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October 30, 1954

The Hockey News October 30, 1954

<div class="byline">MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0391/1144886-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg"></div><p>(As seen in the Toronto Star)</p><h2><b>The Last Man to Win For the Hawks</b></h2><p>BATTLING Bill Stewart arrived in town a week too late.</p><p>The little dean of National league umpires could have given Frankie Eddolls, freshman coach of the Chicago Black Hawks, a terrific psychological surge. Bill, who has a good voice &mdash; anyway, he always has the last word &mdash; could have held Frankie&rsquo;s hand and hummed a few bars of: &ldquo;We Did It Before; You Can Do It Again.&rdquo; The records back him. up, too. Bill came right off the baseball diamond and led the Hawks to their last Stanley Cup. That was in the season of &lsquo;37-&rsquo;38. Major Frederick McLaughlin, who owned the Hawks at that time, was wild with joy. He was so happy that he didn&rsquo;t fire Bill until January of his second term. A manager who lasted into a second season at Chicago was a tourist attraction, surpassed only by the Field museum in those days.</p><p>&ldquo;I had a two-year contract and they had to pay me every nickel&rdquo;, Bill recalls with glee. &ldquo;So, I took off for Florida to spend the Major&rsquo;s money and drown my sorrow in sunshine. Funny thing about it, our club was in third place when the Major fired me, with 19 points in 21 games. I knew what lowered the boom. We were leading Canadiens, 1-0, at Chicago, with a minute to go. They tied it up on a long shot. Toe Blake beat us in overtime&rdquo;.</p><p>Stewart was umpiring a ball game in Philadelphia when McLaughlin wired him an offer to manage and coach the Black Hawks. The Major had been impressed by Stewart&rsquo;s toughness as referee-in-chief of the NHL. He probably realized a man had to be tough to double in brass as baseball umpire and hockey referee. If he wasn&rsquo;t tough, he couldn&rsquo;t survive.</p><p>&ldquo;The Major proposed a one-year contract&rdquo;, Bill recalls, &ldquo;but I was having none of that. When he finally agreed to a two-year contract, I also insisted on an iron-clad agreement that I was to be the abslute boss. As far as I know, he and his lieutenant, Bill Tobin, came into our dressing room only once&rdquo;.</p><h2><b>Booby Traps All Over The League</b></h2><p>THERE were clashes of authority between Stewart and McLaughlin right from the start. McLaughlin had drafted Oscar Hanson and Cully Dahlstrom. He considered Hanson the better catch, because of his record in the minor leagues. Stewart voted for Dahlstrom, and finally ditched Hanson, but not before the Major had insisted he try the rookie for a stretch of 10 games. Dahlstrom vindicated his coach by winning the Calder trophy as freshman of the year. Another argument developed over Carl Voss, whom Stewart picked up when he was cut adrift by Maroons. McLaughlin wanted to let him go, after seeing him in one game. Stewart decreed he should stay. It was Voss who fired the winning goal against Toronto in the second-last game of the Stanley Cup upset. This was one of those things that couldn&rsquo;t happen in sport &mdash; like the Giants beating the Indians in four straight. How did it happen?</p><p>&ldquo;This was the happiest club I ever saw in professional sport&rdquo;, Stewart claims. &ldquo;And we had some pretty good talent &mdash; fellows like Johnny Gottselig, Mush March, Paul Thompson, Art Wiebe and Doc Romnes. Lionel Gonacher once told me he regarded Romnes as one of the finest centres with whom he ever played. The biggest reason we won, tough was that we had Eearl Seibert on our defense. The big guy played about 55 minutes of every game&rdquo;.</p><p>The current treasure hunt of Tommy Ivan and Eddolls for hockey talent to help the Hawks strikes a familiar note in Stewart&rsquo;s memory. He had no Ivan to help him out, but Bill made the rounds of the hock shops, too. It didn&rsquo;t take him long to discover he could get an apple for an orchard anywhere. All the rival clubs had their boby traps baited for the peagreen manager of the Black Hawks.</p><p>&ldquo;We tried to buy a couple of players from Maroons&rdquo;, Stewart grins. &ldquo;All they wanted was Paul Thompson from us &mdash; just one of our best. Detroit tried to get Siebert when we attempted to do business with them. Everyone was nice, though&rdquo;.</p><p>Bill has umpired more than 3,000 games of major league ball, exclusive of world series and all-star shows. He alson refereed 68 games one season in the NHL, which probably is a record for the league. When the playoffs came, he refused to budge unless he got $125 per game. The league had to kick in, and Bill worked 10 more games. What chance has a ball-player got when he argues with a man like that?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Speaking on Sport

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0629/1145100-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="584" height="269"></div><p>October 31 &mdash; November 6 October</p><p>31&mdash;Nesterenko, Eric, 193 3, centre, Toronto</p><p>November</p><p>2&mdash;Howe, Vic, 19.29, right winger, Saskatoon</p><p>2&mdash;Michaluk, John, 192 8, forward, Calgary</p><p>2&mdash;Mosienkd, Bill, 1921, right winger, Chicago</p><p>4&mdash;Arundel, John, 19 27, defense, Ottawa</p><p>6&mdash;Klukay, Joe, 1922, left winger, Boston<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<p class="dropcap"><span>P</span>ENTICTON, B.C.&mdash; The first week of play in the Okanagan Senior Amateur Hockey League is over and, with the first eight games of the schedule written in the books, one thing seems to stand out. All teams are very equal in strength and the OSAHL will likely produce a ding-dong race for league honors.</p><p>In eight games, (five for Penticton, three for Kelowna and four each for Vernon and Kamloops) no team has been able to win more than two. In the eight games, two were decided by a four-goal edge, one by three goals, two by two goals, two by a single marker and one game was tied.</p><p>Penticton and Vernon each have five points in the standings, Kelowna has four and Kamloops trail with two. In the goals for and against column, it reads Penticton 20-19, Vernon 18-19, Kelowna 10-9 and Vernon 17-18.</p><p>The Allan Cup Champion Penticton V&rsquo;s have shown little of their champions hip form so far. After subduing the Kamloops Elks 4-1 in the league opener on Oct. 17, they were handed a sound 7-3 thrashing at Kamloops the next night. On Tuesday night, they came from behind with three goals in the third period to battle to a 4-4 the and walloped the Canucks 7-3 in the Peach City on Friday night. The Warwick brothers, Bill, Dick and Grant figured in six of the V&rsquo;s seven goals. The following night, Alex Shibicky&rsquo;s Kelowna Packers dumped the Pentictonites 4-2 in a game in Kelowna.</p><p>Kelowna Packers have fared the best percentage-wise. In three games they have come up with two wins. Beside the win over Penticton, they hold a 4-3 decision over the Elks as against a single loss, that 4-2 at the hands of George Agar&rsquo;s revamped Vernon Canadians, in the season opener in Kelowna last Saturday.</p><p>The Canadians after dumping the Packers in the opener, battled to a 4-4 tie with V&rsquo;s, dropped a 7-3 game to the V&rsquo;s and on Saturday night they outlasted the Elks 7-6 in a free-wheeling contest.</p><p>The Elks, under Phil Hergesheimer, have only one win in four games but the three losses have been by scores of 4-1, 4-3 and 7-6. With a little luck, the Elks will become a contender.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02110/1146364-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="282" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Phil Hergesheimer</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Penticton, Vernon Share OSAHL Lead

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover1" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover17/1146643-1-eng-US/cover12.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHNNY GOTTSELIG,</b> publicity director and the voice of the Chicago Black Hawks on the air, has devoted much time to devising what he believes, will be a foolproof system for the awarding of assists in hockey. His system, explained in the adjoining story would allow two points for a goal, one for an assist, with as many as five players figuring in a goal.</figcaption></div><h2><b>Figure Hawk At Work</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Gottselig’s New Scoring Plan

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover4" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover42/1146681-1-eng-US/cover42.jpg"></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The individual scoring system used in modern organized hockey is generally accepted with little dispute, but this doesn&rsquo;t mean it could not be improved. Among those realizing this is former National League playing star Johnny Gottselig who now prods a pencil instead of a puck as publicitor for the Black Hawks.</p><p>He recently disclosed the simple details of a revolutionary and fool-proof scoring plan which he has been carrying around in his head for several years. While present day officials would probably back away from making such a strong change, his idea is still worth serious consideration.</p><p>It is primarily a system directed toward abolishing confusion (and there has been much in the past!) in the awarding of points to players in scoring plays. The existing method of recording assists is noticeably loose and could certainly stand suitable revision.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s my thought,&rdquo; says John, &ldquo;that when a skater gets a goal, all of his teammates on the ice at the time, excepting the goalie of course, should be credited with assists. This would eliminate the agitation and confusion that often results when officials appear uncertain of who figured in the play.</p><p>&ldquo;Naturally, the fellas who blow the whistles make every attempt to keep constant watch over the pattern of play and course of the puck, but they have a host of other important duties too that can&rsquo;t be neglected. And something many people seem to forget often is that they&rsquo;re only human,&rdquo; he points out.</p><p>Realization of such unavoidable discrepancies has made many players, including some of the best, experienced salesmen in the art of talking referees and scorers into believing that they figured in scoring plays on occasions when they actually have not. Gottselig&rsquo;s plan would curtail such unsavory practices.</p><p>An example of a game summary with his system applied is shown below as it could have been used in Chicago&rsquo;s home opener against the Rangers October 10.</p><p>So as to keep the tallying of <i>a</i> goal a foremost objective, Johnny would record two points for each puck banged into a net with single points continuing to mark assists. Goals, it can be recalled; once counted two points each years age when hockey was in its infancy.</p><p>Without taking additional assists that would have been counted into consideration, this is the way the 1953-54 National Hockey League scoring battle&rsquo; would have ended with the additional credit for goals:</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover5/1146674-1-eng-US/cover52.jpg" title="Cover5" width="1029" height="253"></div><p>As we opined earlier, the Gottselig innovations will very likely never be adopted due to the vast overhauling to which past records and rules would have to be subjected. But wouldn&rsquo;t it be nice&mdash;less confusion and debate and far more exacting recognition of true achievement!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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New Method Would Eliminate Charges Of Cheap Assists

<div class="byline">By JAMES A. BURCHARD</div><p>(New York World Telegram & Sun)</p><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Perhaps you&rsquo;re wondering what Ron Murphy intended to do to Boom-Boom Geoffrion&mdash;and vice versa&mdash;when these noted hockey belligerents resumed hostilities last weekend in a home-and-home series between the Rangers and Canadiens.</p><p>The answer was exactly nothing, as the Garden clientele discovered on the occasion of the Canucks&rsquo; seasonal debut in New York.</p><h2>Costly to Geoffrion</h2><p>&ldquo;My trouble with Geoffrion was just part of the game as far as I&rsquo;m concerned,&rdquo; said Murphy, young Blueshirt forward who operates on the new kid line.</p><p>Geoffrion, high-scoring Canadien star, wasn&rsquo;t available for comment, but it&rsquo;s practically certain he won&rsquo;t be looking for trouble this year. So says Clarence Campbell, president of the National Hockey League, and he should know. His decision cost Geoffrion a large slice of that young man&rsquo;s salary.</p><p>The Murphy-Geoffrion classic took place at the Garden last Dec. 20. It was the most publicized duel of the 1953-54 season although extremely brief in duration.</p><p>The Montreal firebrand won by a clean knockout when he landed his stick on Murphy&rsquo;s head. The stricken Ranger was carted to the hospital with a broken jaw and severe concussion.</p><p>Geoffrion received a misconduct and automatic $100 fine.</p><p>He also was banned from all remaining Canadien &ndash; Ranger games last season. There were seven of them, each one deducted from Boom-Boom&rsquo;s pay. He wanted the club to foot the bill, but boss Frank Selke wouldn&rsquo;t hear of it.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;No play, no pay,&rdquo; said Selke, and that was that.</p><p>Murphy, sporting a plastic mask, later finished out the season in Saskatoon. A strong skater with a hard shot, he came back a better player than before his injury.</p><p>&ldquo;And were we glad to see it,&rdquo; said Manager Frank Boucher. &ldquo;We were afraid he might be stick shy.&rdquo;</p><p>Murphy&rsquo;s lack of animosity toward Geoffrion isn&rsquo;t at all surprising. Individual feuds were pursued relentlessly in the old days before pro hockey invaded New York, but those onetime stickhandling vendettas long since have gone out of style.</p><h2>Good Pals After</h2><p>Bill Cook, for example, never tried to retaliate against Nels Crutchfield after that former Canadien clubbed him over the pate for eight stitches. And Boston&rsquo;s Eddie Shore had only admiration for Muzz Patrick after the present Ranger coach smashed his nose in a memorable fist fight.</p><p>Only a short time ago, when Muzz and Shore were on a TV show together, the younger Patrick didn&rsquo;t know what interesting topic he could talk about.</p><p>&ldquo;Tell them how you broke my nose,&rsquo;&rsquo; said Shore.</p><p>The Rangers will be facing the Plying Frenchmen for the first time this season tonight. The Blues aren&rsquo;t worrying too much about Geoffrion. There&rsquo;s still a very dangerous customer named Maurice (The Rocket) Richard with the Montreal club who must be handcuffed first of all. Few of the Rocket&rsquo;s rivals can chain him down for long.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover25/1146719-1-eng-US/cover22.jpg" title="Cover2" width="310" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ron Murphy</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover33/1146712-1-eng-US/cover32.jpg" title="Cover3" width="292" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bernie Geoffrion</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Murphy-Geoffrion Forget Battle

<div class="byline">BARRY.</div><p>BOSTON:&mdash; The National League&rsquo;s new draft law is working out well in its first test, in the opinion of Clarence Campbell.</p><p>The National League president expressed satisfaction with the progress of the draft setup as the featured speaker at the Boston Bruins&rsquo; annual introductory luncheon here.</p><p>&ldquo;People have said that it hasn&rsquo;t been very successful because there haven&rsquo;t been many deals&rsquo;&rsquo;, said Campbell, &ldquo;but that isn&rsquo;t the true test of the rule.</p><p>&ldquo;There were a number of deals engineered in advance of the draft which were prompted by it, and a number of others have been transacted under the new draft conditions.</p><p>&ldquo;In addition, I expect that some clubs will have to make up their minds about other players before December 1, when the player limit drops, and that can mean further deals.&rdquo;</p><p>Campbell described the Bruins as having &ldquo;better balance, more hustle and infinitely more color&rdquo; than their recent Boston counterparts, and revealed that attendance at games here has increased by 100,000 customers in the three seasons the team has been operated by the Garden-Arena Corporation.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0383/1144669-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="296" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Clarence Campbell</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NHL’s New Draft Law Good Despite Lack Of Big Deals

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Benny Woit figures on introducing himself formally to all the rival goalies in the National Hockey League this season.</p><p>A year ago Woit patrolled the defense areas regularly for the Detroit Red Wings without even a nodding acquaintance with opposing goaltenders. He was the only man in the league who played the full 70-game schedule without scoring at least once.</p><p>That scoring famine finally ended. The burly defenseman chalked up one of Detroit&rsquo;s tallies (the second goal) in a 5-2 triumph over the Black Hawks in Chicago.</p><p>Like all defensemen Woit isn&rsquo;t a bit bashful about discussing scoring ability.</p><p>&ldquo;We had the Hawks pinned in their end and I moved up to give a little of that Gordie Howe stuff,&rdquo; he related later. &ldquo;The puck flew out to me and I gave Al Rollins my low hard one. No goalie has a chance on that shot of mine.&rdquo;</p><p>Woit didn&rsquo;t even blush when Howe casually mentioned that it was Benny&rsquo;s first goal in 85 league games.</p><p>The record showed that Woit last scored on March 2, 1953, That was the 10th goal in a 103 romp against Boston.</p><p>Actually, Woit is not called upon to score goals. He teams with Red Kelly on defense and strategy calls for one defenseman to stay back when the other rushes.</p><p>And Kelly is the top threat among all defensemen. Possessing the instincts of a forward, he has led the NHL rear guards in scoring the last few seasons and last year was topped by only five forwards.</p><p>ICE CHIPS: Failure of the NHL to widen the goal cage this season finally proved costly to the Red Wings as they absorbed their first defeat.</p><p>In the first two home games Wings decisively outplayed Toronto and New York to post 2-1 and 4-0 victories.</p><p>Scores could have been higher but both times the best scoring chances were blown with off-line shots which missed becoming goals when they whistled wide of the net.</p><p>The accuracy factor finally caught up with them against Montreal and cost a 3-1 defeat. That snapped the three-game winning streak with which Detroit opened defense of its NHL crown.</p><p>Wings jumped to a 1-0 lead in the second period and could have salted away the victory right there with sharper shooting. Several other players plus Howe had as good or better chances but they weren&rsquo;t finishing like the Wings of a year ago.</p><p>Still no one was worried since the Canadiens were supposed to sag in the final period. This was at a time when Montreal was playing its third game in four nights and everyone knows about fatigue, etc.</p><p>Instead, the Canadiens clicked for three goals and a highly coveted triumph since it brought a three-point lead in the standings.</p><p>Doug Harvey&rsquo;s equalizer and Bernie Geoffrion&rsquo;s winner came on the same power play. Alex Delvecchio was off for both penalties while both sides were an additional man short for the first one.</p><p>Which was appropriate. Wings wrapped up a 3-2 victory on Montreal ice just a few nights earlier by cashing in on power plays. And the next night in Chicago, Wings broke a 2-2 tie with two quick goals by Delvecchio and Johnny Wilson while Chicago was shorthanded.</p><p>After the first five games Detroit&rsquo;s Production Line trio ranked one-two-three in team scoring. Howe had seven points, Lindsay six and Delvecchio four and together they had six of the club&rsquo;s 15 goals. Of the 15 regulars, 11 had scored at least one goal.</p><p>Don Poi1e, Detroit&rsquo;s only rookie, has dressed for each game but has been on the ice in only two of them. Defenseman Keith. Allen missed three games with a badly cut finger, suffered when Tony Leswick slammed a hotel room door on it in Ottawa.</p><p>Several of the Wings haven&rsquo;t yet feathered a nest in Detroit. House-hunting is the No. 1 off-ice pursuit for those who are waiting for their families to move here for the winter. For the first time, Bob Goldham is not among them. With two of his three daughters at school age, his family will remain at their permanent Toronto home this season.</p><h2><b>Another Howe?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0464/1144707-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="566" height="573"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BENNY WOIT</b></figcaption></div><h2><b><i>Do you remember?&hellip;</i></b></h2><p><b>The 1925-26 season when a big rawboned center broke into the lineup of the Montreal Maroons and scored 34 goals In a 36 game schedule. He set a record goals by a first-year player. His name?&hellip;Nels Stewart!</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0551/1144700-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="1812" height="1057"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Woit Breaks 70-Game Famine By Fooling Al With Low Shot To Double Output of 1953

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The player who was warned, publicly, that he must prove he&rsquo;s a major leaguer hardly had to hang his head in shame when the Rangers bounced home for the first time. The Blues&rsquo; best beginning in eight years was due solely to Danny Lewicki, who. scored both winning goals in the team&rsquo;s 2-2 record around the league.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;You&rsquo;ve still got to prove Toronto was wrong in selling you and we were right in buying you,&rdquo; General Manager Frank Boucher told Lewicki as guest at the first New York hockey writers&rsquo; luncheon of the new season. &ldquo;You have as much ability as anyone in hockey. Let&rsquo;s see if you can use it.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01103/1144638-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="299" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Boucher</b></figcaption></div><p>What was particularly gratifying to the 23-year-old Lewicki was the second winning goal. It was made in Toronto, of all places. That came after about six minutes of the final period. Previously, he&rsquo;d waited until the 18th minute of the last session to beat Chicago, 2-1.</p><p>One of the fastest and flashiest forwards in the game, Lewicki was playing on a line that should be the Rangers&rsquo; best one. Bones Raleigh, the team captain, was at center ice and Nick Mickoski, an old sidekick of Raleigh at left wing, had moved over to the right side to fit in the former Leaf.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;I&rsquo;ve put two good wingers on that line,&rdquo; coach Muzz Patrick pointed out. &ldquo;Now it&rsquo;s up to Raleigh.&rdquo;</p><p>Except for Lewicki, the Raleigh unit hadn&rsquo;t yet begun to carry its weight. Mickoski, a lefthand shooter, was having a little trouble getting accustomed to the right wing. And the thin, undernourished center seemed to lack both spark and stamina in most of the early games. It wasn&rsquo;t until the fourth one, in Toronto, that Raleigh came to life. He, alone, had at least five good scoring chances.</p><p>&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ll be a good line,&rdquo; Raleigh said. &ldquo;Nicky is a little uncertain in his new position but he&rsquo;s improved every game. Danny is a great skater, a fine stickhandler and an excellent shooter. Now, if 1 can only get him to backcheck, maybe we&rsquo;ll be something.&rdquo;</p><p>Actually, Lewicki, a solid 16 4-pounder, seemed to be working both ways better than he did a few years ago as a much-heralded youngster in Toronto. He apparently needed seasoning in the minors and the time he spent in Pittsburgh for the last three seasons was a big help.</p><p>&ldquo;Lewicki was a great amateur&hellip; perhaps one of the greatest in recent times,&rdquo; Boucher pointed out. &ldquo;Some players can jump from there to the NHL, but they are few and far between. Apparently Lewicki wasn&rsquo;t able to.&rdquo;</p><p>It would be ironic if, after four years of trials and tribulations with the Leafs, Lewicki were finally to blossom into an NHL star. You see; the Rangers almost had him at the start.</p><p>When Lewicki reached professional age, there were two conflicting claims put in for him. The Rangers made one and Providence the other. For the first time, a ruling was made in favor of the minor league club. Providence signed him and almost immediately sold him to Toronto.</p><p>Danny&rsquo;s triumphant return to the majors wasn&rsquo;t the only optimistic note on the Rangers. For one thing, the kid line of Larry Popein, Andy Bathgate and Ron Murphy played well in every ga-me. For another, Jackie McLeod was beginning to show some life filling in for Wally Hergesheimer at right wing. As a result, that line of Paul Ronty, McLeod and Dean Prentice held its own.</p><p>&ldquo;I think, before this season is over, you&rsquo;ll find this is the best Ranger team since the War,&rdquo; Raleigh predicted. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve never had as much balance before, Every line will score. And we have a good, strong defense.&rdquo;</p><p>It was this defense, which should have been the club&rsquo;s strong point, which worried Pa trick. Gump Worsley was doing an exceptional job in the nets, without much help. Only Allan Stanley, back from Vancouver, had done a workmanlike job in every game.</p><p>ICE CHIPS: Not since 1946-47 had the Rangers picked up as many as four points on their habitual road trip at the beginning of each season. In that year, they split in Montreal, beat Detroit and lost to Boston&hellip; It wasn&rsquo;t until recently that Patrick began to properly pronounce the name of Popein, whom he&rsquo;d known for years. He&rsquo;d been calling him &ldquo;Popane&rdquo; and, when one of the writers questioned this, Muzz put it up to Larry. &ldquo;The name is &lsquo;Popeen&rsquo;,&rdquo; the rookie center said.</p><p>Edgar Laprade, still a whirling dervish at 35, picked up a sevenstitch cut over the left eye when high-sticked in Toronto. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d been expecting It,&rdquo; he announced. &ldquo;Should get two more of these before the season is over. Ever since I&rsquo;ve been in hockey, I&rsquo;ve been a three cut-a-year player&rdquo;&hellip; NHL president Clarence Campbell presented the Calder Trophy to Camille Henry prior to the Rangers&rsquo; home opener against the Bruins, Oct. 20. The next day, Campbell and Ken McKenzie, NHL publicity director and co-publisher of THE HOCKEY NEWS, were guest speakers at the New York writers&rsquo; luncheon at Leone&rsquo;s.</p><p>Carl Grothmann, the Rangers* fine statistician, now has assistants in every arena. Among the many statistics they send him after every Ranger road game are the players&rsquo; time on the ice, lineups when every goal is scored and when every penalty is killed&hellip; Aldo Guidolin, who, with Laprade, kills the Ranger penalties, is getting a lot of work at defense in practice sessions&hellip; Cliff Hicks, who played with Glace Bay in the Maritime League last year, has replaced Bev Bentley as the Rangers&rsquo; emergency goalkeeper.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0398/1144631-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="288" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Paul Ronty</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0468/1144624-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="311" height="470"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ron Murphy</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0541/1144617-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="287" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Raleigh</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0632/1144610-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="289" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dean Prentice</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Rolls For Bones</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0289/1144603-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1193" height="1207"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DANNY LEWICKI&hellip;&hellip;Clicks in NY.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Lewicki Finding NHL Range In Colors Of NY Rangers

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01103/1144738-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERT OLMSTEAD&hellip;&hellip;A Team Man</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Here&rsquo;s your 30-second sport quiz for today.</p><p>Where did Bert Olmstead rank among National Hockey League scorers last season?</p><p>(a) Among the first five.</p><p>(b) Among the first ten.</p><p>(c) Among the first 15.</p><h2><b>Unnoticed But Effective</b></h2><p>Olmstead finished fifth. But because the lanky Canadien winger is one of those quiet, unassuming fellows who glide through the league like a sprite he seldom gets the recognition he so well deserves.</p><p>Only Gordie Howe, Maurice Richard, Ted Lindsay and Bernie Geofirion were ahead of him. All of those illustrious gentlemen picked up more ink than a printer&rsquo;s shirtsleeve but Olmstead, doing a terrific job without fanfare, seldom got his name in headlines as black as the puck he manipulates so skilfully.</p><p>Olmstead is a self-sacrificing player, a competent workman Who gives his best at home and on the road. It would be no exaggeration to say that he is one of the most valuable men on the Montreal team.</p><h2><b>IQ &mdash; Intelligent, Quiet</b></h2><h2><b>A Positional Phenom</b></h2><p>His positional play is terrific. Notice how he digs the puck out of corners and generally always flips it neatly onto a teammates&rsquo;s stick. He lays down firm passes, timed with metronome precision. And he is an adept marksmen himself, particularly on rebounds.</p><p>But, to get back to our opening gimmick, did you answer the Quiz correctly? Did you give Olmstead the credit he deserves?</p><p>All right, here&rsquo;s another chance. Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings, led the NHL in assists last season. Where did Olmstead rank in that department?</p><p>(a) Second.</p><p>(b) Third.</p><p>(c) Fourth.</p><p>Did you say &ldquo;second&rdquo;? That&rsquo;s right. We&rsquo;ve made these points simply to establish the fact that Olmstead is a great hockey player and for a clincher we might remind you that he tied a National Hockey League record last season when he amassed eight points on four goals and four assists against the Chicago Black Hawks on Jan. 9, 1954, at the Forum.</p><p>Yet Olmstead is the player nobody knows. He&rsquo;s one of those unsung heroes like Ed Sandford and Paul Ronty and Sid Smith, men who perform capably but inconspicuously on the ice. Although he got 85 minutes in penalties last season, Olmstead never fights unless attacked. He seldom argues with the officials and he is respected by friend and foe alike.</p><p>What manner of a man is he? He&rsquo;s modest, reticent yet frank. He wears a perpetually boyish grin on his weather-beaten face and When he talks in calm, wall-modulated tones there is always a twinkle in his eyes.</p><p>He&rsquo;s a natty dresser with a preference for solid tones, small-patterned ties and white shirt. He looks more like a business man, a rising young executive, than the wheat farmer he is.</p><p>Bert works his land near Sceptre, Sask., where he was born just 2 8 years ago, during the summer. Generally he gets his crop harvested in time to fly to Montreal for Canadians&rsquo; opening practice but this season the harvest was late and Bert reported before the crops were all in.</p><p>A product of the Moose Jaw Canucks, Bert spent three years with Kansas City in the United States Hockey League, a Chicago farm, before being hoisted to the parent Black Hawks.</p><p>He was teamed with Metro Prystai and Bep Guidolin on the Boilermaker Line and from his left wing post he scored 20 goals and picked up 29 assists in the 1949-50 campaign. In balloting for the Calder Trophy, awarded annually to the NHL&rsquo;s rookie of the year, he placed third.</p><p>The next season Bert couldn&rsquo;t get going at the Hawk training camp and he was shipped off to Milwaukee. He was languishing there when Detroit acquired his services in a three-way deal with the Black Hawks and shipped him off to the Canadiens in exchange for Leo Gravelle.</p><p>At that time the Habs were looking for someone to fill the left wing spot on their revamped Punch Line. When Toe Blake retired, Coach Dick Irvin tried eight different players, none of whom is in the league today.</p><p>Irvin&rsquo;s search ended when Olmstead arrived, He tried him at practice one morning with Elmer Lach, now retired, and Maurice Richard and the line started clicking with all the precision of the original Punch Line.</p><p>&ldquo;Hockey is full of such surprises&rdquo;, said Irvin. &ldquo;You put the names of three fine players on paper and you figure they&rsquo;ll make a terrific line. But they&rsquo;re a bust on ice. Then along comes a fellow like Olmstead, rescued from the minors, and suddenly you have a fine line. Bert&rsquo;s no speedball. Maybe that&rsquo;s why he clicked. He skates along behind his centre and the Rocket, picks up the slack, prevents breakaways and generally makes himself useful.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a rugged, determined checker. Nobody pushes him around and Inside the other team&rsquo;s defensive zone he is as good as any centre in the league. With Olmstead out there, it&rsquo;s like having two centres to feed the Rocket&rdquo;.</p><p>Every line needs a good playmaker and it doesn&rsquo;t matter whether he&rsquo;s at center or not. Bobby Bauer always made the best plays for Boston&rsquo;s Kraut Line and he was at right wing. Now with Jackie Leclair, a rookie at the pivot post on the Habs&rsquo; big line, it is Olmstead who is setting &lsquo;em up. Leclair, a bright prospect, will take command eventually but right now Olmstead is the glue that holds the trio to gether, providing Richard with his scoring opportunities.</p><p>&lsquo;Tis well that Olmstead has a placid disposition and an even temperament. Otherwise he might have worried himself right out of the league after the 1951-52 season.</p><p>Bert scored only seven goals that campaign and picked up only 2 8 assists, his point total of 3 5 being the lowest of his NHL career.</p><p>He didn&rsquo;t make any attempt to alibi. &ldquo;Nothing went right for me&rdquo;, he said. &ldquo;I had opportunities but I missed them. One night we were playing the Hawks in Chicago. I&rsquo;d already blown two scoring chances but we were leading 3-2 and in the last minute the Hawks yanked their netminder.</p><p>&ldquo;I got a breakaway and scuttled up the ice. I was within thirty feet of the open net when the</p><p>puck started to roll off my stick. Instead of trying to regain control I took a swipe at it and it flew wide by a city block. That was typical of the way I was playing&rdquo;.</p><p>But Olmstead never stopped trying. He gained 45 points the following year and 52 last year, the highest of his career. And on top of that he&rsquo;s probably the best defensive forward in the league.</p><p>As Baz O&rsquo;Meara of the Montreal Star once said, &ldquo;when general manager Frank Selke and the Canadiens&rsquo; brain trust reminisce about their better trades, they probably think first of the one that brought Bert Olmstead to Montreal&rdquo;.</p><p>Gravelle never made a dent in the NHL while Olmstead has been a valuable hockey chattel. Montreal fans hope he&rsquo;ll be around for a long time.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Olmstead Gets The Job Done Without Fanfare

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0285/1144776-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"></div><p><b>OLMSTEAD, MURRAY BERT</b></p><p><b>Bom, Septer, Sask., September 4, 1924.</b></p><p><b>Right wing. Shoots left. 6&rsquo;2&rdquo;, 175 lbs.</b></p><p><b>Last amateur club: Moose Jaw Canucks (Junior)</b></p><h2><b>&ldquo;Assists&rdquo; Rocket</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0354/1144769-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1132" height="2322"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Second Best Setter-upper in NHL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Olmstead’s Record

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL &mdash; Exactly 10 years after Maurice (Rocket) Richard set a National Hockey League record of most points in a single game by one player, along came Bert Olmstead, Richard&rsquo;s line-mate to tie the mark.</p><p>Richard&rsquo;s record of five goals and three assists occurred on December 28, 1944 against the Detroit Red Wings. On January 9, 1954 Olmstead came up with eight points against the Chicago Black Hawks, scoring four goals and getting the same number of assists.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bert’s Biggest Night In NHL

<div class="byline">By AL NICKLESON</div><p>(AS Seen in The Toronto Globe and Mail)</p><p>The same hockey jury that has been cruel in the past will rule, shortly, on whether it believes Allen Stanley should be allowed to earn his living in Manhattan.</p><p>Stanley was victim of the longest blast in hockey history last season. It was the longest in that it swept him across a continent, from New York to Vancouver.</p><p>With New York Rangers here tonight and Stanley back as one of their standout defensemen, perhaps a review of the case wouldn&rsquo;t be amiss before it goes to the jury.</p><p>Stanley will be on trial before the jury of gallery gods, made up of some of the toughest-to-please sports fans in the world, when the Rangers hold their National Hockey League home opener in Madison Square Garden next Wednesday night.</p><p>This time, the jury may be hung. Not in the sense of hanging by the neck but in the sense of not being in agreement. In that event, it&rsquo;s likely Stanley will wind up as a free man, being cheered by the very ones that jeered.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote"><b>The big, handsome blond was booed every time he stepped on the New York ice last season. Part of the reason was because he hadn&rsquo;t had a good year in the previous season. Another factor appeared to be a deceptive, deliberate pace that gives an athlete the appearance of being slower and less effective than he is. In any event, it infuriated sections of the fans.</b></blockquote><p>The Ranger brass stood by Stanley. Club officials were satisfied with his play. But finally, in early November, after a particularly bitter demonstration, he was farmed out lest his spirit be broken. We were there that final night. They booed him in pregame warmup. They hung cloth signs over the balcony reading such as &ldquo;Viva Sonja Stanley,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Stanley Must Go.&rdquo; They barracked during his first turn on the ice. From there, he sat beside a sympathetic coach, Frank Boucher, on the bench. Two days later, Stanley was on his way. Wednesday, he&rsquo;ll be returning for the first time since. When he departed, he said he&rsquo;d be back. Then he helped lead Vancouver Canucks to the Western League title.</p><p>The return should be most interesting. Coach Muzz Patrick, who took over late last season so that Boucher could devote full time to managing, gets a stubborn look when the possibilities are mentioned.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote"><b>&ldquo;They won&rsquo;t force him out again if I can help it&rdquo;, said Muzz during a recent visit here. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll put cotton batting in his ears, if necessary. But I think they&rsquo;ll be cheering him. He&rsquo;s been one of our best players this season.&rdquo;</b></blockquote><p>What Muzz was suggesting was that the fans shouldn&rsquo;t run a team. True. And especially true in this instance because hockey fans across the border, as a group, aren&rsquo;t nearly as help to the game as we over here. But, in the Stanley instance, they influenced the club management to send him away for his own good.</p><p>Stanley wasn&rsquo;t the best defenseman. in the NHL last season. But he was far from the worst. While such treatment might have taken the heart out, of some athletes, it hasn&rsquo;t happened to the big guy from Timmins.</p><p>As one example, take the other night after Rangers were beaten in Detroit. The Red Wings&rsquo; new coach, Jimmy Skinner, had praise for Stanley above all other Rangers.</p><p>&ldquo;Stanley is playing very well,&rdquo; he said, without prompting. &ldquo;They won&rsquo;t be an easy club to beat, especially at home.&rdquo;</p><blockquote class="pullQuote"><b>Stanley never has complained publicly over his Gotham treatment. He wants to go back and show them. It may be tough. Some lame-brains won&rsquo;t be changed once the make up their alleged minds.</b></blockquote><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01171/1144831-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="554" height="891"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ALLAN STANLEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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SPORTS DIGEST

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Any thoughts of security among Black Hawks of the new youth movement era were probably destroyed October 13 when right winger Ike Hildebrand, who had only played in nine games since coining to Chicago last February, was dispatched to the Canadiens in exchange for Lome Davis, also a right wing.</p><p>General Manager Tommy Ivan, in announcing the straight swap, said it was made upon the request of Coach Frankie Eddolls who pointed out that Davis was younger at 24 and some 35 pounds heavier at a solid 190. Hildebrand is 27 and weighs in at about 155 pounds.</p><p>Eddolls seemed quite happy over the deal for he had become familiar with Davis&rsquo; - abilities while his coach for two terms at Buffalo in the American League. &ldquo;While I used him as an offensive forward, he skated on a defensive line with Montreal so I know he can do both,&rdquo; Frank smiled.</p><p>In Hildebrand, who was purchased from Vancouver of the Western League, the Hawks had a wingman who might have been able to show more had he not suffered a fractured leg in Toronto after less than six games last season. The break reportedly healed completely, but he had shown little this fall.</p><p>Davis, who has gone back and forth between the Canucks and affiliates the last three years, arrived in Chicago with only enough time to meet his new mates a few hours before the tilt with Montreal at the Stadium October 15. Although he probably hadn&rsquo;t expected to, he played regularly that night.</p><p>Eddolls had no choice since his forward skating force had been cut to nine members due to injuries which sidelined left flanker Jack McIntyre and center Larry Wilson. Davis was thrown into a completely new line centered by &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan with Dick Gamble patrolling the other side.</p><p>Virtually nothing struck him as familiar, but Lorne skated with enough authority to show that he should be a definite asset when he becomes accustomed to his new surroundings. One sight that did help Davis was Gamble with whom he played last year with the Montreal Royals in the Quebec League.</p><p>This latest acquisition marked the fifth deal made by Tommy Ivan within 10 days.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Weight, Youth Hawks Reason For Last Swap

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Book-burning Senator Joe McCarthy must have been even more thorough than most people believed when he set out to rid this hemisphere of its left wing agents.</p><p>The Toronto Maple Leafs can&rsquo;t locate one good specimen of left wing talent to fill out their current foster.</p><h2><b>Search For Left Winger</b></h2><p>Most of the other ailments that left Leafs winless through their first four NHL starts have been remedied or at least treated already. But the hunt for a left-winger continues.</p><p>Behind Sid Smith and Harry Watson, both 20-goal scorers last season. Leafs have only a scramble to fill the third line.</p><p>It was with the idea of insuring this post that they lured Dave Creighton out of Boston this summer. But instead of curing that ailment, Creighton converted to right wing to free Ron Stewart for the penalty-killing work in which Stew excels and delights.</p><p>That forced rookie Brian Cullen to switch from his familiar centre ice slot in an attempt to fill the vacancy.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s getting better every game,&rsquo;&rsquo; Coach King Clancy concedes. &ldquo;But he&rsquo;s still an emergency measure. I&rsquo;d like to see more speed on that wing.&rdquo;</p><p>The whole hole developed when Gord Hannigan tailspinned from the status of a rookie-of the year candidate in 1952-53 to a flop-of-the-year candidate last season.</p><p>The hippety-hoppety skating Hannigan scored 15 goals in his first half season after coming to Leafs from Pittsburgh, where he was a 2 4-goal marksman.</p><p>But after that flashfire start, he scored only two goals after the New Year in that rookie season. And last season his entire output was only four goals and four assists.</p><p>An incredible series of pre-Christmas injuries, which had him in and out like a cuckoo at noon, was blamed for his poor start last year. And his Improved play in the Stanley Cup playoffs, when he scored half as many goals as he did all season, raised hopes again.</p><h2><b>Hopalong Slow On Draw</b></h2><p>This year, however, Hopalong has been slow to mount and slower on the draw again.</p><p>&ldquo;We couldn&rsquo;t decide whether Hannigan&rsquo;s first year, when he did so well, was an accident, or whether last year, when he was hurt so often, was the accident,&rdquo; explains Assistant Leaf General Manager Hap Day. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s why we brought in Creighton as insurance.</p><p>&ldquo;Creighton wasn&rsquo;t impressive on left wing at training camp. But he showed us something when we had to move him to right wing after Ron Stewart injured his thumb in training. He showed us he might be the man we&rsquo;ve been hunting for years to go with Kennedy. He&rsquo;s the first man we&rsquo;ve found who could set Teeder up &mdash; give Kennedy the puck after Kennedy had given it to him. And their record (the Kennedy-Creighton-Sid Smith line) in training (13 goals for and none against) was exceptional.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>So has their record of four goals for and none against in the first four games since the schedule started. Especially when it is considered the entire team has counted only seven goals in those games.</p><p>At the same time as it aided Kennedy, the Creighton switch enabled Leafs to employ the swift and strong Stewart with the heady and aggressive Rudy Migay as penalty-killing experts.</p><p>&ldquo;That in itself is something we always wanted,&rsquo;&rsquo; Clancy says. &ldquo;To have a couple of penalty killers ready to rush into an emergency without having to break up a line. And those are two of the best.&rdquo;</p><p>But the left wing problem remained unsolved.</p><h2><b>To Try Cullen At Left</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I know Cullen could play a lot better hockey for us at centre, right now,&rdquo; Day says. &ldquo;But we have to try him at left wing to see if he won&rsquo;t develop into a solution for that problem.&rdquo;</p><p>The youngster is taking the conversion in stride. &ldquo;I was finding it tough enough just trying to jump into this league out of junior hockey,&rdquo; he admits. &ldquo;And trying to learn a new position at the same time just makes it twice as tough. But it&rsquo;s worth it if I can help the team enough for them to keep me. And I sure am learning things a lot faster this way.&rdquo;</p><p>So far he has beaten Hannigan out of the job. And Hopalong, after relegation to the status of an extra forward for two games, was undressed for the next and left completely behind when Leafs visited Boston last week.</p><p>INCIDENTALS:&mdash;George Armstrong, benched for the Leaf home opener, returned to good graces when Clancy traced his erratic start to concern over his wife, ill after the birth of their first heir&hellip;Toronto&rsquo;s own castoffs haunted them through three of their first four games&hellip;In their home opener, Ray Timgren scored the goal that got Chicago a 3-3 tie&hellip;Danny Lewicki then scored the winner for New York in Leafs&rsquo; next misadventure&hellip;And a sensational defensive display by Fern Flaman helped Boston tie Leafs 1-1 in Boston&hellip;Flood-waters in Weston Arena, at the site of Hurricane Hazel&rsquo;s most disastrous calling place, last week forced Leafs to practise at the brand new Ted Reeve Arena in East Toronto&hellip;Named for the legendary Telegram sports columnist who did the job of an army in raising funds for it, the.ice palace opened only three days earlier.</p><h2><b>Portside Potters</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01124/1144931-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="300" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Smith</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02107/1144924-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="291" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Watson</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0383/1144917-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="284" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dave Creighton</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Lack of Lefty Leaves Leafs Lingering

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0464/1144962-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LEO LABINE&hellip;&hellip;Shootinc for 20</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The only thing separating Leo LaBine of the Boston Bruins from the upper echelon of major league hockey forwards is a few more goals.</p><p>Speed, durability, toughness, skill, color&hellip;LaBine has them all.,</p><p>Can he put the puck in the net more often? Early indications this season are that he can&hellip;.</p><p>On an over-all basis, the dividing line for major league forwards is 20 goals. Those who score that many or more are the cream of the crop.</p><h2><b>Has Plenty of Competition</b></h2><p>An exception is in vogue at the right wing position played by LaBine, however, for working on that job are Mons. Maurice Richard and Gordon Howe.</p><p>But LaBine can become one of the elite there with 25 goals, or nine more than he scored last season.</p><p>It is safe to say that LaBine missed enough good opportunities a year ago to have scored at least that many, and Coach Lynn Patrick of the Bruins says:</p><p>&ldquo;If he can make good on one-fifth of the chances he missed last year, he&rsquo;ll get 25. And if he keeps on going the way he has been (four in his first three games) he&rsquo;ll give Richard and Howe the first serious challenge they&rsquo;ve had in years.&rdquo;</p><p>Neither Patrick nor anyone else in the National League challenges the Haileybury Hurricane&rsquo;s qualifications for distinction in other departments, for those he has established.</p><p>Speed? He has it to burn, and he can skate with the ease and agility of an ice show headliner.</p><p>Durability? Until Patrick made him sit out a game a year ago with a badly swollen foot, he has never missed a game in his life.</p><p>Toughness? Hah! He fears no opponent. After the second period of Montreal&rsquo;s first visit here, Coach Dick Irvin thundered at his Canadiens:</p><p>&ldquo;Are you going to let that fresh LaBine chase you back to the minors? Go out there and do something about him.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Nearly Broke Meger in Two</b></h2><p>So the Canadiens went gunning for Leo, and he responded by nearly breaking Paul Meger in half with a check, by putting Bert Olmstead in place and by telling Mons. Richard:</p><p>&ldquo;Better watch yourself, Rocket. You&rsquo;re not as young as you used to be.&rdquo;</p><p>Yep, this refreshing young man with the French name and the Celtic countenance and antecedents needs only to score more, and his present business associates can help him gain that end.</p><p>LaBine has been playing beside Fleming Mackell on the Bruin&rsquo;s first line, with first Real Chevrefils, then Don McKenney as left wing.</p><p>LaBine showed up here three years ago as a rookie from Hershey, and he played parts of two seasons. He won regular status a year ago, and played his best over the second half of the schedule.</p><p>The bewhiffled youngster can hardly ba expected to maintain his early scoring pace, but there&rsquo;s no reason why he cannot keep up a steady one. Put 25 goals on LaBine&rsquo;s record for the year and what do you have? A definite all-star threat, that&rsquo;s what.</p><h2><b>His Coal: Coals!</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Patrick Sees LaBine A Threat To Richard And Howe, If????

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The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY.

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01196/1145038-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="397" height="419"></div><p>&bull; NEW YORK RANGERS&rsquo; decisive win over Boston in their home opener last week was only their 10th win in 29 openers. They lost 13 previous openers and tied six&hellip;The Rangers&rsquo; win boosted their won-lost standings to over.500 for the first time since March, 1950&hellip;NHL President Clarence Campbell presented Camille Henry with the Calder Memorial Trophy as the National League&rsquo;s outstanding rookie for 1953-54 in a pregame ceremony at the Rangers&rsquo; opener&hellip;Henry is the fourth Ranger to win this award&hellip;Others were Edgar Laprade, Pentti Lund and Lorne Worsley&hellip;Rookie Don McKenney of the Bruins scored five of Boston&rsquo;s first 10 goals this season&hellip;The pro football NY Giants were guests of the Ranger management at the opener&hellip;NHL players are wearing their numbers on their skates this year&hellip;This is to enable caption writers on newspapers to identify the players easier&hellip;Manager Frank Boucher of the Rangers figures his club is 20 per cent stronger than last year. &ldquo;Our lines show an all-around better attack and the defense, aided by Gump Worsley in goal appears more solid&rdquo;, Boucher speculated&hellip;&ldquo;I think the fans will like our new players this year,&rdquo; he added&hellip;Allan Stanley has been the Rangers&rsquo; finest rearguard so far this season&hellip;Mrs. Lorne Ferguson, wife of the Bruins&rsquo; forward, gave birth to a baby just before Lorne left Beantown on a road trip with the Bruins&hellip;Lorne almost missed his train as a result&hellip;Butch Bouchard and Maurice Richard are the only members of the current edition of the Canadiens who were with the 1943-44 team that won the NHL championship by not losing a game at home ail season and then went on to win the Stanley Cup.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0291/1145031-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="281" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lome Ferguson</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; THREE NEW linesmen were added to the NHL officiating staff this season and all three come from the Boston area&hellip;They are Eddie Barry, Cliff Thompson and Jim Edgeworth. All three played for the Boston Olympics at one time or another and Barry and Thompson had brief whirls with the Bruins&hellip;Edgeworth toured Europe with an amateur team several years ago. He is rated one of the best amateur officials in the United States&hellip;Sammy Babcock is the dean of NHL linesmen. Sam is starting his 14th year in the league&hellip;When Gump Worsley heard that Scotty Morrison, the referee from the WHL was going to work in the NHL this season, he had this to say: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad to see Scotty get ahead. He needs one&rdquo;&hellip;William &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Mitchell will coach Springfield Indians of the AHL this season. He played with Chicago during the war years&hellip;Shirley Jacobson, the one-time pillar of the Chicago Standbys Fan Club, has recovered from her unfortunate illness and is back in the swing of things again&hellip;Frank Peppiat, one of Canada&rsquo;s better young TV comedians, will soon marry the daughter of Frank Frederickson, the old-time Boston Bruin star&hellip;The NHL captains are the same again this year. They are Milt Schmidt, Boston; Ted Kennedy, Toronto; Butch Bouchard, Canadiens; Bill Gadsby, Chicago; Ted Lindsay, Detroit and Don Raleigh, Rangers&hellip; Ed Sandford and Nick Mickoski, two of the better NHL left wingers last season, are making a switch this year. Both are playing right wing on new lines recently formed by their respective coaches.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0354/1145024-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="253" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gump Worsley</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; KEN ULLYOT is the new coach of the Prince Albert Mintos of the Saskatchewan Junior League. The ex-New Westminster star takes over the job held formerly by Bill &ldquo;Legs&rdquo; Fraser, who &ldquo;walked out on the team about a month ago&rdquo; according to Nick Roche of CKBI&hellip; The slender Ullyot is called The Rake&rdquo; by his pals &hellip; Carl Voss, NHL referee-in-chief, says the referees from now on will be instructed to send the teams to their dressing rooms when a fight breaks out with less than two minutes to play in either the first or second periods&hellip; Several banners were on view at Madison Square Garden the Blueshirts opened the new season &hellip; &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s Go Danny&rdquo;, Go, Go Ivan&rdquo;, &ldquo;Gump&rdquo; and &ldquo;Laprade&rdquo; are new ones this year &hellip; &ldquo;The RangersDetroit and Don Raleigh, Rangers&hellip; Ed Sandford and Nick Mickoski, two of the better NHL left wingers last season, are making a switch this year. Both are playing right wing on new lines recently formed by their respective coaches. called &lsquo;The Rake&rdquo; by his pals &hellip; Carl Voss, NHL referee-in-chief, says the referees from now on will be instructed to send the teams to their dressing rooms when a fight breaks out with less than two minutes to play in either the first or second periods&hellip; Several banners were on view at Madison Square Garden the Blueshirts opened the new season &hellip; &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s Go Danny&rdquo;, Go, Go Ivan&rdquo;, &ldquo;Gump&rdquo; and &ldquo;Laprade&rdquo; are new ones this year &hellip; &ldquo;The Rangers Fan Club&rdquo; is probably the most impressive of the banners on tap right now &hellip; Feeling in Manhattan right now it that this year&rsquo;s Rangers are the best club since the war&hellip; Bert Lee will not broadcast New York games this year. He has left Station WMGM and is now associated with a new TV station in Newark &hellip; Ward Wilson and Win Elliott will air Ranger games this year via radio while Bud Palmer and Jimmy Bowers will handle the telecasting of all Ranger home games except Sundays &hellip; Old friends and associates of Art Ross tossed the retiring general manager of the Eruins a splendid farewell party last week. The Boston Garden presented him with a TV set.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0436/1145017-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="293" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Butch Bouchard</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-079/1145131-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>K</span>EEP UP WITH THE HOCKEY JONESES BY SUBSCRIBING TODAY</b> for 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><b>THE HOCKEY NEWS it published for 30 consecutive issues during the season and 5 monthly summer Issues. It doesn&rsquo;t matter when you start, you still got your 35 issues.</b></p><p><b>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive Issues,</b></p><p><b>Canadian Remittances &mdash; $3.00 Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order.</b></p><p><b>U. S. A. Remittances &mdash; $4.00 Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or personal cheque.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Send Now!

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0532/1145069-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>Collector&rsquo;s Items</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I&rsquo;d be very thankful if you would publish my letter in your Fan Forum column.</p><p>Last season I started buying and reading THE HOCKEY NEWS for the first time. I enjoyed it very much. At the same time I started a scrap book on hockey. My best book is the one which carries pictures of games.</p><p>As I am anxious to get hack issues for future scrap books I hope that anyone who reads this letter will send me any hockey pictures or issues of THE HOCKEY NEWS other than those published last year.</p><p>Please help an ardent hockey fan. My address is 140 Baker St. Nelson. B.C.</p><p>Frank Matovich Nelson, B.C.</p><h2>Proper Frame of Mind</h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>During the 1953 season Brooklyn Dodger fans rallied behind a slump-ridden Gil Hodges, cheering him every time he batted. With this response Hodges regained his confidence and he batted.300.</p><p>As a Ranger fan and a past anti-Stanley advocate, I would like to see all New York fans adopt this frame of mind. Instead of booing Stanley in Madison Square Garden, let&rsquo;s cheer him in every move he makes. By doing this Allan Stanley will feel at home again and his play will improve.</p><p>In fact, this decision on the part of the fans could make the difference between a New York playoff spot and a sixth-place Ranger squad.</p><p>So let&rsquo;s cheer on the new Allan Stanley, and get a playoff team this year.</p><p>Sanford Zwickler New York, N.Y.</p><h2>Lewicki Fan</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>How about a story on Danny Lewicki of the New York Rangers? I am sure that he is going to be a future star in the NHL.</p><p>Lewicki was never given a proper chance to show his stuff with Toronto Maple Leafs but now that he will have this opportunity with the Rangers I am sure he will star.</p><p>Jean-Marie Doyon Montreal, Que.</p><h2>Indifferent Attitude?</h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>Thank you for many informative hours spent perusing THE HOCKEY NEWS over the past four years.</p><p>It sometimes appears that professional hockey management and the players care little for the opinions of those, like myself, who spend their hard-earned dollars to keep these not-underpaid people from seeking other employment.</p><p>Take the question of penalties. A game takes one hour of playing time and often as long as ten minutes at a time are spent by one team or the other shooting the puck from one end of the rink to the other. All the spectator can do is to flop down and wait till the seconds slowly tick by until he can see more hockey.</p><p>Then there&rsquo;s the spectacle of grown men acting like petulant kids and endeavoring to bash each other over the heads with their sticks. What other professional sport (?) do you know in which such a puerile performance is permitted?</p><p>Believe me, all those who sit around me at the rink are agreed that neat passng plays and accurate goal shooting are what we go to see.</p><p>Call back all icing, whether players are even in number or not, and these boys will think twice before incurring penalties.</p><p>Chas. Ward Toronto, Ont.</p><h2>Anti-Irvin Department</h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>I know this letter will never be printed in THE HOCKEY NEWS since the paper is published in Montreal, and the Canadiens are considered the greatest up there, however, I have a few comments to make.</p><p>Recently I read an article in the Detroit News about Dick Irvin and his predictions about the Red Wings and how they will end up at the end of the present hockey season. I quote his statement, &ldquo;The Wings are ready to be taken&rdquo;. Unquote.</p><p>What does this conceited, arrogant, and terrible man know about the Detroit Red Wings? Up to now he hasn&rsquo;t even seen the Wings on ice. Who does Irvin think he is, the president of the NHL? He is only a coach and shouldn&rsquo;t go around making accusations. He might have to eat his words at the end of the season.</p><p>Detroit is the greatest club of all, win or lose, they are tops.</p><p>At the end of the last season when the Wings took the Stanley Cup at Olympia, where was Irvin, he faded out of the picture, and that alone brought out his true self. Never in my life have I seen such terrible sportsmanship as was displayed by the Montreal team and their so called coach.</p><p>Had that been any other team they would certainly have congratulated the Wings upon their victory, but not Montreal. Irvin couldn&rsquo;t take it but he didn&rsquo;t have to make it so obvious.</p><p>I myself don&rsquo;t understand how such a man could get mixed up with as fine a sport as Hockey. He is a disgrace to the NHL. It is as plain as day that Irvin with all his phony accusations against the Wings is nothing but a case of ordinary jealousy. If Montreal is so good, then why have the Wings taken six straight NHL championships, surely there must be a reason for it, and that reason is due to the fact that Detroit is a fine club and they have only gotten what is coming to them, they truly deserve to be the World Champions as they are today.</p><p>Nobody knows how the present season will end, not even the experts, they were wrong last</p><p>year. If they don&rsquo;t know how can Irvin know now. Take it from me, Mr. Irvin, just sit back and coach your hockey club, don&rsquo;t talk so much. Maybe you will be able to coach them to take an NHL Championship, but I hope you don&rsquo;t.</p><p>Find something else to complain about, not the Detroit Red Wings, the Hockey Champions of the world today.</p><p>Alice L. Kalajian Detroit, Mich.</p><h2>Hawk Supporters</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I seem to remember reading a letter in the Fan Forum of the September issue Indicating that a Miss Belle had never heard of fan clubs for hockey players.</p><p>I beg to differ with Miss Belle. Here, in Chicago, we have a club called the Black Hawk Standbys which has been in existence for almost eleven years, and, of which I am proud to be a member.</p><p>Most of the members are at every Hawk home game shouting words of encouragement to their friends, the Hawks.</p><p>Occasionally, some members travel to other cities to see the Hawks play.</p><p>We have affairs to which the Hawks are invited and we have a lot of fun getting together and discussing hockey.</p><p>The Standbys are looking forward to this coming season as we are sure the Hawks will be a hard team to beat.</p><p>Miss Elaine Uhrik Chicago, Ill.</p><h2>Making The Jump</h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>I&rsquo;m finally making the jump. I&rsquo;m moving from Pittsburgh to New York. Last year I rooted for the Rangers by wav of reading about them In THE HOCKEY NEWS.</p><p>I have enjoyed your paper for the past three years, and hope to do so for a good many years to come.</p><p>How about a story on Brian &lsquo;Cullen, the new Leaf rookie, just signed up this summer?</p><p>Don Walsh Pittsburgh, Pa.</p><p><b>(Last week&rsquo;s issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS contained a feature on Brian Cullen and the Leafs. Others will doubtless follow shortly.)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">BY Marshall Dann</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01147/1145162-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="290" height="445"></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>There is somewhat more than a faint suspicion that Detroit, Montreal or Toronto play a far faster brand of hockey when they are engaged with one another.</p><p>As mentioned, this is purely a personal opinion. It is not meant as a rap at Boston, New York or Chicago. They&rsquo;ll get enough hard knocks before the season ends as it is.</p><p>From our seat in the press box it is downright obvious that the Red Wings save their strongest arrows for Canadiens and Maple Leafs. When one of the other clubs skates into view, rarely do the Detroiters show the same fervor.</p><p>Which is only human nature and hockey players are human.</p><p>&ldquo;Montreal and Toronto are the clubs to beat,&rdquo; the Wings are told early in training camp. So out they go to beat them.</p><p>Nobody ever tells them that New York or Boston or Chicago is the &ldquo;club to beat&rdquo; this season. At least, not in the memory of an entire generation of fans.</p><p>So when the Rangers or Bruins or Hawks pop around, routine hockey has to do for them.</p><p>Now this Is a theory I haven&rsquo;t taken up with the Coaches&rsquo; Guild. Nor will I. Any coach in the business would quicker call a penalty shot on his own club than admit that he can&rsquo;t steam the boys up for each and every enemy.</p><p>But I did broach the subject to Elmer Ferguson, who has been pleasantly engaged in viewing hockey wars since Wolfe pulled on skates against Montcalm.</p><p>Fergie duly noted that there once was a time when the Canadiens viewed the Maple Leafs as the one and only when it came to giving their all.</p><p>&ldquo;Lately, though, the MontrealDetroit rivalry seems to be carrying more weight with Canadiens,&rdquo; he commented reflectively.</p><p>Which coincided with an opinion noted from this end of it.</p><p>Not that Wings or Canadiens still can&rsquo;t relish a nice juicy victory over Leafs any time.</p><p>But the bigger thrill comes from the Detroit-Montreal rivalry.</p><p>This is appropriate. Detroit and Montreal have met in the Stanley Cup round of the playoffs two of the last three seasons. And they&rsquo;ve finished one-two in the NHL race over the same stretch.</p><p>A sharper rivalry then is only natural.</p><p>Time will change that of course. But not this season. There&rsquo;ll be an extra tingle all around every time Canadiens and Wings get together. Too bad they meet only 14 times instead of 41.</p><p>Ted Lindsay summed up the subject neatly with a comment he made a few seasons back. His words:</p><p>&ldquo;They pay us for playing all the clubs but honestly, we&rsquo;d play the Leafs or Canadiens anytime on any mud pond in Canada for free.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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On Thin Ice

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>At going baby-sitting rates, Milt Schmidt could be piling up a tidy sum for his services along those lines to the Boston Bruins.</p><p>A goodly part of Sch midt&rsquo;s ice time in recent years has been spent in keeping watch over forwards representing a younger generation than his.</p><p>Real Chevrefils&hellip;Leo LaBine&hellip;Lorne Ferguson&hellip;Doug Mohns&hellip;Murray Costello&hellip;Don McKenney&hellip;all have broken into Brains&rsquo; lineups with the veteran captain for company.</p><p>Already this season Schmidt&rsquo;s linemates have included a trio of 20-year-olds, Mohns, Costello and McKenney, all of whom were infants when Milt joined the Bruins 18 years ago.</p><p>The age-youth combination represented by Schmidt and his proteges of moment is always interesting, if for no other reason than to hear the observations of the proteges at the experience.</p><p>&ldquo;Chewy and I used to travel from Barrie to Toronto (100 miles) to see him play against the Maple Leafs,&rdquo; related Labine three years ago. &ldquo;I never thought I&rsquo;d get to the Bruins in time to play with him.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02124/1145214-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="287" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lome Ferguson</b></figcaption></div><p>Asked the other night how he had enjoyed playing with Schmidt, young McKenney looked startled at the question.</p><p>After pondering briefly, he replied, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s quite a hockey player.&rdquo;</p><p>Actually, Coach Lynn Patrick of the Bruins has two motives for putting Schmidt on the babysitting details, and only one has to do with the lack of experience or his forwards.</p><p>The other is that the muscular Uncle Miltie has a deterring effect on opponents curious to find out how the youngsters will react to a shave-and-haircut treatment. Just as Dit Clapper was the strong arm behind Bobby Bauer, Woody Dumart and Schmidt when the Krauts were kids, so is Schmidt the ready chaperone today.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0392/1145207-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="292" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Mohns</b></figcaption></div><p>Another point of view is that young legs are more likely to be able to stay with the dean of National leaguers, for Schmidt is still one of the league&rsquo;s fastest. To quote LaBine again:</p><p>&ldquo;One of the first things I learned was that when I was playing with Milt I never had to worry about his keeping up with me, that I could concentrate on trying to keep up with him.&rdquo; Schmidt hasn&rsquo;t been devoting his full time to playing with youngsters this fall, for Patrick has come up with another last-minute defensive line with Milt as the center. The new Blanket Line has had Gus Bodnar playing the left wing spot once occupied by Dumart, and Joe Klukay playing right wing,</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0482/1145200-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="307" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Real Chevrefils</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Mother Hen</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0561/1145193-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="553" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MILT SCHMIDT</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Schmidt Picks Up Loose Change Baby-Sitting For Budding Bruins

<p>BOSTON. &mdash; The opening of the hockey season here this fall has been a hot one, both figuratively and literally.</p><p>The Bruins played the first three games of their home schedule in weather more suitable for swimming than skating.</p><p>For the season opener with Montreal and the second game with New York, temperatures at Boston Garden ranged into the high 80s. For the third game with Toronto - the thermometer registered near 80.</p><p>Despite the record weather, all three games were played at top speed on good ice, installed in the busy Garden more than a week before the opening of the season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Boston Garden A Hot House, Temperature 80

<div class="byline">By GARY LAUTENS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0646/1145269-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANKIE BRIMSEK&hellip;&hellip;In Kenesky Pads</b></figcaption></div><p>HAMILTON, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>As harness-maker to hockey&rsquo;s royalty &mdash; the goalies &mdash; Emil Otto Kenesky has manufactured more pads than Gay Deceiver, Inc., and received just about as many stares.</p><p>Every goalie worthy of wearing a No. 1 is supplied with shinsavers, lavished with love and labour in Kenesky&rsquo;s workshop, by the 78-year-old Nijinsky of needlework who can truthfully boast he has stopped more shots than any man who ever blew frosted breath in the hockey world.</p><p>In fact Kenesky is credited with inventing the modern goalie pad 30 years ago in an attic above his store on Barton Street East.</p><h2>Everything Jake with Forbes</h2><p>&ldquo;Perce Thompson came to me after the Tigers had lost eight straight games and asked me what I could do about making pads for Jake Forbes.&rdquo; Kenesky explains.</p><p>&ldquo;We were in the NHL then and I told him that there was no ruling about goalie pads and that I thought I would like to flatten them out and make them wider. I&rsquo;ll be goll darned if we didn&rsquo;t change them. Before that the pads were like cricket guards, bent more oval shape to fit the leg.</p><p>&ldquo;Made the pads and Tigers won their next game, too.&rsquo;</p><h2>Rabbit Wasn&rsquo;t So Lucky</h2><p>Alex Connell of Montreal Maroons was the next to file his order. Soon all the goalies began to fall in line through Bill Durnan, Wilf Cude, Sammy LoPresti, Dave Kerr, Lorne Chabot, Frank Brimsek, Mike Karakas, Johnny Mowers and Earl Robertson.</p><p>The great Georges Vezina tried a pair. However he fell to the ice making a save and couldn&rsquo;t get to his feet again because he wasn&rsquo;t used to the size, weight and feel of the guards and so went back to the old style.</p><p>While in the employ of New York Americans, Earl Robertson insisted that Kenesky make him pads and stuff a rabbit&rsquo;s foot inside for puck luck.</p><h2>Pads Are Made-To-Measure</h2><p>Orders came from all over the continent (some Kenesky pads are in Switzerland, France and Great Britain today). One was simply addressed:</p><p>&ldquo;To the Dutchman on Barton Street who makes goalie pads.&rdquo;</p><p>Kenesky got the letter. The writer got his pads.</p><p>Today every NHL goalie &mdash; Terry Sawchuk, Al Rollins, Harry Lumley, Gump Worsley. Sugar Jim Henry and Jacques Plante &mdash;. wears Kenesky pads.</p><p>Each is tailor-made to the customer&rsquo;s size and style. Wilf Cude, Turk Broda and Harry Lumley have helped with the design of pads, aiding Kenesky, a former goalie himself, to fit the needs of the trade.</p><h2>Dig That Malabaricum</h2><p>From the skins of western broncos, Kenesky gets horsehide; he secures tough cotton sheeting; and for stuffing he imports bombax malabaricum silk cotton &mdash; plain kapok &mdash; from Java.</p><p>In a day and a half he can put them together &mdash; all by hand &mdash; into an eight-pound package of protection which costs NHL goalies about $70.</p><p>&ldquo;The secret is here,&rdquo; says Kenesky tapping his head and hands. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not in the pads.&rdquo;</p><p>New pads are only used for practice sessions by NHL goalies. Old ones are used in games. After a season of breaking them in at workouts, goalies then use year-old pads for games and get a new pair again for practice.</p><p>That means pads last two years, the first year as practice equipment, the second year in. games.</p><h2>Durnan Pads No Expense</h2><p>&ldquo;Some of the boys are different. Bill Durnan used the same pads all the time and just asked me to patch them up for him. Some of my pads are 25 years old and still around,&rdquo; the prop, of the shop states.</p><p>Also a manufacturer of other sports equipment, Kenesky once made a goalie&rsquo;s glove for a goalie without a hand.</p><p>Brony Yoworski, a Kitchener boy with no left handbut aspirations to be a goalie, was fitted for a special glove which laced on to his arm and had a pocket to catch shots.</p><p>Born in St. Jacobs, a wen (pop. 975.) town near Kitchener, Kenesky, a wee (five feet, six inches tall; 150 pounds) man started his salaried life as a stitcher at 3 0 cents per 1,000 stitches. He could make 7,000 stitches a day.</p><p>He went into harness work, saw the trade was later falling oft and so bought two bicycles for a total cost of $22.</p><h2>Letter, $15 Start Wheel</h2><p>He sold them for $30 and decided he would go into the bicycle business.</p><p>After operating from his home, Kenesky in 1916 had his eye on his present store which was up for sale at an auction.</p><p>He agreed on the price ($3,700) but had only $15 to hold the sale.</p><p>Then he wrote a letter addressed.</p><p>&ldquo;To the Mayor of Montreal.&rdquo;</p><p>In it he asked &ldquo;to get in touch with a respectable bicycle dealer.&rdquo; Four days later, the $15 and the letter put him in business:</p><h2>E Pur Si Muove</h2><p>This is the story he tells his sons, Otto, Frank, Jack and Ed about business:</p><p>&ldquo;When I started in business I thought I could be my own boss. I was told that I should start at 7 in the morning and quit at 6 o&rsquo;clock to move my stock. My stock didn&rsquo;t move. So I started at 6 a.m. Then it was 5 a.m.</p><p>&ldquo;Finally I was working from 4 a.m. until 11 p.m. But my stock&mdash;it moved.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Supplied Mr. Zero</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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He Lists “The Greats” As His Customers

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01180/1145300-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b><i>Billy Mosienko&hellip;After 13 years, still a Hawk</i></b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Billy Mosienko, the wee looter of enemy defenses who has careened around major league ice surfaces with the Black Hawks for 13 years, came out of retirement for one more fling with his career club October 17 to see if his ability and experience might not be what has been missing to date.</p><p>He actually had every intention of keeping his word when he announced that it was quits at the close of the 1953-54 schedule, but a plea from the Chicago front office succeeded in changing his mind and no Hawk fan is sorry to see his lithe frame in uniform again.</p><p>When he showed up in time for the Detroit tilt on home ice the other night, Billy had no idea that he would be expected to play. &ldquo;Gosh, I thought sure they would give me a week or so to get in shape,&rdquo; he gasped afterward. &ldquo;This is the first time I&rsquo;ve skated since last season!&rdquo;</p><p>This should be refreshing news to the many followers of &ldquo;Mosie&rdquo; who probably were wondering why he didn&rsquo;t seem to be skating very hard or with the elusive speed that has left both them and pursuing opponents breathless many times. Aside from the lack of conditioning, he says that he feels fine.</p><p>Slated to celebrate birthday No. 33 next Tuesday (November 2), Mosienko is the first skater over 30 to join the youth-minded Chicago crew this season. His actions, however, are those of a much younger player and his vast experience should aid the numerous Hawk fledglings no end.</p><p>Billy&rsquo;s introduction into the fray came so quickly after his arrival as a move to inject heartier scoring punch into the squad. &ldquo;If he can help us get some goals, we need him now,&rdquo; General Manager Tommy Ivan admitted dolefully the week before after a 3-0 shellacking administered by the Canadiens.</p><p>While in no condition to exert himself on the ice, &ldquo;Mosie&rdquo;&mdash;just as he was, got an assist as the Black Hawks played their best game of the season to date despite the final score that leaned toward the visiting champion Red Wings to the extent of 5-2. Two Detroit scores came with Chicago a man short.</p><p>The play in which Mosienko played an important part tied the count at 2-2 at 7:35 of the second stanza after the Wings had romped into a 2-0 advantage in the first period. He and John McCormack passed the puck back and forth as they left their end and entered center ice.</p><p>Things got rough when they went into the Red Wing zone, but &ldquo;Goose&rdquo; succeeded in feeding the rubber back to defenseman Frank Martin who dashed in past the blue line to grab it and promptly fire a 40-foot screen shot which blinked the red light over the head of a startled Terry Sawchuk.</p><p>Mosienko played perhaps as important a part in the play as anyone. In the direct path of Martin&rsquo;s shot, he leaped high to give the puck a clear path. This was probably his only aim in this action, but he also distracted Red Wing skaters for the split instant required.</p><p>Such tricks can be expected only from such old pros as himself. Youth movement or no youth movement, Chicago hockey fans would gladly applaud every effort of an older player if all were like Billy Mosienko. But, of course, they are not. He is strictly one in a million!.</p><h2><b>The Daddy Of The Youth Squad</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Mosie Answers Front Office Plea, Joins Hawks, Plays Without Practice

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02130/1145331-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="298" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANKIE EDDOLLS</b></figcaption></div><p>STATISTICS:</p><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>orn in Lachine, P.Q. July 5, 1921. 5&rsquo;8&rdquo;, 180 lbs. Played amateur hockey with Oshawa Generals (Juniors). Played defense for Canadiens and Rangers. Last season was playing coach of Buffalo Bisons. Is now coach of the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>SUPERSTITION&mdash;IF ANY: Won&rsquo;t change suit on a winning streak.</p><p>FAVORITE FOOD BEFORE A GAME (As a player): Steak.</p><p>FAVORITE FOOD ANYTIME: Steak & Lobster.</p><p>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE: Buffalo.</p><p>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT: California.</p><p>FAVORITE N.H.L. CITY ON THE ROAD: Montreal.</p><p>FAVORITE READING MATERIAL: Any good book.</p><p>FAVORITE RECREATION: Golf (He shoots in the 70&rsquo;s)</p><p>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE: &ldquo;Gone With The Wind.&rdquo; Seldom goes to a show, prefers watching TV.</p><p>BEST ACTRESSES: Joan Crawford & Betty Grable.</p><p>BEST ACTORS: John Wayne & Burt Lancaster.</p><p>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALIST: Kay Starr.</p><p>FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST: Likes Perry Como & Frankie Laine.</p><p>FAVORITE POPULAR SONG: &ldquo;Stardust.&rdquo;</p><p>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA: Billy May.</p><p>FAVORITE TV PROGRAMS: &ldquo;What&rsquo;s My Line,&rdquo; &ldquo;I Love Lucy&rdquo; and &ldquo;Dragnet.&rdquo;</p><p>IN THE SUMMER: Lives in Buffalo and works in the automobile business.</p><p>PET AVERSION: When his players make mistakes in simple fundamentals.</p><p>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY: Has had a lot of thrills&hellip;Winning the Memorial Cup with Oshawa Generals in 1939-40. Helping Canadiens win the Stanley Cup in 19454 6. Coaching Buffalo to A. H.L. championship and being chosen coach of the year by the Hockey News in 1953-54.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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INSIDE STUFF About

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-10" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1052/1145508-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg"></div><p>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;</p><p>Chicago Black Hawks and New York Rangers proved over the weekend that the two top teams in the circuit are not invincible. The Hawks win over Detroit and Rangers defeat of Canadians were both big victories for the Chicago and New York squads.</p><p>Montreal Canadiens are in first place in the weekly NHL standing with 11 points, with Detroit Red Wings second with 10 and New York third with eight. Toronto Maple Leafs are tied with Boston Bruins at five points apiece. The Bruins have played one more game than the Leafs and Toronto therefore gets the nod for the fourth slot. Chicago is last with three points.</p><p>Players from the Canadiens dominate the. individual scoring parade with the first three spots occupied by Montrealers. Boom Boom Geoffrion leads the pack with seven goals and four assists for 11 points. One point back is Maurice Richard with 10 and two points back is Ken Mosdell with nine. Detroit&rsquo;s top point-getters, Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay, and Rangers&rsquo; Don Raleigh, follow with eight points each.</p><p>Geoffrion&rsquo;s seven goals the most recorder by a player in the NHL this season. Don Raleigh and Richard are tied with most assists&mdash;seven. Red Kelly of Detroit fired three goals past Boston on October 21, to become the first player to rack up a &ldquo;Hat Trick&rdquo; this season.</p><p>Harry Lumley of Toronto has had the least goals scored against him and is the leading goalkeeper to date. The Toronto club has been beaten for 14 counters in six games.</p><p>The most penalized team in the loop is the Montreal Canadiens with 106 minutes, while the most penalized player is New York Ranger&rsquo;s swashbuckling defenseman, Ivan Irwin, who has a total of 23 penalty minutes.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hawks, Rangers Top Top Teams

<h2><b>First Triple</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>L</span>eonard (Red) Kelly, the National Hockey League&rsquo;s most consistent scoring defenseman became the first player to hit the three-goal hattrick this year when he popped in a trio as Detroit beat the Bruins, 5-3.</p><h2><b>Shooting for 30</b></h2><p>Bernie (Boom-Boom) Geoffrion of Canadiens is determined to hit the 30 goal mark this year. He&rsquo;s away in a blaze of glory with seven goals already scored in Canadiens&rsquo; first nine games. He scored 30 goals in his rookie year.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>(STANDING ON WED. A.M. OCT. 27)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01165/1145439-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="589" height="150"></div><h3>RESULTS-OF GAMES PLEATED</h3><p>WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 24th, 1954.</p><p>Wed. Oct. 20th&mdash;Boston 2 at Rangers 6</p><p>Thurs. Oct. 21st&mdash;Toronto 3 at Can. 1</p><p>Thurs. Oct; 21st&mdash;Boston 3 at Detroit 5</p><p>Sat. Oct. 23rd&mdash;Rangers 1 at Can. 7</p><p>Sat. Oct. 23rd&mdash;Boston 3 at Toronto 3</p><p>Bat. Oct. 23rd&mdash;Chicago 4 at Det. 2</p><p>Sun. Oct. 24th&mdash;Can. 2 at Rangers 4</p><h3>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK</h3><p>ENDING OCTOBER 31st, 1954<b>.</b></p><p>Wed. Oct. 27th&mdash;Canadiens at Toronto</p><p>Wed. Oct. 27th&mdash;Detroit at Rangers</p><p>Sat. Oct. 30th&mdash;Chicago at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Oct. 30th&mdash;Rangers at Toronto</p><p>Sat. Oct. 30th&mdash;Boston at Detroit</p><p>Sun. Oct. 31st&mdash;Chicago at Rangers</p><h3>WEDNESDAY, OCT. 20 Boston 2 at New York 6</h3><p>Boston 2 at New York 6</p><p><b>Boston</b> &mdash; Goal: Henry; defence: Armstrong, Godfrey, Laycoe, Quackenbush, Flaman; forwards: Sandford, Mackell, Gardner. Schmidt, Labine, McKenney, Bodnar, Mohns, Costello, Klukay, Ferguson.</p><p><b>New York</b> &mdash; Goal: Worsley, defence: Irwin, Howell, Chrystal, Stanley, Evans; forwards: Raleigh, Ronty, Laprade, Mickowski, Guidolin, Bathgate, Murphy, Sonmor, Prentice, McLeod, Popein, Henry, Lewicki.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02145/1145432-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="592" height="762"></div><h3>STOPS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03114/1145425-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="590" height="53"></div><h3>THURSDAY OCT. 21</h3><p>Toronto 3 at Canadiens 1</p><p><b>Toronto</b> &mdash; Goal: Mayer; defence: Morrison, Boivin: wings: Watson. Armstrong; centre: Sloan. Alternates&mdash;Thomson, Horton, Smith, Kennedy, Creighton, Stewart, Migay, Nesterenko. Hannigan, Bailey, Cahan, Cullen, Bolton.</p><p><b>Montreal</b> &mdash; Goal: Plante; defence: Harvey, MacPherson; wings: Olmstead, Richard: centre: Leelair. Alternates: Bouchard, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Curry, Johnson, MacKay, Moore, Litzenberger, Mosdell, St. Laurent, Meger, Masnick.</p><p><b>Referee</b> &mdash; Storey; linesmen: Babcock, Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0498/1145418-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="581" height="362"></div><h3>THURSDAY, OCT. 21</h3><p>Boston 3 at Detroit 5</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0580/1145411-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="581" height="658"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCT. 23</h3><p>New York 1 at Canadiens 7</p><p><b>New York</b> &mdash; Goal: Worsley; defence: Howell. Evans, Irwin, Chrystal, Stanley; forwards: Raleigh, Mickoskl, Lewicki, Ronty, Laprade, Guidolin, Bathgate, Murphy, Sonmor, Prentice, McLeod, Popein. Henry.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b> &mdash; Goal: Plante; defence: Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, MacPherson, St. Laurent; forwards: Belliveau, Geoffrion, Meger, Leclair, Richard, Olmstead, Mosdell, Mackay, Litzenberger, Masnick, Curry.</p><p><b>Referee</b> &mdash; Frank Udvari; linesmen: Babcock. Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0671/1145404-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="582" height="826"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCT. 23</h3><p>Boston 3 at Toronto 3</p><p><b>Boston</b> &mdash; Goal: Henry; defence: Quackenbush, Flaman, Laycoe, R. Armstrong, Godfrey; forwards: Mackell, LaBine, McKenney, Gardner, Ferguson, Sandford, Schmidt, Costello, Mohns, Klukay, Bodnar.</p><p><b>Toronto</b> &mdash; Goal: Lumley; defence: Thomson, Bolton, Morrison, Boivin, Horton; forwards: Bailey, Nesterenko, Cullen, Kennedy, Stewart, Smith, Sloan, G. Armstrong, Watson, Creighton, Migay.</p><p><b>Referee</b> &mdash; Red Storey; linesmen: Jim Primeau, Bill Roberts.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0762/1145397-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="574" height="248"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>INCLUDING GAMES OF SUN., OCT. 24</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0857/1145390-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="593" height="3325"></div><h3>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1954-1955</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1141/1145383-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="590" height="210"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MIN. BY CLUBS</h3><p>Rangers, 79; Chicago, 82; Detroit, 83;</p><p>Toronto. 85; Boston, 98: Canadiens, 106.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0671/1145376-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="619" height="352"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCT. 23</h3><p>Chicago 4 at Detroit 2</p><p><b>Chicago</b> &mdash; Goal: Rollins; defence: Mortson, Martin, Gadsby, Dewsbury. Hollingworth; forwards: Sullivan, Davis, McIntyre, L. Wilson, Mosienko, Jankowski, Conacher, Toppazzini, McCormack, Hassard, Timgren, Gamble.</p><p><b>Detroit</b> &mdash; Goal: Sawchuk; defence: Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Woit, Allen; forwards: Prystai, Dineen, J. Wilson, Delvecchio, Howe, Lindsay, Skov. Leswick, Pavelich, Reibel, Bonin, Poile.</p><p><b>Referee</b> &mdash; Bill Chadwick; linesmen; George Hayes, Doug Young.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0491/1145369-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="591" height="673"></div><h3>SUNDAY. OCTOBER 24</h3><p>Canadiens 2 at New York 4</p><p><b>New York</b> &mdash; Goal: Worsley; defenses Howell, Evans, Irwin, Chrystal; for&reg; wards; Raleigh, Mickoski, Lewicki, Ronty, Laprade, Guidolin, Bathgate, Murphy, Sonmor, Prentice, McLeod, Popein, Henry.</p><p><b>Montreal</b> &mdash; Goal: Plante; defenses Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, Macpherson, St. Laurent; forwards: Beliveau Geoffrion, Meger, Leclair, Richard. Olmstead, Mosdell, McKay, Litzenber. ger, Masnick, Curry.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0577/1145362-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="590" height="543"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>ashing Danny Lewicki gains honors as Player-of-the-Week for his outstanding play on behalf of the third-place New York Rangers. The ex-Toronto Maple Leaf player seems to ve found himself since joining the New Yorkers and he has been nothing short of sensational thus far.</b></p><p><b>Lewicki scored the winning goal in the first three games won by the Rangers this season. His goals (he has five of them) have all been big ones and have been mighty important to the Rangers. After seven games with the Blueshirts this semester Danny has five goals and one assist for six points.</b></p><p><b>The one-time junior star picked up three goals and one assist during the past seven days. He tallied twice against Boston Bruins on October 20 as the Rangers defeated the Bruins, 6-2, to officially open their season at home for 1954-55. One of these goals proved to be the game winner. On October 24 as Rangers set back the Montreal Canadiens, 4-2, Dashing Dan scored one goal and assisted one one other.</b></p><p><b>Lewicki&rsquo;s play so far this season has caused more than one hockey scout who picked him as the country&rsquo;s outstanding junior player a few seasons back to comment: &ldquo;I knew he had what it takes. It just took him a little longer to display it.&rdquo;</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0957/1145477-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="281" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Danny Lewicki</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Leclair And Litz</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01180/1145470-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="1799" height="1819"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACKIE LECLAIR EDDIE LITZENBERGER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&ndash;</p><p>Dickie Moore, a versatile little forward who has yet to play a full season in the National Hockey League, looms as the new hard luck guy of the Canadiens.</p><p>Moore injured a shoulder in practice last week and missed the two week-end games with the New York Rangers. Although he was the first Canadien victim of the injury jinx since the start of the season, he joined two teammates on the sidelines.</p><p>They were Eddie Mazur and Donnie Marshall, both of whom were hurt in pre-season practices. Mazur aggravated an old knee injury and Marshall, a prospect for the centre spot, vacated by Elmer Lach, broke a leg.</p><p>It is feared that Moore may have a seperatlon of the shoulder. Last year in Boston, in the Habs&rsquo; third game of the season, he fractured a collarbone and the spot has been vulnerable ever since. He didn&rsquo;t get back into action until Feb. 28, when the Sizzle Line was established, and played only ten games from then until the end of the campaign.</p><p>However, quickly recovering his form, Moore led all playoff scorers with 13 points in 11 games, followed by his linemates, Bernie Geoffrion with 11 and Jean Beliveau with 10.</p><p>Although Dickie Moore turned pro midway through the 19 51-52 season, he has played only 71 games with the Habs, largely due to injuries, including a broken leg in his second season with the club.</p><p>With Moore out, Coach Dick Irvin was forced to shuffle his attacking forces. Paul Meger, a scrappy player who scored 24 goals in his rookie year after coming to Montreal from Buffalo, where he was tagged as a potential star, took Moore&rsquo;s place with Beliveau and Geoffrion.</p><p>Irvin also restored Floyd Curry, a dependable player to the Wrecker Line with Kenny Mosdell and Calum MacKay.</p><p>That left him with Eddie Litzenberger and Masnick as utlity forwards. Although big Litz was on the ice for less than five minutes in the first Ranger-Canadien clash at Montreal, he scored a dazzling goal.</p><p>Big Bud MacPherson meanwhile is becoming a permanent fixture on defence, alternating with the youthful Dollard St. Laurent.</p><p>Although MacPherson still draws boos from a hostile section of the Montreal crowd, he has acquitted himself well. As a matter of fact, some observers believe that he is the most Improved defenceman in the league.</p><p>He is tossing his weight around with more reckless abandon, is skating better and has become adept at carrying the puck.</p><p>His trouble is that he runs into some costly penalties. In a recent game he was thumbed off for a minor infraction and the Toronto Maple Leafs rammed in two quick goals.</p><p>When he came back to theice, MacPherson was greeted with a chorus of cat calls. Yet players like Maurice Richard and Bernie Geoffrion can incur even less justifiable penalties and remain draped in their hero&rsquo;s mantles.</p><p>Butch Bouchard, too, can do no wrong. Against the Detroit Red Wings recently, Glen Skov and Bernie Geoffrion were engaged in a mild fracas. Bouchard, despite the best efforts of officials to restrain him, insisted upon getting into the fray and throwing a punch at Skov. Off he went with the original combattants and the Wings promptly scored. But Butch drew no boos after serving his time in the cooler.</p><p>Why do the wolves who lurk in the stands pick on poor MacPherson? There seems no logical explanation except that he should have been born in rural Quebec instead of in Edmonton, Alta.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02141/1145546-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="290" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03121/1145539-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="294" height="470"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ken Mosdell</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Moore Looms As Canadiens’ Hard Luck Kid, Has Yet To Play Full Season In NHL--Trick Shoulder Gives Out Again

<h2><b>Penalty Record?</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Providence Rhode Island Reds could wind up the season with a club penalty record. In their first eight games the team has accumulated a total of 95 minutes.</p><h2><b>Goal A Game</b></h2><p>Freddie Clover, the high-scoring winger of the Cleveland Barons is travelling at a goal-a-game pace this year having potted eight goals in the same number of games.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>(STANDING ON MON. A.M. OCT. 25)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01179/1145675-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="578" height="180"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, OCT. 20 Providence 3 at Buffalo 0</h3><p>BUFFALO &mdash; Providence Reds blanked Buffalo Bisons 3-0 in an American League game and atoned for an. 8-0 loss to the Bisons at Providence a week ago.</p><p>The Reds actually won the game in the first period when Paul Larivee and Al Baccari scored at the 10.40 and 15.02 minute marks.</p><p>Thereafter rookie goalie Charley Hodges held the Bisons in check for his first shutout. He made 26 saves, 11 in the final period. Chuck Scherza scored the last Providence goal at 12.29 of the last period in a solo rush.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02144/1145668-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="577" height="454"></div><h3>Hershey 2 at Pittsburgh 3</h3><p>PITTSBURGH &mdash; Earl Balfour&rsquo;s goal With but three minutes and 11 seconds of play remaining gave Pittsburgh Horsets a 3-2 victory over Hershey Bears.</p><p>The tie-breaking marker came at 16.49 of the last period. It gave the Hornets their first victory in four starts.</p><p>Gerry Foley started the scoring for the Hornets in the first period. Hershev&rsquo;s Gordon Wilson tied it up early in the second but Art Caffery took the lead back for Pittsburgh before the end of the frame.</p><p>Obie O&rsquo;Brien scored a tying goal for Hershey at 14.34 of the final period before Balfour saved the day.</p><p>The loss was the first of the season for Hershey which won its first three games. The visitors fought from behind to tie the score 2-2 in the third period before Balfour came through with his tally.</p><p>Murray Henderson. Hershey coach, Buffered a painful cut in the big toe of his right foot during a second period tangle. He did not play the final period.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03119/1145661-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="576" height="427"></div><h3>Springfield 5 at Cleveland 1</h3><p>CLEVELAND &mdash; Sparked by a rookie goalie, Springfield Indians defeated Cleveland Barons 5-1.</p><p>Don Simpsons. 22, held the defending Calder Cup champions to one goal. It was scored by Eddie Olson midway through the final period.</p><p>Jim Anderson scored two goals and Hugh Currie, Harry Pidhirny and Doug Powell each contributed one as the Indians gained a tie with Hershey and Buffalo for first place in the American League.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0576/1145654-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="577" height="581"></div><h3>FRIDAY; OCT. 22</h3><p>Springfield 1 at Pittsburgh 1</p><p>PITTSBURGH &mdash; Pittsburgh Hornets played their third overtime game in five starts in the young American Hockey League season, winding up a 1-1 tie with Springfield Indians.</p><p>The Hornets took the lead in the second period, Walt Atanas tallied for Springfield at 1.01 of the third stanza and the game went into overtime.</p><p>Neither team could do much in the overtime, each goalie having but four saves.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0669/1145647-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="575" height="407"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCT. 23</h3><p>Buffalo 7 at Hershey 3</p><p>HERSHEY &mdash; Steve Wochy, veteran right winger, scored three goals as Buffalo Bisons trounced Hershey Bears 7-3 in an American Hockey League game before 5,785 fans here.</p><p>Ken Wharram got two other Buffalo goals while coach Gaye Stewart and Ken Hayden scored the others.</p><p>Oblie O&rsquo;Brien. Gard Wilson and Lionel Heinrich scored for the Bears who Jed 2-1 at the end of the first period and then caved in when the Bisons scored four unanswered goals in the second and outscored them 2-1 in the third.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0761/1145640-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="579" height="729"></div><h3>Providence 2 at Springfield 1</h3><p>SPRINGFIELD &mdash; Second period goals by Paul Larivee and Guy Gendron were enough to give Providence Reds a 2-1 victory over Springfield Indians.</p><p>Elliott Charley managed Springfield&rsquo;s only goal at 7.04 of the third period on a play with Carl Boone and Jim Anderson.</p><p>Larivee scored with the help of Zellio Toppazzini and Camile Bedard at 9.53 of the second period and Gendron made it 2-9 at 19.16 with Toppazzini and Larivee assisting.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0859/1145633-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="574" height="451"></div><h3>Pittsburgh 2 at Cleveland 5</h3><p>CLEVELAND &mdash; Billy Ford, rookie left winger, scored two goals Saturday night as Cleveland defeated Pittsburgh Hornets 5-2 for their first home victory of the American Hockey League season.</p><p>Ford bagged his first goal 55 seconds after the start of the second period, breaking a 1-1 tie, and tallied again in the third period, increasing Cleveland&rsquo;s lead to 4-1. He also contributed one assist.</p><p>Eddie Olson, Fred Glover and Chuck Blair also scored for the Barons. Hugh Balfour and Frank Mathers scored for the Hornets.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1138/1145626-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="573" height="663"></div><h3>SUNDAY, OCT. 24</h3><p>CLEVELAND 5 at Providence 2</p><p>PROVIDENCE &mdash; Cleveland Barons struck for three goals in the second period and two more in the third to defeat Providence Reds 5-2, before 4,460 at the Auditorium.</p><p>Fred Glover, who paced the Barons with two goals, started the Cleveland scoring early in the second period. Billy Ford made it 2-1 for Cleveland after rookie Guy Gendron had tied it up. Glover then notched his second tally late in the period.</p><p>Gendron scored again early in the third but goals by Eddie Reeigle and Ray Ross clinched it for the Barons.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1237/1145619-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="580" height="697"></div><h3>Pittsburgh 4 at Buffalo 1</h3><p>BUFFALO &mdash; Pittsburgh Hornets defeated Buffalo Bisons 4-1 in a free-swinging American Hockey League game before 5,536 fans at Memorial Auditorium. It was one of the roughest games of the young season with a total of 18 penalties called.</p><p>Marc Reaume of the Hornets suffered a six-stitch cut in his head, and Parker MacDonald of the Hornets, a sevenstitch cut on the nose midway through a frantic period which saw nine of the 18 penalties called.</p><p>Bob Sabourin MacDonald and Jack Caffery gave the Hornets a 3-0 lead going into the final period, then the roughhouse started. Rookie Hugh Barlow added a fourth late in the third.</p><p>Then, at 17.4 5, rookie Ken Wharram scored, robbing Gil Mayer of a shutout.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1327/1145612-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="578" height="643"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sun. Oct. 21)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1416/1145605-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="581" height="410"></div><h2>LEADERS</h2><p><b>Most Goals</b> &mdash; Fred Glover, Cleveland, 8.</p><p><b>Most Assists</b> &mdash; Zellio Toppazzini, Providence, 9.</p><p><b>Most Penalties by a player</b> &mdash; Russ Kowalchuk, Providence, 22 minutes.</p><p><b>Best Goalie</b> &mdash; Don Simmons, Springfield, 4, 8, 2.00.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts by a goalkeeper</b> &mdash; Hank Bassen, Buffalo and Charlie Hodge, Providence, 1 each.</p><p><b>Most Penalties by a club</b> &mdash; Providence, 95 minutes.</p><h2><b>Came Saver</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0491/1145598-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="559" height="1051"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EARL BALFOUR</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Goal Guy</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0954/1145591-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="570" height="1386"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRED CLOVER</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Super Sniper</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1047/1145584-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="564" height="1214"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>STEVE WOCHY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Top Bison</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-159/1145577-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="508" height="766"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE SLOWINSKI</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Seventeen players have been named to represent the American Hockey League AllStars, who will meet the &lsquo;champion Cleveland Barons in the loop&rsquo;s first annual AllStar classic at Hershey Oct. 27.</p><p>Five of the All-Stars &mdash; goalie Gil Mayer and defenceman Frank Mathers of Pittsburgh, leftwinger Gaye Stewart and rightwinger Ed Slowinski of Buffalo and rightwinger Dune Fisher of Hershey &mdash; were chosen by sports writers in a special poll last spring.</p><p>Emil Francis and Tommy Wi11iams of Cleveland were also selected, but they will play with the Barons in the All-Star game. Five other players named to the squad in the spring are no longer with the league.</p><p>Rounding out the roster, Murray Henderson, selected to coach the Stars because his team was the finalist against C1 eveland in last spring&rsquo;s Calder playoffs, has chosen goalie Gord Henry of Buffalo, left wingers Joe Lund, Buffalo, and Oble O&rsquo;Brien, Hershey, defencemen Pat Egan, Providence, Gord Tottie and Danny Summers, of Springfield.</p><p>Right wingers Zellio Toppazzini, Providence and Harry Pidhirny, Springfield; and centres Arnie Kullman, Hershey, Willie Marshall, Pittsburgh, Gordon Pennell, Buffalo and Chuck Scherza of Providence round out the squad:</p><p>Four Hershey Bears will wear the uniform of All-Stars.</p><p>In addition to Dunc Fisher, who was named the loop&rsquo;s second allstar squad last Spring in the balloting by sportswriters and sportscasters, Coach Murray Henderson has also named Gordie Henry, Obie O&rsquo;Brien and Arnie Kullman to his team.</p><p>Kullman and O&rsquo;Brien were named to fill vacancies created by the inability of Red Sullivan and Lorne Ferguson to get permission from their National League clubs to participate in the fracas against the defending Calder Cup Champions, the Cleveland Barons.</p><p>Henry was picked as alternate goalie to Gil Mayer, of Pittsburg. Emile &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; Francis was selected netminder on the All-Star club but will be in the nets of the Barons. Mayer, the second team&rsquo;s cage cop, was named regular goaltender,</p><p>Scotty Alexander, Hershey&rsquo;s trainer, will serve in the same capacity to the All-Stars.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01191/1145713-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="294" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gil Mayer</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02142/1145706-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="295" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Emile Francis</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Seventeen Named To Dream Team

<p><b>Coach: Gaye Stewart &mdash; Trainer: Frank Christie</b></p><p><b>1 &mdash; Henry Bassen, goal</b></p><p><b>2 &mdash; Frank Sullivan, defense</b></p><p><b>3 &mdash; Pete Wright, defense</b></p><p><b>4 &mdash; Pierre Pilate, defense</b></p><p><b>5 &mdash; Pete Babando, left wing</b></p><p><b>7 &mdash; Gordon Pennell, centre</b></p><p><b>8 &mdash; George Blair, centre</b></p><p><b>9 &mdash; Gaye Stewart, left wing</b></p><p><b>10 &mdash; Silvio Bettio, left wing</b></p><p><b>11 &mdash; Ed Slowinski, right wing</b></p><p><b>12 &mdash; Hartley McLeod, centre</b></p><p><b>14 &mdash; Joe Lund, left wing</b></p><p><b>15 &mdash; Harry Taylor, centre</b></p><p><b>16 &mdash; Ken Wharram, centre</b></p><p><b>17 &mdash; Steve Wochy, right wing</b></p><p><b>19 &mdash; Tony Schneider, defense</b></p><p><b>20 &mdash; Ken Hayden, right wing</b></p><p><b>21 &mdash; Clare Raglan, defense</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Buffalo Bisons Rosier

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Obie O&rsquo;Brien is the new captain of the Hershey Bears, replacing Andy Branigan, who was traded to the Providence Reds for Ed Kryzanowski. O&rsquo;Brien has been an alternate captain of the Hershey team for the past two campaigns.</p><p>Christened Ellard John O&rsquo;Brien, Obie has been playing professional hockey since 1950-51, when he broke in with the Tulsa Oilers in the now defunct United States League.</p><p>Prior to joining the ranks of the play-for-pay athletes, Obie played minor and junior hockey in his native St. Catharine&rsquo;s, Ontario. His minor hockey experience was gained under the coaching of Vic Teal, father of &ldquo;Skip&rdquo; Teal, Hershey&rsquo;s sophomore center ice man.</p><p>Obie came to Hershey in 195152, after scoring 33 goals and 28 assists with Tulsa the year before. His play earned him a berth on the US League&rsquo;s second AllStar six.</p><p>He played with Hershey through last season on loan from the Boston Bruins. This Fall he became the property of the Bears, along with Dune Fisher, in a deal which sent Ray Gariepy, defenseman, to the Bruins. Gariepy was, in turn, traded to Toronto for John Henderson, 21-year-old goaltender.</p><h2>Lanky Left Winger</h2><p>A lanky, 6&rsquo; 3&rdquo; left winger, O&rsquo;Brien is a free-wheeling type of skater. Also, he&rsquo;s a good guy in the corners, where his long arms serve to good advantage in manipulating his stick for control of the puck.</p><p>O&rsquo;Brien didn&rsquo;t always play wing, however. He was groomed as a rearguard during his minor hockey experience. When he moved into junior hockey under Art Jackson at St. Catharine&rsquo;s, Obie was shifted to wing and has played there ever since.</p><p>Since coming to the Bears, Obie&rsquo;s best offensive season came last year when he bagged 20 goals and turned in 31 assists.</p><p>Obie recalls several highlights of his career with delight, though he says he can think of no bigger thrill than playing with last year&rsquo;s Bears when they up-ended the Pittsburgh Hornets, three games to two, after dropping the first two encounters in their first Calder Cup series.</p><p>His biggest personal thrill, he says, came when he scored four goals in one game with Tulsa.</p><p>The new leader of the Bears is married and is the father of two children, Ellard, Jr., and Margaret. During the off-season he sells soft drinks and resides in St. Catharine&rsquo;s.</p><h2><b>He&rsquo;s In&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03117/1145775-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="580" height="2352"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>OBIE O&rsquo;BRIEN</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>He&rsquo;s Out</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0489/1145768-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="562" height="919"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ANDY BRANIGAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Now That Branigan’s Gone O’Brien Will Captain Bears

<p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Murray Henderson, coach of &pound;he Hershey Bears, has been chosen to handle the American League All-Stars in their clash with the Cleveland Barons, defending Calder Cup Champions, at the Sports Arena Wednesday evening, October 27.</p><p>Henderson, who last year distinguished himself by piloting the Bears to the play-off finals, is beginning his second two-year term as playing coach of the Hershey Club. Prior to succeeding Johnny Crawford as mentor of the Bears, Murray spent eight years on the blue line with the Boston Bruins.</p><p>The Bear coach was honored by THE HOCKEY NEWS last season, whose writers selected him as runner-do1Is. who was named &ldquo;coach of the year.&rdquo; Balloting was so close that onl up to Frankie Edy a handful of votes separated Henderson from Eddolls.</p><p>The Hershey coach comes by his hockey ability naturally. He is a member of the famous hockey family &mdash; the Conachers. His mother, Dorothy Conacher, is a sister of Lionel, Charlie and Roy, all NHL &ldquo;greats&rdquo; of the past.</p><p>Henderson, who is a native of Toronto, is 33 years of age. He turned professional at the close of the 1944-45 season, following his discharge from the Canadian Armed Forces. His last amateur affiliation before signing as a pro was with the Boston Olympics.</p><p>In eight campaigns in the National Hockey League, Henderson&rsquo;s best offensive mark was turned in during the 1946-47 campaign, when he bagged five goals and 12 assists for a total of 17 points. Last year with Hershey he appeared in 69 games, collecting seven goals and 25 assists for a total of 32 points.</p><p>The Bear pilot is married and the Hendersons have two children. The Hendersons spend the off-season in Toronto.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0567/1145806-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="291" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Murray Henderson</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Henderson To Coach All Stars

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-15" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1533/1145966-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg"></div><p><b>Coach: Billy Reay &mdash; Captain: Colin Kilburn</b></p><p>1 <b>&mdash; Marcel Pelletier, goal</b></p><p>3 <b>&mdash; Walter Clune, defense</b></p><p>4 <b>&mdash; Mike Keating, defense</b></p><p>5 <b>&mdash; Bill Davidson, defense</b></p><p>6 <b>&mdash; Bill Bucyk, defense</b></p><p>7 <b>&mdash; Andy Hebenton, forward</b></p><p>8 <b>&mdash; Tony Achtymichuk, forward</b></p><p>9 <b>&mdash; Doug Anderson, forward</b></p><p>10 <b>&mdash; Wayne Brown, forward</b></p><p>11 <b>&mdash; Alex Kuzma, forward</b></p><p>12 <b>&mdash; Colin Kilburn, forward</b></p><p>14 <b>&mdash; Billy Reay, forward</b></p><p>15 <b>&mdash; Mark Marquess, forward</b></p><p>17 <b>&mdash; Dave Wall, forward</b></p><p>19 <b>&mdash; Doug McAuley, forward</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Victoria Cougars

<h2><b>Take Over Lead</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>ew Westminster Royals took over first place by winning three of the four games they played. Vancouver ivon both of their games but dropped to second place, just one point back of Royals. They&rsquo;ve played one less name than New Westminster. Calgary won two of the three games they played to move from the cellar to third place.</p><h2><b>Scoring Sharpshooters</b></h2><p>Bronco Horvath of Edmonton and Gayle Fielder of New Westminster are tied for the individual scoring with 11 points each. Horvath has scored twice and assisted on nine goals. His nine assists are tops for the playmakers. Fielder leads in goals scored with seven and has assisted on four others. He also notched the first and only hat-trick</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDINGS ON MON. A.M. OCT. 18</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01197/1145935-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="594" height="178"></div><h3>RESULTS Monday, Oct. 11</h3><p>New Westminster 4, at Victoria 3; Edmonton 3. at Vancouver 4.</p><p><b>Tuesday, Oct. 12</b></p><p>Edmonton 3, at New Westminster 5; Calgary 2, at Saskatoon 4.</p><p><b>Wednesday, Oct. 13</b></p><p>Edmonton 6, at Victoria 4.</p><p><b>Friday, Oct. 15</b></p><p>New Westminster 2. at Vancouver 5; Calgary 4, at Saskatoon 2.</p><p><b>Saturday. Oct. 16</b></p><p>Victoria 2, at New Westminster 7; Saskatoon 3, at Calgary 8.</p><h3>MONDAY, OCTOBER 11</h3><p>New Westminster 4 at Victoria 8</p><p><b>VICTORIA</b> &mdash; New Westminster Royals managed to eke out a narrow 4-3 victory over Victoria Cougars on the strength of goals by Guyle Fielder, Motto McLean, Max McNab and Blinky Boyce.</p><p>Colin Kilburn was the best of the defenders, potting two goals in a losing cause. Eddie Dorohoy scored the other Cougar tally on an assist from Kilburn.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> &mdash; Goal: Dechene; defense: Lavitt, Matthews, Forbes, Sinclair; forwards: McNab, O. Dorohoy, Love, Fashoway, Boyce, Fielder, Penner, Fonteyne, McLean, Sasakamoose.</p><p><b>Victoria</b> &mdash; Goal: Pelletier; defense: E. Dorohoy, Clune, Keating, Davidson; forwards: Hebenton, Anderson, Brown, Kuzma, Kilburn, Reay, Marquess, Wall, Macauley, Achtymichuk.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02161/1145928-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="594" height="516"></div><h3>Edmonton 3 at Vancouver 4</h3><p>VANCOUVER &mdash; Vancouver Canucks, always a strong threat in Western Hockey League play, outscored Edmonton Flyers 4-3 here.</p><p>Carl Kaiser, with two, Chuck McCullough and Doug Adam held down the scoring honors for the victors.</p><p>Johnny Bucyk dented Vancouver twice in a deoperate bid to outscore the homesters, with Vic Stasiuk contributing a single.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03138/1145921-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="592" height="466"></div><h3>TUESDAY, OCT. 12</h3><p>Edmonton 3 at New Westminster 5</p><p>NEW WESTMINSTER &mdash; New Westminster Royals, riding the crest of a winning streak, pummelled Edmonton Flyers 6-3 here. It was the second Royal victory in the week and the second Edmonton defeat.</p><p>Guyyle Fielder earned the famed &lsquo;hat&rsquo; beating goalie Glen Hall cleanly on three shots. Max McNab joined in the celebrations with a singleton, while defenseman Sam Lavitt put paid to the scoring.</p><p>Vic Stasiuk scored his second goal in the week&rsquo;s competition, with Larry Zeidel, a late-signer this season, and Enio Sclisizzi counting in vain.</p><p><b>Edmonton</b> &mdash; Goal: Hall; defense: Hyrmnak, Zeldel. Coflin, Zeniuk; forwards: Arbour, Ullman, Horvath, Stasiuk. Sclisizzi. Melnyk, Rawlyk, Haley, Bucyk, Hannigan.</p><p>New Westminster &mdash; Goal: Dechene; defense: Lavitt, Forbes, Matthews, Sinclair; forwards: McLean, Fielder, Penner, McNab. O. Dorohoy, Boyce, Love, Monteyne, Sasakamoose. Fashoway.</p><p><b>Referee</b> &mdash; George Cullen; linesman: Gordon Hamilton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04120/1145914-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="588" height="547"></div><h3>Calgary 2 at Saskatoon 4</h3><p>SASKATOON &mdash; Saskatoon Quakers made their first appearance of the week in WHL play a winning one, belting the visiting Calgary Stampeders 4-2.</p><p>George Robertson, Leo Lamoureux, Vic Howe and Vic Lynn performed the honors for the Quakers. Archie Scott and Sid Finney tallied for the losers.</p><p><b>Calgary</b> &mdash; Goal: Brennan; defense: A. Michaluk, Quackenbush, Kyle, Coburn; forwards: Finney, Couture, Pargeter, Ashworth, Scott, Witiuk, Hucul, Trentini, J. Michaluk.</p><p><b>Saskatoon</b> &mdash; Goal: B. Bentley; defense: Anderson, Ross, Milford, Parker; forwards: Kobussen, Carmichael, Lynn, Kaleta, Lamoureux, Senick, Robertson, Howe. Kukulowicz, D. Bentley.</p><p><b>Referee</b> &mdash; Eddie Powers; linesman: Hedley McDonald.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05100/1145907-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="590" height="571"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13 Edmonton 6 at Victoria 4</h3><p>VICTORIA &mdash; Victoria Cougars were in a losing rut this week, suffering their second straight loss at the hands of the Edmonton Flyers, 6-4.</p><p>Johnny Bucyk seemed to be making long strides towards complete domination of WHL scoring as he belted home three goals. Vic Stasiuk had a hand in the general spree, getting a pair, while Normie Ullman and Ray Hannigan all countered.</p><p>For the losers Andy Hebenton put up the best showing, scoring twice on goalie Glen Hall, while Eddie Dorohoy and Wally Clune each connected for singles,</p><p><b>Edmonton</b> &mdash; Goal: Hall; defense: Hrymnak, Zeidel, Coflin, Zeniuk; forwards: Ullman, Arbour, Horvath, Stasiuk, Sclisizzi, Melnyk, Rawlyk, Bucyk, Haley, Hannigan.</p><p><b>Victoria</b> &mdash; Goal: Pelletier; defense:</p><p>Durham, Clune, Keating, Davidson; forwards&rsquo; Anderson, E. Dorohoy, Kilburn, Kuzma, Reay, Hebenton, Marquess, Wall, Macauley, Achtymichuk.</p><p><b>Referee</b> &mdash; Paul Bozak; linesman: Ross Valliere.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0777/1145900-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="585" height="703"></div><h3>FRIDAY, OCT. 15</h3><p>New Westminster 2 at Vancouver 5</p><p>VANCOUVER &mdash; The Vancouver Canucks were sailing right along, serenely undisturbed by the vain efforts of the Royals to put a dent in their winning ways. They outscored their visitors, 5-2, just to prove the point.</p><p>The Canucks took advantage of a sloppy defense late in the third period to put the Royals well out of reach.</p><p><b>New Westminster</b> &mdash; Goal: Dechene; defense: Lavitt, Forbes, Sinclair, Matthews; forwards: McNab, Dorohoy, McLean, Sasakamoose, Love, Fashoway, Fielder, Boyce, Penner, Fonteyne.</p><p><b>Vancouver</b> &mdash; Goal: Bower; defense: Reeve, Houghton, Dick, Lancien, Fontina to; forwards: McCullourgh, Dea, Brown, Kerr, Cyr, Wylie, Adam, Kaiser, Sweaney.</p><p><b>Referee</b> &mdash; George Cullen; linesman: Gordon. Hamilton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0871/1145893-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="589" height="597"></div><h3>Calgary 4 at Saskatoon 2</h3><p>SASKATOON &mdash; Saskatoon Quakers took it on the chin for the first time on home ice this season as the Calgary Stampeders beat them 4-2, in a fast, cleanly played game that saw only one penalty issued.</p><p>The Quakers took a 1-0 lead on a goal by George Robertson, lagged behind 2-1 when Steve Witink and Max Quackenbush tallied for Calgary, * but tied it up on a goal by playing coach Max Bentley.</p><p>However, Sid Finny and Doe Couture combined for two goals in the final period, Finney scoring what proved to be the winner after only 19 seconds of the final period.</p><p><b>Calgary</b> &mdash; Goal: Brennan; defense: Kyle, A. Michaluk, Coburn, Quackenbush: forwards: Finney, Couture, Pargeter, Achworth, Witiuk, Scott, Hucul, Trentini, J. Michaluk.</p><p><b>Saskatoon</b> &mdash; Goal: B. Bentley; defense: Parker, Anderson, Ross, Milford; forwards: Kobussen, Wilkie, Lynn. Kaleta, Senick, Hoidaway, Robertson, Howe, Kukulowicz, D. Bentley.</p><p><b>Referee</b> &mdash; Eddie Power; linesman: Hedley McDonald.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0968/1145886-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="591" height="524"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCT. 16 Saskatoon 3 at Calgary 8</h3><p>CALGARY &mdash; The tide was against the Saskatoon Quakers with a vengeance as the Calgary Stampeders walloped them for the second time in two days, 8-3. The Stamps had beaten them the previous night in Saskatoon.</p><p><b>Saskatoon</b> &mdash; Goal, B. Bentley; defense, Anderson, Milford, Parker, Ross, Lamoureux; forwards, Kukulowicz, Kobussen, Howe, Senick, Wilkie, Lynn, Kaleta, Robertson, D. Bentley.</p><p><b>Calgary</b> &mdash; Goal, Brennan; defense, A. Michaluk, Coburn, Kyle, Quackenbush; forwards, Couture, Parge ter, Lundv, Witiuk, Barry, Hucul, Ashworth, Ssott, Finney, McFadden.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1067/1145879-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="589" height="720"></div><h3>Victoria 2 at New Westminster 7</h3><p>NEW WESTMINSTER &mdash; New Westminster Royals pulled out all the stops here to clout the Victoria Cougars, 7-2.</p><p>Guyle Fielder again proved his ice wizardry, scoring a pair in a game that soon turned into a free-for-all in a goalgetting sense. Gordie Sinclair opened the tallying for the victors, to be followed by goals by Blinky Boyce, Fred Sasakamoose, Jim Zarie and Gordie Fashoway.</p><p>Doug Anderson and Tony Achtymichuk saved the Cougars from a shutout loss.</p><p><b>Victoria</b> &mdash; Goal: Pelletier; defense: Durham; Clune. Keating, Davidson; forwards: Macauley, Hebenton, Achtymichuck, Anderson, Kuzma, Kilburn, Ed Dorohoy, Reay, Marquess, Wall.</p><p><b>New Westminster Royals</b> &mdash; Goal: Dechene; defense: Lavett, Bergeron, Matthews, Bedard, Sinclair; forwards: McNab, O. Dorohoy, McLean, Sasakamoose, Love, Fashoway, Boyce, Fielder, Zarie.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0290/1145872-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="595" height="613"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sat. Oct. 16)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1159/1145865-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="586" height="1482"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS records</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1253/1145858-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="594" height="199"></div><h2>LEADERS</h2><p><b>Most goals:</b> Guyle Fielder, N.W. 7.</p><p><b>Most assists:</b> Bronco Horvath, Edm. 9.</p><p><b>Most game winning goals:</b> Doug. Adam, Van. 2, Blinky Boyce, N.W. 2.</p><p><b>Most first goal of game:</b> Colin Kilburn, Vic. 2, Doug Anderson, Vic. 2, George Robertson, Sask. 2.</p><p>Most hat tricks: Guyle Fielder, N.W. 1.</p><p><b>Most shutouts:</b> John Bower, Van. 1.</p><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1341/1145851-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="590" height="151"></div><h3><b>TEAM SCORING FIRST</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1439/1145844-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="580" height="175"></div><h2><b>Top Man</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0686/1145837-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="558" height="1378"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUYLE FIELDER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01201/1146011-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BARTON BRADLEY</b></figcaption></div><p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>The lid has blown off a pot that few people even knew was boiling.</p><p>Frank Dotten, coach of the New Westminster Royals of the Western Hockey League, has stormed out of that job and threatened to take five of the team&rsquo;s players with him.</p><p>Dotten, who came to the Royals from the defunct Seattle Bombers with the five players, said his decision to quit was chiefly due to arguments with owner Ken McKenzie over management of the team, the selection of players being a particularly sore point.</p><p>The five players, owned by Dotten and leased to the Royals as part of a hockey deal this year, are Guyle Fielder, a fancy man with a puck whom the Royals could ill afford to lose, Jerry Penner, Barton Bradley, Gordon Sinclair and Valerie Fonteyne.</p><p>&ldquo;This has been brewing for some time,&rdquo; Dotten said grimly. &ldquo;McKenzie is high on guys who could get Royals no better than sixth place last year.</p><p>&ldquo;I wanted to gamble on young fellows and I was hoping to win first place.&rdquo;</p><p>For his part, McKenzie expressed bafflement.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t understand Dotten&rsquo;s decision,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I have not interfered with the club this year and in eight games we have lost only one and tied one.&rdquo;</p><p>Should Dotten make good his threat to withhold the services, of the five players named, McKenzie said he would name Max McNab as playing-coach until the mess was sorted out.</p><p>Dotten dropped hints about planning to promote amateur hockey in Seattle.</p><p>And the night after the blow-up the Royals, minus Dotten, were smeared 10-2 by Calgary Stampeders.</p><h2><b>Bound For Exile?</b></h2><h2><b>He Has Woes</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02141/1146004-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="576" height="869"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN McKENZlE</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>May Have Job</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03102/1145997-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="574" height="890"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAX McNAB</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Dotten Quits Job As WHL Royals Coach, Threatens To Take 5 Players With Him

<div class="byline">DRYDEN.</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>You can look for a much closer race in the 1954-55 Western Junior Hockey League season. The Edmonton Oil Kings, you&rsquo;ll remember, walked away with the title last year. The Kings were much too good for the rest of the pack but with the loss of four star players for this campaign, they&rsquo;ll be cut down to size for the remainder of the circuit.</p><p>Norm Ullman, Jerry Melnyk and Johnny Bucyk &mdash; three forward stars of the 1953-54 Edmonton champions &mdash; have jumped to pro ranks with the Edmonton Flyers of the Western League. And a fourth member of the Kings, speedy Billy McNeil, has departed for Hamilton to wind up his junior career there.</p><p>These four gaps will be hard to plug. Coach Ken McAuley, the former New York Ranger goalie back for his fourth year at the helm of the club, knows it. He also knows that the rest of the league will be stronger, too.</p><p>At Regina, coach Murray Armstrong will have 10 holdovers back for this season&rsquo;s werfare. The Pats were a young club last year and proved no match for Edmonton when the chips were down. But they&rsquo;ll be tougher with all their youths having another year&rsquo;s experience under their belts.</p><p>In Moose Jaw, Ab McDougall, back for his second year at the helm of the Canucks, has six holdovers in the fold. With Butch McDonald back to handle the Lethbridge Native Sons again, there is only one change in the league&rsquo;s coaching ranks. That came at Medicine Hat where manager Bill Hunter decided to handle the coaching spot as well when last year&rsquo;s coach Ron Craven decided to return to active playing ranks.</p><p>Of course, the league has one club less this year with the cellar-dweliing Calgary Buffaloes throwing in the towel. The new secretary-manager of the league is George Vogan of Moose Jaw who has taken over from J. Harper-Parry.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0485/1146042-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="298" height="475"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ken McAulley</b></figcaption></div><p>In Regina, Pat coach Murray Armstrong is especially pleased with his strength at centre. He has three holdovers in camp &mdash; Bev Bell, a four-year veteran; Harold Ottenbreit and Billy Kurtz, last year&rsquo;s leading Pat scorer. On top of that he has three good prospects up from juvenile ranks in Bryan Whittal, Bill Hicks and Murray Massier.</p><p>On defence, Armstrong has holdovers Murray Balfour, Wayne Klinck and Danny Wong back for another season. The newcomers are on the husky side with Grant Munro (6&rsquo;3&rsquo;&rsquo; and 190 lbs.) and Fred Buchan (6&rsquo; and 160 lbs.) Buchan has two years of junior hockey ahead of him while Munro has three years. Joe Selinger will again handle the netminding.</p><p>Over there in Moose Jaw, Peter Sasakamoose is creating a favorable impression on coach McDougall. Peter, younger brother of Freddie Sasakamoose who is now with the New Westminster Royals after a fling with the Chicago Black Hawks, was the winner of the Tom Longboat prize awarded annually to the best all-round Indian athlete in Saskatchewan.</p><p>Goalie Johnny Panagrot has checked into the Moose Jaw camp from his football playing duties with the Winnipeg Rods. Winnipeg Barons of the Manitoba Junior circuit tried to keep him in Winnipeg but Panagrot decided to return to Moose Jaw.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Loss Of Four Star Players Will Prove Big Blow To Kings

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>The Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association scored a king-sized strike when it obtained Tommy Ivan, general manager of the Chicago Black Hawks, and Carl Voss, referee-in-chief of the National Hockey League, to conduct three hockey clinics in Saskatchewan in mid November.</p><p>SAHA president Gordon Juckes of Melville announced that Ivan and Voss will attend the puck schools to be held in Saskatoon, Nov. 16-17; Melville Nov. 16-17; and Moose Jaw Nov. 18-19. The plan is to have Ivan and Voss alternate among the three schools.</p><p>The three schools are a continuation of the SAHA&rsquo;s plan to boost hockey throughout the province by annual instructions to those in charge of teams and games. In the past three years the Association has sponsored many schools for coaches for coaches and referees throughout the province and they have been most successful. One year they held as many as 13 schools in the Province.</p><p>At these schools they have had the leading referees and coaches of Saskatchewan explain the rules and go ever their coaching techniques. Such coaches as Murray Armstrong of the Regina Pats; Ken Doraty, formerly coach of the Moose Jaw Canucks; Vic Myles and others have helped in the past.</p><p>This year the SAHA is ready to assist any district that wishes to put on such a school. At the same time they have made arrangements to hold these three big clinics that Ivan and Voss will attend.</p><h2>Turnabout</h2><p>It is likely that Ivan will be in Saskatchewan for the first day, with Voss in Melville. They will switch the second day and Ivan will go to Moose Jaw on the third day. Voss will take over in that centre on the fourth day.</p><p>Ivan was one of hockey&rsquo;s most successful coaches before moving to Chicago this year as general manager. He coached the Detroit Red Wings to six straight NHL championships and three Stanley Cup victories, and generally played an important part in the building of the current Detroit hockey powerhouse.</p><p>Now with the Black Hawks, Ivan will be able to confer with officials of the Moose Jaw Canucks during his stay in that center. The Canucks have long been one of the leading junior farm clubs for the Chicago NHL club.</p><p>Voss is a former NHL star who took up officiating. He now serves under NHL president Clarence Campbell as referee-in-chief of the league.</p><p>The schools are free to all and SAHA president Juckes is hoping that there will be a big trunout at each clinic. It will be especially interesting to hear Ivan review the various coaching methods, and Voss knows the rulebook backwards.</p><h2><b>Back to School&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0574/1146080-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="587" height="886"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CARL VOSS</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;For Experts</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0665/1146073-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="534" height="710"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOMMY IVAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Ivan, Voss To Tutor SAHA Hockey Clinics

<h2><b>Gaining Ground</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>O</span>rval Tessier, lanky playmaker from the Montreal Royals, was rolling right along this week, piling up points In a thrilling assault on the citadel held by Ray Powell of the uQebec Aces. Powell has 18 points, Tessier 12.</p><h2><b>Ace in the Deck</b></h2><p>Quebec Aces are grooming themselves for the position of team to beat in the Qnebec Hockey League this season. Off to an early and vigorous start, the Aves, powered by Powell, are two points up on the closest opposition, Shawinigan Falls Cataracts. Four points off the pace are Montreal Royals.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3>(STANDING ON MON. A.M. OCT. 25)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01171/1146202-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="597" height="180"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY OCT. 20</h3><p>Ottawa 1 at Quebec 7</p><p>QUEBEC &mdash; Earl Johnson was the big hero tor the rollicking Quebec Aces here as he pounded home two goals to pile humiliation upon the Ottawa Senators, who left the Quebec Coliseum on the tag-end of a 7-1 score.</p><p>Other Quebec goalgetters were Jim Uniac Ray Powell, currently the Quebec Hockey League&rsquo;s scoring leader, Bert Giesebrecht, ex-Senator Larry Regan and Pierre Brillant.</p><p>Leo Gravelie scored the only Ottawa tally.</p><p><b>Ottawa Goal:</b> Frederick: defence: Copp, Robertson, Arundel, Hudson; forwards: Campeau, Watters, Clarke, Guidolln, Kuntz, Gravelle, Poland, R. Johnson. Riopelle, Maloney.</p><p><b>Quebec</b> &mdash; Goal: Gatherum; defence: Hay, Tennant, Crozier, Houle; forwards: Ehman, Powell. Labadie, Thibault. Regan. E. Johnson, Giesebrecht, Uniac, Buchanan, O&rsquo;Grady.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02139/1146195-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="592" height="596"></div><h3>STOPS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03122/1146188-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="596" height="56"></div><h3>Valleyfield 0 at Quebec 4</h3><p>QUEBEC &mdash; Quebec Aces took over a commanding four-point lead in the Quebec League on their home ice by blanking Valleyfield Braves, 4-0.</p><p>It was the first shutout of the season tor Davey Gatherum in the Aces&rsquo; nets. Gatherum, who played for Sherbrooke last year but was one of the six players Detroit sent to the Aces this season, had only 20 shots to handle during the game.</p><p>Ray Powell, currently atop the points parade, added another to his list (he now has eight), while Ludger Tremblay scored on passes from Giles Thibault and Larry Regan. Regan connected in the second frarne, while Earl Johnson wound up the scoring for the victors.</p><p><b>Quebec</b> &mdash; Goal: Gatherum; defence: Hay, Crozier. Tennant, Ehman; forwards: Buchanan, Thibeault, Powell, Uniac, Labadie, O&rsquo;Grady, Giesebrecht, Johnson, Tremblay, Regan.</p><p><b>Valleyfield</b> &mdash; Goal: Payette; defence: Ernst, Needham, Deslauriers, Collins; forwards: Dubuc, Bisaillon, Corriveau, Bougie, Poetta, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Leclerc, Jones.</p><p><b>Referee</b> &mdash; Deziel; linesmen: Moreau, Reynolds.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0490/1146181-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="594" height="431"></div><h3>THURSDAY OCT. 21</h3><p>Montreal 5 at Valleyfield 4</p><p>VALLEYFIELD &mdash; Orval Tessier took Kelly Burnett&rsquo;s pass, swung in on Valleyfield goalie Marcel Payette, and as the hand of the overtime clock swung past the 32 seconds point on the dial scored the goal that assured the Royals of a 5-4 victory over the Braves.</p><p>The goal was Tessier&rsquo;s second of the night. He scored the first Montreal goal, that one on a Burnett assist, too, at 11.32 of the opening frame.</p><p>Bill Shvetz, John Martan and Ike Hildebrand rounded out the scoring for the Montrealers.</p><p>Valleyfield marskmen were Rollie Leclerc, who got two, and Georges Bougie and Jean Dubuc.</p><p><b>Royals</b> &mdash; Goal: Evans; defence: Rousseau, Shvetz, Harmon, Roche; forwards: Blaine, Martan, Hildebrand, Frampton, Tessier, Burchell, Burnett, Denis, McKay, Laplante.</p><p><b>Valleyfield</b> &mdash; Goal: Payette; defense Ernst, Desaulniers, Collins, Heller; forwards: Bisaillon, Corriveau, Bougie, Poeta, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Leclerc, Jones, Dubuc.</p><p><b>Referee</b> &mdash; Deziel; linesmen: Whitebead, Haggerty.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0571/1146174-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="597" height="651"></div><h3>stops</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0657/1146167-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="589" height="51"></div><h3>Ottawa 3 at Chicoutimi 4</h3><p>CHICOUTIMI &mdash; Chicoutimi Sagueneens roared to a narrow, 4-3 victory over the visiting Ottawa Senators here on the strength of Jim Bartlett&rsquo;s hattrick.</p><p>Bartlett took passes from Del Topall and Germain Leger to break up the close contest. Lou Smrke got the other Chick tally, while Ray Clark netted twice for the Senators. Phil Maloney got the other one.</p><p><b>Ottawa</b> &mdash; Goal: Frederick; defense: Copp. Arundel, Robertson, Hudson; forwards: Gravelle, Campeau, Johnson, Clark, Watters, Kuntz, Maloney, Poland, Guidolin.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b> &mdash; Goal: Hughes; defense: Glaude, Roy, S. Smrke, Taillefer; forwards: Dube, Locas, Dussault, Bartlett, Topall, Groleau, L. Smrke, Leger, Sinnett.</p><p><b>Referee</b> &mdash; Roberts; linesmen, Demers, Levesque.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0750/1146160-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="594" height="605"></div><h3>FRIDAY, OCT. 22 Shawinigan 4 at Ottawa 1</h3><p>OTTAWA &mdash; Shawinigan Falls Cataracts scored a 4-1 Quebec Hockey League victory over Ottawa Senators here before about 2,000 fans.</p><p>The visitors jumped Into an early 2-0 lead in the first period on goals by Jerry Desaulniers and Erwin Grosse. Desaulniers scored the first one at 8.36 when he streaked up right wing to take Jean-Paul Denis&rsquo; pass in the clear and beat Frederick with a blistering shot from 10 feet out. Grosse scored his first of two goals at 10.20 when he fired a screen shot from directly in front of the Ottawa net.</p><p>Bobby Robertson reduced the visitors&rsquo; lead when his blue-line drive bounced in off a Shawinigan player who was standing in front of Bobby Perrault in the Cataract net. Grosse scored his second marker, putting the game on ice for the visitors, by combining with playing-coach Roger Leger and Dick Wray to score a 4.16 of the second period.</p><p>Leonard Thomson scored the final marker of the game in the last period when his hard shot caught the short side of the Ottawa net. Grosse and Wray received assists on the play.</p><p>Shawinigan Falls &mdash; Goal: Perrault; defense: Leger, Hodgson, Talbot, Lamirande, Desaulniers; forwards: Wray, Pronovost, F. Perreault, Turner, Thomson, Denis, Broden, Grosse, Faulkner.</p><p><b>Ottawa</b> &mdash; Goal: Frederick; defense: Copp, Lepine, Arundel, Robertson, Hudson; forwards: Gravelle, Campeau, Johnson, Clark, Watters, Kuntz, Maloney, Poland, Guidolin.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0842/1146153-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="587" height="455"></div><h3>SUNDAY, OCT. 24</h3><p>Chicoutimi 4 at Montreal 12</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;Montreal Royals pumped in five goals in the first period and waltzed on to a 12-4 victory over the Chicoutimi Sagueneens in a Quebec Hockey League game before 3,727 fans at the Forum.</p><p>Orval Tessier scored three of Montreal&rsquo;s markers while Skippy Burchell, Gary Blaine and Kelly Burnett were credited with a pair each. Singletons were racked up by Jack Bownass, John Martan and Glen Harmon.</p><p>Gerry Glaude, Bill Sinnett and Norm Dussault scored three fast goals for Chicoutimi to give the team a shortlived 3-2 lead. in the opening frame. Germain Leger scored the last goal for Chicoutimi in the second period.</p><p>A third period fracas in the penalty box saw referee Sibby Mundey dish out match penalties to Jim Bartlett of Chicoutimi and Ike Hildebrand of the home team. A 10 minute misconduct was handed to Georges Roy of the visitors for talking abusively to the referee. Referee Mundey was also busy during other parts of the contest, handing out 15 penalties, eight to Chicoutimi.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b> &mdash; Goal: Hughes; defense: Glaude, Taillefer, Roy, S. Smrke; forwards, Dube, Locas, Bartlett, Leger, L. Smrke, Topall, Sinnett, Dussault, Groleau, Hicks.</p><p><b>Montreal</b> &mdash; Goal: Evans; defense: Rousseau, Bownass, Roche, Harmon, McKay; forwards: Shvetz, Blaine, Martan, Frampton, Tessier, Burchell, Burnett. Denis, Hildebrand, Laplante.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1035/1146146-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="600" height="978"></div><h3>Shawinigan 7 at Quebec 5</h3><p><b>QUEBEC</b> &mdash; Shawinigan Falls Cataracts won their fourth straight Quebec Hoskey League game by edging the Quebec Aces 7-5. A crowd of 6,000, best in Quebec this season, turned out to watch the Aces lose at home for the first time.</p><p>The motley Shawinigan team, using former players from nearly every QHL club, found Quebec goalie Dave Gatherum&rsquo;s apparent weak QHL club, found Quebec goalie Dave Gatherum&rsquo;s apparent weak spot &mdash; six of their goals were short ones past his right side.</p><p>Gerry Desaulniers and Dick Wray, former Montreal Royals, scored two goals and one respectively while exQuebecers Jean-Guy Talbot and Erwin Grosse added one each. Newcomers Eddie Katchur and Bob Turner collected a goal apiece.</p><p>Ray Powell, with two goals and two assists, and Michel Labadie with a goal and three assists were Quebec&rsquo;s standouts. Defensemen Joe Crozier and Gerry Ehman got the other Quebec goals.</p><p>Shawinigan Falls &mdash; Goal: R. Perreault; defence: Lamirande, Hodgson, Leger, Talbot; forwards: Wray, Faulkner, Katchur, Grosse. Desaulniers, Provost, F. Perreault, Turner, Thornston, Broden.</p><p>Quebec &mdash; Goal: Gatherum; defence: Crozier, Tennant, Ehman, Hay; forwards: Powell, Labadie. Uniac, Thibault, Regan, Johnson, Brillant, Tremblay, Giesebrecht, O&rsquo;Grady, Buchanan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1132/1146139-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="592" height="812"></div><h3>Ottawa 1 at Valleyfield 3</h3><p>VALLEYFIELD, Que., &mdash; Valleyfield Braves picked up their second win in seven Quebec Hockey League starts, defeating the Ottawa Senators 3-1.</p><p>The win enabled the Braves to climb from the league basement into a tie for fourth place with Ottawa and Chicoutimi.</p><p>Rollie Leclerc started Valleyfield on the way to Victory with the first goal of the game midway through the second period on a pass from Gord Haworth.</p><p>Andre Corriveau took relays from Kitoute Joannette and Moe Collins to make it 2-0 early in the third period and Ottawa never caught up, Bep Guidolin cut the margin to 2-1 on a play with Hugh Riopelle and Phil Maloney but Bert Needham fired the puck into the empty net in the last minute of play to clinch the Valleyfield win.</p><p><b>Ottawa</b> &mdash; Goal: Frederick; defense: Copp, Arundel, Robertson, Hudson; forwards: Gravelle, Campeau, Johnson. Dunnigan, Clark, Watters, Kuntz, Maloney, Guidolin, Riopelle.</p><p><b>Valleyfield</b> &mdash; Goal: Payette: defence: Ernst, Deslauriers, Collins, Needham; forwards: Dubuc, Bisaillon, Corriveau, Bougie, Poeta, Haworth, Cline, Leclerc, Jones, Joannette.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0456/1146132-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="583" height="207"></div><h2><b>Playmaker</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0939/1146125-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="552" height="2416"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KELLY BURNETT</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>Including Games of Sun. Oct. 24</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1227/1146118-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="588" height="1281"></div><h3>STANDING ON MON. A.M. OCT. 23</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1324/1146111-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="595" height="188"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY BILL WESTWICK</div><p>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>GEORGE GRAVEL, the Quebec League referee-in-chief, was in Ottawa tor the Senators&rsquo; home opening against the Aces.</p><p>George wasn&rsquo;t down to do any refereeing. He had worked two nights earlier in the week and just dropped down to see how the boys were behaving.</p><p>With this in mind he sat down in the front row of the press box behind the penalty bench with the idea of watching his officials in action. He hadn&rsquo;t been very long before he almost had all three of them and a couple of players in his lap. The officials were trying to separate Senators&rsquo; Bep Guidolin and Quebec&rsquo;s Jim Hay during a very bitter punching and wrestling bout.</p><p>The fight had started when Guidolin scored and Hay nudged him into the boards. The Ottawa forward promptly tapped Hay on the head, and the fight was on. When they reached the penalty bench they raised hands in anger again before going into a clinch in which Guidolin wrapped on a stranglehold that had all available officials climbing all over the combatants to break it up.</p><h2><b>&lsquo;AND THEN YOU HAVE THE FIGHT.&rsquo;</b></h2><p>Afterwards Gravel was speaking of the policy he intends to have his officials maintain. &lsquo;&lsquo;We&rsquo;re going to be a lot tougher on boarding and high sticking&rsquo;&rsquo;, he said. &ldquo;You see what started that fight between Guidolin and Hay? It starts with boarding or high sticking. Then you have the other guy even up, and then you, have a fight.&rdquo;</p><p>There won&rsquo;t be any fooling about it this year, according to Gravel.</p><p>&ldquo;The time to start calling them is right in the opening games&rdquo;, said George. &ldquo;The players might as well know it; and the fans too. They know the same officials will be calling the plays for the rest of the season, so they might as well learn what is going to happen to them.&rdquo;</p><p>Gravel says there is no intention on the part of Quebec League, referees to take any of the thrills out of the game.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the other way around. We want to make it better. We won&rsquo;t interfere with good hard bodychecking. That&rsquo;s a real part of hockey. The fans like it, and we won&rsquo;t penalize anybody who hits a good, hard check so long as it&rsquo;s legal and not a charge. But it will have to be away from the boards from now on. A referee must use his judgment about a man skating another off at the boards, but we&rsquo;re going to be severe about heaving another player into them. What I mean is using the boards to hurt a man.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>HOOK WHEN THEY&rsquo;RE NOT IN SHAPE.&rsquo;</b></h2><p>Just about this time of the season, Gravel figures referees have most trouble with hooking.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no trick about that, and the players don&rsquo;t kid anybody. When they hook they just aren&rsquo;t in shape. That goes for the middle of the season too. It&rsquo;s the same then. When a player is doing a lot of hooking it means he Isn&rsquo;t in good condition. He can&rsquo;t skate with the other guy so he&rsquo;s hooking. It leads to trouble if it isn&rsquo;t checked, and we&rsquo;re going to check it.&rdquo;</p><p>Gravel, who is one of the most colorful referees when he&rsquo;s on the job himself, is gratified that the NHL is checking up more closely on some of the infractions he mentioned. &ldquo;That always helps&rdquo;, he said. &ldquo;If the majors enforce the rules, it helps enforcing them all over. But the teams are getting fair warning about it this season.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>BOULEVARD BANTER.</b></h2><p>Frank Boucher saw his dad&rsquo;s team take taeir second straight victory recently at the Auditorium&hellip;Frank, no novice himself by now in coaching ranks, is handling Belleville in the OHA and figures that with a couple of spots strengthened he&rsquo;ll have a good club&hellip;Alex Connell was on hand and isn&rsquo;t likely to take over a proposed coaching post at Sydney&hellip;He visited Sydney but found them not ready yet and it is doubtful he&rsquo;ll return&hellip;Leo Abrams ranks as one of the solid Senator supporters and a good booster for Buck Boucher&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01175/1146233-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="546" height="559"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GEORGE GRAVEL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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The Sport Realm

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, P.Q.&mdash;</p><p>Kenny Reardorf is not. expected to call in his attorneys, but is is likely he&rsquo;ll take emphatic verbal objection to a label given his spirited Cataracts of Shawinigan Falls.</p><p>A Quebec City writer dubbed &lsquo;em &ldquo;a motley crew&rdquo;. Right after the Cats lambasted the haughty Aces and right in the Quebesers&rsquo; bastion, the Coliseum.</p><p>Reardon, took over the Shawinigan operations as general-manager this year, may have grabbed players where he could find them all over the Quebec Hockey League circuit, and he filled a few gaps with some well-chosen youngsters, but he&rsquo;s got a gang who are whooping it up and what&rsquo;s more winning for their playing coach. Roger Leger.</p><p>That 7-5 shellacking handed the league front runners was a tour straight victory for the Cataracts who performed a signal service for the remainder of the circuit&rsquo;s coaches. Up to this moment the $6 4 question was: who&rsquo;s going to stop Jack Toupin and those Aces?.</p><p>Toupin got his Aces off the ground and flying and they were the league&rsquo;s early pace-makers with Ray Powell showing brilliant early season form racking up a couple of hat-tricks and working on line with Mike Labadie and Jimmy &ldquo;Onions&rdquo; Uniac as if the three-some had been playmates for years.</p><p>That&rsquo;s how things stood until last Sunday when the Cataracts swept into the Capital of Old Canada.</p><h2>Point of Argument</h2><p>To prove the point of the Quebec City author, and support the motley crew tag, exRoyals Gerry Desaulniers and Dick Wray notched two and one goals respectively, Jean Talbot and Erwin Grosse, who were with Aces last year sniped one apiece with newcomers. Eddie Katchur and Bob Turner collecting singles.</p><p>But then Desaulniers is a native son at the Falls, while Wray and Gosse played up there the year before last, moving out when the Cataracts suspended operations for one season.</p><p>Powell in this game lived up to his press clippings by bagging two tallies and helping in another pair, but to get back to the original point of argument, Reardon still doesn&rsquo;t take a fancy to the motley crew label, nor any other aspersions which are tossed at his Cataracts who have livened the blood pressure of citizens up at Shawinigan Falls as nothing else has done since some part of the rushing waters of the neighborhood was harnessed to help along Thomas Edison&rsquo;s inventions.</p><h2>City All Fired Up</h2><p>The Cataracts have been drawing good crowds which is gratifying to Gaston Hardy, mayor of the city, who did so much to bring about a renaissance in hockey up there, and if they can stay up the race there&rsquo;ll be dancing in snowy streets come the Ides of March 1955.</p><p>Fine October days, especially on the weekends, plus added outdoor attractions like the Garrison Church Parade, and the great excitement over the football Alouettes in Montreal have kept the crowds down elsewhere.</p><p>Only 3,727 watched Royals wallop the Chicoutimi Sagueneens 124 at the Forum, but there was a turnout of 6,000 at Quebec for the Cataracts-Aces joust.</p><p>Royals have come up with a new flame thrower in Orval Tessier, handicapped by injuries last season Tessier never had a chance to show his true worth. This, though, seems to be his year.</p><p>In the 12-4 shellacking Tessier, who hails from Cornwall, Ont., and came up to the Quebec loop via Kitchener Green Shirts, hung up the hat-trick and had the hatbands too, with three goals and three assists.</p><p>Gary Blaine was quite some pumpkins in the same frolic with two goals and two assists. (St. Boniface, Man. papers please copy) while Skippy Burchell, and Kelly Burnett notched two tallies each.</p><p>This was one of the liveliest skirmishes in the Quebec circuit&rsquo;s early laps. There were three torrid scraps and in the third period when Jim Bartlett of the Sagueneens, already sitting out a minor penalty, battled with Royals&rsquo; Ike Hildebrand, who was sent off for a brawl with Bill Sinnett, the action was furious for nearly 10 minutes.</p><p>Bartlett blew his stack to such an extent he was fighting with his team-mates and it was only when 225 pound and six feet-two Gerry Claude sat upon him that Bartlett was subdued.</p><p>Bartlett and Hildebrand were handed game misconduct penalties by referee Sibby Mundey and $25 fine are automatic.</p><p>In the same scuffle Ken Smith, who for many years has been chief of minor league officials for Forum QHL games was a minor casualty. Mr. Smith&rsquo;s fine gabardine slacks were ripped by a skate, a clean cut straight up one leg. And at the end of it all Mr. Smith was going around asking who was going to buy him a new pair of pants.</p><p>ICING THE PUCK &mdash; Jimmy Moore, who scored 2 8 goals for the Sagueneens last season, appears to be on the shelf for the duration of the 954-55 campaign. In the third period of the Braves-Sagueneen game at Chicoutimi, Oct., 14, Moore was carried from the ice stretcher-wise and later it was reported he had suffered a badly fractured tibia&hellip;G. M. Frank Carlin of the Royals as our authority that Lulu Denis now playing his seventh season with the Montrealers scored exactly 129 goals in his previous six campaigns Jack Bownass, the Winnipeg redhead, who was with Sherbrooke last season, and Hardieville, Alta. Bill Shvetz, last year at Calgary, has added a lot of gusto to Royals&rsquo; defense, which needed bolstering ujon the departure of Bucky Hollin worth to Chicago Black Hawks and Roger Leger to the coaching job at Shawinigan Falls.</p><h2><b>He Objects</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02125/1146271-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="543" height="906"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN REARDON</b></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0481/1146264-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="1175" height="1586"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Cats May Be Motley Crew, But Don’t Tell Reardon

<div class="byline">By LES DALY</div><p>MONTREAL, P.Q.&mdash;</p><p>It appears that the conclusion-jumping management of the Jonquiere Marquis are in for quite a jolt. The Marquis brass hit on the none-too-original idea of firing the coach in an effort to make a winning team out of a losing one.</p><p>The ideas has been tried before and more often than not it&rsquo;s turned out to be a bust. This time the story isn&rsquo;t going to be any different.</p><p>The Marquis management gave an unceremonious boot to Swede Paulsen last week in what appeared to be an effort to placate the Jonquiere fans who were clamoring for some marks in the win column. Paulsen himself and most observers who had seen the Marquis in action felt that what the club needed to become a contender would be three or four players.</p><p>Rather than go out and get the players, Jonquiere got rid of the coach. At the time the Marquis had lost five games in six starts. Except for their season opener they hadn&rsquo;t lost any games by more than two goals and had tied Trois Rivieres 1-1, for their only point in the standings. In their first outing without Paulsen at the helm the Marquis dropped a 5-3 decision to the Montreal Canadiens &mdash; same two-goal, same loss, same players, different coach. What does it prove?</p><p>For one thing it seems to prove what Paulsen told this reporter the night the Marquis brass lowered the boom. Said the soft-spoken Swede, &ldquo;All I have is three defensemen and two forward lines. They can bring in anybody they want and nobody can do any better without the plaers. All the team needs is three or four players to become a contender.&rdquo;</p><p>Swede wasted no words in criticizing the management for their move in firing him. &ldquo;They only fired me to save their own faces. The fans were demanding a winning team and rather than bring in a few players they decided to fire me. They&rsquo;re not what I&rsquo;d call 1000-watt,&rdquo; said Swede.</p><p>Club president Adrien Gagnon gave Swede a fancy deal whereby Paulsen would become general manager of the club. Gerry McNeil, ex-Canadiens goaltender, would be brought in as coach &mdash; on a one month probation. If the management didn&rsquo;t go for Gerry, Paulsen would be re-instated as coach.</p><p>At this Swede blew his stack. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d never do that,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;As general manager it would be my job to fire McNeil. I&rsquo;d never cut Gerry&rsquo;s throat. If Gerry comes in as coach without four players he won&rsquo;t last more than a month. If he brings in four he&rsquo;s got a good chance of going right to the top of the league.&rdquo;</p><p>When the Marquis players heard of Paulsen&rsquo;s ouster they informed the team management that they wouldn&rsquo;t play for anyone else. The players also notified league secretary Frank Dilio. He told them that if they didn&rsquo;t play they&rsquo;d be suspended. PS. (They played).</p><p>Before their next game against Canadiens Paulsen advised them to play. He realized that it wouldn&rsquo;t be worth it to jeopardize their careers just because he had been fired.</p><p>Paulsen had been instrumental in getting Jonquiere into the Quebec junior loop last season. In his two-year stay as coach he has been observed as coach-trainer-stick boy-water-boy and assorted other incidentals.</p><p>Paulsen added, &ldquo;I brought in 50% of the players on the team now. I started&rdquo; the deal with Detroit in which Jonquiere became part of the Red Wing system. Then when Tommy Ivan went from Detroit to Chicago I arranged to have the Marquis go along with him as part of the Chicago chain.</p><p>&ldquo;What burns me up is the fact that after the first game, we&rsquo;ve played all our games on the road. At one game, one member of the Jonquiere executive was there to see how we were playing. At the other games &mdash; nobody. And then they fire me when they haven&rsquo;t even seen what kind of hockey we&rsquo;ve been playing on the road.</p><p>So Paulsen is out, McNeil has signed as the new, coach. MsNeil will have to be a magician to do any more than Paulsen has done at Jonouiere.</p><h2><b>New Coach</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01140/1146309-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="553" height="1465"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY McNEIL</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&lsquo;You Need Players, Too&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0384/1146302-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="1148" height="1663"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SWEDE PAULSEN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Paulsen Fired as Jonquiere Coach; Threatened Player Strike Averted

<p>ST. JONH&rsquo;S Nfld.&mdash;</p><p>Players fleeing the wrath of other hockey Associations needn&rsquo;t think that the Newfoundland Amateur Hockey Association is any haven of rescue.</p><p>So said Ralph Colyer, president of the NAHA, commenting on a report that junior Eddie Dannyluck of Glace Bay, NS, was heading toward Newfoundland under suspension from the Quebec Junior Hockey League before changing his mind and returning to the Quebec Frontenac club managed by Phil Watson.</p><p>&ldquo;We never had a suspended CAHA player in our league and will not tolerate any in the future,&rsquo;&rsquo; Colyer said.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Banned Players Given Warning

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Caps off

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>F</span>ollowing are revisions made by International Hockey League head-quarters. Please alter your schedules, as published in the October 9 issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS:</b></p><p><b>Cincinnati at Johnstown</b></p><p><b>Sunday, Jan. 23rd. to Wednesday, Jan. 26th.</b></p><p><b>Fort Wayne at Johnstown</b></p><p><b>Sunday, Nov. 28th. to Wednesday, Dec. 1st.</b></p><p><b>Sunday, Jan. 2nd to Wednesday, Jan. 5th.</b></p><p><b>Sunday, Feb. 13th to Wednesday, Feb. 16th.</b></p><p><b>Grand Rapids at Johnstown</b></p><p><b>Sunday, Jan. 9th. to Wednesday, Jan. 12th.</b></p><p><b>Sunday, Jan. 30th. to Wednesday, Feb. 2nd.</b></p><p><b>Toledo at Johnstown</b></p><p><b>Sunday, Feb. 6th. to Wednesday, Feb. 9th.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IHL Schedule Changes

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Bad news! Johnny Ubriaco, starry centre for Soo Greyhounds in Northern Ontario senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey, broke his left leg in two places&hellip;he was checked cleanly into the boards by a defenseman of North Bay Trappers but twisted his leg just as he hit the boards&hellip;he fell helpless to the ice and had to be carried off on a stretcher&hellip;the big crowd of 4,685 was hushed and shocked in the spacious Soo Memorial Gardens&hellip;they had just lost their top scorer and one of the most popular players on the team; in fact one of the most popular players in all of the northland&hellip;the heartbreaking angle to the story is that Ubriaco was going so well and definitely headed for big things this season&hellip;he worked like a trojan all summer on a golf course to strengthen his legs&hellip;Mike Ratchford, ex-junior sent to the Soo Greyhounds by Toronto Maple Leafs, will replace Ubriaco.</p><p>Lindsay Muskies, semi-finalists in the OHA Intermediate circuit in 1952-53 and 1953-54, will not operate this season&hellip;Warren Fry, club president, revealed Lindsay Arena commissioners turned down the team&rsquo;s demand for a 60-40 division of gate receipts&hellip;a split of 50-50 was adopted last season and the commissioners wanted the same setup this season&hellip;this is a tough blow to the fine hockey centre of Lindsay, Ont&hellip;</p><p>WOW!!!&hellip;here&rsquo;s a pack of Indians on the warpath!&hellip;Soo Michigan Indians of the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Southern Division exploded three goals within 47 seconds and four goals within one minute and 36 seconds against Sudbury Wolves, the Allan Cup finalists in their first league game of the season&hellip;they are new marks for the NOHA&hellip;Pop Backor, Laurie Peterson, Bill McCracken and Johnny Offidani got the four quick ones, while Backor, Peterson and McCracken fired the three in only 47 seconds&hellip;the previous record for the four fastest consecutive goals was held by Jack Douglas, Ivan Chasle, and Bruce Giesebrecht, with Chasle getting two&hellip;these players performed for Pembroke Lumber Kings when the record was established&hellip;the previous mark for the three fastest goals (one minute, six seconds) was set by Johnny Offidani, Ronnie Lay and Don Johnston of Soo Greyhounds in 1953&hellip;the former mark for the four fast goals was two minutes, 43 seconds&hellip;</p><p>North Bay will have a 3,500-seat arena ready for the 195556 season&hellip;City Council has now awarded the steel contract&hellip;it&rsquo;ll mean a great deal to hockey in the wonderful Gateway to the North community&hellip;George Gosselin and Don Hogan have ended their contract holdout and the colorful line of Ab DeMarco, Gosselin and Hogan have been re-united by North Bay Trappers&hellip;Poor Cully Simon!&hellip;the former Detroit Red Wing player who now coaches Pembroke Lumber Kings got a rude jolt in his first NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; contest&hellip;he was forced to play North Bay with only 12 players because of injuries and contract troubles&hellip;and do you know what happened to our good friend, Cully?&hellip;he was caught with seven men on the ice. not once but twice&hellip;in fact with only 12 men all told, he had more men on the ice than on the players&rsquo; bench twice&hellip;</p><p>Maxie Silverman&rsquo;s continual drive to engineer an interlocking schedule between the OHA and NOHA in senior hockey is gaining support&hellip;Chick Appel&rsquo;s article from Strafford on Maxie&rsquo;s concrete reasons and latest financial figures which appeared recently in THE HOCKEY NEWS has done much to revive the controversial subject&hellip;it&rsquo;s worth very serious consideration!!!&hellip;Northern Ontario intermediate hockey should do well this season&hellip;teams from Espanola, Blind River, Thessalon, Soo, Ontario and Soo, Michigan are set to form a five-team Algoma DistrictNorthern Michigan League&hellip;Red Venturi, president, foresees a very good league with Espanola in the picture&hellip;This department received a very nice letter from Clement Brosseau, 29 Main Street, Chelmsford, Ontario&hellip;Clement points out that &ldquo;The Greatest Hockey Fans in the World&rdquo; live in Chelmsford&hellip;it&rsquo;s this kind of pride in Canada&rsquo;s national game that makes hockey what it is today &mdash; a tremendous sport&hellip;he likes THE HOCKEY NEWS immensely and is quite a fan of Joe Spence, brilliant sportscaster for radio station CHNO on Sudbury, home of the Wolves (Sudbury Wolves, that is!!)&hellip;</p><p>Pentti Lund, former Rookie of the Year in the NHL, is making an outstanding comeback in Northern Ontario senior hockey&hellip;he has full use of only one eye, was not too impressive when he joined the Soo Greyhounds late last season, but is certainly going well this season with the &lsquo;Hounds!!&hellip;keep it up, Pentti!&hellip;we&rsquo;re all behind you&hellip;Ron Hurst of the Greyhounds scored two goals within 14 seconds to continue the speedy scoring in Northern Ontario hockey this season&hellip;Jack French of Sudbury is back as NOHA statistician this season and this means a terrific job&hellip;Jack is a wizard at this job&hellip;</p><p>Cam Church is now sportscaster at Radio Station CKSO in Sudbury&hellip;he does hockey in fine style&hellip;Cam is well known in Southern Ontario&hellip;welcome to the great Northland, Cam!!!&hellip;At this writing, results in NOHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; action saw Sudbury Wolves lose 3-1 to the Soo Greyhounds and 6-1 to the Soo Indians before defeating the Indians 3-2 and Pembroke 4-1&hellip;the Greyhounds clipped North Bay trappers, 5-0, then the Indians trimmed North Bay 5-3&hellip;North Bay defeated Pembroke 8-5 giving the Greyhounds first place, Indians second and Sudbury third&hellip;it&rsquo;s going to be a tough race before long!!&hellip;</p><p>&hellip;Port Arthur and Fort William have excellent minor hockey programs and all the wonderful hockey leaders at the Lakehead deserve the praise of everyone who wants to see the strength of this great national sport &mdash; hockey&hellip;(address your</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01148/1146426-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="565" height="905"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHNNY UBRIACO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>As far as hockey players go, Dave McCready of the Cincinnati Mohawks is not very big. But when it comes to scoring goals, the 22-year-old former Montreal Canadien junior star is a big man.</p><p>McCready opened his International Hockey League career in auspicious fashion recently by banging in all three goals for the hat trick in Cincinnati&rsquo;s first game of the season, a 3-2 victory over Troy.</p><p>Standing only a shade over 5-9 and weighing in at about 155, McCready is holding down a left wing position for the Hawks on a line which has Duke Edmundson at center and Reggie Grigg on right wing.</p><p>He has the happy knack of being in the right place at the right time, a trait which has stood him in good stead throughout his brief but brilliant hockey life.</p><p>Turning back the clock several years, it was not always easy going for McCready, who smashed his hand so badly in 195 2-53 training camp that it was in a cast for nine months and he missed the entire season. In 19535 4, when he graduated from Sir George Williams College in Montreal, McCready racked up 22 goals for St. Therese of the Provincial League.</p><p>Prior to the year he was hurt, McCready put in four seasons with the junior Canadiens, tallying 36 and 30 goals his last two campaigns with that outfit.</p><p>Young Dave has pleasant memories of his high school hockeyplaying days at West Hill High School in Montreal. &ldquo;We used to score 20 to 30 goals a game,&rdquo; he recollects, &ldquo;and we were unbeaten the two years I was on the club.&rdquo;</p><p>In one game at West Hill, he filled the nets with 10 goals and added five assists for a fabulous 15-point night.</p><p>Early-season action in the IHL found Cincinnati edging a revamped and much-strengthened Troy club with the help of McCready&rsquo;s sharp-shooting, and improved Ft. Wayne blanking Johnstown, 7-0.</p><p>The Komets from Ft. Wayne, with seven newcomers and a similar number of holdovers in their lineup, had little trouble in trimming a Johnstown club that was. minus some of its top performers.</p><p>Ivan Walmsley, former Jet goalie in the nets for Ft. Wayne, turned in the initial shutout of the International League campaign, as Art Stone registered twice and five others, Bob Maxwell, George Ouellette, Paul Saindon, Edgar Blondin and Eddie Long each hit the nets once.</p><p>Don Hall, said to be a holdout, Arnie Schmautz and Goalie Dan Simmons all were missing on the Jet club. When and if they will report remains a question mark.</p><p>ICING THE PUCK&hellip;It&rsquo;s still a little early to get an accurate line on the strength of the six International League teams, but this is the way it looks right now. Troy, with a speedy, young club, seems much stronger, as does Ft. Wayne, with a new defense corps and additional power up front. Toledo lost its goaite, Bill Tibbs, to Troy, and may he weaker and the same situation may prevail in Johnstown, unless highscoring Don Hall returns to action soon. Grand Rapids will have Lou Crowdis in the nets and some young talent that may pep the Rockets up. Cincinnati, defending IHL and US senior titlist, will still be tough, even though Goalie Charlie Hodge no longer is with the Hawks&hellip;Missing from the International League this year are Marion. Milwaukee and Louisville, all of whom have dropped out of competition.</p><h2><b>Big Man</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0290/1146457-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="568" height="981"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DAVE MCCREADY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Size Isn’t Everything; Just Ask Dave McCready

<div class="byline">Piner.</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>A court of law has finally settled the Marcel Clements case!</p><p>Judge Albert St. Aubin of Sudbury District awarded Sudbury Wolves Hockey Club Limited the sum of $800 to cover advances in pay and money paid for signing a contract made to Clements, one of the most controversial figures to hit Northern Ontario hockey in a long time.</p><p>Judge St. Aubin dismissed a suit asking for $5,000 damages against Clements.</p><p>He ruled that the contract that Clements signed with Maxie Silverman, manager-coach of Sudbury Wolves, was lived up to. What actually started all the fuss was the fact that Clements was lured to the North by the Soo Greyhounds with whom he signed a contract in June of 1953. He agreed to terms for the 195354 season. However, only a few days later, he signed another contract with Sudbury Wolves. Judge St. Aubin referred to the fact that while Clements&rsquo; agreement was dated May 16, 19 53, the transaction actually was made on June 9. Clements was paid the sum of $700 as his first advance.</p><p>In his judgment, Judge St. Aubin remarked:</p><p>&ldquo;Mr. Silverman was fully aware of the existence of the defendant&rsquo;s contract with the Soo Greyhounds, but mistakenly represented to Clements that the NOHA would recognise only the contract with Sudbury Wolves because of the fact that a playing card had been signed along with the club contract. I am of the opinion that both the Wolves and Clements were fully aware that it was an implied term or condition of the contract that performance was conditional upon the NOHA ruling. His liability (Clements) was discharged because the performance of the contract was impossible, without any default on his part, there was no contract and therefore there can be no claim for damages.&rdquo;</p><p>A tug-of-war developed between the Soo Greyhounds and Sudbury Wolves over Clements &mdash; a battle settled by the NOHA when they ruled him the outright property of the Greyhounds because he had signed a contract with them first. After all this fuss, the Greyhounds found they could not use him because their team already was loaded with branch-to-branch transfers. Finally, Clements was released to seek his own fartanes and after getting a pretty cold shoulder from Sudbury he went on to play for the Soo Indians last season, being a star. This season he&rsquo;s right back where he started last season &mdash; with the Soo Greyhounds.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Court Settles Clements Case

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01127/1146536-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>Across</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Leclair</p><p>6&mdash;Fern</p><p>8&mdash;Frank</p><p>12&mdash;Ind.</p><p>13&mdash;Tickets</p><p>14&mdash;It</p><p>15&mdash;W.W.</p><p>17&mdash;Nov.</p><p>19&mdash;Mo.</p><p>20&mdash;Gee</p><p>21&mdash;Art</p><p>22&mdash;N.S.</p><p>23&mdash;Montreal</p><p>27&mdash;Meger</p><p>29&mdash;Gaye</p><p>31&mdash;Eye</p><p>32&mdash;H.L.</p><p>33&mdash;Four</p><h2><b>Down</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Left Wing</p><p>2&mdash;Coach</p><p>3&mdash;If</p><p>4&mdash;Reise</p><p>5&mdash;Andrew</p><p>7&mdash;R.N.</p><p>9&mdash;R.I.</p><p>10&mdash;N.K.</p><p>11&mdash;Ke.</p><p>15&mdash;Toe</p><p>16&mdash;Worsley</p><p>18&mdash;Vern.</p><p>19&mdash;Manager</p><p>24&mdash;Opal</p><p>25&mdash;R.M.</p><p>26&mdash;E.E.</p><p>28&mdash;Red</p><p>29&mdash;G.H.</p><p>30&mdash;E.F.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Last Week’s Solution

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0542/1146567-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>R</span>oger Barry,</b> THE HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; Boston correspondent comes up with a feature on <b>Don McKenney,</b> the Bruins&rsquo; sensational rookie who has been standing the NHL on its ear ever since the current campaign got underway.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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COMING next week

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0236/1146605-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="253" height="296"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0137/1146612-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="231" height="281"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0334/1146598-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2803" height="3516"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LORNE (GUMP) WORSLEY</b> of the New York Rangers falls to the Ice and gathers in the puck (arrow) after a shot by George Armstrong (10) of the Toronto Maple Leafs, in the photo at top. Moving in to block out Army is Dean Prentice of the Blues, right. In the lower photo, the action shifts to the other end of the ice as Harry Lumley of the Leafs also fumbles in blocking a shot off the stick of Don Raleigh (7) of the Rangers. Waiting to clear the rebound out of harm&rsquo;s way is Eric Nesterenko of the Leafs (14). The New Yorkers won the game 4-2 with Danny Lewicki, a former Toronto farm hand, scoring the winning goal. <span class="photo-credit">((Photos by Turofsky))</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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