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February 25, 1956

The Hockey News February 25, 1956

<div class="byline">By GEORGE P. DUFFY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01316/1524657-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>IVAN IRWIN</b></figcaption></div><p>PROVIDENCE, R. I.&mdash;</p><p>Ivan Irwin is no longer here in Providence. He has returned to New York Rangers and Madison Square Garden to once again see his Manhattan friends wave banners and hear them shout words of encouragement.</p><p>They call him &ldquo;The Terrible&rdquo; but he&rsquo;s really not that. Maybe the big and capable defender did knock a few enemy skaters through the boards during his 20 game stay in Providence. But Ivan was just doing his job; planting his rugged body in the path of each and every enemy skater.</p><p>Although Ivan has now been swallowed up by the cavernous climes of New York City, it is safe to say that his final farewell in Providence still rings a happy tune. It would have to for Ivan Irwin on Sunday, February 12th, was given the greatest ovation ever accorded a Providence player.</p><p>Who said it was the greatest? Let&rsquo;s listen to some quotes:</p><p>Lou Pieri, Reds&rsquo; owner: &ldquo;It was the greatest tribute ever given a Providence player in 30 years of professional hockey here in Providence. I was truly amazed how the close to 6000 fans stood and applauded. It was a tremendous tribute and one of the most heart-throbbing moments I have ever known in my years of affiliation with sports.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>&ldquo;Thunderstruck&rdquo;</b></h2><p>Bucky Whelen, Reds&rsquo; official scorer for over 25 years: &ldquo;I was so surprised at the ovation for Irwin that I sat in the press box thunderstruck. Never before did any other Providence player get such an ovation.&rdquo;</p><p>Jack Sinclair, Reds&rsquo; timer for 25 years. &ldquo;There Was 30 seconds left when Ivan started off the ice for the last time in Providence. The crowd just stood as a body and roared. I never witnessed the likes of this tribute in my many years with the Reds.&rdquo;</p><p>Lolly Hopkings, the Reds&rsquo; No. 1 fan for 30 years: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve sat behind the East goal and watched over 2000 games I saw great performances by fellows like Frankie Brimsek, Terry Reardon, Carl Liscombe and a host of others. But the farewell given Irwin by that standing-room crowd topped any ovation ever given to a Providence player.&rdquo;</p><p>Let&rsquo;s harken back to February 12 and relive one of big moments in the hockey life of easy-going Ivan Irwin. He had played a hard game against the Cleveland Barons. Actually Ivan was heading back to the big leagues the next morning and could have taken things a little easier if he had decided to.</p><h2><b>Banged Barons</b></h2><p>But Irwin did not play it that way. He banged the Barons all over the ice. At least 15 times the big Sabbath crowd &ldquo;oohed&rdquo; and &ldquo;aahed&rdquo; as Ivan dealt out savage checks.</p><p>The game wore on and the Reds, the front-running American League team, broke a 3-3 tie in the final period and went on to win 5-3 over Bun Cook&rsquo;s forces.</p><p>But 30 seconds before the finish, a new saga was written into Providence&rsquo;s brilliant hockey, an unforgettable scene took place.</p><p>Jack Crawford, the coach of the Reds who played 12 long seasons with the Boston Bruins, sensed that the game was drawing near its end and that Irwin was on the ice, playing probably for the last time in a R.I. Red uniform.</p><p>A whistle killed the clock with those precious 30 seconds left. The rear-guard of the Reds changed and Irwin started off the ice. As the big fellow skated toward the bench, the crowd stood and roared. Even after play resumed and Ivan sat on the bench, the ovalion continued.</p><h2><b>Congratulated Bower</b></h2><p>When the game ended, Irwin rushed out with his mates to congratulate Goalie Johnny Bower for another superb job.</p><p>Then heading for the dressing room, Ivan was stormed by fans for autographs. A group of youngsters battled for his stick and he finally raffled it off by flipping a coin.</p><p>Seated in the dressing room sipping a cold Coke, Irwin was surrounded by veteran newspapermen. They all wanted to know how Ivan felt.</p><p>Simply, the big guy remarked &ldquo;I did not want to report to Providence when the Rangers told me to. But I&rsquo;m sure glad I did. That crowd gave me the greatest thrill I have ever known in hockey. I may be going back to the big leagues, back I will never forget Providence.&rdquo;</p><p>P.S. And Providence shall never forget him.</p><h2><b>Popular In R. I.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Irwin Given Standing Ovation In Final Appearance With Reds

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Although the Cleveland Barons had three games in hand over them as they rallied to challenge the Ohioans for the final Calder Cup playoff berth, the red hot Hershey Bears are confident they&rsquo;ll be able to equalize that advantage in the three remaining games they have to play with &ldquo;Bun&rdquo; Cook&rsquo;s perennial Calder Cup champions.</p><p>As they headed for an important seven-game road jaunt while Ice Capades took over the local sports palace, the Bears had pulled to within just two points of the fourth place Barons.</p><p>With only seventeen games to play, Hershey had 17 wins, 26 defeats and five ties, compared to 17 victories, 21 losses and seven deadlocks for their Ohio rivals.</p><p>Coach Murray Henderson&rsquo;s skaters had put together their best record of the campaign on the eve of their final long road journey, winning seven, tying one and dropping a single fracas in their last nine outings.</p><p>Their home record shows 12 wins, 12 losses and a pair of ties, while on the road they showed but five triumphs against 14 defeats and a trio of deadlocks.</p><h2><b>Bisons Top Target</b></h2><p>The Bears have been particularly effective against the Buffalo Bisons, firing 48 goals against Frankie Eddolls&rsquo; crew. Included in their victories over the Bisons were such lopsided scores as 8-1, 12-4 and 103.</p><p>Hershey&rsquo;s &ldquo;big&rdquo; line of Dunc Fisher, Gordie Wilson and Kenny Smith has paced the Bears in their determined drive for a playoff berth. They have accounted for 76 lamp lighting jobs and all three are running well ahead of their 1954-55 production totals. In fact, Fisher, who has 32 goals and 37 assists, has an excellent chance of beating his all-time scoring mark of 80 points, which he set in 1953-54. He needs only 11 points in the final 17 games to equal the mark.</p><p>Wilson, who racked up 27 goals and 25 assists a year ago for 52 points, has potted 25 goals and collected 34 assists for 59 points, while Smith, who had only 12 goals and 16 assists all of last season, is riding high with 13 scores and 31 assists.</p><p>Arnie Kullman, who had been blanked by opposition goaltenders for 13 straight games, has hammered out five goals in the last six games, bringing his season&rsquo;s total to 16 and putting him within six of the select 200-goal circle in the AHL.</p><p>Another Bear who is having a banner campaign is Ed Kryzanowski, who has been the bell wether of Hershey&rsquo;s much improved defense corps. Ed collected seven goals and 14 assists over the full 1954-55 season. He has already amassed nine scores and 23 assists.</p><h2><b>Snaps Slump</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02258/1524709-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="571" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ARNIE KULLMAN</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>A MAn&rsquo;S ale</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03218/1524702-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="543" height="522"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;A job like mine takes it out of you&rdquo;</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>with BODY in it</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04168/1524695-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="549" height="518"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;But Labatt&rsquo;s IPA puts it right back in,&rdquo;</b>&nbsp;<i>says Henry C. Odell, salesman, Toronto.</i></figcaption></div><p><b>Something yearning in you</b> for a <i>man&rsquo;s</i> ale&hellip;an ale with <i>real</i> body and flavour to it? Nothing satisfies a yearning like that better than IPA. Try it. A man-size thirst, a man-size taste in ales calls for Labatt&rsquo;s IPA. Henry Odell knows it. You should get to know it, too.</p><p>Find out about IPA&hellip;<i>the ale that satisfies the man in you!</i> Make the great discovery next time you&rsquo;re at your favourite hotel or tavern, or next time you order ale for your home. Start enjoying the ale with body&hellip;flavour&hellip;<i>ZEST!</i> The man&rsquo;s ale&mdash;IPA!</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05136/1524688-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="544" height="557"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hershey Bears Hope To Overhaul Barons And Enter Playoffs

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01172/1525728-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICKIE MOORE</b> of the Montreal Canadiens and <b>GLENN HALL</b> of the Detroit Red Wings both gate towards the Montreal Forum rafters as they try to locate a high-flying puck. Hall made a stop of a shot by Rocket Richard and Moore was camped on his doorstep waiting for the rebound, which rebounded slightly higher than he had expected.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“Where’d It Go?”

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NOW! Exciting 9” × 12” PRINTED PICTURES OF THE STARS

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Bill Chadwick, who retired last year after 15 seasons as a National Hockey League referee, says that Jean Beliveau of the Montreal Canadien is &ldquo;the best player I&rsquo;ve ever seen&rdquo; and &ldquo;smarter&rdquo; than his illustrious teammate, Maurice &ldquo;The Rocket&rdquo; Richard.</p><p>Chadwick, now general manager of a Long Island country club, added:</p><p>&ldquo;You never see Beliveau give the puck away. There isn&rsquo;t anything he can&rsquo;t do.</p><p>&ldquo;Some guys can put the puck through the building but miss the net. Beliveau never misses.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Backed Up</b></h2><p>Chadwick, who was rated as the number one NHL official until his voluntary retirement, gets some backing for his statements from the current NHL scoring statistics, which show the big Canadiens centre atop the list.</p><p>However, he rates The Rocket ahead in one important department. As a clutch player he figures Richard has no equal.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen the Rocket too often in big games. If it&rsquo;s a 0-0 game, he&rsquo;ll get the winning goal. Look up how how many tying and winning goals he got in the playoffs.&rdquo;</p><p>Comparing Richard and Beliveau with Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe, Chadwick said the Detroit forward sometimes gets &ldquo;lethargic.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;If Howe gets one goal, he&rsquo;s liable to get 10 but I&rsquo;ll take Richard in a tight game.&rdquo;</p><p>For color and pulling in the fans, of course, Chadwick knows there&rsquo;s no one like the Rocket.</p><p>&ldquo;If I owned a team,&rdquo; said Bill, &ldquo;I might not fill the building with Beliveau. He is too smooth for that. But I&rsquo;d sure fill it with the Rocket.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Beliveau Tops Says Ex-Ref Bill Chadwick

<p>(Special to The Hockey News)</p><p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.&mdash;</p><p>Not at all happy over the 1955-56 showing of the Chicago Black Hawks, President Jim Norris plans to do something about improving the National Hockey League team in 1956-57.</p><p>Norris, who suffers as much as the most ardent Black Hawk fan every time the Windy City sextet drops another hockey game, says:</p><p>&ldquo;We will spend $100,000 for the acquisition of additional players before the start of the 195657 hockey season.&rdquo;</p><p>Norris made his announcement to members of the NHL Board of Governors during their annual meeting at the Palm Beach Biltmore Hotel.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m firmly convinced that there&rsquo;s nothing wrong with hockey. A contending club and proper promotion would have the crowds jamming Chicago Stadium as in years gone by,&rdquo; the Chicago president stated. &ldquo;My five partners in the National Hockey League are all enjoying successful seasons both at the gate and in the team standings and I realize more than ever that the same thing can happen to the Black Hawks within one or two years.&rdquo;</p><p>The Black Hawk president said the expenditure had been decided upon as the success of the Chicago team had not been quite up to his hopes this season and that the strenghtening program calls for buying any talent that is deemed necessary for next season.</p><p>Norris also announced that 35 home games will be played in Chicago Stadium in 1956 and 1957.</p><p>(This season the Hawks played some &ldquo;home&rdquo; games at Omaha and St. Louis.)</p><p>Last Summer, the Black Hawks took several steps which they hoped would strengthen them sufficiently to gain a berth in the Stanley Cup playoffs but apparently these weren&rsquo;t quite enough.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02119/1525783-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="287" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Norris</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Signed Irvin</b></h2><p>Norris managed to lure veteran coach Dick Irvin away from the Montreal Canadiens in the first of these moves and later sent Bucky Hollingworth, Johnny McCormack, Jerry Toppazzini and Dave Creighton to the Detroit Red Wings in return for Benny Woit, Tony Les-wick, Glen Skov and Johnny Wilson.</p><p>All four players are still with the Hawks.</p><p>The year previous, Norris had signed Tommy Ivan, former coach of the Detroit Red Wings, as general manager.</p><p>The Hawks also purchased the Buffalo Bisons (AHL) and the St. Catharines Teepees (OHA junior A) last Summer in an attempt to build up a farm system for the development of new blood.</p><p>Two rookies who joined the Hawks this year and show promise of future stardom are Hec Lalande and Hank Ciesla.</p><p>Another youngster, Elmer Vasko of St. Cathtrines, is reputedly ready to step into the NHL at a moment&rsquo;s notice, the only thing preventing the move being an agreement between the Hawks and Teepees that Vasko be left in St. Kitts for the entire 1955-56 campaign.</p><p>Meanwhile, NHL president Clarence Campbell said it had been decided to advance the date of the draft meeting to early June, which is calculated to make players available at an earlier stage and would facilitate planning for the 1956-57 season.</p><p>In addition to Campbell and Norris, others attending the meeting were W. A. Brown of Boston, B. A. Norris of Detroit, Frank Selke of Montreal, Conn Smythe of Toronto and Gen. J. R. Kil-New York<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Seeks To Add New Players For 1956-57

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01242/1523901-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ED CHADWICK,</b> who was called up to the Toronto Maple Leafs from the Winnipeg Warriors of the Western Hockey League as an emergency replacement for the injured Harry Lumley, is shown here thwarting a bid for a goal by Maurice (The Rocket) Richard of the Montreal Canadiens.</figcaption></div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>When the Toronto Maple Leafs were being beaten up by Boston and Chicago gangs and bodily heaved out of the NHL&rsquo;s first division, it was only natural that they should resort to the desparate plea:</p><p>&ldquo;Help, Police!&rdquo;</p><p>Yet who could have expected that their holler would actually be heeded by police.</p><p>It was. A large, six-foot and 189-pound, cop from Keswick, Ont., came onto the scene to restore law and order, dissolve the state of emergency, sew up the leaks in the Leaf net and escort the team back out of the league dungeon.</p><p>Ed Chadwick by name, he was summoned from Winnipeg Warriors to replace Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Gil Mayer in goal while Leafs were floundering on a five-game losing streak. The husky blond summertime policeman promptly wowed Toronto by relinquishing only three goals in his first five major league games after his predecessor had been stormed for 19 in six games.</p><p>So successful was Chad that he removed the emergency of regular Leaf goaltender Harry Lumley&rsquo;s speedy recovery from a pulled thigh muscle. He enabled Leafs to make certain Lum&rsquo;s injury was completely sound and beyond danger of aggravation before he was required to return. And he even went so far, at this writing, as to force Leafs to consider useing their final Winnipeg recall right to keep him in Toronto for the balance of the season.</p><h2><b>Incredible Clip</b></h2><p>The same Chadwick who had surrendered an average of 3.06 goals per game in the Western League, was travelling at an incredible 0.75 clip in the majors.</p><p>He held Montreal&rsquo;s prolific Canadiens to one goal to snap Leafs&rsquo; losing streak; single-handedly preserved a 1-1 tie in Boston; shut out the New York Rangers who had hitherto made cousins out of Leafs; held Chicago to one goal in another tie; and shut out Boston 1-0 last Wednesday. His overall record made the NHL look like a picnic compared to the Western League.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s not so,&rdquo; he maintains.&rdquo;It&rsquo;s just that Leafs have been playing like kings in front of me. If they hadn&rsquo;t&mdash;well, I don&rsquo;t know what would have happened because everyone up here gets away shots so much faster and harder. I still have a sore spot on my chest where one of Beliveau&rsquo;s shots hit me in the first game. I&rsquo;ve never seen a harder shot. In fact, I&rsquo;m not sure I saw that one.&rdquo;</p><p>Although the 22-year-old goaltender had indeed received outstanding support in three of his games, he is being unnecessarily modest.</p><h2><b>&ldquo;Making the Saves&rdquo;</b></h2><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s making the saves,&rdquo; general manager Hap Day insists. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s no showboat about it, but he&rsquo;s always alert and quick and anyone can see that he&rsquo;s making the right moves. In Boston, in fact, I was almost ashamed I had brought him down to play behind such an inept bunch as Leafs were during the second period. He had plenty of work to prove himself then.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He kept us in that Boston game all by himself,&rdquo; Lumley says, acknowledging Chadwick&rsquo;s 35 shops, 16 of them in a second-period siege. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s terrific with his hands and his stick and he&rsquo;s always standing up, never scrambling or out of position.&rdquo;</p><p>Chadwick got that way through the combined efforts of Lumley, Day, King Clancy and his Winnipeg coach Alfie Pike.</p><h2><b>Learned A Lot</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I learned an awful lot the year I turned pro as practice goalie with Leafs,&rdquo; Chad says. &ldquo;I wanted to play competitively, but I have to admit that what I learned in those practices made up for the fact I didn&rsquo;t.</p><p>&ldquo;Lum was always willing to answer my questions and Hap Day and King were constantly on me to stand up in goal. They broke me of the habit of sprawling that I had as a junior.</p><p>&ldquo;Then when I got out to Winnipeg, Pike helped me a lot. He worked personally with me and taught me to come out to the crease to protect the angles and he and the players just kept firing at me until I got into the habit. He told me not to worry how-many were scored in practice, but just stay out until I got the feel of it. And he also stopped me from driving or lying flat when somebody cut in from the wing. He got Willie Mosienko, who&rsquo;s one of the best at cutting in from the wing, to work me to death on that. All that sort of personal help did a lot for my confidence so that I wasn&rsquo;t really nervous when I got up here with Leafs.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Couldn&rsquo;t Skate</b></h2><p>It was a misfortune at birth that started the chain of events that culminated this month with the Keswick Cop&rsquo;s rescue of the Leafs. Born with a club foot that until five years ago lagged behind his left foot in development, Ed could not skate like his Toronto playmates.</p><p>&ldquo;My ankles were weak and so I had to play goal or not at all, &ldquo;he says. &ldquo;I never dreamed at the time I&rsquo;d be making a career out of it, though. In fact, I took three years of carpentry at school in the hope of malting that my trade.&rdquo;</p><p>After six years in the Leaf teenage classes, from midget to junior A&rsquo; Chadwick changed his mind about his career. He used his carpentry knowledge to build a Keswick home for his wife Jacqui and 10-month-old daughter Patricia, but turned pro with Leafs. After a year as Lumley&rsquo;s understudy in Toronto, he worked with Sault-Ste-Marie Greyhounds last season and this year went West until he heard, the call:</p><p>&ldquo;Help, Police!&rdquo;</p><h2><b>This Guy&rsquo;s A Real Cage &ldquo;Cop&rdquo;</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Policeman Ed Chadwick Comes To Rescue Of Slumping Leafs

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Do you remember?…

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;Ron Murphy is that kind of player,&rdquo; one of the local writers was saying. &ldquo;He can have six bad games, look like a Junior B skater. But know he&rsquo;s got all that potential and one of these days he&rsquo;s goin&rsquo; to bust loose. One of these days&hellip;&rdquo; That about sums up the case for or against Murphy whose detractors&mdash;once legion&mdash;are becoming fewer and fewer as Ron moves up in the point parade.</p><p>To be sure Murphy isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;out of the woods&rdquo; as far as his major league status is concerned. He may have the potential but he hasn&rsquo;t been using it to its fullest advantage.</p><p>Gump Worsley rates Ron&rsquo;s shot the second hardest (Bathgate&rsquo;s first) on the Rangers yet Murph has difficulty getting it off in the quick manner that would make it potent.</p><p>He&rsquo;s big (5-11, 176 pounds) as forwards go but doesn&rsquo;t use his body to advantage, takes the checks instead of giving them.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02226/1523932-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="291" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ron Murphy</b></figcaption></div><p>As a skater Murph is a smoothy, not the swiftest but fast enough to be effective. He isn&rsquo;t a quick starter and that hampers his style but once he gets ging he&rsquo;s hard to knock down.</p><p>Defensively he&rsquo;s no wonder nor does he blunder very often. In most cases he can lug the puck out of his own end. His problem is carrying it past the opponent&rsquo;s defense. On a good Murphy night he&rsquo;ll bust like nobody&rsquo;s business. Other times he&rsquo;ll get rid of the disk as quickly as possible.</p><p>Ron had been centering a line with Wally Hergesheimer on right wing and Pete Conacher as the portsider. It was an &ldquo;on and off&rdquo; line. Sometimes good, sometimes horrible. Did it, as some say, all depend on Murph?</p><p>Hergy has made a remarkable comeback, but many observers feel he would be even more effective playing with a different centre. Because Murphy is not the type that goes in the corner, digs out the puck, a la Ronty, he has been moved back to left wing with Creighton at centre and Hergy.</p><p>&ldquo;Whoa, whoa&rdquo;, say Ron&rsquo;s rooters. &ldquo;Look at the record.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Has Improved</b></h2><p>That&rsquo;s were Murphy shines. After 51 games last season he had 13 goals and 10 assists for 23 points. He has improved on all cylinders, boasts 16 goals and 23 assists for 39 points after a like number of games this semester.</p><p>A gain of 16 points is nothing to sneeze at, considering that the 22-year-old from Hamilton. Ont. hasn&rsquo;t flexed his muscles yet.</p><p>The feeling in the Gotham is that Ron is still a growing boy&mdash;hockey-wise and personality wise. He&rsquo;s no longer a bashful, docile player on the ice, even has a fistic decision over Jerry Toppazzini to his credit.</p><h2><b>Matured</b></h2><p>Off-ice he&rsquo;s matured too, will marry Carol Gorrie (Harry Howell&rsquo;s sister-in-law) in the spring.</p><p>By next season he should arrive as a first-rate hockey player in every way. He&rsquo;s now class A in some. (But not all respects).</p><p>Even Maurice Richard, who once termed Murph &ldquo;a third rater,&rdquo; will agree to that.</p><p>Murph&rsquo;s coming along. And one of these days. One of these days&hellip;</p><p>RANGEBRELIA: Andy Hebenton has his heart set on the Stanley Cup finals&hellip;He&rsquo;d like the dough for a new service station in Victoria&hellip;Ditto Andy Bathgate who could use the cash for new fishing equipment at his lodge near Vancouver&hellip;Return of Ivan Irwin will give the tired defenders a welcome respite&hellip;Lou Fontinato skating with an injured knee and ankle&hellip;Bruins&rsquo; Bob Armstrong caused quite a ruckus on his last visit here, battling Danny Lewicki, Dave Creighton and finally, a press cameraman&hellip;His fight with the photog came about when Bob and a Ranger were jousting in front of the camera cage&hellip;The newsman grabbed Armstrong&rsquo;s stick to protect his Graflex&hellip;Army got the wrong idea and clouted the photog in the chest&hellip;And that was that&hellip;Never a dull moment&hellip;Jersey Jones, one-time Ranger pu-blicity man, manages a good-looking vitamin pills except the man who dispenses &lsquo;em trainer Frank Paice&hellip;Even tub-thumper Herb Goren is taking &rsquo;em&hellip;Jack Evans another prospective gas station owner&hellip;Wants one near his new home in Calgary&hellip;Evans is down to 175 pounds. &ldquo;Sometimes I get tired,&rsquo;&rsquo; he says &ldquo;But I&rsquo;m skating as well as&mdash;or better than&mdash;I was two seasons ago&rdquo;&hellip;Rangers Fan Club has yet to taste the fruits of the playoffs since it was formed in 1950-51. the year after the famous Wing-Ranger series&hellip;Every season they hold a &ldquo;Farewell&rdquo; party-dinner-dance for the Blues&hellip;This year it will be a &ldquo;Good-Luck In The Playoffs&rdquo; fete&hellip;Rangers have surpassed their 1954-55 attendance mark and still have 10 games left on the home sked.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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New York’s Ron Murphy Currently Displaying Form Expected Of Him

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01241/1524001-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02201/1523994-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1738" height="1447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MARC REAUME</b> of the Toronto Maple Leafs, like most other NHL players, spends a lot of time in hotels as his team travels from city to city around the circuit. Above, he finds time to catch up on his correspondence while at right he packs his bag as he gets ready to leave for the Montreal Forum and a game against the league-leading Canadiens. Above, right, he takes time out from pre-game practice to oblige a couple of pretty Montreal autograph hunters.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Leafs’ Marc Resume……All-Star In The Making

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03135/1524046-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg"></div><p>TORONTO. Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Marc Reaume didn&rsquo;t merely miss a few turns and signals on his road to the National Hockey League. He wasn&rsquo;t on the right route to start with.</p><p>Yet today the 21-year-old Toronto Maple Leaf defenseman can look back over his hazardous trail and figure he discovered a short cut that few major leaguers ever heard of.</p><p>Defying virtually every proven pattern of hockey progress, the handsome six-foot, one-inch 185-pounder bypassed fledging hockey altogether, waited until his late teens to play in his first organized game, made only a mediocre impression in the minor leagues, nursed no burning ambition to be a professional athlete, didn&rsquo;t see a pro game until after he had signed his first contract, collected no chewing gum cards of the game&rsquo;s stars and didn&rsquo;t even huddle over the family radio on Saturday nights to listen to Foster Hewitt.</p><p>Yet he no sooner reached voting age than Reaume was being hailed by Leaf coach King Clancy as an &ldquo;All-Star certainty within a year or two.&rdquo; And already he has forced a former NHL star, Jim Thomson, to accept the job of fifth defenseman while he plays regularly as a rookie.</p><h2><b>Rocketed To NHL</b></h2><p>Scouts are doing double-takes at the incredible way Reaume rocketed from shinney obscurity, through minor league mediocrity to major league rec-recognition.</p><p>&ldquo;It just goes to show how some kids can easily be misjudged playing in the minors,&rdquo; a Ranger scout observed. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll bet there are quite a few players like that down in the American League who might look all right in the NHL. But, like Reaume, they aren&rsquo;t very impressive in small rinks and so many don&rsquo;t get a chance, even them open to draft.&rdquo;</p><p>Playing at Pittsburgh, Reaume got his major-league chance through the avalanche of injuries that swamped Leafs early in the season, giving the parent club a chance to try out almost everyone on its farm clubs.</p><p>Until Jim Morrison suffered a minor injury before his defense partner, Jim Thomson, could return from the infirmary, Marc wasn&rsquo;t being seriously considered. Coach Howie Meeker constantly reported from Pittsburgh that Reaume would play one or two outstanding periods, then became an equally collosal liability through the remainder of his games.</p><p>Leafs might have taken even that as a charitable appraisal because the Reaume they invited to their St. Catharines training camp in the fall had seemed bent on getting all his mistakes for a lifetime out of his system in one week.</p><h2><b>Permanent Berth</b></h2><p>In the three games he played as an emergency replacement for Morrison, however, Marc made for himself a permanent berth on the Leaf roster. And incredible as it sounds, he credits&rsquo; the Detroit River for the anomaly.</p><p>&ldquo;I got used to having lots of room to move around on the Detroit,&rdquo; Marc says. &ldquo;Until I was 16, that was the only rink I ever knew and I got into the habit of roaming all over and winding up for rushes on the goal.</p><p>&ldquo;That spoiled me for small rinks ever since. At St. Catharines, it was like playing in a chicken coop. And even the American League rinks made me feel fenced in. In fact, I always looked forward to games at Hershey, Cleveland and Buffalo because I had more room to move around in them.&rdquo; In these NHL rinks, I have room to get wheeling and that&rsquo;s why I feel so much more at home.</p><p>&ldquo;A lot of defenseman would rather play in smaller rinks because they have less territory to cover and there&rsquo;s less chance of someone getting around them. But I&rsquo;d rather take my chances on that. Give me the wide open spaces.&rdquo;</p><p>Nothing could have been more wide open than the Detroit River, which was an accessible few hundred yards from the Reaume home in LaSalle, Ont., a small French-Canadian town only nine miles from Windsor. And Marc credits, the river with teaching him more than claustrophobia. Cinfining all his hockey, or more correctly free-for-all shinney, to that surface until he was 16, Reaume figures it also groomed him in two of the most important fundamentals of the game&mdash;skating and stickhandling.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess skating is the most important thing in hockey,&rdquo; Marc says. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s why since I&rsquo;ve been playing I&rsquo;ve developed a tremendous admiration for defenseman like Red Kelly and Doug Harvey. They can manoeuvre and that&rsquo;s the foundation for all the other things they do so well.</p><h2><b>Had to Stickhandle</b></h2><p>&ldquo;On the river, you had to skate because there was so much ice to cover. And in shinney, of course, you had to stickhandle or you&rsquo;d never get the puck.&rdquo;</p><p>While he was thus amusing himself, Reaume was often encouraged by his playmates to try out for Windsor&rsquo;s OHA Junior A Spitfires. But he wasn&rsquo;t interested in hockey, not even enough to travel the dozen miles to see the Red Wings play in Detroit.</p><p>It was at Assumption College that Father Ronald Cullen launched the rapid-fire sequence of events that shot Marc from river runner to the big leagues. After encouraging Marc to play with the school team, the same Father Cullen who had watched Red Kelly pass through eight years earlier, observed: &ldquo;Reaume is a better player at 16 than even Kelly was.&rdquo;</p><p>Prowling in the neighbourhood, Toronto&rsquo;s chief scout, Bob Davidson, signed Reaume to a C Form. The next year he was whisked away to Toronto&rsquo;s St. Michael&rsquo;s College, where he played one season of Junior B hockey, and another of Junior A before he was talked into abandoning his pursuit of a higher education and turned pro with Pittsburgh. Before that year was out, he was summoned by the Leafs to help in the Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><h2><b>Learned a Lot</b></h2><p>&ldquo;It all happened fast,&rdquo; Marc acknowledges, &ldquo;but not so fast that I didn&rsquo;t learn a heckuva lot from Howie Meeker and King Clancy They taught me to get away fast something I never had to do when I was on the River because there was always lots of room to wind up. They got me moving the puck and taught me how to check properly. I never did go for because I think that&rsquo;s an art in itself. But I needed a lot of polish just in taking a man out.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;And most of all, they built up my confidence. I had no confidence at all at St. Catharines and I felt out of place and played accordingly. I got it back by the time I was called up again.&rdquo;</p><p>His yearning for learning is just as keen academically. In fact, Marc hadn&rsquo;t considered a hockey career until he was offered his first professional contract, and he was even underway in a commerce and finance course at the University of Toronto.</p><h2><b>Leafs Were Interested</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I never thought of making hockey a career until Leafs showed me they were definitely interested enough to let me play,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Now I can see where it&rsquo;s a wonderful career. I hope I can last at least 10 years. Seeing fellows like Ott Heller, who was in his 40&rsquo;s, play a few games with Cleveland last year, convinced me this isn&rsquo;t as short a life as some people try to make you think. And a lot of players have successfully made it lead into other good careers when they were through playing.&rdquo;</p><p>Marc&rsquo;s on the regular road now.</p><h2><b>Marc&rsquo;s Record</b></h2><p><b>Born: LaSalle, Ont., February 7, 1934. 6 ft., 1 in., 180 lbs.</b></p><p><b>PROFESSIONAL RECORD</b></p><h3><b>League Gaines</b></h3><h3><b>PLAYOFF RECORD</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0485/1524039-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="1156" height="65"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0559/1524032-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="1114" height="1454"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Toronto Rearguard Finally On Right Road to NHL Fame

<p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY Founded October 1st 1947</b></p><p><b>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.</b></p><p><b>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West Montreal 25, Que.</b></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 Post 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.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01311/1524122-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>J</span>OHNNY MARIUCCI</b> was standing at rinkside at Cortina when Russia defeated Canada, 2-0, to win the 1956 Olympic hockey title. Said Johnny: &ldquo;I hope I don&rsquo;t have to play against the next team which Canada sends to the Olympics&rdquo;&hellip;Canadians hope the team is that good, Johnny&hellip;Did you know that Andy Bathgate, New York Rangers&rsquo; greatest right Winger since Bill Cook played for the Broadway Blues, skates with a silver plate enforcing his left knee cap?&hellip;Bathgate should set two alltime Ranger records this season&hellip;He should top Frank Boucher&rsquo;s total points mark and also Bones Raleigh&rsquo;s assists mark&hellip;King Clancy is the latest Leaf casualty. He&rsquo;s taking treatment for a back strain suffered when firing pucks at Harry Lumley as part of the goalie&rsquo;s reconditioning exercises&hellip;Jimmy Thomson is starting to play regularly on the Toronto defense again since the benching of Tim Horton. He&rsquo;s regained a lot of his old confidence and is starting to move out there for the Leafs. Jimmy could supply the spark needed to lift the Torontos into the playoffs&hellip;Red Dutton stated in Lethbridge recently that he would like to see the red line removed from hockey and more interest shown by youngsters&rsquo; parents&hellip;The former NHL president had this to say: &ldquo;Parents today don&rsquo;t care enough about their kids to even go down to the rink to see them play.&rdquo;&hellip;&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t organize hockey until juvenile age and then maybe parents would shoulder more responsibility in the sport like they did in the old days. Give hockey back to the kids and the parents,&rsquo;&rsquo; Red added.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02280/1524115-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="290" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Bathgate</b></figcaption></div><p><b>ALMOST EVERY NHL</b> forward that we&rsquo;ve asked the following question on our weekly radio show out of Montreal titled &ldquo;Celebrity Sports Table&rdquo; has answered: &ldquo;Fern Flaman.&rdquo;&hellip;The question: &ldquo;Who do you think is the toughest defenseman in the National Hockey League to get past?&rdquo;&hellip;If NHL forwards did the selecting for the All-Star Team, Flaman would win in a walk&hellip;It shows the respect that the NHL forwards have for the veteran Boston captain&hellip;A delegation travelled from Kirkland Lake, Ont. to Toronto recently to honor Dickie Duff of the Leafs. Included in the group was Duff&rsquo;s father and a 12-year-old brother&hellip;Dick is one of 13 children&hellip;Doug Mc-Murdy of the Springfield Indians scored his 100th AHL goal against Pittsburgh earlier this month&hellip;300 minutes were meted out in penalties in a single American Hockey League game on February 5. This constitutes a new AHL record for most penalty minutes in a single game. The game was between Pittsburgh and Springfield and each club received 150 minutes. The clubs had identical records of five minors, two majors and 13 ten-minute misconducts&hellip; Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Willie Marshall has scored five &ldquo;Hat Tricks&rsquo;&rsquo; this season. Willie looks as if he will be a sure-fire star in the NHL within a year or two&hellip;New York Rangers are averaging a goal every 8-7 shots this season. This is especially remarkable because the Rangers only average 26.4&rsquo; shots per game. Detroit gets off the most shots per game, 34.2&hellip;Montreal follows with 30 a game&hellip;Toe Blake thinks Boston will finish fourth. The rookie Montreal Coach doesn&rsquo;t think Chicago Black Hawks will offer much of a threat to Boston&rsquo;s playoff hopes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03206/1524108-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="286" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fern Flaman</b></figcaption></div><p><b>ANDRE PRONOVOST</b> is one of the top prospects in the Canadiens&rsquo; chain. He is a left winger with the Junior Canadiens. Andre is no relation to Claude and Marcel Pronovost&hellip;Grant (Knobby) Warwick, coach of the Penticton V&rsquo;s who last season brought Canada the, world&rsquo;s hockey championship, recently set a new scoring record for the Okanagan Senior Hockey League. Knobby scored his 104th point of the current campaign. He has 50 goals&hellip;Al Leader informs that Brandon has been drawing very well in his WHL wars since the Regais transferred their franchise from Regina to the Manitoba city&hellip;Andre Corriveau will soon pass the 300-goal mark in Quebec League play. The 135-pound Corriveau should pass it within the next couple or weeks&hellip;Gordie Howe&rsquo;s mom has the pucks with which he scored his 200th and 250th goals in a scrapbook in Saskatoon&hellip;&ldquo;Guess I&rsquo;ll keep the one with which I scored my 300th,&rdquo; Howe remarked the other day&hellip;&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll have to hide it some place,&rsquo;&rsquo; said Colleen, his attractive blonde wife. &ldquo;If I don&rsquo;t, Marty will be playing hockey with it or Mark Steven will be chewing on it.&rsquo;&rsquo;&hellip;(their sons are Martin, going on 3. and Mark Steven, not quite 1.)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04155/1524101-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="301" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Grant Warwick</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Purists who contend that three-man combination play by a forward line has joined the dodo in extinction will find a dissenter in Lynn Patrick, manager of the Boston Bruins.</p><p>Patrick is of the opinion that his team has a line which makes combination plays as well as any line he has ever seen.</p><p>The line is that of Real Chevrefils, Don McKenney and Leo LaBine.</p><p>The three team up as well, maintains Patrick, as any of the fabled lines of the old days when hockey&rsquo;s defenses were less mobile than they are today.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen some clever combinations over the years&rdquo;, declares Patrick, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;ve never seen any which worked together any better than these three fellows have for the past six weeks.</p><p>&ldquo;They make plays so quickly and they vary their patterns so often that sometimes I find my-self applauding even when plays don&rsquo;t result in goals.</p><p>&ldquo;There have been some snappy passing lines, like Bill Cook, Frank Boucher and Bun Cook and Neil Colville, Alex Shibicky and Mac Colville with New York and Milt Schmidt, Woody Dumart and Bobbie Bauer here with the Bruins,&rdquo; continued the Bruins&rsquo; manager &ldquo;but I don&rsquo;t think any of them had anything on Chewy, McKenney and LaBine at making good plays.</p><h2><b>Split-Second Timing</b></h2><p>&ldquo;They have that split-second timing, that ability to make moves without looking which means the difference between their plays clicking and not clicking. Some lines have it, but most lines don&rsquo;t.</p><p>&ldquo;Offhand, I&rsquo;d say there isn&rsquo;t another line in the league today which can put on a passing display equal to this one of ours,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;and over the years I&rsquo;ve never seen any line able to combine better.&rdquo;</p><p>Since the Chevrefils-McKenney-LaBine line was assembled in mid-January, after Chevrefils&rsquo; acquisition rfom Detroit, line play has been a popular subject here. Many opinions have advanced on the fundamental ingredients for a successful line, but there has been little unanimity of ideas.</p><h2><b>Chewy Key man</b></h2><p>The only point above debate is that in the case of the Bruins&rsquo; tricky trio, the key ingredient is Chevrefils, the blocky 180-pounder who plays plays left wing.</p><p>Chevrefils played with LaBine and McKenney a year ago and the line produced 64 goals. He was traded to Detroit last Spring, and without him LaBine and McKenney lacked their effectiveness of a year ago.</p><p>Coach Schmidt reassembled the threesome after the Boston-Detroit four-player deal of last month, and with Chevrefils&rsquo; return LaBine and McKenney regained their bounce.</p><p>From the date of their reunion until the third week of this month, the Boys from Barrie (Ont.) accounted for nearly 50 per cent of the Bruins&rsquo; goals, or 15 of 36. Over that period of 12 games, the Bruins were beaten only twice.</p><p>The scoring ringleader during that surge was Chevrefils, who came back from Detroit owning only three goals for his limited service with the Red Wings. He supplied eight of the 15, LaBine making five, and McKenney provided 10 assists to go with his two.</p><p>Oddly enough, the team hurt most by the reunion of Chevrefils, LaBine and McKenney was Detroit, the team with which Chevrefils languished as a benchwarmer for three months Twice within the space of a week &lsquo;Detroit&rsquo;s second place ambitions were thwarted here.</p><h2><b>All Three Scored</b></h2><p>The first time the Bruins won by a score of 3-1 as Chevrefils, LaBine and McKenney each scored. Six nights later the Bruins beat the Red Wings by a score of 3-2, LaBine scoring twice and Chevrefils making the goal which was the eventual winner.</p><p>Since the swap with Detroit represents the start of the Bruins&rsquo; pickup, other lines besides that which McKenney centrs have gained an increased degree of stability.</p><p>Schmidt has formulated one composed of Hustle, Bustle and Muscle, or Marcel Bonin Jerry Toppazzini and Doug Mohns as the centre, and until John Peirson was sidelined for three weeks by a back ailment, he had a steady older trio rounded out by Cal Gardner and Vic Stasiuk. While Peirson was out, his fill-in was Flemming Mackell. The trouble shooter for spot work has been Hall Laycoe.</p><p>As the Bruins moved out for a seven-game road trip, the scoring standards being set by Chevrefils and Stasiuk suggested that both left wings would be strong contenders for second-half All-Star consideration.</p><h2><b>Flying How</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05136/1524153-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="583" height="885"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LEO LABINE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Chewy-LaBine-McKenney Line Tops In Combination Passing

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01262/1524215-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN MOSDELL&hellip;&hellip;He&rsquo;s Helped</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Toe Blake, coach of the Montreal Canadiens, can never be accused of suffering from inflation of the hatband, an ailment perculiar to some athletic bosses. He&rsquo;s quiet, reserved, modest in the extreme.</p><p>Those qualities are reflected in his refusal to accept credit for the remarkably fine showing by the Habs this season.</p><p>&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t scored a goal all year,&rdquo; he said the other day, &ldquo;and I haven&rsquo;t kept any out of our net. The credit belongs to the players.&rdquo;</p><p>Blake agreed that a combination of factors have contributed to the Habs&rsquo; domination of the National Hockey League since opening day back in October. Fine goaltending by Jacques Plante, stout defensive work and high-scoring lines.</p><p>While Plante doesn&rsquo;t lead the league in shutouts, his record shows that he has 20 one-goal stands to his-credit, ample indication of steadiness in the clutch.</p><p>Plante probably is more at ease playing for Blake than he was with Dick Irvin at the helm. Said he &ldquo;Blake doesn&rsquo;t remind you of past mistakes. He takes each game as it comes. You feel that you&rsquo;ve just got to give him your best.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Rearguards Helped</b></h2><p>Toe figures that the consistent play of Doug Harvey and Tom Johnson behind the blueline and the work of Bob Turner and Guy Talbot, two rookie rearguards, have helped Immeasurably.</p><p>&ldquo;Who would have thought at the beginning of the season that Talbot would prove such a valuable acquisition and that Turner would fit in so well for the injured Dollard St-Laurent?&rdquo; he asked thetorically. &ldquo;And let&rsquo;s not forget that Harvey is leading in votes for the Norris Trophy and that Johnson, who hasn&rsquo;t played a bad game all season, likely will make the All-Star team.&rdquo;</p><p>Blake went on, &ldquo;Up front we&rsquo;ve had some pleasant surprises. Jean Beliveau is a terrific hockey player. We expected a lot of goals from him but he has exceeded even our most optimistic appraisals.</p><h2><b>May Score 40</b></h2><p>&ldquo;And look at Maurice Richard. He&rsquo;s 34 years old. What would you expect from a player that old? Maybe 25 goals. The Rocket passed that figure long ago and might end up with 40.</p><p>&ldquo;Then there&rsquo;s Bernie Geoffrion. He missed a dozen games but he&rsquo;ll probably finish with between 25 and 30 goals. Kenny Mosdell, like the Rocket an old-timer, has taken a new lease on life. He&rsquo;s helped us a lot.&rdquo;</p><p>Blake also paid tribute to his rookie forwards, Henri Richard and Claude Provost, two products of the vast Montreal farm system.</p><p>&ldquo;We knew they had the potential. But would they produce in the National League? Well,&rdquo; he went on, &ldquo;they&rsquo;ve answered that question themselves.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Blake Modest</b></h2><p>A smile of satisfaction spread over Blake&rsquo;s face. &ldquo;Put all those things together,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and you&rsquo;ve got the secret of a winning hockey club. Don&rsquo;t give me the credit. Give it to the players.&rdquo;</p><p>Despite his protestations, a good deal of recognition does belong to Blake. He&rsquo;s handled his club skilfully with understanding and consideration. He has not driven them as hard as Irvin used to do. His practices are lighter, generally just forwards against the defense. He&rsquo;s placed more emphasis on the power play and, as a result, the Habs have fashioned one of the most potent power play combinations of all time.</p><p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t practice too hard,&rsquo;&rsquo; Blake conceded. &ldquo;Not when the club in winning. It isn&rsquo;t necessary. We just try to skate and pass and shoot enough to keep our edge whetted.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Rugged Practices</b></h2><p>Irvin always believed in rugged practices, exhausting sessions. Some sports writers used to think those grinds sapped the players of their eagerness, which is why Irvin&rsquo;s clubs always lagged in the important stretch runs, frequently blew substantial leads in the league race.</p><p>Certainly Blake&rsquo;s methods are producing the desired results. But with a huge lead over the Canadiens&rsquo; pursuers, how is he going to keep his club fired up from here to the wire?</p><p>&ldquo;That shouldn&rsquo;t be any trouble,&rdquo; he said. &lsquo;&lsquo;Plante is fighting for the Vezina Trophy. Harvey is battling for the Norris Trophy and Johnson, I&rsquo;m sure, wants an All-Star berth.</p><p>Beliveau has his sights on two awards&mdash;the seoring leadership and the Hart Trophy. Rocket is fighting with Gordie Howe of Detroit for the right wing All-Star spot. Henri Richard is in contention for the rookie award.</p><h2><b>No Let Down</b></h2><p>&ldquo;With all those things at stake, the team can&rsquo;t afford to let down. I think they&rsquo;ll maintain their pace right into the playoffs.&rdquo;</p><p>Besides that there are a few scores to settle. For instance if Blake has his way the Chicago Black Hawks won&rsquo;t get another point against the Canadiens this season.</p><p>Irvin boasted that the Hawks would take more than three points off the Montreal team, making a better showing than they did last season.</p><p>So far, with three inter club games remaining for settlement in March, the Hawks have acquired three points; via a win in Montreal and a tie in Chicago.</p><p>&ldquo;I want those remaining games,&rdquo; Blake was quoted as saying by a press association, &ldquo;and the boys know it.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>&ldquo;New Lease On Life&rdquo;</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Blake Gives Players Credit For Habs’ Success This Year

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Alex Delvecchio must feel like a mother hen by now the way he continually keeps hatching new wingers.</p><p>In his five seasons as a center for the Detroit Red Wings, the stylish Delvecchio has had a flock of linemates&mdash;virtually every player on the club including, at times, some defensemen. There were stretches that a new one seemed to pop up almost every game.</p><p>This season was typical. On right wing Bill Dineen was a more-or-less permanent sidekick. But they came and went so rapidly on the left side that sometimes Alex missed the name.</p><p>Real Chevrefils started there. Then John Bucyk, Marty Pavelich, Ed Sandford, Jerry Toppazzini and maybe a few others. Finally in mid-December there was an unexpected tie-up with Ted Lindsay, who knows plenty about left wing since he won All-Star acclaim there seven times.</p><h2><b>More Changes</b></h2><p>But when Delvecchio looked around the other night, changes were being made again. Gone was Lindsay and patrolling the left boards in his place was Lorne Ferguson, newly obtained from Boston.</p><p>A couple of games later Delvecchio found alterations taking place on the other side. He and Ferguson were introduced to Metro Prystai as a new linemate.</p><p>New York Rangers were present for this arrangement and before the night was over they were studying the by-laws to see whether it was legal for Prystai and Ferguson to skate wing for Delvecchio.</p><h2><b>A Happy Tonic</b></h2><p>The new line clicked like none of the half-hundred combinations (aside from the formidable Production Line) tried by Coach Jimmy Skinner this season in an effort to shake life into the sagging National Hockey League defending champions.</p><p>They produced four goals which not only beat New York, 5 to 3, but also was a happy tonic for the three players involved and possibly the whole club.</p><p>Each man of the line scored once and Prystai added an extra, it going into an empty net in the final 21 seconds. For the historic importance of those goals, note the following racts.</p><h2><b>20th of Season</b></h2><p>Delvecchio had been blanked in six previous games and had scored only once in 15 starts. The goal was his 20th of the season, lifting him to that exalted level for the first time in his career and bringing him a sizeable bonus under the terms of his contract.</p><p>Prystai had gone seven games without scoring. In his 47 previous games for Detroit this season (he played seven for Chicago before being traded Oct. 24), Prystai had made only eight tallies. So he hit double figures by running his total to 10.</p><p>Ferguson had scored just once in 12 starts since coming from Boston. He also picked up three assists in the game and the four-point night was something which only Gordie Howe had enjoyed previously this season.</p><h2><b>May Stay Together</b></h2><p>How long this new threesome will stay united is one of those questions which Delvecchio is excused from answering.</p><p>It may be only a brief alliance like most of those in the past. If they could continue to produce and thus are held together, Alex may at long last have found two wingers who will keep him steady company.</p><p>Such developments also would be viewed with alarm by some of the other teams, who by force of habit have come to regard Detroit as strictly a one-line team.</p><h2><b>New Wingers</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02236/1524246-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="579" height="1466"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ALEX DELVECCHIO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Red Wings Try To Shake “One Line Team” Handle By Switching Linemates

<p><b>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;There are lots of good things to say about Bill Gadsby&rsquo;s play,&rdquo; says his GM, Muzz Patrick. &ldquo;But one thing that often goes unnoticed is the way Bill bounces up after falling or getting knocked down. It seems as if he&rsquo;s getting up in the same motion that he was going down. It is uncanny.&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>Maybe he does it with mirrors&mdash;or springs.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Could Be He Uses Springs

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><p><b>STATISTICS</b></p><p>Francis Benedict Woit was born in Ft.</p><p>William, Ont., January. 7, 1928. A defenseman with a right handed shot, he is 5&rsquo;11&rdquo; tall and weighs 190 pounds. Played junior hockey with St. Michael&rsquo;s College and Port Arthur Bruins. Turned pro in 1948-49 with Indianapolis, a Detroit farm club. Remained with them for three seasons and then became a Red Wing regular in 1951-52. Completed five seasons with Detroit before being traded to Chicago in a deal last summer.</p><p><b>HARDEST CHECK IN HOCKEY</b></p><p>Was dealt to him by Allan Stanley who is now his teammate. This occured three years ago when Stanley was with Rangers and is not likely to be forgotten.</p><p><b>SUPERSTITION&mdash;IF ANY</b></p><p>Has none at all.</p><p><b>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY</b></p><p>Helping Detroit win the Stanley Cup in eight straight games back in the spring of 1952.</p><p><b>IN THE SUMMER</b></p><p>Returns to his Port Arthur home and while he has no regular off season employment, he has done part time electrical work for the past five years.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT</b></p><p>Any of the fishing areas in the Lakehead.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE</b></p><p>The Lakehead district.</p><p><b>FACORITE READING MATERIAL</b></p><p>Is an avid reader with a preference for serious books, but has Lo favorite author.</p><p><b>FAVORITE NHL CITY ON A ROAD GAME</b></p><p>Regards them as all the same, just hopes he has good luck in each one.</p><p><b>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE</b></p><p>This interview was so unexpected that he couldn&rsquo;t recall a favorite.</p><p><b>BEST ACTOR</b></p><p>John Wayne.</p><p><b>BEST ACTRESS</b></p><p>Grace Kelly.</p><p><b>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALIST</b></p><p>Dinah Shore.</p><p><b>FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST</b></p><p>Bing Crosby, if we&rsquo;re listing the popular singers, Jussi Bjoerling and Jan Peerce in the classical field.</p><p><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA</b></p><p>Is not addicted to popular music and has little interest in current day orchestras. Is a music lover who much prefers classical selections.</p><p><b>FAVORITE TV PROGRAM</b></p><p>George Gobel.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02220/1524332-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="296" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Benny Wait</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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INSIDE STUFF About Benny Woit

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01333/1524277-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BiLL GADSBY</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;Glory!&rdquo; Bill Gadsby half yelled at the reporter.</p><p>&ldquo;Glory!&rdquo; he repeated, two notes higher. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been in this league too long to worry about that stuff. Let the other guys worry about the glory.</p><p>&ldquo;Me. I&rsquo;ll be satisfied with one arm around the Stanley Cup and one fist on the dough that goes with it. That&rsquo;s all the glory I want.&rdquo;</p><p>Which is Bill Gadsby&rsquo;s way of saying that &ldquo;its no bother al all&rdquo; to him that he&rsquo;s not getting the big play in the papers, the spotlight that should go with his record-breaking season.</p><p>But whether Gadsby likes it or not he&rsquo;s going to get more glory than he expects, or wants. Probably a lot more. Up until now he has probably accomplished more, with less fanfare, than any player in the NHL.</p><p>He has already set a Ranger points record (for a defenseman). And was voted to the Second AllStar team for the first half, behind Doug Harvey and Red Kelly.</p><p>Speaking of the record-breaking feat&mdash;he surpassed the mark of Ott Heller and Hy Buller&mdash;Gadsby was never aware of it until just a week before he smashed the mark. That&rsquo;s typical of the competitor he is.</p><h2><b>&ldquo;Couldn&rsquo;t Care Less&rsquo;&rsquo;</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know what the record was and, frankly, I could not have cared less,&rdquo; he offhandedly explained. &ldquo;I found out about it through the papers. Once I got on the ice it was just forgotten and that&rsquo;s the way it was up until the night I broke it.&rdquo;</p><p>You don&rsquo;t have to look far to find members of the Gadsby Fan Club in Madison Square Garden. They&rsquo;re located on the Ranger bench, in the arena, loges, mezzanine and balcony.</p><p>And as long as coach Phil Watson likes him, and the fans like him, Gads is satisfied.</p><p>&ldquo;The Canadiens have their Doug Harvey, the Maple Leafs have Jim Morrison and 1 have Gadsby,&rdquo; said Watson. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d hoped he would be a leader for the younger players and he has. I hoped he would be an offensive threat and he has been that too. It goes without saying that he&rsquo;s one of the top defenseman in the league.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Bonus Welcome</b></h2><p>With two little Gadsbys&mdash;Brenda (two years, nine months) Marie and Judy (nine months) Ann&mdash;romping around the household, the the monetary bonus that goes with an All-Star team selection would prove most welcome.</p><p>&ldquo;That would be nice,&rdquo; he admits. &ldquo;And 30 years from now I could take my grandchildren on my knee and tell them that Gramps was on the NHL All-Star team. It&rsquo;s in the book.&rdquo;</p><p>If he does make it, Bill will be the first New York All-Star backliner in 21 years.</p><p>In Ranger history, only two defensemen ever made the All-Star team: Ching Johnson in &rsquo;31. &rsquo;32 and &rsquo;32-&rsquo;33 and Earl Seibert in &rsquo;34-&rsquo;35.</p><p>Had Gadsby been mentioned as All-Star material at this time last year the comment would have drawn a long yawn and a mild smile.</p><p>Bill came to the Rangers in November &rsquo;54 with Pete Conacher in a straight trade for Al Stanley and Nick Mickoski. While Gads and Conacher kept tripping over the blue line, Nick and Al romped to good years with Chi.</p><h2><b>Trade A Curse</b></h2><p>It looked like Tommy Ivan had peeled off a has-been to the Blues for an underrated backliner. The writers thought so. The fans thought so. In fact, everyone but Gadsby thought so.</p><p>&ldquo;Getting traded in mid-season can be either a blessing or a curse,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;It was like a curse to me. I lost my edge when I came to New York. I never could get untracked with the Rangers because it&rsquo;s hard to learn a club&rsquo;s style right off the bat.</p><p>&ldquo;I knew I was playing badly and I also knew that it was just a matter of time before I got ad-justed to the new surroundings. Towards the end of the season I could feel myself coming along.&rdquo;</p><p>Another player who felt Gadsby coming along was Tim Horton, Toronto defenseman.</p><p>In the 67th game of his ninth NHL sason Gadsby delivered &ldquo;the hardest bodycheck of my career,&rdquo; at Horton. The blow&mdash;a clean one which drew no penalty&mdash;knocked Horton out of hockey for the season and into the hospital with a broken leg and a broken jaw.</p><h2><b>Not A Gloater</b></h2><p>It took some prodding before Bill would discuss the incident. He&rsquo;s not a gloater. He said he hit Horton with his left shoulder and left hip.</p><p>&ldquo;I think his jaw must have hit my shoulder pad. I&rsquo;m sorry it happened but what could I do? You can&rsquo;t ease in this game or you&rsquo;ve beat. Look,&rdquo; he said, pointing to a large bony lump on his left shoulder, obviously once dislocated.</p><p>&ldquo;That was from Bill Barilko. It doesn&rsquo;t bother me; it just was not set right. Those things hap-pen.&rdquo;</p><p>Pay close attention to Gadsby&rsquo;s play next time out. He&rsquo;s not liberal with the body blocks. His forte is the poke check, and sweep check, sprinkled plentifully with that grey stuff known as &ldquo;hockey savvy.&rdquo;</p><p>As a rushing defenseman he can be favorably compared with Red Kelly and the Stanowski ilk.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s only one way to hurt a guy with a bodycheck in today&rsquo;s-high-speeded hockey,&rdquo; Bill advised. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got to have his head down. When he doesn&rsquo;t see you he&rsquo;s a dead duck.</p><p>&ldquo;The way we play the game now the forwards fly around too fast to get a good piece of them. Even when you line one up for a check they just have to step aside and, good luck, they&rsquo;re gone.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Two Good Shots</b></h2><p>&ldquo;How many &lsquo;good&rsquo; checks can you toss in a game?&rdquo; he was asked.</p><p>&ldquo;The way I figure it you only get two good shots in 60 minutes. That is, for a good clean check. The best spot for it is center ice.&rdquo;</p><p>If anyone ever inked out the stitches in Gadsby&rsquo;s face his venerable visage would look like a road map than anything else. In all, he&rsquo;s had over 200 stitches taken above the neck.</p><p>&ldquo;And,&rdquo; he proudly adds, &ldquo;twenty-two more in other parts of my body.&rdquo; Not to mention three absent front teeth, three broken legs and once a touch of polio.</p><p>&ldquo;I caught polio in training camp with the Hawks. I think ot was 1952. The club hushed it up while I spent three weeks in an Ottawa hospital. Fortunately 1 had a complete recovery. Never bothered me at all.&rdquo;</p><p>Hockey has been good to Bill and he&rsquo;s the first to admit it.</p><p>&ldquo;What the heck. I got all I want out of the game. Hockey&rsquo;s pretty easy&mdash;when you&rsquo;re in shape. Phil (Watson) has seen to that.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Trimmed Down</b></h2><p>Bill is listed at 190 pounds in the NHL Guide but Watson doesn&rsquo;t go by the books. He thought his big defenseman would go better and faster at 184 so he had Gadsby trim down.</p><p>Both Bill and Phil are happy now that he&rsquo;s down to 183. Phil thinks it gives Bill more mobility and Bill agrees that he&rsquo;s got newfound speed, thanks to Phil.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never felt better,&rdquo; he says.</p><p>Nor has the Ranger power-play been better since Gads assumed the point position. This season most of his assists have come on the power play where he works with Andy Bathgate.</p><p>&ldquo;The thing I learned about the power play&rdquo;, Gadsby revealed, &ldquo;is to hold the puck an extra second instead of getting rid of it quickly and losing it.&rdquo;</p><p>Of the 11 goals scored by Ranger defensemen at the writing, Gadsby had six.</p><p>&ldquo;Someone once asked me how I manage to keep so many shots on the net from the point. It&rsquo;s not easy to explain probably because it&rsquo;s half instinct and half practise.</p><p>&ldquo;I try to keep the shots about six or eight inches off the ice. High shots are easily blocked.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Teamed With Evans</b></h2><p>Gadsby has teamed up with Jack Evans on the Blues backline all season. They work well together, are incessant conversationalists on the pond.</p><p>Another Gadsby trademark is puck-blocking technique, in the Bob Goldham tradition. He does it often and he does it well Gump Worsley will vouch for that.</p><p>If you&rsquo;re wondering where the experience comes from, the Calgary native who won&rsquo;t be 29 til August, is in his tenth year of pro hockey. He spent eight and a half years in the Chicago organization. He figures on having five or six more in his system. &ldquo;I am just hitting my peak now,&rdquo; he says.</p><p>When his playing days are over Bill would like to coach a junior club. Refereeing is not for him. &ldquo;I just don&rsquo;t like it,&rdquo; is his comment.</p><p>In the summer he operates a golf driving range in Edmonton with Clarence Moher, Detroit&rsquo;s chief Western scout.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve taken abuse from that guy for the last six years&rdquo;. he laughed. &ldquo;When we take the Cup this year I&rsquo;m really going to give it to him,&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Well, that&rsquo;s glory isn&rsquo;t it,&rdquo; we suggested.</p><p>&ldquo;Yea&rdquo;, Bill shot back, &ldquo;But I will also have a fat check in the other hand!&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Record-Breaker</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Personal Glory Unimportant To Blueshirts’ Bill Gadsby

<div class="byline">by Stan FISOHLER (As seen in the N.Y. Journal-American)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01284/1524370-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="411" height="560"></div><h2><b>His Hobby Has Him in Stitches</b></h2><p>&ldquo;You oughta have ya head examined,&rdquo; suggested Lorne Worsley, New York Rangers goaltender, to Arnie Nocks, the 29-year-old TV producer-director from Sheepshead Bay.</p><p>&ldquo;At least I&rsquo;ve got an excuse for being a goalie&mdash;I get paid for it. Not only don&rsquo;t you get anything for playing hockey but you have to pay two bucks everytime you put on the pads.</p><p>&ldquo;Why would anyone in his right mind risk life and limb being a goalie when he has a good job, leads a comfortable life and still has all his teeth?&rdquo; Worsley wondered out loud.</p><p>&ldquo;Very simple,&rdquo; replied Nocks, who is best known for his &ldquo;Capt. Video&rdquo; program although ne handles at least 10 shows a week for the Dumont network, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s fun!&rdquo;</p><p>That retort caught us with our pencil down so we corraled this amazing personality long enough to realize that he not only meant what he said but has the scars to prove it.</p><p>&ldquo;These four,&rdquo; he said proudly, pointing to the fancy stitchwork over his left eye, &ldquo;are my latest. An opposing forward, coasting in on a breakaway, got off a harder shot than I expected. Next thing I knew they were carrying me into the Swedish Hospital. That makes 22 stitches in all.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Doesn&rsquo;t that sort of thing make you want to give up hockey for a less strenuous sport. Like table tennis for instance?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I guess whenever a guy gets a serious injury he feels like packing it in but&mdash;in my case anyway&mdash;time is a healer and after a while I just couldn&rsquo;t get back on the ice fast enough.&rsquo;</p><h2><b>Played Against Rangers</b></h2><p>&ldquo;They tell me you once played against the Rangers?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Ahhh, now you&rsquo;re getting to an episode that is dear to my heart,&rdquo; he mused, a glint in his eye. &ldquo;When I was a kid I&rsquo;d dream about someday playing goal for a big league hockey team. Of course, as I grew up the dream vanished&mdash;only to come true last February.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;How did it happen?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I dropped over to Iceland between TV shows to see the Rangers work out. When their regular practice goalie, Joe Schaefer, took sick, trainer Frank Paice, suggested I put on the pads.</p><p>&ldquo;I was scared, real scared, even though Paice insisted that I had nothing to worry about. I figured this was the chance I had waited for and I was going to go through with it, nervous or not.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;How did it feel once you got on the ice?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;My stomach was all tied up in knots at first but after stopping a few shots from those pros things felt better. I&rsquo;m 29 years old, past the days of childhood sensations, but that was the greatest thrill of my life.</p><p>&ldquo;And all I had to show tor it the next morning were a couple of black and blue marks!&rdquo;</p><p>Ordinarily Nocks is the tranquil type, rarely gets ruffled even under heavy fire. The Abraham Lincoln High and New York University grad is the leading goaltender in the Blue Line loop, playing for the first place Brooklyn Torpedoes.</p><p>In spite of friend Worsley&rsquo;s plaints, Arnie will face a barrage of pucks this week at the Brooklyn Ice Palace when the Torpedoes meet the second place Manhattan Arrows.</p><p>Because &ldquo;it&rsquo;s fun&rsquo;&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Has Excuse</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02252/1524363-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="498" height="794"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUMP WORSLEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Sports

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The Montreal Canadiens figured that all they had to do to get a win on Madison Square Garden ice was divert Jean Beliveau&rsquo;s attention from magazine writers to the business of scoring goals.</p><p>Toe Blake even went so far as to order Jean to lock himself in his hotel room to avoid the anxious scribes. Blake must have assumed that once Beliveau scored at the Garden his Hab mates would take the cue and bomb the Blues.</p><p>Toe&rsquo;s plan worked&mdash;almost.</p><p>Beliveau kept his mind on hockey all day prior to the Canadiens next-last game at the Garden. He was sharp during the game, probably his best show in New York since joining the Habs.</p><p>The massive centre scored two goals, his first against Worsley all season, and put Montreal ahead each time. Maurice Richard scored the other but it still was not enough.</p><h2><b>One More Chance</b></h2><p>Larry Popein tallied for New York with eight minutes to go. The game ended in a 3-3 tie leaving Montreal with two losses and four ties in six Garden games. They&rsquo;ll get one more chance, on March 18, to break the &ldquo;jinx&rdquo;.</p><p>This so-called jinx is probably less than that. The Garden ice, the smallest in the league (186 feet long), is not calculated to get the most out of the long-legged Hab forwards like Beliveau, Olmstead and Geoffrion. It would appear to be especially strange to them after playing a Saturday night game at the Forum and then coming to the Garden on Sunday. That situation occurs in five of the seven games.</p><h2><b>May Solve Jinx</b></h2><p>When one looks ahead to the playoffs it is understandable why GM Muzz Patrick would rathed meet the Canadiens in the semi-finals than the finals. Chances are Rangers would take two out of three games in New York and, by that time, may solve the incredible Forum jinx that envelops them.</p><p>Well, it&rsquo;s something to think about anyways.</p><p>Meanwhile, as Phil Watson was manfully and meaningfully denying that the Rangers had clinched a playoff berth, has employer and connaisseur of open Garden dates, Muzz Patrick, announced that the Blues would play their first two playoff games on March 24th and 25th. Whether they finish in first, second, third or fourth place.</p><p>If they finish second, the fifth game, if necessary, will be held at the Garden on March 27. Should they finish third, they&rsquo;ll play the fifth game on the road and the sixth, if needed, on Garden ice, March 29.</p><p>It is conceivable that playoff-starved hockey fans in the Gotham will be able to see one or two of the final games in New York. That would come about if the first-round series is completed in a minimum number of games and, of course, if the Rangers survive.</p><p>The first two games of the final series could be played in New York on March 30 and 31.</p><h2><b>Not Easy Trick</b></h2><p>Finding open dates for playoff hockey at the Garden is no easy trick what with college and pro basketball and boxing evenings for the arena. For example, if the Blues survive to the finals and desire the March 30 date, a fight scheduled for MSG would have to move the Lilliputian St. Nick&rsquo;s Arena, to keep the TV franchise.</p><p>Since the regular Friday night crowds are hardly enough to fill St. Nick&rsquo;s, let alone the Garden, the problem of transfer is not so difficult.</p><p>Another difficult date Is Saturday, March 24, the day of the NIT basketball finals. Usually conducted in the evening, the NIT will be moved ahead to the afternoon, reportedly for national TV purposes.</p><h2><b>No Interviews</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03192/1524401-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="595" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JEAN BELIVEAU</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Gros Bill Ducks NY Reporters Finally Breaks Ice At Garden

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Most hockey teams cannot find enough All-Stars to use through the strenuous final weeks of an NHL schedule, but the Toronto Maple Leafs have ignored precedent by launching their stretch drive with all three of their recent All-Stars watching from the stands.</p><p>When the team snapped out of a five-game losing tailspin and began another unbeaten streak in mid-February, one of the only three All-Stars Leafs have boasted in the past three seasons was shelved with an injury and the other two were benched.</p><p>Harry Lumley, Sid Smith and Tim Horton consequently took their hockey with the customers.</p><h2><b>Duo Benched</b></h2><p>Lum, who was chosen first team All-Star goaltender last season, was nursing a pulled thigh muscle, suffered in Detroit Jan. 22. Smith, selected first string left wing last year, and Horton, a second team defense choice two years ago, were benched.</p><p>&ldquo;They had not been contributing much,&rdquo; general manager Hap Day said, speaking of the benched stars. &ldquo;And we wanted to see if a smaller number of players would be more easily handled and more conscientious.&rdquo;</p><p>The success of the operation might be judged by the fact Leafs went unbeaten through their first four games with reduced manpower.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Toronto Trio Of All-Stars On Sidelines

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01317/1524480-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PLAYGROUND SUPERVISOR</b> Ed Brennan sportswriter Jack Kinsella examine the 50-year-old hockey stick which turned up in Ottawa recently. The stick bore the names of some of the players who performed in the first all-pro hockey league.</figcaption></div><p>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>There are hockey sticks, it seems, and then there are hockey sticks. And then there is the 50-year-old variety.</p><p>The museum piece&mdash;a relic of early 20th century hockey&mdash;turned up the other day at the New Edinburgh rink in the hands of a youngster, to whom, apparently, the ancient club was just another hockey stick.</p><p>To Ed Brennan, however, the rink supervisor, it was quite a stick&mdash;it had names, dates and places of an era in hockey almost forgotten&mdash;and that&rsquo;s how come it ended up in The Ottawa Citizen sport department.</p><p>The strange part of it all Is that the youngster who had the stick doesn&rsquo;t know where it came from, or to whom it belonged. All he remembers is that he found it last winter in a snowbank.</p><h2><b>Ottawan On Team</b></h2><p>It might have all ended there except that one of the names on the warclub was that of Bruce Stuart, well known Ottawa businessman and onetime hockey great. Mr. Stuart took it from there.</p><p>Obviously delighted to come across a relic of an era in which he played, Mr. Stuart &ldquo;dated&rdquo; it almost immediately, marking it as one of the type or sticks used in the 1900-05 hockey.</p><p>More than that, despite illness and the weight of 74 years, Mr. Stuart actually demonstrated a few shots on the living room carpet, thoroughly enjoying once again the feel of a hockey stick.</p><p>&ldquo;I remember well every one of these names on the stick,&rdquo; he said, almost as if he were alone with his thoughts. &ldquo;There was my brother Hod, &lsquo;Cooney&rsquo; Shields, Bert Morrison, Riley Hern, Ernie Westcott, Doc Gibson and myself. That was quite a team.&rdquo;</p><p>Only about four feet in length, the oldtime stick was in marked contrast to modern ones, and the difference was remarked upon.</p><h2><b>Were Shorter Then</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Yes, they were much shorter then,&rdquo; said Mr. Stuart, &ldquo;but we found it made shooting more deceptive. The goalies didn&rsquo;t get much warning. It was more a wrist shot most of the time.&rdquo;</p><p>The names on the stick were players who performed for the &ldquo;Portage Lake Club,&rdquo; Champions of the United States and challengers of the World, 1903-04.&rsquo;</p><p>By way of disgressing, it might be worth mentioning here that Portage Lake and the several other clubs in the International League as it was called, were part of hockey history in the sense that this was hockey&rsquo;s first all-out professional league.</p><p>The first pro hockey league, then, existed in the United States, not Canada. Other teams were Houghton, Mich., Canadian Sault, American Sault and Pittsburgh.</p><p>Some of the names on the Portage Lake club may be strange and fail to ring a bell with mod-erns, but from the record they must have been quite a team.</p><p>In the 1903-04 season when they were world&rsquo;s champions, the team piled up 268 goals against 49 in 25 games, an average of better than 10 goals per game.</p><h2><b>One-Piece Stick</b></h2><p>The hockey stick appeared to be a one-piece affair, probably hand-made. Unlike today&rsquo;s sticks, its blade was a bit curved, resembling to a certain extent a field hockey stick.</p><p>&ldquo;I think they were made in Pittsburgh,&rdquo; said Mr. Stuart, &ldquo;or least, that&rsquo;s what I seem to recall.&rdquo;</p><p>Mr. Stuart also said he was interested in learning who might have owned the stick because he couldn&rsquo;t imagine how it got to Ottawa.</p><p>&ldquo;Possibly someone had It around the house for years as a souvenir and a youngster took out to play one day and lost it. It&rsquo;s strange how it turned up here in Ottawa,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>Strange or not, the fact remains that the venerable and ancient club must be unique in the history of hockey sticks.</p><p>Today, a hockey stick is ancient if it lasts 50 minutes, let alone 50 years.</p><h2><b>Historic Memento</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Ancient Hockey Stick Tells Of 1st All-Pro Hockey Loop

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll (As seen in the Montreal Gazette)</div><h2><b>What&rsquo;s-Beliveau&rsquo;s Weakness?</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Every hockey player has a weakness,&rdquo; Phil Watson, coach of the New York Rangers, was saying here a few hours before last week&rsquo;s game, &ldquo;I could skate but I couldn&rsquo;t score. Neil Colville couldn&rsquo;t skate but he could make plays. Alex Shibicky had a terrific shot but he couldn&rsquo;t lay down a pass.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been watching Jean Beliveau closely and I haven&rsquo;t been able to find his weakness&mdash;not yet, anyway. But I know he&rsquo;s got one because every hockey player has one. If I don&rsquo;t find it out this season, maybe I will next season. Beliveau can skate, he can carry the puck, he can make plays and he can score. But there must be something he can&rsquo;t do.</p><p>&ldquo;You study a player like Beliveau. Can he pass as well to his left as to his right? Does he have to turn to make a pass? Does he backcheck? Does he dig the puc out of the corners? Is he timid?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;How about Rocket Richard?&rdquo; he was asked. &ldquo;What&rsquo;s his weakness?&rdquo;</p><p>The Rocket doesn&rsquo;t backcheck,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a wonderful hockey player, but he doesn&rsquo;t backcheck. There used to be a time when he could be needled into taking a penalty, but I think he&rsquo;s gotten over that.</p><p>&ldquo;I sent Guy Gendron out with the instructions in a game earlier in the season to see if he could get the Rocket&rsquo;s goat. I told him to slash the Rocket across the ankle when he was checking him, and to give him another across the knee. He did, but the Rocket didn&rsquo;t pay any attention to him. The Rocket has scored more goals against us than any other Canadien this season.&rdquo;</p><p>Milt Schmidt, the Boston Bruins&rsquo; coach, has the same idea as Phil about every hockey player having a weakness, but he says it in reverse.</p><p>&ldquo;Every player in the National Hockey League is there because he can do something well,&rdquo; Milt says, implying that there are things he can&rsquo;t do well.</p><h2><b>It Worked For A While</b></h2><p>Phil had a scheme to impair Jean Beliveau&rsquo;s effectiveness on the ice of Madison Square Garden, which worked for a while.</p><p>&ldquo;Every time the Canadiens came to New York I had the hockey writers ready for him,&rdquo; he revealed. &ldquo;I told them Beliveau was the greatest thing to come into the league in years. If they were looking for feature stories, he was it. They&rsquo;d go around to his hotel with their photographers shortly after the Canadiens would arrive. They&rsquo;d ask him questions and take shots of him all day long. They never gave him any rest and he didn&rsquo;t play his game in our rink.</p><p>&ldquo;But Toe Blake got wise to it. The last time the Canadiens came to New York he wouldn&rsquo;t allow Beliveau to be interviewed or photographed. That night he scored two goals against us.</p><p>&ldquo;But he&rsquo;s a nice guy. He was in Quebec for two years when I was coaching the juniors. He used to drop into my office just to talk about hockey. Not that I could tell him anything because he&rsquo;s a natural and knew it all instinctively. But sometimes now he&rsquo;ll skate past our bench, look up and give me a big wink. I know he&rsquo;s got a weakness and I&rsquo;ll find it out yet&rdquo;.</p><p>The talk swung around to Gump-Worsley, the Blueshirt&rsquo;s little goalie, and the number of shots he has to handle every game.</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t pay too much attention to that,&rdquo; Phil said. &ldquo;Everybody outshoots the Rangers and I guess it&rsquo;s my fault. Maybe we make one more pass inside the blue line than the other teams. I guess it goes back to my days as a player under Lester Patrick. Lester always wanted us to work in close for shots and he 11 tell us, Don&rsquo;t shoot until you can see the whites of the goalkeeper&rsquo;s eyes.&rsquo; Something like that.</p><p>&ldquo;I got tired of reading in the papers that the Rangers were being outshot two to one in every game. So one night we&rsquo;re playing Boston and I told my guys to shoot at every opportunity. We had about twice as many shots as Boston and were beaten 3-1.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>The Breaks</b></h2><p>Phil furnished a surprise by stating flatly that he didn&rsquo;t think there was much difference bet-ween the Rangers and Toronto, Boston and Chicago.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re up there in the league standings because we&rsquo;ve been getting the breaks,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve hardly bad any injuries.&rdquo; He stopped to knock on the wooden table in front of him. &ldquo;We lost Popein for six games and that&rsquo;s all. I never heard of a club going through a season like that. I was going to give Popein a rest, anyway.&rdquo;</p><p>He thinks the injury to Real Chevrefils may prevent the Boston Bruins from making the last playoff spot.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a tough break for them,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They only started to win after they got him back. He may only miss four or five games, but every game is important now.&rdquo;</p><p>He finds Montreal a tough, town, both for himself and the Rangers.</p><p>&ldquo;I know too many people here,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They get behind our bench and start to needle me: &lsquo;Hey, Phillipe! Careful now! Don&rsquo;t blow your top!&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think the Canadiens want to beat me as much as I want to beat them. They want to beat Detroit, Toronto and Chicago more than they want to beat me. I&rsquo;ve lost all four games we&rsquo;ve played here this season. I want to win one game in Montreal the worst way. Maybe it&rsquo;ll be tonight.</p><p>&ldquo;I want to finish second and so do all my players. There&rsquo;s money involved, you know. The players get $500 apiece if they finish second and only $350 if they finish third. But I&rsquo;m thinking more of the playoffs. If we finish second we won&rsquo;t meet the Canadiens in the first playoff round.</p><p>&ldquo;If we finish second we&rsquo;ll meet the fourth-place club and we&rsquo;ll have a better chance against it whether it&rsquo;s Boston, Toronto or Chicago. It really doesn&rsquo;t matter to us. If we win the first playoff round each player gets $1,000, and if we win the Stanley Cup final it&rsquo;s another $1,000.&rdquo;</p><p>It says here that the Rangers are still seeking their first win of the season on Montreal ice and that Phil is still trying to find Beliveau&rsquo;s weakness. They were beaten, 9-4, and all Beliveau did was score three goals.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<h2><b>41 For Gros Bill</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>J</span>ean Beliveau of the Montreal Canadiens has now scored 41 goals, nine shy of the all-time season record of 50 set by the teammate Maurice Richard in 1944-45.</b></p><h2><b>Chadwick Returned</b></h2><p><b>Big Ed Chadwick, called up from the Winnipeg Warriors as an emergency replacement for injured Harry Lumley, has been returned by the Toronto Maple Leafs.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TUES. A.M., FEB. 21</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01302/1524595-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="599" height="186"></div><h3><b>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 19TH, 1956</b></h3><p>Tues. Feb. 14th&mdash;Rangers 3 at Detroit 5</p><p>Wed. Feb. 15th&mdash;Boston 0 at Toronto 1</p><p>Wed. Feb. 15th&mdash;Chicago 1 at Rangers 6</p><p>Thurs. Feb. 16th&mdash;Toronto 1 at Cdns. 8</p><p>Fri. Feb. 17th&mdash;Boston 4 at Chicago 2</p><p>Sat. Feb. 18th&mdash;Rangers 4 at Cdns. 9</p><p>Sat. Feb. 18th&mdash;Detroit 6 at Toronto 1</p><p>Sun. Feb. 19th&mdash;Boston 3 at Rangers 0</p><p>Sun. Feb. 19th&mdash;Detroit 3 at Chicago 5</p><h3><b>SCHEDULED GAMES FOK WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 20th, 1956</b></h3><p>Tues. Feb. 21st&mdash;Boston at Detroit</p><p>Wed. Feb. 22nd&mdash;Toronto at Rangers</p><p>Thurs. Feb. 23rd&mdash;Rangers at Cdns.</p><p>Fri. Feb. 24th&mdash;Toronto at Chicago</p><p>Sat. Feb. 25th&mdash;Detroit at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Feb. 25th&mdash;Boston at Toronto</p><p>Sun. Feb. 26th &mdash;Detroit at Rangers</p><p>Sun. Feb. 26th &mdash;Boston at Chicago</p><h3><b>TUESDAY FEBRUARY 14 New York 3 at Detroit 5</b></h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley: defense: Irwin, Gadsby, Howell, Evans, Fontinato; forwards: Popein, Bathgate, Prentic, Conacher, Gendron. Horvath. Hebenton, Murphy, Creighton, Hergesheimer, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Kelly, Hillman, Pronovost, Godfrey, Hollingworth, Goldham; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Dineen, Ferguson, Ullman, Pavelich, Prystai, Costello.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02281/1524588-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="602" height="582"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 15 Chicago 1 at New York 6</b></h3><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal: Rollins; defence: Mortson. Stanley, Woit, Martin, Pilote; forwards: Leswick, Mickoskd, Watson, Sandford, Litzenberger, Wilson, Lalande, Corcoran, Ciesla, Sullivan.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal: Worsley; defence: Gadsby, Evans, Irwin, Howell, Fontinato; forwards: Creighton, Lewicki, Hebenton, Conacher, Bathgate, Gendron, Horvath, Murphy, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Popein.</p><p>Referee: Frank Udvari; linesmen: Sam Babcock, Donn Baolto.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03234/1524581-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="605" height="621"></div><h3><b>Bostou 0 at Toronto 1</b></h3><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Quackenbush, Flaman, Boivin, R. Armstrong, Heinrich; forwards: Gardner, Peirson, Stasiuk, McKenney, Labine, Chevrefils, Mackell, Bonin, Mohns, Toppazzini, Laycoe.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Chadwick; defense: Thomson, Morrison, Bolton, Reaume, Horton; forwards: Migay, Stewart, Hannigan, Sloan, G. Armstrong, Duff, Harris, Hurst, Balfour, James, Cullen, Smith.</p><p>Referee: Red Storey; linesmen: George Hayes, Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04193/1524574-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="615" height="548"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Toronto 1 at Montreal 8</b></h3><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Lumley; defence: Thompson, Morrison, Bolton, Horton, Reaume; torwards: Migay, Stewart, Hannigan, Smith, Armstrong, Sloan, Harris, Duff, James, Hurst, Balfour, Cullen.</p><p><b>Canadlens:</b> Goal: Plantes defence: Talbot, Johnson, Harvey, Turner, Bouchard; forwards: Meliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Mosdell, Curry, Provost, Marshall, Lecia ire.</p><p>Referee: Red Storey; linesmen; Doug Davies and Bill Roberts.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05146/1524567-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="604" height="808"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1956 Boston 4 at Chicago 2</b></h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Quackenbush, Flaman, Armstrong, Heinrich, Boivin; forwards: Stasiuk, Gardner, Peirson, Mackell, Laycoe, Labine, McKenney, Bonin, Mohns, Toppazzini.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins: defense: Stanley, Pilote, Mortson, Woit, Martin; forwards: Watson, Sullivan, Litzenberger, Leswick, Mickoski, Sandford, Skov, Wilson. Lalande. Corcoran, Ciesla.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06122/1524560-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="599" height="483"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1956 Rangers 4 at Canadiens 9</b></h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Gadsby, Evans, Irwin, Howell, Fontinato; forwards: Creighton, Hebenton, Lewicki, Conacher, Bathgate, Gendron, Horvath, Murphy, Prentice, Hergeshei-mer, Popein.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Johnson, Talbot, Bouchard. Turner, Harvey; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Mosdell, Curry, Provost, Leclair, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07112/1524553-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="601" height="862"></div><h3><b>Detroit 6 at Toronto 1</b></h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goul: Hall; defense: Gold-ham. Hollingworth, Godfrey, Hill man; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Kelly, Lindsay. Delvecchio. Pavelich, Prystai, Ferguson, Bucyk, Dineen. Costello, Ullman.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Chadwick; defense: Thomson, Morrison, Bolton, Reaume; forwards: Stewart. Migay, Hannigan, Armstrong, Sloan. Harris, Duff, James, Hurst. Balfour. Cullen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08103/1524546-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="606" height="493"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1956 Detroit 3 at Chicago 5</b></h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defence: Kelly, Hillman. Godham, Pronovost, Godfrey, Hollingworth; forwards: Howe, Reibel, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Pavelich, Prystai, Ferguson, Ullman, Dineen, Costello, Bucyk.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Reeling; defence: Mortson, Woit, Stanley, Martin, Pilote; forwards: Leswick, Skov, Mickoski, Sullivan, Watson, Sandford, Litzenberger, Wilson, Lalande, Corcoran, Ciesla.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09100/1524539-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="593" height="541"></div><h3><b>Boston 3 at New York 0</b></h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defence: Flaman, Quackenbush, Armstrong, Heinrich, Laycoe, Boivin; forwards: Stasiuk, Gardner, Peirson, Mackell, Labine, McKenney, Eonin, Mohns, Toppazzini.</p><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defence: Howell, Fontinato, Irwin, Evans, Gadsby; forwards: Murphy, Conacher, Hergesheimer, Bathgate, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton. Creighton, Prentice, Popein, Lewicki.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1088/1524532-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="598" height="284"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1170/1524525-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="612" height="3176"></div><h3><b>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1955-1956</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1241/1524518-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="602" height="619"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1332/1524511-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="596" height="161"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>iggin&rsquo; Dickie Moore of the Montreal Canadiens is one of those competent but unsung players in the NHL who make it possible for the super stars to be as great as they are.</b></p><p><b>Teamed with the Richard brothers, Maurice and Henri, Moore goes quietly about his work, game after game, being content to make the plays while the Rocket and Pocket perform the more glamorous chore of scoring goals.</b></p><p><b>Moore&rsquo;s work during the last week can be taken as an example. In the Habs&rsquo; two games, Diggin&rsquo; Dickie was credited with but one goal but contributed a total of five assists to the cause.</b></p><p><b>He had a big night against the Toronto Maple Leafs on February 16, scoring a goal and adding four assists in an 8-1 shellacking of the Clancymen.</b></p><p><b>He added an assist two nights later as the Habs humbled the New York Rangers, 9-4.</b></p><p><b>In all, Moore this season has scored seven goals and has added 30 helpings for a 37-point total.</b></p><p><b>As the &ldquo;feeder forward&rdquo; on the Richard line, it is Diggin&rsquo; Dickie&rsquo;s job to get the puck as often as he can and put it on the stick of either of the Richards. That he has done this in more than adequate fashion is attested to by the fact that to date Maurice has scored 33 goals and Henri 15, most coming off plays in which Moore was directly involved.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1422/1524626-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="281" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dickie Moore</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Player-of-the-Week

<h2><b>Big Period</b></h2><p><b>Springfield Indians scored eight third period goals against Hershey Bears on February 18.</b></p><h2><b>200th Goal</b></h2><p><b>Fred Glover of Cleveland Barons scored his 200th AHL goal on February 17 against Hershey.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TUESDAY A.M. FEB. 21</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01315/1524810-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="590" height="187"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1956 Buffalo 6 at Providence 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02274/1524803-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="593" height="510"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Hershey 1 at Cleveland 4</b></h3><p>CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;Cleveland Baronse staged a three-goal last period rally to whip Hershey 4-1 and virtually assure themselves a place in the American Hockey League playoffs as fourth placers.</p><p>Fred Glover scored twice in the last 15 minutes. His final tally at 15.28 was the 200th of his AHL Career and he dug the puck out of the net for a souvenir. Since the league was founded in 1936, only 15 other players have scored 200 goals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03215/1524796-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="602" height="497"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 Hershey 2 at Springfield 10</b></h3><p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;Springfield Indians struck for eight goals in the final period as they defeated Hershey Bears 10-2.</p><p>After a scoreless first period, Doug McMurdy and Jim Anderson put the Indians two up by the mid-way mark of the second. Goals by Lorne Davis and Ed Panagabko tied the score going into the last period.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04167/1524789-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="602" height="790"></div><h3><b>Providence 2 at Cleveland 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05136/1524782-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="599" height="485"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 3 at Pittsburgh 3</b></h3><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;A goal by Jack Price less than a minute before the end of regular time saved Pittsburgh Hornets from defeat as they battled Buffalo Bisons to a 3-3 overtime tie in an American Hockey League game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06122/1524775-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="597" height="619"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Pittsburgh 3 at Buffalo 1</b></h3><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;Pittsburgh Hornets whipped home two goals within less than a minute in the third period to again a 3-1 American Hockey League decision over Buffalo Bisons, before 6,925 fans here.</p><p>Bob Solinger knocked in the first of the winning pair at 5.45 with a baseball swing on a waist-high pass from Jack Caffery. Gerry Foley locked it up at 6.30 when he converted a rebound of Parker MacDonald&rsquo;s shot.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07106/1524768-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="597" height="442"></div><h3><b>Cleveland 5 at Springfield 2</b></h3><p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;Cleveland Barons came from behind to score a 5-2 victory over Springfield Indians tonight in an American-Hockey League game.</p><p>The Barons scored three goals in the second period after trailing the Indians 2-0. Springfield opened the scoring on Maurice Collins&rsquo; shot at 13.54, with assists going to Graham Hastings and Ed Leier.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08101/1524761-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="603" height="546"></div><h3><b>Hershey 2 at Providence 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0995/1524754-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="608" height="487"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(INCLCD. GAMES OF SUN., FEB. 19)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1081/1524747-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="603" height="715"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals</b>&mdash;Willie Marshall, Pittsburgh, 37.</p><p><b>Most Assists</b>&mdash;Ken Wharram, Buffalo, 52.</p><p><b>Best Goalie</b>&mdash;GH Mayer, Pittsburgh, 43, 113, 4, 2.68.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b>&mdash;Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 4.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Player</b>&mdash;Fred Glover, Cleveland, 156 mts.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Team</b>&mdash;Pittsburgh, 1139 mts.</p><h2><b>Down And Out Of The Nets</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1164/1524740-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="1724" height="1461"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHNNY BOWER</b> of the American Hockey League leading Providence Reds reaches with his stick as he attempts to corral a loose puck. Jim Anderson of the Springfield Indians (18) has just taken a shot which Bower blocked but the rebound got away from him and he had to crawl out of his cage on all fours to retrieve it.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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FOOTBALL NEWS

<div class="byline">By RAY GUAY</div><p>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>President Al Leader will soon be mailing out the All-Star ballots to sports writers and radio casters in all nine Western Hockey League cities.</p><p>Calgary-Stampeders, who hung on to first place in the Prairie division for most of the season, should be a cinch to claim at least two of the top positions.</p><p>Their best chances of capturing the likings of the voters are at defence and centre, but there&rsquo;s a good chance that the right wing spot would be a choice as well.</p><p>Coach Frank Currie will still go along with the idea that his policeman-defenceman Art Michaluk is the best rearguard in minor professional hockey.</p><p>Few will dispute the fact that big Art is an important factor in any Stampeder successes, with tht possible exception of those who will side along with Fred Hucul as their top choice.</p><h2><b>Good Stickhandler</b></h2><p>Hucul, who could line up as a forward with most clubs, is a good stickhandler, his accurate slap shots are probably the hardest in the league and, unless he slumps badly, he should have a new WHL record for goals when the 70 games are played.</p><p>Fred had 17 goals to his credit prior to the club&rsquo;s coast invasion, two short of the record held by Lloyd Durham.</p><p>One, or both, of these defencemen belong in the best of company among WHL defencemen.</p><p>There are also two choices among centremen. Sid Finney may be the most obvious of the two because of his classy displays of stickhandling and his goal total&mdash;including nine goals which went down as game winners tops in the WHL for the Stampeders.</p><h2><b>Two Way Centreman</b></h2><p>The other centreman who belongs is Ray Barry, the best two-way centreman around. Ray, who spends most of his spare time studying as a chartered accountant, is having his best season in professional ranks as a point-getter. Prior to the action at the coast, Ray had 54 points on 19 goals and 35 assists, one more point than last season when he registered his previous high. Ray scored 25 goals last season.</p><p>Besides his point-getting abilities, Ray is also regarded as one of the best penalty-killers around. Currie has many players to choose from when the club gets a penalty, but Barry remains the backbone of his defensive setup. Sid and Ray should stand one-two (in any order) with the voters.</p><h2><b>Drawing Raves</b></h2><p>The balloters gave Doc Couture the All-Star right wing spot last term and Doc is out to keep that position. The voters wouldn&rsquo;t be remiss if they chose Couture at the top of their list. Right up with the scoring leaders once again, he&rsquo;s also seen plenty of action as a penalty-killer and has drawn the raves of Calgary fans for his two-way displays.</p><p>Results of the All-Star balloting will be interesting to see and it&rsquo;s a cinch that the Stampeders should fare well, they have the talent.</p><h2><b>Policeman</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01312/1524872-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="563" height="1243"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ART MICHALUK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Stampeders Have Five Candidates For Berths On WHL ‘Dream Team’

<div class="byline">By AL HOOPER</div><p>VANCOUVER. B.C.&mdash;</p><p>In Winnipeg they still speak of Don Raleigh the junior.</p><p>They tell how Raleigh played in the National Hockey League at 17 and came back to Brandon juniors to mingle with the amateurs once more. And what he did.</p><p>At 29 Raleigh says he is through, and all this has happened since World War Two. And you feel old with Raleigh.</p><p>Some things he still has. After a recent game at New Westminster he hunched thinly and broodingly in the Saskatoon dressing room. Saskatoon had lost 2-0. You knew he could still feel defeat, and that he didn&rsquo;t like it any better than before.</p><h2><b>Half The Money</b></h2><p>When he says he is through he makes it a choice. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to play in the minors,&rdquo; he says, still of junior size at 150 pounds of lank stringy muscle. &ldquo;You take as much abuse for half as much money.&rdquo;</p><p>Yet he is in the minors now. New York sent him down last month after nine years up there. They sent him to Providence of the American League and he came from there to Saskatoon of the Western League. He will play out the year and play it hard but next year, no.</p><h2><b>May Go Back</b></h2><p>&ldquo;New York expects to bring me back for the playoffs,&rdquo; he said this night in Westminster, musing on many things in quiet, articulate tones. He dressed as he talked, his eyes under his straw-cut hair seeming to reflect constant surprise. But few things can surprise Raleigh.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s getting rougher all the time,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You get Murder Inc., they&rsquo;d make a winning hockey team.&rdquo;</p><p>Raleigh seems to feel ability is not what got him out of New York. That is another thing he still has. His plays are still Raleigh plays, deft, precise.</p><h2><b>Never Played Harder</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I never played harder than in this game,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;And what do I get? I could count my shots on one hand. They must have played good positional hockey. Did they?&rdquo;</p><p>He was assured that Royals had.</p><p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; he said, dismissing it, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think I figure in New York&rsquo;s plans. They don&rsquo;t want small guys.&rdquo;</p><p>Yet they had wanted Raleigh, for nine years. And he was no bigger then.</p><h2><b>Primed For Bonesy</b></h2><p>If he has lost anything, it doesn&rsquo;t show here. Coach Max McNab of Royals asked later: &ldquo;How many holding penalties did we get on Raleigh?&rdquo; He counted three.</p><p>Were Royals primed for Raleigh?</p><p>&ldquo;Yeah,&rdquo; Max nodded, as though it were a funny question. &ldquo;We paid him special attention.&rdquo;</p><p>At 29, Raleigh is not that old.</p><h2><b>May Quit</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02239/1524903-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="555" height="1237"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DON (BONES) RALESGH</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Quakers’ Don Raleigh Blames Size For Demotion By Blues

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HOCKEY FANS

<h2><b>Leads Goalers</b></h2><p><b>Marcel Pelletier of Victoria is the WHL&rsquo;s top netminder with an average of 2.67.</b></p><h2><b>Top Pointmaker</b></h2><p><b>Phil Maloney of Vancouver leads all WHL pointmakers with a total of 75 in 56 games.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON MONDAY A.M., FEB. 13</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01317/1525074-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="601" height="134"></div><h3><b>PRAIRIE DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02275/1525067-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="604" height="166"></div><h3><b>RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>Monday February 6th</b></p><p>Victoria 2 at Vanvouver 1</p><p>Winnipeg 6 at Calgary 1</p><p><b>Tuesday February 7th</b></p><p>Vancouver 4 at Victoria 5</p><p>Seattle 8 at New West. 5</p><p>Edmonton 0 at Brandon 4</p><p><b>Wednesday February 8th</b></p><p>New West. 2 at Seattle 5</p><p>Edmonton 1 at Winnipeg 8</p><p><b>Thursday February 9th</b></p><p>Edmonton 0 at Saskatoon 2</p><p><b>Friday February 10th</b></p><p>New West. 3 at Victoria 9</p><p>Seattle 4 at Vancouver 0</p><p>Saskatoon 5 at Winnipeg 8</p><p><b>Saturday February 11th</b></p><p>Vancouver 4 at Seattle 2</p><p>Victoria 4 at New West. 6</p><p>Edmonton 2 at Calgary 5</p><p>Saskatoon 3 at Brandon 2 OT</p><h3><b>MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Victoria 2 at Vancouver 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03246/1525060-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="616" height="373"></div><h3><b>Winnipeg 6 at Calgary 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04218/1525053-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="605" height="397"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Vancouver 4 at Victoria 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05186/1525046-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="609" height="568"></div><h3><b>Seattle 8 at New Westminster 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06157/1525039-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="603" height="784"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 1 at, Brandon 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07145/1525032-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="603" height="297"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 New Westminster 2 at Seattle 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08136/1525025-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="603" height="504"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 1 at Winnipeg 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09129/1525018-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="601" height="601"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Edmonton 0 at Saskatoon 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10123/1525011-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="599" height="330"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 New Westminster 3 at Victoria 9</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11107/1525004-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="599" height="667"></div><h3><b>Seattle 4 at Vancouver 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1293/1524997-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="599" height="371"></div><h3><b>Saskatoon 5 at Winnipeg 3</b></h3><p><b>Saskatoon</b>&mdash;Goal: Francis; defence: Houghton, Chrystal, Folk, Yanosik; forwards: Kobussen, Raleigh, Gordichuk, Haley, McLeod, Lynn. Colwill, Ingarfield, Lamoureux, McCreary.</p><p><b>Winnipeg</b>&mdash;Goal: Collins; defence: Shero, Keating, Summers. Burega; forwards: Nesterenko, Nykoluk, Mazur, Aldcofn, Masnick, Barlow, Burchell, Cullen. Mosienko. Hoekstra.</p><p>Referee: Eddie Powers; linesman: Dick Davis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1374/1524990-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="600" height="567"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 Vancouver 4 at Seattle 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1467/1524983-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="602" height="494"></div><h3><b>Victoria 4 at New Westminster 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1557/1524976-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="604" height="669"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 2 at Calgary 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1828/1524969-1-eng-US/f0019-182.jpg" title="f0019-18" width="600" height="516"></div><h3><b>Saskatoon 3 at Brandon 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1924/1524962-1-eng-US/f0019-192.jpg" title="f0019-19" width="596" height="583"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including games of Saturday, Feb. 11)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1724/1524955-1-eng-US/f0013-172.jpg" title="f0013-17" width="606" height="1454"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1821/1524948-1-eng-US/f0013-182.jpg" title="f0013-18" width="600" height="364"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals</b></p><p>Sid Finney, Cal., Colin Kilburn, Vic. 35</p><p><b>Most Assists</b></p><p>Guyle Fielder, Sea. 49</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>Colin Kilburn, Vic. 9</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks</b></p><p>Jackie McLeod, Sask. 3</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b></p><p>Marc. Pelletier, Vic. 7</p><p><b>Most Goals Scored When Apposition Shorthanded</b></p><p>Barton Bradley, Sea., Bobby Love, NW. 8</p><p><b>Most Goals Against When Serving Penalties</b></p><p>Bill Burega, Wpg. 7</p><p><b>Most Minutes in Penalties</b></p><p>Bill Burega, Wpg., 123; Bud. Syverson, Cal., 122</p><h3><b>FEWEST MINUTES IN PENALTIES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1634/1524941-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="598" height="207"></div><h3><b>FEWEST BY DEFENCEMEN</b></h3><p>Steve Hrymnak, Edm., Bob Bergeron, NW. 12 min.</p><h2><b>200-Goal Man</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1919/1524934-1-eng-US/f0013-192.jpg" title="f0013-19" width="1194" height="1484"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>OLLIE DOROHOY of Seattle scored his 200th goal in WHL play against New Westminster February 8 in Seattle. He Joins Doug Adam and Gordie Fashoway of New Westminster as the only two hundred goal getters in the League, Barton Bradley of Seattle scored his 100th against Calgary in Seattle on February 4th.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">Al Parsley (As Seen In The Montreal Herald)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01317/1525136-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="299" height="324"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>OYALS&rsquo; JACK-RABBIT, Andre Corriveau has been battling in vain to overhaul Chicoutimi&rsquo;s Jimmy Moore and Shawinigan&rsquo;s Gilles Dube in the QHL points scramble, but Corriveau is still top-kick at potting the black biscuit.</p><p>The latest Quebec loop statistics show Corriveau with 33 tallies this season, which brings his total in scheduled games to 293. Early this campaign he passed the 300 milestone in goal scoring in the Quebec circuit. That&rsquo;s when goals counted in league play, and in playoffs were pooled.</p><p>Andre came through with hattrick last Sunday when Elmer Lach&rsquo;s larrigans cut loose with a late drive to nose out the hungry Lions of Trois-Rivieres 5-4. Royals have 10 games left to play as this edition roars to press, and a couple more outbursts like this and Corriveau will make the 300 tally milestone before the season ends March 18.</p><p>Of course Andre could be helped if he and his mates can stage a real orgy, something like that 9-1 binge the Shawinigan Cataracts enjoyed against Quebec Aces, Feb. 12.</p><p>Corriveau can still break faster, once he pounces on a loose puck, than any forward in the Quebec circuit. The fact that he has scored nine of his 33 tallies against the top-perch Shawinigan team isn&rsquo;t overlooked by Kenny Reardon, Cataracts&rsquo; general-manager.</p><p>With some anguish Reardon recalls a Sunday afternoon early this hockey season when Corriveau ran wild in the first period at the Forum. He staged three breakaways, scored two tallies, helped in a third and before the fans went out for a smoke Royals were leading the Cats 4-0. Things settled down a bit, but Royals settled for a 5-2 win; quite an achievement at that against this high-gaited Shawinigan team.</p><p>Several weeks later driving back from Shawinigan Falls, where Royals had held the Cats to a 3-3 draw, Reardon observed: &ldquo;Do you know every time I see the puck fly up in the air and it seems to be 40 feet away from him that Corriveau is right on the spot waiting for it when it comes down? It&rsquo;s uncanny. I see the same thing when the puck gets loose. May be one of our guy has made a mistake, missed a pass or thrown the puck away. There&rsquo;s Corriveau, right there to gather it up. &ldquo;And if he gets away, usually it&rsquo;s a goal. He&rsquo;s one of those hockey players you never think about so much as when he&rsquo;s playing against your own team.&rdquo;</p><p>His detractors have chivvied Corriveau because he doesn&rsquo;t enter heartily into the more robust exchanges, but then he carries only 135 pounds. You can hardly expect such a lightweight to hurl his left at rugged rearguards like George Roy and Gerry Glaude who bend the scale beams above 200 pounds. The average forward in the Quebec loop can tip the Toledos around 105 pounds. It&rsquo;s little wonder that Corriveau may be among the conservatives at body-checking.</p><p>He may not make that 300 mark in goals in league scheduled play, he needs 7 goals for that, but four more tallies would give him a season total of 37, which would equal his last big campaign with the Valleyfield Braves in 1953-54.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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SIDELIGHTS

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02242/1525167-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY McNEIL</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;</p><p>Either the scorers have become more accurate and potent or the goalers aren&rsquo;t so careful and efficient; the fact remains that George M. Slater, the prexy, points out that there hasn&rsquo;t been a shutout in the Quebec Hockey League since January 15.</p><p>As QHL ground into the last month of its schedule Gerry McNeil remained the hot favorite for the Vezina Memorial Trophy.</p><p>With 10 Royals&rsquo; games remaining on the calendar their halfpint twine-tender held a seven-point lead on Shawinigan Cataracts&rsquo; Miche Perreault. Total goals against Royals were 137; the impost on Perreault, 144. Perreault held in his favor the point that only nine games remained in the Shawinigan club&rsquo;s schedule.</p><p>Thus McNeil must be wary of a heavy score when Royals play the contest they hold &ldquo;in hand.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Rates The Kudos</b></h2><p>It is freely spoken around the Quebec circuit that McNeil not only rates all the kudos that can be written or spoken about his sterling season, he&rsquo;s the backbone of the Montreal team.</p><p>&ldquo;Switch goalers and we&rsquo;d beat Royals in nearly every outing,&rdquo; George (Punch) Imlach, the mastermind of Quebec Aces has said more than once. Imlach went further when he told this correspondent on a mid-season trip to Quebec: &ldquo;If we had McNeil we&rsquo;d not only be heading Royals in the standing we&rsquo;d be right on the heels of that Shawinigan team.&rdquo;</p><p>When the Royals were forced to an all-out effort to nose out Trois-Rivieres Lions 5-4 last Sunday at the Forum. Frank Carlin, general manager of the Montrealers gave the little goalie an oblique complement that was sincere:</p><p>&ldquo;If we didn&rsquo;t have Gerry we&rsquo;d be last in the league, I&rsquo;m afraid.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Paille in Race</b></h2><p>Of course there is a fellow keeping goal for the Chicoutimi Sagueneens who could beat out both McNeil and Perreault for the goalkeeping honors if he can put together a couple of shutouts or two or three one-goal games. That&rsquo;s providing both McNeil and Perreault have corresponding unhappy evenings or afternoons between now and March 18.</p><p>For Marcel Paille, Gerry Plamondon&rsquo;s discovery had only 151 tallies to account for-when this audit was made. But the Sags had played only 53 games against Royals 54 and the Cataracts&rsquo; 55.</p><p>Thus Paille&rsquo;s work will have to really phenomenal between now and the final curtain on the schedule.</p><p>When McNeil was the sensation of the old Quebec Senior Hockey League, before he was first signed by National Hockey League Canadiens and played season at Cincinnati there was no Vezina Trophy in the Slater circuit.</p><p>Thus he&rsquo;ll be taking down the big prize for the first time if he plays with his accustomed steadiness and aplomb the rest of the current campaign.</p><h2><b>Great Seasons</b></h2><p>He had some great campaigns during his five seasons with the NHL Habitants. For instance in 1952-53 he hung up 10 shutouts, and had an average of 2.12 goals in 66 games.</p><p>Even this wasn&rsquo;t good enough. In 1952-53 the Vezina (NHL edition) was won by Terry Sawchuk, then rising to his greatest fame with Detroit Red Wings. McNeil that season topped Sawchuk in shutouts 10-9, but Terry boasted the remarkably low goals against average of 1.90.</p><p>Paille&rsquo;s supporters are Inclined to boost him for the Northey Trophy (the rookie award) rather than speculate on his remote chance of a spectacular late season finish to grab off the Vezina.</p><p>There&rsquo;s a flock of good forwards in the loop he&rsquo;d need to beat out in the voting. The ballots are now in hands of writers and spielers covering QHL games. They were passed around last Weekend by publicist Earl Sharpe with the deadline March 15 set for their return.</p><h2><b>Good Yearlings</b></h2><p>Royals have so many good yearlings they are likely to split the vote of Montreal reporters. The recent showing of Phil Goyette, who has been a veritable workhorse in Royals&rsquo; games has gained him much support.</p><p>Actually the best of the freshmen with the Montreal team in bagging goals, with 17, Goyette was also crowding teammate Ti-Guy Rousseau in the points scramble.</p><p>The Montrealers also have Barry Thorndycraft, and Denis Boucher who may catch plenty votes, especially &ldquo;Thorndy.&rdquo; Boucher has impressed since he got back into action regularly, but he won&rsquo;t be in enough games to rate serious consideration.</p><p>A strong pitch will be made by the Shawinigan Falls&rsquo; correspondents, and they&rsquo;ll have electioneering support too from Kenny Reardon, for Dick Bouchard. Bouchard has done a man-sized job at right wing. Earlier in the season he was prominent in the phalanx of scorers, but as the campaign wore on the more experienced men began to show their power and most of the rookies, save Guy Rousseau and Goyette, dropped from the first 25 or so who are included in the weekly release handed out by the league&rsquo;s official scorer Doug Harney.</p><h2><b>Can Be Vocal</b></h2><p>Punch Imlach at Quebec can be vocal when he thinks a strong sales-talk is necssary to boost a deserving athlete. So we&rsquo;ll likely hear a lot about Jean-Marie Cossette and Danny Pollziani before the votes for the Northey Trophy are all counted.</p><p>Claude Vinet was an. early favorite, too, in Quebec, but he was left up the track by Cossette and Poliziani in the last month or so.</p><p>When Cossette and Poliziani continued to produce regularly and Vinet was benched for a few games the latter ceased to be a serious candidate.</p><p>At Trois-Rivieres &ldquo;Trader&rdquo; Toupin has been making such a wholesale shuffle of talent that the youngsters on his line-up are lost to sight and reckoning to some degree. But there&rsquo;s still Georgea Bouchard the big broad-shouldered rearguard who went to the Lions in the early-January swap for Jean-Paul Lamirande.</p><p>Georges Bouchard was a good, defenseman at Shawinigan Falls, and there were many who rated him more highly than Albert &ldquo;Junior&rdquo; Langlois. The latter must be considered, too, among the nominees from the Falls. And so Georges Bouchard is still a good defenseman at Trois-Rivieres.</p><h2><b>Forwards Glamor Boys</b></h2><p>Defensemen are too often overlooked in these pools. It seems that the boys who mark ballots look at only th figures. The glamour boys are the forwards. The centers and the wingers show their prowess by goals and assists, blocking and bodychecking, neat work in skating off the rushing forwards and breaking up combination attacks isn&rsquo;t measured or guaged.</p><p>No yardstick or scale has so far been devised for the purpose.</p><p>So it&rsquo;s predicted here the rookie award is likely to go to a forward, if indeed Paille doesn&rsquo;t gain such heavy support that the Chicoutimi goaler runs away with the Northey Trophy.</p><p>The &ldquo;Vezina&rdquo; of course will be determined by the total goals against the club for which the man in the armour performs. Likewise the President&rsquo;s Trophy will go to the league&rsquo;s leading scorer. (Points plus assists.)</p><p>This leaves only the Byng of Vimy Trophy besides the Northey Trophy the QHL awards decided by ballot. The referees and linemen in the loop have again been given the chore of naming the winner of &ldquo;Byng.&rdquo;</p><p>No hint as to the likely winner was available at press time. None of the officials spoken to by this writer would even hint at the candidates discussed. These men who tote the whistles can-be a close-mouthed lot.</p><h2><b>Gives Royals Big &ldquo;Edge&rdquo;</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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McNeil Good Bet for Vezina Trophy

<h2><b>New Goaler</b></h2><p><b>Goaler Gordie Bell has joined Three Rivers Lions from Springfield Indians of the AHL.</b></p><h2><b>Impressive Total</b></h2><p><b>Andre Corriveau of Montreal Royals has now scored 293 goals in his QHL career.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TUES. A.M., FEB. 21</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01289/1525268-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="594" height="162"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Quebec 3 at Montreal 3</b></h3><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Harrington; defence: Ernst, Thibault, Schneider, Zeniuk; forwards: Tremblay, Buchanan, Gamble, Tessier, Powell, Ford, Poliziani, Labadie, Achtymiehuk, Cossette.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defence: Mae-Pherson, Clune, R. Rousseau, Ingram, Deslauriers; forwards: Denis, Boucher, G. Rousseau, Corriveau, Thorndycraft, Goyette, Burnett, Laplante, MacKay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02252/1525261-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="611" height="627"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 15 Chicoutimi 5 at Three Rivers 4</b></h3><p><b>Chicoutimi:</b> Goal: Paille; defence: Taillefer, Roy, Labrosse, Hanna; forwards: S. Smrke, L. Smrke, Moore, Cressman, Locas, Perreault, Topoll, Campeau, Hicks, Maxwell.</p><p><b>Three Rivers:</b> Goal: Payette; defence: Bedard, Amadio, Bouchard, Tennant, MacNeil; forwards: Blaine, Scherza, Kapusta, Groleau, Thibeault, Haworth, Gooden, Gagnon, Bisaillon.</p><p>Referee: Deziel; linesmen: Dodds, Landry.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03228/1525254-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="610" height="794"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Three Rivers 4 at Shawinigan 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04180/1525247-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="604" height="810"></div><h3><b>Chicoutimi 4 at Quebec 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05146/1525240-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="597" height="773"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1956 Quebec 2 at Chicoutimi 2</b></h3><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defence: Schneider, Crozier, Ernst, Zeniuk; forwards: Gamble, Powell, Ford, Poliziani, Labadie, Tremblay, Achtymiehuk, Buchanan, Cossette, Vinet.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Faille; defense: Glaude, Roy, Taillefer, Hanna; forwards: Moore, S. Smrke, L. Smrke, Locas, Topoll, Maxwell, Perreault, Hicks, Cressman, Campeau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06126/1525233-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="602" height="595"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1956 Shawinigan 4 at Quebec 5</b></h3><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defence: Hodgson, Lamirande Langlous, Roche; forward: Desaulniers, Wray, Bouchard, Kaohur, Thomson, Denis, Broden, Grosse, Faulkner, Dube.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defence: Macqueen, Einst, Zenik, Thibeault; forwards: Gamble, Powell, Ford, Poliziani, Labadie, Tremblay, Cchtymichuk, Buchanan, Cossette, Vinet.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07118/1525226-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="593" height="771"></div><h3><b>Three Rivers 4 at Royals 5</b></h3><p><b>Three Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal: Bell; defence: Bedard, Amadio, Bouchard, Tennant, MacNeil; forwards: Blaine, Scherza, Kapusta, Groleau, Thibeault, Haworth, Gooden Gagnon, Bisaillon.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defence, R. Rousseau, Ingram, Deslauriers, Clune, MacPherson; forwards: Corriveau, Thorn, Denis, MacKay, Laplante.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08107/1525219-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="593" height="903"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sunday Feb. 19)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0999/1525212-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="605" height="981"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1085/1525205-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="594" height="393"></div><h2><b>&ldquo;Hey Fellas, The Puck!&rdquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1169/1525198-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="1753" height="1303"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY GLAUDE,</b> left, and Andre Roy (right on boards) of Chicoutimi Sagueneens mix it up with a couple of unidentified Montreal Royals players in this action at the Montreal Forum. The puck lies unnoticed at Roy&rsquo;s feet while the quartet settle their differences. <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>T</span>HANKS TO SUDBURY&hellip;</b>I would like to take this opportunity to express my very sincere gratitude to all the wonderful people in Sudbury for their many kindnesses on my recent autograph party there&hellip;your support and interest in my recently-published novel, &ldquo;Fear Not My Son,&rdquo; was something I shall never forget&hellip;this gave me a chance to meet many of the fine hockey fans in the Sudbury District, one of the world&rsquo;s busiest and prosperous&hellip;Wolfe Moses of Wolfe&rsquo;s Book Store was a real friend to me&hellip;The topic soon swung over to hockey and I enjoyed talking to these great fans about our great sport&hellip;As you read this the NOHA playoffs will be fairly well underway, but as I write this the angle of what teams will be in the playoffs is very much in doubt&hellip;Pembroke Lumber Kings stayed in the fight with a crucial win over Sudbury Wolves&hellip;that one was really BIG for coach Cully Simon&hellip;Clifford Hicks, one of the finest netfinders in the circuit, had to drop out for the rest of the season dut to a bad case of nerves and Bobby Mitchell of North Bay was rushed in as a replacement.</p><p>Proud of Eddie&hellip;fans throughout the NOHA circuit are mighty proud of Eddie Chadwick for his sensational work in goal for Toronto Maple Leafs&hellip;he played with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds last season and his success is just another indication that we&rsquo;re watching some mighty classy hockey in Northern Ontario senior ranks without really realizing just how good it is&hellip;the fact that Chadwick and Ronnie Hurst, who also played with the Greyhounds last season, are doing so well in the NHL should make us realize it more than anything else.</p><p><b>ARMAND TIES RECORD&hellip;</b>Armand Lemieux, veteran forward with Sudbury Wolves, equalled an NOHA mark when he scored three goals in one period&hellip;he shares the distinction with Adam Brown, Tatter McClellan, Gordie Myles, Lionel Barber and Chuck Marshall&hellip;another new mark was established when Dale Anderson of the Sault Ste. Marie Indians topped the 142-minute mark in the penalty box&hellip;this breaks the old mark set by Jimmy Farelli, who now performs for Cleveland Barons of the AHL&hellip;meanwhile, the Indians have broken their own penalty record as a team by going over the 681-minute mark which they set in the 52-53 campaign&hellip;Hats off to young Bobby Attersley of Whitby Dunlops who went wild to score seven goals to set a new season mark in the Senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; division&hellip;Two Northern Ontario youngsters. Guy James of Kapuskasing and Gary Sharp of Hearst were cut by Hamilton Tiger-Cubs for &ldquo;repeated infractions of club discipline and conduct generally detrimental to the team welfare.&rdquo; That, at least, was the interpretation placed on the case by team officials.</p><p>George Panter to Leave&hellip;George Panter, manager of Sudbury&rsquo;s beautiful Civic Arena, is leaving his position on August 1&hellip;I would like to say that George has done a fine job&hellip;he has set up many fine innovations and his organ-loft idea is one of the finest I have seen in Canadian rinks&hellip;Ab DeMarco, one of the most popular players to ever perform in pro and amateur hockey, is seriously thinking of turning into a referee&hellip;North Bay Trappers surprised Cleveland Barons of the AHL by defeating them, 5-4, in a special exhibition game in North Bay&hellip;the five goals by the Trappers were made by five players&mdash;Don Hogan, Chester Koneczny, Bo Elik, Johnny Muretitch and Stan Maxwell&hellip;a former NOHA senior player, Jimmy Farelli, got one of the Cleveland markers.</p><p><b>JERRY AND MOE&hellip;</b>chalk up still another fine performance for Jerry Labelle and Moe Chevrefils of Abitibi Eskimos in the Porcupine Mines Senior Hockey League&hellip;each fired two goals to lead the Eskies to an 8-2 victory over South Porcupine&hellip;the win enabled the Eskies to move into a first-place tie&hellip;It&rsquo;s hats off to Chuck Stuart who scored 52 goals in only 17 games for an amazing average in Junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; hockey&hellip;that&rsquo;s terrific shooting in any man&rsquo;s league!!!&hellip;I had the very great pleasure of meeting Dave Patrick, sports director of CKSO TV Radio in Sudbury during my stay in connection with the novel&hellip;Dave is doing a mighty excellent job in Sudbury and he is a fine fellow to know&hellip;Reg Campbell scored four goals for Timnins as they laced Kapuskasing Beavers, 12-3&hellip;Don Mackintosh, sports editor of The Sudbury Daily Star, reports that a fan is using a B-B pistol at games and causing quite a commotion&hellip;every effort of police to find the Joe has failed.</p><p>Fine Juvenile Stars&hellip;many outstanding juvenile hockey stars are being developed in Northern Ontario&hellip;around the Sudbury Dictrict some of the boys to watch are Roy Furlani, George Usitalo, Eddie Marynuck, Don Fife, Don Sheppard, Wayne James and Romano Taus&hellip;Jack Dube and Doug McMorran are two more&hellip;while we are talking about Sudbury the same applies to many; other Northern Ontario centres&hellip;Lloyd Hill, coach of Local Union 2251 Sportsmen at Sault Ste. Marie, says that many youngsters are looking good in his area, while coaches up around the Lakehead and the Gold Belt report likewise&hellip;the development of sound minor hockey leagues is extremely important to the sport itself everywhere, we would like to see more fans turnout for the minor hockey games all through the Northland&hellip;Vic Grigg returned to action with Orillia Pontiacs and looked good&hellip;he started the season as coach of the now disbanded Midland Monarchs&hellip;Dan MacDonald starred for the Pontiacs with two goals as they trimmed Durham Huskies, 5-2, in an important senior contest&hellip;Welcome back, Vic!</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01276/1525299-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="595" height="914"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AB DEMARCO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Kitchener Dutchmen are encountering more grief since their return from the Olympic World Hockey Tournament at Cortina, Italy, because in the first game of their renewal in OHA competition they dropped a 5-1 decision to the Bulldogs at Windsor. And to add to their woes, veteran defenceman Howie Lee, joined pro ranks and made his debut with the Cleveland Barons, scoring two goals as his team drubbed Springfield 8-2.</p><p>Loss of Lee, plus the possibility that &ldquo;Bud&rdquo; Kemp, loaned to Stratford Indians as a replacement for Art Hurst, while the latter accompanied the Dutchmen over seas, may refuse to rejoin Kitchener, leaves the Dutchmen with but one experienced senior defenceman, Joe Schertzl. Schertzl sat out most of the schedule with a trick knee and only returned for the Feb. 12 game. &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Martin, who also accompanied the Dutchmen to the world tourney, has rejoined the Elmira Polar Kings in senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; ranks, after playing his allotted three games in senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; company, and the Dutchmen brought up Beryle Klinck and Jim Olinski, the latter younger vrother of Jerry Olinski, NHL referee, also of, Elmira.</p><h2><b>A Real Problem</b></h2><p>The CAHA appears to have a real problem on their hands in the Howie Lee case, because Ernie Goman, business manager of the Dutchmen, is determined that Lee return to the Kitchener team, although Jim Hendy, business manager of the Cleveland Barons, claims he signed Lee to a pro contract in Toronto the day the Dutchmen returned to Canada. In fact, Hendy says he signed Lee to a pro contract months ago, and it was so reported before the OHA season opened, but Lee was released later in order to play for Kitchener.</p><p>Things become more complicated, because Kitchener con tends that an &ldquo;amateur&rdquo; may not be signed to a pro contract after Nov. 15, but Lee apparently signed his second contract just last week, and since he took part in one game for Cleveland he must naturally1&rsquo;he classed as a pro. Just how Kitchener hopes to secure Lee&rsquo;s services for the balance of the season, with the play-offs just around the corner, may give them plenty of haedaches.</p><h2><b>Game Postponed</b></h2><p>The senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA schedule was slated to wind up Feb. 20, but will probably have to be delayed until two days later, because Kitchener had a game billed for Feb. 11, the day after they got back home, and this was postponed until Feb. 22.</p><p>And as the five teams head into the stretch the battle for the four playoff berths has become hectic than ever, as Stratford Indians top the field, one point up on Kitchener Dutchmen. Owen Sound Mercurys spurted on the strength of three straight wins, one of them a replay of the last ten minutes of a previous game in Chatham, and now hold down third spot, four points below Kitchener. Windsor Bulldogs also halted a six-game losing streak to win their last two games, and trail Owen Sound by two points. Bringing up the rear are Chatham Maroons, three points behind Windsor. Chatham have a game in hand on Windsor and meet the Bulldogs in Chatham, Feb. 17, and this may be the deciding fixture, depending, of course, on how the other games pan out.</p><h2><b>Ran Into Grief</b></h2><p>After forging to the top of the class on four straight victories, Stratford Indians also encountered some grief in dropping their last two games to Windsor and Owen Sound on successive nights. The Indians blame their reverse partly on the injury to their captain, &ldquo;Mickey&rdquo; Roth, who was slashed across the right ankle by Jim Campbell of Chatham, sustaining a cracked bone just above the ankle, and will be sidelined for three weeks, which means he will be forced to miss probably the first week of the playoffs. Manager &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Meier of the Indians sought a replacement at centre ice and approached Gus Bodnar and Johnny McCormack, two former NHL players who retired this season, but neither would accept an offer to play for the Indians during the absence of Roth. Both of the players expressed their regret but claimed they held important jobs in Toronto, which prevent them from playing any more hockey.</p><h2><b>Relinquished Lead</b></h2><p>Ken Laufman of the Kitchener Dutchmen, who had been leading the point-scorers ever since the season opened, now trails &ldquo;Mickey&rdquo; Roth and Billy Flick, Stratford forward by one and two points respectively, but can regain the lead now that the Dutchmen are back in OHA competition and have more games to play than the Indians. While the Indians were spurting to their four straight wins they averaged seven goals per game, and Roth and Flick were prominent among the goal scorers, but in dropping their last two games they scored but five goals.</p><p>One reason for the third-place standing of the Owen Sound Mercurys is the fine netminding they are getting from Gord Henry, regular with the Hershey Bears for a number of years before withdrawing from pro hockey this season, Bobby Gillson, the other Owen Sound goalie, is running second to teammate Henry in the goal-keeping averages.</p><h2><b>Crucial Stage</b></h2><p>In addition to the hot race at present in progress for playoff berths, the Lee case is creating much interest around the league, and right now it looks as though Kitchener Dutchmen and Cleveland Barons may go to the mat over the Kitchener defenceman turning pro at this crucial stage of the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA race. Ernie Goman of Kitchener has protested to the OHA and the NHL, and describes Hendy&rsquo;s action in signing Lee as &ldquo;tantamount to blackmail&rdquo; which seem to be pretty harsh words.</p><p>Another angle to the Lee case is that he played for Canada&rsquo;s representative Kitchener Dutchmen in the Olympic tourney and received a bronze medal when his team finished third. But Hendy contends that Lee signed a pro contract for him &ldquo;several months ago,&rdquo; and after the criticism of the Russians for subsidizing their players, the Kremlin will probably make much of it in their customary propaganda and inquire asto who is pointing the finger at who?</p><h2><b>Loses Lead</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02221/1525330-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="703" height="1160"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN LAUFMAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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KW Dutchies Run Into Trouble On Return From Winter Games

<div class="byline">Geoffrey FISHER</div><p>CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>Howard Lee, husky defenseman for the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen and a pillar of the Canadian Olympic hockey team, is off to a flying start in his professional debut with the Cleveland Barons.</p><p>Lee, who Is built along the lines of a destroyer escort, broke in with the Barons a few hours after arriving in town Saturday, Feb. 11. He scored a goal on a long, sizzling blast as the Barons defeated Springfield, 6-2.</p><p>The following night at Providence, Lee launched a number of impressive attacks on the Reds&rsquo; Johnny Bower. The Barons, however, were overcome, 5-3. Defensively he was flawless in both games.</p><p>General Manager Jim Hendy, who waited in Toronto for Lee to return from overseas, thinks Lee will bolster the Barons considerably in the stretch run for the playoffs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rearguard Howie Lee Impresses

<div class="byline">By HUGH BOWMAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01242/1525385-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DENNIS RIGGIN</b></figcaption></div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Fallacies of the human eye have long since given way to the scientific accuracy of the camera around the race tracks and although a photo-finish may be stretching the imagination a little too far in the realm of hockey they may have to bring out the slide rules to determine the standing at the end of the tense OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; campaign.</p><p>With the age-limit loop barelling into the last stages of the home stretch the only determined position was that of the Hamilton Tiger-Cubs who lost their last mathematical chance of gaining a playoff berth when they bowed 5-2 to the Guelph Biltmores.</p><p>The Tiger-Cubs, who knocked off St. Mikes the night before to keep alive their faint hopes, have given evidence that they&rsquo;ll be no pushovers despite their elimination from the playoff struggle. They led the Biltmores 2-0 for half the game before bowing out and then, after being crushed 132 by Kitchener, forced the league leading St. Catharines Teepees to the limit before dropping a 7-6 decision in St. Catharines.</p><p>It was only the Teepees&rsquo; second Win in their last seven starts and, enabled them to take a four point lead over the K-W Canucks who still had a game in hand. The Teepees, who ran roughshod over the opposition in January, dropping only two in 15 starts, were overdue for a slump and coach Rudy Pilous hopes that they&rsquo;ve managed to get it out of their systems before they hit the playoff trail.</p><h2><b>Didn&rsquo;t Look Sharp</b></h2><p>Teepees didn&rsquo;t look too sharp, even in victory, against the Tiger-Cubs with goalkeeper Roy Edwards in particular having a bad night. St. Kitts outshot the Cubs 54-17 but were almost beaten by Dennis Riggin who&rsquo;s had enough rubber thrown at him this season to open his own plantation.</p><p>In his five years in Junior hockey, two with Windsor and three with Hamilton, we&rsquo;d venture to s<b>ay</b> that Riggin has had the equivalent of seven years in junior hockey if the number of shots on his net were taken into consideration. Riggin will move into pro ranks next year and his place as the junior loop&rsquo;s top netminder <b>is</b> wide open.</p><p>Teepees&rsquo; slump not only enabled the Kitchener-Waterloo Canucks to move within Striking distance but put their two scoring aces, Stan Baluik and Walt Bradley, out in front of the St. Catharines pair of Ab. McDonald and Art Stratton in the race for individual honours. Baluik who finished sixth last year but led the league in assists with 51 was pacing the pack with 90 points at the 43 game mark. With five games still remaining he&rsquo;d scored eight more goals than the 20 he tallied last year and garnered a league leading total of 62 assists for 90 points.</p><h2><b>Goal-Scoring Lead</b></h2><p>Linemate Walt Bradley who erupted for five goals against the Tiger-Cubs took over the lead in the lamp lighting department with 47 to McDonald&rsquo;s 46. McDonald, incidentally, racked up a hat trick at the expense of the Hamilton entry the night after Bradley&rsquo;s prolific performance. One of the big factors in the Upsurge by Bradley and Baluik has been the return to form of Willie O&rsquo;Ree. This potent trio appeared to be on their way to a new line record until a serious eye injury benched O&rsquo;Ree. Willie&rsquo;s been finding the range again, however, over the past month and the BOB line will be the main cog in the Canuck&rsquo;s machine in the playoffs.</p><p>The goal-happy Guelph Biltmores staved off a Marlboro threat for their third place berth by defeating the Dukes, 4-1, in Toronto. The Hatters, who have the best balanced scoring machine in the loop, added two more members to the 20 goal club over the past week. Danny Belisle came up with a hat trick in the Bilts&rsquo; 7-6 overtime win over Kitchener and added two more against Hamilton to bring his total to 23. Free wheeling Eddie Shack picked up a single goal against the Cubs to hit an even 20. Ron Howell, who appears destined to lead the league&rsquo;s defencemen in scoring for the third successive year, needed only one goal with four games remaining to join the club while centreman Alf Cleary needed two. If Howell and Cleary make it the Biltmores would have no, fewer than nine players over the 20 goal mark. Howell has picked up 54 points in only 32 games which is much better than par for the course for a defenceman.</p><h2><b>Booked For Blues</b></h2><p>This could be Howell&rsquo;s last year as a defenceman, however. With his speed and scoring ability loog for him to be given a whirl at right wing with the New York Rangers next year.</p><p>If the Barrie Flyers could play all their games at home the rest of the clubs could pack up right now. If memory serves us right the Flyers lost only two games at home the last time they won the Memorial Cup back in 1953. They didn&rsquo;t fare that well in the early part of this season but since the New Year&rsquo;s turn Hap Emms&rsquo; scrappy club has racked up nine straight decisions at home. Along with winning their share on the road, including a 2-1 verdict over St. Mikes in Toronto that put them within a point of fourth place, the Flyers have been a rough club over the latter half of the schedule.</p><p>Winning games in Barrie is getting to be just as tough a proposition as it ever was. The Flyers made it nine in a row at home by whipping the K-W Canucks 6-3 with Billy Forhan setting the pace with a hat trick. The three goal effort brought Forhan&rsquo;s goal output to the 21 mark; hot bad for a youngster who didn&rsquo;t come up from Junior &lsquo;C&rsquo; ranks until after Christmas of the current season. You can figure him to be one of the league&rsquo;s top scorers next year.</p><h2><b>Lack Scoring Punch</b></h2><p>Toronto Marlboros continue to top the league defensively but are still looking for scoring punch. They did come up with six goals against St. Catharines in Teepeetown to move into fourth place and the rest of the clubs in the league would be quite happy if they&rsquo;d stay there. Guelph, Barrie, St. Mikes and Kitchener like to think that a seven game semi-final between St. Kitts and Marlboros would soften up the ultimate victor for the finals. This remains to be seen but there&rsquo;s no question that a Marlie-Teepee series would be a rugged one, certainly if last year&rsquo;s final between these same clubs is any criterion. With Kitchener gunning for first and the Dukes for third place a Teepees-Canucks semi-final is only one of several possibilities. Certainly no one will be accused of jockeying for positions. The race is too close to even give it a passing thought.</p><p>St. Michael&rsquo;s College Majors who&rsquo;ve been slipping slowly since losing Frank Mahovlitch finally dropped down to sixth place but were still only three points but of fourth place with five games remaining.</p><p>The return to action of goalkeeper Bob Savage and defenceman Bob Watt will help their cause over the balance of the season. Their playoff hopes will depend to a large extent on how well Mahovlitch&rsquo;s injured knee has responded to treatment. If the &ldquo;big guy&rdquo; is right, the line of Howarth, Hannigan and Mahovlitch will be a big threat in the post-season session.</p><h2><b>Could Open Plantation</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Photo-Finish Is Forecast For OHA Junior ‘A’ League

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>In a &ldquo;get tough&rdquo; move, Eastern League president Tom Lockhart has ordered all misconduct penalties to carry suspensions. Referees are to report all such infractions immediately and the offender will draw an automatic suspension of one game for a first offense, second offenses will mean two games out of uniform and the third time is out (period).</p><p>Orville &ldquo;Crash&rdquo; Kelly has already been suspended for the balance of the campaign and unless the officials are treated with more respect a few others may find themselves in the same boat.</p><p>Joe Nolan, who has calmed down considerably in the past month, would have been out of the league last November if the rule had been in affect then. The Clinton defenseman has been tagged with seven misconduct penalties, high for the league. John Brophy of Baltimore is another who would also be out of a job while several other players would be on the brink, having been given 10-min-ute sentences on two occasions.</p><h2><b>Comets Move Up</b></h2><p>The Washington Lions&rsquo; hold on second place is in jeopardy as the Clinton Comets have moved to within two points of the runnerup slot. With four games in hand on the Lions, Jack Timmins&rsquo; crew looks like a good bet to overtake the boys from the District of Columbia.</p><p>Johnstown, with a 5 point edge over Baltimore (and 14 over Philadelphia) seem to have the fourth and final play-off berth pretty well clinched. The Jets have played three less games, than the Clippers and shouldn&rsquo;t have too much trouble from here on in.</p><p>New Haven of course Is way out in front, twelve points ahead of Washington.</p><p><b>NEW HAVEN: Ron Foster pick up his second hat trick with a trio against Washington on Feb. 9th&hellip;. Claude Boileau added three assists to his league leading total in the same tils&hellip;Coach Don Perry scored a pair against Philadelphia, Feb. 7th, giving him a total of 12 on the year. He leads the league&rsquo;s defensemen in the goal Scoring department&hellip;John Sherban&rsquo;s five goals this past week give him the team leadership with a total of 39, two more than Yvan Chasle.</b></p><p>PHILADELPHIA: Art Dorrington earned the award as outstanding Rambler in his last game before entering the army. The Negro star scored Philadelphia&rsquo;s only two goals in the 5-2 loss to NewHaven, Feb. 7th. Dorrington ended his years work, with 34 goals and 27 assists&hellip;Coach Chirp Brenchley played briefly for the Ramblers, Feb. 10th, It was his first game of the year but rounded out the number of player-coaches in the EHL to six&hellip;Ray Crew, the new defenseman, is the idol of the crowds. They like the way the throws his weight (and fists) around&hellip;Paul Michelin, a 5&rsquo;6&rdquo; forward from Three Rivers of the Quebec League, made his Philly debut Feb. 7th.</p><p><b>WASHINGTON: Joe Formica continues to be the Lions hottest scorer. He accounted for their only goal in the 7-1 defeat at New Haven, Feb. 9th&hellip;The Lions held a brief 1-0 lead against Clinton (Feb. 7th), but the Comets got 9 past. Jack Spencer and held Stan Warecki&rsquo;s sextet scoreless for the final 59 minutes and 28 seconds&hellip;The Lions have been able to score only once in each of their last three games&hellip;Fem LaPointe and Warecki are 1-2 among Washington scorers, but Formica is moving up rapidly&hellip;Dave Lucas and Joe Medynski are the clubs badmen.</b></p><p>BALTIMORE: Capt. AI &ldquo;Bibber&rdquo; O&rsquo;Hearn got a hat trick and two assists against New Haven, Feb. 5th&hellip;Willard. Maas had a goal and three assists as the Clippers won 7-5&hellip;Terry Chatting ton was signed by the club following his release by Indianapolis of the IHL&hellip;He is the 5th former Chief to join EHL cvlubs since the start of the season&hellip;The Clippers played &ldquo;home&rdquo; game against Clinton on the latters ice Feb.&hellip;Baltimore players have accounted for only two hat tricks this season, lowest total in the circuit&hellip;</p><p><b>CLINTON: Jerry Stringle&rsquo;s second hat trick and two goals each, by George Steele and Willie Pawchuk gave the Comets a 9-1 win over Washington, Feb. 7th&hellip;In their next game (Feb. 10th), Comet marksmen tallied 10 times for a 10-5 triumph over the &ldquo;orphaned&rdquo; Baltimore crew&hellip;Stringle&rsquo;s &ldquo;trick&rdquo; came in his first full game after being sidelined with a leg injury&hellip;Pawchuk and Steele are both over the 30 goal mark and Stringle has 29 to date.</b></p><p>JOHNSTOWN: Skip MacKay made his Jet debut Feb. 10th against the Ramblers&hellip;George Harrison also returned to the lineup after a six game absence&hellip;The Jets lead the loop in hat tricks with 15. (Hall and Roberge each have 5; McDonald and Ruml 2 and Olafson1)&hellip;Jimmy Mattson was struck in the head by a flying puck and had to be replaced by Bill Anderson on Feb. 10th. He had 22 stitches taken and remained in the hospital over night&hellip; Alex Zubatiuk and Bill Gallagher are the team&rsquo;s active badmen (now that Crash Kelly is finished for the season) with 56 and 52 minutes respectively&hellip;Don Hall and Dick Roberge are tied for the scoring leadership of the league with 77 points each&hellip;Roberge&rsquo;s 47 goals are by far the high&hellip;Bill Gallagher now has 45 points in his bid for a new scoring mark for defensemen. He needs 16 points in the remaining 18 games to tie the old record.</p><h2><b>Saw Action</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02206/1525416-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="583" height="869"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;CHIRP&rdquo; BRENCHLEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Misconduct Penalties In Eastern Loop Carry Automatic Suspensions

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Roger Bessette, the Quebec goaltender who has done a lot of travelling in his time and has now more or less settled in the Maritimes, is in the local spotlight.</p><p>Two years ago he played with Charlottetown Islanders in the old Big Four, the last, of the major hockey loops. Last season he was with Pictou Royals in the APC League.</p><p>This year he started with Bridgewater Hawks of the Nova Scotia Senior Hockey League, a combination of the South Shore. Valley and APC circuits.</p><p>After a month or so the Hawks folded, so Bessette accepted terms to play with the Bedard-Girard team of Halifax playing out of Lunenburg in the South Shore Intermediate League.</p><p>The B-G team got into a rumpus with league leaders over the ordered suspension of playing coach Ken McOnie. They were told they&rsquo;d either have to play without McOnie or quit the league. They chose to leave.</p><p>That left Bessette at loose ends again but shortly a call came from Kentville Wildcats of the Nova Scotia League. Roger packed his equipment and moved to the Annapolis Valley town.</p><h2><b>Wanted Him Back</b></h2><p>That seemed to be all until the B-G team decided to enter the provincial playoffs as an independent intermediate team. They wanted their goalie back. Kentville said no, Bessette was the only goalie they had and they intended to keep him.</p><p>The B-G team appealed to the Maritime Amateur Hockey Association at its semi-annual meeting. The hockey moguls deplored the antics of players signing two or more playing cards, ordered the veteran to report back to B-G.</p><p>Well, that seemed to be it. But Kentville refused to part with the veteran. They reasoned since the B-G team had withdrawn from the South Shore League the players were free agents.</p><p>It&rsquo;s a technical point and if you know the history of hockey in the Maritimes you have and idea how much commotion this item can kick up before a definite decision Is made.</p><p>On the Armed Forces Senior Hockey League front the Stadacona Sailors ousted Maritime Air Command Headquarters in five games and the Greenwood Bombers needed six to eliminate the Shearwater Flyers.</p><h2><b>Ready for Finals</b></h2><p>Now Bombers, who have their own artificial ice plant at, their air force base in the Annapolis Valley, and Stadacona Sailors, based in Halifax, are ready for the best-of-seven fins</p><p>Over the regular season the Sailors finished first, mainly because of their early-season play. Greenwood wound up in second position and appear to be going better than ever in the playoffs. This is regarded as a toss-up series among the local experts and for the first time this season interest is at. a high level.</p><p>In the Atlantic Coast League, leading amateur circuit in the Maritimes, it looks as if the teams will finish in the positions they occupied most of the season.</p><p>With the end of the schedule in sight the Saint John Beavers have first place wrapped up. Antherst Ramblers are sure of finishing second. Fredericton Capitals appear to have beaten off the challenge of Moncton Hawks for third place. All four teams get into the playoffs.</p><h2><b>Best on Defense</b></h2><p>The Beavers, who took over the leadership from Amherst before Christmas and have held it ever since, have the best defensive record but are third in goal-getting, behind both Amherst and Fredericton.</p><p>Fredericton has the poorest defensive record and Moncton the least number of goals scored.</p><p>In the individual department it&rsquo;s Amherst veteran Shermie White for the scoring champion-ship and a new league record. His veteran linemate Jackie Schmidt is likely to be the runner-up in the final statistics and the third man on the line, young Pierre Brillant is the league&rsquo;s top marksman.</p><h2><b>Traveller</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01250/1525447-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="572" height="881"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROGER BESSETTE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Goaler Roger Besette Centre Of Controversy Among Maritime Teams

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Calling, all doctors. Report to Grand Rapids immediately.</p><p>That, of course, is going a little far, but not too far, at that, the way the injury jinx has hit the hard luck Rockets of the International Hockey League.</p><p>Take the case of the mid-week series between the powerful Cincinnati Mohawks, who are headed for a fourth straight IHL crown, and the undermanned Michigan club.</p><p>The Rockets had just 10 men in uniform for both contests, four under the 14-man limit imposed by the league. Cincinnati won both games, 3-2 in overtime and 8-1.</p><p>Coach Moose Lallo was hospitalized with a severe case of arthritis, with Goalie Lou Crowdis and Centre George Hayes directing the team in his absence. Then, Hayes was called to Toronto because of the death of his mother.</p><h2><b>Under Suspension</b></h2><p>To make matters worse, Rick Hogg, a high-scoring winger, was under suspension when he failed to show up to play days after suffering a 10-stitch cut on his mouth.</p><p>&ldquo;This is nothing new,&rdquo; Crowdis said. &ldquo;It seems as though we&rsquo;ve been shorthanded almost every time we&rsquo;ve played, for one reason or another.</p><p>Crowdis wasn&rsquo;t complaining. He was just stating facts.</p><p>&ldquo;Listen to this,&rdquo; the rotund goaltender related. &ldquo;You know about Joe Ingoldsby and Jim Wil-son, who&rsquo;ve both had concussions; Phil Golden, with a rib injury and virus pneumonia; Roger Maisonneuve, severely-bruised ankle; Roland Spong, bruised chest bone?</p><p>&ldquo;Then, there&rsquo;ve been countless cuts and bruises that have slowed various players down at various times, even though they still have been in action.</p><h2><b>&ldquo;Playing Fine Hockey&rdquo;</b></h2><p>Crowdis surveyed the nine other pucksters grouped about the dressing room. &ldquo;What can you do?&rdquo; he observed. &ldquo;These guys have been playing fine hockey for two or more periods, but they just run out of gas late in the games.</p><p>&ldquo;At one time, we were just four points behind second-place Troy, with a 20-16 record. Now, look at us,&rdquo; the acting coach affirmed. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve dropped 10 out of 11 and are 21-26&mdash;21 points behind Troy and tied with Toledo-Marion for fourth.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Charity Game</b></h2><p>Crowdis, who still hasn&rsquo;t lost his sense of humor in the face of adversity, grinned as he pointed out that the only time we&rsquo;ve had 14 men all year was in an exhibition with Detroit of the National League back on Jan. 24. We had them down, 6-5, too, before they salvaged a 6-6 tie. It was a charity game for the March of Dimes.&rdquo;</p><p>A few able-bodied skaters will help the Rockets in their battle for fourth place, the final playoff spot. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve still got four more games with Toledo-Marion, and those should tell the story of which team will be in the playoffs,&rdquo; Crowdis admitted.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be in there fighting,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;and maybe our luck will take a turn for the good. It couldn&rsquo;t get any worse, could it?&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Discuss Playoffs</b></h2><p>Final plans for the postseason playoffs were discussed at the monthly meeting of the International Hockey League&rsquo;s Board of Governors in Toledo.</p><p>The first-place club will face the third-placer and the runner-up will meet the No. 4 team in best-of-five series, with the two semi-final victors clashing in the best-of-seven set for the tilt.</p><p>Permission was granted to Grand Rapids to sign up another player, in view of the many in-juries sustained by members of that team. Eddie Earbour was the man sought by the Rockets, it was said.</p><h2><b>Share Fourth Place</b></h2><p>As THE HOCKEY NEWS went to press, Grand Rapids and Toledo-Marion shared the fourth spot in the standings with 43 points apiece.</p><p>Indianapolis, destined to finish in the IHL&rsquo;s cellar, was shut out twice during the weekend, by Ft. Wayne&rsquo;s Gerry Fleury, 9-0, and Toledo-Marion&rsquo;s Al Bennett, 1-0. The scheduled Grand Rapids at Toledo tilt was postponed because of a snow storm.</p><p>Cincinnati took three in a row during the week to increase its league lead to six full games, defeating Troy, 4-1, before a Testimonial Night crowd of 6,570 at Cincinnati Garden.</p><h2><b>Sub-Goaler</b></h2><p>Guy LeClerc, former Troy goalie who retired two years ago, did a great job subbing in the nets for the injured Jacques Marcotte, regular Mohawk netminder. LeClerc yielded only four goals in his first four appearances.</p><p>Two Troy stars, Reg Belliveau and Marty McAlendin, turned in hat tricks to pace the Bruins to a 9-5 conquest of Ft. Wayne.</p><p>As time runs out on the regular season, Cincinnati, Troy and Ft. Wayne appear to have strangleholds on first, second and third, respectively, with Grand Rapids and Toledo-Marion battlini it out for fourth.</p><h2><b>Ailing</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02172/1525478-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="590" height="966"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACQUES MARCOTTE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Injury Jinx Hits IHL Rockets; Able To Dress Only 10 Players

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01228/1525509-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(Solution next week)</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1. Boston player shown in centre.</p><p>6. This NHL team racked up the most ties during the 1954-55 season (abbr.)</p><p>8. Jean Beliveau was born in this month.</p><p>10. Western Union (abbr.)</p><p>11. Most penalized player on the Ranger team during 1954-55 season.</p><p>13. Number of major penalties the New York team collected last season.</p><p>15. Initials of Anderson of Victoria Cougars.</p><p>16. Before.</p><p>17. Initials of Masnick, ex Canadien centre.</p><p>18. Two Leaf forwards have this name.</p><p>20. Huff of the Hornets answers to this.</p><p>22. Marc Reaume&rsquo;s native province (abbr.)</p><p>23. Denotes number worn by Armstrong of Boston.</p><p>24. volt (abbr.)</p><p>25. A Montreal defenseman.</p><p>28. Denotes scoreless tie.</p><p>29. Nickname of Clint Smith, ex Rangers star.</p><p>31. Initials of Bailey of Pittsburgh.</p><p>32. Iron (Sym.)</p><p>33. This NHL team won the most road games last season.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1. Lionel Heinrich&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>2. Birthplace of 25 across.</p><p>3. Dave Creighton broke this early in the season.</p><p>4. Andy Bathgate shoots this way (abbr.)</p><p>5. Ont. birthplace of Jack McIntyre.</p><p>7. Possess.</p><p>9. This was installed in Maple Leaf Gardens in 1952.</p><p>12. Marc Reaume&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>14. Birthplace of Gerry Melnyk of Edmonton Flyers.</p><p>17. One of the Canadiens.</p><p>19. New Testament (abbr.)</p><p>21. The day before an event.</p><p>25. Players often have one during a game.</p><p>26. Gariepy of the Hornets is called this.</p><p>27. Short for given name of 25 across.</p><p>30. Initials of Buffalo&rsquo;s coach.</p><p>31. Musical note.</p><p><b>(Lost week&rsquo;s solution)</b></p><h2><b>Across</b></h2><p>1. Lumley</p><p>5. T.R.</p><p>7. Oa.</p><p>8. Egan</p><p>10. Sinclair</p><p>12. Ted</p><p>14. Apr.</p><p>16. Lou</p><p>17. Lee</p><p>18. Era</p><p>19. R.L.</p><p>20. Be</p><p>21. M.E.</p><p>22. May</p><p>23. O.A.</p><p>24. Break</p><p>26. Huber</p><p>27. Ce.</p><p>28. N.L.</p><p>29. Vern</p><p>31. Stanley</p><h2><b>Down</b></h2><p>1. Lassale</p><p>2. Montreal</p><p>3. Lace</p><p>4. Yea</p><p>5. Tar</p><p>6. R.N.</p><p>9. Gilles</p><p>11. L.D.</p><p>13. Buffey</p><p>15. Perreault</p><p>20. Baker</p><p>21. Mohns</p><p>22. Macey</p><p>24. Bern.</p><p>25. R.R.</p><p>29. Ve.</p><p>30. N.M.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE (Standing on Feb. 13)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02183/1525645-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="596" height="184"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03140/1525638-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="608" height="366"></div><h2><b>FASTERN AMATEUR (Standing on Feb. 11)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04120/1525631-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="604" height="185"></div><h3><b>NOHA SENIOR (Standing on Feb. 8)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05102/1525624-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="597" height="159"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0685/1525617-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="594" height="291"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0780/1525610-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="600" height="209"></div><h2><b>EASTERN ONTARIO SR. (Standing on Feb. 14)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0875/1525603-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="601" height="159"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0965/1525596-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="601" height="298"></div><h2><b>SENIOR INTERCOLLEGIATE (Standing on Feb. 20)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1055/1525589-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="598" height="135"></div><h3><b>ONTARIO SENIOR A (Standing on Feb. 20)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1148/1525582-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="599" height="158"></div><h3><b>ONTARIO JUNIOR A (Standing on Feb. 17)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1243/1525575-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="599" height="227"></div><h2><b>SAGLENAY-QUEBEC JUNIOR (Standing on Feb. 17)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1337/1525568-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="600" height="213"></div><h2><b>MONTREAL METRO JR. WESTERN SECTION (Standing on Feb. 17)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1437/1525561-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="598" height="163"></div><h3><b>EASTERN SECTION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1534/1525554-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="600" height="161"></div><h2><b>LAURIER TROPHY SERIES (JUNIOR) (Standing on Feb. 17)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1631/1525547-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="599" height="212"></div><h3><b>WESTERN JUNIOR (Standing on Feb. 13)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1730/1525540-1-eng-US/f0019-172.jpg" title="f0019-17" width="597" height="184"></div><div class="sidebar"><p><b>BOLS ANSWER</b></p><p><b>Philadelphia, compiled 12 points in 1930-31.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Amateur Puck Parade At A Glance

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0281/1525690-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="241" height="288"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0182/1525697-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="232" height="275"></div><h2><b>Slinker Pots Puck</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0379/1525683-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2824" height="1452"></div><h2><b>Gump Stumps Stewart</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0466/1525676-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2803" height="1616"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUMP WORSLEY</b> of the New York Rangers, a leading candidate for the Hart Trophy as the Most Valuable Player to his team in the NHL, had a busy evening recently against the Toronto Maple Leafs. In the photo at top, he slides in a vain attempt to stop a shot off the stick of Tod Sloan [&ldquo;A&rdquo; on sweater) as Dick Duff of the Leafs (17) and Harry Howell look on. In the action below, the Gumper makes a face as he turns aside a drive by Ron Stewart, who doesn&rsquo;t seem too happy about the whole affair.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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February 25, 1956

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