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April 2, 1955

The Hockey News April 2, 1955

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><p class="dropcap"><span>F</span>loyd (Busher) Curry, Canadiens&rsquo; honest blocker, emerged as the individual hero of the first two games in Montreal. The Busher, as he&rsquo;s better known in Montreal, was &ldquo;in&rdquo; on four of the five goals Canadiens got in Montreal. He was a demon &ldquo;60-minute&rdquo; checker, killed penalties and fitted into the Rocket&rsquo;s right wing spot like a charm.</p><p>Jean Beliveau, quickly developing into one of the master craftsmen of the game, scored a picture goal in the second game that kept the fans buzzing for the rest of the evening. His victim was Long John Henderson. &ldquo;Gros Bill&rdquo; scooped-up a loose puck, circled the Boston defense and sailed in on Henderson. After zig-zagging three or four times, he autographed the puck then parked it behind Henderson. Butch Bouchard broke Turk Broda&rsquo;s playoff record. The big Hab rearguard celebrated his 103-d playoff game on Sunday night.</p><p>His record breaking game came on Thursday when he shattered Broda&rsquo;s 101 game record. It was quite an evening for Butch too. He wound up the game embattled with Boston&rsquo;s Fernie Flaman. The Flame pulled Butch&rsquo;s &lsquo;sweater over his head and the fight was on. Milt Schmidt had a few nice things to say about Beliveau in the Boston dressing room after the second game: Said Uncle Miltie: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s big fast, smart. What more could you ask for in a hockey player?&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01229/1280947-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="305" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Smith</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02175/1280940-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="272" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Wilson</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03132/1280933-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="288" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Rocket Richard</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0498/1280926-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="280" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption></div><p>Lome Ferguson twisted his wrist in the first game and missed the second. He was pressed into action in the third when Fleming Mackell reported to the Bruins&rsquo; dressing room with a temperature of 100.6. Both Lynn Patrick and Schmidt spoke in glowing terms of Norm Corcoran and Junior Wilson, the kids they promoted from Hershey for the series.</p><p>Bill Quackenbush, a wily veteran 6f 12 seasons in the NHL played bang-up hockey in both games in Montreal. Hal Laycoe, involved in the incident with Richard, was greeted with a chorus of Bronx cheers when he made his first appearance in Montreal. Some nit wits sprinkled the Bruins towels with pepper while they returned to the dressing room between periods.</p><p>Beliveau came up with a bad Charley horse during the second game and Bill Head, the Forum&rsquo;s physio-therapist applied a pressure bandage to the injured leg immediately after the game&hellip;Rocket Richard, went to New York with his wife after the first game but came right back. Said the Rocket, &ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t be away when the boys are in a Stanley Cup playoff.&rdquo;</p><p>Boston hockey writers were guests of Eddie Quinn, a Boston boy who hit the big time in Montreal as the town&rsquo;s No. 1, grappling impressario. Eddie, incidentally, owns a &ldquo;piece&rdquo; of the plush El Morocco night club, across the street from the Forum&hellip;No standing room was sold for either game in Montreal. Canadiens brought George McAvoy in from Penticton for the series since they were down to four defensemen. McAvoy, star of the Penticton V&rsquo;s, acquitted himself creditably against the Bruins in the third game.</p><p>Joy reigned supreme in Beantown following the Bruins 4-2 triumph in the third game. Milt Schmidt, who hadn&rsquo;t been too talkative following the first two games said: &ldquo;Everybody was a star out there tonight.&rdquo;-He had special praise for Hal Laycoe and Gus Bodnar, who handled the B&rsquo;s penalty-killing chores. Hal Cotton, the mild-mannered Boston scout opined that the series might go all the way now. &ldquo;They finally won one after losing nine straight playoff games to Canadiens,&rdquo; he said. A crowd of 13,909 was in the pews for this one. The first sellout at the Boston Gardens since Canadiens played here before last year in the playoffs&hellip;When Leo LaBine pumped home Boston&rsquo;s first goal it was his first in 17 games&mdash;14 league and three playoffs. The &ldquo;Gallery Gods&rdquo; presentd the Lion with a watch after the game.</p><p>George McAvoy made his first NHL appearance here. He played for the Boston Olympics in 1951-52&hellip;The Bruins wilted in the third period after setting a scorching pace in the first period in which they out-slammed and outscored Canadiens, 3-0.</p><p>Woody Dumart was a visitor to the Bruins&rsquo; dressing room after the game. Said Woody. &ldquo;I get more excited watching than I ever did playing.&rdquo; Leo Reise made a similar call to the Red Wing dressing room after the second game in Detroit. Leo finished his NHL career with the Rangers.</p><p>Ted Kennedy has been playing his heart out for the Leafs&hellip;Jimmy Thomson has been the boy who has tried to rally the Leafs&hellip;Dutch Reibel is the talk of the series</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0566/1280919-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="292" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don McKenney</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0649/1280912-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="278" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Henry</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0736/1280905-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="300" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Floyd Curry</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0829/1280898-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="300" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo Reise</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

STANLEY CUP PLAYOFF NOTES

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><h2><b>STATISTICS:</b></h2><p><b>Lou Fontinato</b></p><p>Born in Guelph, Ont., January 20, 1932. 6&rsquo;1&rdquo;, 185 lbs. Plays defense, shoots left. Played junior hockey with Guelph Biltmores. In 1952-53 joined Vancouver Canucks of the WHL. In the following season he spent some time with Saskatoon. Joined Rangers during the current campaign.</p><h2><b>SUPERSTITION&mdash;IF ANY:</b></h2><p>Is inclined to wear the same suit if his club is on winning streak.</p><h2><b>FAVORITE FOOD BEFORE A GAME:</b></h2><p>Steak.</p><h2><b>FAVORITE FOOD ANYTIME:</b></h2><p>Italian food.</p><h2><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE:</b></h2><p>Guelph, Ont.</p><h2><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</b></h2><p>Claims he is strictly a home town boy and seldom goes on trips.</p><h2><b>FAVORITE NHL CITY ON A ROAD GAME:</b></h2><p>Toronto.</p><h2><b>FAVORITE READING MATERIAL:</b></h2><p>Sports magazines.</p><h2><b>FAVORITE RECREATION:</b></h2><p>Fishing, which he does quite frequently during the summer, and golf, which he shoots between an 85 and 90.</p><h2><b>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:</b></h2><p>&ldquo;The Country Girl&rdquo;.</p><h2><b>BEST ACTRESSES:</b></h2><p>Jeanne Crain and Grace Kelly.</p><h2><b>BEST ACTORS:</b></h2><p>Broderick Crawford and Gregory Peck.</p><h2><b>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALIST:</b></h2><p>Jo Stafford.</p><h2><b>FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST:</b></h2><p>Tony Martin.</p><h2><b>FAVORITE POPULAR SONG:</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Count Your Blessings&rdquo;.</p><h2><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA:</b></h2><p>Guy Lombardo.</p><h2><b>FAVORITE TV PROGRAM:</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I Love Lucy&rdquo;.</p><h2><b>IN THE SUMMER:</b></h2><p>Returns to Guelph and works on a golf course.</p><h2><b>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY:</b></h2><p>Being a member of Guelph Biltmores when they won the Memorial Cup in 1950-51.</p><h2><b>TOUGHEST OPPOSING GOALTENDER:</b></h2><p>Says he isn&rsquo;t too well acquainted with netminders, but finds Harry Lumley difficult to score upon.</p><h2><b>TOUGHEST OPPOSING FORWARD:</b></h2><p>Ted Kennedy.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

INSIDE STUFF About Lou Fontinato

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01106/1282095-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY LUMLEY</b> of the Toronto Maple Leafs kicks out a dangerous shot as Detroit&rsquo;s &ldquo;One-Two&rdquo; scoring punch of Ted Lindsay and Earl (Dutch) Reibel converges on him. Larry Cahan, youthful Toronto player follows the flight of the puck. The Red Wings finally caught up with Lumley to take a 3-0 lead in the series.</figcaption></div><h2><b>Foiling Wings One-Two Punch</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Habs-Wings Play Up To Form

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;And try to say something good about us,&rdquo; a veteran Black Hawk pleaded the other day as he buckled his bags, moments before he hopped the train that carried him back to his Canadian home for another summer. &ldquo;Geez, we must have improved in some department!&rdquo;</p><p>After a few more words and that final handshake, he was on his way with his suggested topic for a story hanging heavy on our mind. Without any figures immediately at hand it appeared that this might be a challenge to end &rsquo;em all, but what a surprise was just ahead!</p><p>Yup, the Chicago hockey forces finished last in another National League schedule. Considerable elation was ours, however, when we mulled over final statistics and found that Coach Frank Eddolls warriors had actually improved over a year ago in just about every other imaginable department.</p><p>Taking things down the line&hellip;the 13 victories were one more than recorded in the 7019 53-54 games and the loss total dropped from 51 to 40 this season. Tie games increased from seven to a record 17. The previous high in Hawk history were the 15 deadlocks in 1942-43 and again in &rsquo;52-53.</p><p>With those 11 losses changed to an addition win and 10 more ties, the total in league points bounced up briskly from a dismal 31 to a more encouraging 43. Chicago finished in last spot by four and a half games this season as compared to a never threatening 18 and a half in 1953-54.</p><p>In the goals scored department there was a climb of 28 from 133 to 161. The schedule just concluded found the Black Hawks ahead of both Toronto and the Rangers in this vein while a year ago they were far to the rear of all the other league representatives.</p><p>The change in goals against was to a lesser extent, but it still represented an improvement. Al Rollins, Hank Bassen and Ray Frederick allowed 235 pucks to pass this time. Last spring NHL statisticians found that big Al, Jack Gelineau and Jean Marois had permitted 242 scores against the Hawks.</p><p>Despite all these points in favor, it&rsquo;s natural that General Manager Tommy Ivan and Eddolls are still far from satisfied with the results of the 70 games that have passed for the club that became their responsibility less than a year ago. Both have already considered many changes without a doubt.</p><p>At a luncheon which introduced him to the press last September Frank admitted that his goal&mdash;one of them, at least&mdash;would be to try like heck to cut down the goals against by 60 and add that number on the goals for column. Despite the peak number of changes, improvements just didn&rsquo;t reach such proportions.</p><p>Since the goals coming from the other direction slackened off just slightly, it is rather reasonable to suppose that measures to strengthen the club defensively will take precedent over moves toward acquiring more for the offense. Several names have already been mentioned.</p><p>Elmer Vasco is probably a name few Chicago fans have ever heard before now, but Eddolls is very high on the 18-year-old lad who has been skating with this monicker for the St. Catherines TeePees in Ontario Junior play. He is extremely well built for his age at six feet and two inches and 195 pounds.</p><p>&ldquo;Sure, he&rsquo;s young and is still eligible for further amateur play, but he can do everything well. He would probably make mistakes if we brought him right up next season, but he could still very likely help us,&rdquo; Frank has commented in appraisal. Don&rsquo;t be surprised if Elmer does make the big jump next fall.</p><p>The Chicago rearguard force seems sure to benefit from the expected return of the rugged Lee Fogolin who was sidelined most of the past season with a broken and distocated right elbow. He was injured thusly twice with the bones letting go the first time at training camp in a collision with two teammates.</p><p>The break appeared to be healing fine after surgery was required and Lee returned to action in November. He played in only nine games, however, when his luck and the elbow were fractured again. This time Dr. Myron Tremaine, club physician, and other doctors consulted agreed that a longer rest was needed.</p><p>The hard-hitting Fogolin was exceedingly disheartened by the inactivity, but left for home in a happier frame of mind at the end of the season when Tremaine pronounced the elbow in top shape and assurred the Hawks that Lee should be as good as new when the 1955-56 campaign arrives.</p><p>He and other past members of the Chicago defense may still have a real fight on their hands to stick with the club, however, since at least several others may be in the picture by the time Eddolls starts pre-season drills in September. Four names have been uttered so far.</p><p>One of the foremost is that of Benny Woit of Detroit who, of course, learned much of what he knows under Ivan during Tommy&rsquo;s long and successful tenure as Red Wing coach. The addition of young Larry Hillman to the Motor City crew&rsquo;s defense may well put Woit on the expendable list.</p><p>And still being mentioned&mdash;just as he has been in the past several years&mdash;is big Jim Macpherson who didn&rsquo;t see too much action with the Canadiens the past year. It is believed that the Hawks might stick winger Jack McIntyre out as bait to secure MacPherson in a deal.</p><p>Two chargers from Chicago&rsquo;s Buffalo farmhands in the American league should also get good chances to make the grade as Hawk defenders. They are Frank Sullivan, who was actually called up for one game the past season, and Pierre Pilote. Both are of the stocky and steady type.</p><p>While little has been said to date concerning additions for a better offense one guy Ivan may go after is Detroit&rsquo;s John Wilson, brother of Larry of the Hawks. John was used rather sparingly in the late stages of the past campaign and could be ripe for plucking.</p><p>Such a deal would please Larry Wilson no end. &ldquo;Gee, I wish I could play with my brother,&rdquo; he admitted freely the last night of he home season in Chicago. They climbed up the Detroit ladder together until Larry was secured by the Hawks in 1953. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll try to get him,&rdquo; Coach Eddolls has admitted.</p><p>While Chicago failed to climb in NHL ratings in Frank&rsquo;s freshman year as an NHL mentor it should be remembered that he&rsquo;s not one to give up easily. His first year as coach at Buffalo found the Bisons finishing last, but in the two seasons that followed the club dashed to league championships.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hawks Improve “Everywhere” Except In NHL Standings

<div class="byline">By Roger Barry</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Boston Bruins, with time, are marching on.</p><p>The Bruins have just completed the fourth season of their long-range reconstruction program.</p><p>For the fourth straight year their program has resulted in an improved team.</p><p>They finished the season with a better team than that with which they started it, and a better team than they had a year ago at the expiration of the regular schedule.</p><p>&ldquo;I feel honestly that we have made advances again this year,&rdquo; observed Lynn Patrick, the Bruins&rsquo; manager, &ldquo;and I say that while fully aware that we won fewer games this season than we did a year ago.</p><p>&ldquo;In my opinion we have a better team now than when we started last fall, and the best team we&rsquo;ve had since I came here five years ago.</p><p>&ldquo;Now, for the first time, we have a team whose nucleus is composed of young players, and that&rsquo;s the biggest hump which any team has to cross when it is rebuilding.</p><p>&ldquo;We lost our chance to match our record of a year ago in the first month of the season, when we got off to a slow start, and we had another slump in March.</p><p>&ldquo;But this year we have laid the groundwork for a strong, sound team,&rdquo; added Patrick, &ldquo;so I must consider it the most successful year we&rsquo;ve had in the past five.&rdquo;</p><p>Among the highlights of the Bruins&rsquo; season were these:</p><p>The acquisition of a promising young goal-tender in Long John Henderson, the huge 21-year-old.</p><p>The development of 23-year-old Leo LaBine into a full-fledged star at right wing.</p><p>The addition of 24-year-old Lorne Ferguson, a solid winger both offensively and defensively.</p><p>The unveiling of 22-year-old Donald McKenney, the slim rookie center with the knack of making goals.</p><p>The comeback of Real Chevrefils, an 18-goal scorer as a left wing only a season after sustaining a severe leg injury.</p><p>The acquisition of Leo Boivin, the 23-year-old defenseman with the thumping checks.</p><p>To carry some of Patrick&rsquo;s observations into the statistical field, the Bruins won 23 games this season as compared to 32 a year ago. On the other hand, they lost two fewer games this season than they did a year ago.</p><p>Last season they lost only three of their first 10 games, eventually coming in fourth. This season they won only one of their first 10, a get-away eventually responsible for another fourth place finish.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Time Marches On--So Do Bruins

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>After watching four of the first six National Hockey League Stanley Cup playoff games it&rsquo;s pretty obvious that Detroit and Canadiens, riding the crest of a terrific stretch surge, have maintained that edge in the playoffs.</p><p>Both these clubs have proven almost invincible on home ice this year so it stands to reason that they&rsquo;re going to be almost impossible to beat in the familiar confines of their home arenas during the playoffs.</p><p>The Red Wings have gone 20 games undefeated at home which is pretty much of a nut to crack for the Leafs.. Perhaps the oddest twist to this series, which had all the earmarks of being a low scoring series, was Detroit&rsquo;s shattering, 7-4 victory in the opening game.</p><p>The Leafs, renowned as the &ldquo;best defensive team&rdquo; in the National Hockey League for the most part of the 70-game schedule, were hardly considered the club most likely to give up seven goals in a single game&mdash;especially a Stanley Cup game.</p><p>How did it come about? We&rsquo;d hazard a guess that Detroit was still a little goal-happy from their 6-0 conquest of Canadiens in the last game of the season and their prosperity carried over.</p><p>Slamming seven goals past Harry Lumley is something no club has done all season. The Leafs, surprised in this one too by getting four goals, a somewhat unusual performance for them. If anything, the big difference in the. first three games of this series has been the Leafs lack of scoring punch. With the exception of Sid Smith, they just haven&rsquo;t produced a prolific scorer a la Reibel, or Lindsay.</p><p>One thing about this Detroit club. They have a team spirit that is virtually unmatched in the annals of the game. After trailing Canadiens up to the last game of the schedule, then finding themselves in possession of their seventh straight NHL title worked wonders with this club. A spirt of camaraderie exists that could very easily carry them to the title again.</p><p>The Canadiens-Boston series produced a surprise the first night when wily Dick Irvin came up with a &ldquo;mystery play&rdquo; calculated to unnerve the opposition. He called up young Charlie Hodge from the Royals of the Quebec Hockey League and alternated him in goals with Jacques Plante.</p><p>Irvin&rsquo;s theory was that it would take the pressure off Plante if he knew that he could skate to the bench for a breather every once in a while. In winning the first game 2-0 and the second 3-1 Canadiens looked good value for the favorite&rsquo;s role. They were solid favorites to take Boston and they played that way. However, after watching the first game and then seeing the Bruins bounce them 4-2 here in Boston, you get a completely different point of view. Not that Canadiens still aren&rsquo;t the same club. They have too much class for that. But the Bruins, with their backs squarely against the wall, suddenly snapped out of their lethargic state and played like the club their fans believed they were.</p><p>If they win Tuesday&rsquo;s game it might be a brand new series.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0275/1282150-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="284" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Lumley</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Red Wing Surge Gives ’em 3-0 Lead, Habs Roll

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-12" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-126/1280281-1-eng-US/f0002-122.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen Elmer Lach of Canadiens established a National Hockey League record for most assists in a Stanley Cup playoff. Lach assisted on 12 Montreal goals during the 1945.46 playoffs as the Canadiens defeated Chicago and Boston on their way to the Stanley Cup.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Do you remember?…

<div class="byline">Dann</div><p>Ted Lindsay refused to miss the &ldquo;kill&rdquo;.</p><p>The fiery little Red Wing captain came out of the hospital to play chief executioner in the happiest hockey slaughter it ever was Detroit&rsquo;s privilege to enjoy.</p><p>Lindsay fired a three-goal &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; while Terry Sawchuk posted a valuable shutout in the clutch 6-0 victory over Montreal which brought Detroit another National Hockey League title in the 70th and final game of the schedule.</p><p>It. was Lindsay&rsquo;s first appearance on ice in four games. He had re-injured the shoulder which sidelined him 14 games originally and it took fast talking for him to persuade Jack Adams even to get this chance.</p><p>Adams wanted to keep Lindsay out until the playoffs opened a few days later.</p><p>&ldquo;He wanted to play so badly that I gave in. But I figured on spotting him just enough to work up a sweat and also to bluff the Canadiens, who were bound to worry about a player like Lindsay. But how could I yank him when he kept scoring goals,&rdquo; Adams commented later.</p><p>As it was lindsay worked in a complicated leather and metal harness. It was designed after, the intial injury to protect his shoulder and everyone figures he was hurt the second time because he failed to wear the awkward rig in that particular game,</p><p>Lindsay got the lone counter of the first period, which provided the finest 20 minutes of action seen here all season. And he did it with some of the cleverest chicanery ever employed on local ice.</p><p>As he slowly and deliberately stickhandled down the middle to ward the blue line. Montreal players drifted back while waiting for him to pass off.</p><p>Suddenly Ted spurted, split Defensemen Tom Johnson and Butch Bouchard, and waltzed in for a 10-foot backhander at startled Jacques Plante.</p><p>That goal stood up as the winning, margin. To make sure, however, the Wings exploded for four more in the first seven minutes of the middle stanza. These came within 5.20; more important, they came in five shots at Plante.</p><p>grabbed a 3-2 triumph at home.</p><p>Again Sawchuk was an interested observor. The Toronto-New York contest got underway at 7 p.m. and Terry received bulletin reports before his own work against Montreal started in the crucial 70th game that bad the National League title at stake.</p><p>When Wings faced off against canadiens, Sawchuk knew that Harry Lumley&rsquo;s lead had been</p><p>Dutch Reibel clicked at 1.40, Tony Leswick at 3.24, Lindsay for No. 2 at 6.10 and Alex Delvecchio at 7.00.</p><p>Later in the stanza Lindsay completed his &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; and the final 23 minutes were scoreless.</p><p>Contrary to indications, Canadiens were not run out of the rink. Aside from Lindsay&rsquo;s clever starting goal, the rest of the tallies came from a pleasant blend of agressive and alert Detroit play, some unexpected errors by the Montreal defense and a good measure of luck.</p><p>Four of the six were scored while Montreal was shorthanded as the power-play weapon which served Canadiens so well during the season was turned against them with vengence.</p><p>Detroit carried a 35-27 shooting edge and was blessed with Sawchuk&rsquo;s far superior goaltending. And, most of all, the Wings had the poise, as was particularly evident in the fatal second-period sag when Montreal&rsquo;s title hopes collapsed in seven minutes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0915/1280250-1-eng-US/f0002-092.jpg" title="f0002-09" width="292" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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‘Terrible Ted’ Leaves Hospital To Be In On Kill

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>For the second year in a row the Vezina Trophy was decided on the final night of the season between Terry Sawchuk and Harry Lumley. And again the margin was a single goal.</p><p>This time Detroit&rsquo;s Sawchuk was the winner, 134 to 135, after Toronto&rsquo;s Lumley had broken his two-year hold the season before, 131 to 132.</p><p>Their usual duel offered a dramatic sidelight to the crucial closing games of the campaign. Lumley, who led through most of the season, appeared to have converted a two-goal lead into a safe margin when he blanked Chicago, 5 to 0, in the 69th game.</p><p>Sawchuk watched all this from 300 miles away via television since Detroit was idle that night.</p><p>The next night, however, Lumley got rougher treatment than expected when New York wiped out and that they were all even. A shutout then would clinch a share of the trophy and a matching $1,000 league bonus.</p><p>Terry had that shutout still alive when he learned that Harry Howell had dropped an extra goal behind Lumley. That was insurance margin which never was needed. Sawchuk kept the shutout going all the way for a 6-0 triumph.</p><p>The Olympia fans were as aware as Sawchuk to the importance of goals in that final game. It&rsquo;s fortunate that they were since some suspense thus remained in the final period of a game which reached the 5-0 stage before half completed.</p><p>And speaking of uncompleted games, Toronto forces were quick to claim that Sawchuk had an unfair advantage since Detroit&rsquo;s 69th game went only one period. That was the night of the riot when Montreal was forced to forfeit after Wings gained a 4-1 lead in the first period.</p><p>There also was some Maple Leaf talk about Sawchuk getting a break when Glen Hall filled in for him and allowed a total of only two goals in the two games he worked. But then Lumley got the same kind of support in Gil Mayer&rsquo;s one-game stand in relief.</p><p>No one disputes that these are the two finest goalies in the game today so as long as they can keep alternating with those $1,000 plums, no one can complain.</p><p>Sawchuk can point out a finer record for the games he worked by a fraction of a puck-&mdash;about a sliver off one edge. Allowing 132 goals in 68 games, he averaged 1.9413 to Lumley&rsquo;s 1.9420 for 134 goals in 69 games.</p><p>Terry&rsquo;s average is in line with his annual tallies of 1.98, 1.94, 1.90 and 1.92 in the four seasons since he replaced Lumley in the Detroit cage.</p><p>In 10 previous NHL seasons Lumley dropped below 2.0 only once, that when he batted 1.85 a year ago.</p><p>In the current season Sawchuk had a much better finish, just like his team did. He was charged with 69 goals in the first 35 games and 65 in the last 35 starts.</p><p>By comparison Lumley&rsquo;s were split 58-77 over the two portions.</p><p>It&rsquo;ll be interesting to note whether the All Star selectors give Sawchuk recognition for his superior work since Jan. 1.</p><p>In the chase for the Vezina, Lumley once was 12 goals ahead. That was Dec. 26, and on Feb. 18&mdash;about a month before the season ended&mdash;he still was nine goals in front.</p><p>Had he lost, Sawchuk could blame Boston for the whole mess.</p><p>Trips to that city were costly. He went into Boston in November with a three-goal lead and was drubbed, 6 to 2. By Feb. 3 he had pulled within a single goal of Lumley, 99 to 98, only to absorb an 8-4 trouncing.</p><p>Finally on Feb. 16, just after his mates had pounced on Lumley and the Leafs in a 6-1 spree to present him with a three-goal lead. Sawchuk lost it all in a 5-4 Detroit victory at Boston.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-109/1280219-1-eng-US/f0002-102.jpg" title="f0002-10" width="304" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Sawchuk</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-116/1280212-1-eng-US/f0002-112.jpg" title="f0002-11" width="290" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Lumley</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Vezina Kid Clinching Bid</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03128/1280205-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="1170" height="776"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Sawchuk&hellip;It Didn&rsquo;t Elude Him This Year!</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0002-10

Terry Grabs Vezina In Photo-Finish From Lum

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Never before have the tradition&mdash;steeped Stanley Cup playoffs been more of an anti climax than they are this spring.</p><p>Detroit already is hailing the greatest of its many championship hockey teams. Nothing that this Red Wing team does in the spring festival will top its lusty conquering surge of the final weeks of the regular National Hockey League season.</p><p>Discussion of that brilliant stretch drive, unmatched in NHL history, still overshadows the playoffs which are under way.</p><p>Detroit already has experienced the most thrilling developments possible in Stanley Cup action. Not just once, but twice. In 1950 and again last April playoff finals went to a decisive seventh game on local ice. Both games reached dramatic sudden-death overtime with the score tied and the Cup hanging on the next goal.</p><p>That&rsquo;s about the most that hockey can offer for sheer drama and exhausting emotion. Those were the most pressure-packed games in the long Cup history. Happily for the Wings and their fans, Detroit won both games to give the final extra touch to those spectacles.</p><p>Those two events ranked as the two outstanding highlights of the 28 years that Detroit has been offered professional hockey. The 1950 show rated as the No. 1 thrill because the 1954 development, while coveted even more since it was over arch-rival Montreal, still was a carbon copy of prior occurrence.</p><p>The No. 1 thrill, that is, until this year.</p><p>Now we have a new No. 1 all-time thrill in the Motor City.</p><p>Not just the impressive March 20 clutch victory over Montreal which finally determined the NHL title and kept the Prince of Wales Trophy &ldquo;at home&rdquo; in Detroit. That was only part of the real thrill.</p><p>Nor was it merely the statistical glamour of this being the seventh consecutive NHL title. That also was only part of it even though no team anywhere has won seven straight titles in a major sport.</p><p>Motor City sports fans are accustomed to sports titles of all kinds since Detroit long has billed itself as the City of Champions. But never have they had such a team to cheer as these current Red Wings, who simply refused to be beaten.</p><p>Time and again the Wings were counted out of the NHL title chase and finally it reached the point where their remaining chances were only mathematical. Yet they kept winning and winning and winning and finally cracked a fine Montreal club with this pressure.</p><p>The record book gives the details. In the last six weeks of the season (since Feb. 5), the Wings lost only one of the final 17 games. They didn&rsquo;t lose any of the last 12. And they won nine in a row at the end.</p><p>Every bit was necessary. Even after winning eight in a row, Detroit still could have lost the title final night of the season if it had so much as slipped to a tie.</p><p>The 6-0 final score against Montreal that night was just a special flourish.</p><p>The 1954-55 NHL crown&mdash;because of the way as it was earned&mdash;stands as the geratest of the 11 league championships and six Stanley Cup championships.</p><p>Throughout the drive there was no one dominant player nor distinct turning point. When seeking the whys and hows of it, however, these are some of the angles which rate strongly:</p><p>1&mdash;A constant criticism of the Detroit team through the first 50 games was its lack of hunger. It is easy for a team which has won six in a row to become complacent, and this was a complacent team.</p><p>Suddenly, their title fast disappearing Montreal-ward and chance for saving it all but gone, the Wings became hungry again.</p><p>2&mdash;Jimmy Skinner took over as the new coach when the season started. No man over was on a bigger spot. It&rsquo;s tough enough to take over any team without some hitches, not to mention a championship team with a flock of stars.</p><p>Since he inherited a title team, Skinner was expected to produce a winner. If he did, would get the credit; if he failed, he&rsquo;d get the blame.</p><p>Time was needed for Skinner to make adjustments and become accustomed to handling personalities, also for the players to become accustomed to Skinners. After an irregular start, they finally clicked.</p><p>That&rsquo;s why Jack Adams figures that Skinner is the coach of the year.</p><p>3&mdash;In the early stages of the campaign a few players like Bob Goldham, Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay and Marty Pavelich were sparking the team. Gradually others got into the mood.</p><p>Then Howe tailed off into his poorest season (still good by ordinary standards) and Lindsay was beset by injuries and suspension. Morale of the club reached its lowest points in years.</p><p>From time to time other players would take over briefly to give the club a spurt, Marcel Bonip making one such timely contribution for a stretch of games.</p><p>No man did more in the final two months than Dutch Reibel. Keeping pace with his improvement were Red Kelly and Marcel Pro-novost on defense and Terry Sawchuk in goal.</p><p>For the final drive, however, every regular came up with just about his peak work of the entire campaign with players like Alex Delvecchio, Glen Skov, Tony Leswick, Bill Dineen, Vic Stasiuk, Johnny Wilson and Benney Woit completing what must be recognized as a team effort.</p><p>By no stretch of imagination can anyone say that the Wings &ldquo;backed&rdquo; into the championship. Not when the Montreal team, which had led virtually all season, closed with nine victories, two ties and only three defeats in its last 14 games.</p><p>The three reversals came in the last four games and two of them were from Detroit. Painful as all this was to Canadien supporters, it still is understandable that any team would falter when such pressure is applied.</p><p>By such heroics, the Detroiters proved that titles never become boring if the methods have a special touch. Long after most of the events of this season have faded from memory, there&rsquo;ll often be mention of &ldquo;the year Detroit won the last nine in a row to clinch the title the final night.&rdquo;</p><p>Hockey history has a bright new chapter.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01152/1280136-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="308" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dutch Reibel</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02138/1280129-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="286" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Goldham</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03128/1280122-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="294" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0658/1280115-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="294" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0731/1280108-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="302" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marcel Pronovost</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0819/1280101-1-eng-US/f0002-082.jpg" title="f0002-08" width="274" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Wilson</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0002-01

Dramatic Drive Clinches Wings’ 7th Title

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>When did Detroit Red Wings win the 1954-55 National Hockey League championship?</p><p>The obvious answer is that Wings took the title with a 6-0 victory over Montreal on the 20th of March in the 70th and final game of the schedule. Wings had to win to beat out canadiens, who could have clinched the championship themselves with just a tie.</p><p>But you can also point out some other dates which were decisive like Jan. 6 or Jan. 15 or Feb. 12.</p><p>First, you must study the season results by Detroit and Montreal against their rivals. Here are the figures.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0581/1280174-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="586" height="654"></div><p>Looking over the chart, you&rsquo;ll notice that they Split their own series with seven victories each. They also prospered equally with 25 points against Chicago and 21 against New York.</p><p>Detroit got its entire margin with an extra point from Boston and another from Toronto.</p><p>In the Bruins&rsquo; series Detroit had one more tie, one less defeat than Montreal. That result came unexpectedly on Jan. 6 when the Wings salvaged a 3-3 tie with Boston on Marty Pavelich&rsquo;s goal at 15.53 of the third period.</p><p>In the Toronto series the Wings had one more victory, one less tie than Montreal. An apparent tie was turned into just such a victory Feb. 12 when Dutch Reibel broke a 1-1 deadlock for a 2-1 triumph at 7.22 of the final stanza.</p><p>Of all the 70 games, however, the one contest when the Wings collected unexpected points was on Jan. 15 in Montreal.</p><p>Canadiens held a 3.0 lead late in the second period. Then Gordie Howe scored twice, Pavelich tied it 3-all at 13.21 of the third period and Marcel Bonin produced the winning goal, 4 to 3, at 14.14.</p><p>Despite all those, it took the 70th game to swing the balance.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04104/1280167-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="298" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marcel Bonin</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0002-05

“Extra” Point Over Leafs, B’s Gave W’s Title

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01151/1280312-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EARL (Dutch) REIBEL</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Let&rsquo;s talk about hot-and-cold hockey players and use Earl (Dutch) Reibel as our example.</p><p>Exactly one year ago Reibel entered the Stanley Cup playoffs riding the Detroit Red Wing bench as a puzzling freshman failure.</p><p>This season he hit the spring festival riding a scoring streak Instead. The sizzling sophomore had been the key figure in Detroit&rsquo;s late drive to another National Hockey League championship.</p><p>It was a big switch for the Kitchener youngster who went from (!) to (?) in one season and then, just as surprisingly, went from (?) to (!) the next season.</p><p>As even the Montreal fans know, Detroit retained its title by winning the last nine games of the schedule. In that tremendous stretch drive Reibel was the pacesetter with 21 points on eight goals and 13 assists.</p><p>In the last four games, when the pressure was the greatest, he made seven goals and seven assists.</p><p>With such a blazing finish the easy-going player Jack Adams refers to as The Dutchman pulled into fourth place in the final standings of the NHL individual scoring race. He had a total of 66 points to 75 by title-winning Bernie Geoffrion.</p><p>Once the playoffs opened he acted as if he was still trying to catch Geoffrion. Dutch clicked for three points in Detroit&rsquo;s opening 7-4 decision over Toronto. Two were goals.</p><p>That made a total of nine goals and eight assists in five successive games for Reibel, giving him a hand in 17 of the team&rsquo;s 28 goals over that fat span.</p><p>Which brings up the next question:</p><p>If Reibel is that good, where&rsquo;s he been all season?</p><p>The answer:</p><p>Moving up, slowly, after a poor start. Which is exactly the opposite of what happened last year when he made a whirlwind start and then tapered off to a shadow.</p><p>Dutch set some sort of a rookie record a year ago by assisting on four goals in his first NHL game. A few weeks later he had shared on 17 of Detroit&rsquo;s first 23 goals. No player had made a fancier debut in many seasons.</p><p>But dreary days were ahead. After 39 points (14-25) in the first 50 games, he made only nine (1-8) in the last 20 starts. Jack Adams ordered him benched and there Reibel stayed until midway in the playoffs when he finally got a chance on a new power-play crew.</p><p>When Dutch scored in the first game of the Montreal series last April, it marked his first goal in <b>24</b>games.</p><p>This year he carefully switched the plot by dragging away to a slow start. After 20 games he had 10 points (3-7) and at the midway mark of the campaign was 21st in NHL scoring with 18 points (8-10).</p><p>Then came his second-half spurt for 48 points (17-31).</p><p>That performance was the major single factor in Detroit repeating as champion, but it won&rsquo;t win him much attention when it Comes to the Hart Trophy balloting for the NHL&rsquo;s most valuable player.</p><p>The way the boys peddle that trophy, these days it goes to some sentimental choice. Just being the most valuable player on the team Which makes the greatest winning surge in NHL history won&rsquo;t rate Reibel much more than honorable mention.</p><p>There are those who scoff at Reibel&rsquo;s scoring, calling many of his points &ldquo;automatic&rdquo; since he skates the line with Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay.</p><p>That&rsquo;s the old-fashioned way of looking at it.</p><p>This season Reibel was the &ldquo;big&rdquo; man of the crew. He finished with more points than Howe (66 to 62) to mark the first time in six seasons anyone has managed that on the Detroit team, and he finished with more goals (25 to 19) than Lindsay, who missed 21 games through injuries and suspension.</p><p>No doubt about it, however, Dutch is the best thing they&rsquo;ve found for a flavorsome Howe-Lindsay sandwich since Sid Abel departed. A flock of other players were tried in between them, but none clicked like Reibel.</p><p>If Reibel ends the hot-and-cold stuff and maintains a strong pace for an entire season, he could become an NHL scoring champ before long. Call him the No. 1 choice for next season and it may not be a bad prediction.</p><p>He already has won three league scoring crowns en route to the big time. First was with the Kitchener Greenshirts in the OHA Junior B in 1948-49. The next year he paced OHA Junior A at Windsor with 129 points (52-77).</p><p>A broken ankle benched him for 11 weeks as a rookie pro at Omaha in the United States League the next year, but he managed 38 points (13-25) in 32 games. On he moved to the American League at Indianapolis, finishing sixth in scoring with 67 points (33-34) while winning top-rookie honors.</p><p>His third title came in 195253 when he counted 90 points (34-56) for Edmonton to lead the Western League.</p><p>Playing in six different leagues in six years, Reibel is accustomed to mention as a hot rookie prospect. Now for the first time he&rsquo;s getting raves as a sophomore performer. If he can keep it up, this is nothing to the what they&rsquo;ll be saying about the chunky Dutchman when he becomes a veteran star.</p><p>The Hart Trophy (most valuable) and the Ross Trophy (leading scorer) should carry his name one of these days. And while you&rsquo;re at it, add the Lady Byng Trophy, too (most sportsmanlike). He had only 15 minutes in penalties all season.</p><h2><b>The Earl Of Detroit</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

f0003-01

Hot-And-Cold Dutchman Sizzles In Red Wings Torrid Title Drive

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Bob Goldham was on 24-hour duty all season on the personal project of helping Dutch Reibel&rsquo;s development as a player.</p><p>For the first time since he. joined Detroit, Goldham didn&rsquo;t move his family here this season. As a result, he was looking for a roommate among the club&rsquo;s bachelors and teamed up with Reibel while in training camp.</p><p>Jack Adams insists that Reibel has matured in his thinking in recent months and believes that Goldham, the team&rsquo;s &ldquo;old pro,&rdquo; is strongly responsible.</p><p>Local hockey writers took recognition of this theory, holding that his effect on Reibel was one of the reasons why Goldham should be ranked Detroit&rsquo;s most valuable player this season.</p><p>Dutch agrees.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve talked more hockey away from the rink this season than ever before,&rdquo; he points out. &ldquo;Bob has done me a world of good with his advice and comments at home.&rdquo;</p><p>Goldham isn&rsquo;t so sure.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m the worrying type and nobody can brood very long when he&rsquo;s around Reibel,&rdquo; Bob claims. &ldquo;I think he&rsquo;s had more effect on me than I have on him.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell you one thing&mdash;Dutch never will have ulcers. You never can tell from the way he acts afterward whether he has played a good game or a bad game. Nothing bothers him. I&rsquo;ve never known anybody like him. He&rsquo;s relaxed all the time. He&rsquo;s like Gordie Howe.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Goldham Aided Dutchman Develop

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>There were moments in the final weeks of the NHL schedule that the Toronto Maple Leafs played like expectant fathers. At a nervously erratic pace they jittered and jostled to a miserable record of two wins in their final 15 pre-playoff starts.</p><p>Yet perhaps this was only fitting because a new generation of Leafs was coming into being in those games. And Leaf President Conn Smythe appraised them as the reason Toronto is in a healthier state today than it has ever been.</p><p>&ldquo;We have good young prospects everywhere,&rdquo; said the Little Pistol when he returned from his Florida vacation to join Leafs in New York for their last pre-playoff game.</p><p>&ldquo;Some people have tried to tell me there aren&rsquo;t as many good young players around as there were in the old days. I say there are more. We&rsquo;re in good shape for the future.&rdquo;</p><p>It was a cross-section of these budding stars that helped the injury-riddled Leafs retain third place in the face of Boston Bruins&rsquo; strong challenge in those final games. Helped them with two important ties against Montreal and another with Detroit.</p><p>When Eric Nesterenko was sidelined for three weeks by Ranger Bill Ezinicki&rsquo;s bonecrushing body check, Marlboro junior Gerry James, Pittsburgh right winger Gerry Foley and St. Michael&rsquo;s College junior Dickie Duff all had their opportunities to make NHL debuts.</p><p>Then when Rudy Migay became ill with an infected glandular condition, Duff got a further tryout and so did Paul Knox, right winger of the Intercollegiate champion Varsity Blues and author of 12 goals in 12 games.</p><p>The loss of right winger Tod Sloan with a sprained ankle for 10 days resulted in tryouts for Knox&rsquo;s linemate, Dave Reid, he scored 17 goals in 12 ivy league games, and for Pittsburgh forwards Bob Bailey and Ray Timgren.</p><p>And finally the loss of Tim Horton for the final week of the schedule and all of the playoffs with a leg broken in two placed and a fractured jaw, brought Pittsburgh defenseman Marc Rheaume into the big league.</p><p>None of the eight farmhands hurt the Leafs in the least through that stretch run and most of them contributed more than the regulars. Reaume, for instance, showed such a talent for lugging the puck out of his own end, through anybody he couldn&rsquo;t get around, that Leafs retained him as Horton&rsquo;s replacement for the Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>Bailey was just as successful centring an aggressive attack the night Leafs clinched third place with a 5-0 triumph from Chicago. So he too was kept to replace Migay, whose ailment sidelined him for the opening games of the Stanley Cup showdown.</p><p>Even amateur Dick Duff was good enough to turn pro. He didn&rsquo;t, but Leafs kept him with them through the playoffs so that he should be exposed to the playoff hockey they expect he&rsquo;ll see a lot of in future seasons.</p><p>&ldquo;We have the best reserves in the business,&rdquo; said Smythe. &ldquo;Pittsburgh Hornets won the American League championship didn&rsquo;t they? That must prove they are the best in the best minor league, so we couldn&rsquo;t ask for more than that.&rdquo;</p><p>Smythe opines that the NHL&rsquo;s new protected list legislation has had a lot to do with bettering the quality of American League players and tightening the competition.</p><p>&ldquo;Before we reduced the number of protected players by each NHL club to 18, there were a lot of big leaguers playing on one or two of the American League teams,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;With that advantage those teams could run away with the titles.</p><p>&ldquo;Now we have the big leaguers up where they belong because a club that can&rsquo;t use them has to let another NHL club have a crack at them. And the minor league now has good minor leaguers, and good young prospects on the way up.</p><p>&ldquo;As a result they&rsquo;re getting better competition and better opportunities to climb.&rdquo;</p><p>AHL publicist Jim Ellery agrees with that 100 per cent.</p><p>&ldquo;I hear some of the NHL cities would like to have smaller rinks so they wouldn&rsquo;t have so many empty seats,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Heck, we&rsquo;ll take the rinks. We&rsquo;ve been looking for bigger ones because we haven&rsquo;t enough seats in our rinks this year, the race has been so good.&rdquo;</p><p>Incidentals&hellip;Pained by recurrence of the back ailment he suffered by a World War II wound, Smythe was obliged to miss the opener of the Stanley cup playoffs&hellip;He returned to Toronto after joining the team in New York for the final game of the schedule&hellip;James has forgone the offer of a pro hockey contract next year by signing already with Winnipeg&rsquo;s football Blue Bombers&hellip;But Leaf General Manager Hap Day says he&rsquo;ll get another In the future and James says he may yet switch to hockey after next year.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02126/1280374-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="304" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tod Sloan</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0387/1280367-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="288" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eric Nesterenko</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0003-02

2 Wins In 15 Pre-Playoff Tilts Doesn’t Bother Toronto Leafs, They’re Busy Developing Stars

<div class="byline">By PAUL G. SULLIVAN</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>P</span>ITTSBURGH</b>&mdash;The task of naming a hockey circuit&rsquo;s &ldquo;Most Valuable Player&rdquo; is fraught, necessarily, with the hazards of individual judgment and the often misleading trickery of record figures.</p><p>The American League season has certainly front-centered customary quota of hot performers&mdash;and about the only thing sure concerning the outcome of the MVP selecting bee is that the 1954 winner won&rsquo;t repeat. Hershey&rsquo;s redoubtable Red Sullivan, who walked away with both Most Valuable and top point scoring honors a year ago, is currently a candidate for National League laurel&rsquo;s as chief threat of the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>Every AHL entry boasts a stickman or two or more worthy of consideration for the Les Cunningham Trophy, symbol of prime individual honors of the loop. Here in Pittsburgh, for example, Capt. Frank Mathers, goalkeeper Gil (The Needle) Mayer, and center Willie (The Whip) Marshall, lone 20-goal man of Howie Meeker&rsquo;s low-scoring, tight-defense outfit hop readily to mind.</p><p>But how can Springfield&rsquo;s pistol-toting Ross Lowe, Walt Atanas, Jim Anderson, and Graham Hastings&mdash;not to mention backfield ace Hugh Currie&mdash;be bluffed off? Nor are sparkplug Arnie Kullman and sharpshooting left winger Obie O&rsquo;Brien of Hershey to be overlooked.</p><p>Any member of Cleveland&rsquo;s mighty Olson-Gordon-Glover line rates serious thought by the balloteers. How brash would one have to be to dismiss lightly the claim of veteran Eddie Olson, master of the tip-in and leader of the American field in both total goals and total pointe?</p><p>Meanwhile Buffalo offers brilliant Kenny Wharram, bracketed with Lowe for distinction as most successful of AHL offensive pivots&mdash;and the Bisons likewise flash Eddie Slowinski and Dick Gamblbe, potent forwards, as well as power-driving defenseman Frank Sullivan, who has sprouted new excellence since transferring from Pittsburgh to the Buffs.</p><p>Even last place Providence owns impressive favorites in Topper Toppazzini and Paul Larivee. Who can say how much higher these already loftily situated stickmen would have soared with the help of a physically sound supporting cast?</p><p>From the four corners, as the lawyers put it, our personal nomination goes to Frank Mathers. Ingredients in the decision include leadership, intelligence, and those qualities of character generally constituting a contestant &ldquo;a credit to the game,&rdquo; plus such important mechanical assets as ability to check, skate, stickhandle, set up plays, and shoot dangerously from outside and inside. In our book, Mathers has what it takes to gain a defenseman, too frequently the unoticed workhorse of the squad, the nod this year over the unquestioned stars of the more spotlighted posts.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

AHL Sprouts Many Candidates For Coveted MVP Award

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01222/1280429-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANKIE EDDOLLS</b>(left) now coach of the Chicago Black Hawks, was honored recently in Buffalo where Ken McKenzie, co-publisher of THE HOCKEY NEWS presented him with THE HOCKEY NEWS AWARD as the outsanding coach of 1954. Frankie won the award while piloting the Buffalo Bisons to first place in the American Hockey League after the club had finished a dismal last the previous season.</figcaption></div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Hershey will have a winning team in 1955-56.</p><p>That&rsquo;s the word from John B. Sollenberger, president of the Hershey Estates, which operate the Hershey entry in the American Hockey League.</p><p>Speaking at the Winter meeting of the Hershey Hockey Writers and Sportscasters Association, Mr. Sollenberger revealed that he had told Lloyd Blinco, the Bears&rsquo; general manager, to &ldquo;go out and buy the kind of talent we need to give the fans a winner.&rdquo;</p><p>Mr. Sollenberger, who was the Bears&rsquo; manager before his elevation to his present post, explained that he was deeply appreciative of the support given the Bears at the box office, and indicated he wanted to show his appreciation by giving them a winner.</p><p>Hershey, incidentally, drew 178,748 customers over the 32-game schedule. A year ago 165,952 persons passed through the turnstiles, this for 35 games. Thus, in three less games, the Bears boosted their attendance by nearly 15,000 persons.</p><p>The Bears have only missed the charmed playoff circle twice in seventeen years of AHL competition. And this year, while they failed to qualify, they were only two points off the pace set by the second, third and fourth place clubs.</p><p>It was disappointing for Murray Henderson, the Bears&rsquo; coach, who qualified for the CCalder Cup competition for two seasons before, but the genial Bear mentor took some consolation in the fact that the Cleveland Plain Dealer poll named him &ldquo;coach of the year&rdquo; in the AHL. It was a nice tribute from the AHL players who annually cast their ballots for the Plain Dealer&rsquo;s All-Star poll.</p><p>But, come next season, Henderson, whose present contract has a year to run, will be back at the same old stand, fortified with the knowledge that his superiors will give him the tools with which to fashion a Calder Cup contender.</p><h2><b>An Honor For Frankie</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Blinco Gets OK To “Buy” Talent For 55-56 Bears

<div class="byline">By JACK MORRIGAN</div><p>Buffalo, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Question Gaye Stewart, last year&rsquo;s American League All-Star left winger, about who should receive the honor this year and he&rsquo;ll invariably shoot a question back in reply.</p><p>&ldquo;Is there really a contest in anyone&rsquo;s mind?&rdquo; the Buffalo coach asks &ldquo;I know that Eddie Olson of Cleveland and Jim Anderson of Springfield have had fine years. But neither of these fellows nor anyone else can hold a candle to Dickie Gamble.</p><p>&ldquo;The only reason Gamble isn&rsquo;t the leading goal scorer in the league is that he didn&rsquo;t come to Buffalo from Chicago until November 25th&hellip;that gave everyone else a head start that no one could overcome but still doesn&rsquo;t detract from Gamble&rsquo;s proven ability.&rdquo;</p><p>Stewart pointed out that in 40 games, Gamble scored 27 goals and 19 assists for 46 points.</p><p>&ldquo;The other players in the league who have that many points have played in anywhere from 16 to 20 games more than Gamble,&rdquo; Stewart added.</p><p>&ldquo;While Dickie is a fine goal scorer&mdash;the best individual scorer in the league for my money&mdash;his value doesn&rsquo;t end there.</p><p>&ldquo;He has been one of the most consistent performers in the league at killing penalties&hellip;a chore that most good point makers don&rsquo;t relish as it takes away from their available time on the ice when their club is at full strength or at a man advantage.</p><p>&ldquo;Another think I&rsquo;d like to point out is that Gamble doesn&rsquo;t get any preferential treatment by being used heavily on the power play.&rdquo; the Buffalo coach injected. &ldquo;We use all three of our lines when the opposition has a man in the penalty box and so Dick hasn&rsquo;t been blessed with a lot of points gained when we were a man up as has Olson.</p><p>Gamble, who admits to having been &ldquo;a bit downhearted&rdquo; when he was dispatched to Buffalo by Chicago, believes his goal production would be even greater if he hadn&rsquo;t hit a slump.</p><p>&ldquo;I had a five game stretch a month or so back when I didn&rsquo;t score a single goal and that hurt my chances of getting up to around 35 goals for the two-thirds of the season I&rsquo;ve been in the league,&rdquo; Gamble explained.</p><p>&ldquo;Richard the Rifle&rdquo; has been a prolific scorer since he began chasing pucks around the outdoor rinks in his native Moncton, New Brunswick, as a shaggy-haired youngster.</p><p>Always on the tall, slender side, Gamble was only 16 when he played his first year of junior with the Moncton Bruins in 1944-45, a team which won the Maritime Junior A championship.</p><p>The following season he also spent with the Bruins and was called up by the Halifax club for a couple of playoff games against Ottawa.</p><p>&ldquo;I distinguished myself in those games by doing absolutely nothing,&rdquo; he grinned.</p><p>From Moncton, Gamble moved to the Oshawa Generals of the OJHA for the 1946-47 campaign and played on the team that included such current pro players as Buffalo teammates Frank Sullivan, Chuck and Dusty Blair, and Baldy MacKay, Ray Ceresino, and Ike Hildebrand.</p><p>That year and the following season, Gamble led the Generals in goal getting, hitting for 31 scores the first year and 39 the next.</p><p>Toronto, the NHL club to whom he belonged, however, &ldquo;lost interest in me and I became a free agent.&rdquo;</p><p>Then came the break which Gamble considers the &ldquo;turning point in my career up to now.&rdquo;</p><p>He advanced to the roster of the Quebec Aces in what was then the Quebec Senior League. During his initial year under Punch Imlach&rsquo;s coaching, Dick Gamble showed enough potential that the Montreal Canadins became interested in him and Mickey Hennessey was dispatched to scout him. Eventually, Gamble signed a B form with Montreal.</p><p>&ldquo;Things just seemed to go right for me in Quebec,&rdquo; Gamble prefaced. &ldquo;In the 1950-51 season I scored 46 goals, a league record, until a guy named (Jean) Beliveau came along. But, nevertheless, It served to earn me a chance with the Canadiens.&rdquo;</p><p>Gamble&rsquo;s freshman year with Montreal was the year of the big rookie rush with Canadiens as Bernie Geoffrion, Paul Meger, Dickie Moore, Dollard St. Laurent, and Gamble all broke in during that campaign.</p><p>Gamble was right up among the leaders when the votes were tabulated for &ldquo;Rookie of the Year&rdquo; honors. He bagged 23 goals and 17 assists for 40 points in 64 games.</p><p>However, the following season the &ldquo;sophomore jinx&rdquo; hit home and he slumped to 11 goals. Last year he divided the season between the Canadiens and Montreal Royals&mdash;&ldquo;but just didn&rsquo;t seem to do the right things even when I was scoring for the Royals (he had 20 goals in 32 games).&rdquo;</p><p>Gamble moved to Chicago this year after a short stay with the New York Rangers in training camp but again he failed to hit his normal stride.</p><p>&ldquo;It started poorly with Chicago and then began to press as I worried more about my check scoring than getting goals myself,&rdquo; he explained matter-of-factly. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not trying to make up any alibi but I think I&rsquo;m capable of playing in the National League&hellip;and hope I get another chance.&rdquo;</p><p>Off his performance with Buffalo, Richard Frank Gamble certainly rates it if anyone in the AHL does.</p><h2><b><i>Clicks For Gaye</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02200/1280460-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="558" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICK GAMBLE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Stewart Boosts Gamble For All-Star LW Post

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Dick Irvin, Habs&rsquo; wily and windy coach, established a precedent in playoff hockey when he introduced the two platoon system of goalkeeping to the semi-final series against the Boston Bruins.</p><p>In the first game of the set, the acrobatic Jacques Plante and the coolly methodical Charlie Hodge blanked the Boston forces2-0. In the second game, they won 3-1.</p><p>The Canadien move was clothed in mystery until its execution. On the way back from Detroit, where the Habs lost the deciding game of the championship race 6-0, the coach told newsmen, &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll see something on Tuesday night that has never been seen in a cup series before.&rdquo; He refused to elaborate.</p><p>Irvin&rsquo;s strategy was received without much enthusiasm by the Montreal press. The Herald wrote: &ldquo;The use of two netminders was Irvin&rsquo;s heralded surprise but it is rather difficult to appreciate why he had to surround his decision with an aura of deep mystery.&rdquo;</p><p>Baz O&rsquo;Meara in the Montreal Star said: &ldquo;Irvin&rsquo;s mystery was somewhat of a damp squib,&rdquo; and Andy O&rsquo;Brien said that the rotation plan would contribute more to nervous tension than &ldquo;the easing of same&rdquo; among goaltenders. It is plain to see that his plan to alternate goalies, even though it was successful, didn&rsquo;t meet with much enthusiasm in the press. The Boston brass didn&rsquo;t think much of it either.</p><p>Said general manager Lynn Patrick: &ldquo;It isn&rsquo;t here to stay. It might work for one or two games but over the long haul&mdash;never. It&rsquo;s going to backfire sooner or later and I want to be around to see it.&rdquo;</p><p>Said Coach Milt Schmidt: &ldquo;Why shouldn&rsquo;t Plante and Hodge have got a shutout? With the amount of work our boys gave them in the first two periods, Irvin could have gone in there himself and collared us.&rdquo;</p><p>Although a departure in playoffs, Irvin alternated goalies once before&mdash;on March 15, 1941, in a regular league game. Bert Gardiner and Paul Bibeault combined to blank the New York Americans 6-0. Now if the idea was so good, why did Irvin wait 14 years to try it again?</p><p>There have been two other cases as well, both involving the New York Rangers. On Nov. 24, 1945, Frank Boucher alternated Chuck Rayner and Sugar Jim Henry in a game in Toronto. Each allowed two goals, Jackie Hamilton scoring Toronto&rsquo;s winning goal in a 4-3 game against Rayner.</p><p>A week later, in Montreal, Rayner and Henry alternated again but this time the decision was prompted by an injury. Henry started the game and the Rangers were leading 1-0 on a goal by Grant Warwick when Henry twisted his knee. Rayner replaced him and allowed three goals. So back came Henry to finish the game, injured knee and all.</p><h2><b>Changing&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01172/1280498-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="562" height="894"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACQUES PLANTE</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;Goalies</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02151/1280491-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="579" height="893"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CHARLIE HODGE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Irvin’s “Mystery Move” Gets Cool Reception

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The playoff set between the Canadiens and the Boston Bruins might be called quite aptly the salt and pepper series. Coach Dick Irvin of the Habs is pouring salt into the Bruins&rsquo; wounds with biting remarks and the Montreal fans have been dousing the Bruins&rsquo; towels with pepper, a novel weapon of dubious value in a hockey game.</p><p>What kind of lunatics are they anyway? Has sportsmanship no meaning any more? Answer that for yourself.</p><p>Between the first and second periods of the opening game, when the unsuspecting Bruins were in their dressing room, some fans sprinkled the pepper on the towels which had been left hanging on the back of the bench. Hal Laycoe noticed it first.</p><p>&ldquo;I picked up a towel to wipe my face,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and saw brown specks on it. I sniffed. Sure enough, pepper. We examined every towel and found that they were all similarly treated.&rdquo;</p><p>Laycoe, who was involved with Maurice Richard in the Boston brawl that led to the Rocket&rsquo;s suspension, was amazed by the volume of booing directed at him in the first game and by the bitter diatribes hurled into his ears by people behind the Boston bench.</p><p>&ldquo;I expected something.&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;But not as much as that. It&rsquo;s hard to believe that fans who used to cheer for me&mdash;and I always gave my best when I played for the Canadiens&mdash;could turn against me so quickly. One woman even called me a name you could not. print.&rdquo;</p><p>Laycoe played for the Habs for two seasons and was the individual star of the 1948-49 playoff series against Detroit.</p><p>&ldquo;Fans are fickle,&rdquo; agreed Bill Quackenbush. &ldquo;Not just in Montreal but everywhere. I played six years in Detroit and won the Lady Byng Trophy there. Shortly after I went to Boston, the Bruins were playing the Red Wings in the Olympia and the Detroit fans booed me incessantly for talking back to a referee. Just change your uniform and you&rsquo;re no longer a hero&mdash;you&rsquo;re a bum.&rdquo;</p><p>The other day, Laycoe&rsquo;s mother telephoned him from Saskatchewan. &ldquo;Son,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;give up the game. It&rsquo;s not worth it.&rdquo;</p><p>Hal plays hockey because he likes the game. &ldquo;I must like it,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;to endure the physical punishment. I&rsquo;ve had 150 stitches in my face and head. And do you know who has given me a lot of them? You&rsquo;ll never guess. Bill Mosienko of the Black Hawks. He&rsquo;s just a little squirt. But careless with his stick&mdash;wow! How he ever won the Byng Trophy, I&rsquo;ll never know.&rdquo;</p><p>Laycoe suggested that every time a man is stitched as a result of an injury in a hockey game, the name of the culprit be appended to the referee&rsquo;s report. The league would soon become aware, he contended, that it is always the same players who swing their sticks and inflict injuries.</p><p>The Rocket, according to Laycoe, isn&rsquo;t a dirty player. &ldquo;He really isn&rsquo;t. And I say that in all sincerity despite our fuss in Boston. Generally he sticks to business on the ice. He doesn&rsquo;t carry his stick high and he doesn&rsquo;t go looking for trouble. But when something occurs to rile him he blows up. He loses his temper and goes berserk.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03118/1280536-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="284" height="500"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0494/1280529-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="290" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hal Laycoe</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bruins Wrinkle Noses Grim Joke, As Fans Douses Towels With Pepper

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Prince Charles soon will get a custom made Canadien hockey uniform, just his size, and a note from Normand Richard, four-year-old son of Montreal&rsquo;s Rocket. The note will express the youngster&rsquo;s hope that the two of them some day will play for the Canadiens in the National Hockey League.</p><p>In making the announcement Frank J. Selke, managing director of the Habs, said that the uniform and the note will be sent to London along with the gold-encased puck with which Rocket scored his 400 th NHL goal. Since then he has run his output to 422, highest in the history of the league.</p><p>The puck will go to Queen Elizabeth, fulfilling a promise made in 1950 when she attended a game at the Forum between the Canadiens and the New York Rangers. As Princess Elizabeth then, she was on a Royal Tour with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, himself a keen sportsman.</p><p>The gold-encased puck, standing edgeways on a block, had the likeness of the Queen and Duke on one side and Richard on the other. Surrounding it are small gold discs, each containing the likeness of a Montreal player on one side and the Canadiens club crest on the other.</p><p>The suit for Prince Charles will be similar to one already owned by Normand Richard.</p><p>Meanwhile a spokesman at Buckingham Palace said the Queen probably would decline the gift of a uniform on behalf of Prince Charles.</p><p>&ldquo;The Royal Family does not normally accept personal gifts,&rdquo; he said.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rocket’s Son Sends Uniform To Prince Charles

<p>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</p><p>Founded October 1st 1947</p><p>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.</p><p>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West</p><p>Montreal 25, Que.</p><p>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire; $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.</p><p>Entered as second-class matter. October 3, 19G3, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879</p><p>Authorized as second-class mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa</p><p>Printed in Canada<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0648/1280674-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg"></div><h2><b>Crown Prince?</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Canada has won the World Hockey Championship and with it brought back its esteem. Russia, who won last year, was the rival again for this honor. One item of interest was that Mr. Foster Hewitt referred to Bobrov as the Crown Prince Bobrov. This same man is a professional soldier, a VMD Lieutenant Colonel. All the players are also VMD, the police in Russia.</p><p>The way in which Bobrov played against Canada brings out the following very interesting fact. Nikolai Puchkov regular netminder left the game in favour of Grigory Krkychan, who was not scored upon.</p><p>Borov often tried to attract the referee&rsquo;s attention with gusto while the game was on. He also played as we do when we have pulled our goalie and are trying for the important goal all through the game. This brings back the memory of Gordie Drillon in his last season with Toronto Maple Leafs. He used to park himself in front of the goal waiting for Apps or Nick Metz to get the puck to him for a shot on goal. Everyone remembers Gordie Drillon was an NHL star.</p><p>Moose Jaw, Sask. Charles Breckon.</p><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I hope to see that pen-pal and trading post corner you&rsquo;ve been talking about set up in your paper shortly.</p><p>By the way my hobby is collecting hockey photos and programs so any fans having any of the above for sale or trade, you can contact me at Box 71, Walsh, Alberta.</p><p>Keep up the good work with THE HOCKEY NEWS which as has been stated before is the bible of hockey.</p><p>Clarence Janke. Walsh, Alta.</p><h2><b>Not Too Hasty</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>It is too bad Maurice Richard has become enmeshed in such an unsavory experience in the twilight of his career. Of course the attack was not entirely without provocation either. I sincerely hope it will not mar his great career for it certainly has been illustrious. He already has become a legend to hockey.</p><p>Let us not be too quick in judging him adversely but rather remember he has given his life to hockey.</p><p>Dr. Wm. F. Coughlin Brighton, Mass.</p><h2><b>My Viewpoint</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs:&mdash;</p><p>Before I divulge why I&rsquo;m writing this letter please allow me to inform you that I&rsquo;m not a fan of either Harry Lumley or Terry Sawchuk.</p><p>But as a hockey fan I have a beef to lodge and it concerns these two very fine goal-keepers. When Sawchuk was awarded the Vezina Trophy this year it struck me as rather strange that Humley should be denied the cup when you consider that he played one more game than Sawchuk. That one game could have made all the difference in the world.</p><p>I know that it&rsquo;s a team trophy with the cup going to the goalkeeper who has played the most games for the team which has been scored on the least. This sounds fair enough except it doesn&rsquo;t protect the goal-keepers. Sawchuk was benched by the his nerves were cracking. Lumley management because they figured want to get technical, and work out their average to decimal points taking into consideration games played and goals against, Lumley has a slight edge.</p><p>I believe that some system in awarding the Vezina should be brough about whereby a goalkeeper would get full credit for games played and goals against</p><p>Yours truly,</p><p>Bob Creshan, Oshawa, Ont.</p><div class="sidebar"><p>The Toronto Maple Leafs use BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0722/1280705-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg" title="f0006-07" width="600" height="282"></div><h2><b>APRIL 4 TO APRIL 10</b></h2><p><b>6&mdash;GROLEAU, Marius, Chicoutimi forward, 1927; STEVENSON, Doug, Saskatoon goaler, 1924.</b></p><p><b>7&mdash;ARMSTRONG, Bob, Boston defense, 1931.</b></p><p><b>8&mdash;CABANA, Gerry, Quebec forward, 1927; KAISER, Carl, Vancouver defense, 1927.</b></p><p><b>10&mdash;BOUGIE, Georges, Valleyfield forward, 1927; MURPHY, Ron, New York forward, 1933.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday to YOU

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-087/1280736-1-eng-US/f0006-082.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><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 &lsquo;find out what plans your team is making for the coming season and what players they plan to bring up next season.</p><p>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.</p><p>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).</p><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.</p><p><b>Canadian Remittances</b>&mdash;$3.00 Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order,</p><p><b>U. S. A. Remittances</b>&mdash;$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">Ken Mc Kengie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01244/1280643-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="306" height="480"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>ETROIT&mdash;AFTER THE</b> Red Wings downed Toronto for the second time in a row in their semi-final round for Lord Stanley&rsquo;s coveted piece of silverware, it brought their victory skein to 11 straight. It brought their undefeated mark to 14. The last time the Wings were defeated was on February 17, when they bowed 4-2 to Canadiens&hellip;Detroit&rsquo;s previous high for straight wins was 10 and was set in 1952. That was the year the team won the last game of the regular schedule, swept through the playoffs in a record-breaking eight straight, and then captured the opening game of the 1952-53 regular schedule.&hellip;&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the first time since 1952 that we&rsquo;ve won the first two games at home,&rdquo; an exhausted Bob Goldham pointed out in the Detroit dressing room following the second victory&hellip;The Wings won the opening game of the playoffs the past two years but in each case dropped the second game. In 1953 the Boston Bruins were the opposition and last year it was Toronto&hellip;Both King Clancy of Toronto and Jimmy Skinner had words with referee Bill Chadwick during the third period of the second game, and Chadwick threatened to throw both of them off the bench if they didn&rsquo;t button their lips&hellip;Clancy was particularly vociferous and appeared to be ranting and raving all night. He must be extermely hoarse at the conclusion of each game&hellip;Skinner is more placid and softer spoken&hellip;If the Wings can go on to win the Stanley Cup, Skinner will become the first rookie coach of modern times to win hockey&rsquo;s two most important championships, the Stanley Cup and the Prince of Wales Trophy&hellip;Although a rookie, Skinner is no stranger to the Wings. He coached seven members of the team during their sojourn in the minor leagues&hellip;During the games played at Olympia, the Maple Leafs were quartered at nearby Dearborn, while the Wings holed up at Toledo. This has been the practice for several years now&hellip;Detroit stayed in Hamilton, 50 miles from Toronto, during the games played at Maple Leaf Gardens.</p><p><b>TED KENNEDY</b> played his heart out for the Leafs and was easily their most effective member. This in all probability will be his last playoffs as he says he is determined to retire for sure at the end of the season&hellip;Harry Lumly has also played brilliantly for the Leafs in the series&hellip;Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;s father is visiting him from Winnipeg and will take in all the playoff games and motor back to Winnipeg with Terry. Mr. Sawchuk was also on hand to see Terry win the Vezina Trophy in the last game of the regular schedule&hellip;Bruce Norris, co-owner of the Red Wings,&rsquo; flew over from Chicago for the second game&hellip;Conn Smythe caught a nasty cold on his way back from Florida and missed both games played here&hellip;It is feared Larry Hillman, 18-year-old rookie Detroit defenseman, suffered a dislocated shoulder when he slid into the boards and will be sidelined for the rest of the playoffs&hellip;Sid Smith has been dangerous throughout the series. The ace Toronto sniper has been robbed of sure goals on several occasions by the excellent goalkeeping of Sawchuk&hellip;Red Kelly and Marcel Pronovost were the pick of the defensemen in the second contest. Several NHL coaches believe Pronovost is one of the most under-rated defenseman in the league&hellip;Boston minor officials are working the games in Detroit. Montreal minor officials are handling the Toronto end of the series&hellip;Saves by each goalie are now announced at the end of each period at Olympia. This is new and started a couple of weeks ago&hellip;When Jimmy Thomson was banished to the penalty box for the third time by referee Chadwick, a leather-lunged fan yelled: &ldquo;Thomson, you&rsquo;ve got the first Hat Trick of the night!&rdquo; Jim Vipond, sports editor of the Toronto Globe & Mail, came directly to Detroit from Florida where he has been covering the baseball training camps&hellip;One exhuberant fan threw two fish onto the ice. Fred Huber asked Win Spence, public address announcer sitting at rinkside, to please identify the fish. &ldquo;Smoked herring,&rdquo; was Huber&rsquo;s announcement to the press box gentry&hellip;Lanky Hugh Bolton has been rushing well for Toronto. He is one of the best rushing defenseman in the league. One time he left Goldham standing still as he whirled around him&hellip;The Detroit players left for Hamilton immediately following the second game here. The press, radio and TV fraternity left the next day&hellip;Marc Reaume, 21-year-old defenseman who played for Pittsburgh Hornets until summoned recently to Toronto, appears headed for a long and me-ritous career with the Leafs. He looks right at home with the National Leaguers and has played very well in the series to date. An outstanding baseball player, too, Reaume worked out several times with the Detroit Tigers last summer. The Dodgers and Pirates also were interested in him. He hails from LaSalle, Ont., a Suburb of Windsor&hellip;Buddy Parker, coach of the illustrious Detroit Lions football club, heaped considerable praise on the Red Wings the other day. &ldquo;Those Red Wings are the greatest team in sport. I rate them even above baseball&rsquo;s New York Yankees,&rdquo; he stated to Detroit hockey writers.</p><p><b>RUDY MIGAY</b> and Ron Stewart form one of the finest penalty-killing teams in hockey. According to Leaf reports, only nine goals have been scored against them this season&hellip;Several of the Red Wigs complained of stomach pains prior to the start of the series. Change of water was blamed by a diagnostician as the cause. Another said it was simply stomach flu&hellip;When it was announced Montreal had defeated Boston at the Olympia, a loud chorus of boos went up from the partisan crowd&hellip;This is the fifteenth time Toronto and Detroit have met in the playoffs. The Leafs have been victorious eight times, winning 35. of the 65 games in the previous 14 series. Nine of the previous 14 clashes have been in preliminary rounds, five in the Stanley Cup finals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02136/1280636-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="294" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>King Clancy</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0379/1280629-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="292" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Kennedy</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0457/1280622-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="304" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Sawchuk</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0552/1280615-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="286" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By HERB GOREN</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>This was the day after the season was over&mdash;for the Rangers, that is&mdash;and Wild Bill Ezinicki was practicing golf grips and complaining, in a mild sort of way, that torn ligaments at the base of his left thumb hampered his hold.</p><p>&ldquo;Doc says it may be two years before I can get a good, firm grip on a golf stick,&rsquo;&rsquo; he said.</p><p>For many years, Ezzy&rsquo;s loyalty in sports has been divided between hockey and golf, and it is somewhat surprising that this low-slung ruffian on ice can be such a perfect gentleman away from a rink and&mdash;even more so&mdash;that he is attracted to golf because of the sociability it breeds.</p><p>&ldquo;For speed, action and spectator appeal,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;give me hockey. Only trouble with it is that you can&rsquo;t be a nice guy in hockey. Not allowed to fraternize. Basically, there&rsquo;s nothing wrong with Ted Lindsay and Rocket Richard and guys like that, except that every now and then they commit a little mayhem on ice. But that&rsquo;s part of the game. I certainly have no hard feelings.&rdquo;</p><p>Ezinicki was with the Rangers for little more than five weeks, but he stirred things up a bit toward the end. Whether he&rsquo;ll be with them next season is a moot point. Meanwhile he has gone up to Ottawa to join his wife and two daughters and from there he&rsquo;ll move the family to summer headquaters at the Colonial Country Club outside Boston. He&rsquo;s the golf pro.</p><p>&ldquo;The wife&rsquo;s expecting in June,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Hope it&rsquo;s a boy this time. Would I want him to be a hockey player? Why not? I just hope he&rsquo;s as big as Beliveau. That size makes a difference. Wish I was that big. When you&rsquo;ve got that long reach you&rsquo;ve got quite an edge in this game.&rdquo;</p><p>Ezinicki thought back to the previous night. The Rangers beat the Leafs in the last game, 3-2. It meant nothing to either side, for purposes of the standings, but it cost goalie Harry Lumley the Vezina trophy. One of the specta tors was Pete Conacher&rsquo;s famous pop, Charley, sporting a deep sun tan.</p><p>&ldquo;Charley looks great,&rdquo; Ezin icki said, &ldquo;He was my coach with the Oshawa Generals when we won the Memorial Cup. Taught me a lot. I&rsquo;ll never forget one rhubarb I got in that year&hellip;</p><p>&ldquo;In those days you could pick up players off other teams for the playoffs and we got Ted Lindsay for Oshawa, and now we were in the Eastern finals of the playoffs against the Montreal Royals. They had a good club, too, and this night two guys ganged up on Lindsay and I pulled one of them off Ted&mdash;the fellow was Harry Kazarian&mdash;and I drew back and rattled him.</p><p>&ldquo;Later that night there was a real free-for-all and I tripped and fell on my back. And this Kazarian took a leap at me and, instinctively, I pulled my feet into my face, skates up. Seconds later, the ice was a pool of blood and Kazarian was cut on his face, and&mdash;I don&rsquo;t know&mdash;but I guess he must have hit my skates.</p><p>&ldquo;I felt pretty bad after the game. Everybody was eating on the train but I couldn&rsquo;t. And Charley Conacher, he come up to me and he said: &lsquo;You&rsquo;d better get used to that because this won&rsquo;t be the first time. And if you can&rsquo;t, you better quit right now.&rsquo; &ldquo;</p><p>Ezinicki didn&rsquo;t quit and he has had his brawls&mdash;notably with Lindsay and Richard&mdash;and this year he rattled Eric Nesterenko hard enough to put him out a few weeks. He played his best hockey against the Leafs, while wearing the Broadway Blue, and when somebody asked him why, he said tersely: &ldquo;Because I like to play against them.&rdquo;</p><p>He&rsquo;ll be seeing some playoff games in Boston. &ldquo;I give them a pretty good chance,&rdquo; he said.</p><h2><b>Mellowing?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01196/1280767-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="570" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL EZINICKI</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Ezzy Reminisces…Kind Words For Rocket, Ted

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>When Harry Lumley missed by one goal retaining the Vezina Trophy he first won last year, he refused to consider himself a candidate for any other NHL prize.</p><p>Although he led the mid-season poll for the All-Star berth, the Maple Leaf goaltender considered that lost the same night he lost the Vezina. That was when New York Rangers beat him three times while Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk shut out Montreal on the final night of the schedule.</p><p>&ldquo;The All-Star spot always goes to the Vezina winner and that&rsquo;s the way it should be,&rdquo; said Lum. &ldquo;I just feel like a man who declared his income tax figuring on a rebate then finds the government wants $3,000 more.&rdquo;</p><p>Lum calculates the $3,000 on the grounds that one grand comes with the Vezina, another with the All-Star berth and a third from the Leafs who match league bonuses to their own AllStars.</p><p>Lum was just as sincere when he brushed off the suggestion he would win the Hart Trophy as the NHL&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player.</p><p>&ldquo;If Kennedy doesn&rsquo;t win the Hart, it will be the greatest miscarriage of justice I&rsquo;ve even seen,&rdquo; said Hairbreadth Harry.</p><p>But Teeder himself, who led Lum by a few votes in the midseason poll, disagrees. &ldquo;Lum&rsquo;s the reason we (Leafs) made the playoffs,&rdquo; says Kennedy. &ldquo;He was terrific&mdash;as good as any goalie I&rsquo;ve played with through any schedule. And that includes Turk Broda.&rdquo;</p><p>And Lum has another strong ally, the chief man in the camp of his All-Star opposition.</p><p>That would be Jack Adams, Detroit General Manager.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve told our writers they just couldn&rsquo;t vote for anyone but Lum for the Hart and the All-Star berths,&rdquo; says Jovial Jack. &ldquo;Our boy (Sawchuk) had a lot better protection because he had the best Red Wing team of all time in front of him. But Lumley is the reason the Leafs have gone as they have. He carried that team.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02171/1280798-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="296" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Kennedy</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Lum Nominates Teammate Teeder For Hart Award

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04106/1280843-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="584" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;A job like mine takes it out of you&rdquo;</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>with BODY in it</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0577/1280836-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="580" height="548"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;But Labatt&rsquo;s IPA puts it right back in,</b>&rdquo; <i>says Frederick Gilbert, Wexford, Ont.</i></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>I</span>f you&rsquo;re the kind of man who</b> craves a <i>real</i> man&rsquo;s ale&mdash;an ale with <i>real</i> body and flavour to it&mdash;you&rsquo;re ready for IPA. Frederick Gilbert has a man-size job, and a man-size taste in ales. His ale is Labatt&rsquo;s IPA. Make it yours, too.</p><p>Find out about IPA&hellip;<i>the ale that satisfies the man in you!</i> Make the great discovery as soon as possible&mdash;try IPA next time you&rsquo;re at your favourite hotel or tavern, or next time you order ale for the home. Start enjoying the ale with body&hellip;flavour&hellip;ZEST! The man&rsquo;s ale-IPAI</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0656/1280829-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="572" height="646"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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A MAN’S ale

<p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>EW YORK&mdash;Bob Chrystal, the Rangers&rsquo; handy-andy on defense and up front, didn&rsquo;t miss a game until the final week-end series with Montreal and Toronto.</p><p>He came down with a severe Charley horse in the team&rsquo;s workout at the Montreal Forum the day after the big riot, and was quickly dispatched to New York&rsquo;s St. Clare&rsquo;s Hospital.</p><p>At this writing it was not known whether or not an operation will be necessary.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Chrystal Plays 68 Before Missing

<h2><b>Ends System</b></h2><p>Dick Irvin abandoned hits two-goalies platoon system in the final period of the third game.</p><h2><b>Ends Slump</b></h2><p>Lea LaBine broke a 17-game scoring slumb when be scored against Canadiens Sunday night.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>Semi-finals, best-of-seven.</b></p><h3><b>Series A</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01213/1281103-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="594" height="114"></div><h3><b>Series B</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02193/1281096-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="590" height="110"></div><h3><b>RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>TUESDAY, MARCH 22</b></p><p>Toronto 4 at Detroit 7</p><p>Boston 0 at Montreal 2</p><p><b>THURSDAY, MARCH 24</b></p><p>Toronto 2 at Detroit 3</p><p>Boston 1 at Montreal 3</p><p><b>SATURDAY, MARCH 26</b></p><p>Detroit 2 at Toronto 1</p><p><b>SUNDAY, MARCH 27</b></p><p>Montreal 2 at Boston 4</p><h3><b>TUESDAY MARCH 22 BOSTON 0 AT MONTREAL 2</b></h3><p>(Montreal leads best-of-seven semi-final 1-0)</p><p><b>Boston:</b> goal: Henry: defence: Godfrey, Flaman, Armstrong, Quackenbush, Laycoe, Boivin; forwards: McKenney, La-Bine. Mohns, Sandford, Mackell, Gardner. Chevrefils, Costello, Ferguson, Bodnar, Henderson (sub goalie).</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> goal: Plante and Hodge; defence: Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, Dewsbury; forwards: Mosdell, Curry, MacKay, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Leclair, Marshall, Moore, Ronty.</p><p>Referee: Bill Chadwick; linesmen: George Hayes, Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03160/1281089-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="602" height="460"></div><h3><b>TORONTO 4 AT DETROIT 7 (Detroit leads best-of-seven semi-final 1-0)</b></h3><p><b>Toronto:</b> goal: Lumley: defence:</p><p>Thompson, Morrison, Resume, Bolton, Cahan; forwards: Kennedy, Smith, Nesterenko, Armstrong, Stewart, Sloan, Bailey, Klukay, MacDonald, Cullen.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> goal: Sawchuck; defence: Goldham, Kelly, Woit, Pronovost, Hillman; forwards: Reibel, Lindsay, Howe, Bonin, Stasiuk, Dineen, Wilson, Skov, Pavelich, Delvecchio, Leswick.</p><p>Referee: Frank Udvari; linesmen: Sammy Babcock, Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04137/1281082-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="600" height="803"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY MARCH 24 Boston 1 at Montreal 3</b></h3><p>(Montreal leads best-of-seven semi-final 2-0)</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Henderson; defence: Armstrong Flaman, Godfrey, Laycoe, Quackenbush, Boivin; forwards: McKenney, Labine, Chevrefils, Sandford, Mackell, Bodnar, Mohns, Corcoran, Wilson, Gardner, Henry (sub goaler).</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante: defence: Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent; forwards: Mosdell, Curry, MacKay, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead. Leclair, Marshall, Moore, Ronty, Hodge (sub goaler).</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0879/1281075-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="590" height="410"></div><h3><b>Toronto 1 at Detroit 2</b></h3><p>(Detroit leads best-of-seven 2-6)</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Morrison, Reaume, Bolton, Cahan; forwards: Smith, Kennedy, Nesterenko, Cullen, Macdonald. Klukay, Sloan, Migay, Stewart, Armstrong.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Woit, Hillman; forwards: Skov, Leswick, Pavelich, Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Bonin, Dineen, Wilson. Stasiuk.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0978/1281068-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="596" height="431"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, MARCH 26 Detroit 2 at Toronto 1</b></h3><p>(Detroit leads best-of-seven semi-final 3-0)</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goals: Sawchuk: defense: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay: forwards: Reibel. Howe. Lindsay, Skov. Leswick, Pavelich, Delvecchio, Dineen, Bonin, Wilson, Stasiuk.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Morrison, Bolton, Reaume, Cahan; forwards: Kennedy, Nesterenko, Smith, Armstrong, Sloan, MacDonald, Migay, Stewart Klukay, Cullen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1070/1281061-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="591" height="435"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY MARCH 27 Montreal 2 at Boston 4</b></h3><p>(Montreal leads best-of-seven semi-final 2-1)</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante, Hodge; defense: Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, McAvoy; forwards: Mosdell, Curry, MacKay, Beliveau, Geoffrion. Olmstead, Leclair, Marshall, Moore, Ronty.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Henry; defense: Flaman, Godfrey, Armstrong, Quackenbush, Boivin; forwards: Gardner, Ferguson, Mohns, McKenney, Labine, Chevrefils, Wilson, Sandford, Laycoe. Corcoran, Bodnar.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1154/1281054-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="590" height="654"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1321/1281047-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="592" height="966"></div><h2><b>Top Playoff Point Producers</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05108/1281040-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="528" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOWE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0696/1281033-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="534" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED LINDSAY</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0786/1281026-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="538" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ALEX DELVECCHIO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATION LEAGUE

<p><b>Some players in the National Hockey League go on year after year, never catching the headlines, always doing a sound, workmanlike job.</b></p><p><b>Such a player is Fioyd (Busher) Curry, hard-checking right-winger with the Montreal Canadiens. Year in and year out, Busher is to be found out there, patrolling his lone, usually with the Habs shorthanded, drawing slight mention in the daily press. But the Busher has made them sit up and take notice.</b></p><p><b>Curry was handed the unenviable job of thying to fill in for the sidelined Maurice (Rocket) Richard on the Hobs&rsquo; Mosdel-MacKay line as the Montrealers opened their semi-final series against the Boston Bruins. He came through with flying colors, figuring in his team&rsquo;s first four series goals, tsetting up two in a 2-0 win in the opener, scoring once and adding an assist in the second game, a 4-1 Hab victory.</b></p><p><b>Another player who spent most of the current campaign as an unheralded &ldquo;Extra&rdquo; forward, come on with a rush at the end of the season and has shown no signs of stopping in the playoffs. He is Earl (Dutch) Reibel and he has paced the Detroit Red Wings to three straight series victories over the Toronto Mple Leafs.</b></p><p><b>The Dutchman has scored three big playoff goals to date and has added an assist, besides being the outstanding player on the ice in all three contests. It is pretty hard to outshine your teammates when your teammates are fellows like Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, Red Kelly et al but that&rsquo;s just what Reibel has been doing. And his teammates aren&rsquo;t complaining either. As long as they can keep on winning, with The Dutchman leading the way, they&rsquo;re all for it.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1412/1281141-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="302" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dutch Reibel</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-159/1281134-1-eng-US/f0009-152.jpg" title="f0009-15" width="291" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Floyd Curry</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Players-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Nearly 30 years behind schedule, a member of the Wilson family of Port Arthur, Ontario, has made the lineup of the Boston Bruins.</p><p>Three decades ago Arthur H. Ross was engaged in building the Bruins into a Stanley Cup contender, just as Lynn Patrick is doing today.</p><p>One of the players whom Ross hoped to acquire for his Bruins was a sturdy defenseman playing for the Port Arthur Bearcats named Gordon &ldquo;Phat&rdquo; Wilson. The now-retired Bruins&rsquo; manager considered Wilson one of the finest major league prospects he had ever seen.</p><p>But young Wilson wasn&rsquo;t susceptible to the sales talks of the man from Boston, and he turned down Ross&rsquo; final offer&mdash;in this nice way.</p><p>&ldquo;I have a good chance for advancement with the public utilities company here in Port Arthur,&rdquo; he told Ross, &ldquo;and I can still play amateur hockey here.</p><p>&ldquo;I won&rsquo;t go to Boston to play for your team, but I want you to know that I appreciate your interest in me. If I have a son whom I think has major league promise, I&rsquo;ll send him to you in my place.&rdquo;</p><p>Phat Wilson fulfilled his promise to Ross a half-dozen years ago, when he recommended a tall center ot the Bruins. The center was his son, Gordon, Jr.</p><p>Four years ago Ross put himself on record about Phat&rsquo;s son, a boy he had never seen.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;ll be one of the best the Bruins have ever had,&rdquo; opined the sage. Asked on what grounds he based his statement, Ross replied, &ldquo;I just know, that&rsquo;s all.&rdquo;</p><p>The day of the first Stanley Cup playoff game between the Bruins and Canadiens in Montreal, Junior Wilson reported to Patrick and Coach Milt Schmidt of the Bruins ready to play if needed.</p><p>That night he watched the game from the standing room section at Montreal Forum.</p><p>Two nights later he was playing for the Bruins, taking a regular turn as the center for Ed Sandford and Fleming Mackell.</p><p>Wilson was scheduled to spend a full season at Hershey a year ago, but he sustained a knee injury which required an operation and a season&rsquo;s rest.</p><p>This year, as an American League rookie, Wilson scored &lsquo;27 goals for the Bears, and qualified as a leading candidate for the league&rsquo;s rookie of the year award.</p><p>The elder Wilson is still with the public utilities company in Port Arthur, whose Bearcats he led to three Allan Cup championships, in 1925, 1926 and 1929. He is still a prominent hockey figure there.</p><p>His blue-eyed son, described by Patrick as &ldquo;the best passer in our organization&rdquo;, has cracked the Bruins&rsquo; lineup, bringing up to date one of the strangest stories in hockey.</p><div class="sidebar"><p><b>Lloyd Percival, Director of Sports College, endorses BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

“Phat” Wilson Kept Promise, Told Art Ross He’d Send Son To B’s If He Was Good Enough

<div class="byline">By Herb Goren</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The fast-dwindling ranks of the Rangers&rsquo; bachelorhood society will be further depleted in May when three young forwards&mdash;Andy Bathgate, Aldo Guidolin and Vic Howe&mdash;take the vows.</p><p>Bathgate, who scored his 20th goal on the final night of his first full season in the NHL, is to be joined in matrimony with Merle Lewis of Vancouver on May 7.</p><p>That same day, in Saskatoon, Vic Howe, younger brother of Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie, will take Jacquie White for his bride.</p><p>And exactly a week later, Guidolin will marry Phyllis Whetstone in Guelph. Ont. Miss Whetstone is well-known in the province as one of Canada&rsquo;s better woman track stars.</p><p>That will leave exactly four members of the club that finished the season as single-os&mdash;Bones Raleigh, captain; Ron Murphy, Pete Conacher and Leapin&rsquo; Louie Fontinato.</p><p>Raleigh, unpredictable as ever, said in a cryptic parting message that he might make the leap, too, but refused to furnish the necessary details, including the party of the second part.</p><p>What about the others? Well, Gump Worsley will spend the summer playing soccer for Canadian Vickers of Montreal. He says he&rsquo;ll play any position&mdash;except goal.</p><p>Ivan Irwin will enjoy the sights of New York for at least a month. Bill Gadsby goes back to his golf-driving range in Edmonton. Howell, a father of a two-months old daughter, will try to line up an interesting job in Hamilton. Fontinato will do manual labor in Guelph, Ont., and harvest the cauliflower patch in his back yard.</p><p>Danny Lewicki, who finished up with 29 goals and was voted the team&rsquo;s most valuable player, goes back to his car-selling job in Toronto. Larry Popein moves from Moose Jaw, Sask., to Vancouver. Dean Prentice will play ball in Schumacher, Ont., and Bill Ezinicki turns back to his golf pro job at the Colonial Country Club outside Boston.</p><p>Before the team broke up. it gathered in the Madison Square Garden offices for a brief valediction by Gen. John Reed Kilpatrick. In short, the General reminded them that this was not a good season, that they should take care to report next fall in good shape and that New York is a wonderful town, hockey-wise, if it can produce a winner.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Andy, Aldo, Vic Latest Rangers To Take Vows

<h2><b>A Hot Rookie</b></h2><p>When Buffalo beat Cleveland. 3-2 in overtime in the first game of the series, Ken Wharram scored all three goals.</p><h2><b>A Good Try</b></h2><p>Buddy Boone scored a third-period goal and one more in overtime but it didn&rsquo;t help Springfield as the Hornets won out.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>SERIES&rdquo;A&rdquo;</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01227/1281297-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="600" height="136"></div><h3><b>SERIES&rdquo;B&rdquo;</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02189/1281290-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="618" height="138"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, March 22 Cleveland 2 at Buffalo 3</b></h3><p><b>(Buffalo leads best-of-seven series 1-0)</b></p><p><b>Cleveland</b>&mdash;Goal: McMeekin; defense: Williams, Heller, Cushman, Kraftcheck; forwards: Gordon, Lund, Stearns, Olson, Reigle, Karrys, Ford, Glover, McLellan, Farelli.</p><p><b>Buffalo</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defense: Sullivan, Raglan, Wright. Pilote; forwards: Wharram, Pennell, G. Blair, Gamble, C. Blair, Babando, Bettio, Jankowski, Slowinski, Hayden.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03156/1281283-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="604" height="608"></div><h3><b>Springfield 0 at Pittsburgh 2</b></h3><p><b>(Pittsburgh leads best-of-seven series 1-0)</b></p><p><b>Springfield</b>&mdash;Goal: Simmons; defense: Summers, Currie, Tottle, Palamar, McCord; forwards: Chorley, Pidhirny, Hastings, Lowe, Atanas, McMurdy, Leier, Anderson, Boone.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>&mdash;Goal: Mayer; defense; Mathers, Price, Gariepy, Burega; forwards: Hannigan, Solin ger, Foley, Tim-gren, Barbe, Balfour, Sabourin, Hassard, Caffery, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04121/1281276-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="598" height="342"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, MARCH 24 Sprinngfield 2 at Pittsburgh 7</b></h3><p><b>(Pittsburgh leads best-of-seven semi-final 2-0)</b></p><p>Springfield&mdash;Goal: Simmons; defense: Bummers, Currie, Tottle, Palamar, McCord; forwards: Chorley, Pidhirny, Hastings, Lowe, Atanas, McMurdy, Leier, Anderson.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>&mdash;Goal: Mayer; defense: Mathers, Price, Gariepy, Burega; forwards: Hannigan, Solinger, Foley, Timgren, Barbe, Balfour, Hassard, Caffery, Bailey, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05102/1281269-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="604" height="707"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 3 at Cleveland 6</b></h3><p><b>(Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)</b></p><p><b>Cleveland</b>&mdash;Goal: Francis; defense: Williams, Kraftcheck, Heller, Cushenan; forwards: Gordon, Lund, Stearns, Olson, Karrys, Reigle, Glover, McLellan, Farelli, Pogue.</p><p><b>Buffalo</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; deefnse: Sullivan, Raglan, Wright, Pilote; forwards: Wharram, G. Blair, Pennell, Gamble, Babando, C. Blair, Bettio, Jankowski, Slowinski, Hayden.</p><p>Referee&mdash;Jack Mehlenbacher; linesmen: Doug Young and James (Red) Dunn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0694/1281262-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="596" height="668"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, MARCH 26 Pittsburgh 3 at Springfield 4</b></h3><p><b>Pittsburgh leads best-of-five series 2-1</b></p><p><b>Springfield</b>&mdash;Goal: Simmons; defense: Summers, Currie, Tottle, McCord, Palamar; forwards: Leier Anderson, Boone, Lowe, Hastings, Atanas, McMurdy, Pidhirny, Chorley.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>&mdash;Goal: Mayer; defence: Mathers, Burega, Price, Gariepy; forwards: Bailey, Foley, Timgren, Hannigan, Solinger, Barber, Balfour, Sabourin. Hassard, Caffery, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0880/1281255-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="600" height="620"></div><h3><b>Cleveland 0 at Buffalo 8</b></h3><p><b>Buffalo leads best-of-five series 2-1</b></p><p>BUFFALO&mdash;Led by Dick Gamble and Dusty Blair with two goals apiece, Buffalo Bisons defeated Cleveland Barons, 8-0 before 6,373 fans in Memorial Auditorium to make a 2-1 game lead in the best-of-five Calder Cup semi-finals series.</p><p>Blair opened the scoring at 10.02 of the first period to start the rout. The Bisons added four more goals in the second period, and three in the final to give goalie Ray Frederick his first shutout of the season.</p><p>Sam Bettio and Gordon Pennell each tallied once in the second period and two more goals were added by Chuck Blair and Ed Slowinski in the finale.</p><p><b>Cleveland</b>&mdash;Goal: Francis; defence: Heller, Williams, Kraftcheck, Cushenan; forwards: Gordon, Glover, Olson, Farelli, Lund, Karrys, McLellan, Reigle, Pogue.</p><p><b>Buffalo</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defence: Raglan, Sullivan, Pilote; forwards: Bettio Wharram, Gamble, Pennell, Jankowski. Babanda, D. Blair, Slowinski, C. Blair, Hayden.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0973/1281248-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="596" height="533"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, MARCH 27 Cleveland 4 at Buffalo 6</b></h3><p>(Buffalo wins best of five series 3-1)</p><p><b>Cleveland</b>&mdash;Goal: McMeekin; defence: Reigle, Williams, Cushenan, Kraftcheck; forwards: Gordon, Olson, Glover, Karrys, Stearns, Lund, Farelli, McLellan, Ford, Pogue.</p><p><b>Buffalo</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick: defence: Raglan, Sullivan, Wright, Pilote; forwards: Wharram, Bettio, Gamble, Jankowski, C. Blair, D. Blair, Babando, Slowinski, Hayden.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1063/1281241-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="600" height="607"></div><h3><b>Pittsburgh 4 at Springfield 3</b></h3><p>(Pittsburgh wins best-of-five series 3-1)</p><p>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;Gerry Foley scored at 7.47 in the second overtime period to give Pittsburgh Hornets a 4-3 victory over Springfield Indians and sent the Hornets into the American Hookey League finals against Buffalo.</p><p>The Hornets, who finished first in the regular AHL season, won the best-of-five semi-final three games to one.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>&mdash;Goal: Mayer; defence: Price, Gariepy, Mathers, Burega; forwards: Marshall, Balfour, Hannigan, Solinger, Foley, Timgren, Sabourin, Hassard, Caffery, Bailey.</p><p><b>Springfield</b>&mdash;Goal: Hastings, Atanas, Leier, Anderson, Boone, McMurdy, Pidhirny, Chorley, Kowalchuk, Bobenic.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1248/1281234-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="604" height="636"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3><b>Playoffs</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1152/1281227-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="600" height="636"></div><h2><b>Fisher Foiled By Francis</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0784/1281220-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="1732" height="1020"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DUNC FISHER</b> of the Hershey Bears (10) gets away a shot at the Cleveland Barons&rsquo;s goal but it&rsquo;s deflected by Emile (The Cat) Francis. Attempting to block the shot is John McLel-land while Ian Cusheman (17), Gordie Wilson (18) and Joe Lund look on.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By EDWARD J. COEN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01236/1281335-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANKIE MATHERS</b></figcaption></div><p>CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>Two members of three different teams were awarded berths on the Cleveland Plain Dealer&rsquo;s 18th Annual Players&rsquo; All-Star team for the 1954-55 American Hockey League season which closed last week. Murray Henderson, Coach of the young Hershey Bears, was chosen as the Coach of the mythical squad.</p><p>Each year the Plain Dealer team is selected by a vote of all American League players who have played a sufficient number of games to be eligible for selection to the All-Star team. This year a player was required to play in 35 games to be eligible and must have been in the League on February 13th. In all a total of 81 out of a possible 92 eligibles took part in the voting.</p><h2><b>One Returnee</b></h2><p>Only one member of the 1953-54 All-Stars is a holdover from last year&rsquo;s team. He is Frankie Mathers, of Pittsburgh, who polled more votes than any other All-Star. Mathers was awarded a berth by 64 players in the AHL.</p><p>Pittsburgh is also represented by its brilliant goalie, Gil Mayer, who is awarded his first berth on the mythical club selected by the players.</p><p>Springfield players are veteran Gordon Tottle who was chosen for a defense post and hard hitting Ross Lowe, the center ice star.</p><p>Two members of the Cleveland Barons&rsquo; great front line made the first team with Eddie Olson gaining the left wing spot and Freddie Glover the right wing position. Center Jackie Gordon of the Barons, was given a second team berth.</p><h2><b>Cook Coach</b></h2><p>Besides Gordon on the Second team, Buffalo has Dick Gamble at left wing, and a pair of defensemen, Pete Wright and Frank Sullivan. Goalie is Don Simmons, Springfield rookie, with Providence being represented by Zellio Toppazzini at right wing. Fred (Bun) Cook, Cleveland Coach, was selected as the mentor of the second squad by the players.</p><p>Following is a complete list of votes by positions:</p><p>Goal: Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 49: Don Simmons, Pittsburgh, 2S; Emile Francis, Cleveland, 10; Harvey Bennett, Providence 2.</p><h2><b>Rearguards</b></h2><p>Defensemen: Frank Mathers, Pittsburgh, 64; Gordon Tottle, Springfield, 35; Frank Sullivan, Buffalo 23; Pete Wright, Buffalo, 12; Ed Kryzanowski, Hershey, 8; Tom Williams, Cleveland, 7; Dan Summers, Springfield, 7; Pierre Pilote, Buffalo, 6; Fred Shero, Cleveland, 4; Clare Raglan, Buffalo, 3; Murray Henderson, Hershey, 3; Steve Kraftcheck, Cleveland, 3; Pat Egan, Providence, 1; Don Cherry, Hershey, 1; and Hugh Currie, Springfield, 1.</p><h2><b>Centres</b></h2><p>Centres: Ross Lowe, Springfield, 31; Jackie Gordon, Cleveland, 23; Willie Marshall, Pittsburgh, 12; Ken Wharram, Buffalo, 6; Arnie Kullman, Hershey, 6; Paul Larivee, Providence, 3; George Blair, Buffalo, 3; Cal Stearns, Cleveland, 1; Gordon Wilson, Hershey, 1; Joe Lund, Cleveland, 1; Bob Hassard, Pittsburgh, 1; Jack Caffery, Pittsburgh, 1.</p><h2><b>Wingers</b></h2><p>Left Wings; Eddie Olson, Cleveland, 35; Dick Gamble, Buffalo, 17; Jimmy Anderson, Springfield, 14; Obie O&rsquo;Brien, Hershey, 11; John MeLellan, Cleveland 11; Buddy Boone, Springfield, 5; Glen Sonmor, Cleveland 3; Guy Gendron, Providence, 3; Gaye Stewart, Buffalo, 2; Earl Balfour, Pittsburgh, 1.</p><p>Right Wings: Fred Glover, Cleveland, 43; Zellio Toppazzini, Providence, 21; Duncan Fisher, Hershey, 6; Norm Corcoran, Hershey, 2; Harry Pidhirny, Springfield, 2; Ed Slowinski, Buffalo, 1; Ken Hayden, Buffalo, 1.</p><p>Coaches: Murray Henderson, Hershey, 31; Fred (Bun) Cook, Cleveland, 21; Billy (Red) Mitchell, Springfield, 18; Howie Meeker, Pittsburgh, 11; Pat Egan, Providence, 5; Gaye Stewart, Buffalo, 3</p><h2><b>Only Holdover</b></h2><h2><b>THE TEAMS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02181/1281328-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="1092" height="284"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Henderson Named All-Star Coach In American Loop Players’ Poll

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03150/1281366-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg"></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>In the nineteen years the American Hockey League has been in existence, including this season, Cleveland has taken part in the playoffs 17 times. Hershey is the runner-up with 15 followed by Pittsburgh with 13, Providence 11, Buffalo 11 and Springfield 10. Springfield&rsquo;s playoff participation record is lower than the other teams due to their absence from the league a number of years, first due to the war, and the last three seasons while the franchise was operated in Syracuse.</p><p>By being in the playoffs the most times, Cleveland and Hershey naturally are the leading teams in various departments of the game. The Barons have played the most games, 127, have the most wins, 75 have scored the most goals with 402 and have also allowed the most goals with 396. Hershey is second in games played with 107, victories with 53, goals scored with 300 and goals allowed with 282. The Bears have the most losses with 54, while Cleveland has 52.</p><p>Cleveland has won the playoffs the most times with 7 titles. Buffalo and Providence each have 3, Hershey and Pittsburgh one apiece, while Springfield has yet to be victorious in the post-season play. In addition the Indians have never gone into the final round. Hershey has been the losing finalist 5 times, Pittsburgh 4, Cleveland 3 and Buffalo and Providence one each.</p><p>In the 18 playoffs conducted thus far, the team which finished the regular season in first place was victorious 13 times. The second place finishers have won three titles and the third place team twice. The team finishing fourth has never won a playoff.</p><p>No team has ever won the playoff title in three consecutive seasons. Buffalo had two in a row, in 1942-43 and 1943-44, and Cleveland was victorious the last two seasons of 1952-53 and 1953-54.</p><p>The most goals ever scored in a playoff game was 14, when Buffalo defeated Cleveland by 12 to 2 in the 1943-44 series.</p><p>Freddie Thurier, retired as a player but now a linesman in Cleveland, holds many of the individual records. Thurier was in 12 playoff series, played 71 games, and has the most points with 85, goals with 32 and assists with 53. He is tied for the most points in a single series at 18, with Barry Sullivan and Frank Mario, also retired, and Jackie Gordon, the Cleveland veteran center and cap-</p><p>The longest playoff game on record was in the playoffs of 1937-38, when Syracuse defeated Cleveland 3-2 after 122:42.</p><p>The most goals ever scored in a game, and the feat was only performed once, was four, and was tallied by Johnny Sorrell with Indianapolis in 1943-44.</p><p>Wally Hergesheimer, now with New York Rangers, scored 11 goals for Cleveland in the playoffs of 1950-51 for the single series record. His five winning goals in the. series is also a league record.</p><p>Rudy Migay, formerly of Pittsburgh and now playing for Toronto, registered 15 assists in 1950-51 for the playoff series playmaking record.</p><p>Gil Mayer of Pittsburgh blanked the opposition for 173:28 in 1952-53 to set the consecutive shutout minute record for goaltenders.</p><p>Bobby Solinger of Pittsburgh has the greatest number of points among the active players with 55 on 28 goals and 27 assists. He is tied for all-time third place with retired Fred Hunt, Buffalo general manager, and they both trail Fred Thurier the leader and Les Cunningham in second place.</p><p>In closely played playoff hockey, shutouts become an important factor. Cleveland with its high offense was the only team in the league which was not shutout during the season. Springfield was blanked 4 times and Buffalo and Pittsburgh twice each. Buffalo and Pittsburgh each shutout the opposition three times, Cleveland and Springfield twice each.</p><h2><b>REGULARLY SCHEDULED SEASON RECORDS BETWEEN THE PLAYOFF OPPONENTS</b></h2><p><b>Pittsburgh vs Springfield</b>&mdash;12 games played</p><p>In Pittsburgh&mdash;Pittsburgh won 3, Springfield won 2, tied 1</p><p>In Springfield&mdash;Pittsburgh won 1, Springfield won 5, tied 0</p><p>Total&mdash;Pittsburgh won 4, Srpingfield won 7, tied 1</p><p>Overtime Record&mdash;Neither team won an overtime game. They played one no decision</p><p>Goals scored in Pittsburgh&mdash;By Pittsburgh 20, by Springfield 15</p><p>Goals scored in Springfield&mdash;By Pittsburgh 14, by Springfield 30</p><p>Total goals scored&mdash;By Pittsburgh 34, by Springfield 45</p><p>Leading goal scorers for Pittsburgh&mdash;Marshall 6, Foley 5, Balfour 4</p><p>Leading goal scorers for Springfield&mdash;Anderson 10, McMurdy 7, Atanas 6, Boone 6</p><p><b>Cleveland vs Buffalo</b>&mdash;16 games played</p><p>In Buffalo&mdash;Buffalo won 6, Cleveland won 2, no ties</p><p>In Cleveland&mdash;Buffalo won 2, Cleveland won 6, no ties</p><p>Total&mdash;Buffalo won 8, Cleveland won 8, no ties</p><p>Overtime Record&mdash;Cleveland won one game in overtime</p><p>Goals scored in Buffalo&mdash;By Buffalo 33, by Cleveland 17</p><p>Goals scored in Cleveland&mdash;By Buffalo 32, by Cleveland 46</p><p>Total goals scored&mdash;By Buffalo 65, by Cleveland 63</p><p>Leading goal scorers for Buffalo&mdash;Wharram 10, Gamble 8, Slowinski 6, D. Blair 6</p><p>Leading goal scorers for Cleveland&mdash;Olson 10, McLellan 7, Glover 6, Gordon 6, Karrys 6, Shero 5.</p><p>In playoff hockey, the ability to win in overtime usually plays an important part and in many games is a decisive factor. The following is the regular season overtime game records for the playoff participants.</p><p>Scoring winning goals and having multiple scoring games is the sign of a &ldquo;money player&rdquo; in tight playoff hockey. The following are the leaders for each playoff team during the season in winning goals, two three or four goals in a game:</p><p>Buffalo&mdash;Gamble 7; Gamble 10; Slowinski, Babando 1; Gamble 2.</p><p>Cleveland&mdash;Glover, Stearns 6; Glover 7; McLellan 2; Glover, Olson 1.</p><p>Pittsburgh&mdash;Balfour, Caffery, Marshall, Barbe 4, Solinger 3; none; none.</p><p>Springfield&mdash;Lowe 6; Lowe, Anderson 6; Anderson 2; none.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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CALDER CUP PLAYOFF NOTES

<h2><b>Individual Scoring</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>ronco Horvath of Edmonton won the individual scoring race with a margin of 22 points over his closest rival. Horvath scored 50 goals to lead in this department also and added 60 assists for a total of 110 points. A new league record.</p><h2><b>Bower Tops</b></h2><p>John Bower turned in two shutouts the past week for a total of seven, tops for the season and equalled the record set by Bill Brennan last season. Bower also won the goalkeepers honors for this season with a goals against average of 2.71 per game.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>FINAL STANDING</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01241/1281495-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="600" height="192"></div><h3><b>RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>Tuesday March 15th</b></p><p>Victoria 0 at Vancouver 3</p><p>New West. 7 at Saskatoon 4</p><p><b>Wednesday March 16th</b></p><p>Vancouver 3 at Victoria 2</p><p>New West. 2 at Edmonton 9</p><p><b>Thursday March 17th</b></p><p>New West. 4 at Calgary 7</p><p>Edmonton 5 at Saskatoon 1</p><p><b>Friday March 18th</b></p><p>Victoria 0 at Vancouver 1</p><p><b>Saturday March 19th</b></p><p>Edmonton 2 at Calgary 5</p><p>Victoria 9 at New West. 7</p><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3><b>(Final Statistics)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02204/1281488-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="602" height="1732"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03179/1281481-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="592" height="350"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1540/1281474-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="612" height="422"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04158/1281467-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="586" height="162"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, MARCH 15 Victoria 0 at Vancouver 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05136/1281460-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="602" height="440"></div><h3><b>New Westminster 7 at Saskatoon 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07104/1281453-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="594" height="676"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 Vancouver 3 at Victoria 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0897/1281446-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="602" height="444"></div><h3><b>New Westminster 2 at Edmonton 9</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0992/1281439-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="592" height="742"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, MARCH 17 New Westminster 4 at Calgary 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1090/1281432-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="598" height="774"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 5 at Saskatoon 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1180/1281425-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="598" height="509"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, MARCH 18 Victoria 0 at Vancouver 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1272/1281418-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="595" height="378"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, MARCH 19 Edmonton 2 at Calgary 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1356/1281411-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="598" height="637"></div><h3><b>Victoria 9 at New Westminster 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1450/1281404-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="616" height="1054"></div><h2><b>Cougars and Canuck But Where&rsquo;s The Puck?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06114/1281397-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="2198" height="1986"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WHERE&rsquo;D IT GO?</b> would seem to be the question uppermost in the mind of Victoria Cougars&rsquo; netminder Marcel Pelletier as he crouches just outside his goal crease. George Ford of the Vancouver Canucks is the fellow who made the shot and is shown here seconds later being checked by Bill Davidson of the Cougars. The Puck? It&rsquo;s behind the Victoria cage, having been deflected wide of the target. <span class="photo-credit">(Courtesy Vancouver Province)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WETERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>It will be Edmonton, league champs, against Vancouver, third place team, in one WHL best-of-seven semi-final series and Victoria&rsquo;s second place Cougars playing Calgary and its fourth spot Stampeders, defending champs, in the other semis. Edmonton waltzed to first with 39 wins and 11 ties in 70 games for 89 points&hellip;Victoria was second with 33 wins and 74 points&hellip;Vancouver climaxed tremendous comeback with terrific drive after the new year to win 31 games, tie 9 and wind up third with 71 points&hellip;Calgary squeezed into fourth spot by winning its last two games for 70 points on 29 wins and 12 ties&hellip;New Westminster and owner-manager Kenny MacKenzie missed the playoffs for the first time as the club collapsed in the second half of the race and ended a disappointing season with 67 points on 29 wins and 9 ties&hellip;Saskatoon was a poor last with only 19 victories and 49 points in 70 games.</p><p>Season records favor Victoria over Calgary. The odd game at home could be the deciding factor in Edmonton&rsquo;s advantage over Vancouver&rsquo;s comeback Canucks&hellip;The Flyers and Canucks were 4-4-2 in 10 league games and Bud Poile&rsquo;s &ldquo;puppies&rdquo; outscored Art Chapman&rsquo;s battiers, 31-30&hellip;Experts pick Edmonton to win it all&hellip;long shot artists favor Vancouver&hellip;offensive-minded guess-perts go along with Calgary&hellip;and the close-checking fanciers go along with Victoria&hellip;It should be quite a battle for the WHL title and President&rsquo;s Cup.</p><p>Edmonton&rsquo;s Bronco Horvath had his greatest season and the best ever experienced by a WHL player when he set a record-shattering mark, scoring 50 goals and 60 assists for 110 points, in 67 games, bettering Bob (NW) Love&rsquo;s 101 points by nine. Horvath&rsquo;s 50 goals was also tops for all professional leagues this year, and it was only three short of Doug Adam&rsquo;s WHL 53-goal record&hellip;Bronco set a new league mark for hat tricks with 5; he scored the most first goal of a game with 9; he tied with Max Bentley of Saskatoon and Ron Matthews of NW for most game winning tallies with 6; and he was the guy who set Johnny Bueyk up for many of the rookie&rsquo;s 30 goals and 58 assists for a runner-up 88 points, and Eddie Stankiewicz, who plays right wing on Horvath&rsquo;s right side, can thank Bronco for the larger percentage of his 27 goals, 45 assists and 72 points, which placed him 10th in the scoring.</p><p>Horvath without question was the big guy in Edmonton&rsquo;s power-packed young club. The Flyers celebrated &ldquo;garbage collector&rdquo; was especially rough on Calgary. He spared no team and no goalie in his record-shattering season. You can be sure Vancouver will put somebody on Horvath when they meet in the semi-finals.</p><p>Johnny Bower, Vancouver, won the goalkeeping honors with a terrific late-season goals against average of 2.71. He was the heart of the Canucks, the guy who kept Art Chapman&rsquo;s team in the race when it looked like the bottom was going to fall out. Bower allowed only 171 goals in 63 games. He shutout Victoria twice in the final week of play to tie the WHL record for shutouts with 7, set last year by Bill Brennan of Calgary&hellip;Marcel Pelletier, Victoria, with a 2.81 average and 6 shutouts and Glen Hall, Edmonton, with a 2.83 mark and 5 shutouts followed&hellip;Bower is the third Vancouver goalie to win the netminding honors&hellip;Last season &ldquo;Gump&rdquo; Wors-ley took it all; Emil &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; Francis did the same two seasons ago&hellip;Worsley and Francis were also named to the first All-Star team and copped the Most Valuable Player award&hellip;Will Bower do the same this year?&hellip;Guyle Fielder of New Westminster, who won the individual scoring championship last season with 88 points while playing for Seattle, had the most assists, 67, tying him with Mel Read, Tacoma, for most assists in a season&hellip;Fielder had 20 goals for 87 points, one less than what he got last season and good for third spot this season.</p><p>Horvath 110 points, Bueyk 88, Fielder 87, Ed. Dorohoy 85, Gerry Couture 82, Andy Hebenton 80, Max McNab 78, Gordon Fash-oway and Sid Finney each 77, and Stankiewicz 72, comprise the WHL&rsquo;s &ldquo;Big Ten.&rdquo; for the 1954-55 season&hellip;Behind Horvath&rsquo;s 50 goals came Hebenton with 46 and Fashoway with 45&hellip;Harry Dick of Vancouver set a new penalty record with 208 minutes. The old mark was 186 by Pete Durham&hellip;Durham had the latter erased from beside his name but added a better one as he scored 19 goals, most in one season by a defenceman. The old record was 18 set by George Hunchuk, Babe Pratt and Willie Schmidt.</p><p>&ldquo;Wiggie&rdquo; Wylie spent the least number of minutes in the cooler, the Vancouver centre had only one two-minute minor&hellip;Dick was voted the most popular Vancouver player by the fans&hellip;Phil Maloney the most sportsmanlike and gentlemanly&hellip;NW fans named McNab the most valuable and winner of the Dutch Evers Memorial Trophy and the most gentlemanly as well&hellip;Motto McLean was the most popular Royal&hellip;Bob Love was given a night commemorating his seventh consecutive season&mdash;491 league games&mdash;without missing a game. Love was presented with a movie projector, numerous gifts and a cheque of about $1,000&hellip;Bev Bentley, Saskatoon, has been named the emergency goalie for the playoffs&hellip;Max Bentley was Saskatoon&rsquo;s second highest goal scorer&mdash;24 goals in 40 games&hellip;Ray Manson led with 27 goals in 58 games&hellip;Larry &ldquo;The Rock&rdquo; Zeidel paeed the defencemen in points with 51, Durham had 49&hellip;Ollie Dorohoy had a successful season scoring 31 goals and 38 assists for 69 scoring points&hellip;Jackie McLeod &ldquo;found&rdquo; himself with Vancouver in the last six weeks of the schedule to finish with 20 goals and 51 points in 51 games, getting 12 of the goals for the Canucks.</p><p>Early in the season Bud Poile predicted NW wouldn&rsquo;t make the playoffs. Poile was not alone in that respect&hellip;Poile figures his club to take all the marbles&hellip;Art Chapman, Billy Reay and Frank Currie would enjoy nothing better than knocking over Poile&rsquo;s young runs&hellip;The coast clubs won the intersectional series, winning 38 games as against 36 for the prairie teams. Of the 80 games 16 ended in a tie&hellip;There were two scoreless tie games this season, Edmonton participated in both, one at Victoria, the other at Vancouver.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

WHL Blueline Banter

<div class="byline">By STAN MOHER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01244/1281550-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRONCO HORVATH</b></figcaption></div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>Bronco Horvath, Edmonton Flyer pivot, has capped a remarkably fine season by setting a new scoring record for the Western Hockey league.</p><p>And he broke the old mark&mdash;of 101, set by New Westminster&rsquo;s Bobby (Careless) Love&mdash;in spectacular fashion the night of March 11.</p><p>Flyers were in Calgary and Horvath fired the three goal hat trick in reaching the 102 mark in points, a new record.</p><p>In other words the slick passing Flyer centre attained at least temporary WHL immortality, if such a thing is possible, with a solid effort. No backing into the throne room, via an assist, cheap or otherwise.</p><p>He went first Class.</p><p>Very next night he added three more points, also against the Cowboys, moving to 105 for the season. He ended the season with a total of 110 points.</p><p>Horvath&rsquo;s goal total stood at 50, just four short of the league record. He was tops in this department.</p><p>His hat trick-at Calgary was No. 5 for the season&mdash;also a new mark.</p><p>Naturally Horvath&rsquo;s scoring pyrotechnics have been the talk of Flyer followers, overshadowing even the wonderfully consistent play of the team as a whole, almost from the start of the campaign.</p><p>And just as naturally the customers are wondering where the Port Colborne product will go from here.</p><p>Will it be to Detroit, the parent team of the Flyers, and if the Red Wing brass decides to give him an opportunity of dislodging one of their current centre icemen (Reibel, Delvecchio, Skov), what of his chances?</p><p>Flyer coach &lsquo;Bud&rsquo; Poile says simply. &ldquo;You just about have to give a guy who sets scoring records a real tryout.&rdquo;</p><p>Further he thinks &ldquo;Brone has a good chance of making the National Hockey league. Not only will he have all those points going for him but as well he&rsquo;s young (24) and has a terrific desire to make good up there.&rdquo;</p><p>Playmaker Horvath is no speedster, granted. But he seems to know when to skate and where to skate to be effective. On top of this he&rsquo;s dynamite in front of the net, as witness his goal total. He has a fine shot but isn&rsquo;t averse to &lsquo;slopping&rsquo; the puck into the net, if there&rsquo;s no opportunity to pull the trigger in the grand manner.</p><p>He weighs 170 and stands 5&rsquo;11. Big enough, in other words, to mix it in NHL company.</p><p>Horvath joined the Flyers from the Syracuse Warriors, via the Detroit training camp, last fall. At the time Poile was desperate for centre men.</p><p>As it turned out the experienced Horvath more than made good and rookies Norm Ullman and Jerry Melnyk likewise came through, thus ending the pivot famine.</p><h2><b>Went First Class</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Record-Breaker Bronco Horvath Ticketed For Detroit Red Wings

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01215/1281637-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>LULU DENIS</b></p><p><b>KELLY BURNETT</b></p><p><b>ORVAL TESSIER</b></p></figcaption></div><h2><b>Rough Ride</b></h2><p>Royal went to Quebec Mr a playoff game last week and had a bus breakdown and late train all with 3 hours.</p><h2><b>Freak Goal</b></h2><p>Quebec&rsquo;s Joe Crozier scored into an empty net last Sunday by playing a perfect carom off the boards.</p><h2><b>Royals&rsquo; Trigger Line</b></h2><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>Best-of-nine semi-finals)</b></p><h3><b>SERIES A</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03163/1281630-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="598" height="114"></div><h3><b>SERIES B</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04122/1281623-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="600" height="116"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY MARCH 22 CHICOUTIMI 2 AT SHAWINIGAN 4</b></h3><p><b>(Shawinigan leads best-of-nine semi-final 1-0)</b></p><p><b>Chicoutimi:</b> goal: Craig; defense: Glaude, MacNab, Taillefer, Roy; forwards: S. Smrke, Topoll, Power, Locas, Bartlett, Leger, Gravelle, Sasakamoose, Hicks, Dussault.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls:</b> goal: R. Perreault; defense: Leger, Talbot, Turner, Hodgson; forwards: Denis, F. Perreault, Desaulniers, Provost, Broden, Faulkner, Kachur, Dube, Grosse, Wray.</p><p>Referee: Charlie Deziel; linesmen: Landry, Turgeon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0599/1281616-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="592" height="491"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, MARCH 24 Montreal 2 at Quebec 4</b></h3><p><b>(Quebec leads best-of-nine semi-final 1-0)</b></p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defense: Harmon, Bownass, Rousseau, Dewsbury, Roche; forward: Plante, Blaine, Burchell, Burnett, Denis, Tessier, Masnick, Hildebrand, Mazur, Mackay.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defense: Arbour, Houle, Crozier, Levandoski; forwards: Powell, Labadie, Uniac, Henry, Regan, Tremblay, Groleau, Buchanan, Malo, Ehman.</p><p><b>Referee</b>.&mdash;George Gravel; linesmen: Rene Simard, Rene Langevin.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0683/1281609-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="583" height="508"></div><h3><b>Shawinigan 3 at Chicoutimi 1</b></h3><p><b>(Shawinigan leads best-of-nine semi-final 2-0)</b></p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defense: R. Leger, Talbot, Hodgson, Turner; forwards: Desaulniers, Wray Provost, F. Perreault, Kachur, Broden, Denis, Grease, Faulkner, Dube.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Craig; defense: Roy, Glaude, Taillefer, McNab; forwards: Locas, Dussault, Gravelle, Smrke, Bartlett, Topoll, G. Leger, Sasakamoose, Hicks, Power, Moore.</p><p>Referee&mdash;Corriveau; linesmen: Demers, Boileau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0775/1281602-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="590" height="442"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, MARCH 26 Quebec 0 at Montreal 4</b></h3><p><b>(Best-of-nine series tied 1-1)</b></p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defense: Ehman, Houle, Crozier, Levandoski; forwards: Labadie, Uniac, Henry, Regan, Tremblay, Powell, Groleau, Buchanan, Malo, Cossette.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defense: Harmon, Bownas, Rousseau, Dewsbury, Roche; forwards: Laplante, Blaine, Burchell, Burnett, Denis, Tessier, Masnick, Hildebrand, Mazur.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0865/1281595-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="585" height="499"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, MARCH 27 Montreal 0 at Quebec 2</b></h3><p><b>(Quebec leads best-of-nine series 2-1)</b></p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defense: Harmon, Bownass, Rousseau, Dewsbury, Roche: forwards: Laplante, Blaine, Burchell, Burnett, Denis, Tessier, Masnick, Hildebrand, Mazur.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defense: Ehman, Houle, Crozier, Levandoski; forwards, Labadie, Uniac, Henry, Regan, Tremblay, Powell, Groleau, Buchanan, Malo, Cossette.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0961/1281588-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="583" height="343"></div><h3><b>Chicoutimi 2 at Shawinigan 4</b></h3><p><b>(Shawinigan leads best-of-nine series 3-0)</b></p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Craig; defense: Taillefer, Roy, McNab; forwards: Power, Sasakamoose, Topoll, Hicks, Dussault, Locas, Smrke, Gravelle, Bartlett.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Lamirande, Turner, Tal-bot, Hodgson; forwards: Kachur, Grosse, Dube, Wray, Faulkner, Provost, Broden, Desaulniers, Denis, F. Perreault</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1054/1281581-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="589" height="502"></div><div class="sidebar"><p>The Toronto Maple Leafs use BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02182/1281668-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg"></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The Montreal Royals and Shawinigan Falls Cataracts made it a closed corporation when the First and Second All-Star teams of the Quebec Hockey League were announced this week by league secretary Sid Holstead.</p><p>Sports writers covering the games in the five cities of the league balloted for two full squads and two coaches.</p><p>The results showed that a vast plurality favored Royals attack unit, The Trigger Line, and the full defensive coterie of the Cataracts, goaler Robert &ldquo;Miche&rdquo; Perreault and two of the regular rearguards, with Roger Leger as coach.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Quebec League All Stars

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p><b>THE ALLAN CUP FEVER&mdash;</b>It&rsquo;s Northern Ontario and the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds against Southern Ontario and Kitchener-Waterloo Flying Dutchmen for the All Ontario Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey crown&hellip;I am just a little late getting this column prepared in order to bring things up-to-date on the exciting provincial series&hellip;the winner of the Ontario crown is rated a very good chance in the Allan Cup race&hellip;here we have the Allan Cup-starved Sault Ste. Marie fans (first and only Dominion title away back in 1924) battling Kitchener-Waterloo who won the coveted national crown in 1952-53&hellip;The Greyhounds eliminated Abitibi Eskimos in four-straight to win their first NOHA title since 1952 and, at this writing, have just arrived in Guelph to play Kitchener in the first two games of the best-of-seven series&hellip;Guelph had to be used because a big ice-show was booked into the modern and spacious Kitchener Arena and the hockey finals could not be played in that wonderful hockey centre&hellip;The Greyhounds will match their terrific forward line of Jimmy McBurney, Mike Ratchford and Ron Hurst against the big, potent unit of Ken Laufman, George Skoles and Jerry Laberge&hellip;during the three playoff series for the Northern Ontario title, the line of McBurney-Ratchford-Hurst collected a total of 45 points on 24 goals and 21 assists&hellip;McBurney blasted 14 goals and three assists; Ratchford, two goals and 12 assists; Hurst, eight goals and six assists&hellip;Matt Mesich, brilliant All-Star rearguard, was a tower of strength on the attack as well for the Sault Ste. Marie aggregation, rifling six goals and six assists&hellip;the work of Eddie Chadwick in goal provided one of the highlights of the NOHA finals against Iroquois Falls&hellip;and just to celebrate his 6-0 shutout (his second of the entire playoffs) Mrs. Chadwick gave birth to a bouncing baby boy, so it&rsquo;s very hearty congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick!&hellip;Eddie will be facing Keith Woodall in goal according to word we just received from Toronto before getting this column away to Montreal&hellip;earlier it was announced that Bobby Gillson,. starry Owen Sound Mercurys net-minder would replace the injured Dennis Brodeur, who suffered a serious knee injury in practice&hellip;he is undergoing treatment at the moment for torn ligaments&hellip;this put Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen on the spot and they called in Gillson to fill the gap&hellip;however, the latest word is that Woodall, who was the regular netminder when Kitchener won the Allan Cup in 52-53 would play the big series.</p><p><b>CONGRATULATIONS TO JOHNNY&mdash;</b>At this time we would like to join with the Northern Ontario fans in extending congratulations to Coach Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty for leading the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds to his first NOHA crown&hellip;He saw his team through a very torrid Southern Division semi-final series against the Sault Ste. Marie (Michigan) Indians and then led the &lsquo;Hounds to victory over North Bay Trappers in the division finals, both series going the limit&hellip;best wishes to the Flying Greyhounds in their quest for the Allan Cup&hellip;Bob Howe, friendly and efficient sports editor of The Huntsville Forester, is pretty high on Bucko McDonald&rsquo;s Sundridge Beavers in the Intermediate &ldquo;B&rdquo; playoffs&hellip;Bob informs THE HOCKEY NEWS that Bracebridge is counting on turning Intermediate &ldquo;A&rdquo; next year with a much stronger team&hellip;Says Bob: &ldquo;Jimmy Strachan, the famed coach of the Bears, is definitely returning to put the young team through their paces again. Bruce Hook, a former Bracebridge hockey prospect, will be in goal. Bruce played with Midland this season. Jimmy tells us that he expects to have two senior players skating for Bracebridge next year.&rdquo; Bob goes on to state that Jack Bionda, who was seriously injured while with the Soo Greyhounds this season, is now taking skating practice and is rapidly recovering from that bad shoulder separation&hellip;Huntsville&rsquo;s new $150,000 arena is nearing completion, but the boys are wasting no time since the Huntsville Hockey League and 200 young stars have been using the ice anyway&hellip;it&rsquo;s hard to keep that type of enthusiasm down&hellip;over 35 boys from Huntsville ware entered in the Little NHL setup in Parry Sound which was a marvelous boost for minor hockey in the entire district&hellip;well, Bob, that was certainly a mighty fine letter and it was a real pleasure hearing from you again&hellip;Keep up the good work for hockey in your splendid community!!</p><p><b>GET TO WORK EARLY&mdash;</b>The American city of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, which made a strong showing in the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Southern Division this season, already has set up their executive for the 1955-56 season&hellip;The boys are looking forward to a great year&hellip;Popular Roy Lynn was elected president for another term on the Sault Ste. Marie Indians Hockey Club&hellip;Roy, along with the other members have dons a remarkable job for senior hockey&hellip;they have faced and overcome so many hurdles in their driving attempt to make senior hockey stick in the American centre every hockey fan must admire them for it&hellip;Other officers who will serve throughout 55-56 are Roy Hollingsworth, vice-president of the hockey club and president of the board of directors; Russ Wygant, former manager, second vice-president; Ted Caffey, treasurer; Clarence McKee, secretary; Glenn Smart, manager&hellip;the fine Soo Indian Booster Club will also get to work early in the season to map out ambitious plans for the 55-56 season&hellip;when the Iroquois Falls Abitibi Eskimos arrived in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, for the Northern Ontario finals, they made quite a hit&hellip;veteran Sully Porter celebrated his 35th birthday by playing goal in game number three and held the powerful&rsquo; Hounds to a 4-3 score&hellip;fans in the North recalled that last season Sully celebrated his 34th birthday by blanking Sudbury Wolves in one of the NOHA finals&hellip;this time, Sully almost turned his birthday into another victory for the Eskies&hellip;he turned out to be one of the most colorful performers seen here for a long time&hellip;Doug Towers, who starred with the Greyhounds a couple of seasons ago, turned in a very fine performance for Iroquois Falls&hellip;Jean DeVilliers, sports director for Radio Station CFCL in Timmins, made the trip and did an excellent job on his play-by-play reports back to his Porcupine District&hellip;Jean also had a nifty hot-stove-league in operation and proved to be quite a popular gent with the team itself&hellip;I met the entire team and they are a real credit to hockey&hellip;they work in the paper mill and play hockey at the same time with no actual pay for playing except for the love of the game&hellip;so when you consider they put up a fairly good show against the high-priced Soo Greyhounds they must be given a good boost&hellip;nice going, fellows!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02164/1281706-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WILLIAM M. NORTHEY</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>With the selection of Connie Broden, clean and effective centre-iceman of the Shazinigan Falls Cataracts as the loop&rsquo;s top rookie, the award list in the Quebec Hockey League was completed.</p><p>League secretary Sid Holstead announced that Broden had been elected in a poll of writers who cover the league&rsquo;s activities in the five cities of the circuit.</p><p>Holstead included in his statement another outstanding fact&mdash;Broden will be rewarded for his fine effort this season by having ds name inscribed on a beautiful new trophy donated by William M. Northey, executive vice-president of the Canadian Arena Company (The Forum).</p><p>For some years the Quebec loop and Its forerunner the QSHL, have been naming a top yearling at the end of each playing season by one means or another, but the winner has gone without tangible recognition. The honor has been without a prize.</p><p>League president George M. Hater set out to remedy this deficiency. He approached Mr. Nor-they, who readily responded to the suggestion that he should give trophy.</p><p>Mr. Northey, a grand old sportsman, has been closely identified with the hockey scene for more than half a century. Though an executive with the Forum organisation since the building was at the blue print stage, more than 30 years ago, he was long before that an executive of hockey clubs, and leagues, and rinks where the game flourished.</p><p>He was one of the original trustees of the Allan Cup and long held a prominent role in the councils of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada. He is a past-president of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association.</p><p>Thus his name on a Quebec Hockey League Trophy adds both glamour, prestige and tradition to its growing list of awards.</p><p>Broden, who becomes, as already mentioned, the first winner of &ldquo;The Northey&rdquo; was picked over a small but outstanding group of great young professional hockey prospects. In the balloting, which Holstead refused to reveal in detail, the Cataracts&rsquo; pivot-man, led his teammate Claude Provost and two Chicoutimi players. Jim &ldquo;Rocky&rdquo; Bartlett and Del Toppall.</p><p>Now 22 years of age, Broden is from the Notre Dame de Grace district of Montreal. He played his early hockey on the outdoor rinks of this area, and later at Loyola College where he was graduated with B.A. degree.</p><p>He first became identified with hockey on a more established organization level when he made Royals Junior A squad in 1948 before he had reached his 16th birthday.</p><p>Last season he was with Ken Reardon in Cincinnati where he collected 71 points with his 32 goals and 39 assists. When Ken Reardon and Roger Leger began assembling their squad for the renaissance of hockey at Shawinigan Falls last Fall, Broden was picked out of Canadiens big crop of stellar prospects.</p><p>In the shake-down, Connie was assigned to the centre berth with Provost and Newfoundlander George Faulkner as his flankers, in the creation of the Cataracts&rsquo; Kid Line. And Broden finished the season as seventh in the league&rsquo;s overall ranking of pointmakers, the top man on his club with 27 goals, 35 assists&mdash;62 points.</p><p>There&rsquo;s always been a keen appreciation of the Byng of Vimy award; ever since League president George M. Slater announced acquisition of the trophy in May 1942 at an annual meeting of the league. It had been presented by Lady Byng in memory of her late husband, a World War I general, who commanded the troops which included the Canadian Corps in the successful assault on Vimy Ridge, one of the British armies&rsquo; greatest triumphs.</p><p>Its symbolism slightly resembles that of the older Lady Byng Trophy of the National Hockey League. The citation reads: &ldquo;Awarded each season to the player who best combines clean play with value to his club&rdquo;.</p><p>Frankie Eddolls, now coach of Chicago Black Hawks, was the first winner and he was playing for a wartime team during another armageddon, the RCAF Training Command entry of the 1942-43 season.</p><p>Kelly Burnett&rsquo;s name has been gaining prominence in the daily prints recently as the latest winner, and he becomes the first member of the Royals to be awarded same since it was handed to Les Douglas for the 1951-52 campaign. Other Royals to receive the award were: Pete Morin, 1945-46 and Gerry McNeil 1946-47.</p><p>The Byng of Vimy Trophy is unique in one respect: its winner is selected in a poll of the league&rsquo;s referees, and a player could hardly have a more severe critic.</p><p>More recent is the Vezina Memorial Trophy which was taken by Robert &ldquo;Miche&rdquo; Perreault, goaler for the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts at the end of the schedule fast week. He had an overwhelming margin in the goal-against column in the final audit. A minus-margin that is.</p><p>Perreault becomes the fifth to receive this award, and the first net-minder of a Shawinigan Falls team to be so honored.</p><p>The President&rsquo;s Cup, a gift to the QHL by the league president George M. Slater, came into circulation in the 1951-52 campaign. This goes to the player credited with the greatest number of points, goals and assists, in the league&rsquo;s championship season.</p><p>Kelly Burnett led the pack this year, and so writes his own chapter in hockey history by being the first player to be awarded both the Byng of Vimy Trophy and the President&rsquo;s Cup.</p><h2><b>Donated Silverware</b></h2><h2><b>The Award</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01214/1281699-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="588" height="1700"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>THE NORTHEY TROPHY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Connie Broden Top QHL Freshman, First Holder Of The Northey Trophy

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01179/1281761-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>STRATFORD INDIANS</b> wound up their senior OHA season by honoring their most popular and most valuable players at a dinner provided by Manager-President C. H. &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Meier. Two defensemen were chosen for the awards, Harry Psutka, voted the most popular player by the fans, while Lloyd Finkbeiner&rsquo;s teammates chose him as the Most Valuable Player. Pictured above, left to right, are Jack Ross presenting the Spackman and Ross Trophy to Harry Psutka; &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Meier, Lloyd Finkbeiner receiving the Linkert Trophy from the donor, C. R. Linkert.</figcaption></div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Playoffs between the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds and Kitchener Dutchmen, for the all Ontario senior hockey championship and the right to advance into the Allan Cup playdowns against the winners of the Maritimes-Ottawa Valley series, got under way at Guelph this week and resume in Soo, Ont. next week. The Kitchener auditorium had been previously booked for an ice show all last week, necessitating a switch of the first two games to Guelph. The next three games of the best-of-seven series are billed for Soo, Ont., March 26, 28, 29, and if any more games prove necessary they are slated for Kitchener, March 31 and April 1 or 2.</p><p>The Soo-Kitchener series shapes up like one of the best in years, with few predictions being made as to the final outcome, because both teams boast of having a number of former pros from the NHL and AHL.</p><p>Injuries have crippled the Greyhounds and the Dutchmen, but the former appear to be in better shape for the series. Kitchener will be forced to start without the services of their goalie, Denis Brodeur, defenceman Joe Schertzl and rightwinger Charlie Brooker. Brodeur is out for season with an injured knee, while Schertzl will miss part of the series at least due to injuries. Brooker is bedded with the flu. The Dutchmen were denied a replacement for the injured Schertzl, but may sign Bobby Gillson of the Owen Sound Mercurys as a replacement for the injured Brodeur.</p><p>The Soo lineup bristles with the names of former pro players, one of whom is Pentti Lund, a 29-year-old native of Helsinki, Finland, who turned pro with the Boston Bruins in the season of 1946-47. Two seasons later he won the Calder Trophy as a member of the New York Rangers. Three years later Lund returned to Boston. His career in the big top was shortened by the loss of sight in one eye in a hockey accident. The coincidence is that Lund will be playing against the same player who accidentally injured him. Clare Martin, former playing-coach of the Dutchmen, now devoting his entire attention to the defence, while a member of the Detroit Red Wings, fired a backhander and his stick struck Lund in the face at the end of the finish of the shot.</p><p>Other members of the Greyhounds to whom the Dutchmen will have to pay more than usual attention are Steve Wochy and Harry Taylor, former members of the Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs, respectively.</p><p>Coach &ldquo;Peanut&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty has been helped considerably by the Leafs in assembling the Soo team, and a third Toronto chattel is goalie Ed Chadwick. Other members of the team with AHL experience are defencemen Jake Forbes, Matt Mesich, Lyall Wiseman and Carl Smelle.</p><p>Besides Clare Martin, other members of the Kitchener team with pro backgrounds are Jackie Hamilton, former Leaf, and Joe Schertzl.</p><p>Bobbie Bauer, member of the famous Kraut Line of the Boston Bruins, took over the coaching chores for the Dutchmen when Martin found his dual post too strenuous, but Bauer has also been confined to bed with virus pneumonia, and during his absence, Bob Rafferty, Kitchener coach of two seasons ago, when they won the Allan Cup, has been filling in temporarily. Don Bauer, member of the championship team, was also induced to return to action for the see nd season, when injuries left the Dutchmen shorthanded, and he, along with Ken Laufman, OHA scoring leader; Jackie Hamilton and Jackie White give the Dutchmen four centremen with a lot of experience.</p><p>Schertzl&rsquo;s injury may mean that Mike Delich, Injured previously, or Bob White, member of the Kitchener junior Greenshirts and kid brother of Jackie White, will fill in on the defence.</p><h2><b>Pair Of Indians Honored</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Dutchmen-Greyhounds Meet For All-Ontario Senior Title

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>It will be Cincinnati against Troy for the International League playoff title.</p><p>The Hawks earned the right to enter the finals by disposing of the undermanned Toledo Mercurys in straight games in their best-of-five semi-final. Troy had little trouble ousting Grand Rapids from further competition, taking their series 3-1.</p><p>The finals will be a best-of-seven affair.</p><p>Defensemen showed the way as Cincinnati polished off a Toledo club that had given the Mohawks plenty of trying moments during the regular campaign.</p><p>Scores of the three Cincinnati triumphs were almost identical, 5-2, 4-2 and 4-2, while Troy took a close-checking opener from Grand Rapids, 3-1; lost the next game, 2-1, and then came back to capture the third, 2-0.</p><h2><b>Add Five More</b></h2><p>A Hawk defense corps of Roly McLenahan, Moe Man-tha, George Bouchard and Brian MacKay that had accounted for a whopping 47 goals in the regular season, added five more in the first three post season tilts.</p><p>Mantha and Bouchard each had two and McLenahan on goal against Toledo, maintaining the pace they had set during Cincinnati&rsquo;s drive to its third straight IHL crown. McLenahan had 27 goals, Mantha 10, Bouchard seven and Mackay three during the 1954-55 campaign.</p><p>With the exception of the veteran McLenahan, who is 33, the Hawks boast a youthful quartet of rear guards. Mantha, from North Bay, Ontario, is 21; MacKay, from Montreal, is 22, and Bouchard, also from Montreal, is 23.</p><h2><b>Two &ldquo;Butch&rsquo;s&rdquo;</b></h2><p>Mantha and Bouchard are the heaviest, both at 185 pounds, while McLenahan, who makes his home in St. Catharines, Ontario, is 173 and MacKay is the lightest at 165. Mantha stands an inch and a half over six feet tall, while Bouchard and MacKay, both of whom answer to the nickname of &ldquo;Butch,&rdquo; each is 5-11 and McLenahan is 5-8.</p><p>This is Mantha&rsquo;s initial season in senior hockey, after competing for the Galt Black Hawks and Quebec Frontenacs as a junior. MacKay, in his second year with Cincinnati, started the campaign as a pro with the Montreal Royals. As a junior, he was with the Montreal Canadien juniors.</p><p>Bouchard, one of two players who have been with the Hawks all three years they have been members of the International League, has seen some senior action with St. Therese and St. Hyacinthe after graduating from the Verdun Junior Maple Leafs.</p><p>Rounding out the effective quartet of Cincinnati defensemen is McLenahan, who broke all IHL records for rear guards during the past campaign with new highs of 27 goals, 47 assists and 74 points. In his second year as coach in the Queen City, McLenahan was a pro for six years with four American League teams, Hershey, Buffalo, Cleveland and Indianapolis. A salesman in the off-season, McLenahan and his wife, Estelle, have one son, Michael, aged six.</p><p>Five different players, Phil Goyette, John (Bun) Smith, Denis Boucher, Mantha and Bouchard collected two goals apiece for Cincinnati and Rod McElroy had two for Toledo in the opening series. Single tallies were scored by the Hawks&rsquo; Billy Goold, Barry Thorndycraft and McLenahan and by the Mercs&rsquo; Bill Mitchell, Gaff Turner, Gordie Vejprava and Jerry Prince, as Cincinnati outscored its northern Ohio foe, 13 goals to six.</p><p>The Troy-Grand Rapids series was even tighter defensively, with the Bruins outscoring the Rockets, six goals to three, in the first three tilts.</p><p>Max Szturm, 18-year-old whiz, and Kee Mortson, his linemate, each tallied twice for Troy and Steve Gaber and Bob Manson added goals, while Gordie Cowan, George Hayes and Skip Frezell lit the red light for the Michigan team.</p><h2><b>Two Year Man</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02149/1281816-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="582" height="885"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BUTCH MACKAY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hawks Seek Playoff Title In international League; Take On Bruins In Finals

<div class="byline">JOE MINSTER</div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>Here is the scoring data on the semi-final playoff series in the International Hockey League pitting Cincinnati, regular-season champion, against third-place Toledo, and runner-up Troy vs. fourth-place Grand Rapids.</p><p>Cincinnati-Toledo&mdash;First game, Cincinnati 5, Toledo 2. Moe Mantha (2), Roly McLenahan, Butch Bouchard and Denis Boucher scored for the Mohawks and Gordie Vejprava and Jerry Prince for Toledo.</p><p>Second game, Cincinnati 4, Toledo 2. Billy Goold, Boucher, Bouchard and Phil Goyette scored for Cincinnati, Bill Mitchell and Rod McElroy for Toledo.</p><p>Third game, Cincinnati 4, Toledo 2. Bun Smith (2). Goyette and Barry Thorndycraft scored for the Hawks, McElroy and Gaff Turner for the Mercs.</p><p>Troy-Grand Rapids&mdash;First game, Troy 3, Grand Rapids 1. Max Szturm, Steve Gaber and Kee Mortson scored for Troy, Gordie Cowan for Grand Rapids.</p><p>Second game. Grand Rapids 2, Troy 1. George Hayes and Skip Frezell scored for the Rockets, Bobby Manson for the Bruins.</p><p>Third game, Troy 2, GrandRapids 0. Szturm and Mortson scored for Troy.</p><p>Cincinnati thus won its best-of-five semifinal series from Toledo, three games to none, while Troy held a 2-1 lead over Grand Rapids in the other best-of-five semifinal set.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Scoring Data

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>As a junior Douglas (Dugger) McNeill was the leader in the movement which carried St. Mary&rsquo;s to seven consecutive Maritime junior hockey championships.</p><p>As a senior he starred for several years with Montreal Royals of the Quebec League. As a coach he is not only the toast of the Maritimes but the winningest ice leader in hockey history hereabouts.</p><p>Three years a coach, three years a winner. That&rsquo;s the McNeil record as he faces his new team, the Moncton Hawks, along the trail leading to the Allan Cup.</p><p>The Hawks, making giant strides in the last two months, finished a strong second in the Atlantic Coast League standings. In playoff the Hawks were even more formidable. They knocked off the Amherst Ramblers in the playoff semi-finals and the Charlottetown Islanders in the finals.. The Islanders, who had the league to the wire, won only one game.</p><p>The New Glasgow Rangers didn&rsquo;t even win one in the Maritime final, bowing out in straight games as the Hawks threw their weight, speed and experience behind the task. Now the Hawks await the Ottawa RCAF Flyers in their first Allan Cup venture since 1934. The Hawks are favored here. If they win it will be against Central Canada and the West.</p><p>The original Moncton Hawks faced similar odds 20 years ago and won, not once but twice. This is a record shared with three other clubs, the Winnipeg Victorias of 1911-12, the Toronto Granites of 1922-23 and the Port Arthur Bearcats of 1925-26.</p><p>In the spring of 1947 the Hawks represented the Maritimes, sped through their first opposition but foundered against Hamilton Tigers. This is their first Allan Cup challenge since then.</p><p>It is also the climax of their comeback. Three years ago the Hawks dropped out of the Big Four. Last year they were rubbed out in the New Brunswick League playoff final by Fredericton Capitals.</p><p>Late last summer it looked as if the Hawks wouldn&rsquo;t ice a team. But Halifax native Jimmy McDonald, who organized St. Mary&rsquo;s juniors a decade or so ago, persisted in his efforts. At one time he had a strong team assembled but no money or permission to play it in Moncton. It was at that time that McDonald proposed to play the team out of Dartmouh.</p><p>Moncton backers capitulated and ever since have been congratulating themselves for making the decision. While it is true that the Hawks stumbled in December and once hit the league bottom, they have been a power since Christmas.</p><p>Once they hit the playoffs the experience in the Moncton roster began to pay off. There are many &lsquo;money&rsquo; players on the lineup, fellows who have been around many places for many years. They have been through the hockey mill and know the score.</p><p>The headliners are graduates of St. Mary&rsquo;s juniors&mdash;manager McDonald, coach McNeil and star winger Bert Hirschfeld. The last named has been especially brilliant in the playoffs while McNeil has played outstanding hockey all season.</p><p>McNeil&rsquo;s greatest value, of course, is his ability to select players and then get a lot of mileage out of them. One of his key &lsquo;captures&rsquo; was veteran Tod Campeau, whom McNeil picked up late in December. Tod has given the Hawks a balance they lacked before his appeaarnce in the lineup.</p><p>&ldquo;Unfinished business&rdquo; was cleaned up when Charlottetown players were fined a total of $218.25 in a Moncton court for their part in a near-riot which occured during the fourth game of the series. E. J. Murphy appeared for the players. Pleas of not guilty to charges of causing a disturbance and common assault were withdrawn by the defence and substituted with pleas of guilty.</p><p>Charges of assault occasioning bodily harm against Steve Brylacich and Orin Carver, were withdrawn by the crown. Charges against Vernon (Wimpy) Jones also were withdrawn but court costs of $21.95 were levied against him.</p><p>Fines were as follows: Danny O&rsquo;Connor $51.95; Walter Kullman $52.45; Carver $38.45; Brylacich $53.45. Each total included court costs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Moncton Hawks Favored Over Ottawa RCAF

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01187/1281871-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WASHINGTON LIONS&hellip;1954-55 Eastern Hockey League playoff champions. L. to R.&mdash;Seated:Roger Maisonneuve, Frank Toyota, Alex &ldquo;Scotty&rdquo; McClement, Jack Spencer, Fern LaPointe, Joe Formica, Dan Morgan&mdash;Standing:Player-Coach Stan Warecki, Ross Kelly, Art Dorrington, Marlowe McDonald, Reg Meserve, Dave Lucas, Rick Albert, Doug Orvis, Roy Hammond, General Manager Jack Riley</b>.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Warecki’s Winning Washingtonians

<div class="byline">By JOE HOLMAN</div><p>WASHINGTON, D.C.&mdash;</p><p>One of the finest jobs accomplished in organized hockey in the United States during 1954-.55 must be credited Stan &ldquo;The Man&rdquo; Warecki, aggressive and hard working playercoach of the Washington Lions.</p><p>The handsome five foot, 11 inch, 170-pound Polish-Canadian veteran who makes San Diego, Calif., his home, combined with General Manager Jack Riley to bring to Uline Arena a team that not only made a whirlwind finish to take second place in the league&rsquo;s regular season race, but also won seven of eight matches while outclassing both the third place New Haven Blades and the Baltimore Clippers in the championship playoffs, seven games to one.</p><p>Warecki, a hard driving left winger, is a quietly aggressive fellow who inspires through performance. He was, for Instance, his team&rsquo;s third leading scorer despite the fact that he was missing from action for several weeks in early season due to a cut eye.</p><h2><b>Little Fanfare</b></h2><p>Riley, who previously had been outstanding alternately as an ice hockey player, coach, General Manager and referee, brought little trumpetry or fanfare into play when he announced he was organizing the hockey Lions last fall.</p><p>Rather he stressed that he and Warecki were bringing in some earnest, young men who wanted to play hockey, and would give in their best.</p><p>The Lions started magnificently In the 1954-55 Eastern League race by winning 10 matches while playing one tie and losing only four decisions.</p><p>However, they suffered wholesale injuries in late December and had fallen to and below the .500 percentage mark several times in late season before rallying magnificently to take eight of their last nine games and finishing runner-up to Clinton with a record of 26 wins against 21 losses and two ties for a .551 percentage.</p><h2><b>Clinton Titlest</b></h2><p>Clinton, playing a limited schedule, was the over-all regulation season titlest with 15 victories against seven reversals for a .682 percentage.</p><p>The Lions proved they had championship class in the closing weeks of play when they overhauled New Haven on the final day of the season after having trailed the Blades by as many as five and one-half matches in late January.</p><p>Warecki, 28, a strong and resourceful fellow, emphasizes that: &ldquo;Team play took us into second place in regular season and all the way in the playoffs.&rdquo;</p><p>The Lions, for instance, got away on the wrong foot in the best-three-of-five game semi-final round of the championship playoffs when they lost to New Haven in overtime, 4-3.</p><p>Washington held a 3-2 lead with less than five minutes of regulation play remaining when Dan McGuinness scored the equalizer. McGuinness then applied the crusher in overtime when he scored front near the blue line on a shot that Goalie Jack Spencer let get by.</p><h2><b>Roared Back</b></h2><p>The Lions, who had lost a regular season series to New Haven only, then roared back to defeat the Blades here, 8-1; in New Haven, 6-2, and again here, 10-3, while the surprising Baltimore Clippers were upsetting champion Clinton simulultaneously by an identical 3-1 games margin.</p><p>The Lions then mopped up in four straight against Baltimore by scores of 5-2 and 6-1 here and 4-1 and 6-4 in Baltimore, out-skating and outclassing the Clippers all the way.</p><p>The Lions truly were a team on many nations. There were, for instance, no fewer than nine nationalities comprising this splendidly coordinated group of 16 men.</p><p>Warecki, as previously stated, is a Polish-Canadian; Art Dorrington, a right winger, a Canadian born Negro and the only Negro playing organized ice hockey in the United States.</p><h2><b>Japanse Winger</b></h2><p>Frank Toyota, right winger, is a Japanese-Canadian and the only player of Japanese ancestry skating in either this country or in Canada.</p><p>Joe Formica, left winger, is Italian-Canadian; Jack Spencer, goalie, English-Canadian, and Roy Hammond, center, English-Irish-Canadian.</p><p>Marlowe McDonald, center, is a Scotch-Canadian but Alex &ldquo;Scotty&rdquo; McClement, a right winger, is a native Scotsman from Ayr, near Glasgow.</p><p>Capt. Doug Orvis, Dave Lucas and Ross Kelly, all defensemen, are Irish-Canadians, while Fern LaPointe and Reg Meserve, centers; Rock Albert, defenseman, and Roger Maisonneuve, right winger, all are French-Canadian.</p><h2><b>Championship Form</b></h2><p>The superiority of the Lions in the playoffs may best be stressed when it is noted that they scored 48 goals against 18 for the opposition in eight matches. Spencer, who started poorly and finished magnificently, held the opposition to an average of 2.25 goals per match, real championship performance.</p><p>Dorrington not only was the league&rsquo;s third high scorer, but had most goals, 33, in regular season.</p><p>LaPointe, Warecki, Formica and Morgan trailed in that order.</p><p>The Lions formula for success?</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a simple one,&rdquo; Player Coach Stan Warecki states simply. &ldquo;We had a bunch of hustling hockey players who behaved themselves and worked In perfect harmony.</p><p>&ldquo;You never had to check on these boys or crack down on them. They averaged less than 23 years to the man and only one player was married, Dorrington.&rdquo;</p><p>Migiel J. Uline, owner of Uline Arena who has sponsored many hockey and basketball teams over the years, pays high tribute to the 1954-55 Washington Lions.</p><p>&ldquo;It was a representative team of which Washington was pardonably pride,&rdquo; Uline declared. &ldquo;No one could ask more of a first year team than these young men accomplished, and they have most of their good years ahead of them.&rdquo;</p><p>The attendance at Uline Arena boomed with the team&rsquo;s performances. It is estimated that an average of between 2,500 and 3,000 spectators per game, and played before 4,300 rabid fans on their closing playoff match here against Baltimore last March 12.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Eastern League Championship To Scrappy Washington Lions

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask&mdash;</p><p>Despite the loss of two key men through injuries, the Regina Pats came through in the final game to defeat the Lethbridge Native Sons and thus capture the Western Junior Hockey League title.</p><p>The Regina club is now battling it out with the Humboldt Indians, champions of the Northern Saskatchewan League, in one western semi-final. The winner of this series will meet the winner of the Winnipeg MonarchFort William Canadiens semifinal in the western junior final.</p><p>The picture looked black for coach Murray Armstrong&rsquo;s Regina squad when they lost the services of starry defenceman Murray Balfour and forward Harold Otten-breit in the fifth game of the final against Lethbridge. Pats won the contest 3-2 to take a 3-2 lead in games in the best-of-seven final. But the next two games of the series were billed on successive nights and it remained to be seen how the short-handed Pats would fare against the bigger Lethbridge club.</p><p>As it turned out, the Pats battled even harder to make up for the absence of their two players. It was their best display of the year with all 14 players going all-out. They monopolized the play in the first period but scored only one goal to take a 1-0 lead. In the second period they sewed it up with three more goals compared to Lethbridge&rsquo;s one and the final score was 5-1 in their favor.</p><p>To fill Balfour&rsquo;s big skates on the blueline, coach Armstrong brought in Fred Buchan to partner Danny &ldquo;China Clipper&rdquo; Wong. Buchan saw quite a bit of action during the season and he turned in a good chore. But the other defence duo of Wayne Klinck and tall Grant Munro really came into their own in this game. Klinck was a regular all season but Munro was an in-and-outer. However, in this contest he showed that he really belonged on the blueline.</p><p>In Ottenbreit&rsquo;s spot, Armstrong restored Con Collie to the lineup, giving centreman Bill &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Hay a wing pairing of Glenn McDonald and Collie.</p><p>Sitting in Regina Stadium for this game was the complete roster of the Humboldt Indians. They had won the Northern Saskatchewan title earlier and coach Roderick &ldquo;Scotty&rdquo; Munro brought his club down to scout their opposition in the next round.</p><p>This was the fourth Western League title for Armstrong, the former N.H.L. star with the New York Americans and the Detroit Red Wings. He has by far the best record of any coach in the brief history of the Western Junior circuit. Twice Armstrong&rsquo;s Pats have gone to the Memorial Cup final and once they advanced to the western final.</p><p>This is Munro&rsquo;s first Northern Saskatchewan title since he transferred his affiliations from the former Crows Nest Pass team of the Western Junior League to Humboldt in the 1951-52 season. This season he took a team consisting of a few key holdovers, castoffs from other clubs and one starry import from the Lakehead and kept them at the top of the league for most of the campaign.</p><p>The starry import is Don Chiupka who came from the Port Arthur Bruins. Chiupka centered the first line with Reg Belliveau and Pete Panagabko on the wings and he wound up an easy winner of the league scoring tittle with 98 points, two short of Skip MacKay&rsquo;s record.</p><p>The second line consists of veteran Howie Hornby at centre, with Paul Strasser and tall Al Nicholson on the wings. Nicholson is highly-rated by Harold &ldquo;Baldy&rdquo; Cotton, the chief scout of the Boston Bruins with whom Humboldt is affiliated.</p><p>Most of Humboldt&rsquo;s scoring power is contained in these two lines. The third line is made up of Lawrence Leach, Larry Berg, Neil McDonald and Keith Christof-ferson, who share duties on the line. Berg is outstanding as a penalty killer.</p><p>Munro has Ray Ethier, formerly with the Prince Albert Mintos, in goal. Ray Hamlin is the big man of the defence, assisted by three other former P.A. players, namely Ron Larson, John Yanchuk and Dave Beskal. Dave Stewart rounds out the blueline brigade.</p><p>The Northern Saskatchewan winner has never beaten the Western Junior League winner in the Memorial Cup playoffs, but that&rsquo;s not to say that it won&rsquo;t happen some time. Humboldt, under Scotty Munro&rsquo;s direction, has become an outstanding farm club of the Boston Bruins and on a recent visit to Saskatchewan, Boston general manager Lynn Patrick expressed himself as highly pleased with the setup. With Munro directing things, there should be <i>a</i> steady flow of players up through the Boston farm system.</p><p>The Memorial Cup final will be played in the west this spring, and for that series the western winner will be allowed to pick up three players from other western clubs. The replacements, however, cannot play until the east-west final. It will be interesting to see the results of this experiment. The idea behind it, of course, was to strengthen the west for this series which has been dominated for the past half-dozen years by the eastern representatives.</p><h2><b>Fourth Crown</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02123/1281926-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="552" height="894"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MURRAY ARMSTRONG</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Injury-Racked Regina Pats Capture Western Jr. Title; Meet Humboldt Indians

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01166/1281957-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK)</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Pictured Bruin player.</p><p>3&mdash;Short for first name of Martin, former member of the N.Y. Americans.</p><p>5&mdash;How the Red Wings fared in the first game of the current season.</p><p>6&mdash;Another name for Fred Hu-cul.</p><p>10&mdash;Wally Hergesheimer is sidelined with a broken one.</p><p>12&mdash;Ont. birthplace of Bob Sabourin.</p><p>13&mdash;Germanium (Sym.).</p><p>14&mdash;Initials of Larivee of Providence Reds.</p><p>16&mdash;This club entered the NHL in 1926 (abbr.).</p><p>17&mdash;First name of Gravelie, ex Canadien player.</p><p>19&mdash;Former NHL player, called George.</p><p>21&mdash;Harry Lumley now has one.</p><p>22&mdash;Gerry Foley is a native of this country (abbr.).</p><p>23&mdash;Initials of Chorley, former Pittsburgh player.</p><p>25&mdash;This player&rsquo;s first name is Miraco.</p><p>28&mdash;Initials of Deschene, ex Providence player.</p><p>29&mdash;Jim Morrison was born in this month (abbr.).</p><p>31&mdash;Jack Adams was once one.</p><p>32&mdash;Any powerful deity.</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Gerry Foley was born in this State (abbr.).</p><p>2&mdash;This NHL netminder is a native of Toronto.</p><p>3&mdash;Name given Rousseau, last season with Buffalo.</p><p>4&mdash;Number worn by Bill Chadwick.</p><p>7&mdash;Month in which Jean Beliveau was born (abbr.).</p><p>8&mdash;Initials of one of the Bentley&rsquo;s.</p><p>9&mdash;First two letters of Yucca.</p><p>11&mdash;A former Boston netminder.</p><p>14&mdash;Initials of Wally Hergesheimer&rsquo;s brother.</p><p>15&mdash;One of the Hershey Bears.</p><p>18&mdash;Initials of Olson of Cleveland.</p><p>19&mdash;Name given Homeniuke, Chicago&rsquo;s assistant trainer.</p><p>20&mdash;Initials of player who wears No. 7 for Boston.</p><p>23&mdash;First name of a Black Hawk forward.</p><p>24&mdash;This former NHL goalie is called Wilf.</p><p>26&mdash;Number of games Eddie Sandford participated in last season.</p><p>27&mdash;Many players regard Detroit&rsquo;s&mdash;as the best in the circuit.</p><p>30&mdash;Initials of one of the Red Wings.</p><h2><b>Solution to Last Week&rsquo;s Puzzle</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Stasiuk</p><p>7&mdash;Ian</p><p>8&mdash;Norm</p><p>10&mdash;Once</p><p>12&mdash;Dec.</p><p>13&mdash;Locas</p><p>14&mdash;Ira</p><p>15&mdash;Rt.</p><p>17&mdash;Don</p><p>19&mdash;Hot</p><p>21&mdash;Ire</p><p>22&mdash;Four</p><p>25&mdash;Bend</p><p>26&mdash;Ross</p><p>27&mdash;E.L.</p><p>28&mdash;Lake</p><p>31&mdash;De.</p><p>32&mdash;Foley</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Sandwich</p><p>2&mdash;Aircraft</p><p>3&mdash;Sam</p><p>4&mdash;In</p><p>5&mdash;Kincardine</p><p>6&mdash;Chess</p><p>9&mdash;O.E.</p><p>10&mdash;O.O.</p><p>11&mdash;C.A.</p><p>16&mdash;Tor.</p><p>18&mdash;Needle</p><p>20&mdash;O&rsquo;Toole</p><p>22&mdash;Fred</p><p>23&mdash;Us.</p><p>24&mdash;R.S.</p><p>25&mdash;Bill</p><p>29&mdash;Ae.</p><p>30&mdash;Ky.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<h2><b>MEMORIAL CUP TRAIL</b></h2><h3><b>Western Quarter-Finals</b></h3><p>Winnipeg 3, Ft. William 1</p><p>Ft. William 6, Winnipeg 3</p><p>Ft. William 5, Winnipeg 3</p><p>Winnipeg 5, Ft. William 4</p><p><b>(Best-of-seven series tied 2-2)</b></p><p>Humbolt 5, Regina 3</p><p>Regina 3, Humbolt 1</p><p><b>(Regina leads best-of-seven series 2-1)</b></p><h3><b>Eastern Quarter Finals</b></h3><p>Ottawa 5, Noranda 3</p><p>Ottawa 4, Noranda 2</p><p><b>(Ottawa wins best-of-five series 3-0)</b></p><p>Quebec 13, North Sydney 0</p><h3><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR</b></h3><p>Quebec 2. Three Rivers 1</p><p><b>(Quebec wins best-of-seven series 4-1)</b></p><h3><b>ONTARIO JUNIOR</b></h3><p>St. Catharines 3, Toronto 0</p><p>Toornto 6, St. Catharines 3</p><p>Toronto 6, St. Catharines 2</p><p><b>(Toronto leads best-of-seven final 3-1)</b></p><h2><b>ALLAN CUP TRAIL</b></h2><h3><b>Western Quarter Final</b></h3><p>Vernon 10, Korkton 1</p><p>Yorkton 5, Vernon 4</p><p><b>(Best-of-seven series tied 2-2)</b></p><p>Ft. William 4. Winnipeg 2</p><p>Ft. William 3, Winnipeg 1</p><p>(Ft. William leads best-of-seven series 3-</p><p>(Ft. William leads best-of-seven series 3-0)</p><h3><b>Eastern Quarter-Finals</b></h3><p>Sault St. Marie 6, Abitibi 0</p><p><b>(Sault St. Marie wins best-of-seven final 4-0)</b></p><p>Moncton 4, Ottawa 1</p><p>Moncton 5, Ottawa 3</p><p>Moncton 7, Ottawa 2</p><p><b>(Moncton leads best-of-seven series 3-0)</b></p><p>Sault St. Marie 1, Kitchener 0</p><p>Kitchener 2, Sault St. Marie 0</p><p><b>(Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)</b></p><h3><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h3><p>Cincinnati 3, Troy 2</p><p><b>(Cincinnati leads Best-of-seven final 1-0)</b></p><h3><b>EASTERN LEAGUE</b></h3><p>Semi-Finals</p><p><b>(Washington defeated New Haven, 3 games to 1; Baltimore defeated Clinton, 3 games to 1).</b></p><h3><b>Finals</b></h3><p><b>(Washington defeated Baltimore. 4 games to 0).</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Amateur Puck Parade… …At A Glance

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02129/1282012-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg"></div><h2><b><i>Read and Enjoy&hellip;</i></b></h2><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</b></p><p><b>ONLY 15c AT YOUR NEWSSTAND</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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MARCH EDITION OF The Canadian FOOTBALL NEWS NOW ON SALE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0150/1282064-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="242" height="289"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0249/1282057-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="251" height="300"></div><h2><b>Beliveau and Mohns&hellip;Cheers and Groans!</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0347/1282050-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2786" height="1864"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0436/1282043-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2794" height="1746"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JEAN BELIVEAU of Canadiens scored his picture goal in the top photo as he dekes Boston&rsquo;s Long John Henderson and parks the puck neatly in acorner bringing down long cheers from the partisan fans in the Forum. In the lower photo, Boston&rsquo;s Doug Mohns lies on the ice as attendants looks after his wounds which amounted to a bashed in nose. Leaning over him is team-mate Fern Flaman while Leo LaBine (16) and Bill Quackenbush (11) looks on.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Jerry Donati)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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