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September 1, 1957
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NEWS on Sport
(Toronto Telegram) IN an effort to appear in season, Billy Reay, the Maple Leaf coach, announced recently that there is a good chance that Winnipeg Blue Bomber fullback Gerry James will rejoin the organization. To some this may sound like last year’s scoop. Or one. from the year before. No one has kept an accurate count of how many times James has been torn between hockey and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. When he divorced hockey the last time it was on the grounds of $100 fines for not taking a man out. that the Leaf system was out of date and that they would have to make him a terrific settlement to get him back. Time changeth all manner of things. Though figures are not disclosed, the offer the Leafs made him last April was…
Red Wings’ Camp In State Of Flux, Plan Experiment for New Combos
An enterprising guy could work a dandy TV quiz show with all the questions emerging from the first few days of the Detroit Red Wing training camp in this Northern Michigan centre. In fact, there are more question marks on Professor Jack Adams’ blackboard this camp than in any of the previous camps held here. The Great Experiment Here are some of them: Who replaces the fiery, high-scoring Ted Lindsay? Will Terry Sawchuk regain the Vezina Trophy a re-born Red Wing? Will Johnny Wilson and Guyle Fielder live up to Adams’ expectations? Who will play on the BIG LINE with the big guy, Gord Howe? How many of the promising rookies can make the big jump? 72 Report To help ansker some of these questions, Adams and Coach Jimmy Skinner created THE GREAT EXPERIMENT at the outset of camp…
North Bay, Stratford, Join League
Two more entries have been added to the newly formed NOHA-OHA Senior Hockey League. North Bay and Startford have been added to the original five of Windsor, Kitchener-Waterloo, Chatham, Sault Ste, Marie, Ont., and Sudbury. 60 Game Schedule The group will play a 60 game schedule opening about October 18 and endeing Feb 26. In addition, each club will have home and home series with the Whitby Dunlops in which the points will count in the standings. The new group will be operated jointly by the NOHA and OHA offices and Lloyd Pollock of Windsor will act as convener. Eight Players Drafted The following players were drafted: Strafford, Ray Gariepy, Roy Lackie, Tom Jamieson and Al Larose; Chatham, Jerry Reid; Kitchener-Waterloo, Vern Gardiner; Windsor. Buck Forslund and Frank Bergeron. Owen Sound was given a year’s suspension of…
Hawks Get Schedule Advantage
CHICAGO, III.— For the first time in modern history the Black Hawks will launch a National Hockey league season on home ice when they play hosts to Toronto at the Chicago Stadium to open their 1957–58 campaign Tuesday, October 8. Ivan Happy Team officials are happy with what they also feel is the Hawks most balanced slate in a number of years. “The way the schedule is set it rates as just one more reason among several behind my certainty that Chicago will be in the thick of things all the way to the playoffs,” comments General Manager Tommy Ivan. The team will this time be on foreign ice for no more than a week at a time. “Many of the fans recall the number of rather disasterous road trips we have had in…
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