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November 19, 1955

The Hockey News November 19, 1955

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<h2><b>Double Rarity</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>W</span>hen Terry Sawchuk of the Bruins and Glen Hall of Detroit posted double shutouts on November 13 it marked the second time this year that they have performed the feat against each other. They came up with a double zero in Detroit on October 22.</b></p><h2><b>Second Straight</b></h2><p><b>Jacques Plante, Canadiens&rsquo; goalie, posted two straight shutouts for the second time this season when he blanked the Black Hawks, 2-0 on November 13. The previous night he whitewashed Detroit, 3-0. He did it before, scoring shutouts on October 6 and 8.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON WED. A.M., NOV. 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02226/1437450-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="601" height="182"></div><h3><b>RESULT OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK EN GING NOVEMBER 13th 1955</b></h3><p>Wed. Nov. 9th&mdash;Canadiens 1 at Rangers 1</p><p>Thurs. Nov. l0th&mdash;Rangers 1 at Boston 5</p><p>Thurs. Nov. l0th&mdash;Chicago 2 at Detroit 2</p><p>Fri. Nov. 11th&mdash;Toronto 0 at Chicago 2</p><p>Sat. Nov. 12th&mdash;Detroit 0 at Canadiens 3</p><p>Sat. Nov. 12th&mdash;Boston 3 at Toronto 2</p><p>Sun. Nov. 13th&mdash;Canadiens 2 at Chicago 0</p><p>Sun. Nov. 13th&mdash;Toronto 1 at Rangers</p><p>Sun. Nov. 13-th&mdash;Detroit 0 at Boston 0</p><h3><b>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK ENOING NOVEMBEK 20th 1955</b></h3><p>Wed. Nov. 16th&mdash;Canadiens at Toronto</p><p>Wed. Nov. 16th&mdash;Detroit at Rangers</p><p>Fri. Nov. 18th&mdash;Boston at Chicago</p><p>Sat. Nov. 19th&mdash;Rangers at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Nov. 19th&mdash;Boston at Toronto</p><p>Sat. Nov. 19th&mdash;Chicago at Detroit</p><p>Sun. Nov. 20th&mdash;Canadiens at Rangers</p><p>Sun. Nov. 20th&mdash;Toronto at Boston</p><p>Sun. Nov. 20th&mdash;Detroit at Chicago</p><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Montreal 1, at New York 1</b></h3><p><b>MONTREAL:</b> Goal: Plante; defence: &lsquo;Harvey, Bouchard, Johnson, St. Laurent; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Curry, Leclair, M. Richard, Moore, Olmstead, H. Richard, Talbot, Mosdell, Mar-shall, Provost.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal: Worsley; defence: Irwin, Howell, Gadsby, Evans, Fontinato; forwards: Raleigh, Bathgate, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Murphy, Creighton, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Popein, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey; linesmen: Doug Davies, Sam Babcock.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03170/1437443-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="610" height="389"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 New York 1 at Boston 5</b></h3><p><b>NEW YORK:</b> Goal: Worsley; defense: Howell, Fontinato, Gadsby, Irwin, Evans; forwards: Horrvath, Lewlcki, Hebenton, Popein, Bathgate, Prentice, Creighton, Hergesheimer, Murphy, Raleigh, Gendron.</p><p><b>BOSTON:</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Flaman, Boivin, Quackenbush, Armstring; forwards: Gardner, Mohns, Stasiuk, Costello, Labine, Tessie Layeoe, Panagabko, Bonin, Davis.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey; linesmen: Sam Babcock, Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04128/1437436-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="610" height="626"></div><h3><b>Chicago 2, at Detroit 2</b></h3><p><b>CHICAGO:</b> Goal: Rollins; defense; Woit, Dewsbury, Fogolin, Stanley, Martin; forwards: Ciesla, Wilson, LaJonde, Watson, Leswick, Mickoskl, Sandford, McIntyre, Litzenberger, Skov.</p><p><b>DETROIT:</b> Goal: Hall; defense: Godfrey, Hollingsworth. Pronovost, Hillman, Gold ham; forwards: Reibel. Howe, Lind san, Delvecchio. Dineen, Kelly; Prystal, Pavelich, Chevrefils, Ullman. Bueyk, Toppazzini.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Louis Maschio; linesmen, George Hayes, Bill Morrison,</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01283/1437429-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="604" height="548"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 Toronto 0 at Chicago 2</b></h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Morrison, Botton, Thomson, Cahan, Bionda; forwards: Armstrong, Sloan, Duff, Smith, Stewart, Migay, Harris, Klukay, Balfour, Cullen.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins: defense: Stanley, Martin, Fogolln, Woit, Dewsbury; forwards: Leswick, Skov, Mickoski, Sandford, McIntyre, Litzenberger, Wilson, Lalande, Ciesla.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02227/1437422-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="604" height="388"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1955 Detroit 0 at Canadiens 3</b></h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defence: Goldham, Provost, Kelly, Godfrey, Hollingworth; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Pavelich, Prystal, Chevrefils, Ullman, Dineen, Toppazzini, Bucyk.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; deftnce: Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, Talbot; forwards: Leclair, Curry, Provost, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Mosdell, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03195/1437415-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="606" height="462"></div><h3><b>Boston 3 at Toronto 2</b></h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Flaman, Boivin, R. Armstrong, Quackenbush; forwards: Gardner, Mohns, Sta-iiuk, Costello, Bonin, Labine, Panagabko, Tessier, Laycoe, Mackell.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defence: Thomson, Bionda, Morrison, Bolton, Cahan; forwards: Sloan, G. Armstrong, Duff, Nigay, Stewart, Klukay, Harris, Cullen, Balfour, Reid.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04152/1437408-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="607" height="557"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1955 Detroit 0 at Boston 0</b></h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Godfrey, Hollingworth; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Pavelich, Prystai, Chevrefils, Ullman, Dineen, Toppazzini, Bucyk.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Flaman, Boivin, Armstrong, Quackenbush; forwards: Gardner, Mohns, Sta-siuk, Costello, Labine, Tessier, Laycoe, Panagabko, Bonin, Davis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0787/1437401-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="608" height="316"></div><h3><b>New York 4 at Toronto 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0868/1437394-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="614" height="368"></div><h3><b>Canadiens 2 at Chicago 0</b></h3><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, St. Laurent, Johnson, Talbot; forwards: Provost, Leclair, Curry Beliveau, Geoffrion, M. Richard, Moore, Olmstead, H. Richard, Mosdell, Marshall.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Woit, Dewsbury, Fogolln, Stanley, Martin; forwards: Wilson, Ciesla, Lalande, Watson, Sullivan, Leswick, Mickoski, Sandford, McIntyre, Litzenberger, Skov.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0956/1437387-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="604" height="372"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sunday. Nov. 13)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01285/1437380-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="616" height="2909"></div><h3><b>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1955-56</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05122/1437373-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="604" height="198"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06109/1437366-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="602" height="172"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON&mdash;The Boston Bruins were coguests of honor at the largest sports dinner ever held here recently, with Boston Garden as the site of the affair.</p><p>The din-was sponsored by the Cross-cup-Pishon Post of the American Legion for the purpose of providing a &ldquo;send-off&rdquo; for the Bruins and their basketball cohabitants of the Garden, the Boston Celtics.</p><p>It drew a capacity crowd of more than 1,000 diners&mdash;hundreds of others were turned away&mdash;many of whom made personal acquaintance with the hockey players in a pre-dinner period for that purpose.</p><p>Among those on the speaking program which followed were Clarence Campbell, president of the National league and President Walter Brown and Coach Milt Schmidt of the Bruins.</p><p>Besides the Bruins and Celtics, the dinner was attended by the Chicago Black Hawks, led by General Manager Tommy Ivan and Coach Dick Irvin, league publicity director Ken McKenzie and Referee Roy &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Storey.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03177/1436690-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="290" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Clarence Campbell</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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1,000 Diners Help Sendoff Bruins, Celtics

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01146/1438799-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>Irvin, Ivan, Irwin, Some Confusion! If Chi Gets Ivan</b></h2><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Recent prolonged perches on the bench by New York defenseman Ivan &ldquo;The Terrible&rdquo; Irwin has brought about a couple of queries concerning his status. The local Black Hawks could use another rearguard; however, there has been no official comment concerning the possibilities of Irwin&rsquo;s acquisition.</p><p>One newsman recently pointed out that Irwin in a Chicago hockey suit could be a nightmare to every Chicago writer having contact with the ice sport. &ldquo;Imagine having to mention Coach Irvin, General Manager Ivan and then a third guy with a name like Ivan Irwin in one sentence!&rdquo;</p><p>Despite this possible confusing repetition, Chicago could make good use of the Ranger back liner for the sake of publicity as well as possibly improving the defense corps. Irwin, in case you have forgotten, is the only native Chicagoan in organized hockey today.</p><h2><b>Nick Up To Old Tricks</b></h2><h2><b>The Bulge Behind Hall Means A Coal!</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02103/1438792-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="2308" height="1138"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NICK MICKOSKI,</b> the Chicago Black Hawks high-flyer forces Toronto&rsquo;s Harry Lumley into the role of a juggler in the top photo as he lifts a soft shot that Lumley bobbles for a moment before smothering. The story is a little different in the bottom picture as New York&rsquo;s Jack Evans scores his first goal of the current National Hockey League campaign at the expense of Detroit&rsquo;s Glen Hall. Hall slid out of his cage in an effort to reduce the angle but Evans simply blasted away and caught the upper left hand corner of the net.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Wings Help Hockey Harvest

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Hockey elsewhere is healthier because of the Red Wings&rsquo; staggering start&mdash;a point that offers slim consolation for Detroit fans and has complete negative appeal to the Detroit players.</p><p>In all sections of the National Hockey League, hope springs anew after the long stretch of domination by the Wings. Two cities in particular are getting a needed shot in the arm.</p><p>New York and Chicago, accustomed to wrestling in the cellar, are floating about in higher regions.</p><p>Both clubs delight in pointing to numerous factors for their improved status. Many of these are true. They also are picking on the off-form Red Wings for enough points to account for entire gain.</p><p>The Rangers have harvested five points from Detroit so far, the Black Hawks four. Had these two clubs been treated as harshly as in the past by Detroit, they&rsquo;d be back in their former haunts. Deduct those points from the total and notice the difference.</p><p>A fat spurt in attendance has been felt in both cities where crowds have become crowds once more. There is now enthusiasm on the clubs and playoff ambitions are spawning.</p><p>Owners of those two teams have been worrying about box office rigor mortis for quite a spell. Until recently, however, their best conceived solution was to talk about folding the team instead of hustling out to intelligently build up the club and farm system.</p><p>It was pointed out that would-be customers were as plentiful as is the past, that they were just awaiting reasonable encouragement to return to the fold.</p><p>The Red Wings have been helping prove this true&mdash;indirectly, unwillingly, unintentionally and, they hope, temporarily.</p><p>Don&rsquo;t get ideas that Detroit&rsquo;s strange slump is a pre-set arrangement by the close-knit league rulers, specifically the Norris family with its Detroit-Chicago New York ties.</p><p>No tears are being shed in family circles because Chicago and New York are prospering at Detroit&rsquo;s expense, but they also know by now that such events cannot be rigged.</p><p>That was attempted in a sly way a year ago in the infamous &ldquo;Prystai trade&rdquo; between Detroit and Chicago. A couple of artists attempted to disguise the deal, which was either downright shady or downright stupid, under a league-wide &ldquo;Help the Hawks&rdquo; banner.</p><p>The uproar over that guarantees against such a stunt happening again.</p><p>Not only did outraged fans and an incensed press yell murder, but Detroit&rsquo;s players also took firmer action. Their threatened rebellion halted any further deals toward intentional leveling off.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t the proper place to start anyway. Montreal and Toronto are the two cities with guaranteed season-long sellouts. Canadien and Maple Leaf officials could afford the lose of players but one of them preferred to trade away every last Red Wing instead.</p><p>In case you have a private opinion that the fix has been on in Detroit this season because of what&rsquo;s happened so far, my suggestion is that you mention it to Jack Adams, Jimmy Skinner, Ted Lindsay of any other player.</p><p>Lindsay is mentioned first because. his fighting spirit has the lowest boiling point and his reflexes are the fastest. He&rsquo;d be the quickest to come out swinging, but only by a fraction of a second.&rsquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rangers, Chicago Improve Status At Wings’ Expense

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Red Kelly, one of hockey&rsquo;s greatest defensemen, has been shifted to forward.</p><p>If that isn&rsquo;t a sign that the Red Wings are getting desperate over their lowly cellar position, what more do you want?</p><p>For the past four games Kelly has been filling a dual role. Sometimes, in crucial defensive situations, he is in his normal defense position. That&rsquo;s where the veteran redhead has earned his biggest honors in the past. He has been on the first All-Star team for the last five years.</p><p>But more and more now he is popping up as a forward on left wing. That&rsquo;s where Detroit&rsquo;s most crucial weakness has been exposed as the club dropped to sixth place and stayed there.</p><p>Kelly has made fleeting appearances as a forward in the past and he was trained as a left wing before entering pro hockey. No one, however, rates him as well suited for that position as for defense but things were in a state where anything had to be tried.</p><h2><b>Kelly Says He Likes It</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I like it up front,&rdquo; Kelly confesses.</p><p>&ldquo;Forwards get a chance to get in and rush the other guys. You can give them bodychecks when they&rsquo;re trying to get the puck out. Forwards can take chances on missing them but defensemen can&rsquo;t. You don&rsquo;t have to play so cautiously.&rdquo;</p><p>Kelly finally managed his first goal of the season after the shift but it came while he was back in one of his former positions, playing point on the power play.</p><p>His shift points up the strange things that have been happening among Detroit&rsquo;s left-wingers.</p><p>&ldquo;It looked like Detroit had the best left wing setup in the league after its trades and deals this summer,&rdquo; pointed out Hap Day, Toronto&rsquo;s general manager who was speaking as a neutral observer on a recent visit.</p><p>The left side lineup going into the season listed Ted Lindsay, captain and veteran scoring star who was an AH Star seven times; Real Chevrefils, an 18-goal man from Boston and the big lure in the headlined Terry Sawchuk trade; Marty Pavelich, a defensive regular who has been on all seven NHL championship teams, and Johnny Bucyk, second leading scorer in the Western League at Edmonton last season.</p><p>Strong? Yes&mdash;on paper.</p><p>On ice, however, it was a different situation.</p><p>After 14 games, those four had combined for a total of nine goals. All nine, however, came from one man&mdash;Lindsay.</p><p>Bucyk, hampered by injuries and slowness to adjust to NHL standards, had neither goal nor assist after 14 games. Chevrefils had managed a single point, an assist in the 10 th game. Pavelich had two assists, both in the same game.</p><p>That&rsquo;s why Kelly suddenly became a left winger.</p><p>He was filling in for Chevrefils, a puzzling disappointment. Although he looked solid in training camp. Chevvy never has got going once the season was underway. After the few games he started pressing, and you know the answer then.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll bring him along slowly, keep giving him a chance to get his confidence and poise,&rdquo; Jimmy Skinner points out. &ldquo;After all, we know the fellow can play hockey and I figure it&rsquo;s my job to find the way to do it.&rdquo;</p><p>The lines, aside from the Lindsay-Howe-Reibel fixture, have settled down as Prystai-Pavelich-Toppazzini and Delvecchio-Dineen&mdash;and someone on left wing, Kelly, Chevrefils or Bucyk. That leaves Norm Ullman as a spare center.</p><h2><b>Converted</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04146/1436721-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="846" height="882"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly&hellip;Moves Up Front</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Kelly Shifted To Forward In Effort To Jolt Detroit

<div class="byline">FISOHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Attention gag writers!</p><p>Wally (Stop Me If You Heard This One) Hergesheimer, has added a new twist to the story of his classic one-round fight with Bob Armstrong.</p><p>The Mighty Mite and Big Bob had a go of it two years ago in Boston Garden. It drew quite a chuckle from the spectators since The Herg couldn&rsquo;t reach Armstrong&rsquo;s chin and the Bruin defender kept overshooting his little mark.</p><p>&ldquo;What happened in your fight with Armstrong?&rdquo; Hergy was asked at a recent fan club meeting.</p><p>&ldquo;That wasn&rsquo;t really a fight,&rdquo; the clever right wing replied. &ldquo;I just got lost in his arms!&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hergy Changes Story, “Lost in Army’s Arms”

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05114/1436776-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he old Philadelphia Quakers and their short sojourn in the N.H.L. The Quakers set a record during their one season in the League that is still in existence&mdash;least goals by a team. The Quakers scored 76 goals in a 44-game schedule in 1930-31.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Do you remember?…

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Aloysius Martin Sloan has become Goals, Guts and Glamor personified, the champion of General Manager Hap Day&rsquo;s blueprint for the Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>With three two-goal nights in his first 12 games, the Slinker, who hadn&rsquo;t celebrated one such occasion for three seasons, has an abundance of the goals. With more bounce to the ounce&mdash;despite the fact he has fewer ounces this season&mdash;he has reaped from better conditioning, more dogged digging and harder work, a temporary lead in the NHL goal-geeting department, with nine quickies. The glamor just naturally falls into place behind these.</p><p>Yet instead of Hap Day thanking Sloan for an almost single-handed salvage job on his Maple Leaf slogan, the hippety-hopping centreman is thanking Day for the new format.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01209/1436659-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="308" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tod Sloan</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02193/1436652-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="286" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Duff</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;I think our change in style has had as much as anything to do with the fact I&rsquo;m getting more goals this season,&rdquo; Tod says. &lsquo;&lsquo;I&rsquo;ll admit I didn&rsquo;t used to like playing centre much because we were supposed to fall back and meet the opposition coming out. But I do like it now that we go right into the other end and check them for the puck. It brings out more scoring chances, and the style sure is paying off for me.&rdquo;</p><p>Sloan had previously disliked the pivot position so much that he actually requested a switch to right wing this year. Because he had been more prolific in the past on the wing, he was started there with Goerge Armstrong moving from right to centre and rookie Dick Duff slipping onto Army&rsquo;s left elbow.</p><p>When Army couldn&rsquo;t get into gear at centre and the line produced a distasteful goals-against record, Slinker was shifted back to centre. He took the switch silently at the time, but has since come forward to admit he finds centre much more pleasant than in the past.</p><p>Goals, of course, are a perfect sweetener for any dish. The first night Tod returned to centre, he fired two to bring Leafs a win from Chicago Black Hawks. As Leafs embarked on a five-game unbeaten streak to climb temporarily into second place, he scored the big goals in all but one of those games. And he collected two again against Detroit on Nov. 2 and another pair the following night in Montreal.</p><p>&ldquo;My luck sure is changing,&rdquo; Slinker says. &ldquo;The last time I had a two-goal night was three years ago. I hope I don&rsquo;t wake up.&rdquo;</p><p>Ironically, Slinker this season signed a contract which called for heavy bonuses if and when he should score 20, then 25 and so on goals. Now that he&rsquo;s almost halfway to the first plateau, the bonus money, which he considered &ldquo;substantial&rdquo;, is further away than ever. The contract was in effect only as long as Tod played right wing. He switched to a regular contract, with increased salary but no bonuses, when he was moved back to centre.</p><p>Slinker is nonetheless still aiming high.</p><p>&ldquo;Since I&rsquo;ve got nine already, I&rsquo;m hoping to get at least 25,&rdquo; he says, aiming for a mark that would be second only to his sophomore season in this league when he scored 31. &ldquo;Usually I don&rsquo;t get anything until about the middle of November. Here it isn&rsquo;t even that time yet and already I&rsquo;ve got almost as many goals as I have in any of those last three seasons.&rdquo;</p><p>It was that notoriety as a late starter that prompted Slinker to embark on a new program to improve himself this season, a program that is the real reason for the new Forward Look Sloan.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a family man now with the normal family obligations and I knew that I was going to have to work hard to redeem myself for those three bad seasons I&rsquo;ve just had,&rdquo; he says.</p><p>&ldquo;My first objective was to have myself in shape when I got to training camp. So during the summer I&rsquo;d go out and run up and down the beach that&rsquo;s near my home in North Bay. When I started those running jags at eight every morning I weighed 180. I was down to 175 when I got to camp. And then I settled down to working harder than I ever have before in training and pretty soon I was down to 171.&rdquo;</p><p>That&rsquo;s four pounds less than Sloan has played for the past three years and not far from the 169 he scaled when he produced his 31-goal season in &rsquo;51. And it is that weight and work that coach King Clancy pinpoints as the reason for Sloan&rsquo;s lease on life.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never seen Sloan work harder,&rdquo; The King admits. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the big secret in this game&mdash;work. Now that Sloan is working he&rsquo;s getting results. And I personally think he can still work harder and get more results.&rdquo;</p><p>While King begins to sound more and more like hard taskmaster partner, Day, Sloan passes a lot of the credit for his new punch to his wingmates.</p><p>&ldquo;Army and Duff are both playing really well and setting me up all the time,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m getting a lot more chances than I ever did before and it&rsquo;s my wings who are making those chances now that we&rsquo;re all playing a mor aggressive style.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Sloan Fulfills Leafs 3-G Plan With Coals Spree

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01208/1436838-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HE RESPONDED UNDER WATSON&rsquo;S URGING</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>As A Bruin-A Disappointment</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02175/1436831-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1160" height="1468"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CREIGHTON NEVER HIT PEAK IN BOSTON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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As A Ranger-A Big Surprise

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>What&rsquo;s good for the goose is good for the gander.</p><p>In this case the goose is Danny Lewicki and the gander is&mdash;you guessed it&mdash;Dave Creighton.</p><p>And what&rsquo;s good for both of them is none other than the dear old red, white and blue uniform of the New York Rangers.</p><p>Whatever the saying, you&rsquo;d have a tough time trying to convince Ranger fans that lightning doesn&rsquo;t strike twice. Especially in the light of Creighton&rsquo;s recent success.</p><p>Not only is the Blond Bomber following in Lewicki&rsquo;s &rsquo;54-&rsquo;55 footsteps but the parallel goes even further. Both are Toronto Maple Leaf rejects.</p><p>Actually the Double D partnership can be traced back to 1948 when they played together for the Port Arthur West End Bruins and the junior club romped to the Memorial Cup.</p><p>At the time, their sparkling skating inspired some of the hottest debates this side of Moose Jaw. &ldquo;Just who is the better player?&rdquo; folks would say.</p><p>Creighton beat Lewicki to the NHL (1948) but it was Dangerous Dan who first coralled the spotlight when he helped Toronto to the Stanley Cup in 1951.</p><p>It took longer for lanky Dave to come through. By March 1952 he had 20 goals in the till and knew that he had arrived.</p><p>Creighton&rsquo;s biography&mdash;like Lewicki&rsquo;s&mdash;has its ups and downs.</p><p>Contrary to all reports, Dave&rsquo;s mother was not listening to a Foster Hewitt broadcast when her hockey playing son was born. But Dave will admit that he became an ice fan as soon as he was old enough to flick the radio dial.</p><p>&ldquo;You couldn&rsquo;t get me awey from that Chrystal set with a bulldozer,&rdquo; Dave laughed. &ldquo;Everytime I heard Foster announce a goal I wanted more and more to become a big leaguer.&rdquo;</p><p>He worked at his hockey long and hard on the ponds and rinks of Port Arthur, adjacent to Le-wicki&rsquo;s Fort William. It was the usual ladder treatment from bantam to midget and finally junior hockey with the West End Bruins.</p><p>The old Bostonian, Cooney Weiland gets credit for tabbing. Dave a comer but actually it was a local bird dog who spotted the gangling youngster.</p><p>&ldquo;I was Bruin property as far as I can remember,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;So I guess it was only natural for me to be a Bruin fan.&rdquo;</p><p>Art Ross, then Boston GM, was toying with the idea of turning him pro at the tender age of 17. Which got us around to ask Dave about kids being hoisted to the NHL from the juniors.</p><p>He gave the subject careful thought, replied:</p><p>&ldquo;It depends on the individual. In my case I don&rsquo;t think I was rushed to the majors. Some fellas are wary about coming right up and some are overanxious and just can&rsquo;t wait.</p><p>&ldquo;I was the guy who fell into the latter category. If it was up to me I&rsquo;d have wanted to get into the big time when I was three.</p><p>&ldquo;In most cases, a youngster of 18 or 19 has learned about all he can in the juniors. Any more time spent there just stunts his hockey growth. But I wouldn&rsquo;t make any hard and fast rule about when a player is or isn&rsquo;t ready. That&rsquo;s up to the scout, the coach, the manager&mdash;and the player himself to decide.&rdquo;</p><p>Dave made the jump to the money men in 1948, graduating to the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League.</p><p>After a brief stint with the AHLers the Bostons summoned him as a fill-in for an injured Bruin.</p><p>In nothing flat he became the darling of Back Bay.</p><p>Less than a minute after he stepped on Boston ice he scored a goal. The opponents, incidentally, were the New York Rangers.</p><p>Lynn Patrick, his ex boss, recalled the incident:</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have any trouble remembering his major league debut,&rdquo; Patrick confessed. &ldquo;There I was coaching the Rangers. It was one of those nights when you wished the game could be called off on account of rain or some-&rsquo; thing.</p><p>&ldquo;Then along comes this kid&mdash;I think he was only 18 then&mdash;and scores on his first shot against Charley Rayner. I remember thinking that things had come to a pretty pass when an 18-year-old kid could step on the ice at left wing and score on his first shot.&rdquo;</p><p>Fans didn&rsquo;t need any mystic powers to realize that the lad had the scoring touch. Bruins kept him along the following season and although he wasn&rsquo;t used regularly, he obliged with 18 goals and 13 assists.</p><p>&ldquo;This boy has the knack of scoring,&rdquo; Patrick opined. &ldquo;I knew it ever since the first time I saw him.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;What do you mean by that?&rdquo; Lynn was asked.</p><p>&ldquo;Creighton has that indefinite something which makes one player a good scorer, while another with the same physical equipment who lacks it isn&rsquo;t. Plain and simply, Dave has the ability to score.&rdquo;</p><p>He proved it with Bostons, going for two 20-goal campaigns in addition to the 18-count era already mentioned.</p><p>Sandwiched in was a dismal five goal year in 1950-51 and an equally poor eight goal mark in 1952-53, the year he broke his leg in mid-season.</p><p>His low goal efforts had the quick-thinkers writing him off as a flop but Art Ross knew differently and said:</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s still a growing boy. His legs are long and he lacks control of his frame. He&rsquo;ll come along if we just give him a little more time.&rdquo;</p><p>The turning point in his career came when he was switched from left wing to center in the 1950-51 season.</p><p>There was no room for him in the Bruins&rsquo; plans so Dave found himself skating for Hershey. Jack Crawford, now coach of the Rangers&rsquo; Providence farm club, was then Hershey mentor.</p><p>Crawford was plagued with an abundance of wingmen and a dearth of centers. Out of sheer necessity he shifted Creighton to the pivot spot. He was an immediate success centering a couple of then fresh-bushers named Leo LaBine and Real Chevrefils.</p><p>In short shrift he jumped back to the Bruins and remained a Beaneater until the move to Toronto last year.</p><p>He was touring the Rainy River tourist camp district of Canada as a good-will man for a brewary when he picked up a Winnipeg paper that advised him of the switch.</p><p>&ldquo;Naturally I was surprised and a little hurt. I was a Bruin for six years. It&rsquo;s not easy to pick yourself up and start with a new team.</p><p>&ldquo;Besides, I had my best season the year before (20 goals, 20 assists) so I couldn&rsquo;t figure out why they let me go.&rdquo;</p><p>Like Lewicki, Creighton could not find the Toronto formula, was shunted to the Black Hawks where his miseries continued.</p><p>&ldquo;Some players get stymied if they don&rsquo;t get off to a good start and that&rsquo;s what happened to me last year,&rdquo; Dave disclosed. &ldquo;It was not that I was doing anything different than before.</p><p>&ldquo;It was like getting out of bed on the wrong foot. My first few games were bad ones and that&rsquo;s the way it went for the rest of the year.&rdquo;</p><p>When the season ended the Hawks dealt Dave off to Detroit. Without ever playing a single game for the Wings he was traded to the Rangers shortly before the training grind.</p><p>&ldquo;That got me mad, real mad,&rdquo; the 25-year-old forward admitted. &ldquo;Particularly the Detroit club. Imagine, they never sent me as much as a letter. It was through the newspapers that I found out they owned me.&rdquo;</p><p>Phil Watson also deserves a nod for arousing Dave&rsquo;s anger by showing him news clippings after the Blues opened up their Saskatoon camp.</p><p>One note had him being &ldquo;demoted&rdquo; to the Rangers. The other was from a Toronto paper which said that if Creighton was the standout player in the New York camp, the Rangers must be a pretty poor hockey club. Another critic called him &ldquo;an inferior skater,&rdquo; an apparent misnomer.</p><p>&ldquo;If he. is a poor skater he left all his bad habits behind him when he came here,&rdquo; Watson stated. &ldquo;Dave has been a very pleasant surprise to me.&rdquo;</p><p>Creighton frankly admits that he was down in the dumps after the moves and seriously considered retiring from the puck pasttime.</p><p>&ldquo;Earlier in the year I thought perhaps I might give up hockey,&rdquo; the new Ranger admitted. &ldquo;I have an off-season job with O&rsquo;Keefe&rsquo;s brewery and they told me that anytime I&rsquo;m ready it can become an all-year thing. I do public relations work.</p><p>&ldquo;I got mad after what the Wings did and decided to give it an all-out try with the Rangers.&rdquo;</p><p>Of course it was more than anger that restored the sharp Creighton edge. &ldquo;I worked out harder than ever, before I came to Saskatoon. Spent lots of time at the Fort William YMCA. I never felt better,&rdquo; he added.</p><p>He skated hard in training, surprised everyone by being the best forward in camp. It carried over to the regular season and he&rsquo;s been going at a merry pace ever since.</p><p>He is a tireless skater, often lingers on the ice after grueling practice sessions, a sure sign of a hungry hockey player.</p><p>Dave is lavish in his praise of Watson, &ldquo;a guy who hates to lose more than any other person I&rsquo;ve met.</p><p>&ldquo;Phil has given me plenty of confidence. I need lots of work and I&rsquo;m getting it with the Rangers.</p><p>&ldquo;Playing on Garden ice for 35 games doesn&rsquo;t hurt either. Don&rsquo;t know why, but I&rsquo;ve always had good luck in New York. I hope it continues.&rdquo;</p><p>We asked him what was the funniest moment in his hockey career and with a typical Creighton grin he replied: &ldquo;Leading the NHL in scoring this year.&rdquo;</p><p>Milt Schmidt also gets a healthy dose of praise for helping him over the early rough spots.</p><p>&ldquo;It was great playing with Schrniddy. You knew where he was all the time. He always covered up for me when I got caught up ice. I learned a lot playing with him.&rdquo;</p><p>In the off-months Creighton patrols the golf lanes, connects in the low-70&rsquo;s.</p><p>Watson has been using him on a line with Ron Murphy and Wally Hergesheimer. According to Dave, the two flankers fit him fine.</p><p>&ldquo;Murph really fooled me. He&rsquo;s a strong skater, can stickhandle and shoots well. I knew Hergy from &lsquo;way back. The little guy is a real digger, an ace around the net.&rdquo;</p><p>Murphy, in turn, gives his new center credit for his goal-scoring success. &ldquo;Dave is a smooth operator,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;He takes his time starting a play and it&rsquo;s good that way. He can carry that puck and feed a solid pass.&rdquo;</p><p>In spite of two 20-goal campaigns and the season of 18, Creighton has yet to connect for the &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; and frankly confesses that he hopes to collect one before very long.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess that&rsquo;s the dream of every NHL forward; to get three in a game.&rdquo;</p><p>Last year Lewicki rapped home 2 9 goals for the Rangers with nary a &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; so perhaps Ranger rooters should ask Creighton for same and let him do his three goal scoring in the playoffs.</p><p>That&rsquo;s right, the playoffs!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Creighton Arrives At Lost With Rangers

<div class="byline">Elmer Ferguson (As seen in the Montreal Herald)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01279/1436883-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="292" height="336"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>T BEGINS TO LOOK, if you are interested in the figures, as though little Lorne &ldquo;Gump&rdquo; Worsley, the soccer-playing goaler from Verdun, is the gent who is helping to hold up the New York Rangers in that team&rsquo;s most formidable bid for a place in the hockey sun staged in a long time.</p><p>Rangers tied with Canadiens, one goal each, on Garden ice, last night. And if you look through the results, you find that Worsley has allowed only seven goals in Rangers&rsquo; last six games, which is probably the top-net-minding performance over that period in the entire League, Bert Olmstead, who is playing the best hockey of his career, on left wing for the Habs, was the only sniper to beat the little Verdunite last night.</p><p><b>Not more than two goals have been scored against Rangers in the team&rsquo;s last six games. Detroit got two, when Rangers licked them 6-2, Boston, then Detroit again got one each. Toronto was blanked at home, then Hawks scored two as Rangers won 4-2. Last night, it was one-all. Which makes seven goals in six games, as indicated by your mathematical adviser.</b></p><p>Rangers and Canadiens are tied in goals-for, at 40 each, and lead the League in that League in that respect. The fact is that Rangers have come up with more strength both on offence and defence than they were figured to do. Only two teams, Bruins and Canadiens have had less goals scored against them. Of course Canadiens have played three games more than the New Yorkers, and in the three that will be played to bridge this gap. Rangers may suffer slightly. But taking the New Yorkers as of now, they&rsquo;re the undoubted surprise of the season, thus far. They lead on the average for scoring, they are going solidly on defence. And they&rsquo;ve hit a bit better than .500 on the road.</p><p>Which is all to the good with the NHL. The epidemic of declining receipts in New York, Chicago and Boston has been remedied by the improved display of teams in these cities, proving the old maxim that there&rsquo;s nothing wrong with hockey anywhere on the major loop that a winning team won&rsquo;t fix. For instance, New York had over 15,000 last night, the largest midweek crowd there in several years.</p><p><b>Rangers didn&rsquo;t acquire so much new talent as some of the other &ldquo;have nots&rdquo; in the pre-season swaps and deals. They picked up Dave Creighton, who hadn&rsquo;t done much with two other teams last season, but with the steady work he craves, has turned into Rangers&rsquo; top point-maker. Andy Hebenton, once with Royals, was secured from Victoria, and has produced six goals.</b></p><p>Those two wouldn&rsquo;t make the difference between a tail-ender and a team that is putting up a serious fight for the lead, so it looks as though credit for the Ranger upsurge must go to battling Phil Watson, former truculent player and just as aggressive as a leader,</p><p><b>The Patrick Brothers are feuding like the fictional Corsican Brothers, Lynn with Bruins, Muzz with Rangers. And as of now, Lynn is well out in front. In three meetings with the Bean-towners the Big City slickers have been able to nibble away at the scoring cheese for just two goals. And these didn&rsquo;t mean a thing as they came when the Bruins were raining shots all over New York goalie Gump Worsley. The score was a one-sided 4-1 in favor of the Bruins in one game, and 1-0 in another, plus last night&rsquo;s 5-1: or 10-1 for Bruins in the three games.</b></p><p>Bruins did Canadiens a favor by winning last night. Rangers&rsquo; loss established the scant Canadien lead just a little more clearly. And now it looks as though even if Rangers finish in the play-offs, which is possible, and go to the Cup finals in the spring, they&rsquo;ll be forced to put the show on the road again. For yesterday the Barnum & Bailey, Ringling Bros, circus signed with the Garden for the annual spring show, which likely means the Rangers, if so situated will get the bums&rsquo; rush come play-off time.</p><p>Dick Gamble continues to ba a hockey enigma. He couldn&rsquo;t buy a goal with Canadiens in a dozen games, but last night, making his debut with Quebec in the Quebec League, he notched a pair. Could be that Frank Selke&rsquo;s</p><p>THE TRADE between Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins has definitely backfired, and the recoil has hit the Wings amidships. Among the players secured by Wings when Terry Sawchuk was traded off to Boston were Eddie Sandford and Rene Chevrefils. Sandford has been traded to Chicago, and is playing well there on a line flanked by Harry Watson and Eddie Litzenberger. Now Chevrefils has been benched, and Wings were in such straits for forwards that Red Kelly has been moved up to the attacking division to replace the ex-Bruin.</p><p><b>In 14 games Chevrefils has counted a single point on an assist. Last season he had 18 goals and 22 assists for 40 points. Detroit hockey observers say pure &ldquo;lazyness is Chevrefils affliction. His play has been spotty and the men he was supposed to be checking have slipped away for goals that cost the struggling Wings games,&rdquo; writes John Walter in The News.</b></p><p>&ldquo;Chevrefils has been a great disappointment,&rdquo; Jack Adams is quoted as saying. The 23-year-old winger was the key man from Detroit&rsquo;s point of view when it traded goalie Terry Sawchuk and three others for Chevrefils and four others. If the trade permanently backfires from a Detroit standpoint, it will be one of the few in which Jack Adams has been bested.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02251/1436876-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="298" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bert Olmstead</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03178/1436869-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="298" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dave Creighton</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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THE CIST AND JEST OF IT

<div class="byline">BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, ILL.&mdash;</p><p>The 17 ties registered by the Black Hawks last year ranked as the most in history during one season for the club, but that mark could be topped by the close of the current campaign. Chicago had four deadlocks in its first 12 games this fall and such a pace could lead to as many as 23 by the end of the schedule.</p><p>Such a situation in former years usually brought clamoring for curtailment of the no overtime rule during the regular season from Black Hawk officials, but this outlook seems to have changed with the addition of General Manager Tommy Ivan and Coach Dick Irvin to the staff.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hawks May Top Deadlock Mark

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><h2><b>The Troubled Red Wings</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Detroit Red Wings are reported to be bewildered by their Inability to start rolling and put a few victories together. They are even asking the customers what&rsquo;s wrong with them.</p><p>After a recent 1-1 tie with the New York Rangers, Gordie Howe came out of the Wings&rsquo; dressing room and spotted a veteran fan waiting near one of the exits. He immediately went over to him.</p><p>&lsquo;Any suggestions?&rdquo; asked Howe.</p><p>&ldquo;Yes, just keep pounding the puck at the net as you&rsquo;ve been doing,&rdquo; replied the fan. &ldquo;They can&rsquo;t stay out all the time.&rdquo;</p><p>Jack Adams, the Wings&rsquo; general manager, is also puzzled at his team&rsquo;s slow start.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen all the other clubs,&rdquo; he said recently, &ldquo;and we&rsquo;re as good as any of them.&rdquo;</p><p>Jack hasn&rsquo;t hesitated to express his lack of enthusiasm for the efforts turned in by Real Chevrefils, one of the players the Wings acoquired from the Boston Bruins in the deal that sent Terry Sawchuk to the Hub.</p><p>&ldquo;Chevrefils has been a great disappointment,&rdquo; Jack said. &ldquo;He was the key man from our point of view in the deal with Boston.&rdquo;</p><p>Some of Chevrefils&rsquo; critics in Detroit claim he is lazy and point out that he has cost the Winge several games through his failure to backcheck. He was benched in one game and Red Kelly was moved up from defense to left wing. Kelly got a goal and he wasn&rsquo;t reluctant to talk about it.</p><p>&ldquo;I like playing forward,&rdquo; he told reporters. &ldquo;As a forward, you get a chance to get in and rush those guys and hit them a few bodychecks when they&rsquo;re trying to get the puck out. You can take a chance missing them. You can&rsquo;t miss when you&rsquo;re a defenseman because it may mean a goal, so you have to play more cautiously.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>No Criticism of Hall</b></h2><p>No one in the Detroit camp has been blaming Glen Hall, which is rather odd because the goaler is usually on the hot spot when a team isn&rsquo;t winning. Observers in other cities in the loop are convinced that the Red Wings are missing Sawchuk, but that charge hasn&rsquo;t yet been made in Detroit.</p><p>Leo Labine, the Boston Bruins&rsquo; articulate forward, was talking about Hall in the lobby of the Detroit-Leland after the All-Star game. Hall had played very well in that game.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s not that good,&rdquo; said Labine. &ldquo;I played against him as a junior. I&rsquo;ll tell you what he&rsquo;s like. If you get 50 shots on him, he&rsquo;ll stop &rsquo;em all but maybe one. But if you get only 20 shots on him he&rsquo;ll let three or for go in.&rdquo;</p><p>Jack Adams may think the Wings are as good as any other team in the league, but Muzz Patrick doesn&rsquo;t. The New York Rangers&rsquo; general manager believes the Canadiens are the class of the circuit and that the other five clubs will scramble for the remaining three playoff positions.</p><p>They have only played about 15 games, but most of the coaches seem to think that is sufficient to give them a line on the merits of the teams. All are certain they will make the playoffs, and obviously two of them are wrong.</p><p>The Canadiens are setting the pace, but they are not without worries. Some of their veterans are showing definite signs of slowing up, even this early. How fast will they be moving in the second half of the schedule?</p><p>The Cinderella team thus far has been the New York Rangers, who were the unanimous selection to finish in the cellar.</p><p>When the &ldquo;have&rdquo; teams were helping the &ldquo;have nots&rdquo; in the off-season, it looked as though the Rangers were going to be completely overlooked. Phil Watson, their new coach, kept saying they were weak at centre, and finally the Detroit Red Wings dealt off Dave Creighton and Bronco Horvath to them. That looked like dubious help, as Creighton had been shunted around from team to team and Horvath was a rookie of unproved ability.</p><p>But Creighton has undergone a transformation with the Rangers and has been one of the guys who is carrying the mail for them while Horvath has also helped.</p><p>There isn&rsquo;t any mystery why the Rangers have been staying up there in the league standings. Little Gump Worsley has been keeping the puck out of the net and fellows like Creighton, Ron Murphy, Wally Hergesheimer, Andy Bathgate and Danny Lewicki have been putting it in. The team has been playing spirited hockey and all their old fans are behind them again.</p><p>The Boston Bruins aren&rsquo;t far off the pace and aren&rsquo;t likely to get far off it with Terry Sawchuk in the nets. They have the best defensive record of any of the teams. Sawchuk&rsquo;s nemesis so far has been Jean Beliveau.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m keeping Beliveau in the league,&rdquo; he remarked a few days ago. &ldquo;Seven of the eight goals he has scored have been scored on me.&rdquo;</p><p>The Toronto Leafs aren&rsquo;t far off, either, and the fellow who has been doing the big job for them is Tod Sloan. The guy who has been holding them back is Sid Smith. Always one of their top scorers and first choice for left wing on the All-Star team at the end of last season, he hasn&rsquo;t been able to find his touch yet this season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04132/1436945-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="302" height="368"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Adams</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05116/1436938-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="312" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo LaBtno</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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playing the field

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Milt Schmidt, a hockey coach with clear-cut objectives, is deriving some satisfaction this fall from the fact that one of those which he laid down for this season is in the process of materializing.</p><p>That&rsquo;s his campaign to get more shots&mdash;and more goals&mdash;from Doug Mohns.</p><p>When the Bruins started their pre-season training at Hershey, Pa. in September, Schmidt announced that he intended to increase Mohn&rsquo;s number of shots per game.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know exactly how I&rsquo;ll do that,&rdquo; observed the Bruins&rsquo; coach, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;ll try everything to get him to shoot more.</p><p>&ldquo;When a player has a shot like Doug&rsquo;s, there&rsquo;s only one thing for him to do at that&rsquo;s use it, a lot. I&rsquo;ve told him I want more shots from him, and I&rsquo;ll keep reminding him of it as the season goes along.&rdquo;</p><p>As the Bruins moved to the quarter mark of their schedule, statistics offered evidence that Mohns was responding to Schmidt&rsquo;s continual urging.</p><p>Last season the big forward played 23 games before scoring his fourth goal. This fall he scored his fourth in the Bruins&rsquo; 11th game. That was improvement, but Schmidt wants more.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d say he&rsquo;s been shooting more than he used to,&rdquo; opined Milt, &ldquo;but sometimes he falls back to his old habit and passes up good shots.</p><p>&ldquo;When Doug has the puck anyplace in the opposition&rsquo;s half of the rink, he represents a potential goal. We&rsquo;ve seen him score from just inside the red line, so we know that.</p><p>&ldquo;There probably aren&rsquo;t many other players in the league who can drive a shot like he can, and he must realize that when he lets that sizzler go, he&rsquo;s helping up to his capacity.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m happy to say he&rsquo;s making progress,&rdquo; added Schmidt, &ldquo;and I hope he continues to make more. I know I&rsquo;ll continue to talk to him&rdquo;.</p><p>Mohns&rsquo; faculty for firing bullets has worked to the Bruins&rsquo; advantage in more ways than one. On occasion unfortunate opposing skaters have gotten in his line of fire, with the result that they&rsquo;ve been less effective afterward. It should be pointed out, however, that on several occasions the unfortunates have been Bruins.</p><p>Then too, the goal-tender tested by a Mohns blast off some portion of his anatomy usually requires a bit of time to regain his composure. There have been times when the Bruins have taken advantage of the shaky moments to score.</p><p>During Mohns&rsquo; two previous years in the National league, no statistics were kept to show his ratio of goals made to shots taken. This year such statistics are being recorded.</p><p>Schmidt doesn&rsquo;t know exactly how many shots he&rsquo;d like to see his 21-year-old speedster average, but he does know that he&rsquo;d like the average to be a high one, the highest, actually, of the Bruins. &lsquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01229/1436976-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="293" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Mohns</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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More Shots, More Goals! Simple Theory For Mohns

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;Look at &lsquo;em&mdash;they&rsquo;re draggin&rsquo;. It&rsquo;s a typical Monday morning practice,&rdquo; mused a pensive Dick Irvin as he leaned one elbow on the boards in a typical pose in a cold and bleak Chicago Stadium. The outlook for the Black Hawks has been bleak ever since the loss of Capt. Gus Mortson through emergency surgery.</p><p>His absence was felt keenly over the weekend as the team saw a two-goal lead melt away to a 3-3 tie with Detroit and then fell victim by a 4-1 count to New York&rsquo;s ambitious Rangers. With other teams doing better, the Hawks fell to within a point of the NHL cellar and this brought no joy from Coach Irvin.</p><p>General Manager Tommy Ivan increased the scrimmage crowd to three as he came out from his office beneath the stands as he often does between phone calls. &ldquo;Look there,&rdquo; he pointed. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;ve been doing lately and it&rsquo;s why we have lost commanding leads a couple of times.</p><p>&ldquo;The defensemen take too long in passing the puck up to the forwards and when they can&rsquo;t get it out of there, we give the other team too many chances to score. There&mdash;they did it right that time. There he goes&hellip;a goal! See what I mean?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;This morning Dick has ordered the defensemen to pass the puck to a forward as quickly as possible and to stay behind one blue line or the other, depending on who is attacking, at all times. It doesn&rsquo;t make for the most colorful hockey, but it seems to make all of them do their jobs better.&rdquo;</p><p>A telephone ring sent Ivan back to his office as the practice neared a close. Coach Irvin continued to eye his skaters closely, particularly the rearguards and goalie Al Rollins who had been clipped for five stitches by the first puck that was fired in his direction.</p><p>Dick did not indicate if he would play the defenders as tightly in a regular game as he had just done in the scrimmage, but didn&rsquo;t deter from an announcement of the previous night: &ldquo;We will bring up one and maybe two defensemen for our next game and may send one to Buffalo.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Tighten Defense Irvin’s New Cry

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>ETROIT</b>&mdash;There was quite a spell this season when the Red Wings went along picking up a point at a time through ties instead of the old-fashion two points at a time with victories.</p><p>For eight straight games&mdash;between 6-0 and 4-1 triumphs over Toronto&mdash;Detroit went without a victory. They did manage to harvest five points in those games with five ties.</p><p>Twice Detroit came from behind for deadlocks; twice the opponents rallied to tie, and the fifth game was a scoreless duel.</p><p><b>Something yearning in you</b> for a <i>man&rsquo;s</i> ale&hellip;an ale with <i>real</i> body and flavour to it? Nothing satisfies a yearning like that better than IPA. Try it. A man-size thirst, a man-size taste in ales calls for Labatt&rsquo;s IPA. Henry Odell knows it. You should get to know it, too.</p><p>Find out about IPA&hellip;<i>the ale that satisfies the man in you!</i> Make the greatdiscovery next time you&rsquo;re at your favourite hotel or tavern, or next time you order ale for your home. Start enjoying the ale with body&hellip;flavour&hellip;<i>ZEST!</i> The man&rsquo;s ale&mdash;IPA!</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0819/1437097-1-eng-US/f0005-082.jpg" title="f0005-08" width="542" height="560"></div><h2><b>Slipping?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04128/1437090-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="270" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tommy Ivan</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0588/1437083-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="296" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Irvin</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>A MAN&rsquo;S ale</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0654/1437076-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="545" height="525"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;A job like mine takes it out of you&rdquo;</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>with BODY in it</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0729/1437069-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="550" height="528"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;But Labatt&rsquo;s IPA puts it right back in&rdquo;says, Henry C. Odell, salesman, Toronto.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WINGS HAVE A POINT BUT ITS NOT ENOUGH

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Two players who came close to being farmed out this fall have played a big part in painting the Rangers&rsquo; pretty picture to date.</p><p>One of them&mdash;goalie Lorne Worsley&mdash;has received some of his due acclaim.</p><p>The other&mdash;defenceman Jack Evans&mdash;has gone about his business with nary a huzzah.</p><p>After an uneasy start, the Gump has settled down to a level of competent goaltending, the equal of any in the NHL. He is stopping the big ones and plenty of the little ones too.</p><p>His shots-on-goal sheet tell you that it is a rare game when Worsley has fewer stops to make than his embattled fr&egrave;re at the other end of the pond.</p><p>It is doubtful that many New Yorkers expected to Jack Evans in Ranger livery this semester.</p><p>&ldquo;Tex,&rdquo; as he is known to his teammates, had five flings with Rangers before the 1955-56 campaign. There were times (1953-S4) when he looked like a world beater. On other occasions he seemed to lack that extra NHL zip.</p><p>When the Blues dispatched him to Saskatoon last season everyone and his son figured Jack had seen the last of Broadway as a hockey player. But at last, the 27-year-old worthy has retnurned, truly better than ever.</p><p>He isn&rsquo;t drawing cheap penalties like the old time. His defensive work is sound. But best of all, big Jack is making those rink-length rushes in a manner that would have Wally Stanowski beam his approval (with all deference to Leonard Kelly).</p><p>What brought on the change in the two important Blues?</p><p>It&rsquo;s a typically difficult hockey question which can never draw a definite answer.</p><p>Perhaps Worsley is playing better than ever because the specter of Johnny Bower looms in the background. Bower is within shouting distance of Gotham, playing goal for the Blues&rsquo; Providence farm club.</p><p>Coach Phil Watson has also played a part in the little goaltender&rsquo;s rejuvenation.</p><p>Phil handled the Gump when Worsley was a kid with New York Rovers. Watson remembers that he played best when weighing less than 160 pounds and insists that he keep in tip-top shape.</p><p>&lsquo;He isn&rsquo;t kidding me,&rdquo; said Phil. &ldquo;I know his best weight. He may squawk but he&rsquo;s certainly doing a better job than ever before.&rdquo;</p><p>Probably the key to Evan&rsquo;s success is the fact that he&rsquo;s getting plenty of work. The Bill Gadsby-Evans combine has been a solid unit since the opening game.</p><p>Jack is a natural skater, one of the fastest in the loop once he winds up behind the goal.</p><p>&ldquo;I told him at training camp,&rdquo; said Watson, &ldquo;that he&rsquo;s free to rush whenever he feels there&rsquo;s a good opening. I&rsquo;m not worried about him getting a few penalties. That&rsquo;s expected. But you&rsquo;ll notice that Jack is playing a heads-up game not drawing the &lsquo;cheapies&rsquo;.&rdquo;</p><p>While on the subject of defensemen, it bears mention that Ivan Irwin, favorite of the gallery gods, has been gathering his share of splinters lately.</p><p>Watson realizes that Irwin is a sound backliner but the canny coach doesn&rsquo;t believe in breaking up a winning combo. That&rsquo;s why &ldquo;Ivan The Terrible&rdquo; has been enjoying the view from the sidelines.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to play him,&rdquo; Watson explained. &ldquo;But who can I bench from my starting four now? None. Even if I put Irwin in for a while think of what would happen if they scored while he was on. All the fans would get on him and I&rsquo;d look foolish tampering with a good combination.&rdquo;</p><p>OFFSIDE: The lofty state of Rangers has zoomed hockey interest from Brooklyn to the Bronx. The Wednesday night battle with Les Canadiens drew the largest non-holiday mid-week crowd since the lush war days&hellip;According to Leonard Kopett &ldquo;Ranger Rock and Roll,&rdquo; dedicated to Louie</p><p>Fontinato, will be the first popular song in this new musical idiom ever inspired by a hockey team&mdash;as soon as Ranger publicist Herb Goren finds someone to write it&hellip;His point list may not show it but Danny Lewicki is working hard for his goals&mdash;may be to hard&hellip;Watson likes his hustle and increased aggressivenes&hellip;Even Ranger practise goalie, Joe &ldquo;The Toe&rdquo; Schaeffer, drew a feature article in one of the New York dailies.</p><p>Rookie referee Gord Fevereau impressed everyone in his New York debut. Yes, even Watson&hellip; Top-notch play of Providence has many a grin to MSG moguls. Especially scoring work of Jim Bartlett and backline bashing of Aldo &ldquo;We Still Love Ya&rdquo; Guidolin&hellip;Ranger Fan Club&rsquo;s &ldquo;Meet The Players&rdquo; buffet a socko success. RCF&rsquo;s membership soared over 760 mark&hellip; Prentice and Bathgate due to bust out real soon. Both are tops.</p><h2><b>Farm Not For Them</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02205/1437014-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="548" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUMP WORSLEY</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03162/1437007-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="550" height="550"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK EVANS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Worsley And Evans Starring Despite Threat Of Demotion

<p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p><b>Founded October lit 1947</b></p><p><b>Published Weekly except monthly May through September by</b></p><p><b>Ken-Will Publishing Co Ltd</b></p><p><b>1434 Ste Catherine Street West</b></p><p><b>Montrea 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates. $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire;</b></p><p><b>$4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.</b></p><p>Entered as second-class matter, October 3, 1963. at the Poet Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879</p><p>Authorized as second-class mall. Poet Office Department, Ottawa</p><p>Printed in Canada<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01301/1437173-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="300" height="470"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>H</span>ARRY WATSON</b> is serving as interim captian of the Chicago Black Hawks while Gus Mortson recovers from surgery. Watson and Mortson are both former Toronto Maple Leafs&hellip;Ed Sandford reported to Chicago badly out of condition, but is trying hard to get back in shape. This is the end of the NHL road for Sandford. If he doesn&rsquo;t make good with the Hawks there isn&rsquo;t many more places he can go&hellip;The ChicagoBoston game scheduled for December 9 has been transferred to St. Louis due to the Bobo Olso-Ray Robinson title fight scheduled for that night at the Chicago Stadium&hellip;Tommy Ivan scoffs at rumors that the Rangers are seeking Billy Mosienko since the Hawks waived him out of the league&hellip;Camille Henry of the Providence Reds was the first player in the American League to score a goal against each of the five opposing AHL clubs this season. He completed the cycle&hellip;When Ike Hildebrand of Cleveland and Jack Bionda of Pittsburgh (he&rsquo;s been back and forth between Toronto and Pittsburgh this season) opposed each other in the AHL, it was a resumption of their lacrosse rivalry. They are rated as two of the finest lacrosse players in Canada and met in the Mann Cup finals in September for the Canadian championship&hellip;Muzz and the International Boxing Club, went to Carney Hospital in Boston to visit Gus Mortson his convalescent hockey captain. He was told that no visitors were allowed at that time of night. Instead of raising a rumpus and telling them who he was etc., Norris left the hospital without another word&hellip;And, instead, received a report from General Manager Tommy Ivan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02191/1437166-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="298" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Norris</b></figcaption></div><p><b>TERRY SAWCHUK</b> rates Gordie Howe&rsquo;s shot as one of the hardest in the National Hockey League&hellip; Bill Quackenbush also rates Howe&rsquo;s shot as just about the hardest in the loop&hellip;Sawchuk has received more publicity since joining Boston this season than he ever did as a member of Detroit. He&rsquo;s the key man on the Bruins this season while he was overshadowed by such super stars as Howe, Lindsay and Kelly while with the Wings&hellip;Tod Sloan is having a splendid season with Toronto. He has accounted for over a third of the Leaf goals himself&hellip;The American League captains this season are Enio Sclisizzi at Buffalo, Jackie Gordon at Cleveland, Frank Mathers at Pittsburgh, Andy Branigan at Providence, Obie O&rsquo;Brien at Hershey and Gordon Tottle at Springfield&hellip;Mathers, Branigan and Tottle are defensemen while the other three are members of the forward lines&hellip;Rangers are not using Defenseman Ivan Irwin too much these days but are going along with the four regulars of Gadsby, Fontinato, Howell and Evans most of the route and keeping Irwin in reserve. He dresses for every game, however.</p><p>Patrick isn&rsquo;t too high on Detroit&rsquo;s Glen Hall&hellip;&ldquo;He never will be In Terry&rsquo;s class. He hasn&rsquo;t the coordination,&rdquo; Muzz told New York writers recently&hellip;Being in sixth place hasn&rsquo;t hurt the Red Wings at the box office. They are 5,000 ahead of last year for the same period.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03114/1437159-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="298" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bronco Horvath</b></figcaption></div><p><b>BOSTON&rsquo;S VIC STASIUK</b> roomed with Bronco Horvath of the Rangers when both played for Edmonton Flyers of the WHL. One day when the Edmonton team checked into a Vancouver hotel, Horvath asked Stasiuk to take his bag up to their room&hellip;&ldquo;I picked it up and it felt like it weighed a ton,&rdquo; related Stasiuk. &ldquo;So I decided to open it up and see what was inside.&rdquo;&hellip;There was a 10-pound weight attached by heavy cord to a stick, Vic described&hellip;This was the way Horvath used to exercise his wrists&hellip;&ldquo;You&rsquo;d be surprised,&rdquo; Stasiuk went on, &ldquo;how tough it was to do until you got used to it.&rdquo;&hellip;Al Suthpin, former owner of the Cleveland Barons, presented the Harry &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Holmes Trophy to Gil Mayer of Pittsburgh as the AHL&rsquo;s outstanding goalkeeper for 1954-55. It was the third consecutive year that Mayer had won the trophy and the fourth time in five years that he captured the award&hellip;King Clancy&rsquo;s son Tommy is the new stick boy of the Toronto Maple Leafs this season. Young Clancy succeeds Bob Davidson&rsquo;s boy as stick boy. The son of Toronto&rsquo;s chief scout had held the enviable position for a few seasons&hellip;An illustration of what a great guy Jim Norris is was displayed in Boston last week. Norris, head of the Chicago Black Hawks</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0480/1437152-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="290" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</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/f0006-0574/1437204-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>More On OHA</b></h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>Once again I am looking forward to another winter of action with THE HOCKEY NEWS.</p><p>How about an article on Jim Morrison? And will it be possible this year to have a greater coverage of the Jr. OHA?</p><p>I have about 300 hockey pictures that I want to trade. Is anyone interested? My address is 17 Thelma Ave., Toronto 7, Ont.</p><p>Wm. Lynn Toronto, Ont.</p><h2><b>Letter To Irvin</b></h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>I would like you to print my open letter to Dick Irvin, now coach of the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>Mr. Irvin: You have been a coach for a long time, and it is regretful that you are trying to give the runaround to one of the greatest centre-ice players in the game today, namely George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan.</p><p>Red&rsquo;s reccrd speaks for itself. In the American League his marks will probably never be broken. And if you give him a chance like Eddols did last year, he will probably better his point total of 53, which rates him with the all-time Chicago greats. I witnessed the Hawk-Toronto game Oct. 26, where you centred Sandford with Watson and Litzenberger. And they all looked like bush leaguers without Red.</p><p>I hope by the time this letter is printed that you will have fully recovered your hockey senses and will be using Red on that great line again.</p><p>Harold Hood Peterboro, Ont.</p><h2><b>Awfully Young</b></h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>In your issue of 22nd October Carl Voss is quoted as having stated that Chadwick is &ldquo;the best referee of all time and I&rsquo;ve seen them all since 1916&rdquo;.</p><p>Again in the issue of 29th October the same remark has been credited to Frank Boucher. As both Voss and Boucher must have been all of nine year old in 1916 these statements are highly amusing to observers of hockey whose memories take them back half a century or more!</p><p>Bill Chadwick has possibly been tops during the past five or six years but comparisons are odious when we think of Cooper Smeaton, Lou Marsh, Ag&rsquo; Smith, Bill Stewart, M. Ion, George Gravel, to mention only a few.</p><p>A.N. Risk Kingston, Ont.</p><p><b>(Ed. Note: Good memories, perhaps?)</b></p><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I&rsquo;m a keen hockey fan and like to have the right answer to all hockey questions that come up from time to time.</p><p>That&rsquo;s why I want to try the book that has all the answers, the NHL Press and Radio Guide. Please tell me how I can get a copy of this book and how much it cost?</p><p>Bill Waters Hamilton, Cat.</p><p><b>(Send $1.00 to McKenzie Enterprises Ltd., 003 Sun Life Bldg. Montreal, Que., and a copy will be sent to you by return mail.)</b></p><h2><b>In Reply</b></h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>In the November 5th edition of the HOCKEY NEWS in the Fan Forum department, my attention was attracted by a letter sent in by Donald Nelson of Detroit in which lie states and I quote: &lsquo;I see that both are Howe favorites and, I imagine, both live in or close to different NHL cities.&rdquo; Unquote.</p><p>Mr. Nelson has certainly misquoted me when he said that I was a Howe favorite. because I&rsquo;m not. Much as I admire Mr. Howe&rsquo;s scoring ability (which would be foolish of me to deny that he isn&rsquo;t a great player), I prefer the ROCKET who has been and still is my life long idol. However, I want to congratulate Mr. Nelson on his diplomacy in viewing this delicate subject,</p><p>I also want to congratulate the HOCKEY NEWS for the fine story on &ldquo;Busher&rdquo; Curry who is such a deserving guy and everything that Mr. Lunny said about him in his story, plus much more. How about a story on Henri Richard and Jean-Guy Talbot in the future issues of the HOCKEY NEWS?</p><p>Joan Marcoux Alexandria, Ont.</p><h2><b>Any Buyers?</b></h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>I have been a subscriber to your fine hockey paper for the past five years and think that it is the best.</p><p>If anybody would like to buy hockey or baseball material, I would be very glad to hear from them. My address is George Dube, Apt. 5, 16 Laval St., Quebec 4, PQ.</p><p>George Dube Quebec<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, P.Q.&mdash;</p><p>Lynn Patrick, general manager of the Boston Bruins, always has had a healthy respect for Jean Beliveau, whose timely sniping and polished playmaking has helped the Montreal Canadiens immeasurably in their impressive early season showing.</p><p>&ldquo;I first saw Beliveau in a lend-lease game,&rdquo; he recalled. &ldquo;I was coaching the Bruins then and Milt Schmidt was playing. Anyway, Milt picked up a loose puck behind his own net and headed for the opposite end. Beliveau comes around the net about ten yards behind Milt. It looks like strictly no contest because Schmidt was one of the fastest men in the league, especially when tailed on a breakaway.</p><p>&ldquo;But Beliveau catches him before he hits the Canadiens&rsquo; blueline, reaches out and whips the puck off his stick. Miltie was the most astonished guy in the rink.</p><p>&ldquo;&lsquo;Say, that kid&rsquo;s a comer,&rsquo; he said to me when he got back to the bench. &lsquo;We&rsquo;ll have to watch him&rsquo;.&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick was watching Beliveau from a seat in the press box in the Montreal Forum when Le Gros Bill scored all the Montreal goals&mdash;three of them in 44 seconds&mdash;as Habs defeated the Bruins 4-2 earlier this month.</p><p>Cal Gardner had been banished by Referee Jerry Olinski and 26 seconds later Hal Laycoe followed him into exile.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll never be able to withstand Canadiens&rsquo; power play,&rdquo; observed Patrick prophetically, &ldquo;particularly with Beliveau out there.&rdquo;</p><p>How right he was! At 0:42 of the second period with the score 2-0 in Bruins favor, Beliveau took passes from Bert Olmstead and Doug Harvey and beat Terry Sawchuk from point blank range. At 1:08 he accepted relays from Olmstead and Rocket Richard and scored again on an identical shot.</p><p>Patrick looked like a man on the way to the gallows as the teams faced off again, Bruins&rsquo; two-goal advantage having been wiped out in two quick thrusts. Harvey got the puck, carried it over the Boston blueline and passed to Olmstead. The hardworking winger shoved the puck over to Beliveau. He wound up for his slap shot and the whizzing disk eluded Sawchuk&rsquo;s desperate lunge. The time was 1:26&mdash;three goals in 44 seconds.</p><p>The hat trick was well off the NHL record for speed. Bill Mosienko scored a triple in 21 seconds for the Chicago Black Hawks against the Rangers in New York on March 23, 1952, the final game of the 1951-52 season. Lorne Anderson, a rookie from the New York Rovers, was in the nets that night. Gus Bodnar assisted on all Mosienko&rsquo;s goals, a feat matched in Montreal by the lanky Olmstead.</p><p>Neither Beliveau nor Mosienko came close to the fastest two goals. Nels Stewart, &lsquo;ol Poison of the old Montreal Maroons, tallied twice in four seconds back on Jan. 3, 1931, against the Bruins, setting a mark that in all probability will stand forever.</p><p>Meanwhile Beliveau is being hailed as the player most likely to lead the NHL in scoring as he is always terrific in the stretch.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m happy to have gotten off to a good start this season,&rdquo; said Beliveau. &ldquo;You know, generally I&rsquo;m a slow starter. Back in 1951-52 with the Quebec Aces, I was 25 points behind the scoring leader in early December.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;And you finished on top,&rdquo; he was reminded.</p><p>Beliveau nodded and a smile crept over his face as he recalled his surge to the top of the scoring list, a feat he duplicated with the Aces the following year.</p><p>Le Gros Bill has led every league he ever played in. Last season in the NHL he finished third, two points behind his teammate Bernie Geoffrion, winner of the Art Ross Trophy, and one point behind Richard.</p><p>If Beliveau winds up in the cherished top spot this season, it will be a case history repeating itself. For in 1950-51 with the junior Quebec Citadelles he got 61 goals and 68 assists, supplanting Geoffrion as the junior league&rsquo;s scoring champion!</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01252/1437273-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="316" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02221/1437266-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="292" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lynn Panick</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Patrick One of Beliveau’s Best Boosters

<div class="byline">LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Dick Gamble, a slim left winger who blazed his merry way to 23 goals in his rookie year in the National Hockey League, has been sold by the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>Six days after he was dropped by the Habs, the Quebec Aces of the Quebec Hockey League acquired his contract. The price was not disclosed.</p><p>Gamble, a six-footer carrying 177 pounds on a slim frame, thus returns to the scene of some of his amateur triumphs. He played for the Aces before the QHL dropped its amateur status in favor of minor professionalism.</p><p>Gamble, unfortunately, never lived up to his early promise as a pro. Somewhere he lost his shooting eye and his production skidded steadily until last season he was traded to the Chicago Black Hawks. Then the Hawks farmed him out to Buffalo in the American League where he recovered his old form, banging 38 pucks into rivals&rsquo; nets in 45 games.</p><p>Habs reacquired him this season but patience was exhausted when he failed to score in 12 league games. In his 1955 debut with the Aces he scored twice against the Chicoutimi Sagueneens.</p><p>&ldquo;Gamble&rsquo;s trouble is nerves,&rdquo; observed Frank Selke, the Habs&rsquo; managing director. &ldquo;He ties himself up so completely that he practically freezes. If he could relax and play naturally, I believe he would be a very useful man. But he doesn&rsquo;t seem to be able to do that.&rdquo;</p><p>Meanwhile an attempt to replace Gamble with Marcel Bonin, a 24-year-old native of Montreal performing with the Boston Bruins, fell through.</p><p>Lynn Patrick, general manager of the Bruins, and Frank Selke conferred in Montreal but no deal materialized.</p><p>&ldquo;We weren&rsquo;t interested in letting Bonin go,&rdquo; said Patrick. &ldquo;Not without an adequate replacement.&rdquo;</p><p>Meanwhile there is cheering news in the camp of the Habitants. Hard-working Calum MacKey, who underwent knee surgery in the early Autumn, is expected to rejoin his mates soon.</p><p>MacKay, who picked up 14 goals in only 50 games last season, reports that the operation was a success.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no pain in the knee at all,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m wearing a brace now and taking exercises to strengthen it. It gets better every day and I&rsquo;m anxious to play.&rdquo;</p><p>With Gamble gone and MacKay idle, coach Toe Blake has been using Claude Provost at left wing on a line with Jackie Leclair and Floyd Curry. A rookie from Shawinigan Falls, Provost scored the first goal of the NHL career in Boston on Nov. 6, his 75-foot slap shot sailing through two defenders and whizzing behind a startled Terry Sawchuk.</p><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>

Gamble Returns To Aces, As Deal With B’s Fails

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont&mdash;</p><p>Tim Horton makes the difference.</p><p>That&rsquo;s the way Toronto Maple Leaf President Conn Smythe feels about the Pony Express of the defense whose leg has kept him commuting from the infirmary to the ice this season.</p><p>&ldquo;When Tim&rsquo;s out there, we have the man who can take the puck and sweep away to take the pressure of our side and put it on the other side,&rdquo; says Smythe. &ldquo;When he&rsquo;s not out there, we lack that and that&rsquo;s when we stop winning.&rdquo;</p><p>The Leaf record this season strongly supports Smythe&rsquo;s contention. While Timothy was still convalescing from the leg fracture he suffered in collision with New York&rsquo;s Bill Gadsby last Spring, the Leafs were having a difficult time buying a win.</p><p>In five road games, they failed to produce a win and were resting&mdash;but not in peace&mdash;in fifth place when Horton rejoined them in the final week of October.</p><p>A five game unbeaten streak accompanied Horton&rsquo;s return to action, and Leafs vaulted into second place. But Horton suffered another injury to the same leg in Montreal when he collided heavily with the boards and the bone was bruised on the site of the previous fracture.</p><p>Immediately the Leafs returned to their pre-Horton form and suffered their first home loss of the season, 3-0 to New York Rangers, and then travelled to Detroit to take a 4-1 beating.</p><p>&ldquo;Our foremost thought it to get Horton back in uniform,&rdquo; says general Manager Hap Day.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03168/1437335-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="265" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tim Horton</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04134/1437328-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="298" height="396"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Conn Smythe</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Smythe Says Tim Horton Makes Big Difference

<p><b>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>Vic Stasiuk, a native-son from Lethbridge, Alta., playing with his third National Hockey League club, appears to have finally come into his own as the hockey player he was touted to be.</b></p><p><b>Traded off to the Boston Bruins last summer by Detroit&rsquo;s Jack Adams in the mammoth swap which involved Marcel Bonin, Terry Sawchuk. Real Chevrefils and Warren Godfrey, Stasiuk finally found the scoring range during the past week, scoring four goals in two games.</b></p><p><b>He opened up against the New York Rangers on November 10 by potting a pair. His first goal neutralized an effort by Larry Popein. Then he scored Boston&rsquo;s fourth goal as they won the game, 5-1. He also set up a marker.</b></p><p><b>Playing against the Toronto Maple Leafs in Toronto on November 12, Vic was responsible for two more goals as the Bruins nipped the Leafs, 3-2. With the score tied 1-1, he went to work converting a pass from Cal Gardner to give Boston a 2-1 lead and extended the lead to 3-1 seven minutes later to put the game on ice.</b></p><p><b>In saluting him as the player-of-the-week THE HOCKEY NEWS is proud to offer a nod to an under-rated hockey player who may be in for his greatest year in the National Hockey League.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0591/1437481-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="308" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Vic Stasiuk</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Player-of-the-Week

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0668/1437533-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="641" height="627"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the best magazine I&rsquo;ve read yet on hockey. It&rsquo;s easy to read and easy to look at. The pictures are very clear and distinct and &lsquo;the stories contain information that doesn&rsquo;t appear in other magazines. I believe you&rsquo;ve really scored with HOCKEY PICTORIAL.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0753/1437526-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="651" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Sawchuk</b></figcaption></div><p>&lsquo;I think HOCKEY PICTORIAL is tops in every way and I know that the other players in the National Hockey League feel the same way. I would say the same thing even if the first issue didn&rsquo;t contain a story on</p><p>me. It won&rsquo;t be long before fine HOCKEY PICTORIAL is as much a part of a hockey fans reading as The Hockey News. A truly great magazine.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0842/1437519-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="636" height="624"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;My wife and I took a subscription to HOCKEY PICTORIAL before the first issue came out and were mighty happy we did now that we&rsquo;ve seen a couple of issues. It&rsquo;s the best magazine that&rsquo;s over come out on hockey and I&rsquo;m sure that hockey fans everywhere will go for it in. a big way. They should as it has everything that a hockey fan could hope to read.&rdquo;</p><h2><b><i>HOCKEY</i> PICTORIAL</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0930/1437512-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="1602" height="572"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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The Stars Pick A Winner!

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>An ailment with a name as long as his aggressive record in the National League has put Capt. Gus Mortson of the Black Hawks on the shelf for a month or perhaps longer. The veteran rearguard underwent emergency surgery in Boston November 2 and was expected to be hospitalized for two weeks.</p><p>The operation was for &ldquo;something like a cyst,&rdquo; reported Dr. Edward R. Browne, Bruin team physician, extending from. Mortson&rsquo;s small intestine. In technical medical description the trouble was termed &ldquo;an intestinal abscess causing inflammation of the deverticlum.&rdquo;</p><p>Here in Chicago, the Black Hawk physician, Dr. Myron J. Tremaine, explained that the ailment carries all the pains and symptoms of an appendicitis. &ldquo;Unless the appendix has already been taken out, you seldom diagnose what the real trouble is until after surgery has begun,&rdquo; he stated.</p><p>Regardless of what Mortson&rsquo;s trouble is, Chicago is rather sure to be in trouble behind its blue line until he gets back into action. &ldquo;He is the only one of our defensemen with the real knack of skating the puck out of our end and out of trouble,&rdquo; a dejected Coach Dick Irvin observed.</p><p>&ldquo;Look at the record the past couple of weeks when we had Mortson and then suddenly had to do without him. When he was in there last week we went three games and allowed only three goals, but in the next three games with Gus in the hospital, 10 goals went through Al Rollins.&rdquo;</p><p>The record actually didn&rsquo;t turn top bad from the one string to the other; however, it was bad enough to perturb Irvin who is accustomed to winning hockey games and doesn&rsquo;t propose to alter the habit merely since losing contact with such as Rocket Richard, Jean Beliveau and Boom Boom Geoffrion.</p><p>Mortson&rsquo;s presence in the first three games was, nevertheless, a strong factor as the Black Hawks shutout Boston, 2-0; walloped the Canadiens, 4-1, but then succumbed to a stundy Toronto crew, 2-0. That was two wins and a loss good for four points which moved the team into a tie for second place.</p><p>The Chicago-less Mortson games saw the Bruins and Red Wings rally in the late stages to salvage 3 to 3 deadlocks and the Rangers then skated into the Chicago Stadium to administer a sound 4 to 2 beating to Irvin&rsquo;s athletes. The two ties, of course, added two more points to the team total, but other clubs were a little better and the Hawks fell to within a point of the NHL cellar.</p><p>Mortson&rsquo;s loss brought about immediate contact with Buffalo, Chicago&rsquo;s American League affiliate, for a temporary replacement, but the Bisons were also injury-ridden and the proposed transfer had to be postponed.</p><p>Help will undoubtedly be available from Buffalo soon, however, and foremost candidates for the advance into the big time seem to be Frank Sullivan and Pierre Pilote who were tested at Chicago training camp and Al Dews-bury who was an in and out performer with the Hawks from 1950-51 to 1953-54.</p><p>In the meantime, Irvin continues to laud the talents of young Elmer Vasco, captain of the St. Catharines Teepees in the Ontario Junior loop, who would be a Black Hawk rearguard right now if it weren&rsquo;t for a contract stipulation which decrees he must play one more season of amateur hockey.</p><p>Irvin has seldom been as enthusiastic over a young player in his entire career as he is when the talents of the 195-pound youngster are mentioned. While they can&rsquo;t get his name on a pro contract until next year, the Hawks can bring Vasco up for a three-game trial this season and expect it to happen.</p><h2><b>Under Knife</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01270/1437564-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="573" height="888"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUS MORTSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Cyst Shelves Gus Mortson Adding To Chi-Hawks’ Woes

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>That ol&rsquo; debbil injury bug stung the Toronto Maple Leafs again just one week after they got all their bodies put back together again.</p><p>First they lost Tim Horton, who had already missed the season&rsquo;s first seven games while convalescing from last spring&rsquo;s leg fracture. Then Eric Nesterenko joined him in the infirmary. Ron Stewart also dropped in for a brief visit.</p><p>Horton suffered a bone bruise on the just-mentioned right leg bone and will be lost to Leafs for a minimum of two weeks. Nesterenko sustained a knee injury which will keep him for 10 days. Stewart merely had to live time off to allow the deep elbow gash he suffered early in the season to heal, since constant practice and play was keeping the wound open.</p><p>To offset these losses in man-did considerable emergency juggling in their farm system.</p><p>The defensive shortage was plugged when Jack Bionda was recalled from Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Lea-gue and for the second time he was obliged to make his debut in the unfriendly confines of Detroit Olympia.</p><p>Four forwards figured in manouevres to keep Leafs&rsquo; attack from stalling. Dave Reid, a University of Toronto junior, was signed and promptly broke in with the NHL varsity. Right winger Barry Cullen, the former St. Catharines Teepee ace, was recalled from Winnipeg Warriors of the Western League to replace Nester and Les Duff was shifted from Pittsburgh to Winnipeg to replace Cullen.</p><p>The fourth figure, Willie Marshall, who was going stale from sitting on the bench, was returned to Pittsburgh.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03206/1437595-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="306" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eric Nesterenko</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“Ol’ Debbil Injury” Stings Leafs Again-Nesty Hurt

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>S</span>TATISTICS Andrew Alex Hebenton was born in Winnipeg, Man., October 8, 1929, stands 5&rsquo;9&rdquo; and and weighs 180 pounds. A right winger with a left handed shot, he played amateur hockey with the Montreal Senior Royals, turning pro with Cincinnati in 1949-50. He spent the next five seasons with Victoria Cougars and joined the Rangers at the start of the present campaign.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD BEFORE A GAME:</b></p><p><b>Steak.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD ANYTIME:</b></p><p><b>Has no favorite food&mdash;just likes to eat.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE:</b></p><p><b>Victoria, B.C.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</b></p><p><b>New York.</b></p><p><b>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;Love Is A Many Splendored Thing.&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>BEST ACTRESS:</b></p><p><b>Grace Kelly.</b></p><p><b>BEST ACTOR:</b></p><p><b>John Wayne.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALIST:</b></p><p><b>Has none.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST:</b></p><p><b>Frankie Laine.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA:</b></p><p><b>Glenn Miller.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE TV PROGRAM:</b></p><p><b>The George Gobel Show.</b></p><p><b>GREATES THRILL IN HOCKEY:</b></p><p><b>Being honoured with a night by Victoria fans last season.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02250/1437626-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="300" height="441"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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INSIDE STUFF About Andy Hebenton

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>OSTON&mdash;</b> The throwing of debris onto the ice for assorted reasons may be fashionable in some hockey circles, but it has gone out of style officially at Boston Garden.</p><p>Because of frequent delays in games to remove debris from the Garden ice surface, as well as complaints from customers struck by objects, President Walter Brown of the Bruins has established a no-throw rule here with police enforcement.</p><p>Since the new rule has been in effect, Bruins&rsquo; game have been virtually uninterrupted by people with pitching ambitions.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Boston Has No Throw Rule

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-10" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1046/1437681-1-eng-US/f0010-102.jpg"></div><p><b>CREIGHTON, DAVID THEODORE</b></p><p><b>Born, Port Arthur, Ont.. June 24, 1930.</b></p><p><b>Center. Shoots left. 5&rsquo;11&rdquo;, 165 lbs. Last amateur club: Port Arthur Bruins (Juniors).</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Dave Creighton’s Record

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How well do you know your HOCKEY?

<div class="byline">By GEORGE DUFFY</div><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>The Rhode Island Reds are off and running in the American Hockey League and Zellio Toppazzini, Paul Larivee and Camille Henry are the main reasons.</p><p>In the first 10 games for the Reds, this capable forward line rolled up 52 points. Already fans around the American Hockey League are wondering if the &ldquo;CPZ&rsquo;s&rdquo; are not on the way to setting records similar to those created by the unforgettable 1948-45 line of Carl Liscombe, Roger Bedard and Harvey Fraser.</p><p>Toppazzini with nine goals and 11 assists was the league&rsquo;s top scorer heading into the month of November. More important, &ldquo;The Topper&rdquo; was hitting harder and driving into the corners to dig out the puck. His play already has created the impression that &ldquo;Mr. Z&rdquo; may be up with the N.Y. Rangers before the season is over. Providence now has a fine working agreement with the Manhattan National Leaguers.</p><p>Larivee, improving as a skater and one of the hardest working hockey players in the business today, trailed Toppazzini in the scoring with 18 points on seven goals and 11 assists. Paul, soft-spoken, makes enough good passes in a season to fill a volume.</p><p>Henry seems to be the man Paul and Zellio have been loking for. The former N.H.L. rookie star is danger around the cage and rammed in seven goals in his first 10 games plus picking up seven assists. The curly-haired Frenchman has been great on grabbing rebounds and flipping them past enemy net-minders.</p><p>Of course Topper & Co. know that displacing the famous line of Liscombe-Fraser-Bedard in the minds of R.I. hockey followers will take a lot of doing. For example, Liscombe & Co. combined to roll up 292 points during the 1947-48 season when Carl set a league record with 118 himself. Fraser added 97 and Bedard 77.</p><p>The following season when Providence won everything in sight, the Liscombe-Fraser-Be-dard trio accounted for 281 points with Liscombe getting 102, Bedard 90 and Fraser 89.</p><p>That was a terrific line. Fans still remember how Liscombe used to rip blazing shots past rival goalies. Fraser was the center and seemed to carry the puck as if he had a string on it. Bedard, the youngest of the three, was always digging, into the corners and just about everywhere to get hold of the puck.</p><p>After 10 games, Larivee and his two wingers Toppazzini and Henry are scoring at a better than five points per game pace. A continuation of such a torrid pace would enable this current Providence line to finish with over 300 points.</p><p>That would be an amazing total. But at this stage of the 1955-5 6 American Hockey League campaign, this is an amazing line.</p><h2><b>Z For Zealous</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01283/1437757-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="594" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ZELLIO TOPPAZZINI</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Toiler</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02242/1437750-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="601" height="591"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAUL LARIVEE</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Slick Sniper</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03190/1437743-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="598" height="1188"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CAMILLE HENRY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Terrible Trio Puts Rocket Juice Into Reds

<div class="byline">By PAUL SULLIVAN</div><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>It is high, if not past time, for a critical finger to be poked where it may do some good into the matter of schedule-making in the American Hockey League.</p><p>Let it be noted first, that setting up dates to meet demands of owners, time-tables, and economics is no pushover. But then, too,&rsquo; there are such considerations as the interests of fans and players, not to mention the demands of common sense.</p><p>The Pittsburgh Hornets, for example, opened at home with Buffalo on Oct. 8, then loafed until Oct. 14, when Springfield, Hershey, and Providence were met on successive nights.</p><p>Thereafter nothing happened until Oct. 22&mdash;a clear span of six days&mdash;when Hershey came to town. That lone contest with the Bears was the only Pittsburgh engagement between Oct. 16 and Oct. 28. But from Oct. 28 through Oct. 30, the Steel Citians met Cleveland twice and Buffalo once.</p><p>This writer didn&rsquo;t have to be told by Coach Howie Meeker&mdash;but he was!&mdash;that much scheduling makes it tough for a team to keep on playing edge. Long stretches between games are almost certain to produce letdowns, while three tussles in as many evenings can wreck a squad physically.</p><p>The Hornet home program for 1955-&rsquo;56 calls for eight Friday tilts. Friday may ultimately prove a fair hockey night in Pittsburgh, hut it surely hasn&rsquo;t done so thus far. The Yellow Jacket-Baron affair of Oct. 28 drew a sorry turnout of 2,431 customers. Bucking high school football and TV boxing on top of Saturday precedent has been just a little too tough.</p><p>Wednesday, it is true, has failed to produce spinning turnstiles in recent years. It, too, has had televised fights to contend with. But it can&rsquo;t be much worse than Friday and at least it gives the players action at midweek and pretty well eliminates the Friday-Saturday-Sunday killers.</p><h2><b>Too Much Roughing</b></h2><p>Meanwhile, along with schedule reform, the AHL would be wise to begin looking toward reduction of rough stuff on the ice. The Pittsburgh-Cleveland back-to-back series in late October produced the staggering aggregate of 63 penalties in two games&mdash;31 in the first and 32 in the second. These included 2 game misconducts, 11 misconducts, and half-a-dozen fighting majors.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Clubs Find AHL Slate Unwieldy

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>The Hershey Bears, in the throes of their poorest American Hockey League start in many years, got a much needed lift when Larry Zeidel, a rugged rearguard, who. had quit training camp on the eve of the club&rsquo;s league opener, reported for duty.</p><p>The Bears dropped six out of their first eight starts, including four out of five at home, with the result Coach Murray Henderson, beset by injuries, welcomed Zeidel with open arms.</p><p>Larry reported on a Thursday night, worked out with the club the following day, and &lsquo;took his regular turn on the Hershey blue line against the Buffalo Bisons two days later.</p><p>Zeidel was acquired by the Bears from the Detroit Red Wings as a substitute draft choice when Hugh Coflin, their original selection, asked to remain with the Edmonton Flyers, of the Western League, because of sickness in the family. He belted 10 goals and picked up 40 assists with Edmonton last year.</p><p>One of the few bright spots in the Hershey picture to date has been the play of Dunc Fisher, Gordie Wilson and Kenny Smith, who have emerged as the Bears&rsquo; most potent scoring combo. After eight games, Fisher had registered eight goals and four assists to pace the club. Wilson chalked up goal and six assists, and Smitty had himself one tally and four assists.</p><p>Meanwhile, last year&rsquo;s top line of Arnie Kullman, Obie O&rsquo;Brien and Fred Pietsch has been hampered by injuries and illness, with the result that they have functioned as a unit only twice in the first eight games.</p><p>Kullman and O&rsquo;Brien missed games because of knee and hip injuries, while Pletsch, a flu victim several weeks ago, hasn&rsquo;t been himself since the attack.</p><p>Fortunately, Ed Kryzanowski has stepped into the offensive picture to take up some of the slack missing because of the first line&rsquo;s difficulties. The big defenseman is second to Dune Fisher in the lamp lighting department, having amassed six goals in eight games. He also collected a pair of assists along the way.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04147/1437819-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="305" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hugh Coflin</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Shot In Arm</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05121/1437812-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="538" height="724"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LARRY ZEIDEL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Life Looked Grim For Hershey Until Zeidel Instilled Zip

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

MAURICE RICHARD

<h2><b>Hank Leading</b></h2><p><b>Hank Bassen of the Buffalo Bisons has the best goaling average in the AHL although Johnny Bower has allowed less goals.</b></p><h2><b>Hot Reds</b></h2><p><b>The Providence Reds have three players in the first four scorers in the league.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON WED. A.M., NOV. 16</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01283/1437951-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="604" height="190"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9 Pittsburgh 7 at Hershey 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02219/1437944-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="608" height="874"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY NOV. 11 Pittsburgh 1 at Cleveland 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03178/1437937-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="604" height="580"></div><h3><b>Springfield 2 at Providence 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04134/1437930-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="606" height="516"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY NOV. 12 Buffalo 3 at Cleveland 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0599/1437923-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="596" height="616"></div><h3><b>Providence 0 at Pittsburgh 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0680/1437916-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="608" height="720"></div><h3><b>Springfield 7 at Hershey 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0858/1437909-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="606" height="734"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY NOV. 13 Hershey 2 at Providence 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0946/1437902-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="600" height="470"></div><h3><b>Cleveland 2 at Buffalo 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1042/1437895-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="606" height="368"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sunday, Nov. 13)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1137/1437888-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="606" height="552"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1225/1437881-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="595" height="327"></div><h2><b>Just One Big Happy Hockey Family</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0769/1437874-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="2382" height="2152"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SPRINGFIELD INDIANS are pretty much a family affair, as this picture indicates. The occasion was a house warming for Jack Butterfield, the Indians&rsquo; general manager, and some of the sports writers and telecasters got together and surprised the Butterfields in their new home. Back row, Coach Red Mitchell, Butterfield, owner Eddie Shore and his son Teddy. Front row, Mrs. Butterfield and Mrs. Shore.</b></figcaption></div><div class="sidebar"><p>The Toronto Maple Leafs use BIKE Supports, and BIKE Trainers Tape.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By AL HOOPER</div><p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>The toughest league in the world, bar one, is getting the move-over-for-us-men treatment from three brash up-starts.</p><p>The Wild Oone are Winnipeg Warriors, Regina Regals and Seattle Americans. The league, it almost went without saying, is the Western Hockey League.</p><p>Since it came of age in 1948, the WHL has handled newcomers with the typical disrespect reserved for hockey rookies. Not one team enjoyed a successful first season. Nobody, but nobody, showed the veterans the hack of their laps.</p><p>Along came &rsquo;55. Alf Pike&rsquo;s Winnipeggers brought with them a brand new arena and the same kind of attitude.</p><p>Regina has its old rink but Coach Frank Boucher is too set in his ways to be impressed by anything less than G. Howe or M. Richard.</p><h2><b>Plenty Of Ambition</b></h2><p>Seattle is fraught with ambition. The Americans Bombers, sat out one year&mdash;&rsquo;54. They needed only a dozen games this year to make Western Canada wish Seattle would mind its own United States.</p><p>Winnipeg is hardly a surprise. The Gateway to Portage la Prairie and points west has been the hub of hockey hijinks since Lester Patrick thought up a Western Canada Senior League in the early twenties.</p><p>If Coach Pike has a problem, it is who&rsquo;s on first. Montreal and Toronto have made a working hobby of welcoming Winnipeg back to professional hockey.</p><p>Conn Smythe&rsquo;s contribution includes Bashing Bill Burega, Barry and Brian Cullen, Hugh Barlow and people like them. The only reason Barlow and the Cullens aren&rsquo;t Winnipeg&rsquo;s best line is that Montreal and Frank Selke got there first with Eddie Mazur, Paul Masnick and Gary Blaine.</p><p>The third line is a composite. Toronto donated Gary Aldcorn and Mike Nykoluk. Montreal rebutted with centre Skippy Burchell. When Wee Wilie Mosienko unretired after several terms with Chicago Black Hawks, Pike had to make room for him on the third line.</p><p>Winnipeg Warriors started in low gear. They have shown they&rsquo;ll finish in high.</p><p>Boucher hasn&rsquo;t got Pike&rsquo;s kind of support. He does own one of the west&rsquo;s best goalies in portly Lucien Dechene. He has proven pros like Bill Senick and Elliott Chorley. He boasts the potential rookie of the year in Winnipeg&rsquo;s 20-year-old Gordie Stratton.</p><p>And he has been nudging the prairie leaders since league president Al Leader said go.</p><p>Seattle coach and general-manager Billy Reay took the direct approach. He went out and bought a team.</p><p>Victoria refused to part with centre Eddie Dorohoy for anything but money. Reay got Eddie. New Westminster owned brother Ollie Dorohoy. Reay got Ollie. The Dorohoys and Alex Kuzma compose one of the league&rsquo;s best lines. Kuzma? Victoria. For money.</p><p>Then Reay used his influence with Montreal Canadiens, who owed him a little something for services rendered. Reay &lsquo;came back with the best goalie in the league&mdash;Charles Hodge from Lachine, Que., and more recently from Montreal&rsquo;s Royals and Canadiens; Hodge may not be long for this league. Next year&hellip;</p><p>But this is this year. And Seattle Americans are running one-two and look as though they mean it.</p><p>Rookies should know better.</p><h2><b>Personality</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01291/1437982-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="570" height="858"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAX McNAB</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Brash Upstarts Throw WHL Into Turmoil

<p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>No one takes more of a battering in modern hockey than the goalkeepers. Amidst flying pucks, sticks and skates, they must guard their citadel, and in recent years the injuries suffered by netminders have increased considerably.</p><p>A good example of the trials and tribulations suffered by modern netminders was shown in a recent game in Regina between the Vancouver Canucks and Regina Regals. Before the game was over, the Regals had employed the services of two goalies.</p><p>Sub-goalie Cliff Dobson started the game in the Regina cage. Regular netminder Lucien Dechene suffered a painful Knee injury in a hot practice session the previous day and bossman Frank Boucher called on Dobson with Dechene in no fit condition to play.</p><p>Dobson, a native of Regina, is a former senior goalkeeper who has performed with Saskatoon Quakers of the old Western Canada Senior League; Regina Caps of the Saskatchewan Senior circuit and other western clubs. But at the 7.50 mark of the first period, with Regals leading 1-0 at the time, Dobson took a point-blank shot from Vancouver centreman Phil Maloney right on the forehead and went down in a heap. It was a tremendous shot and the puck bounced along the crease after it deflected off Dobson&rsquo;s head.</p><p>Dobson managed to get off the ice with the assistance of the trainers and his teammates. But he collapsed as soon as he reached the dressing room and it was out of the question for him to continue in the game.</p><p>That left Frank Boucher with both netminders out of action&mdash;Dechene with a knee injury and Dobson with this latest injury. With no other netminders available, Dechene came to the rescue by putting on the pads in the emergency.</p><p>However, he went into the game cold and found it difficult to manoeuvre on the sore knee. Soon after he took up the position, Carl Kaiser tied it up by deflecting Maloney&rsquo;s shot into the net.</p><h2><b>Quick Addition</b></h2><p>Vancouver quickly added two more goals, by George Ford and Les Lilley, and both resulted from the fact that Dechene couldn&rsquo;t move around on his injury. He was down and out of the net making a save from Ray Cyr when Ford pushed home his goal. He was out of the net in similar fashion saving from Bruce Carmichael on Lilley&rsquo;s goal.</p><p>But Dechene warmed up as the game wore on and for the rest of the contest, he held Vancouver scoreless&mdash;despite the injury. He averaged 10 stops a period. The Regals got one goal back in the third period to make the final score 3-2 in Vancouver&rsquo;s favor.</p><p>It was a tremendous show of team spirit and fortitude by the veteran Dechene, who came out of the stands (injury and all) to do his best for the team.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06142/1438089-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="274" height="403"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Phil Maloney</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Life’s No Picnic For Goalies

<div class="byline">HOOPER.</div><p>NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Max McNab is in the curious position of having as much said and written about his personality as his hockey ability.</p><p>Chroniclers of McNab&rsquo;s exploits seem compelled to mention, along with his playing virtues, his honesty, his sincerity, his basic decency and the way he likes people.</p><p>Hockey players are people. McNab is a hockey player. At the risk of sounding trite, McNab is a hockey player&rsquo;s hockey player.</p><p>When things are going badly for the New Westminster Royals, as they are now, people say: &ldquo;Poor Max McNab,&rsquo;&rsquo; and mean it. Occasionally somebody says: &ldquo;Poor Kenny MacKenzie,&rdquo; but it&rsquo;s liable to turn out to be Kenny MacKenzie.</p><p>MacKenzie owns the Royals. McNab coaches them. The Western Hockey League is a tough one in which to be playing coach. A few people do it well. McNab is one of them.</p><h2><b>Hard Worker</b></h2><p>Because he is a mature personality McNab works hard at both playing and coaching. His coaching style is simple. It embraces the philosophy of what they used to call &ldquo;easy coaching&rdquo;. McNab doesn&rsquo;t drive his men. He assumes his responsibilities without question and expects others to do the same. It is a great team for responsible citizzens.</p><p>In his second coaching year with the Royals, McNab has been fortunate, but his good fortune has been personally inspired. His players work hard for him but he works as hard as any of them.</p><p>Last year, his third with the Royals, he scored 32 goals and 81 points and was voted the league&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player.</p><h2><b>Centre lee Fixture</b></h2><p>For 70 games, the tall, spare, dark figure of Max McNab was a fixture at center ice. He never seemed to tire, had no lingering slumps. His prolonged form permits him an odd mixture of professional traits. He is loose but smooth. He is perfectionist but selfless to a fault.</p><p>On the ice, too, he has style.</p><p>Early this year, Royals were playing Vancouver Canucks and Royals had scored twice in the last two minutes to trail 7-6. Now three seconds demained. McNab took a pass. He was in alone. Only a rookie goalie, Ray Miku-Ian, was in the way. McNab glided in. He sparred briefly and made his play. The rookie beat him.</p><p>The tumultous roar in New Westminster&rsquo;s arena subsided to a vast, frustrated lull. Without word or gesture, McNab skated to the net-side circle for the last meaningless faceoff.</p><p>A week later Coach Bud Poile of Edmonton Flyers heard the story. He nodded approvingly.</p><p>&ldquo;What else from Max?&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a pro.&rdquo;</p><p>In the vernacular of the trade, it is the supreme compliment.</p><h2><b>Warriors On Warpath</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02252/1438034-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="517" height="950"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GARY BLAINE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03226/1438027-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="529" height="961"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ED MAZUR</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04199/1438020-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="587" height="581"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAUL MASNICK</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05171/1438013-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="564" height="581"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRIAN CULLEN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Max Is More Than Just A Player

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Something new and different in hockey trafficking is taking place this year in Regina.</p><p>Normally, the flow of hockey traffic moves from north to south, with Canada sending many of its starry puck-chasers south of the border to fill out the playing ranks of American teams. In fact, there is hardly an American born player on the rosters of the four US teams in the National Hockey League and all entries in the American Hockey League.</p><p>This flow of hockey players south is balanced by the movement of American football and baseball stars north to play for Canadian teams.</p><p>But this season in Regina, hockey talent has been moving south to north. Right now on the lineup of the Regina Pats, the defending western junior champions and Memorial Cup finalists, are two American-born players who came north to Regina this year for the expressed purpose of playing hockey.</p><p>Furthermore, these two U.S. boys were actually scouted and brought to Regina by Pats&rsquo; talent hunters. They didn&rsquo;t just come up on their own accord.</p><p>The boys in question are Ray Tapini, a goalkeeper, and Ron Johnson, a forward. They hail from Marquette in Michigan.</p><p>Tapini made an outstanding debut in goal for the defending western champs. He turned aside many labelled drives as the Pats whipped the Edmonton Oil Kings 6-3 in the league opener in Regina. Coach Murray Armstrong sat out Tapini in Pats&rsquo; second game to test young Gerry Deis, a Regina high school player, under fire. Johnson played in both games as the Pats jumped off to two victories.</p><p>Tapini and Johnson were spotted by Pats&rsquo; officials while playing for the Marquette juvenile team. Every year a minor hockey tournament is held at Duluth, Minnesota, and the Pats have been represented at this tourney by their juvenile club for the past few years. Last year the Marquette team, sparked by Tapini and Johnson, captured the tourney honors.</p><p>Del Wilson, charge d&rsquo;affaires of Pats&rsquo; minor hockey chain, made the contact with Tapini and Johnson at last year&rsquo;s tournament and out of it came the invitations to the two youths to attend the Pat training camp this fall. They did and made spots on the team.</p><p>Under CAHA regulations, Tapini and Johnson are not classed as &ldquo;imports.&rdquo; However, players brought in from other CAHA branches are &ldquo;imports.&rdquo;</p><p>The Pats had three imports from Montreal trying out at their training camp but all have since been released. Last to go was Terry Gray, a forward. Gray showed up as good, if not better, than many of the local players on the Regina team. However, Pats felt he wasn&rsquo;t a good enough import to warrant keeping him on the team.</p><p>&ldquo;If Gray had been a local player,&rdquo; said coach Armstrong, &ldquo;he would have made the team hands down.&rdquo; Gray&rsquo;s services were offered to Melville Millionaires of the Saskatchewan Jun ior League but the Milionaires apparently weren&rsquo;t too anxious to sign another import.</p><p>Armstrong&rsquo;s last year&rsquo;s championship club has been badly depleted by graduations from junior ranks and the movement of many of the boys to continue their education. Only six hold-overs&rsquo; remain from the team which whipped everything in the west last year&mdash;only to bow to the power-packed Toronto Marl-boros in five games in the Memorial Cup final.</p><p>Three of the six holdovers are on defense, so in this one department coach Armstrong feels he is in pretty good shape. Murray Balfour, last year&rsquo;s all-star, Grant Munro and Wayne Klinck&mdash;a four-year veteran&mdash;are all back for another year on the blueline. In addition, Armstrong has John Palenstein, who played a couple games with the Pat juniors last winter before going down to juvenile ranks.</p><p>Marty Howe, a good prospect from the Pat juvenile, rounds out the five-man blueline brigade.</p><p>On the forward line, the holdovers are Billy Hicke, Harold Ottenbreit and Con Collie. Hicke came up from the juvenile club late last season and was one of their best men during the long playoff grind.</p><p>Hicke, a winger last year on a line centered by Bev Bell and with Harvey Flaman on the other wing, has been moved into a centre slot. He has Ottenbreit with him on one wing and rookie Joe Lunghamer on the other.</p><p>Collie is playing on a line centered by Bryan Whittal, en other juvenile who played briefly with the juniors last winter, and with Walker from Balcarres on the other wing.</p><p>Johnson is performing on the third line with another pair of rookies&mdash;Murray Massier at centre and McDonald on the wing.</p><p>The Pats have lost their brilliant little netminder&mdash;Joe Selinger. Selinger was still eligible for another year in junior company but decided to take advantage of a scholarship offer at an American university. To replace Selinger, coach Arm strong has Tapini from Marquette and young Deis of Regina. The Western Junior League has lost a team for the second year in a row. Two years ago the Calgary Buffaloes dropped out and this year the Moose Jaw Canucks were forced to sus pend operations for one year when their rink burned to the ground.</p><p>The Saskatchewan Junior League, however, has increased its ranks by one team. The Saskatoon Wesleys folded operations but Melville and Yorkton joined up along with Prince Albert, Flin Flon and Humboldt-Melfort. Handling the new Yorkton club is Bill Hunter, who took most of the Moose Jaw Canuck team there with him. Bill &ldquo;Legs&rdquo; Fraser, the former Ottawa netminder, is handling the reins at Melville.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Traffic In Hockey Talent Takes Sudden Reverse Twist

<h2><b>Lynn&rsquo;s A Sinner</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>V</span>ic. Lynn of Saskatoon picked up a misconduct and a game misconduct penalty Friday night in Victoria to take over the individual &lsquo;bad mans&rsquo; honors with a total of 36 minutes in the cooler.</b></p><h2><b>Blinky Still Leads</b></h2><p><b>Blinky Boyce, New Westminster&rsquo;s fireball, continues to lead the individual scorers picking up one goal and five assists the past week to increase his total to 24 points, three better than his teammate and centrerman Bobby Love.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON SUNDAY A.M., NOV. 6 PRAIRIE DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01291/1438239-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="610" height="164"></div><h3><b>COAST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02220/1438232-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="604" height="136"></div><h3><b>RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>Monday October 31</b></p><p>Vancouver 0 at Calgary 2</p><p><b>Tuesday November 1</b></p><p>Seattle 3 at New West. 0</p><p>Vancouver 3 at Edmonton 5</p><p>Saskatoon 3 at Winnipeg 4</p><p><b>Wednesday November 2</b></p><p>New West. 6 at Seattle 4</p><p>Vancouver 3 at Saskatoon 5</p><p><b>Friday November 4</b></p><p>Saskatoon 1 at Victoria 3</p><p>Edmonton 0 at Calgary 5</p><p>Vancouver 2 at Winnipeg 3</p><p><b>Saturday November 5</b></p><p>Victoria 6 at Seattle 0</p><p>Saskatoon 0 at New West 9</p><p>Calgary 5 at Edmonton 3</p><p>Vancouver 3 at Regina 2</p><h3><b>MONDAY, OCT. 31 Vancuover 0 at Calgary 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03162/1438225-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="600" height="294"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, NOV. 1 Seattle 3 at New Westminster 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04136/1438218-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="610" height="344"></div><h3><b>Vancouver 3 at Edmonton 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05114/1438211-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="614" height="656"></div><h3><b>Saskatoon 3 at Winnipeg 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0696/1438204-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="602" height="576"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2 Vancouver 3 at Saskatoon 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0776/1438197-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="618" height="627"></div><h3><b>New Westminster 6 at Seattle 4</b></h3><p><b>SEATTLE:</b> Goal: Hodge; defense: Lavitt, Sinclair, Bedard, Bownass, Busch; forwards: Bell, Fllion, Bradley, E. Doro-hoy, O. Dorohoy, Kuzma, Fonteyne, Fielder, Watson.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal: Bentley; defense: Dawes, Bergeron, Matthews, Zeniuk; forwards: McNab, McLean, Love, Goodwin, Fashoway, Boyce, Schmautz, Jablonski, Roggeveon, Zarle.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> McArthur; linesman: Bill Knott.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0864/1438190-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="608" height="762"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Winnipeg 3, Vancouver 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0958/1438183-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="610" height="530"></div><h3><b>Calgary 5, Edmonton 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1052/1438176-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="608" height="472"></div><h3><b>Victoria 3, Saskatoon 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1145/1438169-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="608" height="435"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 New Westminster 9, Saskatoon 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1239/1438162-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="610" height="780"></div><h3><b>Victoria 6, Seattle 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1333/1438155-1-eng-US/f0014-132.jpg" title="f0014-13" width="610" height="504"></div><h3><b>Calgary 6, Edmonton 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1424/1438148-1-eng-US/f0014-142.jpg" title="f0014-14" width="610" height="628"></div><h3><b>Vancouver 3, Regina 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1522/1438141-1-eng-US/f0014-152.jpg" title="f0014-15" width="606" height="430"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Saturday, Nov. 5)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1619/1438134-1-eng-US/f0014-162.jpg" title="f0014-16" width="606" height="1408"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1719/1438127-1-eng-US/f0014-172.jpg" title="f0014-17" width="610" height="322"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most goals:</b> Gordie Fashoway, NW 13.</p><p><b>Most assists:</b> Blinky Boyce, NW 18. Most first goal of game</p><p>Carl Kaiser, Van.</p><p>Bill Shvetz. Cal.</p><p>Most game winning goals</p><p>Bill Wylie, Van.</p><p>Skip. Teal, Vie.</p><p>Most hat tricks</p><p>Steve Witiuk, Cal. Ed. Stankiewicz, Ed., Ray Kinasewich, Ed. Doug Macauley, Vic. Gordie Fashoway, NW.</p><p>Most shutouts</p><p>Lucien Dechene, Reg.</p><p>Ray Fredericks, Cal.</p><p>Marcel Pelletier, Vic.</p><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1819/1438120-1-eng-US/f0014-182.jpg" title="f0014-18" width="588" height="244"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>QUEBEC, Que.&mdash;</p><p>A dream, long cherished by George &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach, general-manager of the Quebec Hockey League Aces, came true here last week when Dick Gamble was sold to the Quebec club by the NHL Canadiens.</p><p>Unofficially the price was reported at $1.0,000. The Quebec club is said to have made such an offer more than 10 days ago when it was first announced that Gamble had been cut by the Habitants who had an unwieldy roster consequent of the return of Bernard &ldquo;Boom Boom&rdquo; Geoffrion to full time duty.</p><p>Ever since Gamble hit the big time leaving the Aces to join the Canadiens in the autumn of 1951 Imlach has been singing praises for the Moncton, N.B., winger who had a couple of glamorous seasons with the Quebeckers in the old QSHL. In the 1950-51 campaign Gamble scored 46 goals, which, if not the highest production on record in the Slater circuit, is an impressive total in any shinny loop. It was passed a few years later by Jean Beliveau, then at the peak of his amatear career as he thrilled Quebec fans, who jammed the Coliseum here and was magnet to make the turnstiles spin merrily in every rink of the circuit. Beliveau scored 50 goals for Aces in the 1952-53 campaign.</p><p>But, this is a Gamble story.</p><p>When Montreal reporters would accompany the Royals to Quebec Imlach would received them warmly in his office on the mezzanine floor of the Coliseum. Soon after the amenities had been exchanged Imlach would break in: &ldquo;How&rsquo;s Dick Gamble doing?&rdquo;</p><p>Whether the report was good or so-so, the Quebec club GM would say with emphasis: &ldquo;Well any time he&rsquo;s not wanted in the big league I&rsquo;ll be glad to take him back, and with open arms. There&rsquo;s one guy who can always play hockey for me, so long as I have a team somewhere.&rdquo;</p><p>The deal which sent Gamble back to Quebec was completed late in the afternoon of Thursday, Nov. 10. Gamble was on an east-bound plane at six o&rsquo;clock, arrived at the coliseum in time to get into the line-up and scored two goals as Aces beat Chicoutimi Sags 6-4 to take a firmer grasp on fourth place. The trailing Lions of Trois Rivieres had been threatening.</p><p>Gamble, who was 27 on November 16, scored 23 goals and helped in 17 more his first season with the Habitants in the NHL. His next season, 1952-53, his output dropped to 11 tallies and 13 assists and after 32 games in 1953-&rsquo;4 season he had scored only four times for Canadiens, when he was dropped to the QHL Royals.</p><p>His 20 goals in the last 32 games of the QHL schedule testified to his proficiency as a scorer in the minor leagues and this fact was again evident last season when he collected 38 goals, 21 assists for 50 points for Buffalo Bisons in the AHL.</p><p>Imlach is confident that Gamble will start levelling again for Aces, and with his help the Quebeckers will make up for plenty of lost ground in this year&rsquo;s race in the Quebec circuit.</p><p>Going into the sixth week the Aces were in fourth place 15 points off the pace set by the roaring Shawinigan Cataracts.</p><h2><b>Fulfilled At Last</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01262/1438277-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="534" height="534"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICK GAMBLE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02227/1438270-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="540" height="879"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PUNCH IMLACH</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0015-01

Imlach’s Long Cherished Dream Comes True-He’s Got Gamble

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03206/1438308-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg"></div><p>&ldquo;When it comes to reading about the world&rsquo;s greatest sport, THE HOCKEY NEWS is in a class by itself. A wonderful Xmas gift for young and old.&rdquo;</p><p>Jack Waters, Salesman, Edmonton, Alta.</p><p>&ldquo;Nearly all the players read THE HOCKEY NEWS regularly. You can&rsquo;t beat it for keeping you posted on the different leagues and following your pals on teams in other leagues.&rdquo;</p><p>Gordie Howe, Detroit Red Wings</p><p>&ldquo;A year&rsquo;s subscription to THE HOCKEY NEWS is Xmas gift that any hockey fan would cherish. There just isn&rsquo;t a better gift for the price that a keen fan could receive. HOCKEY NEWS is tops with me.&rdquo;</p><p>William De Savigny, Engineer, Montreal, Que.</p><p>&ldquo;The easiest way to overcome what to get the man in your life for Xmas is a subscription to THE HOCKEY NEWS. He&rsquo;ll think of you every time the postman delivers it&hellip;35 times a year.&rdquo;</p><p>Miss Janice Collins, Secretary, Boston, Mass.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-03

IT’S GIFT TIME AGAIN!!

<h2><b>Rugged Slate</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>M</span>ontreal Royals had a rugged week of it, playing three games, tying two and losing one to wind up in second place, just two points behind Shawinigan Fail Cataracts.</b></p><h2><b>Close Race</b></h2><p><b>Gerry McNeil is giving Bobby Perreault a tough fight for the goaltending honors this year. Only 2 goals separate them after 17 games.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON MONDAY A.M., NOV. 14</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01257/1438409-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="601" height="173"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8 Montreal 2 at Trois-Rivi&egrave;res 2</b></h3><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defense; R. Rousseau, Ingram, Deslauriers, Amadlo; forwards: Corriveau, Clune, Thorndy-craft, P. Goyette, G. Rousseau, Burnett, Denis, Gravelle, Laplante, Hoekstra.</p><p><b>Three Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal: Hughes; defense: Wong, M. Goyette, Morgan, Lamirande; forwards: Joannette, Scherza, Kapusta, Wall, Stoddard, Leclerc, Gooden, Powell, MacNeil, Bisaillon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02204/1438402-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="609" height="513"></div><h3><b>Quebec 2 at Shawinigan 3</b></h3><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defense: Ernst, Karrys, Levandoski; forwards: Buchanan, Powell, Power. Thibault, Ford, Labadie, Tremblay, Vinet, Cossette, Achty-michuck.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defense: Hodgson, Turner, G. Bouchard, Langlois, Leger; forwards: Broden, Faulkner, Wray, Desaulniers, Dube, Grosse, KuChur, Thomson, D. Bouchard.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03167/1438395-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="600" height="515"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9 Montreal 1 at Chicoutimi 1</b></h3><p><b>ROYALS:</b> Goal: McNeil; defense: R. Rousseau, Ingram. Deslauriers, Clune; forwards: Thorndycraft. Goyette, G. Rousseau, Burnett, Denis, Gravelle, La-plante. Hoekstra, Amadlo. Kennedy.</p><p><b>CHICOUTIMI:</b> Goal: Paille; defense: Glaude. Taillefer, Boy. Hanna, Labrosse; forwards: I.ocas, Topoll, Campeau. Hicks, Perreault, Moore, Lalonde, Cressman, Smrke.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Simard; linesmen, Demers Boileau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04139/1438388-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="602" height="417"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 Chicoutimi 4 at Quebec 6</b></h3><p><b>CHICOUTIMI:</b> Goal: Faille; defense: Glaude, Roy, Labrosse, Hanna; forwards: Cressman, Locas, Perreault, L. Smrke, Topoll, Campeau, Hicks, Moore, Lalonde.</p><p><b>QUEBEC:</b> Goal: Evans; defense: Levadoski. Ernst, Karrys, Schnieder; forwards: Gamble, Thibault, Powell, Ford, Labadie. Tremblay, Achtymichuk, Maxwell. Cossette, Vinet.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0596/1438381-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="601" height="765"></div><h3><b>Shawinigan 3 at Montreal 2</b></h3><p><b>Shawinigan Falls:</b> Goal: Perreault; defense: Hodgson, Turner, Leger, G. Bouchard, Langlois; forwards: Broden, Faulkner, Kachur, Wray, Desaulniers, Dube, Grosse, J. P-Denis, Thomson.</p><p><b>ROYALS:</b> Goal: McNeil; defense: R. Rousseau, Deslauriers, Clune, Ingram, Amadlo; forwards: Goyette, Laplante, L. Denis, Thorndycraft, Corriveau, G. Rousseau, Hoekstra, Gravelle, Burnett.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jim Slater; linesmen, Erie Milford, Alex Barilko.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0762/1438374-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="614" height="626"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, NOV. 13, 1954 Chicoutimi 1 at Shawinigan 2</b></h3><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;goal: Paille; defence: Glaude, Roy, Hanna, Labrosse: forwards: Campeau, Topoll, F. Perreault, Locas, Cressman, Moore, Hicks, Plamondon, Lalonde, Smrke.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;goal: R. Perreault; defense: Leger, Turner, Hodgson, Langlois, G. Bouchard; forwards: Broden, Faulkner, Kachur, Dube, Grosse, Denis, Thomson. R. Bouchard, Wray.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0857/1438367-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="608" height="431"></div><h3><b>Quebec 3 at Three Rivers 4</b></h3><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defense: Dawson, Levandoski, Ernst, Karrys; forwards: Gamble, Buchanan, Thibault, R. Powell, Schneider, Labadie, Tremblay, Achtymickuk, Maxwell, Cossette, Vinet.</p><p><b>Three.Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal: Hughes; defense: Goyette, Morgan, Lamirande, MacNeil; forwards: Joannette, Scherza, Kapusta, Wall, Stoddard, Leclerc, Godden, D. Powell, Gagnon, Bisaillon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0946/1438360-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="608" height="594"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sunday, Nov. 13)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1041/1438353-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="610" height="646"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1135/1438346-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="610" height="280"></div><h2><b>Potent Quartet Takes A Breather</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0672/1438339-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="2303" height="1530"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RELAXING ACES are seen above in a practise pause at the Quebec Coliseum. Left to right: Gene Achtymickuk, Michel Labadie, George &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach, general manager, and Ludger Tremblay.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div><h2><b>Able Veteran</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02189/1438478-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="566" height="906"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>OTT HELLER</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>New Strength</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03148/1438471-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="558" height="897"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAUL KNOX</b></figcaption></div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>With but three weeks of the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA schedule completed, things shape up like a dogfight between the five clubs. A week ago Windsor Bulldogs and Chatham Maroons were locked in a last-place deadlock rut, but now they are right up with the pack, both teams having won two games this week, while Chatham also dropped one decision.</p><p>Before the season got underway the belief in certain quarters was that Chatham would again be the weak sisters of the league, but the veteran former NHL&rsquo;er, Ott Heller, who will be 45 years old on June 2, took over the coaching reins and signed enough new material to make the Maroons a real threat. Heller still takes a turn on the Chatham defence.</p><p>Another veteran former NHL&rsquo;er, Jimmy Peters, new playing-coach of the Windsor Bulldogs, apparently got what he wanted, when the club owner, Bill Butcher, negotiated a one-year deal with Stratford Indians, whereby goalie Bruce Dale went to the Bulldogs in exchange for rightwinger, &ldquo;Chuck&rdquo; Henderson. President &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Meier of the Indians also received a cash consideration, but failed to reveal the amount.</p><p>The acquisition of Dale, who replaces Marve Edwards, goalie for the St. Catharines Teepees when they won the Memorial Cup, evidently was just what the doctor ordered, because Windsor defeated the Dutchmen in Kitchener, Saturday night, and came right back Sunday afternoon to nose out Stratford Indians 2-1.</p><p>In the seven games ending Nov. 6, Kitchener is still leading the field, but was only able to pick up on win and a tie while losing two. Stratford, in second place, three points behind Kitchener and one point ahead of Owen Sound, split even in two games, winning against Owen Sound, but losing to Windsor.</p><h2><b>Disastrous Record</b></h2><p>Owen Sound has had the most disastrous record of late, splitting the points at home with Kitchener, but losing their other four games. Their regular goalie, Bobby Gillson, is abed with illness and in the emergency they were granted the right by the OHA to use Keith Woodall, alternate goalie for the Dutch-men, in the last two games, both of which were losing efforts to Chatham and Stratford.</p><p>Chatham and Windsor are still sharing last place, but they are but one point in arrears to Owen Sound and only two points behind Stratford. Windsor&rsquo;s two wins against no losses serves notice on the rest of the pack that they are ready to spurt, although a trick knee of Andy McCallum, ace defenceman, may hurt their chances. He was injured in Sunday&rsquo;s game with Stratford and carried off the ice on a stretcher, but after the game it was reported that his old injury was irritated, and he probably will be back in action before the week is out.</p><p>Canada&rsquo;s representatives in the Olympic Games world hockey tourney at Cortina, Italy, Kitchener Dutchmen, are having no soft touches in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA campaign and their chief problem appears to be on the defence, where they should be strong enough for Canadian hockey, but when they compete in the world tournament they must drop three defencemen owing to their previous pro experience.</p><p>However, the Dutchmen have been bolstered by four young players this season, leftwingers Paul Knox and Bob White, rightwinger Don Rope and centre Bill Colvin. Rope was with Kitchener two years ago but went to the NOHA for last year&rsquo;s campaign. Bob White is a graduate of the Kitchener Canucks junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; team, who saw limited action with the Dutchmen toward the tail end of last season. Colvin and Knox were members of Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;s Majors in junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; ranks last season, while another Irish graduate, Jim Logan, joined them last season. Logan, Knox and Colvin are highly regarded by the Toronto Maple Leafs and they have requested that the former pair be allowed to play the stipulated three games with them, which would not affect their amateur status.</p><p>Addition of Rope, Knox and Colvin to the Kitchener front wall permits shifting rightwinger Jack McKenzie, graduate of the Brandon Wheat Kings three years ago, to the rearguard, where he has been playing of late. This will serve to partially at least fill the gap on defence for the Dutchmen when they compete in the world tourney, as Joe Schertzl, Howie Lee and Bud Kemp are ineligible due to their previous pro activities.</p><p>Kitchener Dutchmen play their last OHA game on Jan. 14, prior to leaving for the Olympic Games tournament, and will not play again in this group until Feb. 11. Which means that they have a hefty schedule before and after their trip to Europe, being scheduled to play four and five games per week. It has also served to give the other four teams a heavy list of dates, and on that account the eventual OHA champions could be the team with the most reserves and the one running into the fewest injuries.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-02

Sizzling Dogfight Shapes Up As 5 Clubs Struggle For Lead

<div class="byline">By HUGH BOWMAN</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The first two weeks of action in the OHA Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; loop has added further weight to the pre-season prediction that junior hockey addicts were in for the best balanced league in years. With 16 games played every club in the league has registered in the win column and only the Barrie Flyers have failed to win at least two games.</p><p>&ldquo;A terribly weak defence&rdquo; is Hap Emms explanation of the Flyers cellar-standing. The Flyers who once again are sponsored by the Boston Bruins after a lapse of two years over the Sunday hockey question, dropped four in a row after winning their opener against the Guelph Biltmores.</p><p>The Hamilton-Tiger-Cubs with the heir-apparent to the Detroit throne, Dennis Riggin, between the pipes and defenceman Jack Hendrickson lighting the lamp at a goal-a-game clip set the early season pace with three wins and a tie in five starts. Toronto Marl-boros, St. Michaels College and the Guelph Biltmores are deadlocked for second with five points apiece. Kitchener and St. Catherines who&rsquo;ve played on three games are bracketed with four points while the Flyers are in the cellar with only two.</p><p>The Toronto Marlboros who are slight favourites to repeat their Memorial Cup triumph of last year were setback by the St. Catharines Teepees in their seasonopener but showed their class in their second outing at home by pumping in five goals in the third period to crush the Kitchener-Waterloo Canucks 7 to 1. The Dukes big loss from their Memorial Cup team was of course Billy Harris currently making a strong bid for Calder Cup honours with the Toronto Maple Leafs. They still have the strongest defence in the league however in returning veterans Al McNeil, Bobby Baun and Ron Casey along with Harry Neale up from Weston.</p><p>The Canucks despite their onesided loss to Marlies are expected to be a power this year after a miserable showing last season. The addition of Willie O&rsquo;Ree, the only negro in the league, and Walt Bradley from the Quebec Frontenacs gives them plenty of scoring punch. The two graduates of Phil Watsons school of hard knocks are pivoted by Stan Baluik who led the league in assists last year with 51. In three games the high scoring trio have amassed a total of 20 points.</p><p>Rudy Pilous starting his sixth year as coach and general manager of the St. Catharines Teepees hasn&rsquo;t missed the playoffs yet and indications are that he won&rsquo;t start this year. The Teepees have won two of their three starts and but for some grand larceny by Dennis Riggin might have been batting a thousand. Riggin kicked out in the neighbourhood of 60 shots as Hamilton edged the gold and black 4 to 3 in their season opener. The Teepees big gun is defenceman Elmer Vasko who rolls end to end like a runaway freight&hellip;and at six foot, two and two hundred pounds he&rsquo;s just about as big and hard to stop. The Teepees have been dubbed the St. Catharines Gypsies by Rex Stimers, the tireless foghorn of the Welland canal. They&rsquo;ve just returned from a tour of the west where they racked up three victories over junior teams in St. Boniface, Port Arthur and Fort William. After a brief stay in their own league they head east for Laurier Cup games in Quebec and Montreal and exhibition encounters in Brock-Ville and Belleville.</p><h2><b>Sixth Year</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04110/1438509-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="534" height="654"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RUDY PILOUS</b></figcaption></div><p>The St. Michaels College Majors who were expected to be the only possible &ldquo;weak sister&rdquo; in the league due to a decided lack of experience have been anything but that. The Collegians have won two and tied one in their first five starts. The all-round play of Frank Mahovlich, possibly the oustanding individual player in the league, the scoring of Pat Hannigan and the return of Noel Price to the Irish defence after a brief whirl with Marlboros have been the big factors in the surprise showing of the Irish.</p><p>The Guelph Biltmores have come up with the early season scoring leader in hard working right winger, Bobby Forhan. The Newmarket boy, in his third season, with the Hatters, has scored 7 goals and helped on 6 others for 13 points in 7 games.</p><p>The Hatters in those 7 games were unbeaten at home but failed to gain a point on the road. Coach Eddie Bush says &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll win on the road too when we get those two football players back.&rdquo; Bush was referring to Bill Graham who led the ORFU in scoring this year with the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, and Ron Howell who has been a standout in his sophomore year in the Big Four with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Graham was tied for seventh in the Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; scoring race last year while How-ell, a younger brother of the New York Rangers captain, Harry Howell, led the leagues defencemen in scoring with 18 goals.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-04

Flyers Only Weak Spot In Strong Junior Setup

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>HE EXPLOSION&hellip;</b>it just seemed a matter of time before a suspension or two would be handed out in the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race&hellip;Marcel Clements of Sudbury Wolves was the first to receive one for hitting Frank Arnett of North Bay Trappers over the head with his stick&hellip;then Johnny Bailey of Pembroke Lumber Kings was given a match penalty and automatic suspension for hitting playing-coach Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty of Sudbury Wolves over the head with his stick&hellip;the injured required stitches to close their wounds&hellip;it was the first game in which O&rsquo;Flaherty actually played this season&hellip;he was forced into action because of injuries to some of his players&hellip;the NOHA must first consider all the facts before allowing Clements and Bailey to play again&hellip;they come under suspension the minute they receive a match penalty&hellip;in the past the NOHA has imposed a two-game suspension for such infractions&hellip;we suggest, and VERY STRONGLY, that the NOHA come right out and warn these free-swinging players that they are liable to sterner action than that previously imposed&hellip;hitting players with sticks is NOT SPORT by any stretch of the imagination&hellip;this game of hockey is too great a game to be besmirched by such actions&hellip;it&rsquo;s time for the NOHA to get tough&mdash;AND I MEAN TOUGH!&hellip;</p><p><b>A GOOD JOB&hellip;</b>senior hockey in Northern Ontario lost a man who has truly done a marvellous job not only for his own team but for hockey in general&hellip;Russ Ramsay Jr., manager of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, decided he could no longer retain that important post because of health and other very important business matters&hellip;since the Greyhounds, who last won the Allan Cup in 1924, were re-organized Russ has been an important cog in the machine&hellip;he has been an Ambassador of Goodwill throughout the entire country by virtue of his personality and hockey-sense&hellip;the Greyhounds accepted his resignation with regret and the accolades, some of them belated, were spontaneous the moment many of us learned he had resigned&hellip;he gave hockey and his team everything in him, and has certainly left his mark in this wonderful sport&hellip;fortunately the team can always draw on Russ&rsquo; widespread contacts and shrewd application of cold, hard facts when they may get in a jam&hellip;a good job well done, Russ! Good luck in your splendid new job!&hellip;</p><p><b>ANDY MOVES&hellip;</b>Andy Anderson, clever Sudbury netminder, has moved to North Bay Trappers for the balance of the season&hellip;he&rsquo;s on loan and reverts back to Sudbury at the end of the campaign&hellip;Bobby Mitchell, who started the season with North Bay, could not make road trips because of his job so Pete Palangio had to dicker for another boy&hellip;Bobby, however, will also see action with the Trappers during home games&hellip;Rheal Savard may be back in action for Pembroke Lumber Kings by the time you read this he was injured in a game against Soo (Mich.) Indians&hellip;he suffered a fractured hand and for a time it appeared he might be out a month or so&hellip;the team has arranged for a special cast and Rheal has absence almost in half&hellip;he was one of the top men in the Big Ten Scoring Parade when he was injured&hellip;</p><p><b>ODDITY&hellip;</b>Al Millar, who currently (at this writing) is the top netminder in the Northern Ontario senior circuit, nabbed an assist on a goal the other day&hellip;it happened against Pembroke&hellip;Watch out for Tatter McClellan!&hellip; man, that boy&rsquo;s on the loose!&hellip;he fired four goals and one assist just before we got down to getting this column off to Montreal&hellip;his return to Sudbury Wolves has increased the fans&rsquo; excitement in that fabulous Nickel City&hellip; but it did not do the Pembroke fans&rsquo; state of mind much good since Tatter ran wild against their Lumber Kings&hellip;Tatter represents one-third of the once-famous Kid Line composed of Mauno Kauppi, Yacker Flynn and Tatter, himself&hellip;he could make a lot of difference to the Wolves this season&hellip;Johnny Ubriaco and Kenny Watson have left the Northland for California&hellip;both had hopes to play hockey again up here&hellip;Ubriaco suffered that compound fracture of his leg early last season and was out the rest of the way&hellip; he talked to me about business possibilities in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and showed a keen interest in opening a bar there&hellip;then a deal fell through and he decided to go back to Los Angeles&hellip;Kenny figured he could get his release from the Soo Greyhounds and play for Sudbury Wolves, but here another deal did not materialize so he pulled stakes&hellip;both Johnny and Kenny proved very popular players in Northern Ontario&hellip;</p><p><b>BERT ON LOOSE&hellip;</b>Bert Giesebrecht of Pembroke Lumber Kings has hit 20 points in the NOHA scoring parade and he&rsquo;s still going strong&hellip;at the moment five Pembroke players completely dominate the scoring parade&hellip;Sudbury Wolves now enjoy a five-point lead over the Soo Indians and North Bay Trappers&hellip;the Soo Greyhounds are in a very unfamiliar spot&mdash;last place&hellip;but Coach Sugar Jim Henry has the team and the ability to change that in short order&hellip;in fact, by the time this gets into print, popular Sugar Jim may have that accomplished&hellip;he&rsquo;s a guy who has great potential as a coach and given time will surprise a lot of people&hellip;good coaches are the order in the NOHA&hellip;fellows like Johnny &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty, the immensely-popular Pete Backor, Eddie Reigle, Cully Simon and, of course, Sugar Jim, himself&hellip;some of the teams have experienced just a little trouble on attacking units but as we head into the second half of November you can expect mighty big things&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01223/1438440-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="570" height="570"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERT GIESEBRECHT</b></figcaption></div><p><b>EDDIE&rsquo;S GOING BIG&hellip;</b>a fellow I admire very much is Eddie Joss of the Soo Indians&hellip;Eddie has always been a fiery competitor and had a tendency of getting foolish penalties&hellip;this cut down his scoring in past season.&rsquo;&hellip;but Eddie has taken a new lease on life and is watching himself closely this season&hellip;the result is a terrific two way performer&hellip;he&rsquo;s scoring almost every game and his Coach, Pete Backor, says he is mighty pleased&hellip;keep it up. Eddie!!&hellip;and WATCH THOSE PENALTIES!!&hellip;a group of fans in Soo, Ontario, and Soo, Michigan, sent Jolly Jack Adams, General Manager of Detroit Red Wings a cheery note expressing confidence in the World Champions despite their slow start&hellip;Jack has a lot of friends in the North&hellip;he replied: &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t count us out. We may be having a little trouble but when we start to roll, watch out!&rdquo; I can believe that because the Wings certainly have the team&hellip;Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens are big favorites, too, up North&hellip;in fact, I bet if you took a poll it would be very close from a popularity standpoint&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>TROY, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>The amazing feats of Troy&rsquo;s Bill Tibbs continue to steal the show in the early stages of the International Hockey League season.</p><p>There never has been any question about Tibbs&rsquo; ability as a goaltender. In five previous years of IHL play, he was adjudged the All-Star netminder four times in a row and last season was assigned to the No. 2 club.</p><p>The unassuming Tibbs is off to a spectacular start in 1955-56, with five shutouts to his credit in the first 11 Bruin games. His work between the pipes has enabled Troy to win nine out of 11 starts and grab a four-game first-place lead.</p><p>Tibbs, who recently observed his twenty-fourth birthday, has allowed just 18 goals in 11 contests for a sparkling 1.64 average that puts him in a class by himself. He is threatening the IHL&rsquo;s shutout record of 11, set by Cincinnati&rsquo;s Charlie Hodge-two years ago, after blanking both Indianapolis and Grand Rapids twice and Toledo-Marion once.</p><p>Twice, the 170-pound Winnipeg native has established new consecutive shutout minutes for the International League already this campaign. His first string ended after 184 minutes and 34 seconds and included three straight whitewashings. His second skein was even longer&mdash;197 minutes and 54 seconds and took in a pair of shutouts.</p><h2><b>High On Tibbs</b></h2><p>Troy&rsquo;s general manager, Kenny Wilson, is high on Tibbs, whom he terms &ldquo;one of the best goaltenders out-side of the National League.</p><p>&ldquo;Tibbsy is playing real well.&rdquo; Wilson told THE HOCKEY NEWS. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s not making many mistakes out there and he&rsquo;s getting some help from his defense, too.&rdquo;</p><p>This is Tibbs&rsquo; second year with Troy. He previously guarded the nets two years for Toledo and two years for the now-defunct Detroit Hettches.</p><p>Indianapolis, new member of the IHL, hasn&rsquo;t given Tibbs too much trouble, but the Chiefs figure to improve as the season progresses.</p><p>Johnny Sorrell, the Hoosier coach, points out that in the 19 years he has been in organized hockey, his teams have only finished out of the playoffs twice. &ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ll make it this year, too,&rdquo; Sorrell stated.</p><p>&ldquo;You know,&rdquo; Sorrell said. &ldquo;Three boys who now are coaching in this league played for me at Indianapolis 1943-46. They are Roly McLenahan at Cincinnati, Nellie Podolski at Troy and Doug McCaig at Ft. Wayne.&rdquo;</p><p>Sorrell, who played eight years with Detroit and three with the former New York Americans in the National League, has the distinction of scoring four goals in six minutes nine seconds in the American League playoffs for Indianapolis. He was 41 years old at the time, too.</p><p>A number of former IHL skaters are listed on the Chief roster. These include speedy Roger Hayfield and Maurice Lamirande from Milwaukee, Bill Murphy from Troy, George Harrison from Johnstown and Toledo and Ed Calhoun, previously with both Ft. Wayne and Louisville.</p><p>Youngsters on the team are Center Charlie Picard, Defenseman Ed St. Louis and Winger Billy Kawulia. Bernie Hill and Terry Sheehan, along with Calhoun and St. Louis, form the defense corps.</p><p>Little Bob Lalonde, who came to Indianapolis from Flin Flon, holds forth in the nets. Forwards include Gordon Forslund, Terry Chattington and George Mylenchuk, in addition to Picard, Lamirande, Hayfield, Murphy, Kawulia and Harrison.</p><p>The Hoosiers, after winning their first two starts, dropped seven in a row before righting themselves at the expense at Grand Rapids. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be okay,&rdquo; Sorrell says.</p><p><b>ICING THE PUCK&hellip;</b>Lou Crowdis, colorful Grand Rapids goalie, accomplished two firsts the same night. He racked up his initial shutout of the season and handed Cincinnati its first shutout loss, 4-0, in Grand Rapids&hellip;Troy has won six straight times at home and is also the only IHL club with a winning mark on the road, 3-2 to date&hellip;Cincinnati&rsquo;s John (Bun) Smith, veteran leftwinger, came through with the hat trick to pace his team to an 8-3 conquest of Toledo-Marion. They were Smith first three goals of the year, too. Hawk Rookie Max Mekilok already has lit the red light nine times, one more than team capt. Billy Goold, like Mekilok a centre&hellip;At this early stage, Troy looks like the class of the league, with Cincinnati and Ft. Wayne next. Grand Rapids, Toledo-Marion may well battle it out for the fourth playoff spot.</p><h2><b>Threatened</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01230/1438540-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="564" height="864"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CHARLIE HODGE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Tibbs Human Marvel In Troy Net, Sheds Pucks Like Raindrops

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>, HALIFAX, NS&mdash;</p><p>They haven&rsquo;t had a &ldquo;home&rdquo; game yet but the Amherst Ramblers are showing the way in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League.</p><p>Because the Maritime Winter Fair has been using their ice space, the Ramblers have been forced to play their early season home games at nearby Sackville. But the move hasn&rsquo;t hurt a bit.</p><p>Slow off the starting blocks are the champion Moncton Hawks, playing for the first time under the coaching of Bert Hirschfield. But it&rsquo;s pretty close race all the way, with Saint John Beavers second and Fredericton Capitals third.</p><p>Beavers are back in senior hockey after a year&rsquo;s absence and playing consistently good hockey; But the Ramblers, who are spearheaded by native Shermie White, who pastimed for some years in the American and Quebec Leagues, have that little extra that keeps them in front.</p><p>The league had been tending pretty closely to its knitting when suddenly it erupted. Veteran Moncton defenceman Freddie Weaver took exception to a ruling of referee Dewar Judson and pushed the arbiter.</p><p>After the heated argument Weaver was thumbed off with a match misconduct and his case reported to league president Jack Fenerty of Fredericton.</p><p>Fenerty cracked down&mdash;and hard. He ruled Weaver off the ice for four consecutive league games and tagged on a fine of $100. That&rsquo;s rough but an indication the league is backing its referees to the hilt.</p><p>In the same game that cost Weaver so dearly, veteran Moncton goalie Nick Pidsodny also got into a scuffle, this time off the ice. He chased a fan through the seats at Sackville after some caustic comment.</p><p>Nick, who led all ACHL goalies last season as the Hawks sped to the championship, has been a fiery performer since he first came to the Maritimes several years ago to guard goals for Murph Chamberlain&rsquo;s Sydney Millionaires. One night in Glace Bay, when the needle hit around the 15-below-zero mark, a Bay fan dumped a pail of freezing water over Pidsodny as he was leaving for the dressing room at the end of the second period. That was the high&mdash;or low&mdash;mark in Nick&rsquo;s fiery goaltending career and it&rsquo;s just as well he didn&rsquo;t catch up with the man who emptied the pail.</p><p>Pierry Brilliant, a rightwinger showing for the first time in the Coast League, and veteran Sherm White are the main reasons why the Ramblers are showing the way in the league race.</p><p>Brilliant tops the league in goals, with 14, and the point scorers with 20 after two weeks* play. White has acted as an inspired playmaker, with 13 assists, tops, in the league. White has accumulated 15 points, good for third place. Sandwiched in between the two Amherst stars is Fredericton&rsquo;s coach Hugh Campbell. Hugh has six goals, 11 assists.</p><p>Saint John&rsquo;s Frank Kuzma, who shared the league lead after the first week with Brilliant, had a lean second week and is now in fourth place.</p><p>Leading the goaltenders is Saint John&rsquo;s Jim Shirley, with an even 2.00 record.</p><p>Meanwhile several senior B leagues are getting ready to open their schedules. The APC League has collapsed but in its place is a new four-team circuit embracing New Glasgow, Antigonish, Trenton and a combined Pictou-Stellarton entry.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Crime Doesn’t Pay, At Least Not In ACHL

<p><b>STANDING ON SUN. A.M. NOV. 6</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02155/1438595-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="564" height="182"></div><h2><b>RESULTS</b></h2><p><b>Nov. 1</b></p><p>Troy 3 Ft. Wayne 1</p><p><b>Nov.2</b></p><p>Troy 4 Indianapolis 0</p><p><b>Nov, 5</b></p><p>Ft. Wayne 8 Toledo-Marion 3</p><p>Grand Rapids 4 Cincinnati 0</p><p>Troy 3 Indianapolis 0</p><p><b>Nov. 6</b></p><p>Troy 3 Ft. Wayne 2</p><p>Cincinnati 8 Toledo-Marion 3</p><p>Indianapolis 3 Grand Rapids 2<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IHL Statistics

<h2><b>(STANDING ON SUNDAY A.M., NOV. 6)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01209/1438647-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="605" height="197"></div><h2><b>Results of Games Nov. 1 thru Nov. 6</b></h2><p>November 1</p><p>Baltimore 7 at Philadelphia 10</p><p>November 2</p><p>Baltimore 6at Washington 8</p><p>Philadelphia 6 at New H. 8</p><p>Clin. 8 at Johns. 6</p><p>November 4</p><p>Johns. 4 at Baltimore 1</p><p>Clin. 2 at Philadelphia 5</p><p>November 5</p><p>Baltimore 4 at Johns. 2</p><p>Philadelphia 6 at Washington 4</p><p>New Haven 2 at Clin. 3</p><p>November 6</p><p>Philadelphia 1 at Baltimore 8</p><p>Washington 1 at New H. 3</p><h2><b>INDIVIDUAL SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><p><b>(Including games of Saturday, Nov. 5)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02168/1438640-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="604" height="401"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS AVERAGES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03127/1438633-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="598" height="217"></div><h3><b>PENALTY LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04108/1438626-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="592" height="203"></div><h2><b>BOLS ANSWER</b></h2><p><b>George Hainsworth of Canadiens allowed only 43 goals in 44 game schedule in 1928-29.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Eastern League Statistics

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0591/1438709-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>(Solution next week)</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Pictured Chicago player.</p><p>6&mdash;Initials of Johansen of Providence Reds.</p><p>8&mdash;Name given a Leaf defenseman.</p><p>10&mdash;Former Red Wing captain.</p><p>12&mdash;Played last season with Hershey Bears.</p><p>13&mdash;Position used in old time hockey.</p><p>14&mdash;Chicago&rsquo;s sweathers have taken on a brighter&mdash;.</p><p>15&mdash;Back in 1948-49, this team was in the PCHL (abbr.).</p><p>17&mdash;Cnaeus (abbr.).</p><p>18&mdash;Hec Lalonde&rsquo;s native province (abbr.).</p><p>20<i>&mdash;</i>Initials of Wally Hergesheimer&rsquo;s brother.</p><p>21&mdash;New colour of Chicago&rsquo;s sweaters.</p><p>22&mdash;Initials of Robertson who went to Habs from Rangers in 1947 O&rsquo;Connor deal.</p><p>23&mdash;Otherwise.</p><p>24&mdash;Initials of last season&rsquo;s AHL scoring champion.</p><p>25&mdash;Boston&rsquo;s captian.</p><p>29&mdash;One of the Canadiens answers to this.</p><p>30&mdash;This team once had the &ldquo;Boilermakers&rdquo; line.</p><p>33&mdash;There&rsquo;s one at every hockey game.</p><p>34&mdash;Tellurium (Sym).</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Jack Crawford is one.</p><p>2&mdash;Number worn by Tod Sloan.</p><p>3&mdash;Clubs occasionaly hint that certain players are for&mdash;.</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of Reise, former defense star.</p><p>5&mdash;Kame given a WHL coach.</p><p>7&mdash;Billy Harris was born in this month.</p><p>9&mdash;One of the colours in the Bruins&rsquo; uniform.</p><p>11&mdash;Former Boston coach.</p><p>16&mdash;Initials of Nickolson of Hershey Bears.</p><p>19&mdash;Birthplace of Billy Harris.</p><p>20&mdash;A Canadien rookie.</p><p>22&mdash;Alfie Pike&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>26&mdash;What children learn at school.</p><p>27&mdash;A requisite for a hockey player&rsquo;s diet.</p><p>28&mdash;Complete initials of Meger, ex-Canadien player.</p><p>31&mdash;Pronoun.</p><p>32&mdash;Iridium (Syi.).</p><h2><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Solution</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Pronovoet</p><p>9&mdash;Oilers</p><p>10&mdash;L.A.</p><p>11&mdash;S.W.</p><p>12&mdash;Roy</p><p>13&mdash;Two</p><p>15&mdash;Model</p><p>16&mdash;Can.</p><p>17&mdash;Tor.</p><p>18&mdash;Led</p><p>21&mdash;Bee</p><p>23&mdash;Leo</p><p>24&mdash;Rees</p><p>27&mdash;Se.</p><p>28&mdash;Nine</p><p>29&mdash;V.E.</p><p>30&mdash;Blair</p><p>32&mdash;Benedict</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Port Col-borne</p><p>2&mdash;R.I.</p><p>3&mdash;Olson</p><p>4&mdash;New</p><p>5&mdash;Or</p><p>6&mdash;V.S.</p><p>7&mdash;Sloe</p><p>8&mdash;Taylor</p><p>12&mdash;R.D.</p><p>14&mdash;W.A.</p><p>17&mdash;Title</p><p>19&mdash;E.E.</p><p>20&mdash;Defense</p><p>22&mdash;Robert</p><p>25&mdash;E.I.</p><p>26&mdash;S.E.</p><p>27&mdash;Sold</p><p>29&mdash;Vic.</p><p>30&mdash;BE</p><p>31&mdash;A. I.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0019-05

Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0169/1438761-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="250" height="280"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0268/1438754-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="252" height="298"></div><h2><b>These Janitors Have Full Houses</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0366/1438747-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2935" height="1736"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0453/1438740-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2921" height="1646"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WHEN IT COMES to busy times in a hockey game, the goalkeepers have their hands full when they find themselves suddenly confronted with some of the sharpest shooters in the world. In the top photo, Canadiens&rsquo; Jacgues Plante does the splits to make a save off the stick of Chicago&rsquo;s Glen Skov. Dollard St. Laurent (left) and Doug Harvey (right) stand by to offer moral, if not physical support. In the lower photo, Detroit&rsquo;s Glen Hall gets a foot around the side of his nets to jam the puck and prevent Toronto&rsquo;s Ronnie Stewart from flipping it in. That&rsquo;s Larry Hillman coming in fast to check Stewart.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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