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January 29, 1955

The Hockey News January 29, 1955

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0479/1208694-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PIERRE PILOTE&hellip;A Bouncing Bison</b></figcaption></div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Pierre Pilote, who openly admits to having accomplished nothing that has given him a big thrill in hockey in three years among the pros, is currently staring right down the sights at success.</p><p>All he has to do to attain it, in the opinions of several hockey men, is keep pulling the trigger. In plain English, Pilote need only continue to show the class he has displayed in the past two months to make the grade as an American League All-Star and a National Leaguer.</p><p>Pilote, being the initial graduate of the Buffalo farm system, has been the source of great expectations since he moved up from the St. Catharines Teepees with the 1952-53 season.</p><p>Periodically, during his first two seasons with the Bisons, Pilote displayed signs of unusual ability but proved only one thing definitely&mdash;he was a real rugged lad.</p><p>Only a 165 pounder, Pilote hits with authority on his bodychecks and he can handle his dukes when called upon to end an argument with action.</p><p>The 23-year-old, crew-cutted French-Canadian comes by his fistic talent naturally. His father, Paul Pilote, was a good amateur welterweight, winning 27 of 28 bouts when the family called Kenogami, Que. home.</p><p>&ldquo;My Dad hoped that I would try boxing for a while and even gave me some instructions but my Mother put her foot down,&rdquo; Pierre recalls.</p><p>The switch of the family residence to bordering Fort Erie, Ontario, also almost resulted in Pierre&rsquo;s ice career being nipped in the bud.</p><p>&ldquo;I was off skates for three years, from age 12 to 15, and as a result had some trouble in that department when I started playing junior hockey,&rdquo; explains Pilote. One of his most glaring faults was his tendency to lose his balance and fall when moving backwards on defense.</p><p>Time, and diligent work, however, appear to have cured this habit and Pilote, according to Buffalo General Manager Fred Hunt, is a &ldquo;good, strong skater.&rdquo;</p><p>Hunt, one of hockey&rsquo;s finest skaters during his playing days, was particularly impressed by Pilote&rsquo;s ability to fend off would-be checkers while carrying on rinklength rushes.</p><p>&ldquo;For a fellow his size, Pierre is exceptionally strong and hard to take the puck from once he&rsquo;s underway. While his speed is not great, he retains possession until he&rsquo;s ready to make his play either near or over the opposition blueline.&rdquo;</p><p>While Hunt insists that Pilote has few&mdash;if any&mdash;peers for all-around defensive and offensive ability in the American League among defensemen today, he&rsquo;ll always have fond memories of Pierre when he was just a 19-year-old junior.</p><p>&ldquo;I was coaching the Bisons late in that 1951-52 season and we were really shorthanded when we went into Syracuse for a game that we needed to make the playoffs,&rdquo; Hunt recalls.</p><p>&ldquo;We called up Pierre, Brian Cullen, and Orrin Gould from St. Kitts for the game and the kids so fired up the old pros by their all-out play that we beat Syracuse in that key game. Pilote, while he was still crude, showed that ability to step into an opponent and had the Syracuse players coming down the ice with their heads up before the night was over. He also got an assist on one of our goals, if memory serves me.&rdquo;</p><p>Once he joined the Bisons as a regular the following season, Pilote found himself as a combination defenseman-left winger due to a crippling string of injuries.</p><p>&ldquo;I sure wasn&rsquo;t much threat as a forward,&rdquo; he now grins. &ldquo;I played about 4 6 games up there and only scored two goals and neither of them were anything to remember.&rdquo;</p><p>Back on defense fulltime last year, but on the unfamiliar right side, Pilote still only potted two goals but picked up 28 assists as against 14 the year previous.</p><p>At training camp again this past fall, Pilote was a sporadic performer and Hunt even considered trade offers that were made for him.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m awfully glad I waited. I couldn&rsquo;t quite convince myself that Pierre wouldn&rsquo;t settle down on the ice to become consistently good,&rdquo; Hunt mused.</p><p>&ldquo;He is now the hockey player I had looked for him to eventually be after that first game with us four years ago. His slap shot is deadly from the point (Pilote has scored eight goals at this writing) and he has become a fine blocker of shots in addition to maintaining his effectiveness as a hitter. And very seldom does he get outsmarted or outfought in the corners.&rdquo;</p><p>Pilote, himself, sees two reasons for his development. Confidence and his wife.</p><p>&ldquo;I feel confident that I can really do the job for the first time since I turned pro,&rdquo; he asserted. &ldquo;And, of course, since I got married last spring I have a great deal more incentive to go to the top in this game.</p><p>&ldquo;Then, too, if I&rsquo;m ever going to have that &lsquo;big thrill&rsquo; I guess I have to keep trying all the time.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Rough, Ready, Reliable</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Buffalo GM Freddie Hunt Raves Over Pilote, Nearly Traded Him Off Early In Training

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Twice in the past 12 months, the rebels in the rafters of Madison Square Garden have driven Allan Stanley off Broadway.</p><p>Their critical cousins in Chicago&rsquo;s gallery have chased the stoic Al Rollins from his net for spells in recent weeks.</p><p>In almost every city in the league, the gallery wolves have strafed their targets and, from time to time, left the car casses to be hauled away by their managements.</p><p>In Toronto, they tried to get Eric Nesterenko, the gangling youngster with the big fanfare and the small record.</p><p>Eric, however, survived. And as a refugee of the rafter rebels he is now forcing them to eat their own innuendos.</p><p>After a slow and painful conversion from awkward embryo to manhood, Nesterenko has become a key man on Leafs&rsquo; biggest production line. Third ranking among Leaf snipers with 11 goals by midJanuary, he makes a capable running-mate for the club&rsquo;s ace triggerman, Sid Smith, who has already surpassed his 1954 output of 22 goals.</p><p>And, teamed with the great playmaker of that line, Leaf captain Ted Kennedy, Nester has become a brilliant penalty killer, a function which increased in importance when the club&rsquo;s top PK asset, Ron Stewart, was sidelined five weeks with a broken jaw.</p><p>Yet, at the start of the season, no one would have expected all this from Nester.</p><p>He was a chronic sufferer from minor penalties. He was a moody adolescent. And he was lethargic.</p><p>Part of his troubles could be traced to the fact he was over-weight at 200 pounds. More of it to the fact he was overwrought with pressure. And most of it to a glaring lack of finesse.</p><p>King Clancy, the Leaf coach, went to work on the finish. Almost every day he kept Nester on the ice beyond the regular practise period, working to make the youngster mix up his plays and finish them. Once, early in these special classes, Nester missed the net by 10 feet and Clancy stepped up to the net for a serious lecture.</p><p>&ldquo;Look, Eric,&rdquo; he said very schoolmasterishly. &ldquo;Next time you shoot, I want you to put the puck somewhere between here (he pointed to the left goalpost) and here (he skated around the goalie to point to the other post.)&rdquo;</p><p>The needles were crude and sharp. And the work was exhausting. On more than one occasion, Nesterenko was required to score 20 goals on Leaf twineminding understudy Don Campbell before he was excused from class.</p><p>Yet, if the extra work seemed belittling at the time, it did help repair the youngster&rsquo;s confidence. With only two goals until the end of November, Eric suddenly caught fire.</p><p>Even as the dividends began, however, the extra work continued. And, recognizing the improvement in himself, Eric didn&rsquo;t complain even when he was subjected to the special practises while he was nursing a severely bruised ankle-bone.</p><p>It was several days before Clancy realized the ankle pained Nester each time he turned sharply or stopped abruptly. Immediately the coach gave his protege a three-day holiday and the ankle healed.</p><p>&ldquo;I gotta hand it to Eric,&rdquo; Clancy said with new respect for his problem child. &ldquo;That ankle was killing him but he didn&rsquo;t squawk to me once.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s matured now. He&rsquo;s stopped looking for excuses. He&rsquo;s stopped taking those stupid penalties. But he&rsquo;s still taking care of himself and he&rsquo;s mixing his plays and finishing them.&rdquo;</p><p>And while King has applied a little polish, Eric himself has overcome his other two handicaps.</p><p>&ldquo;I just started watching what I was eating to get my weight down,&rdquo; he says simply. &ldquo;For no reason at all I jumped from 185 to 200 from the time training camp opened until it closed. I was kind of logy all the time. So I stopped stuffing myself and got back to 185. I leave a meal feeling I could still eat a lot more without half trying.&rdquo;</p><p>And as his improved play removed the pressure of the fans, Eric removed the pressure of the schoolroom by abandoning his pursuit of a college degree.</p><p>&ldquo;When you&rsquo;re worrying about hockey all the time, you can&rsquo;t concentrate on writing 5,000-word essays for school,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Then practises made me miss half my lectures. And when I got only three lectures in two weeks on our first long road trip, I decided I just couldn&rsquo;t mix them.</p><p>&ldquo;But don&rsquo;t go blaming my poor start this season on my going to school. I was just plain bad. I can&rsquo;t explain it, but I don&rsquo;t have any excuses.&rdquo;</p><p>Like Clancy says, he&rsquo;s a man now.</p><h2><b>Now A Man!</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01147/1208725-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="556" height="750"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ERIC NESTERENKO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Nester Shakes Off Howls Of Rink Rafter Rebels

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03114/1210038-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>J</span>EAN BELIVEAU, the fabulous center of the Montreal Canadiens who surged into the NHL on a tidal wave of printer&rsquo;s ink, is the subject of a dazzling feature next week by HN correspondent Vince Lunny. Here&rsquo;s a must on your reading list.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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COMING next look

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01219/1208894-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="291" height="466"></div><p>&bull; <b>SID ABEL</b> is acting as publicity director of &ldquo;Bob Gold-ham Night&rdquo; slated for March 3 at Detroit&hellip;Abel has made a big hit as a TV commentator at Red Wing games and is doing very well in business in the Motor City&hellip;Did you know that two players in every NHL. game are stitched? That&rsquo;s the average over the season&hellip;Hal Laycoe played one of his best games in the NHL the other night when he scored two goals and led the Bruins to a surprising 6-0 win over Montreal&hellip;He has played every position but goal for Boston this term&hellip;Jim Thomson has been receiving some great praise for his fine defensive play of late for Toronto&hellip;Dave Price has his daily radio show to Florida in operation again this year. Three stations, WGBS, Miami; WDBO, Orlando; and WFLA, Tampa carry Price&rsquo;s news show from Toronto called &ldquo;Canadian News for Canadians in Florida&rdquo;. It runs Monday through Saturday and will be carried until April 2&hellip;All Ranger games in Madison Square Garden from now until the end of the season will be carried over a 180-station radio network outside the New York area&hellip;Fred L. Haner, auditor of the Detroit Olympia and the Red Wings, will retire at the end of the current season. Haner is the oldest employee in point of service at Olympia and has been a member of the Detroit sporting scene since June, 1927&hellip;Gordie Howe will represent hockey at a big luncheon being held in February by the Advertising Club of Washington. The eight top sports in the United States will have representatives. Leo Durocher and Larraine Day will represent baseball.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02112/1208887-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="275" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hal Laycoe</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>LEO LABINE</b> is the second best player in the NHL right now according to Lynn Patrick and Milt Schmidt. Only Jean Beliveau rates ahead of him in their minds&hellip;Leo is given the bulk of the credit for the wonderful showing of the LaBine-Chevrefils-McKenney forward line. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the key man there with his drive, his speed, his stamina, his hockey brains. I never have to prod him to give out. That comes naturally with him,&rdquo; reports Lynn Patrick&hellip;The Bruins&rsquo; ace unit of McKenney at center, LaBine on left wing and Chevrefils on the right side cost the Boston club exactly $75&hellip;Quite a bargain, eh what?&hellip;The Barrie Flyers Juniors, the team that sent the Bruins McKenney, LaBine and Chevrefils plus Doug Mohns as well, received only 75 simoleans from the Bruins. And that money was paid for only one of them, Real Chevrefils, according to Happy Emms, coach of the Flyers&hellip;Sugar Jim Henry has made a big hit as a radio commentator. The Boston netminder, who has been sitting on the sidelines of late while Long John Henderson takes care of the puck-stopping duties, assists Fred Cusick on the Boston broadcasts. Listeners to the broadcasts have requested he appear on the show regularly&hellip;. Toronto&rsquo;s Bob Bailey is wearing two plastic caps on front teeth which Rocket Richard clipped off in their recent encounter. Every time he takes a bite he is reminded of the Rocket&hellip;Fans in the Detroit Olympia cheered wildly when it was announced that Boston had defeated the Canadiens, 6-0 the other Sunday. Bob Goldham, veteran Detroit defenseman, feels confident that the Wings will remain in first place in the NHL standings for the rest of the season. &ldquo;Now that we&rsquo;ve got the spot it&rsquo;s going to be tough to dislodge us&rdquo;, he told us after the Wings had downed Canadiens, 4-3.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0368/1208880-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="279" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Goldham</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>ROY McMEEKlN</b> is playing sensational goal for the Toledo Mercurys of the International Hockey League. The former Winnipegger is in line for All-Star honors&hellip;Toledo is enjoying a good season in the IHL and has lined up a crowd-pleasing club. Big Butch Stahan, one of the oldest hockey players still in action, joined the Mercs after Ottawa folded. Stahan teamed with Doug McCaig on defense gives Toledo one of the roughest rearguard combinations around&hellip;Toronto&rsquo;s Eric Nesterenko has found out what many players before him have, and that is that It&rsquo;s Impossible to play in the NHL and maintain your studies for a university degree at the same time. At least you can&rsquo;t play good hockey and get good marks at the same time. You might do one or the other. Practices and road trips were causing Nesterenko to miss more and more lectures and he couldn&rsquo;t keep up with it. He now has abandoned his college career&hellip;Johnny Mitchell, chief scout of the Detroit Red Wings, returned last week from a two-week scouting junket throughout Western Canada. The Red Wings&rsquo; entry in the Western Hockey League, the Edmonton Flyers, are reported loaded with good NHL prospects&hellip;Majority of puck followers are picking Chicago to finish the season ahead of New York&hellip;Topps Chewing Gum have brought out by far the finest series of Cards on NHL players. These cards are inserted in their gum. Every youngster who follows hockey at all, and even those who don&rsquo;t follow the game, will want to start a collection of the colorful cards showing all the NHL players. Each card is autographed as well. At the present time distribution is confined to the United States but it will be extended to take in Canada next year.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0446/1208873-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="281" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Real Chevrefils</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0191/1210484-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>IF A PUZZLED LOOK appears on the face of Detroit&rsquo;s Marty Pavelich (No. II) top photo, it could be caused by the &ldquo;phantom stick&rdquo; which appears in the picture at left. Seemingly negotiating without the help of a pair of hands, the stick, which actually flew out of the hands of a Boston forward, appears readv to check Pavelich who is preparing for a shot at Boston&rsquo;s Long John Henderson despite Bob Armstrong&rsquo;s efforts to restrain him. In the lower photo, Chicago&rsquo;s Red Sullivan (No. 21) bangs away at a loose puck in front of the Rangers&rsquo; nets with Paul Ronty making a lunge to stop him. Gump Worsley, the Ranger goalie, is obscured by Sullivan.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Top Photo—Detroit Free Press)</span></figcaption></div><h2>A Phantom Flight And Gump&rsquo;s Plight<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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IRVIN SUGGESTS NHL AID FOR V’s

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Ever since the Moscow Dynamos, Russia&rsquo;s first entry in international hockey competition, whipped a feeble Canadian team for the &ldquo;world&rsquo;s hockey championship&rdquo; last winter, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association has been soundly blasted for sending inferior puck chasers to the title matches.</p><p>Several suggestions for regaining prestige have been advanced but it remained for Dick Irvin, coach of the Canadiens, to come up with the most daring plan&mdash;one that would have vast repercussions in the National Hockey League.</p><p>Irvin thinks that Canada&rsquo;s entry should be strengthened by the addition of six National League players, two from each of the &ldquo;first division&rdquo; clubs.</p><p>&ldquo;If we want to beat those Russians all we have to do is sent over Harry Lumley and Sid Smith of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Gordie Howe and Red Kelly of the Detroit Red Wings, and Jean Beliveau and Doug Harvey of our team&rdquo;, he said.</p><p>What a team that would be! Lumley in the nets, Kelly and Harvey on defense; Beliveau at centre and Smith and Howe on the wings. They&rsquo;d skate the Russians right into the sea.</p><p>Maurice Richard was listening to Irvin&rsquo;s conversation. &ldquo;What about me?&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d like a crack at them, too.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Nothing doing&rdquo;, said Irvin. &ldquo;You&rsquo;d only start the third world war&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;Heck&rdquo;, said Olmstead, who never uses strong words. &ldquo;Just let Beliveau take a shot at their goaltender from the blue line and he&rsquo;d think it was a bullet. That guy fires the fastest puck in the league&rdquo;.</p><p>Irvin would like to go along as coach and Frank J. Selke, managing director of the Habs, would be willing to pay all expenses for the Canadien representatives.</p><p>Dick points out that the players would be gone for only a few weeks and that the scheme would not wreck the National Hockey League. Canadieus, Detroit and Toronto would sacrifice equal strength and bring about better balance, at last temporarilly, as the &ldquo;second division&rdquo; clubs&mdash;Boston, New York and Chicago&mdash;would have a chance to pick up a few points.</p><p>Biggest stumbling block to Irvin&rsquo;s plan would be the professional status of the NHL players as the international competition is supposed to be strictly amateur.</p><p>However the term amateur must be used in a broad sense when applied to the Russians who subsidize their athletes. In the strict sense of the word the Moscow Dynamos are pros as hockey is a full time job for them. They are civil servants, as it were, working for the state to enhance Russian&rsquo;s athletic prestige in the eyes of the world.</p><p>In last year&rsquo;s series the faster, better organized Dynamos took command in the final game against Toronto East York from the opening whistle and won 7-2. It was Canada&rsquo;s worst defeat since the games were organized in 1924.</p><p>So if Russia sends its best players into the tournament&mdash;men who are paid to play hockey&mdash;why shouldn&rsquo;t Canada devise a scheme to send its best, wiping out the thin line that divides amateur and professional puck chasers?</p><p>That&rsquo;s Irvin idea. Why couldn&rsquo;t the six stars be reinstated for a few weeks and receive no remuneration while competing in the tournament?</p><p>&ldquo;Stranger things have been done,&rdquo; says Irvin. And don&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;s kidding. He&rsquo;s sincere and serious. He must be when he offers to leave the National Hockey League scene to pilot the club.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0266/1210515-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="285" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Irvin</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hab Skipper Says “Big Three” Teams Should Send 2 Each

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>One reason for Canadiens&rsquo; lofty position in the National Hockey League race is their ability to overcome slumps in their embryonic stage. Slumps, of course, beset all clubs&mdash;the secret of success is to pull out of them quickly.</p><p>The Habs have had only two slumps all season and both were halted after two games. Back in mid-November, when the campaign was still young, the Montreal team bowed 4-1 in Detroit and 5-2 in Toronto in successive games. Then they pulled themselves up by their elbow pads and lost one only of their next ten starts.</p><p>This month the Habs also suffered a double loss. They were beaten 4-3 by the Red Wings in Montreal on Jan. 15 and then were blanked 6-0 by the Bruins in Boston on Jan. 16.</p><p>That brief but worrisome slump disappeared like a will-o-the-wisp in a darn chasm in the very next game, the Habs routing the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-2.</p><p>&ldquo;A slump is caused by a team being stale, tired or out of condition,&rdquo; said Coach Dick Irvin. &ldquo;It has to be one of those three things. I figured we lost those two games in a row this month because some of our men were out of shape.&rdquo;</p><p>To whip them into condition again, the coach drove his Habs hard with double doses of practice and they quickly emerged from the doldrums.</p><p>A significant and totally unexpected development in the Toronto game was the benching of Bernie Geoffrion, all-star right winger, in the third period. Dickie Moore and Floyd Curry alternated as replacements.</p><p>&ldquo;I benched Geoffrion because he wasn&rsquo;t working.&rdquo; said Irvin. &ldquo;No matter how big a star he may be, any man who doesn&rsquo;t give his best on this club doesn&rsquo;t play.&rdquo;</p><p>Having learned his lesson, the brash Boomer was back at his usual post in the Canadiens&rsquo; next game.</p><p>The Habs&rsquo; objective is to win the NHL championship, ending a six-year reign by the Red Wings.</p><p>&ldquo;Well do it the easy way or the hard way. But we&rsquo;ve going to do it,&rdquo; said Irvin.</p><h2><b>Benched</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03104/1208429-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="523" height="549"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERNIE GEOFFRION</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Habs Short Slump Big Reason For Lofty Perch; Irvin Benches League’s Top Scorer, Geoffrion

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>They&rsquo;re calling it the &ldquo;43-day miracle&rdquo; the way the Detroit Red Wings rammed their way back into contention for a seventh straight National Hockey League title.</p><p>On Dec. 4 Detroit&rsquo;s hockey stock was at low ebb. The Wings were eight points behind first-place Montreal and three back of second-place Toronto. Particularly were they in because they had lost four of the first six meeting with the goal-happy Canadiens.</p><p>Some local experts looked at the situation and were ready to write off the Wings as the champions of pro hockey. Pointing out that the chances for a seventh title had grown mighty slim, they spoke of the end of an era unless some sort of miracle took place.</p><p>So the Wings promptly started the next day to show that such miracles are a regular part of their hockey equipment.</p><p>Detroit staged one of the most spectacular mid-season spurts in NHL history. In the next 20 games they won 14 and tied four. The two lone defeats were both from Montreal, which postponed the climb to the top again for a while. But then they beat Canadiens twice in a row. Second of those triumphs came on the 42nd day in Montreal when they overcame a 3-0 deficit for a tremendous 4-3 triumph to tie for first. On the 43rd day the surge was climaxed by a 3-0 shutout of New York while the Canadiens, still stunned from the night before, were routed in Boston 6 to 0.</p><p>The miracle had been achieved. Detroit was back in first place again with a two-point margin.</p><p>Should Detroit go on to claim the championship again, those 2 6 hours probably will be viewed as the turning point of the entire season.</p><p>It is noteworthy that the Wings staged most of the surge without the presence of Capt. Ted Lindsay, the sparkplug of the team. He missed 14 of those 20 games with injuries, getting back just in time for the climax.</p><p>No one player can be singled out as leading this surge. In the 20 games the club came up with 61 goals, an average of 3.05 a game, while holding the opposition to 38 goals, a 1.9 average.</p><p>Gordie Howe was in his usual role of scoring leader by getting 12 goals and 12 assists in the 20 games, both figures high on the club.</p><p>He worked on a line with Alex Delvecchio and Johnny Wilson, who took the injured Lindsay&rsquo;s position. Delvecchio, Wilson and Lindsay combined for 13 goals over the big stretch.</p><p>A new third line was created along the way and became an unexpected potent force. Dutch Reibel was the center and had eight goals and nine assists in the 20 games. Left wing Marcel Bonin had five goals and 11 assists and Right Wing Bil Dineen added five goals and five assists.</p><p>The regular checking line of Glen Skov-Marty Pavelich-Tony Leswick produced a total of 14 goals and 22 assists, Pavelich leading with seven of each.</p><p>Although seven defensemen were used, the quartet of Red Kelly, Bob Goldham, Marcel Pronovost and Benny Woit did most of the playing. They contributed four more goals in addition to uniting for the club&rsquo;s strongest defensive showing of the season.</p><p>Terry Sawchuk was back in his All-Star goalie form again and ended the 20-game run with a special flourish in three straight shutouts on home ice.</p><h2><b>He Was Missed</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0564/1208460-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="533" height="551"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED LINDSAY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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43-Bay Miracle Brings Red Wings Bark For Brief Stay as Loop Leaders

<p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ETROIT. Mich&mdash;By now it becomes apparent that four games remaining on the National Hockey League schedule this season are the BIG games in the battle for the championship.</p><p>Detroit and Montreal, waging a tight two-team race for the title won by the Red Wings the last six years, have played 10 of their scheduled 14 meetings.</p><p>Montreal holds a 6-4 edge but Detroit has shown recent signs of coming up for these key clashes and has won the last two.</p><p>The four games remaining between them are Jan. 80 and March 20 at the Detroit Olympia, Feb. 17 and March 17 at the Montreal Forum.</p><p>Here are the results of Detroit-Montreal games so far:</p><p>At the Forum: Detroit 3-2; Montreal 4-1; Montreal 4-1; Montreal 4-1; Detroit 4-3.</p><p>At the Olympia: Montreal 3-1; Detroit 4-1; Montreal 4-1; Montreal 5-0; Detroit 3-2.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Last Four Big Games Important

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0647/1208515-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Stanley Cup playoffs of 1954. On March 25th it was Montreal against Boston. Dickie Moore of the Canadiens scored two goals and had four assists to set a record for the mosh points in a single game during playoff competition.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Do you remember…

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Two Toronto players, a member of the Montreal Canadiens and a rookie from the Chicago Black Hawks topped the polls in balloting for the individual trophy awards at the half-way mark.</p><p>Ted Kennedy, the Maple Leafs&rsquo; hard-working captain, is out in front in the balloting for the Hart Trophy. Another Toronto player, Sid Smith, topped the pack in voting for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy. Chicago&rsquo;s Eddie Litzenberger was picked as the No. One rookie in the circuit and is the leader at the half-way mark for the Calder Memorial Trophy; while Montreal&rsquo;s Doug Harvey polled more points than anyone in heading the list for the James Norris Memorial Trophy.</p><p>The balloting was carried out by a panel of hockey writers, broadcasters and telecasters in the six NHL cities and the first-half included all games played up to January 1, 1955. Points were awarded on the basis of five points for a first choice, three for a second and one for a third.</p><p>Each city has three first choices, three seconds and three thirds. The total point value of each city is 27. A player receiving 18 first-place votes would poll 90 points. Some cities use more selectors than others but each city has the same value in points.</p><p>At the half-way mark of the 1954-55 season the selectors picked the following players as the leaders for the four NHL individual trophy awards:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01126/1208398-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="265" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Litzenberger</b></figcaption></div><h2>Hart Trophy</h2><p>The voting was heavy for two Toronto players, with Kennedy garnering 40 points and Harry Lumley, sensational Maple Leaf goalkeeper, polling 23 points. Canadiens&rsquo; Maurice Richard finished third with 19 points. Chicago&rsquo;s Al Rollins, winner of the Hart Trophy last season, failed to pick up a single point.</p><p>Other players besides Kennedy, Lumley and Richard to receive point for this award which is regarded as the outstanding individual trophy in the NHL were Bernie Geoffrion, Canadiens, 15; Gordie Howe, Detroit, 14; Jean Beliveau, Canadiens, 14; Danny Lewicki, Rangers, 8; Doug Harvey, Canadiens. 7: Red Kelly, Detroit, 6; Alex Delvecchio, Detroit, 4; Ken Mosdell, Canadiens, 4; Don Raleigh, Rangers, 2; and Leo LaBine, Boston; George Sullivan, Chicago; Flemming Mackell, Boston; Lome Worsley, Rangers; Terry Sawchuk, Detroit; and Sid Smith, Toronto, all polled a single point.</p><p>The Hart Trophy is presented annually to &ldquo;the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team&rdquo;.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02112/1208391-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="281" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Kennedy</b></figcaption></div><h2>Lady Byng Memorial Trophy</h2><p>In the voting for the Lady Bnyg Memorial Trophy, won the last two years by Detroit&rsquo;s Red Kelly, only three players compiled a considerable number of points. Popular Sid Smith, left wing on the All-Star Team at the halfway mark, earned 50 points. Kelly had 3 4 and New York Rangers&rsquo; Danny Lewicki had 2 7.</p><p>Other players to receive points in the balloting for the trophy which is awarded annually to &ldquo;the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability during the season&rdquo; were Don Raleigh, Rangers, 14; Jean Beliveau, Canadiens, 11; Bill Mosienko, Chicago, 7; Edgar Laprade, Rangers, 7; Eddie Sandford, Boston, 5; Ron Stewart, Toronto, 3; Alex Delvecchio, Detroit 1; Fleming Mackell, Boston, 1; Bill Quackenbush, Boston, 1; and Earl Reibel, Detroit. 1.</p><h2>Calder Memorial Trophy</h2><p>Tall Eddie Litzenberger, who was sold by Canadiens to Chicago in early December, is rated the top rookie for the first half. The fleet forward compiled 5 4 points. Canadiens&rsquo; Jacques Plante was second with 41 and Rangers&rsquo; Larry Popein third with 22.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0483/1208384-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="267" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption></div><p>The Calder Memorial Trophy is awarded annually to &ldquo;the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition in the National Hockey League&rdquo; and was won the last two years by members of the New York Rangers.</p><p>Other players besides Litzenberger, Plante and Popein to garner points were Bucky Holling worth, Chicago, 18; Don McKenney, Boston, 15; Jackie Leclair, Canadiens, 7; Parker MacDonald, Toronto, 4; and Keith Allen, Detroit, 1.</p><h2>James Norris Memorial Trophy</h2><p>A unanimous choice would poll 90 points. Canadiens&rsquo; Doug Harvey polled 72. By doing so he polled more points than any player in the trophy voting. He was also only one point away from being a unanimous choice for the All-Star Team. Red Kelly of Detroit, last year&rsquo;s James Norris Memorial Trophy winner, was second with 4 0 points and Fern Flaman of Boston finished third with 17.</p><p>Other rearguards to garner points in the voting for the newest of the League&rsquo;s trophies and which is presented annually to &ldquo;the regular defense player who demonstrates throughout the season the greatest all-around ability in that position&rdquo; were Hugh Bolton, Toronto, 8; Bob Goldham, Detroit, 7; Tim Horton, Toronto, 4; Jim Thomson, Toronto, 3; Harry Howell, Rangers, 3; Tom Johnson, Canadiens, 3; Butch Bouchard, Canadiens, 2; and Jim Morrison, Toronto; Bill Gadsby, Rangers; and Allan Stanley, Chicago, 1.</p><p>Points earned by players for the first half of the schedule contribute 50 per cent towards the final results of the individual trophy winners. Players winning one of these four individual trophy awards will receive a cheque for $1,000 from the National Hockey League.</p><h2><b>Hart Trophy Leader</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02144/1208377-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="1094" height="1279"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED KENNEDY&hellip;&hellip;40 Points</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Kennedy, Smith Harvey, Litz Trophy Leaders

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Marcel Hector Bonin is no ordinary weight-lifter.</p><p>Only a few weeks ago he started lifting an entire hockey team, the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>It was a solid lift, just the sort of thing you&rsquo;d expect from a man who once wrestled a 600-pound bear.</p><p>Muscular Mons. Bonin was an unheralded 23-year-old sophomore who wasn&rsquo;t even playing regularly when Capt. Ted Lindsay suddenly was whacked to the sidelines on Dec. 11. There was nothing to indicate that here was the player destined to sparkplug the Detroiters during Lindsay&rsquo;s absence.</p><p>But Bonin took upon his broad shoulders&mdash;and I do mean broad&mdash;the task of putting new pep into a club which might have Bagged so easily in the days that followed.</p><p>The tip-off came within a matter of minutes although few there were shrewd enough to realize it. As the club&rsquo;s only unassigned left wing, Bonin was popped into Lindsay&rsquo;s regular position the night Capt. Ted was injured.</p><p>Never has a hockey player shown such wild enthusiasm. Bonin frisked all over the place like a hungry pup, confusing friend and foe alike. His bouncing checks and exuberant forechecking shocked the New York Rangers. At the same time his unorthodox play had linemates Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio off stride continually.</p><p>It took a few games for Coach Jimmy Skinner to harness him into proper position. After considerable juggling of personnel to offset Lindsay&rsquo;s loss. Bonin wound up as left winger on a new line with Center Dutch Reibel and Right Wing Bill Dineen.</p><p>They were a couple of youngsters with the legs and ambition to keep up with Bonin, who was more than willing to set a pace. All three sophomores and part time players previously this season, they produced a line that gave the Wings dash and color not seen in several seasons.</p><p>Quick popularity with the fans developed from their fire and hustle, plus some effective scoring. At least one of them figured in 20 of the 39 Detroit goals while Lindsay was out. The club lost only twice in those 14 games, creeping up on Montreal and leaving (Toronto farther and farther behind.</p><p>To students of hockey this strong surge while a key player like Lindsay was missing might be regarded as the turning point of the season should the Wings come on to claim their seventh straight title.</p><p>Which brings us right back again to Bonin. His hustle proved contagious. Reibel and Dineen picked it up on the line and the test of the boys got into the spirit.</p><p>Manager Jack Adams was quick to name Bonin&rsquo;s reward.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s won his spurs. He earned himself the leftwing position on that line and he won&rsquo;t be taken off with Lindsay&rsquo;s return,&rdquo; Adams promised.</p><p>What brought about the surprising improvement by Bonin, who had been a &ldquo;fringe&rdquo; player since popping up with Detroit two Seasons ago?</p><p>&ldquo;I felt the time has come when the Wings really needed me. I got a chance to play regular and I wanted to prove that I could help&rdquo;, the easy-going youngster explained in pleasing French-Canadian accents. It was one of his rare moments for being deadly serious.</p><p>&ldquo;I also want first place and the money&rdquo;, he added dryly.</p><p>Coach Jimmy Skinner, understandably pleased by the developments, gives credit to Bonin and also figures that there is a &ldquo;story behind the story&rdquo;.. He handed a big assist to patrons in the Detroit Olympia.</p><p>&ldquo;Marcel is the emotional type of player like many French-Canadians&rdquo;. Skinner pointed out. &ldquo;When the fans get &ldquo;behind them and start cheering them, they just naturally come up with better play. We&rsquo;ve seen that happening for years to the Canadiens in the Montreal Forum.</p><p>&ldquo;It was that way here with Bonin. He caught their fancy with his enthusiasm and hustle and they gave him some cheers. That made him work more and he got more cheers. Finally he becomes a whirlwind and they love it.</p><p>&ldquo;A wonderful trend&mdash;I just hope the fans stay with him big,&rdquo; Skinner insisted happily.</p><p>Possessing an intriguing background and owning great natural color, Bonin is just the type of player the fans would like to see Stick around for several seasons.</p><p>Especially the girls. Marcel could become a real &ldquo;pinup boy&rdquo; with his bulging muscles. Back as a youngster he took up weightlifting to build himself up for hockey and he did a thorough job.</p><p>Although only 5-9 at 170 pounds, he is one of the strongest men in the game. Rival players are learning all about this in man-to-man tussles along the boards. He delights in testing strength against non-believers.</p><p>Fight? The boy was weaned on hockey brawls. He led his junior league in penalties while with the Joliette (Que.) Cyclones and then clicked off 131 minutes in the penalty box, mostly the result of fighting majors, in his only full season of senior amateur with the Quebec Aces.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Marcel Bonin…Big ‘Lift’ To Bed Wings

<p>DETROIT&mdash;The name is Marcel Bonin in the newspapers, at home, with his buddies and with his girl friend.</p><p>But it is Hector Bonin with all his Red Wing teammates.</p><p>With one Marcel on the club (Marcel Pronovost), the boys figured it was less confusing to call Bonin by his middle name.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

His Teammates Call Him “Hec”

<p>DETROIT&mdash;Marcel Bonin credits summer-long preparation for his improved play with the Red Wings tills season.</p><p>He took an outside job as a telephone lineman for six weeks as a starter. Then three weeks before coming to training camp, he joined a construction crew to toughen himself up further.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bonin Credits Rugged Life

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01126/1208618-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MARCEL BONIN</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ETROIT&mdash;General Manager Jack Adams had never seen Marcel Bonin play hockey or even practice when he (a) signed him to a pro contract, and (b) sent him into the Red Wing lineup.</p><p>The recommendation of Tommy Ivan, then Detroit&rsquo;s coach, and the reports of scouts later assigned to look at Bonin were the basis for the deal Adams made with Providence to secure rights to Bonin.</p><p>He signed Bonin within an hour the first time they met.</p><p>Two months later, after grooming in St. Louis, Adams still hadn&rsquo;t seen Bonin in action when he called him to the NHL. Nor did Adams see Marcel&rsquo;s first game which was on the road in Montreal.</p><h2><b>Suddenly&hellip;A Star !</b></h2><p>In fac&rsquo;. he fought his way into the Detroit organization.</p><p>The Wings stopped off in Quebec late in the 1951-52 campaign for an exhibition game against the Aces. Tommy Ivan, then the coach, came home with favorable impressions about a rough little bulldog who took on Ted Lindsay for one fight and Vic Stasiuk in another, and came out ahead both times.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s our kind of guy,&rdquo; Jack Adams figured. He sniffed around a bit, sent some scouts to look Bonin over and decided that he also could play hockey. So the following autumn he. made a deal with Providence, which owned the rights to Marcel, and Bonin was started on his way to the Wings.</p><p>It was his boxing reputation that got him into a wrestling ring with the bear one night when he was 17 years old.</p><p>&ldquo;This bear, was in a touring carnival and there was a standing offer of $1,000 to anyone who could pin the bear for 10 seconds,&rdquo; Bonin recalls. &ldquo;As a gag, I gave it a try. Joe Louis, the boxer, was the referee.</p><p>&ldquo;No, I didn&rsquo;t win. It wasn&rsquo;t really dangerous since the bear had no claws and no teeth. But it was a powerful bear and I didn&rsquo;t want to get hugged either. I got knocked around for about 10 minutes and realized there was no $1,000 for me and that was that.&rdquo;</p><p>Bonin has another strange talent, now not practiced following stern warnings from Adams. He can bite hunks out of an ordinary water glass and chew the hunks to slivers. (And not get cut, either, which is the real trick of course.)</p><p>Incidentally, Bonin has shed most of his fighting habits although he never backs away from any brawls. Penalties are too costly for a struggling rookie to become a &ldquo;bad man.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I never did lose my temper so I can stop fighting. When I do fight I figure one&rsquo;s coming so I say to myself &lsquo;let&rsquo;s go&rsquo;. I never lost a fight yet,&rdquo; he claims confidently.</p><p>Like any French&mdash;Canadian youngster who wanders into hockey away from Quebec, Bonin has had troubles with the English language.</p><p>When sent by the Red Wings to St. Louis for his initial pro experience, he didn&rsquo;t speak a word of English. And none of the Flyers spoke any French.</p><p>&ldquo;My first week there I eat eggs for breakfast, eggs for lunch, eggs for dinner.&rdquo; he mentions. &ldquo;Only word in English I know for food is eggs. Then someone teaches me to say steak. So for the next week I eat eggs with steak at every meal.&rdquo;</p><p>There is an interesting comment about the day he flew to Detroit from Quebec for his assignment to St. Louis. Adams picked him up at the airport, took him to Olympia to sign a contract and then hustled him back to the airport to continue on to St. Louis.</p><p>&ldquo;How did you know what the contract said,&rdquo; I asked him.</p><p>&ldquo;The words I can not read but the numbers I can. And they were what counted,&rdquo; Bonin dead-panned.</p><p>Then there was his first day with Detroit when Trainer Carl Mattson asked him what size shoeskate he needed.</p><p>&ldquo;Eight thirty,&rdquo; Bonin promptly replied. It took a little while for Mattson to figure out that Bonin, who was practicing telling time in English at that stage, meant</p><p>Marcel is proud of his progress with the English tongue, for he now chats with the players on even terms. Especially when it comes to playing cards, one league in which he is the Wings&rsquo; undisputed champ.</p><p>Marcel Pronovost, veteran French-Canadian defenseman, and Forward Johnny Wilson, who speaks French fluently, helped him out as translators at first. Bonin took Pronovost&rsquo;s advice and started learning English at once, studying by reading newspapers and books while on road trips.</p><p>A native of Montreal, Bonin gets plenty of cheers every time the Wings play in the Forum.</p><p>&ldquo;They used to boo me there while I was playing for Quebec Aces, just like they did Jean Beliveau. But now they have been cheering me since my first game,&rdquo; he says.</p><p>Jack Adams learned that those Forum cheers weren&rsquo;t just accidental, however, when Bonin started putting the bite on him for tickets for his many Montreal relatives. Marcel is guaranteed a big personal cheering section every game there.</p><p>Bonin was born just three miles from the Forum but the family moved successively to Berthier, Lanoraie and Joliette, all nearby towns. His father, who died in a swimming accident when Marcel was eight, put him on skates for the first time at the age of four.</p><p>It was in Joliette that Marcel started in hockey with the school team at left wing, the only position he&rsquo;s ever played. After two seasons he jumped to the Joliette Cyclones, by-passing junior competition, and was on that team as it won the Quebec Senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; League two straight years.</p><p>Just like an exhibition game against Detroit got him started into pro hockey, it was an exhibition game against Three Rivers Juniors which got him into top organized play. Three Rivers offered him a chance to join up so he signed a C-form with Providence (for only $50) in order to go with that club.</p><p>In his one junior season he was the rookie-of-the-year in the Quebec League and made the Ail Star team where he had company with Beliveau and Boom Boom Geoffrion among others.</p><p>Three straight years he went to the Providence training camp. Although he wanted a fling as a pro and would have gone with Providence for less money, he was assigned to the senior Quebec Aces, and worked left wing on the same line with Beliveau, who was making his big splash as an amateur at the time.</p><p>His second season had just started when the day came Bonin never will forget. Punch Imlach called him in and told him he&rsquo;d been bought by Detroit, which gave Providence one player (Alf Baccari) plus cash for rights to Bonin.</p><p>The Wings assigned him to St. Louis where Jake Forbes gave him preliminary polishing. Christmas Day, after 24 games, the call came to join Detroit.</p><p>&ldquo;Forbes got me out of bed at 2 a.m. and told me I was catching a plane for Detroit at 7 a.m. I was so afraid that I&rsquo;d oversleep and miss the plane that I stayed up the rest of the night,&rdquo; Marcel recalls.</p><p>His first NHL game was against Canadiens in the Forum and it was a terrific thrill for the youngster.</p><p>Not only did he draw the assignment of checking Rocket Richard, long his idol, but he also assisted Reg Sinclair on the tying goal in a 2-2 contest.</p><p>Next game in the Forum he broke a 3-3 tie with his first NHL goal for a 4-3 victory.</p><p>Still the path in the big leagues was rocky. The next season Tommy Ivan figured he needed more schooling in fundamentals and he was farmed first to Sherbrooke under Jake Forbes again, and then to Edmonton where Bud Poile applied further polish.</p><p>His combined record of 2 6 goals and 4 4 assists in the two loops last season, plus splendid development in playing habits, earned him another chance with the Detroit club this season as an extra left-wing.</p><p>So here he was, waiting and ready, when the Lindsay emergency came up and gave him his big opportunity.</p><p>A bachelor, Marcel spends his off season with his mother in Joliette and in the winter lives in the hockey rooming house of Mrs. Arleigh Tannahill in Detroit. The latter arrangement will change next season for Bonin plans to marry Simone Hetu, of Joliette, this spring and introduce her to Detroit in October.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Adams Signed Him When He First Saw Him

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div><p>CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>The American Hockey League&rsquo;s harried half dozen, Cleveland, Springfield, Pittsburgh, Hershey, Buffalo and Providence, trussed tightly in the closest ice sprint in memory, may need a photo-finish camera to detect the eventual winner.</p><p>Call this the shoe-horn league, the battle in a bottle, or the clothes closet derby&mdash;it&rsquo;s an ulcer-provoking, cliff-hanging affair all the way.</p><p>With half the race already run, you can cover all hands with a pup tent. From top to bottom the gap has yet to exceed four games.</p><p>Buffalo&rsquo;s Bisons, purchased from Lou Jacobs by the Chicago Black Hawks recently, have been the anchor most of the way. They&rsquo;ve become associated with the tag &ldquo;Last-place Bisons&rdquo;. But, it would be a mistake to undersell even the Bisons. A few victories and the lowly Bisons become big men.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s a tipoff on the balance of the league. Last winter the six clubs played a total of 24 tie games. This winter, with only half the schedule completed, the league has played 28 ties. It must be remembered, of course, that the American Hockey League employs the &ldquo;sudden death&rdquo; overtime to combat an excessive number of deadlocked games. Even this has failed to break the log jam.</p><p>Ask any of the league&rsquo;s &ldquo;men who should know&rdquo; and you&rsquo;ll come up with the same retort.</p><p>From close-mouthed Eddie Shore of the Springfield Indians to voluble Terry Reardon of the Providence Reds they will tell you it&rsquo;s going to be this way to the finish line. It&rsquo;s going to be a nip-and-tuck affair, they&rsquo;ll say, that will find no club able to pull very far ahead of any other club.</p><p>Here in Cleveland, the home of the always-respected Barons, the word from General Manager Jim Hendy and Coach Bun Cook echoes that same sentiment.</p><p>With the single exception of the surprising Springfield Indians, every club is monotonously close to the. 500 mark in the win&mdash;lose columns.</p><p>They&rsquo;re even close in goal scoring and goals against. Whereas in the National League, the goals for and against lange from 20 to 40 for each club, the American finds most clubs with a range of from one to 20 and several from one to 10.</p><p>Most startling feature of the standings in the American League is the full-scale change in the positions of the top and bottom clubs.</p><p>Buffalo, winner of the league title last season, has been at the bottom. Springfield, the same club that ended up at the tail end in Syracuse uniforms last season, has held top spot most of the way.</p><p>Cleveland&rsquo;s Jim Hendy says it&rsquo;s the answer to a sports promoter&rsquo;s dream.</p><p>&ldquo;All the time,&rdquo; declared Hendy, &ldquo;the public wants a tight race. The fans are quick to complain about a league that has one or two clubs far out in front and a few others a mile behind.</p><p>&ldquo;When you win too often, lots of them find fault. When you lose too often they&rsquo;re sure to blast you. This time they have a race in the American League that offers a thriller all the way. The team in last place today can be on top of the pile in a week.</p><p>&ldquo;It helps take care of the promotion end of things, too. You can bill any one of the six as a club that&rsquo;s in the fight.&rdquo;</p><p>It would seem that this jumbled marathon has ignited new interest in fans around the circuit.</p><p>Latest reports indicate that attendance is up at Springfield, Providence and is climbing steadily at Hershey. Cleveland is about even with last season but nearing the upturn point. Only Buffalo and Pittsburgh are tapering off.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01194/1208663-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="288" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Shore</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02174/1208656-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="274" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Hendy</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03111/1208649-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="286" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Reardon</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Tightly—Knit AHL Promises Thrilling Race Right To Wire

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Although the news apparently caught them unawares, Black Hawk moguls were quick to sternly deny reports earlier this month that Tommy Gorman contemplates purchase of the team and transfer of the Chicago National Hockey League franchise to Ottawa where he ranks as a pretty important man in sports.</p><p>&ldquo;Absurd.&rdquo; was the one word Arthur Wirtz, Black Hawk president, had for the news when confronted by Chicago sports writers who were personally contacted by Gorman by phone. Tommy&rsquo;s Ottawa Senators were recently withdrawn from the Quebec League after 20 years membership.</p><p>&ldquo;He couldn&rsquo;t buy a pair of skates in the NHL,&rdquo; opined another Chicago puck official who added, &ldquo;It may be something he would like very much to do, but I don&rsquo;t see how it could happen. All he really wants to do, I think, is get hockey back into that Ottawa rink of his.&rdquo;</p><p>President Clarence Campbell of the National League, paying a routine visit to Chicago just after the report came out of Ottawa, also stated that he couldn&rsquo;t see how Gorman would be able to engineer such a deal. Any such move would have to get the approval of the league&rsquo;s board of governors.</p><p>The Ottawa rink is said to seat about 6,600 persons for hockey which is far below the capacities of the rinks of present NHL entries. It was just a few years ago when the National League turned down Cleveland&rsquo;s application to become a member. The Cleveland Arena seats 10,000.</p><p>Gorman&rsquo;s ambitions may have ended a long friendship he has been able to maintain with the Chicago front office. It began when he took over as coach of the Hawks in 1933 as successor to Emil Iverson. The following season&mdash;1933-34&mdash;he led the team to its first Stanley Cup playoff championship.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02129/1208756-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="277" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tommy Gorman</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Wirtz Labels Gorman’s Shift Rumor Ahsurd

<div class="byline">HOUSTON</div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO&mdash;Although Sidney James Smith did not arrive to stay in the National Hockey League until he was 24, he is leaving little doubt that he can overcome that late start to finish his career among the game&rsquo;s all-time top 20 scorers.</p><p>A spectacular opportunist, Smitty passed the 150-goal mark of his career with such speed that few had time to notice it. And as he ages, he only becomes more prolific.</p><p>Two years ago his production reached low ebb of 20 goals after a steady decline of three seasons. But instead of continuing to fall off as his own years mounted, the 29-year-old left winger upped his output to 22 last season and already this year has surpassed that.</p><p>His output so far surpasses that of any other two members of the Toronto club.</p><p>With a contract that provided for a bonus if he scored 20 goals, Smitty was at the pay wicket far ahead of</p><p>schedule. Now he&rsquo;s working on next year&rsquo;s contract as he continues a season-long pace of half-a-goal-a-game. A pace which will easily make him the first Leaf in four years to score 30 goals.</p><p>It is no coincidence that the last Leaf who reached that figure was Sid Smith. He and his linemate that year, Tod Sloan, both hit the triple decade while their centre, Ted. Kennedy was leading the league in assists with 43.</p><h2><b>30 Next?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03101/1208787-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="571" height="601"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SID SMITH</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Smitty’s Half-a-goal-a-game Pace Earns Him Tidy Bonus From Leafs

<div class="byline">BOOTH.</div><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>HICAGO&mdash;Referee Red Storey and Linesmen George Hayes and Bill Morrison were supplied with a police guard when they left the Chicago Stadium January 16 after the Black Hawk-Toronto game, but nothing happened to rival the brief battle between officials and excited fans two nights before.</p><p>While eye witness reports were vague and somewhat contradictory to each other, Hayes, Morisson and the referee that night, Jerry Olinski, were subjected to a rather rude jostling, but no one was injured to any extent and no complaints were actually filed with police.</p><p>One rather reliable account of the incident said that the officials were the victims of several insults as they left the Stadium through the customary side door. When one spectator got hold of a hockey stick and started waving it about, Hayes apparently felt it was time for some defense for him and his partners.</p><p>It&rsquo;s reported that he swung his arm, but the blow caught an innocent bystander who came up with a blackened eye as the result The scuffle is said to have continued outside the Stadium, but the officials succeeded in getting away from their beraters without being harmed.</p><p>Chicago hockey fans, always recognized as most expressive during the better days of Hawk squads, have apparently lost none of their feelings when it somes to showing their dislikes, at times, for NHL game officials. Olinski, Hayes and Morrison will attest to that.</p><p>Although no less than four of New York&rsquo;s six goals that evening were scored while Chicago skaters were in the penalty box, Olinski seemed generally to be fair. He followed strictly the &ldquo;call &lsquo;em close&rdquo; orders expressed by President Clarence Campbell, who saw the game, but not the lobby aftermath.</p><h2><b>Defender</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0479/1208818-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="575" height="897"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GEORGE HAYES</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Cops ‘Escort’ NHL Officials Following Brief Altercation Involving Olinski and Hayes

<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="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0542/1208925-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>Call-Ups</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have read with Interest and somewhat amusement that Dave Rusnell of Wadena, Sask., Cy Whiteside of Wetaskiwin, Alta., Alf Lewsey of Winnipeg, Man., and Bob Keil, Fred Hall both of Medicine Hat, Alta., have received notification of eligibility for Britain&rsquo;s compulsory two-year military callup.</p><p>HOCKEY NEWS readers will remember that last season Hall, Rusnell and the coloured Alf Lewsey played in the Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League with Yorkton Terriers of Yorkton, Sask., of which I am a shareholder. Cy Whiteside was with the Sask. Senior Champs, the Moose Jaw Millers. There will be more receiving calls before long. However as long as these players have not applied for citizenship over there, they have no reason to be called up for the reason that January 1st, 1947 an Act of Citizenship was passed in Canada.</p><p>Official title is an Act respecting Citizenship, Nationality, Naturalization and Status of Aliens.</p><p>There is no registration requirement for children born after January 1st, 1947. If parents of a Canadian child born abroad desire to preserve Canadian citizenship for that child, they have to register the child&rsquo;s birth within two years at a diplomatic consular or trade commissioner&rsquo;s office or with the secretary of state, Ottawa.</p><p>There is greater solemnity and dignity in ceremonies admitting newcomers. After administering the Oath of Allegiance to which has been added&mdash;and that I will faithfully observe the laws of Canada and fulfill my duties as a Canadian Citizen. Immigrants are allowed, after living in Canada five years, to apply for Canadian Citizenship.</p><p>Has THE HOCKEY NEWS ever known of any players to receive such a callup in peace time? That is in regard to players playing abroad.</p><p>Charles Breckon Moose Jaw, Sask.</p><h2>Pix Wanted</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>THE HOCKEY NEWS has a wonderful future in having letters printed from people from all parts of Canada, United States, England, Scotland, etc.</p><p>I have read of fans wanting hockey photographs and their list has been printed and they have, through The Hockey News, received help in filling their wanted list.</p><p>I have a list and if some have these pictures or the players themselves would send a picture, I would be very pleased.</p><p>I would buy these pictures if they would send me a list of photographs they have and how much they want. I may add that I am interested in obtaining photographs of Western Hockey League, American League, Quebec League, etc., of this year as well as former years. This is a chance for someone who has a collection and wants to sell.</p><p>My address is 554 Athabasca Street, West.</p><p>Charles Breckon. Moose Jaw, Sask.</p><p>(Unfortunately, we are unable to print the list of players Charles is desirous of obtaining pictures of. Space would not permit this due to the fact that his list contained over 200 names!)<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/f0006-0639/1208956-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="582" height="272"></div><p>JANUARY 30 TO FEBRUARY 5</p><p>31&mdash;IVAN, Tommy, Chicago General Manager, 1911; HENRY, Camille, Quebec forward, 1933.</p><p>2&mdash;HICKEY, Les, Vancouver forward, 1921.</p><p>3&mdash;PATRICK, Lynn, Boston General Manager, 1912; GROSSE, Erwin, Quebec forward, 1931; KAPUSTA, Pete, Providence forward, 1924.</p><p>4&mdash;ABBOTT, Reg, Victoria forward, 1930; BROWN, Adam, Quebec forward, 1920; ROCHE, Ernie, Montreal Royals defense, 1930; THORNSON, Len, New Westminster forward, 1933.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Harry Lumley, the magician who guards the goal of the Toronto Maple Leafs, has forced his enemies to employ unorthodox tactics in efforts to beat him.</p><p>A master at frustrating even the greatest snipers in professional hockey, Lum was recently called upon to stop two very unique approaches by Detroit&rsquo;s Marty Pavelich and New York&rsquo;s Aldo Guidolin.</p><p>Pavelich wound up at his own end of Detroit Olympia, stormed down the ice with the puck and charged right into Lumley before firing. But still the great goalguardian kept out the puck. As well as Pavelich.</p><p>Montreal&rsquo;s Rocket Richard tried the same approach in Toronto a week later and succeeded. But he almost killed himself as he, Lum and the puck became ridiculously enmeshed in the net.</p><p>Then came an even more novel approach from Guidolin in New York&rsquo;s Madison Square Garden. While Lum was working toward his sixth shutout of the campaign in a scoreless draw, Guidolin made a last-minute effort to beat him for the winner.</p><p>Lum kicked out a blazing 10-foot blast, then caught the rebound. In desperation, Guidolin grabbed Harry&rsquo;s stick, wrenched it above his head. But still he couldn&rsquo;t poke the puck past Lum.</p><p>Even the league&rsquo;s leading scorer, Boom-Boom Geoffrion has been driven to despair. In Montreal Forum recently, Lum made three impossible saves off the league&rsquo;s greatest shotspert. When he foiled him again, Boomer just stood at the crease and shook his head in disbelief.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Lum Thwarts Game’s Greatest Even If He Has To Fight ‘em

<div class="byline">DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Frank Gallagher is a man of figures. Some of them astound him at times.</p><p>As official statistician for the Detroit Red Wings, Gallagher has charted the shooting performance of Detroit players for the last eight years.</p><p>One item on his big scorebook deals with the accuracy effects of the Red Wing marksmen. Every time they shoot the puck with intent to score, he makes a note.</p><p>His facts list the number of shots saved by the opposing goalie, the number of shots which are off target and, of course, the number of shots which enter the net.</p><p>When the New York Rangers visited the Olympia for a game which Detroit won, 3 to 0, Gallagher never was busier. His final tally caused him to observe that three records had been set in his eight years of mathematical reckoning.</p><p>The 51 saves by Ranger Goalie Lome Worsley were the most by a goalkeeper. The 54 shots on net by the Wings were a record. And so were their 81 shooting attempts (27 went wild).</p><p>Gallagher&rsquo;s chart on the Detroit players in the game read as follows:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01170/1209018-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="255" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gump Worsley</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02146/1209011-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="967" height="591"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Red Wings Bombard Gump Worsley With 54 shots…Stops 51 of ‘em To Set Mark For Frank Gallagher

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><p>(As seen in the Montreal Gazette)</p><h2><b>Trouble in the Nets</b></h2><p>Tommy Ivan, manager of the Chicago Black Hawks, an Coach Frankie Eddolls said here recently that they had solved some of their problems, but the biggest one was right in the nets. Lanky Al Rollins is a victim of nerves.</p><p>&ldquo;Is he on his trip?&rdquo; a guy asked.</p><p>&ldquo;No, he isn&rsquo;t&rdquo;, said sleek-haired Tommy, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s having minor surgery on his noe and he won&rsquo;t be able to play for a while&rdquo;.</p><p>What happens to goalkeepers, anyway? Three seasons back Rollins put Black Hawks in the playoffs and only last season he won the Hart Trophy. Now he may be washed up completely.</p><p>&ldquo;I wish I knew the answer&rdquo;, Frankie Eddolls said. &ldquo;All I know is that Al went sour. We lost a lot of games we should have won and would have won if we&rsquo;d had a little better goaltending.</p><p>&ldquo;Why, we outshot the Rangers one night, 51 to 19, and lost the game, 6-2. Worsley was great that night and Rollins yas just the opposite. Let&rsquo;s see, six goals on 19. shots&mdash;that&rsquo;s an average a goal on every three shots&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;Our fellows played well that night, too&rdquo;, said Tommy Ivan. &ldquo;They weren&rsquo;t difficult shots. Some of them were from outside the blue line&rdquo;.</p><p>Frankie said they&rsquo;d called up Hank Bassen from Buffalo for three games and he&rsquo;d played well.</p><p>&ldquo;We won one game and tied the other two&rdquo;, he said. &ldquo;So Bassen hasn&rsquo;t lost a game in the NHL yet&rdquo;.</p><p>The obvious question was why hadn&rsquo;t the Hawks kept Bassen after his good showing?</p><p>&ldquo;We had to get a replacement for him&rdquo;, Frankie explained. &ldquo;We thought we were all set when we got Ray Frederick from Ottawa, but then Bassen got hurt. He reported to us in Toronto and he couldn&rsquo;t raise his arm. So we had to keep Frederick&rdquo;.</p><h2><b>Black Hawks Make Progress</b></h2><p>Tommy said he felt they were making some progress, but that hole in the nets discounted much of it.</p><p>&ldquo;If you look at the scoring statistics, you&rsquo;ll see that our offensive record is pretty good&rdquo;, said Frankie. &ldquo;We can score often enough to win a good many games, if we get good goaling. We had tightened up our defense a lot. We were keeping opposing teams down to about 23 shots per game. That&rsquo;s a good average.</p><p>&ldquo;But you see what&rsquo;s happened. That game in New York I was telling you about&mdash;six goals on 19 shots&rdquo;.</p><p>Tommy asked about the recent deal whereby the Hawks got control of the Buffalo Bisons.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re trying to set up a farm system&rdquo;, he said. &ldquo;We got about 65 players altogether in that deal. The Bisons had a working agreement with. Fort Wayne in the International League and they also sponsored the St. Catharines Juniors&rdquo;.</p><p>Was the idea to develop the juniors within the farm system? Start them in St. Catharines, move them up to Fort Wayne or Buffalo, and then bring them up to the Hawks when it was felt they were ready?</p><p>&ldquo;Something like that&rdquo;. Tommy said. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t always do what you hope to do, but you can always try. We&rsquo;re working hard and we&rsquo;re going to start winning hockey games one of these days&rdquo;.</p><h2><b>No Marks for Backchecking</b></h2><p>Everybody knows, of course, that there is a vast difference in the calibre of hockey played in the National Hockey League from that played in a minor league like the American Hockey League. But why should there be all that difference.</p><p>&lsquo;It&rsquo;s easy enough to explain&rdquo;, said Frankie, who coached at Buffalo before being elevated to the Black Hawks. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s hard to get. the kids to beck in the minors. They figure if they&rsquo;re going to go up to a National League team it will be on their offensive record. Goals and assists show in the records, but back-checking doesn&rsquo;t&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;What about Canadiens?&rdquo; Tommy said, giving the conversation a sudden swerve. &ldquo;A few weeks ago, they were a shooin. That was all I heard wherever I went. Next thing I knew Detroit had tied them for first-place&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve still got more hockey players than any other of the other teams have&rdquo;, a guy said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ll finish on top&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t say they wouldn&rsquo;t&rdquo;, Tommy said quickly. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m only saying that everybody was for giving them the championship a few weeks ago. Now they know it isn&rsquo;t to be that easy&rdquo;.</p><p>Tommy as asked if he had spotted any weaknesses in the Canadiens team.</p><p>&ldquo;No, I don&rsquo;t see any weaknesses&rdquo;, he replied. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve got a lot of power and a strong defense. I think the kid in nets will stand up all right. They&rsquo;ve got the best power play in the league and good penalty-killers, too. I don&rsquo;t see any weaknesses.</p><p>&ldquo;That Beliveau is quite a hockey player I liked him when I first saw him as a junior in Quebec several years ago. I took the Detroit team down there and we played an exhibition, game. We gave them Sawchuk and our defense and we managed to beat them&mdash;6-5, I think the score was&mdash;and Beliveau Scored three goals. I liked him off the ice, too. He&rsquo;s a credit to hockey&rdquo;.</p><p>Tommy was told that Dick Irvin was having troubles, too. He had to bench Boom Boom Geoffrion in the third period of the game with the Toronto Maple Leafs here recently. Tommy looked at Frankie Eddolls and both burst out laughing.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to have Irvin&rsquo;s troubles&rdquo;, Tommy said. &ldquo;It must be tough when you can afford to bench the league&rsquo;s top scorer&rdquo;.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="byline">by MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Who says hockey fans aren&rsquo;t sentimental?</p><p>The balcony gods in this city are getting a little party together on Thursday, March 3, to honor one of the Detroit Red Wing players.</p><p>The nod will go to the only man in the game who skates on his knees.</p><p>The event already has been formalized as Bob Goldham Night as a tribute to a fellow who really has it coming.</p><p>Goldham never has won a scoring title, never has made an All Star team, never has been a big trophy winner. But he still will be receiving acclaim that hasn&rsquo;t come to any of the Red Wings who have racked up such honors.</p><p>It&rsquo;ll be the second time in the past decade that any Detroiter had such a &ldquo;Night&rdquo;. Last one to receive such special attention was Sid Abel, the season before his retirement to take a whirl at treating Chicago&rsquo;s chronic headache.</p><p>Goldham&rsquo;s party has been sponsored and planned all the way by a group of fans. It was their idea and they&rsquo;ve been working on details for a couple of months. Canisters were circulated in the lobbies for several games and were passed through the stands at one game to give all the Olympia patrons a chance to participate.</p><p>&ldquo;Are they hinting that I&rsquo;m all through?&rdquo; quipped Goldham in his usual humor upon learning about the event.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a mighty nice way for Detroiters to treat an old Maple Leaf.&rdquo;</p><p>Now 32, Goldham is nearing the end of the string. He declines to say that this is his last season. Every spring after the playoffs he always talks that way but each fall he&rsquo;s been back at training camp.</p><p>But the fans want to make sure that he doesn&rsquo;t duck out some season without them getting their chance to say thanks.</p><p>When Bob bows out, he&rsquo;ll leave behind a personal trademark. For years he carried on virtually all alone at perpetuating the old-fashioned dramatic technique of dropping to block shots.</p><p>This was a trick he picked up in his rookie season from Bucko McDonald when they patrolled back areas together for the Toronto club. Goldham was one of the few men of has era to master the art and practice it.</p><p>Now he&rsquo;s seen the tactic come back into style again. All over the league youngsters are getting into the act.</p><p>Goldham always claimed that dropping before those rifle-like drives was a lot tamer than it looks.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s simply a matter of timing,&rdquo; he points out. &ldquo;It you drop right, you stop the puck and never get hurt. If you drop wrong, you sure feel silly when the guy feints and goes stickhandling by with the puck while you&rsquo;relying there.&rdquo;</p><p>Some might say that Goldham is overlooking the fact that all this takes cool nerves and plenty of courage. A few years back several of the Red Wings agreed upon this.</p><p>Tommy Ivan was coach then and he got the idea that all his players should know how to drop on shots like Goldham. So he ordered up a few drills in practice. You should seen the worried looks among the novices before Ivan finally called it quits.</p><p>Goldham gained added distinction this season when league officials frowned upon his methods. Someone beefed that he was violating some rule or the other and in the recent crackdown on rules Bob caught a penalty the other night for &ldquo;deliberately falling upon the puck&rdquo;.</p><p>When it comes to praising Goldham for his all-round efforts, Coach Jimmy Skinner can turn some nifty words. Skinner admires Goldham as the &ldquo;old pro&rdquo; type, a steady veteran who helps younger players over rough spots and keeps the lockerroom on an even keel.</p><p>One of the real behind-the-scenes stories with the Wings this season has been Goldham&rsquo;s steadying effect when things weren&rsquo;t going right.</p><p>&ldquo;Some of our younger fellows who weren&rsquo;t hustling like they should became a little ashamed when they saw a veteran like Goldham all but dying out there every game,&rdquo; Skinner comments.</p><p>It is appropriate that all of Bob&rsquo;s teammates are getting together to also present him a gift on his &ldquo;Night&rdquo;.</p><p>The whole idea proves that hockey folk aren&rsquo;t without sentiment. They just want to thank a fellow who toiled three years with Toronto and three more with Chicago before finally getting the attention he deserves for five years of stardom with Detroit.</p><h2><b>To Have Night</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03108/1209049-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="582" height="591"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB GOLDHAM</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hard-Working Bob Goldham To Be Honored By Fans

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01203/1209104-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDGAR LAPRADE</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, NY.&mdash;</p><p>Throughout the National Hockey League season, Andy Bathgate and Larry Popein have been inseparable on and off the ice. But they&rsquo;ve had several different Third Men on their line&mdash;Ron Murphy, then Dean Prentice, then Pete Conacher and Murphy again. Last week they were joined by the oldest active player in the league, 35-year-old Edgar Laprade.</p><p>This had been a training camp line, in fact, the best of the Ranger lines back in Vancouver last September, with Edgar at center, Popein on the left wing, and Bathgate on the right side. But when the exhibition games were played, Popein seemed unaccustomed to a wing and Coach Muzz Patrick dropped the idea.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t think it was fair to the rookie&rdquo;, Muzz said. &ldquo;I know he&rsquo;d rather play center. But now, with the season well along, I decided to give it another whirl&mdash;and the first time I use this line in a big league game, they&rsquo;re on for four of our six goals in Chicago and we win it, 6-2&rdquo;.</p><p>Patrick pointed out that the stringency with which rules are called these nights hasn&rsquo;t been particularly beneficial to the Rangers but it is right down Laprade&rsquo;s alley. Edgar is doubtless the cleanest player in hockey. There hasn&rsquo;t been a two-minute penalty called against him all season, or any other penalty. This is his tenth year in the NHL and the total amount of time he has served in the clink is 42 minutes. Even with the stricter rules applications, it&rsquo;s a question whether he&rsquo;ll ever be called for anything including swearing. Edgar just doesn&rsquo;t.</p><p>The old Port Arthur Bearcat has come on to play better hockey since they gave him a line to center. Sure, he can always kill penalties. But after a while, you want to know the sensation of starting a three-man rush, and you don&rsquo;t do that while killing penalties.</p><p>This hasn&rsquo;t been a particularly happy year for some of the Rangers&rsquo; more established hands&mdash;such as Bones Raleigh, Paul Ronty and of course the injured Wally Hergesheimer&mdash;but the Customers always seem to appreciate Edgar&rsquo;s artistry.</p><p>In a recent scoreless tie against Toronto, the first such score in New York since Dec. 31, 1945, Laprade got most of the applause and none of the brickbats. The fans were critical that Edgar was not getting a chance with the other team shorthanded. Patrick would throw Laprade&rsquo;s line on after spending two minutes in vain with the edge in manpower, and every time this happened a fan in a rear row, beseeching for Edgar all the time, complained:</p><p>&ldquo;Now, you put him on. What you waitin&rsquo; for?&rdquo;</p><p>Laprade, like Boston&rsquo;s Milt Schmidt, is a good example of when to expect NHL longevity in certain players. He&rsquo;s a natural, effortless skater. He can go on for two minutes, take a 30-second breather, then come back for two more without drawing a long breath. Being a physical culture nut doesn&rsquo;t hurt, either.</p><p>He&rsquo;s had his nose smashed in several times from deflected shots or high sticks, but he had all of his teeth until a recent workout at the Garden. Then a crazy deflection caught him in the mouth and he was minus one upper and two lowers.</p><p>The only player who ever caused him to lose his temper was Gus Kyle. It happened after Kyle had been traded off the Rangers to Boston, and there was this night when Gus spun him around with the hooked part of his stick and then elbowed him, to boot. Suddenly Edgar unleashed a five-punch attack to Kyle&rsquo;s face, and Gus was flabbergasted he never attempted to retaliate.&mdash;It was Laprade&rsquo;s only major penalty of his career, and he wasn&rsquo;t very happy about having to fight.</p><p>&ldquo;I never liked his dirty kind of playing&rdquo;, Edgar said, &ldquo;even when he played for us&rdquo;.</p><p>Well, Edgar ought to like Popein and Bathgate, because they play it clean and bard. Of course they&rsquo;ve drawn from 15 to 20 minutes in penalties each, but is there anybody else like Edgar who has none? Of course not.</p><p>Rangers are glad to see Danny Lewicki take a runner-up spot in the all-star first-half voting at left wing. There hadn&rsquo;t been any special campaign on his behalf, and Danny probably did as well in the out-of-town balloting as at home&hellip;That scoreless tie against Toronto, on Jan. 12, was ironically broadcast over a 190station Mutual network&mdash;the first national network to carry a hockey game in the United States&mdash;and Ranger publicist Herb Go, ren, interviewed between the second and third periods, made a point of letting the audience know that scoreless ties were rather uncommon things in big, league hockey, that it was ten years since there had been one in the Garden&hellip;Ranger Fan Club swarmed all over Boston, 200 strong, for the weekend games there with the Rangers Jan. 22-23.</p><p>Because the Rangers&rsquo; experiment with a seven o&rsquo;clock starting time, on Jan. 9, was so successful, Gen. John Reed Kilpatrick announced two days later that all of the subsequent Sunday games by the Rangers, except for the game of Feb. 6, would start at 7&hellip;The move was particularly popular with suburbanites, many of whom form the Ranger carriage trade&hellip;There will be six more Sundays at 7, though the radio broadcasts on those nights over WMGM will be discontinued.</p><p>Patrick got on the Gordie Howe bandwagon after a Red Wing 3-0 victory over the Rangers. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the greatest player I ever saw&rdquo;, said Muzz&hellip;A story out of Lethbridge, Alberta, quoting Frank Boucher as saying an all-American hockey league possibly could be formed in the near future was dismissed by Gen. Kilpatrick. &ldquo;Frankie&rsquo;s quotes were taken out of context&rdquo;, said the General&hellip;Lewicki took a stick slash by Toronto&rsquo;s Larry Cahan on the ankle, which gave the Rangers quite a scare when Danny had to be helped off&hellip;No penalty was called, but Lewicki did manage to keep playing with the ankle tightly strapped&hellip;Lewicki will be honored by a national Ukrainian Society as the professional athlete of the year in February.</p><h2><b>That&rsquo;s The Way He Plays</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Stricter Application Of Rules Okay With Rangers’ Laprade

<div class="byline">Lunny</div><p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL&mdash;Bud MacPherson, the most improved defenceman in the National Hockey League this season, likely will be lost to the Montreal Canadiens for six weeks.</p><p>After sitting out 12 games with a knee injury, MacPherson went into hospital on Jan. 15 for removal of a cartilege, leaving the Habs with only four regular rearguards&mdash;All-Star Doug Harvey, Butch Bouchard, Dollard St. Laurent and Tom Johnson.</p><p>Should any of these men he injured, Canadiens will have to bring up a replacement from their vast farm system.</p><p>The day MacPherson entered hospital, Cal MacKay returned to the line-up giving the club much needed strength at left wing, the only weakness in the power-packed club.</p><p>MacKay hurt his knee on Nov. 2 7. He underwent an operation similar to the one performed on MacPherson and then developed a virus infection. He missed 20 games.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02150/1209159-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="272" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tom Johnson</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bud MacPherson Lost To Habs For 6 Weeks

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03114/1209190-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="269" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Litzenberger</b></figcaption></div><p>STATISTICS:</p><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>orn in Neudorf, Sask., July 15, 1932. 6&rsquo;1&rdquo;, 194 lbs. Plays right wing, shoots right. Turned pro with Canadiens in 1952-53, after playing amateur hockey with Regina Pats and Montreal Royals. Was sent to Chicago by Canadiens in December.</p><p><b>SUPERSTITION&mdash;IF ANY:</b></p><p>Has none at all.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD BEFORE A GAME:</b></p><p>Steak.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD ANYTIME:</b></p><p>Filet Mignon.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE:</b></p><p>Regina.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</b></p><p>Banff.</p><p><b>FAVORITE NHL CITY ON A ROAD GAME:</b></p><p>When he was a member of the Canadiens he liked to play in Detroit, but now that he&rsquo;s with Chicago he rates Montreal as his favorite.</p><p><b>FAVORITE READING MATERIAL:</b></p><p>Books by Lloyd C. Douglas and Mickey Spillane.</p><p><b>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:</b></p><p>&ldquo;The Last Time I Saw Paris.&rdquo; *</p><p><b>BEST ACTRESSES:</b></p><p>Jane Wyman and Joan Crawford.</p><p><b>BEST ACTORS:</b></p><p>Spencer Tracy and Marlon Brando.</p><p><b>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Vera Lynn.</p><p><b>FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Don Cornell.</p><p><b>FAVORITE POPULAR SONG:</b></p><p>&ldquo;Let Me Go Lover.&rdquo;</p><p><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA:</b></p><p>Billy May.</p><p><b>FAVORITE RECREATION:</b></p><p>Golf (most emphatically).</p><p><b>FAVORITE TV PROGRAMS:</b></p><p>&ldquo;I Love Lucy&rdquo; and Jackie Gleason.</p><p><b>IN THE SUMMER:</b></p><p>Lives in Regina and last year worked as a surveyor for Poole Construction Co.</p><p><b>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY:</b></p><p>This took place during the Memorial Cup play-offs of 1951-52 when Eddie was playing with Regina Pats. Regina won the final game of the series 2-1 and Litzenberger scored both goals.</p><p><b>TOUGHEST OPPOSING GOALTENDER:</b></p><p>Harry Lumley.</p><p><b>TOUGHEST OPPOSING DEFENSEMAN:</b></p><p>Hugh Bolton.</p><p><b>TOUGHEST OPPOSING WINGER:</b></p><p>Ted Lindsay.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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INSIDE STUFF About

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>While there have been other reasons too, the Black Hawks can look back at a number of their losses this season and very likely guess that things might have been different had a little more practice ice been available. The club has actually been plagued with this problem to varying degrees for years.</p><p>The need for adequate workout facilities has been very important this year due to the record number of changes in per-sonnel invoked by Chicago&rsquo;s new player bosses, General Manager Tommy Ivan and Coach Frank Eddolls. It&rsquo;s very possible that some Hawks may still not be used to each other by the end of the season.</p><p>It was over and after the holidays that practice space was most sorely missed. After the long Christmas time road trip made necessary by the Chicago Stadium stay of the Hollywood Ice Revue, Eddolls was fairly sure that the return home would be with ample time to practice in the big building on West Madison.</p><p>Instead, he was incensed when he learned that it would be the same old story of little or no space for puck drills which had been planned as a necessity. Virtually every hockey squad in existence has always considered workouts as mandatory for success.</p><p>&ldquo;When we arrived, we found out that the engagement of the ice show had been extended due to illness which forced Barbara Ann Scott out of the first few performances&rdquo;, Eddolls revealed. &ldquo;And then, on top of that, the Harlem Globetrotters took over the Stadium for a game they had to miss a few weeks ago&rdquo;.</p><p>This situation forced the Hawks to fall back on a rink in which they would just as soon never set a skate&mdash;the Crystal Ice Palace in LaGrange, a suburb southwest of Chicago. It is apparently a fine place for public skating and even amateur hockey, but Eddolls found many things wrong for his charges.</p><p>&ldquo;First&rdquo;, he said, &ldquo;we had to find someone to put in new lights where old ones had burned out so that the goalies could see the puck. Then, everyone with skates had to help scrape off the ice which was just too rough to use as it was. This took 20 minutes&rdquo;.</p><p>Arthur Wirtz, president of the Chicago Stadium and the Black Hawks, has been the man in the middle throughout the lengthy run of the &ldquo;No Place to Practice&rdquo; tragedy. As the founder and owner of the Hollywood Ice Revue, he has also had to think of that interest.</p><p>When he and Jim Norris purchased controlling stock in the Black Hawks over two years ago, it. was indicated that the problem of workouts would no longer be bothersome, but Wirtz was unable to foresee an event which, at first, showed little chance of ever effecting Chicago hockey.</p><p>This was the sale of the Chicago Arena, a public skating rink and a spot where the team had occasionally practiced, to a leading radio-television network which has since been converting the structure into studio space. Two well known ice shows had always had their Chicago engagements there.</p><p>They brought their problem to Wirtz who, as a businessman, could hardly refuse the additional income that would result in complying with their requests to use the Chicago Stadium for their Windy City dates. Thus, the Hawks not only lost the Arena as a workout spot, but the Stadium much of the time as well.</p><p>And so the practice problem remains as a strong hindrance to the future of the Black Hawks who may again have to take the road for necessary drill time. A few years back, they had to travel as far as Milwaukee and even Grand Rapids, Mich., for such purposes.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hawks Continually Hampered By Scarcity Of Drill Space

<p><b>MONTREAL, Que.</b>&mdash;</p><p><b>Early this fall, New York Ranger coach Muzz Patrick had a difficult decision to make. He had to choose between Lome (Gump) Worsley and Johnny Bower for the job of guarding the goals for the Blues. Bower had been the Ranger goaltender the season previous, having taken over from Worsley, who won the Calder Trophy as Rookie-of-the-Year in 1952-53.</b></p><p><b>He chose Worsley and now the wisdom of his decision is becoming apparent. This past week the diminutive goal guardian allowed but three goals in the three games the Rangers played and racked up two shutouts in the process, one of them against the powerful Detroit Red Wings.</b></p><p><b>It was against the Wings that Worsley really rose to the occasion, being called upon to handle no fewer than 51 shots in earning his zero. That was on January 19 and the Rangers took a 2-0 decision.</b></p><p><b>His scoreless skein was snapped temporarily as the Blues dropped a 3-1 verdict to the Boston Bruins on January 22. The next night however, back in the familiar confines of Madison Square Gardens, Worsley again turned in a brilliant effort and was full measure for a 2-0 blanking of the B&rsquo;s.</b></p><p><b>The Rangers may be mired deep in fifth place in the National Hockey League but that cannot be any reflection on their goaltender. Small in stature, Gump Worsley has been awful big in his play to date.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1062/1209343-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="256" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lome Worsley</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Player-of-the-Week

<h2><b>Hat Trick</b></h2><p>Maurice (Rocket) Richard of Montreal Canadiens scored a Hat Trick as the Habs dumped Toronto Maple Leafs 6-2 on January 20.</p><h2><b>New Leader</b></h2><p>Jean Beliveau of the Montreal Canadiens has taken over the lead in the individual scoring race with 27 goals and 26 assists for 53 points.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON WED. A.M., JAN. 26</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01188/1209312-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="597" height="181"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK ENDING JANUARY 23rd, 1955.</h3><p>Wed. Jan. 19th&mdash;Chicago 3 at Toron. 3</p><p>Wed. Jan. 19th&mdash;Detroit 0 at Rang. 2</p><p>Thurs. Jan. 20th&mdash;Toronto 2 at Can. 6</p><p>Thurs. Jan. 20th&mdash;Detroit 2 at Boston 3</p><p>Sat. Jan. 22nd&mdash;Chicago 3 at Can. 5</p><p>Sat. Jan. 22nd&mdash;Detroit 1 at Toron. 3</p><p>Sat. Jan. 22nd&mdash;Rangers 1 at Boston 3</p><p>Sun. Jan. 23rd&mdash;Canadiens 5 at Chi. 3</p><p>Sun. Jan. 23rd&mdash;Toronto 0 at Det. 4</p><p>Sun. Jan. 23rd&mdash;Rangers 2 at Bost. 0</p><h3>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK ENDING JANUARY 30th.</h3><p>Wed. Jan. 26th&mdash;Canadiens at Toronto</p><p>Thurs. Jan. 29th&mdash;Rangers at Detroit</p><p>Thurs. Jan. 29th&mdash;Chicago at Boston</p><p>Sat. Jan. 29th&mdash;Boston at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Jan. 29th&mdash;Rangers at Toronto</p><p>Sat. Jan. 29th&mdash;Det&mdash;Chi. (St. Louis)</p><p>Sun. Jan. 30th&mdash;Canadiens at Detroit</p><p>Sun. Jan. 30th&mdash;Toronto at Boston</p><p>Sun. Jan. 30th&mdash;Rangers at Chicago</p><h3>WEDNESDAY JAN. 19</h3><p><b>Detroit 0 at New York 2</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02168/1209305-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="599" height="333"></div><h3>Chicago 3 at Toronto 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03137/1209298-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="604" height="571"></div><h3>THURSDAY JAN. 20 Toronto 2 at Montreal 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04118/1209291-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="603" height="572"></div><h3>Detroit. 2 at Boston 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0595/1209284-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="602" height="468"></div><h3>SATURDAY. JANUARY 22, 1955 Chicago 3 at Canadiens 5</h3><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defense: Martin. Stanley. Mortson, Hollingworth; forwards: Creighton, Prysetai, Mickoski, Watson, Wilson. Litzenberger, Mosienko, Jankowski, McIntyre, Toppazzini, Sullivan.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense, Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson: forwards, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Richard, Mosdell, McKay, Curry, Marshall, Moore, Leclair.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0685/1209277-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="601" height="567"></div><h3>Detroit 1 at Toronto 3</h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defence, Goldham, Kelly, Woit, Pronovost, Hay, forwards, Delvecchio. Howe, Lindsay, Skov, Pavelich, Leswick, Reibel, Wilson, Dineen, Stasiuk, Bonin.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley: defence: Thomson, Bolton, Morrison, Horton, Cahan; forwards, Kennedy, Nesterenko, Smith, Sloan, Armstrong, Macdonald, Migay, Klukay, Solinger, Bailey.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0775/1209270-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="600" height="402"></div><h3>New York 1 at Boston 3</h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Howell, Irwin, Gadsby, Chrystal, Evans; forwards: Howe, Conacher, Murphy, Raleigh, Ronty, Laprade, Guidolin, Bathgate, Prentice, Popein, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Henderson; defense: Flaman, Godfrey, Quackenbush, Boivin, Armstrong; forwards, Mohns, Gardner, Ferguson. Labine, Chevrefils, McKenney, Laycoe, Sandford, Bodnar, Costello.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0869/1209263-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="599" height="346"></div><h3>SUNDAY, JAN. 23, 1955 Toronto 0 at Detroit 4</h3><p>.. <b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley: defense: Thomson, Morrison, Horton, Bolton, Cahan: forwards: Kenedy, Smith, Nesterenko, Armstrong, Solinger, Migay, Sloan, Bailey, Klukay, Mardonald.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuck: defense: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards: Skov, Leswick, Pavelich, Delvecchio, Howe, Lindsay, Wilson, Reibel, Dineen, Bonin, Stasiuk.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02163/1209256-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="607" height="456"></div><h3>New York 2 at Boston 0</h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Howell, Irwin, Gadsby. Chrystal, Evans: forwards: Laprade, Bathgate, Popeln, Murphy, Howe, Conacher, Raleigh, Ronty, Guidolin, Lewicki, Prentice.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Henderson: defense; Flaman, Godfrey, Quackenbush, Boivin, Armstrong; forwards: Laycoe, Costello, Sandford, Gardner, Mohns, Ferguson, McKenney, Labine, Chevre fils, Bodnar.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03141/1209249-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="604" height="410"></div><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense; Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, st. Laurent; forwards: Richard, Mosdell, Moore, Geoffrion, Curry, Mackay, Olmstead, Marshall, Beliveau, Leclair.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defense; Mortson, Hollingworth, Stanley, Martin; forwards: Litzenberger, Prystait, Watson, Wilson, Mosienko, Mickoski, Jankowski, McIntyre, Toppazzini, Creighton, Sullivan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04108/1209242-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="607" height="617"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><h3>(Including games of Jan. 23)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0969/1209235-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="601" height="3316"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORD</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0589/1209228-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="615" height="526"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0681/1209221-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="602" height="196"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01202/1209374-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MARCEL BONIN, the brash young recruit of the Detroit Red Wings is one of the big reasons why the Detroiters came on with a rush to push Canadiens last week. Marcel, who contends that he&rsquo;s &ldquo;never lost a fight&rdquo; in hockey can back up his pugilistic prowess with a set of muscles that attest to his strength.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Detroit Free Press Photo)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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The Wings’ “Mister Muscles!”

<p>MONTREAL.&mdash;Simone Hetu, a pretty young gal from Joliette, Que., sat excited in her seat at the Montreal Forum the night of January 15.</p><p>It was a momentous occasion in her life. She had travelled to Montreal to watch the Detroit Red Wings play Canadiens and it was the first time she was watching her future husband, Marcel Bonin, evolve as a National Leaguer.</p><p>Almost dejected, Simone watched Canadiens run up a 8-0 lead. Slowly, the Wings fought back. They finally tied the score at 3-3. Then, came one of the greatest moments of her young life. Her boy Marcel, zoomed down left wing and fooled Canadiens&rsquo; goalie Jacques Plante with a shot to give Detroit a 4-3 lead. It turned out to be the winning goal!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bonin’s Gal Sees Him Get Winning Goal

<h2><b>Hornets On Top</b></h2><p>Pittsburgh Hornets are the new AHL leaders with 48 points as compared to 46 for runner-up Springfield Indians.</p><h2><b>Hat Trick</b></h2><p>Jim Anderson of the Springfield Indians scored a three-goal &ldquo;Hat Trick&rdquo; as the Tribe downed Providence Reds 7-4 on Jan. 23.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON TUES. A.M., JAN. 25</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01202/1209509-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="601" height="182"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3>(Including games of Sun. Jan. 23)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02166/1209502-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="611" height="742"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Jam Anderson, Springfield, 32.</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Zellio Toppazzini, Providence, 38.</p><p><b>Best Goalie:</b> Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 41,. 110, 1. 2.68.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> Hank Bassen, Buffalo, 3. Most Penalized Flayer: Fred Glover, Cleveland, 102 mts. Most <b>Penalized Club:</b> Cleveland, 552 mts.</p><h3>WEDNESDAY JAN. 19 Cleveland 3 at Pittsburgh 2</h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Pittsburgh Hornets scored all of their goals in the first period in defeating Cleveland Barons 3-2 and taking undisputed possession of first place in the American Hockey League.</p><p>The goal, all in the first 10 minutes, were scored by Willie Marshall, Bob Hassard and Ray Timgren.</p><p>Gus Karrys tallied for Cleveland in the second period and Joe Lund added one in the third.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03139/1209495-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="602" height="526"></div><h3>SATURDAY, JAN. 22 Prodvidence 1 at Pittsburgh 2</h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Pittsburgh Hornets tightened their grip on first place in the American Hockey League race by downing Providence reds 2-1 on goals by Bob Hassard and Andy Barbe.</p><p>Barbe broke away to handle Gordie Hannigan&rsquo;s forward pass and lift in a high close-up shot for the winning goal at 6.26 of the second period.</p><p>Guy Gendron connected for Providence&rsquo;s tally at 10.09 of the second period.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04107/1209488-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="606" height="443"></div><h3>Cleveland 1 at Hershey 2</h3><p>HERSHEY&mdash;Norm Corcoran scored in the last half-minute of play to give Hershey Bears a 2-1 American Hockey league victory over Cleveland Barons.</p><p>Lionel Heinrich scored for the bears in the second period and Eddie Olson deadlocked the count for the Barons.</p><p>The third period was hard fought from bell to bell with Fre Glover, Ace Winger for the Barons, drawing a game mis-conduct penalty for threatening the referee.</p><p>Skip Teal and Kenny Smith set up the Bears&rsquo; winning goal in the final minutes of play.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0591/1209481-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="595" height="518"></div><h3>Buffalo 4 at Springfield 3</h3><p>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;A pair of quick third-period goals by Dick Gamble sent Buffalo Bisons from behind for a 4-3 American Hockey League victory over the second-place Springfield Indians.</p><p>The Bisons, who have spent most of the season in the cellar, took an early lead on a goal by ken Hayden but Springfield went ahead 2-1 before the end of the first period on goals by Ed Leier and Jim Anderson.</p><p>The Indians made it 3-1 on a second-period goal by Graham Hastings but George Blair cut the advantage to a single goal.</p><p>Then Gamble sewed it up with goals at 5.25 and 6.25 of the final frame. Sam Bettio and Pierre Pilote assisted on both goals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0683/1209474-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="593" height="622"></div><h3>SUNDAY, JANUARY 23 Providence 4 at Springfield 7</h3><p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;Right-Winger Jim Anderson netted three goals as Springfield Indians defeated Providence Reds 7-4 in a high-scoring American Hockey League game.</p><p>The win gives the second-place Indians 46 points, two points less than the league-leading Pittsburgh Hornets, who were idle lasy night.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0773/1209467-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="599" height="738"></div><h3>Cleveland 4 at Buffalo 1</h3><p>BUFFALO&mdash;Eddie Olson&rsquo;s two third period goals clinched a 4-1 victory for Cleveland Barons over Buffalo Bisons in an American Hockey League game.</p><p>Ken Wharram&rsquo;s first period tally gave the Bisons an early lead, but Johnny McLellan tied it up at 6.08 of the second period, when both teams were a man short. A minute later, when both Buffalo and Cleveland had two men each off the ice, Fred Shero scored to give the Barons the lead.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0870/1209460-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="600" height="485"></div><h2>Steve Stumbles To Grab Graham</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0964/1209453-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="2338" height="1402"><figcaption class="caption-body">BEAR HUG&mdash;Steve Kraftcheck, left, star defenseman with the Cleveland Barons, puts a bear hug on Graham Hastings, classy forward with the Springfield Indians, and thus prevents him from getting away a good shot at the Cleveland cage, protected by Emile (The Cat.) Francis, right. Francis deflected the shot easily and Kraftcheck managed to escape a penalty.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01213/1209540-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MURRAY HENDERSON</b></figcaption></div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>When sportswriters and sportscasters begin casting about for the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player a few weeks hence, the Hershey Bears have a top candidate in the person of Murray Henderson, their playing coach.</p><p>The 33-year-old Henderson, who is in his third campaign as mentor of the Bears, has done a terrific job as dean of Hershey&rsquo;s rearguard brigade. Quiet and efficient, &ldquo;Mo&rdquo; has borne a lion&rsquo;s share of his club&rsquo;s defensive chores. Recognized as one of hockey&rsquo;s best poke checkers, Henderson covers a lot of ice as he steals the puck away from enemy forwards when they come bearing down on the Hershey cage.</p><h2><b>Quiet But Efficient</b></h2><h3>Helps by Scoring</h3><p>And, in addition to tending to his blue line job, Henderson has also found time to help with Hershey&rsquo;s scoring, too. In 32 games, he has lit the red lamp three times and assisted on twelve other occasions.</p><p>In a recent game against Cleveland, with the Bears trailing by two goals on two occasions, Henderson personally set up a trio of scores to give the Bears a 3-3 deadlock in overtime. Twice he laid the puck on Skip Teal&rsquo;s stick directly in front of the Baron nets and later, with time running out, duplicated the feat by placing rookie Fred Pletsch in scoring position for a tying goal.</p><h3>Was Solid Favorite</h3><p>Henderson came to Hershey at the start of the 1952-53 campaign after eight years of National Hockey League play with the Boston Bruins. Highly regarded in Beantown, where he entered hockey&rsquo;s big time directly from the amateur ranks, the soft-spoken Henderson was a solid favorite with Bruin fans. His last amateur affiliation before turning pro following his discharge from the Royal Canadian Air Force was with Boston Olympics.</p><h3>Almost Won Poll</h3><p>He signed a two-year contract as playing coach of the Bears in 1952-53 and, after piloting his club to the Calder Cup play-offs for two successive seasons, inked another two-year pact Iast Spring. Last year, incidentally, he came within a whisker of being chosen &ldquo;Coach of the Year&rdquo; in THE HOCKEY NEWS poll. Frankie Eddolls, present Chicago Black Hawks mentor, finally won the nod, but balloting was sb close that only a handful of votes separated the two.</p><h3>A Conacher</h3><p>Murray comes by his hockey talents naturally. He is a member of the famous Conacher family, which gave Lionel, Charlie, Roy and Pete to the NHL. His mother, Dorothy Conacher, is a sister of the first three.</p><p>A native of Toronto, where he resides in the Summer, Murray is married and has two children. His best NHL campaign came in 194 6-47, when he bagged five goals and 12 assists. Last year, with Hershey, he lit the red light seven times and amassed 25 assists in 69 games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hershey Coach Murray Henderson Also Candidate For MVP Award

<div class="byline">DICK McCRONE</div><p class="dropcap"><span>H</span>ERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Mrs. Leone Henry, 25, wife of Gordon &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Henry, goalie of the Hershey Bears, was fatally injured in a head-on automobile crash here, January 18. She died in Hershey Hospital several hours following the crash.</p><p>Henry suffered broken ribs, a fracture of the collar bone, and a broken elbow when he and his wife were thrown from the machine. He will be lost indefinitely to the Bears.</p><p>Four other persons were injured when the Henry car collided head-on with another machine approaching from the opposite direction.</p><p>The Henrys, who reside at Owen Sound, Ontario, during the off-season, have a daughter, Sally, aged 2.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Accident Takes The Life Of Mrs. Gordon Henry

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><p>NEW YORK, NY.&mdash;</p><p>When Andy Branigan, veteran defense star of the Providence Reds was given a minor penalty on January 15, he established a new all-time American Hockey League record of 839 minutes for his career. The former mark of 838 minutes was held by the long since retired Pete Bessone, also a defenseman, who played for Pittsburgh, Providence&rsquo; and Cleveland while in the AHL. Earlier this season, Branigan set a new total games played record for the league, which he has now increased to 655 contests.</p><h2>Important Goals</h2><blockquote class="pullQuote">Ed Slowinski of the Buffalo Bisons got his team off to a rapid start on seventeen occasions during the 1953-54 American Hockey League season, by scoring the first Bison goal of the game. This established a new league record for initial scores in a game.</blockquote><h2>Doubling in Sports</h2><p>Rookie Jack Caffery of the Pittsburgh Hornets, who plays a forward position in hockey, also has a brilliant future in baseball as a southpaw pitcher. The 20-year-old star was recently signed to a diamond contract by the Milwaukee Braves of the National Baseball League, and will report to their training camp in Spring&hellip;</p><h2>Official And Coach</h2><blockquote class="pullQuote">Dick Rondeau who serves as a linesman in the American Hockey League games in Providence, is also the coach of the Providence College hockey team.</blockquote><h2>Defensemen Hat Tricks</h2><p>Pat Egan, playing coach of the Providence Reds is the only defenseman now active in the American Hockey League to have a &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; of three or more goals to his credit. He enjoyed his stellar night while playing for Cincinnati four years ago. Four other rearguards who are listed for hat tricks in the AHL are still playing professional hockey in other leagues. They are Tommy Johnson, Hal Laycoe and Marcel Pronovost in the National League and Al Dewsbury in the Quebec League. Johnson and Laycoe scored theirs while members of Buffalo while Dewsbury and Pronovost scored the trio for Indianapolis. In all there have been nine hat tricks scored in American Hockey League history by defensemen, the other four having been tallied by players no longer active in the &ldquo;pro&rdquo; ranks. They were Hy Buller for Cleveland, Pete Backor for Pittsburgh, Sammy Casanate of Syracuse and Steve Hrymnak of St. Louis. Nona of the nine players scored the hat trick more than once.</p><h2>Repentance Record</h2><blockquote class="pullQuote">On January 14, Freddie Glover of Cleveland, the American Hockey League&rsquo;s leading scorer all season, had plenty of time to think about his ice sins while sitting in the penalty box. Glover set an all time record for penalty minutes in a single game by being assessed a total of thirty-one minutes. In gathering his repentance record, Glover received three minors, a fighting major and two ten minute misconduct sentences.</blockquote><h2>Future Hockey Star</h2><p>The youngest of the Olson brothers, who number nine in all, and who have all played hockey either as amateurs or profes-sionals, is 20-year-old Weldon Olson of the Michigan State College hockey team. Like his famous brother Eddie, the American Hockey League&rsquo;s only 500 point man now active, Weldon is a rightwing, and is drawing the attention of scouts from the professional teams.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03133/1209626-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="532" height="836"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ED SLOWINSKI</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AHL Rinkside Revealings

<p class="dropcap"><span>H</span>ockey, Track, Golf, Tennis, Baseball, Football, Boxing, Wrestling, Jiu Jitsu, and other sports publications from 1818 to date. All items included in lists covering over 100 pages. Will send free upon request those lists pertaining to the sports which interest you. Hundreds of scarce hockey guides and programs included in Hockey List No 58.</p><p><b>Adco Sports Book Exchange</b></p><p><b>Box 577, Briggs Station.</b></p><p><b>Los Angeles 48, Calif.</b></p><p><b>Dept. HN-41</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

100,000 Books of All Sports—FOR SALE

<div class="byline">By PAUL G. SULLIVAN</div><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Remarks in the local press on the topic of the not always devastating Pittsburgh Hornet attack have evoked a more or less official rejoinder from club president John H. Harris probably worth quoting from even though agreement from this corner may not be 100 per cent. The Steel City boss avers: &ldquo;Attention is called to the need for more scoring power. The cry for more power can be heard from every arena manager and hockey team owner in the American League, in the National League, except Montreal, and in the amateur leagues over Canada&rsquo;s length and breadth. Every one wants more power, more scoring.</p><p>&ldquo;It isn&rsquo;t that the players are not as potent as before, but that the game has become faster and tighter than ever before. The goalies are much better than in the old days. The ice surface in the arenas is in most cases somewhat narrower, making it easier for the defense, with less room to cover&mdash;and the defense now, as a usual thing, is almost as fast as the wings.</p><p>&ldquo;That wasn&rsquo;t formerly the case. In the old days, the defense was made up of big, strong, slow men who could hit hard. The answer to that type of defense was more speed and it, was accomplished, so the defense plan has now changed completely.&rdquo;</p><p>The Hornet head man plumps for consideration of both offense and defense and points out that, in the instance of his own Pittsburghers, if one subtracts goals-against from goals-for, the Yellow Jackets&rsquo; remainder is exceeded only by the marks of Springfield and Buffalo. If the Hornets aren&rsquo;t heavy talliers, impressive defensive work picks up the slack.</p><p>Commenting further on this text, Harris recalls:</p><p>&ldquo;Howie Meeker had a record in the National League that only some five goals were scored on him in two seasons. He was that good a back-checker. Toronto preaches back-checking and a full defense and will get rid of a man who can&rsquo;t or won&rsquo;t back-check.</p><p>&ldquo;If you back-check, you won&rsquo;t score too much and neither will the opposition because you&rsquo;re skating with the other fellow all the time. If you don&rsquo;t back-check, you will score more, but so will the other team.&rdquo;</p><p>There&rsquo;s plenty to what Harris says, but old timers can&rsquo;t concede that the modern game is tighter than it was in the era of on-side, no-zone hockey, that current goalkeepers are superior to such bigstick artists as Georges Vezina, Clint Benedict, Roy Worters, and others of the glittering &lsquo;20s, or that present-day forwards would circle with regularity or impunity such defense stalwarts as King Clancy, Ching Johnson, Dune Munro, Lionel Conacher, Roger Smith, Taffy Abel, and their con-temporaries.</p><p>But a sound mean is generally to be found between extremes&mdash;and it may be that the Toronto system, as exemplified in the Hornet farm force, represents a conservative extreme not always measuring up to the demand, truly stated by Harris and shared by customers as well as magnates, for &ldquo;more power, more scoring.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>More Power</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02161/1209595-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="547" height="889"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHN HARRIS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“Game Faster Than Ever Before” Claims Hornet Boss John Harris

<h2><b>Not Homers</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>n the three game series played last week between Calgary and Edmonton the home club was unable to win a game. The Flyers won both games played in Calgary by identical scores. 4-3 and the Stampeders won the game played in Edmonton 2-1.</p><h2><b>Standings</b></h2><p>Edmonton defeated Calgary in two of the three games they played the past week to retain first place for the third straight week. The Flyers hold a four point margin over New Westminster who moved back Into second place.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON TUES. A.M. JAN. 18</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01218/1209779-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="603" height="191"></div><h3>RESULTS</h3><p><b>Tuesday January 11th</b></p><p>Saskatoon 5 at Vancouver 1</p><p><b>Wednesday January 12th</b></p><p>Saskatoon 5 at Victoria 2</p><p>Edmonton 4 at Calgary 3</p><p><b>Thursday January 13th</b></p><p>Victoria 4 at New West. 6</p><p><b>Friday January 14th</b></p><p>New West. 5 at Victoria 5</p><p>Saskatoon 2 at Vancouver 5</p><p>Calgary 2 at Edmonton 1</p><p><b>Saturday January 15th</b></p><p>Saskatoon 4 at New West. 5</p><p>Edmonton 4 at Calgary 3</p><h3>TUESDAY. JAN. 11</h3><p>Saskatoon 5 at Vancouver 1</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02181/1209772-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="605" height="569"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12 Saskatoon 5 at Victoria 2</h3><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal: B. Bentley; defence: Ross, Fontinato, Milford, Kaiser; forwards: Kobussen, M. Bentley, Manson, McLeod, Lynn, Kukulowicz, Lamoureux, Haley, D. Bentley.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal: Pelletier; defence: Durham, Clune, Keating, Davidson, Bucyk; forwards: Macauley, Hebenton, Achtymichuk, Anderson, Kuzma, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Reay, Marquess.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Paul Bozak; linesman: Ross Valliere.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03156/1209765-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="604" height="535"></div><h3>Edmonton 4 at Calgary 3</h3><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal: Hall: defence: Hrymnak, Zeidel. Arbour, Allen, Roggeveen; forwards: Horvath, Sclisizzi, Melnyk, Bucyk, Hannigan, Stankiewicz, Malo.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal: Stevenson; defence: Kyle, Quackenbush, Coburn, S. Hucul, Michaluk: forwards: Couture, Pargeter, Lundy, Hucul, Witiuk, Barry, McFadden, Scott, Finney.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Eddie Powers; linesman: Eddie Wares.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04138/1209758-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="594" height="567"></div><h3>THURSDAY, JAN. 13 Victoria 4 at New Westminister 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05118/1209751-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="590" height="688"></div><h3>FRIDAY, JAN. 14 New Westminster 5 at Victoria 5</h3><p><b>New Westminster</b>&mdash;Goal: Dechene; defence: Lavitt, Bergeron, Matthews, Bedard; forwards: McNab, O. Dorohoy, McLean, Adam, Love, Fashoway, Boyce, Fielder, Zarie.</p><p><b>Victoria</b>&mdash;Goal: Pelletier; defence: Durham, Clune, Keating, Davidson, Bucyk; forwards: Macauley, Hebenton, Achtymichuk, E. Dorohoy, Anderson, Kuzma, Kilburn, Reay, Marquess.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06100/1209744-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="600" height="685"></div><h3>Saskatoon 2 at Vancouver 5</h3><p><b>Saskatoon</b>&mdash;Goal: B. Bentley; defence: Ross, Milford, Fontinato, Kaiser; forwards: Kobussen, M. Bentley, Manson, McLeod, Lynn, Kukulowicz, Lamoureux, Haley, Kullman.</p><p><b>Vancouver</b>&mdash;Goal: Bower; defence: Houghton, Dick, Landen, Hudson; forwards, Dea, Maloney, Johnson, Wylie, Cyr, Barlow, Ford, Brown.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0790/1209737-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="601" height="603"></div><h3>Calgary 2 at Edmonton 1</h3><p><b>Calgary</b>&mdash;Goal: Stevenson; defence: Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Coburn; forwards: Couture, Pargeter, S. Hucul; F. Hucul, Witiuk, Lundy, Barry, Scott, Finney.</p><p><b>Edmonton</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defence: Allen, Arbour, Zeidel, Repka; forwards: Ullman, Horvath, Sclisizzi, Melnyk, Hrymnak, Bucyk, Hannigan, Stankiewicz, Malo.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0884/1209730-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="596" height="397"></div><h3>SATURDAY, JAN. 15 Saskatoon 4 at New Westminster 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0979/1209723-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="605" height="676"></div><h3>Edmonton 4 at Calgary 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1077/1209716-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="597" height="602"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><h3>(Including games of Sat. Jan. 15)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1168/1209709-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="610" height="1740"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1624/1209702-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="605" height="384"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Bronco Horvath, Edm. 34.</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Guyle Fielder, NW. 46.</p><p><b>Most Game Winning Goals:</b> Bronco Horvath, Edm. 5; Norman Ullman, Edm. 5.</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks:</b> Bronco Horvath, Edm, 4.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> Marcel Pelletier, Vic. 5</p><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1446/1209695-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="596" height="237"></div><h2><b>In Top Three</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1263/1209688-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="1177" height="1033"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAX McNAB</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Top Goal Guardian</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1350/1209681-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="1154" height="1371"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GLENN HALL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

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You’ll Skate Better on CCMs

<div class="byline">By DICK BEDDOES</div><p>(As seen in The Vancouver Sun)</p><p>The big events of Max Bentley&rsquo;s career you don&rsquo;t have to detail. National League record books do that for you, preserving statistics on his conquest of scoring titles, of All-Star selections, of the Lady Byng and Hart trophies.</p><p>Fact is, the record books preserve all the essential facts but none of the necessary flavor. It&rsquo;s the little things and the little remembrances that flavor a notable athlete, same as the sprig of dill makes the pickle.</p><p>So the record books were set aside recently as Maxwell Herbert Lloyd Bentley culled recollections, some long-aged in the cellars of memory. He&rsquo;s been around so long, and he&rsquo;s been so thoughtful to create a storied past, that there&rsquo;s a million vignettes among his souvenirs.</p><h2><b>Sisters Had Hockey Team</b></h2><p>&ldquo;How was it in the beginning?&rdquo; he was asked. &ldquo;Back there in the twenties when you wanted to be a cowboy or a farmer or a collector of used money?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;In the beginning,&rdquo; Max smiled, &ldquo;I was the 14th of 14 kids, seven boys and seven girls. I was a kind of afterthought, but I always thought it nice of mom and dad to arrange it.&rdquo;</p><p>It was arranged in 1920 at Delisle, Sask. In those days his sisters were the Hockey Bentleys, forming a Bloomer League with damozels in neighboring towns.</p><p>&ldquo;The girls were great skaters,&rdquo; Max said. &ldquo;They gave me my first lessons in hockey, only it was with homemade sticks and a tennis ball on an icy road. I was maybe four then, so you can say I&rsquo;ve been in hockey 30 years, man, boy and baby. Never wanted to be in anything else.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Milking on the Farm</b></h2><p>He was in something else, however. Cow barns, baseball uniforms, a war.</p><p>&ldquo;What about those cows? People say the stories about you developing strong wrists by milking are&mdash;well, you know, a bit of bull.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Look,&rdquo; he said earnestly, &ldquo;I grew up on a farm in the dirty thirties and we had to have cows to eat a little. When I got old enough, my brother Reg and me did all the milking. Eight cows night and day&hellip;I know, because I counted &lsquo;em every day and they never got any less.&rdquo;</p><p>Max Bentley gave up milking in 1938-39 to join his brothers Doug, Reg, Scoop and Roy with Drumheller Miners in the Alberta Senior Hockey League.</p><p>&ldquo;Ah, those were great days,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Sometimes all five of u.s would be on the ice together and drive the radio announcers crazy. One of them, Don McKay&mdash;now the mayor of Calgary&mdash;used to say, &lsquo;There goes the puck from Bentley to Bentley, back to Bentley&rsquo; without using our first names. That drove his listeners whacky. A woman wrote to him and said, &lsquo;That Bentley, he must be one terrific player!&rsquo; &ldquo;</p><h2><b>Was Offered $10,000 This Year</b></h2><p>It was observed in the beginning that Max has been around a long time. For the record, he jumped to Chicago Black Hawks in 1940, playing with them till Toronto Maple Leafs traded five players for him in 1947.</p><p>&ldquo;I could be up there yet,&rdquo; he said, explaining his presence with Saskatoon in the Western League. &ldquo;The Leafs offered me $10,000 this year to sit on the bench and play once in a while. But I&rsquo;m not young enough or good enough to be worth $10,000 in the big league anymore, so I came home.&rdquo; &bull;</p><p>When he was good enough, Toronto was his oyster. One night, against Detroit with the score tied 1-1, a wealthy fan slipped down to the Maple Leaf bench and whispered, &lsquo;Max, score a goal now and I&rsquo;ll give you a race horse.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Funny,&rdquo; Max said, &ldquo;but the next time I stepped on the ice, I scored. We finally won 3-1 and I got two goals. The race horse? He didn&rsquo;t win any races but we had a lot of fun&hellip;and I didn&rsquo;t have to milk him.&rdquo;</p><p>There is more to the Bentley Story, but much of it has been written before and better. Still, Wiggie Wylie of the Vancouver Canucks added something to it. It was an impression gained when he was occasionally left doodling after Max dipsied.</p><p>&ldquo;Bentley,&rdquo; he said flatly, and with feeling, &ldquo;is still terrific.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s Mr. Wylie, a student of hockey with a deep reverence for class.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

From Our Tower

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><p class="dropcap"><span>V</span>ANCOUVER, B. C.&mdash;There&rsquo;s no standing still in the Western Hockey League. Edmonton continues to lead the pack with New Westminster, Calgary, Victoria, Vancouver and Saskatoon following in that order. In the individual scoring statistics Bud Poile&rsquo;s Flyers predominate. More on this later</p><p>The Detroit chain announced a five player deal January 18. Quebec Aces shipped defenceman Jim &ldquo;Red Eye&rdquo; Hay to the Stanley Cup champs. Detroit returned Ed Zeniuk, defenceman, to Edmonton along with right winger Lome Davis. The Flyers forwarded Al Arbour and Joe Malo, defenceman and right wing, respectively, to Quebec. On the surface it looks like Edmonton, who need no help the way they&rsquo;ve been going, will benefit from the transaction.</p><p>Zeniuk, a sophomore with tremendous possibilities, does not have the scoring record of Arbour but in nearly all other departments Zeniuk has a slight edge. Davis should more than double Malo&rsquo;s production record. In 22 games Malo managed only three goals and six points. Davis has NHL experience with Montreal, Chicago and Detroit and with Buffalo of the AHL. He played three games with Victoria in the fall of 1950, the season he turned pro, and the following season saw action with Vancouver for 15 games, during which time Lome was terrific, scoring 11 goals and 21 points! He is only 24 years old and with lots of work Edmonton could have itself another topflight right winger to go with Ray Hannigan and Ed Stankiewicz and Don Poile, when the latter returns from the injured list.</p><p>Calgary&rsquo;s suspended list dropped to two January 18 when Frank Ashworth agreed to join Vancouver, leaving Bill Brennan, goalie, and Steve Black, forward, who hasn&rsquo;t seen any action this season, still watching from the sidelines. Ashworth is a left hand shot, but he has and can play any of the three forward positions. In 24 games with the Stampeders he had a 3-5-8 scoring record. Last season the 27-year-old sniper had a 24-42-66 point mark. For several weeks during the 1953-54 WHL season he led the Individual scorers In the playoffs he rang the bell five times and helped on 11 more for 16 points in 18 games.</p><p>The loop&rsquo;s injured list now consists of the following: Wayne Brown. Victoria; Bill Ezinicki, Vancouver, who has missed his club&rsquo;s last three games and who isn&rsquo;t expected back for at least another week; Blinky Boyce, Bart Bradley and Jim Zarie, New Westminster; Doug Bentley, Saskatoon; Don Poile. Hugh Coflin and Bronco Horvath, Edmonton; Pat Coburn, Cargary. It&rsquo;s possible one or more of the sick bay list could be back in action by the time this reaches your favorite newsstand.</p><p>Vancouver cut Bill Gooden and Chuck McCullough, two veterans, Jan. 14, to make room for newcomer Gordon Hudson de-denceman from Ottawa. Gooden signed on with Kamloops and McCullough is slated to join Vernon, both teams are in the Okanagan Senior Amateur loop. Hudson was no stranger to Ezinicki, Phil Maloney and Hugh Barlow; all are ex-Ottawa Senators.</p><p>Calgary, who enjoy beating Edmonton more than anybody, spoiled the Flyers bid for a new league record for undefeated games (14) when they edged the Poilemen, 2-1, in Edmonton. Jan. 14, before more than 6500 paid, the largest crowd to see a gams in the Oil City this season. Edmonton had gone 12 games without a reverse and had won its last eight contests. NW holds the record of 13 consecutive unbeaten games, 19 51-52 season.</p><p>The next night in Stampederville more than 7600 watched as rookie Norm Ullman, with two goals, the second with less than two minutes to go, led Edmonton to a thrilling 4-3 win over Calgary to maintain the Flyers five point bulge on top and at the same time allow New Westminster to bounce back into second ahead of last season&rsquo;s playoff (President&rsquo;s Cup) and East-West (Duke of Edinburgh Trophy) champs.</p><p>Playing without Don Poile, Coflin and the loop&rsquo;s leading marksman. Horvath, Edmonton tied Victoria, 2-2, at home Jan. 18, to make it only one defeat in 15 games for the junior Detroit Red Wings. Two potential Wings, Ullman and Stakiewicz, scored for the Flyers. Andy Hebenton, who is second to Horvath for most goals, scored one of Victoria&rsquo;s goal, his 31st, and an Edmonton born boy, Doug Macauley, potted the other.</p><p>Horvath leads in goals with 34, points with 6 8, is tied with Ullman with most game winning goals with five, he has the most hat tricks, four, and the most first goals of a game, seven&hellip;Guyle Fielder, NW, last season&rsquo;s scoring kinge leads in assists with 47 and Fielder trails Horvath by eight points, however, Horvath and Edmonton have six games in hand on Fielder and NW. Pelletier has the most shutouts (5) and Harry Dick most minutes in penalties (127).</p><p>Rest of &ldquo;Big Ten&rdquo; consists of Max McNab, who is having a great year, Gerry Couture, Ed Dorohoy, Sid Finney, rookie John Bucyk, Gord Fashoway, Hebenton and Steve Witiuk&hellip;Ed Dorohoy and Fielder could become the first repeat individual scoring champs if either of them is able to catch and pass Edmonton&rsquo;s celebrated &ldquo;garbage collector&rdquo;, Horvath.</p><p>Vancouver&rsquo;s MBE line of Maloney, Barlow and Ezinicki coupled with Hudson and the improved play of Ray Cyr, George Ford, Earl Johnson, Jack Lancien and Harry Dick has made a contender out of Coley Hall&rsquo;s club. The Canucks have been playing before capacity and near capacity houses of 5,080 aver since Boxing Day and at this time, January 19, trail fourth place Victoria and the last playoff berth by only eight points with four games in hand.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

WHL Blueline Banter

<h2><b>Some Lead</b></h2><p>Bobby Perreault, goalie for Shawinigan, has a 62 goal lead over rival goal-tenders.</p><h2><b>Burnett Moves</b></h2><p>Kelly Burnett, of Royals, pulled into a tie in the scoring Derby with Aces&rsquo; Bay Powell.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON TUES. A.M., JAN. 25</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01192/1209952-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="592" height="158"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3>(Including Games of Sun., Jan. 23)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02160/1209945-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="602" height="978"></div><h3>TUESDAY, JAN. 18 Montreal 5 at Chicoutimi 3</h3><p><b>Royals:</b> Goal, Hodge; defense, Rousseau, Bownass, Roche. Harmon; forwards, Shvetz, Blaine, Tessier, Burchell, Burnett, Denis, Hildebrand, Ceresino, Dewsbury, Laplante.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi:</b> Goal, Hughes; defense, Glaude, Roy. Taillefer, McNab; forwards, Locas, Dussault. S. Smrke, L. Smrke, Gravelle, Bartlett, Leger, Topoll, Power, Sasakamoose.</p><p><b>Referee,</b> Deziel; linesmen, Boileau, Levesque.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03141/1209938-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="607" height="579"></div><h3>STOPS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04106/1209931-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="589" height="80"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY JAN. 19 Chicoutimi 5 at Quebec 6</h3><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Hughes; defense: Glaude, Roy, Taillefer, McNab; forwards: 8. Smrke, L. Smrke, Power, Bartlett, Dussault, Leger, Locas, Topoll, Sasakamoose.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans: defense: Levandoski, Crozier, Hay, Houle; forwards: Powell, Labadie, Uniac, Henry, Regan, Tremblay, Groleau, Buchanan, Ehman, Thibault.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Charlie Deziel; linesmen: Rene Simard, Rene Langevin.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0585/1209924-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="593" height="766"></div><h3>THURSDAY, JANUARY 20 Montreal 1 at Shawinigan 2.</h3><p><b>Royals&mdash;</b>Goal: Hodge; defense: Rousseau, Bownass, Harmon, Dewsbury; forwards Shvetz, Blaine, Tessier, Burchell, Burnett, Denis, Hildebrand, Laplante, Ceresino, Roche.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls&mdash;</b>Goal. R. Per reault; defense, Talbot, Leger, Hodgson, Turner, Lamirande; forwards: Broden, Faulkner, Provost, Desauiniesr, F. Perreault, Denis, Wray, Grosse, Katchur.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0669/1209917-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="592" height="366"></div><h3>Chicoutimi 3 at Valleyfield 4</h3><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Hughes; defense: Glaude, Taillefer, Roy, McNab; forwards: S. Smrke, Bartlett, Locas, Leger, L. Smrke, Topool, Power, Dussault, Sasakamoose, Gravelle.</p><p><b>Valleyfield</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette; defense: Ernst, Deslauriers, Collins, Needham; forwards: Jeannette, Bisaillon, Corriveau, Bougie, Dubuc, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Leclerc, Gagnon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0762/1209910-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="593" height="499"></div><h3>Quebec 5 at Royals 3</h3><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goals: Evans; defense: Crozier, Levandoski, Houle, Arbour; forwards: Ehman,, Henry, Buchanan, Powell, Regan, Uniac, Labadie, Malo, Tremblay, Groleau.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Hodge; defense: Bownass, Roche, Harmon, Dewsbury; forwards: Shvetz, Masnick, Tessier, Burchell, Burnett, Denis, Hildebrand, Laplante, Blaine.</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Sibby Mundey; linesmen: Howie Harvey, Jim Sister.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0852/1209903-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="590" height="560"></div><h3>Shawinigan 3 at Valleyfield 5</h3><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Turner, Hodgson, Talbot, Lamirande; forwards: Desaulniers, Wray, Provost, F. Perreault, Kachur, Denis, Broden, Grosso, Faulkner, Dube.</p><p><b>Valleyfield</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette: defense: Ernst, Desaulniers, Collins, Needham; forwards: Joannette, Bisaillon, Corriveau, Bougie, Dubuc, Kwong, Hvorth, Cline, Leclerc, Gagnon.</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Georges Gravel; linesmen: Percy Reynolds, Gordie Whitehead.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0948/1209896-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="590" height="632"></div><h2><b>Tied For First</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1044/1209889-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="1146" height="1443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY POWELL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">VIC WALL</div><p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Activity on the Springfield Indian hockey front last week centered on the purchase of a new left winger and the formation of a Springfield Indian Booster Club. The new player is Russ Kowalchuk, a strapping forward, who has been playing with Montreal in the Quebec League, Kowalchuk was purchased by owner Eddie Shore from Montreal. He played briefly for Providence this season, was with Buffalo a year ago. He made the All Star team for Cincinnati Mohawks in the IHL.</p><p>The purpose of the new booster club is to sponsor the Tommy Filmore Memorial Award. This award is made to perpetuate the memory of the former Springfield and Providence hockey star who died suddenly a year ago on a golf course near Clearwater, Fla. At the time Filmore was professional of the Springfield Country Club, a post he assumed when he quit playing hockey. The trophy will go to the winner of the city series between Springfield and Providence. Shore and owner Lou Pieri of Providence are solidly in back of the venture.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Kowalchuk To Indians

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01194/1210007-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KELLY BURNETT</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>As the Quebec Hockey League was grinding into the last two months of its schedule it appeared that the race for the individual scoring honors might resolve into a two-way struggle between two veterans of American League campaigning.</p><p>Kelly Burnett, smooth-working pivot man of the Montreal Royals has recently nudged by tall Ray Powell of Quebec Aces, and many of their supporters predict it will be a neck and neck race between this pair down to the wire.</p><p>Lulu Denis and Orval Tessier, two more Royals, and Michel Labadie, of Quebec are in the thick of the fight, but Burnett and Powell remain the favorites.</p><p>James Kelvin Burnett has always been called Kelly. In fact strangers take some time to find out whether it&rsquo;s his first name or the last.</p><h2><b>Title Contender</b></h2><h3>No Puzzle</h3><p>There&rsquo;s never been any puzzle about his ability to make the plays that count once he&rsquo;s in a hockey game. This 28-year-old gent from Lachine Que., has always been up there with the high figure boys everywhere he has played. It makes little difference if they change his line partners, or switch him from one team to another. He&rsquo;ll still make patterns off which the tallies are fashioned and he&rsquo;ll put quite a few pucks in the net himself.</p><h3>Whirl With Saints</h3><p>After playing junior hockey around Lachine and later at the Forum, Kelly had a whirl with Sherbrooke Saints in the Quebec Senior Hockey League. That was the 1948-49 season and as a first year man in fast company rapped in 3 7 goals and had 38 assists for 75 points.</p><p>And this powerful and accurate shooting was a blue print for Mr. and Mrs. Burnett&rsquo;s little boy from then on. As a golfer by vocation in summertime&mdash;he&rsquo;s assistant pro at Summerlea&mdash;it&rsquo;s likely a habit for Kelly to shoot in the 70&rsquo;s. He reeled off a 76, with 27 goals, 4 9 assists, his first pro hockey season with Springfield of the AHL&mdash;1949-50 playing in 67 games.</p><h3>Back On Beam</h3><p>He took part in 58 games for Springfield in 1950-51 yet managed 74 points with 26 tallies and 48 helpers. Though he slipped slightly off his a customary gait with 2 5 goals, 4 3 assists&mdash;6 8 points during the 1951-52 campaign at Syracuse Warriors, when he racked up 23 goals, had 53 assists for 76 points.</p><p>After 41 games he had 56 points and had nosed by Powell of Quebec in this year&rsquo;s scoring scramble in the QHL, so with 20 games or so to play Kelly has better than a fair chance of making up his average of 70-odd points a season.</p><p>As for the league&rsquo;s scoring title, well that&rsquo;s something else. He has notable competition in Powell, who compiled 77 points in the Slater circuit last season, and has for background some terrific records in the American loop and the United States Hockey League.</p><h3>Timmins Product</h3><p>Powell, who is 29, hails from Timmins, Ontario, where he played his early shinny before shifting to Baltimore Orioles, in the old Eastern United States amateur League, and then turning pro with Pittsburgh and starting a roving career in the pro clubs south of the Canadian border.</p><p>He was with Buffalo, New Haven, Fort Worth, Omaha. Kansas City, Milwaukee, Chicago and Providence before reaching the Ancient Capital in the autumn of 1953.</p><h3>Was MVP</h3><p>He won many honors and had his big seasons. At Kansas City in the 1949-50 season he was named the Most Valuable Player in the United States Hockey League, and with Providence Reds in 1951-52 he was the winner of the Les Cunningham Trophy as the most valuable player and the Carl Liscombe Trophy for the highest scorer.</p><p>To win the scoring championship of the American puck circuit Powell had to handle plenty pucks. The record book shows that in 6 7 games he played in that 1951-52 season, Ray Powell fired the puck into the cordage 35 times, had 62 assists for 97 points. In assists and total points he was tops in the loop.</p><p>Still more formidable are his performances a few years earlier for the Kansas City team. Maybe it&rsquo;s those extra-sized steaks they serve out in the beef capital of Missouri. For hockey players do thrive on steaks.</p><h3>Led The League</h3><p>Anyway in the 1948-49 campaign with the &ldquo;Caseys&rdquo; he saw action in 61 contests, led the loop in tallies, 48, helped in 58 more, for 106 points which was also the league highest.</p><p>Then in 1949-50 he did even better. He went to the post 64 times and though he scored only 27 goals he had a phenomenal 84 assists, tops in the league, and a total of 111 points which was also the high mark for the league that season.</p><h3>Both Real Vets</h3><p>So here are two great players, both of them seasoned and versatile performers, who can ply their trade with great proficiency in any company, as they have clearly shown. They are sure to make it an intriguing contest for the honors from here on until the Slater circuit completes its schedule March 20. And their supporters in Montreal and Quebec will be following their progress keenly.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Fight Right Down To The Wire Forecast In QHL Scoring Race

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>IS IT REALLY HAPPENING?&hellip;Sudbury Wolves, Allan Cup finalists last season who missed winning the national senior hockey title by the narrowest of margins, have all but been eliminated from the playoffs in Northern Ontario senior hockey&hellip;At this writing, Maxie Silverman&rsquo;s crew is mired in the cellar of the Southern Division, 11 points out of the final playoff location&hellip;the real significance of this is that almost everyone considered the defending champions a powerful contender midway through the regular 60-game schedule&hellip;in addition, the tremendous blow to the faithful Sudbury fans has its greatest sting at the turnstiles because the biggest city in the Northland attracted almost 6,000 fans for most games&hellip;&ldquo;Somehow, I just can&rsquo;t believe that all this is really happening,&rdquo; commented Joe Spence, the dynamic and colorful sportscaster for Radio Station CHNO in Sudbury. Cam Church, the very capable sportscaster for Radio Station CKSO, is also very surprised because this former allround sports star figured Sudbury had a real strong team on paper&hellip;our very good friend, Don Macintosh, sports editor of The Sudbury Daily Star (yes, Don, you were certainly right on the Gerry McNeil story ! ! !) has also expressed keen surprise at the downfall of the once mighty Sudbury Wolves&hellip;Don has always been a firm backer of the team and naturally the present situation has caused a state of mourning all through the Nickel Belt&hellip;</p><p>So, fans, if Sudbury had such a strong team on paper the question naturally arises: What&rsquo; Happened???&hellip;there&rsquo;s been so many versions presented it would hardly be fair to try and come up with any one single analysis&hellip;of course, miracles can happen&hellip;Sudbury Wolves have 14 games remaining, they trail Pembroke Lumber Kings by 11 points and have three home games left against Pembroke in addition to two more games in Pembroke&hellip;so, if Sudbury can win all five and then keep on an even keel with Pembroke in their other games, Maxie Silverman, &ldquo;The Silver Fox,&rdquo; may yet pull a playoff spot out of the ripsnorting fire where it is at present as far as the proud Sudbury Wolves are concerned&hellip;somehow, it will seem very strange, indeed, to see the incomparable Maxie Silverman out of the playoff picture&hellip;he&rsquo;s tagged after hockey teams since a kid of 14&hellip;he&rsquo;s been a manager and coach for well over 20 years&hellip;in 1932 he led the Sudbury Wolves to the Memorial Cup&hellip;in 19 54 the Allan Cup slipped out of his fingers at a time when he had it wrapped right around his fist only to see some mighty strange influences and some mighty peculiar happenings virtually rob him of his long cherished dream.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01159/1210069-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="570" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAXIE SILVERMAN</b></figcaption></div><p>WHILE MAXIE IS FEELING the chill of terrible disappointment. The Fighting Irishman, Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty, is riding high, wide and. handsome as pilot of the Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.) Greyhounds&hellip;&ldquo;Peanuts,&rdquo; as he has been nicknamed, has boosted a terrific team right to the top&hellip;at the moment, the &lsquo;Hounds enjoy a first-place margin of 10 points over North Bay Trappers and Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) Indians&hellip;they are maintaining a sizzling victory streak on the strength of three powerful forward lines, one just as effective as the other&hellip;</p><p>The top forward line is composed of Mike Ratchford, Ron Hurst and Jimmy McBurney who, at this writing, have amassed a total of 137 points on 64 goals and 73 assists&hellip;Ratchford is the top point-getter in Northern Ontario hockey with 5 6 points on 18 goals and 38 assists&hellip;Hurst is next with 42, while McBurney is closing in fast with 40&hellip;another big line has veteran Terry Biocchi working with expros, Steve Wochy and Harry Taylor&hellip;still another powerful unit has Ron Lay working with Marcel Clements and young Donnie McLean&hellip;on top of that, the Greyhounds are strong on defense with Eddie Chadwick and Tommy Donachey in goal&hellip;Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, last won the coveted Allan Cup in 1924 but this very well might be &ldquo;The Year&rdquo; for the rabid fans&rdquo; in that centre and &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty !!!&hellip;</p><p>THEY MISSED THE BUS !!!&hellip;several North Bay Trappers (after looking very weak in a weekend series, losing by lopsided scores to Soo Greyhounds and Soo Indians) failed to catch the bus back home from the American Soo&hellip;Manager and Coach L. Lamoureux went on ahead without his players (almost the entire team) and this certainly caused a storm&hellip;however, THE HOCKEY NEWS has now been informed that all is hunky-dory&hellip;But. Who Forgave Whom???&hellip;</p><p>A Bouquet To Bobby Mitchell ! ! !&hellip;when Clifford Hicks, ace netminder for Pembroke Lumber Kings lost his baby and bad to leave the team, Bobby Mitchell of North Bay was picked up&hellip;he stemmed the tide of over 50 shots by the desperate Sudbury Wolves to lead Pembroke to an important victory&hellip;it was one of the most spectacular netminding jobs of the season&hellip;(Maxie is still pulling his hair over that one !!!&hellip;)</p><p>Gary &ldquo;King&rdquo; Begin of Hearst Lumber Kings, an entry in the Mattagami Senior Hockey League, was suspended for the four games left on the regular schedule between his Lumber Kings and Cochrane Wolves&hellip;on top of that, the executive ruled that Begin must confine his work to only coaching for the balance of the season&hellip;the storm erupted when a fan was injured during a miniature riot in a game between Hearst and Cochrane&hellip;Hearst was ahead, 4-3, the game was halted and then awarded to Cochrane&hellip;Well, &ldquo;King,&rdquo; howya fixed for blades???&hellip;And, at Woodstock, several police had to be called to quell a riot that developed in a game between Ingersoll Reems and Woodstock Warriors&hellip;Hatt of Woodstock and Livingston of Ingersoll tangled, received misconduct penalties, tangled again leading to a general free-for-all&hellip;Coach Willie Young of Woodstock got the worst of the deal, needing six stiches to close a deep cut in his head.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02129/1210100-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROSS WATSON</b></figcaption></div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Moncton Hawks finally caught the flying Charlottetown Islanders in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League standing but the first-place tie was shortlived.</p><p>On the wings of a long winning streak, while the Islanders lost game after game. Hawks ended a two-months climb from the lower regions to deadlock for the lead.</p><p>Then the Hawks suffered a shutout at Fredericton, Islanders mauled the Amherst Ramblers and the team coached by sprightly Harry Brylaccich was on top again.</p><p>While the Islanders were in their slump all teams moved up closer to the top with the result that all four places could change hands before the schedule ends February 12.</p><p>Islanders hit the bottom of the barrel one night in Amherst when they were walloped 14-1. They were without five regulars, including league leading scorer Buck Whitlock and were snowed under, their worst licking since they returned to senior hockey six years ago.</p><p>The following night, back on home ice and with a full roster, the Islanders gained almost full revenge when they smothered Ramblers 12-7. The game was featured by a fist fight between Amherst goalie Danny Frigon and Island defenceman Danny O&rsquo;Connor.</p><p>In the 14-1 game Frigon ruined his own shutout by deflecting the puck into his own cage. Credit went to O&rsquo;Connor, who showed his &lsquo;appreciation&rsquo; by walloping the Amherst goalie in the eye the very next night.</p><p>There was no doubt as to which man won the fight. Frigon&rsquo;s eyes were cut and he had a king-size headache. He went off for 10 minutes. After a short return he went off again and then defenceman Larry Blackburn donned the pads for the remainder of the game.</p><p>Ross Watson, centre of a playing card controversy, has gotten the green light from the Maritime Amateur Hockey Association to play with Moncton Hawks.</p><p>Watson, a right wing stalwart with Halifax Atlantics a year ago, rejoined Dugger McNeill in Moncton but his eligibility was questioned, first by Charlottetown and then by Amherst. The MAHA ruled in favor of Moncton and now the Hawks feel they&rsquo;ll be strong enough to win the league championship.</p><p>They started the season as favorites because of the many stars in their lineup, many of them members of Halifax Atlantics who had won the Alexander Cup the past two years. But they failed to click in the early days and it was only after they had cut their roster and added new names that they started to march.</p><p>A steady producer since he came in late has been Tod Campeau, the much-travelled Quebec League veteran. Tod seems to be the man the Hawks needed to steady the team.</p><p>Roger Bessette, who has seen much service on many hockey fronts, is back in the Maritimes. Last year he played goal for Charlottetown islanders. This year he&rsquo;s with Pictou Royals in the APC League and counted upon to strengthen the team in the playoffs. Royals are likely to finish third in the five team circuit.</p><h2><b>Joins Old Coach</b></h2><div class="sidebar"><p>Penticton, B.C.</p><p>Mr. Ken McKenzie, The Hockey News, Montreal, Que.</p><p>Dear Ken,</p><p>The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association has honored the Penticton V&rsquo;s by extending an invitation to them to participate in the World Hockey Tournament to be held in Germany commencing February 25th, 1955, following four exhibition games to be played in that country. The V&rsquo;s have accepted the invitation and are preparing to leave here on February 12th by plane. The C.A.H.A. will be providing transportation, hotel accommodation, meals, sweaters and toques, sticks and some other incidentals. The hockey club will be required through assistance from public bodies, sport fans, and interested business firms throughout Canada to finance remaining expense of operating a hockey club for five or six weeks with no revenue coming in from receipts. These costs include extra skates for the players, gloves, medical care, dressing room supplies, passports, excess baggage costs&mdash;2400 odd pounds at more than $1.00 per pound each way&mdash;the costs of taxis as required, telegram and telephone expense, taking care of players&rsquo; families, and numerous others incidental costs.</p><p>The team is at present leading the Okanagan League by a good margin, and is much the same team as won the Allan Cup but strengthened somewhat. It will go to Europe as a unit as the Canada Team in the blue and white uniform of our country. The club will wind up its regular playing season with little, if any, funds in its coffers.</p><p>We have a drive for funds underway with the slogan &ldquo;Your Dollar&rsquo;Today Sends the V&rsquo;s On Their Way. &ldquo;It is our thought that there may be sportsmen in your area who would like to play a part in sending the Canada Team to this important Tournament. Your assistance in getting our appeal over to the public would indeed be appreciated. We solicit their support in this GO VEES GO campaign and we are confident they will return the World&rsquo;s Championship to Canada where it rightfully belongs.</p><p>YOU are in a position to assist us in this campaign and we would certainly appreciate anything you might do in your own way to help it along.</p><p>J. B. Newton Publicity Chairman<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Moncton Hawks Bid For Top Spot After Climb From ACSHL Cellar

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>In this day and age when few leagues play overtime hockey, the experiences of the Medicine Hat Tigers regarding overtime play probably constitute a modern record of sorts.</p><p>Medicine Hat has been involved in eight overtime games this season, and on six of those occasions they went down to defeat. In the other two games, they won one and played to a tie with the Edmonton Oil Kings.</p><p>No wonder Will Bill Hunter, the fiery coach of the &lsquo;Hatters, sees red whenever the subject of overtime games comes up.</p><p>Recently they suffered two losses in three nights, both in overtime, to Alex Kaleta&rsquo;s Moose Jaw Canucks. And they were only the second and third wins of the season for Kaleta&rsquo;s Kids.</p><p>To make matters worse for Medicine Hat, they seem to lose their overtime games in streaks. Earlier in the season, they were forced into overtime in three consecutive games and they wound up by losing all three.</p><p>Despite their poor success in overtime play, the Medicine Hatters rate a bang-up fourth in the Western Junior Hockey League, just six points behind the third-place Edmonton Oil Kings. With an even break in their eight overtime games, the Tigers would at least be on an even footing with Edmonton.</p><p>Again this season sudden-death overtime has been in vogue in the Western Junior League. In other words, the first goal in overtime wins it. However, if there is no score after 10 minutes of play, the game is called a tie.</p><p>The fans like the tension and the thrilling action of this overtime setup. As for the teams, they all like it&mdash;except Bill Hunter and Medicine Hat. While the &lsquo;Hatters have been involved in eight overtime games this season, the league-leading Regina Pats have yet to get their first taste of overtime hockey.</p><p>To add insult to injury, in several of their overtime games the Tigers were leading their opponents until late in regulation time. In their last one for example, before a capacity crowd of 1,800 at Medicine Hat, Lethbridge Native Sons knotted the count at 4-4 with a goal by Ron Morgan at 18: 03 of the third period.</p><p>The overtime looked like it might be scoreless until Earl Ingarfield beat goalie Johnny Panagrot at 8: 58 of the overtime frame. And the fact that Ingarfield is a former Medicine Hat player really rubbed it in.</p><p>One thing about this sudden-death overtime system, it sure helps to eliminate tie games. There has been only one stalemate this season in the Western Junior League, and that was the tie game between Edmonton and Medicine Hat.</p><p>Providing they don&rsquo;t hit a bad slump on their home ice, the Regina Pats look like a good bet to hold down first place in the final standing. They hold an eight-point margin over Lethbridge with 12 league games to play. If the Pats can hold on to the lead, it will mark their first top-place finish in three years. Edmonton wound up on top for the last two campaigns.</p><p>With Moose Jaw hopelessly out of contention, the big battle appears to be for second place between Lethbridge and Edmonton. Only one point separates the two teams. Lethbridge is now under the helm of Bill Ramsden, who took over from the ousted Butch McDonald.</p><p>The Western Junior League clubs were interested in learning that the western junior champion can pick up three players from their own branch for the Memorial Cup final. Judging by their poor success against the east in the past five years, the western club can do with that help. Since 1950 the western representatives in the Memorial Cup final have won only two games and tied another while dropping a total of 20 games to the eastern representatives.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01167/1210131-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="287" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Hunter</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Overtime Contests Jinx To Medicine Hat Tigers; Play Eight, Win But One

<div class="byline">JOE MINSTER</div><p>TOLEDO, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>Claude Robert, who had been wearing a Ft. Wayne uniform in the International Hockey League, was released by that club and signed up by the Toledo Mercurys.</p><p>Frank (Butch) Stahan, who opened the season in professional company with the now-defunct Ottawa club of the Quebec League, finally reported to Coach Doug McCaig at Toledo.</p><p>The Komets. of Ft. Wayne added another man to their roster, in an effort to maintain their winning ways. He was George Hunchuk, a defenseman from Moose Jaw, who is attending college in the Indiana city.</p><p>A phase of hockey which rarely is heard of nowadays, the penalty shot, cropped up twice in the International League.</p><p>Ft. Wayne and Johnstown got the shot, with the former cashing in and the latter missing. Norm Johnson got the goal for the Komets with his team trailing Grand Rapids, 2-0, in the third period, and the Hoosiers went on to win, 4-2. John Horvath failed in the second period attempt for Johnstown, as Troy beat the Jets, 6-3.</p><p>Grand Rapids&rsquo; Moose Lallo is the new penalty leader, replacing Troy Coach Nellie Podolski. Lallo now has 98 minu-tes, two more than Podolski.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Butch Stahan Joins Mercs

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02107/1210186-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PETE WYWROT</b></figcaption></div><p>FORT WAYNE, Ind.&mdash;</p><p>It&rsquo;s almost as hard to stop Pete Wywrot these days as it is to spell his last name. Husky Pete, a former professional, admittedly is the main reason for the resurgence of the Fort Wayne Komets of the International Hockey League. With Wywrot showing the way, the Hoosiers in one spell won seven, tied one game and lost but one to move out of the cellar into the thick of the fight for a playoff berth.</p><p>There&rsquo;s a good reason for Wywrot&rsquo;s success. His formula is simple: Play every game as it comes and go all out for victory every time.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve scored a lot of points and made a lot of &lsquo;big&rsquo; goals in my career,&rdquo; the 32-year-old Ft. William, Ontario, native told this writer. &ldquo;But, to me, the biggest thrill a player can have is when his team wins the game&mdash;and then goes on to win the championship.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Provided Spirit</b></h2><h3>Five Pro Clubs</h3><p>Wywrot has always been a prolific point-maker. His six-year stint as a pro embraced five different clubs, Minnea-polis of the now-defunct United States loop and San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle and San Diego of the Pacific Coast circuit. He had his best pro campaign at Frisco, when he rolled up 83 points.</p><p>The widely-traveled Wywrot, who weighs in at 185 pounds and stands 5-10 &frac12;, got his start with the Port Arthur juniors, and played senior hockey at Port Arthur, Seattle (where he now makes his home with his wife, Lois), Glace Bay and Halifax.</p><p>He had his biggest success with Halifax last season, when he rapped in 38 goals and piled up the huge total of 117 points, and he also exceeded the century mark at Glace Bay.</p><h3>Helped Win Title</h3><p>He was with Seattle in 1944-45 as an amateur when that club annexed the U.S. senior crown.</p><p>A stationary engineer in the off-season, Wywrot recalled that he&rsquo;s had a lot of seven or eight-point contests during his goal-studded career, but added that &ldquo;I remember some of our big victories better than some of my own big games.&rdquo;</p><p>Pete actually started with the Soo, Ontario, Greyhounds this campaign, but was released by that club after suffering a series of injuries. &ldquo;I never really got a chance there,&rdquo; he stated, &ldquo;so when I was released, I made a deal with Ft. Wayne and I&rsquo;Ve never been sorry about it, either.&rdquo;</p><p>Pat Wilson, Koniet coach, is another fellow who isn&rsquo;t sorry Wywrot decided to cast his lot with the Indiana squad.</p><p>&ldquo;Pete has been our sparkplug; there&rsquo;s no doubt about it. He&rsquo;s been the guy who&rsquo;s been getting the key goals for us and his hustle has certainly given us a big lift. We&rsquo;re tough with him in there,&rdquo; Wilson asserted.</p><h3>Near Crown</h3><p>Cincinnati&rsquo;s Mohawks moved closer to the IHL pennant last week when they reeled off three straight victories, two of them on the road, to swell their first-place lead to a comfortable eight and a half games.</p><p>The Hawks, beaten by a single goal three times the previous week, rebounded to trim runner-up Troy, 9-5, at Troy; Ft. Wayne, 3-1, at Ft. Wayne and Grand Rapids, 3-0, at Cincinnati. In the meantime, Troy sustained four straight losses to fall to within a single point of Johnstown, in third.</p><p>Grand Rapids is in fourth, a game behind Johnstown, while the same margin separates Ft. Wayne in fifth and Grand Rapids. Toledo continues to bring up the rear, after breaking even in two starts last week.</p><p>ICING THE PUCK&hellip;There was only one shutout during the week, that by Rookie Goaltender Gaetan Dessureault of the Mohawks. It was his fifth, as he held Grand Rapids scoreless, 3-0, to tie Roy McMeekin of Toledo for the shutout leadership&hellip;Another reinstated pro, Mike Narduzzi of Johnstown, pulled the &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; as his sextet smothered Grand Rapids, 9-2, with a five-riod&hellip;Bill Hogg of Grand Rapids joined the exclusive 20-goal class with two markers against Toledo. Cincinnati&rsquo;s classy rookie centre, Phil Goyette, had 31 goals at this writing, while his linemate, Denis Boucher, had 2 3. Johnstown&rsquo;s John Horvath, who is waging a battle with Goyette for individual honors, also is well over the coveted 20 mark&hellip;Dessureault moved in front of Troy&rsquo;s Bill Tibbs in goal-tending average, with a 2.88 mark to 3.03 for Tibbs, a member of the IHL&rsquo;s allstar team for the past four years.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Pete Wywrot Sparkplug Behind Recent Drive By Komets In IHL

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01146/1210217-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK</b></p><h2><b>Across</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured Ranger forward.</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of Martin of Chicago.</p><p>6&mdash;Outstanding AHL rookie of 1947-48.</p><p>11&mdash;1947-48 NHL champions.</p><p>12&mdash;Syd Howe starred for several seasons with this NHL team (abbr.)</p><p>13&mdash;Myron J. Tremaine is one for the Boston Bruins (abbr.)</p><p>14&mdash;Period of time.</p><p>16&mdash;Adverb.</p><p>17&mdash;Initials of one of the Red Wings.</p><p>18&mdash;New Rochelle (abbr.)</p><p>19&mdash;Chicago & Rangers played to one on Dec. 26.</p><p>20&mdash;Teams frequently suffer from a&mdash;season slump.</p><p>21&mdash;Ocean (abbr.)</p><p>22&mdash;Initials of Neilson, U. S. wrestler.</p><p>23&mdash;Former Detroit goalie.</p><p>26&mdash;Andy Bathgate&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>28&mdash;Initials of one of the Black Hawks.</p><p>29&mdash;Lou Jankowski played junior hockey in this league (abbr.)</p><p>31&mdash;Hart Trophy winner of 194950.</p><p>32&mdash;Initials of a Toronto winger.</p><h2><b>Down</b></h2><p>1&mdash;&rdquo;Skip&rdquo; Teal&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>2&mdash;Plays for Springfield, called Ed.</p><p>8&mdash;Doug Harvey had one trained in Toronto recently.</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of Pittsburgh&rsquo;s coach.</p><p>5&mdash;Chicago purchased this netminder recently.</p><p>7&mdash;Old English (abbr.)</p><p>8&mdash;Conjunction.</p><p>9&mdash;Parker MacDonald&rsquo;s native province (abbr.)</p><p>10&mdash;Birthplace of Billy Dea of Vancouver Canucks.</p><p>15&mdash;Jim Henry played amateur hockey with&mdash;Rangers.</p><p>20&mdash;Rank held by Conn Smythe.</p><p>23&mdash;Short for first name of Gauthier, ex NHL player.</p><p>24&mdash;Initials of Solinger of the Leafs.</p><p>25&mdash;First name of Parker of Hershey.</p><p>27&mdash;Jack LeClair was born in this month.</p><p>30&mdash;Pronoun.</p><h2><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Solution</b></h2><h3>Across</h3><p>1&mdash;Mickoski</p><p>6&mdash;An</p><p>7&mdash;VI</p><p>9&mdash;Rules</p><p>11&mdash;Dan</p><p>12&mdash;Verdun</p><p>14&mdash;M.N.</p><p>15&mdash;Chi.</p><p>17&mdash;Go</p><p>18&mdash;Arn.</p><p>19&mdash;One</p><p>20&mdash;Lt.</p><p>21&mdash;Bi.</p><p>22&mdash;Fred</p><p>24&mdash;Crop</p><p>26&mdash;E.E.</p><p>27&mdash;A.T.</p><p>29&mdash;Use</p><p>30&mdash;Raymond</p><p>32&mdash;Sleep</p><h3>Down</h3><p>1&mdash;Marty</p><p>2&mdash;Calvin</p><p>3&mdash;Knee</p><p>4&mdash;S.P.</p><p>5&mdash;Ivan</p><p>8&mdash;In</p><p>10&mdash;Sr.</p><p>11&mdash;Duncan</p><p>13&mdash;Winnipeg</p><p>14&mdash;Montreal</p><p>16&mdash;H.R.</p><p>17&mdash;Golfers</p><p>21&mdash;Bos.</p><p>23&mdash;Dame</p><p>25&mdash;Rudy</p><p>28&mdash;Top</p><p>31&mdash;Ye.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><h3>(Standing on Jan. 17)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02109/1210353-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="595" height="183"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS (Including games of Jan. 10)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0384/1210346-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="597" height="290"></div><h3>THE LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1815/1210339-1-eng-US/f0019-182.jpg" title="f0019-18" width="603" height="578"></div><h2>OKANAGAN SENIOR (Standing on Jan. 15)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0470/1210332-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="595" height="138"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0554/1210325-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="597" height="497"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0640/1210318-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="602" height="134"></div><h2>NOHA SENIOR (Standing on Jan. 16)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0737/1210311-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="603" height="160"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0834/1210304-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="601" height="340"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0929/1210297-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="602" height="182"></div><h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2><h3>(Standing on Jan. 17)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1023/1210290-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="603" height="164"></div><h2>QUEBEC JUNIOR (Standing on Jan. 19)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1123/1210283-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="608" height="107"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS (Including games of Jan. 12)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1222/1210276-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="603" height="420"></div><h2>WESTERN JUNIOR (Standing on Jan. 14)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1321/1210269-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="596" height="159"></div><h2>OHA SENIOR A (Standing on Jan. 19)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1421/1210262-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="597" height="191"></div><h2>OHA JUNIOR A (Standing on Jan. 20)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1519/1210255-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="599" height="245"></div><h2>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR (Standing on Jan. 14)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1616/1210248-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="596" height="137"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Amateur Puck Parade At A Glance

<div class="byline">&#x2014;DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>The Province of Saskatchewan this year will be hosts for the annual meeting of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.</p><p>This was decided at the recent semi-annual meeting of the C.A.H.A. held in Port Arthur. The annual meeting will probably be held late in May at either Regina or Saskatoon, the site to be decided by the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association.</p><p>Gordon Juckes of Melville, president of the SAHA, extended the invitation to the CAHA to hold their annual meeting in Saskatchewan in conjunction with the province&rsquo;s Golden Jubilee Celebrations during 1955. The Quebec branch had also invited the CAHA to hold its meeting there, but withdrew in favor of Saskatchewan when it learned of the jubilee celebrations.</p><p>This will be the first time the CAHA has held its annual gathering in Saskatchewan. The semiannual meeting has been held here, but never the annual session.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Saskatchewan To Play Host For Meetings

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-17" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1715/1210408-1-eng-US/f0019-172.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>I</span> want to become a regular year-round subscriber to Hockey&rsquo;s International Weekly. I want to take advantage of the saving a subscriber has and also receive the offseason issues which only a subscriber can get.</b></p><p><b>Put me down right now for a year&rsquo;s subscription.</b></p><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues. Canadian Remittance $3.00 Payable by Postal, Bank or Telegraphic Money Order.</p><p>U.S.A. Remittances $4.00 Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or Personal cheque in U.S. funds. Postal Money Orders must be drawn on the Postmaster at New York in U.S. funds.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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YES, I WANT THE HOCKEY NEWS!

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0241/1210446-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="248" height="299"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0142/1210453-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="238" height="293"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0339/1210439-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2838" height="3540"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DETROIT&rsquo;S GORDIE HOWE seems a little miffed at the shrill voice of referee Bill Chadwick who brings the play to a halt much to the disappointment of the Red Wings. Alex Delvecchio (not shown) has just pumped a long shot past Canadiens&rsquo; goalie Jacques Plante but Chadwick, following right in on the play, ruled out the goal, contending that Howe was standing in Plante&rsquo;s goal crease at the time. Ted Lindsay (standing behind Chadwick) has seen the situation a little differently and is about to inform Mr. Chadwick of his version. In the lower picture, Boston&rsquo;s Long John Henderson, with an assist from Bob Armstrong (on the ice) thwarts a bid for a goal by Jim Thomson of the Toronto Maple Leafs.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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