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December 31, 1955

The Hockey News December 31, 1955

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04176/1553287-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg"></div><p>FEATURES&mdash;PICTURES&mdash;STATISTICS&mdash;INTERVIEWS CARTOONS&mdash;COMPLETE REPORTS ON ALL TEAMS</p><p><b>Only $2.50 for 26 consecutive issues.</b></p><p>Published weekly for 20 straight weeks during football season and once a month during oft season months. January to June inclusive.</p><p><b>It doesn&rsquo;t matter when you start, you still get your 26 issues.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IN THIS ISSUE

The Canadian FOOTEALL NEWS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0595/1552769-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>Defends Pete</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,.</p><p>This letter was prompted by Jack Horrigan&rsquo;s article in the December 10 th issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS. Recalling last year&rsquo;s records of several members of the Buffalo Bisons American League team, Mr. Horrigan states that &ldquo;Babando, while he hit for 20 goals, seldom scored in close games.&rdquo;</p><p>Pete Babando has long been a favorite of mine, and I seemed to remember that he did his full share last season, so I checked the statistics.</p><p>It seems reasonable to consider as &ldquo;close games&rdquo; all those decided by a one-goal or a two-goal margin, plus all tie games. On this basis, 31 of the Bison games in which Babando played last season could be called &ldquo;close games,&rdquo; and the other 28 were decided by margins of from three to eight goals. In the close games, Pete scored ten of the 114 Bison goals, and in the 28 other games he scored ten of their 119 goals. Therefore, it seems most unfair to say that Babando &ldquo;seldom scored in close games.&rdquo;</p><p>As an even more accurate test, here is an analysis of some of the opportunities Babando chose to score his goals: Four of has goals created a tie score; six of his goals gave Buffalo a one-goal lead; two of his goals gave Buffalo a two-goal lead; one goal closed the Buffalo deficit to two, in a game they later won; one goal gave Buffalo a 6 to 3 lead in a game won 9 to 5.</p><p>Therefore, &lsquo;14 of Babando&rsquo;s 20 goals were very important for Buffalo, and three of the remaining six came in games wherein Pete had already scored earlier at a close stage of the game. A player&rsquo;s important goals do not suddenly lose their importance merely because the final score of a game is one-sided.</p><p>Consequently, any implication that Pete Babando amassed 20 goals last year mostly by scoring unimportant goals in one-sided games is far from what actually took place. And a reminder should here be given that Babando scored five big play-off goals in the final series against Pittsburgh last season. These were close games without exception.</p><p>Please don&rsquo;t misunderstand the spirit of this letter. I&rsquo;m thankful to THE HOCKEY NEWS and to Mr. Horrigan for the fine coverage they give our Buffalo Bisons, and I look forward to more such articles. Also, I realize that in the December 10th commentary, Mr. Horrigan. was seeking to emphasize the comebacks of certain players, and was not merely pointing up failing of last season in a critical way.</p><p>However, the article, insofar as it was inaccurate about Babando, served to take away credit where much credit was due. Most readers, especially those not too familiar with Bison hockey his-tory, would probably accept Mr. Horrigan&rsquo;s statement without question, and thereby form entirely the wrong impression of Pete Babando&rsquo;s fine performance of last year.</p><p>I think readers of THE HOCKEY NEWS, after an explanation of this nature, will readily agree with me that Pete Babando did all right for himself last season.</p><p>George M. Zwick Buffalo, N.Y.</p><h2><b>Wants Pen Pals</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I would like the following published in The Fan Forum as early as possible:</p><p>I would like to hear from hockey fans who collect hockey guides, THE HOCKEY NEWS, hockey programs and other items and publications pertaining to the ice sport. My address is 886 Burr Street, St. Paul 1, Minn.</p><p>I would also like the addresses of hockey fan clubs.</p><p>Robert Jaspersen St. Paul, Minn.</p><h2><b>Hab Booster</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I am a great admirer of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team, especially Maurice Richard and the tremendous goaltender, Jacques Plante.</p><p>I would appreciate your thoughtfulness if you could let me know the addresses of these great players.</p><p>Daniel McEvoy New York, N.Y.</p><p><b>(Canadiens players may be reached by writing them care of tlie Montreal Forum, 2313 St. Catherine St. W., Montreal, Quebec, Canada.)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Those two professors of higher hockey learning, Phil Watson and Muzz Patrick, stole a leaf from an old educational book and used it to doctor up the Rangers.</p><p>&ldquo;If you make a threat, carry it out,&rdquo; say the teachers. Watson made the threat before* the NHL season even started.</p><p>Said he would deport any retarded Rangers to the salt mines of Providence.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t the last time Watson made the threat. He yelped it a couple of times since&mdash;especially after the Blues upped and blew leads&mdash;but it wasn&rsquo;t &lsquo;til Dec 16th that he carried out his promise.</p><p>Deflated by a four-game losing streak, Phil and Muzz called a meeting of the minds. Result: Don (Bones) Raleigh and Ivan (The Terrible) Irwin were dispatched to Providence of the American Hockey League and at the same time Jimmy Bartlett, a left wing, and Aldo Guidolin, a defenseman, were elevated to the Blues.</p><p>In addition, left winger Pete Conacher was recalled from the Buffalo Bisons. Pete was Ranger property on loan to the B&rsquo;s.</p><p>The departure of Raleigh and Irwin brought some ohs and ahs from the Gotham regulars but it couldn&rsquo;t have been a complete surprise since both players had seen their share of splinters since October.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s how Watson explains the move:</p><p>&ldquo;Bonesy was trying hard. That is for sure. But he just wasn&rsquo;t helping the club enough, offensively or defensively and was getting pushed around by the other guys.</p><p>&ldquo;Ivan was my fifth defenseman, but the way the other four have worked together I couldn&rsquo;t find a spot for him. He&rsquo;s not the type of player who is effective getting on the ice cold and it was difficult playing him as a penalty-killer.&rdquo;</p><p>Raleigh, who has been a Ranger for so long he was taken for granted like the Manhattan skyline, was stunned by the move.</p><p>&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t too serious this year,&rdquo; he told Phil. &ldquo;Maybe I never thought I was the guy to be chopped. I didn&rsquo;t think you&rsquo;d carry out the threat. But I&rsquo;ll be back&mdash;so keep old number seven open for me.&rdquo;</p><p>As soon as Bones hit Providence he began clicking so maybe he means what he says. In his first outing he set up an important goal and clicked for two in the second game which is twice as many as he collected with Rangers this semester.</p><h2><b>Demoted</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02190/1554052-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="550" height="546"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DON RALEIGH</b></figcaption></div><p>On the other hand Irwin refused to report to Providence at first because &ldquo;he had to get some things sraightened out&rdquo; according to Muzz Patrick. He missed the first two games, reported for the third.</p><p>Watson is enthused about his new players but reserves judgement until he sees more of them:</p><p>&ldquo;I know Conacher can score goals but he&rsquo;ll also have to do plenty of backchecking. This isn&rsquo;t like the American League. You have to go both ways.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Guidolin is a versatile player and that&rsquo;s what we can use now. He can play defense, take a turn at right wing and kill penalties. He&rsquo;s big (190 pounds) with enough beef to throw damaging checks. He&rsquo;s also a spirited player. The kind you like to have on your club.</p><h2><b>Recalled From Reds</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01236/1554045-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="1162" height="1136"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIM BARTLETT</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Bartlett is a tough forward, really aggressive. His trouble is that he gets too many cheap penalties. If he can overcome that and still bang the other players around then he&rsquo;ll be a mighty welcome addition.&rdquo;</p><p>Making their first appearance on Madison Square Garden ice, the new trio looked sharp. Conacher, who saw the most service, made a key pass in setting up the winning goal as Rangers topped Toronto, 4-1.</p><p>Guidolin took three turns on defense with Jack Evans and did not look out of place. Late in the game he was effectively used as a penalty killer and defensive forward, according to plans.</p><p>Although Bartlett didn&rsquo;t share in the scoring he was prominent whenever he appeared on the pond. He boffed two Leafs soundly, almost scored on a neat back hader after a strong rush along the boards. As expected he showed a willingness to mix it, almost climbed over the boards once to get into a high-sticking scrap.</p><p>This retail shift of Rangers does not by any means indicate that the other Blues can confidently sit back assured of their jobs. There are still one or two players whose output&mdash;and that doesn&rsquo;t necessarily mean goals&mdash;isn&rsquo;t up to snuff.</p><p>If they don&rsquo;t improve, and darn quick at that, another change or two will be made.</p><p>It&rsquo;s no secret that the Manhattan moguls would like to take another look-see at Billy McCreary. The flashy young right winger is a promising prospect if there ever was one, probably would have little trouble fitting in the New York scheme of things in a jiffy.</p><p>McCreary&rsquo;s promotion, however, hinges on the production of the present outfit. If anybody up front severly sags Billy The Kid will wend his way to Manhattan.</p><p>In meantime the Ranger hockey school remains in session with teachers Watson and Patrick working overtime to get the lesson across. They want their class of 18 to stay among the higher grades.</p><p>(Anything from first to fourth will due comes March 18. Preferably second.)</p><p>Otherwise somebody is going to get left back. That&rsquo;s right students.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Raleigh And Irwin Sent To Providence By Revamped Blues

<p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>The Hershey Bears Bears and Victoria Cougars have exchanged defensemen, the Bears sending Arnott Whitney to Eddie Olson&rsquo;s club in return to Floyd Hillman, 21-year-old newcomer to pro ranks.</p><p>Whitney, a three-year veteran, turned pro with Hershey in 1953-54, after a season with New Haven in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League.</p><p>Hillman, a graduate of the Windsor Spitfires, of the Senior Ontario Hockey Association, was the Western League&rsquo;s leading &ldquo;bad&rdquo; man, having compiled a record of 60 minutes in the penalty box in 21 contests.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bears, Cougars Swap Players

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01180/1554166-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BELIEVE IT OR NOT,</b> but there are seven players all piled up in the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; het in the picture above. Visible are Alex Delvecchio (10), Gordie Hollingworth and Warren Godfrey (5) of the Wings and Tod Sloan of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The other players piled up in the rigging are unidentified. Play was held up a few moments before all the arms and legs could be seperated. The puck? Who knows? <span class="photo-credit">(—Photo by Kilpatrick)</span></figcaption></div><h2><b>Goalmouth Traffic Jam</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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SLOAN PAYOFF POINT PRODUCER

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Jean Beliveau, the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; big siege gun and current NHL points leader, doesn&rsquo;t only score goals, he scores the goals that count, according to figures released this week by the National Hockey League.</p><p>The table tells which players are scoring the most important goals, the most important assists and the most important total points.</p><p>Beliveau has the best average on important goals, with. 933 but his total points average is slightly lower at. 857.</p><p>Tod Sloan of the Toronto Maple Leafs is best of the top scorers in total points percentage with a mark of. 950.</p><p>The table was based on 70 games, one third of the current season. Importance of goals is based on these considerations equally: first goal in the game, tying goal, winning goal, insurance goal, proximate goal. A proximate goal is one which cuts the leading team&rsquo;s margin to a single goal.</p><p>An &ldquo;important goal&rsquo;&rsquo; is based on the state of the game at the time the goal was scored, regardless of subsequent scoring. Important assists are those figuring only in the important goals.</p><p>When the statistics were made the order of the NHL standing was: Montreal, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto and Boston. Detroit and Toronto were tied for fourth place on points.</p><h2>13 &ldquo;Big&rdquo; Ones</h2><p>The Leafs&rsquo; Sloan had 13 of his 14 goals classed &ldquo;important&rdquo; and all of his six assists, for averages of. 929 on goals and. 950 on points. Teammate George Armstrong, with four goals and nine assists, had a perfect average both ways. Dick Duff had 1.000 and. 909.</p><p>Beliveau had 14 important goals in his 15, for. 933 and a totalpoint average of. 857. Bert Olmstead had respective figures of. 800 and. 840. Bernie Geoffrion, who had missed 11 games, had a perfect 1.000 on his four goals and. 846 on total points.</p><p>Earl Reibel of Detroit had a total-point average of. 941, getting 1.000 on his five goals. Gordie Howe was well below his team, average&rsquo; with. 700 on goals and. 750 on points.</p><p>Among the Rangers&rsquo; better point-getters, Wally Hergesheimer was tops on goal average with. 818 and. 722 on points. Ron Murphy had. 668 and. 706 and Dave Creighton. 600 and. 652.</p><p>Leo LaBine and Leo Boivin led the Boston Bruins with point averages of. 875 each, Boivin getting 1.000 in his three goals and LaBine. 800 on five goals. Cal Gardner, then leading the Bruins with two goals and eight assists for 10 points, had averages of 1.000 and. 700.</p><p>Johnny Wilson topped the Chicago Black Hawks with. 900 and. 923 on his 10 goals and three assists. Harry Watson&rsquo;s averages were 1.000 and. 900 and Nick Mickoski&rsquo;s. 700 and. 800.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Beliveau Tops In Important Goals Scored

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>A nervous young man played his first game of the season for the Bruins here recently as they beat the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>A rookie, making his debut with the team, perhaps?</p><p>Nope, a veteran playing his 425th game for the team.</p><p>Over a period or eight seasons Johnny Peirson was a participant in countless contests for which the stakes were high, the excitement great, the pressure heavy.</p><p>But never, avers the polished right wing, has he been on edge for a game as he was for that with which he ended his retire-ment of more than a year.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never felt before a game as I did before this one,&rsquo;&rsquo; exclaimed the Bruins&rsquo; leading scorer of the post-war era. &ldquo;Was I ever nervous! &ldquo;</p><h2><b>&ldquo;Couldn&rsquo;t Wait&rdquo;</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I spent most of the day trying to forget about the butterflies in my stomach, but I didn&rsquo;t have much success. I couldn&rsquo;t wait until it was time to leave home for the rink.</p><p>&ldquo;This game was different than the others in which I had played, and I couldn&rsquo;t convince myself that it wasn&rsquo;t. For every other game I knew what I could expect from myself, but for this one I didn&rsquo;t know.&rdquo;</p><p>Peirson didn&rsquo;t open the Garden doors&rsquo; for the start of his second career with the Bruins, but only the maintenance crew arrived earlier. He was getting ready for the game a full 90 minutes before game time.</p><h2><b>Fans Applaud</b></h2><p>He took the ice as the right wing on a. line with Cal Gardner and Vic Stasiuk early in the first period, and the Garden crowd applauded the appearance of the familiar Number 2 3 jersey.</p><p>Then he proceeded to play as if he hadn&rsquo;t been out of competition since the spring of 1954, giving a polished performance which included the scoring of a goal on one of his patented opportunistic moves and assisting on another.</p><p>Johnny&rsquo;s nervousness disappeared with his first turn on the ice, he says, but the apprehension of his foremost rooter did not cease until the game was over.</p><h2><b>No Relaxation</b></h2><p>Barbara Peirson, a petite brunette, has been watching games for years and in that time she has acquired the only degree of relaxation hockey wives ever attain&mdash;just partial relaxation. But not this night.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been nervous before,&rdquo; sighed Mrs. Peirson, &ldquo;but this was the worst ever.</p><p>&ldquo;I was thinking about the game all day, and I know that John was, too, although he didn&rsquo;t say much about it.</p><p>&ldquo;But once it was over I was much relieved, and his good start made me very happy.&rdquo;</p><p>Peirson hadn&rsquo;t been expected back in the Bruins&rsquo; lineup until the end of December, but his return was speeded by another epidemic of injuries to Milt Schmidt&rsquo;s forward squad.</p><p>In a space of six days the Bruins lost Allan Nicholson, Doug Mohns and Lome Ferguson with injuries and their forward situation was critical. Peirson. with only two weeks of formal workouts as preparation stepped into the breach.</p><h2><b>On Edge</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01252/1552342-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="587" height="578"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHNNY PEIRSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bruins’ Johnny Peirson Finds Comeback Contest Is Hard On The Nerves

<div class="byline">Barry</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The first shot taken by Johnny Peirson in his comeback with the Boston Bruins failed to produce a goal, but it did produce one of the best quips of the National League season.</p><p>On his first turn on the ice against the Chicago Black Hawks, Peirson let go a shot on which Al Rollins made a spectacular save. The fine Chicago goalie blocked the puck with his body, then after the whistle had blown he fished it out from under him with his glove.</p><p>As he flipped it to Referee Red Storey for a faceoff, he cracked, &ldquo;This isn&rsquo;t fair, Red. Here we had a game last night and that guy (Peirson) has had two years&rsquo; rest.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

“T’Ain’t Fair” Says Rollins

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02236/1552397-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GLENN HALL</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The way Glenn Hall is playing, Terry Sawchuk may be forgotten a lot faster in these parts than many critics claimed.</p><p>Three straight shutouts accompanied by fantastic work in the nets have done more in one week than anything seen before to convince the local fans that Hall can handle his job.</p><p>Everything from worried rumblings to startled squawks greeteu the news last summer that General Manager Jack Adams had traded Sawchuk to Boston.</p><p>After all, Sawchuk was a threetime Vezina Trophy winner and three-time All-Star goalie for the Red Wings. He had helped Detroit win five straight National Hockey League titles and three Stanley Cups. Finally, he was being hailed as the greatest goalie in the business.</p><h2><b>Raw Rookie</b></h2><p>Hall was the man Adams named as Sawchuk&rsquo;s successor. Glenn had been seen as a sub a few times, but still was a raw rookie tempered by three years of pro experience with the Edmonton farm club in the Western League.</p><p>There was trouble right from the start.</p><p>Detroit went into an unexpected tailspin that carrieu to the NHL cellar. The fight back has been slow and the Wings haven&rsquo;t climbed above third place yet. Hope of catching first-place Montreal and claiming an eighth straight title is all but gone.</p><h2><b>Others Played Worse</b></h2><p>Hall was not blamed for all of this, since others were playing far worse. Yet the fans couldn&rsquo;t help but wonder if he wasn&rsquo;t part of the decline at least.</p><p>Then came his recent spree.</p><p>In successive home games the 24-year-old rookie pitch oil shutouts at New York (2-0), Toronto (4-0) and Montreal (2-0). New Vork and Montreal were the two highest scoring clubs in the league. Montreal hadn&rsquo;t been blanked before by anyone.</p><p>While the first two games calleu for a minimum number of saves&mdash;only 10 against the Rangers and 20 against the Maple Leafs&mdash;still no shutout comes automatically. Hall had a few toughies along the way.</p><h2><b>A Masterpiece</b></h2><p>The job against the Canadiens was a masterpiece, however, as any Montreal player will relate with gestures.</p><p>Included were breakaway stops against Henri Richard and Dickie Moore, a point-blank return of young Richard&rsquo;s five-footer, a sliding skate save on Flyod Curry and a fancy grab of Doug. Harvey&rsquo;s screened shot.</p><p>The real gem came when Jean Beliveau, tops in all scoring departments, got a 90-foot breakaway. Hall outguessed the big center so completely that Beliveau failed to get away a shot.</p><h2><b>Fully Accepted</b></h2><p>That was the night when Hall became fully and firmly accepted by his home-town fans. Although trailing in the Vezina, he was the NHL shutcut leader with seven. But more important that statistics, he was displaying poise and confidence that appeared missing before.</p><p>While the official records were clear enough, there still was some debate about exactly how long Hall&rsquo;s shutout string had gone.</p><p>The last goal against him had been made by Beliveau at 19: 29 of the third periou. Thus his official string was 180 minutes, 31 seconds.</p><p>Hall, however, was nowhere on the ice when Beliveau made that tally. Coach Jimmy Skinner lifted the goalie for an extra attacker in the final minute of a 3-2 game in Montreal and Beliveau&rsquo;s counter went into an open cage to make it 4-2.</p><h2><b>Old Argument</b></h2><p>Revived was the old argument about whether goalies should be personally charged with such goals.</p><p>Adams, who crusaded to have the rule changed in the past, dove in once more. He sent a letter requesting the Board of Governors to consider changing the rule.</p><p>Forgetting that Beliveau goal. Hall had a string of 219 minutes, 51 seconds. Exact length of the string was nothing more than an academic matter unless he kept going a while longer.</p><p>In his sights was the modern NHL record of 209 minutes, 21 seconds which Bill Durnan set for Montreal in 1949.</p><h2><b>Accepted By Fans How</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Rookie Glenn Hall Fulfilling GM Jack Adam’s Faith In Him

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03217/1552428-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen eight goals were scored in the period of four minutes and 52 seconds, an NHL record that still stands for rapid scoring? It took place March 19, 1938. Toronto Maple Leafs scored five goals and New York Americans tallied three during that hectic period.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Do you remember?…

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Just as you can&rsquo;t appraise the efficiency of a door by its squeak, you can&rsquo;t judge the value of a hockey player by the flow of printer&rsquo;s ink.</p><p>Some players are gifted with the intangible known as color, some are prone to rowdyism, some are masters of the art of scoring. They get their names in headlines as high as the blade of a stick.</p><p>Others, the quiet, retiring types, perform consistently in all circumstances and against all opponents, doing a competent job lay in and day out. Too frequently they fail to get the plaudits they deserve.</p><p>Into this latter category falls Dollard St. Laurent, a wiry 26-year-old defenseman with the Montreal Canadiens. A man of modest mien with a heroically rational approach to the game, St. Laurent has given his best to hockey for five seasons with the Habs. Paired with Doug Harvey behind the Montreal blueline, he contributes substantially to one of the best rock-ribbed defensive combinations in the league.</p><p>Both players are adaptable.</p><p>&ldquo;Sometimes we play the man,&rdquo; said St. Laurent, &ldquo;sometimes we play the puck. But always we seem to know what our partner is going to do. That way we never have any trouble covering up.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Learned on St. Lawrence</b></h2><p>St. Laurent, of course, is a natural athlete and a natural defenceman. He has never played any position but left defense from the time he was old enough to get into shinny games on the broad, frozen expanse of the St. Lawrence river where it skirts the Island of Montreal at suburban Verdun.</p><p>The other day we sat in St. Laurent&rsquo;s home on Beatty Ave. in Verdun. &ldquo;Where did you learn to Skate?&rdquo; we asked.</p><p>Dollard went to the window and indicated the mighty river just a few hundred yards away. &ldquo;Out there,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>&ldquo;When I was a kid, I used to spend hours and hours skating. And playing hockey, too. Not six aside games. Real outdoor melees with everyone in the neighborhood joining in&rdquo;.</p><h2><b>Rows In Summer</b></h2><p>Like any man born on the banks of a great river, St. Laurent and the St. Lawrence has maintained an affinity. In summer he keeps in shape by rowing which probably explains his powerful wrists, his ability to flick the puck off the stick of an attacking forward and retain possession himself.</p><h2><b>Vet Now</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01251/1552473-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="566" height="868"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOLLARD ST. LAURENT</b></figcaption></div><p>A versatile athlete, St. Laurent played football with the Verdur Beavers and baseball with Verdun Sportif although he devoted most of his attention to hockey. Now apart from his activity as an oarsman, he confines his extracurricular interest to golf, shooting in the high 80&rsquo;s despite a bothersome slice.</p><p>One of a family Of eight boys, Dollard inherited his athletic ability from his father, a civil engineer. Mr. St. Laurent was a baseball pitcher, a hockey player and an expert oarsman himself. All members of his brood were encouraged to compete in sports and, while Dollard was the only one to become a professional hockey player, others achieved some measure of fame in lesser leagues.</p><h2><b>Ex-Water Boy</b></h2><p>Dollard actually started his career on the bottom rung of the ladder&mdash;as a water boy with the junior Canadiens. He toted sticks for the juniors in 1946-47 and 1947-48 when one of his older brothers was helping to train the team.</p><p>When Frank Currie became coach of the Baby Habs, St. Laurent was invited to try out.</p><p>&ldquo;They gave me a pair of skates belonging to Butch Bouchard,&rdquo; he recalled. &ldquo;They were three sires too big but I was so proud to be wearing Bouchard&rsquo;s skates that I put on several pairs of extra stockings and said nothing about it. You see, Bouchard has been my boyhood idol and I figured that his skates would give wings to my feet.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Moved Up To Royals</b></h2><p>St. Laurent made the team and played with the juniors for two years before moving up to the Royals of the Quebec Hockey League in 1950. There he was the highest scoring defenceman in the league, quickly-establishing a reputation as a great rusher.</p><p>St. Laurent joined the Habs midway through the 1954-52 season, being hoisted from the minors along with Dickie Moore.</p><p>&ldquo;Frankly I didn&rsquo;t think I could stay in the National League,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The Canadiens seemed well-equiped with defensemen. They had Bouchard and Harvey and Tom Johnson. And they had Ross Lowe and Bud MacPherson. But I managed to stick and now I guess I&rsquo;m almost a veteran.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Injury Jinx</b></h2><p>Throughout his career St. Laurent has been plagued by such a persistent injury jinx that he has never played a full season with the Montrealers. He has been particularly susceptible to back and shoulder injuries although his most Serious mishap involved an eye.</p><p>In a game against Detroit in in 1952 palyoffs he incurred some nasty cuts around the eye and a scratched eyeball when ac-cidentally nicked by Gordie Howe&rsquo;s stick. He spent two weeks in Montreal&rsquo;s Western Hospital with both eyes swathed in bandages.</p><h2><b>Postponed Wedding</b></h2><p>St. Laurent will never forget that injury because it forced postponement of his wedding to Jessie Fitzpatrick of Verdun for a month. They were married on May 24, 19 52, and today they have two children&mdash;Jaclyne, who says her favorite hockey player is her daddy; and Michael, who isn&rsquo;t two yet and hasn&rsquo;t learned to appreciate his father&rsquo;s performances.</p><p>Having come from a large closely-knit family, Dollard St. Laurent appreciates home life and is a helpful handy man around the house. His hobby is carpentry and to give it full rein he has installed a neatly equipped workshop in his basement.</p><p>His major accomplishment has been construction of a playroom to which he is just putting the finishing touches. Minor projects include the building of valance boxes, radiator covers and cupboards.</p><h2><b>Likes Recorded Music</b></h2><p>For relaxation, St. Laurent likes to listen to phonograph music, his collection including an almost complete set of Jackie Gleason records.</p><p>When ol&rsquo; Father Time taps St. Laurent on the shoulder and tells him it&rsquo;s time to hang up his skates, he won&rsquo;t be confronted with too imposing a problem.</p><p>Although he still has a long and productive hockey life ahead of him, St. Laurent already is preparing for the second phase of an athlete&rsquo;s working life, the one that starts when the muscles no longer respond to the demands of competition and he must enter the business world on a full-time basis to support his wife and family.</p><h2><b>Partner</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02210/1552466-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="569" height="1144"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG HARVEY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Native Montrealer</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03143/1552459-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1186" height="1745"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOLLARD ST. LAURENT</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Owns Insurance Firm</b></h2><p>With his brother, Larry, as a partner, St, Laurent is establishing a general insurance business in Verdun and already they enjoy the confidence of a rapidly expanding list of clients.</p><p>When his hockey days are over, insurance will become his fulltime occupation. Even now on road trips, Dollard generally confines his reading to insurance manuals and is fast becoming an expert.</p><p>Although Gordie Howe inadvertently was responsible for St. Laurent&rsquo;s most serious injury in hockey, the Montreal defenceman says he hasn&rsquo;t experienced too much trouble with the famed Detroit winger, one of the most prolific scorers in the game.</p><p>&ldquo;Howe hasn&rsquo;t scored many goals against the Canadiens, especially in Montreal,&rdquo; St. Laurent said. &ldquo;On my side of the ice I find Leo LaBine and Doug Mohns of Boston and George Armstrong and Tod Sloan of Toronto much tougher to stop.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Hard Man To Stop</b></h2><p>St. Laurent paused and a smile played around the corners of his mouth. &ldquo;Theres one thing I&rsquo;m grateful for&mdash;that Jean Beliveau is playing with us and not against us. It&rsquo;s hard enough to stop him in practice. I&rsquo;d hate to have him swooping down on the defence in a game.&rdquo;</p><p>Being a. mild-mannered individual with a cool head, St. Laurent seldom extends rivalry with opposing players to the stage Of a personal feud. He is seldom involved in a brawl although he is quite capable of handling any antagonist who might entertain different ideas.</p><h2><b>Won&rsquo;t Be pushed</b></h2><p>One time, when he was with the Montreal Royals, a misguided member of the defunct Ottawa Senators decided to take liberties with him.</p><p>Resenting the illegal attention, St. Laurent picked up his foe and hurled him to the ice. But in the process the Montreal player suffered a painful shoulder separation.</p><p>&ldquo;So, you see,&rdquo; said St. Laureut, &ldquo;sometimes it&rsquo;s not worth while to fight. I won that bout but lost several weeks because of the injury.&rdquo;</p><p>A sensible fellow is Dollard St. Laurent. He&rsquo;s gone a long way in hockey from those days on the river. He&rsquo;ll go a long way in that insurance business, too.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Habs’ Dollard St. Laurent—Quiet But Competent!

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Marty Pavelich picked a great spot to finally score his first goal of the season.</p><p>A regular on Detroit&rsquo;s seven straight title teams, Pavelich was benched earlier this season as ineffective. Finally he was returned to part-time duty as a penalty-killing specialist.</p><h2><b>Explosion</b></h2><p>It was in such a role that Marty was toiling in the second period of a scoreless and rather dull game here against Toronto. Warren Godfrey was serving the Detroit penalty when Pavelich clicked to set off a Detroit explosion.</p><p>Fore-checking in the Toronto zone, he poked the puck away from Center Billy Harris. Numerous Leafs were in the area but Pavelich beat them all to the puck and laced a 10-footer past Goalie Harry Lumley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01321/1552528-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="278" height="378"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marty Pavelich</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Rough Season</b></h2><p>The goal, coming in game No. 29 of what had been a rough season for Pavelich, caused him to do an excited dance on the ice while his teammates whacked him in congratulation.</p><p>The goal also sparked the Wings on to a 4-0 victory as Dutch Reibel added two more and Alex Delvecchio one.</p><p>With Pavelich now in the scoring column, that left two players still seeking their first goal. They are Forward Jerry Toppazzini and Defenseman Bucky Hollingworth.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Marty Pavelich Finally Gets First Goal

<div class="byline">By Frank Graham</div><p><i>Actually, it Was 30 Years Ago That&hellip;</i></p><p><i>Big League Hockey Reached New York.</i></p><h2><b>IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY</b></h2><p>(AS Seen in the New York Journal-American)</p><p>Recently in Leone&rsquo;s the man was talking about hoc my and he said:</p><p>&ldquo;You may not realize it, but the first big league hockey game in New York was played in the Garden thirty years ago. Remember it?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; the other said, &ldquo;I remember it, but I wasn&rsquo;t there. I didn&rsquo;t catch up with that kind of hockey until the following year.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;The Americans and Les Canadiens,&rdquo; the man said. &ldquo;It was the foumal opening oof the new Garden and it was a great show. The West Point band was there and so were the Governor-General&rsquo;s Foot Guard band from Canada, Mayor John F. Hylan and 17,000 other people, including society dolls in mink coats. Tex Rickard was amazed. He&rsquo;d figured on filling the new hall with prizefights, wrestling matches, the horse show and the circus. He didn&rsquo;t know anything about hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;How do you know so much about this?&rdquo; the other asked. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t think you were that old.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not,&rdquo; the man said. &ldquo;I just read about it.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>The Joining of McBeth and Dwyer:</b></h2><p>In some ways, it seems like yesterday. It wasn&rsquo;t, though. A lot of guys who were around this town then weren&rsquo;t around yesterday. Guys such as Bill McBeth and Bill Dwyer, for instance.</p><p>If Tex Rickard didn&rsquo;t know anything about big league hockey before that gala opening night, it couldn&rsquo;t have been Bill McBeth&rsquo;s fault. Bill was a sportswriter, famous for his racing and baseball stories, but he was out of Windsor, Ont., and he was sure that if New Yorkers could see the kind of hockey he had seen in Canada, they&rsquo;d go for it. He&rsquo;d been saying that for a long time, but he couldn&rsquo;t get anyone interested in it until he said it to Bill Dwyer.</p><p>Bill Dwyer, was a big, wonderful guy, rough in a manly sort of way, and, at the time, was trying to spend all the money he was making. He managed to do it eventually, but he couldn&rsquo;t do it then, because he couldn&rsquo;t bring whiskey down from Canada or up from Bimini fast enough to supply the demands made upon him, and his clients were forcing upon him thousand dollar bills in bundles and bales.</p><p>He listened to McBeth and, although the chances are he&rsquo;d never seen a hockey game save the kind played by amateurs at the St. Nicholas rink or the Clermont ave. rink in Brooklyn, he was a believer. Also, he had the money, So he brought the Hamilton, Ont., franchise, and transferred it down here with all the players, and that&rsquo;s how the big guys came to New York and McBeth&rsquo;s dream came true.</p><h2><b>New Heroes and New Villians, Too:</b></h2><p>It was, as McBeth had been sure it would be, a box-office smaslf from the opening night, when Les Canadiens beat the Americans, 3 to 1, although the first goal scored on Garden ice was popped into the nets by Shorty Green of the Americans. It was such a resounding success that in 1926 the Garden recruited its own play-ers, mostly from the Canadian Northwest, and called them the Rangers.</p><p>Now names unknown here so short a time before were familiar to all who could read the headlines on the sports pages: Tommy Gorman, first coach of the Americans, who moved up as general manager of the club and brought in Newsy Lalonde as coach. Shorty Green and his brother, Red, and Billy Burch, Leo Reise and Joe Simpson among the players. Lester Patrick, the Ranger coach and his first and greatest team&mdash;Frankie Boucher and Bill and Bun Cook, on the first line; Ching Johnson and Taffy Abel on defense; and Lome Chabot, the goaltender.</p><p>They were the heroes. But there were the villians, too. Among them were Howie Morenz, Art Gagna and Aurel Joliat of Les Canadiens; Red Dutton, Nels Stewart and Babe Seibert of the Montreal Maroons; King Clancy of the Toronto Maple Leafs; Lionel Hitchman and Eddie Shore of the Boston Bruins; and, shortly to shed their villiany and become heroes with the Americans, Lionel Conacher and Roy Worters of the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets.</p><p>A terrific rivalry between the Americans and the Rangers sprang up almost overnight. It literally was a bloody rivalry, for, whenever they met, there was blood on the ice and in the seats, too, where howling fans slugged each other.</p><h2><b>Not So Fast, But Rougher:</b></h2><p>The game has changed in the years between. Fast as it was then, it wasn&rsquo;t as fast as if is now. Each club had&rsquo; few spares and, because the speed of action hadn&rsquo;t been stepped up to its present peak, it was routine for the regulars to play fifty, fifty-five or even sixty minutes.</p><p>Because it was slower, it was rougher. Hooking, cross checking, charging, tripping, high sticking and checking into the boards were commoner than they are these nights because having a man in the penalty box was not the handicap it is now, when a man in the box almost automatically means a goal for the other side. So the young men charged and slashed and battered and let the bodies fall and the whistles blow as they would.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t that the players of that time were more rugged or more reckless than those you see on the ice now. It simply was that they had another item going for them in addition to the tempo of their game. The season was shorter, opening in mid-December, with a schedule calling for only forty-four games. Now the season opens iin October and runs through seventy games&rsquo;. The old boys didn&rsquo;t have to take a beatiing for so long and had more time between the engagements in which to lick their wounds.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Graham’s Corner

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><p>(As seen in the Montreal Gazette)</p><h2><b>Encounter with Roy Getliffe</b></h2><p>Among those who dropped into the N.H.L. offices last week was Ray Getliffe, the former Canadien and Bobston Bruin. Ray is a little fatter around the middle and some of the wave has gone out of his hair, as you might expect of a fellow who has been out of hockey for about 10 years. But he got right into the discussion on the merits of the current edition of the Canadien Hockey Club.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s one of the best I&rsquo;ve seen in a long, long time,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I think you have to go back to before the last war to find clubs to compare with it. Back to the 1938-39 Boston Bruins and the 1939-40 New York Rangers.</p><p>&ldquo;That was a strong Boston team. We had Frankie Brimsek in the nets and Eddie Shore, Jack Crawford, Jack Portland and Dit Clapper on defense. Our first line was the Kraut Line and the second line had Bill Cowley between Roy Conacher and Mel Hill. On the third line there was Charlie Sands, Gord Pettinger and myself. Our reserves were Flash Hollett, who could play anywhere, and Red Hamill.</p><p>&ldquo;The New York Rangers of the following year had just as good balance. There was Dave Kerr in the nets with Art Coulter, Ott Heller, Babe Pratt and Muzz Patrick in front of him. They had two good scoring lines. The Colvilles, Neil and Mac, and Alex Shibicky made up one of them. The second one had Phil Watson between Bryan Hextail and Lynn Patrick. Clint Smith, Dutch Hiller and Kilby Macdonald were on the third line.</p><p>They played a different type of hockey from what they&rsquo;re playing today, of course. I think the passing today is better than it ever was. We used to give comparatively soft passes. Today they shoot the puck when they pass, and the guys are wonderful the way they trap it on their sticks without breaking stride.&rdquo;</p><p>Ray was reminded that someone around the league had coined the slogan: &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t pass the puck to your grandmother!&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a switch from my time,&rdquo; he grinned. &ldquo;We used to say, &lsquo;He wouldn&rsquo;t pass the puck to his grandmother,&rsquo; when we were talking about a puck hog.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Jean Beliveau Merits Praise</b></h2><p>He greatly admires Jean Beliveau and thinks that none of the extravagant things being said and written about Le Gros Bill is out of line.</p><p>&ldquo;He does everything and does it well,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;He does it so well that he makes it look easy. In fact, he makes it look so easy that you find yourself watching him closely just to see what it is that he&rsquo;s doing.</p><p>&ldquo;I read where somebody said he was a slow skater&mdash;Sid Abel, I think it was. I don&rsquo;t believe it. He&rsquo;s going faster than he looks to be going. Another thing, if he skated any faster he wouldn&rsquo;t be able to do all the things he does now. He wouldn&rsquo;t be able to control the puck as well and set up plays.</p><p>&ldquo;Milt Schmidt was a great hockey player, but he&rsquo;d have been an even greater one if he hadn&rsquo;t been so fast. He was a driving player and he could throw a punishing check. On top of that, he was a natural leader. But he wasn&rsquo;t much of a play-maker because he skated so fast he couldn&rsquo;t control the puck. All the plays on the Kraut Line originated with Bobby Bauer on right wing.</p><p>&ldquo;Bill Cowley was a great play-maker, but he wasn&rsquo;t a fast skater. Yet they never caught Bill from behind. He had a weaving style of skating and a knack of keeping his body in between opposing players and the puck. They pass the puck harder now than did in Bill&rsquo;s time, but he&rsquo;d have been great at any time.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Elmer Lach Was Up There, Too</b></h2><p>Elmer Lach was another who rates right at the top in Ray&rsquo;s book on centres.</p><p>&ldquo;For four or five years,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;when Elmer was at his peak, there wasn&rsquo;t anybody any better as a two-way player and I doubt if there was anybody as good. Late in his career when he&rsquo;s slowed up a bit he was an even better play-maker than he had been.&rdquo;</p><p>At this point, George Gravel, the referee, joined the group. He started to tell a story about an incident in a game in which the Chicoutimi team was playing.</p><p>&ldquo;One of the Chicoutimi players came up to me and said he thought he had a cracked stick,&rdquo; George related. &ldquo;He asked me to call time while he changed it. Then he went over to the bench to change it. I had a suspicion and I went along with him. He went through the motions of changing sticks, but that was all. He kept the same stick.</p><p>&ldquo;I said to him, &lsquo;You must be tired. You look tired.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He said, &lsquo;Yes, I am tired.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;So I said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll see that you get a regt. Come along to the penalty box and you can sit out two minutes for holding up the game&rsquo;.&rdquo;</p><p>Back to Ray Getliffe, when he was with the Canadiens, he was on a line with Phil Watson and Murph Chamberlain. All three were such holler guys that Dick Irvin, who coached the, club, called them the Gabby Line. They were extremely strong defensively, but they could also score goals. The team won the N.H.L. championship and the Stanley Cup in the 1943-44 season.</p><p>All veterans, they never hesitated to criticize each other or anyone else on the club, which recalls a story related by Tommy Gorman, then the team&rsquo;s general manager. Tommy was also operating the Blue Bonnets Racetrack and he told this story during a racing meeting in the summer of 1944.</p><p>&ldquo;I saw Murph Chamberlain yesterday and he was telling me about a motor accident he was in up in the Laurentians last weekend,&rdquo; Tommy said. &ldquo;It seems a guy sideswiped him. Murph got out of the car mad enough to punch the other guy in the nose. But who&rsquo;s in the other car but Getliffe. All Murpl could manage to say: &lsquo;For the love of Mike, Getliffe! Here&rsquo;s it&rsquo;s August and you&rsquo;re still running into me!&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Those who prescribe more walking as a means of improving the health of today&rsquo;s youth may cite Lionel Heinrich of the Boston Bruins as a point of their case.</p><p>The best pair of legs to appear in a Bruins&rsquo; dressing room in years belongs to Heinrich, the rookie defenseman from Regina, Sask.</p><p>Strong and supple, they speed Heinrich up and down a hockey rink at an amazing rate.</p><p>For the development of the powerful wheels Heinrich credits walking. Not even grandfather did more, back in the good old days before the automobile.</p><p>&ldquo;Until two years ago, when we moved into Regina, we lived in Churchbridge, a small town 20 miles or so from the city,&rdquo; related the 21-year-old speedster. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s real country and I lived an outdoor life.</p><h2><b>Ran Trapline</b></h2><p>&ldquo;When I was a little fellow I started a trapline which I ran from the fall to the spring. Eventually I built it up to 20, perhaps 30 traps. Every day when I got home from school I&rsquo;d grab my gun, call my dog and make the rounds.</p><p>&ldquo;That meant that every day I would walk anywhere from four to eight miles. If the snow happened to be deep, I&rsquo;d use snowshoes. That routine is guaranteed to build up a fellow&rsquo;s legs.&rdquo;</p><p>But when, Heinrich was asked, did he acquire the skating skill with which he has attracted so much attention here?</p><h2><b>Skated At Night</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I skated a lot at night,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;I used to finish my trap line about dusk, hustle home for supper, then go skating. There&rsquo;s an outdoor rink in Churchbridge, and before that was ready for use in the fall, we&rsquo;d skate on a pond.&rdquo;</p><p>Trapping and skating during the fall, winter and early spring&mdash;what about the rest of the year?</p><p>&ldquo;Fishing,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;My Dad had always been a great outdoorsman and we&rsquo;ve finished lots together. Hunted, too. Just the other day I had a letter from him telling me of the great goose and duek year they&rsquo;ve having out home.</p><h2><b>Water Skiied</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Those sports require walking, and for the last two summers I&rsquo;d something else to do. We have a lake, Long Lake, which is 60 miles long and great for water sports. I became interested in water skiing. There&rsquo;s something which really keeps the legs in shape.&rdquo;</p><p>A track coach, looking at Heinrich&rsquo;s bulging gams, would identify him as a potential sprinter, which he was in high school in Churchbridge. In sprints up to 440 yards he was a consistent point-scorer as a schoolboy.</p><p>Heinrich&rsquo;s ability to swerve with verve on sturdy underpinning has helped him bridge the gap from the American league, in which he was playing a few weeks ago, to the National league, in the opinion of Milt Schmidt, Bruins&rsquo; coach.</p><h2><b>Speedster</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01272/1552583-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="555" height="1233"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LIONEL HEINRICH</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Recovers Quickly</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Like any player in his position, he has made mistakes through inexperienc e,&rdquo; Schmidt pointed out, &ldquo;but with his terrific speed he has been able to compensate for some of them by recovering quickly.&rdquo;</p><p>Schmidt has expressed pleasure at Heinrich&rsquo;s early progress here, for the articulate youngster has done well on several assigments, among which have been such extra-cirricular duties as playing both left and right wing and killing penalties as a forward.</p><p>His respectable start as a major leaguer suggests that in hockey, as in other businesses, a solid foundation helps, the foundation in his case being his legs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Heinrich Credits Walking With Developing Of Legs

<div class="byline">LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>They say that the test of a true championship team comes on the road before hostile fans. On that basis the Montreal Canaaiens would appear to be on their way to their first National Hockey League title in nine years.</p><p>Always a powerhouse in the familiar confines of the Forum&rsquo;s frozen jousting pit, the Habs this year have stamped themselves as the class of the league in foreign inks.</p><p>At this writing the Habs under Coach Toe Blake had lost only five games&mdash;two at home, to the Boston Brains and the Chicago Black Hawks; three on the road, to the Detroit Red Wings, who twice snapped extended Montreal undefeated streaks, and to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Three of their five defeats were by the margin of a single goal.</p><h2><b>Won Seven</b></h2><p>On the road the Habs, who refuse stubbornly to quail under an inferiority complex, have won seven games, lost three and tied six of their first 15 starts for a total of 20 points.</p><p>At home, out of their 15 Forum dates, they won 12, lost two and tied one for a total harvest of 25 points.</p><p>&ldquo;A club that wins away from home is always a good one,&rdquo; said Blake. &ldquo;I hope we can keep up our pace. It helps to develop a winning complex and that won&rsquo;t do us any harm in the playoffs.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Habs Winning Both On Road And At Forum

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Thrust into the nets of the Montreal Canadiens with his big pads and other paraphernalia, Bob Perreault has been acquitting himself well as a replacement for the injured Jacques Plante.</p><p>A stocky 24-year-old custodian, Perreault was promoted from shawinigan Falls where he won the Quebec Hockey League&rsquo;s Vezina Trophy in the 1954-5 5 season.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a good goaltender,&rdquo; said Coach Toe Blake. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad he was available.&rdquo;</p><p>Perreault lived up to all advance notices in his National Hockey League debut in Montreal, blanking the Chicago Black Hawks 5-0. He was afforded great protection by a rock-ribbed defence, Doug Harvey and Tom Johnson in particular making as many stops as he did against the consistently thwarted Hawks.</p><h2><b>Streak Snapped</b></h2><p>After that auspicious start, he was beaten 2-0 as the Detroit Red Wings rudely snapped a 10-game Montreal undefeated streak in the Olympia. It was the Habs&rsquo; first loss since Nov. 24 when the Detroiters, favored by home ice on that occasion, too, trimmed them 3-2.</p><p>Thus the Red Wings became the first team to beat the Canadiens twice this season and the first to hold them scoreless in 60 minutes of hockey.</p><h2><b>Failed to Score</b></h2><p>Perreault could hardly be blamed for the loss of a game in which his mates failed to net the puck. Both Detroit goals were scored by Alex Delvecchio. His first was a fluke, knocked into the cage by Dollard St. Laurent in attempting to deflect a 6 0-footer. His second came on a power play with young Henri Richard in the penalty box for charging Ted Lindsay.</p><p>In his third start as a Habitant, Perreault. held the Hawks to a. single goal as the Montrealers won a 7-1 decision in St. Louis. Johnny Wilson got that one with the clubs at full strength.</p><p>Plante, whose lifetime goals against average of 1.83 is the lowest among all active netminders in the NHL, suffered a brok-en nose in practice. He was struck by a puck fired by Donnie Marshall. The shot hit Butch Bouchard&rsquo;s stick and was deflected sharply, catching Plante on the nose.</p><h2><b>McNeil Out Too</b></h2><p>Ordinarily the Habs would have recalled Gerry McNeil, a former big leaguer now with the Royals. But McNeil was in hospital for a minor operation.</p><p>Last season Plante missed 18 games with a fractured cheek bone. It was broken in a pregame warmup when a rising slapshot by Bert Olmstead struck him in the face.</p><p>It would appear that Plante&rsquo;s team-mates are his greatest menace. He has never been hurt in actual play. At the time of his latest accident, after 30 games, he had a goals against average of 1.50.</p><p>By Christmas a year ago the Habs had employed four goaltenders of assorted shapes and sizes and varying degrees of effectiveness and every other club in the league, with the exception of Detroit, had used two.</p><h2><b>Fractured Cheek Bone</b></h2><p>When Plante was forced out of action with his fractured cheek bone, slim, 20-year-old Andre Binette replaced him for one game. Then Claude Evans, a roly-poly custodian with the Royals, was pressed into service.</p><p>He lasted three full games and one period, yielding a dozen goals. Fast little Charlie Hodge was hoisted from Providence and he remained in the nets until Plante got back, finishing two periods for Evans and playing 13 complete games.</p><p>Meanwhile the Boston Bruins were alternating Sugar Jim Henry and Long John. Henderson. The Rangers started the 1954-55 season with Johnny Bower and shifted after five games to Gump Worsley.</p><h2><b>Terry Played All</b></h2><p>Hank Bassen substituted for Al Rollins in three games for the Black Hawks and Gil Mayer played one game for the Maple Leafs when Lumley was sidelined with a minor injury.</p><p>Only Terry Sawchuk, then with Detroit, had played every game for his team.</p><p>This year in sharp contrast five goalies&mdash;Sawchuk, Worsley, Lumley, Rollins and Glenn Hall, haven&rsquo;t missed a game.</p><h2><b>Sparkles</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02246/1552638-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="568" height="1236"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB PERREAULT</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Plante Hurt In Practice So Perreault Takes Over

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p><b>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>A player&rsquo;s first goal in the National Hockey League always is a special event. Johnny Bucyk got a few extra thrills with his.</b></p><p><b>A squad member since the season started, Bucyk finally clicked in Detroit&rsquo;s 28th game. It was only his 16th, however, and just his third as a regular forward.</b></p><p><b>After waiting a long time for his goal, Bucyk made it count plenty.</b></p><p><b>It came midway in a scoreless Detroit-New York game and became the winning margin. Red Kelly added an insurance tally as the Red Wings won, 2-0.</b></p><p><b>Left on the outside looking in were Jerry Toppazzini and Bucky Hollingworth. Both are still goalless for the season.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bucyk Gets First NHL Marker In Red Wings’ 28th Contest

<p>Founded October lit 1947</p><p>Published Weekly except monthly May through September by Ken-Will PubHshing Co Ltd 1434 Ste Catherine Street West Montreal 25. Que.</p><p>Yearly Subscription Kates. $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire; $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.</p><p>Entered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y.. under the Act of March 3rd, 1879</p><p>Authorized as second-class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa Printed in Odnada</p><p><b>VOL. 9 DECEMBER 31, 1955 No. 14</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01343/1552738-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="298" height="462"></div><p><b>&bull; ALL OF MILT</b> Schmidt&rsquo;s close friends are hoping he won&rsquo;t stage a comeback as a player with the Bruins&hellip; General Manager Lynn Patrick is passively opposed. &ldquo;I told Schmidt he could play if he wanted to, if he was convinced he could help the club,&rdquo; Patrick said&hellip; After a pause he added: &ldquo;I just pointed out to him that he was now 37.&rdquo;&hellip; Woody Dumart, former linemate of Schmidt&rsquo;s, a close pal for years and now a neighbor, had this to say: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s hard to reconcile yourself to the fact you&rsquo;re getting older. But if Milt returned he&rsquo;d probably get hurt, perhaps badly, trying to compete with kids. I know how Milt feels. It&rsquo;s a hard thing to accept. But you have to do it. I told him I didn&rsquo;t think he should go back.&rdquo;&hellip; When Maurice Richard scored three goals against Chicago the other night it brought his goais total for the season to 18 and his all-time total to 440&hellip; The 34-year-old veteran shows no signs of letting up and appears headed for another one of his great seasons. Richard, incidentally, has scored 20 or more goals in every NHL season that he&rsquo;s performed in. In 1042-43, his first season in the league, he only played 16 games and scored five times, but in every other season he&rsquo;s been well over the 20-mark&hellip; Richard has scored 30 or more goals on seven different occasions and has topped the circuit in goal scoring five times&hellip; Max Quackenbush, younger brother to Boston&rsquo;s Bill, who had brief trials with the Bruins and Chicago Black Hawks, is now a member of the Toronto police force. His dad is also a member of the Toronto police department.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02230/1552731-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="286" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; A PENALTY</b> shot was called against the Toronto Maple Leafs the other night in New York. It was the first time a penalty shot had been called for two years. Ron Murphy took the shot for the Rangers but hit the goal post&hellip; Wally Hergesheimer expects to be a daddy any day now&hellip; Whitney Tower, who writes those exciting racing stories for Sports Illustrated, was a recent visitor to Montreal. He accompanied the Chicago Black Hawks He is doina a story on the Hawks and Dick Irvin for a forthcoming issue&hellip; Attendance nas shown a nice increase over last year in all American Hockey League cities&hellip; Jim Hendy, Cleveland Barons GM, figures that a lot of hockey fans are getting tired of television and are starting to come back to the arenas again&hellip; Real Chevrefils may return to the Boston Bruins according to Tom Gerber, talented hockey writer of the Boston Traveler&hellip; Chevrefils is having a very poor season with Detroit and its thought that they would be agreeable to making a deal which would send him back to his former club&hellip; The Bruins hope that Chewy would revitalize Leo LaBine, his linemate for so many years, and get the team some goals. LaBine, like Chevrefils, is also having a poor season&hellip; Last season&rsquo;s two top rookies, Eddie Litzenberger and Don McKenney, art two who aren&rsquo;t exactly burning up the league right now. Both have been big disappointments thus far&hellip; Chuck Blair of the Buffalo Bisons scored his 100th goal of his American Hockey League career against Springfield recently, He is a brother to Dusty Blair.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03146/1552724-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="312" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo LaBine</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; ED KRYZANOWSKI,</b> ace defenseman of the Hershey Bears, became the first American Hockey League defenseman to score a goal against each of his five opposing teams this season&hellip; Ed is a valuable member of the Chocolateers&hellip; Hank Bassen, goalkeeper of the Buffalo Bisons and Chicago&rsquo;s understudy to Al Rollins, rates as the &ldquo;Bad Man&rdquo; among AHL goalies. He has incurred six minors and two majors for a total of 22 points in penalties in 26 games this season. A year ago he ran up a total of 29 minutes in 37 games. Bassen makes certain that opposition forwards don&rsquo;t take any liberties with him in the nets&hellip; The American Hockey League&rsquo;s annual All-Star Game will be played at Pittsburgh on January 10&hellip; Hottest goalkeeper in the NHL right now is Glenn Hall, Detroit Red Wing&rsquo;s controversial rookie.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04103/1552717-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="281" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Litzenberger</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01294/1552807-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY LUMLEY</b></figcaption></div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>What price glamor?</p><p>The mid-season record of the Toronto Maple Leaf team that abandoned its defensive style for the glamor of attack would indicate that even a two-Cadillac owner couldn&rsquo;t afford this commodity. One of the league&rsquo;s strongest defensive clubs for years, Leafs are suddenly the weakest and the perennial Vezina Trophy contender, Harry Lumley, couldn&rsquo;t find the cup with a telescope this season.</p><p>Yet these results are deceiving.</p><p>The new format of Maple Leaf play, although it has often been blamed for the club&rsquo;s negative record, actually has nothing to do with that. In fact, the offensive style has produced a positive record. The calamity in the goals-against column can be traced elsew&rsquo;here.</p><h2><b>Immense Success</b></h2><p>Designed to provide a greater fan spectacle, Toronto&rsquo;s new aggression plan has been an immense success. In abandoning their drab defensive style. Leafs have pleased their customers and drawn raise from even their severest critics, chaps like Boston Bruin General Manager Lynn Patrick and Chicago coach Dick Irvin.</p><p>After one Leaf visit to Chicago, Nov. 24, Irvin even went so far as to say: &ldquo;That was one of the greatest hockey games I&rsquo;ve ever seen. The fans were on the edges of their seats right to the finish because Leafs free wheeled all the way.&rdquo; This same Irvin only a year ago was harpooning Toronto&rsquo;s style because it afforded fans no cause to &ldquo;get off their hands.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Slinker Great</b></h2><p>Another benefit of the forward-look Leafs is evident in the individual play of Tod Sloan, who is promising to become Toronto&rsquo;s highest scorer in more than a decade, with 17 goals in his first 33 games. The same Slinker who fired only 13 goals all last season, credits the change in style for his personal eruption.</p><p>&ldquo;You get more opportunities to score when you go in and forecheck and fight for possession in the other team&rsquo;s end,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Before we were coached to hang back and wait for the opposition coming out.&rdquo;</p><p>And aside from Sloan, the entire team is shooting more often. Most of the snipers lack the experience to capitalize on scoring chances, but they are at least keeping enemy goalguardins busy, having fired 1030 shots in 33 games this year compared to 904 a year ago at this point.</p><h2><b>Shots The Same</b></h2><p>All of this stress on offense, of course, would tend to strengthen the argument that Leafs&rsquo; aggression policy has left their rear uncovered and exposed the horrible fate that is Harry Lumley&rsquo;s goals-against average. Yet one tiny statistic destroys that argument. The defense has permitted Leaf opposition virtually the same number of shots as it did after 33 games last season, 902 compared to 9 09.</p><p>That puts the onus on Lum. In handling as many shots as he did a year ago he has yielded more than an extra goal a game. Last season he led the Vezina race at this point, with a 1.68 goals-against average. This year he is virtually cellared with Chicago&rsquo;s Al Rollins with a 2.73 average.</p><h2><b>Need Good Goaling</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Lum&rsquo;s been letting in more easy goals,&rdquo; General Manager Hap Day acknowledges. &ldquo;And this is one year when we need fine goaltending, to compensate for our lack of experience. Those easy goals put us in the hole often and this kind of club hasn&rsquo;t the experience to get out of holes.&rdquo;</p><p>Supported by the shots-against record, Day estimates his defense this year is no weaker than that of last year&rsquo;s club which helped Lumley finish within a goal of Terry Sawchuk for the Vezina.</p><h2><b>Rheaume Improved</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Marc Rheaume is a big improvement,&rdquo; says Hap. &ldquo;Jimmy Morrison also started better, although he tailed off in the last couple of weeks. But Hugh Bolton and Jim Thomson are as good as they were last year so that only Tim Horton isn&rsquo;t up to scratch.</p><p>&ldquo;I think Lum is getting as much protection as ever?</p><p>&ldquo;Once Lum gets himself untracked, we&rsquo;ll be away,&rdquo; is coach King Clancy&rsquo;s prediction.</p><p>Yet once again, Leafs have another problem to face. The inexperience which Day claims makes great goaltending a necessity, is hurting the team in still another way. With penalties.</p><h2><b>Feeling The Pinch</b></h2><p>In 33 games, Leafs served 150 minutes more in penalties this season than they did over the corresponding period a year ago. And they were feeling the pinch. Whereas they surrendered only 34 goals while playing shorthanded in the entire 70-game schedule last season, they yielded 32 before this season was half over. The rise in penalties was bound to bring the rise in shorthanded goals because the beleaguered penalty-killers just can&rsquo;t stand the extra burden.</p><p>To discourage the foolish penalties, Day fined several players and offered some the chance to recoup their losses by playing stipulated numbers of games without taking stupid penalties. But even that didn&rsquo;t stop the crime wave.</p><h2><b>Fines Not Answer</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I know very well that fines aren&rsquo;t the answer,&rdquo; Day says. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s inexperience that brings those mistakes. And no one can estimate when the inexperience will be replaced by experience because every player develops differently.</p><p>&ldquo;Once all our players do arrive, I think we&rsquo;ll have a powerful hockey club. But to reach that objective, we have to pay the price of inexperience along the way.&rdquo;</p><p>So the glamor costs nothing. It&rsquo;s the inexperience that runs high.</p><h2><b>Average Suffers</b></h2><h2><b>Below Par</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02261/1552800-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="590" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TIM HORTON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“New Look” Leafs Pleasing Fans With Offensive Style This Year

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The road to hockey&rsquo;s graveyard, otherwise known as the bushes, is paved with the bones of maverick recruits who toil creditably for a while in the National League and then fizzle out like spent firecrackers.</p><p>Such a man apparently is Jackie Leclair, recently waived out of tne NHIJ ana aespatened by the Montreal Canadiens to their Royal farm in the Quebec Hockey League.</p><p>Originally regarded as the logical centre ice replacement for famed Elmer Lach, Leclair acquitted himself like a rising star last season, his first with the Habs, scoring 11 goals and gaining 22 assists for 33 points in 59 games.</p><p>In the playoffs he tallied five times and seemed to have established himself as a regular pivotman who would reach even greater heights this season.</p><h2><b>In Dog House</b></h2><p>But Leclair&rsquo;s troubles began early. He found himself in Coach Toe Blake&rsquo;s doghouse when he reported substantially overweight to the Canadiens&rsquo; training camp in suburban Verdun.</p><p>Given extra work, he shed most of the excess avoirdupoids and for a while it seemed that he had won a regular centre berth from the veteran Ken Mosdell. But then Leclair began to slip. He failed to make routine plays, couldn&rsquo;t put the puck in the net, checked lackadaisically&mdash;and found him self back on the bench.</p><p>In 2 9 games he scored only two goals and was awarded but four assists, an unimpressive half dozen points.</p><p>Meanwhile Mosdell regained his old-time form and was restored to his regular position between wingmen Floyd Curry and Claude Provost.</p><p>So Leclair, a 26-year-old married man with four children, was despatched to the QHL where it was hoped his left-hand shot would help Lach&rsquo;s injury-riddled Royals.</p><p>The stocky, 170-pound Leclair came to the Canadiens in the summer of 1954 from Toronto via Buffalo. The three-cornered transaction saw the Leafs acquire the rights to Brian Cullen from the Bisons of the American League in exchange for Leclair, Dusty Blair and Frank Sullivan. The Habs then obtained Leclair for Gaye Stewart, Ed Slowinski and Pete Babando.</p><p>As an amateur Leclair toiled for the Quebec Citadel juniors, the Quebec Aces and the Ottawa Senators. His experience as a member of the Maple Leafs&rsquo; organization was confined to the Toronto nursery at Pittsburgh.</p><h2><b>Demoted</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03197/1552838-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="566" height="886"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACKIE LECLAIR</b></figcaption></div><p>A hard-luck guy, Leclair missed 11 games last season after falling on Larry Cahan&rsquo;s skate in a game against the Leafs in Montreal. He suffered a deep gash in the throat and before he could be assisted, spilled nearly a quart of blood on the Forum ice. Only prompt medical attention in the clinic saved his life.</p><p>Leclair is the second Montreal forward to be sent to the Quebec League since the start of the season. Earlier Dick Gamble was released to the Aces. He, too, was a sensation in his first season in the NHL but in later campaigns failed dismally to realize his full potential.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Habs Waive Jackie Leclair Out Of National League; Sent To Montreal Royals

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01327/1552869-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NICK MICKOSKI</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, III&mdash;</p><p>The Black Hawks rounded out the 1955 section of their current home schedule December 18 with a rather unkindly jab in the direction of the ulcer said to have been developed this year within Milton C. (for confused???) Schmidt, bench leader of the Boston Bruins.</p><p>Whether he was confused, amazed or just disgusted could not be surely ascertained after the Chicagoans heaped the largest score of the year on the Schmidt skaters in romping to a 7 to 1 rout. The Hawks fell behind, 1-0, in the first period, but roared back with four goals in the second and three in the last.</p><h2><b>Lopsided Scores</b></h2><p>It was actually only another in the series of punishing blows which have been dealt the Bruins to date by Dick Irvin&rsquo;s landsliding lads. Earlier triumphs were by such routing counts as 6-0 and 6-1. Little wonder that Milt might be wondering about the condition of his innards!</p><p>First half of the scheduled 14 &lsquo;engagements between the two clubs found Chicago losing only once and tying twice while winning the other four games with comparative ease. The Hawks piled up a total of 26 goals in the seven meetings as they limited the Bruins to a mere 10.</p><h2><b>Bewildered Terry</b></h2><p>Just as bewildered or astonished as Schmidt&mdash;no doubt&mdash;is goaler Terry Sawchuk who can recall nothing, but a Chicago team which seldom scored while he guarded the cage for five years with Detroit. He allowed the Hawks well below two counters per game during that lengthy span.</p><p>Quite a contrast from the 3.7 average he has had to settle for as a Bruin battling to stem a seemingly constant onslaught of Chicago-aimed pucks. He seemed to give up in the 7-1 deluge with both Nick Mickoski and Capt. Gus Mortson counting from long distances.</p><h2><b>Mickoski Happy</b></h2><p>One of the happiest Hawks when it Comes to the record against Boston is Mickoski who scored twice in the most recent thumping and accomplished a hat trick when the Hawks won, 6-1, on November 18. Seven of his first 13 goals this season went around or through the troubled, but no longer troublesome Sawchuk.</p><p>A constantly galloping left winger, the aggressive Nick appears headed for his most goal-filled campaign in eight years of National League play. Although his 33 assists gave him a career high of 4 3 points last season, he is now aiming to top the 20-goaI mark he reached with the Rangers in 1950-51.</p><h2><b>Rookies Too!</b></h2><p>Several other Hawks have also capitalized on the Boston series by piling up a majority of their goals, assists and points. Rookie center Hank Ciesla rapped three of his first four goals past Sawchuk while for another freshman, winger Hec Lalande, it was three of the first five.</p><p>Defenseman Benny Woit credited the Bruins with giving him the chance to be credited with three of his four assists up to the 32nd game of the Chicago schedule. And for rough rearguard Lee Fogolin, Boston has been an even stronger favorite. He piled up five of his first six assists at their expense.</p><h2><b>Nick And Hec Tops</b></h2><p>Every Black Hawk skater&mdash;save, of course, goalie Al Rollins&mdash;has gained at least a point from the Bruins. Mickoski and Lalande head the parade with eight points each off seven goals and an assist and three goals and five assists respectively.</p><p>Aiming at the playoffs under the prodding of Irvin, the Black Hawks will be a clinch to make the grade if they can start piling up wins over Toronto and the Rangers with the same sure sense of success they have exhibited against Boston. Watch out Messrs. Lumley and Worsley!</p><h2><b>Enjoying Great Season</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Chi-Hawks Fatten Point Total At Expense Of Sagging Bruins

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>It&rsquo;s gotten to the point that to hear an NHL coach or manager sing the praises of one of his own skates you have to listen and listen and listen. Sometimes you hear nothing.</p><p>Detroit GM Jack Adams and Ranger coach Phil Watson gave a good example of why they are eligible for membership in the Mutual Admiration Society of the NHL.</p><p>After watching his Wings whitewash Rangers, 2-0, at Olympia recently, Adams warbled a Worsley tune:</p><p>&ldquo;He is magnificent,&rdquo; quoth Jovial Jawn (when his Wings win, he talks of course). &ldquo;Were it not for Worsley there&rsquo;s no telling that the score might&rsquo;ve been.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams figured out that Worsley&rsquo;s made 208 saves (allowing 13 goals) in six games against his Wings.</p><p>&ldquo;And we&rsquo;ve won one of the games,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s like facing no-hit pitching all the time. We had one power-play going when that guy made three straight stops, like a cat.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Defense Collapsed</b></h2><p>In all the Gump was flakked with 84 shots in two weekend games, eight of which slid by as the Blues&rsquo; defense collapsed.</p><p>Adams wasn&rsquo;t talking through his hat. The partisan crowd at Olympia applauded Worsley&rsquo;s efforts time and again. Sid Abel, the ex-Wing center and Black Hawk coach, now a TV commentator in Detroit, claims Worsley is a top candidate for Most Valuable Player honors.</p><p>&ldquo;If he keeps playing like that, he&rsquo;ll hold your whole team up. He&rsquo;s a dandy candidate for the Hart Trophy.&rdquo;</p><p>Abel knows all about it. He copped the award in &lsquo;48-&rsquo;49.</p><p>While Adams admired Worsley&rsquo;s feats Watson delighted in the play of unheralded rookie Johnnie Bucyk of Wings.</p><p>&ldquo;Now there&rsquo;s a player I admire,&rdquo; said Phil. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s only a kid&mdash;maybe 20, 21 years old at most&mdash;but he&rsquo;s in there digging.</p><p>&ldquo;He made a play against us that most fans missed but it was the mark of a determined hockey player. Some of my players should have taken notice.&rdquo;</p><p>Phil was referring to Bucyk&rsquo;s attempt to oheck a puck-carrying Ranger who was seemingly out of range.</p><p>&ldquo;That rookie took five steps to check my forward. He missed him and almost broke his neck falling into the boards. But, let me tell you, those five steps saved him a trip to Edmonton.&rdquo;</p><p>Watson believes that an abundance of favorable stories have lured his players into a sense of complacency. At least that&rsquo;s what he inferred after the Red Wing debacle.</p><p>&ldquo;It was awful. It was terrible,&rdquo; he growled. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re living on their clippings. On the write-ups we give &lsquo;em. Did you ever see a team so out-classed in two games?&rdquo;</p><p>Yes, Phil. We saw Rangers outclass Bruins, Hawks, Red Wings and Toronto here on Madison Square Garden ice. So there!</p><h2><b>Impressed</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02267/1552900-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="514" height="506"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK ADAMS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Rangers’ Phil Watson Praises Wings’ Bucyk While Adams Lauds Gump

<h2><b><i>You&rsquo;ll enjoy &lsquo;50&rsquo; MILD&hellip;SMOOTH</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03203/1552931-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="664" height="1576"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>C</span>onfused by a crazy canvas?</b> Then rest your eyes on a sparkling glass of Labatt&rsquo;s &lsquo;50&rsquo;. What a refreshing prospect&mdash;and &lsquo;50&rsquo; is every bit as good as it looks! Pour yourself a &lsquo;50&rsquo;. admire, savour its golden mildness. This is the lightest and smoothest of all ales&mdash;the happier ale that makes <i>anytime</i> a <i>good</i> time. Enjoy a &lsquo;50&rsquo;&mdash;soon.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-03

Any way you look at it…

<h2><b>Blues Outshot</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen the New York Rangers defeated Montreal Canadiens 5-1 on Christmas Day, Lome (Gump) Worsley in the Blues&rsquo; cage was called upon to handle 35 shots.</p><h2><b>New Captain</b></h2><p>Johnny Peirson, who recently made a comeback with Boston Bruins, has been named team captain as a fill-in for the injured Fernie Flamon.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TIES. A.M. DEC. 27</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01312/1553039-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="608" height="196"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY. DEC EMBER 20 Montreal 7 at Chicago 1</b></h3><p>(played in St. Louis)</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Perreault: defense: Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson. Talbot: forwards: H. Richard, Moore, M. Richard, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Curry Olmstead, Mossdell, Marshall, Provost.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins: defense: Fogolin, Stanley, Mortson, Woit, Dewsbury; forwards: Skov, Mickoski, Leswick, Sullivan. Sandford. McIntyre, Litzenberger, Wilson, Lalande, Ciesla.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02290/1553032-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="608" height="670"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 21 Boston 3 at New York 3</b></h3><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Armstrong, Boivin, Heinrich, Laycoe, Quackenbush; forwards: Mackell, Gardner, Ferguson. Labine, McKenney, Bonin, Mohns, Costello, Panagabko, Peirson.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal; Worsley; defense: Howell, Gadsby, Evans, Fontinato, Guidolin; forwards: Conacher, Bathgate, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Bartlett, Murphy, Creighton, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Popein, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mehlenbacher; linesmen: Sam Babcock, Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03243/1553025-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="604" height="556"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY DECEMBER 22 Detroit 3 at Boston 2</b></h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Godfrey, Pronovost, Hollingworth, Kelly; forwards: Reibel, Chevrafils, Delvecchio, Dineen, Lindsay, Ullman, Toppazzini, Bucyk, Prystai, Pavelich.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Armstrong, Boivin, Quackenbush, Heinrich, Laycoe; forwards: Gardner, Mohns, Labine, Mackell, Peirson, Ferguson, Costello, Panagabko, Bonin, McKenney.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04202/1553018-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="604" height="464"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1955 Detroit 2 at Canidens 4</b></h3><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal: Hall: defense, Hillman, Pronovost, Hollingworth, Godfrey; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Kelly, pelvecchio, Pavelich, Prystai, Chevre-flls, Ullman, Dineen, Toppazzini, Bucyk.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal: Perreault; defense: Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, Talbot: forwards: Mosdell, Curry, Provost, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Marshall.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey; linesmen: Bill Roberts, Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05154/1553011-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="598" height="682"></div><h3><b>Chicago 2 at Toronto 5</b></h3><p><b>First Period</b></p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defense, Woit, Dewsbury, Stanley, Mortson, Martin; forwards, Skov, Leswick, Mickoski, Sullivan, Litzenberger, McIntyre, Cisela, Lalande, Wilson.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defense, Horton, Morrison, Thompson, Reaume; forwards, Sloan, Armstrong, Duff, Smith, Stewart, Migay, Harris, Nesterenko, James, Hurst, Hannigan, Balfour.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06130/1553004-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="604" height="640"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DEC. 25, 1955 Canadiens 1 at New York 5</b></h3><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, Perreault; nefense, Harvey, Bouchard, Johnson, &lsquo;Talbot, St. Laurent; forwards, Beliveau, Curry, Richard, Moore, Olmstead, Mosdell, Marshall, Provost, Geoffrion, H. Richard.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Woreley; defense, Howell, Gadsby, Evans, Fontinato, Guidolin; forwards, Conacher, Bithgate, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Bartlett, Murphy, Creighton, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Popein, Lewicki.</p><p>Referee, Frank Udyari; linesmen, Doug Baolto, Sam Babcock.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07120/1552997-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="604" height="594"></div><h3><b>Chicago 4 at Boston 2</b></h3><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defense, Woit, Dewsbury, Stanley, Mortson, Martin; forwards, Skov, Leswick, Mickoski, Sullivan, Litzenberger, McIntyre, Gisela, Lalande, Wilson.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Sawchuk; defense, Armstrong, Boivin, Quackenbush, Heinrich; forwards, Costello, Bonin, McKenney, MacKell, Peirson, Mohns, Gardner, Panagabko, Laycoe, Nicholson.</p><p>Referee, Olinsky; linesmen, Edgeworth, Roberts.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08111/1552990-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="606" height="552"></div><h3><b>Toronto 1 at Detroit 1</b></h3><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defense, Horton, Morrison, Thompson, Reaume; forwards, Sloan, Armstrong, Duff, Smith, James, Hurst, Hannigan, Balfour.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Hall; dfifense, Goldham, Pronovost, Hollingworth, Godfrey, Hillman; forwards, Reibel, Howe, Kelly, Delvecchio, Pavelich, Prystai, Chevre-fils, Ullman, Dineen, Toppazzini.</p><p>Referee, Storey; linesmen, Hayes, W. Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1338/1552983-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="594" height="377"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including games of Sunday 3ec. 25)</p><h3><b>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 25th 1955</b></h3><p>Tues. Dec. 20th&mdash;Canadiens 7 at Chi. 1 (St. Louis)</p><p>Wed. Dec. 21st&mdash;Boston 3 at Rangers 3</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 22nd&mdash;Det. 3 at Boston 2</p><p>Sat. Dec. 24th&mdash;Detroit 2 at Cdns. 4</p><p>Sat. Dec. 24th&mdash;Chicago 5 at Toronto 2</p><p>Sun. Dec. 25th&mdash;Canadiens 1 at Rang. 5</p><p>Sun. Dec. 25th&mdash;Toronto 1 at Detroit 1</p><p>Sun. Dec. 25th&mdash;Chicago 4 at Boston 2</p><h3><b>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK ENDING JANUARY 1st 1956</b></h3><p>Wed. Dec. 28th&mdash;Canadiens at Toronto</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 29th&mdash;Toronto at Canadiens</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 29th&mdash;Chicago at Ranged!</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 29th&mdash;Boston at Detroit</p><p>Sat. Dec. 31st&mdash;Chicago at Detroit</p><p>Sat. Dec. 31st&mdash;Detroit at Toronto</p><p>Sat. Dec. 31st&mdash;Boston at Rangers</p><p>Sun. Jan. Is&mdash;Rangers at Boston</p><p>Sun. Jan. 1st&mdash;Chicago at Detroit Individual scoring records are:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09108/1552976-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="600" height="3376"></div><h3><b>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SBASON 1955-1956</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1095/1552969-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="596" height="272"></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/f0009-1178/1552962-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="602" height="166"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>A</span>lthough he&rsquo;s considered to be one of the hardest working and most efficient left-wingers in the National Hockey League, it is seldom indeed that Montreal Canadiens Bert Olmstead receives the credit he so richly deserves.</b></p><p><b>The Picket is this season enjoying one of his most productive campaigns to date in his career in hockey&rsquo;s big time.</b></p><p><b>This past week Olmstead picked up a total of six assists, running his total for the season to 30. far and away the best mark in this all-important department. He is also second among the loop pointmakers with seven goals to go with his assists, for 37 points, only three back of the leader, linemate Jean Beliveau.</b></p><p><b>On December 20, the Picket had four assists as the Habs flattened the Chicago Black Hawks, 7-1. On December 24, the Montrealers downed Detroit Red Wings 4-2 apd Olmstead added still another</b></p><p><b>assist. The Habs were finally stopped on Christmas Day when they absorbed a 5-1 setback at the hands of the New York Rangers but Bert still managed to get on the score, sheet with an assist on the only Montreal goal.</b></p><p><b>At the rate he&rsquo;s travelling at, right now, it&rsquo;s going to be pretty hard to keep Bert Olmstead off the NHL&rsquo;s official All-Star team. He&rsquo;s that good.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1248/1553070-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="292" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bert Olmstead</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-12

Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By GEORGE P. DUFFY</div><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>Zellio Toppazzini of the R.L Reds is a peaceful guy who is popular with his mates and the fans. He hardly ever gets into a tangle on the ice.</p><p>But lately, &ldquo;Mr. Z&rdquo; looks like he got into a real big brawl or was ambushed by a family of playful kittens.</p><p>Just over the right eye, Toppazzini has five stitches, which closed a recent wound. On the bridge of his nose he has a neat job of three stitches. He has bruises on his chin on both sides.</p><p>Zellio has a groin injury and has numerous other bumps and bruises. And all because he is a marked man in the American League.</p><p>But he is taking everything in stride.</p><h2><b>Expects It</b></h2><p>&ldquo;They are going to be checking me close,&rdquo; he admits, &ldquo;but as long as I have the good fortune to lead the league, I will have to expect to get slammed around.&rdquo;</p><p>Never one to complain, Zellio does not blame his stitches and various aches and pains on dirty play. On the contrary, he feels that &ldquo;they are playing in this league for keeps and it surely is unsafe to put your head down for a second.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Reds&rsquo; Mr. &ldquo;Z&rdquo;</b></h2><p>Hockey&rsquo;s &ldquo;Who Who&rdquo; carries the name of Zellio Louis Peter Toppazzini. This is the Reds&rsquo; &ldquo;Mr. Z&rdquo; who was born in a place called Copper Cliff, Ont., on Jan. 5, 1930. He broke into pro hockey in 1948 with Herahey, has seen service with the Boston Bruins and Rangers. Ze&rsquo;lio came to Providence in 1952.</p><p>One of the smoothest and fastest skaters in hockey today, Top-pazzini&rsquo;s greatest attribute as a player is his thrilling manner of breaking clear at the blue line, going in and faking the goalie practically into the seats.</p><p>His finest years in hockey have been spent with the Reds. He scored 7 6 points two seasons ago and 74 last year. Teamed with Paul Larivee and Camille Henry, Toppazzini has been one of the big reasons for the current success of Jack Crawford&rsquo;s dashing Roosters.</p><h2><b>Would Be Happy</b></h2><p>As the Reds skated in prepping for two weekend games, Toppazzini was asked whether he had designs on going up into the big league. Many followers of the sport insist that Zellio is ready to move up now. That would put him in the lea-gue with his brother, Jerry, of Detroit.</p><p>About moving up to the majors, Toppazzini looks at things philosophically.</p><p>&ldquo;I would be silly to say that I never want to go up. That is the dream of every minor-league athlete and I am no different. If the chance comes, I will be happy. But let me say that I am really satisfied here in Providence and maybe I can be part of a championship team right here where the fans have treated me so well,&rdquo; he said.</p><h2><b>Prolific</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01326/1553101-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="574" height="1312"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ZELLIO TOPPAZZINI</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Reds’ Mister Z Finds Leading AHL Scorers Makes Him Marked Man

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02268/1553139-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIM HENDY</b></figcaption></div><p>CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>This is the year of the &ldquo;Big Switch&rdquo; in Cleveland hockey policy.</p><p>This is the year the Barons are keeping the kids and making the best of it.</p><p>It&rsquo;s proof that bigger and better things are in store for the Qleveland Barons.</p><p>At, a time that the Barons are in need of help to ram upward in the American Hockey League race, General Manager Jim Hendy is rejecting each and every overture made towards his promising rookies.</p><p>&ldquo;If a National League club thinks they&rsquo;re worth something to them now, then they must be worth just as much to us,&rdquo; says Hendy.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had a lot of chances to give up some of the kids but we&rsquo;re not looking to the present this time, we&rsquo;re pointing for big things in the future.&rdquo;</p><p>Hendy&rsquo;s reversal of policy stems from the change of ownership in the Barons.</p><p>Formerly owned and operated by a small group of Detroit investors, the Barons this season became the property of Clevelanders.</p><p>Now there are some 500 local stockholders financing the club.</p><p>The folks in the street, the barber on the corner, the guy in the neighborhood gas station are all taking a new interest in the club. Many of them have purchased shares.</p><p>Now Hendy has a free hand to do what he thinks is best for the future of hockey here.</p><h2><b>No Need For Sales</b></h2><p>He need not peddle a star prospect to balance the books for a group of owners who were concerned with a balanced budget more than they were with a future in hockey.</p><p>It will take Hendy quite a while, of course, to recover from the plundering of local hockey talent which beset the club for a number of years.</p><p>If the Barons still owned the talent that has been shipped from this town to National League clubs, the Barons would themselves be as powerful as some National League squads.</p><p>Those that were sold or traded away included Johnny Bower, Bob Chrystal, Hy Buller, Wally Her-gesheimer, Bob Bailey and Gerry Foley.</p><p>Now the big powers are after such Barons as the Stratton brothers, now on Barons&rsquo; farm club, big Ian Cushenan, fleet Gordon Vejprava, Danny Poliziani and others.</p><p>Hendy won&rsquo;t deal.</p><h2><b>Team In Slump</b></h2><p>Meanwhile, he and Coach Bun Cook are attempting to get the present crew rolling.</p><p>While relegated to the lower regions of the league for the first third of the campaign, the Barons have nevertheless managed to stay within a few games of the top.</p><p>They have managed to do this with a club that is wallowing in a depressing slump.</p><p>Only the big three&mdash;Fred Glover, Joe Lund and Capt. Jackie Gordon have been popping goals.</p><p>The remainder of the squad is suffering from some strange scoring malady.</p><p>Johnny McLellan, a 30-goal man last season; Ike Hildebrand, always a potent point-getter; Cal Stearns and Eric Pogue have all failed to discover the payoff route.</p><p>Added to this, the failure of the speedy rookies to finish off plays has been one of the most frustrating situations encountered by the Barons in years.</p><p>But Hendy insists he&rsquo;ll stick by his young flashes until they burst into flame.</p><p>Anyone got a spare blow torch?</p><h2><b>Has Free Hand Now</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03225/1553132-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="1112" height="2036"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0010-02

Barons Will Go With Youngsters In Attempt To Build For Future

<h2><b>Bones In AHL</b></h2><p>Don (Bones) Raleigh picked up an assist in his first game in the AHL since joining Providence Reds from the New York Rangers.</p><h2><b>Badman Goaltender</b></h2><p>Hank Bassen, the red-thatched goal guardian of the Buffalo Bisons, leads all American League netminders in the matter of penalty time.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON MON. A.M., DEC. 26</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01325/1553194-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="608" height="188"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By GEORGE P. DUFFY</div><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>When the Rhode Island Reds pumped 12 goals home against Springfield last week, it equalled a club record and sent statisticians scurrying through the record books to check on other Providence teams accounting for 12 goals in a single game.</p><p>After dusting off the record books, it was found that the-Reds last piled up a dozen goals in a game back on the 16th of February in the year 1949. The score of that game was Providence 12 and Washington 4.</p><p>It was an important game. It elinched the Eastern Division crown for the Reds who were coached by Terry Reardon, now the team&rsquo;s general manager. The 48-49 Reds went on to win the Calder Cup playoffs as well as the league crown.</p><h2><b>Mighty Line</b></h2><p>One of the mightiest hockey lines in the history of minor league hockey&mdash;Carl Lis-combe, Harvey Fraser and Roger Bedard&mdash;took a big part in the slaughter of the Lions.</p><p>Bedard, who came out of Mt. St. Charles in Woonsocket to join the pro ranks, slammed in four goals, Fraser got three and Liscombe a pair. Jackie Hamilton contributed his two goals to the scoring orgy and Pete Kapusta addad a singleton.</p><p>The Reds of 1947-48 season poured in 12 goals on two different occasions. The first barrage came on December 10 down in Philadelphia. The now-defunct Rockets were defused, 12-4. Fraser popped in three goals to lead, this parade while Kapusta, White Prokop and Bedard got a pair each. Jack Stoddard, Johnny chad and Harry Taylor added their goals the one-sided American League tilt.</p><h2><b>Struck Again</b></h2><p>Reardon & Co. struck again with 12 goals on the last day&mdash;March 21&mdash;of the 47-48 season when Washington&rsquo;s Lions were devoured, 12-8 in Providence. Liscombe boosted his record-shattering 118 points total in this one with four goals. Johnny Chad flashed the light three times. One goal each went to Prokop, Kapusta, Art Michaluk, Taylor and Fraser.</p><p>The 12-5 victory over Springfield here on December 18 rates high, however, for in this one, the Reds poured in eight goals in the last period to break a 4-4 deadlock and establish a one period Providence record. As the man tending the light behind Gordie Bell remarked at the finish: &ldquo;I should have just left the light on.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Remembers</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02284/1553232-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="570" height="866"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY REARDON</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Graham Beats Gil For A Goal</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03224/1553225-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="2338" height="1446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GIL MAYER,</b> the agile netminder for the Pittsburgh Hornets, reaches vainly in an attempt to stop Graham Hastings, right, of the Springfield Indians from scoring but the puck has already crossed the goal crease. That&rsquo;s Gordie Haworth of the Indians, foreground, getting the squeeze play from at couple of Hornet huskies.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0011-02

Reds Equal Club Mark For Coals

<p><b><i>Extend Best Wishes</i></b></p><p><i><b>For Health and Happiness</b></i></p><p><b><i>In The New Year</i></b></p><p><b><i>To Their Friends Throughout</i></b></p><p><b><i>The Hockey World</i></b></p><p><b>Cleveland Barons Hockey Club</b></p><p><b>Claire W. Grove President</b></p><p><b>Jim Hendy V.P. & G.M.</b></p><p><b>Francis X. Feighan Sec&rsquo;y Treos.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The CLEVELAND BARONS

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Al Ostrom, hockey writer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, asks, &ldquo;Why is Bart Bradley being used only on power plays and to kill of penalties?&rdquo; Ostrom is of the opinion Billy Reay could make better use of Bradley by using him on a regular line&hellip; The Americans have missed the scoring stick of Ollie Dorohoy, sidelined with an injury&hellip; Rudy Filion continues to disappoint as an American.</p><p>Bud Poile, Edmonton coach, the latest to be fined by prexy Al Leader&hellip; Poile was nicked for $50 for uncomplimentary remarks in the Edmonton Journal about the officials. A league rule prohibits coaches and managers from publicly denouncing referees and linesmen&hellip; Pat Egan and Billy Reay have made contributions to the league fund for one thing or another.</p><p>Calgary and Vancouver are dominating their respective divisions. There doesn&rsquo;t seem to by any club which can cut the Stamps or Canucks down and reduce the lead each club enjoys&hellip; Incidentally the two leaders are the only teams who have not participated in a tie game&hellip; 15 of the first 22 games which resulted in overtime were decided&hellip; Winnipeg has won the most OT games&mdash;4&hellip; Saskatoon has lost the most&mdash;3.</p><p>Victoria, once the proud leaders of the coast division but now and unshaky third and in the throes of a bad slump, are making changes and Fred Hutchinson, the Cats&rsquo; general manager, told us there was going to be plenty of new faces if they didn&rsquo;t start winning&mdash;and regularly&mdash;soon&hellip; Mark Marquess, veteran right winger, was sold to Vancouver by Victoria&hellip; the parent Boston Bruins shipped Jim Robertson, a forward, and Arnold Whitney, a defenceman, from &ldquo;Hershey, to Victoria.</p><p>To make room for Marquess and Earl Johnson, forward obtained from Springfield, Vancouver released rookie &ldquo;Skip&rdquo; McKay and assigned freshman Bernie Grebinsky, a defenceman, to Eddie Shore&rsquo;s Springfield club in the American League&hellip; at last reports Grebinsky was undecided whether he would report to Springfield&hellip; Regina Regals, who have had nothing but trouble enticing people to their games, scheduled their home game of Dec. 17 with Edmonton in Brandon, Manitoba&hellip; Owner Jim Piggot wanted to see if the hockey fans of Brandon will come out in sufficient numbers to support a pro team&mdash;or at least make it feasible for Piggott to play some of his team&rsquo;s game in the Manitoba city&hellip; in the past Brandon has been the site of many Western Canada Intermediate amateur hockey championships and they packed the Brandon rink for these games.</p><p>Ray Mikulan, Vancouver&rsquo;s starry freshman goalie, lost two teeth to the dentist Dec. 14&hellip; Mikulan is going to receive much consideration for the Rookie-of-the-Year award if he continues to sparkle between the pipes for Pat Egan&rsquo;s front runners&hellip; Ray was second among the goalies with a good 2.86 average for his first 30 games. Ray Frederick, Calgary, was leading the netminders with five shutouts, two short of the league record, and a 2.43 average.</p><p>Ed Chadwick, Winnipeg&rsquo;s rookie goalie, and Gilles Boisvert, Edmonton, are the only goalies in the WHL who have not registered a shutout&hellip; Emil Francis got his first Dec. 10. as Saskatoon drubbed Regina, 3-0&hellip; In that game &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; picked up two minor penalties in the space of 20 seconds in the third period, which could be some sort of a record&hellip; Francis, who holds the WHL penalty record for goalies with 47 minutes, season of 1952-53 while playing for Vancouver, could set a new mark. He had 20 minutes for his first 28 games!</p><p>Six more WHL players should join the &ldquo;100 goal club&rdquo; before long&hellip; at this writing Jackie McLeod of Saskatoon had 98&hellip; Archie Scott of Calgary had 93&hellip; Max McNab, NW, was five away with 95&hellip; Pat Lundy, Regina, needed eight to go with his 92&hellip; Bart Bradley of Seattle and Eddie Mazur of Winnipeg, each had 8 9&hellip; attendance at Calgary has been holding up with the Stamps averaging over 4,000 a game for their first 10 home attractions&hellip; Seattle is up over a corresponding time two years ago&hellip; There was no hockey in Seattle last year&hellip; Frank Currie, Calgary coach, tabs Art Michaluk the best defenceman in Western Canada&hellip; Adverse weather, unexpected heavy snows and blizzards have cut into Winnipeg&rsquo;s attendance. Heavy snow has made parking rough in Winnipeg&hellip; Wild Bill Burega, the Warriors Tielmet-wearing behemoth, drew the catcalls in every coast rink on the Pikemen&rsquo;s last trip out here&hellip; Winnipeg&rsquo;s four man defence corp of captain Fred Shero, Burega, Danny Summers and Mickey Keating is the most impotent in the league when it comes to scoring&hellip; In the club&rsquo;s first 29 games Shero was the only one to score and he had only turned the trick once!</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01321/1553318-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="580" height="735"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MARK MARQUESS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WHL Blueline Banter

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02248/1553356-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PHIL MALONEY</b></figcaption></div><p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>It won&rsquo;t be long now before the Western Hockey League reaches the half-way mark of its 315 game, 70 for each team, schedule. We may be jumping the gun somewhat in bringing up the question, &ldquo;Who is the league&rsquo;s All-Star centre?&rdquo; The latter calls for some serious thought and research.</p><p>Al Leader&rsquo;s nine-team circuit has many fine pivotmen, stick manipulators who can do tricks with that elusive rubber disc, guys who make defencemen wish they had taken up another pro fession or at least learned the art of being forwards&mdash;anything but rearguards who must continually figure out ways to stop the magicians of the centre ice lane.</p><h2><b>Horvath Won</b></h2><p>Last season Bronco Horvath, Edmonton&rsquo;s recordbreaking centre with 50 goals, 60 assists and 110 points, and now with the amazing, surprising and colorful NY Rangers, walked off with, the All-Star balloting. Max McNab, New West-minster player-coach, got the call for the second team and Eddie Dorohoy, Seattle, but then with Victoria, was named for the third dream team.</p><p>Horvath is out of the running this year. McNab and Dorohoy will have to finish strong in the scoring race or they&rsquo;ll eliminate themselves. Both are excellent centres and have several more years of WHL play to look forward to, but their scoring averages to date don&rsquo;t warrant them being considered for All-Star recognition&mdash;at least not at this advanced date.</p><h2><b>Outstanding Playmaker</b></h2><p>Vancouver Canucks could very easily&mdash;and deservedly&mdash;have the player who is worthy of being voted the loop&rsquo;s premier centre for this season of 1955-56. He is considered to be one of the outstanding playmakers in minor professional hockey today. Some say better than some of the centres now earning their pay in the NHL.</p><p>We are talking about none other than Phil Maloney, who has been the &ldquo;big man&rdquo; in the Canucks&rsquo; scoring offense and the key to the team&rsquo;s power play. And Phillip is as good&rsquo; a penalty killer as there is in the league. As you can see there is very little he can&rsquo;t do with a stick, puck and a pair of skates. The former NHLer, who saw service with Boston and Toronto, and with Herahey, Pittsburgh and Ottawa before joining the Canucks last Dec. 26th&mdash;Boxing Day&mdash;is a treat, to watch when he is leading a three-man attack.</p><p>Maloney has been among the loop&rsquo;s top five scorers all season, and recently the 28-year-old native of Ottawa took over the individual scoring lead, dethroning Blinky Boyce, New Westminster&rsquo;s little giant, who had set the pace from the opening whistle last Oct. 7th.</p><h2><b>League Leader</b></h2><h2><b>Illustrious Group</b></h2><p>We like Phil for the AllStar centre position on his play to date. He has and will continue to receive arguments for the dream team selection from the following illustrious group of centremen:</p><p>Bob Love, the Royals&rsquo; ironman who is really experiencing a great season; Jerry Melynk, Edmonton&rsquo;s sophomore star and who has really come into his own now that Norm Ullman and Bronco Horvath are not there to steal the glamor; Guyle Fielder of Seattle, who is always up there in scoring and in the voting; Sid Finney of Calgary who could give Phil the most opposition when the votes are counted; Brian Cullen of Winnipeg who the Toronto Maple Leafs still expect to make good with them in the NHL; and a terrific second half could skyrocket McNab, Ed Dorohoy, Doug Anderson, rookie Dave Duke, Pat Lundy and Paul Masnick into consideration for the All-Star team. We hate to think how these teams would fare without their big gun. And Vancouver without Maloney&mdash;perish the thought!</p><p>Who do you like for the WHL All-Star centre spot? Our money is on Maloney.</p><h2><b>Competition</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03198/1553349-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="567" height="879"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SID FINNEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Phil Maloney Leading Candidate For WHL All-Star Centre Honors

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<h2><b>Goalkeepers</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>ay Fredericks, of Calgary, altho losing a lit tie ground the past week, continues to set the goalkeepers pace with a 2.52 goals against average per game, His five shutouts ore also tops for the season to date.</p><h2><b>Individual Scoring</b></h2><p>Phil Maloney of Vancouver increased his individual scoring lead to four poinls over the three players tied for second place; Bobby Love and Blinky Boyce of New Westminster and Gerry Melnyk of Edmonton.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p>STAND ING ON MONDAY AM. DEC. 19</p><h3><b>PRAIRIE DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01326/1553551-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="596" height="167"></div><h3><b>COAST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02284/1553544-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="598" height="139"></div><h3><b>RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>Monday. December 12th</b></p><p>Victoria 1 at Vancouver 2</p><p><b>Tuesday December 13th</b></p><p>Winnipeg 2 at Victoria 4..&hellip;&hellip;</p><p>Regina 1 at Edmonton 4</p><p><b>Wednesday December 14th</b></p><p>Winnipeg 1 at New West. 3</p><p>Regina 5 at Calgary 4 OT</p><p><b>Thursday December 15th</b></p><p>Edmonton 4 at Saskatoon 8</p><p><b>Friday December 16th</b></p><p>Seattle 3 at Victoria 7</p><p>New West. 3 at Vancouver 5</p><p>Edmonton 0 at Winnipeg 2</p><p><b>Saturday December 17th</b></p><p>Vancouver 4 at Seattle 1</p><p>Victoria 3 at New West. 0</p><p>Saskatoon 2 at Calgary 9</p><p>Edmonton 4 Regina 1 at BRANDON</p><h3><b>MONDAY DECEMBER 12 Victoria 1 at Vancouver 2</b></h3><p>Vancouver defeated Victoria by a score of 2-1 in a close checking game here.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Mikulan; Currie, Hudson, Egan, Kaiser; Cyr, Kabel, F. Brown, Maloney, Johnson, Lilley, Wylie, Carmichael, Ford, Marquess.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Pelleetier; Bullock, Davidson, Hillman, Dobby n; Anderson, Kilburn, Macauley, Teal, Olson, Ceresino, Btratter, W. Brown, Belliveau, Chiupka.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03255/1553537-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="598" height="344"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY DECEMBER 13 Winnipeg 2 at Victoria 4</b></h3><p>Victoria moved back into second place with a 4-2, victory over the Winnipeg Warriors here.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04226/1553530-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="597" height="423"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY DECEMBER 13 Regina 1 at Edmonton 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05194/1553523-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="598" height="424"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 14 Winnipeg 1 at New Westminster 3</b></h3><p>The New Westminster Royals defeated Winnipeg 3-1 here to move back into second place. Gordie Fashoway, Royal sharpshooter, set a new league record in scoring one or more goals in his night consecutive game..</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06165/1553516-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="595" height="398"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14 Regina 5 at Calgary 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07153/1553509-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="607" height="743"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY DECEMBER 15 Edmonton 4 at Saskatoon 8</b></h3><p>Jackie McLeod scored three goals and assisted on two others to lead the Saskatoon Quakers to an 8-4 win over the Edmonton Flyers in a Western Hockey League game before 1,500 fans.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08144/1553502-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="608" height="764"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY DECEMBER 16 Seattle 3 at Victoria 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09137/1553495-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="608" height="628"></div><h3><b>New Westminster 3 at Vancouver 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10131/1553488-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="606" height="550"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 0 at Winnipeg. 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11115/1553481-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="610" height="318"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17 Vancouver 4 at Seattle</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12101/1553474-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="608" height="426"></div><h3><b>Victoria 3 at New Westminster 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1640/1553467-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="598" height="366"></div><h3><b>Saskatoon 2 at Calgary 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1826/1553460-1-eng-US/f0013-182.jpg" title="f0013-18" width="600" height="836"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 4 at Regina 1 (Played at Brandon, Man.)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1922/1553453-1-eng-US/f0013-192.jpg" title="f0013-19" width="604" height="488"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Includes Games of Saturday Dec. 17)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1381/1553446-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="604" height="1360"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEfE&rsquo;S RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1475/1553439-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="613" height="279"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals</b></p><p>Gordie Fashoway, NW, 25.</p><p><b>Most Assists</b></p><p>Bobby Love, NW, 33.</p><p><b>Most Game Winning Goals</b></p><p>Sid Finney, Cal, 6.</p><p><b>Most First Goal of Game</b></p><p>Colin Kilburn and Doug Anderson, Vic, 5.</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks</b></p><p>Jackie McLeod, Sask, 3.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b></p><p>Ray Fredericks, Cal, 5.</p><p><b>Most Goals Scored When Opposition Penalized</b></p><p>Gordie Fashoway, NW, Barry Cullen, Wpg, Sid Finney, Cal, 6.</p><p><b>Most Goals Against When Serving Penalties</b></p><p>Bill Burega, Fred Shero and Ray Keating, Winnipeg, 5.</p><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1563/1553432-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="586" height="241"></div><h2><b>Top Assistant</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1730/1553425-1-eng-US/f0013-172.jpg" title="f0013-17" width="1144" height="1610"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>COBBY LOVE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">Al Parsley</div><p>(As Seen In The Montreal Herald)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01326/1553582-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="298" height="322"></div><p>&bull; WHEN Rodrigue pelchat, of Junior Canadiens, showed up at Quebec last week to help out the badly crippled Royals your observer noted that the young defenseman looked quite natty.</p><p>He was turned out like a junior executive in dark clothes, a neatly brushed hat, white shirt and dark tie. It was remarked to Elmer Lach that these juniors were pretty swank.</p><p>&ldquo;Sure,&rdquo; said Royals&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;Sammy Pollock makes them spruce up. He insists that every kid he takes on these tours wear a hat, a white shirt and a tie. He won&rsquo;t stand for windbreakers or those ski-jackets or whatever you call &lsquo;em. Every one of them must have a proper overcoat, keep his shoes shined and look presentable in every way.</p><p>&ldquo;If a kid hasn&rsquo;t got the right clothes, Sammy&rsquo;ll buy &lsquo;em for him. Of course I guess he makes sure they pay him back.&rdquo;</p><p>Since the Baby Habs are now one of the most travelled outfits in the shinny game and have been dubbed the Globe-trotters of hockey, Pollock takes the stand that they are representative of the entire Canadiens&rsquo; organization. So they must look smart so that they&rsquo;ll create a favorable impression on the natives of the small cities and towns they visit.</p><p>The Junior Habs get good cash guarantees wherever they play and are a going concern. Without looking at the ledgers it&rsquo;s generally estimated that they are paying&rsquo;their way this year, instead of drawing subsidies for operational overhead from the Forum treasury as in previous seasons when they operated in the defunct Quebec Junior League.</p><p>The general deportment and natty attire of these youngsters is a far cry from the day&rsquo;s when athletes boasted they travelled with a tooth brush as their one piece of luggage.</p><p>It was once common enough to see athletes around the hotel lobbies and in hotel diners wearing baggy sports slacks, open necked sport shirts, sneakers or sloppy unshined shoes. No more.</p><p>In the warm weather ball players were worst offenders until hotel management and dining room headwaiters complained. So now major league and Triple A club pilots tell the hired hands if they want to wear sloppy clothes, to stay away from the hotel lobby and eat their meals in a beanery down the street.</p><p>Long ago Frank Carlin forbade windbreakers and other casual garb by Royals QSHL teams when the team was riding on trains and eating in the diners. He was talking about this the other day.</p><p>&ldquo;We generally had a couple of kids each fall who came from some small town where they had been presented with their windbreakers. They were often quite gaudy affairs and these kids would strut around quite proudly.</p><p>&ldquo;They were very deflated when I called a meeting before we took our first trip and said: Now we&rsquo;re going on the road and you kids with those bush windbreakers discard them and wear a proper suit of clothes with a shirt and tie.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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SIDELIGHTS

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02250/1553613-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CLAUDE PRONOVOST</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>An old wise-crack is often exhumed to describe hockey&rsquo;s netminders, viz: &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t have to be crazy to be a goal-keeper, but it helps.&rdquo; This may be libelous to a group of earnest and fearless athletes, so we&rsquo;d better not continue the theme along those lines.</p><p>It has occured to more than one hockey zealot, after a heady examination of the rosters of the Quebec Hockey League that their goalers might starve if they waited for employment by the home town club.</p><p>Let&rsquo;s call the roll. Marcel Faille who is given high praise by his coach, Gerry Plamondon as the most promising goaler among the younger set to arrive in the Quebec loop in recent years, tends twine for the Chicoutimi Sagueneens.</p><h2><b>From Falls</b></h2><p>Was he born and bred down Saguenay way? Not by your old Ebenezer&rsquo;s galluses he wasn&rsquo;t. Paille was born and reared in Shawinigan Falls.</p><p>The Shawinigan Falls Cataracts went to Trois Rivieres to hire their custodian of the cords, Bob Perreault, and the result was that when a group of business men in Trois Rivieres organized and entered the Lions in the QHL last summer they had to hire a hand from far away Port Arthur, Ont. They signed up Phil Hughes, though his contract was purchased from the Chicoutimi club, his 1954-55 employers.</p><h2><b>Hughes to Indians</b></h2><p>And a few weeks ago Francois Hetu, Trois Rivieres club general manager, sent Hughes to Springfield and decided to go the rest of the way with Andre Payette, who tended the trap for the Valleyfield Braves last season.</p><p>Payette is a Montreal boy, employed by Hydro-Quebec in all months of the year but the hockey season.</p><p>Gerry McNeil, who made such a fine showing for the Royals, before being hospitalized for surgery, is not a product of Montreal. He hails from Quebec City.</p><p>And while he has been absent Elmer Lach has been giving the net-keeping ticket to Claude Pronovost, younger brother of Marcel Pronovost the rugged defenseman of Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>These Pronovost boys were born and bred in Shawinigan Falls.</p><h2><b>Longueuil Lad</b></h2><p>So the Quebec Aces came up to Montreal to get a goalkeeper since McNeil left town years ago. Punch Im lach hired Claude Evans to mind the back porch. And Evans is a boy from Longueuil, Que.,/which is just across the Jacques Cartier Bridge from Montreal.</p><p>Longueuil could indeed be described as a suburb of Montreal, only residents of these thriving towns in the environs of the metropolis are touchy. They resent been called suburbanites.</p><p>The night Jacques Plante hung the collar on Detroit Red Wings at the Forum for one of his shutouts he was naturally the recipient of wholesale congratulations.</p><h2><b>Four From There</b></h2><p>Amid the tumult in the dressing-room as the Habs were hurrying to get dressed, and into their bus to Westmount Station to board the train for Chicago, your agent mentioned to Jacques that Marcel Paille was a Shawinigan Falls boy, and were there any more goalers from up there?</p><p>&ldquo;Sure there&rsquo;s four I can think of right away&rdquo; Jacques said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s three besides myself. First of all there&rsquo;s Paille you are talking about. Then there&rsquo;s Claude Pronovost who plays for the Royals as a sub for Gerry McNeil, Pronovost is a very good young goaler, and there&rsquo;s Gerry Cotnoir who has now retired I guess.&rdquo;</p><p>Cotnoir did have a job in Sha-: Winigan Falls some years ago when the city had a team in the old QSHL. He moved around plenty after that playing for teams in Providence, Seattle, Sherbrooke, New Westminster, Edmonton and Victoria.</p><h2><b>Lots Of Players</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Besides goalkeepers there&rsquo;s a lot of good hockey players from Shawinigan Falls&rdquo; said Plante over his shoulder as he hurried out the door.</p><p>There are at that. To begin with there&rsquo;s Marcel Pronovost the strong, smooth skater who plays on the defense for Detroti Red Wings. The NHL Press and Radio Guide says that John Edward and Lawrence Wilson were born in Kincardine, Ont., which must be right, but they grew up and learned their hockey at the Falls before they became hustling forwards in the NHL for Detroit and Chicago teams.</p><p>The Shawinigan Falls Cataracts have two native son on their payroll. Ted Hodgsou first of these is the lanky defenseman who stands 6&rsquo;3&rdquo; and carries 195 pounds on his tubed skates.</p><p>Then there is the team captain Gerry Desaulniers, who is one of the neatest play-making centerice men in minor league hockey. Gerry played a lot of his early hockey around Montreal, was with Royals like Hodgson in the Quebec loop. But when Cataracts came back into the circuit in the fall of 1954, both went back home to play their hockey.</p><p>Most of the Shawinigan Falls boys who later became stars attended Shawinigan Technical Institute where they were taught hockey fundementals that was to bo valuable to them the rest of their athletic careers, by coach Jean Marc Milette.</p><h2><b>Fills In For Cerry</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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<h2><b>Penalty Period</b></h2><p>When Shawinigan Falls dumped Quebec 5-1 on Christmas Day. seven of the game&rsquo;s ten penalties were called in the opening period.</p><h2><b>Fast Work</b></h2><p>Before the Shawinigan-Quebec game of December 25 was two minutes old. Bingo Ernst ana Jean paul bems each received minor and major penalties for fighting.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TUES. A.M. DEC. 27</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01298/1553731-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="604" height="164"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY DECEMBER 20 Montreal 1 at Shawinigan 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02261/1553724-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="604" height="760"></div><h3><b>Quebec 3 at Chicoutimi 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03237/1553717-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="592" height="446"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21 Chicoutimi 5 at Three Rivers 4</b></h3><p><b>Chicoutimi:</b> Goal: Faille; defense: Lacrosse, Glaude, Hanna, Talllefer; forwards: Smrke. Moore, Maxwell, Topoll, Campeau, Locas, Perreault, Hicks, Cressman, Lalonde.</p><p><b>Three Rivers:</b> Goal: Payette; defense: MacNeil, Lamirande, Morgan, Goyette, Michelin; forwards: Kapusta, Gooden, Gagnon, Stoddard, Scherza, Gladu, Bisaillon, Kwong, Leclerc.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Milford; linesmen, Landry, Dodds.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04189/1553710-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="598" height="752"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY DECEMBER 22 Three Rivers 2 at Montreal 4</b></h3><p><b>Three Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette; defense: M. Govette, Lamirande, MacNeil!, Tennant, Gagnon; forwards: Morgan, Kwong, Scherza, Kapusta, Stoddard, Leclerc, Gooden, Bisaillon, Michelin.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Pronovost; defense: R. Rousseau, Ingram, Deslauriers, Amadio; forwards: Corriveau, Burnett, Laplante, Thorndycraft, P. Goyette, Boucher, G. Rousseau, Leclair, Denis, Hoekstra.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05154/1553703-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="598" height="552"></div><h3><b>Shawinigan 3 at Quebec 4</b></h3><p><b>Shawinigan Falls:</b>&mdash;Goal: Dessurault; defense: Leger, G. Bouchard, Hodgson, Langlois, Turner; forwards: Deaaulnlers, Wray, R. Bouchard, Kachur, Thomson, Broden, Grosse, Dube.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defense: Schneider, Croaier, Ernst, Thibault; forwards: Gamble, Tessier, Powell, Ford, Poliziani, Tremblay, Achtymlchuk, Buchanam, Cossette.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08115/1553696-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="600" height="639"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1955 Quebec 1 at Shawinigan 5</b></h3><p><b>Quebec:</b> Goal: Evans; defense: Schneider, Crozier, Ernst, L. Thibault; forwards: Gamble, Rowell, Poliziani, Labadie, Tremblay, Achtymuchuck, Cossette, Buchanan, Tessier, G. Thibault.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls:</b> Goal: Dessureault; defense: Hodgson, Turner, Langlois, G. Bouchard, Leger; forwards: Dube, Grosse, Denis, Broden, Wray, Kachur, Desaulniers, D. Bouchard, Thomson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-09107/1553689-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="598" height="538"></div><h2><b>Running&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06134/1553682-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="516" height="858"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIMMY MOORE</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip; One-Two</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07126/1553675-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="556" height="542"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ANDRE CORRIVEAU</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The Rangers have a strong candidate for the Hart Trophy (MVP award). His name is Lome Worsley, Gotham&rsquo;s great goaltender.</p><p>Just where the Blueshirts would be without Worsley&rsquo;s tremendous efforts is anybody&rsquo;s guess. For sure they&rsquo;d never be enjoying the rarified atmosphere of second place.</p><p>Somehow or other the little guy with the talented toes has enjoyed more prestige in out-oftown ice centers than he has in Manhattan. They take him for granted in New York, a sure sign of success.</p><p>For a time, at the beginning of the season, it appeared as if Worsley was in for a so-so season in front of the New York twines. He checked into the Saskatoon training camp overweight, was still ahead of the desired limit when the campaign got underway.</p><p>But he&rsquo;s conscientiously trimmed down to the point of perfect return. And, brother, the returns are showing themselves on the for and against sheet. In Gump&rsquo;s case, he&rsquo;s been mighty stingy with the against column.</p><p>Should Worsley maintain his present pace there would seem to be only one obstacle to his Hart Trophy dreams&mdash;the superhuman Jean Beliveau.</p><p>There&rsquo;s no getting away from it, Le Gros Bill is the greatest thing since sliced bread. But is he more valuable to his team than Worsley is to Rangers? It is conceivable that with mortals like Richard, Geoffrion, Harvey, Plante, Moore and the rest of that all-star cast, Les Canadiens would do all right for themselves minus Jean. Not so Rangers sans Gump.</p><p>They&rsquo;re not biased against picking goalies either. Two of the last six winners were twinetenders and one of them. Prince Charlie Rayner was a Ranger. He won the award in 1949-50. The other recent winner was Chicago&rsquo;s Al Rollins who turned the trick in 1953-54.</p><p>Gump could use the extra $1,000 bonus that goes with the prize. You see, the Worsleys are expecting an addition to the household any day now. And living costs being what they are today&hellip; Well, you get the point.</p><p>RANGERABLIA: No one seems to know exactly when the last NHL penalty shot was taken in Madison Square Garden prior to Ron Murphy&rsquo;s effort against Harry Lumley, Dec 18&hellip;It was a long, long time between shots. Last one, as we recall, took place in &lsquo;45-&rsquo;46 with Lome Carr, then a Leaf, firing at Olympics scored against the Rovers&hellip;Fans were surprised at Murphy&rsquo;s being picked to take the shot&hellip;Watson said: &ldquo;I want to get Murph&rsquo;s confidence back. He&rsquo;s been in a slump and he&rsquo;s down&rdquo;&hellip;He* beat Lumley but hit the crossbar&hellip;Murphy has a harder and more fluid shot than most people realized&hellip;Jerry Olipski made the penalty call&hellip;Jerry Mitchell, hockey writer for the New York Post, suggests that King Clancy, Leaf coach, carries a bottle of catsup on his bench, pours it on his player&rsquo;s heads after they&rsquo;ve been checked hard&hellip;Entitles opponents to major penalties&hellip;A five-minute major to Lou Fontinato after he checked Marc Resume prompted the crack&hellip;Lou originally was tagged with a minor but when Reaume returned from the Leaf Bench pointing to a red spot atop his scalp, the call was changed&hellip;Two awards are given out to play: ers after each Ranger game&hellip;One is the &ldquo;Paper-Mate Award&rdquo; to the outstanding player in the game&hellip;The other is the &ldquo;Ben-Gay Award&rdquo; to the player involved in the most body contact. Hit &lsquo;em Louie!</p><h2><b>Valuable</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1093/1553762-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="552" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUMP WORSLEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Rangers’ Gump Worsley Candidate For NHL’s Hart Trophy As MVP

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-11" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1175/1553793-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg"></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Ed Panagabko, the 22-year-old forward who made the big jump from amateur hockey to the National league earlier this season, has been recalled by the Boston Bruins.</p><p>Panagabko, who played for Grand Rapids of the International league a year ago, started the season with the Bruins, then was optioned to the Hershey Bears of the American league for experience.</p><p>When the Bruins lost forwards Allan Nicholson, Doug Mohns and Lome Ferguson and defenseman Ferny Flaman with injuries in &ldquo;a period of six days recently, they recalled Panagabko, who plays all forward positions.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Panagabko Back With B’s

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p class="dropcap"><span>F</span>REE NEW YORK TRIP&hellip;something new has been added to the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race&hellip;TCA will give out five double-tickets to the top point-getters on All-Star panels in the Southern Division&hellip;the top player o&rdquo; each of the five teams will get the valuable gifts&hellip;sports &bdquo;ers and sportswriters in the five centres pick three top stars at all the games&hellip;a three-star winner gets three points, a two-star winner gets two and a greatest number of points will receive the free TCA trips to New York, a very neat idea&rsquo;!!&hellip;Coach Sugar Jim Henry of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds is fast winning the title of the most popular coach for many years in the rabid hockey centre of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario&hellip;he has proven himself in the first half of the schedule and appears destined to become a great coach in the next few years&hellip;this is his first year as a pilot and in my book has the ingredients to become something really great&hellip;he treats his players with great respect, adopts the quiet, efficient approach with the result the fans and players are going overboard for him&hellip;you just cannot meet a finer sportsman and gentleman in sports&hellip;HATS OFF TO SUGAR JIM!!!</p><p>INTO TOP POSITION&hellip;South Porcupine Porkies displayed fine form in moving into sole possession of first place in the Porcupine Mines Senior Hockey League&hellip;they trimmed Timmins Flyers 5-3 to turn the trick&hellip;the victory snapped the three-way tie for the leadership with Timmins and Iroquois Falls&hellip;Eddie Kulik, who was a top star last season, led the attack with a sparkling three-goal performance&hellip;a rousing fight developed betwen netminder Linky Mangotich and Eddie Montigny to South Porcupine&hellip;Eddie has served over 100 minutes in the penalty box so far this season&hellip;he got a game-misconduct while Mangotich received a major&hellip;it was quite a battle and had the crowd in a state of wild excitement&hellip;Gil St. Pierre and Normie Brest continued their fine work in the circuit with two goals apiece for Tunmms-bcnumacner as they trimmed Kirkland Lake Tecks, 9-5&hellip;</p><p>EXECUTIVE ACTION&hellip;Lorne Miller, NOHA secretary-treasurer announced that he has despatched a letter to North Bay Civic Arena officials criticizing the action of police in a wild hockey game Lorne states that in his opinion the North Bay Bolice Commission should reprimand one officer who allegedly acted without permission of officials refereeing the game&hellip;Lorne brought out an important point in his letter&hellip;quoting in part: &ldquo;&hellip;from a report of the referee-in-charge and the Bembroke Hockey Club, the police in the North Bay Arena during hockey games have not been given proper instruction regarding their duties. NOHA rules state that, the referee is in full control of all players on and off the ice and it is the duty of the rink manager to have police officers take instructions from the referee. The report said a police officer in the penalty box had the matter under control and that there would have been no further trouble if a second officer had not interfered.&rdquo; The Bolice Association, however, issued a statement saying the officer acted properly&hellip;Johnny Bailey, fiery forward for Bembroke Lumber Kings, was the storm centre &ldquo;of the big rhubarb that had Northern Ontario hockey circles agog for some time&hellip;</p><p>ROUGH TIME&hellip;Sudbury Wolves rode into the Sault Ste. Marie area with a commanding nine point lead in first place in the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race&hellip;Coach Sugar Jim Henry led his Soo Greyhounds to a 4-1 victory, then Coach Bete Backor led his Soo Indians to a 3-0 victory over the same Wolves&hellip;things shape up as a ding-dong battle between the Wolves and Greyhounds for first place, Vie way things are going&hellip;the centres have been terrific rivals for over three decades&hellip;the senior teams can still reinforce up to January 10 with rinstated pros but they are through as far as amateur players are concerned&hellip;that deadline was December 15&hellip;</p><p>EL BEPPO&rsquo;S BACK&hellip;Bep Guidolin, our good friend of the &lsquo;ole Detroit Red Wing days, is back in NOHA business&hellip;he made an appearance with North Bay Trappers the other night in a surprise development&hellip;if Bep ever realizes his great potential again he could prove to be a great asset to North Bay&hellip;get this boy in the mood to play hockey, then watch out!!&hellip;nice to see you back, El Beppo!!!&hellip;and what&rsquo;s this about our very good friend, Roily Ethier, sports-editor of The North Bay Daily Nugget having trouble to get suitable seating accomodation in the press box at the brand-new $700,000 North Bay Civic Arena??? Surely the officials of any Arena must realize how important good press and public relations are to the success of any sporting enterprise&hellip;if Roily has to fight to get proper accomodation for the North Bay Arena, all of us in the sportswriting fraternity are going to back him up all the way&hellip;it&rsquo;s the height of stupidity (YES STUPIDITY!) not to give the men covering sport proper facilities when they do so much (YES SO MUCH!) to help sport of all types&hellip;WAKE UP NORTH BAY!!!&hellip;how&rsquo;s that, Roily&hellip;mine friend???</p><p>AL COMES BACK&hellip;Al Millar likes nothing better than to shutout his old teammates&mdash;Sudbury Wolves&hellip;he pulled the trick with that dazzling 3-0 shutout and regained a lot of prestige&hellip;when Al&rsquo;s &ldquo;on&rdquo; he&rsquo;s the &ldquo;most.&rdquo; Johnny Albani has five shutouts for Sudbory Wolves and leads the field&hellip;Gord Hodson, who we figured was set for Pembroke Lumber Kings, is in hot-water out in the Weston Hockey League&hellip;the husky defenseman is playing with Vancouver Canucks ant was hanned a $50 fine for getting a match penalty in a game&hellip;he&rsquo;s a fiery competitor and the NOHA missed cut on a colorful performer&hellip;the Kings lost their chanie to nab Gordie when he failed to get waived out of pro hockey&hellip;two more former NOHA performers are in dutch, apparently&hellip;Jimmy Shirley and Lloyd Hinchberger, formerly with the Soo Indians, joined Saint John&rsquo;s Beavers but Amherst Ramblers of the Atlantic Coast Hockey League appealed to league headquarters that Jimmy and Lloyd had agreed to perform for Amherst and that the teamhad sent the atwo money to mke the trip&hellip;however, even though the two accepted the dough it was later returned&hellip;fast shuffle, Jimmy and Lloyd??? Meanwhile, back on the ranch!!! or at the bank&hellip;</p><p>HAPPY NEW YEAR&hellip;you know, fans, writing this column every week is more of a pleasure than a task&hellip;it&rsquo;s a lot of fun&hellip;but nothing gives me more pleasure than to sit back every year at this time and wish all you great hockey fans A HAPPY NEW YEAR&hellip;may 1956 bring you health, happiness, wealth&mdash;and more hattricks&hellip;more thrills and more championships&hellip;HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!!</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01284/1553824-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="283" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bep Guidolin</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>Don&rsquo;t look now, but there&rsquo;s a new leader in the International Hockey League.</p><p>It&rsquo;s none other than the Cincinnati Mohawks, who are seeking their fourth straight IHL crown in the face of stern opposition.</p><p>The Hawks, forced to take a back seat to Troy&rsquo;s improved Bruins all season, finally overtook them to move a half game in front in the torrid International League race.</p><p>Credit Grand Rapids and Ft. Wayne with assists in the sndden surge of Cincinnati to the top spot. Those two teams dealt Bruins hopes four cruel blows within an eight-day period.</p><p>First, Grand Rapids downed Troy, 4-1, in the Ohio city and three days later the Rockets duplicated the feat, 4-2, on Michigan ice. Then, Ft. Wayne picked up where Grand Rapids left off, first nosing out Troy, 5-1, in Ft. Wayne, and then coming from behind to prevail by the same score in Troy the following day.</p><h2><b>Four Straight Losses</b></h2><p>It all added up to four straight losses for the faltering Bruins of Nellie Podolski, who finally yielded first place to the onrushing Mohawks.</p><p>Cincinnati, in the meantime, was three points behind Troy when the Bruins started to skid. The Hawks closed the gap to a single point by downing Toledo-Marion, 4-1, while Grand Rapids hung the first of its two defeats on the Bruins.</p><p>It went along that way, with both outfits coming a cropper the same day, Cincinnati falling to Grand Rapids and Troy to Ft. Wayne.</p><h2><b>Move Ahead</b></h2><p>Then, the Hawks poured it on to submerge Indianapolis under a 10-2 barrage and Ft. Wayne again turned the tables on Troy as Cincinnati moved into first place for the first time since the opening day of the 1955-56 campaign.</p><p>The battle for third place behind Cincinnati and Troy also is a red hot one, with Ft. Wayne and Grand Rapids the principals involved.</p><p>The Komets of Ft. Wayne made. a significant goaltending change, signing Gerald Fleury and releasing Jim Mattson. Fleury, who had been the trainer for Toledo-Marion, made a spectacular debut by shutting out Grand Rapids, 2-0, and has looked good in the nets in recent Ft, Wayne battles.</p><p>Unless Toledo-Marion and cellar&mdash;bound Indianapolis make great strides, they may be unable to improve on their respective positions. Despite efforts to improve the Chief club, it appears to be doomed to finish last with 24 losses in its first 28 starts.</p><p>Billy Goold of the Hawks continues to set the pace in the individual scoring column, with 44 points, two better than runnersup Bob Rawlyk of the Bruins and Bete Wywrot of the Komets.</p><p>Goold now has scored 15 goals and been helpmate on 29 others. Rawlyk has a 21-21-42 record and Wywrot a 12-30-42 mark.</p><p>ICING THE PUCK&hellip; Toledo-Marion&rsquo;s Dec. 14 date in Indianapolis was called off because of severe snowfall and will take place Jan. 29 in Indianapolis&hellip; Detroit&rsquo;s Red Wings will meet a team of IHL All-Stars from the International League Tuesday, March 6, at the Toledo-Sports Arena in a tilt sponsored by the Junior League of Toledo&hellip;At a recent meeting of the IHL&rsquo;s board of governors in Detroit, it was voted to retain the two-referee system now in effect. On icing the puck, referees are instructed to let play continue if there is an attempted pass or if the defensive team does not make an attempt to touch the puck&hellip;Frank Gallagher, league president, reports that Ft. Wayne is leading the loop in average attendance through November. Indianapolis is second, Cincinnati third and Toledo fourth.</p><h2><b>STANDING ON DECEMBER 20</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03184/1553869-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="605" height="186"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04153/1553862-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="600" height="292"></div><h2><b>Sets Scoring Pace</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02229/1553855-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="1176" height="1326"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILLY GOOLD</b></figcaption></div><div class="sidebar"><p>George Stockwell, Trainer of the Toronto Argonaut Football Club, uses and endorses Bike supports and Bike Trainers Tape.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Hawks Climax Long Uphill Climb By Taking Over As IHL Leaders

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Sufficient evidence why Kitchener Dutchmen led the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; O.H.A. league by 14 points on Dec. 19 is provided by their record for the month during which they added 12 of a possible 16 points, winning five games, tying two and losing but one, that to Owen Sound Mercurys. The Dutchmen did this minus two of their stars, defenceman Joe Schertzl and leftwinger Gerry Theberge, the latter returning to action for their last game.</p><p>By the same token, it isn&rsquo;t difficult to understand why Windsor Bulldogs and Stratford Indians are tied for the second slot, the Bulldogs having won three, lost three and tied one for seven points of a possible 14; while the Indians were winning three, losing two and tying two for eight points of a possible 14 points.</p><h2><b>Three In A Row</b></h2><p>Owen Sound Mercurys, just one point behind the dual second-placers, lost four straight games on the road and then staged a comeback to win the next three on home ice, handing Kitchener their lone setback and also defeating Stratford and Chatham.</p><p>Chatham Maroons fared badly in winning one and tying one in seven games, gaining but three points of a possible 14. Maroons&rsquo; lone victory was the expense of the Indians at Stratford, but they later lost to the Indians on Chatham ice. Their tie came in Chatham, when they battled the Dutchmen to a 6-6 stalemate.</p><h2><b>Future Brighter</b></h2><p>The future of the Maroons appears brighter now that they have lured centreman Ted Powers away from the pros, where he was playing for Chicoutimi of the Quebec League. They also landed Danny Missalis from the Windsor Bulldogs before the Dec. 15 trading dead-line, but have lost Jimmy bell and Ken Schultz for the season due to injuries. After ing defenceman Doug Baldwin, the Maroons, beset by injuries, used him again in their last three games.</p><p>Kitchener handed Don Oberholtzer his unconditional release, and are angling for reinforcements prio to their departure Jan. 15 for the Olympic Games world championship at Cortina, Italy. It should be pointed out that players deals are still permissable between OHA clubs up to Feb. 1, while reinstated pros may also be added before that deadline. However, reinstated pros are not eligible for the world tourney.</p><h2><b>Deals Pending</b></h2><p>Down in Windsor, Bill Butcher, Bulldog owner, has added no new talent, but he has deals pending within the group and is also on the trail of a couple of pros.</p><p>Owen Sound may be standing pat, as they made no changes recently, and appear well fortified with capable reserves, although they might dip into pro ranks again for reinforcements.</p><p>When Stratford Indians failed to sign Lome Pirie and Chuck Henderson, although both belong to them as the result of deals and drafts, they found themselves short of rightwingers. Manager &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Meier remedied this shortage to an extent when he traded centre Johnny Muretich to North Bay Trappers of the NOHA for rightwinger Tony Poeta. Pete Palangio was not using Poeta in North Bay and Meier had benched Muretich in favor of Doug Kay, a Hamilton forward. Meier also tabbed Maurice Levesque to his senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; affiliate in Woodstock, with the proviso that if the player refused to report to Woodstock he would be given his outright release.</p><h2><b>One Referee</b></h2><p>Dissatisfied with the officiating in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; O.H.A. group, the senior council agreed at a recent meeting, with Windsor disenting, to change from the two-referee system to one referee and two linesmen. So far there has been no improvement, but the system will be continued until Jan. 15, when the council will decide whether to continue as at present, or revert back to the two-referee system. It has also been suggested that three referees be used, one of them acting as the senior officiel, with power to impose all penalties, while his assistants could hand out minor sentences and also call offsides. This suggestion is not expected to gain much support, despite the inconsistency of the officiating and the failure to call glaring offsides. Rough and dirty play is not a factor in the refereeing problem, although there have been the odd misconduct and match misconduct penalty imposed, but these were for remonstrating too vigorously with the referee for handing out minor penalties, which the players concerned considered were unwarranted.</p><p>A proposed exhibition game between the Kitchener Dutchmen and the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA All-Stars, at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Jan. 17, has apparently been abandoned, because a guarantee of $500, plus 50 per cent of the gate receipts after expenses, is not considered large enough by the Kit chener management.</p><h2><b>Sidelined</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01250/1553900-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="556" height="1162"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN SCHULTZ</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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K-W Dutchmen Will Seek Reinforcements For Trip To 1956 Winter Olympics

<div class="byline">By HUGH BOWMAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02214/1553938-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DENNIS REGAN</b></figcaption></div><p>GUELPH. Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The O.H.A. Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race approached the half-way mark in the schedule with only ten points separating top and bottom. You could, as they say around the race track, throw a blanket over the field. In fact a small handkerchief would just about cover five of the clubs with only three points separating them.</p><p>St. Michapls college Majors and the Kitchener-Continue their dog-fight for first place while Marlboros, St. Catherines, Hamilton, Barrie and Guelph take turns at occupying third place.</p><p>The most improved clubs have been the Guelph Biltmores and the St. Catherines Teepees. St. Kitts took four out of six to move from the basement up to third place. Their two losses in that stretch were a 1 to 0 heartbreaker to Marlboros and a 5 to 4 setback by Guelph. in between they whitewashed St. Mikes 5 to 0&hellip; crushed Hamilton 10 to 1, belted Barrie 8-2 and defeated the vaunted Canucks 4-2.</p><h2><b>Solved Problem</b></h2><p>Much of the Teepees success has been attributed to the solution of their goaltending problem. Young Roy Edwards who started the season with the Simcoe Junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; club and came up to win the job in a three-way fight allowed only 11 goals over the six game stretch and almost half that total in one game. Elmer Vasko still hasn&rsquo;t regained his early season form but the Teepees have been getting timely sniping from veterans Ab. McDonald and Ed. Hoekstra and Art Stratton who led the Manioba Junior league in scoring last year is beginning to find the range. The Teepees have obviously snapped their early season lethargy and if Vasko can find himself St. Mikes and Kitchener could have company.</p><h2><b>Aren&rsquo;t. Far Behind</b></h2><p>Roy Mason, the Guelph Biltmores canny G.M. isn&rsquo;t too interested in whether St. Kitts get up there or not but he figures his Biltmores aren&rsquo;t, too far away. &ldquo;Tell St. Mikes and Kitchener to get out of the way,&rdquo; says Mason. The Hatters still have a big jump to take to reach the top but they engineered the seasons longest winning streak, five straight, before St. Mikes brought them to earth with a 6 to 4 win in Toronto. The return of grid stars Ron Howell and Billy Graham has sparked the Hatters upsurge but they&rsquo;ve been getting improved play right down the line.</p><p>The trading deadline passed with little or no action&hellip; everybody was Interested in doing business but nobody could get together. The Biltmores coaxed Roy Burmister out of retirement however and added a couple of other Collingwood youngsters by the names of Grier and Taylor to their roster.</p><h2><b>Largest Crowd</b></h2><p>The Kitchener&mdash;Waterloo Canucks, who were rumoured headed for Galt unless attendance perked up, came up with their largest crowd of the season (1500 odd) against St. Mikes and responded with a 3 to 2 win that Increased their first place margin to three points over the Irish. The margin was cut to a single point the following Sunday as the Canucks dropped their fifth game in 19 starts as Marlboros hammered out a 7 to 4-win while St. Mikes were stopping Guelph. At the time of writing the Canucks and St. Mikes were readying to square off again in Kitchener with first place again the prize.. The return to action of Willie O&rsquo;Ree should help the Canucks cause. The clever Negro left winger has been sidelined almost a month with an eye injury he incurred when struck by a puck in a game in Guelph.</p><h2><b>Marlies on Move</b></h2><p>Toronto Marlboros&rsquo;s 7 to 4 win over Kitchener moved them to within a point of third place. Billy Girard fired a hat trick as the Dukes came up with one of their better efforts of the season. It was the second time they&rsquo;d scored 7 goals against Kitchener. The win gave Marlies 5 out of a possible 6 points in their last three games and enabled the &ldquo;thin man&rdquo;, Turk Broda to eat Christmas dinner in the style to which he&rsquo;s become accustomed. If the line of Girard, Pulford and Collins continue to play as well as they did in that one the Dukes will be tough. The Boyer-Farn-field-Nevins unit have been carrying most of the mail for Marlboros up to this point.</p><h2><b>Stay With Pack</b></h2><p>The Barrie Flyers who look like claiming platers one night and stake horses the next stay right with the pack. Along with Marlies, Guelph and Hamilton they&rsquo;ve won eight games this year, three of them by one goal margins at the expense of their &ldquo;cousins&rdquo;, the Guelph Biltmores. Hap Emms has been getting some effective hockey out of his &ldquo;Pony&rdquo; line of Alvin Norenna, Jim Josephson and Danny Patrick&hellip; all 16-year-olds, they&rsquo;re improving with age according to plan. Emms figures if he can stay close till the halfway mark the youngsters will have gained enough experience to move the Flyers up in the latter half of the schedule.</p><p>The Hamilton Tiger-Cubs who appeared to have a mortgage on third place and at one stage were within a single point of the top have fallen back into the pack losing five in a row. Several players have been fined for breaking training and coach Ducky Skinner is determined to get them bad on the win track even if it takes a wholesale shakeup. They&rsquo;re too well balanced and have too sharp a goalkeeper in Dennis Riggin to be anywhere but in the thick of contention.</p><h2><b>Top Candidate</b></h2><p>St. Michaels Frank Mahov lich looks like the leading candidate for the Red Tilson Memorial Trophy awarded annually to the league&rsquo;s most valuable play in memory of the brilliant. Oshawa Generals play maker who was killed in World War II. Frank and the &ldquo;Redhead&rsquo; have a lot in common when i comes to stickhandling wizardry Mahovlich is a good bet too for the scoring crown and the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy. He scored both his clubs goals in their 3-2 loss to Kitchener and added a hat trick and an assist against Guelph to bring his total to 19 goals and 22 assists for 41 points in 22 games.</p><p>The Kitchener-Waterloo Dutch men have rejected a proposal by the Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Council to play the Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; All-Stars in Toronto on January 17th. The date was too late and the guarantee too little according to the Dutchies who were offered a split or the gate and a guaranted minimum of 600 dollars. The Dutchmen who are attempting to raise 15,000 dollars to defray the cost of their Olympic tour apparently figure its easier to ask for it then to play for it.</p><p>Happy New Year everybody!!!</p><h2><b>Cub Cage Cop</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03167/1553931-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="586" height="761"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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OHA Junior Clubs All Bunched As Schedule At Half-Way Mark

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01258/1553976-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERT H1RSCHFELD</b></figcaption></div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Vip Palladino, fiery winger of the league leading Saint John Beavers, has the Christmas holidays to think over his past ways.</p><p>Not only will the fine, suspension and peace bond, ordered by Atlantic Coast Senior Hockey League president Jack Fenety stand, but Palladino was called onto the carnet by his own club.</p><p>If Vip, a stick-swinging offender in other years as well as this, wishes to continue to play hockey for the Beavers he must pay the $100 fine, sit out the 10-game suspension, post the $250 peace bond and forfeit two weeks&rsquo; salary.</p><p>Thus the club backs up the stiffest sentence ever handed out to a hockey player in the Maritimes. At the time of the league edict, there were two dissenters. Saint John manager Hartley Campbell said the senetnee was too severe; league vice-president Dick Andres said it was too lenient.</p><p>Thert were stories in the press that the Beavers would appeal the sentences. There were stories that president Fenety would reconsider the case, would take a poll among the four clubs. Fenety denied the stories and the action of the Saint John club indicates it is backing the league leader to the limit.</p><h2><b>No Cause for Change</b></h2><p>Fenety, in view of the wide publicity given the matter, admits he has given some further thought to the case, but could find no reason to change the original decision.</p><p>&ldquo;The Saint John club, under the constitution of the ACSHL, had the opportunity of appealing to the league executive. It did not do so.&rdquo;</p><p>Now the league is concentrating on other matters. Senior hockey prestige has been upheld by the second place Amherst Ramblers, who downed the touring Montreal junior Canadiens. And Bob Chandler, league seeretery-treasurer. has announced the lineups of&rsquo; the two All-Star teams which will clash on the night Of December 26 in Moncton.</p><p>The fans chose the teams. First team Will be made up of Jim Slirley, Saint John, in goal; Lloyd Hinchberger, Saint John, and Lou Kiley, Amherst, defence; Bert Hirschfeld, Moncton, left wing, Shermie White, Amherst, centre and Pierre Brillant, Amherst, right wing. The coach will be Hugh Campbell of Frederictdn and the manager Hartley Campbell of Saint John.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s the second team lineup: goal, Nick Pidsodny, Moncton; Fred Weaver, Moncton and Joe Lepine, Fredericton, defence; Jackie Schmidt, Amherst, left wing; Ron Rubic, Saint John, centre and Doug McPhee, Fredericton, right wing. The coach here is Steve Brklacich of Saint John and the manager Jimmy McDonald of Moncton.</p><h2><b>First Such Game</b></h2><p>The two coaches will select the remainder of the teams. It is the first such game in Maritime senior hockey history and is expected to attract the largest crowd of the season.</p><p>Sammy Pollock&rsquo;s junior Canadiens had a free run through senior teams in the Maritimes until they ran into the Amherst Ramblers in the &ldquo;game of the year&rdquo; at the Halifax Forum.</p><p>The Baby Habs had beaten senior teams of all description in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, including Moncton Hawks twice and Fredericton Capitals once. They had played the Ramblers to a 1-1 tie in Amherst.</p><p>Out of that meeting had come considerable he hat. The juniors claimed they had held back that night, were satisfied with a 1-0 victory when Ramblers upset the apple-cart with the tying goal with less than 10 seconds of playing time remaining</p><p>So the big game was booked for the Halifax Forum and despite the Christmas shopping rush, which always bogs down attendance in this area, drew 3,600 fans.</p><p>In the game the Ramblers used their experience to fashion a 6-4 victory. They were leading 6-1 early in the third period when they settled back to make the margin stand up. The Juinor Habs put on a good finishing spurt but the Ramblers were in no grave danger of losing the game, despite the fact Canadiens yanked their goalie in the final half minute and sent six forwards to the attack.</p><h2><b>They&rsquo;ll Play&hellip;</b></h2><h2><b>&hellip;In All-Star Game</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02179/1553969-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="1168" height="1154"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIM SHIRLEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Palladino Suspension Upheld By ACSHL President Fenety

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The league leading New Haven Blades, with a six game non-losing streak (5 wins and a tie), have pulled out to a 7 point lead over the runner-up Washington Lions.</p><p>Baltimore Clippers, who had held the second slot, are in the midst of the worst slump of any EHL this season. Andy Brown&rsquo;s skaters have dropped seven of their last eight contests, the eighth being a 3-3 tie with New Haven.</p><p>Only four points now seperate the bottom four teams, as Philadelphia, thanks to Ivan Walmsley&rsquo;s great net minding, has moved to within striking distance of a play-off berth.</p><h2><b>Fifth Hat Trick</b></h2><p>Don Hall continues to pace the loop scorers. The Johnstown ace picked up his fifth hat trick of the campaign against Philadelphia on December 14th and is headed for a new EHL record in this department.</p><p>Dave Lucas, Washington Lion defenseman, set a new league mark for blue line men when he picked up a hat trick in just one minute and 4 2 seconds. Lucas&rsquo; feat came at the expense of Clinton Comets in a game won by the Lions, 7-2, on the same night Hall was racking up his 5th &ldquo;trick&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;Indian&rdquo; Joe Nolan, with four misconducts, has passed the 150 minute mark in penalties and may set a new record for time spent in the cooler before the curtain rings down this spring.</p><h2><b>EHL Notes</b></h2><p>Washington Lions borrowed Norm Defelice from Hershey (AHL) for two games&hellip; he Bears spare goallie helped the Lions to wins over Johnstown and Baltimore before&rsquo; returning to Hershey&hellip; Ivan Walmsley chalked up his first shut-out (and the league&rsquo;s 4th), as he blanked Baltimore, 1-0, in overtime on Dec. 16th&hellip; The tie between New Haven and Balti-more on Dec. 14 th was the first game that overtime failed to decide this season&hellip; Murray Dodd and Bill McWhinney of New Haven and Washington, respectively, are running 1-2 in goal tending averages&hellip; Clinton Comets have added Nick Donaleshun from Grand Rapids of the IHL&hellip; Baltimore picked up defenseman Mike Desillets and forward Willard Maas in an effort to snap their slump&hellip; Coach Andy Brown and defenseman Russ Hann of the Clippers are brothers-in-law. (Andy is married to Russ&rsquo; sister)&hellip; Gerry Sullivan notched the Clipper&rsquo;s first hat trick of the season on Dec. 10th, against Clinton.</p><h2><b>Loop Leader</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03112/1554014-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="567" height="1449"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Hall</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Second in &ldquo;Hats&rdquo;</b></h2><p>Dick Roberge, who is runner-up to linemate Don Hall in the individual scoring race, is also second in the hat trick department. Dick has 3 chapeaux to date&hellip; Fern LaPointe (Wash.), Art Dorrington (Phila.) and Yvan Chasle (New Haven) each have two tricks to their credit&hellip; Cler Doyon has been the New Haven Blades hottest scorer in the past two weeks&hellip; Al Fontana of the Philadelphia Ramblers has been sidelined with a shoulder injury.</p><h2><b>Loop Bad Men</b></h2><p>Penalty leaders on each team are: Don Perry (New Haven), Dave Lucas (Wash), Dick Piloquin (Phila), John Brophy (Balt), Crash Kelly (Johnstown) and of course, Joe Nolan (Clinton)&hellip; Individual high scorers are: Yvan Chasle, Claude Boileau and John Sherban (New Haven), Art Dorrington, Rollie Savard and Joe Maroney (Phila), Dan Morgan and Fern LaPointe, (Wash), Don Hall, Dick Roberge and Ken Coombes (Johnstown), Gerry Frizelle, Willie Pawchuk and Jerry Stringle (Clinton) and Ralph De Leo, Lloyd Buchanan and Herb Schiller (Balt.)</p><h2><b>STANDING ON DECEMBEB 17</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0479/1554007-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="611" height="200"></div><div class="sidebar"><p>BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape are used and endorsed by the University of Toronto Football Club.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Jets’ Don Hall Aiming At New Eastern League Record For Hat Tricks

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03147/1554083-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg"></div><p><b>(Solution next week)</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Leaf player recently sent to Pittsburgh.</p><p>4&mdash;Of (Fr.)</p><p>6&mdash;Number of goals Beliveau scored in 1955 playoffs.</p><p>7&mdash;This Leaf player is a native of Calgary.</p><p>11&mdash;Birthplace of Pete Conacher.</p><p>12&mdash;League in which Odie Cleghorn refereed (abbr.)</p><p>14&mdash;Initials of Gerrard, old time star.</p><p>16&mdash;Bismuth. (Sym.)</p><p>17&mdash;Another name for Hugh Bolton.</p><p>19&mdash;Short for given name of Senick of Regina.</p><p>20&mdash;Gordie Howe spent one&mdash;with Omaha Knights (abbr.)</p><p>21&mdash;Initials of Nadeau, ex-Van-couver player.</p><p>24&mdash;Given name of Provost of Canadiens.</p><p>26&mdash;Initials of Goodwin of New Westminster.</p><p>28&mdash;Allan Stanley last played&mdash;hockey with Boston Olympics. (abbr.)</p><p>29&mdash;Pictured star was once active in this sport.</p><p>33&mdash;President of the Quebec Hockey League.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Cooney Weiland once coached this NHL team.</p><p>2&mdash;Gus Mortson underwent one recently.</p><p>3&mdash;A Ranger forward answers to this.</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of NHL coach who played four years with Regina.</p><p>5&mdash;All arenas have these.</p><p>6&mdash;An NHL referee.</p><p>8&mdash;Preposition.</p><p>9&mdash;Warrant Officer (abbr.)</p><p>10&mdash;Initials of Timgren of Pittsburgh.</p><p>13&mdash;Former linemate of Lindsay and Howe.</p><p>15&mdash;Given name of Gendron of New York.</p><p>18&mdash;Former coach of the old Ottawa Senators, called Pete.</p><p>22&mdash;Mrs. Marty Pavelich was one before her marriage.</p><p>23&mdash;This NHL netminder is a native of Humboldt, Sask.</p><p>24&mdash;First name of Kaiser of Vancouver Canucks.</p><p>25&mdash;Terry Sawchuk got one last season (abbr.)</p><p>27&mdash;Initials of Leaf player who is a native of Bolands, Ont.</p><p>30&mdash;Initials of Sands, ex-Bruln player,</p><p>31&mdash;Initials of Asmundson, former Ranger star.</p><p>32&mdash;Comparative ending.</p><h2><b>(Last week&rsquo;s solution)</b></h2><h3><b>Down</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Hebenton</p><p>7&mdash;Once</p><p>8&mdash;It</p><p>10&mdash;Ron</p><p>12&mdash;Dick</p><p>14&mdash;Smith</p><p>15&mdash;V.K.</p><p>16-&mdash;Tan</p><p>18&mdash;Nil</p><p>20&mdash;Cab</p><p>22&mdash;Ci.</p><p>23&mdash;Ten</p><p>24&mdash;C.K.</p><p>2 5&mdash;Net</p><p>27&mdash;Store</p><p>30&mdash;Schneider</p><p>31&mdash;Ea.</p><p>32&mdash;Doraty</p><p>33&mdash;M.B.</p><h3><b>Across</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Hurst</p><p>2&mdash;Bonin</p><p>3&mdash;En.</p><p>4&mdash;N.C.</p><p>5&mdash;Ted</p><p>6&mdash;Nick</p><p>9&mdash;T.K.</p><p>11&mdash;Omaha</p><p>13&mdash;Ivan</p><p>17&mdash;Slinker</p><p>19&mdash;Ice Cream</p><p>20&mdash;C.B.</p><p>21&mdash;Brother</p><p>25&mdash;N.S.</p><p>26&mdash;E.C.</p><p>27&mdash;Sept.</p><p>28&mdash;T.I.</p><p>29&mdash;Ode</p><div class="sidebar"><h2><b>BOLS ANSWER</b></h2><p><b>Bill Mosienko of the Chicago Black Hawks</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0287/1554128-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="249" height="289"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0188/1554135-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="238" height="276"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0385/1554121-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2859" height="1610"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0472/1554114-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2826" height="1587"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GLENN HALL,</b> Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; rookie netminder, repulses a bid for a goal by Boston Bruins&rsquo; Leo LaBine (not shown) in the action at top. Warren Godfrey of the Wings sits and watches as Marty Pavelich (right) moves in to cart off that rebound (arrow). In the action at bottom, Lome (Gump) Worsley of the New York Rangers lies flat out as he watches a shot by Eric Nesterenko of the Toronto Maple Leafs dent the twine at the back of his cage. <span class="photo-credit">(Top Photo by Kilpatrick&mdash;Bottom Photo by Turofsky)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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