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December 17, 1955

The Hockey News December 17, 1955

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IN THIS ISSUE

FOOTBALL NEWS

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>The Western Hockey League has had many great goalkeepers in the more than seven seasons of its professional existence. Netminders like Lorne &ldquo;Gump&rdquo; Worsley of the amazing NY Rangers, Glen Hall of the defending Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings, Emile Francis, Johnny Bower, Charlie Hodge, Marcel Pelletier. Hec Highton, Phil Hughes, Bill Brennan, Luce Dechene, to name a few, and now Ray Frederick.</p><p>Worsley holds the WHL record for best goals-against-average with 2.40, set in the 1953-54 season when the little guy led the Vancouver Canucks to the league title. Last season, 1954-55, John Bower, who lost the regular NY Ranger goalie job to Worsley, tended goal for Vancouver and tied the WHL shutout record&mdash;seven&mdash;established the previous season by Brennan, while toiling for Calgary. Bower also had the best goals-against-average 2.71.</p><p>Raymond Frederick, Calgary goalie, has an excellent opportunity of breaking both Worsley&rsquo;s and Bower&rsquo;s and Brennan&rsquo;s marks. The Fort Francis, Ontario. netminder has already chalked up five shutouts in 21 games and unless the Stamps fall apart or Frederick is called up by the parent Chicago Black Hawks, Ray should blank the opposition several more times in the 46 games the Stamps had left to play the morning of December 5th.</p><p>Up until a week and five games ago Frederick&rsquo;s goal average was below that of Worsley&rsquo;s record 2.40, however, a few high-scoring games has boosted Frederick&rsquo;s average to 2.52 (53 goals in 21 games) in games through Dec. 4th. Four goals Ray let get by him in an 8-4 home victory over Edmonton, Dec. 3rd., didn&rsquo;t do his average any good.</p><p>Calgary&rsquo;s rise to the top of the prairie division of the WHL and the reason why all the experts, scribes, commentators, managers, coaches and fans have tabbed Frank Currie&rsquo;s Calgarians &ldquo;the team to beat&rdquo; is Ray Frederick, the best goalie Calgary has had, and the help he&rsquo;s been receiving from veteran defenceman Art Michaluk, an all-veteran and ex-NHL line of Sid Finney, Jerry Couture and Jim McFadden and the sparkling play of two freshmen forwards&mdash;Dave Duke and Barry Ross.</p><p>At this time Calgary had won 17 of its first 24 games and held a comfortable seven point lead over second place Winnipeg. Vancouver was pacing the coast section with 14 wins and 28 points in 26 games, for a five point edge over NW and Victoria, tied for second with 23 points each.</p><p>Getting back to Frederick he has twice this season scored shutouts back to back, blanking Vancouver 2-0, Oct. 31st at the Corral and four nights later&mdash;Nov. 4&mdash;closing the door on the Stamps&rsquo; bitterest foes, Edmonton, 5-0, once again before the home town fans.</p><p>Calgary played its first game at the coast Nov. 11, defeating Victoria. 7-1. Seattle managed three goals in a 4-3 loss the following night, but after a two day layover in the American city the Stamps journeyede to Vancouver, shutout the Canucks, 2-0, for Ray&rsquo;s third SO of the season and his second by the same score over Vancouver Next night in New Westminster Frederick gave Max McNab&rsquo;s Royals nothing and after 60 minutes of firing everything but the time clock at Queens Park Arena Frederick skated off with his fourth shutout, a 4-0 whitewashing, and the second time he had scored successive SO&rsquo;s.</p><p>The Chicago-owned goalie got No. 5, Nov. 24 in Saskatoon, as the Curriemen won 3-0.</p><p>As mentioned earlier Calgary&rsquo;s rise coincided with Frederick&rsquo;s arrival, in time for the Stamps third game of the 1955-56 season. He replaced Doug Stevenson.</p><p>Frederick has played for Chicoutimi, Ottawa, Buffalo and Chicago in professional ranks. He played for Edmonton Flyers in the lat 40&rsquo;s. Now only 26 years old, Ray isn&rsquo;t considered too old to make it in the NHL. Remember Jim Henry with Boston?</p><p>Ray stands an even six feet. He weighs around 154. He is a terrific competitor and the &ldquo;we&rsquo;ve got to be shown&rdquo; Calgary fans are sold on the goalie who frustrated them many, many times when Ray played for Frank Currie at Edmonton in the old Western Canada Senior Amateur league.</p><p>Tommy Ivan and Dick Irvin, general manager and coach of the Chicago Black Hawks, did not include Frederick in thir goalkeeping plans for the 1955-56 season. But if anything happens to Al Rollins and Hank Bassen and the other Chicago-owned netminders don&rsquo;t live up to the promise they showed at the Hawks&rsquo; training camp last fall, and if Frederick breaks the WHL shutout and gotls-against-average Ray could be tending goal for the Windy City sextet or some NHL team much sooner than anybody figured last fail.</p><p>Frederick is surrounded with a lot of &ldquo;ifs&rdquo; but don&rsquo;t be surprised if he isn&rsquo;t in the WHL after this season.</p><h2><b>Red Hot</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01299/1468546-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="577" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY FREDERICK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Stamps’ Frederick Has Chance To Better WHL Shutout Record

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FOR HIGH SCORING

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The Montreal Canadiens currently are in first place in the National Hockey League, in fact they haven&rsquo;t been cut of it all season, but coach Toe Blake, being a man of conversation mien, isn&rsquo;t counting any chickens. A lot of trouble can be hatched between now and the end of the season.</p><p>Blake doesn&rsquo;t appear to be too worried about the Detroit Red Wings, Habs&rsquo; nemesis in other seasons, but he&rsquo;s keeping a wary eye on the New York Rangers.</p><p>&ldquo;The Red Wings probably will get going,&rdquo; he said the other day. &ldquo;But I can&rsquo;t help but remember the 1947-48 season. The Canadiens won the championship in the preceding year but we never got going in 1947-48. We kept thinking, we&rsquo;ll pick up the slack but we never did. We ran out of games and finished fifth.</p><h2><b>Standings Reversed</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Things were so bad that year that I used to comfort myself by turning the newspapers upside down to look at the National Hockey League standings. That way we were always near the top.&rdquo;</p><p>Detroit&rsquo;s chances of winning an eighth straight title would appear to be slim but everyone in the Montreal organization is aware of their great finishing spurts. A year ago, with the help of a forfeit, they came on to unseat the Habs in the final week of the season. Two years ago the Habs, leading the Wings comfortably at this stage of the race, finished seven points behind.</p><h2><b>Lost Ground Late</b></h2><p>In fact, in the five years out of the last seven that the Canadiens finished second, they lost ground to the Red Wings over the last 50 games of the schedule.</p><p>The worst Montreal disaster of all was in the 1952-53. The clubs were deadlocked just before Christmas but the Wings pulled away to a 15-point lead at the finish.</p><p>In those days Detroit had a stronger team than the current edition. Today the Habs are the powerhouse, offensively and defensively, and unless beset by injuries they should remain on top.</p><h2><b>Yet To Beat Habs</b></h2><p>Rangers, however, are following doggedly in their trail although they haven&rsquo;t beaten the Habs yet this season.</p><p>Phil Watson has done a grand job with the Rangers&rdquo; observed Blake. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s developed a winning complex and the New York players for a change seem to appreciate what it means to be in the National League. They&rsquo;re hustling. They&rsquo;ll be tough,&rdquo;</p><p>Blake believes that the answer to the Rangers is for the Habs to keep hustling themselves and apparently he has imbued his players with the idea.</p><h2><b>Lost Only One</b></h2><p>Over one stretch of 17 games, the Montrealers lost only one, indeed a remarkable record considering that in only three of those engagements did they score more than three goals. They trounced the Rangers 6-1, a convincing method of showing a second place team who&rsquo;s boss; defeated the Boston 4-2 and clipped the Black Hawks, right in Chicago, too, 5-1.</p><p>Habs&rsquo; strength lay largely in the work of the acrobatic Jacques Plante in the net and in the efforts of the defencemen. Plante had two shutouts in those 17 games and in eight of them he held the opposition to a single tally.</p><p>Three times he yielded only a brace of goals and never was he nicked for more than three.</p><h2><b>Tribute to Defense</b></h2><p>Blake was paying tribute to his defence the other day, particularly Tom Johnson and Guy Talbot.</p><p>&ldquo;You know,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Johnson hasn&rsquo;t played a bad game all season. Not one bad game. If he keeps going at that rate, they won&rsquo;t be able to keep him off the All-Star team.&rdquo;</p><p>Talbot, a big hard-hitting rookie from Shawinigan Falls, apparently has replaced Butch Bouchard, a veteran of 15 seasons, as a regular, pairing with Johnson.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s done all expected of him&rdquo;, said Blake.</p><h2><b>Fierce Competitor</b></h2><p>Butch, always a fierce competitor, hasn&rsquo;t played for two weeks although he has been dressed. But he went to the coach the other day and said. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t worry about me, Toe. I understand. You can&rsquo;t break up a winning combination.&rdquo;</p><p>Blake was pleased. &ldquo;Those are the sentiments of a real pro&rdquo;, he said. &ldquo;A grand guy. In Chicago one night Dickie Moore and Hec. Lalande of the Hawks involved in a brawl and were tagged with majors. In the penalty box they resumed hostilities. Butch was sitting at the far end of our bench but he was the first player to dash to the box to give Moore moral support. That&rsquo;s the kind of man he is&mdash;first, last and always for the team.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Real Pro</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02261/1468197-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="567" height="730"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BUTCH BOUCHARD</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Standing Up</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03215/1468190-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="564" height="727"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JEAN-GUY TALBOT</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Toe Blake Still Wary Despite Habs’ Lead

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01156/1469273-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>A NEAR MISS is registered by defenseman Bill Gadsby of the New York Rangers as he gets right in on goaler Jacques Plante of the Montreal Canadiens only to have his shot deflected by the agile cage custodian. The Habs and Rangers are currently running one-two in the standings.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Mike Gravel)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Gadsby At The Goalmouth

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The next U.S. Olympic hockey team will be the most carefully selected, most thoroughly trained and probably the most talented outfit ever to represent this country in any international competition.</p><p>These facts emerged from a press luncheon held recently in Detroit. At that time the team drew unexpected warm praise from a man whose primary field is pro hockey&mdash;Jack Adams.</p><p>&ldquo;This is the year for the U.S.,&rdquo; predicted Adams, general manager of the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>He had just heard details of how the U.S. team is being picked and, more important, he has studied the probable roster.</p><p>&ldquo;I think this team could go all the way,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>Purpose of the luncheon was to announce a local exhibition between the Olympic outfit and the University of Michigan&rsquo;s national collegiate champions.</p><p>That game will be played Jan. 11 at the Detroit Olympia. It will mark the first time in many years that an amateur game has had top billing on the home rink of the Red Wings.</p><p>This will be one of 13 games that the U.S. team will play on a three-week barnstorming tour. The swing will start Dec. 28 in Duluth and end Jan. 15 in Boston.</p><p>The tour has two purposes. One is to give the U.S. team plenty of time to skate itself into both unity and physical condition.</p><p>The other is to net income to finance the trip to Italy.</p><p>&ldquo;United States teams in the past have booked a few exhibition games but never on this scope,&rdquo; pointed out Bob Ridder, scion of St. Paul (Minn.) radio television family and manager of the U.S. team</p><p>&ldquo;We feel our team will be as strong as any in the games with the possible exception of Canada and Russia, Ridder said.</p><p>Adams interrupted to say that it might even be better than those two.</p><p>&ldquo;In Johnny Mayasich and John Matchefts, the U.S. will have two outstanding amateur players,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;The way the team is being selected guarantees that it will be the best we&rsquo;ve ever had.&rdquo;</p><p>(The Kitchener Dutchmen, 1954-55 Allen Cup champions, will represent Canada. Forced by Olympic rules to drop its former pro players, Kitchener will be bolstered by additional amateur players.)</p><p>Preliminary tryouts for the U.S. team have been held in Minneapolis and Boston. Virtually all the players competing for berths are former college players. Make-up of the team of 17 regulars and four alternates was to be announced about Dec. 12.</p><p>The team will assemble in Duluth, Minn., Dec. 15 and train for two weeks before its first exhibition games.</p><p>The games have been scheduled Dec. 28 at Duluth, Dec. 30-31 at Grand Forks, N.D., Jan. 1 at Eveleth, Minn., Jan. 4 at Duluth, Jan. 6-7 at Minneapolis, Jan. 9 at Duluth, Jan. 11 at Detroit, Jan. 12 at Canton, N.Y., Jan. 13 at Concord, N.H., Jan. 14 at Lewiston, Me., and Jan. 15 at Boston.</p><p>A variety of teams will be met&mdash;college, senior amateur and junior amateur. In the game at Boston Garden, the Olympic team will play one period each against Boston University. Boston College and Harvard University.</p><p>The local game is expected to provide the best test of all. The University of Michigan, coached by Vic Heyliger, not only is the defending intercollegiate champion but also has its finest team in years.</p><p>&ldquo;From what I know about the Olympic team, we&rsquo;ll have to play our best game of the season to match them,&rdquo; Heyliger said.</p><p>The promotional setup of this game is typical of the entire tour of the Olympic team. It will be staged jointly by the Olympic Hockey Committee, the Detroit Olympic Fund and the Detroit Junior Board of Commerce.</p><p>The University of Michigan Club of Detroit, 1,000 strong, is handling the advance ticket sale. All proceeds, except for a minimum Olympia rental, will go into Detroit&rsquo;s contribution to the Olympic fund.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

U.S. To Ice Strong Entry For Olympics

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><p>MONTREAL Que.&mdash;</p><p>There&rsquo;s been an old saying in hockey circles for years that goes something like &ldquo;Score the first goal and win the game.&rdquo;</p><p>There&rsquo;s more truth than fiction in the old adage, as statistics over the years reveal.</p><p>The 1955-56 season is no exception, at least as far as the National Hockey League is concerned.</p><p>After the first 78 games of the current campaign had gone into the record books the team tallying the first marker of the game had won on 45 occasions.</p><p>Two of these 78 contests were scoreless ties, which means that out of 76 games, the team scoring the initial counter of the contest has won 45 times.</p><p>The team getting the first goal of the game has lost on 14 occasions while 17 other games have ended in a tie.</p><h2><b>Habitants Top</b></h2><p>Montreal Canadiens, the league-leaders, are one club that really believes in taking advantage of any early opportunities for victory. The Habs boast the best record thus far for winning games after scoring the first marker of the fray, having turned the trick 12 times in the 14 games in which they have flashed the red light before their opponent. They have tied another and have lost but one.</p><p>New York Rangers, runners-up to the high-flying Habs in the current NHL standing, also boast of an impressive record. The Broadway Blues have hit the scoresheet first on 17 occasions and have managed to win an even dozen of these frays. They also tied three and have gone on to eventually lose on only two occasions.</p><h2><b>Not As Impressive</b></h2><p>Chicago Black Hawks have scored first 14 times but their record is not quite so impressive as those of the Habs and Rangers. In 14 tries, the ChiHawks have managed but six wins after getting the first goal of the game. They have tied the same number and dropped two.</p><p>Five of Toronto Maple Leafs victories were in games in which the Mapleos scored the first goal The Toronto crew flashed the red light first in 11 contests and their record reads; five wins, two ties, four losses.</p><p>Detroit Red Wings scored the first counter on 11 occasions but managed to win but five times after having early lead. The Wings also tied three games in which they got on the scoresheet first, and lost three.</p><p>Boston Bruins, on the other hand, have scored first on nine occasions and have won five, lost two and tied two.</p><p>The two scoreless ties involved the same two teams on both occasions. Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins first battled through 60 minutes of hockey without a goal by either side on October 22 and repeated the performance on November 13.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Team Getting First Marker Usually Wins

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>That nostalgic glint in Lester Patrick&rsquo;s eyes these days is just another one of the happy sights around Madison Square Garden as Rangers baffle everyone but themselves with their superb hockey play.</p><p>Lester can be excused if the present-day Rangers bring back a bought or two of some of his pre-war monarchs that made New York king of the hockey world.</p><p>There&rsquo;s an unusual sameness about the exact short-passing plays of Watson&rsquo;s warriors and Patrick&rsquo;s sextets. Ditto the never-say-die spirit and the striving to do better that characterized the Patrick regime; one in which Watson was well schooled.</p><p>The elder Patrick paid a visit to the New York Hockey Writers&rsquo; Luncheon at Leone&rsquo;s the other day, made a few cogent comments about the Rangers of the present and future.</p><p>&ldquo;1 want to take this occasion to give credit to Phil Watson, your new coach,&rdquo; said Lester.</p><h2><b>Match For Any Team</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve watched some of his workouts and I would say he gives an intelligent portrayal to the players of what he&rsquo;d like them to do. There were a lot of experts who picked Rangers to finish last, but from what I&rsquo;ve seen they&rsquo;re a match for any team in the league.</p><p>Lester, who has seen them all, rates Montreal as one of the all time great sextets.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt about it, this is a tough league and that Montreal club is one of the greatest I&rsquo;ve ever seen.</p><h2><b>Great Power Play</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Their power play is without equal. Yet, the Rangers compare favorably with any club in the league and they may yet be as good as some of those pre-war teams we used to have in the big-city.&rdquo;</p><p>A &ldquo;new&rdquo; New York hockey feature which caught Lester&rsquo;s attention was the 7 p.m. starting time for all Sunday night games.</p><p>Said Patrick: &ldquo;I think the Rangers made an excellent move when they decided to play their Sunday games at the new time.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been living with my son, Muzz, in Old Greenwich, Conn., and to see the commuters on the train going back around 9:30, why it&rsquo;s just wonderful listening to all that hockey talk.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Moulded Champions</b></h2><p>When it comes to New York hockey, Lester should know what he&rsquo;s talking about. He came to Manhattan in 1926 and helped mould champions as coach manager and vice president of Rangers&mdash;not to mention his storied stint as a goaltender.</p><p>&ldquo;New York is like any other city,&rdquo; Lester continued. &ldquo;They like a winner. It&rsquo;s encouraging to see the big crowds and the future in store for this club. It certainly is bright.&rdquo;</p><p>High estate of Rangers is good for New York sport and hockey in general&hellip;With all major wire services and magazines emanating from the Big Town, interest in the ice sport has reached unparalleled heights&hellip;Colliers magazine running a feature on Jean Beliveau, ditto Sport mag&hellip;Look and Life also have ice features in the making&hellip;On Dec. 7 Blues topped Detroit for their third win in a row&hellip;They never put three back to back in &lsquo;54-&rsquo;55&hellip;Sign of &ldquo;New&rdquo; Rangers: Team opened an &ldquo;after-the-game&rdquo; room for sportswriters, hockey figures, etc. for post mortem and the general tete a tete&hellip;Features beer, soda and sandwiches&hellip;Bob Chrystal, former Ranger rearguard and utility forward, has lined up with Saskatoon in the Western Hockey loop&hellip;Watson calls next games with Toronto and Boston &ldquo;four-pointers&rdquo;&hellip;Leafs and Bruins are teams the Rangers have to beat to get into the playoffs although they say Watson won&rsquo;t get angry if Rangers finish one-two&hellip;Anyone wondering why Ron Murphy is beaming so much these days ought to be notified that it&rsquo;s not only because he&rsquo;s way ahead of last year&rsquo;s scoring pace&hellip;The Murph happens to be in love&hellip;In fact, he&rsquo;s engaged to Carole Gorrie of Hamilton, Ontario, and plans to be married on April 21&hellip;Carole, incidentally, is teammate to Harry Howell&rsquo;s sister-in-law&hellip;Ron met her at Harry&rsquo;s adding two years ago.</p><h2><b>Seen&rsquo;Em All</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01222/1467441-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="578" height="735"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LESTER PATRICK</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>House Guest</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02206/1467434-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="501" height="754"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MUZZ PATRICK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Lester Patrick Impressed By Current New York Club

<div class="byline">FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Fearful Ranger fans take heed:</p><p>&ldquo;The bubble will not burst this year.&rdquo;</p><p>There it is in black and white and straight from the horse&rsquo;s mouth. The horse in this case being Phil Watson, the &ldquo;yon-know-who&rdquo; of Gotham&rsquo;s beloved Rangers.</p><p>Phil&rsquo;s statement was prompted by a question fired by one of New York&rsquo;s hard-bitten hockey writers who queried: &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s face it Phil, this New York club of yours is playing over its head. Out with it, boy, when are they going to come down to earth?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;But,&rdquo; replied Watson, his wrath hidden somewhere between tongue and cheek, &ldquo;we&rsquo;re not playing over our heads. And if we are, it&rsquo;s all a big surprise to me, see!&rdquo;</p><p>What Watson is driving at, we gather, is that he honestly believes that he has a solid unit working for him and the statistics seem to bear that out.</p><p>&ldquo;Sure we&rsquo;ve had our share of good luck.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Every winning team does. What pleases me is that Rangers are working as a team, not every man for himself.&rdquo;</p><p>The veracity of that remark is reflected in the even distribution of goals among the Rangers&rsquo; three lines. Blues have four players with 10 or more goals and three others moving rapidly toward that mark.</p><p>On Dec. 4, 1955 Rangers won their 13th game of the 1955-56 season. On Jan. 29, 1955 Rangers won their 13th game of the 1954-55 season.</p><p>That may&mdash;mind you &ldquo;may&rdquo;&mdash;be a point in Watson&rsquo;s favor when he confidently says:, &lsquo;The Ranger bubble will not burst this year!&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Ranger Bubble Won’t Burst Says Watson

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The way back to the top has become much rougher than the way down for Detroit&rsquo;s Red Wings.</p><p>The Wings skidded to the basement of the National Hockey League with such suddenness this season that the experts are still asking how and why.</p><p>Early failure of Jack Adams&rsquo; multi-trade program, with the new players not coming through as expected, has drawn the general blame. Adams concedes that the process of fitting the new man in has gone slower than expected, but that&rsquo;s all he concedes.</p><p>On the day down the Wings drifted into a tie for third place for a couple of days late in October. Finally, on Dec. 4, they had forged their way up from last to reach a tie for third again.</p><h2><b>Slow Climb</b></h2><p>The climb up has been one slow step after another with Detroit never playing better than .500 hockey for any stretch. The Wings have been finding it a battle to handle the other &ldquo;second division&rdquo; teams of Chicago, Boston and Toronto, not to mention the &ldquo;first division&rdquo; teams&mdash;Montreal and New York.</p><p>At this particular stage they were 15 points back of pace-setting Montreal. There are many fans who can&rsquo;t remember when a Detroit team ever was that far behind. Actually, it&rsquo;s been nine years.</p><h2><b>In And Out</b></h2><p>While Detroit has been champion for seven years in a row, it wasn&rsquo;t always the first-place club through the season. In fact, the Wings have been in and out of first place exactly 27 times over that stretch.</p><p>Getting back to first place for the 28th time now requires a last half drive that would even pale the tremendous surge staged a year ago. You will recall that Detroit won its last nine games in a row to squeeze Montreal out of first place.</p><h2><b>Beat Bruins</b></h2><p>Every team in the league except Boston has taken a rap at the Detroiters, whose record against the five rivals is as follows:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05118/1467510-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="515" height="202"></div><p>The showing against New York (Rangers have won eight of the 10 points) is the worst. By reversing the record against that one team alone, however, Detroit would have a solid hold on second place instead.</p><h2><b>Home Ice No Factor</b></h2><p>Home ice no longer is giving the Wings its regular advantage. They have done little better than break even, winning four and losing three while trying five on the Olympia pond.</p><p>On the road they had a 2-5 mark with five more ties.</p><p>&ldquo;Those ties have been saving us,&rdquo; Adams mentions. &ldquo;Without them we would have fallen out of the bottom.&rdquo;</p><p>Scoring continued to be completely lopsided. Ted Lindsay with 15 goals and Gordie Howe with 12 had accounted for more than half the Detroit total between them. They had 27 the rest of the team 26.</p><p>All the players have finally broken into the scoring column, at least. Bucky Hollingworth went to game No. 24 for his first point and John Bucyk to game No. 25.</p><p>After 25 games there still were four who hadn&rsquo;t made a goal&mdash;Gerry Toppazzini, Marty Pavelich, Bucyk and Hollingworth.</p><h2><b>Confident</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03189/1467503-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="578" height="865"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK ADAMS</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Scoreless</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04154/1467496-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="590" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHN BUCYK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Red Wings Finding Road Up Is Rockier Than Road Down

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0680/1467541-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he playoff record for shutouts set by Turk Broda of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Turk recorded 12 shutouts in N.H.L playoff competition in 12 playoffs series, while guarding the goal of the Maple Leafs.</p><p><b>Gooderham & Worts LIMITED</b></p><p><b>DISTILLERS SINCE 1832</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Do you remember?…

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Things were going so wrong in Big Chief Shoot-the-Puck&rsquo;s teepee that the Chief, George Armstrong by name, was willing to try anything.</p><p>So a couple of weeks ago he borrowed a leaf from ex-Leaf Harry Watson&rsquo;s book and decided to do away with his pre-game nap, electing instead to have his 40 Winks before dinner.</p><p>It appeared for a while that George might never be able to test the effects of this new approach because that same night he was removed from his regular slot in the Toronto Maple Leaf lineup as right wing for Tod Sloan and Dick Duff. The writing was on the wall for Army because Eric Nesterenko, rejoining the team after a two-week layoff with a knee injury, had taken his spot while rookie Ron Hurst held onto the job he swiped in Nester&rsquo;s absence.</p><h2><b>Received Reprieve</b></h2><p>In the first period, however, Army received a reprieve as Eric suffered a mild concussion from a nasty cross-check. George was pushed into the breach.</p><p>Promptly George responded by scoring his first goal of the season, to end a 20-game drought. The next night he would have had another in Detroit had not Sloan&rsquo;s knee touched the puck just before it entered the net. And when he had another chance to test Watson&rsquo;s ways that week, The Big Chief fired two more goals.</p><p>Suddenly the fast was over and coach King Clancy felt vindicated in his pre-season appraisal of Army as one of the four snipers who could fire 20 goals for Leafs this season. He wasn&rsquo;t predicting any twenty for George then, but he did reiterate his confidence that the Chief would be one of the league&rsquo;s best right wingers.</p><p>&ldquo;Watson always felt that if he took his nap before dinner and then stayed up after he ate, he&rsquo;d be thinking of hockey for a longer period before the game,&rdquo; was George&rsquo;s reasoning. &ldquo;He thought it made him sharper to have the game on his mind rather than to take a chance on cobwebs by getting up just in time to play. I was desparate enough to try anything.</p><p>&ldquo;It may have just been coincidence that it worked. But I&rsquo;m sticking with it because that was the day I came out of the fog.&rdquo;</p><p>George nevertheless feels that his changed sleeping habits were not alone responsible for his improved play.</p><h2><b>Days Off Helped</b></h2><p>&ldquo;There are quite a few things that may have made the change,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;For one, those days off we have been getting lately have been a big help to me. Some hockey players thrive on every-day work and can go stale with even one day off. But not me. If I have a day off the ice, like we&rsquo;ve been getting lately, I feel eager to get out to practise the next day, I look forward to the games and I feel fresher when I&rsquo;m playing.&rdquo;</p><p>Leafs as a team improved when they began to be awarded off days following some of their strenuous schedules of three games in three days of four in five. And Army actually started his comeback after he sat out most of a game in New York, being used sparingly as the fourth centre and as a point man while Hurst took his regular shift.</p><h2><b>Linemates Playing Well</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Another reason could be my linemates,&rdquo; George continues. &ldquo;Slinker and Dick have been playing so well, that they may have taken a lot of attention from me and given me a chance to get untracked.</p><p>&ldquo;In fact, I might even owe the change to a horse shoe Tommy Naylor (an assistant Leaf Trainer) gave me because he figured I needed a change of luck.&rdquo;</p><p>Leaf General Manager Hap Day suggests one more reason for the fact that Army was removed from a spot near the door to the rank of Leafs&rsquo; top right winger.</p><h2><b>Surplus Of Wingers</b></h2><p>&ldquo;He may have realized that his livlihood could be taken away from him,&rdquo; says Hap. &ldquo;He wasn&rsquo;t going to stay the way he was playing and he could see Ron Hurst making a place for himself on the team and Gerry James turning pro to give us a surplus of right wingers.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I won&rsquo;t deny that,&rdquo; George says. &ldquo;When I saw those fellows coming up from Pittsburgh, I knew I had to find a Solution but quick.&rdquo;</p><p>George pooh-poohs the suggestion that his constant conversions, from right wing to centre to right to centre and back to right inside two months, had anything to do with his slow start.</p><h2><b>No Excuses</b></h2><p>&ldquo;As long as I&rsquo;m playing with the same fellows it&rsquo;s not any trick to switch,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d never use that for an excuse.&rdquo;</p><p>Army nevertheless envies some of the rookies who have been breaking into the Leaf lineup this year.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d rather have come in like Hurst or Bionda or some of those fellows,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I got too much publicity because I&rsquo;d had such good years as a junior and then at Pittsburgh.</p><p>&ldquo;When I have a slump, then perople come up to me and say they know I can play better hockey than I&rsquo;m playing. I realize they mean well, that they&rsquo;re trying to encourage me. But I don&rsquo;t need to be reminded.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a funny thing that when you&rsquo;re in a slump, you run into everybody you know that way. When you&rsquo;re going well, you never see anyone. Things must be looking up. I haven&rsquo;t seen many lately.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Confident</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01221/1467586-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="587" height="576"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KING CLANCY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Going Great</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02187/1467579-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="534" height="537"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOD SLOAN</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Finding The Range</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03125/1467572-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1138" height="1736"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GEORGE ARMSTRONG</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Army Borrows Watson’s Formula To Snap Scoring Slump

<div class="byline">HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>It might be winter, but convertibles are not out of season in Toronto.</p><p>The Maple Leafs are considering two conversions in the coming weeks to improve their strength down centre, a point President Conn Smythe has constantly stressed in the past as the backbone of any hockey club.</p><p>The candidates are Eric Nesterenko and Dick Duff, either of whom may finish this season as a pivot.</p><p>Rookie Duff has already been tried at centre on Toronto&rsquo;s power play and his capable response to the job may get him further tryouts there shortly.</p><h2><b>Will Follow Up Experiment</b></h2><p>Nester hade his debut as a centre when Rudy Migay suffered a bone bruise in Boston at the beginning of the month and General Manager Hap Day admits he intends to follow up this experiment.</p><p>&ldquo;Right now we have wingers for our extra forwards and that&rsquo;s not the way we want it,&rdquo; Day says. &ldquo;We plan to carry just three wingers for each side and keep the extra men for relief work at centre.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Nesterenko Or Duff May Be Converted To Centre

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Boston&rsquo;s list of pet hockey &ldquo;hates&rdquo; may have to be revised soon if Gordon Howe of the Detroit Red Wings pursues the course of aggravation he has been following this season.</p><p>For nearly a decade the methodical Howe played here without having any marked effect on the emotions of either the Bruins or their followers.</p><p>As an object of fan derision he has never ranked with Ted Lindsay, his teammate who stands first on the Boston &ldquo;pet hate&rdquo; parade, and he has never aroused the cash customers as have lesser Detroit lights of recent years like tough Tony Leswick and Glen Skov.</p><p>The Bruins themselves have never had anything but admiration for his businesslike attitude and nonchalant skill, in contrast to their frequently expressed dislike for some of Lindsay&rsquo;s borderline tactics.</p><p>But this season Howe has been working himself into contention for Lindsay&rsquo;s crown through his apparent interest in molesting Terry Sawchuk, the Bruins&rsquo; goaltender who played with him for five years in Detroit.</p><h2><b>Knocked Terry Down</b></h2><p>During Detroit&rsquo;s first game here this season Howe skated through the crease in front of the Bruins&rsquo; goal as play moved to another section of the rink and bumped Sawchuk to the ice.</p><p>The collision, which escaped official recognition, was noted by many nevertheless, and after the game Sawchuk was asked about it by hockey writers. He shrugged off questions.</p><p>&ldquo;It was just of those things,&rdquo; said the goal-tender.</p><p>Then the next time Detroit played here Howe happened to veer through the Bruins&rsquo; crease again, this time knocking Sawchuk off balance but not down. Later in the same game he came close to creating another collision, hitting Sawchuk&rsquo;s stick.</p><p>The original Sawchk-Howe brush wasn&rsquo;t taken seriously by other Bruins, but the encores prompted dressing room comments,, although Sawchuk had to say.</p><h2><b>Robbed Of Goals</b></h2><p>Perhaps Sawchuk was saving his comment for a game in Detroit a short time later when, on four different occasions, he deprived Howe of seemingly certain goals with spectacular saves.</p><p>Despite his reputation as a muscleman, Howe has usally been on his good behaviour here. As a matter of fact, it is difficult to recall his ever having been involved in trouble on the ice, as represented by fights or other outbursts.</p><p>True, Boston han&rsquo;t been a dull port of call for the Red Wigs as a group, for they have been entangled in disputes off the ice with both spectators and police, as well as on it, with Lindsay as a leading figure. But Howe has never been conspicuous in that respect,, as compared to more controversial figures like Maurice Richard of Montreal. Bill Ezinicki in his Toronto days, and Lindsay.</p><p>This year the Detroit forward has doubled his number of targets at the Garden, apparently. To the Bruins&rsquo; net he has added the Bruins&rsquo; goal-tender Sachuk.</p><h2><b>Aggressive</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0478/1467641-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="568" height="573"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOWE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Howe May Supplant Lindsay On Boston Fans’ “Hate Parade”

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll (As seen in the Montreal Gazette)</div><h2><b>THROUGH A MANAGER&rsquo;S EYES.&hellip;</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>L</span>ynn Patrick, general manager of the Boston Bruins, watched last week&rsquo;s game here between the Detroit Red Wings and the Canadiens, and kept shaking his head from time to time.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s hard to say what&rsquo;s wrong with the Red Wings,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Everybody has been waiting for them to get rolling, but maybe they aren&rsquo;t going to roll. I can&rsquo;t see them overhauling the Canadiens, They&rsquo;re about nine games back and that&rsquo;s a lot of games to make up. I can&rsquo;t understand what&rsquo;s happened to Chevy (Chevrefils). He was a good hockey player when he was with us.&rdquo;</p><p>Real Chevrefils was one of the players who went to Detroit in the deal that sent Terry Sawchuk to Boston. Was Lynn satisfied with Sawchuk?</p><p>&ldquo;More than satisfied,&rdquo; he declared. &ldquo;I think he&rsquo;s one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time&mdash;right up there alongside Durnan and the other great ones. The nemesis of all goalkeepers is the screened shot, but there&rsquo;s no such thing as a screened shot with Sawchuk. It&rsquo;s because of his crouching style. There can be players in front of him, but he never loses sight of the puck.&rdquo;</p><p>Many picked the Bruins to finish as high as third, but they are currently parked in the cellar. Would Lynn care to offer an explanation?</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no secret about that,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We just haven&rsquo;t been getting any goals. We scored only two goals in six games at home. It got so bad that my wife stopped going to the games, though most of our fans have stayed with us.</p><p>&ldquo;When the forwards don&rsquo;t score they start pressing, and once they start that they can&rsquo;t do anything right. Another thing, when the forwards can&rsquo;t score the defensemen start trying to score. I don&rsquo;t blame them. I&rsquo;d probably do it myself. But they get caught up the ice and then the other team scores on you. Your whole system falls apart.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>A Coach With Ideas</b></h2><p>Lynn hasn&rsquo;t given up on the Bruins, of course, and he has seen this kind of thing happen before. There are four or five fellows on the club who scored 20 or more goals last season. Anything resembling a brief winning streak might loosen them up and restore their scoring touch.</p><p>He was in New York the previous Wednesday when the Rangers beat the Toronto Leafs. Did he have anything to say about the Rangers, who have furnished the big surprise of the season to date?</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve got a good coach in Phil Watson and he&rsquo;s got 17 players who are hustling for him,&rdquo; said Lynn. &ldquo;If you let up just a little, they&rsquo;ll beat you to the puck every time.&rdquo;</p><p>Would he care to elaborate on Phil Watson, and does a coach make all the difference?</p><p>&ldquo;If you got a standout team, the coach doesn&rsquo;t make so much difference,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;But when three or four of the teams are close together in ability, a coach can make all the difference. Watson has been getting ready for that Ranger job for about eight years and he&rsquo;s had a lot of time to think things out.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s got some good ideas. For example, he&rsquo;s got the most complete set of statistics I&rsquo;ve ever seen. He keeps them himself and he guards them like money. I was in his office last Wednesday and he started talking about statistics. I asked him if he&rsquo;d let me see them. He didn&rsquo;t want to. I could see that. But he finally unlocked a drawer in his desk&mdash;yeah, he keeps them locked up&mdash;and he let me have a quick look at them. But he got them back in the drawer as fast as he could and locked them up again.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Phil Watson Secret</b></h2><p>Lynn said that Phil had started to keep his statistics even before the season got under way. He studies them closely and from them he finds out more about a player than the player knows about himself:</p><p>&ldquo;He runs a good practice, too,&rdquo; Lynn said. &ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t scrimmage much, but puts a lot of time on the fundamentals. When he does scrimmage, he blows the whistle the moment a player makes a mistake. He stops everything to point out the mistake.&rdquo;</p><p>Lynn mentioned that the Rangers were getting a lot of space in the New York papers and had sold out Madison Square Garden several times, even for mid-week games.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re good fans, but they&rsquo;re funny fans,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The Rangers can come up with a poor game, really stink out the joint, but if they win 1-0 the fans go away saying it was a great game. They can play a good game, but if they lose 5-4, say, the fans go away saying it was a lousy game.&rdquo;</p><p>The most surprising thing about the Chicago Black Hawks, Lynn thinks, is the change in Dick Irvin.</p><p>&ldquo;They used to call him Dour Diek, but that doesn&rsquo;t go any more, he said. &ldquo;He acts as if he hasn&rsquo;t got a worry in the world. He&rsquo;s really happy-go-lucky.&rdquo;</p><p>Did he think the Toronto Leafs would make a playoff spot?</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;All I know is that they&rsquo;re trying out a lot of players and doing a rebuilding job. They&rsquo;re looking to the future.</p><p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t see anybody catching up to the Canadiens this season. That Beliveau is a wonder; he can do everything. I&rsquo;ve heard fellows say he&rsquo;s a slow skater, but I&rsquo;ll bet he&rsquo;s one of the five fastest skaters in the league. I like the Little Rocket. He&rsquo;s a lot different in temperament from the Big Rocket. This little guy comes into Boston Garden and smiles and speaks to everybody. The Big Rocket always looks suspicious, as if he expects everybody to give it to him.&rdquo;</p><p>A fan up on the catwalk recognized Lynn and stopped to speak to him.</p><p>&ldquo;What are you doing here, Mr. Patrick?&rdquo; he asked. &ldquo;Looking for hockey players?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m always looking for hockey players,&rdquo; Lynn replied.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s some good ones in the rink tonight,&rdquo; the fan said.</p><p>&ldquo;Yeah,&rdquo; Lynn agreed. &ldquo;That Number 4 on the Canadiens. What&rsquo;s his name?&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="byline">by VINCE LEAH (As Seen in the Winnipeg Tribune)</div><p class="dropcap"><span>J</span>unior hockey here is having a lean period. It appears now somebody in authority will have to go out and start selling the game to the public all over again&hellip;and how well we remember the mob standing in line on a cold winter&rsquo;s day trying to get tickets for the big games. The brand of play is not inferior but it is difficult to stir up any great enthusiasm when you only have 133 paid admissions in a building with the capacity of the new Arena.</p><p>Elsewhere in Canada an effort is being made to give the game back to the players with the view that in time there will be an output of good talent for higher company and interest will be regenerated. In Montreal the Quebec Junior Hockey Association, oldest hockey league in the world, folded this year when only Montreal junior Canadiens answered the starting bell. Montreal youngsters, however, have lots of junior hockey with the Metropolitan League, a 10-team circuit that has the blessing and support of Frank Selke.</p><p>Out in Calgary they are operating a similar project to bring back junior hockey in Cowtown. Calgary was a good junior town once. Remember the old Canadians (with an A, Mr. Printer) of 30 seasons ago, but the junior Buffaloes gave up the ghost last term in the Western League and Calgary was without junior hockey. The new circuit is operated by the newly-formed Calgary Hockey Commission of which Frank Currie, manager and coach of the pro Stampeders, is a very active chairman.</p><p>The commission is concerning itself with all minor hockey in the city but its main baby is the new junior league. Sponsors of the Stampeders, the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Ltd., were rapped on the knuckles a couple of months ago for failing to pick up the Moose Jaw franchise in the Western Junior League after that city&rsquo;s rink had burned down.</p><p>The exhibition board had other plans, plans which could prove of much better value to hockey in general. The plan, with Currie as one of the main instigators, was for a totally local junior league taking in as many kids as possible.</p><p>Practices attracted more than 150 juniors to tryout camps and there are still 140 players on the six teams. The teams, limited and looked after by six different community associations, will play their hockey in the modern Stampede Corral.</p><p>The league is no hit-and-miss proposition. It&rsquo;s well organized from top to bottom with persons well known in the hockey world looking after the different aspects of the operation Currie for example, has undertaken to teach community coaches&mdash;from peewee up to intermediate&mdash;the finer points of his trade. Tiny Thompson, a former NHL great who scouts for Chicago Black Hawks, and Doug Stevenson, last season&rsquo;s regular goalie with Stampeders, teach prospective netminders. Fellows like Bunny Dame and Harry Perell, well-known amateur hockey referees in Alberta, conduct schools for potential arbiters.</p><p>General instructions to players are also given. The juniors will play a 30-game schedule and end the season with their own playoffs. For this season at least they will not enter provincial playoffs. An interesting part of Currie&rsquo;s instructions to the coaches is his TWTW plan, a play which may not appear to make too much sense at first glance but one which has done wonders for Frank and his hockey clubs over the years.</p><p>Currie gives Dick Irvin, with whom he worked in the Montreal Canadiens chain, credit for the plan. Frank says there are three important factors in the making of a successful athlete, and especially a hockey player. This is the C, D and W plan.</p><p>C is the first letter of many important words, but the most important is CONDITION. D also stands for a lot of things, but the main one is DISCIPLINE, an athlete must be able to discipline himself to carry out the rules that go with being an athlete. W is divided into two parts, WORK and WEIGHT. Being prepared to work&mdash;on time for practices, looking forward to games and always being ready to do anything that will improve his game. Weight is also important, two or three pounds one way or the other can mean a big difference to a hockey player.</p><p>Currie says that if you can get your club to work under C, D and W plan you can&rsquo;t help but have the TWTW&mdash;THE WILL TO WIN.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

From the Sidelines

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01242/1467720-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY SAWCHUK</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>There isn&rsquo;t the slightest doubt as to what constitutes the most baffling mystery of the National League season.</p><p>It is the sudden collapse of the Boston Bruins.</p><p>For the first month of the season the Bruins progressed at a rate which was most respectable if not sensational.</p><p>They were gaining their share of points and pleasing the cash customers with a brand of hockey which provided enjoyable watching. They were fast, strong and aggressive, predominantly young. Backing them up was the king of modern goal-tenders, Terry Sawchuk.</p><p>The Bruins were assayed by qualified hockey men everywhere, and everywhere the assay was favorable. Here was a team fundamentally sound, with good prospects for improvement.</p><p>In the short space of less than five weeks, despite a steady stream of short-term injuries, they generated old-time hockey enthusiasm here, and there was no limit to the potential brilliance of their future.</p><p>Then overnight something happened. The situation changed.</p><p>In mid-November the Bruins played three games in three nights. They lost two of the three and tied the other.</p><h2><b>One Precedent</b></h2><p>From that sudden but not necessarily upsetting development they moved into a stretch with only one precedent in their 32-year history. The precedent was set during the season of 1924-25, their first year as a team.</p><p>They finished the month of November without winning another game, running their winless streak to eight. As December opened, the streak lengthened.</p><p>The cause of the slump caught hockey men, including Bruins&rsquo; officials, without logical explanations. As it spread it developed into a full-fledged mystery.</p><p>Bruins&rsquo; officials tried all the standard slump-breaking practices. They altered their lineups, changed routines. The added players, benched others. They had heart-to-heart talks with their athletes, and the athletes talked things over among themselves.</p><p>The Bruins were not a collection of old-timers having a brief fling, like the Chicago Black Hawks of several seasons back. What happened to them?</p><p>They were not an assortment of comparative novices, like the New Yerk Rangers of several years ago. What happened to them?</p><p>They were a team carefully assembled over a period of many months, formed of survivors of a four-year screening program and newcomers acquired to fit specific needs. What happened to them?</p><p>The Bruins&rsquo; slump followed a conventional pattern. The first symptom was a complete drying up of scoring power. Then followed a period of pressing, and finally a defensive foldup. as everyone but Sawchuk attempted to end the scoring dearth.</p><p>Finally the only thing standing between the Bruins and one-sided defeat was the great goal-tender, laboring for game after game under the handicap of a virus Infection which apread through his body.</p><p>The disastrous stretch has left the Bruins a team of many questions, with four months of the season remaining.</p><p>Can they regain their stability of October and early November to move back to the league&rsquo;s upper echelon?</p><p>Can they regain the enthusiastic crowds who rooted for them when they were faring well, who stayed with them even after their slump became a statistical reality?</p><p>Questions, questions, questions, but the most pertinent question of all is the one which defies answering.</p><p>That question: What happened to the Bruins?</p><h2><b>Suffering From Virus Infection</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Boston Bruins’ Slump A Mystery To Team Officials

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The Black Hawks have been violating the first section of rule 14 in the National Hockey League book of regulations ever since defenseman Gus Mortson was slapped into a Boston hospital for emergency surgery early last month, but it is an offense which has drawn no complaints from opposition clubs.</p><p>Only mutterings against the. situation, as a matter of fact, have come from Chicago officials and hockey followers who have been none to cheerful over the loss of key players through injuries at somewhat of an alarming rate so far in this 1955-56 campaign.</p><h2><b>Succeeded Watson</b></h2><p>Since you&rsquo;re no doubt wondering&mdash;if you haven&rsquo;t looked it up already, rule 14 decress in part: &ldquo;One Captain shall be appointed by each team.&rdquo; Veteran rearguard Lee Fogolin recently succeeded 200-goal club member Harry Watson to become third captain of the Hawks this season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02217/1467758-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="291" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Watson</b></figcaption></div><p>For the aggressive &ldquo;Fogie&rdquo; it was a nomination to some extent overdue since he has more seniority with the team than any other current player. He and forward Steve Black came to the Hawks from Detroit in a swap that sent-wingers Vic Stasiuk and Bert Olmstead to the Motor City early in 1951.</p><h2><b>Hard Checker</b></h2><p>Fogolin, one of the hardest checkers in Chicago puck history, took over recently when Watson tore leg ligiments in a game at Toronto. Handsome Harry had earlier been picked as the temporary replacement for Mortson who assumed the job upon the departure of Bill Gadsby to the Rangerk a year ago.</p><p>Accepting the duties as a definite advancement in connection with his self-assumed policing chores whenever he is on the ice, Fogolin took only a few bounding strides to make his presence known when a fistic flare-up broke out in the Chicago-Ranger game December 2.</p><p>Lee, one of the NHL&rsquo;s. undefeated champeens of pugilistic endeavor, shoved every New Yorker in sight around before Linesmen Bill Morrison and Doug Young succeeded in quelling the disturbance and it wasn&rsquo;t too surprising that none of the Broadway boys bothered to shove back.</p><p>Mortson is expected to be back with the &ldquo;C&rdquo; on his shirt about the time that the quickest readers of THE HOCKEY NEWS scan this print and his return will be welcomed wholeheartedly. He has few equals when it comes to competitive spirit and puck-carrying ability.</p><h2><b>Long Service</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03171/1467751-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="535" height="539"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LEE FOGOLIN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Defenseman Lee Fogolin Third Chi-Hawk Captain This Season

<p>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;</p><p>Refereeing in the National Hockey League can be a pretty lucrative field of endeavor, according to Carl Voss, referee-in-chief of hockey&rsquo;s foremost circuit.</p><p>According to Voss, who was here in Winnipeg last week to huddle with officials of the Manitoba Amateur Hockey Association. referees and other interested parties with the accent on uniformity among whistle tootlers, a good referee in the NHL can make himself anywhere from $5,000 to $11,000 a season.</p><p>And, as the old saying goes, you can&rsquo;t beat the hours.</p><p>Really top line officials are as scarce as hen&rsquo;s teeth, says Voss, and that is the reason that the bulk are confined to the NHL and AHL.</p><p>There just aren&rsquo;t enough good men to equip the rest of the pro loops. The AHL is the NHL farm with the budding officials getting maybe a dozen or so games to handle in the big time for the experience.</p><p>Schools for referees are being held wherever and whenever possible, Voss reported. The chief official is currently touring western Canada.</p><h2><b>Interpretation</b></h2><p>It seems interpretation is the chief bugaboo from coast to coast and south of the line and it&rsquo;s Voss&rsquo; job with the help of others like him, to set a standard for all organized puck loops whether they be pro or amateur.</p><p>However, the pros are more than willing to co-operate and will do all in their power to help. And this goes for the amateurs as well. As a matter of fact, maybe more so, in as much as it&rsquo;s in amateur circles that not only hockey players come from but officials, too.</p><p>NHL and AHL leagues are similar as far as the officiating is concerned and there is no reason why eastern and western pro loops cannot be on par.</p><p>Last season, says Voss, the officials were much too lax in the west while in the east they were calling everything. Consequently, when Edmonton Flyers went east for their Edinburgh championship series with Shawinigan Falls, they took numerous penalties right from the start. To some extent, they were beaten before they started.</p><p>It was a series such as this that prompted Western Hockey League president Al Leader to ask Voss for the same type of officiating in the west this year. As a matter of fact, Voss was asked to be referee-in-chief but unfortunately had so decline due to pressure of business.</p><h2><b>Easier Now</b></h2><p>As to present day hockey, Voss quotes recently retired Bill Chadwick as saying the game played today is much easier to officiate owing to strict inforcement.</p><p>Strange as it may seem. Voss never refereed in the NHL, spending close to ten years in the AHL. amateur and collegiate ranks even a stint in California. It all started in 1940 and he&rsquo;s now working in his sixth year in his present position.</p><p>As a player, Voss managed to get around.</p><p>As an amateur he was a defenceman but on turning pro with Toronto Leafs in &rsquo;28 (they were the St. Pats before this) he was a centre. In all. Voss was a pro for 12 seasons, seven in the NHL. After going down to Buffalo, he was with Rangers. Maroons, Detroit and Chicago, the Hawks winning the Stanley Cup in his test season. 1938.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Good Referees Pretty Scarce States Voss

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

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">BY Ken Mckenzie</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01314/1467858-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>OMMY IVAN</b> has put a $100,000 price tag on Elmer (Moose) Vasko, captain and star defenseman of the St. Catharines Juniors. The Chicago General Manager figures that the 20-year-old rearguard could hold his own in the NHL right now, but he is anxious to give him another year in junior play. Vasko is a big strong rushing defenseman who has always played for a first-place team. Ivan is counting on Vasko helping the Hawks next season and is hoping that some of that-first-place complex rubs off on the Hawks&hellip;Johnny Peirson had this to say about his coming out of retirement: &lsquo;&lsquo;It was rough just sitting at games and watching the Bruins going so badly. I felt there was something I could do providing I received three months leave of absence from my father-in-law. I felt that maybe I could help the younger players hit their stride. Don&rsquo;t forget I&rsquo;m still a Bruin. I played all my NHL hockey in Boston. Maybe I won&rsquo;t be able to help and maybe they won&rsquo;t need me by the time I&rsquo;m ready to play. But if they still need me by the first of the year, I&rsquo;ll be available&rdquo;&hellip;Also, he&rsquo;ll be getting some money for it, too, as Arthur Siegel of the Boston Traveler pointed out&hellip;when Bob Armstrong of the Bruins stopped a puck with his chin the other night for six stitches, it was the first time in his NHL career that he&rsquo;d been cut&hellip;Fleming Mackell and his wife are expecting their fifth Child.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02202/1467851-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="277" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption></div><p><b>HERB RALBY</b> reports that a fellow has to be a real linguist to understand everything that&rsquo;s said in the Bruins&rsquo; private car on trips. Every once in awhile Terry Sawchuk and Vic Stasiuk converse in Ukranian. At the same time Orval Tessier (now with Hershey) and Marcel Bonin would start talking French&hellip;Some of the players claim Leo LaBine has a language all his own&hellip;When Rangers defeated Toronto 3-1 the other night, it was their eighth game in a row without a defeat. It equalled their eight straight mark set in February, 1950, the last time they participated in the Stanley Cup playoffs&hellip;Rangers&rsquo; Andy Bathgate has developed into one of the most dangerous forwards in the league this year&hellip;Phil Watson keeps one of the most detailed sets of statistics on his players. These stats, tell him everything about his players performances&hellip;Terry Sawchuk has a 17-year-old brother, Jerry, playing right wing for the Winnipeg Monarchs and belongs to the Toronto Maple Leafs&hellip;The Rangers right now are reaping the rewards for the good junior team they had at Guelph in 1951-52&hellip;The improved play in college hockey played in the Northeastern section of the United States can be attributed to the increase in the number of rinks according to the college coaches When New York Rangers played Chicago Black Hawks at Madison Square Garden on December 15, it was on the eve of the 30th anniversary of professional hockey at the Garden. On December 15, 1925, New York Americans met Montreal Canadiens in the first NHL game in New York. Canadiens won, 3-1, incidentally.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03123/1467844-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="298" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo LaBine</b></figcaption></div><p><b>BREAKING UP DETROIT&rsquo;S</b> two great wingers, Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay, reminds Elmer Ferguson of the time Canadiens separated Howie Morenz and Aurel Joliat. Morenz and Joliat had played together for years but when the club hit the skids it was decided to break them up. It didn&rsquo;t work out however, as Joliat had no Morenz to pass to, and Morenz had no Joliat to feed him. So they were quickly re-united&hellip;Ferny Haman, Boston&rsquo;s durable captain, has lived in Greater Boston longer than in Dysart and Regina, Sask, where he was born and brought up. Fern first played for the Boston Olympics when he was 15&hellip;Alex Barilko, brother of Bill, the late Toronto defense star, is now employed as a representative of Melchers. He works out of Montreal but also covers Ontario as he is especially valuable to his firm on account of being able to speak several languages&hellip;Jim Norris, Chicago owner, has stepped up his racing interests and is moving his racing farm from Paris, Ky. to south Miami. He is also changing his racing colors to purple and white&hellip;Henri Richard, Canadiens&rsquo; prize rookie, looks better every game and is one of the smoothest and coolest first-year players in the loop. He has all the earmarks of a great player and is fast becoming one of the darlings of the Forum faithful.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0488/1467837-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="292" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Henri Richard</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/f0006-0581/1467889-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>Happy At Last</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>As a Ranger fan I have never had much to write about, but now with our high flying start I think I finally can explain, complain and exalt.</p><p>To Explain: When the Guelph Biltmores won the Memorial Cup they were the best crop of amateurs in Canada, but they had to be rushed up to the NHL. All their experience was taught and learned in the big time, but they did improve. It was only a matter of time. The time is now. They have the experience now and still have not reached their best yet. I think if the experts had studied this team they never would have picked them last, but pushed them up a couple of notches.</p><p>To Complain: It seems to me that some players on the Rangers never get enough credit from the NY press and from the league as a whole. As an example: As of the writing of this letter Dean Prentice is third in goals scored for the Rangers yet he gets assigned to the likes of Howe, Richard, etc., he back checks with the best in the league, hustles all the way, but the only mention of Prentice is in the weekly statistics. I would like to point out a big one. Every time Prentice has got a goal or an assist, the Rangers have won the game. If he played poorly there would be mention of it, but instead he plays good solid hockey and is on his way to his best season yet&mdash;but you&rsquo;d never know it. It seems to me that others like Larry Popein, Jack Evans, etc., deserve some of the praise for the Rangers high standing.</p><p>To Exalt: Though a lot of people may be waiting for our Rangers to go into a tailspin, I don&rsquo;t think they&rsquo;ll see it happen this year. With our talented reserves, Guidolin, McCreary, Bower, etc. at Providence, we&rsquo;ve got the backing this year to go into the Stanley Cup and don&rsquo;t be surprised if we win it.</p><p>Robert Toy New York, N.Y.</p><h2><b>Hershey Fan</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Last week I renewed my subscription to your very fine paper which I&rsquo;ve been receiving for the past year. In my opinion, you carry an excellent line on all the hockey leagues. The daily papers in our section carry very little on hockey with the exception of the Hershey Bears, which is my team in the AHL.</p><p>The Bears are off to a bad start, but their record of the past reveals they are a good hockey city and due for a bad season.</p><p>Not being close to a NHL city does hinder us in the way of seeing NHL calibre hockey, but we do get to see a lot of the players before they hit the big time. There are players in the league, who, in my opinion and that of many others, should have a chance to prove themselves in the big leagues. Among them are Mather of Pittsburgh and Pidhirny of Springfield who is always up with the high scorers&mdash;a hockey player, not a sorehead like some in the NHL.</p><p>Since Hershey is my team, I&rsquo;m interested in what has happened to some of their ex-players; for instance, Frank Mario, Gordy Bruce and Jack McGill. I1 you have any information on them, I&rsquo;d like to read it in your magazine sometime in the near future.</p><p>A. Lamar Hepler Myerstown, Pa.</p><h2><b>Ullman Fan</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I read and enjoy every issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS and can hardly wait for every issue to reach here.</p><p>A feature I especially enjoy is the &lsquo;&lsquo;Inside Stuff&rdquo; column by Margaret Scott. I find this quite interesting and at times amusing.</p><p>How about a feature article on Normie Ullman of the Red Wings? You haven&rsquo;t had a real feature story on a single member of the Wings this season and I&rsquo;d like to see you starts with one on this very promising rookie player from Edmonton. I am sure he is destined to be a future star and is certainly deserving of a write-up in your very fine newspaper.</p><p>John Carr. Windsor, Ont.</p><div class="sidebar"><p><b>BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape are used and endorsed by the University of Toronto Football Club.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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THE FAN FORUM

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No Wonder Most People Read The BLUELINE!

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01265/1467951-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHNNY PEIRSON</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Some night very soon the Boston Bruins&rsquo; bargain of the year will step into their lineup, at a right wing position.</p><p>The bargain is Johnny Peirson, a high scoring forward who retired from hockey in the summer of 1954 by choice.</p><p>While their fortunes&rsquo; were falling with their scoring output during the tall, the sought everywhere for a forward with the knack of making goals.</p><p>Manager Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s search for that rare commodity probably carried him to the far corners of the National League, perhaps to other hockey precincts.</p><p>Presumably his overtures to other teams were rebuffed by excessive demands but at any rate, his search was unsuccessful.</p><p>Then one morning Peirson, engaged for more than a year in a family furniture business, walked into Patrick&rsquo;s office on the North Station mezzanine.</p><p>&ldquo;Lynn,&rdquo; asked the bargain of the year, &ldquo;do you suppose if I were to come back I could help the team?&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Emphatic &ldquo;Yes&rdquo;</b></h2><p>Patrick&rsquo;s response is unrecorded, but it can be boiled down to a hasty, emphatic &ldquo;Yes&rdquo;.</p><p>The result was that Peirson, one hockey player who quit while he was ahead, rejoined the Bruins for conditioning purposes. Soon, very soon, he&rsquo;ll be back in their lineup.</p><p>To Patrick, the return of the clever right wing is a bonanza. After his vain attempts to bolster his team&rsquo;s scoring punch, he has acquired a polished scoring master at no expense, other than Peirson&rsquo;s salary for the second half of the season.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;ll definitely help us&rdquo;, maintained the Bruins&rsquo; manager. &ldquo;Anything he contributes will be gravy, in the nature of a bonus.</p><h2><b>A Smart Player</b></h2><p>John has always been a good scorer, but more than that, he always been a smart player. He won&rsquo;t hurt us, of that I&rsquo;m sure. He&rsquo;ll help plenty.&rdquo;</p><p>Peirson, a native of Montreal and a permanent resident of nearby Wellesley, is the Bruins&rsquo; best scorer of the post-war era.</p><p>In six full seasons and two fractional years with the Bruins he made 127 goals and 133 assists for 260 points, adding another 10 goals and 12 assists in playoff games.</p><h2><b>Average 20 Goals</b></h2><p>His best season was that of 1949-50, when he scored 27 goals and in his last season, that of 1953-54, he led the team in scoring with 21 goals. For his six-year period as a regular he was one of only a half dozen National League players to average more than 20 goals.</p><p>Peirson started formal training for his comeback with two things in his favor. His legs were strong and his weight was his playing weight.</p><p>&ldquo;Weight has never been a problem for me,&rdquo; he related. &ldquo;When I was playing I weighed between 165 and 170 pounds, and that&rsquo;s what I weigh now.</p><p>&ldquo;As far as my legs are concerned they&rsquo;re good. I did quite a bit of skating last winter, played a lot of golf during the summer, and I&rsquo;ve been skating this season.</p><h2><b>Needs Conditioning</b></h2><p>&ldquo;In addition, I&rsquo;ve been on my feet at work from 7 o&rsquo;clock in the morning until 5 o&rsquo;clock at for six days a week. I need some conditioning, but my legs are pretty good for a starter.&rdquo;</p><p>When Peirson is ready, coach Milt Schmidt&rsquo;s latitude with his forward lines will be broadened considerably. He can use Johnny behind Doug Mohns and Leo La-Bine at right and use Lorne Ferguson at left wing exclusively. Thus his left wing squad as well as his right wing corps will gain strength.</p><p>Peirson, who attended McGill University and served hockey apprenticeships with the Boston Olympics and Hershey Bears, moved into the Bruins&rsquo; regular lineup in 1948. In his early years he was overly aggressive, and his readiness to tangle without urging with the Black Jack Stewarts and Butch Bouchards left him with a steady stream of minor injuries.</p><h2><b>Gained Stability</b></h2><p>As he gained experience he also gained stability, and in his later years he concentrated on harassing the opposition with his scoring.</p><p>Peirson&rsquo;s pet target in other years was the Montreal Canadiens, against whom he scored more goals than any other team. The Bruins, who used to run the Canadiens out of the Garden regularly, have had little success in that enterprise in recent years.</p><p>One of Patrick&rsquo;s hopes is that Peirson still retains his talent for depositing the puck in the net occupied by the Montreal goaltender.</p><h2><b>Prolific Scorer</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Johnny Peirson Rejoins Bruins For Second Half Of Schedule

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02233/1467982-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="283" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Marshall</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span> native of Verdun, P.Q., Donald Robert Marshall was born on March 22, 1932. 5&rsquo;10&rdquo;. 160 pounds lie is a center with a left handed shot. In 1953-54 he played 70 games with the Buffalo Bisons of the AHL and received the Dudley &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Garrett Memorial Trophy as the league&rsquo;s outstanding rookie. Has played two seasons with Canadiens and is rated as one of their best prospects.</p><p><b>HARDEST CHECK IN HOCKEY:</b></p><p>Was received last spring in the play-offs when Don was hit by Boston&rsquo;s Dong Mohns.</p><p><b>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY:</b></p><p>Playing with Montreal Canadiens.</p><p><b>FAVORITE HOBBY:</b></p><p>Has no special pastimes other than an interest in all sports and finding pleasure in fixing up his new home.</p><p><b>IN THE SUMMER:</b></p><p>Lives in Montreal and works for a contracting firm.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</b></p><p>Indiana, Penna.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE:</b></p><p>Montreal.</p><p><b>FAVORITE NHL CITY ON ROAD GAME:</b></p><p>Likes them all.</p><p><b>LOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:</b></p><p>&ldquo;The Cruel Sea.&rdquo;</p><p><b>BEST ACTRESSES:</b></p><p>June Allyson and Maureen O&rsquo;Hara.</p><p><b>BEST ACTORS:</b></p><p>William Holden and Dick Powell.</p><p><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA:</b></p><p>Mantovani.</p><p><b>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Doris Day.</p><p><b>FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Perry Como.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD BEFORE A GAME:</b></p><p>Steak.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD ANY TIME:</b></p><p>Has too many favorites to pick something specific&mdash;just likes to eat.</p><p><b>FAVORITE TV PROGRAM:</b></p><p>&ldquo;The Plouffe Family.&rdquo;</p><p><b>PREFERS TO READ:</b></p><p>Couldn&rsquo;t think of any favorite authors, but likes both serious and light novels.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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INSIDE STUFF About Don Marshall

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-126/1468128-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="301" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>ig Jean Beliveau, the Montreal Canadiens freewheeling playmaker-scorer, is currently leading the National Hockey League point producers with 34 points, based on 19 goals (also a league-leading mark) and 15 assists.</b></p><p><b>This past week Big Jean added five points to his total on three goals and a pair of assists.</b></p><p><b>On December 8, the high-flying Habs defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-1, at the Montreal Forum and Le Gros Bill chipped in with an assist.</b></p><p><b>Two nights later, again at the Forum, the league-leaders turned back the Detroit Red Wings, 4-2, with big Beliveau supplying most of the firepower on two goals and an assist.</b></p><p><b>On December 11, the Montrealers travelled to Boston and there came from behind to beat the Bruins, 4-2, with Beliveau supplying the winning goal.</b></p><p><b>The Habitants are currently enjoying an eight-game non-losing streak and lead the National Hockey League by ten points. Much of the credit for the great surge by the Montrealers must go to Jean Beliveau, who is living up to every word written about him when he was preparing to take the big jump from amateur to professional ranks three years ago.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Player-of-the-Week

<h2><b>Shutouts</b></h2><p><b>Jacques Plante, Glen Hall and Terry Sawchuk have all racked up five shutouts to date this season.</b></p><h2><b>Most Penalized</b></h2><p><b>Montreal Canadiens are the most penalized club in the NHL with a total of 487 minutes in the sin bin.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON WED. A.M., DEC, 14</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01297/1468097-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="595" height="190"></div><h3><b>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 11th 1955</b></h3><p>Wed. Dec. 7th&mdash;Toronto 1 at Rangers 3</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 8th&mdash;Boston E</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 8th&mdash;Toronto 1 at Cdns 3</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 8th&mdash;Boston 2 at Detroit 2</p><p>Fri. Dec. 9th&mdash;Boston 1 at Chicago 1</p><p>Sat. Dec. 10th&mdash;Detroit 2 at Cdns 4</p><p>Sat. Dec. 10th&mdash;Rangers 1 at Toronto 6</p><p>Sun. Dec. 11th&mdash;Cdns 4 at Boston 2</p><p>Sun. Dec. 11th&mdash;Toronto 3 at Chicago 3</p><p>Sun. Dec. 11th&mdash;Rangers 0 at Detroit 2</p><h3><b>SCHEDULED CLIMES FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 18th 1955</b></h3><p>Wed. Dec 14th&mdash;Chicago at Rangers</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 15th&mdash;Rangers at Cdns</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 15th&mdash;Toronto at Detroit</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 15th&mdash;Chicago at Boston</p><p>Sat. Dec. 17th&mdash;Chicago at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Dec. 17th&mdash;Boston at Toronto</p><p>Sun. Dec. 18th&mdash;Canadiens at Detroit</p><p>Sun. Dec. 18th&mdash;Toronto at Rangers</p><p>Sun. Pec. 18th&mdash;Boston at Chicago</p><p>Individual scoring records are:</p><h3><b>WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7 Toronto 1 at New York 3</b></h3><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Lumley; defence: Thomson, Morrison, Bolton, Horton, Reaume; forwards: Smith, Armstrong, Sloan, Stewart, Migay, Harris, Nesterenko. Duff. James. Hurst, Balfour.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal: Worsley; defence: Gadsby. Howell, Fontinato, Irwin, Evans; forwards: Raleigh, Bathgate, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton. Murphy, Creighton, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Popein, Lewicki.</p><p>Referee: Louis Maschio; linesmen: Sammy Babcock, Dom Baolto.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02239/1468090-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="593" height="495"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8 Toronto 1 at Montreal 3</b></h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Boton, Reaume. Morrison, Horton, Thomas: forwards: Sloau, Armstrong, Duff, Smith, Shewart, Migay, Harris, Nesterenko. James. Hurst. Balfour.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante: defense: Talbot. Johnson, Harvey, Bouchard. St. Laurent; forward: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Mosdell, Curry, Provost, Leclair, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03179/1468083-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="595" height="635"></div><h3><b>Boston 2 at Detroit 2</b></h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Armstrong, Boivin, Henrich, Quackenbush, Flaman, Nicholson; forwards: Mackell, Labine, McKenney, Stasiuk, Gardner, Ferguson, Mohns, Costello, Bonin.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Gold-ham, Hollingworth, Pronovost, Godfrey; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Kelly, Delvecchio, Lindsay, Dineen, Ullman, Bucyk, Prystai, Toppazzini, Chevrefils, Pavelich.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04134/1468076-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="605" height="391"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY DECEMBER 9 Boston 1 at Chicago 1r (Played in St. Louis)</b></h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Armstrong, Boivin, Heinrich, Quackenbush, Flaman, Nicholson; forwards: Mackell, Labine, McKenney, Stasiuk, Gardier. Ferguson, Mohns, Costello, Bonin.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Stanley, Martin, Mortson, Fogolin, Woit, Dewsbury; forwards: Skov, Mickoski, Litzenberger, Sullivan, Leswick, Sanford, McIntyre, Wilson, Lalande, Ciesla.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0596/1468069-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="593" height="434"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1955 Detroit 2 at Canadiens 4</b></h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Gold-ham, Hollingworth, Pronovost, Godfrey; forwards: Delvecchio, Dineen, Lindsay, Kelly, Reibel, Howe, Pavelich, Prystai, Chevrefils, Ullman, Toppazzini, Bucyk.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Johnson, Talbot, Bouchard, St. Laurent, Harvey; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Mosdell, Curry, Provost, Marshall, Leclair.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0673/1468062-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="596" height="533"></div><h3><b>New York 1 at Toronto 6</b></h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Gadsby, Evans, Irwin, Howell, Fontinato; forwards: Popein, Bathgate. Prentice, Raleigh, Gendron, Horvath, Mebenton, Murphy, Creighton, Hergesheimer, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Bolton, Reaume, Thomson, Morrison, Horton; forwards: Stewart, Migay, Hannigan, Smith, Armstrong, Sloan, Harris, Nesterenko, Duff, James, Hurst, Balfour.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0756/1468055-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="594" height="558"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1955 Canadiens 4 at Boston 2</b></h3><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Johnson, Talbot, St. Laurent, Harvey, Bouchard; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Mosdell, Curry, Provost, Mar-shall, Leclair.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Armstrong, Boivin, Flaman, Heinrich, Quackenbush; forwards: Mackell, Labine, McKenney, Gardner, Mohns, Stasiuk, Costello, Bonin, Ferguson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0845/1468048-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="596" height="584"></div><h3><b>New York 0 at Detroit 2</b></h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Gadsby, Evans, Irwin, Howell, Fontinato; forwards: Popein. Bathgate, Prentice, Raleigh, Gendron, Horvath. Mebenton, Murphy, Creighton, Hergesheimer, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Gold-ham, Hoilingworth, Pronovost, Godfrey; forwards: Delvecchio, Dineen, Bucyk, Kelly, Lindsay, Reibel, Howe, Pavelich, Prystai, Chevrefils, Ullman, Toppazzini.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0789/1468041-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="597" height="484"></div><h3><b>Toronto 3 at Chicago 3</b></h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Bolton, Reaume, Thomson, Morrison, Horton; forwards: Stewart, Migay, Hannigan, Smith, Armstrong, Sloan, Harris, Nesterenko, Duff, James, Hurst, Balfour.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Mortson, Woit, Fogolin, Stanley, Martin, Dewsbury; forwards: Lalande, Ciesla. Wilson, Sullivan, Leswick, Mickoski, Sandford, McIntyre, Litzenberger, Skov.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0870/1468034-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="591" height="555"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Includes Games of Sunday, Dec. 10)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0933/1468027-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="606" height="4057"></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/f0008-1023/1468020-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="600" height="184"></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/f0008-1117/1468013-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="568" height="160"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Gump Worsley will be pardoned whenever he takes a low bow in the direction of Harry Howell and Bill Gads-by, Ranger defensemen.</p><p>While The Gumper is doing a deluxe job of goaltending, he has also received the best support of his three-year NHL career with Gadsby and Howell lending a big hand.</p><p>Strangely enough both stalwarts are playing superb hockey yet continually are overlooked in the public prints. In Howell&rsquo;s case it&rsquo;s understandable.</p><p>He pairs up with his old Guelph Biltmore buddy, Louie Fontinato, and while Louie runs hither and yon belting opponents to the ice, Harry is on the spot, covering up. Fontinato&rsquo;s rough stuff keeps&rsquo;em honest and is duly applauded, but what about. Howell?</p><p>He just goes about his business, steadies The Leaper, makes an occasionaly sally down the ice, but draws no attention.</p><p>&ldquo;Howell is a position player,&rsquo;&rsquo; says Ranger GM Muzz Patrick. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s wide awake when he&rsquo;s out there, knows how the play is going to develop.</p><p>On the other hand, Gadsby is more of a rushing defenseman. although he is paired with Jack Evans another worthy who likes to take a dash across the rink when the situation warrants it.</p><h2><b>Both Have Profited</b></h2><p>Since both backliners like to lug the puck they have, more or less, shared the duties with the result that both have profited. Gadsby&rsquo;s high point output stems from the fact that he is also used on the power play. His defensive work has been adequate so what more could Watson ask for?</p><p>&ldquo;Not much,&rdquo; replied perfectionist Phil. &ldquo;I told Gadsby during training camp that I expected him to be a leader on the ice&mdash;like he was with Chicago. He has done just that and I am pleased with his work.&rdquo;</p><p>Gadsby excels at the poke and sweep check, can steal the puck and get away in a flash in a manner unequaled by most back-liners around the loop.</p><p>Howell is the NHL&rsquo;s youngest captain (23) and likes it. He is one of those natural leaders, displayed the talent in his first pro season after making the big jump from junior hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;I was completely surprised when notified about being made captain,&rdquo; Harry explained.</p><p>&ldquo;It was prior to the opener with Chicago. Muzz came over to me and said: &lsquo;Harry we&rsquo;ve appointed a new captain.&rdquo; I replied: &ldquo;That&rsquo;s line, who is it?&rdquo; When he told me that it was Harry Howell I was pleasantly amazed!</p><p>&ldquo;Worries? There are no worries to it. Except maybe getting too many speaking engagements!&rdquo; Someone asked Harry how he tries to combat the Rocket Richard puck nemesis.</p><p>&ldquo;When I see Richard skating down at me I try to tell myself that he&rsquo;s just another hockey player&mdash;but I know better.</p><p>&ldquo;You have to be extra careful with him. make sure to take Richard not the puck. If you go for the puck, he&rsquo;ll make a quick deke and say &lsquo;goodbye.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I try to keep him off at an angle. When he&rsquo;s anywhere near the net he&rsquo;s poison with his deadly accurate shot.&rdquo;</p><p><b>RANGERABLIA</b>&mdash;Gadsby still a master at blocking the puck with his body in the traditional Bob Goldham manner&hellip;. Howell rarely goes down to block a shot&hellip;Ranger prexy General John Reed Kilpatrick finds Rangers wins are both good and bad for him&hellip;. They make him happy and when he&rsquo;s happy he eats more&hellip;. The General has added plenty of poundage since October&mdash;but he loves it&hellip;. Andy Bathgate, Dean Prentice and Bronco Horvath are expert dart players&hellip;. Games are held at Dean&rsquo;s house.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01282/1468159-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="301" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Howell</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Harry Howell Key Man In NY Defense

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>M</span>aybe your eyes</b> will mislead you in a hall of mirrors, but your taste won&rsquo;t when you reach for a sparkling glass of Labatt&rsquo;s &lsquo;50&rsquo;. For &lsquo;50&rsquo; is the happier ale that makes anytime a good time. Let your throat savour the cool clean taste of &lsquo;50&rsquo;&mdash;let your good taste be tempted by this lightest and smoothest of all ales. Enjoy a &lsquo;50&rsquo; soon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04178/1468228-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="585" height="2878"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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You’ll enjoy ‘50’ MILD…SMOOTH

<p><b>(Including games of Sunday, Dec. 4, 1955)</b></p><h2><b>BUFFALO</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01296/1468294-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="590" height="674"></div><h2><b>CLEVELAND</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02240/1468287-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="579" height="631"></div><h2><b>PROVIDENCE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03206/1468280-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="587" height="692"></div><h2><b>HERSHEY</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04158/1468273-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="592" height="795"></div><h2><b>PITTSBURGH</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05128/1468266-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="583" height="716"></div><h2><b>SPRINGFIELD</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06114/1468259-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="582" height="559"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Complete AHL Scoring

<p>KITCHENER, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>A campaign to raise funds for the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen&rsquo;s trip to the Winter Olympics will be officially kicked off here on December 26, it has been announced.</p><p>The objective of the organizers is $15,170. A committee of sportsmen set up by the Chamber of Commerce of the twin cities is in charge of the fund-raising campaign and are not connected with the Ontario Hockey Association Senior A club, who will represent Canada in Italy.</p><p>The amount required is to help defray expenses not included in the grant from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association which covers an official party of 21&mdash;17 players and four team officials.</p><h2><b>Extra Baggage Expenses</b></h2><p>The Dutchies, who are expected to leave for Europe on January 15, want to take along their club doctor, an extra trainer, two players not eligible for the Olympics and some other club officials considered in line for the trip because of their services.</p><p>In addition, the Canadian representatives anticipate extra expenses in the form of heavy charges for excess baggage weight.</p><p>The fund will be administered by the independent committee and any money raised in excess of the objective will be turned over to minor hockey.</p><p>The Dutchies, currently far in front of the OHA Senior A pack, will attempt to retain the World title for Canada. The championship was won back from Russia last season by the Penticton V&rsquo;s of the Okanagan Senior Hockey League.</p><p>The Kitchener-Waterloo club last season won the Allan Cup, symbol of amateur supremacy in Canada.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Fund-Raising Campaign Set For K-W’s Olympic Trip

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01295/1468349-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BUN COOK</b></figcaption></div><p>CLEVELAND. Ohio&mdash;</p><p>Here behind the always powerful fortress walls of the Cleveland Barons, Coach Bun Cook has made the major backward flip of his career.</p><p>Cook, the soft-spoken; Cook, the velvet gloved; Cook, the peaceful, says his Barons are built to play the game rough and that is the way they play it best.</p><p>So Cook, who for years has been noted as the great animal tamer of the business, is set to turn his charges loose, wild on the American Hockey League.</p><p>Down through the years it was over-the-fence gossip that if you had a real toughie that needed softening, send him to Bun Cook and he&rsquo;ll soon act the part of a kitten with a spool of yarn.</p><p>Famed wild animal trainers such as Frank Buck and Martin Johnson were probably rank outsiders next to Cook when it came to removing the venom from the veins of a snarly creature.</p><p>When they played for Bun. they played it as a gallant knight in King Arthur&rsquo;s Court or they didn&rsquo;t play it at all.</p><h2><b>Times Have Changed</b></h2><p>But times have changed around the Cleveland igloo. Where once it was commonplace for Cook to be surrounded by artful ice performers and fancy dans of the Fred Thurier, Les Cunningham, Phil Hergesheimer breed, it is now a horse of a different color.</p><p>General Manager Jim Hendy, either because artful skaters are part of a lost generation or because be prefers brawn to brains, has filled the Cook camp with mean muscular marauders.</p><p>When you have smooth-skating, quick-witted hockey players, you can use them for smooth-skating, quick-witted plays</p><p>When you have rock-ribbed, bone-crushing gladiators, you have to alter the strategy.</p><h2><b>Three Triumphs</b></h2><p>In mid-November, the Barons met and overcame the Pittsburgh Hornets once and the Buffalo Bisons twice during a single weekend. In fact, all three triumphs were recorded in the record time of 35 hours.</p><p>The Cleveland club was rocking and rolling through those games They battered the enemy wherever, they found him, softened him for the kill, then administerd the fatal blow.</p><p>Last weekend the Barons skated into three more weekend engagements. They lost two. tied one.</p><p>But these barons were playing the other team&rsquo;s game. They pranced and danced as if at a skating party. No one was hit, no one was shocked&mdash;except the Barons. They were nearly electrocuted.</p><p>Cook has finally confessed that his club plays best when it plays rough.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s not my style,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;But you&rsquo;ve got to play it the way you are built to play it.&rdquo;</p><p>The Barons, with noted naughty characters such as Fred (No Kid) Glover, Pete (The Bull) Durham. Eric (The Showboat) Pogue. Jimmy (The Muscles) Farelli and Ian (The Crusher) Cushenan, have certain attributes which seem to qualify them for the best back alley society.</p><p>Cook apparently intends to turn them loose.</p><p>He figures, perhaps, the Barons will be able to muscle their way to the top of the American League.</p><h2><b>Had To Change Tactics</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Bun Cook Says Barons Built To Play Rough

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>The plight of the Hershey Bears is giving General Manager Lloyd S. Blinco and Coach Henderson many a sleepless night.</p><p>Although Hershey has virtually the same club which finished just five points out of first place a year ago, the team has won only three games and tied two others in its first nineteen American Hockey League outings.</p><p>On paper, at least, the Bears have a formidable looking outfit, but, for some reason or another they haven&rsquo;t been able to click. Even seasoned hockey men like Jim Hendy, g.m. of the Cleveland Barons, and Fred Hunt, of the Buffalo Bisons. are puzzled by the club&rsquo;s inability to win.</p><p>Injuries have played a vital role, of course, with, stalwarts like captain Obie O&rsquo;Brien and Don Cherry and promising rookie winger Floyd Smith missing quite a few games because of an assortment of wounds.</p><h2><b>Bruins Can&rsquo;t Help</b></h2><p>Unfortunately, the Boston Bruins, too, have been plagued by injuries. As a result, they haven&rsquo;t been able to give the Bears any help.</p><p>But aside from the injuries, the Bears haven&rsquo;t been able to mount any kind of an offensive. Henderson&rsquo;s ice men have recorded only 49 goals in 19 games for an average of 2.52 per contest. Except for Dune Fisher. Gordie Wilson and Ed Kryzanowski, who have 27 of the club&rsquo;s 49 goals between them, the scoring punch has been sadly missing.</p><p>Alternate captain Arnie Kull-man, always a potent scorer, has missed his old wing, Obie O&rsquo;Brien, and lit the red lamp but five times in 18 games. Unable to find the proper combination to work with. Kullman, coach Henderson has been using Arnie&rsquo;s line largely as a checking unit. One of the best at the business of checking opposition forwards, Kullman has performed admirably. But, lacking O&rsquo;Brien who scored 31 goals for the Bears last season, Kull-man has been badly handicapped.</p><h2><b>Zeidel Helped</b></h2><p>Defensively, the Bears are better off than they have been for a number of campaigns. Larry Zeidel has given the rearguard department a big lift. In addition, he&rsquo;s done his share in helping to set up What few scores the club has been getting. In 10 games, he registered seven assists.</p><p>Ed Kryzanowski. too has been a tower of strength on both defense and offense. He is the club&rsquo;s second best lamp lighter, with seven. He has also chipped in with a trio of assists.</p><p>Like any athletic club in the throes of a slump, the Bears can&rsquo;t seem to get themselves unwound. They&rsquo;re playing good enough hockey to win. but san&rsquo;t seem to shake the jinx. And, as the prolonged slump continues, they find themselves pressing too hard. Coach Henderson feels that once they get a couple of wings under their belt, they&rsquo;ll be able to relax and still be able to make the Calder Cup playoffs.</p><h2><b>Steady</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02254/1468380-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="527" height="806"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DUNC FISHER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bears Lack Of Scoring Punch Beason For Tailend Standing

<h2><b>Topper Tops</b></h2><p><b>Zellio Toppazzini of the Providence Reds continues to lead the AHL Point Parade with 19 goals and 27 assists for a total of 46 points.</b></p><h2><b>Most Goals</b></h2><p><b>Camille Henry of the Providence Red leads all players in the AHL in the number of goals scored with 20 to his credit thus far.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TUESDAY A.M. DEC. 13</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01293/1468491-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="596" height="185"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY DECEMBER 10 Providence 4 at Hershey 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02226/1468484-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="596" height="684"></div><h3><b>Spring field 1 at Pittsburgh 7</b></h3><p>Leftwing Parker MacDonald had a hand in five goals, scoring three and assisting on two others to lead Pittsburgh Hornets to a 7-1 victory over Springfield Indians.</p><p>MacDonald got his first goal at 15 seconds of the first period, picked up an assists when Gerry Foley scored five minutes later, was in. on the play when Jack Bionda made it 3-0 with the only goal of the second period and tallied twice more in the third period.</p><p>Bob Bailey and Joe Klukay also scored for Pittsburgh in the third and Jim Anderson got Springfield&rsquo;s only goal with 55 seconds left in the game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03184/1468477-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="598" height="606"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 4 at Cleveland 4</b></h3><p>Fred Glover scored three goals for Buffalo as the Bisons fought Cleveland Barons to a 4-4 tie in the American Hockey League. Both teams were unable to score in the Sudden-death overtime period.</p><p>Glover put the final knot into the score at 18.01 of the third period with his third marker.</p><p>Jackie Gordon scored the other goal for the Barons in the second period.</p><p>Enio Sclisizzi scored twice for the Bisons while Pete Babando and Pete Conacher each got one goal.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04140/1468470-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="598" height="627"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11 Pittsburgh 2 at Providence 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05104/1468463-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="596" height="558"></div><h3><b>Springfield 2 at Buffalo 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0684/1468456-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="590" height="539"></div><h2><b>Follow The Leader</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0862/1468449-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="1759" height="1406"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AFTER HIM!&mdash;</b>Lorne Da vis of the Hershey Sears leads the way as members of that team and the Springfield Indians break after the puck following an unsuccessful try for a goal by the Chocolattown raiders. Others in the picture are Ken Schinkel (20), Ed Leier (17) and Arnott Whitney (2).</figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sun. Dec. 11)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0773/1468442-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="599" height="599"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals</b></p><p>Camille Henry, Providence, 20.</p><p><b>Most Assists</b></p><p>Ken Wharram, Buffalo, 31.</p><p><b>Best Goalie</b></p><p>Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 22, 61, 3, 2.77</p><p><b>Most shutouts</b></p><p>Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 3.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Player</b></p><p>Fred Glover, Cleveland, 82mts.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Club</b></p><p>Cleveland, 449 nits.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p><b>THE 10-MINUTE</b> sudden-death overtime period inaugurated in the WHL for the first time this season has been received well by fans all over the nine team league. Of the first 20 overtime games only five resulted in a tie, the other 15 games saw a winner declared&hellip;That&rsquo;s what the fans go to a game to see&mdash;a winner. They are getting just that in the WHL.</p><p>When Edmonton defeated Montreat to retain the Grey Cup, Gilles Boisvert, Edmonton goalie, lost a bet he made with Flyers&rsquo; trainer Cecil &ldquo;Tiger&rdquo; Goldstick&hellip;As the Als lost Boisvert had to give Goldstick a sulky ride around the Edmonton Gardens between periods of a junior hockey game.</p><p>Waivers have been asked on Pat Lundy by Regina. Reason: Lundy, who is manager of the Regina arena, can not make many road trips. He had 10 goals in the 13 games he&rsquo;s played with Frank Boucher&rsquo;s Regals&hellip;Regina obtained Aggie Kukulowicz on loan from Edmonton to give them another centre&hellip;Saskatoon obtained Bob Chrystal, former Ranger, to bolster its defence, this past week.</p><p>Fred Hutchinson, Victoria Managing Director, has announced there will be changes if his club doesn&rsquo;t snap out of its slump&hellip;Next game out the Eddie Olson crew defeated the red-hot Vancouver Canucks, 4-2, to break a Vancouver four game win streak&hellip;Jackie McLeod, Saskatoon winger and leading scorer, scored only one three goal &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; last season. He already has scored two this year&hellip;He and Brian Cullen, Winnipeg, are tied for the lead in this department.</p><p><b>GORD FASHOWAY,</b> NW, who recently scored his 200th WHL goal, was the first player to hit 20 this year. Fashoway had 22 goals in his first 25 games this season&hellip;high for the league,,, Ray Frederick, Calgary, leads the goalkeepers in shutouts with 5 and in goal average with 2.57&hellip;Luce December, Regina, is the only goalie who has not been penalized this year&hellip;Emile Francis, Saskatoon, leads with 16 minutes. &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; is also the only cage custodian with an assist to his credit.</p><p>Pat Egan, Canucks&rsquo; Assistant Coach, is the loop&rsquo;s bad man with 61 minutes&hellip;Val Fonteyne, Seattle, and Ray Ceresino, Victoria, are the only regulars in Al Leader&rsquo;s loop who have not been penalized&hellip;John McCormack, Edmonton, and rookie Dave Gordichuk, Saskatoon, each received their first penalty the week of Dec. 1&hellip;Frei Hucul, former NHLer and now one of Calgary&rsquo;s key defenceman, leads the defencemen in scoring with 5 goals and 9 assists for 14 points&hellip;strange as it may seem Winnipeg&rsquo;s four man defence corps of captain Fred Shero, &ldquo;Wild Bill&rdquo; Burega, veteran Danny Summers and sophomore Mickey Keating did not score a goal in the club&rsquo;s first 24 games! Shero ended the famine with a goal at Saskatoon, Dee. 3rd.</p><p>Twice Frederick, Calgary goalie, has had a long goalless streak going only to have Winnipeg&rsquo;s Brian Cullen break the balloon, each time in overtime&hellip;Calgary has had great success with its rookies this season. Forwards Dave Duke and Barry Ross should each score 20 or more goals&hellip;defenceman Bud Syverson is the Stamps&rsquo; &ldquo;bad boy&rdquo; with 59 minutes in penalties but lie has the respect of the opposition&hellip;and Rock Crawford, while not high in scoring has done well as Calgary&rsquo;s 15th man&hellip;Dec. 3rd Frank Currie used Mike Gil-day on a three-game tryout and the youngster responded with a goal.</p><p><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3</b> was a big night at the gate for the WHL&hellip;Calgary walloped Edmonton 8-4 at home before its largest crowd of the season&mdash;6290&hellip;Saskatoon, which has been having its trouble at the box office and in the win column attracted more than 4500 in a &ldquo;family night&rdquo; attraction only to see Winnipeg win 6-3&hellip;Meanwhile at Regina the Regals and Seattle battled to a 3-3 overtime tie before 1500, one of Regina&rsquo;s largest crowds this season&hellip;On the coast Vancouver and New Westminster went to it in a typical Canuck-Royal game with NW winning 5-3 to the delight of a packed Queens Park Arena.</p><p>In the latter game Pat Egan swung his stick at a Royal fan. He received a 10-minute misconduct for his action and his case will come up before the league directors at the WHL mid-season meeting in Edmonton, Dec. 8&hellip;Art Chapman missed the game at NW as he was confined to his bed with an attack of the flu&hellip;earlier in the week Billy Reay was bedded when the flu bug got the better of him in Calgary.</p><p>Seattle has the best prairie record of the coast clubs, garnering three points via a win at Winnipeg and a tie at Regina&hellip;Vancouver and NW each managed only two points on their prairie jaunt, both defeating Regina&hellip;Victoria started its prairie excursion in Winnipeg Dec. 8.</p><p>Blinky Boyce continues to befuddle the experts with his outstanding play and the fact he still holds down top spot in the individual scoring race&hellip;The NW right winger had 12 goals, 26 assists, 38 points in games through Dec.4&hellip;which was one better than linemate Bob Love (10-27) and Edmonton&rsquo;s Jerry Melnyk (14-23)&hellip;Phil Maloney, Vancouver, was next with 36 points (19-17)&hellip;the rest of the &ldquo;Big Ten&rdquo; consisted of Ollie Dorohoy, Seattle, 33 points&hellip;Gord Fashoway, NW, who leads in goals with 22, with 32 points&hellip;Guyle Fielder, Seattle, 31 points&hellip;and tied for eighth spot each with 29 points are: Eddie Stankiewicz and rookie Bill McNeill of Edmonton and Jerry Couture and Sid Finney of Calgary.</p><p>Brian Cullen is Winnipeg&rsquo;s leading pointman with 27&hellip;Colin Kilburn, Victoria, had 27 points&hellip;Regina&rsquo;s top were: George Senick and Billy Kyle, 26 points&hellip;Saskatoon&rsquo;s leader was Eddie Kobussen with 22 points although Jack McLeod led in goals with 14&hellip;McNeill (11-18-29) and Duke (15-10-25) are running one-two among the first year men in the scoring parade.</p><p>In the first 34 intersectional games the prairie clubs held a 18-15-1 edge&hellip;Calgary and Edmonton were the first teams to score 100 goals&hellip;Edmonton and Boisvert the first to have 100 goals scored against them&hellip;Regina had the poorest home record, 3 wins, 2 ties for 8 points in 12 games&hellip;Saskatoon the worst road team with only 2 wins and a tie for 5 points in 12 games.</p><p>There are six active WHLers within reach of the &ldquo;100 goal club&rdquo;&hellip;McLeod, Saskatoon, has 97&hellip;Archie Scott, Calgary, and Max McNab, NW, each had 93&hellip;Lundy, Regina, 92, Bart Bradley, Seattle 89 and Eddie Mazur, Winnipeg, 87&hellip;Emile &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; Francis, who leads the goalies in penalties with 16 minutes, including the only misconduct assessed to a netminder so far this season, holds the WHL penalty record for goalies with 47 minutes, season 1952-53 playing for Vancouver&hellip;Because of the new rookie rule which makes it mandatory for every club to carry at least four rookies the play in the Western League may not be on a par with the last two or three seasons but the competition is better.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

WHL Blueline Banter

<h2><b>Goals</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>G</span>ordie Fashoway of New Westminster was the first player to reach the 20 goal mark this season. He now has 22 in 25 games and if he continues this pace he will break the record of 53 set by Doug Adam.</b></p><h2><b>Winnig Goals</b></h2><p><b>Barton Bradley of Seattle has only scored seven goals this season but five of them have been the game winner, two in overtime to give his team victories.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>STANDING ON MONDAY A.M., DEC. 5</b></p><h3><b>Prairie Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01299/1468741-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="599" height="163"></div><h3><b>Coast Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02227/1468734-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="587" height="110"></div><h3><b>RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>Monday November 28th</b></p><p>Seattle 2 at Calgary 6</p><p>Edmonton 2 at Winnipeg 6</p><p><b>Tuesday November 29th</b></p><p>Regina 4 at Victoria 1</p><p>New West, 5 at Vancouver 7</p><p>Seattle 2 at Edmonton 9</p><p><b>Wednesday November 30th</b></p><p>Regina 4 at New West. 6</p><p>Seattle 2 at Saskatoon 7</p><p><b>Friday December 2nd</b></p><p>Vancouver 2 at Victoria 4</p><p>Saskatoon 6 at Edmonton 7 OT</p><p>Seattle 2 at Winnipeg 1 OT</p><p><b>Saturday December 3rd</b></p><p>Vancouver 3 at New West. 5</p><p>Edmonton 4 at Calgary 8</p><p>Winnipeg 6 at Saskatoon 3</p><p>Seattle 3 at Regina 3</p><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Includes games of Saturday Dec. 3)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03167/1468727-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="599" height="1381"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04140/1468720-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="595" height="309"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals&mdash;</b></p><p>Gordie Fashoway, N.W.&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 22</p><p><b>Most Assists&mdash;</b></p><p>Bobby Love, N.W.&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 27</p><p><b>Most Game Winning Goals&mdash;</b></p><p>Barton Bradley, Sea&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 5</p><p><b>Most First Goal of Game&mdash;</b></p><p>Carl Kaiser, Van.; Sid Finney, Cal.; C. Kilburn & Doug Anderson, Vic. 4</p><p><b>Most Shutouts&mdash;</b></p><p>Ray Fredericks, Cal.&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 5</p><p><b>Most Goals Scored When Opposition Penalized&mdash;</b></p><p>Bobby Love, N.W.; Barton Bradley, Sea.; Barry Cullen, Wpg.&hellip; 5</p><p><b>Most Goals Against When Serving Penalties&mdash;</b></p><p>Bernie Grebinsky, Van.; Bill Burega, Fred Shero, Ray Keating, Wpg. 5</p><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05118/1468713-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="590" height="213"></div><h3><b>MONDAY NOVEMBER 28 Seattle 2 at Calgary 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06100/1468706-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="599" height="678"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 2 at Winnipeg 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0780/1468699-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="599" height="680"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY NOVEMBER 29 Regina 4 at Victoria 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0867/1468692-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="601" height="471"></div><h3><b>New Westminster 5 at Vancouver 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0960/1468685-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="596" height="735"></div><h3><b>Seattle 2 at Edmonton 9</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1054/1468678-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="601" height="750"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 30 Regina 4 at New Westminster 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1147/1468671-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="604" height="652"></div><h3><b>Seattle 2 at Saskatoon 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1241/1468664-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="600" height="545"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY DECEMBER 2 Vancouver 2 at Victoria 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1335/1468657-1-eng-US/f0014-132.jpg" title="f0014-13" width="602" height="495"></div><h3><b>Saskatoon 6 at Edmonton 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1426/1468650-1-eng-US/f0014-142.jpg" title="f0014-14" width="596" height="851"></div><h3><b>Seattle 2 at Winnipeg 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02173/1468643-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="591" height="471"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3 Vancouver 3 at New Westminster 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03132/1468636-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="589" height="622"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 4 at Calgary 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04112/1468629-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="595" height="763"></div><h3><b>Winnipeg 6 at Saskatoon 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0595/1468622-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="596" height="675"></div><h3><b>Seattle 3 at Regina 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0679/1468615-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="575" height="468"></div><h2><b>The Great Gabbo Gets A Goal</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1524/1468608-1-eng-US/f0014-152.jpg" title="f0014-15" width="2414" height="1433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE (THE PISTOL) DOROHOY of the Seattle Americans lets go a shot that beats Vancouver Canucks&rsquo; netminder Mikulah in a recent game in Vancouver. Bernie Grebinsky (6) moves in a little too late to put the stopper on the elusive mister Dorohoy.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">Al Parsley (As Seen In The Montreal Herald)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01270/1468772-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="300" height="327"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>Q</span>UEBEC&mdash;The list price for derisive gestures regarding referee George Gravel&rsquo;s bald pate is $25. For boops-a-daisy pranks Gravel charges $10.</p><p>Michel Labadie, slim and speedy right-winger of the QHL Aces, had to pay $35 for the combination. He was tagged this much in fines by Gravel here recently during the second period of an Aces-Royals game.</p><p>The two incidents occured with swift sequence and brought down a storm of abuse from 4,000 fans upon Gravel.</p><p>The crowd was in an ugly mood and threatened reprisals after the game. Such threats were forgotten amid the keen delight of the customers when Aces won 4-3 in over-time.</p><p>Had he not injured Gravel&rsquo;s dignity Labadie might have got away with a two-minute minor penalty for which there is no cash price. He was thumbed to the calaboose for piling on in a corner. But on his way to the brig he gave Gravel the hip.</p><p>Gravel skated to the bench and advised the timer &ldquo;10-minute misconduct&rdquo; ($10-fine in the QHL) When he was in the brig Labadie hollered something at Gravel then began to stroke his hair, hooting some more. Gravel turned but said nothing. Then Labadie made more gestures indating that Gravel&rsquo;s thatch was not only sparse, it was completely absent.</p><p>Whereupon the referee pointed angrily at Labadie, then indicated the exit towards the Quebec dressing room. When Labadie put up a squark Gravel skated over and told the player, who has no appreciation of the sensitiveness of others, to depart and begone. Going price $25&mdash;for a game misconduct penalty.</p><p>&ldquo;I saw him do it once and I pretended not to notice, but when he did it a second time, I just wouldn&rsquo;t stand for it. He did it for all to see, and on television, too&rdquo; said Gravel later.</p><p>This will be a warning to all puckchasers in the Quebec League. Mockery, verbal or silent, about Gravel&rsquo;s shiny bald pate will never be condoned. He&rsquo;s rather sensitive about his hirsute shortage, even though he makes jokes about it himself.</p><p>Like: &ldquo;It costs me $2.75 for a hair cut. $2 for the search, then 75 cents, the regular price for the barber to cut what he finds.&rdquo;</p><p>Gravel was in a festive mood earlier. He chased Tony Schneider for inteference after only eight seconds of play and when the Quebec captain joe Crozier pleaded, &ldquo;Can&rsquo;t we ever get a break from you George?&rdquo;</p><p>Gravel came back, &ldquo;What do you want, gifts? Santa Claus will be around in about two weeks!&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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SIDELIGHTS

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>TROIS-RIVIERES, Que.&mdash;</p><p>While the Lions haven&rsquo;t exactly been roaring, things have been looking up for the Trois-Rivieres&rsquo; entry in the Quebec Hockey League in the past few weeks.</p><p>With victories in the right spots coach Jean-Paul Lamirande has had a little cause for gloating as the Lions pushed ahead of the Quebec Aces and were holding down the fourth slot in the standing. They led the Aces by three points at the weekend.</p><p>Lamirande was asked to put his finger on the player who had made the difference as the Lions collected two home ice wins&rsquo; over Royals and turned back the Aces at Quebec in their recent surge.</p><p>&ldquo;Well we&rsquo;ve been playing a lot better since Jack Stoddard joined us and then Bill Gooden came along to help out the forward line and add a little scoring punch&rdquo; Lamirande said.</p><p>&ldquo;But I think the whole team is playing a lot better just now. Our spirit is good and we&rsquo;re clicking better all around.&rdquo;</p><p>Pausing to reflect further, Lamirande said &ldquo;And you have to give some credit to a couple of our homebrews. There&rsquo;s Paul-Emile Michelin, this chunky little guy who likes to throw his weight arond on the back division. He&rsquo;s 24 years old now and has travelled a bit.&rdquo;</p><p>Searching some records it was discovered that Michelin played for Trois-Rivieres&rsquo; Reds in the old Quebec Junior Hockey League. That was in 1949-50. Since then he had whirl in the Maritimes at Moncton, NB.</p><p>Lamirande recently found a chance to put Michelin into harness along with Mike Desilets a fair-haired forward Who has a lot of fire and dash along right wing.</p><h2><b>Kapnsta Leads</b></h2><p>Pete Kapusta with seven goals is the club&rsquo;s leading scorer. He has six assists, but Rollie Leclerc, ex-Valleyfielder is the best playmaker with 13 assists to set up beside a solitary tally.</p><p>Andre Payette has been doing most of the goal-keeping since Phil Hughes has been sidelined with a back misery.</p><p>&ldquo;If I had another good centerman, and one more solid defenseman we&rsquo;d be okay&rdquo; Lamirande said in a speculative aside.</p><p>&ldquo;But I guess we&rsquo;ll have to make out the way we are for a while unless the boss, Francois Hetu can come up with a couple of prizes.&rdquo;</p><p>This was in the dressing room and Hetu came on the scene as we were talking.</p><h2><b>All Is Well</b></h2><p>To the query about the fiscal situation Hetu reported all was well.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going along and paying our way. We haven&rsquo;t had real big crowds of course, still we&rsquo;re doing fair business and haven&rsquo;t yet been forced to dig into our reserve fund. We&rsquo;re happy to pay our way as we go along. And don&rsquo;t forget this team started from scratch. We bought twelve players outright to get the club going.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>You get an idea of bow the league in general feels about the newest operation when you talk to George Slater, the QHL prexy.</p><p>&ldquo;This isn&rsquo;t likely to be one of lush seasons like we used to enjoy&rdquo;, Slater says, &ldquo;but we&rsquo;re all well satisfied with Trois-Rivieres. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s so much better than the Valleyfield operation it replaced there&rsquo;s no comparison.&rdquo;</p><p>While everyone wants to give a boost, or at least a little encouragment to the new team in the Slater circuit, most people outside of Shawinigan Falls just shake their heads when the Cataracts are mentioned.</p><p>It seems as if nobody, but nobody, can beat Roger Leger&rsquo;s bunch these days.</p><p>Royals set an objective to overtake then by Christmas, but when Lach&rsquo;s larrigans fell on evil days and absorbed six straight defeats on the road the Cats couldn&rsquo;t stop winning. They won seven straight games and bulged the gap between themselves and the second place Royals to an even dozen points.</p><p>Most of Royals&rsquo; woes were blamed on goal-keeping, or precisely, the indisposition of Gerry McNeil. Game little Gerry played for a while with a misery in the base of his spine, then had to give up and on doctor&rsquo;s orders enter hospital for surgery.</p><p>Meanwhile Manager Frank Carlin and Coach Lach experimented with former junior net-minders. They had Claude Pronovost in their net for a game at the Falls which the Cataracts won 5-3. Next outing at Trois-Rivieres Geatan Dessureault was given a trial but the Lions copped that one 3-1.</p><p>Pronovost was back in the cage again at the Forum when Andre Corriveau scored with only 48 seconds to play in the third period to break through a 1-1 deadlock and give Royals a 2-1 victory, the first triumph after the six straight setbacks referred to back yonder.</p><p>Now a couple of weeks ago Pronovost played a game for the Chicoutimi Sagueneens when Marcel Paille was sidelined with a bad cut over one eye. So with his two outings for Royals he has three pro contests under his belt. Before he can take another shot at QHL competition he must be signed to a firm pro contract.</p><p>This is a move manager Carlin is reluctant to make. He doesn&rsquo;t believe that Pronovost is yet ready to become an out and out professional journeyman, might need further grooming with a senior club.</p><p>Carlin is appealing to NHL president Clarence Campbell to have the rule which enforces the turning of a player professional after three games of lend lease changed, where goal-keepers are concerned.</p><p>Meantime it&rsquo;s likely to Desaureault will get the call for the next two dates Royals have in the schedule.</p><h2><b>They&rsquo;ve Helped Lions</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02235/1468810-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="872" height="1176"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK STODDARD</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03212/1468803-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="866" height="1179"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL GOODEN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Cataracts Running Away From Pack In QHL

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Good things often come in small packages. This can be reddily said of Montreal Royals&rsquo; diminutive Andre Corriveau, who if he maintains his present pace in the Quebec Hockey League scoring race can become the first 300 goal scorer in the 19 year history of the QHL.</p><p>The pony left-winger with the lightning feet has scored a phenomenal 273 goals up to December 9 in regular league play during his nine-year tenure in the QHL with the Valleyfield Braves and Montreal Royals. And, everytime he scores he merely cushions his own record.</p><p>Corriveau, a tireless worker on the ice, could reach the magic number before the end of the 1955-56 league schedule if he maintains his present gait with Royals. He also has a strangle hold on two other league records, having amassed the most assists, 356, and registered the highest number of scoring points, 629.</p><p>Andre has performed in close to 500 league games but this isn&rsquo;t a record since the ageless Kitoute Joannette, long a teammate of Corriveau&rsquo;s, has played regularly for 11 years and has appeared in 510 games.</p><p>Corriveau, dubbed &ldquo;Whizzer&rdquo; for his burst of speed, is probably the greatest breakaway scorer this league has ever seen. Toe Blake, Andre&rsquo;s coach for four years at Valleyfield, said it is frustrating the way teams repeatedly ignore the little guy around the red line.</p><p>His knack of slipping undetected behind enemy defencemen to set himself up for his scoring sprints to the net has paid dividends for the deceptive 5&rsquo;8&rdquo;, 135 pound winger. In a recent game, he reddened a few faces by streaking down the ice twice in the same period for goals against the champion Shawinigan Cataracts.</p><p>Perennially a high scorer, the slim, amicable Corriveau is likely the only player outside the National Hockey League with his own fan club, with close to 500 of Andre&rsquo;s admirers being members<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Royals’ Andre Corriveau Nearing 300 Goal Mark

<h2><b>Lead increase</b></h2><p><b>Shawinigan Falls Cataracts have increased their QHL first place to 12 points over second place Montreal Royals.</b></p><h2><b>First in Seven</b></h2><p><b>When Montreal Royals dropped Trois-Rivieres Lions 2-1 on December 11, it marked their first victory in seven starts.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TUESDAY A.M. DEC. 13</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01264/1468935-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="600" height="161"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7 Chicoutimi 3 at Three Rivers 1</b></h3><p><b>Chicoutimi:</b> Goal: Faille; defense: Glaude, Labrosse, Roy, Hanna; forwards: S. Smrke, L. Smrke, Cressman, Locas, Perreault, Leger, Topoll, Campeau, Hicks, Moore.</p><p><b>Three Rivers:</b> Goal: Payette; defense: Goqette, Morgan, Lamirande, Michelin, McNeil; forwards: Kwong, Joannette, Scherza, Kapusta. Stoddard, Leclerc, Gooden, Gagnon, Bisaillon.</p><p>Referee: Whitehead; linesmen: Landry, Dodds.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02211/1468928-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="610" height="478"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY DECEMBER 6 Montreal 3 at Shawinigan 5</b></h3><p><b>Royals:</b> Goal: Pronovost; defence: Deslauriers, Clune. Amadio. R. Rousseau; forwards: L. Denis, Corriveau, Burnett, Thorndyeraft, G. Rousseau, Laplante, Goyette, Gravelle, Hoekstra.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls:</b> Goal: Perreault; defence: Hodgson. Turner. G. Bouchard, Langlois, Leger; forwards: Broden, Faulkner. Kachur, Dube, Grosse, J.-P. Denis. Desaulniers, Wray, R. Bouchard.</p><p>Referee: Charlie Deziel: linesmen: Real Leblanc Jean Landry.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03174/1468921-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="606" height="632"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8 Chicoutimi 3 at Shawinigan 4</b></h3><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Paille: defenses: Glaude. Roy. Hanna. Taillefer; forwards: Moore, L. Smrke. S. Smrke, Hicks. Gressman. F. Perreault, Topoll, Locas. Lalonde. Campeau.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: Perreault: defenses: Leger. Hodgson. Turner, Langlois, G Bouchard; forwards: Broden. Wray, Kachur. Desaulniers, D. Bouchard. Grosse, Denis, Dube. Thomson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04144/1468914-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="605" height="561"></div><h3><b>Three Rivers 4 at Quebec 2</b></h3><p><b>Three Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette; defenses: Michelin, Goyette. Morgan, Lamirande, Desilets; forwards: Kwong. Joannette, Scherza, Kapusta, Stoddard, Goodan, McNeil, Gagnon. Bisaillon.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defenses: Schneider, Crozier, Ernst. L. Thibault; forwards: Gamble. Powell. Ford, Poliziani. Labadie, Tremblay. Achtymichuk, Maxwell. Cosette, Binet.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05101/1468907-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="604" height="499"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1955 Royals 1 at Three Rivers 3</b></h3><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Dessureault; defenses: R. Rousseau, Deslauriers, Amadio, Clune; forwards: Thorndycraft, P. Goyette, G. Rousseau, Boucher, Burnett, Denis, Laplante, Gravelle, Hockstra.</p><p><b>Three Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal; Payette; defenses: M. Goyette. Morgan, MacNeil, Michelin, forwards: Lamirande, Kwong, Joannette, Scherza, Kapusta, Stoddard, Gooden, Gagnon, Bisaillon, Desilets.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0677/1468900-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="593" height="408"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1955 Three Rivers 1 at Royals 2</b></h3><p><b>Three Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette; defenses: M. Goyette, Morgan, MacNeil, Michelin; forwards: Lamirande, Kwong, Joannette, Scherza, Kapusta, Stoddard, Gooden, Gagnon, Bisaillon, Desilets.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Pronovost; defenses: R. Rousseau, Deslauriers, Amadio, Clune; forwards: Thorndycraft, P. Goyette, Boucher, G. Rousseau, Burnett, Denis, Gravelle, Laplante, Hoekstra.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0767/1468893-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="605" height="466"></div><h3><b>Shawinigan 2 at Chicoutimi 1</b></h3><p><b>Shawinigan</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defenses: R. Leger, Hodgson, Langlois, G. Bouchard, Turner; forwards: Wray, R. Bouchard, Katchur, Denis, Broden, Grosse, Dube, Desaulniers.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Paille; defenses: Roy, Glaude, Taillefer, Hanna, Labrosse; forwards: L. Smrke, S. Smrke, Locas, Toppoll, Moore, F. Perreault, Campeau, Hicks, Cressman, Lalonde, G. Leger.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0862/1468886-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="595" height="383"></div><h2><b>Phil Foils Lulu</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1137/1468879-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="1755" height="1346"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LULU DENIS, captain of the Montreal Royals, just misses on a scoring attempt as his shot is deflected by Marcel Paille of the Chicoutimi Sagueneens. The puck rolled harmlessly past the goal post.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Mike Gravel)</span></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Includes Games of Sunday, Dec. 10)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0951/1468872-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="607" height="685"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1045/1468865-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="597" height="307"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p><b>TOUGH TIME&hellip;</b>Ken Campbell, hard-playing forward with Pembroke Lumber Kings, ran into tough luck&hellip;he was hit in the eye with a high-stick in a game against Sault Ste. Marie Indians, and doctors, at this writing, are awaiting developments to learn whether a permanent injury was caused&hellip;Coach Cully Simon was a little worried about the injury and was eagerly awaiting the doctors&rsquo; report when contacted&hellip;the 31-year-old star suffered damaged muscles and tissues behind the eye, but the optic nerve was not injured&hellip;this was a break for Ken, who has hade a lot friends for himself in the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit&hellip;the hope now is that Ken&rsquo;s sight in the injured eye will return once the big swelling goes down&hellip;I join with all fans in hoping that Ken comes right back stronger than ever&hellip;</p><p>Whewwwwww!!!&hellip;watch out for South Porcupine Porkies&mdash;they&rsquo;re on a scoring rampage&hellip;they beat Kirkland Lake Teeks, 17-3, in the biggest score seen in Northern Ontario senior hockey for a long time&hellip;however, the all-time record goes back to 1939, according to our sport-files&hellip;that eventful year Kirkland Lake Blue Devils ran roughsod over all Canadian senior teams to win the Allan Cup and included a devastating 27-0 triumph in their long list of smashing victories&hellip;in the Porkies&rsquo; victory, Patrick O&rsquo;Leary spearheaded the attack with a brilliant five-goal, four-assist performance&hellip;young Billy Pirie, who played junior with Hamilton Cubs last season, racked up no less than seven assists and one goal&hellip;Gordon McGinn added a hat-trick job, while Billy Adamo, Roy McKay and Ed Kulik each added two more goals&hellip;at this rate, the NOHA Southern Division may have to look to their laurels&hellip;17-3&mdash;WOW!!!&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01230/1468966-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="551" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY TAYLOR</b></figcaption></div><p><b>PLUG FOR KEN&hellip;</b>I received a letter from Alice Hogg, R.N., from 1123 Franklin Street, Pa., asking about rules and regulations&hellip;Alice wanted to know if the splendid Hockey Book put out by McKenzie Enterprises, that is the one dealing with rules, etc., had the information she sought&hellip;it certainly does. Alice, and it&rsquo;s the best on the market&hellip;I hope you have received it and will like it&hellip;Alice thought I should have more in this column about teams in her U.S area, but it should be remembered this is a column for Northern Ontario every week&hellip;thanks, Alice, I enjoyed your letter very much&hellip;another letter arrived from Mrs. Alma Rokonczay, 335 Cross St. in Sudbury&hellip;she takes me to task for a broadcast I made direct to Sudbury in which I mentioned that too many cheap penalties were called in a game played in Sudbury&hellip;the point I was trying to make is that too many penalties of this type ruin a game&hellip;I definitely did not mean that the Sudbury Wolves or the Sudbury fans were involved&hellip;and I did not mean the argument to centre around who won or lost, but simply that too many games are being spoiled by cheap penalties&hellip;you have every right to talk up, Alma, and I will always give credit to Sudbury for being a great hockey centre&hellip;but there&rsquo;s only one way to try and correct a problem, and that&rsquo;s to get it out in the open and thrash out&hellip;understand that Wes Hart really lambasted me for one of my local broadcasts which was sent him by Roy Lynn, President of the Soo Indians, in support of his protest&hellip;if Wes was quoted right, my broadcast was labelled &ldquo;the worst one ever done by a sportscaster.&rdquo; See what I mean by bringing it out, Alma, and thrashing it out???</p><p><b>DON&rsquo;S CRYSTAL BALL&hellip;</b>Don Mackintosh has always been rated one of the finest sportswriters and sports editors in my book&hellip;his column &ldquo;Around The Sport Circuit&rdquo; seen every day in the widely-circulated Sudbury Daily Star is a fine piece of work&hellip;Don observes that contrary to some pre-season predictions, the $2,300-per-week salary limit has not lowered the standard of competition&hellip;he says the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race has a high overall calibre&mdash;Don points out that holdovers like Bruce, Jack and Bert Giesebrecht along with Rene Pepin, Bob Elik, Stan Maxwell, Billy Watson, Andy Milne, Hub Beaudry, Nick Tomiuk, Mike Ratchford, Harry Taylor, Matt Mesich, Eddie Joss and Chuch Holdaway are as good, if not better than last season&hellip;Says Don: &ldquo;Apparently a hockey player can perform as well under a salary limit system as he can under a sky&rsquo;s-the-limit system&hellip;</p><p><b>CITES NEWCOMERS&hellip;</b>Don goes on to say: &ldquo;Further proof of the league&rsquo;s high calibre is seen in some of the newcomers to the various teams&hellip;Charlie Marshall of Pembroke, Bob Barlow of North Bay, Johnny Gillis and Johnny Albani of Sudbury, Don Campbell and Cleland Mortson of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and Russ Kowalchuk of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Any misgivings on that phase of the league operation can be dismissed. The league is a bit stronger if anything.&rdquo; I thought this was a very astute column, penned by one of the finest sportswriters in the country&hellip;a very sound analysis. Don!&hellip;There&rsquo;s a little dismay about comparatively small crowds in North Bay since that fine community opened their beautiful $700,000 Arena a short while ago&hellip;however, it must be remembered that Sudbury with its huge population seldom saw their Arena packed during the first year&hellip;it was a gradual development for hockey that led to the big crowds the Sudbury Wolves now enjoy&hellip;the same will surely happen in North Bay because there&rsquo;s plenty of good fans there&hellip;</p><p><b>THE GRAND TOTAL&hellip;</b>Who&rsquo;s going to stop the Giesebrechts? Last column we mentioned their over-all point-production and it was impressive&hellip;well, fans, it&rsquo;s even more impressive right now&hellip;Bert Giesebrecht leads the field with 38 points on five goals and 33 assists&hellip;Jack Giesebrecht is second with 28 on 18 goals and 10 assists&hellip;Bruce Giesebrecht is third with 27 points on eight goals and 19 assists&hellip;that adds up to 93 points on 31 goals and 62 assists&hellip;not bad for the Giesebrecht Family of Hockey!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>The International Hockey League veterans, Bobby Rawlyk of Troy and Billy Goold of Cincinnati, are waging a spirited battle for scoring honors in the IHL.</p><p>At the one-third pole of the 60-game campaign, Rawlyk and Goold were tied for the top spot, both with 37 points.</p><p>Rawlyk had piled up 19 goals and 18 assists and Goold, captain of the Mohawks for the past two years, had registered 13 goals and added 24 assists.</p><p>Rawlyk, a big (185 pounds, six feet) winger, has been with the league-leading Bruins for parts of three seasons. He was with them until he was turned pro late in the 1953-54 season, and played professionally with Edmonton of the Western League and Sherbrooke and Ottawa of the Quebec loop prior to getting back his amateur card last year.</p><p>The smaller Goold, a year older than Rawlyk at 24, is in his third full year at Cincinnati. Goold, a 5-8, 165-pound centreman, married a Cincinnati girl. Joyce Girard, during the past fall.</p><p>Goold is making a fine comeback after a disappointing 1954-55 season, when he had just 42 points in 60 games on 10 goals and 32 assists. Rawlyk, with Troy for part of the year, had 27 points (nine goals and 18 assists) in 31 contests.</p><p>Goold&rsquo;s two linemates, wingers John (Bun) Smith and Reg Grigg, also are among the IHL&rsquo;s top pointmakers, with Smith running fourth and Grigg fifth in the early tabulations.</p><p>Marty McAlendin, who mans the opposite wing on the line with Rawlyk, is ninth among the International League scorers.</p><p>Others who rate near the top of the list include Ft. Wayne&rsquo;s Pete Wywrot and Joe Kastelic and George Hayes of Grand Rapids, along with rookie centre Max Mekilok of Cincinnati. Meki-lok is running Rawlyk a close second in goal-scoring, with 17 to 19 for the Troy ace.</p><h2><b>Nine Hat Tricks</b></h2><p>Hat tricks were practically a dime a dozen last week, with a total of nine recorded, two of them by the veteran Wywrot.</p><p>Others who turned the three-goal trick were Rawlyk, his second of the year; Art Stone and Jacques Gagne, both of Ft. Wayne; Coach Roly McLenahan and Bill Sutherland of Cincinnati, Gordon Buttrey of Troy and Maurice Lamirande of Indianapolis.</p><p>Just one shutout was manufactured in the past few days, that by Jacques Marcotte of Cincinnati, his first of the year. Billy Tibbs of Troy is far ahead in the whitewash department, with five to his credit.</p><p>Troy&rsquo;s playing coach, fiery Nellie Podolski, is back in the lead in penalties, with 67 minutes already to his credit. Next in line is Ed Calhoun of Indianapolis, with 56 minutes spent in the sin bin.</p><h2><b>Icing The Puck</b></h2><p>One player change found Bob Leek added to the Toledo-Marion roster and Pentti Hiironen removed. Bob Manson temporarily replaced Ken Grabeldinger on Troy&rsquo;s Squad when the latter was suspended, but Grabeldinger since has returned to action&hellip;Troy moved seven points ahead of second-place Cincinnati by beating the Hawks, 3-1, to take a 3-2 lead in the series between the two rivals. The next day, however, Cincinnati regained the lost ground by trampling Grand Rapids, 9-3, after Toledo-Marion had handed Troy its initial setback in 12 home games, 3-1. Luckless Indianapolis, which won its last game (3-2 from Grand Rapids) back on Nov. 6, dropped its twelfth in a row to Ft. Wayne, 10-1, and now has a 3-19 mark.</p><h2><b>(Standing on Monday Dec, 5)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04115/1469004-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="588" height="182"></div><h2><b>Playmaker</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03154/1468997-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="569" height="868"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILLY GOOLD</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Rawlyk And Goold Staging Tight Battle For Scoring Lead Of IHL

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Thanks to a four game winning streak and a perfect home record, the New Haven Blades are sole owners of first place in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League. However, the Ice Follies will be in the Arena for a week, so Don Perry&rsquo;s high flying sextet won&rsquo;t be back in the Nutmeg City until Dec. 11th. The Blades have a four game road trip facing them, and this could well be a turning point in the EAHL race. In the friendly surroundings of the Arena, the Blades have racked up nine straight, while on the road their record is only two victories against four losses. So, if the other clubs are to make their moves now is the time.</p><p>The New Haven skaters set a new league record. Nov. 30th, when they fired six goals into the Johnstown nets within two minutes and forty-eight seconds in their 10-2 rout of the Jets. (It may be a record for the fastest six goals in any league, no account for this feat having been recorded before).</p><h2><b>Loose Defense</b></h2><p>At the other end of the ladder we find the hapless Philadelphia Ramblers. Chirp Brenchley&rsquo;s boys have dropped six straight, and own a rather poor 5 and 12 record. Ivan Walmsley has been outstanding in the nets, but has been the victim of a loose defense and has had the most goals scored against him.</p><p>Don Hall of the Jets still heads the scoring parade. Teammates Dick Roberge and Ken Coombes, and New Haven&rsquo;s trio of John Sherban. Claude Boileau and Yvan Chasle, have closed the gap and now trail Hall by only a couple of points.</p><p>Three misconduct penalties (good for 30 minutes) have given Clinton&rsquo;s Joe Nolan the lead in &ldquo;badman&rdquo; honors. He has served over 100 minutes so far this season.</p><p>EAHL NOTES: Clinton Comets have added veteran Bernie Hill to their blueline corps. Hill, who started the season with Indianapolis of the IAHL, saw previous Eastern League service with New York Rovers and Boston Olympics during the 1949-50 campaign&hellip;Johnstown Jets also received rearguard help from the IAHL, when Cleveland owned Pentti Hiironen was loaned to them for the balance of the season. Pentti had been with Toledo-Marion, and had 5 assists in 12 games&hellip;Philadelphia Ramblers released defenseman Wally Wingfield and signed Jimmy Moore. Moore had been with Clinton since the start of the season&hellip;Benny Benoit, one of the Ramblers higher scoring forwards, left the club due to illness in the family. Coach Chirp Brenchley may take his spot up front until another player is obtained&hellip;Ivan Walmsley was credited with 70 saves in the 4-3 loss to Washington, Nov. 30th&hellip;New Haven&rsquo;s first line racked up 18 points (6 goals and 12 assists) in the 10-2 victory over the Jets, and Yvan Chasle picked up his 2nd hat trick of the season in that game&hellip;Murray Dodd of New Haven and Les Binkley of Baltimore are running 1-2 in the race for goaltending honors&hellip;Danny Rizzo, a Pitts-burgh boy, is being given a tryout by Johnstown&hellip;Bud Foley, former Atlantic City and Washington defenseman is now a referee and linesman in the EAHL&hellip;Rick Albert (New Haven), Lloyd Allsby and Paul Olafson (Johnstown) are hors de combat at this writing&hellip;Jet fans were thrilled over the return of &ldquo;Crash&rdquo; Kelly. The season&rsquo;s largest turnout greeted him in his home debut against the Ramblers, Nov. 19th and &ldquo;Crash&rdquo; was in rare form&hellip;Dan Morgan has taken over from Fern La Pointe as high scorer on the Washington Lions. Ralph DeLeo and Herb Schiller are battling it out for top spot on Baltimore while Willie Pawchuk and Gerry Frizelle are tied for Clinton honors.</p><h2><b>(Standing on Friday. December 2)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02196/1469035-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="595" height="185"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Blades Take Over EAHL Top Berth

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Despite injuries to two key players, left winger Gerry Theberge and defenceman Joe Schertzl, and a heavy five-game schedule, Kitchener Dutchmen broke even on the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; O.H.A. week&rsquo;s play, winning two, losing two and tieing one, to retain a ten-point lead over the second-place Windsor Bulldogs.</p><p>The Bulldogs are two points up on Owen Sound Mercurys and Stratford Indians, who share third place; while Chatham Maroons bring up the rear, one point in arrears to. Owen Sound and Stratford.</p><p>Stratford Indians have also run into injuries to key players, with their shifty centerman, Lou Ben-do, being out of action for the last two weeks nursing torn ligaments in his knee. &ldquo;Dinny&rdquo; Flanagan was also sidelined last week when he suffered a sprained thumb in the game at Kitchener.</p><p>Kitchener, however, has picked up partial help from their senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; farm affiliate, Elmira Polar Kings, in signing Floyd &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Martin, a husky who can play either forward or defence. Martin starred with Guelph Biltmores in junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey, and was ticketed for New York Ranger delivery, but his religious scruples prevent him from playing Sunday games. Consequently, he lined up with his hometown Elmira team and also had a brief session with the Kitchener Dutchmen two seasons ago. Martin will continue to play for both Kitchener and Elmira until the Dec. 15th deadline, but after that date he is only allowed to take part in three games in higher company without affecting his Elmira status.</p><h2><b>Won&rsquo;t Play Sunday</b></h2><p>Stratford Indians have in Bobbie Mader, little rightwinger, another player who refuses to play on Sunday. (Windsor Bulldogs are the only club in senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA who stage games on the Sabbath.)</p><p>Actually Windsor and Chatham Maroons fared the best during the week&rsquo;s campaign, as both, won their only two starts. The Bulldogs played both games at home, defeating Kitchener 6-3 and Owen Sound 5-3. Chatham won 4-3 in Stratford and edged Owen Sound 3-2 in Chatham.</p><p>Kitchener, with five games bunched, in order to play as many games as possible before departing for the world tourney at Cortina, Italy next month, leaving Canada about Jan. 15, picked up five of a possible 10 points, in defeating Owen Sound 4-1 and Stratford 7-1 at Kitchener, while losing 4-0 at Owen Sound and 6-3 at Windsor, and gaining a 4-4 overtime time at Stratford.</p><p>The Indians were only able to grab one point in three games, losing 4-3 at home to the usrging Chatham Maroons; then deadlocking Kitchener 4-4 here, only to be walloped 7-1 in Kitchener the very next night.</p><h2><b>Tough Week</b></h2><p>Perhaps the Mercurys had the poorest week, because they played four games and won but one. They started off the week by blanking Kitchener 4-0 in Owen Sound, but the next night in Kitchener they dropped a 4-1 verdict. They also suffered reverses Friday and Saturday nights, losing 3-2 in Chatham, Friday, and 5-3 in Windsor, Saturday.</p><p>The real story, however, has been that Windsor. Stratford, Owen Sound and Chatham have been knocking each other over, while Kitchener manages to usually win more than it loses. The Dutchmen are especially tough on their home ice, and seem to concentrate on those games, which is one reason why their patronage remains the highest in the league. Windsor and Chatham of late have been pretty much in the same category and enjoy a fine record on home ice.</p><p>Murph Chamberlain, who succeeded another veteran NHL&rsquo;er, Ott Heller, as coach of the Chatham Maroons, has a neat record since taking over the coaching chores, the Maroons having won four of their five games. Their lone reverse was a 7-3 setback at the hands of the Dutchmen in Kitchener.</p><h2><b>Attendances Down</b></h2><p>Decreased attendance at the Stratford Indians&rsquo; home games poses a serious problem for club owner, C. H. &ldquo;Dutch&rsquo;&rsquo; Meier, who has been bankrolling the Indians for the last eight years, during which time he has had some good years and some lean ones financially. Attendances to date this season in nine home games shows a drop of 453 in the average, and only once has the gate exseeded 2,000. The support reached a new low for the season when only 856 paid their way into a game with Chatham Maroons, and it proved the dullest and least Interesting of the season, which the Maroons won 4-3 from an opposition that wasn&rsquo;t much worse than Chatham in a lack lustre display.</p><p>Incidentally, ructions loom in the case of rightwinger Lorne Pirie, awarded to the Stratford Indians in the draft of players on last season&rsquo;s Niagara Falls Cataracts, who have withdrawn from the competition for one season at least.</p><h2><b>Off To Maritimes</b></h2><p>Pirie was offered a contract by manager &ldquo;Dutch&rsquo;&rsquo; Meier of the Indians, which he refused and hiked to the Maritimes. Reports of hockey games down there showed that Lorne Pirie played an exhibition game for Moncton Hawks.</p><h2><b>On Shelf</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01237/1469066-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="567" height="1244"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOE SCHERTZL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Dutchies Still Far Ahead Of Pack In OHA Standings Despite Loss Of Key Pair

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Saint John Beavers, who have been engaged in a life and death struggle with Amherst Ramblers for leadership in the Atlantic Coast Senior Hockey League, have pulled into a three-point lead, their widest margin since the schedule opened.</p><p>Meanwhile the Fredericton Capitals, who keep going despite reports from the home front that they are in financial difficulties, have climbed closer to the leaders while the Moncton Hawks are dropping deeper into the cellar.</p><p>Vip Palladino, who was a big scorer for Charlottetown Islanders in the old Maritime Big Four three seasons ago, was the leading triggerman in Beavers&rsquo; leap to the top ladder. He has been a steady producer this year, especially in timely goals.</p><h2><b>Broke Up Struggle</b></h2><p>Moncton and Beavers were locked in a close to the vest struggle the other night when Palladino swept in to break it up with only 10 seconds of playing time remaining. That didn&rsquo;t give the luckless Hawks a chance to get an offensive mounted for the equalizer.</p><p>The Beavers have taken over the league leadership but the Ramblers and Capitals are still supplying the big names in the scoring lists. For the past few weeks Amherst&rsquo;s Shermie White and Fredericton&rsquo;s Hugh Campbell have been soaring ahead of the field and they show no signs of slowing the pace.</p><p>In the past week each collected five points to pull farther ahead of the field. White leads with 42 points, Campbell is second with 38.</p><p>Another veteran Jackie Schmidt of Amherst is in third place with 34 points followed by the erstwhile leader, teammate Pierre Brilliant who has been in a slump and now has 33 points.</p><h2><b>Five Straight</b></h2><p>HMCS Stadacona had opened up a goodly lead in the Armed Forces Senior Hockey League with five straight victories. The Stad team, well known for years in Maritime intermediate playoffs, have a strong team that has been augmented of late by Puddy Reardon, former senior star.</p><p>Both the other teams are calling in reinforcements, too. The Black Watch Regiment from Aidershot is getting help from other Army units and Maritime Air Command Headquarters expect to have former senior star Jackie (Muckle) Hollett and goalie Ernie Yeadon in harness. The team is now coached by Don (Peanuts) McLaughlin, who has played for Halifax and Charlottetown teams, and Peanuts, a rugged defenceman, may get off the bench and help on the blueline.</p><h2><b>No Match For Habs</b></h2><p>Although they are a power in their own league the Stadacona Sailors were no match for the touring junior Canadiens from Montreal in an exhibition game. The Habs won 8-1 and the star of the game was Stadacona goalie &lsquo;Newman who was swamped with pucks and had over 50 stops to his credit.</p><p>Windsor Maple Leafs and Truro Bearcats are making hay in the new Nova Scotia Senior League and top the four-team list. The Leafs won four out of five, Truro three out of five. Bridgewater has two wins and three losses and Kentville only one victory in five starts.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Beavers Move Out in Front In Maritimes

<div class="byline">By HUGH BOWMAN</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The percentages finally caught up with the Guelph Biltmores. The Mad Hatters who lost seven of their first 14 games by one goal and three of them by two goals finally saw the wheel of fortune stop at their number as they scored no fewer than 20 goals in two consecutive nights.</p><p>The Hatters lamp-lighting party came at the expense of the league leading St. Michael&rsquo;s College Majors whom they crushed 10-2 in Guelph and the St. Catharines Teepees who were taken 10-5 in their own back yard after the Bilts had spotted them three goals early in the first period. Along with a 3-1 win over Marlboros in Toronto it ran the Bilts&rsquo; winning streak to three, their longest of the season to date and put them right back in to the middle of the scramble in the closely knit Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race.</p><h2><b>Misconducts Galore</b></h2><p>The St. Catharines affair was highlighted by more than the Biltmores&rsquo; scoring proficiency. Referee Vern Buffey handed out three misconducts and two game misconducts to the talkative Teepees who took affront at Mr. Buffey&rsquo;s well-educated thumb. Some over-zealous (aren&rsquo;t they all) Teepee supporters decided to take matters into their own hands and padlocked the referee along with linesman Joe Sadler and Doug Mowat in their dressing room after the second period. Contradictory to the usual course of justice the local constabulary &ldquo;sprung&rdquo; the prisoners with the aid of a hack-saw. This sort of nonsense could lead to burglar tools taking their place alongside the whistle as standard equipment for referees.</p><p>Right winger Brian Webber has been the key man in the Bilts&rsquo; Scoring upsurge. Webber who managed only 8 points in his first 13 games erupted for 8 goals and 3 assists in the next four including a four-goal effort against the Teepees. Most improved player on the Biltmores, however, has been Bill Sweeney. The veteran centreman was only a few strides away from the trading block when he started to find himself. Sweeney was sixth in the individual scoring race at the 17 game mark and in four games he, along with linemates Webber and Tom Jensen had amassed the impressive total of 27 points. Hard-driving winger Bobby Forhan continues to pace the Hatters in the point derby and at last count was only two points off Frank Mahovlich&rsquo;s league leading pace of 29.</p><p>The return of grid stars Ron Howell and Billy Graham have given the Hatters the balance they need and with their confidence restored as only one sided wins can restore it, the Hatters are claiming they&rsquo;ll be in first place by the New Year.</p><h2><b>Bilts&rsquo; Turn Now</b></h2><p>Coach Eddie Bush, who&rsquo;s had more than his share of grief this season, took advantage of the Biltmores fortunate turn of events to give the &ldquo;business&rdquo; to Teepee coach Rudy Pilous. Moving from his customary position at the right end of the bench to the left end where he was rubbing elbows with Pilous, Bush applied the well-sharpened needle throughout the latter part of the game when the Bilts had built up a comfortable lead. Said Bush after the game. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve lost our share. Now I&rsquo;m going to enjoy these wins. It&rsquo;s our turn to laugh.&rdquo;</p><p>It goes without saying that Pilous who is a past master at the art will return the compliment when the positions are reversed.</p><h2><b>Fight For Top</b></h2><p>The Kitchener-Waterloo Canucks and the St. Michaels College Majors continue their dog fight for top spot. The Irish bounced back from their shellacking in Guelph to edge Kitchener 4 to 3 in Toronto and regain the league lead. The Canucks promptly beat the Hamilton Tiger-Cubs 4 to 2 two days later to move back into a tie for first. The defeat in Toronto was only the Canucks&rsquo; third of the season and they&rsquo;ve more than equalled their entire win output of last season.</p><h2><b>Needier</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02161/1469121-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="576" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE BUSH</b></figcaption></div><div class="sidebar"><p><b>The Toronto Maple Leafs use BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Biltmores End Goal Famine; Move Back Into Contention In Ontario Junior League

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01216/1469152-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>(Solution next week)</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Pictured Canadien player.</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of Tessier of the Bruins.</p><p>6&mdash;Ray Getliffe was once one.</p><p>11&mdash;Tessier of Boston played junior hockey here.</p><p>13&mdash;First name of Bell, Seattle forward.</p><p>14&mdash;Jim Thomson can do this expertly.</p><p>15&mdash;Number of games Jim Morrison participated in last season.</p><p>16&mdash;NHL team to whom Turk Broda first belonged, (abbr)</p><p>18&mdash;Number of goals Jack LeClair scored in 1954-55.</p><p>22&mdash;&ldquo;Sweeney&rdquo; Schriner&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>23&mdash;Mile (abbr.)</p><p>25&mdash;Another name for &ldquo;Rags&rdquo; Ragland.</p><p>28&mdash;Name given Thornton of Winnipeg Warriors.</p><p>30&mdash;Ont. birthplace of Tessier.</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1&mdash;First name of Bionda of Toronto.</p><p>2&mdash;Bionda&rsquo;s Ont. birthplace.</p><p>3&mdash;Name given one of the famous Cleghorns.</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of a Habitant rearguard.</p><p>5&mdash;Number of seasons Don Marshall spent with Buffalo.</p><p>7&mdash;Perfect condition.</p><p>8&mdash;Initials of Coulter, ex Ranger star.</p><p>9&mdash;Initials of player who wears No. 2 for Canadiens.</p><p>10&mdash;Milt Schmidt once played hockey in this country.</p><p>12&mdash;Plays left wing for Hershey Bears.</p><p>13&mdash;Player who holds record for most assists in a playoff game.</p><p>17&mdash;First name of Winnipeg&rsquo;s netminder.</p><p>19&mdash;Name given Couture, member of 1933-34 Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>20&mdash;Short for given name of Kaiser, former Canadien forward.</p><p>21&mdash;Initials of Mickoski of Chicago.</p><p>24&mdash;State in which the Black Hawks play home games, (abbr.)</p><p>25&mdash;&rdquo;Tod&rdquo; Campeau&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>26&mdash;Initials of goaltender who won the Hart Trophy in 1953-54.</p><p>27&mdash;Initials of Wares, ex NHL star.</p><p>29&mdash;Any well known diety.</p><h2><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Solution</b></h2><h3><b>Across</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Talbot</p><p>5&mdash;G.B.</p><p>7&mdash;Eon</p><p>8&mdash;Par</p><p>9&mdash;Russell</p><p>12&mdash;Ont.</p><p>13&mdash;Bert</p><p>14&mdash;Tor.</p><p>16&mdash;Oc.</p><p>17&mdash;Car</p><p>19&mdash;T.L.</p><p>21&mdash;Ht.</p><p>23&mdash;Randy</p><p>24&mdash;Two</p><p>26&mdash;Glen</p><p>27&mdash;Shot</p><p>30&mdash;L.C.</p><p>31&mdash;Tennis</p><p>32&mdash;Le.</p><h3><b>Down</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Toronto</p><p>2&mdash;Lester</p><p>3&mdash;Bos.</p><p>4&mdash;One</p><p>5&mdash;G.A.</p><p>6&mdash;Brother</p><p>8&mdash;Pietsch</p><p>10&mdash;U.N.</p><p>11&mdash;L.B.</p><p>15&mdash;Oct.</p><p>18&mdash;Attwell</p><p>20&mdash;London</p><p>22&mdash;Wrist</p><p>24&mdash;T.L.</p><p>25&mdash;Once</p><p>26&mdash;Gus</p><p>28&mdash;He</p><p>29&mdash;Tn.</p><h2><b>BOLS ANSWER</b></h2><p><b>Red Horner had 167 minutes in penalties in 1935-36.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<p><b>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,</p><p>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,</p><p>Secretary, Boston, Mass.</p><p><b>The Hockey News Makes an ideal CHRISTMAS GIFT for everyone in the family FATHER&hellip;BIG BROTHER&hellip;YOUR FAVORITE COUSIN&hellip;THE BOY FRIEND&hellip;MOTHER&hellip;KID SISTER&hellip;THE GALS AWAY AT SCHOOL&hellip;THE BETTER HALF.</b></p><p><b>Solve your Christmas shopping Worries the Easy Way&hellip;Send the &ldquo;Hockey News&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>ATTRACTIVE GIFT CARDS ANNOUNCE EACH XMAS SUBSCRIPTION</b></p><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.</p><p><b>Canadian Remittances.&hellip;$3.00</b> Payable by Postal, Bank or Telegraphic Money Order.</p><p><b>U. S. A. Remittances&hellip;&hellip;$4.00</b> Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or Personal cheque.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0775/1469190-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="408" height="661"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0871/1469183-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="1112" height="391"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IT’S GIFT TIME AGAIN!!

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0274/1469235-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="241" height="288"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0175/1469242-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="232" height="275"></div><h2><b>Hab Hotshot Halted By Harry</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0372/1469228-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2831" height="1497"></div><h2><b>Jacques Splits But Ted Hits</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0459/1469221-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2790" height="1464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JEAN BELIVEAU, the big siege gun of the Montreal Canadiens, got right in on Harry Lumley of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the photo at top, only to have the agile cage custodian slide out and deflect the puck off his stick. Putting the clutch on the starry Hab centre is Rudy Migay of the Leafs. In the bottom photo, it&rsquo;s a goal for Captain Ted Lindsay of the Detroit Red Wings as his shot gets away from Jacques Plante in the Hab cage. That&rsquo;s Doug Harvey (2) moving in to check Lindsay while Alex Delvecchio (10) waifs for any possible rebound.</b><span class="photo-credit">(Top Photo By Turofsky, Bottom Photo by Kilpatrick)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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