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October 23, 1954

The Hockey News October 23, 1954

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01169/1126911-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIMMY MOORE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Out Of Action Now

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll (As seen in the Montreal Garett)</div><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>t took Jean Beliveau about eight games to get going last season, and Just when he seemed ready to live up to his promise he was injured. It took him quite a while to get started again after the injury, which isn&rsquo;t unusual because the enforced rest destroys an athlete&rsquo;s condition, and then he was Injured again.</p><p>He didn&rsquo;t really show his best form until the closing games of the schedule and in the playoffs. Teamed with Dickie Moore and Boom Boom Geoffrion, this line played sensationally against the Boston Bruins in the playoffs. It was so good that the fans were asking each other if this was the next great line, the one that would take over from Detroit&rsquo;s famed &ldquo;Production Line&rsquo;&rsquo;. The question was put to Lynn Patrick, the Bruins&rsquo; coach.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d say any line that has Beliveau on it has a chance to become the next great line,&rdquo; was his brief reply.</p><p>Other coaches in the league&mdash;Tommy Ivan, Frank Boucher and Sid Abel&mdash;endorsed what Lynn had said, and added encomiums of their own.</p><p>But the big fellow started slowly again this season. He was away over weight when he reported for pre-season training in his freshman year, something he was determined wouldn&rsquo;t happen again this season. By this time, too, he knew that extra pounds were anathema to Coach Dick Irvin, whose preoccupation with weight charts is wellknown to anyone who was ever inside Canadiens&rsquo; dressing room.</p><p>To Illustrate Dick&rsquo;s aversion to surplus poundage, there is the story they tell of a visit a Montreal newspaperman made to Dick&rsquo;s chicken farm last summer. As usual. it was raining and the reporter watched a drenched chicken seeking cover.</p><p>&ldquo;Nothing looks quite as bad as a chicken in the rain, does it?&rdquo; he said to Dick.</p><p>&ldquo;Nothing,&rdquo; Dick agreed, &ldquo;&hellip;except a fat hockey player.&rdquo;</p><h2>A Matter of Scales</h2><p>To repeat, Le Gros Bill was intent on avoiding the mistake of his freshman year and he watched his weight carefully in the off-reason. He played golf with Jacques Beauchamp, sports editor of Montreal Matin, about three weeks before the training season opened and told him he was within four pounds of his playing weight. But when he weighed in under the glacial gaze of Dick Irvin he was about eight pounds heavier than he thought he was..</p><p>We asked Frank Selke, jr., Canadiens&rsquo; publicity director, how he could have made such a mistake.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know for sure, but I think it was a question of scales,&rdquo; said Junior. &ldquo;The story I heard was that he was weighing himself on the bathroom scales at home all summer and there was something wrong with them.&rdquo;</p><p>Of course, being over weight may have little or nothing to do with his slow start this season. Athletic trainers will tell you that it takes longer for a big man to get into peak condition than for a smaller man. Such being the ease, everybody on the Canadien hockey club would be ahead of him in that respect.</p><p>Some hockey men we have talked with express the opinion that it hurt the big fellow&rsquo;s development not to move Into the NHL when he was ready. He was too good for the leagues he was in and if his case had been normal one, he would have joined Canadiens two years before he did. But he was in the peculiar position where he could make more money playing &ldquo;amateur&rdquo; hockey than by turning professional. He was an Idol In Quebec City and a big box office attraction.</p><h2>Doug Harvey and Floyd Curry</h2><p>The tempo in the Quebec Hockey League is much slower than in the National League and the longer a player remains in the QHL the more difficult it&rsquo;s going to be for him to adjust himself to the speedier NHL.</p><p>Let&rsquo;s take a case in point. In 1946-47, the Royals won the Quebec Senior Hockey League title and went on from there to win the Allan Cup. The next season five of them signed with Canadiens. They were Doug Harvey, Jacques Locas, Rip Riopelle, Tod Campeau and Floyd Curry.</p><p>None of them made the grade right away. Doug Harvey came Closer than the others, but he was shipped to Buffalo for a good part of the season. As things turned out, Loeas, Riopelle and Campeau Just weren&rsquo;t National Leaguers. Floyd Curry was, but it took him a long time to get there.</p><p>Several other clubs in the NHL wanted Curry, but he wasn&rsquo;t for sale. Canadiens weren&rsquo;t ready to give up.on him. The front office felt that he was a National Leaguer and that he would prove It in time.</p><p>The first year or two that Doug Harvey was with Canadiens there were recurring reports that he would be traded. He had a nerve-wracking habit of holding the puck too long inside his own blue line, which led some of his critics to call him &ldquo;Dallying Doug.&rdquo; About this time we can remember a conversation we had with Leo Dandurand, a man of long hockey experience.</p><p>&ldquo;I hope Canadiens don&rsquo;t make the mistake of parting with Harvey,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got the makings of a etar. It takes some fellows longer to adjust themselves than others.&rdquo;</p><p>Would Harvey and Curry have made the grade faster if they&rsquo;d been brought up earlier? Some say they would, just as they are saying now that Jean Beliveau is having trouble attaining stardom in the NHL because he remained so long in junior and QSHL ranks he became accustomed to the slower type of play.</p><p>Perhaps it&rsquo;s a little early to be writing this way about him. He has played so brilliantly in spots that he has had coaches like those already mentioned predicting a great NHL career for him. Maybe he will be able to speed up his reflexes and this will be his year.</p><p>If it is, it could also be a big year for Canadiens. He could make the difference.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The Rangers&rsquo; version of a kid line for the 1954-55 season isn&rsquo;t one that&rsquo;s still wet behind the ears, but the sum total of NHL experience for Ron Murphy (age 21), Larry Popein (24) and Andy Bathgate (22) consisted of 80 games going into the current campaign.</p><p>It is the belief and hope of the Ranger braintrust of Frank Boucher and Muzz Patrick that they&rsquo;ll be together as a line for 70 games-plus this year. Of course things could happen to alter this trust in these kids, but as of now the Broadway Blues&rsquo; analytical department believes the patience and effort put into development will pay off.</p><p>None of these three kinds was with the Rangers over the last half of the past season, when the Blues made a dramatic bid for a playoff berth, and in a sense they take the place of the Bentleys, Doug and Max, and Eddie Kullman.</p><p>There were those skeptics who wondered out loud how much the Rangers would miss their veteran forwards. How fast the PopeinMurphy-Bathgate trio comes along will do much to furnish the answer.</p><p>In the first two NHL games, in Detroit and In Chicago, the kids failed to score. On the other hand no goals were scored by the opposition when they were on the ice. And it was Patrick&rsquo;s contention that the kids gave him his best line.</p><h2><b>They Have Big Boots To Fill</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not worried about goals from these boys,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I know they can score. Their records convince me of that. They&rsquo;ve all got the legs and the shots and they work well together.&rdquo;</p><p>As a matter of record, the Ranger kid line did not start out as a unit with the early days of fall training. Originally Patrick had Popein and Bathgate playing the wings on either side of veteran smoothie Edgar Laprade.</p><p>But somehow Edgar did not fit in with the lads. So Patrick transferred Popein to center, where he has done the bulk of his playing in the minors, and moved up Murphy to a left wing.</p><p>None of these three kids is unfamiliar with each other&rsquo;s styles. In Guelph, when the Biltmores romped to the Memorial Cup three years ago, Murphy and Bathgate were line mates for some time. And in Vancouver the Bathgate-Popein combo was the hottest thing in the Western League.</p><p>For reference, we suggest a glance at the playoff record of Bathgate with Vancouver two years ago. Andy racked up the amazing total of 11 goals in nine games. His center was Popein, who got five himself. These lads are Inseparable not only on ice but off it.</p><p>The kid line has size as well as speed, and on a team noted for the diminutiveness of its forwards, the extra bulk is mighty welcome. For Instance Murphy is now a solid 185-pounder, Bathgate goes to 175 and Popein, who looks smaller than he really is, tips the beam at 167.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01172/1126024-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="315" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Bentley</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02122/1126017-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="291" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Kullman</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0391/1126010-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="287" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Max Bentley</b></figcaption></div><p>Popein, at center, could be the key to the line&rsquo;s success. He never had seen a big league game, let alone played in one as the curtain went up. When he was all of 18. Eddie Shore slapped Larry on a negotiation list. Larry refused to report, so that Eddie turned over his contract to the Vancouver club.</p><p>In three years at Vancouver, Popein bagged a total of 91 goals. Last season he collected 34, and seven of them were winners, most in the league. It was with great reluctance that Coley Hall and Art Chapman of Vancouver parted with him.</p><p>Bathgate and Murphy were both up and down twice with the Rangers. Bathgate&rsquo;s first try was direct from juniors. He was loaned out to Vancouver and proved a sensation. Given another whirl in the NHL, he again fell short of the necessary qualifications and was sent to Cleveland in a deal that brought Glen Sonmor to the Rangers.</p><p>In playoff competition with Cleveland, Bathgate was again a Whirling dervish as the Barons grabbed off post-season honors. Andy played center on a checking line that had Roy Reigle and Chuck Blair on the wings, and outscored the high-scoring lines he was assigned to guard.</p><p>So he was re-acquired by the Rangers. In training Andy was as good as anybody on the ice. Coach Patrick not only used him on a right wing, but also on a point on power prays. Andy can get off the blazers, and he can fake the shot for the trick pass off the goal posts when this is more expedient.</p><h2><b>Popein Making Hop For First Time</b></h2><p>The Murphy story has been pretty disappointing to date. Young Ron came up with the fanciest reputation of them all&mdash;a bow-legged beauty with a great shot. But up &lsquo;til now he has failed to deliver, and the only thing most fans remember about him is something he would rather forget&mdash;the stick-swinging attack on him by Bernie Geoffrion of Montreal. He came out of it with a broken jaw and finished out the season in Saskatoon wearing a plastic mask.</p><p>The Rangers have molded together three other lines, all of them pivoted by centers of fair renown.</p><p>There&rsquo;s bones Raleigh working with Dangerous Dan Lewicki and Tricky Nick Mickoski. Another has Paul Ronty centering for Jackie McLeod and Dean Prentice. A third. puts Edgar Laprade in the middle for Aldo Guidolin and Glen Sonmor.</p><p>But the one they like the best is the least known, least experienced. If it comes through, all those tears shed over the Rangers&rsquo; oss of older men will be pure waste.</p><h2><b>Broadway&rsquo;s Baby Blues</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0461/1126003-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="1744" height="1437"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>ANDY BATHGATE</b></p><p><b>RONNIE MURPHY</b></p><p><b>LARRY POPEIN</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Murphy—Popein—Bath gate Trio Set For Big Year As Blues “Kid Line”

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Buffalo&rsquo;s defending champions of the American League began the battle to retain their coveted Teddy Oke Tro-phy recently with three key contributors to last year&rsquo;s laurelcapturing derby missing&mdash;but with high hopes that they had capable replacements.</p><p>Goalie Jacques Plante, who was outstanding in the Bisons&rsquo; net before being recalled by Montreal in February,. Player-Coach Frank Eddolls and Center Don Marshall are the trio that newly named coach Gaye Stewart must replace.</p><p>Stewart believes that the men who will &ldquo;take over&rdquo; for the absent three are Goalie Hank Bassen, Defenseman Frank Sullivan, and either Ken Wharram or George (Dusty) Blair at center.</p><p>&ldquo;Naturally, it would be foolish for me to say at this early stage that anyone of the three or four newcomers we have will do the job as well as Eddolls, Plante and Marshall did last year,&rdquo; Stewart prefaced.</p><p>&ldquo;After all, Frankie was on the All-Star team, Plante would have been there if he had finished the season with us, and Donnie was the league&rsquo;s rookie of the year. It&rsquo;s a big job to take over for anyone of. them.&rdquo;</p><p>The magnitude of their respective jobs, however, didn&rsquo;t prevent the one-time National League AllStar left winger from predicting bright futures for his new charges.</p><p>&ldquo;This boy Bassen has looked mighty good in the nets,&rdquo; he began. &ldquo;He looks like a real comer for future goaling greatness. He has size, is quick with both his hands and stick, and stands up under heavy firing.</p><p>&ldquo;While I don&rsquo;t want to compare him with Plante right now, I&rsquo;ll go this far. If our club gives him as many goals as it did Jacques last year, we&rsquo;ll have ahother AllStar goalie.&rdquo;</p><p>Switching to Sullivan, whom the Bisons had sought for over a year, Stewart couldn&rsquo;t hide a grin.</p><p>&ldquo;I saved Sullivan from having to worry about succeeding Eddolls as coach, so I expect he&rsquo;ll save me from worry about his successor on defense.</p><p>&ldquo;Seriously, I think that Sully probably better approximates Eddolls in style and ability than any defenseman we could have obtained. Like Eddolls, he is smart and effective in taking a player out of a play, and gets that puck up to a breaking forward with a minimum waste of time.&rdquo;</p><p>Wharram and Blair, like Marshall last year, are newcomers to the AHL although both boast greater experience than Don did when he joined the Herd.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a mighty big order to a coach to say, &lsquo;the fellow you&rsquo;re succeeding scored 38 goals last year and I expect the same from you,&rsquo; &ldquo;Stewart explained. &ldquo;Actually, I&rsquo;ll be satisfied if both Ken and Dusty are 20-goal men. Whatever they may score above that amount will more or less be considered as bonus goals.&rdquo;</p><p>Stewart, who set a Buffalo record by rapping home 42 tallies himself last season, isn&rsquo;t predicting any repeat performance by himself.</p><p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s just say I&rsquo;ll be trying to score each time I&rsquo;m on the ice but I have no particular goal in mind but to see that Buffalo stays atop the league and plays hockey that&rsquo;s pleasing to the fans.</p><p>&ldquo;After all, with Pete Babando, Sam Bettio, and Joe Lund we&rsquo;re pretty strong at left wing, and I may end up getting pushed right out of a job.&rdquo;</p><p>That would take some pushing, Indeed.</p><h2><b>Two Birds&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01183/1126430-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="591" height="597"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PETE BABANDO</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;On The Wing</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02134/1126423-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="558" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOE LUND</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Newcomer</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03109/1126416-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="602" height="1213"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DUSTY BLAIR</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Crateful</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0482/1126409-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="563" height="569"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANK SULLIVAN</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>One In Hand</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0563/1126402-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="597" height="606"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SAM BETTIO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Loss of Starry Trio Doesn’t Faze Stewart

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0167/1127304-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny (Goose) McCormack</b> of the Chicago Black Hawks, is shown rounding the Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; cage after he fired a low, scorching drive past goalie Harry Lumley. Lum makes his move a little late as Chicago&rsquo;s Jack McIntyre, directly next to Lumley makes sure the puck is in the cage. That&rsquo;s Toronto defenseman Jim Thomson (2) checking a falling Hawk. Hawks had the Leafs 3-1 before Ted Lindsay pulled them into a 3-3 tie with a pair of last period goals.</figcaption></div><h2><b>The Goose Breaks Loose</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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MAKING NHL---500-1 SHOT!

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0251/1127335-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="585" height="888"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Max Gets Facts</b></figcaption></div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>How much gall can one hockey player have? That&rsquo;s a question that many people close to the National Hockey League and more particular the Toronto Maple Leafs are asking these days, and the player they have in mind when they ask the question is none other than the old Dipsy Doodle Dandy himself&mdash;Maxwell Bentley.</p><p>Bentley&rsquo;s contract demands are nothing short of absurd and it didn&rsquo;t take Canny Conn long to inform the Delisle idol that as far as the Toronto Maple Leafs were concerned he could spend the fall and winter taking part in such pleasant pastimes as shooting and curling, two sports which Mr. Bentley is better than fair at. He has also shown a great fondness for both of these participant sports.</p><p>Included in the demands of Bentley&rsquo;s were a tax-free salary of $16,000, transportation for both he and his wife from Delisle to Toronto and back, and a house to live in while playing in Toronto. Smythe told him that the Maple Leafs didn&rsquo;t pay any one&rsquo;s income tax and he would have to pay his tax like anyone else.</p><p>When Bentley decided that he wouldn&rsquo;t play for Toronto this season at the contract offered him he made it known that he would like his release. Oh, yes, it must be mentioned that this was another of his demands. eH wanted a guarantee that he would be given his outright release at the end of the season if he did play this one term with the Leafs.</p><p>After signifying his desire to receive his release Bentley was told by Smythe that he could have same for $7,500. Nothing more was heard from Maxwell on the subject. It is well known everywhere that Max would love nothing better than to finish his puck-chasing days with the Saskatoon Quakers of the Western Hockey League. He would be a most valuable addition to the Quakers not only on the ice surface but at the box office as well.</p><p>One of hockey&rsquo;s famed hypochondriacs, Bentley is reported to have informed the Toronto Maple eLafs a few weeks before he made his ludicrous demands that he thought he was suffering from an ulcer. If he made those demands while suffering from an ulcer what would he have asked for had he been in the best of health?</p><p>So it looks as if the National Hockey League has seen the last of Max Bentley&mdash;a great competitor over the years and certainly one of the sport&rsquo;s outstanding individual stars.</p><p>And you have to give him credit for leaving the NHL under the circumstances he did. What other hockey player ever made such demande for performing for one season? And the contract he turned down which was offered him by the<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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What Bentley Wanted He Won’t Get!

<div class="byline">By RED FISHER</div><p>MONTREAL, P.Q.&mdash;</p><p>When National Hockey League president Clarence Campbell is invited to address youngsters of elementary school age, as is frequently the case, the distinguished lawyer hockey administrator usually offers this counsel: &ldquo;Above all, provide yourselves with the best possible education.&rdquo;</p><p>His credo is that &ldquo;education is the most valuable thing in life that can be transported without charge&mdash;and it&rsquo;s permanent!&rdquo;</p><p>At first glance, Campbell could be accused of knocking the business that provides him with a handsome livelihood. But his advice is supported by a solid foundation of unshakable figures showing why the road to the NHL is one of the severest tests in sportdom.</p><p>In Canada today, some 60,000 youngsters playing in leagues from peewee to senior, deploy their talents under the aegis of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. With few exceptions, it is from this colorful pot-pourri that the NHL draws its active playing strength of 120, so it isn&rsquo;t difficult to see that at best, a youngster with ambitions for service under the big tent is courting startling odds of 500-1,</p><p>At the moment, 100 players perform in the American Hockey League, and another 200 in the Western and Quebec Hockey Leagues, bringing the operating total of full-fledged profession-. als to 420. Under these circumstances, what are the odds a youngster must overcome to reach the level of professional hockey? They&rsquo;re still a formidable 150-1.</p><p>Going one step farther, if the 900 opportunities of earning soma sort of income in senior and junior &ldquo;amateur&rdquo; leagues were added to the professional total, here&rsquo;s how the hockey tote board would look like:</p><p>1&mdash;Odds against reaching ths NHL&mdash;500-1.</p><p>2&mdash;Odds against reaching professional hockey&mdash;150-1.</p><p>3&mdash;Odds against earning a dollar in hockey&mdash;50-1.</p><p>In other words, it all adds up to a husky challenge, even to the most ambitious of youngsters&mdash;a statement with which league president Campbell heartily agrees.</p><p>&ldquo;Yes, the odds are great,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but let me hasten to add that when I advise youngsters to go out and absorb the best possible education, there&rsquo;s no intent to knock the business I oversee. I honestly feel that hockey affords a wonderful career to anyone who has the qualifications to reach our league, and if a youngster feels he can make it, I&rsquo;m most emphatic in my belief that he can&rsquo;t go wrong pursuing his ambition.</p><p>&ldquo;If a boy has the potential, keeping in mind the earning power, opportunity for travel, pension benefits and so on, there&rsquo;s no career in the world to match it.&rdquo;</p><p>Campbell continued: &ldquo;Admitedly, I would hesitate to advise a youngster of, let&rsquo;s say, 15 years of age. to forego other pursuits in defenrence to hockey unless I truly felt that he had the physical and mental qualifications necessary to reach the National Hockey League. But the decision doesn&rsquo;t have to be made that soon. He can wait until he&rsquo;s 17 or 18, at which time he has a pretty clear picture of where he&rsquo;s going hockey-wise and, incidentally, at which stage the adds against his reaching the NHL have decreased sharply from the initial 500-1.&rdquo;</p><p>Now and then, hockey in general and the National Hockey League in particular, has been embarrassed by charges that the sport is an ogre, dollar bills clutchin each claw and with a burning mission to lure tots from studies.</p><h2>&lsquo;&lsquo;All Wrong&rdquo;</h2><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s all wrong, of course,&rdquo; said Campbell. &ldquo;For practical purposes, it is an established fact that the inroads of hockey on the educational development of a youngster has been Inconsequential.&rdquo; To support his argument, he points out that less than 15 per cent of those students who graduate from public school manage to earn a leaving certificate from high school.</p><p>&ldquo;So you see,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;the choice between education and hockey arises in surprisingly few cases.&rdquo;</p><p>National Hockey League owners have agreed on a minimum basic salary of $5,000 for players, but Campbell points out that to his knowledge, no player in the league earns less than $5,500. In addition, of course, players can add to their Income through summer employment, bonuses, etc.</p><p>From an NHL standpoint, it all adds up to an attractive financial return at, of course, odds of 500-1 to the youngster who first signs a registration card with the CAIA. Any takers?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Odds—Against Kids Making It Slim-Campbell

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Quietly and smoothly, almost as if they&rsquo;ve never been away, the Red Wings took over the Olympia ice and picked up their habits right where they left off last April.</p><p>Detroit was the only city in the National Hockey League where the home team didn&rsquo;t have to prove that it was a capable outfit. Wings showed that in the highly entertaining preview known as the All Star Game.</p><p>While they failed to win, they did give a strong performance which spoke of more than adequate talent for the coming season. And having demonstrated an ability to handle the position when all five teams ganged up on them together, the Detroiters moved out to take them on one at a time.</p><p>The first two games, both at home, were victories by 2-1 margin over Toronto and 4-0 over New York.</p><p>In the process, one streak was extended, another snapped.</p><p>Triumph over Maple Leafs marked the 15th straight time Detroit went through its home opener without defeat. It was the seventh straight victory&mdash;since Toronto gained a 2-2 tie in 1946.</p><p>Triumph over Rangers ended a New York claim of not having lost a game at Olympia in 1954. Wings had failed to beat them here since last December. In the three remaining games In the 1954 portion of the 1953-54 schedule, New York won two and tied one.</p><p>Terry Sawchuk was the featured performer as he allowed only one goal In the two contests. He didn&rsquo;t lose his shutout to Toronto until 15: 42 of the final period when Sid Smith connected on his second swat at Dave Creighton&rsquo;s rebound.</p><p>Both rival goalies, Toronto&rsquo;s Harry Lumley and New York&rsquo;s Lome Worsley, were making their season debuts and they got warmed up in a hurry for the winter ahead. Lumley was spectacular, particularly against Gordie Howe who had more good chances than some players get all season. Lumley foiled him five times at point-blank range, twice on short breakaways.</p><p>After a 36-23 shooting edge against Leafs, Detroit outshot Rangers, 45 to 22. Worsley thus did his bit to prevent a full-fledged rout and would have been nicked for a dozen goals instead of four except for some phenomenal efforts.</p><p>Howe fired wide on a 100-foot breakaway with no Ranger within 20 feet all the way in. After his fruitless shooting against Lumley in the opener, it appeared that he might be off in a rare stretch of bad luck for the season. Then Howe got an unexpected goal&mdash;because he blew a shot. Marcel Pronovost set him up with a perfect passout but Howe topped his short shot. Worsley went off balance to block the attempt, however, and Howe had half the cage open for his second swat.</p><p>ICE CHIPS: Metro Prystal got the team&rsquo;s first goal just 4: 29 after the season opened. Benny Woit got the key assist on the tally and thereby was credited with exactly half as many points as he made all last season when he played 70 games with just two assists.</p><p>Pronovost staged a brilliant Individual show to net what proved to be the winning goal in the opener against Toronto. He soloed around one defenseman and through another to jab a short shot which Lumley juggled just long enough for the puck to get a few inches behind him. Lumley and the Leafs protested that the puck never crossed the goal line.</p><p>Wings&rsquo; first six goals were spread among six players. After Prystal and Pronovost clicked in the opener, Marty Pavelich, Glen Skov, Gordie Howe and Red Kelly scored in the second game.</p><p>Coach Jimmy Skinner has played his lines exactly as he outlined in training camp. The three units list Delvecchio-Howe-Lindsay, Skov-Pavelich-Leswick and Prystai-Wilson-Dineen.</p><p>Dutch Reibel, Marcel Bonin and Don Poile, the team&rsquo;s lone rookie, are the extra forwards. Reibel works the point on some power plays and also spells off Delvecchio and Prystal at times. Bonin has seen his action as a relief for Wilson. Poile has been on the ice only once.</p><p>Red Kelly, Marcel Pronovost, Bob Goldham and Benny Woit have handled virtually all the defense work. Keith Allen is the other defenseman, slated for use only In emergencies or to spell one of the regulars. Allen works either the right or left defense, as required.</p><h2><b>At It Again!</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0195/1125184-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="561" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY SAWCHUK</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0282/1125177-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="561" height="581"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY LUMLEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0002-01

Wings Extend One Streak, Snap Another In 1st 2 Tilts

<div class="byline">DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Clarence Campbell, president of the National Hockey League, whistled a penalty on himself at recent ceremonies here.</p><p>Campbell made a trip to Detroit to present various members of the team with trophies earned during the 1953-54 season. The stage was set at center ice before a DetroitNew York game.</p><p>First honored was Gordie Howe, who received the Ross Trophy for his scoring championship.</p><p>Next came Red Kelly, doubly loaded with the Norris Memorial Trophy (best defenseman) and the Lady Byng Trophy (peace on ice).</p><p>Finally it was time to hand over the Prince of Wales Trophy for the sixth time as NHL champions.</p><p>Campbell spoke briefly but elequenlty in praise of the Detroit conquest and then concluded:</p><p>&ldquo;&hellip;I present this trophy to the captain of the Detroit team, Ted KENNEDY.&rdquo;</p><p>Stunned for a second, the crowd booed lustily. Ted Lindsay skated quickly forward to accept the cup from Campbell, who never lost his poise and commented, &ldquo;I am red-faced.&rdquo;</p><p>Coming off the ice, Campbell made his way to the penalty box and sat there quietly for the required two minutes.</p><p>Even the 4-0 triumph over the New York Rangers which followed failed to mollify the brooding Lindsay.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been called a lot of things since I broke Into this league, but that was the worst,&rdquo; he growled.</p><h2><b>WHO&rsquo;S</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0377/1125222-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="294" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>WHO</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0458/1125215-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="292" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Kennedy</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0002-03

Campbell Sits Out Penalty, Called Lindsay Ted Kennedy

<p>BOSTON&mdash;.</p><p>For the first time in 5 years the Boston Bruins have a forward line with a catchy nickname, based on tonsorial effect.</p><p>The line is that composed of Fleming Mackell, Real Chevreflls and Leo LaBine.</p><p>It has been dubbed &ldquo;The Crew Cuts&rdquo; by Fred Cusick, who does the play-by-play radio broadcasts of Bruins&rsquo; games.</p><p>The line&rsquo;s catchword? What else? SH-Boom!</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0545/1125267-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="304" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fleming Mackell</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0632/1125260-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="306" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo LaBine</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0719/1125253-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="316" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Real Chevrefils</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0002-05

Boston’s “Sh-Boomers!”

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>As a forecaster of the fortunes of the Boston Bruins, Dick Irvin of Montreal seems to do an outstanding job.</p><p>Two. years ago Dour Dick reflected on what the Bruins had shown him early in the season and predicted that they&rsquo;d do well. They did, reaching the final round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>A year ago Irvin was more guarded in his observations, and when playoff time arrived, the Bruins were less successful than they had been the spring before.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0813/1125305-1-eng-US/f0002-082.jpg" title="f0002-08" width="406" height="618"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Irvin</b></figcaption></div><p>This fall the veteran Montreal coach has reverted to his prognosticating form of two years ago, with embellishments. Irvin predicts a good year for the Bruins.</p><p>&ldquo;You have a better hockey team than you have a year ago, Lynn,&rdquo; he told Lynn Patrick, the Bruins&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;You have the best looking Boston team in 10 years.</p><p>&ldquo;I think the Brums will finish at least third, and if things go right they may be up there even higher.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s nice of you to say so, Dick, &lsquo;replied Patrick, whose admiration for Irvin&rsquo;s coaching ability is a matter of long record. &ldquo;I hope you&rsquo;re right.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;The Bruins have better personnel this year than they&rsquo;d had in a long time,&rdquo; elaborated Irvin, &ldquo;and they have the kind of players who&rsquo;ll sell a lot of tickets.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-099/1125298-1-eng-US/f0002-092.jpg" title="f0002-09" width="369" height="615"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lynn Patrick</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Those little fellows (Fleming Mackell, Real Chevrefils, Leo LaBine) are a colorful line, always skating, and they&rsquo;re hard to hit. People will like them.</p><p>&ldquo;With that talent the Bruins can play a wide-open game with lots of skating. Their first game in Montreal was the best they&rsquo;ve played in our rink in several years. I think that if Sugar Jim Henry (goalie) plays the way he has for the last three years, they&rsquo;ll be right up there.&rdquo;</p><p>Irvin has a reputation as a psychologist which is frequently reflected in reports of his press conferences, but when he rated the Bruins stronger this time, he wasn&rsquo;t holding a conference, he was talking to Patrick.</p><p>In addition, his advance outlook on Montreal&rsquo;s oldest American rival has been so accurate in the past that his latest prediction will bear remembering.</p><p>It could well be that when the playoff chips are down, Irvin may even have cause to remember his own prediction with some bitterness. In this business you never know!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-08

Dick Irvin Predicts Bruins Will Finish Third or Better, Says B’s Stronger This Year

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Working on the premise that by playing long enough and shuffling the cards often enough, anyone can land a 29-point cribbage hand, the Leafs are shuffling.</p><p>They started shuffling almost as fast as they could unbolt the doors to their St. Catharines training camp. They reshuffled throughout their exhibition schedule. They shuffled again after they lost their schedule-opener to Detroit. And they Were still shuffling after Chicago tied them in their home opener and the schedule left them with a week-long layoff to do nothing else but shuffle.</p><p>If labels were awarded for every position played, each Leaf would look like the travelling bag of a nomad on the lam.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not set on any line yet and we&rsquo;re just going to keep on experimenting until we hit the right combination,&rdquo; General Manager-to-be Hap Day explains.</p><h2><b>SAW Line Sawed!</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0195/1125399-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="285" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tod Sloan</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0277/1125392-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="290" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Geo. Armstrong</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0347/1125385-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="302" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Watson</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re not skating with one another and they&rsquo;re not finishing off their plays,&rdquo; coach King Clancy yelps. &ldquo;There must be some right feet to go with all these left feet. We just gotta find the tight pairings*.</p><p>&ldquo;And if they don&rsquo;t smarten up and start flying, there&rsquo;ll be a lot of heads in the basket.&rdquo;</p><p>The Great Juggling Act had become a matter-of-fact routine on three Leaf lines before the echo Of the first whistle died at training camp. But even then it came as a stunning surprise when Toronto&rsquo;s most prolific ilne last year, the 103-point SAW combine of Tod Sloan, George Armstrong and Harry Watson, was scrapped on the eve of the home opener against Chicago.</p><h2><b>Two Centers, Two Wings</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0431/1125378-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="296" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Bailey</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0521/1125371-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="291" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eric Nesterenko</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0613/1125364-1-eng-US/f0003-062.jpg" title="f0003-06" width="294" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Brian Cullen</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-078/1125357-1-eng-US/f0003-072.jpg" title="f0003-07" width="302" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Rudy Migay</b></figcaption></div><p>Conn Smythe announced that shuffle as his last official act before turning over the General Manager&rsquo;s chair to Hap Day and promising to deliver the equivalent title to him Feb. 1.</p><p>Armstrong, Leafs&rsquo; fourth-best triggerman with 17 goals last year, was benched. Tod Sloan, one of the league&rsquo;s ace playmakers until Christmas last year and team-leader on assists with 3 2, was shifted from centre to right wing. And Brian Cullen, the rookie who had played mostly left wing throughout the training period, was inserted at centre.</p><h2><b>A TWO-PERIOD COMBINATION</b></h2><p>The heralded new line lasted two full periods. Then Rudy Migay, centre of Leafs&rsquo; fourth line, was dispatched to replace Cullen. The game finished that way, but one practice later, the SAW line was back intact.</p><p>Cullen, a centre by trade, was left wing on a unit with Bob Bailey and Eric Nesterenko. Dave Creighton, a 20-goal scorer through two previous NHL seasons as a left wing, was right Winging for Ted Kennedy and Sid Smith. And Migay was centring Gord Hannigan and Ron Stewart, Kennedy&rsquo;s former partner.</p><p>But the theme of &ldquo;Changing Partners&rdquo; will continue until Leafs show the management they can manage a tempo higher than a fox trot.</p><p>A lot of the shuffling surrounds Smythe&rsquo;s promise to give rookie Cullen every chance to make the grade.</p><p>Coming right out of a sensational year in junior hockey, where he set a 68-goal and 161-point scoring record with St. Catharines, the 20-year-old youngster is hailed by Smythe as the precedent of a new class of Leaf hockey player &ldquo;who will combine muscle with brains.&rdquo;</p><p>Already Cullen has centred four different forward combinations and played left wing on two more.</p><p>&ldquo;It sure is teaching me plenty,&rdquo; he allows. &ldquo;I find it&rsquo;s tough enough just trying to break into this league, without trying all these different positions. But it&rsquo;s worth it for what I learn. Heck, I&rsquo;ve learned more here in two weeks than I learned in the rest of my life. And that&rsquo;s no insult to any of my other coaches either.</p><p>&ldquo;And, anyway, even if I couldn&rsquo;t see the advantage, I&rsquo;d be willing to play anywhere, even fill in for Lum, if it meant I could stick with the club.&rdquo;</p><p>The veterans are just as philisophical about the juggling. They admit it might cost them something in points and finesse at the moment, but will pay dividends when the shuffling is through.</p><p>In the meantime, anyone for musical chairs?</p><p>INCIDENTALS&hellip;Leafs dispatched two Pittsburgh farmhands to Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds&hellip;Jack Bionda, Marlie centre last year, and Ed Chadwick, sub-goalie with the Maples, were loaned there while Soo coach and GM Peanuts O&rsquo;Flaherty was given permission to deal with Mike R, atchford, defenseman with Quebec Citadels for the past two seasons&hellip;Clancy attributes George Armstrong&rsquo;s early lethargy to concern over his wife&rsquo;s virus in-rection, a worry which Army shared with no one until Mrs. Big Chief had recovered&hellip;Following their tie with Chicago, Leafs underwent what veterans termed the toughest two-hour drill in two years&hellip;&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like the humane society to look in on one of these practices,&rdquo; captain Ted Kennedy quipped between puffs&hellip;Gus Ryder, coach of Lake Ontario conqueror Marilyn Bell, was presented with the keys to a 1954 Oldsmobile by Conn Smythe, on behalf of the Gardens, in a pregamo ceremony on opening night&hellip;Defenseman Leo Boivin recovered from a strained leg muscle, which sidelined him a week, just in time to make that game.</p><h2><b>Still Together!</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-086/1125350-1-eng-US/f0003-082.jpg" title="f0003-08" width="286" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dave Creighton</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-095/1125343-1-eng-US/f0003-092.jpg" title="f0003-09" width="292" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Kennedy</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-104/1125336-1-eng-US/f0003-102.jpg" title="f0003-10" width="303" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Smith</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0003-01

Toronto Keeps Shuffling, Hopes To Come Up With An Ace!

<div class="byline">Houston</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The Little Pistol popped his last round Oct. 8.</p><p>Conn Smythe announced that day he would resign immediately &ldquo;in power and in fact&rdquo; as General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs. And he promised &ldquo;to resign In name Feb. 1.&rdquo;</p><p>Leaving the personnel problems of the Leafs to Assistant GM Hap Day, Smythe said: &ldquo;I feel like a man resigning from a corporation that is in good shape financially and has good assets.&rdquo;</p><p>He named last year&rsquo;s $3,000,000 turnover of the Gardens and the record seat sale of 1,514,000 as examples of the good financial shape and such up-and-coming stars as Brian Cullen, Jim Morrison, Larry Cahan and Marc Reaume as examples of the assets.</p><p>But then he fired his final round at the 1954-55 Leafs.</p><p>&ldquo;The defense isn&rsquo;t any good,&rdquo; he said, predicting, the team would finish no better than fourth,, behind Detroit, Montreal and Boston. &ldquo;It has to stiffen up and straighten out.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;This club is strong on muscle, but Einsteins are hard to find. I caution Mr. Day and coach King Clancy that rather than try to make a silk purse out of a sow&rsquo;s ear by changing them, they go with the muscle and the heart.</p><p>&ldquo;In the meantime we&rsquo;re seeing the beginnings of a new type of hockey player who combines brains with muscle in young Brian Cullen. He&rsquo;ll be given every chance to make this club. If he fails he will have only himself to blame. And I don&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;ll fall.&rdquo;</p><p>Toronto&rsquo;s six three-year men also came in for a final shot from the Pistol. Leo Boivin, Gord Hannigan, Tim Horton, Jim Morrison, Ron Stewart and Eric Nesterenko were likened to college juniors by Smythe.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s in this third year that they&rsquo;ll have to prove they can get the marks and pass. Some of these birds are going to have to work or flunk out as far as we&rsquo;re concerned.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Will These &ldquo;College Kids&rdquo; Flunk Or Pass?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-11/1125458-1-eng-US/f0003-112.jpg" title="f0003-11" width="586" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gord Hannigan</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-12/1125451-1-eng-US/f0003-122.jpg" title="f0003-12" width="570" height="614"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eric Nesterenko</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-13/1125444-1-eng-US/f0003-132.jpg" title="f0003-13" width="582" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tim Horton</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-14/1125437-1-eng-US/f0003-142.jpg" title="f0003-14" width="572" height="624"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ronnie Stewart</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-15/1125430-1-eng-US/f0003-152.jpg" title="f0003-15" width="582" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo Boivin</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0003-11

Smythe Hails Cullen As ‘‘New Type” Leaf In Farewell, Says Youngster Has Brains To Think For His Muscles

<div class="byline">&#x2026;By Elmer Ferguson</div><p>&bull; THE BOYS IN the hockey statistical department at the Forum came up with an interesting set of figures that points a moral, if nothing else. Said moral is to this effect:. &ldquo;Avoid penalties when playing Detroit Red Wings. That way, lies disaster.&rdquo; But the boys found not only a moral but what is considered a sinister development in the fact that almost invariably, Canadiens get the first penalty when playing Wings.</p><p>When Canadiens were beaten 3-2 by Wings in that desperately-fought game here October 13, two of the three Detroit goals were notched while Habs were short a man. Canadiens got the first penalty, which resulted in a goal. They got two of the next three, a simultaneous ruling, that cost another goal. Dick Irwin who, as we remarked, is more than a wee mite biased about these things, insisted this penalizing of Canadiens early and often against Wings is regular procedure. The other goals in the Wednesday night set-to, one by each team, were scored with the teams at full strength.</p><p>But the dour Irwin theory that an unseen but sinister hand in. the background is guiding the thumb which directs Hab players to the cooler earlier than Wings in these directs Hab players to the cooler earlier than Wings in these club battles, led to some recordexhumations that provide food for thought, plus the moral mentioned.</p><h2>Canadiens Get First Penalty</h2><blockquote class="pullQuote">The boys in the statistical department went back to last season&rsquo;s seven games in Detroit, in which Habs tied two, won none. They found that in almost every game, Canadiens got the first penalty, that they had 22 more minors than the Detroit club in that part of the series, so that even if Wings didn&rsquo;t always score when they had the player-edge in numbers, the penalties took enough out of Habs to weaken their defensive.</blockquote><p>In the first of last season&rsquo;s seven games at eDtroit, McKay and Lindsay were off for the first penalty. Then Bouchard got the first single penalty for Habs. In the second game, Reibel got the first penalty, then Bouchard and Richard were chased, and later Wings got their first goal with Bouchard off. In the third game, won by Wings 4-3. oJhnson got the first penalty at 2.49. In the second period Wings scored with McCormick off, and in the third notched twice in 20 seconds with Harvey off.</p><p>In the fourth. game, a 2-all tie, Harvey was penalized at 1.41, and Wings promptly ran in a goal. Fifth game, Geoffrion, Beliveau and St. Laurent all got first-period penalties. In the sixth, won by Detroit 3-0, Wings scored when Meger was off, scored again with Mosdell off. In the last game of the League series at Detroit Bouchard and Meger got three penalties between them in the first period but Canadiens got two goals. Wings tied it up in the final stanza.</p><p>We don&rsquo;t hold with the theory that any referee is deliberately penalizing Canadiens so that Wings will score, but it&rsquo;s something of a coincidence that Canadiens almost always get the first penalty in these games. If nothing else, it proves that a good motto to follow in these battles is to get no penalties. Wings are so impregnated with scoring power throughout that it is practically suicide to be left short against them.</p><h2>Turned Down Baseball Offers</h2><p>Don McKenney, only rookie on the 1054 Boston Bruins roster, who scored two goals for the team in the victory over Rangers, turned down several bonus baseball offers the past three summers in order to stick with hockey&hellip;he&rsquo;s a shortstop, bats left-handed, had offers from New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox to play baseball in Class C, but prefers hockey&hellip;the ice game has had a few good ball-players, including the former Canadiens Roy Goldsworthy, who was a pitcher of promise, the late Babe Seibert, a pretty good catcher, Bill Durnan, a great soft-ball hurler. Art Ross, who could pitch with either hand&hellip;we remarked when Bruins were here that they showed a lot of heavy checking, and coach Lynn Patrick says this is a definite plan&hellip;&ldquo;We&rsquo;re out to gain respect for our rugged play&rdquo; says Patrick&hellip;young McKenney has now scored three goals, and looks to be one of the most promising rookies of the year&hellip;</p><p>The one-time dipsy-doodling Max Bentley has just about read himself out of the National Hockey League by demanding something like $20,000, a fantastic sum even if he was the Maxie of other days, to play for Toronto Leafs&hellip;eBntley played 47 games with Ranger&rsquo;s last season, scored 14 goals&hellip;the season before, he played 36 games with Leafs, got 12 goals, but went temperamental, deserted the club at one point without a word, and went home to Saskatchewan&hellip;Bentley was one of the greats in his big days, when he, his brother Doug, and Bill Mosienko formed the great Pony Line at Chicago&hellip;Leafs did a five for one trade to get him, were well repaid&hellip;but Maxie has passed his peak, and his demands probably will get him suspended so that he won&rsquo;t play in organized hockey at all&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Gist and Gest

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>As the National Hockey League raises the curtain for another season of drama on ice, Detroit&rsquo;s mighty Red Wings skate on stage determined to renew their lease on the league title and the Stanley Cup.</p><p>Playing a major role in this worthy endeavor is Bob Goldham, their 6&rsquo;1&rdquo;, 195 pound defenseman, who, at 32, has the dubious honor of being the team&rsquo;s oldest player. Goldham has belled the theory that hockey is a game for tht youthful. He has sounded the trumpet for the veterans and hockey players, like good wine, improve with age.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01163/1125513-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="292" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Goldham</b></figcaption></div><p>So much reference has been made to Goldham&rsquo;s advanced years that one might expect to see a decrepit, elderly gentleman tottering around the Wings&rsquo; blueline, instead of a rugged performer who parctically swallows the puck in his duties as a second goalie. Frustrated enemy forwards contend that the Red Wings have two netminders on the ice when Goldham is defending the citadel in front of Terry Sawchuk.</p><p>Goldham&rsquo;s defensive methods are so effective that he frequently stops almost as many shots as Sawchuk. By dropping to both knees when a shot is fired he can cover a larger area and prevent rebounds, robbing goal-hungry forwards of a second chance. Bob&rsquo;s talents are not limited to defensive tactics. He is an excellent puck-carier and capable of setting up picture goals. However, his rushes are Infrequent. &ldquo;Our club has two terific puck-carriers in &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Kelly and Marcel Pronovost,&rdquo; explains Goldham. They are young and fast. After a couple of rushes I&rsquo;m tired out, but if I stay behind the blueline I can remain fresh. It&rsquo;s best to leave the rushing to the fellows who can od it. I usually play with Pronovost and the ideal defensive combination is a rusher and a defensive player, so it works out for the best.&rdquo;</p><p>Goldham acquired his style In his rookie days with the Maple Leafs when he had &ldquo;Bucko&rdquo; McDonald as a defense mate. McDonald was an expert at that maneouvre and while few defensemen used the method, Bob considered it effective and picked up the trait. It has always ben a Goldham habit to watch all players carefully in an effort to gain valuable pointers. &ldquo;A player can learn a tremendous amount by observation,&rdquo; Bob contends. &ldquo;I always tried to copy the best traits from the various stars.&rdquo; Goldham was an admirer of Earl Seibert, the formtr NHL star. &ldquo;He was the greatest defenseman I ever saw. I played against him for one season and he seemed to do everything perfectly,&rdquo; he reminisced.</p><p>Goldham has lengthy working hours. He averages 28 to 34 minutes per game over a 70 game schedule this means steady employment. Despite this, the Detroit management will not hear him complain about overwork. &ldquo;When I first joined the Wings I spent fifteen consecutive games on the bench. It was terrible. Much harder than playing. I made a vow that if they asked me to play 6 0 minutes per game I&rsquo;d do it without complaint,&rdquo; said Bob.</p><p>A good deal has happened since Bob made his pro debut with the Leafs in 1942. That was the year he practically knocked the N.Y. Rangers out of the Stanley Cup semi-finals by shattering their top goal getter, Lynn Patrick, with a check which rattled the rafters. He then helped Toronto overcome a three game deficit against Detroit and become the first team in history to win the Stanley Cup after yosing the first three games. His career was interrupted by a stint in the Navy and when he returned to the ice lanes three years later he ran into a series of misfortunes. A badly fractured left ram put him out of commission for an entire season and left him far below par. This ultimately led to his trade to Chicago in the famous Max Bentley deal.</p><p>Actually, the Leafs had great plans for Bob, but a persistent iBll Tobin insisted that he be included in the transaction. Goldham took the trade philosophically, &ldquo;There were no hard feelings,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The eLafs had no choice, They needed Bentley badly, so I had to go. I still have good friends at the Gardens and the Toronto writers treat me well.&rdquo;</p><p>Fate was still frowning upon Goldham when he joined the Black Hawks for the 1946-4 7 campaign. He sustained another double fracture of the left arm, which many thought would writ&reg; finis to his career. But he&rsquo;s not the type to give up easily. When the 1948-49 season got under way the was back at his usual post, despite the fact that he had two steel pins in his arm.</p><p>Bob&rsquo;s three years with Chicago were the bleakest of his career. Besides being dogged by injuries, eh was a member of the team in the cellar, a situation which did little for his morale. He was sent to Detroit in a wholesale trade in the summer of 1949. Once accustomed to his new surroundings Goldham developed into a netminder&rsquo; dream. An artist of the old-school variety, he was a powerful factor in helping Detroit latch on to four of their half dozen consecutive league titles and cop two Stanley Cups.</p><p>Much of the credit for Bob&rsquo;s success belongs to a small, serene young lady who has been Mrs. Goldham since 1947. Bob met his wife, the former Elinor Platt of Toronto, when they were students at Northern Vocational School. A graduate nurse, the fetching Mrs. Goldham has short dark hair, a winsome smile and a hint of laughter in her pretty gray eyes. She is the perfect partner for Bob, who gets tense and nervous during the hockey season. &ldquo;After a game when I&rsquo;m still agitated and on edge, Elie comes along as calm and unruffled as you please.&rdquo; said Bob.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Wing’ 2nd Goalie Bobby Goldham Ageless Wonder

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.,&mdash;</p><p>As a takeoff on the. old &ldquo;youth must be served&rdquo; theme, Lynn Patrick is serving it in generous quantities to those watching his Boston Bruins play.</p><p>One of the lines working frequently for the Bruins is the youngest in the league, average age 20 years.</p><p>It is composed of Center Don McKenney, Left Wing Doug Mohns and Right Wing Murray Costello. They&rsquo;re all 20 years of age.</p><p>The senior member of the trio is Mohns, who&rsquo;ll become of voting age in December. Next is Costello, three months older than McKenney, who has succeeded Mohns as the youngest Bruin.</p><p>Patrick spent several days experimenting with the youngsters after Costello&rsquo;s arrival here from Chicago before setting them up as a unit.</p><p>&ldquo;If they click they can be a line for a long time&rdquo;, observed the Bruins&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;We may as well find out now how they look together&rdquo;.</p><p>It is doubtful that another National league team can Ice a line with more limited professional experience, for all three were playing junior hockey only two years ago, Costello for St. Michael&rsquo;s School of Toronto, Mohns and McKenny for the Barrie (Ont.) Flyers.</p><p>Mohns made the big jump directly from junior ranks to the National league a year ago. Costello, after spending most of the season with Chicago, finished the year at Hershey, where McKenney played.</p><p>The three boys have several things in common. For one, they&rsquo;re all good-sized, with Costello the tallest (6-3) and heaviest (187 pounds), Mohns the shortest at six feet and McKenney the lightest at 175 pounds. For another they all skate strongly, with Mohns the fastest&mdash;he&rsquo;s the fastest of the Bruins&mdash;and McKenney next.</p><p>Of course a &ldquo;Kid Line&rdquo; tag was promptly placed on the combination, but the hackneyed phrase hasn&rsquo;t caught on here, as the combination itself may.</p><p>The line isn&rsquo;t the youngest ever to represent the Bruins, but it is the youngest in a long time. A decade ago, when most of the Bruins&rsquo; regulars were busy with World War II, Art Ross had a teen-age group consisting of Don Gallinger, Bep Guidolin and John Schmidt and Guidolin, now a permanent resident here, was the baby at 16.</p><h2><b>Barrie</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01116/1125575-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="603" height="615"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG MOHNS</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Beauties</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0299/1125568-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="576" height="597"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DON MCKENNEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Patrick Has Elaborate Plans For Bruins “Under 21” Trio

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Don&rsquo;t get too excited about this&mdash;it&rsquo;s early in the season&mdash;but the Montreal Canadiens may have a good road club. And if they have discovered the secret of winning games on foreign ice before hostile crowds, they could easily knock the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; bid for a seventh straight National Hockey League title into the proverbial ash can.</p><p>The Habs were undefeated in their first three games on the road this season, tying with the Bruins in Boston 2-2, blanking the new-look Black Hawke 3-0 in Chicago, and trimming the Wings 3-1 in Detroit. That&rsquo;s five points out. of a possible six.</p><h2><b>Invincible On Home ice?</b></h2><p>Generally the Canadiens have been almost invincible at the Forum, playing in front of capacity crowds of enthusiastic home-town rooters. Away from the familiar confines of the Forum they have been just another hockey club.</p><p>In the 1953-54 season they didn&rsquo;t win a gams on the road until Oct. 22 when they nosed out the Hawks 3-2. That was the game in which Jean Beliveau cracked his ankle.</p><p>In the 1952-53 season the tale of woe was even worse. They gained a tie on their first visit to Boston but they were swamped 6-1 in their first invasion of Detroit. Their first road victory wasn&rsquo;t produced until Dec. 10 when they defeated the Maple Leafs 2-1 in Toronto.</p><p>The Canadiens lost only five games in Montreal all last season but their dismal road record deprived them of a chance to finish in first place. They lost 19 games and tied eight in hostile rinks.</p><p>There have been some surprising developments in the Habitant camp which might prompt some of the experts who consigned them to second place in pre-season polls to revamp their opinions.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0459/1125651-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="300" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bernie Geoffrion</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0540/1125644-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="287" height="502"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0625/1125637-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="301" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ken Mosdell</b></figcaption></div><p>One of them has been the steady play of the acrobatic Jacques Plante in the nets. Plante, who won the goaltending job by acclamation when Gerry McNeil retired, allowed only nine goals in the Habs first six games, three less than McNeil yielded over the similar stretch of the preceding campaign.</p><p>Another has been the fine work of Kenny Mosdell, last season&rsquo;s all-star centre, who has been the pivot for Calum MacKay and Eddie Litzenberger. Last season big Moe had the advantage of a long term at centre of the Punch Line with Rocket Richard and Bert Olmstead. But, even with less noted scorers, Mosdell has been picking up the slack and in those early half-dozen games he scored three goals.</p><p>And, thirdly, Coach Dick Irvin&rsquo;s prediction that Richard, Beliveau and Boom Boom Geoffrion would account for 100 Montreal goals this season is already beginning to look as good as the statement that Santa Claus will arrive on Dec. 25.</p><h2><b>Boomer Already Has Four</b></h2><p>The Boomer, capitalizing on power plays from his point position, already has dented enemy nets four times, Richard has scored three goals and Beliveau, generally a slow starter in every league, even as a juniors, has picked up two tallies.</p><p>That&rsquo;s nine goals for the trio in six games, or half the Canadien total. If they maintain that pace, they&rsquo;ll be a cinch to combine for the century mark.</p><p>Irvin seems to have shuffled his players into four well-balanced lines although Paul Masnick has seen only limited service. His wings, Floyd Curry and Paul Meger, are used largely as penalty killers.</p><p>Behind the blueline the Habs are well fortified. Plante, as we have already pointed out, has been steadier than expected while the defensemen have been tossing their weight around with reckless abandon.</p><p>Dollard St. Laurent, who hurt his wrist during the preseason tour of the Maritimes and aggravated the injury in an early game, was used sparingly in the Habs&rsquo; first half dozen games but Bud MacPherson fitted in well.</p><p>He added fire to the rearguard and respect among rival forwards. With Butch Bouchard, showing no effects of advancing years, and Doug Harvey and Tom Johnson as spry as ever Irvin has no defensive worries.</p><p>This Hab team has balances with its scoring strength well distributed. It it can keep winning these important road games&mdash;wow!&mdash;who&rsquo;s going to stop &lsquo;em?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Habs’ Early Road Wins Could Be Key To Upset Of Champion Red Wings

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, III.,&mdash;</p><p>In Tommy Ivan Chicago sports seem to have acquired a second Frank Lane. The new general manager of the Black Hawks leaned back from his desk in the club headquarters at the Chicago Stadium with a quiet smile the other day when we informed him of the comparison linking him with the White Sox official.</p><p>Pulling a pipe from the lips that made four separate deals within the brief span of five days, he said, &ldquo;I only hope the new players we&rsquo;ve gotten can turn out as good as some of those he was able to secure for the baseball team. I only know that we are going to keep trying.&rdquo;</p><p>On our request, Ivan agreed to go into a few of the details involving the transactions that brought four new skaters to the Hawks in the nick of time as the 1954-55 National Hockey League schedule began earlier this month. Ha disclosed that all the deals, a la Lane, were completed by telephone..</p><p>&ldquo;The need for additional strength on defense became a necessity when Lee Fogolin got that elbow injury during training camp and I called Lynn Patrick,&rdquo; Tommy disclosed.</p><p>&ldquo;This brought us Frank Martin in exchange for left Winger Murray Costello who was with the Hawks part of last season.</p><p>&ldquo;We got Gordon Holling-worth from the Canadians next when they tried to farm him out to the Royals of the Quebec League, an affiliate club, who were badly in need of personnel, as I understand. Since he was on their draft protected list, however, they had to waive him through the NHL.</p><p>&ldquo;The Hawks were first tn line and I didn&rsquo;t hesitate in buying him for the $15,000 tag. He is the graduate from the Royals whom they brought along fast when it was feared that Dollard St. Laurent might not be available at the start of the season due to that poison ivy infection he contracted.&rdquo;</p><p>Tommy disclosed that the waiver system is continuing in effect whenever one of the league members attempts to farm out a skater previously protected on the draft lists. One catch in the system is, however, that the Black Hawks will not likely always have the first chance to pick up such players.</p><p>&ldquo;The first chance goes to the team that happens to be in last place at the time the attempt to waive the player out of the league is made,&rdquo; he pointed out. Chicago, nevertheless, will probably have more cases to want these expenda-bles than the other squads.</p><p>Left winger Ray Timgren, who made several futile attempts to stick with Toronto, was the next Hawk newcomer. A 22 goal member of Pittsburgh in the American League last year, he was secured primarily as a defensive forward in exchange for young rearguard Jack Price, Ivan reported.</p><p>&ldquo;I made this deal directly with Hap Day,&rdquo; said Tommy. &ldquo;We needed almost any type of proven player on the left side since we could bank on only Jack McIntyre and Pete Conacher and the latter wasn&rsquo;t available at the time due to a knee injury so you can see we had to do something&rdquo;.</p><p>Persistence apparently paid off in the fourth of the deals which brought another left winger, Dick Bamble, into the Chicago fold in the transaction which sent rookis defender Bill Shvetz to the Canadiens. This transaction wasn&rsquo;t completed until after the Hawks opener at Montreal.</p><p>&ldquo;I talked to Frank Selke when we arrived there Thursday and was on the phone with him twice Friday. Gamble reported to us Saturday,&rdquo; Ivan confided. It&rsquo;s likely that the Hab GM was willing to grab Shvetz for the Royals to at least partly make up for the loss of Hollingworth.</p><p>We asked Ivan&mdash;for a point of information&mdash;why he couldn&rsquo;t have acquired these new men sooner so that they might have been fitted into the Chicago scheme in plenty of time before the season&rsquo;s start. &ldquo;For one thing,&rdquo; he re-plied, &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t really know what Chicago had until training was well along.</p><p>&ldquo;Sure I saw the Hawk skaters plenty of times when I was on the bench as Detroit coach, but you never pay much attention when you have your own squad to mind. Then too, few people like to deal in the summer when thoughts of hockey just don&rsquo;t seem to be in the air.&rdquo;</p><p>In trading the three young players that he did. Tommy doesn&rsquo;t seem to have dispensed with too much. Price was probably the best of the trio, but worthy of note that the Maple Leafs apparently gave no consideration to keeping him and immediatly sent him to Pittsburg.</p><p>Costello seems to be a fine young skater, however, he has shown a lacking for aggressive and hard play which the Hawks are stressing. Shvetx played at Calgary in the Western League the past three years, but never ranked too highly. All three were products of the Chicago farm system.</p><p>One thing Ivan wants to stress is the fact that he is by no means through dealing yet and this may have become quite obvious by the time this piece hits print. And he. would appear to have the support of one of the NHL&rsquo;s most important officials&mdash;Toronto&rsquo;s Conn Smythe.</p><p>Smythe attended the races recently with Jim Norris, head of the board of the Black&mdash;Hawks. Afterward he was quo-. ted as saying that Chicago would get the first chance at any players the Leafs might not be able to use to contribute generally to the welfare of the league.</p><h2><b>Like Lane</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0377/1125606-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="582" height="903"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOMMY IVAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Chihawks-Chisox Have Great “Deal” In Common

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

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY Founded October 1st 1947

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01189/1125720-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="400" height="420"></div><p>&bull; <b>BOSTON BRUINS</b> opened their season at home on the hottest October 11 in 40 years&hellip;The temperature was close to 85 degrees in the Boston Garden&hellip;The Bruins have a bruising scrappy club this term and play a crowd-pleasing brand of hockey&hellip;Lynn Patrick feels the team is much better balanced than that of a year ago&hellip;Milt Schmidt, captain and assistant coach of the Bruins, is starting his 16th season with the club. He is the National Hockey League&rsquo;s senior player&hellip;In all his years as a player, Milt never missed a train. Recently he was in charge of the Bruins while Patrick was tied up in Boston. The Bruins were travelling from Hershey to Providence for an exhibition game. So what happens&hellip;Schmidt missed the train out of New York with the rest of the squad aboard&hellip;Milt had taken a walk along the platform at Grand Central Station and was unable to climb back on the train as all the doors were closed&hellip;He won&rsquo;t hear the end of that for a long time&hellip;The Bruins like most other NHL teams this year have gone along with youth&hellip;When Don McKenney, Doug Mohns and Murray Costello play on a line together they are known as the 20-years-olds&hellip;A few of the Chicago Black Hawks were embarrassed recently when they arrived late for a practice and had to walk right past Owner Jim Norns and G.M. Tommy Ivan. Uncertainty over the time of the practice caused the confusion&hellip;Cooney Weiland, former Boston great, watched the Bruins opener from the press box&hellip;Johnny Crawford, ex-Boston defenseman who assists Fred Cusick on the Bruins broadcasts, has bet Johnny Peirson he will be back in uniform before the American Thanksgiving&hellip;Peirson visited his former teammates after the Boston opener.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0285/1125713-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="292" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Milt Schmidt</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>WARREN GODFREY</b> crossed the Bruins&rsquo; program up&hellip;The big defenseman is listed in the Bruins&rsquo; program as an eligible bachelor, but he was married last August in Toronto and had failed to notify the Bruins&hellip;&ldquo;They say we&rsquo;ve give up 61 goals, 21 by Peirson who has retired, 20 by Creighton who was traded, and 20 by Klukay who has been converted to the role of penalty-killer, but the Bruins will score more goals this year than last,&rdquo; Lynn Patrick told the Boston press and radio at the season&rsquo;s opening luncheon. Clarence Campbell, Carl Voss and Ken McKenzie of NHL headquarters were in attendance at the Boston luncheon&hellip;Linesman Jim Primeau had two of his teeth loosened when he got in the way of one of Bill Gadsby&rsquo;s haymakers the other night while trying to break up a fight&hellip;Chicago Black Hawks believe one of the best prospects in their farm system is Hank Bassen, a goalkeeper&hellip;The Hawks have loaned Bassen to Buffalo&hellip;Larry Wilson received torn ligaments during the first five seconds of Chicago&rsquo;s opener against Montreal&hellip;Jack Adams is completely satisfied with the way Jimmy Skinner has been handling the Red Wings and is ready to turn over full responsibility for the coaching of the team to him&hellip;Toronto Maple Leafs may change their training schedule next season. The Leafs played seven exhibition games in eight days prior to the start of the regular NHL season. &ldquo;We weren&rsquo;t sound of foot,&rdquo; said Hap Day after Leafs dropped their first game to the Wings&hellip;Hockey fans wishing to secure a copy of the fact-filled NHL Press and Radio Guide should send $1.00 (personal check or money order) to the NHL Informa-tion Bureau, 603 Sun Life Bldg., Montreal&hellip;There is a limited supply, so don&rsquo;t be crowded out.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0349/1125706-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="302" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ralph Nattrass</b></figcaption></div><p><b>LYNN PATRICK</b> played end on the same Winnipeg football team as Gerry James&rsquo; father, Eddie&hellip;Gerry, the talented footballist-hockeyist, still has to decide which sport he will specialize in&hellip;Milt Dunnell of the Toronto Star has the inside story on how Muzz Patrick broke a couple of his ribs. Stories from Vancouver said the Ranger coach suffered the broken ribs in practice. But the facts are that Muzz tried to ride one of the wildest horses on Coley Hall&rsquo;s B.C. ranch&hellip;Ralph Nattrass is now sales manager of Cadillacs, working out of Chicago&hellip;Milt Schmidt played against his old buddy Porky Dumart the other night in an exhibition game at Providence. Dumart will play for Providence this season after 15 years with the Bruins&hellip;The favorite hockey player of nine-year-old Tommy Henry, son of Sugar Jim of Boston, is Boom Boom Geoffrion&hellip;Al Rollins says the Black Hawks may not be the best team in the league but that they&rsquo;ll be the best conditioned&hellip;Ted Lindsay calls Sid Abel his favorite athlete. He thinks old Boot Nose was the greatest competitor of them all&hellip;Tempers ran high on several occasions during the Detroit-Montreal game last week. A great rivalry now exists between these two front-running clubs&hellip;Eddie Mazur is expected back with Canadiens shortly. His injured knee is recovering rapidly.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0434/1125751-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg"></div><h2><b>Anti-artwork Dept.</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>My only beef about your paper is when I start reading something on a certain page and find it is continued on another page just because you stick in a picture or two of some player on that particular page.</p><p>I know pictures of players are a must in your paper, but I&rsquo;d much rather see them all on one or two pages at the rear and think that this would serve your picture-saving fans.</p><p>Also, I&rsquo;d like to see stories on the newer players. The veterans, like Howe and Richard, have had their day.</p><p>L. Carver, Summerside, P.E.I.</p><h2><b>Eager to Correspond</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Just a note to tell you how much I like THE HOCKEY NEWS. I think all hockey fans should subscribe to it.</p><p>I would like to have some other fans write to me, just to discuss hockey or trade programs. They&rsquo;re sure to get an answer. I&rsquo;m also interested in baseball and stamp collecting.</p><p>My address is George Dube, 16 Laval St., Apt. 5, Quebec City, Que.</p><p>George Dube, Quebec City, P.Q.</p><h2><b>Too Many Letters</b></h2><p>I would like to thank you for putting my request for pen-pals in the July issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS.</p><p>I wondered if you would do me another favor by printing this letter, which it to explain why I haven&rsquo;t answered all the replies I received from that appeal.</p><p>I&rsquo;m afraid I&rsquo;ve had so many answers that I just haven&rsquo;t had time to catch up with the replies. But when the hockey season starts here in England, I will do my best to find pen pals for them, too.</p><p>Marie Beard, London, Eng.</p><h2><b>What About Zeidel?</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>What&rsquo;s this I read about Larry Zeidel playing for Edmonton this coming season? I thought he was bought along with Larry Wilson and Lou Jankowski last year. Yet I read in THE HOCKEY NEWS that he&rsquo;s going to play for the Flyers.</p><p>Also, I read in one of our Chicago papers that Frank Eddolls, the new coach, is planning on rebuilding the defense around Mortson and Gadsby and select the third rearguard from among Fogolin, Dewsbury, Quackenbush and Price. What&rsquo;s wrong with Zeidel? He was just as good or better than Fogolin or Dewsbury last year. Don&rsquo;t tell me the Hawks were jilted into a deal where they could have Zeidel for a year just for the experience he would find useful when he was transferred back to Edmonton, where he&rsquo;ll be at Detroit&rsquo;s disposal.</p><p>Thanks anyway, for the pleasure THE HOCKEY NEWS brings me. I&rsquo;d like to see more photos of actual play.</p><p>Chester Chrabasz, Chicago, III.</p><p><b>(As reported in the last issue, of THE HOCKEY NEWS, Zeidel is now playing with Edmonton).</b></p><h2><b>What Gives With Cullen?</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I wish to congratulate you on your fine paper. I particularly enjoy the Fan Forum and the crossword.</p><p>What happened to &ldquo;Inside Stuff&rdquo;? It was one of the best articles. In the May issue you. had a story on the OHA champion St. Catharines Teepees in which you said that Hugh Barlow centred the Cullen boys. I have seen this team play several times and have always thought that Brian Cullen was the centre. Is he?</p><p>I believe your May edition was a masterpiece as far as your summaries were concerned.</p><p>How about a story on Tim Horton?</p><p>Ray MacNamara, Toronto, Ont.</p><p><b>(Brian Cullen is no longer with St. Catharines, having been obtained by the Toronto Maple Leafs in an off-season deal. Individual features on the player you mention and many others will appear in forthcoming issues of THE HOCKEY NEWS.)</b></p><h2><b>What&rsquo;s Wrong With Conn?</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>What&rsquo;s wrong with Conn Smythe of the Toronto Maple Leafs? He needs his head examined. He says the west can&rsquo;t play hockey, yet the Calgary Stampeders of the Western Hockey League clobbered the Quebec Aces (Q.H.L.) five games to one to win the Duke of Edinburgh Trophy.</p><p>The Penticton Vees in their second try won the Allan Cup with Grant Warwick as coach. This is the first time a playing coach has ever won the battered old mug.</p><p>If any of the Penticton fans have programs they would like to trade for W.H.L. programs, they can reach me by writing Box 465, Longley Prairie, B.C.</p><p>Don Reimer<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0530/1125782-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="594" height="276"></div><p><b>29&mdash;STAHAN, Frank (Butch) 1915; defense, Ottawa Senators.</b></p><p><b>29&mdash;GARDNER, Cal 1924; centre, Boston Bruins</b></p><p><b>31&mdash;NESTERENKO, Eric, 1933 right wing, Toronto Maple Leafs.</b></p><p><b>31&mdash;POWER, Ted, 1931; centre Charlottetown.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday to YOU

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0627/1125813-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg"></div><p><b>SEASON IS HERE AT LAST</b></p><p>and 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 HOCKEY NEWS is published for 35 consecutive issues during the season and 5 monthly summer issues. It doesn&rsquo;t matter when you start, you still get your 35 Issues.</p><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription Is for 35 consecutive Issues.</p><p><b>Canadian Remittances&mdash;$3.00</b> Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order.</p><p><b>U. S. A. Remittances&mdash;$4.00</b> Payable by Postal Note, 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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It’s Here! YES, HOCKEY FANS, THE 1954-55

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Despite a rather slow start that saw them gain nothing better than a tie out of their first three outings of the 1954-55 schedule earlier this month, the Black Hawks of latest vintage have shown enough drive and hustle to virtually assure that they will be better than their last several previous editions.</p><p>It was a dampened, tired and hot crew that trooped disgustedly into the dressing room at the Chicago Stadium October 10 after dropping the home opener to the Rangers, 2 to 1. Manager Tommy Ivan and Coach Frank Eddolls, while not overly enthused, were far from discouraged.</p><p>&ldquo;Darn it, it&rsquo;s a shame we had to show up this way in front of the home fans the first time after playing much better in the games at Montreal and. Toronto,&rdquo; exclaimed Frank. He had probably had high hopes of tripping New York, the team with which he spent most of his time as a player in the NHL.</p><p>&ldquo;Except for a couple of mistakes,&rdquo; said Ivan, &ldquo;the team played well in the Canadian game (lost 4-2) and we had things pretty much our way for the first 50 minutes at Toronto before they got the tie in the closing moments.&rdquo; The team seemed tired, however, in the defeat at home.</p><p>Tommy opined that regardless of how things had started the Hawks appear to have the nucleus of a club that will improve and grow stronger with more experience and time. The team, averaging something under 25 years in average age, is the youngest to represent Chicago in many years.</p><p>Pointing out that he wasn&rsquo;t trying to alibi, Ivan revealed that most of the playing combinations had not yet had time to jell due to the arrival of rearguards Gordon Hollingworth and Frank Martin and left wing Ray Timgren just a day before the start of the season and left flanker Dick Gamble the day after.</p><p>&ldquo;All four of them have yet to even get in on a routine practice session and we should know more after a few drills,&rdquo; he remarked. Chicago was further hampered by the loss from Injuries of rearguard veteran Gus Mortson and. center Larry Wilson, leading scorer on the squad last season.</p><p>While feeling that the club was coming along fairly well, he revealed that more deals were by no means impossible and hastened to assert that he wouldn&rsquo;t wait that long when we asked if more personnel improvements might not be forthcoming when the league teams must whittle down to 16 members December 1.</p><p>&ldquo;Oh gosh no! We&rsquo;ll make changes long before then if they seem necessary. Give us a little more time. This club may seem to have started out just like some of its &lsquo;predecessors, but I think it&rsquo;s quite a bit better. One thing about kids like these, they&rsquo;re willing to hustle and that&rsquo;s what they&rsquo;ll have to do.&rdquo;</p><p>Eddolls got a number of raised eyebrows from his charges when he announced, via the dressing room blackboard, that players were to be on the ice in uniform for practice at 8: 15 a.m. Tuesday morning. Drills last season seldom got underway before 10 or 11 in the morning.</p><p>Frank didn&rsquo;t seem to feel that he was asking too much, however, and mused, &ldquo;Some of the guys had to get up at 5 o&rsquo;clock in order to get across the river by that time when I was at Buffalo.&rdquo; &ldquo;Guess that&rsquo;ll be us too,&rdquo; sighed one young forward to another across the room.</p><p>HAWK TALK: Although over 10,000 seats were sold for the home debut of the Hawks, the official turnout for the game rans just barely over 5,000. Even some of the heartiest of fans failed to make it during the worst rain storm to hit the Windy City in almost 70 years.</p><p>Jim Norris and Arthur Wirtz, the big men in the Hawk front office, attended the game and the former spent considerable time with Manager Ivan afterwards. Asked if another deal was in the wind, Ivan quipped, &ldquo;Gosh, that&rsquo;s right, this is just about the first day we haven&rsquo;t made one in the past week.&rdquo;</p><p>The span of five days in which Ivan was responsible for bringing four new faces into the fold should be something of a record&mdash;at least in Chicago. &ldquo;Bucky&rdquo; Hollingworth was acquired on Sunday, Frank Martin on Monday, Ray Timgren on Tuesday and Dick Gamble on Thursday.</p><p>Fog, due to the unusually mild temperatures, was a bothersome element in both the Toronto and New York games as it hovered just over the playing surface&hellip;Publicitor Johnny Gottselig had to handle the entire radio broad-cast of the Ranger game himself when play-by-player Bob Elson apparently became stranded somewhere between Chicago and Cleveland where he handled a pro football game in the afternoon.</p><h2><b>Trio Team-mates Again</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0558/1125910-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="570" height="872"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BUCKY HOLLINGWORTH</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0643/1125903-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="566" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LORNE DAVIS</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0736/1125896-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="564" height="894"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICK GAMBLE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Tommy Ivan Sees Hawks Improving Once Eddolls Gets Lines To Jell

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Although he isn&rsquo;t expected to return to the Canadiens&rsquo; line-up for another month, Eddie Mazur has started to skate again and is indulging in long walks to keep his leg muscles in shape.</p><p>Mazur underwent an operation on his knee for removal of a damaged cartilege shortly before the season began.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0835/1125941-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="280" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Mazur</b></figcaption></div><p>Incidentally Mazur, a big rawboned left winger, cost the Habs only $2,000 and it was paid, of all people, to sharp Connie Smythe, boss of the Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>Back in 1946, when he was only 17, Mazur was with the Toronto-sponsored Winnipeg Monarchs. Early in 1947 he signed an option agreement</p><p>with Buffalo, then a Canadian farm club.</p><p>A few days later the Leafs carried out the formal filing necessary for negotiations with Mazur and were advised that he was on the Buffalo list.</p><p>&ldquo;Smythe caused an uproar, charged tampering and demanded we pay $2,000 to obtain full claim on Mazur,&rdquo; managing director Frank Selke of the Habs recalled. &ldquo;He was so persuasive we gave him the money and we have never regretted it.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Habs Paid Leafs $2,000.00 For Spider Mazur’s Contract

<div class="byline">LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Lorne Davis, a big blond right winger from Regina, is happy about being traded from the Canadiens to the Chicago Black Hawks, for Ike Hildebrand and a player to be named at a later date.</p><p>After pinching a shoulder muscle in the Habs training camp he was optioned to the Royals of the Quebec Hockey League.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m pleased about the deal&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d rather play for a big league club than with a minor one and I feel that I will be able to help the Hawks.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0930/1125972-1-eng-US/f0007-092.jpg" title="f0007-09" width="302" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hildebrand</b></figcaption></div><p>Last season Davis shuffled be-tween the Habs and the Royals, playing 37 games with each club.</p><p>Now there are four ex-Montreal chattels with the Black Hawks. The others are Dick Gamble, who reverted to Montreal when a deal with the Rangers for Hy Buller failed to materialize when Bullet quit hockey; Goose McCormack, who was acquired by Chicago in the National Hockey League draft for $15,000; and Bucky Hollingworth, a fine defensive prospect who, like Davis, had been slated to perform for the Royals.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hawks Swap Ike To Habs For Davis

<div class="byline">by Marshall Daan</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01139/1125865-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="299" height="447"></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>It is a time-honored tradition in sports to give rookies a bit of hazing.</p><p>That goes for rookie coaches, too, as Jimmy Skinner has learned. His Red Wings ganged up the other day and worked the skin game on Skinner.</p><p>It involved Jimmy&rsquo;s pet peeve&mdash;cigar smoking.</p><p>A non-smoker, he&rsquo;s had plenty to say. about the aroma of the El Smokos which certain Detroit players prefer.</p><p>A friendly feud smoldered since the start of training camp. Puffing for the opposition were the Inveterate cigar smokers&mdash;Alex Delvecchio, Dutch Reibel, Terry Sawchuk and Lefty Wilson, the assistant trainer.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02116/1125858-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="290" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption></div><p>Finally the boys rigged a complicated practical joke.</p><p>Capt. Ted Lindsay and Bob Goldham, the &ldquo;old pros&rdquo; of the squad, called a special team meeting with Skinner present.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to settle this question of cigar smoking,&rdquo; Lindsay told the players.</p><p>&ldquo;Personally, I back up Skinner in believing that it should be ruled out in places like buses and trains where the smoke may bother some of the others.</p><p>&ldquo;But I believe it should be a club decision and every man will get his chance to be heard.&rdquo;</p><p>Red Kelly arose immediately and spoke at length in behalf of the tobacco growers of Canada. Red doesn&rsquo;t smoke but he does have a big tobacco farm near Simcoe, Ont., and he has the best interests of the Industry at heart.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0386/1125851-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="328" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly</b></figcaption></div><p>Glen Skov took the floor next with a pointed comment:</p><p>&ldquo;I remember when Skinner worked for Lloyd Pollock while Coaching us at Windsor. Pollock had the smelliest cigars but Skinner never once complained about his boss smoking.&rdquo;</p><p>Marcel Pronovost made an emotional appeal for the French vote on the club, calling for an &bull;nd to the cigar smoking.</p><p>Marcel Bonin was equally eloquent in appealing for the French vote. The only other French-Canadian, he was for cigars, however.</p><p>Benny Woit voiced a suggestion that &ldquo;only 50-cent cigars&rdquo; be allowed. He hinted that the Cigar smokers were too moneyconscious to dig that deep.</p><p>Delvecchio was selected by the opposition to conclude the &ldquo;campaign&rdquo; speeches. Alex did a terrific job along the theme of protecting personal liberties.</p><p>&ldquo;If Skinner is permitted to regulate cigar smoking, what will he attempt next?&rdquo; Alex demanded.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;ll stop cigaret smoking, then gum-chewing, then soft drinks, then candy bars. Maybe, before long, eating entirely.</p><p>Straight-faced, Adams lashed out in his grandest style at those players who opposed Skinner&rsquo;s wishes. He spoke of the authority of a coach, of the best interest of the team, of cooperating with your teammates.</p><p>Adams gave an all-out performance. And then, to the astonishment of the dumbfounded Skinner, he flatly voted to allow unlimited cigar smoking.</p><p>Before Jimmy could recover the Wings roared out of the locker-room, blasted 4 5 shots at bewildered Lome Worsley and grabbed a 4-0 shutout from New York Rangers for their second victory of the season,</p><p>&ldquo;If he gets away with this, 1 call it the first step toward dictatorship!&rdquo;</p><p>Speeches over, a vote was held. Pre-rigged, it came out a tie.</p><p>So manager Jack Adams, who was in on the gag, was called from the front office to cast the deciding vote.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0478/1125844-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="287" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Goldham</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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On Thin Ice

<div class="byline">MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>With an average age of 24.8, the Rangers are the second youngest team in the league&hellip;Leafs are No. 1 in the kiddy department&hellip;Rangers were without services of Ivan Irwin in first two games, due to sprained ankle. Used just four defensemen including Bob Chrystal, who played last half of rookie year as a forward&hellip;Penalty killing by Edgar Laprade and Aldo Guidolin outstanding so far&hellip;Rangers became first team to win on the road, with Danny Lewicki getting the payoff&hellip;Jackie McLeod making a good showing as stand-in for convalescing Wally Hergesheimer on Paul Ronty&rsquo;s right wiug.</p><p>Rangers are rotating only three lines, but have a fourth on call, ready to replace any of the others if they falter. This Bullpen Brigade consists of Laprade, Guidolin and Glen (Rocky) Sonmor&hellip;First Ranger goal scored by Paul Ronty, who wasn&rsquo;t supposed to do a thing without sidekick Hergesheimer&hellip;Muzz Patrick, like King Clancy, ought to be tossed out of the coach&rsquo;s union. Refuses to sit on a mourners&rsquo; bench. Thinks his club is in good condition right now will improve its play as the season goes along.</p><h2>Stand-in Standing Up</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0536/1126062-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="597" height="609"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACKIE McLEOD</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0629/1126055-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="561" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WALLY HERGESHEIMER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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McLeod Becoming a Capable Sub For Ailing Wally Hergesheimer

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>If you think Hurricane Hazel blew a bit, you should have heard King Clancy.</p><p>The Maple Leaf coach, however, was more direct in his target.</p><p>&ldquo;This is the week end I&rsquo;ve been waiting for.&rdquo; He rubbed his hands impatiently. &ldquo;Ha. And double ha. We&rsquo;ll beat the Rangers here tonight and we&rsquo;ll eat those Bruins in Boston tomorrow. (P.S) Rangers won and Leafs tied Boston.)</p><p>&ldquo;Chalk them up as wins right now. They&rsquo;re the two teams we gotta beat if we&rsquo;re not going to lose ground this year. And we&rsquo;re gonna start right off beating them.&rdquo;</p><p>The King did admit, however, that it would not be as easy a task as last year.</p><p>The Rangers, despite the loss of such veterans as Leo Reise, Ed Kullman and Max and Doug Bentley, have strengthened themselves with youth.</p><p>Larry Popein, the rookie who helps pull their average age to a tender 24.8, had never before this year seen a big league match. But coach Muzz Patrick is giving storm warning on him.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got him playing with two other youngsters, Andy Bathgate and Ron Murphy, and I won&rsquo;t be &lsquo;surprised to see them turn out to be our top-scoring line,&rdquo; said Muzz, who brought his Rangers here on the tail of Hazel this a.m.</p><p>Last year&rsquo;s big line was wounded severely when 27-goal scorer Wally Hergesheimer suffered a broken leg which will keep him out until Christmas, But Muzz is satisfied with returnee Jackie McLeod replacing him on Paul Ronty&rsquo;s line.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

King Calls Shots, a Little Too Soon!

<h2><b>He Won&rsquo;t Quit</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>ill Mosienko, who decided against retirement by coming back to the Chicago Black Hawks last week is currently in second place among the all-time scorers. He has a total of 246 goals going into the current campaign, one more than Ted Lindsay.</p><h2><b>Two Shutouts</b></h2><p>Only two slrutouts were recorded in the first 14 NHL games this year. Terry Sawchuk, the league&rsquo;s top goose-egg artist got the first as Detroit blanked New York, 4-0, October 9 and Canadiens&rsquo; Jacques Plante the other in a 3-0 triumph over Chicago</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON WED. A.M. OCT. 20</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01157/1126194-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="598" height="180"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES ENDING OCTOBER 17th, 1954</h3><p>Mon. Oct. 11&mdash;Canadien 2 at Boston 2</p><p>Wed. Oct. 13&mdash;Detroit 3 at Canadiens 2</p><p>Thurs. Oct. 14&mdash;Rangers 3 at Boston 5</p><p>Fri. Oct. 15&mdash;Canadiens 3 at Chicago 0</p><p>Sat. Oct. 16&mdash;Canadiens 3 at Detroit 1</p><p>Sat Oct. 16&mdash;Rangers 4 at Toronto 2</p><p>Sun. Oct. 17&mdash;Toronto 1 at Boston 1</p><p>Sun. Oct. 17&mdash;Detroit 5 at Chicago 2</p><h3>SCHEDULED GAMES</h3><p>Wed. Oct. 20&mdash;Boston at Rangers</p><p>Thurs. Oct. 21&mdash;Toronto at Canadiens</p><p>Thurs. Oct. 21&mdash;Boston at Detroit</p><p>Sat. Oct. 23&mdash;Rangers at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Oct. 23&mdash;Boston at Toronto</p><p>Sat. Oct. 23&mdash;Chicago at Detroit</p><p>Sun. Oct. 24&mdash;Canadiens at Rangers</p><h3>MONDAY, OCTOBER 11 Canadiens 2 at Boston 2</h3><p><b>MONTREAL&mdash;</b>Coal: Plante; defense: Johnson,. Bouchard, Harvey, Macpherson, St. Laurent; forwards: Litzenberger, MacKay, Geoffrion. Curry, Richard, Moore, Olmstead, Meger, Mosdell, Beli-veau, Leclair, Masnick.</p><p><b>Boston&mdash;</b> Goal: Henry; defense: Flaman, Armstrong, Godfrey, Laycoe, Quackenbush: forwards: Sanford, Ferguson, Chevrefils, Schmidt, McKenney, Bodnar, Mohns, Costello, Klukay, Gardner, Mackell.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02137/1126187-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="604" height="462"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13 Detroit 3 nt Canndiens 2</h3><p><b>Detroit&mdash;</b> Goal, Sawchuk; defense, Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Woit, Allen; forwards, Delvecchio, Howe Lindsay Leswick, Prystal, Pavelich, Skov, Reibel, Wilson, Dineen, Poile, Bonin.</p><p><b>Canadiens&mdash;</b> Goal, Plante; defense, Harvey, MacPherson, Bouchard, Johnson, St. Laurent; forwards, Mosdell, Litzenberger, Mackay, Leclair, Richard, Olmstead, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Moore, Masnick, Curry, Meger.</p><p><b>Referee&mdash;</b> Bill Chadwick; linesmen, Doug Davies, Scottv Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03106/1126180-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="598" height="416"></div><h3>THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, Rangers 3 at Boston 5</h3><p><b>New York&mdash;</b> Goal, Worsley; defense, Howell, Evans, Stanley, Chrystal; forwards, Ronty, Prentice, McLeod, Popein, Bathgate, Murphy, Raleigh, Laprade, Mickoski, Guidolin, Somnor, C. Henry, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Boston&mdash;</b> Goal, J. Henry; defense, Flaman, Quackenbush, Armstrong, Godfrey, Laycoe; forwards, Mackell, LaBine, McKenney, Gardner, Sandford, Ferguson, Schmidt, Bodnar, Mohns, Costello, Klukay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0492/1126173-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="590" height="514"></div><h3>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15 Canadiens 3 at Chicago 0</h3><p><b>Canadiens&mdash;</b> Goal, Plante; defense, Harvey, MacPherson, Johnson, St. Laurent, Bouchard; forwards, Richard, Leclair, Olmstead, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Curry, Mackay, Moore, Litzenberger, Meger, Masnick, Mosdell.</p><p><b>Chicago&mdash;</b> Goal, Rollins; defense, Gadsby, Hollingworth, Mortson, Dewsbury, Martin; forwards, Toppazzini, McCormack, Timgren, Sullivan, Conaoher, Jankowski, Hassard, Gamble, Davis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0575/1126166-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="594" height="356"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCTOBRE 16 New York 4 at Toronto 2</h3><p><b>New York&mdash;</b> Goal: Worsley; defense: Evans, Howell, Stanley, Chrystal, Irwin; forwards: Raleigh, Lewicki, Mickoski, Ronty, Prentice, McLeod, Popein, Murphy, Bathgate, Laprade, Guidolin, Sonmor, Henry.</p><p><b>Toronto&mdash;</b> Goal: Lumley; defence: Thomson, Morrison, Boivin, Bolton, Horton; forwards: Kennedy, Smith, Creighton, Sloan, Watson, Armstrong, Nesterenko, Bailey, Cullen, Stewart, Migay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0667/1126159-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="586" height="568"></div><h3>Canadiens 3 at Detroit 1</h3><p><b>Canadiens&mdash;</b> Goal: Plante; defense: Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent, MacPherson; forwards: Beliveau, Moors, Geoffrion, Curry, Leclair, Richard, Mackay, Olmstead, Litzenberger, Mosdell, Meger, Masnick.</p><p><b>Detroit&mdash;</b> Goal: Sawchuck; defense: Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Woit; forwards: Skov, Pavelich, Leswick, Delvecchio, Howe, Lindsay, Prystai, Wilson, Dineen. Reibel, Poile, Bonin.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0759/1126152-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="588" height="614"></div><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17 Detroit 5 at Chicago 3</h3><p><b>Detroit&mdash;</b> Goal: Sawchuck; denfse: Kelly, Woit. Goldham, Pronovost; forwards: Lindsay, Delvecchio, Howe, Leswick, Prystal, Pavelich, Skov, Reibel, Wilson, Dineen, Poile, Bonin.</p><p><b>Chicago&mdash;</b> Goal: Rollins; defense: Hollingworth, Ga-bsby, Dewsbury, Mortson, Martin; forwards: Toppazzini, McCormack, Timgren, Sullivan, Conacher, Jankowski, McIntyre, Hassard, Gamble, Mosienko, Davis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0854/1126145-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="590" height="536"></div><h3>Toronto 1 at Boston 1</h3><p><b>Boston&mdash;</b> Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Bolton, oBivln, Morrison, Horton; forwards Smith, Kennedy, Watson, G. Armstrong, Sloan, Creighton, Stewart, Migay, Nesterenko, Bailey, Cullen.</p><p><b>Boston&mdash;</b> Goal: Henry; defense: Quackenbush, Flamen, R. Armstrong, Godfrey; forwards Mackell, Labine, McKenny, Sandford, Gardner, Ferguson, Costello, Schmidt, Mohns, Klukay, Bodnar, Laycoe.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0954/1126138-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="592" height="442"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><p><b>(Including games of Sun., Oct. 17)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1049/1126131-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="590" height="2638"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORD</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1138/1126124-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="586" height="182"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1216/1126117-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="584" height="160"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-01

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p><b>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>It isn&rsquo;t very often that a bonafide rookie is named player of the week in the second week of action in the National Hockey League but that&rsquo;s what, happened this week with Don McKenney, the kid from Barrie, now performing in sensational fashion for the Boston Bruins.</b></p><p><b>How does he rate the honor?</b></p><p><b>Well, consider his achievements in the first full week of play. In the Bruins first four games, they won one, tied two and lost one and young McKenney had a hand in three of those games. He has scored 4 goals at this early date and the one he drove into the nets Sunday night here in Boston against the Toronto Maple Leafs came with Sugar Jim Henry out of the nets and gave the Bruins a last minute 1-1 tie. He scored too, just as the buzzer went ending the game and that one was ruled out by the referee.</b></p><p><b>In the Bruins only win&mdash;a 5-3 triumph over the Rangers, McKenney banged home a pair of goals. His first pulled the Bruins back into the game after they had gone behind 3-2 and his second put them ahead to stay.</b></p><p><b>He scored his first goal in the NHL on October 11 against the Montreal Canadiens as the Bruins held Hie Montrealers to a 2-2 tie. So in the first four games he has come up with four goals&hellip;not bad for a first year man.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01172/1126249-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Conn Smythe,</b> managing director of the Toronto Maple Leafs has a smile and a cheque for Marilyn Bell, the youthful conqueror of Lake Ontario at a recent ceremony held at Maple Leaf Gardens. And Marilyn&rsquo;s coach, Gus Ryder, behind Smythe, wasn&rsquo;t forgotten either. He was presented with a 1954 Oldsmobile.</figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;</p><p>Even the late Robert Ripley wouldn&rsquo;t have believed it, but the vastly revamped Black Hawks have skated into the new National Hockey League campaign with no less than half a dozen forwards who are potential scorers of 20 goals or more. It is their efforts that will spell Chicago&rsquo;s fate this season.</p><p>And who are the six we so brazenly suggest will have such a large batch of success? As this is being written, they compose the team&rsquo;s top two offensive lines&mdash;Jack &ldquo;Moose&rdquo; McIntyre, George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan and Ike Hildebrand and Pete Conacher, Larry Wilson and Lou Jankowski.</p><p>All have shown they know how to scamper through enemy defenses and have expressed willingness to contribute that extra bit of eagerness to win which Manager Tommy Ivan and Coach Frank Eddolls maintain will have to come from all of their players to lift the club into title and playoff contention.</p><p>McIntyre, as strong and bold a skater as can be found nowadays, might have made the grade last year had he been secured from Hershey&rsquo;s American League entry sooner. As it turned out, he was a standout in 23 Chicago games as he collected eight goals as a breakaway specialist.</p><p>Proof that he wholeheartedly enjoyed his return to the NHL (he was with Boston for two seasons earlier) is the fact that big &ldquo;Moose&rdquo; achieved a better scoring average as a Hawk than he did earlier in the 1953-54 schedule with the Bears when he nabbed 15 goals in 44 contests.</p><h2><b>Impressive Record</b></h2><p>Sullivan has joined Chicago with undoubtedly the most impressive minor league record of any player to make the squad in many years. Also a Bruin castoff, he established a new AHL scoring mark last year when he thundered across league rinks for 30 goals, 89 assists and 119 points.</p><p>Hawk brass will be jubilant If he can amass half of such a total this season and their confidence in his ability is shown in the $25,000 they shelled out to acquire his services from Hershey. As a constant digger who&rsquo;ll go in after anyone, he&rsquo;s a sure bet to be a favorite of the fans.</p><p>Like McIntyre, Ike Hildebrand too might have done better with Chicago last year under revised circumstances, however, he had the misfortune to suffer a broken leg in Toroto just after he had been purchased from the Rangers The break has now mended completely and he&rsquo;s out after a good year again.</p><p>Ike&rsquo;s background is similar to that of another right winger New York chose to keep&mdash;Wally Hergesheimer. Both accounted for 30 goals or more in three minor league seasons each with Ike pacing the old US loop with 42 in 195051 while a member of the Kansas City Pla-Mors.</p><p>He was tops in the AHL with Cleveland in 1952-53 when he scored 38 times. Both players are also 27, 5 feet, 8 inches in height and 155 in the poundage department. If they have any differences, ft would be that Hildebrand is a bit more fiery and inclined to give as much as take.</p><p>Pete Conacher came closer to the 20 goal set than any other Chicagoan last season when he hit for 19 in what was his first full tour in the big time. Charley&rsquo;s son has exhibited the worthy ability of being able to absorb improvement fast and he&rsquo;ll no doubt thus be even better in 1954-55.</p><p>There was some speculation that Boston would be willing to part with veteran rearguard Bill Quackenbush, many times an NHL All-Star, in exchange for young Pete, but Hawk officials apparently gave little thought to the idea due to the lengthy fine future Conacher appears to have ahead.</p><p>Although he got only nine goals last year, Larry Wilson aided on 33 others to emerge Chicago&rsquo;s top scorer in his first season with the club. After being dispersed to the Hawks for cash by a Detroit squad that look upon his brother, John, as a better bet, Larry promptly disproved the theory.</p><p>His scoring spurt in 1953-54 was quite a few steps in front of John&rsquo;s output of 34 points. In much, the same manner as Conacher, Larry figures to improve this season and 20 goals may, therefore, not be too far from his reach. He is a constant charger and willing workman.</p><p>If he can shake what appears to have become a habit of starting slow, Lou Jankowski will play an Important part in any success of the Black Hawks this season. Secured from the Red Wings in the same deal with Wilson, he had only two goals in the first half of last season, but finished with a respectable 15.</p><p>It was this sudden reversal of form that prompted the Chicago front office to remove Lou from the long list of expendables and classify him as the most improved member of the team at the end of the season. Playing with Conacher and Wilson, he will have everything in his favor.</p><p>It there is anything unfortunate about this hopeful sextet, it&rsquo;s that they are assigned to two lines together. This may mean that Sullivan and Wilson will be so busy assisting these four wingmen that their personal goal-getting efforts will have to take a back seat.</p><p>Should this be the case, there will still be such as jarrin&rsquo; Jerry Toppazzini and Dick Gamble, to mention just two, who should take up the slack. Jerry, who&rsquo;ll volunteer to play any position and has. bagged Chicago&rsquo;s first marker of the season in the opener at Montreal October 7.</p><p>Gamble, acquired from Montreal in a straight trade for defenseman Bill Shvetz just after that inaugural game, has been out of the NHL limelight most of the time for the past year, but at 25 still has a good future ahead. He tallied 23 times as a freshman winger with the Habs in 1951-52.</p><h2><b>Smythe Smiles At Swimmer</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

f0010-01

Who Called Hawks Lowly? Guess Again

<h2><b>He Carries The Mail</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>F</span>red Glover isn&rsquo;t wasting anytime in the young AHL season. Wednesday, Oct. 13, in Springfield he pounded home a pair, the latter with only seconds remaining to play, to break up a deadlock as the Cleveland Barons edged past the Springfield Indians. 6-5. It was the AHL champions&rsquo;&rsquo; first victory after a bad start of two straight losses.</p><h2><b>Off To A Good Start</b></h2><p>Rookie Hank Bassen, playing his second game in the Buffalo nets, proved that he is as adept at keeping rubber out as his team-mates are nt putting it in. He blanked the Providence Beds, 8-0, Thursday, Oct. 14. Bassen is the spare goal-keeper for the NHL Chicago Black Hawks, currently on loan to the Buffalo club.</p><h2><b>Helped&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01171/1126371-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="574" height="902"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ED SLOWINSKI</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(Standing as of Monday A.M., Oct 18)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02136/1126364-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="594" height="238"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13 Pittsburgh 2 at Hershey 3</h3><p><b>HERSHEY&mdash;</b> A freak goal in overtime by Skip Teal, whose shot slid slowly into ths net after deflecting off a Pittsburgh defenseman&rsquo;s leg, gave Hershey Bears a 3-2 victory over the Hornets.</p><p>Defenceman Jack Price was the goat on the play after setting up Bob Solinger for Pittsburgh&rsquo;s tying goal in the third period. Bob Sabourin was the other Hornet marksman while Norm Corcoran and Duno Fisher tallied the remaining Hershey markers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03114/1126357-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="598" height="820"></div><h3>THURSDAY, OCT. 14 Buffalo 8 at Providence 0</h3><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Rookie Hank Baspen registered a shutout in his second American Hockey League game as Buffalo Bisons defeated Providence Reds 8-0.</p><p>Ed Slowinski and Gordon Pennell paced the Bison attack with two goals each. Ken Hayden, Gaye Stewart, Steve Wochy and Charley Blair scored the others.</p><p>Buffalo led 1-0 at ths end of the first, scored three in the second and four in the last period to chalk a 2-1 record for the young season.</p><p>Bassen made several fine saves, particularly in the first when the Reds swarmed around him as they went all out on penalty breaks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0486/1126350-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="592" height="766"></div><h3>Cleveland 6 at Springfield 5</h3><p><b>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;</b> Fred Glover&rsquo;s second goal of the game with less than two minutes left gave Cleveland Barons a 6-5 victory over Springfield Indians for the American Hockey League cham-pion&rsquo;s first victory of the season after two defeats.</p><p>Eddie Olson, Cal Stearns, Bill Ford and Jack Gordon were the other Cleveland marksmen. Walt Atanas scored twice for the losers, whose other tallies were netted by Bob McCord, Doug McMurdy and Ross Lowe.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0572/1126343-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="586" height="925"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCT. 16 Cleveland 2 at Pittsburgh 2</h3><p><b>PITTSBURGH&mdash;</b> Ray Gariepy scored with lest than two minutes left in regulation time to give Pittsburgh Hornets a 2-2 tie with Cleveland Barons.</p><p>Fred Glover had scored in each of the first two periods to give the Barons a 2-0 lead before Frank Mathers got the first Pittsburgh goal midway in the third.</p><p>The overtime period was scoreless.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0856/1126336-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="592" height="730"></div><h3>Buffalo 1 at Springfield 5</h3><p><b>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;</b> Graham Hastings and Jim Anderson each scored two goals as Springfield Indians handed Buffalo Bisons a 5-1 defeat, their first of the American Hockey League season, before a crowd of 4,500, here.</p><p>The Indians got all their goals, one in the first, three in the second and one in the third, before Sam Bettio robbed goalie Gordie Bell of a shutout. The other Springfield goal was scored by Ed Palamar.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0952/1126329-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="592" height="734"></div><p>HERSHEY&mdash;A pair of quick goals by Skip Teal and Stan Parker in the middle of the third period gave Hershey Bears a 3-1 victory over Providence Reds.</p><p>Arnie Kullman gave the Beears a lead in the first period when he sidestepped defenceman Andy Branigan and beat goalie Charlie Hodges.</p><p>Providence tied the score in the second period, Bill Folk rifling home a screened shot.</p><p>Teal scored a screened shot at 10.05 of the third period and a minute and two seconds later Teal passed out from behind the net to Parker who deflected the puck in.</p><p>Hodges was pulled from the Providence nets in the final minute even though the Reds were trailing by two goals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1045/1126322-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="584" height="520"></div><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17 Springfield 2 nt Providence 5</h3><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;Rookie Charlie Hodges played a standout game in goal as the Providence Reds defeated the Springfield Indians 5-2.</p><p>The Reds held a 2-1 advantage In the first period and then pulled way by scoring another goal in the second stanza and two more in the finale.</p><p>They were placed by the line of Pete Kapusta, Chuck Scherza and Al Baccari. Each contributed one tally. Zellio Toppazzini and Jack Stoddard. Each contributed one tally. Zelllo Toppazzini and Jack Stoddard netted the other Providence goals, while ross lowe and Jim Anderson scored for the Indians.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1136/1126315-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="592" height="761"></div><h3>Cleveland 2 at Buffalo 5</h3><p>BUFFALO&mdash;Buffalo Bisons skated to a 6-2 American Hockey League victory over Cleveland Barons in Memorial Auditorium before a crowd of 9,987, largest here in a half-dozen years.</p><p>The teams played scoreless close checking hockey in the first period. In the second each scored two goals, Dusty Blair and Sam Bettio for Buffalo, and Chuck Blair, Dusty&rsquo;s brother and Fred Glover for Cleveland.</p><p>The Bisons added three more by Ed Slowinski, Ken Hayden and Joe Lund In the third, while goalie Hank Bassen held the Barons scorless. He made 17 saves in the final period.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1414/1126308-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="600" height="632"></div><h2><b>Twice in a Losing Cause</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0666/1126301-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="1132" height="1688"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WALT ATANAS</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;In Shutout</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0758/1126294-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="590" height="608"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE PENNELL</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Sniper</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1325/1126287-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="586" height="914"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRED GLOVER</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1235/1126280-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="590" height="392"></div><p>Most Goals&mdash;Ed. Slowinski, Buffalo, 6.</p><p>Most assists&mdash;Graham Hastings, Springfield and Zellio Toppazzini, Providence, 6 each.</p><p>Most penalties by a player&mdash;Camille Bedard, Providence, 16 minutes.</p><p>Most penalties by a club&mdash;Cleveland, 52 minutes..</p><p>Best Goalie&mdash;John Henderson, Hershey, 3 games, 4 goals, 1.33.</p><p>Most Shutouts&mdash;Hank Bassen, Buffalo, 1.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0011-01

AMERICAN LEAGUE

<p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Ed Kryzanowski, 29-year-old defenseman from Fort Francis, Ont., is home again at last, a fact that will cause much rejoicing among fans who follow the fortunes of the Hershey Bears.</p><p>On the eve of the American Hockey League season Kryzanowski returned to the club with which he originally had made his professional debute in 1948-49, in a deal which saw Andy Branigan sent to the Providence Reds.</p><p>He also played part of the 1949-50 season with the Bears before joining the National Hockey League Boston Brujns&rsquo; rearguard brigade.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0647/1126461-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="305" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Kryzanowski</b></figcaption></div><p>Unlike many a defenseman, Ed spends very little of his working time in the penalty box. His highest penalty box total time was 33 minutes, served while with the Bruins in 1951-52, a mere dash in the bucket by ordinary standards.</p><p>From Boston he went to Providence, where he appeared in 70 games with the Reds, collecting two goals and 14 assists.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-06

Ed Kryzanowski Rejoins Bears

<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>The Montreal Canadiens have loaned a brilliant young net-minder to the Rhode Island Reds. He is 21-year-old old Charlie Hodge.</p><p>Hodge, who hails from Lachine, just outside of Montreal played with Cincinati in the Amateur League last season. He Was the leader in shutouts, had the best goals allowed record and was selected as goalie on the league&rsquo;s all-star team.</p><p>Hodge saw service in a few games last season for the Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League. Previous to playing at Cincinati, Hodge played goal for the Montreal Canadien Juniors in the Quebec Junior Hockey League.</p><p>With the Canadien Jrs. Hodge had the finest goals allowed record in the history of the league and he again won anl allstar team berth.</p><p>The loan of Hodge is on a 24-hour recall basis. The arrangements for the loan of Hodge were made by a couple of brothers, Terry Reardon, general manager of the Reds and Kenny Reardon, a high executive of the Montreal Canadien organization. Hodge will report to the Reds at once.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Reds Acquire Hodge on Loan

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Murray Henderson, who blended a mixture of veterans and rookies into a Calder Cup challenger last season, has done it again.</p><p>This year, thanks to a couple of David Harum deals engineered by Ll-oyd S. Blinco, Bears&rsquo; general manager, and another crop of Harold Cotton&rsquo;s future Boston Bruins, Henderson has come up with what looks like another playoff contender.</p><p>If you don&rsquo;t believe it&rsquo;s so, just look at Bun Cook&rsquo;s Cleveland Barons. The defending Calder Cup champions came to Chocolatetown to help the Bears lift the American Hockey League curtain, confident they&rsquo;d be able to pick up where they left off in last year&rsquo;s play-offs, only to go away licking their wounds. The Bears blasted the Barons and Emile &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; Francis, in particular, 6-1.</p><p>The railbirds at Hershey Sports Arena wondered whether Henderson would be able to produce another winner, what with such potent scorers as George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan, Lome Ferguson and Don McKenney wearing National Lea-gue livery. One game doesn&rsquo;t make a season, of course, but judging from the spirit and enthusiasm displayed by the 1954-55 Bears, Henderson has put his best foot forward.</p><h2><b>Manipulator</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0746/1126506-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="554" height="866"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MURRAY HENDERSON</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Full Member</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0840/1126499-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="548" height="558"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DUNC FISHER</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Admirable Mixture</b></h3><p>Six newcomers are figuring heavily in Henderson&rsquo;s plans, including a quartet of kids who only turned pro this Fall, but Murray has combined the old with the new in admirable fashion. Of the rookies, Don Cherry, rugged defenseman, late of the Barrie Flyers, has already made Hershey fans forget the rough and ready tactics of Ray Gariepy, who was traded away.</p><p>Up front, youngsters like Lionel Heinrich, down from the Humboldt Indians; Fred Pletsch, formerly of the Stratford Seniors, and Stan Parker, of the Quebec Frontenacs, are doing a nice job of filling the boots vacated by last season&rsquo;s stars.</p><p>General Manager Blinco, after huddles with Henderson, further enhanced the Bears&rsquo; chances of becoming a flag contender when he negotiated trades which brought Ed Kryzanowski, Dune Fisher and Obie O&rsquo;Brien into the Hershey family.</p><p>Kryzanowski, a defenseman who can also perform on the forward line if occasion demands, was obtained from the Providence Reds in exchange for Andy Branigan, Hershey rearguard since 1946-47.</p><p>In acquiring title to Fisher and O&rsquo;Brien, who have been playing with the Bears on loan from the Bruins for several seasons, Blinco gave up Ray Gariepy to Boston. Gariepy was, in turn, sent to Toronto for John Henderson, 21-year-old goaltender, who is being groomed as the heir apparent to Jim Henry&rsquo;s cage job with the Bruins.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0933/1126492-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="270" height="394"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Arnie Kullman</b></figcaption></div><p>Henderson, a 6.3 cage cop, is sharing the net minding chores with Gordie Henry, who has handled the Hershey job all by himself since 1946-47.</p><p>With so many new faces, Henderson has only one of last year&rsquo;s high scoring lines intact. Arnie Kullman, the junior sized centre who plays a man&rsquo;s sized game, is again acting as play-maker for Obie O&rsquo;Brien and Norm Corcoran. This combo accounted for 81 goals last year, with Kullman getting 40 himself.</p><p>No. 2 centre is Gordie Wilson, the big skater from Port Arthur. Sidelined most of last season with a knee injury, Gordie has been pronounced physically fit and he may, in the final analysis, be the guy to fill Sullivan&rsquo;s big shoes.</p><p>Skip Teal, sophomore pivot man, who came into his own in the Calder Cup play-offs, is centering the third line.</p><p>In addition to Kryzanowski and rookie Cherry on defense, Henderson himself is taking a regular turn on the blue line. Also, he has Arnott Whitney and Ralph Willis, sophomore rearguards, ready for duty.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-07

Henderson Hits Jackpot Again, Fashions A Prospective Winner

<h2><b>Scoring Leaders</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>J</span>ohn Buryk and Franco Horvath, both of Edmonton Flyers, are hard at it in the desperate strugle to jockey for an early lead in the point-getting race. Bucky&rsquo;s has tallied one seal and assisted in four, while Horvath, a late signer with the Flyers, built his total on the same hystem.</p><h2><b>First Tie Game</b></h2><p>Calgary Stampeders and New Westminster Royals are the first teams this season to engage in a deadlocked contest, battling to a 4-1 tie at New Westminster. The Royals are currently second in the standings, one point behind Vancouver Canucks. The Stamps are last, three point off the pace.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDINGS MONDAY A.M., OCT. 11</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01190/1126652-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="600" height="186"></div><h3>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S RESULTS</h3><p><b>Tuesday, 5</b></p><p>Victoria 3 at Vancouver 5</p><p>Saskatoon 3 at Edmonton 5</p><p><b>Wednesday. 6</b></p><p>Calgary 2 at Victoria 3</p><p>Vancouver 2 at New West. 3</p><p><b>Friday, 8</b></p><p>Calgary 0 at Vancouver 3</p><p><b>Saturday. 9</b></p><p>Calgary 4 at New West. 4</p><p>Edmonton 2 at Saskatoon 4</p><h3>TUESDAY, OCT. 5 Victoria 3 at Vancouver 5</h3><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;Condition pays off, a fact discovered by Victoria to their Borrow here as Canucks, down 2-0 in the early part of the game, came back strong to stop the Cougars 5-3.</p><p>Still in obvious need of some strength along the defense the Victorians turned on the steam all the way, counting goals by Kilburn and Keating, and Andy Hebenton.</p><p>But the Canucks took quick advantage of a momentary lapse and Harry Dick, Bill Chalmers, Skip McKay, Doug Brown and Fred Brown slipped the puck past the chagrined Marcel Pelletier to wrap it up.</p><p>Victoria: Goal, Pelletier; defense, Clupe, Keating, Davidson, Bucyk; forwards, Hebentson, Achtymichuk, Anderson, Kilburn, Brown, Kuzma, Reay, Marquess, Wall, Macauley.</p><p>Vancouver: Goal, Stevenson: defense, Reeve, Houghton, Dick. Landen; forwards, Jeffrey, Dea, Kassian, Brown, Kerr, McCullough, Cyr, McCreary, Adam, Kaiser, Sweeney, McKay, Chalmers.</p><p>Referee: Eddie Powers; linesman: Gordon Hamilton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02156/1126645-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="608" height="570"></div><h3>Saskatoon 3 at Edmonton 5</h3><p>EDMONTON&mdash;Paced by the two-goal effort of Hugh Coflin, Edmonton Flyers jolted Saskatoon Quakers here, 5-3.</p><p>Bronco Norvath, Ed Stankiewicz and Vic Stasiuk potted the other Flyer goals, while Holdaway, Lynn and Wilkie did their best for the visitors.</p><p>Saskatoon: Goal, B. Bentley; defense, Milford, Parker, Anderson, Ross; forwards, Kukulowicz, Kooussen, Howe, Senick, Kilkie, Lynn, Kaleta, Robertson, Holdaway, D. Bentley..</p><p>Edmonton: Goal, Hall; defense, Hrymnak, Zeidel, Coflin, Arbour, Zeniuk; forwards, Dilman, Horvath, Stasiuk, Sclisizzi, Melnyk, Rawlyk, Stankiewicz, Bucyk, Hannigan.</p><p>Referee, Paul Bozak; linesman. Hank Wilson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04115/1126638-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="600" height="820"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, OCT. 6 Vancouver 2 at New Westminster 3</h3><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;Full of rejuvenation and the urge to win, New Westminster Royals succeeded in edging the powerful Vancouver Canucks 3-2 here in their opening game.</p><p>The Royals struck quickly, Jake Forbes opening the scoring, Gordon Fashoway making it 2-0 minutes later. Rookie Gerry Penner nailed down the victory.</p><p>Dale Sweeney scored both Vancouver tallies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0683/1126631-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="600" height="702"></div><h3>Calgary 2 at Victoria 3</h3><p>VICTORIA&mdash;League-favorites Calgary Stampeders had a humbling at the hands of Victoria Cougars on their own ice as the Stamps broke apart to take a 3-2 edging.</p><p>Doug Anderson put the Cougars ahead in the first period, then Wayne Brown gave them a 2-0 lead in the second frame; when Tony Achtymichuk notched the third goal the Stamps were on their way out, despite a game rally in which Sid Finney blasted &lsquo;home two pucks in a vain effort to catch up.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0774/1126624-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="600" height="579"></div><h3>FRIDAY, OCT. 8 Calgary 0 at Vancouver 3</h3><p><b>VANCOUVER&mdash;</b>Johnny Bower shared the glory with Vancouver Canucks of scoring the WHL&rsquo;s first shutout of the season as the Canucks blanked visiting Calgary 3-0.</p><p>Dale Sweaney and Doug Adam put the puck in the net for the winners.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0868/1126617-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="604" height="506"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCT. 9</h3><p>Calgary 4 at New Westminster 4</p><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;Royals and Calgary Stamps see-sawed to the first tie-game of the young season here, dead-locking 4-4.</p><p>Max McNab, Eddie Dorohoy (with two) and Motto McLean did the honors for the homesters, while Gus Kyle, Ray Barry, Gerry Couture and Fred Hucul kept things level for the visitors.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0965/1126610-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="593" height="612"></div><h3>Edmonton 2 at Saskatoon 4</h3><p>SASKATOON&mdash;Saskatoon Quakers proved unkind hosts, beating Edmonton Flyers 4-2 in a game that went first one way then the other.</p><p>Scorers for the victors were Aggie Kukulowicz with a hat trick and Eldon Kobussen. Vic Stasiuk and John Bucyk ddi their best for the Flyers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1156/1126603-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="604" height="554"></div><h2><b>Shutout</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03133/1126596-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="592" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHNNY BOWER</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Three Coal Man</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1064/1126589-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="558" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SID FINNEY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1251/1126582-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="602" height="1002"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1339/1126575-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="590" height="186"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p>Most Goals: Sid Finney, Cal., Dale Sweaney, Van., Aggie Kukolowicz, Sask., 3.</p><p>Most Assists: John Bucyk, Edm., Bronce Hovarth, Edm., 4.</p><p>Most Game Winning Goals: Six players tied, 1.</p><p>Most First Goal of Game: Seven players tied, 1.</p><p>Most Hat Tricks: Aggie Kukolowics Sask., 1.</p><p>Most Shutouts: John Bower, Van., 1.</p><h3>Most Penalties</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1438/1126568-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="598" height="146"></div><h2><b>Slow Starter</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0596/1126561-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="994" height="972"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GAYLE FIELDER,</b> who won the scoring championship in the Western Hockey League last season, is off to a slow start this season. So far he&rsquo;s amassed only two points, both Assists. But the New Westminster Royals star hopes to get up a better head of steam shortly.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0013-01

WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HAL SIGURDSON</div><p>BRANDON, Man.&mdash;</p><p>When all is said and done, more is usually said.</p><p>The 40th annual meeting of the Manitoba Hockey Association here was no exception as close to 100 delegates, coaches and lobbyists held sway at the Bdandon Flying Club.</p><p>Two familiar faces and two newcomers were voted to the executive. Genial Harry Foxton of Portage la Prairie, was returned for his fifth term as president, while A. E. H. (Abbie) Coo was re-elected secretary-treasurer. It will be Mr. Coo&rsquo;s 37th consecutive year on the MAHA executive.</p><p>One of the few surprises of the meeting found Earl Hamilton of Winnipeg resigning as first vicepresident after four years in office His place will be taken by Dr. E. J. Tyler of Brandon.</p><p>When Dr. Tyler was elected, Bob Olexander, also of Brandon, resigned as second vice-president feeling that one Brandon representative on the executive was sufficient. Bill Johnson of Winnipeg was voted to that position.</p><p>The remainder of the meeting moved on quietly. The few items that threatened to enliven proceedings were derricked and handed over to executive committees to iron out.</p><h2>Sprinted Comment</h2><p>The financial report, however, aroused some spirited comment. Jimmy Dunn, president of the finance comm&icirc;tes, announced that the association had operated at a loss of $1,359.81 and that over the past two years has dropped more than $3,000. The bank balance stands at $6,429.46.</p><p>To combat these losses, Dunn reported that expenditures had been cut and that more cuts have been planned. Team grants have been pared by 20 per cent, executive expenses lopped by $150, and $1,000 less will be given for minor hockey development.</p><p>The poor financial season of the Juniors was given as the main reason for the deficit. However it was pointed out that the juniors were also responsible for there being a bank account in the first place, so they should not be looked upon too harshly. Last year, the only money makers of consequence in the province were the Intermediates.</p><h2>Rental Under Fire</h2><p>The $1,500 ice rental to the Olympic rink for Midget and Juvenille hockey came under fire from sone points, as did the hockey golf tournament expenditures. It was decided in both Instances that the expense was necessary, although plans for cutting them will be discussed.</p><p>Reports were given on each League. The most heartening to the MAHA came from Dr. Tyler, reporting on Intermediate A. &ldquo;Tis the backbone of the association,&rdquo; quoth Dr. Tyler. &ldquo;We won a championship (Dauphin Kings) and did well at the gate, our revenues totalling 2,069.02.&rdquo;</p><p>Mr. Coo, head of the registration board, reported that there were 338 teams registered with the MAHA last season, embracilng 5,433 players.</p><p>Last on the agenda was the appointment of convenors for the various leagues. They are as follows:</p><p>Senior&mdash;Mr. Y. C. Tupper, Winnipeg; Mr. A. Kruger, Pine Falls.</p><p>Intermediate A&mdash;Jack Graham, Dauphin; Bill Winram, Pilot Mound.</p><p>Intermediate B&mdash;Earl Dawson, Rivers; Mike McNulty, Sperling.</p><p>Intermediate C&mdash;To be appointed later.</p><p>Junior A&mdash;Vic Johnson, Winnipeg; Tom Grafton, St. Boniface.</p><p>Junior B&mdash;Wes McAmmond, Neepawa.</p><p>Juvenile A&mdash;George Johnston, Winnipeg.</p><p>Juvenile B&mdash;Dave Jackson, Stonewall.</p><p>Midget, all divisions&mdash;Dave Flye.</p><p>Bantam, all divisions&mdash;Reg Mitchell.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Foxton Heads Manitoba Loop; Financial Report Has Red Tinge

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>HICAGO&mdash;Bill Mosienko, after calling it quits, has decided that playing hockey is more fun than racking up billiard balls in his Winnipeg pool room.</p><p>Wee Willie came back to the Hawks last week and played his first game Sunday night against the Detroit Red Wings. He picked up an assist. &ldquo;Mosie&rdquo; is currently second among the all-time scorers in hockey. He goes into the current campaign with 246 goals, one more than Detroit&rsquo;s Ted Lindsay.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Mosie Decides Not To Retire

<p><b>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>The old Vancouver Forum, long a scene of heated action in the Western Hockey League, may soon be no more.</b></p><p><b>But before nostalgic veterans reach for their crying towels, let one fact be proclaimed&hellip;should the stadium go, it will be replaced by a magnificent new building, capable of seating at least 10,000 fans, with full modem facilities and conveniences.</b></p><p><b>The move to replace the aged building started recently when J.S.C. Moffitt, president of the Pacific National Exhibition, opened negotiations for purchase of a half interest in the WHL franchise held by Van-couver Canucks. The Canucks franchise is owned by Coleman E. Hall.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;If these negotiations are successfully concluded,&rdquo; said Moffitt, &ldquo;it will greatly assist the Pacific National Exhibition in its efforts to build a modem coliseum at Exhibition Park.&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>Moffitt said the Coliseum would cost at least $3,000,</b></p><p><b>Moffitt said the Coliseum would cost at least $3,000,000. The old Vancouver Forum has a seating capacity of only 5,100.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

New $3,000,000 Coliseum May Replace Vancouver Forum

<p><b>QUEBEC CITY, P.Q.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>When does a one-way ticket becomes a return?</b></p><p><b>One hockey player who can answer that question tersely enough is 18-year-old Eddie Dannyluck, who took off from the Quebec Frontenacs bound for home with the avowed intention of never returning to the fold administered by Phil Watson, somewhat noted for his fiery temper.</b></p><p><b>Dannyluck had one strike against him when he left for his Glace Bay, NS, abode. He had already been suspended for refusing to play in a schedulel Quebec Junior Hockey League game against Jonquiere Marquis.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01194/1126755-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="313" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Phil Watson</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Strike two and three followed in rapid succession. Before Dannyluck had a chance to settle down by the hearth, Watson had proclaimed that A: Uuless his errant player returned, he, Watson, would report the matter to the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and B: that he would do his level best to see that Dannyluck was barred from organized hockey&hellip;for life.</b></p><p><b>So good, apparently, did Dannyluck think Watson&rsquo;s chances were of obtaining this end that he returned to the club.</b></p><p><b>Result: no suspension, and no more mention of contract jumping.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0014-01

Life Suspension Threatened, Errant Player Returns To Fold

<div class="byline">By PETER TOMLIN</div><p>NELSON, B. C.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;Prince Charlie&rdquo; Rayner&rsquo;s Nelson Maple Leafs have served notice that they will be a power to be reckoned with this year.</p><p>The Western International Hockey League defending champions showed very well in exhibition games against the Trail Smoke-Eaters. In a game in Trail, they battled the Smokies to a 4-4 saw-off and returned to Nelson the next night to dump Clint Albright&rsquo;s charges 4-1.</p><p>In the next game, Roy Mickulan in the Nelson nets had a shutout going until 19: 46 of the third period when he was beaten by Bobby Kromm from a goal-mouth scramble.</p><p>Fights were the order of the day and there was a steady parade of combatants to the penalty box. Nelson&rsquo;s line of Bud MacDonald, Chuck Henderson and Peter Kinasewich were the best on the ice and the line composed of veterans Don Appleton, Red Koehle and Fritz Koehle showed well in spurts.</p><p>Veteran Bobby Kromm and newcomers Gilles Desrosiers and Ralph Laliberte were the pick of the Trail forwards.</p><p>Both clubs have strengthened defensively with the addition of players. Trail has added three talented huskies in Oliver, Talequin and Ford. The big noise for Nelson is Mickulan in the nets. With Rayner&rsquo;s able coaching, he should be one of the best in the loop. Defensemen Vie Lofvendahl, Don McGregor and White looked very good.</p><p>Little activity has been reported from Spokane where the dark-horse Flyers are hading out.</p><p>The Kimberley Dynamiters are said to be Improved over the team which led the league during the regular season play last year, Defenseman Ted Lebodia seems to be the outstanding newcomer. He and Gordon Andrea give Kimberley just about the hardest hitting defensive combination in the circuit.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Prince Charlie’s Charges Going At Smoking Pace

<h2><b>Double Trouble</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>K</span>ay Powell of Quebec Aces is off to a sensational start this season. So far he&rsquo;s racked up a hat-trick the first three-goal effort against Chicoutimi Sagueneens. Jacques Loeas of Chicoutimi also has a tripledecker. scored against the Shawinigan Fall Cataracts.</p><h2><b>Shutout for Perreault</b></h2><p>Bob Perreault, goal-tender for Shawinigan Falls, has a shutout today, his first of the season, thanks to the efforts of his teammates, with special emphasis on Connie Broden and Dick Wray. The latter two denied Ottawa twine over the weekend, handing the Senators their first defeat of the season, 2-0.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(Standing as of Monday A.M., Oct. 18)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01164/1126880-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="594" height="180"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13 Valleyfield 2 at Quebec 5</h3><p><b>QUEBEC&mdash;</b> Quebec Aces settled themselves more firmly in the QHL lead as they took on the Valleyfield Braves and vanquished them, 5-2, with Jim Uniac supplying a triple to pace the homesters.</p><p>Uniac, a 25-year-old member of the Detroit farm system, was backed by Jim Hay, a defenceman who has played-54 games with the NHL champs, and Bert Giesebrecht.</p><p>Ray Powell picked up four assists and Michel Labadie earned three.</p><p>Pill Needham scored both the visitors&rsquo; go is.</p><p><b>Valleyfield:</b> Goal: Payette; defence: Deslauriers, Ernst, Needham, Collins; forwards: Baugie, Dubuc, Bisaillon, Kwong, Corriveau, Peota, Jones, Blair, Haworth, Cline. Jones, Leclerc.</p><p><b>Quebec:</b> Goal: Gatherum; defence: Tennant, Hay, Crozier, Ehman; forwards: Regan, Johnson, O&rsquo;Grady, Powell, Labadie, Tremblay, Buchanan, Thibault, Uniac, Glesebrecht.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> George Gravel; linesmen: Rene Simard, Rene Langevin.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02132/1126873-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="612" height="710"></div><h3>THURSDAY, OCT. 14 Montreal 1 at Shawinigan 3</h3><p><b>SHAWINIGAN FALLS&mdash;</b>Montreal Royals failed to snap their consistent losing streak as they journeyed to Shawinigan Falls, only to be met by a fusillade of rubber that sent them home the losers by a 3-1 score.</p><p>Playing before a near capacity home crowd, the Cataracts pumped home two goals in the final period to put the visitors on ice, and scored the other early in the game when Bob Turner took a pass from Claude Provost and sank a dead-on shot from 10 feet out. Connie Broden and Dick Wray sewed it up for the Cats. Bobby Frampton saved the Royals from a shutout.</p><p><b>Montreal:</b> Goal: Evans; defense: Rousseau, Shvetz, Roche, Harmon, Mackay; forwards: Blaine, Martan, Frampton, Tessier, Burchell, Burnett, L. Denis, LaPlante, Johnson.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls:</b> Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Leger, Hodgson, Lamirande, Talbot, Hunter; forwards: Wray, Desaulniers, Provost, F. Perreault, Katchur, J. P. Denis, Grosse, Faulkner, Broden, Boisvert.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Roberts; linesmen: Aurele Turgeon, Jean Landry.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03116/1126866-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="602" height="518"></div><h3>Valleyfield 1 at Chicoutimi 7</h3><p>CHICOUTIMI&mdash;Valleyfield Braves came to town with some idea of improving their status at the expense of their hosts, but found the Sagueneens surly Indeed as they pounded in seven goals in rapid-fire order to stun their guests, 7-1.</p><p>Veteran Jacques Locas led the Chicoutimi attack with three goals. Other marksmen were Jimmy Moore, Germain Leger, Georges Roy and Jim Bartlett.</p><p>The Braves could only reply with a single off the stick of Tony Poeta.</p><p><b>Valleyfield:</b> Goal: Payette; defense: Ernst, Deslauriers, Collins, Needham; forwards: Joannette, Corriveau, Dubuc, Bougie, Poeta, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Jones, Leclerc.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi:</b> Goal: Hughes; defense: Glaude, Roy, Taillefer, S. Smrke; forwards: Locas, Dussault, L. Smrke, Moore, Toppall, Bartlett, Dube, Leger, Groleau.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Gravel; linesmen: Demers, Levesque.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0568/1126859-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="604" height="636"></div><h3>FRIDAY, OCT. 15 Quebec 1, at Ottawa 5</h3><p><b>OTTAWA&mdash;</b> Al Kuntz made life miserable for the visiting Quebec Aces, beating Dave Gatherum three times as the Senators whipped the Aces, 5-1.</p><p>The Senators were off to a fast start, with Kuntz connecting on assists by Bobby Copp and Pit Lepine. Minutes later Bep Guidolin put the Ottawans two up and they never looked back. Don Johnson scored the Aces&rsquo; only goal.</p><p><b>QUEBEC:</b> Goal: Gatherum; defence: Hay, Crozier, Tenant, Ehman; forwards: Buchanan, Regan, Uniac, Labadie, O&rsquo;Grady, Tremblay, Giesebrecht, Johnson.</p><p><b>OTTAWA:</b> Goal: Frederick; defence: Copp, Lepine, Arundel, Robertson, Hudson; forwards: Gravelie, Campeau, Johnson, Dunnigan, Clark, Watters, Kuntz, Maloney, Bobenic, Guidolin.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Sibbey Mundey; linesmen: Gordy Pranscke, Ching, McDonald.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0655/1126852-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="598" height="678"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, OCT. 17 Valleyfield 1 at Montreal 4</b></h3><p><b>Montreal&mdash;</b> Three goals in the third period gave Montreal Royals their first victory of the Quebec Hockey League season heer as they rallied to defeat Valleyfield Braves, 4-1.</p><p>Kelly Burnett accounted for two of the homesters&rsquo; tallies while Ray Laplante and Lulu Denis each notched one.</p><p>Jean-Paul Bisaillon opened the peering for the visitors but the lead was an abbreviated one. The Royals tied it up less than four minutes later when Burnett started on his rampage.</p><p>A furious offensive in the third period put paid to any hopes the Braves had of nailing Royals to their own goal-posts.</p><p><b>Valleyfield&mdash;</b>Goal: Payette: defense: Ernst, Deslauriers. ollins, Needham; forwards: Joannette, Bisaillon. Corri-veau, Bougie, Poeta, Kwong, Haworth, Leclerc, Jones.</p><p><b>Montreal&mdash;</b>Goal: Evans; defense: Rousseau, Roche, Harmon. McKay; forwards: Shvetz. Blaine, Martan, Hilde-brand, Frampton, Tessier, Burchell, Burnett, Denis, Laplante.</p><p><b>Referee.</b> Bill Roberts; linesmen: Paul Moreau, Jim Haggerty.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0840/1126845-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="602" height="482"></div><h3>Ottawa 0 at Shawinigan 2</h3><p>SHAWINIGAN FALLS&mdash;Ottawa Senators went down to their first defeat of the current season here when the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts, sparked by Dick Wray and Connie Broden, blanked them 2-0.</p><p>Bob Perreault, Shawinigan Falls goal, tender, flipped out 28 shots in gaining his first shutout of the year. He was well-tried, Red Johnson and Bep Guidoiin really turning on the steam in the last period as the Senators put forth a desperate burst of energy.</p><p>Wray opened the scoring by deflecting Jean Paul Lemirande&rsquo;s shot into the corner of the Ottawa net. After a scoreless middle frame, Broden beat Ray Frederick cleanly to wrap it up.</p><p><b>Ottawa&mdash;</b>Goal: Frederick; defence: Copp, Arundel, Robertson, Hudson, Clark; forwards: Gravelie, Campeau, Johnson, Kuntz, Maloney, Guidolin, Watters, Poland.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls&mdash;</b>Goal: R. Perreault; defence, Leger, Hodgson, Talbot, Lamirande, Turner; forwards: Wray, Desaulniers, Provost, F. Perreault, Denis, Broden, Grosse, Faulkner, Thomson.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Gravel; linesmen: Landry, Turgeon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1034/1126838-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="600" height="386"></div><h3>Quebec 4 at Chicoutimi 3</h3><p>CHICOUTIMI&mdash;Before a. near-capacity crowd of 4,200 at Chicoutimi Coli&lsquo;seum, the Quebec Aces shaded the homedwellers 4-3.</p><p>Ray Powell scored the winning marker, his third goal of the game, late in the third period, and the. best efforts of the Cataracts were frustrated by a tight Quebec defense.</p><p>The league champs took an early lead on Earl Johnson&rsquo;s goal. O&rsquo;Grady and Bucky Buchanan, an ex-Chick assisting. The homesters got one back when Roy beat Dave Gatherum in the dying seconds of the period, but the effort was a vain one.</p><p>The Aces added their tally early in the last period as Powell registered, the locals countering almost at once as Jacques Locas and Germain Leger clicked within a minute to tie it up.</p><p>Powell clinched It for the Aces.</p><p><b>Quebec&mdash;</b>Goal: Gatherum; defense: Hay, Crozier, Tennant, Ehman; forwards: Buchanan, Thibault, Powell, Re-gan, Uniac, Lebadie, O&rsquo;Grady, Tremblay, Glesebrecht, Johnson.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi&mdash;</b>Goal: Hughes; defense: Claude, Taillefer, Roy. S. Smrke, Levesque; forwards: Locas, Dussault. Du-be. L. Smrke, Topoll, Bartlett, Groleau, Leger, Sinnett.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Mundy; linesmen: Boileau, Scullion.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1131/1126831-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="610" height="650"></div><h2>They&rsquo;re Making The Cordage Bulge</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0486/1126824-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="588" height="602"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIM HAY</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0748/1126817-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="600" height="920"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACQUES LOCAS</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0938/1126810-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="582" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY POWELL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0015-01

QUEBEC LEAGUE

<p>CHICOUTIMI, P.Q.&mdash;</p><p>Jimmy Moore, hard-working veteran left winger now attached to Chicoutimi Sagueneens of the Quebec Hockey League, will probably be out of action for at least a month.</p><p>Moore, who started in amateur hockey with Montreal Royals of the Quebec Junior Hockey League, suffered a broken bone in his leg during a clash with Valleyfield Braves Thursday, Oct. 14, in Chicoutimi.</p><p>Driving in hard, Moore collided with Kitoute Joannette of the Braves, who were beaten 7-1 in the game, and both sprawled to the ice.</p><p>But Moore did not arise. He lay there, writhing in agony, and when the club trainer reached him the seriousness of the&rsquo;injury was at once obvious.</p><p>While the injury may put paid to Jimmy&rsquo;s hockey career this season so far as records are concerned, he can look back on an action-filled past. In 1948-49 he played with Dallas Texans of the United States Hockey League, switched the next year to Cincinnati Mohawks of the American loop, and played with them until switched to Chicoutimi in 1952, when he scored nine goals and earned seven assists.</p><p>The following year saw him In the livery of the Montreal Royals, but in the 1958-54 season he returned again to the Sags.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Jim Moore Breaks Leg In Ice-Lane Collision

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Maritime hockey clubs, having shed their last grasp on major hockey, are now building the Allan Cup fences.</p><p>The Atlantic Coast League now has Charlottetown Islanders in as a replacement for Saint John Beavers and other clubs are scrambling for leagues.</p><p>Halifax Atlantics folded last spring and made the announcement stick. Since then a new group has attempted to 1&mdash;Join the Atlantic Coast League and 2&mdash;join the old Antigonish-Pitou-Colchester League.</p><p>Hopes for a berth in the Atlantic Coast League folded when the other clubs, looking at the long hop, decided Halifax must pay every visiting club 20 cents a head for each and every Halifax game. Halifax couldn&rsquo;t operate under those terms. Neither could the proposed team get a reduction from the others.</p><p>Application was made to the old APC League for a franchise. The circuit cast approving eyes on the Halifax bid. At the time of writing Halifax officials were considering the matter, making tentative player plans if they decide to carry through and, at the same time, casting eyes at other setups which might develop at the last moment.</p><p>There was fun in Moncton, too; fun and confusion. The team was in, and then out. General manager Jimmy McDonald assembled what looked like a very strong team and was almost stuck with it. He tried to interest Dartmouth backers and had a few but not enough. Then, as Dartmouth interest dipped, Moncton came in again, this time to stick.</p><p>Not only will the Moncton club operate again but it might have the best team in the Maritimes. Standouts will be playing coach Douglas (Dugger) McNeil, who piloted Halifax Atlantics to the Alexander Cup In the 19 52-53 and 1953-54 seasons, and Bert Hirschfeld.</p><p>They were, starry juniors with Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s some years ago. Since then Hirschfeld has seen service with the Memorial Cup winning Montreal Royals, Montreal (NHL) Canadiens, Cincinnati and Providence. It was from the last-named club that Moncton purchased his contract.</p><p>In between his junior days and his exploits as a winning pilot in Alexander Cup play, McNeil served several terms with the senior Montreal Royals and briefly in the Western Canada League.</p><p>The Moncton club will also have goalie Nick Pidsodny, long time with Sydney Millionaires and last season with old friend Murph Chamberlain at Windsor, Ont.</p><h2><b>Moncton Menaces</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02120/1126973-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="588" height="603"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERT HIRSCHFELD</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0394/1126966-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="594" height="612"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DUGGER McNEIL</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Other Clubs Stronge</b></h2><p>Others clubs will be strong. In fact it looks like the strongest Maritime league for the winter, unless the APC with a strong Halifax entry branch out.</p><p>Whatever happens the major hockey setup has ended, with many bills still to be paid. It was exciting while it lasted but too costly. Those jaunts to Charlottetown during winter weather ran up the bills. In fact Sydney and Glace Bay flatly refused to have anything to do with a Charlottetown entry in the future and it was mostly because of their determination that the Big Four called a halt.</p><p>What happens in Cape Breton, long a scene of senior and then major hockey, remains to be seen but it looks as if the junior brand will have to fill the bill this season but as time passes and no definite moves are made hockey people write them off.</p><p>One Cape Breton player has been well placed. Big Hugh Campbell, a standout player both as a junior and then a senior, is new playing coach at Charlottetown. Equally adept at forward or defence, and highly rated for his hockey know-how, Campbell is regarded as a &lsquo;catch&rsquo; by Island fans and promoters.</p><p>Halifax Interest will be on the foreign field; at Cleveland where scoring sensation Billy Ford now operates at left wing for the Barons and at Sudbury, Ont., where Roy McMeekin and Carroll Bloom are starring for Max Silverman&rsquo;s Wolves.</p><p>Other Halifax players, such as Bob Bowness and Muckle Hollett, will probably wind up at Moncton, with Doug McPhee going to Fredericton.</p><p>It is hard to imagine Cape Breton out of the senior picture and the feeling here is that it won&rsquo;t last more than a year. Long-range plans call for a top provincial league in the winter of 1955-56, with Darthmouth thriving from its new link with Halifax via the Angus L. Macdonald bridge and other centres going out in force.</p><p>In the meanwhile Interest is centred in Halifax, which hasn&rsquo;t missed the senior or major picture in many years and probably won&rsquo;t this year, although an entry in the APC League may be a far cry from the turbulent days of the Big Four major setup.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0016-02

Fun, Confusion Reign in Moncton; Maritime Outline Taking Shape

<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, Qua.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

N.H.L. SCHEDULES AVAILABLE FOR FANS

<div class="byline">By LES DALY</div><p>MONTREAL, P.Q.&mdash;</p><p>Anybody who has seen the Quebec junior hockey league in action this year has but one thing to say: &ldquo;Those Canadiens just ain&rsquo;t what they used to be.&rdquo;</p><p>The Baby Habs, who rocketed through the loop last year, suffering only two defeats in regular season play, can&rsquo;t seem to find the formula that made them practically unbeatable. Not that the Habs are on losing streak. It&rsquo;s Just that in winning they haven&rsquo;t looked like the team of yore.</p><p>In their first two games against Trois Rivieres the Habs managed to stagger through to victories both times. But coach Elmer Lach was anything but pleased with his club&rsquo;s performance. They managed a 6-4 victory over Jonquiere and after that one Lach hit the roof.</p><p>&ldquo;Look at that weight chart,&rdquo; he steamed in the dressing room after the game. &ldquo;Look at it and tell me how I can expect those guys (The Habs) to burn up the ice. Every one of them is gaining weight as fast as you can mark it on the chart.&rdquo;</p><p>He ran his finger down the chart, ticking off the pudgy players who were putting on poundage. When he was finished everyone had a tick beside his name.</p><p>&ldquo;Richard (center Henri) is the only one that can afford to gain weight. He needs it. He works out there&rdquo;. The Pocket Rocket, who had rapped in two goals that night, barely managed to tip the scales at 149.</p><p>But the Canadiens on the Whole were a pudgy crew and the extra avoirdupoids they were carrying stuck out all over. They looked slow and had a tough time to keep up with the Jonquiere club.</p><h2>Not Enough</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01135/1127049-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="585" height="936"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HENRI RICHARD</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Much too Much</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02105/1127042-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="579" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ELMER LACH</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>No Nonsense</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0381/1127035-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="597" height="612"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SAM POLLOCK</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Cards Up His Sleeve?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0458/1127028-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="1158" height="1362"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SWEDE PAULSEN</b></figcaption></div><h3>Will Lower Boom</h3><p>Lach threatened to lower the boom on the players who didn&rsquo;t shed weight in a hurry, but as yet he hasn&rsquo;t benched anybody. The Habs lost their first start of the campaign taking a 3-1 drubbing at the hands of their playoff conquerors, the Quebec Frontenacs.</p><p>The Fronts, who are a fast hard-skating club, apparently turned on the speed against the slow-moving Habs and bumped off the Lachmen in a tight battle at Quebec.</p><p>Phil Watson has most of his regular back from last year&rsquo;s squad and as a result has had to do very little shuffling to come up with the tightly-knit club.</p><p>Lach, on the other hand, has lost some good men from the club which swept through the league like Hurricane Hazel. Andre Boucher, Bob McCord, Claude Provost, Gaet Dessureault and Phil Goyette are among the missing and Lach is having a hard time finding replacements to fill their shoes.</p><p>The Baby Habs were without Bernie Vinet for the first three games of the season. Vinet put a higher price tag on his talents than the Canadiens brass did. General-manager Sammy Pollock suspended him, but re-instated him again as soon as the strong-skating left-winger signed on the dotted line. Lach plans to play him on a line with Ron Attwell and rookie sensation Bob Courcy.</p><p>Over at Jonquiere Swede Paulsen, who was shackled with a dismal club last year, appearsto have put together a sharp unit which may surprise a lot of people before the season is over.</p><p>The Marquis surprised the Canadiens in their first appearance at the Forum last week. Three times the Habs took the lead and three times Paulsen&rsquo;s platoon came back to tie it up. The Canadiens finally wrapped up the game with two goals in the final period.</p><h3>Plenty of Royals</h3><p>Paulsen has built his club around a few returning veterans and some good players from the now-defunct junior Royals. Eddie Johntson who guarded the nets for the ill-fated Royals last season, now tends twine for the Marquis. Stan Rodeck. Bob Laforest and team captain Alex Viskelis are all exRoyals now wearing Jonquiere colors.</p><p>Whether Paulsen has the depth to make a real fight of it remains to be seen. He has some good young rookies who might develop this year, in which case the Marquis would become a real power in the league, although their defence and goaltending could stand a little bolstering.</p><p>The Trois Rivieres Flambeaux are, for the uninformed, the club which was formerly called the Reds. From what they&rsquo;ve shown to date the name is different but the club is the same. They dropped two straight to the Canadiens in the season openers and then battled Jonquiere to a 1-1 tie.</p><p>From where we sit it looks like a dog-fight between the Canadiens and the Frontenacs with Jonquiere and Trois Rivieres battling it out from there. The league this year is much stronger all the way round. There won&rsquo;t be any runaway as there was last year unless one of the clubs was playing over their heads in early-season appearances.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-01

Baby Habs Growing Up (And Out); ‘Too Fat Too Fat’ Moans Lach

<p>QUEBEC CITY, PQ&mdash;</p><p>Phil Watson, general manager of the Frontenac, confirmed the signing of a contract of young Walter Richard Bradley, who will be playing with the Quebec Club in the Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; League this coming season. Bradley is an import, having played last year with Fort William Canadiens, junior champions of the Northern Ontario League and Western finalists in the Memorial Cup playdowns against Edmonton Oil Kings.</p><p>According to Watson, Bradley is a top prospect and will play regularly with his club on one of the forward lines. He is a natural centre, but can also play either right or left wing. He was born at Port Arthur, Ont., June 17, 1986, and has two more seasons in junior hockey. Of Irish descent, Bradley tips the beams at 146 lbs and stands five feet, eight inches.</p><p>When his age is taken into consideration, his record with the Fort William Canadiens is quite impressive. When he made his debut with Mickey Hennessey&rsquo;s club in 1952-53, he saw action in 80 games, collecting 13 goals and 19 assists without drawing a single penalty. Last season he was even better and in 36 games, scored 33 goals and contributed 25 assists for a total of 58 points, with only four minor penalties for the entire season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Watson Sees Top Prospect In Newly—Signed Bradley

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.-</p><p>Controversial Al Miller, who helped Sudbury Wolves smash their way into the Allan Cup finals last season, is out of the Sudbury camp and into the Wigwam of the Soo Michigan Indians&hellip;he signed a contract after getting his release from Maxie Silverman, boss of the Wolves&hellip;another Sudbury performer during the Wolves&rsquo; march to the Dominion senior hockey finals, Gordie Heale, has been working out with the Indians but at this writing has not yet obtained his release from Sudbury&hellip;</p><p>Hap Day, general manager of Toronto Maple Leafs, once again has come to the rescue of the Soo Ontario Greyhounds of the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit&hellip;he steered three outstanding ex-Juniors into the Greyhound fold&mdash;Eddie Chadwick, Mike Ratchford and Jack Bionda&hellip;Chadwick, according to Day, had the best training camp record at St. Catharines&hellip;he was spare and standby goalie for the NHL Maple Leafs&hellip;Bionda is only 20, big, husky, bruising and rugged who can score goals although a rearguard&hellip;he starred with the Toronto Marlboros the past three seasons&hellip;last year he scored 16 goals and 19 assists&hellip;he is being groomed to replace Don Johnston who left the Greyhounds suddenly in an unexpected move&hellip;Johnston is set to join the Royal Canadian Mounted Police&hellip;he was one of the top stars in Northern Ontario&hellip;Ratchford worked on the top line for Quebec Frontenacs last season&hellip;he&rsquo;s only 20 and told THE HOCKEY NEWS only a few minutes before I sat down to prepare this column that his one big ambition is to play with Toronto in the NHL&hellip;</p><p>Porcupine Mines Senior Hockey League action this season will have three teams definite with one more a possibility&hellip;Abitibi Eskimos from Iroquois Falls who battled Sudbury Wolves in the Northern Ontario finals last season, are right back in the thick of the fight along with Timmins Hollmacs and South Porcupine Porkies&hellip;Kirkland Lake is the other team which may enter&hellip;at this writing the splendid hockey centre of Kirkland Lake is trying to decide whether to sponsor a senior or junior club&hellip;all good hockey fans in Northern Ontario now hope that the wonderful hockey leaders in that mining community can see their way clear to sponsor both&hellip;Kirkland Lake has won a mighty fine reputation in hockey over the years&hellip;</p><p>Kapuskasing, another rapidly expanding hockey centre in the Northern Ontario hockey firmament, had plans to get into the Porcupine Mines senior loop but unfortunately filed its application a little too late&hellip;the admission of Kapuskasing would have given the league a lot of extra punch and drive&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01142/1127104-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="582" height="1060"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PETE BACKOR</b></figcaption></div><p>Pete Backor. former AHL star and now coach of the Soo Michigan Indians in the NOHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race, has gained a reputation as a &ldquo;fighting coach&rdquo; even before the regular league starts&hellip;in the Lud Bailey series between the two Soos, feelings ran so high a spirited fight broke out in the penalty box involving police, players and excited fans&hellip;some of his Indians were besieged and Backor dashed across the ice, got in a few well-placed punches and showed everyone he is set to fight for as well as with his players this season&hellip;Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty, rival coach, and a former teammate of Backor&rsquo;s with Pittsburgh Hornets, entered the fray in the role of peacemaker, going across the ice to pacify Pete&hellip;it worked as diminutive Johnny and the bigger Pete returned to the other side of the rink almost arm in arm&hellip;How long will that last????</p><p>Roy McMeekin, star netminder with Halifax Atlantics of the Maritimes Major League last season, could easily become the rage of Northern Ontario hockey&hellip;Roy has lined up with Sudbury Wolves and in games so far has been brilliant&hellip;Maxie Silverman, long called The Silver Fox of Northern Ontario Hockey, apparently has struck another nickel mine in McMeekin&hellip;in fact, there&rsquo;s so many ex-Maritimes players with Sudbury and other northern teams this season many fans will begin to feel the sea air in the rinks this year&hellip;I was going to say they would begin to smell the cod and so on, but&hellip;watch out for Carrol Bloom&rsquo;.!!&hellip;that&rsquo;s the cry around the NOHA right now&hellip;Bloom has gained a defense location with Sudbury Wolves and is going to cause a lot of aches and pains by his style of play&hellip;in fact Sudbury may have one of the most bruising rearguard corps in the history of the league&mdash;Gus Gustavsen being another newcomer and a boy that can really hit!!</p><p>Cully Simon is doing a great job as coach of Pembroke Lumber Kings&hellip;the former Detroit Red Wing standout is being counted on to give the wonderful hockey in the city of Pembroke, a strong contender this season in Northern Ontario senior hockey&hellip;Hillary Menard, former junior star with Guelph Biltmores of the OHA Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit and a boy Chicago Black Hawks are watching closely, has impressed Simon&hellip;Bobby Wilson, up from Galt Black Hawks, also has looked good along with Howie Gibbs and Dennis Olson, a couple of Detroit chattels&hellip;</p><p>Two big names in Northern Ontario hockey&mdash;Tatter McClellan and Mauno Kauppi are still holdouts re Sudbury Wolves&hellip;Nick Tomiuk, however, has settled his differences&hellip;</p><p>Rick Albert, a Blind River product, failed to make the grade with Pete Palangio&rsquo;s North Bay Trappers&hellip;Cleveland Barons have a neat working agreement with North Bay thus giving hockey followers in the North&rsquo;s Gateway City something to look forward to in the way of player assistance&hellip;the cycle has players moving from Cleveland to Valleyfield Braves and then to North Bay&hellip;and of course, vice versa as players either impress or fall down&hellip;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a good system for us,&rdquo; commented Pete Palangio, long-time hockey leader in North Bay&hellip;</p><p>Britt Jessup, popular newsman on the North Bay Daily Nugget, has moved out of the sports editor&rsquo;s chair to devote more time to city news&hellip;Rolly Ethier, assistant sports editor under Jessup, is now sports boss!!!&hellip;both very fine fellows along the Northern Ontario sports beat&hellip;congratulations, Roily!!!&hellip;but you&rsquo;ll never keep Britt out of hockey arguments&hellip;lie&rsquo;s too wrapped Up in sports&mdash;especially his beloved North Bay Trappers&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-01

NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0284/1127135-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NORM McATEE</b></figcaption></div><p>TROY, Ohio.&mdash;</p><p>It&rsquo;s going to be hard to recognize Troy&rsquo;s hockey club this season.</p><p>Only three members of the team that finished fifth in the International Hockey League a year ago are back with the Bruins, who have been stocked with promising youngsters from the Detroit Red Wing farm system.</p><p>There&rsquo;s a new coach, too, Nelson (Nellie) Podolsky, 28-year-old veteran from the ranks of the professionals.</p><p>Podolsky, who has replaced Norm McAtee at the helm of the Ohio club, is a left winger who played with Detroit, of the National League, St. Louis and Indianapolis of the American League, Sherbrooke of the Quebec League, Edmonton of the Western League and Omaha of the now-defunct United States League.</p><p>McAtee, who operated at centre ice, served as Bruin coach all three years that club was a member of the IHL. He is a machinist by trade and still holds down a job in Troy.</p><p>Troy fans will have to reacquaint themselves with the members of their team. Fleet little Steve Gaber, a 50-goal man two years ago, and Gordon Buttrey, are two 26-year-old right wingers who are back and the third returnee is 22-year-old Defenseman John Halley.</p><p>Ken Wilson, general manager of Troy who personally selected the most talented young skaters at Detroit&rsquo;s training camp in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., feels that his team will get its biggest boost from the man who will be tending the nets.</p><p>He is none other than Bill Tibbs, spectacular four-time IHL All-Star goalie from Toledo, Tibbs came to Troy in a deal which was supposed to send Rod McElroy, Julius Swick and Goalie Doug Coxon to Toledo, None of this trio, however, now is with Toledo, according to reports.</p><p>Says Wilson: &ldquo;Tibbs will give us something we have lacked throughout our International League career, a consistently steady goal-tender. After all, he&rsquo;s proved himself beyond a doubt to be the best in our circuit.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Bows From Scene</b></h2><h3><b>Young and Eager</b></h3><p>Detroit has supplied Troy with 10 fast and eager young puck-chasers, all fresh out of the juniors. Most promising of these have been 20-year-old Center Joe Zorica from the Hamilton Tigers, and two defensemen, Jack McCarthy, 21, from the Brandon Wheat Kings, and Bob Cowan, 20, from the Edmonton Oil Kings.</p><p>Then there are Wingers Marlin McAlendin, Jack Lindquist, Bill Purvis, Frank Leroux and Ray Kinaswich, Defenseman Lou Dietrich and Centre Max Szturm. All of these are just 20, except Purvis, who is 19, and Szturm, who is just 18.</p><p>Rounding out the Bruin squad is still another newcomer. Centre Cleland Mortson, a 29-goal man with the Barrie Flyers in the Ontario Hockey Association in 1953-54.</p><p>Troy&rsquo;s pre-season practice was conducted in Hobart Arena, home rink of the club in the little Ohio city, located several miles north of Dayton, O. In the lone Bruin exhibition game, the Chatham Maroons of the OHA were taken into camp, 4-3. George Edwards, last year&rsquo;s No. 1 Troy point-maker, now is Chatham&rsquo;s coach.</p><p>Wilson, who is doing his best to assemble a winning team at Troy, sums up the situation this way:</p><p>&ldquo;These kids are Inexperienced, but they are sure to improve as they go along. They will be real aggressive and certainly won&rsquo;t take a back seat to anyone when it comes to speed.&rdquo;</p><p>Troy, like the other five members of the International League&mdash;Cincinnati, Ohio; Johnstown, Pa.; Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Toledo and Grand Rapids, Mich.&mdash;will play a 60-game schedule this season, 30 at home and 30 on the road.</p><p>The Bruins opened their campaign in the lair of the Cincinnati Mohawks, two-time United States senior champions, on Oct. 16. The 1954-55 season will wind up March 13 for Troy, against Ft. Wayne at home.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Podolsky New Mastermind For Overhauled Troy Team

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div><p>STARTFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Although Stratford Indians met Owen Sound Mercurys in the 1953-54 senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA finals, they did not place a single member on the first All-Star choice. Owen Sound and Kitchener Dutchmen have two, Chatham Maroons, Hamilton Tigers and Windsor Bullodgs one apiece.</p><p>Voting for the positions was close as the results show. Ralph Hosklng of Owen Sound led the defence selections although he was completely Ignored on four ballots. He received five firsts and three seconds. Clare Martin of Kitchener received one more first-place vote than Bud Kemp of Hamilton, but Kemp was named on one ballot more than Martin.</p><p>Gerry Reid of Owen Sound, the second team rightwinger, received 16 points for that position and also picked up an additional ten points for left wing, although he never played that position. .</p><p>More players were named for left wing than any other position, save defence. Gord Haidy of Windsor was the only player named on every ballot, getting eight first-place votes, two seconds and two thirds.</p><p>The choices for first, second and third all-star teams with the numbers of points in brakets, were as follows:</p><h2><b>The Selections</b></h2><p>First team Goal, Hank Bassen (19), Chatham; defence, Ralph Hosking (21), Owen Sound; Clare Martin (19), Kitchener; Bud Kemp (19), Hamilton; centre. Tommy Burlington (21), Owen Sound; left wing, Gerry Theberge (23), Kitchener; right wing, Gord Haidy (30), Windsor.</p><p>Second team&mdash;Goal, Don Lockart (18), Niagara Falls; Defence, Ron Ingram (17), Stratford; and either Martin or Kemp; centre, Ken Laufman (18) Kitchener; left wing. Buck Forslund (13), Owen Sound; right wing, Gerry Reid (16), Owen Sound.</p><p>Third Team&mdash;Goal, Bob Gillson (14), Owen Sound; defence, Art Hurst (10), Kitchener; Red Olsen (10), Niagara Falls; centre, Jack Taylor (12), Hamilton; left wing, Fred Hildebrand, (6), Windsor; Dinny Flanagan (6), Stratford; Lyle Wiseman (6), Windsor; right wing, Jack McKenzie (9), Kitchener.</p><p>Since five members of the Owen Sound Mercurys are included in the All-Star selections, it will be necessary to replace them for the annual all-star game in Owen Sound, Oct. 19, because, as OHA champions, the Mercurys will oppose the rest of the league.</p><p>With Bassen having turned pro with the Buffalo Bisons of the American League; Lyle Wiesman having gone to Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and Clare Martin probably coaching the Kitchener Dutchmen from the bench this season, the selects for the game against Owen Sound will be permitted to make replacements. Invitation for additional players to participate in the game have gone out, and they Include Goalie Bruce Dale of the Stratford Indians. It is likely thta two players from Chatham will be invited, because Bassen was the only Maroon named to any of the three All-Star aggregations.</p><p>Only players of the 1953-54 season are eligible to compete in the all-star game, but with Owen Sound ranks being depleted through the retirement of Herb Carnegie and Jaydee McCarthur, and possibly the loss of the veteran Tommy Burlington temporarily, the Mercurys may also be permitted to use Jack Taylor and several other imports this season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Indians Fail To Place On OHA All-Star Team

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01121/1127190-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>Solution Next Week</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Montreal rookie shown in centre.</p><p>6&mdash;One of the Bruins answers to this.</p><p>8&mdash;First name of an NHL coach.</p><p>12&mdash;&ldquo;Ott&rdquo; Heller once coached in this State (abbr).</p><p>13&mdash;Fans often find these difficult to obtain.</p><p>14&mdash;Pronoun.</p><p>16&mdash;Initials of Wylie, last season with Vancouver Canucks.</p><p>17&mdash;Month in which Guyle Fielder was born (abbr).</p><p>19&mdash;Missouri (abbr).</p><p>20&mdash;Former Detroit player</p><p>21&mdash;Name given Stone who played with Vancouver in 1953-54.</p><p>22&mdash;&rdquo;Flash&rdquo; Hollett&rsquo;s native province (abbr).</p><p>23&mdash;The 1953 All-Star game was played in this city.</p><p>27&mdash;One of the Canadians.</p><p>29&mdash;First name of Buffalo&rsquo;s coach.</p><p>31&mdash;Al Rollins injured one at training camp.</p><p>32&mdash;Initials of a Boston defenseman.</p><p>33&mdash;Number of goals Dumart scored last season.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Sid Smith plays this position.</p><p>2&mdash;Howie Meeker is one.</p><p>8&mdash;Conjunction.</p><p>4&mdash;This former Ranger is now a coach.</p><p>5&mdash;Given name of Hebenton of Victoria.</p><p>7&mdash;Initials of Nattrass, ex-Hawk player.</p><p>9&mdash;Jack Stoddard plays home games in this State (abbr).</p><p>10&mdash;Initials of Kuntz of Ottawa Senators.</p><p>11&mdash;First two letters of Kestrel.</p><p>15&mdash;Hector Blake&rsquo;s nickname.</p><p>16&mdash;Won Calder Trophy in 195253.</p><p>18&mdash;Short for first name of Kaiser, ex-Buffalo player.</p><p>19&mdash;Terry Reardon holds this position.</p><p>24&mdash;Larry Wilson&rsquo;s birthstone.</p><p>25&mdash;Initials of Migay of Toronto.</p><p>27&mdash;Ells English (abbr).</p><p>28&mdash;Nickname of a Detroit rearguard.</p><p>29&mdash;Initials of one of the Hannigan&rsquo;s.</p><p>30&mdash;Initials of goalie Francis.</p><h2><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S SOLUTION</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Cullen</p><p>5&mdash;C.I.</p><p>7&mdash;Red</p><p>8&mdash;Don</p><p>9&mdash;IV.</p><p>11&mdash;Dick</p><p>12&mdash;Centre</p><p>14&mdash;Arm</p><p>15&mdash;Orb</p><p>17&mdash;G.D,</p><p>18&mdash;Mar,</p><p>19&mdash;Our</p><p>21&mdash;N.I.</p><p>22&mdash;N.E.</p><p>23&mdash;Dea</p><p>25&mdash;Peirson</p><p>28&mdash;Par</p><p>29&mdash;T. J.</p><p>31&mdash;Stewart</p><p>34&mdash;Polle</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Chicago 2L.R.</p><p>3&mdash;Left</p><p>4&mdash;Ed.</p><p>5&mdash;Cochrane</p><p>6&mdash;Ink</p><p>8&mdash;D.I.</p><p>10&mdash;Verdun</p><p>11&mdash;De.</p><p>13&mdash;N.M.</p><p>15&mdash;O.M.</p><p>16&mdash;Brian</p><p>20&mdash;Retired</p><p>23&mdash;Dan</p><p>24&mdash;Apps</p><p>26&mdash;Eat</p><p>27&mdash;Slap</p><p>30&mdash;Joe</p><p>32&mdash;Ro.</p><p>33&mdash;T.I.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0019-01

Hockey X-Word Puzzle

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f0019-05

The Canadian FOOTBALL NEWS

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0135/1127273-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="246" height="288"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0234/1127266-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="256" height="302"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0333/1127259-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2895" height="1846"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0425/1127252-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2830" height="1642"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY SAWCHUK,</b> Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; outstanding goal-keeper, stands-up to an offensive by Montreal Canadiens sitting down so to speak, as he repels two lightning thrusts by the Habitants. In the top photo, Sawchuk goes to the ice to make a glittering save off the stick of Kenny Mosdell (18) the league&rsquo;s all-star centre, while Marcel Pronovost of Detroit and Baldy McKay of Canadiens look on. That&rsquo;s Eddie Litzenberger in the background. In the lower picture, Jean Beliveau sweeps in for a quick shot on Sawchuk which he smothers by sliding out of the net. Benny Woit (5) and Red Kelly (behind Beliveau) close in quickly to help Sawchuk as Referee Bill Cnadwick watches in the background.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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