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March 5, 1955

The Hockey News March 5, 1955

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06101/1389777-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CONN SMYTHE, accepting a $2,700 replica of the famed Stanley Cup from Ted Kennedy, captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs, shows that he hasn&rsquo;t lost the razor-sharp edge he possessed when GM of the Leafs by telling the boys that he expected to accept (with the other hand) the real Stanley Cup in another five weeks. He&rsquo;s shown surrounded by the players with Hap Day to Smythe&rsquo;s right and King Clancy on his left.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo By Turofsky)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Conn Gets Replica Of Stanley Cup In Gold

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0583/1389600-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="285" height="454"></div><p><b>STATISTICS:</b></p><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span> native of Smiths Falls, Ont., he was born April 30, 1934. Is 6&rsquo;, 170, plays centre, shoots left. After playing junior with Barrie Flyers he joined Hershey Bears and last season played 54 games with them. Moved to the Bruins at the start of the present campaign.</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>Steak.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE:</b></p><p>Smiths Falls, Ont.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</b></p><p>Florida.</p><p><b>FAVORITE NHL CITY ON A ROAD GAME:</b></p><p>Toronto.</p><p><b>FAVORITE READING MATERIAL:</b></p><p>Anything by Mickey Spillane.</p><p><b>FAVORITE RECREATION:</b></p><p>Baseball (He&rsquo;s a short stop.)</p><p><b>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:</b></p><p>&lsquo;Quo Vadis.&rsquo;</p><p><b>BEST ACTRESSES:</b></p><p>Virginia Mayo and Susan Hayward</p><p><b>BEST ACTORS:</b></p><p>James Mason and James Stewart.</p><p><b>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Jane Froman.</p><p><b>FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Perry Como.</p><p><b>FAVORITE POPULAR SONG:</b></p><p>&ldquo;With A Song In My Heart.&rdquo;</p><p><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA:</b></p><p>Guy Lombardo.</p><p><b>FAVORITE TV PROGRAM:</b></p><p>Studio One.</p><p><b>IN THE SUMMER:</b></p><p>Returns to Smiths Falls, plays ball and relaxes after the hockey season.</p><p><b>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY:</b></p><p>Being a member of Barrie Flyers&rsquo; 1950-51 Memorial Cup Winners.</p><p><b>TOUGHEST OPPOSING GOALTENDER:</b></p><p>Harry Lumley.</p><p><b>TOUGHEST OPPOSING DEFENSEMAN:</b></p><p>Bob Goldham.</p><p><b>TOUGHEST OPPOSING FORWARD:</b></p><p>Couldn&rsquo;t select one.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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INSIDE STUFF About Don McKenney

<p>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</p><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 Printed in Canada<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<p>HERSHEY&mdash;Now in his second campaign as a professional, Arnott Whitney is one of the American Hockey League&rsquo;s most consistent blue liners.</p><p>The Hershey defenseman, who recently turned 23, demonstrated his durability as an AHL freshman last season when he appeared in all 70 regular season tilts, plus eleven play-off engagements.</p><p>And, while he packs 180 pounds on his solid six-foot frame, and is thus physically capable of handing out body checks and holding his own in rugged play, he is not given to rough stuff.</p><p>Paired with coach Murray Henderson, Whitney has patterned his style of play after his boss. As a result, he has become one of the best poke checkers in the loop.</p><p>Arnott turned pro with the Bears last season after a campaign with New Haven in the Eastern Amateur League; prior to that he played his junior hockey with the Port Arthur West End Bearcats.</p><p>A resident of Port Arthur during the off-season, Whitney is married and works at his job as an aircraft mechanic when he is not chasing the elusive puck around the rinks of the American Hockey League for the Bears.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Arnott Whitney Gets His Lessons From The Coach

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01138/1390882-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>Hawks, Blues Exchange Views</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0296/1390875-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="2279" height="1302"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>THE NEW YORK RANGERS</b> and the Chicago Black Hawks are caught in action by cameramen in different cities as the Hawks are the visitors in the top picture and the hosts in the lower photo. Hank Bassen, the Chicago goalie comes out of his cage to make a save off Rangers&rsquo; Edgar Laprade and gets some fast help from team-mates Frankie Martin and Johnny McCormack. In the lower picture, Chicago&rsquo;s Eddie Litzenberger battles along the boards with Danny Lewicki. See Gump Worsley and Harry Howell watching the action from over the top of the Ranger cage?</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Irvin Foresees East-West Final Irvin Foresees East-West Final

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Taking a long-range view, Coach Dick Irvin of the Montreal Canadiens foresees the day when the West will again challenge for the Stanley Cup, presented to hocKey as a challenge trophy by Lord Stanley of Preston when he was Governor-General of Canada and first won by the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association in 1893</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re building bigger and better rinks out West, said Irvin, &ldquo;and there is bound to be a revival in interest in professional hockey. As a matter of fact Winnipeg will join the Western Hockey League for the 1955-56 season.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0343/1390913-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="264" height="367"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Irvin</b></figcaption></div><p>Incidentally a Winnipeg team, the old Victorias, were the first Westerners to successfully challenge for the historic trophy, winning it in 1900-01.</p><p>&ldquo;I won&rsquo;t be around to see a Western challenge again, said Irvin. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be out of hockey when it comes to pass but believe me such a development seems inevitable and I&rsquo;m sure it will create new interest in our national game.&rdquo;</p><p>Irvin went on to say that the West produces some pretty good hockey players. &ldquo;The best centre who ever played in the National Hockey League was a Western boy,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Elmer Lach, from Nokomis, Saskatchewan. He won the Hart Trophy ten years ago.</p><p>&ldquo;And look at Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings. No player has had a better scoring record than Howe over the last six years and he&rsquo;s from Floral, Satkatche-wan. He won the Hart Trophy twice. Last year&rsquo;s winner, Al Rollins, was another product of Saskatchewan. He was born in Vanguard and played his senior hockey in Edmonton.&rdquo;</p><p>Irvin dug into his files. &ldquo;Here&rsquo;s a list of Hart Trophy winners,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;In the last 28 years the most valuable player award has gone to Westerners 15 times. It has been won by men like Max Bentley, Sid Abel, Eddie Shore, Ebbie Goodfellow and Roy Worters.&rdquo;</p><p>The grey-haired coach of the Habs then turned his attention to the scoring leaders. &ldquo;In the last 20 years Westerners have won 12 scoring titles, four of them going to Howe in consecutive years, a feat without parallel in the history of the league. Lach won it twice and so did Max Bentley and Sweeney Schriner. The other western winners were Doug Bentley and Bryan Hextall.&rdquo;</p><p>Irvin pointed out that the expansion of the Western League will create new interest and give the young skaters some idols. &ldquo;Thirty years ago there were six covered rinks in Winnipeg. Today there is only one. With Winnipeg in the Western League there will be a revival. Eventually the Western League will be a strong organization and there is no reason why it couldn&rsquo;t challenge for the cup. An East-West final would be a tremendous boom to hockey just like the Grey Cup game is to football. Hockey is Canada&rsquo;s national game. It deserves a national flavor.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Says Game Needs National Flavor Same As Football

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>M</span>ONTREAL&mdash;When Paul Ronty, recently acquired by the Montreal Canadiens on waivers from the New York Rangers, walked into the publicity office in the Montreal Forum he greeted an old friend, Frank Selke, Jr.</b></p><p><b>Back in 1942-43 when Ronty was playing for the Marlboro bantams, champions of the Toronto Hockey League, young Selke was the netminder.</b></p><p><b>Now they are with the same organization&mdash;Ronty as a player, Selke as a publicist and editor of the Forum&rsquo;s program.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Ronty Greets Frank Selke (Junior) As Old Team-mate

<div class="byline">HOUSTON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0670/1388866-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="282" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jackie Leclair</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO&mdash;Montreal Canadien rookie Jackie Leclair is curious to know how an old buddy, Larry Cahan, felt the night he accidentaly gashed Jackie&rsquo;s throat, narrowly missing the jugular vein.</p><p>&ldquo;We had a lot of fun together in the minors&rsquo; &ldquo;, Lecrair said of the Toronto Maple Leaf defenseman. &ldquo;And at the end of the season I hope I&rsquo;ll see him again so that he knows I don&rsquo;t hold a grudge for an accident. He must. have felt worse than I did about the accident.&rdquo;</p><p>Recalling the mishap, for which Leclair now wears a four-inch scar on his neck, Jackie says he never did realize the seriousness of it.</p><p>I knew they were taking a long time to stitch it up,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;But I had no idea how bad it was until Boom-Boom (Geoffrion) came into the room.</p><p>&ldquo;He had an awful gash over his eye and the blood was running down his face. But as I looked up at him, I saw him take one look at me, turn white and walk out of the room, forgetting to have his own cut stitched.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Leclair Sorry Cahan Involved in Skate Mishap

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>He has never looked like a rookie, never acted like a rookie, never played like a rookie&mdash;but he is.</p><h2><b>Who&rsquo;s He?</b></h2><p>Young Donald McKenney of the Bruins, a 20-goal scorer in his first season of National league competition.</p><p>The Bruins have had some fine first-year men over the years, but never one who has acted the part less than the 20-year-old poker-face from Smith Falls, Ontario.</p><p>McKenney has probably fooled fewer people with his spectacular first season here than any other youngster of recent years.</p><p>Hockey folks are a dime a dozen who took one look at the slender speedster last fall and said, &ldquo;He has it&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never known a player like him,&rdquo; maintains Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; manager. &ldquo;At no time has he looked like a rookie on the ice. In fact, in his very first game he displayed the poise of a 10-year veteran</p><p>&ldquo;I cannot think of a single instance this season when he has made a move which smacked of inexperience. There have been times when I&rsquo;ve had to remind myself that this actually is his first year in the majors.&rdquo;</p><p>Calm, cool and collecting points&mdash;that&rsquo;s McKenney, the Bruins&rsquo; first-line center bet-ween Real Chevrefils and Leo LaBine.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01192/1388742-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="285" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don McKenney</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02176/1388735-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="281" height="470"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lynn Patrick</b></figcaption></div><p>When Patrick installed him as a temporary measure first at left wing, then at right wing last fall, he took the shifts in stride. And when Patrick warned, &ldquo;If you think he looks good now, wait till you see him at center&rdquo;, he wasn&rsquo;t kidding.</p><p>McKenney has had the same fine upbringing with which a number of Bruins&rsquo; youngsters have been favored. He prepped with the Barrie Flyers under Hap Emms, then at Hershey under Murray Henderson.</p><p>Along the line he has acquired a poise more befitting a player years older, and he couples it with his physical assets and a fast-moving brain.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s as fast a thinker as you&rsquo;ll find in hockey,&rdquo; opines Patrick, &ldquo;and he makes his moves so quickly that he seems to be a step ahead of the opposition most of the time. I&rsquo;ve seen him do things matter-of-factly around the nets this year that other players take years in learning.&rdquo;</p><p>McKenney&rsquo;s mental attributes are matters for professionals like Patrick to discuss, but his physical strongpoints are visible to all. His speed, for example.</p><p>McKenney may not be able to match his chum Doug Mohns over a distance&mdash;but who can, for that matter&mdash;but at unloading a burst he has lew equals. Some of his best goals this year have been made on change-of-pace plays, in which he has lulled opponents, only to burst by them.</p><p>The certainly about McKenney&rsquo;s future with which Patrick spoke in the fall doesn&rsquo;t necessarily make the Bruins&rsquo; manager a prophet, since Don&rsquo;s talents have been hailed all the way up the line.</p><p>Even his mediocre season at Hershey a year ago, When he was hampered for a long time by an injury, never changed Henderson&rsquo;s rating of the calm young man.</p><p>He&rsquo;s only playing his second year as a professional, hasn&rsquo;t played a full year as a big leaguer yet&mdash;but you&rsquo;d never guess it just by watching him. If it&rsquo;s possible for a youngster to start off as a veteran, that&rsquo;s [what the smoothie from Smith Falls has done.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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McKenney Never “Looked, Acted Or Played” Like A Rookie But He’s. One Of Greatest

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03162/1388780-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="286" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Floyd Curry</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04133/1388773-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="288" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ken Mosdell</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>It was a night to remember. The night of Feb. 19 when the Canadiens trounced the New York Rangers 10-2 in Montreal before 14,990 fans, the largest crowd of the current National Hockey League season.</p><p>It will be remembered forever by Kenny Mosdell, the veteran centre. It was &ldquo;Mosdell Night&rdquo; and he received an array of gifts including a new car.</p><p>It will be remembered by Bernie Geoffrion, the brash rightwinger with the blazing shot who emerged from a prolonged scoring slump with five goals.</p><p>It will be remembered by Doug Harvey, the hard-hitting, hard skating defenceman, who gained five assists, believed to be a record for defencemen.</p><p>It will be remembered by Gump Worsley, the little Ranger netminder. Not for the 10 goals, a nightmare he&rsquo;d like to forget, but because he had a shot on Canadiens&rsquo; net.</p><p>It will be remembered by Floyd Curry, a mild-mannered, gentlemanly player. Curry drew the first misconduct penalty of his career.</p><p>It will be remembered by Jean Guy Talbot, a lend-lease rearguard up from Shawinigan Falls of the Quebec Hockey League, who gained his first NHL point&mdash;an assist on a goal by Jackie Leclair.</p><p>It was an hour of triumph, of deep and queasy emotion for Mosdell, a native of Montreal, whose stomach had been upset for two days as he contemplated the night.</p><p>&ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t eat or sleep,&rdquo; said Mrs. Mosdell. &ldquo;I never saw him so nervous. Cup games don&rsquo;t seem to worry him but the prospect of the presentations did.&rdquo;</p><p>Geoffrion&rsquo;s five goals represented the greatest scoring feat in the league since his teammate, Maurice Richard, turned the trick against the Detroit Red Wings on Dec. 28, 1944.</p><p>Harvey&rsquo;s five assists made him practically a cinch to set a new assists record for defencemen this season, eclipsing the mark of 40 established by Babe Pratt in 1943-44 with the Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>An oddity occurred in the first period when Worsley, clearing a shot on a power play while Bob Chrystal was off for tripping Richard, fired the puck the length of the ice. It was stopped by Jacques Plante in the Canadien cage.</p><p>Curry, who turned pro in 1947 after a successful season with the Montreal Royals, then operating in the old Quebec Senior League, was tagged with his misconduct following an offside call against the Habs. He hurled a choice remark into the sensitive ears of Linesman Bill Roberts and the official reported it to Referee Scotty Morrison.</p><p>Curry also drew two minors in the game, hoisting his penalty minutes to 34 for the season, a new personal record. His previous high was 23 minutes in 1950-51.</p><p>Jean Guy Talbot acquitted himself well in the free-wheeling game and will be chalked up as a prospect for the big team. With Talbot available on the bench, Irvin was able to rest Dollard St. Laurent occasionally. Dash ing Dollard had missed a previous game owing to a foot injury suffered in an exhibition contest at Chicoutimi.</p><p>Meanwhile Bud MacPherson, operated upon for a damaged cartilege a month ago, is back on skates and is expected to rejoin his mates for the stretch drive.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Geoffrion, Mosdell, Curry, Harvey, Talbot Will Have Reason To Remember Feb. 19

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05104/1388835-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="294" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Thomson</b></figcaption></div><p>TORONTO. Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Jim Thomson is becoming snarly.</p><p>The most taken-for-granted member of the Toronto Maple Leafs has broken his peace pact with the rest of the world and begun hitting with renewed vigor.</p><p>&ldquo;And when Thomson gets mad, there&rsquo;s nothing and nobody is going to beat him,&rdquo; says Leaf coach King Clancy.</p><p>One of the few hockeyplaying homo sapiens who can still pose for tooth-paste advertisements. Thomson himself can&rsquo;t pinpoint his change in character.</p><p>&ldquo;I did not even Know I was playing any differently,&rdquo; he insists. &ldquo;Maybe I get mad at myself when I&rsquo;ve been goofed out of position, but I can&rsquo;t think of any other reason. Actually I have nothing to be mad about.&rdquo;</p><p>This is so true. Without being snarly, Thomson has always been the key figure of the Leaf defense, and off the ice, he is one of hockey&rsquo;s most prosperous bu-sinessmen.</p><p>He has developed a Toronto coal business into a profitable off-duty job and business is currently enjoying its best winter. And, where people prefer oil to coal, Thomson&rsquo;s a winner there, too. His oil stocks haven&rsquo;t been as high in several years.</p><p>This healthy state of finances began conjecture last fall that Thomson was becoming too prosperous to keep thriving in a hungry game like hockey.</p><p>Don&rsquo;t believe it. Thomson is aware that it was hockey that made him. If he hadn&rsquo;t been a hockey player, he reckons he _would be digging coal out of a &ldquo;mine instead of retailing it.</p><p>&ldquo;As long as I can play and as long as I think I&rsquo;m a help to the club, I&rsquo;m going to keep on playing,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I hope to be around three or four years anyway and I know I can&rsquo;t be if I&rsquo;m a slacker.&rdquo;</p><p>It is not, however, these Insinuations which have developed the rougher rearguardian. Clancy has another theory.</p><p>&ldquo;Somebody&rsquo;s forgotten himself and taken a reef at Jimmy,&rdquo; The King believes. &ldquo;Whoever did it didn&rsquo;t know when he was well off. Now the truce is over and Jim&rsquo;s one boy who can take care of himself.</p><p>&ldquo;Since he got snarly, he&rsquo;s been our best defenseman. Day in and day out, in fact, he&rsquo;s been our best man all year. Some of the others have had hot spells for a few games, but Jim&rsquo;s generally the steadiest.&rdquo;</p><p>That truce to which Clance refers is responsible for Thomson&rsquo;s still owning his own teeth and original hide in a game where bicuspids and pounds of flesh are mere small change. Thomson will let his enemies make the rules, then play it the way they want it, hard and clean or rough and dirty. His enemies long ago found it expedient to live and let live where Thomson is concerned.</p><p>Absolutely no scoring threat, Jim is the only hockey player in NHL history to whom the 15 th goal in 10 big league seasons assumed such 200 or 300-goal pro-portions that he would like it mounted. But he more than offsets this with the goals he prevents. Although he has logged more ice time than any other Leaf readguardian this year, only 37 goals have been scored against his side while Leafs were at full strength.</p><p>In addition to his personal record, Thomson has also contributed immensely to aiding the younger members of Toronto&rsquo;s blue line patrol. While earning second-team all-star honors in his sophomore season, Tim Horton last year gave Thomson a lot of credit for his performances.</p><p>&ldquo;If 1 looked any good at all, it was because Jim was spending half his time covering up for me,&rdquo; Horton said then with as much truth as modesty.</p><p>Hugh Bolton, who replaced Horton as Thomson&rsquo;s partner this season, has found the same double-duty Thomson a help to him, too, in earning a second-team All-Star berth in mid-season balloting.</p><p>In the face of such a &ldquo;Do Unto Others&rdquo; policy, it is then not strange that Thomson should rejoice that hockey is a cleaner game today than when he broke in.</p><p>&ldquo;The best thing that ever happened to the game was the disappearance of the butt-end,&rdquo; Jim says. &ldquo;High sticks and hooks can be mean and dirty but there was nothing lower or more despicable than a butt-end. I guess it&rsquo;s because there&rsquo;s a new type of player coming into the game, but whatever the reason, you hardly hear of it any more.&rdquo;</p><p>Clancy opined the butt-end was once a measure of self-defense. &ldquo;It was the only comeback when a player put the handle of his stick across the back of your neck and steered you into the chicken fence,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;When that stopped, the butt end wasn&rsquo;t needed the same.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Anyway, the game&rsquo;s a lot better off for the end of it,&rdquo; Thomson adds.</p><p>Yet even while Clancy condones such a live-and-let-live policy, he won&rsquo;t deny he likes Thomson being harder for the enemy to live with through his tougher tactics.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Jim Thomson Swaps Easy-Going Handle For “Snarly Star”

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01191/1388897-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Bathgate Of The Hockey-playing Bathgates</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>E</span>very now and then the HOCKEY NEWS instructs us to produce a few well chosen words on a member of the NHL. These missions usually turn out to be Very pleasant assignments and this is no exception, in fact it&rsquo;s a downright pleasure. Our subject happens to be New York&rsquo;s Andrew James Bathgate, who is well deserving of a few press clippings.</p><p>At first we were slightly nonplussed at the prospect of doing a Bathgate story. The question was&mdash;what would we write about? Not that Andy isn&rsquo;t writeable. That&rsquo;s the trouble. He is! His fine junior record has gained widespread acclaim, and, while he has not been in the big league long enough to have a history, a good many writers have already painted a rosy future for him. Our decision to write about Andy Bath-gate, and the present, seemed a logical solution.</p><p>Actually, we have only met Andy on one occasion and that was some weeks ago when we interviewed him for our &ldquo;Inside Stuff&rdquo; column, but first impressions are important, and, we were definitely impressed. There were a number of reasons for that. First of all, Larry Popein, Andy&rsquo;s roommate, had suggested that he throw a few tricky answers in our direction when we asked the questions for the column. Being an upstanding type, Andy brushed aside such ideas and manfuly faced the interview, well aware that his pal Popein would have a few chuckles at his expense.</p><p>It is safe to say that Andy Bathgate is a very personable young man who possesses excellent manners, an amiable disposition and a willingness to cooperate. Just 22 years old, he is a six footer and tips the scales at 175 pounds. He has dark, wavy hair, a direct gaze and a friendly grin. His high cheek bones and swarthy complexion makes one think that there might be a little Indian blood in his veins, but he is of Scottish descent.</p><p>Right now Bathgate is working diligently to insure a place for himself with the Rangers of next season. So far he has not completed a full schedule with the New Yorkers, having been shipped to their farm club for portions of his first two seasons. Judging from the ability he has displayed in the current campaign it looks as though he will be around for some time. At the time of this writing he is the third highest point getter on the team and is second to Lewicki in goal scoring. An excellent stickhandler and a fast-skater, he commands a good deal of attention whenever he is on the ice. When he makes an appearance in Toronto we can verify that his play draws more than a little comment from patrons at the Gardens. Many Leaf supporters feel they could do without him, while Rangers fans think he&rsquo;s tops.</p><p>Considering that he has been in the league such a short time it would be reasonable to assume that he suffers from the well known jitters before a game, but such is not the case. &ldquo;When I first started to play junior hockey I was prone to nervousness&rdquo;, Bathgate stated, &ldquo;but I soon learned the folly of that and I think I can truthfully say I&rsquo;m fairly calm most of the time.&rdquo;</p><p>Taking a brief look at Andy&rsquo;s junior career one can see why he didn&rsquo;t have to be a nervous type. One season, despite missing 34 scheduled games, he came through with 77 points. Obviously the work of a cool performer. He suffered a knee injury in the 1951-52 season which necessitted an operation and the insertion of a silver plate, but this has not bothered him and he appears as sturdy as ever.</p><p>Bathgate was raised in a family of hockeyists, having two older brothers, Bernie and Frank, who are making a career of the game. Last season Frank had a two game trial with Rangers. At the moment Bernie is in Europe with the Penticton V&rsquo;s trying to help them wrest the World&rsquo;s Hockey Championship from Russia.</p><p>Born in Winnipeg, August 28, 1932, Bathgate moved to Guelph at the start of the 1949-50 season to play with the Bilt-mores. Until last summer he always spent the off season in Guelph, which is the home of his mother and a married sister. In talking to Andy you soon gather that he is very solicitous for the health and happiness of his widowed mother. Each time the Rangers play in Toronto Mrs. Bathgate journeys to the Gardens to see her son in action. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m away quite a bit,&rdquo; said Bathgate, &ldquo;but I manage to see mother seven times per season, &lsquo;so I think I&rsquo;m pretty fortunate.&rdquo;</p><p>While he is in New York Bathgate shares an apartment with Aldo Guidolin and Pete Conacher. They handle the household duties themselves and apparently whiz through without a hitch, but Andy firmly refuses to have anything to do with the culinary department. &ldquo;Aldo and Pete are dandy cooks&rdquo;, he loyally states, &ldquo;so they look after the food. I handle the dishwashing duties. That way I don&rsquo;t have to get up first. It&rsquo;s the cook&rsquo;s duly to prepare breakfast, but it doesn&rsquo;t &bull; matter when the&rsquo; dishes are washed as long as we have plenty for each meal&rdquo;.</p><p>Bathgate might have become a permanent resident of Guelph had the Rangers not sent him to their Vancouver farm team in his rookie season. It didn&rsquo;t take him long to become intrigued with the good points of B.C. Talk to him for five minutes and he&rsquo;ll sing the praises of that fine province. While he is no doubt genuinely attracted to the weather and scenery part of his enthusiasm may be attributed to the fact that he is engaged to a Vancouver girl.</p><p>Last summer Bathgate went back to Vancouver and worked in the scrap metal business. He finds that an absorbing occupation. &ldquo;You suddenly discover that there&rsquo;s a lot to that business,&rdquo; he asserted. &ldquo;You have to know all the metals and learn to grade them properly. If all goes well I would like to buy the business.&rdquo; Obviously not one to put all his eggs in one basket, Bathgate is seriously contemplating the possibility of opening a motel. &ldquo;With such a wonderful climate and excellent fishing 1 think it would be a sound proposition,&rdquo; he said. To prove his ideas have a sound foundation he produced a few colored snaps of scenic B.C. After viewing them, darned if we didn&rsquo;t become enthusiastic, too. We can vouch that Andy Bathgate is a convincing salesman and predict that he&rsquo;ll quickly sell himself to fans all over the circuit.</p><h2>AMBITION: 20 Coals In First Full Year<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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He Wants To Be A Permanent Ranges

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02160/1388928-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"></div><p><b>Born, Winnipeg, Mon., August 28, 1932. Centre. Shoots right. 6&rsquo;, 175 lbs. Lost amateur club: Guelph Biltmores.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Andy Bathgate’s Record

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01262/1388973-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="543" height="562"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DUNC FISHER</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02235/1388966-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="587" height="603"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>OBIE O&rsquo;BRIEN</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03163/1388959-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="589" height="612"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE WILSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hershey Hot-Shots Hit 20-Coal Mark

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Four members of the Hershey Bears have joined the 20-goal club while a fifth, having posted his 18th score, is on the verge of crossing the threshold.</p><p>Dune Fisher, Obie O&rsquo;Brien, Stan Parker and Gordie Wilson have passed the 20-goal figure, while Arnie Kullman has lit the red lamp on 18 occasions.</p><p>Fisher is leading the parade of lamp lighters, with 24 scores, closely pressed by O&rsquo;Brien, Parker and Wilson, each with 22.</p><p>Norm Corcoran, who collected 22 scores last season, has accounted for 13 so far this season.</p><p>O&rsquo;Brien captain of the Bears, continues to set the club&rsquo;s individual scoring pace, having 22 goals and 31 assists for a total of 53 points. The lanky left winger, incidentally, has already topped his 1953-54 mark of 20 goals and 31 assists by a pair of points.</p><p>Sophomore center Skip Teal is another Bear who is running ahead of his last year&rsquo;s scoring pace. The chunky pivot man has garnered 13 goals and 26 assists for 39 points in 46 games, or two more than he registered all of last season.</p><p>The rejuvenated Kenny Smith, who had only three goals and nine assists last year with Providence, has come up with nine scores and 11 assists to date.</p><p>Hershev, which a year ago had six 20-goal getters, might turn the trick again this year, provided Corcoran and Teal get &ldquo;hot&rdquo; during the American Hockey League&rsquo;s stretch drive.</p><p>Last season of course, the Bears had a trio of 40-goal men, including Lome Fer-guson, now of the Boston Bruins, Fisher and Kullman. In addition, &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan, the current Chicago Black Hawks sensation, reached the 30-goal circle.</p><p>Of the defensemen, Ed Kryzanowski has passed his 1953-54 production mark. The veteran rearguard, who last season had two goals and 14 assists with Providence, has already collected six scores and assisted on 12 others for a total of 18 points.</p><p>Arnott Whitney, second-year blue liner, who chalked up a pair of scores and 18 assists last season, has fourteen assists to date. His defense mate, coach Murray Hen-derson, has posted three goals and 13 assists. Last season, over the regular campaign, Henderson had seven goals and 25 assists.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

B’s Could Include Five Men In Charmed Circle This Year

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04119/1389052-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="404" height="681"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Norm Corcoran</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>H</span>ERSHEY.&mdash;Back in action after missing a couple of games because of a virus infection, Norm Corcoran, scrappy right winger, is again making his presence felt in the Hershey Bear lineup.</p><p>The 23-year-old forward, who last season scored 58 points for the Bears, is in his sixth campaign as a professional. &lsquo;&lsquo;Corky&rsquo;&rsquo; broke in as a pro briefly in 1949-50, appearing in one game with the Boston Bruins.</p><p>Norm deserted the amateur ranks after a great career with the St. Catharine&rsquo;s Tee Pees, of Junior hockey fame. His first real pro experience came with Hershey in 1950-51, when he was teamed with &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan and Jack McIntyre, now members of the Chicago Black Hawks. The trio promptly set the AHL on fire with their scoring exploits.</p><p>Dubbed the &ldquo;Kid Line&rdquo; by sportswriters and sportscasters, the youngsters went on to score 73 goals and 116 assists for a grand total of 189 points.</p><p>Although he is not the rugged type as hockey players go, the 160-pound forward is the aggressive kind of skater. He doesn&rsquo;t deliberately seek trouble, but he won&rsquo;t take any pushing around either.</p><p>Corcoran is one of three brothers playing the ice game. Raymond and Gordon Corcoran are stars In the amateur ranks.</p><p>He is married and is the father of two children.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hershey Welcomes Return Of High-Scoring Corcoran

<p class="dropcap"><span>P</span>ROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;Guy Gendron suffered what amounts to the costliest injury in 29 years of professional hockey in Providence when he fractured his left wrist in the game against the Pittsburgh Hornets.</p><p>The Rhode Island Reds had a $40,000 deal all wrapped up with the Montreal Canadiens when Gendron banged into a Pittsburgh player in the first few minutes. He was rushed to the Roger Williams General Hospital where X-rays revealed the break.</p><p>Word of the broken wrist was relayed from the hospital to R.I. Auditorium where Owner Lou Pieri, General Manager Terry Reardon and Sam Pollock, Chief Scout of the Canadiens waited.</p><p>The deal, one of the biggest in Reds&rsquo; history, was sending Gendron into the major leagues with the Canadiens. This was the big break for the 20-year-oid kid from Three Rivers.</p><p>It was a tough setback for him but for the Reds, it was a severe blow for Montreal thought so highly of Gendron that they were sending the Reds three players at once and three others would be delivered next season.</p><p>Pieri, Pollock and Reardon were in the main office when the game started. They completed the deal and decided or. what Montreal would send to Providence. Arrangements were made to have the trio board the special train with the Ice Follies show which left Montreal for Boston at midnight.</p><p>But Gendron&rsquo;s injury wrecked the whole deal.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Guy Gendron’s Wrist Injury Cost Providence $40,000

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05105/1389107-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>Y</span>ou&rsquo;ve seen yourself in a bigger job&hellip;giving orders and making decisions&hellip;driving a new car&hellip;buying your family a fine home. You can make these dreams come true!</p><p>Look around you. The men who are going places are the <i>trained</i> men. Get the training <i>you</i> need by studying at home in your spare time. International Correspondence Schools offer you a course in just about any field you choose. And you 11 be earning while you learn!</p><p>Find out what I.C.S. can do for you! Mark the coupon and mail it today. It&rsquo;s the first step if you want to go places!</p><p><b><u>2 FREE BOOKS & SAMPLE TEXT</u></b></p><p>Tips on &ldquo;How to Succeed&rdquo;, plus coreer catalogue and sample instruction text in Basic Math to illustrate the I.C.S. Method.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Mail this coupon to be happier in your work

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01212/1389145-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GordieHowe</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Anyone with a guaranteed method of slump-breaking is requested to rush the secret to Red Wing headquarters. Simply address the letter:</p><p>Gordie Howe</p><p>Olympia Stadium</p><p>Detroit, Mich.</p><p>In years of repeated stardom Howe had only brief nodding acquaintance with slumps. Not that he wanted to become an expert. But now that he&rsquo;s catching up on his education, he doesn&rsquo;t know how to shake off the thing.</p><p>Nor does anyone else in these parts. All of which is not only painful to Gordie but also downright costly to the Red Wings.</p><p>Howe scored 20 goals in his first 37 games this season; he made exactly four in the next 17 starts.</p><p>That tells the problem in capsule form. It also adds up to the worst scoring slump in the nine-year career of the sturdy Westerner who many consider one of the all-time greats of the game.</p><p>Gordie confesses that he doesn&rsquo;t have the slightest idea what&rsquo;s wrong.</p><p>&ldquo;Honestly, I never felt better in my life so it isn&rsquo;t sickness or Injury,&rdquo; he related.</p><p>&ldquo;Sure my shoulder bothered me for a while after I was hurt and I couldn&rsquo;t sleep on the side for several weeks. But it&rsquo;s perfect now and I don&rsquo;t even have those stomach cramps that used to get me before games a few years ago.</p><p>His health established as OK, Howe was asked what other factor might be causing the trouble.</p><p>&ldquo;My luck, I guess,&rdquo; he laughed without too much humor.</p><p>&ldquo;When I was scoring hot everything I did seemed right. The year I got 49 goals I scored two times while standing behind the net.</p><p>&ldquo;Now I can&rsquo;t seem to get them even if I were standing in front of a wide-open net. Nothing I do is right.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m beginning to feel lucky to have the 24 goals I did get.&rdquo; Howe was asked what methods he had tried at slump-breaking. &ldquo;I know I&rsquo;ve been trying to fight my way out it and that isn&rsquo;t any good,&rdquo; he replied.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess the best thing to do is to fall back on straight positional hockey and let nature take its course.&rdquo;</p><p>Howe claims he hasn&rsquo;t made any change in his style of play. At least none that he realizes.</p><p>&ldquo;We talk things like this over among the fellows and Ted Lindsay told me that I wasn&rsquo;t shooting enough. I didn&rsquo;t realize that but maybe I&rsquo;ve been trying to make too sure before firing he puck.&rdquo;</p><p>Milt Schmidt was in town with his Boston Bruins and he had a few remarks on the subject from personal experience.</p><p>&ldquo;The harder I&rsquo;d try when things were going bad, the worse they&rsquo;d get for me,&rdquo; Schmidt pointed out.</p><p>&ldquo;And then people would come along and ask &lsquo;What&rsquo;s wrong?&rsquo; when I was only hoping that somebody could tell me instead of asking me.&rdquo;</p><p>General Manager Jack Adams, who usually has all the answers, maintains that he can&rsquo;t offer any positive reasons for Howe&rsquo;s skid.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s just having tough luck&mdash;nothing more,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s had about 15 shots hit goal posts this season. I guess we&rsquo;ll just have to wait for the luck to change, that&rsquo;s all.&rdquo;</p><p>By ordinary standards, of course, Howe is not in a slump. But then it has been long figured that Howe isn&rsquo;t an ordinary player.</p><p>A look at his record the last four years proves this:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02188/1389138-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="868" height="225"></div><p>This season, however, Howe is skating along in seventh place in NHL scoring with 47 points on 24 goals and 23 assists. Six players have made more goals.</p><p>It is significant that Howe&rsquo;s slump has been matched by a Red Wing decline. None of his teammates seem able to pick up the slack when the big fellow&rsquo;s scoring drops.</p><p>In those same 17 games Detroit won seven, lost five and tied five. It was during that same stretch that the Wings squandered their best chances of overtaking Montreal.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Howe In Worst Slump In 9 Years Scored Only 4 Coals In 17 Games

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Probably the hardest hit individuals when the Black Hawks blossomed out with 14 goals in two games last month were the goalies that had previously been standing up so well against other National Hockey League competition&mdash;young John Henderson of the Bruins and Harry Lumley of Toronto.</p><p>Rookie &ldquo;Long John&rdquo; had peen maintaining a stellar goals against average in his first season with Boston, but the 10 scores blasted into his cage in one nightmare game by the resurgent Chicagoans no doubt convinced him that all will not always be rosy in the big time.</p><p>Henderson was probably rather amazed at the complete turn of events for he had previously showed definite mastery of the Hawks in allowing them only 11 markers in six engagements, none of which were won by Frank Ed-dolls&rsquo; warriors. The most pucks he had let the Hawks push by him before in one game were three.</p><p>The mere loss to Chicago when it came was a blow to Boston hopes since the Beantowners had been closing in rather fast on the third place Maple Leafs. A vic-tory over the Hawks on the fateful evening would have cut the Toronto lead to two points, but it just didn&rsquo;t happen.</p><p>Chicago actually wasn&rsquo;t bested Boston very often in recent years, however, when it has happened the margins have been strong. The Black Hawks emerged on top in only one of the 14 meetings of the clubs last season, but it was to the tune of 7-0 on &ldquo;Billy Mosienko night&rdquo; March 19.</p><p>This year the Bruins had been going on their merry way again at the expense of the Chicago crew, but their one previous miscue found them walloped 6-1 on the occasion of the major league debut of Henry Bassen, rookie Chicago goaltending sensation.</p><p>While the four goals that beat Lumley were half a dozen less than those blazed by Henderson nights earlier, the Toronto goal demon was as disgusted when reminded that Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Saw-chuk had posted his 11th shutout of the season at the same time.</p><p>Harry had been enjoying a fair margin in the race for the Vezina trophy which he captured a year ago as the NHL&rsquo;s goal guarder with the best record, but the com-bination of the Chicago and Red Wing wins chopped his lead aver Sawchuk to. virtual nothingness.</p><p>Lumley has been steadily excellent with the Toronto team this year and the Chicago victory marked the first time in nearly a month that he permitted four goals in a single game. The Leafs were blanked by Detroit, 4-0, January 23. Records show that four goals are more likely &ldquo;Lum&rsquo;s&rdquo; allowance for two games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Henderson and Lumley Are Victims Of Hawks Bombastic Display That Produced 14-Goal Orgy In 2 Games

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Big Splurge

<div class="byline">By HERB GOREN</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Shortly before he took off for an extended jaunt through the Western prairies of Canada, general manager Frank Boucher of the Rangers addressed the hockey writers of New York, and his subject was the unusual turnover in talent on the Rangers.</p><p>&ldquo;In one season,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;we&rsquo;ve made more changes than any other team with the exception of Chicago. I don&rsquo;t mean this as an alibi, but you can&rsquo;t overhaul a club so sharply and not be hurt&mdash;except in the long run.</p><p>&ldquo;Just look: There are ten players on the team today who were not with us at the end of last season. I refer to Murphy, Bathgate, Popein, Fontina-to, Lewicki, Worsley, Gads-by, Conacher, Ezinicki and Howe.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03147/1389176-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="281" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Boucher</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Perhaps some of them wil not be with us next season, but I&rsquo;d venture to say most of them will. They&rsquo;re a young group, by and large, and some of them were up and down a few times before they could prove they belong.</p><p>&ldquo;The new draft law should help us pick up the odd player or two, and maybe we can get others in actual deals. But the only sure way of developing star hockey players is through your own farm system, and that&rsquo;s one thing that is uppermost in our planning.</p><p>&ldquo;We now have six players on the team who came up out of Guelph, Ont., and we also have quite a few wonderful junior prospects in both eastern and western Canada. When you deal with kids, you have to have patience. They don&rsquo;t make it overnight. Not many, anyway. Look at Andy Bathgate; I&rsquo;m convinced he&rsquo;s going to be a star, but it took him three professional years before he was able to stick with us.</p><p>&ldquo;So bear with us. We&rsquo;re on the right road. I&rsquo;m convinced of that.&rdquo;</p><p>Montreal&rsquo;s grab of Paul Ronty for $15,000&mdash;the price for all waiver players on the protected list&mdash;did not surprise New York&rsquo;s brass, and while they feel Paul&rsquo;s experience should help the Canadiens, the blond center had been benched by the Rangers in recent games&hellip;The Rangers got Ronty from Boston in exchange for Gus Kyle and Pentti Lund, and he served them well for three years&hellip;This season, with Wally Hergesheimer sidelined, Ronty&rsquo;s value went into a sharp decline.</p><p>Humiliated by 15 goals in one week-end against the Canadiens in Montreal and the Red Wings in New York, Goalie Gump Worsley appeared to have suffered the same sort of letdown that has afflicted so many other goalies under constant pounding this season&hellip;Wild Bill Ezinicki has been finding it difficult to get a sufficient amount of rest since he joined the Rangers and wasn&rsquo;t too happy over his performances&hellip;Bill Gadsby, with 10 goals, seemed likely to lead the league&rsquo;s defensemen in the matter of scoring goals&hellip;On the season the Rangers have made the best showing against Boston. They&rsquo;ve held the Bruins to a split of 26 points. Each team has won four from each other, with five others ending in ties. They have one more game remaining, in New York.</p><p>Winner of the most popular player award by the Rangers Fan Club was Edgar Laprade, which moved reporter Jim Burchard to observe: &ldquo;Edgar was voted the player most likely to succeed.&rdquo; Fans gave him a Longine watch&hellip;Edgar won an award that previously had been taken by Bones Raleigh, Wally Hergesheimer and Johnny Bower&hellip;Worsley finished second in the voting&hellip;Laprade is still the only player in the league who has not drawn a penalty.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Boucher Sees NY On Right Road To Fame

<div class="byline">BY Ken Mckenzie</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01284/1389307-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><p>&bull; BILL EZINICKI was in his best form against his old teamates the other night in New York. Bouncing Bill almost ruined four members of the Toronto Leafs as he laid them low with solid checks. His heavy checks forced Eric Nesterenko to leave the game and he was out of action the following night with a severe charley horse. Rudy Migay also incurred one of Bill&rsquo;s better checks and he was forced to leave the game and became violently ill afterwards&hellip;Jerry James, voted Canada&rsquo;s outstanding homebred footballer last fall, filled in for Nesterenko on Leafs No. one attacking unit with Ted Kennedy and Sid Smith and gave a good account of himself. He looked right at home in the NHL&hellip;Eleven members of the Quebec Old Timers team that played the Northern Ontario Oldsters in Sudbury last week are former coaches. These eleven former puck stars coached clubs in high-class leagues, too. The 11 coaches are Bill Durnan, Alec Connell, Gerry McNeill, Kenny Reardon, Toe Blake, Pete Morin, Elmer Lach, Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, Leo Lamoureux, Bill Cowley and Murph Chamberlain&hellip;The Quebec club is well fortified in goal with Connell, Durnan and McNeil&hellip;Kenny Grant of McNieces Sporting Goods store in Montreal tells me that all hockey sticks manufactured by reputable firms are cut within regulation size. This applies to the length of the stick and to the width of the blade. This should disprove a statement out of Toronto in which a sporting goods salesman inferred all sticks were oversized.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02174/1389300-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="282" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Ezinicki</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; MARCEL BONIN received an offer while in Boston to wrestle the bears at the Sportsmen&rsquo;s Show which was playing in Beantown at that time. He declined, however&hellip;Long John Henderson, Boston&rsquo;s rookie goalkeeper, boasts the biggest pair of hands in the National Hockey League. The hands on the lanky netminder are immense&hellip;Canadiens&rsquo; Kenny Mosdell hopes to go into business for himself in his native Montreal within the next couple of years&hellip;Chick Appell, popular sports editor of the Stratford Beacon-Herald ana OHA correspondent for THE HOCKEY NEWS, up and around again after a bout with the flu&hellip;The Mighty Mouse, Tony Leswick, always puts vaseline on his face before the start of a game. Just like a fighter entering the ring. Bill Ezinicki is another player who used to do the same thing when he played with the Boston Bruins&hellip;Dick Irvin figures Jean Beliveau would be worth $250,000 on the auction block. &ldquo;Jean could return that much to Chicago or New York at the gate in a short time,&rdquo; the Montreal coach declared&hellip;Hay Day credits Montreal&rsquo;s improved play this season to Beliveau&hellip;Both Montreal and Toronto had chances to grab Leo LaBine before Scout Baldy Cotton of Boston landed the most talked about player in New England&hellip;Hockey interest is soaring in Minnesota and New England. Schoolboy hockey has never been so popular as it is right now and hockey is outdrawing basketball in most centers&hellip;There are just six players in the NHL today who played in the 19414 2 season. They are Ken Mosdell, Harry Watson, Butch Bouchard, Bob Goldham, Bill Mosienko and Jim Henry.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03103/1389293-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="284" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Danny Lewicki</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; BOSTON BRUINS aren&rsquo;t fussy who they meet in the Stanley Cup semi-finals. They&rsquo;ve only lost one game in their last six starts against Canadiens, and Detroit hasn&rsquo;t beaten them in their last five games with the Red Wings&hellip;Johnny Henderson of the Bruins is the tallest goalie in the NHL right now, but he still continues to grow. He has grown a half-an-inch this season and now stands 6&rsquo;4&rdquo; tall. He is only 21 years old. Henderson hopes to scale around 185 next season&hellip;Maurice Richard has scored 85 goals against New York Rangers. No other star has scored that many goals against the Broadway Blues&hellip;Toronto&rsquo;s Ted Kennedy is now a horse breeder among other things. He owns two stallions, Winter Rules and Outboard&hellip;The current issue of Look magazine features a four-page color spread on the Montreal Canadiens. The Color is sensational and the pictures exciting&hellip;Tommy Ivan figures it will take Chicago three years before the newly-founded farm system really pays off&hellip;Ten of the 17 players on the Boston Bruins are graduates of the Bruins&rsquo; various farm clubs&hellip;Only two players, Maurice Richard (37) and Gordie Howe (33) were in the 30-goaI or more category a year ago. It is expected that several players will pass the ma&rdquo;k this season. Three, Beliveau, Richard and Geoffrion, have already done so. Sid Smith, Howe, Danny Lewicki and Leo LaBine should also score 30 or more this term.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0474/1389286-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="296" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo LaBine</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0568/1389338-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>Lakehead Team</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>In The Hockey News of Jan. 22nd, you said that Montreal could ice a pretty good club from players in the NHL, and so I would like to play your team against mine from the Lakehead Cities of Fort William and Port Arthur.</p><p>Goal&mdash;Dave Gatherum, who played three games with Detroit and had two shutouts and only allowed one goal in the third game.</p><p>Defence&mdash;Benny Woit, Detroit; Larry Cahan, Toronto; Leo Fogalin, Chicago; Leo Boivin, Boston.</p><p>Forwards&mdash;Rudy Migay, Toronto; Dave Creighton, Chicago; Danny Lewicki, New York; Alex Delvecchio, Detroit; Edgar Laprade. New York; Gus Bodnar, Boston; Baldy MacKay, Montreal.</p><p>Coach & Manager&mdash;Jack Adams, Detroit.</p><p>If it were possible for us both to ice these teams I think that we would see some very nice hockey. I enjoy your articles and want to wish you. continued success for the future.</p><p>I. Safir Toronto, Ont.</p><h2>Ted&rsquo;s Trophy?</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>First of all I&rsquo;d like to tell the &ldquo;youngster&rdquo; from Boston that it will be a long, long time before the NHL sees another player like Ted Lindsay and when he talks of Lindsay quitting the game&mdash;well, how would Boston fans like Ted playing left wing for them? (Ha! Boston and every team in the NHL would jump at the chance to grab Lindsay!)</p><p>Now, about Toronto sportswriters playing up Kennedy for the Hart Trophy, this is another laugh! Don&rsquo;t get me wrong, Kennedy is a good hockey player but definitely not in the class of Richard, Howe, Geoffrion and Lind-say who are real team men and who can also put the puck in the net. Let&rsquo;s face it, you Toronto writers, about the only trophy Kennedy is deserving of winning is the &ldquo;Bickell Trophy&rdquo; which was created for him anyway to compensate for his never being good enough to win the Hart.</p><p>And if Kennedy should get that MVP award, he had better hang up his skates because I know he&rsquo;d have a tough time looking either Lumley or Smith in the face.</p><p>If Mr. Kennedy was that good, he wouldn&rsquo;t need hometown newsmen bragging about him all the time.</p><p>Horace (Jet) Brady Dearborn, Mich.</p><h2>Praise for V&rsquo;s</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Congratulations on a top flight publication. Never miss an issue, although just getting around to sending in my subscrition now.</p><p>May I express a couple of opinions through the medium of your Fan Forum? The first is this. I for one have nothing but the utmost confidence in the Penticton V&rsquo;s, this counrty representative at the World Hockey Tournament. Last season, when the Toronto Lyndhursts lost to Russia everyone and his brother hollered long and loud that we&rsquo;d sent a commercial hockey league team and not a good senior club. So what happens? The CAHA this season decides to send the BEST senior club, the V&rsquo;s winners of the Allan Cup, emblematic of the senior championship of Canada. So what happens again? Naturally! More hollering. Just whom does this type of fan expect us to send? The Montreal Canadiens maybe?</p><p>Now, if the CAHA ever does decide to send a pro club over, and incidentally I am ont in favour of this, why go to half measures. If we are to break the rules of the tournament by sending pros, then why not send the very best, not just four or five NHL players such as has been suggested by Dick Irvin? Let&rsquo;s send the first and second All-Star teams and get the job done properly if our aim is to humiliate the opposition. Frankly, I personally feel the V&rsquo;s can do the job, regain the title for Canada, and at the same time not cause any hard feeling among the European nations.</p><p>Toronto, Ont. John Hasmin<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/f0006-0660/1389369-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="582" height="291"></div><h2><b>March 6 to March 12</b></h2><p>8&mdash;ZENIUK, Ed, Edmonton defense, 1933.</p><p>12&mdash;HORVATH, Bronco, Edmonton forward, 1930; LEWICKI, Danny, New York forward, 1931.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0006-06

Happy Birthday to YOU

<div class="byline">By HERB GOREN</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>It&rsquo;s about a month now since the Rangers recalled Louie (The Leaper) Fontinato from Saskatoon, and in that time they have been able to assess Louie&rsquo;s attributes and his failings.</p><p>The reputation that preceded him&mdash;in fact, the few games he had played with them earlier in the season&mdash;wasn&rsquo;t far wrong. He&rsquo;s rough and he&rsquo;s colorful, as reports Indicated, and he picks up his share of penalties on the backline.</p><p>But he&rsquo;s also pretty good hockey player, and it is the opinion of Coach Muzz Patrick that he&rsquo;ll be one of the League&rsquo;s better defensemen in another year or two.</p><p>&ldquo;All he lacks is experience,&rdquo; said the Ranger coach after a disastrous week-end against Montreal and Detroit, which just about ruined whatever chances there were for wangling into the playoffs.</p><p>&ldquo;Louie has a good, hard shot from a point,&rdquo; Muzz continued. &ldquo;Sometimes he&rsquo;s crude, but what would you expect of one who likes to use his body so much in this high-speed game? I know this: He makes you keep your head up when he&rsquo;s on the ice and he loves to play. Anybody with his spirit has got to improve.&rdquo;</p><p>Fontinato has been one of the bright spots in an otherwise drab picture in New York. Even on a recent night when 10,000 Gotham fans saw the Rangers get shellack-edp, 5-0, by the Red Wings, Fon-tinato gave &lsquo;em something to holler about. It was the first time this season the Rangers had lost on home ice by a shutout.</p><p>In this game Louie got into a roughing bout with Ted Lindsay, and while nothing came of it, Louie didn&rsquo;t back off. This wound up in a bitter exchange of words. Later the same night Fontinato and Red Kelly were thumbed off for roughing. Since Red is the epitomy of clean, hard play, it must be that Louie got under his skin.</p><p>Fontinato himself refuses to be drawn into a conservation about his toughness, except to say he can give it and he can take it.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to say I&rsquo;m going to lick this guy or that,&rdquo; Louie said. &ldquo;That would be bragging. And I&rsquo;m just a busher. I&rsquo;ll do my talking on the ice. I just hope Muzz gives me the work. The more work I get, the more my confidence will build up.&rdquo;</p><p>Actually Louie isn&rsquo;t short of confidence. Nor is he short of color. It&rsquo;s unfortunate that referees are so quick to call misconduct penalties these days, because they&rsquo;ve taken the &ldquo;leap&rdquo; out of The Leaper.</p><p>He got that nickname for the very simple reason that he used to jump in anguish every time an official called a penalty against him which he felt was unwarranted. And Louie always Insists he is often innocent of any misdemeanor.</p><p>&ldquo;If I leap now,&rdquo; Louie says, &ldquo;they&rsquo;ll add the ten minutes to the penalty. So I have to keep a tight rein on my emotions. Muzz warned me about that when I joined the club.&rdquo;</p><p>Luigi, a 6-1190-pounder, has become one of the most popular players on the club in a very short space. It&rsquo;s not unlikely that, in time, he&rsquo;ll have the sort of hold on the New York public that Johnny Mariucci maintained in Chicago a decade ago. He&rsquo;s eager to meet people and attend functions and sell the game of hockey. And most of all, he wants to make a firm place for himself as a big leaguer.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m the only son in my family,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Got five sisters. &ldquo;This is a great city and those balcony fans are always rooting for me, like they boo me on the road. I like that. Means I&rsquo;m holding up my end of the business.&rdquo;</p><p>Louie is fascinated by all the fine Italian restaurants in town, with special emphasis on Leone&rsquo;s, where each week the newspaper men hold their meetings. And boniface Gene Leone is equally fascinated by Fontinato.</p><p>&ldquo;If you guys ever make the playoffs,&rdquo; says Gene, one of the town&rsquo;s top hockey rooters, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll have a special dish prepared a la Fontinato. A guy with his spirit has got to help.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Improving</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01235/1389400-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="507" height="1589"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LOUIE FONTINATO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0007-01

Muzz Thinks Louie The Leaper Will Become A Top Rearguard

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03155/1389431-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>ONY LESWICK,</b> the little pep per-pot of the Detroit Red Wings has been in the National Hockey League longer than he might care to remember. Next week he&rsquo;s profiled by <b>MARSHALL DANN.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-03

COMING nextweek

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Long John Henderson has indicated to the Bruins this season that he isn&rsquo;t a young man who succumbs easily to adversity.</p><p>In other words, thinks Coach Milt Schmidt, Henderson bounces back pretty well.</p><p>Several times this season Henderson, like his goal-tending contemporaries on other National league teams, has had sizeable scores piled up against him.</p><p>But to the big rookie&rsquo;s credit, says Schmidt, he hasn&rsquo;t let onesided/defeats get him down.</p><p>When Henderson had been a Bruin for less than three weeks, the Toronto Maple Leafs scored six goals against him. But he came back the next night to win a one-goal game from the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>Later on the New York Rangers scored six times on him, and his reply to that shellacking was to shut out Toronto in his next game.</p><p>Henderson&rsquo;s worst beating&mdash;and he isn&rsquo;t likely to take a worse one&mdash;was a game in Chicago, when the Black Hawks scored 10 times against him, at that point a one-game record for. the season.</p><p>But Schmidt stayed with Long John, and two nights later he restricted the Maple Leafs to one goal in Toronto.</p><p>&ldquo;That was a pretty good test for him, as for as I was concerned,&rdquo; declared Schmidt. &ldquo;Frankly, I was a little worried about how he would react. The loss in Chicago wasn&rsquo;t his fault but after all, he was the goalie whom all the goals were scored.</p><p>&ldquo;But he had some good saves early in the game in Toronto and he didn&rsquo;t show any signs of being nervous. I liked the way he came back.&rdquo;</p><p>Henderson&rsquo;s rebounding ability to date is in keeping with his personality, since he has impressed hockey people here as a forcefull youngster with a touch of Harry Lumley in him.</p><p>Like Lumley, Henderson in aggressive on the ice, a chatterbox and ever ready to protect his doorstep from invaders. Off the ice he&rsquo;s extrovert, not subject to moods, and not a worrier.</p><p>Mechanically he has pleased Manager Lynn Patrick and Schmidt with his improvement, and the more they see of him under pressure, the more they like the way he measures up to major standards, all six feet four inches.</p><h2><b>Resilient</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04125/1389462-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="528" height="542"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>L. J. HENDERSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0007-04

LJ Henderson Can Bounce Back To Come Up With Peak Display After Having A Rough Session

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;</p><p>A Black Hawk team that has had the potential for a couple of months on paper finally burst forth two weeks ago with a dazzling display of scoring prowess that surpassed even the previous efforts of the power-packed Canadiens. A total of 14 goals were amassed in successive wins over Boston and Toronto.</p><p>While the twin victories were only the 10th and 11th in 58 attempts for Chicago, thev represented proof that the squad evidently has the makings of a solid Nationa1 Hockey League con tender which by next sea-son may well be terrorizing op-ponents with regularity.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02206/1389493-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="277" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tommy Ivan</b></figcaption></div><p>The thundering 10-2 conquest of the Bruins which was followed three nights later by a 4-1 thumping of the close checking Maple Leafs was by no means an individual achievement. Young &ldquo;Hank&rdquo; Bassen was a standout in the Hawk goal and every other regular skater on the team figured in the scoring.</p><p>Both of the games, which were played on home ice to the complete delight of Chicago Stadium fans, sparkled with the host contingent&rsquo;s close checking, fancy passing and general domination of the play&mdash;qualities Coach Frank Eddolls had grown weary searching for in his band of Injun skaters.</p><p>Happy, but rather mystified at the sudden change in the Hawks, Eddolls admitted that it was a hard thing to figure out. &ldquo;Just about everything we did worked perfectly and we got the breaks&mdash;finally,&rdquo; he observed. &ldquo;You know, maybe we&rsquo;ve finally jelled into a solid club.&rdquo;</p><p>The Boston slaughter February 17 represented the biggest score any NHL team had rolled up this season and it was the first time the Black Hawks had it for goals in double figures since they victimized the same Bruins by a 10-4 count back on October 30, 1950.</p><p>The Bostons were never in the game the other night as Chicago reared forth with three goals in the first period, added another trio in the second and finished with a roar of four in the final 20 minutes. And when Milt Schmidt&rsquo;s bewildered boys did get their two markers, the Hawks stormed back all the stronger.</p><p>The game with the clutch, hold and grab specialists tutored by King Clancy was tougher all the way, but the Stadium spectators liked it all the more when the Hawks broke a 1-1 tie in the last period and then rambled on to collect two more goals for a convincing margin.</p><p>Accumulating the 14 goals in just two games moved the Chicago tribe out of the NHL cellar&mdash;at least in the matter of scoring. Their total for the season was increased to 135 putting them ahead of both the Rangers and Toronto in that department and also the 133 goals they had to be content with all last season.</p><p>Eddolls has used three lines lately and all showed about equally well in the Boston and Toronto triumphs. The trio which has skated as a unit the longest&mdash;Ed Litzenberger, George Sullivan and Harry Watson&mdash;piled up 12 points from five goals and seven assists.</p><p>This line was trailed closely, however, by the one which has Metro Prystai centering Billy Mosienko and Nick Mickoski. These three scored six times and had five assists for 11 points. The newest of the three lines has Larry Wilson flanked by Jerry Toppazzini and Jack McIntyre. They had a 3-5-8 record.</p><p>The 3,280 persons that turned out to enjoy the Boston conquest, of course, might have been considerably stronger in number had they known what was to happen beforehand. This was obvious when the Toronto game drew 9,812 customers for a Chicago high for the seasn three nights later.</p><p>This was ample proof that the Windy City is still tops in hockey interest if merely given a little about which to cheer. Speculation as to the next Stadium crowd ran rampant after the 4-1 plastering administered the Clancy crew. The big arena may yet bulge as it once did with a hockey crowd this year!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-02

Hawks’ Scoring Binge Bodes Well For Future Of team

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Picking the All-Star right winger in the National Hockey League these past five years has been a matter of choice. Either you liked Gordie Howe or you liked Maurice (Rocket) Richard. They stood so far in front of their right wing contemporaries that the only problem which faced HOCKEY NEWS selectors was naming their third choice.</p><p>Things appear to be a little different this year. The first half-season voting saw Canadiens&rsquo; Bernie (Boom-Boom) Geoffrion take the play away from both Howe and Richard and since then, Leo (The Lion) La-Bine, the brash, bruising youngster of the Boston Bruins has poked his snout into the race and has given clear warning that when it comes to selecting All-Star right wingers, he wants some consideration.</p><p>Geoffrion jumped back into the goal-scoring lead last week after shaking a nine-game slump. At this writing his 34 goals were tops in the league, one better than his teammate Richard and ten better than both Howe and Labine.</p><p>The race for the right wing honors hasn&rsquo;t been so close in years. Two youngsters, still enjoying the flame of youth have risen out of the starry array of players in the NHL and are at a point where they can be mentioned in the same breath as the great Richard and Howe!</p><p>Other clubs have their right wingers too, although they probably won&rsquo;t finish within the first three. Nick Mickoski, traded by the Rangers to Chicago shortly after the current campaign got underway, has been playing both left and right for Chicago and has been doing an outstanding job for Frankie Eddolls. Danny Lewicki, the newest scoring sensation of the NY Rangers has also been firing &lsquo;em from both sides this year.</p><p>As in the past seven polls, we started with the goal keepers followed with the defensemen and this week it&rsquo;s the right winger.</p><p>The leading candidates in each section will be named each week in order to aid you in your choice but in the long run your selection will depend on the perfor-mance of each and every NHL player throughout the entire season.</p><p>The final weeks of the schedule could make or break a player in his bid for All-Star recognition so please note: DO NOT SEND IN ANY BALLOTS UNTIL ALL SIX HAVE APPEARED. Any ballots received before that time will not be counted.</p><p>When you have filled in all the ballots, including the final one which will appear in the March 26 issue, you must send them in all together. There is one stipulation that is worthy of note, however. All letters containing ballots must be postmarked no later than midnight March 30.</p><p>Each ballot has space for you to write the names of your first, second and third choices for each position. In the case of the defensemen you will be asked to fill in six names&mdash;rated in the order you judge their ability.</p><p>After all the votes are tabulated the All-Stars will then be selected on a point basis, with five points allotted for each first place vote, three for second and one for third. The six players and the coach with the highest point totals in their positions win the First Team berths, with the runner-up candidates being named to the Second Team.</p><p>Remember, don&rsquo;t send in your selections now. Wait until the last possible minute, so you can follow the close race for positions as long as possible. It might be that at the moment, you&rsquo;re undecided about a certain position, this way you have that much extra time to make up your mind.</p><h2><b>Will These Youngsters&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03158/1389545-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="548" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERNIE GEOFFRION</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04118/1389538-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="569" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LEO LABINE</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;Replace These Veterans</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01269/1389531-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="577" height="595"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOWE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02212/1389524-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="591" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAURICE RICHARD</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0008-03

Boomer and Leo Loom As Rivals To Howe, Rocket On Right Side

<p>1&mdash;Anyone is eligible to east ballots for the National Hockey League AllStar Team, but each reader may submit ONLY ONE ENTRY, naming first, second and third choices.</p><p>2&mdash;One ballot will appear each week in the following order: goaltender, de-fensemen, right wing, center, left wing and coach. Final ballot will appear in the March 26 issue.</p><p>3&mdash;Ballots for the choice of three players at each position (six for defensemen) must be filled as indicated, with the names of players and their clubs. Use blanks published each week, or reasonable facsimiles or tracings of same if you do not wish to deface your copy. Space will be provided on the sixth and final ballot for your own name and address.</p><p>4&mdash;Ballots must be held until all have appeared, and selections for all six positions, plus coach, must be submitted at the same time.</p><p>5&mdash;Ballots must be mailed to&mdash;AllStar Editor, THE HOCKEY NEWS, Room 309, 1434 St. Catherine St. W., Montreal.</p><p>6&mdash;All ballots must be mailed and postmarked NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Voting Rules

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0987/1389746-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="276" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Litzenberger</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>W</span>hen the Montreal Canadiens dealt off starry rookie Eddie Litzenberger to Chicago in a &ldquo;Help the Hawks&rdquo; campaign earlier this season, it was with some misgiving for they rated the youthful right winger pretty high. &ldquo;A $50,000 prospect&rdquo; in the words of General Frank Selke.</b></p><p><b>The Hawks therefore figured they were indeed getting a bargain. They weren&rsquo;t far wrong, for to date &ldquo;Litz&rdquo; has produced 21 goals and 22 assists for 43 points, a more than creditable showing for a first year man in the National Hockey League.</b></p><p><b>This past week Litz really went to work and managed to pick up five points, on three goals and a pair of assists in three games. The result was that the Hawks lost but once in three outings during the week.</b></p><p><b>On February 23 the tailenders tied the red hot Boston Bruins 3-3 in a game played at St. Paul, Minnesota and Litz really gave the fans there something to talk about as he fired all his team&rsquo;s goals, thus picking up the &ldquo;Hat Trick&rdquo;.</b></p><p><b>Two nights later, Back in Chicago, The Hawks once again came up with a tying effort, this time a 2-2 saw off against the New York Rangers. Held scoreless, the rangy right winger still managed to chip in with an assist.</b></p><p><b>On February 23, the Windy City crew bowed, losing a 3-2 squeaker to the second-place Detroit Red Wings. Litzenberger was held scoreless but once again proved his playmaking ability as he set up Harry Watson right in front of the Detroit cage for the second Chicago score.</b></p><p><b>The Hawks are rebuilding this season and any rebuilding program must be built around youth. In Eddie Litzenberger they not only have youth but a top goal scorer as well. Now if they can unearth a few more like him, the Hawks will be well on their way to being NHL title contenders.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-09

Player-of-the-Week

<h2><b>10 to Go!</b></h2><p>Bert Winstead has 10 games in which to pick the 10 assists that will tie Ted Lindsays&rsquo; NHL record <b><i>at 55</i></b> helpings in a single season.</p><h2><b>Schmidt Impressed</b></h2><p>When in Montreal recently. Milt Schmidt was marvelling at the manner in which Maurice Richard refuses to give away to old age. Said Milt: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s going just as well now as he was 10 years ago.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON WED. A.M., MAR. 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01253/1389715-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="590" height="160"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 27th, 1955</h3><p>Mon. Feb. 21st&mdash;Boston 2 at Detroit 2</p><p>Wed. Feb. 23rd&mdash;Toronto 3 at Rang. 1</p><p>Wed. Feb. 23rd&mdash;Boston 3 at Chic. 3</p><p>Thurs. Feb. 24th&mdash;Toronto 1 at Can. 1</p><p>Fri. Feb. 25th&mdash;Rang. 2 at Chicago 2</p><p>Sat. Feb. 26th&mdash;Boston 1 at Canad. 4</p><p>Sat. Feb. 26th&mdash;Detroit 1 at Toronto 1</p><p>Sun. Feb. 27th&mdash;Can. 7 at Rangers 1</p><p>Sun. Feb. 27 th&mdash;Detroit 3 at Chicago 2</p><h3>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 6th, 1955</h3><p>Wed. Mar. 2nd&mdash;Canadiens at Toronto</p><p>Wed. Mar. 2nd&mdash;Boston at Rangers</p><p>Thurs. Mar. 3rd&mdash;Canadiens at Boston</p><p>Thurs. Mar. 3rd&mdash;Chicago at Detroit</p><p>Sat. Mar. 5th&mdash;Chicago at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Mar. 5th&mdash;Biston at Toronto</p><p>Sat. Mar. 5th&mdash;Rangers at Detroit</p><p>Sun. Mar. 6th&mdash;Canadiens at Chicago</p><p>Sun. Mar. 6th&mdash;Toronto at Boston</p><p>Sun. Mar. 6th&mdash;Detroit at Rangers</p><h3>MONDAY. FEB. 21 Boston 2 at Detroit 2</h3><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal: Henderson; defense: Godfrey. Flaman, Armstrong, Quackenbush, Boivin; forwards: McKenney, Chevrefils, Labine, Ferguson, Costello, Mohns, Bodnar, Laycoe, Gardner, Mackell, Sandford.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Gold-ham. Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards: Skov, Pavelich. Leswick, Bonin, Stasiuk, Dineen, Wilson, Reibel, Delvecchio, Howe, Lindsay.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Scotty Morrison; linesmen: George Hayes. Doug Young.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02233/1389708-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="604" height="555"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23 Toronto 3 at New York 1</h3><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Lumley; defense: Thompson, Morrison, Horton, Cahan, Bolton; forwards: Smith, Kennedy, Arm-strong, Stewart, Migay, Sloan, Nesterenko. Klukay, Macdonald, Cullen.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal: Worsley; defense: Irwin, Howell, Gadsby, Chrystal, Fon-tinato; forwards: Ezinicki, Raleigh, Howe, Guidolin, Bathgate, Murphy, Conacher, Prentice, Popein, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari; linesmen: Sammy Babcock. Ed. Panzck.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03192/1389701-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="597" height="447"></div><h3>Boston 3 at Chicago 3 (Played in St. Paul)</h3><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal: Henderson; defense: Flaman, Godfrey, Quackenbush, Boivin, Armstrong; forwards: McKenney, La-bine, Chevrefils, Gardner, Mohns, Ferguson. Mackell, Laycoe, Sandford, Bodnar, Costello.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal: Bassen; defense: Stanley, Martin, Mortson, Hollingworth; forwards: Mosienko. Prystai, Mickoski Watson, Wilson, McIntyre, Sullivan, Litzenberger, Toppazzini, Creighton, McCormack.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey; linesmen: George Hayes. Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04159/1389694-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="597" height="587"></div><h3>THURSDAY FEB. 24 Toronto 1 at Montreal 1</h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Bolton. Morrison, Horton, Ca-han; forwards: Kennedy, Janies, Smith, Armstrong Stewart, Migay, Sloan, Klukay, MacDonald, Cullen.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Leclair, Richard, MacKay, Ronty, Curry, Moore, Mosdell, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05123/1389687-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="591" height="389"></div><h3>FRIDAY FEB. 25 New York 2 at Chicago 2</h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Irwin, Fontinato, Howell, Gadsby, Chrystal; forwards: Prentice, Popein, Bathgate, Raleigh, Howe, Guidolin, Murphy, Conacher, Howe, Ezinicki.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Bassen; defense: Stanley, Martin, Mortson, Hollingworth; forwards: Mickoski Prystai, Mosienko, Wilson, McIntyre, Litzenberger, Toppazzini, Creighton, McCormack, Sullivan, Watson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06106/1389680-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="590" height="415"></div><h3>SATURDAY, FEB. 26, 1955 Detroit 1 at Toronto 1</h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Wolt, Hay; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Skov, Pavelich, Leswlck, Bonin, Stasiuk, Dineen, Wilson.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Morrison, Horton, Bolton, Cahan; forwards: Kennedy, Smith, Sloan, Armstrong, Macdonald, Foley, Migay, Klukay, Stewart, Cullen.</p><p><b>Referee&mdash;</b>Bill Chadwick; linesmen: Jim Primeau, Gord Revereau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0796/1389673-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="595" height="463"></div><h3>Boston 1 at Canadiens 4</h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Henderson; defense: Godfrey, Flaman, Armstrong, Boivin, Quackenbush; forwards: Mackell, Sandford, Laycoe, Gardner, Chevrefils. Labine, McKenny, Bodnar, Mohns, Costello, Ferguson.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante, defense: Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson; forwards: Marshall, Curry, Moore, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Leclair, Mos-dell, Richard, MacKay, Ronty.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01267/1389666-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="589" height="510"></div><h3>SUNDAY, FEB. 27, 1955 Canadiens 7 at New York 1</h3><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, Bouchard, Johnson, St. Laurent; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Curry, Leclair, Richard, MacKay, Moore, Ronty, Olmstead, Mosdell, Marshall.</p><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Irwin, Howell, Gadsby, Chrystal, Fontinato; forwards: Ezinicki, Raleigh, Conacher, Howe, Guidolin, Bathgate, Murphy. Prentice, Popein, Lewickl.</p><p><b>Referee&mdash;</b>Red Storey; linesmen: Dorn Baolto, Sammy Babcock.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02211/1389659-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="590" height="633"></div><h3>Detroti 3 at Chicago 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03180/1389652-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="589" height="482"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including games of Sun, Feb, 27)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0888/1389645-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="601" height="3340"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS FOR 1951-55</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04140/1389638-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="594" height="417"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05112/1389631-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="582" height="179"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Holding a $2,700, 10-kt. gold replica of the Stanley Cup in one hand, Toronto Maple Leaf President Conn Smythe last week forecast he would have the real thing in his other hand within five weeks.</p><p>Predicting that the determination of General Manager Hap Day and coach King Clancy would make Leafs deliver a lot more than they thought they could, Smythe was addressing one of four separate surprise functions at which his hockey associates honored him on the occasion of his 60th birthday and his retirement as Leaf General Manager.</p><p>A very humble and very human Smythe replaced the normally explosive hockey celebrity at the four functions which tore away the hard-bitten exterior for the duration of his three-day stay in Toronto; a holiday from his Florida holiday.</p><p>Taking time out from an already over-crowded day of staging the fourth annual Sports Celebrities Dinner, the Toronto sports writers first honored Smythe. On their behalf, Bobby Hewitson, dean of the city&rsquo;s scribes and Sports Editor of The Telegram, made the presentation of a matched set of golf clubs.</p><p>The Leaf hockey club, its trainers and management, followed with the presentation of the magnificent Stanley Cup miniature, a 14-inch tall masterpiece on which is engraved the personnel of each of Smythe&rsquo;s seven Cup-winning teams.</p><p>Only half an hour after he returned to Maple Leaf Gardens from this honor, Smythe was again surprised by his 96 Gardens employes. They made the presentation of an illuminated address which was so much oversubscribed that they added a steel flagpole and flag which Smythe has long sought for his summer cottage &lsquo;&lsquo;To show I&rsquo;m proud to be a Canadian.&rdquo;</p><p>And when he entered the Gardens press room during Saturday night&rsquo;s hockey game, Gardens Associates, who call themselves The Gatecrashers, made a presentation of a silver tray on which the signature of each was engraved.</p><p>Smythe was overwhelmed.</p><p>&ldquo;I would be the last to deny I have been unkind,&rdquo; he said chokingly, while tears trickled down the granite features through which few have seen before. &ldquo;But I understand and have always understood my own ways. It has to be in bursts. If anybody stands in the way of those bursts, I&rsquo;m sorry. But that&rsquo;s the way it has to be.&rdquo;</p><p>In this humble moment, Smythe recalled other such humble times. He related when a former Maple Leaf President barred him &ldquo;from my own dressing room&rdquo; during a Stanley Cup playoff. He recalled when players, who apparently callously had been traded from Leafs, sent congratulatory telegrams on his 60th birthday &ldquo;Thanking me for the time they spent with me.&rdquo;</p><p>He remembered when he was wounded overseas and the great inspiration he received from the late U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. &ldquo;People were running around, some of them stepping on me, and yet, I couldn&rsquo;t help but think that if Mr. Roosevelt, crippled as he was, could run 140,000,000 people, I was pretty lucky to be going home so well off.&rdquo;</p><p>And he confessed: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re all just boys at heart. Only age gives you an opportunity to fully understand that.&rdquo;</p><p>Even as he recalled these humble moments, Smythe named the highlights of his life. He named the 1945 Leafs, who used two lines and four defensemen to beat a powerful and well-reinforced Montreal team as the gamest he has seen.</p><p>He named the 1948 Leafs, which had strength down centre with Ted Kennedy, Syl Apps, Max Bentley and Nick Metz, as the greatest team he has seen.</p><p>And he named Sweeney Schriner as the greatest left winger ever to perform in the NHL.</p><p>But it was left to his General Managing successor, Hap Day, to best capsule the great Smythe career with two personal anecdotes.</p><p>&ldquo;When I was studying pharmacy at college,&rdquo; said Day. &ldquo;My roomie was trying to make me join the Varsity team (which Smythe then managed.) One day he came into my room and said Conn Smythe wanted to see me. I asked him: &lsquo;Who&rsquo;s Conn Smythe?&rsquo; and turned around to see Smythe standing behind me.</p><p>&ldquo;Last week, when I came into my office for the first time at General Manager of the club, I had just sat down in my chair trying to get used to the idea when the phone rang and a familiar voice said: &lsquo;Is this the manager? Well, this is the President.&rsquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Smythe Gets Stanley Cup Replica And Hoped For “Real One” Soon

<h2><b>Tight Fight</b></h2><p>Buffalo Bisons and Hershey Bears are battling for the fourth playoff berth in the AHL. Buffalo is one point down but have a game in hand.</p><h2><b>Hat Trick</b></h2><p>Buddy Boone scored the &ldquo;Hat Trick&rdquo; as the Springfield Indians downed the Hershey Bears 11-1 on Wednesday, February 23.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TUES, A.M., MARCH 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01266/1389895-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="599" height="181"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 Hershey 3 at Providence 2</h3><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Defenceman Ed Kryzanowski&rsquo;s 45-foot backhander from mid-ice after 27 seconds of overtime gave Hershey Bears a 3-2 American Hockey League victory over Providence Reds.</p><p>Obie O&rsquo;Brien sent the game into overtime by tieing it up for the Bears with a 15-foot backhander less than three minutes before the end of regulation time.</p><p>Second period goals by Paul Larivee and Ken Davies had given the Reds a 2-1 lead.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02225/1389888-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="599" height="506"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Cleveland 3 at Pittsburgh 2</h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Forward Glen Sonmor of Cleveland Barons suffered a severe eye injury as the Barons edged Pittsburgh Hornets 3-2.</p><p>Senmor, who scored Cleveland&rsquo;s first goal in the opening period, was hit above the left eye by a puck off the stick of one of his teammates in the second stanza. He was taken to hospital where 11 sutures were necessary to close the wound. Hospital officials said his eye haemorrhaged and full extent of the injury could not be determined immediately.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03178/1389881-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="596" height="501"></div><h3>Hershey 1 at Springfield 11</h3><p><b>SPRINGFIELD</b>&mdash;Buddy Boone turned in three goals to help Springfield to its fourth straight American Hockey League victory, an 11-1 conquest of Hershey Bears at the Coliseum.</p><p>Boone scored once in the first period and added a pair in the six-goal final session. Ross Lowe and Harry Pidhirny contributed two goals apiece to the winning cause.</p><p>Eliott Chorley, Ed Leier, Graham Hastings and Walt Atanas got the other Indian tallies.</p><p>The lone Hershey score came in the middle period when goalie Don Simmons was drawn out of the cage and Norm Corcoran skimmed the puck into the spen net.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04138/1389874-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="595" height="837"></div><h3>FRIDAY, FEB. 25 Hershey 3 at Cleveland 4</h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Cleveland Barons rolled up a four-goal lead in the first two periods and then stood off a late rally for a 4-3 victory over Hershey Bears.</p><p>The victory gave Cleveland undisputed possession of fourth place in the American Hockey League.</p><p>John McLellan and Eddy Reeigle fired two goals for Cleveland in less than five minutes, and Eddie Olson and Steve Kraftcheck put in two more in the second period.</p><p>In the last period, Fred Pletsch, Ken Smith and Ellard O&rsquo;Brien scored for Hershey.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05114/1389867-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="590" height="607"></div><h3>SATURDAY, FEB. 27 Providence 4 at Springfield 2</h3><p>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;The cellar-dwelling Providence Reds, battilng to remain in playoff contention, handed first-place Springfield Indians a 4-2 American Hockey League defeat.</p><p>The Reds went out front with three goals in the first period. Larry Scherza Morley MacNeill and Ken Davies each scored once.</p><p>In the second period, the Indians tallied twice, Ross Lowe at 4.32 and Graham Hastings at 17.23, to close the gap to one goal.</p><p>With two minutes and 15 seconds remaining Providence added an insurance tally by Paul Larivee.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06105/1389860-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="587" height="561"></div><h3>Buffalo 2 at Cleveland 5</h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Two goals down at the halfway mark, Cleveland Barons rallied in hte final stages to defeat Buffalo Bisons 5-2 Saturday night and move into third place in the American Hockey League.</p><p>Within 11 minutes of the third period, Joe Lund, Cal Stearns, Gus Karrys and Eric Pogue scored for Cleveland to wipe out a 2-1 edge the Bisons had built up in the second.</p><p>Gaye Stewart and Ed Slowinski had given Buffalo a 2-0 lead in the middle period before defenceman Steve Kraftcheck broke the ice for the Barons.</p><p>The season&rsquo;s largest crowd in Cleveland, 7,534, watched the game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0792/1389853-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="588" height="557"></div><h3>Hershey 1 at Pittsburgh 4</h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Pittsburgh Horners packed four goals into an action-fill, first period Saturday night and went on to defeat Hershey Bears 4-1 and move into a tie with Sprnigfield Indians atop the American Hockey League.</p><p>Eight penalties were called in the lively opening period, including misconducts to Earl Balfour of the Hornets and Norm Corcoran of the Bears.</p><p>Obie O&rsquo;Brien tallied Hershey&rsquo;s one goal as the first period ended, after Bob Hassard, willie Marshall, Balfour and Gordie Hannigan had put the game on ice for Pittsburgh.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0887/1389846-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="596" height="583"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including games of Sun, Feb, 27)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0981/1389839-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="597" height="562"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p><b>MOST GOALS</b>&mdash;Jim Anderson, Springfield, 38.</p><p><b>MOST ASSISTS</b>&mdash;Zellio Toppazzini, Providence, 46.</p><p><b>BEST GOALIE</b>&mdash;Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 57, 1593 2.79.</p><p><b>MOST SHUTOUTS</b>&mdash;Hank Bassen, Buffalo, and Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 3 each.</p><p><b>MOST PENALIZED PLAYER</b>&mdash;Bill Burega, Pittsburgh, 133 mins.</p><p><b>MOST PENALIZED TEAM</b>&mdash;Cleveland, 789 mins.</p><h2><b>Wharram Threads One Past The Needle</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1071/1389832-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="1772" height="1185"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOO LATE&mdash;</b>Gil (The Needle) Mayer, starry cage custodian of the Pittsburgh Hornets, sprawls to the ice just seconds too late to stop a drive off the stick of Buffalo Bisons&rsquo; Ken Wharram, shown at left rounding the net. Attempting to block off the rebound that did not come is Bill Burega (with helmet), Hornet rearguard. Behind him is captain Frank Mathers while the Buffalo player skating away from the net is Dick Gamble (15).</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>As the Hershey Bears hit the road for an all-important road trip while Ice Capades took over at the local Sports Arena, two rookies, recently turned pro by the Boston Bruins, figure heavily in coach Murray Henderson&rsquo;s plans for nailing down a Calder Cup play-off berth.</p><p>Twenty-two-year-old Norman Defelice, late of the Johnstown Jets, has already passed his first test with flying colors. The young netminder, signed to a pro con-tract on the strength of his fine showing during a three-game try out, is filling the big shoes of Gordie &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Henry in admirable fashion.</p><p>The Bears, with Defelice in the nets, won three out of their last five games. The youngster did it the hard way, too, twice beating the league-leading Pittsburgh Hornets, 6-3 and 4-1. In addition, he made 40 saves in holding the Cleveland Barons while the Bears emerged victorious, 4-3.</p><p>With the virus infection and several minor injuries forcing Skip Teal, Norm Corcoran and Kenny Smith to the sidelines, general manager Lloyd S. Blinco asked for, and received, reserve strength from the Boston Bruins in the person of rookie Jim Robertson.</p><p>Robertson, a 21-year-old left wing and center, signed a pro contract and joined the Bears at a time when their bench was at its lowest ebb. The youngster was the third top scorer in the Senior OHA when he left the Niagara Falls club to join the play-for-pay boys. He was a member of the Barrie Flyers for two seasons, playing with Skip Teal, Don McKenney and Don Cherry on the Memorial Cup champions two seasons back.</p><p>The Bears, incidentally, now boast a quartet of 20-goal-getters, plus one other just about to break into the select class. Gord Wilson, the Bears&rsquo; leading candidate for Rookie-of-the-Year honors, is leading the pack with 25 markers, followed by veterans Dune Fisher and Obie O&rsquo;Brien with 24 and rookie Stan Parker with 22.</p><p>Arnie Kullman, veteran pivot man, has 18.</p><p>Desperately clinging to fourth place, the Bears took to the hinterlands faced with the task of bringing home at least four wins in seven outings if they are to be in a position to qualify for the play-offs.</p><p>Meanwhile, coach Henderson is hoping that lightning will strike twice in the same place, recalling that last year&rsquo;s team drove to a second place finish by winning its last eleven games.</p><h2><b>They&rsquo;re Clicking</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02207/1389964-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="293" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dune Fisher</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03167/1389957-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="271" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gord Wilson</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Pair Of Rookies Figure In Bears’ Playoff Plans

<p>The following players are on the American Hockey League eligibility lists for the balance of the season and the playoffs:</p><p>Symbols used:&mdash;G&mdash;Goaltender, D&mdash;Defense, C&mdash;Center, LW&mdash;Leftwing, RW&mdash;Rightwing.</p><h2>BUFFALO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04124/1390030-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="609" height="703"></div><h2>PITTSBURGH</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0763/1390023-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="607" height="698"></div><h2>CLEVELAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0591/1390016-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="594" height="713"></div><h2>PROVIDENCE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0852/1390009-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="596" height="704"></div><h2>HERSHEY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0673/1390002-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="598" height="705"></div><h2>SPRINGFIELD</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0942/1389995-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="595" height="736"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AHL Eligibility Lists

<div class="byline">By PAUL G. SULLIVAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01269/1389926-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRIAN CULLEN</b></figcaption></div><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>When a hockey club tailspins into the form reversal that recently transformed Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Hornets&rsquo; from confident, seemingly invincible pacemakers in the American League chase to a desperate, fumbling force of hopers-against-hope, it&rsquo;s reasonable to speculate on what may have brought the about-face about.</p><p>First ripple on the Pittsburgh pond occurred when lowly Buffalo rose painfully from the cellar floor and smote the Yellow Jackets, 4-1, on the Steel City ice. That looked like a flash flop with Howie Meeker&rsquo;s host wheeling into Springfield the next night to paste the Indians, 4-2.</p><p>But an unwholesome 6-3 reverse followed three days later in Hershey, after which Springfield combed the Jackets, 4-3, at Pittsburgh and Buffalo made it stick twice in a week-end home-and-series, 5-4 and 4-1. By that time the town was talking, if not gasping, and inquisitive minds had begun exploratory soundings as to why and wherefore.</p><h2>Was Top Pointmaker</h2><p>Naturally there was discussion of the summons of rookie star Brian Cullen back to Toronto. Brian the Lion, at the point of departure and probably no return, was leading the club in scoring. But that scarcely implied extraordinary punch for the excellent reason that nobody in the entourage, including Cullen himself, had much too much of a tally mark.</p><p>Besides, hadn&rsquo;t the Maple Leafs shipped Bob Solinger back to Pittsburgh simultaneously with the Cullen call and hadn&rsquo;t Bob Bailey been routed gratuitously onto the Hornet roster close in Solly&rsquo;s wake? It would take a parcel of complex computing to rate Cullen at current stage of development, especially in the fundamental department of skating, a greater AHL asset than Solinger and Bailey combined.</p><p>It might be advanced, to be sure, that the withdrawal of Cullen destroyed a delicate balance painfully attained by trial, error, and fortuitous concourse of cir-cumstances, along with Coach Meeker&rsquo;s carefully and intelligently conceived training program. And that could be true. Didn&rsquo;t the sale of Glen Sonmor precipitate a Cleveland plunge only a year earlier?</p><p>Then, stealthily insinuating itself into the near-vacuum of ideas on the baffling topic, the dreadful thought somehow attained existence that perhaps the time-entrenched &ldquo;Toronto system&rdquo; of holding forwards rigidly to their lanes, of playing to check the other club and meanwhile shoot for the one-, two-, or three-goal breaks that theoretically arise in virtually all, if not all, hockey games, may not be the best medicine for success in the generally high, wide, and fancy American League.</p><p>The point, to be sure, is purely academic because as long as Pittsburgh is a Leaf farm it is going to be teaching Leaf farmhands to play the Leaf way whether the people who pay from $3.25 down to watch the Hornets at The Gardens here like it or not. Anyway, the Yellow Jackets usually finish in the Calder Cup playoffs and it&rsquo;s doubtless only a silly co-Incldence that, in spite of plenty of high-priced coaching and handpicked material, they have finished first in the regular season race only once and likewise copped the Cup itself on but a single occasion.</p><p>In the 1950-&rsquo;51 season, however, the Hornets were floundering as miserably as could be imagined. Almost hopelessly out of contention even for fourth place, the stickmen&mdash;it was categorically reported by ohe of their number to this scribe&mdash;asked Coach Tommy Anderson one night to let them meet alone before the game and plan their own strategy.</p><p>Disgusted and desperate, Anderson is said to have granted the plea&mdash;and the troupe skated out, discarded its straight-jacket style, and swarmed up the rink to overwhelm the opposition and won with a mark of something like seven goals. From there the Hornets mopped up all rivals, achieved the playoffs by a whisker, swept Springfield and Hershey from the boards without a loss, and had Cleveland on the ropes in the final, until the grand strategy board showed &lsquo;em how to be safe for sure by playing close to the vest and took the pressure off the Barons. Well, such mental meanderings are, of course, no more than merest vapor. But they&rsquo;re what fans think of when things go very wrong!</p><h2><b>Started When He Left</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Hornets’ Complete Form Reversal Biff Puzzler For Pittsburgh Fans

<h2><b>Streak Stopped</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>G</span>ordie Fashoway of New Westminster scored one or more goals in five consecutive games before being stopped by goalie John Bower of the Vancouver Canucks, February 18, in Vancouver.</p><h2><b>No Penalties</b></h2><p>Although the highest penalized club in the league the Edmonton Flyers played their second game of the season without getting a penalty February 15, in Edmonton. Calgary were their opposition on both occasions.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>STANDING ON MON, A.M, FEB, 21</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01276/1390159-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="596" height="189"></div><h3>RESULTS</h3><p><b>TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 15TH</b></p><p>New West. 3 at Vancouver 10</p><p>Calgary 4 at Edmonton 4</p><p><b>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH</b></p><p>New West. 2 at Victoria 3</p><p>Edmonton 0 at Saskatoon 3</p><p><b>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH</b></p><p>Victoria 1 at Calgary 2</p><p><b>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH</b></p><p>New West. 0 at Vancouver 6</p><p>Victoria 3 at Edmonton 1</p><p><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH</b></p><p>Vancouver 1 at New West. 1</p><p>Edmonton 5 at Calgary 1</p><p>Victoria 2 at Saskatoon 2</p><h3>TUESDAY, FEB. 15 New Westminster 3 at Vancouver 10</h3><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal: Dechene; defense: Lavitt, Bergeron, Matthews, Sinclair, Bedard; forwards: McNab, Doro-hoy, McLean, Adam, Love, Fielder, Fashoway.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal: Bower; defense: Reeve. Dick, Hudson, Lancien; forwards: Kullman. Dea, Maloney, oJhnson, Wyle, Brown, Cyr. Ford, Ashworth, McLeod.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Paul Bozack; linesman: Gordon Hamilton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02237/1390152-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="600" height="893"></div><h3>Calgary 4 at Edmonton 4</h3><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal: Stevenson; defense: Kyle, Quackenbush, Coburn, Michaluk; forwards: Couture, Pargeter, Hucul, Lundy, Witiuk, McFadden, Scott, Finney.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal: Gatherum; defense: Hrymnak, Zeidel, Zeniuk; forwards: Ullman, Horvath, Poile, Sclisizzi, Melnyk, Bucyk, Hannigan, Stankiewicz, Davis, Allen.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Ed Powers; linesman: Hank Wilson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03211/1390145-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="581" height="503"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16 New Westminster 2 at Victoria 8</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04185/1390138-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="588" height="471"></div><h3>Edmonton 0 at Saskatoon 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05159/1390131-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="583" height="417"></div><h3>THURSDAY. FEB. 17 Victoria 1 at Calgary 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06132/1390124-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="573" height="354"></div><h3>FRIDAY, FEB. 18 New Westminster 0 at Vancouver 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07122/1390117-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="587" height="544"></div><h3>Victoria 3 at Edmonton 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08114/1390110-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="575" height="418"></div><h3>SATURDAY, FEB. 19, 1955 Vancouver 1 at New Westminster 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09108/1390103-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="586" height="353"></div><h3>Edmonton 5 at Calgary 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10105/1390096-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="589" height="544"></div><h3>Victoria 2 at Saskatoon 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1191/1390089-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="588" height="504"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including games of Sat, Feb. 19)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1281/1390082-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="601" height="1509"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1363/1390075-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="591" height="326"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1457/1390068-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="584" height="222"></div><h2><b>Royal Tour Of Inspection</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1547/1390061-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="1757" height="1472"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MEMBERS of the New Westminster Royals are currently making a goodwill tour of local industries in order to get better acquainted with the fans who pay their way into WHL games. Shown here inspecting a huge boiler are, left to right: Cliff Radcliff (Prod. Mgr. of this particular factory), Gordie Sinclair, Coach Max McNab, Guyle Fielder, Motto McLean, Barton Bradley and Bob Bergeron. In the background are Lucien Dechene, Doug Adam, trainer Bob Fencon and Jim Bedard. In the far background is mill worker Lou Sauve.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

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YES, I WANT THE HOCKEY NEWS!

<div class="byline">By STAN MOHER</div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>Coach Norman (Bud) Poile awakened on the morning of Feb. 22 to find his Edmonton Flyers so far ahead in the race for the Western league pennant as to have made a mockery of the whole business.</p><p>Fourteen points&mdash;fourteen big points&mdash;was the Flyer margin over the Calgary Stampeders and Victoria Cougars, deadlocked in the runner-up position. Still in contention for one of the four playoff berths were the slipping New Westminster Royals and the surging Vancouver Canucks. Still in the league&mdash;but only just in&mdash;were the last place Saskatoon Quakers.</p><p>Considering that 14 point cushion the irrepressible Poile normally could have been counted on for some flippant observation such as &ldquo;Well, I always say there&rsquo;s no substitute for genius if you have to be a hockey coach.&rdquo;</p><p>But as it was he was being slightly wary about saying anything.</p><p>Injuries to a pair of key players&mdash;wingmen Enio Sclisizzi and Ray Hannigan&mdash;had clouded the future. The Flyers looked to be home free where a first place finish was concerned. But Poile had to look ahead to the playoffs, too. To the &lsquo;money&rsquo; games. And the situation was not so reassuring.</p><p>It was expected that Sclisizzi would be recovered from a broken wrist in time to take part in the post schedule contests. But whether he would be effective, following a three or four week layoff, was the problem&mdash;coach Poile&rsquo;s problem.</p><p>Hannigan, who suffered a shoulder separation in the same game (against Calgary), was thought to be through for the season. However the Irishman is a battler and might make it back, despite the dire forebodings of the medics.</p><p>Complicating the picture was the fact that Sclisizzi and Hannigan had suffered their injuries on the last night before rosters had to be firmed for the playoffs. So the Edmonton management had little or no time to send out an S.O.S.&mdash;through the Detroit head office&mdash;for replacements.</p><h2>Poile Dons Blades</h2><p>As a temporary solution Poile, himself, laced on his skates and also conscripted &lsquo;Babe&rsquo; McAvoy, a former junior star hereabouts, from the intermediate ranks. At the same time he had the wires hot to Troy, N.Y., another Detroit affiliate.</p><p>Poile, with the wholehearted co-operation of the Edmonton Exhibition Association, who bankroll the Flyers, has done another magnificent job with the local entry in the Western loop. &lsquo;</p><p>Almost from the start the Flyers, a nice combination of youth and experience, backed up by the great goalkeeping provided by Glen Hall, took over on the front end and of late have widened on the rest of the field.</p><p>&lsquo;Strength down the middle&rsquo; is supposed to be the cornerstone of a hockey team&rsquo;s success&mdash;and certainly the Flyers had this, with something to spare.</p><h2>Fine Support</h2><p>Centres Bronco Horvath and Norm Ullman, defensemen Keith Allen and Larry Zeidel, and the aforementioned Hall have guaranteed this strength, with fine support from the rest of the cast.</p><p>This appears to be a time in hockey&rsquo;s history when formal coaching, as such, has pretty well disappeared in favor of astute handling of personnel and the ability to instill overall drive and determination.</p><p>In his three year stint at the helm of the Flyers, Poile has demonstrated real talent in these directions. For the most part players like and, what&rsquo;s probably more important, respect him.</p><p>They hustle for him.</p><p>He&mdash;in turn&mdash;leaves &lsquo;em laughing, as it were. What he does&mdash;what line changes he makes&mdash;it&rsquo;s fine with the players. At least this is the impression one gets.</p><p>Flyers won the playoffs season before last, Poile&rsquo;s first year here.</p><p>Last year they forced the eventual winners, the Calgary Stampeders, to go eight games in the semi-final round.</p><p>And currently they&rsquo;re coasting home in front, further enhancing Poile&rsquo;s great record since coming west from the Maritimes.</p><p>The onetime &lsquo;Bobo&rsquo; Newsom of hockey (he played with five clubs in the NHL) has to answer, not only to the Edmonton Exhibition Association, but to Detroit, as well. Naturally the Red Wings look upon Edmonton as a developing ground. That&rsquo;s the purpose of the liaison between the two centres.</p><p>Which brings us to the subject of the rookies on the high flying Edmonton aggregation.</p><p>Ullman, still eligible for junior hockey, has broken in with a bang. He had 60 points in 58 games, including 26 goals. Here was a 19-year-old who stood an excellent chance of hitting the 35 goal mark his first campaign out of junior ranks.</p><p>Ullman for rookie honors? Could be&mdash;would be for sure&mdash;except for teammate Johnny Bucyk. The Flyers were in the enviable position of having the two leading candidates for the honor. Bucyk, a tough cookie playing left wing, had fired 23 goals and assisted in 46 more for a point total of 69 in 58 games.</p><p>So he was a cinch to gain a lot of votes for the rookie-award.</p><p>Then, of late, a third graduate of the junior Oil Kings, centre Jerry Melnyk, had started to roll. His play on the last coast trip (three wins, one tie, one loss) had been sparkling.</p><p>Definitely play of the first year men was one of the major reasons for the speedy clip at which the Flyers were travelling.</p><p>Otherwise Bronco Horvath was making a runaway of the point derby&mdash;with 87 in 54 games. He had 42 goals, tops in the loop, 45 assists. Calgary&rsquo;s Gerry (Doc) Couture, a veteran of play in the NHL, was second to Horvath but 14 points in arrears.</p><h2><b>Strength Down Middle</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01276/1390235-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="480" height="852"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NORM ULLMAN</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02207/1390228-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="488" height="874"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRONCO HORVATH</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>On Shelf</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03150/1390221-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="545" height="891"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ENIO SCLISIZZI</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Edmonton Flyers Making Runaway Of Western Hockey League Race

<p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>Calgary and Victoria were the first clubs to complete the season&rsquo;s games against each other. Of the ten games played between these clubs, Victoria won six and Calgary four. The Cougars won four out of the five played in Victoria and two of the five played in Calgary. In four seasons play Victoria has won 17, lost 9 and tied four of the 30 games these two clubs have played against each other in regular season&rsquo;s play.</p><p>On the Prairies, Victoria won four, lost eight and tied three. On the Coast, Calgary won three, lost nine and tied three. Vancouver will make their final inter-sectional trip this week, Edmonton the following week, then Saskatoon and New Westminster will make the final swing (he last week of the season.</p><p>Only six points separate the second, third, fourth and fifth place clubs as they enter the final four weeks of the schedule. The battle for the final playoff spot could well go down to the last game of the season. Edmonton are a cinch to be one of the participants and only a complete collapse will prevent them from finishing in first place and winning their first Governor&rsquo;s Trophy and the $3,000 the players will divide among themselves.</p><h2>Individual Scorers</h2><p>Bronco Horvath of Edmonton, with 40 goals and 43 assists for a total of 83 points, continues to set the pace for the individual scorers. He holds a 12-point margin over his closest rival, Gerry Couture of Calgary, with time rapidly running out. Horvath&rsquo;s 40 goals is tops for goal getters, one more than Andy Hebenton of Victoria who has 39. Gordie Fashoway of New Westminster has 35, Sid Finney of Calgary has 32 and Gerry Couture of Calgary was the last to crash the &lsquo;select&rsquo; 30 goal circle with an even 30 to date.</p><p>Guyle Fielder of New Westminster leads in assists with 54, eight more than John Bucyk of Edmonton who has 46.</p><p>Ray Cyr of Vancouver was &lsquo;Player of the Week&rsquo; with three goals and four assists for seven points. No hat tricks were registered the past week. Horvath leads with four and needs one more to set a new league record.</p><p>Harry Dick of Vancouver, with 162 minutes in penalties is well ahead of the next bad man&rsquo; Larry Zeidel of Edmonton who has 130.&mdash;</p><p>The battle for goalkeeper&rsquo;s honors tightened up the past week although Glenn Hall of Edmonton reduced his average by three points and now has a goals-against average of 2.71 per game to lead. Both Marcel Pelletier of Victoria and John Bower of Vancouver drew closer. Pelletier has an average of 2.86 and Bower 2.94. Pelletier continues to lead in shutouts with six. Bower and Bev Bentley of Saskatoon both had a whitewash job the past week. Bower shut out New Westminster 6-0 and Bentley blanked Edmonton 3-0. It was the fourth of the season for both goalkeepers.</p><h2>Ironman</h2><p>Marcel Pelletier, of Victoria, is the only goalkeeper to play in every one of his team&rsquo;s games. Glenn Hall of Edmonton had not missed a game until called up to Detroit to work two games for that club. In his absence Dave Catherum took care of the Edmonton goal and upon Hall&rsquo;s return moved to New Westminster to spell the overworked Lucien Dechene who no doubt has kicked out more rubber than any other goalie in the League this season and deserves a rest. Bev Bentley of Saskatoon has seen service with three clubs so far. Saskatoon. Vancouver and New Westminster. Doug Stevenson has been in the nets for Vancouver, Saskatoon and Calgary.</p><h2><b>Top Coaler</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04126/1390266-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="485" height="872"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GLENN HALL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WHL Ice Chips

<h2><b>Same Number</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>lthough Montreal and Quebec have played a different amount of games, they have the name amount left, seven, due to Ottawa&rsquo;s having dropped out.</p><h2><b>Hodge Rested</b></h2><p>When Montreal Royals downed Valleyfield Braves 4-1 on Feb. 27. Gilles Boisvert was in the nets in place of rested Charlie Hodge.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TUES, A.M. MARCH 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01248/1390353-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="586" height="172"></div><h3>TUESDAY, FEB. 22 Quebec 1 at Montreal 8</h3><p><b>Quebec:</b> Goal: Evans; defense: Levan-dosky, Crozier, Arbour, Houle; forwards: Uniac, Labadie, Ehman, Henry, Tremblay, Regan, Croleau, Malo, Buchanan, Powell, Gelineau (sub-goals).</p><p><b>Montreal Royals:</b> Goal: Hodge; defense: Bownass, Dewsbury, Rousseau, Roche, Harmon; forwards: Masnick, Hildebrand, Mazur, Shvetz, Denis, Tessier, Burnett, Laplante, Burchell.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02213/1390346-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="594" height="818"></div><h3>Chicoutimi 3 at Shawinigan 5</h3><p><b>Chicoutimi:</b> Goal: Lavoie; defense: Glaude, Taillefer, Roy, McNab; forwards: Bartlett, Leger, L. Smrke, S. Smrke, Topoll, Gravelle, Power, Dussault, Sasa-kamoose, Hicks.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls:</b> Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Talbot, Lamirande, Hodgson, Turner; forwards: Dube, Kachur, Grosse, Desaulniers, F. Perreault, Wray, Broden, Provost, Faulkner.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Milford; linesmen: Landry, Turgeon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03191/1390339-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="593" height="728"></div><h3>THURSDAY FEB. 24 Shawinigan 6 at Chicoutimi 3</h3><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Leger, Hodgson, Laml-rande, Talbot; forwards: Desaulniers, Wray, Provost, F. Perreault, Kachur, Thomson, Broden, Grosse, Faulkner, Dube.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Pronovost; defense: Glaude, Roy, McNab, Taillefer; forwards: Dussault, L. Smrke. S. Smrke, Power, Bartlett, Topoll, Hicks, Gravelle, Sasakamoose.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04148/1390332-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="590" height="782"></div><h3>Quebec 1 at Valleyfield 3 (Played in Sorel)</h3><p><b>Quebec&mdash;</b>Goal: Gelineau; defense: Crozier, Levandoski. Arbour, Houle; forwards: Powell, Uniac, Labadie, Malo, Groleau, Thibault, Tremblay, Henry, Regan, Ehman.</p><p><b>Valleyfield&mdash;</b>Goal: Payette; defense: Collins, Ernst, Deslauriers, Heller; forwards: Haworth, Cline, Leclerc, Joan-nette, Bisaillon, Corriveau. Bougie. Briand Gagnon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05119/1390325-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="585" height="576"></div><h3>SATURDAY, FEB. 26 Chicoutimi 1 at Quebec 2</h3><p><b>Chicoutimi&mdash;</b>Goal: Pronovost; defense: Glaude, Taillefer, Roy, S. Smrke; forwards: McNab, Bartlett, Leger, L. Smrke, Topoll, Dussault, Gravelle. Hicks, Sasakamoose.</p><p><b>Quebec&mdash;</b>Goal: Gelineau; defense: Arbour, Crozier, Houle, Ehman, Levandoski; for ards: Labadie, Powell, Malo, Henry, Regan, Tremblay, Thibault, Uniac, Groleau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06102/1390318-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="584" height="357"></div><h3>SUNDAY, FEB. 27 Valleyfield 1 at Montreal 4</h3><p><b>Valleyfield</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette; defense: Heller, Ernst, Deslauriers, Collins; forwards: Needham, Joannette, Bisalllon, Corriveau, Bougie, Brillant, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Leclerc, Gagnon.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defense: Rousseau, Bownass, Harmon. Dewsbury; forwards: Shvetz, Blaine, Mazur, Mas-nick, Tessier, Burchell, Burnett, Denis, Hildebrand, Baliuk, Laplante.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0793/1390311-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="579" height="588"></div><h3>Quebec 1 at Shawinigan 6</h3><p>Quebec&mdash;Goal: Gelineau; defense: Houle, Tennant, Crozier, Levandoski, Arbour; forwards: Powell, Thibault, Malo, Groleau, Tremblay, Uniac. Henry, Labadie, Ehman.</p><p>Shawinigan Falls&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Hodgson, Leger, Lami-rande, Talbot, Turner; forwards: Desaulniers, F. Perreault, Broden, Faulkner, Provost, Kachur, Grosse, Dube, Thomson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0883/1390304-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="591" height="700"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><p><b>(Including games of Sun., Feb. 27)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0978/1390297-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="587" height="1223"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Early in the Quebec Hockey League season Frank Carlin conned over the records he has been keeping for more than 16 years on activities of the Royals and came up with the interesting fact that Lulu Denis had scored exactly 120 goals in six profitable seasons with the local Quebec Hockey League entry.</p><p>It was self-evident that so soon as Lively Lulu hit the two score mark again, his average would be maintained through seven campaigns. He arrived at this destina-tion Tuesday, Feb. 22, when he scored the first tally as Royals poured eight pucks into the net guarded by harassed Claude Evans, goalie for Quebec Aces.</p><p>Now, in hitting his 120 goal total, Lulu didn&rsquo;t always bulge the goal-net for 20 tallies in a campaign. Naturally there were some seasons above that mark, and some below. In his first year he scored only one dozen goals, and he reached his peak in 194950 and the 1950-51 when he reached out for 24 tallies in both seasons.</p><p>With eight games for Royals left in the QHL schedule Denis had breathing space to go higher than his best years of two dozen, if he can have a couple of outings where the harvest is rich.</p><p>Carlin, who likes to toy with the figures he keeps in a meticulous script in little black books, was referring to the fact the other day that Royals may create modern history of a sort if their Big Three&mdash;Kelly Burnett, Lulu Denis and Orval Tessier,&mdash;manage to hold their one two-three positions in the individual QHL points parade right through to the end of the line on March 20.</p><p>It is general for the straight place and show positions at the final payoff for the President&rsquo;s Trophy to be shared by the topkicks of at least two teams, often it&rsquo;s three clubs with representatives sharing the honors. Four years ago Andre Corriveau, of Valleyfield, was first and his teammate Larry Kwong held second place with Dick Gamble, carrying the banner for Quebec Aces in the third slot.</p><p>Three teams in the triumvirate in the 1951-52 run for the roses&mdash;Jean Beliveau, Quebec, Les Douglas, Royals, and Larry Kwong, of Braves. In 1952-53 it was Beliveau for first prize again, trailed by Corriveau and Sherman White of Chicoutimi Sagueneens and last Spring, Howard &ldquo;Rip&rdquo; Riopelle came under the wire a scant nose in front of Royals Skippy Burchell. Rip had 91 points, The Skipper wound up with 90 and Corriveau&mdash;that man again?&mdash;was in there for show money with 88 points.</p><h2><b>120-Coal Man</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1068/1390384-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="540" height="580"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LULU DENIS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Consistency Is The Trademark Of Montreal Royals’ Lulu Denis

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01243/1390415-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AL ARBOUR</b></figcaption></div><p>QUEBEC, Que.&mdash;</p><p>This tall character with the spectacles taped to his noggin has, in a few weeks, become the talk of the rinks around the Quebec loop. Alger Arbour is his name, six feet and 180 pounds of sinew which he hurls about in bone-wrecking and teeth-jarring style, which is a delight to all beholders.</p><p>It&rsquo;s likely that the boy plays by instinct and didn&rsquo;t get his inspiration out of the boyhood thrillers written by Horatio Alger, Jr. which his front name might suggest.</p><p>Quebec Aces got Alger Arbour from Edmonton Flyete at the same time Detroit Red Wings took full possession of Jim &ldquo;Red Eye&rdquo; Hay. With all due respects to Jack Adams, the Detroit chief who must know his hockey players, it&rsquo;s the calculated observation of more than one critic in the QHL that Adams made considerable fuss about getting the wrong man.</p><p>We&rsquo;re inclined to take Arbour over Hay, and that&rsquo;s not only one man&rsquo;s opinion.</p><p>For instance when Montreal Royals went up to Shawinigan Falls for their last date with the Cataracts your truly had hardly walked into the rink than Mark Walsh, the local correspondent for the Canadian Press came along.</p><p>&ldquo;Have you seen Quebec&rsquo;s new boy on the defense?&rdquo; asked Walsh with little time wasted for the amenities of greeting.</p><p>&ldquo;You mean, this fellow Arbour?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Sure, who else? Isn&rsquo;t he the berries? Why the guy does everything just so right. He can block and parry when he&rsquo;s back there. He can rush and carry the puck, and he can jolt a forward so hard with bodycheck that said forward&rsquo;s vertebrae start a-clicking like dominoes.&rdquo;</p><p>While we were talking Don Wilson of the Shawinigan Standard came along, He listened in, then said his piece.</p><p>&ldquo;He looks like the best young defenseman to come along in our league since Doug Harvey was going so strong, &lsquo;said Wilson. &ldquo;Wonder why he isn&rsquo;t playing for Detroit?&rdquo;</p><p>The consensus of three minds, or what passes for same, was that the only reason Arbour didn&rsquo;t have a place on that Red Wing defense was that the Detroits had too many defensemen already. There&rsquo;s Red Kelly, Bob Goldham, Marcel Pronovost, Benny Woit, and Hay. And Hay is 23, whereas Arbour is only 22, actually a year and a half younger and less experienced, consequently.</p><p>Which is likely the reason they picked Hay when it was decided to give a rookie rearguard a full scale chance. *</p><p>Arbour is out of the north country where a lot of great hockey players come from. Toe Blake is a very good example. Sudbury is his home town. He broke into pro hockey at Edmonton in the 1952-53 season, played in only eight games there at the tag end of the campaign.</p><p>Last year Arbour was in 36 games with Detroit Red Wings before being shipped to Sherbrooke Saints, ofr whom he played 19 outings.</p><p>If the Detroit brain-trusters didn&rsquo;t feel he was ready a year ago, they&rsquo;d better get their ivoryhunter Johnny Mitchell, up this way in a hurry, because he looks ready now.</p><p>Comment on the Quebec Club took another track later on the same trip when Frank Carlin and Pete Morin were asked what forward they&rsquo;d consider on the Aces line-up was of most value to the club while the team&rsquo;s top scorer Ray Powell was out of there.</p><p>&ldquo;Well Powell has 20 goals according to the last figures we had from the league, but after 46 games played Marius Groleau had 20 too, and Jim Uniac had 18. So those two rank with Powell to form the Quebec Big Three just like we of the Royals would figure on Kelly Burnett, Orval Tessier and Lulu Denis&rdquo; said Carlin.</p><p>&ldquo;Yeah! But I think the fellow they&rsquo;d miss most of all is old Ludger Tremblay,&rdquo; said Pete Morin. &ldquo;But Tremblay must be 30 or more. He&rsquo;s been around since 1944 when he broke in with Providence, but the NHL Guide Book doesn&rsquo;t have his age&rdquo; said Carlin.</p><p>&ldquo;Well I don&rsquo;t care about that&rdquo; said Pete. &ldquo;This guy gives us headaches. He plays on a shooting line. Jack Toupin uses him to kill off penalties and I can remember half a dozen times where Quebec beat us in the last couple of years that this Tremblay scored the winning goal. He may not be up there with those big scorers, but he&rsquo;s a very handy man, and I&rsquo;d be inclined to respect him at all times.&rdquo;</p><p>But both Carlin and Morin agreed that Al Arbour was a very promising prospect as a big league defenseman and he&rsquo;s a standout at his job in the QHL right now.</p><h2><b>No Horatio He</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Aces’ Alger Arbour Now Ready For Big Time Say QHL Experts

<p>DUSSELDORF, Germany</p><p>It will be Canada against Russia on the final day of the World Hockey Tournament and all indications after three games of the tourney point up the fact that this game will probably be the one that decides the World Hockey Championship.</p><p>The Canadian entry, the Penticton V&rsquo;s, won their first three games, whipping the United States, 12-1, on opening day, Czechoslovakia, 5-3, the following day and walloping Poland, 8-0, to round out the first weekend&rsquo;s play.</p><p>Meanwhile the Russians were dumping Finland 10-2 in their opener, edging Sweden, 2-1, the following day, and blasting the Czechs, 4-0, on the Sunday.</p><p>Both, teams are deadlocked atop the heap with six points followed by Sweden and the United States, each boasting two victories in three trys. Poland has two points on a 1-1 record while the Czechs have the same point total on one win in three outings. Finland, Switzerland and Germany have all failed to win a game.</p><p>By far the most exciting game of the tourney thus far was the V&rsquo;s 5-3 victory over the Czechs on February 26.</p><p>The never-say-die V&rsquo;s came from behind twice in third period to defeat the Czechs in a game that was considered by many to be the first major obstacle the Canadian entry had to pass in this, the 21st World Tournament.</p><p>Again it was Bill Warwick, the little human dynamo, who was the star. Twice he scored the goals that evened the game, first 2-2 and then 3-3, in a wild final 20 minutes. And with a great flourish, he capped his performance by setting up brother Grant Warwick with what proved to be the winning goal with less than five minutes left to play.</p><p>The inspired Czechs and the Canadians, who want the cham pionship so badly they can taste it, fought bitterly all the way. More than a dozen penalties were called and one fight broke out between Canada&rsquo;s Kevin Conway and Vaclav Pantucek of the Czech side late in the second period.</p><p>The Canadians had an easy time of it in their opener against the United States, as they peppered the American goalkeeper, Don Rigazzio, with the almost unbelieveable total of 96 shots in recording their 12-1 triumph.</p><p>Billy Warwick scored six goals and brother Grant, playingcoach of the V&rsquo;s, picked up four assists in the rout.</p><p>The Americans were so completely outclassed that had it not been for the fine display of Rigazzio, the score might have reached basketball proportions. The young netminder made 28 saves in the opening stanza, 24 more in the sandwich session and 32 in the final frame for a total of 84 saves, which, coupled with the even dozen he let get by, meant that he was called upon to handle a total of 96 shots.</p><p>Canada&rsquo;s second forward line, made up of the three Warwick brothers, played in crash helmets and was by far the standout, figuring in eight of the 12 goals. Bill got a goal in the first period, two more in the second and wound up his amazing perfor-mance with three in a row in the third period. Grant helped on two of Bill&rsquo;s goals and Dick set up another.</p><p>Versatile Jack McIntyre and Doug Killburn also turned in good performances, each scoring two goals. Jim Fairburn and Hal Tarala notched the other Canadian scores.</p><p>The only U.S. goal was by Dan McKinnon of Williams, Minn., in the third minute of the second period.</p><p>Jack McIntyre scored three goals and assisted on another in the V&rsquo;s 8-0 shutout of Poland on Feb. 27. Only about 1,500 watched the game which was played in bitter cold.</p><p>Results and standings after the first three days play in the World Tournament follow:</p><p><b>FRIDAY FEB. 25</b></p><p>Canada 12, United States 1. Czechoslovakia 7. Switzerland 0. Russia 10, Finland 2.</p><p>Sweden 5, West Germany 4.</p><p><b>SATURDAY FEB. 26</b></p><p><b>Canada 5, Czechoslovakia 3.</b></p><p>Russia 2, Sweden 1.</p><p>United States 8, Finland 1.</p><p>Poland 5, Germany 4.</p><p><b>SUNDAY FEB. 27</b></p><p><b>Canada 8, Poland 0.</b></p><p>Russia 4 Czechoslavakia 0.</p><p>United States 6, Germany 3.</p><h2>STANDING</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1919/1390446-1-eng-US/f0019-192.jpg" title="f0019-19" width="592" height="259"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Wallop U.S. and Poland, Edge Czechoslovakia, 5-3

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT STE. MARTE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>EXCITING SENIOR SEMI-FINALS&rsquo;&hellip;The two keenest rivals in Northern Ontario Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey are fighting it out (at this writing) in the NOHA Southern Division semi-finals&mdash;Soo (Ont.) Greyhounds against Soo (Mich.) Indians&hellip;with the international flavor as an added ingredient, along with the fact that former teammates, Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty and Pete Backor, are now rival coaches, the series has provided some of the most exciting playoff hockey ever seen in these parts&hellip;the Indians captured the first game, 2-1, behind the sensational netminding of the unpredictable and colorful Al Millar&hellip;The Greyhounds outshot the Indians, 39-18. vet Millar stopped them cold&mdash;only one shot he couldn&rsquo;t see beating him&hellip;in the second game, the Indians outshot the Greyhounds but lost 3-2&hellip;both games going down as terrific&hellip;O&rsquo;Flaherty and Backor were buddies with Pittsburgh Hornets of the AHL at one time, but now they&rsquo;re fighting tooth and nail to help their teams along the Allan Cup trail&hellip;Johnny&rsquo;s the pilot of the &lsquo;Hounds, Pete&rsquo;s the skipper of the Indians&hellip;It&rsquo;s an entirely different story in the other semifinal with North Bay Trappers upsetting the dopesheet with two straight victories over Pembroke Lumber Kings&hellip;while the first game was close (3-2) the second was a shoo-in for the Trappers (6-0)&hellip;Marcel Paille emerged the big star for the Trappers in the two games&hellip;he starred for Matane Red Rocks last season and could be the &ldquo;Dark Horse&rdquo; of the fight for the Southern Division title&hellip;what makes the Southern crown all the more important is the general feeiing that the eventual winner will be considered very srong contenders for the Allan Cup since the league is rated one of the strongest in the country today&hellip;there&rsquo;ll be a lot of excitement and surprises before this championship is decided&hellip;the Greyhounds won the league crown, Pembroke placed second, Soo Indians third and North Bay fourth, with Sudbury Wolves, defending champions, out in the cold as far as the playoffs are concerned&hellip;this semi-final series could be one of the best in the last decade.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01208/1390477-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="543" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PETE BACKOR</b></figcaption></div><p>SAME STORY IN NORTHERN GROUP!&hellip;While fans in the Southern Division are harping about the fine calibre of play in their semi-finals, the fans in the Northern Division have every right to feel their teams are putting up an equally fine show&hellip;the powerful Timmins-Schumacher Flyers raced within a single game of copping their semi-final round against South Porcupine Porkies by winning game number four by a 4-1 count&hellip;meanwhile, Abitibi Eskimos, sporting one of their best teams in years, appear heavy favorites to capture the other semi-final since they currently lead 3-0 in games&hellip;a head-on collision between the flashy Timmins-Schumacher squad and Abitibi would never have to take a back-seat to the Southern Division finalists for sheer excitement&hellip;and when the Northern Ontario finals roll around right after March 11, the Northland should get set for one of the hardest-fought titular series in the past 20 years&hellip;senior hockey is better than ever in this great Northern paradise of uranium, gold, nickel, copper, lumber and hockey fever&hellip;Northern Ontario hockey fans are mighty proud of their Leo &ldquo;The Lion&rdquo; LaBine, star forward with Boston Bruins&hellip;the Haileybury product, now 24, received the &ldquo;finest night of my life&rdquo; the other day when a large delegation of his hometown fans travelled all the way to Toronto to honor him&hellip;the ceremony took place during the Toronto-Boston game&hellip;Leo was presented with a truly beautiful desk-pen set, the base actually made from silver which was mined in the Cobalt district&hellip;Bob Herbert, the popular MPP for Temiskaming, made the presentation&hellip;many other prominent citizens, decked out in colorful regalia, made &ldquo;The Lion&rdquo; an honorary member of the Haileybury volunteer fire department in addition to the golf, ski and curling clubs, not to mention the Rotary Club&hellip;in fact, they did everything but give Leo keys to all the safety deposit boxes of the fine citizens of Haileybury&hellip;&ldquo;This will be a night I&rsquo;ll never forget,&rdquo; said Leo&hellip;the guy couldn&rsquo;t be blamed for shedding a tear or two&hellip;Leo&rsquo;s a real credit to Northern Ontario and we all wish him well.</p><p>CAN&rsquo;T FORGET JUNIOR HOCKEY!&hellip;With all this fuss about the senior hockey playoffs and the Leo LaBine ceremony, we still cannot neglect the wonderful junior hockey scene in Northern Ontario&hellip;Andre Morrissette, promising forward for Noranda Toilers, fired three goals and received two assists as he led his team to a very convincing 6-2 triumph over Porcupine Combines in the final league game of the season&hellip;three youngsters who only recently returned to Northern Ontario after a stint with Hamilton Cubs also figured in the scor ing&mdash;Rolly Fassette, Frankie Butler and Val Mitchell all blink Ing the red light for the Toilers and showing they are going to be Important cogs in the Noranda machine when the tough playoff trail gets underway&hellip;Northern Ontario boys are making quite a name for themselves in European hockey&hellip;Harold Kewley of North Bay along with Gar Vasey of Midland, Ernie Zorzi and Bernie Tomie of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, are starring with the Bolzano team in Italy&hellip;in a recent game the RCAF Flyers, comprised of members of the RCAF in Germany, tied the Bolzano team 4-4&hellip;the North ern Ontario players did all the scoring for Bolzanos, while Frank Catway of Summerside, PEI, and Roger Dumais of Trois Pistoles Quebec, starred for the RCAF squad&hellip;&ldquo;We like playing in Italy very much. The people treat us like kings and we live like king: over here,&rdquo; Bernie Tomie revealed in a letter to NOHA Puck Pa rade which we just received before preparing this column&hellip;Ber nie thinks the women over there are terrific!!!&hellip;Hard-driving Mik Ratchford of the Soo Greyhounds saw his long-time grip on th scoring leadership in the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Southern Divisio: vanish in a dynamic finish by Stan Maxwell of North Bay Trappers.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Kitchener Dutchmen, Windsor Bulldogs, Owen Sound Mercurys and Stratford Indians started the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; O.H.A. playoffs last week, with Stratford opening in Windsor, Tuesday night, and Owen Sound commencing the other bracket of the semi-finals in Kitchener, Wednesday night.</p><p>Both series and the finals will be decided on the best-of-seven basis, and so close was the ultimate finish of the schedule that opinion is divided as to which club will advance into the all-Ontario finals against the NOHA champions. In fact, Windsor and Owen Sound wound up tied in points for second place, but the former were granted that spot on their better goal average. Kitchener finished on top with a neat cushion, while Stratford brought up the rear in fourth place, four points behind Windsor and Owen Sound.</p><p>Three games in each series were played last week, and if necessary four more will be played this week in order to decide the finalists by Sunday night.</p><p>Two exciting individual races were also decided, when Ken Laufman, playmaking centre for Kitchener Dutchmen, won the &ldquo;Moose&rdquo; Ecclestone Trophy for his high total of 81 scoring points; while &ldquo;Mickey&rdquo; Roth, captain and centre for Stratford Indians, who had won the award previously, proved a close second with 75 points. Billy Flick, rightwinger on the Roth line, placed third with 62 points.</p><p>Perhaps the surprise of the final statistics was the leading goal scorer, Jim Connelly of the Chatham Maroons, a team that finished a poor fifth, who piled up 34 goals. Laufman also led in assists with 58, and Roth was again second with 51.</p><p>By replacing Denis Brodeur in their net with Keith Woodall, who had only two periods of puck-fending this season, for their last game, Kitchener Dutchmen managed to gain the goalkeeping honors for Brodeur, who nosed out Bill Harrington of Windsor Bulldogs, 3.234 to 3.409. It might be added that the other two goalies for the playoffs, Bobby Gillson of the Owen Sound Mercurys and Bruce Dale of the Stratford Indians were right on the heels of Brodeur and Harrington, with averages of 3.54 and 3.706 respectively.</p><p>If one were to base an opinion on the outcome of the semi-finals, the consensus seems to be that Kitchener and Windsor will meet in the finals. Credence is lent to this by the prediction of those who profess to know, that Windsor and Stratford, rated the two rougher teams, will &ldquo;batter each other&rsquo;s brains out&rdquo; in the first round, while Kitchener and Owen Sound will play their usual type of wide-open hockey. The belief held by some is that Windsor has too much weight and experience for Stratford, while Kitchener has more speed, bench and youth than Owen Sound.</p><p>However, the season&rsquo;s records hardly substantiate that analysis. Advantage of home ice has been a factor this season during the group schedule, but in a short series such as that in progress at present the opposite was practically the case last season. In the 1953-54 playoffs, in which six teams competed, Kitchener knocked off Hamilton Tigers, Owen Sound ousted Chatham Maroons and Stratford Indians eliminated Windsor Bulldogs in the quarter finals. Kitchener, Owen Sound, Hamilton and Windsor all finished higher than Stratford in the schedule, yet Stratford went on from there to shove Kitchener into the discard, only to fall to Owen Sound in the finals.</p><p>Looking over the records of the ten games played between Kitchener and Owen Sound, and Windsor and Stratford this season, reveals that Owen Sound won five, lost four and tied one with Kitchener, two of Owen Sound&rsquo;s victories being on Kitchener ice, while Kitchener won one and tied one on Owen Sound ice. The two teams scored 65 goals in their ten games, with Kitchener nicking one more than Owen Sound.</p><p>In the ten scheduled games between Windsor and Stratford, the former won all five of their home fixtures, while losing four and deadlocking the fifth on Stratford ice. Again, it was found that Windsor and Stratford scored a combined total of 83 goals in their ten scheduled games, 18 more than Kitchener and Owen Sound.</p><h2><b>Scoring King</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02174/1390508-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="727" height="1152"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN LAUFMAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Ken Laufman Edges Mickey Roth For OHA Senior ‘A’ Point Title

<div class="byline">By Dawson Winchester</div><p>FREDERICTON, N.B.&mdash;</p><p>Charlottetown Islanders dominated the AllStar team of the Atlantic Coast League when final votes cast by 16 voters from the four centres in which the loop operates were tallied.</p><p>Goalie Jim Shirley, defensemen Steve Brklacich and Lloyd Hinchberger, centre and league scoring champion Roy (Buck) Whitlock and right winger Bob Gray are the Islanders placed on the &ldquo;dream team&rdquo;. Doug McPhee of the Fredericton Caps picked up the left wing berth on the squad to be the only non-P.E.I. performer on the All-Star aggregation.</p><p>Coach of the All-Star team is Steve Brklacich who took over the reins of the Islanders early in the season when Hughie Campbell was forced to quit for reasons of health and brought the P.E.I. sextet home to the league championship. Brklacich was also named the league&rsquo;s outstanding defenseman.</p><p>Amherst and Moncton, who failed to place a man on the first squad, fared slightly better on the second All-Star team. The second or alternate team stacks up as follows: goal, Nick Pidsodny, of Moncton Hawks; Danny O&rsquo;Connor, of the Island-ers, and Moncton playingcoach Dugger McNeil on defense; Shermie White of the Amherst Ramblers at centre; Bob Leger, of the Caps, at left wing; Caps&rsquo; Nick Ni-colle and Ramblers&rsquo; Hank Therrien (tie vote) on right wing; coach, Dugger McNeil.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Charlottetown Places Six On All-Star Team

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01216/1390563-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARTLEY McLEOD</b></figcaption></div><p>FT. WAYNE, Ind.&mdash;</p><p>Ft. Wayne is hoping that Hartley McLeod, a 27-year-old former professional, will lead the Komets out of the wilderness and into the International Hockey League playoffs.</p><p>It looks like a tough proposition, with the Hoosiers languishing in the cellar of the International Hockey League, but McLeod may be just the man to help Coach Pat Wilson&rsquo;s puck-chasers turn the trick.</p><p>As matters stand right now, the Komets are one game behind fifth-place Johnstown and a game and a half behind Toledo, in fourth, with just three weeks left to run in the season.</p><p>McLeod, a pro for six years until he was reinstated to amateur standing a few weeks ago, is a 5-10, 165-pounder from Selkirk, Manitoba who plays the centre ice position.</p><p>According to Wilson, he has strengthened Ft. Wayne considerably for its last-ditch drive, due to his unusually large amount of experience.</p><h2><b>Ex-Spitfire</b></h2><p>This is not the first time McLeod has competed in the IHL. Seven years ago, he was with the Hettche Spitfires in the old International League, before he turned pro.</p><p>&ldquo;This league is a strong one,&rdquo; he told the writer. &ldquo;Every team has a lot of good players, some of them youngsters and others veterans. The league is much stronger now than it was when I last played in it with the Hettches.&rdquo;</p><p>McLeod has gotten around since those days. He spent two seasons with Omaha in the nowdefunct United States loop, then was with Edmonton in the Western Hockey League for a year, Buffalo in the American League for two and Syracuse in the AHL for the single campaign.</p><h2><b>Started With Bisons</b></h2><p>He started out with Buffalo again this season, but was sent to Ft. Wayne when the Bisons were forced to slice their roster to get under the player limit.</p><p>With Flin Flon in the Western Senior circuit for two years prior to joining the Hettches, McLeod played his junior hockey for the Trail, B.C. club.</p><p>Hartley married a Brooklyn, N.Y. girl, Marilyn Lee, and now makes his home in Brooklyn. In the off-season, he works as a teller in a Wall Street bank in New York City.</p><p>A shuffle in the bottom of the IHL standings during the past week saw Toledo and Johnstown both move up a notch, with Ft. Wayne, loser of three straight, falling into the cellar.</p><h2><b>Toledo In Fourth</b></h2><p>Toledo took over the fourth spot in its bid to make the playoffs, with Johnstown staying right on its heels by winning three out of four. The Mercs grabbed two out of three and had several games in hand to be in good shape to challenge for third or fourth.</p><p>First-place Cincinnati continued to have trouble winning, but the Mohawks managed to annex two out of three, while runner-up Troy broke even in its only two outings and Grand Rapids, in third, dropped two out of three.</p><p>ICING THE PUCK&hellip;Only shutout of the week was credited to Rookie Goalie Gaetan Dessu-reault. of Cincinnati, 1-0, over Ft. Wayne. It was his ninth, ex-tending his leadership in that department, as Johnny Martan tallied the only goal of the game midway through the first period&hellip;Mike Narduzzi of Johnstown became the first IHL skater to record two hat tricks this season, accomplishing the feat in the Jets&rsquo; 7-4 conquest of Ft. Wayne&hellip;Indicating the closeness of the race, four of the nine contests during the week were decided by a single goal, with that standing as the final margin in all three of Cincinnati&rsquo;s starts.</p><h2><b>Experienced Ex-Pro</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Komets Count On Hartley McLeod To Lead Them Into IHL Playoffs

<div class="byline">By PAUL ROACH</div><p>HAMILTON, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Ducky Skinner takes his hockey seriously, probably as, or more serious even than his big brother (in size only), Jimmy Skinner, coach of the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>The coach of Hamilton&rsquo;s entry in the OHA Junior A series is quiet and unassuming but just crazy about anything pertaining to hockey and becomes down-right oratorical at the very mention of his beloved Cubs.</p><p>So asking Ducky a simple question like, &ldquo;Who do you think on your team has a chance to eventually wind up with the parent Red Wings?&rdquo; is like opening the floodgates at high tide.</p><p>It takes him no longer to answer than it takes, for the twinkle of delight to hit his eyes.</p><p>&ldquo;There are quite a few boys who could turn pro on our club,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Take Riggin for instance. The kid has the talent, a good pair of hands, his reflexes are good. The only thing though is that Detroit has no serious shortage in the goal-tending department.</p><p>&ldquo;Then there is Brian Kilrea. At times Brian shows that he has big-time possibilities, but he needs experience.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess the boy who has the greatest opportunity of turning pro with Detroit is our defenseman, Larry Hillman. That&rsquo;s one position that Detroit has a hard time filling. And I think Larry can fit into the big-time without too much trouble.&rdquo;</p><p>Having watched Hillman play for two seasons with Hamilton, one cannot help but agree that the boy will probably land in the National League in due time.</p><p>Born Larry Morley Hillman on February 5th, 1937 in a town that has produced many a fine hockey player (Kirkland Lake), Hillman seems destined for bigger things. Scouted by both Carson Cooper and Jimmy Skinner when he played Juvenile hockey for Kirkland Lake Holy Name club, Hillman is now in his third season in Junior A ranks. &ndash; In 1952-53 season at the age of 15, Hillman was used as a forward and defenseman for the Windsor Spitfires, but when the club moved to Hamilton the next year, Hillman was used exclusively as a defenseman.</p><p>Hockey seems to run in the Hillman family. Larry&rsquo;s dad is a part-time scout for Detroit, his younger brother is playing for Kirkland Lake Lions Juvenile club, an older brother, Bud, is playing Senior A hockey with Windsor. Bud is the property of Boston Bruins.</p><p>&ldquo;Lar&rdquo;, as he is affectionately called in and around Hamilton, is an avid movie fan, likes old cars, and in the off season works in the mines in Kirkland Lake. Says Larry, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a strong advocate of conditioning, and where better can you build up your muscles?&rdquo;</p><p>Skinner has this further to say of Hillman: &ldquo;Larry seems to go best when the chips are down. He has one of the hardest slapshots in the league, and plays the kind of hockey that the fans like to see. He reminds me a little of Eddie Shore.&rdquo;</p><p>Larry confided to this writer that his greatest thrill in hockey was when he was asked to report to the Detroit pro camp in Soo, Michigan.</p><p>&ldquo;I was there for two weeks,&rdquo; says Larry, &ldquo;and just to be cast with such greats as Howe, Lindsay and Kelly was a thrill I&rsquo;ll never forget.&rdquo;</p><p>Many observers believe that the only reason Hillman isn&rsquo;t in the NHL even now is because of his age. Larry just turned 18 a few months ago, according to coach Skinner. &ldquo;But I don&rsquo;t believe his age makes much difference, although he would have to reach his 18th birthday before he could turn pro. The Detroit chain is primarily interested in a player achieving experience before hitting the parent club.&rdquo;</p><p>Hillman seems to have a long and bright future ahead in hockey. With a little luck, an ability to sock and rock opposing players, and a tendency to keep bodychecks legitimate, Hillman may be just the man Detroit will need to bolster their defense in the near future.</p><h2><b>Future Wing?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02142/1390594-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="568" height="584"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LARRY HILLMAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hamilton Cubs’ Larry Hillman Rated Sure-Fire NHL Material

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Eliminated by Pictou Royals in the biggest upset in years, Halifax Wolves countered with a protest over the eligibility of veteran Quebec player Nils Tremblay who joined the Royals for the second game of the series and then became a kev figure in the upset.</p><p>Wolves questioned Tremblay&rsquo;s card and at the time of writing the APC League and the Maritime Amateur Hockey Association were sifting the evidence.</p><p>Meanwhile the Royals squared off against New Glasgow Rangers in the final round. Rangers won the first game and are favorites to skate on to the title.</p><p>The Rangers, who ran the league ragged after the first three weeks and left the others far behind, needed an extra game to subdue the St. F.X. Collegians in the semi-final round. The first three games went into overtime and every game was close and hard fought.</p><p>They traded victories on home ice, then New Glasgow won a game away from home and that was the difference between the clubs. One game was ordered re-played. During a St. F.X. rush a New Glasgow player accidentally bumped into one of the referees and knocked him down. As he was falling the arbiter blew his whistle.</p><p>The Collegians continued on and scored. The referee, back on his skates again, refused to allow it. Then the battle was on. The league reviewed the situation and ordered the game, later won by New Glasgow, to be replayed, New Glasgow won again and the official series score was five games to three. Unofficially it was 6-3.</p><p>Pictou Royals made a great comeback to take their semi-final round. They lost the first two games and the scores were so lopsided the local hockey experts predicted a sweep. Then Royals took a brace and evened it up. Halifax stepped ahead for a second time, only to see Pictou win three in a row and wind it up.</p><p>The Coast League playoffs are well under way, with pennant winning Charlottetown Islanders leading Fredericton Capitals two games to one and Moncton Hawks and Amherst Ramblers deadlocked at two games apiece.</p><p>Ramblers posted the first surprise by whipping the Hawks at Moncton in the opening game. The Hawks came back to sweep the next two but, back on home ice, the Ramblers evened it up.</p><p>Islanders swarmed all over Capitals in the first game of their set. The second game was closer and the Islanders had to go all out to win. When they squared off at Fredericton the Caps posted their first win and looked strong enough to force the series to the limit.</p><p>To the surprise of nobody, Roy (Buck) Whitlock skated off with the Coast League scoring championship. It was his fifth scoring title since World War Two and he held the lead from the second week to the finish.</p><p>It was in the closing stages only that Whitlock had a worry. Here he was heckled for the first time by a young player named Dougie McPhee and at the finish only four points separated them.</p><p>The story on McPhee is interesting. He began his hockey career with Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s juniors and was a standout. When he entered senior ranks he played under Dugger McNeill wearing the colors of Halifax Atlanties. He didn&rsquo;t produce too well but he did show considerable promise.</p><p>Last winter he was again with McNeill and the Atlantics and. -this time he lived up to expectations. He was one of the league&rsquo;s high scorers and in the semi-final playoffs filled a specialist role to perfection.</p><p>Atlantics led the league all season but suddenly found themselves trailing in the semi-final playoff. It was all due to the sniping of Whitlock, who always seemed at his best against Halifax teams and once more appeared destined to upset the applecart.</p><p>It called for special measures and McNeill delegated McPhee to shadow the island marksman. This McPhee did so well that in the next four games Buck picked up exactly one point.</p><p>The next season&mdash;that&rsquo;s this&mdash;McPhee becomes runner-up to Whitlock in the scoring division. He could go a long way, this Saint John native who skates hard, shoots well, is cool around the nets and exceptionally fast with his dukes when the going is rough.</p><p>For the record Whitlock won the scoring title with 94 goals on 36 goals and 58 assists. The goal production was down but Whitlock developed considerably as a playmaker.</p><p>McPhee&rsquo;s total was 38-52 for 90 points. Third was the former Brand on Wheat Kings star Bob Gray with 40-48 and Ray Leduc posted a total of 82 points on 35 goals and 47 helpings. Gray&rsquo;s 40 goals, by the way, topped the league.</p><p>The drop in hockey calibre from major to senior A proved a failure in Halifax. Crowds were small all season and the sponsors dropped approximately $7000 on the short schedule. Far from being discouraged, however, the sponsors are talking of a team next season and possibly another league.</p><p>Cape Breton, out of the senior hockey for the first time in many years, is said to be anxious to return and there is the possibility I of a four team league embracing Sydney, Glace Bay, New Glasgow and Halifax. New Glasgow made a great comeback this season and crowds there were large and thusiastic.</p><p>For some years there was talk of New Glasgow entering the Maritime league because of its ideal location. Now somehow the town never did get going though they did make cautious approaches. Now it looks as if they might take the plunge next fall.</p><h2><b>Another Crown</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0390/1390625-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="599" height="611"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BUCK WHITLOCK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Pictou Wins Playoff, Halifax Protests Use Of Vet Nils Tremblay

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01195/1390656-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(SOLUTION NEXT WEEK)</b></p><h2><b>Across</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Montreal player shown in centre.</p><p>5&mdash;Nickname of Heller, former New York defense star.</p><p>8&mdash;Once played with Pittsburgh, called Phil.</p><p>10&mdash;NHL club with whom Alex Shibicky once played (abbr.)</p><p>11&mdash;Ex NHL star, Art Wiebe, left hockey to open this business.</p><p>12&mdash;State in which Allan Stanley plays home games (abbr.)</p><p>13&mdash;Short for given name of &ldquo;Curly&rdquo; Tarala.</p><p>15&mdash;Terry Sawchuck got 13 of these last season, (abbr.)</p><p>16&mdash;Initials of New Westminster&rsquo;s goaltender.</p><p>17&mdash;Initials of Getliffe, ex NHL referee.</p><p>19&mdash;When on a winning streak teams are often described as this.</p><p>21&mdash;Initials of player who wears No. 16 for the Maple Leafs.</p><p>22&mdash;Number of NHL clubs Don Raleigh has played with.</p><p>23&mdash;Initials of Dillon, former NHL player.</p><p>25&mdash;Perform.</p><p>26&mdash;First two letters of aurochs.</p><p>27&mdash;Officials don&rsquo;t like players to do this on the boards with their sticks.</p><p>29&mdash;Paul Ronty can speak this language.</p><p>31&mdash;Benny Woit&rsquo;s second name.</p><h2><b>Down</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Rudy Migay&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>2&mdash;Birthplace of Glenn Hall.</p><p>3&mdash;Glenn Hall&rsquo;s native province (abbr.)</p><p>4&mdash;A member of the NHL board of governors.</p><p>6&mdash;Player who holds record for most assists in one game.</p><p>7&mdash;Ton (abbr.)</p><p>9&mdash;Sloth.</p><p>14&mdash;Bobby Copp&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>18&mdash;Andy Bathgate played junior hockey with&mdash;Biltmores.</p><p>19&mdash;Pronoun.</p><p>20&mdash;Former AHL defenseman known as Elwyn.</p><p>23&mdash;NHL scoring champion of 1943-44.</p><p>24&mdash;One of the Hershey Bears answers to this.</p><p>25&mdash;Position played by Wally Stanowski, ex Toronto star (abbr.)</p><p>28&mdash;Initials of Scott of Calgary.</p><p>29&mdash;Initials of Ashworth, of Vancouver Canucks.</p><p>30&mdash;Northern Ireland (abbr.)</p><h2><b>Solution to Last Week&rsquo;s Puzzle</b></h2><h3><b>Across</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Dick</p><p>6&mdash;B.G.</p><p>7&mdash;Engineer</p><p>9&mdash;Iron</p><p>11&mdash;Virgil</p><p>13&mdash;D.I.</p><p>14&mdash;Can.</p><p>15&mdash;Chi.</p><p>16&mdash;S.S.</p><p>18&mdash;Ice</p><p>20&mdash;O.D.</p><p>22&mdash;Bodnar</p><p>24&mdash;A. M.</p><p>26&mdash;Sr.</p><p>27&mdash;Clancy</p><p>30&mdash;S.H.</p><p>32&mdash;Kenneth</p><h3><b>Down</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Delvecchio</p><p>2&mdash;In</p><p>3&mdash;C.G.</p><p>4&mdash;King</p><p>5&mdash;Neil</p><p>6&mdash;Broda</p><p>8&mdash;Er.</p><p>10&mdash;Ninth</p><p>12&mdash;Reibel</p><p>14&mdash;Cousins</p><p>17&mdash;Scars</p><p>19&mdash;E.R.</p><p>21&mdash;Dale</p><p>23&mdash;Once</p><p>25&mdash;Man.</p><p>27&mdash;C.K.</p><p>28&mdash;N.N.</p><p>29&mdash;Yt.</p><p>31&mdash;H.B.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b> (Standing on Feb. 21)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02155/1390799-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="588" height="185"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03115/1390792-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="590" height="292"></div><h2>THE LEADERS</h2><p><b>Pointe</b>&mdash;Phil Goyette, Cincinnati, 78.</p><p><b>Goals</b>&mdash;Phil Goyette, Cincinnati, 36.</p><p><b>Assists</b>&mdash;Phil Goyette, Cincinnati, 42.</p><p><b>Winning Goals</b>&mdash;George Hayes (Grand Rapids) and Dave McCready (Cincinnati), 6.</p><p><b>Hat Tricks</b>&mdash;Eighteen (18) tied at 1.</p><p><b>Goalkeeper&rsquo;s Average</b>&mdash;Gaetan Dessu-reault, Cincinnati, 2.84.</p><p><b>Shut Outs</b>&mdash;Gaetan Dessureault, Cincinnati, 8.</p><p><b>Penalty Minutes</b>&mdash;Nellie Podolski, Troy, 141.</p><h2><b>EASTERN LEAGUE</b> (Standing on Feb. 21)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0497/1390785-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="587" height="159"></div><h2><b>NOHA SENIOR</b> (Final Standing)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0580/1390778-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="590" height="159"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0665/1390771-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="594" height="319"></div><h2>GOALTENDERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0762/1390764-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="587" height="399"></div><h2><b>OKANAGAN SENIOR</b> (Final Standing)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0858/1390757-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="589" height="135"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b> (Final Standing)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0949/1390750-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="596" height="607"></div><h2><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b> (Final Standing)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1041/1390743-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="589" height="268"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR (Final Standing)</b> (Standing on Feb. 23)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1137/1390736-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="589" height="111"></div><h2><b>OHA SENIOR (Final Standing)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1235/1390729-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="591" height="188"></div><h2><b>OHA JUNIOR A (Standing on Feb. 23)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1329/1390722-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="597" height="245"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</b> (Standing on Feb. 23)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1429/1390715-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="596" height="135"></div><h2><b>WESTERN JUNIOR (Standing on Feb. 21)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1526/1390708-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="591" height="163"></div><h2><b>MANITOBA JUNIOR</b> (Standing on Feb. 21)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1623/1390701-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="593" height="139"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1722/1390694-1-eng-US/f0019-172.jpg" title="f0019-17" width="591" height="397"></div><h2><b>INTERCOLLEGIATE</b> (Standing on Feb. 24)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1821/1390687-1-eng-US/f0019-182.jpg" title="f0019-18" width="595" height="140"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Amateur Puck Parade……At A Glance

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0263/1390837-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="241" height="296"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0164/1390844-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="233" height="290"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0361/1390830-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2841" height="3606"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GLEN HALL,</b> the fancy young netminder from Edmonton who did an admirable job filling in for DETROIT&rsquo;S Terry Sawchuk in two games, gets a few worrying moments in ten: olo as he slumps to his knees to make a dazzling save off MacDonald (right): In the lower picture, the much harrassed Gump Worsley of the New York Rangers, watches Detroit&rsquo;s Marcel Pronovost slide over his stick. Harry Howell (on knees) and Bob Chrystal (standing) are lending Gump a hand.<span class="photo-credit">(Top Photo&mdash;Turofsky Bottom Photo&mdash;Roy Bash &ndash; Detroit Times)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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