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July 1, 1956
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Veteran Don (Bones) Raleigh Retires At Tender Age Of 30
WINNIPEG, Man.— The age of thirty is the prime of life, we are told, but Donald James Raleigh, better known as Bones to the hockey trade, who left his 20’s behind on June 27. has decided he has had enough of the bangs and battering of professional hockey. Don never had the physique for it in the first place but for ten seasons, he missed a couple of years at the close of the war when he did some army service, he got by on a super-abundance of guile, courage and deception. The slender Raleigh hopes to stay in hockey as a coach. New York Rangers had mentioned the likelihood of a job with one of their farm clubs but he had his heart set on a college hockey post in order…
Four Teams Definite Starters In OHA Senior Loop for ‘56-57
The Ontario senior “A” hockey situation, both in the OHA and NOHA, is still up in the air at time of writing, although the picture has cleared up considerably in the last two weeks. The question marks are Pembroke Lumber Kings of the former organization and Stratford Indians of the latter. Coupled with these two uncertainties is the future of the OHA senior “B” group, which recehtly voted 3-2 to apply to the OHA for advancement to “A” classification: At the last council meeting of the senior “A” OHA group. Kitchener Dutchmen, Windsor Bulldogs and Owen Sound Mercurys filed entries, while C. H. “Dutch” Meier, holder of the Stratford Indians’ franchise, requested and was granted suspension of his club for one year, in accordance with regulations, and Chatham Maroons, through their…
Maple Leafs Land Dalton By Offering Scholarship To St. Michael’s College
TORONTO, Ont— It was happening too often to be a misprint. Frank Dalton of Grand Bend scored 17 goals. He scored 6, 10, 12 and other astounding sums. Even if there was no goaltender in the opposition net, here was a phenomenon that Maple Leaf chief hockey scout Bob Davidson had to see. And once lie saw, he had to bring into the Toronto fold. That’s why June 27, 1956, five or six years from now, may turn out to be a memorable date in the history of the Leafs. For it was just recently that Davidson ended four months of negotiating and brought 14-year-old Dalton into the Leaf farm system by awarding him a hockey scholarship to St. Michael’s College. “Nobody can tell so early how a boy will turn out, but this boy…
Fine Defensive Teacher
HE WAS A good tactician on his own and had he not been so carefree and gregarious would have made a fine coach. He smoothed out Eddie Shore when the latter came from the west, and he helped to make him into one of the* real greats of hockey. He and Lionel Hitchman had figured in an explosive outburst back in 1923 when he knocked Hitch out. but when they became team mates he taught him so much about defensive hockey that Hitch zoomed to stardom. Sprague’s sense of humor often got him into hot water, but he was a buoyant type and always bounded back into the limelight. He became Maroons coach in 1932 and they almost won a National League Hockey title. Lionel Conacher always claimed he was a great…
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