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October 15, 1955
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THREE ROOKIES WITH LEAFS
Billy Harris, Dick Huff and Earl Balfour are the three rookies who will perform for the Toronto Maple Leafs as the new season unwinds. Harris is the much-discussed center who starred for last year’s Memorial Cup champion Toronto Marlboros. Leaf fans hope he will be able to pick up the mantle left by the great Ted Kennedy when he retired last spring. Harris is a Toronto native, weighs a little over 150 pounds, and scored 37 goals and had 29 assists with Marlboros last year. Duff is a left winger who has been called a second Ted Lindsay. He played junior with Toronto St. Mike’s last year where he helped himself to 33 goals and 20 assists. A scrappy little fellow (5’8”, 160 lbs.) who won’t be 20 until February, Duff…
THE FAN FORUM
More On Plain Drivel Dear Sir, Recently I was surprised to read a letter in the Fan Forum by Don Johnson, surprised because it was printed: The letter referred to the Fan Forum as “plain drivel.” I agree. It’s discouraging for any writer to sit down and pen a constructive letter to THE HOCKEY NEWS, only to see it ignored as week after week, on and on, you print letters by teenagers whose main stock in trade—either sex—is rudeness. When Howe was having his greatest year you crammed it down our throats about the “unfairness” of the 70 game season to Richard’s record. Was it the only way the NEWS could be abusive to an “opponent”, and still be “impartial”? The innocent young fans who want to know something…well, they have a right to space,…
Trappers Offer Solution
NORTH BAY, Ont.— North Bay Trappers have come up with a compromise plan on a salary dispute which has sundered the Northern Ontario Hockey Association down the middle. The Trappers agreed to stick to a weekly salary limit of $2,100. but will cut their roster down to 16 players instead of a proposed 18. This clashes with the stand taken by Sudbury Wolves and Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Greyhounds, who have been pressing for an increase in weekly salary scale to $2,400. Officials of Pembroke Lumber Kings plan to stand by the original limit set at an earlier meeting. At that meeting, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Indians were granted the $2,400 limit because a US immigration law prevents the team from lining up jobs for players. Trappers, in the meantime, intend to dress 15 players…
Leaf Minnows May Turn Into Fighting Sharks
TORONTO, Ont.— Casting into the biggest pool of minnows in their history, the Toronto Maple Leafs reeled in four keepers at their Garden City training base this autumn. Forwards Billy Harris, Dick Duff and Earl Balfour won spots in the first stages of Toronto’s giant rebuilding program and de-denseman Marc Reaume was retained pending clarification of the condition of Tim Horton’s rigth leg. Horton, who suffered the broken limb last spring, Was obliged to forgo all camp scrimmages until he received a final OK from Leaf physician Dr. Jimy Murray during the final week of training. And even in the last week of waiting, he missed skating practices when his skate boot developed a tender achilles tendon on the other leg. All of which left a temporary vacancy which Reaume filled after competition…
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