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January 22, 1955
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Buffalo Purchase Ups Hawks ‘Control’ Of Players To 200
CHICAGO, III.— One of the foremost objectives outlined by Tommy Ivan when he became general manager of the Black Hawks last summer was accomplished a week after the arrival of 1955 with the outright purchase of the Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League for a reported $150,000. The transaction, Chicago’s first genuine acquisition of another professional team, was announced by Vice-President William J. Tobin who said that Ivan worked in close cooperation with owners James Norris and Arthur Wirtz in completing the deal with well known concession operator Lou Jacobs. It was last September when Ivan was introduced to the Chicago press and stated: “We are attempting to make an agreement with one of the American League entries to supplant the pacts we have in the other pro circuits…Calgary in the Western…
Dutch Stands Out When Wings Hit The Road!
DETROIT, Mich.— Dutch Reibel is a rarity among the Red Wings. For that matter, among most of the players in the National Hockey League. It is highly unusual for any player to perform better in road games than he does on home ice. That trend is reflected in every breakdown of scoring records home and away. Reibel is one of the exceptions. That was pointed up the night he cashed the three-goal “hat trick” while leading Detroit to a 6-2 victory over Chicago in St. Louis. The spree ran his season total to 12 goals, second on the Detroit team behind Gordie Howe’s 18. Eight of those counters were made in road games compared to four at Olympia. In Dutch’s case it is no one-year oddity. Same thing happened last season when he was a rookie and…
Rookie Farelli Draws Rave Notices As Baron
CLEVELAND, Ohio Mark well the name James (Gino) Farelli, a kid who came to dinner and stayed on to give the Cleveland Barons a wicked blackjack wallop. It’s the same youngster who tried once before to make the leap to the American League with the Barons in 1952. He failed and mid-way on a training camp exhibition voyage through Canada, Farelli was dropped off somewhere between the wilds of Chicoutimi and the plains of Abraham. Eventually he landed at Valleyfield and in the same winter was shipped west to Seattle. When Seattle was eliminated from further activity that season he moved on to Glace Bay in the Maritimes. Wherever he went, Farelli the trip hammer, left havoc in his wake. A punishing checker, he loved the brawl and maul. This winter the Barons brought the youngster…
Sophomore Jinx Haunts Dineen But He Gets Big Goals For Wings
DETROIT, Mich.— Bill Dineen, collegian and hockey player, is undergoing some painful research this season on the familiar sports topic of the “sophomore jinx.” Only a year ago Dineen leaped straight into the National Hockey League from St. Mike’s Juniors and became a standout rookie. After scoring 17 goals as a Detroit freshman, he was promoted to the sophomore class and entered it this fall as a sure-fire regular and possibly a budding star. Only to run into that strange plague that so often hits second-year athletes. It was 16 games before Dineen got his first goal. With 4 0 games gone, he had only five and hopes of hitting his rookie to tal were exceedingly slim. Strangely enough, Coach Jimmy Skinner maintains that Bill has been playing well enough all along. Dineen has come if…
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