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December 4, 1954

The Hockey News December 4, 1954

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;Hustle ! hustle ! ! hustle ! ! ! is the decree carried on a blackboard in the Black Hawks dressing room. While it is an urging that previously drew rather inconsistent response, Coach Frank Eddolls&rsquo; crew came through with a sparkling skating display while playing host to Detroit November 21.</p><p>As it&rsquo;s been proven too many times before, however, outdoing an opponent in virtually every sense doesn&rsquo;t assure a victory and this was the unfortunate ease that night. Chicago, trying desperately to come off the floor of the National League, was thwarted by the narrow shutout margin of 1-0.</p><p>&ldquo;This is it! I know we&rsquo;re going to be okay from now on,&rdquo; exclaimed tough Lee Fogolin who had returned only a week before after being sidelined for six weeks with a broken elbow. His feelings seemed typical of the entire squad which was feeling better than it ever had before in defeat.</p><p>Eddolls and General Manager Tommy Ivan felt more assured of the team&rsquo;s future too. &ldquo;You can never kick about a game like that,&rdquo; smiled Tommy. &ldquo;If they continue to play like that, we will be bound to start winning our share. The breaks will have to begin coming our way.&rdquo;</p><p>Eddolls, who earlier had severely criticized the &lsquo;unimpressive play of several regulars, was cheered to observe complete turnabouts in a couple of instances. &ldquo;This didn&rsquo;t look anything like the squad that lost 5-1 to Boston here the other night. They played hard and smart all evening.&rdquo;</p><p>One of the shining lights who had previously drawn his ire for &ldquo;getting pushed around too much&rdquo; was young left winger Pete Conacher. Apparently incensed by his coach&rsquo;s comments, he skated and checked like a bull in his best game so far in the 195455 NHL campaign.</p><p>Lou Jankowski was another impresses along the forward lanes as he showed enough to play what was one of his first full games to date. Ranked as no more than a spare winger before, he was fast and elusive on a line with Dave Creighton and the proven and helpful Billy Mosienko.</p><p>Fogolin seems to have gradually lifted the defense since his return to a point which certainly must have been at the top against the Wings. Slow as hockey skaters go, he is handling himself much better at a lighter weight &ldquo;I&rsquo;m down 10 pounds and want to even off at about 195,&rdquo; he admits.</p><p>Most of the other Black Hawks who took regular turns showed up as men who deserve to stick in the big time. &ldquo;If we could only get some points,&rdquo; stammered Johnny McCormack whose antics with his stick as a defensive forward have been very offensive to enemy skaters.</p><p>While this was the fourth straight game in which the Chicago scoring was little or nothing, Ivan had this to point out, &ldquo;I agree that you have to score to win, but I seem to worry much more when we get scored on alot than when we don&rsquo;t turn up with much of an attack of our own.&rdquo;</p><p>Tommy was seeing his first Chicago game in a week after planing in from a 4,000 mile western trip in which he combined the general spreading of good will with aiding Carl Voss, NHL referee-in-chief, in the conducting of a series of clinics for the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey association.</p><p>While he didn&rsquo;t go into detail on any accomplishments of the journey, he admitted that he had talked to executives and seen scores of young hopefuls while hitting seven western Canada cities&mdash;Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Melville, Moose Jaw, Calgary and Vancouver.</p><h2><b>Hustling&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0389/1161266-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="552" height="567"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHNNY McCORMACK</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;For Him</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0470/1161259-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="532" height="716"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOMMY IVAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Hustle, Hustle, Hustle!. Eddolls Latest Edict

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The amazing goal-tending streak of the Bruins&rsquo; Long John Henderson finally came to an end in New York, on the evening of November 24.</p><p>Henderson ran his scoreless streak to 180 minutes 50 seconds&mdash;the equivalent of more than three full games&mdash;before New York&rsquo;s Walter Hergesheimer finally broke it at 13:35 of the first period of a game won by the Rangers, 3 to 1.</p><p>Henderson, the six-foot 3&frac12;-inch rookie called up by the Bruins a week earlier from Hershey of the American League, emerged from his first game&mdash;also in New York&mdash;with a 2 to 2 tie.</p><p>A night later the Bruins beat the Black Hawks in Chicago, 5 to 1, and Jack McIntyre&rsquo;s goal at 12:45 of the first period in that game was the last made against Long John until Hergesheimer&rsquo;s goal.</p><p>Between the Chicago and second New York games the 21-year-old giant shut out Toronto (in Toronto) and Montreal on successive nights, by scores of 1 to 0 and 2 to 0, respectively.</p><p>So big that the Bruins&mdash;like other teams for which he has played in the last two years&mdash;haven&rsquo;t been able to outfit him with game pants, Henderson promptly caught the fancy of the hockey public here.</p><p>While his streak was in progress, hockey fans were kept informed of its approach to record proportions. Eventually it fell 51 minutes 4 seconds short of Frank Brimsek&rsquo;s club record, set in 1938 when Brimsek was a rookie.</p><p>While Long John was working on his stretch, his status was still that of temporary replacement for Sugar Jim Henry. The Bruins played only one of Henderson&rsquo;s first five games at home, and Henry traveled with them.</p><p>Coach Lynn Patrick made a policy of announcing his goaltender&mdash;always Henderson&mdash;from game to game during that period.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Henderson’s Streak Stopped By NY

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0554/1161321-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he 1928-29 season when diminutive George Hainsworth set a N.H.L. record that may well last for all time ! Playing for Montreal Canadians, he racked up 22 shutouts in 44 games that season. Quite a performance !<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Do you remember?…

<div class="byline">By DAWSON WINCHESTER</div><p>FREDERICTON, N.B.&mdash;</p><p>Fans all around the Atlantic Coast Senior Hockey circuit were glad to see Amherst&rsquo;s (Buck) Rogers back in herst&rsquo;s Don (Buck). Rogers back in uniform after a recent injury to his leg resulting from a check&hellip;Colorful Nick Pidsodny, who tends the twines for the Moncton Hawks was the first goalie in the ACSHL to nail down a shutout when he blanked Joe McIntosh&rsquo;s Fredericton Caps&hellip;Nick was on the other end a few nights later however when Charlottetown&rsquo;s Jim Shirley administered a large dose of whitewash to Dugger McNeil&rsquo;s Moncton entry&hellip;Joltin&rsquo; Joe Lepine who pastimed last season with Halifax. Atlantics, Alexander Cup winners and incidentally coached by Mr. McNeil, has joined Dugger&rsquo;s blueline brigade in the Hub City&hellip;</p><p>Charlottetown&rsquo;s Orjn Carver scored the earliest-goal-of-a-game to be recorded in ACSHL play this season when he dumped the rubber behind Moncton&rsquo;s Nick Pidsodny at the nine second mark of the initial period in a game which went to the Islanders on a lop-sided 8-1 count&hellip;</p><p>The goal-hungry Islanders, who have appeased their appetite to the tune of a loop-leading 76 goals to this writing, went on the wildest scoring spree of the young ACSHL when they trounced Amherst Ramblers 11-3 recently&hellip;sharing honors in the rout were Orin Carver with three tallies, Roy &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Whitlock and Lorne Hennessey with two each and Ray Leduc,, Wally Kullman, Copper Leyte and Wimpy Jones with singletons&hellip;</p><p>Jackie Heon who performed in this area not too long ago with<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rogers Returns To Ramblers

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0177/1163412-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><i>Henderson Stops Kennedy and Nesterenko&hellip;</i></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0257/1163405-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="2353" height="1575"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b><i>&hellip;And Jumps To Save Off Rudy Migay</i></b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Leo Labine Equals NHL Record

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>When fiery right winger Leo LaBine fired a &lsquo;hat trick&rsquo; and added a pair of assists in the second period of the Boston Bruins-Detroit Red Wings game of November 2 8 in Boston, he tied a National Hockey League record that has stdod since 1940.</p><p>The record, for the most points in a single period, five, was originally set by Les Cunningham of the Chicago Black Hawks on January 28, 1940 as the Hawks dumped the Montreal Canadiens 8-1. He scored two goals and had three assists in the third period of the game.</p><p>Max Bent lev. also of the Black Hawks, equalled the mark on January 28, 1943 at Chicago as the Chi&mdash;Hawks trounced the New York Rangers 10-1. The Dipsy&mdash;Doodler had four goals and a single assist, also in the third period.</p><p>LaBine got his name in the record book by scoring three successive goals in the second period of a 6-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings and later adding assists on a pair of goals by Don McKenney.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0330/1163443-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="309" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo LaBine</b></figcaption></div><h2>Had Other Assist</h2><p>He also had an assist in the first period.</p><p>Leo the Lion started the record-equalling feat when he scored Boston&rsquo;s second goal of the game at 2.3 9 of the middle frame on passes from McKenney and Real Chevrefils.</p><p>He was back again at 6.04, this time on a single pass from Chevrefils. At 11.01 he rounded out his &lsquo;hat trick&rsquo; with a goal on assists from Bill Quackenbush and Fleming-Mackell.</p><h2>Passed To McKenney</h2><p>Seven minutes later, at 18.05, he passed to McKenney who made no mistake in beating Detroit netminder Terry Sawchuk. McKenney clicked again 22 seconds later with Leo the Lion again the helpmate along with Chevrefils.</p><p>LaBine&rsquo;s six points for the game is two less than the record for the most points in a game which is jointly held by Maurice (Rocket) Richard and Bert Olmstead of the Montreal Canadiens. The Rocket score five goals and had three assists in a 9-1 victory over Detroit Red Wings at Montreal on December 28, 1944. Olmstead equalled the mark last season when he scored four goals and had as many assists as the Canadiens walloped the Chicago Black Hawks 12-1 on January 9, 1954 at the Montreal Forum.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Boston Fireball Gets Five Points In Single Period

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Sidney James Smith could look no less like a part of the Maple Leaf picture if he wore a fire-engine red sweater and tangerine pants.</p><p>For one thing, Smitty scores goals, and very important ones, with a club that has considerable difficulty unearthing three 20-goal snipers in any NHL season.</p><p>And for another, he has succeeded Detroit&rsquo;s Gord Howe as the league&rsquo;s Iron Man, participating up to last week end in 340 successive games. Only half a dozen of his teammates can boast even a 100 per cent atten&rsquo;dance record this season.</p><p>Indeed Smitty is a man of distinction. And his distinctions have been extremely important in Leafs&rsquo; bid to make the NHL championship a three-way race with Montreal and Detroit.</p><p>Smitty alone has shown durability among the Toronto left wingers. Weak to start with, the left wing patrol was riddled further when both other regulars, Harry Watson and Gordie Hannigan, suffered injuries that sidelined them more than a month each.</p><p>And Smitty&rsquo;s goals were instrumental in prolonging the nine-game unbeaten streak by which Leafs vaulted from fifth to second place. In three straight games, he fired the winning goal, twice against Detroit and again against Boston.</p><p>In the first 18 Leafs games, the low-skating Sudden-Death Sid has fired eight goals, only two of which came in Toronto losses. The others either won games or launched Leaf comebacks from deficits to ties.</p><p>Sidney, however, refuses the credit for the blossoming</p><p>&ldquo;You cheek when our new power play was formed against our record since then,&rdquo; he asks. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s the reason we started winning.&rdquo;</p><p>True the power play made its debut the night Leafs fortunes changed. With Smith, Ted Kenned yand Tod Sloan leading the ganging and George Armstrong and Hugh Bolton manning the points, the powerplay contributed the winning margin in four of its five games in operation.</p><p>Leaf Assistant General Manager Hay Day called it: The firsts power play we&rsquo;ve had that is a power play since Max Bentley left the</p><p>Yet even on this power play, Smith has been the pistol-packing poppa. Army and Kennedy have each connected, but Smitty supplied the other two game-winners.</p><p>For the ganging, he is reunited with hte line that scored 79 goals and totalled 168 points tnrougn the 1950-51 season. That was the year both Smitty and Slinker Sloan crashed the 30-goal club while Kennedy led the league with 4 3 assists.</p><p>Now Smith can foresee another 30-goal season, for his pace this year has exactly matched that which netted him an even 30 in &lsquo;51.</p><p>Yet for all his durability and for all his goals, Smith is still classified as a man with a horseshoe in his hip pocket. So much so that, throughout the league, discolored or flukey goals have become known as Smithsonians.</p><p>Two and two proves it cannot always be an accident. And Smitty has the answer to his savvy at slapping home rebounds.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not so much a Question of timing as it is of distance,&rdquo; he explains. &ldquo;I mean,, when you&rsquo;re following a play in, you&rsquo;ll never reach the rebound if you hang too far back. And if you press in too close the rebound goes past you before you get a line on it or else somebody on the otherteams ties you up.</p><p>&ldquo;You gotta stay back just far enough so you can come in for a rebound after you get a line on it coming off the goalie.&rdquo;</p><p>By practising what he preaches, Smith has ladled home seven rebounds this season, to account for all but one of his goals.</p><p>And just as he knows how to get into position to score, he knows how to get into position to avoid injury.</p><p>&ldquo;I bounce,&rdquo; he kids. &ldquo;When I see a crash coming, I look for a soft spot to land. A soft spot on me, that is. There&rsquo;s none on the ice. Then if you don&rsquo;t tighten up and you roll with the contact, you avoid some trouble.</p><p>&ldquo;The rest is luck.&rdquo;</p><p>Incidentals&hellip;In one week end, Toronto&rsquo;s casualty list became almost alarming&hellip;Tod Sloan was sidelined for 10 days with an injured knee, Rudy Migay and Tim Horton for parts of games with Charley horses and Ted Kennedy played despite a sorely injured back and Hugh Bolton despite a severely bruised ankle&hellip;X-rays of Gord Hannigan&rsquo;s injured left hand disclosed a broken bone that will sideline him one month&hellip;Harry Watson is scheduled to end six weeks of disability with torn knee ligaments this week&hellip;To replace Sloan, Willie Marshall was brought up from the Pittsburgh Hornets of the American League.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01109/1161204-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="301" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Smith</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0295/1161197-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="294" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Kennedy</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“Iron-Man Smitty” Scoring BIG Goals

<div class="byline">BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;</p><p>&lsquo;I don&rsquo;t think we&rsquo;re going to seek anymore players right now, but we certainly would not turn down someone capable of helping the Black Hawks,&rdquo; General Manager Tommy Ivan announced after the club&rsquo;s encouraging display of hustle and spirit in the bad luck home loss to Detroit, 1-0, at home November 21.</p><p>He revealed that he and Coach Frank Eddolls had agreed to try and develop three good lines with an extra forward to fill in when necessary rather than continue testing the almost excessive number of forwards that Chicago had been going through games with.</p><p>Ivan hazarded a guess that he might be able to get another front liner who might do some good for the team in a deal for any or several of the skaters not being used as regulars. It is probably safe to assume that help in the form of partial gifts of playing talent from other teams is near an end.</p><p>The offensive lines that performed strongly against the Red Wings ran left to right as follows: Jack McIntyre, George Sullivan and Metro Prystai&mdash;Lou Jankowski, Dave Creighton and Billy Mosienko&mdash;Pete Conacher, Paul Masnick and Jerry Toppazzini.</p><p>Larry Wilson was used a few times to spell off Creighton who is still getting back into condition after seeing limited service with Toronto. Bob Hassard, normally a center, was tried briefly as a winger. Dick Gamble so no action in the Detroit game.</p><p>The No. 1 candidate if only one extra forward remains is &ldquo;Goose&rdquo; McCormack whose value would no doubt outlast that of some of those on the three lines&mdash;he&rsquo;s a virtual cinch to stick. If two spares stay, Wilson would probably rate the best chance in consideration of his 42 points as leading Hawk scorer last year.</p><p>Defensive alignments were also altered along with the second and third lines in the improving tussle with Detroit. Gus Mortson was switched to the right side and teamed with Gordie Holling-worth or Frank Martin. Capt. Bill Gadsby was joined by a frisky Lee Fogolin.</p><p>The combining of all these changes gave Hart trophy goaler Al Rollins one of his stronger breathing spells in many games. He had only 22 stops compared to Terry Sawchucks 33. Al, slightly shaky in a couple of recent games, was his old, great slef in showing appreciation for the increased protection.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Ivan ‘Satisfied’ But Won’t Snub A Good Offer

<p>BOSTON.&mdash;Long John Henderson found himself with a self-appointed press agent when he arrived here to play goal for the Boston Bruins.</p><p>The tub thumper was a player who is seldom at a loss for words, garrolout Leo LaBine.</p><p>After appointing himself Henderson&rsquo;s spokesman, LaBine endeavored to fill one interested hockey writer in on the background of his one-time junior opponent.</p><p>&ldquo;Do you know that he was all-city end in football in Toronto?&rdquo; asked LaBine of the writer.</p><p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; was the reply. &ldquo;Was he a good football player?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Terrific,&rdquo; confided LaBine, as the writer made a note, &ldquo;and do you know what else? He was an all-city center in basketbail, too, one of the best they&rsquo;ve ever had.&rdquo;</p><p>The writer&rsquo;s pencil flew, but as LaBine drew a deep breath before continuing, taciturn Lome Ferguson looked up from the next seat on the bench, in the Bruins&rsquo; room.</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t believe a word of it,&rdquo; said Ferguson to the scribe. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s only kidding.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Is that right?&rdquo; demanded the writer.</p><p>&ldquo;Well&hellip;yeh,&rdquo; replied the crestfallen LaBine, &ldquo;but it&rsquo;s starting out like a good story, isn&rsquo;t it?&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

LaBine Shines As Henderson’s Press Agent

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01109/1161352-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b><i>Hugh Bolton&hellip;A success story with the Leafs</i></b></figcaption></div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>In his final college equation, Hugh Bolton, Maple Leaf defenseman, arrived at the same answer as Conn Smythe, Maple Leaf President.</p><p>To wit: Hockey plus college equals bad mix.</p><p>So after six years of off-and-on endeavours to commute betwixt the campus and the rink, Big Yug has put his texts in storage for the nonce.</p><p>The result is an NHL all-star defense candidate. Packing a powerful 190 pounds in his 25-year-old six-foot, three-inch frame, Big Yug is the Leafs&rsquo; answer to a former Torontonian, Bob Goldham, as a second-goalie on defense. And, with deceptive speed and dogged puck hounding, he&rsquo;s the Toronto reply to Red Kelly as a rushing defenseman.</p><p>Through the lean weeks at the beginning of the season, Hugo led Leaf point getters. And when inserted on Leafs&rsquo; new power play, Bolton&rsquo;s bolts from the blueline helped that ganging attack bring Leafs an eight-game unbeaten streak in their soar to second place.</p><h2><b>Nothing Impossible For Bolton</b></h2><p>&ldquo;The beauty of Yug is that nothing&rsquo;s impossible for him,&rdquo; coach King Clancy appraises. &ldquo;You never get an excuse or an argument when you ask him to do. something. And you never have to tell him more than once.</p><p>&ldquo;There just isn&rsquo;t a better defenseman in the league.&rdquo;</p><p>Smythe agrees. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s an all-star right now. He&rsquo;s proved my point. When a hockey player gets over the notion that a college degree is all-important, he plays better hockey and makes more money for it.&rdquo;</p><p>Bolton, however, hasn&rsquo;t entirely given up his pursuit of a degree in electrical engineering.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sort of working my way through college,&rdquo; he admits. &ldquo;I found out you can&rsquo;t do your best at either college or hockey if you try to do both. So I&rsquo;m going to stick strictly to hockey until my career is finished. Then I&rsquo;ll pay my way through college with the money I&rsquo;ve earned&rdquo;.</p><p>It took Bolton six years of trying to stickhandle his way through college in another manner to arrive at this decision. While he played for Marlboro juniors in Toronto in 1948, he was trying to make the grades at Queen&rsquo;s. Then, when he was promoted to Marlie seniors, he tried Varsity. School was in the background for a couple of years when he made his first pass at pro hockey, but when Leafs shipped him to Ottawa Senators last year, he enrolled at Carlton College.</p><p>It was during that semester with the Ottawas, that Turk Broda evolved the great change in Bolton. He took him on the Senators as a scatterfooted stepanfetchit who followed the puck like it were tied to his nose and hang the position. Turk sent him back a poised, Confident smoothie.</p><p>&ldquo;Turk did an awful lot for my confidence,&rdquo; Bolton admits. &ldquo;He exudes so much confidence that everybody around him just gets it. Turk never knew defeat.&rdquo;</p><p>To Clancy the new Boltori differs from the old because &ldquo;instead of running around all over the place trying to do everybody&rsquo;s job he&rsquo;s just sticking to his own position and realizing that if everybody takes care of his own job you can&rsquo;t lose.&rdquo;</p><p>But before the transformation, Bolton was mere trade bait. With no takers.</p><p>When Smythe tried to arrange a trade for him, a prospective buyer compared the records of the two players involved. Both had Eeros across the board. &ldquo;No deal,&rdquo; said the buyer. &ldquo;What&rsquo;s the use Of trading nothing for nothing. It won&rsquo;t help either of us.&rdquo;</p><p>Smythe wouldn&rsquo;t sell his ace today. At any price. If lie&rsquo;s not an all-star, he should at least be a Vezina Trophy candidate.</p><p>With the same hurtling approach to enemy shots that Bob Goldham made famous, Yug is consistently Leafs best defensive defenseman.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a knack and Yug has it down perfect,&rdquo; says Clancy. &ldquo;When most fellows go down on a shot they never get back up again. And a lot go down so far in front of the puck carrier that they either get hit in the teeth or the puck carrier gives them the big shift and goes around.&rdquo;</p><p>The mastery of the knack by &lsquo;Goldie and Yug is no coincidence. Both had the same teacher in Leaf Assistant General Manager Hap Day, who first Introduced the exercise of stooping to block shots when Goldham played with the Leafs of Day&rsquo;s coaching day.</p><p>&ldquo;But Goldham can&rsquo;t keep up with our fellow offensively,&rdquo; says Clance. &ldquo;Yug gets better every game. He never gets a big head and he&rsquo;s always trying to learn more.&rdquo;</p><p>Bolton&rsquo;s rise to stardom may seem sudden to the average hockey fan. But to Hugo it was slow and tedious. As a matter of fact, hockey was the third choice of the athletic powerhouse who always wanted to make a career of professional sports.</p><p>His first choice was baseball. A member of the Ontario midget champion Columbus Boy&rsquo;s Club team, he was pitching for six years as a youngster and high school junior before he decided there were not enough baseball chances for advancement to make the gamble worthwhile.</p><p>So he turned all his energies to football, where he was virtually a one-man team, punting, passing and dunning as he started a long reign by west Toronto&rsquo;s Humberside Collegiate iover the city&rsquo;s vast high school grid scene.</p><p>He played a little hockey for two years with Young Rangers and another with Marlboros in the OHA junior A series, but was ready to give that up when he entered Queen&rsquo;s as a football scholar. Complications arose after he accompanied Toronto Balmy Beaches of the ORFU on a Western Canada pre-season tour and the disgruntled freshman left Queen&rsquo;s and football and returned to hockey.</p><p>Complications arose, too, in hockey. After his first two pro years were split between Toronto and Pittsburgh, he was offered to Ottawa. Montreal Canadiens found reason to veto the deal, so he was ordered to Providence. Only recently married to the former Mary Good of Toronto, Bolton balked, and finally was sent to Pittsburgh.</p><p>&ldquo;I was all mixed up and ready to quit hockey,&rdquo; he admits, &ldquo;but King straightened me out. I owe a lot to him.&rdquo;</p><p>He&rsquo;s repaying it on the ice. And even the normally tight-lipped Day added a testimonial after one particularly outstanding Bolton pe&rdquo; formance on Leafs&rsquo; first visit to Montreal.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the best game I&rsquo;ve seen a defenseman play since 1936,&rdquo; Day said.</p><p>Day retired in &lsquo;36.</p><h2><b>Bolton&hellip;A Blueline Bolter !</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Big Yug Having Best Year, “Qoals” As Well As Goldham

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0291/1161383-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"></div><p>Born, Toronto, Ont., April 15, 1929</p><p>Defense, Shoots right. 6&rsquo;3&rdquo;, 190 lbs.</p><p>Last amateur club: Toronto Marlboros (Sr.)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hugh Holton’s Record BOLTON, HUGH EDWARD

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>OMMY JOHNSON, the cigar-smoking Canadians&rsquo; defenseman is the subject of a fine article next week by THE HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; Montreal correspondent, Vince Lunny. Be sure to head it.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0360/1161414-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="424" height="578"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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COMING next week

<div class="byline">by Bob Hesketh</div><p>(As Seen in the Toronto Telegram,</p><p>THIS was in front of the blackboard in the Gardens&rsquo; press room where they record the out-of-town heroics of hockey. Conn Smythe, Ted Lindsay&rsquo;s public menace number one, was contemplating the adventures of Chicago, New York, Montreal and Boston and the results of the recent Operation Switch he had helped to engineer when the bigdomes of the league decided to throw a bone to the poor.</p><p>With or without Ted Lindsay&rsquo;s permission, there are more changes to be made and it is horrible to contemplate what might happen if Terrible Ted himself were mentioned. That he is expendable was indicated even last season when the scuttlebutt was about that he had been wrapped and ready for shipment to Boston when Tommy Ivan intervened on his behalf.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01177/1161452-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="302" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Danny Lewicki</b></figcaption></div><p>Surprisingly enough Smythe considered chat the most needy right now was the Rangers, the club which had been the early-season flashes but which, up until beating Chicago Hawks, had only collected one point in a possible ten. Without the previous donation of Dashin&rsquo; Dan Lewicki, they would hardly be in fourth place and Smythe considers that they are replete with wand-like individuals who will wilt under the heavy firing ahead.</p><h2><b>Hunting For Moose</b></h2><p>No one, in fact, is too wealthy in that respect. It has been one of the failings of the Leafs that since they lost Bill Barilko, they have not come up with a heavy who can shake the enemy to his fillings&mdash;a man who makes them keep their heads up even when he is in a placid mood. It might have been with that in mind that Smythe dickered last season for the Bruins&rsquo; Jack (Moose) McIntyre, a hitting extrovert who can be dangerous around the net at least once or twice in an evening. The Bruins thwarted his ambition and McIntyre was consigned to Chicago.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote"><b>But that&rsquo;s what kind of individual he feels the Rangers need most, which might be a buildup for the release of one of the three Leafs it has already been announced are in the availability pool. Bob Bailey, whose life has been uneventful with the Leafs recently, has a built-in reputation for bounce&mdash;a faculty which, apparently, hasn&rsquo;t been enough in itself to rate him a steady job.</b></blockquote><p>It must be assumed, however, that any future transactions will have the approval of Lindsay Le Terrible, who seems to have taken it upon his shoulder pads to revolt against capitalism and dealings in human flesh. The amusing part about all this agitation about Metro Prystai&rsquo;s banishment to the Black Hawks is that The Meatball was trade bait anyway, according to Smythe who is in a position to know better than a working stiff like Lindsay.</p><h2><b>Yeah, But Who??</b></h2><p>The recent incident, staged for the edification of thousands of little open-mouthed urchins who watched on television and who hope to grow up just like these gents, was one of the more degrading events of the season. One would be naive to pick up the homeside banner and presume that Eric Nesterenko is a put-upon youth who doesn&rsquo;t know how to take care of himself. For he does. Or that Staff Smythe was in the vicinity to tell Lindsay what a virile representative of the human race he was.</p><p>If you had to draw a comparison, you would admire what Lindsay did in Detroit Olympia more than his hatchetwork here. He was defeating his own purpose at that. Trying to split Stafford down the middle would have contradicted his own admission that two Smythes are twice as bad as one.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02158/1161445-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="294" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption></div><p>For referee Frank Udvari it was another plunge into hot water. Trouble seems to follow him like a cloud Lindsay got nothing for cutting Nesterenko or for trying to make twain of Smythe, though both Ted Kennedy and Gord Hannigan testified to hearing Udvari mutter over and over to himself:</p><blockquote class="pullQuote"><b>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s out. He&rsquo;s out.&rdquo;</b></blockquote><blockquote class="pullQuote"><b>When Lindsay failed to exit, Kennedy queried Udvari as to why he was still around. Udvari said that when he said, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s out,&rdquo; he meant that Smythe was out.</b></blockquote><blockquote class="pullQuote"><b>Merely a case of mistaken identity.</b></blockquote><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NEWS on SPORT

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Question: What&rsquo;s the surest way to become a high-scoring wing for the Boston Bruins?</p><p>Answer: By having Fleming Mackell for a center.</p><p>For the first half of last season Ed Sandford patrolled left wing for the Bruins with Mackell as his center.</p><p>For that 35-game stretch Sandford scored 11 goals, and collected so many votes for the National league&rsquo;s All-Star team at season&rsquo;s end, under the new split-ballot system, he made the second All-Star squad.</p><p>For most of the second half of the season the gent playing on Mackell&rsquo;s left side was Dave Creighton.</p><p>At the season&rsquo;s halfway mark Creighton&rsquo;s scoring output was a modest six goals, but at year&rsquo;s end he had 20, a decided increase in the stretch.</p><p>This season Mackell broke from the starting gate with Real Chevrefils and Leo LaBine for wings. Chevrefils was retarded by an injury, but LaBine made the fastest getaway he has ever made here.</p><p>Then, when the Bruins moved into the late November portion of their schedule, Coach Lynn Patrick moved Mackell to doctor up another pair of wings, the 20-year-olds, Doug Mohns and Murray Costello.</p><p>In the second game which the trio worked as a unit, Mohns put an end to his early-season slump with two goals, Mackell assisting on both.</p><p>An eight-year veteran of the major league wars at the age of 25, Mackell has been displaying a stability and maturity for the Bruins this season which he has never shown before.</p><p>Before the opening of the season Patrick made him one of the team&rsquo;s alternate captains&mdash;Defensemen Ferny Flaman and Sandford are the others&mdash;and Mackell seems to have accepted his increased responsibility as a personal challenge.</p><p>Prior to this year his performances stamped him as a hot and cold player, one capable of greatness one night and less spectacular play another. So far this fall his play has been consistently good.</p><p>With his speed and all-round centering ability, he can pick up any given line, and that&rsquo;s an assignment for which Patrick does not seem hesitant about using him. And the surest way to pick up goals, it seems here, is to have him for a center.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Mackell Helps Wingmen to Be Good Scorers

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Who sparked the Bruins on their recent successful road trip?</p><p>Milt Schmidt.</p><p>It would seem that at 36 the durable Bruins&rsquo; leader would have slowed down considerably. After all, he has been throught 16 National Hockey League campaigns, and Milt was never one to spare himself from physical contact.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0397/1161507-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="555" height="567"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MILT SCHMIDT</b></figcaption></div><p>But just as he was the key man for the Bruins 15 seasons back, Schmidt is still the fellow who makes the Boston club go.</p><h2><b>&ldquo;Never Played Better&rdquo;</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Never saw Milt play any better than he did in those three road games&rdquo;, lauded Coach Lynn Patrick after the Bruins returned with a tie and two triumphs.</p><p>Milt, the oldest player in the NHL is still one of the fastest and one of the toughest. They just don&rsquo;t pick on Schmidt and get away with it.</p><p>The Bruins&rsquo; captain, who also holds the title of assistant coach this season, is definitely playing his final year. He has a two-year contract to succeed Patrick as coach next Fall with Lynn concentrating on managerial duties:</p><p>Ask Schmidt the secret of his durability and he&rsquo;ll crack: &ldquo;Good old German Wiener schnitzel and sauerkraut.&rdquo;</p><p>Right now, Milt feels he is skating as fast as he did three years ago and is playing as well, if not better.</p><p>&ldquo;Changed my style,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;Getting too old to bump anymore&mdash;unless the occasion demands it. It used to take a lot out of me playing the way 1 did. I couldn&rsquo;t last a season any more that way.</p><p>&ldquo;Course I can&rsquo;t go as long as I used to either. Haven&rsquo;t got the stamina.&rdquo;</p><p>It isn&rsquo;t likely that the fans will buy the latter statement. Herb Goren, the competent New York Rangers publicist, definitely won&rsquo;t go for it. On the Rangers&rsquo; first visit heck he inquired before the game how the Bruins planned to use the amazing Mr. Schmidt this year.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;ll be used in spots,&rdquo; was the reply.</p><p>After watching&rsquo; Schmidt play on a couple of different fines, kill penalties and take the point on power plays, Goren remarked sarcastically:</p><p>&ldquo;Yeah, they&rsquo;re going to spot him this year&mdash;spot him on every line as well as killing penalties and power plays. He 11 only play 40 minutes a game this year instead of 45.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>One Of Greatest Competitors</b></h2><p>Schmidt has been a key figure in the Bruins for so long he is taken for granted. But this professional athlete with the old college try shouldn&rsquo;t be. He is one of the greatest competitors sports has ever known.</p><p>During his brilliant career, he has suffered injuries which would have finished the ordinary player. He has fractured his collarbone three times, has suffered a separated shoulder, broken his nose twice and broken ribs, bad cuts and wobbly knees. On occasions he was taped together so he could play.</p><p>It was age that forced him to cut but his aggressive play, but he is still a real tough hombre when offended, as Canadiens&rsquo; Tom Johnson can attest.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Uncle Miltie Still Guy Who Makes Bruins Click

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01130/1161552-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ALLAN STANLEY</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Some of the oldest Ranger fang searched their memory in vain to find when the Broadway Blues last pulled off a trade involving four front-line players of the stature of Bill Gadsby and Pete Conacher, who come to them, in exchange for three new Black Hawks&mdash;Nick Mickoski, Allan Stanley and one more player, as yet unnamed, to join Chicago in the Bpring.</p><p>It was a big deal, and if you forget the forwards, somewhat remindful of the time Lester Patrick, the Silver Fox of the Rangers, traded Earl Seibert to the Black Hawks for Art Coulter early in the 1935-36 season.</p><p>In announcing the deal to a New York press assemblage at Leone&rsquo;s, general manager Frank Boucher found no reason either to Crow about it or to seem concerned over the high stakes.</p><h2><b>Trade Will Help Both Clubs</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I think it will help both teams,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Naturally I&rsquo;m hoping it helps us more. I&rsquo;ve made other deals before&mdash;some bad, others perhaps good&mdash;always with the full support of Gen. Kilpatrick and Ned Irish, and all I can say is that if Gadsby and Conacher don&rsquo;t help us as much as I feel they Will, the responsibility is mine.&rdquo;</p><p>Boucher was asked who initiated the deal and he said it was a case of one club going bad, and then another, and then both clubs crying on each other&rsquo;s shoulders.</p><p>&ldquo;In such a situation,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;trade talk might come about, and if it finds some common ground for an exchange of players, it can lead to such a deal as this.&rdquo;</p><p>He was quick to say that he had never encountered any trouble with either Mickoski or Stanley, both of whom gave excellent service to the Rangers.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not forgetting that we had to send Stanley to Vancouver last year,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But he was a big leaguer all the time. And Incidentally, while there were rumors in the past involving Stanley&rsquo;s going to Chicago, his name never came up officially until the current negotiations began.&rdquo;</p><p>The coming of Gadsby and young Conacher caused a wide shuffling in the Ranger ranks by coach Muzz Patrick, though Muzz could have done it simply by putting Conacher in Mickoski&rsquo;s left wing slot with Bones Raleigh and Danny Lewicki.</p><p>&ldquo;I plan on doing it differently,&rdquo; Muzz said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got Wally Hergesheimer coming back on Paul Ronty&rsquo;s right wing, and that&rsquo;s wonderful news. Now I&rsquo;d like to put Conacher on the left flank.</p><p>&ldquo;As for the Raleigh line, while it has done a lot of scoring and has been very hot, it has lacked defensive cohesion and I think I can do something about that by restoring Lewicki to left wing and placing Aldo Guidolin on the right.&rdquo;</p><p>Guidolln, strong, rugged, seemingly improved over a year ago, has been used almost solely in a penalty killing role. The prospect of steady employment pleased him.</p><p>Patrick went farther than that in his plans. He had not tampered With a defense combination of Harry Howell and Jack Evans since he joined the Rangers as coach last January. But with Gadsby on the team, he decided to split the Howell-Evans combo. Gadsby joins Evans, and Howell will team up with Ivan Irwin.</p><p>Muzz, speaking of Gadsby, said: &ldquo;I know he rates as one of the best scoring defensemen in the league. As we get him now, he&rsquo;s got three goals, and that&rsquo;s one more than our whole defense has collected. But my prime reason in wanting him is to tighten our defense. I think he has that ability. And I know he&rsquo;ll look good on a point to help our power play.&rdquo;</p><p>One of the oddities of the deal is that it touches four players who were never with any other NHL club than the ones they started out with until it happened. Gadsby and Conacher were two of the rarest of Black Hawks&mdash;born and r&rsquo;ared with the Chicago organization.</p><p>Pete Conacher is the first member of that distinguished family to join the Rangers. When Frank Boucher started out as general manager, he thought he had made a deal for Pete&rsquo;s uncle, Roy, in October of 1947 with Detroit. But through a mysterious chain of circumstances, Roy first announced his retirement, then suddenly was sold to Chicago.</p><p>Pete, son of the famous Charley Conacher and nephew of the late Lionel Conacher, seems to resemble Roy more than his father or Lionel. Like Roy, he&rsquo;s a left winger; and like Roy, his style of skating and shooting are marked by a graceful flow of motion that is considerably different from papa Charley&rsquo;s power and drive.</p><p>Pete is only 22, and he was good enough last year to click for 19 goals.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a goal scorer,&rdquo; Boucher said. &ldquo;I guess he was born with that.&rdquo;</p><h2>The Shift May Help Him</h2><h2>Will Buzz For Muzz Now</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02113/1161545-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="1184" height="1882"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Gadsby and Pete Conacher (inset) New Rangers</b></figcaption></div><h2>Experience For Hawks</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0387/1161538-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="1176" height="1460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NICK MICKOSKI</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“Deal Made To Help Both Teams,”—Boucher

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

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01202/1161652-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="393" height="420"></div><p>&bull; <b>BILL SMITH,</b> trainer for the Toronto Maple Leafs, was talking about the National Hockey League in general the other day&hellip;&ldquo;It looks right now as if Canadiens are going to denominate the league,&rdquo; he said&hellip;&ldquo;Remember, how Toronto denominated it for awhile and then Detroit. Denomination by one team for too long is bad&rdquo;, Smitty orated&hellip;You tell &lsquo;em kid&hellip;More players have played for two NHL clubs this season than for many years.</p><p>There are 10 players now with their second NHL squad since the season started over six weeks ago. They are Lorne Davis, Chicago and Detroit; Dave Creighton, Toronto and Chicago; Leo Boivin, Toronto and Boston; Paul Masnick, Montreal and Chicago; Metro Prystai, Detroit and Chicago; Joe Klukay, Boston and Toronto; Allan Stanley, New York and Chicago; Nick Mickoski, New York and Chicago; Pete Conacher, Chicago and New York, and Bill Gadsby, Chicago and New York&hellip;The doctor has advised Bill Quackenbush and his wife they will be parents of twins in December. His defense mate on the Bruins, Hal Laycoe, is also the father of twins&hellip;When Camille Henry of the Rangers scored two goals from about 25 feet out, his buddies on the Rangers started calling him &ldquo;Boom, Boom, Boom&rdquo;&hellip;Boston is reported to have three great NHL prospects at Hershey in Gordie Wilson, Stan Parker and Don Cherry., Detroit plans to fine any player incurring a cheap penalty while the Red Wings have a man serving an earlier penalty.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0297/1161645-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="289" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Joe Klukcy</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>ALTHOUGH THE AHL</b> has overtime and the NHL doesn&rsquo;t, there are more tie games in the American League this year than there are in the National League&hellip;Wally Stanowski, who came out of hockey retirement to coach the Weston Dukes in Toronto, got off to a poor start the other day. Enroute to his first practice he realized he wasn&rsquo;t sure where it was being held. He parked his car and called Maple Leaf Gardens. Not being able to locate any of the &ldquo;wheels&rdquo; he was told by a sweet female voice: &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll have to ask the coach&rdquo;, When Wally wailed: &ldquo;I am the coach&rdquo;, she sounded skeptical. He returned to his car and found a $5 parking ticket on the windshield&hellip;Gordie Bell, part-time goalie with Springfield Indians of the AHL, has played on all six teams in the American League&hellip;Milt Schmidt is reputed to have the best paying off-season job of any player in hockey. Bet he&rsquo;s worth every cent of it, too&hellip;The irrepressible Jim Burchard teed off on the Rangers the other day in the WorldTelegram & Sun&hellip;New York writers are disappointed at the way the Rangers have fallen off of late&hellip;Jim Henry has been handing out the advice freely to young John Henderson who has taken over his job in goal for the Bruins. There never was a finer gentleman than Sugar Jim and there&rsquo;s no doubt but his wise words of advice on the different players in the NHL have aided Henderson considerably&hellip;Although he racked up two successive shutouts they say he didn&rsquo;t have too many saves to make&hellip;The Bruins were playing fine defensive hockey and gave the rook wonderful protection&hellip;Eddie Shore wanted Henderson to take tap dancing lessons last season when he played for him. Eddie thought it would give him better balance and make him more agile&hellip;Mavbe get him a contract as Gene Kelly&rsquo;s understudy, too.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0360/1161638-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="298" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Gadsby</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>GORDIE HOWE</b> has two to go before scoring his 250th NHL goal. He hopes to be the sixth player in National League history to achieve this total. Teammate Ted Lindsay turned the trick last month. Willie Marshall, who was recently promoted to the Toronto Maple Leafs, is regarded as hockev&rsquo;s wealthiest player. He is co-discoverer of a lucrative gold mine. He is 22 years old and hails, from Kirkland Lake, Ont.&hellip;Cal Gardner has been showing plenty of hustle for the Bruins in games of late&hellip;Near the end. of a recent Rangers&mdash;Toronto game in Maple Leaf Gardens, Ted Kennedy was ready to fgiht, but the linesman broke it up&hellip;After the game, Kennedy couldn&rsquo;t remember who it was he wanted to fight&hellip;Glen Sonmor was called Rocky by the Rangers players. Shortly after his arrival in the NHL a Detroit vet tried to find but just what the rookie was made of. He found out quickly. One punch and down he went. Cleveland fans were very happy when Jim Hendy got Sonmor back from the Rangers to bolster the sagging Barons. He is expected to spark the Barons back into first place in the American Hockey League standings.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0439/1161631-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="292" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0535/1161683-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>Cunningham Award</h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>As you are probably aware, our Club has sponsored the &ldquo;Les Cunningham&rdquo; award to the American Hockey League&rsquo;s most valuable player for the past six years.</p><p>Last year we awarded the trophy to Eddie Olson of the Cleveland Barons in Cleveland, on November 7th, before a league game with Buffalo. The presentation was made out of town because of no hockey in St. Louis (Cleveland publicity was good, but I don&rsquo;t think we made the Hockey News)</p><p>This year, we have the five or six National League games of the Chicago Black Hawks transferred here to this hockey-wanting town and on Tuesday night, November 23rd, before the game with league leading Montreal, we presented the Les Cunningham award to George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan of the Hawks who is the award winner on the basis of his outstanding performance with the Hershey Club last season.</p><p>We are proud of our contribution to hockey in the form of this trophy award and the fact that our Club is still organized, sponsoring this trophy and making hockey trips in spite of no local club.</p><p>We were the first Booster Club in the American League, organized October 15, 1946 and would appreciate a break into print in Hockey News again.</p><p>Bill Feldt St. Louis, Mo.</p><h2>Fans for Olmstead</h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>I would like to start a fan club for Bert Olmstead. If anyone would like to join me in this effort, they can write to me at 530 Mercier St., St. Johns, P.Q.</p><p>Would you please run a feature on Ron Murphy or Gump Worsley?</p><p>Tim Johnson St. Johns, P.Q.</p><h2>Faraway Fan</h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>This being my first letter to your paper, I&rsquo;d like first to say I think it is truly great!</p><p>I am a college student attending Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois, and would appreciate it if you could help me by printing this.</p><p>I&rsquo;ve been a hockey fan all my life, and love to watch, follow, and especially play it. Living near Chicago, when not at school, I am oddly enough a Canadian fan, and have been since the days of Bill Durnan, Kenny Reardon etc.</p><p>I&rsquo;d be very happy if some Montreal fan would take time to write to me about hockey in general, and Montreal in particular. I&rsquo;d like to know more about my favorites, and would like to write back thus learning even more about them.</p><p>My address is: 915 N. Main Street, Bloomington, Ill.</p><p>Donald Rash Bloomington, Ill.</p><h2>Selection Committee</h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>In renewing my subscription to THE HOCKEY NEWS, I&rsquo;d also like to stick my oar into this selection business.</p><p>The final standing of the teams in the NHL will run like this: 1-Montreal; 2-Toronto; 3-Detroit; 4-New York; 5-Boston; 6-Chicago.</p><p>For top scorers I&rsquo;ll take Jean Beliveau, Bernie Geoffrion and Maurice Richard.</p><p>As you can see, I&rsquo;m all for Canadiens, even if I do live in Vancouver.</p><p>Keep up the good work.</p><p>Paul Allemeersh Vancouver, BC<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0632/1161714-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="596" height="270"></div><p>December 4 to December 10</p><p>4&mdash;DELVECCHIO, Alex, Detroit forward, 1931;</p><p>HUCUL, Fred, Quebec forward, 1931.</p><p>6&mdash;PELLETIER, Marcel, New Westminster goales, 1927.</p><p>7&mdash;MICKOSKI, Nick, Chicago forward, 1927;</p><p>STEARNS, Cal, Cleveland forward, 1926.</p><p>9&mdash;GCIDOLIN, Bep, Ottawa forward, 1925.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<p><b>&ldquo;HOCKEY NEWS&rdquo; Heads their Christmas gift lists&hellip;</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-084/1161752-1-eng-US/f0006-082.jpg" title="f0006-08" width="416" height="678"></div><p>&ldquo;When it comes to reading about the world&rsquo;s greatest sport, THE HOCKEY NEWS is in a class by itself. A wonderful Xmas gift for young and old.&rdquo;</p><p>Jack Waters, Salesman, Edmonton, Alta.</p><p>&ldquo;A year&rsquo;s subscription to THE HOCKEY NEWS is a Xmas gift that any hockey fan would cherish. There just isn&rsquo;t a better gift for the price that a keen fan could receive. HOCKEY NEWS is tops with me.&rdquo;</p><p>William De Savigny,</p><p>Engineer, Montreal, Que.</p><p>&ldquo;Nearly all the players read THE HOCKEY NEWS regularly. You can&rsquo;t beat it. for keeping you posted on the different leagues and following your pals on teams in other leagues.&rdquo;</p><p>Gordie Howe, Detroit Red Wings</p><p>&ldquo;The easiest way to overcome what to get the man in your life for Xmas is a subscription to THE HOCKEY NEWS. He&rsquo;ll think of you every time the postman delivers it&hellip;35 times a year.&rdquo;</p><p>Miss Janice Collins,</p><p>Secretary, Boston, Mass.</p><p><b>The Hockey News</b></p><p><b>Makes an ideal CHRISTMAS GIFT for everyone in the family</b></p><p><b>Solve your Christmas shopping Worries the Easy Way&hellip;Send the &ldquo;Hockey News&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>FATHER&hellip;BIG BROTHER&hellip;YOUR FAVORITE COUSIN;. THE BOY FRIEND&hellip;MOTHER&hellip;KID SISTER&hellip;THE GALS AWAY AT SCHOOL&hellip;THE BETTER HALF.</b></p><p><b>ATTRACTIVE GIR CARDS ANNOUNCE EACH XMAS SUBSCRIPTION</b></p><p>year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35. onsecutive issues.</p><p><b>Canadian Remittances&hellip;. $3.0L</b> Payable by Postal, Bank or Telegraphic Money Order.</p><p><b>U. S. A. Remittances&hellip;&hellip;$4.00</b> Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or Personal cheque in U.S. funds.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-09/1161745-1-eng-US/f0006-092.jpg" title="f0006-09" width="1130" height="406"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IT’S GIFT TIME AGAIN!!

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Injuries are a broad, sharp sword poised over a hockey club, ready to hack its playing strength, to prune its stars, to reduce its effectiveness by constant paring.</p><p>Sometimes the sword strikes at a club&rsquo;s vital arteries and, unless prompt remedial measures are taken, it bleeds and bleeds as losses are recorded on the progress charts rather than Important wins.</p><p>The loss of Jacques Plante was a blow at the heart Of the Montreal Canadiens but luckily, after other expedients had failed, a hemorrhage was averted when Charlie Hodge was thrust into the nets to stop the flow of goals.</p><p>Plante up to Nov. 27 had missed nine games with the Habs, including two crucial first place battles with the Toronto Maple Leafs, bringing to 50 the total toll of &ldquo;player games&rdquo; taken by injuries from the Habs so far this season.</p><p>Seven players out of a normal complement of 17 have been sidelined for various spells, ranging from 16 games for big Eddie Mazur to one for Jackie Leclair. Not included in the figures are the 22 games missed by Donnie Marshall, who fractured an ankle bone in, pre-season workouts and has yet to make his NHL debut although he lecently returned to action with the Royals of the Quebec Hockey League.</p><h2><b>Sidelined by &ldquo;Sword&rdquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01153/1161804-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="294" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jackie Leclair</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02130/1161797-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="285" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Paul Meger</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0398/1161790-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="276" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dickie Moore</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0483/1161783-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="280" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Mazur</b></figcaption></div><p>Undoubtedly, had he not been sidelined by the sword, he would have been with the Habs who have been carrying only three centres Since the transfer of Paul Masnick to the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>Here is a complete run-down of the injuries sustained by the seven Canadien regulars with games missed in brackets:</p><p>EDDIE MAZUR, LEFT WINGER (16)&mdash;Underwent knee operation for a damaged cartilage prior to start of season.</p><p>JACQUES PLANTE, GOAL TENDER (9)&mdash;Fractured cheek bone when hit by the puck in pre-game warm-up on Nov. 11.</p><p>PAUL MEGER, LEFT WINGER (9)&mdash;Suffered fracture of temporal bone when he fell on Leo LaBine&rsquo;s skate in game at Boston on Nov. 9.</p><p>DOLLARD ST. LAURENT, DEFENCEMAN (10)&mdash;Aggravated wrist injury during pre-season tour of the Maritimes.</p><p>BUD MacPHERSON, DEFENCEMAN (3)&mdash;Wrenched back muscles in a game against the Black Hawks in Montreal on Nov. 11.</p><p>DICKIE MOORE, LEFT WINGER (2)&mdash;Sustained partial shoulder separation in practice on Oct. 20.</p><p>JACKIE LECLAIR, CENTRE (1)&mdash;Sustained slight shoulder injury in practice on Oct. 29.</p><p>Leclair was hurt again in Boston on Nov. 21, suffering a bruised Iris on the left eye when accidentally clipped by Milt Schmidt&rsquo;s stick in a second period faceoff. The rookie centre was taken to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. He was discharged the following day with the assurance of doctors that his vision had net been impaired and that the hemorrhage resulting from the injury had been stopped. It had been feared at first that the iris was torn but observation proved the preliminary diagnosis to be incorrect.</p><p>Upon his discharge Leclair rejoined the Habs for the start of a gruelling stretch, during which the team was slated to play mine games in 16 days, eight of them on the road. The Habs were to visit every city in the league, with the exception of Boston, and two cities which aren&rsquo;t even represented in the NHL&mdash;St. Louis and Omaha for switched games against the Black Hawks.</p><p>Between Nov. 20 and Dec. 9 the Habs had only one home game scheduled, a Saturday night contest against the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>With approximately a third of the 1954-55 schedule completed, the Habs are hoping that the injury sword will cut less deeply in their manpower. If it dgesn&rsquo;t cease to be such cause for concern and if the present injury rate is maintained the Canadien toll will reach 150 games, equivalent to the loss of two players for the full campaign.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-01

Broad Sir ord Cuts Through Canadiens As Seven Injured

<div class="byline">MOZLEY</div><h2><b>Sidelined</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0647/1161866-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="586" height="967"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUMP WORSLEY</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y&mdash;</p><p>The importance of having two first-rate goalies in this era of goal-tending disturbances was again on display last Nov. 21 when Rangers&rsquo; Gump Worsley stopped a drive from 20 feet out by Rudy Migay with the inside of his left ankle and had a tiny piece of bone chipped away.</p><p>Gump played through the game with Toronto, had a shutout as far into it as 12 minutes of the third period, then succumbed to two quick goals and a tie score at 2-2. Worsley&rsquo;s injury happened at 15:20 of the first period and Referee Bill Chadwick decreed an intermission, as if the period had ended, with the next session picking up the additional time&mdash;pausing only for a change of nets by the respective goalies.</p><p>There was much ado in the Rangers&rsquo; dressing room when it was riot certain that Worsley could continue. The New Yorkers&rsquo; emergency man is a rotund Joe Schaefer, just a Metropolitan Leaguer of a few years back, and hardly adequate. But fortunately he wasn&rsquo;t needed, though he dressed for the occasion and forthrightly declared his availability and preparedness.</p><p>That same night the Rangers put in an emergency call for Johnny Bower, who went through the 70-game schedule last season without any help from outside sources. Bower flew in from Vancouver, where he had been outstanding. As a matter of fact there was never anything wrong with Bower&rsquo;s record in New York. At 2.60, it was the best by a Ranger goalie since Davey Kerr guarded the nets in 1940-41.</p><p>At the time the Rangers gave up Nick Mickoski, he was leading the NHL in assists with 14. And while he never was much for picking up assists, there was no disputing the fact he helped set up Danny Lewicki for many of the ex-Leaf&rsquo;s goals&hellip;Rangers continue to play a wide-open game, though it&rsquo;s getting obnoxious to see the Leafs and Bruins hanging back and playing it close to the vest&hellip;Wally Hergesheimer&rsquo;s return to the lineup, on Nov. 24, was at least a month ahead of the most optimistic medical report in the summer.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-06

Rangers Prove Importance of Having Two Topflight Goalies, Recall Bower

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><h2><b>Handy Andy</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0562/1161835-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="907" height="1209"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ANDY BATHGATE</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Technically, Andy Bathgate isn&rsquo;t a rookie. He has never played more than 20 National Hockey League games in any season, as the regulation stipulates, but by having played 18 one year and 20 the next, he is automatically disqualified from consideration for the Calder Memorial Trophy. Otherwise the Rangers would probably be booming him for an award that has gone to one of their own the last two seasons.</p><p>Well, maybe Andy&rsquo;s sidekick, Larry Popein, will pick up the marbles. Larry js doing fine. He&rsquo;s not only a smooth, natural skater and, with five goals in the first 18 games, a fair offensive threat; but equally important, he gets back in a hurry.</p><p>Still it&rsquo;s Bathgate who makes the Rangers&rsquo; kid line tick. In the sense that Andy never could stick with the Broadway Blues before, this is a first year for him. And basing it on what he showed in the two previous seasons, his improvement has been spectacular. In recent weeks this tall, quiet-spoken lad&mdash;third of the Bathgate brothers in pro hockey&mdash;has looked like one of the best two-way players on the team.</p><p>With five goals and seven assists in the first 18 games, Andy is doing better than any other forward trying to establish himself in the NHL firmament. But more than his favorable statistics, it should be noted that he is playing with two other youngsters in Popein and Ron Murphy arid that, since even kid lines need a leader, Andy has pre-empted this authority to give the kids the right kind of generalship.</p><p>What does this mean? It means that when the pressure is on the kids, Andy can be counted on to make the key move&mdash;the good pass, the clever deke, the aggressive act which will take the pressure off and put it on the other team. It means also that he will exhort, sometimes cajole, his line mates into an intensified effort. Andy takes hockey seriously. He expects as much from his sidekicks.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been waiting for Bathgate to find himself,&rdquo; general manager Frank Boucher says, &ldquo;since we first brought him up from junior hockey two years ago. Maybe with a better team he&rsquo;d have made good from the start. With us he needed the experience that two years in the minors have given him.&rdquo;</p><p>Bathgate got his first taste of big league experience in the fall of 1952. He was starting his last year of junior eligibility when an emergency call was sent out for himself, Murphy, Harry Howell and Dean Prentice. Andy got into 18 games while the Rangers were trying to unscramble themselves, and the sum total of his efforts was one assist.</p><p>So Boucher sent him to Vancouver where he played a wrong-side left wing and got better as he went along. By playoff time he was the hottest thing in the Western League, with a spectacular record of 11 goals and four assists in nine playoff games.</p><p>Next year he started with Vancouver, bagged 12 goals in the first 17 games and was called, up again; and again he was marked too green. He played through 20 games, got two goals, was finally traded off to Cleveland as part payment for Glen Sonmor.</p><p>Of course, the Rangers retained the right to reclaim Bathgate at the end of the season, and they were not remiss in picking up the privilege. Andy again was a playoff star as the Barons drove to a championship. He centered a so-called checking line against some high-scoring American Hockey. League units, and wound up by outscoring the high. scorers.</p><p>Any position on a forward line is okay with Andy, and he&rsquo;s not complaining about going on the right side of Popein, though two years ago he was on the left of Popein.</p><p>&ldquo;Sure it&rsquo;s okay,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;But I think we&rsquo;ll get better as we go along. We&rsquo;re just beginning to get used to each other&mdash;and me with Ron too.&rdquo; And about himself, he adds: &ldquo;I think I&rsquo;ve licked the Western League and the American League. Making good in hockey is a matter of confidence. You don&rsquo;t work any harder one place than the next. But you have to convince yourself and everybody else that you&rsquo;re good enough.&rdquo;</p><p>gue. Making good in hockey is a matter of confidence. You don&rsquo;t work any harder one place than the next. But you have to convince yourself and everybody else that you&rsquo;re good enough.&rdquo;</p><p>Bathgate was born and raised in Winnipeg, and it&rsquo;s a little known fact that both his older brothers, Bernie and Frank, were tied up by the Rangers before him. Hockey has been his life. His father, Andrew Richardson Bathgeat, founded the Memorial Community Center of West Kildonan, Man., three years before he died, and did much to encourage the growth of hockey leagues for youngsters.</p><p>The youthful Andy was only 9 when he joined a juvenile team called the Excelsior Athletic Club. Frank, three years his senior, was also on the team. And Bernie, 10 years older, had just been placed on the Rangers&rsquo; protected list when he was called into the Navy.</p><p>In those years Andy was a &lsquo;&lsquo;rink rat&rdquo; and his particular hero was ex-Ranger star Bryan Hextall. Hardly an afternoon ever went by, during the weeks the Rangers trained there, that Hex didn&rsquo;t scare up a hockey stick for Bathgate.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-05

Heart Of Rangers Kid Line Can’t Qualify As Rookie

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><h2><b>Passes Him&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01186/1161911-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="493" height="839"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DIT CLAPPER</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>When Milt Schmidt joined the Boston Bruins as a 19-year-old center during the 1936-37 season, his first right wing was a veteran named Aubrey &ldquo;Dit&rdquo; Clapper.</p><p>At that time Clapper was halfway through the longest playing career in National league history, one which lasted 20 seasons.</p><p>In his 19th season, long after he had given up playing right wing for defense work, Clapper scored his last goal. It was his 228th, and no other Bruin had ever scored that many.</p><p>On November 18, in a game in Chicago, Clapper&rsquo;s nine-year old record was knocked off the books, and the player who knocked it off was his rookie center of nearly two decades ago, the 36-year-old Schmidt.</p><p>When Schmidt rifled a backhand shot by Goalie Al Rollins in the second period of the game in Chicago, he took the lead&mdash;at 22 9 goals&mdash;in the Brnins&rsquo; all-time scoring derby.</p><p>A night earlier, in New York, he had caught up to Clapper with his 228th goal, also a backhander, and one which furnished the Bruins with a last-second tie with the Rangers.</p><p>Schmidt&rsquo;s new record is the third of the lifetime variety which he has set here in the past two seasons.</p><p>Last winter the Bruins&rsquo; captain moved Bill Cowley, also a center, off the books as the holder of lifetime regular-season and over-all points records. Cowley compiled 54 8 regularseason and 594 over-all points in 13 years here.</p><p>Within Schmidt&rsquo;s reach now are two more Cowley records, those for the most assists during regular-season and over-all careers. Milt was eight short of the former and 17 behind the latter when he scored his record goal.</p><p>Schmidt&rsquo;s 228th was his fourth of the present season, since the start of which he has moved up in the league&rsquo;s alltime scoring standing.</p><h2><b>&hellip;Still Has Time</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02136/1161904-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="550" height="566"><figcaption class="caption-body">MILT SCHMIDT</figcaption></div><p>His 225-goal total at the opening of the schedule gave him a tie with Charley Conacher for 16th place. His 226th. scored against Toronto, tied him with another Conacher, his one-time Boston teammate Roy, and when he caught Clapper with his 228th, he also caught Bill Cook.</p><p>Now he is all alone in 13th position, and the next all-time scorer ahead of him is Toe Blake, formerly of Montreal, who made 235 goals.</p><p>With his customary disdain for personal accomplishments, Schmidt made no fuss about either of his goals, the recordtying one or that which set a new record.</p><p>He didn&rsquo;t even bother going after the puck which represented No. 228, and Referee Frank Udvari was preparing to drop it for a faceoff when Defenseman Hal Laycoe of the Bruins hustled off the bench to retrieve it from the referee.</p><p>Among active players, Schmidt stands fifth in scoring, behind Maurice Richard of Montreal, Gordon Howe and Ted Lindsay of Detroit and Bill Mosienko of Chicago, but his total doesn&rsquo;t tell the whole story.</p><p>The dean of Bruins&mdash;and National leaguers&mdash;missed three full seasons and a portion of a fourth because of wartime service in the Canadian Air Force. During the war years players who were not high scorers before or afterward blossomed into 20-goal men, and it is safe to figure that a superlative forward like Schmidt would have made at least 60 goals during the time he spent, in service.</p><h2><b>&hellip;To Pass Him</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03103/1161897-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="528" height="826"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL COWLEY</b></figcaption></div><p>It isn&rsquo;t unreasonable to figure that had Schmidt been able to play without service interruption, he&rsquo;d be in the 300-goal class today with old Nels Stewart and Richard.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-01

Schmidt Surpasses All-Time Biruin Goal ABark Of 228 ABarkers Blacked Up By Dit dapper

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the last time around,&rdquo; admitted Milt Schmidt with the trace of a smile. &ldquo;But it won&rsquo;t be so hard to take if the Boston Bruins make the Stanley Cup playoffs.&rdquo;</p><p>The one-time centre of the famous &ldquo;Kraut Line&rdquo; already has signed to replace Lynn Patrick as coach of the Bruins for the 19555 6 and 1956-57 hockey seasons, but admits it&rsquo;s &ldquo;hard to face up to the fact that your playing career is nearing its end.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;But,&rdquo; the battle-scarred, 3 7-year-old Schmidt said, &ldquo;this is it&mdash;definitely my last year. I&rsquo;ve already signed the two-year contract to coach the team with Patrick stepping into the front office as the general manager.&rdquo;</p><p>One of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s authentic &ldquo;old pros,&rdquo; Schmidt is convinced that the Bruins will beat out the New York Rangers for a berth in the Stanley Cup playoffs and also eager to embark on his new job as coach.</p><h2>Solid Team</h2><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve started out pretty badly,&rdquo; the rugged-featured but soft-spoken veteran conceded. &ldquo;But I really believe we&rsquo;ll make the playoffs. We&rsquo;ve got a solid team that&rsquo;s done it before and we&rsquo;ll come strong later in the season.&rdquo;</p><p>Achieving the playoff this year won&rsquo;t make it easier for Schmidt to break in as the Bruins&rsquo; coach next season but there&rsquo;s no question<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Uncle Miltie To Take Over In 1955-1956

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, 111.&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>t was a mystified Coach Frank Eddolls who watched his Black Hawks get suddenly hot and then just as quickly turn very cold in the scoring department two weeks ago. In the first three of six games, the club rolled for 12 scores, however, the rest of the way saw a mere one counter registered.</p><p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t understand it,&rdquo; he sighed while nervously gazing at some game statistics in his quarters adjacent to the squad&rsquo;s dressing room in the Chicago Stadium. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve tried everything, but when the pucks always seem to bounce right for them and not you, it&rsquo;s a hard thing to figure.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0472/1161980-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="286" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dove Creighton</b></figcaption></div><p>The situation became downright pathetic when the offense chose to disappear just after Detroit, the Canadiens and Toronto came through with seemingly valuable aid in the persons of forwards &lsquo;Metro Prystai. Paul Masnick and Dave Creighton who certainly should have improved Hawk chances at least slightly.</p><p>The presence of Metro and Paul, who were secured just after the &ldquo;share the wealth,&rdquo; meeting in New York City, did seem&rsquo; to make a difference in the last two good scoring games as they figured in five goals, but the roof then collapsed on the new and old Chicago skaters alike.</p><p>On paper, the Hawks are definitely better than they have shown most of the time to date. The 11 deals made since last spring would appear to be the answers to dreams that went un ful filled for the past several years, but things just hadn&rsquo;t worked out that way in most intances as this was being written.</p><p>With consideration to the scoring performances of players: last season, the current batch of Chicago puck prodders should 1 about 51 goals better than the squad they succeeded. This would be a strong enough gain to make a definite contender of the teal that scored only 133 times i 1953-54.</p><p>Here are what all the NHI clubs could expect on the bas of last year&rsquo;s offense achieve ments: Detroit, 210 goals; Can adiens, 199; Chicago, 184; Toronto, 182; Rangers, 169, an Boston, 14 6. Minor league goa were included when necessary a the discovered value of half major league tally.</p><h2><b>Mystified Mentor</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0545/1161973-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="1174" height="1480"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANKIE EDDOLLS</b></figcaption></div><p>Division of the Chicago total shows the team should be averaging about 2.5 goals per game. This expectancy was far from reached in the team&rsquo;s first seven home games which produced only eight scores for the Black Hawks. The outputs in games on the road have turned out to be bette at just about the 2.5 figured.</p><p>While this scoring famin seems severe, it&rsquo;s doubtful that it will last very long for the Ch cago front office isn&rsquo;t standin still when weaknesses becom apparent. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll keep on makin changes until we get what we want to represent Chicage hockey,&rdquo; Eddolls promises.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0634/1161966-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="296" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Metro Prystai</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0008-04

Baffled Eddolls Watches Hawks Blow Hot-and-Cold, Can’t Explain Team’s Inability To Strike It Rich

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>With New York and Boston knocking off the big teams on November 28, the National Hockey League standing is closer right now than it has been for some time. Montreal is in first place with 32 points, Toronto are second with 26 and the Detroit Red Wings are third with 25. New York Rangers are fourth with 20, Boston is fifth with 17 and Chicago Black Hawks are sixth and last with 10 points.</p><p>Players from the Canadiens hold down the top four places on the scoring parade. Bernie Geoffrion is still No. one with a total of 18 goals and 10 assists for 28 points. Maurice Richard is next with 12 and 12 for 24 points. Jean Beliveau has a 10 and 12 total and Ken Mosdell has a 12 goal-eight assist record. Danny Lewicki and Don Raleigh of the Rangers follow with 18 points apiece. Nick Nickoski, recently traded from New York to Chicago, is next with 17 points, one more than Detroit&rsquo;s Alex Delvecchio.</p><p>Geoffrion&rsquo;s 18 goals are tops for the loop, while the 1G assists acquired by Mickoski lead in that department.</p><p>Harry Lumley and the Toronto Maple Leafs have taken over as the club with the best defensive record again. The Leafs have been scored on 3 8 times in 22 games. Detroit is next with 49 goals against in 21 games. The Leafs have a goals-against average of 1.7 3. Terry Sawchuk of Detroit leads all goalies in shutouts with six.</p><p>The most penalized team are Montreal Canadiens with 226 penalty minutes. The most penalized player is Fern Flaman of the Boston Bruins with 48 minutes.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hab Stars Hold Top Spots In Scoring Parade

<p><b>MONTREAL, QUE.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>Leo (The Lion) LaBine, Boston&rsquo;s fiery forward is the player-of-the-week. Leo&rsquo;s feat of coming up with six points in a single game as the Bruins tamed the Red Wings, 6-2 in Boston, rates as the number one puck accomplishment of the past week.</b></p><p><b>LaBine started slowly, picking up an assist in the first period then he exploded in the second with a hat-trick and two assists.</b></p><p><b>Somehow, the Red Wings managed to hold him in check in the third period.</b></p><p><b>In notching five points in the second period, Leo the Lion tied an NHL record that has stood since 1940.</b></p><p><b>LaBine&rsquo;s three goals in the second period were his sixth, seventhand elghth of the young National Hockey League season. All last season the fiery winger picked up 16 goals, so he&rsquo;s already reached half that amount with less than a third of the schedule elapsed.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1057/1162164-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="309" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo LaBine</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-10

Player-of-the-Week

<h2>Leclair Tops</h2><p>Jackie Leclair, of the Montreal Canadiens, leads National Hockey league rookie scorers with three goals and 11 assists for 14 points.</p><h2><b>Goal-Getter</b></h2><p>Don-McKenney, of the Boston Bruins, leads all NHL rookies in goals scored, sa far he&rsquo;s picked up sevent, one more tran Eddie Litzenberger, of Canadiens.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON TUES. A.M. NOV. 30</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01171/1162109-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="592" height="182"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK</h3><p><b>ENDING NOVEMBER 28th</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02151/1162102-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="598" height="256"></div><h3>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK</h3><p><b>WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 5th</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03120/1162095-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="605" height="265"></div><h3>TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 Montreal 4 at Chicago 4</h3><p><b>Montreal</b>&mdash;Goal: Hodge; defence: Bouchard, Johnson, St. Laurent, Mac-Pherson, Harvey; foewards:&rsquo; Beliveau, Moore, Geoffrion. Curry, Leclair, Richard. MacKay, Olmstead, Litzenberger, Mosdell, Mazur.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defence: Morison, Hollingworth, Fogolin, Stanley, Martin; forwards: Creighton, McIntyre, Prystai, Wilson, Mosienko, Jankowski, Toppazzini, McCormack, &ldquo;Masnick, Sullivan. Mieko ski.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04104/1162088-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="597" height="625"></div><h3>THURSDAY, NOV. 25 Boston 2 at New York 2</h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Bower; defence: Howell, Irwin, Evans. Chryctal; forwards: Ronty, Hergesheimer, Conacher, Raleigh, Laprade, Prentice, Pouein, Hen-</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Henderson; defence: Fiaman, Godfrey, Armstrong, Laycoe, Boivin, Quackenbush; forwards: Mackell, Costello, Mohns, McKenney, Gardner, LaBine, Chevrefils, Schmidt, Sandford, Ferguson, Bodnar.</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Frank Udvari; linesmen: Sam Babcock, Cliff Thompson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0586/1162081-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="598" height="555"></div><h3>Toronto 0 at Detroit 2</h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defence: Morrison, Horton, Bolton, Thomson, ley, Klukay, MacDonald, Marshall. Smith, Armstrong, Stewart, Migay, BaiCahan; forwards: Kennedy, Nesterenko,</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defence: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Allen; forwards: Dineen, Leswick, Pavelich, Lindsay, Howe, Delvecchio, Skov, Reibel, Davis, Wilson. Stasiuk, Bonin.</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Red Storey; linesmen: Red Dunn and Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0676/1162074-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="590" height="500"></div><h3>Montreal 3 at Chicago 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01186/1162067-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="594" height="680"></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOV. 27, 1954 Detroit 1 at Canadiens 4</h3><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Allen; forwards: Delvecchio, Howe, Lindsay, Leswick, Pavelich, Skov, Relbel, Wilson, Dineen, Stasiuk, Bonin, Davis.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal: Hodge; defense: Harvey, MacPherson, Bouchard, Johnson, St. Laurent: forwards: Leclair, Richard, Olmstead, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Mazur, Mosdell, Litzenberger, Moore, Curry.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jerry Olinski; linesmen: Doug Davies, Jim Primeau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02147/1162060-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="598" height="556"></div><h3>Rangers 1 at Toronto 3</h3><p><b>New York:</b> Goal: Bower; defense: Irwin, Howell, Gadsby, Evans; forwards: Ronty, Conacher, Prentice, Raleigh, Laprade, Chrystal, Guidolin. Bathgate, Murphy, Hergeshelmer, Popein, Henry, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Lumley; defense: Thompson, Bolton, Morrison, Horton. Cahan; forwards: Kennedy, Nesterenko. Smith, Migay, Stewart, Klukay, Marshall, Armstrong, MacDonald, Bailey.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mehlenbdcher; linesmen: Doug Young and Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03127/1162053-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="604" height="662"></div><h3>SUNDAY, NOV. 28 1954 Montreal 1 at New York 4</h3><p><b>Montreal:</b> Goal: Hodge; defense: Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent, MacPherson; forwards: Leclair, Richard&rsquo; Olmstead, Belivean, Geoffrion, Curry Moore, Litzenberger, Mosdell, Mazur.</p><p><b>New Y&rsquo;ork:</b> Goal: Bower; defense: Irwin, Howell, Gadsby, Chrystal, Evans; forwards: Raleigh, Guidolin, Lewicki, Ronty, Laprade, Bathgate, Murphy, Conacher, Prentice, Hergeshelmer, Popein, Henry.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mehlenbacher; linesmen: Dom. Baolto, Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0497/1162046-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="596" height="608"></div><h3>Detroit 2 at Boston 6</h3><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal: Henderson; defense: Armstrong, Godfrey, Laycoe, Quackenbush, Flaman, Boivin; forwards: Mackell, Gardner, Schmidt, Labine, McKenney, Bodnar, Mohns, Costello, Ferguson, Chevrefils.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Allen; forwards: Reibel, Stasiuk, J. Wilson, Delvecchio, Howe, Lindsay, Skov,, Pavelich, Leswlck, Dineen, Bonin, Davis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0581/1162039-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="596" height="900"></div><h3>Toronto 1 at Chicago 1</h3><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Bolton, Morrison, Cahan, Horton; forwards: Kennedy, Nesterenko, Smith, Watson, Armstrong, Migay, Stewart, Sloan, Bailey, Klukay, MacDonald.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal: Rollins; defense: Mortson, Martin, Fogolin, Gadsby, Holling-worth; forwards: McIntyre, Sullivan, Prystai, Wilson, Mosienko, Conacher, Jankowski, Hassard, Toppazzini, McCormick, Masnick, Gamble, Creighton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0674/1162032-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="594" height="552"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Gaines Sun. Nov. 28)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0767/1162025-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="603" height="2871"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS FOR 1954-55</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0862/1162018-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="593" height="325"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MIN. BY CLVBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0962/1162011-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="542" height="158"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0757/1162195-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="310" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b><i>Leo Labine</i></b></figcaption></div><p>STATISTICS:</p><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>orn in Haileybury, Ont., July 22, 1931. 5&rsquo;10&rdquo;, 170 lbs. Plays centre, shoots right. Played amateur hockey with Barrie Flyers (Juniors). Frequently referred to as one of the most uninhibited characters in the NHL, Leo LaBine lived up to that reputation in the following interview and we suspect that he gave a number of &lsquo;&lsquo;tongue in cheek&rdquo; answers.</p><p>SUPERSTITION&mdash;IF ANY:</p><p>Is not the superstitious type and just to prove this makes a point of doing things in reverse if the team is on a winning streak.</p><p>FAVORITE FOOD BEFORE A GAME:</p><p>Steak.</p><p>FAVORITE FOOD ANYTIME:</p><p>Roast beef.</p><p>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE:</p><p>California.</p><p>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</p><p>New Orleans.</p><p>FAVORITE N.H.L. CITIES ON THE ROAD:</p><p>Montreal and Toronto.</p><p>FAVORITE READING MATERIAL:</p><p>Anything serious (This we suspect is a gross exaggeration).</p><p>FAVORITE RECREATION:</p><p>Softball and golf. As a ball player he is either a pitcher or third baseman.</p><p>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:</p><p>&ldquo;Yet to be Seen.&rdquo; (Leo extracted a promise from us to print that&mdash;perhaps to try and confuse his teammates, but just in case readers are bewildered, there is not such a picture.)</p><p>BEST ACTRESSES:</p><p>Jean Peters and Doris Day.</p><p>BEST ACTORS:</p><p>Richard Widmark and John Wayne.</p><p>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALIST:</p><p>Joni James.</p><p>FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST:</p><p>Eddie Fisher and Don Cornell.</p><p>FAVORITE POPULAR SONGS:</p><p>&ldquo;Little Things Mean A Lot&rdquo; and &ldquo;P.S. I Love You.&rdquo;</p><p>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA:</p><p>Glenn Miller.</p><p>FAVORITE TV PROGRAMS:</p><p>Watching football games.</p><p>IN THE SUMMER:</p><p>Lives in Barrie, Ont., and works as an electrician.</p><p>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY:</p><p>Helping Barrie Flyers win the Memorial Cup in 1949-50, and being a member of the Boston Bruins.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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INSIDE STUFF About

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>When Long John Henderson confessed to being extremely nervous before playing his first game as a goaltender for the Boston Bruins in New York, one sympathetic onlooker knew just how he felt.</p><p>&ldquo;If he was nervous, he wasn&rsquo;t any more nervous than I was when I played my first game in the league,&rdquo; said Sugar Jim Henry, for whom Henderson was substituting in the Bruins&rsquo; cage.</p><p>&ldquo;And as a matter of fact, I was worrying as much on his behalf watching him as he was himself,&rdquo; added the veteran Bruin.</p><p>Henderson came to the Bruins as a second-year professional with considerably more experience than Henry had when he debuted in the National league. Sugar Jim broke in with the New York Rangers against the Maple Leafs in Toronto on November 1, 1941. He had made the jump from amateur hockey&mdash;the Senior Regina Rangers&mdash;to the majors without benefit of minor league experience.</p><p>When he was 16, Andy played for a junior team called the Winnipeg Black Hawks. His coach was Alf Pike. Next year, by a curious coincidence, Pike left Winnipeg to coach the Guelph Biltmores while Andy headed in the same direction to play.</p><p>&ldquo;I decided to go to Guelph with my widowed mother before I even knew Pike was leaving,&rdquo; Andy said. &ldquo;My brother Frank was also playing for the Biltmores. I didn&rsquo;t think I could make the team. But I did anyway.&rdquo;</p><p>Andy played on the same line with brother Frank and the Biltmores went on to win the OHA championship. Two years later Andy captained the Bilts not only to the provincial title but to the Memorial Cup. He did it on one leg too. The season wasn&rsquo;t ended by more than two weeks when Andy checked into the Big Town for the first time to have a Ranger physician operate on his right knee for removal of a cartilage.</p><p>The young man is just beginning to feel his way. He has the shot, the deceptive skating ability, the aggressiveness and the size to become a star. He stands an even 6 feet, weighs 175. And he is a determined player who, while engaged to a Vancouver girl, helps support his mother in Guelph.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Sugar Sympathizes With Long John

<h2><b>Two-timers</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>hree Buffalo Bisons earned some claim to fame during the past week in American Hockey League action against Cleveland Indians. Ken Wharram. Glen Sonmor and Gord Pennell scored two goals apiece to pace the Bisons over the Indians, 6-2, with Pennell assisting on Ed Slowinskl&rsquo;s opening marker in the first period.</p><h2><b>Two-fisted Goalies</b></h2><p>Cleveland Indians&rsquo; Emile (The Cat) Francis and Buffalo Bisons&rsquo; Henry Bassen, two rival netminders. took their competitive roles a little too seriously Saturday, Nov. 27 at Clevealnd. They squared off during a dispute between two other players, each drawing a major penalty with only two minutes and nine seconds of play remaining in the game.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3>(Standings Monday A.M., Nov. 29)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01185/1162334-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="610" height="192"></div><h3>THURSDAY, NOV. 24</h3><p><b>Buffalo 2 at Springfield 4</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02150/1162327-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="614" height="522"></div><h3>Hershey 2 at Cleveland 7</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03125/1162320-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="612" height="580"></div><h3>THURSDAY, NOV. 25</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0495/1162313-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="596" height="494"></div><h3>Pittsburgh 2 at Hershey 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0580/1162306-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="610" height="384"></div><h3>Cleveland 2 at Buffalo 7</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0673/1162299-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="602" height="586"></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOV. 27</h3><p>Pittsburgh 0 at Springfield 5</p><p>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;Goalie Don Simmons turned back 16 shots in the third period to preserve a 5-0 shutout for Springfield Indians over Pittsburgh Hornets.</p><p>Harry Pidhirny, Buddy Boone and Jim Anderson each picked up a goal and an assists as the Indians took a 1-0 lead in the second period and added four more goals in the third. The other scorers were Walt Atanas and Doug McMurdy.</p><p>Simmons was called upon to make only 11 saves in the first two periods. He was brilliant in the third when the Hornets turned on their power. Gil Mayer made 25 saves in the Pittsburgh nets.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0765/1162292-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="604" height="538"></div><h3>Buffalo 1 at Cleveland 3</h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Cleveland Barons defeated Buffalo Bisons 3-1 in an American Hockey League game which featured a fist fight between the rival goaltenders.</p><p>Cleveland&rsquo;s Emile Francis and Buffalo&rsquo;s Henry Bassen. squaring off during a dispute between two other players, each drew a major penalty with only two minutes and nine seconds of play remaining.</p><p>Francis had a shutout until 19.16 of the third period when defenceman Pierre Pilote scored unassisted for the Bisons. Johnny McLellan and Jackie Gordon scored in the first period and Chuck Blair scored for the Barons in the second.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0957/1162285-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="600" height="508"></div><h3>Providence 2 at Hershey 4</h3><p>HERSHEY&mdash;Hershey Bears opened up in the third period with goals by Gord Wilson. Stan Parker and Obie O&rsquo;Brien to defeat Providence Reds 4-2.</p><p>The game was enlivened by a rough second period when eight penalties were handed out for slashing and fighting.</p><p>Frank O&rsquo;Grady scored the first goal for Providence in the opening period but Lionel Heinrich tied it up with three seconds left in the period.</p><p>The second period was scoreless and then goals by Wilson and Parker made it 3-1 before Zellio Toppazzini got Providence&rsquo;s second goal. O&rsquo;Brien scored when the Reds pulled goalie Harvey Bennett in an attempt to tie the game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1049/1162278-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="604" height="568"></div><h3>SUNDAY, NOV. 28</h3><p><b>Pittsburgh 1 at Providence 1</b></p><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Despite a 10-minute overtime period, Providence Reds and Pittsburgh Hornets could not break a 1-1 tie in an American Hockey League game.</p><p>Playing two periods of scoreless hockey. the game came to life in the third period.</p><p>With only a minute gone, Bob Sabourin put Providence ahead. Guy Gendron scored the tying goal at 17.53.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1140/1162271-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="604" height="420"></div><h3>Hershey 2 at Buffalo 3</h3><p>BUFALLO&mdash;Dick Gamble&rsquo;s goal midway in the second period gave Buffalo Bisons a 3-2 victory over Hershey years in an American League Hockey game before 4,114 fans.</p><p>Buffalo&rsquo;s win lifted them out of a last-place tie with Providence.</p><p>Sam Bettlo scored first for the Bisons at 10.03 of the first period, but goals by Dunc Fisher and Allan Teal put the Bears ahead when the period ended. Pete Babando tied it up again early in the second period.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1239/1162264-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="604" height="534"></div><h2><b>Goal-Getter</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0863/1162257-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="564" height="1498"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORD PENNELL</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including games of Sun., Nov. 29)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1329/1162250-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="603" height="552"></div><h3>Leaders</h3><p><b>Most Goals</b>&mdash;Ed Olson, Cleveland.17.</p><p><b>Most Assists</b>&mdash;Jackie Gordon, Cleveland, 24.</p><p><b>Best Goalie</b>&mdash;Don Simmons, Springfield, 11., 25, 1, 2.27.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts by a Goalie</b>&mdash;Hank Bassen, Buffalo, Don Simmons, Springfield, Charlie Horge, Providence, 1 each.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Penalized Player</b>&mdash;Tony Schneider, Buffalo. 73 mins.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Team</b>&mdash;Buffalo, 338 mins.</p><p>GAP PM GP &frac34;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<p><b>Coach: Murray Henderson&mdash;Trainer: Scotty Alexander</b></p><p><b>1&mdash;Gord Henry, goal</b></p><p><b>1&mdash;John Henderson, goal</b></p><p><b>2&mdash;Arnott Whitney, defense</b></p><p><b>3&mdash;Ralph Willis, defense</b></p><p><b>4&mdash;Ed Kryzanowski, defense</b></p><p><b>5&mdash;Murray Henderson, defense</b></p><p><b>6&mdash;Don Cherry, defense</b></p><p><b>7&mdash;Allan Teal, defense</b></p><p><b>8&mdash;Lionel Heinrich, left wing</b></p><p><b>9&mdash;Arnie Kullman, centre</b></p><p><b>10&mdash;Dune Fisher, right wing</b></p><p><b>11&mdash;Norm Corcoran, right wing</b></p><p><b>12&mdash;Stan Parker, left wing</b></p><p><b>15&mdash;Obie O&rsquo;Brien, left wing</b></p><p><b>16&mdash;Bill Matthew, right wing</b></p><p><b>17&mdash;Fred Pietsch, right wing</b></p><p><b>18&mdash;Gord Wilson, centre</b></p><p><b>The Toronto Maple Leafs use BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hershey Bears

<div class="byline">By PAUL G. SULLIVAN</div><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>The Pittsburgh Hornet re-building contract, undertaken by indomitable Toronto alumnus Howie Meeker, is running somewhat ahead of announced schedule.</p><p>When Meeker assumed the Hornet portfolio last July, he stated, with careful compound of modesty, confidence, and resolution, that his Yellow Jackets would be challenging for the American League leadership no later than Christmas.</p><p>The Kitchener strategist figured he would have to go with quite a few neophytes as far as AHL play might be concerned. Such circumstance could be expected to preclude a particularly fast gateway in the chase. But reliance on the generally high quality of freshman material moving up through the Toronto organization toward the top farm of the Leafs induced assurance that the Steel City club would begin moving consistently within a month of the start and advance into contention within two.</p><p>Actually, the Pittsburghers performed just about as their young boss calculated. Of their first six games, they lost four, tied two, and captured only one. All except the sixth an unimpressive 5-2 reverse at Cleveland, however, were close contests&mdash;tantalizingly, maddeningly so to Meeker, whose post-mortem scrutinies of the defeats and deadlocks paraded a discouraging sequence of blown opportunities and outright misplays before his retrospective gaze.</p><h2><b>Prophet</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01196/1162396-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="564" height="898"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HOWIE MEEKER</b></figcaption></div><h3>Meteoric Rise</h3><p>Then in Buffalo, the night after the Cleveland fiasco, the Jackets hung a convincing 4-1 blast on the Bisons. That achievement touched off a spurt that literally boosted the team from the cellar to first place, or at least to a deadlock therefor. Over a late&mdash;October&mdash;November stretch of 10 games were netted six wins and three draws against a lonely 2-1 setback at Hershey in a clash that cost Pittsburgh a shot at exclusive tenancy of the No. 1 spot and evoked the saltiest Meeker critique of the early campaign.</p><p>Meeker has made a sound impression on those who have followed his work at The Gardens here. Not too liberally endowed with natural hockey prowess, Howie became a self-manufactured mainstay on the big time at Toronto by sheer determination and application. In great measure, doubtless, because the mechanics of the game were relatively tough for him to acquire, his knowledge of both technique and tactics is based on analysis that enables him to observe errors and impart remedies with greater thoroughness and effectiveness than might have been at his command had his own success as an active competitor been more of a breeze.</p><h3>Insist On Effort</h3><p>The Hornet coach, from his own gruelling experience, is an authority on the importance and fruitfulness of sustained effort. If a keynote may be gleaned from his utterances, it is this:</p><p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t insist on ability, but I do insist on effort !&rdquo;</p><p>As a scribe of more than three decades on the hockey beat, the writer is moved to laud Howie Meeker on still another&mdash;and not too frequently discovered&mdash;good trait: he is really honest in dealing with the press.</p><p>Honesty with the men who chronicle the affairs of a sports organization involves also the commendable quality of moral courage. In choosing between helping the reporters who are at their mercy for certain aspects of news and bowing to fear lest some remark react to personal disadvantage, many managers and coaches tend to go the easy way of double-talk, half-truths, and even downright falsehood.</p><h2><b>Top Prospect</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02146/1162389-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="564" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RON ATTWELL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Meeker’s Deadline Nears; Hornets Build Hot Rep

<p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>The Hershey Bears have taken Horace Greeley&rsquo;s advise and gone west.</p><p>The Bears have taken to the oread for two and one half weeks during the engagement of Ice Follies at the local rink. They&rsquo;ll play seven games on foreign ice, finally returning to the friendly confines of their home rink on December 15 to meet the Cleveland Barons.</p><p>Pat Egan&rsquo;s Rhode Islanders, are the only American League oppenent to hold an edge over the Bears in season&rsquo;s play todate. The Reds hold a 2-1-1 advantage in four outings so far.</p><p>Hershey hasn&rsquo;t downed the Providence skaters since their first meeting on October 13, when they beat them at home, 3-1. Meanwhile, the Reds have triumphed 5-4 and 3-1. The two clubs battled to a thrilling 3-3 overtime deadlock the last time they crossed sticks at Providence.</p><p>The Hershey young men bid farewell to Chocolatetown for Buffalo. From Buffalo they&rsquo;ll shuffle off to Pittsburgh, Springfield, Providence, Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh in that order.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bears Take To The Road, Head West

<p>PROVIDENCE, RI&mdash;</p><p>A 19-year-old centre, who is one of the brightest prospects in the Montreal Canadien organization, has joined the RI Reds for a three-game tryout.</p><p>The newcomer is Ronnie Attwell, a 6.2, 185 pounder who has been playing for the Montreal Canadien Juniors, under Coach Elmer Lach, former Canadien great.</p><p>Except for Jack Stoddard who stands 6.3, Attwell will dwarf the other members of the Providence cast. And at 19, he is the youngest player on the squad.</p><p>This is the final year of junior hockey for Attwell. The parent Montreal Canadiens are anxious to see if Attwell is ready to make the jump to the pro ranks. Kenny Reardon, Canadien official, sent Attwell to the Reds after a series of phone conversations with his brother Terry who is the general manager of the Providence sextet.</p><p>In junior ranks, Attwell has accounted for 11 points in 10 games on six goals and five assists. He played last year for the Canuck junior team and tangled with Guy Gendron on several occasions. Guy was with Three Rivers at the time.</p><p>Kenny Reardon said yesterday that if Attwell shows up as well as expected in the American League during this trial with the Reds, he may be turned pro and left in Providence. Attwell is known to have a good shot and is quite athletic inasmuch as he has played plenty of golf, football, baseball and basketball.</p><p>The Boston Bruins had the rights to Attwell two years ago but Montreal wanted the big lad so badly that they paid the Beantown sextet a reported $10,000 for Attwell. In ice circles such a price for an unknown youngster is considered a rarity, Providence fandom can now decide whether Montreal was justified in putting such a high price tag on Attwell who possesses a fine shot.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Attwell Gets Big Chance With Providence

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><h2><b>Comeback Kid</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03121/1162475-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="556" height="790"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORD HENRY</b></figcaption></div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>He was second string for a while, but never second rate.</p><p>That&rsquo;s the way a Harrisburg, Pa. sportswriter described Gordie Henry&rsquo;s return to the Hershey Bear nets after warming the bench for the first fifteen American Hockey League games.</p><p>And, as if wanting to prove the writer&rsquo;s claim, the big redhead came up with a pair of terrific performances, holding Pittsburgh and Buffalo to single goals and helping the Bears move out in front of the AHL pack.</p><p>Henry, in his ninth campaign with Hershey, took his second string role philosophically, realizing that the Boston Bruins were readying long John Henderson for the day he would take over for Jim Henry in Beantown.</p><h3>No Bad Effects</h3><p>Although he had not skated for five days prior to his return to the Hershey cage against Pittsburgh, Henry showed no bad effects from play-offshis long lay-off. He put up a stout defense and would have, had it not been for a defensive lapse, come up with a whitewash job. Three nights later he turned in another stellar performance against Buffalo. The Bisons spoiled his bid for a shut out by scoring at 19.37 of the final period while the Bears were short-handed.</p><p>Henry, incidentally, was a doubtful started when the Bears opening training drills at the Sports Arena. A knee injury had forced him out of the 1953-54 playoffs and although he underwent a corrective operation, his status was still a big question mark.</p><p>Despite the fact that he is playing his ninth season as a pro, Henry is only 28. And, except for a couple of games with the Boston Bruins, the likeable redhead has spent his pro career in Bear livery.</p><p>He broke in with Hershey as a spare goalie in 19 44-45. Red saw little service for his first two seasons, but came into his own late in 1946-47 when, as a replacement for the injured Harvey Bennett, he set a couple of AHL marks which still stand.</p><p>They still talk about his amazing record in the 1946-47 playoffs, which was largely responsible for Hershey winning its one and only Calder Cup. In 11 games, Red allowed only 16 goals for a remarkably low 1.45 average per game. Also, he came up with five shut outs. Both of these marks still stand in AHL record books.</p><p>He&rsquo;s the iron man among AHL netminders, having appeared in more than 600 contests, including regular season and play-off competition. Before a series of injuries last season he had a string of more than 400 straight games without a miss.</p><p>Now, with the reliable redhead back at his old stand, Bear followers are confident he&rsquo;ll spearhead Hershey&rsquo;s drive for a playoff berth and, eventually, a victory in the Calder Cup series.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Gord Henry: Second String But Never Second Rate

<h2><b>Shutout King</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>arcel Pelletier, Victoria goalie, turned in two shutouts the past week to take the lead in that department with 3 to date. He also took over the lead for goalkeepers with a goals against average of 2.88 per game as against John Bower of Vancouver with 2.94. Bower had been the leading goal keeper every previous week end to date.</p><h2><b>Indian Sign</b></h2><p>Victoria continues to hold the &ldquo;Indian sign&rdquo; over Calgary, winning both games played to date. Last year, the Cougars were the only club to hold an advantage over the Stampeders, winning 4 and tieing two of the eight games played. Had the Calgary Club broken even with Victoria they would have ended in first place.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON MONDAY, NOV. 22</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01202/1162590-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="604" height="240"></div><h3>RESULTS</h3><p><b>TUESDAY, NOV. 16</b></p><p>Calgary 8 at New Westminster 1;</p><p>Saskatoon 1 at Edmonton 6.</p><p><b>WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17</b></p><p>Calgary 0 at Victoria 6.</p><p><b>THURSDAY, NOV. 18</b></p><p>Edmonton 4 at Saskatoon 1.</p><p><b>FRIDAY, NOV. 19</b></p><p>Calgary 2 at Vancouver 2.</p><p><b>SATURDAY, NOV. 20</b></p><p>Vancouver 0 at Victoria 5; Calgary 1 at New Westminster 3; Saskatoon 1 at Edmonton 1.</p><h3>TUESDAY, NOV. 16</h3><p><b>Calgary 8 at New Westminster 1</b></p><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;Steve Witiuk, having a great season, was the hero as Calgary, defeated New Westminster Royals. 8-1. The little left winger scored his 15th, 16th and 17th goal of the season to tie teammate Sid Finney for second place in the league scoring race. Both have 27 points, Finney picking up two assists, and are two points behind Edmonton&rsquo;s Bronco Horvath.</p><p>Royals were no match for the flying Stamps. It was 2-0 at the end of the first period, 4-1 at the end of the second and the Stamps finished off with a four-goal third period.</p><p><b>Calgary</b>&mdash;Goal: Brennan; defense: Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Coburn; forwards: Couture, Pargeter, Lundy, Hucul, Witiuk, Barry, McFadden, Ashworth, Scott, Finney.</p><p><b>New Westminster</b>&mdash;Goal: Dechene; defense: Lavitt, Bergeron, Sinclair, Bedard, Matthews; forwards: McNab, Dorohoy, McLean, Sasakamoose, Love, Bradley, Fashoway, Boyce, Fielder.</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Paul Boxak; linesman: Gordon Hamilton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02166/1162583-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="601" height="742"></div><h3>Saskatoon 1 at Edmonton 6</h3><p>EDMONTON&mdash;An Edmonton crowd of 3,800 saw the Flyers hand the Quakers their 10th defeat in their last 11 games as rookie-centre Jerry Melnyk showed the way with his second and third goals of the season.</p><p>Len Haley, Bronco Horvath, Ray Hannigan and Al Arbour scored the other goals with Norm Ullman, another rookie centre, getting assists on two goals.</p><p>Eddie Kullman, late of the New York Rangers, spoiled Glen Hall&rsquo;s hopes of a shutout with just over five minutes left as he slapped in a rebound for his first WHL goal.</p><p><b>Saskatoon</b>&mdash;Goal: Stevenson; defense: Milford, Parker, Ross, Forbes; forwards: Kobussen, Howe, Senick, Lynn, Robertson, D. Bentley, M. Bentley, Lamoureux, Manson, Kullman.</p><p><b>Edmonton</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Hyrmnak, Zeidel, Coflin, Arbour; forwards: Ullman, Horvath, Selisizzi Melnyk, Stankiewicz, Bucyk, Hannigan, Haley, Poile.</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Eddie Powers; lineman: Hank Wilson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03143/1162576-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="604" height="672"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17</h3><p><b>Calgary 0 at Victoria 6</b></p><p>VICTORIA&mdash;Lowly Victoria Cougars, inspired to new hockey heights by brilliant Doug Anderson, scored a 6-0 shutout over, the first place Calgary Stampeders in a Western Hockey League game in Victoria.</p><p>Anderson rammed home a hat-trick and added one for good measure as Cougars led 2-0, at the end of the first period then boomed into a 4-0 lead at the end of the second session.</p><p>It was Anderson all the way in the initial period as the shifty forward first scored on assist from Doug Macauley and Colin Kilburn, then followed with an unassisted goal at 16.65.</p><p>Anderson figured in on every Victoria goal, receiving assists on the winner&rsquo;s remaining two goals scored by Lloyd Durham and Colin Kilburn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04125/1162569-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="601" height="542"></div><h3>THURSDAY, NOV. 18</h3><p><b>Edmonton 4 at Saskatoon 1</b></p><p>SASKATOON&mdash;Edmonton Flyers moved into a first-place tie with Calgary Stampeders in the Western Hockey League standings with a 4-1 victory over the cellar-dwelling Saskatoon Quakers before 2500 fans.</p><p>The&rdquo; loss was Quakers fourth straight and the 11th in their last 12 games. They are eight points behind the fifthplace Victoria Cougars.</p><p>Johnny Bucyk, Eddie Stankiewicz, Ray Hannigan and Don Poile were the Edmonton marksmen with the league&rsquo;s leading point maker, Bronco Horvath, and Hugh Coflin each getting two assists.</p><p>Max Bentley scored the Saskatoon goal on a play with brother Doug Bentley and Eddie Kobussen.</p><p>Flyers took a 1-0 lead in the first period and increased it to 3-0 in the seoond. Then, after Quakers made it 3-1 in the third the Flyers scored again.</p><p><b>Edmonton</b>&mdash;Goal: Hail; defense: Arbour, Zeidel, Hrymnak, Coflin; forwards: Ullman. Horvath, Selisizzi, Melnyk, Stankiewicz, Bucyk, Hannigan, Haley, Poile.</p><p><b>Saskatoon</b>&mdash;Goal: Stevenson; defense: Kaiser, Ross, Milford, M. Bentley, Forbes, Senick, Kukulowicz, Kobussen, Lynn, Kullman, Robertson, Manson, Lamoureux, D. Bentley.</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Eddie Powers; lineman: Buck Crawford.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0691/1162562-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="599" height="503"></div><h3>FRIDAY, NOV. 19</h3><p><b>Calgary 2 at Vancouver 2</b></p><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;First place in the Western Hockey League became sole property of Calgary Stampeders here when they settled for a 2-2 tie with Vancouver Canucks after blowing a two-goal lead.</p><p>The tie sent the Prairie club one point ahead of Edmonton Flyers.</p><p>Sid Finney and Pat Lundy scored for Calgary, both goals coming in the first period. Mid Houghton and Lou Fontinato evened things up for Vancouver.</p><p>The story of the game lay in the defence. Calgary&rsquo;s took a stand at the blue line and directed traffic, while Vancouver&rsquo;s leaked red-shirted Stampeders in on overworked Johnny Bower.</p><p>The light Vancouver forward lines were unable to penetrate the Calgary beef, so it fell to the defence to bull through for both Canuck scores. It was Fontinato&rsquo;s first game and first goal for Canucks since returning from New York Rangers of the National Hockey League.</p><p>Calgary went ahead when Finney scored at 1.50 while Vancouver&rsquo;s Doug Adam was sitting out an interference penalty. Less than five minutes later, Calgary broke clear by stealing the puck from a Vancouver attack, Gerry Couture passing to Lundy.</p><p>Bower slipped going for the puck, got a piece of it, but deflected it into his own net.</p><p><b>Calgary</b>&mdash;Goal: Brennan; defence: Kyle, Quackenbush, Coburn. Michaluk; forwards: Finney, Scott. Witiuk, Lundy, Ashworth, Barry, Pargeter, Hucul, Couture.</p><p><b>Vancouver</b>&mdash;Goal: Bower; defence: Fontinato, Dick, Lancien, Houghton; forwards: Cyr, Adam, Brown, Wylie, Dea, McCullough, Sweaney, Chalmers, Howe.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0781/1162555-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="599" height="415"></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOV. 20</h3><p><b>Vancouver 0 at Victoria 5</b></p><p>VICTORIA&mdash;Victoria Cougars pulled the old shutout routine on the hapless Vancouver Canucks here, deluging them with rubber to the tune of 5-0.</p><p>After a scoreless first period Achtymichuk opened the scoring for the victors, and from there on in there was no holding them. Andy Hebenton notched the second goal minutes later in the same frame.</p><p>Colin Kilburn, Durham and McAuley rounded out the scoring for the Cougars.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0875/1162548-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="604" height="454"></div><h3>Saskatoon 1 at Edmonton 1</h3><p>EDMONTON&mdash;A fight between Saskatoon Quaker veteran Max Bentley and Edmonton Flyer sophomore was the feature of a 1-1 tie here.</p><p>Poile got a minor an. da major penalty and Bentley received an added 10-minute misconduct for the fracas.</p><p>Rookie Jerry Melnyk scored for Edmonton early in the second period but Bentley set up rookie Dick Lameureux for the equalizer shortly thereafter. Goalie Doug Stevenson saved a point for the Quakers with some outstanding goalkeeping in the third period as the Flyers dominated play to test him 13 times at close range.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0971/1162541-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="598" height="480"></div><h3>Calgary 1 at New Westminster 3</h3><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;Calgary Stampeders, not as potent on the road as they are at home, bowed 3-1 to New Westminster Royals here.</p><p>It was the second loss of their second coast tour. Both Royals&rsquo; Lucien Dechene and Calgary&rsquo;s Bill Brennan turned in excellent games in goal.</p><p>Royals&rsquo; had the edge in the scoreless first period but couldn&rsquo;t beat Brennan.</p><p>Dechene made 17 stops in the second period as the Stamps did most of the shooting but were outscored 2-1, after getting the first goal.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1070/1162534-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="598" height="472"></div><h2><b>Second Man</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05105/1162527-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="591" height="605"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SID FINNEY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Saturday, Nov. 20)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1162/1162520-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="602" height="1282"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1256/1162513-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="600" height="278"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p><b>Most Goals</b>&mdash;Steve Witiuk, Cal. 16.</p><p><b>Most Assists</b>&mdash;Bronco Horvath, Edm. 17, Colin Kilburn, Vic. 17.</p><p><b>Most Game Winning Goals</b>&mdash;Dong Adam, Van. 3; Ray Hannigan, Edm. 3.</p><p><b>Most First Goal of Game</b>&mdash;Doug Anderson, Vic. 4.</p><p><b>Hat Tricks&mdash;</b>Guyle Fielder, NW. 1; Eddie Dorohoy, Vic. 1; Bronco Horvath, Edm. 1: Doug Adam, Van. 1; Doug Anderson. Vic. 1.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b>&mdash;Marcel Pelletier, Vic. 3.</p><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1344/1162506-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="590" height="280"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0013-01

WESTERN LEAGUE

<p><b>Coach: Frank Currie&mdash;Captain: Gus Kyle</b></p><p><b>1&mdash;Ralph Almas, goal</b></p><p><b>1&mdash;Bill Brennan, goal</b></p><p><b>1&mdash;Stu Hendry, goal</b></p><p><b>2&mdash;Gus Kyle, defense</b></p><p><b>3&mdash;Max Quackenbush, defense</b></p><p><b>4&mdash;Art Michaluk, defense</b></p><p><b>5&mdash;Gerry Couture, forward</b></p><p><b>6&mdash;Pat Coburn, defense</b></p><p><b>7&mdash;George Pargeter, forward</b></p><p><b>9&mdash;Pat Lundy, forward</b></p><p><b>10&mdash;Fred Hucul, forward</b></p><p><b>11&mdash;Steve Witiuk, forward</b></p><p><b>12&mdash;Ray Barry, forward</b></p><p><b>14&mdash;Jim McFadden, forward</b></p><p><b>15&mdash;Frank Ashworth, forward</b></p><p><b>16&mdash;Arch Scott, forward</b></p><p><b>17&mdash;Sid Finney, forward</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Calgary Stampeders

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>A team with only two regular defensemen&mdash;that&rsquo;s what the Boston Bruins have been for the past three weeks.</p><p>The two regulars&mdash;one or the other is almost always on the ice&mdash;are Ferny Flaman and Leo Boivin, both additions to the Bruins this season.</p><p>Coach Lynn Patrick created the odd setup when the Bruins were wallowing in their worst slump of recent years, and indications were that any change would be through natural developments.</p><p>Patrick launched his move by announcing that Flaman and Boivin, who worked as a team for two games after Boivin joined the Bruins, would henceforth work separately.</p><p>Boivin, said the Bruins coach, would play left defense regularly with either Bob Armstrong or Bill Quackenbush for a partner.</p><p>Flaman would take the other shift as a right defenseman, with either Warren Godfrey or Hal Laycoe for company.</p><p>Patrick then started using the combinations to fit circumstances, and of the four swing shift players, the only one who played more or less regularly in the early stages of the experiment was Godfrey.</p><p>The big blond, hampered at the start of the season by a broken toe, promptly demonstrated that he might gain a regular&rsquo;s status in the near future.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0577/1162697-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="590" height="608"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LEO BOIVIN</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve liked the way things have gone so far,&rdquo; opined Patrick after using the system for four games. &ldquo;The four alternates have been able to go all-out while they&rsquo;ve been on the ice, and I&rsquo;ve been able to keep fresh men out there.&rdquo;</p><p>Boivin, the 22-year-old fireplug who came here from Toronto in exchange for high scoring Joe Klukay, has reacted to his new surroundings with enthusiasm. The stocky little fellow has added considerable dash to the Bruins.</p><p>Flaman has been the Bruins outstanding defenseman this fall, and the hard-bitten graduate of Boston amateur ranks was at his best while young Long John Henderson was becoming accustomed to his goaltending surroundings here.</p><p>Just how long Patrick will keep his rotating system in use remains to be seen. The logical conclusion seems to be that two of the rotating four&mdash;Godfrey looks likely to be one&mdash;will win regular jobs.</p><p>On the other hand, when Patrick&rsquo;s disdain for convention is considered, it isn&rsquo;t beyond the realm of possibility that the Bruins may be the first team ever to play most of a season with only two defense regulars of their own&mdash;or Patrick&rsquo;s&mdash;volition.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Flaman and Boivin Are the Only Regular Rearguards with Boston

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Instruction in coaching and refereeing techniques from two of the top hockey authorities in the world has given Saskatchewan hockey a tremendous shot-in-the-arm for the 1954-55 season.</p><p>Tommy Ivan, the new general manager of the Chicago Black Hawks, and Carl Voss, referee-in-chief of the National Hockey League, came to Saskatchewan recently to pass on their vast hockey knowledge to amateur coaches and referees. They were the chief hockey professors at three hockey clinics sponsored by the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association in Saskatoon, Melville and Moose Jaw.</p><p>Two-day schools were held at each of these three cities, with Ivan tutoring one day and Voss taking over the next. Needless to say, with these NHL leaders in attendance, the venture was an outstanding success.</p><p>Over 200 young coaches and referees sat in on the classes which were lectured by Ivan and Voss. But this doesn&rsquo;t begin to include the number of puck-chasers who will benefit from their instruction, because each coach will have anywhere from 15 to 20 boys under his wing and they&rsquo;ll all receive the benefit of the teachings of Ivan and Voss.</p><p>This is the fourth year of the SAHA program of hockey clinics. Over 30 have been held in the past, covering every section of the vast province of Saskatchewan. This year the amateur hockey body decided to sponsor three major schools in the larger cities, and to invite these two experts from the NHL to give the instruction.</p><p>Ivan, the personable puck mentor who moved from Detroit to Chicago this year, took over the coaches and lectured them on all the different phases of the game. Voss had the referees and other puck officials in his classes.</p><p>On the first dey of classes at Saskatoon, Ivan spoke to a group of 60 coaches at morning and afternoon sessions.</p><h2><b><i>&lsquo;You&rsquo;re The Boss&rsquo;</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0668/1162728-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="542" height="844"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CARL VOSS</b></figcaption></div><h3>&lsquo;Can&rsquo;t Start Easy&rsquo;</h3><p>&ldquo;The success of any coacn depends on his ability to demand and get discipline from his players&rdquo;, Ivan told them. &ldquo;If the club wants to get off on the right foot, it is essential to establish a get-tough policy. It is the only way. You can&rsquo;t start easy and then try to get tough later.&rdquo;</p><p>Ivan explained that he did not allow his players to talk in the dressing room between periods. &ldquo;Winning hockey games is a serious business. When I enter the dressing room, I want the attention of every man. Keep them from talking and you&rsquo;ll keep them in a relaxed state of mind.&rdquo;</p><p>He added that he felt coaches become top notchers &ldquo;not by what they teach a man but by what they can get out of him&rdquo;.</p><p>On opening day at Melville, Voss told his refereeing class that the most Important characteristic of a referee is the ability to be firm and decisive.</p><p>&ldquo;Act like the boss out there&rdquo;, Voss told them. &ldquo;In case of trouble always take the initiative. When imposing a penalty be firm and make sure the player knows he&rsquo;s getting a penalty&rdquo;.</p><p>Voss explained that the referee should be tough right from the start. &ldquo;Coaches take their cue from how the referees call the play early in the game. If a team can&rsquo;t get away with any rough stuff at the start, they&rsquo;ll be subdued all night. You have to set your standard early. If you&rsquo;re easy at the start and then try to tighten up halfway through the game, you&rsquo;ll look ridiculous.&rdquo;</p><p>After the three schools, both Ivan and. Voss were full of praise for the work the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association was doing. &ldquo;Other provinces should be doing the same thing&rdquo;, Ivan told them. &ldquo;But in the long run you&rsquo;ll reap the benefits of these schools.&rdquo;</p><p>Voss pointed out that president Clarence Campbell of the NHL liked to co-operate with such clinics because they are all for the good of hockey. He explained that he was always on the lookout for new blood for his refereeing staff, and was anxious to meet young officials around the country.</p><p>Windup banquets were held at Melville and Moose Jaw following the schools. At the banquets Voss paid special tribute to the Saskatchewan Fitness and Recreation Division. which co-operated in sponsoring the schools with the SAHA.</p><p>An unfortunate thing came after the schools when the Melville Stadium, the rink where both Ivan and Voss had given instruction, was burned to the ground in a spectacular fire. It contained an artificial ice plant which was only installed last winter. It was the only artificial ice plant in the district, and teams from Yorkton, Canora and Wynyard were using it in practicing for the new Senior B hockey circuit.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0014-06

Discipline And Get-Tough Policy Answer To What Makes A Coach

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p><b>TOMMY IVAN,</b> general manager of the Chicago Black Hawks, was an unexpected but welcomed visitor here at the Forum Nov. 19, to see Calgary, which has a working agreement with Chicago, tangle with Vancouver. Ivan saw a good game which ended in a 2-all tie. Vancouver spotted the Stamps two goals early in the first period, Sid Finney and Pat Lundy scoring, and Mid Houghton in the second and Lou Fontinato in the third, were the Canucks two marksmen. It was Houghton&rsquo;s and Fontinato&rsquo;s (just back from New York) first goal of the season. They came at just the right time. Ivan, who has seen several WHL games in the past, was seeing his first game at the Forum. He was a press box guest. The former NHL coach of the world champion Detroit Red Wings was pleased with the game, but. noncommittal concerning any of the players. It&rsquo;s doubtful if Ivan will call up any Stampeders for his NHL Hawks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01206/1162666-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="295" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tommy Ivan</b></figcaption></div><p><b>THE STANDINGS</b> in the Western League change practically every game. There&rsquo;s very little breadth between the top five clubs. In games through Nov. 22 Calgary, Edmonton and New Westminster were tied for first, each with 23 points in 20 games played. Vancouver was fourth with 20 points in 18 games while Victoria, which has won its last three games and two by shutouts, has 18 points in 18 games. There&rsquo;s only five points between first and fifth positions Saskatoon, which tied Edmonton, 1-1, in the Oil City Nov. 20 for its first point on the road this season, is last with nine points in 20 games&hellip;For the Cougars to continue their upward surge they&rsquo;ll have to win on the road. The Cats start their first prairie trip in Calgary. Nov 23.</p><p>The individual scoring race is as close and as heated as the fight for first place. On the morning of Nov. 23 Bronco Horvath, Edmonton centre, led with 31 points (14-17), and his 17 assists was also high. Steve Witiuk, Calgary&rsquo;s fiery right winger, and linemate and centre Finney, were next with 28 points apiece. Witiuk (17-11) was tops in goals with 17 and Finney&rsquo;s record was 13-15&hellip;Rookie left winger John Bucyk, Edmonton, (9-16) and Victoria&rsquo;s Eddie Dorohoy, (9-16) were tied for fourth spot each with 25 points&hellip;Calgary&rsquo;s &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Couture and NW&rsquo;s Guyle Fielder (24 points); Andy Hebenton, Victoria, 23 points; and NW&rsquo;s Blinky Boyce and Vic&rsquo;s Colin Kilburn, each with 22 points, comprise the WHL&rsquo;s top ten pointmen.</p><p>Doug Anderson, Victoria centre, had the most productive evening of his four year professional career Nov. 17, when the Edmonton-born puckster scored four goals and assisted on two more to personally pace the Cougars to a stunning find brilliant, 6-0, win over the high-flying Calgary Stampeders. Anderson&rsquo;s four goals (bat trick and one) was the first recorded in the league this season and his six point game was also tops in prexy Al Leader&rsquo;s six team loop&hellip;The Anderson-Kilburn-Doug Macauley line scored 14 points in the Victoria rout over Calgary.</p><p>Marcel Pelletier is the &ldquo;toast of Cougarville&rdquo; these days. The colorful Frenchman led the WHL in shutouts (3) and goals-againstaverage (2.88) when this was written. The Pelletier rise to this high eminence is well worth reporting. It all started on Nov. 3 in Victoria when the Cats walloped NW, 6-1. Three nights later in New Westminster Pelletier scored his first shutout of the season (he had two SO playing 6 8 games for Seattle last season) blanking the Royals, 4-0. It was the first time in 132 games NW has been held scoreless in league play. This is the WHL record. Edmonton put a temporary stop to Victoria&rsquo;s and Pelletier&rsquo;s upsurge as the Flyers defeated the Reaymen, 5-2, Nov. 10 in Victoria. Vancouver continued to hold the Cats down winning 3-1, Nov. 12 in Vancouver. Then the fun&mdash;for the Cougars&mdash;started.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02146/1162659-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="312" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Dorohoy</b></figcaption></div><p>Victoria defeated Edmonton at home, 4-2, Nov. 13. Four nights later Calgary&rsquo;s high-scoring Stamps invaded Memorial Arena and the Cougars amazed with a 6-0 victory. It was shutout No. 2 for Pelletier. This was the night Anderson howled. Then on Nov. 20 Victoria &ldquo;goose-egged&rdquo; the Canucks, 5-0. Shutout No 3 for Pelletier and his second straight whitewash in four days&hellip;Bower has two shutouts and a 2.94 average.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03105/1162652-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="292" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Reay</b></figcaption></div><p>Anderson&rsquo;s hat trick was the sixth this season. Steve Witiuk, the loop&rsquo;s leading goal scorer with 17, got his &ldquo;hat&rdquo; Nov. 17 in NW as the Stamps walloped the Royals, 8-1&hellip;Harry Dick of Vancouver leads in penalties with 64 minutes&hellip;Eight players have scored 10 or more goals&hellip;Witiuk (17), Hebenton and Horvath (14), Finney (13), Boyce (11) and Couture, Doug Adam and Gordon Fashoway (10).</p><p>Bronco Horvath&rsquo;s legal Christian name is Bronco&hellip;Bud Poile picks NW, currently tied for first, to finish in the basement&hellip;Poile also has gone on record as saying one of his three rookies John Bucyk, Norm Ullman or Jerry Melynk&mdash;will win the rookie award won last season by Don Poile and in 1952-53 by Earl Reibel.</p><p>Al Leader, president of the WHL, saw Calgary defeat NW, 8-1, in the Royal city, Nov. 16. The prexy was in Vancouver to be presented with the Hockey News award for being chosen hockey&rsquo;s outstanding executive for the 19 53-54 season. Fred &ldquo;Cyclone&rdquo; Taylor, one of the game&rsquo;s all-time greats, made the presentation to Leader for the Hockey News on Bill Good&rsquo;s CBUT-TV show, with Ken McConnell of the Vancouver Province participating in the official ceremonies.</p><p>When Vancouver and New Westminster met Nov. 13 at Queens Park Arena in NW a capacity house of more than 5,000 saw these two archrivals go to it. The Royals won, 7-0, and the partisan NW fans loved every minutes of the game. However, one of many outstanding features of the game was the fact it was New Westminster&rsquo;s first full house, it was the fourth game (two in NW and two in Vancouver) in five days in the Vancouver-New Westminster area and it had been raining very hard all day. Which only goes to show that hockey is still Canada&rsquo;s number one sports attraction!</p><p>Several trades and player changes the past week. Vancouver traded utility man Carl Kaiser to Saskatoon for right winger Vic Howe, younger brother of Detroit&rsquo;s celebrated Gordie Howe&hellip;The Canucks returned Eric Pogue to Springfield and welcomed back defenceman Lou Fontinato from NY. Wiggie Wylie was injured Nov. 19 in a game against Calgary and the inspirational Canuck centre is expected to be sidelined for 10 days to two weeks. He&rsquo;ll be missed.</p><p>Victoria released Dave Wall to make room for defenceman Bill Bucyk, who played his first game since early in the season, Nov. 20 against Vancouver&hellip;Calgary lost Witiuk for one game with a leg injury, Nov. 17, and Jim McFadden had his knee go out on him after the game in Victoria and he&rsquo;s not expected back in the Stamps&rsquo; lineups for several games.</p><p>Nine regulars, exclusive of goalkeepers, had yet to receive a penalty this season&hellip;Macauley, Victoria; Cyr and Chalmers, Vancouver; Finney and Lundy, Calgary; Kobussen and Manson, Saskatoon; and Love and Bergeron, New Westminster. Edmonton is the only team which does not have a player not represented in the no penalty list&hellip;Two goalies have each received a minor penalty: Hall and Brennan of Edmonton and Calgary, respectively.</p><p>Gordon Kerr, ex-Canuck is now with Kamloops&hellip;Walt Trentini, former Stampeders, is playing for Trail, and so is Gerry Penner, who started the season with NW&hellip;Don Poile has been picking up points at a fast clip since coming down from Detroit.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0488/1162645-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="300" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Leader</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WHL Blueline Banter

<h2>COMING UP FAST</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>hawingan Falls Cataracts were busily equipping themselves for the torrid weekend race by catching up with the leaders in the Quebec League. Paced by Eddie Kachur and Erwin Grosse, who each scored a pair of goals, the Shawinigans crept up to one point of second place by defeating Chicoutimi Sags, 6-1, at Shawinigan Thursday, Nov. 25.</p><h2>PUZZIKD PETE</h2><p>Pete Morin of Montreal Royals was a puzzled coach last week as he saw his charges fall apart at the seams under a double-barrage from the Quebec Aces. Ahead 5-1 in the third period of their game Thursday, Nov. 25 against the Aces on their home ice, the Royals fell prey to a powerful Quebec attack to lose 7-6 in overtime.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDINGS ON TUES. A.M., NOV. 30</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01176/1162843-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="596" height="190"></div><h3>TUESDAY, NOV. 23</h3><p><b>Shawinigan 0 at Valleyfield 4</b></p><p>VALLEYFIELD&mdash;Larry Kwong rapped in two goals to pace Valleyfield Braves to a 4-0 win over the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts in a Quebec Hockey League game.</p><p>The loss, the second in a row for the Cataracts at the hands of the last place Braves, prevented them from moving past the idle Quebec Aces into second place. Only a point separates the two clubs.</p><p>Kwong got his first goal in the first period and Andre Corriveau made it 2-0 with a tally mid-way through the second stanza.</p><p>Rollie Leclerc scored 31 seconds after the last period started and at the 13-minute mark Kwong rounded out the scoring with his second goal of the game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02144/1162836-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="596" height="464"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24 Montreal 3 at Quebec 8</h3><p>QUEBEC&mdash;Quebec Aces, paced by their big line of Michel Labadie, Ray Powell and Jim Uniac, walloped Montreal 8-3 to move into a first-place tie with the Royals in the Quebec Hockey League.</p><p>Labadie collected three goals and one assist, Powell one goal and four assists, and Uniac five assists. Jim Hay, Marius Groleau, Ludger Tremblay and Gerry Ehman counted the rest.</p><p>Lulu Denis, Ray Laplante and Orval Tessier scored Montreal&rsquo;s goals. Shots on goal were fairly even&mdash;26 on Montreal&rsquo;s Claude Evans and 22 on Marois&mdash;but most of Montreal&rsquo;s drives were soft and easy for Marois to handle.</p><p>The clubs return to the Forum in Montreal Thursday night for the second-half of this home-and-home series. Neither coach, Pete Morin and Jack Toupin, is contemplating any major lineup changes for this game.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defense: Rousseau, Bownass, Mackay, Roche, Harmon; forwards, Shvetz, Blaine, Tessier, Burchell, Burnett, Denis, Laplante, Hildebrand, Marshall.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Marois; defense. Hay, Houle, Crozier, Tennant, Cushenan; forwards: Ehman, Johnson, Tremblay, Powell, Labadie, Uniac, Reagan, Groleau, Buchanan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03126/1162829-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="600" height="710"></div><h3>Chicoutimi 4 at Ottawa 8</h3><p>OTTAWA&mdash;Ottawa Senators scored five goals in the opening period and went on to defeat Chicoutimi Sagueneens 8-4 before 2,200 Quebec Hockey League fans here.</p><p>Bill Ezinicki, Bep Guidolin and Johnny Arundel scored for the Senators before Chicoutimi got started. Ezinicki moved swiftly, scoring with only 58 seconds gone in the opener. Guidolin had little trouble with his&mdash;defenceman Jerry Glaude&rsquo;s shot bounced off him into the Chicoutimi net.</p><p>George Roy cheered Chicoutimi briefly before the period ended with two goals within 21 seconds. Ottawa was two men short for the first one and one under full staff for the second. Bob Rawlyk and Alan Kuntz tallied the remaining Ottawa goals in the first period.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Hughes; defense: Glaude, Taillefer, Roy, L. Smrke; forwards: S. Smrke, McNab, Locas, Dube, Leger, Topall, Dussault, Hicks, Bartlett, Powers.</p><p><b>Ottawa</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defense: Copp, Arundel, Robertson, Hudson, Stahan; forwards; Gravelle, Johnson, Ford, Taylor, Kuntz, Maloney, Ezinicki, Guidolin, Rawlyk, Bobenic.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0494/1162822-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="598" height="714"></div><h3>THURSDAY NOV. 25</h3><p><b>Chicoutimi 1 at Shawinigan 6</b></p><p>SHAWINIGAN FALLS&mdash;Shawinigan Falls Cataracts moved to within a point of second place in the Quebec Hockey League by trimming Chicoutimi Sagueneens 6-1 before 4,500 fans.</p><p>Eddie Kachur and Erwin Grosse led the Shawinigan Falls attack with a pair of goals each. Johnny Denis and Gerry Desaulnfers notched the others.</p><p>Germain Leger got the only Chicoutimi goal on passes from Del Topoll and Rocky Bartlett early in the first period.</p><p>The victory was the 10th against six defeats for the Cataracts and moved them to within a point of second-place Montreal. Quebec leads the league with 23 points.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Hughes; defence: Glaude, Taillefer, Roy, McNab; forwards: S. Smrke, Bartlett, Locas, Dube, G. Leger, L. Smrke, Topoll, Power, Dussault, Hlcks</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defense: R. Leger, Hodgson, Turner, Talbot, Lamirande; forwards: Grosse, Wray, Kachur, Desaulniers, Denis, F. Perreault, Broden. Faulkner, Provost.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0575/1162815-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="594" height="592"></div><h3>Quebec 7 at Montreal 6</h3><p>MONTREAL&mdash;Buchanan scored after nine minutes and 24 seconds of a 10-minute overtime period to give Quebec Aces a 7-6 victory over Montreal Royals and first place in the Quebec Hockey League.</p><p>The Royals, with the help of three goals by Orval Tessier, held a 5-1 lead early in the third period, but a marker by Larry Regan at 6.18 and two in quick succession by Marius Groleau narrowed the gap to 5-4. Gerry Ehman then tied it up for the Aces at 10.55.</p><p>Ray Powell&rsquo;s second goal of the game two minutes later put the Quebecers ahead for the first time, but Bill Shvetz knotted the score for the Royals at 15.42 to force the game into over</p><p>Kelly Burnett and John Martan were the other Montreal marksmen.</p><p>Jean Marois was credited with 27 stops in the Quebec nets, while Gilles. Boisvert stopped 15 for Montreal.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Marois; defense: Hay. Houle, Crozier, Tennant, Cushenan; forwards: Ehman, Johnson, Tremblay, Powell, Labadie, Uniac, Reagan, Groleau, Buchanan.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defense: Rousseau, Bownass, McKay, Martan, Harmon; forwards: Shvetz, Tessier, Burchell, Burnett, Denis, Laplante, Hildebrand, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0661/1162808-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="590" height="912"></div><h2><b>Game-Buster!</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0754/1162801-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="546" height="996"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LARRY KWONG</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Twine-Denter</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0846/1162794-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="544" height="880"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MICHEL LABADIE</b></figcaption></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOV. 27 Shawinigan 2 at Ottawa 0</h3><p>OTTAWA&mdash;Shawiniganalls squeezed out a 2-0 Quebec Hockey League victory over Ottawa Senators here before about 2,000 fans.</p><p>Bob Perrault stopped 18 shots, many of which seemed labelled for goals, as he hung up the shutout.</p><p>The teams played scoreless hockey until the 8.27 mark of the second period when Jerry Desaulnier tallied from a scramble in front of the Ottawa goal.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0943/1162787-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="590" height="430"></div><h3>SUNDAY, NOV. 28 Shawinigan 3 at Quebec 0</h3><p>QUEBEC&mdash;The &ldquo;Santa Claus&rdquo; jinx dogged Quebec as Shawinigan Falls Cataracts dumped the Aces 3-0 and moved into first place in the Quebec Hockey League, with a one-point margin over the Aces.</p><p>A crowd of 8,500 nearly filled the Coliseum for &ldquo;Santa Claus Day&rdquo;, when a department store Santa Claus attends the game and children get in free. For uncounted years, the Aces have lost every Santa Claus game.</p><p>Eddie Katchur, Connie Broden and Jean Guy Talbot scored Shawinlgan&rsquo;s goals. Quebec outshot Shawinigan but the hight Cataract defence stopped at least half the drives. Goalie Bobby Perreault turned back 18 shots, the same number as Quebec goalie Johnny Marois.</p><p>Talbot, taking a pass from Fern Perreault at the blue-line, out-faked the Quebec defence and sank a 16-foot shot from in front of the net early in the first period. Quebec&rsquo;s Marius Groleau was sitting out a penalty at the time Brodenbeat Marois with a 26-foot shot from the sidelines with only one second left in the frame.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1039/1162780-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="590" height="463"></div><h3>Montreal 2 at Chicoutimi 3</h3><p>CHICOUTIMI&mdash;Chicoutimi Sagueneys struck for three goals in the final period here to hand Montreal Royals a 3-2 loss, their third straight. The defeat tumbled Royals into third place in the league standings behind Shawinigan Falls and Quebec.</p><p>Jacques Locas fired the winning goal on a solo rush at 13.49 after goals by Bob Bartlett and Germain Leger earlier in the period had tied the score.</p><p>Royals scored the game&rsquo;s first goal before most of the 3,300 fans had time to settle into their seats. Ike Hildebrand tallied on a play with Don Marshall and Skippy Burchell,</p><p>The visitors made it 2-0 early in the second period when Lulu Denis&rsquo; routine 30-footer fooled Chicoutimi goalie Phil Hughes and dropped into the net. The Chicks George Ray was in the penalty box at the time.</p><p>Bartlett got Chicoutimi back into the game in the first minute of play in the thrid period when he beat the Royals Gilles Boisvert. Del Topall and Leger assisting.</p><p>The same line tied the score at 8.48 with Leger the marksman. Locas&rsquo; winning goal came after he dashed the length of the ice to beat Boisvert on a difficult angle shot.</p><p>Royals Coach Pete Morin yanked Boisvert in the final minute of play but the visitors were unable to tie the score.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Hughes; defense: Glaude, Roy, Taillefer. McNab; forwards: Locas, Dube. Dussault, S. Smrke, Topoll, Bartlett, Leger, Power.</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Gravel!;. linesmen: Scullion, Levesque.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1136/1162773-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="594" height="508"></div><h3>Ottawa 1 at Valleyfield 3</h3><p>VALLEYFIELD&mdash;Valleyfield Braves moved closer to the pack in the Quebec Hockey League as they handed Ottawa Senators their second weekend defeat&mdash;a 3-1 loss before about 2,000 fans.</p><p>The Braves, in last place, are two points behind the fifth place Senators, who also dropped a 2-0 decision Saturday night to Shawinigan Falls.</p><p>Gordie Hayworth. Roger Dubuc and Roland Leclair counted for the Braves while Red Johnson got the Senators&rsquo; lone marker. Goalie Ray Fredericks turned in a strong performance for Ottawa, turning back 36 shots, comizared with the 22 that Valleyfield netmlnder Andy Payette was called on to handle.</p><p><b>Ottawa</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defence: Copp, Arundel, Robertson, Hudson; forwards: Johnson, Riopeile, Rawtick, Bobenick, Taylor, Kuntz, Maloney, Barlow, Ezinicki, Guidolin.</p><p><b>Valleyfield</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette: defense: Srnst, Deslauriers, Collins, Needham; forwards: Joannette, Gagnon, Corriveau, Bougie, Dubuc, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Leclair, Jones.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1325/1162766-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="604" height="482"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1229/1162759-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="598" height="1236"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><p>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The Ottawa Senators will continue to operate in the Quebec Hockey League for the balance of the 1954-55 season.</p><p>That was the word from the inner sanctum last week, although for quite a while it was nip and tuck.</p><p>Faced with high costs of operation and a falling off in attendance, owner T. P. Gorman dropped the word that the club was in bad straits and that the franchise might have to be suspended for one season.</p><p>Before such a drastic step was taken, however, a players&rsquo; meeting was held&rdquo; and Gorman asked for a vote on a pay cut, effective immediately.</p><p>The entire squad, with one exresulted in an approximate average cut of $50. per week, roughly a saving of $1,000 a week to the club&hellip;</p><p>The decision apparently saved the day, for the moment at least, and Gorman advised the league that he would continue to operate as usual.</p><p>The theory in many quarters was that the suggested suspension of the franchise by Gorman was merely a bluff. T.P.,they said, would never drop out of the Quebec League.</p><p>Whether he would have or not is a matter of conjecture, of course. What is certain is the fact that things are bad in Ottawa and could get worse.</p><h2><b>TV To Blame</b></h2><p>Gorman blames the situation entirely on television, but that isn&rsquo;t the only reason why the Senators have failed to attract the customers.</p><p>There is no doubt but that TV has hurt, and hurt badly. But other factors, like the tighter dollar, lack of a contending team, and the scarcity of &ldquo;name&rdquo;players in the loop also have contributed to the situation.</p><p>Ottawa isn&rsquo;t the only town in the Slater circuit that is suffering, either. Quebec, Chicoutimi, Vallewfield and even Royals are hanging on by their fingernails.</p><p>Only Shawinigan Falls, with a real contender this season, appear to be doing well at the gate. And hhow long that will go on is also a matter of conjecture.</p><p>Gorman has done just about everything possible to whip up the flagging interest of the Capital City customers, but apparently to no avail.</p><p>Crowds still hover around the 2,000 mark, yet when Detroit Red Wings played an exhibition game here earlier this season better than 5,000 turned out. And when the Globetrotters arrived, more than 7,000 were on hand.</p><p>The deal which was offered the players went something like this, and as far as they were concerned, it was accept or look somewhere else for a job:</p><p>Gorman asked them to take the voluntary cut. explaining (as if that was necessary) that crowds were away down, road expenses away up, and the salary list geared to other and more</p><p>If they accepted the proposifruitful years.</p><p>tion, Gorman promised a reconsideration at some time during January. If things picked up not only would the salaries be raised to their former figure but pay would be retractive.</p><h2>Guidolin Objects</h2><p>The lone dissenter was Bep Guidolin, who saw the logic of the move, but-who admitted he would rather try to make a deal for his services somewhere else.</p><p>Guidolin, who had been placing on a line with Phil Maloney and Bill Ezinicki, said he hoped to make a deal with Sudbury<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Senators To Complete QHL Season

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01180/1162905-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GILLES BOISVERT</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The sure formula: winning the big ones&rdquo; carried Quebec Aces to the top of the Quebec Hockey League, and with Ray Powell, Michel Labadie and Jim &ldquo;Onions&rdquo; Uniac employing the full sweep of their power it would appear that the Aces, once on the peak of the standing, will be extremely difficult to dislodge.</p><p>With Powell, 2 9-year-old native of Timmins, Ont., who has a topkick throughout his star-studded minor pro career, enjoying two fine outings the Quebecers routed the Montreal Royals 8-3 in the Ancient Capital one night, and the very next evening smashed through a 5-1 deficit with a late third period drive to win eventually 7-6 in overtime in Montreal over the earstwhile league leaders.</p><p>That Royals were afflicted with goal-keeper trouble was their tough luck; the Acemen were ready to capitalize ruthlessly and fully on their opportunities.</p><h2><b>Victim of Landslide</b></h2><h3>Night of Triumph</h3><p>Powell who a week previously took back the scoring leadership when he stradled Montreal&rsquo;s Orval Tessier, had a night of triumph in the Quebec City section of this concentrated series. The six-foot, 170-pound centreman collected five-points&mdash;a goal and four helpings.</p><p>And this game was a Waterloo of sorts for Claude Evans, who had a brief whirl with Canadiens in the absence of Jacques Plante. For the very next day, Frank Carlin and Pete Morin put their heads together at the Montreal Forum and made a swap of substitute net-minders with Kenny T. Reardon at Shawinigan Falls.</p><p>Royals sent Cataracts their freshman twine-tender Andre Binette, and Gilles Boisvert, was shipped to Montreal.</p><p>Pistol Pete Morin put Boisvert into the cage and for 50 minutes he fared very well against the Acemen. He had held them to one goal when a landslide roared as if ant atomic bomb had struck. In three minutes the Aces scored four times, the lead was erased in an assault that totalled five tallies all told, and the Aces seemed to be in command.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t entirely Boivert&rsquo;s fault, either, as Morin, in fair-minded style admitted later.</p><h3>Very Sad For Royals</h3><p>Sadder was the story in finality for Royals, because late in the game, Bill Shvetz pulled the Montrealers even at 6-6 only to see the hopes of the handfull of Royals&rsquo; rooters dashed in the overtime when Bucky Buchanan blasted home the winning tally in a 7-6 triumph.</p><p>&ldquo;Wha&rsquo; hoppen?.&rdquo; the Montreal fans seeking an explanation demanded. Well, Morin agreed with the writers covering the game that the defense players and frontline backcheckers had completely forgotten assignments; which were predicated in all prudence and commonsense late in that game.</p><p>Royals&rsquo; should have won easily, even by a minor application of the ancient kitty-bar-the-door strategy.</p><p>That&rsquo;s the Montreal side of the story. As told in the preface the Quebecers have steadily pushed their way forward. They have the best front line combination of the league right now and they reached first place by wacking and clobbering Royals twice in successive nights. The morning line phowed Aces two points up and holding a game in hand and it was thought unlikely they be worrying about Royals for a while.</p><p>Their next concern would be the Shawinigan Cataracts a team that really knows something about the tight-to-the-vest style of hockey.</p><h3>Story In Figures</h3><p>In third place the Cataracts were three points back of the pace-setting Aces, and only one in arrears of the second place Rayols,&mdash;but the cats held four games in hand on Royals and had played three less games than the Quebecers. Many calculators would place the Shawinigan team in first place percentage wise. For taking points gained gained in comparison to points obtainable as the measurement, you get these results: Shawinigan .625, Quebec .605.</p><p>And for now, let&rsquo;s not bother about the Royals, in our arithmetic lesson.</p><p>Punch Imlach and Jack Toupin, the Quebec board of strategy, are plased with the goaling of Jean Marois. He became the No. 1 man for the job partly through choice of the masterminds and partly because Davey Gatherum, the chunky, 22-year-old from Fort William, Ont. has been hospitlized following surgery for a knee cartalage.</p><p>Right now it&rsquo;s not known when Gatherum will be able to resume his chores between the posts, but meantime the Aces are going okay with Marois on the job.</p><p>The Quebecers also got more defense strength when Imlach signed Ian Cushenan, a former blue line performer with St. Catharine&rsquo;s juniors.</p><p>REBOUNDS&mdash;Though it was in a losing cause, Orval Tessier racked up three goals in the Montreal end of the Royals&mdash;Aces series, his second hat-trick of the season&hellip;Larry Kwong continues to be the meal-ticket for the Braves (appropriately, since he is partnered with Andre Corriveau in a Valleyfield restaurant)&hellip;Kwong got the winning tally the Braves edged the Aves 6-5 in overtime, and. then scored two goal, when the Cataracts were trounced 4-0 at Valleyfield. Incidentally this was goaler Andy Payette&rsquo;s first shutout of the season.</p><p>A puck bouncing off the boards struck Ray Laplante squarely in the eye in the game at the Forum, Nov. 25, and next day Ray sported a shiner that would win first prize in any cauliflower league&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02130/1162898-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="1128" height="1610"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Aces Take Stranglehold on Loop Lead—Royals Shaken

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Highest Scoring HOCKEY STICK IN THE WORLD…

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>St. Michael&rsquo;s MajorS, minus several of their established stars of recent years, broke away to a fast start in the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A series. With the schedule more than a month old, the Irish were firmly settled in first place and created the general impression that they intended to stay there.</p><p>St. Mike&rsquo;s dropped only two of their first 13 games and their team scoring average was better than five goals per game during that stretch. Marlboros, St. Catharines Tee, pees, Guelph Biltmores and Galt Black Hawks were lined up behind them in that order.</p><p>St. Mike&rsquo;s appeared especially hard-hit by juniors passing out of the age limit this season but the nucleus left from last year&rsquo;s team, plus several talented rookies, have made them as dangerous as ever.</p><p>The Irish lost their high-scoring line of Jack Caffery, Paul Knox and Jim Logan, one of the best lines in junior hockey last season. Defensemen Marc Reaume and Gerry Toppazzini also graduated from junior and few of the experts figured the Irish could survive the loss of those five and not feel it. But you can&rsquo;t prove it by the standings&mdash;so far.</p><h2><b>No Substitute</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01145/1162974-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="540" height="726"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRIAN CULLEN</b></figcaption></div><h3>Able Netminder</h3><p>Part of the reason for St. Mike&rsquo;s success is the able goal-tending of lanky Gerry McNamara, in his third season with the Collegians. McNamara appears to have arrived as one of the top goalies in the OHA.</p><p>Most impressive of the Irish newcomers is 16-year-old, 185-pound Frank Mahovlich, a forward who accounted for five goals in his first two games. Mahovlich has tapered off greatly from that pace but he still looks like one of the most promising rookies to come into the league in several years.</p><p>There has been a noticeable improvement in several of the other St. Mike&rsquo;s forwards, particularly the Duff brothers, Les and Dick, Bill Colvin, Ken Linseman, Brian Anderson and Ken Gribbons. There isn&rsquo;t a team in the league that can outskate them.</p><p>Another highly-rated rookie with the Irish is Pat Hannigan (brother of Gord, of Toronto Maple Leafs). Husky, fast-skating and aggressive, Pat was recently suspended for three games by his team for gettihg involved in a stick-swinging duel with Danny Poliziani, of Barrie. Also the OHA tagged $10 fines on each player.</p><p>The OHA is pursuing a policy this season of endeavouring to eliminate excessive roughness in junior games. This, of course, was attempted before but in rather haphazard fashion. This year, however, obstreperous players will be fined and/or suspended if their over-exuberance is reported by the referees.</p><p>St. Catharines Teepees, Memorial Cup champions, look almost as dangerous as a year ago although they naturally have nobody to replace the inspirational Brian Cullen, who wrecked all junior scoring records last season.</p><p>But, in the opinion of several coaches, Teepees are a better-balanced team this season. Nobody dares to label them a &ldquo;one-line&rdquo; team. They have better balance and appear to have as much scoring potential.</p><p>Marlboros have another big, aggressive team which should be on or near the top all season. If some of their younger players, such as Bill Kennedy, Ken Girard, Gary Aidcorn and Gil McNeil produce as expected this might be the year that the Dukes finally capture that elusive OHA championship.</p><p>Junior hockey is replete with surprises and upsets but it will be a great surprise if any of the other OHA teams have the overall strength to topple St. Mikes, Marlboros and St. Catharines out of the first three spots.</p><p>Guelph Biltmores and Galt Black Hawks are improved over last year but they haven&rsquo;t been too consistent. Hamilton Cubs are about the same while Barrie Flyers and Kitchener-Waterloo Canucks aren&rsquo;t going anywhere unless they get reinforcements in a hurry.</p><p>Naturally the balance of power could shift after the December 15 trading deadline. That has happened before in the trade-happy Ontario loop but this year there aren&rsquo;t likely to be many shifts in playing personnel&mdash;except among the more impoverished clubs.</p><h2><b>Ulcer Victim</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0388/1162967-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="550" height="844"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAX BENTLEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Irish Pin Hopes On Talented Rookies…Gamble Pays Off

<div class="byline">By LES DALY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The dirigible-like (hanging suspended and full of hot air) Quebec Junior Hockey League came down to earth slightly last week and took on an almost-forgotten air of reality. For the first time in two weeks the league had a vague idea of where it was going and there was also a general hint of why.</p><p>The League, all three teams of it. is going to Ontario. And in very convivial (you fill my wallet and I&rsquo;ll fill yours) attitude a portion of the Ontario junior loop decided to make a swing into Quebec. It marked the second year in a row in which the Quebec loop had turned in mid-season to its Ontario cousins for a helping hand out of the clutching quicksand of a collapsing foundation in Quebec junior hockey.</p><p>Anyway, after scooting through Ontario and Quebec in a minimum of time with a maximum of persuasive talk, Sammy Pollock, general manager of the NHL Canadiens farm organization, completed a deal which involved three teams in the Ontario circuit and the three in the Quebec loop.</p><p>The definite schedule hasn&rsquo;t been announced at the time of writing but this is the way the thing shapes up, unless of course another team drops out or some other run-of-the-mill event like that.</p><p>St. Catharines Teepees, Toronto Marlboros and Kitchener Canucks will play a home and home series with the Quebec clubs, the Montreal Canadiens, Quebec Frontenacs and Trois Rivieres Flambeaux. Each Ontario club will make one three-game swing through Quebec and each Quebec club will make a similar tour of Ontario.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02115/1163029-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="279" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sam Pollock</b></figcaption></div><p>The Teepees are slated to open the series with a game in Quebec against their 1953 eastern Canada rivals, the Frontenacs.</p><p>Whether these games will play any part in the respective league standings still remains to be seen at this time. No doubt the league will come up with something startling, although by all accounts it appears that the games will count in the Quebec standings, even if they are not recognized in Ontario.</p><p>All the Quebec teams are taking part in the home and home series, but, on the other hand, only three of the eight Ontario clubs will face the Quebecers. That could be reason enough for leaving the results out of the Ontario race.</p><p>A new trophy, the Sid Wilfrid Laurier Trophy, has been put up for competition. It was donated by Senator Donat Raymond, president of the NHL Canadiens, and will be awarded to the winner of the Ontario-Quebec series.</p><p>So far nothing has been done about restoring the goals and assists which were wiped out when the league turned over a new leaf after the Jonquiere incident. The players are getting a raw deal. But in this deal the league brass holds all the high cards. The players are unhappy. The brass is unworried. The players are uninterested.</p><p>It&rsquo;s a great situation but it&rsquo;s just one of those things that keep the Quebec junior league simmering all the time. And when something&rsquo;s simmering you get plenty of hot air. But eventually it just boiles away and you&rsquo;re left with nothing. If something isn&rsquo;t done about the junior situation to let the fans know what&rsquo;s what and when, that&rsquo;s what will happen to junior hockey in this province.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Dazed Quebec Juniors Grab Ontario Hook-Up

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Bentley Out For Month

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You’ll Skate Better on CCMs

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01153/1163129-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="576" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERT GIESEBRECHT</b></figcaption></div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>PEMBROKE LUMBER KINGS may have three brothers in uniform in the Northern Ontario Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit&hellip;Bert Giesebrecht has been released by Quebec Aces of the Quebec Hockey League and signified his intention of staying in his hometown at Pembroke&hellip;he&rsquo;s still the property of Detroit Red Wings but Pembroke officials announced they are hopeful of acquiring the services of the former Quebec performer&hellip;actually, Giesebrecht was told to report to Vancouver Canucks but he said he preferred to play in Pembroke along with brothers, Bruce and Jack&hellip;Bert has seen considerable action in the AHL, USHL and other loops&hellip;Coach Cully Simon of the Lumber Kings figures he will add plenty of scoring punch to his team by nabbing Bert who comes from a colorful hockey family&hellip;</p><p>Some mighty fine hockey is being played in the Porcupine District this season and fans are hopeful they may have a Northern Ontario champion in the fire&hellip;South Porcupine Porkies captured four consecutive victories&rsquo; at this writing pulling themselves into second place under their brand new coach, Victor Hanneberry&hellip;as soon as Vic grabbed the reins the Porkies seemed to catch some sort of inspiration&hellip;Walter Para is now with the Porkies following a sojourn with Guelph Biltmores&hellip;he scored two goals in a crucial 5-4 triumph over Abitibi Eskimos&hellip;colorful Eddie Kulik blasted the game-winning goal with only three minutes left in the game&hellip;Eddie is one of the best crowd-pleasers in Northern Ontario hockey today&hellip;Syl Ethier is with the Eskimos and doing a fine job, while Stu Pirie and Pat O&rsquo;Leary are both with South Porcupine&hellip;we join with all the splendid hockey fans in the Gold Belt and Porcupine Districts in welcoming Vic Hanneberry to the coaching ranks&hellip;the North now has several of the top senior coaches in the entire country&hellip;</p><p>KEN McKENZIE, a veteran of Western Canadian hockey, is fast winning himself a reputation as one of the finest opportunists in Northern Ontario hockey&hellip;as a member of the Soo Michigan Indians in the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; bracket, Ken is coming through with crucial, game-winning goals and now appears headed for a spot in the Big Ten Scoring Parade once the time comes to make up the final tally&hellip;Ken also is rated one of the cleanest-living and finest gentlemen in hockey today&hellip;he told THE HOCKEY NEWS that he was surprised at the great support fans gives hockey in our fabulous Northland&hellip;&ldquo;I never would have believed it unless I saw it for myself,&rdquo; commented Ken&hellip;Eddie Chadwick, starry netminder for the Soo Ontario Greyhounds, is fully recovered from a mild concussion sustained when struck in the face with a flying puck during a recent game with Sudbury&hellip;he returned to action and celebrated with another brilliant performance&hellip;along with Tommy Bonachey, the Greyhounds seem well-fixed in goal&hellip;</p><p>Maxie Silverman has the blues I his Sudbury Wolves, who raced all the way to the Allan Cup finals last season, are in a slump, failing to win a game in their past nine starts&hellip;at this writing they are lodged in fourth position behind the Soo Greyhounds, Soo Indians and North Bay Trappers&hellip;the cry has gone up: &ldquo;. What&rsquo;s wrong with Sudbury Wolves!! most observers, however, feel that once Maxie has his 18 players signed by the deadline of December 15, his team will start their usual late surge&hellip;despite the slump there is no letdown in the tremendous support by Sudbury fans&hellip;crowds are between 5,500 and 6,000&hellip;crowds are also good for the other teams, especially Soo Greyhounds with 5,000 most of the games&hellip;</p><p>JAKE SMITH is quite a hero for Thornton&hellip;he scored the winning goal against Simcoe with only 33 seconds remaining in the game, giving his team second place in the Barrie District Hockey League&hellip;Jake is headed for a big year&hellip;. Chuck Edwards and Harry Hadden are also performing with Thornton this season&hellip;Rheal Lefreneir of North Bay Trappers earned the admiration of many hockey fans, playing smart hockey despite a painful ankle injury&hellip;Rheal comes from sound hockey stock ! !.</p><p>Dale Anderson, released by Saskatoon Quakers, is now trying to lineup with the Soo Indians&hellip;Frank Hildebrand, brother of the dynamic Ike, has already caught with the Indians and going great&hellip;A special campaign committee to spark interest in the forthcoming election for an additional $235,000 to build a $635,000 modern arena for North Bay is now headed by Aiderman Clarence Rennick&hellip;if the money by-law is approved work will start immediately on the long overdue arena&hellip;once completed, North Bay will become a big power in Northern Ontario hockey&hellip;it is right now, but the weapons will be much stronger for the fine group of men keeping senior hockey alive in the wonderful Gateway City&hellip;</p><p>Quite a fuss was kicked up by the report that Gerry McNeil, formerly of Montreal Canadiens, was being sought by Sudbury Wolves&hellip;our good friend, Joe Spence, sportscaster for Radio Station CHNO in Sudbury, and another good friend, Don McIntosh, sports editor of the Sudbury Daily Star, got into a real word-battle over the story&hellip;Joe and Don are now drinking their daily pint of milk in different establishments I Milk?????&hellip;</p><p>Watch out for Colley Bowman!&hellip;Colley fired three goals for Exeter Mohawks in their losing cause against Goderich Sailors&hellip;Junior Barash pulled the same stunt for Goderich&hellip;and it was his first games ! !&hellip;Teddy Williams is pilot of the Goderich squad&hellip;Cobourg Comets have two dandy newcomers in their lineup&mdash;Sam Mulholland, rugged ex-Scottish League star, and Coon Medhurst, former Port Hope Redmen ace&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0295/1163122-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="569" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY McNEIL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NOHA Pack Parade

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>FORT WAYNE, Indiana&mdash;</p><p>The plight of the Ft. Wayne Komets is a peculiar one !</p><p>Amply staffed with players a few weeks ago, the Hoosiers suddenly found themselves with a serious shortage of talent that dropped them all the way from the head of the International Hockey League to a tie for fourth.</p><p>Coach Pat Wilson is not unduly pessimistic, however, as he points out &ldquo;the season still young. We&rsquo;ll be right up there with, the leaders when the final days roil around&rdquo;.</p><p>Injuries took a severe toll on the Komets, and then other unforseen complications arose that left the club with just 11 active skaters&mdash;three under the limit of 14&mdash;at one time.</p><p>Victories in their first three starts of the campaign sent Ft. Wayne off to a blazing start atop the conference. That&rsquo;s when, things started happening that were responsible in large part for a losing streak that reached four in a row and five out of six games.</p><p>Two key defensemen who had specialized in giving Goalie Ivan. Walmsley fine protection were ushered to the sidelines with broken bones. George Stanutz came up with a broken ankle and George Ouellette followed him shortly with a broken toe.</p><p>To add to the woes, Bob Maxwell, still another rear guard, was given his release after Wilson decided he didn&rsquo;t quite fill the bill.</p><p>That created a dearth of defensemen, but more was yet to come.</p><h2><b>Dearth of Defensemen</b></h2><p>Billy Watson, who was captain of the team, was sent to Sudbury of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association for &ldquo;indifferent play,&rdquo; according to Wilson. The final blow was the loss of speedy Edgar Biondi, who was suspended indefinitely for disciplinary reasons,</p><p>Stanutz and Ouellette were said to be on the mend and ready to return to action soon, while Centre Norm Johnston was to join the Komets from Moose Jaw. Another deal or two that might bring relief to harried Ft. Wayne reportedly were in the fire.</p><p>In the meantime, Wilson held an election among team members, who named the veteran George Drysdale as their captain to replace Watson.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s how it goes in hockey&rdquo;, Wilson said philosophically, as he scanned the damage. &ldquo;Why, we&rsquo;ve had three forwards, Joe Kasrelic, Bill Richardson and Walter Blaisdell, doubling up on defense for us. We&rsquo;ll be okay, though. I&rsquo;m not too worried about that&rdquo;.</p><p>While other clubs were wrestling with various problems, the Cincinnati Mohawks were coasting along at a terrific pace in search, of their third straight IHL crown.</p><p>Fortunate enough to escape any serious injuries, the Hawks extended their winning streak to 11 in a row and moved five and. a half games in front of their nearest opponents, Troy and Grand Rapids.</p><p>Ft. Wayne and Toledo were a half game behind in fourth, with Johnstown, which has shown definitive signs of life, still bringing up the rear.</p><h2><b>Mohawks Too Strong</b></h2><p>There were a few scattered grumblings and mutterings around the league that &ldquo;the Mohawks are too strong for the rest of us,&rdquo; but most of the other coaches took the viewpoint that Cincinnati would eventually be meted out its share of defeats. Just when that will happen remains to be seen.</p><p>Beaten only once (by Ft. Wayne) in their first 13 starts this season, the Mohawks piled up 70 goals to but 29 for the opposition. Coach Roly McLenahan has his youthful squad hustling from start to finish of every contest and all three of his lines are delivering.</p><p>Johnstown, mired in the basement all year, spurted to three successive triumphs until going down, 7-0, before Cincinnati. Troy swept a weekend set from Grand Rapids and Toledo to move into a tie for second with Grand Rapids.</p><p>ICING THE PUCK&hellip;Two International League goal-tenders turned in their third shutouts of the campaign, as Roy McMeekin blanked Ft. Wayne, 5-0, for Toledo and Rookie Gaetan Dessureault wielded the shutout brush, 7-0, over Johnstowns&hellip;</p><h2><b>Hustler</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0361/1163160-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="566" height="912"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROLY McLENAHAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bottom Falls Out For Komets; Talent Strewn Far And Wide

<p>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>Cincinnati&rsquo;s amazing &ldquo;Kid Line&rdquo;, which has Phil Go yette centering Denis Boucher on the right side and Barry Thorndycraft on the left, continues to be the No. 1 trio in the International Hockey League.</p><p>These three 21-year-old prospects, fresh out of the junior ranks, have registered one or more goals in the last 12 Hawk games in a row and tallied a total of 29 in the first 13 Cincinnati battles.</p><p>Goyette paces the league in scoring with 10 goals and 15 assists for 25 points, while Boucher has grabbed the No. 2 spot with 11 goals and 11 assists for 22 points. Both of these youngsters arc graduates of the Montreal Canadien juniors.</p><p>To make the sweep complete, Thorndycraft, who came up from St. Boniface in Winnipeg, is third in the loop with 19 points on 8 goals and 11 assists.</p><p>There were a few more roster changes in the IHL. Johnstown signed Doug McDonald and released Frank Holliday; Toledo signed Vic DeMarco and released John Sherban; Fort Wayne signed Ross Turnbull and released Geo. Ouellette and Troy signed George Gibbs and released Jack Lindquist.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Kids Maintain Cracking Pace

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><h2><b>Home Again</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01132/1163229-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="534" height="1341"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SHERMAN WHITE</b></figcaption></div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Amherst Ramblers feel their fortunes will change in Atlantic Coast Hockey League play now that the greatest player developed in the border town in the last few decades is back home.</p><p>Several weeks after the schedule opened Sherman White returned home, presumably to take up a business career. Hockey enthusiasts got into the picture and first thing you knew he was willing to make a comeback if the club could secure his release from Chicoutimi of the Quebec League.</p><p>An Amherst club got interested and raised the money to purchase his contract. Now White is back in hockey on the local front, showing all his old-time skill. Furthermore, the Amherst Ramblers are beginning to play winning hockey.</p><p>Shermie is a product of the old Amherst St. Pats, an outstanding junior club that figured many times in Memorial Cup play. During the war years he played with Halifax RCAF. Then he went into the New York Rangers chain, with brief play with the Broadway Blues and longer terms at New Haven and New York Rovers.</p><p>The past three years he has been cavorting with Chicoutimi. For 10 years he has been missing from the local scene but Amherst sportsmen have followed his career with interest.</p><h3>Scored 130 Goals</h3><p>In the 10 years with the various clubs mentioned White scored 130 goals and assisted on 274 others for a grand total of 404 points. He won the Byng of Vimy trophy with 57 assists while playing for Chicoutimi in the 1952-53 season.</p><p>White is 32 years old and has been playing good hockey for all of 15 years. Despite his long career he fitted into the Amherst Ramblers lineup as if he had never been away, and in his first game produced a goal and an assist.</p><p>Amherstonians are counting on native son Shermie white to lift the team out of the league cellar. They are already beginning to move.</p><p>Fredericton Capitals and Moncton Hawks are still alternating as league leaders with Charlottetown Islanders a solid third and Amherst gaining. Both Islanders and Ramblers have closed the once large gap between the top teams and the league race is tightening all along the line, good news to the sponsors who have seen some small crowds and were beginning to worry about paying the bills.</p><h3>Feeling the Pineh</h3><p>Ramblers especially were feeling the pinch when they played their home games at nearby Springhill. Now there is ice in the Bailey Arena, White is back in full flight and interest is soaring. Nothing like a good native son to stimulate business at the turnstiles.</p><p>In the APC League, oldest and now most prominent Nova Scotia senior league, there are feuds brewing over player personnel. Halifax Wolves, the new entry, got veterans Ernie Yeadon, Sander McDonald, Frank Grabowski and Puddy Reardon into the fold and were ready to roll. A week before the schedule opened Truro Bearcats said the four players were Truro property, had not been released and would not be released.</p><h2>International League</h2><h3>STANDING ON MONDAY, NOV. 22</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0295/1163222-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="598" height="214"></div><h3>RESILTS</h3><p><b>Tuesday, Nov. 16</b></p><p>Grand Rapids 3. Ft. Wayne 2</p><p><b>Wednesday, Nov. 17</b></p><p>Toledo 5, Ft. Wayne 0 Johnstown 2, Troy 1</p><p><b>Thursday. Nov. 18</b></p><p>Cincinnati 4</p><p>Grand Rapids 3</p><p><b>Saturday, Nov. 20</b></p><p>Cincinnati 3, Ft. Wayne 1 Johnstown 4, Toledo 2</p><p>Troy 4, Grand Rapids 2</p><p><b>Sunday, Nov. 21</b></p><p>Cincinnati 7, Johnstown 0</p><p>Troy 4, Toledo 1</p><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0374/1163215-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="602" height="348"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Lots Of Cash, Conniving Return White To Fold

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont&mdash;</p><p>It is becoming increasingly apparent that Kitchener Dutchmen and the reigning champions, Owen Sound Mercurys, rule the roost in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA group after the first month&rsquo;s schedule. Dutchmen and Mercurys are tied at the moment with ten wins apiece, while the former have dropped but one verdict and the latter two.</p><p>Compared to the dual leaders Stratford Indians have failed to show the same winning ways, although rercheed in third place with six wins in 15 games, three more games than Kitchener and two more than Owen Sound.</p><p>Windsor Bulldogs are fourth, five points behind Stratford, but have played five less games, and basing an opinion on their recent showing there is every chance that they can replace the Indians in third spot.</p><p>Chatham Maroons and Niagara Falls Cataracts, both with better teams than their record to date indicates, have won but three and one game respectively, which has the fans wondering why they don&rsquo;t win more often.</p><p>The strange part of the season to date is that Chatham is out-drawing every other club in the group, despite their lowly position. Stratford games have shown a decided drop in patronage, and when the Indians are only able to attract 2,200 fans for a home game with their traditional &ldquo;enemies.&rdquo; Kitchener Dutchmen, the answer is that their supporters grew sour on their dismal display during which they tied but one game in eight. The Indians perked up considerably of late, winning their last two starts, both of them against Niagara Falls Cataracts, but so far they have had no success against Kitchener, and but one victory over Owen Sound.</p><p>Since &ldquo;Chuck&rdquo; Shannon took over from Norm Tustin as coach of the Fallsers they have looked some better, but still do not seem able to add to their three wins in 13 games. On paper Niagara Falls appears to have a contending team, but reports are that only about ten players are giving it the old college try. In the last two games Ted Fauteux and Bill Kodatsky, two homebrew regulars, were benched in favor of Gord Harley and Mike Glumac. recruits from the neighboring Stamford senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; team.</p><p>Windsor Bulldogs loom as dangerous conlenders and Coach Murph Chamberlain has now assembled the kind of team he wants a hard-hitting, rugged bunch. Murph always played it that way when he was in the NHL with Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens, and he has his Windsor charges tossing their bodies around plenty.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0459/1163260-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="552" height="898"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MURPH CHAMBERLAIN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Dutchmen, Mercs Rule OHA Roost

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0545/1163291-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured Boston player.</p><p>7&mdash;Initials of a member of the Black Hawks.</p><p>8&mdash;Given name of McLeod of the Rangers.</p><p>10&mdash;Don Raleigh played amateur hockey with New York&mdash;(sing.)</p><p>11&mdash;Another name for George Sullivan.</p><p>12&mdash;Idem (abbr.)</p><p>13&mdash;President Campbell likes to do this.</p><p>14&mdash;The Red Wings once had a farm club in this State,&mdash;(abbr.)</p><p>15&mdash;Ton (abbr.)</p><p>16&mdash;A mineral.</p><p>18&mdash;State in which the Hawks will play some of their home games (abbr.)</p><p>19&mdash;Zero.</p><p>20&mdash;Given name of Cherry of Hershey Bears.</p><p>21&mdash;Initials of Lumsden, last season with Pittsburgh.</p><p>22&mdash;Buffalo Bisons are affiliated with this N.H.L. club (abbr.)</p><p>23&mdash;Don McKenney played junior hockey with&mdash;Flyers.</p><p>28&mdash;Don Poile is this in relation to Bud.</p><p>29&mdash;-Initials of a Toronto forward.</p><p>31&mdash;Plays for the Red Wings.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;First name of Wilson of Hershey.</p><p>2&mdash;Once played for Leafs on line with Apps & Drillon.</p><p>3&mdash;First name of Detroit&rsquo;s publicity director.</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of Joss, former Edmonton Flyer forward.</p><p>5&mdash;Sask, birthplace of Larry Popein.</p><p>6&mdash;In Toronto a bell marks the&mdash;of a period.</p><p>9&mdash;One of the Hershey Bears.</p><p>17&mdash;First name of Chorley of Springfield.</p><p>18&mdash;Don Raleigh&rsquo;s favorite composer.</p><p>23&mdash;Initials of Bradley of New Westminster Royals.</p><p>24&mdash;Former manager of the &lsquo;Bruins.</p><p>25&mdash;Wally Hergesheimer plays this wing (abbr.).</p><p>26&mdash;Initials of player traded by Hawks to Habs for Davis.</p><p>27&mdash;Snake-like fish.</p><p>30&mdash;Initials of &ldquo;Onions&rdquo; Uniac.</p><h2><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S SOLUTION</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1. Gamble</p><p>6. P. D.</p><p>8. Couture</p><p>9. Tom</p><p>11. If</p><p>12. Hounds</p><p>13. Ce.</p><p>14. Ten</p><p>15. Mud</p><p>16. Que.</p><p>17. S. M.</p><p>19. Hee.</p><p>21. E. F. H.</p><p>24. Vernon</p><p>27. 10</p><p>28. E. K.</p><p>29. I. B.</p><p>30. Det.</p><p>31. Tennis</p><p>32. Le.</p><p>33. Zr.</p><p>31. E. E.</p><p>35. D. L.</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1. Gotham</p><p>2. McMurdy</p><p>3. B. O.</p><p>4. Lund</p><p>5. E. T.</p><p>6. Price</p><p>7. Defense</p><p>10. O O</p><p>14. Toque</p><p>17. Shvetz</p><p>18. Meeker</p><p>20. C. R.</p><p>22. Field</p><p>23. Hotel</p><p>25. Nine</p><p>26. Obie<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0631/1163322-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg"></div><p>FOOTBALL NEWS</p><p>FEATURES&mdash;PICTURES&mdash;STATISTICS&mdash;INTERVIEWS</p><p>CARTOONS&mdash;COMPLETE REPORTS ON ALL TEAMS</p><p><b>Only $2.50 for 26 consecutive issues.</b></p><p>Published weekly for 20 straight weeks during football season and once a month during off season months. January to June inclusive.</p><p>It doesn&rsquo;t matter when you start, you still get your 25 issues.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Canadian

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0138/1163374-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="246" height="284"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0237/1163367-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="253" height="300"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0335/1163360-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2787" height="1689"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0426/1163353-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2800" height="1756"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>THE MONTREAL CANADIENS</b> and the Toronto Maple Leafs battle it out in Maple Leaf Gardens in the above pictures. Top photo shows goalie Claude Evans of Canadiens getting set to parry a drive by Joe Klukay while Doug Harvey and Dollard St. Laurent come to his aid. In the lower picture. Harry Lumley has just kicked out a shot by Jean Beliveau (No. 4) who is being checked by Eric Nesterenko (No. 18) as Dickie Moore (No. 121 looks on. That&rsquo;s Ted Kennedy behind Moore. <span class="photo-credit">(Photos by Turofsky)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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