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October 5, 1957
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Boston Training Camp Highlights…
BOSTON, Mass.— The presence of Willie O’Ree. and Willie Maxwell, first Negro players to train with a National league team. Both O’Ree and Maxwell played baseball in Nova Scotia during the summer… The introduction to American hockey followers of Sven Johansson, Sweden’s outstanding amateur athlete of the post-war era, a candidate for a forward position… The appearance of two teams of brothers. Ferny and Gordon Flaman and Don and Dick Cherry. The Flamans are both defenseman, the Cherrys also defensemen in the sense that young Dick can play all positions… The introduction of such highly touted youngsters as Defensemen John Chaszewski of the Barrie (Ont.) Flyers and Jean Picard of the Ottawa (Ont.) Canadiens. Chaszewski showed as a svelte 187-pounder, Picard as a powerful skater with tremendous shoulders… The Bruins, even since the start of…
Flu Disrupts Hab Training Camp Not Serious, Just Frustrating
MONTREAL, Que. — “It has been the most frustrating, trying, training camp I have ever attended.” That is how coach Toe Blake of the Montreal Canadiens described the Montreal ore-season drills two full weeks after they had begun. A mild flu or grippe has penetrated the Canadiens’ camp and from an organizational point of view’, the effete has been frustrating. Says Blake: “Everytime I get a line going good. Boom! the bug strikes and the line is broken up.” So far about 30 players in the combined Canadiens’, Rochester Americans’, Montreal Royals’, and Shawinigan Falls’ camp have been sidelined by the affliction. It is not considered serious but seems to affect all the players differently. Some have been sidelined for only half a day (Marcel Bonin), while others like Stan Smrke and Don Marshall have been out…
Flu, Flab And Goals Dominate Leaf Camp
SUDBURY, Ont.— In just three days, the new Leafs, whose goal is goals, produced 25 per cent more scores in scrimmage than they had managed at their entire 1956 camp here. Returns to that time numbered 53, compared to the overall 42 scored in three weeks of training a year before. It nevertheless took all of these, and the fine offensive plays that made up the bulk of them, to make Billy his usual Reay of sunshine after the early disillusionments. Flu Most serious of these was the Asiatic ’flu outbreak which coincided with Leafs’ arrival at camp here, in Sudbury. More than 6,000 natives of the Sudbury district were stricken with the bug. One of them was rookie defenseman Noel Price, a Western Leaguer with Winnipeg last year, who reported 12 pounds underweight as…
SIDELIGHTS
Al Parsley As seen in the Montreal Herald • THE RETIRED STAFF SERGEANT will be commander of the Chicoutimi Sagueneens again. Only a few days before the Sags were taken the ice at their own Colisee re-appointment of Phil Renaud as general manager and coach was confirmed by the club’s board of directors. Renaud can take the stand and furnish exhibits to refute a maximum propounded by Leo Durocher a decade ago. The loud-mouthed skipper of the Brooklyn Dodgers of baseball testified that: “Nice guys finish last.” In his first year as manager of the Sagueneens., Renaud not only brought his team home far removed from the dungeon depths, they finished second to the Quebec Aces, the QHL champs later roared away to capture the Edinburgh Trophy. And Renaud was very well-liked by his…
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