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May 1, 1955

The Hockey News May 1, 1955

<p>BELLEVILLE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Fabulous Notre Dame football teams may have gone out and won &ldquo;this one&rdquo; for George Gipp or Knute Rockne but a more modern human interest touch with a National Hockey League flavor came to light here recently.</p><p>Lawrence F. Eggert, Detroit millionaire, staunch supporter and close friend of the Detroit Red Wings, wrote Ontario Intelligencer sports editor George H. Carver that the Wings won their seventh Stanley Cup for Carson Cooper, former Detroit scout, who died of a heart attack a short time ago.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03146/1353979-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="290" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><h2>FAMILIAR FIGURE</h2><p>Eggert, who owns a palatial cottage near here, entertains such well-known Red Wings stars as Red Kelly, Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, Marty Pavelich and others during the off-season.</p><p>&ldquo;Cars&rdquo;, as Cooper was known, was also a familiar figure at the Eggert cottage. Eggert, on vacation in</p><p>Florida, wrote Carver to the effect that &ldquo;Cooper&rsquo;s death had a greater effect on the Red Wings than anyone on the outside could possibly realize. Players called us all the way from Montreal to let us know that they were going to win the last one for Coop&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;Cooper Was extremely proud of Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Kelly, Lumley and many others he discovered.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04118/1353972-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="306" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alex Delvecchio</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Wings’ Triumph In Cup Series Was For ‘Coop’

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0160/1355878-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="242" height="286"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0259/1355871-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="252" height="300"></div><h2><b>QHL And Edinburgh Trophy Champs</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0357/1355864-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2882" height="1573"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SHAWINIGAN FALLS CATARACTS</b>&mdash;Front row, left to right: Andre Binette, Dick Wray, Playing-Coach Roger Leger, Connie Broden, Bob Per-reault. Second row, left to right: Germain Leger (assistant trainer), Guy Talbot, Gilles Dube, Erwin Grosse, Fern Perreault, Bob Turner, Len Thomson, Jean Paul Lamirande, Joe Boulbranne (trainer). Third row, left to right: Eddie Kachur, George Faulkner, Gerry Desaulniers, Ted Hodgson, Claude Provost, Jean Paul Denis.</figcaption></div><h2><b>1954-55 Allan Cup Kings</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0445/1355857-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2910" height="1572"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KITCHENER-WATERLOO DUTCHMEN</b>&mdash;Back row, left to right: Buddy Horne, Clare Martin, Don Bauer, Joe Shertzl, Ray Bauer, Treasurer, Jim Logan, Chas. Brooker, Howio Leo, Don Oberholzer. Middle row: Assistant trainer, Frank Niebert (executive), Donis Brodeur, Georges Scholes, Bob White, Keith Woodall, Jack McKenzie, P. Kowalchuk, Mike Delich, O. Wiles (executive), H. Warnsby, trainer. Front row: Ken Laufman, Jerry Theberge, Ernie Goman, Manager, P. Boehmer, President, Bud Kemp, Captain, Bob Bauer, Coach, Dr. J. Spohn, Doctor, Jack White, J. Hamilton.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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The Hockey News

<p>MONTREAL, Que.</p><p>Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion, Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; cannonading right winger, this season captured his first National Hockey League scoring championship, displacing four time winner Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>In skating to the point crown, Boom Boom scored 38 goals and had 37 assists for a total of 75 points. His 38-goal total tied him with teammate Maurice (Rocket) Richard for the top mark in this department. Richard was runner-up in the total points column, a scant one point back of the leader.</p><p>For Richard, it was the eleventh straight time that he has scored twenty or more goals in a season, far and away the best production figures for any player active today. Last season he led the league in goal production with 37.</p><p>Terrible Ted Lindsay, Detroit&rsquo;s fiery captain and star left wing, this season missed the charmed 20-goal circle for the first time in nine seasons, although he came as close as is humanly possible without actually notching 20. Lindsay picked up 19 goals this season in 49 games, having missed 21 contests through injuries and a four game suspension.</p><p>Lindsay&rsquo;s linemate, Howe, picked up 29 markers this campaign to run his string of 20-goal seasons to six straight, still five back of the Rocket&rsquo;s mark of eleven in a row.</p><p>Richard was runner-up in the point derby last season as well, adding 30 assists to his 37 goals for 67 points, 11 back of the leader, Howe.</p><p>Behind Geoffrion and Richard in the goal production department this season was Montreal&rsquo;s sensational sophomore, Jean Beliveau, who clicked for 37. Fourth in line was Toronto&rsquo;s Sid Smith, with 33.</p><p>Geoffrion&rsquo;s league-leading total of 75 points was well below the record set by Gordie Howe in 1952-53, when he scored 49 goals (one shy of Maurice Richard&rsquo;s record 50) and added 46 assists for a total of 95 points, a mark that will take some beating in years to come.</p><p>Richard this season set a personal mark when he was helpmate on 36 goals, three more than his all-time high of 33 assists in 1952-53. Last season he had 30.</p><p>Altogether there were 13 players who equalled or passed the 20-goal mark in 1954-55, four from the Canadiens, three from the Bruins, two each from the Red Wings and Rangers and one from the Maple Leafs and Black Hawks.</p><p>Last season the Chi-Hawks failed to place even a single player in the charmed circle. This season rookie Eddie Litzenberger managed to turn the trick, clicking for 23.</p><p>Besides Richard, Geoffrion and Beliveau for the Habitants, veteran centre Ken Mosdell passed the 20 mark for the second straight season, scoring 22 times to equal his production of 195354.</p><p>The Bruins&rsquo; three 20-goal men were Leo LaBine (24), rookie sensation Don McKenney (22) and Lorne Ferguson (20). The Bruins also had three players in the charmed circle last season, none of whom were with the team this season. Johnny Peirson retired at the end of last season, Dave Creighton was sent to Toronto and then to Chicago, and JOB Klukay was traded to Toronto.</p><p>Besides Howe, the other Detroit 20-goal man was Earl (Dutch) Reibel, the Wings&rsquo; sophomore standout, who closed out the campaign with a rush and ran his season&rsquo;s total to 25.</p><p>The Leafs&rsquo; lone 20-goal man was Sid Smith with 33.</p><p>Dangerous Danny Lewicki paced all New York scorers with 29 in his first full season in the NHL. The other Ranger in the select society was Andy Bathgate who hit the 20-goal mark right on the nose.</p><p>Two players were right on the verge of entering the exclusive club when time ran out on them. Lindsay and George (Red) Sullivan both missed the mark by a single goal. Real Chevrefils of the Boston Bruins was also close with 18.</p><p>Turning to the opposite side of the ledger, Terry Sawchuk, Detroit&rsquo;s brilliant young netminder, regained possession of the Vezina Trophy after a lapse of one season, during which time the coveted cup was held by Toronto&rsquo;s Harry Lumley. This season Sawchuk took top honors by the exact same margin as he had lost them by the season previous, one goal.</p><p>There were a total of 134 goals charged against Sawchuk this season, giving him an average of 1.91 goals-against for the campaign. Lumley on the other hand, had 135 goals charged against him for an average of 1.93.</p><p>Sawchuk missed two games during the season, being replaced by Glenn Hall of the Edmonton Flyers. In these two contests, Hall held the opposition to a meger two goals.</p><p>Lumley missed but one game of the 70-game schedule and his place was taken on that occasion by Gil Mayer of the Pittsburgh Hornets who allowed only one goal to get by him.</p><p>Sawchuk also walked off with the honors in the shutout department, carding an even dozen. Lumley was runner-up with seven.</p><p>In potting 38 goals this season, Maurice Richard ran his lifetime total to 422, a mark that puts him off by himself among the league&rsquo;s all-time goal-scorers. The previous high was the 324 scored by Nels (Old Poison), Stewart.</p><p>Gordie Howe&rsquo;s 29 markers this season ran his total to 271 in regular season play and, at 27, he should have many productive seasons ahead and should be able to add to that total although the Rocket&rsquo;s all-time mark may be beyond his reach by the time both decide to call it a day.</p><p>Toronto Maple Leafs regained the dubious &ldquo;honor&rdquo; of leading the league in penalties as they amassed 990 minutes in the cooler. Montreal Canadiens, who were tops in this department last season, were runners-up this campaign, an even hundred minutes back of the Leafs.</p><p>Fern Flaman, Boston Bruins&rsquo; hard-hitting defenseman, took over from Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; Gus Mortson as the loop&rsquo;s &ldquo;bad man&rdquo; with a total of 150 minutes spent cooling his heels in the sin bin. Detroit&rsquo;s Mighty Mite, Tony Leswick was runner-up with 137 minutes while rookie Bucky Hollingworth of Chicago and Maurice Richard followed with 135 and 125 minutes respectively.</p><h2><b>&ldquo;Bad Man&rdquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05106/1354296-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="580" height="720"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FERN FLAMAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Thirteen Players Hit 20-Goal Mark This Season

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01180/1353253-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED KENNEDY</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>It took him 12 complete National Hockey League seasons before he was able to win one of the League&rsquo;s many individual trophy awards, but he made it in his final year. Ted Kennedy, captain of Toronto Maple Leafs, finally received official recognition for his outstanding all-around play from the hockey writers, broadcasters and telecasters in the National Hockey League when they voted him the Hart Trophy for 1954-55.</p><p>In winning the trophy which is rated hockey&rsquo;s top individual achievement award, Kennedy also collected a cheque for $1,000 from the NHL. The 29-year-old Toronto center who announced his retirement as a player a few weeks ago polled 86 points out of a possible 180. Kennedy&rsquo;s team-mate, Harry Lumley, Toronto&rsquo;s All-Star goalkeeper, finished second in the voting with 61 points out of a perfect 180.</p><h2>Rocket Third</h2><p>Other players to receive points were Maurice Richard, Canadiens, 36; Jean Beliveau, Canadiens, 21; Doug Harvey, Canadiens, 16; Gordie Howe, Detroit, 18; Bernie Geoffrion, Canadiens, 16; Leo LaBine, Boston, 10; George (Red) Sullivan, Chicago, 10; Danny Lewicki, Rangers, 10; Earl Reibel, Detroit, 7; Ken Mosdell, Canadiens, 4; A. Delvecchio, Detroit, 4; D. Raleigh, Rangers, 2; Terry Sawchuk, Detroit, 2; Sid Smith, Toronto, 1; Fern Flaman, Boston, 1; Fleming Mackell, Boston, 1; and Lome Worsley, Rangers, 1.</p><p>Points were awarded on the basis of five points for a first choice, three for a second and one for a third. There were three first-choices from each of the six NHL cities, three second-choices per city and three third-choices per city. A unanimous selection would poll 90 points.</p><h2>Voted Twice</h2><p>The voting for the Hart Trophy was divided into two parts. The first part consisted of games up to January 1, 1955, while the second part consisted of games after January 1 to the end of the regular schedule. A player who was a unanimous selection for both halves would finish with a total of 180 points.</p><p>Kennedy polled 40 points for the first half and 46 for the second. Lumley polled 23 the first half and 38 the second. No other players were very close to Kennedy or Lumley in the voting for the trophy which is presented annually to &ldquo;the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team.&rdquo;</p><h2>Second Maple Leaf</h2><p>Although the Hart Trophy has been presented each season since 1923, only one other Toronto player has ever won the award prior to Kennedy winning it for &rsquo;54-55. Babe Pratt was the other Toronto player to win it and Babe captured the trophy in 1943-44. Last year&rsquo;s winner was Al Rollins, Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; goalkeeper.</p><p>An unusual feature about Ted Kennedy&rsquo;s NHL career was the fact that he never gained the center position on the First All-Star Team and the Hart Trophy is the only individual award he has ever won. He had made the center post on the Second All-Star Team on three different occasions but never made the Big Team. This in view of the fact he enjoyed a star-studded career. Kennedy has been the spark or the heart of the Maple Leafs ever since he succeeded Syl Apps as captain of the team in 1948. Noted for his determined hard-working style, Kennedy was one of the most honest hockey players that ever laced up a boot. His tireless and unselfish play was a terrific inspiration to his teammates. He was a natural leader and he will always be remembered as one of Toronto&rsquo;s greatest captains.</p><h2>On Five Cup Teams</h2><p>Kennedy holds the distinction of playing for five Stanley Cup teams. No other player in modern hockey can match this record. He was a member of the Stanley Cup winning clubs of 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1951. Ted played all of his 12 NHL seasons with the Maple Leafs. He never played a single game in minor professional ranks. His last amateur club was the Port Colborne Seniors. Kennedy was born at Humberstone, Ont. on December 12, 1925. He stands 5&rsquo;11&rdquo; in height and weighs 180 pounds.</p><h2>Missed But Twice</h2><p>Kennedy&rsquo;s lifetime scoring record in the National Hockey League is 225 goals and 313 assists for 538 points. He scored another 29 goals and assisted on 31 for 60 points in playoff competition. The Maple Leafs missed the playoffs only twice during Kennedy&rsquo;s tenure with the team. That was in 1945-46 and 1952-53.</p><p>Ted Kennedy had a long and illustrious career in the National Hockey League. It was only fitting that in his last season he was rewarded by the people who report on hockey by being selected for the most prized individual trophy&mdash;the Hart Trophy.</p><h2><b>Wins First Hart Trophy</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Leaf Captain Ted Kennedy Captures NHL MVP Award

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01127/1355916-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DETROIT RED WINGS</b>&mdash;Left to right, front row: Marty Pavelich, Red Kelly, General Manager Jack Adams, Terry Sawchuk, Coach Jimmy Skinner, Captain Ted Lindsay and Bob Goldham. Second row, left to right: Trainer Carl Mattson, Alex Delvecchio, Dutch Reibel, Tony Leswick, Marcel Bonin, Bill Dineen, Johnny Wilson, Lefty Wilson (Assistant trainer and spare goaltender) and Marcel Pronovost. Third row, left to right: Vic Stasiuk, Gordie Howe, Benny Woit, Jim Hay, Glenn Skov and Larry Hillman.</figcaption></div><h2>NHL League And Stanley Cup Kings</h2><h2>AHL League and Calder Cup Champions</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0289/1355909-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="2796" height="1330"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PITTSBURGH HORNETS</b>&mdash;First row, I. to r.&mdash;Baz Bastien (Business Manager), Marc Rheaume, Ray Gariepy, Gil Mayer, Howie Meeker (Coach), Frank Mathers (Captain), John Harris (President), Bob Solinger, Ray Timgren, Willie Marshall, John Balmer (Vice-President). Second row&mdash;Club doctor, Bill Burega, Earl Balfour, Jack Caffrey, Bob Bailey, Andy Barbe, Bob Sabourin, Hugh Barlow, Jack Price, Gerry Foley.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Gentlemanly Sid Smith, Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; high-scoring left winger, literally walked away with the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for 1954-55. Slim Sid polled 114 points out of a perfect 180 to finish 42 points ahead of his closest competitor, Danny Lewicki of the New York Rangers.</p><p>Detroit&rsquo;s Red Kelly, winner of the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for the past two seasons, finished third in the balloting with 53 points. Other players to receive points were Don Raleigh, Rangers and Jean Beliveau, Canadiens, 15; Edgar Laprade, Rangers, 12; Bill Mosienko, Chicago and Bill Quackenbush, Boston, 7; Earl Reibel, Detroit, 6; Harry Watson, Chicago and Ed Sandford, Boston, 5; Ron Stewart, Toronto and Ken Mosdell, Canadiens, 3; George (Red) Sullivan, Chicago, 2; Alex Delvecchio, Detroit, Fleming Mackell, Boston, Bob Goldham, Detroit, Jackie Leclair, Canadiens and Don McKenney, Boston, 1.</p><h2>Collects $1,000</h2><p>In capturing the trophy which is awarded annually to &ldquo;the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability during the season,&rdquo; Smith also collects a cheque for $1,000 from the National Hockey League.</p><p>This is the second time that Smith has won this award. He won it the first time in 1951-52. Only three other players wearing the livery of the Toronto Maple Leafs have ever won the Lady Byng Trophy. They were Syl Apps in 1941-42, Gordon Drillon in 1937-38 and Joe Primeau in 1931-32.</p><h2>No. 1 Producer</h2><p>The spike-haired Toronto left winger was the Leafs&rsquo; No. One goal scorer and top point collector during the 1954-55 season. He ended the campaign with 33 goals and 21 assists for 54 points. His 33 goals placed him fourth highest in the N.H.L. in that department, and only seven players topped him in total points.</p><p>Smith was the least penalized player on Toronto this season with a total of 14 minutes in the penalty box. A durable performer he took part in all 70 games and holds the &ldquo;Iron Man&rdquo; record among current players. Sid hasn&rsquo;t missed a regular scheduled N.H.L. game since the 1949-50 season. He has played in 390 consecutive games.</p><h2>Standout Season</h2><p>This has been a standout season for the 29-year-old Smith. Besides winning the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for the second time in his career, it was also the first year he had been selected to the left wing position on the First All-Star Team. He had made the Second Team twice before but this was the first time he had made the grade on the Big Team.</p><p>It has also been a good year financially for Smith. He picked up $1,000 for making the First All-Star Team to go along with the $1,000 he received for winning the Lady Byng award.</p><h2>Writers Voted</h2><p>Selectors for this trophy were hockey writers, broadcasters and telecasters from the six National Hockey League cities. Points were awarded on the basis of five for a first choice, three for a second and one for a third. A unanimous choice would poll 180 points.</p><p>Balloting for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy was carried out the same as for the All-Star Team and all other individual trophy awards. The season was divided into two halves. The first half included games up to January 1, 1955, and the second half consisted of games from that time to the end of the schedule.</p><h2>Led at Half</h2><p>Smith polled 50 points the first half out of a possible 90 and 64 the next half for his total of 114. Danny Lewicki, left wing on the Second All-Star Team and New York&rsquo;s top goal scorer and point producer, polled 27 points the first half and 45 the second. Kelly, who polled 34 the first half dropped down to 19 the second half.</p><p>Sid Smith stands five foot-10-inches, tips the scales at 177 and was born in Toronto on July 11, 1925. He is one of two members of the Maple Leafs who were born in Toronto. The other player is Hugh Bolton. For several seasons he was the only member of the Leafs born in Canada&rsquo;s Queen City.</p><h2><b>Gentleman</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02164/1353291-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="596" height="892"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SID SMITH</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Runner-up</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03150/1353284-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="541" height="541"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DANNY LEWICKI</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Toronto’s Sid Smith Wins Second Lady Byng Trophy

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The defensive portion of the 1954-55 National Hockey League All-Star Team is exactly the same as last year&rsquo;s but the forward line is entirely new.</p><p>Holdovers from a year ago include Goalkeeper Harry Lumley of Toronto and Defensemen Doug Harvey of Canadiens and Red Kelly of Detroit.</p><p>The three newcomers to the forward line are Center Jean Beliveau of Canadians, Left Wing Sid Smith of Toronto and Right Wing Maurice Richard of Canadians. The latter is not a newcomer to All-Star aggregations but this is the first time he has been named to the First Team since 1949-50.</p><p>It marks the first time that Jean Beliveau and Sid Smith have ever been named to the First Team. Smith was placed on the second squad twice, in 1950-51 and 1951-52. Beliveau, the sophomore sensation of Canadiens. is the youngest member of the team at 23.</p><h2>Perennials Omitted</h2><p>Richard and Smith have dislodged two perennial members of the No. One Team, Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay. Howe has held down the right wing position for four consecutive seasons while Lindsay was picked as the top left winger for five straight seasons. Beliveau took the center post away from Ken Mosdell, last year&rsquo;s choice.</p><p>Balloting was conducted by a panel of hockey writers, broadcasters and telecasters in the six NHL cities. Points were awarded on the basis of five points for a first choice, three for a second and one for a third. Each city had three first choices, three seconds and three thirds. The total point value in each city was 27. A player polling the maximum number of first-place votes which is 13 would poll 90 points.</p><p>Some cities have more selectors than others but the votes are weighted so that each city has identical strength. For the second season the All-Star balloting was divided into two halves. Games up to January 1, 1955, constituted the first half, while games after that made up the second half. Most points a player could earn for the two half-seasons would be 180.</p><h2>Harvey Tops</h2><p>Montreal&rsquo;s Doug Harvey ended up with more points than any other player. He finished with 174 points out of the perfect 180. Harry Lumley was next with 152. Each player on the First Team receives $1,000 from the National Hockey League while each member of the Second Team pockets $500.</p><p>There was only one change With the First Team as selected at the half-way mark. Geoffrion was placed at right wing in the first ballot. He had 68 points to Richard&rsquo;s 65, but in the second half Richard passed him by a comfortable margin. The voting was also keen for the goalkeeping post. Lumley ended with a 24-point margin over his closest rival.</p><h2>Close Shave</h2><p>Ken Mosdell nosed out Toronto&rsquo;s Ted Kennedy for center on the Second Team in the closest possible voting. Mosdell polled a total of 51.3 points to Kennedy&rsquo;s 50.76.</p><p>This is Red Kelly&rsquo;s fifth All-Star First Team in a row. It is Doug Harvey&rsquo;s fourth. Terry Sawchuk has been a member of either the First or Second Team ever since he joined the NHL in the 1950-51 season. He has been Second Team goalie for the last two years and prior to that was named to the First Team three seasons in succession.</p><h2>First for Bob</h2><p>Although he has been in the National Hockey League since 1941-42 with the exception of three years spent in the Royal Canadian Navy, this is the first time that Bob Goldham has been selected to a NHL All-Star squad. The same thing is true of his defense partner on the Second Team, Fern Flaman. Flaman has been a National League regular for nine seasons.</p><p>Geoffrion and Lewicki are also making their initial visit in All-Star company. Four of the six members on the Second Team were being selected to an Official All-Star Team for the very first time.</p><h2>Rocket Oldest</h2><p>Richard is the oldest member of the First Team at 33. Incidentally, Richard has been on either the First or Second NHL All-Star Teams for 12 consecutive years. Other ages are Smith, 29; Harvey, 28; Lumley, 28; Kelly, 27; and Beliveau, 23. Average age is an even 28 years.</p><p>Three players from Montreal Canadiens, two from Toronto Maple Leafs and one from Detroit Red Wings comprise the 1954-55 National Hockey League All-Star Team.</p><h2><b>FIRST TEAM</b></h2><p><b>G&mdash;Harry Lumley, Det. (152)</b></p><p><b>D&mdash;Doug Harvey, Mtl. (174)</b></p><p><b>D&mdash;Red Kelly. Det. (151)</b></p><p><b>C&mdash;Jean Beliveau, Mtl (151)</b></p><p><b>RW&mdash;Maurice Richard, Mtl. (138)</b></p><p><b>LW&mdash;Sid Smith, Tor. (147)</b></p><h2><b>SECOHD TEAM</b></h2><p><b>G&mdash;Terry Sawchuk, Det. (128)</b></p><p><b>D&mdash;Bob Goldham, Det. (64)</b></p><p><b>D&mdash;Fern Flaman, Bost. (47)</b></p><p><b>C&mdash;Ken Mosdell, Mtl. (51)</b></p><p><b>RW&mdash;Bernie Geoffrion, Mtl. (105)</b></p><p><b>LW&mdash;Danny Lewicki, N.Y. (67)</b></p><h2><b>They All Repeated</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01179/1353399-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="556" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG HARVEY</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02150/1353392-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="570" height="578"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY LUMLEY</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03101/1353385-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="568" height="576"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RED KELLY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Two Newcomers And A Vet</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0465/1353378-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="548" height="560"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SID SMITH</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0545/1353371-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="594" height="604"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JEAN BELIVEAU</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0629/1353364-1-eng-US/f0003-062.jpg" title="f0003-06" width="598" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAURICE RICHARD</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Second Team Selections</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0720/1353357-1-eng-US/f0003-072.jpg" title="f0003-07" width="310" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Danny Lewicki</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0816/1353350-1-eng-US/f0003-082.jpg" title="f0003-08" width="304" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fern Flaman</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0912/1353343-1-eng-US/f0003-092.jpg" title="f0003-09" width="306" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ken Mosdell</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-109/1353336-1-eng-US/f0003-102.jpg" title="f0003-10" width="302" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Sawchuk</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-115/1353329-1-eng-US/f0003-112.jpg" title="f0003-11" width="302" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Goldham</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-125/1353322-1-eng-US/f0003-122.jpg" title="f0003-12" width="312" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bernie Geoffrion</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Montreal Canadiens Dominate Officiai All-Star Team

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The official 1954-55 NHL All-Star team, as chosen by sportswriters and sportscasters around the circuit, differs but slightly from the team chosen by the fans in the eighth annual HOCKEY NEWS All-Star Poll, results of which were announced last month.</p><p>The first team as chosen by the press and radio is identical to that chosen by the readers of THE HOCKEY NEWS but there are several differences in the second squad.</p><p>The first difference is at centre on the second team where the writers and &lsquo;casters favored Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; Ken Mosdell over Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; Ted Kennedy, the choice of the fans.</p><p>At left wing, the press and radio boys named New York Rangers&rsquo; Dangerous Dan Lewicki over Montreal&rsquo;s Bert Olmstead, who was picked by the HN readers.</p><p>Tim Horton was named to the Fans&rsquo; team on defense but the official team lists Boston Bruins&rsquo; Fernie Flaman to team with Bob Goldham of the Red Wings, also a choice of the fans.</p><h2>REST THE SAME</h2><p>The rest of the team is identical, with Bernie &ldquo;Boom Boom&rdquo; Geoffrion at right wing, and Terry Sawchuk in the nets.</p><p>Both the writers and fans named Harry Lumley (Goal); Doug Harvey and Red Kelly (defense;) Maurice Richard (right wing); Jean Beliveau (centre) and Sid Smith (Left Wing) to their first dream teams.</p><p>For Olmstead, it was the second season in succession that he has been named to the Fans&rsquo;, All-Star only to lose out when the official balloting took place.</p><p>On the whole though, the teams picked by the press and radio and by the fans are pretty much the same, which once again proves that most hockey followers are pretty keen judges of talent.</p><p>As it was, the players named by the fans who missed berths on the official team were nosed out by the narrowest of margins.</p><h2><b>Left Off</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-134/1353437-1-eng-US/f0003-132.jpg" title="f0003-13" width="298" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bert Olmstead</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-144/1353430-1-eng-US/f0003-142.jpg" title="f0003-14" width="294" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Kennedy</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Official Team Differs Slightly From That Chosen By HN Readers

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The selection of Jimmy Anderson leftwing of the Springfield Indians as the most outstanding rookie of the American Hockey League for 1954-55 was a particularly notable achievement, as he had to compete against the largest group of first year players in league history. No fewer than 22 players were eligible for the award this season, and most of them have been picked by the experts to attain the hockey heights, which makes Anderson&rsquo;s honors that much more glamorous.</p><p>By virtue of his selection, Anderson will receive a league bonus of $300.00, and is also awarded the Dudley (Red) Garrett Memorial Trophy as a permanent possession. A new trophy is presented each season.</p><p>Anderson compiled a total of 26 out of a possible 30 points with 5 first place selections and one for third, all six cities of the league giving him a vote. Although they trailed quite a bit behind. Anderson&rsquo;s own teammates, Don Simmons and Graham Hastings gave him the closest competition, which is a high recommendation for the future young prospects of Springfield. Simmons placed second to Anderson with 9 points on three second place choices, while Hastings had a single first place vote, the only one Anderson didn&rsquo;t receive, for 5 points.</p><p>In all, 10 of the eligible 22 players received votes with Gordon Wilson of Hershey, Ian Cushenan of Cleveland and Marc Reaume of Pittsburgh each polling 3 points and Guy Gendron of Providence receiving 2. Single points went to Bill Burega and Gerry Foley of Pittsburgh and Jimmy Farelli of Cleveland.</p><h2><b>RATED HIGH</b></h2><p>In addition to his rookie laurels, Anderson was rated so high that he was voted the third leftwing in the league, for the recently announced All-Star team. He just missed out by two points, as he compiled 11 as compared to the 13 which gave Dick Gamble of Buffalo the second team nomination at left wing.</p><p>Teamed with center Eddie Leier and rightwing Buddy Boone, Anderson filled out one of the highest scoring trios in the league during the season. He ran up a total of 71 points on 39 goals and 32 assists to place in a tie for eighth in overall league point scoring. His 39 goals were second only to the 41 scored by league leader Eddie Olson of Cleveland. He was a constant threat all season to surpass the league goal scoring record for a rookie player, held by Wally Hergesheimer at 42. In his favor concerning the record is the fact that Hergesheimer, now with New York Rangers set his record in 1950-51 with Cleveland, playing in 71 games, while Anderson took part in only 63 this past season.</p><h2><b>SCORES OPENERS</b></h2><p>Anderson has a particularly fine habit of scoring the first goal of the game, either for both teams or Springfield if they trailed, which many times put the Indians off in the right direction toward victory. All of his early game goals accounts for the reason he only scored two actual game winning tallies in his 39.</p><p>In six games Anderson scored a pair of goals and in two others he had the three goal &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; which tied him for league honors in that department with Johnny McLellan of Cleveland. Anderson divided his 39 goals among all five of his opponents, being particularly effective against Providence with 11 goals and Pittsburgh with 10.</p><h2><b>FINE SKATER</b></h2><p>Anderson is a fine skater, endowed with speed which enables him to out-distance many of his checkers and affords him the opportunities to get in close to the opposing cages for his specialty of scoring goals by tricking the rival goaltenders. He also has a fairly hard and accurate shot with which to score from further Out if the occasion demands.</p><p>James William (Andy) Anderson was born in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada on December 1, 1930, thus while only 24-years-old, he has many years ahead in which to further his already brilliant hockey career. He weighs 178 pounds and stands 5 feet 10 inches. He is an orthodox leftwing as he also shoots from the portside. He is not married.</p><p>His amateur hockey career is traced through teams in Kingston, Ontario, Windsor, two years in the International League, Glace Bay of the Maritime Hockey League and on to Shawinigan Falls of the Quebec Senior League, his last amateur team. During the 1952-53 season, he turned professional with Edmonton of the Western Hockey League and continued with that club for 1953-54. He came to the American Hockey League with Springfield in a trade during the last off season which involved Buddy Boone and Bronco Horvath among other players.</p><p>He works as a machinist for a summer time occupation, and his off hockey season sport is minor league baseball.</p><h2><b>Top Freshman</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01250/1353468-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="570" height="861"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIM ANDERSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Springfield’s Anderson Almost Unanimous Choice For Rookie Award In AHL

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0598/1353499-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg"></div><p><b>Five points for first choice, three for second and one for third. Anderson, 26; Simmons, 9; Hastings, 5; Wilson, 3; Cushenan, 3;</b></p><p><b>Reaume, 3; Gendron, 2; Burega, 1; Foley, 1; Farelli, 1.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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How Each City Voted

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02224/1353544-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE LITZENBERGER</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Eddie Litzenberger, rangy right-winger of the Chicago Black Hawks, is the 1954-55 winner of the Calder Memorial Trophy. In winning the award which is presented annually to the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition in the National Hockey League, Litzenberger becomes the first Chicago player to be so honored since 1936-37 when Cully Dahlstorm, US-born centre, was picked as the outstanding rookie.</p><p>Litzenberger polled a total of 128 points out of a possible 180. Don McKenney, Boston Bruins&rsquo; clever centre, finished second with 72 points. Other National Hockey League rookies to gain points were Jacques Plante, Canadiens, 54; Larry Popein, Rangers, 25; Jackie Leclair, Canadiens, 17; Parker MacDonald, Toronto, 4; Keith Allen, Detroit, and John Henderson. Boston, one each.</p><h2>A Banner Year</h2><p>It was a banner year for the 22-year-old native of Neudorf, Sask. He started the season playing with Montreal Canadiens. After 29 games with the Habs he was sold for $15,000 to Chicago on Dec. 10, 1954. He played 44 games for the Black Hawks, which brought his total of games played during the season to 73. This is three more games than played by any other player.</p><p>The hard-shooting winger turned out to be one of the most polished rookies to hit the NHL for a long time. He finished the season as the ninth best goal scorer and the 12th highest point-getter.</p><h2>23-Goal Man</h2><p>He scored 23 goals and assisted on 28 others for 51 points. Eddie held down the right wing post of Chicago&rsquo;s ace scoring unit which consisted of Litzenberger, George (Red) Sullivan and veteran Harry Watson.</p><p>The voting for this trophy was divided into two sections. The first section consisted of games up to Jan. 1, 1955. The second section was Jan. 1 to the end of the regular championship schedule. The most points a player could poll in each half was 90. Points are awarded on the basis of five points for a first choice, three for a second and one for a third. There is a minimum of three selectors in each of the six National League cities. Some cities use mere but the voting strength is equal in all six cities.</p><h2>Gained Points</h2><p>Litzenberger polled 54 points out of 90 in the first half and 74 out of 90 in the second half. This gave him his total of 128 points. McKenney polled 15 points the first half and 57 the second for his 72 point total. Canadiens&rsquo; Plante was second to Litzenberger in the balloting for the first half. He polled 41 points, but tailed off to 14 in the second half.</p><p>The new Calder Memorial Trophy winner is a graduate of the Regina Pats Juniors. He starred with that outstanding junior aggregation for four years before moving east and lining up with the Montreal Royals. He played two seasons with the Royals in the Quebec Hockey League. Always an excellent goal scorer, Eddie notched 26 and 31 goals respectively in his two seasons with the Royals.</p><h2>A Six-Footer</h2><p>Litzenberger stands six foot, one inch arid weighs 194 pounds. He was one of the few players in the NHL to score a hat trick last season. He tallied all three Chicago goals on Feb. 23 as the Black Hawks tied the Boston Bruins, 3-3.</p><p>As well as being honored by his selection as the No. One first-year player in the National Hockey League and keeping the beautiful Calder Memorial Trophy for a year, Litzenberger also pockets $1,000. The $1,000 is a bonus from the NHL.</p><p>Players from the New York Rangers won this award the two previous seasons. Camille Henry won it last year and Lome Worsley the season before.</p><p>The Calder Trophy has never been won by a defenseman.</p><h2><b>Best First Year Man</b></h2><h2><b>Runners-Up</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03154/1353537-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="560" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DON MCKENNEY</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04111/1353530-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="544" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACQUES PLANTE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Calder Memorial Trophy To Litz First Chi Winner In 18 Seasons

<p><b>KITCHENER. Ont.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>When the famed Allan Cup came to rest in Kitchener, it almost did so in more ways than one.</b></p><p><b>The trophy, which goes to the Canadian senior hockey champions, arrived in Kitchener from Port Arthur, Ontario and was addressed to &ldquo;The Manager, Memorial Gardens, Kitchener.&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>It landed in a cemetery office!</b></p><p><b>A cemetery near here is named Memory Gardens and has an office in downtown Kitchener. When the crate arrived there, it was opened by Mrs. Barbara Brubacher, an employee. There stood the Allan Cup!</b></p><p><b>Luckily, things were all straightened out when Mrs. Brubacher telephoned the other &lsquo;Gardens&rsquo; and arranged to have the trophy picked up.</b></p><p><b>Still unanswered however, it the puzzler of how come the trophy was sent from Port Arthur when it was held last season by British Columbia&rsquo;s Penticton V&rsquo;s.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Grave Error Puts Trophy In Cemetery

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0817/1353641-1-eng-US/f0005-082.jpg"></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Each of the six American Hockey League teams was represented on either the first or second All-Star team for the recently completed 1954-55 season. Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Springfield which finished first, second and third during the season, shared the honors for the first team with two positions each. Buffalo, the Calder Cup Playoff finalist against the champion Pittsburgh Hornets placed three candidates on the second team; Hershey had two, and Springfield and Providence, each one. There Was a tie for the rightwing position on the alternate team, which accounts for the seven nominees.</p><h2>Two Repeaters</h2><p>The regular season and Calder Cup title holders, Pittsburgh, placed its two stellar exponents of defense, goaltender Gil Mayer and perennial All-Star, defenseman Frank Mathers on the first team. They were the only two repeaters from the last season&rsquo;s premier team. For Mathers, who is rated by many as the greatest American Hockey League defenseman of all time, it was the fourth consecutive year in which he has been selected for top honors. It was also the second year in a row that he was chosen unanimously, as he polled all 30 points possible with a first place vote from all six league cities. Mayer who gathered 28 points on 5 first place choices and one second, was ruunerup to Mathers in points. He has been the leading goaltender in four of the six years he has been in the league, including 1954-55.</p><h2>Underrated Player</h2><p>The other defense post went to Gordon Tottle of Springfield, who has long been one of the most underrated players in the league. Always a bulwark on defense, Tottle this season enjoyed his greatest point scoring year also, in his 10 year professional career. His Springfield teammate on the first All-Star team is Ross Lowe, at center. Lowe was tied for second place in league scoring this season, with Ken Wharram of Buffalo, each having 82 points, six behind the leader, Eddie Olson of Cleveland. Wharram was awarded the center position on the second All-Star team.</p><p>The Cleveland Baron scoring twins, Olson and Freddie Glover rounded out the top team in the leftwing and rightwing positions respectively. Olson in addition to setting the pace in scoring for the second time in three seasons, was also the top goal getter with 41 Glover was the leading scorer for more than half the season, until forced out of action with a broken ankle bone, and then finished in fourth place.</p><h2>First Year Man</h2><p>Rookie Don Simmons of Springfield, selected for the second team goaltender spot, was the only first year player on either team. He had one first place choice and five seconds just the opposite of Mayer. His defensemen, Frank Sullivan of Buffalo and playing coach Murray Henderson of Hershey have long been rated as two of the top rearguards in orofessional hockey. For Henderson, his selection was of particular note, as he still could play a top game on the ice in addition to being the guiding hand of the Bears in thedevelopment of young players, a department in which he has excelled since taking over the reins of Hershey.</p><p>Wharram&rsquo;s linemate and teammate with the Bisons, Dickie Gamble, was chosen as the second team leftwing, after a sensational second half season, as he joined Buffalo after the opening game. In 45 games. Gamble had 38 goals and 21 assists for 59 points, with 7 game winning goals. 10 games in which he scored a pair o goals and two others when he tallied four times.</p><h2>Dead Heat</h2><p>Dune Fisher of Hershey and Zellio (Topper) Toppazzini of Providence were in a dead tie for rightwing honors on the second team, with 10 points each on single votes for a first and second choice and a pair of thirds. They are considered co-holders of the position.</p><p>Each of the players selected for the first team receive $300.00 league bonus and a gold miniature puck memento, while the second team choices are given $200.00 and a silver puck. The All-Star teams will play the champion Pittsburgh Hornets in the annual ALL-STAR GAME early next Fall.</p><p>The following are the teams as selected by the press, radio, and television in the six American Hockey League cities.</p><p>* Fisher and Toppazzini were tied in all phases of voting with 10 points each on one first place, one second place and two third place selections. Number of points in voting is shown in parentheses. Highest number of points posible for any position is 30. Frank Mathers of Pittsburgh was the only unanimous selection with 30 points.</p><h2>HONORABLE MENTION</h2><p><b>GOALTENDERS</b>&mdash;Emile Francis, Cleveland (5), Harvey Bennett, Providence (1).</p><p><b>DEFENSE</b>&mdash;Tommy Williams, Cleveland (8), Pierre Pilote, Buffalo (5), Pete Wright, Buffalo (4), Hugh Currie, Springfield (4), Andy Branigan, Providence (3), Ed Kryzanowski, Hershey (2), Fred Shero, Cleveland (1), Ray Gariepy, Pittsburgh (1).</p><p><b>CENTERS</b>&mdash;Arnie Kullman, Hershey (10), Willie Marshall, Pittsburgh (5), Jackie Gordon, Cleveland (4), Paul Larivee, Providence (3).</p><p><b>LEFTWINGS</b>&mdash;Jimmy Anderson, Springfield (11), Obie O&rsquo;Brien, Hershey (2), Graham Hastings, Springfield (1), Glen Sonmor, Cleveland (l), Earl Balfour, Pittsburgh (1), Johnny McLellan, Cleveland (1).</p><p><b>RIGHTWINGS</b>&mdash;Walter Atanas, Springfield (6), Buddy Boone, Springfield (3), Ed Slowinski, Buffalo (1). Gerry Foley, Pittsburgh (1).</p><h2><b>Glitter Guys To Guard Goals</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01200/1353634-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="574" height="874"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANK MATHERS</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02177/1353627-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="570" height="872"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GIL MAYER</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03137/1353620-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="582" height="884"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE TOTTLE</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Trigger-Happy Triumvirate</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04110/1353613-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="578" height="894"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE OLSON</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0575/1353606-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="594" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROSS LOWE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0645/1353599-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="572" height="906"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRED GLOVER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Every Club Represented On AHL All-Star Team

<div class="byline">By KEN MCCONNELL</div><p>(As seen in the Vancouver Province)</p><p>VANCOUVER, DC.&mdash;</p><p>Al Rollins, the slim, tall young man who Shards the nets for the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League, does not think that two goalkeepers are necessary for any one team in big league. hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;I am opposed&rdquo;, said Rollins very definitely when he phoned from his North Delta home. Most goalkeepers are as good as the teams in front of them.&rdquo;</p><p>(When Muzz Patrick, coach of the New York Rangers was here recently he said that he thought every team in the NHL would in future have two goalkeepers. He mentioned that Johnny Bower of the Canucks and Gump Worsley would share goalkeeping chores with Rangers next year.)</p><p>&ldquo;We had a fair year,&rdquo; offered Rollins. &ldquo;We won 12 last year; this season it was 13.&rdquo; Under this sort, of pressure Rollins should get a raise next year.</p><p>He suffered a cheekbone fracture and then he had his nose disarranged and he was out of action for two months. Then he hurt his knee.</p><p>&ldquo;But it was not a bad year for me,&rdquo; said Al firmly.</p><p>A goalkeeper is under a strain for a full. NHL season and at the end it means that he has to unwind. He now will start contracting again and one of the first items will be a new house for himself and his wife and two children.</p><p>The baby girl is five years of age, but just recently a baby boy was born to Goalie Al and his wife.</p><p>He will be in top shape for the Hawks next year, likes the new setup and hustling general manager Tommy Ivan.</p><p>But on that idea of two goalies&mdash;&ldquo;Those bench splinters can get downright tiresome at times.&rdquo;</p><p>Which will meet with the approval of Bower. When Johnny was told Rangers planed two netminders next season, he growled:</p><p>&ldquo;Not for me, I don&rsquo;t want any part of that kind of a deal. I&rsquo;m happy right here in Vancouver.&rdquo;</p><p>Goalkeepers obviously like work, lots of it and who cares about busted beaks or the wear and tear of stopping the onrushing forwards?</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0724/1353672-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="572" height="908"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AL ROLLINS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Al Rollins Opposed To System Of Employing Two Goalkeepers

<p>Founded October 1st 1947</p><p><b>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates; $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire: $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.</b></p><p>Entered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879</p><p>Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa</p><p>Printed in Canada<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01272/1353748-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><p><b>&bull; ROGER LEGER</b> appears to have the inside track as Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; next coach. After his great season in coaching the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts to, the Edinburgh Trophy and his past record as a coach it will be mighty tough for Canadiens to overlook him. The French press in Montreal have been clamoring for a French-speaking coach for a long time now and Leger seems to be the answer to their wishes&hellip;Billy Reay and Toe Blake are other names bandied about as Irvin&rsquo;s successor, but it is our guess that Roger the Jolly Lodger will gain the nod&hellip;Art Ward did a splendid job in broadcasting the entire Shawinigan-Edmonton Edinburgh series back into Western Canada. Art does all home and away games of the Flyers over Station CKUA in Edmonton&hellip;Frank Selke presented all members of the Edmonton Flyers with blazers, compliments of the Montreal Forum. The Flyers are Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; No. One farm club&hellip;Wonder what Jack Adams said when he heard the news?&hellip;Jimmy Morrisson, Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; fast-skating defenseman, is a special sales representative for a Montreal auto dealer&hellip;Real Chevrefils of Boston Bruins is also selling cars in Montreal this summer&hellip;Chevrefils thinks Toronto minus Ted Kennedy will finish out of the playoffs and the Black Hawks will be in. Sounds like summertime thinking&hellip;Keith Allan, ace defenseman of the Edmonton Flyers, is slated to get the coaching job with Regina&rsquo;s new entry in the Western Hockey League&hellip;It was reported Frank Boucher would act as both general manager and coach but it seems unlikely he will do both jobs&hellip;Allan was considered for the coaching post for several weeks&hellip;NHL president Clarence Campbell had loose cartilages removed from his right knee recently.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02162/1353741-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="282" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Roger Leger</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; PLENTY</b> of hockey personalities attended the Shawinigan-Edmonton games in Montreal. Among those in attendance were Jimmy Skinner and Johnny Mitchell of Detroit, Eddie Shore of Springfield, Muzz Patrick of New York, Terry Reardon of Providence, Phil Watson, Rangers&rsquo; new coach, Lynn Patrick, Milt Schmidt and Harold (Baldy) Cotton of the Boston Bruins&hellip;Murray Henderson and Lloyd Blinco of Hershey Bears, Boston&rsquo;s No. One farm unit, joined Walter Brown, president of the Bruins, for a one-day session in Montreal during the series&hellip;All of the Boston brass were on hand for the early games in the series&hellip;It will be August before Tim Horton will be able to remove the cast from his broken leg. The Toronto rearguard is working this summer at Conn Smythe&rsquo;s sand pit at Markham, Ont&hellip;Ott Heller will coach the North Bay Trappers of the NOHA next season. How that boy gets around!&hellip;Alex (Killer) Kaleta, ex-National Leaguer with Chicago and New York, will pilot the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Junior League next season. He coached Moose Jaw Canucks Juniors this past winter for awhile&hellip;Jack Caffery, clever center with Pittsburgh&rsquo;s AHL champion Hornets, is pitching baseball for Jacksonville of the Class A Sally League. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a pitcher but he&rsquo;s not going to let baseball interfere with hockey,&rdquo; reported Hap Day, Leafs&rsquo; general manager&hellip;Ace Foley, dean of Maritime sports writers, was promoted the other day to sports editor of the two Halifax dailies, the Halifax Mail-Star and the Halifax Chronicle-Herald. A well-informed and humorous writer, Ace has been the Maritimes correspondent for THE HOCKEY NEWS since the paper&rsquo;s inception&hellip;Rocket Richard will spend the summer refereeing wrestling matches for Eddie Quinn, Quebec promoter. Richard will work all over the province&hellip;When Dick Irvin was announced as the new Chicago coach, Johnny Gottselig wired him: &ldquo;Welcome Home!&rdquo;&hellip;Chicago is where Irvin started his coaching career back in 1930.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0393/1353734-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="290" height="400"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Phil Watson</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; THE HOCKEY NEWS</b> had a very special interest in the Edinburgh Trophy series. It found the Executive of the Year (Kenny Reardon) as picked by the paper opposing the Coach of the Year (Bud Poile) as picked by the International Hockey weekly&hellip;Phil Watson, the peppery new coach of the Rangers, has promised all kinds of changes for next season&hellip;Metro Prvstai, who was traded by the Wings to the Hawks last season, received a wrist watch from his former Detroit teammates recently. It was inscribed Metro Prystai, Stanley Cup champions, 1955&hellip;Seven members of Woodstock&rsquo;s OHA Junior B champions are on the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; list according 0 Bob Wilson, chief Eastern Canadian Chicago scout&hellip;Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Bob Bailey has been suspended for the first 10 games of the 1955-56 season by the board of governors of the American Hockey League. Bailey was also suspended from the AHL playoffs when he struck referee Jerry Olinski and knocked him down&hellip;Did you know Jimmy Skinner, Detroit coach, worked harder to win the Stanley Cup than anyone?&hellip;Jimmy pedalled seven miles every day on training bicycle in the Red Wings&rsquo; dressing room to stay in shape so his nerves, would hold up through the season&hellip;Bill Dineen of the Wings will spend two months this summer at school in Ottawa&hellip;The All-Canada hockey school will be held on August 1 to 13 this summer. It will be held in the United States for the first time. Grand Forks, N.D. will be the venue for his fifth school conducted by George Vogan. Chief instructors this year will be Emile Francis and Metro Prystai&hellip;Don&rsquo;t forget to write to the NHL Information Bureau, 603 Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, for your free copy of the final official 1954-55 statistics.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0468/1353727-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="280" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Dineen</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0563/1353779-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>We Found &rsquo;Em</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>If it is possible I would like to know where the following players performed this past season. They are Reg Abbott (foritterly with the Victoria Cougars); Gary Edmundson (formerly with Montreal Royals); and Bill Burega (formerly with Ottawa Senators).</p><p>Any information you can supply me with would be appreciated.</p><p>Gerald Mooney Winnipeg, Man.</p><p><b>(Abbott played with Windsor Bulldogs of the OHA Senior League: Edmundson with Cincinnati Mohawks of the International League and Burega with Pittsburgh Hornets of the American League.)</b></p><h2>Good Idea</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>It gave me a great deal of satisfaction to read where at least some good is to come from the horrible display put on by Montreal&rsquo;s so-called hockey fans on March 17.</p><p>The idea is to turn over the money refundable on the tickets for the game that night, which was stopped by rioters, to injured Paul Meger, provided the individual fans sign releases for the money. I sincerely hope that all the fans holding tickets to that game will turn it over to Paul and in part atone for the smear on this city&rsquo;s previously good name.</p><p>John Fraser Montreal, Que.</p><h2>Still Playing</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>While subscribing to your paper, I would like to take this opportunity to ask a few questions concerning Kenny Biggs, who played for Cincinnati last year.</p><p>Where is Kenny this year? Has he retired from hockey? Is he married? If so, where does he live now?</p><p>Katherine Domingue Cincinnati O.</p><p><b>(Ken Biggs is married, lives in his hometown, Verdun, Que, and this season played hockey in the Montreal Hockey League, a commercial loop, after starting the season in the OHA.)</b></p><h2>Habs All The Way</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I am a subscriber to THE HOCKEY NEWS and must say that this past season was one of the most enjoyable and eventful for quite a number of years.</p><p>I read the other day where Butch Bouchard of the Montreal Canadiens is planning to retire. How old is he and who did he play for before jumping to the NHL? Is he a native Montrealer?</p><p>How about a story on my favorite NHL player, Rudy Migay of the Toronto Maple Leafs?</p><p>Donald Munroe Toronto. Ont.</p><p><b>(Butch Bouchard was born in Montreal on September 11, 1920. He played for the Montreal Canadiens of the old Quebec Senior Hockey League (amateur) before joining the parent Habs.)</b></p><h2>They&rsquo;ll Stay!</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>One of the most enjoyable features in your paper, in my opinion, is the weekly crossword puzzle. I have always been a crossword fan as well as a hockey fan and your puzzle gives me the opportunity to combine both pleasures.</p><p>I just hope there will be hone of the controversy of last season when some fans wanted the crosswords done away with. As was indicated last season, most fans like them.</p><p>Alice Kearney Vancouver. B.C.</p><p><b>(Before the controversy goes further, we&rsquo;ll say here and now that the crosswords will remain.)</b><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/f0006-0655/1353810-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="596" height="277"></div><h2>MAY 16th to JUNE 15th</h2><p>23&mdash;STASIUK, Vic, Detroit forward, 1930.</p><p>26&mdash;FERGUSON, Lorne, Boston forward, 1930.</p><p>27&mdash;HILDEBRAND, Ike, Montreal Rovals forward, 1921; O&rsquo;BRIEN, Ellard, Hershey forward, 1930.</p><p>31&mdash;LUNDY, Pat, Calgary forward, 1929.</p><h3><b>JUNE</b></h3><p>8&mdash;KELLY, Red, Detroit defense, 1927.</p><p>14&mdash;WILSON, Johnny, Detroit forward, 1929; ADAMS, Jack, D&eacute;troit General Manager, 1895; DAY, Hap, Toronto General Manager, 1901; LANCIEN, Jack, Vancouver defense, 1923.</p><p>15&mdash;PRONOVOST, Marcel, Detroit defense, 1930.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday to YOU

<p><b><i>Read and Enjoy&hellip;</i></b></p><p><b>&#9733; Argos May Lose Dublinski</b></p><p><b>&#9733; Larks Prepared To Go To Court</b></p><p><b>&#9733; B.C. Lions On Shopping Spree</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>

The Canadian FOOTBALL NEWS NOW ON SALE

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Second winner of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s newest individual trophy award is Doug Harvey, Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; All-Star defenseman. In capturing the James Norris Memorial Trophy, which is presented annually to &ldquo;the regular defense player who demonstrates throughout the season the greatest all-around ability in that position,&rdquo; Harvey also became the recipient of $1,000 from the League.</p><p>Harvey polled 147 points out of a possible 180 in the voting, which was carried out by a panel of hockey writers, broadcasters and telecasters in the six NHL cities. Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; Red Kelly, winner of the trophy last year, was runner-up in the balloting. Kelly polled 95 points out of 180.</p><h2><b>Flaman Third</b></h2><p>Fern Flaman of the Boston Bruins finished third with 32 points. Other NHL defensemen who received points were Bob Goldham, Detroit, 16; Hugh Bolton, Toronto, nine: Tim Horton. Toronto, four; Harry</p><p>Howell, Rangers, three; Marcel Pronovost, Detroit, three; Jim Thomson, Toronto, three; Bill Gadsby, Rangers, three; Tom Johnson, Canadiens, three; Allan Stanley, Chicago, two; Butch Bouchard, Canadiens, two; Jim Morrison, Toronto, one; and Leo Boivin, Boston, one.</p><h2>90 Points Unanimous</h2><p>Voting for the trophy was conducted at the half-way mark of the 1954-55 season (games up to Jan. 1, 1955) and from Jan. 1, 1955 to the end of the regular schedule. A unanimous choice for either half would poll 90 points.</p><p>Points were awarded on the basis of five points for a first choice, three for a second and one for a third. Each city had three first-choices, three second-choices and three third-choices. The maximum number of points to come out of each city was 27 for each half.</p><h2>72 For Doug</h2><p>Harvey polled 72 points out of 90 for the first half, while Kelly picked up 40 points. In the second-half voting Harvey acquired 75 points out of 90 while Kelly received 55 out of 90. Flaman had 17 points the first half and 15 the second half. Goldham went up from seven points the first half to nine the second.</p><h2>Both All-Stars</h2><p>Harvey and Kelly have pretty well dominated the NHL defensemen in winning All-Star recognition and trophy awards these last few years. Both Harvey and Kelly have been together on the first All-Star team for four straight seasons.</p><h2><b>Top Rearguard</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01223/1353872-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="877" height="895"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG HARVEY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>First Holder</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02195/1353865-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="596" height="924"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RED KELLY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Red Kelly Runner-Up; Fem Flaman Is Third

<h2>FINAL STANDING</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0660/1353910-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="596" height="132"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0744/1353903-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="600" height="294"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Atlantic Sr. Results Scoring 1954-55

<div class="byline">JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The Providence Reds were able to lay claim to few accomplishments during the recently concluded American League chase. But if it be of any consolation to Messrs. Pieri-Reardon-Egan, the Reds finished atop the league insofar as opponents of the Buffalo Bisons.</p><p>In fact, the Rhode Island sextet, despite its lowly standing, was the lone team to capture the season&rsquo;s series from the Herd.</p><p>The Bisons split even with Cleveland in 16 contests and held at least a one game edge on Pittsburgh&rsquo;s champion Hornets, Springfield, and Hershey.</p><p>The breakdown follows:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0840/1353941-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="544" height="206"></div><p>It could be said, without stretching facts too far, that the Reds knocked Buffalo right out of the regular season title. For the Herd finished just three points behind Pittsburgh and had a golden opportunity to move into the top spot when the Reds rattled out a 7-4 triumph on March 10th in a game that preceded Buffalo&rsquo;s twin weekend victory over Springfield.</p><p>So, while the Eganmen were chumps to everyone else, they were the champs to the Bisons&mdash;and kept Coach Gaye Stewart&rsquo;s men from being champs in their own right.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Reds Only Club To Win Series From Buffalo

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Ross Lowe, centre of the Springfield Indians, has been selected as the Most Valuable Player of the American Hockey League for the season of 1954-55, giving Springfield a monopoly of the two special league awards.</p><p>Left wing Jimmy Anderson of the Indians was named the league&rsquo;s outstanding rookie. Thus Springfield, which never before had either a rookie winner or a most valuable player, now has the distinction of claiming each honor for the first time, in the same season.</p><p>As a reward for gaining the MVP honors, Lowe will be presented with a league bonus of $300, and permanent possession of the Leslie Cunningham Trophy, which is given each season by the St. Louis Flyers Booster Club. Although St. Louis has been without AHL hockey for the past two seasons, its loyal core of hockey fans still donate the yearly trophy.</p><h2>Closest Ever</h2><p>The voting for MVP distinction was the closest ever in the American Hockey League, with Lowe edging out Frank Mathers of Pittsburgh by but two points, 13 to 11. Lowe was chosen for first place on two ballots and had one second, with five points for the first choice nomination and three for second. Mathers, the league&rsquo;s outstanding defenseman and perennial All Star who recently was named for the fourth consecutive year to the first All-Star sextet by a unanimous vote, had one first place vote, one second and three thirds in the MVP balloting.</p><p>The competition for most valuable honors was so tightly drawn, that no fewer than 11 players received votes. In addition to Lowe and Mathers, Eddie Olson of Cleveland received six points, Ken Wharram of Buffalo and Cal Stearns of Cleveland each five. Dick Gamble of Buffalo, Murray Henderson of Hershey, Gil Mayer of Pittsburgh and Don Simmons of Springfield each had three points, with singletons going to Jackie Gordon of Cleveland and Zellio Toppazzini of Providence.</p><p>This season was the first time since 1948-49 that the league&rsquo;s leading scorer was not selected as most valuable, as Lowe finished in a second place tie with Wharram for total points, with 82, both trailing Olson the leader by six points. Olson was third in the MVP voting In 1948-49, Carl Liscombe, now retired, was selected as most valuable, although Sid Smith, star of Toronto Maple Leafs at present, led in scoring. Liscombe played for Providence and Smith for Pittsburgh at the time.</p><h2><b>Close Race</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0584/1354010-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="578" height="1206"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROSS LOWE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Ross Lowe Selected American Loop MVP

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CALVERT HOUSE

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Muzz Patrick and Phil Watson, teamed now as manager and roach of the Rangers, spent the greater part of their player association as roomies. From the very beginning, too.</p><p>&ldquo;I remember the first training ramp in Winnipeg,&rdquo; Watson said. &ldquo;It was October, 1935. I came in one day early and this room had one double bed and a cot.. I slept in the double bed. The next morning, in comes Muzz Patrick and he puts his suitcase on the double bed.</p><p>&ldquo;He says to me: &ldquo;This is where I&rsquo;m going to sleep. Where are you going to sleep?&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Here, I guess,&rdquo; said Watson, taking the little cot.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

“Roomies”

<p>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;</p><p>Dick Irvin, a native of Hamilton, Ontario, played his first important amateur hockey with Winnipeg teams. He starred with the Winnipeg Monarchs and other teams in the Manitoba city.</p><p>He played his first pro hockey with the old Portland (Oregon) Rosebuds of the Pacific Coast League in 1915. After army service in the First World War he played both as an amateur and a pro in Regina. He was included in a club-franchise deal when the late Wes Champ sold the Regina pro Capitals in Portland in 1925-26. Eddie Shore, for years Mr. Hockey in the NHL was one of Irvin&rsquo;s early Portland teammates before being sold to Edmonton.</p><p>When five of six Western League clubs were sold to the NHL in 1926-27, Irvin was included in the array of ex-Rosebuds assigned to the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>He played three seasons with the Hawks and took over the coaching job during the 1929-30 season. He was coach there again the next season before moving to Toronto Maple Leafs as coach. Before he took over the coaching job with the Hawks, the club had won only seven of 44 games in each of two seasons. Under Irvin for two seasons the club finished second both times.</p><p>It is understood Irvin, under a two-year contract, will have complete control over the Black Hawks team, although general manager Tommy Ivan, vice-president Bill Tobin and publicity director Johnny Gottselig will remain with the club. Gottselig sent Irvin a message on his appointment. It said: &ldquo;Welcome Home.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

‘Welcome Home’ Wire Received By Chi Mentor

<div class="byline">By HERB GOREN</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Formal announcement of Phil Watson&rsquo;s return to Broadway, as coach of the Rangers, was greeted by an enthusiastic press. Clearly, Watson is still well remembered as an heroic ice warrior of happier days along the main stem.</p><p>Fiery Phil&rsquo;s intense urge to win quickly communicated itself to a distinguished press, radio and TV group at Leone&rsquo;s restaurant the day the not-so-well-kept secret was released. In the audience were the sports editors of the Associated Press, United Press and International News Service, namely Ted Smits, Leo Petersen and John Barrington.</p><p>On this day newly appointed general manager Muzz Patrick told the story of how he had brought Watson back to the Rangers&rsquo; fold. Said Muzz:</p><p>&ldquo;Watson was my first choice right along. I was in Montreal for the Shawinigan-Edmonton playoffs and I put in a call to Phil in Quebec. I told him I wanted to see him. It&rsquo;s about a four-and-a-half hour drive, but Watson got there in an hour.</p><p>&ldquo;Well; I remember back in Tacoma being friendly with a rassling promoter and I used to spend some time with him when he would pay off his rasslers. The way he did it, he had a big batch of one dollar bills and he would call in a rassler and pay him off one dollar at a time, watching his face all the while. As soon as the rassler started to smile, the promoter stopped paying.</p><p>&ldquo;When I called in Watson. I said to him: &lsquo;I&rsquo;ll give you X dollars and a bonus if we make the playoffs.&rsquo; He started to grin and I said no more.&rdquo;</p><p>That got a laugh out of the audience but Watson stole the show somewhat later. Said Phil: &ldquo;That Patrick thinks he&rsquo;s smart with that story. That big mouth. He doesn&rsquo;t know I would pay hint for the chance to coach the Rangers.&rdquo;</p><p>Watson admittedly has lived and dreamed of this opportunity. It is eight years since he quit the big time on a rather high note.</p><p>It was his 13th NHL season and 12th as a Ranger. This has always been his team. And that last year he scored 18 goals&mdash;high for his career.</p><p>He spent the next four years with the New York Rovers, now Inoperative, and the most recent four with the Quebec juniors. His coaching results have been uniformly successful. This is a guy whose whole life is wrapped up in the game.</p><p>&ldquo;It took me a long while to get back up here,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but now that I&rsquo;m here, I intend to stay. If I don&rsquo;t make good, it won&rsquo;t be because I haven&rsquo;t worked at it. Winter, spring, summer and fall. I&rsquo;m going to make my home in New York. I&rsquo;ve already brought in Rosemarie (his wife, a New York girl) and Peter (son, age 3). We&rsquo;ll buy a house.&rdquo;</p><p>Watson then expounded at length on his own ideas of coaching. He is going to crack down. Hockey is a serious business. And if you listen to him, you&rsquo;ll soon be convinced that it will be. beneficial for everybody on the team if they go along with him&mdash;in a dollars and cents way, that is.</p><p>&ldquo;The Rangers are going to win at home if it&rsquo;s the last thing I do,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This should be the greatest town in the world for hockey&mdash;I know. No reason why we shouldn&rsquo;t win 25 on our own ice and then meet the other clubs on equal footing on their own ice. That&rsquo;s the way it used to be.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to have meetings. And we&rsquo;ll have a curfew. Not only on the road but at home. And we&rsquo;ll have that pre-game dinner at four o&rsquo;clock. Four sharp. It. will be a healthy diet. Nothing fancy.</p><p>&ldquo;When I was playing we had a good club and we were together all the time. We&rsquo;d go out and have a beer&mdash;one beer&mdash;one&mdash;and then Neil Colville would say that&rsquo;s all and we&rsquo;d all go. But then you get two guys going here and two there and two somewhere else.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to have any of that on my club. 1 don&rsquo;t believe in the same room mates all the time. They&rsquo;ll be switching. It&rsquo;s gonna be all for one and one for all.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re gonna work at practice. They come to New York and all expenses paid and get good salaries. We don&rsquo;t bring &rsquo;em here to see the tall buildings and the beautiful girls. They&rsquo;re going to think hockey and live it and work it. And fight and hit those other teams hard and early.</p><p>&ldquo;Last year I&rsquo;m listening to a game on the radio and there&rsquo;s 13,000 people in Madison Square Garden and they&rsquo;re losing 7-2. Seven to two! I&rsquo;d rip &rsquo;em apart after that. No excuse with all these people paying to see &rsquo;em win.</p><p>&ldquo;Sure, you need talent, but the important thing is for every man to give 100 per cent. If you get that, you are bound to show improvement in a lot of places. Lester Patrick made a better shot out of me. I worked at it&mdash;winter and summer. Lester had me practice 10, 15 minutes a day shooting against a board with five holes in it. I got better because of that work.&rdquo;</p><p>It was Watson who coined the phrase: &ldquo;You&rsquo;re not a hockey player until you get your teeth knocked out.&rdquo; Phil lost four front molars. One at a time.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t mean that literally,&rdquo; Phil said. &ldquo;I mean I expect my players to go in the corners and dig that puck out. If they go in there to protect themselves, they won&rsquo;t get hurt. But they won&rsquo;t get the puck either. I want them to play to win&mdash;that&rsquo;s all.&rdquo;</p><p>Watson has no written contract. Nor does he want one. He wants to prove himself, prove the Rangers can get out of a rut. There is youth and hustle on his side. The Rangers paid the price of inexperience in recent years, but their young fellows have now had the benefit of two or three years and should come on. That, at least, is the hope.</p><h2><b>Stern</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01257/1354079-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="590" height="900"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PHIL WATSON</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Brothers But Rivals</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02200/1354072-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="1058" height="972"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LYNN PATRICK,</b> right, General Manager of the Boston Bruins, congratulates brother Muzz, who has just recently been named to the same post with the New York Rangers. Both are sons of another famous Ranger GM of the past, Lester Patrick, now GM of the Victoria Cougars.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Phil Watson Named Coach Of Revamped NY Rangers; Promises Hustling Club

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Dick Irvin, newly appointed coach of the tail-end Chicago Black Hawks, looks for a rise in Tribe fortunes in 1955-56.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to shoot for no worse than third place&rdquo; says Dour Dick, for 14 seasons coach of the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>Irvin&rsquo;s appointment as successor to Frankie Eddolls was announced in Chicago by Chairman of the Board Jim Norris Jr. of the Hawks, last-place finishers for the two last seasons.</p><p>In leaving Habitants to take up the reins of the Chi-Hawks, Irvin leaves a club that was a contender in all but one of Irvin&rsquo;s 14 seasons at the helm.</p><h2>Started In Chi</h2><p>&ldquo;Mr. Norris made me such an attractive offer that I felt I could not turn it down&rdquo;, said the silver-thatched, 62-year-old Irvin. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s where I got my start in the NHL. 1 think Chicago is one of the best hockey cities in North America.&rdquo;</p><p>Irvin stated frankly that the attractive money offer was the main factor in his decision to throw in his lot with the Black Hawks, but he stated that there was also the challenge of trying to lift the Chicago team into the loop&rsquo;s so-called &ldquo;first division&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;Is it easier to move up or move down?&rdquo; he asked musingly. &ldquo;With Canadiens we would have to step over three clubs to get to the bottom. Now that I&rsquo;m with the Black Hawks, we&rsquo;ll have to step over five clubs to get to the top.&rdquo;</p><h2>Replaces Eddolls</h2><p>In succeeding Eddolls, Irvin replaces a player he coached as a raw rookie in the NHL in 1944-45 with the Canadiens. It is reported that Eddolls has been offered the job of coaching the Buffalo Bisons in the AHL, a post he held before jumping to the Hawks at the start of last season. The Bisons are now a Chicago farm club, and were this season coached by another ex-Hawk, Gaye Stewart.</p><p>Managing Director Frank Selke of the Canadiens stated that the directors of the club have not made any decision as yet as to a possible successor for Irvin and no announcement is likely until possibly the middle of June. It may come some time after the NHL meeting in Montreal on June 1.</p><h2>In No Hurry</h2><p>At the same time, Selke stated that the most likely candidates for the job are currently employed in the Canadien organization, but emphasized &ldquo;we are not going to be in a hurry in deciding.&rdquo;</p><p>He said that Kenny Reardon is definitely established in the executive end of the club&mdash;possibly in line to succeed Selke himself if and when the latter decides to call it a day&mdash;and that Hab captain Butch Bouchard is expected to return in a playing capacity next season.</p><h2>Leger Candidate</h2><p>Among those more prominently mentioned as possible successors to Irvin are Roger Leger, who did an out-standing job with the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts of the Quebec Hockey League this season; Billy Reay, former Hab centre star and currently coach of the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League; and Elmer Lach, this season coach of the Montreal Canadiens juniors of the Quebec Junior Hockey League.</p><p>Other dark horse candidates are Toe Blake, member of the Habs&rsquo; famous &ldquo;Punch Line&rdquo; with Lach and Maurice Richard and later coach of the Valleyfield Braves of the QHL, and Sad Sam Pollock, boss of the club&rsquo;s farm system.</p><h2>Asked Permission</h2><p>Selke said he was asked by Norris, at the NHL governors&rsquo; mid-winter meeting in Miami last February, if the Chicago management could approach Irvin. Selke gave his permission, feeling that if Irvin wished to make a change he should be allowed to do so.</p><p>After the season ended it became known that the offer had been made. Irvin didn&rsquo;t immediately make up his mind. He was in poor health when the season ended.</p><h2>Hate To Lose Him</h2><p>&ldquo;As late as a few days before the announcement I thought Dick would be with us again,&rdquo; said Selke. &ldquo;But then he let me know he had decided to take the Chicago offer.</p><p>&ldquo;For personal reasons, and even for selfish reasons because of his value and experience as a coach, 1 hate to lose him. We were together when he first came to Toronto from Chicago in the 1931-32 season. Then he came to Montreal in the 1941-42 season and I followed him here four seasons later.</p><p>&ldquo;Senator Raymond (Senator Donat Raymond, president of the organization) and I decided we would let Dick make up his mind on the Chicago offer. But he would have been welcome to remain here.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I thought I had plenty of worries this season, what with Rocket Richard getting suspended. the riots at the Forum, illness and injuries to players during the palyoffs and endless other things,&rdquo; said Irvin.</p><h2><b>In</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03148/1354148-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="555" height="559"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICK IRVIN</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Out</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04110/1354141-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="586" height="892"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANKIE EDDOLLS</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Executive</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0575/1354134-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="579" height="559"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN REARDON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Dick Irvin Departs Canadiens To Take Job With Black Hawks

<p><i>National Hockey League</i></p><p><i>Western Hockey League</i></p><p><i>American Hockey League</i></p><p><i>Quebec Hockey League</i></p><p><b>ALSO INCLUDES SCORING RECORDS OF SENIOR AND JUNIOR</b></p><h2><i>NHL&rsquo;s Top Three Scoring Men</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01241/1354217-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="832" height="872"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAURICE RICHARD</b></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02221/1354210-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="1196" height="1706"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERNIE (BOOM BOOM) GEOFFRION</b></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03182/1354203-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="800" height="834"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JEAN BELIVEAU</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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THE HOCKEY NEWS STATISTICAL REVIEW

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>ETROIT RED WINGS,</b> also repeat holders of the coveted Stanley Cup this season, were crowned National Hockey League champions for an unprecedented seventh straight time. The Motor City sextet Wound up the season with 42 wins and II draws for a total of 95 points, two better than the runner-up Montreal Canadiens, who also were runners-up to the Red Wings last season. The Habs had one less win than the Wings, and the same number of draws.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Won Seventh Title

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>ERNIE GEOFFRION,</b> centre, this season captured his first NHL scoring crown with a total of 75 points, based on 38 goals and 37 assists. He was one point up on second-place finisher Maurice (Rocket) Richard, left, who had as many goals but one less assist for a total of 71 points. Big Jean Beliveau, above, was next in line, two back of the leader, Geoffrion. Beliveau had 73 points, with 37 goals and 36 assists.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Their 54-55 Records

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NHL’s Most Consistent 20 Goal Men

<p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>ational Hockey League fans may obtain copies of the N.H.L. Final Statistics free of charge. These handysized record cards contain the final standing of the Clubs, the Individual Scoring Records for every player during the regular schedule and the Stanley Cup Playoffs, as well as the Goalkeepers Averages and the Penalty Records of each club.</p><p><b>Requests should be mailed tos: N.H.L. Information Bureau, 603 Sun Life Blog., Montreal, Que.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

N.H.L. STATISTICS AVAILABLE FOR FANS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01255/1354403-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>FINAL STANDINGS</b></h2><h2><b>INDIVIDUAL SCORING & PENALTY RECORDS REGULAR SCHEDULE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02203/1354396-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="608" height="4748"></div><h2><b>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1954-55.</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03172/1354389-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="1206" height="774"></div><h2><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04132/1354382-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="1194" height="262"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE OFFICIAL SCORING REGULAR SEASON 1954-55

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0696/1354469-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg"></div><h2>RESULTS</h2><h3>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;</h3><h3>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0775/1354462-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="1116" height="279"></div><h3>SERIES &ldquo;C&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0861/1354455-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="1116" height="315"></div><h2>INDIVIDUAL POINT STATISTICS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0952/1354448-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="603" height="1901"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1045/1354441-1-eng-US/f0010-102.jpg" title="f0010-10" width="1196" height="358"></div><h2>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1139/1354434-1-eng-US/f0010-112.jpg" title="f0010-11" width="902" height="168"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS 1954-55

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01254/1354549-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"></div><h2>FINAL TEAM STANDINGS</h2><h3>BUFFALO</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02214/1354542-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="610" height="898"></div><h3>CLEVELAND</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03167/1354535-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="614" height="814"></div><h3>HERSHEY</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04131/1354528-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="614" height="762"></div><h3>PITTSBURGH</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05110/1354521-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="604" height="788"></div><h3>PROVIDENCE</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06102/1354514-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="606" height="1020"></div><h3>SPRINGFIELD</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0789/1354507-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="608" height="678"></div><h2>FINAL GOALTENDER RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0885/1354500-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="1222" height="936"></div><p>* Goals scored after removal of goaltender from game for extra scoring power do not count against goaltender&rsquo;s personal record. Numbers in parentheses indicate goals scored under such conditions.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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American League Final Standings And Scoring 1954-55

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Eddie Olson, veteran leftwing of the Cleveland Barons became the third player in the nineteen years of the American Hockey League, to win the scoring title twice as he finished the season with 88 points. Olson, born in the United States, and who has never played for a team outside its borders, had 41 goals, also the league leading figure and 47 assists. By gaining the scoring crown, Olson automatically is awarded a league bonus of $300.00 and a trophy. Olson has an American Hockey League career total of 575 points on 216 goals and 359 assists.</p><p>The other two players to annex the scoring title twice were Jack Markle with Syracuse in 1936-37 and 1937-38, and Les Douglas with Indianapolis in 1945-46 and Cleveland in 1949-50.</p><p>Runners-up to Olson in the scoring were Ross Lowe of Springfield and Ken Wharram of Buffalo, tied with 82 points each. Fred Glover of Cleveland had 75 points and Walter Atanas of Springfield, Zellio Toppazzini and Paul Larivee of Providence all had 74. Toppazzini was the assist leader with 53.</p><p>Pat Egan, playing coach of Providence had the most penalties, with a total of 149 minutes.</p><p>Gil Mayer of Pittsburgh won his fourth goaltender title in the six years he has been in the league, with an average of 2.80 on 179 goals allowed in 64 games. He was the only goaltender to play every one of his team&rsquo;s games. He and Hank Bassen of Buffalo led in shutouts with 3 each. Mayer is also the recipient of a $300 league bonus and a troph.</p><h2><b>Top Helper</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0978/1354580-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="564" height="1224"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ZELLIO TOPPAZZINI</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Eddie Oison Cops Second Point Crown

<h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Wilson</p><p>5&mdash;D.M.</p><p>7&mdash;A.K.</p><p>8&mdash;Eric</p><p>10&mdash;Toronto</p><p>12&mdash;Voss</p><p>13&mdash;One</p><p>15&mdash;Syl</p><p>16&mdash;P.E.</p><p>17&mdash;Tea</p><p>18&mdash;Cal</p><p>19&mdash;I.E.</p><p>20&mdash;Red</p><p>22&mdash;Oct</p><p>23&mdash;Abel</p><p>25&mdash;E.H.</p><p>26&mdash;Crest</p><p>28&mdash;H.E.</p><p>29&mdash;Salesman</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Watson</p><p>2&mdash;Lar</p><p>3&mdash;Skov</p><p>4&mdash;Nets</p><p>5&mdash;D.I.</p><p>6&mdash;McLelland</p><p>9&mdash;Ross</p><p>11&mdash;No.</p><p>14&mdash;Eveleth</p><p>16&mdash;Paice</p><p>17&mdash;Three.</p><p>21&mdash;Elson</p><p>23&mdash;Aces</p><p>24&mdash;B.R.</p><p>27&mdash;F.S.</p><p>28&mdash;He.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Solution to Last Month’s Puzzle

<h2>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;</h2><p><b>Twins which finished first and third, best-three-out-of-five</b></p><p>Tuesday March 22, Springfield 0 at Pittsburgh 2 (Haseard)</p><p>Thursday March 24. Springfield 2 at Pittsburgh 7 (Foley)</p><p>Saturday March 26, Pittsburgh 3 at Springfield 4 (Lowe)</p><p>Sunday March 27, Pittsburgh 4 at Springfield 3 (Foley) 17.33 overtime</p><p><b>Pittsburgh won series, three games to one, and advanced to finals.</b></p><h2>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;</h2><p><b>Teams which finished second and fourth, best-three-out-of-five</b></p><p>Tuesday March 22, Buffalo 3 at Cleveland 2 (Wharram) 17.30 overtime</p><p>Thursday March 24, Buffalo 3 at Cleveland 6 (Glover)</p><p>Saturday March 26, Cleveland 0 at Buffalo 8 (D. Blair)</p><p>Sunday March 27, Cleveland 4 at Buffalo 6 (D. Blair)</p><p><b>Buffalo won series, three games to one, and advanced to finals.</b></p><h2>SERIES &ldquo;C&rdquo;&mdash;FINALS</h2><p><b>Winners of series &ldquo;A&rdquo; and &ldquo;B&rdquo;, best-four-out-of-seven</b></p><p>Wednesday March 30, Buffalo 4 at Pittsburgh 5 (Hassard)</p><p>Saturday April 2, Buffalo 3 at Pittsburgh 1 (Babando)</p><p>Sunday April. 3, Pittsburgh 4 at Buffalo 3 (Marshall)</p><p>Wednesday April 6, Pittsburgh 3 at Buffalo 2 (Solinger)</p><p>Saturday April 9, Buffalo 5 at Pittsburgh 4 (Wharram) 21.17 overtime</p><p><b>Pittsburgh won series, four games to two for Calder Cup Playoff Championship.</b></p><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1068/1354684-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="600" height="800"></div><h2><b>TEAM TOTALS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1157/1354677-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="1196" height="204"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1252/1354670-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="1226" height="208"></div><h2>COMPLETE LISTS OF ALL SCORING AND PENALTY RECORDS</h2><h3><b>BUFFALO BISONS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1338/1354663-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="606" height="482"></div><h3>CLEVELAND BARONS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1422/1354656-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="604" height="538"></div><h3>PITTSBURGH HORNETS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1511/1354649-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="614" height="558"></div><h3>SPRINGFIELD INDIANS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-167/1354642-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="608" height="552"></div><h2>LEADERS</h2><p><b>WINNING GOALS</b>&mdash;Dusty Blair and Ken Wharram of Buffalo, Bob Hassard, Gerry Foley and Bob Solinger of Pittsburgh, each 2,</p><p><b>TWO GOALS IN ONE GAME</b>&mdash;Bob Hassard and Bob Solinger of Pittsburgh, each 2.</p><p><b>THREE GOALS IN ONE GAME</b>&mdash;Gerry Foley of Pittsburgh, Ken Wharram of Buffalo and Fred Glover of Cleveland, each 1.</p><p><b>MINOR PENALTIES</b>&mdash;Bill Burega of Pittsburgh, 12.</p><p><b>MAJOR PENALTIES</b>&mdash;Earl Balfour of Pittsburgh 1.</p><p><b>TEN MINUTE MISCONDUCTS</b>&mdash;Bob Bailey of Pittsburgh, Ross Lowe of Spring-field, each 1.</p><p><b>GAME MISCONDUCTS</b>&mdash;Bob Bailey of Pittsburgh, 1.</p><p><b>TOTAL PENALTY MINUTES</b>&mdash;Bob Bailey and Bill Burega of Pittsburgh each 24 minutes,</p><p><b>MOST GOALS</b>&mdash;Ken Wharram of Buffalo and Willie Marshall of Pittsburgh. each 9.</p><p><b>MOST ASSISTS</b>&mdash;Earl Balfour of Pittsburgh, 9.</p><p><b>MOST SHUTOUTS</b>&mdash;Ray Frederick of Buffalo and Gil Mayer of Pittsburgh, each 1.</p><p><b>GOALTENDER</b>&mdash;Gil Mayer of Pittsburgh; <b>GAMES</b>: 10; <b>GOALS ALLOWED</b>: 28; <b>AVERAGE</b>: 2.80.</p><h2>GOALTENDERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-176/1354635-1-eng-US/f0011-172.jpg" title="f0011-17" width="1220" height="360"></div><p>* Goals scored alter removal of goaltender from game for extra scoring power do not, count against his personal record. Numbers in parentheses indicate goals scored under such conditions.</p><p>** Francis relieved injured McMeekin at 1.35 of 3rd period on March 22, Series B-l. Francis allowed one goal in this game, McMeeki two.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Calder Cup Playoffs Results and Scoring 1954-55

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01258/1354764-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>Final Standing</b></h2><h2><b>Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02198/1354757-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="1218" height="1036"></div><h2><b>Individual Scoring Records</b></h2><h3>SASKATOON</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03160/1354750-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="610" height="1028"></div><h3>VICTORIA</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04118/1354743-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="608" height="632"></div><h3>CALGARY</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0585/1354736-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="612" height="636"></div><h3>ED MONTON</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0668/1354729-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="604" height="976"></div><h3>VANCOUVER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0760/1354722-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="606" height="966"></div><h3>NEW WESTMINSTER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0849/1354715-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="606" height="610"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Western League Final Standing And Scoring 1954-55

<h2>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;</h2><h3>Edmonton-Vancouver</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0939/1354837-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="607" height="76"></div><h3>Game Results</h3><p>March 22. Vancouver 6 at Edmonton 2</p><p>March 24. Vancouver 0 at Edmonton 3</p><p>March 26. Vancouver 1 at Edmonton 4</p><p>March 28. Edmonton 3 at Vancouver 2</p><p>March 30. Edmonton 4 at Vancouver 2</p><h2>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;</h2><h3>Calgary-Victoria</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1036/1354830-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="604" height="78"></div><h3>Game Results</h3><p>March 22. Calgary 7 at Victoria 2</p><p>March 24. Calgary 5 at Victoria 3</p><p>March 28. Victoria 3 at Calgary 2</p><p>March 29. Victoria 0 at Calgary 5</p><p>March 31. Victoria 1 at Calgary 2</p><h2>SERIES &ldquo;C&rdquo;</h2><h3>Edmonton-Calgary</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1132/1354823-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="600" height="82"></div><h3>Game Results</h3><p>April 5 Calgary 2 at Edmonton 4</p><p>April 7 Calgary 1 at Edmonton 2</p><p>April 9 Edmonton 5 at Calgary 2</p><p>April 11 Edmonton 5 at Calgary 2</p><h2>PLAYOFF SCORING</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1316/1354816-1-eng-US/f0012-132.jpg" title="f0012-13" width="609" height="547"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1412/1354809-1-eng-US/f0012-142.jpg" title="f0012-14" width="602" height="165"></div><h2><b>Leader</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1222/1354802-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="505" height="880"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRONCO HORVATH</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1511/1354795-1-eng-US/f0012-152.jpg" title="f0012-15" width="577" height="1265"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WHL Playoffs Results Scoring

<h2>GAME NO. 1</h2><h3>Edmonton 4, Shawinigan 3</h3><p class="dropcap"><b><span>E</span>dmonton</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Hrymnak, Coflin, Allen, Zeidel, Zeniuk; forwards: Ullman, Horvath, Poile, Sclisizzi, Melnyk, Stankiewicz, Bucyk, Holmes, Davis.</p><p><b>Shawinigan. Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Talbot, Turner, Lamirande, Hodgson, Leger; forwards: Broden, Faulkner, Provost, Desaulniers. F. Perreault, Denis, Dube, Grosse, Kachur.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-169/1354910-1-eng-US/f0012-162.jpg" title="f0012-16" width="604" height="898"></div><h2>GAME NO. 2</h2><h3>Shawinigan 6 Edmonton 2</h3><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal: Hall; defense: Hrymnak, Zeidel, Coflin, Zeniuk; forwards: Ullman, Horvath, Poile, Sclisizzl, Melnyk, Stankiewicz, Bueyk, Holmes, Allen, Davis.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls:</b> Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Leger, Hodgson, Talbot Lamiande; forwards: Wray, Provost, F. Perreault, Turner, Kachur, Denis, Broden, Grosse, Faulkner, Dube.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-176/1354903-1-eng-US/f0012-172.jpg" title="f0012-17" width="606" height="982"></div><h2>GAME NO. 3</h2><h3>Shawinigan 4, Edmonton 2</h3><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal: Hall; defense: Coflin, Hrymnak, Allen, Zeniuk; forwards: Horvath, Bucyk, Stankiewicz, Poile, Ullman, Sclisizzi, Holmes, Davis, Melnyk, Hannigan.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls:</b> Goal: R. Perreault, defense: Talbot, Lamirande, Leger, Hodgson, Turner; forwards: Dube, Kachur, Grosse, Provost, F. Perreault, Denis, Broden, Faulkner, Desaulniers.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> George Gravel; linesmen: Eric Milford, Jim Haggerty.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-185/1354896-1-eng-US/f0012-182.jpg" title="f0012-18" width="602" height="606"></div><h2>GAME NO. 4</h2><h3>Edmonton 6, Shawinigan 3</h3><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal: Hall: defense: Hrymnak, Coflin, Zeniuk, Allen; forwards: Ullman, Horvath, Sclisizzi, Melnyk, Stankiewicz, Bucyk, Holmes, Davis, Hannigan.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls:</b> Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Leger, Hodgson, Turner, Lamirande, Talbot; forwards: Dube, Grosse, Kachur, Desaulniers, F. Perreault, Broden, Provost, Denis, Faulkner.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-194/1354889-1-eng-US/f0012-192.jpg" title="f0012-19" width="612" height="784"></div><h2>GAME NO. 5</h2><h3>Shawinigan 2, Edmonton 1</h3><p><b>Edmonton</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Hrymnak, Hannigan, CoflIn, Zeniuk; forwards: Ullman, Horvath, Poile, Sclisizzi, Melynk, Stankiewicz, Bucyk, Holmes, Allen, Davis.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Pereault; defense: Leger, Hodgson, Talbot, Lamirande, Turner; forwards: Desaulniers, Provost, F. Perreault, Kachur, Denis, Broden, Grosse, Faulkner, Dube.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-204/1354882-1-eng-US/f0012-202.jpg" title="f0012-20" width="618" height="504"></div><h2>GAME NO. 6</h2><h3>Shawinigan 4, Edmonton 3</h3><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal: Hall; defense: Coflin, Allen, Hrymnak, Zeniuk; forwards: Melnyk, Davis, Bucyk, Hannigan, Ullman, Horvath, Poile, Sclisizzi, Stankiewicz, Holmes.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal; R. Perreault; defence: Talbot, Lamirande, Leger, Hodgson, Turner; forwards: Broden, Provost, Faulkner, Desaulniers, F. Perreault, Kachur, Denis, Grosse, Dube.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> George Gravel; linesmen: Jim Haggarty, Eric Milford.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-213/1354875-1-eng-US/f0012-212.jpg" title="f0012-21" width="604" height="698"></div><h2>GAME NO. 7</h2><h3>Shawinigau 3, Edmonton 1</h3><p><b>Edmonton</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defence: Hyrmnak, Coflin, B. Poile; forwards: Ullman, Horvath, D. Poile, Sclisizzi, Stankiewicz, Melnyk, Bucyk, Holmes, Davis, Hannigan.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defence: Hodgson, Leger, Talbot, Turner, Lamirande; forwards: Broden, Faulkner, Provost, Desaulniers, F. Perreault, Denis, Dube, Grosse, Kachur.</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Georges Gravel; linesmen: Jean Landry, Aurele Turgeon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-222/1354868-1-eng-US/f0012-222.jpg" title="f0012-22" width="608" height="592"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Edinburgh Trophy Series Results And Summaries 1954-55

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01264/1354955-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg"></div><h2>FINAL STANDING</h2><h2>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02225/1354948-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="1232" height="690"></div><h2>INDIVIDUAL SCORING</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03199/1354941-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="605" height="4444"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Quebec League Final Standing and Scoring 1954-55

<p><b>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>As THE HOCKEY NEWS went to press, we had not received copies of the Quebec Junior Hockey League final statistics or the Quebec Hockey League playoff statistics. That is the reason they do not appear in this issue. Also missing from this edition is a team picture of the Edmonton Flyers, Western Hockey League champs. At press time, the Flyers hadn&rsquo;t a picture taken but will have one ready in time for the June issue. The above-mentioned statistics will also appear in the next issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Please Note!

<h2>FINAL STANDING</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04176/1355024-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="614" height="130"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05150/1355017-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="613" height="519"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06126/1355010-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="597" height="238"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Sask. Junior Results Scoring 1954-55

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Guy Gendron, a highly regarded 20-year-old forward with the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League, has been acquired by the New York Rangers in another deal aimed at improving the team&rsquo;s scoring punch.</p><p>General manager Muzz Patrick said the Ran; &ldquo;s were sending veteran forward til Ezinicki and an undisclosed a cent of cash to Providence for Geon&rsquo;s services.</p><p>The youthful left winger, an aggressive 160-pounder, was a star rookie in his first year of professional hockey last season. He scored 24 goals and 15 assists in 47 games when he suffered a wrist fracture in a boarding incident.</p><p>That sidelined him for the remainder of the campaign and nullified a pending deal with the Montreal Canadiens for him. Gendron was the league&rsquo;s fourth highest goal scorer at that time.</p><p>According to Terry Reardon. Providence General Manager, the Canadiens were about to give up four players and a substantial sum of money for Gendron. Canadien scout Sam Pollock was in Providence when the injury occurred. Gendron has since recovered from the fracture.</p><p>Gendron&rsquo;s junior hockey experience was with Three Rivers, Que., a Providence sponsored club. He was still eligible for another year of junior hockey when Providence signed him to a professional contract.</p><p>New Ranger coach Phil Watson, who coached the Quebec Frontenacs against Three Rivers, put in a strong recommendation for Gendron, a French-speaking Montrealer.</p><p>&ldquo;He is fast and aggressive,&rdquo; said Watson, &ldquo;and he can score. He&rsquo;s got a temper too. We used to try to rile him up so that he&rsquo;d draw a penalty. Three Rivers wasn&rsquo;t so hot without him.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rangers Buy Guy Gendron

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07116/1355135-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg"></div><h2><b>FINAL STANDING</b></h2><h2>O.H.A. JUNIOR A GOALKEEPERS RECORDS SEASON 1954-55</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08108/1355128-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="1209" height="556"></div><h2>TROPHY WINNERS O.H.A. JUNIOR A SEASON 1954-55</h2><p>Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy&mdash;Leading scorer in O.H.A. Junior A Series&mdash;Henry (Hank) Ciesla, St. Catharines Teepees.</p><p>Dave Pinkney Trophy&mdash;Best goals against average for Junior A goalkeepers who has played in at least 60% of his teams games John Albani&mdash;Marlboros.</p><p>Red Tilson Memorial Trophy&mdash;Voted as most Valuable Player in O.H.A. Junior A Series by Sportswriters in Globe and Mail pool&mdash;Henry (Hank) Ciesla&mdash;St. Catharines Teepees.</p><h2>BARRIE FLYERS JUNIOR A SEASON 1954-55</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09102/1355121-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="601" height="457"></div><h2>HAMILTON TIGER CUBS JUNIOR A SEASON 1951-55</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1099/1355114-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="596" height="536"></div><h2>GUELPH BILTMORES JUNIOR A SEASON 1951-55</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1185/1355107-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="595" height="562"></div><h2>GALT BLACK HAWKS A SEASON 1951-55</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1276/1355100-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="598" height="538"></div><h2>KITCHENER CANUCKS JUNIOR A SEASON 1954-55</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1358/1355093-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="598" height="476"></div><h2>ST. CATHARINES TEEPEES JUNIOR A SEASON 1954-55</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1452/1355086-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="591" height="445"></div><h2>TORONTO MARLBOROS JUNIOR A SEASON 1954-55</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1543/1355079-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="595" height="1021"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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OHA Junior A Series Results And Scoring 1954-55

<h2>FINAL STANDING</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01265/1355222-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="609" height="197"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02198/1355215-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="613" height="403"></div><h2>TROPHY WINNERS</h2><p>&ldquo;Moose&rdquo; Ecclestone Trophv&mdash;Leading Scorer in O.H.A. Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Series Ken Laufman&mdash;Kitchener Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Hockey Club.</p><p>Nat Turofsky Trophy&mdash;Leading Goalkeeper&mdash;Dennis Brodeur, Kitchener Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Hockey Club.</p><h2>SCORING RECORDS WINDSOR BULLDOGS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03143/1355208-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="598" height="528"></div><h2>CHATHAM MAROONS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04119/1355201-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="610" height="515"></div><h2>OWEN SOUND MERCURYS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0599/1355194-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="609" height="507"></div><h2>KITCHENER DUTCHMEN</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0684/1355187-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="601" height="490"></div><h2>NIAGARA FALLS CATARACTS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0854/1355180-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="598" height="552"></div><h2>STRATFORD INDIANS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0949/1355173-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="594" height="509"></div><h2>QHL Rookie-Of-The-Year</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0765/1355166-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="1178" height="1642"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CONNIE BRODEN,</b> sfar forward with the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts, poses with the Northey Trophy, recently donated to the Quebec Hockey League by William M. Northey for annual award to the loop&rsquo;s outstanding first year man. Broden, who came to the Cats this year after starring at Cincinnati in the IHL for two campaigns had an outstanding season at Shawinigan.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0014-01

OHA Senior Results Scoring 1954-55

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><p><b>STATISTICS:</b></p><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span> native of Ottawa, Ont., Brian Cullen is 5&rsquo;10&rdquo;, 160 lbs. He attended St. Pat&rsquo;s College in Ottawa and played minor hockey in that city before joining St. Catherines Teepees. He played three seasons with that club and last year won the Red Tilson Memorial Trophy as the league&rsquo;s MVP, the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy as the league&rsquo;s top scorer and led his team to the Memorial Cup. Last summer the Maple Leafs obtained him from the Buffalo Bisons, who had rights to his contract. Cullen joined the Leafs at the start of the current campaign, but was sent to Pittsburgh to gain experience. He rejoined Toronto a few weeks ago. He is a centre and is expected to become an expert at playing the point position on power plays.</p><p><b>SUPERSTITION&mdash;IF ANY:</b></p><p>Always puts his right skate on first.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD BEFORE A GAME:</b></p><p>Steak, although he used to eat eggs when he played junior hockey.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD ANYTIME:</b></p><p>Filet Mignon.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE:</b></p><p>Ottawa & St. Catharines.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</b></p><p>Jasper Park.</p><p><b>FAVORITE NHL CITY ON A ROAD GAME:</b></p><p>Montreal.</p><p><b>FAVORITE READING MATERIAL:</b></p><p>Prefers religious books such as &ldquo;Peace of Soul,&rdquo; by Fulton J. Sheen, but also likes sports magazines and The Hockey News.</p><p><b>FAVORITE RECREATION:</b></p><p>Enjoys swimming, baseball and golf.</p><p><b>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIES;</b></p><p>&ldquo;The Eddie Cantor Story&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Pride of The Yankees.&rdquo; As you may have guessed he prefers pictures which are based upon the life of a well known person.</p><p><b>BEST ACTRESSES:</b></p><p>June Allyson and Jane Wyman.</p><p><b>BEST ACTORS:</b></p><p>Is a dyed in the wool James Stewart fan, but also likes John Wayne.</p><p><b>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Giselle McKenzie.</p><p><b>FAVORITE MALE VOCALISTS:</b></p><p>Bing Crosby and Perry Como.</p><p><b>FAVORITE POPULAR SONG:</b></p><p>Stardust.</p><p><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA:</b></p><p>The original Glenn Miller band.</p><p><b>FAVORITE TV PROGRAM:</b></p><p>Is not a constant TV viewer, but enjoys programs on the line of &ldquo;This Is Your Life&rdquo; and &ldquo;Person To Person.&rdquo;</p><p><b>IN THE SUMMER:</b></p><p>Brian makes his home in St. Catharines and is employed by Thompson Products, makers of automobile parts. For two years he has worked in the office, but thinks he may spend this summer in the shipping dept. He didn&rsquo;t work at all last summer, because he lost so much weight during the previous hockey season that he had to go to Howie Meeker&rsquo;s lodge to recuperate.</p><p><b>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY:</b></p><p>Being a member of 1953-54 Memorial Cup Champions, the St. Catharines Teepees.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

INSIDE STUFF About BRIAN CULLEN

<p>LONDON, Eng.&mdash;</p><p>British ice hockey, at best never a completely healthy Canadian import, is up in the air these days following a decision by the Scottish Ice Hockey Association to withdraw its seven teams from the year-old union with four English clubs.</p><p>Spokesmen for the game in both England and Scotland say that they just don&rsquo;t know what will happen now to the sport or to the 100-odd Canadian players, coaches and officials who make it tick. But few could foresee abolition of the game in the various arenas in Great Britain.</p><p>&ldquo;Somehow I imagine there will be hockey in England next year,&rdquo; said an official at Harringay Arena in London, home of the prosperous Racers.</p><p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t see my rink without hockey,&rdquo; said manager Ross Low of the Ayr, Scotland, Arena which with Paisley has fared better than the east coast Scottish clubs at Perth, Dundee, Edinburgh, Falkirk and Kirkcaldy.</p><p>&ldquo;I was disappointed at the league decision. We might have amateur hockey&mdash;no pay, no Canadians&mdash;but this is just an idea.</p><p>&ldquo;I imagine we will put our heads together shortly.&rdquo;</p><p>Bill Creasy, his counterpart at Paisley, said he anticipated &ldquo;some sort of hockey, but we aren&rsquo;t interested in amateur. It just wouldn&rsquo;t draw.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

British Hockey Is Facing Crisis

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01237/1355308-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>STILL THE CHAMPS</b>&mdash;There&rsquo;s cause for jubilation in the camp of the Cincinnati Mohawks, after winning their third straight Inter national Loop title, four games to three, from the Troy Bruins. Kneeling, left to right, are Trainer Bert Williams, Capt. Billy Goold, Coach Roly McLenahan, Denis Boucher, George (Butch) Bouchard, Phil Goyette, Goalie Gaetan Dessureault and Stick Boy Bill Davis. Standing in rear, left to right, are Dave McCready, Brian (utch) MacKay, Reg Grigg, John (Bun) Edmundson, Moe Mantha, Barry Thorndycraft and Johnny Martan. Cincinnati trimmed Troy, 7-0, in the seventh and decisive tilt.</figcaption></div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>The International Hockey League, gaining stature each year, now has seven member clubs, with prospects of more.</p><p>Indianapolis was the latest city to be granted a franchise in President Frank Gallagher&rsquo;s circuit. with Milwaukee, Wise.; Rockford, Ill. and Memphis, Tenn, all expressing interest in joining the league.</p><p>The Hoosiers were admitted at the recent monthly meeting of the IHL in Toledo, O. as Indianapolis will have a hockey team for the first time in several years in 195556.</p><p>As matters now stand, the loop has teams in Cincinnati, Todelo and Troy, O.; Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Grand Rapids, Michigan and Johnstown, Pennsylvania.</p><p>Melvin T. Ross, general manager at Indianapolis, represented that city at the meeting and said that the home games will be played in the spacious Indianapolis Coliseum which was the site of American Hockey League contests in the not-too-distant past. The arena accomodates about 9,000 spectators, making it second only in size to Cincinnati Garden, which seats about 11,000.</p><p>A conditional franchise was granted to Rockford, which was represented by Eugene Clift. Work on construction of a rink in that city is expected to start shortly, with the possibility that the team might enter the loop in the 1956-57 campaign.</p><p>Neither Memphis or Milwaukee officials were present at the meeting, but Gallagher said Milwaukee, which has an inactive franchise, had sounded him out on rejoining the IHL and playing its home tilts at the Fairgrounds building in that city.</p><p>Memphis, which has just put the finishing touches on its ice emporium that seats about 6,500, is headed by Kemmons Wilson, who has indicated that the Tennesee city would like to compete in the IHL. Wilson brought American League sextets from Pittsburgh and Buffalo down to Memphis to play twice in one day in post-season exhibitions that filled the house.</p><p>Although he admitted that attendance had fallen off during the past season, Gallagher was quick to affirm that on the whole the 1954-55 campaign was a fairly good one.</p><p>&ldquo;We picked up in the latter stages of the season,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and we feel now that with the addition of Indianapolis, we are on firmer ground than before. This is a good league, and it looks very much as though it is going to get even better. After all, general economic conditions were unfavorable much of last season, with crowds dropping off in most sports.&rdquo;</p><p>Election of officers for the IHL will take place at the next meeting June 11 in Toledo, at which time the final format of the loop for the coming campaign also will be determined.</p><p>Here is a list of representatives from the various clubs who were on hand at the all-day meeting held in Toledo:</p><p>Cincinnati&mdash;Tom Grace and Charles (Brute) Kramer; Troy&mdash;Ken Wilson; Johnstown&mdash;Dan Crossen; Grand Rapids&mdash;Phil Simon and Marion Pearson; Ft. Wayne&mdash;Ernie Berg; Toledo&mdash;Andy Mulligan and Virgil Gladieux, and Indianapolis&mdash;Mel Ross and E. Hunter Robbins and Frank I. Hamilton, members of the board at the Coliseum.</p><p>Player limit for International League teams has been dropped a notch from 14 to 13. This will mean that each club probably will carry nine forwards, three defensemen and a goalie in the 1955-56 campaign, one less rearguard than most teams had this past season.</p><p>Wedding bells rang in May for two members of the Cincinnati Mohawk squad and a third player will be married in August, with all three making the trip to the altar with Cincinnati girls. First to take the vows was Defenseman Brian (Butch) MacKay, who married Miss Ellen Brandewie on May 14. He was followed one week later by Winger John (Bun) Smith, who married Miss Dottie Lutmer on May 21. Center Billy Goold, team captain in 1954-55, will wed Miss Joyce Girard Aug. 20.</p><p>Both Miss Lutmer and Miss Girard have secretarial positions, while Miss Brandewie has been affiliated with Cincinnati Garden this past season. MacKay and Smith plan to remain in Cincinnati this summer to continue their studies at Xavier University. Goold is a salesman in Ottawa.</p><h2>Intl. League Title Holders</h2><h2><b>Has Plans</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02204/1355301-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="595" height="608"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANK GALLAGHER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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International Loop May Expand To Ten Team Circuit In ’55-56

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03183/1355381-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg"></div><h2>FINAL STANDING</h2><h2>INDIVIDUAL SCORING</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04140/1355374-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="1217" height="381"></div><h2>THE LEADERS</h2><p><b>POINTS</b>&mdash;Phil Goyette, Cincinnati, 92.</p><p><b>GOALS</b>&mdash;Phil Goyette, Cincinnati, 41.</p><p><b>ASSISTS</b>&mdash;John Horvath, Johnstown, 53.</p><p><b>WINNING GOALS</b>&mdash;Gerald Prince, Toledo, 9.</p><p><b>HAT TRICKS</b>&mdash;Moose Lallo. Grand Rapids; Mike Narduzzi, Johnstown and Reggie Grigg, Cincinnati tied at 2.</p><p><b>GOALKEEPER&rsquo;S AVERAGE</b>&mdash;Gaetan Dessureault, Cincinnati, 2.74.</p><p><b>SHUTOUTS</b>&mdash;Gaetan Dessureault, Cincinnati, 9.</p><p><b>PENALTY MINUTES</b>&mdash;Moose Lallo, Grand Rapids, 194.</p><h2><b>PLAYOFFS</b></h2><h3>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05113/1355367-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="1216" height="108"></div><p><b>Best-of-five Semi-Final</b></p><p>Tuesday March 15, Cincinnati 5, Toledo 2</p><p>Saturday March 19, Cincinnati 4, Toledo 2</p><p>Sunday March 20, Cincinnati 4, Toledo 2</p><p><b>Cincinnati wins Semi-Final Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; three games to none.</b></p><h3>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;</h3><p><b>Best-of-five Semi-Final</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0696/1355360-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="1216" height="107"></div><p>Tuesday March 15, Troy 3, Grand Rapids 1</p><p>Friday March 18, Grand Rapids 3, Troy 1</p><p>Sunday March 20, Troy 2, Grand Rapids 0</p><p>Tuesday March 22. Troy 6, Grand Rapids 4</p><p><b>Troy wins Semi-Final Series &ldquo;B&rdquo; three games to one.</b></p><h3>SERIES &ldquo;C&rdquo;</h3><p><b>Best-of-seven Final</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0787/1355353-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="1217" height="104"></div><p>Thursday March 24, Cincinnati 3, Troy 2</p><p>Saturday March 26, Cincinnati 5, Troy 8</p><p>Sunday March 27, Cincinnati 7, Troy 0</p><p>Tuesday March 29, Cincinnati 5, Troy 2</p><p>Thursday March 31, Cincinnati 1, Troy 4</p><p>Saturday April 2, Cincinnati 2, Troy 3</p><p>Sunday April 3, Cincinnati 7, Troy 0</p><p><b>Cincinnati wins best-of-seven finals four games to three.</b></p><h2>PLAYOFF SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0877/1355346-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="1198" height="312"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0972/1355339-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="1144" height="1594"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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International League Standing and Scoring 1954-55

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><p>(As seen In the Montreal Gazette)</p><h2><b>And Away Dick Goes&hellip;</b></h2><p>The big news recently was the announcement that Dick Irvin will be the next coach of the Chicago Black Hawks. None can recall a season when there were so many phony rumors.</p><p>Less than a month ago the report was that Dick would retire from hockey&mdash;he was supposed to be an ill man, tired of the coaching worries and of the inconveniences of travel&mdash;and that Frank Selke would move 1o Chicago as general manager. Indeed, some insist that the second half of the move is still to be announced.</p><p>Who will succeed Dick as coach of the Canadiens? Three names are being prominently mentioned. They are Billy Reay, Roger Leger and Toe Blake. It might be someone else entirely.</p><p>A report that was also current during the Stanley Cup final series was that Frank Boucher was leaving the Rangers, that Muzz Patrick would succeed him as manager and that Frankie Eddolls would be the new coach. A few days ago. Phil Watson was mentioned as figuring in the Rangers&rsquo; plans, but that was before the announcement that Dick Irvin would go to Chicago. So recently the Rangers named Watson, clearing that up.</p><p>If a man had a pipeline into the offices where the governors of the NHL hold their meetings, he might get an idea of what&rsquo;s going on, but even then he couldn&rsquo;t be sure. Agreements made in the meetings aren&rsquo;t always carried out and if they outsmart each other at times, you know how they can deke outsiders.</p><p>But they seem more disposed to trust each other these days in their efforts to balance the league and bring the have-not clubs closer to the have clubs.</p><h2><b>Back Where He Started</b></h2><p>Chicago won&rsquo;t be anything new to Dick, as he started his coaching career there back in 1929. Yet from something he said over a month ago you wonder if his transfer to Chicago wasn&rsquo;t in prospect then.</p><p>&ldquo;You know&rdquo;, he said, &ldquo;if you traded Jean Beliveau and Doug Harvey to the Black Hawks for Litzenberger and Hollingworth, there wouldn&rsquo;t be more than a point difference between the Canadiens and the Black Hawks at the end of the season.&rdquo;</p><p>At the time, he was talking about how a couple of players could make a hockey team contender&mdash;good ones are that scarce&mdash;but in the light of the recent announcement it could have had a special significance.</p><p>There isn&rsquo;t any doubt about Dick&rsquo;s ability as a coach; he&rsquo;s proved himself over the years and his record is almost unique. Yet he was criticized this past season for not winning everything with what some considered the strongest team in tire league. His critics were a little short-sighted in that they overlooked the injuries to key players and Rocket Richard&rsquo;s suspension at a time when it hurt the most.</p><p>Dick is a good source of copy and he also hates to lose, two attributes which will be useful in restoring hockey popularity in Chicago. But he will have to come up with a contending team before the crowds will return to Chicago Stadium and it must be that he thinks he sees one in prospect, or he would hardly take the job.</p><p>There could be further trades in the making, which recalls that Jack Adams blew his cork during the Stanley Cup final over a wire story outlining a deal which would take Terry Sawchuk and other Detroit players to Chicago in exchange for several Black Hawks.</p><p>&ldquo;That story was a plant from Montreal,&rdquo; Jack fumed. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s absolutely nothing to it.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>What&rsquo;s on the Fire?</b></h2><p>But the league isn&rsquo;t so strong that it can afford to keep players of NHL calibre down in the minors. If Glen Hall, the goalkeeper the Red Wings have with their farm club in Edmonton, is as good as reported, more than one club in the National Hockey League can use him.</p><p>Both Tommy Ivan, general manager of the Hawks, and Frankie Eddolls thought the Hawks were a much improved team at the end of last season. They thought that indifferent goalkeeping had hurt them more than anything else. But the Hawks can&rsquo;t afford to give up much in any projected deals.</p><p>The two young players they got from the Canadiens last season. Eddie Litzenberger and Bucky Hollingworth, are players of promise, yet both were mentioned as possibilities to figure in trades. It just doesn&rsquo;t add up because they are the type of boys you need when you start building up a club.</p><p>It Dick has the players in Chicago, or enough of them to make a contender, he knows how to exploit them. He knows how to provide copy angles for the hockey writers and he knows the kind of hockey that pleases the fans. If he has the material to play what he calls &ldquo;headlong hockey,&rdquo; you can expect the Hawks to play it.</p><p>Montreal writers noted a tendency (that&rsquo;s really an understatement) on Dick&rsquo;s part to lower the iron curtain to the dressing room during the playoffs and they hope this isn&rsquo;t part of the system he will install with the Hawks. They like him better when he talks, even when he is acid best or worst.</p><p>Gen. John Reed Kilpatrick, president of the Rangers, was quoted as saying in New York that there would be a governors&rsquo; meeting in June at which the playing strength of the league would be more evenly distributed. More than one hockey man has said that the hockey set-up being what it is, it you divided the good players up the same clubs that&rsquo; are on top now would be back in the same position five years from now.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<h2>FINAL STANDING</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03146/1355481-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="595" height="164"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04120/1355474-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="597" height="553"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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New Brunswick N. Shore Sr. Final Results 1954-55

<h2>FINAL STANDING</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0577/1355533-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="610" height="157"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0655/1355526-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="605" height="315"></div><h2>GOALTENDERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0746/1355519-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="604" height="389"></div><h2>PENALTY RECORDS</h2><p><b>Individual</b>&mdash;Higgins. Trappers, 138 minutes; Arnett. Trappers, 129 min.</p><p><b>Team</b>&mdash;Most: Trappers, 627 minutes; Least: Lumber Kings, 438 minutes.</p><h2><b>Top Guy</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0842/1355512-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="560" height="1180"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>STAN MAXWELL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NOHA Senior Results Scoring 1954-55

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All Canada Hockey School PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTION

<div class="byline">By PAUL G. SULLIVAN</div><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Hockey history loaded with high-powered brother combinations, for vast Canada&rsquo;s families are traditionally large and seem to run to boys&mdash;and the boys obviously run to hockey.</p><p>Post-war Pittsburgh fans will give you a sound and resounding argument that in recent years the American League has offered no more rugged, colorful, or capable fraternal pair than the Hannigans&mdash;Ray (The Rod) and Gordie (Hopalong) Elder brother Ray Hannigan came to the Hornets from the Toronto Marlboros in the fall of 1949 and remained three seasons&mdash;long enough to fire the clincher that added the Calder Cup to the AHL championship, both gained for the Steel City for the first time in 1952 in the freshman year of King Clancy as coach of the Harris entourage.</p><p>The Rod was shipped to Chicago as part of the deal that brought Harry Lumley into the Toronto crease in the summer of &rsquo;52. One would have thought that a door-mat like the Black Hawks outfit would have had &ldquo;Welcome&rdquo; emblazoned on it for any able-bodied, willing guy who could put the puck in the net&mdash;and that is something Ray Hannigan has always been adept at doing, mainly because he has absorbed the philosophy that scoring is what games are won with and he is not going to be deterred from it by any consideration of personal safety.</p><h2>Given Go-By</h2><p>But despite the record that clearly showed him with marks of 30 goals for 64 games in 1949-50, 24 for 65 in 1950-51, and 17 for 49 in injury-riddled 1951-&rsquo;52, the Rod was given the go-by by choosy, basement-bound Chicago. He didn&rsquo;t even pause on the St. Louis farm&mdash;an excellent break, at that&mdash;and landed with the Edmonton Flyers, where knowledgeable fans recognized him as a hockey town&rsquo;s hockey player and installed him in heroic niche as he punched away at the cage and amassed clutch goals in regular campaign contests and the playoffs.</p><p>Meanwhile kid brother Gordie rolled into Pittsburgh from Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty&rsquo;s St. Michael&rsquo;s Seniors and in a single winter made the leap to the Leafs after racking up 24 goals and 50 assists for the title-snatching Clancy corps in 1951-&rsquo;52. He kept going in top gear for Toronto the ensuing year with 17 goals and 18 assists for an impressive starter on the big time.</p><p>But Hopalong is no fancy stylist. He gets his points the toughest way&mdash;fighting for the disc in the corners, along the boards, in melees in front of the goal. Being small and not too heavily constructed, he soaked up a lot of punishment that caught up with him in accidents and illnesses in his sophomore stretch with the Leafs and dogged him even into the race just past with result that he landed back in Pittsburgh in time to help the Hornets toward their second Americas crown and capture of the Calder bowl.</p><p>Interesting commentary on the Hannigans is that Ray, a rightband shot and originally a right winger, for the Pittsburghers, wound up on left wing, while Gordie, a southpaw swinger and a port flanker all his life, finished the recent chase and Cup quest in the starboard lane and liked it.</p><p>Gordie contends that working the unnatural side has definite advantages. It&rsquo;s easier, be says, to handle a pass backhand and the forehand shooting angle is much wider, in a good many cases, from the &ldquo;awkward&rdquo; alley</p><p>In this observer&rsquo;s estimation, the magnificent value of the Hannigans has been their flaming competitive spirit. Ray&rsquo;s loss was as damaging a blow as the Hornets have been struck in a decade, while the worth of Gordie shone in the 1955 playoffs as the indomitable Schumacher citizen&rsquo;s playmaking contributed immeasurably to the stunning offensive performances of Willie Marshall. It&rsquo;s a shame the Rod and Hop-along couldn&rsquo;t have been kept together, for in their case, the whole might have been even greater than the sum of the parts!</p><h2>Hopalong</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01233/1355443-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="567" height="889"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HANNIGAN</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>The Rod</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02181/1355436-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="574" height="884"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY HANNIGAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“Hammering Hannigans” Prominent In Recent Hornet Cup Conquests

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01198/1355623-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"></div><h2>FINAL STANDING</h2><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02166/1355616-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="1228" height="568"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03132/1355609-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="1222" height="526"></div><h2>PENALTY LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0496/1355602-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="1220" height="186"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>E</span>arl Ingarfield of Lethbridge Native Sons is the 1954-55 individual scoring champion of the Western Junior Hockey League. The centre star compiled 76 points in the 40 game schedule&mdash;11 more than Bev Bell of the top-finishing Regina Pats who had 65. Bill Kurtz of Regina was third with 56 points, followed by Les Colwill of Lethbridge with 53. Ingarfield&rsquo;s total was made up of 45 goals, tops 1n that department, and 31 assists. Colwill led in assists with 33.</p><p>Murray Balfour, of Regina, was the league&rsquo;s most penalized player with 156 minutes in the penalty box. Al Jacobson, of Edmonton, who finished the season with two straight shutouts, edged out Joe Selinger, of Regina, for goaltending honors. Jacobson had a goals-against average of 2.84 for 38 games while Selinger had a mark of 2.87 for 39 games.</p><h2><b>PLAYOFFS</b></h2><h3>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;</h3><p>February 21, Regina 0, Medicine Hat 4</p><p>February 23, Regina 5, Medicine Hat 5</p><p>February 25, Regina 2. Medicine Hat 7</p><p>February 26, Medicine Hat 3, Regina 6</p><p>February 28, Medicine Hat 3, Regina 4</p><p>March 1. Medicine Hat 3, Regina 2</p><p>March 3, Medicine Hat 3, Regina 7</p><p>March 5, Regina 3, Medicine Hat 1</p><h3>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;</h3><p>February 23, Lethbridge 2. Edmonton 1</p><p>February 24, Edmonton 4, Lethbridge 6</p><p>February 26, Edmonton 2, Lethbridge 0</p><p>February 28, Lethbridge 3, Edmonton 2</p><p>March 1, Lethbridge 5, Edmonton 3</p><h3>SERIES &ldquo;C&rdquo;</h3><p>March 7, Regina 3, Lethbridge 5</p><p>March 9, Regina 5, Lethbridge 4</p><p>March 10, Regina 7, Lethbridge 3</p><p>March 12, Lethbridge 3, Regina 2</p><p>March 14, Lethbridge 2, Regina 3</p><p>March 17, Lethbridge 1, Regina 5</p><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0570/1355595-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="1206" height="384"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0651/1355588-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="1212" height="194"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Western Jr. League Results and Scoring 1954-55

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Forced to retrench by cutting down on players&rsquo; salaries, said to have been as high as $200 per week, the five senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; clubs in the Northern Ontario Hockey Association may interlock with the six OHA clubs for the 1955-56 season, provided suitable arrangements can be worked out between the two organizations.</p><p>Although the NOHA clubs, in some cases, averaged around 4,000 attendance for league games, the four qualifying teams for the playoffs, Soo (Ontario) Greyhounds, North Bay Trappers, Soo (Michigan) Indians and Pembroke Lumber Kings, all lost money on this season&rsquo;s operations, to the extent, of amounts reported to range from $10,000 to $20,000.</p><p>The strange part of the picture is that the Sudbury Wolves, last season&rsquo;s champions, the only club failing to make the NOHA playoffs this season, finished the season on the right side of the ledger, and wrote a balance in black ink in their ledger, amounting to about $8,000.</p><h2>No Renewal</h2><p>Despite this, Max Silverman, promoter of the Sudbury entry, who corralled a squad of high-class talent, including several former major leaguers has been notified that his contract with the Sudbury Arena Commission will not be renewed next season, which leaves &ldquo;Mr. Hockey of the Northland&rdquo; holding the well-known bag and owner of a good hockey team with no place to play. There is a possibility that he may operate his team in another arena in the mining area, and there is another strong belief that the Sudbury Arena Commission will relent from their original announcement to operate their own team next season and strive for an amicable settlement with Silverman.</p><h2>Sour On Deal</h2><p>During the 1954-55 season the two wealthier clubs, Soo Greyhounds and Sudbury Waives, subsidized the other three clubs to the extent of $10,000 each in order to keep them in the league this season, but both the Soo and Sudbury clubs say they will have no part of such a I deal again.</p><p>An interlocking schedule bettween the NOHA and the OHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; clubs was first breached at a meeting of the OHA senior council last year but was later abandoned, when some of the six members refused to go along with the idea, unless they were shown how the plan would not be a losing venture financially.</p><h2>Attendances Down</h2><p>Since then matters have changed considerably, due mainly to the decreased attendance at OHA games this season. The thought is that instead of the six OHA clubs playing five home games with the other clubs, they might have the NOHA clubs meet OHA clubs in single or double home-and-home series, with points to count in their respective league standings. Each league would still declare its respective champions, who would meet in the all-Ontario playoffs, as was done this season.</p><p>The plan, if adopted, is expected to attract more patrons through the turnstiles of both northern and southern Ontario clubs, because they would be seeing new faces.</p><h2>OHA Favorable</h2><p>However, before anything of this nature can be finalized the NOHA and the OHA clubs would have to endorse the scheme. So far as the OHA clubs are concerned, it is considered a foregone conclusion that they would be favorable, and last year Max Silverman, the Sudbury hockey promoter, who has been a champion of the stunt for years, greeted the suggested plan enthusiastically.</p><h2>May Fly On Trips</h2><p>Time lost from work by the players poses possibly the biggest obstacle, but sponsors of the idea claim this can be overcome by the teams travelling by plane from north to south, and vice versa, and playing two or more games on Saturday and Sunday nights, which would mean that the players, most of whom do not work Saturday anyway, would be back at their jobs Monday morning without any loss of time.</p><p>Just what the setup in the NOHA will be next season is not definite right now, but all of the present OHA clubs, Kitchener, Windsor, Owen Sound, Stratford, Chatham and Niagara Falls have given assurances that they will all be back.</p><h2><b>Holding Bag?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0747/1355654-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="596" height="608"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAX SILVERMAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NOHA-OHA Leagues May Play Interlocking Series In 1955-56

<div class="byline">By PAUL G. SULLIVAN</div><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>A HOCKEY NEWS piece by this observer recently set forth certain local circumstances indicating possibility of eclipse of the organized rink sport in Pittsburgh.</p><p>It can now happily be recorded that such unwholesome eventuality is rather less likely&mdash;indeed, rather less than likely.</p><p>All Steel City railbirds whose memory of the pastime goes back beyond say a week ago last Tuesday know that the only entrepreneur with vision, energy, and resources enough to make hockey go hereabouts in the past couple of generations is John H. Harris, present head man of the American League champion, Calder - Cupcopping Pittsburgh Hornets.</p><p>There have been rumors for the past two years that Harris has been veering toward permanent removal from his native habitat to the Pacific Coast. Credence has been lent to such chatter by the facts that he has become more and more immersed in his tremendously successful &ldquo;Ice Capades&rdquo;, has apparently, relinquished to some extent his Western Pennsylvania theatrical interests, and has sold his family home here and built a fine residence in California.</p><p>But lets glimpse the other side of the coin, lately disclosed by Harris himself in a conversation with the writer en route to the final AHL playoff test in Buffalo.</p><p>Far from folding up his Pittsburgh organization, dynamic, indefatigable John H. is the sole present bidder for the management role in the new Pittsburgh arena, currently in the advanced planning and financing stage and projected for opening in 1958.</p><p>Laboring in integrated harmony with brilliant, highly-esteemed Director Howard B. Stewart of the Arena Authority, Harris is in continual, immediate touch with all details of the mammoth auditorium. This is about how John tells it:</p><p>&ldquo;Howard and I are working with the architects and the Authority to assure maximum usefulness of the Arena for sports and theatrical events. We have studied plans and features of all the present major auditoriums around the United States and Canada and hope that Pittsburgh&rsquo;s will be the last word.</p><p>&ldquo;One of the main purposes of our Arena will be summer light opera and, with that in mind, provision is being made for a removable roof that will admit fresh air into the building during the warm season and still insure against interruption by rain.</p><p>&ldquo;At first I was skeptical about the movable roof idea because it looked like almost prohibitive expense with relatively little benefit after the wearing off of the novelty. But when I learned that the plan was for more than just rolling back the ceiling and leaving a sort of stiff-necked view of the stars from a walled-in and probably pretty sultry pit, I went for It.</p><p>&ldquo;As I understand the device, sections of the side-walls as well as the roof will be removable so that spectators, especially those in the more elevated seats, will be able to view the city beyond the interior and, of course, air circulation will be much better.</p><p>&ldquo;The stage and the proscenium will be constructed on a vast elevator and will be raised from the Arena floor when needed so that audiences of more than 5,000 will have perfect view of the performance. The elevator will be on the same installation principle as the flight deck elevators on aircraft carriers, although the size and capacity will be necessarily greater.</p><p>&ldquo;For hockey and ice shows, the Arena will seat upwards of 11,000 with more for boxing and basketball. Office and press accommodations will be set conveniently for people who have to work in the building and every comfort, including entry and exit facilities to eliminate crowding, danger, and delay, will be offered patrons and visitors.&rdquo;</p><p>As for hockey tenure, everything seems primed for 1955-56 and, although the lease on the Gardens, traditional home of the Hornets, expires next April 30, no insurmountable obstacle to continuance of the club, with its perennial Toronto tie-up, is anticipated.</p><h2><b>Sure Now</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0827/1355685-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="547" height="901"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHN HARRIS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hornets Set In Pittsburgh As Harris Seeks New Arena

<div class="byline">by Jack&nbsp;MATHESON</div><p>(As seen in The Wininpeg Tribune)</p><p>Gerald Thomas Sawchuk, approximately nineteen years and three months away from the National Hockey League, was quite unimpressed by the young man with the crew cut who was punching him playfully in the stomach.</p><p>If Gerald Thomas had been more than nine months old, he might have realized the neighbors strolling down Bowman Ave. tipping their hats and making small talk weren&rsquo;t doing it because his old man was the mayor. Just Terry Sawchuk, the best goaltender Manitoba has produced since Charlie Gardiner and a comparatively wealthy young man by today&rsquo;s standards.</p><p>He might have suspected something if he&rsquo;d seen the expensive ring on the right hand, with a gold wing on a ruby base. Or if he&rsquo;d contemplated the right elbow, swelled beyond reasonable proportions by dozens of bone chips. Or even the scarred brow that has been known to stop rubber fired at something like 50 miles per hour.</p><p>Gerry&rsquo;s dad, who won the Vezina Trophy and a Stanley Cup, or approximately four thousand dollars, in the last six weeks, was back home in East Kildoman. You&rsquo;d have to look closely to see him, for the rigors of National Hockey League puck-blocking have reduced his frame to 165 pounds, about 30 pounds below normal.</p><p>This kind of treatment is old hat with Terry by now. So false has survived an appendectomy, two delicate bone operations and several bouts of the flu. Through this adversity, he has managed to retain his rating in the NHL, which is one-two with Harry Lumley, take your pick.</p><p>At the age of 25, Terry isn&rsquo;t prepared to quote figures on his potential. He&rsquo;d like to play as long as he can, and he refuses to set any limit. If it&rsquo;s with the Detroit Red Wings, all the better. He doesn&rsquo;t sound like a young man on the verge of unemployment, although some Eastern sources insist this is a distinct possibility.</p><p>Sawchuk was removed from the Red Wing cage midway through the 1954-55 season, but snapped back after a rest to help the Wings win a league flag and the Stanley Cup. These indisputable facts fail to daunt the knockers, who insist Sawchuk is slipping and young Glen Hall from Edmonton is prepared to take the stage in the fall of &rsquo;55.</p><p>Terry explains his shaky work before Christmas reasonably enough. He was 30 pounds under playing weight and had trouble mastering the energy to bend over on low shots. He hadn&rsquo;t forgotten his famous crouch, he just couldn&rsquo;t make it. Ater a week-long rest, he had no trouble bending over.</p><p>He knew his recovery was complete when he managed quite nicely to bend over Jack Adams&rsquo; desk and accepted his Stanley Cup check. While he was accepting the price of a new automobile, Terry was smiling. He was still Jim Skinner&rsquo;s regular goalie, wasn&rsquo;t he?</p><p>Of course, Terry had given them grounds for discussion. He had sold his home at Pontiac, Mich., which led them to believe he was prepared to pull up stakes. But he explained that Pontiac, Mich., was too far from Detroit Olympia, where he works. It was just another transportation problem, that&rsquo;s all.</p><p>Strangely, Terry doesn&rsquo;t regard the last game in the Stanley Cup final as his most satisfying achievement in the 1954-55 season. He liked the 6-0 whitewash job the Detroits hung on the Montreals to win the league championship. Detroit, a good, old-fashioned baseball town, likes to win the pennants, and the Red Wings did it up right.</p><p>He isn&rsquo;t quite sure whether Maurice Richard would have made a difference in the playoffs, but he agrees with Ted Lindsay that it was &ldquo;one of those series&rdquo; and Montreal would probably have won if they&rsquo;d played the last game at Montreal.</p><p>&ldquo;After we win the first two at home,&rdquo; Terry muses, &ldquo;we figure we&rsquo;ll fool &lsquo;em when we get to Montreal. They&rsquo;ll be lookking for us to play it close so we go out to throw it at &lsquo;em. Boom!&mdash;it backfires and we lose. We get another lead at home and go back to Montreal and we figure we&rsquo;ll really jolt &lsquo;em this time. Just go all out, that&rsquo;s all Boom!&mdash;another backfire. Wotta crazy series!&rdquo;</p><p>There was nothing crazy, though, about Gordie Howe, Tom Johnson and Jean Beliveau. Howe still rates as the greatest in Terry&rsquo;s book, which figures. Terry thought Tom was the most solid defenceman in the league and Beliveau might&mdash;just might&mdash;be better than the Rocket some day.</p><p>Gerald Thomas Sawchuk still wasn&rsquo;t impressed. He was fast asleep.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

ANOTHER ANGLE

<p>KITCHENER, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>For the second time in three years, Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen have won the Allen Cup, symbolic of senior hockey supremacy in Canada, and according to Coach Bobby Bauer, much of the credit should go to goaler Keith Woodall.</p><p>Following the Dutchies&rsquo; 5-3 victory over Fort William Beavers in the final game of the series, won 4-1 by K.-W., Bauer praised his team in general and Woodall in particular.</p><p>He praised the consistently good play&rdquo; of the netminder &ldquo;who came out of the stands with only one game behind him all season at Windsor in the OHA Junior finals.&rdquo;</p><p>Woodall joined the Dutchmen after a leg injury sidelined regular netminder Denis Brodeur.</p><p>Playing-Coach Bob Drainville of the Beavers also had a word of praise for the newly-crowned Allan Cup kings. &ldquo;We gave them some good, close games&rdquo;, he said, &ldquo;but we weren&rsquo;t consistent in the series&mdash;up and down. But I don&rsquo;t want to take anything away from the Dutchmen. They&rsquo;re a good hockey club.&rdquo;</p><p>It was a great victory for Bauer, who took over the reins of the Dutchmen early in the season from Clare Martin, who remained with the club as a player.</p><p>The Dutchies won the series opener, 3-2, lost the second game&rsquo;, 6-4, and then ran up three straight victories by scores of G-2, 7-6 and 5-3 to capture the coveted cup, last season won by the Penticton V&rsquo;s, World Hockey champs.</p><p>Kitchener have asked that they be allowed to represent Canada in the 1956 World Hockey Tournament.</p><p>Actually the Dutchies&rsquo; toughest obstacle in the road to the senior title was the eastern Canada semifinal where they had to win the last two games of the best-of-seven set to eliminate Sault St. Marie Greyhounds, NOHA champions.</p><p>They defeated Moncton Hawks 4-1 in the best-of-seven Eastern Canada final.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

K-W Dutchmen Capture Allan Cup For Second Time In Three Years

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Here’s to you!

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01185/1355795-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TORONTO MARLBOROS</b>&mdash;Front row, left to right: Jerry James, Bob Baun, H. E. Ballard, Pres.; Stafford Smythe, Managing Director; Mike Nykoluk, Captain; Turk Broda, Coach; Dr. Leo Hall, Club Physician; Billy Harris, Al McNeill. Middle row, left to right: Art Marshall, Trainer; Gary Collins, Bill Kennedy, Glenn Cressman, John Albani, Ross Sneddon, Garry Aldcorn, Bob Dodds, Bob Haggert, Trainer. Back row, left to right: Ron Casey, Jake Smola, Gord Onotsky, John Perdue, Publicity Director; Ron Kendall, Ken Girard, Bob Pulford. Trophies: left to right: Laurier, Richardson, Memorial, Robertson.</figcaption></div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>For the first time in 26 years, Toronto Marlboros have won the Memorial Cup, symbol of junior hockey supremacy in Canada.</p><p>The Dukes defeated the Western Champions, Regina Pats, four games to one in the Cup finals after having lost the series opener.</p><p>Coach Turk Broda&rsquo;s charges stormed back with four straight victories to win the Cup after dropping a 3-1 decision to the Pats in the first game of the set. Scores in the other contests, were 5-2, 3-2, 3-2 and 8-5.</p><p>The Marlboros had to overcome a 3-0 first period deficit in the final game of the series to wrap up their first Memorial Cup win since 1929.</p><h2>Three In Overtime</h2><p>At the end of the second period the Dukes still trailed, 4-2, but scored three goals in the final period to the Pats&rsquo; one and forced the game into overtime. From that point on, Marlboros weren&rsquo;t to be headed, as they pumped home three goals in the extra session to cop an 8-5 victory in dramatic fashion.</p><p>In a surprise move, coach Murray Armstrong of the Regina team announced before the game that Pats would go into the fray minus their three replacements permitted under a Canadian Amateur Hockey Association ruling. Actually, the trio, Earl Ingarfield and Les Colwill of Lethbridge Native Sons and Lionel Repka of the Edmonton Oil Kings, took part in only two games during the series.</p><h2>Harris Fires Winner</h2><p>Gary Collins and Glen Cressman each fired two goals for Toronto in the series finale with Billy Harris, who potted the winner in overtime, Gerry James, Bob Pulford and Billy Kennedy adding one each.</p><p>Billy Hay, lanky Regina centre, was brilliant in defeat by scoring three goals. Team captain Bev Bell, scoring his first in the series, and Harold Ottenbreit added the others for Pats.</p><h2><b>1954-55 Memorial Cup Champions</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Marlboros Win Memorial Cup For First Time Since 1929

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02146/1355826-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg"></div><p><b><i>That&rsquo;s Right &ndash; You&rsquo;ll Be Sorry, if You Don&rsquo;t Subscribe to THE HOCKEY NEWS Today.</i></b></p><p>You 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;II 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-filled issues of THE HOCKEY NEWS delivered right to your door for the low price of $3.00 ($4.00 in the United States). Spare yourself of the trouble of having to pick your copy up at the newsstand by subscribing today and furthemore you&rsquo;ll be saving $2.25 ($3.25 in the United States) by taking out a subscription. &lsquo;</p><p>THE HOCKEY NEWS features plenty of lengthy profiles on players in the summer issues and oodles of candid pictures showing that favorite puck star of yours in such poses as playing baseball, on the golf links, milking cows, pitching hay, running the store, and countless others. We at THE HOCKEY NEWS do our utmost to see that you don&rsquo;t lose track of your favorite players during those five months that THE HOCKEY NEWS suspends weekly publication (May to September).</p><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.</p><p><b>Canadian Remittances</b>&mdash;$300 Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order.</p><p><b>U. S. A. Remittances</b>&mdash;$4.00 Payable by Postal, Bank, or Express Money Order.</p><p><b>Fill in Form Above and Send Postal Note or Money Order</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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