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March 19, 1955

The Hockey News March 19, 1955

<h2><b>Double Goose-egg</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>E</span>dmonton and Vancouver played a scoreless tie in Vancouver, March 1. It was the second of the season. Edmonton and Victoria played the other in Victoria, February 9, on Edmonton&rsquo;s last trip to the Coast.</p><h2><b>Nears Record</b></h2><p>With a sixteen point lead, Bronco Horvath, of Edmonton, is a cinch to finish in first place in the individual scoring race. He has 46 goals, which is tops for the goal getters, and 51 assists for a total of 97 points, four short of the league record.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON TUES. A.M. MARCH 8</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01269/1369247-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="601" height="193"></div><h3>RESULTS</h3><p><b>Tuesday March 1st</b></p><p>Edmonton 0 at Vancouver 0</p><p>Calgary 4 at Saskatoon 4</p><p><b>Wednesday March 2nd</b></p><p>Edmonton 2 at Victoria 4</p><p><b>Thursday March 3rd</b></p><p>Edmonton 2 at New Westminster 5</p><p>Calgary 5 at Saskatoon 5</p><p><b>Friday March 4th</b></p><p>Victoria 1 at Vancouver 1</p><p><b>Saturday March 5th</b></p><p>Vancouver 3 at Victoria 4</p><p>Edmonton 7 at New Westminster 3</p><p>Saskatoon 3 at Calgary 6</p><h3>TUESDAY, MARCH 1</h3><p>Edmonton 0 at Vancouver 0</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal: Hall; defense: Zeidel, Zeniuk, Hrymnak, Co-flin; forwards: Horvath, Bucyk, Stankiewicz, Allen, Melnyk, D. Poile, David, McAvoy.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal: Bower; defense: Lancien, Reeve, Hudson, Dick; forwards: Maloney, Kullman, McLeod, Wylie, Dea, Ford, Ashworth, Johnson, Brown.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Eddie Powers; linesman: Gordon Hamilton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02230/1369240-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="594" height="476"></div><h3>Calgary 4 at Saskatoon 4</h3><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal: Stevenson; defense: Kyle, Quackenbush, Coburn, A. Michaluk, S. Hucul; forwards: Pargeter, Couture, Lundy, Barry, McFadden, Finney, Scott, J. Michaluk.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal: B. Bentley; defense: Evans, Ross, Houghton, Milford; forwards: Kobussen, D. Bentley, Manson, M. Bentley, Kukulowicz, Lynn, Kaiser, Haley, Lamoureux.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Paul Bozak; linesman; Mery Clouston.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03204/1369233-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="594" height="732"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 Edmonton 2 at Victoria 4</h3><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal: Hall: defense: Hrymnak, Zeidel, Coflin, Allen; forwards: Zeniuk, Horvath, Melnyk, D. Poile, Stankiewicz, Davis, J. Bucyk, McAvoy.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal: Pelletier; defense: Durham, Clune, Keating, Davidson; forwards: Macauley. Hebenton, Achtymichuk, Bradley, W. Bucyk, Kuzma, Dorohoy, Kilburn, Reay, Marquess.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Eddy Powers; linesman: Ross Valliere.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04179/1369226-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="597" height="766"></div><h3>THURSDAY, MARCH 8 Edmonton 2 at New Westminster 5</h3><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal: Hall: defense: Hrymnak, Zeidel, Coflin, Zeniuk, Allen; forwards: Horvath, Poile, Melnyk, Stankiewicz, Bucyk, McAvoy, Davis, Holmes.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal: Gatherum; defense: Lavitt, Bergeron, Needham, Sinclair, Bedard; forwards: McNab, Dorohoy, McLean, Adam, Love, Fashoway, Matthews, Fielder, Dawes.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Ed Powers; linesman: Gordon Hamilton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05153/1369219-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="575" height="671"></div><h3>Calgary 5 at Saskatoon 5</h3><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal: Stevenson; defense: Kyle, Quackenbush, Coburn A. Miehaluk; forwards: Pargeter, Lundy, Couture, Barry, McFadden, Finney, Scott, Duke, S. Hucul.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal: B. Bentley; defense: Evans, Houghton, Milford; forwards: Kobussen, D. Bentley, Manson, Kukulowicz, Lynn, Kaiser, Haley, Lamoureux, Ross.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Paul Bozak; linesman: Merv Clouston.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06128/1369212-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="592" height="780"></div><h3>FRIDAY, MARCH 4 Victoria 1 at Vancouver 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07118/1369205-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="579" height="417"></div><h3>SATURDAY, MARCH 5 Vancouver 3 at Victoria 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08110/1369198-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="582" height="654"></div><h3>Edmonton 7 at New Westminster 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09104/1369191-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="586" height="782"></div><h3>Saskatoon 3 at Calgary 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10101/1369184-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="585" height="718"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including games of Sat. March 5)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1187/1369177-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="596" height="1694"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1277/1369170-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="591" height="319"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES GP MIN.</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1359/1369163-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="592" height="251"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03157/1367975-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>ext time you see the I PA label, you know it for a fact&hellip;there&rsquo;s a men about, with a taste for a truly man&rsquo;s ale. A zestful and mellow ale&hellip;an ale with hearty old-time flavour&hellip;an ale with a fine masculine tang. If you&rsquo;ve a mans taste in ales, you&rsquo;ll enjoy Labatt&rsquo;s IPA. Have an IPA soon.</p><p>John Labatt II brought the secret of I PA back to London in 1864. Winner of more awards than any other ale, it is famous as a MAN&rsquo;S drink.</p><p><i>The swing is <u>definitely</u> to Labatt&rsquo;s</i><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THAT’S WHERE THE AAEM LIVE ALI YOU LAM TELL Ey THE NEVJ LABATT ERA LASEL

<p>1&mdash;Anyone is eligible to cast 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, defensemen, 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 ns 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="image-hero"><img title="f0002-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04126/1367741-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen Flash Hollett set a record for most goals in a season by a defenseman. Hollet was playing for the Detroit Red Wings during the 1944-45 season and tallied no less than 20 counters from the defense post.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Do you remember?…

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01131/1369924-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CANADIENS&rsquo; Dollard St. Laurent dumps Toronto&rsquo;s Ronnie Stewart into the back of the Montrealers&rsquo; nets as Jacques Plante, a little curious at the commotion behind him, takes a moment to peek around the cage to see what&rsquo;s going on.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo By Turofsky)</span></figcaption></div><h2><b><i>Dolly Nets A 170-Lb Leaf</i></b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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RANGERS TO SCOUT COUNTRY

<div class="byline">HOUSTON</div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO&mdash;The goal that made Sidney James Smith the first Toronto Maple Leaf in four years to fire 30 in a single season, could have belonged to no one else. Even Smith didn&rsquo;t know how he scored it.</p><p>Famous, or infamous, for popping goals that appear flukey but are actually the result of incredible timing and opportunism, Smitty shot his big one from behind the net.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m doggoned if I know how that one got in,&rdquo; he said after the 30-foot swipe from the corner had connected.</p><p>Montreal goaltender. Jacques Plante was as amazed, but Plante&rsquo;s teammates explained it hit the goalie on the back of his pad and caromed in&mdash;a typical Smithsonian.</p><p>Smitty allows that the needling he took earlier that day as a possible victim of the 30-goal jinx which always bothers Leafs made him &ldquo;mad enough to score it that night.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Actually, I guess you&rsquo;d put more pressure on yourself trying to dodge the issue. But I made up my mind I was gonna prove that jinx stuff is the bunk.&rdquo;</p><p>Smith was obliged to wait until the final game of the 1950-51 season to reach the magic circle in his only previous success. His wingmate that season, Tod Sloan, scored 31. But since then, no Leaf has even threatened to reach the triple decade.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Smitty Fired 30th (From Behind Net)

<div class="byline">By HERB GOREN</div><p>NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>When it&rsquo;s playoff time in pro hockey, Frank Boucher and Muzz Patrick will spend their nights scouting the American League, Western League and even the junior operatives rather than look at the teams which eliminated their Rangers.</p><p>A far more concentrated effort will be made this spring than last to tab the pros for possible draft. There are at least three, and possibly more, forward positions open on the Broadway Blues, and the brain trusters won&rsquo;t be Ignoring defensemen, either, in their travels.</p><p>At that, Boucher and Patrick were not exactly asleep at the switch last spring. They gave the American League a long look, and there was one night when they both sat in on a Hershey-Pittsburgh playoff game and decided the two best players were Danny Lewicki of Pittsburgh and Red Sullivan of Hershey.</p><p>&ldquo;We wanted both of them,&rdquo; Muzz said the other day. &ldquo;What we didn&rsquo;t know, of course, was that Sullivan was committed to the Black Hawks.&rdquo;</p><p>Half a loaf, in any event, was better than none. Lewicki camo to New York for $15,000. Ho wasn&rsquo;t claimed in the draft, his acquisition coming shortly beforehand; but had there been no draft (and, therefore, no squeeze on protecting 18 players) the Maple Leafs would probably hava ruled out a Lewicki deal.</p><p>Dangerous Dan, incidentally, has fallen on evil times lately. At the last reckoning he hadn&rsquo;t scored a goal in eight straight games. It was his worst slump of the year. For some time his goal-scoring total has remained at 27, and the chance to beat Bill Cook&rsquo;s club record of 33 seems to have slipped through his hands.</p><p>But if he doesn&rsquo;t score another goal all year, Lewicki will still have proved a real bargain. He has all the moves of a great offensive hockey player, and when more importance was attached to Ranger games than recently, he worked fairly well the other way too.</p><p>Goals have been hard to coma by, however, and one reason reflects credit on Coach Patrick. For with nothing at stake, Muzz could have given Danny his head and opened up the games so that they resembled glorified shinny or free-skating exhibitions; in which Lewicki might really have poured it on.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0291/1369979-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="296" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Boucher</b></figcaption></div><p>But Patrick wouldn&rsquo;t have it that way. &ldquo;Even though we&rsquo;re out of the playoffs,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to let anybody fatten his batting average. We&rsquo;re going to play team hockey to the end, and we&rsquo;re going to hit, and nobody will accuse us of degenerating the game.&rdquo;</p><p>So Danny is in a slump and whatever honors he is In the running for may escape him. Nonetheless this has been a tremendous year for him. For one thing, he jumped from 16 goals as a 19-year-old rookie with Toronto (which was his best NHL season) to 27 now. For another he isn&rsquo;t playing strictly for his record.</p><p>Not too long ago he took a high stick from Hal Laycoe of Boston, and instead of running away, lashed right back. He could have given more thought to his penalty record, which showed only six minutes at the time, but preferred instead to retaliate at the risk of another minor. As it happened, both Laycoe and Lewicki went off. Which may not help Danny&rsquo;s bid for the Lady Byng trophy, but which proved to somebody he wasn&rsquo;t going to be a sitting duck for a high stick.</p><p>A groin injury kept Edgar Laprade out of four games. He finally got on against Detroit at the Garden, March 6, to a special announcement and considerable applause that it was his 500th game in the NHL and with the Rangers. A minute later, he aggravated his injury and had to quit for. the night. He may bo through for the season&hellip;That same night the uninhibited Leapin&rsquo; Louie Fontinato scored his first big league goal from a point, and so excited did he become that he almost ran over Referee Red Storey in his zeal to retrieve the disk&hellip;Louie, incidentally, had suffered a broken, nose the night before in Detroit, caused by a stray elbow, but didn&rsquo;t bother to ask anybody whether he should be sidelined the following night. Louie simply took it for granted he should play.</p><p>Andy Bathgate&rsquo;s oldest brother, Bernie, was a member of the Penticton V&rsquo;s, but Andy himself has never seen Bernie play hockey&hellip;Andy needs one goal to reach the 20-goal mark, his first full year. The Rangers have given Pete Conacher the No. 9 that was worn by his dad, Charley, in his hey-day with the Leafs and was last worn by Paul Ronty in New York&hellip;Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; general manager, credits Bones Raleigh with having made possible Lewicki&rsquo;s fine year&hellip;&ldquo;Bones always made scorers out of fair wingers,&rdquo; he Said&hellip;The Rangers recently visited Guelph for an exhibition game, and Coach Patrick liked what he saw up there. He thought Billy McCreary and Ron Howell were the best of the Ranger farm kids, and both looked good in brief Ranger tryouts earlier in the season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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All-Out Assault For Best Talent Latest NY Plan

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>It was his own impatience as a youngster that groomed Rudy Migay to play one of the most important roles in Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; hockey campaign this winter.</p><p>As a Fort William youngster, the Toy Terrier was too impatient to wait for the puck to come to him. So he went to the puck.</p><p>&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t wait for someone else to dig the puck out to me, so I had my fun going in and checking for it,&rdquo; he says.</p><p>Rudy has been for it ever since. The insatiable appetite for checking has never been quenched and Rudy remains one of the few present-day big leaguers who states a preference for the least-glamorous phase of hockey.</p><p>That penchant for checking has been capitalized upon by every club for which Rudy has played in organized hockey, from Junior in Port Arthur and Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s College to professional hockey with Pittsburgh and now Toronto. Every club has employed him as a penalty killer.</p><p>None has needed him more than this year&rsquo;s Leafs.</p><p>By the time the current NHL campaign ends, Rudolph will have spent roughly 630 minutes or 10 and one half games carrying the burden of two men as Leafs&rsquo; No. 1 penalty killer. Despite this responsibility he has surrendered only eight goals while Leafs have played shorthanded.</p><p>And, during periods he has done the work of an entire line while played two men short, he hasn&rsquo;t yielded a goal.</p><p>It is small wonder that Leaf General Manager Hap Day groups Migay with Ted Kennedy, Harry Lumley and Sid Smith as the four men who contributed most to sending Leafs into the Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>Rudy&rsquo;s chore assumes even greater consequence when it is considered Leafs are the most penalized club in the league&mdash;by a considerable margin, roughly 100 minutes.</p><p>Four other Leafs have made regular contributions to the penalty killing task, but none with the success of Rudolph, much less the work. Both Ron Stewart and Eric Nesterenko missed large chunks of the season through injury. Joe Klukay joined the club late and was employed as a PK man only in Stewart&rsquo;s absence. And Ted Kennedy was used slightly less in this job since he must also double as the key man on Toronto&rsquo;s power play when the enemy has a penalty. But for the fractured cheek-bone which sidelined Stewart for 17 games, Migay&rsquo;s record may have been still better. During Stew&rsquo;s absence, which amounted to one-quarter of the season, Migay was charged with four goals against while teaming with Kluke. In the remaining three-quarters of the schedule he allowed no more.</p><p>&ldquo;Stew and I have been playing together for so long that we can anticipate one another&rsquo;s moves better,&rdquo; Migay says by way of explaining the vast difference in results.</p><p>&ldquo;Generally I&rsquo;ll go in and try to force the other team&rsquo;s play toward Stewart and he&rsquo;ll hold back and try to check them if they go that way. The idea is to keep them disorganized in their own end. The longer we can keep them disorganized, the less time they have to get together for an attack.</p><p>&ldquo;And it&rsquo;s a heck of a lot easier to check them in their own end. Once they get into our end, they can do a lot of passing and it&rsquo;s a lot tougher to break it up.&rdquo;</p><p>In pairing Migay with Stewart, Leafs matched two opposites to cover all departments. In Migay they have a dogged and effective checker, a. man of great nuisance value and heady play. But while Migay lacks polished skating and fast breaking, Stewart makes that up.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01185/1367607-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="284" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Lumley</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02169/1367600-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="284" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Kennedy</b></figcaption></div><p>Migay himself cannot explain his inferior skating.</p><p>&ldquo;When I was a kid, I had as much chance to skate as anybody,&rdquo; he recalls. &ldquo;But I guess that&rsquo;s just one of those things you&rsquo;re born with, a natural talent.&rdquo;</p><p>The lack of swift legs was greatly responsible for Migay&rsquo;s taking three swings before he connected in the National League. Between tryouts, he had three 20-goal seasons with Leafs&rsquo; Pittsburgh Hornet affiliates in the American League.</p><p>But goals and legs meant nothing when Leafs needed a checking fiend. That&rsquo;s where Migay showed in a class by himself.</p><p>And, with Stewart, he has created an incredible record. Each has scored twice with the Leafs shorthanded so that the entire four goals they have surrendered as penalty killers have been recovered while they operated in the same capacity.</p><p>For that sort of contribution, the Leafs wouldn&rsquo;t err by permitting the Toy Terrier to write his own cheques while making his own checks.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Toy Terrier’s Impatience Big Reason Why Rudy Migay’s Starring In NHL

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Toronto Maple Leafs whose hold on third place in the National Hockey League standing is, to say the least, precarious, will skate into the Stanley Cup playoffs minus one of their top defensemen.</p><p>Tim Horton, the young, rushing rearguard, is through for the season as a result of a collision with Bill Gadsby of the New York Rangers. The spike-topped defenseman suffered a broken right leg and a broken jaw late in the second period of a game played here on March 12, which the Leafs lost 2-1.</p><p>As fate would have it, both players involved, Horton and Gadsby, were teamed on the second All-Star team last season. Gadsby at that time performed for the Chicago Black Hawks but went to the Rangers in a trade earlier this season.</p><h2><b>&ldquo;The Hangover Was Pleasant&rdquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03155/1367638-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="865" height="924"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED LINDSAY&hellip;&hellip;Back, then out again.</b></figcaption></div><p><b>THE DETROIT Red Wings were hit hard last weekend when their ace left winger, Ted Lindsay, was body-checked, reinjuring his shoulder. Latest reports have Lindsay out for a period of close to 10 days.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Tim Horton Is Through For Season

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Boston&rsquo;s hockey world honored one of its favorite sons of this era here on March 10 before the Bruins&rsquo; game with the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>Hockey fans, club officials, players and hockey writers joined in paying tribute to Sugar Jim Henry, the goal-tender with-out an alibi.</p><p>The 34-year-old Henry, the Bruins&rsquo; last line of defense for the past three years, received an imposing array of gifts, with Mrs. Henry and nine-year old Tommy also sharing in the awards.</p><p>For Henry, the veteran who wrote a &ldquo;Cinderella&rdquo; story with a spectacular return to major league competition in the fall of 1951, the night climaxed what may be his final season here.</p><p>Sugar Jim was purchased from the Detroit Red Wings for a reported $6,000 to fill an aching void here, and the cheery native of Winnipeg played three outstanding seasons, taking the Bruins to the final round of the Stanley Cup playoffs two years ago, only to lose his greatest chance for glory through a sidelining injury.</p><p>Last November Henry was replaced as the Bruins&rsquo; first-line goalie by Long John Henderson, 21-year-old rookie, and he has played only occasionally since then.</p><p>Sugar Jim&rsquo;s conduct and general good humor off the ice as well as on has won him a host of admirers here, and the Henry Night was the result of a spontaneous effort by his well-wishers.</p><p>As yet Henry has given no indication of his plans for next season, nor is he likely to do so until the Bruins hold their annual breakup dinner after the playoffs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Boston Turns Out To Honor Veteran On Henry Night

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Terry Sawchuk does things in a big way.</p><p>After trailing Harry Lumley of the Toronto Maple Leafs for 66 games of the National Hockey League schedule in the Vezina Trophy race, the agile Detroit netminder forged to the front last Sunday night as his mates clobbered Lumley for six goals in a 6-1 triumph.</p><p>That scoring outburst gave Sawchuk a three goal lead in the Vezina race, almost as frantic a battle this year as it was last season when a 90-foot blooper by Leaf defenseman Jim Thomson won the trophy for Lumley in Detroit.</p><p>Sawchuk aided his own cause by assisting on a goal scored by Marcel Pronovost. Terry cleared a loose puck to the Detroit defenseman and he skated the length of the ice to fire the disc past Harrassed Harry. The Wings beat the defensive-minded Leafs without the services of Ted Lindsay, who pulled a shoulder muscle against the Chicago Black Hawks on March 12.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Sawchuk Forges Ahead Of Lumley In Vezina Race

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>All &ldquo;hangovers&rdquo; aren&rsquo;t painful.</p><p>Consider Ted Lindsay, captain of the Red Wings, who is finding some pleasure now from the after-effects of his earlier troubles.</p><p>It is a fresh, well-rested Lindsay who led the Wings in their dramatic stretch drive after once being counted out of the National Hockey League race.</p><p>And this same Lindsay, peppery despite all the handcuffs waved at him, looms as a key man in the forthcoming playoffs. If the Wings give an unexpectedly strong playoff showing, all the difficulty that Lindsay had this season could be the indirect cause.</p><p>Loss of the Kirkland Lake veteran for 18 games was the biggest single blow to hit Detroit personnel all year. Stripped from the lineup not only was an outstanding goal scorer and team leader in the art of winning goals, but also a fiery leader who had sparked six straight title teams.</p><p>While his absence was sharply felt, his importance has been emphasized even more by his play since returning. Ted quickly took over as the &ldquo;big man&rdquo; of the club to become the leader in goals and assists over that stretch.</p><p>The dapper Detroit captain, as quiet-spoken and mannerly off the ice as he is snarling and raucous in action, concedes that two enforced vacations are bringing benefits now.</p><p>&ldquo;I ought to be in top shape, I&rsquo;ve missed a third of the season so far,&rdquo; Lindsay points out, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got plenty of catching up to do.&rdquo;</p><p>In addition to leading Detroit&rsquo;s late bid, Lindsay also had a personal project. For eight straight years he had been a 20-goal man in the NHL and he didn&rsquo;t intend to have the streak like a. 300 season in baseball&mdash;sort of separates the men from the hoys. Only &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard, with 12 straight 20-goal years, has a longer string than Lindsay.</p><p>Lindsay&rsquo;s chances of hitting 20, however, were dim when he finally got back into the lineup last month.</p><p>That was after missing 14 games with a broken bone in his shoulder plus four more as a result of a suspension by President Clarence Campbell for unruly conduct.</p><p>Up to that time Lindsay had made more headlines with his deportment than his scoring. He had tallied just nine goals and only 18 of the 70 games remained.</p><p>In the next 13 starts he clicked seven times and also added six assists. That left him with four goals to go in the last five starts if he were to reach 20.</p><p>During his 11-year Detroit career Lindsay managed the 30-goal level three times and once led the NHL in goals with 33. He went on to become the greatest goal-getter in the history of the Detroit club, passing marks posted by Syd Howe and then Sid Abel.</p><p>There was quite a fuss earlier in the campaign when Gordie Howe finally topped Lindsay in this department. Lindsay was a sitting target at the time, being out with his injury.</p><p>Ted had 254 at that time. Gordie bumped the record to 264 before Lindsay returned. Then Howe slumped as Lindsay gained ground and now these linemates and roommates have a friendly rivalry going. Howe currently leading, 269 to 261.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Lindsay Snaps “Hangover” Big Wheel Again With Wings

<p>MONTREAL&mdash;Tradition? Doesn&rsquo;t mean a thing to Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; Doug Harvey.</p><p>When the Montreal Royals won. the Allan Cup in 1947, with Harvey as one of the outstanding stars, the team, naturally elated, stood around on the ice whooping it up, posing for photographers and accepting congratulations from well-wishers. Only one member of the team was absent.</p><p>Where and who was he? Score yourself five points if you guessed that it was Harvey, another five if you guessed he was in the dressing-room.</p><p>Why wasn&rsquo;t he there with the rest of the team? The answer to that one is simple. Doug just doesn&rsquo;t like all the extra-curricular goings-on that are part and parcel of big time hockey. He&rsquo;d rather go fishing.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Ceremonies? Not Harvey, He’d Rather Go Fishing

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL&mdash;Husky Doug Harvey, Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; AllStar defenseman, is an easy-going unassuming fellow off the ice. Following the game in which he set a new record for most assists by a defenseman in a season, he was being congratulated by everyone in the Canadiens&rsquo; dressing room. In a most sardonic manner he answered his. well-wishers with: &ldquo;Yea, that&rsquo;s:, some record all right. It only took Babe Pratt 50 games to set it. It took me 59 games to beat it by one.&rdquo;</p><p>Babe Pratt held the former record of 40 assists in one season, which he set in a 50-game schedule in 1943-44, while playing with Toronto Maple Leafs. Harvey had 41 assists after 59 games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Beating Pratt’s Record Doesn’t Impress Harvey

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01184/1367858-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"></div><p><b>HARVEY, DOUGLAS NORMAN</b></p><p><b>Born, Montreal, Que., December 19, 1924 Defense. Shoots left. 5&rsquo;11&rdquo;, 180 lbs.</b></p><p><b>Last amateur club: Montreal Royals (Senior)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Doug Harvey’s Record

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Doug Harvey of the Montreal Canadiens is one of those rare athletes who seldom arouses the emotions in his fans and seldom riles his opponents. A soft-spoken, sensible, self-possessed young man, whose approach to hockey is heroically rational&mdash;sometimes even too rational to please Coach Dick Irvin, who likes to see more fire in his athletes&mdash;Harvey makes the game look ridiculously easy.</p><p>Yet Harvey&rsquo;s superb talents have been clearly perceived by people close to hockey and this year he seems a cinch to win the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the most effective defenceman in the National Hockey League as well as gaining a berth on the first All-Star team for the fourth consecutive season.</p><p>Playing for a power-packed club that is threatening to set a new all-time NHL scoring record Harvey is enjoying a tremendous season. Canadiens&rsquo; thinking is geared only to offensive tactics and because they steamroller their opposition with goals&mdash;the way hockey should be played to please the fans&mdash;Harvey is able to roam up and down the ice. No defenceman in the league carries the puck out of his own end better than Harvey, no rearguard gives a more feathery pass.</p><p>As Harvey has the additional advantage of being a point-man on power plays, he has already established a new assists record for defencemen, surpassing the previous all-time mark of 40 set by Toronto&rsquo;s Babe Pratt in the 1943-44 season.</p><p>Yet Harvey, a modest fellow with a philosophical outlook who demands nothing from life but the right to go his own way and perform as he pleases, accepts no credit for his success.</p><p>&ldquo;Heck, it&rsquo;s easy to play on this club,&rsquo;&rsquo; he said the other day. &ldquo;All I have to do is pass the puck to fellows like Maurice Richard, Bernie Geoffrion and Jean Beliveau and they put it in the net.&rdquo;</p><p>That&rsquo;s making things a little too simple but then Harvey reduces everything to its lowest common denominator.</p><p>A durable fellow, Harvey has yielded to the injury jinx only twice in the six seasons that he has been a Canadien regular. Early last season he missed two games with a wrenched knee and in the 1951-52 campaign he was out for a similar short stretch with water on the knee.</p><p>Harvey attributes his ability to withstand punishment to luck.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a lot of luck to it,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;Some fellows seem to get hurt and others don&rsquo;t. It&rsquo;s a matter of breaks and maybe experience. Take when I missed those two games last year. Leo Boivin caught me off balance. I didn&rsquo;t see him coming or I wouldn&rsquo;t have been hurt. I was near the boards about to shoot the puck when he came in and clipped me on the leg. I guess I wasn&rsquo;t firm enough on it and my knee was twisted by the check.</p><p>Harvey also missed a game in the 1952-53 season when Irvin benched him following a 4-3 loss to the Bruins in Boston. The Habs blew a 3-0 lead in that contest and. asked what happened, Irvin muttered, &ldquo;ask Harvey, he was there.&rdquo;</p><p>The coach followed up his remarks by benching Harvey for the Habs&rsquo; next game. But Doug was back two nights later, making the play for Habs&rsquo; only goal in a 3-1 loss to the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Luckily Harvey can take criticism. Although he has received nothing but praise this season, life wasn&rsquo;t always a bed of roses. Even Canadiens&rsquo; 1953-54 Press-Radio Guide raps him mildly over the knuckles.</p><p>&ldquo;Until two seasons ago. Doug was a study in inconsistency, it states. &ldquo;His play at times bordered on the sensational but he could turn in games that were just the opposite. He is probably the only player in hockey who has been roundly criticised by the press, radio and fans of his home town.</p><p>One day Doug met a writer who had been particularly sarcastic and, a little embarrassed, the typewriter pounder attempted to explain his stand.</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t worry about me.&rdquo; said Harvey. &ldquo;You have to watch me play, that&rsquo;s your job. But I don&rsquo;t have to read your stories.</p><p>Despite his status as a star&rsquo; on a team that&rsquo;s noted for its high penalty totals, Harvey has mellowed over the years and, at this writing, he has served only 56 minutes in the current season compared with 110 last year.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t realize that.&rdquo; he said when presented with the statistical evidence of his reform. &ldquo;Only 56 minutes. Gosh, they&rsquo;re robbing me of the Lady Byng Trophy.</p><p>Harvey hasn&rsquo;t always been so gentlemanly. Four years ago, before he learned about the advantages of staying on the ice, he battled Gaye Stewart, then with the New York Rangers, and Fern Flaman, then with the Toronto Maple Leafs, in successive games, drawing major penalties for both offences.</p><p>He high-sticked Stewart for three stitches in Montreal and split Flaman for six in Toronto. The Stewart incident was quickly forgotten but the Leafs protested the injury to Flaman, conveniently ignoring the fact that Flaman had first high-sticked Harvey on the play and had been tagged with a minor penalty before Harvey retaliated.</p><p>&ldquo;Flaman always has been a rough, tough guy&rdquo;, said Doug later. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s been charging into players, banging them into the boards, holding and wrestling. He nearly took my head off with his stick so I gave him a taste of his own medicine.&rdquo;</p><p>A versatile athlete, Harvey might have been a professional baseball player had he not decided upon hockey as a career. Once the property of the Boston Braves, he was farmed out to the Ottawa Nationals of the Border League in 1948. He batted. 340 and led the league in triples, indication enough that he was no slow poke on the bases.</p><p>Boston called Harvey up for Spring training but he refused to report as it would have interfered with his hockey career.</p><p>Still he admits that he is torn between the loves for each game, although he realizes that as a major league hockey player he enjoys greater fiscal advantages than he would as a minor league ball player, even in Triple A. If the games presented equal opportunity for him, he says he would have to give his future a great deal of serious thought.</p><p>A left-handed outfielder, Harvey says, &ldquo;I think I can hit any kind of pitching but I know I am a very ordinary fielder.&rdquo;</p><p>Harvey, who came up through the sandlots and open-air rinks of Montreal&rsquo;s west end, also was a promising football prospect. As a high school star at West Hill he was a great running back, a solid ball carrier. Today Harvey generally confines his summer activity to softball&mdash;he&rsquo;s a power hitter in a fast Montreal league&mdash;and to fishing. He likes the quiet, relaxing environment of the outdoors, an avocation he shares with such noted athletes as Sam Snead and Ted Williams.</p><p>Born in Notre Dame de Grace, a residential section of Montreal, on Dec. 19, 1924, Harvey played hockey in the chain of clubs operated by the Montreal Royals and finally graduated to the junior team.</p><p>When the Martian monster, known as World Wat II. engulfed the globe in its scarlet bane, Harvey enlisted in the Canadian Navy and his hockey playing was confined to a service team. Back in civvies after V-E Day, Harvey rejoined the Royals&rsquo; organization, this time with the senior squad in the Quebec Hockey League.</p><p>After watching him only once, Happy Day, boss of the Toronto Maple Leafs, unostentatiously predicted that he had the ability and the temperament to make the big league. He backed up this prognosis by offering to trade a good left winger, Gaye Stewart, for Harvey but the Canadien brass, well aware of the vast potentialities of the young rearguard, wisely refused to entertain the offer.</p><p>Harvey remained with the Royals for a couple of seasons and played a big role with the 1946-47 team that. won the Allan Cup, emblematic of Canada&rsquo;s senior hockey championship. The following year, along with Floyd Curry and one or two others who had carried the Royals banner, he turned professional with the Canadiens.</p><p>He played 35 games with the Habs that season and 24 games with the Buffalo Bisons, then a Canadien farm in the American Hockey League. The following season. Harvey was so impressive in Fall training that he was added to the Canadieus&rsquo; permanent roster. He has been a fixture behind the blueline ever since and currently is enjoying his greatest season.</p><p>A 180-pounder who stands five-feet-eleven, Harvey is a man of simple tastes. Although he possesses a natty wardrobe of sports togs he likes nothing better than to don old clothes. He hates business suits and he abhors those socially accepted clothing appendages known as ties.</p><p>Because he has a tendency to gain weight, Doug watches his diet during the hockey season, tamping down vast cargoes of steaks and roast beef but assiduously avoiding pastry and potatoes, the twin devils of avoirdupois.</p><p>&ldquo;Actually Doug is easy to feed,&rdquo; says his wife Ursula, whom he met when he was in his early teens, appropriately enough at a hockey game. They have two children&mdash;Doug Jr., a five-year-old going concern, and Darlene, a cute two-year-old.</p><p>They live in an attractive stone and brick family dwelling in Notre Dame de Grace, a house which Doug built with the assistance of two brothers, Alfred, now playing hockey in England, and Howie, a former Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;s goaltender.</p><p>Doug worked for a month in the construction business before undertaking the job of building his own house. His friends thought he&rsquo;d never finish it but. with typical tenacity, Doug fooled them. The following summer he built another home for his parents.</p><p>Spurred on by such success, ths Harveys built another dwelling in Montreal West. They sold that one and another project is underway now, a bungalow on the shores of Lake St. Louis, near Montreal, which will be placed on the market when it is completed.</p><p>It appears that when Doug&rsquo;s hockey career is over, he won&rsquo;t have to worry about the future. He&rsquo;ll have a ready-made job as president of a construction company and. having started from scratch, it should provide him with a lot of satisfaction.</p><h2><b>&ldquo;Fewer Penalties, More Points?&rdquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02154/1367779-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="863" height="1657"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG HARVEY&hellip;</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03105/1367772-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="892" height="1656"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&hellip;Setting a new record for Rearguards</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Is Harvey Greatest Rearguard In Hockey?

<div class="byline">By EDDIE COEN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01255/1367889-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FREDDIE GLOVER&hellip;&hellip;A Prolific Pointmaker</b></figcaption></div><p>CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>When he is introduced to hockey fans in his street clothes, eyebrows are usually raised and the question can almost be anticipated on the lips of the almost non-believers. That is the way the off-the-ice appearance of Freddie Glover strikes fans who meet the great Cleveland Baron right winger for the first time when he is not in a hockey uniform.</p><p>For if there ever was a hockey player who looks like a college sophomore and who gives all of the appearance of a youngster who should be in a hurry to make his next class, but who is taking his time because he wants to thoroughly mull over his lessons for the day, that is Glover. It is almost unbelievable that here is one of the American Hockey league&rsquo;s all-time great right wingers but that is Glover, quiet, modest, and who apparently was brought up in the school of thought that words are not to be wasted.</p><p>The Baron right winger, who is a top candidate for all-league honors, a post he first won back in 1950-51 when he fired 48 goals for the now defunt Indianapolis Capitols, believes in letting his actions speak for him. And his actions out on the ice are such that he is probably the most respected forward in the league this year&mdash;what with his brilliant scoring, his tricky stick handling and his ability to lay down a perfect pass.</p><p>This could have been Glover&rsquo;s greatest year from the viewpoint of the goals and assists column. However, an ankle injury in the key stage of the month of February apparently has killed any chance he had of taking over the 1954-55 scoring crown. Bud even with his absence from a number of games, he will finish in the top half dozen point markers in the circuit. In fact with any kind of a break the native of Toronto, Ontario could wind up as high as second or third.</p><p>Glover, who holds the American Hockey League record for scoring goals in insuccessive games, at one time during the season was after Tommy Burlington&rsquo;s string of 24 games in a row in which the former Baron great had scored a point. Unfortunately, Glover and the rest of the Barons dropped into a slight slump, and the 27-year-old boy was stopped at 19 which is a tremendous feat since every club in the league does their best checking against what is the circuit&rsquo;s best line&mdash;Eddie Olson, Jackie Gordon and Glover.</p><p>Unbeknown to anyone but Coach Fred (Bun) Cook, general manager Jim Hendy, the Barons club doctor. Dr. Ivan G. Lust, and himself, Glover suffered a jaw fracture early in the season in a game in Springfield. He had a number of teeth loosened and he looked like he had a chew of tobacco in his jaw for days on end. When questioned about the swollen side of his face, Glover simply said, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s nothing. The swelling will go down tomorrow&rdquo;. It did go down but not until Glover kept in the lineup for every game and stayed in front of the individual point making race for 18 straight weeks until his ankle injury sidelined him.</p><p>At this stage of the season the former Galt Junior is almighty handy boy to have around. Not only can he score. Not only can he play excellent defensive hockey, but if a club has any superstitions, Glover is a star who has never missed the playoffs in six years of pro hockey. That in itself makes him a player to have on your side and the rougher and tougher the going gets the better Glover likes it.</p><p>When the ballots are east and counted for the right wing spot in the American Hockey league come the end of the season, the name of Frederick Austin Glover should lead all the rest&mdash;for here is a boy who is in a class by himself in all departments of the game.</p><h2><b>Doesn&rsquo;t Waste Words</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Freddie Glover Highly Rated, One Of Rest RW In AHL History

<div class="byline">By PAUL G. SULLIVAN</div><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>If Pittsburgh Hornets have had a besetting fault over the long and arduous stretch of the past six months&mdash;and an observant scrutinizer might have detected a flaw or two in the performance of the rather unpredictable Steel Citians&mdash;it has been a soul-searing propensity for sacrificing seemingly safe leads in clutch competition.</p><p>Complete research on the subject is not immediately available, but if pretty definite impressions count for anything, it ran be safely asseverated that he Yellow Jackets have blown enough advantages to have dealt themselves lock, stock, and barrel plumb out of Calder Cup playoff contention, not to mention the American League leadership&mdash;except that over-all AHL opposition has been rather less than consistently stern.</p><p>Fans have groaned in spirit and shrieked in anguish as time upon time they have beheld the Pittsburghers spurt into early command, then fritter away prosperity to send thwarted customers homeward writhing in the pangs of frustration and seething with bitter thoughts of what should have been.</p><p>This transplantation of the morning-glory is, of course, neither uncommon nor confined to Pittsburgh. Indeed, it is a phenomenon running through many, if not all, sports&mdash;an ingredient contributing perhaps as much as any factor to the suspense on Which athletic pastimes traive. But it always seems to occur oftener when it affects the side for which the party of the first part happens to be cheering.</p><p>What the Hornets&mdash;and unnumbered hosts of combatants in other realms&mdash;have appeared unable or unwilling to assimilate into their Intellectual processes is the axiomatic fundamental that quickly-gained margins are often no better than illusory indication of the relative strength of rivals.</p><p>As applied specifically to hockey&mdash;and pinpointed upon the Yellow Jackets&mdash;the tallying of a couple of sudden goals in the wake of the opening faceoff constitutes no categorical imperative that the enemy is in for one of those long, dismal occasions whereon matters deteriorate&rsquo; from an initial low to an ultimate abysmal.</p><p>The true angle is that such markets are apt to have been registered before the defense has set itself or the victim squad has contrived to get rolling.</p><p>The scoring force, nonetheless, tends to become convinced through some insidious quirk of auto-hypnosis that it his really stepped away under heavy head of steam and subconsciously gears itself to the dangerous idea that the pace productive of those easy clickers is enough to do for the remainder of the evening.</p><p>It isn&rsquo;t precisely or even remotely a matter of sheer, simple over-confidence, nor yet a case of over-cautious jitters lest something horrible happen unless effort is centered on protective tactics to the exclusion of any gesture of attack.</p><p>Perhaps it is a sort of re-action to the ingrained maxim against changing a winning game.</p><p>Whatever the cause, the frontrunners fail to surge to meet the almost inevitable acceleration of tempo projected by a desperate foe, the &ldquo;safe&rdquo; edge slips quietly into oblivion, and before long the rout is on and over.</p><p>The losers, whether Hornets or anyone else, have failed to pick up their speed, punch, and zeal to match a challenge that has out-raced the original burst of the disappointed outfit.</p><p>The club that can make its move automatically to stay with an opponent stung into all-or-nothing fury is the crew that will bring breaks to championship fruition.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hornets Blow Safe Leads But Have Managed To Stay Atop Of AHL Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Hershey hockey writers are booming Obie O&rsquo;Brien, captain of the Hershey Bears, for most valuable player honors.</p><p>Aside from the fact that the lanky left winger is headed for his best campaign in professional hockey, it is pointed out that his inspirational leader-ship has meant much to the Bears&rsquo; morale.</p><p>When coach Murray Henderson named the St. Catharines forward to succeed Andy Branigan as captain at the start of the season, Obie immediately began to fly. Previously a late starter. Obie moved into the top spot among Hershey individual scorers 1 right from the start and stayed there.</p><p>O&rsquo; Brien himself pointed out that his elevation to the position of lid a great deal to do with his play. &ldquo;The rest of the guys look up to you as captain. So, I figured I&rsquo;d better set them a good example.&rdquo;</p><p>That O&rsquo;Brien has done. After 53 games, Obie has lit the lamp 26 times, while assisting on 34 other scores. He has already passed his best previous campaign as a Bear by nine points. Last year, his third in Hershey livery, he had 20 goals and 31 assists for 51 points. He needs only two more points to surpass his all-time pro mark of 61 points, set with Tulsa in 1950-51.</p><p>Obie, who is 23 years of age, became Hershey property at the start of the season. He and Dunc Fisher were turned over to the Bears by the Boston Bruins in the deal which saw Boston acquire Ray Gariepy. Gariepy later went to Toronto in exchange for goaltender John Henderson.</p><p>A 6.3 left winger, Obie is married and has two children, Ellard and Margaret. The faily live in St. Catharines, Ontario.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02228/1367944-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="279" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Obie O&rsquo;Brien</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hershey Scribes Booming O’Brien For MVP Honors

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>It all started out as &ldquo;Bob Goldham Night&rdquo; but Gordie Howe did most of the celebrating.</p><p>In fact, Goldham didn&rsquo;t even get a chance to play on his &ldquo;Night&rdquo; since a practice injury the day before sent him to the sideline. But Bob donned his uniform and came to center ice to collect numerous presents.</p><p>Foremost among the gifts was an eight-passenger station wagon, which was driven to rinkside. It was from his many Detroit fans, who got a healthy financial assist from Marge Norris, Red Wing president, in their fund-raising drive.</p><p>Goldham also received a movie camera and projector, radio, fishing tackle (from Toronto fans), clothing, kitchenware and a special gift of a silver tea service from his Detroit teammates.</p><p>Bob also had in mind receiving a goal with or without the permission of Chicago Goalie Hank Bassen. But he was forestalled in this idea by the painful bruise on his instep where he had been hit by a shot.</p><p>So Howe did the collecting instead by scoring a one-period &ldquo;hat-trick&rdquo;. His were the last three goals in a 6-1 triumph over the Black Hawks and came at 6:52, 13:30 and 17:28 of the third period.</p><p>While not necessary to insure the victory, they did a world of good to Howe&rsquo;s morale. He had been in the worst slump of his career with only four goals in the 20 previous starts.</p><p>Each goal had a special flourish. His first was a spectacular unassisted job on which he stole the puck from a Hawk forward, carried the length of the ice, took his own rebound off Gus Mortson&rsquo;s shin pads, circled Mortson and another Chicago defender, feinted Bassen out of position and hooked the puck back home while sprawling across the goal mouth.</p><p>For his second one he flew a high 35-footer which Bassen couldn&rsquo;t hold as it whizzed off his left glove. The finale was a 30-footer that beat Bassen and rang off the inside of the far goal post,</p><p>This was the third &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; by a Red Wing this season, Red Kelly and Dutch Reibel having collected earlier. It was the first for Howe in almost two full seasons and boosted his output for this year to 27.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01205/1368013-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="284" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Goldham</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02182/1368006-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="276" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Howe Stole Most Of Spotlight As Fans Turned Out With Gifts For “Under-rated” Bob Goldham

<p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>EW YORK&mdash;Gump Worsley finally succumbed to a goal on a one-hop blooper. Happened to the Ranger eager against Detroit on New York ice, March 6, on a 70-footer by Alex DelVecchio. Gump went down to his knees for the shot and thought he had it smothered. But the disk bounced across the line through his thighs.</p><p>&ldquo;Well, it. happened to about everybody else,&rdquo; Gump moaned.</p><p>The goal cost the Rangers a tie. It was the first marker; of the night. Later, Lou Fontinato tied it up, but with less than two minutes to play, Glen Skov brought the Wings victory with a backhand flip over a prone Worsley. -</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think any goalie likes those bloopers,&rdquo; Worsley said later, &ldquo;but I never thought one would get by me unfit this one did.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03142/1368051-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="250" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lorne Worsley</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Talent Scout</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04114/1368044-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="588" height="608"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SAM POLLOCK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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One-Hop Blooper Beats Gump

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON&mdash;Humboldt, Saskatchewan, may be only a dot on the map of Canada to most people, but not to Lynn Patrick.</p><p>To the manager of the Boston Bruins, Humboldt is a junior-sized hockey metropolis, of whose wonders he is still exclaiming two weeks after having seen them.</p><p>Patrick stopped at Humboldt, whose junior Indians represent a link in the Bruins&rsquo; farm system, while on a transcontinental scouting trip recently. Never, he maintains. has he seen a place like it.</p><p>&ldquo;The interest and enthusiasm which the people there have for hockey is amazing,&rdquo; the Bruins&rsquo; boss exclaimed on his re-turn. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not a big town&mdash;the population is around 3,500&mdash;but, it&rsquo;s a real hockey hotbed.</p><p>&ldquo;Scotty Munro (Indians&rsquo; coach) has a fine team, and the people not only support itemotionally they also support it financially. And they work at doing it all the year round.</p><p>&ldquo;In my opinion Humboldt represents the ideal junior setup,&rdquo; he added&rdquo;, &ldquo;a fine arena, a good, well-coached team and a maximum of civic enthusiasm. It was quite a thrill to see it in operation.&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick acquired a non-hockey rank for the first time since World War II on his Humboldt visit, for he was made first chief of the Indians in a pre-game ceremony. He also spoke at a dinner attended by parents of Humboldt players from all over Canada.</p><p>The Bruins&rsquo; manager employed most forms of transportation in covering a goodly portion of North America on his two-week tour. He flew to the West Coast, went by boat to his parents&rsquo; home in Victoria (B.C.), then returned cross-country by train.</p><p>Since becoming the Bruins&rsquo; fulltime manager in mid-season, patrick has seen virtually every player in professional hockey, and a number having amateur status.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0579/1368082-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="281" height="470"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lynn Patrick</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Lynn Astonished At Puck Interest In Humboldt

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Ivan McLelland, who guarded the nets brilliantly for the Penticton Vs as they swept undefeated to the world&rsquo;s hockey championship, has been placed on Canadiens&rsquo; negotiation list and likely will get a tryout with the National Hockey League club.</p><p>A 24-year-old native of Timmins, Ont., McLelland was listed by the Habs recently along with Bill Cleary, a junior centre with Harvard of the Ivy League. Cleary will be invited to practice with the Royals of the Quebec Hockey League, according to Sam Pollock, Canadiens&rsquo; chief scout.</p><p>McLelland registered four shutouts in eight games in the championship tournament in Germany, allowing only six goals for an average of 0.75. The Czechs fired three pucks past him while the United States, Switzerland and Germany each scored once.</p><p>He blanked Finland, Poland, Sweden and Russia and his airtight goaling against the Reds in the decisive final game enabled his mates to coast to an easy 5-0 triumph.</p><h2><b>Grant Warwick OK&rsquo;s Ivan</b></h2><p>Coach Grant Warwick, a former National Hockey League player, says McLelland has deep-freeze nerves, lightning reflexes and eyes that can track the puck like radar. He played junior and senior hockey in Ontario before heading West. He tried out with the Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League before signing with the South Okanagan Club in the 1951-52 season.</p><p>Pollock says that Cleary, a product of Belmont Hill prep school in Massachusetts and one of the best players in American collegiate hockey, is the first American-born player ever placed on the Habs&rsquo; negotiation list.</p><p>Boston writers have gone so far as to rate him with Jean Beliveau but, more conservatively, Cooney Welland, coach of the Harvard club, says simply that he&rsquo;s a fine prospect.</p><p>Meanwhile there is no possibility of the Vs playing an exhibition game with the Canadiens or the Toronto Maple Leafs on their way home to British Columbia.</p><p>&ldquo;Just what good purpose would be served by playing the Vs and knocking them off,&rdquo; said Frank Selke, managing director of the Forum recently. &ldquo;What could the Vs gain? They won the so-called world championship, and all credit to them, but why have them play an NHL professional team?&rdquo;</p><p>At Toronto Happy Day, general manager of the Leafs, said, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not thinking of any exhibition games right now. Penticton will be arriving home on the eve of the Stanley Cup playoffs and it would be foolish to even think of an exhibition game at a time like that.&rdquo;</p><p>Selke said later he would consider sending the Habs to Europe only on a goodwill basis with no political implications involved.</p><p>&ldquo;If the Canadiens and the Leafs or any other NHL club could make a between-seasons trip to Europe, travelling first-class and not barnstorming, to demonstrate how hockey can be played, we are willing to discuss the matter. But I would have to veto any political propaganda or grudge games,&rdquo; Selke said.</p><p>&ldquo;At the same time we would consider it a privilege to arrange a game for Russianss here, to show them the freedom we enjoy where sport is organized for the players and the people who enjoy it.&rdquo;</p><p>Selke didn&rsquo;t suggest that the Russians meet an NHL team. &ldquo;It would be better,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;if such a trip were permitted by Moscow, to have them meet a team of their own calibre.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Scouting Sam Grabs V’s Star, Also Gets US College Whizzer

<div class="byline">By Lewis H. Walter</div><p>(As Seen In The Detroit Times)</p><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The Detroit Red Wings are pushing super-market wagons instead of the puck.</p><p>They&rsquo;re thinking about how they&rsquo;re going to fix up their recreation rooms instead of how to rack up The Rocket. They&rsquo;re singing babies to sleep instead of knocking their enemies unconscious.</p><p>These are some of the answers to &ldquo;What&rsquo;s the matter with the Red Wings?&rdquo; supplied by Manager Jack Adams as he considered the plight of his six-time National Hockey League champions. Said Adams:</p><p>&ldquo;The club certainly hasn&rsquo;t collapsed. It is second now, with great young players and seasoned veterans who have won five and lost six with a title-starved, powerful Montreal club.</p><p>&ldquo;Many factors have been involved in our failure to burst out in front of the league and stay there. There has been Improvement all over the league, especially at Montreal and Boston. Suspensions and Injuries have slowed us, too.</p><p>&ldquo;But the Wings have not had the drive, except against Toronto and Montreal.</p><p>&ldquo;One reason is that the players are going through a phase.</p><p>&ldquo;We made the greatest record in league history with a team that breathed, ate and slept hockey. The players, most of them young and unmarried, lived together and lived hockey like a Notre Dame team lives football.</p><p>&ldquo;In the past year or so that has been changing. It was inevitable. Hockey players are human. The men have been marrying, buying homes. Many have new babies, and more on the way.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams says all this has been a radical change for the players. It&rsquo;s a natural thing. Even hockey players will fall in love and marry&mdash;and that has given the men new interests. The players who used to go to junior games in a group on a night off are now taking their wives out.</p><p>Just to show what kind of worries afflict Adams, not long ago he was tearing his hair because one of his younger players was living in a small apartment with his wife and new baby. The youngster cried night after night and the father wasn&rsquo;t getting his sleep.</p><p>When the young player missed a pass or a shot, Adams felt like assigning him to a rest home.</p><p>Capt. Ted Lindsay started the run of Red Wing marriages three years ago. Right on his heels was Alex Delvecchio. After the &lsquo;53 playoffs Gordie Howe and Terry Sawchuk followed suit. Last spring Glen Skov and Johnny Wilson were married.</p><p>Now Marty Pavelich has set his wedding date for April and Red Kelly, most eligible Wing bachelor, is head-over-heels in romance.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0648/1368144-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="262" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Wilson</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0727/1368137-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="276" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Glen Skov</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Adams Believes Cupid Put Crimp In Wings Chances This Year!

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

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01277/1368220-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><p><b>&bull; HAVE YOU HEARD</b> this Babe Pratt story?&hellip; When the Bentleys, Doug and Max, were playing for Chicago, Pratt used to kid them about their Indian blood. The crests on the Black Hawk sweaters feature an Indian head, and Babe used to say to Doug and Max, &ldquo;Hey, which one of you guys is on the crest this year?&rdquo;&hellip;When Lynn Patrick, Boston&rsquo;s general manager visited Seattle recently, he was met at the airport by Muzz&rsquo; wife and son, Paul. To Muzz&rsquo; son, Lynn asked: &ldquo;Do you miss your daddy?&rdquo; When the youngster nodded in the affirmative, Lynn added: &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t worry, Paul, your Uncle Lynn will see to it that daddy comes home on March 21.&rdquo; Uncle Lynn was a true prophet as the Rangers will be all through when the regular season ends on March 20&hellip;Toronto Leafs play in New York on that night and Conn Smythe will join the Leafs there on his way back from Florida&hellip;Bill Warwick of the victorious Penticton V&rsquo;s said the team received a big lift from the telegram they were sent by Hap Day of the Toronto Maple Leafs. It arrived just before the team left the hotel for the game against the Russians and was the only cable received from an NHL team, said Warwick&hellip;Now that Don Raleigh and Edgar Laprade have played their 500th NHL game for the Rangers, it brought to six the total number of New York Players to perform in 500 or more NHL games. They are Ott Heller, 647, Phil Watson, 546; Frank Boucher, 533; Murray Murdoch, 508; Don Raleigh, 501, and Laprade, 500&hellip;Dick Irvin told a Boston hockey writer the other day that he figured the Bruins were a better allround club than Toronto.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02167/1368213-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="280" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Raleigh</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; DOUG MOHNS</b> is said to be the fastest skater on the Bruins since Milt Schmidt retired as a player&hellip; Billy Reay has done a splendid job of coaching in the Western Hockey League this season. The Victoria Cougar coach always could get the most out of players. Reay incidentally, picked his WHL All-Star Team the other night. He had Marcel Pelletier in goal; Pete Durham and Larry Zeidel on defense; Bronco Horvath at center; and Andy Hebenton and Gerry Couture on the wings. He nicked Hebenton as the most valuable player&hellip;Alf Pike was signed to coach winnipegs new entry in the Hockey League next season. The ex-Winnipegger had an outstanding coaching career with Guelph Biltmores in the OHA Jr. League before being suspended for a year for pulling his team oft the ice. The Winnipeg management made a wise choice in bringing the former Winnipeg Monarch star back how. Pike will do as good a job for them as anyone they could sign&hellip;Bill Cleary Jr., selected as the Most Valuable Player in the New England Intercollegiate Hockey League, is the son of Bill Cleary, former NHL linesman who still acts as a minor official at Bruins&rsquo; home games&hellip;Cleary Jr. is said to be one of the finest pro prospects to come out of New England in years. The youth is attending Harvard and isn&rsquo;t keen on a pro puck career, However. Montreal Royals of the QHL recently put him ontheir negotiation list&hellip;Detroit Red Wings are watching Bill Mac Farland, star member of the University of Michigan team very carefully. The tall Canadian is rated the best hockey player to perform for Michigan in years. On and off the ice MacFarland has mannerisms like Gordie Howe. Red Wings have sole rights to negotiate with him.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0397/1368206-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="279" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alf Pike</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; FRANK EDDOLLS</b> plans to use Goalie Al Rollins in a few more games before the season ends. Hank Bassen appears to have the inside track for the Chicago goaling job for next season as of right now&hellip; U. of Michigan has produced three NHL players in 33 years of hockey. They were Vic Heyliger, Jack Tompkins and Johnny Sherf&hellip;Tommy Ivan, busy GM of the Hawks, left for a flying trip throughout Western Canada. More hockey executives have made trips out West this winter than for a long time&hellip;Last Saturday in Detroit&rsquo;s Olympia rink the Michigan Amateur Hockey Association Bantam championship took place before and after the scheduled Red Wings-Chicago NHL fixture. The youngsters played one period before the big game and two after wards. Jack Adams was anxious to have the lads, all under 13 years of age, given an opportunity to show the strides the State amateur program has made in recent years before as large an audience as possible&hellip;Calgary&rsquo;s Gus Kyle is the exterminator of the WHL. Last year he sidelined Gump Worsley in the finals and a Short time ago he de-commissioned Ray Hannigan and Enio Sclisizzi of Edmonton. Hannigan is out for the season and Sliz may be back for the playoffs.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0471/1368199-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="286" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&lsquo;Tommy ivan</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/f0006-0565/1368251-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>Praise for Ted</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I would like to criticize Horace (Jet) Brady of Michigan who thinks that Ted Kennedy&rsquo;s receiving the Hart Trophy would be a big laugh.</p><p>He says that Kennedy is not in the class of Richard, Howe or &ldquo;Lindsay&rdquo;. Horace also said that if Ted wins the award, he should hang up his Skates as he would have a tough time looking either Smith or Lumley straight in the face.</p><p>Well&hellip;all Mr. Lindsay is doing this season is wasting his strength fighting spectators instead of putting the puck in the net. I don&rsquo;t think Boston needs him or even wants him.</p><p>He also says that Teeder isn&rsquo;t very valuable. Well, let&rsquo;s see. When Toronto is short-handed who does all the work? I think you will have to admit Teeder does.</p><p>Sure, Howe and Richard are good players but they are not as valuable to their respective teams as is Kennedy. When a player deserves credit, let&rsquo;s give it.</p><p>The Hart Trophy was created for players like the Toronto captain and not for the likes of Lindsay. I myself think that Ted should have received it last season. To Ted Kennedy I wish all the luck in the world in winning the Hart and to the Maple Leafs, the most luck in winning the Stanley Cup.</p><p>Pat Cain Montreal, Que.</p><h2><b>Who&rsquo;s Boss?</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Why don&rsquo;t the American League referees get smart?</p><p>I have been attending hockey games here in Buffalo since 1949 and this season&rsquo;s refereeing, with the exception of Bill Chadwick and Red Storey, whom we seldom see, leaves much to be desired.</p><p>One in particular, Scotty Morrison, time and time again lets games get out of hand by calling unnecessary penalties.</p><p>In a recent Bisons-Cleveland Barons game, due to his numerous first period penalty calls, many of them for no obvious rule infraction, the players were so riled up that there were frequent fights, and at game&rsquo;s end, Morrison had very little control of. the contest.</p><p>Perhaps the &ldquo;men in orange&rdquo; should concentrate more on keeping the game in hand rather than trying to prove that they are the &ldquo;boss&rdquo;.</p><p>Judy Baldwin Williamsville, N.Y.</p><h2><b>Ridiculous</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I see where someone has suggested that the Pentincton V&rsquo;s, so called World&rsquo;s Champions, play a game against the Montreal Canadiens. How ridiculous can you get?</p><p>Do not get me wrong. I for one am all for giving the V&rsquo;s their due and was among the many Canadians who were more than proud that the Penticton club regained the World title for this country. But even Coach Grant Warwick, a veteran of many NHL season, must realize that putting his team against the Canadiens would be like putting the Podunk Pearless Potters against the New York Yankees in a baseball game.</p><p>The V&rsquo;s would be slauthered, and believe me I mean just that, by the Canadiens. All the glory they had gained for themselves would be lost. In fact, I think the Chicago Black Hawks, last place team in the NHL, would take the V&rsquo;s by at least 20 goals, and if the &ldquo;World&rsquo;s Champs&rdquo; scored even a single goal, it would be because the Hawks got tired playing in only one end of the rink.</p><p>So let&rsquo;s all salute the team that did what it was sent to do, the Penticton V&rsquo;s, and please, let&rsquo;s not hear any more of this ridiculous talk of even matching them against a Western or Quebec League team. Let them keep all the honor they have so richly earned and let it go at that.</p><p>Alice Patterson. Toronto, Ont.<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/f0006-0657/1368282-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="586" height="278"></div><h2><b>MARCH 20 to MARCH 26</b></h2><p>21&mdash;CONN, Joe, Victoria defense, 1927; MACPHERSON, Jim, Montreal defense, 1927.</p><p>23&mdash;GODFREY, Warren, Boston defense, 1931; MARSHALL, Don, Montreal forward, 1932.</p><p>25&mdash;SUMMERS, Danny, Syracuse defense, 1924. HENDERSON, Long John, Boston goaler, 1933.</p><p>26&mdash;BACCABI, Alf, Providence forward, 1928; HASSARD, Bob, Pittsburgh forward, 1929; LEGER, Roger, Sha-winigan playing-coach, in 1919; MARQUESS, Mark, Victoria forward, 1925.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0730/1368313-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>Y</span>ou know right well that you&rsquo;ll want to know what your favorite hockey star is doing during the summer months; what players are being traded; what players are being given their unconditional release. You&rsquo;ll also be eager to find out what plans your team is making for the coming season and what players they plan to bring up next season.</b></p><p><b>Just imagine, 35 information-filled issues of THE HOCKEY NEWS delivered right to your door for the low price of $3.00 ($4.00 in the United States). Spare yourself of the trouble of having to pick your copy up at the newsstand by subscribing today and furthemore you&rsquo;ll be saving $2.25 ($3.25 in the United States) by taking out a subscription.</b></p><p><b>THE HOCKEY NEWS features plenty of lengthy profiles on players in the summer issues and oodles of candid pictures showing that favorite puck star of yours in such poses as playing baseball, on the golf links, milking cows, pitching hay, running the store, and countless others. We at THE HOCKEY NEWS do our utmost to see that you don&rsquo;t lose track of your favorite players during those five months that THE HOCKEY NEWS suspends weekly publication (May to September).</b></p><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.</p><p><b>Canadian Remittances&mdash;</b>$3 00 Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Monev Order.</p><p><b>U. S. A. Remittances&mdash;</b>$4.00 Payable by Postal. Bank, or Express Money Order.</p><p><b>Fill in Form Above and Send Postal Note or Money Order</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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YOU’LL BE SORRY!

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01228/1368344-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hank Bassen makes a save off Tod Sloan</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;Hank&rdquo; Bassen&rsquo;s first 16 games with the Black Hawks through the end of last month represented a very fine effort with a team that has been a fixture in the National Hockey League cellar since the virtual start of the 1954-55 schedule. Records show that the club lost only five of these games.</p><p>Four of the other 11 games were victories and the remaining seven were ties. Such a pace projected over the entire campaign shows that Chicago would have been in definite playoff contention. Two of the victories were 6-1 and 10-2 routs of Boston which should be remembered for a long time.</p><p>Bassen was a key figure in the squad&rsquo;s only two success streaks of any note. His first five games as a Hawk consisted of two wins and three ties. He later stood out in a pair of consecutive triumphs followed by a pair of ties. Chicago attackers blossomed forth with 51 goals in &ldquo;Hank&rsquo;s&rdquo; first 16 tests.</p><p>While he was unable to garner a shutout, he allowed just 43 pucks to elude him. He permitted as many as five goals only once. He was beaten just once in two and permitted two goals in six of the games. And all this with a last place team in his first year as a professional.</p><h2><b>Reaction Of A Rookie</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Hawks Lose Only 5 Out Of 16 With Hank Bassen On Display

<div class="byline">Lunny.</div><p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL&mdash;Floyd Curry, the honest blocker of the Canadiens, returned to the lineup against the Toronto Maple Leafs on March 10 after missing two games due to a groin injury.</p><p>The hard-skating right winger, who possesses an amazing record for durability, suffered the injury in a game in Toronto on March 2. He played the next night in Boston but sat out weekend engagements against the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>Curry played in every game in the 1953-54 season and missed only two contests in the previous campaign when a swollen knee sidelined him.</p><p>Although the Habs have been beset by injuries all season, eight of their players have been in every game. This select group includes the high-powered trio of Maurice Richard, Jean Beliveau and Bernie Geoffrion and two others who aren&rsquo;t far behind in the scoring race, Bert Olmstead and Kenny Mosdell.</p><p>Three defencemen also have played in every Canadien game&mdash;Doug Harvey, Tom Johnson and Butch Bouchard.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Durable Honest Blocker Sidelined For 2 Games

<div class="byline">LUNNY.</div><p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL&mdash;Montreal Canadiens set a unique record when they completed their 19 54-55 schedule against the Chicago Black Hawks without losing a single game in 14 starts. Their mark was 11 wins and three ties for a point total of 25 out of a possible 28.</p><p>Oddly enough they won every game played in Chicago. One of the ties came in Montreal, when the Hawks knotted the count late in the third period on their last visit to the Forum. The others came in St. Louis and Omaha in games transferred from the Chicago Stadium.</p><p>Here is the teams&rsquo; won and lost record:</p><h2><b>At Montreal</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04121/1368437-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="588" height="86"></div><h2><b>At Chicago (x)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0586/1368430-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="583" height="135"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Canadians Are Unbeaten By Hawks in 14 Meetings

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02200/1368475-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="279" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03150/1368468-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="280" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>If, as and when the Montreal Canadiens clinch the National Hockey League championship, Coach Dick Irvin will consider shuffling his lines to put his scoring aces on different units.</p><p>Engaged in a close battle for the NHL scoring title, the Art Ross Trophy and the $1,000 award are Maurice Richard. Jean Beliveau and Bernie Geoffrion. all of whom have held the lead at one stage or another in the 1954-55 campaign.</p><p>By playing them on different lines, none of the contenders could gain points on the other&rsquo;s goals. It&rsquo;s a radical idea but in a situation that has the whole town in a tizzy, it has merit.</p><p>Irvin didn&rsquo;t disclose how he would play them but this could be the forward line setup&mdash;Richard, Mosdell and Moore; Curry, Beliveau and Olmstead; Geoffrion, Leclair and MacKay.</p><p>Last week a Canadian electrical appliance firm which previously had announced that it would donate an electric stove to the first Canadien to score 40 goals amended its offer in the wake of widespread criticism.</p><p>The players didn&rsquo;t like it; the fans didn&rsquo;t like it. Now the company has decided that in fairness to all there will be three prizes&mdash;a stove for the player with the most points, a washer tor the next highest and an ironer for the third man.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Irvin Plans Shifting Aces

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Larry Hillman became the new &ldquo;baby&rdquo; of the National Hockey League, thanks to the three-game amateur tryout agreement.</p><p>Only five games were left in the current season when the Detroit Red Wings signed Hillman and handed him a regular spot in the lineup. The 18-year-old defenseman from junior ranks became the youngest player in professional hockey.</p><p>But Hillman&rsquo;s performance in three games as an amaseur made him a wanted man for the five games as a pro&mdash;plus, of course, the forthcoming playoffs.</p><p>A stocky 185-pounder, Hillman was less than a week out of juniors when he signed to a pro contract. After the Hamilton farm in the Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA was eliminated from playoffs, Larry was beckoned to the Detroit club.</p><p>There was no plan to give him a tryout. Instead Manager Jack Adams wanted him to work out with the Wings with the idea of turning him pro next fall.</p><p>But when Bob Goldham was injured in practice, there was an open spot in the lineup for one game. Hillman was present and thus got his chance under the tryout clause which allows an amateur to make three appearances as a pro each year without losing amateur status.</p><p>Larry&rsquo;s showing in the first game got him a second chance&hellip; and then the third chance. The last two games it meant keeping Jim Hay out of uniform since Gold-ham was ready again.</p><p>Those three games were enough of a tipoff. Hillman was offered his contract promptly.</p><p>Turning him pro, of course, may bring a problem next October. Hillman must go on the &ldquo;protected&rdquo; list to escape being drafted and if thus &ldquo;protected&rdquo;, he can&rsquo;t be farmed out for further seasoning.</p><p>The unusual part of the move was that Hillman had two more seasons of junior eligibility left. Only a month ago did he become eligible for pro play by reaching his 18 th birthday.</p><p>&ldquo;He was ready now&mdash;more junior play wouldn&rsquo;t have done him a bit of good,&rdquo; Adams insists. &ldquo;The three-game tryout proved that.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We are figuring him as our fifth defenseman from now on, and maybe our fourth defenseman in a few games.&rdquo;</p><p>The decision wasn&rsquo;t made by Adams alone. He talked it over with Coach Jimmy Skinner, who had discussed Hillman&rsquo;s potential with veteran players like Ted Lindsay, Red Kelly and Bob Goldham.</p><p>&ldquo;Both Red and Bob figured the boy has what it takes to play NHL defense right now,&rdquo; Adams said.</p><p>&ldquo;Kelly wants to team with him on defense and that&rsquo;s probably what we&rsquo;ll do. Goldham volunteered to shift from right to left defense so he could pair with him. Maybe we&rsquo;ll try that also.&rdquo;</p><p>Before agreeing to terms (which, as usual, were not revealed) Hillman telephoned home to Kirkland Lake, Ont., to talk to his father. A part-time Red Wing scout, the senior Hillman quickly gave Larry permission to sign.</p><p>&ldquo;Dad said that it was 12 below zero at home and that I&rsquo;d be smart to stay in the &lsquo;south&rsquo; if I can,&rdquo; Larry laughed.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hillman Youngest Player In NHL, Wins Permanent Berth With Red Wings

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Boston Bruins are finding out this season that when an emergency goal-tender is needed, there&rsquo;s nothing like having a good one on hand.</p><p>Twice this season the Bruins have lost their starting goal-tender during a game.</p><p>Both times they&rsquo;ve had a capable replacement standing by.</p><p>The first time was in a game here with the Montreal Canadiens in early January, when Sugar Jim Henry suffered a pulled muscle.</p><p>Long John Henderson, just sitting down to a bag of peanuts in the press box, was promptly impressed into service.</p><p>The second time was the other night in Toronto, whe Henderson loss the use of he left arm afte being struck on the shoulder be a Toronto sho Henry, doin a radio commentary with Fred Cusick in the upper reaches of Maple Leaf Gardens, hustled into uniform to replace Henderson.</p><p>Between the pinch-hitting assignments by the goalies. Harold Cotton made some observations which may prove well-founded in the long run.</p><p>&ldquo;The day is coming.&rdquo; ventured the Bruins&rsquo; chief scout, &ldquo;when goal-tenders will be two-platooned, virtually alternated on a game-to-game basis.</p><p>&ldquo;Years ago the most durable player on most teams was the goal-tender. He generally outlasted all the other players on his team. But those days are gone.</p><p>&ldquo;Today the strain on a goaltender is so great that any goalie can benefit from periodic rests. That situation is especially noticeable this season, with every regular goalie in the league being out of the lineup at one time or another.&rdquo;</p><p>Certainly, the Bruins have been well repaid for the expense of taking Henry everyplace that Henderson has gone, and vice versa.</p><p>Sugar Jim bounced back into the Bruins&rsquo; lineup like the old fire horse he is just before Henderson was hurt. He hadn&rsquo;t played in three weeks when Coach Milt Schmidt nominated him to start a game in New York.</p><p>The great veteran restricted the Rangers to one goal in the game in which the Bruins clinched fourth place, and in the last period alone he made 15 saves.</p><p>He shut out Toronto for the balance of the game in which Henderson was injured, and a night later he limited the Maple Leafs to one goal here while the Bruins were scoring three. He won the outstanding player award for his relief job in Toronto, and won it again here the next night.</p><p>Since Henderson was called up from Hershey in November, Long John has started the majority of games, but indications were that closely with Cotton&rsquo;s game-to-game theory for the balance of the season, perhaps even in the playoffs.</p><p>Henry has always been a great playoff goal-tender, and the speculation here was that Sugar Jim might have two more big series left, this year&rsquo;s semi-final and final rounds.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0661/1368399-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="297" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Henry</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Two-Platooning Goalkeepers Pays Off Handsomely For B’s With Henry In For Long John

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Picking the All-Star left winger this year is going to pose one of the real problems of the HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; annual poll. Ted Lindsay, who has monopolized this position for years, is getting the fight of his life from Toronto&rsquo;s Sid Smith and Canadiens&rsquo; Bert Olmstead along with Danny Lewicki of the New York Rangers.</p><p>Smith, the most consistent of the Toronto snipers has 31 goals at this writing and should finish the season with 35&mdash;a feat that should win him strong recognition as the most prolific portsider in the National Hockey League. Olmstead, not as outstanding a checker as Smith but one of the hardest-working left wingers in the business has nine goals to go with his 4 8 assists tops in the league, in fact, Bert is flirting with the 55 assists in a season record set by Lindsay.</p><p>Lewicki is the big surprise of the current campaign. Picked up by the Rangers for the $15,000 waiver price at the outset of the season, he has blossomed out as the most prolific sniper on the Ranger roster. Danny&rsquo;s 27 goals is going to get him a lot of votes, especially since he did it with a fifth place club.</p><p>Harry Watson, the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; big left winger, after a somewhat slow start due to early season injuries could conceivably hit the 20-goal charmed circle again this year. If he does, and with a last place club, then he&rsquo;s going to get voting recognition. Boston&rsquo;s Real Chevrefils, while not quite as prolific as these left wingers is nevertheless one of the league&rsquo;s best portsiders. He&rsquo;s a very important man on Boston&rsquo;s high-flying &ldquo;Kid Line&rsquo;&rsquo; with Leo LaBine and Don McKenney. Then of course, there&rsquo;s Lindsay who missed several games due to injuries and suspensions. He&rsquo;s catching fire now and could be up close to the leaders when the regular season closes.</p><p>As in the past seven polls, we started with the goal keepers followed with the defensemen, the right wingers, centres and now the left wingers.</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 performance 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 in 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>They&rsquo;re Rated The Best On The Left</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01262/1368565-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="295" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Smith</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02205/1368558-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="291" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bert Olmstead</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03152/1368551-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="287" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Danny Lewicki</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04113/1368544-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="280" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0578/1368537-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="301" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Real Chevrefils</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0835/1368530-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="299" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Watson</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Smith and Olmstead Head Starry Array At Left

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0744/1368596-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg"></div><p><i>National League All Star Team</i></p><p><b>My selection for the NHL ALL STAR left wing (names In order of preference) is as follows:</b></p><p><i>Hold until all six ballots have appeared. DO NOT MAIL YOUR SELECTION NOW.</i><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Hockey News 1954-55

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL&mdash;Leo LaBine, starry winger of the Boston Bruins, is a solicitous fellow. On the Bruins&rsquo; last visit to Montreal he visited Paul Meger of the Canadiens in hospital to pay his respects and wish him well.</p><p>Meger was seriously injured in Boston three months ago, fracturing his skull when he fell on one of LaBine&rsquo;s skates. The tip penetrated to his brain and complications arose due to post operative fever.</p><p>Meger will not be able to play again this season but it is hoped that he will recover sufficiently to resume his career next year.</p><p>There is talk that he will go to Florida for two months when he is released from hospital.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Leo LaBine Visits Meger After Freak Puck Mishap

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><p><b>STATISTICS:</b></p><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>orn in Fort William, Ont., November 18, 1928, Rudolph Joseph Migay is 5&rsquo;10&rdquo; in height and weighs 168 lbs. Plays centre, shoots left. After playing junior hockey with Port Arthur Bruins he signed a pro contract with Toronto in 1948-49 and spent the season in Pittsburgh. In the following years he commuted between Leafs and Hornets, but is now in his second full season with Toronto.</p><p><b>SUPERSTITION&mdash;IF ANY:</b></p><p>Is not a bit superstitious.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD BEFORE A GAME:</b></p><p>Steak.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD ANYTIME:</b></p><p>Any kind of meat.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE:</b></p><p>Fort William, Ont.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</b></p><p>Would like to go to Europe.</p><p><b>FAVORITE NHL CITY ON A ROAD GAME:</b></p><p>Chicago. (He has relatives there).</p><p><b>FAVORITE READING MATERIAL:</b></p><p>Books by Thomas Costain.</p><p><b>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:</b></p><p>&ldquo;The Keys Of The Kingdom.&rdquo;</p><p><b>BEST ACTRESSES:</b></p><p>Jane Wyman & Grace Kelly.</p><p><b>BEST ACTORS:</b></p><p>Gary Cooper and Gregory Peck.</p><p><b>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Doris Day.</p><p><b>FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Bing Crosby.</p><p><b>FAVORITE POPULAR SONG:</b></p><p>&ldquo;The Tennessee Waltz.&rdquo;</p><p><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRAS:</b></p><p>Mantovani and Leroy Anderson.</p><p><b>FAVORITE TV PROGRAM:</b></p><p>Spends little time watching TV, but enjoys most sports events.</p><p><b>IN THE SUMMER:</b></p><p>Lives in Fort Williams, Ont., works about a month on construction, plays baseball and golf and also coaches a ball club.</p><p><b>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY:</b></p><p>Helping Port Arthur Bruins win the Memorial Cup in 194748.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0657/1368675-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="293" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Rudy Migay</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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INSIDE STUFF About Rudy Migay

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO&mdash;Harry Lumley, Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; uncanny goaltender, almost became the first man to celebrate fatherhood in Maple Leaf Gardens.</p><p>While Hairbreadth Harry waged one of the most important games of his Vezina Trophy defense against Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk Feb. 26, his wife, Frances, watched from her usual seat. She refused to miss this game, even though the Lumleys had anticipated the birth of their second heir two days earlier.</p><p>After the game, Lum was exchanging chit-chat with a fan when his wife came up and interrupted.</p><p>&ldquo;Excuse me till I finish talking, please,&rdquo; Harry asked. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be with you in a moment.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I just thought you might like to know I think we should start for the hospital,&rdquo; Frances replied.</p><p>Ninety minutes later Harry was boasting of a new Vezina Trophy candidate, eight-pound James Cameron.</p><p>&ldquo;It was that last-minute tieing goal that Teeder (Kennedy) got that brought it on,&rdquo; laughing Lumley explained.</p><p>So Kennedy received a goal and an assist on the same play.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Another “Vezina Kid” For Leafs?

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>G</span>eorge Sullivan, as Irish as a shamrock and as redheaded as the sunset over Dublin, is one son of the Emerald Isle who believes in doing his St. Patrick&rsquo;s Day celebrating a little early.</b></p><p><b>So. rather than wait for the great day to arrive, Sully went about the business of celebrating in his own particular fashion last week by scoring two goals and adding three assists for a five point week.</b></p><p><b>The red-thatched pivot for the Chicago Black Hawks commenced his whoopde-doing on March 10 by figuring in all three of his team&rsquo;s goals as the tailenders upended the Bostons Bruins 3-2. He scored one of the goals himself and set up both others, which must have had Boston&rsquo;s Celtic sons wondering howcum the B&rsquo;s saw fit to let such a prolific pointmaker stray as far away as the Windy City.</b></p><p><b>Two nights later Sully added another goal, half his team&rsquo;s total production, in a 3-2 loss to the second-place Detroit Red Wings. The following evening he picked up still another point on an assist as the Chicagoans lost all chance of vacating the cellar by dropping a 5-2 decision to the fifth-place New York Rangers.</b></p><p><b>This outburst brought Sully&rsquo;s total to 18 goals, 42 assists, 60 points for the season and puts him right up among the leaders in the NHL scoring derby.</b></p><p><b>Still in the throes of a rebuilding program, the Black Hawks have at least settled one spot for the 1955-56 campaign. Now their big problem is to find a couple more like Red Sullivan and their worries will be over.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0983/1368845-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="285" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Sullivan</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Player-of-the-Week

<h2><b>Gentleman Goldham</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>ob Goldham of Detroit received a letter from a Boston fan recently in which the customer complained of the Bed Wings conduct and singled Goldham on his part in the debacle. To the fan&rsquo;s surprise he received a letter from Goldham apologizing.</p><h2><b>Wait Till Next Year!</b></h2><p>When Frankie Eddolls, coach of the Chicago Black Hawks was in Montreal recenlty, he said that he wished the NHL season was just getting underway. &ldquo;With the team I&rsquo;ve got now and the way they&rsquo;re playing, we&rsquo;d make a fight of it with anybody.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON WED. A.M., MARCH 16</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01246/1368814-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="600" height="189"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK ENDING MARCH 13th, 1955</h3><p>Thurs. Mar. 10th&mdash;Tor. 0 at Canadien 0</p><p>Thurs. Mar. 10th&mdash;Chicago 3 at Boston 2</p><p>Sat. Mar. 12th&mdash;Boston 1 at Can. 2</p><p>Sat. Mar. 12th&mdash;Rangers 2 at Tor. 1</p><p>Sat. Mar. 12th&mdash;Chicago 2 at Detroit 3</p><p>un. Mar. 13th&mdash;Toronto 1 at Detroit 6</p><p>Sun. Mar. 13th&mdash;Chicago 2 at Rang. 6</p><h3>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 20th, 1955</h3><p>Wed. Mar.16th&mdash;Rangers at Chicago Wed.</p><p>Mar. 16th&mdash;Detroit at Boston Thurs</p><p>Mar. 17th&mdash;Detroit at Canadiens Sat</p><p>Mar. 19th&mdash;Rangers at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Mar. 19 th&mdash;Chicago at Toronto</p><p>Sun. Mar. 20th&mdash;Canadiens at Detroit</p><p>Sun. Mar. 20th&mdash;Toronto at Rangers.</p><p>Sun. Mar. 20th&mdash;Chicago at Boston</p><h3>THURSDAY, MARCH 10 Toronto 0 at Montreal 0</h3><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Bolton, Morrison, Horton, Cahan; forwards: Kennedy, Duff, Smith, Armstrong, Stewart, Migay, Sloan, Klukay, Macdonald, Cullen.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal: Plante; defense; Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson; forwards; Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Leclair, Richard, Moore, Mosdell, Curry, MacKay, Marshall, Ronty.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02226/1368807-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="592" height="348"></div><h3>Chicago 3 at Boston 2</h3><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal; Rollins; defense: Hollingworth, Stanley, Mortson, Martin; forwards: Sullivan, Litzenberger. Watson Prystal, Mosienko, McIntyre, Toppazzlni, McCormack, Creighton, Wilson, Mickoski.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal: Henry; defense: Flaman, Boivin, Armstrong, Godfrey; forwards: Gardner, Mohns, Ferguson, Costello, Labine, Chevrefils, Mackell, Laycoe, Sandford, Bodnar, Smith.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03187/1368800-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="590" height="475"></div><h3>SATURDAY, MARCH 12</h3><p>Boston 1 at Canadian 2</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Henry; defense: Godfrey, Flaman, Armstrong, Boivin, Quackenbush; forwards: McKenney, Bodnar, Chevrefils, Mackell, Gardner, Labine, Mohns, Sandford, Costello, Ferguson, Laycoe.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense; Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent; forwards: Lecalir, Richard, Moore, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Mosdell, Curry, MacKay, Marshall, Ronty.</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Frank Udvari; linesmen: Doug Davies, Bill Roberts.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04154/1368793-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="595" height="474"></div><h3>New York 2 at Toronto 1</h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense; Irwin, Howell, Gadsby, Chrystal, Fontinato; forwards: Ezinicki, Raleigh, Conacher, Howe, Guidolin, Bathgate, Murphy, Prentice, Popein, Lewicki, McCreary.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Bolton, Cahan, Morrison; forwards: Slo&laquo;an, Armstrong, MacDonald, Duff, Cullen, Klukay, Migay, Kennedy,</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05118/1368786-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="591" height="439"></div><h3>Chicago 2 at Detroit 3</h3><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense; Mortson, Stanley, Hollingworth. Martin; forwards: Watson, Wilson, Mosienko, Mickoski, McIntyre, Litzenberger, Prystai, Toppozzini Creighton, McCormack, Sullivan.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham. Kelly, Pronovost, Hay, Hillman, Woit; forwards: Reibel, Wilson, Howe, Bonin, Stasiuk, Dineen, Skov, Pavelich, Delvecchio, Leswick.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06102/1368779-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="591" height="487"></div><h3>SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 1955 Canadiens 2 at Boston 4</h3><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard; forwards: Mosdell, Curry, Mackay, Leclair, Richard, Moore, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Ronty, Marshall.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Henderson: defense: Flaman, Godfrey. Boivin. Armstrong; forwards: Mackell, Sandford, Laycoe, McKenney, Labine, Chevrefils. Gardner, Mohns, Ferguson, Bodnar, Costello, Smith.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0792/1368772-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="589" height="632"></div><h3>Toronto 1 at Detroit 6</h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Bolton, Cahan, Morrison; forwards: Sloan, Armstrong, MacDonald, Duff, Cullen, Klukay, Migay, Kennedy, Smith, Stewart.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Hay, Hillman, Woit; forwards: Reibel, Wilson, Howe, Bonin, Stasiuk, Dineen, Skov, Pavelich, Delvecchio, Leswick.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01260/1368765-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="606" height="614"></div><h3>Chicago 2 at New York 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02207/1368758-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="601" height="693"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Guinea of Sun. March 13)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0884/1368751-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="603" height="3713"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03176/1368744-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="598" height="829"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04136/1368737-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="580" height="159"></div><h3>TEAM SCORING STATISTICS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05109/1368730-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="562" height="162"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Johnny Mariucci, probably the greatest battler in the history of the Black Hawks, was feted with a reception by his old club February 23 in St. Paul in recognition of his recent appointment to coach the United States hockey team which will be entered in the 1956 Olympic games.</p><p>The Chicago squad was in St. Paul for another in its series of home away from home games. &ldquo;Maroosh,&rdquo; idol of virtually every Hawk follower during most of the &lsquo;40s, was easily accessible in adjacent Minneapolis where he has been highly successful as hockey coach at his alma mater, the University of Minnesota.</p><p>His skating Gophers compiled an enviable record of 46 wins, 12 losses and one tie the past two years and emerged with Western Intercollegiate conference titles each time. Mariucci, who was a star on the gridiron in his student days at Minnesota, also led the team to runnerup NCCA honors each season.</p><p>The naming of him as the Olympic team coach will rival the many thrills Johnny experienced when earning the respect of opponents as one of the roughest, toughest defensemen in the modern history of the National Hockey League. As captain in his final years, he was Chicago&rsquo;s real policeman on skates.</p><p>In an attempt to show their genuine appreciation for his contributions as a player, Black Hawk officials turned the pro-ceeds from the St. Paul game over to the American Olympic fund with the directions that the largest portion go toward financing the hockey squad.</p><p>The Hawks tried hard to win for &ldquo;Maroosh&rdquo; and the good crowd of 6,680 customers who contributed to the worthy cause, but they had to be satisfied with a 3-3 deadlock with Boston. Rookie Eddie Litzenberger personally made the tie possible by coming through with all three Hawk counters.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0698/1368876-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="272" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Mariucci</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Black Hawks Fete “Maroosh” On Appointment To Coach United States Olympic Team

<div class="byline">HOUSTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0777/1368907-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DANNY LEWICKI Can&hellip;. They Find Another One?</b></figcaption></div><p>TORONTO, Ont.</p><p>Gerry Foley has discovered much more efficient policing exists in the NHL than the AHL.</p><p>Summoned by Leafs from their Pittsburgh Hornet affiliates in the American League, Foley served minor penalties in each of the first four periods he played as replacement for the injured Eric Nesterenko.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the first thing I noticed about the NHL,&rdquo; said the 22-year-old right Winger. &ldquo;The referees call things a lot closer in this league than they do down there.&rdquo;</p><p>Despite the penalties, Foley made a favorable impression.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;d check you to death,&rdquo; says Sid Smith, who lined up with Foley and Ted Kennedy during Nesterenko&rsquo;s three-week idleness with fluid on his left knee. &ldquo;But I remembered him from our fall training exhibition games.</p><p>&ldquo;Harry Watson and I used to talk about Foley plenty. He gave us all sorts of trouble in those exhibition games we played against Pittsburgh.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>A Prize Package</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Foley Gets Taste of NHL Discipline

<p><b>Call for PHILIP MORRIS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1069/1369039-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="557" height="2287"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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For a Light Smoke and a Pleasing Taste

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NATURALLY GROOMED HAIR ALLDAY LONG

<h2><b>Gamble Paying Off</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ick Gamble is coming into his own as a member of the Buffalo Bisons and is the big triggerman in their fight for second place. He scored four goals on Saturday and two more on Sunday.</p><h2><b>Glover Helping</b></h2><p>When the Cleveland Barons lost the services of Freddie Glover for a two-week period, their scoring power lost a lot of its zest. However, with Freddie back, the Barons are hitting on all motors again.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON TUES. A.M., MARCH 15</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01259/1369008-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="607" height="191"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9 Hershey 2 at Pittsburgh 4</h3><p><b>PITTSBURGH,</b>&mdash;Pittsburgh Hornets moved back into first place in the American Hockey League with a 4-2 victory over Hershey Bears.</p><p>Ray Timgren scored two of the Hornet goals, one in the first period and another in the second. Hugh Barlow end Andy Barbe scored one each in the second frame to put Pittsburgh ahead 4-0 going into the finale.</p><p>Norm Corcoran and Ohio O&rsquo;Brien saved the Bears from a shutout with third-Period tallies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02219/1369001-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="605" height="608"></div><h3>THURSDAY, MARCH 10 Cleveland 6 at Hershey 2</h3><p><b>HERSHEY, Pa.</b>&mdash;Cleveland Barons gowned Hershey Bears 6-2 and all but shattered Hershey&rsquo;s hopes of staying alive in the hot race for American Hockey League playoff berths.</p><p>Jack Gordon gave the Barons a pair of goals in the opening period and Johnny McLellan matched Ken Smith&rsquo;s goal in the second as Cleveland took a 3-1 lead going into the third.</p><p>Cleveland added three more in the third on goals by Gus Karrys, Fred Glover and Cal Stearns while holding Hershey to a single by Obie O&rsquo;Brien.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03172/1368994-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="599" height="600"></div><h3>Buffalo 4 at Providence 7</h3><p><b>PROVIDENCE, R.I.,</b>&mdash;Providence Reds already eliminated from playoff contention, thwarted Buffalo Bisons advance in the tight American League race by defeating them 7-4.</p><p>The defeat cost the Bisons a chance to move into a second-place tie with Springfield and enabled Cleveland Barons to move into a third-place deadlock with Buffalo on the strength of a 4-2 victory at Hershey.</p><p>Dick Gamble and Frank Sullivan accounted for all the Buffalo goals, Gamble getting the game&rsquo;s first two in the opening period and Sullivan the last two in the third.</p><p>The Reds put together a single in the opener, three in the second and three more in the third. Providence scorers were Ray Ross, Pete Kapusta, Billy Gooden, Ken Davies, Bob Robertson, Zellio Toppazzini and Paul Larivee.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04134/1368987-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="597" height="792"></div><h3>SATURDAY, MARCH 12 PROVIDENCE 6 at Hershey 8</h3><p>HERSHEY,&mdash;Zellio Toppazzini scored three goals in a losing cause as Hershey Bears defeated providence Reds 8-6 and clung to a mathematical chance of making the American Hockey League Playoffs.</p><p>Arnie Kullman and Don Cherry each scored twice for the Bears who took a 3-0 lead in the first period but lost it quickly when Providence scored three times in less than three minutes to tie the score in the second. Hershey came back to make it 5-4 before the end of the second and then outscored the Reds 3-2 in the final period, including Gord Wilson&rsquo;s Goal on an unguarded net.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05112/1368980-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="596" height="909"></div><h3>Cleveland 1 at Pittsburgh 2</h3><p><b>PITTSBURGH</b>&mdash;Earl Balfour took a pass from Willie Marshall and tallied at 5.17 of an overtime period to give Pittsburgh Hornets a 2-1 American Hockey League: victory over Cleveland Barons.</p><p>Coupled with Springfield&rsquo;s 8-4 defeat by Buffalo, the triumph moved the league-leading Hornets three points ahead of the field.</p><p>Captain Frank Mathers fed Bob Solinger a long shot and Ray Timgren cut across the crease to backhand the puck in for Pittsburgh&rsquo;s first goal at 5.32 of the first period.</p><p>Cal Stearns passed to Jim Farelli who scored Cleveland&rsquo;s lone goal at 14.13 of the same period.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0886/1368973-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="600" height="521"></div><h3>Buffalo 8 at Springfield 4</h3><p><b>SPRINGFIELD</b>&mdash;Dick Gamble four goals as Buffalo Bisons defeated Springfield Indians 8-4 in an American Hockey League game.</p><p>Gamble scored twice in the first period and once each in the second and third as the Bisons led 3-0 after the first and 5-2 after the second.</p><p>Dusty Blair scored a pair for Buffalo and Pete Babando and Sam Bettio got the others.</p><p>Russ Kowalchuk, Doug Powell, Graham Hastings and Walt Atanas scored for Springfield.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0662/1368966-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="594" height="793"></div><h3>SUNDAY, MARCH 13 Buffalo 4, at Springfield 3</h3><p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;Ken Wharram&rsquo;s goal with 40 seconds remaining in the overtime period gave Buffalo Bisons a 4-3 American Hockey League victory over Springfield Indians.</p><p>The decision moved Buffalo into sole possession of second place and, dropped the Indians into a &lsquo;third-place tie with Cleveland Barons, who defeated Providence.</p><p>The Bisons&rsquo; Sam Bettio and Springfield&rsquo;s Hugh Currie scored goals in the first period and Walt Atanas of the Indians moved the host club in front with a tally in the second.</p><p>Dick Gamble evened the count for Buffalo in the opening minutes of the third period and then, after Springfield&rsquo; Harry Pidhirny had scored a tie-breaker. Gamble found the net again to send the game into overtime.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0759/1368959-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="590" height="657"></div><h3>Cleveland 6 at Providence 2</h3><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Fred Glover netted in the first and third periods to lead Cleveland Barons to a 6-2 victory over the cellar-dwelling Providence Reds.</p><p>The Barons, who climbed into a third-place tie with Springfield Indians scored twice in the first period and three times in the second. In the final period they stretched their lead to 6-0 but Ray Ross netted twice to pace a late Providence rally.</p><p>Tommy Williams. Eddie Olson. Gus Karrys and Joe Lund were the other Cleveland markaman.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0855/1368952-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="595" height="706"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including games of Sun., March 13)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0790/1368945-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="593" height="424"></div><h3>Leaders</h3><p><b>Most Goals</b>&mdash;Eddie Olson, Cleveland, 41.</p><p><b>Most Assists</b>&mdash;Zellio Toppazzini, Providence, 51.</p><p><b>Best Goalie</b>&mdash;Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 61, 167. 3, 2.74.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b>&mdash;Hank Bassen, Buffalo and Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 3.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Player</b>&mdash;Bill Burega, Pittsburgh, 238 mts.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Club</b>&mdash;Cleveland, 861 mts.</p><h2><b>Oops! Forgot Something</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06103/1368938-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="1755" height="1481"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOTH BUFFALO&rsquo;S Frank Sullivan, left; and Providence&rsquo;s Pete Kapusta, right, overskated the puck (arrow) in the action shown above as the Reds press into the Bison zone in an attempt to score. Sullivan managed to get at the disc first, however, and cleared it to centre ice.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div><p>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;</p><p>Carl Voss, chief of referees of both the National and American Hockey Leagues, in an exclusive interview with this writer, has blasted American Hockey League club owners for allegedly failing to crack down on unruly players.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had many bad reports from my staff concerning players in the American League,&rsquo;&rsquo; said Voss. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s my opinion that the problem players have not been dealt with sternly enough.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>Voss singled out two recent cases as examples. They involved Fred Glover of the Cleveland Barons and Norm Corcoran of the Hershey Bears.</p><p>Voss said his officials are being blamed on all sides for permitting games to get out of hand.</p><p>&ldquo;The real blame,&rsquo;&rsquo; he said, &ldquo;should rest with the club owners who fail to take action against their players who are guilty of misconduct.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>They Drew&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01262/1369108-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="532" height="922"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRED GLOVER</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Point Up Problem</b></h3><p>He told the writer that the Glover and Corcoran incidents point up the problem.</p><p>The chief ref said he had reports in his office that told of how Glover threatened a referee and later attempted to assault him and how Corcoran spat in the face of a linesman.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not satisfied,&rdquo; said Voss, &ldquo;that either case has been handled properly by the league and club owners involved.&rdquo;</p><p>Voss said that both officials had filed reports with his office and that he, in turn, has requested American Hockey League President John Digby Chick to take whatever appropriate action he deems necessary.</p><p>Voss said the Glover incident took place at Hershey Jan. 2 2. He said that Glover threatened Referee Ian (Scotty) Morrison after Morrison gave Glover a game misconduct penalty, and that after the game Glover attempted to goad Morrison into a fight.</p><p>The Corcoran episode took place in Cleveland the night of Feb. 16 when the Hershey player spat at Linesman Fred Thurier when Thurier attempted to break up a brawl Involving Corcoran.</p><h3><b>Always The Goat</b></h3><p>&ldquo;There have been too many bad things happening,&rdquo; Voss declared. &ldquo;I ask Chick to investigate. The referee is always the goat in these situations. If they had the support and co-operation of the club owners they could do a much better Job for all concerned.</p><p>&ldquo;Club owners will charge that the ref is not keeping the game under control, that he is allowing too much of the chippy stuff to get by. So the ref starts calling them close, maybe 20 or 2 5 penalties, and then they blast him for killing the game.&rdquo;</p><p>President Chick, serving his first term at the helm of American League, revealed from his Windsor, Ont. headquarters that he had received reports from Voss.</p><p>&ldquo;I wrote Jim Hendy of the Barons about Glover and Hendy assured me he would take care of the matter,&rdquo; said Chick.</p><p>&ldquo;The jurisdiction of the president of the league ends after a player has been penalized and fined. It&rsquo;s up to the club owner to take over from there.&rdquo;</p><h3><b>Not Complete</b></h3><p>Chick said he had also talked to Thurier and Voss about the Corcoran case but that the reports were not complete in that matter.</p><p>&ldquo;I expect to have all the information in the near future,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>In Cleveland Hendy admitted taking the matter up with his ace right winger, Glover.</p><p>&ldquo;I warned Freddie against anymore trouble of that kind,&rdquo; said Hendy. &ldquo;But Glover is the kind of player who gets into situations of that sort because of his terrific competitive spirit. He is always out there to win and the only way he knows to play the game is to fight all the way. He just lost his head in a tough game which we lost.&rdquo;</p><p>The Glover flareup stemmed from a minor &ldquo;elbowing&rdquo; penalty. When he popped off at Morrison he drew the game misconduct which carries an automatic suspension from the game and a $50 fine.</p><h2><b>&hellip; Refs&rsquo; Ire</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02200/1369101-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="562" height="862"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GAYE STEWART</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Refs Guilty</b></h3><p>Said Hendy: &ldquo;Since Voss has seen fit to open his mouth and name names, let me say that I think his referees have been guilty of great inconsistency in calling misconduct penalties.</p><p>&ldquo;Overall I want to say the refereeing this year has been very good but for that big exception.</p><p>&ldquo;How come Glover is thrown out of a game with a game misconduct for merely threatening a referee when Corcoran only got a 10-minute penalty for committing one of the foulest acts in the book?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;It really got bad at Buffalo Feb. 20th,&rdquo; said Hendy. &ldquo;The Bisons had been complaining to Morrison all night for everything he called against them, but nothing happened. Then our Johnny McLellan got a minor penalty, and when he was slow going to the box, Morrison gave him a misconduct.</p><h3><b>Stewart Harping</b></h3><p>&ldquo;Gaye Stewart, the playing coach, was harping at Morrison all night and the rules state that a playing coach can&rsquo;t talk to the ref&mdash;that&rsquo;s up to the captain. I sent a note down to the officials&rsquo; room between periods reminding Mr. Morrison of this rule.</p><p>&ldquo;A few minutes after the third period started, Stewart was nagging after Morrison again and in a flash Stewart got a misconduct.</p><p>&ldquo;Is that justice?&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Voss Blasts AHL Owners For Not Censuring Players

<div class="byline">FISHER</div><p>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;</p><p>Cleveland&rsquo;s Barons and Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Hornets will be playing for more than a championship goal when they clash at Cleveland&rsquo;s Arena Wednesday, March 16th.</p><p>All proceeds of the game will be turned over to Glen Sonmor, the battling left wing of the Barons who is in Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Mercy Hospital with a serious eye injury.</p><p>Specialists say the eye cannot be saved. It was struck by a deflected puck during the Cleveland-Pittsburgh game at Pittsburgh, Feb. 23rd.</p><p>Directors of the Cleveland Arena elected at once to set up the game for Sonmor, whose career on ice has been ended by the injury.</p><p>Two days following the injury, the Sonmor&rsquo;s became parents of their first child, a daughter.</p><p>Mrs. Sonmor is the daughter of Johnny Mitchell, chief scout of the Detroit Red Wings.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Benefit Game For Sonmer

<p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Harry Dick of the Vancouver Canucks has spent just over three full games in the penalty box thus far this season, 182 minutes, and seems a cinch to walk off with Western Hockey League &ldquo;honors&rdquo; in this department. Edmonton Flyers&rsquo; Larry Zeidel and Victoria Cougars&rsquo; Lloyd Durham follow with 140 and 128 minutes in the cooler respectively. Zeidel has played in 64 games, Dick in 63 and Durham in 61. Fourth in line is Saskatoon Quakers&rsquo; Carl Kaiser who has 93 minutes to his credit to date.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1453/1369278-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="364" height="603"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Dick</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Dick Leads WHL “Badmen”

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><p>VANCOUVER. B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Montreal can have its Rocket Richard, Boom-Boom Geoffrion and Jean Beliveau, Detroit its Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay, Toronto its Sid Smith, but Edmonton will go along with its celebrated &ldquo;garbage collector&rdquo; from Port Colborne, Ontario&mdash;Bronco Joseph Horvath.</p><p>It isn&rsquo;t that coach Bud Poile would turn down an offer of any of the talented NHLers we mentioned, but the way Horvath has been putting the puck in the opposition&rsquo;s goal and spearheading the Flyers&rsquo; attack, is there any wonder why Poile&rsquo;s eyes light up at the mere mention of Bronco Horvath.</p><p>Statistics usually make for dull reading. But. not so with Bronco. Here&rsquo;s all the 24-year-old pivot (he&rsquo;ll be 25 next March 12) had done in games through March 5.</p><p>He was pro hockey&rsquo;s most prolific goal scorer and point gatherer with 46 goals and 97 points. He&rsquo;s a cinch to win the WHL&rsquo;s individual scoring crown as he is 16 points ahead of his nearest rival, teammate John Bucyk who has 81 points. All Bronco needs to establish a new WHL point record is five in his remaining games. Bob Love of NW recorded 101 scoring points the season of 1948-49.</p><p>Bronco&rsquo;s other league marks are: Most hat tricks (4), most first goal of a game (9) and he is tied for most game winning goals (6) with Max Bentley of Saskatoon and Ron Matthews of NW. Horvath is the guy who feeds rookie John Bucyk and fiery Eddie Stankiewicz. This trio goes as Horvath goes, which means they&rsquo;re TNT at least 90% of the time.</p><p>There are few clubs in Al Leader&rsquo;s circuit Horvath doesn&rsquo;t score against. However, the one team he enjoys and really delights in giving a bad time is Calgary. The Stamps early in the campaign put the now famous &ldquo;garbage collector&rdquo; handle on Bronco. The inference was Horvath let his wingmen do all the work while he hung around the goal and picked up goals and assists mainly because of the work of his two winers.</p><p>Calgary was correct, to a point. Ever since then the top sniper in all pro hockey this season has averaged better than two points a game against the Stamps, and it is not uncommon for him to score three and four points every time he faces the defending Duke of Edinburgh champs.</p><p>Bronco is a cinch&mdash;or should be&mdash;to get the All-Star selection for centre. He&rsquo;ll draw his share of votes for the Most Valuable Player award as well and could win it. By the time this reaches your favorite newsstand Bronco may have broken Love&rsquo;s all-time point record.</p><p>Last season Horvath came into his own, scoring 32 goals and 53 assists good for 85 points playing for Springfield and Syracuse. He played 19 games for the former and 45 games for Edmer Bronco was the key man in a four player deal. He went to Edmonton in exchange for Jim Anderson, Buddy Boone and Larry Thibeault. The transaction has been a windfall for both organizations. Shore and Poile each got what he wanted. Springfield&rsquo;s near the top AHL position is the answer with Anderson and Boone starring. Edmonton has all but wrapped up its first league and Directors&rsquo; Trophy with Horvath the Marciano of the Flyers&rsquo; attack.</p><p>The Detroit brass, Jack Adams, Jimmy Skinner and Johnny Mitchell, are bound to keen close tabs on Horvath. He could be the answer to the Howe-Lindsay-we-need-a-centre-question.</p><p>Just as a matter of record, here are the WHL scoring champions for the years since the all-time point record was set by Love in 1949:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04123/1369323-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="589" height="215"></div><h2><b>He&rsquo;s Ready&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01270/1369316-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="492" height="873"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRONCO HORVATH</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;To Break His Record</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02202/1369309-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="1078" height="1667"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOBBY LOVE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Edmonton’s Horvath Closing In on WHL All-Time Scoring Mark

<p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>The race for the last three play-off positions is so close that it is very likely that two or more teams may tie in points for either the second, third or fourth place in the final standing. In the event that two or more teams are tied in points the higher position shall be awarded to the Club having won the greater number of games. Should the clubs tie in points and each have won the same number of games then the higher position shall be awarded to the club having scored the greater number of goals. Should a tie still exist&mdash;then the club having the fewest goals scored against it would be awarded the higher position. At the present time, Victoria, with the fewest tie games will be in the best position should they end the season in a tie in points with either of the other three contenders. Should total goals scored be a determining factor, then, at this time Calgary would have the advantage.</p><h2><b>Iron Man</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03147/1369354-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="590" height="1348"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK LANCIEN</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>The Ironmen</b></h3><p>Out of 114 players who have participated in Western Hockey League play this season only 25 have played in all of their teams&rsquo; games to date. Victoria players head the list with nine participating in all games, Marcel Pelletier, Andy Hebenton, Doug. Macauley, Colin Kilburn, Alex Kuzma. Mark Marquess, Bill Davidson, Mike Keating and Coach Billy Reay. New Westminster have six: Gordie Fashoway, Motto McLean, Bobby Love, Sam Lavitt, Guyle Fielder and Coach ax McNab. Calgary have four: Art. Michaluk, George Pargeter, Sid Finney and Gerry Couture. Saskatoon have three: Eldon Kobussen, Vic Lynn and Jim Ross. Edmonton have two: John Bucyk and Larry Zeidel. Only Captain Jack Lancien of Vancouver has played in all of the Canucks&rsquo; games:</p><h3><b>Standings</b></h3><p>One victory for Edmonton or one loss to Victoria and the Edmonton flyers will cinch first place and the Governors Trophy for the first time since they joined the league. First place Edmonton have 79 points to 68 for second place Victoria. Calgary is in third place with 6 6 points and New Westminster and Vancouver are tied for fourth place with 61 points each. The Royals have a game in hand over the Canucks but have the rugged Prairie trip ahead of them. Saskatoon lost their last mathematical chance of making the play-offs when they lost to Calgary March 5.</p><h3><b>Games To Play</b></h3><p>Victoria have two games at home against Saskatoon and one against Vancouver. They play two in Vancouver and one in New Westminster. Calgary play Edmonton at home twice and away twice and New Westminster at home. The Royals play Saskatoon. Vancouver and Victoria at home and each of the three prairie clubs once away. Vancouver have two games at home against Victoria, Saskatoon and New Westminster once. They play one game in New Westminster and one in Victoria.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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WHL Ice Chips

<h2><b>Two In, Two Out!</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span> hockey oddity took place at the Forum, March 13th when Referee George Gravel expelled both coaches from the game. Me chased Shawinigans Roger Leger for mimicking him and later thumbed Royals&rsquo; Pete Morin for tossing a chair on the ice.</p><h2><b>Byng For Burnett</b></h2><p>Royals&rsquo; Kelly Burnett, the leader point-man in the Quebec Hockey league was named the 1954-55 winner of the Lady Byng of Vimy Trophy as the player who best combined good sportsmanship with fine play.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON TUES. A.M. MARCH 15</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01242/1369434-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="600" height="212"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9 Montreal 1 at Chicoutimi 6</h3><p><b>Royals:</b> Goal: Hodge; defense; Rousseau, Bownass, Roche, Harmon, Dewsbury; forwards: Shvetz, Blaine, Mazur, Ma snick, Tessier, Burchell, Burnett, Dehis, Laplante.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi:</b> Goal: Frigon; defense: Glaude, L. Smrke, Talllefer, McNab; forwards: Dussault, Locas, S. Smrke, Bartlett, Leger, Topoll, Hicks, Sasakamoose, Power, Gravelle.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Corriveau; linesmen: Boileau, Scullion.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02208/1369427-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="585" height="506"></div><h3>THURSDAY, MARCH 10 Montreal 2 at Quebec 3</h3><p><b>Royals:</b> Goal: Hodge; defense: Rousseau, Harmon, Roche, Bownass, Dewsbury; forwards: Blaine, Masnick, Mazur, Burchell. Laplante, Shvetz, Burnett, Tessier, Denis.</p><p><b>Quebec:</b> Goal: Gelineau; defense: Arbour, Houle, Crozier, Levandoski, Ehman; forwards: Powell, Labadie, Uniac, Henry, Regan, Tremblay, Groleau, Malo, Buchanan.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Charlie Deziel; linesmen: Guido Roy, Aurele Leclerc.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03186/1369420-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="604" height="632"></div><h3>Valleyfield 6 at Shawinigan 7</h3><p><b>Valleyfield:</b> Goal: Payette; defense: Ernst, Deslauriers, Collins; forwards: Bisaillon. Joannette, Corriveau, Bougie, Kwong, Cline, Gagnon, Brillant, Leclerc.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls:</b> Goal: Binette; defense: Hodgson, Turner, Talbot, Lamirande, Leger; forwards: Grosse, Wray, Thomson, Kachur, Desnulniers, Dube, Faulkner, Broden, Provost.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04143/1369413-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="597" height="894"></div><h3>SUNDAY, MARCH 13 Valleyfield 3 at Quebec 5</h3><p><b>Valleyfield:</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette; defense: Hogue, Ernst, Deslauriers, Nollins; forwards, Joannette, Bisaillon, Corriveau, Bougie, Briand, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Leclerc, Gagnon.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defense: Crozier, Houle, Levandoski, Ehman; forwards: Henry, Buchanan Thibault, Powell, Regan, Uniac, Labadie, Tremblay. Malo, Groleau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05115/1369406-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="597" height="541"></div><h3>Shawinigan 2 at Royals 3</h3><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defense: Leger, Hodgson. Talbot, Lamirande. Turner; forwards; Desaulniers. Wray, Provost, Kachur, J. Denis, Broden, Grosse, Faulkner, Dube.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Hodge; defense: Rousseau, Bownass, Roche, Harmon, Dewsbury; forwards; Shvetz, Blaine, Mazur, Masnick, Tessier, Burchell, Burnett, L. Denis, Laplante.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0698/1369399-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="599" height="638"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0789/1369392-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="1622" height="1340"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Kenny Reardon, (left) and Roger Leger, general manager and coach respectively of the Shawinigan Cataracts, shake hands after clinching the Quebec Hockey League title in their first year in the league as a directing combination.</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>Including games of Sun., March 13)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0879/1369385-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="593" height="1225"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-10" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1064/1369465-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg"></div><p><i><b>The Canadian</b></i></p><p><b><i>FOOTBALL NEWS NOW ON SALE</i></b></p><p><i>Read and Enjoy&hellip;</i></p><p><b>&#9733; Bob Simpson Gets NY Offer</b></p><p><b>&#9733; Esks Nab Sooners&rsquo; Kurt Burris</b></p><p><b>&#9733; Walker Foresees Grid Peace</b></p><p><b>&#9733; Big Four Misleads Press</b></p><p><b>&#9733; The Chuckwagon ONLY 15c AT YOUR NEWSSTAND</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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MARCH EDITION OF

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HOCKEY HEADQUARTERS IN DETROIT

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01237/1369534-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ERWIN GROSSE</b></figcaption></div><p>SHAWINIGAN FALLS, Que.&mdash;</p><p>While ink has been splashed all over the sports pages, and-paeans of praise have been sent over the air-waves about the glittering yearlings on the Shawinigan Falls&rsquo; Cataracts roster, too little has been written or said about the hard working veterans.</p><p>Connie Broden and his running mates of the Kid line&mdash;Claude Provost and George Faulkner&mdash;have received a big share of plaudlts and the sportswriters and sportscasters have been busy sounding off for the young rear-guards&mdash;Jean Guy Talbot and Bob Turner.</p><p>All these youngsters have captured the imagination of the scriveners and the spielers, yet It&rsquo;s high time to appraise a few of the boys who supply the &ldquo;glue&rdquo; which makes this a fine, smoothly running hockey machine.</p><p>A thoughtful hockey observer will immediately give high rating to the experienced forwards and rearguards on this club, without pausing to take a glance at a recent release of the Quebec Hockey League&rsquo;s official scoring statistics.</p><p>But let&rsquo;s not be casual about it; let&rsquo;s work on an analysis which is supported by a few figures.</p><h2><b>Seasoned Performer</b></h2><h2><b>Old Maestro</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02185/1369527-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="559" height="881"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROGER LEGER</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Broden Tops</b></h3><p>Connie Broden, who has many supporters for the rookie award is the top pointmaker for the Cataracts. Last week&rsquo;s audit showed him with 23 goals, 33 assists for 56 points. This placed him in sixth position in the parade. Only Royals&rsquo; three musketeers of the Trigger Line&mdash;Kelly Burnett, Lulu Denis and Orval Tessier,&mdash;Quebec Aces&rsquo; siege gun, Ray Powell, and Valleyfield&rsquo;s Rollie Leclerc topped the Loyola graduate.</p><p>Just a few notches further down were two men who have been in the voting category in provincial and federal election for quite a spell. Gerry Desaulniers, a native of Shawinigan Falls, and therefore a popular athlete has 26 goals and 27 assists to his credit, which is a very hearty contribution on a club which holds its high ranking as much for great defensive play, featured by great goal-keeping, as for free-scoring.</p><h3><b>Delivers Goods</b></h3><p>Desaulniers delivers the goods to win hearty cheers from unbiased fans who wouldn&rsquo;t know if he was born in Shawinigan Falls, Sheboygan, Wis., or Schenectady, N.Y., though of course the neighbors in the Power City don&rsquo;t hold it against him that he&rsquo;s a local boy.</p><p>Immediately below Desaulniers on the totem pole is Fernand Perreault, who is handsome enough to be a matinee idol, but doesn&rsquo;t let that deter him from being one of the Slater circuit&rsquo;s handiest playmakers. This Perreault comes from Chambly Basin, Que. and will be 2 8 years old March 31 when he and his mates hope to be battling in the Quebec League finals. Sixteen tallies and 35 helpings were his contribution to the cause according to Mr. Harney&rsquo;s book-keeping. So Desaulniers has 53 points and Perreault has 51.</p><p>There&rsquo;s Dick Wray, the hustling little guy with the fiery thatch of red hair, who holds distinction in hockey as one of the few Irish born players adorning professional ranks of the sport.</p><h3>Good Back-checker</h3><p>Wray can boast 40 points made up by 13 goals and 27 helpings. He&rsquo;s a fine offensive player and a great back-checker to boot and in other years has given worthy service to Chicoutimi and Montreal teams. He&rsquo;s the sort of boy any coach would be glad to welcome to his squad. In any assay of individual merit pin-pointing Cataracts&rsquo; triumphs, Wray must be included.</p><p>Erwin Grosse, a balding blond from Melville, Sask., though hardly established in the veteran class is a seasoned performer in senior and minor pro ranks and is another individual who has been a &lsquo;mainstay with R. Leger&rsquo;s squad this year. He was with Quebec Aces last season when Shawinigan Falls temporarily suspended operations in the Quebec circuit, but he saw enough service at the city of whirring turbines in two previous seasons to be well entrenched with supporters of the Shawinigan club.</p><p>Roger Leger, the old maestro of the back-division who plays and pilots the team needs no testimonial here. He is. given full credit for doing a wonderful job this year in organization and in icegeneralship as well as personal athletic endeavor.</p><h3><b>Battle-wise</b></h3><p>He is supported by a couple of battle-wise back division artisans in Ted Hodgson and Jean Paul Lamirande.</p><p>Tall Charles Edward Hodgson who carries 195 pounds on a 6&rsquo;3&rdquo; chassis has played most of his hockey since his junior days at the Falls, interrupted by a campaign with Royals last year. He&rsquo;s one of the most rugged customers back of the blue line, and though some opponents scurrilously refer to him as &ldquo;Mr. Elbows&rdquo;, he makes his gangling form and outsize reach real assets. And who can blame him for that?</p><p>Last of the men in this roll call, but by no means the. least, is Jean Paul Lamirande, another Shawinigan-bred who has seen 32 summers and the comparable winters. Though he may appear well cushioned to some, Jean Paul is a solid citizen, who by personal demonstration has done much to school freshmen defense players. He has eight years of professional hockey behind him including three separate hitches with New York Rangers.</p><p>So let&rsquo;s not gloss over the Cata racts&rsquo; veterans. They are the backbone of the team and the schoolmasters for the younger fry.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Mixture Of Youth, Experience Gives Cataracts Balanced Club

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Kitchener Dutchmen and-Windsor Bulldogs are in the final playoffs, and while the thick of the senior &lsquo;A&rsquo; OHA Bulldogs won six of the ten scheduled games from the Dutchmen, one of them a 4-3 victory in Kitchener ice, the Dutchmen are favored to defeat the Bulldogs in the best-of-seven series.</p><p>In their scheduled games, Windsor potted a total of 37 goals to the Dutchmen&rsquo;s 34, with all the games except four decided by one goal. Windsor handed Kitchener 6-2, 6-2 and 7-2 reverses on Windsor ice, while the Dutchmen blanked the Bulldogs 5-0 on Kitchener ice.</p><p>The two teams play somewhat different styles of hockey, the Bulldogs using the body more than the Dutchmen, as was evident in the semi-finals between Windsor and Stratford. However, the Dutchmen have the size and youth to match the Bulldogs in the bodychecking department, although they have resorted to litile of this during the season.</p><p>Kitchener rates favorites larely on their superior teamplay, although Windsor, paced by the veteran NHL pair of George Gee and Jimmy Peters, display considerable combination, and it was this duo that sunk Stratford Indians. It took seven games for the Bulldogs to oust the Indians, after the former had taken a 3-2 edge in games, two of them on home ice. In the sixth game at Stratford the Indians eked out a 5-4 victory in overtime and in the last game at Windsor, the Bulldogs squeezed through with a 4-2 win in overtime.</p><h2><b>Steady</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03150/1369579-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="274" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Peters</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04124/1369572-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="285" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>George Gee</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Combination</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0581/1369565-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="567" height="887"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CLARE MARTIN</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Two Factors</b></h3><p>Two factors figure in the Windsor-Kitchener final series. One is the netminding and the other the relative scoring punch of the two rival top front lines.</p><p>Records may mean nothing in a short series of this kind, but it is noteworthy that Denis Brodeur of Kitchener was the leading goalie of the league with a season&rsquo;s average of 3.234 as compared with a mark of 3.409 for Bill Harrington, Windsor goalie. Brodeur played 47 games for the Dutchmen, allowing 152 goals and having one shutout, while Harrington guarded the twine for the Bulldogs in 44 games, giving up 150 goals and having two shutouts. Brodeur&rsquo;s only shutout was at the expense of the Bulldogs.</p><p>Kitchener&rsquo;s top forward trio has Ken Laufman at centre, George Scholes at right wing and Gerry Theberge at left wing. Laufman was the league&rsquo;s leading scorer, with 81 points, seven more than &ldquo;Mickey&rdquo; Roth, captain of the Stratford Indians. Laufman played all 50 scheduled games for Kitchener, collecting 23 goals and assisting on 58 others. Scholes tied for fourth place with George Gee of Windsor and Gerry Reid of Owen Sound with 57 points.</p><p>Theberge was sidelined for a long time with a badly gashed shin bone, but returned to action near the close of the schedule and indicated that he has lost none of his touch.</p><p>Scholes sustained a shoulder injury in the semi-final series with Owen Sound Mercurys, which the Dutchmen won in five 2 games, and may be hampered some in the series with Windsor.</p><p>On the other side of the ledger, Gee and Peters of the Bulldogs placed among the first ten highest scorers, the former playing but 31 games and grabbing 57 points, while Peters nicked 56 points in 4 6 games.</p><p>Laufman, Scholes and Jack McKenzie were the only Kitchener players to figure in the top ten scorers, but Windsor has a better record in that department, because besides Gee and Peters, Gord Haidy nicked 60 points in 48 games and Reg Abbott registered the same number.</p><p>A survey indicates that Kitchener&rsquo;s three lines pack more scoring punch than those of Windsor, while back of the blue line the edge is also conceded Kitchener, with the veteran NHL star, Clare Martin, furnishing the steadying influence.</p><p>In their semi-finals with Stratford Indians, the Indians outscored Windsor 35-29, and of those Windsor counters Gee and Peters accounted for 11. of them.</p><p>Another item in the Stratford-Windsor series was the in-and-out performance of Bill Harrington in the Windsor net. Noted for possessing a hair-trigger temper, which is liable to erupt at any time, Harrington was beaten by scores of 13-2 and 5-1, and this could be a big point in favor of Kitchener Dutchmen, for whom Harrington played goal last season.</p><p>The general consensus of opinion is that Kitchener should eliminate Windsor in six games or less, provided George Scholes of the Dutchmen is fully recovered from his shoulder injury.</p><p>Games this week call for the Bulldogs to play in Kitchener, Wednesday and Saturday, with the other game at Windsor sandwiched in on Friday, provided the series goes the full seven games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Goaltending May Be Factor As Dutchmen Meet Bulldogs For OHA Senior “A” Title

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>TRAGEDY IN SENIOR HOCKEY&mdash;All Northern Ontario was shocked when the news broke that George Numella, long regarded as the finest referee in the NOHA senior division, was killed along with his wife and a close friend in a car accident near Sudbury&hellip; George was returning to his home in Callander after refereeing the first two games of the NOHA Southern Division Senior &ldquo;A&rsquo;&rsquo; finals in Sault Ste. Marie&hellip;<b>A</b> car driven by Mrs. Fred Bennet, 33, of North Bay, smashed into the rear of a three-ton dump-truck&hellip;Mrs. George Numella and Mrs: Bennett were killed instantly, while Mr. Numella died in Sudbury General Hospital after undergoing delicate brain surgery&hellip;the other passenger, Fred Bennett, survived&hellip;A bus carrying the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, on their way to North Bay for the third and fourth games of the finals, arrived at the tragic scene when the victims were being removed from the demolished station-wagon&hellip;George was scheduled to referee the games in North Bay&hellip;A prosperous hotel owner at Callander, he turned down offers to referee in the NHL and. AHL&hellip;Known as a fearless, honest, efficient official, George was by far the top senior hockey referee in Northern Ontario&hellip;I had lunch with him the day before he was killed&hellip;He told me how he loved the sport and about his big plans to expand his hotel enterprise&hellip;He adored his little daughter, Linda, six, and was a family man in every sense of the world&hellip;He was born in Finland and arrived in Canada as a child&hellip;His family settled in Port Arthur and then moved to South Porcupine where George went to school and played hockey&hellip;He later broke into refereeing and won wide acclaim in the early Forties around Kirkland Lake and Timmins&hellip;He backed juvenilc hockey and softball teams up to the time of his death, being a great sportsman for his community&hellip;A finer fellow never lived than George Numella&hellip;Always a stickler for condition and fair play, he was a great inspiration and example to us all&hellip;While he may be gone and his refereeing over, still his integrity, efficiency and spirit of fair play will live with every single hockey game ever played in Northern Ontario&hellip; It&rsquo;s a terrible loss and all those who knew George will never forget him&hellip; even as I write this, I can feel how deeply I admired and respected him.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01202/1369610-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="594" height="602"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAX SILVERMAN</b></figcaption></div><p>WARM UP FOR ALL-ONTARIO FINALS&mdash;The fight for the NOHA Northern Division and Southern Division Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey crowns is just about over&hellip; At the moment, Abitibi Eskimos from Iroquois Falls and Timmins-Schumaker Flyers are tied two games apiece in their best-of-seveti series for the Northern Division title, while the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds hold a 2-1 edge in games over North. Bay Trappers&hellip;Bernie Donovan emerged the big hero for Iroquois Falls as he fired the winning goal in the third period to defeat Timmins-Schumacher, 3-2 in the fourth game&hellip;It&rsquo;s anybody&rsquo;s series the way things are going&hellip;Doug Towers and Syl Ethier scored the other goals for the Eskies&hellip;Meanwhile, Coach Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty led his fast-moving Greyhounds to a totally-unexpected 7-0 triumph over North Bay Trappers in North Bay after the teams fought tooth and nail in the first two games at the Soo&hellip;North Bay won the seriesopener, 4-2, but the &lsquo;Hounds came back to take the second, 5-1&hellip;everyone figured the third game would be close, but the Greyhounds broke it wide-open with that decisive 7-0 bulldozer&hellip;Ronnie Lay born in the Soo, was the top star with two goals, giving him four goals and three assists in the last two games of the series&hellip;Eddie Chadwick was brilliant in getting the shutout&hellip;Harry Taylor, for mer NHL and AHL performer, also went well for the Greyhounds.. just before the Southern Division finals got underway, the Soo Greyhounds were forced into sudden-death overtime to defeat the Soo (Mich.) Indians after they had battled to seven gruelling games without reaching a decision&hellip;the big hero for the Greyhounds was Donnie McLean, who helped St. Catharines to the Memorial Cui only last season&hellip;Donnie was born right in the Soo and after that goal could have run for mayor and won hands down, despite the fact that our good friend, Mayor Herb Smale is a pretty popular guy and a wonderful hockey fan, as well&hellip;Donnie&rsquo;s going places the way he&rsquo;s going&hellip;could be bigtime material!</p><p>THE NICKEL CITY UPHEAVAL&mdash;News that the Sudbury Civic Arena would not renew its contract with the Sudbury Wolves Senior Hockey Club, but instead would set up its own team, came as a real bombshell along the Northern Ontario hockey battlefront&hellip; In effect, this meant that Maxie &ldquo;The Silver Fox&rdquo; Silverman, who has been an outstanding hockey figure in Sudbury since the early Thirties with a tremendous record of accomplishment, was out and the Sudbury Arena was in as far as the team is concerned&hellip;The Arena commissioners decided to setup a seven-man committee to control the senior hockey team&hellip;the matter of franchise has yet to be settled, however&hellip;Maxie called the arena commission&rsquo;s actions, &ldquo;a piece of underhanded work.&rdquo; He charged that his hockey club had been given no chance to talk to the commission on the matter&hellip;Maxie has always been a very controversial figure but he has worked harder than any man in Northern Ontario to make the Nothland a power in Canadian hockey&hellip; he won the Memorial Cup with his Sudbury Wolves and last season came within an eyelash (and I do mean eyelash!) of winning the Allan Cup with his Sudbury Wolves&hellip;when he returned to Sudbury he was hailed by thousands of rabid hockey fans&hellip;he was given a Buick and many other gifts&hellip;this season, however, his team failed to make the playoffs and the grumblings of discontent reached a new peak, especially in the final stages of the season&hellip;on paper, Maxie had the championship team, but on ice, he had a last-place club&hellip;many fans in Northern Ontario feel the Arena Commission should have at least asked Maxie to talk things over on the question of who was going to run the senior hockey team.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By HANS GROTTKE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02168/1369641-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ice Resurfacer Ready For Action</b></figcaption></div><p>(AS seen in the Montreal Gazette)</p><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Gone are the days&hellip;</p><p>The old days at the Montreal Forum, that is, when it took a crew of eight or 10 men to sweep and water the rink between periods of a hockey game.</p><p>For the latest in mechanical gadgets has made its debut at the St. Catherine street arena.</p><h2><b>Does Everything But Score Coals</b></h2><p>Known as an Ice Resurfacer, the machine is a combination sweeper, snow dispenser and ice conditioner.</p><p>Tn fact,&rdquo; quipped inventor Frank Zamboni of Paramount, Calif., &ldquo;this gadget does everything but talk on an ice surface.&rdquo;.</p><p>The whole thing is mounted on a jeep and will thoroughly clean and recondition the Forum&rsquo;s huge icesheet in six or seven minutes.</p><p>&ldquo;The real beauty of the machine,&rdquo; explained Forum superintendent Jim Hunter, &ldquo;is that it takes only one man to operate. It also gives the ice a much smoother finish than a crew of men working with the present hot water barrels.&rdquo;</p><p>The &ldquo;mechanical monster&rdquo; as it has been affectionately dubbed by Zamboni, has been in use at the Forum now for the past few weeks on trial runs.</p><p>It will be used on a large scale as soon as a rink operator learns to handle it properly.</p><p>Briefly, the machine works as follows: First, it cuts the ice surface to the desired depth by means of a seven-foot blade underneath the jeep.</p><p>Then it scoops up the loose snow and deposits it in a cab with the aid of a conveyer belt. Finally, it provides an extremely smooth finish to the surface with a fine &lsquo;layer of hot water.</p><p>The jeep is equipped with special tires for better traction on the slippery surface. In all, the unit weighs 5,400 pounds and contains a built-in tank capable of holding 190 gallons of hot water.</p><p>So far, Zamboni has turned out 29 of these machines, with the Forum model beings the latest. Only one other Canadian arena, the Laval College rink at St. Vincent de Paul, has one. The rest are scattered throughout the United States.</p><p>Zamboni says he first got the idea for the machine in 1942 while he was operating a rink at Paramount.</p><p>&ldquo;I kept thinking that there must be an easier, faster and better way to clean ice than by hand,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Finally, I decided to do something about it.</p><p>&ldquo;I tried various combinations until I came up with a machine for my own rink.</p><p>&lsquo;Then in 1950, Sonja Henie became intrigued with the gadget while she was training at Paramount. She liked it so much, in fact, that she had one made for her show and took it on the road.</p><p>&ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t long after Sonja appeared in various American cities with the Resurfacer that <b>I</b> received requests from stadium owners in several places for a machine.</p><p>&ldquo;Soon, it became a full time business and the machines were put into mass production. Most of the ice revues have them now and they are also in use in rinks at Hershey, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Boston, Providence, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver and several California cities.&rdquo;</p><p>In the United States, the Resurfacers retail for $7,900 but in Canada their price is closer to the $10,000 mark.</p><p>But, as Jim Hunter says, the machine will probably pay for itself in two years time.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s certainly a far cry from the day when we used 15-foot birch bush brooms to clean the ice,&rdquo; he called.</p><p>&ldquo;Then someone thought of using scrapers and hot water. Now this. I wonder what&rsquo;s next?&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Montreal Forum Sweepers Gone As Machine Takes Over Duties

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Grand Rapids is skating into a playoff berth in the International Hockey League largely on the strength of the play of its No. 1 line.</p><p>This high-scoring trio features George Hayes at centre, with Rick Hogg and Edwin (Can of Tobacco) Panagabko on the wings&mdash;and Coach Norm Grinke is mighty thankful for their goal-making work.</p><p>Not so long ago the Rockets were far from certain candidates for the post-season classic, but it&rsquo;s all changed now, with the Michigan club still very much in the funning for second place behind the championship Cincinnati Mohawk outfit.</p><p>The way matters shape up at this writing, Cincinnati is far and away on top, with Troy and Grand Rapids staging a nip-and-tuck fight for runner-up honors and Toledo a fairly solid fourth. Johnstown still has a mathematical chance to move past Toledo, while last-place Ft. Wayne is out of the running for anything but the cellar.</p><p>Hayes, Hogg and Panagabko have given Grand Rapids a much-needed scoring punch, and it has been this combine that has brought a smile to Grinke&rsquo;s face these days.</p><p>Hayes, like Hogg, is a former professional, and Panagabko, who causes announcers at most IHL rinks plenty of pronunciation troubles with his monniker, is an up-and-coming rookie.</p><p>At a late stage in the International League race, this line has accounted for 64 goals, 26 of them by Hogg, 20 by Hayes and 18 by Panagabko.</p><p>The 28-year-old Hayes, veteran of the line, has three years of pro experience behind him. In his second season with Grand Rapids, he previously was with Johnstown, then in the Eastern loop, for a year, and with Atlantic City of the same league for two years.</p><p>A pro with Seattle in the Pacific Coast circuit for two years and with Washington, then of the American League, for one campaign, Hayes spent a season in Scotland, with Ayr. He played his junior hockey with the now-defunct Toronto Young Rangers.</p><p>Toronto-born Hayes, who held the IHL record for assists in one game&mdash;six, set in his team&rsquo;s 9-7 conquest of Ft. Wayne on Dec. 4&mdash;for three months, maintains that &ldquo;the International League is real good; it compares favorably with the American loop in that it is leaded with lots of potential big league players.&rdquo;</p><p>Hayes&rsquo; wife, Anne, is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and they have one daughter, Patricia Lynn, six. The Hayes reside in Grand Rapids at the present time, where George is engaged in construction work.</p><p>Last week was a busy one in the IHL, with ten contests taking place, of which three were decided in sudden death overtime. Grand Rapids was most successful, taking three out of four, while Toledo won two out of three, Cincinnati broke even in four outings, Toledo split two tilts, Ft. Wayne lost two out of three and Johnstown dropped three out of four.</p><p>Cincinnati moved ten and a half games in front of runner-up Troy by sweeping a weekend series from Johnstown. There was no change in the standing of the teams although the Rockets did close the gap on Troy&rsquo;s Bruins.</p><p>ICING THE PUCK&hellip;A new record for assists in a single IHL tilt was set by youthful Johnny Martan, Mohawk centre, when he helped set up all seven Cincinnati goals in his club&rsquo;s 7-2 conquest of Johnstown. Martan thus surpassed the mark held briefly by Hayes. Reg Grigg, right winger on Martan&rsquo;s line, scored four goals in. that encounter, his second hat trick of the year, to tie him with Moose Lallo of Grand Rapids and Mike Narduzzi of Johnstown in that department&hellip;Lone shutout of the week was credited to colorful Lew Crowdis of Grand Rapids, his first whitewash job of the season, 4-0, over hapless Ft. Wayne&hellip;George Edwards, filling in for the undermanned and injury-ridden Komets from Ft. Wayne, posted a hat trick as the Hoosiers went on to nose out Cincinnati, 5-4, in overtime. Hartley McLeod supplied the winning counter to enable Ft. Wayne to snap a losing streak that had reached seven straight games.</p><h2><b>Veteran</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0387/1369710-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="559" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GEORGE HAYES</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0018-03

Hayes-Hogg-Panagabko Line Paces Rockets To Playoffs in Tight Inti. Loop Race

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>While Moncton Hawks and Charlottetown Islanders&rsquo; are locked in a king size grand finale for the championship of the Atlantic Coast Hockey League, a team that may cause the winner a lot of trouble in the Maritime final leading to the Allan Cup trail sits idly by.</p><p>The New Glasgow Rangers have swept the boards in Nova Scotia but they may have to cool their heels for some time as Moncton and Charlottetown stars settle their differences on ice.</p><p>The Rangers made a triumphant return to senior hockey under the direction of Paul LeClerc, long a standout figure in the Quebec League. Paul served as coach and goalie for the Rangers, who ran the league ragged after a slow start, then knocked off the other APC contenders in the league playoffs and Kentville Wildcats in the provincial finals.</p><p>Rangers had trouble putting down the St. F.X. Collegians. The series went seven games and the unofficial score was five games to two. One of them was a replay, however, due to a referee&rsquo;s error. The New Glasgow team lost one while winning four against Pictou Royals and took all four games against the Wildcats.</p><p>The Rangers&rsquo; comeback was complete in every way, up to this point. Not only did they win consistently but they played such a pleasing brand of hockey that the home rink filled almost every play night. They also drew well on the road.</p><p>Around Pictou County the fans give most of the credit to Le. Clerc. Not only was his goaltending the best in the league but he won orchids as a handler of men and he made many friends outside the rink.</p><p>When his team goes against the Coast League champions, however, LeClerc will find the odds Stacked against him. His team is young, fast and eager but will give something away in weight and experience. But they have the desire as well as known skills and if an upset is in the making this is the team best geared to spring it.</p><p>For a while it looked as if the Hawks might upset the Islanders in short order in the Coast finals but, after losing the first two games, the pace-setters over the regular season. came back with a flourish and a 4-0 shutout at home.</p><h2><b>Clicking</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01210/1369679-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="580" height="592"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERT HIRSCHFELD</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Goat?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02137/1369672-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="586" height="605"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BUCK WHITLOCK</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>May Be Goat</b></h3><p>Scoring-champion Roy (Buck) Whitlock may be the goat of the series if the Islanders lose. He knocked in the big goal against his club in one of the games and he hasn&rsquo;t been scoring as he did in the regular reason.</p><p>It will be recalled here that Moncton coach Dugger McNeil had Buck&rsquo;s number last year when he handled the Halifax Atlantics in the Big Four campaign. Whitlock tore the Halifax defence apart in the second and third games of the finals but after that his guns were spiked and the Islanders bowed out.</p><p>If the Hawks silence Whitlock they could win this series. They have a game margin and the next game is slated for Moncton ice. The Hawks have done right well since they started their splurge around Christmas and have been especially formidable at home.</p><p>Copper Leyte, the Newfoundlander who once played with Quebec Aces, was the big star in the Islanders comeback victory. The sturdy, hard skating redhead, who is equally at home at forward or defence, potted two goals and assisted on a third. Islanders miss hard hitting Lloyd Hinchberger, out with an injury. That means three men&mdash;playing coach Steve Brklaccich, former coach Hugh Campbell and Danny O&rsquo;Connor&mdash;have to do all the blueline duty.</p><p>There is a wealth of talent in the trio, however, and it showed up in the third game as the defence blunted the Moncton attack. But the Hawks are confident they&rsquo;ll show the difference on home ice, where the series is expected to be decided.</p><p>The comeback and timely scoring of Bert Hirschfeld has spurred the Hawks. Hirschfeld came on with a lot of fanfare in the early season but failed to live up to expectations. But he&rsquo;s making up for a slow start and right now is the Number One threat on the Moncton attack.</p><p>Veteran Tod Campeau, who has been around the hockey lanes for a good many years, is still a key man with the Hawks. His experience is paying off in the close games and as a playmaker he is the best thing that has happened to Hirschfeld all season.</p><p>Dougie McPhee, who got his start with Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s juniors, then played well with Halifax Atlantics in major league competition, is visiting old friends in Halifax. Doug finished second in scoring in the Coast League with a blazing finish that almost caught champion Whitlock. He played with Fredericton Capitals and made some interesting observa-tions to friends here.</p><p>He says the Coast League is almost as strong as the Big Four of a year ago. Fredericton would have made money on the season, he observes, if it hadn&rsquo;t been for the long, costly trek to Charlottetown.</p><p>And the Islanders, he says, are again in financial troubles. They spend a small fortune in travel each winter with all the Contenders some distance away and reports are in again that come next season the Islanders won&rsquo;t be a starter.</p><p>Then there is news of a possible eight team Maritime league next season. The sponsors would keep the Coast League intact, with Halifax, Sydney, Glace Bay and New Glasgow in a Nova Scotia circuit. They&rsquo;d play an interlocking schedule, present an attractive program for fans all over the Maritimes and restore hockey to its former high levels.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bert Hirschfeld Sparks Moncton To Lead In ACSHL Final Series

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Defending champions found the going very tough in the current western Canada junior hockey playoffs. In the three major junior leagues in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, last year&rsquo;s champions have already been eliminated from the picture.</p><p>In the Manitoba Junior Hockey League, the defending champion St. Boniface Canadiens failed even to qualify for the playoffs. In that circuit, now only a three-team affair with the withdrawal of the Brandon Wheat Kings, two teams qualified for the playoffs. They were the Winnipeg Monarchs and Winnipeg Barons.</p><p>The Monarchs, perennial Manitoba junior kings of the past, whipped the Barons in the first three games of their best-of-seven Manitoba final and appear good bets to capture the provincial crown. They will then meet the winner of the Thunder Bay area in the western semi-final playoff.</p><p>In the Saskatchewan Junior League, the defending champion Flin Flon Bombers finished in second place in the final standing behind the front-running Humboldt Indians. However, coach Bobby Kirk&rsquo;s Bombers took it on the chin from the third-place Prince Albert Mintos in the best-of-seven semi-final. Flin Flon won only one game in the series.</p><p>Meanwhile. Humboldt eliminated Saskatoon Wesleys in handy fashion, so now it&rsquo;s Humboldt, coached by Scotty Munro, vs Prince Albert in the final. Humboldt is favored because of their better record over the season.</p><p>In the Western Junior League, the defending champion Edmonton Oil Kings were good enough to take third place in the final standing. However, coach Ken McAuley&rsquo;s Kinglets were rudely knocked to the sidelines in the first round of the playoffs by the second-place Lethbridge Native Sons. McAuley&rsquo;s club was a far cry from his last year&rsquo;s team which went all the way to the Memorial Cup final where they were defeated by the St. Catharines Teepees. However, the manner in which they were knocked out by Lethbridge was somewhat of a surprise.</p><p>Edmonton won only one game in the series, and they were beaten three times by Lethbridge right on their home ice at Edmonton Gardens. Kings badly missed the services of Norm Ullman, Johnny Bucyk and Jerry Melnyk, all of whom turned pro this year with the parent Edmonton Flyers.</p><p>In the other half of the Western Junior League semi-final, the west had its most thrilling playoff series to date. The series went eight games before the Regina Pats came through with a 3-1 victory to eliminate the Medicine Hat Tigers in the final game.</p><p>Regina, first-place finishers in the regular schedule, were favorites to take out the fourth-place Tigers. However, coach Bill Hunter had his squad up for the series while the Reginans were slightly off-form. And, of course, the inspired play of the Tigers helped to throw the Pats off form.</p><p>Medicine Hat grabbed an early lead in the series and at one time appeared on the verge of scoring a major upset.. They won two and tied one of the first three games played on their home ice. Back in Regina, the Pats came through with a 6-3 win to get back in the picture.</p><p>However, in the fifth game the Tigers had the Pats tied up in knots and led 3-1 with eight minutes to go. Then the Pats caught fire and scored three quick goals to win 4-3 and deadlock the series.</p><p>Undaunted, Hunter&rsquo;s charges bounced back the next night to win 3-2 and move to within one point of winning the series. They never got it, though, as the Pats won the next two games, 7-3 in Regina and 3-1 in Medicine Hat.</p><p>&ldquo;I was never more worried in a hockey series&rdquo;, Regina coach Murray Armstrong said after it was all over. &ldquo;However, I thought our boys would snap out of it sooner or later, and they did. I am confident now that we can go or and beat Lethbridge.&rdquo;</p><p>As for Hunter, one of the west&rsquo;s favorite&rsquo; hockey characters, his fiery brand of coaching has never been seen to better advantage. During the season his club looked only ordinary against the Pats. But in the playoffs, they became good hockey players, especially his defencemen who were rugged and tough, carried the puck out of their end well and generally played outstanding hockey.</p><p>And, of course, in goal Hunter received sensational goalkeeping from Johnny Panagrot. Any playoff club needs hot goalkeeping to get anywhere and Medicine Hat got it from Panagrot. The Golden Greek from Winnipeg, who was traded. from Moose Jaw to Medicine Hat midway through the season, came through brilliantly. Pats enjoyed an edge in play in every game which meant more work for Panagrot than Joe Selinger received in the Regina cage.</p><p>It was left to Murray (Boomer) Balfour, a great young pro prospect, to provide the spark for Pats when they needed it most in the series against Medicine Hat. With Tigers leading 3-2 in games and needing only another win (or tie) to win the series, they jumped into a 2-0 lead in the second period of the seventh game. Once more they had the Pats tied up with their strong defensive play.</p><p>Then Balfour entered the picture. Balfour fired one and Bev Bell deflected it in to make the score 2-1. Then Balfour scored three goals in a row and added another later on for a powerful individual performance.</p><p>With the score deadlocked at 2-2, Tigers were called for icing with five seconds to play in the second period. Coach Armstrong quickly sent out Balfour and stationed him in front of the Tiger goal. Bell got the draw on the face-off, passed back to Balfour and he slapped it past Panagrot. The whole manoeuvre took only three seconds and from then on the Pats were never headed in the series.</p><p>The winner of the Lethbridge-Regina series will meet the winner of the Humboldt-Prince Albert playoff in the western junior semi-final. The Memorial Cup final will be played in the west this year.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Champs Fall By Wayside In Western Junior Ranks

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01189/1369765-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(SOLUTION NEXT WEEK)</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured Toronto player.</p><p>3&mdash;Month in which Paul Meger was born (abbr.)</p><p>5&mdash;Sun God.</p><p>6&mdash;George Army is this for Providence Reds.</p><p>10&mdash;Hugh Bolton attended one.</p><p>11&mdash;Given name of Curlck,_ former Springfield forward.</p><p>12&mdash;Glen Sonmor injured one recently.</p><p>14&mdash;Behold!</p><p>15&mdash;Initials of Cushenan of Cleveland.</p><p>17&mdash;Initials of Reise, ex Red Wing.</p><p>18&mdash;American Press (abbr.)</p><p>20&mdash;Initials of Smith of Hershey.</p><p>22&mdash;Don McKenney was born in this month (abbr.)</p><p>23&mdash;Initials of Campeau, ex NHL player.</p><p>24&mdash;Arenas use this to announce scores (abbr.)</p><p>25&mdash;Rhode Island (abbr.)</p><p>26&mdash;Name given O&rsquo;Toole, Pittsburgh&rsquo;s trainer.</p><p>27&mdash;Short for first name of Canadiens&rsquo; trainer.</p><p>28&mdash;Native province of 3 down, (abbr.)</p><p>29&mdash;Ken Mosdell&rsquo;s nickname.</p><p>30&mdash;Tim Daly is noted for his ability to do this.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Coach of Springfield Indians.</p><p>2&mdash;Position played by Hershey&rsquo;s Norm Defelice.</p><p>3&mdash;AHL player whose nickname is Gino.</p><p>4&mdash;Bill Cowley played with this NHL club.</p><p>5&mdash;Short for given name of Hamilton, ex Leaf rearguard.</p><p>7&mdash;Artificial language.</p><p>8&mdash;First two letters of Iliad.</p><p>9&mdash;New England (abbr.)</p><p>13&mdash;Metro Prystai&rsquo;s birthplace.</p><p>16&mdash;3 down was born here.</p><p>19&mdash;One of the Pittsburgh Hornets.</p><p>21&mdash;WHL player known as Archie.</p><p>24&mdash;Maloney of Vancouver Canucks answers to this.</p><p>26&mdash;NHL club which holds record for least number of goals scored against it during a season, (abbr.)</p><p>27&mdash;Initials of an AHL coach.</p><h2><b>Solution to Last Week&rsquo;s Puzzle</b></h2><h3><b>Across</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Howe</p><p>3&mdash;Jane</p><p>6&mdash;H.L.</p><p>7&mdash;Montreal</p><p>12&mdash;Ernie</p><p>14&mdash;Dec.</p><p>15&mdash;Imp</p><p>17&mdash;Use</p><p>18&mdash;J.T.</p><p>19&mdash;Cat</p><p>20&mdash;E.S.</p><p>22&mdash;Mi.</p><p>23&mdash;Chess</p><p>26&mdash;E.S.</p><p>27&mdash;Fish</p><p>29&mdash;Morin</p><p>31&mdash;R.P.</p><p>32&mdash;Durnan</p><h3><b>Down</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Homeniuke</p><p>2&mdash;Winnipeg</p><p>3&mdash;Joe</p><p>4&mdash;NHL</p><p>5&mdash;E.L.</p><p>8&mdash;Or</p><p>9&mdash;T.I.</p><p>10&mdash;Re.</p><p>11&mdash;Aldo</p><p>13&mdash;Scottish</p><p>16&mdash;M.S.</p><p>18&mdash;James</p><p>21&mdash;Scoop</p><p>24&mdash;Enid</p><p>25&mdash;S.F.</p><p>28&mdash;Ian</p><p>29&mdash;M.R.</p><p>30&mdash;N.U..<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0019-01

Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<p class="dropcap"><span>H</span>ERSHEY,&mdash;Gordie &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Henry, goalie of the Hershey Bears, has been charged with involutary manslaughter following a coroner&rsquo;s inquest into the traffic accident which claimed the life; of his wife, Leone, 25, on January 18.</p><p>The coroner&rsquo;s jury found gross negligence on the part of the Bear cage guardian. Henry waived a preliminary hearing and posted $1,500 bail pending court action.</p><p>Henry and three other persons were injured in the head-on collision. &ldquo;Red&rdquo; spent five weeks in Hershey Hospital following the crash, recovering from a broken elbow and collarbone and cracked ribs.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02150/1369796-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="274" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Henry</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0019-02

Involuntary Manslaughter Rap Charged Against Gordie Henry

<h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE (Standing on March 7)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03112/1369841-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="590" height="188"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0494/1369834-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="589" height="290"></div><h2><b>EASTERN ONT. SR.</b></h2><p>(Best-of-seven semi-finals)</p><p>Wed. Mar. 2 Belleville 0 at Cornwall 10</p><p>Wed. Mar. 2 (*) Whitby 3 at Kingston 6</p><p>Fri. Mar. 4 (*) Cornwall 3 at Belleville 4</p><p>Sat. Mar. 5 Kingston 1 at Whitby 5</p><p>Sun. Mar. 6 Belleville 4 at Cornwall 1</p><p>Mon. Mar. 7 Whitby 3 at Kingston 7</p><p>Tues. Mar. 8 (*) Corn. 5 at Belleville 4 (* Overtime&mdash;Cornwall, Belleville Tied 2-2; Kingston Leads Series 2-1.)</p><h2><b>MARITIME SENIOR</b></h2><p>Moncton 4 New Glasgow 3</p><p>Moncton 5 New Glasgow 1</p><p>(Moncton leads best-of-seven final 2-0)</p><h2><b>NOHA SENIOR</b></h2><p>North Bay 5 Sault St. Marie 2</p><p>Sault St. Marie 2 North Bay 1</p><p>(Sault St. Marie (Ont.) wins best-of-seven final 4-3)</p><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR</b></h2><p>Quebec 2 Three Rivers 1</p><p>Three Rivers 6 Quebec 2</p><p>(Best-of-nine final series tied 1-1)</p><h2><b>EASTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><p>Washington 6 Baltimore 1</p><p>(Washington leads best-of-seven final 2-0)</p><h2><b>OHA SENIOR A</b></h2><p>Kitchener 4 Windsor 2</p><p>(Kitchener leads best-of-seven final 3-0)</p><h2><b>WESTERN JUNIOR</b></h2><p>Lethbridge 3 Regina 2</p><p>(Best-of-seven final tied 2-2)</p><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</b></h2><p>Prince Albert 7 Humboldt 1</p><p>(Humboldt leads best-of-seven final 3-1)</p><h2><b>OHA SENIOR B</b></h2><p>Kingston 5 Whitby 3</p><p>(Kingston leads best-of-seven semifinal 3-2)</p><p>Belleville 6 Cornwall 2</p><p>(Belleville wins best-of-seven semifinal 4-2)</p><p>Orillia 5 Stouffville 1</p><p>(Orillia leads best-of-seven final 2-0)</p><h2>LAKE ST. JOHN SENIOR</h2><p>Jonquiere 3 Alma 0</p><p>(Jonquiere wins best-of-seven semifinal 4-0).</p><p>Dolbeau 5 Bagotville 2</p><p>(Dolbeau wins best-of-seven semifinal 4-0)</p><h2><b>INTERCOLLEGIATE SENIOR</b></h2><p>(Standing on March 11)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0577/1369827-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="591" height="138"></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/c4-0262/1369886-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="244" height="299"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0163/1369893-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="236" height="282"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0360/1369879-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2846" height="1744"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0448/1369872-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2828" height="1662"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOSTON&rsquo;S Long John Henderson has disappeared from view in the top photo as he goes to his knees to make a save off the stick of Chicago&rsquo;s Johnny McCormack. Cal Gardner is skating McCormack out of the play while from left to right in the background looking on are Leo Boivin, Doug Mohns and Gus Mortson. In the lower picture, Chicago&rsquo;s Hank Bassen gets some help from Mortson as New York&rsquo;s Harry Howell attempts to stickhandle his way in for a close-in shot. McCormack checks Howell while Jerry Toppaz zini is in the background.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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March 19, 1955

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