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April 16, 1955

The Hockey News April 16, 1955

<p>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>A game-by-game account of the scoring in the International Hockey League&rsquo;s championship playoff series between Cincinnati and Troy follows:</p><p>Cincinnati 5 Troy 2 (Cincinnati leads, 3-1, in best-of-seven series.)&mdash;Phil Goyette, Butch MacKay, Dave McCready, Barry Thorndycraft and Billy Goold (open net) scored for Cincinnati, Gordon Buttrey and Steve Gaber for Troy.</p><p>Troy 4 Cincinnati 1 (Cincinnati leads, 3-2, in best-of-seven series).&mdash;John Halley, Steve Gaber, Marty McAlendin and Bobby Manson scored for Troy, Phil Goyette for Cincinnati.</p><p>Troy 3 Cincinnati 2 (best-of-seven series tied, 3-3).&mdash;Bob Cowan, Max Szturn and Red Olsen scored for Troy, John Martan and Dave McCready for Cincinnati.</p><p>Cincinnati 7 Troy 0 (Cincinnati wins best-of-seven and playoff title, four games to three).&mdash;Phil Goyette (2), Duke Edmundson (2), Dave McCready, Barry Thorndycraft and Billy Goold scored for Cincinnati. No goals for Troy.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IN THIS ISSUE

IHL Finals Data

<h2><b>DEFENSE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01152/1283452-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="949" height="964"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b><i>DOUG HARVEY</i></b></figcaption></div><h2><b>GOAL</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02127/1283445-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="933" height="954"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b><i>HARRY LUMLEY</i></b></figcaption></div><h2><b>DEFENSE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0388/1283438-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="928" height="967"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b><i>RED KELLY</i></b></figcaption></div><p><b>Goalkeeper - Harry Lumley, Toronto Maple Leafs</b></p><p><b>Defense - Doug Harvey, Montreal Canadiens</b></p><p><b>Defense - Red Kelly, Detroit Red Wings</b></p><p><b>Right Wing - Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens</b></p><p><b>Left Wing - Sid Smith, Toronto Maple Leafs</b></p><p><b>Centre - Jean Beliveau, Montreal Canadiens</b></p><p><b>Coach - Dick Irvin, Montreal Canadiens</b></p><h2><b>The Coach</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0453/1283431-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="552" height="557"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b><i>DICK IRVIN</i></b></figcaption></div><p><b>Goalkeeper - Terry Sawchuk, Detroit Red Wings</b></p><p><b>Defense - Bob Goldham, Detroit Red Wings</b></p><p><b>Defense - Tim Horton, Toronto Maple Leafs</b></p><p><b>Right Wing - Bernie Geoffrion, Montreal Canadiens</b></p><p><b>Left Wing - Bert Olmstead, Montreal Canadiens</b></p><p><b>Centre - Teeder Kennedy, Toronto Maple Leafs</b></p><p><b>Coach - Jimmy Skinner, Detroit Red Wings</b></p><h2><b>BEST ON THE LEFT</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0535/1283424-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="886" height="1755"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b><i>SID SMITH</i></b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE CENTER</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0623/1283417-1-eng-US/f0003-062.jpg" title="f0003-06" width="912" height="1774"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b><i>JEAN BELIVEAU</i></b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE RIGHT CHOICE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0715/1283410-1-eng-US/f0003-072.jpg" title="f0003-07" width="1090" height="1790"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b><i>MAURICE RICHARD</i></b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Here’s The Team The Fans Called The Best!

<p>800 Outside Rooms</p><p>WiFh bath and free radio</p><p>Single $4.50 up</p><p>Double $7.00 up</p><p>No charge for children</p><p>14 or under</p><p><b>GRENADIER ROOM</b></p><p>Lounge Bar and Grill</p><p><b>COFFEE SHOP</b></p><p><b>DETROIT-LELAND HOTEL</b></p><p>Cass and Bagley Ave.</p><p>Ample Parking</p><p>Wm. H. Chalmers,</p><p>General Manager</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03130/1284897-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="296" height="494"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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HOCKEY HEADQUARTERS IN DETROIT

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02182/1284456-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="580" height="529"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>M</span>aybe your eyes</b> will mislead you in a hall of mirrors, but your taste won&rsquo;t when you reach for a sparkling glass of Labatt&rsquo;s &lsquo;50&rsquo;. For &lsquo;50&rsquo; is the happier ale that makes anytime a good. time. Let your throat savour the cool clean taste of &lsquo;50&rsquo;&mdash;let your good taste be tempted by this lightest and smoothest of all ales. Enjoy a &lsquo;50&rsquo; soon.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Any way you look at it…

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The Montreal Canadiens, nosed out by the Detroit Red Wings in one of the greatest National Hockey League finishes in history, gained some measure of revenge by dominating the HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; eight annual All-Star poll as picked by thousands of fans across the country.</p><p>Canadiens placed no less than four members on the first team and two on the second squad while the Red Wings were held to one first place choice and three second place pickings.</p><p>Big Jean Beliveau was the closest to being a unanimous choice for a spot on the first team. The high-scoring Habitant sophomore picked a total of 12,519 points as compared to the 4,936 picked up by his nearest rival, Toronto&rsquo;s Teeder Kennedy.</p><p>The fans&rsquo; choices, calculated on a first, second, third system with a first place vote getting a candidate five points a second choice three points and a third choice a point, saw them give Harry Lumley the nod over Terry Sawchuk for the goal-keeping job. They also came up with Doug Harvey and Red Kelly as their first-string defensemen. Flanking Beliveau, they picked Maurice (Rocket) Richard at right wing and Toronto&rsquo;s Sid Smith on the left side.</p><p>The second team sees Sawchuk in the nets with Detroit&rsquo;s Bob Goldham and Toronto&rsquo;s Tim Horton in front of him. Kennedy is at centre with Bernie (Boom-Boom) Geoffrion, the league scoring champion on right wings and Canadiens&rsquo; Bert Olmstead over at left wing.</p><p>Dick Irvin was named coach of the first squad, nosing out Detroit&rsquo;s Jimmy Skinner.</p><p>Doug Harvey drew the most first place votes with 2,435 fans calling him the best defenseman in hockey while Red Kelly drew 1,913 first place votes. Beliveau was top choice on 2,135 first place slips with Lumlley getting 1,645 first calls to 973 for Sawchuk.</p><p>The battle for the right wing berth saw Richard pull down 1,553 first place votes to 960 for Geoffrion and 340 for third choice Gordie Howe.</p><p>Smith was all alone for the left wing honors with 1,885 first place votes to 666 for Canadiens&rsquo; Bert Olmstead and 163 for Danny Lewicki. Actually, Ted Lindsay had more first place votes than Lewicki (214) But Lewicki made up the margin in the 1,050 third place votes he drew compared to Lindsay&rsquo;s 434.</p><p>Dick Irvin drew 1,060 first place votes to Skinner&rsquo;s 916. Milt Schmidt of the Bruins came in third in the balloting for the Coach with 345 first place calls.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Habs Dominate HN 8th All-Star Poll

<p>Next week&rsquo;s edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS will carry the 1955 AWARDS WINNERS, an annual feature of the paper.</p><p>As is customary, THE HOCKEY NEWS each years awards beautiful certificates to the three top figures in hockey.</p><p>The first goes to the &ldquo;executive of the year&rdquo; while the second is awarded to the &ldquo;coach of the year.&rdquo; The third is awarded to the &ldquo;player of the year.&rdquo;</p><p>Last year&rsquo;s winners were Al Leader, president of the Western Hockey League (executive), Frank Eddolls, coach of the Buffalo Bisons (coach) aud Red Kelly, all-star defenseman of the Detroit Red Wings (player).<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hockey Awards Next Week

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><p>DETROIT, MICH.&mdash;</p><p>It&rsquo;s becoming more evident as the current Stanley Cup final moves along, that this is strictly a home ice series. After five games, Detroit had taken all three games in the familiar confines of the Olympia while Canadiens won both games at the Forum.</p><p>If the pattern continues and Canadiens tie up the series at 3-3 at home on April 12, the Red Wings will have the edge since the deciding game will be played in Detroit on April 14.</p><p>From a physical viewpoint, the Red Wings are in much better shape than Canadiens. The Montrealers are feeling the injuries to Kenny Mosdell, the infection suffered by Jean Beliveau and the attack of boils and blisters which struck Dollard St. Laurent.</p><p>Detroit has managed to stay &ldquo;in one piece&rsquo;&rsquo; throughout the series and their soundness of body could be the deciding factor.</p><p>Still and all, Canadiens quickly dispelled the theory held in many quarters that they&rsquo;d follow the Toronto Maple Leafs into oblivion by going out the same way&mdash;four straight. They&rsquo;ve proven that the Red Wings aren&rsquo;t invincible and with all the blue chips at stake, they could pull one of the biggest upsets of all time. Only twice, in the long and storied history of the National Hockey League, has a club come back to win a Stanley Cup final after dropping the first two games.</p><p>This series will probably go down in hockey history as one of the most turbulent ever played. Several incidents, many of them off the ice, have given hockey writers and columnists much ammunition. There was the incident in the Detroit Leland Hotel where Coach Dick Irvin of Canadiens publicly upbraided Sammy Babcock, one of the linesmen. Then, after orders had been issued by the league, Referee-in-Chief Carl Voss caught linesmen Bill Morrison and George Hayes lounging in the Mount Royal Hotel in Montreal. They had been told to remain at the nearby Laurentian in order to avoid any further unpleasant incidents. When Voss entered the lobby of the Mount Royal&mdash;where the Red Wings stay in Montreal&mdash;and saw the linesmen seated there he quickly ordered them off the premises.</p><p>The pattern continued on the ice too, Dickie Moore, a little upset during the second game when the Wings were pouring it on to the tune of 7-1, blew his cork when several Red Wings taunted him by calling him &ldquo;Hollywood.&rdquo; He ran slightly amok and wound up with a game misconduct.</p><p>Then in the fifth game, the usually placid Red Kelly wound up in a brawl with Butch Bouchard and was tagged with a misconduct penalty&mdash;his first in eight years.</p><p>In the dressing room after the game the Ole Redhead said: &ldquo;You can get a broken ankle easily if you&rsquo;re hit hard with the stick.&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and Bouchard gave me a good whack.&rdquo;</p><p>Of that fifth game Coach Jimmy Skinner singled out his &ldquo;Checkling Line&rdquo; of Marty Pavelich, Glen Skov and Tony Leswick for special attention. &ldquo;They were really checking out there tonight.&rdquo; Jack Adams chipped in with &ldquo;Canadiens weren&rsquo;t getting those soft spot. When you don&rsquo;t check you don&rsquo;t win,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>The Red Wings, who saw their record-breaking win streak stopped at 15 by Canadiens during the playoffs, are still unbeaten in their last 23 games at the Olympia, including five playoff games.</p><p>And while on the subject of records, the high-powered Wings have already broken two records in the current series. Gordie Howe&rsquo;s three goal effort in the fifth game boosted his pointtotal in the series to 19, one more than the record held by the Old Lamplighter Toe Blake. Blake set his record in 1944 against Toronto and Chicago. Lindsay picked up two assists to equal Blake&rsquo;s record.</p><p>Along with Earl (Dutch) Reibel, the trio surpassed Canadiens&rsquo; great punch line of Blake, Maurice Richard and Elmer Lach. Their mark of 48 points in a Stanley Cup Playoff has been wiped out. The Reibel-Lindsay-Howe triumvirate now has a total of 49 points, with one and possibly two more game to go.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Detroit Gets 7th Game At Olympia If It Goes Limit

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01107/1285252-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MARTY (SABU) PAVELICH,</b> Detroit&rsquo;s tireless workhorse has just broken away from a Montreal power play to fire the Red Wings third goal past Canadiens Jacques Plante in the opening game of the Stanley Cup finals. The goal turned out to be the winner as the Wings grabbed the opener with a 4-2 triumph. <span class="photo-credit">((Detroit Times Photo))</span></figcaption></div><h2><b>Straight And True For Sabu</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Wings Have Edge In “Home-Ice” Series

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Even in Sid Abel&rsquo;s heydey, the Production Line&rsquo;s cogs never were clicking like they were in the playoffs this season.</p><p>The Dutch Reibel-Ted Lindsay-Gordie Howe unit was the sensation of the four-game sweep over Toronto in the semi-finals and then kept going at the same rate as the finals against Montreal got underway.</p><p>As a result they quickly began threatening the record book, individually and collectively.</p><p>In brief, their efforts brought these results:</p><p>They combined to score 15 of Detroit&rsquo;s first 25 playoff goals.</p><p>In the four-game Toronto round they were on the ice for 10 of the Red Wings 14 goals.</p><p>In the first two games of the Montreal round they figured in seven of the 11 goals.</p><p>Through the years the Detroit fans have become accustomed to hot scoring from this source. For about five seasons Abel, Lindsay and Howe formed one of the greatest forward lines of all time.</p><p>They were the original Productioneers and their firepower started Detroit on its long run of championships which lists seven straight National Hockey League titles so far plus three Stanley Cups.</p><p>Howe and Lindsay merrily continued their brilliant scoring after Abel&rsquo;s retirement three years ago. Each added more All Star honors and Howe continued as scoring champion even through a variety of new centers were working between them.</p><p>Reibel was among the halfdozen experiments along with Reg Sinclair, Metro Prystai, Alex Delvecchio and Glen Skov, to name some of Abel&rsquo;s successors in what many term the &ldquo;best job in hockey&rdquo;.</p><p>Over the long haul, however, none came up to Abel&rsquo;s standards&mdash;until recent weeks. Reibel, who is clicking there better than anyone else, had blown hot and cold in the same job previously.</p><p>A sophomore with a brilliant minor-league record, Reibel seems able to adapt himself better to the unorthodox criss-cross passing of the two wingers. He can be just as unorthodox at times himself, has a sharp eye for rebound &ldquo;garbage&rdquo;, is a good puck carrier and can pass off well in any direction.</p><p>There are other ideas advanced why they happen to be teaming so well right now.</p><p>Lindsay is particularly zippy after being forced to the sidelines for about half the Detroit games since mid-December. He still must wear a bulky brace to protect his injured shoulder, but he has hungrily overcome that handicap for his best playoff series in 11 years.</p><p>Howe shows none of the signs of staleness often evident in previous playoffs following late-sea son battles for league scoring honors.</p><p>For example, back in 1953, he had a 49-goal year and forced himself brutally at the windup in bidding for the 50th. In the playoffs immediately following, Howe was way off form and Detroit suffered one of its biggest playoff flops by losing four of the last five games to Boston in the semifinals.</p><p>As for Reibel, whose easy-going style is misleading, Jack Adams observes that &ldquo;the Dutchman is having a great run of luck&rdquo;.</p><p>This may sound disparaging, except that luck is one commodity without which no team, or player, is successful.</p><p>This has become the highest scoring playoffs already for all three.</p><p>After six games Lindsay had 15 points (7-8), Howe had 15 (5-10) and Reibel had nine (3-6). All got fat in a couple of big romps. Each netted three points in a 7-4 game against Toronto and each counted four points in a 7-1 romp over Montreal.</p><p>They were eyeing some all-time playoff records. Lindsay notched four goals in one game, one short of the record. Ditto for Reibel with four assists in one game. Lindsay and Howe both were climbing toward Toe Blake&rsquo;s playoff point record of 18; Howe was nearing Elmer Lach&rsquo;s assist record of 12; Lindsay was this year&rsquo;s best to hit Rocket Richard&rsquo;s playoff goal record of 12 if anyone was to do It.</p><p>Together, they also were after the record for total points in playoffs posted by Lach, Blake and Richard when they combined for 48 points in the nine games of 1944. After six games the Reibel, Lindsay and Howe combo had 39 points.</p><h2><b>Clicking Red Wings</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01153/1283279-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="597" height="603"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DUTCH REIBEL</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02139/1283272-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="593" height="598"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOWE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Inspired Play Of Dutch Reibel Makes Fans Forget Sid Abel

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Montreal Canadiens likely will face a minor rebuilding program before the next season rolls around with some the eager young performers in their organization replacing veteran stars.</p><p>There is ever a recurrent rumor that Dick Irvin, 62-year-old coach, will retire. Several months ago he told Elmer Ferguson, erudite columnist of the Montreal Herald and dean of Canadian hockey writers, that he intended to quit.</p><p>The story was resurrected during the Stanley Cup series with Detroit. One French-language writer even went so far as to suggest that dour Dick be replaced by Roger Leger, who coached the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts to the Quebec Hockey League title, and that the Habs recruit an entirely French-speaking team.</p><p>That of course is a ridiculous idea that hardly will be entertained by the Canadian Arena Company or by unbiased fans. What would the Canadiens do without men like Doug Harvey, Tom Johnson, Bert Olmstead, Floyd Curry, Kenny Mosdell, Calum MacKay and others of their ilk?</p><p>These are the hard-working players. The men who toil steadily game in and game out, whether at home or on the road. They perform at a level rate, unlike so-called super stars (we won&rsquo;t mention their names) who often are unconspicuous in hostile territory.</p><p>But that&rsquo;s enough on this subject; it&rsquo;s not worth any more printer&rsquo;s ink. Talking about a rebuilding program, it is almost certain that &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Bouchard, veteran captain of the Canadiens, will yield to Old Father Time and hang up his skates.</p><p>Butch gave the best years of his life to the Habs, gained AllStar recognition in his prime and has been a big factor behind the blueline in the team&rsquo;s success.</p><p>But he slowed down noticeably toward the end of the 1954-55 season and in the playoffs. Twice Irvin rested him for almost full periods in the post-season series, indicating that Butch, a great competitor and a willing worker, hasn&rsquo;t got the legs anymore or the general physical resiliency to stand the grind that hockey imposes on its players.</p><p>Even if Butch goes before next season, the Habs will have five defencemen. There&rsquo;s Harvey, Dollard St. Laurent and Tom Johnson. There&rsquo;s big Bud MacPher-son, recuperating from a knee operation to repair a damaged car tilege. Until forced out of the lineup with his injury, Bud was the most improved rearguard in hockey this winter. And there&rsquo;s George McAvoy, a stocky, smoothskating recruit from the Penticton Vs, world&rsquo;s amateur hockey champions. McAvoy made his debut as a pro in the Habs&rsquo; semifinal series with Boston and has acquitted himself well when given the opportunity to spell big Butch.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04105/1283348-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="300" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Floyd Curry</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0582/1283341-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="282" height="502"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption></div><p>Canadiens might be in the market for a goaltender. There has been no official indication of this but it Irvin were completely satisfied with the work of the acrobatic, nomadic Jacques Plante, why did he alternate him with Charlie Hodge in some of the playoff games?</p><p>It&rsquo;s a good question. And the obvious answer is that Irvin thinks (here is room for improvement in Plante&rsquo;s puck stopping.</p><p>Actually there was very little difference in the work of the net-minders. In the first eight playoff games, Plante allowed 16 goals on 174 shots, an average of one for every 10.8 shots. Hodge yielded five goals on 45 shots, an average of one for every nine shots.</p><p>Generally Hodge seemed to have the toughest shots to handle except in the second period of the second Stanley Cup game in Detroit when the Wings belted him with 25 pucks. Brilliantly, he stopped 22 of them, Ted Lindsay beating him for the three goals.</p><p>With the highest scoring team in the league, the Habs won&rsquo;t have to make many changes in their forward lines although more firepower on left wing would seem to be necessary. Possibly Dick Gamble, a former Canadian who sparkled for Buffalo at the end of the season, will be given a chance to make the team again. If he shows the form that enabled him to score 23 for Montreal in the 1951-52 season, he would be a valuable re-acquisition.</p><p>There is no weakness at right wing where Maurice Richard, the volatile Rocket; Bernie Geoffrion, the 1954-55 scoring champion; and Floyd Curry hold forth. Curry rose better than anyone else on the team to meet the challenge with Richard was suspended for the last three-games of the season and the playoffs for his part in a vicious blood-letting brawl in Boston.</p><p>He scored important goals, set up others, filled the Rocket&rsquo;s spot on power plays and helped to kill penalties.</p><p>There might be some changes at centre. Although Kenny Mosdell played great hockey for the Habs all season and sparkled in the playoffs despite a painful leg injury, he&rsquo;s a veteran. Maybe next year he&rsquo;ll slow down so there will have to be another centre in reserve.</p><p>But changes or not, Canadiens are certain to produce another contending club in another bid to shatter the monopoly the Detroit Red Wings hold of National Hockey League championships.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Canadians’ Structure To Face Minor Surgery With Retirement Of Butch…MacPherson Steps In

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0659/1283379-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen Referee Red Storey handed out 21 penalties on March 31, 1951, at Toronto, in the second game of the Stanley Cup semi-finals between Boston and Toronto. The 21 penalties consisted of 16 minors, four majors and one misconduct. This set a new N.H.L. record for most penalties in a playoff game.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Do you remember?…

<div class="byline">DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Since he&rsquo;s always hustling like a young rookie, it&rsquo;s sometimes hard to remember that Marty Pavelich is a wise and cagey veteran who has been around the National Hockey League for eight seasons.</p><p>Marty punched home a little reminder, however, in the opening game of the Stanley Cup finals that he&rsquo;s been around long enough now to make a play &ldquo;from memory&rdquo;.</p><p>What a play it was! Big enough to win the first game for Detroit from the ever-challenging Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>To the 13,862 Detroit Olympia fans, the play was easily followed since it was wide-open. Pavelich got a breakaway under unexpected circumstances&mdash;the Wings were shorthanded&mdash;and cashed the goal which broke a 2-2 tie with three minutes left in the game. The final score was 4-2 since Ted Lindsay tossed another goal into an empty net in the last 18 seconds.</p><p>There is a &ldquo;story&rdquo; behind that story of the crucial but still apparently routine play.</p><p>First, you need to know part of Pavelich&rsquo;s background. According to some standards he&rsquo;s a &ldquo;luxury&rdquo; hockey player, meaning that only a high-scoring outfit like Detroit can afford to keep a low-scoring player pedmanently on a regular line. (He&rsquo;s made 85 goals in eight season).</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03129/1283310-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="270" height="386"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marty Pavelich</b></figcaption></div><p>Marty holds his job with his defensive ability. He draws the hottest right wings on rivals teams to check and also does major duty at killing off penalties. Tireless skating, constant and a fierce competitive spirit have offset a lack of scoring punch.</p><p>But luxury or not, Pavelich has been tightly held by Manager Jack Adams every time he goes on a trading binge. As a result he&rsquo;s one of only four Red Wings who have played on all seven National Hockey League championship teams.</p><p>After a single assist in the four-game Toronto semifinal, Pavelich was filling his usual role in the opener of the Montreal finals. It wasn&rsquo;t exactly a spot where a player could be expected to score the decisive goal.</p><p>With the score tied, Gordie Howe drew a slashing penalty against Baldy Mackay at 16.12 of the final period. Out went Detroit&rsquo;s four top defensive players as Coach Jimmy Skinner plotted to forestall Montreal plans for a winning goal under the manpower advantage. Red Kelly, Bob Goldham, Tony Leswiek and Pavelich drew the assignment.</p><p>For almost a minute the Canadiens were on the prowl and Terry Sawchuk carne up with successive stops against Floyd Curry, Ken Mosdell and Baldy Mackay. Then the puck winged back to Doug Harvey, All-Star defenseman who was working the left point.</p><p>Harvey faked a shot on net to keep Pavelich busy, then slid a blind pass point-to-point toward Bernie Geoffrion.</p><p>Now let Pavelieh take over the narrations</p><p>&ldquo;It flashed through my mind that Harvey had faked passes like that several times before and then sent a pass at Boom Boom without looking.</p><p>&ldquo;So when he made the fake I made just a little move like I was going for it and then shifted the other way and threw out my stick.</p><p>&ldquo;It hit his pass and deflected it into the boards. The puck bounced out to center ice. I was the only one headed that way. I picked it up at about the red line and went straight in on goal.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve missed so many breakaways that I tried to take my time. I wasn&rsquo;t sure, but I didn&rsquo;t think anyone was real close behind me. When I was about 20 feet out, Plante started sliding slowly out of the net to cut off the angle.</p><p>&ldquo;I waited for him to make the first move and he slid to cover the lower left corner. I let it go into the upper right corner and caught it perfectly.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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‘Luxury’ Player, Marty Pavelich Red Wings’ No. 1 Unsung Hero

<h2><b>Defense</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01223/1283560-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="592" height="593"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB GOLDHAM</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Defense</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02201/1283553-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="539" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TIM HORTON</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Goalie</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03134/1283546-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="569" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY SAWCHUK</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Left Wing</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0497/1283539-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="540" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERT OLMSTEAD</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Centre</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0584/1283532-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="522" height="534"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED KENNEDY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Right Wing</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0671/1283525-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="556" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERNIE GEOFFRION</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THIRD CHOICES</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0762/1283518-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="324" height="470"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jacques Plante</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0856/1283511-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="284" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tom Johnson</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0956/1283504-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="301" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Danny Lewicki</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1051/1283497-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="291" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hugh Bolton</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1134/1283490-1-eng-US/f0004-112.jpg" title="f0004-11" width="273" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Sullivan</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1215/1283483-1-eng-US/f0004-122.jpg" title="f0004-12" width="294" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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THE SECOHD ALL-STAR TEAM

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-13" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-139/1283626-1-eng-US/f0004-132.jpg"></div><p><i>(Here are the vote tabulations, showing how the fans rated them in the 8th Annual HOCKEY NEWS All-Star Poll. Only the leading contenders at each position are shown with the number of first, second and third place votes they received and their point totals. Five points was awarded for a first, three for a second and one for a third.)</i></p><h2><b>RIGHT WINGERS</b></h2><h2><b>LEFT WINGERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-147/1283619-1-eng-US/f0004-142.jpg" title="f0004-14" width="1220" height="234"></div><h2><b>COACHES</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-155/1283612-1-eng-US/f0004-152.jpg" title="f0004-15" width="1212" height="268"></div><h2><b>GOALTENDERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-165/1283605-1-eng-US/f0004-162.jpg" title="f0004-16" width="1218" height="274"></div><h2><b>DEFENSEMEN</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-172/1283598-1-eng-US/f0004-172.jpg" title="f0004-17" width="1210" height="264"></div><h2><b>CENTERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-18/1283591-1-eng-US/f0004-182.jpg" title="f0004-18" width="1218" height="240"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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How Fans Balloted In HN 8th Annual All-Star Poll

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01173/1283657-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE GRANT&hellip; &hellip;A Fixture in Toronto</b></figcaption></div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>If there are any rugged individuals with 20-20 vision, strong nerves, a knowledge of hockey and a fearless outlook on life, they may someday gain part time employment in the NHL as goal judges. The afore-mentioned requisites will stand them in good stead for a number of years of strain and strife, although when they decide to retire they may discover that they have acquired shattered nerves and a slight eye strain.</p><p>Undoubtedly managers, coaches and players all have their trying moments, but the harrassed goal judge appears to have a perennial headache from October to April. He has the thankless task of flashing the red light when a goal is netted or remaining adamant when he feels the disc has not been sunk.</p><p>A typical example of a goal judge is Gordon Grant of Maple Leaf Gardens, who, in a rash moment, agreed to furnish us with a few of his experiences. Grant occupies a special cage behind the North end goal and spends a good portion of his time receiving scowls and glares from various teams. He has held that position since 1941, and while he has never had a referee overrule his decision, he has come to the conclusion that no matter what a goal judge does, he is bound to displease someone.</p><p>Well qualified for his job, Gordon Grant is an alert gentleman with a thorough grounding in the rules of hockey and a great love for the game. At one time he was a hockey player himself and in 1929 toured eight European countries with a Toronto team and helped them win the World&rsquo;s Championship. In 1930 he joined Springfield, then a Ranger farm club, but a knee injury forced him to retire after only two seasons. His teammates included such well known performers as &ldquo;Ott&rdquo; Heller, Cecil Dillon, Earl Seibert and Orville Heximer.</p><p>Being a goal judge was the least of Grant&rsquo;s ambitions and he stepped into that role in a most casual and unexpected way. Before the start of the 1941 season he was walking down Toronto&rsquo;s Adelaide Street when he was hailed by Bill Graham, the Gardens&rsquo; official scorer. &ldquo;How would you like to be a goal judge, Gordon?&rdquo; asked Graham. &ldquo;A goal judge? Why, I don&rsquo;t know the first thing about it,&rdquo; replied the surprised Grant. &ldquo;Sure you do,&rdquo; Graham insisted. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve played hockey and know all the rules, you&rsquo;ll be O.K.&rsquo;&rsquo; So Gordon Grant accepted the job after a brief trial in a pre-season Blue-White game between the Leafs. &ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t much of a test,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;All I did was watch the game and press the button when someone scored, but the bosses seemed to think I was satisfactory.&rdquo;</p><p>Since then there have been times when Grant feels that Fate dealt him an unkind blow. All is not sunshine and laughter in the goal judge&rsquo;s cage and there have been moments when he feared for his safety. Back in 1944 he was selected as one of the neutral officials for the Stanley Cup finals between the Black Hawks and Canadiens. The fourth and final game of the series took place in Montreal and that proved to be an experience he will long remember. &ldquo;At that time the Forum was a pretty rowdy place,&rdquo; he relates. &ldquo;Since Selke took it over it has changed completely and is as nice as any rink in the circuit, but in 1944 they had some mighty rough customers sitting in &ldquo;Millionaires Row,&rdquo; which was behind the goal judge&rsquo;s cage. They were rabid Canadien fans, and, in addition to being exceptionally excitable, were not always sober. There was no glass at the ends of the rink, just ordinary wire, and I was in a cage, which luckily for me, locked from the inside. Montreal supporter got a bit of a set-back when Chicago took an early lead and they were chanting away for their favorites when Toe Blake took a shot at Karakas, which many fans thought was a goal. Sitting directly behind me was a burly Habitant fan wearing a Canadien sweater. He rushed at my cage, shook it vigorously and demanded that I turn on the goal light, which I didn&rsquo;t do. The crowd began to get very rough and I wasn&rsquo;t sure if the cage would stay upright. Before the period ended a Canadien official told me to remain in the locked cage until he got a couple of policemen to escort me to the referee&rsquo;s room. This kept up for three periods and as the crowd grew more hostile. I felt Increasing relief in having Montreal&rsquo;s finest protect me.</p><p>The game went into overtime and shortly afterwards Toe Blake scored the winning goal. My police escort had disappeared, but, thinking that all the wrath had turned to joy, I bravely unlocked the cage. As soon as I stepped out I was rushed by a group of seething fans, led by my huge tormentor. They yanked my hat down over my eyes and seemed about to do more drastic things, so I sprinted to the safety of the referee&rsquo;s room. I wanted to go to the Canadiens&rsquo; dressing room to offer congratulations to Bill Durnan, whom I have known since our softball days. Ed Mepham and Jim Primeau decided to go with me and the first person I saw when 1 entered the dressing room was that burly Habitant fan. He took one look at my hefty escorts and beat a hasty retreat to the back of the room.&rdquo;</p><p>Having officiated in every rink in the circuit, Grant has formed a few personal opinions about the various arenas and fans. He selects the Boston crowd as the least hostile and best mannered group. &ldquo;I guess the fans in every city get pretty excited,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but on the whole I found the Bruin followers seem to keep a moderate pace.&rdquo; He is not too fond of the location allocated to the goal judge in that rink, though, because the official is not in an enclosure. He is among the crowd in the rail seat area and the goal switch is in the open. &ldquo;If the fans get excited and jostle your arm unexpectedly you can often flash the red light without Intending to,&rdquo; he maintains.</p><p>Grant figures the Detroit Olympia has an ideal set-up for the goal judge since the enclosure is quite high and the official usually has to stand up. This enables him to see the entire ice surface in front of the goal and his vision can not be obscured. The only marring note is the fact that the Detroit nets are not taut. Excess netting is inclined to fold over behind the cage and there are extra pipes down the back of the net, which means that a puck, shot hard and fast, could whiz in and out of the net before the judge could see what happened.</p><p>It&rsquo;s common knowledge that most hockey players are nervous and highly strung before a game. Believe it or not, Gordon Grant is the same way. &ldquo;I have that same excited feeling I used to get when I played hockey,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;Maybe it&rsquo;s the fear that 1&rsquo;11 make a wrong decision or not see the puck. Whatever it is it certainly has me jittery. By the time they play the National Anthem I&rsquo;m practically shaking, but once the puck is dropped I just relax and feel fine.&rdquo;</p><p>Before plexiglass was installed in the Gardens there was a heavy wire netting around the ends of the rink to protect the fans from flying pucks. The pleziglass has not only enhanced the view of the fans, but provided a little extra comfort for the goal judges. Back in the wire netting days Gordie Grant had many painful ex-periences, because a number of players in a fit of temper would poke their sticks through the holes in the netting and take careful aim at the goal judge. There were many who took exception to Grant&rsquo;s decisions, but perhaps the most foreful were Elmer Lach and Phil Watson. &ldquo;They were fierce competitors,&rdquo; Grant asserted. &ldquo;Lach had quite a temper and Watson was terribly excitable. I&rsquo;ve had them push the butt end of their sticks through the wire and take a few jabs at me. It wasn&rsquo;t too comfortable.&rdquo;</p><p>Grant finds Tony Leswick the most loquacious of the current crop of players and had a run in with him on Christmas Night. A rather unusual incident led up to that difference of opinion. Red Kelly took a hard slap shot from the blueline near the West boards, aiming at the East corner of the Toronto net which Lumley had left unprotected. The drive was so swift that all Grant could sea was the puck rolling off the boards to the side of the net, although he admits that something appeared to hit the inside of the goal. Since he did not see the puck enter the net, he did not turn on the light and it is his theory that the bulge in the net was caused by the end of Lumley&rsquo;s stick. A careful check of the netting failed to show a hole and the officials all agreed that the puck must have missed the cage. It was then that Leswick entered into a heated conversation with Grant, who recalled the incident with a rueful grin: &ldquo;It was Christmas Night, but you can rest assured he wasn&rsquo;t wishing me the compliments of the season,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;All I can say is that I did what I thought was the right thing. I still maintain it wasn&rsquo;t a goal, but that Leswick was sure worked up.&rdquo;</p><p>Another incident which stands out in Grant&rsquo;s memory also involved Detroit and Toronto: &ldquo;That was when Billy Taylor was with the Leafs,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;There had been a number of shots at Johnny Mowers and in the melee he had fallen to the ice. Taylor, who had quite a wrist shot, grabbed the loose puck and flicked it over the prostrate Mowers. The puck hit the inside of the crossbar and rebounded out to the blueline, so I put the light on. Mowers was probably the only person in the Gardens who didn&rsquo;t see what happened. Apparently all he saw was the puck zooming up the ice, and when he spied the goal light he went berserk and almost knocked the netting down in his efforts to get at me. I was pretty mad about it, too, because I had only done my duty. When the teams came back for the second period I got quite a surprise. Mowers skated right over and apologized for his actions. That was the only apology I ever received from a player and I thought he was a pretty decent fellow to admit his mistake,&rdquo; said Grant.</p><p>One of the awkward jobs for a goal judge is trying to see past the players, who, for some reason or other, are parked directly behind the net. &ldquo;Sometimes a couple of players will tangle right in front of me,&rdquo; Grant explained. &ldquo;They haven&rsquo;t got the puck, but they obscure my view of the play in front of the net. Naturally you get agitated and on edge, because it&rsquo;s absolutely imperative that you keep an eye on the puck. If you lose sight of it you&rsquo;ve had it.&rdquo;</p><p>Another problem for the goal judge is trying to ignore the questions of fans who are not too well versed on the rules of hockey. &ldquo;If the puck is partially over the goal crease a great number of people think it&rsquo;s a goal and if you fail to put the light on they think you are doing something illegal,&rdquo; asserted Grant. So for the benefit of those who may not know, it is necessary for the entire puck to be over the goal crease before a goal can be allowed.</p><p>It seems that the life of a goal judge is just a cycle of trying moments, although Gordon Grant admits it has brought him a bit of joy, too. With the pressure of business and a desire to spend more time with his family there is a strong possibility that this will be Grant&rsquo;s last season in the goal judge cage. If he retires he will take with him enough memories to last a lifetime. If he stays the NHL will be thankful that it retained a most efficient goal judge.</p><h2><b>The Veteran Light-Blinker</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Goal Judge Gordie Grant Says “You Can’t Win”

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The final decision on the punishment to be meted out to Bashin&rsquo; Bob Bailey, strapping Pittsburgh-Toronto center who punched Referee Jerry Olinski during the heat of a Hornet-Buffalo American League playoff game, now awaits a post-season meeting of the AHL Board of Governors.</p><p>Bailey, who was suspended indefinitely following the incident by League President John D. Chick, had the suspension continued after a hearing in Buffalo on April 6.</p><p>Chick, who emphasized that he &ldquo;alone&rsquo;&rsquo; will make the final judgment, said that he wanted to meet with the Governors before announcing his decision so as to do away with the possibility of an appeal.</p><p>Bailey, Olinski, Chick, Referee-in-Chief Carl Voss, AHL Secretary-Treasurer Jim Ellery, Toronto General Manager Hay Day, Pittburgh Coach Howie Meeker and two members of the Governors&rsquo; Board Fred Hunt of Buffalo and Cleveland&rsquo;s Jim Hendy were present at the meeting.</p><p>The written reports of linesmen Walt Russell and Art Faunsnacht also were read by Chick.</p><p>Bailey, somber and quiet, reportedly expressed sorrow &ldquo;for any actions&rdquo; as he related his side of the incident&mdash;which was said to have differed in some details from that of Referee Olinski.</p><p>There was no doubt, however, on the one actual point which mattered&mdash;that Bailey struck Olinski with his gloved right hand, knocking him to the ice along the boards near the announcer&rsquo;s table.</p><p>The concensus of writers covering the April 2nd game, the second of the Calder Cup finals it. Pittsburgh, was that Olinski called a slashing penalty on Bailey. As the Referee skated towards the announcer to inform him of the call, Bailey crashed his stick to the ice and then threw the broken cudgel high in the air.</p><p>Olinski then held up ten fingers to indicate a misconduct in addition to the minor. Bailey was enroute to the penalty box when he suddenly turned and hit Olinski with a right. Olinski said that he was &ldquo;out&rdquo; for two or three minutes after striking his head on the ice.</p><p>The attack resulted in Bailey receiving a garne misconduct and his &ldquo;indefinite&rdquo; suspension before game three in the series in Buffalo the following night.</p><p>The incident, following on the heels of Mauric Richard&rsquo;s suspension for striking Linesman Cliff Thompson, drew much attention away from the series itself.</p><p>Ironically, Bailey and Richard were the combatants in one of the NHL&rsquo;s more publicized fights this season. Bailey, who reportedly more than held his own in the fisticuffing, suffered loss of a tooth from Richard&rsquo;s stick and two cut fingers from Rocket&rsquo;s skates.</p><p>It was logical to conclude from Chick&rsquo;s after-the-hearing statement that further punishment will be forthcoming to Bailey.</p><p>burgh club, and more exactly his teammates themselves, whether he receives a cut of the playoff pool.</p><p>The loss of his services appeared to do little to dampen the spirits of the Hornets as they raced towards a sweep of the regular and post-season championships.</p><p>However, if his suspension should carry over to a portion or all of the 1955-56 season, it would be a blow to the parent Toronto Maple Leafs, according to General Manager Day.</p><p>&ldquo;Sure, Bailey figures in our plans for next year and we don&rsquo;t want to lose him,&rdquo; Day stated flatly.</p><p>The Maple Leafs&rsquo; boss also expressed dissatisfaction with the results of the hearing.</p><p>&ldquo;I thought we&rsquo;d have a ruling from the hearing but we got nothing. I don&rsquo;t know what use there was in having one under those circumstances,&rdquo; he added.</p><p>In Bailey&rsquo;s favor is his past record. An aggressive player, Big Bob never before has been involved with game officials. In view of the fact that Richard&rsquo;s suspension will not carry over into a second season, it is not unlikely that any additional punishment handed Bailey will be in the form of a fine.</p><p>In 32 games with Toronto this season, Bailey scored 4 goals, 2 assisst, and spent 52 minutes in the penalty box. His Pittsburgh totals were 9 goals, 19 assists, and 23 minutes in the penalty coop in 26 games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Post-Season Meeting To Decide What Penalty Bob Bailey Will Get

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The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0649/1283795-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg"></div><h2><b>STUMP FOR GUMP</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>After reading Herb Goren&rsquo;s article in THE HOCKEY NEW, we felt that we should express our disagreement with his statements regarding Lorne Worsley and Johnny Bower.</p><p>In this article he stated that Bower deserved another shot at a major league job because of his &ldquo;fine&rdquo; 2.60 average. We say &ldquo;ONLY&rdquo; 2.60 average! Bower received as fine a defense as any team in the league had to offer, yet he averaged only 2.60. He proved himself a true champion against the lowly Chicago Black Hawks, whom he shut out three times, and against whom he had many low-scoring games to his credit&hellip;He was a champion of sorts! Another of his shutouts was against the newly crowned league champions, the Detroit Red Wings, who were playing only to finish out the season and avoid injuries. This leaves him with only one genuine shutout for the season, (not a very good record for a goalie with a 2.60 average!)</p><p>Worsley, on the other hand, shutout every team except the Montreal Canadiens. One of the top Hockey performances of the season was turned in when Worsley stopped a combined total of 102 shots (many of them extremely difficult) against Detroit and Chicago. When the hapless and hopeless Hawks can take 51 shots, there is a little doubt that there is a very poor defense. Bower was also favored with an offense which carried the game directly to the opposition. In the 53-54 season the Rangers had about the best power play in the league, bar none; this season they had the most scored against in the league. With the poor defense of the Rangers and the hopeless Hawks&rsquo; poor shooting ability, the Hawks were able to drub the Rangers in Madison Square Garden (or anywhere else!!) It must also be remembered that when the defense played well, which was very rare, Worsley played still better.</p><p>With Chicago Bill Gadsby was an All Star defenseman, with New York he was a defenseman? Worsley had no outstanding back-checking-forwards as did Bower in Eddie Kullman. When the &ldquo;terrible&rdquo; Irwin was terrible all right, Harry Howell played the kind of hockey to chase the hairs off Irwin&rsquo;s head!</p><p>If Bower was supposed to have turned in such an impressive performance while Worsley was injured, why is it that when Worsley came back with the team and has a six goal game in his first outing, he still retained the goaltending position?</p><p>This past season Bower arrived in New York during the team&rsquo;s &ldquo;hot streak&rdquo; (they only had one) and he showed that he was a goalie sometimes. In the Detroit 6-1 romp of the Rangers, he showed what he was most of the time!</p><p>All things considered, we see little doubt as to who will be the Ranger goalie next season and for many seasons thereafter&mdash;Lorne Worsley, of course! (P.S. Worsley&rsquo;s a better soccer player too.)</p><p>Joan Di Marco Robert Di Marco John Lipori Bob Ackerman Lewis G. Sapodin Richmond Hill, N.Y.</p><p>(Gump plays softball too and just this week signed to play with a team in Montreal&rsquo;s Snowdon Senior Fastball League.)</p><h2>Needs Chance</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Something has been bothering me and I thought I&rsquo;d drop a note to my favorite sports publication to get this mild beef off my chest.</p><p>It is this. How come Paul Ronty isn&rsquo;t being given a chance to show what he has with the Montreal Canadiens. If they didn&rsquo;t want him then why did they pick him up from the New York Rangers? I am sure the Vancouver Canucks could have used his talents to advantage.</p><p>Paul was a real playmaker with the Rangers and it was he who really helped Wally Hergesh-eimer become one of the NHL&rsquo;s top goal-scorers with New York. I am certain that he could also help set up some of those great Canadien sharpshooters in the same fashion.</p><p>He and Donnie Marshall, two good centres, must get real tired sitting out hockey games on the bench. Or is Dick Irvin saving them for net season?</p><p>Dave Sticken, Montreal, Que.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0723/1283826-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg" title="f0006-07" width="598" height="286"></div><h2>APRIL 18 to APRIL 24</h2><p>21&mdash;EVANS, Jack, Saskatoon defense, 1928.</p><p>23&mdash;PARKER, Murray, Saskatoon defense, 1930.</p><p>24&mdash;CERESINO, Ray, Cleveland forward, 1929.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday to You

<p><i>Read and Enjoy&hellip;</i></p><p><b>&#9733; Grey Cup Came To Vancouver</b></p><p><b>&#9733; NFL Vetoes Peace Pact</b></p><p><b>&#9733; Ti-Cats Sign Steve Oneschuk</b></p><p><b>&#9733; Interesting Guest Columns</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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<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie.</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01245/1283764-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><p><b>&bull; ONLY TWICE</b> in the history of Stanley Cup play has a team come back after losing the first two games of a playoff round to win the Cup. Detroit figured in both cases. It happened first in 1942 when Toronto Maple Leafs dropped three straight to Detroit in the finals. On the brink of elimination, the Leafs then staged hockey&rsquo;s greatest reversal of form, and won four straight from the Wings. In 1945 the Red Wings lost the first two games of their semi-final round to the Boston Bruins, but came back to win the round, four games to three&hellip;Some clubs have bounced back after absorbing awful trouncings. On March 29, 1947, Detroit scored their most one-sided playoff triumph, when they clobbered Toronto, 9-1, right on Maple Leaf Gardens ice. Toronto, however, came right back to win the next game and went on to win the series, four games to one&hellip;It was only two years ago that Boston made a great recovery after dropping the first game of their semi-final round to Detroit, 7-0. The Wings literally chased the Bruins right off the ice in the opening game of the series. The Bruins didn&rsquo;t fold, however, and sprung right back to win four of the next five games and advance to the finals against Canadiens&hellip;An oddity about this year&rsquo;s Cup finals is that three players have scored &lsquo;&lsquo;hat tricks&rdquo;. Ted Lindsay fired four for Detroit in the second game while Boom Boom Geoffrion hit for three in the third tussle, and Gordie Howe had three in the fifth&hellip;Marcel Pronovost has been the outstanding defensemen to show in the playoffs. The underrated Detroit rearguard has tossed out by far the best bodychecks and his thrilling rushes have been of the &ldquo;Gee Whiz&rdquo; variety.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02137/1283757-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="301" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marcel Pronovost</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0380/1283750-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="291" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0458/1283743-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="318" height="477"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jacquet Plante</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0553/1283736-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="296" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Vic Stasiuk</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; BOTH GOALKEEPERS</b> have been stitched in the series&hellip;Terry Sawchuk was nicked for five in the second game and Jacques Plante came in for three in the following skirmish&hellip;Dickie Moore also took three stitches in the third game&hellip;A special Hockey Train left Montreal immediately following the Saturday night game bound for Detroit. The complete complement of the train was composed of hockey people, both teams, press, radio, TV, league officials and loyal supporters&hellip;Detroit&rsquo;s win streak of 15 straight games, nine during regular scheduled play and six in the playoffs, will definitely be included in the 1955-56 edition of the NHL Press and Radio Guide&hellip;When Canadiens defeated Detroit, 4-2, in the third game, it marked the first playoff game that Detroit lost with Vic Stasiuk in the lineup. He had an enviable record of playing in 14 consecutive playoff victories, counting 1952 and this season&hellip;Eleven penalties were handed out by Referee Bill Chadwick in the third game of the finals during the first period. This is four short of a record for most playoffs in one period in a playoff game. Bill Chadwick was also the referee in the game in which the record was set. It took place on April 1, 1951, at Boston, in a semi-final game between the Bruins and Toronto. He handed out 12 minors, two majors and one misconduct in the first period that night&hellip;Dollard St. Laurent and Bert Olmstead have both played well for Montreal in the series&hellip;Dickie Moore has also looked great at times&hellip;Rumors continue to flourish of a big Detroit-Chicago trade at the end of the season&hellip;Some members of the Detroit camp claim they were started by Montreal in an effort to disrupt the harmony of the club. It is hard to find out where they started but they continue to persist.</p><p><b>&bull; FORMER NHL PLAYERS</b> seen at the games in Detroit were John Ross Roach, Johnny Mowers, Normie Smith, Ebbie Goodfellow, Jack Stewart, Stew Evans, Jimmy Peters and George Gee&hellip;Ex-Wings now playing with Chicago, Larry Wilson and Metro Prystai, also took in the contests in the Motor City&hellip;Jim Hendy and Lex Cook of Cleveland, motored over from Buffaio for one of the games in Montreal&hellip;Aldo Guidolin and Lou Fontinato of the Rangers took in one of the games in Detroit&hellip;Carson Cooper&rsquo;s death saddened many members of the Red Wings. It was Cooper who brought many of the current stars of the Red Wings into the fold. Carson was one of the best liked hockey personalities&hellip;Jack Adams calls Howe-Lindsay-Kelly-Pavelich, his &ldquo;Four Horsemen&rdquo;&hellip;Incidentally, talking about Adams, Jolly Jawn has been likened to Branch Rickey in his tactics in developing and disposing of hockey talent&hellip;Jean Beliveau has played great hockey for Canadiens when it is considered that he has played throughout the entire finals with a badly infected mouth and rash and wasn&rsquo;t able to east any solid foods for over a week&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><p>(As seen in the Montreal Gazette)</p><h2><b>&ldquo;A Shame They Haven&rsquo;t Met&rdquo;</b></h2><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;There was a story in a paper here recently pointing out that Branch Rickey was a 13-year-old Ohio farm boy when Jack Adams, general manager of the Red Wings, was born in Fort William, Ont.</p><p>&ldquo;That was nearly 60 years ago,&rdquo; the story read. &ldquo;It is a sports curiosity that these men of vast similarity have never met. Rickey is a scholarly man who possesses a law degree from the University of Michigan. Adams has intelligence but is not bookish in a formal way. Yet they are on common ground in imagination, intensity and, most important, the ability to sense when a super-star or a journeyman athlete is ever so slightly over the hill.&rdquo;</p><p>A little earlier we had paid a visit to the room occupied by Jean Beliveau and Boom Boom Geoffrion. Le Gros Bill was ailing. He was lying in bed, looking about half as big as he does when he is on the ice.</p><p>&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t been able to eat,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Just soft stuff like porridge and boiled eggs.&rdquo;</p><p>Boom Boom came out of the bathroom, his face covered with shaving lather. He has muscles like a prize-fighter.</p><p>&ldquo;You want a scoop?&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If Glenn Hall&rsquo;s wife doesn&rsquo;t get sick he would be tending goal for the Red Wings in this series. Terry Sawchuk knows it. He won&rsquo;t be playing for Detroit next year. He has a sign on his house right now. &lsquo;House for sale&rsquo;. He will sell his house and go back to the west to live. What a life&mdash;hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;You want another scoop? Detroit was going to trade Ted Lindsay to Boston for Ed Sandford a few months ago. I predict Sawchuk will be sold or traded to Boston. What a life&mdash;hockey.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Never Trades A Young Player</b></h2><p>Six seasons ago, Jack Adams traded Bill Quackenbush to the Bruins.</p><p>&ldquo;Quackenbush had tried too earnestly to become the Lady Byng Trophy winner as the game&rsquo;s most gentle player,&rdquo; said the story. &ldquo;Adams doesn&rsquo;t like defensemen with such examplary conduct. This has dramatized the multitude of Adams&rsquo; deals. The master of the Red Wings has a rule of thumb in that he almost never trades a young player.&rdquo;</p><p>Reading the story, we were reminded of the baseball playoffs between the Royals and the Buffalo Bisons in 1953. The Bisons were owned by the Detroit Tigers and Muddy Ruel, then the supervisor of the Tigers&rsquo; farm clubs, was in Buffalo to inspect Tigers&rsquo; chattels wearing the Bisons&rsquo; flannels. We were sitting in a restaurant after a night game with Muddy and Frank &ldquo;Shag&rdquo; Shaughnessy, president of the International League. Then conversation swung to hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;How does Jack Adams do it?&rdquo; Muddy asked.</p><p>&ldquo;Do what?&rdquo; said &lsquo;Shag&rsquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;Trade all those hockey players and still come up with a winning team. He&rsquo;s 3 wonder.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;You stick with baseball,&rdquo; Shag said. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t know much about hockey or you&rsquo;d know Adams never gives anything away&rdquo;.</p><h2><b>Adams Never Regretted Any Deal</b></h2><p>Jack Adams has never met Branch Rickey, though he admits that he admires him. He isn&rsquo;t aware of any attempt to emulate the Rickey trade formulas.</p><p>&ldquo;A fellow just learns through experience,&rdquo; he is quoted as saying. &ldquo;Certainly, everybody makes mistakes on trades. But no matter what you give up, the trade is a success if you get what you want. Then it&rsquo;s all over. I&rsquo;ve never had regrets over any deal I&rsquo;ve made.&rdquo;</p><p>He is dedicated to the proposition that older athletes lose their zest, are more easily injured and draw big salaries.</p><p>&ldquo;If a player gets too big for our club, he doesn&rsquo;t belong on it,&rdquo; he says, which may explain some of the trades he has made.</p><p>Exploitation of farm systems and the infusion of young talent have brought both Rickey, and Adams uncommon success. In 26 years with the St. Louis Cardinals, Rickey masterminded six pennant campaigns and four World Series championships. His eight years at Brooklyn produced two pennants. But since 1950 he hasn&rsquo;t been able to do anything with the Pittsburgh Pirates.</p><p>With Jack Adams there has been no down turn. In his 28 years with the Red Wings, he has won 11 NHL championships, the last seven in a row. He is now trying to win his seventh Stanley Cup.</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe a switch is in order,&rdquo; says the news story about Jack. &ldquo;Maybe it&rsquo;s time to call Branch Rickey the Jack Adams of baseball.&rdquo;</p><p>Back in the room with Jean Beliveau and Boom Boom Geoffrion, Le Gros Bill held up his hand. There was a blister the size of a dime on the end of one finger. H^ said it hampered him in handling his stick in the first game of the series and that his arms had felt heavy as lead. Everybody agrees that he will be one of the great hockey players of all time&mdash;if he plays long enough.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll play as long as I can,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;How else can I make as much money and have as much fun?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;What a life&mdash;hockey,&rdquo; said. Boom Boom.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Hockey&rsquo;s longest winning streak finally came to an end, but not before it had accomplished the following:</p><p>1.&mdash;Brought the National Hockey League championship to Detroit for the seventh straight year with the greatest stretch drive in history.</p><p>2&mdash;Swept Toronto out of the Stanley Cup playoffs in four straight games in the semi-finals.</p><p>3&mdash;Provided the Red Wings with a 2-0 game lead in the Cup finals against Montreal.</p><p>When the string finally was snapped the Red Wings had won 15 consecutive games. Once before a team won 14 in a row, the Boston Bruins of a generation ago managing that during the regular season.</p><p>This one, however, had considerable added luster as explained above. Only oy winning the last nine games of the regular season was the Motor City outfit able to overtake the Montreal Canadiens. Victory No. 9, on the last night of the season, provided the winning margin.</p><p>Victories No. 10 through No. 13 were used to eliminate the Maple Leafs with the swiftest and most merciful dispatch possible in the first playoff round.</p><p>Victories No. 14 and No. 15&mdash;one tying the previous record and the other smashing it&mdash;came by 4-2 and 7-1 scores at Olympia by that time the Detroiters were 2-up in the finals.</p><p>Canadiens, who had been the last team to beat Detroit, also ended the streak. It came in the third game of the Cup finals April 7 at Montreal Forum by a 4-2 score. It was the first setback since another 4-2 decision on the same Forum ice Feb. 17, exactly seven weeks earlier.</p><p>In between defeats Detroit won in New York, tied twice with Boston and Toronto, and then plunged into the parade of 15 straight victories&mdash;a streak of 18 games without defeat.</p><p>Here is the game-by-game information about the &ldquo;Fabulous Fifteen&rdquo;:</p><h2>Regular Season</h2><p>Feb. 27&mdash;(3-2), at Chicago</p><p>March 3&mdash;(6-1), at Chicago</p><p>March 5&mdash;(6-2), at New York</p><p>March 6&mdash;(2-1), at New York</p><p>March 12&mdash;(3-2), at Chicago</p><p>March 13&mdash;(6-1), at Toronto</p><p>March 16&mdash;(5-4), at Boston</p><p>March 17&mdash;(4-1), at Montreal</p><p>March 20&mdash;(6-0), at Montreal</p><h2>Playoff Semi-finals</h2><p>March 22&mdash;(7-4), at Toronto</p><p>March 24&mdash;(2-1), at Toronto</p><p>March 26&mdash;(3-0), at Toronto</p><p>March 29&mdash;(3-0), at Toronto</p><h2>Playoff Finals</h2><p>April 3&mdash;(4-2), at Montreal</p><p>April 5&mdash;(7-1), at Montreal</p><p>It is an interesting note that Wings went through the month of March&mdash;always a big month for any hockey team&mdash;with nothing but victories: Games played-12; Victories-12.</p><p>Of the 15 victories, nine were at Olympia and six on the road.</p><p>The streak had only one blank. Every NHL opponents was beaten at least once on the road, and all but Boston were beaten at Olympia.</p><p>Toronto was beaten five times, Montreal tour, Chicago three, New York two and Boston one.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Detroit Streak Stopped At 15 For New Record

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01197/1283929-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SUGAR JIM&hellip; &hellip;A Fine Example To Follow</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Sugar Jim Henry has departed the Boston hockey scene for the season, perhaps forever, leaving a heritage of high devotion to duty for his goal-tending successor with the Bruins.</p><p>If there has been one outstanding characteristic of Henry in his four-year stay here, besides his fine goal-tending, it has been his Bruins-first, me-second attitude.</p><p>He demonstrated it first four seasons ago, when he entered the Bruins&rsquo; lineup for the first time bearing still-fresh souvenirs of an off-season fire and explosion. He shouldn&rsquo;t have been playing after a near-fatal accident, but he was the Bruins&rsquo; goalie.</p><p>He exhibited it later when he insisted upon playing a Stanley Cup game with a broken nose and nearly closed eyes, by playing another Stanley Cup game with an ankle so swollen and sore that it would barely hold him.</p><p>He showed it anew last fall when he told Manager Lynn Patrick, &ldquo;If you think another goal-tender will help the team more, take me out of the lineup.&rdquo;</p><p>Then when another goal-tender&mdash;young John Henderson&mdash;was brought In, he gave Henderson the full benefit of his experience and knowledge.</p><p>But never has the cheery chap from Winnipeg showed his team spirit more than he did last week, when his cheekbone was shattered in the third period of the Bruins&rsquo; fourth playoff game with Montreal.</p><p>He refused to consider leaving the game, except for a hasty stitching job by Dr. Tom Kelley, the Bruins&rsquo; physician, and even then he snapped at the doctor, &ldquo;Hurry up. I&rsquo;m needed out there.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bruins lost the game in overtime, and Dr. Kelley wanted Henry to remain here for x-rays and the operation which he suspected the veteran would need, but Sugar Jim wanted to take the train for Montreal with his team.</p><p>He had to go to Montreal, he insisted. He could have x-rays taken there. But he had to play two nights later.</p><p>&ldquo;I knew that if I told him he was through for the season, he&rsquo;d start a fight right in the dressing room,&rdquo; Dr. Kelley related later, &ldquo;but I couldn&rsquo;t let him go. One playoff game, even a victory, isn&rsquo;t worth one day of his life.&rdquo;</p><p>So Sugar Jim remained overnight in the hospital while his team went to Montreal, and although he pleaded and raged the next morning, he couldn&rsquo;t argue with the soothing effects of drugs. That afternoon he underwent a 90-minute operation for the repair of his battered countenance, and the next evening the Bruins were eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>&ldquo;Those old hockey players are a hardy breed,&rdquo; said Dr. Kelley, who has been dealing with old hockey players tor nearly three decades. &ldquo;Sugar Jim will be more reasonable as time goes on. Some day he&rsquo;ll thank me for keeping him here.&rdquo;</p><p>Henry has said frequently since last fall that he won&rsquo;t be back here next year, but he still hasn&rsquo;t sold Coach Milt Schmidt on his Intention.</p><p>&ldquo;I still have hope of talking him into coming back,&rdquo; said Schmidt, one of the hardy breed himself, &ldquo;I think I may have a proposition which will interest him.&rdquo;</p><p>Henderson, the six-foot four-inch giant from Toronto, is Sugar Jim&rsquo;s heir-apparent here, and the rookie has had a good first season, only his second as a professional. Long John was beaten but not discredited in his two playoff appearances, and he showed consistent improvement over the last half of the regular season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Injuries Never Prevented Henry From Donning Pads

<div class="byline">By PAUL ROACH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01230/1283960-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIMMY SKINNER</b></figcaption></div><p>HAMILTON, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Although it wouldn&rsquo;t be fair to state that any one person was solely responsible for the magnificient play of the Red Wings in their drive for the Stanley Cup, many Detroit fans insist that the success of this years team can be attributed to their new coach, Jimmy Skinner.</p><p>To say that the congenial Skinner is a master in the art of exploiting new hockey material is a gross understatement. For among the hockey scribes of the motor city, Skinner rates the nod as, not only a good hockey coach, but a good business man as well.</p><p>Jimmy Skinner is a powerful, as well as being a shy individual. But for all his humour and bedeviled appearance, Skinner is also the type of a person that the younger and older players know they can lean on.</p><p>His record this year has been impressive. Lets look at the statistics so far. It hasn&rsquo;t been since 1929-30 season that the current Detroit Red Wings come up with this kind of a record. With their 4-2 victory over the Canadians, the Skinner-coached club now has fourteen straight wins in succession, nine league and five play off wins.</p><p>They have now tied Boston Bruins record of 14 straight games in a league schedule.</p><p>Aside from his role as coach of. the Detroit Red Wings, Skinner runs a hot-dog business in Manitoba in the off-season. He spent many nights worrying the winter when he coached the Junior A clubs. &ldquo;I was wondering whether my being away from home during the long winter months was good for my family and business,&rdquo; eaid Skinner. &lsquo;&lsquo;However, I didn&rsquo;t want to let Mr. Adams down, and I was especially proud the way we brought hockey back to Hamilton. As a matter of fact, I began to find that my connection with hockey was actually doing my business more good.&rdquo;</p><p>Skinner in his new role as coach of Detroit, has experienced many pleasant incidents. However, the one that stands out in his mind was the night he received the telegram from his home town signed with a thousand names. Says Skinner. &ldquo;When I read those lines saying that the town behind me in the drive for the Stanley Cup, I was amazed. I didn&rsquo;t realize that some of those who congratulated me and gave me encouragement in my new venture, were actually following my progress throughout my career. It scared me. But I guess that hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>One fact is central. Jimmy Skinner has spared neither time nor patience in having the current Wings moulded into one the smoothest hockey teams in the National League. He brushes it aside with, &ldquo;my job wasn&rsquo;t half as bad as some of the other coaches in the league. I still had many of the old Pros around. I didn&rsquo;t have to build from the bottom.&rdquo;</p><p>Many Detroit fans disagree. They know that many of the so-called old Pros were once coached by the same Mr. Skinner! Right now, many of the players on the Detroit team played at one time or another for Skinner. Terry Sawchuk, Marcel Pronovost, Dutch Reibel, Glen Slov, Glen Hall, Larry Hillman&hellip;to name a few. The short, chunky mentor has seen 28 of his kids go up to the pro ranks over the past six seasons. So he has had his headaches at one time or another.</p><p>As this is being written, the Red Wings are strong contenders for the Stanley Cup. They have already won two of their games against the Montreal Canadians, and show indications of going all the way.</p><p>However, Coach Skinner has his two feet planted on the ground. He knows you can&rsquo;t win games on reputation. He knows that the team will be only as good as its players. Will the Red Wings have to depend entirely on the Wing&rsquo;s Howe-to-Lindsay punch line? Will their. Chain provide enough talent for future Stanley Cup competition? These are the questions Skinner would like answered.</p><p>Mr. Adams and staff would like also to depart from the idea of selecting a number of established older performers for their future hockey wars. They make it quite clear that there is room for new talent. They have decided that hockey needs new blood&hellip;stars to be, young performers who have overcome the first hard knocks of professional hockey. They not only want a hockey team&hellip;they want a good one.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;I know the future years will be an up-hill battle all the way,&rdquo; Skinner related to me on their stop-over in Hamilton. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;m determined to give the Detroit fans the kind of hockey they are accustomed to.&rdquo;</p><p>In all, it looks like a busy schedule for Mr. Skinner and the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>&ldquo;The only real regret I have,&rdquo; says Skinner, &ldquo;Is that the heavy demand on my time leaves me little home life.&rdquo;</p><p>However, his wife is sympathetic towards him. She now realizes that being coach of a National Hockey Club will take up half her husbands time. This she has grown used to. Whatever success Mr. Skinner will achieve in his new coaching role, one point is clear&hellip;that he will have the backing of his most devoted fan and critic&hellip;his wife.</p><h2><b>A Big Leaguer</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Jimmy Skinner Responsible For Many Present Red Wings

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><p><b>STATISTICS:</b></p><p class="dropcap"><span>G</span>ordon &ldquo;Bucky&rdquo; Hollingworth was born in Verdun, P.Q., July 24, 1933. He is a 5&rsquo;10&rdquo;, 175 lb defenseman who shoots left. Played two years with Montreal Royals before joining the Black Hawks for the 1954-55 season.</p><p><b>SUPERSTITION&mdash;IF ANY:</b></p><p>Likes to have ten minutes sleep before a game. Since most players rest before a game this may not seem unusual, but Bucky claims he can get along with a relatively small amount of sleep, could even dispense with it before a game, but for superstitious reasons makes a point of taking a nap.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD BEFORE A GAME:</b></p><p>Steak.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD ANYTIME:</b></p><p>Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE:</b></p><p>Montreal.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</b></p><p>Florida.</p><p><b>FAVORITE NHL CITY ON A ROAD GAME:</b></p><p>Montreal.</p><p><b>FAVORITE READING MATERIAL:</b></p><p>Has a preference for serious books such as &ldquo;The Caine Mutiny&rdquo; and &ldquo;The High And The Mighty.&rdquo;</p><p><b>FAVORITE RECREATION:</b></p><p>Golf.</p><p><b>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:</b></p><p>Rear Window.&rdquo;</p><p><b>BEST ACTRESSES:</b></p><p>Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor. BEST ACTORS:</p><p><b>BEST ACTORS:</b></p><p>William Holden and James Stewart.</p><p><b>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALISTS:</b></p><p>Doris Day and Pattl Page.</p><p><b>FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Billy Daniels.</p><p><b>FAVORITE POPULAR SONG:</b></p><p>&ldquo;September Song.&rdquo;</p><p><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRAS:</b></p><p>Billy May and the original Glenn Miller band.</p><p><b>FAVORITE TV PROGRAM:</b></p><p>&ldquo;This Is Your Life.&rdquo;</p><p><b>IN THE SUMMER:</b></p><p>Lives in Montreal and is a salesman for the G & J Esplin, Co.</p><p><b>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY:</b></p><p>Playing in the NHL.</p><p><b>TOUGHEST NHL GOALTENDER:</b></p><p>Bucky claims he is not well acquainted with big league goalies because he doesn&rsquo;t score many goals. However he showed his diplomacy by saying: &ldquo;I think I would find Lumley a tough goalie if I ever get a shot at him.&rdquo;</p><p><b>TOUGHEST OPPOSING DEFENSEMAN:</b></p><p>Doug Harvey.</p><p><b>TOUGHEST OPPOSING FORWARDS:</b></p><p>Howe, Richard and Beliveau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02176/1283991-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="274" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bucky Hollingworth</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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INSIDE STUFF About Bucky Hollingworth

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Bill Quackenbush is saying, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m thinking seriously of retiring.&rdquo;</p><p>His record replies, &ldquo;Forget the thought.&rdquo;</p><p>For 12 full seasons Quackenbush has been a great major league defenseman, first with the Detroit Red Wings, since with the Boston Bruins.</p><p>Four times he has been chosen on a National league ail-star team, and no other defenseman owns as many scoring assists as he.</p><p>Now, his pride slung and his spirits dampened by the Bruins&rsquo; playoff defeat by the Montreal Canadiens, he&rsquo;s considering closing his hockey career to pursue another line of business endeavor.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not making any snap decisions, but I&rsquo;m doing a lot of thinking about nert year,&rdquo; the 33-year-old veteran revealed.</p><p>&ldquo;Hockey isn&rsquo;t fun for me anymore, as much as it. is hard work. Maybe I&rsquo;ve played my last game. That&rsquo;s something which I&rsquo;ll decide during the summer.&rdquo;</p><p>If Quackenbush retires, as did his friend and neighbor Johnny Peirson a year ago, he&rsquo;ll be going against the record, just as Peirson did, and as did Bobby Bauer nearly a decade ago.</p><p>Peirson gave up hockey to devote full time to the furniture business after a 21-goal season.</p><p>Quackenbush has just completed one of the brightest three month stretches of his illustrious career.</p><p>Bill broke an ankle a year ago last November, and he never did regain peak condition for the remainder of the 195354 season.</p><p>He was a minor factor in Bruins&rsquo; defense plans last fall, but he returned to prominence in mid-December, and he finished this season with a rush.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03133/1284022-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="294" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Quackenbush</b></figcaption></div><p>After the Bruins&rsquo; five-game series with Montreal. Manager Lynn Patrick was asked to choose the Bruin who had been most outstanding in the series. Patrick&rsquo;s choice was Quackenbush.</p><p>Quackenbush, like most members of the sizeable Greater Boston hockey colony, has his roots firmly set here. He lives in suburban Wellesley with his wife and twin sons, and he has a lucrative off-season sales position. He has said a number of times that he will never play hockey elsewhere.</p><p>The Bruins, with Quackenbush, finished their season with the largest defense squad they&rsquo;ve had in years. On the varsity roster at season&rsquo;s end besides blond Bill were Warren Godfrey, Ferny Flaman, Bob Armstrong, Leo Boivin, Don Cherry and Harold Laycoe, the handyman who spent most of the season as a forward.</p><p>Cherry, a 185-pound husky from Kingston, Ontario, declared himself in on next season&rsquo;s plans by conducting himself ably in the final playoff game which Flaman and Godfrey missed with injuries.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-03

Quack Thinking Of Retiring But His Record Says “No”, After Twelve Seasons In NHL

<h2>First Misconduct</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen Leonard (Red) Kelly drew a misconduct penalty for fighting with Butch Bouchard in the fifth frame of the finals, it marked the first time he&rsquo;d received such a penalty in the NHL.</p><h2><b>Home Ice</b></h2><p>The 1954-55 Stanley Cup fin&rsquo;s may go down In hockey history as the home Ice series. In the five games to date the home team has yet to lose a game, Detroit winning three and Montreal two.</p><h2><b>Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; Detroit-Toronto</b></h2><h3><b>GAME NO. 1</b></h3><p>Toronto 4 at Detroit 7 (Detroit leads best-of-seven semi-final 1-0)</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Lumley; defense: Thompson, Morrison, Reaume. Bolton, Cahan; forwards: Kennedy, Smith, Nesterenko, Armstrong, Stewart, Sloan, Bailey, Klukay. MacDonald, Cullen.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal; Sawchuk; defense: Goldham. Kelly, Woit. Pronovost. Hillman; forwards: Rolbel, Lindsay, Howe, Bonin, Stasiuk. Dineen. Wilson, Skov. Pavelich, Delvecchio, Leswick.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari; linesmen: Sammy Babcock, Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01214/1284186-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="596" height="838"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 2</b></h3><p>Toronto 1. at Detroit 2 (Detroit leads best-of-seven 2-0)</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Morrison, Reaume, Bolton, Cahan; forwards: Smith. Kennedy, Nesterenko, Cullen, Macdonald, Klukay, Sloan, Migay. Stewart, Armstrong.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> 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/f0009-02194/1284179-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="592" height="444"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 3</b></h3><p>Detroit 2 at Toronto 1 (Detroit leads best-of-seven semi-final 3-0)</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards; Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Skov, Leswick, Pavelich, Delvecchio, Dineen, Bonin, Wilson, Stasiuk.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> 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/f0009-03161/1284172-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="596" height="479"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 4</b></h3><p>Detroit 3 at Toronto 0 (Detroit wins best-of-seven semi-final 4-0)</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham. Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards: Reibel Howe, Lindsay, Skov, Pavelich, Leswick, Delvecchio, Wilson, Dincen, Stasiuk, Bonin.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson. Morrison. Bolton, Cahan, Re-aume; 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/f0009-04138/1284165-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="596" height="394"></div><h2><b>Playoff Scoring</b></h2><p>HOW RACE GOES</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05109/1284158-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="597" height="123"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0697/1284151-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="590" height="1043"></div><h2><b>SERIES &ldquo;C&rdquo; Detroit - Montreal</b></h2><h3><b>GAME No. 1</b></h3><p>SUNDAY, APRIL 3 Detroit 4, Canadiens 2</p><p>(Detroit leads best-of-seven series 1-0)</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defence: Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, McAvoy; forwards: Mosdell, Curry, MacKay. Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Leclair, Moore. Marshall, Ronty. Sub goalie: Hodge.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defence: Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Woit, Hay; forwards: Delvecchio. Stasuik, Bonin, Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Skov, Pavelich, Leswick, Dineen. Wilson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0787/1284144-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="592" height="580"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 2</b></h3><p>Canadiens 1 at Detroit 7 (Detroit leads best-of-seven final, 2-0)</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent, McAvoy; forwards: Mosdell, Curry, MacKay, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Leclair, Mocre, Marshall, Ronty. Sub goal: Hodge.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Pavelich, Leswick, Skov, Stasiuk, Bonin, Dineen.</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Red Storey; linesmen: Doug Davies and George Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0979/1284137-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="594" height="690"></div><h2><b>Four Goals</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0880/1284130-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="534" height="550"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED LINDSAY</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 3</b></h3><p>Detroit 2 at Montreal 4 (Detroit leads best-of-seven final, 2-1)</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham. Kelly, Pronovost, Woit. Hay; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay. Leswick, Delvecchio. Pavelich, Skov. Wilson, Dineen, Stasiuk, Bonin, Payette (sub-goalie).</p><p>Canadiens&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Bouchad, Johnson, Harvey. St. Laurent, McAvoy; forwards: Mosdell, Curry, MacKay. Beliveau. Geoffrion, Olmstead, Le-clair, Marshall, Moore, Ronty, Bartlett, Hodge (sub-goalie).</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Bill Chadwick; linesmen: George Hayes and Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1229/1284123-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="592" height="643"></div><h2><b>Hat Trick</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1155/1284116-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="528" height="554"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERNIE GEOFFRION</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>GAME No. 4</b></h3><p>SATURDAY, APRIL 9</p><p>Detroit 3 at Montreal ft</p><p>(Best-of-seven series tied 2-2)</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal, Sawchuk; defense: Pronovost, Kelly, Goldham, Woit, Hay; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Beswick, Delvecchio, Pavelich, Skov, Wilson, Dineen, Stasiuk, Bonin, Payette (sub goalie).</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, McAvoy; forwards: Mosdell, Curry, MacKay, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Declair, Marshall, Moore, Bartlett, Ronty.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01228/1284109-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="610" height="494"></div><h3><b>GAME No. 5</b></h3><p>SUNDAY, APRIL 10</p><p>Montreal 1 at Detroit 5</p><p>(Detroit leads best-of-seven final 3-2)</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defence: Bouchard, Johnson, McAvoy, St. Laurent, Harvey; forwards: Mosdell. Curry, Mackay, Beliveau, Olmstead, Geoffrion, Leclair, Marshall, Moore, Ronty, Bartlett.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defence: Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Woit, Hay; forwards, Reibel, Lindsay, Howe, Skov, Leswick, Pavelich, Delvecchio, Bonin, Stasiuk, Dineen, Wilson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03161/1284102-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="610" height="642"></div><h2><b>Misconduct</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02183/1284095-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="554" height="566"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RED KELLY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Series &ldquo;B&rdquo; Montreal-Boston</b></h2><h3><b>GAME No. 1</b></h3><p>TUESDAY, MARCH 22</p><p>BOSTON 0 AT MONTREAL 3</p><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, LaBine, 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. McKay, Beliveau, Geoffrion. Olmstead. Leclair, Marshall. Moore. Ronty.</p><p><b>Referee,</b> Bill Chadwick; linesmen, George Hayes. Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1071/1284088-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="588" height="446"></div><h3><b>GAME No. 2</b></h3><p>THURSDAY, MARCH 24 BOSTON 1 AT MONTREAL 3 (Montreal leads best-of-seven semi-final 2-0)</p><p><b>Boston:</b> 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> 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/f0009-1322/1284081-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="592" height="456"></div><h3><b>GAME No. 3</b></h3><p>SUNDAY, MARCH 27 MONTREAL 2 AT BOSTON 4 (Montreal leads best-of-seven semi-final 2-1)</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, Plante, Hodge; defence, Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, McAvoy; forwards, Mosdell, Curry, MacKay, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Leclair, Marshall, Moore and Ronty.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, 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/f0009-1413/1284074-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="612" height="606"></div><h3><b>GAME No. 4</b></h3><p>TUESDAY MARCH 29 Montreal 4 at Boston 3 (overtime)</p><p>(Montreal leads best-of-seven semi-final 3-1)</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante, Hodge; defense: Johnson, Bouchard, Harvey, St. Laurent, McAvoy: forwards; Mosdell, Curry, Mackay, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Leclair, Marshall, Moore, Ronty.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Henry; defense: Godfrey, Flaman, Boivin, Quackenbush, Armstrong; forwards: Gardner, Ferguson, Mohns, McKenney. Labine, Chevrefils, Sandford, Laycoe, Corcoran, Bodnar, Mackell.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1510/1284067-1-eng-US/f0009-152.jpg" title="f0009-15" width="610" height="648"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 5</b></h3><p>THURSDAY, MARCH 31</p><p>Boston 1 at Montreal 5 (Montreal wins best-of-seven semi-final 4-1)</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal: Henderson; defence: Quackenbush, Cherry, Armstrong, Laycoe, Boivin; forwards: McKenney, Labine, Chevrefils, Mackell, Sandford, Ferguson, Gardner, Mohns, Corcoran, Bdonar, Costello.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal: Plante; defence: Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, McAvoy; forwards: Mosdell, Curry, MacKay, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Leclair, Moore, Marshall, Ronty; sub. goalie, Hodge.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey; linesmen: George Hayes, Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-164/1284060-1-eng-US/f0009-162.jpg" title="f0009-16" width="610" height="528"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-173/1284053-1-eng-US/f0009-172.jpg" title="f0009-17" width="1684" height="1093"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-01

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>G</span>ordie Howe, star rightwinger with the Detroit Red Wings, has instituted a stirring campaign against existing Stanley Cup records and aided by linemates Ted Lindsay and Earl Reibel, has been exceptionally successful thus far.</b></p><p><b>Howe has personally shattered one record and has teamed with his linemates to shatter still another in the playoffs to date.</b></p><p><b>In the fifth game of the finals against the Montreal Canadiens, Howe scored a three-goal &ldquo;Hat Trick&rdquo; to set a new individual record for points in the Stanley Cup series. His output for nine games to date reached eight goals and 11 assists to beat the old mark of 18 points set by Hector (Toe) Blake of the Habs&rsquo; famous Punch Line in 1943-44.</b></p><p><b>The starry right winger also joined Reibel and Captain Lindsay in a new playoff points record for a froward line. The trio boosted their total to 49 points, one better than the old record of the Punch Line of Blake, Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard in 1943-44.</b></p><p><b>It was Howe who almost personally shattered Habitant hopes in the fifth and crucial game of the final set. With the score tied at 1-1, and the play equally divided between the two clubs, Howe put the Wings out in front with a late first period counter. His second session scores took all the sting out of the Montrealers and the Motor City team coasted from there on in to an easy 5-1 victory.</b></p><p><b>Gordie Howe this season missed winning the NHL scoring championship for the first time in five seasons but he&rsquo;s making up for it in the playoffs, and if he keeps it up, the Stanley Cup section of the NHL record book is going to read like the personal diary of Gordon Howe.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04123/1284217-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="296" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0010-04

Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By JIM VIPOND Sports Editor</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0690/1284248-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg"></div><p>(Toronto Globe & Mail)</p><p>IF ANY MAN has just cause to seek transfer of his headquarters from Montreal to any other city in North America that man is Clarence Campbell, president of the National Hockey League. Yet he sees no reason for pulling up stakes in the tra-ditional headquarters city of the professional sport.</p><p>President Campbell who has been subjected to tremendous political pressure and vituperation by a somewhat insane segment of the population, realizes full well that he would enjoy a more relaxed life if his operations were centred in any other city. Yet he sincerely believes his office should remain in Montreal.</p><p>Campbell bases his arguments on his belief that Montreal as a whole is proud of its hockey heritage and in the interest of developing racial tolerance he wants no change.</p><p>It is his belief that headquarters should be located in a league member city. And it should be a Canadian city as hockey is a Canadian sport, although four of the six competing teams are American.</p><p>That narrows the choice to Montreal and Toronto. Toronto, he claims, does not need the NHL headquarters although many thousands of aroused Canadians would in all probability be inclined to suggest to the president that league headquarters needs Toronto.</p><p>The recent riot in Montreal, provoked by Campbell&rsquo;s mild banishment of Rocket Richard for attacking an official (his third attack in a turbulent athletic career), is still having its repercussions.</p><p>Some of the ring leaders are being hailed as local heroes and feted wherever they go. They&rsquo;ve been the recipients of gifts and there appears to be a segment of the press which is encouraging such flagrant disregard for authority.</p><p>It is regretful that the flames of intolerance are being fanned by an irresponsible section of the French language press which appears to have usurped the responsibilities of a free press.</p><p>The day after the riot a child-brained writer reached a new low in his selection of the three stars of the defaulted game between Detroit and Montreal.</p><p>He gave his first star to the man who slapped Campbell across the face; the second to the man who hit Campbell with a tomato and the third to Campbell.</p><p>There is a torrid political campaign being waged in Quebec to bring about the appointment of an Athletic Commission. Campbell and his office are being used as the whipping post.</p><p>As recently as last Saturday, under the screaming front page headline &ldquo;Campbell an Outlaw&rdquo;, the newspaper La Patrie attempted to stir already unbalanced emotions by suggesting Campbell exceeded his powers and that the National Hockey League does not have judical powers and could only obtain them if granted by the legislature.</p><p>The article, under the by-line of Jean Barrette, argued that at best Campbell might have jurisdiction over National Hockey League officials but not aver Richard who is a salaried player. In any case, Barrette continued, he (Campbell) didn&rsquo;t have authority to exclude Richard from Stanley Cup competition &ldquo;which is run by two trustees and not by Campbell and the NHL.&rdquo;</p><p>This is not so, as the NHL book states &ldquo;&hellip;the Stanley Cup came into the exclusive possession of the National Hockey League in 1926.&rdquo;</p><p>La Patrie is merely trying to embarrass the league president. It is not the first time Mr. Campbell has been under pressure, and from high sources.</p><p>Two years ago, when the signing of Jean Beliveau was a topic of importance in Quebec, Mr. Campbell was approached by a government official close to the Premier of the province.</p><p>This official insisted that Beliveau be permitted to play his hockey in Quebec City. Mr. Campbell fired right back at the Premier&rsquo;s friend informing him that Beliveau could stay in Quebec if they wanted him but Quebec wouldn&rsquo;t have any league in which to play!</p><p>It&rsquo;s common knowledge that Campbell won that round as Beliveau signed with Canadiens and rapidly developed into one of the top stars of the National Hockey League.</p><p>In spite of such shenanigans, Campbell wants his headquarters in Montreal, a metropolis whose mayor even succumbed to picayune partisanship far below the dignity of a first citizen.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-06

SPORTS DIGEST

<h2><b>Using Noggin</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>ob Solinger scored a freak goal that gave Pittsburgh a 3-2 win over Buffalo in the fourth game of the Calder Cup finals. With the score tied 2-2 Frankie Mathers fired a wild shot and it went into the Buffalo nets off Solinger&rsquo;s head.</p><h2><b>Clutch Scorer</b></h2><p>Buffalo&rsquo;s Kenny TVharam has scored some big goals in the Calder Cup playoffs this year. He scored all three in a game against Cleveland and scored in the second overtime in the fifth game to give the Bisons a 5-4 win.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01228/1284370-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="606" height="111"></div><h3>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02190/1284363-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="610" height="108"></div><h3>SERIES &ldquo;C&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03157/1284356-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="616" height="133"></div><h3><b>CALDER CUP FINALS</b></h3><p><b>GAME NO. 1</b></p><p>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30</p><p>Buffalo 4 at Pittsburgh 5 (Pittsburgh leads best-of-seven final 1-0)</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal: Frederick; defense: Sullivan. Wright, Pilote, Raglan; forwards: Babando, Slowlnskl, Pennell, D. Blair. Bettio, Hayden, Jankowski, Gamble, Wharram, C. Blair.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal: Mayer; defense: Mathers, Price. Gariepy, Burega, Reaume; forwards: Hannigan, Solinger, Foley, Timgren, Balfour, Hassard, Caffery, Bailey, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04122/1284349-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="603" height="588"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 2</b></h3><p>SATURDAY, APRIL 2</p><p>Buffalo 3 at Pittsburgh 1</p><p>(Best-of-seven final tied, 1-1)</p><p><b>Buffalo</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defence: Sullivan, Raglan, Pilote, Wright; forwards; Wharram, Bettio, Gamble, G Blair, Slowinski, Babando. Pennell, Jankowski, C. Blair, Hayden.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>&mdash;Goal: Mayer; defence: Burega, Mathers, Gariepy, Price, Rheaume; forwards: Bailey, Foley, Timgren, Marshall, Hannigan, Balfour, Hassard, Caffery, Solinger.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05103/1284342-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="604" height="467"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 3</b></h3><p>SUNDAY, APRIL 3</p><p>Pittsburgh 4 at Buffalo 3</p><p>(Pittsburgh leads best-of-seven final 2-1)</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>&mdash;Goal: Mayer; defence: Burega, Mathers, Gariepy, Price, Rheaujne; forwards: Foley, Timgren, Marshall, Hannigan, Balfour, Hassard, Caffery, Solinger, Barbe, Sabourin.</p><p><b>Buffalo</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defence: Sullivan, Raglan, Pilote, Wright; forwards: Wharram, Bettio, Gamble, D. Blair, Slowlnskl, Babando, Pennell, Jankowski, C. Blair, Hayden.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0695/1284335-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="601" height="544"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 4</b></h3><p>Pittsburgh 3 at Buffalo 2 (Pittsburgh Leads Best-of-Seven final, 3-1)</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>&mdash;Goal; Mayer; defence: Mathers, Price, Gariepy, Burega, Reaume; forwards: Hannigan, Solinger, Foley, Timgren, Barve, Balfour, Hassard, Caffery, Marshall.</p><p><b>Buffalo</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defense: Sullivan, Raglan, Wright, Pilote; forwards: Babando, Slowlnskl, Pennell, D. Blair Bettio, Hayden, Jankowski, Gamble, Wharram, C. Blair.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0785/1284328-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="607" height="601"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 5</b></h3><p>Buffalo 5 at Pittsburgh 4 (overtime)</p><p>(Pittsburgh Leads best-of-seven final, 3-2)</p><p><b>Buffalo</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defence: Sullivan, Raglan, Wright. Pilote; forwards: Babando, Slowlnskl, Pennell, D. Blair, Bettio, Hayden, Jankowski, Gamble, Wharram, C. Blair.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>&mdash;Goal: Mayer; defence: Mathers, Price, Gariepy, Burega. Reaume; forwards: Hannigan. Solinger, Foley, Timgren, Barbe. Balfour, Hassard, Caffery, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0881/1284321-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="604" height="981"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 6</b></h3><p>Pittsburgh 4 at Buffalo 2</p><p>(Pittsburgh wins best-of-seven final, 4-2)</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>&mdash;Goal: Mayer; defence:</p><p>Mathers Price, Gariepy. Burega. Reaume: forwards: Hannigan, Solinger, Foley, Timgren, Barbe, Balfour, Hassard, Marshall.</p><p><b>Buffalo</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defence: Sullivan, Raglan, Wright, Pilote: forwards: Babando, Slowlnskl, Pennell, D. Blair, Bettio, Hayden, Jankowski, Gamble, Wharram, C. Blair.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1064/1284314-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="604" height="598"></div><h2><b>Wins Title</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0974/1284307-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="1152" height="1626"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HOWIE MEEKER</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1153/1284300-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="612" height="786"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1249/1284293-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="532" height="554"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB HASSARD</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1335/1284286-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="554" height="560"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB SOLINGER</b></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-165/1284279-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="1130" height="1590"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By PAUL G. SULLIVAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01237/1284401-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHN HARRIS</b></figcaption></div><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Season&rsquo;s end being at hand, it appears legitimate to do a bit of thinking on the future of Pittsburgh&rsquo;s hockey Hornets&mdash;and with matters as they are, such considerations loom as rather more than idle phantasms.</p><p>As all know who care to know, the Hornets, operated for about two decades by celebrated Steel City showman John H. Harris, are a farm force of the National Lea-gue Toronto Maple Leafs. The home club owns outright only a few such stickmen as AHL AllStars Frank Mathers, defenseman par excellence, and Gil &ldquo;The Needle&rdquo; Mayer, prize goalkeeper.</p><p>Most of the remaining talent skating in Pittsburgh garb are Toronto chattels, on loan generally for experience and development by the over-stocked Leafs. Indeed, even Mathers, Mayer, and other actual Hornet contract&eacute;es could undoubtedly be made available to Toronto without soul-chilling difficulty.</p><h2>Never Owned Gardens</h2><p>But the Harris interests have never owned The Gardens, Pittsburgh&rsquo;s venerable cradle of professional hockey. The ancient rink, originally a carbarn, belonged for more than half-a-century to the Pittsburgh Railways Company. Within the past few years it was sold, along with the other properties obsolete for tarnsit purposes, to a landbuying syndicate, which continued to lease it to the Harris organization for the excellent reason that that entreprising group controlled just about every franchise and contact capable of profitable introduction into the building.</p><h2>Hot Question</h2><p>On or about May 1, 1956, however, the present Harris leasehold will terminate and the hot question now is whether either party to it will press for a renewal, at least on even a moderately long-term basis.</p><p>From the Harris angle, several points ace to be observed. Most immediately, an extremely convenient exit, parking, and storage alley beside the arena has been sold to the promoters of an ad joining co-operative apartment structure. Next, John Harris himself has built a splendid home on the Pacific Coast and spends less and less time in Pittsburgh and more and more on the road with his fabulous successful lce Capades extravaganza. Finally, the long-awaited Pittsburgh civic auditorium is now in the advanced planing and financing stage and is exepected to be ready for use by 1958.</p><h2>Dukes May Take Over</h2><p>Meanwhile the lessors are talking of a program of their own for the Gardens in the event that a satisfactory new deal with the present lessee cannot be effectuated. Basketball, with the famous Duquesne University Dukes front-centering as top attraction, has been mentioned as a prime objective by one of the owners, himself an alumnus of the Duquesne law school.</p><p>The situation being as it is, it would seem reasonable to believe that no radical change in Hornet hockey status will be made before the end of the 1955-&rsquo;56 season. It is understood that already dates have been set for the annual visits of the two major ice shows to the Gardens, while the contract of Yellow Jacket Coach Howie Meeker has at least another year to run.</p><h2>Even Harris Wonders</h2><p>But come autumn 1956 and the stability of the picture vanishes. Whether Harris or a successor will maintain Hornet continuity through the ensuing campaigns until the projected public arena is completed defies prognostication. Doubtless even Harris himself couldn&rsquo;t give the answer to that one at this stage of operations.</p><h2>May Apply to NHL</h2><p>Finally, even when the civic emporium is set, there remains the question of ex-tension of the Toronto-Pittsburgh relationship. With a seating capacity of upwards of 11,000 available, it could be that Pitt&rsquo;s aspirations to return to the major hockey realm would revive acutely in form of application for a spot in the National League.</p><h2>Skepticism</h2><p>It is known that John Harris views NHL affiliation with skepticism. But if he were to drop his hold on hockey here even momentarily, it is almost inevitable that some individual or combine would be quick to attempt to fill the vacuum with a top-drawer troupe&mdash;and the City Fathers, with a whopping big and tremendously expensive building on their hands, would be happy to encourage any reasonably sound venture.</p><h2><b>Doesn&rsquo;t Have Answer</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Future Of Pittsburgh Hornets Cloudy As Harris Remains Mum

<div class="byline">LUNNY</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Frank J. Selke, managing director of the Canadian Arena Company, has branded as ridiculous stories that he will move to Chicago next season as general manager of the Black Hawks.</p><p>&ldquo;I have never been offered the Chicago position,&rdquo; said Selke, &ldquo;and if it were to be offered, I would turn it down. Also I feel that such reports are unfair to Tommy Ivan, who did such a good job with the Hawks this year.</p><p>The stories appeared in Toronto papers.</p><p>&ldquo;Jim Norris, president of the Hawks, came to Montreal to see the final Boston-Canadiens game,&rdquo; Selke went on &ldquo;I was talking to him in the directors&rsquo; room at the Forum and I remarked then that our casual conversation probably would revive the story. But, again I assure you, it isn&rsquo;t true.&rdquo;</p><p>Tommy Ivan also expressed surprise at the rumors. &ldquo;I have a three-year contract with Chicago and I don&rsquo;t think anyone is considering buying it at this time,&rdquo; he said.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Selke Scoffs At Stories He Was Chicago-Bound

<h2>Doc Tops</h2><p>Gerry (Doc) Couture leads all Western Hockey League playoff point makers with three goals, five assists for eight points.</p><h2><b>Most Goals</b></h2><p>Steve Witiuk of the Calgary Stam peelers is the top WHL playoff marksman with five goals in as many games to date.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>Series &ldquo;A&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01242/1284599-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="595" height="146"></div><p>(Edmonton wins best-of-seven semi-final 4-1)</p><h3>Series &ldquo;B&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02205/1284592-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="595" height="146"></div><h3>RESULTS</h3><p><b>TUESDAY MARCH 22nd</b></p><p>Vancouver 6 at Edmonton 2</p><p>Calgary 7 at Victoria 2</p><p><b>THURSDAY MARCH 24th</b></p><p>Calgary 5 at Victoria 3</p><p>Vancouver 0 at Edmonton 3</p><p><b>SATURDAY MARCH 26th</b></p><p>Vancouver 1 at Edmonton 4</p><p><b>MONDAY MARCH 28th</b></p><p>Edmonton 3 at Vancouver 2</p><p>Victoria 3 at Calgary 2</p><p><b>TUSESDAY MARCH 29</b></p><p>Victoria 0 at Calagry 5</p><p><b>WEDNESDAY MARCH 30</b></p><p>Edmonton 4 at Vancouver 2</p><p><b>THURSDAY MARCH 31</b></p><p>&hellip;.Victoria 1 at Calgary 2.&hellip;</p><h3>TUESDAY, MARCH 22 Calgary 7 at Victoria 2</h3><p>(Calgary leads best-of-seven series 1-0)</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Stevenson, A. Michaluk, M. Quackenbush, Barry. Pargeter, Witiuk, Kyle, Couture, Coburn, A. Hucul, Lundy, McFadden, Scott, Finney, J. Michaluk.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Pelletier, Clune, Durham, E. Dorohoy, Macauley, Hebenton, Keating, Davidson, Achtymichuk, Bradley, Bucyk, Kuzma, Kilburn, Reay, Marquess, B. Bentley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06115/1284585-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="602" height="604"></div><h3>Vancouver 6 at Edmonton 2</h3><p>(Vancouver leads best-of-seven series 1-0)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07105/1284578-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="601" height="553"></div><h3>THURSDAY, MARCH 24</h3><p>Calgary 5 at Victoria 3</p><p>(Calgary leads best-of-seven series 2-0)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0898/1284571-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="598" height="579"></div><h3>Vancouver 0 at Edmonton 3</h3><p>(Best-of-seven tied 1-1)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0993/1284564-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="599" height="421"></div><h3>SATURDAY, MARCH 26</h3><p>Vancouver 1 at Edmonton 4</p><p>(Edmonton leads best-of-seven series 2-1)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1091/1284557-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="598" height="478"></div><h3>MONDAY, MARCH 28</h3><p>Edmonton 3 at Vancouver 2</p><p>(Edmonton leads best-of-seven series 3-1)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1181/1284550-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="602" height="493"></div><h3>Victoria 3 at Calgary 2</h3><p>(Calgary leads best-of-seven series 3-2)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1273/1284543-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="600" height="612"></div><h3>TUESDAY, MARCH 29</h3><p>Victoria 0 at Calgary 5 (Calgary leads best-of-seven semi-final 3-1)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1625/1284536-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="597" height="383"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 Edmonton 4 at Vancouver 2 (Edmonton wins best-of-seven semi final 4-1)</h3><p><b>Edmonton.</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defence: Hrymnak, Zoidel, Coflin, Zeniuk, Allan; forwards: Horvath, Poile, Sclisizzi, Stankiewicz, Molmes, Melnyk, Bucyk, Davis.</p><p><b>Vancouver</b>&mdash;Goal: Bower; defence: Reeve, Dick, Lancien, Hudson; forwards: Kullman, Johnson, Maloney, Wylie, Cyr, Brown, Ashworth, Ford, McLeod.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1715/1284529-1-eng-US/f0013-172.jpg" title="f0013-17" width="603" height="397"></div><h3>THURSDAY, MARCH 31</h3><p>Victoria 1 at Calgary 2</p><p>(Calgary wins best-of-seven semi-final 4-1)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1814/1284522-1-eng-US/f0013-182.jpg" title="f0013-18" width="598" height="406"></div><h2><b>Top Man</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04159/1284515-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="587" height="601"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOC COUTURE</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Now Second</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05137/1284508-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="499" height="877"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRONCO HORVATH</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(PLAYOFFS)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03180/1284501-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="601" height="803"></div><h2><b>Not The Mambo</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1541/1284494-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="1052" height="1480"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GLEN HALL, starry Edmonton Flyers goaltender, stretches out the side of his cage as he turns aside a shot by the Vancouver Canucks in the final game of their best-of-seven semi-final series. The Flyers won the series four games to one with Hall playing a standout role for the victors.</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1913/1284487-1-eng-US/f0013-192.jpg" title="f0013-19" width="1171" height="1596"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01245/1284630-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PLAYING-COACH Max McNab of theNew Westminster Royals here displays the form that helped him win the Westtern Hockey League MVP Award this season. Here he has just beaten Vancouver&rsquo;s Johnny Bower but his shot (arrow) nit the post and deflected into the corner. Bower was second in the voting for the MVP Award.</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>History was made in the Western Hockey League when Maxwell Douglas McNab, playing coach of the New Westminster Royals, was chosen as the Most Valuable Player in the league for the 1954-55 season by the sport writers and casters.</p><p>Max became the first forward to ever win the coveted MVP award. And it marked the seventh consecutive season a player from NW, Vancouver or Victoria has for the honors. No prairie player has ever copped this award.</p><p>No less than 13 pucksters received votes for the MVP with McNab polling 44 votes against 35 for Vancouver&rsquo;s John Bower and 23 for Ed-monton&rsquo;s Bronco Horvath. Glen Hall, Andy Hebenton, Marcel Pelletier, Doug Bentley, Lloyd Durham, Phil Maloney, Steve Hrymnak, Art Michalak, Harry Dick and Ed Dorohy followed in that order. McNab receives $100.</p><h2>Six First Place Votes</h2><p>McNab had six first place votes, four seconds and two third choices. That Max was chosen even though his team finished fifth in the six team league and out of the playoffs for the first time only helps to point out the tremendous load this terrific performer and outstanding player and coach contributed to this team and the WHL. Without McNab NW would surely have been at or in the basement most of the season instead of fighting for first as late January.</p><h2>Carried Team</h2><p>Max practically &ldquo;carried&rdquo; his team the last half of the season. Not until mid-way through the Royals&rsquo; last game of the season were they eliminated from the playoffs. A break or two earlier in the year could have been enough to put NW in the playoffs.</p><p>McNab was one of the three playing coaches in the league and his record was, by far, the best. He finished sixth in the individual scoring race with S1 points, consisting of 32 goals (seventh highest in the league) and 49 assists. He participated in ail bis team&rsquo;s games, many times with painful injuries, and how he went depend on his Royals fared.</p><h2>Ice General</h2><p>He was the club&rsquo;s ice general. the leader, the guy who made them click. When NW was knocking over Vancouver with regular monotony during the first half of the campaign McNab, who was born at Watson. Saskatchewan, June 21, 1924, but who now lives here, made playing goal practically unbearable for Johnny Bower as he scored more than a dozen goals against the Canucks&rsquo; starry netminder.</p><p>The elongated centre&mdash;6&rsquo;2&rdquo;, 170 pounds&mdash;scored four gamewinning goals and first goals of a game. He had one hat trick and he spent only four minutes in the penalty box. Max constantly used himself whenever his club was shorthanded and any thankless or dirty job he took care of himself. At no time did this former NHLer with Detroit spare himself. He was the &ldquo;guts&rdquo; of the Royals. He had a haavy load to carry in his dual role as coach and player.</p><h2>Royals MVP</h2><p>New Westminster fans thought so much of the 30-year-old veteran that they voted him the Royals&rsquo; MVP and most gentlemanly player. He got the centre position on the VHL second All-Star team polling 47 votes, and it Bronco Horvath had not established a new league scoring record with 50 goals and 110 points. McNab may have been voted the top playmaker. As it was Max received votes from 17 of 18 selectors, consisting of four first (Horvath got the rest), seven seconds and six thirds.</p><h2><b>Fifth Time</b></h2><p>This is the fifth season, third in a row with NW, Max has scored 60 or more points. In 1947-48 with Omaha of the defunct USHL he tallied 44 goals and amassed 76 scoring points. It was 36-48-84 points with Indianapolis of the AHL in 1950-51. Max was a 28-goal man and 60-pointer with NW in 1952-53. Last season he got 61 points, this season. 81. He has scored 83 goals in three seasons in the WHL.</p><h2>Babe Also Won</h2><p>Babe Pratt won the MVP playing for NW two seasons running&mdash;1949 and 1950. Roger Leger, Victoria, was</p><p>the 1951 winner. It was Luce Dechene, NW, in &lsquo;52, then in &lsquo;53 Emil Francis and in &lsquo;54 Gump Worsley, both fronm Vancouver, were voted MVP. Pratt and Leger were defencemen and playingcoaches. Dechene, Francis and Worsley are all goalkeepers.</p><p>Congratulations to Max Mc-Nab. An outstanding player, a great competitor and playmaker and a fine gentleman.</p><h2><b>Western League MVP And Runner-Up</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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NW’s Max McNab Named WHL’s Most Valuable Player

<p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>For the second consecutive season the Edmonton Flyers have the outstanding rookie in the Western Hockkey League. He is John Bucyk, 190-pound, 6-foot, 20-year-old left winger, who polled 75 of a maximum 90 points to win top honors and the $100 which goes to the best first year player. Last season Don Poile was the winner.</p><p>Bucyk polled 13 firsts, three seconds and one third place vote. One voter ignored him completely. Teammate Norm Ullman, a centre, who is the &ldquo;baby&rdquo; of the WHL (he was 19 last Dec. 2), was second with 60 points. Ullman received 18 votes, consisting of four firsts, 13 seconds and one third place vote. Dick Lamoureux, Saskatoon left winger, was next with 16 points, then Gerry Melynk, Edmonton, and Ray Cyr, Vancouver, both pivotmen, had seven and four points, respectively.</p><p>The choice of Bucyk was a good one. He finished second in the individual scoring race with 30 goals, 58 assists and 88 points, the most ever recorded by a freshmen. His 30 goals was exceptional for a freshman, and he was only one of 11 players in the WHL to hit the 30 goal mark. His 58 assists was good for third spot behind NW&rsquo;s Guyle Fielder (67) and linemate Bronco Horvath (60).</p><p>John is a big, strong, hard-skating youngster with a bullet shot. He and Larry (Rock) Zeidel were the only Flyers to play the entire 70 league games. The loop&rsquo;s top rookie had only one bad slump, early in January, but he came out of it in big league fashion and he&rsquo;s been flying ever since.</p><p>Edmonton&rsquo;s talented winger&mdash;he&rsquo;s earmarked for delivery to the parent Detroit Red Wings next fall or at the latest the season after that&mdash;scored two game-winning goals, one hat trick, and he scored the important first goal of a game four times in league competition. The former Edmonton OIL King junior made the jump down from anybody and his 57 minutes in penalties attest to his willingness to ask no quarter and give none.</p><p>Bucyk is a fast-breaking forward. He can move, and after a season or two in pro ranks the Flyers&rsquo; top left winger should be ready to thrill NHL fans. We are not alone in this opinion of Bucyk&rsquo;s potentialites. There are few scribes, casters, coaches, scouts, players and front office personnel in the WHL who don&rsquo;t agree with us.</p><p>John was named left wing on the second all-star team, finishing next to all-star Andy Hebenton of Victoria. He is one-third of the loop&rsquo;s most dangerous and productive line, which has Horvath at centre and Eddie Stankiewicz at right wing. Horvath was 50-60-110 and Stankiewicz 27-45-72 in league play to give the trio 107 goals, 163 assists and 270 points during the season.</p><p>In the semi-finals Bucyk had four assists (tops) against Vancouver. Horvath was 4-3-7 and Stanky 1-1-2, as the line led the Flyers to victory scoring five goals and assisting on eight more for 13 paints.</p><p>Larry Reardon, Vancouver, 1950; Butch Houle, W., 1951; Guyle Fielder, NW., 1952; Gerry Foley, Seattle, 1953, Poile, 1954, and this year Bucyk, are the WHL rookie winners.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Edmonton Flyers’ John Bucyk Picked As Top Freshman In Western League

<h2><b>First Goal</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>ec Hoekstra&rsquo;s first goal as a professional was a big one. The St. Catharines Teepee star fired the game winner for the Montreal Royals in the first game of the QHL finals.</p><h2><b>Standing By</b></h2><p>Phil Goyette starry centre with the Cincinnati Mohawks and International League scoring champion, will probably see action with Montreal Royals in the Quebec Hockey League finals.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01216/1284811-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="598" height="132"></div><h3><b>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02183/1284804-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="598" height="81"></div><h3><b>SERIES &ldquo;C&rdquo;</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03164/1284797-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="595" height="79"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 1</b></h3><p>Chicoutimi 2 at Shawinigan 4 (Shawinigan leads best-of-nine semi-final 1-0)</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;goal: Craig; defense: Glaude, Marnab, Taillefer, Roy; forwards: S. Smrke, Topoll, Power, Locas, Bartlett, Leger, Gravelle, Sasakamoose, Hicks, Dussault.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;goal: R. Perreault; defense: Leger, Talbot, Turner, Hodgson; forwards: Denis, F. Perreault, Desaulniers, Provost. Broden, Faulkner, Kachur, Dube, Grosse, Wray.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04123/1284790-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="603" height="485"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 2</b></h3><p>Shawinigan 3 at Chicoutimi 1 (Shawinigan leads best-of-nine semi-final 2-0)</p><p>Sh<b>awinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defense: R. Leger Talbot, Hodgson, Turner; forwards: Desaulniers, Wray Provost, F. Perreault, Kachur, Broden, Denis, Grosse, 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><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05100/1284783-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="601" height="433"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 3</b></h3><p>Chicoutimi 2 at Shawinigan 4 (Shawinigan leads best-of-nine series 3-0)</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 Fails</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Lamirande, Turner, Talbot, 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/f0015-0684/1284776-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="601" height="431"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 4</b></h3><p>Shawinigan 3 at Chicoutimi 6 (Shawinigan leads best-of-nine semi-final 3-1)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0776/1284769-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="591" height="703"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 5</b></h3><p>Chicoutimi 1 at Shawinigan 2 (Shawinigan leads best-of-nine semi-final 4-1)</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Craig; defense: McNab, Roy, Glaude, Taillefer; forwards: Bartlett, Dussault, Topoll, Smrke, Moore, Power, G. Leger, Hicks, Locas, Gravelle.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Lamirande, Tolbot, Turner, Hodgson, R. Leger; forwards: Dube, Grosse, Kachut, Provost, Faulkner, Broden, Desaulniers. F. Perreault, Denis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0866/1284762-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="595" height="435"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 6</b></h3><p>Chicoutimi 6, Shawinigan 4 (Shawinlgan leads best-of-nine semifinal 4-2)</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;(goal: R. Perreault; defence: Leger, Hodgson, Talbot, Lamirande, Turner; forwards: Desaulniers. Provost, F. Perreault, Kachur, Denis, Broden, Grosse, Faulkner.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Craig; defence, Glaude, Taillefer, Roy, McNab; forwards, S. Smrke, Bartlett, Locas, Leger, Topoll, Gravelle, Power, Sasakamoose, L. Smrke, Hicks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0962/1284755-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="588" height="763"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 7</b></h3><p>Chicoutimi 2 at Shawinigan 6 rande, Turner; forwards: Denis, De (Shawinigan wins best-of-nine series, 5-2)</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Craig; defense: Roy, Glaude McNab, Taillefer; forwards: G. Leger, Sasakamoose, Topoll, S. Smrke, Power, Hicks, L. Smrke, Locas, Bartlett, Gravelle.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls&mdash;</b>Goal: R. Perreault; defense: R. Leger, Talbot, Lamisaulniers, F. Perreault, Faulkner, Broden, Provost, Thomson, Wray, Dube, Kachur.</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Corriveau; linesmen: Turgeon, Landry.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1055/1284748-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="599" height="670"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 1</b></h3><p>Montreal 2 at Quebec 4 (Quebec Jends best-of-nlne semi-final 1-0)</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><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1149/1284741-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="594" height="424"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 2</b></h3><p>Quebec 0 at Montreal 4 (Best-of-nine series tied 1-1)</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defense: Ehman, Houle, Crozier, Levandoski; forwards: Labadie, Uniac, Henry, Regan, Tremblay Powell, GroJeau, Buchanan, Malo, Cossette.</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><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1235/1284734-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="593" height="486"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 3</b></h3><p>Montreal 0 at Quebec 2 (Quebec leads best-of-nine series 2-1)</p><p><b>Royals&mdash;</b>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, Croleau, Buchanan, Malo. Cossette.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1329/1284727-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="589" height="333"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 4</b></h3><p>Quebec 1 at Montreal 5 (Best-of-nine semi-final tied 2-2)</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Gelineau; defense: Ehman, Levandoski, Houle, Crozier; forwards: Powell, Labadie, Uniac, Henry, Tremblay, Malo, Regan, Groleau, Buchanan, Cossette; Evans (sub goalie).</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defense: Bownass, Dewsbury, Roche, Rousseau, Harmon; forwards: Masnick, Hildebrand, Mazur, Blaine, Tessier, Burchell, Denis, Laplante, Burnett</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Sibby Mundey; linesman: Jim Haggerty and Gordie Whitehead.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1425/1284720-1-eng-US/f0015-142.jpg" title="f0015-14" width="596" height="464"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 5</b></h3><p>Montreal 5 at Quebec I (Montreal leads best-of-nlne semi-final 3-2</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defense: Harmon, Dewsbury, Bownass, Rousseau. Roche; forwards: Burnett, Tessier, Shvetz, Laplante, Burchell, Blaine, Masnick, Mazur, Hi]debrand.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defense: Crozier, Levandoski, Ehman. Houle; forwards: Powell. Labadie, Uniac, Henry, Regan, Tremblay, Groleau, Buchanan, Malo, Thibault.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1521/1284713-1-eng-US/f0015-152.jpg" title="f0015-15" width="594" height="536"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 6</b></h3><p>Royals 1, Quebec 0 (Royals lead best-of-nine semi-final 4-2)</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Gelineau; defence: Crozier, Tennant, Levandoski, Houle; forwards: Ehman, Henry, Buchanan, Powell, Regan, Uniac, Labadie, Tremblay, Malo, Groleau.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defence: Rousseau, Bownass, Harman, Dewsbury; forwards: Shvetz, Blaine, Roche, Mazur, Masnick, Tessier, Burchell, Burnett, Hildebrand, Laplante.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1621/1284706-1-eng-US/f0015-162.jpg" title="f0015-16" width="598" height="309"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 7</b></h3><p>Royals 1 at Quebec 9 (Royals lead best-of-nine series, 4-3)</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defense: Hannon, Dewsbury, Bownass, Rousseau, Roche; forwards: Burnett, Tessier, Denis, Burchell, Laplante, Shvetz, Masnick, Mazur, Hildebrand, Blaine.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Gelineau; defense: Crozier, Levandoski, Arbour, Houle, Tennant; forwards: Powell, Labadie, Uniac. Henry, Regan, Tremblay. Groleau, Buchanan. Ehman.</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Charlie Deziel; linesmen: Aurele Leclerc, Guido Roy.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1721/1284699-1-eng-US/f0015-172.jpg" title="f0015-17" width="590" height="701"></div><h3><b>GAME NO. 8</b></h3><p>Quebec 4 at Montreal 7 (Rovals win best-of-nine semi-final, 5-3)</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Gelineau; defence: Arbour. Crozier, Tennant, Levandoski, Houle; forwards: Ehman. Henry, Buchanan, Powell, Regan, Uniac, Labadie, Cossette, Tremblay, Groleau.</p><p><b>Royal</b>&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defence: Rousseau, Bownass, Harmon, Dewsbury; forwads: Shvetz. Blaine, Roche, Mazur, Masnick, Tessier, Burchell, Burnett, Hildebrand, Laplante.</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;George Gravel; linesmen: Jim Haggerty and Gordie Whitehead.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1818/1284692-1-eng-US/f0015-182.jpg" title="f0015-18" width="593" height="816"></div><h3>SUNDAY APRIL 10</h3><p><b>GAME No. 1</b></p><p>Shawinigan 3 at Montreal 4 (First game best-of-seven finals)</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: Binette; defense: Leger, Hodgson, Talbot, Lamirande, Turner; forwards: Desaulniers, Provost, Perreault, Kachur, Thomson. Denis. Broden, Grosse Faulkner, Dube.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defense: Rousseau, Bownass, Harmon, Dewsbury; forwards: Shvetz, Blaine. Hoekstra, Roche, Mazur, Masnick, Tessier, Burnett, Hildebrand, Laplante.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1917/1284685-1-eng-US/f0015-192.jpg" title="f0015-19" width="600" height="653"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p><b>IT WAS A GOOD TRY&mdash;</b>Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, fighting to win their first Allan Cup since 1924, just failed to come through in the Ontario finals&hellip;the &lsquo;Hounds fought Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen to the limit after the Sault Ste. Marie had taken the lead no less than three times in the best-of-seven series&hellip;the series attracted more interest than any other senior provincial series in many years&hellip;the faithful followers of the Greyhounds even went so far as to pay the shot for a chartered plane to carry their team to Kitchener for the seventh and final game of the series&hellip;after six hard-fought games, the Dutchmen broke loose in the seventh to win 6-1 and eliminate the Sault Ste. Marie team&hellip;Coach Bobby Bauer proved a mighty popular fellow with the Northern Ontario fans and he proved a smart strategist in the crucial games&hellip;Coach Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty did a neat job with the Greyhounds and it was thrilling to watch the two match wits and strategy&hellip;George Scholes, Jack MacKenzie, Clare Martin and Keith woodall turned in outstanding performances tor the Dutchmen, while Eddie Chadwick provided the Ontario fans with some of the most spectacular netminding ever seen in a scrap for the Ontario senior hockey crown&hellip;young Jimmy McBurney, Ron Hurst, Matt Mesich, Joe Bumbacco, Carl Smelle and Kenny Watson stole the show for the Greyhounds&hellip;the final game was televised from Kitchener marking the first time in the history of senior hockey that a contest was brought to fans via TV&hellip;Len Taylor, the very widely-read and popular sports editor of The Kitchener-Waterloo Record, told THE HOCKEY NEWS that the provincial series was the finest that he has seen. &ldquo;The series was always doubt until late in the final game,&rdquo; Len commented. I&rsquo;ve never seen two teams so evenly matched and until the tide suddenly turned in the final game, it was anybody&rsquo;s series. I don&rsquo;t think there has ever been more excitement and fan support for a senior series.&rsquo;&rsquo; Len also said the fans went wild in Kitchener after they grabbed the Ontario crown, &ldquo;It was bedlam in Kitchener-Waterloo following the Dutchies&rsquo; victory. Everyone in this areafelt the Dutchies had to beat a good team and the Greyhounds certainly have nothing to be ashamed of. They played their hearts out to win.&rdquo; Len, by the way, also did a fine job on the air for Radio Station WSOO in Sault Ste. Marie&hellip;he did three broadcasts to the Soo direct from Kitchener to keep the Sault Marie fans up to date on changing developments&hellip;he was followed very closely and proved to be a very keen observer of the hockey scene.</p><p><b>BIG PLANS FOR 1956&mdash;</b>Now that the Northern Ontario team has been knocked out of the Allan Cup race, the various teams in the NOHA are naturally looking to the 1956 season&hellip;the Greyhounds will start building along with Sudbury Wolves, North Bay Trappers, Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) Indians and Pembroke Lumber Kings, while all the fine teams in the Porcupine District will be out to strengthen so they can get on a par with the Southern Division&hellip;the major change for next season undoubtedly will be slicing of salaries&hellip;all leaders agree that salaries on some of the NOHA teams were away out of line&hellip;deficits will force a complete overhauling&hellip;but right now, it&rsquo;s congratulations to Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen for their victory and hats off to Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds for the great fight they made all the way.&hellip;North Bay Trappers will have a new coach next season&hellip;Leo Lamoureux has revealed he will not. return and speculation now is rife that popular Ab DeMarco, one of the finest and most colorful men in hockey, will take over as coach&hellip;with North Bay making great headway on their new rink, hockey interest is bound to Increase in the Gateway City&hellip;Controversies have been many in Northern Ontario hockey this season&hellip;the latest broke out at Kenora&hellip;more than 500 fans signed a huge telegram in which they bitterly protested the location of the first two games of the Western Canada Intermediate playoffs between Brandon Wheat Kings and Kenora Thistles&hellip;the association ruled the first two games be played in Brandon&hellip;that was some telegram with more than 500 fans on it&hellip;Meanwhile, Fort Erie trimmed Tillsonburg. 8-5 in the third game of the Ontario Intermediate semi-finals&hellip;it was the first win for Fort Erie and followed two wins by Tillsonburg&hellip;Bobby Rivet starred for Fort Erie with two goals, turning in one of his finest performances of the season&hellip;interest in hockey is very high in the areas involved and great things are predicted for next season.</p><p><b>BIG THINGS AT ORILLIA&mdash;</b>Close to 2,500 fans turned out to watch Orillia Pontiacs trim Kingston Goodyears in the first game of the Senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; semi-finals&hellip;throughout this season we&rsquo;ve been telling you of the fine support given hockey in Orillia and that soon it would reach a fever pitch&hellip;that crowd was the largest of the entire season and the hockey was thrilling all the way&hellip;Drillia repaid the fans for their support by trimming Kingston, 6-1&hellip;Al Shewcuck fired the - first two goals for Orillia on the team&rsquo;s power play&hellip;Al was in perfect position at the point and drilled two hot drives into the net&hellip;Clary Payne also got two for the Pontiacs&hellip;Kingston, however, served notice that they could come back in later games&hellip;it&rsquo;s shaping up as a quite a series&hellip;Bobby Wilson, chief scout for Chicago Black Hawks, is very high on young Gene Diotte, clever netminder for Woodstock Warriors in the OHA Junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; circuit&hellip;Gene won the top award for netminders in his first year and is rated a good-looking prospect&hellip;if Gene continues to improve he should be rated a good chance to get into the bigtime&hellip;Sault Ste. Marie went wild when Marty Pavelich scored the winning goal for Detroit Red Wings in the opening game of the Stanley Cup finals&hellip;after that goal. Marty could have returned home and taken over the city&hellip;he&rsquo;s a mighty popular guy all over&hellip;nice going. Marty!! I&hellip;Sudbury Gatchells made a strong showing in the NOHA minor hockey semi-finals against Sault Ste. Marie Black Hawks, winning the two-games, goals-to-count round 10-6&hellip;the Gatchells won the first game, 5-2, but found themselves behind 4-1 going into the final period&hellip;the hard-driving boys from Gatchell put on the pressure and rapped home four unanswered goals in the third period to win out&hellip;young Roy Furlani with four goals in the two games emerged as the big star and showed he is a youngster that should be watched very closely&hellip;big-time scouts have their eyes on Roy!!!&hellip;before this season is over the work of Lorne Miller, long-time secretary-treasurer of the NOHA should be recognized&hellip;he had many tough problems to solve this season but came through splendidly&hellip;he is one man who deserves the praise of all hockey teams in Northern Ontario&hellip;Congratulations, Lorne g!!.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01215/1284866-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB PERRAULT&hellip; &hellip;Out For Playoffs</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>With Vezina Trophy winner Bob Perreault at his best in the nets, the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts had little trouble capturing the Quebec Hockey League tittle this season.</p><p>But Perreault got a touch of the virus just on the eve of tre QHL finals against the Montreal Royals and was unable to don his uniform for the opening game of the set.</p><p>The result was that little Andre Binette was pressed into action by the Cataracts. Perreault&rsquo;s replacement proved shaky in the nets and the Royals skated off with a 4-3 victory to give them the jump in the best-of-seven series.</p><h2><b>A Big Loss</b></h2><h3>Binette Shaky</h3><p>Once the diminutive Binette got by the opening period of the series opener, he was tough to beat, but that first period, in which the Royals ran up a 3-0 lead, was something enough to give coach Roger Leger a few added grey hairs. As it turned out, the Cats managed to knot the count, but Cec Hoekstra, up from St. Catherines, scored his first goal as a professional and it was the difference.</p><p>The strain of playing three tough playoff games in six days had its effect on the Royals. Apart from the first period when they were full value for the three goals, they were listless. Shawinigau had been resting since they kayoed Chicoutimi. The layoff had its effect on them too. They seemed disorganized in the first period and it took them 20 minutes to start working as a unit.</p><p>Eddie Mazur gave a tremendous performance for the Royals. Nobody ever questioned the big guy&rsquo;s ruggedness but it was never better displayed. He was a &ldquo;skating fool&rdquo; and didn&rsquo;t back up at anytime. He had a joust with Eddie Kachur and Jean Guy Talbot.</p><p>The Spider got the Royals&rsquo; first goal, his sixth since the playoffs got underway. Then Gary Blaine scored an unassisted goal and the line made it three in a row when Paul Masnick fired the third.</p><p>Binette didn&rsquo;t look too good on Masnick&rsquo;s marker and it&rsquo;s extremely doubtful if he&rsquo;ll be in the nets in the second game. Since Perreault isn&rsquo;t expected back this year, Kenny Reardon will be allowed a replacement from a league of equal or lower classification than the QHL. That means that he can grab Gaetan Dessureault, the good janjtor of the Cincinnati Mohawks.</p><p>Royals&rsquo; 3-0 lead quickly evaporated once the Stawcats broke throught Gilles Boisvert&rsquo;s fortress. Their first goal came at 11.25 with the clubs at full strength. Connie Briden pumped it home after taking the long pass from Ted Hodgson, Erwin Grosse narrowed the margin to 3-2 with Kachur and Ray Laplante in the penalty box. scoring from a power-play with Roger Leger and Gilles Dube getting assists.</p><p>Shawinigan&rsquo;s big goal came midway through the final period with Glen Harmon, who played a horse of a game, accidentally tipping Grosse&rsquo;s drive into his own nets.</p><p>The teams settled down to some close-checking hockey for the next seven minutes and it looked like the score would stay that way for the rest fo regulation time. Then the winner came with stunning suddenness on a routine play.</p><p>Ernie Roche, skating like a demon all afternoon and a consistent thorn in the Cats&rsquo; sides, scooped up a loose puck at centre ice and went scooting into the corner. He dropped a pass back to Laplante and the latter fired it at Binette. The kid grabbed it and skated across his net but Hoekstra came whirling in and slapped the puck, which Binette appeared to drop, into the cage.</p><p>Coach Leger was denied a chance to come up with a real poyer play in the dying minutes when Hodgson was chased by Referee Charlie Deziel at 19.21 for charging.</p><p>With 40 seconds to go and playing a man short, Leger lifted Binette and Masnick came within inches of scoring into the empty cage when Grosse tipped the puck off his stick as he was lining up a shot at the unguarded cage.</p><p>Skippy Burchell sat this one out. He reported with an injured hip and Morin decided on Hoekstra. Morin said that Phil Goyette, who is on stand-bye duty, won&rsquo;t play in Shawinigan in the second game of the series.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Cataracts Lose Bob Perreault And 1st Came In QHL Final

<p>QUEBEC CITY, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Jacques Marcotte, the wiry little netminder for the Quebec Frontenacs, may be the difference between his team&rsquo;s gaining a berth in the Memorial Cup final or being shunted to the sidelines for still another season.</p><p>So far, Marcotte has been playing sensational in the Eastern final between the Fronts, QJHL champions, and the Toronto Marlboros, OHA Junior A champions and if he can keep it up, then the lads from the Ancient Capital will rate an excellent chance of upsetting the powerful Dukes.</p><p>At time of writing, the series is all squared away, with the teams splitting a pair of Toronto contests and battling to a tie in the third contest, played in Quebec&rsquo;s Coliseum.</p><h2><b>Red Hot</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03117/1284997-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="598" height="994"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACQUES MARCOTTE</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Impressed</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0485/1284990-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="550" height="885"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TURK BRODA</b></figcaption></div><h3>Broda Impressed</h3><p>Turk Broda, the rotund mentor of the Marlies, is of the opinion that Marcotte might be the key man in the series. Turk noted that the jumping jack janitor had been super-sensational in the second game of the set despite the fact that the Fronts emerged from the contest on the short end of a 4-1 count when the Dukes scored three times in overtime. In this contest Marcotte was called upon to handle 55 shots.</p><h3>Hot Goalie</h3><p>Following the game, Broda was quoted as saying: &ldquo;That Marcotte is a hot goalie, there&rsquo;s no doubt about that. He plays a lot like a defenseman, saves a lot of shots by intercepting passes. That&rsquo;s quite a thing for a goalie.&rdquo;</p><p>He added a postcript:</p><p>&ldquo;One thing though, my boys made him (Marcotte) look good by taking too long to shoot.&rdquo;</p><h3>Quietly Confident</h3><p>Meanwhile General Manager Stafford Smythe of the Marlies refused to commit himself on the outcome of the series but seemed quietly confident that the Dukes would be able to get by the Fronts and into the Memorial Cup final, slated to start April 21 in the city of the Western champion.</p><p>Both Smythe and coach Broda realize that if the Marlboros are to go any furthur, they will have to win at least one game in Quebec, something they have had little success at in the past.</p><h3>Never Won In Quebec</h3><p>&ldquo;We never won an OHA championship under my regime until this year,&rdquo; said Smythe, &ldquo;and so far we&rsquo;ve never won a game in Quebec. Might as well break that too. We&rsquo;re breaking everything else.&rdquo; Fourth game of the series is also slated for the Coliseum and then the action swings back to Maple Leaf Garden.</p><h3>Cripples Return</h3><p>Several Toronto players who had been on the sick list were back at top form for the third game of the set. Billy Harris who had been wearing a rubber sponge on an injured knee in the second contest, reported that his underpinning was back in top shape and that, barring another injury, he&rsquo;d be ready to go the rest of the route.</p><p>Two other Dukes who had been suffering from a touch of the flu Gary Collins and Ron Casey, have managed to give that ol&rsquo; debbil bug the heave-ho and are back at top efficientcy.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-03

Marcotte Mays Key Rob For Frontenacs In Final Against Toronto Marlies

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01180/1284935-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GAETAN DESSURAULT</b></figcaption></div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>For the third straight year, the Cincinnati Mohawks have swept top honors in the International Hockey League.</p><p>Completing their 1954-55 sweep, the Hawks outlasted Troy&rsquo;s fighting Bruins, four games to three, to capture the playoff championship and with it the Joseph Turner Memorial Trophy.</p><p>On the verge of defeat after the first four games of the best-of-seven series, the spirited Bruins played sensational hockey to take two in a row and pave the way for the seventh and deciding tilt.</p><p>Nellie Podolski and his Troy skaters apparently had expended all of their energy in knotting the series, however, as Cincinnati won the finals going away, 7-0, to bring another crown to the Queen City.</p><p>Recapitulating, here are the scores of that exciting final series between the neighborhood Ohio rivals:</p><p>1.&mdash;Cincinnati 3 Troy2, at Cincinnati; 2.&mdash;Troy 8 Cincinnati5, at Troy; 3.&mdash;Cincinnati 7 Troy 0, at Cincinnati; 4.&mdash;Cincinnati 5 Troy 2, at Troy; 5.&mdash;Troy 4 Cincinnati 1, at Cincinnati; 6.&mdash;Troy 3 Cincinnati 2, at Troy; 7.&mdash;Cincinnati 7 Troy 0, at Cincinnati.</p><p>There was actually little to choose between the two youthful teams, with the Hawks holding a decided edge in the goal-scoring column because of those two lop-sided 7-0 triumphs.</p><h2><b>Another Zero</b></h2><h2><b>Battered</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02150/1284928-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="586" height="1393"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROLY MCLENAHAN</b></figcaption></div><h3>Bruins Improved</h3><p>Troy, which finished eight and a half games behind first-place Cincinnati in the runner-up spot during the 195455 campaign, improved as the season progressed. Podolski welded his club into a dangerous title threat after a slow start that saw the Bruins battling hard to stay in contention for a playoof berth.</p><p>There is little doubt that plenty of credit should go to Podolski and the Bruin management for the work they did in developing such standout icers as Max Szturn, Marty McAlendin, Jack McCarthy, Ollie Olson, Red Olsen, Bob Cowan, and others.</p><h3>Standout Job</h3><p>On the other hand, Roly McLenahan, who coached the Mohawks for the second straight year, also did a standout job with his array of talented, highscoring young prospects.</p><p>A sidelight of the IHL championship battle was the fact that it actually pitted the Montreal Canadien organization against a Detroit farm club in a minor edition of the current National Hockey League playoff finals. Cincinnati is a link in the Canadien chain, while Troy has an agreement with Detroit.</p><p>It looked like it was all over but the shouting when the men of McLenahan took a 3-1 lead in games by smothering the Bruins, 5-2, in Troy. That was when Podolski, in his debut as a hockey coach, got his skaters really fired up as they came fast to take the next two tilts and even the series.</p><h3>Tense Setting</h3><p>The setting was a tense one for the finals, with both clubs keyed up to a fever pitch and ready to battle it out on the slighest provocation.</p><p>Referee Doug Young had a busy time in the first period, calling 10 penalties, five on each club, with Podolski getting three of them. Dave McCready put Cincinnati on the road to victory with a goal at 14.44 on a perfect relay from Reg Grigg.</p><p>The Hawks pulled away in the second canto on goals by Phil Goyette, Duke Edmundson, who just got out of a sick bed, and Barry Throndycraft. Goyette and Edmundson lit the red light just 31 seconds apart in the third minute of the period.</p><p>Continuing to pile it on, Cincinnati opened its lead in the last 20 minutes, with Goyette and Edmundson each contributing their second markers of the night and Capt. Billy Goold, a red-hot playoff performer, winding up the point-making.</p><p>The game was enlivened by a second-period battle between McLenahan and Kee Mortson of the Bruins, with the Hawk coach winding up with a cut face and puffed-up nose as a result of the fisticuffs.</p><h3>Eleventh Shutout</h3><p>It marked the second postseason shutout for Rookie Goalie Gaetan Dessureault of the Hawks and was his eleventh of the entire campaign, as he knocked away 24 shots to 29 saves for Bill Tibbs of the losers.</p><p>George (Butch) Bouchard, hard-hitting Cincinnati defenseman, lost part of a tooth and had four stitches taken in his lower lip when he was checked hard into the boards by Podolski in the middle session of the game. Bouchard was called up by Shaw-inlgan Falls of the Quebec League as a standby playoff replecement.</p><p>ICING THE PUCK&hellip;On hand to help out if needed and watch the final three Troy-Cincinnati games was Kenny Reardon, head of the Canadien farm system. Reardon was impressed with the play of the two teams, which he labeled &ldquo;the best I&rsquo;ve ever seen in this league&rdquo;&hellip;Grigg has had the unique honor of being a member of four straight pennantwinning outfits, first with Johnstown. then of the Eastern Amateur League, and now for three straight years with Cincinnati&hellip;Denis Boucher returned from Montreal, where his father passed away, to play the final three games&hellip;Goyette, winner of the IHL&rsquo;s scoring derby, also topped all playoff scorers with six goals and eight assists for 14 points, a shade ahead of Goold, who had seven goals and six assists for 13 points&hellip;Dessureault yielded 25 goals in 10 post-season tilts for a commendable 2.50 average to go along with his regular-season mark of 2.74.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-01

Cincinnati Adds Playoff Crown To League Title For IHL Sweep

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Western Canada this year is seeing a renewal of the 1952 western junior hockey final between the Regina Pats and the Winnipeg Monarchs. The Winnipef outfit, then coached by Walter Monson, won the series back in 1952 but they had to go to eight games to turn the trick.</p><p>Gunning for revenge, Coach Murray Armstrong&rsquo;s Regina Pats are favored to even the score with the Monarchs in this year&rsquo;s final. The winner will represent the west in the Memorial Cup final against the east, and will have the advantage of playing this east-west series on their home ice.</p><h2><b>Graduate</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01188/1285028-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="596" height="611"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ED LITZENBERGER</b></figcaption></div><h3>Great Record</h3><p>The Pats, a real &ldquo;go-go&rdquo; type of club follows Coach Armstrong&rsquo;s style of play to the T, carry a terrific record into the western final, especially on their home ice in Regina. In 59 league and playoff games, they have won 42, lost 16 and tied one. On their home ice they have won 26 and lost only three in 29 games. In 19 playoff games, the Reginans have won 12, lost six and tied one while eliminating the Medicine Hat Tigers, Lethbridge Native Sons and Humbolt Indians in that order.</p><p>The Monarchs are under a new coach this term, with Hoss Nicholson moving up from the club&rsquo;s minor ranks to take over from veteran pilot Walter Monson. Monson was at the helm for nine years during his tenure he guided his club to three western finals and one Memorial Cup championship.</p><h3>Finished First</h3><p>Under Nicholson, the Monarchs finished in top spot in the final standings of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League and then eliminated the runner-up Winnipeg Barons in five games.</p><p>The Regals had their backs to the wall in the western semi-final series against the Fort William Canadiens before coming through with victories in the sixth and seventh games to take the round. It was a wild and woolly series which saw the suspension of two men. In the fourth game a wild brawl broke out after the final whistle while the teams were on their way to the dressing rooms and resulted in the one-game suspension of Fort William Coach Mickey Henessey.</p><p>Then in the fifth game Monarch forward Ralph Lyndon drew an indefinite suspension from the C.A.H.A. for a stick-swinging attack on Fort William goalie Lynn Davis. Lyndon sat out the rest of the series but had his suspension lifted on the eve of the western final against Regina.</p><h3>Long Delay</h3><p>Often the butt of attacks, the C.A.H.A. was picked on again in Regina before the start of the western final. This time they were being blamed for the long delay before the start of the series. Pat eliminated Humbolt on a Monday night and then had to wait eight days before their first game against Monarchs.</p><p>As is often the case, the C.A.H.A. couldn&rsquo;t be entirely blamed for the situation. As C.A.H.A. past president Al Pickard of Regina pointed out, the dates for these playoffs are set several months in advance to reserve bookings at the various rinks. Besides, how were they to know that the Regina-Humbolt semi-final would only give five games, instead of the full seven?</p><h3>Collins Great</h3><p>Back in the 1952 series, the outstanding player was Don Colins, the outstanding Monarch goalkeeper. The high-powered Pats sparked by Eddie Litzenberger, Tony Schneider, Doug Killoch, Johnny Reeve, Gordie Cowan, enjoyed a big edge in play in the series but couldn&rsquo;t beat Collins in the Winnipeg net.</p><p>Pats this year have a brilliant little netminder in Joe Selinger and it could be that he&rsquo;ll be as big a star in the series as Collins was back in 1952.</p><p>As they move into the western final, Regina is being paced in playoff activity to date by their high-scoring front line of Captain Bev Bell at centre with Harvey Flaman and young Bill Hicke on the wings. Bell leads the way with 11 goals and 10 assists in 19 playoff games. He was runner-up to Earl ingarfield of Lethbridge in the Western League sroring race.</p><p>Hicke, a 17-year-old winger who moved up into junior company late in the season, is next in line in Pat scoring ranks with 20 points, with eight goals and 12 assists. Flaman has six goals and 11 assists. Second-line centreman Red Hay is tpos in goals with 12.</p><h3>Balfour Injured</h3><p>Regina eliminated Humbolt without the service of defenceman Murray Balfour and forward Harold Ottenbriet. Balfour will be out for another three weeks with a fractured knee cap, but Ottenbreit gets back into action in the series with Monarchs.</p><p>This is the fourth western final in six years for Coach Armstrong, which makes him the west&rsquo;s top junior coach. On two of the previous three occasions, his Pats won the western title but lost the Memorial Cup final to the east. He is gunning for revenge against the east this time.</p><p>Hoss Nicholson, the rival Winnipeg coach, had one previous experience in the western final. That was in 1947 when his Brandon Elks lost an eight-game series to the Moose Jaw Canucks, led by Metro Prystai. Canucks in turn were beaten by Toronto St. Michaels, then under Coach Joe Primeau, in the Memorial Cup final. St. Mike&rsquo;s had a powerhouse that year with Ed Sandford, Fleming Mackell, Rudy Migay, Benny Woit and they were rated ono of the greatest junior clubs of all time.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-01

Regina Favored Over Winnipeg In Memorial Cup Semi-Final

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Kitchener Dutchmen, OHA champions and winners of the all-Ontario senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey championship, are conceded an edge to regain the Allan Cup this season, which they won two seasons ago, following their conquest of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Greyhounds, NOHA champions, by a 6-1 score in the seventh and final game.</p><p>The consensus of opinion in Ontario, prior to the Dutchmen-Greyhound series was that the survivors would take Canadian honors, and the opinion has not changed any.</p><p>The Soo-Kitchener series proved a see-saw affair, as the rival teams exchanged wins in the first six games, but when the chips were down the better balance and more solidity of the Dutchmen asserted itself. The balance in power was clearly demonstrated in the last game, when two Kitchener defencemen scored goals, while the other four goals were distributed among as any different players.</p><h2><b>Key Man</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02124/1285059-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="556" height="1050"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN LAUFMAN</b></figcaption></div><h3>Laufman Scoreless</h3><p>It was just a case of the lower, scoring members of the Dutchmen coming through with important counters when their top scorers were held in check by the Soo Greyhounds. This proved particularly true of Ken Laufman, Dutchmen centreman, who chalked up 23 goals and 58 assists during the regular O.H.A. schedule, to win league scoring honors, and resulted in him being selected as the Most Valuable Plaper in the group.</p><p>Following the final Soo-Kitchener game, Laufman was presented with the Dave Pinkney Trophy and replica by M. L. &ldquo;Tory&rdquo; Gregg, president of the O.H.A. Laufman failed to score a single goal in the final sevengame set, so closely watched was he by the Greyhounds, but despite this special attention he managed to figure in seven goals, and set up Important goals for his linemates Gerry Theberge and Georges Scholes.</p><h3>Needed No Break</h3><p>In all this line accounted for six goals and 11 assists in the Soo series. The Dutch-men had a total of 18 goals as against 11 for the Greyhounds, and their superiority was the most marked in the last game. True the Dutchmen were lucky on two goals when flying pucks caromed off Soo defenceman, but they needed no breaks to assert their right to advance into the Allan Cup semi-finals against Moncton Hawks.</p><p>In the Western Canada semifinals Fort William Beavers took a 2-1 victory over Vernon, B. C. Canadians in the first game, and this series, basing an opinion on the outcome fo the opening fixture, could go either way.</p><p>Little is known in Ontario about the Moncton Hawks, because they have few name players and had a fairly easy time eliminating Ottawa R.C.A.F. in the Eastern semi-finals in straight games. Reports from eastern Ontario are that the Ottawa team was little better than of senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; calibre, so on that basis not a great deal can be guaged as to Moncton Hawks&rsquo; real ability.</p><p>Much credit is given Eddie Chadwick, Toronto Maple Leaf chattel, who guarded the twine for Soo Greyhounds, and but for his spectacular puck-fending the series might not have gone the limit. Chadwick, was rated in N.O.H.A. circles as a goalie who was erratic at times, and while he was anything but that for six games against Kitchener, he finally cracked in the seventh game and was beaten a couple of times on shots that he had previously handled with considerable ease.</p><h3>Woodall Hero</h3><p>And while the Kitchener fans are singing the praises of such players as Ken Lauf-man, Joe Schertzl, George Scholes, Jack McKenzie, Jack Hamilton and Gerry Theberge, the majority of the fans around Western. Ontario point to Keith Woodall, in the Dutchmen&rsquo;s cage, as the big hero for their Ontario championship.</p><p>It will recalled that Woodall, who donned the big pads for the Dutchmen when they captured the Allan Cup two seasons ago, had played but two games this season, Dennis Brodeur of Quebec being their regular netminder. However, when Brodeur was injured so badly that he was unable to continue in the last game against Windsor Bulldogs, Woodall donned the armor and proved the big ace in the hole.</p><p>It was unfortunate for Brodeur that he was injured, but it was definitely fortunate for the Kitchener Dutchmen, because Woodall had proven a money player before and he repeated in the recently concluded series with Soo Greyhounds. Good as Brodeur proved in O.H.A. competition, even his most ardent supporters acknowledge that when the chips are on the line the more experienced Woodall is Kitchener&rsquo;s best bet.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-02

Kitchener Dutchmen Given Edge To Regain Allan Cup After Ousting Greyhounds

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N. Y.&mdash;</p><p>The 1954-55 season had many high and low spots for the Buffalo Bisons as they sputtered, staggered, then steam-rollered through the American League season.</p><p>It was a rough baptism in the coaching fraternity for Gaye Stewart, the former National League star who was elevated from the player ranks to guide the Herd this season.</p><p>And Stewart would be the last to deny that he made mistakes. He did. But he proved himself as a coach. He took all criticism leveled at him when the team was going poorly and floundering in last place during the first half of the season without looking for &ldquo;an out.&rdquo;</p><p>When the tide turned in his favor and the Bisons found themselves in the drive down to the wire, he gave credit where he felt it was deserved&mdash;skipping Coach Gaye Stewart.</p><p>Stewart, from the start, faced each issue with a quiet daring. When he saw that neither he nor Capt. Ed Slowinski, two-thirds of last year&rsquo;s record-making &ldquo;Big Line&rdquo; were not having a comparable season, he didn&rsquo;t hesitate to break up the line completely.</p><p>He was quick to bench a player&mdash;including himself&mdash;when he felt the team was being hurt by his play. At least in one admitted case, a game benching proved to be making of one of his standouts&mdash;Center Ken Wharram.</p><p>Although Dickie Gamble undoubtedly was the stickout scorer in the entire league in the final stages of the campaign and was picked by the fans as the club&rsquo;s Most Valuable player, Stewart didn&rsquo;t let it deter him from keeping Gamble on the bench for several shifts in the finals of the playoffs against Pittsburgh when Dickie&rsquo;s play fell off.</p><p>For a freshman coach it would have been safer, at least he would be open to far less criticism, if he had played according to the accepted patterns and used his so-called proven weapons regardless of any corrosion they may have had on them at the time.</p><p>Perhaps, his biggest gamble was when the Bisons, in the midst of their second-half comeback, entered the baliwick of the then league-leading Springfield Indians for two games in that many nights.</p><p>With Slowinski, Center Gord Pennell and Right Winger Lou Jankowski all sidelined with serious injuries, Stewart elected to battle Springfield with only two forward lines because he felt his third line was &ldquo;just too weak to match any one of theirs.&rdquo;</p><p>The result was a twin victory that gave the Bisons the impetus to go on and clinch a playoff berth&mdash;just three points behind Pittsburgh, the final top-runger.</p><p>If the Bisons had lost those who games, and it well could have meant a fifth place finish for Buffalo, not-so-garrulous Gaye would have been roughly criticized for trying to win with only 10 men.</p><p>Using the three lines, he could always fall back on the excuse&mdash;and rare is the coach who doesn&rsquo;t bow to the opportunity&mdash;that weak. I couldn&rsquo;t do anything about it.&rdquo;</p><p>All of which tends to show conclusively that Mr. Stewart lias come a long way in just one campaign as a coach. For time and again he exposed the chin of his wife&rsquo;s favorite hockey man when other avenues were open; he took the brickbats when things went poorly without flinching; and when the sun shone brightly, he gladly shared its radiation.</p><p>Statiscally, he placed 33 different forward combinations on the ice, making changes until he hit upon the lines that clicked for 19 wins and two ties in the team&rsquo;s final 31 games.</p><p>Then, he jockeyed his club past the Cleveland &ldquo;jinx&rdquo; that has killed Buffalo in the playoffs in recent years into the finals against the Hornets.</p><p>Stewart isn&rsquo;t affecting false modesty when he says &ldquo;he has an awful lot to learn about coachin&rdquo;. But he is overlooking one thing he proved beyond a doubt. He also knows an awful lot about the same subject and is willing to take chances to prove his point&mdash;which is the mark of an outstanding man in any profession.</p><h2><b>Modest</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0376/1285090-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="572" height="858"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GAYE STEWART</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Gaye Stewart Proves A Success In First Season As AHL Coach

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01167/1285121-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(SOLUTION NEXT WEEK)</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1. Pictured Red Wing player.</p><p>6. Another name for Gerry Couture.</p><p>8. An N.H.L. trophy.</p><p>11. Initials of Rangers&rsquo; coach in 1949-50.</p><p>12. N.H.L. team with whom Billy Taylor first played (abbr.)</p><p>13. Former Montreal rearguard.</p><p>15. Initials of one of the Black Hawks.</p><p>17. Bill Ezinicki played junior hockey in this league (abbr.)</p><p>18. Another name for Mrs. Harry Watson.</p><p>20. Period of time.</p><p>21. First name of a Providence player who recently broke his wrist.</p><p>22. The President of the A.H.L.</p><p>25. Initials of Black, former Detroit forward.</p><p>27. Detroit put on a sustained&mdash;to win the league championship.</p><p>28. Another name for Yale.</p><p>29. Nattrium (Sym.)</p><p>30. Short for given name of Watson, ex Ranger star.</p><p>31. Number of home games Bruins lost in 1953-54.</p><p>32. Initials of Langelle, former Maple Leaf centre.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1. An A.H.L. manager.</p><p>2. Name given pictured player.</p><p>3. Players receive this from fans.</p><p>4. Initials of Dussault, ex Canadien player.</p><p>5. A New York rookie.</p><p>7. Number of seasons Pat Lundy played with Chicago.</p><p>9. Denotes score between Leafs and Detroit op Jan. 3, 1954.</p><p>10. Selenium (Sym.)</p><p>14. &ldquo;Dusty&rdquo; Blair&rsquo;s given name.</p><p>15. Parker MacDonald&rsquo;s son is called this.</p><p>16. Title of respect.</p><p>19. Quebec birthplace of George Mantha, ex Montreal star.</p><p>22. &ldquo;Rags&rdquo; Raglan&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>23. First name of McLelland who played goal for Penticton V&rsquo;s.</p><p>24. Cerium (Sym)</p><p>25. What his teammates call Don McKenney.</p><p>26. Name given 5 down.</p><p>27. N.H.L. club with whom Eddie Bush played (abbr.)</p><p>28. Initials of Ed Sandford&rsquo;s hockey playing cousin.</p><p>30. First two letters of pyramid.</p><h2><b>Solution to Last Week&rsquo;s Puzzle</b></h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p>1. St. Laurent</p><p>8. Arid</p><p>9. E.W</p><p>10. Eddie</p><p>12. Ezzie</p><p>13. All</p><p>14. Man.</p><p>15. Ire</p><p>17. Se.</p><p>18. I.H.</p><p>20. Or</p><p>21. B.O.</p><p>23. Gardner</p><p>25. One</p><p>27. Lt.</p><p>28. Harvard</p><p>32. Kyle</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1. Salesman</p><p>2. T.R.</p><p>3. Litzenberger</p><p>4. Ad</p><p>5. Red</p><p>6. Neil</p><p>7. Twelve</p><p>10. E.E.</p><p>11. Davis</p><p>16. Reibel</p><p>19. Horton</p><p>22. John</p><p>24. Reay</p><p>26. Na.&rsquo;</p><p>29. V.K.</p><p>30. R.L.</p><p>31. De.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<h2>MEMORIAL CUP TRAIL Eastern Final</h2><p>Quebec 4 Toronto 1</p><p>Toronto 4 Quebec 1</p><p>Quebec 1 Toronto 1</p><p>(Beet-of-seven series tied 1-1, one game tied)</p><h2>Western Final</h2><p>Regino 7 Winnipeg 0</p><p>Regina 4 WWinnipeg 1</p><p>(Regina leads best-of-seven series 20).</p><h2>ALLAN CUP Western Final</h2><p>Ft. William 2 Vernon 1</p><p>Ft. William 3 Vernon 1</p><p>Vernon 7 Ft. William 3</p><p>(Ft. William leads best-of-seven series 2-1).</p><h2>Eastern Final</h2><p>Kitchener 6 Moncton 2</p><p>Kitchener 8 Moncton 4 (Kitchener leads best-of-seven series 2-0).</p><h2>International League</h2><h3>March 29</h3><p>Cincinnati 5 Troy 2</p><p>(Cincinnati leads, 3-1, in best-of-seven championship series.)</p><h3>March 31</h3><p>Troy 4 Cincinnati 1</p><p>(Cincinnati leads, 3-2, in best-of-seven championship series.)</p><h3>April 2</h3><p>Troy 3 Cinctnnati 2</p><p>(Best-of-seven championship series tied, 3-3.)</p><h3>April 3</h3><p>Cincinnati 7 Troy 0</p><p>(Cincinnati wins best-of-seven championship series, 4-3.)<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/f0019-02130/1285176-1-eng-US/f0019-022.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 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-fitted issues of THE HOCKEY NEWS delivered right to your door for the low price of $3.00 I $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 I May to September).</p><p>A year&rsquo;s subecriptioa is for 35 consecutive issues.</p><p><b>Cenodieo Rcmitioaccs</b>&mdash;$3.00 Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order.</p><p><b>U. S. A. Remittances</b>&mdash;$4.00 Peyeble by Postal, Bank, or Exprett Money Order.</p><p><b>Fill in Form Above and Send Postal Naie or Money Order</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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YOU’LL BE SORRY!

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0151/1285221-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="240" height="286"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0250/1285214-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="247" height="296"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0348/1285207-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2962" height="3868"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRIBLE TEDDY LINDSAY</b> may have had a &ldquo;bad&rdquo; year by his usual standards but it didn&rsquo;t affect his play in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The tough little warrior of the Red Wings was a nightmare to the Canadiens as he pumped home four goals in the second game which the Wings won 7-1. Here Lindsay crashes in on Canadiens&rsquo; goalie Jacques Plante. A moment later, Lindsay snapped the rebound into the cage. <span class="photo-credit">(Detroit Times Photo by Roy Bash)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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