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April 13, 1957

The Hockey News April 13, 1957

When it comes to picking the &ldquo;Player-Of-The-Week&rdquo; THE HOCKEY NEWS finds itself in the happy position of saluting the most electrifying performer the game has ever known&mdash;(Rocket) Richard.The fabulous Rocket personally took charge of the fifth playoff game against the New York Rangers by scoring his seventh playoff overtime goal at 2:11 to eliminate Phil Watson&rsquo;s gang from further contention.That set the stage for the opening of the Stanley Cup finals against the Boston Bruins and the Rocket, a 35-year-old veteran including 15 years of National Hockey League play, came up with one of the greatest performances of his brilliant career.He scored four goals as Canadiens turned back the Bruins, 5-1. After the game, veteran observers of the game agreed that the Rocket never looked better. Even Milt Schmidt, the rival coach shook his head in wonderment. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve played against him but I&rsquo;ve never seen him better than he was tonight,&rdquo; said Schmidt after the game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04119/1360292-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="271" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rocket Richard</figcaption></div>Those four goals brought the Rocket&rsquo;s playoff total to an even 70&mdash;more than any player and he&rsquo;s now within sight of shattering another record he holds. That of 12 goals in a playoff series. He shares that mark with team-mate Jean Beliveau. With at least three more games to go, Rocket is tied with Bernie Geoffrion with eight goals in the first six games. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">&#x2014;Photos By Donati</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01202/1360140-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="924" height="1141"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOOM-BOOM JUST MISSED</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02179/1360133-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="940" height="1149"><figcaption class="caption-body">RANGERS A MAN SHORT</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03139/1360126-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="943" height="1155"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERNIE GRAZED THE POST</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04112/1360119-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="1102" height="1266"><figcaption class="caption-body">Senator Raymond Congratulates Rocket</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0577/1360112-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="1681" height="1257"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Watson And Toe Blake</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0646/1360105-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="1696" height="1179"><figcaption class="caption-body">Geoffrion and Harvey and Hero</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0725/1360098-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="1105" height="1185"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rocket Relaxes After-4-Goal Display</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Anxious Moments for the Boomer’s Better Half

Pete Durham is 29. That puts him at or neat&rsquo; his peak.Physical development ends much sooner but hockey heads know better. Twenty-nine is a good age for that mysterious balance of desire, experience and sinewy toughness of bone and fibre.So is 3 0.When the New Westminster defenseman plunged into the boards at Victoria during the second game of the Western Hockey League semi-final, the first reaction was one of concern for Durham. He lay in a bunch. He wasn&rsquo;t moving.With Durham shackled to a Victoria hospital bed, subject to traction treatments to force a dislocated vertebrae back into its socket, the next concern was for the New Westminster Royals.Royals survived the Coast Division semi-final but nobody, from mauager-coach Hal Laycoe to the last customer in the standing-room-only row, bothered kidding himself.You don&rsquo;t lose Pete Durham without hurting. You don&rsquo;t kiss off the guy who, a game earlier, had been acclaimed Royals&rsquo; Most Valuable Player.What you do is hope Durham will be back&mdash;next year. That&rsquo;s how serious this one is.Lloyd Robert Durham, the awesomely reckless citizen of Port-Arthur (Ont.) who had never sustained a serious injury before, is catching up.Durham has been many things to many people. In Victoria, for example, he was enthusiastically hated. The same applies to Vancouver, Seattle and&mdash;you name it. If he played there, it applies.He was a relentless competitor. At times he could be cruel. Durham viewed his personal safety with what amounted to contempt. and saw no reason to draw the line at anyone else.Yet he&rsquo;s a sucker for people he likes. He never met anyone he couldn&rsquo;t like, if he got to know him. So if you played for the other team he preferred not to know you, Buster.Young players were his project. Royals&rsquo; Arlo Goodwin and Arnie Schmautz regarded Durham as a necessary evil when he played with Seattle last year. This year they had a champion. Nobody got funny with Arlo or Arnie. Not with Durham around.That hospital bed is &lsquo;home&rsquo; for another month. That&rsquo;s a long time for a guy like Pete. He hurts in a lot of places.But he is Pete Durham, and he is only 29.That hospital bed has a hell of a fight on its hands. &#9632;

AI Hooper

<div class="byline">By DAWSON WINCHESTER</div>FREDERICTON, N. B&mdash;Ask the Fredericton Caps and they&rsquo;ll tell you that the toughest way to win a best-three-out-of-five game series is to drop the first two contests.They know, because they just finished wrapping up the N.B.&mdash;P.E.I. senior semi-final playoffs against Charlottetown&rsquo;s Parkdale Flyers with three back-to-back wins after losing two to the Island crew.In the friendly confines of their home rink the Parkdale outfit grabbed a tight stranglehold on the series with 6-2 and 8-1 victories. Then the Caps bounced back with 8-2 and 6-4 wins in Fredericton&rsquo;s York Arena to knot the affair.The Caps, by this time, were &ldquo;up&rdquo; for the final game of the set and clicked on all cylinders as they routed Parkdale 8-2 in the deciding encounter which was played in the splendid new Lady Beaverbrook Rink in Fredericton. The moving of the final game was ordered by the MAHA and, fortunately, the city of Fredericton boasts two rinks so that the Caps didn&rsquo;t have to search far for a neutral ice surface.The three Carvers, Orin, Allie and Skip, paced the Flyers as they picked up two, two and one goals respectively in the opener of the series. Playing-coach Tim Bliss shot both of the two Caps markers.The second game followed the same pattern with Orin Carver scoring a &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo;, Allie picking up two and brother Skip gettingone for a total of six of their team&rsquo;s light goals.The final contest of the series was all Fredericton, but the Flyers, despite the loss of Allie Carver and the fact that they were playing with only ten men, pressed the game right to the bitter end. And picking up one of the two Parkdale scores was Orin Carver, the only player on either team who scored in every game and the series&rsquo; top scorer with nine goals.The Caps are now awaiting the winner of the North Shore League who will tangle with the Fredericton squad in the N.B.&mdash;P.E.I. finals and for the right to advance against the Nova Scotia champs.The winner of the Maritime crown this year will not cin-test the Allen Cup since year after year the teams moving along the Allen Cup trail have been losing more and more money. Last year&rsquo;s Ma-titime champs could not even have one game of their playoff series with Chatham Ma-rooms played on their home ice. The CAHA., in a move which roused the ire of hockey fans throughout these sea-side provinces, ordered all games played in Chatham. &#9632;

Caps Win NB Title Hard Way

<div class="byline">BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01128/1360906-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">CANADIENS JEAN BELIVEAU stands to one side of the Boston cage and searches for a loose puck as Don Simmons Smothers the disc. Dickie Moore and Cob Armstrong are also on the scene. ((Photo By Donati))</figcaption></div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYVOL. 10-No. 28 Entered as Second Class Matter Post Office, Rouses Point. N.Y. MONTREAL, APRIL 13. 1957 PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS<h2>Simmons Foils Beliveau</h2>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;A blocky blond refugee from the team which finished last in the American league this season is the Minute Man of the National league&rsquo;s Stanley Cup playoffs.He&rsquo;s Buddy Boone, who fired the Boston Bruins to the win which ended their semi-final series with the Detroit Red Wings.The Bruins needed a goal to ignite them in that game, for they were behind and showing no signs of advancing.Boone provided it&mdash;in a minute.It was the only minute he played in the game.It was the first time he had played in two games.It was his first line turn in three games.He scored with his only shot at Detroit&rsquo;s Glenn Hall.It was the only shot he had in the four games he played.The Bruins were behind, 1 to 0. when Coach Milt Schmidt sent the Springfield alumnus over the boards to play with Larry Regan and Fleming Mackell as the right wing relief for Jerry Toppazzini.Boone picked up his impromptu linemates in the Bruins&rsquo; end, moving into his lane as Mackell began working the puck in the other direction.Near the Detroit blue line Mackell passed to his right, to Boone, and the Minute Man burst toward Hall. At 2 5 feet he unloaded, his high shot blurring off Hall&rsquo;s glove and into the net.The score was tied. The Bruins were ignited.By the time Referee Frank Udvari was ready to face off the puck again Boone was back on the bench.In his minute he had shaken the Bruins-out of their lethargy. They went on to win the game and the series.In his minute he had killed Detroit&rsquo;s hopes of making a comeback. The Red Wings went on to their fourth loss and the start of their summer vacation.Detroit led again later but the Bruins are not beaten that easily. They were not being beaten after the Minute Man fired his shot heard round the hockey world. &#9632;

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Buddy Boone Bruins’ New ’Minute-Man’

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;The Bruins played the Detroit Red Wings in the semifinal round of the Stanley Cup playoffs and Detroit was favored to win.But the team winning four games of five was the Bruins.Now the Bruins are playing the Montreal Canadiens for the Stanley Cup and which team has been established as the favorite? Montreal!But the Bruins have moved, into their ninth Stanley Cup final in 33 years with the same degree of confidence with which, they routed Detroit.During the season they beat Detroit regularly, even though the Red Wings slid into the National league championship.By the end of their playoff series the Bruins and the champions had played 19 games. The Bruins won 11 and tied three. Detroit won only five.During the season the Bruins also beat Montreal regularly. In fact, their record against Montreal matched that of their Detroit series. They beat the Canadiens seven times and tied them three times. Montreal won only four games.The Bruins were season-long contenders for the championship with an array of assets of which balance, aggressiveness and determination were most conspicuous.They smothered Detroit with those weapons, overpowering the Red Wings&rsquo; one line with their three, pounding them with resounding checks, refusing to admit defeat in games in which they trailed.Cinderella team? Upstarts? Not the Bruins. They moved into the series with Montreal knowing their abilities.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re conceding nothing,&rdquo; declared Coach Milt Schmidt on the eve of the series. &ldquo;We have confidence in ourselves. Not overconfidence, we&rsquo;re not making any claims&rsquo; but we&rsquo;re not conceding anything, either.&ldquo;They made us underdogs against Detroit.&rsquo;&rsquo; added the fiery coach, &ldquo;and we won that one. We&rsquo;re underdogs against Montreal. too, but that&rsquo;s all right with us. We&rsquo;ll play every game as hard as we can play.&rsquo;&rsquo;The balance which Schmidt has stressed so often in analyzing his team was the obvious factor in the elimination of Detroit. The Red Wings&rsquo; overworked veterans, Cordon Howe, Ted Lindsay and Red Kelly, were hopelessl y outnumbered.Howe was the leading scorer in the series with, seven points and Lindsay had six, but the Bruins had eight players with three or more points. The Bruins didn&rsquo;t make any special attempt to defense Howe or Lindsay. Instead, the Red Wings had to use the two forwards regularly on defense against the Bruins&rsquo; Don McKenney, Real Chevrefils and Leo LaBine, even employing them to kill penalties.Detroit scored the first goal in three games, but the Bruins won two of the three. The Red Wings scored 14 goals against Don Simmons, the Bruins&rsquo; rookie goalie, but they made seven in one game. Simmons shut them out once and gave them only one goal in another game.The Bruins have been labeled starless, but how much longer can that designation be applied? The Bruins look more like a team with a balance of stars.Vic Stasiuk, Fleming Mackell and Chevrefils, their left wings, now own 26, 23 and 33 goals respectively for the winter&rsquo;s work. How many goal does a star left wing score?McKenney ran away from every center Detroit played against him. Afterward Patrick called him &ldquo;Our outstanding player for the entire series.&rdquo;LaBine rendered Lindsay inconspicuous, taking charge of the Bruins&rsquo; offense in the late stages of close games. Howe didn&rsquo;t dare let Chevrefils out of his sight. The Bruins&rsquo; defensemen scored more knockdowns than Marciano and Simmons was slick.Schmidt&rsquo;s only misgiving at the start of the Montreal series was that the Bruins might be emotionally stale, by contrast to the Detroit series.But he pointed to the Bruins&rsquo; wins on Detroit ice&mdash;they whipped the Red Wings at Detroit Olympia six times in their last eight visits&mdash;as an indication of their determination.Schmidt&rsquo;s attitude was reflected by other Bruins&rsquo; officials including President Walter Brown, whose wire to his team before the final Detroit game provided the basis for Milt&rsquo;s pre-game talk.Said Brown in the wire. &ldquo;Good luck to the gamest team I&rsquo;ve ever seen.&rdquo; The Bruins couldn&rsquo;t have proved his point more emphatically had he expressed it in person. &#9632;

Schmidt Confident Against Canadiens After Ko’ing Wings

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Records, they say, are made to be broken and no club subscribes more whole-heartedly to that ancient adage than the Montreal Canadiens.The Habs are playing in the post-season playoffs as though they intend to rewrite some chapters of the record book but whether they succeed or not will depend largely on two factors&mdash;the duration of the final against the Boston Bruins and their ability to keep scoring at the rate of four goals a game.Maurice Richard, a battle-scarred veteran of some of hockey&rsquo;s most grimly fought battles, and Bernie Geoffrion, whose shot seems to be boomed from a cannon, are in sight of a new playoff goals record. Both have fired eight in six games&mdash;five games against the New York Rangers and the first game of the Boston series.The record is 12 held jointly by the Rocket and Jean Beliveau. Rocket achieved an even dozen against the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Chicago Black Hawks in 1944 and Beliveau fired his 12 against the Rangers and the Detroit Red Wing a year ago.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01182/1359818-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="271" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rocket Richard</figcaption></div>Maurice Richard, who&rsquo;ll be 36 this summer, seems to have acquired a new lease on life in these playoffs. The old man was never better. When he fired an overtime winner to oust the Rangers, an old teammate, Murph Chamberlain remarked:&ldquo;What are the Canadiens going to do when that guy retires?&rdquo;And Bill Durnan observed to the hockey writers, &ldquo;Just dust off the old head lines. Richard is fantastic but, frankly, I don&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;ll be much good after 60.&rdquo;Then in the first game of the Boston series, Richard further confounded his critics and pleased his admirers by blasting four goals past rookie netminder Don Simmons, just one tally short of his own record of five in a Stanley Cup game. He set that one against the Leafs on March 23, 1944.&ldquo;Richard is the greatest player of all,&rdquo; said man-aging director Frank J. Selke with genuine admiration. &ldquo;There are many good hockey players in this league, but there is only one Richard. Gordie Howe of Detroit is a great player but in the big games, Richard is far superior.&rdquo;Actually Richard could easily have had five or six goals in that game. He missed two gilt-edged chances to score before he notched his fourth goal of the night with less than two minutes to play.Selke, who occupies a seat directly behind the south end net in the Forum, observed that the Rocket missed those two chances by inches. &ldquo;He was going too fast,&rdquo; Selke said, &ldquo;and both times he had just a narrow corner to shoot at. You have to have speed to get in behind the defence, but too much speed carries you too far and affords less opportunity to pick the open part of the net. Richard simply had too much speed but if he didn&rsquo;t have the speed he wouldn&rsquo;t have had the chances at all.&rdquo;The Richard Admiration Society embraces even his own mates. Said Jacques Plante: &ldquo;When Richard scored those five goals against the Leafs in 1944, I was at Shawinigan Falls. He was my hockey hero then and he still is. What a man! When one forward get four goals, there isn&rsquo;t too much work for his goaltender. Richard makes my chore that much easier.&rdquo;Both the Rocket and Geoffrion are in sight of another playoff record, too. That&rsquo;s most points in a playoff series held by Howe who garnered 20 in 1955 against the Leafs and the Habs. Geoffrion has 13 playoff points already and the Rocket has 11.Meanwhile Richard is pushing further and further ahead with two personal records of his own. He now has 70 goals in playoff competition and 107 points&mdash;two marks that are certain to stand for a long, long time.The Bruins held a comfortable edge over Montreal in the 1956-57 campaign, winning seven games, tying three and losing only four but, as Sleke pointed out, the Canadiens were at full strength for only three of those games. And those three went into the record books as Montreal victories.Canadiens have never lost a Stanley Cup final to the Bruins, beating them in five games in 1953&mdash;the year Elmer Lach scored the winning goal in overtime in the Forum&mdash;and in five games in 1946. Back in 1930 when the finals were a two out of three affair, the Habs disposed of the Beantowners in straight games.The clubs have clashed eight times in preliminary rounds, the Habs winning six of those series and the Bruins two.While Montreal is defending the Stanley Cup this spring, the Bruins haven&rsquo;t possessed hockey&rsquo;s most prized trophy since 1941. That year a club built by Art Ross roared home victoriously over the Red Wings in four straight games. That was the Boston team of Kraut Line, Milt Schmidt, Woody Dumart and Bobby Bauer, Frank Brimsek in the nets and such potent defenceman as Dit Clapper, Des Smith, Flash Hollett and Johnny Crawford. Cooney Weiland was the coach.Before the opening game of the current series, Coach Toe Blake of the Habs said: &ldquo;The Bruins are no pushovers. We&rsquo;ll have to play all out for 60 minutes in every game if we&rsquo;re going to beat them and win the Stanley Cup.&rdquo;His biggest problem will be to keep his Habs &ldquo;up&rdquo; for the rest of the series, to convince them that there can&rsquo;t be any letdowns, spawned by over-confidence, such as occured in the last game of the New York set when the Rangers were allowed to rally for three quick goals and erase a Montreal 3-0 lead.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02166/1359811-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="283" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bernie Geoffrion</figcaption></div>That&rsquo;s the game Richard saved in overtime.A search of records, conducted by The Canadian Press, showed that Canadiens have won nine playoff games in sudden death overtime and the man who scored the winner on five occasions was the inimitable Rocket.Here is the Rocket&rsquo;s wrecking record in suddendeath playoffs:April 4, 1957&mdash;Goal at 2.11 of the first overtime period against New York Rangers; at Montreal. Score, 4-3.March 27, 1951&mdash;Goal at 1.09 of the fourth overtime period against Detroit Red Wings; at Detroit. Score, 3-2.March 29, 1951&mdash;Goal at 2.20 of the third overtime period against Detroit Red Wings; at Detroit. Score, 1-0.April 14, 1951&mdash;Goal at 2.55 of the first overtime period against Toronto Maple Leafs; at Toronto. Score, 3-2.March 30, 1946&mdash;Goal at 9.08 of the first overtime period against Boston Bruins; at Montreal. Score, 4-3. &#9632;

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Rocket Still Wrecking Records

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04124/1359880-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">VIC STASIUK</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Back in the spring of 1955 Manager Lynn Patrick engineered the largest player transaction in Bruins&rsquo; history largely for the purpose of obtaining hockey&rsquo;s best goaltender.The transaction involved a total of nine players and it was with the Detroit Red Wings.The leading figure in the player swap was Goalie Terry Sawchuk, who moved from Detroit to Boston.The deal of two years ago was figuring prominently in Stanley Cup playoff developments last week as the Bruins and Detroit moved into the closing portion of their semi-final series.But the playtr providing a constant reminder was not Sawchuk, who retired abruptly from hockey in mid-January. He was a forward relatively little known when the deal took place, Vic Stasiuk.Since coming here Stasiuk has bten one of the National league&rsquo;s better forwards. He scored 19 goals a year ago despite a long absence with a serious leg ailment. This season the hulking left wing scored 24 goals and he carried his scoring touch into the playoffs.In one game won by the Bruins he scored their first goal and set up their winning goal.In another game he scored the goal which clinched a Bruins&rsquo; win.In a third game he supplied the big defensive hit, a body check of Gordon Howe which slowed the Detroit scoring star to a walk.Stasiuk has been referred to as a &ldquo;throw-in&rdquo;, but according to Patrick that&rsquo;s not an accurate description of his part in the Bruins-Detroit exchange.&ldquo;I wanted Vic when we get the deal up,&rdquo; declared the Bruins&rsquo; manager. &ldquo;In fact, I rejected other players offered mt by Detroit because I wanted him.<h2>Big Surprise</h2>&ldquo;He was a player who had never been given full opportunity to show his stuff, and I felt he would be a real asset to us if I could get him. We spent a lot of time compiling reports on him before reaching that conclusion.&ldquo;If anyone wants to take the trouble to look back at statements I made in announcing the deal,&rdquo; added Patrick, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure they&rsquo;ll show I predicted Stasiuk would do well here.&rdquo;After four games three players were tied for the Bruins&rsquo; scoring lead with two goals each. One was Defenseman Leo Boivin, the others Real Chevrefils and Stasiuk. Chevrefils is also a former Red Wing but his stay in Detroit was brief.Chevrefls went to Detroit when Stasiuk came here but the 31-goal scorer didn&rsquo;t fit into the Detroit plans. By midseason a year ago the Red Wings were ready to trade him back to tht Bruins.At the start of the playoff series a Detroit paper ran a story on Chevrefils, calling him a &ldquo;Mystery Man&rdquo; and wondering why he hadn&rsquo;t scored with Detroit as he has with the Bruins.&ldquo;After reading the story Chewy obsedved drily, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s pretty tough to score from the bench, and that&rsquo;s where I spent most of my time with Detroit.&rdquo;Stasiuk, a 187-pound husky who works continually on his physical condition, applied his great strength effectively for the goal which clinched the Bruins&rsquo; third win.He snapped a shot from well out at Glenn Hall, the Detroit goalie, who made the save. Then the big forward drove inside to pick up his own rebound and snap it into the net.&ldquo;That was a Howe or Richard goal,&rdquo; observed Johnny Peirson. &ldquo;He just muscled his way in because he couldn&rsquo;t be stopped.&rdquo;Of the three players coming here with Stasiuk, only he remains. Marcel Bonin is with the Quebec Aces, Lorne Davis with the Hershey Bears and Sawchuk working near Detroit. Patrick has never regretted the deal and Stasiuk is still giving it that healthy look. &#9632;

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Stasiuk Proves “Sleeper” Of Big Boston-Wings Deal

BOSTON, Mass&mdash;A dramatic Stanley Cup playoff game deserves a dramatic play for a turning point, and that&rsquo;s what the fourth game of the Bruins-Detroit series produced.The turning point of the game which the Bruins won by a score of 2 to 0 came at 7:27 of the second period, and taking part in the event were Don Simmons of the Bruins and Gordon Howe of Detroit.At the time of the vital play the Bruins were leading by a goal, supplied at six minutes of the first period by stocky Real Chevrefils. Detroit was driving for the equalizer.Out of a traffic jam at the Bruins&rsquo; blue line the puck popped free, onto Howe&rsquo;s stick. The big Detroit forward wheeled toward the Bruins&rsquo; goal with no Bruin in front of him but Simmons. The National league&rsquo;s scoring champion had a clean breakway.Back in mid-February a similar situation had developed in a Bruins-Detroit game in Detroit. Then Howe had walked in on Simmons and scored.Then Simmons had moved out to cut down Howe&rsquo;s shooting angle.Then Howe had swerved to his right to try to tuck the puck behind the slick goalie.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03152/1359849-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="262" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Simmons</figcaption></div>Then Simmons had moved quickly, but not quickly enough. Howe, with his powerful wrists, beat him by a whisker with his flicked shot.Simmons remembered bis first experience the second time, and the second time he won the race. Howe&rsquo;s bid for the tying goal was stopped by the second time he won the race. Howe&rsquo;s bid for the tying goal was stopped by the goalie&rsquo;s pad.Said Simmons: &ldquo;I played it the same way this time. Just the same.&ldquo;I knew he wasn&rsquo;t going to shoot as he came in.&ldquo;I moved out and made a play toward pole-checking him.&ldquo;He came in on my right side and I was right on balance.&ldquo;When he went to his backhand I saw it all the way and I got it on the pad.&rdquo;Simmons, no formulator of rash statements, considered the play further.&ldquo;That was one of those plays when you do or you don&rsquo;t,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This time I did.&rdquo;Detroit had other good scoring chances afterward, but the Bruins tabbed the Howe breakaway as the big one.&ldquo;It didn&rsquo;t have to mean the game,&rdquo; observed Johnny Peirson, &ldquo;but it could have. A goal then would have tied the score and given themalift.&rdquo;&ldquo;It was the big play,&rdquo; agreed Leo LaBine. &ldquo;It must have hurt the msome and I know darned well it helped us. Everyone played even harder after that.&rdquo;The Simmons shutout was his third against Detroit since becoming the Bruins&rsquo; goal-tender in late January. The other two times he shut out the Red Wings were in Detroit.During his 26-game regular-season stint the black-haired rookie from Springfield established himself as a relaxed, poised young man.As the Bruins-Detroit series advanced 2 5-year old Mr. No Nerves relegated completely to the ash barrel any speculation about how he would hold up in Stanley Cup competition.After four games the least to be said for him was that he was thriving on it. &#9632;

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Don Simmons’Stop Off Cordie Howe Rates Series Best

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Bill Chadwick, a little heavier than he was when he was a National Hockey League referee but still as clean cut and poised as ever, was in town to see the fourth playoff game between the Canadiens and the Rangers. Bill is now manager of the Pine Hollow Country Club at East Norwich, Long Island, once the property of the Duches of Marlborough and the only country club in which hot water drips from a golden faucet in the likeness of a fawn and the cold gushes from the 14 carat muzzle of a mermaid.Bill was among the guests at a dinner tendered by the Canadiens, with Ken Reardon as host, to the visiting New York brass and its coterie of writers. We seized the opportunity to ask him a few loaded questions between morsels of succulent steak and sips of &ldquo;Bordeaux rouge.&ldquo;Bill,&rdquo; we asked conversationally, &ldquo;you refereed more than l, 200 National Hockey League games and more than 100 playoff games. Who, in your opinion, was the most deserving winner of the Lady Byng Trophy?&rdquo;Chadwick donned his thinking cap and before he could adjust it, we amended the question. &ldquo;Rather,&rdquo; we said, &ldquo;what player gave you the least trouble.&rdquo;A smile explored his lips. I am glad you altered the question,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The player who caused me the least trouble never won the Lady Byng. His name is Milt Schmidt, a hardbitten competitor who&rsquo;d cut your heart out to get a goal. He skated hard, he played hard; he asked no quarter and he gave none. Sure he got penalties. Players like Schmidt always get &rsquo;em. But he never caused me two seconds of trouble. I&rsquo;d blow my whistle and wave Milt to the penalty box and he&rsquo;d skate off with no threats of persuasion. He never argued the merits of a decision or questioned my judgment and that, of course, is the right way to behave. Referees have a job to do and they do it as competently as they know how. They never penalize a man for nothing; always when they blow that whistle they&rsquo;ve seen some infraction and Milt was smart enough to realize that.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01181/1359925-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="273" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Milt Schmidt</figcaption></div>Once in Montreal Schmidt, then captain of the Boston Bruins, came storming off the bench and headed straight for Chadwick.&ldquo;I had to come, Bill,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but I think you were perfectly right. By the way, how&rsquo;s your wife?&rdquo;All the time he was waving his arms like uncontrolled windmills and his jaw was working. Bill stuck his finger under his nose and scowled back at him.&ldquo;She&rsquo;s fine, Milt,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;And how&rsquo;s yours?&rdquo;&ldquo;Great,&rdquo; Schmidt said, skating away and looking dejected.Bill Chadwick, who still has a soft spot in his heart for hockey, for no man could be as close to the game as he was and not love it, also paid tribute to Red Kelly and Floyd Curry as true sportsmen in every sense of the word.&ldquo;Kelly was a worthy winner of the Byng Trophy,&rdquo; said Chadwick, &ldquo;and although Curry never won it perhaps he should have. Curry is always cast in a checking role. He has to kill penalties.<h2>&ldquo;Still Loves Hockey&rdquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02151/1359918-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1111" height="1596"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Chadwick&hellip; Retired NHL Referee</figcaption></div>He&rsquo;s out against some of the greatest scorers in the game. He&rsquo;s bound to get some penalties but never, never did I seen him actually indulge in what could be called dirty play. And only once in his career did he ever incur a misconduct penalty. A marvelous record.&rdquo;Chadwick questions the right of sports writers to vote for the Byng Trophy. &ldquo;You fellows look at the penalty figures, give the goals and assists columns a quick peek and vote for your man,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If you could hear some of those so-called gentlemen work on an official.you&rsquo;d change your votes. Take Clint Smith, who used to play for the Rangers. He won the Byng twice but actually he was one of the worst referee baiters in the game. If the officials had the vote, he wouldn&rsquo;t have won a thing.&rdquo;We asked Chadwick whom he considered the greatest player in the game.&ldquo;Jean Beliveau,&rdquo; he said without a moment&rsquo;s hesitation. &ldquo;He can do more things with a puck than any other play in the league but if you asked me to pick a team to play in the NHL, I&rsquo;d pick six Maurice Richards. The Rocket is the greatest competitor of them all. Sure, he gets held and grabbed and abused by the opposing players but that&rsquo;s the penalty for being a great athlete. He complains far too much. And, incidentally, the other teams too often make the mistake of getting him mad. That&rsquo;s fatal. Get him mad and he&rsquo;ll fill the net with pucks. The best way to handle Richard is to leave him alone&mdash;check him, watch him closely but don&rsquo;t get him mad.&rdquo;Another question: who did Chadwick think was the best netminder of them all?&ldquo;For one game, with the chips down, I&rsquo;d pick Turk Broda, a great pressure goalkeeper. But over the long haul, I&rsquo;d have to take Bill Durnan. He was great. He made the big saves in the close games,&rdquo; Chadwick said. &ldquo;The real big ones that meant the difference between victory and defeat.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03102/1359911-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="265" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Beliveau</figcaption></div>Danny Gallivan, by this time munching his baked Alaska and sitting beside up and opposite Bill, interjected a remark: &ldquo;Was Durnan better than Terry Sawchuk?&rdquo;&ldquo;No comparison,&rdquo; said Chadwick. &rsquo;&lsquo;Durnan was the greatest.&rdquo;The dinner was over. No speeches. But Reardon, as host said how glad he was that Chadwick was able to attend. A wave of applause rocked the room. It was something that came from the. hearts of the brass and the writers and the radio men and Chadwick was visibly moved. You could see the light in his dark brown eyes.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll bet that was the first time you were ever applauded in Montreal,&rdquo; a writer remarked.&ldquo;Right you are.&rdquo; said Bill. &ldquo;And it makes me feel good; You fellows know hockey and I&rsquo;m very grateful for your appreciation. Being a referee is a tough job. I&rsquo;m out of the game now but I have pleasant memories and that applause will be among them. Gee.&rdquo; He paused. &ldquo;Gee&hellip; makes me feel good.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Bill Chadwick Says Milt Schmidt His Choice As ‘Byng-Type’ Player

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;When a fellow leads the National league in goals he looms as an offensive nightmare to the opposition, does he not? Obviously he does.But for the first three games of the playoff series with the Detroit Red Wings the Bruins found Gordon Howe a bigger headache on defense than offense.So well did the 204-pound scoring champion play on defense for that period that he did a good job of offsetting the Bruins&rsquo; wide edge in balance all by himself.Over the regular season the Bruins Whipped all opponents but the New York Rangers with their balance. No other team, with the seeming exception of New York, could match their three forward lines.Among the victims of the balance diet were the Red Wings, who won only four of 14 games with the Bruins. With three playoff games gone the figure was five of 17.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0466/1359963-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="289" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Howe</figcaption></div>But despite the Bruins&rsquo; 2 to 1 playoff edge at that point, all three of their lines were finding Howe a troublesome defensive obstacle.A right wing, Howe&rsquo;s individual opponents were naturally the Bruins&rsquo; left wings, high scorers all. For the season Real Chevrefils owned 31 goals, Vic Stasiuk 24, Fleming Mackell 22.Howe was playing mostly against Chevrefils and not only was he checking the Bruins&rsquo; leading scorer most ably, he was actually hampering the entire line, that on which Chevrefils plays with Don McKenney and Leo LaBine.The Bruins recognized the restriction on the McKenney line as a one-man effort, since Ted Lindsay was relatively inconspicuous and the Howe-Lindsay centers of Lady Byng candidate proportions, but they didn&rsquo;t seem to be able to do much about it. Howe seemed to be everywhere, so after three games the line which produced 70 goals during the season owned but two, one by Chevrefils and one by LaBine.Earlier in the series Coach Milt Schmidt of the Bruins had given thought to the rigging of a special defense for Howe, as Lynn Patrick did when he coached the 1953 team which eliminated Detroit.But Schmidt discarded the idea, and he also decided against manoeuers to free Chevrefils and his associates from the Howe defensive influence.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t believe any line in the league can keep Chevrefils, McKenney and LaBine from &rsquo;&ldquo;breaking out indefinitely,&rdquo; declared the Bruins&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m confident they&rsquo;ll start scoring.&ldquo;And as far as a special defense for Howe is concerned, the best of all is to have the puck. If the McKenney line has the puck he isn&rsquo;t going to score.&rdquo;.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0546/1359956-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="272" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don McKenney</figcaption></div>At the four-game mark Howe owned two goals. One was a blaster in the second game in Detroit, the other a six-foot jab after a Bruins&rsquo; slip in the third game here. Playing the most of the Detroit skaters, Howe was the victim of a terrific check by big Stasiuk in the first game and in the third game he sustained a cut ear when he was struck by a Doug Mohns shot. But he continued to be a one-man defensive line against the Bruins. &#9632;

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Boston Finds Howe More Troublesome Defensively

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, Ill&mdash;The 1956-57 version of the Black Hawks did little more than last season&rsquo;s team, National Hockey League records show coldly.After 70 games a year ago, Chicago&rsquo;s accomplishments came to only 19 wins and 12 ties for 50 league points. A total of 155 goals were scored, but 216 got by. This season&rsquo;s totals came to 16 victories and 15 deadlocks for 47 points. Goals for and against rose-slightly to 169 and 225 respectively.Another last place finish wap. of course, the end result of a year&rsquo;s toil by Hawk skaters and Tommy Ivan, doubling as coach and general manager. Ivan&rsquo;s original 3-year contract in the latter post is at an end. but it&rsquo;s expected to be renewed any day now.The cold statistics would seem to make this a surprise, but the figures in the final NHL standings, needless to point out, don&rsquo;t tell the complete story. Ivan&rsquo;s Chicago career to date has actually been fruitful in carrying out a program he began upon hie arrival from Detroit in 1954.It was not expected to be a quick solution to problems that had been growing for a number of years, but rather a carefully planned project that was expected to start showing results no sooner than a few years. it now appears definite that the program is operating right on schedule.Chicago&rsquo;s last place predicament this year was of secondary importance behind the team&rsquo;s late season surge behind the strong and decisive play of most members of the club that stayed on after the halfway point in the schedule and youth was an important factor.The rookies and still young veterans who showed well against all opponents hold the key to the Hawk future now growing brighter by the mement. With a few exceptions, the past year&rsquo;s basement boys ate expected to become the cup challengers of the next and further NHL schedules.No less than eight W56-5.7 Chihawks had better point records than the year before anti 5 who have been playing a total of 22 years in the big time recorded the best seasons of their careers. Attendance at the Chicago Stadium zoomed accordingly with an increase of more than 30,000 ever last year.Top scorer on the squad. lanky Ed Litzenberger who was a better than average right winger and now bids to become a great centerman. hit for 32 goals and 32 assists. The goal mark was the closest anyone has ever come to Doug Bentley&rsquo;s record 38 in Hawk history racked up in 1943-44.<h2>Tremendous Seasons</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0775/1360067-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="574" height="593"><figcaption class="caption-body">EDDIE LITZENBERGER</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0869/1360060-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="562" height="574"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHNNY WILSON</figcaption></div>Litz&rsquo; was sparkplug of a new line that topped all others with ease in the waning weeks of the seasan. He was flanked by Johnny Wilson, who had his best of over 5 years of play in the NHL, and Eric Nesterenko, who certainly rates as uncrowned comebaek king of the 1956-57 campaign.Although &rsquo;Nester&rsquo; saw action in only 24 weekend encounters, he averaged a point a game. The entire line combined for an admirable 58 goals and 7 7 assists. Nesterenko, in answer to Ivan&rsquo;s hopes, has been quoted as saving he&rsquo;ll try to be available for all Chicago games next season.Rated without hesitation by Ivan as a 20-goal forward. Eric has been attending school in Toronto which was the reason his Hawk &lsquo;appearances were numbered. By next season, it is said, he&rsquo;ll try to enroll in a U.S. school in or near Chicago.Glen Skov is another Hawk who this year both improved over a year ago and also had the best campaign of more than six in the National League. Actually a mainstay on defense at center ice, he came through for 14 goals and 28 assists while checking the likes of Jean Beliveau, Andy Bathgate, etc.Spunky&rsquo; Hec Lalande didn&rsquo;t even start the year with Chicago, but bounced back to pile up a11 goals and 17 assists in 50 games later on. Last year he was among the best NHL newcomers with 8 goals and 18 assists in 65 games. He proved, however, an even better sophomore.Also on the improved side in Chicago ranks were such men as veterans Harry Watson and Gus Mortson and hard working Pierre Pilote, another soph satistier. Along side these three came youngsters like Elmer Vasko, Forbes Kennedy and Eddie Kachur.None of these men can be written out of Chicago hockey plans for 1957-58, but some will doubtless be forced to the side with continuance of the Black Hawk progress plan. Watch tor names like Don Ward. Bobby Hull and many others from out of a farm system that has expanded greatly under Ivan. &#9632;

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Hawks 1956-57 Progress Showed In Development More Than In Standings

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st 1947Published Weekly, except monthly May through September byKen-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.1434 Ste. Catherine Street WestMontreal 25, Que.Yearly Subscription Rates: $3 00 in Canada and 4he British Empire:$4.00 in The U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.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. Poet Office Department. Ottawa Printed in Canada.Vol. 10 MONTREAL, APRIL 13, 1957 No. 20<h2>PASSING THE PUCK</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01252/1360029-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="446" height="445"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02226/1360022-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="608" height="157"></div>&bull; MAURICE RICHARD&rsquo;S four-goal outburst in the first game of the 1957 Stanley Cup playoffs was &ldquo;fantabulous&rdquo;&hellip; The oldest player in the NHL, Richard had one of his greatest nights in a career studded with great nights&hellip; It will be mighty tough for him to single out the most memorable night of his career after he finally hangs up the blades&hellip; He&rsquo;s had so many memorable nights and events in the 15 years he&rsquo;s played with Canadiens&hellip; There were about 25 hockey writers and photographers standing around him in the dressing room following his one-man assault Against the Bruins&hellip; it prompted Kenny Reardon standing nearby to remark: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been watching this same thing happen for 15 years.&rdquo;&hellip; Many of his closest followers believed that this was the finest game he has ever played&hellip; Close to 200 Boston fans travelled up to Montreal for the Saturday night game&hellip; Hockey personalities noted around were Walter Brown and Weston Adams of Boston: King Clancy and Turk Broda of Toronto; Fred Huber and Al Nagler of Detroit: Johnny Gottselig of Chicago: Frankie Eddolls of Buffalo and of course Ace Bailey who served as one of the minor officials&hellip; Joe Nichols veteran hockey writer of the New York Times was on hand as were writers from every National Hockey League eity and such places as. Ottawa, Kingston, etc&hellip; Hardest check of the game happened when teammates Dollard St. Laurent and Henri Richard of Canadiens collided head-on&hellip; It shook the younger Richard up&hellip; Fleming Mackell. Fern Flaman and Don Simmons were the pick of the Bruins while almost every member of Canadiens played well&hellip; Once Richard put the Hairs ahead the rest of the team caught the spark and played standout hockey.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03156/1360015-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="271" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04113/1360008-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="256" height="403"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fleming Mackell</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05100/1360001-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="273" height="383"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fere Flaman</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0684/1359994-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="265" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dollard Jr. Laurent</figcaption></div>&bull; DETROIT BOWED out to Boston in the semi-finals like the champions they are&hellip; There was no alibis by any of the players or by Jommy Skinner and Jack Adams&hellip; They all admitted that they just didn&rsquo;t play well enough to win and that Boston&rsquo;s tenacious checking stopped them before they really got started&hellip; Every member of the Red Wings wished the Bruins the best of luck in their series with Canadiens and all were hoping the underdog Bruins could go all the way&hellip; Lynn Patrick, incidentally, is fed up with all the &ldquo;Cinderella Team&rdquo; talk about his Bruins&hellip; He much prefers the words &ldquo;Team of Destiny&rdquo;&hellip; Gordie Howe, who played a whale of a series for Detroit, wasted little time moping about the Joss&hellip; He immediately turned his thought to the summer and his thriving off-season business along with Ted Lindsay and Marty Pavelich&hellip; Gordie also wanted to know when the Tigers opened the baseball season&hellip; There are fewer hockey players travelling to Florida this year than for many years&hellip; Maybe they are getting more economical er maybe they are lining up better off-season jobs but very few players planned on heading south. The Red Wings will attend their annual breakup dinner at the Grosse Island Country Club early this week before departing for their homes&hellip; Warren Godfrey will work for a Detroit tool and die company this summer&hellip; This is how the other Detroit players will be busy in the off season Bob Bailey will work in Cleveland for his father who owns a foundry supply company&hellip; Bailey by the way made a very favorable impression with the Wings&rsquo; management and will be given every opportunity to play regularly next season&hellip; Metro Prystai will run his gas station at Yorkton, Sask&hellip;. Alex Delvecchio will act as a sales representative for a brewery in Fort William. Ont&hellip;. Johnny Bucyk will drive a tow truck and coach a baseball team in Edmonten&hellip; Billy McNeill will work as a sales representative for a soft drink firm in the same city&hellip; Bill Dineen will earn bis pay as a surveyor and Lome Ferguson will do construction work&hellip; Glenn Hall will assist his father-in-law on his farm in Saskatchewan&hellip; Al Arbour plans to work in a retail brewery store in Sudbury&hellip; Marcel Pronovost will build a house outside of Montreal&hellip; Two players. Dale Anderson and Billy Dea, plan to be married.&bull; DETROIT FLEW both ways to Boston&hellip; The Bruins traveled to Detroit by train&hellip; There was a delegation of close to 100 youngsters to meet the Bruins&rsquo; train at London, Ont. on their way from Detroit to Montreal&hellip; Harry Eisen also interviewed Milt Schmidt and a few Boston players right from the station platform for the local TV station&hellip; Cal Gardner, oldest member of the Bruins at 32 and a 12-year NHL veteran, scored two winning goats against Detroit&hellip; Captain Fern Flaman was a real standout throughout the series&hellip; Don Simmons is coming out of his net more and more and wandering a la Jacques Plante&hellip; This caused Frank Ryan, former Boston publi-ries: &ldquo;If the Bruins play Canadiens in the finals, Plante and Sim-eist and play-by-play announcer to remark during the Detroit se-mons are liable to meet at center ice some night.&rdquo;&hellip; Glenn Hall was making a number of fine saves during the third game in the Bries and Lo Monajhan, witty Boston Record writer commented: &ldquo;Say, that Hall has made more saves than Billy Graham.&rdquo;&hellip; Bill Quackenbush and Woody Dumart were two of the former Bruins attending the games in Boston&hellip; When the horn went signalling the end of the fourth game in the series (second and last game in Boston) the crowd rose and gave a standing ovation to the team&hellip; The roar was thunderous,.. Boston fans told us that it was the most noise they could remember hearing at a hockey game since Eddie Shore led the team to the Stanley Cup in 1939. &#9632;

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The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;One day during the winter a visitor to the Newton apartment shared by a half-dozen Boston Bruins was startled to hear from the next room what sounded like a political speech.Adding to the visitor&rsquo;s surprise was his impression that the voice delivering the speech was that of Allan Stanley, Bruins&rsquo; defenseman.What&rsquo;s going on in there?&rdquo; asked the visitor.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s Allan Stanley,&rdquo; replied Bob Armstrong, another defenseman. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s making a speech.&rdquo;A few minutes later the mystery was cleared up by Stanley, candidate for the Conservative party nomination to represent the riding of Timmins in the Ontario Parliament.&ldquo;I have a tape recorder which I use to work on my public speaking,&rdquo; explained the tall native of Timmins. &ldquo;I make a speech, then play it back for criticism and correction. That&rsquo;s what I was doing just now.&rdquo;Many hockey players have plans for their futures, among them Stanley. The Bruins&rsquo; assistant captain has launched a career in politics, a field in which he has had a deep interest for many years.His first and present objective is to win nomination for the provincial post in the forthcoming Ontario election. If he is elected he will retire from hockey. If he isn&rsquo;t he will begin campaigning for the next election.Stanley had planned to concentrate on his nomination campaign at the close of the Stanley Cup playoffs, in which he figured to play a prominent role with the Bruins. But in the 54th game of the season he sustained a severe knee injury which finished his hockey work for the time being.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01274/1360178-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="256" height="398"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Armstrong</figcaption></div>Not being able to face the Detroit Red Wings in the opening round of the playoffs was a great disappointment to the veteran, having his best and happiest major league season. But before departing for home, his leg in a cast, his customary good humor was back in evidence.&ldquo;This isn&rsquo;t the worse thing I could have gotten,&rdquo; he cracked to Manager Lynn Patrick, a longtime friend. &ldquo;I could have gotten laryngitis.&rdquo;Stanley&rsquo;s interest in politics had its origin, he thinks, in a liking for history.&ldquo;The history led to government,&rdquo; he related, &ldquo;and that led to an interest in the science of politics. I decided years ago I&rsquo;d like to go into politics when my hockey career was over.&ldquo;Last summer the idea took definite shape when I was approached by representatives of the Conservatives in Timmins to stand for nomination to Parliament. I delayed in giving a definite answer until. I could find out how people felt about my running.&ldquo;For a number of days I made the rounds, ringing doorbells, introducing myself and asking people what their response would be to my candidacy. My conclusion was that they were favorable toward me, so I agreed to seek the nomination.&rdquo;The methodical approach of his constituents is typical of Stanley, a six-foot two-inch 19 5-pound hisky. He has been building his political foundations methodically.Away from home for six months, he kept close track of affairs in the Timmins area by maintaining an extensive correspondence. Each day he received several Ontario newspapers which he checked carefully.Always a student&mdash;he once attended Newton High school with ex-Bruin Paul Ronty&mdash;he spent many office hours in study-&mdash;history, political science, economics.Occasionally he visited Boston&rsquo;s City Hall or attended sessions of the Massachusetts Legislature.He was one of the busiest Bruins in his attendance at sports nights and other affairs and the most frequent guest on radio and television programs.And when he had the opportunity he talked in his deep, strong voice to the tape recorder. then played it back to an audiance usually composed of his college-educated apartment mates. Jack Caffery (Assumption) and Armstrong (Western Ontario).But Stanley does not plan to be a schoolbook politician. In that respect he draws an analogy between hockey and politics.&ldquo;The first thing a hockey player must be able to do is skate,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;and the equivalent of being able to skate to a man in politics is knowing his people. Intend to know all of them, their problems, their interests and their desires. These other things are secondary.&rdquo;Stanley is by no means the first hockey figure to enter Ontario politics and not even the first Bruins&rsquo; figure to do so. Former National leaguers Lionel Conacher and Bucko McDonald were both successful candidates for seats in Parliament and so was Howie Meeker, the coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Dit Clapper, former coach of the Bruins, ran without campaigning several years ago and narrowly missed winning.Stanley&rsquo;s political aims are no surprise to Patrick, his former coach in New York. When Patrick finally succeeded in purchasing Stanley last fall from the Chicago Black Hawks, Allan promptly appraised him of his plans.&ldquo;He told me he might possibly play only one year with us,&rdquo; related Patrick, &ldquo;but that didn&rsquo;t change my desire to have him with the Bruins. He did a great job for us and we have been more than repaid for what he cost us.&rdquo;Stanley left next year up in the air before returning home after his discharge from the hospital.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m taking things just like Milt Schmidt insists we take games, one at a time,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If I am elected I won&rsquo;t play hockey again, because no one can do justice to two such jobs at the same time. If I am not elected I will play next year.&rdquo;Stanley expressed his enjoyment of his first season with the Bruins in an interview with Fred Cusick over the Boston team&rsquo;s New England radio network.&ldquo;I came here in 1943 to play for the old Boston Olympics,&rdquo; he reminisced. &ldquo;I was only 17 at the time and I played with other kids like Ferny Flaman and Johnny Peirson. We had wonderful times which I have never forgotten.&ldquo;I have always had friends here and I always was sorry I couldn&rsquo;t have played for the Bruins years ago. But better late than never, I guess, and this has been my happiest year in hockey.&rdquo;<h2>Politics or Puck?</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02164/1360171-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="754" height="1212"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOSTON&rsquo;S ALLAN STANLEY</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Stanley To Quit Hockey If Elected In Timmins

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Eddie Shack, Bill Sweeney, Marcel Paille, Jacques Marcotte, Ray Mikulan, Bruce Gamble and Aldo Guidolin are names that are gaining more significance in Ranger circles now that thinking time approaches.While most readers have a passing knowledge of all but Sweeney, we&rsquo;ll dwell a moment on the Guelph center who has not yet figured in Ranger plans.The word on this 20-year-old scorer was that he&rsquo;s too slow for an NHL feature. And you know how these ugly rumors can mushroom. Before you could say Jack Toadstool (ha, we fooled you), Sweeney was written off the list.Worse yet, from a hockey standpoint, the blah-blah boys added that he likes golf. So much that he recently was appointed professional at the Fairview Golf and Country Club in Guelph.Where, pray tell, does the hockey fit in?Don&rsquo;t touch that page, pal. Leave us tell you about this sweet Sweeney.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0394/1360216-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="283" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption></div>In between dreams about a holes-in-one, the 5-10, 160 pounder ran away with the OHA Junior A scoring race. He slammed home a measly 49 goals and set up 5 7 others. Without slide rule that adds up to 106 points and if you&rsquo;re going to sneeze at that, we&rsquo;ll leave the room.While everyone is yelping that Sweeney is too slow to be a pro, his coach, Eddie Bush steps in and confuses matters still more by telling us he&rsquo;s the fastest member of the Mad Hatters when it comes to carrying the puck. Is there anything more important than that?&ldquo;There were three tests that we arranged to test puck carrying,&rdquo; said Bush. &ldquo;Bill topped every player on the team in those races.&rdquo;Then, sez we, why does everybody call him slow.&ldquo;Because,&rdquo; sez Bush, &ldquo;he&rsquo;s a deceptive skater. Actually, Bill is travelling much faster than he indicates.&rdquo;The bloke who has a lot to say about whether Sweeney has a future in New York adds a few choice words of encouragement for Bill.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0469/1360209-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="267" height="407"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gump Worsley</figcaption></div>Of course, we&rsquo;re talking about that little man abouthockey rinks. Ranger scout Johnny &ldquo;Black Cat&rdquo; Gagnon.&ldquo;Cooney Weiland, Bill Cowley and Joe prinieau were not so last,&rdquo; Gagnon explained. &ldquo;They were able to get along because they were smart and that made them great, i &ldquo;Sweeney is smart, too, and I&rsquo;m not too sure he won&rsquo;t make it.&rdquo;In other words, forget those ugly rumors about the lad being a turtle and let&rsquo;s not count him out. Just as a fillip, it might be added that like Ranger Lou Fontinato, Sweeney is a native of Guelph. His dad, Jock Sweeney, a Scot from Glasgow, was a top soccer center.More highly regarded by the Blue brass is Shack. The forward-defenseman was due for a Ranger trial this season; but the fact that Guelph has been involved in playoffs pre vented it. He is almost certain to spend 1957-58 with Pro vidence of the American Hockey League.Paille and Marcotte, a couple of splendid Frencb-Can-adian goaltenders, are the closest competitors for Gump Worsley&rsquo;s net spot while Mikulan and Gamble, also goalies. would be good trade bait should a deal for Terry Sawchuk materialize.This, naturally, would depend on what the brain-trust contemplates doing with Gump Worsley.If the Bruins decide that Sawchuk is available, then, watch Rangers and Chicago seize the bait.Lynn Patrick will want something in return and that something could very well be Harry Howell, and/or Ron-Murphy and/or one of the minor league netminders. Should the deal be built into a bigger package Lynn may ask for &rsquo; an additional Ranger, like Worsley, and in return Leo Boivih may wend his way to the Gotham.Not to be overlooked is the Ranger&rsquo; &ldquo;elevator&rdquo; farm hand, Aldo Guidolin, who spent the season with Providence. A poor scorer but rugged and a powerful skater. Aldo &rsquo; finished strong for the Reds and appears to ba the most likely to be promoted of the Rhode Island chattels.His primary function as a Ranger would be to kill penalties meaning that Guy Gendron, Gerry Foley or Parker MacDonald will depart. Neither of the three is indispensable at the moment. &#9632;

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Bill Sweeney Seen As Star Of Future With NY Rangers

Only ShutoutBoston&rsquo;s Don Simmons has recorded the only shutout in the playoff. He blanked Detroit, 2-0 in the fourth game.Four AwayBernie Geoffrion and Maurice Richard have scored 8 goals in the playoffs&mdash;four away from the record held by Richard and Jean Beliveau.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01225/1360261-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="592" height="638"></div>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;TUESDAY, MARCH 26Boston 3 at Detroit 1(Boston leads best-of-seven series 1-0)Boston&mdash;Goal: Simmons; defense: Flaman, Mohns, Armstrong, Boivin, Bionda; forwards: Chevrefils, Labine, McKenney, Stasiuk, Mackell, Gardner, Caffery, Toppazzini, Peirson, Boone.Detroit&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Arbour, Pronovost, Kelly, Godfrey, Anderson; forwards: Lindsay, Howe, Delvecchio, Reibel, Pavelich, Prystai, Ferguson, Dea, Ullman, Dineen, Bucyk, Bailey.First Period1&mdash;Detroit: Lindsay (Howe).. 0.502&mdash;Boston: Caffery(Mackell, Boivin)&hellip;&hellip; 18.42Penalties: Boivin 2.15, Arbor 7.30 Godfrey 14.48, Lindsay 20.00.Second Period2&mdash;Boston: Mohns(Armstrong, McKenney)&hellip;&hellip; 0.38Penalties: Flaman 1.01, Howe 9.28, Bionda 12.48, Pronovost 15.46, Boivin 17.54.Third Period4&mdash;Boston: Chevrefils (Flaman) 0.49 Penalty: Armstrong 15.36.THURSDAY, MARCH 28Boston 2 at Detroit 7(Best-of-seven series tied, 1-1)Boston&mdash;Goal: Simmons; defense: Flaman, Mohns, Bionda, Boivin, Armstrong; forwards: Chevrefils, LaBine, McKenney, Boone, Stasiuk, Mackell, Gardner, Caffery, Toppazzini, Peirson.Detroit&mdash;Goal: Hall; defence: Arbour, Kelly, Pronovost, Godfrey, Anderson; forwards: Lindsay, Howe, Ullnian, Reibel, Delvecchio, Pavelich, Prystai, Ferguson, Dea, Dineen, Bucyk, Bailey.First Period1&mdash;Detroit: Kelly (Reibel)&hellip;&hellip; 6.572&mdash;Detroit: Howe (Lindsay).. 11.323&mdash;Detroit; Prystai&hellip;&hellip; 13.14Penalties: Godfrey 1.21, LaBine 5.25, Howe 5.54, Armstrong 7.36, 19.03, Ullman 12.01, Ferguson 14.27, 19.03, Lindsay 15.03, McKenney 15.03, 18.27.Second Period4&mdash;Detroit: Delvecchio(Howe, Lindsay)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3.505&mdash;Detroit: Dea(Bailey, Howe)&hellip;&hellip; 10.27Penalties: Chevrefils 2.59, Delvecchio 5.49. Mackell 9.16, Godfrey 12.22, Flaman 18.34.Third Period6&mdash;Detroit: Ferguson(Delvecchio, Bucyk)&hellip;&hellip;.337&mdash;Boston: Mackell(Gardner, Armstrong)&hellip;&hellip; 1.598&mdash;Detroit: Ullman&hellip;&hellip; 3.399&mdash;Boston: Boivin(McKenney) 17.52Penalties: Ullman 8.46, 18.01, Armstrong 13.51, Boone 19.02, Boivin 19.20, Boston bench misconduct (served by LaBine) 19.26.SUNDAY. MARCH 31Detroit 3 at Boston 4(Boston leads best-of-seven semifinal series 2-1).Detroit&mdash; Goal: Hall; defense: Arbour, Pronovost, Kelly, Godfrey, Anderson; forwards: Ullman, Howe, Lindsay. Reibel, Dea, Dineen, Delvecchio. Bucyk, Ferguson, Pavelich, Prystai, McNeill, Bailty.Boston&mdash;Goal: Simmons; defense: Flaman, Mohns, Armstrong, Boivin, Bionda; forwards: McKenney, La-bine, Chevrefils, Gardner, Peirson, Stasiuk. Regan, Topazzini, Mackell, Caffery, Boone.First Period1&mdash;Boston: Stasiuk (Peirson).. 8.112&mdash;Boston: Boivin (Labine)&hellip; 12.003&mdash;Detroit: Delvecchio(Lindsay, Reibel)&hellip;&hellip; 15.16Penalties: Pronovost 0.44, Regan 1.59. Arbour 5.21, Hall misconduct served by Dineen 8.11, Bionda 9.22, 14.57, Ullman 12.31, Boivin 12.31.Second Period4&mdash;Boston: Labine(Chevrefils)&hellip;&hellip; 18.26Penalties; Lindsay 5.35, Regan 8.24, Mohns 12.42.Third Period5&mdash;Detroit: Howe (Ullman)&hellip; 1.326&mdash;Detroit: Dea&hellip;&hellip; 3.117&mdash;Boston: Gardner(Stasiuk, Peirson)&hellip;&hellip; 13.28Penalties: None.TUESDAY, APRIL 2Detroit 0 at Boston 2(Boston leads best-of-seven semi-final, 3-1)Detroit&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Arbour, Pronovost, Godfrey, Kelly. Anderson; forwards: Ullman, Howe, Lindsay. Delvecchio, Ferguson, Bucyk, Reibel, Dea, Dineen, Prystai, Pavelich. Bailey. McNeil.Boston&mdash;Goal: Simmons; defense: Flaman, Mohns, Armstrong, Boivin, Bionda; forwards: McKenney, Labine, Chevrefils, Gardner, Peirson, Stasiuk, Regan, MacKell, Toppazzini, Caffery. Boone.First Period1&mdash;Boston: Chevrefils(Mackell, Boivin)&hellip;&hellip; 6.06Penalties: Bionda 4.31, Bailey 8.50, Pavelich 17.10.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Regan 10.14, Lindsay 10.14, Boivin 12.30, Ferguson 13.06, Flaman 13.06, Arbour 17.01.Third Period2&mdash;Boston: Stasiuk (Flaman).. 5.43Penalty; Dea.THURSDAY, APRIL 4Boston 4 at Detroit 3(Boston wins best-of-seven, semi-final 4-1)Boston&mdash;Goal: Simmons; defense: Flaman, Mohns, Boivin, Bionda, Armstrong; forwards: Chevrefils, Labine, McKenney, Boone, Stasiuk. Mackell, Gardner, Caffery, Toppazzini, Peirson, Regan.Detroit&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Arbour, Pronovost, Kelly, Godfrey, Anderson; forwards: Lindsay, Howe, Ullman, Reibel, Delvecchio, Pavelich, Prystai, Ferguson, Dea, Dineen, Bucyk, Bailey.First Period1&mdash;Detroit: Delvecchio(Howe, Lindsay)&hellip;&hellip; 9.52Penalties: Caffery 7.52, 16.55, Pronovost 14.32, Howe, Gardner 15.38.Second Period2&mdash;Boston: Boone(Mackell, Mohns)&hellip;&hellip; 12.10Penalties: Pavelich 2.44, Boivin 13.12.Third Period3&mdash;Detroit: Lindsay (Howe)&hellip;.364&mdash;Boston: Labine(McKenney, Mohns)&hellip;&hellip; 6.185&mdash;Boston: Mohns(McKenney)&hellip;&hellip; 10.216&mdash;Boston: Gardner(Peirson, Bionda)&hellip;&hellip; 15.167&mdash;Detroit: Prystai(Delvecchio, Bailey)&hellip;&hellip;.. 17.59 Penalties: None.SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;TUESDAY, MARCH 26 Montreal 4 at New York 1(Montreal leads best-of-seven series, 1-0)Canadiens&mdash; Goal: Plante; defense: Talbot, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent, Turner; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Goyette, Provost, Pronovost, Curry, Marshall.New York&mdash; Goal: Worsley; defense: Gadsby, Fontinato, Evans, Cahan, Howell; forwards: Sullivan, He-benton, Lewicki, Prentice, Bathgate, Creighton, Murphy, Henry, Gendron, Foley, MacDonald.First Period1&mdash;Canadiens: Geoffrion(Beliveau, Talbot)&hellip;&hellip; 15.072&mdash;New York: Henry(Gadsby, Creighton)&hellip;&hellip; 17.01Penalties: Beliveau minor and major, Fontinato major 1.34, Cahan two minors, H. Richard 2.39, Evans 4.31, St Laurent 9.29, Curry 9.33.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Moore 12.39, Gadsby 13.49, Plante (served by Goyette), Sullivan 14.22, Provost 17.33, Johnson 18.49.Third Period3&mdash;Canadiens: Richard(Geoffrion, Harvey)&hellip;&hellip;. 7.024&mdash;Canadiens: Geoffrion(Olmstead)&hellip;&hellip; 19.215&mdash;Canadiens: Beliveau(Geoffrion)&hellip;&hellip; 19.30Penalties: Prentice 5.18, Johnson major 13.09.THURSDAY, MARCH 28 Montreal 3 at New York 4(Best-of-seven series tied, 1-1)Canadiens&mdash;Goal: Plante; defence: Johnson, Talbot, Harvey, St. Laurent, Turner; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead. H. Richard, Moore, M. Richard, Goyette, Provost, Pronovost, Curry. Marshall.New York&mdash;Goal: Worsley: defense: Gadsby, Fontinato; Evans. Cahan, Howell; forwards: Sullivan, Hebenton, Lewicki, Popein, Bathgate, Prentice, Creighton, Murphy, Henry, Gendron, Foley, MacDonald.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Evans 3.28, Pronovost7.42, 13.51, Bathgate 8.12, Howell16.42,Second Period1&mdash;New York: Henry(Creighton)&hellip;&hellip; 1.352&mdash;Canadiens: H. Richard(M. Richard)&hellip;&hellip; 2.123&mdash;New York: Creighton(Henry, Evans)&hellip;&hellip; 4.324&mdash;Canadiens: M. Richard(Moore, H. Richard)&hellip;&hellip; 14.11Penalties: Talbot 1.30, St. Laurent 10.08.Third Period5&mdash;New York: Gadsby (Henry) 4.586&mdash;Canadiens: Geoffrion.(Beliveau, Moore)&hellip;&hellip; 14.58Penalties: M. Richard 3.10, Gendron 12.05, Hebenton 13.14, Talbot 15.22.Overtime Period7&mdash;New York: Hebenton(Sullivan)&hellip;&hellip; 13.38Penalties: None.SATURDAY, MARCH 30New York 3 at Montreal 8(Montreal leads best-of-seven series, 2-1)New York&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Gadsby, Fontinato, Cahan, Howell, Evans; forwards: Sullivan, Hebenton, Lewicki, Popein, Bathgate, Prentice, Creighton, Gendron, Henry, Macdonald, Murphy, Foley.Montreal&mdash; Goal: Plante; defense: Johnson, Talbot, Harvey, Turner, Shero; forwards: H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Goyette, Provost, Pronovost, Marshall, Curry, Broden.First Period1&mdash;Montreal: M. Richard(Harvey, Olmstead)&hellip;&hellip; 7.272&mdash;Montreal: Beliveau(Olmstead, Talbot)&hellip;&hellip;.. 14.543&mdash;New York: Bathgate(Prentice, Popein)&hellip;&hellip; 18.59Penalties: Prentice 6.32, Olmstead7.42, M. Richard 12.33.Second Period4&mdash;Montreal: Geoffrion(Beliveau, Olmstead)&hellip;&hellip;..425&mdash;New York: Creighton(Gendron, Henry)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10.516&mdash;Montreal: Geoffrion(Beliveau, Olmstead)&hellip;&hellip; 14.237&mdash;Montreal: Moore.(M. Richard, H. Richard).. 15.048&mdash;New York: Bathgate(Prentice, Popein)&hellip;&hellip; 15.31Penalties: Provost 4.17, Harvey 6.51, Creighton 6.54, Pronovost 17.41.Third Period9&mdash;Montreal: Beliveau(Geoffrion)&hellip;&hellip; 19.5610&mdash;Montreal: Geoffrion(Beliveau, Olmstead)&hellip;&hellip; 14.2911&mdash;Montreal: Moore(H. Richard)&hellip;&hellip; 19.14Penalties: M. Richard.36.TUESDAY, APRIL. 8New York 1 at Montreal 3(Montreal leads best-of-seven semi-final, 3-1)New York&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Gadsby. Fontinato. Gahan, He well, Evans: forwards: Popein, Bathgate, Prentice, Sullivan. Gendron. Ho-benton, MacDonald, Murphy, Foley, Henry, Kewicki, Creighton.Canadiens&mdash;Goal: Plante: defense: Johnson, Talbot. Harvey, Turner, Shero: forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, H, Richard, M. Richard, Moore. Goyette, Provost, Pronovost, Marshall, Curry, Broden.First Period1&mdash;New York: Hebenton(Gadsby)&hellip;&hellip; 6.42Penalties: Johnson 12.19, Lewicki 13.37, Howell 17.40.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Johnson (major) 6.32, Bathgate (major) 6.32. Beliveau 13.95, Fontinato 13.05, Gendron 18.14, Harvey 19.51.Third Period2&mdash;Canadiens: Geoffrion&hellip;&hellip; 9.283&mdash;Canadiens: H. Richard(Moore, M. Richard)&hellip;&hellip; 11.234&mdash;Canadiens: Goyette(Marshall. Turner)&hellip;&hellip; 13.03Penalties: None.THURSDAY. APRIL. 4New York 3 at Montreal 4(Montreal wins best-of-seven. semi-final, 4-1)New York&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense.: Howell, Fontinato, Caban Gadsby, Evarts: forwards: Popein. Prentice, Gendron, Sullivan, Bathgate, Hebenton, McDonald. Murphy, Creightoh, Foley, Henry, Lewicki.Canadiens&mdash;Goal: Plante: defense: Johnson. Harvey, St. Laurent. Turner; forwards: Beliveau. Geoffrion, Olmstead. H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Goyette, Provost, Pronovost, Curry, Marshall, Broden.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Goyette 4.57. Howell 16.13.Second Period1&mdash;Canadiens: Beliveau(Geoffrion)&hellip;&hellip; 16.412&mdash;Canadiens: Curry&hellip;&hellip; 17.533&mdash;Canadiens: Beliveau(Geoffrion, Olmstead)&hellip;&hellip; 19.49Penalties: Gendron 16.03, Planta (served by Pronovost) 17.06.Third Period4&mdash;New York: MacDonald(Sullivan)&hellip;&hellip; 5.235&mdash;New York: Sullivan(MacDonald)&hellip;&hellip; 12.216&mdash;New York: Howell (Popein) 14.97Penalties: Sullivan 9.4 3, Olmstead 9,43.Overtime Period7&mdash;Canadiens: M. Richard (H. Richard)&hellip;&hellip; 2.11Penalties: None.SERIES &ldquo;C&rdquo;SATURDAY, APRIL 6Boston 1 at Montreal 5(Montreal leads Best-of-Seven final 1-0)Boston&mdash;Goal: Simmons; defense: Flaman, Mohns, Armstrong. Boivin, Bionda: McKenney, Labine, Chevrefils, Gardner, Stasiuk, Mackell, Caffery, Peirson, Regan, Boone.Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Johnson, Talbot, Harvey, St. Laurent, Turner; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion. Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Goyette, Pronovost, Marshall, Curry, Broden.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Bionda 4.05. Goyette 6.57, Boone 11.53, Beliveau 13.17.Second Period1&mdash;Boston:: Mackell(Mohns. Began)&hellip;&hellip; 7.372&mdash;Montreal: M. Richard(Moore, Johnson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10.393&mdash;Montreal: M. Richard(Harvey)&hellip;&hellip; 13.294&mdash;Montreal: Geoffrion(Harvey)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15.365&mdash;Montreal: M. Richard(H. Richard, Hervey)&hellip;&hellip; 17.00Penalties: Talbot 1.04, Olmstead 6.54, Regan 8.02, Boone 11.54, Chevra-Ciis 13.52.Third Period6&mdash;Montreal: M. Richard.(H. Richard)&hellip;&hellip; 18.17Penalties: None.<h2>Goals Galore</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02197/1360254-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="529" height="1159"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERNIE GEOFFRION</figcaption></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03148/1360247-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="574" height="1683"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01259/1360323-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"></div>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;It is a long way to the next training camp of the New York Rangers. But when the Manhattan Blueshirts do commence next September, they are certain to give more than a passing glance to young Ray Cyr, 23-year-old center.Cyr played during the 1956-57 season for the Rhode Island Reds who finished on top in the American Hockey League but were eliminated in the playoffs by the Rochester Americans. Cyr, it can be said, had a good year with the Reds.He got 54 points for the Reds, the second best total on a squad laden with players who have been in pro hockey for many seasons. In addition, Cyr was one of two players to take part in all 64 Providence games during the regular season. Paul Larivee was the other.Ray, who hails from Campbellton, N.B., played for Vancouver two seasons before joining the Reds. The 1955-56 season was his best thus far as Cyr picked up 65 points during that campaign on 33 goals and 32 assists.Coach Jack Crawford of the Reds, an all-time great with the Boston Bruins, was well satisfied with the play of Cyr. &ldquo;Ray played well for us&rdquo;, Crawford points out, &ldquo;and I think he has a good future in pro hockey&rdquo;.<h2>Simmons At Springfield</h2>BOSTON&rsquo;S DON SIMMONS took advantage of a day off to visit some of the friends he made while he was playing for the Springfield Indians. Front row, left to right: Mrs. Simmons, Don and Mrs. Stanley Boyce. Back row: Roger Boyce, Delores Costello, Don&rsquo;s cousin, and Paul Boyce. &#9632;

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Crawford Praises Ray Cyr

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;A move born of desperation in the final four games of the regular American Hockey League season may net Buffalo Coach Frank Eddolls one of the league&rsquo;s most potent scoring lines next season.After the Bisons had absorbed a 7-0 pasting from Springfield on March 16. Eddolls decided to play out the string with bis best talent working as a unit rather than trying to balance out three forward lines.Eddolls, who had intended to experiment with Ken Wharram as a right winger next fall, moved the high-scoring center to the right side of Larry Wilson and left winger Pete Conacher.Wharram had expressed some doubt previously about being able to adapt quickly since he had spent his entire career since junior at center ice.If he left something to be desired as a defensive right flanker, he hand his mates clicked so well offensively that it was overlooked by Eddolls.&ldquo;I intent to have the three of them working as a unit from the first day at training camp,&rdquo; Eddolls remarked after watching their work against Rochester, Cleveland, Hershey, and Springfield.Their point breakdown for the four games went like this:Conacher, 4 goals, 5 assists, 9 points;Wharram, 2 goals, 7 assists, 9 points;Wilson, 2 goals, 6 assists, 8 points.For each the period was the most productive of the season and came against three of the four clubs who were battling for choice playoff spots.It was a particularly encouraging note for Conacher to complete the season as he had a tough time hitting his stride this season. First, the quiet lad from Toronto was hampered by a training camp injury. When he did suit up, he and his old sidekick Wharram could nor find the magical touch that made them a potent 1-2 punch for 18 games while Conacher was with the Bisons on loan from New York Rangers in 1955-56.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not worried about any of the three for next season,&rdquo; Eddolls enthused. &ldquo;All are young, fast and naturally good scorers. They could turn out as our top line.&rdquo;While Conacher and Wharram belong to Buffalo outright. Wilson is property of the Chicago Black Hawks presently.Buffalo General Manager Fred Hunt, however, was hopeful of working out a deal with Hawks GM Tommy Ivan for purchase of Wilson&rsquo;s contract. &#9632;

Conacher, Wharram, Wilson B’s Big Line Next Season?

<div class="byline">By GEORGE PATRICK DUFFY</div>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;The Rhode Island Reds have concluded their 31st season in pro hockey and Terry Reardon and Jack Crawford have finished their second season as G.M. and coach, respectively.And despite the fact that the Reds were dumped from the playoffs by the Rochester Americans, the record proved that Reardon and Crawford have teamed to do a whale of a job with the Providence sextet.The two Irishmen, who were teammates at Boston some years ago. walked off with the Calder Cup and Teddy Oake Trophy last season for finishing first and winning the playoffs. In addition, the Reds also won the Tommy Filmore Trophy, symbolic of supremacy over the Springfield Indians, the other New England representative in the AHL.During the season just finished, the Reds gained the Teddy Oake Trophy again for winning the regular season pennant. And it was easy gaining the Filmore trophy over the last-place Indians.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02202/1360385-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="266" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Crawford</figcaption></div>With Reardon working hard behind his desk and Crawford in charge on the ice, the Reds can point to this two-year record:<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03149/1360378-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="1141" height="99"></div>Finishing first two years in a row was a big jump for the Reds who were on the bottom in 1954-55 before Reardon and Crawford took over. Now, they will soon start pointing towards another season. In the meantime, Reardon will devote some time to his storm window business in Providence and Crawford will resume his direction of a paper goods business around Cape Cod where he lives the year round. &#9632;

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Providence Bows Out Of Playoffs After Big Year

Biggest Goo!Cleveland&rsquo;s Bo Elik never scored a more important gool than the winner for rhe Baron&rsquo;s on April 7.Some RecordRochester&rsquo;s Bob Perreault allowed only 7 goals in 5 games os the Americans ousted the Reds.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01243/1360437-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="591" height="551"></div>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;TUESDAY, MARCH 26Rochester 1 at Providence 0(First game of best-of-seven semi-final)Rochester&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defence: Woit, Williams, Price, Lan-Klois; forwards: McDonald, Balfour, Masniek, Mazur, Hannigan, Horvath, Nykoluk. Aldcorn, Hurst, Lund.Providence&mdash;Goal: Bower; defence: Folk, Irwin. Branigan, McAvoy; forwards: Larivee, Toppazzini. Bartlett. Cyr. Cline, Davies, Blair, Ross, Johan-sen, Guidolin.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Bartlett. 1.15, Guidolin-4.55, Folk 5.32, McAvoy 7.32, Mazur 3.43.Second Period1&mdash;Rochester; McDonald(Masniek, Price)&hellip;&hellip; 18.36Penalties: Hurst 1.06, Irwin 9.49, Ma-sur 16.07.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Masniek 3.46, Toppazzini. two minors, Hannigan major, minor 11.30.THURSDAY, MARCH 28Rochester 2 at Providence 0(Rochester leads best-of-seven semi-final 2-0)Rochester&mdash;Goal: Perreault: defence: Woit. Williams, Price, Langlois; forwards: McDonald, Balfour, Masniek, Mazur, Hannigan, Horvath, Harris, Lund, Hurst, Aidcorn.Providence&mdash;Goal: Bower; defence: Branican. Folk, McAvoy, Irwin: forwards: Larivee, Toppazzini, Bartlett, Cline. Cyr, Davies, oJhansen, Blair, Ross, Guidolin.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Balfour 5.12, Cyr 7.51. Hurst 13.00, Irwin 15.24. Bartlett 19.26.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: McAvoy 2.45.Third Period1&mdash;Rochester: Mazur(Horvath, Balfour)&hellip;&hellip; 5.062&mdash;Rochester: Aidcorn (Balfour) 9.49Penalties: Masniek 3.15, Guidolin, since. Michael 12.00.FRIDAY, MARCH 29Providence 4 at Rochester 2(Rochester leads best-of-seven series. 2-1)First Period1&mdash;Rochester: Woit(Masnick. Aidcorn)&hellip;&hellip; 4.492&mdash;Providence: Blair (Rose).. 15.483&mdash;Providence: Guidolin(Blair, Folk)&hellip;&hellip; 16.42Penalties: Mazur 5.08, Brannigan 3.25, Folk 17.19.Second Period4&mdash;Rochester: Masniek(Balfour, Mazur)&hellip;&hellip; 18.51Penalties: Bartlett 1.43, Horvath 2.25, Blair 6.02, Folk 19.33.Third Period5&mdash;Providence: McAvoy (Guidolin, Johansen)&hellip;&hellip; 5.226&mdash;Rochester: Nykoluk(Hannigan, Hurst)&hellip;&hellip; 15.017&mdash;Providence: Cline&hellip;&hellip; 16.59Penalty: Mazur 12.00.SUNDAY. MARCH 31Providence 1 at Rochester 5(Rochester leads best-of-seven series. 3-1)Providnce&mdash;Goal: Bower; defence win, Branigan, Folk, Robertson, McAvoy: forwards: Larivee, Toppazziri. Guidolin, Cline, Davies, Cyr, Blair, Jo-tiansen, Ross.Rochester&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defence: Williams, Langlois, Duncan. Price; forwards: Horvath, Hannigan, Mazur, Masniek, McDonald, Murst, Ny-koluk, Balfour, Aldco-rn, Lund.First Period1&mdash;Rochester: Masniek&hellip;&hellip; 9.26 &rsquo;2&mdash;Providence: Ross(Toppazzini. Robertson)&hellip;. 19.00Penalties: Aidcorn, Davies 2.55, Ro-; bertson 7.46, Duncan 9.56, Irwin 13.51 Masniek, Branigan 15.09, Lund minor, misconduct 16.49.Second Period3&mdash;Rochester: Nykoluk(Hannigan Langlois)&hellip;&hellip; 9.39Penalties: Balfour 5.24, 15.26. McAvoy 5.24, Langlois 13.30, Johansen 13.53,Third Period4&mdash;Rochester: Mazur(Mesnick, Horvath)&hellip;&hellip; 9.535-Rochester: Nykoluk(Hannigan. Hurst)&hellip;&hellip; 11.066&mdash;Rochester: Horvath(Mazur, Balfour)&hellip;&hellip; 19.17Penalties: Horvath 9.46, Price 6.24, Cyr 8.57.WEDNESDAY. APRIL 3Rochester 4 at. Providence 2(Rochester wins best-of-seven semi-finals, 4-1)Rochester&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defense: Williams, Price, Langlois. Dun-an; forwards: McDonald, Balfour. Masniek, Mazur, Hannigan. Hurst, Horvath. Nykoluk, aidcorn, Lund.Providence&mdash;Goal: Bowel; defense: Irwin, Branigan, Robertson, McAvoy; forwards: Larivee, Toppazzini, Bartlett. Cyr, Cline, Davies, Johnansen. Guidolin, Ross. Blair.First Period1&mdash;Rochester: Balfour(Mazur. Duncan)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3.052&mdash;Rochester: Horvath(Lund. Mazur)&hellip;&hellip; 10.50Penalties: Langlois.54. Williams6.27, Davies 8.59. Guidolin 11.58, Price 14.51, Bartlett 14.51.Second Period3&mdash;Rochester: Masniek(Langlois)&hellip; 7.044&mdash;Providence: Cline(Ross, Cyr)&hellip;&hellip; 10.31Penalties: Robertson 2.44, Guidolin 5,43, Duncan 5.43. Branigan 5.53, Mazur 6.01, Irwin 12.55, Bartlett major 16.49, Hurst major 16.49.Third Period5&mdash;Rochester: McDonald(Lund, Masniek)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;. 6.566&mdash;Providence: Bartlett(Irwin)&hellip;&hellip; 11.02Penalties: Duncan 4.06. Cline, Hannigan, Hurst, Bartlett 16.56, Bartlett minor and misconduct, ami Hannigan 19.28.SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;TUESDAY. MARCH 26Hershey 3 at Cleveland 6(First game of best-of-seven semi-final)Cleveland&mdash;Goal: Paille: defence: Kraftcheck, Geogan. MacQueen, Ingram; forwards: Moore, Gordon. Vej-prava, Stearns, Elik, McLellan, Shvetz, Glover, Hayden, Pliziani.Hershey&mdash;Goal: MacNamara; defence: Price. Zeidel, Cherry, Dewsbury, Mathers; forwards: Kullman, Marshall, Panagabko, Solinger, O&rsquo;Brien. Duff, Smith. Fisher, Davis.First PeriodScoring: Nolle..Penalties; Cherry 3.07, Ingram 6.14, Shvetz 13.20, Moore. Smith, two minors 15.45.Second Period1&mdash;Hershey. O&rsquo;Brien(Fisher, Marshall&hellip;&hellip; 5.092&mdash;Hershey. Mathers&hellip;&hellip; 13.153&mdash;Hershey: Cherry(Smith, Zeidel)&hellip;&hellip; 17.12Penalties: Cherry 1.57, Ingram 4 39.Goegan 14.37, Price 18.48.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: Smith 6 41.WEDNESDAY. MARCH 27Cleveland 4 at Hershey 2(Best-of-seven semi-final tied, 1-1)Cleveland&mdash;Goal: Paille; defence: Kraftcheck, Goegan. Ingram. Hudson: forwards; Moore, Gordon, Vejprava, Stearns, Elik, McLellan, Shvetz, Glover, Hayden, MacQueen.Hershey&mdash;Goal: Maenamara; fence: Price, Zeidel. Dewsbury, Cher-y. Mathers; forwards Kullman. Marshall, Panagabko.. Solinger, O&rsquo;Brien, Nicholson, Duff fisher. Davis.First Period1&mdash;Cleveland. Moore.(Kraftcheck. Glover)&hellip;&hellip; 5.512&mdash;Cleveland; Glover(Moore, Elik)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17.24Penalties Mathers 3 23. Eilk 13.38. Panagabko 16.38. Moore, Solinge 17.59Second PeriodScoring. NonePenalties: Zeidel 1,49. Goegan 8.02. 14.40. Price 11.10, Kullman misconduct 12.14, Elik 12.22, Glover 13.46, O&rsquo;Brien 14.40, Ingram 15.4 4.Third Period3&mdash;Hershey: Fisher(Marshall)&hellip;&hellip; 10.094&mdash;Cleveland: Kraftcheck&hellip;. 12.365&mdash;Hershey: Fisher (Marshall)&rdquo; 18.116&mdash;Cleveland: Stearns (Shvetz) 19.21Penalties: Solinger 1.10. 14.33, Shvetz, Cherry majors, Ingram minor 12.00, Goegan 13.31, Glover, Ziede) 17.37.SATURDAY, MARCH 30Cleveland 5 at Hershey 2(Cleveland leads best-of-seven series, 2-1)Cleveland&mdash;Goal: Paille: defence:, Goegan. MacQueen. Hudson. Ingram; forwards: Moore. Glover, Elik. Vejprava, Gordon, Shvetz, McLellan, Hayden, Sterns.Hershey&mdash;Goal: McNamara; defence: Price. eZidel, Dewsbury, Mathers. Cherry; forwards: Kullman. Smith, So-linger. Marshall, Fisher, O&rsquo;Brien Panagabko, Davis. Duff.First Period1&mdash;Hershey: Solinger(Marshall. O&rsquo;Brien)&hellip;&hellip; 5.392&mdash;Hershey: Duff(Marshall. Mathers)&hellip;&hellip; 7.583&mdash;Cleveland: Kraftcheck(Moore)&hellip;&hellip; 14.414&mdash;Cleveland: Elik(Kraftcheck)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15.43Penalties: Marshall 1.59, Cherry 3.06, 13.54. Hayden 4.47, Ingram 5.06. Goegan 6.42. Glover 9.12, Panagabko 12.52, 14.20, Kullman misconduct 15.43.Second Period5&mdash;Cleveland: Ingram(Glover. Moore)&hellip;&hellip; 4.336&mdash;Cleveland: Hayden (Ingram) 11.24Penalties: MacQueen 1.55, Glover 10.39, Dewsburry 11.18, Ingram 11.31. McLellan 19.16.Third Period7&mdash;Cleveland Glover (Tngran) 8.17Penalties: Moore, Kullman 3.21, Duff 4.05, Zeidel 19.52.TUESDAY, APRIL 2Cleveland 2 at Herwhey 3(Best of-seven semi-final tied, 2-2)Cleveland&mdash;Goal: Paille: defense: Kraftcheck, Goegan. Macqueen, Hudson. Ingram; forwards: Moore. Glover, Elik, Vejprava, Gordon, Shvetz, McLellan, Hayden, Stearns.Hersliey&mdash;Goal: McNamara; delense: (Price, Zeidel. Dewsbury. Mathers, Cherry; forwards: Marshall. Fisher, O&rsquo;Brien. Kullman. Solinger, Smith. Panagabko, Davis, Duff.First Period1&mdash;Cleveland: Elik(Hudson, Moore)&hellip;&hellip; 15.38Penalties: MacQueen 3.06, Zeidel 8.17, Elik 10.38, Davis 13.50, Moore 18.11.Second Period2&mdash;Hershey: Davis(Panagbko, Price). 3.163&mdash;Hershey: Marshall(Fisher, Zeidel)&hellip;&hellip; 4.39Penalties: Moore. major 6.06, Solinger, major 6.06, Zeidel 18.34.Third Period4&mdash;Hershey: Duff (Panagabko) 2.515&mdash;Cleveland: Stearns(McLellan, Kraftcheek)&hellip;. 15.25Penalties: Shvetz 0.53. Imam 14.25.THURSDAY. APRIL 4Hershey 1 at Cleveland 2(Cleveland leads best-of-seven, semi-final. 3-2)Cleveland&mdash;Goal: Palle; defence Kruft cheek. Grogan, Ingram, Hudson: on wards: Moore, Gordon. Vejprava Steams Bike, MeLollan, Shvetz, Glover, MacQuee Poliziani.Hershey&mdash;Goal: MacNamara; defence: Price. Zeidel. Mathers, Cherry. Dewsbury; forwards:: Marshall. Kull-nian. Panagabko. O&rsquo;Brien, Solinger. Duff, Fisher, Dsvvies, Smith.First PeriodScoring: NonePenalties: MacQueen 3.25. Panagab-ko 8-.47, Kullman 9.42, Shvetz 18.42.Second Period1&mdash;Heishey: Fisher (Mathers) 9.592&mdash;Cleveland: Gordon(Glover Kraft-cheek)&hellip;&hellip; 16.293&mdash;Cleveland: Glover(Moore. Elik)&hellip;&hellip; 19.13Penalties: Shvetz. Zeidel 8.58, Mathers, Moore 14.23, Zeidel 1516.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Goegan 3.36, 13.05.SATURDAY, APRIL 6Cleveland 6 at Hershey 3(Best-of-seven semi-final tied 3-3)Hershey:&mdash;Goal: McNamara; defence: Price. Zeidel. Mathers, Cherry; forwards: Marshall,-Fisher, O&rsquo;Brien, Solinger, Kullman, Nieholson, Panagabko, Davis, Duff, Smith.First Period1&mdash;Hershey: Cherry(Solinger)&hellip;&hellip; 11.242&mdash;Hershey: Fisher(Marshal). O&rsquo;Brien)&hellip;&hellip; 12.56Penalties: Nicholson 6.21. Hudson 9.03, Ingram 12.39, MacQueen 17.31.Second Period3&mdash;Hershey: Marshall(Fisher, O&rsquo;Brien)&hellip;&hellip; 34Penalties; Zeidel 2.27. McLellan 5.20, Kraftcheck. Duff 8.22, Smith 9 40, Moore 9.50. Goegan 12.09, 16.45, 19 57. O&rsquo;Brien 14.37, Cherry misconduct 18.09.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Price 3.37, 10.09. Shvetz 4.09, Goegan 7.32.SUNDAY. APRIL 7Hershey 3 at Cleveland 5(Cleveland wins best-of-seven, semifinal, 4-3)Hershey&mdash;Goal: MacNamara: de-fensce: Price. Zeidel, Cherry, Mathers; forwards: Marshall. Solinger, Fisher, Kullman, O&rsquo;Brien, Davis, Panagabko, Duff, Smith, Nicholson.Cleveland&mdash;Goal: Paille; defence: Kraftcheck. Goegan. Ingram, Hudson; forwards: Moore, Elik, F. Glover, Hayden, H. Glover, McLellan, MacQueen, Vejprava, Shvetz, Stearns.First Period1&mdash;Hershey: Fisher(Price. eZIdel)&hellip;&hellip; 16.592&mdash;Cleveland: Gordon(Kraftcheck. Stearns)&hellip;&hellip; 16.463&mdash;Hershey: Fisher(Zeidel, Marshall)&hellip;&hellip; 19.57Penalties: Price 6.02. 16.29, Shvetz 9.26. Elik 12.29. Cherry 12.29. Kullman, major 15.52. F. Glover, major 15.52, Ingram 19.21.Second Period4&mdash;Hershey; Marshall (Zeidel) 2.475&mdash;Cleveland: Vejprava(Shvetz)&hellip;&hellip; 5.236&mdash;Cleveland: McLellan(Hayden. Kraftcheek)&hellip;&hellip; 16.15Penalties: Goegan 1.22, Duff 1.22. Mathers 1.31 H. Glover 1.31, Marshal) 4.55. F. Glover. 4.55, Shvetz 10.03, Price 11.06. Cherry 16.00.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: Shvetz 1.29.Overtime Period7&mdash;Cleveland: Elik (Ingram) 5.538&mdash;Cleveland: F. Gloverraftcheck)&hellip;&hellip;.. 9.37Penalties: None.<h2>Playoff Personalities</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02223/1360430-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="583" height="609"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRED GLOVER</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03184/1360423-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="547" height="677"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAUL MASNICK</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04152/1360416-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="575" height="607"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB PERREAULT</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By AL HOOPER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01257/1360492-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRANDON&rsquo;S PLAYING COACH DON RALEIGH</figcaption></div>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;GRIM TALES: In situations like Calgary&rsquo;s it is always discreet to say: &ldquo;It isn&rsquo;t losing that hurts&mdash;-it&rsquo;s the way we lost.&rdquo;Losely translated from the Western Hockey League vernacular that reads: &ldquo;/&rsquo; $%& &rsquo;()/)(&rsquo;*?%$/&rdquo;.Calgary blew it large, all right. Long after the sun had set over StamDeders&rsquo; playoff aspirations, the circumstances were being regurgitated like lumpy pablum,TO RECAP: Larruping Lee Fogolin&rsquo;s Stamps, who had won only one game all winter at Ed-romped in there for the opener monton&rsquo;s spacious playpen, of the Prairie Division&rsquo;s best of three quarter final and&mdash;you said it, Herbie&mdash;romped out with a 4-2 win in hand.In hand, nuts. It was too hot to hold. Bubbling all over with justifiable satisfaction, Stamps fought to contain themselves long enough to win the second game. One game is all they needed&mdash;after finishing 20 back of second place Edmonton in the scratch sessions.So Edmonton not only dismays Calgary&rsquo;s homefolk with a 6-1 rebuke in the Corral but proceeds to indicate the opener was ning that one likewise, 4-1.an error on their part by win Don&rsquo;t blame Calgary. Edmonton had the arsenal. That Fo-golin inspired his slightly corroded veterans to frighten Bud Poile&rsquo;s Flyers THAT much warrants something in the nature of a special award.How about a picture of coach Poile&rsquo;s ulecers? Fogolin gave &rsquo;em to him in the first place.&hellip;AND INTO THE NIGHT: Just as Flyers were favored somewhat hugely against Calgary, they are favored to lose fast to Brandon in the Prairie Division final.&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t talk to me about odds,&rdquo; says Poile, one of whom should happen to every city in hockey.Even when Poile is scared, as he humanly was after the semifinal opener, he ranks with sport&rsquo;s first-run features. There is no such animal as too-little-time for Poile&mdash;whether the demands come from press or people&mdash;or even radio, for that matter.&ldquo;Dennis Riggin could be the difference for us,&rdquo; says Poile of his favorite goal-tender. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no kidding about Luce Dechene (Riggin&rsquo;s Brandon counterpart). He&rsquo;s got the experience and the will to be the best. But I&rsquo;ve never seen anyone develop faster than our boy. He&rsquo;s hungry, too.&rdquo;Which, naturally, brings to mind Bones Raleigh.Brandon&rsquo;s emaciated coacher, who swears up and down&mdash;the way he skates&mdash;that this will be his last term in a playing capacity, explains why:&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve just run down. I haven&rsquo;t played some this year &rsquo;cause I got the energy anymore. I&rsquo;ve felt I could help the team. This was my ease-out year. We&rsquo;ve got enough YOUNG guys (under 30, presumably, since that is Raleigh&rsquo;s age although it&rsquo;s hard to tell when he marshalls his energy long enough to step out there). Who needs me?&rdquo;setting in &ldquo;but to my alleged Me, for one. Nostalgia may be mind there is still no substitute tor finesse. That means Raleigh.Pardon? What&rsquo;s that, Bones? Oh, you&rsquo;re going to win it all out here.Zounds&mdash;methinks you&rsquo;re right.<h2>Still Going Strong &#9632;</h2>

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Stampeders Snap Hoodoo But Still Lose Series

VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;CHIPS OFF THE OL&rsquo; ICECUBE: The working over the Western Hockey League got record-wise this year was reminiscent of one of the hard-eyed scenes form an Alan Ladd picture&hellip; And just like the hero in the picture, the league emerged with bruises in the most becoming places, and nary a hair mussed&hellip;Who was most responsible for this&rsquo; brutal and unprovoked attack?&hellip; Bones Raleigh&rsquo;s Brandon Regals, thass who&hellip; Mark down these Irrevocable all-time records, then hasten to your friendly grocer for a packet of Believe-It-Or-Not pills&hellip;ONE: They won 44 games, games, surpassing the old mark of 42 established by New Westminster in 1951-52&hellip;.TWO: Posted&rsquo; 92 points, one better than the 91 left to mildew by the same old, good old Royals&hellip;You&rsquo;re not all broken up?&hellip; Okay. Try this: Regals, in rocketing from last to first place in the Prairie Division in one easy season, were the only people to win more road games than they lost (18-16-1)&hellip; They subscribed excitingly to the best-defence-is-the-best offence theory, funnelling a league high of 2271 shots at innocent victims&hellip; Among other things this got them the most first goals of the game (41)&hellip; Viva, offence&hellip;DARLING, IT&rsquo;S &ldquo;OUR&rdquo; RECORD: Irony s what it is&hellip; Seattle&rsquo;s Incredible Hero&mdash;Guyle Fielder&mdash;had already fractured the all-time all-professional scoring record (122 points) when the Americans approached their final game of the term.., They were at home to Victoria&hellip; It was the slick centre&rsquo;s large chance to capitalize with enough points to wrap his record in barbed wire&hellip; Instead he pulled up lame&hellip; &rsquo;Flu&hellip; Missed his first game of the term&hellip;Seattle won it, as it happened, 4-1 over Victoria&hellip; Night before, though, they had lost backbone Emile (The Cat) Francis for the year at Vancouver&hellip; Emile fell without help in the first period of the meaningless games and disclocated his shoulder&hellip; The next night (Victoria at Seattle) the Amerks&rsquo; coach Keith Allen begged the leave of Victoria&rsquo;s Colin Kilburn to borrow Victoria&rsquo;s spare goal-tender&hellip; Lad&rsquo;s name was Don Hamilton, a genial blond 19-year-old who spent the winter with Melville Millionaire&hellip;juniors&hellip; Okay, said Colin&hellip; Fine, said Allen&hellip; Enter Hamilton, to perform sensationally in stopping Victoria as though he did not have a friend there, anyway&hellip; Moral: Home is where the heart is, but once the game starts.&mdash;duck&hellip;MEANWHILE, BACK ON THE RANCH: When New Westminster&rsquo;s Bob Love scored his 200th Western League goal everybody who secretly hopes nice guys finish first was wearing his gratified grin&hellip; Speaking of beams, Bob&rsquo;s isn&rsquo;t getting any thinner. But when the doughty dandy from Dauphin does hang &rsquo;em up, as they say in the pulps, he will have given us poor people something to remember him by&hellip; You want a f&rsquo;rinstance?&mdash;He is the only Western Leaguer&mdash;ever&mdash;to surpass 500 points&hellip;His longtime linemate Gordon Faslioway also prospered&hellip;&hellip; Gordon closed with a rush to post 41 goals. WHL total: 274&hellip; Nobody else can make that statement&hellip; Fashoway reached his all-time perch in seven seasons and 449 games&mdash;not many when you say it fast&hellip;There may be no connection but shortly after defenceman Peter Durham was hailed publicly as New Westminster&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player, league headquarters announced he had missed by a distraught breath the WHL penalty record&hellip; &#9632;

Regals Excel As WHL Takes Record Beating

Near RecordPete Durham of New Westminster came within three minutes of tieing the mark of most penalties in minutes in one season set by Harry Dick of Vancouver during the 1954-55 season.Most GoalsGordie Fashoway of New Westminster picked up a &rsquo;hat trick&rsquo; in the last gome of the season to up his goal total to 41 and increase his all time WHL record to 274 in 449 games in seven seasons play.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01256/1360575-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="583" height="370"></div>WHL Quarter-FinalsMonday March 25thCalgary at EdmontonTuesday March 26thVictoria at New WestminsterThursday March 28thEdmonton at CalgaryNew West, at VictoriaSaturday March 30thCalgary at Emonton (if nec.) Victoria at New West. (if nec.)SATURDAY. MARCH 23Vancouver 3 at New Westminster 7First Period1&mdash;New Westminster: Durham(Kukulowicz, Goodwin)&hellip; 0.422&mdash;Vancouver: Wylie(McLeod, Hudson)&hellip;&hellip; 4.323&mdash;New Westminster: Dorohoy(Durham)&hellip;&hellip; 13.254&mdash;New Westminster: Fashoway(Love, Bergeron)&hellip;&hellip; 16.065&mdash;New Westminster: Goodwin(Love)&hellip;&hellip; 17.32Penalty: Keller.Second Period6&mdash;Vancouver: Maloney(Wylie, McLeod)&hellip;&hellip; 1.087&mdash;New Westminster: Fashoway 9.178&mdash;New Westminster: Durham(Boyce, Love)&hellip;&hellip; 9.409&mdash;New Westminster: Fashoway (Boyce, Love)&hellip;&hellip; 16.13Penalty: Brown.Third Period10-Vancouver: Wylie (Maloney. McLeod)&hellip;&hellip; 53Penalties: None.Victoria 1 at Seattle 4First Period1&mdash;Victoria: Carmichael(Haworth)&hellip;&hellip; 12.41Penalty:,SinclairSecond Period2&mdash;Seattle: Filion(Hart, lea)&hellip;&hellip; 2.303&mdash;Seattle: Lea (Filion)&hellip;&hellip; 2.504&mdash;Seattle: Dorohoy(Wright. Sinclair)&hellip;&hellip; 4.555&mdash;Seattle: Dorohoy (Fonteyne) 11.29 Penalties: Heinrich, Brown, Melen-Chuk, Repka, Kilburn.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Hart, Pelletier (served by Leach).Edmonton 1 at Calgary 3First Period1&mdash;Calgary: Couture(Houghton, Scott)&hellip;&hellip; 2.182&mdash;Calgary: Scott(Couture. Finney)&hellip;&hellip; 10.57Penalties: Hillman, Burton (minor). Barry (major), Barclay, Strate, Ross Sclisizzi.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Holmes, Barkley (2), Costello, Leswick (major), Dzurko (major), Lunde.Third Period3&mdash;Edmonton: Melnyk(Costello, Holmes)&hellip;&hellip; 5.594&mdash;Calgary: Dzurko(Barry, Sclisizzi)&hellip;&hellip; 14.07Penalty: Bassen.Winnipeg-4 at Brandon 10First Period1&mdash;Brandon: Lilley (Bucyk, Manson)&hellip;&hellip; 2.002&mdash;Winnipeg: Hannigan(Redahl, Ingarfield)&hellip;&hellip; 8.293&mdash;Brendon:: Voss(Bucyk. Milford) 18.35Penalty: Shero.Second Period4&mdash;Brandon: E. Ghorley&hellip;&hellip; 515&mdash;Winnipeg: Price(Ford. Wilkie)&hellip;&hellip; 5.126&mdash;Winnipeg: Wilkie&hellip;&hellip; 11.467&mdash;Brandon: Voss (Colwill)&hellip; 14.098&mdash;Brandon: Haley(Voss, Chrystal)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15.33Penalties: Bucyk, Price, Colwill.Third Period9&mdash;Brandon: Colwill (Chrystal. Johnson)&hellip;&hellip; 1.5810&mdash;Brandon: Johnson(E. Ghorley, B. Ghorley).. 8.3511&mdash;Brandon: Manson (Chrystal) 12.1712&mdash;Brandon: Voss(Haley, Colwill)&hellip;&hellip; 12.3413&mdash;Brandon: E. Chorley(Johnson, Yanosik)&hellip;&hellip; 14.4014&mdash;Winnipeg: Ford(Wilkie, Burega)&hellip;&hellip; 16.18Penalties: None.FRIDAY MARCH 22Seattle 7 at Vancouver 9First PeriodSeattle: Dorohoy (Leonardon, Bradley)&hellip;&hellip; 1.282&mdash;Vancouver: Johnson(McLean, Keller)&hellip;&hellip; 4.273&mdash;Vancouver: McLeod(Wylie, Maloney)&hellip;&hellip; 7.554&mdash;Vancouver: Keller(Brown, Pennell)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9.375&mdash;Vancouver: Maloney(Wylie, Syverson)&hellip;&hellip; 11.356&mdash;Seattle: Wright&hellip;&hellip; 14.58Penalties: Creighton 5.54, Johnson 13.18,: Peka and McLean 14.06Second Period7&mdash;Vancouver: Hamillon(Johnson)&hellip;&hellip; 408&mdash;Vancouver: Maloney(Wylie, McLeod)&hellip;&hellip; 2.079&mdash;Seattle: Leonardon(Bradley. Dorohey)&hellip;&hellip; 10.42(Fielder, Kinasewich)&hellip;&hellip; 13.48 Penalties: None.Third Period11&mdash;Seattle: Kinasewich(Fielder, Fonteyne)&hellip;&hellip; 1.4612&mdash;Vancouver: Kaiser (Pennell) 2.0613&mdash;Seattle: Lea (Filion, Hart) 6.2514&mdash;Vancouver: Maloney (Currie) 10.1815&mdash;Seattle: Bradley(Leonardon, Dorohoy)&hellip;&hellip; 15.0616&mdash;Vancouver: Wylie (Maloney) 15.24 Penalties: Johnson 13.36.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03169/1360568-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="579" height="379"></div>WHL QUARTER-FINALSSERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;MONDAY. MARCH 2S Calgary 4 at Edmonton 2 (Calgary lead best-of-three quarterfinal, 1-0)Calgary&mdash;Goal: Bassen; defence: Dzurko, Miehaluk, Houghton, Fogolin,; Barkley: forwards: Kuryluk, Couture, Sclisizzi, Ashworth, Barry, Ross, Duke, Scott, Finney.Edmonton&mdash;Goal: Rliggin; defence: Roggeveen, Strate, Coflin, Millrnm; forwards: &rsquo;Costello. Leswick, Homies, Poile, McCreary, MacFarland, Melnyk, McCarthy, Lunde. Burton.First Period1&mdash;Edmonton: Leewick(Poile, Hillman)&hellip;&hellip; 18.32Penalties; Kuryluk 4.14, Burton 4.14, Leswick 13.2. Michalute 17.45.Second Period2&mdash;Calgary Scllszzi&hellip;&hellip; 3.38Dzurko 5.56. Burton 15.57.Third Period3&mdash;Calgary: Couture&hellip;&hellip; 5.254&mdash;Calgary: Duke(Ross, Kuryluk)&hellip;&hellip; 14.265&mdash;Edmonton: Melnyk(Holmes, Hillman)&hellip;&hellip; 19.016&mdash;Calgary: Sclisizzi(Barry. Michaluk)&hellip;&hellip; 19.48Penalty; Dzurko 1.01.Edmonton 6 at Calgary 1(Best-of-three quarter-final tied, 1-1)First Period1&mdash;Edmonton: Lunde(Burton, McCreary)&hellip;&hellip; 15.112&mdash;Edmonton: Burton(Hillman, Lunde)&hellip;&hellip; 15.22Penalties: Holmes 2.45, Dzurko 13.04, Fogolin 14.45Second Period3&mdash;Edmonton: Lunde(McCreary, Burton)&hellip;&hellip; 5.044&mdash;Edmonton: Lunde(McCreary)&hellip;&hellip; 9.095&mdash;Calgary; Barry(Ashworth, Dzurko)&hellip;&hellip; 11.156&mdash;Edmonton: McCarthy(Melnyk)&hellip;&hellip; 14.01Penalties: Burton 14.48, Cofflin 16.39. Strate 19.49.Third Period7&mdash;Edmonton: Holmes (Melnyk) 4.41 Penalties: Finney. 13, Poile 6.20. Duke 9.04.Calgary 1 at Edmonton 4 (Edmonton wins best-of-three quarterfinal. 2-1)First Period1&mdash;Edmonton: Burton(Lunde, McCreary)&hellip;&hellip; 18.18Penalties: McCreary 13.44, Finney 17.24.Second Period2&mdash;Edmonton: Melnyk(Holmes, McCarthy)&hellip;&hellip; 2.053&mdash;Calgary: Dzurko(Barry, Michaluk)&hellip;&hellip; 10.484&mdash;Ednion: BurtonPenalties Schlisizzi 5.25, Coflin 12.30.Third Period5&mdash;Edmonton: McCarthy(Hillman)&hellip;&hellip; 8.43Penalties: Holmes (two minors) 15.09, Finney (two minors) 15.09.SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;TUESDAY, MARCH 26Victoria 2 at New Westminster 3 (New Westminster leads best-of-three quarter-final, 1-0)Victoria&mdash;Goal: Pelletier, defence: Dobbyn, Heinrich. Davidson, Matheson; forwards: Leach, Howarth, Carmichael, Brown. Anderson, Powell, Chiupka, Kilburn. Macauley.New Westminster Goal: Bentley; defence: Durham, Bergeron, Matthews, Yanchuk; forwards: O. Dorohoy, Love, Goodwin, Olson, Fashoway, Boyce. Schmautz, Roberge. Kukulowicz.First Period1&mdash;Victoria: Heinrich(Carmichael)&hellip;&hellip; 2.102&mdash;Victoria. Macauley (Powell; 4.10 Penalties: Durham minor and major 13.26, Kilburn 13.26, Dobbyn 18.33.Second Period3&mdash;New Westminster: Fashoway (Boyce. Matthews)&hellip;&hellip; 22Penalty: Matthews 5.00.Third Period4&mdash;New West minsler; Durham(Love. Fashoway) 15.51Penalties: Durham 5.11, Dobbyn 14.11.Overtime Period5&mdash;New Westminster; Schmautz (Goodwin, Durham)&hellip;&hellip; 55THURSDAY. MARCH 28NEW Westminster 1 at Victoria 4(Best-of-three quarter-final, lied. 1-1)First Period1&mdash;Victoria: Brown(McCauley, Powell)&hellip;&hellip; 5.14Penalties: Kilburn and Durham 1.25. Olson and Pelletier (served by Bul-lo 4.38. Dobbyn and Dorohow 10.00, McNab 11.24. Davison 16.10Second Period2&mdash;Vittoria: Powell (Davidson) 3.373&mdash;Victoria: Chiupka(Hilburn, Matheson)&hellip;&hellip; 11.194&mdash;New Westminster: Fashoway (Love). 19.54Penalties: Fashoway 8.14, Heinrich, (major) Hi. 10. Boyce 18.50, Dorohoy and Carmichael 19.04, Brown 19.30, Dorohoy (10-minute misconduct) 19.54.Third Period5&mdash;Victoria: Carmichael&hellip;&hellip; 3.25Penalty: Heinrich 11.31.SATURDAY. MARCH 30 Vitcoria 1 at New Westminster 2 New Westminster wins best-of-three quarter-final. 2-1)Scoring: NoneFirst PeriodPenalty: Heinrich 8.18.Second Period(Lebodia, Love)&hellip;&hellip; 3.351&mdash;New Westminster: Fashoway Ptnalties: Davidson 8.09, Olson and Dobbyn 8.53, Fashoway 13 20.Third Period2&mdash;Victoria: Dobbyn (Anderson. Chiupka)&hellip;&hellip; 8.04Penalties: None.Overtime Period3&mdash;New Westminster: Love(Lebodia, Fashoway)&hellip;&hellip; 11.55Penalties: Kukulowicz and Dobbyn 5.49<h2>A Royal Welcome</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02216/1360561-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="1688" height="2056"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB BERGERON, popular member of the New Westminster Royals was given a big night in New Westminster recently when fans and officials got together and presented him with a cheque for $1000.00 as well as numerous gifts. Bob is shown with his family at the presentation ceremonies.</figcaption></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04133/1360554-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="585" height="1560"></div>Most GoalsRay Kinasewich, Seattle&hellip;&hellip;Most AssistsGuyle Fielder, Seatlie&hellip;&hellip; 89Most Game Winning GoalsRay Manson, Brandon&hellip;&hellip; 10Most First Goal of GameLes. Colwill, Brandon&hellip;&hellip; 8Bill McCreary, Edm.Most Gouls One GameWayne Brown, Victoria&hellip;&hellip; 4Phil. Maloney, VancouverEddie Dorohoy, SeattleSid Finney, CalgaryMost Hat TricksJackie McLeod, Vancouver,&hellip;. 4Assisted On Most Game Winning GoalsGuyle Fielder, Seattle&hellip;&hellip; 14Most Goals Scored When Opposition Short handedRay Kinasewich, Seatllie 13Phil. Maloney, VancouverMost Goals Against When Sorting PenaltiesBill Burega. Wpg&hellip;&hellip; 19Most ShutoutsBev. Bentley. New West&hellip;&hellip; 7Most Shots StoppedMarcel Pellelier, Victoria&hellip;&hellip; 20.83Most Minutes In PenaltiesPete Durham, New West&hellip;&hellip; 206<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05111/1360547-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="595" height="467"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01260/1360606-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="295" height="322"></div>(As seen in the Montreal Herald)&bull; Tall Lex Cook made his second tour around the Quebec circuit recently to cause upraised eyebrows. Once around is generally regarded normal for this gent who smokes his cigars in a holder and defies style-trends by wearing hats that are somewhere just short of ten gallon size.You see Cook is only parttime scout tor the Cleveland Barons. Between seasons he sells Program advertising on the walls He devotes the early part of the and-gallery fronts of the rink, season to promotion gimmicks, but once he and his boss, Jim Hendy, are reasonably sure the Barons are in for a brisk boxoffice trade Cook begins to study airline and railway time-tables. He gets out his 100-mile shirt, totes a light suitcase and hef sets forth on tour.Of course he&rsquo;s no stranger to the young old-timers in any of the QHL. towns. He&rsquo;s really one of them. For he had two hitches as coach in the Quebec loop, at Cornwall, Ont. and in Quebec.He was glad to renew old touches, but made no effort to disguise the fact he was on a still hunt for talent. He came up with a couple of good ones in Chicoutimi last year, and won&rsquo;t allow anyone to forget it.He grabbed Jimmy Moore, the high-triggered center man, second in the QHL points race and Marcel Paiile. flashy goaler, who won the Northey Trophy as the 1955-55 best rookie.Both have given very satisfactory performance for the Barons. Moore collected till assists, an dhis 80 points, gave him a third place tie with Paul Larivee, of Providence Beds, in fanil scoring list of the American League.Paille was a big factor in a second place tie for the Barons with Rochester Amerks. He was third lowest in the goals-against column and tooped the AHL in shutouts with seven.&ldquo;If I ever come up with another pair of prospects who deliver the goods like Moore and Paille have done I&rsquo;m made as a stout for life&rdquo; says Cook.And all this brings up the thought that the scouts are paying more and more attention to the QHL as a proving ground for major league talent. They know of course that the NHL Canadians come up with high class material from this source each season. Last season the Habs took winger Claude Provost, plus defensemen Guy Talbot and Bob Turner from the Shawini-gan Falls Cataracts. When they needed an extra forward late this season Phil Goyette was taken by Canadians from the Royals.Detroit Red Wings are supposed to have ample reserves located on their farms in the OHA and in Western Canada, but the &ldquo;motor mechanics&rdquo; always to keep a warry on players in the Quebec circuit.&hellip;Johnny Mitchell, the Detroit club&rsquo;s chief scout, makes two rounds of the QHL each season. He likes to see how the players on all teams react to competition both at home and on the road.After The New York Rangers were knocked out of the Stanley Cup playoffs by Canadiens last Spring, the Broadway Blues&rsquo; coach Phil Watson when asked about his immediate plans said: &ldquo;First of all I&rsquo;m going down to New York to clean up a few of my personal business affairs, and my paperwork with the dub, then I&rsquo;m coming right back here to look over all your players in the Quebec League in their playoffs. There must be some men there we can use, either with our own dub or on our farms.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Al Parsley

QUEBEC, Que.&mdash;The combined efforts of Punch Imlach and Ike Parent to give Quebec City hockey fans something to cheer about reached major proportions here last week when the Aces, proving quite conclusively why they finished atop of the Quebec Hockey League disposed of the Three Rivers Lions in four straight games.Not to be outdone by this feat of derring-do, Phil Renaud&rsquo;s Chicoutimi Sagueneens applied the whitewash brush to the Montreal Royals, pushing them to the wayside in the same number of games.That set the stage for what Quebec fans eagerly looked forward to as a big final series. The Aces, playing in the familiar confines of the beautiful Coliseum took a 1-0 lead by defeating the Chicks, 4-2.Parent enjoying a fantastic season in his rookie year as coach of the Aces, has rounded the team into a cohesive unit and is getting plenty of mileage out of Orval Tessier, Marcel Bonin, Bob Beckett and Dick Gamble, all former. National Leaguers who seem to have taken a new lease on life and hope to win their way back to the majors.Bonin, the square-jawed Quebecer, who created something of a legend a few years ago by publicly wrestling with a Bear, is having a tremendous playoff series. He leads the league with three goals and eight assists in five games, followed closely by Tessier and Gamble.The Chicks went into the finals raving about George Roy, the club&rsquo;s do-it-all-guy who took a personal pride in practically eliminiating the Royals singlehandedly. It was Roy&rsquo;s big goals that spelled the difference between the clubs. &#9632;

Quebec-Chicoutimi Meet In Quebec Loop Finals

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT. Mich.&mdash;Hockey&rsquo;s Cinderella team has moved out of here to seek its final fitting for the &ldquo;glass slipper&rdquo;&mdash;in this case, the Stanley Cup.With the Boston Bruins went the official blessnigs of the conquered Red Wings.&ldquo;This is Boston&rsquo;s year&mdash;they&rsquo;ll give Montreal a hell of a battle,&rdquo; predicted Jack Adams.His Detroiters humbled in the clincher of. the playoff semifinals, Adams stood in the Boston Lockerroom and talked to reporters while offering formal congratulations. He started to leave, turned back, put his arms around Lynn Patrick and Milt Schmidt, and told them quietly:&ldquo;Go all the way.&rdquo;It was only a wish. The Bruins didn&rsquo;t require that kind of advice. They were &ldquo;goers&rdquo; all the way against the Wings in taking the preliminary round in five games.Having beaten the National Hockey League champions, the Bruins planned to continue this &ldquo;Boston Year&rdquo; by also beating the defending Stanley Cup champions.&ldquo;We like this underdog role,&rdquo; pointed out the panting Schmidt. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve never been anything but&mdash;pegged for sixth place before the season started, then underdog to Detroit&rsquo;s champions before this round.&ldquo;Canadiens will know they&rsquo;ve been in a series,&rdquo; he promised.Stripped down to the bare essentials, the Bruins upset the Wings in the semis with one decisive tactic:: Fierce checking.Checking is a fundamental part of hockey but to do it successfully calls for a willingness for hard work and heavy going. The Bruins simply had more of this. They were hungrier.It made the difference in the last three games&mdash;all Boston triumphs&mdash;which were even affairs in all other ways.Only a hungry club could have finished off the series the way Boston did&mdash;coming from behind twice and scoring three goals in the final period, all on Detroit ice, for the 4-3 clincher.In some ways Detroit&rsquo;s downfall was predictable. Although finished on top of the NHL standings, the Wings were skidding in the final stages. They survived on offense chiefly because of Gordie Howe&rsquo;s ability to shoulder a tremendous lead and the late spurt of Alex Delvecchio.Even so, Detroit became champions by dominating the three weakest club while unable to handle either of its two leading challengers. Both Montreal and Boston held a winning edge in the season series.The Bruins won seven of the 14 meetings, lost four and tied three. What was more natural than the Bruins to keep it up at playoff time?While Boston and Montreal battled through the finals, a completely new eyaluation of Red Wing array for the future was underway in Detroit.A wholesale shakeup appeared likely. Who would be traded? Shipped to the minors? Dropped into retirement?Only Adams knew the answers and he wasn&rsquo;t talking. But there was no concealing that a brand new rebuilding job faced him during the summer before he launched his 31st year at Detroit&rsquo;s general manager. &#9632;

Detroit Praises Fighting Bruins

Four StraightQuebec Aces and Chicoutimi Sagueneens both won their semi-final series in straight games.Bonin SailingQuebec&rsquo;s Marcel Bonin has taken the lead in the playoff scoring with 3 goals and 8 assists.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01266/1360713-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="589" height="549"></div>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;TUESDAY. MARCHThree Rivers 0 at Quebec 2(Quebec lends best-of-seven series. 1-0)Three Rivers&mdash;Goal: Marcotte: de-fense: Ernst. Bownass. Bedarcl, Man-cotto; forwards: Bell, Kapusta. Kabe. Attwell. Vinet. Pepin. Thibault, Corcoran, Bisaillon. Gagnon.Quebec&mdash;Goal: Millar: &rsquo;defense: Crozier. MacNab. Hillman, Lamirande; forwards: Gamble. Tessier. Teal. Bonin. Beckett, Labadie. O&rsquo;Ree, Tremblay, Achtymichuk. Maxwell.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Corcoran 1.27. Bonin 7.47.Second Period1&mdash;Quebec: O&rsquo;Ree(Hiliman. Tremblay&hellip;&hellip; 15.31Penalties: Bownass 19.59, O&rsquo;Ree 19.59.Third Period2&mdash;Quebe Tessier(Bonin. Lamirande)&hellip;&hellip; 3.38Penalties: Mascotto major 6.15, Beckett major 6.15, NtacNah 16.13.WEDNESDAY. MARCH 27Quebec 5 at Three Rivers 4Quebec&mdash;Goal: Miliar; defense: Crozier. MacNab, Hillman. Lamirande. forwards: Tessier, Teal, Bonin. Backett. Labadie. O&rsquo;Ree, Tremblay. Achtymichuk. Cossette. Macwell. Gamble.Three Rivers&mdash; Goal: Marcotte: defense: Ernst, Bownass, Bedard, Mascotto: forwards:. Bell, Kapusta. Kabel. Attwell, Vinet, Popin. Thibault, Corcoran, Bisaillon, Gagnon.First Period1&mdash;Three Rivers: Corcoran(Kapusta). 8.382&mdash;Three Rivers: Gagnon(Bell, Pepin)&hellip;&hellip; 19.53Penalties: Gamble 3.21, MacNal 5.36, Mascotto 9.25, Hillman 9.25. Lamirande 11.42. Bedard 14.33, Beckett 17.01, Millar 18.24.Second Period3&mdash;Quebec: Tessier (Bonin)&hellip; 1.154&mdash;Three Rivers: Vinet (Atwell) 5.465&mdash;Three Rivers: Gagnon(Corcoran, Kapusta)&hellip;&hellip; 12.336&mdash;Quebec: Gamble(Hillman. Beckett)&hellip;&hellip; 18.53Penalties: Mascotto 2.42, 8.43, Bonin 4.56, Kapusta 19.01, Hillnum 19.01.Third Period7&mdash;Quebec: Beckett(Achtymichuk, Gamble)&hellip;&hellip; 7.308&mdash;Quebec: Teal(Tessier, Bonin)&hellip;&hellip; 9.469&mdash;Quebec: Beckett(Gamble, Achtymichuk)&hellip; 19.14 Penalties: None.SUNDAY. MARCH 3.1Three Rivers 2 at Quebec 4(Quebec leads best-of-seven series, 3-0)Three Rivers&mdash; Goal: Marcotte: defense: Bownass, Bedard. Mascotto. Tennant: forwards: Beil. Kapusta, Kabel, Attwell, Vinet. Pepin, Thibeault. Corcoran, Bisaillon. Gagnon.Quebec&mdash;Goal: Millar; defense: Crozier, MacNab. Hillman, Lamirand: forwards: Gamble. Tessier, Teal. Bonin. Backett. Labadie. O&rsquo;Ree, Tremblay, Achtymichuk. Macwell.First Period1&mdash;Quebec: Achtymichuk(MacNab. Beckett)&hellip;&hellip; 6.252&mdash;Three River: Gagnon(Kapusta, Bownass)&hellip;&hellip; 11.073&mdash;Quebec: Teal(Bonin. Tessier)&hellip;&hellip; 15.16Penalties: Mascotto 1.53, Kabel 6.12.MacNab 8.14, Achtymichuk 8.14, Bowsaw 12.08.Second Period4&mdash;Quebec: Gamble(Bonin. Crozier)&hellip;&hellip; 6.26Penalties: Mascotto 0.36. Gamble 1.00, Lamirande 1.11, Corcoran 4.51. Bisaillon misconduct &rsquo; 6.26, Bell 6.26, Bedard.28. Kabel minor and misconduct 9.32, Pepin 17.59.Third Period5&mdash;Quebec: Tessier (Bonin. Teal)&hellip;&hellip; 1.216&mdash;Three Rivers: Corcoran(Bedard, Kapusta)&hellip;&hellip; 9.51Penalties: Hillman 1.13, Crozier 4.41, Gagnon misconduct 19.23.WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 Quebec 6 at Three Rivers 2(Quebec wins beet of seven semi-finals, 4-0)Quebec&mdash; Goal: Millar; defense: Crozier, MacNab. Hillman, Lamirande; forwards: Gamble. Tessier, Teal, Bonin, Beckett. Labadie, O&rsquo;Ree, Tremblay, Achtymichuk. Maxwell.Three Rivers&mdash; Goal: Marcotte; defense: Ernst, Bownass, Bedard, Mascotto, Tennant; forwards: Kapusta, Kabel, Attwell, Vinet. Pepin, Thibault, Corcoran. Bisaillon, Gagnon.First Period1&mdash;Quebec: Crozier&hellip;&hellip; 10Penalties: Bedaid 1.16, 13.33, MacNab 9.56, Crozier 14.27.Second Period2&mdash;Quebec: Labadie(O&rsquo;Mee, Tremblay)&hellip;&hellip; 5.003&mdash;Quebec; Tremblay(O&rsquo;Ree. Lamirande)&hellip;&hellip; 12.314&mdash;Three Rivers: Bisaillon(Pepin, Thibault)&hellip;&hellip; 13.335&mdash;Quebec: Tessier(Bonin, Teal)&hellip;&hellip; 15.29Penalty: Tennant 14.48.Third Period6&mdash;Quebec: Bonin&hellip;&hellip; 147&mdash;Quebec: Bonin&hellip;&hellip; 17.018&mdash;Three Rivers: Pepin(Thibault, Bownass)&hellip;&hellip; 18.12Penalty: Achtymichuk 5.18.SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;TUESDAY MARC 26Montreal 1 at Chicoutimi 2(Chicoutimi leads best-of-seven series, 1-01 Royals&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defense: Roche. Deslauriers. Clune, Keating. MacPherson; forwards: G. Rousseau, Boucher. Burnett, Denis, Gillis, Bradley, Laplante, Soychak, Cressman.Chicoutimi&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defense: Glaude. Hanna, Roy. R. Rousseau; forwards: Leelair, Topoll. Perreault. Hicks, Locas. Reger, Groleau, Baluik, Pichette, Watson.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Bradley 0.57. Watson 4.51. Baluik 9.35, Lapiante 9.35, Roy 13.55, Hanna 17.00.Second Period1&mdash;Chicoutimi: Roy(TopoIl. Perreault)&hellip;&hellip; 352&mdash;Montreal; Burnett (Gillis).. 3.043&mdash;Chicoutimi: Leger(Locas. Glaude)&hellip;&hellip; 4.56Penalties: Bradley 16.50, Topoll 16.50, Baluik 19.33.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Perrault 6.46, Soychak 8.68, Locas 11.55.THURSDAY, MARCH 28Chicoutimi 3 at Montreal 1(Chicoutimi leads best-of-seven series, 2-0)Chicoutimi&mdash;Goal: Frederick: defence: Glaude, Roy, Hanna, R. Rousseau; forwards: Watson, Locas, Perreault, Leger, Topoll. Pichette, Leolair, Baluik, Groleau, Hicks.Royals&mdash; Goal: McNeil; defence: Roche, Deslauriers. Clune, MacPherson, Keating; forwards: Corriveau. Boucher, G. Rousseau, Cressman, Burnett, Denis, Illis, Bradley. Lapiante.First Period1&mdash;Chicoutimi: Locas(laude, Leger)&hellip;&hellip; 8.51Penalties Perreault.41. 9.51. Corriveau 3.52, Locas 4.11. laude 11.51.Second Period2&mdash;Chicoutimi; Perreault(Topoll, Leclair) .57Penalties: Hanna 1.69. 10.11. Keating 3.13, Loras 3.51. MacPherson 7.52, Roy misconduct 10.14.Third Period3&mdash;Chicoutimi: Topoli&hellip;&hellip; 1.454&mdash;Royals: La plants(G. RousseaU. Deslauriers).. 19.26 Penalties: MacPherson 14.19, Pichette 18.28.SUNDAY MARCH 31Chicoutimi 4 at Montreal 3(Chicoutimi leads beat-of-seven series. 3-0)Chicautimi&mdash;Goal: Frederick: defense: Glaude, Roy, Hanna. R. Rousseau; forwards: Watson, Locas. Per-teault. Leger, Pichette, Leclair, Baluik, Groleau, Hicks, Topoll.Montreal&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defense: Roche, Deslauriers, Clune, MacPlierson, Keating; forwards: Corriveau. Boucher. G. Rousseau, Cressman. Burnett, Denis, Gillis, Bradley, Laplante.First Period1&mdash;Montreal: Burnett(MacPherson, Corriveau)&hellip; 7.052&mdash;Montreal: Lapiante(Boucher. Keating)&hellip;&hellip; 15.31Penalties: Roy (major) 1.09, (minor) 15.24, Bradley (major) 1.09, Hicks 3.35, Glaude 5.05, Keating 7.34, Baluik 10.39, G. Rousseau 19.33.Second Period3&mdash;Chicoutimi: Perreault(Glaude, Lecltir)&hellip;&hellip; 8.444&mdash;Chicoutimi: Locas(Leger, Groleau)&hellip;&hellip; 10.48Penalties: Cressman 8.20. Watson16.15, Locas 19.30, Boucher 19.30.Third Period5&mdash;Chicoutimi: Topoll (Perreault, Leclalr)&hellip;&hellip; 2.266 Montreal: Corriveau(Burnett, Denis)&hellip;&hellip; 15.56Overtime7&mdash;Chicoutimi: Roy (Ferreault) 4.38 Penalties: None.THURSDAY, APRIL 4Montreal 1 at Clicountimi 2(Chicoutimi wins best-of-seven semi-final 4-0) Royal-&mdash;Goal: McNeill; defense: Roche. MacPherson, Deslauriers. Keating; forwards: G. Rousseau, Corriveau. Boucher. Burnett. Denis, Bradley, LaPlante, Soychak, Cressman.Chieoutimi&mdash;Goal: Frederick: defense: Glaude. Roy. R. Rousseau.Hanna; forwards: Leelair, Topoll, Perreault, Hicks. Locas. Leger, Groleau. Baluik, Watson, Smrke,First PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: None.Second Period1&mdash;Royal: Burnett&hellip;&hellip; 1.572&mdash;Chicoutimi: Perreault(Glaude. Leclerc)&hellip;&hellip; 8.583&mdash;Chicoutimi: Perreault(Glaude, Leclerc)&hellip;&hellip; 9.26Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: None.<h2>Quebec Wreckers</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02227/1360706-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="540" height="1700"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK GAMBLE</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03201/1360699-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="547" height="1719"><figcaption class="caption-body">WILLIE O&rsquo;REE</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04178/1360692-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="556" height="1722"><figcaption class="caption-body">JEAN LAMIRANDE</figcaption></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05152/1360685-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="583" height="591"></div>SERIES &ldquo;C&rdquo;SUNDAY APRIL 7Chicoutimi 2 at Qbec 4(Quebec leads best-of-seven final. 1-0).Chicoutimi&mdash;Goal: Frederick: defense: Glaude, Roy, Rousseau, Goyelte, Hanna; forwards: Leclerc, Watson, Locas. Perreault. Leger. Smrke, Topoll, Baluik, Hicks, Groleau.Quebec&mdash;Goal: Millar; defense: Crozier. MacNab. Hillman. Lamirande; forwards: Gamble, Teal. Penin, Beckett, Labadie, O&rsquo;Ree, Tremblay, Aety-ntichuk, Maxwell.First Period1&mdash;Quebec: MacNab (Benin).. 1.592&mdash;Quebec: O&rsquo;Ree&hellip;&hellip; 3.243&mdash;Quebec: Beckett(Gamble, Achtymichuk)&hellip; 5.544&mdash;Chicoutimi: Leger(Perreault, Roy)&hellip;&hellip; 15.48Penalties: Roy, Gamble 1.14, Groleau 10.53, Bonin major 13.23, Smrke 18.04.Second Period5&mdash;Chicoutimi: Roy&hellip;&hellip; 19.30Penalties: Hillman 6.56, Rousseau 18.16.Third Period6&mdash;Quebec: Bonin(Tessier, Lamirande)&hellip;&hellip; 2.34Penalties: None. &#9632;

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01267/1360744-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">HAIL THE CHAMPS and it&rsquo;s the same old story as the Cincinnati Mohawks won the International League title for the fifth consecutive season. Back row (left to right) Tom Grace, president, Brian McKay, Gene Mekilok, Chester Melski, Moe Mantha, Glen Ramsay, Reg Grigg, Bun Smith, Allan Johnson. Front row (left to right) Warren Hynes, Billy Goold (captain), Bill Sutherland, Duke Edmundson, Lou Dietrich, Lou Marcon, Rollie McLen-ahan (Coach), Alex Sinclair, Cincinnati Gardens manager.</figcaption></div><h2>Cincinnati Mohawks Win Fifth Straight Title</h2>CINCINNATI, Ohio.&mdash;Hail the conquering champs!It&rsquo;s an old refrain for the Cincinnati Mohawk hockey team, which swept top honors in the International League for the fifth straight year this season.In putting the finishing touches on a remarkable campaign, the Hawks brushed past the injury-riddled Indianapolis Chiefs in three successive games in a best-of-five series to clinch the playoff crown in the IHL.For the record, scores in this series, originally a best-of-seven affair, were 4-1, 7-1 and 5-0 in favor of the Hawks, giving Coach Roly McLenahan&rsquo;s boys a terrific 16-2 spread in the goals-scored department.In retrospect, Cincinnati won 56 games, lost just 10 and tied one during the entire 1956-57 season. Regular-season slate for the Hawks, who took the title by 2 2 games over runner-up Indianapolis, was 50-9-1, and Cincy then went on to take six out of seven in post-season play against Huntington and Indianapolis.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt that we had a fine, well-balanced outfit,&rdquo; McLenahan admitted. &ldquo;All three of our lines were dangerous scoring units, our defense was extremely sound and Glenn Ramsay did an outstanding job in the nets.&rdquo;And that, in a nutshell, is why Cincinnati made a shambles of the IHL race for the fifth year in a row.A brief look at the final game of the championship series between the Hawks and Chiefs from Indianapolis:The scene was Indianapolis, with Cincy needing just one more victory to clinch the title. There wasn&rsquo;t much optimism in the Hoosier camp, with Leo Lamoureux&rsquo;s icers limping badly after three or four of their key men suffered crippling injuries.John (Bun) Smith tallied what later proved to be the decisive goal in a 5-0 conquest at 16.45 of the opening stanza on a relay from defenseman Lou Marcon. Butch MacKay made it 2-0 in the second period and Max Mekilok, Duke Edmundson and Reg Grigg sealed the verdict with goals in the final 20 minutes.The shutout was the sixth of the year for Ramsay, who set a new International League mark for the full season, allowing only 113 goals in 60 tilts for a 1.88 average. In the playoffs, Ramsay limited the opposition to 12 in seven contests, a 1.71 mark.To Pierre Brillant, stellar Indianapolis winger who won the league scoring championship with 38 goals and 41 assists for 79 points, went the Gats-chene Trophy as most valuable skater. Brillant missed almost all of the final series with Cincinnati after suffering a leg injury.Ramsay grabbed off the James Norris memorial trophy that is awarded annually to the loop&rsquo;s No. 1 goal-tender.ICING THE PUCK&hellip; Cincinnati dominated the final 195657 all-star sextests, just as they dominated the race all season. Ramsay, Defenseman Moe Mantha, Centre Billy Goold and Left winger Bun Smith were on the first team, along with McLenahan, named the coach Rounding out the No. 1 club were Defenseman Norvel (Red) Olsen of Troy and Brillant, a right winger.Three Mohawks, Defensemen Butch MacKay and Lou Marcon and Left Winger Duke Edmundson, were selected on the second team, along with Goalie Cliff Hicks of Indianapolis and Centre Art Stone and Right Winger Eddie Long, both of Ft. Wayne. Leo Lamoureux of Indianapolis was chosen as the coach of this sextet.There was some talk of Cincinnati facing the Eastern League playoff winner (either Charlotte or Philadelphia) in an interleague series. However, it was decided that this set of contests be held prior to the start of the 1957-58 campaign in the form of pre-season exhibitions, either at the best-of-three or at the best-of-five. &#9632;

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Hawks Brush Past Caps In 3 Straight Games

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;Whitby Dunlops could be the surprise package of the Ontario Hockey Association senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; season, in their final best-of-seven series with the KitchenerDutchmen. Whitby won the championship of the eastern division of the OHA playoff series in rather easy fashion, by downing Belleville McFarlands, after heading the parade most of the season, but were given slight hopes of taking the western division winners, If Whitby manages to eli-lash With the NOHA winners, probably North Bay Trappers, it of the OHA eastern group, which was only organized this kseason. Previously Whitby had minate itchener and qualify to will be quite a feather in the cap also dominated theK OHA senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; series, winning the title last season.After emerging from a rugged series with Windsor Bulldogs by winning the western. group honors in six games, Kitchener Dutchmen were rated as heavy ravorites to eliminate Whitby Dunlops, pretty much of in unknown quantity to the eastern teams. When they whipped Whitby in the first game of the best-of-seven series 6-2, at Guelph, the &ldquo;wise guys&rdquo; freely predicted that it was all over but the shouting. Kitchener was forced to transfer their first two home games to Guelph and Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto owing to an ice show occupying the Kitchener auditorium all week.To bolster his forces, Wren Blair, bossman of the Whitby Dunlops, brought centre Charlie Burns bacv from the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball training camp at Lakeland. Fla., for the balance of the series, which seems to have added spurt to the team. Burns, who wears a silver plate in his head as the result of a serious head injury last season in junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; competition, had been performing for Whitby all season, although it was believed his hockey days were over when he met with his unfortunate injury. So far he has not distinguished himself from a scoring sense, but appears to have added that extra fight to his team.Kitchener Dutchmen emerged from their tough and rough western division finals with Windsor Bulldogs in a rather battered condition and sustained further injury in the first game with Whitby. Defenceman Art Hurst and winger Paul Knox are nursing fractured toes and broken noses respectively, while defenceman Harry Psutka and rightwinger George Scholes are favoring shoulder injuries. In fact, Scholes did not play in either of the weekend games, when Whitby registered a 3-1 win at Guelph and a 4-2 victory at Whitby.Following Windsor Bulldogs elimination from the title hunt by the Dutchmen, Manager George Gee announced that he would bolster his team by at least six players next season, while Murph Chamberlain, Chatham Maroons coach, is on the hunt right now for reinforcements. Chamberlain was slightly disappointed over his Maroons&rsquo; defeat at the hands of the Bulldogs, and claimed that only the breaks beat him.The Windsor club is also worried about the future of the Owen Sound Mercurys and Stratford Indians, both of whom lost considerable money on the season&rsquo;s operating, although the Indians did manage to make the fourth and last playoff spot, affer. lending th eparade for most of the schedule. The Mercurys only won eight games all season, and unless they get some financial backing may be through with senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey. The future of the Stratford Indians is clouded in mystery, although an attempt is being made to hold a meeting and size up the financial picture and possible future action.The NOHA may profit by the announcement coming from Pembroke that a new sponsor may take over the Lumber Kings, and is quoted as announcing that he has $20,000 to invest in the Pembroke club. If that they will link up with the eastern division of the OHA for the second season. The Lumber Kings were dissatisfied with the manner in which that group was operated this season, and word is that if they stick in senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; ranks they will seek re-admittance in the NOHA again. &#9632;

Dunlops Might Surprise Favored K-W Dutchmen

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01239/1360823-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div>SOLUTION NEXT WEEKAcross1&mdash;Pictured Boston rookie.6&mdash;Most hockeyists are in this condition.7&mdash;Gus Mortson wears this number.8&mdash;A summer pastime of Jim Morrisons&rsquo;.10&mdash;Initials of Gallinger former Boston forward.11&mdash;Basic color of Leafs&rsquo; home uniforms.1313&mdash;A Hab defenseman is called this.15&mdash;Name given a Wing defenseman.16&mdash;Frank Mahovlich, Leafs&rsquo; prospect, got&mdash;in his first N.H.L. game.17&mdash;Initials of Leswick, former N.H.L. checking star.18&mdash;&ldquo;Spider&rdquo; Mazur&rsquo;s initials.19&mdash;Inside Guard (abbr.)21&mdash;Short for first name of Johnson, rookie who had a trial with Habs this season.23&mdash;Month in which Rudy Migay was born (abbr.)25&mdash;Number of N.H.L. teams with whom Harry Howell has performed.26&mdash;Former Ranger rearguard.27&mdash;Initials of Vejprava of Cleveland Barons.29&mdash;One of the Rangers.33&mdash;Former N.H.L. player whose nickname is &ldquo;Rags.&rdquo;Down1&mdash;A New York scoring star.2&mdash;Name given Floyd Curry&rsquo;s daughter.3&mdash;Nickname of a former Toronto coach.4&mdash;Initials of Toogood of football fame.5&mdash;A Canadian rookie.9&mdash;Initials of Bettio of Buffalo.12&mdash;Birthplace of 5 down.14&mdash;A Detroit centre.20&mdash;First name of Rochester&rsquo;s Captain.22&mdash;Former Montreal rearguard24&mdash;Volt (abbr.)25&mdash;Number of times Roy Con-acher won N.H.L. scoring title.28&mdash;By way of.30&mdash;Initials of Gee, ex-N.H.L. star.31&mdash;Initials of Buffalo&rsquo;s goalie.32&mdash;Tantalum (Sym.) &#9632;

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<div class="byline">&#x2014;Photos by Donati</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0156/1360875-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="274" height="305"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0255/1360868-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="268" height="319"></div>VOLUME 10 MONTREAL, APRIL 13, 1957 NUMBER 28<h2>Simmons Latest Victim of the Rocket&rsquo;s Scoring Wrath</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0352/1360861-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="2811" height="1648"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0445/1360854-1-eng-US/f00c4-042.jpg" title="f00C4-04" width="2803" height="1628"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOSTON&rsquo;S DON SIMMONS, a comparative newcomer to National Hockey League ranks may have had some personal doubts about Rocket Richard being the greates scorer of alt time.. If he did. they were sharply dispelled in the opening game of the finals as the Rocket propelled four pucks past Simmons. The second one is in the net in the top photo and the Rocket has wheeled out of the picture leaving only Dickie Moore (left) Johnny Peirson (centre) and Henri Richard (right) to survey his handy work. Donnie Marshal missed a great chance in the lower photo as Simmons kicks his shot, into a corner.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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