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January 22, 1955
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Whitlock Leads Scorers In Atlantic Coast Loop
HALIFAX, N.S.— Roy (Buck) Whitlock is combining business with hockey—and the latter isn’t suffering. Winner of four Big Four scoring titles, the balding veteran is taking out more time each year to devote to his business interests. But, despite the fact he often misses a game on the road, Whitlock continues to pace the point-getters in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League. He missed out last winter but Halifax’s Bill Ford, now with Cleveland Barons, was forced to a new record 137 points to beat out the Charlottetown scoring wizard. This season Whitlock has moved back in the driver’s seat. Halifax Atlantics solved the Whitlock problem in the playoffs by assigning Dougie McPhee as his personal check. In the first three games of the series Buck ran the A’s ragged. Then McPhee came in and…
Jacobs Insists on Right to Re-Purchase Buffalo If Black Hawks Decide to Sell
CHICAGO, III.— Louis M. Jacobs, the man who sold the Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League to the Black Hawks earlier this month, has been an individual of many interests, but most of his time is now said to be directed at the operation of Sportservice, Inc., widely known concession organization. The announcement of the $150,000 deal prompted him to admit that he wanted to have the club in the hands of leaders accustomed to devoting all of their time to hockey. Founder of the Buffalo team which entered the AHL in 1940, he had reportedly been conferring with Chicago officials on the sale since August. Sportservice and Jacobs previously sold the Buffalo baseball entry in the International League to the Detroit Tigers last year. The concession firm has grown rapidly to…
Three Newcomers On First Team With 3 Repeaters
MONTREAL, Que.— Three players from Montreal, two from Toronto and one from Detroit comprise the National Hockey League All-Star Team at the halfway mark of the 1954-55 season. In balloting carried out by the hockey writers, broadcasters and telecasters in the six NHL cities the following players were named to the first All-Star Team: Goal, Harry Lumley, Toronto; Defense, Doug Harvey, Canadiens; Red Kelly, Detroit; Center, Jean Beliveau, Canadiens; Right Wing, Bernie Geoffrion, Canadiens; and Lelft Wing, Sid Smith, Toronto. Points are awarded on the basis of five points for a first choice, three for a second and one for a third. Each city has three first choices, three second choices and three third-place choices. The total point value of aech city is 27. A player gaining 18 first-place votes (three from each of…
Player-of-the-Week
MONTREAL, Que.— That the life of an NHL goaltender is a hazardous one is attested to by the fact that only one of the big league’s six netminders has managed to play in every one of his club’s games thus far this season. The one exception is Terry Sawchuk, the starry cage custodian of the first-place Detroit Red Wings. In playing in every Red Wing contest, all 44 of them, Terrific Terry has racked up nine shutouts, far and away the best mark in this department in the league. This past week Terry further added to his laurels and made a determined bid to go in front in the Vezina Trophy derby. He is currently running second to Toronto’s Harry Lumley, last season’s trophy winner. On January 13, Sawchuk turned back the Boston Bruins 4-0…
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