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February 11, 1956

The Hockey News February 11, 1956

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0682/1555625-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg"></div><p><b>Andy Bathgate of the New York Rangers gets the profile treatment in next week&rsquo;s Hockey News.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IN THIS ISSUE

COMING next week

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02251/1556602-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>QUEBEC HOCKEY LEAGUE</b> club representatives and executives assembled at a recent meeting at Windsor Hotel, Montreal. Back rew, left to right: Jacques Toupin, Andre Piche and Marc Larocque, Trois-Rivieres: George (Punch) Imlach, Quebec; Kenny Reardon, Shawinigan Falls; Frank Carlin, Montreal Royals; Gerry Plamondon, Chicoutimi; Jos. Tremblay, Shawinigan Falls. Front row, left to right: Maurice Fortin, Trois-Rivieres; Sid Holstead, league secretary; George M. Slater, league president; Byron Higginson, league vice-president; Jos. Desbien, Chicoutimi.</figcaption></div><p>TROIS-RIVIERES, Que.&mdash;</p><p>There was quite a stir in this thriving industrial city at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and St. Maurice Rivers last week when the Lions upset the Montreal Royals 3-2.</p><p>The fact that Royals had trounced the pace-setting Shawinigan Cataracts 5-2 the previous evening at the Forum added more lustre to the triumph of the Trois-Rivieres&rsquo; QHL entry, for whom the rewards have been few in a harassed first season in professional hockey.</p><p>Marius Groleau bagged two goals for the Lions in a little more than two minutes, and Camille Bedard made it 3-0 for the home forces before the first period ended.</p><p>Though they threw all their vigor into the assault in the final two chukkers, Royals never caught up. A goal by Andre Corriveau in the second semester, and another by Lulu Denis in the third heat were the only Montreal markers.</p><h2><b>QHL Meeting Of The Minds</b></h2><h2><b>Good Shot</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03184/1556595-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="564" height="1017"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CAMILLE BEDARD</b></figcaption></div><h3>Goal Disallowed</h3><p>Royals still believe they should have been credited with another tally. Kelly Burnett either hit the top corner of the net, or hit the post, in the middle of the third period. It&rsquo;s alt according to the point of view.</p><p>The goal judge didn&rsquo;t turn on his light and referee Charlie Deziel, who didn&rsquo;t get a good slant at the fast action, at this point of proceedings, was in no mood to over-rule the goal judge.</p><p>All this detail, which usually is in the province of the morning editions of the dailies is given here to point up the fact that Jacques Toupin has been doing a whale of a job in rebuilding the Lions. The Jungle Beasts may become an important factor in the late run of the QHL schedule.</p><p>Statistical wizards will likely contend that the Lions will not be able to pick up enough points between now and the Ides of March to make a playoff berth, but they&rsquo;re bound to make it tough for the Cataracts, the Royals, the Aces and the Sagueneens from here to the wire.</p><h3>Ditched Eight</h3><p>In a little more than five weeks since he took over the reins as coach, and with an added mandate to make all possible advisable deals, Toupin, the old pro, has ditched eight players and brought in as many more.</p><p>He reviewed his deals here the other night for THE HOCKEY NEWS.</p><p>Marcel Goyette has been dealt to the Grand Rapids club of the International League. Larry Kwong and Ron Morgan are now toiling for the Troy, Ohio team, coached by Butch Stahan in the same league. Jack Stoddard has been granted re-instatement as an amateur and was shipped to Owen Sound Mercurys. Ki-Toute Joannette, the grizzled, scarred veteran of the old Valleyfield Braves, is with the Cornwall team in the Eastern Ontario loop.</p><p>These are all, either Lion ordinals back when the season began early in October, or players who have passed through the Trois-Rivieres&rsquo; mill.</p><h3>Needs Experience</h3><p>More recently Paul Michelin and Roy Crew were dispatched to the Philadelphia club of the Eastern United States Amateur Hockey League. Crew is the heavyweight rearguard of whom much was expected when he came east from Saskatoon. But it didn&rsquo;t take Toupin too long to conclude that Roy needs a lot more experience before he&rsquo;s ready for full time duty in a pro hockey setup.</p><p>The Lions are henceforth to carry on with one goalie, Andre Payette. Hence waivers are in process on Phil Hughes, who has a yet unknown destination in an amateur loop.</p><h3>Such are the departures.</h3><p>The arrivals, are to the minds of Trois-Rivieres&rsquo; fans more important. Now wearing a. captain &ldquo;C&rdquo; is Georges Bbucher, young, aggressive, and strong skating rearguard who. came to Lions in the swap with Shawinigan Cataracts for Jean Paul Lamelin.</p><p>Bouchard shows talent as a natural ice-leader. The fact that the Trois-Rivieres club got $750 of Cataracts&rsquo; cash in the deal is all to the merry. Toupin believes he has a young defenseman of great promise. So Bouchard is counted upon to be one of the stars around whom a strong contender will be built next season.</p><h3>Plenty Of Zip</h3><p>Toupin brought in Ivan Tennant and Marius Groleau from Springfield Indians and obtained Camille Bedard, an experienced defenseman, from Providence. Bedard, at 28, shows plenty of zip and packs a powerful shot. If he&rsquo;s around next year to pair with Bouchard, one half a baekline division would appear very formidable.</p><p>Roger Dubuc, a 23-year-old gent from Chambly, Que., who split the 1953-54 season between Sydney, NrS. and Providence and played part of last season at Valleyfield is another of Toupin&rsquo;s acquisitions. Dubuc has been sidelined and may have to undergo surgery for a broken clavicle.</p><p>Royals overstaffed with talent came to the aid of the Trois-Rivieres&rsquo; hockey party by shipping Gary Blaine, tall, solidly-built right winger with a blasting shot and Leo Amadio. Amadio is a defenseman just this season up from the Quebec Junior League.</p><h3>Plenty Of Know-How</h3><p>Back of the blue line he showed plenty of know-how when he was getting a lot of action with Royals earlier in the current campaign. Royals were shorthanded then with Bud MacPherson, Ron Ingram and Wally Clune all Sidelined during overlapping terms. That&rsquo;s how Amadio gained experience. But when the &ldquo;crocks&rdquo; got back into harness Leo had to sit out many games.</p><p>He became expendable, and Royals&rsquo; general-manager agreed to send him to Trois-Rivieres on loan. Amadio impressed in his very first start, the game against his old teammates which gained considerable wordage earlier in this epsistle</p><p>In this game Amadio not only helped out on one of Qroleau&rsquo;s goals, but he showed a lot of savvy-when his team was shorthanded by circling about at centre ice and batting the puck back into Royals&rsquo; end-zone when they were attempting a sortie to get their, powerplay organized.</p><p>It all adds up to a fair-looking hockey team that Toupin has assembled after sifting out so many players and importing an equal number of replacements.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Wholesale Shake-Up Paying Off For Lions

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01344/1555563-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><p><b>&bull; JOHNNY MARIUCCI</b> called his United States team to win the 1956 Olympic hockey title away back last fall, providing he could get the players he wanted. Many of those players were serving in the U.S. Armed Forces but arrangements were made and these players were allowed to try out for the U.S. team&hellip;Mariucci held extensive tryouts all over the U.S. and the top players from college and high school ranks from all over America gathered for these early workouts. Mariucci molded together the kind of team he figured would best represent the country against international competition. Not only did the one-time captain of the Chicago Black Hawks select his team wisely, he also did a tremendous job in coaching his team and getting them up for the series. A natural leader throughout his athletic career, both with the Hawks and as an end on some of the University of Minnesota&rsquo;s greatest football squads, Johnny Mariueci has turned in. one of the outstanding coaching jobs of the century&hellip;A National Hockey League team looking for a clever hockey tactician and a born leader might do a lot worse that go after Johnny Mariucci&hellip;New York Rangers will celebrate their 30th anniversary next year and will bring back some of their former greats. They plan an Old Timers&rsquo; Day. Members of the 1940 Stanley Cup team will be on hand. That is the last Ranger team to win the Stanley pewter&hellip;Detroit hockey scribes call Montreal&rsquo;s Jacques Plante &ldquo;The Wanderer&rdquo;. This is because Jacques has a tendency to roam from his goalmouth. Plante has developed into a first-class netminder since he laid down his knitting needles and concentrated on the art of stopping pucks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02231/1555556-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="282" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Mariucci</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; BILLY REAY</b> is doing a great job in leading his Seattle Americans into third place in the Coast Division of the Western Hockey League. It looks as if his Amerks might nose out New Westminster for the last playoff berth&hellip;Neil and Mac Colville, Jack McGill, Alex Shibicky, Paul Runge, Clint Smith, Art Wiebe, Frank McCool, Cyclone Taylor, Leroy Goldsworthy, Frank Fredrickson and Duke Keats are some of the hockey treats of vesterdav who will take part in the Old Timers Game to be played at Vancouver on February 20&hellip;A team of All-Stars from the International Hockey League will meet the Detroit Red Wings in an exhibition game at Toledo on March 6&hellip;Fort Wayne continues to top the IHL in attendance&hellip;Toledo is ahead of last year and hockey seems to be on the upswing there again under the astute direction of Andy Mulligan&hellip;Ken Purpur from Grapd Forks, North Dakota, a valued member of the U.S. Olympic team, is a younger brother of Fido Purpur, one-time member of the Chicago Black Hawks and the St. Louis Eagles&hellip;Fido &ldquo;How are you Major?&rdquo; was, incidentally, one of the late Maj. Frederick McLaughlin&rsquo;s favorite players&hellip;Barry Ross and Dave Duke, two of the better younger players in the Chicago camp currently playing with Calgary, are expected to join the Hawks soon. Dick Irvin is dreaming or the day when he will have Elmer &ldquo;the Great&rdquo; Vasco on defense for the Hawks. The St. Catharines captain would be with the team now but for a special pre-season agreement with the Tee-Pees&hellip;New York Rangers figure to travel 26,350 miles to fulfill schedule commitments this season&hellip;Jack McKenzie, captain of Canada&rsquo;s Olympic team, was offered a scholarship at the University of Vienna if he would consent to play with the Austrians next year and assist in the coaching. A teacher at the Preston, Ont. High School, McKenzie is intrigued at the offer but hasn&rsquo;t committed himself as yet. He is rated the No. One player on Canada&rsquo;s Olympic team.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03147/1555549-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="274" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank McCool</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; DETROIT RED WINGS</b> are making good use of movies this year. The Detroit players study movies on the afternoon of all their home games. They watch the movie of the last game played against their opposition of that evening&hellip;A fan disgruntled with Frank Udvari&rsquo;s officiating in New York recently, shouted at the referee as he skated past: &ldquo;Open your eyes, Frank, you&rsquo;re missing a good game.&rdquo;&hellip;A salesman tried to interest Muzz Patrick in some rubber caps for the end of the sticks to take the place of the knob of tape. His sales talk contended that the caps would keep the players from being hurt by butt-ends. Whatever interest Muzz had disappeared when he mentioned it to Trainer Frankie Paice&hellip;&ldquo;What&rsquo;s the point of giving somebody a butt-end it it doesn&rsquo;t hurt,&rdquo; declared Paice&hellip;Gil Mayer, subbing for the injured Harry Lumley in the Toronto nets, is the shortest goalie to play in the NHL since Roy Worters was keeping them out for the New York Americans. Mayer stands an even five feet six inches&hellip;Bill Gadsby has set two New York records for defencemen&hellip;Most points in a season, he now has 36; and most assists by a defenceman. He now has 30.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04104/1555542-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="283" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gil Mayer</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>In another attempt to cope with the incredible lawlessness of their charges, the Toronto Maple Leafs last week brought Brian Cullen from Winnipeg for his second major league tryout.</p><p>Cullen was indirectly assigned to the police beat by relieving the team&rsquo;s ace penalty killer, Rudy Migay, of most of his regular line duties so that he would be fresher when called upon to kill off one of the club&rsquo;s record number of penalties.</p><p>&ldquo;Hockey has become specialized in penalty killing and ganging attacks,&rdquo; General Manager Hap Day explained. &ldquo;And Cullen can help ns in both departments. As a playmaking centre, he can free Migay of a lot of Rudy&rsquo;s regular work and as a pointinan he can if necessary be used on the power play&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We have been taking so many penalties that it&rsquo;s killing our penalty killers. We can&rsquo;t seem to stop the penalties, so we just have to better prepare ourselves for them.&rdquo;</p><p>With still almost a third of the season remaining, Leafs were more than 150 minutes ahead of last year&rsquo;s league-leading penalty pace. And the cost was 40 goals, already exceeding the 34-goal total for the entire 1954-55 campaign.</p><p>To make room for Cullen, Eric Nesterenko was loaned to Winnipeg. Leafs had tried without success to convert him to a centreman from a right winger and he will be returned to the wing with the Warriors.</p><p>&ldquo;Eric is satisfied with the chance of playing more regu larly at Winnipeg and the chance of getting his confidence back,&rdquo; Day said.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Leafs Recall Brian Cullen

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01181/1557191-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GOALER GLENN HALL</b> of the Detroit Red Wings and Defenseman Hugh Bolton of the Toronto Maple Leafs seem to be performing some kind of dance manoeuvre as they fight to gain possession of the puck. Hall grabbed the disc in his gloved hand but Bolton, coming in at top speed, had no time to put on the brakes and the photo above resulted. <span class="photo-credit">(—Photo by Turofsky)</span></figcaption></div><h2>&ldquo;Waltz Me Around Again, Clenn&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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ALL-STAR TEAM IN WORLD PLAY?

<p>CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey League, through general manager Jim Hendy, have offered a two-year contract at $10,600 a year to Nikolai Puchkov, star netminder for Russia&rsquo;s triumphant team in the Winter Olympics and World Hockey Championships.</p><p>Manager Hendy said that he cabled Puchkov on the evening of February 4, the day the Russians downed Canada 2-0 to win the title, and also telegraphed the Central Registry of Organized Hockey in Montreal to put the Russian goaler on Cleveland&rsquo;s negociating list.</p><p>Hendy&rsquo;s cable to the Russian goal guardian at Cortina D&rsquo;Ampezzo, Italy, where the Russians had blanked the United States and Canada 4-0 and 2-0 on successive nights in his team&rsquo;s march to the title, offered to make immediate trans-portation arrangements if the netminder was willing to join the Barons.</p><p>Puchkov allowed five, goals in as many games to lead all goalers in the Olympic final tournament. He had three shutouts.</p><p>Hendy&rsquo;s offer marked the second time a North American professional club has approached a European hockey player.</p><p>Jaroslav Drobny, a top tennis player as well as the spearhead of Czechoslovakia&rsquo;s 1947 World Hockey Champions and the 1948 Olympic runners-up, was placed on Boston Bruin&rsquo;s negociating list in 1949, shortly after he decided to remain outside the Iron Curtain.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Barons Attempt To Sign Russian Goaler!

<p>CORTINA, Italy&mdash;</p><p>Canada should in future send &ldquo;a truly representative national All-Star team to international competitions,&rdquo; according to Jimmy Dunn, president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.</p><p>Dunn made the statement after watching Canada&rsquo;s 1956 entry in the Winter Olympics, the Kiteche-ner-Waterloo Dutchmen, absorb a 2-0 withewashing at the hands of the Russian entry.</p><p>The Russians thus won the tournament with the United States second and the Dutchies, 1955 Allan Cup champions, finishing third.</p><p>&ldquo;Every country with a team in the tournament was represented by a national All-Star team with the exception of Canada,&rsquo;&rsquo; said Dunn.</p><p>&ldquo;We sent our best team over here and they played a wonderful game but were still beaten,&rsquo;&rsquo; he said. &ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ve got to do something about it if we want to continue participating in these competitions.&rdquo;</p><p>Emphasizing that his views vere strictly personal and that he was not speaking as head of Canada&rsquo;s governing body for amateur hockey, Dunn suggested that the Allan Cup winner&rsquo;s could be used as the nucleus around which a team could be built.</p><p>&ldquo;My idea would be to make four of five of the top players on the Allan Cup champions the nucleus and then pack the team with the best players we could find around the country.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>&ldquo;A National Effort&rdquo;</b></h2><p>But Dunn pointed out that the CAHA could not be expected to finance such a team. It would have to be a &ldquo;national effort.&rdquo;</p><p>Bobby Bauer, coach of the Dutchmen and a former National Hockey League great, said that a hand-picked team would be the greatest propaganda weapon the Canadian government could devise.</p><p>&ldquo;Our team came over here without costing the taxpayers of Canada a single penny,&rdquo; said Bauer. &ldquo;The trip was financed by the Kitchener-Waterloo club and the CAHA.</p><p>&ldquo;But in two games in Prague (Czechoslovakia) we created more good will for Canada than the government could get by spending more than $10,000,000.</p><p>&ldquo;The entire Olympic team&mdash;hockey players, skiers, skaters&mdash;have created a tremendous amount of good will for Canada. And we created the good will right at the grass roots of Europe where it will do the most good.&rdquo;</p><h2>Backs Suggestion</h2><p>Bauer backed Dunn&rsquo;s suggestion for a national AllStar team &ldquo;as an absolute necessity.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;It should be a national team, financed on a national level.&rdquo;</p><p>Art Tommy of Ottawa, one of Canada&rsquo;s top skiers, said several members of Canada&rsquo;s Olympic ski team &ldquo;were forced to beg from door to door to raise the money to get over here.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I was lucky. We get wonderful support from Ottawa and I didn&rsquo;t have to do much door-to-door soliiciting. But it still cost me money out of my own pocket to come over here to represent Canada.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;An Olympic team is the cheapest form of publicity a country can get. And it&rsquo;s the best publicity. It is a pity Canada hasn&rsquo;t realized that fact yet.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Agrees</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01322/1557253-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="575" height="1166"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOBBY BAUER</b></figcaption></div><h2>U.S. Surprises</h2><p>Biggest surprise of the tourney itself was the showing of the United States entry and their great 4-1 victory over the Dutchmen. Before departing for Europe, American coach Johnny Mariucci had stated that he figured this was one of the best, if not the best, teams the U.S. had ever sent to the World Tournament. Learned hockey observers, like general-manager Jack Adams of the Detroit Red Wings, agreed with him, and the team, made up mostly of the college players, came through in fine fashion to capture the runner-up spot in the tournament.</p><p>The final standing of the top three teams, their goals spread and goal averages:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03214/1557246-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="590" height="136"></div><p>(The goal spread&mdash;margin between goals decided the Olympic title in event of a tie for first place. Goal averages would have been used in case of identical goal spreads.)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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CAHA President Favors Packing Canadian Team

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Jerry Toppazzini of the Boston Bruins will always remember the month just past as one representing a virtual roller coaster of emotions for him.</p><p>In a span of less than two weeks the 24-year-old native of Copper Cliff, Ont. was subjected to alternating periods of joy and despair sufficient to try any man.</p><p>Midway through the month the versatile Toppazzini realized a desire of two years&rsquo; standing when he was traded by the Detroit Red Wings to the Bruins.</p><p>Returning to Boston, which he left with much regret for Chicago in February of 1954, being reunited with long-time friends like Leo LaBine, Bob Armstrong and Doug Mohns, gave Toppazzini his rosiest outlook on his hockey life in a long time.</p><p>But his happiness was curtailed abruptly.</p><p>En route from Detroit his car was involved in a collision with another in Jarvis, Ont., Mrs. Toppazzini sustaining head and neck injuries, Jerry receiving a cut on his head and both cars being damaged beyond repair. The Toppazzinis&rsquo; infant daughter Cheryll was unharmed.</p><h2><b>Luck Token</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01253/1555232-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="566" height="875"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY TOPPAZZINI</b></figcaption></div><h3>Lustre Gone</h3><p>Sympathetic Jarvis residents and police officials rallied to the family&rsquo;s aid, and assured of good care of his wife and daughter, Toppazzini continued here for a home-coming from which the lustre was gone.</p><p>In poor condition himself, he kept a date with the New York Rangers the next night, scoring two goals and winning the award as the game&rsquo;s outstanding player.</p><p>Four days later Toppazzini learned for the first time that his wife had been unconscious through most of the intervening time when he talked to her at his parents&rsquo; home in Copper Cliff, to which she had been moved, but that her condition had been kept from him.</p><p>That night, as a fitting celebration for the encouraging news, Toppazzini scored another goal, against the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>At the close of his first full week here the young man&rsquo;s perpetual sir of frivolity had acquired an undertone of seriousness.</p><h3>Unforgettable Stretch</h3><p>&ldquo;This has been a stretch I&rsquo;ll never forget,&rdquo; he observed. &ldquo;I certainly have lots of things to be thankful for.</p><p>&ldquo;First there was the deal which brought me back here. When I heard about it I was about as happy as I could be.</p><p>&ldquo;Then came the accident, which looked like the end of everything for awhi&rsquo;e. I was so worried about my wife&hellip;well, I&rsquo;ve never been through anything like that before.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess I thought her condition was better than it actually was, but looking back I know that she was in good hands, and when I finally talked to her it was as if a huge weight had been lifted from me.</p><p>&ldquo;What with one thing and another I&rsquo;m just starting to realize now that I got off to a pretty good start here,&rdquo; he continued, the familiar Toppazzini grin breaking out, &ldquo;and I just hope that I can keep it up.</p><p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t have any car now, and our plans for living here this season are gone, I guess, but my wife is coming along fine and the baby wasn&rsquo;t hurt and those are the important things.&rdquo;</p><h3>Coincidences</h3><p>Toppazzini&rsquo;s happy-sad homecoming was replete with coincidences.</p><p>The accident in which he was involved happened directly in front of the home of Jack Mehlenbacher, National league referee. Mehlenbacher officiated the game with the Rangers here in which Jerry scored twice.</p><p>Among the Jarvis people who offered assistance to the distressed family were a Mr. and Mrs. Woods, who recognized Toppazi-zini as a one-time teammate of their son Chuck with the junior Barrie (Ont.) Flyers. The Woods took Mrs. Toppazzini and her daughter into their home.</p><p>The evening of Jerry&rsquo;s first game with the Bruins here in two years the Providence Reds were idle. Among the American Leaguers who came up for the Bruins&rsquo; game was Toppazzini&rsquo;s older brother Zellio, just in time to provide family moral support. Zellio had no advance inkling of the accident.</p><h3>Strange Career</h3><p>Toppazzini has had a strange career with the Bruins. He first won a position here on the strength of his personality, as much as his playing ability.</p><p>He came up from Hershey as a stand-by in the Stanley Cup playoffs of 1952, and his effervescence caught the fancy of Lynn Patrick, then Bruins&rsquo; coach. Although he didn&rsquo;t take part in a single playoff game that spring, Patrick awarded him a job for the coming fall.</p><p>Once pressed for an explanation of his unprecedented move, Patrick said, &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t explain it. I just consider him our good luck token.&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick eventually traded his good luck token to Chicago, and shortly after the deal was made he started regretting having parted with the bearer of the designation. Now he&rsquo;s sorry he wasn&rsquo;t around for Jerry&rsquo;s homecoming.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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January An Eventful Month For B’s Gerry Toppazzini

<div class="byline">Vince LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Like all people in Canada, the top brass of the Montreal Canadiens watched with keen interest the progress of the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen in the Olympic hockey tournament.</p><p>They also followed closely the play of one member of the United States team&mdash;Bill Cleary, intercollegiate scoring champion from Cambridge, Mass.</p><p>Cleary is on the Habs negotiation list.</p><p>Last summer Frank Carlin, manager of the Royals, a Montreal farm club in the Quebec Hockey League, went to the United States to try to induce Cleary to sign.</p><h2>Declined Contract</h2><p>The player declined, saying he wanted to remain an amateur to represent his country in the Olympic games. There is a good chance that he will agree to a tryout in Montreal next Fall.</p><p>Cleary is on the Habs&rsquo; nemont Hill prep school in Massachusetts, is the first American-born player ever sought by the Canadiens.</p><p>Cooney Weiland, the exBoston Bruin now coaching at Harvard, agrees that he is a fine prospect and Coach Rocky Robillard of McGill rates him as a good two-way player. Reputed to be the class of the Ivy League, Cleary set a new intercollegiate scoring record last season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

U.S. Olympian Being Watched By Habitants

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Amen! Or as Phil Watson must be saying to himself &ldquo;veni, vidi, vici.&rdquo; (I came, I saw, I conquered).</p><p>The Rangers&rsquo; much-discussed nine-game road trip is over. When it started Watson said: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be happy if we break even&mdash;four wins, four losses and a tie.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s all over now and &ldquo;Pherocious Phil&rdquo; is beaming because his wish has come true. The Blues broke even, and without sharpy Larry Popein for six of the nine games.</p><p>There&rsquo;s no question about it anymore. Barring a minor catastrophe the Blues have clinched a playoff berth with their successful safari to the hinterlands.</p><p>Now the question arises. Will the Blues finish in first (what nerve), second (and Howe), third (good bet) or fourth (see Smythe) position?</p><h2><b>Pleased</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02237/1555287-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="585" height="872"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PHIL WATSON</b></figcaption></div><h3>May Climb</h3><p>With 11 of their 20 remaining games on Madison Square Garden ice, Rangers should have no difficulty holding third, could easily climb a rung as Wings and Habs stage their usual mid-winter knockdown-drag-out battle.</p><p>Finding a hero in the recent road trip is not easy. There were many outstanding players including Bill Gadsby, Gump Worsley, Andy Hebenton and Dave Creighton, among many others.</p><p>Gadsby, who seems to get better as he goes along, arrived home with a Half Nelson around the all-time Ranger record for a defenseman&mdash;35 points&mdash;set by Ott Heller and Hy Buller. Gadsby tied the mark, should eclipse it by the time this appears in print.</p><p>Discussing the play of Worsley is like playing an old favorite record. It&rsquo;s the same tune. The Gumper played his usual competent game in goal which is nothing short of magnificent.</p><h3>Wolves Vicious</h3><p>Funny thing about the Gumper, but the pundits around the loop seem to appreciate his play more than the Manhattan moguls. And now that we think of it the same applied when Charlie Rayner guarded the New York twines. One bad night and the wolves were on him.</p><p>Worsley never faltered on the arduous trip, could even be excused for the 6-0 debacle at Detroit on Jan. 12th. He&rsquo;s been the difference in more than a few games and is rarely guilty of permitting boo-boo bloopers a la highly-regarded Harry Lumley.</p><p>That hogwash about resting him was probably tease threat as the Gump hasn&rsquo;t frayed one iota since the season started.</p><h3>Plays Like a Vet</h3><p>And then there was Andy Hebenton, the rookie who plays so much like a veteran that he almost completely overlooked in the mid-season Calder Trophy balloting. The &ldquo;Silent Sam&rdquo; of the New Yorkers, Hebenton scored four goals in the last six road games to boost his total on arrival home to a gaudy 18.</p><p>&ldquo;I always pick up after Christmas time,&rdquo; the 26-year-old right wing said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s been that way ever since I started playing in the Western League.&rdquo;</p><p>Andy is proving that the 46 goals he scored with Victoria last year weren&rsquo;t flukes. He&rsquo;s far ahead of his quota set by Phil Watson, should tap the scoring well for at least 23 goals the way he&rsquo;s going.</p><h3>On to Playoffs</h3><p>Now that everyone in the New York camp is breathing easier the new slogan is &ldquo;On to the Playoffs,&rdquo; when once again Watson hopes to be saying &ldquo;veni, vidi, vici.&rdquo;</p><p>RANGERABLIA: Mrs. Gail Hebenton expecting a new arrival any day&hellip;Advance sale of Feb. 5th game with Montreal broke all records including the one of Jan. 11 which was the previous all-time holder&hellip;Jean Beliveau who was held scoreless in Montreal&rsquo;s first five bouts in New York was advised by coach Toe Blake to avoid magazine scribes who had been after him since the beginning of the season&hellip;Toe wants him to concentrate on scoring in the small Garden rink. Gen. Kilpatrick trying to arrange for all Rangers road playoff games to be televised&hellip;Also he would like to set aside a block of tix for Rangers rooters who care to make the away jaunts&hellip;Much speculation as to the site of the Blues playoff games, if they get into the final round&hellip;Good chance that it will be Toronto&hellip;Local fans prefer Boston. Rangers&rsquo; all-time win record (29) likely to be shattered.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-02

Rangers Return Home Happy After Successful Journey

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03218/1555318-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he 1917-18 season when a scintillating left winger by the name Joe Malone scored 44 goals for the Montreal Canadiens. It was a remarkable feat as the club only played a 22-game schedule that season. Malone averaged two goals per game.</p><p><b>Gooderham & Worts</b></p><p><b>LIMITED</b></p><p><b>DISTILLERS SINCE 1832</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-03

Do you remember?…

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03144/1555363-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg"></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Experts in genetics talk about heredity, family traits and resemblances. But they-can&rsquo;t prove anything by the Richard brothers, professional puck chasers with the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>Henri Richard, the 19-year-old Pocket Rocket, isn&rsquo;t at all like his big brother, the illustrious Maurice Richard, a bitter iconoclast who has made a shambles of the National Hockey League scoring records.</p><p>He&rsquo;s as quiet as the Rocket is fiery. He sticks strictly to busi ness on the ice. Off it he is just as mild-mannered. Quiet! He sure is. He dispenses words with the frugality of a Scotman compelled to forfeit a coin with each utterance.</p><p>A writer, just before an interview with the kid, asked coach Toe Blake if his prize rookie Bpoke English.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think he can even epeak French,&rdquo; replied Blake. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never heard him talk.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Advice From A Great</b></h2><h3>Likes Outdoors</h3><p>A youngster of simple Wants and moderate tastes, Henri Richard plays some cards on road trips and reads articles such as are found in the French-language edition of the Reader&rsquo;s Digest. He has no hobbies, no outside interests apart from his career as a hockey player. In the Summer he relaxes on camping trips, preferring the solitude of the wilds to the exacting demands of city life.</p><p>Although he has played golf a few times with Maurice, the better linksman of the pair, the brothers seldom see each other socially. There is too great a disparity in ages.</p><p>The Rocket will be 35 next August; the Pocket Rocket will be 20 on February 29. Maurice, of course, maintains his own home which is well stocked with little Richards. Henri lives with his parents at Bordeaux, on the river that skirts the Island of Montreal on the North.</p><p>They don&rsquo;t even look alike. Maurice has straight hair, a pointed jaw, small flashing eyes. Generally he wears an expression that might have been hewn out of wood by a Habitant craftsman. Henri&rsquo;s hair is inclined to be curly. His jaw is square, his eyes are more smoldering. In the Canadiens&rsquo; dressing room they sit on different benches and, except when the team is leaving after a game for another engagement out of town, they go their separate ways when they leave the rink.</p><h3>Knows Rocket&rsquo;s Ways</h3><p>Yet Henri Richard enjoys playing on a line with his big brother. Hard-working Dickie Moore, who sometimes seems to be ignored by the brothers on passing plays, is their left winger. Perhaps the Richards would acquire even more points if they capitalized more on Moore&rsquo;s assets.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s good to be playing with the Rocket,&rdquo; says the youngster. &ldquo;I know him so well. I know what he&rsquo;s going to do.&rdquo;</p><p>He should know. He&rsquo;s been watching the Rocket on his goal getting sorties since he was three years old. At that tender age, he started-going to games at the Forum. Maurice then was playing with the senior Canadiens, under the direction of Paul Haynes, in the old Quebec Senior Hockey League.</p><p>On the other hand, Maurice saw very little of his kid brother.</p><p>&ldquo;I started playing with the Canadiens in 1942,&rdquo; he recalled. &ldquo;At that time Henri wasn&rsquo;t even in school. Then I got married and I was either travelling with the team or in my. home. As a junior, I saw Henri play only three or four times.&rdquo;</p><h3>Bright Prospect</h3><p>Young Richard, nurtured as carefully as a hot-house plant in the Canadiens&rsquo; vast and productive farm system, was ear-marked for a professional career before he was 16.</p><p>Four years ago a group of Montreal writers were sitting with managing director Frank J. Selke in the Detroit Leland Hotel during Stanley Cup playoffs. They were talking about the future and eventual replacements for veteran stars.</p><p>&ldquo;Who&rsquo;s the most promising prospect in your organization?&rdquo; someone asked Selke.</p><p>&ldquo;Young Henri Richard,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a great hockey player. He has the shot, the playmaking ability&hellip;. and he thinks a good game.&rdquo;</p><h3>Does More Thinking</h3><p>&ldquo;Will he be better than his brother?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said Selke. &ldquo;They are different types. The Rocket is an instinctive player with fine reflex action. He&rsquo;s imbued with one desire&hellip;. to score goals. Everything else is secondary. Henri does more thinking on the ice, more setting up of plays.&rdquo;</p><p>Today the Pocket Rocket is showing that characteristic in the National Hockey League, a full year ahead of schedule.</p><p>&ldquo;He had one more year as a junior,&rdquo; said Selke the other day, &ldquo;but he&rsquo;d dominated that league so long, he was dissatisfied.&rdquo;</p><h3>Signed Pro Pact</h3><p>Canadiens brought him to their training camp at Verdun, Que., last Fall and he immediately set out to prove to the brass that he was ready for the NHL. Although he weighed only 155 pounds and stood only five-foot-eight, he acquitted himself with distinction. Finally, with the opening of the 1955-56 season only 24 hours away, he was signed to a major league contrart.</p><p>&ldquo;Henri Richard has helped us a lot,&rdquo; said Toe Blake. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s fast and shifty. Other payers can&rsquo;t catch him. In a recent game against the Black Hawks in Chicago, he was hooked from behind three times. The Hawks got penalties and we scored three goals.&rdquo;.</p><h3>No Trouble</h3><p>The kid says he has no trouble adjusting himself to the calculating environment of the National League.</p><p>&ldquo;I play my shift and that&rsquo;s all,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t get tired. I feel fresh and consequently I&rsquo;m always able to give my best. With the juniors, I played forward and sometimes defense. I was on for power p.lays and penalty killing. I learned a lot though.&rdquo;</p><p>In the NHL he has found that he has to be quicker, sharper. There&rsquo;s no margin for error. He has responded to the test of keener competition like a thourough-bred and so impressed the selectors in balloting for the league&rsquo;s top rookie that he acquired 44 points in voting at the halfway mark, only four less than Detroit&rsquo;s Glenn Hall.</p><h3>Finds Leafs Tough</h3><p>The Toronto Maple Leafs haven&rsquo;t been setting the league on fire this season but young Richard finds them one of the toughest teams to play against.</p><p>&ldquo;I have more trouble with Harry Lumley than any other goaltender in the league.&rdquo; he said. Terry Sawchuk also is tough. On defense, I find it hard to get around Jim Morrison. He&rsquo;s a good blocker. As an opposite centre, I think Tod Sloan is the best. He&rsquo;s got good puck sense. You&rsquo;ve got to be on your toes when Sloan is out there. You can&rsquo;t let him get away from you. Or bang! He scores.&rdquo;</p><p>A modest fellow, Henri pays no attention to crowd reaction and doesn&rsquo;t even keep a scrap book. When he was younger, Maurice was his idol.</p><p>&ldquo;I used to keep his clippings,&rdquo; he recalled. &ldquo;But I gave it up.&rdquo;</p><h3>Ignored Souvenir</h3><p>When the Pocket Rocket scored his first NHL goal&mdash;a nifty deke of Worsley on Bert Olmstead&rsquo;s well-timed pass&mdash;he didn&rsquo;t even seek the puck as a souvenir..</p><p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s one goal?&rdquo; he shrugged. &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t mean anything.&rdquo;</p><p>The kid always has been a prolific scorer. Last season with the Baby Habs in the Quebec junior league, he led all point-getters with 33 goals and 33 assists for 66 points in 44 games. Those identical totals for goals and assists would indicate that his scoring ability and his play-making prowess are nicely balanced.</p><h3>Close To Record</h3><p>In his previous season, he fired 58 pucks behind harassed netminders, his output falling just four short of the junior league record of 62 set by Jean Beliveau, another product of Quebec&rsquo;s rinks now with the Habs.</p><p>His coach with the junior Canucks was Sammy Pollock, general over-seer of the Montreal farm system and its chief scout. He first saw in Henri the latent spark of greatness.</p><p>&ldquo;Here was a kid,&rdquo; said Pollock, &ldquo;playing against fellows two or three years older. But he never quailed. He had a good right-hand shot, accurate and fast, and a nice shift to set up his most effective range. Because he was small, he was a target for the bullies on other teams but he never got the worst of an encounter.&rdquo;</p><h3>Commands Respect</h3><p>Today in the NHL, the Pocket Rocket commands the respect of his rivals. He now stands on his own feet although he nearly got off to a bad start when his big brother persisted in coming to his rescue every time he was body-checked or an eager opponent raised a stick against him.</p><p>Those tactics were ill-advised. However Rocket seems to have dropped them. Perhaps Blake spoke to him about the &ldquo;big brother act.&rdquo; Perhaps Henri asked him quietly to desist. Perhaps Maurice himself realized that he was doing the wrong thing, that a professional hockey player&mdash;or any hockey player for that matter&mdash;must learn to protect himself.</p><h3>Private Matter</h3><p>That&rsquo;s something we&rsquo;ll never know because the brothers won&rsquo;t talk about it. It&rsquo;s a private matter.</p><p>However there might be a clue in a recent remark by the kid. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just a beginner. Maurice is an established star. If he can help me, I like him too. But just the way he helps other rookie. That&rsquo;s the way I want it. No special favors.&rdquo;</p><p>There&rsquo;s wisdom in those words. A kid who thinks like that is going to go a long way in the National Hockey League. A long, long way!</p><h2><b>The Pocket Rocket&hellip;&hellip;A Bright Star In Hab Galaxy</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01252/1555356-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="1174" height="970"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02211/1555349-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1756" height="1476"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HENRI (POCKET ROCKET) RICHARD</b> is almost as popular with Montreal&rsquo;s small fry as his more illustrious brother, Maurice. Above, The Pocket takes time out to sign a few autographs as he watches a minor league game at the Montreal Forum. The picture below was taken back in the days when young Henri (then 16) was just getting started in hockey with Nationale of the Quebec Junior Hockey League. Big brother is shown giving the fledgling star some words of advice. Later young Henri transferred to the Montreal Junior Canadiens, which team he left to jump to the parent NHL Habs at the start of the current campaign.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0003-03

Rocket’s Kid Brother Wants To Be Judged Solely on Own Merits

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02288/1555418-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg"></div><p><b>(As Seen in the Toronto Star)</b></p><h2><b>Shoes Had to Come Before Skates</b></h2><p>CORTINA, Italy.&mdash;Johnny Mariucci was 17 when he played his first game of hockey. Up to that time he never had skates. His mother had a quaint theory that shoes should come first. And there were times when he didn&rsquo;t have them. His one hundred and twenty-fitfh game of hockey was for the Chicago Black Hawks. So, once he got started, he didn&rsquo;t lose any time. Johnny had played football. When he got to the Chihawks he bodychecked as he blocked on the gridiron. After 22 games he had 44 stiches between hairline and chin. Eddie Froelich, then trainer of the Hawks, finally told him: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m getting sick of sewing you up.&rdquo; Johnny retorted: &ldquo;How do you think I feel?&rdquo; Froelich answered: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s time you learned how to respect yourself if you&rsquo;re going to survive in this league.&rdquo; Maybe that&rsquo;s when Mariucci saw the light. Whenever an opponent raised his stick, Johnny beat him to the punch by giving him the elbow. He became known as &ldquo;Mister Elbow&rdquo; of the Black Hawks. He also got a reputation as one of the two-fisted fighters of the big league. Some of this notoriety was forced upon him, he claims now.</p><p>The Chicagos of those days were composed of players like. Bill Mosienko and the Bentley brothers, who skated much harder than they punched. Whenever they were having trouble with some toughie of the opposing side, coach Johnny Gottselig would walk along behind the bench. &ldquo;Better put that bum in his place,&rdquo; he would mutter in Johnny&rsquo;s ear. So, in addition to his own brawls, Johnny inherited the mayhem of his mates. &ldquo;Dirty Old Mariucci&rdquo; was the policeman for the team. Even after he left the Hawks and went to St. Louis, his escapades hit the public, prints. One time, his team was training in Barrie. During an exhibition game with Springfield, a rookie with the Indians rapped Johnny on the head. Mariucci warned him not to do it again. That was a sign of mellowing, when he was allowing the other guy one clout. When the rookie did it again Johnny dropped his stick and crashed him around the ice. Sugar Jim Henry of the Indians saved the rookie&rsquo;s life by opening the gate. Johnny chased him all the way to the dressing-room. Next day he told Springfield coach Earl Seibert: &ldquo;Do me a favor. Don&rsquo;t play that kid against us or you&rsquo;ll have a dead pigeon on your hands.&rdquo; Later in the day there was a knock on Johnny&rsquo;s door. It was the Springfield rookie. He said: &ldquo;I want to apologize, Mr. Mariucci, and can I please play against your club tonight.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Johnny Had Plan That Worked</b></h2><p>T&rsquo;HAT&rsquo;S the background of the coach who shook 14,000,000 Canadians to their heels. Nothing ever came easily for Mariucci, and he&rsquo;s been a fighter most of his years. But he&rsquo;s not the ready-fisted type as a coach. Johnny&rsquo;s club was under orders to keep clear of the penalty plank. That was part of his strategy for beating Canada. The rest of it made just as much sense. &ldquo;I told our guys they couldn&rsquo;t take too many chances offensively,&rdquo; Johnny explained, &ldquo;because I knew they couldn&rsquo;t skate with the Canadian club, so they had to drop back and battle for that puck in our end. When our kids broke, they broke clean, didn&rsquo;t they? That was the difference. But I didn&rsquo;t believe it could happen. At the end of the first period when we are leading 2-0, I figured it was just a matter of time before the roof fell in. When our kids are up, 2-1, at the end of the second, I&rsquo;m sure the axe is about to descend. Then Johnny Mayasich gets that third goal for us, and suddenly I get the feeling this is it. But I&rsquo;d hate to play those guys 20 games. They&rsquo;d win the other 19. That Canadian pressure would be too much for our kids.&rdquo;</p><p>The Yank team was picked by Johnny from 100 players assembled last October at two camps&mdash;one in the west and one in the east. Johnny spent the autumn shuttling between the two camps. When he made his final selection, 12 of his players were from the west&mdash;most of them from Minnesota. This put his head on the block in the east. Tradition decreed the U.S. team should be half east, half west. Johnny showed the same disdain for tradition as he had for high sticks in the big league. His selectees have vincidcated him. Cables came pouring in from the States inviting Johnny to address women&rsquo;s institutes and service clubs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0004-02

Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">by DinkCarroll</div><p>(As seen in the Montreal Gazette)</p><h2><b>Hockey Anniversary in New York</b></h2><p>Hockey is celebrating its 30th anniversary in New York and the crowds the Rangers have been drawing have inspired the hockey writers to declare that there isn&rsquo;t any doubt &ldquo;the glittering game has come out of the north to stay.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;It was a life saver for major arenas in New York, Boston Detroit and Chicago,&rdquo; one writer scribbled. &ldquo;By now even the late Tex Rickard would be convinced that they no longer could survive on revenue derived from boxing, wrestling and the circus. Heavyweight fighters aren&rsquo;t what they were in Rickard&rsquo;s day&mdash;not in number or ability.&rdquo;</p><p>What he neglected to point out is that Rickard&rsquo;s day was before television, an invention which has turned the sports scene inside out or maybe it would be more accurate to say outside in. Only championship fights which are blacked out in the area where they take place draw any money nowadays, and it doesn&rsquo;t matter where they are staged.</p><p>Incidentally, Madison Square Garden was designed primarily as a boxing arena, and a good many seats on the north and south sides arc not occupied for hockey games. They aren&rsquo;t occupied because if you sit in one, you will see only half the ice. Attendance at the Rangers&rsquo; home games would be higher than it is if all the seats offered a completed view. But to go on with the story:</p><p>&ldquo;It is significant that Madison Square Garden&rsquo;s old $3,000,000 mortgage was torn up and dropped into the Stanley Cup when the Rangers won it in 1940, just 13 years after the Garden Corp.&rsquo;s own club entered the National Hockey League.</p><p>&ldquo;The rather ill-fated Americans, operated by the bootlegging and racing figure, Big Bill Dwyer, were the original New York entry. The Americans, sorely hobbled by a prohibitive rental arrangement, folded as wards of the league after the 1941-42 season.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>A Surprise for Tex Rickard</b></h2><p>Tommy Gorman managed the Americans for Big Bill Dwyer, and some of his stories about the way the club was operated are hilarious. If Tommy&rsquo;s memoirs are going to be published, as the grapevine&rsquo; has it, undoubtedly he will devote one large chapter to this phase of his life. The law eventually caught up with Big Bill and he went away to &ldquo;college&rdquo; in Atlanta. One leather-lunged fan in the Garden would never let Tommy forget his boss was locked up.</p><p>&ldquo;Hey, Gorman,&rdquo; he&rsquo;d yell just before the puck was dropped at the start of a game, &ldquo;did you get your orders from Atlanta yet?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Little was known about hockey in New York when the sport &lsquo;crashed the big town that December night of 1925 for the formal opening of the present Garden,&rdquo; the story continues. Promoter Tex Rickard didn&rsquo;t believe it would go. He asked whether it was played on horseback. But when 17,000 turned out on opening night to see the Canadiens beat the Americans, 3-1, the man from the gold fields of Alaska, the cattle ranches of South America and the Reno gambling hall reiterated his famous line:</p><p>&ldquo;I never seed anything like it&rsquo; &ldquo;</p><p>But Rickard perceived that the bodyclash at high speed&mdash;it was solid bodychecking in those days&mdash;was the feature of the game that appealed most to onlookers. He pointed it up by having a number of ambulances parked outside the Garden on the night of a game. The ambulances were never used, but they helped Rickard get across the idea that hockey was indeed a dangerous and thrilling spectacle.</p><h2><b>The Major Changes in 30 Years</b></h2><p>Jimmy (The Boy Bandit) Johnston, brother of Charlie Johnston, the boxing manager who is in that current bassle with Julius Helfand, was the Garden matchmaker at that time. He couldn&rsquo;t always make the matches he wanted, as the managers invariably demanded more for their fighters than he was prepared to give.</p><p>There is a story that after a particularly trying day he went to the Garden to watch a hockey game between the Toronto Leafs and the Americans. The fellow who caught his eye immediately was Red Horner, who was bouncing the Americans around that night and became embroiled in a couple of fights.</p><p>&ldquo;What a guy!&rdquo; Johnston is reported to have said with awe in his voice. &ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t care who he fights and he&rsquo;ll fight for nothing.&rdquo;</p><p>One of the writers asked Lester Patrick on his recent visit to New York to list the major changes in hockey in the last 30 years.</p><p>&ldquo;For one thing, it&rsquo;s twice as fast,&rdquo; said Lester, who was the original coach of the Rangers. &ldquo;Squads are larger and lineups are changed more frequently.</p><p>&ldquo;Stars formerly played three or four minutes at a stretch. Now they&rsquo;re rarely on the ice longer than a minute and a half at a time. It used to be that one line&mdash;the centre and right and left wings&mdash;played most of the time.</p><p>&ldquo;Clubs had three lines then, too, but the second line played little, the third hardly at all. Now each club has three good lines. There are more defensemen and they, too, are changed more frequently.</p><p>&ldquo;With one fresh deal after another, the tempo of the game has stepped up. It could be that speed has supplanted subtleness.</p><p>&ldquo;The centre red line gives players an extra area in which to make passes. Emphasis is on checking. No longer are there passing plays with no opposition. That could be the most pronounced change.&rdquo;</p><p>There is a general impression that the Rangers haven&rsquo;t always made money. For several seasons, they couldn&rsquo;t draw fans in any numbers to their mid-week games, though they did well enough, on Sunday nights. But the most surprising line in the story is the following:</p><p>&ldquo;Then Rangers never have failed to show a seasonal profit of $100,000.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>As the &ldquo;baby&rdquo; of the National Hockey League, Larry Hillman is shouldering a man-sized load.</p><p>When Hillman reached his 19th birthday Sunday, February 5, he was filling the vacancy left when All-Star Red Kelly shifted from defense to left wing.</p><p>The fact that the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; defense hasn&rsquo;t appeared a bit weaker without Kelly is strong testimony to the ability of the rugged 185-pound Hillman, youngest player in the NHL.</p><p>His was an unpublicized role, but it made possible the headlined switch by Kelly.</p><p>Jack Adams and Jimmy Skinner took a calculated risk when they pulled Kelly off the Detroit defense. At the time, however, it was more important to bolster the offense and Kelly has done a terrific job of doing that.</p><p>Any club expects to be hurt when it loses a regular defenseman, not to mention a six-time All-Star like Kelly. Yet the Red Wing rearguards have carried along without any visible sag, Hillman being the key.</p><p>The day Kelly went to forward, Detroit was left with three regular defensemen&mdash;Bob Goldham, Marcel Pronovost and Warren Godfrey. The fourth hand was Bucky Hollingworth, who had been getting little action and probably will consider this as a year of post-graduate education and training.</p><h2>Solid&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01273/1555456-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="576" height="567"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LARRY HILLMAN</b></figcaption></div><h2>&hellip;Defenders</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02247/1555449-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="586" height="571"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB GOLDHAM</b></figcaption></div><h3>Farmed To Bisons</h3><p>Hillman was absent. A month earlier he had been farmed out to Buffalo. Like Hollingworth, he was seeing little use and the trip to the minors was arranged to give him some action again.</p><p>When Hillman was recalled, it was planned to alternate him and Hollingworth as the fourth regular. But Hillman quickly took over as a full-time performer. He looked right at home and became one of Detroit&rsquo;s steadiest players.</p><p>&ldquo;Larry was a different player when he came back from Buffalo,&rdquo; points out Skinner. &ldquo;Steady playing there both sharpened him and gave him new confidence. He adjusted to NHL style of play much quicker than I had even hoped for.&rdquo;</p><p>Had Hillman faltered and Hollingworth, not proved a suitable replacement, the Detroit tacticians would have had no choice but return Kelly to defense. Hillman&rsquo;s success, however, almost guarantees that Kelly will remain a forward for at leas&rsquo;t the balance of the season.</p><p>The defense has provided far fewer headaches this season than the forwards, where shifts and changes were almost a daily procedure until a clicking combination finally was found in mid-December.</p><h3>A Big Year</h3><p>Goldham is enjoying another big year, stifling all that old retirement talk before it gets started. Adams is keeping a careful eye on the 33-year-old Goldham, but so far there are no signs of his legs going.</p><p>Bob is throwing his weight around even more than before. With his spectacular &ldquo;drop&rdquo; plays when he becomes Detroit&rsquo;s second goalie, he&rsquo;s still the darling of the balcony fans at Olympia.</p><p>Pronovost was slow to get started but has come up with another post-Christmas surge. A six-year veteran, he always reaches a peak at playoff time and that probably will be the case again.</p><p>Marcel is the strongest of the puck carriers on defense since Kelly left, and also the hardest hitter.</p><p>Godfrey is the last regular left to show as profit from all the trades Adams worked last summer. Five players were obtained from Boston and four from Chicago, but only Godfrey, an exBruin, and Hollingworth, a former Black Hawk, remain on the squad.</p><p>Godfrey was eyed at the time as a replacement for Benny Woit who went to the Hawks in the swap. He has proved as solid or defense as Woit, has greater mobility, better speed and carries the puck more. He took over his position the initial day at training camp and has given a steady showing ever since.</p><h3>Ice Chips</h3><p>Here is a timetable of Detroit&rsquo;s rise through the NHL standings this season:</p><p>On Oct. 15 the defending NHL champs fell to sixth place.</p><p>Then they moved to finish on Nov. 10, to fourth on Nov. 24 to third on Dec. to second on Jan. 22.</p><p>At their lowest point the Wings trailed first-place Montreal by 20 points and second-place New York by 13.</p><p>Alex Delvecchio needs only one more goal to reach the 20-goal level for the first time in his five-year NHL career. A bonus for getting 20 goals has provided a special incentive.</p><p>Kelly, who got to 19 once as a defenseman, hopes to hit 20 for the first time also. He is up to 13 after working his last 20 games on left wing.</p><p>Metro Prystai and Marty Pavelich have combined as a first-class penalty-killing crew since drawing that assignment regularly. Only five goals have been made against Detroit in the last 16 games while the Wings were shorthanded.</p><p>Prystai&rsquo;s play is considered his best since reaching the NHL 8 years ago. Pavelich has been the team&rsquo;s most improved player in the last month but still is having his toughest year when it comes to scoring.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Red Wings’ Larry Hillman Much Improved Rearguard Since Return From Bisons

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03192/1555487-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOD SLOAN</b></figcaption></div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Among his other notable achievements as a major league rookie, Detroit Red Wing goaltender Glenn Hall can now include the preservation of one NHL record.</p><p>But for the intervention of Hall, Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; rejuvinated centremari, Tod Sloan, would have broken Maurice Richard&rsquo;s monopoly of big league offensive records by scoring in 10 successive games.</p><p>Canadiens&rsquo; Rocket set the exist iug record by scoring in nine straight games while he was or his way to his Babe Ruth of hock ey mark of 50 goals in the 1944-54 campaign. Slinker could do no better than nine games out of ten. His noble bid started with the New Year when he scored twice against Chicago and Boston then followed up with four sue cessive one-goal games. Hall then interrupted the streak in Toronto on Jan. 21. so that the fact that Sloan resumed the following night against the same Hall and ran through another 3-game streak means nothing to posterity.</p><p>Yet if Slinker&rsquo;s nine-of-ten chore means nil to the records it has meant plenty to the Maple Leafs. Even while he was himself scoring at better than a goal-a-game pace, he was setting up his wingmates, George Armstrong and Dick Duff for half-a-goal-a-game paces. Among them, they lifted Leafs quickly from the sec ond division into the fourth and final playoff spot&mdash;at least for the nonce.</p><p>And Sloan still has one record before him&mdash;the 37-goal Maple Leaf all-time mark that is still held by Gaye Stewart.</p><h2><b>Bonuses Banked</b></h2><h3>Fans Marvel</h3><p>Torontonians are marvelling at this accelerated pace which has made a superstar out of the same Slinker whose outputs for the past three years have been such mediocre figures as 15, 11 and 13. But Tod argues that it&rsquo;s nothing that money can&rsquo;t buy.</p><p>&ldquo;There have been a lot of reasons why my record improved this year, but I&rsquo;d have to say the biggest thing was the money,&rdquo; says Tod. &ldquo;By that I mean those bonuses that my contract promised.&rdquo;</p><p>Slinker has already banked the bonuses, the first for reaching 20 goals, another for 25 and the final for 30. It is up to the club whether he receives additional bonuses from here because his contract called for only the three.</p><p>&ldquo;I came to camp this year with a completely different attitude and outlook,&rdquo; Tod says. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t argue at all about the salary cut I took because I knew I deserved it. But I had convinced myself that this was the year I was going to have to prove myself or pack up any hopes of ever getting into the upper bracket. The bonuses were an incentive because without them I was going to have one of my poorest paying seasons, but with them I knew I could make it my best. So when I started out, I had convinced myself this was going to be my greatest year.&rdquo;</p><h3>Conditioning Helped</h3><p>Sloan worked accordingly, throwing himself diligentely into pre-training camp conditioning and then training camp work itself. A notoriously slow starter, he was determined to break swiftly this season. Just how far this program might have carried him will never be known, however, because four subsequent events accelerated his speed.</p><p>&ldquo;The first two breaks came together,&rdquo; Slinker recalls.. &ldquo;One of those was our switching back to forechecking style of play. The last three years we had been peeling all the time and waiting for the opposition to come out. You don&rsquo;t get as many scoring chances that way as you do when you&rsquo;re in there digging. I know that the last good season I had (31 goals in &rsquo;50-51) was when Ted Kennedy and Sid Smith and I played together and we were always forechecking. Sinc6 then, the only time I played on a forechecking line was two years ago when Harry Watson, Army and I were digging for a couple of weeks. We did all right while it lasted, but then had to go back to peeling.</p><h3>Digging Wings</h3><p>&ldquo;Another break I got, though, was getting Duff for my left wing. He really made our line. And now, with Army playing terrific hockey, I&rsquo;ve got two wings who are always in there digging. And either of them can score, so that when the opposition&rsquo;s watching them I can often sneak in. When everybody&rsquo;s checking right up there, too, scoring opportunities are bound to come about.&rdquo;</p><p>All of these points together brought about the other underlying reason for the new Sloan&mdash;and the reason that King Clancy pinpoints as the most important.</p><p>&ldquo;Slinker is shooting more,&rdquo; is coach Clancy&rsquo;s contention. &ldquo;He has always been a great hockey player, but he used to hesitate, take another step, then another, and another&mdash;until he&rsquo;d got in so close he couldn&rsquo;t shoot. Now he lets fly from anywhere and everywhere that seems possible.&rdquo;</p><h3>Started Shooting</h3><p>&ldquo;The fact that pucks were going in so easy got me doing that,&rdquo; Slinker says in acknowledging his former shortcoming. &ldquo;I used to think that I&rsquo;d have to get right in on the goalie to flick the puck past him because I didn&rsquo;t have a hard shot. Then when they were all going in, I started shooting from further and further out.</p><p>&ldquo;I had one streak pack in December where most of my goals were scored from 25 to 35 feet out. That was unusual for me.</p><p>&ldquo;It all boils down to one simple thing. When things start clicking and you start to get those goals, then you try things that you ordinarily wouldn&rsquo;t think of trying.</p><p>&ldquo;And that takes me right back to what I said first. The bonuses had me goal hungry from the start this year and once the old pump was primed, everything started flowing into place.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Sloan Nears Stewart’s Mark For Scoring By Maple Leaf

<p><b>Founded October lit 1947</b></p><p>Published Weekly except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co Ltd</p><p>1434 Ste Catherine Street West Montrea 25. Que.</p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates; $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire; $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.</b></p><p>Entered as second-class matter. October 3, 1953. at the Poet Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879 Authorized as second-class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa Printed In Canada</p><p><b>VOL. 9 FEBRUARY 11, 1956 No. 20</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0596/1555594-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>Enjoyed Feature</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have been reading THE HOCKEY NEWS for two ygars now and enjoy each and every issue more than the previous one, if that&rsquo;s possible.</p><p>I especially enjoyed this week&rsquo;s feature story on Red Kelly by Marshall Dann. I think the way it was written (questions and answers as well as a sort of general summary) is to be recomended. I am sure that a lot of your readers will agree with me when I say that I&rsquo;d rather have the words come &ldquo;right from the horse&rsquo;s mouth&rdquo; (as they did in the interview, although I do not think Red can qualify as a horse) than have the words be the imaginary ones of some overfanciful sportswriter.</p><p>Red has certainly done a magnificent job of filling one of the left wing positions when the Red Wings became weak at that spot. He has helped Gordie too. Before Red joined him on the forward line, Howe was far below his usual scoring gait but since they have been united, they&rsquo;ve both been balls of fire.</p><p>It&rsquo;s possible that the Red Wings will not catch the Canadiens this year (and I haven&rsquo;t given up yet!) but wait until we get them in the playoffs. The Montreal team always fades when the chips are down and they&rsquo;ll do it again. After all, it&rsquo;s basically the same club that has wilted every other year once the, Wings applied the pressure.</p><p>Alice Hoffman Detroit, Mich.</p><h2>Beliveau Booster</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I am a great admirer of Jean Beliveau and would like some information on him.</p><p>Can you please tell me his height, weight, and place of birth. My friend says that he is from Quebec City but I do not think so. I think he was born somewhere else. I am not sure where but think it was some place other than Quebec City.</p><p>In my opinion, Big Jean is the best hockey player to ever play in the National Hockey League, or any other league for that matter. Rocket Richard and Gordie Howe are great but neither has the all-around class of this big fellow, lie has everything. He can skate, he can stickhandle, he&rsquo;s big and rough.</p><p>It is my opinion that the Montreal Canadiens will finish out the season fifteen points ahead of the second-place club (no matter who it is, Rangers or Red Wings).</p><p>Jean-Marie Doyon Verdun, Que.</p><p>(Jean Beliveau was born in Three Rivers, Quebec on August 31st, 1931. He is 6&rsquo;3&rdquo; and weighs 305 pounds).</p><h2>Did Changes Help?</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I am wondering now whether or not all the changes Jack Adams made this summer have helped the Red Wings?</p><p>At the time, I thought Adams had again outfoxed the opposition and had definitely got the best of the deals. Now I am not so sure. Of all the players he acquired in trades, all have since departed except two, Bucky Hollingworth and Warren Godfrey.</p><p>Actually all the Bruins have given up are Ed Sandford (since traded to Chicago by the Wings), Lorne Ferguson and Murray Costello. In return they acquired Terry Sawchuk (still the best goaler in all hockey), Vic Stasiuk, Marcel Bonin and Gerry Toppazzini.</p><p>Ferguson and Costello are, at best, borderline NHL players whereas all the Boston players are proven players of definite calibre. Where&rsquo;s the percentage there?</p><p>Gene DiAngelo Boston, Mass.</p><h2><b>Stax Fan</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I for one am happy to see that you have again included the Amateur Puck Parade in your very fine publication.</p><p>This, I think is if great interest to fans who do not get too much hockey in their daily papers and would like to follow ALL hockey instead of just the NHL.</p><p>It is interesting to look at these standings and see just how some of the farm clubs for NHL teams are doing. And the scoring lists give us an insight into the big league stars of tomorrow.</p><p>I was disappointed When you failed to carry the Puck Parade in the first half of the season but am happy that you have seen fit to return it to the paper.</p><p>Dave Solomon New Yor, N.Y.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0738/1555656-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg"></div><p><i><b>Be Sure To Subscribe to The Hockey News</b></i></p><p><b>Save yourself Money and Time by becoming a regular year-round subscriber</b></p><p><b>35 issues (30 weekly issues during season and 5 monthly off-season Issues) for only $3.00 (in Canada) or $4.00 (in U.S.A.)</b></p><p>It doesn&rsquo;t metter when you start your subscription you still get your 35 issues.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY FANS

<div class="byline">BY BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The 16th goalie for the Black Hawks in the past 10 years could become the first in the long line to succumb as the result of berating whims of the fans. Young Hank Bassen was feeling mighty low at the end of January due to the receipt of seemingly uncalled for treatment from Chicago Stadium spectators.</p><p>Coach Dick Irvin, trying hard to snap the 23-year-old Calgary native out of doldrums, didn&rsquo;t deny that Hank had played poorly in 7-0 and 6-2 heatings administered by Detroit and the Rangers. However, he still indicated that he was on the side of the recent graduate from Buffalo.</p><p>Signs placed where Bassen and all could see undoubtedly smashed his morale and mental attitude during these two routs. Referring to both Hank and his predecessor and replacement at Buffalo, Al Rollins, the bankers urged, &ldquo;We want Rollins,&rdquo; &ldquo;Bye Bye Bassen&rdquo; and other such debatable comments.</p><h2><b>Under Fire</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0675/1555687-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="594" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HANK BASSEN</b></figcaption></div><h3>&ldquo;They Hurt Him&rdquo;</h3><p>&ldquo;Sure they hurt him,&rdquo; stormed Irvin in response to the inquiries of reporters. &ldquo;How would you feel if you walked into your office and were confronted by a big sign urging that you be fired and replaced by another writer. If we only could get him some goals.&rdquo;</p><p>This seemed to be the factor in the sudden demise of Chicago to fifth place after a hold on fourth place or better had been maintened throughout the campaign until mid-January. When Bassen replaced Rollins at the start of the year, the team was still scoring fairly well.</p><p>His first seven games as a Hawk included a 5-0 shutout of Boston. He allowed only 17 goals to establish a very respectable and Commendable 2.43 average against, but then the roof started to topple. The five games that followed saw Chicago outscored by a oneside 25-5 margin. His goaling everage sank to 3.50.</p><h3>Seemed Pointless</h3><p>The sudden appearance of. the banners above the team entrance to the rink before the 7-0 Red Wing rout seemed pointless since Bassen and the entire team had put on a stellar show even in losing, 6-2, to the visiting Canadiens five nights before. Irvin in no way blamed the red-topped net tender for the loss.</p><p>Chances that Rollins would be an able successor to this youngster victimized by the shakes seemed rather obscure after the Detroit romp for on the same evening, Al was thumped for a full dozen scores as Buffalo was blasted into submission at. Providence, 12 to 4.</p><p>With several factors in mind, Coach Irvin stated that Bassen would probably not be replaced. A few road games away from the cruelties of the Chicago patrons might be the best medicine for Bassen. He remained, however, a shaky lad as the Hawks departed for a February 2 game at Boston.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Chi Fans Blame Bassen For Current Tailspin By Goal Hungry Hawks

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>For the past several years one particular refrain has been heard repeatedly in the National Hockey League:</p><p>Detroit vs. Montreal games are the &ldquo;big&rdquo; ones, the games that decide titles. This would seem obviously true, considering that Detroit has finished first, Montreal second for the last four seasons.</p><p>But, did the Detioit-Montreal games decide those titles?</p><p>After the first nine games this Season, here&rsquo;s how those clubs stood against each other:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01295/1555746-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="598" height="125"></div><h2>Last year it was the same story:</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02262/1555739-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="581" height="68"></div><h2>What about 1953-54?</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03198/1555732-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="591" height="69"></div><p>To break the monotony, you have to go back to 1952-53:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04152/1555725-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="590" height="71"></div><p>Thus for the last four years the two greatest teams in hockey have broken even against each other. Not only are they square in victories for each of those years, but even the goal-scoring has been identical the last three times.</p><p>The combined record over that 53-game stretch reads:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05106/1555718-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="585" height="74"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Wingy—Habs Real Close Over Years

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>In these days of moderr firewagon hockey with the emphasis oh defensive tactics, the role of the specialist has become increasingly important. Yet one of the specialists most frequently overlooked is the penalty killer, the player whose duty it is to thwart the other team&rsquo;s power play, the most potent defensive weapon yet devised.</p><p>Such a man is slim, wiry Donnie Marshall of the Montreal Canadiens. Marshall seldom gets on the ice with the teams at full strength. He is generally seen sweeping and swirling over the frozen jousting pit when one of his mates is sitting reflectively in the penalty box.</p><p>Marshall usually does his killing (we think there should be a better word to describe this duty) with Floyd Curry. It Curry is banished, which isn&rsquo;t often, or if he has just completed a turn with his line, then Marshall works with Bert Olmstead or Claude Provost.</p><h2><b>Puck Sense</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0847/1555777-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="591" height="1384"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DON MARSHALL</b></figcaption></div><h3>Important Job</h3><p>&ldquo;Penalty killing is a job,&rdquo; said Marshall the other day. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s an important one because it helps the team. Saving a goal is equivalent to scoring one.&rdquo;</p><p>Marshall is doing his work well. At this writing the Canadiens, one of the heaviest penalized teams in the league, incurred more than 750 minutes.</p><p>Coach Toe Blake points out, of course, that the total includes 10minute misconducts. When they are imposed the penalized player is replaced on the ice.</p><p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s say,&rdquo; went on Blake, &ldquo;that we have been short-handed about 600 minutes, equivalent to 10 full hockey games.&rdquo;</p><h3>&ldquo;A Fine Record&rdquo;</h3><p>He thumbed through his records. &ldquo;Yet we have been scored upon only 15 times with the opposition holding a man advantage. Marshall was on for only 12 of those goals. I think that&rsquo;s a fine record.&rdquo;</p><p>No other team in the league has been as successful defending against the power play as the Canadiens and a good deal of the credit belongs to Marshall, who overcame the handicap of a broken leg last year in his first NHL season.</p><h3>Puck Sense</h3><p>Blake says to kill penalties successfully, a team requires a hard worker and a man with good puck sense. &ldquo;Curry is the hard-worker. Marshall is the man with puck sense. They go together like a horse and carriage. I don&rsquo;t have to give them any particular instructions. I just send them out there and they work entirely on their own within the basic frame work of our strategy. That is to try to stop the rival club at its own blueline.&rdquo;</p><p>Another basic idea is not to get caught too deep in the other team&rsquo;s zone, particularly against such offensively strong teams as the New York Rangers and the Detroit Red Wings.</p><h3>&ldquo;Make Him Pass&rdquo;</h3><p>&ldquo;When Curry and I are on the ice,&rdquo; said Marshall, &ldquo;one man makes the puck carrier commit himself before he reaches the defense. We try to make him pass. His pass might be wide or it might be intercepted: it we get the puck in the centre zone we try to keep it to kill time. We&rsquo;re never in a hurry to ice it. We like to set up a box pattern with our defensemen and pass it around. if we have control of the puck, the other team can&rsquo;t score.&rdquo;</p><h3>Holler Across Ice</h3><p>Marshall and Curry, both with uncanny powers of anticipating plays, holler back and forth on the ice, &ldquo;You take him.&hellip;Stay on your wing,&hellip;Go back Watch Howe.&hellip;Or Sloan.&hellip;Or Hergesheimer.&rdquo;</p><p>Main trouble with penalty killing, says Marshall, is that sometimes he doesn&rsquo;t get much action. Tn a recent cleanly contested game against the Rangers in Montreal he didn&rsquo;t get onto the ice until midway through the second period.</p><p>&ldquo;In that kind of game,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;you&rsquo;re cold when you get into action and it&rsquo;s hard to warm up in two minutes. You lose the feel of the puck which makes it difficult to score on breakaways.&rdquo;</p><h3>AHL Top Rookie</h3><p>Marshall, who will be 24 in March, is a native of Verdun, Que. He came to the Canadiens last season from the Buffalo Bisons of the American League. With the Bisons in 1953-54 he scored 39 and acquired 57 assists in a 70-game schedule, winning the Dudley Garrett Memorial Trophy as the league&rsquo;s outstanding rookie.</p><p>Unfortunately he broke his leg in training camp and his debut as a major leaguer was delayed until mid-season. After the bone knitted, he went to the Royals for ten games to work himself into shape. He played the last 39 games of the schedule with the Habs, sometimes as a utility centre, more often as a penalty killer.</p><p>This season his activity ^has been confined almost exclusively to the latter role. He&rsquo;s one of hockey&rsquo;s real specialists, doing his exacting job willingly and well.</p><p>As Blake himself says, there. isn&rsquo;t a more effective penalty killer in all hockey. The records prove it.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Montreal’s Doh Marshall Rates With Best NHL Penalty Killers

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Butch Bouchard, captain of the Montreal Canadiens, is a diplomat. Throughout his long career with the Habs, he has never said anything to cause controversy.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0752/1555808-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="571" height="662"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BUTCH BOUCHARD</b></figcaption></div><p>He lived up to his reputation when he appeared with Jean Beliveau on a French television program in Montreal.</p><p>The master of ceremonies asked: &ldquo;Who&rsquo;s the better coach, Dick Irvin or Toe Blake?&rdquo;</p><p>Beliveau replied simply, &ldquo;I pass.&rdquo;</p><h2>Both Good</h2><p>Bouchard thought for a second and said, &ldquo;Well, Irvin has been in the National Hockey League for years and years so he must be good. And the Canadiens are in first place with Toe Blake so he must be good.&rdquo;</p><p>The master of ceremonies pondered that reply briefly and then dropped the subject.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Butch Bouchard Proves To Be Smart Diplomat

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01328/1555839-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HAL LAYCOE</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Hal Laycoe of the Bruins was thumbing through his mail in the dressing room at the Garden the other morning when he spotted an envelope with familiar handwriting.</p><p>&ldquo;See this one?&rdquo; he asked, pulling it but of the pack. &ldquo;This is from one of my proteges, a college student in Montreal.&rdquo;</p><p>Protege? A hockey player, sportscaster and car salesman, Laycoe is a versatile businessman. In what category did the protege belong?</p><p>&ldquo;He belongs in a sizeable category,&rdquo; replied the veteran Bruin with a chuckle. &ldquo;He is one of a number of youngsters who feels he&rsquo;s handicapped in hockey because he has to wear glasses.&rdquo;</p><p>Glasses? Boing! The only major player ever to wear glasses while playing is Laycoe. Others have worn contact lenses but Laycoe uses the orthodox kind, with bows and rims.</p><p>&ldquo;In the course of a year I get dozens of letters from boys seeking advice and encouragement,&rdquo; he related, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;ve become very much interested in helping them all I can.</p><p>&ldquo;Most of them ask the same questions. They want to know if I feel handicapped by the glasses, if I wear them all the time, why I don&rsquo;t wear contacts, how much my type costs.</p><p>&ldquo;I answer all their letters, and I always start by telling them that wearing glasses is not necessarily a handicap in most sports. I also tell them that they should not attempt to play without their glasses if they need them for normal vision, because every game demands normal vision.</p><h2><b>Specs Specialist</b></h2><h3>Mikan Wears &lsquo;Em</h3><p>&ldquo;I can always cite my own case, and tell them how I&rsquo;ve never had any trouble because I wear glasses while playing, and I tell them about George Mikan in basketball, the greatest player of the half-century, and Clint Courtney, who catches in baseball while wearing them.</p><p>&ldquo;Some boys ask whether or not they should wear contacts,&rdquo; continued Laycoe, &ldquo;and I don&rsquo;t give them a definite answer. To me, whether or not a boy wears contacts can depend on his economie situation.</p><p>&ldquo;Some youngsters can&rsquo;t afford to buy them, or their folks can&rsquo;t afford them. I have no fault to find with contacts, so I tell the boys to make their own decisions on them.</p><p>&ldquo;To those who ask specifically about the kind I wear, I tell them that mine are merely shatterproof lenses in ordinary frames which cost about one-eighth as much as contacts.</p><p>&ldquo;I tell them that before a season starts I have my three pairs&mdash;I always have two pairs of extra ones&mdash;fitted tightly. Over the years I&rsquo;d say I&rsquo;ve had them knocked off on an average of only three times a season.</p><h3>Can Use Strap</h3><p>&ldquo;Then I point out that glasses can be held on by a strap around the back of the head as Mikan holds his on, but that I&rsquo;ve never had to use such a strap.&rdquo;</p><p>So far this season Laycoe has lost his specs only once, in a game in Detroit in which he had a wrestling match with Alex Delvecchio. Dizzy Trout, the ex-Red Sox pitcher who also wears glasses, saw the game and afterward he came into the Bruins&rsquo; room to sympathize with Laycoe at the fate of his.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re not broken, Diz,&rdquo; chuckled Hal, pulling the lenses from his pocket. &ldquo;These things were just knocked out of the frame.&rdquo;</p><p>Laycoe can think of many occasions over his long career when his glasses have saved him from facial injury, and one was the night last Spring when Maurice Richard of Montreal tried to use his head for a chopping block.</p><p>&ldquo;He hit me right across the face that night,&rdquo; he recalled, &ldquo;but the glasses took the force of the blow. If I hadn&rsquo;t been wearing them.&hellip;who knows?&rdquo;</p><p>Hal remembers that in his early years in the game he was ridiculized on occasion because of his extra equipment.</p><p>&ldquo;Look at that crazy guy trying to play hockey with glasses, they used to say,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I used to hear that a lot. but after awhile it didn&rsquo;t bother me.</p><p>&ldquo;One night this winter we were playing an ehhibition game in Barrie, Ontario, and when we got on the ice I noticed one of the Barrie boys wearing glasses. So I said to our fellows: &ldquo;Look at that crazy kid trying to play hockey with glasses.</p><p>&ldquo;But I&rsquo;ve put him on my list,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;I got a program and looked him up and found his name is Gordon Lovejoy. There&rsquo;s a boy I&rsquo;ll watch Gordon Lovejoy. I wish him luck.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Wearing Classes No Handicap Says Player Who Should Know

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02268/1555894-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="297" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gerry James</b></figcaption></div><p><b>STATISTICS</b></p><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>orn in Regina, Oct. 22, 1984. 5&rsquo;11&rdquo;, 190 pounds. Played junior hockey with Toronto Mar1boros and, was an outstanding football player with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Joined the Maple Leafs at the end of the past football season.</p><p><b>SUPERSTITION&mdash;IF ANY</b></p><p>Is superstitious to a degree&mdash;if team is on a winning streak will continue to wear the same clothes.</p><p><b>HARDEST CHECK IN HOCKEY</b></p><p>Cannot recall any outstanding checks from a player, but has vivid memories of being hit by a puck last season in a game against St. Mikes. The force left him with a fractured cheek-bone.</p><p><b>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY</b></p><p>Helping Marlboros win the Memorial Cup last season.</p><p><b>FAVORITE HOBBY</b></p><p>Has a weakness for golf and regards that as a hobby.</p><p><b>IN THE SUMMER</b></p><p>Lives in Winnipeg and works on the garden surrounding his new home.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT</b></p><p>Crooked Lake, which about 90 miles from Regina in the Qu&rsquo;Appelle Valley.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE</b></p><p>Winnipeg.</p><p><b>FAVORITE READING MATERIAL</b></p><p>Biographies and game hunting stories. Has no liking for detective stories or other types of fiction.</p><p><b>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE</b></p><p>&ldquo;From Here to Eternity.&rdquo;</p><p><b>BEST ACTRESS</b></p><p>Olivia DeHavilland.</p><p><b>BEST ACTOR</b></p><p>Humphrey Bogart and Aldo Ray.</p><p><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA</b></p><p>Glenn Miller and Paul Whiteman.</p><p><b>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALIST</b></p><p>Caterine Valienti.</p><p><b>FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST</b></p><p>Dean Martin.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD BEFORE A GAME</b></p><p>Steak.</p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD ANYTIME</b></p><p>Desserts&mdash;this is an emphatic and somewhat wistful voice&mdash;since its taboo during the hockey season. FAVORITE TV PROGRAMS</p><p>&ldquo;Father Knows Best&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Bob Cummings Show&rdquo;.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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INSIDE STUFF About Gerry James

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03204/1555925-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="373" height="496"></div><p>800 Outside Rooms With bath and free radio Many with T.V.</p><p>Single $4.50 up</p><p>Double $7.00 up</p><p>No charge for children 14 or under</p><p><b>Fine food served in GRENADIER DINING ROOM and LOUNGE also COFFEE SHOP</b></p><p><b>DETROIT-LELAND HOTEL</b></p><p>Cass and Bagley Ave.</p><p>Ample Parking</p><p>Wm. H. Chalmers,</p><p>General Manager<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY HEADQUARTERS IN DETROIT

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1339/1556078-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="299" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>J</span>ean Beliveau, Le Gros Bill of the Montreal Canadiens, regained the scoring leadership of the National Hockey League during the past week and at the same time helped the league-leading Habitants up their first-place margin to 15 points over the runner-up New York Rangers.</b></p><p><b>Beliveau was practically a one-man show as the highflying Montrealers twice defeated the third-place Detroit Red Wings and earned a tie with Rangers in their three-name stint this week.</b></p><p><b>On February 2, Beliveau scored a single goal in a 2-0 Hab victory over the Red Wings and he followed this up two nights later with both goals as the Montrealers again dumped Detroit, this time 2-1.</b></p><p><b>The following night, in New York&rsquo;s Madison Square Garden, he again counted a pair of goals as the Habs and Rangers played to a 3-3 draw.</b></p><p><b>Five goals in one week and six in the last four Habitant games&hellip;running his season&rsquo;s total for goals to 34. This, coupled with his 26 assists, gave him a total of 60 points, two more than Gordie Howe of the Red Wings.</b></p><p><b>Last year, in his first full season in the NHL, Beliveau scored 37 goals. This year, at the rate he&rsquo;s going, Le Gros Bill appears a cinch to enter the magic 40-goal circle.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Player-of-the-Week

<h2><b>Margin Bigger</b></h2><p>Montreal Canadiens now lead New York Rangers by a total of 15 points.</p><h2><b>Penalized Team</b></h2><p>Toronto Maple Leafs, as a team, have been penalized a total of 822 minutes.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON TUES. A.M., FEB. 7</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01313/1556047-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="576" height="183"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 5th, 1956</h3><p>Wed. Feb. 1st&mdash;Toronto 2 at Rangers 5</p><p>Thurs. Feb. 2nd&mdash;Cdns. 2 at Detroit 0</p><p>Thurs. Feb. 2nd&mdash;Chicago 2 at Boston 2</p><p>Sat. Feb. 4th&mdash;Detroit 1 at Cdns. 2</p><p>Sat. Feb. 4th&mdash;Chicago 4 at Toronto 2</p><p>Sat. Feb. 4th&mdash;Rangers 1 at Boston 7</p><p>Sun. Feb. 5th&mdash;Canadiens 3 at Rangers 3</p><p>Sun. Feb. 5 th&mdash;Toronto 2 at Chicago 3</p><p>Sun. Fob. 5th&mdash;Detroit 1 at Boston 3</p><h3>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 12th, 1956</h3><p>Tues. Feb. 7th&mdash;Chicago at Detroit</p><p>Wed. Feb. 8th&mdash;Canadiens at Toronto</p><p>ed. Feb. 8th&mdash;Boston at Rangers</p><p>Thurs. Feb. 9th&mdash;Toronto at Boston</p><p>Fri. Feb. 10th&mdash;Canadiens at Chicago</p><p>Sat. Feb. 11th&mdash;Rangers at Toronto</p><p>Sat. Feb. 11th&mdash;Detroit at Boston</p><p>Sun. Feb. 12th&mdash;Canadiens at Boston</p><p>Sun. Feb. 12 th&mdash;Toronto at Chicago</p><p>Sun. Feo. 12th&mdash;Detroit at Rangers</p><p>Individual scoring records are:</p><h3>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Toronto 2 at New York 5</h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goals: Worsley; defense: Gadsby, Evans; centre: Murphy; forwards: Hergesheimer, Conacher; subs: Howell, Fontina to, Bathgate, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Creighton, Prentice, Popein, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goals: Mayer; defense: Morrison, Horton; centre: Harris; forwards: Hurst, Balfour; subs: Thomson, Bolton, Smith, Armstrong, Sloan, Stewart, Migay, Duff, James, Hannigan, Resume, Cullen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02291/1556040-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="592" height="596"></div><h3>THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2 Montreal 2 at Detroit 0</h3><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal: Plante; defence: Johnson, Talbot, Harvey, Turner, Bouchard; forwards: Beiveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Mosdell,&rsquo;. Curry, Marshall, Leclalr, Provost.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal: Hall; defence: Goldflam, Godfrey, Pronovost, Hillman, Hollingworth; forwards: Keiy, Reibel. Howe, Delvecchio, Dineen. Lindsay, Ullman, Prystai, Pavelich, Ferguson, Bucyk.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari; linesmen: W. Morrison and George Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03244/1556033-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="583" height="487"></div><h3>Chicago 2 at Boston 2</h3><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal: Rollins; defence: Woit, Mortson, Fogolin, Dewsbury; forwards: Ciesla, Litzenberger, Wilson, Sullivan, Lalande, Watson, Skoy, Leswlck, Mickoski, Sandford, Corcoran, Martin.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defence: Flaman, Quackenbush, Boivin, Armstrong, Heinrich; forwardes: Gardner, Peirson, Stasiuk, McKenney, LaBine, Chevrefils, Mohns, Laycoe, Bonin. Mackell.</p><p><b>Referea:</b> Louis Maschio: linesmen: Bill Roberts and Doug Davies</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04203/1556026-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="583" height="459"></div><h3>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1956 Detroit 1 at Canadiens 2</h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Goldham, Godfrey, Pronovost, Hillman, Hollingworth, Kelly; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Pavelloh, Prystai, Ferguson, Ullman, Dineen, Coetello,</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Johnson, Talbot, Bouchard, Turner, Harvey; forwards: Beliveau, GeoCfrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Mosdell, Curry, Provost, Leclalr, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05155/1556019-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="585" height="390"></div><h3>New York 1 at Boston 7</h3><p><b>New&rsquo; York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense-Gadslur, Evans, Howell, Fontinato, forwards: Creighton, Hebenton, Lewicki, Conacher, Bathgate, Gendron, Horvath, Murphy, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Popein.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Flaman, Quackenbush, Boivin, R, Armstrong, Heinrich; forwards: Gardner, Stasiuk, Mackell, McKenney, Labine, Chevrefils, Mohns, Toppazzini, Bonin, Laycoe.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06131/1556012-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="586" height="613"></div><h3>Chicago 4 at Toronto 2</h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Mayer; defense: Thomson, Morrison, Horton, Bolton, Reaume; forwards: Hurst, Harris, Smith, Armstrong, Sloan, Stewart, Migay, Duff, James, Hannigan, Balfour, Cullen.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Mortson, Woit, Fogolin, Pilote; forwards: Corcoran, Skoy, Mickoski, Watson, Leswick, Sandford, Litzenberger, Wilson, Lalande, Ciesla, Sullivan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07121/1556005-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="581" height="486"></div><h3>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1956 Canadiens 3 at New York 3</h3><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Johnson, Talbot, Harvey, Bouchard, Turner; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Curry, Leclair, M. Richard, Moore, H. Richard, Mosdell, Marshall, Provost.</p><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Gadsby, Evans, Howell, Fontinato, forwards: Creighton, Hebenton, Lewicki, Conacher, Bathgate, Gendron, Horvath, Murphy, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Popein.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08112/1555998-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="568" height="428"></div><h3>Toronto 2 at Chicago 3</h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Mayer; defense: Thomson, Morrison, Horton, Bolton, Reaume; forwards: Hurst, Harris, Smith, Armstrong, Sloan, Stewart, Migay, Duff, James, Hannigan, Balfour, Cullen.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Mortson, Woit, Fogolin, Pilote; forwards: Corcoran, Skov, Mickoski, Watson, Leswick, Sandford, Litzenberger, Wilson, Lalande, Ciesla, Sullivan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09109/1555991-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="580" height="461"></div><h3>Detroit 1 at Boston 3</h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Goldham, Godfrey, Pronovost, Hillman, Hollingwortb; forwards: Delvecchio, Dineen, Lindsay. Reibel, Howe, Pavelich, Ferguson, Prystai, Ullman, Costello, Kelly.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Flaman, Quackenbush, Boivin, R. Armstrong, Heinrich; forw&rsquo;ards: Gardner, Stasiuk. Mackell, McKenney, Labine, Chevrefils, Mohns, Toppazzini, Bonin, Laycoe.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1096/1555984-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="582" height="402"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Includes Games of Sunday, Feb. 5)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1179/1555977-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="591" height="4292"></div><h3>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1955-1956</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1249/1555970-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="592" height="652"></div><h3>PENALTIES LN MINUTE BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1428/1555963-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="555" height="156"></div><h2><b>Punchin&rsquo; Pierre The Pugilist</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01327/1555956-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="1751" height="1364"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PIERRE PILOTE,</b> star defenseman with the Buffalo Bisons, displays his fistic form for the approval of middleweight contender Joey Giambra. Giambra had just witnessed his first hockey game, a tilt between the Bisons and the Providence Reds.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-01

NATION LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02269/1556109-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE WiLSON</b></figcaption></div><p>HESHEY, Pa&mdash;</p><p>Although handicapped by an injured knee, which never fully recovered from an operation of two years ago, Gordie Wilson continues to outplay and out-maneuver many American League players with two sound legs.</p><p>The elongated centre of the Hershey Bears, who is a picture of poetry in motion when he sweeps up the ice and passes off to his wings, faces another operation this Spring to correct the injury which nearly ended his playing career two years ago.</p><p>Meanwhile, despite swelling and pain which would discourage the average athlete, Gordie continues to do his bit in behalf of the Bears.</p><h2><b>On One Leg</b></h2><h3>Paid Off</h3><p>And, his determination not to give up has paid off for his whole line. For instance, Dunc Fisher, right winger, has posted 28 goals and 33 assists, and Kenny Smith, the retread lef wing, has 11 scores and 29 assists.</p><p>Wilson, himself had lit the red lamp 25 times and registered 29 assists up to games of January 29. And, if the leg holds out and he maintains his present pace, he will easily better his scoring mark of 27 goals of a year ago.</p><p>Acutely aware of his trouble every moment he&rsquo;s on the ice, Gordie has never bee one to tempt fate by taking uncessary chances. Recently, however, he&rsquo;s thrown caution to the winds and taken to throwing his considerable weight around. Quite a few eyebrows were lifted when the 6.1 povot man began banging opposition skaters around with aplomb. This is Gordie&rsquo;s fourth year with Hershey. He joined the Bears in the closing days of the 1952-53 campaign, appearing in seven games. He collected a trio of goals and two assists and then went on to gather three more goals in the Calder Cup play-offs against the Pittsburgh Hornets.</p><p>Hershey looked forward to Gordie&rsquo;s return in 1953-54, but the big forward played in only four games before his kne. Injured in training camp. After an operation in Toronto, he rested for the remainder of the season. the outcome of the surgery in doubt.</p><p>Last season, his first full one as a pro, Gordie batted out 25 assists to go with his 27 goals, for a 52 points total.</p><p>Before turning pro with the Bears, Gordie played in the various amateur leagues with Port Arthur, winning virtually every award offered the Simon pures.</p><p>He is the son of &ldquo;Pat&rdquo; Wilson, former Cun star.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hershey Bears’ Gordie Wilson Enjoying Best AHL Season Yet

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Middleweight boxing contender Joey Giambra viewed his first hockey game recently&mdash;a clash between Buffalo and Providence&mdash;and came away impressed with two facts. The game&rsquo;s speed and ruggedness.</p><p>For one who makes his living giving and taking punches, Giambrl&rsquo;s comment about hockey being &ldquo;really rugged&rdquo; raised a few eyebrows.</p><p>&ldquo;I know how it feels to get hit with a fist but these hockey players really get belted at times, don&rsquo;t they,&rdquo; he said, more pointedly than questioning.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know whether I&rsquo;d care to have some guy ram me into the boards and then him stand there with a stick in his hands if I decided to swing back,&rdquo; he grinned.</p><p>Informed that quite a few of the players were capable of swinging kayo blows without anything other than their bare fists as weapons, Giambra&rsquo;s eyebrows arched a bit.</p><p>&ldquo;Well, what do you know, boxing on skates! It might be fun at that. If an opponent gets you in trouble, you just skate away&hellip;that&rsquo;s better than trying to cover up and hold &lsquo;on.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>A MAN&rsquo;S ale</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03226/1556154-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="551" height="518"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;A job like mine fakes it out of you&rdquo;</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>with BODY in it</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04173/1556147-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="553" height="520"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;But Labatt&rsquo;s IPA puts it right back in,&rdquo; <i>says Joseph Porelie, Toronto.</i></b></figcaption></div><h3>Met Pilote</h3><p>Turning serious, the flat-featured, recently discharged soldier expressed a desire to meet one of the players who &ldquo;cart use his dukes.&rdquo;</p><p>At a subsequent Buffalo workout, Giambra was introduce to Bison defenceman Pierre Pilote.</p><p>Pilote, like Giambra, weighs in around the middleweight limit. He tips the scales at 164 pounds&mdash;but carries the punch of a big man as those who have squared off with him will attest.</p><p>The two discussed the differences of boxing in the ring and on the ice.</p><p>Giambra explained that an opponent&rsquo;s style decided a fighter&rsquo;s &ldquo;battle plan&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;You seldom fight two opponents the same way,&rdquo; stated the young man who nearly upset Bobo Olson, then the middleweight ruler, last fall although he had only ten days training due to his Army chores.</p><h3>&ldquo;First Good Punch&rdquo;</h3><p>Pilote said that ice battles more often than not were decided &ldquo;by the first good punch landed.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Because it&rsquo;s hard to keep your balance on the ice, it is important to get in that first good wallop,&rdquo; Pierre told his guest. &ldquo;Next to landing that big one, the most important thing is to make sure that you don&rsquo;t go so far off balance that you&rsquo;re at your opponent&rsquo;s mercy if you miss.&rdquo;</p><p>Pilote, who insists he never, looks for trouble during a game, informed Giambra that what he knew about throwing a punch he learned from his Dad, Paul Pilote, who did some fighting in his youth.</p><p>&ldquo;My Dad had 47 knockouts in 48 fights,&rdquo; Pierre said quite proudly.</p><p>&ldquo;I wish my record was that good,&rdquo; Giambra commented. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;ll settle for that middleweight title and I hope to get a chance at it this year.</p><p>&ldquo;Then I&rsquo;ll be able to relax a little&hellip;and. watch more hockey games. These hockey players are sure a rugged bunch.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Your first bottle</b> will prove it&hellip;IPA&rsquo;s a <i>man&rsquo;s</i> ale! Here&rsquo;s the BIG body and flavour you&rsquo;ve been looking for in ale. Joseph Porelle has a man-size job, and man-size tastes. His ale is Labatt&rsquo;s I PA. Make it yours, too.</p><p>Find out about I PA&hellip;<i>the ale that satisfies the man in you!</i> Make the great discovery as soon as possible&mdash;try I PA next timeyou&rsquo;re at your favourite hotel or tavern, or next time you order ale for the home. Start enjoying the ale with body&hellip;flavour&hellip;ZEST! The man&rsquo;s ale-1 PA!</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05140/1556140-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="549" height="554"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Middleweight Joey Giambra Impressed By Ruggedness Of Pro Hockey Players

<h2><b>Top Playmaker</b></h2><p>Ken Wharram of Buffalo leads AHL playmakers with 47 assists to date.</p><h2><b>&ldquo;Bad Man&rdquo;</b></h2><p>red Glover of Cleveland is the AHL&rsquo;s current &ldquo;Bad Man&rdquo; with 154 minutes in penalties to date.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON TUES. A.M., FEB. 7</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01326/1556269-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="594" height="190"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 1 Springfield 2 at Cleveland 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02285/1556262-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="599" height="585"></div><h3>Pittsburgh 4 at Hershey 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03225/1556255-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="598" height="652"></div><h3>Providence 1 at Buffalo 0</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04177/1556248-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="590" height="331"></div><h3>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Buffalo 4 at Pittsburgh 6</h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Parker MacDonald, With two goals, paced Pittsburgh Hornets to a 6-4 American Hockey League victory over Buffalo Blsons after Bisons bad tipd the score three times.</p><p>The teams split a fair in. the first period and then took two goals each in the second before Bob Hassard put Hornets in the lead to stay late in the second.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05144/1556241-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="601" height="623"></div><p>HERSHEY&mdash;An overtime goal by Al Nicholson gave Hershey Bears a 6-5 victory over Springfield Indians in an American Hockey League game here.</p><p>The Bears, who blew a three-goal lead they had at the end of the first period, pulled goalie Norm Defelice late in the third and sent six men on the attack. The manoeuvre paid off when Dune Fisher found the mark nine seconds before the end of the regular time.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06130/1556234-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="601" height="879"></div><h3>Providence 5 at Cleveland 4</h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Defenceman Bob Robertson scored on a 70-foot shot in overtime to give Providence Rods a 5-4 American Hockey League victory over Cleveland Barons.</p><p>The league-leading Reds came from behind three times and forced the overtime period when Camille Henry scored three seconds before the end of the regular play.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07114/1556227-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="595" height="810"></div><h3>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Cleveland 3 at Buffalo 2</h3><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;Goals by Fred Glover and Johnny McLellan late in the final period gave Cleveland Barons a 3-2 AHL triumph over Buffalo.</p><p>Gerry Prince sent the Barons into the the opening period. Buffalo came back to take tne lead on tallies by Ed Slowinski and Ciare Raglan.</p><p>Both teams were a man short when Glover gained the tie at 15.32 of the final period and McLellan&rsquo;s winning goal came while Raglan was inthe penalty box.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08109/1556220-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="601" height="654"></div><h3>Pittsburgh 8 at Springfield 3</h3><p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;Pittsburgh Hornets scored four times in the first and second periods to defeat Springfield Indians 8-3 in a rough American Hockey League game.</p><p>A near riot broke out at 13.32 of the third period when players and fans started swinging near the Pittsburgh bench.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09102/1556213-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="599" height="937"></div><h3>Hershey 4 at Providence 2</h3><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;Hershey Bears upended Providence Reds 4-2 and snapped a nine-game victory run at home for the American Hockey League leaders.</p><p>The Bears also became the first team to pin a second home loss on the Providence team, which has won 19 of 23 here.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1087/1556206-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="595" height="633"></div><h2><b>Baron Backstop Beaten</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1261/1556199-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="1745" height="1475"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG POWELL,</b> at left of Cleveland Barons&rsquo; nets, beats goaler Roy McKenzie to give the Springfield Indians the lead in a recent game at the Springfield Coliseum. That&rsquo;s Tommy Williams (5) rushing in too late to stop the elusive Indian while Gerry Prince (11) looks, on at left.</figcaption></div><h2><b>Zero Leader</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1344/1556192-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="552" height="843"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GIL MAYER</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sun. Feb. 5)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1168/1556185-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="593" height="717"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p><b>Most Goals</b></p><p>Zellio Toppazzini, Providence and Willie Marshall, Pittsburgh, 34.</p><p><b>Most Assists</b></p><p>Ken Wharram, Buffalo, 47.</p><p><b>Best Goalie</b></p><p>Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 37, 95, 4, 2,57. Most Shutouts</p><p>Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 4.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Player</b></p><p>Fred Glover, Cleveland, 154 mts.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Club</b></p><p>Pittsburgh, 1023 mts.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DICK BEDDOES</div><p><b>(As seen in The Vancouver Sun)</b></p><p>All of a sudden, the Seattle Americans of the Western Hockey League have turned impure.</p><p>First offender was defenceman Pat Coburn, who laid an impious stick on New Westminster&rsquo;s Bob Dawes. It was a vengeful act, contrary to morality.</p><p>Dawes was cleaved for 24 stiches and Mr. Coburn was clipped for an indefinite suspension.</p><p>Second Seattle truant was defenceman Pete Durham. He allegedly placed profane paws on a linesman&rsquo;s throat in Victoria.</p><p>It is, naturally, a flagrant crime to paw or fondle a referee or a linesman. Mr. Durham was expelled from the game and indefinitely suspended by the league.</p><p>The Americans, you might say, have more players suspended than you can buy suspenders.</p><h2><b>Durham&rsquo;s Suspension an Error</b></h2><p>No brief is held here for Coburn, the Wood Chopper. He is dismissed with a point made earlier in reference to hockey&rsquo;s hooligans.</p><p>The point is, there are two things hooligans never seem to get: all the blood they want and all the suspensions they deserve.</p><p>But a demurrer is entered in behalf of Pete Durham. It is suggested that president Al Leader erred in suspending the rollicking rearguard.</p><p>First reports from Victoria said Durham mauled linesman Ross Valliere during an elocution contest. Durham was disputing an official decision against Seattle with violence and vigor.</p><p>The way the hockey writer for the Canadian Press saw it, Durham assaulted Valliere in the manner of Rocky Marciano. The writer reported it the way he saw it: In his eyes Durham was a nefarious culprit.</p><h2><b>Play Barnyard Hockey</b></h2><p>Subsequent reports indicate the Canadian Pressman was less than a man of vision. What he saw as Durham&rsquo;s fist against Valliere&rsquo;s jaw was only Durham&rsquo;s finger pointed at the official&rsquo;s nose. What he described as mayhem was merely debate.</p><p>Now, it should be president Leader&rsquo;s place to always support his officials. But he shouldn&rsquo;t suspend a player on the basis of inaccurate reporting.</p><p>The hope is that Mr. Leader will correct the mistake and bail Mr. Durham out of purgatory. Soon.</p><p>Lloyd Robert &ldquo;Pete&rdquo; Durham, from Port Arthur, commands respect. Particularly by opponents. He sometimes dusts them off with meat cleavers; he always plays rousing barnyard hockey.</p><p>And he may be the best pne-puncher in the minor leagues. He is, anyway, in the opinion of Harry Ornest, a former referee now selling coffee dispensers in Vancouver.</p><p>&ldquo;Pete always has percentage going for him,&rdquo; Mr. Ornest explains. &ldquo;While the other guy&rsquo;s talking, he&rsquo;s swinging.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>He&rsquo;ll Lift You, or Level You</b></h2><p>Others say it similarly. Al Hooper has written in THE HOCKEY NEWS: &ldquo;Durham acts directly upon anyone he plays with or against. He can lift you, or level you.&rdquo;</p><p>Durham has lifted the Seattle Americans. Whe he joined them last month they were a desperate fourth in a four-team division. Now they are tied for third and not beyond finishing second.</p><p>Fans who don&rsquo;t know Durham personnaly have an erroneous Impression of his temperament. They know him as &ldquo;Bull&rdquo; Durham, and they picture him as an ill-tempered brawler, a street-fighter.</p><p>He&rsquo;s a fighter, all right. He has the whipcord build and blunt of an overgrown middleweight. But he is also courteous and honest and direct.</p><p>Bob Dawes of Westminster knows about Durham&rsquo;s directness. They have collided on purpose, inspiring Dawes to make a frank admission.</p><p>&ldquo;If you insist, Pete&rsquo;ll fight you in the street,&rdquo; Dawes said. &ldquo;But he&rsquo;d rather just beat you on the ice.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

From Our Tower

<div class="byline">By AL HOOPER</div><p>NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Athletics, are more than strictly physical and hockey is no different from most. There is more to sport than the philosophy of the disillusioned football coach who said: &ldquo;You can have college spirit. Give me 12 big guys that hate people.&rdquo;</p><p>The Western Hockey League has examples of the disciplined spirit. It explains the lofty positions of teams like Edmonton Flyers and Vancouver Canucks.</p><p>The paradox is true at Saskatoon. Quakers have the bodies. Yet they spend each winter inhaling the exhaust smoke of their prairie playmates.</p><p>And then there are the Royals of New Westminster.</p><h2><b>Joker</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01322/1556324-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="571" height="870"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ARNIE SCHMAUTZ</b></figcaption></div><h3>Many Sided Story</h3><p>The decline of Max McNab&rsquo;s athletes is a many-sided story that began&mdash;well, no one can say for sure. Not without guessing.</p><p>It may have started when Seattle won the draw for defenceman Pete Durham. Royals&rsquo; manager Kenny MacKenzie had Durham at the plucking stage, he thought.</p><p>At the time Royals were firmly pointed. They were second and nobody could solve the Doughnut Line of Bob Love, Blinky Boyce and Gordon Fashoway.</p><p>The Doughnut Line is what tlwy get from brash Arnie Schmautz, the 138-pound rookie. It is in honor of centre Bob Love because, Schmautz says blandly: &ldquo;They got the only line with nothing in the middle.&rdquo;</p><h3>Inverted Flattery</h3><p>Schmautz can kid Love and get away with it. In Love&rsquo;s case it is inverted flattery. The Dauphin dandy with arms like trestles is the league&rsquo;s best playmaker. Boyce and Fashoway are great wingers; Love makes them better.</p><p>Before.Durham was due to arrive, the opposition began to concentrate on the Doughnut Line. Scoringwise there was no other. Coach McNab&rsquo;s impeccable plays were being wasted by a series of transient wingmen. Slim Jim Zarie, Doug Adam and Bob Dawes exposed flashes of distribution, but they weren&rsquo;t scoring.</p><p>In a somewhat different category were rookies Schmautz and Arlo Goodwin. They and Motto McLean, who toils like a rookie, composed a checking line and any goals they scored were a bonus Even here, the bonus was a seldom thing.</p><p>And so Royals were due for a lift&mdash;when Durham went to Seattle. They had not yet begun to slip but they showed the signs. Losing Durham was psychological.</p><h3>&ldquo;Bentley Drive&rdquo;</h3><p>The irony is that Royals&rsquo; problem is not defensive</p><p>They have Bev Bentley in goal and 28-year-old Beverley, besides forging his best year ever in a unique case of late de-velopment has &ldquo;that Bentley drive,&rdquo; McNab says.</p><p>They have the two best &ldquo;clean&rsquo;&rdquo; defencemen around in Bob Bergeron and Matthews, and the best puck-carriers.</p><p>Rookies Frank Roggeveen and Freddie Creighton are the defensive dividend. Suddenly Frank and Freddie emerge as proficient pros.</p><p>But they were to get help in Durham. It never arrived.</p><p>Every team in the league strengthened. Royals did not.</p><h3>Slumped Then</h3><p>Manager MacKenzie, who is also co-owner, clutched a bundle of green in one fist and said: &ldquo;Show me where I can buy a player who&rsquo;ll help us and I&rsquo;ll buy him.&rdquo;</p><p>Royals slumped then..</p><p>The convalescence began from a severe state of last place. Gradually McNab&rsquo;s men moved even with Seattle, but the path ahead was craggy with road-trips.</p><p>Third place and the playoffs were the objective now. The grand effort was indicated.</p><p>It must be more than strictly physical.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Royals Set Sights On Rerth In Western League Playoffs

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02249/1556355-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg"></div><p>FEATURES&mdash;PICTURES&mdash;STATISTICS&mdash;INTERVIEWS CARTOONS. COMPLETE REPORTS ON ALL TEAMS</p><p><b>Only S2.50 for 26 consecutive issues.</b></p><p>Published weekly for 20 straight weeks during football season and once a month during off 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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The Canadian FOOTBALL NEWS

<h2><b>Goalkeepsr</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>ay Mikulan of Vancouver con. tinues his brilliant goalkeeping and leads the individual goalkeepers with agoals against average of 2.58 per game followed closely by the veteran Marcel Pelletier who has posted a 2.68 average.</p><h2><b>Los Angeles</b></h2><p>Jack Dempsey, at one time a Director in the WHL and General Manager of the Hollywood Wolves the last year they played in this League, has applied for a franchise for the City of Los Angeles in the WHL.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TUES. A.M. JAN. 31 COAST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01327/1556533-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="594" height="148"></div><h3><b>PRAIRIE DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02285/1556526-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="594" height="167"></div><h3><b>RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>Monday January 23rd</b></p><p>Vancouver 1 at Edmonton 4</p><p>Winnipeg 2 at Brandon 5</p><p><b>Tuesday January 24th</b></p><p>Seattle 0 at Victoria 4</p><p>Brandon 3 at Calgary 6</p><p>Vancouver 2 at Saskatoon 2 OT</p><p><b>Wednesday January 25th</b></p><p>Seattle 2 at New West. 6</p><p>Vancouver 0 at Winnipeg 3</p><p><b>Friday January 27th</b></p><p>Saskatoon 3 at Victoria 5</p><p>Calgary 5 at Edmonton 3</p><p>Vancouver 4 at Brandon 1</p><p><b>Saturday January 28th</b></p><p>Victoria 0 at Seattle 4</p><p>Saskatoon 0 at New West 2</p><p>Vancouver 6 at Calgary 1</p><p>Brandon 4 at Winnipeg 3 OT</p><p><b>Sunday January 29th</b></p><p>Victoria 2 at Seattle 1 OT</p><h3>MONDAY, JANUARY 23 Winnipeg 2 at Brandon 5</h3><p><b>Winnipeg</b>&mdash;Goal: Chadwick; defence: Bhero, Keating, Summers, Burega; forwards: Nykoluk, Aldcorn, Mazur, Masnick, Brian Cullen, Barry Cullen, Barlow, Mosienko, Hoekstra.</p><p><b>Brandon</b>&mdash;Goal: Dechene; defence: Allen, Hay, Strate, Bucyk; forwards: Kuklowicz, Kyle, Senick, Manson, Ohorley, Sweeney, Johnson, Cowan, Wilkie, Stratton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04227/1556519-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="615" height="600"></div><h3>Vancouver 1 at Edmonton 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05195/1556512-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="587" height="388"></div><h3>TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 Seattle 0 at Victoria 4</h3><p><b>Seattle</b>&mdash;Goal: Hodge; defence: LaVitt, Sinclair, Durham, Bownass; forwards: Bell, Fielder, E. Dorohoy, Watson, Bradley, Filion, O&rsquo;Dorohoy, Kuzma, Fonteyne.</p><p><b>Victoria</b>&mdash;Goal: Pelletier; defence: Whitney, Dobbyn, Bulloch, Davidson; forwards: Kilburn, Anderson, Macauley, Teal, Brown, Robertson, Chiupka, Olson, Wonosky, Strasser.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06166/1556505-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="594" height="516"></div><h3>Brandon 3 nt Calgary 6</h3><p><b>Brandon</b>&mdash;Goal: Dechene; defence: Allen, Hay, Strate, Bucyk; forwards: Kuklowicz, Ktyle, Manson Senick, Ghorley, Sweany, Johnsori, Cowan, Wilkie, Stratton.</p><p><b>Calgary</b>&mdash;Goal: Stevenson; defence: F. Hucul, Syverson, Mlchaluk, S. Hucul; forwards: Shvetz, Couture, Ross, Witiuk, Barry, McFadden, Duke, Scott, Crawford, Finney.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07154/1556498-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="607" height="597"></div><h3>aVncouver 2 at Saskatoon 2</h3><p><b>Vancouver</b>&mdash;Goal: Mikulan; defence: Egan, Currie, Kaiser, Hudson; forwards; Maloney, Margues, Lilley, Wylie, Cyr, Brown, Sarmichael, Ford, Johnson.</p><p><b>Saskatoon</b>&mdash;Goal: Francis; defence Houghton, Chrystal, Folk, Yanosik; forwards; Kckussen, Ingarfield, McCarthy, Haley, Gordichuk, McLeod, Lynn, Colwill, Melenchuk.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08145/1556491-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="598" height="501"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY JANUARY 25 Seattle 2 at New Westminster 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09138/1556484-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="598" height="683"></div><h3>Vancouver 0 at Winnipeg 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10132/1556477-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="593" height="388"></div><h3>FRIDAY JANUARY 27 Saskatoon 3 at Victoria 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11116/1556470-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="594" height="483"></div><h3>Calgary 5 at Edmonton 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12102/1556463-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="592" height="454"></div><h3>Vancouver 4 at Brandon 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1382/1556456-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="603" height="438"></div><h3>SATURDAY, JANUARY 28 Victoria 0 at Seattle 4</h3><p><b>Seattle</b>&mdash;Goal: Hodge;, defence: Bownass, Lavitt, Coburn, Durham; forwards&rsquo;: E. Dorohoy, Kuzma, Filion, Bell, Watson, Fonteyne, Fielder, Sinclair.</p><p><b>Victoria</b>&mdash;Goal: Pelletier; defence: Dobbyn, Davidson, Whitney, Bulloch; forwards: Kilburn, Macoauley, Brown, Teal, Robertson, Chiupka, Wonoski, Olson, Hornby, Carmichael.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1476/1556449-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="604" height="393"></div><h3>Saskatoon 0 at New Westminster 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02180/1556442-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="591" height="446"></div><h3>Vancouver 6 at Calgary 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03113/1556435-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="589" height="480"></div><h3>Brandon 4 at Winnipeg 8</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0480/1556428-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="595" height="662"></div><h3>SUNDAY, JANUARY 29 Victoria 2 at Seattle 1</h3><p><b>Seattle</b>&mdash;Goal: Hodge; defence: Bownass, Lavitt, Coburn, Durham; forwards: Filion, Bell, Watson, E. Dorohoy, Kuzma, Fonceyne, Fielder, Sinclair.</p><p><b>Victoria</b>&mdash;Goal: Pelletier; defense: Dobbyn, Bulloch, Davidson, Whitney; forwards: Kilburn, Macauley, Brown, Teal, Robertson, Chiupka, Wonoski, Olson, Carmichael.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0562/1556421-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="590" height="395"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Inclading Games of Sunday Jon. 29)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1564/1556414-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="590" height="1382"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1641/1556407-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="602" height="311"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p><b>Most Goals</b></p><p>Sid Finney, Cal., 34.</p><p><b>Most Assists</b></p><p>Guyle Fielder, Sea., 43; Bobby Love, N.W., 43.</p><p><b>Most Game Winning Goals</b></p><p>Sid Finney, Cal., 9</p><p><b>Most First Goal of Game</b></p><p>Collin Kilburn, Vic., 7; Barry Cullen, Wpg., 7.</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks</b></p><p>Jackie McLeod, Sas., 3.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b></p><p>Marc. Pelletier, Vic., 7.</p><p><b>Most Goals Scored When Opposition Shorthanded</b></p><p>Barton Bradley, Sea., 8.</p><p><b>Most Goals Against When Serving Pen.</b></p><p>Bill Burega, Wpg., 7.</p><p><b>Most Minutes in Penalties</b></p><p>Bud Syverson, al., 110; Bill Burega, Wpg., 108.</p><h3><b>FEWEST MINUTES IN PENALTIES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1731/1556400-1-eng-US/f0013-172.jpg" title="f0013-17" width="594" height="179"></div><h3><b>FEWEST BY DEFENCEMAN</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1923/1556393-1-eng-US/f0013-192.jpg" title="f0013-19" width="591" height="105"></div><h2>Shutout King</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1827/1556386-1-eng-US/f0013-182.jpg" title="f0013-18" width="1162" height="1760"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MARCEL PELLETIER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<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/f0014-01327/1556564-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="299" height="327"></div><p>&bull; LEO GRAVELLE has played his last game in organized hockey. The fleet right-winger caused quite a stir in Royals&rsquo; bailiwick early last week with the announcement that he was turning in his gear for keeps.</p><p>He explained to club GM Frank Carlin that he had secured a good Job which promised social security for years ahead. The job was contingent that he assume his duties at once.</p><p>He&rsquo;ll be a salesman for a large brewery. His territory will be in the vicinity of his home in Aylmer, Que., where he is well known to the neighbors, and has the added cachet of professional hockey renown. To make it possible tor him to give his full energies to his new duties he has sold an interest in a hotel in this area.</p><p>Carlin later had the documents ready which placed Gravelie on pro hockey&rsquo;s voluntary retired list. But Carlin, who had Leo under his wing when he first arrived here in 1944, took the parting, with a pang of regret.</p><p>&ldquo;Leo has been playing great hockey for us. His place on right wing will be hard to fill. He is 30 years of age, old for a pro, but his legs are young. He packed such speed he could be sure of a hockey job for a few years yet.&rdquo;</p><p>During the third period against Shawinigan last week when Royals were almost continually shorthanded, Gravelie&rsquo;s speed was noted, but definitely. He and the little halfpint Guy Rousseau were tossed out as penalty-killers by coach, Elmer Lach.</p><p>At one point when a quick relief was desired, Lach shouted for a riglft wing. Andre Corriveau and Lulu Denis both scrambled over the dasher at the same time. Lulu jumped back to the bench, thus avoiding a penalty for two many players on the ice. &ldquo;One right wing will do,&rdquo; said Garfin cryptically to his neighbors in a loge behind the bench.. &ldquo;Though I guess two could be needed to replace speedy Leo in this crisis.&rdquo;</p><p>His name suggested &ldquo;Leo the Lion,&rdquo; which was paradoxical in a way. For Gravelie was never noted for over abundant robust play. It is generally understood he was tagged Leo the Lion when he was locked up in police cells in Chicago, Nov. 2, 1949.</p><p>Ken Reardon, Billy Reay and Gravelie were tossed in the brig for &ldquo;an alleged attack on a spectator with a deadly weapon&mdash;a hockey stick&rdquo;. A picture of Reardon and Gravelle peering through the bars talking to coach Dick Irvin gained international circulation.</p><p>Leo has been the butt of many wise-cracks. There was the time he held a job at the Forum with duties not particularly specified. The rodeo starring Roy Rogers and his wonderful horse, Trigger, was on at the time. Leo would present himself to Tommy Gorman each morning, stand to attention and say. &ldquo;Anything for me Mr. Gorman?&rdquo; Gorman&rsquo;s secretary, a bright lass, was heard to remark: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know which is smarter, Leo or Trigger?&rdquo;</p><p>Yet Gravelie was admired for his flaring speed and scoring finesse. In old NHL records we see hat-tricks credited to him. His major league tops was 19 goals for Canadiens in 1949-50 and he was the high scorer in the Quebec League with 45 tallies for Ottawa Senators in 1953-54.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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You’ll Skate Better on CCMs

<h2><b>Big Lead</b></h2><p>Shawinigan Falls Cataracts maintain an 11-point margin over runner-up Montreal Royals.</p><h2><b>Shutouts</b></h2><p>Both Gerry McNeil and Bob Per. reault have racked up four shutouts to date this season.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE DOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON TUES. A.M., FEB. 7</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01299/1556734-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="584" height="168"></div><h3>TUESDAY, JANUARY 31 Shawinigan 2 at Montreal 5</h3><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defence: Hodgson, Lamirande, Langlois, Thomson; forwards: Wray, Bouchard, Kachur, J. Denis, Broden, Grosse, Faulkher, Roche.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil: defence: R. Rousseau, Ingram, Deslauriers, Clune. MacPherson; forwards: Corriveau, Thorn-dycraft, G. Rousseau, L. Denis, MacKay Gravelie, Laplante, Burnett, Goyette.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02262/1556727-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="601" height="654"></div><h3>Three Rivers 4 at Chicoutimi 6</h3><p><b>Three Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette; defence: McNeil, Tennant, Bouchard, Bedard; forwards: Blaine, Sherza, Kapusta, Groleau, Leclerc, Gooden, Thibeault, Gagnon, Bisaillon.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Paille; defence: Roy, Hanna, Talllefer, Labrosse; forwards: Locas, Moore, L. Smrke, S. Smrke, Topoll, Perreault, Cressman, Hicks, Campeau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03238/1556720-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="591" height="678"></div><h3>THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2 Chicoutimi 1 at Montreal 4</h3><p><b>Chicontimi:</b> Goal: Paille; defence: Glaude, Roy, Labrosse, Hanna; forwards: S. Smrke, Cressman, Locas, Perreault, Maxwell, L. Smrke, Topoll, Caanpeau, Hicks, Moore.</p><p><b>Royals:</b> Goal: McNeil; defence: R. Rousseau, Deslauriers, Clune, MacPherson; forwards: Thomdycraft, Goyette, Deuis, Ingram, Corriveau, Burnett, G. Rousseau, Mackay, Lapiante.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> George Gravel; linesmen: Howie Harvey, Bob Sleeth.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04190/1556713-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="587" height="546"></div><h3>Shawinigan 6 at Quebec 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05155/1556706-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="594" height="687"></div><h3>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1956 Royals 2 at Chicoutimi 4</h3><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defense: Ingram, Desliurlers, Clune, Macpherson; forwards: Corriveau, Thornyrraft, Goyette, Rousseau, Burnett, Denis, LaPlante, Mackay, Dudych.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Paille; defense: Roy, Glaude, Hanna, Talllefer; forwards: S. Smrke, L. Smrke, Moore, Topoll, Locas, Perreault, Hicka, Cressmab, Maxwell, Campeau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06135/1556699-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="596" height="637"></div><h3>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1956 Chicoutimi 2 at Quebec 3</h3><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Paille; defense: Glaude, Talllefer. Roy, Hanna, Labrosse; forwards: S. Smrke, Cressman, Perreault, Maxwell, L. Smrke, Topoll, Lalonde.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defense: Schneider, Crozier, Ernst, Zeniuk; forwards: Gamble, Tessier, Powell, Ford, Labadie, Tremblay, Achtymichuk, Buchanan, Cossette, Vinet.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07127/1556692-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="600" height="379"></div><h3>Shawinigan 3 at Three Rivers 2</h3><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defense: Leger, Hodgson, Lamirande, Langlois, Roche; forwards: Desaulniers, Wray, R. Bouchard, Kachur, Denis, Broden, Grouse, Faulkner, Dube.</p><p><b>Three Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette; defense: Bedard, Amadio. G. Bouchard, MacNeil, Tennant; forwards: Blaine, Scherza, Kapusta, Groleau, Thibeault, Leclerc, Gooden, Gagnon, Bisaillon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08116/1556685-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="594" height="606"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Includes Games of Sunday, Feb. 5)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-09108/1556678-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="586" height="780"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1094/1556671-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="589" height="364"></div><h2><b>In Pursuit Of A Puck</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1176/1556664-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="1715" height="1173"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIMMY MOORE,</b> the Chicoutimi Sagueneens star scoots after the puck when his shot is deflected into the corner by Gerry McNeil. This season Moore has been one of the highest scoring forwards in the QHL. <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Mike Gravel)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>G</span>ETS THE GATE&hellip;</b>fiery Johnny Bailey, who takes quite a few liberties with his stick, pressed his luck a little too far&hellip;this time he got rapped with a three-game suspension by the NOHA headquarters&hellip;he thought it was Christmas and time to cut up a turkey&mdash;only thing wrong was that the NOHA didn&rsquo;t see any resemblance between Bo Elik&rsquo;s head and a turkey&hellip;besides, Christmas was several weeks ago&hellip;Bo has more cuts and bruises than a bull in a hopped-up Mexican bullring&hellip;Dale Anderson is another NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; star in hot-water&hellip;the hard-driving Soo Indian performer received a summons from the Sudbury Police Department accusing him of using abusive language in the penalty box in Sudbury recently&hellip;by the time this column is on the plane headed for Montreal, Dale will be in a Sudbury court&hellip;I&rsquo;ll be in court for the case and next column will let you know what happened&hellip;Date told THE HOCKEY NEWS, in his defense, that a few fans peppered him with articles and used abusive language toward him&hellip;said Dale: &ldquo;When a player&rsquo;s out to win, it&rsquo;s pretty hard to take that kind of stuff.&rdquo; Said Sudbury officials: &ldquo;We must curb this foul language by players in our Arena.&rdquo;</p><p>Jerry on the Loose&hellip;for the past many seasons the name of Jerry Labelle has been a BIG one in Northern Ontario senior hockey&hellip;and he&rsquo;s still at it!!!&hellip;he fired two goals to lead Abitibi Eskimos to a 4-1 triumph over Timmins-Schumacher Flyers, the league-leaders&hellip;it was an important win because it boosted the Eskies only two points out of first place&hellip;Dilemma???&hellip;Toronto Maple Leafs are being asked to train at North Bay by the North Bay Arena Commission, while Pete Palangio, top man of the North Bay Trappers, would like to bring Cleveland Barons of the AHL up because his team has a working agreement with the Barons&hellip;why hot bring them both and really put North Bay on the hockey map???&hellip;what could be a better attraction than having the NHL and AHL meet in a few exhibition games?</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01285/1556765-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="571" height="574"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HEALE</b></figcaption></div><p>EL BEPPO AT VAL D&rsquo;OR&hellip;Bep Guidolin, who has certainly travelled asound the hockey circuit, is now playing-coach at Vai d&rsquo;Or, Quebec&hellip;and doing a neat job&hellip;the fight for playoff positions in the NOHA Southern Division continues to be redhot&hellip;at this writing, Sudbury Wolves lead the pack with 58 points while North Bay Trappers are second on 52&hellip;the Soo Greyhounds have 47, Pembroke 46 and the Indians 43&hellip;it&rsquo;s anybody&rsquo;s race the way most observors look at it&hellip;Veteran Armand Lemieux has shot to the front for Sudbury Wolves&hellip;generally considered an &ldquo;in and out&rdquo; performer, Armand has taken the bull by the horns and lately has been instilling a lot of that &ldquo;old college try&rdquo; into the Wolves&hellip;I think Armand deserves a lot of credit because he has always been grossly underrated&hellip;North Bay Trappers ran into a bad injury session being forced to play weekend games in Soo, Ontario, and Soo, Michigan, with only 11 men.</p><p>Gary Bird Out&hellip;little Gary Bird, defenseman for the Soo (Mich.) Indians in the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race, suffered a bad injury during a game and may be out for the balance of the regular schedule&hellip;Coach Pete Backor, however, is confident that Gary will be ready for the playoffs in the event the Indians do make the grade&hellip;Coach Sugar Jim Henry of the Soo Greyhounds decided to lay down the law to a couple of his players recently&hellip;&ldquo;Produce, fight and get on the ball, or else!&rdquo; said Sugar Jim&hellip;And The Boys Produced Pronto!&hellip;several hockey officials around the Northern circuit are being asked to appear on special fan-club programs over the air to give their side of the story about hockey&hellip;they point out common misinterpretations of the rules and talk about some of their major problems&hellip;Frank Duguay, veteran official, said his biggest beef is a player carrying his stick too high.</p><p>HIS BIG YEAR&hellip;this could be one of the biggest seasons Zor popular Gordie Heale of the Soo Indians&hellip;Gordie was one of the big cogs for Sudbury Wolves at one time and now is doing a great job for the Indians&hellip;Pete Horeck continues to be the real sparkplug for the Indians and the former NHL star could be the passport to the playoffs for the Indians&hellip;he rapped in another two goals as the Indians laced North Bay, 7-4&hellip;Al Millar had a shutout for two periods as the Indians raced ahead 6-0&hellip;then the Trappers came to life in the final period with a sizzling comeback&hellip;Playing Coach Eddie Reigle of the Trappers had to miss a road trip because of influenza and he was missed because Eddie has done a magnificent job for North Bay this season&hellip;he has made the Trappers into a vastly different club all the way around.</p><p>Month By Month&hellip;looking at the senior hockey picture month by month we find that Sudbury Wolves picked up the most points during the first month of play with 19, while the Soo Indians and North Bay Trappers collected 14&hellip;Soo Greyhounds had 12 and Pembroke had nine&hellip;then in the second month, Pembroke was the &ldquo;hottest&rdquo; team getting 18 points, while Sudbury Wolves and Soo Greyhounds each had 16&hellip;North Bay collected 10 and the Soo Indians took a real nosedive with only six&hellip;that was the big &ldquo;Dive&rdquo; that got Coach Pete Backor into a straightjacket during the second month of play&hellip;however the Indians made a dramatic comeback by getting 17 points in the third month, although North Bay topped the field with 22&hellip;Soo Greyhounds got 13, while Sudbury and Pembroke each collected 12&hellip;the 22 points made by North Bay was the biggest single-month production of any team so far and made a contending team of North Bay as far as the league drown is concerned.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02230/1556796-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WARREN HYNES</b></figcaption></div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio.&mdash;</p><p>There was a trace of a smile on Coach Roly McLenahan&rsquo;s face as he admitted &ldquo;yes, we&rsquo;re skating pretty fast lately.&rdquo;</p><p>McLenahan is the highly-successful coach of the Cincinnati Mohawks, who are making a determined bid to win their fourth successive International Hockey League crown, the last three under Roly&rsquo;s leadership.</p><p>&ldquo;The boys have been working hard, and they&rsquo;ve improved quite a bit since the start of the season,&rdquo; McLenahan pointed out.</p><p>Cincinnati appeared anything but a title threat after breaking even in its first eight IHL contests, but that was when the Hawks started to move.</p><p>In their last 35 outings, the Queen City skaters have lost just four more times while winning 30 and tieing one tilt.</p><p>That&rsquo;s a torrid pace that has left Cincinnati six full games in front of the hard-luck Troy Bruins, who appear headed for a second-place finish for the second straight year.</p><h2><b>Cincy Sharpshooter</b></h2><h3>Success Formula</h3><p>Remarkable balance of scoring power, coupled with sound defense and good goaltending from Jacques Marcotte have proved to be the formula which has carried the Hawks back to the top rung in the league.</p><p>Not only have McLenahan&rsquo;s youthful rookies come through with flying colors, but the veterans on the club on whom he counted heavily have lived up to expectations and produced a copious number of goals.</p><p>Heading the prolific attack, which accounted for 248 goals in the first 43 Hawk games (an average of 5.77 per contest) is Rookie Centre Max Mekilok, with 72 points on 28 goals and 44 assists.</p><h3>Close Behind</h3><p>Close behind is veteran centre Billy Goold, the team captain, with 23 goals and 47 assists for 70 points. Wingers John (Bun) Smith and Reg Grigg, who work with Goold, are next with 63 points apiece, while Duke Edmundson has 60 points, Warren Hynes 50, Butch MacKay 49, McLenahan 44, Bill Sutherland 43, Bill Kurtz 38, Moe Mantha 29, injured Neil Burke 27, Lou Marcon 16 and Goalie Marcotte one.</p><p>Hynes is the No. 1 goal-scorer with 32, while Mekilok and Smith both have 28, Grigg 25, Goold and Edmundson 23 apiece, McLenahan 21, Sutherland 19, MacKay 16 and Kurtz 13.</p><p>MacKay has been doing double duty since Burke suffered a broken bone in his hand several weeks ago. Normally a defenseman, MacKay now also is handling right wing and has been scoring very well from that position.</p><h3>Reached Peak</h3><p>The Hawk attack reached its peak on Jan. 25, when last-place Indianapolis was smothered, 16-0. Two new IHL marks were set by the Cincinnatians in this one, as they tallied 10 goals in a hectic second period for one record, with five of them coming in the space of two minutes and five seconds, for the other. Three hat tricks featured the high-geared offense, Hynes getting four goals and MacKay and Sutherland three apiece.</p><p>Cincinnati&rsquo;s all-M defense corps of McLenahan, MacKay, Marcon and Mantha, along with a fifth M-man, Marcotte, has proven hard to crack, and has frequently backed up the all-out offense in crucial moments.</p><p>Before the season started, McLenahan stated &ldquo;our success or failure will depend on how our veterans come through.&rdquo; The holdovers&mdash;Goold, Smith, Grigg, Edmundson, MacKay, Mantha and McLenahan himself, have delivered with flying colors, so Cincinnati is back on top of the heap after <i>a</i> slow start. Between them, they have tallied 145 of the 248 Hawk markers thus far.</p><h3>Icing The Puck</h3><p>Bert Williams, Mohawk trainer for the past seven years, is hospitalized in Toledo&rsquo;s Mercy Hospital after suffering a heart attack there before the Cincinnati-Toledo game of Jan. 28. The veteran trainer, under an oxygen tent at first, was expected to survive, but it was doubtful whether he would be available any more this season&hellip;Latest hat trick shooters, besides the Hawk trio, are two Ft. Wayne skaters, Art Stone (his second) and Defenseman Bill Short&hellip;Marcotte was credited with the week&rsquo;s only shutout job, 16-0, over Indianapolis. It was his second whitewashing&hellip;There were three overtime games during the week, Toledo-Marion edging Indianapolis, 4-3; Grand Rapids downing Troy, 5-4, and Cincinnati playing a 1-1 tie with Toledo-Marion.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0016-02

Hawks Zooming at Torrid Pace In International League Race

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Eddie Johnston, regular goalie for the Montreal Junior Canadiens, permitted to sign with the Chatham Maroons, after their regular netminder, Mary Edwards, sustained a broken nose during a team workout, seems to be what the Maroons have been looking for, because in his first two starts he turned back the Stratford Indians 6-4 in overtime and then held Windsor Bulldogs to one counter, as the Maroons defeated the Bulldogs 4-1 on Windsor ice.</p><p>Chatham and Owen Sound Mercurys, standing fifth and fourth respectively when the week&rsquo;s firing started, fared the best, both winning two games while losing one, which resulted in the Mercurys taking over third place one point ahead of the Bulldogs. Windsor fared the worst, as they were only able to salvage one of four games, while Stratford split their two fixtures.</p><p>As matters stand going into the month of February, the absent Kitchener Dutchmen at the Olympic world hockey championship, are still pacing the pack seven points ahead of the Stratford Indians, but the balance of the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; O.H.A. teams are well bunched, and from here out until the final scheduled game, Feb. 20, anything can happen, because one game can change the complexion of the league.</p><h2>Predictor</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02215/1556858-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="569" height="877"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MURPH CHAMBERLAIN</b></figcaption></div><h3>Indians Second</h3><p>At time of writing, Stratford Indians hold down second place, two points up on the Owen Sound Mercurys, with Windsor Bulldogs trailing Owen Sound by one point, and Chatham still holding down last place, but only four points to the rear of Windsor.</p><p>The uncertainty of the final standing is reflected in the wide variance of recent results. Windsor defeated Owen Sound 12-3 and two nights later Owen Sound edged Windsor 3-2. By the same token, Stratford defeated Chatham decisively 9-4 and two nights later Chatham reversed that result, downing Stratford 6-4 in overtime. Owen Sound, playing the third game of the week with Windsor, chalked up a 6-3 verdict, and the next day Windsor suffered their third reverse when Chatham grabbed a 4-1 win right on Windsor ice.</p><p>With three weeks to go before the schedule ends, and Kitchener Dutchmen slated to return to action on Feb. 11 with a game against Chatham on Kitchener ice, and faced with a heavy schedule, the Dutchmen could be an important factor in which one of the fire teams will miss the playoffs. The Dutchmen are assured of one of the berths, but none of the other four teams can rest on their oars, so close and uncertain is the future.</p><h3>Can Make Playoffs</h3><p>Although having but 13 players on the roster, Chatham Maroons, can still make one of the playoff spots and judging by their performance the past week they could very easily fulfill coach Murph Chamberlain&rsquo;s early prediction that his Maroons would make the playoffs.</p><p>Before granting Chatham permission to replace Marv Edwards. the regular goalie who met with an unfortunate injury, the other three clubs were polled over the telephone by the OHA business manager, Owen Sound and Windsor agreeing and Stratford refusing Chatham&rsquo;s request for a replacement. Nothing was mentioned in the phone poll as to where Chatham would be allowed to recruit their replacement for goal. So they managed to sign the Montreal Canadien junior netminder, contrary to Canadian Amateur Hockey Association regulations, which stipulate that branch-to-branch transfers must be completed by Dec. 15. Another concession, in order to keep Chatham in operation was permission, sanctioned by the other four clubs, to sign two more players, although the Maroons full complement of certificates had been used up.</p><h3>Using Red Ink</h3><p>Chatham, like Stratford, has been using plenty of red ink, making the future of both clubs precarious, which seems to be fairly general throughout Canada, with hockey interest definitely on the wane.</p><p>The situation in Stratford is anything but bright, as the Indians&rsquo; treasury shows a deficit bordering on $10,000, although their salary list is claimed to be the lowest in the league. Attendance average about 1,500 at ths present time, and increase of about 100 since the first of the year, but that is proving insufficient to break even, and president &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Meier contends that in order to do so the average must be at least 2,000, a figure the Indians reached but once this season.</p><p>Chatham Maroons, besides getting two breaks vit addition of two player certificates after the deadline, also were granted a reduction in arena rental from $600 to $300 for their remaining home games by the rink operators. Victories in their last two starts have also increased interest among their supporters, resulting, in increased attendance, which, coupled with a successful sale of season tickets for the balance of their games, appear to have put them over the hump and solved their financial woes.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-02

Star Goaler Ed Johnson Pacing Chatham Maroons In Late Season Drive

<div class="byline">By HUGH BOWMAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01251/1556827-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ART STRATTON</b></figcaption></div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>As the OHA Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; campaign rolled into the final month of the schedule it became increasingly obvious that nothing barring a complete collapse could halt the St. Catharines Teepees from finishing in first place for the third consecutive year; that the Hamilton Tiger-Cubs&rsquo; hopes of gaining a playoff berth were dim, to say the least; that the Guelph Eilt-mores would pace the league in goal production; and that all the playoff berths below first place were as wide open as an emptynet.</p><p>The Teepees, who moved into a first place tie with Kitchener-Waterloo Canucks on January 8. had a nine point hold on first place at the end of January. During the first month of the year 1956, they racked up 12 wins in 15 starts, losing only two and tieing one. They also ran a home ice winning streak, dating back to December 10th, to eleven and with six of their nine February starts scheduled for the Garden City Arena there is little doubt that they&rsquo;ll wind up at the head of the parade. With Ab McDonald and Art Stratton running one-two in the individual point derby, &lsquo;Elmer Vasko at peak form behind the blueline and Roy Edwards performing magnificently in goal, the Teepees have been all but unbeatable.</p><h2>Prolific Pointmaker</h2><h3>Formidable Task</h3><p>At the other end of the ladder, the Hamilton Tiger-Cubs are faced with the formidable task of having to win virtually all of their remaining games to catch a playoff spot. The Cubs, who are obviously not as bad as their record would indicate, fanned their playoff hopes with an 8-7 win over Barrie and a 4-4 tie with St. Kitts. In between however was a 3-2 loss to Marlboros that may have made the difference. A victory in that one would have put the Cubs within shooting distance of the Pukes with whom they have two games in February. The only thing in favor of the Cubs is the schedule. Of their eleven games at home in the short month, seven of them are at the Hamilton Forum. Dennis Riggin is back in peak form in the Cubs cage and Max Szturm who potted a pair against the Teepees appears to have found his scoring eye. The odds are against them eatching a playoff spot but the scrappy Cubs will play it right down to the wire.</p><p>Guelph Biltmores appear to be a cinch to pace the league in goal production. With 10 games remaining in their schedule the goal-happy Hatters had lit the lamp 209 times for an average of 5.5 goals per game just a shade under the 5.6 average of the Teepees Memorial Cup winning team of two years ago. While the Teepees high-scoring line of Brien and Barry Cullen and Hughie Barlow accounted for over half of the St. Catharines goal production that year, the Biltmores have no fewer than six players in the top 15 scorers. Bobby Forhan, Bill Sweeney, Bryan Webber and Gerry Goyer have all passed the coveted 20 goal mark and Eddie Shack and Al Cleary Who are well up in the point derby are within easy striking distance. Two other Hatters, BiUy Graham and Ron Howell, who didn&rsquo;t start until the end of tbe football season should also enter the charmed circle at the current rate of progress. Howell who has led the leagues defencemen in goal production the last two years had picked up at least one point in his last 23 consecutive games at the time of writing.</p><h3>Missed Opportunity</h3><p>Biltmores missed an opportunity to move into second place when the K/W Canucks turned them back 6-5 with a four-goal outburst in the third period. One of those addities in hockey occurred in that one. Trailing 5-4, the Biltmores removed their goalkeeper and Ken Gribbons promptly scored on the Hatters open net, to make it 6-4 for Kitchener. Ron Boomer went back into the Guelph cage after the strategy backfired and Billy Graham promptly scored what would have been the tieing goal for Guelph.</p><p>The victory gave the Canucks a four point hold on second place but still left them with little hope of catching the front-running Teepees. The hot and cold Twin Cities entry have even coach Jack Stewart baffled. They crushed Marl-boros 7 to 1 in a Friday night home contest and then bowed 5-2 to a crippled St. Michaels club on Sunday prior to their third period victory over the Biltmores. Walt Bradley who is just about the most polished right winger in the league continues to pace the Canucks offensive and is the only player in the.league seriously threatening Ab McDonald bid for goal scoring honors. Centreman Stan Baluik, the league&rsquo;s top playmaker was only three assists away from his last year&rsquo;s league leading total of 51 at the time of writing.</p><h3>Finding The Range</h3><p>Jack Stewart moved rugged rearguard Kent Douglas up on the wing for the game against Marlboros and he responded with a hat trick. Willie O&rsquo;Ree is starting to find the range again which will help the Canucks causg. considerably come playoff time.</p><p>St. Mikes&rsquo; win over Kitchener followed up a 14-3 loss to the Guelph Biltmores in the highest scoring contest of the season. The Collegians however were without the services of Frank Mahovlich, Pat Hannigan, Bob Watt and regular goalkeeper Bob Savage in the Biltmore debacle. Hannigan was back for the tilt with the Canucks and made the big difference. He&rsquo;s one of the more solid all-round performers in the league. With Mahovlich still out the Irish have been getting plenty of mileage from Gene Ubriaco, Dick Mattulssi and Bob McKnight. With Bob Watt&rsquo;s return to the lineup, Noel Price&rsquo;s load should be lightened. The big rearguard was working overtime during Watt&rsquo;s absence. The Collegians have slipped from second to fourth but if they can get Mahovlich and Savage back in the lineup and avoir further injuries they&rsquo;ll rough in the playoffs. They&rsquo;re a little short on experience but they play sound positional hockey and are the best skatipg club in the league.</p><h3>Snapped Streak</h3><p>Toronto Marlboros snapped a four-game losing streak with their 3-2 victory over Hamilton and followed it up with a 4-3 triumph over St. Mikes. Turk Broda who has been getting by with two lines over most of the season had his problem further complicated by an injury to Wally Boyer. Boyer who&rsquo;s been the sparkplug of the Dukes over most of the season has been sidelined with a shoulder injury.</p><p>The lineup shuffle paid off in the Hamilton contest as Bill Kennedy and Charlie Burns took turns to set up Ken Girard with the tieing and winning goals.</p><p>Defenceman Al McNeill who had a whirl with the parent Toronto Maple Leafs in their 3-1 loss to the New York Rangers played four games in as many days over that weekend. The Maritimes native didn&rsquo;t look out of place in the higher company.</p><p>Hap Emms&rsquo; Barrie Flyers continue to keep the hometown fans happy. The much improved Flyers have won their last seven starts at home including a pair of wins over the league-leading St. Catharines Teepees. The losses in Barrie by scores of 5-2 and 9-5 were the only ones the Teepees incurred in the month of January.</p><p>Barrie defenceman Dick Cherry paced the Flyers to their 9-5 victory over St. Kitts with a hat trick. Cherry, a converted forward is the Flyers top point-getter. He had 18 goals to his credit with 13 games left in the Barrie schedule.</p><p>The home team had won 63% of the games played at the three-quarter mark in the schedule.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-01

Teeps Almost Certain To Repeat As OHA Junior League Leaders

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Big story in the Eastern League this week was, of course, the fire that left the Baltimore Clippers without a home.</p><p>Carlins Iceland was totally destroyed by an early morning blaze on Jan. 23rd and the Clippers were forced to carry on the balance of the campaign in the best manner possible.</p><p>Five games were booked in Charlotte, N.C., one in Washington and the balance of their home schedule will be played on enemy ice. The other five teams will give the Clippers the gate in these &ldquo;home&rdquo; games and will meet the added expense of traveling to Charlotte (400 miles south of the Maryland city) it was announced at an emergency meeting held on Jan. 24th.</p><p>Hershey Bears (of the Ameri-1 can Hockey League) loaned the Clippers a spare set of uniforms and whatever equipment they could spare and Andy Brown&rsquo;s boys made their southern debut Monday, Jan. 30th against the New Haven Blades.</p><h2><b>Masked</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01259/1556889-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="579" height="1057"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICK PILOQUIN</b></figcaption></div><h3>New Haven On Top</h3><p>Johnstown Jets moved into fourth place, one point ahead of Baltimore, by virtue of their 7-4 victory over the cellar&mdash;dwelling Philadelphia Ramblers, Jan. 25th. The rest of the standings remained virtually the same with New Haven still comfortably out in front followed by Washington and Clinton.</p><p>Unless the Ramblers suddenly do an about face, it looks as though Philadelphia fans can forget about play-offs for this season. The schedule favors the Philly sextet from here on in and it&rsquo;s now or never for Chirp Brenchley, Ivan Walsmley & Co.</p><p>Crash Kelly of the Johnstown Jets is under suspension pending a hearing by League president Tom Lockhart for assaulting referee Bernie Burns on Jan. 24th in Clinton.</p><p>NEW HAVEN: Yvan Chasle registered his 3rd hat trick of the season, Jan. 24th, scoring 4 times against Philadelphia&hellip;Coach Don Perry picked up 4 assists against Johnstown (Jan. 22nd) to take over second place among the league defensemen in scoring. Perry now has 8 goals and 21 assists&hellip;Ron Kapitan leads the club in penalties with 97 minutes&hellip;Claude Boileau&rsquo;s 54 assists is tops in the circuit&hellip;John Sherban&rsquo;s 32 goals are the team high followed by Chasle&rsquo;s 29. Boileau, Ron Foster and Cler Doyon each have 19&hellip;Foster has scored a goal in each of the Blades last five contests&hellip;Nick Donaleshun was picked up from Clinton and scored 2 goals in his 1st game for Blades.</p><p>PHILADELPHIA: Ray Grenon, a 6&rsquo;1&rdquo;, 210 lb. defenseman, is the newest (and biggest) member of the Ramblers&hellip;Defenseman John Hannah and forward Jerry Norman were released&hellip;Art Dorrington is the top scorer for the last place Ramblers with 29 goals and 27 assists. Rocky Rukaviua (all 5&rsquo;4&frac12; of him) is next with 17 and 28 and Joe Maroney third with 24 and 20&hellip;Jimmy Moore is the club&rsquo;s highest scoring defenseman with a record of 8 goals and 14 assists&hellip;Al Fontana is runner-up to Moore&hellip;4,020, the largest Philly crowd of the campaign saw the locals edged 4-3 by Washington on Jan. 27th&hellip;Dick Piloquin and Mert MoCIenaghan have been wearing plastic guards to protect their broken noses&hellip;Piloquin leads the club in penalties.</p><p>WASHINGTON: Center Gordon Comport was released cutting the Lions squad to 9 forwards and 4 defensemen&hellip;Jack Spencer&rsquo;s ear was badly cut when he collided with teammate Dave Lucas in a goalmouth scramble Jan. 25 th. Spencer had to withdraw with a little over a minute to go in overtime and the game was called a 6-6 tie&hellip;New Haven attracted the largest midweek crowd (over 1,900) to Uline Arena on that night&hellip;Murray Dodd, the Blade goalie was borrowed for the game of Jan. 27th against Philadelphia when Spencer was unable to return to action&hellip;Fern LaPointe, the loop&rsquo;s top scorer, missed the Lions last two contests and a chance to pick up a few more points on Don Hall in the battle for the John J. Carlin Trophy (awarded to the EIIL&rsquo;s leading scorer)&hellip;Coach Stan Warecki&rsquo;s 31 goals are a team high and LaPointe&rsquo;s 45 assists tops in that department.</p><p>BALTIMORE: Curly Melanchuck, still under suspension, is available if any other team will offer the Clippers a centerman in return&hellip;Veteran defenseman Russ Hann scored a brace of goals against the Lions, Jan. 22nd&hellip;The 1,828 who attended the final game in Carlins represented the season high in the Maryland city&hellip;. Baltimore has dropped 8 of 9 to Washington&hellip;The Clippers have scored the fewest goals of any EHL club this season and are the only team without a 20 goal scorer&hellip;They also have the fewest hat tricks, one&hellip;</p><p>CLINTON: Defenseman Ronnie Lee was given his release also forward Nick Donalshun&hellip;Montreal Jr. Canadiens will play an exhibition game against the Comets in Clinton on Jan. 29th&hellip;Willie Pawchuk and George Steele each have 29 goals&hellip;Jerry Stringle, Gerry Frizclle and Ken Graham are also in the 20 goal circle&hellip;Graham is the club&rsquo;s top playmaker with 42 assists to nis credit&hellip;Joe Nolan, who has calmed down the past two weeks, still leads the loop in penalties&hellip;</p><p>JOHNSTOWN: Emile Nadeau was released (for the 2nd time) and Danny Rizzo (a Pittsburgh boy) returned to the Jet fold&hellip;Dick Roberge tallied 4 times (his 5 th hat trick of the season, tying him with linemato Don Hall for the league lead in &ldquo;trios&rdquo;) against Philly on Jan. 25th. His 45 goals are the best in the circuit&hellip;Kenny Coombes&rsquo; is second in the league in assists&hellip;Paul Olafson and Buddy McDonald have passed the 20 goal mark while Coombes and Ed Rumi each need one more to reach that number&hellip;Bill Gallagher (9 goals and 29 assists) is the EHL&rsquo;s number one offensive bluelineman&hellip;Crash Kelly, the Jet badman with 115 minutes, was assessed with a misconduct penalty, Jan. 24 th and a match misconduct (and 4 minors) the following night&hellip;Don Hall reinjured his leg against the Ramblers on Jan. 21st and is back on the sidelines. His 71 points (31 and 40) are the Jets high and second in the league.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-01

Baltimore To Play ‘Home’ Tilts On Road As Result Of Huge Fire

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>One of the season&rsquo;s best home-rink stands has ended. When Saint John Beavers beat the Hawks 5-4 at Moncton they ended a streak of nine home games without defeat.</p><p>That recent home-rink stand moved the Hawks into third place in the standings for the first time this season. The loss, however, dropped them back into the basement.</p><p>Shermie White has established a new Atlantic Coast Senior Hockey League scoring record and hopes to push it well over the 100 point mark before the schedule ends February 22.</p><p>A few new players have been added to the rosters of the four clubs and the race for favored playoff positions is on in earnest. Except for the widening gap between the first place Saint John Beavers and the runner up Amherst Ramblers, the league race is close and a spurt by either Fredericton Capitals or Hawks could wrest second place from the only Nova Scotia entry.</p><h2><b>Prolific</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0655/1556920-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="574" height="1064"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SHERMIE WHITE</b></figcaption></div><h3>Have Shaken Slump</h3><p>The Ramblers, on the other hand, have shaken their slump since White returned from the injury list and hope to do something about protecting second place as well as making inroads into Saint John&rsquo;s growing league margin.</p><p>Meanwhile there has been a fuss going on between the Moncton management and league president Jack Fenety. It&rsquo;s all over Fredericton playing coach Hugh Campbell, who recently got into a scuffle with a referee and drew a mach misconduct penalty.</p><p>President Fenety ruled that Campbell&rsquo;s expulsion from that game was sufficient punishment and there would be no further penalty, Moncton leaders countered with a blast against the league leader, who had sidelined Moncton defenceman Freddie Weaver earlier in the season for what the Hawks claimed was a similar offence against a referee.</p><h3>Different Rules?</h3><p>Did the president have certain rules and regulations for Fredericton players and others for members of the three other teams, the Hawks wanted to know. Fenety is a Fredericton resident.</p><p>That stirred up some interest&rsquo; for a while and it all added to the general picture which is brighter now, financial-wise, than it has been all season. No longer do the teams talk of folding; in fact they&rsquo;re bringing in players to bolster lineups weakened by injuries.</p><p>The Armed Forces Senior Hockey League has reached the playoff stage, with two Navy and two Air Force teams in the semifinal. Stadacona. who led from opening week, finished in first place, followed by the RCAF station from Greenwood; the Navy based at Shearwater and the Maritime Air Command Headquarters from Halifax.</p><h3>Exciting Hockey</h3><p>During the stretch drive for playoff berths the teams produced the most exciting of the season. Best last-ditch stand was made by MACHQ, who managed two ties in their last three games against powerful Stadacona and Shearwater to winp up in a fourth-place tie with Cornwallis, a new-entdy Navy base at Deep Brook.</p><p>That was good enough to qualify the young airmen for a playoff berth because their goal spread over the regular schedule was better than that of Cornwallis.</p><p>George Pumple, veteran Ottawa defenceman who took over the Shearwater coaching duties after Christmas, earned Coach-of-the-Year honors by leading the Flyers to five straight victories and then a tie in their last six games. Until the Christmas recess the Flyers had won only one game.</p><h3>Faded Badly</h3><p>Cornwallis and Black Watch Regiment, who had enjoyed choice spots in the standings earlier in the season, faded badly after Christmas. MACHQ, an also-ran in the first part of the schedule, played its best hockey the past three weeks.</p><p>Stadacona and Shearwater, powerful football rivals the past few seasons, are favored to reach the finals.</p><p>Vern Jarvis, a flying officer out of Stadley, Alberta who was formerly in the Navy, and now plays with Greenwood Bombers, is the league&rsquo;s scoring ohampion.</p><p>Jarvis scored 23 goals, helped out on 21 others for a point total of 44, three more than veteran Puddy Reardon of Stadacona amassed.</p><p>Reardon formerly played with Halifax Saint Mary&rsquo;s juniosr, well known along the Memorial Cup trail a few years ago, and has also seen service with several provincial senior teams.</p><h3>Most Goals</h3><p>Reardon has most goals in the league, 24 and McGuire of Greenwood the most assists. Collins of Greenwood led the penalty parade with 54 minutes and Morton of Shearwater had the best record among the regular goalies with an average of 4.27.</p><p>The Nova Scotia League keeps plugging along, with no new changes since the Truro Bearcats shifted their base of operations to New Glascow and are now known as the Rangers. And a team to gain unusual notice of late weeks is the Pictou Pontiacs, an All-Star intermediate squad that has beaten many senior teams in exhibition games and has only one tie mar an otherwise perfect record.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-06

Amherst’s Shermie White Sets New Scoring Record For Atlantic Coast Loop

<h2>EASTERN LEAGUE (Standing on Jan. 28)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01237/1557077-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="582" height="194"></div><h2>INTERNATIONALEAGUE (Standing on Jan. 30)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02191/1557070-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="589" height="183"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03148/1557063-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="590" height="261"></div><h2>MANITOBA BIG SIX (Standing on Jan. 30)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04127/1557056-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="587" height="133"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05109/1557049-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="588" height="341"></div><h2>NOHA SENIOR (Standing on Jan. 25)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0692/1557042-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="589" height="165"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0786/1557035-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="586" height="334"></div><h2>ONTARIO SENIOR A (Standing on Februarv 2)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0880/1557028-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="594" height="152"></div><h2>ONTARIO JUNIOR A (Standing on February 2)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0970/1557021-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="591" height="201"></div><h2>MONTREAL METRO. JUNIOR (Standing on February 2)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1060/1557014-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="588" height="155"></div><h2>East Section</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1153/1557007-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="588" height="156"></div><h2>INTERCOLLEGIATE (Standing on February 5)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1248/1557000-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="589" height="127"></div><h2>WESTERN JUNIOR (Standing on January 30)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1341/1556993-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="588" height="127"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1441/1556986-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="589" height="280"></div><h2>MANITOBA JUNIOR (Standing on February 3)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1537/1556979-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="591" height="103"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1635/1556972-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="586" height="156"></div><h2>PENALTIES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1731/1556965-1-eng-US/f0019-172.jpg" title="f0019-17" width="587" height="80"></div><h2>EASTERN ONTARIO SENIOR (Standing on January 30)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1829/1556958-1-eng-US/f0019-182.jpg" title="f0019-18" width="588" height="149"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1925/1556951-1-eng-US/f0019-192.jpg" title="f0019-19" width="588" height="299"></div><div class="sidebar"><p><b>BOLS ANSWER New York Rangers, 310 goals.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

f0019-01

Amateur Puck Parade At A Glance

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-20" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-2021/1557108-1-eng-US/f0019-202.jpg"></div><p><b>(Solution next week)</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Chicago defenseman.</p><p>6&mdash;Initials of a newly acquired member of the Red Wings.</p><p>8&mdash;Played with Edmonton in Edmonton in 1952-53, called Gerry.</p><p>10&mdash;Nickname of a Toronto rearguard.</p><p>11&mdash;First name of Calgary&rsquo;s net-minder.</p><p>13&mdash;First name of Walmsley who subbed for Gil Mayer recently..</p><p>14&mdash;Name unknown (abbr.)</p><p>15&mdash;What all teams try to do.</p><p>18&mdash;Second name of Buffalo&rsquo;s goalie.</p><p>19&mdash;League in which Gerry James starred as a junior (abbr.).</p><p>21&mdash;The (Fr.).</p><p>22&mdash;Ruthehium (Sym.).</p><p>23&mdash;Initials of Lilley of Vancouver Canucks.</p><p>24&mdash;Initial of player who wears no. 18 for Canadiens.</p><p>25&mdash;First name of 4 down.</p><p>27&mdash;What Dick Duff said when asked to sign a Leaf contract.</p><p>29&mdash;Paul Masnick&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>33&mdash;One always travels with a club during play-offs (abbr.)</p><p>34&mdash;Red Sullivan&rsquo;s ancestors hail from here.</p><p>35&mdash;Short for first name of Downie, WHL linesman.</p><p>36&mdash;Initials of a Hornet forward.</p><p>37&mdash;Edmonton&rsquo;s goalie.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Month in which pictured player celebrates birthday.</p><p>2&mdash;Gerry James was born here.</p><p>3&mdash;Initials of Harmon, former U.S. football star.</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of an NHL referee.</p><p>5&mdash;Nattrium (Sym.).</p><p>7&mdash;Ont. bithplace of pictured star.</p><p>9&mdash;New Rochelle (abbr.).</p><p>12&mdash;Initials of one of the Boston Bruins.</p><p>15&mdash;Pictured player&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>16&mdash;Jim McFadden&rsquo;s birthplace.</p><p>17&mdash;Nickname of 20 down.</p><p>20&mdash;A linesman in the WHL.</p><p>26&mdash;Initials of Dussault once fomous as &ldquo;Le Nome&rdquo; of Canadiens.</p><p>28&mdash;Bob Turner&rsquo;s native province (abbr.).</p><p>30&mdash;Nickname of AHL club with whom Bobby Perreault once nlaved</p><p>31&mdash;Initials of a Red Wing centre.</p><p>31&mdash;In 1927-28 goal tenders pads were changed from 12&rdquo; to 10&rdquo;.</p><p>35&mdash;Initials of Iverson, ex-Hawk coach.</p><p>36&mdash;Initials of a Toronto defenseman</p><h2><b>(Last week&rsquo;s solution)</b></h2><h3><b>Across</b></h3><p>1. Geoffrion</p><p>8. Chick</p><p>9. Leo</p><p>10. E.C.R.</p><p>12. Ht.</p><p>13. L.M.</p><p>14. C.A.</p><p>15. To.</p><p>16. Aug.</p><p>17. Tor.</p><p>18. P.D.</p><p>19. E.R.</p><p>20. Ten</p><p>21. Nov</p><p>22. N.N.</p><p>23. Third</p><p>26. Italian</p><p>29. Soccer</p><p>30. L.F.</p><p>31. D.T.</p><p>32. Of.</p><h3><b>Down</b></h3><p>1. Giles</p><p>2. O&rsquo;Connor</p><p>3. F.H.</p><p>4. Fish</p><p>5. R.C.</p><p>6. Ike</p><p>7. Norm</p><p>11. Claude</p><p>14. Captain</p><p>15. Toronto</p><p>17. Tennis</p><p>23. Tied</p><p>24. Hart</p><p>25. Duff</p><p>27. Aee</p><p>28. L.C.</p><p>30. Lo.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0019-20

Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0288/1557153-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="247" height="291"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0189/1557160-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="237" height="276"></div><h2><b>Starry Harry Stumped</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0386/1557146-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2824" height="1611"></div><h2><b>Diggin&rsquo; Dickie Dumped</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0473/1557139-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2809" height="1444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY WATSON</b> of the Chicago Black Hawks grimaces in frustration as he sees the puck slide off the end of his stick and past the cutstretched leg of Gil Mayer in the Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; cage. Tim Horton (right) moves in fast to make sure starry Harry doesn&rsquo;t get another shot at the rolling rubber. In the action below, Diggin&rsquo; Dickie Moore of the Montreal Canadiens gets set for a flopper on the ice as he trips over goaler Jacques Plante (down behind Moore). Fellow sitting at the side of the cage is Bob Turner while Maurice (Rocket) Richard (9) prepares to move in if needed. Boston Bruins at left is Gerry Toppazzini, who has been red hot for Boston since joining them from Detroit.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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February 11, 1956

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