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December 3, 1955

The Hockey News December 3, 1955

<div class="byline">by Bob Hesketh</div><p>(As Seen In the Toronto Telegram)</p><p>NEW YORK.&mdash;In the old days, Muzz Patrick was saying, you would have thrown a glass of cold water in his face, asked him his name, asked him where he was and if he answered both correctly, he would have finished out the game.</p><p>That was before the benefits of medical science. It is the same in industry now. If a man gets a sliver, he reports to the infirmary and sometimes gets the rest of the day off.</p><p>When Dave Creighton of the Rangers was knocked against the boards by Fern Flaman, his knees turned to rubber and his mind went blank. The first reports out of Boston said that Creighton had a possible injury to the brain, an instrument for thinking that some hockey players do without. At any rate, Creighton combed his hair in the dressing room, told his comrades to give those Bruins hell, and walked to the ambulance for a 24-hour respite from the ardors of the NHL. The Rangers, subsequently blew the match to the Bruins.</p><p>If Creighton left the line of duty, he cannot be criticized. Any sane man would do as the doctor commanded under such circumstances.</p><h2><b>The Power Of Suggestion</b></h2><p>But there is a possibility that Creighton could have continued, which is not being overlooked by the brains behind the Bruins, Muzz Patrick and Philippe Henri Watson. As Watson is being quoted at great length, let Patrick tell it.</p><p>There was a time when Max Bentley was playing for the New York Rangers. Max, never a healthy man to begin, was forever conscious of his ailments. He was always open to the power of suggestion.</p><p>It had happened that Dr. Vincent Nardiello, who practices over the forms of Rangers and fist fighters, had examined Max because he had complained of a sore shoulder and had thought that it might be his hearth.</p><p>This information was at once conveyed to L. Patrick, the Bruin manager, by the good doctor himself, who was on speaking terms with L. Patrick through a long association with the Rangers.</p><p>There was a night when the Bruins were two points in front of the Rangers and Lynn&rsquo;s brother, Muzz, was attempting to coach them to a tie in the city of Boston. The Ranger power play, with Maxie on the point, was working with inevitable success. Maxie wore the rosy countenance of health on his cheeks.</p><p>There wag a plot.</p><p>L. Patrick selected the most influential Bruin. Cal Gardner had associated with Max when both were with the Toronto Maple Leafs. They met by more than chance in the warmup:</p><p>&ldquo;How you feeling, Max?&rdquo; Gardner asked, as though he were interested.</p><p>&ldquo;All right,&rdquo; Maxie said.</p><p>You look kinda green to me,&rdquo; said Gardner.</p><p>Whereupon Maxie turned green.</p><p>&ldquo;I heard that Nardiello said that you shouldn&rsquo;t even be playing,&rdquo; said Gardner.</p><h2><b>Patrick, Watson vs New York</b></h2><p>Bentley turned a bit greener. In the beginning he played ten seconds. After that he spent so much time beside M. Patrick they could have played rummy. When Patrick would look for him, Max would turn greener.</p><p>When he didn&rsquo;t appear, Gardner would return to the Bruin bench and delightedly blurt: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s working!&rdquo;</p><p>The Rangers blew the game and, subsequently, a playoff hole. The other night, without Creighton, they lost, 5-1. The connection may be nebulous. But Philippe Henri Watson declares that it will &ldquo;nevair &rsquo;appen again.&rdquo;</p><p>They are fascinating New York, Patrick and Watson. You can see their success reflected in the countenance of General John Reed Kilpatrick, the president of the Rangers. They are up at the box office. They are the talk of the town.</p><p>Foremost in the parade is Louie Fontinato, formerly of Guelph. Next to Pajama Game and Smokey the Golden Girl, who is appearing on 52nd St. New Yorkers wish the most to see Louie. They delight in his contortions, thrill to his checks and overlook the fact that he is just an ordinary NHL player. He dazzles them with footwork.</p><h2><b>A Job Of Ears</b></h2><p>Louie unabashedly admits that he is just ordinary. When he grimaces in objection to a penalty, Louie insists, he is merely following the demands of emotion. He has reached the heights of success, in so short a time, with due humility and with no small feeling of disbelief. Louie never thought he would have it so good.</p><p>Several times as a youth, Louie would be playing at Maple Leaf Gardens with Guelph and he would turn on the steam whenever he saw a white hat in the crowd. Louie had learned that Conn. Smythe of the Leafs wore a white hat and he always wished to look his best. Sometimes he still is startled when he sees a white hat.</p><p>Louie was overlooked as so many of the good ones coming up are overlooked. At 23 he points to his gray hair, gray only at the ends and measures each one as a milestone on the way to success.</p><p>They have been seriously looking for a Louie in New York since the night last year when B.B. Geoffrion of the Montreals attempted to cave in Ron Murphy&rsquo;s skull. The crowd went away that night wondering when the Rangers would get somebody to pin somebody else&rsquo;s ears back.</p><p>Louie looks like the man that can do it. Anybody tries to pin Loiue&rsquo;s ears back in reprisal has got a job on his hands.</p><p>They are like the handles on a loving cup.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01290/1462410-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="317" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Phil Watson</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02262/1462403-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="294" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Muzz Patrick</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

NEWS on SPORT

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>For those doleful Ranger rooters who are moaning over the fact that the Blues invariably take fewer shots on goal than their opponents perhaps the following figures will alley their anxieties.</p><p>Statistics taken on the first 15 games of the season reveal that it takes the New Yorkers fewer shots on goal to score than it does any other team.</p><p>For instance, the Watson-men required only 9.4 for every goal they scored while the shot-happy Toronto Maple Leafs tallied only once in every 21 shots taken.</p><p>It must be remembered that the figures are for &ldquo;shots on goal&rdquo; not the sallies that go sailing wide or over the nets. Perhaps this indicates that Rangers are &ldquo;corner shooters&rdquo; or shoot wide on scoring opportunities.</p><p>GM Muzz Patrick doesn&rsquo;t believe that the statistics are valid in assessing a team&rsquo;s offensive worth.</p><p>&ldquo;The last time Rangers won the Stanley Cup (193940) they were almost always outshot by their opponents&rdquo;, said Muzz. &ldquo;They did more passing and made their shots count. Even the weakest shot from 90 feet out is counted in those statistics, as long as it is on goal.&rdquo;</p><p>Muzz has a point there but there are observers who feel that the more shots taken by a team the better the chance of scoring, no matter how weak they are.</p><h2><b>A MAN&rsquo;S ale</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04157/1463204-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="586" height="538"><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/f0010-05127/1463197-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="588" height="528"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;But Labatt&rsquo;s IPA puts it right back in,&rdquo;</b>&nbsp;<i>says Frederick Gilbert, Wexford, Ont.</i></figcaption></div><p><b>If you&rsquo;re the kind of man who</b> craves a <i>real</i> man&rsquo;s ale&mdash;an ale with <i>real</i> body and flavour to it&mdash;you&rsquo;re ready for IPA. Frederick Gilbert has a man-size job, and a man-size taste in ales. His ale is Labatt&rsquo;s IPA. Make it yours, too.</p><p>Find out about IPA&hellip;<i>the ale that satisfies the man in you!</i> Make the great discovery as soon as possible&mdash;try IPA next time you&rsquo;re at your favourite hotel or tavern, or next time you order ale for the home. Start enjoying the ale with body&hellip;flavour&hellip;ZEST! The man&rsquo;s ale&mdash;IPA!</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06113/1463190-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="586" height="630"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Shots Scarce But Goals Plentiful

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0273/1464221-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="248" height="294"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0174/1464228-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="234" height="283"></div><h2><b>THINGS GET CROWDED AROUND THE GOALMOUTH</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0371/1464214-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2795" height="1718"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0458/1464207-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2802" height="1596"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>THERE ARE PLENTY of tight squeezes around the National Hockey League goalmouths these days. In the top photo Toronto&rsquo;s big Ron Stewart finds himself in cramped quarters as he tries to poke the puck into the New York net. While the disc rolls between his skates Ranger netminder Gump Worsley slides to the ice as defenceman Jack Evans roars in to clear the puck, and Stewart, out of the area, In bottom shot a rolling puck careens in front of the Canadiens&rsquo; net as the Habs&rsquo; Doug Harvey takes Toronto&rsquo;s Tod Sloan out of the play while Tom Johnson (center) and Dickie Moore (12) attempt to clear the puck. That&rsquo;s netminder Jacques Plante on his knees at left.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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The Hockey News

<h2><b>All-Star Bid</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>he Canadiens&rsquo; big Jean Beliveau seems to be a sure bet for the all-star center honors in the first half voting this season. Le Gros Bill&rsquo;s league-leading 23 points also make him a strong candidate for the Hart Trophy award, which goes to be the league&rsquo;s MVP.</b></p><h2><b>Wing Sparkplug</b></h2><p><b>As Howe goes so go the Red Wings it seems, Right-winger Gordie Howe is beginning to hit his scoring stride and has climbed to second place in the scoring race. The Wings meanwhile, have climbed into the first four and are moving fast.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON WED. A.M., NOV. 30</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01295/1462994-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="598" height="186"></div><h3><b>RESULT OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 27th 1955</b></h3><p>Wed. Nov. 23rd&mdash;Boston 0 at Rangers 4</p><p>Thurs. Nov. 24th&mdash;Cdiens 2 at Detroit 3</p><p>Thurs. Nov. 24th&mdash;Toronto 2 at Chic. 3</p><p>Thurs. Nov. 24th&mdash;Rangers 5 at Boat. 0</p><p>Sat. Nov. 26th&mdash;Boston 1 at Canadiens 3</p><p>Sat. Nov. 26th&mdash;Chicago 4 at Toronto 7</p><p>Sun. Nov. 27th&mdash;Cdiens 3 at Rangers 3</p><p>Sun. Nov. 27th&mdash;Toronto 2 at Detroit 1</p><p>Sun. Nov. 2.7th&mdash;Chicago 6 at Boston 0</p><h3><b>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 4th 1955</b></h3><p>Wed. Nov. 30th&mdash;Detroit at Toronto</p><p>Wed. Nov. 30th&mdash;Chicago at Rangers</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 1st&mdash;Canadiens at Boston</p><p>Fri. Dec. 2nd&mdash;Rangers at Chicago</p><p>Sat. Dec. 3rd&mdash;Canadiens at Toronto</p><p>Sat. Dec. 3rd&mdash;Detroit at Boston</p><p>Sun. Dec. 4th&mdash;Canadiens at Chicago</p><p>Sun. Dec. 4th&mdash;Toronto at Boston</p><p>Sun. Dec. 4th&mdash;Detroit at Rangers</p><p>Individual scoring records are:</p><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1955 Boston 0 at New York 4</b></h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Flaman, Boivin, Quackenbush, Laycoe; forwards: MacKell, Stasiuk, Bonin, McKenney, Gardner, Mohns, Ferguson, Costello, Panagabko, Davis, Tessier.</p><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defence: Howell, Fontinato, Irwin, Gadsby, Evans: forwards: Bathgate, Prentice, Popein, Raleigh, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Murphy, Creighton, Hergesheimer, Lewicki.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02237/1462987-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="604" height="489"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 19553 Canadiens 2 at Detroit 2</b></h3><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante: defense; st. Laurens, Harvey, Bouchard. Jonsson, Talbot; forwards: Beliveau, Provost, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard Moore. Leclair, Curry, Marshall, Mos-dell.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Gold-ham Pronovost, Kelly, Hollingworth Godfrey; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Dineen, Chevrefils, Ullman, Pavelich, Buryk, Toppazzini, Prystai.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03178/1462980-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="608" height="596"></div><h3><b>New York 5 at Boston 0</b></h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Fantinato, Gadsby, Evans, Irwin, Howell: forwards: Raleigh, Hergesheimer, Lewicki, Bathgate, Gendron, Horvath, Hebcnton, Murphy, Creighton, Prentice, Popein.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Armstrong, Quackenbush, Flaman, Boivin; forwards: Kenney, Labine, Tessier. Gardner, Ferguson, Stasiuk, Mackell, Mohns, Costello, Panagabko, Bonin, Davis. Laycoe.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04133/1462973-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="600" height="506"></div><h3><b>Toronto 2 at Chicago 3</b></h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Morrison, Cahan, Bolton, Reaume, Bionda; forwards: Hurst, Harris, Balfour, Armstrong, Sloan, Stewart, Migay, Nesterenko, Duff, Hannigan.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Woit, Dewsbury, Fogolin, Stanley, Martin; forwards Lewick, Skov, Mickoski, Watson, Sandford, McIntyre, Litzenberger, Wilson, Lalande, Ciesla.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0595/1462966-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="609" height="392"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1955 Boston 1 at Canadiens 3</b></h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Flaman, Boivin, Quackenbush, Laycoe; forwards: Mackell, Stasiuk, Bonin, McKenney, Gardner, Mohns, Ferguson, Costello, Panagabko, Davis, Tessier.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defence: Harvey, Johnson, Bouchard, Talbot, St. Laurent; forwards: Beliveau, Olmstead. Geoffrion, Curry, Leclair, M. Richard, Moore, H. Richard, Mosdell, Marshall, Provost.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0672/1462959-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="601" height="415"></div><h3><b>Chicago 4 at Toronto 7</b></h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Morrison, Bolton, Cahan, Hurst; forwards: Harris, Nesterenko, Stewart, Sloan, Duff, Migay, Balfour, Armstrong, Reaume, Bionda, Reid.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Stanley, Fogolin, Martin, Dewbury; forwards: Watson, Woit, Leswick, Sandford, McIntyre, Litzcnburger, Skov, Wilson, Lalande, Ciesla.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0755/1462952-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="607" height="677"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1955 Canadiens 3 at New York 3</b></h3><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defence: Harvey, Johnson, Bouchard, Talbot. St. Laurent; forwards: Beliveau, Olmstead, Geoffrion, Curry, Leclair, M. Richard. Moore, H. Richard, Mosdell, Marshall, Provost.</p><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defence: Howell, Fontinato, Irwin, Gadsby, Evans: forwards: Bathgate, Prentice, Popein, Raleigh, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Murphy, Creighton, Hergesheimer, Lewicki.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0844/1462945-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="604" height="533"></div><h3><b>Toronto 2 at Detroit 1</b></h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Bolton, Reaume, Morrison, Cahan, Bionda; forwards: Migay, Stewart, Hannigan, Armstrong, Sloan, Harris, Duff, James, Hurst, Balfour.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Godfrey, Kelly, Pronovost, Goldham, Hollingworth; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Dineen, Chevrefils, Toppazzini, Ullman, Pavelich, Bucyk, Prystai.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02238/1462938-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="608" height="432"></div><h3><b>Chicago 6 at Boston 0</b></h3><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Woit, Fogolin, Stanley, Dewsbury. Martin; forwards: Skov, Leswick, Mickoski, Sandford, Litzenberger, Sullivan, Ciesla, Lalande, Wilson, McIntyre.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Flaman, Boivin, Quackenbush, Laycoe; forwards: Mackell, Stasiuk, Bonin, McKenney, Gardner, Mohns, Ferguson, Costello, Panagabko, Davis, Tessier.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03204/1462931-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="618" height="382"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sunday, Nov. 27)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0932/1462924-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="610" height="3766"></div><h3><b>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1955-1956</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1116/1462917-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="589" 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/f0008-125/1462910-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="610" height="173"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01154/1464266-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02108/1464259-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="2247" height="1251"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CUTTING CORNERS to the relief of a couple of anxious NHL goaltenders an elusive, free-wheeling puck skitters past the open goal-mouth. (Above) Harry Lumley of the Toronto Maple Leafs peers hopefully over his shoulder as the Rangers&rsquo; Don Raleigh&rsquo;s shot slides wide of the net. (Below) New York&rsquo;s Gump Worsley falls to his knees in an attempt to smother the wobbling disc as it rolls past the post.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Nervous Moments For Agile Netminders

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Quick now, what&rsquo;s the most improved team in the NHL?</p><p>If you don&rsquo;t say Chicago Black Hawks, Dick Irvin is going to get you.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a funny thing that nobody seems to realize that we&rsquo;ve come a lot further in comparison to last year than anyone else,&rdquo; says Dick. &ldquo;Everyone seems to name New York and Boston as the most improved teams, but they&rsquo;ve only made half the improvement we have. We&rsquo;ve got 20 points now and that&rsquo;s precisely 10 more than we had at this point last year. In other words, we&rsquo;re twice as good.</p><p>&ldquo;New York is only five points ahead of last year, Boston&rsquo;s only four and Montreal&rsquo;s only one. So if we can keep up our present pace, we&rsquo;ll wind up in second place.&rdquo;</p><p>Irvin lists three items as the motivators of his new slogan: 1, his rookies; 2, his left wingers and 3, his defense.</p><h2><b>Ciesla Best Rookie</b></h2><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got the best rookie and the third best rookie in the league,&rdquo; he contends. &ldquo;Hank Ciesla is leading in scoring and Hec Lalande isn&rsquo;t Tar behind. Right now you&rsquo;d have to consider Ciesla the Calder Cup man, but I guess Montreal would have plenty to say about that.</p><p>&ldquo;Our left wingers are the best in the league, too. The three of them have 26 goals and that&rsquo;s seven more than the next best, Rangers.</p><p>&ldquo;Our defense, though, has made the biggest gains since the beginning of the season. And that includes our penalty killers. We had 11 goals scored against as when we were shorthanded our first 13 games, but we&rsquo;ve had only one in the last eight.</p><p>&ldquo;Benny Woit has been a big surprise to me there and so has Al Rollins. And it was those fellows and Frank Martin, Al Stanley and Lee Fogolin that beat Leafs the other night. Leafs were in our end most of the time, but our defense kept them off balance so they didn&rsquo;t get too many clear shots and Rollins took care of what they did get.</p><p>&ldquo;That, by the way, was the best game I&rsquo;ve seen in the National League this year.&rdquo;</p><p>Although Leafs&mdash;and Detroit too&mdash;are eight points off last season&rsquo;s pace, Irvin allows that this is one statistic that wouldn&rsquo;t make a good form chart tor wagering.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0348/1464297-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="293" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Irvin</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IRVIN SEES SECOND-PLACE FINISH

<div class="byline">FISCHLER</div><p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>EW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Somewhere along the line between Saskatoon and New York Phil Waton got the idea that Larry Popein was a defensive hockey player.</p><p>Since the Rangers needed goals&mdash;among other things&mdash;this year, Watson couldn&rsquo;t see how a defensive centre would fit into his immediate scoring plans.</p><p>Hence &ldquo;Pope&rdquo; found himself handling the penalty-killing chores and centering a line toward the end of the games as a defensive measure. But he knew that he could go good both ways and it didn&rsquo;t take long for the coach to find out.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s proved to me that he is an offensive threat as well as a darn good defensive player,&rdquo; said Watson. &ldquo;I admit my mystake and am very happy to do so.&rdquo;</p><p>The fleet Popein is back with his old pals Andy Bathgate and Dean Prentice. They have to move to keep up with him. Just what the doctor ordered.</p><h2><b>Two-Way Man</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04153/1462279-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="484" height="566"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LARRY POPEIN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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‘Pope’ Can Pop ’Em, Proves It To Watson

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05117/1462310-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he 1950-51 season when the National Hockey League champion Detroit Red Wings established a League record for the most points by a team in one season. The Wings won 44, lost 12 and tied 13 for a total of 101 points in a 70-game schedule.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Do you remember?…

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Current hard-luck guy of hockey would appear to be Bernie Geoffrion, Canadiens&rsquo; sharp-shooting right winger. With the season less than two months old, the Boomer has been out with injuries twice and, owing to his enforced absences from the line-up, his hopes of retaining the Art Ross Trophy have all but evaporated.</p><p>Geoffrion, winner of the Calder Trophy as the National Hockey League&rsquo;s outstanding rookie of 1951-52, copped the Ross Trophy last season when he led the league in scoring. He didn&rsquo;t miss a single game of the 70-game schedule, garnering 75 points.</p><p>This year it&rsquo;s a different story for the hard-driving, stocky right winger with the booming shot. In the opening game against Toronto he injured his right shoulder, and suffered a complexity of rib and chest injuries as well, when he was crashed into the boards at the Forum by Leaf&rsquo;s Larry Cahan while struggling for possession of the puck with rookie Dick Duff.</p><p>He missed ten games and was just regaining his form when his shoulder was hurt again in a game in New York on Nov. 20.</p><p>Geoffrion was checked heavily into the boards by defenceman Lou Fontinato, a check described later by Coach Toe Blake as &ldquo;vicious but legal.&rdquo;</p><p>The Boomer, after missing a hard shot, was chasing his own rebound when Fontinato nailed him. He lay stunned for a couple of minutes but recovered sufficienty to skate off under his own power, clutching the injured right shoulder, the same one that had been damaged in Montreal.</p><p>First reports indicated that the injury was serious and that Geoff would be out of the line four or five weeks. However, after treatment in a New York hospital, he was taken back to Montreal where further examination revealed that the separation was not as bad as originally feared.</p><p>Under expert care by Forum physiotherapist Bill Head, he responded quickly to heat treatment and was back in uniform a week later.</p><p>Having played in only ten games for Montreal, Geoffrion is far behind the leaders in the National Hockey League scoring race. He has four goals and five assists, a total of nine points. A year ago at this stage of the season he had played in 20 games and had 16 goals and eight assists for a total of 24 points.</p><h2><b>Racked Up!</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01220/1462179-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="566" height="1574"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERNIE GEOFFRION</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Boomer’s Lucky, But It’s All Bad

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01294/1462210-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Sports are fascinating because you never know what&rsquo;s going to happen when two teams meet in an athletic contest&mdash;well, almost never.</p><p>Sometimes from prevails and the sages nod wisely. Sometimes upsets occur and the experts are left to moan on a rickety limb. And throughout the whole pattern, a jinx occasionally weaves its magic spell.</p><p>One of the most persistent jinxes in sport hovers around the New York Rangers when they play in Montreal and makes them quail under an inferiority complex.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what gets into our fellows when they play at the Forum,&rdquo; Coach Phil Watson said the other day. &ldquo;They seem to be beaten before they even skate onto the Forum ice. It must be psychological.&rdquo;</p><p>He gazed thoughtfully at the ice surface. &ldquo;But, by gosh, before this season is over we&rsquo;re going to take some games from the Canadiens right in Montreal.&rdquo;</p><p>The Blues have won only one game at the Forum since April 5, 1950, when they upset the Canadiens in a playoff engagement. Since then, in more than five full seasons, they have played 37 games in Montreal, losing 32, tying four and winning one.</p><p>Their lone victory on Montreal ice over that long stretch was registered on Jan. 30, 1954, when they eked out a narrow 2-1 decision on goals by Dean Prentice and Paul Monty.</p><p>Then, reverting to form, they proceeded to lose their remaining Montreal engagements of the 1953-54 season, their seven starts of the 1954-55 season and both their games here in the current campaign.</p><p>Rangers will get a chance to chase the jinx when they clash with the Habs in Montreal on Thursday, Dec. 15. but if past performances mean anything, the Canadiens will be overwhelming favorites to win that one too.</p><p>Here is how the two clubs fared in Montreal over the period under review:</p><p><b>LUNNY</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Blues Hit Skids On Montreal Ice

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>At this time in any ordinary hockey year during the past decade the Rangers would be licking their wounds, counting their casualties and wondering how they could possibly overtake the scarless titans who loomed so far ahead.</p><p>But friends, 1955-56 is not an ordinary ice season. The Blues, thus far, have had a minimum of injuries, and lo and behold, they are closer to the top of the NHL than they are from the bottom.</p><p>And the tightest loop race in years roars on toward its midpoint the injury factor achieves increased importance.</p><p>It appears that between Rangers, Bruins, Hawks and Red Wings, the club that stays healthiest longest has the best chance of remaining in the gravy.</p><p>Of their 18 games to date not a single Ranger has missed a game due to injury. That might explain why all but Canadiens have been looking up to instead of down at the Gothamites.</p><p>However, there have been some close calls.</p><p>Biggest scare of the season occured when Dave Creighton found himself trapped in the unpleasant confines of Fernie Flaman, Leo Boivin and the end boards. Dave came ourt fourth best.</p><p>Early reports had the classy centre in serious condition but it was later revealed that the injury was nothing worse than a concussion. He was back in action&mdash;helmet and all&mdash;in the next encounter.</p><p>Creighton also suffered a broken nose earlier in the campaign but he rebounded into action after that one too.</p><p>Other bouncing Blues followed the same pattern.</p><p>Larry Popein was viciously checked into the boards by Toronto&rsquo;s Dickie Duff but came back to score the first goal the next night in Chicago, and Bronco Horvath has been slowed down to half speed with a bad ankle but hasn&rsquo;t failed to dress.</p><p>The irrepressible Deano &ldquo;The Dynamo&rdquo; Prentice proved his old resilient self the other day against Detroit. Twice he was floored; once by an unfriendly knee, the other time by a hard shot which he stopped with his ankle. He stayed on the pond, never missed a turn.</p><p>Then there is Louie Fontinato who has been limping around for the past two weeks. Mr. Rock&rsquo;n Roll has been playing sphinx as far as his hurt is concerned. As long as he keeps boffing the opposition soundly no one will be too inquisitive about Louie&rsquo;s wound.</p><p>It&rsquo;s more than mere accident that the Blues have been able to avoid the hospital ward with delightful consistency.</p><p>The prescription, filed in early September, can be credited to Dr. Phil Watson&rsquo;s rigid training tonic first doled out in Saskatoon&rsquo;s heathy clime.</p><p>At first it was as tough to take as a daily dose of castor oil. The gripes were abundant but the patients began to take notice. Now Rangers are all the healtier and happier for it.</p><p>Not much thought is required to recall the woes of years gone by. Last year at this time, Wally Hergesheimer was still on the shelf, Ivan Irwin was nursing a gimpy knee which never completely healed all season.</p><p>Then there was Gump Worsley&rsquo;s chipped ankle bone, Allan Stanley&rsquo;s severe leg gash, ad infinitum.</p><p>In fact key injuries to players like Rayner, Laprade, Dickenson, Eddolls, O&rsquo;Connor, Reise and Hergesheimer have played no small part in lowering the New Yorker&rsquo;s estate during the past 10 years.</p><p>The Blues of today are, on the whole, younger stronger and better conditioned than any Ranger team in history. That and a dose of the Watson formula have helped make New York hockey fans a smiling lot.</p><p>This in turn has helped Watson considerably. He has settled on two definite lines and both are coming through with a fair degree of regularity. With the promise of even further improvement, a key injury would upset his plans more than slightly.</p><p>Had Ron Murphy, for instance, been forced to miss the home-and-honie series with Canadiens, due to a case of ptomaine poisoning which he contracted, a number of uncomfortable shifts would have taken place.</p><p>Guy Gendron would have been moved into Ron&rsquo;s left wing position although Ti-Guy hasn&rsquo;t been a portsider all season.</p><p>OFFSIDE: Following the &rsquo;55&rsquo;56 regime which is featured as the &ldquo;New&rdquo; New York Rangers, the Blues have opened the most modern hockey office in the loop&hellip;Sports air-conditioning in every room, beautiful wall paneling, ultra-new lighting and&mdash;very important&mdash;a rejuvented spirit. Most married members of Rangers have established winter quarters in fashionable Long Island suburbs of Windsor Park and Glen Oaks&hellip;Gleaming Irish-green and white sign adorns the balcony of Madison Square Garden with inscription &ldquo;Ron Murphy&rdquo;&hellip;Thus far no signs for opposing players have sprouted in MSG.</p><h2><b>Durable&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02204/1462248-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="577" height="595"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DAVE CREIGHTON</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;Guys</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03187/1462241-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="570" height="576"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LOU FONTINATO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Phil’s Formula Pays--Rangers Happy, Healthy

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02185/1462341-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>VIC STASIUK&hellip; &hellip;Great Expectations</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Vic Stasiuk of the Boston Bruins reached a milestone in his career as a professional hockey player just the other day.</p><p>He signed a lease on a home for his family for the duration of the 1955-56 season.</p><p>Moving into homes-away-home is routine for many major leaguers, but for Stasiuk the experience bordered on the novel.</p><p>This is the first time in Vic&rsquo;s eight-year professional career that he has had a reasonable expectation of completing a season with the team with which he has started it.</p><p>Since 1948, when he turned professional with Kansas City of the United States League, then a farm club of the Chicago Black Hawks, Stasiuk has been one of the most widely-traveled men in hockey.</p><p>Over a period of seven seasons he played for five different teams in four different leagues, at the same time seeing a sizeable portion of the continent of North America.</p><p>Never until this fall has the big forward from Lethbridge, Alberta, known the feeling of security which comes from having a steady job without strings.</p><p>After Stasiuk completed arrangements for moving his wife and two little daughters into their wintertime home in nearby Quincy, his announcement of the fact to some of his chums on the Bruins created a bit of banter.</p><p>&ldquo;Think you&rsquo;re safe in signing a lease, Vic?&rdquo; joked center Cal Gardner.</p><p>Stasiuk broke out a grin and replied, &ldquo;If this were another year I&rsquo;d probably think not. But I think I&rsquo;m safe in making the move this time.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>End Of A Trail</b></h2><p>For Stasiuk, his installation at a forward position with the Bruins represents the end of the trail, and the. trail has been a long one. Yet today he&rsquo;ll aver that at no point along the way did he ever lose his conviction that he would make the grade as a full-time National leaguer.</p><p>&ldquo;Oh, I know I&rsquo;ve moved around a lot,&rdquo; he admits, &ldquo;but I don&rsquo;t believe that I ever became discouraged, either when I was with Chicago or later when I went to Detroit.</p><p>&ldquo;The way I felt was that someday I&rsquo;d get my chance to play regularly, and I always concentrated on being ready when the time came.</p><p>&ldquo;People have asked me if having players like Ted Lindsay and Gordie Howe ahead of me in Detroit wasn&rsquo;t discouraging. I never looked at it that way. The big thing to me was that the Red Wings were winning, and when I wasn&rsquo;t playing I used to concentrate on being ready to play when I was wanted.</p><p>&ldquo;Of course there&rsquo;s nothing like playing regularly the way I am here, and being with the Bruins is having the opportunity I always felt I&rsquo;d get someday.&rdquo;</p><p>Concentrating on being ready to play&mdash;the Bruins heard a lot about Stasiuk&rsquo;s efforts along those lines. Since he has been here they have seen them for themselves.</p><p>During stretches when the 26-year-old husky was warming the bench for the Red Wings, he used to take long walks by himself to keep his legs in condition. And he worked out en his own in a Detroit YMCA.</p><p>A year ago, during one of his periodic stays with Edmonton of the Western League, he observed a gadget for strengthening the wrists which was used by Bronco Horvath, now with the New York Rangers. He promptly made a similar one for his own use.</p><p>One day recently, Stasiuk was 15 minutes late for a Bruins&rsquo; practice at the Harvard College rink, because he had spent the morning posing for an artist in the window of a downtown department store</p><p>Coach Milt Schmidt excused his tardiness, but at the end of the practice Stasiuk remained on the ice. For 15 minutes he pushed a scraper around the rink. No one worked more than he that day.</p><h2><b>Big Switch</b></h2><p>Stasiuk&rsquo;s commuting between Detroit and Edmonton, a Red Wings&rsquo; farm, came to an abrupt end the day last May when the Bruins and Red Wings made a nine-player deal. In the deal the Bruins acquired Goalie Terry Sawchuk and Marcel Bonin, Lorne Davis and Vic, all forwards. Of the four, by far the least known here was Stasiuk.</p><p>Yet, in announcing the trade, Manager Lynn Patrick of the Bruins said, &ldquo;The &ldquo;sleeper&rdquo; in the deal can very well be Stasiuk. He&rsquo;s big, strong and aggressive and we think he&rsquo;ll help us.&rdquo;</p><p>Before and during their trade talks with the Red Wings, Patrick and Schmidt had solicited opinions of Stasiuk from qualified neutral observers, and every report they received gave him a high mark.</p><p>Shortly after the trade, Patrick received a letter from Sawchuk, of which Stasiuk had no knowledge, in which the great goal-tender predicted that his provincial neighbor would give the Bruins a lift.</p><p>Vic&rsquo;s play thus far this fall has certainly substantiated to the fullest the opinions of all those supporters and the judgment of the Bruins&rsquo; board of strategy of Chief Scout. Harold Cotton, Patrick and Schmidt.</p><p>Stasiuk, a sturdy 188-pounder, is a farm product, speaking literally. Until only several years ago he worked on farms operated by his father and uncle outside Lethbridge, and his fine physique reflects his work.</p><p>&ldquo;We grow wheat and sugar beets,&rdquo; he related, &ldquo;and I did just about everything there is to do on an Alberta farm. I milked cows, ploughed, picked rocks, cut wood, everything.</p><p>&ldquo;Sometimes I look back and it seems as though what I did mostly was pick up rocks. I must have picked up a million of them.&rdquo;</p><p>Vic started skating, then playing hockey, as a little fellow, and like many boys who later develop into fine athletes, he found his juvenile pursuits received at home with something less than enthusiasm.</p><h2><b>Too Big To Play</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Well, neither my mother nor my father thought much of my playing hockey,&rdquo; he chuckles &ldquo;They didn&rsquo;t understand the game, and when I got bigger they used to think it about time I stopped playing to go to work.</p><p>&ldquo;Of course they changed their attitude later on, but my Mom has seen me play only once. When I was playing junior hockey for a team in Edmonton we played a game in Lethbridge, and I asked her to come. She did, with a couple of my sisters, but she only stayed for a period.&rdquo;</p><p>Stasiuk was steered into the Chicago organization by a part time scout named Bill Lea, a biscuit salesman who lived in Lethbridge before his death several years ago. From a start in Edmonton he worked his way up to the Black Hawks who, in turn, traded him to Detroit.</p><p>As a Red Wing he was launched on the shuttle which carried him around the National, American and Western leagues until he came here in the biggest player swap of the past year.</p><p>His debut with the Bruins was retarded by a side injury sustained in their final workout before leaving their training camp at Hershey, Pa., but once he broke into the lineup he wasted no time in establishing himself.</p><p>In view of his extensive travels in the past, he probably derived a little greater thrill from leasing a home for his family than would most players.</p><p>At any rate, he considered it worth celebrating, and the means he chose was to score two goals in each of the Bruins&rsquo; next two games.</p><h2><b>A Travelling Man</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Stasiuk Makes Himself At Home In Boston

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01219/1462372-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"></div><p><b>STASIUK, VICTOR JOHN</b></p><p><b>Born, Lethbridge, Alta., May 23, 1929.</b></p><p><b>Left wing. Shoots left. 6&rsquo;1&rdquo;, 185 lbs.</b></p><p><b>Last amateur club: Wetaskiwin Canadiens (Jr.).</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Stasiuk’s Record

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The same conditioning principle which has twice helped Ted Williams make comebacks after injuries helped put Fleming Mackell in the Boston Bruins&rsquo; lineup for ahead of schedule this fall.</p><p>The principle is the use of weights under the supervision of Jack Fadden, trainer of Harvard University&rsquo;s athletic teams and the Boston Red Sox.</p><p>When Mackell underwent an operation for the removal of cartilage in his knee in Toronto shortly before the Bruins opened their season, he was labeled un vailable until December 1, at the earliest.</p><p>But almost a month to the day from the time of the operation, the stocky centre was back in the Bruins&rsquo; lineup. His recovery, considering the nature of the operation, was remarkable, and it was undoubtedly based on several reasons.</p><p>One was Mackell&rsquo;s own determination to play as soon as he was able. Another was his strong healing power.</p><p>A third was the excellent medical attention he received, first from Dr. Robert Galloway, the Toronto surgeon who performed the operation afterward from Dr. Edward Browne, the Bruins&rsquo; physician.</p><p>But a fourth and little known factor was the series of treatments which he underwent at Harvard under Fadden.</p><p>&ldquo;Six days after the operation I started exercising in the hospital,&rdquo; related Mackell, &ldquo;and part of the strengthening program was to lift a light weight with my leg.</p><p>&ldquo;When I returned home they (Bruins&rsquo; co-trainers Hammy Moore and Win Green and Dr. Browne) arranged for me to go to Harvard and Fadden put me through a series of exercices, using weights.</p><p>&ldquo;The exercises consisted of lifting and pushing,&rdquo; continued Mackell, &ldquo;and I did them daily for nearly two weeks.</p><p>&ldquo;When I started the lifting work at the first weight was only nine pounds. When I finished I could lifted 75 pounds with my weak leg to 100 pounds with the good one.</p><p>&ldquo;From the lifting I moved to pushing, and at first I could only push 45 pounds with the leg. When I finished I was able to push 100 pounds with it.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Conditioning Pays Off For Mackell

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><p>(As seen in the Montreal Gazette)</p><h2><b>&lsquo;They&rsquo;re Homers In Montreal&rsquo;</b></h2><p>Phil Watson, the effervescent coach of the Rangers, declared at the weekly hockey luncheon at Leone&rsquo;s in New York that hockey officials are homers when they work in Montreal.</p><p>&ldquo;They act as if they&rsquo;re scared of the fans,&rdquo; said Phil, &ldquo;which makes it pretty tough for the visiting teams. It&rsquo;s different here in New York where the fans are more lenient.&rdquo;</p><p>Phil must have known that Clarence Campbell, the league prexy, is honeymooning in Bermuda, or he wouldn&rsquo;t have popped off like that. The league head takes a dim view of coaches who criticize his officials in public.</p><p>But things are starting to simmer in several spots in the NHL. Jack Adams, the Red Wings&rsquo; general manager, has accused St. Michael&rsquo;s College, of Toronto, with unethical competition in recruiting hockey players. Specifically, he charged that Frank Mahovilch, 17-year-old 195-pound left wing, was lured to St. Mike&rsquo;s after his father had promised to send him to the Hamilton Cubs, a Detroit sponsored junior club.</p><p>&ldquo;For several years the St. Mike&rsquo;s team has been sponsored by the Toronto Maple Leafs,&rdquo; Jack told the Detroit hockey writers. &ldquo;So they&rsquo;re in the hockey business. The school is run by the Basilian Order of priests. They shouldn&rsquo;t be using their office to recruit hockey players.&rdquo;</p><p>Jack claims that Johnny Mitchell, who scouts for the Red Wings, was the first to contact Mahovlich. This was back in, 1953 after Mahovlich has pleyad juvenile hockey in Schumacher, Ont.</p><p>&ldquo;His dad shook hands in agreement to a plan to send him to school at Cathedral High in Hamilton,&rdquo; Jack said. &ldquo;There he was to play for our Cubs.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Adams Irked By Reports</b></h2><p>But the boy went to St. Mike&rsquo;s instead and reports of his prowess printed in the Toronto papers have been irking the Red Wings&rsquo; general manager. He was particularly angreed by some remarks made by Bob Davidson, the Toronto Leafs&rsquo; chief scout.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never seen a big guy do so many things with the puck as Mahovlich, except possibly Jean Beliveau,&rdquo; said Davidson. &ldquo;Every club in the NHL was after him. One club offered him a fruit farm. Some other clubs offered him more, but once his dad had been through St. Mike&rsquo;s he was sold.&rdquo;</p><p>St. Mike&rsquo;s is currently campaigning for $85,000 to build an artificial outdoor rink.</p><p>&ldquo;They won&rsquo;t get one cent from me,&rdquo; Jack Adams said.</p><p>Thirty players from St. Mike&rsquo;s are currently playing in the National and American Hockey Leagues. Those with the Red Wings are Red Kelly, Ted Lindsay and Bill Dineen. Some with other clubs are Leo Labine, Ed Sandford, Tim Horton. Gus Mortson, Tod Sloan and Rudy Migay. If Mahovlich turns out to be another Jean Beliveau, Jack Adams should be in a real boil by the time the player reaches the NHL.</p><p>Incidently, Father Flanagan, St. Mike&rsquo;s director of athletics, says he also visited Mahovlich&rsquo;s home in Schumacher in 1953.</p><p>&ldquo;The boy&rsquo;s parents hardly speak English,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and we talked over his future with his sister. His parents wanted him to come to a boarding school. I know the vast majority of boys who played hockey for a Detroit-sponsored Junior team in Windsor while attending Assumption College dropped out of school. Our concern here is to give boys an education. We aren&rsquo;t interested in those who don&rsquo;t want education.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Numerous Squawks About Ties</b></h2><p>In the meantime, there have been numerous squawks around the league over the number of tie games. In-Boston, Dave Egan teed off in his column in the &ldquo;Daily Record&rdquo; like this:</p><p>&ldquo;The four greatest basketball teams in the world will cahoot and cavort at the Garden tomorrow night, and the one gilt-edged guarantee I offer the congregation is that neither game will end in a tie.</p><p>&ldquo;These hockey ties are becoming somewhat nauseating. All the teams play on Saturday night. Then they are heavy legged and weary on Sunday night. Two weeks ago Sunday night, three games were played, and three more ended in the same unsatisfactory fashion.</p><p>&ldquo;There have already been 17 tie games, and Thanksgiving not yet here. More than one out of every three games this budding season has had this inconclusive, anticlimatic ending and there is no excuse for it.</p><p>&ldquo;Ten years from now (unless the hockey moguls finally listen to the bellows of Walter Brown, president of the Bruins, and order sudden-death periods to produce a winner, as has been done in the American Hockey League for year) pro basketball will be the major indoor sport and pro hockey will be picking up the crumbs.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03189/1462472-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="312" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tod Sloan</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04140/1462465-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="315" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo LaBine</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0004-03

playing the field

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The Rangers Fan Club celebrated the highest stature of the New York sextet in years by tossing a fun-filled informal banquet in honor of the team, Nov. 14, at the Henry Hotel in the heart of Manhattan.</p><p>More than 150 hockey folks were in attendance including General John Reed Kilpatrick, president of the Blues, GM Muzz Patrick, coach Phil Watson and all the Ranger players.</p><p>Idea of the affair was to fete the team and at the same time provide a relaxed atmosphere where both fans and players could get to know one another on a more intimate basis.</p><p>As an extra-added attraction, Gabe Dell, &ldquo;star of stage, screen and radar&rdquo;, along with press-agent Herb Morrison, restaged their popular player-interviewer skit with Dell portraying Leapin&rsquo; Louie Fontinato and Morrison doing a take-off on Ward Wilson, Ranger announcer.</p><p>The General thanked the RFC for its support of the team &ldquo;through thick and thin,&rdquo; and wished it continued success.</p><p>Team captain Harry Howell spoke for the players. He vowed they &ldquo;would do everything in their power to help bring the Stanley Cup back to New York.&rdquo; He was presented the Frank Boucher Trophy for safekeeping until the season ends. The award is given annually to the most popular Ranger on and off the ice.</p><p>As expected, Phil Watson came up with some rib-ticklers as he introduced each player on the team. There was a back-pat for one and all, including practice-goalie Joe Schaeffer who &ldquo;can never get hurt by flying pucks &lsquo;cause they all get by him.&rdquo;</p><p>Even the famous Hilda of Ebbets Field bell-ringing fame was on hand for the occasion. The garrulous Dodger-Ranger rooter put on an impromptu song-and-dance act, managed to steal a few lines from the comics and capped the affair by doling out the door prizes. (No, she didn&rsquo;t give away any doors).</p><p>OFFSIDE: Dean Prentice singled out by Watson as &ldquo;the guy who always shoots the puck at me in the workouts.&rdquo; It got a big laugh&hellip;Pretty soon Gump Worsley will be smiling again. He&rsquo;s only one pound away from the 162 mark Phil asked of him&hellip;He reported to camp at a pudgy 172&hellip;&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the guy who shed five pounds in five hours,&rdquo; laughed the coach&hellip;Liquor and beer were nixed at the banquet, as requested by the club management&hellip;They promise to lift the ban at the Stanley Cup party, if and when it comes about&hellip;Ivan and Louise Irwin looked like Mr. and Mrs. Country Squire, &ldquo;The Terrible&rdquo; sporting a Meerschaum Pipe and handsome corduroy jacket which is fast becoming his trademark&hellip;&ldquo;We Want Ivan&rdquo; sign prominent in the Garden. The big fellow&rsquo;s popularity hasn&rsquo;t diminished&hellip;Photogs were all over the place taking shots from all angles&hellip;Fan Club proxy Jacques Schiff handled the me chores with his usual aplomb. It was a welt-planned, well-executed affair.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Dodgers Hilda…A Ranger Fan

<p><b>DETROIT&mdash;</b></p><p><b>Don&rsquo;t send the Red Wings any ties for Christmas&mdash;they&rsquo;ve already got enough.</b></p><p><b>After playing 20 games, Detroit bad tied nine of them, including four against Chicago. It was a fat contribution toward the overall National League total which showed 17 ties in the first 58 games.</b></p><p><b>Strange feature about ties, undesirable as they are they still can bring a team into the playoffs. A .500 record for the season was good enough for third place in the NHL standings last year.</b></p><p><b>The fifth-place Wings could see the merits of this in their not-good, not-bad record of late. They had lost only one of their last nine starts but also had won only twice&mdash;the six others being ties. It still permitted them to creep closer to third and fourth place.</b></p><p><b>Detroit was moving rapidly toward the club record for the most ties in one season (18). A threat also was being made at the league record for the same distinction (22) as established by Toronto last season.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Red Wings Say ‘Knots’ To Ties

<div class="byline">DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>There was a time when Jac Adams, suspecting a TV type stage fright among his Red Wings, considered the addition of a drama coach to his staff.</p><p>It seems that the boys were getting bashful in front of television cameras. At least, that was one possible explanation for a strange third-period sag which was having disastrous effect in the form of a marked absence of goals.</p><p>The TV cameras peek in on each Detroit home game starting at 10 p.m. The game schedule is arranged so that all the third-period action is on video and sometimes the late minutes of the second period.</p><p>The Wings didn&rsquo;t have any Jackie Gleasons around to give their show that strong finishing touch. As a result the product was suffering.</p><p>Those stay-at-home fans who take their hockey from the four-station TV network were fully convinced that the Wings were a poor team. In the first nine home games, they saw Detroit score only three goals. That&rsquo;s all the Wings could produce for their television audience.</p><p>Detroit&rsquo;s scoring, by periods, at home showed a strange fluctuation of 7-11-3.</p><p>Of the three third-period goals, two came early in the season in a losing cause. New York offset the pair of tallies in the embryo rally to gain a 3-2 decision.</p><p>The only other goal&mdash;by Ted Lindsay against Chicago&mdash;turned a 2-1 deficit into a 2-2 final score.</p><p>In the next five games the Wings failed to score in the third period.</p><p>The opposing teams, apparently disregarding the TV cameras, carried on at a normal rate with 5-45 goals by periods. And some of those third-period goals saddened the local fans.</p><p>For instance, both Chicago and New York grabbed victories by 3-2 scores with a goal in the final stanza. Another time Chicago came from behind to force a 2-2 tie in the third period.</p><p>Worst of all. however, was Montreal&rsquo;s initial visit. The Wings were carrying a 2-0 lead with 10 minutes remaining when Floyd Curry and Bert Olmstead scored for Canadiens to make it a 2-2 final.</p><p>From an artistic point as a TV offering, the Wings were a dramatic flop. It wasn&rsquo;t helping in the National League standings either.</p><p>All this was pointed out in a Detroit newspaper one day. That very night the Wings revised their script for television.</p><p>They entered the final period tied at 1-1 with Chicago. Gordie Howe, Dutch Reibel and Alex Delvecchio winged in the goals that brought a 4-1 Red Wing victory.</p><p>A little more of this sort of thing not only will build up their Hooper rating and cheer the TV sponsor, but it also could signal a climb from Detroit&rsquo;s present lowly standing in the league.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Wings Flops As TV Heroes

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Never did a single goal loom as important this season as one which the Red Wings scored the other night in Chicago.</p><p>The goal had solid value at the time since it produced a 1-1 final score. The entire Red Wing family also was hoping that it would have carryover value and produce additional profit in the games ahead.</p><p>Author of the goal was Real Chevrefils. This is significant because it was his first goal of the season. It came in game No. 20. Chevrefils had appeared in only 18, however, having been benched twice as a result of an inability to score.</p><p>In a way Chevrefils&rsquo; troubles typified all the baffling failures by Detroit since the campaign opened. A team which had won seven straight National Hockey League titles and figured at least to be a threat for another, the Wings still hadn&rsquo;t reached the .500 level and were staggering in fifth place.</p><p>Chevrefils came to Detroit in the big midsummer trade with Boston. He was the key import in the nine-player deal in which Goalie Terry Sawchuk was the key export.</p><p>As an 18-goal man last season, Chewy figured as at least a 20-goal man in Detroit&rsquo;s pre-season planning. He was planted on a line with Alex Delvechio and Bill Dineen and it was considered the No. 2 line on the team.</p><p>After a sharp showing in training camp, the stocky Timmins Ont. youngster could fire only blanks in the opening games. When the goals failed to come, his general play suffered. He was demoted to part-time duty, then benched entirely.</p><p>No one accused Chevrefils of being the reason for Detroit&rsquo;s shockingly poor start. As mentioned &bull; before, he was just one among many who were floundering.</p><h2><b>Little Punch</b></h2><p>Other new forwards like Ed Sandford (since farmed out) also offered little punch.</p><p>Norm Ullman and John Bucyk, the two best prospects from the farm system, were slow to reveal their promised potential. Ed Stankiewicz, going hot at Edmonton, was rushed here for a chance and was quickly returned.</p><p>Several veteran players joined them with off-form efforts.</p><p>&ldquo;Every change which we tried from last year has gone sour,&rdquo; pointed out Jack Adams, &ldquo;Except in the nets where Glenn Hall is giving us solid goaltending.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Sometime, somewhere, something has got to break in our favor,&rdquo; he kept insisting.</p><p>&ldquo;These players just aren&rsquo;t that bad. Maybe if one of them can get a break and score a lucky goal, it will get him going again. Then maybe the others will pick it up.&rdquo;</p><p>Chevrefils was the obvious nominee to get the first break since he was the one most in the spotlight of failure. Toppazzini, Bucyk and Marty Pavelich also were goalless, however.</p><p>Chevrefils&rsquo; morale understandably dropped lower and lower. Finally Capt. Ted Lindsay decided that special action was needed.</p><p>While the players-were on the road trip to New York, Lindsay called a private meeting in his hotel room for players only. Chief item of business was a vote of confidence for Chevrefils, telling him that they were sympathetic to his troubles and had faith in his recovery.</p><p>Later in the week Adams called Chevrefils to his office for a man-to-man huddle. He pointed out the same things, emphasizing to Chewy that he was the player highest on the &ldquo;wanted&rdquo; list when Adams made his summertime deals.</p><p>Finally, on Nov. 20, Chevrefils got the long-sought goal. It came on a clever goal-mouth tip in of Bob Goldham&rsquo;s long shot.</p><p>Whether it really signaled the end of his slump is a question for the future, but Adams is hopeful.</p><p>&ldquo;It could be a goal for the future, one that will get him and the rest of the club going&rsquo; Adams said.</p><h2><b>Morale Booster</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01240/1462510-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="537" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED LINDSAY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Getting Started Now</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02215/1462503-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="1160" height="1308"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>REAL CHEVREFILS&hellip; &hellip;Breaks Slump</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Chevvy’s Goal May Be Starter For Stalled Motor City Machine

<p>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</p><p>Founded October 1st 1947</p><p>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd 1434 Ste Catherine Street West</p><p>Montreal 25, Que.</p><p>Yearly Subscription Rates; $3.00 in Canada end the British Empire: $4.00 in the U.S.A. and Foreign Countries.</p><p>Entered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd. 1879</p><p>Authorized as second-class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa Printed in Canada<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01312/1462658-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="300" height="462"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>R</span>EAL CHEVREFILS</b> was given a vote of confidence by his Detroit teammates in a closed meeting the other day and he felt so much better afterwards that he went out and scored his first goal of the season. The Red Wing left winger is determined that he is now off on a scoring streak. Detroit will start to move, too, and look for the seven-time NHL Champs to move up in the league standings. Toe Blake, coach of of Canadiens, says that Rocket Richard shows more emotion when his young brother Henri scores a goal for the Habs than when he scores himself&hellip;. Doug. Harvey will be honored on December 5 by the Sportsmen&rsquo;s Association of Montreal. He was selected as the city&rsquo;s outstanding professional athlete&hellip;. Woody Dumart is selling the Bobby Bauer Skates in the United States. He just started this recently and is confining his efforts to the New England area for this season but hopes to expand as time goes on&hellip;. Jack Piner&rsquo;s new book, &ldquo;Fear Not My Son,&rdquo; said to be selling very well. Check with your favorite book store&hellip;. Glen Sonmor, ex-left wing star with Cleveland Barons who lost an eye last season, is now the freshman hockey coach at the University of Minnesota and assistant to Johnny Mariucci as varsity coach. Glen is also completing his studies at Minnesota for his degree&hellip;. Very few AHL fans remember that Johnny Bower started in the American League with the team he is currently playing for&hellip;. the Providence Reds. He played so long at Cleveland that everyone forgot about his start with the Reds.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02201/1462651-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="292" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Real Chevrefils</b></figcaption></div><p><b>HERE&rsquo;S PHIL WATSON&rsquo;S</b> training regulations as laid down to his Broadway Blueshirts&hellip;. 1. In bed at 11:30 on nights before games and midnight at all other times. 2. No brew at any time during the season and players are forbidden to enter a tavern even to make a phone call. 3. No butter on toast. 4. No water the afternoon before a game. 5. No oranges on the bench or soft drinks in the dressing room. 6. No smoking in the dressing room, not even by visitors&hellip;. Leo Ornest&rsquo;s Vancouver Canucks program a real gem. Some NHL club should grab this fellow quick. He&rsquo;s tops as a promotions director and program editor&hellip;. Gus Kyle is Calgary Stampeders chief scout since he retired as a player. Looking back over his career Kyle picked Rocket Richard as the greatest player he ever had to face, especially from the blue line in. He picked Fern Flaman as the roughest man he ever played against. His All-Star Team was as follows: Goal, Charley Rayner; Defense, Jack Stewart and Red Kelly; Center, Sid Abel; Richard, right wing and Milt Schmidt, left wing&hellip;. Johnny McCormack received a head concussion recently while penalty-killing for the Edmonton Flyers. He has been sidelined for awhile. McCormack had been playing excellent hockey for the Flyers up to that time.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03122/1462644-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="304" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>John McCormack</b></figcaption></div><p><b>A NEW YORK</b> fan became incensed over the yapping of Phil Watson the New York coach the other night and tried to hang one on him. Muzz Patrick, Ranger GM interyened&hellip;. The Boston Bruins are losing games lately because they can&rsquo;t score goals. The team is woefully short of scoring punch&hellip;Coach Milt Schmidt said the Bruins are weaker at full strength than when undermanned because of injuries&hellip;. Schmidt figures that the injured players returned to the lineup too soon and were unable to play their regular game&hellip;. In an effort to snap his Chicago team out of a scoring slump, Dick Irvin had the goal brought into the dressing room. Beside the goal a puck was placed. Irvin summoned his players around him. Pointing to the puck he said: &ldquo;That goes in there,&rdquo; and then pointed to the cage. That was the extent of the meeting. But that same night the Hawks scored six goals&hellip;. Jack Adams figures that attendance receipts at Detroit Olympia, when the Boston Bruins are the visitors will increase $25,000 over last season. Interest in the former Red Wings now playing for Boston is the reason according to Adams&hellip;. Billy Reay, the Seattle Americans manager-coach, has made a big hit with Seattle fans. He is bringing hockey back to the popularity it once had in Seattle. Bob Field has been doing an excellent job on the TV mike for all Seattle home games. There has been close to $1,000 per gate increase this season at Seattle games&hellip;. Reay always was a big leaguer in anything he tackled and if anyone can bring hockey back in Seattle, he&rsquo;s the one.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0487/1462637-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="310" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Billy Reay</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/f0006-0580/1462689-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>Signals Crossed?</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>I may have my signals crossed but I have a complaint to make against the ballyhoo that&rsquo;s being given to Jean Beliveau for the mid-season Hart Trophy voting.</p><p>I freely admit that Beliveau is a great hockey player and a great center and is very valuable to the Canadiens. But how can anyone in his right mind (which I must assume the selectors are, although sometimes I wonder) vote for Beliveau over the Rangers&rsquo; Gump Worsley.</p><p>Beliveau is one among many prolific scorers on the powerful Canadiens, and his loss would naturally hurt them a great deal. But just stop for a minute and think where the Rangers would be without Gump. The Ranger rise this season in one of the brightest spots in the National League campaign and as far as I&rsquo;m concerned I don&rsquo;t think anyone deserves more credit for it than Worsley.</p><p>Gump, only a little guy, stands alone behind a defense that, admittedly isn&rsquo;t exactly the best in the league, and kicks aside practically as many pucks as the rest of the league put together, with the possible exception of the be leagured Terry Sawchuk, who at last is finding out how the other half lives.</p><p>Worsley, according to the latest HOCKEY NEWS standings is right behind the Canadiens&rsquo; Plante and the Leafs&rsquo; Lumley in the goal-against division. And don&rsquo;t forget they are playing behind a couple of great defensive teams.</p><p>It&rsquo;s about time the &lsquo;experts&rsquo; stopped going by the publicity blurbs and started giving these awards to the men who deserve them, even if they don&rsquo;t play on one of the &lsquo;big&rsquo; teams from Montreal, Toronto or Detroit.</p><p>Max Biretto New York, N.Y.</p><h2><b>Is Sawchuk Sorry?</b></h2><p>Dears Sirs:</p><p>If I remember rightly there was a report a few months ago that Terry Sawchuk was about to be called up by the US Army in the draft. I don&rsquo;t know whatever became of that affair, but I&rsquo;m willing to bet that Sawchuk is sorry the Army forgot about him.</p><p>The poor guy, forgotten by Uncle Sam, would probably have a better chance as a moving target on an army rifle range than as a sitting duck in the Bruin nets the way he is this year.</p><p>If the Bruin defensemen are good as just trying to see if Terry is as the reputation he earned in Detroit, they&rsquo;ve sure doing a thorough job of it. So thorough in fact that the Bruins are making a dash for the warmth and comfort of the National League basement.</p><p>It&rsquo;s too bad that a top-notch goalie, as I&rsquo;m sure Terry is, has to find himself out there alone with nothing but his pads to protect him. But such is the life of a netminder I guess, ask Al Rollins or Gump Worslty.</p><p>It only goes to prove that a goaler, like a quarterback in football, is only as good as the team in front of him. Frankly I think Jacques Plante would be run out of the league on his goalie stick if the Canadiens ever traded off Doug Harvey, for there is a netminder if there ever was one who is getting by strictly on the strength of the club in front of him.</p><p>Bob Flaherty. Lowell, Mass.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0672/1462734-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" 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 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/f0006-0813/1462727-1-eng-US/f0006-082.jpg" title="f0006-08" width="651" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Sawchuk</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;I think HOCKEY PICTORIAL is fops 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 me. It won&rsquo;t be long before the HOCKEY PICTORIAL is as much a part of a hockey fans reading as The Hockey News. A truly greot magazine.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0734/1462720-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg" title="f0006-07" 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 we&rsquo;re mighty happy we did now that we&rsquo;ve seen a couple of issues. It&rsquo;s the best magazine that&rsquo;s ever 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;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Stars Pick A Winner!

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>When lacrosse and hockey have been mentioned in the same breath in the past, it has generally precipitated a hassle. Exponents of each would debate the rights of their respective game to be recognized as Canada&rsquo;s national sport. Or detractors of both would insinuate that hockey will go the way of lacrosse if it doesn&rsquo;t discourage unnecessarily rough play.</p><p>This is far from the case in the Maple Leaf camp these days.</p><p>Hockey men here are speaking benignly of lacrosse, even blessing it, for it has given the Maple Leafs some muscle to go with the hustle of their new youth movement. Both of Toronto&rsquo;s newest rookies, Jack Bionda and Ron Hurst, owe to lacrosse their basic training in the manly art of self defense through offense.</p><p>Although they joined Leafs primarily to ease the aches of a mounting list-of limp and lame, the police work of the boxla refugees has virtually insured that they won&rsquo;t be using the return portions of their Pittsburgh train fare for the nonce. In fact, Leafs front office has become so bold as to suggest these rough and ready rookies could provide for the team a police escort out of the NHL cellar.</p><p>&ldquo;They don&rsquo;t back down from anyone,&rdquo; coach King Clancy says with glee. &ldquo;They go right in there and mix it and we can&rsquo;t have too many players like that.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Being a policeman wouldn&rsquo;t be enough,&rdquo; General Manager Hap Day says. &ldquo;A fellow has to be a hockey player too. But Bionda and Hurst are both and that&rsquo;s what counts.&rdquo;</p><p>No police raid on a stag ever lifted eyebrows faster than did the bop cops when they crashed the Toronto lineup.</p><p>By the time he had played his second complete game, the 178-pound, six-foot Bionda had not only bumped numerous Leaf enemies, but even bumped of his own playmates right out of the lineup. Sophomore Larry Cahan, rode the plank for two games while Bionda took his job and he seemed destined to walk it toward Pittsburgh until Jolting Jack suffered a hip crock.</p><p>Hurst was just as quick catching on. He revived the sagging kid line when put in the injured Eric Nesterenko&rsquo;s spot on right wing for the peppy but hardly scrappy Billy Harris and Earl Balfour. And he augmented his police work with an ability to make plays and finish them that was worth four points in his first four games.</p><p>For Brawny Ronnie, who packs a surprising 171 pounds into his five-foot, nine-inch frame, hockey success came just in time. Marlboro money had lured him away from lacrosse five years ago, but after playing with Marlies, then Charlottetown, PEI, for two years and Sault Ste. Marie for two more, he still hadn&rsquo;t received a bona-fide professional offer and was preparing to hang up until he received an invitation to the Pittsburgh camp this autumn.</p><p>&ldquo;It was a pleasant surprise and it made up my mind to give hockey one more try,&rdquo; he said. Hurst hardly had time to accustom himself to the American League&mdash;in fact he didn&rsquo;t even get to see all the towns in it&mdash;when he was summoned to take the even bigger step into the NHL.</p><p>Now that he&rsquo;s back in his own home town, five years older and 15 pounds heavier than when he left, Hurst is prepared to admit the training in the hinterland did him plenty of good. In fact it rubbed off the rougher edges of his rough lacrosse training.</p><p>&ldquo;I used to try to knock down everybody in the rink,&rdquo; he recalls. &ldquo;Then Peanuts O&rsquo;Flaherty (his Soo coach) straightened me out by showing me where I was beating my head against a brick wall and hurting the team through taking penalties. I still like to hit, but I don&rsquo;t go out of my way to do it any more.&rdquo;</p><p>Bionda likes to hit too. It was the fact that he could do little else that made him, like Hurst, take a roundabout route to Toronto. Only he went by way of the west coast with the Mann Cup champion Victoria lacrosse club.</p><p>Until this year, lacrosse was Jack&rsquo;s passion. In fact he didn&rsquo;t even adopt hockey as a sideline</p><p>until he was 15. Then, when Brampton&rsquo;s junior lacrosse team signed him from Peterboro, he sought and got a job with Brampton Regents junior B hockey team so that he could make his move faster.</p><p>As a hockey player, under Butch Keeling at Brampton and Reg Hamilton with Toronto Marlboros, Bionda remained a better lacrosse player. Often he actually had to walk off the ice at Marlie practises to escape the tongue-lashings of Hamilton.</p><p>When he was given a pro hockey contract last fall, his lacrosse work in Victoria kept him late reporting for camp and an elbow injury expedited his relegation to the Soo. After 10 games there, a shoulder injury put him out for the season and he recovered only in time to join the Mann Cup hunt. He, like Hurst, was given another chance this year, and he too made up his mind after a fast start with the Pittsburgh Hornets and a sensational tryout with Leafs.</p><p>&ldquo;Now this is it,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;This is what I want and I hope I can stay up with the Leafs.&rdquo;</p><p>Not since Bucko McDonald and Flash Hollett were cracking ice and racking enemies hereabouts has lacrosse been so topical in a Maple Leaf camp.</p><h2><b>He&rsquo;s Happy&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01263/1462779-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="601" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KING CLANCY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;About Him</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03176/1462772-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="600" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK BIONDA</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>In Terry&rsquo;s Shadow</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02231/1462765-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1164" height="1158"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GLEN HALL&hellip; &hellip;Proves Himself</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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‘National Sports’ Combine To Aid Leafs

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Glen Hall the 23-year-old rookie from Humboldt, Sask, is looking forward to having his best year in hockey.</p><p>The newly-acquired goal-keeper for the Detroit Red Wings says, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve waited a long time for the big jump, and I&rsquo;m going to make the best of it.&rdquo;</p><p>After a recent shut-out against Toronto Maple Leafs, the baby-faced netminder feels that the Detroit fans are behind him.</p><p>&ldquo;When I came to Detroit, I knew I was up against the record of Terry Sawchuk. One thing about these Detroit fans, they don&rsquo;t forget easily,&rdquo; he added jokingly.</p><p>However, coach Jimmie Skinner and general manager Jack Adams are high in their praise of their new rookie goalie. Says Adams, &ldquo;Glen is a good boy. We&rsquo;ve had our eye on him for a long time. We also had. him up for a few games last year and he convinced us that he is NHL material.&rdquo;</p><p>Traded to the Wings in an off-season, the one-time twine keeper for Edmonton of the Western Hockey League has so far shown that their choice was a wise one.</p><p>Not short on prospective goal-tenders, Adams stunned the hockey world with the announcement that Sawchuk was to be traded to Boston Bruins. Many Detroit fans thought that he had flipped his lid.</p><p>&ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t a snap decision,&rdquo; concluded Adams after the announcement. &ldquo;However, I didn&rsquo;t trade Terry because I thought he lacked any of the qualities that went into making a good goalie. Jimmie Skinner and I took a long time on our decision. And I don&rsquo;t think it will take Glen long to get used to the Detroit system. I believe our decision was a wise one.&rdquo;</p><p>Glen Hall was born 23 years ago in Humboldt, Saskatchewan. He played juvenile hockey around his home town where he was signed by a Detroit scout. Brought up to Junior ranks, he played under Jimmie Skinner when Skinner was coach of the now defunct Windsor Spitfires.</p><p>He turned pro in 1951 and played a season with the Indianapolis Capitals of the American League. The next season he came to Edmonton and stayed with them until he came to the Wings.</p><p>The big brass are also high-sounding such newcomers as Warren Godfrey, recently purchased from the Boston Bruins, and Larry Hillman up from Junior ranks.</p><p>In a recent interview Adams said: &ldquo;Godfrey has also fitted into our set-up quite nicely. He plays well along side of seasoned veteran Red Kelly. We have watched Godfrey closely for the past two years with the Bruins. We think he&rsquo;s our kind of a hockey player. Many criticized us for selling Sawchuk and bringing up such young, inexperienced players. However, I have no doubt that given a few more games, we will come into our own.&rdquo;</p><p>Godfrey was scouted by Muzz Patrick in 1951 while he was with the Tacoma Rockets. Later, his brother Lynn signed him and brought Godfrey to the Bruins at the start of the &rsquo;52 season.</p><p>Hillman, another newcomer, is an 18-year-old hard-hitting defenceman from Kirkland Lake. Brought up from Junior ranks, both Adams and Skinner are high in their praise of the blond, hustling Hillman. Hillman has played under Skinner for most of his hockey career.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Fans Don’t Forget Easily, Says Hall

<p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>N HOCKEY, the top players travel about 3 miles per game at an average speed of approximately 9 m.p.h. In bursts they reach speeds of 26 to 27 m.p.h. Goalkeepers need top reflexes since hard shooters propel the puck at between 110 and 120 m.p.h. Most goals are scored on low shots propelled at about 15 to 20 feet from the goal.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04138/1462848-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="558" height="284"></div><p>Here&rsquo;s a Sports College tip for athletes that applies to everyone. Not long ago we ran a series of tests and found that rotary action Philishave gives smooth, clean skin line shaves. Even skin made tender by perspiration is not irritated by the rotary action. We&rsquo;ve tested and we recommend Philishave, the unique rotary action electric shaver, for close, comportable shaves.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0595/1462841-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="572" height="372"></div><p>Sincerely,</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0667/1462834-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="570" height="252"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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How will do you know your HOCKEY?

<p><b>NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>Little Gump Worsley, the smallest netminder in the National Hockey League, probably is also one of the most underrated men in his profession. Gump, who stands just a little over 5&rsquo;7&rdquo; with his skates on and weighs in at 155, has been working minor miracles between the pipes for the New York Rangers, with the result that the surprising Blueshirts are right up in the thick of things in the NHL race.</b></p><p><b>Worsley, who faces more rubber than a block of Seventh Avenue sidewalk, kept up his display of gallant goaltending this week and earned his selection as THE HOCKEY NEWS player-of-the-week.</b></p><p><b>Gump kept his besieged cage clean on two successive nights last week as he shut out the Boston Bruins 4-0 in New York and then 5-0 right in the Boston Gardens. During the two-game stand he stopped 71 shots.</b></p><p><b>Sunday night he allowed the Canadiens three goals as the Rangers tied 3-3. The first Habitant point ended a skein of 180 minutes and 12 seconds, over three complete games, of flawless netminding for the Verdun, Quebec native.</b></p><p><b>The two whitewash jobs raised Gump&rsquo;s shutout record to three this season, only one less than he achieved all last year. In 21 games he has allowed only 49 goals for an average of 2.33 goals per game. Quite an improvement over his 3.03 average with the Broadway Blues last year.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1022/1463025-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="283" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gump Worsley</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Despite the loss of such key men as Capt. Gus Mortson and Red Sullivan, leading team scorer last year, the Black Hawks recently emerged from their first 20 games of the 1955-58 National Hockey League schedule with a record far superior to those registered to this stage the past two seasons.</p><p>With a reminder that .500 hockey should get any club into the playoffs, Coach Dick Irvin pulled out a ball point to reveal that Chicago&rsquo;s record of 18 points in the first 20 games was almost at that .500 point and was a complete 100% improvement over the first 20 last season when only nine points had been salvaged.</p><p>Taking a rating on other teams in the circuit, he observed, &ldquo;The Canadiens have 28 as compared to 27 then&mdash;one down. The Rangers are up three from 17 to 20 and the Bruins have an increase of three points too, 15 to 18. Detroit is down from 25 to 17 and Toronto, from 24 to 15.</p><p>&ldquo;Our gain of nine, you can see, is by far the best and I&rsquo;m still sure we&rsquo;ll be in the cup battle.&rdquo;</p><p>Irvin found ample reasons for expression of pleasure over both offensive and defensive play in recent encounters fifth Boston and the slow starting champion Red Wings.</p><p>The 6-1 dumping of the Bruins on home ice November 18, he reminded, was a pretty close game for the first 15 minutes.</p><p>&ldquo;The turning point came late in the first period and at the start of the second when Al Rollins came up with several great saves in our nets.&rdquo;</p><p>Big Al was as sharp as they come two nights later too, when&mdash;with the assistance of some top work from Chicago&rsquo;s checking line of Tony Leswick, Glen Skov and Nick Mickoski&mdash;he turned aside the thrusts of Howe, Lindsay and Co. countless times as Detroit had to settle for 1-1 tie.</p><p>The Rollins&rsquo; goals-against average hit a season&rsquo;s low of 2.60 after the Wing deadlock and was a far cry from the 3.5 mark he had posted during the first 20 games a year ago. Publicitor Johnny Gottselig presented statistics showing that Al has been handling well over 30 shots per game.</p><p>Irvin could see no reason to neglect the improvement of the defense despite the absence of the starry and leading Mortson who isn&rsquo;t scheduled to return much before the arrival of 1956. Big Al Dewsbury was called up from the AHL&rsquo;S Buffalo entry to fill the gap.</p><p>The aggressive giant who was discharged from the Hawk rearguard setup a year ago for what was generally suspected to be a charge of indifferent play sparked a 2-0 shutout of Toronto at the Chicago Stadium November 11 by blasting the second goal past Harry Lumley himself from near the blue line.</p><p>Probably fearful of losing his job and being outshone, burly Lee Fogolin of the Chicago defense corps also sparked up to make Mort-son&rsquo;s absence less felt. He probably had the greatest night of his big league career in the 6-1 Boston affair. He contributed two assists and a number of jarring body checks.</p><p>&ldquo;Gee, they&rsquo;re playing well, huh,&rdquo; Irvin will grin on most any occasion when offensive prowness of the Black Hawks and more particularly the new line of Hector Lalande, Hank Ciesla and Johnny Wilson is mentioned. These three had contributed 3 5 points in the first 20 games.</p><p>Lalande made his first NHL goal a big one in the 1-1 Detroit game and smiled, &ldquo;Gee, I thought it would never come&rdquo; afterward. He had piled up nine assists in previous games. Ciesla&rsquo;s record stood at 3-10&mdash;13 while for the veteran Wilson it was 9-3&mdash;12 up to Thanksgiving night.</p><h2><b>Calculating</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01280/1463056-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="580" height="576"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICK IRVIN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Irvin Proves Hawks Improved More Than Any Team In Loop

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Dr. Jim Murray, the Toronto Maple Leaf club physician, is threatening to relieve Leaf coach King Clancy of all his responsibility.</p><p>By the middle of November, the medic had as many Leafs regulars in his charge as did the King.</p><p>Defensemen Tim Horton, Jim Thomson and Jack Bionda and forwards Sid Smith, and Eric Nesterenko were all shelved for prolonged periods as the injury bug bit Leafs with unprecedented viciousness.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never been associated with a team that&rsquo;s had so many regulars out at the same time,&rdquo; saud Leaf General Manager Hap Day, who has been associated with Leaf clubs, as player, coach and manager since 1924. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;m sure that once we get all our regulars back, we won&rsquo;t stay in the cellar long.&rdquo;</p><p>Each time a ray of hope escaped the infirmary, the situation would worsen rather than improve. For instance, Horton was just returning from the leg fracture he suffered last spring when Nesterenko suffered a knee injury and Tim himself a bone bruise on the site of his fracture.</p><p>When it was learned that both were improving, Sid Smith instead joined them with a groin Injury. Smitty in turn was granted permission to try skating after a week&rsquo;s idleness and he crumpled again and this time Thomson escorted him to the hospital with a like ailment.</p><p>It was the same day that Horton returned to skates to start another two-week conditioning period that Bionda suffered a hip injury and increased the hospital list to five.</p><p>Leafs don&rsquo;t expect to be back at full strength until mid-December now.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Leafs All Medic Fans

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>A</span> native of Winnipeg, Man., Terrance Gordon Sawchuk was born on Dec. 28, 1929. He is a 5&rsquo;11&rdquo; 190 pound goaltender who shoots left. He last played amateur hockey with Windsor Spitfires of the junior OHA before turning pro in 1947-48 with Omaha of the USHL. That year he was voted the league&rsquo;s outstanding rookie. In 1948-49 be joined Indianapolis Caps of the AHL and copped the Dudley &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Garrett Award as the top rookie. He joined Detroit on a permanent basis in 195051 and was again selected as the best newcomer. Since then he has twice won the Vezina Trophy and been chosen on three All-Star teams and two Alternate teams. Was traded to the Boston Bruins last summer.</b></p><p><b>SUPERSTITION-IF ANY:</b></p><p><b>Is not the least bit superstitious.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD BEFORE A GAME:</b></p><p><b>Steak.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE:</b></p><p><b>Winnipeg.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</b></p><p><b>Detroit.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE NHL CITY ON A ROAD GAME:</b></p><p><b>Detroit.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE READING MATERIAL:</b></p><p>Seldom reads anything.</p><p><b>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:</b></p><p>&ldquo;From Here To Eternity.&rdquo;</p><p><b>BEST ACTRESS:</b></p><p>Grace Kelly.</p><p><b>BEST ACTOR:</b></p><p>Gregory Peck.</p><p><b>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Doris Day.</p><p><b>FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Bing Crosby.</p><p><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA:</b></p><p>Guy Lombardo.</p><p><b>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY:</b></p><p>Playing in his first N.H.L. game.</p><p><b>IN THE SUMMER:</b></p><p>Returns to his Winnipeg home and relaxes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02259/1463111-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="312" height="450"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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INSIDE STUFF About Terry Sawchuk

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Long before the current NHL campaign got underway, puck pundits throughout the loop predicted that by Jan. 1st, Phil Watson would have either vaulted the boards in the direction of a referee or had himself tossed from the premises at least thrice.</p><p>Well, here it is December and Phiery Phil has (a) confined himself to the splinter-filled coach&rsquo;s bench; (b) never been tossed out of a game.</p><p>But that hasn&rsquo;t stopped Watson from (c) tossing a punch at an unruly (in Watson&rsquo;s estimation) New York fan and (d) sounding off in the direction of the NHL office about the officiating.</p><p>The incident with the fan was short-lived as Watson incidents go but it had the makings of a dilly.</p><p>Seems that the customer got himself a seat directly behind the Rangers&rsquo; bench and unceasingly tongue-lashed Mr. W.</p><p>To make matters worse, he continued his tirade right up until the end of the game which saw Detroit come from behind to tie matters with less than two minutes to go.</p><p>As the New Yorkers filed out to the dressing room Phil come face to face with his tormentor. They exchanged greetings (?) and, zoom, went a Watson right.</p><p>It missed the target and before any counter punching could take place, Muzz Patrick, former heavyweight champion of Canada, stepped in and ushered Phil to the dressing room.</p><p>The next day the phone rang in the hockey office and it was none other than Watson&rsquo;s nemisis calling to offer his apologies. The still-fuming coach was not around to take the message but when later advised replied, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to take that guy on again&mdash;when Muzz isn&rsquo;t around.&rdquo;</p><p>That leaves &ldquo;Rocky&rdquo; Watson with a draw to his credit in one attempt. If the Blues keep blowing leads like they did that night, there figures to be plenty more unscheduled fistic action around the Garden confines.</p><p>Rookie referee Lou Maschio was the culprit Phil had in mind when he discussed the officiating.</p><p>&ldquo;Why do they break in all the new officials in New York&rdquo; he complained. &ldquo;Maybe they know that the New York fans are easier on the officials than in most NHL cities.</p><p>&ldquo;Why if he (Maschio) called &rsquo;em that way in Montreal he wouldn&rsquo;t have a chance. They&rsquo;d bombard him with rubbers, false teeth and everything.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Officiating in New York is a break for the referees&mdash;not for the Rangers.&rdquo; Which is where we came in.</p><p>By the way, both Watson and Patrick reiterate their stand on the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>&ldquo;They will finish 1-2,&rdquo; sing the two chief Blues in unison. &ldquo;And,&rdquo; adds Muzz, &ldquo;I hope they don&rsquo;t start showing it against us.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I think their early season trouble is traced to too much talent and not enough game time to get organized. They had too big a squad. But they&rsquo;ve got too much strength to stay down for long.&rdquo;</p><p>Muzz agrees Watson has mellowed some since assuming the reins at New York but hastily adds &ldquo;his kind of pride won&rsquo;t stand any kind of checking.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

‘Rocky’ Watson Draws In One-Round Battle

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The giant Chicago Stadium organ burst forth with &ldquo;Happy Days are Here Again&rdquo; and fans gave some final whoops of satisfaction as they headed for the exits. It is happening quite often now in these days of Black Hawk hockey gain, but it was still rather disillusioning to one Terrance Sawchuk two weeks ago.</p><p>The chunky of goaling greatness lifted a couple of pretty heavy feet and plodded from a goal through which he had just allowed six pucks to enter. He shrugged in obvious displeasure and seemed to murmur, &ldquo;What&rsquo;s happening? It was never like this with those guys at Detroit!&rdquo;</p><p>A personal memo to the possibly terrified Terry: These same Black Hawks, my boy, have been down on their luck for a long time it&rsquo;s true, but in recent seasons they have somehow always managed to come up with a resounding slaughter of the Bruins once or twice yearly.</p><p>The 6-1 drubbing you were forced to endure was thus only one in a series and it will perhaps be best if you lick your wounds in dead earnest with the hope that the scars will be tough enough to absorb future punishment&hellip;Chicago may be pretty rough on your Beantown buddies in coming months.</p><p>This apparent jinx for a few nights annually, which the Hawks hope will blossom into an epidemic this season had its start as the Boston botherers closed out their 1953-51 home schedule. The occasion was Billy Mosienko night and his teammates celebrated the event with a 7-0 pounding of the Bruins.</p><p>Last year two more games found the Bostonions treated rather unkindly at the Stadium as the otherwise woeful Chicago skaters racked up one-sided triumphs by the counts of 6-1 and 10-2. These easy wins were hard to get for the Hawks, however, this year the worm seems to be turning gradually.</p><p>This news has been none to good for the players of Milt Schmidt and their efforts against the Black Hawks in the first three meetings of the clubs were far from inspiring. Of the nine periods of hockey played, the Bruins could make off with only one they could consider in their favor.</p><p>Boston happiness was nowhere in the first game&mdash;a transplanted home encounter for the Hawks played in St. Louis on October 25. Backed by goals from the sticks of Johnny Wilson and rollicking rookie centre Hank Ciesla, Al Rollins came through with some stellar goal work to earn his first shutout, 2-0.</p><p>Scene for the second game was Boston Gardens and the Bruins were able to salvage a moral victory in the shape of a 3-3 tie. This was the game of their one good period as they came through for the home crowd with all of their goals in the final stanza.</p><p>The Black Hawks were up to their old tricks, however, on Chicago Stadium ice November 18 when they came through for their biggest score of the year and the 6-1 verdict. They could do no wrong in swinging around and through the Bruin defense to give Sawchuk a nightmare night.</p><p>Big gun in the game for the happy hosts was galloping Nick Mickoski who rang up the second hat trick of his NHL career now in its eight season. It was his first fete for a fedora since he joined the Chicago crew in the deal that sent Bill Gadsby to New York last year.</p><p>&ldquo;I got my other hat trick with the Rangers and also scored four goals one night against the Hawks while there,&rdquo; he remembered. The trick was the first for a Chicago performer since Ed Litzenberger&rsquo;s trio last February 23 against&mdash;how&rsquo;d you guess&mdash;the Bruins. His effort produced a 3-3 deadlock.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Beware Black Hawks, Terry They Have Boston’s Number

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Long John Henderson&rsquo;s return to the form he flashed last season with the Boston Bruins has given a much needed lift to the fortunes of the struggling Hershey Bears.</p><p>Henderson got off to a poor start with the Bears, giving up 28 goals in his first six games. The team&rsquo;s over-all play, too, was erratic, so perhaps it wasn&rsquo;t ill Henderson&rsquo;s fault. However, there were times when his timing seemed off register. He just couldn&rsquo;t seem to some up with the big save when it was needed.</p><p>Meanwhile, little Norm Defelice, the Bears&rsquo; other cage cop, was having an even tougher time. He surrendered 32 goals to opposition marksmen in his first six games.</p><p>Coach Murray Henderson, unable to explain what had happened to a goaltender who had compiled a. very creditable 2.40 goals allowed average in 44 games with the Boston Bruins last year, put him through extra drills. Hershey players banged away at the big fellow from all angles, and soon John&rsquo;s reflexes began to function with razor sharpness.</p><p>So, even though the pace-setting Providence Reds beat the Bears on their next outing, 3-2, in overtime, long John&rsquo;s stellar work stood out like a lighthouse in a storm<b>.</b></p><p>Several nights later, with the Bears ending an eight-game losing streak, John turned in another magnificent performance as Hershey and Cleveland battled to a 2-2 overtime deadlock. Henderson had a 2-1 win going into the final seconds, when Steve Kraftcheck belted in a screen drive from the blue line to force the fracas into overtime at 19:58.</p><p>John is in his third campaign as a pro. He broke in with the Pittsburgh Hornets in 1952-53, playing one game with the Pistts burghers. The next campaign found Henderson dividing his time between Springfield in the Quebec League, and Syracuse, in the AHL.</p><p>The following year when the Bruins were scrambling for a replacement for ailing Sugar Jim Henry, Henderson was acquired in the deal which sent Ray Gariepy to the Maple Leafs. He started the campaign in the Hershey nets and, after 15 goals, was called up to finish out the schedule with the</p><p>Bruins. This year, with the acquisition of Terry Sawchuk by Boston, the 22-year-old ice man was left with the Bears for further seasoning.</p><p>His last amateur affiliation before turning pro was with the Toronto Marlboros, where he earned a post with the Junior OHA&rsquo;s All-Star club.</p><h2><b>Baffled</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01293/1463235-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="552" height="846"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MURRAY HENDERSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Henderson Gives Bisons A Much-Needed Pickup

<p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Buddy Boone and Earl (Ching) Johnson spot and put out fires in the off season but in the American Hockey League they are putting some fire into the Springfield Indians, providing the spark that has touched off several victories. They are Canadian Forest Rangers when they are not playing hockey.</p><p>Ranger Boone does his patrol duties in the Kirkland Lake, Ont., area. He does it mostly afoot. This is his second season as an Indian and he&rsquo;s improving by leaps and bounds. Springfield and Western Massachusetts fans like the chunky forward and his aggressive play that pays off in goals. With Ed Leier and Jim Anderson, he formed a sensational Kid Line a year ago.</p><p>Johnson, a rookie in professional hockey warfare, carried out most of his patrol efforts from an airplane in the Fort Francis, Ont., district. &ldquo;It was a tough summer, too,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;because we had an awful lot of forest fires, up there.&rdquo; Johnson found things less exciting, that is, until the day he spotted an immense moose.</p><p>It&rsquo;s been a long time since the Indians have had forest rangers, in their ranks. The last was Irv Frew, the rugged defenseman of other Indian days.</p><p>Boone and Johnson also are prospectors. Right now they are prospecting for Springfield goals. Buddy says his family has some copper claims. Johnson appears even luckier. &ldquo;We believe there&rsquo;s uranium on some of Our claims.&rdquo; he declares.</p><p>Johnson was at owner Eddie Shore&rsquo;s camp at Stamford, Ont. But he left for home, unable to reach an agreement on terms with &ldquo;Mr. Hockey.&rdquo; But Eddie made a flying trip to the west, where he met his young left winger, talked things over with him. The result was Johnson was soon on a train headed for Springfield where he quickly caught on with his rugged style of hockey.</p><p>Several close observers called him one of the best looking prospects in the Springfield camp. Johnson is out to prove that these experts were good judges of hockey flesh.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Fire Spotters Are Arsonists For Indians

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The title of team captain generally is either dismissed lightly ar completely overlooked by the press and hockey public.</p><p>By most it is considered nothing more than a nod by teammates that a certain player is either a &ldquo;good fellow&rdquo; or &ldquo;a veteran player who has been with the club longer than anyone else.&rdquo;</p><p>Within a team itself, the honor of being chosen captain holds greater esteem. Players pick their man carefully, His ability to fire up his mates in the dressing room or lead them by spirited play on the ice are prime considerations.</p><p>For the most part, the player chosen for this task is one who has been around for a while as experience commands a certain respect itself.</p><p>Yet, Obie O&rsquo;Brien, captain of the 1955-56 Hershey Bears, is only 25 years old and is in but his fifth year of American League play.</p><p>The fellow whom O&rsquo;Brien succeeded as captain of the Bears&mdash;Andy Branigan&mdash;now holds similar office with the rival Providence Reds.</p><p>Branigan. at 33, is in his 13th campaign in the Chick circuit, having spent two years in Springfield. one in Indianapolis, eight with Hershey and two at Providence.</p><p>Between these two extremes in age and experience, there&rsquo;s Jackie Gordon at Cleveland, Gordie Tottle at Springfield, Frank Mathers at Pittsburgh, and Ento Selisizzi at Buffalo.</p><p>All six are among the standout players on their respective clubs, that&rsquo;s apparent from their records. But there is more to recommend them than can be learned by looking up statistics and there is no tougher jury than their own teammates, who can study their reactions under all types of pressure.</p><p>Speaking of the statistical side, it is interesting to note that the selections are equally divided between defensemen&mdash;Mathers, Tottle, and Branigan&mdash;and forwards&mdash;Gordon (center), Sclisizzi (left wing), and O&rsquo;Erien (left wing).</p><p>As stated before, Branigan is the most traveled, having played with four AHL clubs. Gordon and Sclisizzi each have been with three.</p><p>The Cleveland captain wore the the colors of New Haven and Cincinnati before Jim Hendy landed him in one of his well-remembered deals with the New York Rangers.</p><p>Sclisizzi&rsquo;s clubs prior to Buffalo were St. Louis and Indianapolis. The quiet, efficient left flanker, incidentally, was captain of the Caps in their final year in the league, too.</p><p>Mathers and O&rsquo;Brien have been &ldquo;one club&rdquo; men while Tottle has spent his nine seasons shifting from Springfield to Syracuse back to Springfield as Eddie Shore moved his franchise.</p><p>Game wise, the six team leaders have taken part in a total of 2,540 regular season contests, exclusive of games they have played this year, and their total ears of experience in the AHL numbers 52.</p><p>Their ages average out to an even 2.9 years&mdash;an age when the fire of youth is still witLin, the experience of years generally gained, and ability at its peak.</p><h2><b>Fledgling</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02252/1463290-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="598" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>OBIE O&rsquo;BRIEN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Team Captains Face Toughest Juries Of All; Their Own Team-Mates

<div class="byline">By VIC WALL</div><p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>He owned the Cleveland Barons for 16 years. He was a fabulous figure in minor league hockey. He helped build the American Hockey League into one of the outstanding circuits in this country and in Canada, native land of the popular indoor sport. He was a giant man in sports. He still is. He&rsquo;s the same gracious, grand and gay guy he always was.</p><p>But hockey today to Al Sutphin hasn&rsquo;t changed too greatly from the days when he was the chap behind the assembling of championship Cleveland machines, along with his coach, Bill Cook. Sutphin and oCok, names to conjure with.</p><p>Only recently Sutphin, who also played the leading role in the building of a beautiful and spacious Cleveland Arena, was in Springfield, always one of his favorite stopping-off-spots.</p><p>He was here ostensibly to throw a little dinner party in honor of Eddie Shore, boss of the Springfield Indians, and one of Al&rsquo;s favorites through the years.</p><p>As usual, too, bis sense of timing was perfect because he came on a night when the Indians were playing a league game in their Coliseum just across the Connecticut River in West Springfield.</p><p>After praising Shore to the skies for what Eddie means to hockey. Al hurried to West Springfield to see hockey, his first love. As for Shore, Al stressed over and over again the solid, substantial fact that the game of hockey itself, its proper conduction and operation mean more to &ldquo;Mr. Hockey&rdquo; than personal profits. He meant it.</p><p>At the game itself, Al was cornered between periods in the press room.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s what he said about hockey when he ruled the roost and the present game:</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been out of hockey for a few years now but I haven&rsquo;t noticed much change in a great game with its spectator appeal. As far as I can see it is just as exciting as when I was connected with the sport, as an owner, and a keen fan, I may add.</p><p>&ldquo;It is pressure hockey all the way today and the fans love it. For instance, I went to my box a little late in the second period and on the way to the box, I heard wild cheering and stamping of feet and clapping of hands. I thought the Indians had scored or that there had been a fight or a penalty of an outstanding nature. But when I got to the box everything was serene. Each team had six men on the ice. In other words, the fans were simply cheering in their enthusiasm for the fast action in front of them. I find this true in every arena. I enter. It. is the type of game that catches the fury and fire of the spectators, keeps them applauding and on edge all the time.&rdquo;</p><p>Sutphin, there is no need to tell, doesn&rsquo;t confine his sports enthusiasm to hockey alone, although hockey is his favorite sport. As proof, he has rarely missed a World Series in Baseball. He is friend and confidant of many a big name baseball player and writer. He follows the Cleveland Indians religiously, goes to their training camps, is really part and parcel of the baseball picture in an indirect sense.</p><p>And, for the record, he hasn&rsquo;t missed an Olympic game since the Paris Games, and doesn&rsquo;t intend to miss the next set of international sport and good will.</p><p>These observations on a remarkable man could close on no other well-known note that there always is one distinctive part of Al&rsquo;s wearing apparel. It is the bright red necktie he affects.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Fabulous Figure In Minor Hockey, Al Sutphin Still Going Strong

<h2><b>Topper Tops</b></h2><p><b>Zellio Toppazzini leads the AHL pointgetters this week by a margin of three points over Ken Wharram of Buffalo Bisons, who has 35.</b></p><h2><b>Leaders</b></h2><p><b>Providence Reds are still firmly entrenched in the AHL lead, boasting 14 wins and two ties against six losses.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON WED. A.M., NOV. 30</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01291/1463408-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="616" height="198"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Pittsburg 3 at Springfield 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02225/1463401-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="608" height="480"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Springfield 1 at Providence 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03183/1463394-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="612" height="508"></div><h3><b>Cleveland 3 at Buffalo 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04139/1463387-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="602" height="732"></div><h3><b>Hershey 0 at Pittsburgh 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05103/1463380-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="608" height="578"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26 Buffalo 2 at Pittsburgh 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0683/1463373-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="608" height="733"></div><h3><b>Hershey 4 at Cleveland 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0861/1463366-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="612" height="768"></div><h3><b>Providence 5 at Springfield 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0949/1463359-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="608" height="728"></div><h2><b>Showing &rsquo;Em How To Do It</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0772/1463352-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="1780" height="1772"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WALT ATANAS of Springfield Indians (12) scores against Buffalo Bisons in a West Springfield game. No. 14 is Enio Sclisizzi of Buffalo, trying to prevent score.</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sunday. Nov. 27)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1043/1463345-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="614" height="660"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals</b></p><p>Zellio Toppazzini, Prov., Willie shall, Pitts., Camille Henry, Pitts., Jim Bartlett, Prov., 16 each.</p><p><b>Most Assists</b></p><p>Ken Wharram, Buffalo, 25.</p><p><b>Best Goalie</b></p><p>Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 18, 53, 2. 2.94 and Johny Bower, Providence, 20,59, 1, 2.95.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b></p><p>Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 2.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Team</b></p><p>Cleveland, 396 mts.</p><p>Fred, Glover, Cleveland, 68 mts.</p><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

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FOOTBALL-NEWS

<div class="byline">By AL HOOPER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01297/1463484-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIM MCFADDEN</b></figcaption></div><p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>The old pros are in shape now and the Western Hockey League is following the format laid out by the guys who have been around a while.</p><p>They are the Jimmy McFaddens and Sid Finneys, the Blinky Boyces and Max McNabs, the Phil Maloneys, Colin Kilburns, Eddie Stankiewiczs, and the Dorohoys.</p><p>You still get upsets. The term even now is being tried on for size. In a nine-team league that spans the biggest half of the biggest country on the continent, &ldquo;upsets&rdquo; requires a special and specific translation.</p><p>This much you know: the veterans will determine who represents the west for the Edinburgh Trophy come the merry month of April.</p><p>The requisite complement of four rookies per team is important. Most teams have good rookies.</p><p>But some have veterans like McFadden and Finney. Calgary Stampeders go one step further. They have one of each and at the moment of writing have won seven in a row&mdash;four on the road&mdash;to lead the toilsome Prairie Division.</p><p>Frank Currie&rsquo;s gluttonous Stamps interrupted the persecution of their prairie playmates long enough to trot over the mountains and run through the Coast section three times in four games.</p><h2><b>Plenty Of Variety</b></h2><p>It would be the fleet McFadden one night, on one of his remarkably fast sorties from the blueline in. Or centre Sid Finney, calm and correct and accurate. Or Bill Shvetz or the knowledgeable Doc Couture or&hellip;</p><p>But usually it was a veteran. And usually Calgary was winning.</p><p>Two of the league&rsquo;s best pros belong to New Westminster Royals. In the beginning coach Max McNab&rsquo;s Royals functioned uncertainly. Condition comes slowly as the legs grow older, and Royals are among the league&rsquo;s most elderly teams.</p><p>Now the legs are ready. McNab himself is ready. Blinky Boyce, for one, is mors than ready. Royals are on the move and Boyce, the smallest success in hockey at 5-foot-2, is showing his low-slung back to all the bigger backs in the scoring race.</p><p>Throughout the league the process is being repeated with minor variations. Vancouver Canucks have Phil Maloney. The prematurely gray centre is working to prove that snow on the roof won&rsquo;t extinguish the fire in the grate.</p><p>Maloney is fourth in scoring. Canucks are first in their division. In a career that has taken in Boston and Toronto, Hershey, Pittsburgh and Ottawa, Maloney has never stopped learning.</p><h2><b>The Kilburn Story</b></h2><p>In Victoria it is Colin Kilburn. The dark, sullen, competitive team-captain is the key.</p><p>Bud Poile&rsquo;s Edmonton Flyers lost Eddie Stankiewicz to Detroit for six games. Things went badly. The resolute, fearless Stanky returned. All is well again in Poileville.</p><p>In Seattle, Ollie and Eddie Dorohoy constitute two parts of a Big Four which includes Guyle Fielder and goalie Charlie Hodge.</p><p>There are other, examples, but these will do.</p><p>The honeymoon is over and, to mix the metaphor, long live the reliable old kings.</p><h2><b>Smooth And Mellow</b></h2><h2><b>They Know How</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02258/1463477-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="552" height="574"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>COLIN KILBURN</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03230/1463470-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="500" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SID FINNEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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When It Comes To The Edinburgh, Watch Those Vets

<div class="byline">HOOPER</div><p>NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Remembrance Day was Nov. 12 for Gordon Fashoway.</p><p>It put Fashoway, ever the rugged individualist, a day behind the rest of us. Hardly seemed to bother him. He scored his 200th Western Hockey League goal.</p><p>Exhibiting a tender regard for tradition, New Westminster&rsquo;s long left-winger with the bullwhips for forearms responded with a time-honored bromide.</p><p>&ldquo;It felt,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;like all the others.&rdquo;</p><p>Technically, &ldquo;all the others&rsquo; weren&rsquo;t scored in what became the Western League in 1952, In previous years it was known as the Pacific Coast League.</p><p>President Al Leader, no man to dabble in technicalities, has dispensed with such petty distractions for record-keeping purposes. To Al they&rsquo;re both the same league.</p><p>And Fashoway is its second 200-goal man. He needed five seasons and 16 games&mdash;all with the Royals&mdash;to do it. No. 200 came at home. It startled the Royals from a soothing lethargy. At the time they were looking up at a 2-0 deficit against Victoria Cougars. From there, Royals won 4-2.</p><h2><b>Essentially A Scorer</b></h2><p>Fashoway, whose blonde thatch abets his sophomore appearance, is essentially a goal-scorer. From the time he ventured into the universal league 29 years ago, Fash found goals fun.</p><p>His education began on the board-stiff outdoor ponds of Portage la Prairie, Man. It touched at Kansas City of the lamented USHL where he set a record of 52 goals in &rsquo;49-50. It flirted with Chicago Black Hawks the next year, where he scored three in 13.</p><p>When Fashoway reached West minster he took a year to acclimate to the new league and the old rink. Then in &rsquo;51-52 he scored 51 goals. The next year he scored 35, then 43 and, last year, 45.</p><p>So Fashoway can score goals.</p><p>In the past he has been charged with tardiness in skating toward the home fort. Backchecking, they said, is something Fashoway can live without.</p><p>This year, in 16 games, this implacable, generally silent citizen has gone to some trouble to prove anybody can be wrong. Even critics.</p><p>Fashoway scores with a big shot. He has the power. His style is no poetry of motion, but he skates strongly. He vastly prefers shooting to turning the puck into an ice-bound yo-yo, but he can carry a puck. At 190 pounds he has the size to be nasty, but elects to mind his own business.</p><p>His business is scoring. Only one man in WHL history has done it better, and Doug Adam has been at it longer.</p><p>Adam also plays for the Royals. He reported late this year. That game on Nov. 12 was only his second. In it he scored the winning goal, his first of the term, and his 227th in league play.</p><p>It leaves Fashoway something to shoot at.</p><h2><b>Nonchalant</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04203/1463515-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="486" height="518"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORD FASHOWAY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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‘Just Like The Others’ Is The Way Fashoway Shrugs Off 200th Goal

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>You can look for the new Winnipeg entry in the Western Hockey League to be right up with the leaders in the Prairie Division for the rest of this hockey campaign.</p><p>Coach Alf. Pike&rsquo;s Warriors got off to a slow start this year. It was understandable considering this was their first year in the league and they were putting together a brand new club. They ran into tough sledding at first. Most of their early games were played on the road as the new Winnipeg Arena wasn&rsquo;t ready.</p><p>But the team is starting to find itself now and at the time of writing had pulled even at the .500 mark with seven wins and seven losses in their first 14 games.</p><p>Coach Pike, the former New York Ranger star, has put together a club with just the right amount of youth and experience. He has such hockey-wise veterans as Bill Mosienko, late of the Chicago Black Hawks; Eddie Mazur and Paul Masnick, from the Montreal Canadiens; and Freddie Shero, a veteran of the AHL.</p><p>Along with these vets, he has such eager rookies as the Cullen brothers, Brian and Barry; Hugh Barlow, Mike Nykoluk and others.</p><p>Pike was very fortunate in the tie-up the Warriors have made with the Canadiens and Maple Leafs. These two NHL clubs agreed to provide the talent to stock the new Winnipeg club. And they are living up completely to their pre-season promises.</p><p>They have sent Pike complete forward units which has made his task of welding the club together all the easier. Ror example, he has the Toronto kid line of the two Cullens and Barlow. And when Barry Cullen was called back by the Leafs, Hap. Day was good enough to send a replacement&mdash;Les Duff&mdash;from Pittsburgh to take his place.</p><p>Pike has a big line from Montreal in Masnick flanked by Mazur and Gary Blaine. Masnick was sidelined with a broken wrist, so Pike shot Mike Nykoluk, captain of last year&rsquo;s Memorial Cup champion Toronto Marlboros, in his place.</p><p>Another trio consists of the veteran Mosienko on right wing with Gary Aldcorn from the Leaf chain and tricky Skippy Burchell from Montreal at centre. This line could be their top unit with Burchell and Mosienko working together in excellent fashion. Aidcorn provides strong back-checking strength for the line. He can also pot goals as witness his recent hat-trick at the expenses of the Regina Regals.</p><p>In goals, the Warriors have Ed. Chadwick from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Chadwick might not have the reputation of such WHL netminders as Lucien Dechene, Emil Francis, Ray Frederick and others, but Pike is very happy with his work.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a stand-up goalie,&rsquo; says Alf. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a big boy and he can take a lot of punishment back there. An excellent pair of hands, too.&rdquo;</p><p>On defense, Pike has been working Shero and Bill Burega from the Pittsburgh Hornets as one combination, and Danny Summers and Mike Keating as the other. Burega is a colorful, hard-knitting type&mdash;probably one of the hardest checkers in the league. He plays with a helmet on his head and he needs it the way he bashes opponents around. Burega is ticketed for future delivery with the Leafs.</p><p>Shero is team-captain and he gives the new club the steadiness it requires. When the Warriors have the man advantage, coach Pike usually sends out Brian Cullen and Shero to work on the points. He sometimes lets Burchell take over from Brian Cullen at centre on the kid line and moves Brian Cullen back to the point.</p><p>The &ldquo;Kid&rdquo; line is a real kid line, too. They&rsquo;re in the lightweight class but they move with great dexterity. They&rsquo;ll do much to popularize pro hockey in its first season in many moons in Winnipeg.</p><p>Manager Jack Perrin is fortunate in the number if Winnipeg natives he has on his lineup. They include Mazur, Aldcorn, Summers, Shero, Burega, Keating, Mosienko, and Blaine. It&rsquo;s always nice for fan support to have several local boys on your lineup.</p><p>With the kind of a club Pike has, the Warriors can look for an outstanding season of hockey at the new Winnipeg Arena. The powerful Alberta clubs in Calgary and Edmonton have the jump on the Warriors at the moment but the &lsquo;Peggers can be expected to gain on them as the season progresses.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Warriors Are Donning Wings After Slow, Tough Start

<h2><b>Winning Streaks</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>C</span>algary was on their way to set a new record for winning consecutive games with eight straight before running into a hot New West. minster Club in the Royal city last Wednesday. The record is held by the Royals who won 11 straight.</b></p><h2><b>Overtime Games</b></h2><p><b>Overtime has proven very popular with W.H.L. fans this year. Thirteen games have gone into the &lsquo;sudden death&rsquo; overtime period and 12 have been decided by the extra goal.</b></p><h2><b>First&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01297/1463717-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="542" height="572"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BLINKY BOYCE</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><p><b>STANDING ON SUNDAY A.M., NOV. 20</b></p><h3><b>PRAIRIE DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02225/1463710-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="602" height="164"></div><h3><b>COAST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03166/1463703-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="604" height="141"></div><h3><b>RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>Monday November 14</b></p><p>Vancouver 5 at Victoria 2</p><p>Tuesday November 15</p><p>Calgary 2 at Vancouver 0</p><p>Winnipeg 3 at Saskatoon 8</p><p>Edmonton 6 at Regina 4</p><p><b>Wednesday November 16</b></p><p>Calgary 0 at New West. 5</p><p>Edmonton 3 at Winnipeg 5</p><p><b>Friday November 18</b></p><p>Seattle 1 at Victoria 4</p><p>New West. 4 at Vancouver 3 OT</p><p>Winnipeg 4 at Calgary 3 OT</p><p>Regina 4 at Saskatoon 2</p><p><b>Saturday November 19</b></p><p>Victoria 2 at Seattle 3 OT</p><p>Vancouver 3 at New West 0</p><p>Winnipeg 5 at Edmonton 4 OT</p><p>Saskatoon 2 at Regina 3 OT</p><h3><b>MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Vancouver 5 at Victoria 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04139/1463696-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="609" height="449"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Calgary 2 at Vancouver 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05117/1463689-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="601" height="260"></div><h3><b>Winnipeg 3 at Saskatoon 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0699/1463682-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="601" height="735"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 6 at Regina 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0779/1463675-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="603" height="595"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Calgary 0 at New Westminster 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0866/1463668-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="604" height="473"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 3 at Winnipeg 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0959/1463661-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="603" height="623"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Seattle 1 at Victoria 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1053/1463654-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="598" height="645"></div><h3><b>New Westminster 4 at Vancouver 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1146/1463647-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="604" height="615"></div><h3><b>Winnipeg 4 at Calgary 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1240/1463640-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="607" height="688"></div><h3><b>Regina 4 at Saskatonn 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1425/1463633-1-eng-US/f0014-142.jpg" title="f0014-14" width="601" height="482"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, NOV. 19 Vancouver 3, New Westminster 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1523/1463626-1-eng-US/f0014-152.jpg" title="f0014-15" width="609" height="296"></div><h3><b>Seattle 3, Victoria 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1620/1463619-1-eng-US/f0014-162.jpg" title="f0014-16" width="609" height="580"></div><h3><b>Regina 3, Saskatoon 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1720/1463612-1-eng-US/f0014-172.jpg" title="f0014-17" width="610" height="475"></div><h3><b>Winnipeg 5, Edmonton 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1820/1463605-1-eng-US/f0014-182.jpg" title="f0014-18" width="611" height="780"></div><h2><b>Second&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1334/1463598-1-eng-US/f0014-132.jpg" title="f0014-13" width="583" height="581"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PHIL MALONEY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Saturday, Nov. 19)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1917/1463591-1-eng-US/f0014-192.jpg" title="f0014-19" width="592" height="1664"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2017/1463584-1-eng-US/f0014-202.jpg" title="f0014-20" width="605" height="312"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals</b></p><p>Gordie Fashoway, NW, 14</p><p>Sid Finney, Cal., 14</p><p><b>Most Assists</b></p><p>Blinky Boyce, NW, 20</p><p><b>Most Game Winning Goals</b></p><p>Skip Teal, Vic., 4</p><p><b>Most First Goal of Game</b></p><p>Carl Kaiser, Van., 4</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b></p><p>Ray Fredericks, Cal., 3 Most Hat Tricks</p><p>Jack McLeod, Sask., 2</p><p><b>Most Goals Scored When Opposition Pen.</b></p><p>Sid Finney, Cal., 4</p><p>Max McNab, NW. 4</p><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2212/1463577-1-eng-US/f0014-222.jpg" title="f0014-22" width="604" height="228"></div><h2><b>&hellip;And Third</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2114/1463570-1-eng-US/f0014-212.jpg" title="f0014-21" width="529" height="930"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOBBY LOVE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>They&rsquo;ve been in pursuit of Shawinigan Falls Cataracts so steadily since the Quebec Hockey League season began that Elmer Lach and his Royals are even wary of adopting slogans.</p><p>Such shopwork themes as &ldquo;Catch the Cats by Christmas&rdquo; have little appeal to the Montreal hockey mob, even though there is some euphonic merit to the phrase.</p><p>True, there was a brief space when the Royals held the top perch&mdash;for one week, that is&mdash;early in November.</p><p>Lach took his larrigans into the Falls&rsquo; arena, Nov. 3. Gerry McNeil slammed the door in the faces of Broden, Faulkner, Kachur & Co. Royals won 2-0 and held to first place for a matter of seven days&mdash;until the Cataracts came into the Forum nudged out a 3-2 decision and like the yeast in the dough batch, rose again to the upper layer of the club standing.</p><p>Since then Royals have been winning with fair regularity, but so have the Cataracts. What has helped the Shawinigan forces is that they have played more games, have been going along riding a two to four margin in the points column, which is plenty to flaunt all protestations of the Royals&rsquo; followers&rsquo;. &ldquo;Wait&rsquo;ll we play those other games?&rdquo;</p><p>Things will have to level off pretty soon, however. The Ice-capades came into the Montreal Forum, and this sent the Royals on the road for a stretch of seven games. In this tour every foreign rink save the Chicoutimi Coliseum will be invaded once. To Chicoutimi Royals make only one trip.</p><p>If Royals can get out of Quebec, Trois Rivieres and Chicoutimi without getting whacked around too much, they may be able to thrash their way to first place by beating the Cats twice in the Shawinigan Arena.</p><p>Of course this is a very sketchy theory.</p><p>The big cheer in Royals&rsquo; camp of course is for Gerry McNeil who keeps turning in one sensational goaling job after another. He hung the crepe on the Cataracts as his mates went on to win 4-0 at the Forum, Nov. 24 and three days later did the cipher trick against the Aces at Quebec.</p><p>These back-to-back shutouts gave McNeil three zeros for the season and put him level with Cataracts&rsquo; Bob Perreault in this department.</p><p>In the Vezina Trophy competition McNeil&rsquo;s record was much impressive. His goals against stood at a stationary 35 and his percentage for 19 putings was 1.86, to compared to 2.22 for Perreault (49 goals in 22 games) and 2.44 (44 goals in 18 games) for Marcel Paille of Chicoutimi Sagueneens.</p><p>Veteran observers in Montreal who take their hockey in heavy portions and find time to look in at both the National League games as well as the Quebec loop offerings claim the goaling in the Slater circuit is on a par with that in the big top. More than that, these same old-timers are inclined to state that there are more Grade A net custoduans in the Quebec League than in the faster time.</p><p>It&rsquo;s a popular opinion that McNeil, Perreault and Paille are all good enough to hold down jobs in the big money circuit supervised by Col. Clarence Campbell.</p><p>You&rsquo;ll get some scathing arguments from NHL die-hards, but it all leads to animated discussion.</p><p>Another thing; it makes one wonder how long Terry Sawchuk and the Boston Bruins are going to hold out, when there&rsquo;s two or three such handy andy net guardians down in the Quebec loop.</p><h2><b>Ace Stopper</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01268/1463748-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="580" height="848"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY McNEIL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Shop-worn Slogans Don’t Interest Lach; He Wants Results

<div class="byline">Al Parsley</div><p>(As Seen In The Montreal Herald)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02233/1463779-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="301" height="326"></div><p>EMPHATIC denials of alleged abduction or kidnapping have been made by George &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach in l&rsquo;affaire Zeniuk.</p><p>When faced with charges that he had been responsible for the sudden switch of destination from Trois Rivieres to Quebec of defense player Eddie Zeniuk est-ward bound last week from Edmonton Flyers, the Quebec Aces&rsquo; coach said it was entirely a misunderstanding. Apparently Jack Adams of Detroit Wings is a most misunderstood party to the transaction and Francois Hetu, GM of the Lions a man taking too much for granted.</p><p>&ldquo;I have an understanding with Jack Adams that the Quebec club gets first call on any player the Flyers, Red Wings&rsquo; No. 1 farm club, may be cutting. I knew some weeks ago that Bud Poile would be turning Zeniuk loose shortly, and naturally exepcted to get him.</p><p>&ldquo;So I&rsquo;m surprised when I learn that Hetu in Trois Rivieres says he&rsquo;s getting Zeniuk. I hear it on the radio and read it in the newspapers but I say nothing. But last week when Aces were playing the Lions in their own rink I told the Trois Rivieres newspapermen that they&rsquo;d better kill or retract the story, or whatever you call it. Because Zeniuk is coming to Quebec.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m talking to Jack (Adams) on the phone and he tells me he has a couple of long wires from Hetu, but what of it? Zeniuk had been promised to us at Quebec. So that was that.&rdquo;</p><p>With veteran rearguard and captain Joe Crozier hospitalized and likely to undergo a kidney operation, and Joe Levandoski retired, Imlach was hard up for defensemen, and apparently used his hockey connection to the full to get Zeniuk, much as he may have syfpathized with Hetu&rsquo;s plight in Trois Rivieres. Or, is this wrong? There&rsquo;s little sympathy in professional sport.</p><p>In addition to Zeniuk the Aces have come up with Tony Schneider and Larry Thibeault. The latter is not to be confused with the 37-year-old Laurence Lorrain Thibeault who played for Quebec the latter part of last season. The new Larry Thibeault is only 23 years old, was out of hockey last season, played in Edmonton the previous year. He was born in Winnipeg.</p><p>Sammy Pollock shipped Claude Laforge, the young forward who played the last two QHL games with Royals, down east to rejoin the Junior Habs. He reports to Lou Passador today in Amherst, NS. The Canadiens&rsquo; junior squad has 20 games booked in the Maritimes and will not get back to Montreal until Dec. 18. Then they&rsquo;ll have five days off before starting an invasion of Ontario.</p><p>With 43 games played the QHL has had nine tied at the end of the three regular periods, but four of these deadlocks were broken inside the 10-minute overtime limit, which proves that the overtime business is a good way to settle stalemates. The American League, like the Quebec loop, adopted the sudden 10-minute extra session a couple of years ago. The NHL appears to be the last professional hockey circuit holding to the policy of no overtime.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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★ SIDELIGHTS

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Elmer Lach, who is fast getting a reputation as hockey&rsquo;s Casey Stengel because of his cryptic remarks, came up with a few new ones the other night in Royals&rsquo; lockroom after his hearties had handed that 4-0 shellacking to Shawinigan Cats.</p><p>In the third period Barry Thorn dycraft went driving on the Cataracts&rsquo; goal with his head down, and was caught with a charging check from the flank from tall Ted Hodgon.</p><p>Flattened for a long count Torndycraft was helped off the ice, played no more that evening. Later it was reported that he had suffered torn muscles and bruises to his side and lower ribs. It would be necessary for him to rest for some days, maybe a week, perhaps longer. There was no quick cure for such injuries. Rest was the important things. So said the medical department.</p><p>&ldquo;They knock off all the corners in this league&rdquo; observed Lach.</p><p>Still later Royals&rsquo; coach checked up certain other casualties. Ray Laplante had taken part in the game that night, but had been used sparingly. He was recovering from a damaged knee. Ti-Guy Rousseau was due back from a sprained ankle having discarded his crutches and began skating a few days before, and Phil Goyette was over a throat infection.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll soon have all our men back then we can go for George.&rdquo; This latter was interpreted as an oblique way of saying that his men would be ready for a few wrangles with referee George Gravel.</p><p>Lach opined that Gravel hadn&rsquo;t been too sharp that night. There should have been a penalty to Hodgson for racking up Thorndycraft. And his squad was too thin in reserves for his men to risk misconduct penalties by launching a verbal attack on the official.</p><p>Deep Freeze&mdash;Calum &ldquo;Baldy&rdquo; MacKay who is recuperating rapidly to feel vigour after a knee operation made a brief road jaunt with the NHL Canadiens, took part in an exhibition game against Buffalo Bisons at Rochester, N.Y. then was optioned to Royals following waiver processing in the NHL&hellip;MacKay got into action in a QHL game at Quebec and scored the first tally to set Royals on the way to a 5-0 triumph over the Aces.</p><h2><b>Royalty</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03211/1463810-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="598" height="860"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ELMER LACH</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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No Comers Left Intact, Says Elmer

<div class="byline">PARSLEY</div><p class="dropcap"><span>G</span>eorge Gravel has been nicked twice by flying pucks for stiches in this season&rsquo;s QHL games, but stiches aside, George still delights many an unbiased observer with his smooth and speed skating. There are few officials in the game who are his equal in navigating on the tubed runners.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NORTHLAND

<h2><b>See-Saw Affair</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>M</span>ontreal Royals and Chicoutimi Sagueneens are locked in desperate battles&mdash;the Royals to catch the Sags for the lead, the Sags to stay ahead.</b></p><h2><b>It&rsquo;s Still Corriveau</b></h2><p><b>Andre Corriveau of Montreal has a four point lead on his nearest rival, Jim Moore of Chicoutimi, for the scoring lead.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON MONDAY A.M., NOV. 30</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01263/1463914-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="600" height="162"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1955 Shawinagan 0 at Royals 4</b></h3><p><b>Shawinigan</b>&mdash;Goal: B. Perreault; defense: Hodgson, Turner, Leger, G. Bouchard, Langlis; forwards: Dube, J.P. Denis, Grosse, Desaulniers, Wray, Broden, Kachur, Faulkner, Thomson.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defense, R. Rousseau, Clune, Ingram, Deslauriers, Amadio; forwards: Burnett, L. Denis, Corriveau, Thorndycraft, Hoekstra, Gravelie, Laplante, Marquis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02210/1463907-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="605" height="443"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Trois-Rivieres 5 at Quebec 4</b></h3><p><b>Trois-Rivieres</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette; defense: Goyette, Morgan, Lamirande, MacNeil; forwards: Kwong, Joannette, Scherza, Kapusta, Stoddard, Leclerc, Gooden, Gagnon, Bisaillon, Gladu.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defense: Schneider, L. Thibault, Ernst, Karrys; forwards: Gamble, G. Thibault, Powell, Ford, Poliziani, Labadaie, Powell, Tremblay, Achtymichuk, Vinet.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03173/1463900-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="607" height="832"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1955 Royals 5 at Quebec 0</b></h3><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defense: R. Rousseau, Ingram, Deslauriers. Amadio. Clune; forwards: Corriveau. Goyette, G. Rousseau. Burnett, Denis, Gravelle, LaPlante, Hoekstra.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defense: Schneider, Thibault, Ernst, Karrys; forwards: Gamble, Powell, Ford, Poliziani, Labadie, Tremblay, Achtymichuk, Maxwell, Cossette, Vinet.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05100/1463893-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="602" height="564"></div><h3><b>Shawinigan 6 at Chicoutimi 5</b></h3><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defence: R. Leger, Hodgson, G. Bouchard, Langlois; forwards: Desaulniers, Wray, W. Bouchard, Kachur, Denis, Broden, Grosse, Faulkner, Dube.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Faille: defence: Roy, Glaude, Hanna, Labrosse; forwards: L. Smrke, S. Smrke, Moore, Locas, F. Perreault, Topoll, Hicks, Lalonde, Crossman, G. Leger.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0676/1463886-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="608" height="832"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Gaines of Sunday, Nov. 27)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0766/1463879-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="610" height="764"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0861/1463872-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="612" height="274"></div><h2><b>Making A Terrific Save</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04143/1463865-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="1770" height="1006"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MARCEL PAILLE makes a terrific save in stirring scene as Chicoutimi Sagueneens defeat Royals 2-1 in QHL game at the Forum. At right Wally Clune, Royals and Jimmy Moore, Sags, are tangled.</b></figcaption></div><div class="sidebar"><p><b>BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape are used and endorsed by the Toronto Argonaut Football Club.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<p><b>&ldquo;HOCKEY NEWS&rdquo; Heads their Christmas gift lists&hellip;</b></p><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;I read THE HOCKEY NEWS faithfully and now have a son old enough to read it too. I&rsquo;m getting him a year&rsquo;s subscription so that I can have my copy to myself.&rdquo;</p><p>Josh H. Jones, Accountant, Simcoe, Ont.</p><p>&ldquo;A year&rsquo;s subscription to THE HOCKEY NEWS is a 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.</p><p>The Hockey News Makes an ideal CHRISTMAS GIFT for everyone in the family Solve your Christmas shopping Worries the Easy Way&hellip;Send the &ldquo;Hockey News&rdquo; FATHER&hellip;BIG BROTHER&hellip;YOUR FAVORITE COUSIN&hellip;THE BOY FRIEND&hellip;MOTHER&hellip;</p><p>KID SISTER&hellip;THE GALS AWAY AT SCHOOL&hellip;THE BETTER HALF.</p><p><b>ATTRACTIVE GIFT CARDS ANNOUNCE EACH XMAS SUBSCRIPTION</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0950/1463952-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="418" height="670"></div><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.</p><p><b>Canadian Remittances</b>.&hellip;$3.00 Payable by Postal, Bank or Telegraphic Money Order.</p><p><b>U, S. A. Remittances</b>&hellip; &hellip;$4.00 Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or Personal cheque.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1044/1463945-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="1138" height="402"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IT’S GIFT TIME AGAIN!

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>This is the season the Cincinnati Mohawks are seeking their fourth straight champpionship in the International Hockey League.</p><p>Whether the Hawks will do it remains to be seen, but early results indicate they will have their hands full.</p><p>Two teams, Troy&rsquo;s Bruins and the Komets from Ft. Wayne, appear to be standing in the way of another Cincinnati title-sweep.</p><p>Sparked by the air-tight goaltending of Bill Tibbs, the Bruins have gotten away from the post at breakneck speed as they attempt to put an end to the Mohaw monopoly. Nellie Podolski&rsquo;s Troy skaters held leads up to four full games in the early stages of the campaign.</p><p>Under a new coach, Doug McCaig, Ft. Wayne looks as though it finally will reward its faithful fandom with a high finish and good playoff performance.</p><p>Where does all of this leave Cincinnati, which annexed regular-season and playoff crowns in 1952-53, 1953-54 and 1954-55?</p><h2><b>Not Too Well Off</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Not too well off,&rdquo; Coach Roly McLenahan hastens to emphasize. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re certainly weaker than we have been in in the past, and there&rsquo;s no question that Troy and Ft. Wayne both are stronger.&rdquo;</p><p>McLenahan isn&rsquo;t moaning about his unfortunate lot. He still expects to have his club up with the leaders when the season ends, and he looks for the Hawks to fare well in post-season competition.</p><p>McLenahan, who was picked as a defenseman on the IHL&rsquo;s All-Star team last season, has a spotless coaching record at Cincinnati. In his third campaign at the helm of the Hawks, he has led them to relatively easy victories for the past two years.</p><p>He has helped start a number of youngsters on promising professional careers. Connie Broden, Eddie Kachur, George (Butch) Bouchard are with Shawinigan Falls of the Quebec League; Phil Goyette, Barry Thorndycraft and Denis Boucher with the Montreal Royals of the QHL; Mickey Keating with Winnipeg of the Western loop and Goalie Charlie Hodge with Seattle of the WHL.</p><h2><b>Romantic Returnees</b></h2><p>Back with McLenahan at Cincinnati this year are Billy Goold, John (Bun) Smith and Brian (Butch) MacKay, all of whom married local girls during the 1955 summer and fall; in addition to Reg Grigg, Moe Mantha and Duke Edmundson,</p><p>Newcomers include Max Mekilok, Bill Sutherland, Lou Marcon, Neil Burke, Warren Hynes, Bill Kurtz and Goalies Jacques Marcotte. Mekilok, a centre, is off to a blazing start with 13 goals in his first. 12 contests.</p><p>Never out of the top three in the first five weeks of IHL action, Cincinnati&rsquo;s Mohawks definitely can&rsquo;t be counted out as champs for the fourth straight year. Only time, along with Troy and Ft. Wayne, will tell the story.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Mohawks May Have Big Ideas But They’ll Need Lots Of Steam, Too

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>If things continue as they are, the Eastern Amateur Hockey League will wind up with all six clubs tied for first place when the season ends next March. Twenty-seven games have been recorded and there is a three way deadlock for first place and a three-way tie for second (or fourth place, depending on how you look at it) with only two points separating the leaders and &ldquo;tailenders&rdquo;.</p><p>Home ice has been the deciding factor thus far with only five decisions going to visiting teams. New Haven, has won all five home games and dropped their three road encounters. (Johnstown has had the worst home record, having lost before the home fans on three occasions). the other five teams have triumphed one time each on foreign ice.</p><p>Attendance has been good around the circuit. New Haven has been playing to the largest crowds in recent years. Johnstown, Clinton and Philadelphia have also had good &ldquo;gates&rdquo;. Baltimore and Washington haven&rsquo;t hit their stride yet, but both have increases over the same period last season. (After the football season ends, crowds should improve in both cities).</p><h2><b>Post Season Playoff</b></h2><p>Eastern League president Tom Lockhart is trying to arrange a post season play-off with the International Hockey League. So far nothing definite has been decided, however, the chances are good that this series will come off.</p><p>Ten minute sudden death overtime has been necessary on two occasion and no tie games have gone into the books.</p><p>EAHL NOTES&hellip;Dick Roberge and Don Hall of Johnstown are running one-two in the individual scoring race&hellip;Dick Piloquin of Philadelphia has the most penalties. (He picked up five minors and a misconduct in the Nov. 9th game against the Jets, for the game high mark this season)&hellip;Doug Coxon (Clinton) and Bill McWhinney (Washington) have registered the only shut-outs to date, with Phila. Ramblers the victims on both occasions&hellip;Veteran Joe Medynski has been added to the Washington Lions blue line corps. He played in the Capitol two years ago and replaces Rick Albert who was picked up by New Haven. Theron &ldquo;Moose&rdquo; Smith, who was released by New Haven, signed with the Ramblers&hellip;New Haven also signed Reg Meserve following his release by the Lions&hellip;Clinton dropped Bob Palmer&hellip;Baltimore, who have had only three defensemen all season, hope to get Eddie St. Louis from Indianapolis of the IAHL&hellip;Don &ldquo;Nipper&rdquo; O&rsquo;Hearn and Les Binkley are splitting the Baltimore net minding chores. O&rsquo;Hearn, a former pro, played for the Clippers in 1946-47&hellip;Clippers latest addition, Roger Dubuc, was with Valleyfield of the QHL last season&hellip;The Pennsylvania rivals (Philadelphia and Johnstown) have been producing much of the fisticuffs in the EAHL. Even Jet Goalie Claude LaBoissiere has been penalized (twice) when these two clubs squared off&hellip;The O&rsquo;Hearns, Don and Al, with Baltimore, are the only brother act in the league&hellip;Hat tricks have been registered by Sherban, Buckholtz, Chasle (New Haven), Hall (2), Ruml, Roberge (Johnstown),S Smith, Lapointe (Washington) Dorrington (Philadelphia) and Frizelle (Clinton)&hellip;</p><h2><b>STANDINGS</b></h2><p>(Standings on Friday, A.M., Nov. 18th)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0585/1464059-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="603" height="186"></div><h2><b>Fast Start</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02195/1464052-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="544" height="566"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NELS PODOLSKI</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Promising</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03153/1464045-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="596" height="592"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG McCAIG</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Weaker</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04114/1464038-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="570" height="1318"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROLY MCLENAHAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Ties Galore Dominate EAHL Scene

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>S</span>TORM CENTRE</b>&hellip;Frank Mahovlich of Schumacher, one of Northern Ontario&rsquo;s brightest young pro prospect, is the centre of quite a controversy involving Jack Adams, General Manager of Detroit, and hockey officials of St. Michael&rsquo;s College of Toronto&hellip;Jack charges the school lured the 17-year-old Northern Ontario flash from the Wings&hellip;it was revealed by Jack that Frank&rsquo;s father had promised to send him to Hamilton Cubs of the OHA Junior circuit and a Detroit-sponsored team&hellip;said Jack Adams: &ldquo;Johnny Mitchell, our chief scout, talked to Mahovlich back in 1953 and his father agreed to send him to Cathedral High School at Hamilton and have him play for the Cubs.&rsquo;&rsquo; All of which shapes us as a first-rate controversy&hellip;Bill Dineen, Red Kelly and Ted Lindsay, three terrific players, played for St. Michael&rsquo;s before making the big leap into the NHL&hellip;</p><p><b>WIDE OPEN</b>&hellip;the fight for top positions in the Big Ten Scoring Parade of NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; activity is getting tougher all the time&hellip;at this writing, Bert Giesebrecht of Pembroke Lumber Kings leads with 26 points on four goals and 22 assists, while Mike Ratchford of Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds is second on 19 points composed of six goals and 13 assists&hellip;so it&rsquo;s assists keeping Bert and Mike up there&hellip;however, many of the other players are closing in fast&hellip;Billy Watson of Sudbury Wolves, Bob Barlowe of North Bay Trappers and Jack Giesebrecht of Pembroke all have 18 points&hellip;Giesebrecht has 11 goals and seven assists, Barlowe has 10 goals and eight assists, while Watson has six goals and 12 assists&hellip;in a game completed just before getting this column ready, Eddie Joss and Chuck Holdeway, both of Sault Ste. Marie Indians, increased their total points to 17 and now share fourth place with Johnny Bailey and Ronnie Rowe, both of Pembroke&hellip;a total of 11 players have 16 or more points&mdash;five from Pembroke, two each from the Greyhounds and Indians, and one each from the Trappers and Wilves&hellip;</p><p><b>PORKIES PESKY</b>&hellip;South Porcupine Porkies increased their victory string to four games with a dazzling 5-3 triumph over Timmins-Schumacher Flyers in a Porcupine Dictrict Senior Hockey League tussle&hellip;the victory boosted the high-flying Porkies into the leadership&hellip;Roy McKay, long a brilliant name in NOHA competition, led the attack with two goals for the winners&hellip;other boys to keep watching in this circuit are Billy Adamo, Don Mousseau and Pat O&rsquo;Leary&hellip;Gil St. Pierre, who attracted considerable attention in this column last season, continues to roll for the Flyers&hellip;Kapuskasing Beavers are showing their fans they deserve to be in senior company for the first time&hellip;they beat Kirkland Lake Tecks, 4-2, with Paul Piche firing two goals&hellip;Billy Degurse, who played with Kitchener Greenshirts last season, also went well for &ldquo;Kap&rdquo; by getting one goal and playing a fine two-way game&hellip;</p><p><b>PLAYING COACH WINS</b>&hellip;chalk up a mighty important goal for playing-coach Eddie Reigle of North Bay Trappers&hellip;he engineered the winning goal for the Trappers against the Sault Ste. Marie Indians in North Bay&hellip;he received a rousing ovation from close to 2,000 fans in North Bay&rsquo;s beautiful new arena&hellip;nice going, Eddie!&hellip;here&rsquo;s a boy who is doing a neat job as playing coach, although he does not play every game&hellip;Well, we finally, learned what happened to Julien Klumkiew, the colorful netminder who just failed to get a spot on one of the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rsquo;&rsquo; squads&hellip;he will lineup for Marquette Sentinels in the Northern Ontario-Michigan Senior Hockey League&hellip;earlier he had indicated he would head out West, but now he&rsquo;s still within our Northern orbit&hellip;good luck, Julien!!!&hellip;however, Al Promaine, well-known NOHA referee, is leaving the same orbit&hellip;Al has been promoted by Dominion Tar and Chemical Company and will operate in Southern Ontario&hellip;Wes Hart, referee-in-chief of the NOHA, is still considering a replacement&hellip;Al has done a nice job up North and has made himself a lot of friends&hellip;I join with all Northern Ontario hockey fans in extending congratulations to Al and wish him all the luck in the world in his new position&hellip;</p><p><b>PAT VISITS NORTH</b>&hellip;Pat Patterson, veteran OHA refereein-chief, is now conducting a series of referees&rsquo; schools in Northern Ontario&hellip;Pat always does a terrific job and we all look forward to his visits every year&hellip;I talked to Bud McDonald, NOHA referee from Sudbury, about the school and Bud commented: &ldquo;This is a great thing for hockey and we are going to build a fine supply of good officials because of the schools.&rdquo; Bud is one of the nicest guys you could meet and is the father of twins, by the way&hellip;Northern Ontario may see quite an expansion in Intermediate hockey&hellip;Tony Prete, former senior star, is now busy whipping up interest among seven or eight teams&hellip;he is action for the NOHA and should do a commendable job&hellip;teams interested hail from Parry Sound, Timiskaming, Espanola, Blind River, Capreol, Co-niston and Sudbury&hellip;a meeting was held to open initial discussion&hellip;NOHA convenors Jim Aspin, Red Venturi and Red Maltby are geenly Interested in seeing the movement succeed&hellip;BEST OF LUCK, PETE!&hellip;</p><p><b>LEAFS IN NORTH</b>&hellip;this week was bursting with major hockey items&hellip;one of the biggest was the announcement by Conn Smythe, major domo of Toronto Maple Leafs, that his team would make North Bay&rsquo;s dazzling $700,000 Civic Arena their training headquarters either in 1956 or 1957&hellip;one of the features of this story is that Smythe was in the new building only five minutes when he burst forth with his surprise announcement&hellip;the Leafs have been training in St. Catharines&hellip;with Detroit Red Wings training every fall in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and now with Toronto Maple Leafs headed for North Bay you can see Northern Ontario is getting bigger and better all the time in a hockey sense, as well as every other sense&hellip;welcome to the Great Northland, Conny Smythe!&hellip;</p><p><b>KEEN FIGHT</b>&hellip;Collingwood Shipbuilders and Midland Flyers battled to a rugged 3-3 tie during 70 minutes of torrid hockey at Midland to provide one of the most exciting games in Intermediate &ldquo;A&rdquo; competition&hellip;these teams are making a habit of overtime play&hellip;only recently, Midland clipped Collingwood, 6-4, after 10 minutes of overtime at Collingwood&hellip;Al Grier was going great for Collingwood with two goals&hellip;Midland blew two-goal margins on two occassions&hellip;Roy Collings and Donnie Scott were impressive for Midland as they got the Flyers off to a good start&hellip;other stars included Morley Spiker and Jimmy Barrett&hellip;Midland and Collingwood are contributing a great deal to hockey and the players, officials and fans are to be highly commended&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01229/1463983-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="594" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK ADAMS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Shermie White, the Maritime native who played a lot of topnotch hockey away from home, has taken over the scoring leadership in the Atlantic Coast League.</p><p>White, a graduate of Amherst St. Patrick&rsquo;s, a better than usual Maritime junior team, won his senior spurs with Halifax RCAF in the wartime league. After the war he pastimed with many teams in the American League, saw brief service with New York Rangers in the NHL and had three good years in the Quebec League, once winning the most valuable player trophy.</p><p>Last winter he stayed home and Amherst had a great season in the Coast League. The Ramblers were drawing cards all over the circuit and the major credit was given to White. The sportsmen of Amherst, who put together a fund of money to purchase his professional release, got it all back when the townspeople kept the turnstiles clicking all season.</p><h2><b>Big Producer</b></h2><p>White was one of the big producers last year and he&rsquo;s off to a great start this term. At this stage of the schedule he&rsquo;s leading the league with 30 points made up of eight goals and 22 assists. As a playmaker he&rsquo;s the best in the league, same as he was last winter.</p><p>Pierre Brilliant, the flashy young winger who has been the recipient of those slick passes from the veteran White, has been displaced by his teammates as league leader but is high in second place with 29 points, 18 of them on goals.</p><p>Another point behind is big Hughie Campbell, playing coach of Fredericton Capitals. Big Hugh, a graduate of Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s junior organization, has had flings in the American League and with the New York Rangers. Last season he started as playing coach with Charlottetown Islanders, took a vacation when an ulcer acted up, then rejoined the team late in the campaign as a defenceman.</p><p>Campbell has always been at his best as a right winger, however, and his picture goals are well known along the Maritime hockey front. Like White, Campbell has been setting up the plays this season and now has 20 assists to go with his eight goals.</p><p>Jim Shirley of the Saint John Beavers tops the goals with a defensive average of 2.22. He has posted five shutouts, most in the league.</p><h2><b>Great Fight</b></h2><p>Amherst and Saint John are still waging a great fight for leading position. The Ramblers were the early leaders but the Beavers caught up and refuse to be shaken off.</p><p>Ramblers have one enviable record&mdash;they haven&rsquo;t lost a &ldquo;home&rdquo; game, and the story behind the story here is that it was only recently that the team got ice at Amherst. While the Winter Fair was in progress Amherst played its home games in Sackville, a few miles away, and chalked up victory after victory.</p><p>The Ramblers came close to having their proud record broken when they played host to the touring Montreal junior Canadiens in an exhibition game. Three Rambler regulars sat out the game to rest injuries and Les Habs were minus the services of Vest Pocket Rocket Richard, otherwise known as Richard III. It was a nip and tuck game all the way.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Shermie Shows The Way

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Winning four games last week, Kitchener Dutchmen continued to head the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA parade, while Windsor Bulldogs took a new lease on life to take three out of four games and forge into second place, one point up on the Stratford Indians.</p><p>Windsor&rsquo;s only loss was to Kitchener, while the Dutchmen defeated the Stratford Indians three times. Windsor&rsquo;s three victories were at the expense of the Owen Sound Mercurys, who experienced almost as disastrous a week as Stratford Indians, their lone win being at the expense of Stratford.</p><p>Coach Bobbie Bauer has been experimenting with his Kitchener front lines and it appear to have brought the desired results. Windsor has lost Ches Warchol. the right winger they secured from St. Catharines Teepee juniors, who suffered a broken arm, and will be sidelined for about two months. This reverse doesn&rsquo;t appear to have affected the Bulldogs play, who loom right now as the most dangerous contenders for Kitchener&rsquo;s league leadership.</p><p>Stratford Indians started off well this season, winning seven straight after dropping the opener at Owen Sound. But they have since lost their last four starts, and it plainly has the fans here worried. As is customary, when the home team loses the Wolves commence to howl, and unfair Criticism invariably is heaped on the shoulders of the team coach. In this case it is C. H. &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Meier, president and manager of the Indians.</p><p>That appears to be out of line, and the real reason seems to be that Kitchener and Windsor are hitting their stride and have improved more than the other three clubs, Owen Sound, Stratford and Chatham.</p><p>Chatham Maroons had a layoff last week, playing but two games, both of them against Windsor on successive nights, and dropping both decisions.</p><p>Patronage is nothing to rave over at Stratford and Owen Sound, olthough the last-place Maroons are still atracting good crowds, as are Kitchener and Windsor. Kitchener&rsquo;s biggest crowd was slightly over 5,000 for their game with Stratford Indians, while Windsor Bulldogs have an average attendance of well over 2,000. Chatham is not far behind, but Owen Sound and Stratford home games average about 1,500. The largest crowd in the Stratford arena this season was the opener here with Owen Sound when about 2,200 attended. It was thought that when Indians tangled with their ancient rivals from Kitchener here the best crowd of the season would attend, but such was not the case, as the approximate attendance was 2,000.</p><p>A survey of the league suggests that all clubs are on the prowl for reinforcements, but the asking price is so high that they hesitate about shelling out that kind of dough in view of the fan patronage.</p><p>It is as &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Meier, president of the Stratford Indians, points out: &ldquo;Sure I can sign some hockey players but they are asking more for their services than I can afford to pay, while attendance at our games is at such a lew ebb.&rdquo; Possibly the Owen Sound and Chatham clubs are experiencing the same difficulty.</p><p>Owen Sound Mercurys have finally pried goalie Gord Henry away from Hershey Bears of the International League, and the native Owen Sounder guarded the twine for the Mercs in Sunday afternoon&rsquo;s game at Windsor.</p><h2><b>Pried Loose</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02160/1464145-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="564" height="603"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORD HENRY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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New Lease On Life Boosts Bulldogs Into Second Place

<div class="byline">By HUGH BOWMAN</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The St. Michaels College Majors continue to astound even their strongest supporters as the topsy-turvy junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race approached the quarter mark in the 48 game schedule. In their first 11 games the Collegians have lost only two contests, two of them to Kitchener and one to Gualph and they&rsquo;ve knocked off the highly touted Toronto Marlboros and St. Catherines Teepees twice each.</p><p>Coach Father John Crowley said before the start of the season. &ldquo;we don&rsquo;t expect to do too much this year&hellip;we&rsquo;re building for next season&rdquo;.</p><p>Well, the Irish have come out of the gate like a frightened quarter horse and they&rsquo;ve left some pretty highly regarded clubs in their wake as they&rsquo;ve moved into an early lead. If they&rsquo;re merely building for next year, they&rsquo;re laying a mighty strong foundation.</p><p>Off what they&rsquo;ve shown so far this season, coupled with the fact they lost only three or four players through the ageing process from this year&rsquo;s club make them logical contenders for all the marbles next season. Providing of course they don&rsquo;t upset the planned Crowley-Primeau strategy by doing it this year.</p><h2><b>Big Weapon</b></h2><p>St. Mike&rsquo;s weapon has been the Howarth-Mahovlich-Hannigan line. Mahovlich of whom much has been said and of whom much more will be said before the season ends led the league with 22 points with about a month of the schedule written into the record books. Linemate Pat Hannigan paced the snipers with 14 goals in 11 games while pivotman Howarth in his freshman year in &ldquo;A&rdquo; company had racked up 11 points.</p><p>Mahovlich recently caused the Detroit Red Wings &ldquo;sometimes not so jolly&rdquo; Jack Adams to blow his top in the general direction of St. Mikes. Seems Adams had Mahovlich all lined up to play with the Wings farm club, the Hamilton Tiger-Cubs, when St. Mikes stepped into the picture. Toronto Maple Leafs scout, Bob Davidson, howver says, &ldquo;St. Mikes had nothing to do with it. we (the Leafs) just made him a better offer, that&rsquo;s all&rdquo;. Suffice to say any club in the league would part with their store teeth for the classy winger who is still elegible for two more years of junior hockey after this one.</p><p>The Collegians &ldquo;big line&rdquo; have been aided and abetted by a band of free-wheeling youngsters who believe in the old adage, &ldquo;if you skate for 60 minutes you&rsquo;ll win your share&rdquo;. The Irish have also solved their goal tending problems with the acquisition of Bob Savage from the Marlboro chain. Savage allowed only two goals in his first three games as he reacked up the seasons first and second shutouts over Marlies and St. Catherines.</p><h2><b>Learn Hard Way</b></h2><p>While St. Mikes have been giving Maple Leaf, Gardens a consistent winner last year&rsquo;s Memorial Cup champs, Marlboros, have been learning the hard way that last years&rsquo; press clippings don&rsquo;t win this years hockey games. The Dukes picked up only four wins in their first 11 starts. Their highly regarded rearguard hasn&rsquo;t as yet lived up to expectations and the forwards with a few exceptions like youngsters Walt Boyer and Bob Nevins, have given the impression they were auditioning for the &ldquo;Ice Follies&rdquo; and that back-checking was a job for ambitious young men in the Department of Internal Revenue. Manager Staff Smythe says, &ldquo;we won the Ontario midget championship last year and if these guys don&rsquo;t start moving we&rsquo;ll go with the kid&rdquo;. Jim &ldquo;Davey&rdquo; Crockett has been giving the Dukes some improved goalkeeping. The lanky Maritimer came up with a standout effort against Barrie depite the fact he was almost rendered hors de combat by virtue of using his adams apple to stop a rising drive off the stick of the Flyers George Ranieri.</p><p>The Flyers went down to a 3 to 1 defeat in that game, their first league contest on a Sunday. Bill Long handled the club in the absence of Hap Emms. A iouple of goal scorers might have changed the verdict in favour of the Flyers who outshot Marlboros. The Flyers appear to have shaken off their early season lethargy and are currently battling Marlboros for fourth place in the league standings. Priorio their loss to Marlies they&rsquo;d rung up a three game winning streak and a tie with the powerful Kitchener-Waterloo Canucks.</p><p>The Canucks still must be rated the class of the league. The tie with Barrie and a 7 to 1 thumping at the hands of Marlboros are the only blemishes on an otherwise perfect record. Two of their six victories have been over the league leading St. Micheals club. The Baluik-Bradley-O&rsquo;Ree line continues to be the scourge of the leagues goalkeepers. The prolific scoring trio racked up 22 goals in their first 8 games. The Canucks are pretty sound defen-siveley too. Goalie Claude Dufour tops the leagues regular netmind-ers with a goals-against average of 3.5, The Canucks need only two more wins to equal their entire seasons output of last year;</p><p>The Iosingest club in the league is the Guelph Biltmores who&rsquo;ve dropped 8 of their first 12 starts while winning 3 and tieing one. A studious look at the records however will also tab them as the loops hard-luck club. Of the 8 games they&rsquo;ve lost, 5 were by one goal and 3 by 2 goals and they show a deficit of only four goals in the for and against column. The pay-off is in the win column however and the situation is expected to improve in that department with the return to action of grid stars Ron Howell and Billy Graham. Howell almost put the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Big Four final with one of the greatest one man shows ever seen on a Canadian gridiron while Graham led the ORFU in scoring and was a key factor in the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmens drive to their second league championship. Dockey-wise, Howell who hopes to play alongside brother Harry on the New York Rangers in the not too distant future has led the junior loops defencemen in scoring the past two seasons while the scrappy Graham finished seventh in last years junior point derby. It&rsquo;s highly probable that the sniping prowess of these two players would have changed the verdict in more than one of the Hatters one goal losses. Subsequent events will either prove or disprove this theory. They&rsquo;re certainly being counted on to move the Biltmores up a notch or two.</p><p>The St. Catherines Teepees who&rsquo;s wandering tactics have earned them the nickname &ldquo;Gypsies&rdquo; have found the competition much stiffer in their own league than they did on the grapefruit circuit. Since returning to action intheir own loop after a-three game sweep of the west the Teepes won only one of five games and even the leagues top song and dance man Rudy Pilous fails to see the humour in the situation. The gold and black looked like world beaters in their first start in Toronto as they edged Marlboros 2 to 1 but since their return from the west they&rsquo;ve had trouble getting out of their own way. Perhaps the western hospitality was a little overdone&hellip;Even the renowned Elmer Vasko was having trouble getting past centre ice and the Teepees used three goalkeepers in as many games in search of the answer. They too deep in talent however to continue at their present snails pace.</p><p>The Hamilton Tiger-Cubs, one of three teams with a better than .500 average held down third place at the quarter pole. The acquisition of Dick Wejick from Guelph and Gord Thompson from Marlboros has improved the Cubs defence situation considerably. They still lack a prolific goal scorer although Brian Smiths boros may indicate that he&rsquo;s the four goal outburst against Marlboros may indicate that he&rsquo;s the man they&rsquo;re looking for in that department, ax Szturm, the Cubs top point getter, rammed his head on a goal post in the Cubs 5 to 2 loss to St. Mikes but wasn&rsquo;t expected to be sidelined. Szturm who was with Troy in the I.H.L last year plays the point on the Cubs improved power-play and is a main cog in the Hamilton machine.</p><p>The leagues speed-up program has gone over well with the fans. The officials have been keeping the games moving and the rigid ten minute intermission has been adhered to with the result the fans are getting away from the rinks up to fifteen minutes earlier than has been the case. So far there have been no reports of infractions on the ten minute rule. A second offence in the season means a two minute penalty for delaying the game.</p><p>Fan interest in the junior loop is higher than it has been tor some time. Gates are up over last year around the circuit with the Toronto Sunday double headers playing to an average of just under 6000 paid&hellip;</p><h2><b>Blows Top</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01236/1464090-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="482" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK ADAMS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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OHA Goes Into Spin As Majors Astound Even Stoutest Fans

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01215/1464176-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>(Solution next week)</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Red Wing player shown in centre.</p><p>4&mdash;Number of goals Hal Laycoe scored last season.</p><p>7&mdash;Nickname of St. Louis team whish entered the NHL in 1934.</p><p>12&mdash;North East (abbr.).</p><p>13&mdash;Initials of Fielder, AHL&rsquo;s outstanding rookie of 1952-53.</p><p>15&mdash;McCord of Springfield answers to this.</p><p>16&mdash;Short for Red Sullivan&rsquo;s given name.</p><p>17&mdash;Initials of Rocse, Springfield defenseman.</p><p>18&mdash;Warrant Officer (abbr.).</p><p>19&mdash;Preposition.</p><p>20&mdash;Hockey scouts have often referred to Winnipeg as a bed for hockeyists.</p><p>20&mdash;In 1951-52, Boston sold Jim Peters to this NHL team (abbr.).</p><p>21&mdash;Initials of Bailey of the Hornets.</p><p>22&mdash;Initials of player who wears No. 4 for Toronto.</p><p>23&mdash;They have these in Maple Leaf Gardens.</p><p>26&mdash;Initials of Whitney of Hershey Bears.</p><p>28&mdash;League in which pictured star played in &rsquo;51-52 (abbr.).</p><p>29&mdash;Former Maple Leaf player nicknamed Yank.</p><p>31&mdash;Broadcasts Rangers&rsquo; home games.</p><p>34&mdash;Initials of Wharram of Buffalo Bisons.</p><p>35&mdash;Basie colour of sweaters worn by Canadiens for their home games.</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Lon Fontinato does this efficiently.</p><p>2&mdash;Dick Duff&rsquo;s brother.</p><p>3&mdash;Syracuse ended in this position at the end of the 195354 schedule.</p><p>4&mdash;Name given one of the Bruins.</p><p>5&mdash;Contraction of over.</p><p>6&mdash;Ivan Irwin&rsquo;s native country (abbr.).</p><p>8&mdash;Muzz Patrick was once one (abbr.).</p><p>10&mdash;An NHL official.</p><p>11&mdash;Month in which Dick Duff was born (abbr.).</p><p>12&mdash;Ont. birthplace of Hee. La-lande (two words).</p><p>14&mdash;Harry Howell&rsquo;s brother is outstanding in this game.</p><p>15&mdash;After the hockey season many players can be found on one.</p><p>24&mdash;Ed. Panagabko&rsquo;s native provinve (abbr.).</p><p>25&mdash;Bettio&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>27&mdash;Initials of Dineen of Detroit.</p><p>30&mdash;Province in which Dick Duff was born (abbr.).</p><p>32&mdash;Initials of Wares, ex Chicago player.</p><p>33&mdash;Initials of Harrison, ex Boston forward.</p><h2><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Solution</b></h2><h3><b>Across</b></h3><p>1. Harris</p><p>5. W.C.</p><p>7. A.A.</p><p>9. Manitoba</p><p>12. Glover</p><p>13. One</p><p>14. N.R.</p><p>15. Oar</p><p>17. Des</p><p>19. Imp.</p><p>20. T.D.</p><p>22. H.H.</p><p>24. Howell</p><p>28. John</p><p>29. Smith</p><p>33. Defense</p><h3><b>Down</b></h3><p>1. Humboldt</p><p>2. Rangers</p><p>3. Rail</p><p>4. Skov</p><p>5. Wharram</p><p>6. B.C.</p><p>10. To</p><p>11. Benoit</p><p>16. R.P.</p><p>17. Ed.</p><p>21. Howie</p><p>23. Hank</p><p>25. L.J.</p><p>26. Loss</p><p>27. S.S.</p><p>30. M.D.</p><p>31. T.F.</p><p>32. He.</p><p><b>BOLS ANSWER</b></p><p><b>Gus Bodnar had 40 assists in 50 games during 43-44 season.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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December 3, 1955

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Shots Scarce But Goals Plentiful

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