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September 19, 1956
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SPORTS DIGEST
Sports Editor (Toronto Globe & Mall) THE Big ‘uns are hitting on Caroboo Lake, near Armstrong. Lake trout, ranging from 12 to 20 pounds made the district a fisherman’s paradise two or three weeks earlier than usual but camp operator Howie Meeker has stowed his tackle and picked his duties as coach of the hockey Leafs. Now Coach Meeker was at his desk in the Gardens studying lists of players preparatory to the opening of the Toronto camp at Sudbury, Sept. 18. This is a new, confident Howie Meeker. Tangible evidence of a confidence he didn’t have in his playing days is to be found in the news that this summer he purchased—not rented—a home here in Toronto for his wife and four children. “I never had the nerve or the confidence to buy…
Grant (Nobby) Warwick Chosen Playing-Coach Of NOHA Wolves
SUDBURY, Ont.— Fate plays funny tricks. Grant Warwick, swashbuckling, fun-loving playing-coach of Penticton Vees when they won the Allan Cup against Sudbury Wolves, is now the coach of the same Wolves. He replaces Johnny “Peanuts” O’Flaherty who was fired by the Surbury brass. Warwick arrived in Sudbury in early September and vowed he would build an Allan Cup team for the fabulously-rich Nickel City of Sudbury. The coaching job here has Jong been rated the “richest plum” of any amateur (?) coaching job. (Somewhere around $7,500.) Warwick gained prominence and glory when he led his Penticton Vees to the World Hockey Championship over Russia. He built a prosperous restaurant business in the British Columbia community where he was idolized by hockey fans for winning the Allan Cup and World Hockey Title. He…
Speaking on Sport
Two Lakes With Two Skates There are two lakes in British Columbia called Okanagan and Skaha. They are renowned for their beauty, their fishing, their bathing — and the fact that one holds Bill Warwick’s left skate, while the other contains the right one. Posterity won’t know which lake holds which boot. Warwick isn’t sure himself. But he wishes he could get the skates back. They’re the ones he wore that Sunday at Krefeld, Germany, in ‘55 when the Pentiction Vees clobbered the Russians. Bill heaved them away himself, as so-called insurance of his vow to give up hockey. After a big win, some person always gets the yen to retire This time, it was the Warwick who wears the helmet. In a moment of hilarity, a friend rowed him out…
Sawchuk Only Certain Starter With Bruins
BOSTON, Mass.— The Boston Bruins’ first home pre-season training program in history is progressing on a keynote sounded by Coach Milt Schmidtin the first minute of the first day’s practice. To his assembled squad of 34 players Schmidt said, “We’ve brought you here because we think you’re all potential major leaguers. Every player here has a chance of making the Bruins because every job on the team is open.” Following the opening practice, watched by a goodly number of spectators under the Bruins’ public-is welcome policy, Schmidt amended his opening statement, but only slightly. “I guess I must admit without being pressed that Terry Sawchuk is our goaltender,” chuckled Schmidt, starting his second full season as coach, “but what I said goes for everyone else. “We finished fifth a year ago, and while I think…
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