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November 5, 1955

The Hockey News November 5, 1955

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0167/1408670-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="245" height="281"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0266/1408663-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="255" height="299"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0364/1408656-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2924" height="1686"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0451/1408649-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2912" height="1737"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY SAWCHUK</b>, the Boston Bruins&rsquo; agile goalie, may find a little peculiar facing two Rockets instead of one this year but it doesn&rsquo;t affect his great goalkeeping skill. In the top photo, Terry deflects a shot into a corner as Canadians&rsquo; Rocket Richard skims in for a crack at a possible rebound. The lower picture shows the Rocket&rsquo;s kid brother, Henri, better known as The Pocket Rocket, attempting to shake off a persistent block by Boston&rsquo;s Leo LaBine who takes the puck out of harm&rsquo;s way as Sawchuk looks on. The Bruins came on to win the game, 3-2.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

A Pair Of Rockets Can’t Crack Sawchuk’s Racket

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03197/1407657-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="296" height="458"></div><p><b>STATISTICS</b></p><p class="dropcap"><span>L</span>ome Robert Ferguson was born in Palmerston, Ont., May 26, 1930. He is a 0 foot, 18. pound left winger, who last played amateur hockey with the New York Rovers. In 1949-50 he joined Tulsa of the USHL and played the 70 game schedule. He spent the next full season with the Boston Bruins. From 195152 to last season he played with both Hershey and Boston, being recalled by the Bruins on numerous occasions.</p><p><b>SUPERSTITION&mdash;IF ANY:</b></p><p>Has no definite superstition, but considers himself quite superstitious.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD BEFORE A GAME:</b></p><p>Steak.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD ANYTIME:</b></p><p>Lobster.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE:</b></p><p>Hasn&rsquo;t found that place yet.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</b></p><p>Florida.</p><p><b>FAVORITE NHL CITY ON A ROAD GAME:</b></p><p>Montreal.</p><p><b>FAVORITE READING MATERIAL:</b></p><p>Good novels.</p><p><b>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIES:</b></p><p>&ldquo;Stalag 17&rdquo; and &ldquo;Shane&rdquo;.</p><p><b>BEST ACTRESS:</b></p><p>Doris Day.</p><p><b>BEST ACTOR:</b></p><p>John Wayne.</p><p><b>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Doris Day.</p><p><b>FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Perry Como.</p><p><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA:</b></p><p>Les Brown.</p><p><b>FAVORITE POPULAR SONG:</b></p><p>&ldquo;Sentimental Journey&rdquo;.</p><p><b>IN THE SUMMER:</b></p><p>Lives in Kingston, Ont., and works for the Brewers Retail. FAVORITE TV PROGRAM:</p><p>&ldquo;Climax&rdquo;.</p><p><b>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY:</b></p><p>Scoring the hattrick against Chicago last season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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INSIDE STUFF About Lome Ferguson

<p><b>HERBIE CAIN, 80 Points-36 goals, 44 assists in 1943-44.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

BOLS ANSWER

<p><b>THE CIST AND JEST OF IT</b></p><p>(As seen in the Montreal Herald)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03169/1407088-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="294" height="332"></div><p>&bull; YOU COULD HARDLY blame Metro Prystai if, some night when Chicago Black Hawks are playing the Detroit Red Wings, he ups and scores a goal for the Hawks against the Wings. For Metro must keep a clear head in order to remember which team he is playing for. at the moment.</p><p>Let us examine, for a moment, the city-to-city record of this stocky, and at times, high-scoring forward, who started his career in Yorkton, Sask., never guessing what bewildering travels he would undertake after he became a professional.</p><p>From the Moose Jaw Junior Canucks, he went to Chicago, in 1947. For three years he toiled in the interests of the Hawks. In 1949-50, he scored 29 goals, although the team finished a dismal last, winning only 22 games.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote">From his perch in Detroit Olympia the eagle eye of Jack Adams fastened upon Metro at this point. &ldquo;What,&rdquo; enquired the Jolly One, to himself, &ldquo;Is going on here? A player on a tailend team scoring 20 goals. It is indeed a great tragedy, and a crying shame, that such a star should be left to languish with such a lowly team. Let me see who I can part with to secure the services of this mighty athlete.&rdquo;</blockquote><p>So, after due consideration, Jolly Jack parted with goaler Harry Lumley, &ldquo;Black Jack&rdquo; Stewart, Al. Dewsbury, Pete Babando, who had scored the winning Stanley Cup goal the previous spring and Don Morrison. In return, he secured Prystai, and a Couple of other players.</p><p>For four seasons, Metro toiled for Red Wings. His first season, he scored 20 goals, the next 21. Then he tailed off. Last season, the NHL directors decided something should be done to strengthen Hawks. Every team gave up a player or two. Canadiens, for instance, parted with Hollingsworth and Litzenberger. The League, practically at gun&rsquo;s point, forced Jolly Jack, no longer jolly, to give up Prystai. Jack didn&rsquo;t like it, and Red Wings players threatened to go on strike. But Prystai left. In the entire season, probably in a daze as to who he was playing for, Metro scored only 13 goals.</p><p>Now he moves back to Detroit from Chicago in a trade for Eddie Sandford, who came up from St. Mike&rsquo;s and played a lot of fair hockey for Boston Bruins. He is one of those guys who looks like a good hockkey player until he starts to play. Wings secured Sandford in the trade that took Terry Sawchuck to Boston.</p><p>We hope Prystai will remember who he&rsquo;s playing for, such times as Hawks and Red Wings meet.</p><p>&bull; WOMAN&rsquo;S WORK, to quote a lugubrious old-time ballad, is never done. You could substitute this doubtful theory in modern times for one a good deal less doubtful,, to the general effect that a hockey coach&rsquo;s worrying is never done.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote">&ldquo;What&rdquo; Toe Blake was asking himself and assembled listeners yesterday afternoon, &ldquo;am I going to do with the Pocket Rocket when Room Boom Geoffrion comes back? Or, what am I going to do with Geoffrion.&rdquo;</blockquote><blockquote class="pullQuote">&ldquo;What,&rdquo; enquired Frank Selke, junior, by way of divertisement, &ldquo;are you going to do about finding a nickname for Claude Richard, brother of the Rocket and the Pocket, when lie comes up to Canadiens?&rdquo;</blockquote><p>Blakke held his head&mdash;in both hands, yet. &ldquo;We might,&rdquo; he decided, &ldquo;call him the Pick Pocket, if he steals enough pucks from the opposition. Right now I have Olmstead the Picket, Maurice Richard the Rocket, and Henri the Pocket. But names are the least of my worries. That was Irvin&rsquo;s chore. He offered two tickets for a nickname for Beliveau, but I don&rsquo;t think he ever gave out the tickets or ended the contest. I have trouble getting the right name for Beliveau. I&rsquo;ve been calling him John, or Jean or Bill. Finally I settled for calling him just Beliveau. That&rsquo;s a good name.</p><p>&ldquo;My trouble is that Henri Richard has fitted himself in perfectly with Big Bill. They work together wonderfully well. In fact, this line is my best, with more balance than any other. You noticed they picked off three goals and 8 points Saturday night. If I take the Pocket Rocket off that line on which he&rsquo;s doing so well, he might not fit on another line. Geoffrion might not fancy a shift, either. When two right-wingers have done so well playing alongside Beliveau, it gives you a good idea of just how fine a team player and play-maker Beliveau is. All of which doesn&rsquo;t solve my problem, which might mean breaking up a winning combination.&rdquo;</p><blockquote class="pullQuote">&ldquo;Speaking of combinations&rdquo; added Blake, &ldquo;unless Dick Irvin makes some changes his team is going to slide down to last place. The acquisition of new talent hasn&rsquo;t added anything to the club, and they&rsquo;ve looked bad against us. I&rsquo;m not undertaking to criticize a veteran coach and a very successful one, who left me with a great hockey team. It&rsquo;s only an opinion. Probably,&rdquo; quipped Blake, &ldquo;they&rsquo;ll come in here Thursday night and makke me look bad by beating us.&rdquo;</blockquote><p>Getting back to the Pockekt Rocket, who is the current talk of hockey fandom. Blake said that in practise recently, the little fellow scored so many goals that the coach lost count of them. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s lightning fast, knows what to do&rdquo; said Blake. &ldquo;He hasn&rsquo;t been tested yet on foreign ice. But on big ice surfaces like Toronto and Chicago, his remarkable speed will be a great asset. On the small and sometimes slow Garden ice, he may have trouble with Rangers who are a rough, tough team at home.&rdquo;</p><p>Claude Richard, by the way, is 18 years old, bigger than the Pocket Rockket, and playing regularly with Canadien juniors. Shows promise, too.</p><p>&bull; SAMMY POLLOCK was telling us recently that the tremendous Canadien farm cost a quarter of a million dollars a year to operate, prior to this season. Now the overhead has been cut sharply with Canadien juniors playing only exhibition games, and the Quebec Frontenacs and Three Rivers junior teams dropped. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s down to a hundred grand a year now&rdquo; said Sammy in the cheerful tones one uses when speaking of peanuts. Sam heads the farm system, which streches from Montreal to the Pacific Coast.</p><p>Kenny Reardon, who is general manager of the Shawinigan Falls championship team, was In philosophical mood recently. &ldquo;It could happen only in hockey, I believe&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;that two teams known to be under the same general control could draw the biggest crowd of the Quebec League season. Everybody knows Shawinigan and Royals are under the same control, from the Forum, but everybody also knows that the teams are genuinely bitter rivals. So we pack in the fans here and at the Falls.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Elmer Ferguson

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01142/1408701-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ANDY BATHGATE of the New York Rangers is having a tough time getting a shot away as Toronto&rsquo;s Lary Cahan (No. 20) checks him closely and Harry Lumley, the Leaf goalie goes down to make the impending save during a typical Ranger-Toronto game. Coming in to put an additional check on Bathgate is Toronto&rsquo;s Ronnie Stewart (right).</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Bathgate Swings Shut</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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LINDSAY NOW TOP SCORING LW

<p>NEW YORK, NY.&mdash;</p><p>The most pleasent revelation of the current hockey season so far as Coach Phil Watson is concerned, is the play of Ronnie Murphy, the highest scoring member of the New York Rangers.</p><p>When the season got underway, the Blueshirts were very much of a question mark. They had a new coach, new faces and a few players who had come their way as a result of deals general manager Muzz Patrick had made during the off season.</p><p>Murphy was on the club. That&rsquo;s about all Watson was ready to concede before Red Storey dropped the first puck signalling the start of a new season. In the short space of 10 games, Murphy lias more than fulfilled Watson&rsquo;s fondest hopes. He has scored eight goals and is in third place in the NHL scoring race. He has been playing his greatest hockey and is credited with the gross understatement of the early season: Asked what the difference is this year, he answered, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m scoring goals!&rdquo;</p><p>Murhpy has everything to be a great player. He has the size, shot and general hockey-know-how. This is the first season that he&rsquo;s showing signs of blossoming out to greatness.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Murphy A Pleasant Surprise To Watson

<div class="byline">By KEN MCKENZIE</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Ted Lindsay, the battle-scarred little terrier from Renfrew, Ont., joined the hallowed ranks of hockey&rsquo;s immortals during the past week when he passed a milestone that stamps him as one of the greatest left wingers in hockey history.</p><p>The fiery Red Wing captain scored the 271st goal of his National Hockey League career which began back in 1944 when he joined the Red Wings from the Oshawa Generals, the Memorial Cup champions of the previous year.</p><p>That goal, made him the highest scoring left winger of all-time, surpassing the 270 total amassed in a 15-year span by Canadians&rsquo; little Aurel Joliat.</p><p>It was somewhat ironic that Lindsay, who first came into the league as a checker for Maurice Richard and other super-stars of that era, should break the record against Joliat&rsquo;s team&mdash;the Canadiens. As it turned out it was the only Red Wing goal of the game as Canadiens won it, 2-1.</p><p>Joliat, now a railway employee in Ottawa, was one of the great figures of his time. A little bit of guy, he was best characterized by a little black peak cap he wore. It became his trademark. Also, he was somewhat overshadowed through his illustrious career because he happened to be playing on the same line as the immortal Howie Morenz. Still and all, he was a cool, crafty craftsman with a penchant for scoring goals.</p><p>His National Hockey League career began in the season of 1922-23 and last through 15 years until 1937-38 when he played only six games for Canadiens.</p><p>His greatest year was 1924-25 when he scored 29 goals. He came up with 28 in 1927-28 and scored 22 in 1933-34.</p><p>Lindsay&rsquo;s greatest scoring years were 1947-48 when he scored 33 goals and won the Ross Trophy. For eight straight years he never dipped under the 20-goal mark. That skein was broken last year when he finished the season with 19 goals. But he missed 21 games through injuries.</p><p>In surpassing Joliat&rsquo;s all-time ital, Lindsay also passed Morenz nark of 270 and ranks fourth on he all-time scoring list behind laurice Richard, Nels Stewart and Gordie Howe.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0298/1408756-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="291" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Detroit Captain Surpasses Mark Held By Joliat

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Just like football, hockey would appear to have no result so futile so unsatisfactory as a 0-0 tie.</p><p>A tie by any score generally is displeasing to the fans even though one team (and sometimes both) are happy to settle for the deadlock.</p><p>But a tie without any goals usually compounds the failure of the contest.</p><p>Last year there were 210 games played in the National Hockey League. Exactly 50 were ties. Only three, however, were scoreless deadlocks. Similarly, the year before there were four 0-0 games among the 33 ties.</p><p>Toronto participated in all three double shutouts last season but the Maple Leaf monopoly on that specialty was broken early this season when Detroit and Boston battled to a complete blank in the fifth game of the Olympia season.</p><p>Thus the first head-on meeting between Terry Sawchuk and Glenn Hall, the old and the new Red Wing goalies, was a perfect draw. Sawchuk needed 28 saves, Hall 19.</p><p>There is a special note that 12,771 fans&mdash;largest crowd to see the Bruins play here in several seasons&mdash;watched the game. Jack Adams insisted that Sawchuk was the man chiefly responsible for bringing in the surplus.</p><p>The fans gave Terry a great ovation just like they did in his unofficial appearance here for the All Star Game. Sawchuk, extremely popular in these parts, still owns a perfect record at Olympia since he didn&rsquo;t permit a goal in his 30-minute stand in the All Star contest.</p><p>For comparison of tie games, the Red Wings had played to a 2-2 draw with Chicago just two nights before. That game would appear to have been more thrilling since the Wings offset a 2-0 deficit with late goals by Bill Dineen and Ted Lindsay.</p><p>Yet, strangely enough, the 0-0 game packed much more drama and contained a considerably higher grade of hockey. No goals, in this case, didn&rsquo;t mean no hockey.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03168/1406826-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="302" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Glenn Hall</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04138/1406819-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="306" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Sawchuk</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hall, Sawchuk Post Zeroes In First Showdown Battle

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The Black Hawks, as a result of the careful planning of General Manager Tommy Ivan, have developed as solid an alignment in the goaltending department as will be found these days in any hockey circuit with what has been tabbed as a &ldquo;Three-man swing system.&rdquo;</p><p>The cast is made up of Al Rollins, the veteran cage guardian with Chicago; youthful Hank Bassen, who is tending the twine for the Hawks&rsquo; American League partner at Buffalo, and promising newcomer Bill Harrington, fresh from stellar netminding displays in amateur ranks.</p><p>&ldquo;Harrington is the swing goalie,&rdquo; explains Ivan. &ldquo;Right now, he is at Buffalo and keeps in condition by working out regularly with the Bisons. Were anything to happen to Rollins or Bassen, Bill would, of course, get the call. We don&rsquo;t want to get in a spot like we were last year.&rdquo;</p><p>The reference was to a sad situation that developed in midseason when Rollins was sidelined with a combination of physical ills and mental shakes. Only other netminder available immediately was Bassen who had to leave Buffalo with a gap in its goaling setup.</p><p>The Bisons were forced to bring up amateur Marvin Edwards for an unexpected three-game trial and also had to dig hard to come up with Ed Chadwick and Ivan Walmsley for additional stints during the period. Eventually, Ray Fredricks was signed to permanently fill the gap.</p><p>Ivan vowed immediately, however, that he didn&rsquo;t want to see such a problem arise again and this later resulted in the acquisition of the rights to sign Harrington who was outstanding last season with the Windsor Spitfires in Ontario Senior amateur competition.</p><p>Chicago had no less than six goalies in camp this fall at Welland, Ont., as Ivan began to develop his plans for the swing system. Before camp closed, he had picked Rollins, Bassen and Harrington as the members. Edwards was dispatched to Windsor while Frederick went west to join Calgary in the WHL.</p><h2><b>Platooning Pillars</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05108/1406864-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="594" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AL ROLLINS</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0673/1406857-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="594" height="584"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HANK BASSEN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“Three-Man Swing System” Backbone Of Hawks’ Goaling

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0739/1406895-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>ack in January 10, 1920, when the Toronto team was defeated by the Montreal Canadians, 14-7. The 21 goals scored by both teams constitute a N.H.L. record that has never been broken for most goals in a single game.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Do you remember?…

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>If the Rangers can&rsquo;t make the top rung on the NHL&rsquo;s Hit Parade Phil Watson is going to see to it that they take the number one spot on the &ldquo;Hate Parade&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;I want them to be the most respected team in the league&rdquo;, Phil said with thoughts of the rock&rsquo;em pre-war Rangers.</p><p>&ldquo;More than that I want them to be the most hated club.</p><p>&ldquo;Some of them have shown signs that they get the idea,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;And I won&rsquo;t stop until they all do and show it. Any guy on my team who even winks or smiles at a guy he&rsquo;s playing against won&rsquo;t be around long.&rdquo;</p><p>One Ranger whose opponents are beginning to hate is Leapin&rsquo; Louie Fontinato.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the kind of a guy I want,&rdquo; said fiery Phil. &ldquo;Sure he gets plenty of penalties but there are plenty he doesn&rsquo;t deserve. Now we&rsquo;ve got a spirited and fighting club. We&rsquo;ll be up there in penalties and we&rsquo;ll be up there in Wins. But it&rsquo;s for sure we&rsquo;ll be up there in penalties.&rdquo;</p><p>Watson wasn&rsquo;t the only New York official keynoting the Blues&rsquo; hate campaign. A surprise contributor was General John Reed Kilpatrick, president of the club.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re in this game to win,&rdquo; said the General. &ldquo;If we lose, we lose, but the Rangers won&rsquo;t lose gracefully; you can be sure of that.&rdquo;</p><p>No one, but no one, takes a loss harder than Watson. He coaches the team with the hope that they&rsquo;ll take all 70 games on the schedule. He knows better, but there is not much Phil can do to conceal his anguish over defeat.</p><p>They tell the story about the letter Watson received after Rangers had dropped two in a row on the road. It was from Phil&rsquo;s teammate, Art Coulter, when the Rangers were the best in the hockey world.</p><p>&ldquo;By Gar?&rdquo; yelped the explosive Frenchman. &ldquo;Art Coulter say he disappointed we lose two. He ees disappointed? How about me? And Art Coulter is my pal. A fine pal.&rdquo;</p><p>Watson crumbled the letter into a ball and threw it savagely across the room.</p><p>With Fontinato averaging two penalties a game Watson may be right about the New Yorkers being near the top in penalties. Whether that will keep them among the Big Four in wins is another question.</p><p>Opponents are learning that The Leaper is a sucker to retaliate with a glaring elbow or crosscheck when provoked. The referees know it too and they have their eyes on him.</p><p>In fact, Fontinato himself realizes he is being lured into unnecessary penalties. Trying to refine his volatile temperament isn&rsquo;t easy but Louie is working on it. If he can tone down on his cheap infractions and still maintain his roughouse tactics he&rsquo;ll be on his way to NHL stardom.</p><p>In the meantime Watson has altered his original plan of having no set pair of penalty-killers. He&rsquo;s using Larry Popein and Andy Hebenton to do the stalling, with Dean Prentice and Guy Gendron spotting Hebenton occasionally.</p><p>OFFSIDE: Famous voice now being heard at Ranger games is that of Hilda Chester, noted Brooklyn Dodger bellringer and booster&hellip;Hilda wanted to come into the Rangers dressing room after a recent home victory and kiss the boys&hellip;&ldquo;Keep that door locked,&rdquo; shouted Fontinato, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve done enough fighting for tonight&rdquo;&hellip;Ivan Irwin being used sparingly by Watson&hellip;Ditto Larry Popein who looks as fast as ever and Guy Gendron&hellip;Muzz Patrick and Watson like Gendron&rsquo;s ability, promise to use him more as the season rolls along&hellip;Jack Evans playing his best hockey in years. Few can make the end-to-end rush like &ldquo;Tex&rdquo;&hellip;. Bronco Horvath&rsquo;s sprained ankle has slowed him down somewhat&hellip;Once he gets his sea-legs he&rsquo;ll be an asset.</p><p>Bill Gadsby and Fontinato have taken the cue from Bob Goldham blocking shot on goal&hellip;In spite of it, Worsley still has been stopping more than the opposition goalies&hellip;All Ranger home games being broadcast on station WINS 1010 KC, Ward Wilson and Bert Lee, veteran New York hockey announcers are handling the chores&hellip;Lee, in his 18th year of hockey broadcasting handles the commentary&hellip;Telecasts of Ranger home games over WPIX will be made on just four nights&mdash;the two Thursdays and the two Saturdays on the New York schedule&hellip;The 16 Wednesdays and the 15 Sundays will not be televised&hellip;Watson&rsquo;s reason for wanting to make the playoffs: &ldquo;I want the money for a spring vacation in Maine&rdquo;.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01198/1406764-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="300" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lon Fontinato</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02182/1406757-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="296" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Hebenton</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Watson Says NY Will Be Tops On Hit Or Hate List

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Shortly after the Boston Bruins started their pre-season training in early September, Milt Schmidt told Hockey News readers of his first objective.</p><p>&ldquo;This year,&rdquo; said the Bruins&rsquo; coach, &ldquo;I want the Bruins to make a better start than they&rsquo;ve made in recent years.</p><p>&ldquo;The story for the last few falls was that we could have trouble winning our early games. Every winter we&rsquo;d have to break our backs to make the Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>&ldquo;This year,&rsquo;&rsquo; added Milt Schmidt, &ldquo;I hope we can do some winning ourselves in those early games and have the pleasant experience of watching some of the other teams trying to catch us.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bruins&rsquo; pre-season program this fall was definiely designed toward an accelerated start. The training period was the longest ever, the exhibition schedule the longest ever, the conditioning work the most rigorous ever.</p><p>And as the Bruins embarked on their first long road trip of the young season the other day, Schmidt&rsquo;s objective was in the process of being realized.</p><p>Of their first six games they had won three and tied a fourth, and half their games had been with the Montreal Canadiens, two of them in Montreal.</p><p>They owned seven points, and their defense has yielded only 12 goals to the combined opposition, five of them in one game.</p><p>By contrast, a year ago they won only one of their first six games. They didn&rsquo;t earn their seventh point until their 11th game, or their third victory until their 15th game.</p><p>The most noticeable improvement in the Bruins was in their defense, for their goals-against total had been virtually halved, evidence of the fine handiwork of Goalie Terry Sawchuk.</p><p>The long trip which keeps the Bruins away for nearly three weeks each fall has always been a costly one, but this year they figured to come out better than they have recently. Schmidt could show a tidy profit even before their tour was well underway.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bruins Living Up to Schmidt’s Fondest Hopes

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01197/1406926-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FLOYD CURRY&hellip;&hellip;A solid checker</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>We can&rsquo;t recall with certainty who christened Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; Floyd Curry the Honest Blocker. The source of such appellations often is lost in the mists of athletic antiquity but off-hand we&rsquo;d say the the words &ldquo;Honest Blocker&rdquo; as applied to Curry came from the well pointed pen of Baz O&rsquo;Meara.</p><p>Certainly they are appropriate and the connotation bears no resemblance to the &ldquo;Honest Breakeman&rdquo;, a name once given a character in boxing because he never stole a freight ear.</p><p>The honest as applied to Curry means that the stalwart rightwinger, a man who contributes substantially to Canadiens&rsquo; vaunted strength on that side of the ice, always gives his best, never shirks an assignment and is as dependable as the sun in the sky.</p><p>Curry shine in his own way&mdash;as a solid checker, as a penalty killer, as a scorer in the clutch. Unlike Maurice Richard, Bernie Geoffrion and Jean Beliveau who are bathed almost daily in printer&rsquo;s ink in a city that&rsquo;s predominately French-Canadian, Curry along with such other performers as Bert Olmstead. Doug Harvey, Tom Johnson and Dickie Moore seldom get the credit he deserves.</p><p>But let no one overlook his feats, his rugged adherence to duty, his ability to give his best when nothing but the best is demanded.</p><p>To appreciate the worth of this soft-speaking, mild-mannered man with the well rounded personality, you don&rsquo;t have to look any further than the 1955 Stanley Cup playoffs. Canadiens went into those crucial games minus the services of the volatile Maurice Richard, under suspension for whacking an official in a late-season game in Boston.</p><p>Curry, who will gain a thousand times more territory that Richard when the meek inherit the earth, resolutely met the challenge of the Rocket&rsquo;s enforced absence. In the semi-finals against the Bruins, he was Canadiens&rsquo; big gun scoring three goals and gaining three assists in five games.</p><p>He patrolled his right wing with cool finesse, took Richard&rsquo;s place on Habs&rsquo; productive power plays, checked like a demon and even helped to kill penalties.</p><p>With Richard still paying for his transgressions, Curry continued to sparkle in the finals against the Red Wings, banging five goals past the harassed Terry Sawchuk and adding another assist to his total in seven games.</p><p>&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t playing any differently, that&rsquo;s for sure,&rdquo; Curry recalled. &ldquo;But I was getting on the ice more often. You know the more you play, the more confidence you develop. And you get the feel of the puck. That&rsquo;s important.&rdquo;</p><p>True! You can&rsquo;t score goals from the bench and if Curry was a late starter last season it was largely because Dick Irvin, then coach of the Habs, didn&rsquo;t give him a regular turn for the first 27 games of the season.</p><p>Irvin had a well-stocked warehouse of right wingers. The Habs seem to collect them like the Brooklyn Dodgers under Branch Rickey used to collect outfielders. Richard and Geoffrion were assigned to the top lines and Irvin had Eddie Iitzenberger, a tall, lanky rookie with a blazing shot, for the third line.</p><p>So Curry gathered splinters in a tender spot of his anatomy. A lesser man might have grown bitter or, at least, complained about his treatment. But not Curry. A team player, first, last and always, he never uttered a word of complaint.</p><p>Finally, the break came. Big Litz was sold to the Chicago Black Hawks in the &ldquo;Help poor Norris&rdquo; campaign and Curry was given a regular right wing spot.</p><p>And if Curry needed a shot of confidence, it came from Frank J. Selke, the club&rsquo;s managing director. At a press luncheon, Selke revealed that the Hawks actually had sougth Curry.</p><p>&ldquo;But,&rdquo; Selke explained, &ldquo;it is nos Canadiens&rsquo; policy to barter a man who has given as much to the club as Curry. I wouldn&rsquo;t want to see a veteran like that end his years in Chicago. Curry turned professional with the Canadiens and he&rsquo;ll end his career here in Montreal. His wife and family is here, his home is here. He belongs here.&rdquo;</p><p>Curry, who was born in Chapleau, Ont., on Aug. 11, 1925, first became acquainted with the Habs when he was 15 years old. Seeking a trial, he checked into the Canadiens&rsquo; training camp at St. Hyacinthe, Que., the youngest rookie ever to show with the Montreal team.</p><p>Although he showed flashes of the latent ability that later would make him a star in the National Hockey League, he didn&rsquo;t make the grade. Back he came the following year, a little more polished, a little more eager. One day he received a telephone call from Oshawa. Would be play junior hockey for the Oshawa Generals?</p><p>Curry talked it over with the Montreal brass. A good idea! all agreed. And Curry was on his way although he remained on the Habs negotiation list.</p><p>The Oshawa team, a great power in junior hockey in those days and a breeding ground for many players who latter would make their mark in the NHL, rolled to Memorial Cup finals in three years with Curry playing for them and in the 1943-44 season they copped the trophy, emblematic of junior supremacy in Canada.</p><p>After a hitch in the Canadian Navy, Flyod joined the Royals of the Quebec Senior Hockey League and helped them to win the Allen Cup, emblematic of the senior championship of Canada, in 1947.</p><p>He became a rere triple crown participent when the Canadiens won the Stanley Cup, professional hockey&rsquo;s greatest prize, in 1953.</p><p>Between his share in the Allen Cup triumph and his share in Canadiens&rsquo; Stanley Cup victory, there were several years of disappointment, of heart-breaking shuffles between Montreal and Buffalo. For a while it appeared that Curry, who showed so much promise as a yongster, wouldn&rsquo;t make the grade as a top-line professional.</p><p>Along with several other members of the Royal team of 1946-47&mdash;men who soon faded dismally into oblivion&mdash;Curry turned pri in the Autumn of 1947. He was sent to Buffalo where he played 14 games and picked up 14 points before being recalled to Montreal for the final 31 games of the NHL schedule.</p><p>With the Habs he scored only one goal and acquired five assists. So it was back to Buffalo the following year. Midway through the 1949-50 campaign, the again was hoisted to Montreal, this time to remain as a player and to establish himself in suburtan Notre Dame de Grace as a solid citizen.</p><p>In all his years with the Habs, Curry has been known as a clean player. Generally it is his chore to hobble such outstanding wingmen as, say, Ted Lindsay of the Dertoit Red Wings, a hard-jawing, hard-skating character with a penchant for annoying his rival checks. Yet Curry, seldom resorts to illegal tactics and he never&mdash;well almost never&mdash;hurls a word of dubious propriety into the sensitive ears of an official.</p><p>As a matter of fact, and this is worth recording because it reveals better than anything else the high ideals and the inherent sportsmanship of the man, Curry has served only one misconduct penalty in his entire hockey career, dating back to those early days with the Oshawa Generals.</p><p>Curry incurred that misconduct in a game against the New York Rangers at the Montreal Forum last season. Following a dubious off-side whistle against the Habs, Curry forget all decorum and uttered a choice remark within earshot of Linesman Bill Roberts. The astonished linesman reported the breach of etiquette to Referee Ssotty Morrison who had no alternative under the rules but to impose the 10-minute banishment, the only blot of Curry&rsquo;s escutcheon.</p><p>That penalty boosted his total to the season to 36 minutes, his all-time high. Previously he had never served more than 23 minutes. That was in 1950-51, the season in which he was given his only major.&rsquo;</p><p>A family man with two daughters, Curry met his lovely wife, June, during his junior days at Oshawa. The girls are Dawn, who is seven, and Candy, who is two. Dawn, of course, is a hockey fan and frequently she asthonishes her father.</p><p>One time Curry asked her: &ldquo;Dawn, whose your favorite hockey player? Tell daddy.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Sure, daddy,&rdquo; she repiled. &ldquo;Rocket Richard.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Well at least I&rsquo;m second best in her estimation,&rdquo; said Curry as he recalled the joke at his expense.</p><p>When Curry finally hangs up his skates&mdash;and most Montreal fans hope that retirement is a long way off for Curry is a durable player&mdash;he won&rsquo;t have to worry about employment.</p><p>Already with characteristic foresight he is preparing for his career as a business man by acting as a salesman for a fuel oil distributing company in the off-season and in his spare time.</p><p>A good dresser with a pleasing personality, Curry is the ideal salesman-type, the kind of fellow who&rsquo;ll end up someday as a sales manager or an executive.</p><p>When Canada&rsquo;s ten bester dress man are announced every year, generally a hockey player is on the list which means exactly nothing because in the final analysis it is only a promotion scheme. The clothing men generally select a fellow like Richard, for his publicity value, but if the choice were made simply on merit, Curry would win easily.</p><p>No player in the National Hockey League wears clothes better than Curry. He always looks as though he stepped out of a fashion magazzine. The cut of his suit always is perfect, the accessories chosen with an eye to color and a pleasing blend of hues.</p><p>That&rsquo;s typical of the man. His neat appearance simply reflects his orderly mind, his fine personality. As we said before, he&rsquo;s a credit to his team and to his community. He&rsquo;s a credit to hockey, helping to offset in a large measure the poor sportsmanship and the devil-may-care attitude of so many others.</p><h2><b>&ldquo;Mr. Count-On-Me&rdquo;</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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“3-D” Curry Rates As A Coach’s Dream Player With Dependability, Determination and Desire

<p><b>CURRY, FLOYD JAMES (BUSHER)</b></p><p><b>Born, Chapleau, Ont., August 11, 1925. Right wing. Shoots right. 5&rsquo; 11&rdquo;, 175 lbs.</b></p><p><b>Last amateur club: Montreal Royals (Senior).</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02166/1406964-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="484" height="340"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03113/1406957-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="622" height="344"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Floyd Curry’s Record

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>ED LINDSAY</b>, the captain of the Detroit Red Wings is the 1 subject of next week&rsquo;s feature article by Marshall Dann THE HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; Detroit correspondent.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0469/1406995-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="432" height="578"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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COMING next week

<div class="byline">by Bob Hesketh</div><p><b>(As Seen In the Toronto Telegram)</b></p><p>WHEN Phil Watson was playing for the New York Rangers, it was not a criminal offense to enter a bar either to make a telephone call or buy a drink. In fact, Mr. Watson was recalling decently, it was a common practise after a hockey match to celebrate in such a manner, sometimes for having emerged victorious and sometimes for having emerged unscathed.</p><p>On one occasion, the girl who was to become Mrs. W. commented that perhaps the reason the Rangers were being beaten fairly consistently was that they lacked condition. Mr. Watson, who was in a bar across from Madison Square Garden at the time, which was three-o-clock in the morning, remarked that it was perfectly ridiculous that he shouldn&rsquo;t be in condition.</p><p>Now he laughs at his frivolous objection. Whether or not they are building humans differently these days, Mr. Watson has thrown in his lot on the side of temperance if not complete abstinence. Lips that touch liquor have no place with Mr. Watson&rsquo;s new Rangers. People who have to make telephone calls should avoid bars and find drug stores. In New York the ratio is heavily with the bars but Watson is ruthless in his insistence.</p><p>Watson thinks that his predecessors have been too lax in their treatment of employees. This is not meant as any knock to their capabilities as much as a tribute to their generosity.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote">At any rate the Fiery One has hit New York with only a little less force and hardly any less wind than a hurricane. Hockey writers, some of whom have bled internally with Ranger Mediocrity, are clamoring at his side for material. Even columnists, who seldom give hockey the time of day, have unleashed their fingers in hopeful odes, one of the more outstanding of them recently remarking that Watson even donned the blades and went on the ice when his club practiced, devotion which he thought was seldom duplicated throughout the rest of the league.</blockquote><h2><b>Elephants Have A Priority</b></h2><p>Watson regards such outbursts gleefully. He is in the happy position of either being an inevitable success or at worst a colorful equality. The Rangers have finished out of the playoffs 12 times in 14 years. It would take a great deal of concentration to make the record worse.</p><p>In addition he has, outside the turnstiles, the most loyal fans he could hope to find in view of such sustained lack of a product to sell. This is also in spite of the fact that Madison Square Garden has for years made it obvious that hockey in N.Y. is a second-rate feature. Unfailingly at playoff time, the Rangers, if they were still in contention, would have to clean out their lockers and move somewhere else. The circus, one of the gigantic moneymakers in Easter week, moves in.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote">This evil situation has existed through the years of triumph and failure and there is no sign of it being eased. It can do nothing else but lend columnists like the widely-read Joe Williams of the World-Telegram and Sun to a conclusion that the management &ldquo;makes it clear in advance that it has no particular interest in putting a championship team on ice, because to do so would mean only confusion and annoyance. The same gentlemen, however, brazenly hustle patronage for regularly scheduled games.&rdquo;</blockquote><p>The only conclusion to be drawn is that hockey sells itself in spite of obstacles. The addition of a lively wire such as P. Watson can only have a salubrious effect.</p><p>At any rate, so far this season, he has supplied the surprise not only with his loquaciousness but with a hockey club that has attained the heady elevation of second place. If it continues on Watson&rsquo;s meticulously laid out schedule of so many goals a month from such and such a player with an ultimate destination of 200, it is highly probable that the club will finish in the playoffs, fulfilling Watson&rsquo;s burning ambition. He confesses he is not looking for a Stanley Cup for a while but would not object to being pleasantly surprised.</p><h2><b>Some Lousy Arithmetic</b></h2><p>Individually the club is remarkably changed. There is a dash and aggressiveness about them which may be due, in part, to the fact that they are all conscious of minor league clauses in their contracts. One holf of them, too, took salary cuts which may be regained if the Rangers have a successful year at the box office.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote">&ldquo;They were all signed in one day, too,&rdquo; Watson says, a suggestion of incredulity in his voice.</blockquote><p>The wonder may be due to his own professional contract experience.</p><p>In those days it was a law that every French-Canadian within the bounds of Quebec belonged to Montreal. Lester Patrick, the Ranger manager, discovered that Watson, though he talked as French as Chevalier, was nevertheless the son of a Scots sire. Watson signed a paper to that effect and Patrick went about the arduous business of getting him to sign a contract.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote">&ldquo;Lester,&rdquo; Watson told him, &ldquo;I am no chicken feed hockey player. I want a three-year contract for $9,000.&rdquo;</blockquote><p>Patrick, who had anticipated a greater demand, agreed that is was fine.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote">&ldquo;And,&rdquo; continued Watson, &ldquo;I want it like this: $4,000 for the first year, $4,500 for the second and $5,000 for the third.&rdquo;</blockquote><p>Lester&rsquo;s trap-like mind hastily concluded that this amounted to $13,500, a fact which he immediately conveyed to Watson.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote">&ldquo;That I can&rsquo;t help,&rdquo; said Phil. &ldquo;I only play hockey. I&rsquo;m not so good at the figures.&rdquo;</blockquote><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01268/1407033-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="328" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Phil Watson</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02241/1407026-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="316" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lester Patrick</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NEWS on SPORT

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Although he is currently no more than a substitute for Al Rollins (Black Hawks) and Hank Bassen (Buffalo), rookie netminder Bill Harrington is rated very highly by Chicago hockey moguls who feel his future will definitely be busier than his current days of Watchful waiting.</p><p>During the Hawks&rsquo; training grind at Welland, Ont., in September, the 23-year-old impresser looked like much more than an amateur as he matched proven professionals Rollins and Bassen save for save in the series of intra-squad meetings and exhibition games with other teams.</p><p>Great last season with the Windsor Spitfires in Ontario Senior play, Harrington was particularly sparkling in an exhibition test against Cleveland of the American League. Taking to the ice &ldquo;cold&rdquo; after Rollins had played the first two periods, he shut out the pressing Barons with a fine display of goaling.</p><p>At one point, two Cleveland skaters eluded Chicago defensemen for a clean breakaway. The tall, dark Harrington crounched for the puck an dnabbed it with an outstretched glove at the last second. He had refused to be fooled by either of the attackers.</p><p>It was shortly after this that Coach Dick Irvin was quoted as saying, &ldquo;He looks as though he might become another Bill Durnan. I think Murph Chamberlain (Windsor coach and ex-Canadien star) has done great job with him. In 20 years, I have never seen so much improvement in a goalie in just two seasons.&rdquo;</p><p>Anxious to learn of his fate, Harrington grew nervous when others began signing their contracts near the close of camp. &ldquo;I think I&rsquo;ll quit if they don&rsquo;t turn mepro,&rdquo; he admitted at one point. &ldquo;All I want is to be shown where to put my name on that piece of paper.&rdquo;</p><p>While he didn&rsquo;t know it, Hawk officials were set to sign Harrington almost from the start when he played on equal terms with Rollins and Bassen. It wasn&rsquo;t until the last couple of days of training that Chicago gave Rollins the nod over the impressive Harrington.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Sub Harrington Seen As Comer With Chihawks

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Hustle, hustle, hustle! Little Ed Panagabko of the Bruins has it by the bushel!</p><p>What&rsquo;s hustle? Ask Lynn Patrick.</p><p>&ldquo;Hustle,&rdquo; says the manager of the Bruins, &ldquo;is the maximum application of ability. Panagabko has it by the bushel.&rdquo;</p><p>Panagabko, the pint-sized Bruins&rsquo; center, has just completed a tour of the National league, his first.</p><p>Everywhere he has played officials of opposing teams and other qualified critics have spoken of one characteristic: His hustle.</p><p>Frank Selke mentioned it in Montreal, Hap Day in Toronto, Muzz Patrick in New York.</p><p>&ldquo;Hustle,&rdquo; says the bruins&rsquo; Patrick, &ldquo;is the reason Ed is with this team.</p><p>&ldquo;I told him while we were training at Hershey that he would play professional hockey this year, either at Victoria in the Western league or Hershey in the American league.</p><p>&ldquo;After that he hustled so much that he made Hershey. And when we came up with a couple of training camp Injuries he hustled so much he made the Bruins.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never known a youngster,&rdquo; observed Harold Cotton, the Bruins&rsquo; chief scout, &ldquo;who wanted to play in the National league as much as Panagabko. Or one who has hustled more to play in it.&rdquo;</p><p>Panagabko is like one of those little mechanical toys with which street corner pedlars make their appearances each year before Christmas.</p><p>It&rsquo;s as if Coach Milt Schmidt winds him up before each game, so that he doesn&rsquo;t stop moving until the game is over.</p><p>Panagabko seems to have boiled the game down to one fundamental&mdash;motion. When the Bruins have the puck he&rsquo;s on the go, and when the other team has it he never stops. And when play changes direction he probably wastes less time and space picking up the new course than any other player in the league. He turns circles so tightly that some night, it is expected, he will meet himself going the other way.</p><p>Neither Coach Milt Schmidt nor Patrick is ready to speak with authority on Panagabko&rsquo;s general hockey ability as yet&mdash;after all, he&rsquo;s only in his first month as a pro&mdash;but they give the 21-year-old rookie a high rating for spunk.</p><p>For his first big league body check the little man picked massive Larry Cahan of Toronto, and he bounced literally off the 200-pound defenseman. Afterward he growled, &ldquo;If I&rsquo;da had 15 more pounds I&rsquo;da flattened him.&rdquo;</p><p>And in a game in Montreal in which he thought Jean Beliveau was being too frisky with his stick around Goalie Terry Sawchuk, he flung himself at the huge Canadiens&rsquo; center. Beliveau escaped damage.</p><p>Oddly enough, Patrick made a comparison of Panagabko and Beliveau just a short while before Boston&rsquo;s midget clashed with the Montreal giant, and he presented it in the form of a qeustion.</p><p>&ldquo;What do those two have tn common?&rdquo; he asked, and then he answered the question himself. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s hustle. That Beliveau never lets up from the time he gets on the ice until he gets off, and that&rsquo;s what makes him great.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know whether or not that hustle will make Panagabko great, also,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;but I know one thing. It won&rsquo;t hurt him. At least with me.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

“Hustle By The Bushel” Panagabko’s NHL Trademark

<div class="byline">BARRY</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>OSTON&mdash;Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens has issued an ultimatum to one National league opponent regarding the kid-glove treatment which he expects to be accorded his younger brother Henri.</b></p><p><b>In the last game in Montreal between the Boston Bruins and Canadiens, the younger Richard was boarded rather vigorously by little Ed Panagabko, the Bruin being given a penalty for the act.</b></p><p><b>As Panagabko sat in the penalty box, the older Richard unbraided him for the board check and issued a warning to him.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;He said no one was going to knock his brother around, and that he&rsquo;d get even with me later,&rdquo; related Panagabko afterward.</b></p><p><b>Later in the game the nimble Panagabko just avoided a Richard check, and lie was also pursued in the center ice zone by Butch Bouchard, lumbering Montreal defenseman.</b></p><p><b>Henri Richard, smallest of the Canadiens, is 19 years old and reportedly weighs 157 pounds. Panagabko, smallest of the Bruins, is 21 and weighs 163 pounds.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Panagabko Says Richard, Sr., Warned Him About Hitting Jr.

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Gue.&mdash;</p><p>Bud MacPherson, a victim of the wicked injury jinx that strikes at hockey players&rsquo; knees, is currently with the Montreal Royals, rounding into shape for what he hopes will be a comeback in National Hockey League.</p><p>After treatment for a damaged cartilege, MacPherson was sent to Canadiens&rsquo; Quebec Hockey League farm for a thorough test of the gimpy knee. If it responds to hard play in that free-wheeling league, he likely will be hoisted back to the Habs.</p><p>In that case the management, with six rearguards available, will have to make a decision involving one of them. Currently the fifth man is Guy Talbot, a rookie from Shawinigan Falls, an unpolished but willing worker, who has been used sparingly by Coach Toe Blake.</p><p>With the established combinations of Tom Johnson and Butch Bouchard, Doug Harvey and Dollard St. Laurent working well in front of goalie Jacques Plante, young Talbot hasn&rsquo;t had too much opportunity to shine.</p><p>MacPherson has been handled unkindly by the hockey fates. He had a hard time breaking into the line-up and in the 1953-54 campaign, he was employed with the Royals and with the Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League as well as with the Habs.</p><p>Last season he became a regular but he pulled up lame at mid&eacute;season and got into 30 games and none of the playoff encounters.</p><p>Operated on, he didn&rsquo;t regain full use of the knee and spent the summer taking treatments to prepare himself for the present season. He aggravated the injury at training camp and for a time it was feared another operation would be necessary.</p><p>However the doctors decided that treatments would be sufficient. Now. that he is back on skates, it appears that the course was a wise one.</p><h2><b>On Mend?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01218/1407167-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="564" height="573"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BUD MacPHERSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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MacPherson To Test Dinky Knee With Elmer Lach’s Royals

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Just when the Prystai Fan Club was preparing for its first annual memorial service, word came for a joyous celebration instead.</p><p>Metro Prystai was back with the Red Wings.</p><p>In rejoining the team, it marked the second time around in the curious career of the stocky little forward whose National Hockey League allegiance has read Chicago-Detroit-Chicago-Detroit.</p><p>In the latest deal Ed Sandford went to Chicago in an even swap.</p><p>While not exactly a momentous deal in a strict hockey sense, it was a big attention-grabber. It also was a surprise with no preceding rumors when even a hint of the event would have started bobby-soxers&rsquo; hearts a pounding.</p><p>Prystai is one of those players who packs the intangible appeal of a fan favorite. He captured the fancy of the spectators in his previous stand in an even bigger way than some of the established Red Wing stars. He also was highly popular with his teammates.</p><p>That&rsquo;s why there was such a howl when Prystai was yanked off the roster almost one year ago and sent to Chicago.</p><p>That &ldquo;trade&rdquo; was unpalatable for not only the fans but also the Detroit players, management and press.</p><p>You will recall that Prystai was the local sacrifice in the &ldquo;Help The Hawks&rdquo; project which was a momentary hobby for presidents of NHL teams. Marge Norris, Detroit president, donated Metro on her own say-so.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02194/1407198-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="564" height="847"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>METRO PRYSTAI</b></figcaption></div><p>Great bitterness followed that deal made on Nov. 9, 1954.</p><p>The Detroit players, viewing the whole affair as high-handed, talked strike. Bruce Norris, Detroit&rsquo;s governor, flew here to appease them in a last-minute pre-game huddle in the locker room.</p><p>General Manager Jack Adams was moody since the deal had been engineered over his head.</p><p>Local hockey writers ripped into Marge and the Norris family with charge of syndicate family hockey since the beneficiary had been brother Jim&rsquo;s Black Hawks.</p><p>The incident wasn&rsquo;t easily forgotten and the team, at a psychological low, promptly lost the next two games by 1-0 scores.</p><p>The latest trade, which brought Prystai back in just 15 days short of a full year, was worked out between Adams and Jim Norris.</p><p>&ldquo;Jim called and asked if I&rsquo;d trade for Prystai. I asked who he wanted. He mentioned Sandford&rdquo;, Adams revealed.</p><p>&ldquo;I thought that over for a while, discussed it with Jimmy Skinner, called him back and said OK.</p><p>&ldquo;Sandford is a fine player but I think we can get more out of Prystai. He fits into our system better. We&rsquo;ll use him as a &lsquo;swing&rsquo; man again just like before. He&rsquo;ll also kill penalties and probably work in the right point on power plays&rdquo;.</p><p>Presumably team morale will also take a boost. Maybe that will help a team which still had a losing record after its first seven games.</p><p>A native of Yorkton, Sask., who became one of the Western Canada&rsquo;s outstanding juniors while with the Moose Jaw Canucks, Prystai is a product of the Chicago farm system. He jumped from junior to the NHL, joining the Hawks eight years ago at the age of 19.</p><p>Three full seasons with Chicago saw him score 7, 12 and 29 goals. Then he was bundled up with Bob Goldham, Sugar Jim Henry and Gaye Stewart and peddled a mammoth deal to Detroit for Harry Lumley, Jack Stewart, Al Dewsbury, Pete Babando and Don Morrison.</p><p>He spent four full years with Detroit, scoring 20, 21, 16 and 12 goals before the much-discussed &ldquo;trade&rdquo; mentioned earlier in which Detroit got Lome Davis in exchange. Last season he managed 13 goals for the Hawks.</p><p>Sandford moved on after only a brief stay with the Red Wings. The former Boston Bruin captain, one of the pawns in the Terry Sawchuk swap last summer, had eight solid years of big-time hockey with the Bruins behind him but actually he never got a chance to show his ability here.</p><p>A wrenched knee sidelined Sandford much of the time. He appeared in only four of the first seven Detroit games and then saw limited action in those. Slated as a center, he was seen there as well as at right and left wing.</p><p>The Hawks easily might reap the greatest gain for the trade but the Detroit fans, at least and at last, are contented again.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Red Wing Fans Overjoyed As Metro Prystai Returns In Even Swap For Sandford

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01290/1407236-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><h2>Dividing the Question</h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>After reading letters of N. McTaglis, Oct. 15, and J. Marcoux, Oct. 22, I surmise that the difference of opinion is as great as ever concerning Rocket Richard and Gordie Howe.</p><p>I see that both are Howe favorites and, I imagine, both live in or close to different NHL cities.</p><p>My viewpoint after reading both may seem to divide the questions and answers in two.</p><p>Although I live in Detroit, I want to make it clear that I do not intend to take sides in the following lines.</p><p>About the Howe-Richard question: Both are great scorers, and both have had their share of headlines. You can&rsquo;t take it away from either. Each is great. But I would rather see allround playing when I go to games. I prefer watching players like Red Kelly, Lome Worsley, Jacques Plante, Marcel Bonin, Tony Leswick and others, who are colorful and add something to the game.</p><p>The way they skate, handle themselves, make great saves, and are in there for more than just to score, is what counts. They are the backbone of a team. Sure, you need scorers, but if you had no team-players, you would not have hockey.</p><p>All players, great or merely efficient, make a contribution to the game, and as for Elmer Ferguson (Montreal Herald) or any other sportswriter&hellip;well, he is doing his job, so that we, the fans, can read about our favorite sports highlights. We all have our favorite teams; so do the sportswriters.</p><p>I think that Ken McKenzie, Elmer Ferguson, Marshall Dann, Roger Barry, Bud Booth, Stan Fischler, Vince Lunny and Sam Houston all do fine jobs. They all work for one thing, to give the fans the best hockey information possible.</p><p>Detroit, Mich. Donald Nelson</p><h2>All-Star Ballot</h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>For some time now I have had a thought in the back of my mind pertaining to the All-Star Ballot.</p><p>I like to keep my HOCKEY NEWS, and I have since first subscribing, as they are very interesting reading as well as good reference material. But I don&rsquo;t like to read a story about a player or an article about a team and find in the middle that there is an empty space where I had cut out my All-Star Ballot form or had sent in my renewal for the NEWS. So now I come to the suggestion.</p><p>At the time of the All-Star Ballots, could you print an advertisement on the reverse side of the ballot and the other for me as well? In this way we would have the paper and stories intact. (I had to look through by back issues until I found a subscription renewal with an advertisement on the reverse side in the issue of March 12, 1955.)</p><p>Marilyn Zoll</p><h2>Western Fan</h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>I have been reading your paper for three years now, and anxiously await its arrival each week.</p><p>I would like to see many more articles on the Western Hockey League. My favorite team is the Saskatoon Quakers, and I would like to know what happened to their captain, Jim Ross. Could you tell me who Walter Clune is playing for?</p><p>If any of your readers are interested I have 1255&rdquo; &times; 7&rdquo; hockey photos of NHL stars and 758&rdquo; &times; 10&rdquo; photos of Montreal and Toronto players.</p><p>My address is Barry Cameron, 27 Van Dusen Blvd., Toronto, Ont.</p><p>Barry Cameron Toronto, Ont.</p><p>(Ed. Note:&mdash;Wally Clune is now playing for Montreal Royals in the QHL. Sorry, but we have no information on Jim Ross at this time, either.)</p><h2>Missing Assist?</h2><p>Dear Sir;</p><p>I am a regular reader of your paper, and I can tell you that I enjoy reading every page of it.</p><p>If I am writing to you it&rsquo;s to get one thing straight, because I am a hot Detroit fan, just as hot as the Red Wings were themselves last weekend (Oct. 15-16). Needless to say, I&rsquo;m a Gordie Howe fan, too, and I think he has been robbed of an assist.</p><p>You know that every point counts in this great race.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s the way you scored Detroit&rsquo;s games in your summaries. And not only the NEWS, but all sports papers. I&rsquo;m not accusing you, but only getting my information from you.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03108/1407229-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="609" height="364"></div><p>These figures include games of Sunday, Oct. 7.</p><p>If we add these figures we find that Howe has one goal, three assists for four points. And in your Point Parade you have: Howe, 1 goal, 2 assists&mdash;3 points.</p><p>In this way, Howe&rsquo;s record should read: 5 goals, 5 assists for 10 points on Oct. 19 instead of 5 goals, 4 assists for 9 points.</p><p>I thought that maybe it was a printing error, but every newspaper I read gives the same figures. I&rsquo;d like to see the answer to this in the Fan Forum as soon as possible. In the last issue I took great pleasure in reading the Fan Forum, and I think that Mr. McKenzie is right.</p><p>Bob Kendall Windsor Mills, Que.</p><p>(Ed. Note:&mdash;On figures alone, the writer is quite correct. However, an assist accredited to Howe in the first game was later revolve ed by the league and credited to Red Kelly. This explains the discrepancy.)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02180/1407267-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg"></div><p><b>YES, HOCKEY FAN, THE 1955-56 SEASON IS HERE AT LAST</b></p><p><b>and 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.</b></p><p>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.</p><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.</p><p><b>Canadian Remittances&mdash;</b>$3.00 Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order.</p><p><b>U.S.A. Remittances&mdash;</b>$4.00 Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or personal cheque.</p><p><b>Fill In Form Above and Send Postal Note or Money Order</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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It’s Here

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The chances are that if you asked Jacques Plante about the late George Hainsworth, it might not occur to him that you were talking about an old-time hockey player.</p><p>There is ilttle reason why he Should associate the revered name with hockey because the Canadien netminder only tried on his first pair of three-cornered pants in 1929. And it was in the season of 1928-29 that Hainsworth set the National Hockey League record of 22 shutouts in 44 games and won the Vezina Trophy for the third time.</p><p>But Plante today seems to have a lot in common with the great Hainsworth. He is proving himself a capable netminder in the tradition of a club that generally has been able to produce outstanding netminders.</p><p>After 11 games of the current season, Plante had allowed only 17 goals and had 3 shutouts to his credit which is considerably better than par for the course.</p><p>In early games Plante has been helped by a strong, willing defence Butch Bouchard, who seems to have acquired a new lease from Father Time; Doug Harvey, last season&rsquo;s winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy; Tom Johnson, a veritable bulwark who covers more than his half of the ice; and Dollard St. Laurent, a star in last year&rsquo;s playoffs. The fifth man is Guy Talbot, a rookie from Shawinigan Falls.</p><p>Most observers already are talking Vezina Trophy for Plante and if he wins it this season, it will mark the tenth time that the Canadiens have copped the cup which perpetuates the memory of a man who wore the colorful raiment of the Habs with conspicuous success.</p><p>Canadien netminders have won the trophy more times than any others since Leo Dandurand, Louis Letourneau and Joe Cattarinich, former owners of the club, presented it to the National Hockey League in 192627.</p><p>Hainsworth was the first winner and he held it for three consecutive seasons. Canadiens didn&rsquo;t win it again until Bill Durnan racked up the best goals against record in 1943-44 and dominated the league for four seasons. Then Toronto&rsquo;s venerable Turk Broda broke his streak in 1947-48 but Big Bill came back to win in two more years, setting a record of six Vezina Trophy triumphs.</p><p>Since then it has been won three times by Terry Sawchuk, then with Detroit but now guarding the nets for Boston, once by Toronto&rsquo;s Harry Lumley and once by Al Rollins, when he was with the Leafs.</p><p>Canadiens think it is high time the trophy returned to Montreal again, its place of origin, and while the Habs never stress defensive hockey&mdash;at home or on the road&mdash;Plante seems to be playing well enough to make that dream come true.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Plante Raises Habs’ Hopes Of Getting Vezina Back

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.<b>&mdash;</b></p><p>Billy Harris may have lost a little of his own sleep over the prospect of filling retired Maple Leaf captain Ted Kennedy&rsquo;s skates, but he has caused his employers absolutely no symptoms of insomnia.</p><p>Even while Leafs were losing five straight road games and taking up residence in the NHL cellar, no one could fault the 20-year-old rookie who was Toronto&rsquo;s most outstanding centre and playmaker.</p><p>Displaying no qualms about the junior-to-big league leap that has frustrated wholesale lots of Leaf rookies in the past, young Mr. Harris not only looked at home in the NHL, he felt at home.</p><p>It&rsquo;s more like hockey and less like bullfighting he has concluded.</p><p>&ldquo;Like everyone else, I guess, I&rsquo;ve found it a lot tougher to make a play because you never seem free of a check,&rsquo;&rsquo; he says. &ldquo;But big leaguers don&rsquo;t try to bull you and charge you like the juniors do.</p><p>&ldquo;The pros are headier and they&rsquo;ll take you into the boards. The juniors are always trying to knock you through the boards. Pros don&rsquo;t take a chance on putting themselves out of a play by charging blindly and sometimes missing. They make sure and stay with you all the way.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the way I like to play hockey, against heady players who use their brains as much as their brawn. I&rsquo;ll admit, though, that it makes me a less effective. In junior hockey I used to find I could make six or seven plays in a game. Up here I&rsquo;m checked to tight that I&rsquo;m doing well to make two or three. And that sure reduced the chances of getting goals.&rdquo;</p><p>Those two or three plays Harris has been making are nevertheless just about two or three more than most of his teammates have managed.</p><p>&ldquo;Even Kennedy never made more beautiful plays than Harris has been making,&rdquo; General Manager Hay Day acknowledges. &ldquo;Harris has set up Sid Smith and Eric Nesterenko (his wingmates) dozens of times and it&rsquo;s certainly not his fault that they haven&rsquo;t been scoring off them.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s got hinges for ankles and a magic wand for a stick,&rdquo; coach King Clancy enthuses. &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll shift without any effort at all and dish out those perfect passes. And there&rsquo;s none of this one track stuff with him. He&rsquo;ll go in a different way every time and make a different play.&rdquo;</p><p>In these departments, as a skater and a playmaker, Harris has some qualification that even Kennedy lacked. But because he is not the same sort of tenacious corner digger that Teeder was, Smitty and to a leaser extent, Nester encountered difficulty in attempting to alter their style in order to capitalize on their new centre&rsquo;s talents.</p><p>That&rsquo;s why Leafs did a little line juggling last week to make the most of Harris&rsquo; ability and at the same time get Smitty untracked. The leggy Earl Balfour was moved from Rudy Migay&rsquo;s left Wing to Harris&rsquo; and Smith put with Migay.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Leaf Brass Not Losing Any Sleep, Barris Could Be Another Teeder

<div class="byline">HOUSTON</div><p><b>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>King Clancy blamed &ldquo;pressing&rdquo; for the fact the Toronto Maple Leafs were digging themselves deeper and deeper into the NHL cellar through the first three weeks of the campaign.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;Everybody&rsquo;s pressing so hard, they&rsquo;re all tight as fiddle strings,&rdquo; the Toronto coach said after Leafs absorbed successive 6-0 and 6-2 lacings on visits to Detroit and New York.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;Harry Lumley was squeezing his stick so tight in New York 1 could see the sawdust running out of it.&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>Lum, who won the Vezina Trophy with a 1.85 average two years ago and the all-star berth with a 1.94 average last year, was surrendering goals at almost twice the pace through Leafs&rsquo; first seven games. After fanning 23 times, he had an average of 3.28 goals against per game.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the same thing that&rsquo;s bothering our forwards,&rdquo; analyzes the King. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re pressing so hard for goals, they can&rsquo;t even hit the net when they get the chance. They&rsquo;re either hurrying their shots or waiting too long.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;All we need is one loose game to restore everybody&rsquo;s confidence and timing and we&rsquo;ll start to climb.&rdquo;</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Clancy Blames Pressing For Leafs Plight

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01241/1407370-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILLY HARRIS&hellip;&hellip;Going Great</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Rudy is the same sort of digger that Kennedy was,&rdquo; Clancy explained. &ldquo;He checks like a fiend and then throws out the puck from the corner. That&rsquo;s the kind of play Smith can cash in on. But it&rsquo;s no reflection on Harris to have his wings changed. His smart plays were being wasted before, and maybe Balfour can make better use of them because he&rsquo;s the same sort of smooth, speedy skater.&rdquo;</p><p>Yet if the 155-pound six-footer Harris plays effortlessly, it is only because he put considerable effort into his preparations for promotion to the National League after leading the Memorial Cup champion Marlboros both in the schedule scoring and in the playoffs last season.</p><p>&ldquo;I was really worried about my legs giving out on me,&rdquo; he admits. &ldquo;They always troubled me in junior hockey and sometimes I&rsquo;d have to admit to the coach that I couldn&rsquo;t do him any good because they&rsquo;d start aching and throbbing.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Then when I got my knee banged up in the last couple of weeks of the schedule last year, I was really concerned. It gave me a lot of trouble in the playoffs.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I figured my only chance of making good up here was to strengthen my legs, so I worked on them all summer. I even took a job as a sort of canvasser with the Board of Education so I&rsquo;d be on my feet all the time. I was going to Oliphants&rsquo; gym three nights a week all summer and working out at home too. And for the last month before training camp, I did nothing but work on mv legs&mdash;all bends and stuff like that.&rdquo;</p><p>The industry was well placed. Billy hasn&rsquo;t felt a twinge from his pins since the NHL campaign started.</p><p>They must be all right now because I&rsquo;ve been playing up to a game with Leafs and I usually didn&rsquo;t play 20 minutes with Marlboros. I&rsquo;ve honestly never felt in better shape for playing hockey in my whole life.&rdquo;</p><p>Billy couldn&rsquo;t have picked a better time. Leafs were in dire need of legs at centre ice this year. They still are in need of goals and so it has been to their rookie that Leafs have gone for a centre in attempting to rebuild their power play.</p><p>&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised to see our power play start clicking soon, Sid Smith says. &ldquo;Even when we had that really successful play with Kennedy, Sloan, Max Bentley, Jim Thomson and myself games to get underway. We have to get used to working together and if we don&rsquo;t click, we can&rsquo;t fault Harris. He&rsquo;s a honey.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Leafs’ Best Centre

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>M</span>aybe your eyes</b> will mislead you in a hall of mirrors, but your taste won&rsquo;t when you reach for a sparkling glass of Labatt&rsquo;s &lsquo;50&rsquo;. For &lsquo;50&rsquo; is the happier ale that makes <i>anytime</i> a <i>good time</i>. 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.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02211/1407401-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="597" height="1580"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Any way you look at it…

<h2><b>Rookie Tested</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>oe Blake, Coach of the Montreal Canadiens, a little shaken when is club took a 4-1 licking from the Black Hawks in Montreal, called up Claude Provost from the Shawinigan Cataracts of the Quebec Hockey League.</p><h2><b>Look Who&rsquo;s Leading</b></h2><p>When you think in terms of the Vezina Trophy you automatically think of Harry Lumley or Terry Sawchuk but the famed mug may have another name inscribed of it this year. At this early point in the race, Canadiens&rsquo; Jacques Plante is a strong contender.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON WED. A.M., NOV. 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01274/1407509-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="612" height="192"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 30th. 1955</h3><p>Tues. Oct. 25th&mdash;Boston 0 at Chicago 2</p><p>Wed. Oct. 26th&mdash;Canadiens 1 at Tor. 2</p><p>Wed. Oct. 26th&mdash;Detroit 2 at Rangers 6</p><p>Thurs. Oct. 27th&mdash;Chicago 4 at Cdns 1</p><p>Sat. Oct. 29th&mdash;Detroit 1 at Cdns 2</p><p>Sat. Oct. 29th&mdash;Chicago 0 at Tor. 2</p><p>Sat. Oct. 29th&mdash;Boston 1 at Rangers 0</p><p>Sun. Oct. 30th&mdash;Canadiens 2 at Det. 2</p><h3>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 6th, 1955</h3><p>Wed. Nov. 2nd&mdash;Detroit at Toronto</p><p>Thurs. Nov. 3rd&mdash;Toronto at Canadiens</p><p>Thurs. Nov. 3rd&mdash;Rangers at Detroit</p><p>Thurs. Nov. 3rd&mdash;Chicago at Boston</p><p>Sat. Nov. 5th&mdash;Boston at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Nov. 5th&mdash;Rangers at Toronto</p><p>Sat. Nov. 5th&mdash;Detroit at Chicago</p><p>Sun. Nov. 6th&mdash;Canadiens at Boston</p><p>Sun. Nov. 6th&mdash;Toronto at Detroit</p><p>Sun. Nov. 6th&mdash;Rangers at Chicago</p><h3>TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25 Boston 0 at Chicago 2 (Flayed at St. Louis)</h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defence: Flaman, Boivin, Armstrong, Laycoe, Bonin, Labine, Stasiuk, Gardner, Ferguson, Tessier, Mohns, Costello, Panagabko, Davis.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defence: Fogo-Jin. Stanley, Mortson, Woit, Martin; forwards: Skov, McIntyre, Mickoski, Watson, Sullivan, Leswick, Sandford, Litzen-berger, J. Wilson, Lalonde, Ciesla.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02217/1407502-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="610" height="504"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, October 26 Montreal 1 at Toronto 2</h3><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defence: Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, Talbot; forwards: H. Richard, Olmstead, Leclair, M. Richard, Moore, Mosdell, Curry, Gamble, Beliveau, D. Marshall.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defence: Thomson, Morrison, Bolton, Caban, Bionada; forwards: Migay, Stewart, Smith, Harris, Nesterenko, Duff, Sloan, Armstrong, Balfour, Klukay, W. Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03163/1407495-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="622" height="584"></div><h3>Detroit 2 at New York 6</h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defence: Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Godfrey, Hillman, Hollingworth; forwards: Lindsay, Reibel, Howe, Delvecchio, Pavelich, Prystai, Chevrefils, Bucyk, Dineen, Toppazzini, Ullman, Stankiewicz.</p><p><b>New York Goal:</b> Worsley; defence: Irwin, Howell, Gadsby, Evans, Fontinato; forwards: Raleigh, Bathgate, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Murphy, Creighton, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Popein, Lewicki.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04122/1407488-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="610" height="632"></div><h3>THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27 Chicago 4 at Montreal 1</h3><p><b>Chicago&mdash;Goal</b>: Rollins; defence: Mortson, Woit, Fogolin, Stanley, Martin; forwards: Skov, McIntyre, Mickoski, Watson, Sullivan, Leswick, Sandford, Litzen-berger, Wilson, Lalonde, Ciesla.</p><p><b>Canadiens&mdash;Goal:</b> Plante; defence: Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, Talbot; forwards: Leclair, M. Richard, Moore, Beliveau, H. Richard, Olmstead, Mosdell, Curry, Gamble, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0586/1407481-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="610" height="536"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1955 Detroit 1 at Canadiens 2</h3><p><b>Detroit&mdash;</b>Goal: Hall; defense: Kelly, Godfrey, Goldham, Pronovost, Hillman; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Prystai, Pavelich, Chevrefils. Ullman. Dineen, Toppazzini, Stakiewicz.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, Talbot; forwards: Beliveau. Olmstead. Provost, Leclair, Curry. M. Richard, Moore, Gamble, H. Richard, Mosdell, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0664/1407474-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="606" height="500"></div><h3>Chicago 0 at Toronto 2</h3><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Stanley, Martin, Mortson, Woit, Fogolin; forwards: Sandford, Litzenberger, Watson, Skov, Mickoski, McIntyre, Ciesla, Lalonde, Wilson, Sullivan, Leswick.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense. Thomson, Bolton, Morrison, Horton. Cahan; forwards: Harris, Nesterenko, Balfour, Sloan, Armstrong. Duff, Migay, Stewart, Smith, Marshall, Klukay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0750/1407467-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="606" height="380"></div><h3>Boston 1 at New York 0</h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk: defence: Flaman, Boivin, Armstrong, Laycoe, Quackenbush; forwards: McKenney, Bonin, Labine, Stasiuk. Gardner, Ferguson, Tessier, Mohns, Costello, Panagabko, Davis.</p><p><b>New York:</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defence, Irwin, Howell, Gadsby, Evans, Fontinato; forwards: Raleigh, Bathgate, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Murphy, Creighton, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Popein, Lewicki.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0839/1407460-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="614" height="475"></div><h3>SUNDAY OCTOBER 30, 1955 Canadiens 2 at Detroit 2</h3><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, Talbot; forwards: Beliveau, Olmstead, Provost, Leclair, Curry, M. Richard, Moore, Gamble, H. Richard, Mosdell, Marshall.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall: defense: Kelly Godfrey, Pronovost, Hollingworth, Goldham, Hillman; forwards: Prystai, Pavelish, Toppazzini, Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Chevrefils, Dineen, Ullman, Bucyk, Stankiewicz.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0928/1407453-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="610" height="526"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including games of Sun., Oct. 30)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1020/1407446-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="626" height="2760"></div><h3>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1955-1956</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1115/1407439-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="604" height="190"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-124/1407432-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="580" height="166"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>H</span>arry Lumley, the apple-cheeked native of Owen Sound, Ont., came up with his second shutout of the young National Hockey League season on Saturday, October 29 to cap a week in which the somewhat disappointing Toronto Maple Leafs regained some vestige of prestige by going undefeated in two games during the week to move up a notch in the standings.</b></p><p><b>Lumley was faced with two pretty tough chores. He as called upon to cool out the red-hot Canadiens on Wednesday night and he responded by kicking out 24 shots as his mates came up with a pair of goals to defeat the Habs, 2-1. Both goals, incidentally, came off the stick of young Dick Duff.</b></p><p><b>Those were two precious points to the dwindling Leafs and they stayed in the early running as a result of the win. Then last Saturday night (October 29) Lumley stood the Chicago Black Hawks on their collective ears by recording his second shutout as the Leafs cuffed the Hawks, 2-0.</b></p><p><b>Lumley had a comparatively easy time in this one since the Hawks were only able to penetrate the Leafs defense to the extent of 15 shots at Harry. But h came up with the big saves off Eddie Litzenberger and Harry Watson to save the game.</b></p><p><b>In saluting Lumley as the player of the Week, THE HOCKEY NEWS recognizes the fact that he plays a vital role in the success of the Leafs, as he demonstrated so abley last year.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-132/1407540-1-eng-US/f0008-132.jpg" title="f0008-13" width="284" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Lumley</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;</p><p>Galloping winger Nick Mickoski started right out by getting the winning counter in the first game of the season as the Black Hawks spoiled Detroit&rsquo;s opener for the first time in 17 years last month and ht hasn&rsquo;t shown any signs of slowing down to date.</p><p>By the time the Chicagoans had skated through their first eight contests of the 1955-56 National League campaign, the transfer from the Rangers had posted five goals and an assist to become Dick Irvin&rsquo;s top point-getter. Nick may be on the way to the best year of his career.</p><p>It was particularly satisfying to him personally to have his best scoring evening so far this fall at the expense of his old teammates in Madison Square Garden October 23. Although Chicago lost a close decision, 5-4, Mickoski personally contributed two goals and an assist.</p><p>His current pace could easily take him well beyond his best seasons of the past in the NHL. He tallied 20 goals and 15 assists in 1950-51 and had identical records boasting 19 goals and 16 assistas in both 1952-53 and in 53-54. Last year he upped his point total to 13 last year, but only 10 goals wert included.</p><p>Since goals are what Coach Irvin is mainly interested in, he would probably gladly sacrifice any number of those assists for the identical number of goals. At the rate Mickoski is going, this might well be just the way things will turn out and it couldn&rsquo;t happen o a nicer guy.</p><h2><b>Coal-Hungary</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01259/1407571-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="584" height="870"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NICK MICKOSKI</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Tricky Nick Would Gladly Swap His Assists For More Goals

<div class="byline">FISCHER</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>N</span>EY YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Ron Murphy has been awarded an honorary membership. &ldquo;The Quote of the Month Club&rdquo; after cogent comments on his new-found scoring prowess.</b></p><p><b>The smooth-skating left-winger was asked what he is doing differently in 1955-50 than he was last semester.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m scoring goals,&rdquo; he quickly replied.</b></p><p><b>Ron later elaborated that his old pal Andy Bathgate and Digger Dave Creighton have helped out plenty.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;Dave is a deliberate player,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;He knows how to set up a play, can skate the puck out of our zone better than any guy I&rsquo;ve skated with.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;You know enough about Andy,&rdquo; he added.</b></p><p><b>Creighton, incidentally, ran into a stray Ron Stewart elbow in Toronto Oct. 22, and suffered a broken nose. It didn&rsquo;t sideline the gamester who came back the next night to score a goal and an assist against the Black Hawks.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Murphy’s Brathless Quote “I’m Scoring Goals!”

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Tired of banking hours, Tim Horton rejoined the Toronto Maple Leafs just when their &ldquo;defense most needed an upflit.</p><p>For the first time since he suffered a broken leg and jaw in collision with New York Rangers&rsquo; Bill Gadsby last March, the Pony Express of the Leaf defense scrimmaged with his team Oct. 24. The final medical okay on his right leg came at a propitious moment almost immediately after the Toronto bleuline corps had suffered successive six-goal humiliation at the hands of Detroit and New York.</p><p>Ever since Leafs began training at St. Catharines six weeks ago, Horton has been obliged to play Lone Wolf and condition himself with solo skating exercices. He was forbidden from scrimmaging or working with the team until the leg regained its pre-accident girth, proving that the muscles and tendons were adequately reconditioned after their six-month layoff.</p><p>The bone itself was never a problem, having mended perfectly even before Leafs went into training. For Tim, bones never have mended any other way.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had half the bones in the right side of my body broken, but they all mended quickly and never bothered me again,&rdquo; he says, referring to hockey accidents in which he sustained fractures to the cheek, wrist and ankle bones.</p><p>&ldquo;But this is the longest layoff I&rsquo;ve had and, believe it or not, I&rsquo;ve been dying to get back. You can get sick of even a holiday after a while and this was no holiday.&rdquo;</p><p>While he was practising in virtual solitary confinement, Tim became known as Bankers&rsquo; Hours Horton because the practice time allotted him generally followed Leaf morning workouts.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know how a banker can stand it,&rdquo; he says.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04164/1407688-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="266" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tim Horton</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Leaf Blueline Gets A Lift As Tim Horton Rejoins Club

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>For two well-traveled young hockey players, Boston this season, looms as the Land of Opportunity.</p><p>The two are Vic Stasiuk and Lorne Davis, and they&rsquo;re getting first chance here to show their wares on a regular basis with a major league hockey team, the Bruins.</p><p>Stasiuk is a 26-year-old left wing, playing his eighth season as a professional.</p><p>Davis is a 25-year-old right wing, in his sixth season as a pro.</p><p>Until this fall both Stasiuk and Davis were residents of the halfworld, with one foot in the majors and the other in the minors.</p><p>In the short space of six years the blond Davis has played in four professional leagues, or all there is.</p><p>He has been with Edmonton of the Western League and Victoria and Vancouver of the Pacific Coast League, the fore-runner of the Western League.</p><p>He has been with Montreal of the Quebec League, Buffalo of the American League and Detroit, Chicago and Montreal of the National League. The Bruins are the ninth professional team for which he has played.</p><p>Stasiuk hasn&rsquo;t gotten around quite as much as his linemate, but the curly-haired husky still has a cosmopolitan air. He has been with Kansas City of the old United States League, Indianapolis of the American League, Edmonton of the Western League and Chicago and Detroit of the National League. The Bruins are his sixth pro affiliation.</p><p>The Bruins acsuired both Stasiuk and Davis last summer, as part of the multi-player deal which they negotiated with Detroit. Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; manager and Milt Schmidt, Bruins&rsquo; coach, were convinced at the time that both would be useful here. They haven&rsquo;t changed their minds yet.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve run into Montreal regularly in the Stanley Cup playoffs in recent years,&rdquo; said Patrick the other day, &ldquo;and just about every time we met the Canadiens, Davis was in their lineup and hurting us. I can&rsquo;t say that he was ever overly conspicuous, but he was always out there doing a businesslike job and playing fine defense.</p><p>&ldquo;Anyone who cares to look at his record might note that Davis hasn&rsquo;t played full time for anyone since three seasons ago, when he was with Buffalo. And that year he made 33 goals. He&rsquo;s a conscientious fellow, and I think he&rsquo;s worth a good look here.</p><p>&ldquo;As for Stasiuk, he always impressed me in his brief playing stints with Detroit as an aggressive forward, ready to bump. In fact, I used to wonder why we didn&rsquo;t see more of him.</p><p>&ldquo;Stasiuk, like Davis, has also moved around a lot,&rdquo; continued Patrick, &ldquo;and he hasn&rsquo;t had what you can call a steady job since three seasons back, either. But note that year, when he played 48 games for Edmonton, he scored 37 goals.</p><p>&ldquo;Some players can bounce around from one team to another for years, without getting a real chance to get their feet on the ice. Sometimes when they get that chance, they take full advantage of it.</p><p>&ldquo;Stasiuk and Davis are getting their chance with us,&rdquo; added Patrick, &ldquo;and on the basis of what they have shown in our early games, I&rsquo;d say that they&rsquo;re making the most of the opportunity.&rdquo;</p><p>Oddly enough, both Vic and Lorne started work in the Land of Opportunity under unfavorable circumstances. Shortly before the season opened Stasiuk received an injured side, and he wasn&rsquo;t able to take a regular turn until the sixth game.</p><p>Davis also missed the opening with an attack of flu, and he needed an extra week to regain good condition.</p><p>But in the game in which Sstasiuk sent full-time for the first time, Vic scored a goal, and the spectacular pass which set it up was made by Davis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02239/1407602-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="308" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Stasiuk</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Stasiuk, Davis Find Boston The Land Of Opportunity

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Only the other day Tommy Ivan was chirping ecstatically that his Black Hawks had recently turned seven youngsters pro&mdash;a fair shake for the Chicagos who were among the last to start the farm machine running.</p><p>Which all got us thinking just what the Rangers had done in the way of moving amateurs up the pro trail.</p><p>Muzz Patrick supplied the answer at a recent sitting of the New York Hockey writers Association at Leones&rsquo; eatery.</p><p>In the same span of time that Ivan was talking about, the Blues have steered 10 promising skaters into the professional ranks. Muzz also revealed that he is in process of revamping the Rangers&rsquo; scouting setup from Vancouver to Providence. He has the backing of General John Reed Kilpatrick who feels the New Yorker&rsquo;s farm system is beginning to pay dividends.</p><p>&ldquo;It usually takes seven years to develop a player to become competent pro,&rdquo; said the General. &ldquo;The war set us back a bit but now we can ice a team that is basically a development of our farm system.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>Nine of the current crop of Blues are Ranger developed. They include: Lome Worsley, Harry Howell, Jack Evans, Don Raleigh, Lou Fontinato, Andy Bathgate, Ron Murphy, Dean Prentice and Larry Popein.</p><p>Champing at the Providence bit are two other hopefuls who starred for the famed Guelph Biltmores. Namely, left wing Bill McCready and Aldo Guidolin a prefabricated backliner.</p><p>If patience is a virtue, the Gotham management is feeling very saintlike at the moment all because of the development of these worthies.</p><p>It&rsquo;s old hat telling the story of how the Guelph youngsters were rushed up to the big time from junior hockey. And how they couldn&rsquo;t acclimate themselves to major league hockey. And how they showed signs of coming into their own last year.</p><p>Don&rsquo;t look now folks, but these very same striplings have arrived and if anybody is going to help the Rangers to their first playoff berth in six years these boys-turned-men will do it.</p><p>Ron Murphy, for one, is doing things he&rsquo;s never done in the NHL before. Namely, scoring goals. Sure he&rsquo;s scored &lsquo;em before but not six goals and three assists in his first seven games.</p><p>Murph always had the equipment. He&rsquo;s big, strong, as a good shot and can skate with the best of &lsquo;em. It was ye olde intangible which was missing. Call it savvy, call it assurance. Whatever it is, Ron seems to have it now and playing on a line with Dave Creighton and Andy Bathgate hasn&rsquo;t hurt him either.</p><p>And speaking of Bathgate, there&rsquo;s another Guelph baby turned jewel. We called him &ldquo;The Poor Man&rsquo;s Jean Beliveau,&rdquo; not too long ago and being the goor natured guy he is, it drew a great big Bathgate chuckle.</p><p>But he does resemble the Canadien titan in many ways and though he hasn&rsquo;t exactly turned the loop upside down, Andy is making the right moves, shows ice generalship qualities not often seen in players of his age.</p><p>&ldquo;Deano The Dynamo&rdquo; Prentice is barreling along the boards as only he can. He found the goal range to the tune of 16-16 last year, should start moving once Horvath&rsquo;s still sprained ankle clears up.</p><p>Captain Harry Howell and Lou Fontinato formed their own checking confederation back in Guelph. Watson reunited them this year and the move has payed handsome dividends. Howell makes his moves without flourish leaving Louie a monopoly in the rock&rsquo;n roll department.</p><p>It certainly is a gratifying feeling to see the once floundering youngsters come through in heady, flying style.</p><p>&ldquo;But,&rdquo; as Muzz Patrick advises, &ldquo;we can&rsquo;t sit back and say our job is done. It&rsquo;s a continuous process. We have to strive for perfection and that&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m hoping to improve the system over what we&rsquo;ve got now.&rdquo;</p><p>Numbering among the Rangers farm clubs at the moment are; Providence (AHL), Vancouver and Saskatoon (WHL), Guelph (OHA Jr. &lsquo;A&rsquo;), Sick&rsquo;s Lethbridge Native Sons (WC Jr. &lsquo;A&rsquo;) Prince Albert Nintos and Flin Flon Bombers (NS Jr. &lsquo;A&rsquo;).</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01273/1407740-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="327" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Howell</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02217/1407733-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="291" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dean Prentice</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Top Awards For Top Stars</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03186/1407726-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="1808" height="1180"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GEOFFRION GETS ROSS TROPHY FROM SYLVIO MANTHA</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04144/1407719-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="1179" height="1633"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARVEY RECEIVES NORRIS TROPHY FROM JIM, JR.</b></figcaption></div><p>RANGER REFLECTIONS: Herb Goren, Blues&rsquo; publicist, has come up with the most comprehensive Ranger record book since its inception, in the 1955-56 edition of the Blue Book&hellip;Besides complete record&rdquo; going as far back as 1926, the BB contains nifty action photos, features and a team picture of the present crew&hellip;Book costs $1 and may be obtained by writing to the Ranger, 307 West 49th St., New York&hellip;Prexy Jacques Schiff reports that the Rangers Fan Club has reached an all-time membership high of plus 600&hellip;RFC completing plans for a &ldquo;Meet the Players&rdquo; buffet skedded for November 15 at the Henry Hudson Hotel&hellip;Guy Gendron, who takes a back seat to no one when it comes to quick sprint around the rink, is being used more and more by Watson&hellip;He&rsquo;s a fearless little guy, bulit close to the ground&hellip;Guy is often teamed up with another speedster&mdash;Larry Popein&mdash;in a penaltykilling role.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NY’s Farm System Finally Paying Off On This Year’s Club

<div class="byline">LENNY</div><p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL&mdash;When Dick Irvin, who had coached the Canadiens for 15 years, returned to the scene of some of his greatest triumphs with his Chicago Black Hawks on Oct. 22, he found the Habs generous but inhospitable.</p><p>In recognition of his services with the Habs, he was presented with a set of sterling silver flatware by William Northey, president of the Canadian Arena Co. But that was the limit of hospitality. The Habs then proceeded to rack up an overwhelming 6-0 victory before a crowd of 13,815, largest of the season in any rink.</p><p>During the same ceremonies Doug Harvey, the league&rsquo;s best all-round defenceman last season, was presented with the James Norris Memorial Trophy by Jim Norris, president of the Black Hawks.</p><p>The Art Ross Trophy, awarded annually to the leading point-getter, was presented to Bernie Geoffrion by Sylvio Mantha, a great rushing defenceman with the Habs of another era and Geoffrion&rsquo;s first coach when he broke into organized hockey with Concordia.</p><p>Geoffrion, injured in Hab&rsquo;s opening game against the Leafs, appeared in civies. He is expected to return to the lineup on Nov. 5.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hab Stars Receive Top Puck Awards

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01272/1407802-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"></div><p>Hershey, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Dune Fisher has served notice on American Hockey League goaltenders that he is to be a rough customer to deal with when he comes within firing range of their cages this season.</p><p>The stocky little right winger, who dropped off to 28 goals last year after lighting the red lamp on 41 occasions in 1953-54, hammered out a quartet of goals in Hershey&rsquo;s first four games of the current campaign.</p><p>And, helping with Dune&rsquo;s comeback, Gordie Wilson seems to have caught the knack of Red Sullivan&rsquo;s old trick of catching Fisher at just the right moment when he roars across the opposition blue line. Last year, Wilson had trouble getting his passes off to Fisher at the split second Dune crossed the blue line, with the result the flashy winger was often offsides.</p><p>The 28-year-old Fisher has taken on additional duties as an alternate captain, an assignment he seems to be enjoying. Ordinarily a quiet, soft-spoken sort of guy on the ice, Dunc has demonstrated that he can take care of himself in the oratory department, too.</p><h2><b>There&rsquo;s No Rest For Good Goalie</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02231/1407795-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="2309" height="1328"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GOALIE JOHNNY BOWER of the Providence Reds had a busy night, Saturday, October 22, when Springfield Indians downed the Reds, 3-1. Upper picture shows Bower making a save to prevent Ed Leier from scoring. Lower picture, Bower again is down on the ice, but he stopped the Indians&rsquo; thrust.</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Got Around In NHL</b></h3><p>Dune broke in as a pro in 1947-48 with New Haven, then an AHL member, and he did so well that the New York Rangers purchased his services the following season. He remained with the Rangers until 1950-51, when Lynn Patrick, who had been his coach at New Haven maneuvered a deal which brought him to the Boston Bruins&rsquo;.</p><p>After one campaign with the Bruins, he came down to Hershey and has worn Bear livery ever since. He became Hershey property last season, along with Obie O&rsquo;Brien, in a deal which sent Ray Gariepy to Boston.</p><p>Another veteran who is off to a flying start is Eddie Kryzanowski, bell wether of the Hershey defense. Big Ed collected a pair of goals and an assist in the first four games to give a lift to Hershey&rsquo;s offense at a time when Arnie Kullman and Obie O&rsquo;Brien, of the Bears&rsquo; No. 1 production line, were hospitalized.</p><p>With Kullman and O&rsquo;Brien joining Don Cherry on the injured list, coach Murray Henderson&rsquo;s ice men are finding the going mighty rough. Hershey dropped three out of its first four tilts, including a pair at home. They looked impressive against the Pittsburgh Hornets, defending Calder Cup champions in their second outing, beating Howie Meeker&rsquo;s crew, 5-2. The win was a costly one, however, for it cost them the services of both Kullman and O&rsquo;Brien.</p><p>Meanwhile, the search goes on for a defenseman of Larry Zeidel&rsquo;s caliber. Nothing has been heard from the former Detroit-Chicago rearguard, since he went home after refusing to discuss contract terms. General Manager Lloyd S. Blinco is still angling for an experienced blue liner to take his place.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Fisher Has Quite a Line, Hooks in Goals For Hershey

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The question ow whether it is advisable to carry two goaltenders on a club is one that has been given much debate in recent seasons due to the pressure that modern hockey plans upon the man between the pipes.</p><p>Most goaltenders themselves will insist they prefer being the Ione puckstopper on a club as they believe they can only remain sharp by constant play.</p><p>In the American League, however, it appears that the front office bosses are leaning more towards having two netminders on hand in the event one goes into a slump.</p><p>The AHL race was actually less than two weeks old when Springfield&rsquo;s Eddie Shore turned to his spare goalie&mdash;Gordie Bell&mdash;to take over after the Indians had been trounced 8-2 by Cleveland and 9-3 by Pittsburgh with Don &ldquo;Dippy&rdquo; Simmons in the nets.</p><p>Bell, playing against the team he turned pro with 13 campaigns ago, was outstanding as Springfield bested Buffalo, 3-1.</p><p>Providence, Buffalo, and Hershey all are carrying two goaltenders on their rosters.</p><p>Hershey intends to alternate Long John Henderson and Norm De Felice, at least that was the understanding when Boston assigned the two to the Bears.</p><p>Henderson should be accustomed to such a routine as he divided goaltending chores with &ldquo;Sugar&rdquo; Jim Henry in Beantown last season.</p><p>While Hank Bassen is No. 1 man in Buffalo and Johnny Bower hold the same distinction in Providence, both the Bisons and the Reds have capable replacements in Bill Harrington, a newcomer to the pro ranks, and Harvey Bennett, who has been Providence&rsquo;s custodian for several years.</p><p>The possibility that Bassen and Bower may be called by Chicago and New York, the clubs to whom they belong, respectively, at any time has made it almost mandatory for Buffalo and Providence to have good men ready to step in.</p><p>Only Cleveland&rsquo;s Roy McKeekan and Gil Mayer, the perennial AllStar choice who stops pucks for Pittsburgh, are without competition right in their own ranks.</p><p>But with the trend being as it is, it may not be too long before all clubs in the league carry two goalies.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Is Pressure Too Rough For Just One Netminder?

<h2><b>Just Like A Conacher</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>P</span>ete Conacher, suspended by the New York Rangers, went back into action on the weekend of October 29 after the ban was lifted and scored three goals for the Buffalo Bisons in two games. He also assisted in a fourth as the Bisons moved into second place.</p><h2><b>Not Enough Power</b></h2><p>Providence Reds are the lead in the AHL despite a half-hour black-out at the Providence Auditorium on the night of Sunday, October 30. A power line failed, dousing the lights and for 30-minutes the teams were idle.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON WED. A.M. NOV. 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01275/1407941-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="614" height="202"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27 Spring field 2 at Hershey 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02212/1407934-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="608" height="602"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 2 at Providence 9</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03172/1407927-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="614" height="546"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28 Cleveland 3 at Pittsburgh 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0595/1407920-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="606" height="756"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29 Providence 5 at Hershey 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0766/1407913-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="610" height="660"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 9 at Springfield 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0855/1407906-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="610" height="762"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 Pittsburgh 2 at Buffalo 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0943/1407899-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="608" height="580"></div><h3><b>Hershey 4 at Providence 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1039/1407892-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="606" height="892"></div><h2><b>These Bears Are Really Bearing Down</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04128/1407885-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="556" height="550"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DUNC FISHER</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0677/1407878-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="568" height="870"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>STAN PARKER</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1135/1407871-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="594" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ED KRYZANOWSKI</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including games of Sunday, October 30)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1224/1407864-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="614" height="738"></div><h2><b>Leaders</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1317/1407857-1-eng-US/f0012-132.jpg" title="f0012-13" width="614" height="545"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<p><b>Coach: BILL MITCHELL</b></p><p><b>1 DON SIMMONS, goal</b></p><p><b>1 GORDIE BELL, goal</b></p><p><b>2 ERNIE ROCHE, defense</b></p><p><b>3 MAURICE COLLINS, defense</b></p><p><b>4 BRENT McNAB, defense</b></p><p><b>5 GORDIE TOTTLE, defense</b></p><p><b>6 BERT BOURASSA, defense</b></p><p><b>7 GORDIE HAWORTH, centre</b></p><p><b>8 HARRY HDHIRNY, centre</b></p><p><b>10 GRAHAM HASTINGS, left wing</b></p><p><b>11 BILL MATHEWS, right wing</b></p><p><b>12 WALT ATANAS, right wing</b></p><p><b>14 BOB McCORD, defense</b></p><p><b>15 IVAN TENNANT, left wing</b></p><p><b>16 DOUG McMURDY, centre</b></p><p><b>17 EDDIE LEIER, centre</b></p><p><b>18 JIM ANDERSON, left wing</b></p><p><b>19 CARL (Buddy)BOONE, right wing</b></p><p><b>20 KEN SCHINKEL, right wing</b></p><p><b>21 MARIUS GROLEAU, left wing</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Springfield Indians

<p>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>At least from a Calgary standpoint, no one can argue the advantage of overtime. The Stampeders have played only four home games and two of them have been decided in the extra sudden-death session.</p><p>The Cowboys won the first one, but dropped last Saturday&rsquo;s outing to the surging Winnipeg Warriors 5-4. Despite the loss, the fans should have gone home satisfied, not only because the extra play produced a winner but also because the game was a good one with both teams giving it all their worth.</p><p>Another thrilling part, witnessed for the first time locally Saturday, was where a team is two men short. The Stamps had four men against six for 25 seconds in the first period, but the Warriors were unable to gain anything by it.</p><p>The 4,651 fans in attendance brought the season&rsquo;s total to 16,370 an average of 4,092 per game.</p><p>Coach Frank Currie cut two players this past week to comply with league regulations. One was Fred Sasakamoose, who decided to go back to the reservation North of Saskatoon, at least temporarily, and the other was defenceman, Pat Coburn, who operates a real estate business in Calgary.</p><p>Currie was undecided as to whether to keep five defencemen and nine forwards or four defencemen and 10 forwards. He finally decided on the latter move because he can always shift Bill Shvetz back of the blue line should the occasion arise.</p><p>Fred Hucul, a young fellow who jumped to Chicago Black Hawks from Moose Jaw Canucks while still of junior age, is decidedly the best of the calgary defence corps at this stage and, at the present rate, could well qualify for an All-Star berth at the end of the season. There are many good defencemen in the league, but few have as much drive and hustle, combined with ability.</p><p>The demise of the Junior Buffaloes from the Western Junior League a couple of campaigns back gave many people the impression that Calgary was short on hockey talent.</p><p>Well, take a look at this: The six-team Community Junior League has started practices. The sides habe been picked, all the teams have at least 30 prospects in camp, some of them have more than 40 youngsters trying for berths.</p><p>The season will start early in November with the kids given 37 nights in the spacious Stampede Corral. There&rsquo;ll be three games each scheduled night, all for a quarter, and the competition should be keen and the interest high. Results from this program should be in evidence within a couple of campaigns.</p><h2><b>The Chopper</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04191/1407996-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="542" height="815"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANK CURRIE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Win Two Tilts In Extra Session

<p><b>Coach: AIf Pike</b></p><p><b>1 Ed Chadwick, goal</b></p><p><b>2 Fred Shero, def.</b></p><p><b>3 Dick Keating, def.</b></p><p><b>4 Dan Summers, def.</b></p><p><b>5 Bill Burega, def.</b></p><p><b>6 Jack Bownass, def.</b></p><p><b>7 Mike Nykoluk, fwd.</b></p><p><b>8 Eddie Mazur, fwd.</b></p><p><b>9 Gary Aldcom, fwd.</b></p><p><b>10 Paul Masnick, fwd.</b></p><p><b>11 Al Johnson, fwd.</b></p><p><b>12 Garry Edmundson, fwd.</b></p><p><b>14 Brian Cullen, fwd.</b></p><p><b>15 Barry Cullen, fwd.</b></p><p><b>16 Hugh Barlow, fwd.</b></p><p><b>17 Len Thornton, fwd.</b></p><p><b>18 Dick Bouchard, fwd.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Warriors Winnipeg

<p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>Seeking to strenghten their defensive line, the Seattle Americans have obtained the services of John Bownass from the Montreal Canadiens, General Manager Billy Reay announced.</p><p>Bownass, whose home is in Winnipeg, reported to the Seattle team in Vancouver.</p><p>On loan from the Canadiens, Bownass comes highly recommended by Seattle goalie Charley Hodge, who played with the new American on the Montreal Royals of the Quebec League last year.</p><p>Bownass, 25, stands 6&rsquo;1&rdquo;, weighs 185-pounds and in 56 games last season scored five goals, and 27 assists for 32 points. He spent 88 minutes in the penalty box.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Americans Obtain Bownass

<p><b>&lsquo;I Never Punch First&rsquo;</b></p><p>Here, in his own words, hockey&rsquo;s flamboyant Rocket&rsquo; reveals for the first time the real circumstances behind his most colorful escapades.</p><p><b>Read it today in the November issue of</b></p><p><b>LIBERTY</b></p><p><i><b>ON SALE NOW 10</b></i><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

MAURICE RICHARD Tells His Own Story

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p class="dropcap"><span>L</span>ike most clubs in this young Western Hockev League season, the Regina Regals are making out much better on the road than they are on home ice. So far this season, most clubs have found the going rather tough when playing at home.</p><p>At the time of writing, the new Regals have played only two games away from the Friendly confines of Regina Stadium. And on both occasions they came up with important victories to hold third place in the Prairie Division standings.</p><p>They made their first &ldquo;away&rdquo; appearance in Calgary&rsquo;s Stampede Corral, and they ran up a 3-0 score on the homestanding Stampeders before the first period was over. The final count was 4-1 for the Regals, giving Calgary their first defeat of the season.</p><p>One week later, the Regals were the visitors in Saskatoon where they produced a 2-0 shutout win over the Quakers, thanks to the brilliant goalkeeping of Lucien Dechene. The goals went to George Senick, a former Quaker, and Norm Johnson.</p><p>At the time of writing, the Regals could show only one win, two losses and a tie on home ice. Two of their four games went into overtime, with the Regals beating Winnipeg Warriors 4-3 in the first and trying the Quakers 2-2 in the second.</p><p>The Regals aren&rsquo;t the only club that can win away from home. The Stampeders played three games in three nights at Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Regina, and won two of them. The new Winnipeg Warriors went into Edmonton and Calgary for games on successive nights and managed to defeat the powerful Alberta clubs in both contests.</p><p>Under new regulations adopted this year in the Western Hockey League, each club must carry four first-year rookies on their lineup. In Regina, manager-coach Frank Boucher is quite proud of his four rookies. He rates them as good, if not better, than the rookies on any other club.</p><p>Boucher has defenceman Gordon Strate, who graduated last year from the Edmonton Oil Kings; Gordon Cowan, a centre and winger and former Regina Pat junior; centre and defenceman Norm Johnson, who formerly played with the Moose Jaw senior Millers; and Gordon Stratton, high-scoring forward with the Winnipeg Barons of the Manitoba Junior League last year.</p><p>Strate, who comes to Regina from the Detroit Red Wing chain, is one of five defencemen being carried by the club. Boucher is breaking him into pro ranks slowly. Strate is a big six-footer who isn&rsquo;t afraid to throw his weight around. Boucher frequently pairs him with the veteran Keith Allen to give him added experience.</p><p>Stratton, a husky Winger; looks the best of the other rookies so far. He accounted for five goals in the club&rsquo;s first five games&mdash;an average of a goal a game. He has the size to look after himself in the rough going and his play is not unlike that of Andy Hebenton, a former Western Leaguer who made the vig jump to the N.H.L. this year with the Rangers.</p><p>Cowan is one of Regina&rsquo;s longtime hockey favorites from his days with the Regina Pats and folks about town are looking tor him to show his old-time sparkle. Johnson stirs things up whenever he&rsquo;s out there. He hasn&rsquo;t the polish of some of the veteran pros but that will come with time.</p><p>Manager-coach Boucher has taken over a half-hour radio program on a Regina radio station and he made it into a very appealing show on his first broadcast. He does the show in co-operation with sportscaster Lloyd Saunders. Al Leader, president of the Western League, was Boucher&rsquo;s guest on his first broadcast.</p><h2><b>Brilliant</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05163/1408120-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="590" height="880"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LUCIEN DECHENE</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>He&rsquo;s Cat</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01282/1408113-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="600" height="598"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRED SASAKAMOORE</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Shifty Sort</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02243/1408106-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="604" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL SHVETZ</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Dropped</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03217/1408099-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="594" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAT COBURN</b></figcaption></div><div class="sidebar"><p>The Toronto Maple Leafs use BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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‘Hit The Road’ Proves Best Advice In WHL

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-20" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2016/1408339-1-eng-US/f0014-202.jpg"></div><p><b>FOOTBALL NEWS</b></p><p>FEATURES&mdash;PICTURES&mdash;STATISTICS&mdash;INTERVIEWS</p><p>CARTOONS&mdash;COMPLETE REPORTS ON ALL TEAMS</p><p><b>Only S2.50 for 26 consecutive issues.</b></p><p>Published weekly for 20 straight weeks during football season and once a month during off season months. January to June inclusive.</p><p><b>It doesn&rsquo;t matter when you start, you still get your 26 issues.</b></p><p><b>&#9633; Renewal &#9633; Former Subscriber &#9633; New Subscription</b></p><p>Fill in the form below and sand money order or personal cheque.</p><p>(Add 15 for exchange)</p><div class="sidebar"><p>George Stockwell, Trainer of the Toronto Argonaut Football Club, uses and endorses Bike supports and Bike Trainers Tape.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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The Canadian

<h2><b>Earning Their Pay</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>ay Kinasewich of Edmonton and Doug. Macauley of Victoria scored the three goal &lsquo;hat trick&rsquo; the past week. Kinasewich against New Westminster in that city. October 26, and Macauley also against New Westminster in Victoria, October 29.</p><h2><b>Not Homers</b></h2><p>Of the 31 games played to date the visiting club have broken even which is unusual. Visiting clubs have won 15, lost 15 and one game has been tied. The winning club has scored first in 20 games.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON MON. A.M. OCT. 24 PRAIRIE DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01282/1408308-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="602" height="166"></div><h3>COAST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02212/1408301-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="596" height="136"></div><h3>RESULTS</h3><p><b>Monday October 17</b></p><p>Calgary 3 at Saskatoon 4</p><p><b>Tuesday October 18</b></p><p>Edmonton 5 at Victoria 4</p><p>Calgary 5 at Winnipeg 2</p><p><b>Wednesday October 19</b></p><p>Edmonton 6 at New West. 3</p><p>Calgary 5 at Regina 3</p><p><b>Friday October 21</b></p><p>New West. 4 at Victoria 6</p><p>Seattle 2 at Vancouver 3</p><p>Winnipeg 4 at Edmonton 2</p><p><b>Saturday October 22</b></p><p>Vancouver 4 at Eeattle 6</p><p>Victoria 3 at New West. 4</p><p>Winnipeg 5 at Calgary 4</p><p>Regina <i><b>2</b></i> at Saskatoon 0</p><h3>MONDAY, OCTOBER 17 Calgary 3 at Saskatoon 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03155/1408294-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="608" height="612"></div><h3>TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18 Calgary 5 at Winnipeg 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04130/1408287-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="603" height="532"></div><h3>Edmonton 5 at Victoria 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05108/1408280-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="604" height="579"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19 Calgary 5 at Regina 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0691/1408273-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="605" height="535"></div><h3>Edmonton 6 at New Westminster 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0772/1408266-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="606" height="633"></div><h3>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 New Wesminster 4 at Victoria 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0860/1408259-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="601" height="706"></div><h3>Winnipeg 4 at Edmonton 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0955/1408252-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="614" height="572"></div><h3>Seattle 2 at Vancouver 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1049/1408245-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="611" height="486"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 Victoria 3 at New Westminster 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1422/1408238-1-eng-US/f0014-142.jpg" title="f0014-14" width="608" height="697"></div><h3>Winnipeg 5 at Calgary 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1617/1408231-1-eng-US/f0014-162.jpg" title="f0014-16" width="612" height="773"></div><h3><b>Vancouver 4 at Seattle 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02159/1408224-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="606" height="825"></div><h3><b>Regina 2 at Saskatoon 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03119/1408217-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="598" height="334"></div><h2><b>Top Scorers</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1143/1408210-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="577" height="872"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>COLIN KILBURN</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1237/1408203-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="576" height="766"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE FASHOWAY</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1331/1408196-1-eng-US/f0014-132.jpg" title="f0014-13" width="567" height="861"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ED STANKIEWICZ</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Saturday, Oct. 22)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1520/1408189-1-eng-US/f0014-152.jpg" title="f0014-15" width="607" height="1292"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS AVERAGES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1717/1408182-1-eng-US/f0014-172.jpg" title="f0014-17" width="622" height="318"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1817/1408175-1-eng-US/f0014-182.jpg" title="f0014-18" width="610" height="530"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">Al Parsley</div><p>(As Seen In The Montreal Herald)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03197/1408370-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="309" height="327"></div><p><b>&bull; IT&rsquo;S QUITE POSSIBLE</b> that barrel factories in these parts will receive a rush of business from unexpected sources, once the Quebec Hockey League teams catch on to the fact that Royals are crowding Shawinigan Cataracts for first place in the Quebec Hockey League because of an unusual training gimmick.</p><p>Elmer Lach rolled out six of these products of the cooper&rsquo;s craft Saturday Oct. 29, in practise and the precision-passing of the local QHL&rsquo;ers was noticeably improved next day. No longer were the forwards flinging the puck nowhere in particular. They seemed to have an uncanny knack of planting the black biscuit on the stick of an uncovered teammate.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote">Now, if six barrels can aid a team to collect five tallies, then a dozen of the suds containers might bring 10, if simple arithmetic means something hockey-wise. Lach will likely be the last to approve such non-senical reasoning, but he&rsquo;s keen to experiment with the treatment again. His team is. clicking right now with three straight victories, and is unbeaten in its last four outings. So all must agree that Saturday&rsquo;s workout, with barrels, was an artistic triumph.</blockquote><p>Of course, the thing could be overdone. If a coach in desperation because of a scoring famine cluttered up the ice with too many barrels, there&rsquo;d be no room left to skate, and what if another skinny tutor should speculate that the keg sizes are unimpressive and plants a few hogsheads on the rink?</p><p>Andre Corriveau, who has been a top-line scorer year after year in the QHL, said it&rsquo;s old stuff to him, but agrees that skating and passing throug the barrels teaches a puck-carrier to keep his head up, and that&rsquo;s when he knows when and where he&rsquo;s passing and shooting.</p><p>Yours truly can remember how the late Howie Morenz was quoted in an interview not long before the accident which led to his death in 1937: &ldquo;I scored over 200 goals in my best years in hockey. If I had kept my head up I guess I might have scored 400.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><blockquote class="pullQuote">The Shawinigan band came down 40-strong for the game of Sunday, Oct. 30, and undaunted by the fact that their heroes trailed 4-1 after one 20-minute go with Royals, the hornblowers and drummers rendered lively airs at the first interval with their oompah.</blockquote><p>Johnny Podres, Dodgers&rsquo; pitching hero in the recent World Series, saw the first hockey game in his life Saturday night. He was in the rink only a few minutes when he spotted Doug Harvey and rushed down to the rail to chat. He and Harvey played baseball together some years ago in Valleyfield&hellip;Sincere sympathy is extended by this department to Jim Gray, president of the Financial Hockey, in the sudden death of his brother in Toronto on Saturday.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-03

SIDELIGHTS

<p>CHICOUTIMI, P.Q.&mdash;</p><p>While the experts are forecasting a close race between the Shawinigan Cataracts and the Montreal Royals for first place in the Quebec Hockey League, the Chicoutimi Sagueneens don&rsquo;t intend to be pushovers for anyone this season.</p><p>The rejuvenated Sagueneens have come up with 3 wins and a tie in their six outings, losing two, close ones to Quebec 3-2 and Trois-Rivi&egrave;res 2-0.</p><p>The Chicoutimi club this year is a mixture of youth and experience and should Plamondon&rsquo;s veterans stand up, the Chick&rsquo;s could very well be the surprise team of the Quebec Hockey League this season.</p><p>When Plamondon&rsquo;s club played to a 3-3 draw with Royals last week, the game proved to be a costly one for the Chicks. Stan Smrke suffered a fractured cheek bone and their young goaler Marcel Paill&eacute; was hit in the left eye by the puck. Smrke will be out. of action for several weeks, while Paill&eacute; should return to the line up shortly. Smrke&rsquo;s injury has undoubtedly upset Gerry Plamondon&rsquo;s plans, but the Sagueneens 4-1 victory over Shawinigan Cataracts last Friday showed that they could bounce back despite player injuries.</p><p>With the trend in the Quebec Hockey League swinging over to promising players, Plamondon has come up with a &ldquo;Kid-Line&rsquo;&rsquo; of Gregg Hicks at center, Ivan Houle, left wing, and Glen Cressman, right wing. Cressman is a graduate of the Ontario Junior League, having played with Toronto Marlboros last season, while Hicks is in his second season with Chicoutimi after playing with Kitchener Jrs. prior to turning pro with the Chicoutimi club.</p><p>With fiery Jimmy Moore back in the line-up after being sidelined last season with a broken leg and the return of Fern Perreault to the club plus the addition of two promising young defensemen in the persons of Claude Labrosse and John Hanna who both performed with Trois-Rivieres Juniors last year, coach Plamondon&rsquo;s club has every indication of being a contender for the championship of the Quebec Hockey League.</p><h2>Injured</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04154/1408401-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="586" height="894"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>STAN SMRKE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0015-04

Chicks Lose Smrke, Cain Only A Draw

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>After the first three dates of the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA schedule, during which five games were played, the results would indicate that the champion Kitchener Dutchmen and the runner-up Owen Sound Mercurys are the strong teams in the group, but these early scores could prove misleading before the season is far advanced.</p><p>Both Kitchener and Owen Sound won their first two starts, the former defeating Chatham Maroons 5-4 in overtime and Windsor Bulldogs 7-1, while the latter handed Stratford Indians and Chatham Maroons 4-2 and 3-1 reverses respectively. In the other game Stratford handed Windsor a 7-6 setback on the latter&rsquo;s home ice.</p><p>This left Kitchener and Owen Sound tied for the leadership with two straight victories, Stratford second with one win and one loss, and Windsor and Chatham sharing the cellar berth with two straight defeats. Eight more games are scheduled for this week, and the outcome of them might change the complexion of the standing. Certainly Chatham Maroons are a better team than they displayed in their first two games, and will not be the weak sisters of the group, as they were last season.</p><p>Kitchener Dutchmen have released Jack White, Jack Hamilton, Mike Delich, Rio Caron and Bill Kendall, two of them forwards and the other three defencemen, and Owen Sound has signed Hamilton, which Delich possibly signing with Chatham. Kitchener actually appears all set for OHA competition, but for their trip to Cortina, Italy, for the Olympic Games world&rsquo;s championship they need defencemen, and are busy scouring the countryside for that reinforcement. The story is that Kitchener released Hamilton to Owen Sound with the understanding that the Mercurys would loan defenceman Elmer Skov to them for their European trip, provided the Dutchmen would loan either Joe Schertzl or Bud Kemp, two of their defencemen barred from the world tourney owing to their previous pro activities. Upon the return of the Dutchmen in three weeks time Kemp would revert to Kitchener and Skov to Owen Sound.</p><p>Chatham Maroons probably have added the most new faces, including Mike Delich of the Dutchmen, who played an exhibition game for them and may possibly wind up with them, although he holds a good job in Kitchener, and was reported favoring a spot with the Stratford Indians, whereby he could communte back and, forth for games.</p><p>Owen Sound Mercurys appear pretty well set for the season, now that Bobby Gilson has reconsidered retirement and is back in their goal. The veteran Tommy Burligton, admitted the color guy of the group and a general favorite wherever he plays, is back with the Mercurys, going as strong as ever, although it was feared after his broken leg last season, after which he was but a shadow of his former self, that he would be obliged to retire. Along with Burlingon, the Mercurys are icing such veterans as Jerry Reid, Buck Forslund and Jack Hamilton, and there is still a chance that Bill McComb may return to action, after suffering a shoulder injuries last season. He is skating and probably will be used in a reserve role.</p><p>Although Windsor Bulldogs lost their two starts, they still have their veterans, George Gee, Jimmie Peters, Frank Bathgate, Earl Keyes and Gord Haidy back, and these with three graduates from junior ranks, given them a formidable club that will be heard from later. On paper they are too good a team to continue losing, after finishing third last season.</p><p>Stratford Indians started with the same team this season With which they finished last season, with the exception of Gerry Price, one of their farmhands, who may or may not make the team, and Ron Ingrain, young defenceman, former property of the Toronto Maple Leafs but now belonging to the Montreal Canadiens, who has turned pro. Stratford appears to be the team that requires reinforcements the most, and possibly by the Dec. 15 deadline they will have added several new players, preferrably one or two defencemen and two of three forwards.</p><p>An early-season survey suggests that the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA group will be better balanced than last season, although Kitchener Dutchmen and Owen Sound Mercurys are favored to run one-two in the standing.</p><h2><b>Over To Merks</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02180/1408463-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="570" height="874"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK HAMILTON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0017-02

Powerful Dutchies, Merks Throw Their Weight Around

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>IG THINGS</b>&hellip;Frank Buckland, OHA President, is einvinced that an interlocking schedule between Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; teams in Southern Ontario and Northern Ontario is feasible&hellip;he revealed that he personally canvassed NOHA teams and all but one verbally favored such a setup&hellip;said Frank: &ldquo;The Northern Ontario teams did not go ahead with the idea this season because of unsettled conditions within their own circuit, but there&rsquo;s a strong possibility it may materialize for 1956-57.&rdquo; THE HOCKEY NEWS conducted a survey and discovered 65 per cent in favor of it&hellip;the strong objectors claimed it would be too costly because of distances and would not work out&hellip;Perth has its own arena following a wonderful gesture by George James, owner of the Perth Arena&hellip;George donated the building and land to the town&hellip;it will now be named James Recreation Centre&hellip;now there&rsquo;s a mighty fine citizen!&hellip;</p><p><b>SOLID LINEUP</b>&hellip;eight referees and nine linesman have corralled for duty in the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit&hellip;referee-in-chief Wes Hart, who has done a great job, picked the referees who live in North Bay and Sudbury&hellip;the list includes Wilf Lemieux, Jack Newell, Bud McDonald and Leo Fletcher of Sudbury along with Al Promaine, Lou Farrelli, Tom Mitchell and James Kelly of North Bay&hellip;the linesmen include Giles McGuire of Renfrew (a great hockey centre), Hub Anslow of Pembroke (former player with Pembroke Lumber Kings), Gerry Wallace of Sudbury, Garth Van Meer of North Bay, Bob Gilray of Soo, Mich., and Mario Deluca, Fred Deluco, Fred Caputo and Frank Duguay of Soo, Ontario&hellip;Hart paid special tribute to the late George Numella, brilliant referee, who was killed in a car accident while returning to his home in Callander from a senior playoff game in Soo, Ontario, last season.&hellip;said Wes: &ldquo;You can never replace a fine official and gentleman like George.&rdquo;</p><p><b>NO HOPE</b>&hellip;any hope that the once-famous &ldquo;KID LINE&rdquo; of Sudbury Wolves&mdash;Mauno Kauppi, Tatter McClellan and Yacker Flynn&mdash;would be re-united has now been dashed&hellip;Kauppi and Flynn are out, while McClellan, at last report, was a holdout in the Wolves&rsquo; camp&hellip;the trio had an illustrious career and there&rsquo;s little doubt that the &lsquo;ole inexorable march of time has again taken its toll&hellip;Ronnie (THE HOOKER) Rubic is still under suspension by the Soo (Mich.) Indians&hellip;here&rsquo;s a salute to young Joe Draeder, fresh out of the Ottawa Junior Hockey League, who has nabbed a spot with Cully Simon&rsquo;s Pembroke Lumber Kings in the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit&hellip;he&rsquo;s big, fast, aggressive and under Cully, former NHL star, should develop into a classy performer. good luck, Joe!&hellip;Harry Scott, former OHA Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; and &ldquo;B&rdquo; performer from Sault Ste. Marie, received an invitation to tryout with Fort Wayne Komets of the IHL&hellip;let&rsquo;s go Harry!&hellip;</p><p><b>GOES INDIAN!</b>&hellip;Russ Kowalchuk, 23-year-old player from Edmonton, has been brought into Northern Ontario senior hockey by Soo Indians&hellip;however, just before getting this column prepared, I was informed that this status is still obscure as far as being waived out of professional hockey is concerned&hellip;but the Indians are confident they can nab Russ&hellip;he turned pro with Buffalo of the AHL in 1953-54&hellip;he played 65 games and showed considerable promise&hellip;Russ worked with Eddie Shore&rsquo;s Springfield team last season in addition to Montreal Royals and Providence Reds&hellip;Jimmy Mattson, released by the Indians, is slated to tryout with Johnstown of the EAHL&hellip;Julian Klymkiw, who played with Brandon Intermediates last season and tabbed a Detroit chattel, has been released by Soo Greyhounds and apparently has intentions of trying to nab a spot with another NOHA club&hellip;Julian sparked Brandon to the Western Canadian Intermediate crown last season under playing-coach Bill Juzda, former Toronto Maple Leaf standout&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01214/1408432-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="600" height="894"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RUSS KOWALCHUK</b></figcaption></div><p><b>TURNS WOLF!</b>&hellip;but we mean this in a hockey-sense when we refer to Kenny Watson of Winnipeg&hellip;he has reported to Coach Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty&rsquo;s Sudbury Wolves&hellip;Kenny starred with the Soo Greyhounds at centre last season but overlooked overtures by the &lsquo;Hounds this season&hellip;Kenny whipped in 20 goals and carved 18 assists in 1954-55&hellip;relations between the Soo Indians and Sudbury Wolves are strained to put it mildly&hellip;it&rsquo;s all over the Red Barrett case&hellip;the Indians feel Sudbury did not play ball over Red who figured he was promised his release from the Wolves&hellip;he turned out with the Indians for pre-season games and the Indians wanted him&hellip;Sudbury officials claimed he was not released and held on to him&hellip;they then demanded a high price, according to Indian officials, for Barrett&hellip;the Indians could not afford it&hellip;the trouble really started when it was announced that Barrett was on his way to St. John&rsquo;s in the Maritime circuit&mdash;FOR FREE!&hellip;but another report, just received, has it that Barrett was not going to the Maritimes and may lineup with another NOHA team&hellip;so, we&rsquo;ll wait and see for further news!&hellip;</p><p><b>CLOSE FIGHT</b>&hellip;the latest figures in the NOHA Big Ten Scoring Parade compiled just before completing this column show Matt Mesich, a defenseman for Soo Greyhounds, tied with his teammate, Mike Ratchford, for top honors on eight points, both with two goals and six assists&hellip;Joe Zorica of Sudbury, Rheal Savard of Pembroke aalong with Jimmy McBurney and Cleveland Mortson of Soo Greyhounds follow with seven&hellip;McBurney and Zorica lead in goals with six&hellip;some mighty fine netminding has been recorded in NOHA senior games to date&hellip;looks like a terrific season all the way&hellip;Sudbury had a neat crowd for a North Bay game with 5,758 on hand&hellip;the Wolves, in turn, attracted close to 5,000 in a game against Soo Greyhounds in the Soo&hellip;it&rsquo;s hats off once again to Jack French, genial statistician for the NOHA Southern Division&hellip;his first official release carries a colored and attractive &ldquo;mast-head&rdquo; showing a gruff-looking Indian and an equally-gruff looking Greyhound sticking out of St. Mary&rsquo;s River to represent Soo, Michigan, and Soo, Ontario&hellip;they are looking ayprehensively toward a confident, somewhat vicious-looking Wolf to represent Sudbury Wolves&hellip;a heavily-bearded Trapper with a Davey Crockett headpiece looks defiantly toward Sudbury and the two Soos, while a sturdy lumberjack with a crown on top of his head and a big nose, looms up from Pembroke to represent the Lumber Kings&hellip;nice job, Jack!&hellip;</p><p><b>WIDE OPEN!</b>&hellip;Coach Sugar Jim Henry has the Soo Greyhounds rolling&hellip;they moved up the score to 10-3 over North Bay Trappers then followed through with a 7-2 win over Pembroke&hellip;he&rsquo;s plugging wide-open hockey, setting a trend which should dominate the style of play in Northern Ontario this season&hellip;fans already are praising this style which is giving them a lot more action&hellip;a form of defensive hockey advocated by one coach last year has been criticized by many fans&hellip;looks like a New Deal!&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-01

NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By NICK ROCHE</div><p>PRINCE ALBERT, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>The 1955-56 edition of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey definitely has that NEW LOOK. It&rsquo;s been a four team league for the past seven years. For this season anyway it&rsquo;s increased to five teams, and highly possible that it will be a six team league next year. The addition of junior clubs from Melville and Yorktown, Saskatchewan, two of the hottest Senior hockey centres in Canada, have raised the leagues number of teams to five.</p><p>There was at one time six members, but Saskatoon Wesleys, formerly sponsored by the Toronto Maple Leafs, felt they couldn&rsquo;t operate this year, and gave up their franchise. Other members in the league are the winners last year, Humboldt Indians, Flin Flon Bombers and the Prince Albert Mintos.</p><p>The Humboldt team has a different look this season too. It was felt by their executive that a centre as small as Humboldt, some 3,000 population, couldn&rsquo;t support a Junior A club any longer. A deal was made with neighboring Melfort, population 3,500 that half the home games of the Indians would be played in Melfort at their rink at Bo cost to the people of Melfort. This way with the 25 home games the Indians have to play, 13 are to be played in Humboldt, with an expected attendance of at least 1,000 per game, and the other 12 at Melfort with attendance around the 800 mark. This is much better financially than an average of 600 which would have been the case had the 25 games played in Humboldt. Thus the Humboldt Indian hockey club is now known as the Humboldt-Melfort Indians. Their coach remains as usual, the Fat Man of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, Scotty Munro, back of his 5th year at the helm of the Indians, on a 2-year contract.</p><p>In Prince Albert, former New Westminster Royals centreice star Ken Ullyot, is back for his second season at the reins of the Green and Gold Mintos. Ullyot last year was beat out in the finals by the Humboldt Indians.</p><p>The Flin Flon Bombers have Bobby Kirk for his 3rd season at the helm of the Bombers. Kirk won championships in his first two years at Flin Flon, and was defeated last spring by the Mintos in the league semi-finals.</p><h2><b>Colorful Coaches</b></h2><p>A couple of other colourful coaches will add to the fans enjoyment this winter in the persons of Bill &ldquo;Legs&rdquo; Fraser, head man of the Melville Millionaires, and Bill &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Hunter taking charge at Yorkton. The Terriers have eight players from the now defunct Moose Jaw Canucks, due to their rink buring, and Hunter has filled in well with a sparkling of top Junior talent in the Province. He will have one of the top three clubs in the league according to all reports noi. In Melville, there is no nucleous of Moose Jaw players and Bill Fraser will have a more difficult time. He&rsquo;s out to build a club, and his hockey fans might have to be content with a loser this winter, with the future looming much brighter.</p><p>The Saskatchewan Junior league has back at the head of the loop, Lou Withers of Saskatoon, and Bill Hoy as the league statistician. The playoffs this year will be the toy four clubs in the league, with the 5 the team on the sidelines. The three officials system of officiating hockey games has been introduced in the Saskatchewan Junior League and with just the first four games played, it is going to prove beneficial both to the hockey players and the fans.</p><p>This could be a turning point for Junior hockey in the Provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta. It&rsquo;s not an impossibility that Regina and Moose Jaw won&rsquo;t join the other five members of the league and have an all Saskatchewan Junior A Hockey league, letting the Alberta clubs play in their own Province. At any rate it&rsquo;s felt that as close as Humboldt came to beating the Regina Pats last spring, this next one will see the Saskatchewan winner enter the Western Junior playoffs, side-lining the Western Junior league winner along the way. The two teams that hape the best chance as the season opens up, are the Flin Flon Bombers and the Prince Albert Mintos.</p><h2><b>Second Year</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03141/1408494-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="596" height="914"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN ULLYOT</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0017-03

New Look Saskatchewan Juniors To Boast Five Teams This Season

<h2><b>STANDING ON TUR. A.M. OCT 25</b></h2><h3>International League</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0395/1408556-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="548" height="178"></div><h2><b>RESULTS</b></h2><h3>Tuesday Oct. 16</h3><p><b>Indianapolis 3 Ft. Wayne 2 (over-time)</b></p><h3>Wednesday Oct, 19</h3><p><b>Toledo 2 Indianapolis 1</b></p><p><b>Troy 4 Grand Rapids 0</b></p><h3>Friday Oct.</h3><p><b>Cincinnati 7 Grand Rapids 1</b></p><h3>Sunday Oct. 22</h3><p><b>Cincinnati 7 Indianapolis 5</b></p><p><b>Ft. Wayne 4 Grand Rapids 1</b></p><p><b>Troy at Toledo, postponed to Dec. 28 because of failure of freezing plant.</b></p><h3>Monday Oct. 23</h3><p><b>Troy 7 Grand Rapids 0</b></p><p><b>Toledo 6 Indianapolis 1</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-03

IHL Statistics

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02147/1408587-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GEORGE HAYES</b></figcaption></div><p>GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Moose Lallo is a busy man these days.</p><p>Last year-big Moose was concerned only with the playing end of it, but now he&rsquo;s the coach at Grand Rapids and is weighed down by a multitude of worries.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m losing weight,&rdquo; big Moose told the Hockey News, &ldquo;because of all of these added responsibilities. But our team will be okay and we expect to be in the International League playoffs again.&rdquo;</p><p>Lallo isn&rsquo;t kidding when he talks about his loss of poundage. From 210 pounds last season, he&rsquo;s down to a bare 195 right now.</p><p>Employed in the construction business in Grand Rapids, the 32-year-old Moose is in his initial season as coach after replacing Norm Grinke several months ago.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got a combination of rookies and veterans who should improve as we go along,&rdquo; Moose pointed out. &ldquo;We looked pretty good during training and there&rsquo;s no reason why we shouldn&rsquo;t continue to do well.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Crowdis Is Back</b></h2><p>Colorful Lou Crowdis, the irrespressible goal-tender who rarely fails to steal the show with his antics, is back in the nets for the Michigan sextet. You can&rsquo;t tell what Crowdis is likely to do the next minute but one thing is sure&mdash;he&rsquo;s a highly competent net-minder.</p><p>&ldquo;Lou has played consistently good hockey for us and should have a good year, if he gets any help from our defense,&rdquo; Lallo said.</p><p>That leaves it squarely up to Lallo himself, along with his defense corps of Bob Turner, Bill Fillman and Hal McNamara. Turner is a converted forward, Fillman is a &ldquo;promising rookie&rdquo; and McNamara is a rear guard who saw action with the defunct Milwaukee club of the IHL.</p><p>Up front, Lallo has six veterans and three new comers at his disposal, Back for another fling are Centers George Hayes and Joe Ingoldsby and Wingers Rick Hogg, Roland Spong, Roger Maissonneuve and Phil Golden. New men are Centre Al Jacques and Wingmen Nick Donaleshem and Gerry Maissonneuve, young brother of Roger.</p><p>Hayes tied for third in the International League&rsquo;s scoring parade last year with 74 points, while Hogg was thirteenth with 53 points. Lallo himself was right up with the leaders, contributing 22 goals in collecting 48 points. Golden is back with Grand Rapids after two years of English hockey.</p><p>Fillman is a graduate of junior &lsquo;B&rsquo; hockey in Toronto, while Jacques came from Flin Flon and Gerry Maissonneuve from Goward, Ontario.</p><p>Gone from the Grand Rapids club which finished fourth in the IHL last year behind Cincinnati, Troy and Toledo, in that order, is Ed (can o&rsquo; tobacco) Panagabko Panagabko, ninth among Internationnal League point-makers last year with 60, was receiving a tryout with the Boston Bruins of the National League.</p><p><b>ICING THE PUCK&hellip;</b>After the second weekend of IHL action, Toledo-Marion shared the top spot with Cincinnati and Troy, all with six points. The Mercurys were unbeaten in the first three starts, while the Mohawks and Bruins both took three out of four&hellip;Looks like Goalie Bill Tibbs of Troy is due for a big year. He already has recorded two shutouts (both over Grand Rapids) in the first four Bruins contests&hellip;Cincinnati and Indianapolis engaged in a four-star thriller the other night, as the Hawks, two goals behind with just over three minutes left to play, tallied four times in that period to win, 7-5. Reg Crigg got the sixth and seventh Cincinnati goals in the final 21 seconds of action&hellip;Two Cincinnati centres are going great guns. Rookie Max Mekilok has six goals in four tilts, with one or more in every contest, while Billy Goold, veteran Hawk captain, has five goals and tops the team in scoring with nine points.</p><h2><b>Veteran Up Front</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Moose Hears Call Of Wild Worries, Sheds Weight As Team Gains Form

<p>WHITBY, Ont&mdash;</p><p>The five team Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League is ready for its Oct. 26 opening of the 1955-56 season. The league, composed of seven teams last year will go to the post without the Peterborough, &ldquo;Petes&rdquo; and the Clinton N.Y. &ldquo;Comets&rdquo;. Peterborough has suspended operations for a year, while Clinton will play a full schedule in the United States Eastern Amateur league this year.</p><p>Cornwall Colts, Brockville Magedomas, Kingston Goodyears, Whitby Dunlops, and the Belleville T.P.T.&rsquo;s will comprise this years competitors.</p><p>All teams appear to be strengthening for this year&rsquo;s grind, with Brockville especially going all out in this department. The Magedomas who missed the group play-offs last year are boiling mad, and Mgr. Kitch Stanford has been busy lining up a strong entry. He has signed, Emile Dagenais, former Ottawa Senator as playing coach while other former Senators signed include, Hughie Riopelle, and Don Thompson. Alan Kuntz, rightwinger and last year with Pembroke Lumber kings is another who has inked a Brockville contract.</p><p>The Cornwall Colts led the league last year with a powerful entry and don&rsquo;t show any signs of weakening. They received great help from the Montreal Canadiens, when the Habitants sent Andpre&rsquo; Binnette a goalkeeper from last year&rsquo;s Shawinigan Falls team to Cornwall. Ray Leacock a big Negro defenceman, formerly from the Quebec Provincial league has also signed with the Colts. Moe Savard, classy centreman and last year with Cornwall, has signed again as has Bob Bingley and several others.</p><h2><b>Dunlops Impress</b></h2><p>The Whitby Dunlops, who wound up las year&rsquo;s campaign in third place impressed a lot of people last week, when they tied the Allan Cup winning Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen 5-5 at Whitby. The Dunlops under playing coach Bus Gagnon former American Leaguer, appear to have gained balance, with the acquisition of centreman Frank Bonello from last year&rsquo;s Chatham Maroons of the O.H.A. Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league, along with Goalkeeper Jack Donlevy, and defenceman Eddie Redmond from the defunct Peterboro Petes. Redmond a former American League player with St. Louis Flyers looks good on defence. Bobby Attersley, a former winner of the Red Tilson Memorial trophy as the most valuable player in Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey in 1952, and last year&rsquo;s scoring champion in the Eastern Ontario league has signed again with Whitby. Others signed include Fred Etcher, Sandy Air, Alf Tren, Harry Sinden, Don McBeth, Ted Degray, Tommy O&rsquo;Connor and Doug Williams.</p><p>The Champion Kingston Goodyears, who have been bothered by player squabbles, seem to have most of their problems ironed out. Playing Coach Les Douglas, former American Leaguer scoring champion, feels the Goodyears will be good enough to win it again. Besides having most of last year Championship Club returning the Goodyears made a big steal from the Whitby Dunlops, when they got George Samolenko to sign with the limestone city crew.</p><p>Moe Morris, last year with the Cornwall Colts, and now attending Queens University in Kingston is also expected to play with the &ldquo;Goodies&rdquo;. Other newcomers may include Art Clune, formerly with St. Michaels Majors, and Goalkeeper Les Binkley from the Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Galt Black Hawks. Ted Nicholson and Jack Irvine failed to report to the Goodyears camp, and at the present moment must be considered holdouts.</p><p>The Belleville T.P.T. entry has not as yet issued too much information. They picked up four good hockey players from the defunct Peterborough club in Chum Fryia, Bert Hill, Gus Leonard and Toodie Grenlaw. Tony Parisi is reported on his way back to Belleville to play goal again and several other top players are reported to be lining up with the Bay of Quinte Club. Belleville who knocked off the league leading Cornwall Colts in the first round of the play-offs last year, always supply a fighting club, and Manager Red Doran is on the prowl for players.</p><p>There is no doubt that the Eastern league will supply some top hockey action this season, and to attempt to try and pick the ultimate winner would be hazardous. The schedule gets underway on Wednesday October 26, 1955, when Whitby invades Kingston, while on Friday October 28, 1955, Cornwall is at Brockville and Whitby are in Btlleville. Whitby gets their home opener on Saturday October 29, 1955, when they receive a return visit from Kingston and the following day, Sunday 30, 1955, Cornwall rings up the curtain at hom when they entertain Belleville.</p><h2>Confident</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01222/1408525-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="580" height="1168"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LES DOUGLAS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Petes, Comets Fold, Eastern Ontario Loop To Go With 5 Clubs

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01200/1408618-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(Solution next week)</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured Black Hawk player.</p><p>6&mdash;Fawning.</p><p>8&mdash;Providence Red&rsquo;s coach.</p><p>10&mdash;Initials of Cleveland Baron&rsquo;s netminder.</p><p>11&mdash;Initials of the youngest Kilrea brother, ex NHL palyer.</p><p>13&mdash;&ldquo;Ott&rdquo; Heller&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>15&mdash;Name given an NHL linesman</p><p>16&mdash;Month in which Metro Prystai Was born (abbr.)</p><p>18&mdash;West Indies (abbr.)</p><p>19&mdash;Initials of Chadwick, Winnipeg&rsquo;s etminder.</p><p>20&mdash;District Attorney (abbr.)</p><p>23&mdash;A injury shortened the career of 25 across.</p><p>25&mdash;Player who holds record for most assists in a play-off game.</p><p>27&mdash;Name given a Detroit forwards.</p><p>30&mdash;Initials of player who wears No. 4 for Detroit.</p><p>31&mdash;Former Red Wing defenseman.</p><p>33&mdash;To make mistakes.</p><p>35&mdash;Rollins second name.</p><p>36&mdash;Initials of Hebenton of the Rangers.</p><p>37&mdash;Name given Buller, ex-Ranger player.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;First name of goalie who was selected as most valuable PCHL player of 1951-52.</p><p>2&mdash;Billy Harris was selected as one after the Detroit-Leaf game Oct. 8.</p><p>3&mdash;An AHL coach.</p><p>4&mdash;Ont. birthplace of Dick Duff.</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of Young, ex-Red Wing defenseman.</p><p>7&mdash;Initials of player mentioned in 1 down.</p><p>9&mdash;Mosienko&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>12&mdash;A member of the Maple Leafs</p><p>14&mdash;Last spring this player broke &ldquo;Toe&rdquo; Blake&rsquo;s playoff point record.</p><p>17&mdash;Muzz Patrick&rsquo;s birthplace.</p><p>21&mdash;Anie Kullman&rsquo;s complete initials.</p><p>22&mdash;The Rocket&rsquo;s brother.</p><p>24&mdash;Foley of Pittsburgh answers to this.</p><p>26&mdash;A quare deal in Roman numerals.</p><p>28&mdash;Contraction of over</p><p>29&mdash;Initials of Hart Trophy winner of 1950-51.</p><p>31&mdash;Each (abbr.)</p><p>34&mdash;Initials of one of the Hannigan brothers.</p><h2><b>Solution from last week</b></h2><h3><b>Across</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Prentice</p><p>6&mdash;Oil</p><p>8&mdash;L.B.</p><p>9&mdash;Joseph</p><p>11&mdash;Is</p><p>12&mdash;U.S.</p><p>13&mdash;VII</p><p>15&mdash;Mon.</p><p>17&mdash;Age</p><p>18&mdash;Art</p><p>19&mdash;Don</p><p>21&mdash;Ankle</p><p>25&mdash;Traded</p><p>26&mdash;V.H.</p><p>28&mdash;E.D.</p><p>29&mdash;A.A.</p><p>30&mdash;Drop</p><p>31&mdash;Yell</p><h3><b>Down</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Policeman</p><p>2&mdash;Ribs</p><p>3&mdash;E.L.</p><p>4&mdash;Thos.</p><p>5&mdash;Cleveland</p><p>7&mdash;Thirteen</p><p>9&mdash;J.U.</p><p>10&mdash;P.I.</p><p>14&mdash;Fontinato</p><p>16&mdash;Or.</p><p>20&mdash;Orval</p><p>21&mdash;Ar.</p><p>22&mdash;K.D.</p><p>23&mdash;Lee</p><p>24&mdash;Eddy</p><p>25&mdash;Ted</p><p>27&mdash;Hal<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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November 5, 1955

A Pair Of Rockets Can’t Crack Sawchuk’s Racket

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Elmer Ferguson