Quebec Citadelles.</p><p>Since there won&rsquo;t be any interlocking schedule with Ontario this year, the Quebec Junior league looms as an evenly balanced loop and ever bit as strong as the Ontario group.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Lach And Plamondon Only New Coaches In Quebec Junior

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Probably one of the most timely releases in the publishing world this season is the co-incidental publication of the National Hockey League Press and Radio Guide, and the playing of the All-Star game in Detroit.</p><p>It&rsquo;s timely because such an annual classic as the All-Star clash always sends the figure filberts and the experts lashing to the record books, and without&rdquo; a doubt the N.H.L. Guide is one of the most complete record books ever compiled&hellip;in fact, when you&rsquo;re speaking of hockey, it&rsquo;s the only one that is published year after year, and the only one that gives the reader a good running start at the tricky, and often monotonous business of discovering just who did what back in such and such a year.</p><p>It has been said of this guide that it makes an expert out of the regular fan. Actually, it does more than that for him. Unlike most statistical tomes, it can be fun to read, and unlike the telephone book, once described by a wag as having a tremendous cast but very little plot, the guide spans an entire era of the hockey world, so that it is part history book, part record-book, a veritable who&rsquo;s who, a sort of universal box score of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s activities over the years.</p><h2><b>A Book of Fact and Figures</b></h2><p>Such a book isn&rsquo;t the work of a month, but of years and the fan, casually flipping his way through the 230 pages of this compact volume, may well be impressed with the meticulous thought, the diligent research and the many hours of plain hard labor that went into its compilation. It has been called, and with good reason, hockey&rsquo;s bible. Facts are listed alphabetically for easy reference, and on the first line of the index page attention is drawn to the All Star games, so that anyone lucky enough to have been in the Detroit Olympia on Saturday, October 2, has at his fingertips all there Is to know about All Star games as far back as 1931.</p><p>In actual content, the book opens as it should, with the complete listing of each NHL club&hellip;its players, directors and officials, down to such details as directions on how to find the home arena in which the team plays and, if you&rsquo;re a visiting newspaperman, how you get to the press box. This is only one Indication of how thorough Editor Ken McKenzie, who is also Publicity Director of N.H.L., has been. At scraping the bottom of the fact barrel, Mr. McKenzie is something of a genius; and the Inclusion into the book of Jim Hendy&rsquo;s Hocky Guide and Who&rsquo;s Who in Hockey rounds out an admirable piece of work.</p><h2><b>A Thorough Job of Research</b></h2><p>Not the last in importance by any means is the section devoted to personal statistics on famous professional players. Bill Thomson, associate editor of the Guide, has done a thorough job here; he brings into close focus all the pertinent details of those men who have reached the ultimate in hockey, so that no reader has to put this book down unsatisfied on any point he wants to know.</p><p>While the NHL Guide was primarily designed for quick knowledge by hockey&rsquo;s thousands of fans, it has another purpose, too, and one that reveals with what esteem it is held by the professional men who cover the sport. No newspaper office is without this book; and no sports writer, harried by phone calls from fans who don&rsquo;t happen to have one of these guides, could get along without it. For memory is a tricky thing. But here memory is solidified, frozen in print, and beyond personal error.</p><p>As an added touch the book contains, at is very end, the entire NHL schedule for the current year&hellip;with a refinement. This is the inclusion of blank space for the recording of each game&rsquo;s score, and properly filled in as the season passes, this record rounds out a volume that gains in usefulness as the years roll by.</p><p>The NHL Guide is going into its eighth year now, with every season&rsquo;s release sort of anniversary. As the popularity of Canada&rsquo;s national sport Increases, so too does the demand for this fine, compact little volume. It is, as much as anything else, a service to a peculiar sort of community&hellip;the community that exists wherever a puck is iced or a goal scored.</p><p>As such, it is a success, and like all successes, it deserves its tribute and the patronage of the fans who have made it a necessity.</p><p><b>(You can obtain this book by sending $1.00 (Personal cheque or money order) to: McKenzie Enterprises Ltd., 603 Sun Life Building, Montreal, P.Q.)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NHL Press, Radio Guide Holds Key To Vault Of Hockey Lore

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><p>ST. CATHARINES. Ont.&mdash;</p><p>There has seldom been as much excitement or genuine down to earth conjecture connected with a Leaf hockey team as there is with the &rsquo;54-&rsquo;55 edition which is in training here.</p><p>The reason for it all is a 165 pound, 21-year-old potential phenomenon known as Brian Cullen who is busily building himself a reputation as the best bet to be number one Leaf star of the future.</p><p>St. Catharines, which usually accepts the fact that it is chosen as the site of the Leaf training camp politely but with lack of fervour, is in a continual buzz of conversation about Cullen, his chances of becoming a Leaf, his prospects of being a good one and the likelihood of his someday replacing Ted Kennedy, in his last year as a Leaf, as the sparkplug of the club.</p><p>The Garden City Arena, up until this year occupied by only a few curious and fervent hockey fans, these days is drawing a respectable number of citizens. They sneak away early for lunch, they play hockey from school and they just plain hang out the sign on the shop in order to see Cullen and the Leafs. Concession booths, which were never open in the mornings for the Leaf practices, are doing a buzzing business in hot dogs and coffee. And everywhere in the building they are talking about Cullen.</p><p>A good indication of how mad they are to see the former St. Kitt&rsquo;s Tee Pee centre make good, came in the opening exhibition game when Cullen, appropriately enough, scored the opening goal against the Pittsburgh Hornets. There hasn&rsquo;t been such a concentrated tizzy among 4,000 people since the Teeps won the Memorial Cup last season and became the darlings of the male populace as well as the housewives. That how St. Catharines has taken young Cullen to its heart. Before that particular game coach King Clancy like to fall off the receiver when a housefrau telephoned to see if Cullen was going to play for the Leafs or not. Clancy assured her that he was in that game.</p><p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad. There&rsquo;s a bunch of us coming and if Brian hadn&rsquo;t been playing, we would have stayed home.&rdquo;</p><p>Cullen&rsquo;s chances of making the team in his jump from junior are good but not airtight. To do it he has to push out Rudy Migay or Bob Bailey. Migay is a sound, penalty killing, checking centreman who earned his NHL spurs the hard way. Bailey, himself billed as a sensational rookie of last season when he was procured from the Cleveland Bruins, didn&rsquo;t start to live up to his expectations until late in the season. But when he finally did, he did it with such a verve and bounce that he practically cinched himself a spot on future Leaf teams.</p><p>Where, then, does Cullen fit into the Leaf plans?</p><p>The answer is a simple matter of mechanics. Cullen, for a year, is on a negotiation list. Although he is signed to a pro contract with the Leafs, his position is such that he can be shipped to Pittsburgh and recalled without encountering the sticky regulations of the protected list.</p><p>No other player on the club can make that statement.</p><p>Ergo it would behoove the management to let him start with the Hornets, with the assurance that they can use him when they need him, rather than keep him in Toronto. Only 18 players can be played until Dec. 1. After that the number is cut to 16. That means that some players must be kept inactive, being spotted in games but being paid for just sitting. It follows that in a case like Cullen&rsquo;s, with a lad who no matter how good he might be can still use playing experience in pro hockey, it would be wisest to send him to the minors.</p><p>If he goes, he won&rsquo;t suffer any financial loss. He has already been signed to a contract of NHL proportions and if he goes to the Hornets the Leafs will take up the financial slack.</p><p>In training camp, seasoned observers have ventured that he has the ability to be with the big club from the outset. Not an end to end puck carrier, not like Kennedy or Syl Apps perhaps in his ability to gather an attack in his own end for a sweep, Cullen is nevertheless possessed of an uncanny puck sense. He is where he is supposed to be. He can dig for the puck, set up pretty plays and he can shoot the puck on the net without dragging it back, a faculty which gives him a split second edge on goalkeepers. It was such a good faculty, in fact, that it enabled him to score 68 goals in Junior A last season, a league record. He also assisted in 93 more for a total of 161 points.</p><p>While the focal point of the camp has been Cullen, the club itself has been plodding towards a conviction that it will be a hard to beat organization this season.</p><p>The twigs on the tree of last year have branched out. George Armstrong has been wheeling in Conacher lines and Erie Nesterenko, with that much more experience under his belt, has convinced the management that he is in for a spectacular year. On defense, Jim Thomson, who faded after a knee injury last season, is playing like a skittish colt rather than a blase pro and the corps of Tim Horton, Leo Boivin, Hugh Bolton and Jimmy Morrison has been strengthened by the addition of Larry Cahan, a former Hornet, who drew praises from assistant managing director Hap Day all through last season.</p><p>Harry Lumley, the Vezina-winning goalkeeper, surprised one and all by reporting as keen as a piano wire and bang on his playing weight. Indeed, with all those centres, the only weakness in the club might be at left wing, a position which plagued it last season. Even that spot has been strengthened by Gord Hannigan, a first year sensation and, because of illness, a second year flop. Hannigan, who reported in fine shape, is battling for the job as though he knew it might be taken away from him. Which well it might have been in view of the fact that Dave Creighton, the trade from Boston, could squeeze him out.</p><p>Things, indeed, are looking so bright that King Clancy, an eternal optimist, has been declaring that the club will finish no worse than second.</p><p>Detractors might point out that Clancy said the same thing last year. But there is one difference. This year he knows more about what he&rsquo;s up against.</p><h2><b>Pittsburgh Beckons One Of &rsquo;Em</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01167/1109365-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="597" height="612"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RUDY MIGAY</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02117/1109358-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="558" height="735"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRIAN CULLEN</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0387/1109351-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="609" height="609"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB BAILEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Cullen, Bailey, Migay - - - One Must Go!

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO&mdash;An Injured wrist forced right winger Ron Stewart to quit midway through the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey drill at nearby St. Catharines.</p><p>Stewart hurt his wrist in a recent practice session.</p><p>Comings and goings at the Leaf camp and that of the Pittsburgh farm club, in neighboring Niagara Falls, saw Gordon Onotsky returned to his Timmins home and the departure of Arnold Schmautz.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0457/1109396-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="567" height="597"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RONNIE STEWART</b></figcaption></div><p>Onotsky played for the Kitchener junior A team last year and will return to that club. Schmautz toiled for Youngstown last season.</p><p>Meanwhile, Bob Sabourin, Bob Solinger and Willie Marshall signed their Maple Leaf contracts and were assigned to Pittsburgh.</p><p>The Leafs broke camp and will play an exhibition game against Pittsburgh in Whitby, and meet their farm hands at Port Perry and at Niagara Falls.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Stewart An Early Casualty- - -Hurts Wrist

<div class="byline">By GEORGE LAUGHLIN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0533/1109427-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Thomson&hellip; &hellip;A Brooch From the Coach</b></figcaption></div><p>(As seen in The Telegram)</p><p>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>There is strong belief among the big brass at Toronto Maple Leaf training camp here that defense-man Jim Thomson is in for his best season.</p><p>&ldquo;Jim was going like a house afire last year until he was hurt, but he never came back to form later in the season.&rdquo;</p><p>Thomson suffered a knee injury early in December a year ago. It has completely healed during the off season and the 27-year-old rearguard is prancing around like a young colt.</p><p>This is Thomson&rsquo;s 10th season as a professional and he has spent all but half a season of that time in National Hockey League ranks.</p><p>Jim jumped from the 1944-45 Memorial Cup winning St. Michael&rsquo;s juniors to the Leafs to start the 1945-46 campaign. He stayed up for the first half of that season, but took extra grooming at Pittsburgh for the balance.</p><p>&ldquo;He is skating as fast as he ever did,&rdquo; Clancy said of Thomson. &ldquo;Right now he looks like the best defenseman in the league and he has been getting the occasional goal.&rdquo;</p><p>Assistant GM Hap Day was equally enthusiastic about Thomson&rsquo;s play and also lauded the improvement in Hugh Bolton.</p><p>&ldquo;That is the best defense pair in camp,&rdquo; Day remarked, &ldquo;and that&rsquo;s easy to prove. All you have to do is look at their record of goals against.&rdquo;</p><p>Major Conn Smythe beamed approval of the Thomson-Bolton duo in scrimmage, especially when Thomson roeked opponents with surprisingly solid bodychecks. Smythe was also pleased with the shot-blocking tactics of Bolton, who has been acting like a second goalie.</p><p>With camp due to break up some time before the end of next week there has been much speculation as to which players, if any, will be sent down to the Howie Meeker-coached Pittsburgh Hornets.</p><p>Under the protected list regulations, only Bob Sabourin and Brian Cullen can be sent down without danger of losing them entirely.</p><p>That doesn&rsquo;t mean that Sabourin will be back at Pittsburgh. He has been up at Leaf camp to fill out a fourth line and on his play this week looks every bit a big leaguer.</p><p>In fact he has starred in recent scrimmage and drills on a line with Rudy Migay and Gord Hannigan. Migay scored two goals and assisted on another by Sabourin.</p><p>There may be a cut in the squad, but it is more than likely that all 22 will be kept around for some time. It may all depend on the decision reached between veteran Max Bentley and Leaf management.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-05

Clancy Dubs Jeems “Best Defenseman In League”

<div class="byline">By Elmer Ferguson</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>&bull; THE ALL STAR HOCKEY battle in Detroit added an odd bit of sports lore to the record&hellip;it was the first major hockey game ever played in which two of the contestants wore contact lenses&hellip;Timmy Horton of Leafs and Fleming Mackell of the Bruins&hellip;</p><p>Horton has. of course, been playing with contact lenses for more than a year, and wore his usual pair&hellip;they were new, in a game, to the black-thatched Mackell&hellip;&ldquo;They suited me very well&rdquo; said Mackell afterwards&hellip;&ldquo;I think they are going to work&rdquo;&hellip;</p><p>Sid Abel, that tough old warrior who is out of hockey for the first time in many years, sat in the press-box, watching with interest the efforts of Alex Delvecchio, to fill his place between Lindsay and Howe&hellip;no one has yet come up to the Abel standard when old &ldquo;Boot Nose&rdquo; was at his peak&hellip;Delvecchio is going well&rdquo; he remarked, &ldquo;and looks like he&rsquo;ll make it&rdquo;&hellip;Delvicchio, in fact, played a standout game for the Wings, better than either of his more illustrious mates&hellip;</p><p><b>The game drew 11,188 paid admissions, a remarkable tribute to the grip hockey holds on the public in the Motor City and environs&hellip;the battle for publicity space was grim, with the world&rsquo;s series, the football, the naming of Bucky Harris as Tigers&rsquo; new pilot, the racing, and other seasonable sports&hellip;it was, in addition, a hot, muggy day, which wasn&rsquo;t likely to make anybody hockey-minded, but Jack Adams has built so well and soundly that the game on its merits drew the largest crowd in the history of All-Star games in Detroit.</b></p><p>Wings clung to their record of not losing to the All-Stars&hellip;in 1952 there were 10,680 at the game there&hellip;Teddy Lindsay and Rocket Richard have each played in the eight official All-Star games&hellip;Lindsay, leading scorer in these with four goals, raised his pointage to seven with an assist&hellip;Jean Beliveau doubled his scoring total with a second assist&hellip;</p><p>When the teams were lined up, the members of the first All-Star group were called to centre-ice for gifts of a diamond-set miniature gold puck&hellip;those of the second team were merely Introduced and remained in line&hellip;when the name of Rocket Richard, beaten only a point or so by Howe for the right wing job on the first team was called, the crowd burst into an uproar of &ldquo;boos&rdquo;&hellip;Richard, nothing daunted, wheeled out about 10 feet, circled back&hellip;&ldquo;if they were going to give me the raspberry, I wanted to give them a good chance to do it,&rdquo; he said afterwards&hellip;seems to this observer that members of the All-Star seconds are worth something more than a mere introduction, and should have some memento of the game which they help to make worthwhile&hellip;</p><p>&bull; THE PENSION FUND, now well over one million dollars in cash or quickly-cashable securities, will be a monument to Clarence Campbell when and if he severs company with the National League&hellip;in fact it&rsquo;s a monument anyway, and an amazing achievement, when it is considered that the fund came into being only in 1947, and eligible for sharing in the rich pot are players who were active in that year, and of course those who came later. The success of the fund is such that at the All-Star dinner in Detroit Friday night, chairman Leo Reise, one of the greats of hockey a few years back, proposed a standing vote of thanks to and appreciation of the efforts of President Clarence, who was visibly touched by this unexpected tribute. &ldquo;If I never do anything else for hockey, I will always be proud of the pension fund,&rdquo; he said.</p><p><b>Toe Blake, the Old Lamp Lighter, one of the left wings who helped to make Canadien Punch Lines great&mdash;Dick Irvin says the Lach-Richard-Blake line, at peak, was hockey&rsquo;s best ever&mdash;will be the first to dip into the funds of the Players Pension Society&hellip;when Toe reaches the age of 45, and it won&rsquo;t be long now, lie draws his first money, and his long service gives him an equity of something like $6,200., in ten years time&hellip;</b></p><p>When Jean Beliveau arrived at the scene of All-Star hostilities he wore coat and trousers that didn&rsquo;t match&hellip;down in Moncton, where Habs played a couple of exhibition games, the players&rsquo; dressing-room was invaded while play was on, and the Invader made off with Beliveau&rsquo;s trousers, containing $100 cash and a gold presentation watch, valued at around $500., and even more valuable from a centimental view-point&hellip;the theft occurred in the second period, so that before the end of the game, a messenger had time to go to Beliveau&rsquo;s hotel quarters and get him a pair of trousers&hellip;Geoffrion centred Leafs&rsquo; Kennedy and Smith early in the game, though Kennedy is, of course, a centre and was quickly replaced&hellip;</p><p><b>Hockey players and leaders gathered from all over&hellip;Tommy Iivan, who is now with Chicago Black Hawks after compiling a great record with Detroit, was on hand&hellip;&ldquo;We haven&rsquo;t made any player additions of note,&rdquo; said Tommy, &ldquo;but the team has tremendous spirit, Frankie Eddolls is doing a great job. The spirit is such that goaler Al Rollins got badly cut in practise, diving into a close-range play&hellip;Hawks have no defeatist complex, which is something.&rdquo;</b></p><p>&bull; BOSTON BRUINS reported they will start the season without Warren Godfrey, who broke a small bone in his foot, in training&hellip;Bruins have a fine prospect in Doug Mohns, who hails from Capreol, Ont., and packs one of the hardest and most accurate shots in the League&hellip;Mohns got the only goal registered when both teams were at full strength, a blazing shot that beat the Detroit net-minder cleanly&hellip;&ldquo;that shot was a fast ball with a sharp-breaking curve, a knuckler and a slider all combined,&rdquo; said goaler Terry Sawchuk, afterwards&hellip;he had been listening in on the world&rsquo;s baseball show in the afternoon&hellip;</p><p><b>Newsy Lalonde and Dickie Boon, two of the six veterans who were guests of the League at the game, chuckled over an occasion away back when&hellip;Wanderers, the Boon team, were facing the team Lalonde played for, and Frank Patrick was refereeing&hellip;Wandeer players, including the goaler of the night, were draped over the boards talking to the girl friends, when Patrick blew the starting-whistle&hellip;he repeated the blast, the players were too engrossed to move, so the annoyed Patrick dropped the puck, Lalonde picked it up and sent it whistling into the empty net&hellip;</b></p><p>President Clarence Campbell remained over in Detroit for some golf&hellip;he is playing today at the Red Run course, in a proamateur tournament&hellip;the Prexy is rated a real good competitor, shots in the low eighties&hellip;he was highly pleased with the hockey show, as well he might be, for this was the best of all the All-Star games&hellip;</p><h2><b>In Patrick&rsquo;s Latest Shuffles</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01152/1109472-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="542" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ED SANDFORD</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02132/1109465-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="564" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG MOHNS</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03101/1109458-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="554" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DON MCKENNEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-01

Gist and Gest

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Who&rsquo;s the major league coach who dares to move a player from a position at which he has gained all-star rating to a new position almost overnight?</p><p>Lynn Patrick of the Boston Bruins, that&rsquo;s who.</p><p>Who&rsquo;s the coach willing to gamble on the ability of a raw rookie to play a position almost completely unfamiliar with virtually no practice?</p><p>Why, Lynn Patrick of the Bruins.</p><p>Who&rsquo;s the coach unafraid to shift the most promising young scorer he has ever handled completely across the ice to new assignments?</p><p>Lynn Patrick of the Bruins, of course.</p><p>Patrick is like the man isolated with a deck of cards for company. He cannot resist the urge to shuffle. Frequently his shuffles produce winning hands.</p><p>Patrick once played Jerry Toppazzini on defense for the first time in his life in the first major league game in which Toppazzini ever played.</p><p>Patrick made a center of Fleming Mackell, an ex-wing, and a wing of Ed Sandford, an ex-center. He made a center of Woody Dumart, who hadn&rsquo;t played anyplace but left wing for a dozen years, and he made a forward of Ed Kryzanowski, a defenseman by trade.</p><p>A position to the imaginative Bruins&rsquo; coach is a place at which a player is stationed only temporarily&mdash;until he is needed elsewhere.</p><p>With another National League season underway, Patrick has already made more personnel switches than the average coach will make in a career.</p><p>His record for the season at this early date:</p><p>1&mdash;Sandford, a second team all-star last spring, has been moved from left wing to right wing.</p><p>2&mdash;Doug Mohns, the pea-shooting left wing rookie of a year ago, has been moved to right wing.</p><p>3&mdash;Doh McKenney, owner of only one year of professional experience&mdash;and most of that as a center&mdash;has been moved to the left wing.</p><p>Patrick, never known as a coach unwilling to stand behind his decisions, has his customary sound reasons for the changes. Says Lynn:</p><p>Regarding Sandford&mdash;&ldquo;When Johnny Peirson retired, we needed a right wing. I felt that Ed could fill the bill defensively, and the only reservation I&rsquo;m making is on how many goals he&rsquo;ll score.&rdquo;</p><p>Regarding McKenney&mdash;&ldquo;Don played left wing a lot at Hershey last winter, and he looked better there than he did at center. Besides, I have Milt Schmidt in my lineup, and I don&rsquo;t need McKenney at center at the moment.&rdquo;</p><p>Regarding Mohns&mdash;&ldquo;Doug is a left-handed shot, and I have always been an advocate of a forward playing his off-wing. I won&rsquo;t be surprised if he scores 25 goals this year, wherever he plays.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bruin started off with a set lineup, on paper, at least. Patrick&rsquo;s plan was for Schmidt to center for McKenney and Mohns, the old Barrie (Ont.) linemates; for Cal Gardner to center for Lome Ferguson and Sandford; for Mackell to center for Real Chevrefils and Leo LaBine.</p><p>His six-man defense squad consisted of Bob Armstrong and Warren Godfrey, Ferny Flaman and Frank Martin and Hal Laycoe and Bill Quackenbush, and Sugar Jim Henry was his goal-tender.</p><p>But Patrick has a fluid mind, and just how long those combinations remain intact will depend upon how effectively they operate. If anything should go wrong, it&rsquo;s a cinch there&rsquo;ll be shifts.</p><p>Lester Patrick&rsquo;s elder son has never been one to sit back and hope for the best, not as long as he has an able-bodied athlete at one post who looks capable of performing at another.</p><h2><b>They Also Wound Up In Strange Places!</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0487/1109538-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="282" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Flem Mackell</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0570/1109531-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="276" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dave Creighton</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0662/1109524-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="300" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Woody Dumart</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0754/1109517-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="280" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Kryzanowski</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0849/1109510-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="296" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jerry Toppazinni</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0949/1109503-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="280" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Milt Schmidt</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-04

Lynn Shifts Into High Gear Seeking To Strengthen Bruins

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Returning to the Windy City recently from his last look at the Black Hawks before the breaking of camp at Pembroke, Ont., Vice President Bill Tobin indicated satisfaction with the surprising spirit and hustle exhibited by some 22 skaters bidding for spots with the club this season.</p><p>Manager Tommy Ivan and Coach Frank Eddolls have wasted little time in making known what they expect from wearers of the Indian garb. While icing no less than eight champion squads between them, they have become exacting critics with explicit wants and this should mean a good deal for Chicago hockey.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01167/1109583-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="278" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tommy Ivon</b></figcaption></div><p>They seem to have been given a good start with the type of material needed for a potential solid contender for top National Hockey. League honors. Both have already reminded the press that they don&rsquo;t promise miracles, but things do appear to be definitely on the upgrade for the Hawks.</p><p>As he promised shortly after signing as coach, Eddolls has placed a strong emphasis on physical shape and the workouts at Pembroke have been long and arduous. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s had them on the ice from 8.30 to 10.30 in the morning and from 2 to 4 every afternoon,&rdquo; Tobin disclosed.</p><h2><b>Eddolls Works &lsquo;Em Overtime</b></h2><p>Drilling at the rate of four hours per day, however, is likely to be of less strain to the Chicago club candidates than to those in any other NHL camp since the Black Hawk trainees are younger&mdash;man for man&mdash;than any of the other groups. All are less than 30 and over half are under 25.</p><p>The average of the team as this was being written was something just below 25 years. This should make the Chihawks; who were the oldest a year ago with an average of about 27.4, the youngest as the 1954-55 campaign gets underway. The squad&rsquo;s average age at the end of last season was 25.3 years.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02132/1109576-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="302" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frankie Eddolls</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Youth Will Be Served At Chicago</b></h2><p>Here is an age breakdown of the candidates for Chicago uniforms as training camp wound up:</p><p>Goalies&mdash;Al Rollins, 28, and Henry Bassen, 21.</p><p>Defensemen&mdash;Gus Mortson, 29; Al Dewsbury, 28; Lee Fogolin, 28; Bill Gadsby, 27; Clare Raglan, 27, and Jack Price, 22.</p><p>Centers&mdash;John McCormack, 29; Red Sullivan, 25; Bob Hascard, 25; Larry Wilson, 24; Ken Wharram, 22, and Fred Sasakamoose, 20.</p><p>Wingmen&mdash;Ike Hildebrand, 27; Eric Pogue, 25; Jack Mc-Intyre, 24; Bill Shvetz, 24; Lou Jankowski, 23; Jerry Toppazzini, 23; Pete Conacher, 22; Murray Costello, 21 and Wally Blaisdell, 20.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03112/1109569-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="314" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jerry Topazzini</b></figcaption></div><p>Of these 23 skaters listed, only Bassen seems slated definitely for assignment in the minor leagues although, at least several others will pro bably join him sooner or later. He is considered an outstanding prospect for the future, but A Rollins isn&rsquo;t ready for a rocking chair yet.</p><p>Young Hank, a product of the Hawk farm system all the way, could be kept with the team as Rollins&rsquo; understudy and he would no doubt handle himself adequately if called upon. Ivan and Eddolls feel, however, that he will have more chances to improve steadily as a regular in the minors.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-01

Eddolls Stresses “Shape” as Sprightly Black Hawks Cut Promising Capers

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0483/1109614-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANK SELKE,</b> General Manager of the Canadian Arena Company, wishes Gerry McNeil good luck as the great little goalie sticks by his decision to call it quits after four years in the NHL with Canadiens. McNeil said that his nerves just couldn&rsquo;t take it anymore so he&rsquo;s retiring to the comparative quietness of a gasoline station.</figcaption></div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>Western Hockey League officials can get tough when they have too, as Ray Hannigan, right winger for the Edmonton Flyers, has discovered.</p><p>Hannigan has been suspended by the club for failing to came to terms for the 1954-55 season. At the same time coach Bud Poile said that defenseman Ed Zeniak has signed for his second season with the Flyers.</p><h2><b>Goodbye And Good Luck!</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

f0010-04

Flyers Suspend Hannigan

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0571/1109645-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FREDDIE SASAKAMOOSE</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, 111.&mdash;</p><p>What could be more appropriate than the Chicago Black Hawks employing on a fulltime basis, a full-blooded Indian?</p><p>What began as part of an experiment last season seems destined for fulfillment this year.</p><p>Freddie Sasakamoose, a 20-year-old Indian boy, born on the reserve at Sandy Lake near Debeden, Saskatchewan, is almost certain of cutting a wide hockey swathe for himself with the youth-fired Black Hawks this year.</p><p>The 5&rsquo; 9&rdquo;, 165-pound centre, played 11 games with the Black Hawks last year, turning pro after the regular three game trial. He failed to pick up a point, but that is not to be misconstrued.</p><p>Sid Abel, last year&rsquo;s coach heaped words of praise on young Freddie and Abel&rsquo;s successor, Frankie Eddols was quick to confirm Mr. Abel&rsquo;s appraisals. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the type of hockey player who could easily make good in the NHL&rdquo;, said Frankie.</p><p>Freddie, who celebrates his birth date on Christmas eve each year was born in 1934. All he has to show for his short stint in the NHL is six minutes in the cooler.</p><p>He hopes to improve on that this year in the matter of goals and assists. If he makes it, the Hawks can proudly boast that the name of the team&mdash;BLACK HAWKS&mdash;is not just a monicker picked at random.</p><h2><b>Without His Feathers!</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

f0010-05

Sasakamoose Real Hawk with Hawks Hopes To Make Grade As NHL’er

<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>Long and lean Jack Stoddard, back in a R.I. Red uniform for the first time since the 1951-52 season, is being counted upon by high officials of the Reds to give the team added scoring punch.</p><p>In his own words, the 6&rsquo;, 3&rdquo; right winger backs up the feeling of the Arena &ldquo;brass&rdquo;. Jack says, &ldquo;I always scored well at R.I. Auditorium and this rink seems to suit me to a tee.&rdquo;</p><p>The records bear out Jack&rsquo;s feelings. He played sparingly with the Reds in his first year as a pro in 1947-48 and accounted for 13 points. But the following year, Jack piled up 53 points and then in the next two seasons he jumped up to 61 and 64 points.</p><p>Jack made the jump to the major leagues during the 1951-52 season when he was sold to the New York Rangers. Before he departed, the long-armed wingman was setting a torrid pace, having piled up 48 points in his first 35 games.</p><p>In the goals scored department, Stoddard has hit as high as 37 in one season back in 1950-51.</p><h2>Returned to Reds</h2><p>He came to the Reds last summer along with Ray Ceresino in one of the important deals owner Lou Pieri swung to make the Reds a threat for the American Hockey League pennant.</p><p>Now 28, Jack admits that he is happy about being in Providence, and Jack feels that &ldquo;I am going to have a good year.&rdquo;</p><p>At the moment, Stoddard weighs 178 pounds but would like to be around 185 pounds by the time the opening game rolls around against his former mates, the Cleveland Barons.</p><p>Jack worked for a construction firm in Baltimore, Maryland last summer to keep in trim and also spent time on the golf links for he is rated as one of the top golfers among hockey players.</p><p>The Reds as a team are working very hard in training under Coach Pat Egan. Stoddard is no exception. In fact, the big and likeable guy emphasized just how hard he was working through a situation that took place in the Arena Publicity office.</p><p>Jack was seated filling out a publicity questionnaire when one of the Arena stenographical staff walked in. Sensing that he should rise, Stoddard, worn out from two long drills in the morning and the afternoon, just sat in the chair with the apologetic remark, &ldquo;I know I should stand, but I&rsquo;m just too, too tired.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Ray Of Hope</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01166/1109683-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="570" height="886"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY CERESINO</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>High Guy For Providence</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02131/1109676-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="1164" height="2736"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK STODDARD</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0011-01

Reds Need Scoring Big Gun, Feel Stoddard Is Trigger

<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>The Rhode Island Reds, in search of strength at center ice, may have the answer in Ray Ceresino, a left winger who came to the Reds from Cleveland in a summer trade.</p><p>Ceresino, only 25 years of age, has looked good in drills thus far. In the Sunday intra-squad scrimmage, Ray was in on three goals. All concerned in the front office at 1111 North Main Street are Impressed with Ceresino&rsquo;s hustle.</p><p>He came to the Reds from the Barons along with Jack Stoddard. Lou Pieri, owner of the Reds, made one of his finest moves in obtaining the capable wingmen from Cleveland.</p><p>Although he is a left wing, Ceresino is a right-hand shot. Because of this, Coach Egan, after conferring with Pieri and general manager Terry Reardon, has decided to give Ceresino a trial at center. He can skate and stick handle and may be the center the Reds have been looking for.</p><p>There were several other developments around the Reds&rsquo; camp. The squad has been sliced with Roger Dubuc, Herb Lalonde, Yvon Houle, Irenee St. Hilaire, Gordie Rice and Bernie Klimas shaved from the group. Rice and Klimas, both goalies, are going back to college. The other four are going to teams in Canada&hellip;Bill Folk, purchased from Detroit Red Wings recently, is at home in Regina, Sask., clearing up details before heading for Providence with his family&hellip;Art Stone and Ron Telford, both newcomers, are impressing in camp&hellip;Reardon says the Reds are still in search of a goalie. Harvey Bennett is the only one in camp capable of playing pro hockey but Terry would like another net-minder to rest Bennett at intervals.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Center Ace Impressive In Workouts

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Plenty of action is in store for American Hockey League fans as the 1954-55 season gets off to a fast start, with Springfield, Mass. fans welcoming a return of the league after an absence of three years. During that time, the franchise was operated in Syracuse.</p><p>Each team will play a 64-game schedule, 32 at home and a like number away. The teams will engage four opponents in 12 contests and will meet one close geographically located rival 16 times, equally divided at home and away, to fill out the slate. The special series will be between Cleveland Barons, AHL champs, and Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Hershey and Providence and Springfield.</p><p>The regular season will end Sunday, March 20, to be followed by the Calder Cup playoffs, for which the first four teams will qualify. The league is grouped into a single division.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

AHL Returns To Springfield

<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>Guy Gendron, a 19-year-old who was the darling of fans in Three Rivers, Que. last season, appears destined to win a wing job with the R.I. Reds.</p><p>Playing Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey last season, Gendron, a solidly-built youngster, was among the top scorers and also was rough enough to get himself over 150 minutes in penalties.</p><p>Jack Toupin, who coached Three Rivers last season and is now directing Quebec Aces, told Lou Pieri of the Reds just a month ago that Gendron was good enough to play in the American Hockey League. At the moment, Toupin&rsquo;s prognostication seems sure to materialize.</p><p>Pieri, Coach Pat Egan and General Manager Terry Reardon have liked what they have seen of Gendron. Guy plays both left wing and center capably but in Providence, Egan has kept the &ldquo;Flying Frenchman&rdquo; on the wing.</p><p>Reardon says that &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t see how Guy can miss sticking with the club. He seems to do just about everything well&rdquo;.</p><p>Egan is high in his praise of Gendron. &ldquo;He has courage and really goes into the corner and digs out the puck. He skates well and has a surprisingly good shot for a kid. The veterans will have to work hard to keep the boy off one of our top forward lines&rdquo;.</p><p>The sentiments of Egan and Reardon are backed up by Pieri and Chief Scout Johnny Gagnon. The latter scouted Guy last season. Gagnon, the famed &ldquo;Black Cat&rdquo; of Montreal Canadien fame, says that &ldquo;a little experience and Guy will be great&rdquo;. As for Pieri, he says that &ldquo;Gendron will be with us right up to the end of camp. He looks good. We may sign him although at 19 Gendron has one more year of eligibility in the Junior ranks.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Praise Calore&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03109/1109769-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="552" height="1032"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAT EGAN</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;For Rookie</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0482/1109762-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="564" height="1039"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUY GENDRON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Rookie Gendron May Give Vets Run For Money

<div class="byline">By TOM MELVILLE</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>JOHNNY GOTTSELIG, no stranger in these parts, has taken over the publicity job, with Chicago Black Hawks of the NHL. If there are worse things than trying to sell the Hawks we haven&rsquo;t heard of it. Johnny sort of grew into the post after his playing and coaching days were over and when Old Joe Farrell retired this summer he was the logical choice to carry on the heroic battle against great odds. And the odds will continue to be great until Hawks start winning a few games.</p><p>Joe Farrell must be close to 80 now and he can look back on a public-relations career that must have been second to none in Chicago and throughout the United States. He was with the Hawks from the day they become a member of the NHL in 1926 and before that he was mixed up with the Comiskey family that ran the White Sox in base-ball. He roamed through the riotous bootlegging days of prohibition and lived to see many a speak-easy proprietor become a respectable coupon-clipping citizen&mdash;a case of the robber barons all over again.</p><p>Joe knew everybody that was anybody. He was a song writer on Tin Pan Alley at one stage of his career and he wrote the lyrics for one piece that is still revered by those who harmonize in barber shop fashion. He was on the rail seats when the famous Black Sox scandal rocked baseball in 1919 and he knew the inside story of that deal better than most. He knew the tempestuous days of hockey when the late Frederic McLaughlin owned the Hawks and tried, amoung other things, to introduce polo tactics into the game because he knew a lot about polo and nothing about hockey.</p><p>THE OLD CAMPAIGNER came this way for the few autumns after the war when the Hawks trained at the Stadium. He was a fun loving character with a dry but quick sense of humor and the stories he told were priceless and true. One we recall was the time Major McLaughlin decided he should do a bit of coaching. He called the players to his spacious office and began showing them something fancy, using a piece of chalk on the floor.</p><p>A late-comer to the meeting was Hughie Lechman, the onetime eagle-eye of the Vancouver pro club. Hughie was actually on his way back to Canada at the time, being a sort of hangeron at Chicago whose term was up.</p><p>Seeing the oldtime goalie come in, the Major called him over. &ldquo;Hughie,&rdquo; he said as he outlined the play again, &ldquo;What do you think of that&rdquo;.</p><p>Having nothing to lose. Lehman spoke the truth. &ldquo;That,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;is the damndest piece of nonsense I ever saw in my life.&rdquo; And with that he walked out.</p><p>Next morning, he packed his bag in his hotel, a call came through from the Major&rsquo;s office. The Major wanted to see him. Lehman wanted to see the Major, too, if only to pick up his last pay cheque. So up to the office he went</p><p>Hewas ushered into the Major&rsquo;s santum and sat down. The Major glowerer across at him, then stood up.</p><p>&ldquo;Lehman,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;You are the new coach of the Chicago Black Hawks!&rdquo;</p><p>Lehman nearly fell over, but he look the job. He didn&rsquo;t last long but he had no illusions on that score. That&rsquo;s how coaches came and went in the days when Chicago was getting used to hockey.</p><p>Joe Farrell survived the Major and quite a few coaches. Time has caught up with the old tub-thumper but he still has a million memories and if it were possible for him to put them in print they would form a classic covering nerly 60 years of sport.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Johnny Gottselig Has New Hockey Line; He’s Selling Hawks

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Appointment of Clare Martin, as coach of the Kitchener Dutchmen, gives the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; O.H.A. six-team group four pilots with former pro playing experience. Elwin &ldquo;Moe&rdquo; Morris, the Stratford Indians coach, wore Toronto Maple Leaf livery at one time. Murph Chamberlain, who guides the fortunes of the Windsor Bulldogs, played for the Leafs and Montreal Canadiens. Norm Tustin, master-mind for the Niagara Falls Cataracts, played for St. Louis and other minor league clubs.</p><p>Martin, a native of Waterloo, Ont., saw pro action with Boston Bruins, Hershey Bears, before winding up his career in the moneyed ranks in 1951-52, when he had terms with Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, New York Rangers and Cincinnati.</p><p>For the last two seasons he played defence for the Kitchener Dutchmen, leading his team, as captain, to the 1952-53 Allan Cup championship in the finals against Penticton V&rsquo;s, who won the title last season, and are readying to represent Canada in the world hockey championship across the Atlantic this year.</p><p>In his first year with the Dutch-men, Martin was voted the most valuable player in the league, but last season an early injury kept him out of action for a long time and marred his effectiveness. He may play some hockey this season, although his present plans are to handle the Kitchener team from the bench.</p><p>&ldquo;Moe&rdquo; Morris, who joined the Owen Sound Mercurys last season, after a successful career in pro company, is making his debut as a coach, the same as Clare Martin. He too, is a defenceman, and may don the blades for the Stratford Indians this season.</p><h2><b>Plenty Of Savvy</b></h2><p>His pro experience, besides that with the Leafs, for whom he turned pro in 1943, includes such teams as New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Hornets and Providence Reds. During his first pro year with the Leafs he set a scoring record for defencemen in the NHL, registering 12 goals and 22 assists. This mark stood until Hy Buller, New York Rangers scored 35 points. He says his biggest thrill in hockey was helping the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup in 1945, when he teamed up with Walter &ldquo;Babe&rdquo; Pratt on the rearguard.</p><p>A fractured wrist suffered by Lou Bendo, Stratford Indians&rsquo; young centreman, while attending Pittsburgh Hornets&rsquo; training camp at Niagara Falls, Ont., will keep him out of action for about the first two weeks of the senior OHA schedule, which gets under way Oct. 22. Ron Ingram, husky young Stratford defenceman, another Leaf chattel, failed to make the grade with Howie Meeker&rsquo;s Pittsburgh club, and he has returned to Stratford.</p><p>The Indians, however, have lost Fred Pletsch, lanky rightwinger from last year&rsquo;s team, as he has signed a pro contract with the Hershey Bears. Pletsch is a Stratford product, gaining his puck knowledge in school and minor competition, before playing in junior ranks with &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Emms&rsquo; Barrie Flyers for three seasons, and helping to bring the Memorial Cup to Barrie in 1953.</p><p>Jack White, another native son of Stratford, who signed a pro contract with Cleveland Barons last season and was eventually farmed out to their Valleyfield Braves club, has rejoined the Stratford Indians, with whom he performed for two season. He was a member of the 1950-51 Barrie Flyers teams which won the OHA and CAHA junior crowns.</p><p>Jack&rsquo;s brother, Bob, who wore Barrie Flyers colors for the last three years and has one more season left in junior ranks, rejected &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Emms&rsquo; contract this season, and returned to his home here, where he too was born. Bob, who places his education ahead of any future pro hockey career, was enrolled in the Barrie Collegiate Institute, but found that he could not finance his schooling and living expenses on the $60 a week salary limit in effect during the playing season only in the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA group this season. He has entered the Mitchell District Collegiate Institute, where he will study for his matriculation, leading up to entering the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph a year hence, with a full-fledged veterinary surgeon&rsquo;s degree as his ultimate goal. Bob is expected to try out with Stratford. Indians, provided he secures his release from the Barrie club, but in the event he makes the grade in senior hockey his playing may be confined to weekend games, so as not to interfere with his studies.</p><h2><b>Old Pro Savvy</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01178/1109831-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="600" height="2048"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MURPH CHAMBERLAIN</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Former Leaf</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02130/1109824-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="558" height="872"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MOE MORRIS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Martin Named Kitchener Coach; Loop Now Has Four N.H.L. Vets

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><p>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The Ottawa Senators, of the Quebec Hockey League, will really be the &ldquo;Ottawa&rdquo; Senators this season. The accent will be on home brews, with no less than twelve in camp at the moment.</p><p>It used to be in halcyon days that the Canadian Capital produced the players and others used them, or rather, used the perennial surplus.</p><p>As happens, though, in every sport, lean years came to Ottawa and importation of talent became the answer.</p><p>Thomas Patrick Gorman figures to change all that this season.</p><p>Tay Pay, looking this time to go even further than last season when his Barber Poles lost to Quebec in the finals, says the accent will be on youth as much as possible this year, with youth, in this case, representing not a few Ottawa-born hockeyists.</p><p>Caced with a formidable reguilding program, a program that started from coach right down, Gorman prevailed first upon Ottawan George (Buck) Boucher to come out of retirement and assume the reins this season.</p><p>Buck acceded, and heartened, Gorman went on from there to line up almost a dozen more Ottawans for his squad.</p><p>Some of them, of course, were holdovers as in the persons of Phil Maloney, acquired last season from Pittsburgh, Gordie Hudson, Al Kuntz, Leo Gravelle and Hugh Riopelle.</p><p>Others, though, are newcomers to the Quebec League, including Lome Watters, from Hershey, Eddie Long, from Buffalo, Joe Le-pine, from Halifax, Gerry Moore, from Cornwall, Knobby Clarke, from Chicago, and two promising yung local juniors from St. Pat&rsquo;s Colege, Frank Dunnigan and Marty Maloney, brother of Phil&rsquo;s.</p><p>Boucher is looking for a combination of youth and experience this season, thinks some of these kids will do the job from the youth angle, with veterans like Bobby Robertson, Johnny Arundel, Bobby Copp, Butch Stahan, Ray Frederick, Tod Campeau, Danny Poland, Bep Guidolin and Al Kuntz to balance things.</p><p>On top of that, Tay Pay claims he has yet to receive his promised help from the Leafs, although the way things look at Pittsburgh it might be a lean year for assistance.</p><p>Kids and all, the Barber Poles gave Frankie Eddolls&rsquo; Hawks quite a run for their money recently in Pembroke, holding a 3-0 lead until 12 minutes from the end only to see the Hawks rally and tie it up.</p><p>Biggest change around the Ottawa scene this season, of course, is the decision to play games on Friday nights instead of the traditional Saturdays.</p><p>Saturday has always been &ldquo;Hockey Night&rdquo; in Ottawa, but with the encroachment of TV and other attractions, audiences fell off last season and Tay Pay has decided to try the switch.</p><p>The Senators will take over on Fridays with the Juniors holding forth on Saturday evenings. Time will tell how it works</p><p>Whatever happens, it looks as if the 1954-55 season in the Slater circuit will provide some top notch action.</p><p>Generally speaking, there seems to be a &ldquo;levelling out&rdquo; in the circuit this season, especially in the way of overhead and it may be better for the loop in the long run.</p><p>TV has hurt, especially in Ottawa, Valleyfield and Montreal, with promotors of teams in those cities hard put to keep things going.</p><p>In Montreal, officials at the Forum have made a concession in the way of TV money to appease visiting clubs, an offer which should satisfy everyone. This was a big bone of contention last season but now appears to be settled.</p><p>The league, too, will be solider with six teams, especially if Shawinigan Falls comes up with a contender as they appear to be doing.</p><p>It looks like a good season ahead.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Senators Put Accent On Homebrew Talent

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Pistol Pete is not expected to turn the weapon to his own head, though his best friends will forgive him for blowing his top&mdash;figuratively, that is.</p><p>It seems only a day or two ago that yours truly engaged Pete in gay badinage and he said with great philosophy, &ldquo;Well, we won&rsquo;t have goal keeping troubles this year. We&rsquo;ll have Jacques Plante most of the time and you know he was about the best there was when he was in our league.&rdquo;</p><p>Then last weekend Pete&rsquo;s bloodpressure mounted to about 210 degrees fahrenheit. The story broke that Gerry McNeil was packing it in with Canadiens. Overnight Plante was pushed into the No. 1 slot on Canadiens&rsquo; seniority list of twine-tenders, and Pete was back just where he ended the 1953-54 campaign, in a dead heat for first place with Chicoutimi Sagueneens in the QHL final round-up, but deathly pale with his ulcer jumping because he was once more bothered about the larrigan who minds the store at the end of the rink.</p><p>Already the Royals have been generous. When Shawinigan Falls Cataracts came back into the list though the energy and enterprise of Mayor Gaston Hardy of the Power City, at the suggestion of generalissimo Frank Selke, Frank Carlin, gm of the Montreal QHL entry, turned over goaler Bob Perreault to the Cats.</p><p>So it&rsquo;s a toss up right now between Charlie Hodge, only a year out of junior ranks and Claude Evans for the goaltenders pads and mittens with Les Royaux.</p><p>In other departments the picture is brighter. Royals will get some Grade A talent from the major league club when Dick Irvin prunes the Habs., and there&rsquo;s been some swifties and some rugged characters skating with the squad Pete had under his own wing at Verdun Auditorium.</p><h2>Hannon, Roche Return</h2><p>Glen Harmon and Ernie Roche of last year&rsquo;s outfit are back and have been joined on the defense platoon by Rollie Rousseau, a returnee who spent last season in Buffalo with the Bisons.</p><p>Newcomers for blue line guard duty are Butch McKay, of the Canadiens juniors, and Moe Mantha, who was with Phil Watson and the Frontenacs in Quebec last year.</p><p>Kelly Burnett, who spends the summer as assistant golf pro at Montreal&rsquo;s fine Summerlea layout, is playing in his own home town again for the first time since he was a raw youngster. A top scorer everywhere he has plied his trade Burnett has been centering Bobby Frampton and Gary Blaine in the workouts.</p><p>Lulu Denis, time tried veteran of the wing lanes has two youngsters as his line partners&mdash;Phil Goyette and John Martin, and another forward patrol is made up of Cliff Connolly, from Cornwall, a leading scorer in the Quebec Provincial League, Ray Laplante and Dennis Boucher, a right winger with Sammy Pollock&rsquo;s Habitant junior crew last season.</p><p>The Royals wouldn&rsquo;t look like the Royals of course without Skippy Burchell around. The Skipper is centering Claude Provost and Orval Tessier. And he looks like the same Skippy who was just one point shy of Ottawa&rsquo;s Rip Riopelle for the QHL scoring title&mdash;91 against 90&mdash;last Ides of March.</p><h2>He&rsquo;s Off To Habs</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02151/1109893-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="549" height="555"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACQUES PLANTE</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>He&rsquo;s Fuming</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01185/1109886-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="564" height="1881"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PISTOL PETE MORIN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hair Trigger Pete Morin Ready To Blow His Top; Another Goaler Is Gone

<p>QUEBEC CITY, Que.&mdash;</p><p>A young, up and coming player, who has started with the Quebec Frontenacs last autumn, but who was later sent to Jonquiere Marquis on loan, will be back with the Ancient Capital Junior, &ldquo;A&rdquo; team next season, coach Phil Watson has announced.</p><p>He is none other than Jean Rousseau, brother of the popular Guy Rousseau who is also on the lineup of the Frontenacs. In announcing his signature, Watson recalls Rousseau&rsquo;s most satisfactory season with the Marquis, his first year in junior company. With the experience acquired last winter, the Frontenacs pilot is of the opinion that he will aid the junior team during the next campaign.</p><p>He is entertaining great expectations for this young and talented player who, along with Carter and Norman, comprised the top offensive trio on the Marquis roster.</p><h2>Top Playmaker</h2><p>Born March 19, 1936, at St. Hyacinthe, where he still resides, Jean has still two more seasons in junior company and there is no doubt that he will earn himself a spot where he will perform with distinction with the next edition of the Frontenacs. While not in the giant&rsquo;s class with his five foot, eight inch, 150 lbs., Rousseau is an excellent playmaker and was among the top scorers on the Marquis lineup.</p><p>In 56 games in the Quebec Junior-League, he collected 15 goals and 38 assists for a total of 53 points, which is a notable mark considering his youth and the fact that he was performing for the first time in an organized circuit. Rousseau, who was loaned to Marquis at the start of the past season, played only two games for the Frontenacs and scored one goal in the first game.</p><p>Jean has demonstrated his aggressiveness on many occasions, even though the club with which he was playing last season was not of the calibre to make a game out of it against certain teams from Quebec and Ontario. Despite his all out efforts, he picked up only 16 minor penalties in the 56 games in which he saw action. A jovial chap like his brother Guy, he will no doubt make a big hit with fans in this city.</p><div class="sidebar"><p><b>Lloyd Percival, Director of Sports College, endorses BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

Brother Act Latest Fad With Fronts

<p>VALLEYFIELD, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Ott Heller, fitting into his role as successor to Toe Blake as coach of the QHL Braves, very smoothly has had a squad of 25 drilling hard for the past 10 days at the Arena.</p><p>Led by high scoring Andr&eacute; Corriveau, who last year had a whirl with the NHL Canadiens when Dick Irvin&rsquo;s squad was beset by injuries, the veterans include: Gordie Haworth, Bruce Cline, Larry Kwong, Bimgo Ernst, Rollie Leclerc, Andy Payette, Jadques Deslauriers, Jean Paul Bisaillon and Georges Bougie.</p><p>Cleveland Barons with whom the Braves have this year made a working agreement have sent along some fresh talent which includes Dan Blair, Ian Cushenan, Gerry Prince, Al Jones and Tony Poeta.</p><p>Graduates from Phil Watson&rsquo;s Quebec Frontenacs, forced upstairs because of the age limit, are dotted all over the QHL and Braves have their share in Bob Chevalier, Gerry Houle and Bert Garneau.</p><h2><b>Old Smoothie</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03128/1109948-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="567" height="1698"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>OTT HELLER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Heller Holds Hoops, Braves Do War Dance

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>QUEBEC, Que.&mdash;</p><p>George &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach, likeable general-manager of the Quebec Aces, is in a benign mood these days, if indeed, he&rsquo;s not beating his breast. He recently concluded a working agreement with Jack Adams, of the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>This assures the Quebeckers a steady flow of ready material for the forthcoming campaign in the Quebec Hockey League. Sherbrooke Saints, who have suspended operations in the QHL for one year had the same deal last year, but Adams may find working with the Quebec club more satisfactory.</p><h2><b>Top Notch Rink</b></h2><p>To begin with the Aces play in one of the finest rinks on the continent&mdash;a veritable show place which amazes and delights first time visitors.</p><p>Added to this the Aces are schooled by two sound hockey men in Imlach and Jack Toupin, who succeeded Gerry Brown as coach this year. Toupin was for many years generalissimo of hockey affairs at Three Rivers, Que., and here was the discoverer of much high grade talent at its fledgling grade.</p><p>Notable among the Toupin finds was Jean Guy Talbot, the rugged youngster who is high on the totem pole with Canadiens&rsquo; NHL organization, and this year will receive further grooming with Roger Leger at Shawinigan Falls.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0395/1110000-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="294" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Guy Talbot</b></figcaption></div><p>Davey Gatherum, the brilliant young goalie, heads the list of stars already steered to Aces by Adams. Gatherum goaled for Sherbrooke last year.</p><p>Also in the group are: Jim &ldquo;Red Eye&rdquo; Hay, a rearguard with Sherbrooke last year, Yvan Tennant, defense man with the Edmonton Flyers; Bert Giesebrecht, centre with Sherbrooke; Jack O&rsquo;Grady, pivot-man with Edmonton Flyers; Gerry Ehman, Sherbrooke; a right-winger; and Earl Johnson who in 1953-54 season toiled for both the &lsquo;Brookes and Edmonton Flyers.</p><p>At Chicoutimi it appears that Rollie Hebert is continuing his campaign of shipping out his old stars, which causes conjecture around the league that Hebert must be coming up with a number of &ldquo;sleepers&rdquo;.</p><p>Latest to be cut loose by the Sagueneens is Jean Paul Lamirande, veteran defenseman, who saw service with New York Rangers in the NHL some years ago, and after that was a strong blue line performer with New Haven, when that city was part of the wheel of the American League.</p><p>It has already been reported that Gerry Glaude, stalwart defenseman and Fern Perreault are headed for Shawinigan Falls and now it seems that Lamirande, upon whom waivers have been asked, will keep them company.</p><p>Sherman White, for several seasons, one of Hebert&rsquo;s top playmakers and point-makers, has refused a transfer to the Falls and has announced his retirement.</p><h2><b>In a Genial Mood</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01189/1109993-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="1152" height="1465"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PUNCH IMLACH</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Sleeper Play?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0480/1109986-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="552" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROLLIE HEBERT</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Oh, For The Restful Life</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0569/1109979-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="792" height="1644"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>THE PEACE-LOVING</b> gent in the striped shirt is Ian &ldquo;Scotty&rdquo; Morrison, shown in action during one of his more hectic moments as a pro referee. Morrison, whose fine work in the QHL drew high brass attention, has been offered regular assignment on the N.H.L. officiating staff. Previously he worked two seasons in the old QSHL, and last year saw service with the Western league. His elevation to the big league is regarded as an inspiration to youngsters in the Province of Quebec who take up whistle-tooting.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Aces Tickled With Wing Deal, See Steady Flow of Material

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>George M. Slater, president of the Quebec Hockey League, is running a slow burn that may heat up to the point where this usually suave gentleman will blow a gasket.</p><p>Reason for his ire is that the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association is trying to throw road-blocks in front of young referees in Montreal and other points of the Quebec province who aspire to appointments in Quebec&rsquo;s flourishing professional circuit.</p><p>Bob Barette, head of the Referees&rsquo; Board, of QAHA, a group which does fine work in tutoring and developing hockey officials, has made it plain that the amateur body doesn&rsquo;t think kindly of young men who desert its ranks to referee in professional games.</p><p>The QAHA, with Barette as its spokesman, doesn&rsquo;t come out plainly and say &ldquo;don&rsquo;t do it,&rdquo; but broad hints are cast that those who work for Mr. Slater will not be given too many games to handle in the QAHA.</p><p>Slater resents this attitude. &ldquo;If we are to develop referees we have to give them all possible encouragement,&rdquo; he says.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02131/1110038-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="570" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GEORGE SLATER</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;And this means that we must make it worth their while by giving them plenty of work. It&rsquo;s natural that the more appointments a fellow gets the more money he makes, and we must make refereeing so attractive that as many young fellows as possible will embrace it as a career.&rdquo;</p><p>Obviously the Quebec pro circuit can&rsquo;t bring In young whistle-tooters on a full time basis, and thus displace proven veterans who have been loyal to the circuit over several seasons.</p><p>George Gravel, referee-in-chief of the QHL, now starting his second term in that position, spends plenty of time scouting young officials. With Sibbie Mundey, Bill Roberts, Charlie Deziel, Eric Milford, Gordie Whitehead, Len Corriveau and Jimmy Slater of last year&rsquo;s list returning for duty, Gravel believes he has a capable staff.</p><p>Gravel resigned from the National Hockey League when he found that he could no longer continue taking time out from his business to make the major circuit tours regularly. This was following a severe illness which hospitalized him most of the season before last.</p><p>He has thrown a lot of effort and zeal into his QHL duties and now contends that the officiating in the Quebec Circuit is as efficient as that in any minor hockey league in Canada or the United States.</p><p>But he wants to encourage a steady infiltration of younger men., Those who have had the training in the amateur loops, and have shown their eagerness for the tasks by demonstrating their fearlessness, along with tact and decorum, backed by a thorough-working knowledge of the rules.</p><p>If the QAHA balks Slater and the referee-in-chief at his planned campaign, then, as Slater points out, the entire scheme of hockey officiating will be hindered.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0818/1110031-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="585" height="664"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GEORGE GRAVEL</b></figcaption></div><p>It&rsquo;s by making promotion to the monied ranks of refereeing easy of access that ambition can be realized.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Slater Does Slow Burn Over Officiating Setup

<h2><b>OCTOBER:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01159/1110104-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="528" height="632"></div><h2><b>NOVEMBER:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02127/1110097-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="520" height="1254"></div><h2><b>DECEMBER:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03111/1110090-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="526" height="1116"></div><h2><b>JANUARY:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0482/1110083-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="524" height="1326"></div><h2><b>FEBRUARY:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0564/1110076-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="512" height="1130"></div><h2><b>MARCH:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0651/1110069-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="550" height="518"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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International League 1954-55 Season

<p>National Hockey League fans may obtain copies of the 1954-55 N.H.L. Schedules free of charge.</p><p>These N.H.L. schedules are handy sized for the pocket and room is available to mark in the score of each game.</p><p><b>Requests should be mailed to: N.H.L. Information Bureau, 603 Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Que.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

N.H.L. SCHEDULES AVAILABLE FOR FANS

<p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Veteran Pat Wilson, going into his first full season as coach of the Fort Wayne Komets, has gathered his 1954 squad at Stratford to prepare for the coming IHL grind. The Komet squad has already taken the ice and workouts will be held twice daily.</p><p>Wilson is expected to come up with a strong squad for the Indiana entry in the IHL inasmuch as this is his first complete season. Wilson joined the Fort Wayne team in late January of last season and brought the team into the IHL play-offs.</p><p>The Komet team was in eighth position when Wilson took the reins and thanks to a nine game winning streak, the Komets finished in a tie for the fifth position in the nine club circuit.</p><p>The fourteen player limit adopted by the IHL and also the rule requiring each team to carry three over-age juniors will pose a problem for Wilson. Left wingers seem to be a little short on the roster of candidates going into the camp but three new candidates, plus several carry-over veterans at the left wing position will help Wilson fill the bill.</p><h2><b>Now In Third Season</b></h2><p>This is the third season of hockey in Fort Wayne and their first two seasons have brought them just mediocre success in the point column. In spite of this, the Fort Wayne club has established hockey in an area where basketball has always been considered a stronghold.</p><p>During the first season, the Komets attracted an average of 5900 per game and during their second season, the average attendance was 5500 per game.</p><p>With a team running one-two in the IHL, the Komet Club will establish a new attendance record for the IHL loop.</p><p>Advance sales for the coming season are running very brisk and with the advance enthusiasm at its peak, club officials are optimistically predicting a banner season.</p><h2><b>Komet Kid</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0744/1110183-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="538" height="956"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAT WILSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Rugged IHL Grind Ahead But Komets Loom Strong

<p>BRANDON, Man.&mdash;</p><p>Jimmy Dunn, first vice-president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, has told the Manitoba Amateur Hockey Association that a Japanese All-Star hockey team would tour Canada next January and February.</p><p>Dunn said no schedule has been drawn up for the Japanese team yet as it is not known how extensive the tour will be. Last year Kenora Thistles toured Japan.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Jap Team Plans Tour Of Canada

<div class="byline">By DOUG COSTELLO</div><p>SAINT JOHN, N.B.&mdash;</p><p>The average hockey fan in St. John is somewhat bewildered, perhaps a little incredulous, these days.</p><p>A great era in the history of the ice game in this city may have come to an end, but the skeptics are large in numbers among the diehard fans who contributed, many thousands of dollars toward the upkeep of Beaver clubs over the years.</p><p>They find it difficult to believe The Forum, long the centre of the community&rsquo;s sports life, may keep its doors closed this winter.</p><p>To swallow reports the Beavers Hockey Club won&rsquo;t operate is even a rougher pill.</p><p>They read stories about court action against The Forum by a bond-holder seeking recovery of interest, but, right or wrong, they figure it is something that will pass; a problem that the rink directors will work out without closing the big North End ice plant.</p><p>As for the Beavers they point out that the new Atlantic S&eacute;nior Hockey League, embracing Halifax, Charlottetown, Amherst, Moncton and Fredericton has left the door open for a Saint John entry, and they regard this as indication the league executive has information a Saint John team will operate.</p><p>But from an official point of view, the situation regarding the rink and hockey is on the grim side.</p><p>The rink directors have publicly stated they will not contest the court action instituted by Jack Jones against the arena company. They have also said they will not put ice in the building this winter.</p><p>Further, the co-owners of last year&rsquo;s Beavers, Murray W. Long, long a power in Saint John and Maritime hockey, and Otty Stevenson, the polished promoter who has leased The Forum for the last three years, say they are not interested in hockey, for this winter at least.</p><p>Under ordinary circumstances, the next news will be notice of a sheriff&rsquo;s sale of the building.</p><p>There is some feeling the rink would again fall into the hands of the present directors. In other quarters it is believed Jones himself would gain control of the building. Then, there are those who believe Stevenson or Long will buy the 25-year-old arena. Or that any two of the trio will combine.</p><p>What seems likely, however, is that The Forum will go to new owners. It might even become the property of the city. One thought which dims the prospects of hockey this winter is that the action against the present company will drag on until it is too late to organize a team.</p><p>Beavers were not represented at the formation of the Atlantic league at Amherst but a wire from Stevenson to the league conveyed the information the rink directors were willing to consider the availability of The Forum to any person Interested in operating a hockey team.</p><p>Just how anyone could operate a team if the present owners do not put in ice and. new owners do not take charge soon, is not quite clear.</p><p>There is a chance, however, there was more in Stevenson&rsquo;s wire than met the eye.</p><p>It may be that the hockey fan who believes it will all come out in the wash is right.</p><p>But if such is the case, those really in the know are not talking.</p><p>From them it is still no ice, no hockey team.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hockey Near End Of Trail In Saint John

<h2><b>OCTOBER:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02115/1110321-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="484" height="110"></div><h2><b>NOVEMBER:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0391/1110314-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="490" height="866"></div><h2><b>DECEMBER:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0476/1110307-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="486" height="829"></div><h2><b>JANUARY:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0546/1110300-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="568" height="1002"></div><h2><b>FEBRUARY:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0626/1110293-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="498" height="520"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Western Junior League 1954-55 Season

<div class="byline">By EARLE ROSS</div><p>MONCTON, N.B.&mdash;</p><p>The Maritime Major Hockey League is no more&hellip;the New Brunswick Senior Hockey League has grown too big for the old name and has added a new monicker.</p><p>Here in the three Maritime provinces&mdash;there is what is now known as the Atlantic Coast Senior Hockey League, comprising at present five teams, and possibly a sixth if an angel can be found in the port city of Saint John to back a team.</p><p>At a recent meeting in Amherst&rsquo;s Fort Cumberland hotel, the Halifax Wolverines and the Charlottetown Islanders were admitted to the New Brunswick Senior Hockey League, and the loop&rsquo;s name promptly changed.</p><p>Before the name changing was all over the Flyers had been dropped by Moncton and the Amherst team was no longer known as Meteors but back to Ramblers. No name for the Moncton team has been announced, but it&rsquo;s a lead pipe cinch that the name of Baig&rsquo;s, last name of the Moncton angel who is called Uncle Mike, will appear on the uniforms of the Moncton players.</p><p>But getting back to the league itself, Hon T. Babbitt Parlee, the president of the executive council, and minister of municipal affairs in the New Brunswick government is the head of the league, with R. H. (Bob) Chandler of Moncton as secretary-treasurer. A vice president has been named from each of the five centers.</p><p>While the league will solve the problems of teams wishing for places to play, it will bring plenty of headaches regarding the travelling and officiating. For example, local officials are to be used. That is, the referees are appointed by the league, but are from the league centers, with the travelling team to pay the expenses of the referee in chief. The league will exact a toll from each club for the referees fund, and this will partly solve the problem.</p><p>But there&rsquo;s another one regarding travel, and this is the point where the Atlantic Coast Senior Hockey League could bog down badly. It is 240 miles from Fredericton to Halifax. It is an equal distance more or less from New Brunswick&rsquo;s capital to Charlottetown. When the Maritime winter weather sets? In we may again be faced with the problem that confronted the old Big Six, and later Big Four with postponements and cancellations.</p><p>Balance of the league is another problem.</p><p>Teams themselves remain a question mark for the greater part. Jim MacDonald, former manager for Saint Mary&rsquo;s and last year manager coach of the Moncton Flyers will be at the helm of the Hub club again, but Jim is the strong silent type who isn&rsquo;t talking yet about his players or chances, Fredericton will have Joe Macintosh back again as playing coach.</p><p>Lou Kiley who shitted from Saint John is now with the Amherst Ramblers and has quite a few players lined up&hellip;some will probably be Beavers from last season, and others Meteors from last year.</p><p>The Ramblers have begun their workouts in the Springhill Forum, where they will play their first six home games because of the Maritime Winter Fair which is playing the Bailey Arena in Amherst until November sixth.</p><p>The opening date for the league is tentatively set for October 22nd in Amherst and Fredericton&hellip;with the next games in Halifax and Moncton on Saturday night. island fans will wait until the 25th of the month to see their [slanders in league action.</p><p>Chris McAlden, former secretary treasurer of the Maritime Major Hockey League, is handling some of the arrangements for the revival of the Halifax Wolverines, and former Halifax mayor Gee Ahearn is quite active in the organization as well. Forrest Clow seems to be the shining light in the Charlottetown cause along with Gilbert Gaudet (called Goody on the Island) working right along with him. No word was forthcoming on coaching prospects for the Islanders&hellip;but the old lamp lighter Roy (Buck) Whitlock is in the market for a berth according to all reports.</p><p>Buck at least is an expert at flipping the rubber between the twines and so should be able to show others how.</p><p>Halifax has let no word slip as yet for coaching plans either&hellip;and it remains to be seen whether senior hockey will be rich enough for Haligonian Dugger McNeill&rsquo;s blood after the Maritime major championships with the Atlantics.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

New Atlantic Coast Loop Faces Big Weather, Travel Problems

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he fuss is over&hellip;top flight players are flocking to the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit&hellip;fans are looking forward to the most competitive and exciting senior hockey season in the North&rsquo;s history. That&rsquo;s the situation in a nutshell as this column is being prepared to start another season of special coverage for all hockey in Northern Ontario. The fuss mentioned relates to the controversial subsidy question which at one time threatened to split NOHA senior hockey wide open. Now that Soo (Ontario) Greyhounds and Sudbury Wolves have agreed to subsidize the three &ldquo;smaller&rdquo; teams, North Bay Trappers, Soo (Michigan) Indians and Pembroke Lumber Kings to the tune of $10,000 each, the way has been paved for more balance in the five-team league&hellip;</p><p><b>Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty, former AHL player and long associated with the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, will again lead the Soo Greyhounds as coach&hellip;Pete Backor, a former teammate of Johnny&rsquo;s at Pittsburgh, has been engaged as mentor of the Soo Indians&hellip;Cully Simon, former Detroit Red Wing star, returns to senior hockey as coach-manager of Pembroke Lumber Kings, while Leo Lamoureux is back at the helm of the North Bay Trappers&hellip;Maxie Silverman, who led Sudbury Wolves all the way to the Allan Cup finals against Penticton, B.C., is still the leader of the powerful Nickel Belt aggregation.</b></p><p>Sudbury will have plenty of new faces this season. Silverman announced that rugged Gus Gustavsen, former New York Ranger protege and star with New York Rovers, will be on the team this season. Gus played with Charlottetown Islanders of the Maritimes Major League last year and is expected to give the Sudbury rearguard consider-able strength and hitting power. Ken Schultz, third top marksman in the International League with Marion, Ohio, last year, is another Sudbury new-comer who is expected to give the Allan Cup finalists extra scoring punch&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01164/1110238-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="294" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherly</b></figcaption></div><p>Sudbury also have attracted Ken Briggs who worked last season with Cincinnati and at one time was an outstanding Montreal Royals performer at centre. Jack Nadon, a right-winger with Matane Red Rocks last season, has also agreed to tryout with Sudbury. Silverman lured netminder Roy McMeekin, formerly of Halifax Atlantics of the Maritimes Major League, to the Wolves&rsquo; lair, in addition to Jack Rose who helped Montreal Royals capture the Memorial Cup a few seasons ago. Other players Maxie has attracted are Bob Bowness, formerly of Halifax, and Doug McPhee, a right winger, also from Halifax and third best sniper on the club. Summing it all up, Maxie said: &ldquo;We will be stronger than last year, but if we had more money to work with we could really build an Allan Cup team.&rdquo; At that, wily Maxie has done a good job in moulding a team so early in the season.</p><p>Coach O&rsquo;Flaherty will have several new faces in the Greyhound camp. Ken Watson, a 25-year-old centre who now lives in Los Angeles and who performed for Glace Bay last season, seems a sure-fire Greyhound this season. He&rsquo;s no stranger to many Greyhound players having played with Johnny Ubriaco, Matt Mesich, Carl Smelle and Tommy Smelle with the St. Johns Beavers. The Greyhounds also latched onto Lyle Wiseman, right-winger from Windsor Bulldogs. Lyle was second-highest marksman with Windsor last year nabbing 65 points. The year before that, he piled up 66 points with Charlottetown Islanders. O&rsquo;Flaherty is counting heavily on players like Wiseman to recapture the NOHA crown for the Soo&hellip;</p><p><b>Two flashy junior stars are also trying out for the Greyhounds. Donnie McLean and Birley Dimina, both Soo products, apparently have a good chance of making the team. Donnie helped St. Catharines win the Memorial Cup last year, while Birley performed for Guelph Biltmores in the Junior OHA.</b></p><p>Pete Backor of the Soo Indians hasn&rsquo;t been wasting any time lining up talent for the only American team in the NOHA. John Lumley, brother of the NHL&rsquo;s Harry, is back in the Indian fold after an absence of one year. The Indians also nabbed three more top prospects with Ken McKenzie, Winnipeg Maroons left winger and rated one of the top senior players in Western Canada last year. The other two prospects are Real Charlevoix, French-Canadian star from Mont-real who gained a fine reputation as a forward in the Quebec and International circuits. Al Treen was steered into the Indian camp by Jack Adams, General Manager of the world-champion Detroit Red Wings who trained in the wigwam of the Indians this Fall&hellip;</p><p>North Bay Trappers received a big shot in the arm with the announcement that popular Ab DeMarco would stay Tn North Bay instead of playing in Milan, Italy this season. The trio of George Gosselin, Don Hogan and DeMarco may stay intact this season. The three-some prove popular every place they play. Former Matane stars, Marcel Paille, a classy netminder, and Rene Pepin, fiery forward, will lineup with North Bay this season&hellip;Looking farther North, Doug Towers, Ralph Orlando and Alf Guarda, former Southern Division players, are reportedly set to play with Hollinger Greenshirts this season&hellip;</p><p>Cully Simon reports that many of last year&rsquo;s Pembroke Lumber Kings will be back. &ldquo;What the team needs is more drive and hustle and I hope to see this come about this season,&rdquo; Cully told The Hockey News. He visited the Detroit Red Wing training camp. Jack Adams told me he felt Cully was the type of sincere, honest man that senior hockey needs. Best of luck goes out to a swell fellow, Cully Simon!!!</p><p>Officials of the Thunder Bay and Manitoba junior hockey circuits hinted the two leagues will adopt some sort of interlocking schedule this season. Teams to form the setup include Fort William Hurricanes, Port Arthur Bruins, Winnipeg Monarchs, Winnipeg Barons and St. Boniface Canadiens along with Port Arthur North Stars&hellip;teams in the Lakehead are looking forward to a banner season. Many very fine leaders are located in that part of the country which has produced some of the finest hockey players in the world, many making the Big Time.</p><p>And on the Eve of another big hockey season all over Northern Ontario, just another reminder to all hockey leaders: DON&rsquo;T FOR-GET THE IMPORTANCE OF MINOR LEAGUE HOCKEY&hellip;give the kids A BREAK&hellip;ALWAYS!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The Ontario Hockey Association Junior A series will struggle along with a private 49-games schedule for its eight teams this season.</p><p>There will be no cultural diversions such as an interlocking tieup with the envious Quebec Junior Hockey Association despite a weighty exchange of diplomatic pouches dealing with this perplexing situation.</p><p>St. Catharines Teepees, last season&rsquo;s Memorial Cup winners, look at first glance to be the team to beat again and not merely because they are current champs.</p><p>A more sensible reason for such a rating is that coach Rudy Pilous, a most perceptive gent, has imported players with care and dispatch.</p><p>He also has a stalwart nucleus left over from last year&rsquo;s team and a few old sticks of Brian Cullen&rsquo;s. Those sticks could probably score by themselves from force of habit.</p><p>Pilous will also pick and choose from several star-bound prospects from the amazingly-productive St. Catharines minor ranks.</p><p>Challenging Teepees will be such familiar rivals as Toronto Marlboros, Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s, Guelph Biltmores, Galt Black Hawks, Hamilton Cubs, Barrie Flyers and Kitchener Canucks.</p><p>The Kitchener team formerly campaigned as Greenshirts. But last year was a dismal one financially, the Kitchener backers lost their &lsquo;Shirts so it was necessary to adopt a new name.</p><h2><b><u>Surprising Turnover of Coaches</u></b></h2><p>It is customary in the OMA Junior A loop to introduce a new coach or six each year but there has been a surprising turnover this season. Only three of last year&rsquo;s coaching corps have been retained.</p><p>Pilous, of course, has the Memorial Cup in his trophy room so it was only natural that he would be back. Leighton &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Emms owns, the Barrie club outright and he didn&rsquo;t choose to fire himself.</p><p>St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors were quite happy with Charlie Cerre&rsquo;s masterminding, especially in the playoffs, so he will be back coaching the collegians this season.</p><p>Walter &lsquo;Turk&rsquo; Broda, who gained coaching experience with Weston Dukes and Ottawa Senators, will coach Marlboros. He replaces Reg Hamilton who decided to retire.</p><p>Eddie Bush, former Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; defense star, will pilot Guelph Biltmores as a replacement for the suspended Alf Pike. Gerry Brown, who formerly coached Oshawa Generals (Quebec Aces last season), will start the season as Galt Black Hawks&rsquo; coach.</p><p>Jimmy Skinner, who coached Hamilton Cubs last season, is now fulfilling a similar position with Detroit Red Wings. His brother Ducky will coach the Cubs.</p><p>Kitchener was still seeking a coach as this was written. Porky Dumart was one they were interested in.</p><h2><b>Perceptive</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01130/1110373-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="582" height="886"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RUDY PILOUS</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Marlie Menace</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02100/1110366-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="554" height="896"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TURK BRODA</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Tutors Hawks</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0376/1110359-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="538" height="548"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY BROWN</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>From Crashing To Coaching</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0454/1110352-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="1140" height="1412"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE BUSH</b></figcaption></div><div class="sidebar"><p><b>BIKE Supports and BIKETrainers Tape are used and endorsed by the University of Toronto Football Club</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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TEEPS STILL RATED TEAM TO BEAT

<p>Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Edmonton Flyers of the Western Hockey League are having their troubles these days.</p><p>Latest word from Sault Ste. Marie has the Flyers, currently winding up their pre-season training at this Michigan town, plagued by holdouts.</p><p>Latest to join the flock of won&rsquo;t-signers are right winger Ray Hannigan and center Jim Uniac.</p><p>Previously Larry Zeidel, Edmonton defenceman, had refused to turn in his signed contract.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Flyers Hit By Holdouts

<p class="dropcap"><span>Q</span>UEBEC CITY, Que.&mdash;Keen regret was expressed throughout the Quebec Hockey League this week at the resignation of Jack Latter from the presidency of Quebec Aces Hockey Club.</p><p>A general state of poor health brought about by a heart condition is the reason for Mr. Latter&rsquo;s severance of his connection with hockey, a game for which he has always held flaming zeal.</p><p>A hard-bitten, but fair fighter for his club in all of the game&rsquo;s operations, Jack Latter was known for his stout and forthright abilities as a debater at league meetings, but he was that type of battler who, though often winning his point, never lost friends.</p><p>In Marc Drouin, QC, the Aces have now an able president. As a former vice-president of the Quebec Senior Hockey League, before the circuit acknowledged full professional status, Mr. Drouin is quite familiar with the league&rsquo;s affairs, and Latter can relax with the feeling that his old club will be ably administrated.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Jack Latter Retires

<p>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>In keeping with its policy of sponsoring schools for coaches and referees in various smaller centres throughout the province, the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association has recommended that a National Hockey League coach and referee be secured to conduct at least two schools in major Saskatchewan points this year.</p><p>So far 31 schools of this type have ben sponsored, and hockey officials in nearly 600 communities have benefitted by the instruction.</p><p>Because the province had been so thoroughly covered, it was the general opinion that the introduction of a big name coach and referee would be a popular move. Depending on the availability of such NHL talent, it was decided that two-day schools in Regina and Saskatoon would be the logical idea&mdash;a coach spending one day in each city and the referee working on the alternate days.</p><p>The SAHA will continue to encourage smaller schools and will assist in finding coaches and sending executive members to any community which wishes to conduch its own school. Cost of such an instruction session would run around $35.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

SAHA Seeks Tutoring By NHL Officials

<h2><b>OCTOBER:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01137/1110518-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="514" height="520"></div><h2><b>NOVEMBER:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0279/1110511-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="548" height="1296"></div><h2><b>DECEMBER:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0351/1110504-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="548" height="1287"></div><h2><b>JANUARY:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0438/1110497-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="533" height="1356"></div><h2><b>FEBRUARY:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0528/1110490-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="554" height="1137"></div><p><b>start at 8.00 p.m. St. Michaels and Mariboroughs</b></p><p>December 7, January 2, January 184 point games.</p><p>February 18&mdash;2 point game</p><h2>PLAYOFFS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0625/1110483-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="544" height="197"></div><p><b>Champion to be ready for Memorial Cup play, April 2, 1955.</b></p><h2><b>He Quits</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0724/1110476-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="564" height="1362"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SHERMAN WHITE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Ontario Junior ‘A’ 1954-55 Season

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01116/1110587-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Chicago player shown in centre.</p><p>7&mdash;Former Leaf player now coaching Toronto Marlboros.</p><p>9&mdash;A New York defenseman.</p><p>11&mdash;First name of Worters ex-NHL netminder</p><p>12&mdash;Given name of Podolsky who once played with Detroit.</p><p>13&mdash;Nickname of a former coach of the Maple Leafs</p><p>15&mdash;&ldquo;Pat&rdquo; Egan&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>16&mdash;Don Ashbee played lacrosse in this league (abbr).</p><p>17&mdash;Pictured player was born in this month (abbr.)</p><p>18&mdash;These are Important to football players (abbr.)</p><p>19&mdash;Land measure</p><p>20&mdash;Solinger&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>21&mdash;First name of a Hawk defenseman.</p><p>22&mdash;Wears No. 2 for Toronto.</p><p>25&mdash;To fall off course in steering a ship.</p><p>27&mdash;Canadiens acquired this player from Buffalo during the summer.</p><p>31&mdash;An NHL goalie answers to this.</p><p>32&mdash;Reigle&rsquo;s first name.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Second name of pictured star.</p><p>2&mdash;An NHL coach.</p><p>3&mdash;Ex Black Hawk coach.</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of Rowe who played with Rangers in 1947-48.</p><p>5&mdash;Coached Victoria Cougars last season.</p><p>6&mdash;Jim Ross celebrates his birthday in this month.</p><p>8&mdash;Given name of a Ranger centre.</p><p>10&mdash;South East (abbr.)</p><p>14&mdash;Ted Kennedy gives good ones.</p><p>15&mdash;AHL&rsquo;s outstanding rookie of 1953-54.</p><p>17&mdash;One of the Red Wings is called this.</p><p>21&mdash;Initials of Nadeau, last season with New Westminster</p><p>23&mdash;To be indebted.</p><p>24&mdash;The Maple Leafs&mdash;Lewicki to Rangers.</p><p>26&mdash;Short for first name of Kullman of Hershey.</p><p>28&mdash;Cerium (Sym.)</p><p>29&mdash;Initials of a Chicago defenseman.</p><p>30&mdash;Denotes number worn by George Armstrong.</p><h2>Solution</h2><h3>Across</h3><p>1&mdash;Eddolls</p><p>7&mdash;Dean</p><p>8&mdash;Eric</p><p>11&mdash;Can.</p><p>13&mdash;Vu.</p><p>14&mdash;Green</p><p>15&mdash;Dan</p><p>16&mdash;A.O.</p><p>17&mdash;Ann</p><p>18&mdash;Rip</p><p>19&mdash;It</p><p>20&mdash;Ion</p><p>22&mdash;Pat</p><p>23&mdash;S.H.</p><p>24&mdash;Poeta</p><p>27&mdash;Rat</p><p>29&mdash;Flem</p><p>30&mdash;Lewis</p><p>32&mdash;Adams</p><p>33&mdash;Ken</p><h3>Down</h3><p>1&mdash;Ed.</p><p>2&mdash;Detroit</p><p>3&mdash;DA.</p><p>4&mdash;Once</p><p>5&mdash;Len</p><p>6&mdash;Sr.</p><p>9&mdash;Ivan</p><p>10&mdash;Cunningham</p><p>12&mdash;An</p><p>14&mdash;Gariepy</p><p>15&mdash;Davis</p><p>21&mdash;Ottawa</p><p>23&mdash;Steve</p><p>25&mdash;Of</p><p>26&mdash;E.L.</p><p>27&mdash;Red</p><p>28&mdash;Tim</p><p>30&mdash;L.A.</p><p>31&mdash;S.S.</p><h2><b>Back Again</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0285/1110580-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="556" height="1120"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MICKEY HENNESSY</b> has been signed this year to coach Fort William Canadiens. This will be Hennessy&rsquo;s third consecutive season with the Lakehead Junior League club. In both previous years Hennessy, an ex-Montrealer, guided the Canadiens to league titles.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<div class="byline">BARRY.</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>When Ferny Flaman departed the Bruins four years ago next month, Boston hockey fans lamented the departure of an aggressive hustler.</p><p>But if Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s appraisal of the 192-pound Flaman is correct, the same fans will discover soon that they have regained an outstanding defenseman.</p><p>Flaman&rsquo;s conduct on the ice thus far has earned him what amounts to high praise from his blunt coach.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a h&mdash;1 of an improved player&rdquo;, declared Patrick. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen him do things this fall I never knew he could do.</p><p>&ldquo;Some of the things which are extra in a defenseman, like stick handling, I&rsquo;ve seen him do so that I have been just plain tickled. He has been applying that intense attitude of his with a polish I never knew he had&rdquo;.</p><p>Patrick declined to estimate Flaman&rsquo;s added strength to the Bruin&rsquo;s defense on a percentage basis, but he said, &ldquo;I do know that he can make us a lot stronger on defense than we have been since I&rsquo;ve been coaching here&rdquo;.</p><p>The Bruins&rsquo; coach derived extra enjoyment from Flaman&rsquo;s play in the Bruins&rsquo; opening exhibition game with the Hersey Bears, for the 27-year-old husky scored two goals.</p><p>A year ago Ferny failed to score a single goal for the Toronto Maple Leafs in 62 games.</p><h2><b>Improved?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0421/1110663-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="584" height="602"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FERN FLAMAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Patrick Looks To Fern Flaman To Make Bruins Much Stronger

<h2>OCTOBER:</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-055/1110722-1-eng-US/c4-052.jpg" title="C4-05" width="590" height="570"></div><h2>NOVEMBER:</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-064/1110715-1-eng-US/c4-062.jpg" title="C4-06" width="590" height="1758"></div><h2>DECEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-07/1110708-1-eng-US/c4-072.jpg" title="C4-07" width="580" height="1583"></div><h2>JANUARY:</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-08/1110701-1-eng-US/c4-082.jpg" title="C4-08" width="614" height="1738"></div><h2>FEBRUARY:</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-09/1110694-1-eng-US/c4-092.jpg" title="C4-09" width="603" height="1171"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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October 9, 1954

The Canadian FOOTBALL NEWS

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