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October 8, 1955

The Hockey News October 8, 1955

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Ferny Flaman, like many hockey players, has allround athletic ability.During his early years with the Boston Bruins he played an outfield position for a strong semi-professional baseball team which played in many parts of New England.In recent summers he has turned to softball, and as an amateur golfer he is considered one of the longest hitters in the Greater Boston area. He admits, however, that he plays golf with more tnhusiasm than finesse. &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Who Says Flaman Isn’t Versatile?

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01254/1345568-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">RAY TIMGREN</figcaption></div>(As Seen In The Globe & Mall)ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;Ray Timgren, whose professional hockey career has been divided between Maple Leafs and Pittsburgh Hornets, has been granted another opportunity to play with Leafs.Leaf&rsquo;s General Manager Hap Day announced that Timgren would replace Parker MacDonald on a line with Bob Bailey and Joe Klukay. MacDonald has been assigned to Pittsburgh Hornets.To the ordinary layman observing Leafs&rsquo; workouts for the past 10 days or so MacDonald&rsquo;s performances have been eminently satisfactory but apparently MacDonald did not reach the peak of excellence demanded by Day.Timgren, meanwhile, has been one of the top performers in Howie Meeker&rsquo;s Pittsburgh camp. Also in his favor is the fact he played on a line with Bailey with Hornets last season and apparently they worked well together.Day also disclosed today three juniors working out with Leafs would return to Marlboros immediately. They are defensemen Al MacNeil and Bobby Baun, and winger Gary Collins.Of the three Day admitted, Baun might be ready now for NHL play. But Baun has one more year as a junior. Also Day explained that Leafs&rsquo; particular problem is not on defense.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been more than pleased with the play of our juniors,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They exceeded all our expectations. But we have to cut our squad down to working size. We have too many players in camp.&rdquo;Sid Smith was nominated captain of Leafs today, succeeding Ted Kennedy, his former linemate who retired at the end of last season. Kennedy drove over from Toronto to preside at the ceremony. Being a budding business man now, he returned immediately afterward.Day said he wasn&rsquo;t particularly disturbed by reports Willie Marshall is threatening to depart from the Pittsburgh camp. Marshall, Pittsburgh&rsquo;s top scorer last season, is demanding a tryout with Leafs. He contends that he has earned it.&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t discussed the matter with Marshall,&rdquo; said Day. &ldquo;We had him up for 17 games last year and our coach (one King Clancy) didn&rsquo;t play him a great deal in the last few games. We don&rsquo;t like to keep any players on the bench.&ldquo;Also if Marshall is of NHL calibre it seems strange that none of the other NHL clubs claimed him in the draft. They could have bought him for $7,500. That&rsquo;s not much to pay for a player now-adays.&rdquo;Day still contends Marshall&rsquo;s personal problems will be resolved when he confers with the Pittsburgh player next week. Day admitted candidly a few other Pittsburgh players might be difficult to sign.Leafs played their annual golf game today and defenseman Jimmy Morrison relieved Day of his championship. Morrison fired a five-over-76, one better than his sparring partner, Bob Bailey. Bailey checked in with a 77, despite a disastrous seven on the final hole. Day scrambled for an 81.<h2>Encore For Mr. Timgren</h2><h2>Exit For Mr. MacDonald</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02197/1345561-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="1119" height="1326"><figcaption class="caption-body">PARKER MacDONALD</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Timgren Given One More Chance To Prove Worth

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;The International Hockey League, again a compact six-team conference, will open its eleventh season of operation Oct. 15.There have been several changes in the make up of the loop and a number of changes in the coaching ranks.A new entry in the league is Indianapolis, which is returning to organized hockey for the first time in four years since dropping out of the American Hockey League.Indianapolis is replacing Johnstown, Pa., which is back in the Eastern Amateur League.Then, too, Toledo and Marion, two Ohio cities, are dividing up home games, with each city getting 15 in 1955-56. The Toledo-Marion entry will be a combined one.Otherwise, the same clubs will be back in action, headed by three-time league and playoff champions Cincinnati Mohawks. Troy, O., is back in the field, as are Ft. Wayne, Ind. and Grand Rapids, Mich.Roly McLenahan will be at the helm of the Mohawks for the third straight year, while Nellie Podolski again will direct the Troy outfit.Johnny Sorrell is handling the coaching reins at Indianapolis and has high hopes of assembling a good team. Sorrell, player-coach of Indianapolis in 1943-45 in the American Hockey League, played for the Caps in 1945-46. Sorrell conducted training camp for his new Chiefs in Aylmer, Ont.Doug McCaig is moving from Toledo, where he coached for the past three years, over to Ft. Wayne, where he is replacing Pat Wilson. The Komets held their pre-season training at Niagara Falls, Ont.Filling McCaig&rsquo;s old post at Toledo will be the veteran defenseman, Frank (Butch) Stahan. The rugged, 33-year-old Stahan, who has played professional hockey in several different leagues, joined the Mercurys last January and immediately caught the fancy of the fans with his rough brand of play. The Mercs did their training at Woodstock, Ont.Rounding out the roster of new International League coaches will be Morris (Moose) Lallo at Grand Rapids. The colorful Lallo, who has played at defense for the Rockets for the past few years, was named to tabe over for Norm Grinke, who had directed the club for the past two seasons. Grand Rapids also staged its pre-season drills at Niagara Falls, Ont.Cincinnati worked out with the parent Montreal Canadiens and their affiliated teams for a Short time in Montreal before moving down to spacious Cincinnati Gardens to put the finishing touches on preparations for the coming campaign. Troy started off in Sault Ste. Marie with the Detroit Red Wings and then shifted its base of operations to the Ohio city and Hobart Arena.<h2>Head Mohawk</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02202/1346233-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="576" height="1230"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROLY McLENAHAN</figcaption></div><h3>Only Non-player</h3>Sorrell will be the only IHL coach who will direct his club solely from the sidelines. McLenahan, Podolski, McCaig, Stahan and Lallo all are scheduled to serve as playing coaches. McLenahan, a member of the 1954-55 International League All-Star sextet, McCaig, Stahan and Lallo are all defensemen, Podolski probably will be at wing.For the fifth year, Frank Gallagher, Dearborn, Mich., is president of the IHL, with his assistant. Bill Clements, Allen Park, Mich.., serving as secretary. Gallagher will also have the post of treasurer of the loop. Tom Grace of Cincinnati is the first vice-president and Troy&rsquo;s Ken Wilson is second vice-president.<h2>Tops In Troy</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03181/1346226-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="590" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body">NELS PODOLSKI</figcaption></div><h2>Takes Over</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04138/1346219-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="603" height="904"><figcaption class="caption-body">BUTCH STAHAN</figcaption></div>Gallagher announces that Opening games will take place Saturday, Oct. 15, when Troys plays at Cincinnati and Ft. Wayne at Grand Rapids. The following day, Oct. 16, Cincinnati will move over to Troy, Grand Rapids to Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne at Marion (to meet Toledo-Marion.)&ldquo;I expect a very good season,&rdquo; Gallagher told THE HOCKEY NEWS. &ldquo;We have every reason to hope for the best. We have cut down on our travel problem by the addition of Indianapolis and we now have a compact, well-organized league. Also, economic conditions are very good right now.&rdquo;The 22-week season will open Oct. 15 and come to a close March 11, Gallagher said. Post-season playoffs then will follow immediately.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m hoping that we have a tight race,&rdquo; Gallagher added. &ldquo;After all, it&rsquo;s about time someone gave that Cincinnati team a run for its money after sweeping top honors for the past three years. Our calibre of play should be higher and if Sorrell assembles a strong club at Indianapolis, we are certain to have an interesting and exicting race.&rsquo;&rsquo;The player limit for the IHL will remain the same as it was last year, at 14, according to Gallagher. There had been some discussion of lowering the limit to 13, but it was decided to carry 14&mdash;nine forwards, four defensemen and a goal-tender.<h3>Important Change</h3>An important change this year will concern the officiating at International League contests.There will be no local linesmen as in the past, Gallagher pointed out, but instead every game will be handled by a pair of referees with equal authority. This should make for better and faster action, the president maintains. The league will carry a 15-man staff of officials, as compared to about 12 in the past, Gallagher asserted.ICING THE PUCK&hellip;Last year&rsquo;s final standings found Cincinnati in front with 81 points, Troy next with 64, Toledo third with 62, Grand Rapids fourth with 57, Johnstown fifth with 51 and Ft. Wayne last with 45&hellip;In the playoffs, Cincinnati polished off Toledo and Troy disposed of Grand Rapids. Cincinnati then edged Troy in the seventh contest of a best-of-seven series for the post-season crown.Cincinnati&rsquo;s Phil Goyette won the scoring title with 92 points to 86 for John Horvath of Johnstown. McLenahan and George Hayes of Grand Rapids both had 74; Don Hall of Johnstown 73, Denis Boucher of Cincinnati 71, Barry Thorndycraft of Cincinnati 66, Reg Grigg of Cincinnati 61, Edwin Panagabko of Grand Rapids 60 and young Max Szturm of Troy 57 to round out the top 10 point-makers.Of this group only McLenahan. Hayes, Grigg, Panagabko and Szturm are likely to be back, although Hall is an outside possibility with another IHL team. The others either will be turned pro or will be in other leagues.<h2>Quits Toledo</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01183/1346212-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="587" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG McCAIG</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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New Team, New Coaches Boost Interest in IHL

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Change of Address

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01124/1346574-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">GLEN HALL the boy wonder from Edmonton who came to the Detroit Red Wings this year from the Western Hockey League champion Flyers, proved that he was a big time goalie in the all-star game at Detroit last Sunday night when he held a powerful array of NHL sharpshooters to a single goal while his mates racked up three. He&rsquo;s shown above diving to his knees to make a save off Bernie Geoffrien. He&rsquo;s getting some help from Red Kelly (centre) and Bill Dineen (right).</figcaption></div><h2>His Hall-Mark Of Fame &#9632;</h2>

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WINGS SCORE 2nd ALL-STAR TRIUMPH

<div class="byline">By ELMER FERGUSON</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Most important development in last night&rsquo;s all-stat battle against the powerhouse Detroit forces was the announcement made by Frank Selke, general manager of Canadiens that he would sign Pocket Rocket Richard to play with the Habs.It was originally intended that the 19-year-old brother of the great Richard would remain in junior ranks for another season. But Selke, not altogether satisfied with the showing of some of the live Canadiens who lined up with the All-Stars last night, said he planned to sign the Pocket Rocket at once.The little 157-pounder has been a sensation in team drills and exhibitions games.We told Rocket Richard after the all-star game, won by Detroit, 3-1, that the Pocket Rocket was going to be signed and remarked: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s going in there to keep you out of trouble.&rdquo;Answered Richard: &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll probably get me into trouble.&rdquo; For the Rocket is a real big brother to the smaller fellow and woe betide any opposing player who plays unfair hands upon Rocket, Junior.Richard himself showed to rather poor advantage last night, lacking speed. He explained that he pulled a groin muscle in the, first period, and this bothere his skating. It was not, he ex, plained, the same groin trouble that put him out of action a few seasons back, but on the other leg.Red Wings, showing another power-house team, for a second time defeated the All Stars in a truly great hockey battle. It. was the 25th successive game in which Wings have gone unbeaten on Detroit ice, 19 wins and six draws, a remarkable record that started last December for the Stanley Cup champs.All products at one time or another of the Detroit farm system, three goalers turned in such brilliant performances that there was doubt expressed by several observers from other teams that there would be any great scoring outbreaks in the season which starts Thursday night when Leafs visit Montreal. Terry Sawchuk, after receiving a tumultous reception when lie came on the ice to replace Harry Lumley half-way through the second period turned in a shut-out literally. With the score 2-1 against the All-Stars and a minute to go Coach Dick Irvin pulled out goaler Sawchuk, and Earl Reibel, the pivot man of the Howe-Lindsay wing formation, slid a long shot into the empty cage. Throughout his half-game tenure of office, Sawchuk put on such a brilliant performanoe against the Detroit dire-power, that Boston club officials were enthused about the future there Sawchuk has starred for Red Wings since 1950, but was traded to Bruins.Harry Lumley of Toronto Leafs, voted the No. 1 all-star goaler, put on a great show the first period, which went at whirlwind pace, holding the Wings scoreless, but was beaten by Howe&rsquo;s close-range shot on a Reibel-Lindsay set-up on a power play with Morrison off the first minute of the second period. Soon after Lumley missed a low shot by Reibel.Glen Hall, who today celebrates his 24th birthday, made his Red Wings debut as the team&rsquo;s regular goaler in smashing fashion. He wasn&rsquo;t Scored on until midway of the third period, when Canadien&rsquo;s Doug Harvey whipped a sizzling shot from left wing. A Detroit player dived at it, Hall lost sight of the puck and it streaked into the cage. Hall did a terrific job in the third period when his team was short-handed.Boom Boom Geoffrion was the outstanding sniper of the allstars, coining to life in the third period, when he repeatedly rocked Hall with his heavy fire. He fairly floored the Detroit goaler. with one smashing shot when Hollingworth was off. But Hall, fast as a cat on a hot tin roof, matched everything. It looks as though Wings have come up with another great goaler.Irvin as coach of the all-stars started the Beliveau-Richard-Smith line, which never got going well. He put Flaman and Harvey on defence. Jimmy Skinner started his top line..Howe-Lindsay-Reibel with Godfrey and Red Kelly on defense and a ding-dong opening period saw very little slackening off in speed. It was a real mid-season hockey game which drew a record crowd of 12,187 in the face of football and World&rsquo;s Series baseball. &#9632;

Detroit Extends Home Ice Skein To 25 With Win

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div>(As Seen To Toronto Telegram)ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;King Clancy is loose again.The irrepressible Maple Leaf hockey coach lunged out onto another limb with the astonishing prediction that Leafs will finish the season with four 20-goal scorers and one line that alone will tip 60 goals in production.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m looking for 20 goals each from Sid Smith, Tod Sloan, George Armstrong and Dick Duff,&rdquo; he proclaimed. &ldquo;I know, I know, that means 60 goals from the Armstrong line (with Duff and Sloan) but don&rsquo;t go betting your shirt they won&rsquo;t. That&rsquo;s gonna be one of the best lines in this league this year.&rdquo;When Dick Irvin made an only slightly more ambitious quota for Rocket Richard, Jean Beliveau and Boom-Boom Geoffrion a year ago, he was at least talking about chaps with warehouses full of goals. King is bellowing from the bottom shelf of Mother Hubbard&rsquo;s cupboard.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0595/1344972-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="301" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Smith</figcaption></div><h2>&ldquo;King-Escope&rdquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04120/1344965-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="590" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body">KING CLANCY</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0664/1344958-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="292" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Armenog</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0734/1344951-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="310" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tod S&rsquo;con</figcaption></div><h3>Army Improved</h3>The goalless wonders of the recent NHL campaigns have had only Smith into the 20-goal class for the past two years. The combined totals of Sloan and Army barely topped 20 in either year. And Duff has yet to fire a puck in anger in the NHL. As for a 60-goal line, it has been five years since Leafs witnessed that phenomenon.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a 11 gonna change,&rdquo; asserts the King. &ldquo;You know Smitty&rsquo;s gonna get 20, because he&rsquo;s never had less. Last year he got up to 30 for the second time.&ldquo;By switching Army to centre and Sloan to the wing, we&rsquo;re gonna get 20 out of each of them too. Sloan has always been a potential 20-goal scorer and now that he&rsquo;s at the position he likes, he&rsquo;ll get them. Army has never looked better&mdash;both ways. He&rsquo;s in on goal more and he&rsquo;s taking his man out better.&rdquo;Sloan, incidentally, was a member of Leafs&rsquo; last 60-goal line in 1950-51. He and Smitty each topped 30 as Ted Kennedy&rsquo;s wings that year. &ldquo;Duff&rsquo;s only a rookie, so I won&rsquo;t be mad at him if he doesn&rsquo;t get 20,&rdquo; says King. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;ll tell you this. The goal tending in this league&rsquo;s gotta be the best it&rsquo;s ever been to stop him.&rdquo;&ldquo;Look at the training camp records if you don&rsquo;t believe me. And remember this: All four men I named are good skaters. They go even better when they get on bigger ice and have more room to move around.&rdquo;<h3>Figures Don&rsquo;t Lie</h3>The statistics certainly dosupport Gance. In 12 scrimmages, Army has seven goals and four, assists, Smith 5 and 3, Duff 4 and four and Sloan, who missed some early workouts through injury, 2 and 6. Chief scout and statistician Bob Davidson notes that the total for the quartet almost equals the total for the whole camp in either of the past two seasons.And the record in exhibition games is even more flattering. After only three games, it shows Duff with four goals, Smitty with three and Army and Sloan with two two each plus three and four assists.The trend continued in a recent practise. Duff scored the first goal for the Blues from Army and then, after they changed sweaters, Dick tied the score for White, again from Armstrong. Sid Smith then scored for the Blues and Army gave Whites their final goal from Slo and and Duff.Incidentals&hellip;Joe Klukay be came sick when Ron Stewart&rsquo;s slap shot eaught him on the Adam&rsquo;s apple to end the scrim-mage&hellip;After watching Duff score twice, GM Day noted that Detroit GM Jack Adams had predicted Larry Ullman would be the rookie of the year, &ldquo;I always admired Adams for his perspicacity,&rdquo; Day said kindly&hellip;Chicago Black Hawks are hunting a right winger&hellip;Leafs entertained Cleveland Barons on Saturday and played against Bisons in Buffalo on Sunday&hellip;A final OK on Tim Horton&rsquo;s leg is expected when Dr. Jim Murray, the Leaf physician arrives in camp for another look at the limb that was broken last spring&hellip;Horton and Klukay signed, concluding contract discussions. &#9632;

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Optimistic King Tabs Four Leafs As 20-Goal Men

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0822/1345003-1-eng-US/f0002-082.jpg"></div>When Joe Malone of the old Montreal Canadians scored 44 goals in a 22-game season. This remarkable record of two goals a game was set in the 1917-18 seoson, the first year the National Hockey League was in operation. &#9632;

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Do you remember.

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Don&rsquo;t wonder about it any longer&mdash;Detroit&rsquo;s Production Line is ready to roll for goals again this season.There wasn&rsquo;t a hotter forward line in hockey than the Dutch Reibel&mdash;Ted Lindsay&mdash;Gordie Howe combination when the ice was scraped away at the conclusion of last season.Those three Productioneers had just blazed some new playoff scoring records with one of the flashiest line shows in Stanley Cup history.Just as a reminder, in the 11 games against Toronto and Montreal the trio piled up a total of 51 points, 21 of them goals. How had 20 points, Lindsay 19 and Reibel 12. In goals it was Howe nine, Lindsay seven and Reibel five.This sort of thing, if you&rsquo;ll also recall, was a redeeming feature for what had been termed a &ldquo;poor&rdquo; regular season for them&mdash;&ldquo;poor&rdquo;, of course, by normal Howe and Lindsay standards.Take Howe for example. He had won the Art Ross Trophy as scoring champion for so long that they were calling it the Howe Trophy. His point total in each of the four previous years was 86, 86, 95 and 81. Last year he had only 62 points, fifth in the league.Same thing in goals. After leading for four season With 43, 47, 49 and 33, the powerful Westerner from Saskatoon taillied only 29, also fifth in the league.Then there was Lindsay, who failed to count 20 goals for the first time in nine seasons. He missed 17 games with injuries, four more via suspensions and wound up with just 19 goals to his credit. The fiery Detroit captain trailed 22nd in the league in points with 39.This wasn&rsquo;t only hard on the pride but also the pocketbook. Both missed out, for instance, in the voting for the All Star team. Lindsay had been the All Star left wing for five years in a row, Howe the right wing four times straight.Those honors pay a $1,000 league bonus and Howe and Lindsay had been collecting so regularly that it seemed like a regular pay day. Then they drew blanks last season.&ldquo;Sure the glory is nice, but the cash is better,&rdquo; Howe points out bluntly.&ldquo;No one knows that better than us after this summer,&rdquo; adds Lindsay quickly.Neither had to sell apples on street corners during the summer to feed their youngsters, of course, since they are among the highest salaried players in hockey.Furthermore, their financial pain was eased a bit by the $3,000 in league bonus money (plus a fat club bonus) as reward for Detroit winning the National Hockey League title again and then adding another Stanley Cup.The Production Line got to rolling well before the playoffs. Reibel sparked them through the memorable stretch drive when Detroit won its last nine games to squeeze Montreal out of first place. Then the stocky Dutchman was a perfect playmaker in the Cup series.From the day that training camp opened there was no question of the intent of the threesome to return to activity at the same place they left off in the playoffs.Howe and Lindsay were showing so much zip in routine drills that Reibel once panted, &ldquo;What&rsquo;s the big hurry?&rdquo;Lindsay and Howe go into this season as veteran NHL performers. Lindsay, 30, is starting his 12th straight season in the league since jumping from St. Mike&rsquo;s Juniors to Detroit in the fall of 1944. Ted has an idea that he&rsquo;d like to play about four more seasons&mdash;becoming a 15-year man&mdash;before retiring.Howe, who probably never has given a thought to when he&rsquo;ll retire, is a 10-year man this season. Now just 27 and a marvelous physical specimen at 199 pounds, he&rsquo;s got many seasons left as a forward before he assumes the intended role of defenseman where Jack Adams insists he&rsquo;ll become a star all over again.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01177/1344920-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="374" height="376"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Howe</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02161/1344913-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="404" height="520"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay</figcaption></div>Reibel, 25-, is by far the best of the many pivot men tried between Howe and Lindsay after Sid Abel left the Red Wings. Several others got a chance there first but none could fit in with the individualist patterns of the two brilliant wingers who confused their centermen and opponents alike with their criss-cross operations.&ldquo;Dutch is an unorthodox player himself&mdash;maybe that&rsquo;s why he fits in so well with them,&rdquo; claims Coach Jimmy Skinner.Reibel&rsquo;s career also was hampered by a series of injuries&mdash;a broken ankle at Omaha, an auto crash after a big season at Indianapolis, a slow-healing leg injury his first session with Detroit and a fractured cheekbone in his first Stanley Cup series.<h2>The Middle Man</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03147/1344906-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="1138" height="1469"><figcaption class="caption-body">EARL REIBEL&hellip;&hellip;A Fixture At Centre</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Production Line All Set To Block, Rattle and Roll

HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Talented Fleming Mackell who has been plying his wares as a forward for the Boston Bruins for the last three years, is pretty well out of the National Hockey League picture today.And though no fault of his own.A few days ago Mackall injured his knee at training camp here. Gradually, as the knee refused to bear his weight and was causing him discomfort, club physicians decreed that he must undergo an operation, in Toronto, for removal of cartilege.As a result of this, he will be lost to the club for at least two months.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01176/1345034-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="879" height="888"><figcaption class="caption-body">FLEMING MACKELL</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bruins Lose Mackell For At Least 2 Months

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0462/1345103-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">WILLIE MARSHALL</figcaption></div>(As Seen In The Toronto Telegram)ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;Willie Marshall just wouldn&rsquo;t be kept out of the Maple Leaf hockey camp.The little man who threatened to quit the game if he wasn&rsquo;t granted a tryout with his major league owners, is today trying out.General Manager Hap Day insists that the 154-pound Pittsburg ceutreman&rsquo;s outburst last week, through The Telegram sports pages, had nothing to do with his promotion.&ldquo;Willie just wanted assurance that he would be given the same chance as anyone else if he warranted a tryout with us,&rdquo; said Day. &ldquo;He has proved by his play since he went back to work that he warranted it.&rdquo;Yet no matter how Willie made it, he did make it.<h2>Threatened To Quit Hockey</h2><h3>He&rsquo;s Only Curious</h3>There has probably never been a more concerted drive put forth from such a diminutive object as Marshall to prove he was worth at least a passing glance. The shifty, speedy centre made it plain when he threatened to withdraw from the hockey stakes in favor of the rich uranium stakes his father claimed at Kirkland Lake that he wasn&rsquo;t looking for a permanent locker with gold initials.&ldquo;I just want to find out now if I&rsquo;m good enough or not good enough to play in the NHL,&rdquo; he said.To Willie it was a last resort. He had led Pittsburgh scorers for the past three years, with goal totals of 27, 28 and 23, the last figure compiled when he played only 46 games. He even added nine goals and seven assist in helping Pittsburgh win the Calder Cup in 10 playoff games last year. It was then disillusioning to discover that he still wasn&rsquo;t considered the proper company to be invited to a Leaf camp.&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t do better than my best,&rdquo; he said, and with that elected to run home to poppa. His first move was to refuse to play Pittsburgh&rsquo;s initial exhibition game, against Leafs, last Friday night.<h3>Hap Makes a Point</h3>Day intercepted him and pointed out that he would be &ldquo;given the same chance as anybody else but you can&rsquo;t prove you warrant a tryout if you don&rsquo;t stay and play&rdquo;.Willie remained for another shot. He ran up an incredible record of ice service, with 12 goals for and only one against. Personally he fired four goals and assisted on five in 12 scrimmages. Monday night in St. Thomas he climaxed his defense with an argument of all three goals in Pittsburgh&rsquo;s 3-1 win from Cleveland.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going for goals this year, as I&rsquo;ve said before,&rdquo; Day said. &ldquo;And Willie proved he can score them. He has forced us to give him a tryout on his play with Pittsburgh.&rdquo;Day hastened to add that Marshall agreed to terms earlier in the day, even before the decision was reached to promote him. &ldquo;It was the first time I sat down with him and he agreed to terms just like that,&rdquo; said Day, snapping his fingers. &ldquo;All he wanted was assurance he&rsquo;d have his chance if he warranted it.&rdquo; standard two-way affair that calls for one salary if he plays Marshall&rsquo;s contract is the in the NHL, another lower payment for the AHL.<h3>Bailey, Timgren Demoted</h3>A workhorse two-way player, Willie will work out as the club&rsquo;s fourth centre, spelling off Billy Harris, George Arm-strong and Rudy Migay. In demoting centre Bob Bailey and left winger Ray Timgren at the same time they summoned Mar-shall, Leafs reduced themselves below four full lines for the first time since camp opened. They now have three lines, plus Marshall and Joe Klukay. Day expects at least one forward will be cut before the season opens and anticipates playing with 17 men, 11 of them forwards.In closing the most celebrated chapter in Marshall&rsquo;s career and opening another, it is noteworthy that he&rsquo;s not the first lightweight forward who has had trouble cracking Leafs. Another chap who took years to prove he belonged is now the captain of the team, Sid Smith. &#9632;

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Day Denies Willie’s Outburst Gained Him Tryout On Team

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD</div>St. Catharines, Ont.&mdash;Seven players, who have been taking an advanced course in shinny at either the Maple Leaf or Pittsburgh Hornet training camps, or both, have departed, with diplomas, for Winnipeg.They will report to Winnipeg Warriors, a new entry in the Western Hockey League. Leafs and Montreal Canadians agreed earlier to provide Warrors with 15 players and seven will be Leaf&rsquo;s quota for this season.The players Winnipeg bound are Brian and Barry Cullen, and Hughie Barlow, a complete forward line, goalkeeper Ed Chadwick, defenseman Bill Burega, forwards Mike Nykoluk and Gary Aldcorn.Leaf&rsquo;s General Manager Hap Day said he was dispatching the Cullens and Barlow to Winnipeg because he was &ldquo;anxious&rdquo; to keep this line together. This might not have been possible in Pittsburgh where the forwards are not only skilful but also more experienced.In junior A hockey two seasons ago the Barlow-Cullen-Cullen line led St. Catharines Teepees to the Memorial Cup and set scoring records in the progress. Brian moved up to Leafs last season amid a symphonic fanfare but he failed to make the grade and was eventually rdopped to Pittsburgh.Goalkeeper Chadwick, one of the best in Leaf&rsquo;s organization, played for Sault Ste. Marie seniors last season so his move to Winnipek is a promotion. Burega, the colorful, if collapsible, defenseman, is returning to his home town. So is Aldcorn, who played for Malboros last season along with Nykoluk.This migration might have started earlier but it was necessary to wait until the rebellious players in the Pittsburgh camp agreed to terms. A few of them showed signs of weakening over the weekend and Day will subject the others to a brain washing during the next few days.Following a two-game exhibition series with Pittsburgh Friday and Saturday Leafs returned to practice today and failed to elicit any paeans of praise from either Day or that silent coach, King Clancy.Day almost forgot his slogan of &ldquo;Guts, Goals and Glamour&rdquo; today or at least insisted that it be achieved with a modicum of decorum.When defenseman Larry Cahan flattened Tod Sloan with a stiff cross check Day had no objections. A minute or so later Sloan, who doesn&rsquo;t turn the other cheek ever, sent Cahan sprawling with an over knee check. Then Sloan, exulting in his triumph, darted in to score a goal.Clancy who was officiating as referee and coach, thought it was a legitimate goal. But Day didn&rsquo;t agree. Day thought play should have been stopped when Sloan bopped Cahan. So he orderer and back-dated it.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not going to have our players getting unnecessary penalties,&rdquo; said Day. &ldquo;We have to stop it now.&rdquo; Sloan remonstrated that Cahan has dumpted him first. For that explanation he was sentenced to kill off a penalty.Harry Lumley&rsquo;s Whites blanked the Blues, 2-0, in a drill that was rather mediocre. One player who look sharp was defenseman Jimmy Morrison. He scored one goal and Earl Balfour scored the other Morrison excelled at rushing and there was nothing wrong with his defensive play.SHORTS SPOTS&mdash;Sloan stopped a puck with his chin and acquired a few stiches&hellip;Tim Horton, who has been skating every day in camp but not taking part in scrimmages, complained today of a sore Achilles tendon in his left ankle. Last season he broke his right leg and there is some conjecture that he might be favoring his left so hence the ache&hellip;But Tim insists the injury is strictly minor and he is eargerly awaiting official approval to start playing. He is ready to go at any time but Day keeps refusing permission until medical authorities give an official okay&hellip;Latest information is that Horton may be cleared, medically that is, by the end of the week&hellip;Day said today that Leafs will carry only five defensemen, so one will have to be dropped when Horton returns. The others are Jimmy Thomson, Hugh Bolton, Jimmy Morrison, Larry Cahan and Marc Reaume. &#9632;

Talented Seven Follow Advice To ‘Go West’

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;For two young members of the Boston Bruins the season just starting can be one of decision.One of the athletes is Bob Armstrong, a defenceman.The other is Doug Mohns, a left winger.For Armstrong this can be the season in which he regains his status of two falls ago, when he was rated one of the best in the game at his position.For Mohns this can be the year in which he lives up to the potential he has exhibited in flashes since making the jump from junior competition two seasons back.Armstrong&rsquo;s career with the Bruins has been one of ups and downs, starting with his unexpected arrival here in the midst of a playoff series with the Montreal Canadians in the spring of 1952.The big collegian from Sarnia, Ontario, was tossed into the Bruins&rsquo; lineup in the middle of the series, and he conducted himself most ably. No Bruins&rsquo; defense rookie of recent vintage has displayed the poise shown by Bob.A year later he was a regular, playing with crafty Bill Quackenbush, and he had a good rookie season. The following year his running-mate was Warren Godfrey, now with Detroit, and BOwell did he play in the waning months of 1953 that Lynn Patrick, then coaching the Bruins, rated him one of the three best in the league.But last season Armstrong lost ground, in the strange way that athletes sometimes lose ground, and by mid-season relegated o reserve duy. As a substitute he played out the season.But Patrick and Milt Schmidt, the Bruins&rsquo; coach, have always had a high opinion of the 24-year-old&rsquo;s determination and liked his reluctance to back down from the opposition, and this fall he has been given another crack at steady employment.<h2>Time For&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02147/1345072-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="594" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG MOHNS</figcaption></div><h2>&hellip;Testing</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0398/1345065-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="544" height="746"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB ARMSTRONG</figcaption></div>Armstrong has started the year as a left defenseman, playing with Capt. Ferny Flaman, and for him this can be a year of decision.If he is able to display his were as efficiently as he did two years ago, the articulate youngster can regain his former status. Patrick and Schmidt are resting the burden of the proof squarely on his broad shoulders.Mohns came to the Bruins as a potential jewel in the rough, and the Bruins were aware of his limited experience when they brought him up straight from the junior Barrie Flyers. He was to be given to learn the tricks which others have learned in the minors, and he has had the time.As a rookie Mohns scored 13 goals with his blazing but unpredictable shot, and a year ago he scored 14 goals. A year ago he was more poised, bigger and more aggressive.Now he has two full seasons behind him, seasons in which there has been no pressure on him, but now the Bruins are looking to him for more consistency&mdash;and more goals.Mohns&rsquo; problem has been to put his fastballs on the net more often, and to attain that end he has been given special attention, even to having Cal Gardner, a good play-making center, assigned to him regularly for purposes of guidance.Doug has the physical assets to be a genuine big gun of the Howe-Richard-Geoffrion category. He&rsquo;s a powerful lad with great speed, and no one on his team and only a few on other teams can scare a goal-tender as he can.At the age of 21 the future still stretches before the solemn blond from Capreol, Ontario, but with two full years of experience he can establish himself now.So for Mohns as well as Armstrong, this can be a season of decision. &#9632;

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Careers May Hang In Balance For Mohns And Bob Armstrong

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div>(As seen in the Montreal Gazette)<h2>IT&rsquo;S A COMPLEX WORLD</h2>Kenny Reardon once remarked that the world has become as complex for youngsters as it has for adults, and pointed out that the kids of today are confronted with a problem that didn&rsquo;t exist a couple of decades ago.&ldquo;When I was a kid we picked up a football the minute the baseball season was over,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Then when the football season was over we grabbed our hockey sticks. Nowadays all three seasons overlap. A kid doesn&rsquo;t know whether to leave the house with his baseball glove, his football or his hockey stick. Maybe he carries all three.&rdquo;It was a little that way at Chez Butch Bouchard, &ldquo;l&rsquo;endroit des sportifs,&rdquo; at the party hosted by Sen. Hartland Molson and featuring the premiere of the motion picture of the 1955 Stanley Cup Playoffs.There were football and hockey players present, as well as members of the press, radio and television, all of them sportsconscious and most of them accomplished ear-benders. The three big topics were the World Series, the tight race in the Big Four and the rapidity approaching hockey season.A psychiatrist would have had a field day, if it&rsquo;s true that the habit of bouncing from one topic to another without finishing a thought about any of them is considered a symptom of mental unbalance. It&rsquo;s a habit that has made Casey Stengel, the Yankees&rsquo; generalissimo, generally suspect.Baseball writers trying to interpret Stengel&rsquo;s double-talk have often referred to him as &ldquo;eccentric,&rdquo; but maybe Birdie Tebbetts, the articulate manager of the Cincinnati Redlegs, has a truer slant on Stengel.&ldquo;If I owned his oil wells,&rdquo; Tebbetts observed a month or so ago, &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t finish my sentences, either.&rdquo;If you have a superabundance of everything, you don&rsquo;t have to be dependent upon any one thing. Or so we gathered from Tebbetts&rsquo; remark.<h2>TOE IS NOT SATISFIED</h2>But sports reporters never find themselves in that happy position. They usually start out with nothing and if they don&rsquo;t concentrate on some one thing, they are apt to wind up the way they started out. We decided to cencentrate on hockey and joined the group around Toe Blake.&ldquo;DickIrvin kind of put you on a spot, didn&rsquo;t he?&rdquo; a guy said to Toe. &ldquo;Picking Canadiens to win by 10 games, I mean.&rdquo;&ldquo;It isn&rsquo;t just Dick,&rdquo; Toe replied. &ldquo;I see where Lynn Patrick has come out with the same thing. If what they say is true it&rsquo;s hardly worth while playing the schedule. I wish I felt the same way about our team as they do, but I don&rsquo;t. They are some fellows I don&rsquo;t feel Very happy about.&rdquo;No amount of pressing would make him elaborate on the last remark, and he left the impression that he wouldn&rsquo;t judge his players entirely by what they showed in pre-season training. But once the regular season started and the chips were down, he wouldn&rsquo;t stay long with the fellows who failed to produce.From his minor league coaching experience, Toe has learned the great difference between palying and coaching: As a player, he was responsible only for himself; as a coach, he is responsible for the whole team.The reports from Welland where the Black Hawks are training indicate that Dick Irvin is putting the emphasis on. defense. Does this mean that Dick won&rsquo;t attempt to have the Hawks play the &ldquo;headling hockey&rdquo; which was such a pleasing feature of the Canadiens&rsquo; play during his tenure as coach? Toe Blake smiled.&ldquo;Sometimes it&rsquo;s just as hard to play good defensive hockey as it is to play good offensive hockey,&rdquo; he said.<h2>THE LEAFS WITHOUT KENNEDY</h2>In the general appraisal of the teams, concensus was that Boston and Chicago had improved themselves by their off-season trades. No one seemed too sure about what kind of a team the Toronto Leafs would ice now that Teeder Kennedy has retired.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m anxious to see the Leafs without Kennedy,&rdquo; Kenny Reardon said. &ldquo;Everybody says they&rsquo;ll be weaker because he was their take-charge guy. I&rsquo;m not sure that they won&rsquo;t be stronger.&ldquo;I had the feeling that he slowed them down. Whenever they had a faceoff everybody had to wait until the take-charge guy came out on the ice to take the faceoff. Everybody looked to Kennedy for leadership. Do you think that&rsquo;s a good thing? How do you know that with him out of there the Leafs won&rsquo;t come up with three or four take-charge guys? The other fellows may start thinking for themselves for a change. You must can&rsquo;t tell what may develop with Kennedy out of there.&rdquo;Toe Blake has said earlier that he had the feeling the Boston Bruins might make it tough for everybody, but Kenny thought that was debatable.&ldquo;Sawchuk is a good goalkeeper, but I didn&rsquo;t think their weakness was in the nets particularly,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The Bruins only scored something like eight goals in seven games here last Beason. I don&rsquo;t think Sugar Jim Henry was so bad, especially when you consider that they never got many goals for him. What they needed was scorers.&rdquo;&ldquo;Did they get any in their off-season deals?&rdquo; a guy asked.&ldquo;They got Stasiuk from Detroit,&rdquo; was the answer. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a pretty good hockey player. And Orville Tessier. He&rsquo;s got a good shot. Not particularly hard, but accurate. He may help them.&rdquo; &#9632;

playing the field

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01247/1345182-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">A pretty gal gets a lift on Maple Leaf Gardens new escaiator.</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;For the past several years the Boston Bruins have evidenced a knack for making moves which have met with the general approval of their patrons, both actual and prospective.High on the list of moves meeting with strong public favor is one which was made only last month, during the first week of the Bruins&rsquo; pre-season training period at Hershey, Pa.Coach Milt Schmidt made the formal announcement of the action, which was that Ferny Flaman had been named Bruins&rsquo; captain for this season and the indeterminate future.The choice of Flaman for the role last filled by Ed Sandford, now with Detroit, was not a surprise to Bruins&rsquo; followers. After the summertime trading of Sandford many had expressed the hope that the job would go to the husky defenseman.Thus when Schmidt made his announcement, it was received here with general enthusiasm.Flaman&rsquo;s elevation to the Bruins&rsquo; captaincy, a position held in the past 15 years only by John Crawford, Schmidt and Sandford, launches on a new phase of his hockey career an athlete who is the nearest thing to a home-bred on the bruins&rsquo; roster.A year ago Flaman celebrated his return to the Bruins after a stay in Toronto by playing himself onto the National league&rsquo;s second All-Star team.Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; manager, is of the opinion that the blond veteran will play even better this season, under his new responsibilities as a leader.&ldquo;Ferny will make us a fine captain,&rdquo; observed Patrick. &ldquo;Of that I have no doubt. There isn&rsquo;t a more conscientious or industrious player in hockey, and he has been setting an example for hard work which sets the pace for the rest of the team.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the type who is in the game every second, and when he isn&rsquo;t playing he is thinking about hockey. In some respects he&rsquo;s a throwback to the old days, in that he doesn&rsquo;t permit anything else to interfere with his business at hand, which is hockey.&rdquo;As Bruins&rsquo; captain Flaman serves as a fine figurehead for the type team which Patrick and Schmidt have been building, for Bostonians have long associated him with qualities like determination and hustle.When he first played here for the old Boston Olympics as a 16-year-old in World War II, he was a crowd favorite, and he retained that status when he moved up to the Bruins.Bruins&rsquo; officials were berated long and loudly when they traded him to Toronto five years ago, and his return restored them to public favor.Although he was born in Dysart, Sask., and raised in Regina, Ferny has spent nearly half his life here, and his early arrival has been the cause of many heated discussions.Today he is only 28-years-old, but skeptics are always popping up to challenge the figure, pointing to the fact that he made his debut with the Bruins a dozen years ago. But Ferny&rsquo;s age is accurate; he was just an early arrival.Flaman came to Boston for the first time when the Bruins were looking everywhere for help. Their super-stars of the pre-war era&mdash;like Woody Dumart, Bobby Bauer, Frank Brimseck, Desmond Smith and Schmidt&mdash;had gone off to war, and they needed players.In a lot from Regina came Flaman, just 15 years old and a candidate for right wing. The Bruins wanted to season him by playing him with the Olympics, then coached by Hago Harrington. But Harrington was afraid for the welfare of the youngster, and he found a place for him in Brooklyn, not with the Dodgers but with the Crescents, an amateur team like the Olympics.Flaman shook off an attack of home-sickness and played for Brooklyne and a year later he came back to Boston and the Olympics. It was then that Harrington made him a defenseman.Ferny is the last of the wartime Bruins still in the National league. He played his first game during the 1944-45 season in New York, after playing for the Olympics against the New York Rovers in the afternoon.Art Ross, then Bruins&rsquo; coach, used him at right wing with Norm Calladine as the center and Herb Cain as the left wing. Cain scored his 200th goal that night. but Flaman has no recollection of the event, for he had been stunned earlier by a body check by a New York defenseman, Bucko McDonald.Now Flamair will be the first to say that he does not go looking for trouble on the ice, yet for years-he-has had a wide reputation af a good fighter, and here he has had it since his amateur days.&ldquo;He never backed down from anyone,&rdquo; maintains Eddie Barry, an ex-Olympic teammate. &ldquo;He could fight like the dickens when he was just a kid. I can remember him tackling plenty of big guys who were supposed to be tough. It never made any difference to him who they were; if they started something he was ready. But I don&rsquo;t recall his ever starting a fight.&rdquo;As Ferny moved into the Bruins&rsquo; picture on a regular basis, he also moved into Boston to stay. He became a Bruins&rsquo; regular in the spring of 194j, and shortly he married Jean Magner of Brookline.Several years ago they built their own home in suburban Westwood and there they are raising their family.Patrick still insists today that the Bruins traded Flaman to Toronto because they had to, that in order to acquire the forward strength they lacked in the fall of 1950, they were forced to give him to the Maple Leafs.Hespent most of four seasons with Toronto, giving the Maple Leafs the muscle on defense which Conn Smythe wanted, but here the pressure was never relaxed on Patrick to get him back. Lynn finally pulled the deal a year ago last summer, swapping Dave Creighton for the fans&rsquo; favorite.Flaman is a deceiving athlite. Few who look at him in street clothes will believe that he weighs 192 pounds. And a few who talk to him can reconcile themselves to the fact that this soft-spoken man is the spokesman for his team during disputes on the ice.Flaman has been in the happy position of never having to sell himself to folks here, because his value as a competitor has always been recognized and his ability as a defenseman long since established.Now hi is in the process of establishing his talent as a leader&mdash;as the official leader of his team&mdash;and few athletes have been in such a favorable position for a starter as is Ferny, new captajn of the Bruins.<h2>Quick Way Up! &#9632;</h2>

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“Fernie” Gaining Stardom As Solid Bruin Blueliner

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01197/1345213-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">NORM CORCORAN&hellip;&hellip;With Sandford, Bucyk</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Jimmy Skinner is both happy and perplexed as he awaits his second season as coach of the Red Wings.It is the happiness which makes him perplexed.&ldquo;I keep looking for the week link, the spot where things aren&rsquo;t going as they should and it simply isn&rsquo;t showing up,&rsquo;&rsquo; Skinner confessed as the Wings prepared to meet Chicago in their NHL start.&ldquo;You know, on paper before we started, we figured to be strong. Well to me it already is a proven fact. We&rsquo;ve got balance at every position and we have depth.&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t help but wonder if my hopes will be confirmed just as much when the season starts as they have been so far in practice.&rsquo;&rsquo;Detroit has a 19-men squad, the first time the maximum ever has been carried, and probably will not cut until the league deadline Dec. 1 when one man must be eliminated.Of the 19, only nine are holdover regulars from the team which won the National Hockey League title and the Stanley Cup against last April.Five others are experienced NHL players picked up from other teams in trades. Five more are rookies.While General Manager Jack Adams dug deep this time on his summer trading binge, he carefully refrained from touching the players he calls his nucleous&mdash;Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, Red Kelly and Marty Pavelich, the four men who have been on all seven NHL championship teams these last seven years.He also retained Alex Delvecchio, Dutch Reibel, Bill Dineen, Marcel Pronovost and Bob Goldham.The five transfers who were regulars on other clubs are Ed Sandford, Real Chevrefils and Warren Godfrey, from the Boston Bruins; Jerry Toppazzini and Buck Hollingworth, from the Chicago Black Hawks.The five rookies are Goalie Glenn Hall, Norm Ullman, John Bucyk, Larry Hillman and Norm Corcoran. All are Calder Cup eligibles and Adams will be anybody that the next Calder winner comes from among them. That&rsquo;s how high he is on his freshmen.Ullman and Bucyk are completely fresh, never having appeared in the NHL. before. Hall worked 10 games&mdash;six of them two seasons ago and a pair last season. Hillman played the last seven games of the 1954-55 campaign as soon as he passed the league&rsquo;s age minimum of 18 and then got into three playoff games before dislocating a shoulder. Corcoran played in two season games for Boston and four playoff gamesSkinner sees some general benefits already from the 10 newcomers.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re all hungry and driving themselves. In turn, some of the pep has got into our holdover players who are flying more than usual in practice,&rdquo; Skinner says.Adams points out that the experienced players from Boston and Chicago &ldquo;have given us added depth at several positions&rdquo; and adds that even with five rookies &ldquo;we won&rsquo;t have to throw any of them except Hall into a spot where there&rsquo;s a strain on them&rdquo;.While the emphasis is on tested veterans, the Detroit squad still has an average age of only 24&frac12;, youngest in several years. Goldham, 33, and Lindsay, 30, are the oldest. Hillman and Ullman at 19, are the youngest.The depth factor is particularly impressive on defense. Six men are being carried and it is expected that one of them probably will be farmed out when the Dec. 1 deadline comes for reducing rosters. Skinner has formed them into three units for practice and probably they will play that way when the season starts.Kelly and Godfrey form one team, Pronovost and Hollingworth another, Goldham and Hillman the third.The fundamental point of building down the middle hasn&rsquo;t been overlooked at center where Reibel, Delvecchio, Sandford and Ullman are available.The right wingers are Howe, Dineen, Toppazzini and Corcoran; the left wingers are Lindsay, Pavelich, Chevrefils and Bucyk.Skinher had four lines picked for the opening day of drills and hasn&rsquo;t made more than temporary changes since. The forward combinations are Reibel-Lindsay-Howe, Delvecchio-Chevrefils&mdash;Dineen, Sandford-Bucyk-Corcoran and Ullman-Pavelich-Toppazzini.The first two lines presumably are set. Skinner hasn&rsquo;t decided whether he&rsquo;ll actually use four complete lines or will break up the rest of the forwards and have a makeshift third line.It was anticipated that Sandford would unite with Pavelich and Toppazzini in a checking line and the three also would be used as penalty killers. Sandford and Ullman switched center spots, however, to put the experience ex-Bruin captain between two rookies.<h2>Ex-Bruins Rookie A Wing &#9632;</h2>

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Skinner Perplexed, Can’t Find Weak Link

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;The promise of rookie talent seems better than it has in several years as Chicago Black Hawks proceed with gusto under new Coach Dick Irvin. And this may mean more than it ever has for there are few to match the ability of Irvin when it comes to making a star.Add to Irvin the equal reputation of Tommy Ivan, Hawk general Ranger, and it is pretty easy to see how the Chicago skating troupe may surprise many before the end of the nearing 19555-6 National Hockey League campaign. There hasn&rsquo;t been so much confident skating at Hawk drills in a decade.Three names that quickly made the rounds among onlookers during training may end up as permanent fixtures on the Black Hawk roster if not this season, then certainly the next. The names of which we speak belong to Henry Ciesla, Elmer Vasco and Sandy Hucul.Probably the most heralded of the three is Ciesla who recently signed his first professional contract and received a welcome handshake from Ivan. A center and built along the same lines as Jean B&eacute;liveau, he could conceivably develop into an equally great skater.A 19-year-old promiser who stands 6&rsquo;, 2&rdquo; and weighs a sturdy 190 pounds, &ldquo;Hank&rdquo; was the big standout in O.H.A, Junior competition last year with the champion St. Catharine&rsquo;s Teepees who are now valued part of the Black Hawk farm system. His future, however, was somewhat in doubt until he signed with. Chicago.As a Toronto area resident, Ciesla was first put on the Maple Leaf list. Toronto customarily does this with any youngsters of note within 90 miles of the Ontario city. A dispute then arose with some complexity and he would up as potential property of the Canadiens.The confidence the Black Hawks have in his promise is evidenced by the fact that $15,000 was shelled out to Montreal to merely obtain the rights to sign the Teepee stalwart. Ciesla last season lead all O.H.A. Junior scorers with a 57 goal, 49 assist, 106 point record in 45 games.For this effort he was awarded the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy after a pool of sportswriters in the Toronto Globe and Mail poll crowned him as the circuit&rsquo;s most valuable player. Only one other trophy is awarded in the circuit&mdash;for the best goalie.It is interesting to note that Billy Harris, who is being touted as likely successor to Ted Kennedy with the Leafs, played in two more games with the Toronto Marlboros in the O.H.A. loop last year than did Ciesla, but he ended up with a comparatively mediocre 37-29&mdash;66 record.Vasko and Hucul are both defensemen of husky build and their early showings in drills have come at a most opportune time as Chicago looks for the rather necessary addition of increased talent along the blue line. &ldquo;Sandy&rdquo; turned pro last season with Calgary in the Western League.The Stamps, another part of the Chicago farm system, also had the services of Fred Hucul who formerly had several tours with the parent team in the NHL. The two are brothers and like Fred. &ldquo;Sandy&rdquo; plays an aggressive style. He was in Black Hawk camp the past two years&mdash;the third try may prove the charb.Vasko, a hefty 6&rsquo; 3&rdquo;, 180 pounder who was with Ciesla at St. Catharine&rsquo;s last year, has been teamed with Hawk Capt. Gus Mortson since the start of drills and has acted right at home. He compiled a very respectable scoring record for a rearg uard with the Teeps, potting 16 goals and assisting on 20 others.If they get another year for seasoning, Ciesla and Vasko will probably be assigned to the Buffalo Bisons in the American League. Back at the Bison helm a year coaching the Hawks, Frankie Eddolls is already making plans for heavy use of Ciesla.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02174/1345251-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="299" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Ivan</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03134/1345244-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="297" height="378"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Irvin</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Chicago Future Appears Bright With Promising Bookie Crop

Founded October lit 1947Published Weekly except monthly May trough September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd1434 Ste Catherine Street WestMontreal 25. Que.Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire; $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.Entered as second-class matter, October 3. 1953. at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y.. under the Act of March 3rd, 1879Authorized as second-class mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa printed in CanadaVOL. 9 OCTOBER, 9th No. 2 &#9632;

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01269/1345320-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="300" height="477"></div>&bull; DETROIT&mdash;IN DOWNING the National Hockey League All-Stars, 3-1, Detroit Red Wings defeated one of the strongest All-Star clubs ever assembled. Only two members of the official All-Stars as selected last Spring failed to line up with the NHL squad. They were Red Kelly and Bob Goldham who played with their own Red Wings&hellip;Dick Irvin, All-Star coach, had a difficult time firing his charges up, especially his former Canadian players&hellip;The goaling of Harry Lumley, Terry Sawchuk and Glen Hall was brilliant. Lumley and Sawchuk who divided the goalkeeping chores for the All-Stars both played tremendous games, but the individual star of the game was rookie Hall&hellip;An odd sidelight about the three goalies is that all were developed and brought into the National Hockey League by the Detroit Red Wings&hellip;Sawchuk replaced Lumley in the Red Wing nets in 1950 and Hall replaced Sawchuk this year&hellip;The biggest ovation of, the night was given to Sawchuk when he skated down the ice to take over from Lumley midway through the second period. It was almost a standing ovation by the 12,187 onlookers&hellip;This was the largest crowd to ever witness an All-Star game in Detroit&hellip;Someone fouled up the printing of the players numbers in the program. Instead of listing the players numerically they were listed alphabetically. Jean Beliveau, AllStar center, wore Number 1&hellip;The win for the Red Wings marked the second time that they&rsquo;ve beaten the loop&rsquo;s All-Stars&hellip;Coach Jimmy Skinner of the Wings now joins Tommy Ivan in the distinguished company league. Ivan piloted the Wings to a 7-1 win over the Stars in 1950,.. With the exception of the goalie, the All-Stars at one time iced a complete Chicago team. There were Allan Stanley and Frank Martin on defense and Eddie Litzenberger, Red Sullivan and Harry Watson on the forward line.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02159/1345313-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="302" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption></div>&bull; THERE WERE more press, radio and television people represented at this All-Star affair than for several years&hellip;The luncheon held on the day of the game was run off in a smooth effortless fashion. Gen. John R. Kilpatrick, president of the New York Rangers and president since its inception of the Players Pension Society, was the top speaker of the day&hellip;Leo Reise retired as vice-president of the Pension Society and the players&rsquo; representative and was succeeded by Ted Lindsay of Detroit&hellip;Seated at the head table besides Kilpatrick, Reise and Lindsay were Miss Marguerite Norris, Jack Adams, Walter Brown, Col. William MacBrien, Clarence Campbell, Frank Selke, Tommy Ivan, Ian Johnston and Al Leader, president of the Western Hockey League&hellip;Leader travelled all the way from Seattle for the game. With him were Jim Kramer of the Teidleburg Brewery, sponsors of the Seattle Americans telecasts and Bob Fields, telecaster&hellip;Lynn Patrick of the Bruins was also on hand&hellip;Montreal as usual had the biggest turnout of press and radio reps&hellip;Johnny Gottselig of the Chicago Black Hawks was around looking younger than ever. Dan Moulton and Bud Booth represented the Chicago press&hellip;Baz O&rsquo;Meara, veteran sports editor of the Montreal Star, said he enjoyed this year&rsquo;s game and luncheon more than previous ones&hellip;Doug Smith, former Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; hockey announcer who now rates as one of the country&rsquo;s leading football announcers and all-around sports authority, planed in for the game&hellip;The well informed Bill Grimes, dean of the Boston hockey writers, attended the game along with Mrs. Grimes&hellip;Bill entertained those in the NHL press suite at the Detroit Leland Hotel with some marvellous stories on the sports greats of yesteryear&hellip;Frank Gallagher, who is doing such a fine job as president of the International Hockey League, was also present.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0390/1345306-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="296" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lynn Patrick</figcaption></div>&bull; DETROIT PLAYERS mobbed Glen Hall after the game. He almost scored a shutout which would have made history. No goalie has recorded a shutout in All-Star play&hellip;Hall is regarded as a strong skating goalkeeper and can skate out of his goal to clear pucks swiftly and decisively&hellip;Howie Meeker, coach of the Pittsburgh Hornets, was an American Hockey League representative&hellip;Wes McKnight and Elmer Ferguson conducted interviews between periods on the radio broadcast across Canada&hellip;Ted Lindsay and Maurice Richard are the only players who have participated in all nine All-Star contests.,. Richard, incidentally, failed to get a single shot on the All-Star goal&hellip;Boom Boom Geoffrion was the top forward for the Stars. He had nine shots&rsquo; on goal. &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0465/1345351-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg"></div><h2>Leaf Fan Club</h2>Dear Sir:1 was looking through the latest issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS and I read a letter about a fan club for the New York Rangers.This seems like a very good idea, but how about setting up a similar organization for the Toronto Maple Leafs? If any fans are interested in helping me in this venture, I&rsquo;d like to hear from them.I think your paper is really great. One of the features I most admire is the Hockey X-word Puzzle because it is so much fun, and instructive, too.How about a feature on Eric Nesterenko? He is one of my favorite players.My address is 13 Armour St., Port Hope, Ont.Michael Spencer Port hope, Ont.<h2>Oversight</h2>Dear Sir:In your July issue you forgot to mention, under Happy Birthday, Leo LaBine, who was born July 22, 1931.Being one of his fans I don&rsquo;t think he should be overlooked.J. K. Peabody, Mass.(De don&rsquo;t think so either. Our apologies to Leo LaBine)<h2>Overseas Fan</h2>Dear Sir:Through the medium of your excellent weekly I very interestedly follow hockey in Canada, and I wonder if you would oblige me by printing the following in your Fan Forum column:I would like to exchange programs, lineups, news clippings, etc., with fans of the following clubs: Detroit, Shawinigan Falls, St. Catharines, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Kitchener (senior and junior) and any western junior clubs. All letters will be answered.I support Paisley Pirates in the British League, and my address is, 3 Fife Drive, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland.Andrew Cowan Scotland<h2>How Silly Are They?</h2>Dear Sir:In the July issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS Mr. Don Johnson of Detroit states that most letters received by the Fan Forum are from &ldquo;silly teenaged girls&rdquo; (he suspects).Well, that is a shame, isn&rsquo;t it? But those girls have as much a right to send a letter to the Fan Forum as you have, Mr. Johnson.I don&rsquo;t know if you are a teenager yourself, but you certainly didn&rsquo;t think twice before writing that letter. No matter how silly these girls may have sounded to you, they have every right to express their opinions.I suggest that we should take a vote if the Fan Forum should appear this season or not. I would also suggest that you refrain from writing such letters in the future, which are not even becoming to a &ldquo;silly teenager.&rdquo;Joan Marcoux Alexandria, Ont. &#9632;

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THE FAN FORUM

National Hockey League fans may obtain copies of the 1955-56 N.H.L. Schedules free of charge.These N.H.L. schedules are handy sized for the pocket and room is available to mark in the score of each game.Requests should be mailed to: Hockey News, Dept. H.S.P.O. Box 248, Montreal, Que. &#9632;

N.H.L. SCHEDULES AVAILABLE FOR FANS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0560/1345430-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div>YES, HOCKEY FAN, THE 1955-56 SEASON IS HERE AT LASTand every true-blue hockey fan will want to be a regular reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS&mdash;&ldquo;Official Organ of All Hockey&rdquo;. The Hockey News carries stories on all the teams and the star players written by the foremost hockey writers in Canada and the United States. Besides outstanding features and stories The Hockey News runs more action pictures and cartoons than any other publication. Interesting Crossword puzzles also appear in each issue.THE HOCKEY NEWS is published for 35 consecutive issues during the season and 5 monthly summer issues. It doesn&rsquo;t matter when you start, you still get your 35 issues..A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.Canadian Remittances&mdash;$3.00 Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order.U.S.A. Remittances&mdash;$4.00 Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or personal cheque.Fill In Form Above and Send Postal Note or Money Order &#9632;

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It’s Here

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;In quest of the National Hockey League championship, an honor that has eluded them since 1947 al though they&rsquo;ve come mighty close, the Canadiens this week will open the new season against the Toronto Maple Leafs.Habs, of course, have a new coach, Toe Blake having taken over the reigns from Dick Irvin, who is now dispensing his barbed words on behalf of the Chicago Black Hawks.Blake, a much easier guy to get along with, maintained his cheerfulness throughout the rugged grind of the training schedule although beset with grave problems. Many of his athletes reported with excess poundage on their frames. Blake whipped them into shape.He found a good rookie crop on his hands&mdash;fellows like Henri Richard, the Pocket Rocket, Andr&eacute; Corriveau from Valleyfield, Jean-Guy Talbot and Bob Turner from Shawlnigan Falls, and Barry Thorndy-craft, an unheralded left-winger from Ken Reardon&rsquo;s Cincinnati Mohawks. Blake gave them all ample opportunity to display their wares.Although no decision had been made at this writing as to the ultimate disposal of personnel, it is unlikely that many will make the NHL team. When Canadiens line-up against the Leafs, the club will resemble closely the aggregation that carried the Wings to a seventh game in the Stanley Cup scries.That brings us to consideration of another of Blake&rsquo;s problem. He has two goalkeepers&mdash;Jacques Plante, the acrobatic performer who was the chief rubber-stopper last season, and Gerry McNeil, the little mite who retired at the end of the 1953-54 season and was lured out of Idleness following the departure of Irvin.&ldquo;We have still to make a decision about the goalies,&rdquo; said Blake the other day. &ldquo;And it will be a tough one.&rdquo;Off the Habs&rsquo; exhibition games, it probably would be safe to surmise that Plante will get the starting assignment. He was in the nets in a recent game against the Royals of the Quebec Hockey League. Habs won that one 7-8 and McNeil, loaned to the farm club, was the victim of their outburst. However he had no luck on a few tricky bounces and his defence was more vulnerable.Plante had such veterans as Doug. Harvey and Butch Bouchard helping to repel the thrusts of the attacking forwards.In that game Henri Richard, a lightning-fast 19-year-old kid, played centre on a line with his famed brother. Dickie Moore was at left wing. The Pocket Rocket scored a goal and picked up assists on tallies by Maurice Richard and Moore.The other goals for the Canadiens were scored by Corriveau, Doug. Harvey, Boom Boom Geoffrion and Bert Olmstead.Loaned to the Royals along with McNeil, Buster Curry and Donnie Marshall accounted for two of the Royals&rsquo; goals. Ray Laplante got the other for the QHL squad.While Henri Richard sparkled, the top brass migth decide that he needs further seasoning in a league of lower classification. Another year might help him to develop his blazing shot, which he fires without telegraphing in a manner reminiscent of his brother at his best, and might enable him to add some more pounds to the 157 he carries on a well-muscled frame.The kid has one great asset&mdash;speed. &ldquo;He sure can skate,&rdquo; said Maurice. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not easy keeping up with him.&rdquo;Blake thinks highly of JeanGuy Talbot, a hard-hitting defenceman, and if the Habs show any weakness on defence, he&rsquo;ll be the first choice to fill a spot. Thorndycraft appears destined to the Royals where he&rsquo;ll be ear-marked for future delivery along with Guy Rousseau, who achieved fame in a lend-lease game last winter by serving the Rocket the pass for his 400th goal in Chicago.Thorndycraft, Denis Boucher, Phil Goyette and the young Rocket were loaned to the junior Canadiens for a recent exhibition game and they helped to beat the Royals 5-2. Goyette scored three goals and Thorndycraft had four assists. Richard and Connie Broden bagged the other tallies for the Baby Habs while Ron Ingram scored twice for the Royals.<h2>A Big Name</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01220/1345475-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="576" height="910"><figcaption class="caption-body">HENRI RICHARD</figcaption></div><h2>Schooled By Toe</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02192/1345468-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="552" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDRE CORRIVEAU</figcaption></div><h2>The Goalie?</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03145/1345461-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="540" height="794"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACQUES PLANTE</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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“Pocket Rocket”, Corriveau, Talbot, Turner, Head Toe Blake’s Montreal Rookie Contingent

<div class="byline">Lunny</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Calum MacKay, a hard-skating left winger with brittle knees, will be lost to the Canadiens for the first month of the National Hockey League season.Injured in training camp, MacKay went into the Montreal Genaral Hospital over the weekend for knee surgery and Forum publicist Camil DesRoches announced that he will be off skates for several weeks.Last season MacKay hurt his left knee and missed 20 games. He played the balance of the season with it tightly taped.During his first season with the Habs back in 1949 his right knee kept him out of 18 games.MacKay has had an assortment of other injuries, too. As a junior in Port Arthur, Ont., he broke both hands. He smashed his nose once in Indianapolis, when he was a Detroit chattel and again in Omaha. Another time, while playing for Omaha in 1947, he split his lower lip in half when crosschecked by a rival bent on altering his facial features.With MacKay out of action, Coach Toe Blake likely will insert either Dick Gamble, back with the Habs after a terrific season in the American League, or Andre Corriveau, a rookie from Valleyfield in the Quebec Hockey League, in his starting line-up.<h2>Out Again</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04117/1345506-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="570" height="1302"><figcaption class="caption-body">CALUM MACKAY</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hard-Luck Mackay To Miss First Month Of NHL Schedule

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont&mdash;A husky, teen-aged titan already ranking above many olders boys got a thorough testing here last month at the Teepee training camp before the impressed gazes of such as Coach Rudy Pilous and Bob Wilson, chief Ontario area scout for the Chicago Black Hawks.&ldquo;His name&mdash;and don&rsquo;t you forget it&mdash;is Bobby Hu 1,&rdquo; exclaimed the enthusiastic Wilson who has led a number of fine skaters into the spotlight of the National Hockey, League. &ldquo;He is just 16, but already weighs 180 pounds and is about 5&rsquo; 10&rdquo; in height,&rdquo; Wilson added.&ldquo;He is a center with a great future and was a standout last season with our Junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; club at Woodstock. It was long before that when he was just a kid of 14 that I predicted he would be playing Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; when he was 16 and would turn pro when he was 18. He&rsquo;s shown me no reason to change these estimates.&rdquo;Hull appears as solid and tough as a hockey player can come and should definitely make St. Catharines hockey followers and the colorful Pilous forget about this year&rsquo;s loss of big center ice star Henry Ciesla to the parent Black Hawk organization.Hull is from Point Ann, a cement producing center near Belleville, Ont., and is the oldest boy in a family which boasts 11 children, all&mdash;beleieve it or not&mdash;just as husky and solidly built as the potential Teep star. Bobby is in the 11th grade and passed with honors last time.&ldquo;About his build,&rdquo; Wilson hastened to point out, &ldquo;look for his ankle. You notice you don&rsquo;t even see the lessening of the size that most of us have. His leg from the knee down is as straight as a rail and you can bet that it is as tough as a giant redwood.&rdquo;Hull already has shown he possesses that certain amount of confidence, or call it cockeyness if you wish, that has been blended into the hearts and minds of all of the typical big time hockey stars. He showed this in a nonchalent episode when he was asked to referee a game at St. Catharines.Calling the play with the authority of a Bill Chadwick he suddenly heard &ldquo;That&rsquo;s a penalty, son&rdquo; from a well known NHL official sitting at rinkside. Knowing full well who the man was Bobby still retorted, &ldquo;Nope, just a whistle,&rdquo; and continued with his duties. &#9632;

16-Year-Old Point Ann Star, Draws Raves From Puck Sages

<div class="byline">Barry.</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Ferny Flaman, who has been with the Boston Bruins longer than any other active player, will be the team captain this season.The nomination of Flaman for the role was announced by Coach Milt Schmidt shortly after the Bruins started their pre-season training at Hershey, Pa.A 28-year-old defenseman, Flaman succeeds forward Ed Sandford, traded to the Detroit Red Wings during the summer.Ferny, who came here originally as a 15-year-old to play for the old Boston Olympics, made his first appearance in the Bruins&rsquo; lineup during the 1944-45 season, at the age of 17.The 192-pound veteran moved into the regular lineup in 1947, but he was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1947. The Bruins regained him in a deal a year ago, and last season he made the National League&rsquo;s second all-star team. &#9632;

Flaman To Captain Bruins

<div class="byline">By HAL WALKER</div>(As Seen In The Toronto Telegram)TORONTO, Ont&mdash;The hockey Leafs will have their ups and downs this season. But not nearly as many as their fans&rsquo;This becomes obvious when you look at the shiny new (4) $180,000 escalators that Conn Smythe and friends have just installed in Maple Leaf Gardens to save Toronto constituents their lungs, legs and old age pension.Gasping geezers and bountifully healthy youth have wheezed the 99 steps to the grey pews in the Gardens for 2 4 seasons.Now they, and their green seat counterparts, will be consorting with luxury under their feet as they step aboard a shiny new space ship of 36 stairs that will reach from the ground floor to the blue sections.<h2>Another First</h2>It is ironic, in a sense, that an enormous building such as the Church and Cartlon pile, built during a depression, should cap its climb to the No. 1 sports building in the world with another first&mdash;escalators.It&rsquo;s also heart-warming to remember that the man who conceived this new extreme in comfort should be the man who had the faith in good sports to suffer through that depression building with courage. And heart-breaking setbacks.There were many scoffers when Smythe said he would build the Gardens.He will have no detractors among his customers when the escalators&rsquo; 10 horsepower motors (per unit) start whirring a week tomorrow.This airlift of 21&frac12; feet from ground level to the blues promenade will be facilitated by entrances leading directly to the greens and greys, saving many valuable steps.<h2>The Horses Told Him</h2>The idea of escalators found its birth in Smythe&rsquo;s sun-thatched Hogging as he followed his second love&mdash;the thoroughbred race horse&mdash;at a Florida track two years ago. He couldn&rsquo;t shake it from his mind that the escalators they had there were something Toronto&rsquo;s most loyal customers would appreciate.Building superintendent Doug Morris, who is one of the Garden&rsquo;s originals, supervised the preliminary wrok of knocking out concrete walls, destroying concession booths and electrical units in the path of progress. This was the end of April.By the end of May the Turnbull Elevator people began placement of the Westinghouse stairways to the blues. Now the finished product, a gleaming silver ustensils with daylight lights overhead, is ready for He openning customers.<h2>Open House Next Week</h2>Spiff Evans, the amiable Gardens publicist, can&rsquo;t wait to let people see the Gardens&rsquo; proud new possession. He has arranged an open house for a week tomorrow during which time people will be able to roam through the building, meet Leaf players of the past 2 4 years; meet press, radio and TV personalities, scour through the Maple Leaf dressing room and be taken on conducted tours of the building by &lsquo;55 team members and some of the players who were in the Gardens when it opened, Nov. 12, 1931. Disastrously, to be sure, in a competitive sense because the Leafs lost 2-1 to the Chicago Black Hawks.Smythe&rsquo;s business acumen and courage of his conviction has paid off over the years, because since 1947 not a seat has been unsold for a Leaf home game and the Gardens now has a waitng list of close to 5,000 would-be subscribers.This, then, is Maple Leaf Gardens heading into its 25th year of operation. It has been the battleground for not only hockey, but boxers, wrestlers, runners, six-day bike racing, lacrosse, softball and basketball. It has provided the setting for figureskating pageantry, roller-skating, aqua parades, rodeos, bingos and circuses.On its stage have appeared world-famous musicians, outstanding orchestras and great artist in opera and ballet. Within its walls statesmen have orated, Queen Elizabeth&mdash;then the Princess Elizabeth&mdash;and the Duke of Edinburgh have sat and watched the Leafs; revivalists have swayed huge congregations. From the lips of its seat-holders the cries of Amen! Bingo! or Hurrah! have been uttered in equal sincerity and enthusiasm.It has become the best-known building in Canada, a source of tremendous revue to Toronto hotels and re&mdash;rants, and a mecca ior-tourists.Truly the heart and nerve centre of sport and all that which good sport stands for.) &#9632;

Ups and Downs Brings Joy To Leaf Fans

<div class="byline">By GORDON CAMPBELL</div>(As Seen In The Toronto Star)ST. CATHARINES, Ont&mdash;A guy who may be a pleasant surprise to Maple Leaf Hockey fans this season is Earl Balfour. If the 22-year-old leftwinger stays with the big team&mdash;and his chances never appeared better&mdash;it won&rsquo;t surprise Coach King Clancy too much.&ldquo;If Earl plays in games like he has practiced he can stay on this c1ub,&rdquo; observed Clancy yesterday. &ldquo;And it&rsquo;s going to take a good man to knock him off.&rdquo;<h2>Top Dog</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02218/1345654-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="537" height="840"><figcaption class="caption-body">SID SMITH has been named to captain the Toronto Maple Leafs.</figcaption></div><h2>He&rsquo;s Hungry&mdash;Kids, Too!</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01238/1345647-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="1155" height="2435"><figcaption class="caption-body">EARL BALFOUR</figcaption></div><h3>&ldquo;Can Score Goals&rdquo;</h3>&ldquo;He has speed, is a good checker and can score goals,&rsquo;&rsquo; the coach said. &ldquo;On top of that he is a real team man and one of the best position players on the club. His main fault is his tendency to let down. We are hoping to keep him hungry.&rdquo;And that shouldn&rsquo;t be too hard a job this year. Balfour has a new outlook in life. Hockey is now as much business as fun to im.The reason: With the acquisition of another daugther&mdash;Pat&mdash;two weeks ago he now has four females to feed including his wife Marjorie. His other two deductions are Peggy 1&frac12; and Penny three.&ldquo;It could mean about $3,000 extra pay to me if I make the Leafs this year,&rdquo; Earl explained, &ldquo;and that will buy a lot of milk. Also my wife is tired wandering around and wants to stay in Toronto.&rdquo;While Balfour found it hard to explain his improved play since his last trial with Leafs two season ago he felt the experience gained at Pittsburgh had contributed.<h3>Extra Weight Helps</h3>&ldquo;I am in better shape, too,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;A few pounds heavier and they seem to be doing me more good than harm. Then I have found out I can put the puck in the net and that gives you confidence.&rdquo;His confidence certainly has been showing up in training camp activities. He has the best for and against goals record of any forward. In a dozen scrimmages he has been on the ice while his side scored 13 goals&mdash;as many as anybody&mdash;and his seven goals against are less than the mark of any other forward. In the production department he has five goals and four assists for nine points.While he hasn&rsquo;t yet scored any goals in exhibition contests he has two assists, was on the ice when Leafs scored a trio of their markers and hasn&rsquo;t been on hand when the opposition counted,Earl who has been on a line with Ron Stewart and Ruddy Migay for the last week and a half says it doesn&rsquo;t make any difference to him with whom he plays &ldquo;as long as I play and don&rsquo;t sit on the bench too long.&rdquo;He has a &ldquo;goals contract&rdquo; so if&mdash;and when&mdash;he scores his 20th NHL marker you should see or hear that he jumped 10 his feet grabbed the puck and is having it embossed in copper don&rsquo;t think he has gone loco. That puck will be worth $500 to him as that&rsquo;s his promised reward for 20 goals.Leafs had yesterday morning off due to getting in the wee small hours after playing in St. Thomas Thursday night. In the short scrimmage and shooting session in the afternoon the Whites tied the Blues 2-2, Dick Duff again sparkled getting two goals&mdash;one for each side&mdash;and setting up George Armstrong&rsquo;s tying tally for Whites. Sid Smith got the other goal for Blues. Joe Klukay was rendered temporarily hors de combat when he stopped a drive by Stewart on his adams apple. However, he got his breath back in time to take part in the closing exercices. &#9632;

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Balfour May Pack Big Surprise For Leafs

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;M&rsquo;sieu Marcel Bonin, who once skated in the echo of Jean Beliveau&rsquo;s name, is well on his way to taking Boston&rsquo;s hockey strongholds by storm.No one knows yet how many goals Bonin will score for the Bruins or how he will fare in other statistical departments, but those who have watched him so far know something.They enjoy watching him.Bonin once played for the Quebec Aces, with Beliveau as a teammate, and many are the tales of those days which he can spin.&ldquo;When Beliveau would score a goal in Quebec, the announcer would roar, QUEBEC GOAL BY JEAN BELIVEAU! and the roof would rise as everyone would stand and cheer.&ldquo;But when Bonin would score a goal the announcer would mumble, Quebec goal by Bonin, and play would go on.&rdquo;M&rsquo;sieu Marcel can tell a funny story. He can also wrestle bears, eat glass and stick pias in himself. So far he has demonstrated none of these abilities in public.But Bruins&rsquo; followers have taken a speedy shine to him, just as Lynn Patrick predicted they would. &#9632;

Fans Have Fun Watching Bonin Do His Stuff

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Six defensemen are one too many for the normal National League hockey club.No one is more sharply aware of this than the six men involved with the Red Wings.General Manager Jack Adams told them sincerely that he intends to carry all six at the start of the campaign, maybe the whole way. They refused to believe him.Thus has evolved the merriest fight for positions on the new Detroit squad which opens its bid this week or an eighth straight NHL title.The situation also is presented as proof that the Wings strengthened themselves as a result of the mid-summer trading spree. Adams peddled so many members of the championship club that only nine regulars are among the present 19-man squad.Nowhere has the gain been more obvious than on defense.At this time a year ago Adams and Coach Jimmy Skinner had some serious doubts about the rear guard department. They figured the team shaky on defense&mdash;shaky in numbers, not personnel.Five players formed the defense. They were Red Kelly, Marcel Pronovost, Bob Goldham, Benny Woit and Keith Allen.On the eve of the opener. Goldham almost bolted. He gave serious thought to retirement rather than a winter&rsquo;s separation from his family. Goldham always had his wife and three daughters with him before but last year the family stayed in Toronto because two of the girls were going into school.&ldquo;Two days before the season started we gave Bob permission to go home on a visit and we honestly didn&rsquo;t know whether he&rsquo;d return,&rdquo; recalls Adams.&ldquo;If he didn&rsquo;t, it meant we&rsquo;d have to go with Allen as a regular and no fifth man as a spare.&rdquo;Goldham returned, of course&mdash;and went on to his finest season. Still the Wings operated with only four regulars&mdash;one too few for a title-caonscious team.They were lucky to get away with it from the angle of injuries. Kelly and Pronovost played the full 70 games, Goldham 69 and Woit 6 8.There always was a fifth man around but he kept changing. Allen was farmed out. Ed Zeniuk came and went. Jim Hay was recalled once more. Larry Hillman was turned pro as soon as he reached the NHL&rsquo;s minimum age of 18.<h2>Just Two of Too Many</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03179/1345723-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="584" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB GOLDHAM</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04149/1345716-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="557" height="565"><figcaption class="caption-body">BENNY WOIT</figcaption></div>It was natural that defensemen had top priority when Adams looked for the profit in his summer trades. He plucked Bucky Hollingworth, a 22-year-old scrapper from Chicago, and Godfrey, a big blond belter of 24, from Boston.As result the Wings have gained strengtth even thugh Woit, Hay and Allen have been peddled and Zeniuk does not figure in the picture.The six defensemen now are Kelly, the golden All star, the flashy Pronovost, dependable Goldham, promissing Hillman, bashing Hollingworth and clever Godfrey.There is solid insurance in case Goldham, at 33, can&rsquo;t go full time. Adams intends to give Bob plenty of rest this season.There is a steady hand available to move in event of any injuries.The rear ranks have depth, speed, a proper mixture of youth and experience.But most of all there is a sharp competitive flair to the whole bunch. They simply refuse to believe that Adams intends to carry six defensemen, especially after the Dec. 1 deadline when teams can dress only 18 players instead of 19.Right from the start of training camp there was a new-found flair for rugged hockey as each man put forth playing merits in his own behalf. The new players&mdash;Hollingworth, Godfrey and Hillman&mdash;were particularly interested in showing their stuff.&ldquo;You can hear those body checks as well as see them,&rdquo; chortled Adams gleefully.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a little surprising for own forwards in the pre-season drills, but maybe it&rsquo;ll be even more surprising for the rival forwards now that the season is starting.&rdquo;<h2>Streamlined Leafs&rsquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01252/1345709-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="1767" height="1759"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Smith (left) and Harry Lumley get lift on new Maple Leaf Garden Escalator.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Wing Defensemen Battle Lustily For Jobs

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;With a new coach in combustible Phil Watson and three reconstructed forward lines, the New York Rangers open their thirtieth National Hockey League season on October 7th, against the Chicago Black Hawks, in Chicago.The game will be the first of four on the road before the Rangers make their 1955-56 debut on the Madison Square Garden ice against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday, October 19.Muzz Patrick, successor to Frank Boucher as club manager, has trimmed the Rangers&rsquo; squad from the 45 who reported to the Saskatoon. Sask., training camp to a current total of 21. It is the intention of Patrick and Watson to start the campaign with 17 players.Several border line players who fail to make the Broadway Blues at the outset will be optioned to the new Providence farm club of the American Hockey League. Three already have gone there. They&rsquo;ll be on call for immediate promotion should any of those retained either falter or suffer injury.As the team presently shapes up while on exhibition tour in Western Canada, the top three lines are as follows:Left wing Danny Lewicki, center Dave Creighton, right wing, Andy Bathgate.Left wing Dean Prentice, center Bronco Horvath, right wing Wally Hergesheimer.Left wing Guy Gendron, center Ron Murphy and right wing Andy Hebenton.Three other forwards on the present Ranger squad are Bones Raleigh, Larry Popein and Pete Conacher.The full recovery and comeback of little Hergesheimer has hightlighted the Rangers&rsquo; camp. He has been playing in the style that brough him a three-year average of 27 goals before leg injuries put him out of action.Watson, pleased with the willingness of the squad to suckle down under his determined direction, also expects additional scoring strength from his revised center ice trio.This time a year ago the three regular Ranger centers were Raleigh, Popein and Paul Ronty. The latter has now retired, the other two are spare forwards. Creighton and Horvath, acquired in a mid-summer trade with Detroit have fitted in as good-sized pivotal figures on the first two lines.Horvath last year played for Edmonton of the Western League, where he established a new scoring record with 50 goals and 60 assists. Manager Patrick regards him as one of the best passers in recent years&mdash;the best, he believes, since Buddy O&rsquo;Connor.Other new forwards are Gendron, 21-year-old left winger from Providence, and Hebenton, Victoria rookie who was second only to Horva th as a Western League goal scorer last season.There are still seven defensemen on the squad in Harry Howell, Lou Fontinato, Bill Gadsby, Ivan Irwin, Jack Evans, Mid Houghton and Bob Chrystal.The first four named are set but a fifth man will also be carried and picked from among Evans, Houghton and Chrystal. Houghton, a rookie from Saskatoon, is the least experienced of the three.Howell and Fontinato have been teamed on one defense unit, Gadsby and Irwin on the other thus far. In camp, Fontinato lias palyed outstanding hockey as he begins his first full year in the big league. And Howell has also shown sharp improvement. They were teammates as far back as their junior days five years ago.The goal tending job has produced another good duel between holdover Lorne (Gump) Worseley and Johnny Bower, with Worsley favored to start the season as the regular and Bower expected to go to Providence as a reserve. &#9632;

Rangers Take On New Look Black Hawks In NHL Opener

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bruins are moving toward the start of their National league hockey season with a prospective lineup differing considerably froom that with which they opened a year ago.As the Bruins now shape up with a week of pre-season training remaining, they may have as many as seven players in their lineup for their opening series with the Montreal Canadiens who were not with them a year ago at this time.The certain new starters, according to Coach Milt Schmidt, will be Goalie Terry Sawchuk, Defenseman Leo Boivin and Forwards Marcel Bonin and Vic Stasiuk.&ldquo;Then we&rsquo;ll have another new defenseman, either Don Cherry or Lionel Heinrich,&rdquo; Schmidt pointed out, &ldquo;and probably two more new forwards in Orval Tessier and Floyd Smith.&ldquo;There are several positions to be determined in the week which we have left, but we may have as many as seven new players when, we open with the Canadiens.&rdquo;With three weeks of training behind them, the Bruins have, two set defense pairings and two permanent lines, according to Schmidt.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve pretty well decided that one of our defense teams will consist of Capt. Ferny Flaman and Bob Armstrong, the other of Bill Quackenbush&mdash;and Boivin,&rdquo; said Schmidt.&ldquo;Our first line will definitely consist of Don McKenney, Leo LaBine and Bonin, and I&rsquo;ll say without qualification that it will be the most colorful line in the league, bar none.&ldquo;Our second line, which has been shaping up very well, will be composed of Cal Gardner, Doug Mohns and Lorne Ferguson. We will have a good third line from among our other forwards, and we&rsquo;ll have Hal Laycoe for utility purposes.&rdquo;Schmidt looks to sawchuk as the man to head the Bruins toward a higher position than their fourth place finish of a year ago. The great goal-tender has put himself in excellent condition, and he has infused the Bruins with a new brand of fire.The Bruins will play an exhibition game here tonight with the Chicago Black Hawks, then return to Hershey to finish their training. They will go from Hershey to Montreal for the season&rsquo;s opener on Saturday night, then return to Boston to play the Canadiens at Boston Garden a week from tomorrow night. &#9632;

Bruins May Have 7 New Faces On Roster

Maybe your eyes will mislead you in a hall of mirrors, but your taste won&rsquo;t when you reach for a sparkling glass of Labatt&rsquo;s &lsquo;50&rsquo;. For &lsquo;50&rsquo; is the happier ale that makes anytime a good time. Let your throat savour the cool clean taste of &lsquo;50&rsquo;&mdash;let your good taste be tempted by this lightest and smoothest of all ales. Enjoy a &lsquo;50&rsquo; soon.You&rsquo;ll enjoy &lsquo;50&rsquo; MILD&hellip;SMOOTH<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02201/1345802-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="612" height="1575"></div> &#9632;

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Any way you look at it…

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>WELLAND, Ont.&mdash;Frank Eddolls headed into his second tenure as coach of the American League Buffalo Bisons banking on two veteran right wingers regaining the form they displayed two years ago to get the white-shirted Herd off on the right foot.Big Ed Slowinski and Ken Hayden were the two Eddolls figured &ldquo;should give opposing goaltenders nightmares this season.&rdquo;.If they approximate their goal production of the 1953-54 season, when Buffalo finished atop the American League standings, they&rsquo;ll do just that, too.Slowinski garnered 38 goals while performing as the &ldquo;plow boy&rdquo; on the Big Line with Donnie Marshall and Gaye Stewart.Last year, after a whirlwind start of 10 goals in as many games, Slowinski slumped to 22 goals.Hayden, a 28-goal man two seasons ago, fired only 15 shots into opposition nets in 1954-55.&ldquo;The two fell a total of 29 goals off the pace that they are capable of maintaining, or even surpassing,&rdquo; Eddolls pointed out. &ldquo;I figure that they both should be back up where they were two years ago this season.&rdquo;.Eddolls had more than mere coach&rsquo;s hope to sustain his supposition, too.&ldquo;With. Big Ed, the problem has been weight,&rdquo; he began. &ldquo;Right now he&rsquo;s around the 19.0 mark, a good weight for him.&ldquo;A year ago he was a bit heavier at the start of the season and when he was sidelined with an injury, he never could get back down to where he&rsquo;s at his most effective weight.&rdquo;Dour Dick Irvin, who evinced more than passing interest in Slowinski when the captain of last year&rsquo;s Buffalo sextet worked out with the parent Black Hawks, also praised Big Ed&rsquo;s condition.<h2>Big And Solid</h2>&ldquo;He looks big and solid, even finer than when he played with the (New York) Rangers,&rdquo; Irvin commented. &ldquo;Even now he wouldn&rsquo;t be any disgrace to a National League club on that right side.&rdquo;Hayden&rsquo;s decline as a scorer last season basically was due to getting off to a slow start and then being badgered by injuries.&ldquo;Hayden has always been a 25 to 30 goal scorer in the American Legue,&rdquo; Eddolls asserted. &ldquo;Why then would he suddenly drop to 15?&ldquo;The fella still has that tremendous burst of speed when he cuts in on goal. The answer lies in an old hockey cliche&mdash;&lsquo;He just had one of those years.&rsquo;&ldquo;Gaye (Stewart) told me that Kenny seemed to favor his right leg after he broke his ankle and just seemed to lack his usual drive when he has possession of the puck.&rdquo;Hayden, himself, admits to having been bothered by the ankle but adds: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all healed fine now and I&rsquo;m looking forward to making up for that poor season of a year ago.&rdquo;And Mister Eddolls is also.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01251/1345840-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="306" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Eddolls</figcaption></div><h2>They&rsquo;re Happy With The New Coach</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02212/1345833-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="2321" height="1743"><figcaption class="caption-body">TERRY REARDON is an amiable onlooker as Jack Crawford (centre) and Lou Pieri, owner of the Providence Reds, grin at each other. Crawford, former Boston Bruin, has signed to coach the Rhode Island team for two seasons. Reardon is the team&rsquo;s general manager.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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‘Nightmare Pair’ Eddolls’ Threat To Rest Of AHL

<div class="byline">ROBERTS.</div>DETROIT&mdash;Ken McKenzie,, the co-publisher of the HOCKEY NEWS and National Hockey league publicity chief, had the house howling at the annual AllStar game in Detroit.&mdash;but it wasn&rsquo;t because he had something funny to say.Ken, who on behalf of the league each year, gives the hockey writers attending the classic, a small memento to show that they were at the game. This year&rsquo;s gift&mdash;most impractical since hockey writers have little money&mdash;was a beautiful leather wallet.Ken kept one for himself, and immediately began transferring large bills (publisher&rsquo;s&hellip;can&hellip;never change fives) to his new wallet. However, somehow, he got his new billfold, loaded with loot, mixed up with the ones he was about to give away. Can you imagine his consternation when he reached for a tab and found himself cleaned.Then too, imagine the stuned surprise of Fred Pyke, the quiet little guy who acts as official timekeeper at the Detroit Olympia when he checked his new wallet and found it contained $200.00. Pyke discovered the mistake before McKenzie and decided to play dumb. But McKenzie finally traced his wallet and peace was restored&mdash;as well as the wallet. &#9632;

Generous McKenzie Nearly Gave Away Own Loot Too!

The Boston Bruins have signed the first product of the summer tryout camp which they have conducted in Lynn, Mass for the past two years.The first alumnus of the camp to enter organized hockey is Fred Wonoski, a six-foot one-inch center who is a native of nearby Lynn.Wonoski. a leading schoolboy scorer-at Lynn Classical High School, was chosen from a group of nearly 100 youngsters to attend the Bruins&rsquo; training camp at Hershey, Pa. &#9632;

Bruins Sign Camp Product

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;Fred (Bun) Cook, starting his 13th season as head man of the Cleveland Barons, hardly had a chance to look over the revamped Ohio sextet before he was hospitalized at St. Thomas, Ont., with an appendix operation. The Barons remained under the direction of a Cook, however, during Bun&rsquo;s recuperation with Lex Cook of the Cleveland front office staff and former U.S. League coach taking over&hellip;Bunk Cook, incidentally, has coached in the AHL longer than the other five coaches combined. Providence&rsquo;s Jack Craw-ford is starting his third, having coached two previous campaigns at Hershey; Frank Eddolls begins his third year at Buffalo; Murray Henderson his forth at Hershey, and Howie Meeker and William (Red) Mitchell their second at Pittsburgh and Spring field, respectively&hellip;Bun held the reins at Providence for several years before succeeding his brother. Bill, at Cleveland.<h2>2nd Year Man</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01256/1345940-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="566" height="879"><figcaption class="caption-body">HOWIE MEEKER</figcaption></div><h2>Bearing Down</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02196/1345933-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="568" height="858"><figcaption class="caption-body">MURRAY HENDERSON</figcaption></div><h2>At Reds&rsquo; Helm</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03159/1345926-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="568" height="896"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK CRAWFORD</figcaption></div><h3>Close Call</h3>Cleveland GM Jim Hendy was gravely concerned for a while when it looked like right winger Fred Glover wasn&rsquo;t going to report due to business obligations. Hendy feels that Glover is one player his Barons can ill afford to lose now that Cleveland has discarded such veterans as Eddie Olson, Fred Shero, Eddy Reigle, and lost Glen Sonmor through his eye injury.Glover and Jackie Gordon, captain of recent Cleveland teams, undoubtedly will make up two-thirds of the Barons No. 1 line. Johnny McLellan, the trans-planted center who had such a good season with Cleveland last year, likely will be on the left boards on that line.Hendy admits that he&rsquo;s quite high on defenseman Howie Lee, who was with the Allen Cup champion Kitchener&mdash;Waterloo club last season. He also is looking for big things from goalie Roy McMeekin, who reported to camp 3 5 pounds under the weight he lugger around last year.Eddie Shore, who had fine success in making Ross Lowe into a center iceman, is now experi-menting with slim Harry Pidhirny at that position. Center is not entirely new to Pidhirny as he played there in his early pro career. In recent seasons, however, he has been on the wing&hellip;One of the brighter prospects in the Springfield camp as the Indians headed into AHL play was Gordie Haworth, who has secured from the defunct Valleyfield club of the QHL&hellip;<h2>Third Year As A Bison</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04117/1345919-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="1110" height="1453"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRANK EDDOLLS</figcaption></div>Coach Frank Eddolls of the Buffalo sextet looks to Big Al Dewsbury to challenge Roger Leger&rsquo;s team record of 22 goals for a dfeenseman. Eddolls plans on using Big Al on his power play because of his firing power from the point&hellip;Eddolls also figures that he&rsquo;ll have a good bet for goal scoring honors in the veteran. Enio Sclisizzi, who has acquired from Detroit in trade for Defenseman Pete Wright&hellip;<h3>Few Player Coaches</h3>The American League is no longer a player-coach circuit. Bun Cook, Jack Crawford, Red Mitchell, Howie Meeker, and Eddolls all will be giving their instructions from the bench and the possibility exists that Hershey&rsquo;s Murray Henderson will hang up the skates if his backline looks strong enough without him&hellip;Buffalo front office brass would have preferred that Toronto sent the CBC line of Barry and Brian Cullen and Hugh Barlow to Pittsburgh instead of Winnipeg. Because of the popularity of the trio when they were the big line on St. Catharines&rsquo; Memorial Cup club of 19 53-54, the trio figured to bring customers from the St. Kitts area into Bisontown when the Hornets appeared in Memorial Auditorium&hellip;Coach Meeker may have to go with only two-thirds of the trio of M-men who led the Hornets to both the regular and playoff championships last year. Goalie Gil Mayer and Defenseman Frank Mathers are both in the fold but Center Wee Willie Marshall earned a chance with the parent Toronto Maple Leafs off his training camp play and possibly may stick. His place in Pittsburgh would be taken by Bashin&rsquo; Bob Bailey&hellip; &#9632;

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13th Season Proves Unlucky Number For Bun Cook

<div class="byline">JACK WELLS</div>(As seen in The Winnipeg Tribune)The return of professional hockey to the province is causing considerable talk among the sporting gentry these days. It&rsquo;s been longer than a giant&rsquo;s arm since the honest hockey players displayed their talents around these parts. You have to thumb through the files of the old Winnipeg Telegram or to the days of Dick Hay, Alex Irwin the late Stan Marples and a few other hardy souls (who played with two forward lines, three defencemen and a goalkeeper) to recall the happy time of pro hockey. The late Billy Holmes revived the sport in the &lsquo;2O&rsquo;s with the Winnipeg Maroons that had such talent as Charlie Gardiner, Art Somers and Johnny Gottselig to name a trio.The old Big Four league provided excitement and riots, then came the surge of junior hockey, with the Monarchs strutting their stuff. Two junior divisions, the North and South kept the customers in a perpetual turmoil from the first freeze &lsquo;till the final thaw.In later years the northern section was eased out, and junior hockey reverted to a three and sometimes a four-team league. The spirit of the chase was lost, and the sport gradually fell into decline that was closer to oblivion than the hockey chaps like to admit.With the northern league gone, rivalry ceased except in the executive chambers. The powerful clubs wanted to be more powerful. The operators of the less financially successful clubs finally had to bow to the bucks.The writing was in bold print on the wall, but the promoters chose to ignore it.The last good junior series in these parts was the Brandon-Montreal Royals of 1948-49. The Royals copped the duke, and the west hasn&rsquo;t been close to winning the Memorial Cup since.Last year the junior division made a phoney tie-up with the Lakehead league. They&rsquo;ll operate the same way this winter. They&rsquo;ll play intersectional games, with points to count, but each section will conduct their own playoffs to make sure that the more lucrative Manitoba-Thunder Bay series is not lost.So it&rsquo;s with a feeling of relief that the pros are moving back into the sport scene. They are operating in a &lsquo;bonafide league where you have to make a spot in the playoffs to cut the melon.Say what you will about pro sport, they make no pretense of playing for glory and the honor of dear old Slippery Rock. They play for the bucks, and for the most part conduct themselves as business men with an eye to a bonus.Just how capable or otherwise the Warriors will be remains to be seen. But if diligence to the effort can count for a pinch of crabmeat the Warriors are home free and it&rsquo;s just a matter of playing out the schedule.Alfred George Pike, late of the Guelph Biltmores, is driving his club in a manner that would make Captain Bligh of The Bounty look like a drill sergeant for the Bloomer Girls. Alfred George learned the hard way. Condition counts, and that&rsquo;s what he&rsquo;s counting on with the opening game less that two weeks hence. In his playing days with East Kildonan as a midget and up through the brackets to the Monarchs and then the Rangers, Pike was never considered the type of player who backed off from a bodycheck or a solid workout. When he coached junior hockey here prior to going east, he had a most motley crew but they had condition and desire.Any player trying out with the Warriors these days had best be equipped with a short tongue. If it&rsquo;s long, it will be covered with skate wounds.They don&rsquo;t have to sweep the ice between sessions at the Olympic these days, those dragging tongues do the work, &#9632;

Spotlight on Sport with

ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;If Winnipeg Warriors, latest entry in the Western Hockey League, pose as big a threat in the WHL as some experts claim they will, Hap Day, general manager of the National Hockey League Maple Leafs, may, deserve some of the credit.Seven Leafs-owend players have been directed to report to the Warriors. The highly-celebrated line of Barry and Brian Cullen and Hugh Barlow, which sparked St. Catharines Teepees of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; League to the Memorial Cup in 1953-54, will be among those going to Winnipeg for the 1955-56 season.Brian Cullen and Barlow played with the American League Pittsburgh Hornets, Leafs farm team, most of last season. Brian also saw quite a bit of action with Leafs while Barry played with the Teepees last year.The goal-tending spot, currently something of a problem for the Warriors, will get a shot in the arm with the arrival of Ed Chadwick, twinetender last season for Sault St. Marie Greyhounds of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association Mike Nykoluk and Gary Aldcorn, graduates from Toronto Marlboros of the Junior OHA, and Bill Burega, defenceman with Hornets in 1954-55, are also due to arrive here.<h2>Rates Credit</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02223/1346026-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="483" height="480"><figcaption class="caption-body">HAP DAY</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01262/1346019-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="1155" height="1246"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRIAN CULLEN</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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NHL Leafs Play Santa Claus; Ship 7 Players To Warriors

800 Outside RoomsWith bath and free radioMany with T.V.Single $4.50 upDouble $7.00 upNo charge for children14 or underFine food served in GRENADIER DINING ROOM and LOUNGE also COFFEE SHOPDETROIT-LELAND HOTELCess and Bagley Ave.Ample ParkingWm. H. Chalmers,General Manager<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03197/1346057-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="304" height="490"></div> &#9632;

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HOCKEY HEADQUARTERS IN DETROIT

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The Canadian FOOTBALL NEWS

<div class="byline">By DALLIS BECK</div>(As Seen In The Winnipeg Tribune)WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;Alf Pike and Denis Ball haven&rsquo;t too much in common&mdash;except that Pike used to play for New York. Rangers and Ball is the chief western scout of the present-day Broadway Blues organization.Pike and Ball may be found at the Olympic Rink almost at any given hour these days, for considerably different reasons.Denis, the eager ivory-hunter, is thumping the old tub for next Tuesday&rsquo;s appearance of his Rangers at the Olympic in an exhibition game against Winnipeg Warriors, ont of three new entries in the Western Hockey League which constitutes a private headache for Pike.While Ball has a ready-made hockey club of NHL variety hot to go for Tues-day&rsquo;s exhibition, all Pike has to do is ice a team to afford some competition.This, at the current rate of exchange on seasoned hockey players, is no light task for Alfie.The Warrior coach, keeping a weather eye on the calendar (for it&rsquo;s only a week from today that the WHL schedule opens for Winnipeg) has been chiefly concerned with whipping a flock of ama-teurs and a handful of pros into shape for the last two weeks while marking time &lsquo;til new blood arrived from the sponsoring Toronto Maple Leafs.The situation, finally and happily, took a turn for the better on Thursday.The recruits from the Leafs&rsquo; St. Catharines training camp arrived.In order, the motorcade checked in from the east Thursday. First it was the Cullens&mdash;Brian and Barry&mdash;and Hugh Barlow. Later came goalie Ed Chadwick, Mike Nykoluk and Gary Aldcorn. Finally Bill Burega, the bouncing blueliner, and his bride of this summer.So the mere detail now remains for Pike to round them all up on one sheet of ice starting today, and to weed out a team to carry the flashy black and gold colors against the Rangers Tuesday night and at Calgary next Friday against the Stampeders.It&rsquo;s likely that everybody available for duty will get a whirl under fire against the Rangers and after that you can expect the Warrior mentor to start wielding a heavy axe.While Alf goes to work with a full quota of talent at his disposal for the first time this fall, friend Ball extolls the merits of the 1955-56 version of the Rangers and what the folks can expect to see at the Olympic Tuesday evening.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re the best I&rsquo;ve seen for the six years I&rsquo;ve been in the system&rdquo;, declares Denis, &ldquo;and it looks like Phil (coach Phil Watson will have some fire power on his side this year.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve picked up Bronco Horvath and Andy Hebenton for a good example. Between them last year they accounted for 96 Western League goals and Horvath&rsquo;s 110 points for Edmonton establisher a league record &ldquo;Denis isn&rsquo;t predicting any Stanley Cups or the like for the New Yorkers but would like one and all to know that they&rsquo;ll be a lot better than the many dismal years.Other new performers who&rsquo;ll be on display Tuesday at the Olympic are left-winger Jean-Guy Gendron, defenceman Mid Houghton and Dave Creighton.&ldquo;Lou Fontinato is really busting &lsquo;em&rdquo;, warned Denis &ldquo;and Bill Gadsby appears set for his best output in years&rdquo;.Those are two of the performers the Blueshirts are banking on for defence and they&rsquo;ll operate in front of either Gump Worsley or Johnny Bower, who are battling it out for the goal-keeping honors.Aside from Hebenton, Horvath, Creighton and Gendron&mdash;the newfaces&mdash;there&rsquo;s still the reliables like Danny Lewicki, Don Raleigh, Dean Prentice, Pete Conacher and Andy Bathgate, not to mention the return of Wally Hergesheimer.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01263/1346126-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="296" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alf Pike</figcaption></div><h2>High Scorer</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02196/1346119-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="566" height="872"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDY HEBENTON</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Pike Cocks Eye At Calendar, New Arrivals To Warrior Camp

<div class="byline">Ray Guay</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01235/1346157-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDY MULLIGAN, center, general manager of the Toledo Sports Arena, and his partners-in-hockey Frank Foster, (left) and Roy Reidenbaugh of Marion, O., pose for the camera at the International Hockey League meeting. The league formally agreed to permit Toledo and Marion to operate a team jointly. A six-team league including Troy, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Cincinnati, Fort Wayne and Toledo-Marion will operate next season with a 13-player limit. Johnny Sorrell, former Detroit Red Wings player, is coaching the new Indianapolis team.</figcaption></div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;Manager-Coach Frank Currie had good reason to be elated over the performance of his Stampeders against New York Rangers in two exhibition games. Only one goal separated the two clubs in the two games. Rangers won the one in Calgary (played at the old Victoria Arena) 2-1 and the teams drew 2-2 in Red Deer.The competition was fierce and the officials had their work cut out to prevent a donnybrook. Main reason for this is the competition for berths on two clubs.Prior to the two games, Currie had not signed a single player. The headaches of selecting his 13 players and goalie, including three rookies, have been piling up and the chore has been made no easier by the exhibitions.TRAINING NOTES: Stampeders had their biggest camp since turning professional. They had 26 players on hand with the majority being professionals. The only player missing from last season&rsquo;s Club is Pat Lundy who is working for the Exhibition Association in Regina. Pat will probably hang up his skates. Pat has acquired a reputation as a good business head and his job as Manager of the Regin aRink and Pavilion proves it.An old hand at handing out bruising body checks back in Calgary is Bashing Bill Shvetz. Cal-gary fans are mighty happy over that turn of events. Bill played with Montreal Royals last season. Calgary fans give him most of the credit for disposing of opposition in the playoffs two Springs ago when Stampeders won the Edinburgh trophy the first time it was put up for competition.The twice-daily practices have been no bed of roses for the club. Scrimmages started two days after opening of camp Sept. 19 and their showing against Rangers&mdash;who started two weeks earlier&mdash;proves that the hard work helped them along.There&rsquo;s still talk that Chicago will send a goalie this way&mdash;Al Rollins, Hank Bassen or Ray Fre-derick&mdash;but meanwhile Doug Stevenson and Hal Gordon are fighting hard to stay here.<h2>Marion Trio Cives Hockey Big Boost &#9632;</h2>

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Stamp Pilot Currie Elated By Prospects

NORTH BAY, Ont.&mdash;Refusal on the part of four disputing Senior A club owners to compromise on a wage increase demand has threatened to put a crimp in the operations of the five-team southern group of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association.Tom O&rsquo;Toole, president of Sudbury Wolves, said the Wolves and Sault Ste Marie (Ont.) Greyhounds will not withdraw a proposal for a raise in the limit for players&rsquo; salaries despite threats by North Bay Trappers and Pembroke Lumber Kings to pull out of the league if the increase goes through.&ldquo;We stated our views on the NOHA salary question at the meeting,&rdquo; O&rsquo;Toole said. &ldquo;We are sticking to the $2,400 a week limit we asked for. So are the Greyhounds.&rdquo;Meanwhile, Vic Haft, Greyhounds president, confirmed the club&rsquo;s stand that it will not stay in the NOHA Southern Group unless the limit is raised.Both teams notified loop prexy Jack Wild they will withdraw unless their demands are met.The NOHA&rsquo;s salary schedule was agreed on at a meeting several weeks ago. The fifth team in the league, Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) Indians, was granted a special $2,400 weekly limit at that time. &#9632;

NOHA Faces Disruption Over Pay Limit

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01231/1346264-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">THESE SKATERS take a break in a morning drill at the first International Hockey Clinic being held at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Pictured left to right are Carl Miller of Reading, Pennsylvania; Murray Mac-Pherson of Edina, Minnesota; Dennis Flanagan of Stavely, Alberta; Albert Nestor of Pontiac, Michigan; Herb Bradsky, Toronto; and kneeling is Mohawk-cut Gordie MacDonald of Mankato, Saskatchewan.</figcaption></div>GRAND FORKS, N.D.&mdash;The first international hockey clinic, a new wrinkle in hockey instruction south of the border, concluded a two-week stand here on the University of North Dakota campus.George Vogan, Saskatoon&rsquo;s veteran hockey coach and promoter, brought his Western Canada Hockey Clinic here to fulfill requests by Americans for such a school.Nearly 50 hockey aspirants between the ages of 12 and 18 received intensive daily instruction from Emile (The Cat) Francis, former Cleveland Baron netminder sold last summer to Saskatoon of the Western Canada League, Metro Prystai, eight-year NHL veteran at Detroit and Chicago, Vogan, and Jack Wilkie, recreation supervisor for the Province of Saskatchewan.The Minneapolis-St. Paul crea of Minnesota had a heavy representation of students for the two-week long clinic, while nearly half of the other registrants came from Canadian provinces.The daily schedule began at 8: 30 a.m. and had the students skating on the ice of the North. Dakota Winter Sports Arena twice a day for two hour sessions. Instruction of a practical nature by Francis and Prystai on ice drew praise of hockey fans in this area. Films of NHL games were shown and discussed by the instructors in the new million-dollar North Dakota Fieldhouse.A feature of the Vogan clinio was evalution of each student&rsquo;s abilities at the end of the clinic.<h2>A New Wrinkle In Puck Instruction &#9632;</h2>

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Vogan School Draws Praise, Lots of Students

SMITHS FALLS, Ont.&mdash;The prospect that Smiths Falls would return to district hockey wars in Intermediate &ldquo;A&rdquo; ranks looms after an exchange of financial proposals between leaders of a players co-operative team and the Municipal Parks Board, which operates the Town Arena.Team officials include Dr. Art McCue, president of the disbanded Senior Rideaus; Bill Cowley, R. L. Fisher, Hal Rockburn, Gordon Barnard and Art Beamish. It is expected Hal Dewey will do the coaching.The players will perform on a profit sharing basis, no fixed salaries. Among them are former Rideaus Stu Smith, Archie Richardson, Glenn McKenney, Rockburn, Val Walker, and possibly goalie John (Plummer) Craig.Speaking for the team at the meeting, Dr. McCue asked the parks board for a starting fund of $1,000 and an 80-20 split of gate receipts, with the board on the small end.The board, after consulting in private countered with an offer of $500 to the club immediately, and $500 next February 1 if the team was still operating. The board wants a 70-30 split.If the money barrier can be hurdled, the team will enter either the Thousand Islands Hockey League or any Ottawa district loop, with the latter favored.The possible entries in the Thousands Islands setup are from Kingston, Brockville and Gananoque. In the Ottawa based circuit would be Renfrew, Hull, Woodroffe and Air Force. &#9632;

Hockey Future Likely For Smiths Falls

PEMBROKE, Ont.&mdash;There was joy in Pembroke Thursday night.For the powerful Canadiens of the National Hockey League struck out, with a potent assist from Pembroke Lumber Kings.The Thursday night in question was September 29, the game an exhibition witnessed by 3,051 delighted Pembrokians, the score a delightful 2-0 whitewash job, the victors members of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association.True, the Kings had a little help on this occasion. Toe Blake, coach of the Montreal Habs, provided Cully Simon with six players for the game, including netminder Jacques Plante. It was to Simon&rsquo;s credit that none of the loaned experts had any hand in the scoring.Plante, in particular, was outstanding as he booted out 28 drives, most of which were labelled. Gerry. McNeil making a comeback after a year&rsquo;s absence handled 22 drives off the sticks of the Pembrooke players.Jim Maxwell and Ken Campbell were the marksmen for the Kings as the two clubs battled through the first two periods without being able to score.Maxwell opened the scoring at the 2.40 mark in the third frame on passes from Bruce Giesebrecht and Ken Campbell. He fired a 15-foot drive which McNeil didn&rsquo;t see until the disc settled in the back of the cage.Pembroke salted the game away when Campbell banged in a loose puck from a scramble in front of McNeil, Maxwell drew an assist on the play.Maurice Richard, fiery, right winger for the Canadiens had several close chances but couldn&rsquo;t beat Plante who played terrific hockey throughout the game.Pembroke will open the 1956 NOHA season in Sudbury on October 14 and will play a return game against the Wolves the next evening in Pembroke.Besides McNeil, Pembroke had five other prospective Habs for the game. They were Butch Bouchard, Jean Talbot, Jackie Leclair, Andre Corriveau and Claude Provost.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0385/1346295-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="603" height="371"></div> &#9632;

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Lumber Kings Blank Habs, But Hab Net Ace Helps Out

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01196/1346350-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">HOCKEY WILL RETURN TO PHILADELPHIA when a team to be called the Ramblers will compete in the Eastern Hockey League. Pictured above are three of the five young men who are putting the team into competition, talking over plays with Edgar &ldquo;Chirp&rdquo; Brenchley, of Niagara Falls, Ont., who has been signed as the coach. From left, seated, are George L. Davis, Jr., president of the International Figure Skating Club and brother-in-law of Academy Award Winner Grace Kelly; and Brenchley. In back row, standing, are Don Dragan and Guy Hayden. Davis heads the new Philadelphia owners. Dragan is a vice-president of the group and Hayden is treasurer. Brenchley formerly played with the Philadelphia Falcons in EHL play in 1945-46. All home games will be played on Philadelphia Arena ice. First game will be played November I against Baltimore at Philadelphia.</figcaption></div>(As seen In the Montreal Gazette)DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;There was not a familiar face in the hotel lobby here at noon, but the first fellow we had the chance to talk with was Lynn Patrick, general manager of the Boston Bruins. Lynn looked a good many pounds lighter, almost as if he&rsquo;d put on skates and taken part in the Bruins&rsquo; workouts.&ldquo;Have you seen Dick Irvin?&rdquo; he was asked.&ldquo;I have and I found him a little incredible,&rdquo; Lynn said. &ldquo;He looks and talks as if he didn&rsquo;t have a care in the world.&rdquo;&ldquo;That&rsquo;s because he&rsquo;s with a have-not club now,&rdquo; a guy said. &ldquo;When he was with the Canadiens he was with one of the have clubs and he was always worrying for fear somebody would get something away from him. He doesn&rsquo;t have that worry any more.&rdquo;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a worry I&rsquo;d like to have,&rdquo; Lynn said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been with the have-nots too long.&rdquo;Lynn said the Bruins have lost a couple of exhibition games to minor league teams, but they&rsquo;d played the Chicago Black Hawks in Syracuse and beaten them 2 to 1. One of the goals was scored on a penalty shot and the other in an empty net when the goaler was removed in the last minute of play.&ldquo;We looked great shooting on that empty net&mdash;we always did,&rdquo; he commented dryly. &ldquo;What we need is scorers and now Fleming Mackell has to have a knee operation and he&rsquo;ll be out for a couple of months.It was pointed out that he had given up some firepower when he traded R&eacute;al Ch&egrave;vrefils and Ed Sandford to Detroit for Terry Sawchuk.&ldquo;Neither of them ever scored 20 goals in a season for us,&rdquo; be said. &ldquo;Now that they&rsquo;re with another team they&rsquo;ll probably get about 30 apiece. Doesn&rsquo;t it always happen?&rdquo;We didn&rsquo;t catch up with Dick Irvin until we found ourselves at the same table with him at the N.H.L. luncheon. Dick was given a set of steak knives for coaching the All-Stars in the game last night. The gold lettering on the case containing the knives read &ldquo;R. D. (Dick) Irvin.&rdquo;&ldquo;Look at that,&rdquo; he said, as he reseated himself. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve only been in the league for 27 years and they can&rsquo;t get my name right, that &lsquo;R. D.,&rsquo; should be &lsquo;J. D..&rdquo;&ldquo;The league has provided you with an easy out,&rdquo; Lynn Patrick kidded. &ldquo;If you don&rsquo;t win with the Black Hawks you can eut your throat.&rdquo;&ldquo;I thought of that,&rdquo; Dick said. &ldquo;Pretty near told Mr. Campbell that when I was up at the head table.&rdquo;&ldquo;Maybe you&rsquo;ll get lucky this year,&rdquo; Lynn said. &ldquo;You didn&rsquo;t have a single injury at your training camp.&rdquo;&ldquo;There&rsquo;s another way of looking at that,&rdquo; Dick replied. &lsquo;None of them were going hard enough to get hurt.&rdquo;One of the Montreal writers asked him if he still placed as much emphasis of the players&rsquo; weights as he did when he was with the Canadiens.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the only way you can tell if a guy&rsquo;s in shape,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I dug up the chart showing what they weighed at the end of last season and checked it against what they weighed when they reported for pre-season training. You know what I discovered. The skinny guys had got skinner and the fat guys had got fatter. But the team has lost 69 pounds since the training season started.&rdquo;Later we were all up in Dick&rsquo;s suite&mdash;All-Star coaches always go first class&mdash;watching the telecast of the ball game in Brooklyn.&ldquo;You know, I was looking at my guys at the station just before we left Welland for Syracuse to play the exhibition game with the Bruins,&rdquo; Dick said. &ldquo;They looked just the same to me as the Canadiens or the Detroit Red Wings. They were all healthy-looking fellows dressed in sport clothes and not wearing hats. They eat steaks too, just like those other two clubs. There can&rsquo;t be so much difference.&rdquo;&ldquo;Not. until they put on their skates,&rdquo; somebody said.&ldquo;Maybe there won&rsquo;t be so much difference even then,&rdquo; Dick went on. &ldquo;Not this season. I&rsquo;ve told them that they will have to have 75 fewer goals scored against them if they&rsquo;re going to make a playoff spot. That&rsquo;s the first thing we&rsquo;re working on. We&rsquo;ve got to get six more goals, but we&rsquo;re also working on that.&ldquo;Say, how do the Canadiens look?&rdquo; Has Geoff (Bourn Boum Geoffrion) signed yet?&rdquo;He was told that the Boomer had signed his contract last week.&ldquo;I thought they might have some trouble with him this year,&rdquo; he said. At this point in the ball game, Walter Alston came out of the dugout and replaced Roger Craig with Clem Labine. A move that prompted Dick to make a comparison between coaching a hockey club and managing a ball club.&ldquo;A manager sticks in a pinch-hitter and the guy strikes out, they never criticize the manager,&rdquo; he remarked. &ldquo;They never suggest that the guy he took out might have got a hit. They&rsquo;ve forgotten all about him. A hockey coach takes a tired line off the ice and puts in another line and the opposing team scores. Then it&rsquo;s &lsquo;Chou, Irvin, Chou&rsquo; you guys know I&rsquo;m right.&rdquo;Lynn Patrick burst out laughing. &ldquo;That Irvin&rsquo;s the greatest, isn&rsquo;t he?&rdquo; he gasped.<h2>Plotting A New Team&rsquo;s Course &#9632;</h2>

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<div class="byline">By AL HOOPER</div>(As Seen In The Vancouver Province)VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;The thing you remember about Pat Egan is the things he remembers.He can remember a time in &lsquo;42 when he played lacrosse for Vancouver Norvans. He had a fight with Adanacs&rsquo; Alan Askew.Lost.He remembers a fight last year against Eddie Olson. Now Olson has followed him, or preceded him, to the Western Hockey League.The fight?Draw.&ldquo;Wonderful hockey player,&rdquo; Pat Egan says of Olson, new coach of Victoria Cougars, Egan is an older coach but is new to Vancouver Canucks.AFTER A WHILE you realize Egan has very few unkind words for anybody. Sunday was his first full day here and when it came to evening he must have been tired. He spent the evening telling newsmen the things they wanted to know.In 17 professional seasons he has had a few fights but even more stitches. &ldquo;Must be knocking a hundred stitches I never kept track.&rdquo;THESE FIGHTS&mdash;do they qualify him as a hockey tough guy?&ldquo;Me? Not me. I lost more fights than Tommy Farr.&rdquo;He doesn&rsquo;t look as though he should lose many. His face is gnarled from hockey&rsquo;s years&mdash;12 of them in the National League. But 19 6 pounds taper properly on 5-feet-10 and he has weighed that much for&hellip;well, for all of it.&ldquo;I&rsquo;M PUZZLED about this league,&rdquo; he says, sitting a hotel bed. &ldquo;They tell me it&rsquo;s real fast. Players come here from our league&mdash;the American League, like&mdash;and they go nowhere in a hurry. I&rsquo;m interested.&rdquo;Hockey is all there is for Joseph Martin Egan; it usually is when you are born on the prairies and are any good at it. Egan grew up in Calgary and left for Sudbury Tigers when he was 18. He was born in 1918&mdash;&ldquo;That makes me 29. Never could get past 29.&rdquo;,THE GOOD TIMES? The best one would have to be on March 17 of 1943. Egan had been brought up to New York Americans. Americans managed and coached by Red Dutton and Art Chapman, beat Toronto 5-3. Egan happened to score three goals and assist on anotherDidn&rsquo;t think much of it at the time,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Even on St. Patrick&rsquo;s Day. On the way back to the dressingroom Dutton grabbed my arm. &lsquo;Listen,&rsquo; he said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;ll be some newsmen in there. Don&rsquo;t go big-headed on us&rsquo;.&rdquo;Egan likes the story.ONE HE LIKES less concerns his shot. Hardest ever, they say. &ldquo;They didn&rsquo;t ask me,&rdquo; Egan says. &ldquo;I played against Charlie Conacher for a while up there. They can slap &lsquo;em, grease &lsquo;em or spit em. They&rsquo;ll never shoot like Charlie Conacher.&rdquo;For the last two years he player-coached Providence Reds. You can play and coach, but usually your play suffers. He knows because he remembers other years&hellip;three with the Americans, two with Rangers, seven with Boston.. &#9632;

Egan Has Few Unkind Words To Say About Anyone In Game

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01204/1346436-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAT EGAN</figcaption></div>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;Selection by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association executive of Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen as Canada&rsquo;s representatives at the Olympic Games world hockey championship, at Cortina, Italy, Jan. 26 to Feb. 4, was almost a foregone conclusion, for, as so many put it&mdash;What team had a better right to the honor? They point out that the Dutchmen are reigning Allan Cup champions (The best senior hockey team in Canada), having won the title for the second time in two seasons.Naming of Kitchener for the Olympics serves to complicate the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Ontario Hockey Association setup somewhat, because the Dutchmen will miss about four weeks of the OHA schedule. The general opinion seems to be that the Kitchener team be granted a berth in the OHA playoffs and the opportunity to defend their Canadian title, after they return from overseas. If successful, they would advance into the All-On-tario playoffs and then to the Allan Cup playdowns, provided, of course, that they manage to defeat the Northern Ontario Hockey Association champions, as they did last season.Kitchener will probably recruit some of the better players from Ontario, and possibly other provinces, to fill the vacancies created by the Olympic Games rules which render reinstated pros. ineligible. This ruling will affect defencemen Clare Martin, Bud Kemp and Joe Schertzl and centres Jackie Hamilton and Jackie White.But the big question right now is the make-up of both the NOHA and OHA senior groups. Sault Ste Marie, Ont., Sudbury, and North Bay, Ont. and Sault Ste Marie Mich., are figured as certain starters in the NOHA, now that the Greyhounds and the Wolves have agreed to subsidizze both the Trappers and the Indians, as they did last season. Pembroke has, so far, made no commitment public, and the rumor is that the Lumber Kings might apply for admission in some other league.<h2>He Has Lots To Recall</h2><h3>All Set For Campaign</h3>In the OHA territory, Kitchener, Owen Sound, Windsor and Chatham are all set for the next campaign, but there is some doubt about Stratford and Niagara Falls. Absence of the Kitchener Dutchmen at the world&rsquo;s championship tournament for a month will serve to reduce the schedule, and withdrawal of the Niagara Falls Cataracts, a strong possibility, will tend to further curtail the schedule, unless the operating clubs decided on more visits of the same teams.The real obstacle confronting the Niagara Falls Cataracts is finances. The former sponsors are not prepared to gamble their own money again, and a season-ticket selling campaign did not produce the desired results.A similar campaign launched by the Stratford Indians, being waged at present, has brought better results but still far from the objective of 1,000 options. Franchise-owner C. H. &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Meier has reiterated that unless the 1,000 objective is reached he will not operate the team, and there does not appear to be any. other person or persons willing to buy out Meier&rsquo;s interests and then finance the team the rest of the way, which Meier figures will cost as least $45,000.In the event the NOHA operates with but four clubs and the OHA with five or less, the only alternative for a successful schedule for both organizations, which would present more new faces to the fans, is an interlocking schedule between the two groups. This plan is under consideration right now, but nothing concrete has been aranged.Incidentally, now that Galt has withdrawn from the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA series for one season at least, the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; council en-deavored to interest Galt in senior hockey, but met with little success, and the latest report is that the hockey men in that city are not interested. The suggestion was that if Niagara Falls folded that the franchise and players be transferred to Galt. But that looks like an extremely hopeless case.There isn&rsquo;t any doubt that both the NOHA and OHA will operate but possibly with fewer teams, while the NOHA has also decided to set a weekly salary limit, as applies in the OHA, thereby curtailing operating expenses considerably.<h2>Nimble Cage Cop</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02135/1346429-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="1125" height="1473"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACQUES PLANTE</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Choice Of Dutchies For Olympics Hits OHA Setup

FORT FRANCES, Ont.&mdash;Despite a season fraught with grief and headaches, senior hockey in Fort Frances will embellish the sports scene again this year.The decision to carry on was made at a general meeting under president W. G. Boyle, MD.That the Fort Frances Canadians will skate again was settled as committee members turned their backs on a suggestion to convert the Allan Cup champions of three years ago into an intermediate class club. On what basis the colorful Canucks continue their career is not decided&mdash;what with the management owing debts from last winter totalling $2,100.Paying back local merchants will occupy the attention of the Canadian&rsquo;s executive for the next month or so, in which time the club is expected to be on ice and functioning. League affiliations, however, may be cancelled as the committee expressed a preference&mdash;to twist a popular phrase&mdash;to keep the show off the road. Travelling expenses, next to players&rsquo; salaries, put too much red ink on the ledger, it was agreed, and a series of at-home-exhibitions was favored in preliminary planning.<h2>Financial Aid</h2>Immediate project undertaken was to call for contributions from known hockey fans and interested citizens to help meet that $2,100 deficit. Gordon Baldwin volunteered to draft the appeal for funds that will go through the nails. Pete Jensen and Morris Crawford will assist with the campaign.When the puck drops, the traditional play-for-pay style of the Canadians may have gone completely amateur. Last year&rsquo;s debts were too much in mind for the committee to breathe any word on salaries.Although player material prospects are uncertain, only one veteran, &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Johnson, has announced his definite retirement. Hopes were expressed that a number of new faces would appear on the time-honored lineup of Canadians.Team Manager Glen Steele commented that an exhibition schedule probably could be rigged for the entire season, provided the committee acts fast. Canadians&rsquo; old sparring mates in the Thunder Bay league, Fort William Beavers and Port Arthur Bearcats, will be cordially invited to drop in, but not as league opponents. At that, the most successful season Fort Frances has seen&mdash;memorable 1952&mdash;was until playoffs strictly an exhibition affair. &#9632;

Fort Frances To Ice Team This Season

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02144/1346491-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg"></div>(Solution next week)<h2>Across</h2>1&mdash;NHL coach pictured in centre.4&mdash;Initials of Mathers, member of 1954-55 AHL All-Star team.5&mdash;Initials of Narduzzi, ex AHL player.6&mdash;Tony Leswick&rsquo;s new club (abbr.)8&mdash;Boston Bruin&rsquo;s trainer.10&mdash;Number of games Bill Dineen missed last season.12&mdash;Max Quackenbush did this recently.13&mdash;Denotes number once worn by Phil Watson as a Ranger player.15&mdash;Incorporated (abbr.)16&mdash;Name given pictured coach.18&mdash;Number of goals Ted Kennedy scored in 1954-55. &lsquo;19&mdash;&rdquo;Buddy&rdquo; O&rsquo;Connor&rsquo;s complete initials.20&mdash;Initials of a former member of the &ldquo;punch Line.&rdquo;21&mdash;Artificial language.23&mdash;A member of the Vancouver Canucks.27&mdash;Nickname of club with whom Graham Hastings played last season.28&mdash;An electrical term.29&mdash;Initials of Davis of the Boston Bruins.30&mdash;Upon.31&mdash;Jean Beliveau&rsquo;s is said to be near perfection.<h2>Down</h2>1&mdash;Bud MacPherson could be described as this.2&mdash;Nickname of Seattle&rsquo;s entrv in the WHL.3&mdash;Bob Chrystal has recuperated from a&mdash;injury.4&mdash;One is sometimes imposed1 upon a player.7&mdash;WHL scoring champion of 1954-55.9&mdash;Initials of Tustin, ex Ranger player.11&mdash;Coach of Victoria Cougars (two names).13&mdash;Pictured coach is a native of&mdash;Mines, Ont.14&mdash;Not out17&mdash;To be indebted.22&mdash;Number of times Max Ben ley won the Lady Byng Tra phy.23&mdash;Initials of a former Black Hawk coach.24&mdash;7 down played junior hockey with&mdash;Black Hawks.25&mdash;One of the Rangers is called this.26&mdash;&ldquo;Flash&rdquo; Hollett&rsquo;s native province (abbr.)30&mdash;Old English (abbr.)<h2>Solution from last week</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Reau me5&mdash;Ike7&mdash;Coburn10&mdash;In11&mdash;Richard12&mdash;Ky.13&mdash;Reg.15&mdash;Sam14&mdash;T.S.17&mdash;J.T.18&mdash;No.19&mdash;M.E.20&mdash;Dr.21&mdash;Army23&mdash;Hili26&mdash;BO.24&mdash;Rio25&mdash;Ae..27&mdash;Junior<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;Richard2&mdash;Albright3&mdash;Marc4&mdash;Hendy6&mdash;Kirkland Lake8&mdash;U.I.9&mdash;N.H.14&mdash;T.L. 1516&mdash;Morley17&mdash;Jeri19&mdash;Mar.22&mdash;Morn23&mdash;Hour26&mdash;Bucky &#9632;

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0157/1346543-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="240" height="286"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0256/1346536-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="241" height="296"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0354/1346529-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2345" height="1781"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0442/1346522-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2335" height="1719"><figcaption class="caption-body">HARRY LUMLEY, one of the Leafs representatives in the All-Star game is getting a rough time from rookie Johnny Bucyk as he attempts to clear the puck away from his cage with Jimmy Morrison looking on. In the lower photo, Glen Hall has an anxious moment as Marcel Pronovost rushes in to give him assistance. Bucky Hollingworth, now a Red Wing slides across the front of the cage.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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