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November 12, 1955

The Hockey News November 12, 1955

<div class="byline">By DICK BEDDOES</div><p>(AS seen in The Vancouver Sun)</p><p>&ldquo;When I wonder about a hockey player, I wonder first if he&rsquo;s &lsquo;hungry&rsquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;I mean &lsquo;hungry&rsquo; in an athletic sense. A young guy should want to &lsquo;eat up&rsquo; competition. If he don&rsquo;t, he might&rsquo;s well become a playboy.</p><p>&ldquo;Trouble is, too many guys in the Western Hockey League are playboys. They play like it.</p><p>&ldquo;They want to live fast and die fast and have a good looking corpse.&rdquo;</p><p>This was Norman Robert (Bud) Poile, hockey coach. This was his conversation piece in a back booth as Love&rsquo;s, where they serve coffee for nothing, but charge 10 cents for the cream.</p><p>Mr. Poile, himself, was literally hungry, as befits a coach of the prosperous Edmonton Flyers. He, himself, was the picture of a plump ex-athlete who has confronted too many alluring calories.</p><p>When the meal was over, Mr. Poile measured 38 inches around the last helping of french fries.</p><p>But Bud Poile knows about hunger in hockey. He was reared on it as a journeyman in Fort Williams and Toronto and Chicago, in Detroit and New York.</p><p>&ldquo;I liked it with Detroit Red Wings,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;But in 1950 the Wings sold me to New York. They needed the money to build a new press box in their rink.&rdquo;</p><p>That is a fair sample of Mr. Poile&rsquo;s chatting. A blend of wind and wit, stimulating as three shots of whiskey.</p><p>And he had a fair example of hungry hockey player. Only the other day, Eddie Stankiewicz left the Flyers to try out with Detroit.</p><p>&ldquo;Hungry, that Stanky? You don&rsquo;t know how much. He&rsquo;s intense and wants to make it good. On the road you got to let him room alone because the day of a game he won&rsquo;t smile. Just snarls.&rdquo;</p><p>Hungry. Snarly. That&rsquo;s why some are away to the major league. And, conversely, why others remain in the minors.</p><p>New Westminster Royals were the minors when they lost 6-3 to Poile and the Flyers. They play much like that and it&rsquo;s going to be a long winter for us Royals&rsquo; fans.</p><p>Mr. Poile probed a shrimp cocktail. He analyzed, &ldquo;The Royals, they got too many old legs. You got to have young legs in hockey. Young legs are hungry legs, most nights.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess you&rsquo;d say Westminster has a lot of guys who been around the block. Only now they&rsquo;re over the hill.&rdquo;</p><p>The Vancouver Canucks were mentioned. They nipped Edmomon 5-4, not long ago.</p><p>&ldquo;They got good forwards, Vancouver,&rdquo; Poile said. &ldquo;That (Pat) Egan will give them the big drive on defense. But the Canucks&mdash;and the Royals, too&mdash;they don&rsquo;t develop enough kids.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;They don&rsquo;t develop them like the Flyers, you mean?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Yes. We&rsquo;re patient with our youngsters. We play them a lot. I guess it&rsquo;s paid off, if you count two western titles in three years.&rdquo;</p><p>Poile buttered crisp toast. &ldquo;With a kid, you got to be good to him. Treat him like a pal. When all else fails, try paying him money. Works every time.&rdquo;</p><p>Through a Welsh rarebit his dialogue was circuitous as a hoopsnake.</p><p>He thought Seattle Americans were the best coast team&mdash;they have got the best goal-minding and the best forwards.&rdquo;</p><p>He said the arenas in Vancouver and Westminster are old duck-blinds&mdash;&rdquo;how can you attract high-class people to low-class joints?&rdquo;</p><p>The question, really, is how you attract any class people to Vancouver&rsquo;s Forum and New Westminster&rsquo;s Queen&rsquo;s Park? Merely sitting in those dank retreats is to risk exposure to pneumonia.</p><p>, There was coffee and comment on one of Edmonton&rsquo;s few old pros: Johnny McCormack, down from Montreal.</p><p>&ldquo;Johnny&rsquo;s all elbows and knee joints and Adam&rsquo;s apples,&rdquo; Poile said. &ldquo;But not many check as well, or kill penalties so good. He flaps around like a poor man&rsquo;s Jackie Parker.&rdquo;</p><p>The reference was to J. Parker, Edmonton football player. Parker runs, it has been said, like a disjointed spook on a pogo-stick.</p><p>&ldquo;Only two ways to beat, a hungry guy like Parker or McCormack. Get him on your side, or shoot him.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IN THIS ISSUE

From Our Tower

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>N</span>EW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Like the fellow who went to City Hall to have his name changed from Joe Hoonga-doonga to Tom Hoongadoonga, Leapin&rsquo; Louie Fontinato is looking to get his name changed too.</b></p><p><b>The big broth of a boy who is betting New York&rsquo;s hockey hearts afire with his crashing checks and strong defensive play would rather not have the &ldquo;Leapin&rdquo; tag line added on to his name anymore.</b></p><p><b>Fontinato reasons that every time he leaps some mean ole refree throws a misconduct penalty at him.</b></p><p><b>If you please, he would prefer being called &ldquo;Rock &lsquo;N Roll Louie&rdquo; from now on.</b></p><p><b>It&rsquo;s a fitting nom de plume at that.</b></p><p><b>Not only does Louie rock &lsquo;em and roll &lsquo;em on the ice but he was recently the star of the popular &ldquo;Rock &lsquo;N Roll Party&rdquo; on radio station WINS.</b></p><p><b>The show, mceed by Alan Freed, is one of the most listened to in the New York area. Fontinato&rsquo;s acclaim being what it is, he probably helped boost the show&rsquo;s rating a couple of notches.</b></p><p><b>Editors please take note: The name is Rock &lsquo;N Roll Louie Fontinato.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rock ‘N Roll Fontinato Now, He Doesn’t Like Leapin’ Lou

f0006-06

The Stars Pick A Winner!

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>When one-half of the forwards on the team are still shooting blanks after 10 games, it isn&rsquo;t hard to pinpoint why the Detroit Red Wings rest at the bottom of the National Hockey League.</p><p>For years Detroit has been termed a &ldquo;one line&rdquo; team. The offense always was unbalanced as long as scoring stars like Ted Lindsay and Gordie Howe were planted on the same unit.</p><p>The production Line long has been one of the great scoring combines in hockey. Dutch Reibel centers Howe and Lindsay for normal operations. Alex Delvecchio moves in on the power play, Reibel dropping back to the point.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01227/1431156-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="274" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dutch Reibel</b></figcaption></div><p>Never in the past, however, was the goal-scoring so unbalanced as it has been this season. Name those four forwards and you virtually blanket the entire offensive punch.</p><p>At the 10-game mark, Lindsay had seven goals, Howe and Delvecchio five each&hellip;17 of the team&rsquo;s 23 goals.</p><p>A total of 17 other players had been used (not counting. Goalie Glenn Hall) and those 17 had come up with only six goals.</p><p>Only three other forwards had scored. Bill Dineen had two, Reibel one and Norm Ullman one. Defensemen Warren Godfrey and Marcel Pronovost had contributed a goal each.</p><p>Thus 12 of the players were without a goal. Four are defensemen who don&rsquo;t carry goalmaking responsibilities, although it was strange not to find Red Kelly among the scorers.</p><p>Of the eight forwards who were goalless, Jerry Toppazzini, Real Chevrefils and Marty Pavelich had been playing almost full time.</p><p>Metro Prystai and Ed Stankiewicz came on the scene only recently. John Bucyk had been hampered by injuries. Ed Sandford and Norm Corcoran had been peddled elsewhere.</p><p>In fairness to the other forwards, it should be explained that the Production Line was the only unit back intact from last year and also the only three-man combination which hadn&rsquo;t been juggled since the season&rsquo;s start.</p><p>Coach Jimmy Skinner created three other lines out of the remaining nine forwards at training camp. When all those lines sagged, he started switching men around in search of clicking combinations. None has been working steadily with the same linemates.</p><p>&ldquo;In training camp the lines appeared to be working well. Once the season started, nothing happened right,&rdquo; Skinner pointed out.</p><p>The failure of Chevrefils in particular has been the most puzzling. He was eyed as the key figure in all the trading during the summer and was the chief lure in the Terry Saw-chuk deal with Boston. Chevrefils got 18 goals and 22 assists for the Bruins last season but didn&rsquo;t get a single point for Detroit until picking up an assist in the 10th game.</p><p>Toppazzini was figured as a defensive forward but he sparkled so well in the training camp that there were solid hopes that he&rsquo;d better his record of nine goals and 18 assists at Chicago last season.</p><p>Pavelich, a veteran of all seven championship teams, came up with fifteen goals and 15 assists a year ago. He was first assigned to a penalty killing role this season but was promoted to regular line play when other forwards went sour.</p><p>Detroit&rsquo;s two rookies, Bucyk, 20, and Ullman, 19, were the prize prospects from the farm system. In the Western League last year Bucyk made 30 goals and 5 8 assists, Ullman 2 5 goals and 34 assists.</p><p>Both have looked promising but aside from Ullman&rsquo;s counter, they&rsquo;ve produced little.</p><p>Stankiewicz got off to such a hot start this season with the Edmonton farm club that he was rushed in and Corcoran was sent as a replacement. Stankiewicz has seen limited assignment but will be retained for a more thorought test.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02203/1431149-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="302" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>John Bucyk</b></figcaption></div><p>Prystai drew a blank in his first three games after coming from Chicago in trade for Ed Sandford.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Wings’ Offensive Punch Limited To Four Forwards

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02101/1432870-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICK GAMBLE,</b> Canadiens&rsquo; forward, grimaces as he fakes a check from Toronto&rsquo;s Jim Morrison (behind him) just as he attempts to iam the puck loose from underneath Harry Lumley, whose face also reveals contortionistic tendencies. Watching the pantomine from the background is Kenny Mosdell.</figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Boston Bruins, who had the National league&rsquo;s most penalized player a year ago in Capt. Ferny Flaman, have a candidate for the lead in that department again this season.</p><p>Their penalty leader of moment is not Flaman, however, but Vic Stasiuk.</p><p>The big forward, who missed the first three games with an injury, piled up 42 minutes in penalties in the next six games.</p><p>In his assortment were a minor penalty, two majors, two misconducts and a match misconduct.</p><p>Stasiuk acquired a misconduct and the match penalty in a game in Toronto in which he was struck on the head and cut for four stitches by Toronto&rsquo;s Tod Sloan, who escaped without official reprimand.</p><p>Then he picked up the two majors and the other misconduct in a game in New York in which he engaged in two separate first-period fights with the Rangers&rsquo; Andy Bathgate. Stasiuk fascinated New York&rsquo;s largest crowd of the season on that occasion by taking time to remove his jersey for more punching freedom before piling into Bathgate.</p><p>One of the reasons for the Bruins&rsquo; interest in getting Stasiuk from the Detroit Red Wings last summer was the conviction of Manager Lynn Patrick and Coach Milt Schmidt that he possessed the crowd-pleasing aggressiveness which goes over well here.</p><p>Ironically, before the season started Schmidt figured on Stasiuk for exduty as well as regular line turn. So far the 195-pound husky has been unavailable freauently for help during manpower shortages.</p><h2>Gambled And Lost<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

Cover-02

Will Stasiuk Take Over As B’s Badman?

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Conn Smythe has answered his critics with two questions.</p><p>When asked if he thought the Maple Leafs had become have-nots through their transactions in his own help-the-have-nots program, the Maple Leaf President counter-questioned:</p><p>&ldquo;Have you checked the league attendance figures lately?</p><p>&ldquo;Would you have liked to see Billy Harris and Dick Duff get away from us the way Red Kelly and Ted Lindsay did?&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0344/1432901-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="300" height="402"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Con Smythe</b></figcaption></div><p>No more was necessary, but Smythe said more anyway, and in so doing answered his own questions.</p><p>&ldquo;Attendance is up in every city in the league, including right here in Toronto,&rdquo; he pointed out. &ldquo;And the have-nots have become drawing attractions even outside their own rinks. Consider the demand for tickets we had on Chicago&rsquo;s first visit to Toronto.&rdquo;</p><p>Even in Toronto, where every game is a sellout, Chicago visits had been encouraging fewer and fewer standees through the past few seasons. &ldquo;Things sure have changed,&rdquo; public relations director Spiff Evans enthused. &ldquo;My phone started ringing three days before the first Chicago game and it never stopped. There wasn&rsquo;t any ticket of any sort to be had; it was just like old times.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;There is an even more important G than the three G&rsquo;s (General Manager Hap Day&rsquo;s Goals, Guts and Glamor),&rdquo; Smythe said on this. &ldquo;And that&rsquo;s the game.</p><p>&ldquo;Our help the have-nots program has breathed new life into the game. While almost every other sport is showing decreasing attendances, hockey is going up. The sooner baseball people learn that the haves are going, to have to give a little, the sooner they&rsquo;ll end their problems. And if the haves don&rsquo;t learn, they will soon be have-nots too, because they&rsquo;ll have nothing to give and no one to give to.</p><p>&ldquo;Look what happened in Boston (Braves), in St. Louis (Browns) and in Philadelphia (Athletics). We don&rsquo;t want that in hockey and we&rsquo;re taking steps to avoid it.&rdquo;</p><p>Smythe emerged from his retirement silence when confronted with the question these steps might be responsible for Leafs&rsquo; slow gateway this season. In helping the have-nots a year ago, Smythe sold Fern Flaman and Leo Boivin to Boston, Harry Watson and Dave Creighton to Chicago and Danny Lewicki to New York. All have been haunting the Leafs ever since.</p><p>&ldquo;If we gave less, we would have helped no one and particularly we would not have helped hockey,&rdquo; replies Smythe. &ldquo;And as we gave them, we made room for our own youngsters to move up.</p><p>&ldquo;Kelly and Lindsay got away from us because we were hanging on to players and making no room for juniors to move up in our organization. We don&rsquo;t want that to happen to Harris and Duff. They are the Lindsays and Kellys of the future. I can&rsquo;t say if it will take two days or two months for them to arrive, but at least they are getting their chance to arrive with the Maple Leafs.</p><p>&ldquo;We have the best crop of juniors in the business. We intend to make use of them.</p><p>&ldquo;Part of our help-the-have-nots program was to cut down the protected lists to 18 players. When we can protect only 18, we have to make room for the juniors. If we don&rsquo;t, someone will grab them and they will be lost to us like Kelly and Lindsay were.&rdquo;</p><p>Smythe particularly stressed the point that the haves would help only have-nots who are willing to help themsevesl.</p><p>&ldquo;would be foolish to offer help to a club that isn&rsquo;t willing to help itself,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But Chicago and New York have both proved they want to improve themselves. And Chicago now has acquired the help of the same man (coach Dick Irvin) who helped out when things weren&rsquo;t going so well there.</p><p>&ldquo;New York is collecting the dividends of its own farm system. The Guelph Biltmores who won the Memorial Cup have now had three years of seasoning in this league and they are ready. St. Catharines won the Memorial Cup two years ago and those players will soon be helping Chicago. And, by the way, Leafs had a Memorial Cup winner with Marlboros last year.</p><p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t understand why some people want to bury the Leafs so early. We&rsquo;re winning at home and that&rsquo;s where history has proved any good club wins. The top clubs also win the key games on the road. They don&rsquo;t win all, or even the majority of their road games. But they win the big ones. Just watch, and when you see the Maple Leafs start to win those big ones on the road, then you&rsquo;ll know they have arrived.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Cover-03

Smythe Reveals Attendances Up Around Circuit

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>A win at Montreal and a shutout over anyone are a couple of the most formidable boulders which have continuously given the Black Hawks plenty of trouble along the rough National Hockey League highway in the past. The Chicago puck truck was ready for the junk yard last spring.</p><p>Owners Jim Norris and Arthur Wirtz had a daring plan, however, and in short order had the truck back in operating order with assurance that it would have some help this year. The help&mdash;a husky bulldozer with veteran operator Dick Irvin at the controls&mdash;has easily made its presence known.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01207/1430787-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="304" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Irvin</b></figcaption></div><p>The very first boulder encountered crunched under the Impact of Irvin&rsquo;s bulldozer and Chicago had handed Detroit its first home opening defeat in 17 years. Several other large rocks have also fallen to the onslaught of the machine as the Hawk truck rambles right along.</p><p>A couple of the large stones of note which were wrecked recently are those mentioned at the start of this piece. Their destruction gave Chicago two victories on a prolonged road tour which extended from October 19 to November 4.</p><p>The first gave goaler Al Rollins and the Black Hawks their first shutout in over a year as Boston was blanked, 2 to 0, in St. Louis in what was the initial game of five tabbed as home games away from home for the team. Chicago marksmen were rookie Hank Ciesla and Johnny Wilson.</p><p>Only a few members of the team could recall the last shutout they had registered. It was also ever Boston&mdash;a 7 to 0 shellacking administered on the last night of the 1953-54 home schedule for the Hawks, March 19. That was the year Rollins won the Hart trophy as the NHL&rsquo;s most valued performer.</p><p>Now returned to the form that won him these honors, he was one of the foremost men on the ice at St. Louis as he leaped, grabbed and dove for pucks bound for his cage all evening. He clearly outshone Terry Sawchuk who has been named best goalie in three of the past four years.</p><p>The second boulder-busting endeavor by the Irvin bulldozer came in his old stamping grounds in the Montreal Forum as the surging Hawks skated to a decisive 4-1 triumph over the Canadien skaters once led by the Chicago coach. The win avenged an earlier 6 to 0 loss at the Forum.</p><p>It was the first win for a Chicago team on Montreal ice since November 14,-1953 when the Black Hawks eeked out a 3-2 decision. They had no luck in the win column with Montreal last season, managing only three ties among the 14 meetings of the two teams.</p><p>The 4 to 1 victory broke out a new line formed by Irvin after the Hawks&rsquo; acquisition of Ed Sandford from Detroit. The big center was spotted between Harry Watson and Ed Litzenberger and this trio proceeded to dominate the scoring. Each got a goal and Sandford and Watson also received two assists each.</p><p>As the boulders continue to bounce away or be flattened by the bulldozer operated by Dick Irvin the hopes for a real future in Chicago hockey grow by leaps and bounds. With General Manager Tommy Ivan at the wheel of the puck truck, Norris and Wirtz are sure the Hawks are going to keep right on rolling.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-01

Hawk Puck Truck Rolling

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>If his off-season transfer from the champion Detroit Red Wings to the Boston Bruins has affected Terry Sawchuk, the change has been for the better.</p><p>The great goal-tender has made a better start with the Bruins this fall than he made with the Red Wings a year ago.</p><p>The Bruins played nine games during the month of October, and during that period Sawchuk allowed the combined opposition only 14 goals, an average of 1.55 goals per game.</p><p>Of the total, five were scored in one game by the Montreal Canadiens, so Sawchuk&rsquo;s record for the other eight games was a total of only nine goals.</p><p>In the first nine games played by Detroit a year ago, Sawchuk was scored upon 20 times for an average of more than two goals per game.</p><p>Last month Sawchuk returned three shutouts, against Toronto, Detroit and New York in that order. A year ago he had one less shutout after nine starts, blanking New York and Boston.</p><p>The most amazing feature of talented Terrance&rsquo;s October showing was probably that in not one of the nine games was he given an opportunity by the Bruins&rsquo; offense to breath easily. For the month of October the Bruins broke exactly even in scoring.; their output was 14 goals, the same as the opposition&rsquo;s.</p><p>Sawcliuk&rsquo;s goal-tending feats have been widely heralded here, where Tiny Thompson, Frank Brimsek and Sugar Jim Henry once reigned supreme in the Bruins&rsquo; nets, and the Bruins as a result have gained high public favor.</p><p>Some of Terry&rsquo;s performances have provided workouts for the Bruins&rsquo; publicity department in its efforts to find precedents for them.</p><p>For example, when he shut out the Red Wings in Detroit, it was necessary to go back to December 8, 1939 to find a parallel. On that long-ago night Brimsek shut out the Red Wings, 3 to 0, with Thompson doing the goaling for Detroit. Research for that statistic required a perusal of 16 years of records.</p><p>Then when Sawchuk shut out the Rangers in New York, 1 to 0, it caused another research of the files, and the first report failed to disclose a precedent hack through the 1949-50 season.</p><p>That blanking of the Rangers, incidentally, was the 60th of the regular-season variety for Sawchuk and boosted his over-all lifetime record to 6 9 shutouts. It also gave him a tie with Toronto&rsquo;s Harry Lumley in their individual competition for the all-time shutout championship.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Sawchuk Improved As Bruin

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK. NY&mdash;</p><p>When the Rangers scored seven goals in their opening game&mdash;a feat the New Yorkers couldn&rsquo;t accomplish all last season&mdash;veteran railbirds passed it off as &ldquo;beginners luck.&rdquo;</p><p>But when the Blues jumped on Toronto, Detroit and Chicago for 6-2, 6-2 and 5-4 counts puck pundits began to take notice. This New York club can score.</p><p>New coach Phil Watson finds himself in the pleasant position of having three well-balanced lines, all of which pose a scoring threat when they&rsquo;re on the pond.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02191/1430863-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="285" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ronnie Murphy</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03176/1430856-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="299" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>W. Hergesheimer</b></figcaption></div><p>Phil has been giving them the juggle treatment from time to time but no matter how he shakes &lsquo;em there&rsquo;s still a Murphy, Creighton, Lewicki and Bathgate around to gall the goaltenders.</p><p>To date his trio has been the Creighton-Murphy-Hergesheimer combine. Little Wally has come along in fine style. He is skating in old time form, digging in the corners as only Hergy can and manages to throw more than the odd bodycheck at the big fellows.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m finally getting the feel of things and beginning to skate like I should,&rdquo; the compact right wing said.</p><p>&ldquo;My timing with the puck is coming back too. What I need is a lot of chances and a lot of work to maintain my form.&rdquo;</p><p>Needless to say Creighton and Murphy have been pleasant surprises, Dave scoring at least a point a game in his first eight outings.</p><p>Watson is expecting his other two combos to break out in a rash. So far they&rsquo;ve been stymied by erratic shooting, uncooperative goal posts and general ill-fortune.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04145/1430849-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="293" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dave Creighton</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05113/1430842-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="296" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Danny Lewicki</b></figcaption></div><p>Larry Popein. &ldquo;a defensive center&rdquo; in Watson&rsquo;s words, replaced Bronco Horvath on the Andy Bathgate,-Dean Prentice line and fired the Gulephos to their best show7 of the year.</p><p>Bathgate has been having more tough luck than if he carried a black cat on his shoulder. There&rsquo;s no doubt that he&rsquo;s come of age, hockey-wise. He skates with authority, is shooting well but can&rsquo;t seem to click with the red-light. Ditto, Prentice who never looked better.</p><p>The three represent a good, solid line, whose talents are bound to pay off very soon.</p><p>Another money man who is behind his &lsquo;54-55 pace is Danny Lewicki, playing on a line with Don Raleigh and Andy Hebenton.</p><p>The Dangerous One is as good as ever, meaning he can stickhandle through five, thread a needle with his shot. Raleigh is feeding him well. In fact, Bones seems on his way to a profitable season, but the threesome need time to work out their plays, should start clicking consistently before very long.</p><p>Hergesheimer&rsquo;s good-fortune and early-scoring prowess come as no accident.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve worked very hard since getting injured last year. Fortunately my leg is completely healed,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>Twice Hergy broke the shin bone of his left leg and twice it happened practically the same way.</p><p>The first time against the Bruins on March 11, 1954.</p><p>&ldquo;I was trying to take Leo LaBine out of play and I hit his left leg,&rdquo; the Ranger forwarb recalls. &ldquo;I fell badly and broke my shinbone.&rdquo;</p><p>On Dec. 18, 1954, he tried to pull around Ted Kennedy of the Maple Leafs and hit Kennedy&rsquo;s left leg. It was another broken shinbone for Hergy.</p><p>After the second mishap doctors grafted bone from Hergy&rsquo;s hip and used it to bend the break.</p><p>It took until April 1955, before the cast could come off his leg.</p><p>Muzz Patrick, Who once rode as a six-day bike rider, among other things, gave Hergy some advice.</p><p>&ldquo;Get on a bike,&rdquo; said the Rangers&rsquo; GM, &ldquo;and ride and ride and ride. Do it enough and the leg&rsquo;ll be stronger than before.&rdquo;</p><p>They tell a story about the plucky little skater which he laughingly denies.</p><p>Watson reportedly found Hergy lugging a bicycle as well as his favorite sticks when he arrived at the Saskatoon training camp.</p><p>&ldquo;And where are you going with that?&rdquo; asked Phil, noding toward the bike.</p><p>&ldquo;Around the world,&rdquo; answered Hergy. &ldquo;Got just a little more&rsquo;n five thousand miles to go.&rdquo;</p><p>Hergy was on his bike, pedaling through Italy, France and Spain before and after every Saskatoon workout this September.</p><p>&ldquo;There he goes getting off his bike,&rdquo; Watson would say as he watched. &ldquo;I guess he&rsquo;s for having a bit of lunch in Lisbon right now,&rdquo; and would slap Hergy on the back and walk into the dining room.</p><p>Seriously though, it has taken eight months or hard, intensive training to bring the leg muscles back to full strength. Off recent showings Hergy seems ready to return to old-time form.</p><p>Oddly enough, the best offensive display by the Blues resulted in a 1-0 shutout at the hands of Boston&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk. Bruins&rsquo; new &ldquo;Mr. Zero,&rdquo; up against the most sustained Ranger offense in years, turned back over a dozen goal-labelled shots in superb style.</p><p>It was a blow to the Watsonmen but they can rest assured that the fire power is there. Unless our calculations are wrong il will reburst again.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-02

Watson Knows “The Score”; He’s Got Team To Prove It

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;</p><p>When the Montreal Canadiens blew a game to the Boston Bruins earlier this season and looked as limp as scare-crows in the process, an enterprising sports writer asked Coach Toe Blake if he planned any immediate changes in his line-up.</p><p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; replied Blake thoughtfully. &ldquo;Not yet. I&rsquo;m not quite like Phil Watson. He gives his Rangers only one chance. I give my players two chances.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0678/1430901-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="294" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Toe Blake</b></figcaption></div><p>Blake&rsquo;s stand pat policy seemed justified when the Habs emerged from the temporary doldrums with a smashing 6-0 victory over the Chicago Blake Hawks.</p><p>Then, with startling suddenness, they lost their scoring punch again, bowing 2-1 to the Maple Leafs in Toronto and losing 4-1 to the Hawks in Montreal. It was the Hawks&rsquo; first victory in a league game in Montreal since Jan. 24, 1953, and Blake, remembering his &ldquo;two chance declaration,&rdquo; acted swiftly.</p><p>Like a skilled chef concocting a tasty salad, he scrambled his lines. He plucked Claude Provost, a rookie rightwinger from the Habs&rsquo; greenhouse at Shawinigan Falls, and installed him on a line with Jean Beliveau and Bert Olmstead. He shifted Henri Richard, a defensively weak 19&ndash;year-old recruit from junior ranks, to a centre ice slot between Floyd Curry and Donnie Marshall and put the veteran Kenny Mosdell between Dickie Moore and the sluggish, overweight Maurice Richard.</p><p>Jackie Leclair, who became an early occupant of the Montreal doghouse when he reported to training camp in poor shape, and. Dick Gamble, who has shown little of the form that made him a feared sniper in the American League late last season, were assigned to utility roles.</p><p>Provost, born in Montreal 22 years ago, was the last rookie cut by the Habs prior to the opening of the season. An impressive right hand shot, he had scored 2 5 goals and acquired 23 assists with the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts last season. When Henri Richard made his debut with the Habs, filling a right wing vacancy, Provost again was sent to the Cats.</p><p>In nine games in the Quebec Hockey League, he scored seven goals and picked up eight assists which prompted Blake to recall him for a full-scale test under fire in the National League.</p><p>What did Blake achieve through his shuffles? Well the Habs. responding to the treatment and threat of even more drastic upheavals, took three points out of a possible four in a home and home series against the Detroit Red Wings. They tied 2-2 in Detroit after winning 2-1 in Montreal and while four goals in two games doesn&rsquo;t indicate sensational scoring punch, the new lines checked better and showed a little more co-ordination.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0743/1430894-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="298" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Henri Richarc</b></figcaption></div><p>But, as usually happens in these cases, Bert Olmstead, a player who wasn&rsquo;t switched remained, the pepper in the bowl.</p><p>An indefatigable, self-sacrificing winger, Olmstead was more than the Red Wings could digest. He sparked his team in those games with Detroit, scoring one goal in Montreal and providing the pass for Dickie Moore&rsquo;s winning counter. In Detroit he notched the tying goal, taking Provost&rsquo;s relay and jamming a five-footer behind goalie Glen Hall.</p><p>Canadiens acquire very few players in trades with other National Hockey League clubs, preferring to develop their stars in their own widespread, well organized farm system.</p><p>Olmstead is a noteworthy exception. He came to&rsquo; the Habs from Detroit in exchange for Leo Gravelle, who never even made a dent in the NHL. Olmstead has been a valuable player with the Montreal team for five years and when the Forum brass reminisce over their better trades, they probably think First of the one involving the skin winger.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-06

Toe Blake Shuffles His Habs

f0002-08

Do you remember?………

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01206/1430963-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED LINDSAY&hellip;&hellip; Highest-scoring LW</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Ted Lindsay, captain of the Red Wings, has become a hockey greybeard. He passed his 30th birthday last summer and is spending his 12th season in the National Hockey League. There are a dozen players who are older but only seven have more NHL seniority.</p><p>Age and experience, however, are not mellowing Robert Blake Theodore Lindsay one bit.</p><p>Lindsay landed in the league with a sharp tongue, trigger temper, quick stick and ready fists.</p><p>And, you know by now that he&rsquo;ll leave the league the same way a few years hence.</p><p>He also will leave with one of the finest all-time records in his pocket, plus ranking as the highest scoring left wing in hockey history.</p><p>On the material side, he&rsquo;ll also leave with a fashionable suburban home and a thriving business of his own. They&rsquo;ll never have to throw a benefit for Lindsay; the fiery Kirkland Lake (Ont.) native has given a lot to hockey, and hockey has done plenty to help him along the rest of the way.</p><p>Lindsay notched a spot in the record books the night he got a goal in Montreal about two weeks ago. It was the 271st goal of his NHL career, more than any left wing ever has scored before. He passed Aurel Joliat who stopped at 270 in his fabulous career with the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>The goal also made him the fourth highest scorer of all time. He passed the great Howie Morenz at the same time, Morenz also marking 270.</p><p>There is a chance that Lindsay may move even higher since he eyes about three more years of competition.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll keep going as long as my legs can take it. I&rsquo;d like to become a 15-year man if they&rsquo;ll go that far,&rsquo;&rsquo; he reasons.</p><p>If Lindsay stays active, he eventually should top the 323 total of Nels Stewart and become the third highest in history. He has little chance to pass the two others, both moving targets. Rocket Richard is up to 428 and still going strong. Gordie Howe is only slightly ahead at 276 but Howe, three years younger, probably will be around longer.</p><p>&ldquo;Those records are nice but they aren&rsquo;t the ones that really count. My goals are all Detroit goals and I&rsquo;d rather see a record with more NHL titles and more Stanley Cups for Detroit,&rdquo; he claims bluntly.</p><p>Plainly, Lindsay isn&rsquo;t satisfied with having played on seven NHL champions and four Stanley Cup champions, so far. Just as plainly, Lindsay has such a fierce flaming competitive spirit that nothing satisfies him short of winning everything in sight.</p><p>. &ldquo;I love hockey but I can play it only one way&mdash;all out,&rdquo; says, pointing out what is obvious to everyone.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no such thing as being friends on the ice. Some of my closest friends like Gus Mortson play, on other teams and I&rsquo;ve probably tangled with Mortson as much as any other man.</p><p>&ldquo;The year I broke in. both my teammates and rival players told me to get wise before someone carves me right out of the league.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t listen to them then and I won&rsquo;t listen to anyone who says the same sort of thing now.</p><p>&ldquo;If I had to give advice to young hockey players, I&rsquo;d tell them there&rsquo;s no such thing as a good loser. If losing makes them happy, get out of hockey. I guess maybe you have to learn to be a what they call a gracious loser, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean a good loser,&rdquo; he added, leaving a firm impression that a &ldquo;gracious&rdquo; loser and a &ldquo;good&rdquo; loser have wide difference.</p><p>All of which explains why Lindsay is one of the most penalized players in the NHL year after year. He is leading in that department again this season.</p><p>Neither fights nor penalties cool off his behavior. Habitually he&rsquo;s in trouble with referees. He has tangled with fans as well as players. He&rsquo;s been on the carpet in front of Jack Adams and Clarence Campbell (for different reasons, you can bet). He also has crossed sticks in public with Detroit hockey writers over stories they have written.</p><p>Jack Adams reminds all comers that Lindsay &ldquo;is my kind of hockey player&rdquo;. This could be reference to the fact that Adams, a polished scorer in his playing days, also was known to lead his league in penalties.</p><p>&ldquo;I have to raise hell with Teddy once in a while when he&rsquo;s done something foolish,&rdquo; Adams insists.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s plain common sense, however, not to kill a spirit like his&mdash;not that I could anyway if I wanted to. His spirit and fire and dash and color are good for hockey and good for the league.</p><p>&ldquo;Ted sells more tickets than those referees with rabbit ears.&rdquo;</p><p>Injuries (and another presidential suspension) last year finally accomplished what penalties and tight-checking rivals couldn&rsquo;t&mdash;knock Lindsay out of the ranks of the league&rsquo;s 10 leading scorers. He was among the elite for the seven previous seasons.</p><p>Once he led the NHL in goals (33 in 1947-48) and another time in total points (78 in 194 9-50). The latter campaign he also set a record for assists (55) that still stands. He was on the All Star squad seven straight years (six times on the first All Star team) until falling off last season.</p><p>So Ted has a personal &ldquo;comeback&rdquo; campaign going this year along with his responsibility as team captain of helping continue Detroit&rsquo;s reign. The Wings&rsquo; slow start this season isn&rsquo;t making him any more angelic, as you can imagine.</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you birds start &ldquo;writing us out. There&rsquo;s a long season ahead and Detroit will be heard from&mdash;plenty,&rdquo; he snaps.</p><p>Lindsay is a second-generation big-league hockey player. His father, Bert, was a big-time goalie for about a decade, retiring in 1913 long before Ted came on the scene. Bert managed the local rink, in Kirkland Lake when Ted was a youngster so he got in plenty of ice time at a tender age.</p><p>After a big year in juvenile at 17, Lindsay&rsquo;s rise was meteoric. He entered Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;s the following year, was one of four St. Mike players picked up by Oshawa after the playoffs, and helped Oshawa win the Memorial Cup.</p><p>The late Carson Cooper, then Detroit&rsquo;s chief scout, spotted him early that junior season.</p><p>&ldquo;Coop sent one report that there was a kid named Lindsay who was an aggressive type,&rdquo; Adams recalls. &ldquo;Later he said he watched him in a road game at Hamilton and reported he was as scrappy on the road.</p><p>&ldquo;By mid-January Coop said he was convinced and we got Ted on a form in a hurry. There was a question the next year whether he&rsquo;d play more junior or turn pro; finally Ted decided to play with us.&rdquo;</p><p>Lindsay had a good rookie year, scoring 17 goals, but he placed third in the Calder Trophy voting. Frank McCool, Toronto&rsquo;s goalie, was picked as the top freshman, and Boston&rsquo;s Kenny Smith also was ranked ahead.</p><p>He broke in with the Wings on a line with Murray Armstrong and Joe Carveth, later was shifted to a unit with Syd Howe and Mud Bruneteau. It wasn&rsquo;t until Ted linked up with Gordie Howe and Sid Abel, that he began to click as a star, as the Production Lineslated rolling.</p><p>&ldquo;Abel taught both Gordie and myself a lot of our hockey. He got us to playing our criss-cross style which may look confusing but actually is pattern play all the way,&rdquo; Lindsay points out.</p><p>The late Larry Aurie, who spent some time assisting Adams as coach, also contributed plenty to Lindsay&rsquo;s hockey education. Aurie was a 5-foot-7 135-pounder who thrived on rough going and was a natural to advise Lindsay, one of the little players in the game at 5-8 and 16 5 pounds.</p><p>&ldquo;Larry showed me a lot of tricks that we little guys need to &lsquo;protect&rsquo; ourselves.&rdquo; Ted laughs.</p><p>Lindsay is not one of those who believes particularly in the good old days.</p><p>&ldquo;There have been a lot of changes in this league in my 12 years,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Hockey was at a low ebe when I broke in right near the end of the war. It&rsquo;s been getting better and better every year since.</p><p>&ldquo;I homestly believe that the last couple of seasons have had the best hockey I&rsquo;ve seen.&rdquo;</p><p>Who are the best players he&rsquo;s seen?</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d say that Sid Abel and Milt Schmidt are the greatest competitors and tha&rsquo;s how I judge great players.</p><p>&ldquo;Rocket Richard is the most dangerous. Give him half a stride and he&rsquo;s gone. He&rsquo;s strong, too. I ought to know, I&rsquo;ve checked him enough.</p><p>&ldquo;Gordie (Howe) is the finest mechanical player any of us ever have seen and probably ever will see. Even after playing alongside him for seven years he still does things that amaze me. Like you know, he makes everything look easy too.&rdquo;</p><p>Referees won&rsquo;t believe this, but Lindsay is a polished and accomplished speaker off the ice. A steady stream of off-season banquet appearances have made him into a good talker on his feet. This asset he has wisely turned into starting a business career.</p><p>Permanent Detroit resident with a brand new home bordering on an exclusive country club, Lindsay is a manufacturer&rsquo;s representative in the auto supplier field. Friends say his business income is on a par with his hockey salary, which is one of the highest in the sport.</p><p>Lindsay also is directing some of his business ability in hockey&rsquo;s behalf. When Leo Reise stepped down this year. Ted was elected the NHL players&rsquo; representative to league&rsquo;s pension fund board and is serving as its vice-president.</p><p>Maybe Ted will mellow by the time he starts collecting that pension but there are no signs of it yet. While he remains active, there will be still more trouble, more fights, more flaretips and&mdash;most important of all&mdash;more goals from the cocky little guy who keeps a straight face when he solemnly says:</p><p>&ldquo;Really, I never look for trouble, I just don&rsquo;t hide from it.&rdquo;</p><h2>Ted And 271st NHL Coal<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

f0003-01

Lindsay 12-Year Man In NHL And Only 30

<p><b>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Ted Lindsay twice has been set down by NHL President Clarence Campbell.</b></p><p><b>In 1950 he drew a $300 fine and three-game suspension after a center-ice brawl with Ezinicki, then of Boston.</b></p><p><b>Last season he was suspended 10 days (four games) for allegedly assaulting a rinkside fan in Toronto.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

FIERY LINDSAY SET DOWN TWICE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02173/1431018-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"></div><p><b>LINDSAY, ROBERT BLAKE THEODORE</b></p><p><b>Born, Renfrew, Ont.. July 29, 1925.</b></p><p><b>Left wing. Shoots left. 5&rsquo;8&rdquo;, 163 lbs.</b></p><p><b>Last amateur club: St. Michael&rsquo;s College, Toronto (Juniors)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0003-02

Lindsay’s Record

<p><b>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>What is the biggest single weakness you&rsquo;ve noticed about Canadian youngsters who want to be hockey players, Ted Lindsay was asked.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;Skating backwards,&rdquo; he replied quickly. &ldquo;They should learn to skate backwards almost as well as they can frontwards.&rdquo;</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

TED HAS ADVICE FOR YOUNGSTERS

<div class="byline">by Bob Hesketh</div><p>(As Seen In the Toronto Telegram)v</p><p>THIS was Edward Sandford, who had been a Boston Bruin for eight years, a Detroit Red Wing for a few weeks, and was now a Chicago Black Hawk for an indefinite period.</p><p>When it started he was 19 and they said he would replace Bill Cowley or Bobby Bauer and eventually Milt Schmidt, he had that much of a reputation. Now he is 27, lean, hard and factual. He has been neither a Cowley or a Bauer or a Schmidt but there was a day when they thought&hellip;</p><p>It was in the same hotel lobby where he was sitting now. There were the Boston hockey writers there and they investigate a new hockey player as though he were a presidential candidate. Sandford&rsquo;s experience with hockey writers had been limited. He had regarded them as people who travel with a hockey team and usually use good judgment.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01277/1431080-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="294" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Sandford</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02249/1431073-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="297" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Watson</b></figcaption></div><p>They had him surrounded this time.</p><p>&ldquo;What,&rdquo; said one licking his literary chops, &ldquo;do you figure you can score this year? Forty goals?&rdquo;</p><p>Sandford looked blank.</p><p>&ldquo;Thirty goals?&rdquo;</p><p>Situation unchanged.</p><p>&ldquo;Twenty goals?&rdquo;</p><p>Likewise.</p><p>&ldquo;Ah,&rdquo; said one, &ldquo;he must mean twenty goals.&rdquo;</p><h2>Leather And Rocks</h2><p>So when Sandford got to Boston, the people who read newspapers knew he would score 20 goals his first year. In Boston there is not much carriage trade anymore and the hockey fan is a hard-bitten steamfitter with lungs like leather and a voice like rocks on a tin roof. In Boston the visitors and the homeside players run a gaunlet of fans going to and from their dressing rooms.</p><p>They do not always throw roses.</p><p><b>They sit, a lot of them, on a shelf overlooking the ice so that when a player misses a pass because it jumps his stick, it looks from the gallery as though he either has a hole in his blade. Or at least one in his head.</b></p><p>Needless to say, Sandford did not score 20 goals that year and in subsequent terms of employment has never exceeded 16. People with long memories looked upon this production with jaundiced eyes. Obviously this guy didn&rsquo;t remember what he had told the newspapermen.</p><p>They leaped upon him without mercy because he did not play hockey the way they had anticipated. Sandford made his greatest mistake, he now admits, by retaliating.</p><p><b>They had found a temper they could irk. They railed more.</b></p><h2>A Short Adjustment Period</h2><p>In the 18th game of his third season, Bill Barilko&rsquo;s skate severed an achilles tendon over his ankle. It can be a disastrous injury. It takes a long time to come back.</p><p>When you are traded or sold you get a vacuum in your stomach. You wonder how far away is the end of the road when a club tells you that you are not much good to it any more. Then, if you are a professional hockey player, you knuckle down and do what you are paid to do.</p><p><b>Fith Sandford it was a short period of adjustment with the Wings. He bad a bad knee and was on the ice for ten minutes of playing time when Jimmy Skinner called him in after a practice and told him to pack up again, this time for Chicago.</b></p><p>Jack Adams had seen a chance to get Metro Prystai back from the Hawks. He had never approved of Prystai going in the first place. Sandford was the offer.</p><h2>Twenty Coming Up</h2><p>Once upon a time that would have meant the end of the string. Once Chicago had been a happy hunting ground for retreads and never wases looking for a few last paydays. Not many of them felt obligated to bust a gusset for glory.</p><p><b>Now it is different. New organization has invented new spirit. There is even some pride evident, coupled with a strong desire for many of them to prove themselves to themselves and to the people who traded them.</b></p><p>They have settled Sandford at centre where he has always belonged and put Harry Watson and Eddie Litzenberger on his ends, two straightaway type of wingers with experience and enthusiasm.</p><p>The other night in Montreal they beat the Canadiens 1-1, the first time the Hawks have won in the Forum since January, 1953. Montreal reports say that Sandford was a lot of the difference.</p><p><b>He may even get 20 goals.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0004-01

NEWS on SPORT

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03176/1431118-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg"></div><p>(As Seen in the Toronto Star)</p><h2>Among the Hate Notes, a Fat Cheque</h2><p>MONTREAL,&mdash;</p><p>Boom-Boom Geoffrion must be the only athlete who ever fot the Bronx cheer because he shot goals for the home side. It happened to the Boomer last spring. He unthinkingly passed the people&rsquo;s choice, Rocket Richard, and took first place in the NHL scoring race. Many indignant crakpots sent him letters, demanding to know how he could be so disloyal to the Rocket, who was under suspension, and thereby was unable to lift a puck in defence of the honor he wanted so badly. A few sterling sportsmen called Boom-Boom on the phone and assured him he was a bum in English or French. None of the writers and none of the callers offered to put up the $2,000 which Geoffrion would miss if he didn&rsquo;t knock off the scoring title when he had the chance. The League gives $1,000 as a token of esteem to the leading shooter, and Canadiens match that bonus from their own coffers when a&rsquo; Hab is the winner. Boom-Boom got the money, so the incoming mail wasn&rsquo;t all bad. Still, the insults stung his pride.</p><p>These people who have wrote and called were only &ldquo;a little minority,&rdquo; the Boomer agreed recently, as he readied himself for a return to action, after missing 10 the clubs first 11 games. &ldquo;All the time, I&rsquo;m trying to tell myself these people don&rsquo;t count. Most of the people like to see me win. Yet those letters, I&rsquo;m afraid they almost break my heart.&rdquo;</p><p>Then came the start of this season, and young Larry Cahan of the Leafs, who&rsquo;s constructed along the same soft lines as a steel culvert, almost broke Boom-Boom in two. If the Boomer had been given a choice, he would have preferred that Cahan, too, work at breaking his heart. As it was, the Boomer had a dislocated shoulder, along with tom muscles in his chest. All this happened within 30 seconds of his first appearance on the ice, in the opening game of the season. It was a discouraging start for the man who was out to repeat as scoring champ. The Boomer accepts the damage to his chassis as one of the hazards of the craft. He&rsquo;s not even sure Cahan caused the devastation. Young Dick Duff belted him, too, just after Cahan knocked him off-balance. He&rsquo;s willing to credit some of destruction to Duff. There was enough to go around.</p><h2>Leafs Felt Some of the Same Pain</h2><p>SO the Boomer who hobbled out at the Forum was short in the wind and shot through with pain. That&rsquo;s what he gave the clan of Clancy, too&mdash;a pain. After the first of Boom-Boom two goals, Larry Cahan was so disgusted he broke his stick and sprinkled the chips like confetti.</p><p>The gesture cost him 10 minutes in the sneezer. Cahan was still there when the Boomer scored again. So maybe. it&rsquo;s premature to read Mons. Geoffrion out of the scoring parade, just because he missed 10 games. Last season, he potted 15 goals in his first 15 games. And there was loose talk about a new record of 70 goals for a season. This was merely simple mathematics. He was hitting the jackpot once in every game. And there are 70 games. After the mathematicians added up their figures, Boom-Boom promptly went 13 games without getting a goal. So, you could argue he has as good chance now as he had last season.</p><p>He has heard and read that the road version of Boom Boom Geoffrion is a much more subdued warrior than the one his fans see at home. There&rsquo;s an answer to that, he suggests, in a league office, where the records will show he scored 20 goals at the Forum, as against 18 on the road. Few players in the league would have a better ratio than that.</p><p>No man in the league devotes more time to &ldquo;living&rdquo; hockey. He won&rsquo;t even lie down after eating. Being a family man himself, he notices his own baby likes to have a snooze after a meal. That, he says, is because the baby is growing&mdash;putting on weight. So after the Boomer eats, he goes for a walk.</p><p>As a result of this and similar precautions, his weight remained unchanged during the 10 games he missed. He returned to work at 176. That&rsquo;s what it was when he got hurt. His shot hadn&rsquo;t changed, either. The puck leaves a vapor trail. That&rsquo;s how the poor goalies trace it. He&rsquo;s the best reason why clubs should avoid penalties. When the other club is short-handed, Geoffrion does his bombing on the power play.</p><h2>THE BOMB!</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04130/1431111-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="558" height="550"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOOM BOOM GEOFFRION</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Away back in 1950 when Lynn Patrick became coach of the Boston Bruins he introduced to the National league a new defensive wrinkle in the form of a permanent penalty killing team.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03160/1431194-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="298" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Laycoe</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04127/1431187-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="293" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Costello</b></figcaption></div><p>Patrick&rsquo;s first team foi killing penalties was composed of an ex-University of Toronto football player named Ed Kryzanowski and a free-wheeling veteran named Pistol Pete Horeck.</p><p>For their first and only season as penalty-killing specialists, Kryzanowski and Horeck performed the incredible feat of outscoring the combined opposition while the Bruins were shorthanded by a count of 12 goals to four.</p><p>In succeeding years the Bruins have maintained the practice of employing regular penalty-killers.</p><p>When Horeck departed he was replaced by George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan, who paired with Kryzanowski. Then came the team of Woody Dumart and Joe Klukay, and after Dumart&rsquo;s retirement the Soo Ghost teamed with Gus Bodnar.</p><p>A year ago most of the penalty-killing was done by Bodnar and Hal Laycoe, a converted defenseman.</p><p>But Bodnar has since retired, and after experimenting with a variety of combinations, Coach Milt Schmidt has come up with a more or less regular team of Laycoe and Murray Costello, a tall forward.</p><p>Laycoe and Costello have not worked full-time to the extent that, say, Kryzanowski and Horeck did, but they have swung into action for most of the stretches in which the Bruins have been shorthanded. According to the records, they have been doing a good job.</p><p>The Bruins had four goals scored against them while they were undermanned in their first two games, all four being the result of Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; power plays.</p><p>But with Laycoe and Costello bearing the brunt of the penalty-killing assignments, they played their next seven games without damage while short-handed.</p><p>With the Bruins enmeshed in an early-season scoring slump, their ability to stall off the opposition with men in the penalty box has been extremely important. And if the slump continues it is likely that Laycoe and Costello will find themselves men under pressure indefinitely<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Laycoe And Costello B’s Penalty-Killers

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The Montreal Canadiens have defeated every other club in the National Hockey League and, while that feat may have no bearing on the final standings, it&rsquo;s a great morale builder, particularly at this early stage of the race.</p><p>The rout was completed on Oct. 29, less than a month after the start of the season, when the Detroit Red Wings were trimmed 2-1 in the first clash between the two clubs since the 1955 playoffs.</p><p>Canadiens lost little time in asserting their superiority over all opposition. The Toronto Maple Leafs felt the sting of defeat in their opener in Montreal, bowing 2-0. Then the Boston Bruins fell 2-0 as goalie Jacques Plante scored his second straight shutout. The New York Rangers came to town and were defeated 4-1.</p><p>Only the Chicago Black Hawks delayed the Habs, who got off to one of their finest starts in history. In the first meeting between the clubs, the Hawks salvaged a 2-2 tie in Chicago but a week later they were whitewashed 6-0 in Montreal as Plante racked up shutout No. 3.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Habs Hold Win Over Every NHL Team

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>As if Maple Leaf trainer Tim Daly wasn&rsquo;t having enough trouble replacing the pucks that fans pocket during hockey games, now even the Leaf players have started to pilfer them on him.</p><p>Already three pucks have disappeared from the kindly trainer&rsquo;s tight fists, but not without very good reason.</p><p>Like every rookie who breaks into the NHL, Billy Harris, Earl Balfour and Dick Duff have saved for mounting their first bag in NHL play. That fact alone would not surprise Daly; it&rsquo;s the speed with which they did it and the speed which they followed it up which has Timothy padlocking his pucks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0587/1431256-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="288" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Duff</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0653/1431249-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="292" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Geo. Armstrong</b></figcaption></div><p>Of the first 16 goals scored by Leafs this season, eight were off the sticks of the freshmen. Proving that Toronto&rsquo;s youth movement certainly couldn&rsquo;t be blamed for the fact the fact the team spent the first month in the second division, Harris and Balfour each scored three times and Duff twice.</p><p>It ranked the trio second, third and fourth among Leaf scorers for October, behind only Tod Sloan, who scored five times in the fastest start of his NHL career.</p><p>Of the trio, only Duff forgot to follow his first goal into the net. &ldquo;I was so excited I forget to get it and I never would have forgiven myself if George Armstrong hadn&rsquo;t gone and got it for me,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>He was also so excited that he scored again only five minutes later to clinch for Leafs a 2-1 win from Montreal Canadiens. Fortunately for Daly, Duff, like the other rookies, had stopped collecting by then.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Daly Losing Pucks As Rook Souvenirs

<p><b>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd</b></p><p><b>1434 Ste Catherine Street West</b></p><p><b>Montreal 25. Que.</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates; $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire; $4.00 in the U.S.A. and Foreign Countries.</b></p><p>entered as second-class matter, October 3. 1903, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879 Authorized as second-class mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa</p><p>Printed in Canada</p><p><b>VOL. 9 NOVEMBER 12, 1955 No. 7</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY Founded October 1st 1947

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01299/1431332-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="300" height="468"></div><p>&bull; NEW YORK will televise only four of their home games this season&hellip;This is the closest National Hockey League race for years and years&hellip;Chicago&rsquo;s Harry Watson was happy when the Hawks stopped over for a few days in Toronto recently. It gave him a chance to put the storm windows on his Leaside home&hellip;Everyone around the NHL is wondering when the last place Detroit Red Wings are going to break loose with a barrage of goals&hellip;. Too good a club to remain in the cellar for long&hellip;Dick Irvin pointed out the other day that All-Star defenseman Doug Harvey of Canadiens has never scored a goal in the playoffs&hellip;Bucky Hollingworth has seen little action with Detroit this season Jack Adams says that Warren Godfrey is &ldquo;nearly the best defenseman in the NHL right now&rdquo;&hellip;Nine members of the Montreal Canadiens were born and brought up in the Montreal area&hellip;This is one of the reasons it is so hard to purchase tickets for Montreal games&hellip;The nine home brews are Doug Harvey, Butch Bouchard, Dollard St. Laurent, Claude Provost, Dickie Moore, Henri and Maurice Richard, Ken Mosdell and Donnie Marshall&hellip;. Only two players in the NHL were born outside of Canada and both are with the New York Rangers. They are Jack Evans who was born at Garnant, South Wales, and Ivan Irwin who was born in Chicago&hellip;Irwin is the sole United States-born player in the NHL this year&hellip;Gerry James will-join the Toronto Maple Leafs as soon as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are through with their footballing. Hap Day gives James a good chance to make the Leafs this year. At any rate he will be afforded a good chance to show what he&rsquo;s got.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02189/1431325-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="304" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; BOSTON BRUINS and Celtics were honored at a special boosters dinner at the Boston Garden last week. It was sponsored by the Crosscup-Pishon Post of the American Legion and was very successful with over 1,000 people in attendance Walter Brown, president of both the Bruins and Celtics, came in for considerable praise by the different speakers&hellip;. NHL President Clarence Campbell praised Brown for the progress made by the Bruins since he took over as president. &ldquo;Back in the Fail of 1951, the Bruins had trouble meeting its training camp expenses. In the years since then, under Walter Brown, the Bruins have had increasing success, and this year have one of the game&rsquo;s most colorful and entertaining teams,&rdquo; Campbell told the enthusiastic supporters of sport in Boston&hellip;John Gilooly, clever hockey writer of the Boston Record, was picked as the Columnist of the Week by Sports Illustrated&hellip;Frank Fallon does an excellent job as public address announcer at the Bruins games. He also handles the PA at all home games, of the Red Sox&hellip;Cooney Weiland, one of Boston&rsquo;s alltime greats, was a press box visitor the other night when Chicago and Boston played to a 3-3 tie&hellip;. Jim Norris arrived just before the game started. As busy as he is, Jim seldom misses an opportunity to see his beloved Hawks perform&hellip;New York Rangers are convinced that they picked&rsquo;up a real bargain when they landed Andy Hebenton from Victoria of the Western League&hellip;Hebenton is 26, rather old as NHL rookies go.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03113/1431318-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="296" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Hebenton</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; THIS IS supposed to have happened at a pre-game pep talk given by Coach Phil Watson of the Rangers&hellip;Watson strode from player to player shouting: &ldquo;And when you get out on that ice tonight, I want you to hit the other team hard. Hit them with everything you&rsquo;ve got. Hit &lsquo;em hard.&rdquo; He paced the room restlessly, then suddenly whirled and pointed at the skinny Dores Raleigh. &ldquo;And you, Bones, throw your shadow at them,&rdquo; he yelled&hellip;Chicago&rsquo;s Ed Sandford is supposed to have a bad knee and has to use a brace on it&hellip;Gus Mortson will be sidelined for four or five weeks as a result of his emergency operation in Boston last week for the removal of an inflamed diverticulum, a type of cyst of the small intestine. Dr. Edward R. Browne, the Bruins&rsquo; club doctor, performed the operation&hellip;Mortson is recuperating at the Carney Hospital in Boston&hellip;Gordie Petrie, well-known senior star and USHL player, continues to show improvement after his attack of polio of a few years back. He is now able to get out of the iron lung for stretches at a time. Gordie is at the King George Hospital in Winnipeg and loves receiving cards or letters from old friends and hockey fans&hellip;Terry Sawchuk has three shutouts so far this season but he&rsquo;s had 69 since he turned pro with Omaha in 1947-48. Counting playoffs he&rsquo;s had a total of 78 shutouts.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0479/1431311-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="296" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Raleigh</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0573/1431363-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>Likes Promptness</h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>I thought I would just drop you a line to thank you for the prompness with which I receive your paper. I have been taking it on subscription now for over a year and I think it is a wonderful paper. It is certainly Interesting to follow the careers of players who have seen action over here in England and Scotland.</p><p>The only complaint I have against THE HOCKEY NEWS is that I could see no mention of the two games that the Penticton Vs played against British League teams. The first of these games was against Brighton Tigers in Paris, which Penticton won, 4-1.</p><p>Brighton, with two of their star players missing, started with only 11 men against 17 and lost two players through injuries in the first period, so for most of the game had only nine men.</p><p>The second game they played in London against Harringary Racers, who were brought up to a 14-man team by Including four players from Brighton Tigers. This was the only time Penticton were beaten on the tour.</p><p>In one of the best games of hockey ever seen in London, Harringary beat them 5-3, and there was no doubt that the best team won. From the comments of some of the Penticton players after the game there was agreement that the standard of hockey played over here is better than most people in Canada realize.</p><p>If any of your readers have a few old NHL or WHL programs to spare I should be greatly interested in them. My two favorite Canadian teams are Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League and New Westminster Royals of the Western League.</p><p>There has been some talk in this country about two of the NHL teams playing an exhibition tour of Europe. I certainly hope this comes off. It would be a great success in England and Scotland.</p><p>My address is 13 Longcroft Lane, Welwyn Garden City, Herts, Eng.</p><p>Cyril Newman England.</p><h2>Less of Kennedy</h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>I have been reading your fine paper now for about four years and consider it a very adequate coverage of hockey.</p><p>I would like to say it is about time Con Smythe and Co. started thinking of a hockey team of &ldquo;Kennedy&rdquo;. There is no doubt that Kennedy is a truly great player, but how could he expect a team to play hockey where all they heard or could read in the newspapers was &ldquo;Kennedy is the whole team, etc.&rdquo; They must have developed an inferiority complex by now.</p><p>I would like to ask you a question about Gordie Howe.</p><p>Two friends of mine were arguing Richard vs. Howe. One fellow claims Howe did not score a goal on Montreal or Toronto ice in regular season play during the 1953-54 season. Could you please straighten this out?</p><p>Russell Conley Jamestown, Ont.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">By Marshall Dana</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01250/1431425-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="310" height="440"></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>A shake-up on a last-place club isn&rsquo;t unusual. Sometimes a coach or manager is fired; players often are traded, sold or fined.</p><p>The Red Wings, however, took a novel approach after getting off to their unexpected losing start this season.</p><p>They switched presidents.</p><p>Bruce Norris, who was vice president, took over from his sister, Marge, who became vice president.</p><p>It appears to be a switch without significance. Both remain as co-owners of Olympia Stadium and the Detroit hockey club. The change appears to result from Marge&rsquo;s new business interest in the East which would have kept her away from Detroit even more than she was in the past.</p><p>Even while Marge held office, Bruce Was the dominent person at the policy level. He was the representative to the National League&rsquo;s Board of Governors, a more important working post than president.</p><p>With Bruce the hockey team will be half-hobby, half-business. Like his late father, Bruce is in the sportsman class. The big (6-foot-4) blond millionaire&rsquo;s son is no playboy, however. At 30 he is a busy, capable business tycoon.</p><p>Bruce took over the Norris Grain Co., chief source of the family&rsquo;s millions upon the death of their father, the late James Norris, who bought the Red Wings in the early &lsquo;30s.</p><p>Bruce handles a giant grain empire plus a fleet of steamships, a thriving cattle business, numerous ranches, railroads, etc., from his offices in Chicago, Kansas City, Toronto, New York, Winnipeg, etc.</p><p>Since a few of the millions are invested in Olympia and its hockey team, Bruce has the Norris pride in wanting to make it pay.</p><p>He also wants a winning team like his father did.</p><p>Before the death of his father, Bruce followed the Wings closely although he saw more of them in the Chicago Stadium than he did in the Olympia. At playoff time he frequently traveled with the club.</p><p>In the lockeroom he is more friend than boss. He jokes with the older players whom he knows better. They call him &ldquo;Bruce&rdquo;.</p><p>Jack Adams&rsquo; position probably is strengthened even more as a result of the switch.</p><p>Jack will have a dual role. Not only will he continue to run the operations of the organization, but he also will serve as Bruce&rsquo;s chief advisor.</p><p>Bruce will have less time to spend here than Margo did and will conduct most of his hockey business by telephone. He and Adams chat several times a week that way.</p><p>Adams will have a bigger hand at running things. He&rsquo;ll also have a sharper eye on him from above.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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On Thin ice

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Lynn Patrick is a crafty sort so that when he says something nice about a club other than his Bruins you don&rsquo;t know whether he really means it or is just trying to lull you into a sense of false security.</p><p>On his last visit to Rangerville, a few days past, Lynn was his old self. Among other topics he touched upon were the state of the Blues and the eye-lifting show of one Andy Hebenton.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d say the Rangers will make&rsquo;the playoff on what they&rsquo;ve shown so far,&rdquo; Lynn opined. &ldquo;They started off with a bang last year but Watson has a different club this time. They&rsquo;re a better team than they were the same time last year and they were real good then.&rdquo;</p><p>Hebenton also drew the rave treatment.</p><p>&ldquo;Andy is a real digger, the kind of player a coach likes to have oh his team. What he lacks in speed he makes up in hustle and drive. He&rsquo;s oging to help the Rangers.&rdquo;</p><p>The elder Patrick took a good long look at the New Yorkers playing against the Red Wings and then his Bruins.</p><p>Hhe sat in the 49th St. corner of the side arena where brother Muzz generally hides himself in the Garden. That he was dazzled by the New Yorker&rsquo;s display was obvious.</p><p>&ldquo;Do you know what the big difference is in the Rangers? Those defensemen hit you. Look what&rsquo;s happening out there. Howell, Gadsby, Evans and Fontinato have been belting the other guys all over the ice. Those wearing down tactics are paying off for Watson.&rdquo;</p><p>Other than a few back-pats Lynn would rather not talk about Hebenton who he had eyed for two years. But Muzz is quite willing to tell the tale.</p><p>&ldquo;My dad (Lester) had Andy on his Victoriaclub five years,&rdquo; said Muzz. &ldquo;But I got him for less than the NHL waiver price of $15,000, although he scored 46 goals last year and was named an All-Star Western League forward. I never got myself a better bargain.&rdquo;</p><p>Hebenton has plodded along with five goals in his first nine games which is a fair&rsquo;shake for a rookie in any league.</p><p>With all deference to Floyd Curry, Phil Watson has dubbed Andy &ldquo;The Honest Worker.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;This boy does equally well going forward or-backward,&rdquo; Phil explained.</p><p>&ldquo;He covers his wing perfectly, backchchecks well and can score. He&rsquo;s one of our best penalty killers. Andy has played more minutes than any Blueshirt except Bill Gadsby.&rdquo;</p><p>The 180-pound right wing is still making mistakes. And he&rsquo;ll be the first to admit it. All of which is understandable when one considers that he spent <i>five</i> seasons with Victoria in the Western League.</p><p>A player can take his time in the minors, his play isn&rsquo;t rushed as it is in the NHL. No doubt that it will take a while for Hebenton to adjust to the big-league pace but his determination will insure success.</p><p>He&rsquo;ll probably do better in Madison Square Garden games now that the Hebenton Hurrah Brigade has arrived in town.</p><p>Constituents are his wife, Gael, and 2&ndash;year-old son, Clayton, who roomed in from Victoria. They are frequent onlookers at practice sessions.</p><p>Andy&rsquo;s pretty red-haired frau came by her hockey quite recently.</p><p>&ldquo;My mother was the original fan in our family,&rdquo; she admitted. &ldquo;She finally got me to go to a game in Victoria, introduced me to Andy, and here I am. Mother really can pick &lsquo;em.&rdquo;</p><p>Lester Patrick, who murtured Hebenton along the pro trail, is also expected in New York to see how Andy is getting along in the bigtime.</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe he&rsquo;ll claim he got the better of the deal,&rdquo; said Muzz.&rdquo; &ldquo;And he might be right.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He only paid the Canadiens $5,000 for Andy five years ago. He picked up close to $10,000 on the sale and also had Andy&rsquo;s services for a long time.</p><p>&ldquo;Still, I think I outsmarted him. I&rsquo;ve got me a real bigleaguer for peanuts.&rdquo;</p><p>To which brother Lynn nods his head in agreement. Only this time you know that he isn&rsquo;t fooling.</p><p><b>OFFSIDES:</b> Home town success of Rangers has the New York press shouting its approval via big feature and news stories&hellip;Typical headlines are: &ldquo;New Blues Have Mean Look,&rdquo; &ldquo;Deals Keep Creighton Angry, Fit,&rdquo; etc&hellip;Muzz Patrick describes Lou Fontinato as &ldquo;a guy who will mix it with a bull, no holds barred.&rdquo;&hellip;Watson and Patrick claim that they have to tone Louie down occasionally. His exuberance runs away with his&hellip;Phil says: &ldquo;Louie is the kind of player who would skate over his five sisters if they got in his way.&rdquo;&hellip;Ivan Irwin riding the bench for most games but that doesn&rsquo;t stop local fans from roaring approval when he makes one of his infrequent appearances&hellip;The big, balding backliner has a &ldquo;submarine check&rdquo; which is still unequaled around the loop&hellip;As yet Watson hasn&rsquo;t rotated his five backliners as much as it was thought he would&hellip;&ldquo;Irwin, who is a lefthanded shot like all our defensemen, has always played left defense,&rdquo; Phil noted. &ldquo;He tells me he feels just as capable on the right. He&rsquo;ll get his chance to prove it. No one has his job locked up.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Lynn Patrick Praises Andy Hebenton And Says Rangers Will Make Playoff

<div class="byline">FISCHLER</div><p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>EY YORK, N.Y.&mdash; Not since Peter Minuet bought Manhattan Island from the Indians for two dollars has a deal been made like the one Johnny Mariucci made with the New York Rangers.</p><p>The former Black Hawk defenceman, now coach of the University of Minnesota sextet, has offered Muzz Patrick the rights to every hockey player in the Gopher state&mdash;for free.</p><p>&ldquo;Hockey has developed so rapidly in the last two or three years in Minnesota,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;that it will soon be called a new province of Canada.&rdquo;</p><p>Maroosh, as he was usually called, was passing through New York to pick a U.S. Olympic hockey team from the best talent available in the States. He says most of the boys will come from the New England and Minnesota areas.</p><p>&ldquo;Just to point up the growth of hockey in Minnesota,&rdquo; said gravel-voiced Johnny, &ldquo;We have an arena which seats 7,000 for our college hockey games, and it isn&rsquo;t big enough. We&rsquo;re adding a balcony of 3,000 additional seats.&rdquo;</p><p>While in New York, Mariucci managed to take in the Rangers-Toronto struggle and took a liking to &ldquo;a paisan of mine on the Rangers&rsquo; defense.&rdquo;</p><p>Who else could it be but Louis Fontinato who rocks &lsquo;n rolls the opposition in the best Mariucci tradition. In fact it was Doug Bentley who first detected the resemblance.</p><p>Getting back to the hockey situation in Minnesota, Mariucci noted that youngsters in the frigid state are turning from basketball to hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never seen anything like it,&rdquo; the ex Black Hawk admitted. &ldquo;The kids are playing and talking hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;How about that other to Patrick,&rdquo; he was asked. &ldquo;Are you forgetting your old club, the Black Hawks?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;The day I stopped playing for Chicago I severed all connections with them,&rdquo; he revealed. &ldquo;Besides, Murray and I have been pals from way back.&rdquo;</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t very long ago that Minnesota sent able hockey players to the National League.</p><p>Names like Cully Dahlstrom, Doo Romnes, Frankie Brim-sek and Mariucci himself, were bywords in hockey prior to the war.</p><p>Maroosh feels that the era of Minnesota&rsquo;s high hockey productivity is due to return and lists only military conscription in the United States as an obstacle.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Ex-Black Hawk, “Maroosh” Comes To Rangers’ Aid

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These’s an easier way…

<h2>7 As Junior</h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>W</span>hen Jean Beliveau pumped home four goals in a recent game against the Boston Bruins, it marked his highest single game total since his junior days when he once scored seven goals while playing for the Quebec Citadelles.</b></p><h2>Assist Man</h2><p><b>Bert Olmstead, Canadiens&rsquo; hardworking left winger could well set a new record for assists by a left winger this season if he keeps up his present pace. He has picked up an assist a game so far this year. The record of 55 in a season is held by Ted Lindsay.</b></p><h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><p>(STANDING ON WED. A.M., NOV. 9)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01283/1431626-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="604" height="191"></div><h3>RESULT OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 6th 1955.</h3><p>Wed. Nov. 2nd&mdash;Detroit 1 at Toronto 3</p><p>Thurs. Nov. 3rd&mdash;Toronto 3 at Cnds 3</p><p>Thurs. Nov. 3rd&mdash;Rangers 1 at Detroit 1</p><p>Thurs. Nov. 3rd&mdash;Chicago 3 at Boston 3</p><p>Sat. Nov. 5th&mdash;Boston 2 at Cnds 4</p><p>Sat. Nov. 5th&mdash;Rangers 3 at Toronto</p><p>Sat. Nov. 5th&mdash;Detroit 3 at Chicago 3</p><p>Sun. Nov. 6th&mdash;Canadiens 3 at Bos. 3</p><p>Sun. Nov. 6th&mdash;Toronto 1 at Detroit 4</p><p>Sun. Nov. 6th&mdash;Rangers 44 at Chi. 2</p><h3>SCHEDI LED GAMES FOR WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 13th 1955</h3><p>Wed. Nov. 9th&mdash;Canadiens at Rangers</p><p>Thurs. Nov. 10th&mdash;Rangers at Boston</p><p>Thurs. Nov. l0th&mdash;Chicago at Detroit</p><p>Fri. Nov. llth&mdash;Toronto at Chicago</p><p>Sat. Nov. 12th&mdash;Detroit at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Nov. 12th&mdash;Boston at Toronto</p><p>Sun. Nov. 13th&mdash;Canadiens at Chicago</p><p>Sun. Nov. 13th&mdash;Toronto at Rangers</p><p>Sun. Nov. 13th&mdash;Detroit at Boston</p><h3>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 Detroit 1 at Toronto 3</h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Gold-ham. Pronovost, Kelly, Godfrey, Hillman, Hollingworth; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Pavelich, Prystai, Chevrefile, Ullman, Dineen, Toppazzini, Bucyk, Stankiewicz.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Morrison, Horton, Thomson, Bolton, Ca-han; forwards: Sloan, Armstrong, Duff, Harris, Nesterenko, Balfour, Migay, Stewart. Smith. Klukay. Marshall. Reid.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02224/1431619-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="606" height="419"></div><h3>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1955 Toronto 3 at Canadiens 3</h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Bolton, Morrison, Horton, Ca-han; forwards: Migay. Stewart, Smith, Armstrong, Sloan, Harris, Nesterenko, Duff, Klukay, Marshall. Balfour.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent, Talbot; forwards: IT. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Beliveau, Geoffrion. Olmstead, Leclair, Curry, Gamble,. Mosdell, Marshall. Provost.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03168/1431612-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="604" height="627"></div><h3>Chicago 3 at Boston 3</h3><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defence: Martin, Stanley, Woit, Fogolin; forwards: McIntyre, MickoskJ, Sullivan, Sandford, Litzenberger, Watson, Ciesla, Wilson, Lalonde, Skov, Leswick.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defence: Flaman, Boivin, Armstrong, Quackenbush; forwards: McKenney, Labine, Ferguson, Gardner, Stasiuk, Mohns, Panagabko, Bonin, Tessier, Laycoe, Costello, Davis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04126/1431605-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="607" height="414"></div><h3>New York 1 at Detroit 1</h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Gadsby, Evans, Irwin, Howell, Fontinato; forwards; Popein, Bathgate, Prentice, Raleigh, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Murphy, Greighton, Hergesheimer, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Gold-ham, Pronovost, Godfrey, Hollingworth, Hillman; forwards: Delvecchio, Dineen, Kelly, Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Pavelich, Prystai, Chevrefils, Ullman, Toppazzini. Bucyk, Stankiewicz.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0589/1431598-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="605" height="404"></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1955 Boston 2 at Canadiens</h3><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, St. Laurent, Johnson, Bouchard, Talbot: forwards: Mosdell, M. Richard. Moore, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, Leclair, Marshall, Curry, Provost.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Flaman, Boivin, Armstrong, Quackenbush; forwards: Gardner, Mohns, Ferguson. Labine, Bonin, Panagabko, Tessier, Stasiuk, Laycoe, Costello.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0666/1431591-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="601" height="616"></div><h3>New York 3 at Toronto 0</h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Gadsby, Evans, Howell, Irwin, Fontinato; forwards: Popein, Prentice, Bathgate, Raleigh, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Murphy, Creighton, Hergeshei-nier, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Bolton, Morrison, Cahan; forwards: Harris, Balfour, Nesterenko, Migay, Smith, Armstrong, Sloan, Stewart, Duff, Reid, Klukay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01281/1431584-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="600" height="343"></div><h3>Chicago 3 at Detroit 3</h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defence: Godfrey, Hollingworth, Goldham, Pronovost, Hillman; forwards: Howe, Reibel, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Pavelich, Prystai, Che-vrefils, Dineen, Toppazzini, Kelly.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Fogolin, Woit, Stanley, Martin; forwards: Litzenberger, Sandford, Watson, Sullivan, Lcswick, Mickoski, McIntyre, Skov, Wilson, Lalande, Ciesla</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02225/1431577-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="607" height="517"></div><h3>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1955 Toronto 1 at Detroit 4</h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Morrison, Bolton, Thomson, Cahan, Bionda; forwards: Migay, Stewart, Smith, Armstrong, Sloan, Harris, Nesterenko, Duff, Klukay, Balfour.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall, defense: Gold-ham, Pronovost, Godfrey, Hollinggworth, Hilman; forwards: Delvecchio, Dineen, Kelly, Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Ullman, Bucyk, Chevrefils, Pavelich, Stankiewicz, Topazzini. Prystai.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03193/1431570-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="604" height="519"></div><h3>Canadiens 3 at Boston 3</h3><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, St. Laurent, Johnson, Bouchard, Talbot: forwards: Mosdell, M. Richard, Moore, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, Leclair, Marshall, Curry, Provost.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Flaman, Boivin, Armstrong, Quackenbush; forwards: Gardner, Mohns, Ferguson, Labine, Bonin, Panagabko, Tessier, Stasiuk. Laycoe, Costello.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04150/1431563-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="600" height="496"></div><h3>New York 4 at Chicago 2</h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal, Worsley; defense: Gadsby, Evans, Fontinato, Iswin, Howell; forwards: Bathgate, Popein, Prentice, Raleigh, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Murphy, Creighton, Hergesheimer, Le-wicki.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Stanley, Martin, Fogolin, Woit; forwards, McIntyre, Sullivan, Mickoski, Watson, Leswick, Sandford, Litzenber-geir, Skov, Wilson, lalande, Ciesla.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05121/1431556-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="610" height="474"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><p>(Including Games of Sunday, Nov. 6)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0752/1431549-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="607" height="2826"></div><h3>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0841/1431542-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="608" height="178"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0929/1431535-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="590" height="158"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p><b>MONTREAL. Que.</b></p><p><b>Big Jean Beliveau, Canadiens&rsquo; classy centre-man is a unanimous choice as the player-of-the-week after his glittering performance last weekend against the Boston Bruins.</b></p><p><b>Beliveau, who came into the NHL on an unprecedented sea of ink, justified Canadiens&rsquo; hopes in him last year by finishing third in the NHL scoring race.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1021/1431657-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="314" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption></div><p><b>And he&rsquo;s off to a great start this year, leading the scoring parade with eight goals and 11 assists in the first 14 games. He really went to work last weekend when he bagged all four goals as Canadiens bopped the Bruins 4-2 in Montreal. The following night in the return engagement in Boston, he scored Canadiens&rsquo; third goal as they earned a 3-3 tie with the Bruins.</b></p><p><b>His four-goal performance came close to setting a record. Three of his goals were scored in 44 seconds, just 23 seconds short of the mark established on March 23rd, 1952 by Chicago&rsquo;s Bill Mosienko ogainst the New York Rangers.</b></p><p><b>The feat also market the first time this year that a National Hockey League player has hit for four in a single game. It upped his goal total to eight to match Toronto&rsquo;s Tod Sloan. Both are a goal behind the scoring leader. New York&rsquo;s Ronnie Murphy.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Don&rsquo;t be surprised if big Ed Sandford has the best season of his National League career now that he has switched to the uniform of Dick Irvin&rsquo;s Black Hawks. Improvement has been the virtual byword among skaters who have gone between Chicago and Boston in recent years.</p><p>Strong examples of this unique trend with rather debatable qualities are Hawks Red Sullivan and Jack McIntyre and Cal Gardner and Murray Costello of the Bruins. All four appear to have benefited from their changes in scenery and Sandford doesn&rsquo;t figure to be any different&mdash;Chicago hopes!</p><p>Sullivan and McIntyre both received seemingly adequate trials with Boston, but were purchased by the Black Hawks after demotions to the Bruins&rsquo; farm club in the American League at Hershey. Their play with the Hawks since has borne little resemblance to that which discouraged their Bean town bosses.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01268/1431688-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="300" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Sandford</b></figcaption></div><p>It has been just about the same story with Gardner and Costello. Chicago asked for waivers on Gardner and Boston was prompt in picking up Cal&rsquo;s contract. The Bruins got young Costello from the Hawks in a deal after they had sent him to the minors.</p><p>Playing their first full campaign with the Windy City NHL entry last year, Sullivan and McIntyre combined for an impressive record of 35 goals, 55 assists and 90 points with Red rating as the club&rsquo;s top scorer. Neither player had ever collected as many goals in Boston livery.</p><p>Chicago released Gardner following the 19 52-53 season after he had potted only 11 goals, but he has come back the past two years as a Bruin with 30 goals, 32 assists and 72 points. While not much of a scorer as yet, Costello seems to have improved noticeably as a checker since leaving the Hawks.</p><p>With Sandford&rsquo;s arrival in Chicago, it would appear that the fuse has been touched off on a bomb that may well blow up in the face of the Bruins. Unlike Sullivan and McIntyre, big Ed was a star at Boston and captained the squad last season. Is he now set to be a super-star for Irvin?</p><p>This may be a question that brings some concern to the face of Boston General Manager Lynn Patrick these days. It wasn&rsquo;t his idea to have Sandford in Chicago and it is no secret that he turned aside offers last year by the Hawks for the versatile forward.</p><p>Sandford&rsquo;s departure from the Bruins only came about when Patrick learned that starry Terry Sawchuk of Detroit could be had&mdash;at a price. The price to give Boston a stronger man in, goal included Capt. Ed, winger Real Chevrefils and rearguard Warren Godfrey.</p><p>There are few others in organized hockey who could have brought Patrick to depart with so valued a trio and it&rsquo;s extremely doubtful that Lynn could have visualized Sandford&rsquo;s almost immediate transfer to Chicago&mdash;a team the Bruins will probably have to beat out for a playoff spot this season.</p><p>The Red Wings termed Sandford as expendable since &ldquo;he failed to fit in with our style of play&rdquo; and General Manager Tommy Ivan of the Hawks needed no further an overture. He sent Metro Prystai to the Red Wings in a straight swap and Sandford joined Chicago October 26.</p><p>&ldquo;Sandy&rdquo; was immediately installed as centre between wingers Harry Watson and Ed Litzenberger on what has been recognized as Irvin&rsquo;s No. 1 line and he took only one game to become accostumed to his new surroundings&mdash;a fine accomplishment in itself since he had been playing Boston&rsquo;s style for eight years.</p><p>His second game as a Black Hawk blossomed forth as the team&rsquo;s best to date this year as the league-leading Canadians were soundly dumped on home ice. 4.1. It was the first line that personally produced the victory with each member getting a goal. Sandford also received two assists.</p><p>The ex-captain from Boston was proclaimed the best forward on the ice and clearly showed that he found no trouble in becoming accustomed to the Chicago type of play. Continuous performances like this should easily pave the way to his first 20-goal year in the NHL.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Sandford Could Reach Greatness As A Black Hawk

<div class="byline">BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Although the Black Hawks could boast of no more than four wins and two ties in their first 10 games of the 1955-56 NHL schedule, a study of the club&rsquo;s past achievements shows that play at this rate the rest of the season would give Chicago its best hockey record in history.</p><p>A projection of this pace in wins and ties would give Dick Irvin&rsquo;s charges a new peak of 28 victories and a new high in points of 70. It is interesting to note at this infant stage in developments that Toronto got 70 points last season in finishing third behind Detroit and the Canadiens.</p><p>The most wins a Chicago team has ever recorded to date are the 27 accomplished in 1952-53 when rookie coach Sid Abel led the team into the playoffs the last time. The 69 scoring points received that season also represent a mark that still stands, but may now be in danger.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

If Hawks Maintain Present Pace They’ll Show Best Mark In Years

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>King Clancy, who has been called a card before this, got together with partner Hap Day to do some shuffling and has come up with at least a little slam.</p><p>After the Toronto Maple Leafs had lost five straight road games, coach King and General Manager Day juggled all three lines and both defensive pairings and started Leafs on a win streak which reached three games by the end of October.</p><p>Sid Smith, the team captain and leading scorer for several seasons, was the key to one and Tod Sloan, the most prolific Leaf this year the key to the other of the front line moves.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02248/1431750-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="306" height="391"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Larry Cahan</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03204/1431743-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="305" height="394"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Earl Balfour</b></figcaption></div><p>Because he had failed to score as right wing for the clever, playmaking rookie Billy Harris, Smitty was placed on Rudy Migay&rsquo;s left wing. &ldquo;Migay is the same kind of digger Tod Kennedy almays was,&rdquo; King Clancy explained the move. &ldquo;Since Smitty was always so successful with Kennedy at his centre, this may be the key to getting him started.&rdquo; With Ron Stewart at right wing, the move gave Leafs at least one line on which all parties were veteran NHL players.</p><p>At the same time it gave the team a line with as many legs as the Latin Quarter chorus. Earl Balfour was moved onto Harris&rsquo; left wing. With Eric Nesterenko on right wing there, the three rangiest, leggiest skaters on the team are playing as a unit.</p><p>The third move altered positions but not personnel of the other line. Because George Armstrong couldn&rsquo;t click at centre, Sloan was moved back there from right wing.</p><p>In the first three games following that change, Sloan scored three times and his left wing, Dick Duff twice, with Army assisting three times.</p><p>The return of Tim Horton after seven months&rsquo; idleness with a broken right leg enabled the defense to be altered. Tim picked up with his old partner Jim Morrison, and Jim Thomson was reunited with Hugh Bolton, Larry Cahan becoming the alternate defenseman.</p><p>The only position that wasn&rsquo;t touched by the shuffling Day and Clancy was goal. And there Harry Lumley came up with a few tricks of his own to shake the early jitters and score his initial shutout and yield only three goals in the three games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Smith and Sloan InKey Roles As Clancy Juggles Leaf Lines In Effort To Win On Road

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What a Difference a Change Makes!

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><p><b>STATISTICS:</b></p><p class="dropcap"><b><span>J</span>ohn Archibald McIntyre was born in Bruseels, Ont., September 8, 1930. A forward with a left handed shot, he weighs 190 pounds and is 6 feet tall. He played amateur hockey with St. Catharines Teepees and in 1950-51, made the jump from junior &ldquo;hockey to the Hershey Bears and later commuted back and forth between Hershey and Boston. He played a total of 122 regular games with the Bruins and 113 regular games with Hershey. He became a Black Hawk during the 1953-54 season.</b></p><p><b>SUPERSTITION&mdash;IF ANY:</b></p><p>Is quite supertituous where hockey is concerned and always makes a point of chewing gum in the dressing room.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD BEFORE A GAME:</b></p><p>Steak.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD ANYTIME:</b></p><p>Southern Fried Chicken is the most satisfying to his hefty appetite.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</b></p><p>Though they have never been there both he and Mrs. McIntyre are looking forward to a long awaited trip to Florida.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE:</b></p><p>London, Ont., which he contends is one of the most beautiful cities he has seen.</p><p><b>FAVORITE READING MATERIAL:</b></p><p>Western stories, which he reads by the dozens. Luke Short is his favorite author. FAVORITE N.H.L. CITY ON A ROAD GAME:</p><p>Detroit.</p><p><b>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:</b></p><p>Has seen many outstanding pictures, but selects &ldquo;The Glenn Miller Story,&rdquo; as one of the best he has seen.</p><p><b>BEST ACTRESS:</b></p><p>June Allyson.</p><p><b>BEST ACTOR:</b></p><p>John Wayne.</p><p><b>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Dinah Shore.</p><p><b>FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Bing Crosby.</p><p><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA:</b></p><p>Guy Lombardo.</p><p><b>IN THE SUMMER:</b></p><p>Lives in London, Ont.: and works for a lumber company. GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY:</p><p>Scoring the goal which enabled Boston to eliminate Detroit in the 1952-53 playoff semi-finals.</p><p><b>FAVORITE HOBBY:</b></p><p>Likes target shooting and is a member of the Lambeth Rod & Gun Club in London. Also plays a little golf.</p><p><b>HARDEST CHECK IN HOCKEY:</b></p><p>Was given to him at the training camp of St. Catharines Teepees when he was hit by Fiori Goegan. &ldquo;He hit me so hard I had to go to bed for three days and take aspirins,&rdquo; said McIntyre.</p><p><b>FAVORITE TV PROGRAM:</b></p><p>&ldquo;I Love Lucy.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

INSIDE STUFF About Jack Mclntyre

<p>Quotes from Manhattan:</p><p>&ldquo;Keep your eyes on (Jim) Bartlett, (Billy) McCreary, and (Aldo) Guidolin. They&rsquo;re all playing well for Providence.&rdquo;&mdash;Muzz Patrick.</p><p>&ldquo;We (Bruins) have the greatest goaltender in hockey. But you (Rangers) may have the greatest scoring club in the league.&rdquo;&mdash;Lynn Patrick.</p><p>&ldquo;Our team (Detroit) is in the same spot that the Rengers were in during the 195 2-5 3 season when they brought up the kids from Guelph. Johnny Bucyk, Norm Ullmann and Ed Stankiewicz have to get accustomed to NHL play. It will take them two to three years to adjust.&rdquo;&mdash;Jimmy Skinner.</p><p>&ldquo;The best news I&rsquo;ve had in a long time is that Milt Schmidt has really retired. He was one of the greatest I ever saw but when he was out on the ice playing against the Rengers I really hated him.&rdquo;&mdash;General John Reed.</p><p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s not get snowed under by the soft talk of Lynn Patrick. He&rsquo;s no dope When he comes. to New York, he&rsquo;s not here for amusement he&rsquo;s scouting our club and scouting it good.&rdquo;&mdash;Phil Watson.</p><p>&ldquo;J&rsquo;aime les grattes-ciel.&rdquo;&mdash;Jean Guy Gendron.</p><p>&ldquo;Attendance in our league (AHL) is better than it was at this time last year and last year it was good.&rdquo;&mdash;Jim Ellery.</p><p>&ldquo;We want Ivan (Irwin)!&rdquo;&mdash;New York Ranger fans.</p><p>&ldquo;No one on the Rangers is seriously hurt. Amen.&rdquo;&mdash;Frank Paice.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Lynn Patrick Says Rangers Scoring Tops

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How well do you know your HOCKEY?

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01281/1431922-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>INDIAN</b> thrust by Jim Anderson is stopped cold by goalie Hank Bassen and Ed Slowinski of Buffalo in hockey action at West Springfield during a recent American League game.</figcaption></div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Numerically, the Buffalo Bisons were outdistanced by all other American League clubs in the matter of having rookies in the lineup.</p><p>While the number ran as high as five, on the Providence roster, the Bisons had but one first year man in the lineup&mdash;Defenseman Vic Dzurko&mdash;when AHL season began.</p><p>General Manager Fred Hunt, who admittedly had hoped to &ldquo;carry two or three first year men,&rdquo; was elated, nevertheless, that Dzurko was turning out to be such a pleasant surprise.</p><p>Dzurko, who had. two more years of junior eligibility as he had just passed his 19th birthday When he reported to training camp at Well and, Ont., didn&rsquo;t figure in Hunt&rsquo;s plans at all when he first joined the Bisons.</p><h2>Battled Way In</h2><p>&ldquo;Victor-battled his way onto this club,&rdquo; Hunt appraised. &ldquo;Neither Coach (Frank) Eddolls nor I had given him much thought during the summer months. He was just another youngster reporting for a looksee by the Chicago and Buffalo clubs.&rdquo;</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t too many days, however, before the brass began to take notice of the big&mdash;6-foot, 2-inch, 190 pound&mdash;lad from the West.</p><p>&ldquo;What did you say the name of the blond kid with the crew cut playing left defense was?&rdquo; became the most consistently asked question of Scout Tiny Thompson, who brought Dzurko to camp.</p><p>&ldquo;Dzurko didn&rsquo;t impress because he was knocking everyone over and picking fights with the old pros,&rdquo; Eddolls injected.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess we were more impressed by the fact that he wasn&rsquo;t committing the mistakes you generally associate with a boy with so little experience.</p><p>&ldquo;Some how he always managed to get a piece of the puck carrier and break up a rush or get the puck out of his own end when the pressure was, on.</p><p>&ldquo;What particularly impressed everyone was the he didn&rsquo;t get upset when under pressure. That just about decided us that he could help us this season.&rdquo;</p><p>Eddolls intended to bring Dzurko along slowly as he had four veterans in Al Dewsbury, Rags Raglan, Pierre Pilote, and Frank Sullivan to carry the load, and Tony Schneider who saw limited action last season.</p><p>A foot infection which laid up Raglan for nine days, however, forced Eddolls to alter his plans by opening night. Dzurko started right off working a regular turn.</p><p>By the time Raglan was ready to play, Pilote joined the injured list, bruising his left knee in a game with Springfield.</p><p>Dzurko continued to be a regular&mdash;and more than hold his own. All of which led Eddolls to wonder aloud if he&rsquo;ll &ldquo;ever bother to go back to my original plan of using Vic only in certain spots.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Not only has he improved defensively but has developed a fine slap shot almost overnight. If his improvement continues apace, we&rsquo;ll have the rookie find of the year,&rdquo; Eddolls added.</p><p>Dzurko, who played with the Medicine Hat junior club last year, finds himself still a bit uneasy about the way things have been breaking.</p><p>&ldquo;I sure like playing in this league&hellip;it&rsquo;s a lot different than in junior but I think I&rsquo;m getting a better feel of the type of play each time I&rsquo;m on the ice.&rdquo; Dzurko&rsquo;s case approximates a similar situation when the Bisons turned Keith Allen pro back in 1942-43. Buffalo already was bolstered at defense with Frank Beisler, Bob Dill, Bill Allum, and Bob Blake. However, it was decided to carry Allen, and the present Regina coach turned out to be a valuable asset.</p><p>Hunt, who was a member of that 1942-43 team, hopes that the similarity between the Dzurko and Allen cases continue to hold true in regard to the team as a whole, too. Buffalo won the AHL title in Allen&rsquo;s rookie year.</p><h2>Stopped Cold</h2><h2>Taking A Spill</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03189/1431915-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="1124" height="1580"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DUMPED</b> heavily is Walt Atanas of Springfield, who bounces off the boards after being checked by Pete Babando of Buffalo Bisons.</figcaption></div><h2>BOLS ANSWER</h2><div class="sidebar"><p><b>George Boucher of the Ottawa Senators incurred seven minor penalties in a game in 1927.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Eager Rookie Dzurko’s Making Lots Of Friends

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>When questioned about the possible finish of his Buffalo team in the American League race, Coach Frank Eddolls generally parries the query with the reply:</p><p>&ldquo;Pittsburgh is the team to beat. They&rsquo;re the defending champions and are strong in every department. We&rsquo;re, naturally, set on being right up there in the running.&rdquo;</p><p>But let the subject switch to particular members of his Bison sextet and Eddolls is quick with a definite opinion.</p><p>For example, ask him about the play of Big Al Dewsbury, the ex-Chicago defenseman who joined the Herd this season.</p><p>&ldquo;Big Dews is a key man for us. Not only are we counting on him making use of his size on defense but I think he&rsquo;ll be the best scoring defenseman Buffalo has had since Roger Leger.&rdquo;</p><p>Dewsbury, like Leger who blistered opposing nets for 22 goals as a Bison back in 1945-46, can really rifle a puck from the point.</p><p>&ldquo;Al will be used on our power play whenever he&rsquo;s available because he not only blasts the black disc but he&rsquo;s good at moving it around until a good shot can be taken.</p><p>&ldquo;I look for him to be a 20-goal scorer and he may even break Rolly McLenahan&rsquo;s league record of 25 goals for a defenseman.&rdquo;</p><p>Dewsbury looked like a good bet to fulfill Eddolls&rsquo; prediction as he scored four goals and assisted on eight others for 12 points in Buffalo&rsquo;s initial 10 games. He failed to pick up at least one scoring point in only three games and never was held pointless two games in a row.</p><p>The same dark-haired, easy-going Dewsbury was once the pet target of Buffalo fails when he appeared in Memorial Auditorium in the uniform of the Indianapolis Caps.</p><p>All Big Al ever had to do was step on the ice and Jimmy Dray, an ardent fan who use to blast at players through a megaphone, would let go with&hellip;&ldquo;Here comes good old Gooseberry, the king of the clowns.&rdquo; The greeting generally served to stir Dewsbury up sufficiently that he played an out-l standing game.</p><p>Bob Blake, who toiled for Cleveland, Buffalo, Cincinnati and New Haven in an AHL career which spanned more than a decade, always insisted that Dewsbury was the best defenseman he saw in the league during that time.</p><p>&ldquo;Dewsbury has all the physical assets, speed, size, shooting ability, and strength,&rdquo; Blake sair repeatedly. &ldquo;And he&rsquo;s the type player fans like to see. He put life into the game when he&rsquo;s roaming the ice.&rdquo;</p><p>Buffalo General Manager Fred Hunt was aware of Dewsbury&rsquo;s crowd appeal along time ago and has waiting for a chance to secure him for two years.</p><p>He made a vain attempt to get him from Chicago before Dewsbury figured in a deal between the Chicago Black Hawks and Montreal Canadiens last fall.</p><p>No one, with the possible exception of Dewsbury him self, was more pleased when Chicago regained his contract in another deal last summer and assigned him to the Buffalo roster.</p><p>Playing in Buffalo, Dewsbury is close to his Toronto home, a factor that players feel is very important once they&rsquo;re playing outside the NHL orbit.</p><p>And, from the looks of things, 29&ndash;year-old &ldquo;Big Dews&rdquo; will be a welcome winter time Buffalo resident for several seasons to come.</p><h2>Key Man</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02240/1431953-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="589" height="571"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AL DEWSBURY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Pittsburgh Team To Beat; Bisons Hope To Do It

<div class="byline">Geoffrey Fisher.</div><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>oh Bailey, hospitalized at Huron Road Hospital in Cleveland as a result of the Cleveland-Pittsburgh brawl of Oct. 27, is reported out for an indefinite period with a shoulder dislocation. Bailey, one-time Barons&rsquo; forward, engaged in a fight with the Barons rookie, Ed MacQueen.</p><p>At the same time, it was reported that Ray Gariepy, Hornet defenseman, was shipped home with torn muscles in the leg.</p><p>But not all the news was bad for Pittsburgh. Their great little goalie, Gil (The Needle) Mayer, was honored before the Oct. 27th game with the Harry Holmes Memorial Trophy.</p><p>It was presented by Al (Red Tie) Sutphin, sponsor of the award and former owner of the Barons. It was the third time Mayer has won the award as the league&rsquo;s outstanding goaltender.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hornets Lose Bailey As Result Of Fight

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01281/1432078-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TRAILING</b> twin streams of powdered ice behind him, Jim-Bartlett scores Province Reds first goal in the first period of the game between Springfield Indians at Rhode Island Auditorium Sunday, October 25. Gordie Bell is the net-minder, while Brent McNab coasts in on the play.</figcaption></div><h2>Three-Goal Man</h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>H</span>arry Pidhirny of Springfield Indians believes in taking advantages when they crop up. They cropped up with a vengeance Wednesday. Nov. 2 at Hershey when the Bears bowed, 9-2. Harry chipped in with three goals and earned one assist.</b></p><h2>Family Resemblance</h2><p><b>Young Pete Conacher released from his suspension by the New York Rangers of the NHL, scored one goal and assisted in two others as Buffalo beat Hershey 5-3 Saturday, November 5.</b></p><h2>Is Bartlett Jet-Propelled?</h2><h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><h3>STANDING ON WED. A.M. NOV, 9</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02217/1432071-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="602" height="198"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2 Springfield 9 at Hershey 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03176/1432064-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="612" height="768"></div><h3>Providence 3 at Buffalo 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04132/1432057-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="618" height="667"></div><h3>SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5, Buffalo 5 at Hershey 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0597/1432050-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="602" height="528"></div><h3>Springfield 2 at Pittsburgh 8</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0678/1432043-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="606" height="744"></div><h3>Providence 7 at Cleveland 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0767/1432036-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="604" height="1146"></div><h3>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Hershey 2 at Buffalo 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0944/1432029-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="610" height="632"></div><h3>Pittsburgh 1 at Providence 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1040/1432022-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="604" height="610"></div><h3>Cleveland 2 at Springfield 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1136/1432015-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="606" height="851"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><p>(Including Games of Sunday, Nov, 6)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0856/1432008-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="610" height="686"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p><b>Most Goals</b>&mdash;Z. Toppazzini, Prov., 14.</p><p><b>Most Assists</b>&mdash;Paul Larivee, Prov. 17.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Club</b>&mdash;Cleveland, 58 mts.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Club</b>&mdash;Cleveland, 275 mts.</p><p><b>Best Goalie</b>&mdash;Hank Bassen, Buffalo, 13, 86, 0, 2.77.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b>&mdash;Johnny Boner, Prov., 10.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By GEORGE DUFFY</div><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>October 30th, 1955 has been marked down as one of the memorable dates in the 30 years of professional hockey played by the Rhode Island Reds of the American League.</p><p>On this date, Muzz Patrick and Lynn Patrick both found themselves &ldquo;in the dark&rsquo;&rsquo; at a hockey game.</p><p>A casualty list rather than a summary was needed at the end of the evening as Ed Kryzanowski and Stan Bartlett of the Hershey Bears plus Jimmy Bartlett and Bruce Cline of the Reds were injured.</p><p>But that&rsquo;s only part of the stary. A crowd of 5,217&mdash;the largest in Providence in five years&mdash;showed up to see the first-place Reds in action.</p><p>Save for an early goal by Kenny Smith, and ex-Red himself, Coach Jack Crawrod&rsquo;s team held the edge most of the way and eventually eked out a 5-4 win.</p><p>Along the way, Kryzanowski fell to the ice and cracked his face against a stick and wound up losing two teeth. He needed seven stiches to sew up a jagged lip cut, This occurred in the first period.</p><p>Bartlett, rapidly becoming the darling of the Rhode Island Reds because of his rough and tough manner of play, banged into the boards in the second period and lay unconscious on the ice. It was at first believed Jimmy had broken his neck but he was revived and later came back to play. In fact, he got in a first fight with Don Cherry of the Bears and it had the crowd whooping.</p><h2>Wounds Galore</h2><p>Parker&rsquo;s nose was smashed when he got hit with a stick and Cline got a scalp wound in the game which was rougher than a Saturday night brawl in a waterfront pub. All told 2 7 penalties were called by Lou Maschio, the new arbiter.</p><p>Of course there was something else. It was 25 minutes after 10 and the Hershey Bears were on the attack when all at once every light in R.I. Auditorium went out. The place got as black as a mountain cave and then thousands of little &ldquo;lights&rdquo; could be seen as the big crowd puffed on cigarettes. It helped alleviate the blackness.</p><p>Johnny Bower, sensational Providence goalie, reacted quickly to the situation. When the last beam of light had gone from the rink, Johnny remembered that several Bears were coming at him. So he up and left his cage and ran behind it and sat in the eerie darkness.</p><p>Up in the press box, Muzz Patrick said &ldquo;The Reds are going so hot they have blown a fuse.&rdquo; Lynn sat in another section of the arena and he wondered &ldquo;Can this game get any wilder.&rdquo; Phil Watson, Ranger coach, was in the press box too. &ldquo;How am I supposed to watch our Ranger property now. Reardon has put the lights out.&rdquo;</p><h2>Protests Innocence</h2><p>But Terry Reardon, general manager of the Reds, insisted that he did not douse the lights. &ldquo;Sure those players who belong to the Rangers have looked good but I would not go so far as to put out the lights so Phil could not see them.&rdquo;</p><p>Where was Lou Pieri all this time? Well the game itself got to be too much for Lou even before the lights went out. So when things went dark, Lou was sitting in his office among his hundreds of nick-nack Roosters and pictures of famous people. &ldquo;First time the lights went out in 30 years&rdquo;, proclaimed the rabid Providence owner.</p><p>The reason for the light failure? The Narrangansett Electric Co. which is the power company said that its feeder line to R.I. Auditorium went out of operation, pitching the rink into scarey blackness.</p><p>It was a wild night no doubt. Johnny Gagnon, Chief scout of the R.I. Reds who got trapped during the blackouts high up in the radio booth, capped the evening with &ldquo;From now on, I&rsquo;ll bring a flashlight.&rdquo;</p><p>Oddly enough, the light failure did not produce a single casualty. In fact, officials everywhere marvelled as the wonderful manner in which the large crowd conducted itself. The only incident of note was an excited person calling the Providence Police and reporting &ldquo;There is a riot at R.I. Auditorium. The lights have been blown out.&rdquo; But there was no riot, unless Johnny Bower had one with twines hurrying to his hiding place behind the cage.</p><p>All told the lights were out 32 minutes but after the first five, the Arena&rsquo;s emergency power unit supplied enough light to erase the darkness although it was not enough to play a hockey game.</p><h2>They Were&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01289/1432116-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="514" height="836"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MUZZ PATRICK</b></figcaption></div><h2>&hellip;In The Dark</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02250/1432109-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="560" height="896"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LYNN PATRICK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Who Blew The Fuse? Total Darkness Cast Over Bloody Brawl

<div class="byline">Ray GUAY.</div><p>CALGARY, A Alta.&mdash;</p><p>Titles such as &ldquo;The Flying Policeman&rdquo; or &ldquo;The Flying Defenceman&rdquo; could be tagged on Big Art Michaluk this season. Big Art&rsquo;s return plugged what Frank Currie termed a big hole in his defensive setup.</p><p>The fans loved every minute of Art&rsquo;s play, they gave him many ovations and there was good cause for it. Art was tremendous in his first game this season.</p><p>Everyone, except Currie, had given up hope that Michaluk would return to action. Big Art started a new career as a Calgary policeman at the conclusion of the last hockey season and his hockey playing will not prevent him from carrying on with his duties.</p><p>In fact, Art is going to be a &ldquo;night owl&rdquo;, working the graveyard shift until at least the end of the hockey season. It&rsquo;s the only way that Art could play hockey and keep his job. Currie worked on a plan whereby Art would be taking his two days off a week when the club is playing, out-of-town or at the Corral. Art will not miss a day&rsquo;s work but the airlines are going to be busy shifting him around. Art will miss only eight of the remaining games and 10 times he will take his regular turn at the Stampeder blue line in the Corral and leave the game on time to report to the police station for night duty at 10.45 p.m.</p><p>Currie has not revealed what he will do when Art is unable to play, but he did hint that he probably would bring up rookies for three-game trials at those times.</p><p>An example of Art&rsquo;s schedule was the Saturday night game in Regina. Art worked his regular shift Friday night, hopped on a plane for Regina early in the morning and played the game. Saturday night was Art&rsquo;s night off and so returned to Calgary with the club Sunday, on time to take his beat Sunday night.</p><p>Stampeders have luck in their first coast trip. The first two games are at end of the week. Art will be flying out to Vancouver the morning of the first game and return immediately after the second to patrol his city beat. He will return to the coast two days later to participate in the last two games of the swing and again fly back. And so it goes most of the season.</p><p>As Currie stated, big Art will have time for nothing more than work, play hockey, sleep and eat&mdash;and catch planes. Currie thinks it&rsquo;s worth it, Michaluk was tickled pink at the opportunity, the fans love it and the opposition is bound to hate the solid body checks which Art will dish out.</p><p>This plan was worked out because the Police Commission did not feel it could give Art leave of absence without breaking its own regulations. Incidentally, Police Chief Larry Partridge thinks Art is one of the best rookie policemen ever to join the force.</p><p>The &ldquo;kick upstairs&rdquo; of Gus Kyle, who&rsquo;s played hockey all the way from the Maritimes, to the west (twice) and the NHL has more meaning than some people may want to Credit. How much scouting Gus will do is hard to say at present, but it&rsquo;s a safe bet his work in the Calgary Hockey Commission setup as the junior and other minor hockey will be important. Gus can also be trusted with a public relations assignment.</p><p>Rock Crawford missed the Thursday game. He got a stick in the mouth against Winnipeg. His tongue was plit for eight stitches by Bill Burega. He has been usable to eat solid food since.</p><p>Five home games for a total of 20,361 fans as the result of Thursday&rsquo;s crowd of 3,991 an average of 4,072 per game.</p><h2>Hockey Cop</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03224/1432147-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="568" height="554"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ART MICHALUK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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ArtCombines Police Work, Hockey, Too

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01289/1432328-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EMILE FRANCIS</b></figcaption></div><h2>Sinbin Specials</h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>ill Burega of Winnipeg took over the &lsquo;bad man&rsquo; honors the past week and now has a total of 28 minutes in the &lsquo;cooler&rsquo;. Two Victoria players. Floyd Hillman and Bill Dobbyn are a close second with 27 minutes each against them.</b></p><h2>Francis Out Front</h2><p><b>Emile Francis of Saskatoon took over first place in goals against average for the goalkeepers with 2.62 per game followed by Charlie Hodge of Seattle with 2.77. Lucien Dechene of Regina turned in his second shut out of the season.</b></p><h2>Cat On Hot Ice</h2><h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><p>STANDING ON MON., A.M. OCT. 31</p><h3>Prairie Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02219/1432321-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="602" height="168"></div><h3>Coast Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03161/1432314-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="608" height="144"></div><h3>RESULTS</h3><p><b>Monday October 24</b></p><p>Regina 4 at Edmonton 0</p><p><b>Tuesday October 25</b></p><p>Winnipeg 2 at Vancouver 4</p><p>Edmonton 3 at Regina 5</p><p><b>Wednesday, Oct. 26</b></p><p>Winnipeg 1 at Seattle 5</p><p><b>Thursday October 27</b></p><p>Saskatoon 5 at Calgary 4</p><p><b>Friday October 28</b></p><p>Winnipeg 0 at Victoria 3</p><p>New West. 2 at Vancouver 5</p><p>Saskatoon 1 at Edmonton 2</p><p><b>Saturday October 29</b></p><p>Victoria 2 at Seattle 5</p><p>Winnipeg 4 at New West. 2</p><p>Edmonton 1 at Saskatoon 5</p><p>Calgary 8 at Regina 1</p><h3>MONDAY. OCT. 24 Regina 4 at Edmonton 0</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04135/1432307-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="608" height="452"></div><h3>TUESDAY, OCT. 25 Winnipeg 2 at Vancouver 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05113/1432300-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="622" height="512"></div><h3>Edmonton 3 at Regina 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0695/1432293-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="604" height="646"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26 Winnipeg 1 at Seattle 5</h3><p><b>SEATTLE:</b> Goal: Hodge; defense: Bownass, Lavitt, Bedard, Busch, Sinclair; forwards: O. Dorohoy, E. Doro-hoy, Kuzma, Bell, Filion, Bradley, Fon-teyne, Fielder, Watson.</p><p><b>WINNIPEG:</b> Goal: Chadwick; defense: Burega, Shero, Keating, Summers; forwards: Barry Cullen, Brian Cullen, Barlow, Mazur, Masnick, Blaine, Nykoluk, Aldcorn, Mosienko, Burchell.</p><p>Referee: Blair Peters.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0775/1432286-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="610" height="568"></div><h3>THURSDAY, OCT. 27 Saskatoon 5 at Calgary 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0863/1432279-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="603" height="718"></div><h3>FRIDAY, OCT. 28 Winnipeg 0 at Victoria 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1238/1432272-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="610" height="364"></div><h3>New Westminster 2 at Vancouver 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1332/1432265-1-eng-US/f0014-132.jpg" title="f0014-13" width="608" height="522"></div><h3>Saskatoon 1 at Edmonton 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1521/1432258-1-eng-US/f0014-152.jpg" title="f0014-15" width="613" height="466"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29 Winnipeg 4, Westminster 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1618/1432251-1-eng-US/f0014-162.jpg" title="f0014-16" width="611" height="479"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1718/1432244-1-eng-US/f0014-172.jpg" title="f0014-17" width="608" height="611"></div><h3>Saskatoon 5 at Edmonton 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1818/1432237-1-eng-US/f0014-182.jpg" title="f0014-18" width="612" height="491"></div><h3>Seattle 5, Victoria 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1916/1432230-1-eng-US/f0014-192.jpg" title="f0014-19" width="636" height="516"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><p>(INCLUDING GAMES OF SAT. (OCT. 29)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0957/1432223-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="610" height="1168"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1051/1432216-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="604" height="320"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p><b>Most Goals&mdash;</b>Colin Kilburn, Vic. 9</p><p><b>Most Assists&mdash;</b>Blinky Boyce, N.W 13</p><p><b>Most Game Winning Goals&mdash;</b>Bill Wylie, Vancouver 3</p><p><b>Most First Goal of Game&mdash;</b>Carl Kaiser. Vancouver 3</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks&mdash;</b>Steve Witiuk, Cal.; Eddie Stankiewicz, Edm.; Ray Kinasewich, Edm.; Doug. Macauley, Vic 1</p><p><b>Most Shutouts&mdash;</b>Lucien Dechene, Reg 2</p><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1144/1432209-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="604" height="266"></div><h2>Hodge On The Dodge</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1423/1432202-1-eng-US/f0014-142.jpg" title="f0014-14" width="1192" height="1417"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CHARLIE HODGE</b></figcaption></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/f0015-01260/1432359-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="302" height="324"></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>It was a boy for the McNeils recently, and oh, boy! what a game Gerry turned in here Tuesday, Nov. 3 against the Cataracts.</p><p>Royals boarded their bus outside the Montreal Forum at four o&rsquo;clock in the afternoon. They arrived at the local arena about seven. Gerry phoned home and learned that a bouncing eightpound son had arrived at 5 p.m. at Catherine Booth Hospital. Montreal, mother and boy both doing well. The McNeils now have two boys and a girl. Gerry promised to have the cigars handy Sunday when Royals played Trois-Rivieres at the Forum.</p><p><b>Gerry then took his stand in the cage and what a whale of a game he turned in, as his mates sped for a 2-0 win over the Cats, who were a bunch of blue tabbies when the final siren shrilled. It was their third straight setback.</b></p><p>With four straight wins at their back and at the back of those, the Royals are now unbeaten in their last five outings. They have two games in hand over the Cats, who must tackle the Sagueneens in Chicoutimi their next time out, while Royals take on the last place Trois-Rivieres outfit here, this should be a spot for them to fatten up their point totals.</p><p>Len Thomson, with the local outfit last year, flew to Montreal from Winnipeg Tuesday morning, then made the last legs of the trip to the Falls with Royals in their bus. He has been returned to the Cataracts by the Winnipeg Warriors. Roger Leger plans to use him on the wing lanes since it seems to be accepted that Claude Provost is up with the NHL Canadiens for keeps.</p><p>Fanning with Thomson it was learned that Skippy Burchell is turning in a satisfactory chore with the Warriors. Gary Blaine was hotter than a smoking pistol, but has missed a few games due to injuries. Paul Masnick and Eddie Mazur have been getting lots of work. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve been doing just about everything including killing penalties,&rdquo; Thomson said.</p><p>&ldquo;They should be good at that,&rdquo; cracked Ken Reardon, &ldquo;that&rsquo;s about all they did for the past couple of years with Canadiens and Royals.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Congratulations are due Ken Reardon, GM of the Shawini-Hockey Club, for the new press box he has installed in the arena. It&rsquo;s a commodious gallery at one end of the rink, with a substantial built-in desk lay-out where the working stiffs can unlimber their typewriters and peck away at their deathless prose.</b></p><p>Claude Dolbec, who played tor the Royals a few years back, was later with the Cataracts after a brilliant tour as a junior, was among those present to greet the visiting scribes. He is now doing well in insurance and incidentally his bosses are Johnny Allan who played goals for MAAA teams back in the 2O&rsquo;s,.and Geoff Had-rill an old army pal of ours in one of those wars.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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SIDELIGHTS

<div class="byline">BY AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>If Montreal Royals&rsquo; weren&rsquo;t perched on top of the Quebec Hockey League standing following their invasion of Shawinigan Falls last week, the recount of the club&rsquo;s casualties since the season started would sound like an alibi.</p><p>Despite a list of injuries that would make it appear Elmer Lach&rsquo;s squad had tangled with a riot squad, they managed to grace the summit for the first time since an early rush in the 1954-55 campaign, which was soon checked by the Shawinigan Cataracts When Roger Leger marshalled his men for a drive to the league title and then went on to claim the Edinburgh Trophy in that stirring east-west series with Edmonton Flyers.</p><p>Jim &ldquo;Bud&rdquo; Macl&rsquo;herson, the hardy Edmonton weider, who was turned over to the Royals in mid-October by the NHL Canadians was the latest to take the sidelines, his next destination the hospital operating room.</p><p>MacPherson was shipped to the Montreal QHL club by Toe Blake with the idea that the tall defenseman (6&rsquo;3&rsquo;) would skate himself into top form. The rugged, hustling competition offered in the Quebec circuit would toughen him for full scale duty through a rigorous NHL campaign.</p><p>It was a nice idea, and it seemed to be working as planned when Big Mac began to throw his weight around, was a doughty redoubt on Royals back division, played with distinction in several contests and in a game at Quebec when Royals handed the Aces an 8-5 trouncing, claimed three assists, and stardom.</p><p>Then MacPherson ruefully reported that his right knee was swelling again and giving him trouble. This was the same knee which had undergone skilled and expensive surgery last season. Mac reported to early fall training confident his knee was as good as new.</p><p>When he received a bump on same it troubled him again. Rest was ordered, the spring came back into his leg. He began to skate, and next his detour to Royals.</p><p>Now his medical advisors have ordered his re-entry to hospital. His knee is to re-opened for exploration.</p><p>While there&rsquo;s wishful thinking that he might be back in the active ranks in two or three weeks, manager Frank Carlin said it was his considered opinion that. MacPherson more likely would be absent six to eight weeks.</p><p>Royals were hit by the injury jinx in the QHL curtain-raiser against Quebec Aces in Montreal, Oct. 9, when Kelly Burnett&rsquo;s nose was smashed all over his face. Burnett was out for nearly two weeks.</p><p>Next Phil Goyette one of the young hopefuls from Cincinnati Mohaws suffered a severe charleyhorse that shelved him for two weeks.</p><p>At a game in Shawinigan Falls the second week of the season Lulu Denis got a jolt which hurt him somewhat and a day or so later Denis was put out of action with a badly bruised spine, received in a spill during practice</p><p>In the game October 20 Denis Boucher, another of the boys brought to Montreal from Cincinnati crashed and came up with a shattered clavicle.</p><p>By this time Goyette was available for the starting line-up, with Boucher gone ofr four to six weeks Elmer Lach&rsquo;s notion of testing the boys from the &ldquo;Mohawk Trail&rdquo; as a forward line had to be postponed again.</p><p>Meantime Barry Thorndycraft, third member of the Cincinnati delegation is drawing raves from all appraisers in Habitants organization.</p><p>He&rsquo;s the best looking left winger we&rsquo;ve had come fresh into our bailiwick in years says Frank Carlin.</p><p>By &ldquo;fresh&rdquo; Royals&rsquo; manager means that Thorndycraft is brand new, the inference being that most of the other prospects who have enfiltered the ranks the QHL Royals and the NHL Canadiens in recent years have come up from clubs close to home, the junior Canadiens. the Quebec Frontenacs, or clubs in the Quebec pro circuit, all of them watched through various stages of development by Canadiens high and low brass.</p><p>Now, a can&rsquo;t miss label has been plastered on &ldquo;Thorny&rdquo; as this Winnipeg boy is known to his mates, though team trainer Andy Galley will have none of such namby pamby. Rotund Andy insists on calling him &ldquo;Thunderbolt&rdquo;.</p><h2>Draws Raves</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02225/1432397-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="592" height="1518"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BARRY THORNDYCRAFT</b></figcaption></div><h2>Knee Trouble</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03204/1432390-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="592" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BUD MacPHERSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0015-02

Loop Leading Royals Don’t Need Alibis, Set Hot Pace Despite Walking Wounded

<div class="byline">PARSLEY</div><p>TROIS-RIVIERES, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Jean Paul Lamirande, who has been shouldering a terrific burden to keep the Lions in contention in the Quebec Hockey League, was cheered during the past week when his boss Francois Hetu came up with reinforcements.</p><p>While Lamirande has been doing all anyone could ask in his role of playing coach, it has been a great struggle for the new entry in the Slater circuit. While trailing in last place, common sense directed that the Lions&rsquo; immediate objective should be to prevent the four teams above them in the-standing from getting beyond reach, until added strength in the playing ranks arrives.</p><p>It was noted that after 10 games were played, the skipper, Lamirande, with three goals and three assists for six points was the only member of the squad to figure among the first 20 on the official scoring release sent out by league statistician Doug Harney.</p><p>Though new to the executive ranks of professional hockey, Hetu has made hard work and unrelenting zeal atone for lack of connections. He has been burning up the wires coast to coast at prodigal outlay in telephone and telegraph tolls seeking material.</p><p>That his efforts were not in vain was proved when he reported that three new players were on the way.</p><p>Ed Zeniuk 23&ndash;year-old defenseman, born in Landis, Sask. was eastward bound from Edmonton Flyers. Quebec League fans had a short acquaintance with Zeniuk when he appeared with the Flyers, who Bud Poile brought east last spring to play Shawinigan Cataracts in the East-west series for the Edinburgh Trophy.</p><p>Hetu&rsquo;s other two acquisitions were of an older stripe. He got Winnipeg born Bill Gooden, a 32&ndash;year-old left winger from Vancouver Canucks and at the same time brought in 37&ndash;year-old Larry Thibeault. Born in Charles-tone, Ont., October 2, 1918, Thibeault has traveled widely with his skates since he first joined pro ranks with Springfield Indians in 1938-39.</p><p>He&rsquo;s no stranger to Quebec League customers. He played 39 games with Quebec Aces last season and has a goal and eight assists in the regular schedule in the records to show for &lsquo;it.</p><p>Hope that Vic Howe, 6&ndash;year-old brother of the more famous Gordie Howe would also report after being offered by Frank Boucher at Regina were squelched when Vic who played with Saskatoon and Vancouver last season in the Western League and was seen in the east briefly with Valleyfield Braves balked at the deal.</p><h2>Kept Busy</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04161/1432428-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="556" height="714"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANCOIS HETU</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0015-04

Hetu Opens Fierce Campaign To Re-Inforce Lagging Lions

<h2>End of An Era</h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>S</span>hawinigan Falls Cataracts came to the end of an era on their home ice Thursday, Nov, 3, when they were blanked 2-0 by Montreal Royals. It was the first time such a disaster had occurred since the 1954-55 season.</b></p><h2>Royals Take Lead</h2><p><b>Elmer Lach&rsquo;s Montreal Royals took over the lead in the QHL on the night of Thursday. Nov. 3, for the first time, barring one brief period early in the season. They shut out Shawinigan 2-0, their fourth straight victory, and a mas-terpiece for goalie Gerry McNeil.</b></p><h2>Not Laching</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01255/1432522-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="592" height="856"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ELMER LACH</b></figcaption></div><h2>HOW THE RAGE GOES</h2><h3>STANDING ON TUES. A.M. NOV. 8</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02202/1432515-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="600" height="174"></div><h3>THURSDAY, November 3rd, 1955 Royals 2 at Shawinigan 0</h3><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal; McNeil; defense: Deslauriers, R. Rousseau, Clune, Ingram, Amadio: forwards: Corriveau, Thorndy-craft, G. Rousseau. Bvrnett, L. Denis, Gravelle, Laplante, Hoekstra, Goyette.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defense: Hodgson, Turner, Langlois, G. Bouchard, Leger; forwards: Broden, Faulkner,.&rsquo;Desaulniers, Wray, J.P. Denis, Grosse. Kachur, R. Bouchard.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03165/1432508-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="594" height="261"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Chicoutimi 3 at Trois-Rivieres 2</h3><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Paille; defense: Glaube, Taillefer, Roy, Labrosse; forwards:Cressman, Locas, Perreault, Smrke, Topoll, Hanna, Campeau, Hicks, Moore, Lalonde.</p><p><b>Trois-Rivieres</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette, defense: Wong, Goyette, Morgan, Lamirande; forwards; Kwong, Joannette, Scherza, Kapusta, Wall, Stoddard, Leclere</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04137/1432501-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="601" height="394"></div><h3>SATURDAY NOV. 5, 1955 Shawinigan 1 at Chicoutimi 4</h3><p><b>Shawinnigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault: defence, Hodgson, G. Bouchard, Langlois, Turner, Leger; forwards: Desaulniers, Wray, Provost, R. Bouchard, Kachur, Denis, Broden, Grosse, Faulkner, Dube, Thomson.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goals: Paille; defence: Glaude, Taillefer, Roy, Labrosse, Hanna; forwards: Cressman, Locas, F. Perreault, Smrke, Topoll, Campeau, Hicks, Moore, Lalonde.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0760/1432494-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="604" height="485"></div><h3>SUNDAY NOV. 6, 1955 Shawinigan 4 at Quebec 3</h3><p><b>Shawinigan Falls:</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Leger, G. Bouchard, Hodgson, Langlois, Turner; forwards: Desaulniers, R. Bouchard, Kachur, Denis, Broden, Grosse, Faulkner, Dube, Thomson.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defense: Le-vandoski, Ernst, Karrys; forwards: Power, Thibault, Fuchanan, Powell, Ford, Labadie, Tremblay, Achtymichuk, Cosette. Vinet.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0855/1432487-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="602" height="690"></div><h3>Trois-Rivi&egrave;res 2 at Montreal 8</h3><p><b>Three Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette: defense, Wong, M. Goyette, Morgan, Lamirande, Masneill; forwards: Kwong, Scherza, Kapusta, Wall, Stoddard, Leclerc, Powell, Bisaillon, Godden.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil: defense: R. Rousseau, Ingrain, Deslauriers, Amadio, Clune; forwards: Corriveau, Thorndy-craft, P. Goyette, G. Rousseau, Burnett, Denis, Gravelle, Laplante, Hoekstra.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1133/1432480-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="608" height="760"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><h3>Including Games of Sun, Nov, 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0594/1432473-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="604" height="572"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0670/1432466-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="602" height="265"></div><h2>Hotshot Goalie</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0944/1432459-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="1202" height="1158"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY McNEIL</b></figcaption></div><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>

f0016-01

QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>S</span>URPRISE VISIT&hellip;</b>The Governor General of Canada, Vincent Massey, received a rousing ovation (just as though he engineered a hat-trick) when he appeared to help the wonderful North Bay fans officially open their spanking new and beautiful $700,000 Memorial Gardens&hellip;no one expected the distinguished Governor General to attend&hellip;but he signified his desire to play his part, if possible, and it was arranged at the last minute&hellip;His Excellency shook hands with the players of North Bay Trappers and Sudbury Wolves&hellip;it was all a spontaneous gesture and as Britt Jessup, well-known and popular newspaper executive of North Bay, told THE HOCKEY NEWS: &ldquo;It was a mighty fine gesture on the part of the Governor General, and he certainly made the official opening an even bigger success than we all had anticipated.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p><b>GOOD &lsquo;OLD ABNER!!!&hellip;</b>as Northern Ontario fans may have expected you could hardly keep Ab DeMarco out of the spotlight&hellip;it was 19 years ago that Ab made the first faceoff in the old rink at North Bay&hellip;and he was right back, older, wiser and mellower to do the same thing&hellip;Ab was 20 years old when he made that faceoff back in 1936, so that should settle the age-old controversy about how old the flashy North Bay-star is&hellip;the beautiful North Bay Memorial Gardens is an ideal community centre and will be used for dances, large gatherings, concerts, basketball, wrestling, and so on&hellip;so, fans, with North Bay all set and that $700,000 edifice finally underway, we join with you all in wishing Manager Howard Radford, formerly manager of Guelph Memorial Gardens, and the fine North Bay citizens bon voyage!&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01221/1432553-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="564" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AB DEMARCO</b></figcaption></div><p><b>ORPHANS MOVE&hellip;</b>Orono Orphans of the Lakeshore Hockey League at Cobourg, have decided to finish the two-year fight with Port Hope Redmen by leaving the Peter Campbell Memorial Arena in Port Hope for the season&hellip;Dane Found, team prexy, made the announcement&hellip;Orphans had been splitting home games with Port Hope&hellip;Orphans will now play in Port Perry. Johnny &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty has his Sudbury Wolves up there in first place in the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race&hellip;The Wolves, at this writing, have 13 points on six wins, one loss and one tie&hellip;just before getting this column prepared, Soo (Mich.) Indians defeated Soo (Ont.) Greyhounds, 3-2, in a thrilling and bruising game to take over second place with eight points&hellip;the Greyhounds have seven&hellip;Pembroke Lumber Kings have five and North Bay Trappers have three&hellip;the NOHA circuit shapes up as a ding-dong battle this season, and games played so far indicate it&rsquo;s anybody&rsquo;s race&hellip;Sudbury Wolves will be even stronger once they nab Kenny Watson, former Soo Greyhound&hellip;however, the &lsquo;Hounds want cash or some trade before they release Watson&hellip;the Wolves also want Tatter McClellan to return.</p><p><b>TWO STARS&hellip;</b>make nos mistake about it, fans. Johnny Gillis and Joe Zorica must be rated two one of the finest additions to NOHA senior hockey&hellip;they have lined up with Sudbury Wolves&hellip;keep you eye on the scoring parade from now on&hellip;bet Johnny and Joe will be up there&hellip;Nick Tomiuk has gained a point in seven consecutive games for the Wolves&hellip;Nick&rsquo;s on his way to another brilliant season&hellip;Blink Bellinger, one of the colorful Northern Ontario products who once played with the great Don &ldquo;The Count&rdquo; Grosso in Sudbury and Kirkland Lake during their Allan Cup heydey, has signed to coach Welland-Crowland Combines&hellip;it&rsquo;s a senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; squad and ends speculation where Blink would settle&hellip;he was in the Pacific Coast Hockey League at one time&hellip;he was a member of the Kirkland Lake Blue Devils when they captured the Allan Cup in 1940&hellip;</p><p><b>ODD TWIST&hellip;</b>in hockey you never know with whom and where you&rsquo;re going to land&hellip;back in 194 6 Harry Taylor, Laurie May and George Robertson played with Winnipeg Monarchs when they engineerer that stunning upset in the Memorial Cup finals&hellip;Harry and George are now with the Sault St. Marie Greyhounds, while Laurie is a standout performer with the Sault St. Marie Indians&hellip;another trio that played for a single team is composed of Bob Maxwell, Jack Higgings and Donnie McLean&hellip;they starred for St. Catharines Teepees when they won the Memorial Cup in 1954&hellip;right now Bob and Donnie, along with Jack are starring in the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; division&hellip;the Red Barrette story has another chapter&hellip;St. John&rsquo;s Beavers have his card from Sudbury Wolves, but the Sault Ste. Marie Indians want him&hellip;since Ronnie Rubic is under suspension by the Indians, the Braves fell they can nab Barrett for Rubic&rsquo;s release&hellip;wanna bet it doesn&rsquo;t happen?</p><p><b>JULIAN WHERE ART THOU?&hellip;</b>Julian Klynkiw is having a rough time&hellip;he just lost out in his bid to make the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, then missed a spot with North Bay Trappers after a somewhat &ldquo;quickie&rdquo; tryout&hellip;he was offered a job directing and coaching minor hockey in Marquette, Mich., but he felt he wanted to try his luck elswhere&hellip;that&rsquo;s where the story ends&hellip;Wouldn&rsquo;t you know it&hellip;Marcel Clement landed a spot with Sudbury Wolves this season&hellip;. he returned to haunt his former team, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, by firing the winning goal in a terrific contest&hellip;what matters worse for Greyhound followers was the fact that Coach Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty also came back to haunt the Greyhounds, since he led the &lsquo;Hounds the last two seasons&hellip;but Sugar Jim Henry, immensely-popular coach of the Greyhounds this season, isn&rsquo;t the type of fellow to take this sitting down&hellip;as one fan said: &ldquo;Give Sugar a few weeks and he will have the Greyhounds flying.&rdquo; Then, on the other hand, Sudbury appears to have a brand new lease on life comparedto last year&hellip;some of the Wolves were really taking it nice and cozy last year&hellip;but, Caramba Comes The Revolution&hellip;</p><p><b>RHEAL IS REAL&hellip;</b>Rheal Savard is going like a house afire for Pembroke Lumber Kings&hellip;he&rsquo;s up high in scoring in senior hockey and appears headed for his finest season&hellip;Pembroke ran into unusually tough luck and had to ask for a postponement of a game&hellip;the Kings had only seven able-bodied men dut to injuries&hellip;the other teams co-operated in order to give the Kings a chance to recuparate&hellip;dig this crowd in Sudbury: 6,666 that&rsquo;s good attendance for hockey in our Great Northland&hellip;South Ste. Marie, Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie Michigan, North, Bay and Pembroke are also getting good crowds&hellip;the action is a lot tigther this season and will lead t) good gates&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Although handicapped through an injury to right winger George Scholes, Kitchener Dutchmen top the &ldquo;Big Five&rdquo; senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA race, after two weeks of play, during which time they have won four of five games, two of them against the Owen Sound Mercurys&rsquo; and one each against Windsor Bulldogs and Chatham Maroons. The Dutchmen&rsquo;s lone reverse so far was a 6-2 defeat at the hands of the Stratford Indians.</p><p>But it is no walkover for the Dutchmen, because they only managed to beat Chatham 5-1 in overtime, and Owen Sound by 5-4 and 3-1 scores. Their lone game so far with Windsor was an easier jog, as they chalked up a 7-1 victory.</p><p>It would seem on performances to date that the Kitchener Dutchmen are essentially a wide-open hockey team, which plays the puck and does not engage in much bodily contact. In the game with the Indians at Stratford, the homesters checked the Canadian senior champions right in their own end and gave them few opportunities for organized attack. The Indians hounded the puck and used their weight considerably, which disrupted the Dutchmen&rsquo;s usually smooth offensive.</p><p>There should be little worry however, regarding their success at the Olympic Games world tournament at Cortina, Italy, in February, if an opinion is based on the type of hockey played in that competition. Body-checking is frowned upon when the world tourney is heli, and plays considered legal in Canada, such as boarding and taking the man out, are not permissible when meeting European teams.</p><h2>Down Their Alley</h2><p>This should be right down the Dutchmen&rsquo;s alley, because in free-skating and pattern playing they have shown enough to warrant the opinion that they will be worthy successors to Penticton V&rsquo;s, who brought the world title back to Canada last year.</p><p>Owen Sound Mercurys and Stratford Indians are the least revamped of the five OHA clubs, the former having added two players, while the latter have been operating with the same personnel as that which finished fourth in the final standing last season.</p><p>Windsor has added three junior graduates, while losing two players from last year to the pros, and do not appear to be greatly weakened. With the veteran former pro, Jimmy Peters succeeding Murph Chamberlain as playing-coach of the Bulldogs, and another veteran big. leaguer, George Gee back in action they must be rated as a potent force</p><p>In Chatham, the Maroons are an improved squad, and have the benefit of their new coach, Ott Heller, another former NHI&rsquo;er, who has assembled a squad which included three draftees from the defunct Niagara Falls Cataracts, plus a couple of graduates from junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; ranks, and Mike De-lich whom they secured from the Kitchener Dutchmen.</p><p>Stratford fans were somewhat disgruntled when &ldquo;butch&rdquo; Meier, president, manager, coach of the Indians failed to come up with any new faces. True, he had several recruits lined up, including Gus Bodnar,&rsquo;who retired from pro hockey this year and was interested in accepting the post of playing coach of the Indians. Meier also had a couple of Toronto Maple Leafs chattels in mind, provided they failed to make the grade in the moneyed ranks, but here too he was checkmated when the Leafs signed them for either their big team or their Pittsburgh farm club.</p><p>But on their showing to date the Indians have shown that they do not intend to be also-rans, and have come up with three wins in four starts, dropping their opening home game to Owen Sound 4-2, and then defeating the Bulldogs at Windsor, the Maroons at Chatham and Kitchener on Stratford ice.</p><p>Meier is still hopeful of landing reinforcements for the Stratford Indians, realizing that if he is to bring the Indians home on top he&rsquo;ll need additional punch on the forward line, and perhaps one more defensemen. Yet, the consensus of opinion around the circuit is that while Stratford has its old front line of &ldquo;Mickey&rdquo; Roth, Billy Flick and &ldquo;Dinny&rdquo; Flanagan intact the Indians will be a force to reckon with Statistics to date would serve to bear out that contention, because of the 19 goals tallied by the Indians in their first four games, this trio has accounted for seven of them, with Lou Bendo, another centre, registering four.</p><p>Don Head, understudy to the veteran Bruce Dale, regular goalie prior to this season, has donned the big pads for all four of the Indians&rsquo; games to date, and appears adequate. Head is protected by a veteran rearguard foursome of &ldquo;Apples&rdquo; Finkbeiner, Jhon Ashley, Art Hurst and Harry Psutka, three of whom saw considerable previous action in pro ranks.</p><h2>Prospect</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02187/1432584-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="564" height="998"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUS BODNAR</b></figcaption></div><div class="sidebar"><p><b>BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape are used and endorsed by the Toronto Argonaut Football Club.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Injuries Don’t Stop Dutchies From Topping OHA Senior Loop

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>FT. WAYNE, Ind.&mdash;</p><p>Don&rsquo;t let anyone try to tell you that the home team doesn&rsquo;t have a distinct advantage.</p><p>Take the case of the International Hockey League, for instance. After the first 22 games of the 1955-56 season had been played, it has been noted that the home club has won 82 per cent of the time.</p><p>Only four times in 22 contests has the visiting sextet come through, with Toledo-Marion, Troy, Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne each turning the trick once. Neither Cincinnati nor Grand Rapids could win on foreign ice in the early going.</p><p>Labeled in many quarters as the team to beat this year, Ft. Wayne has started to click after a slow start.</p><p>The Komets lost their first three contests, but since have reeled off four straight victories, two of them over three-time champion Cincinnati.</p><p>It&rsquo;s beginning to look more and more as though the Hoosiers have the Hawks&rsquo; &ldquo;number,&rdquo; based on scores of the past two seasons. In 1954-55, Cincinnati won the series, six games to five, with one tilt tied, and this year, Ft. Wayne already holds a 2-0 lead over Coach Roly McLenahan&rsquo;s youngsters.</p><p>Under the direction of a new coach, Doug McCaig, and reinforced by several experienced players, the Komets look a lot better than the outfit which finished in the IHL cellar last year.</p><p>McCaig, who took over at Ft. Wayne after serving as coach at Toledo for several years, is manning a defense post despite a bad knee. He&rsquo;s getting help on defense from two experienced holdovers. George Stanutz and Billy Short and a newcomer, Dean McBride from the Sault Ste. Marie Indians, who&rsquo;s also played a lot of hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got a new young goalie, Jim Mattson, who has looked pretty good,&rdquo; McCaig said. The 22&ndash;year-old Mattson, an Americanborn skater formerly played for Minnesota University. He replaced Les Binkley, who started the season tending goal for Ft. Wayne</p><h2>Heavily Bolstered</h2><p>Up front, the Hoosiers also are heavily bolstered with experienced players. These include three centers with professional backgrounds, Pete Wywrot, Hartley McLeod and Art Stone, and Wingers Eddie Long, Bill Richardson, Edgar Blondin, George Parker and Joe Kastelic.</p><p>Jacques Gagne, a 20&ndash;year-old wingman from the Quebec Frontenacs. is the only forward fresh out of junior hockey.</p><p>Parker, former Grand Rapids great, has been coaching in western Canada for the past few years, while all of the others but Gagne were with. Ft. Wayne a year ago. Wywrot, incidentally, had five assists one night when the Komets trimmed Cincinnati Mohawks.</p><p>McCaig definitely is hopeful that his team will land in the playoffs this season. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re making quite a few mistakes,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;but we&rsquo;re learning all the time. We started slowly but it looks like we&rsquo;re on the move now.&rdquo;</p><p><b>ICING THE PUCK&hellip;</b>The first two hat tricks of the season were recorded during the week, by Troy&rsquo;s Bobby Rawlyk in a 7-0 victory over Toledo-Marion, and by Toledo-Marion&rsquo;s Howie Glover, in a 5-2 conquest of Grand Rapids&hellip;Troy&rsquo;s Bill Tibbs went on a record-breaking shutout streak that included three straight&rsquo; blank jobs, two against Grand Rapids and one against Toledo-Marion. When Cincinnati finally ended Tibbs&rsquo; string at 3:28 of the first period, the flashy netminder had held the opposition scoreless for 184 minutes 34 seconds, surpassing by far the former mark of 154 minutes 33 seconds held by Gaetan Dessureault of the 1954-55 Hawks. Cincinnati went on to beat Troy, 3-1, and temporarily tie that club for first place. Oddly enough, Tibbs allowed only 13 goals in his first six contests, all of them registered by the Mohawks&hellip;Following a full weekend schedule of games, Troy stood all alone at the top of the heap with 10 points, while Cincinnati, Ft. Wayne and Toledo-Marion shared second with, eight points apiece. Grand Rapids had six points and Indianapolis, loser of five in a row, was last with four points.</p><h2>New Blood</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01228/1432615-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="603" height="597"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG MeCAIG</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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‘Homers’ Have Edge, IHL Clubs Fare Poorly On Road

<h2>STANDING ON MON, A.M., OCT. 31</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02153/1432646-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="612" height="192"></div><h2>RESULTS</h2><p><b>Oct. 26</b></p><p>Grand Rapids 5, Toledo-Marian 3</p><p><b>Oct. 27</b></p><p>Ft. Wayne 7, Cincinnati 4</p><p>Troy 7 Toledo-Marion 0</p><p><b>Oct. 29</b></p><p>Grand Rapids 5, Indianapotis 2</p><p>Cincinnati 3, Troy 1</p><p>Ft. Wayne 4. Toledo-Marlon 2</p><p><b>Oct. 30</b></p><p>Ft. Wayne 4, Cincinnati 3</p><p>Troy 3, Indianapolis 2</p><p>Toledo-Marion 5, Grand Rapids 2<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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EHL Statistics

<div class="byline">By DAWSON WINCHESTER</div><p>FREDERICTON, N.B.&mdash;</p><p>After a little over a week of action, which has seen all four teams in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League&mdash;Amherst, Fredericton, Moncton and Saint John&mdash;tangle with each other once at home and once &ldquo;on the road&rdquo;, the loop appears to&rsquo;be a fairly well-knit affair with no one squad showing too much superiority over the other in the won-lost department.</p><p>On top of the pack, at this writing, are the Lou Kiley-coached Amherst Ramblers and Steve Brk-lacich&rsquo;s Saint John Beavers who each show four wins as against two losses. What might be called the &ldquo;other half&rdquo; of the ACSHL finds the charges of Hughie Campbell and Bert Hirschfield, the Fredericton Caps and Moncton Hawks respectively, with a record of two wins and four losses each.</p><p>However, experience has proven that as yet it&rsquo;s much too early to make any forecasts as to the outcome of the final, or even midseason for that matter, standings. The players of all four squads have not yet rounded into shape and it&rsquo;s almost a matter of fact that some, if not all, outfits in the four team circuit will be looking for additional strength before the season progresses much, further. Anything can happen yet, and in these Maritime Provinces by-the-sea it most probably will!</p><p>ICED TID-BITS: The new season has brought forth what appears to be a &ldquo;new&rdquo; Lou Kiley who has lessened to a great extent his more boisterous tactics of the past&hellip;Walter &ldquo;Dipsey-Doodle&rdquo; Butler, who campaigned so well for the Saint John Beavers during the early part of the last decade, has donner the blades again, this time as a referee&hellip;Fredericton Caps reached way down deep in the furnace to pull one out of the fire recently when, trailing the Amherst Ramblers 73 early in the third period they tied up the issue on goals by Doug McPhee, Carrol Bloom, Timmy Bliss and Roy (Buck) Whitlook which set the stage for &ldquo;Bessie&rdquo; MacDonald to pump in the overtime goal that spelled defeat for the Ramblers&hellip;The same contest saw Pierre Brillant, late of the Providence Reds, notch four of the Amherst tallies in what might be described as a &ldquo;Brillant&rdquo; effort.</p><h2>He Got Clipped</h2><p>Beavers&rsquo; Nick Nicolle has solved the problem of the bothersome locks of hair which used to be forever getting in his eyes&mdash;yep, he got a crew-cut&hellip;Moncton&rsquo;s able cage-cop, Nick &ldquo;Old Poison&rdquo; Pid-sodny, still displaying the charm&rsquo; that has made him one of the most colorful, if unruly, twinetenders in hockey today&hellip;The Fredericton Caps have an &ldquo;I-Hit-The-Goalpost-Club&rdquo; which seems to pick up a new member or two every game&hellip;among the list of frustrated members can be seen the names of Bill McDonagh, Neill Sewell and &lsquo;&lsquo;Buck&rdquo; Whitlock to name three.</p><p>After an absence of one year Steve Brklacich&rsquo;s Beavers have brought hockey back to Saint John with a &ldquo;bang&rdquo;&hellip;Steve has slender Jim Shirley, with two shutouts to his credit in six games, as his able net custodian&hellip;Joltin&rsquo; Joe Lepine of the Caps, no slouch on the blueline, is also proving to be quite the &ldquo;clubhouse comedian&rdquo; and sure livens things up on those long, dull bus trips&hellip;Sammy McManus, for years one of the brightest lights in Maritime hockey circles and &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Whitlock who once teamed with Sam, had quite a time &ldquo;cutting up touches&rdquo; after a recent game at Moncton.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Atlantic Loop Tightly Knit

<p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>EW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The Eastern Amateur Hockey League season opened officially Nov. 1st, with the Philadelphia Ramblers defeating Baltimore 10-7. It marked the return of hockey to the City of Brotherly Love after a 5 year absence, and almost 3,600 were in attendance.</p><p>The following night all six clubs saw action, and New Haven, Clinton and Washington triumphed by identical scores of 8-6 over Philadelphia, Johnstown and Baltimore respectively.</p><p>John Sherban of the New Haven Blades turned the hat trick before an opening night crowd of over 3,200. The first of his goals was on a penalty shot, a rarity in itself.</p><p>Nick Rukavina, the league&rsquo;s smallest player at 5&rsquo;4&frac12; notched a brace of goals in each of Philadelphia&rsquo;s contests. Ivan Walmsley, on loan from Johnstown, has starred in the Rambler nets being called on to make over 40 saves in each contest.</p><p><b>EAHL NOTES:</b> Frank Toyota of the Washington Lions is the only player of Japanse descent in organized hockey&hellip;. Veteran Eastern League star Art Dorrington (Phila.) is the first member of his race to play with a hockey team in that city&hellip;Alf Lewsey, flashy Negro star with New Haven, was with Ayr (Scotland) last season&hellip;Bill MacPherson, Blades center, is a brother of Bud MacPherson of Montreal Canadiens&hellip;New Haven defense looks strongest in league with former pros Ron Telford and Coach Don Perry heading Blue Line corps&hellip;Murray Dodd, a former Detroit farm hand who played in Falkirk, Scotland in 1954-55, is guarding the twines&hellip;Al Fontana is the only American on the Philadelphia squad&hellip;Jack Guetens, former Middlebury (Conn.) Collega star, is starting the season in the Washington nets&hellip;The Lions have a veteran defense corps in Rick Albert, Dave Orvis, Dave Lucas and Ross Kelly&hellip;Don Perry of New Haven is only playing coach in league, but Stan Warecki (Wash.) and Chirp Brenchley (Phila.) may also return to action&hellip;Lloyd Ailsby, former N.Y. Rover mentor is handling the reins at Johnstown this season&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Ramblers Belt Baltimore To Celebrate Opener Of Eastern Amateurs

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0748/1432725-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg"></div><p><b>YES, HOCKEY FAN, THE 1955-56 SEASON IS HERE AT LAST</b></p><p>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.</p><p><b>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.</b></p><p><b>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.</b></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="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01207/1432756-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(Solution next week)</b></p><h2>ACROSS</h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured Red Wing player.</p><p>9&mdash;Nickname of Tulsa club with whom Gus Mortson once played.</p><p>10&mdash;Initials of Aurie, former Detroit star.</p><p>11&mdash;Initials of Witiuk, once a member of the Black Hawks.</p><p>12&mdash;First name of McMeekin, Cleveland&rsquo;s netminder.</p><p>13&mdash;Number of penalties Harry Watson had last season.</p><p>15&mdash;Mrs. Ted Kennedy was one before her marriage.</p><p>16&mdash;Club to whom the Maple Leafs sold Gordie Drillop. (abbr.)</p><p>17&mdash;NHL team with whom Hank Goldup first played, (abbr.)</p><p>18&mdash;Last season Bernie Geoffrion.&mdash;the league in scoring.</p><p>21&mdash;Butch Bouchard used to keep these (Sing.)</p><p>23&mdash;Another name for &ldquo;Tiger&rdquo; Gravelie, former Hab forward.</p><p>24&mdash;Second name of Price of Pittsburgh.</p><p>27&mdash;Selenium (Sym.)</p><p>28&mdash;Number of assists Bill Dineen pucked up last&rsquo; season.</p><p>29&mdash;First two letters of vermillion.</p><p>30&mdash;First name of Peters, WHL referee.</p><p>32&mdash;Andy Bathgate became one during the summer.</p><h2>DOWN</h2><p>1&mdash;Ont. birthplace of Bronco Horvath.</p><p>2&mdash;Terry Reardon lives in this State, (abbr.)</p><p>3&mdash;A coach in the WHL.</p><p>4&mdash;In coaching circles 3 down could be described as this.</p><p>5&mdash;Otherwise.</p><p>6&mdash;Initials of a Bruin forward.</p><p>7&mdash;Type of gin.</p><p>8&mdash;This ex NHL star wag once a Maple Leaf stick boy.</p><p>12&mdash;Initials of Dill, ex New York rearguard.</p><p>14&mdash;Initials of Atanas.</p><p>17&mdash;Edmonton won this in the WHL last season.</p><p>19&mdash;Ells English (abbr.)</p><p>20&mdash;Position played by Bucky Hollingworth.</p><p>22&mdash;Lorne Ferguson&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>25&mdash;Initials of Iverson, former Chicago coach.</p><p>26&mdash;South East (abbr.)</p><p>27&mdash;How Toronto disposed of Johnny McCormack.</p><p>29&mdash;Lynn of Saskatoon Quakers is called this.</p><p>30&mdash;Exists.</p><p>31&mdash;Condition Gordie Howe is usually in.</p><h2>Solution from last week</h2><h3>Across</h3><p>1&mdash;Leswick</p><p>6&mdash;Oily</p><p>8&mdash;Crawford</p><p>10&mdash;R.M.</p><p>11&mdash;K.K. Lake</p><p>13&mdash;E.H.</p><p>15&mdash;Lou</p><p>16&mdash;Nov.</p><p>18&mdash;G.I.</p><p>19&mdash;E.C.</p><p>20&mdash;D.A.</p><p>23&mdash;Leg</p><p>25&mdash;Blake</p><p>2 7&mdash;Norm</p><p>30&mdash;L.K.</p><p>31&mdash;Reise</p><p>33&mdash;Err</p><p>35&mdash;Ira</p><p>36&mdash;AH.</p><p>37&mdash;Hy.</p><h3>Down</h3><p>1&mdash;&rsquo;Lucien</p><p>2&mdash;Star</p><p>3&mdash;Cook</p><p>4&mdash;Kirkland</p><p>5&mdash;D.Y.</p><p>7&mdash;L.D.</p><p>9&mdash;W.M.</p><p>12&mdash;Duff</p><p>14&mdash;Howe</p><p>17&mdash;Victoria</p><p>21&mdash;A.E.K.</p><p>22&mdash;Henri</p><p>24&mdash;Gerry</p><p>26&mdash;L.L.</p><p>28&mdash;Oer</p><p>29&mdash;M.S.</p><p>32&mdash;Ea.</p><p>34&mdash;R.H.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

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<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0168/1432839-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="240" height="276"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0267/1432832-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="252" height="296"></div><h2>The Defense Never Rests In The NHL</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0365/1432825-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2897" height="1732"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0452/1432818-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2907" height="1626"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DEFENSEMEN</b> in the National Hockey League are often the victims of unfair criticism. They&rsquo;re branded as demons whose sole ambition in life, is to decapitate some poor innocent forward. They ve also got a job to do. In the top picture, Canadiens&rsquo; Tom Johnson makes a supreme effort to prevent Chicago&rsquo;s Glen Skov from whacking a rebound past Jacques Plante. In the lower photo, the Rangers&rsquo; &lsquo;&lsquo;angel-boy&rdquo; Leapin&rsquo; Lou Fontinato applies a tender body-check to Toronto&rsquo;s Dick Duff (No. II) who seems more intent on pushing Gump Worsley into the goal than the puck.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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