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February 15, 1958

The Hockey News February 15, 1958

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>MONTREAL, Que&mdash;A strong third period kick kept the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts within reach of the pace-making Chicoutimi Sagueneens in in the Quebec Hockey League race two thirds of the way to the tape. With a little added wallop to that kick, the Cataracts might reach the wire first.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04421/2211353-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="249" height="407"><figcaption class="caption-body">Claude Laforge</figcaption></div>You get such ideas from scanning an elaborate statistical set-up by Paul Lafond, a diehard Cataracts&rsquo; supporter who likes to give the digits a workout to prove a point or two.Mons, Lafond has obliged yours truly thusly from time to time. The other day he put down his findings after another of his safaris with figures.Lafond showed that the Cataracts were a team which steadily warmed up to Its work and gathered momentum as a contest developed. In winning 24 and getting the point-split in three of their first 46 outings these Falls&rsquo; guys scored 50 goals, in the first period, got 59 markers in the second chuk-ker and 73 in the third stanzas.It&rsquo;s interesting to note that, whereas the Cats sort of let down defensively in the middle stages of most engagements, this Shawinigan entry closed up its gates in the last frames. Lafond&rsquo;s figures indicates that whereas Cataracts matched their opponents in scoring output 50-50 in opening chapters, the opposition has actually outscored them 64 tallies against 59 in the middle stanzas, but in third semesters while scoring the 73 tallies indicated back yonder the Cataracts have held the foe to a mere 63 markers.He has some figures that make your head spin. Lafond shows that the Cataracts took 1,441 shots on the enemy goalkeepers in the 46 games on which the survey is made. That averages 33.5 shots per game. The Cataracts on the other hand must have been fairly tenacious in their checking. They hampered the foemen enough to restrict the firing on goal-keeper Eddie Johnston to 1,350 shots.At the individual level comes a surprise. For Claude Laforge, a player that coach Freddie Shero had mentally listed as of dubious quality at the start of the season, has emerged as the Cataracts&rsquo; high man in accurate &lsquo;hits&rsquo; on the opposition twine-tender. Laforge had 177 to score the 25 goals he was credited with in last week&rsquo;s release by league&rsquo;s official statistician Doug Harney.On the other hand one might argue that Jean-Paul Denis, who tops the League&rsquo;s point-production with 25 tallies and 38 assists for 63 points after these 46 contests, packs a more potent shot. For Denis needed only 145 direct &lsquo;hits&rsquo; to gather his 25 markers.The other prominent characters in this department were: Gene (Max) Mekilok, the prized rookie centerman, with 111 shots and 17 tallies; George Faulkner, 124 shots for 14 markers; and Bev Bell with 71 shots and 15 counters.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05354/2211346-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="532" height="1135"><figcaption class="caption-body">Scores On ShotsGeorge Faulkner</figcaption></div>Four of the Cats performed the hattrick &mdash; Denis, Laforge, Claude Labrosse and Dick Bouchard. Mekilok bagged two tallies in one game four times, Laforge three times, Faulkner three times, Denis twice and Al Johnson twice.The Cataracts scored six goals while short-handed, Denis making the break-away for such a dramatic feat on no less than five occsions.The Cataracts scored the first goal of the game in 23 outings, won 15 of these contests after being the early birds and emerged with a draw in another. Mekilok has scored four winning goals leading the club at this specialty and Al Johnson did the trick three times. And Denis, who is 33, shows that there is no substitute for experience by the effective manner in which he still kills off penalties as well as working on the power-plays besides taking the regular shift with his line on the ice.Royals and Quebec are the teams which have suffered at the hands of the Cataracts talented scorers. While Royals had men in the brig the Cataracts scored 12 goals. Aces ditto, Chicoutimi Sagueneens have been scored upon by Cataracts 16 times with the Sags understaffed and the Lions of Three Rivers have been clawed in this fashion only six times.It&rsquo;s significant of the striking power of this team that while opposing teams were inflicted with 187 minors and 18 majors the Cataracts collected 40 goals. In contrast the Shawinigan team&rsquo;s foes scored only 30 tallies while Cataracts&rsquo; were enduring 171 minors and 17 majors penalties.And summing up the Cataracts are neither the best nor the worst when it comes to drawing the esteem of the QHL referees. The last official release showed Cataracts with 524 minutes in penalties charged.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06304/2211339-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="312" height="327"><figcaption class="caption-body">AL PARSLEY</figcaption></div><h2>On The Sidelines</h2>&#9679; THE HUZZAS AND THE HEADLINES don&rsquo;t come the way of players like Louis Gilbert Denis in a ratio commensurate with faithful performance over the long pull.Life in hockey is like that. Paeans of printed and spoken praise are heaped upon the glamour boys. The workhorses get scant notice from the makers of gilded phrase and rolling metaphors.Yet for 10 years Lulu, as this Denis is popularly called, has been a mainstay of the machine that carries on for the Montreal Royals in the Quebec Hockey League. Comes mid-August and general-manager Frank Carlin takes up a pencil and begins to size up a team for the practise sessions of early autumn training only a few weeks away, one of the first names he puts down is Lulu Denis.Dependable Lulu can always be counted upon to fill one of the wing positions. Left or right it matters little. Lulu&rsquo;s natural position, it is supposed, is right wing since he&rsquo;s a starboard gunner, but he&rsquo;s so versatile and adaptable that the coach can rely upon him to play either side.Lulu obliges so that a forward unit can be constructed to give any highly touted rookie full scope for talents that were given considerable ballyhoo before arrival in Montreal. Or, Denis will shift to either wing so that a seasoned veteran, less pliable, won&rsquo;t be thrown out of gear.And he&rsquo;s a real asset to the team in other ways. He has a cool head on his shoulders, draws few penalties for one of strong competitive instincts. He&rsquo;s a competent ice-general, valuable at penalty-killing, has an articulate yet inoffensive manner in addressing officials. For these good reasons he has been captain of the Royals the past three years.The hand books don&rsquo;t give full justice to tutor&rsquo;s notable career in the Quebec circuit. He had a few big years in the old Quebec Senior Hockey League, that aren&rsquo;t included in the various hockey guides. For instance he broke in as senior when only 20 years old and had a respectable 12 goal-season with 17 assists in 1945-49 Lulu was able to double that output for the next two campaigns. For a seven season stretch, he averaged 20 goals per campaign.When his production dropped to only 14 tallies in the 1955-56 campaign there was a consequent slump in his average, but he made a sharp recovery last season with 22 goals to bring it back to 1W..5 goals per season in nine years in which he had played the remarkable sum of 53 games for the cause of the top-line seniors and minor pros wearing Montreal spangles. It added up to 176, 241 assists for 417 points, a record that any hockey player might be proud of, indeed.The puck hasn&rsquo;t been rolling too well for Lulu in. certain outings this season. He has flubbed some tantalisingly tempting offerings when set-up by that sterling veteran playmaker Ken Mosdell. It was observed when Denis was unlucky at the goalmouth a couple of times in a recent game: &ldquo;Lulu should have about forty goals the way Big Moe hands him those passes.&rdquo; A caustic critie said it, but admitted a moment later this was harsh comment.On the other hand Lulu boasted 24 assists to go with the eight tallies in his log last. week. So somebody must be handing that pnck to his line-mates. And one of these days, that puck will get lucky for Lulu again, and he&rsquo;ll step up his target hits. Meantime he&rsquo;ll lie a handy man for Royals to keep around for a long time. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Tightening Up Late In The Game Keeping Falls From Dropping

<div class="byline">By BOB LaBELLE</div>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03381/2211522-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="263" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sam Pollock</figcaption></div>Things have been going pretty well lately for the junior Canadiens from Hull-Ottawa, what with first place in the Laurier Cup Standings, and a chance for the top rung in the senior OHA, eastern division.Three members of this year&rsquo;s edition of the junior Canucks have a good chance of hitting the 50 goal mark in the 64 game schedule, &mdash; 36 senior and 28 junior. Top scorer so far is 17 year old Bobby Rousseau, brother of Rollie and Guy of QHL fame. Young Bobby has 40 goals in the first 46 games, 21 of these against senior competition.Right behind him is Bobby Boucher, with 36. Boucher, the top point-getter, has amassed the amazing total of 96 points in only 46 games, for a better than two points a game averages.Ralph Backstrom, the captain of the Baby Habs, has 35 goals to his credit. This could be considered poor for the future NHL great, but Ralph has seen very little front wall action in the last six weeks. Coach Sam Pollock has been using him on defense, due to the rash of injuries that has befallen the defensive corps since early in the season. Claude Ruel, Andre Tardif and newcomer Nick Murray have all been laid low with injuries. Ruel&rsquo;s being the most serious one. He was clipped by a high stick in a game in Belleville early in November, and it was feared for a while that he would lose sight in his left eye.<h2>OHA Jr Laurier Cup</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04290/2211515-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="573" height="349"></div>Tardif has a broken arm and Murray a deep cut ii? his foot. Both will most likely be out for the remainder of the regular season.<h2>Cyr Relieves Goal Worries</h2>The team has scored 240 goals in its first 46 games, and at this rate, could score 335. But all coach Pollock wants is to hit the 300 mark.The coming of Claude Cyr to the Baby Habs has ended Pollock&rsquo;s worries about the goaltending problem. Cyr, from the junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; team in St. Jerome, is the fifth goaler used this year, but the Metropolitian league graduate appears to be the best. He has come up with many sparkling saves in his short stay so far, and has&rsquo;won the plaudits of Hull and Ottawa fans alike. His stand-up style please the players, who rarely have rebounds to clear. Bat his occassionnal sorties to the blue line have added grey hairs to coach Pollock&rsquo;s already greyish top.The morale is very high, and this year every one hopes to go all the way. Some of the players have yet to digest last year&rsquo;s defeat at the hands of the Flin Flon Bombers, and they are all out for revenge.At the rate they are playing now, and if the injury jinx is ended, there isn&rsquo;t a team in the country that can touch the Baby Habs.This should be their year for the Memorial Cup. &#9632;

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Baby Habs, Like Big Brothers Feel Pinch Of Injuries, Yet Win

MONTREAL, Que. &mdash; Boom Boom Geoffrion left the Herbert Reddy Memorial Hospital here on Sunday, February 8th after an 11 day stay. Geoffrion was sidelined on Tuesday, January 2 8th in a collision with Andre Pronovost. He was rushed to hospital where he was found to be suffering from a ruptured bowel.Although they have not officially reported that he is throught for the season, it generally believed that the Boomer will have to wait until next season before he can get the blades on again.He was leading the league in goal scoring when he was sidelined. He had scored 27. &#9632;

Geoffrion Leaves Hospital After An Eleven Day Stay

MONTREAL, Que. &mdash; When the Detroit Red Wings were beaten here 7-0 recently it left coach Sid Abel stunned.&ldquo;My only consolation is that I don&rsquo;t think we can ever be that bad again. My guys just weren&rsquo;t working at the job.&ldquo;Of course Canadiens had a lot to do with our troubles. They played that goofy game, didn&rsquo;t let us have the puck and when they got tired of passing it around, they put it in the net.&rdquo; said Abel. &#9632;

Goofy Game By Hubs Killed Wings

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01373/2211653-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Man Who&rsquo;s Always There</figcaption></div>MIAMI. Fla.&mdash;The Owners of the six National Hockey League clubs and player representatives met here last week and agreed to set up a player and Owners Council to deal with present and future mutual problems.Thirteen players representing the players from the six NHI. clubs were on hand for the infor-&rsquo; mal meeting. Representating Boston were Fern Flainan and Don McKenney; Chicago, Ted Lindsay. Tim Thomson and Gils Mortson; Detroit. &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Kelly and Alex Delvecchio; Montreti, Doug Harvey and Dollard St. Laurent; New York, &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Sullivan and Bill Gadsby; Toronto, Tod Sloan and Dick Duff.The six NHL club owners present Were Senator Hartland Molson Montreal. James D. Norris, Chicago, General John R. Kilpatrick. New York, Conn Smythe, Toronto, Walter Brown, Borton and Bruce Norris, Detroit.The&rdquo; new council will be composed of the previously mentioned players representing their individual clubs, plus the NHL owners. The plan is to have the council meet at regularly scheduled intervals and on request by either players or owners.As a result of this amicable meeting between the players and owners it was agreed that all pending litigation and lawsuits would be withdrawn. &#9632;

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Players-Owners Council Set-Up ToMeetProblems

Among other points the following were agreed upon at the players-Owners meeting in Miami, Florida last week:1.$7,000 minimum salarv in the N.H.L.2.Increase in pension benefits as a result of the Owners matching dollar for dollar contribution by the players. As a result of this a long term hockey player at age 65 will receive a minimum pension of 5.100. annually.3.Increase in Play-Off pool making it possible for League and Stanley Cup Championship team to receive $4,000 per man.4.Other points of agreement include increased hospitalization benefits, limit on number of exhibition games, moving and other expenses as a result of a player being sold or traded during the season, independent survey of present pension plan with the view of improving it if possible. Owners unanimously agreed the player to be solo judge of his physical fitness to play after an injury. &#9632;

Agreement In A Nutshell

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, MASS.&mdash;The Boston Bruins, who began the month of January without an established major league goal-tender, seem likely to finish the month of February with two.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01496/2209918-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="264" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dom Simmons</figcaption></div>When Don Simmons sustained shoulder injuries in late December the Bruins found themselves in a pickle for an experienced replacement.In their dilemma they purchased Harry Lumley, a 12-year National League veteran who belonged to the Chicago Black Hawks. Lumley was being employed but not being played by the Buffalo Bisons of the American league.Lumley stepped into the Bruins&rsquo; lineup on January 16 after one practice here. He hadn&rsquo;t played for a month.But he sharpened up quickly and as he gained condition and confidence the Bruins gained with him. Less than three weeks after his arrival they were contending for second place.In the meantime Simmons&rsquo; shoulder was mending slowly but as the Bruins moved into their February schedule with its long road trip for a windup he began a reconditioning program.Thus the prospect was that by, the latter part of this month the Bruins would have the 26-year old Lumley in their nets and the 26-year old Simmons ready to resume his job.Even before Simmons began working out here speculation arose about the goal-tending decision to be made eventually by Manager Lynn Patrick and Coach Milt Schmidt.Patrick wasted no time in short-circuiting the subject as an item of speculation.&ldquo;Anything can happen in this game of ours,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Right now Lumley is doing a good job for us and Simmons is a long way from being ready to play.<h2>Harry Popular Teammate</h2>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve learned from experience that most hockey situations involving potential surplus of personnel straighten themselves out. When the time comes to think about our goal-tending in terms of more than one goal-tender we&rsquo;ll do it.&rdquo;Lumley, as Patrick said, was doing a good job for the Bruins indeed. With a determination surprising for one of his experience the hefty veteran was whipping himself into fine physical fettle with intensive workouts, most of them early in the morning.And with that same experience evident he was backing up his skaters With clutch saves and rationing strictly the opposition&rsquo;s supply of easy goals.The applie-cheeked 205-pounder was also scoring heavily in the locker room with his good cheer and post-game insistence upon taking the &lsquo;blame for goals scored against him.If the early highlight of big Lum&rsquo;s return to the National League was his shutout of the Montreal Canadiens in Montreal he followed with others possibly more remarkable. He gave one of the season&rsquo;s best goaltending shows in New York in a 1-1 game and he was spectacular in the stretch in wins here against Detroit and New York.Harry&rsquo;s shutout of the Canadiens was the 66th of his career. His total is second only to that of Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk, the all-time leader.Simmons, who was playing his first full major league season when he was hurt, took the harness off his injured shoulder after a month&rsquo;s convalescence during which his left arm shrunk two inches in circumference.The slender resident of Ludlow&rsquo; has been rooting enthusiastically for Lumley, of whom he has been a long-time admirer and friend. But he hasn&rsquo;t been enjoying himself as a Spectator.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02475/2209911-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="522" height="853"><figcaption class="caption-body">Superb In ReliefHarry Lumley After Shutting Out The Montreal Canadiens for 66th zero of his career.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Don’s Shoulder Ready, Probably Will Take Over

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;In the old days, before Henri Richard came upon the NHL scene, Maurice Richard&rsquo;s opponents used to wonder what it would be like trying to hold two Richards in tow. They couldn&rsquo;t cope with one, how could they possibly handle two? Then Henri showed up and enemies of the Canadiens found out it is tw&rsquo;ice as hard to handle two Richards.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03424/2209949-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="240" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Claude Richard</figcaption></div>Now they have another problem. How will they handle three, and all on the ice at the same time?According to Sam Pollock, farm director of the Canadiens there is a distinct possibility that NHL fans will see an all Richard line comprised of Maurice, better known as the &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; at right wing, Henri, &lsquo;better known as &lsquo;Pocket&rsquo; at centre and Claude, better known as &lsquo;Vest Pocket Rocket&rsquo; at left wing.Claude, 19, plays for the Ottawa-Hull Junior Canadiens, the same junior club that produced Henri.Two months ago few believed that Claude would ever develop to the point where he could join his big brothers in the NHL.&ldquo;Since Christmas something&rsquo;s come over him and now I think he&rsquo;ll make it,&rdquo; says Pollock.&ldquo;Claude has begun to skate and shoot like he never did before. He&rsquo;s 19 and in his last year of junior hockey and if I know Frank Selke, he&rsquo;ll want the Canadiens&rsquo; fans to have a look at the Richard brothers on one line. It might happen as soon as the &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; gets over his injury,&rdquo; says Sam.Said Pollock: &ldquo;Claude fits in perfectly. He&rsquo;s a left wing. Henri&rsquo;s a centre and Rocket&rsquo;s a right winger. Here&rsquo;s the kind of a hockey player Claude has turned out to be &mdash; he&rsquo;s built like Henri and he plays like Maurice. He&rsquo;s got the same burst of speed. He plays his w&rsquo;rong wing like Maurice too. Claude&rsquo;s a right handed shot playing left wing. The Rocket&rsquo;s a left hand shot on right wing.&rdquo;In 44 games for the Junior Canadiens Claude has scored 26 goals, of which no fewer than 18 have come since Christmas. &#9632;

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All Richard Line Possible For Habs Before Year Ends

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04317/2209980-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">All Es On Report CardEddie Shack</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;With all due respect to Jean Beliveau and Frank Mahovlich, the NHL &ldquo;aint seen nothin yet&rdquo; in pheenoms, until it sees Eddie Schack in a Ranger uniform.Unfortunately for the Rangers and New York fans, Shack will not wear a big league uniform this year. He broke his leg for the second time Feb. 2nd and will be out of action for the season.Broken leg or not. he&rsquo;s still the man (or boy) who the Blue brass expect to solve their left wing problems. Trouble is it&rsquo;ll have to be next campaign not this One.But, who can wait &lsquo;til next year to talk about this most outstanding Ranger forward prospect since Andy Bathgate captained Guelph to the Memorial Cup?Not us, and not Johnny &ldquo;Black Cat&rdquo; Gagnon, the Ranger scout who has seen more of Shack this year than any New York official.Is he that good, Johnny?&ldquo;Right now.&rdquo; replied Gagnon, &ldquo;Shack is as good as Beliveau was when Beliveau joined Les Canadiens. In fact, before Shack got hurt two months ago he was ready to play NHL hockey.&rdquo;He wasn&rsquo;t exactly setting the American League on fire?&ldquo;Not at first. Then he picked up some experience, learned to guard his man and all those other things you don&rsquo;t do so much as a Junior.&rdquo;We asked Gagnon what, makes Shack that good.&ldquo;The kid&rsquo;s got a terrific forehand shot and 1 do mean terrific. His back hand also is good and will be even better when he finishes practicing it. He loves to play the game and he&rsquo;s big and strong and can skate. He reminds me of Harvey &ldquo;Busher&rdquo; Jackson who played for Toronto.&rdquo;<h2>Tops Three Rangers Now</h2>As if this description wasn&rsquo;t enough to whet the appetite of New York&rsquo;s fandom, Gagnon extolled the youth even more.&ldquo;I think Shack is better than at least three of the Ranger forwards now. For example, his shot is as hard as Andy Bathgate&rsquo;s. True, he may not be able to control it as well but it&rsquo;s awfully hard.&rdquo;There was talk that Shack &mdash; touted as a hot-headed forward with Louie Fontinato&rsquo;s temperment &mdash; had been drawing a slew of cheap penalties for Providence.&ldquo;He did at first,&rdquo; Gagnon admitted, &ldquo;but like I said, he&rsquo;s learned to control himself&rsquo;more and he&rsquo;s learning something new in every game.&rdquo;Gagnon cautions that we shouldn&rsquo;t expect Shack to crumble the league as soon as he debuts. &ldquo;Just give him a. little time, just a little time and he&rsquo;ll take care of the rest.&rdquo;Meanwhile, while awaiting Shack&rsquo;s plucking, there are other pleasant hands on the Rangers&rsquo; farm worth discussing, so discuss, Monsieur Gagnon:&ldquo;Well, that Bill Sweeney has been going good at Providence. He&rsquo;s small but that doesn&rsquo;t mean anything because he can score around the net. Sort of reminds me of Bronco Horvath.&ldquo;Mel Pearson (a left wing) and Ted Hampson (a center) have played well for Three Rivers. They&rsquo;re kids but they are not far from being NHL calibre. And goalie Jacques Marcotte is another good one there.&rdquo;<h2>Guidolin Top Defenseman</h2>Gagnon confesses that the weak spot in the New York farm system is defense. He named Aldo Guidolin at Providence and John Hanna at Three Rivers as &ldquo;the best&rdquo;.We mentioned that Aldo didn&rsquo;t seem to figure prominently in the Blueshirt picture.&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t say that,&rdquo; Gagnon added. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s playing very, very well now that they moved him on defense permanently. If be plays that way all season&mdash;well&mdash;you never know.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Blues’ Scouts, Reporting On Ed, Say He’s As Good As Jean Was

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEWYORK, N.Y.&mdash;Dr. Kazuo Yanigasawa, the eminent Rangers&rsquo; physician, has gone out and bought a lifetime&rsquo;s supply of bandages, it was alleged today.You see, the good doctor can read. And when he saw what the papers said about what the Bruins did to the Rangers last time they met. he figured he was undersupplied for the Feb. 16th battle-to-be at Madison Square Garden.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05223/2210018-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="258" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Milt Schmidt</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06140/2210011-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="252" height="401"><figcaption class="caption-body">Muzz Patrick</figcaption></div>That&rsquo;s when the Blues host the Bruins. And if all hell breaks loose on ice, no one will be too surprised.In the interim Phil Watson&rsquo;s crew literally are licking their wounds which were amply applied by Boston.Purple Hearts are in order for Gerry Foley with 12 stitches over the right eye courtesy (no charge) Leo LaBine; Dave Creighton, with a measly three stitches over the right eye from &ldquo;softy&rdquo; Fern Flaman and Danny Lewicki with a badly bruised left ankle. Danny inadvertently ran into a slashing Boston stick.So, for the first time within memory, Phil Watson and Detroit GM Jack Adams agree. &ldquo;The Bruins,&rdquo; they say, &ldquo;play dirty hockey&rdquo;&hellip;&ldquo;They&rsquo;re the dirtiest in the league,&rdquo; adds Phil.That&rsquo;s one point of view.Ranger GM Muzz Patrick offers another: They play tough says Muzz. They&rsquo;ve got tough boys but not dirty.&rsquo;&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think the&rsquo;re dirty,&rdquo; adds Ranger vet., Bill Gadsby. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s only one guy you gotta watch &mdash; Flaman.Coincidentally with the fuss over the Bruins, comes a story in the forthcoming issue of Sport magazine titled: &ldquo;The Bruins Are Hockey&rsquo;s Roughnecks.&rdquo;When advised of Adams and Watson&rsquo;s &ldquo;dirty Boston&rdquo; charges, author Jack Zanger, associate editor of Sport, said he was &ldquo;not surprised.&rdquo;Zanger described his feeling while sitting behind the Bruins bench.&ldquo;I was frightened&rdquo;, he said. &ldquo;Even a mild guy like Larry Regan seemed to have blood in his eyes. They looked ferocious They scared hell out of me.&rdquo;With all the hullabaloo, here&rsquo;s what Bruin coach Milt Schmidt thinks:&ldquo;I&rsquo;d say we&rsquo;re aggressive rather than rough and tough. Maybe our boys up front do a little more checking than other clubs do but that&rsquo;s our style of play.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t like a dead bench.&rdquo;He didn&rsquo;t say what he likes on the opponent&rsquo;s bench.Milt says penalties can be helpful.&ldquo;Sure penalties are good.&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;The opposition won&rsquo;t skate against you with their heads down when they know you play rugged hockey.&rdquo;Quite a fuss over the Bruins, eh wot? Quite a few thoughts on the matter too. But. whoever is right doesn&rsquo;t matter to Dr. Yanigasawa. He&rsquo;s not taking any chances Feb. 16, so bandage company, send those band-aids, please.RANGERABILIA: Jim Ellery, American Hockey League&rsquo;s secretary-treasurer and publicist, is the latest to extol Ranger farmhand Eddie Shack. &ldquo;Providence has the best young prospects in the American League, Jim said, including the great Shack!&rdquo;&hellip; Looking hale and hearty, Murray Murdoch who holds the iron man record in the NHL of consecutive games, was a recent visitor to the Garden. He&rsquo;s coaching Yale University&rsquo;s team&hellip;Phil Watson, says Andy Bathgate holds one of the keys to New York&rsquo;s playoff hopes. &ldquo;I just wish he was more consistent,&rdquo; said the coach&hellip;A Bathgate shot actually ripped the glove off Harry Lumley&rsquo;s hand The puck wound up in the net&hellip;Despite his good scoring record with Providence, Bruce Carmichael is not given much chance of making the big time by the Blue moguls. But the same once was said of Fontinate. &#9632;

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“Bruins Dirty!”--Phil; “Naw, JustTough,”--Muzz

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01495/2210049-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sugar Sweet In Maple Leaf TreeRon Stewart</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont. &mdash;Most working stiffs appreciate an employer who will perservere with them no matter how long they may require to master their trade. But Ron Stewart is indebted to the Toronto Maple Leafs for giving up on him as a right winger.After five years of frustrating himself and the team by attempting to live up to his potential as a forward. Stew finally started cooking this winter when coach Reay moved him back to defense.In merely three months at the blueline, he attained a stature he never even approached after five years up front.Sportswriters selected him to the National Hockey League&rsquo;s second all-star team. Rival goaltenders acclaimed him; Montreal&rsquo;s Jacques Plante by describing his shot as one of the two hardest among NHL defensemen and Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk by calling him &ldquo;Leafs&rsquo; most valuable player.&rdquo; His own goaltender, Ed Chadwick, hailed him as a second netminder. And the Leaf management acknowledged that &ldquo;As Stew goes, so goes the whole Maple Leaf team.&rdquo;The resurgence was incredible to all but Stewart. In his embryonic days as a hockey player, the six-foot westener had tried every position from goal to centre and concluded that defense was his meat. Without that meat. Stew just wasn&rsquo;t the dish. But it took the patient Leafs five years to find that out.&ldquo;Actually I don&rsquo;t regret all that time I spent as a right winger,&rdquo; the 25-yehr-old veteran says now. &ldquo;It helped me a lot with my skating. And the Leafs were very patient the way they strung along with me on the presumption I would turn out to be a 20-goal scorer.&rdquo;<h2>Never High Scorer</h2>From his rookie season, Stewart was on the threshold of the success anticipated. But five years later he was still on the same threshold.Indeed, he probably through those five seasons by scoring established a record for consistency through those five seasons by scoring never fewer than 13 goals, yet never more than 15.The irony of his conversion lies in the fact that Stewart today is as great an offensive threat as he ever was on right wing. With 20 games still to play, he had authored 11 goals this season, a pace precisely in keeping with his lifetime average.Yet the moments he chose to score this season&rsquo;s goals made them even more important. Four of the 11 goals won games, three others earned Leafs ties and still two more opened Leaf scoring in winning efforts.Since seven of these came in an 11-game stretch when Leafs were fighting off their perennial January thaw, they were greatly instrumental in keeping alive the club&rsquo;s playoff hopes.behind these goals is a wrist shot which Stewart has found easier to trigger from the blueline.&ldquo;I find I can get my shot away faster from the point.&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;And I seldom resort to a slap shot, because it&rsquo;s too hard to direct. I rely on my wrists to get the shot away.&rdquo;Stew credits Hap Emms of Barrie&rsquo;s junior Flyers and AlfiePike, former coach of Guelph junior Biltmores, for perfecting that shot.&ldquo;My shots always used to be high.&rdquo; he recalls. &ldquo;And at Barrie, Emms was scared to death that I was going to take one of our own forwards&rsquo; heads off when I shot. So he worked hard with me, Keeping me out after practices to work on the shot. And when I got to Guelph. Pike did the same thing.&rdquo;The success of these lessons becomes evident in the testimonial of the men who face Stew&rsquo;s present shot, men like Montreal Canadien goalie Jacques Plante.&ldquo;Stew art and Doug Mohns (of Boston Bruins) have the hardest shots for defensemen,&rdquo; say Jake. &ldquo;I know, because I&rsquo;ve been hit where it hurts by both of them.&rdquo;Yet the .22-calibre shot is not the greatest of Stewart&rsquo;s assets. His skating powess is.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the finest skater on this team.&rdquo; is coach Reay&rsquo;s conviction.&ldquo;I could just sit and watch him skate all day,&rdquo; adds Harold Ballard, a member of Toronto&rsquo;s seven-man hockey committee &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t think of any other hockey player who could make me do that. But Stew is a magnificent skater.&rdquo;Although this is a natural talent, Stew works at perfecting it.&ldquo;I found that playing right wing helped my skating so much,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;that even now, during scrimmages, I skate a lot just to get the feel of skating.&rdquo;<h2>One Of Top Skaters</h2>So effortless is Stew&rsquo;s skating style that his failure to develop into a Gord Howe on right wing often brought him accusations of laziness. And with them came the perennial argument over his weight.Hap Day, the erstwhile Maple Leaf manager, once threatened to fine Ron if he didn&rsquo;t pare himself to 187 pounds. Stewart complied, but he has since discovered that he plays better at 190 to 194.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m heavier now than I&rsquo;ve ever been,&rdquo; he admits. &ldquo;And yet things seem to be going better for me.&ldquo;Of course, I realize you can get too sloppy and, as a result, get sluggish. But I don&rsquo;t eat starchy foods, so I can stay around 190 to 194 for the whole playing season.&rdquo;In the summer. however, Stew is inclined to add poundage. But he always begins to trim himself long before training camp.&ldquo;I was up to 204 this summer, so I started working out up home, I took steam baths and stuck to an egg diet. And then when 1 came down to camp and stepped on the scales I almost had a heart attack. They read 212.&rdquo;The following day Stew elected not to jump out of a window when the examining physician discovered that the scales were out of order.Since then, Stewart has not heard a word about his weight. In fact, Billy Reay has been so impressed with Ron&rsquo;s work on defense that he has quipped: &ldquo;Maybe Stewart was too fine in those other seasons.&rdquo;If Stew isn&rsquo;t fine this year, it is not Reay&rsquo;s fault. The coach has employed him almost 40 minutes a game at the blueline.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s one of the bid advantages of having Stew on defense, says Billy. &ldquo;He can play far more of the game there than he can up front.&rdquo;Nobody appreciates this more than Ed Chadwick. As much as Harold Ballard loves to watch Stewart on his feet, Chadwick loves to see his favorite defenseman fall down on the job. And Stew&rsquo;s penchant for falling to block shots has moved the goalie to estimate:&ldquo;Stewart stops as many shots as I do.&rdquo;It was by watching the professionals when he himself was a youngster that Stewart perfected this knack.<h2>Trick To Blocking Shots</h2>&ldquo;The whole trick, as far as I&rsquo;m concerned, is in forcing the other guy to shoot,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;If you just sprawl in front of him, he can pull the puck back and step around you. But if you get so close to him that he can&rsquo;t do that, he has to shoot.&ldquo;I used to study the pros doing that when I was a kid because I played so much defense then.&rdquo;Actually Stewart started his career as a goaltender. All the other positions were claimed when he turned out with Sweeney Schriner&rsquo;s pee-wee team in Calgary, so Stew accepted the pads and goal stick in preference to sitting out.His father, George, who works for the Canadian Pacific Railways in Calgary, ended the goaltending career in a matter of weeks.&ldquo;Dad thought I was crazy, so he made me give it up,&rdquo; Ron recalls. &ldquo;After that I played almost everywhere, centre, the wing, and defense.&rdquo;Brought east when the late Squib Walker spotted him on a Calgary juvenile team in 1948, Stew continued to alternate between forward and defense as a junior. But his moving wasn&rsquo;t confined to positions.After sitting out one year, in compliance with inter-league transfer rules and then playing the next season with Leafs&rsquo; Marlboro farm, Stewart started the 1950-51 season as a right winger with Marlies. Before the Dec. 15 trading deadline was reached, he had starred with Windsor and Barrie on defense, finally arriving at. Guelph, where he helped Biltmores win the Memorial Cup.Since that great junior finish, however, Stewart&rsquo;s career virtually became stagnant as he played right wing. In private life, he and his pretty wife Barbara began to raise a family that includes three-and-a-halfyear-old Jeffrey and 15-month old Terry, with a third expected this month. But on the ice Stew couldn&rsquo;t raise an eyebrow&rsquo; until he was restored permanently to defense this season.He has raised so many eyebrow since that Billy Reay is determined he will stay there and predicts he&rsquo;ll pick up allstar honors as he does it. &#9632;

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Ron Shines After Shift From Winger To Defense

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Coach Billy Reay has been toying with the idea of switching rookie Frank Mahovlich to right wing from the left side. Just two months ago Reay moved Frank from centre to left wing and he immediately responded by scoring 11 goals.&ldquo;I have always thought Mahovlich might go better at right wing&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;You know, I have maintained all along that here are few good left defencemen in this league and Frank might have a field day down that right alley.&rdquo; &#9632;

Lack Of Top Left Defensemen May Get Frank Moved Right

TORONTO, Ont. &mdash; Ron Stewart scored as many points as a forward in his last season up front, as he did in his first.He broke in with the Leafs in 1952-53 and in 70 games scored 13 goals and added 22 assists for 35 points. Last season, his last as a forward before being dropped back to defense, he scored 15 goals, most in his career, and 20 assists for 35 points in 65 games.The only difference was in games played and his makup of the 35 points. And also; in his first season he spent 29 minutes in the penalty box and last season he was in for 28. &#9632;

First And Last Seasons Up Front Same For Ron Stewart

<div class="byline">By Ken In Kengie</div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st 1947Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.1434 Ste. Catherine Street West Montreal 25, Que.Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire: $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign CountriesEntered 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. Post Office Department, Ottawa Printed In CanadaVOL. 11 MONTREAL. FEBRUARY 15. 1958 No. 20<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01558/2210163-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="380" height="453"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02522/2210156-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="596" height="157"></div>&#9679; GIRLS!&hellip; SINGLE PLAYERS are getting harder and harder to find in the National Hockey League &hellip;Only 27 players in the NHL today are still unmarried &hellip;Here are our findings in our annual Valentine&rsquo;s Day Report&hellip;Toronto Maple Leafs, youngest team in the history of the NHL, boasts the most bachelors &hellip; The Leafs have eight on their roster. They are Billy Harris, Paul Masnick, Dickie Duff, Gary Aidcorn, Bob Baun, Bob Pulford, Frank Mahovlich and Barry Cullen&hellip;Chicago Black Hawks and New York Rangers each have six eligibles on their respective rosters &hellip;On Chicago are Elmer Vasko. Eric Nesterenko, Billy Dea, Ron Murphy, Eddie Kachur and Earl Reibel &hellip;New York&rsquo;s are Larry Cahan, Lou Fontinato, Camille Henry, Guy Gendron, Gerry Foley and Hank Ciesla &hellip;Allan Stanley tops the list of four eligible bachelors on Boston. The others are Larry Hillman, Johnny Bucyk and Don McKenney &hellip;Detroit Red Wings have two bachelors, Red Kelley and Nick Mickoski. The Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens have only one single player on their club this season. He is defenseman Tom Johnson of Winnipeg &hellip;Rudy Pilous, Chicago coach, is hard on fedoras &hellip;He takes vengeance out on his poor hat when things are going wrong with the Hawks&hellip;He has used up four hats already this season &hellip;Johnny Bucyk of Boston wears a regular glove on his right hand underneath his hockey gauntlet these days &hellip;It was recommended by Dr. Browne, the Bruins&rsquo; doctor, who figured it would help support Johnny&rsquo;s injured hand. The tight fit of the glove gives the hand extra support which it wasn&rsquo;t getting from the hockey glove alone.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03445/2210149-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="259" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Baun</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04386/2210142-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="273" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Harris</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05350/2210135-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="280" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mahovlich</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06291/2210128-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="252" height="384"><figcaption class="caption-body">Barry Cullen</figcaption></div>&#9679;NEWSY LALONDE was our guest last week on Carling&rsquo;s Hockey Preview and the 71-year-old former hockey great who scored 441 goals in four different professional leagues in only 365 games was one of our best&hellip;Newsy informed that some of his famed feuds with &ldquo;Bad Joe Hall weren&rsquo;t as bad as many people would have you believe &hellip;He also figured any pro team today could have easily beaten any pro team of his day &hellip;Newsy told us that George McNaughton a great center with the Sons of Ireland team from Quebec, could have turned pro with any team of his era and been a star right from the start &hellip;McNaughton was the Jean Beliveau of his day &hellip;He was an amateur throughout his career and refused to turn professional &hellip;Every time the New York Rangers play at Madison Square Garden and ice has to be made, 6,000 gallons of water is poured into the playing surface of the huge arena&hellip;Only three of the NHL regular netminders have taken part in all of their team&rsquo;s games this season &hellip;The trio of &ldquo;Iron Men are Eddie Chadwick of Toronto, Terry Sawchuk of Detroit and Glenn Hall of Chicago&hellip;Buddy Boone has been playing better hockey with each game for Boston &hellip;Lynn Patrick and Walter Brown of Boston leave soon for the World&rsquo;s Hockey Championships at Oslo, Norway &hellip;Toronto coach Billy Reay flew to Cleveland to watch Pete Goegan, Barons&rsquo; rugged defenseman, in action last week &hellip;Goegan has been nicknamed &ldquo;Gorilla and is reported to be ready for the NHL any time now &hellip;More than one NHL club has shown interest in him.&#9679;MONTREAL CANADIENS PLAYERS have missed a total of 117 games (up to February 8 a.m.) due to injuries &hellip;No team in recent years has been hit so hard by injuries in so short a space of time &hellip;Most of these 117 missed games were accumulated during the first two-thirds of the season &hellip;Thirteen Montreal players accounted for the 117 games. Here is how it came about: Maurice Richard, 37 games; Floyd Curry, 28 games; Jean Beliveau, 15 games; Bernie Geoffrion. 9 games; Jacques Plante, 9 games; Andre Pronovost 4 games; Henri Richard, 3 games; Bert Olmstead, 3 games; Donnie Marshall, 3 games; Phil Goyette, 2 games; Jean-Guy Talbot, 1 game; and Doug Harvey, 1 game&hellip;Detroit Red Wings have used 31 players so far this season &hellip;They have used more players than any other NHL club&hellip;New york Rangers have used the fewest. The Rangers have played 29 different pucksters this season &hellip;Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black and Toronto Maple Leafs have all used 24 players &hellip;A tota of 142 players have played in the NHL this season&hellip;it 143 if you include Lefty Wilson&rsquo;s replacement work m Boston&rsquo;s goal the night Don Simmons was injured. &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Hockey is finally going to have its Hall of Fame. But it will not be in the City of Kingston, Ontario, the site where it was originally proposed for.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07229/2210194-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="268" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body">Danny Galivan</figcaption></div>Instead, the City of Toronto will be home for the Hall and it will be in operation at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto this year. That&rsquo;s the word from Harry Price of Toronto, vice-president and chairman of the CNE sports committee.Plans and progress on hockey&rsquo;s hall of fame were outlined at a luncheon arranged by managing director Frank Seike of Montreal Canadiens. With him were president Clarence Campbell of the National Hockey League and Price.The names of nine men who will be asked to serve as selectors were announced.The CNE and the NHL have combined on the project, which means abandonment of the Hockey Hall ef Fame started in Kingston, Ont., several years ago by the late Capt. Jim Sutherland.<h2>Brown Is U.S. Rep.</h2>Those named for selectors are: Lester Patrick of Victoria, the famed Silver Fox of hockey, provisional chairman; Mervyn (Red) Dutton of Calgary, former president of the NHL; Al Picard of Regina, former president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey association; Georges Dudley, Midland, Ont., secretary-manager of the CAHA; Milt Dunnell, sports editor of The Toronto Star; Marcel Desjardins, sport-editor of La Presse, Montreal; Baz O&rsquo;Meara, columnist of the Montreal Star; Danny Gallivan, Montreal, hockey broadcaster and native of the Maritimes, the area he will represent; Walter Brown, president of Boston Bruins of the NHL, as U.S. representative.The hockey hall of fame will be separate from the CNE&rsquo;s present sports hall of fame. The CNE and NHL will build and maintain the new hall.At last year&rsquo;s CNE sports Hall of Fame, hockey trophies were shown and drew tremendous attention.Price said that, in inaugurating the sports Hall of Fame three years ago, the CNE had no thought of a separate hockey hall, but hockey people subsequently asked there be a hockey exhibit, and the result had been beyond expectations.<h2>May Be Open All Year</h2>Price said there is a possibility the Hockey Hall of Fame may become an allyear affair, and not restricted to the three-week duration of the CNE each year.If costs can be met, the physical properties of the hall of fame &mdash; trophies, awards, sticks that have made hockey history and everything &mdash; might be moved to different cities in Canada for short stays.Campbell, Seike and Price all stressed there is no reflection on Kingston and its citizens in the CNE and NHL taking over the Hall of Fame. &#9632;

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Hall-Of-Fame Finally--But For Toronto

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-08173/2210239-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="324" height="356"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-09151/2210232-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="286" height="336"></div>Toronto Star<h2>It&rsquo;s Not True That Gump Is Gagged</h2>One of the unfair raps against Phillipe Henri Watson, coach of the rib-rattling Rangers, is that he berates his sad-face goalie, Gump Worsley, in public places, without giving Gump the right to berate back. The charge is untrue. If Gump doesn&rsquo;t get as many derogatory quotes in the prints as Phil does, it must be his press agent who&rsquo;s at fault. Phil definetely concedes Gump at least one of the four freedoms &mdash; the one relating to speech. And it&rsquo;s a dangerous privilege for Phil to permit. In man-toman debate with Gump, Watson is all-out to gain a tie.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-10109/2210225-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="526" height="847"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gump Worsley</figcaption></div>Phil had intended that Saturday in Toronto should be recognized as &ldquo;Be Good to Gump Day&rdquo;. It was a resounding flop all around, winding up in a debate at the Gardens, during which the Leafs dumped seven goals into Gump&rsquo;s net. But Phil had no inkling of that m the morning, when he emerged from, his room at the Royal York, dapper and filled with goodwill toward Gump.&ldquo;Worsley is playin&rsquo; terrific&rdquo;, Phil extolled in a statement intended for a waiting world. &ldquo;He even works practice &mdash; something I never seen him do before. 1 hen, noticing Gump sprawled in a lobby chair, Watson added a punch line for the goalie&rsquo;s consumption: &ldquo;The fat slob.&rdquo;Gump stirred languidly and queried his coach:When you gonna put on the uniform You&rsquo;re always talkin about what you could do. But you never take a chance. The day you put on the uniform, I wanta be on the opposite side. I won&rsquo;t even bother to put on my gloves.&rdquo;&ldquo;Why you couldn&rsquo;t carry my stick, Watson roared. &ldquo;If I ever put on the uniform, you&rsquo;d better duck. Yow-re always tellin&rsquo; me how many shots the other team is gettin&rsquo;. I&rsquo;ll give you somethin&rsquo; to yell about if I ever suit up.&rdquo;&ldquo;Only uniform you&rsquo;ll ever put on,&rdquo; Gump grunted, is one of them white suits &mdash; the kind the peanut vendors wear.&rdquo;<h2>Religious War Within The Ranks</h2>Gump had a proposition: &ldquo;Why don&rsquo;t you let the Bingo players take on the Protestants again in a practice game?&rdquo; he asked Phil. &ldquo;Last time you did that New York, it was the best workout we ever had. You can play for the Catholics and it will serve them right.&rdquo;&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a pretty good division between Protestants and Catholics on our club&rdquo;, Watson mused. &ldquo;Hank Ciesla has been added to the Catholics since the last time we played. And we always have Herb Goren (Rangers publicity director) to referee. He&rsquo;s Jewish. Trouble is he can&rsquo;t skate. Last time he refereed, he had to gallop up and down the ice in his ordinary shoes.&rdquo;&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s get the game arranged,&rdquo; Worsley urged. And you&rsquo;ll wind up with the undertaker if you put the uniform on.&rdquo;&ldquo;I might wind up with the undertaker, but you&rsquo;ll get the puck between the eyes,&rdquo; Phil retorted. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t worry about me. I&rsquo;ll take care of myself.&rdquo;&ldquo;The only picture I ever saw of you in a fight, Gump droned, &ldquo;showed you flat on your back, with the other guy sittin&rsquo; on your chest.&rdquo;&ldquo;The picture didn&rsquo;t show what I did to the other guy before he got me on my back,&rdquo; Watson defended. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell you something about that guy: He&rsquo;s not playing now.&rdquo;&ldquo;No wonder he ain&rsquo;t playin&rsquo; now,&rsquo; Gump scoffed. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s 65 years old by this time.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Speaking on Sport

MONTREAL, Que. &mdash; General Manager Tommy Ivan revealed, on a recent trip here that the Hawks will turn three of their top junior farm hands pro next season.&ldquo;Wel&rsquo;ll turn Matt Ravelich. Ed Hoekstra and John McKenzie, now with the St. Catharines Teepes of the OHA junior league pro next season, &ldquo;says Ivan. &ldquo;Well give them a shot with the big team and hope they can make it. If not we&rsquo;ll send them out for experience.&rdquo;The trio, a line that is presently burning up the OHA junior league is expected to carry the Teepees into the Memorial Cup fight this season.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re a pretty good looking line,&rdquo; says Tommy. &ldquo;Ravelich is the hard-rock. Hoekstra is the cutie and McKenzie is the worker. They play well together and might just make it next season.&rdquo; &#9632;

Ivan Hopes To Torn Junior Trio Pro For Next Season

<div class="byline">By RED BURNETT</div>Toronto StarTORONTO. Ont.&mdash;Cleveland Barons&rsquo; general manager Jim Hendy says he&rsquo;s &ldquo;ready to go to court next spring in order to upset the NHL player draft. Jim is hot over the fact Detroit Red Wings shot Metro Prystai out to Edmonton of the Western Hockey league without having the Barons and other American Hockey league clubs waive on the player.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01516/2210332-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="291" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Hendy</figcaption></div>&ldquo;The NHL grab players from our league but they don&rsquo;t figure we have any right to step in and take a player they are trying to send down to the Western Hockey league which is of a lower classification than the AHL.&ldquo;Right now Detroit and Boston are trying to buy left defenceman Pete Goegan from us. Detroit has offered Bucky Hollingworth and cash Bruins have countered with an offer of cash and Jack Bionda.<h2>He&rsquo;s Ready To Eight</h2>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think either offer is good enough. But they&rsquo;re sitting back, using the threat of the next draft session if we don&rsquo;t grab one the offers.Asked if Toronto Maple Leafs, who admittedly are seeking a tough left defenceman, had made a bid for the six-foot, one inch 200 pounder, Hendy replied:&ldquo;No, they haven&rsquo;t made a concrete offer as yet Maybe they think they can nab him in the draft.&ldquo;But I&rsquo;ll tell you they&rsquo;re missing a big bet. Goegan is the best independently-owned player outside the NHL He&rsquo;s like a flower that&rsquo;s suddenly burst into full bloom.&ldquo;Last season, Steve Kraftcheck used to have to cover up for Goegan. This term, Goegan is doing all the work for Steve. In my opinion, he has everything to be a big leaguer and he&rsquo;s a real hard rock, the kind Conny Smythe used to drool over.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Hendy Ired Over Shift Of Prystai

CHICAGO. III&mdash;Take it from old hard - rock Ted Lindsay the best rookie in the National League at the moment is young Bobby Hull of the Chicago Black Hawks and not Toronto&rsquo;s Frank Mahovlich.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04268/2210363-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="286" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption></div>&ldquo;On what I have seen, I&rsquo;d have to say Hull has played much more effective hockey for us than Mahovlich has for the Leafs,&rdquo; said Ted. &ldquo;Of course, we have won our last four games from Toronto and few players look good in defeat.&ldquo;I think there is a feeling around the league the past few weeks that Hull has become more valuable to Chicago than Mahovlich is to Leafs. However, Mahovlich piled up a 43-point lead in the first half voting and its doubtful that Hull will overtake him unless Frank stages a complete collapse.&ldquo;In a way, it&rsquo;s too bad there&rsquo;s a split vote, because the second half is always more rugged in this league.&ldquo;Regardless of who wins the rookie prize and 31,000 bonus, I&rsquo;m convinced Hull is going to be one of the big fellows in hockey before he is through. He has everything but experience.&rdquo;Asked how he rated Hull with the other young centres who had earned the spurs on a line with him, Lindsay said: &ldquo;I always placed Alex Delvecchio (Detroit) in a class by himself and I figure Hull may become that good.&ldquo;Hull is a fine skater, has a wonderful physique, is a good puck-carrier with an excellent shift and. what&rsquo;s more important, he likes the rough going. The tougher a game gets, the better Bobby seems to play. He just whistles by those checks along the boards and is becoming more dangerous around the nets with every game.&ldquo;As long as Bobby retains that fire and competitive spirit his future in this game is assured.&ldquo;I have to give him an edge over Mahovlich because of his love for combat and the eager way he checks. Bobby does the Work for the fellows on his line, while Mahovlich appears inclined to let the other fellows do the digging for him.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Hull More Valuable To Us Than Frank To Leafs — Ted

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;Coach Rudy Pilous hasn&rsquo;t been pulling any punches with the Black Hawks he&rsquo;s been charged with leading since the first of the year as successor to General Manager Tommy Ivan hand fully plans to continue pushing his men whenever he sees the need as long as hockey in Chicago will be the benefactor.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02478/2210277-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="289" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hudy Pilous</figcaption></div>It would seem that stern, forceful leadership is about the only thing to use on a club that has blown so hot and then turned around to be so cold only hours later in what has leveled down to be one of the closest National Hockey League races in modern history.&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t play 20 minutes of hockey, let it go at that and expect to win. Tomorrow at practice we&rsquo;ll start all over again with the fundamentals we still seem to forget and we&rsquo;ll practice again Tuesday and Wednesday before the game at Boston Thursday,&rdquo; Rudy proclaimed after the 3-1 loss to Montreal February 2.Chicago jumped out fast against the champion Canucks and had a 1-0 lead after the first period, but things then dipped down hill sharply as the Hawk defense made several noticeable mistakes and the offense seemed to forget it had legs and skates that had churned in the first period.<h2>Must Win All At Home</h2>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to bawl them out now they&rsquo;re tired, but the guys I found fault with will find out when they skate out in the morning. You&rsquo;ve got to skate and work in this game and to play the kind of hockey I want these boys to show,&rdquo; the coach explained.He reiterated the need for winning all the remaining home games and getting at least a share of success on the road if the 1957-58 Black Hawks are to make the playoffs. Statistics are beginning to show just how necessary these needs are becoming as the schedule rolls right along.Actually, Chicago will have to perform at a better than 50% success basis the rest of the way if any dreams of the Stanley cup are to be entertained. The Hawks have been a basically good club since Christmas night when they launched their first hot streak of the season with a 3-1 victory at New York.The 19 games that followed found the Pilous pucksters cutting their record right down the middle with 9 wins, the same number of losses and a lone tie. Most admirable thing about this span was the three goals per game average maintained as compared to a 2.84 for opponents.It&rsquo;s rather obvious that their slow start this season is what has proven the biggest stumbling block to overcome for the Chicago squad. The first 30 games of the schedule that came before Christmas and their results would have landed any hockey club in a league cellar.Only a miserable eight victories were salvaged and could hardly be expected to stand up against 17 losses. The team could seldom find opponent&rsquo;s goals &hellip; the Hawk skaters, in tact, averaged only 1.67 goals a game during the full 30-game route.But Pilous is doing tittle about these games as he prods, pushes and directs his skaters now. All he wants them to think about is what's to be done with the 20 games remaining on the schedule. H's these 2b that will spell the Chicago season in terms of success or failure and no others.An even break along' the same pattern since Christmas will very likely put the team into the playoffs or within a breath or two away. The Hawks haven't thrown in the towel yet &mdash; not by a long shot. It hoped the Pilous push will blossom forth into a full hedged blitz with bombing pucks in all directionsAny tactical advice from the rinkside generals?<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03383/2210270-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="1722" height="1125"><figcaption class="caption-body">If They Could Only Play BaseballCharles Comisky, vice president of the Chicago White Sox left, along with his Al Lopez Visit Elmer &ldquo;Moose&rdquo; Vasko and Litzenberger at Chicago Stadium rinkside prior to a Black Hawks game. Lopez marvelled at the size of Vasko and Litzenberger. both standing well over 6&rsquo;3&rdquo; and was ready to offer them tryouts with his White Sox.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Rudy To Continue To Crack Whip To Get Tribe In Line

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;An apprehensive group of four players are forming their own private clique within the ranks of the Red Wings. They are very interested in any proposals which can guarantee sound health for the balance of this season.This quartet is formed of Terry Sawchuk, Alex Delvecchio, Forbes Kennedy and AI Arbour.They are the only Red Wings who have gone all the way this season (so far) without being forced out of action by an injury. And when you mention this, knock on wood.It was several weeks ago that Jack Adams called this &ldquo;our worst season of all for injuries.&rdquo;He has seen absolutely no reason for amending the statement, since added proof has kept piling up. With star forward Gordie Howe already out with rib injuries, the Wings suffered casualty No. 15 when a dislocated shoulder put Bob Bailey on the sidelines for three weeks or so. Like a couple of others, Bailey got his in practice. It came in a collision with Billy McNeill.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05174/2210415-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="290" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Kelly</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-06104/2210408-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="300" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al Arbour</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0760/2210401-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="306" height="467"><figcaption class="caption-body">Forbes Kennedy</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0841/2210394-1-eng-US/f0005-082.jpg" title="f0005-08" width="274" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alex Delvecchio</figcaption></div><h2>Call Up Juniors To Fill Ranks</h2>That stripped Detroit down to eight regular forwards. Capt. Red Kelly moved up from defense in order to allow three complete lines.Help was obtained from the farm system with the Hamilton Juniors donating two players under the tryout clause. Brian Smith and Murray Oliver, both left wings, popped up for a pair of games. After Bailey was hurt. Smith was called upon a second time.At the same time that those two 20-year-old juniors appeared there also v&rsquo;as a new addition from Edmonton, of the Western League. Tony (Mighty Mouse) Leswick appeared as a replacement for Metro Prystai. Leswick, at 34, became the oldest player in the National Hockey League until Rocket Richard, 36. became ready to start his comeback.&ldquo;T got the Flyers into first place so now they want me to straighten you guys out,&rdquo; was Leswick&rsquo;s peppy greeting to his former Detroit, teammates. He had been coaching as well as playing at Edmonton.ICE CHIPS: It required some fancy doing but. the Wings managed to split the first four games which Howe missed&hellip; There was a rousing 4-2 victory over Montreal and a rallying 3-1 triumph over Toronto &hellip;But in between, two of the worst lickings in recent years were absorbed from those same clubs&hellip; It was 7-0 in Montreal and 9-2 two nights later in Toronto.&ldquo;I wish I could find the button to push on that man,&rdquo; quipped coach Sid Abel&hellip; He was discussing Alex Delvecchio, the often nonchalant center who also can have moments of, dazzling brilliance&hellip; One such moment produced the clincher in the triumph over Toronto&hellip; With Detroit shorthanded. Someone &ldquo;pushed the button&rdquo; on Delvecchio who outdistanced the Tornoto to defense by some 10, feet on a 120-foot breakaway for the final goal &hellip; It was one of the prettiest plays of the year at Olympia.Forbes Kennedy Detroit&rsquo;s most improved player Picked Up both tying goals when Wings came from behind for their last two victories&hellip;Both times he clicked with late tallies which sparked a club apparently headed tor defeat. &#9632;

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Wings Reduced To Tour Who Haven’t Had Wings Clipped

<div class="byline">By Dink Carroll</div>(Montreal Gazette)<h2>To Toronto By Default</h2>It looks as though the Hockey Hall of Fame is going to go to Toronto by default.The hockey shrine, which originally had Kingston as its site, will likely become an actuality before next August. It seems that some $65,000 had been collected from various sources to build the shrine in Kingston, but so many difficulties were encountered and there have been so many delays that to get the job done now would require an additional sum of over $200,000. Does anyone know where that kind of money is coming from for such a project?The Canadian National Exhibition has offered a solution, but we ll come io that in a minute.In the meantime, you may be wondering why Kingston was selected as the site in the first place. Cooperstown. N.Y., was selected as the site for the Baseball Hall of Fame because the game was supposed to have originated there. Did hockey originate in Kingston? Let somebody try to prove it!Although the game of ice hockey is not 100 years old, its origin is anything but definite. There are those who claim it originated in Halifax and that it was invented by members of the English garrison there at the time. The legend is that after the troops learned to skate, they wanted a little more action and started to play shinney.Counterclaims from Montreal concerning the birth of hockey insisted that whatever game was played elsewhere, the first game of true ice hockey was played in Montreal by teams of McGill University students in 1875. The late Henry Joseph, who died not so long ago, played in that game.A student friend, J. G. A. Creighton, was responsible for the start of nockey in Montreal,&rdquo; Mr. Joseph once told The Gazette. &ldquo;Skating was popular, in the city and most of the enthusiasts belonged to the Victoria Skating Club, with headquarters in the old Victoria Rink, which was built in 1862.&rdquo;<h2>The Case For Montreal</h2>According to Mr. Joseph, it was Creighton who first suggested that they obtain hockey sticks from Halifax and take up the game.&ldquo;Creighton came from Halifax and had seen the game played in his home town,&rdquo; Mr. Joseph recalled in the intreview. &ldquo;The suggestion was taken up and several clubs began playing friendly matches. The first clubs to play were the Victorias, McGill, Montreal Lacrosse Club, Montreal Football Club, Metropolitans and the St. James Club. There were definite rules for the games and the code was fashioned, in the main, after the rules of field hockey, the Field Hockey Association being formed in 1875.&rdquo;There is factual evidence that the first game of hockey, which is definitely called ice hockey, was played in Montreal on March 3, 1 875. Because the game was played on indoor ice at the Victoria Stating Rink, it was necessary to limit the size of the teams to nine, which rule continued in force until reduced to seven in 1884.In the old shinney game, the playing object was a hard rubber ball. This was found unsuitable for indoor play and a flat, circular piece of wood was first substituted. This was succeeded by the rubber puck of today. Regular goals, giving height and width, were first used in Montreal. Goalkeepers, who did not exist in shinney, were introduced into the game in Montreal.Also introduced in Montreal were playing uniforms, definite playing positions, hockey officials and the first codified rules.<h2>The Case For Kingston</h2>The notion here is that Kingston was first selected as the site for the shrine because of the crusade carried on by the late Capt. James T. (Jim) Sutherland, of that city, who was a hockey zealot. He submitted the following paragraph from the diary of Edward Horsey, a Kingston historian, written in 1846-47:&ldquo;Most of the soldier boys were quite at home on skates. They could cut the figure eight, and other fancy figures, but shinney was great delight. Groups would be placed at Shoal Tower and Point Frederick, and 50 or more players on each side would be in the game.&rdquo;We don&rsquo;t think Capt. Jim convinced many that Kingston was the birthplace of ice hockey, but he had something else going for him in his argument that it was the logical site for the Hail of Fame: The Hall would loom larger in a smaller city than in a big one. and here at Kingston halfay between Montreal and Toronto. But he won the battle and lost, the war.&ldquo;The main thing now is to proceed with the Hall,&rdquo; Frank Seike said at a luncheon recently, which was attended by N.H.L. President Clarence Campbell, and Harry Price, of the Canadian National Exhibition. &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s get things done.&rdquo;The C.N.E., according to Harry Price, already has a building which can be used as a hockey shrine, and there is no great financial problem. Hundreds of thousands are sure to visit it while the exhibition is on and, eventually, it will be kept open the whole year around But 50 years from now Toronto will probably be claiming that ice hockey originated there and will point to the Hall. &#9632;

playing the field

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Hello, Boom Boom Geoffrion! Calling Boom Boom Geoffrion! Attention, Boom Boom Geoffrion!There&rsquo;s a fellow here who&rsquo;d like to get together with you. He thinks you and he have a lot in common. He&rsquo;s probably right.His name is Leo Boivin. You know, the Bruins&rsquo; defenseman who has caught you with 1 stiff check now and then.Boivin is the Geoffrion of the Bruins, and not because he&rsquo;s good for a hatful of goals a season. Unfortunately, that isn&rsquo;t the reason.What you and he have in common mostly is an almost unbelievable streak of bad luck stemming from injury and/or illness. You&rsquo;ve been having your troubles and he&rsquo;s been having his.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03339/2210501-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="262" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bernard Geoffrion</figcaption></div>Just before the start of the season Boivin, a pleasant, modest little chap despite what Jack Adams says, expressed a modest hope.&ldquo;I hope I&rsquo;ve had my share of freak accidents and sickness,&rdquo; he hoped. &ldquo;I hope I can play the whole schedule.&rdquo;Boivin was disappointed in less than three weeks. He was tripped by Jack Evans. New York defenseman. the point of Evans&rsquo; skate slashing through his fibre shinguard. He was on the operating table at Carney Hospital for more than an hour while Dr. Edward R. Browne repaired the damage.Little Leo was out for seven weeks and he needed another three weeks to regain his playing edge. The thought of his long layoff made him sigh with relief.&ldquo;At least my bad luck for the season is behind me,&rdquo; he said., &ldquo;Now I&rsquo;m just hoping I&rsquo;ll be able to help for the rest of the year.&rdquo;But four days after poor Geoffrion underwent a serious abdominal operation in Montreal Boivin found himself back in the Carney here &mdash; for an appendectomy by Dr. Browne. He wrote off another six weeks of the rapidly disappearing season.<h2>Caught Smallpox Last Season</h2>&ldquo;I guess Boom Boom and I should start our own team,&rdquo; he chuckled from his hospital bed. &ldquo;Between us we&rsquo;ve had just about everything in the last few years.&rdquo;Boivin doesn&rsquo;t care to challenge Geoffrion for variety of ailments, but his list has become extensive since he played his one full schedule six years ago.Last season, when the Bruins were making a bruising challenge for the championship and picking up breaks and bruises in the process, Boivin escaped such everyday occurances.Instead he lost a week with an attack of grippe so severe that he wasn&rsquo;t back in peak condition for nearly two more weeks.Then he contracted a form of smallpox which landed him in the hospital for Contagious Diseases here, idled him for a month and kept him from hitting his stride again until the Stanley Cup playoffs.Where in this day and age did he contract the disease? Probably from one of his small sons, who had just been vaccinated against it.So Boom Boom, if you have a chance why don&rsquo;t you get in touch with Leo? Thai is, if he doesn&rsquo;t get in touch with you first.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01585/2210494-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="512" height="843"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hard Luck GuyLeo Boivin</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hard Luck Leo And Boomer In Hospital Class By Themselves

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t count on them all for yourself.&rdquo;That was King Clancy&rsquo;s warning to Jack Adams when members of Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings honored Detroit&rsquo;s championship youth teams at the annual Faceoff Banquet.The Leafs remained in town an extra day after their scheduled game at Olympia in order to join with the Wings in the special program. About 800 attended the affair at which the top teams in Detroit&rsquo;s vast youth hockey team received recognition.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04231/2210563-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="270" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">King Clancy</figcaption></div>Clancy, Toronto assistant general manager who was the main speaker, confessed amazement at the vast scope of amateur hockey in this area. His crack to Adams was taken after several speakers had mentioned the hope that some of the local youngsters eventually might advance into pro hockey and into the Red Wing lineup.A total of 2,600 players formed 162 teams in the vast Recreation League operated by the City of Detroit. Officials of the Recreation Department call it the &ldquo;largest city-operated hockey program in the United States&rdquo; and they are curious whether it is bigger than any similar program in Canada.The 162 teams cover Seniors (unlimited age), Juniors (under 21), Juveniles (under 17), Pee Wees (under 15) and Bantams (under 13).There are 32 teams &mdash; eight, in each of the younger age groups &mdash; which form the major league and Flay ah games at Olympia with the ice time given free by the Detroit Hockey Club. Minor leagues in each age group also operate at four municipal outdoor rinks.This was the fourth annual Faceoff Banquet, a $10 plate affair with the proceeds going for equipement for the youth teams. Leafs were the fourth NHL club to spend in extra day in Detroit in order to take part. The New York Rangers, Boston Brains and Montreal Canadiens have appeared previously.About $3,000 was raised by the latest dinner.Several former NHL players served as the co-sponsors of the dinner. The general chairman was Stu Evans, a Red Wing and Montreal Maroon defenseman buck in the &rsquo;30s, who now owns a large auto agency in Detroit. &#9632;

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King Tells Adams Not To Count All Detroit Peewees For Wings

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Centre Forbes Kennedy of the Detroit Red Wings had a $1.00 fine slapped on him last, week by President Clarence Campbell of the NHL for taking a poke at linesman Matt Pavelich.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02457/2210532-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="288" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Forbes Kennedy</figcaption></div>Kennedy took his sock at Pavelich in a game here between the Habs and Wings on Thursday, January 30th. The Canadiens shutout the Wings 7-0.Forbes was clipped the hundred dollars for injecting himself into the middle of a scrap between Canadiens&rsquo; Andre Pronovost and Wings&rsquo; Warren Godfrey.As Pronovost and Godfrey were stepping into the penalty box Kennedy and the young Canadiens&rsquo; winger had words. Both dropped their gloves and Immediately started to shove each other. Linesman Pavelich stepped in between the two to break it up, but instead found himself being slapped around by Kennedy. Referee Red Storey tagged him with a major, then a misconduct and finally a game misconduct. There is an automatic fine of $25 for a misconduct and a further $50 for a game misconduct. Campbell imposed a further $25 fine for striking Pavelich. He also warned Kennedy that any repetition will bring a more severe penalty.Campbell said the fine was assessed after he had reviewed the case and talked with officials.Actually Kennedy could have picked any night other than the January 30th one for making himself conspicous. For the first time this season Campbell sat in the official NHL seats beside the Detroit bench at ice level. It was the first time he had. used the seats. He sat there with referee-in-chief Carl Voss.Storey called 30 penalties in the game, most of them coming in a hectic third period. He tagged the misconduct penalty on Kennedy for getting into the fight in the first place and then taking his punch at Pavelich. Pavelich immediately reported to Storey that he had been hit by the player. When Forbes was given the misconduct he then opened up verbally on Pavelich and Storey tagged him with the game misconduct.Kennedy, a graduate of the Montreal junior Canadiens. was sent to the Chicago Black Hawks last season along with Eddie Katchur and Ken Mosdell. This season he was traded to the Wings in the Ted Lindsay deal. &#9632;

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Forbes Tagged After Hitting Matt Pavelich

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Barry Cullen has developed into Toronto&rsquo;s greatest Saturday night institution since the bath.Benched for failing to produce through 16 consecutive games by mid - January&rsquo;, the younger of the Cullen brother suddenly erupted to spark Toronto Maple Leafs to their two greatest outbursts of the season on successive Saturdays.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01537/2210601-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="253" height="387"><figcaption class="caption-body">Barry Cullen</figcaption></div>On January 25, he ended New York Ranger Gump Worsley&rsquo;s unbeaten comeback string by&rsquo; hammering home three goals as Leafs scored a 7-1 triumph. And seven days later, he proved to Toronto fans that Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk is human, after all. by triggering two goals and setting up two more iu a 9-1 conquest of the Red Wings.In each case. Barry&rsquo; was there firstest with the mostest. He did not merely loot an enemy body alter the damage had already been done, but instead engineered each rout himself.Rangers were leading Leafs 1-0 when he started his rampage by scoring blip tieing and winning goals and then adding the night&rsquo;s fourth Leaf goal for his hat trick.. And against Detroit he scored the only goal of the first period and then added the winning second period goal to throw the game wide open.Setting up brother Brian for two, of his three goals an the same four-game week. Barry revived the Maple Leaf Kid Line that had been failing to fulfill the promise it had shown through the early weeks of the campaign.<h2>Snapped Out Of II Fast</h2>And he did it just in time to remove himself from the starring role in the Maple Leaf dog house, indeed, just prior to his eruption, he had suffered through five worst slump any of the in-and-out Leafs has endured this season.? His 16-game goal-less streak was the climax of a 28-game stump in which he scored only twice, prompting coach Billy Reay to bench him and use George Armstrong in. his place on Brian&rsquo;s right wing.&ldquo;Barry is the scorer of that combination,&rdquo; Said the coach. &ldquo;And when he isn&rsquo;t scoring, lie&rsquo;s not doing a job for us.&rdquo;But Barry s&rsquo;. luck abruptly changed. When Tod Sloan suffered torn knee ligaments and was forced out of the lineup for two and a half weeks, Armstrong was needed to replace him and Cullen won a reprieve. He used it by starting to score again.&ldquo;He snapped out of it just like that,&rdquo; said his amazed coach, snapping his fingers. &ldquo;He hadn&rsquo;t been hustling for a while. He wasn&rsquo;t getting goals because he wasn&rsquo;t getting shots. And he missed those because he wasn&rsquo;t bearing down and skating hard enough.&ldquo;Now he&rsquo;s doing what we knew he could do again. He&rsquo;s seating like he did at the start of the season and he&rsquo;s carrying the puck.&rdquo;The resurgence of the Kid Line, while encouraging, is still not complete. Left winger Bob pulford has replaced Barry in the team dog house on the strength of a Slump not unlike that of Barry. In T6 games, going into the second week of February, Bully scored only once.<h2>Kid Line Produces</h2>&lsquo;Trying similar tactics to revive the left winger, Reayused Garv Aldcorn as the threat to Pulford&rsquo;s job, after Aidcorn was freed from a regular position by the return of Sloan and Rudy Migay from injuries.Despite Pulford&rsquo;s nosedive, however, the Kid Line was Toronto&rsquo;s big production unit as Leafs stepped up their stretch drive for thy final six weeks of the schedule by cancelling all off days.Yet the line was suffering from one great shortcoming. It couldn&rsquo;t produce when it had the its greatest opportunity &mdash; with the other team a man short.As the front wall of Toronto&rsquo;s power play, it compiled an incredibly inept 13-game record of scoring only two goals while yielding five. Two of the negative scores game on one shift and permitted Chicago Black Hawks to score a 4-1 win from Leafs at Toronto Jan 29. And still another enabled Detroit Red Wings to ensure a 3-1 comeback victory only 24 hours after Leafs had bombarded them 9-2.&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t fault them on the way their handling the puck or passing it around,&rdquo; Reay says. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the best combination we have and it&rsquo;s making all the right moves, but just not finishing off the plays.&ldquo;The biggest trouble seems to be in the fact that once we get the puck into the other end for a face-off, we can&rsquo;t win the faceoff.&rdquo;To remedy this. Reay moved Frank Mahovlich off the point and into centre for the faceoffs, assigning Brian Cullen to cover Mahovlich&rsquo;s point until the faceoff is completed. Rookie Frank&rsquo;s overwhelming size prompted Reay to make the change, which he rehearsed for a full week, as much as 90 minutes at a practise, before introducing it in a home-and-home week-end doublel header against Boston Bruins February 8th and 9th.At the same time as he rehearsed this move, Reay contemplated changing his point men and employing George Armstrong and Marc Reaume instead of Mahovlich and Ron Stewart &mdash; Army to make the same adjustments Mahovlich would on faceoffs.&ldquo;Our point men haven&rsquo;t been getting their shots on the n&rsquo;et, he reasoned. &ldquo;So there are no rebounds for the forwards to work with and increased chances of the other side breaking away.&ldquo;But I can&rsquo;t put any of the blame on the Culiens. They&rsquo;re doing their job&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02496/2210594-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="2328" height="1057"><figcaption class="caption-body">Moore Slaps One Past Sawchuk &hellip; And The NetDigging Dickie Moore left-right winger of the Montreal Canadiens has been a ball of fire all season for the Habs. Leading the kaaue in points and goalsscored. Moore and linemates Bonin and Henri Richard have sparked the club to one of the greatest runaways in history. Coach Toe Blake expects the trio to be the big spark in the final month before the payoffs Moore (12) flips puck past Sawchuk as defenseman Al Arbour peaches out to stop him.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Barry Blasts Cords, Toronto Hopes Co Up

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Unofficially the Canadiens have already celebrated the winning of the 1957 - 58 championship. Officially they will be able to celebrate it when they will five more games. That was the magic figure for the runaway Habs as they continued to crush the enemy, with perhaps not as much might as before but with just as much determination.Five games Is all the Canadiens need to win. That many victories&rsquo; will put first place out of reach of the Rangers. This figuring came on Monday, February 10th. one day after the Canadiens had defeated the Rangers for the fourth straight time in their own back yard. Both clubs had 17 games to play and the Canadiens were 25 points up. Five wins by Canadiens. will put them one point out of reach, even if the New Yorkers were to win those five games as well. It would leave both clubs with 12 games to play, or a possible 2 4 points for the Rangers to collect.Records, although they have been widely discussed by everyone but the Canadiens themselves, are something the Habs might break without trying too hard to do. After 53 games they had 76 points. They were 25 points away from Detroit&rsquo;s alltime record of 101 points for a season. Sailing along at the same pace for the next 17 games should see the Habs ring up at least 102 for the season. That would necessitate 13 wins in their next 17 games. It would also leave them room for four losses, or one third as many as they had lost during the first 53 &lsquo;games of the Season.It&rsquo;S, quite likely that the Canadiens. will score at least 250 goals this season, as well. They had totaled, 193 in 5 3 games, which is a little over three and a half per game. At the same pace for the next 17 it would give them a season total of approximately 253.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03404/2210632-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="526" height="1153"><figcaption class="caption-body">SparklesJacques Plante</figcaption></div>Unless a &lsquo;drastic stump crops up the Canadiens will also set a record for winning the title by the biggest spread of points in history. The present record is 25, the same figure the Canadiens now lead the pack by. It&rsquo;s quite concievable that they could end up with a bulge of 30 or more, although it doesn&rsquo;t seem likely, since Blake will, undoubtedly rest some of his stars after the title is clinched.It remained foi Blake&rsquo;s, first like to continue to spark the Canadiens. Dickie Moore. Henri Richard and Marcel Bonin&rsquo;is the trio. This line scored, four of the, clubs six goals in its last three, games: The points were split right down the middle with Detroit holding them to a 1-1 tie inDetroit, then the Hawks won their annual game in Montreal 3-2 and then the Canadiens went into New York and got back onto the win road with a 3-1 victory while over 600 of their faithful fans who were making a hockey weekend of it, looked on.Moore, playing with a badly bruised left hand, connected for one goal, while Henri Richard had another and Bonin scored a pair.Blake still expects most of his power to come from this trio in as much as it has been the most productive since it was formed back in November. Jean Beliveau has lost his two wingmates for sometime. Geoffrion is out for the season following a dramatic rush to hospital when he was injured in practice. Olmstead is lost to the club for three weeks with a bad knee.Replacing&rsquo; Geoffrion is Floyd Curry, the hard skating right winger, noted more for his defensive work than anything else. To replace Olmstead the Canadiens brought up Claude Laforge from Shawinigan for five games and be failed to impress anyone, mostly because he lacked experience. It&rsquo;s unlikely that the Habs will pull anyone from Rochester of the AHL since the Americans are in a last ditch fight 10 gain a playoff Spot. Therefore, the opinions are that Blake will take from Sam Pollock&rsquo;s junior Canadiens. Toe will probably call upon Claude Richard, brother of &lsquo;you know who&rsquo; for a few games, just to give local fails a thrill and also to See&rsquo;what he can do. He is a left winger and ii is quite possible that Blake may play him on a line with his two brothers. The; breakup of his big: line would, lie temporary since Claude, can only play five games for the club. Blake may also call on right back winnger Ralph Back strom for duty and relieve Curry for penalty killing. Up until now Blake has been able to use Bob Turner in this role but a fractured leg put Talbot on the sidelines for three weeks and now Bob is taking a full turn opposite Johnson on defense.Defensively, the Habs haie been stingy to their opponents. Plante, playing sparkling goal has allowed only seven goals in his last seven games. He&rsquo;s making a runaway of the Vezina Trophy race and despite the lack of points for the All-Star team in the first half, be might just pull all the points during the second portion While most of the experts have been crediting the forwards and defense for their sparkling play, Jacques has come in for few of the plaudits. Actually, he has sparkled game in and game out. To boot he had given the fans the best show of the year, outside the annual circus visit to the Forum. &#9632;

f0007-03

Five Is Combination To Make Title Safe For Runaway Habs

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;One would not blame Toe Blake if he decided against calling another practice for the Canadiens. If you were in his boots you wouldn&rsquo;t take a try further chances with the million dollars worth of talent he has left either. When the season started Blake had a lineup worth at least two million dollars, though. Practicing has cost him the other million. give or take a few bucks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04307/2210663-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="284" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Gay Talbot</figcaption></div>We might be exagerating a little, but it&rsquo;s safe to say that Boom Boom Geoffrion and Jean Guy Talbot are worth quite a chunk of gold on the hockey market today. Both have been lost to the club for long periods of lime, both injuries resulting from hectic practicing. Apparently&rsquo; the Canadiens scrimmage harder than they play. Because they don&rsquo;t have to play too hard these days. They have all but sewn up first place so there is no rush to go anywhere.Talbot is the latest injury victim in the Habs&rsquo; lineup. He was hurt in a practice iu Detroit when he collided with Claude Laforge, a rookie up on a five game stint replacing the injured Bert Olmstead.Jean Guy suffered a hairline fracture on the leg and l&rsquo;lcw home to Montreal where he will he watching games from the stands for the next throe weeks.Only two weeks before the Habs had lost Geoffrion in a freak accident in practice and consequently his services for the remainder of the season.The loss of Talbot narrowed to three the number of players who have escaped the injury jinx thus far this season. Only Tom Johnson, Dickie Moore and Marcel Bonin have played in all games. At that Moore is playing with a badly damaged hand, courtesy of defenseman Marcel Pronovost of the Wings.Upon return to Montreal from Detroit last week, Moore had the hand X-rayed. There was nothing on the negative to show any broken bones so doctors taped it tightly and allowed him to play. Nevertheless it was hard for Dickie to grip his stick and it showed in his play.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s tough enough,&rdquo; laughed Moore, &ldquo;playing with this taped hand but while I was lacing up my skates for the Chicago game I felt a disc slip in my back.&rdquo;Thus far Blake has been able to close the gap when a player is sidelined. But he has just, about run out of material. When Maurice Richard was injured he moved Moore over to right, and put Marcel Bonin on left. When Beliveau was hurt he filled in with Marshall. When Geoffrion was hurt Curry was there to fill the breach. When Talbot came up with. the injured leg. Toe took Bob Turner off the penalty killing role and placed him alongside Tom Johnson. But that&rsquo;s about all of the shifting he can do. There is no one left on the bench in a utility role. When he lost Olmstead he was forced to call on Claude Laforge. But Laforge was shipped back to Shaw&rsquo;inigan after five games, the limit a player can be used without having to be waived out.Fortunately Blake had Turner to replace Talbot. He wouldn&rsquo;t like to take anything&rsquo; from Rochester of the AHL since Roly McLenahan is in the thick of a battle for a playoff berth. Likewise the Royals of the Quebec Hockey League are in the middle of a tough fight to get a money spot. So Blake has found the door closed when it comes to looking for another defenseman.But Turner is more than an adequate replacement for Tai bot. He has never drawn rave notices, for he is one of those players who goes unnoticed even when he plays an outstanding game. Bob. one of the finest rushing defenseman in t\e league is equally effective defensively. Once he gets used to playing regularly there is a good chance he will blossom forth as a real standout.This much is sure; there are five other clubs in the league who would grab &lsquo;the quiet man&rsquo; if he were ever offered around. One coach even admitted that if he had Bob he&rsquo;d shift him up to wing so fast &ldquo;it would make your head swim.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Uninjured Crew Drops to Three In Canuck Camp

<h2>Prince Of Wales Cup</h2>The Prince Of Wales Trophy, presented to the NHL chompions each year has only been won once by Toronto and New York and never by Chicago Black Hawks, since 1938-38 when the NHL became one division.<h2>Vezina Trophy Winners</h2>If Jacques Plante win the Vezina Trophy this season for allowing the fewest goals against, he will become the first gooler to win it three times in a row since Bill Durnan captured it four times in a row.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01571/2210715-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="569" height="238"></div><h2>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYEDWEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 9, 1958</h2>Thurs. Feb. 6&mdash;Canadians 1. at Det. 1Thurs. Feb. 6&mdash;Chicago 4 at Boston 1Sat. Feb. 8&mdash;Chicago 3 at Canadiens 2Sat. Feb. 8&mdash;Boston 7 at Toronto 3Sat. Feb. 8&mdash;Rangers 5 at Detroit 2Sun. Feb. 9&mdash;Canadians 3 at Rangers 1Sun. Feb. 9&mdash;Toronto 2 at Boston 6Sun. Feb. 9&mdash;Detroit 2 at Chicago 1<h2>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEKENDING FEBRUARY 16, 1958</h2>Wed. Feb. 12&mdash;Canadiens at TorontoThurs. Feb. 13&mdash;Detroit at BostonFri. Feb. 14&mdash;Rangers at ChicagoSat. Feb. 15&mdash;Canadiens at BostonSat. Feb. 15&mdash;Detroit at TorontoSun. Feb. 16&mdash;Canadiens at ChicagoSun. Feb. 16&mdash;Toronto at DetroitSun. Feb. 16&mdash;Boston at Rangers<h2>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6Montreal 1 at Detroit 1</h2>Canadiens &mdash; Goal: Plante; defense; Harvey, St. Laurent, Johnson, Turner; forwards: Richard, Bonin, Moore, Beliveau, Curry, Laforge, Provost, Goyette, Marshall, A. Pronovost.Detroit &mdash; Goal; Sawchuk; defense: M. Pronovost, Godfrey, Arbour, Kelly, Strate; forwards: Delvecchio, Mickoski, McIntyre, Wilson, Leswick, Poile, Ullman, Kennedy, McNeill.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Montreal: Moore (Beliveau)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16.52Penalties: St. Laurent 6.37, Poile 11.40; Strate 15.01.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Detroit: Mlukcskl (Delvecchio, McIntyre)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;0.24Penalties: Beliveau 4.99. Provost 16.11.<h3>Third Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Johnson 9.01, Wilson 12.19.<h2>Chicago 4 at Boston 1</h2>Chicago Goal: Hall; defense; Thomson, Mortson, Cushenan, Pilote, forwards: Hull, Litzenberger, Lindsay, Murphy, Skov, Reibel, Dineen, Dea, Nesterenko, Kachur, Ferguson.Holton &mdash; Goal: Lumley; defense; Stanley, Hillman, Flaman, Mohns; forwards: McKenney, Toppazzini, Mackeil, Horvath, Stasiuk, BuCyk, Regan, Lebine, Beckett, Boone, Peirson.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Chicago: Hull(Lindsay, Litzenberger)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15.23Penalties: Mohns 15.16, Bucyk 17.33<h3>Second Period</h3>Boston; Toppazzini (McKenney, Stanley)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:263&mdash;Chicago: Hull (Litzenberger, Cushenan)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13.154&mdash;Chicago: Thomson (Dineen, Reibel)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:14Penalties: Nesterenko 9.32, Lizenberger 16.48.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;Chicago: Litzenberger (Mortson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19.42Penalty: None.<h2>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8Chicago 3 at Canadiens 2</h2>Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hull; defense; Mortson Thomsons forwards: Litzen berger, Lindsay, Hull, Cushenan, Kachur, Reibel, Murphy, Ferguson, Skov; Nesterenko, Dea, Dineen, Pilote.Canadiens &mdash; Goal: Plante; defense; Harvey, St. Laurent, H. Richard Moore, Bonio, Beliveau, Curry, Laforge, Johnson. Turner, Provost, Go yette Marshall, Pronovost.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Conadiens, H. Richard (Bonin, Harvey)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3.452&mdash;Chicago Lindsay (Pilote, Litzenberger)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14.54Penalties: Bonin 9.11, Nesterenko 2.56, Kachur 4.19, Johnson 1.49, Pilote 7.93, Turner 14.14, Lindsay 15.01, Johnson 15.01.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Chicago; Lindaay (Litzenberger, Reibel)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11.39Penalty: Chicago club (served by Murphy) 18.40.<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;Chicago: Skov (Kachur, Pilote)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12.225&mdash;Canadiens: Johnson (Beliveau, Marshall)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14.68Penalty: None.<h2>New York 5 at Detroit 2</h2>Detroit&mdash; Goal: Sawchuk; defense; Pronovost, Godfrey; forwards: Ullman, Kelly, Mickoski, Arbour. Wilson, Howe, DelVecchio, Leawick, McIntyre, Poile, Kennedy, Strate, Smith, Lalande, McNeill.New York &mdash; Goal: Worsley; defence; Howell, Fontinato; forwards: Sullivan, Hebenton, MacDonald, Cahan, Gadsby, Evanp, Bathgate, Gendron, Ciesla, Creighton, Foley, Popein, Henry, Lewicki.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Detroit: Poile (Howe, DelVecchio)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9.15.2&mdash;New York: Gadsby (Bathgate, Lewicki)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16.57Penalties: Evans 6.20, Gendron 8.28. Sulliven. 8.50. Kennedy 11.26, Mickoski 25.16, Lalande18.06, Fontinato 18.06.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;New York: Hebention (Sullivan, MacDonald)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3.364&mdash;New York Gendron (Lewicki)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4.125&mdash;Detriot: Mickoski (Lalande, pronovost)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7.526&mdash;New York: Gadsby (Lewicki, Bathgate)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14.38Penalties: Pronovost, 9.38. Howell 16.05.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;New York: Howell (Bathgate, Popein)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9.34Penalties: Gendron 9.00, McNelli 11.17.<h2>Boston 7 at Toronto 3</h2>Toronto&mdash;Goal: Chadwick: defence; Reaume, Baun; forwards; Brian, Cullon, Barry Cullen, Pulford, Morrison, Horton, Masnick, Armstrong, Sloan, stevart, Migay, Herri, Duff, Aldcorn Muhovlich.Boston&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Fiamen, Mohns, forwards: Morvath, Bucyk, Stasiuk, Mackell, stanley, Regan, Labine, McKenny, Beckett, Toppazzini, Hillman, Pierson, Boone.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Boston: McKenney (Mackeil, Toppezzini)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5.272&mdash;Boston: Toppezzini&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;22.513&mdash;Toronto; stewari (Sloan, Harrie)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14.024&mdash;Boston: Bucyk (Stesink, Horvath)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15.29Penalties: Horvoth 1.33, Flawman 12.16.<h3>Second Period</h3>5&mdash;Boston: Regan (Bucyk, Horvath)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3.116&mdash;Boston: McKenney (Mackell)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18.117&mdash;Beaton; Horvath (Stasiuk, Bucyk)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19.08Penalites; Marrison 2.44, Standley 3.54, Boone 12.46 Regan 16.43.<h3>Third Period</h3>8&mdash;Toronto: Horton (Stewart, Aldeorn)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8.389&mdash;Toronto: Aldcorn (Horton, Masnick)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.1510&mdash;Boston: Stasiuk (Flamen, Bucyk)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14.30Penality: None.<h2>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9Canadiens 3 at New York 1</h2>New York&mdash;Goal: Worsley: defense: Gadsby, Evans; forwards; Popein. Bathgate, Lewicki, Cahan, Sullivan, Gendron, Hebenton, MacDonald, Ciesla, Creighton, Foley, Henry, Howell, Foniinato.Canadiens&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense; Harvey, St. Laurent; forwards: H. Richard, Moore, Bonin, Beliveau, Curry, Laforge, Johnson, Turner, Provost, Goyette, Marshall, Pronovost.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Canadians: Marshall (Gurry, Johnson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11.572&mdash;Canadiens: Bonin (H. Richard)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15.26Penalities: St. Laurent 11.09, Lewick 17.30, Sullivan 17.46<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Canadiens: Bonin (H. Richard)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3.08Penality: None.<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;New York: Lewicki (Evans, Popein)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8.48Penality: Gadsby 19.45.<h2>Toronto 2 at Boston 0</h2>Boston&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense; Stanley, Hillmen; forwards; Horvath, Stasiuk, Bucyk, Mackell, Flaman, Regan, Labine, Mckenney, Beckett, Mohns, Toppazzini, Peirson, Boone.Toronto&mdash;Goal: Chadwick; defense; Reaume; Baun; forward: Armstrong, Sloan, Duff, Mortison, Horton, Masnick, Stewart, Migay, Harris, Brian, Cullen, Barry Cullen, Thomson.<h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Horvath 0.05, Sloan, 1.39 Flaman 7.04, Sloan 7.09, Mackell 9.46, Aldcorn 9.46. Barry Cullen 10.38, Mahovlich 16.36.<h3>Second Period</h3>1&mdash;Toronto: Harris (Aidcorn, Reaume)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12.02Penalties: Mohns 4.48. Harris 5.03. Pulford 7.40, Stasiuk 10.06, Sloan 15.35.<h3>Third Period</h3>2&mdash;Toronto: Aldcorn&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18.25Penalty: Baun 14.02.<h2>Detroit 2 at Chicago 1</h2>Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense; Mortson, Thomson; forwards: Lindsay, Litzenberger, Hull, Cushenan, Pilote, Kachur, Reibel, Murphy, Ferguson, Skov, Nesterenko, Dee, Dineen.Detroit &mdash; Goal: Sawchuk; defense: M. Pronovost, Godfrey, Kelly, Howe, Delvecchio, Mickoski, Ullman, Arbour, Strate, Wilson, Leswick, Poile, McIntyre, Kennedy, Smith, McNeill, Lalande.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Chicago: Litzenberger (Hull, Lindsay)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5.17Penalties: Strate 3.35, Hull 6.20. Thomson 13.57, Mickoski 17.30. Cushenan 17.53.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Detroit: Howe (DelVecchio, Smith)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17.22Penalties: Pronovost 1.13, Skov 1.35., Litzenberger 11.05, Pronovost 14.22.<h3>Third Period</h3>3&mdash;Detroit: Mickoski, (Ullman)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19.18Penalties: Dineal 3.47, Arbour 7.10<h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02499/2210708-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="567" height="1423"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03413/2210701-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="576" height="2155"></div><h2>RECORDS OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1957-58</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04323/2210694-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="577" height="462"></div><h2>PENALITIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS:</h2>Detroit &mdash; 579Toronto &mdash; 614Rangers &mdash; 439Chicago &mdash; 641Boston &mdash; 84Canadiens &mdash; 694 &#9632;

f0008-01

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Seven points separate the second place team from the last place team in the latest National Hockey League standings. New York Rangers are in second place with 51 points, Detroit is third with 50 points, Boston is fourth with 49, Toronto is fifth with 46 and Chicago is last with 44. Montreal Canadiens are off by themselves in first place with 76 points.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05257/2210746-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="264" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jacques Plante</figcaption></div>New York&rsquo;s Andy Bathgate has moved into third place in the N.H.L. individual scoring parade. Bathgate has 20 goals and 3 2 assists for 52 points. He is 11 points hack of Henri Richard who is in second place, however, and 14 points behind the League leader. Dickie Moore, also of Canadiens. Moore has 30 goals and 36 assists for 66 points while Richard has 22 goals and 41 assists.The 30 goals scored by Moore is the most, by a player this season. Henri Richard&rsquo;s 41 assists tops all players in this department, too. The injured Boom Boom Geoffrion of Canadiens is fourth with 27 goals, 23 assists, 60 points. Also checking in with 50 points is Bronco Horvath, clever center of the Boston Bruins. Horvath has 20 goals and 30 assists. Gordie Howe of Detroit is back in action again and places next with 47 points made up of 23 goals and 24 assists.Jacques Plante of Canadiens continues to pace the goalkeepers. Plante has played in 44 of Montreal&rsquo;s 53 games and the Canadiens have had 109 goals scored against them. Plante leads in shutouts with eight Glenn Hall of Chicago is right behind with six shutouts.The most penalized team in the League is the Montreal Canadiens with a penalty total of 694 minutes. Lou Fontinato, New York Rangers&rsquo; defenseman, is the most penalized player with 132 minutes. &#9632;

f0008-05

Andy Moves Up Ladder To Third; Plante Tops Goalers, Lou Bad Man

TORONTO, Ont. &mdash; Chief Scout Bob Wilson of ihe Chicago Black Hawks, says interest in hockey in the province of Newfoundland is high, but the NHL potential is poor. Wilson has just returned from a trip to the Island province.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d say Newfoundland people are more interested and know more about hockey by and large, than people around here.&ldquo;However, on the whole tour 1 watched maybe 1,000 kids and only about two could skate with youngsters of their own category up this way.&rdquo;It was the first visit of a chief scout from the NHL to the island province.Wilson said a 14-year-old midget player caught his eye and pending parental consent the boy may the brought wesi next season, sent to school and may play in junior B hockey under a Chicago tag.At Corner Brook, Nfld., Wilson was guest of honor at a minor hockey night, went to a civic banquet, received an official welcome to the city and province and lectured on hockey to 800 players, officials and fansHe said be was overwhelmed with the Province&rsquo;s warm-hearted reception.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been in hockey 20 years and I&rsquo;ve never seen anything like it.&rdquo; &#9632;

Wilson Says Interest High, NHL Potential Low In Newfie

CHICAGO, III. &mdash; Coach Rudy Pilous says if the Hawks make the playoffs this season &lsquo;I can see the team making the playoffs for years after that. We&rsquo;ve got that kind of reserves, only a year or two away, and it&rsquo;s not an unhappy thing to look forward to.&rdquo;Rudy also admitted that he was unhappy about the play of Ted Lindsay. &ldquo;I had to keep him out of the third period of last Sunday&rsquo;s game against Canadiens. but I&rsquo;ve had a. talk with Ted since then, and I feel he&rsquo;ll come around.&ldquo;Maybe all this legal stuff with his duties as president of the Players&rsquo; Association has been working on him. But from now on he should be much better. At least, I hope so.&rdquo; &#9632;

Rudy Sees Long Stretch Of Playoff Run If They Get In

CHICAGO, III. &mdash; Edward C. J. Litzenberger, who is almost as tall as his name, is right back where he was last season. And no one is complaining, least of all Coach Rudy Pilous. Litz, you will remember scored 32 goals and added the same number of assists in 70 games last season and was right in the fight for all-stardom. It took the &lsquo;Tall One&rsquo; a long time to get going this season, but last week he showed signs of coming out of his shell. He scored two goals and assisted on four others as the Hawks climbed from the cellar for a short period. By the thin edge of a single goal, scored with 12 seconds to go, the Hawks moved back into the cellar last Sunday after being defeated by the Wings 2-1.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06211/2210825-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="248" height="405"></div>Litz, 6&rsquo;3&rdquo; centre, was brought up in the Montreal Canadiens organization through their junior farm club in Regina, called the Pats. He jumped from the Pats to the Royals of the Quebec Hockey League and as a right winger scored 57 goals in two seasons. But, as a right winger he hod little chance of grabbing a permanent spat with the Habs. They had Maurice Richard, Boom Boom Geoffrion and Floyd Curry who were all producing. So, the Habs, hearing the call for help from the Hawks sent Eddie to Chicago for a nominal sum of money. That was in 1954-55. That season in 73 games he scored 23 goals and added 28 assists far 51 paints and was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy as the top rookie in the league.Now, Eddie has switched from centre back to right wing and has performed like his old self recently. Last week he helped the Hawhs celebrate their best streak in weeks.They defeated the Bruins in Boston 4-1 and Montreal in Montreal 3-1. But they went home and dropped heartbreaker, 2-1 to the Wings on a goal with only 12 seconds to go. Litzenberger scored one goal and added two assists in the Boston game, added two assists in the Montreal game and scared the Hawks only goal in the Detroit lass. His total now stands at 19 goals, 21 assists for 40 points. &#9632;

f0008-06

Player-of-the-week

<h2>Indians Use Most Players</h2>The Springfield Indians nave used more players this season than any other AHL club. Including games of Sunday, February 2nd, the Indians had used 30 players. Providence is next. They have used 29.<h2>AHL Uses 17 Goalers</h2>No fewer than 17 goalers have performed for the six AHL clubs so far this season. Only Rochester&rsquo;s Gerry McNeil and Cleveland&rsquo;s Johnny Bower have played the complete schedule for their clubs.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01556/2210870-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="587" height="228"></div><h2>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5Springfield 3 at Cleveland 1</h2><h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Goegan and Caffery (high aticking) 14.23.,<h3>Second Period</h3>1&mdash;Cleveland: Hogan (Bouchard, Hudson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3.482&mdash;Spilngfield: Nicholson (Blonda, Ehman)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8.063&mdash;Springfield: Ehman (Pldhirny, Johnson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19.17Penalties: Vejprava (hooking), 2.54, Smith (10 minute misconduct), 3.04, Springfield (two minute bench penalty) 3.04, Johnson (hooking and 10 minute misconduct), 5.12, Ehman and Vejprava (roughing) 9.34, Moore (hooking), 12.00, Caffery and Bouchard (roughing), 13.40, Armstrong and Needham (five minutes. fighting), 13.40.<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;Springfield: Gardner (Ehman, Smith)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15.12Penalties: Moore (hooking), 2.28, Leach (charging) 6.40.<h2>Buffalo 1 at Hershey 8</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Hershey, Dewsbury (Marshall, Mathers)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11.18Penalties: Ingram 1:53; Duff 8:35; Sulllvan 10:26; Ward 15:46; Duff 15:48; ward 19:19;. Mathers 19:57.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Hershey, Lalande (Haley, Duff)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:223&mdash;Hershey, Lalande (Duff, Price)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:414&mdash;Hershey, Panagebko (Stankiewicz. Dewsbury)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18.05Penalties: O&rsquo;Brien; 14:01.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;Hershey, Fisher (O&rsquo;Brien, Marshell)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:386&mdash;Hershey, Lalande (Duff, Haley)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:557&mdash;Hershey, Lalande (Duff, Haley)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:328&mdash;Buffalo, Hergesheimer (L. wilson, suillvan)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:349&mdash;Hershey; Zeidel (Fisher, O&rsquo;Brien)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18:46Penalities: Davie 8:18; Ingram 13:15; Duff 14:46.<h2>FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7Springfield 3 Rochester 9</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Rochester, Balfour (Mazur, Price)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:441&mdash;Springfield, Gardner (Smith, Ehman)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:14Penalties: Schnelder 6.16, MacNeil 7:41; Schnelder 19:15.Penalties: Ingram 3:46; Robertson 6:10; B. Wilson 12:35; Ingram 18:17<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;Buffalo, Hergesheimer (Sullivan, Gamble)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:025&mdash;Buffalo, Ingram (Hassard)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:066&mdash;Providence, Carmichael (Sweeney, Guidoin) 13:50Penalties: Bedard 4:59; Ward 8:27; B. Wilson (minor and major) 1:34; Collins (ininor and major) 10:34; Burega 16:10.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;Buffalo, Hergesheimer (B. Wilson, Sullivan)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:578&mdash;Providence, Larivee (Toppazzini, Bedard)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12:44.Penalties: B. Wilson (major and misconduct) 9;20; Guidoin (major) 9:20; Irwin 9:38; Sullivan 18:22.<h2>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Buffalo 1 at Hershey 4</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Buffalo: Corcoran (Conacher) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12:38Penalties: Mather, Conacher, Kullman, Hollingworth, Dewsbury, Wilson, Stankiewicz (2).<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Hershey: Marshall (Fisher) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:413&mdash;Hershey: Kullman (Stankiewicz,. Panagabko)&hellip;&hellip; 2:344&mdash;Hershey: Panagabko (Zeidel, Stankiewicz)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8:135&mdash;Hershey: Stankiewicz (Panagabko, Kullman)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:24Penalties; Fisher, Marshall (misconduct match).<h3>Third Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Cocoran, Davis.<h2>Springfield 4 at providence 3</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Providence: Larivee (Carmichael)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4:122&mdash;Springfield: Caffery (Schinkel, Chevrefils)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12:033&mdash;Providence: Larivee (Toppazzini, Carmichael)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17:07Penalties: Collins. Bionda, Branigan, Schnelder, Roberteson. Cherry.<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;Springfield Chevrefils (Caffery,. Schinkel)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:335&mdash;providence: Larivee (Toppazziai, Carmichael)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14.086&mdash;Springfield: Smith (Ehman, Gardner)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16.49Penalties: Armstrong. Gutdolin and Irwin.<h3>Third period</h3>7&mdash;Springfield: Schinke1 (Chevrefils, Caffery)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:56Penalties: Irwin (2), Gardner.<h2>Cleveland 2 at Rochester 1</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Cleveland: Kraftcheck&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6.192&mdash;Cleveland: Pollzlani (Vejprava Shvetz)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3.353&mdash;Rochester Nykol (Smike, James)Penalties: James<h3>Second Period</h3>Scroing: None.Penalties: Hurst Bouchard.<h3>Third Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penality: Elik<h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02528/2210863-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="589" height="548"></div><h2>Leaders</h2>Most Goals&mdash;Willie Marshall, Hershey, 32.Most Assist&mdash;Willie Marshall. Hershey, 48.Most Penalized Player&mdash;Bob Robertson, Providence, 126 mte.Most Penalized Team&mdash;Providence, 708 nits.Best Goalie&mdash;Johnny Bower, Ctey, 51, 116, 7, 2.27.Most Shutouts&mdash;Johnny Bower. Cleveland. 7.<h2>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03472/2210856-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="580" height="286"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

ROCHESTER, N.Y. &mdash; Tommy &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Williams hasn&rsquo;t scored a goal in the American League for over two and a half season &hellip; yet he is the choice for Player-Of-The-Week in the AHL this week.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04404/2210901-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="292" height="455"></div>The Americans have found themselves with defense problems all season long. With Benny Woit on the sidelines and few solid veterans behind the bluelline to help Roly McLenahan&rsquo;s kids, it was left to &lsquo;The Old Tomcot&rsquo; to steady the Rochester defense brigade along the playoff trail.Last week the Americans won one game and dropped two as they moved farther away from that cellar position. Although he didn&rsquo;t contribute any goals to their cause. Williams nevertheless has been brilliant defensively.Tommy, who will be 35 in August, is now in his 13th season in professional hockey. Most of it was spent with the Cleveland Barons where he was an all-star year after year.Believe it or not Williams has scored only 23 goals in over 12 and a half seasons in pro hockey. Four is tops for him and he did that three times in his career. In assists, he has scored 25 on two occasions. But just as Williams scores few goals so he gets few penalties. He is one of the cleanest players in the league. The most he&rsquo;s ever spent in the sin-bin is 37 minutes.If the Americans make the playoffs, much of the thanks can go to that old redhead, who can&rsquo;t score goals but sure can stop them. &#9632;

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PROVIDENCE. R.T. &mdash; The Providence Reds of the AHL have recalled forward Ray Ross from the Saskatoon-Saint Paul team of the Western Hockey League.At the same time general manager Terry Reardon announced that rookie defenseman Ralph Keller has been sent to the WHL club.Reardon said he wasn&rsquo;t sure just where Ross will play. He is both a centre or winger. At Saskatoon Ross had scored 19 goals and was up among the top scorers in the league. &#9632;

Reds Recall Ross, Send Down Keller

CLEVELAND, O:&mdash; General Manager Jim Hendy of the Cleveland Baron say the New York Bangers owe the finest player in the minor leagues in Eddie Shack of Providence of the AHL.Hendy say a Shack, a graduate of the Guelph Biltmore of the OHA Junior League can&rsquo;t miss becoming a top player in the National League.&ldquo;In my opinion&rdquo;, praised Hendy. &lsquo;In addition to a world of natural ability, he&rsquo;s as game they come. Our Fred Glover a pretty rough customer, tried to work him over one night and it was Glover who finished up second best. Fred says he&rsquo;s never bumped into a more rugged gent anywhere.&rdquo; &#9632;

Handy Calk Shack Natural Far NHL Stardom In Futuro

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div>CLEVELAND.&mdash;In the manner of dog chasing its elusive tail, the Cleveland Barons raced stubbornly after the Hershey Bears as the American Hockey League chase drew tighter by the week.The weak grew stronger and the strong grew more resolute.But the Bears at Hershey clung tenaciously to their advantage over the Jimmy Moore Barons. That advantage continued to be slight because whether Hershey led by two games or one game, the Barons still had a game or two in hand.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05324/2210987-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="293" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jimmy Moore</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06277/2210980-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="299" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bo Elik</figcaption></div>The big issue involved for each club, of course, loomed in their road experiences.For the Bears that mighty test would arrive first &mdash; in the month of February they were slated for eight games away and only four at home.For the Barons the trouble would come in March when they had to handle eight away and four at home.The way these two leaders were trading off punches, it could possibly reach to the very end of the trail before the final victor was determined.That would be a Sunday matinee meeting slated between Hershey and Cleveland at the Cleveland Arena, March 23, the last day of the regular schedule.<h2>Hendy Needles Players Into Action</h2>Meanwhile, it was blow for blow, win for win, as typified by the action of the Feb. 1 weekend when the Bears slammed Rochester, 8-1, in Hershey on Saturday night and then knocked off Providence at Providence, 6-5, Sunday night.While the Bears were winning two, the Barons trampled Buffalo at Cleveland Saturday night, 7-4, and swamped Rochester at Rochester Sunday night, 6-1.It was all Hershey-Cleveland in the league race and in the individual scoring derby.Willie Marshall of the Bears and Jimmy Moore or the 3arons were battling for the scoring title. Close behind them were Dune Fisher of the Rears and Freddy Glover of the Barons.As the pressure weighed heavily in both camps, General Manager Jim Hendy Struck out at two of his top players.Said Hendy of Jimmy Moore, the star center of the GEM Line, anti Bo Elik, the high scoring left wing of the same unit, &ldquo;they&rsquo;re not producing the way they are capable of producing&rdquo;.The Hendy needle was no doubt aimed at the two stars in an effort to get them to Pick up the slack caused by the absence of the highly valued Freddy (No Kid) Glover, who had missed six games with a knee ailment.Moore and Elik demonstrated their professional qualities by reacting in the manner of true soldiers. Each contributed greatly to the Barons&rsquo; double triumph over the Feb. I weekend, Elik with one goal and Moore with Two.Meanwhile Glover, the team captain, tough guy, and brilliant scorer, returned to duty with the GEM unit, replacing Don Hogan who had subbed well in his absence. Hogan flopped back to a spot on the Barons&rsquo; third platoon.What magic there is in the presence of the veteran Glover cannot be exactly defined; But. this much is sure.The Barons were muddling about with him sitting out but the Barons turned into a furious assaulting force with him in.For example, on that Feb. 1 weekend they whipped the pick at Buffalo and Rochester 50 rimes in two games. Seven of those blasts got past lanky Gerry MacNamara of the Bisons and six more escaped Gerry McNeil of the Americans.Meanwhile Poach Jackie Gordon equalled an all time league record toy assists.Jackie once again a regular in the lineup after many off again on again decisions, was credited with his 425th assist on a goal scored by cal Stearns against Buffalo Saturday, Feb.That equalled the mark held by Fred (The Fox) Thurier, former Cleveland player, and now a linesman at Cleveland home games.lt was merely a mailer of time for Gordon to bust that record. &#9632;

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MarchAway Stretch May Tell Clevelanders If They Can March Away

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Coach Frank Mathers, of the Hershey Bears, missed being chosen on the AHL&rsquo;s All-Star team last year for the first time in many seasons, but the popular mentor of the American League leaders is a cinch to regain a berth this year.Handicapped by injuries and illness last year, Mathers didn&rsquo;t regain his top form until late in the season. His performance in the Calder Cup play-offs against Cleveland was an outstanding job, reminiscent of the Mathers of old.Frank got off to a slow start this season, missing the first six games as he rode the bench, not sure whether he would continue as a sideline coach or get into the action.With such experienced rearguards as Al Dewsbury, Jack Price, Larry Zeidel and Bucky Hollingworth, plus rookie Howie Yanosik on hand, Frank watched his Bears role on to victory after victory from the sidelines.<h2>1955-&rsquo;56 Best Season</h2>When Bucky Hollingworth was air lifted to Detroit to help the Red Wings when their defense complement was reduced to practically nothing by injuries, Frank got back into action.ever since the 33-year-old blue liner has been performing like a rookie 12 years his junior. He really hit his stride after the first of 1958, collecting nine assists in eleven games. He racked up one goal and 20 assists in 43 games, far eclipsing his 1956-&rsquo;57 scoring mark in 48 games with the Bears, when he potted one goal and picked up 15 assists.The liekable Hershey mentor, it his second year at the helm of the Bears, has been knocking around pro hockey since 1948-49 when he signed a contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs. For some Unexplained reason, he never got much of a chance to show his stuff with the Leafs. As a result, he spent most of his pro career with Toronto&rsquo;s farm Club, the now defunct Pittsburgh Hornets.Always a prolific scorer as a defenseman, Mathers had his best campaign in 1955-56 with the Hornets, when he lit the red lamp 12 times and assisted on 51 other scores.Mathers&rsquo; decision lo sign a pro contract back in 1948. incidentally, resulted in the dental profession losing a likely prospect. Frank, just married, already had two years of science behind him at Ottawa University. and had just about made up his mind to remain in amateur hockey and pursue the denial profession.But the Toronto offer was too good to resist, so Frank threw in his lot with the boys who play for money. He has never regretted his decision.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01570/2211018-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="523" height="1278"><figcaption class="caption-body">Going All OutFrank Mathers</figcaption></div>Frank could also have had a very profitable career as a football player. He played with Winnipeg in 1942, when they lost the Canadian title to the RCAF Hurricanes. He joined the RCAF in 1943 and at the war&rsquo;s end played hockey with the Ottawa Senators and football with the Rough Riders. Ironically, his hockey bosses made him give up football &mdash; said it was too rough. &#9632;

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Veteran Mathers Challenges Kids In All-Star Rare

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div>HERSHEY. Pa.&mdash;The Hershey Bears have protested the $150.00 fine levied against Willie Marshall by Richard Canning, American Hockey League president, and, at the same time, charged referee Frank Udvari with &ldquo;half-cocked&rdquo; tactics.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02497/2211049-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="288" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Willie Marshall</figcaption></div>Marshall, the AHL&rsquo;s top scorer, was slapped with the penalty as the result of an incident in a game at Cleveland on January 15. Marshall was fined $25 for a 10-minute misconduct, and an additional $50 for a game misconduct. Canning added an additional $75 assessment because Marshall refused to leave the ice when ordered to do so by referee Udvari.General Manager Lloyd S. Blinco and business manager &ldquo;Baz&rdquo; Bastien, of the Bears, charged that the incident was &ldquo;an injustice,&rdquo; and that Udvari &ldquo;went off half-cocked&rdquo; in sending Marshall to the showers.Bastien added, &ldquo;Fine or no fine, our players refuse to take any more of Cleveland&rsquo;s dirty play. They&rsquo;ve been spearing in the corners and in Marshall&rsquo;s case, Gordon Hudson nearly took Willie&rsquo;s head off with the stick while Udvari was standing on top of the play.&ldquo;I think Udvari is a good referee, but in this case he hit Marshall with a helluva penalty at a bad time. It upset our whole club at a time when we were leading, 2-1.<h2>Has Right To Talk</h2>&ldquo;I wrote a letter to Carl Voss, referee-in-chief, and explained the whole thing. I&rsquo;m not taking Marshall&rsquo;s part for popping off to Udvari. but 1 am questioning Udvari throwing Willie out of the game. After all, Willie is an alternate captain. He has a right to talk to the referee. Marshall left the lee when he was told. He did not refuse to leave. I think the whole thing was badly handled.&ldquo;Jim Hendy (Cleveland G.M.) has been yelling his head off about Larry Zeidel, Leg Duff and Bucky Hollingworth. That&rsquo;s a joke. What are we supposed to do? Stand by and take the dirty stuff. We won&rsquo;t.&rdquo;Continuing his blast at the refereeing, Bastien said, &ldquo;A lot of the officials who come down from the NHL to handle our games think they&rsquo;re on a picnic. This league is just as important as the National. And the games mean just as much to the players. It&rsquo;s their bread and butter, too.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Hershey Protests Marshall’s Fine In Udvari Run-In

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO, N.Y&mdash;The oft-heard comment that the Buffalo Bisons&rsquo; playoffs chances are nil in view of their atrocious road game record &mdash; presently 3-18-2 &mdash; isn&rsquo;t shared by Coach Harry Watson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03418/2211080-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="512" height="1147"><figcaption class="caption-body">Still Has HopesHarry Watson</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not dead,&rdquo; Watson said before taking his gladiators on the road for a three-game tour. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll surprise a lot of people yet. Just let us have luck smile in our direction once and I think we&rsquo;ll be alright.&rdquo;Almost as Watson spoke of &ldquo;luck&rdquo; he was informed that Defenseman Frank Martin had a torn ligament on the inside of his right knee and that Center Norm Corcoran had aggrivated a groin injury.The combination of injuries, failure of proposed player deals to materialize, and the parent Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; own lack of reserve talent for dispatching left the Bisons in a below-par position strength-wise.With Corcoran ailing and Right Winger Les Lilley on the sidelines until the waning days of the season, General Manager Fred Hunt called upon Mickey Roth, the son of a one-time Buffalo star, to fill in for a two game spell.Roth, on a call-up from Windsor of the Senior OHA, was credited with a goal and an assist in the two games. The goal was actually tallied by a Rochester defenseman in an attempt to clear. Roth, however, did earn his assist, on a goal against Cleveland by Dick Gamble.In contrast to their road showing, the Bisons have been tough to handle before the home fans. Their Memorial Auditorium ice streak presently stands at eight games without a loss. Only one tie keeps it from being perfect.<h2>Indians Nearly Broke Streak</h2>The improving Springfield Indians came about as close as you can come up to upsetting the apple cart without bruising the merchandise Feb. 2.The Indians held a 3-2 lead with 1:15 remaining when Watson, who has had lady luck frown upon him so often this Season that he couldn&rsquo;t be blamed for refusing to gamble, pulled Goalie Gerry McNamara.This time luck, and Lou Jankowski&rsquo;s accurate shot were with Watson and the two teams were forced into overtime. Wally Hergesheimer, who had scored earlier, ended the evening on a happy note for the Herd, caging a backhander from directly in front less than four minutes after the sudden death stanza began. &#9632;

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“We’re Not Dead Yet,” Says Harry Crossing Fingers

<h2>Records</h2>When Edmonton defeated Saskatoon-St. Paul Wednesday, January 29th 11-7 it was the highest scoring game of the season and a new record was set in the third period when eleven goals were scored.<h2>Rescheduled Games</h2>Victoria&rsquo;s game in Vancouver postponed from October 29th was played in the later city Tuesday, February 11th. Seattle&rsquo;s game scheduled in Vancouver on that date will be rescheduled for Tuesday, March 4th.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01567/2211118-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="577" height="349"></div><h2>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20New Westminster 0 at Victoria 2</h2><h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Creighton 2.50, Raglan 7.21 and 18.17.<h3>Second Period</h3>1&mdash;Victoria: Egan (Dorohoy, Ho worth)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12.25Penalties: Olson 10.33, Hannigan 13,18.<h3>Third Period</h3>2&mdash;Victoria, Dorohoy (Olson, Haworth)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8.08Penalties: Dzurko 14.55, Macauley 16.57.<h2>Saskatoon 7 at Edmonton 11</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Edmonton: Coflin (Kilburn, Melnyk)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5.162&mdash;Saskatoon-S. Paul: Kabel (Willey, Raleigh)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7.233&mdash;Edmonton: Melnyk (Holmes)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12.174&mdash;Saskatoon-St. Panl: Kabel (Primeau. Raleigh)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19.39Penalties: Hendrickson 14.38, Crystal 16.35.<h3>Second Period</h3>5&mdash;Saskatoon-S. Paul: Couture (Primeau, Colwill)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2.376&mdash;Edmonton: Holmes (MacPherson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15.53Penalties: Kabel 2.47. Yanosik 8.49, Chrystal 13.52.<h3>Third Period</h3>8&mdash;Edmonton: Kilburn (Hendrickson, Melnyk)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1.529&mdash;Edmonton: Ginnell (Lunde)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2.5910&mdash;Edmonton: Melnyk (Holmes, Kilburgh)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5.1111&mdash;Edmonton: Kilburn (Melnyk, Holmes)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6.1612&mdash;Saskatoon: Ross (Kabel)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9.2613&mdash;Saskatoon: Willey (Raleigh, Colwill)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12.2714&mdash;Edmonton: Lunde (Burton)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13.4815&mdash;Saskatoon: Couture (Colwill)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14.5216&mdash;Edmonton: Holmes (Kilburn, Coflin)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17.3517&mdash;Edmonton: Lunde (Leawiok, MacPherson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19.2018&mdash;Saskatoon: Raleigh (Primeau)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19.87Penalty: Hendrickson 10.44.<h2>THURSDAY, JANUARY 30Edmonton 4 at Saskatoon 2</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Edmonton: Kilburn (Melnyk, Holmes)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13.372&mdash;Saska toon-St. Paul: Ross (Primeau, Milford)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18.87Penalties: Holmes 1.14, Chrystal 6.36, Hendrickson 16.13, Lunde (major) 19.14.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Edmonton: Hendrickson (Roggeveen, Lunde)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10.024&mdash;Edmonton: MacPherson&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19.10Penalties: Kabel 6.24, Chrystal 10.36.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;Edmonton: Ginnell (MacPherson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6.406&mdash;Saskatoon-St. Paul: Raleigh (Colwill, Reeve)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6.45Penalties: Bucyk (major) 12.16. Holmes 15.25.<h2>Calgary 2 at Winnipeg 5</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Calgary: D. Blair (Kuryluk)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8.272&mdash;Calgary: Finney (F. Hucul, C. Blair)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6.323&mdash;Winnipeg: Glover (Lea)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12.564&mdash;Winnipeg: Kapvsta (Stratton, Mosienko)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18.34Penalties: Douglas 4.55, Mosienko 8.30, Ross 9.29, Stratton, Hicks 14.55, S. Hucul 16.22, Barclay 17.18, Wilkie 18.01, Keating 19.27.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;Winnipeg: Mosieuko (Lea)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14.056&mdash;Winnipeg: Arnett&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16.40Penalties: Hicks, Keating 7.07, Wilkie (2 minors, major, 10-minute misconduct), Glover (minor, major, 10-minute misconduct) 9.10, Barclay 14.54.<h3>Second Period</h3>7&mdash;Winnipeg: Mosienko (Lea)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6.10Penalties: F. Hucul 9.39, Keating 14 07. Barclay 19.57.<h2>FRIDAY, JANUARY 31New Westminster 3 at Vancouver 4</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;New Westminster: Hannigan&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2.222&mdash;New Westminster: Creighton (Edmundson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15.443&mdash;Vancouver: Kurtenbach (Maloney)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18.15Penalties: Dobbyn 3.43, Kurtenbach 10.12, Edmundson, minor and major, Dobbyn, minor and major, 15.54; Creighton 16.15<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;Vancouver: Powers (Kurtenbach)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5.105&mdash;New Westminster: Hannigan (Holmes, Edmundson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9.036&mdash;Vancouver: Maloney (Currie)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14.41Penalties: McLeod 12.41, Powers 16.58.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;Vancouver: MacNab (Maloney, Robinson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19.01Penalty: Edmundson 10.24.<h2>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1Seattle 6 at Victoria 7</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Seattle: Kinaaewlch (Fonteyne, McFarland)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9 55Penalties: Davidson 3.55, Baliuk 6.18, McFarland 12.01. Baliuk 13.12, Bulloch 16.16.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Victoria: Baliuk (Dorohoy, Haworth)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5.563&mdash;Seattle: chiupka&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8.574&mdash;Victoria: Raglan (Wilson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9.195&mdash;Seattlj; Fonteyne (MacFarland)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10.376&mdash;Seattle: Chiupka (Boyce)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12.347&mdash;Victoria: Macauley (McCarthy, Wilson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14.408&mdash;Victoria: McCarthy (Wilson, Macauley)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15.009&mdash;Victoria: Haworth (Baliuk, Dorohoy)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15.3410&mdash;Seattle: Chlupka (Sinclair, Fillon)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17.06Penaltiy: Bullock 9.42.<h3>Third Period</h3>11&mdash;Victoria: Dorohoy (Baliuk, Haworth)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6.8312&mdash;Seattle: Klnasewh (Fonteyne, Fielder)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11.98Penalty: Tettle 4.45.<h3>Overtime Period</h3>13&mdash;Victoria: Wilson (McCarthy, Egan)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1.01Penalties: None.<h2>Vancouver 3 at New Westminster 6</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;New Westminster: Fashoway (Matthews)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2.462-&mdash;New Westminster: Edmundson (Hannigan, Jones)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3.183&mdash;New Westminster: Hannigan 19.51Penalties: R. MacNab 0.52, Dobbyn 1.05, Creighton 4.18, Schmautz (double minor) 12.55, McLeod (double minor) 12.55, Van Impe 13.15, Creighton 17.13.<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;New Westminster: Jones (Edmundson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1.495&mdash;New Westminster: Schmautz (Van Impe, Matthews)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11.40Penalties: McQueen 18.46.<h3>Third Period</h3>6&mdash;Vancouver: McLeod (Robinson. Dobbyn)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2.247&mdash;Vancouver: Hutchinson (Powers, Kurtenbach)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6.218&mdash;Vancouver; Hutchinson (Kurtenbach, Currie)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6.549&mdash;New Westminster: Hannigan (Jones, Edmundson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13.18Penalties; Jones 1.53, B. MacNab 9.37, Edmundson 13.49.<h2>Winnipeg 4 at Edmonton 3</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Edmonton: Ginnell (Lunde, Prystai)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15.20Penalties: Douglas 1.15, Arnett 4.50.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Edmonton: Coflin (Prystai, Hendrikson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2.223&mdash;Winnipeg: Red a hl (Mosienko, Stratton)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5.064&mdash;Winnipeg: Redahl (Glover)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16.425&mdash;Edmonton: Britton (Lunde, Prystai)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19.21Penalties: Melnyk 4.15. Arnett 10.54, Kapusta 14.43.<h3>Third Period</h3>6&mdash;Winnipeg: Glover (Stratton, Kapusta)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1.167&mdash;Winnipeg: Mosienko (Stratton)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3.36Penalties: Kilburn 2.49, Arnett (misconduct) 19.43.<h2>MONDAY FEBRUARY 3Vancouver 3 at Seattle 0</h2><h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalty: Hunt 8.25.<h3>Second Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Repka 5.31, Currie 15.08.<h3>Third Period</h3>1&mdash;Vancouver: Robinson (Maloney)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6.492&mdash;Vancouver: MacQueen (Powers, Maloney)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16.49Penalties: None.<h2>Calgary 5 at St. Paul 0</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Calgary: Finney (Barclay)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8.01Penalties: Bucyk 4.42, F. Hucul 13.41.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Calgary: Finney (S. Hucul, F. Hucul)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1.173&mdash;Calgary: C. Blair&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15.174&mdash;Calgary: Ford (S. Hucul. Finney)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&lt;19.29Penalties: Chrystal 2.19, Kabel 5.14.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;Calgary: C. Blair (F. Hucul)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7.19Penalty: Ford 14 03.<h2>MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3Calgary 5 at St. Paul 3</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Saskatoon-St. Paul, Colwlll (Couture. Primeau)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:252&mdash;Saskatoon-St. Paul, Bentley (Chrystal)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13:58Penalties Yackel, Bucyk.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Calgary, Ford (Kuryluk)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:424&mdash;Saskatoon-St Paul, Couture (Bentley)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:405&mdash;Calgary, F. Hucul (Ford)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:41Penalties: S. Cucul, Couture (2), Barclay, Ford.<h3>Third Period</h3>6&mdash;Calgary, Ford :587&mdash;Saskatoon-St. Paul, Kabel (Raleigh, Milford)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:488&mdash;Saskatoon-St. Paul, Chrystal (Primeau, Milford)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:51Penalties: None.<h2>TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 4Seattle 1 at Vaucuuver 3</h2><h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalty: Tottle 11.20.<h3>Second Period</h3>1&mdash;Vancouver, Kurtenbach (Robinson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:492&mdash;Vancouver, McLeod (Maloney, Dobbyn)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:153&mdash;Vancouver, Robinson (Currie, Chorley)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13:54Penalty: Dobbyn 8:48.<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;Seattle, Kuzma (McFarland, Repka)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:45Penalty: Hart 12:06.<h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02520/2211111-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="574" height="1048"></div><h2>THE LEADERS</h2>Most GoalsRay Kinase wich. Sea., Len Lunde, Edm., Sid Finney, Cal., 31 each.Most AssistsGuyie Fielder, Sea., 55.Most Game Winning GoalsOrland Kurtenbach, Van., 5.Most Game Winning AssistsGerry Melnyk, Edm., Phil Maloney, Van., 8 each.Most First Goal of GameRay Klnasewlch, Sea., 9.Most Goals One GameJackie McLeod, Van., 4.Most Assists One GamePhil Maloney, Van., 6.Most Hat TricksDennis Olson, Vic., 3.Most Minutes in PenaltiesGarry Edmundson, N.W., 141. Pat Egan, Vie., 122.Most ShutoutsMarcel Pelletier, Van., 5. &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DALLIS BECK</div>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;One thing about Walter (Gus) Kyle, the biggest hunk of hockey material Dysart, Sask, ever produced &hellip; he hasn&rsquo;t changed since be becoming coach.El Gusso mans the Calgary Stampeders the same way he played for them &mdash; with plenty of bounce. (Or is it Gus (to)?)Kyle is also a man of opinions, all of them his own, and be doesn&rsquo;t mind expounding to a good listener. For the record, however, Gus&rsquo; theories will be tabled for confidential reference. He gets paid for coaching. He gets nicked in the wallet for publically expressing his views on some of his favorite subjects, namely referees and the mechanics of the Western Hockey League.Gus took over a club from friendly Frank Currie that possessed the greatest bunch of skaters and stick-wavers the league ever saw. It was paying off in a basement standing too, And in Calgary such things are unheard of.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03446/2211149-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="532" height="841"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bronc RiderGus Kyle</figcaption></div>But the old Regina Cap and New York and Boston blueline belter instilled a little of his own robust phsycology into the lineup and since then the club has been winning more than losing. Gustav peddled off a personal nemisis in Steve Witiuk to Winnipeg in return for a pair of muscular types in George Ford and Murray Wilkie and immediately won the first round.Ford scored one of the goals and he and Wilkie belted Warrior bodies all over the lot as the Stamps won their first game on the road for Gus, beating the Warriors 2-1. The rest of the &ldquo;stickwavers&rdquo; soon caught on and all of a sudden the Stampeders had muscles.It was apparently all they needed. A few nights later they flattened Saskatoon St. Paul 5-0 on foreign ice and clambered out of the cellar for the first time this year.Winnipeg coach Alfie rise Baw it coming.Said Captain Bligh after his Warriors had lost their first one to the new Kyle regime; &ldquo;those guys will be the team to watch from here in.&rdquo;Kyle went one further:&ldquo;I&rsquo;m telling you, if we ever overhaul that so-and-so Saskatoon-St. Paul outfit we&rsquo;re gonna surprise a lot of people. That means we&rsquo;ll be in the playoffs and then look out.&rdquo;Gus has never been noted for being the shy type (part of his reputation seems to stem from the fact that cameramen always seemed to snap his picture whenever he was getting the worst of a fight) and the salt shaker is usually a handy utensil to have around when he&rsquo;s bolding sway.But this time give Gus the Credit.His Cowboys are moving and his own vociferous eargerness as a rookie coach is good for the league.The prairie division bread and butter department has a new member Bud Poile at Edmonton and Alf Pike at Winnipeg are pretty fair hands at carrying on those running verbal battles on which newshounds thrive.Now with El Gusso in as a third, people can&rsquo;t help but hear about the Western League.Color, they call it in the trade, and the more the merrier. &#9632;

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Cowboys Come To Life With El Gusso As The Outrider

<div class="byline">By DALLIS BECK</div>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;It&rsquo;s been nearly a month now and no one is quite sure just how the Western League&rsquo;s new edict on enforcement of the rules is working out. It&rsquo;s made for better hockey, sure, but it&rsquo;s also driving some of the players to the point of frustration.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04370/2211180-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="266" height="406"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Mosienko</figcaption></div>Disallowing any deliberate freezing of the puck along the boards, has definitely sold itself. They&rsquo;re running off games in three-quarters of the time it used to take and driving the goalkeepers crazy.But it&rsquo;s the boarding count that has divided the field.It&rsquo;s allowed of course to take a man out along the boards. but the line is drawn mighty fine, A player has to be almost stride for stride with his check to ride him out gently enough not to draw the referee&rsquo;s whistle, but on the other hand some defencemen are becoming fearful to make a move at an incoming forward unless he&rsquo;s crossing the middle of the blue line.Consistency seems to be the argument, and here the pore ol&rsquo; refs take the knock again. Maybe it&rsquo;s just a matter of time until Al Leader&rsquo;s whistlemen make up their minds exactly&rsquo; where they&rsquo;ll&rsquo; draw the line on boarding.<h2>Cute High-Sticking Too</h2>The best answer, however, comes from one of the league&rsquo;s referees, who calmly states: &ldquo;You take away the hoarding and you automatically take away the high-sticking.&rdquo;This is true and this is good.Guys like Finney, Fielder or Mosienko are getting time nowadays to extoll all their rich talent instead of keeping one eye peeled in the corner for some guy about to decapitate them stickwise.So the case rests &mdash; pro and con.The WHL at least is on the right frack to give the game back to the good players and the fans. Maybe it will take some time to come about so that everyone is happy.After all it took some time for them to forget about the rulebook and get into the rut in the first place.At least a couple of the loop&rsquo; more colorful characters aren&rsquo;t impressed.Marcel Pelletier, the Vancouver netman who can ad-lib most men out of their best adjectives &mdash; French or English &mdash; told a coastal newsman that tire new enforcement is driving him crazier than usual.&ldquo;It was bad enough before when the defencemen had a little leeway,&rdquo; says Mons Marcel. &ldquo;Now you&rsquo;ve got those forwards coming at you from every angle.&rdquo;Kent Douglas, the young Winniper warrior pashar from the est, doesn&rsquo;t like the no-boardwork either. &ldquo;Captain Video&rdquo; was so visibly moved as to shed his helmet as soon as the new edict came along. He figures it&rsquo;s &ldquo;patsy hbckey&rdquo; now and there is no need for his protective skull equipment.But then you look at a guy like Bill Mosienko and the argument reverses. Mosie is freewheeling better than ever and will outscore his age this year the way he&rsquo;s going. He potted No. 29 to pull his club back into first place ahead of Edmonton Flyers.And finally, on second thought, where&rsquo;s the argument anyway?They&rsquo;re calling the game the way it was written into the book. &#9632;

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Strict Calling In WHL Driving Goalers Whacky

<div class="byline">By GEORGE METZGER</div>JOHNSTOWN, Pa.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01543/2211225-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="288" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Riley</figcaption></div>From all appearances, it looks like five of the six teams in the Eastern Hockey League are going to have a blanket finish.With only four more weeks of play left, the top five are only 14 points apart.At this writing, Charlotte was in first place, seven points ahead of second place Philadelphia. while Washington and new Haven were tied for third, one point behind Philly and eight off the pace.But the Johnstown Jets cannot be discounted. They can soar right up into the playoffs if they can put any kind of a victory streak together.Some observers say they would not even be surprised if there was a tie for first place between two or three of the clubs. But even if there is not a deadlock for the number one spot, one things seems almost for certain &mdash; there will be a tie some place in the top four places.It there is a tie for fourth place, this would mean the two teams would have to playoff to see who would make the playoffs. And if there are three clubs tied for third, then there would have to be a round robin to determine third and fourth place and to see who would not make the post season event.In the meantime, the top two clubs would just be sitting around, idle.But as Johnstown Jets&rsquo; general manager Jack Riley points out, close finishes are nothing new for the Eastern League.In 1952-53, the Springfield Indians ran away with the EHL flag. But the next three clubs were separated by only two points between them.But the 1959-51 campaign ended in a tight race any league could possibly have. There were only four teams in the loop. Two of them &mdash; Johnstown and the Boston Olympics &mdash; tied for first with 55 points each while the other two outfits &mdash; the Atlantic City Sea Gulls and New York Rovers deadlocked only two points behind at 53.<h2>EHL Standings</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02455/2211218-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="574" height="224"></div>The league had a real problem in 1941-42. No less than three teams ended up sharing the top rung. The Johnstown Blue Birds, the Boston Olympics and the New York Rovers all had 74 points.Two years in a row, &rsquo;36-&rsquo;37 and &rsquo;37-&rsquo;38, the Hershey Bears edged out the Atlantic City Sea Gulls for first spot by only two points.&ldquo;Most Eastern League races have been close,&rdquo; Riley said. &ldquo;Excepting last year when the Charlotte Clippers ran away with the race.&rdquo; The southern skaters beat out second place Philadelphia by 30 points.<h2>Tougher Race For 1958-59</h2>If the Charlotte Clippers can keep up their pace and finish ahead of the pack, it will mark only the second time in the annals of the circuit this trick has been pulled. Johnstown was the other team to do it &mdash; in 1950-51 and &rsquo;51-&rsquo;52.However, two teams have copped first place three years in a row The Hershey Bears did it in 1936-&rsquo;37-&rsquo;38 and the Boston Olympics during the war years of 1943-&rsquo;44-&rsquo;45.But those close to the league expect even a tighter race next season when games against the International League clubs will be figured in the final count.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03345/2211211-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="1707" height="1132"><figcaption class="caption-body">Exhibition Game Receipts To WriterG.P. &ldquo;Jerry&rdquo; DeLise (r.), General Manager of the Washington Presidents, and Bon Alden (I.), sports writer of the Washington Post Times-Herald and Chairman of the &ldquo;Carroll Hall Night&rdquo; benefit ice hockey match involving the Presidents and New York Rangers at Uline Arena recently, jointly present Hall with a check for $4,381.01 that represents the net receipts of that game as Mrs. Carroll Hall looks on. Carroll, popular local sports writer and part time pro notional director of the Presidents, lost his left eye when struck by a flying hockey pick during a Washington-New Haven Eastern League game at Uline last Dec. 14. Alden was Hall&rsquo;s companion when Carroll was struck by the puck.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Four Teams Battle For Second Place In Tight EHL Race

TOLEDO, Ohio&mdash;The Toledo Mercurys have made a deal for one player and have hopes of a couple of more before the deadline of Feb. 15.The Mercs, who have four games coming up in five nights, have been promised Lionel Heinrich from Windsor of the Ontario Hockey Association. The 22-year-old Heinrich can play either left wing or defense. He played for Hershey of the American Hockey League and Boston of the National League in the 1955-56 season and last year was with Quebec in the pro Quebec league.Coach Doug Baldwin also announced that Buddy MacDonald, who played 17 games tor the Mercs, had been given his release. MacDonald was sent to Johnstown of the Eastern League, but he may not report he indicated.Baldwin said he was hoping to make a player deal with another OHA club before this week is out. In an effort to get more scoring punch Baldwin switched his lines around. He moved Norm (Skip) MacKay at right, wing with Gordie Cowan and Tommy McVie and put Carl Forster on right wing with George Hayes at center and Graham Joyce at left wing.McVic moved into a tie for first place in Mercury scoring, picking up two goals and an assist in the past three games. He now has hit 20 goals and 16 assists for 36 points. Joyce and Bill Mitchell also have 36 points with Joyce tops in goals at 22 and Mitchell leading in assists with 24.Cowan moved into second place with 33 points while MacKay has 32 points. Andre Binette, the Mercs&rsquo; goalkeeper, has allowed 161 goals in 44 games for an average of 3.66 per game, up slightly over his record of a week ago.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04249/2211263-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="547" height="853"><figcaption class="caption-body">1958 MercuryLionel Heinrich</figcaption></div><h2>International League</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05170/2211256-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="577" height="277"></div>The Mercurys have also signed a University of Michigan player and he was in uniform last week.He is Bob Schiller, a right defenseman. The 6-foot 190-pounder has used up his varsity eligibility at Michigan thus making him available for the Mercurys.Schiller played his junior hockey at St. Michael&rsquo;s in Toronto, one of the top junior teams in Canada.To make room for Schiller the Mercs announced the release of Capt. Jack Higgins, a three-year veteran. Higgins was sold to Philadelphia of the Eastern Hockey League. It was a straight cash deal with no other players involved.Higgins, who had played in 45 games this season for Toledo, had scored one goal and 16 assists, his best point effort since joining Toledo.Coach Doug Baldwin also said he was working on a player from Michigan State University and still had hopes of getting him shortly. The International Hockey League deadline for signing players is Feb. 15. &#9632;

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Mercs On Talent Hunt Before Cutoff Date, Pickup Heinrich

<h2>Like Home Ice</h2>The Shawinigan Falls Cataracts found playing at home to their liking the 1956-57 season. Cateracts played 32 games and lost only six at home and tied one. They won 78% of their games at home.<h2>One Goal Games</h2>The Three Rivers Lions found one goal playing a big part in their 1956-57 season. The Lions won no fewer than 14 games by one goal and dropped an even dozen. They won seven in overtime and lost three by one goal.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01540/2211308-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="587" height="190"></div><h2>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5Montreal 2 at Three Rivers 7</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Three Rivers: Pearson (Anderson, Belisle)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1.442&mdash;Three Rivers: Leclerc (Pearson, Pepin)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9.403&mdash;Three Rivers: Cleary&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12.23Penalties: Kelly (minor-major) 6.50, Clune (major) 6.50, Achtymichuk 8.40, Pearson 10.10, Mascot to 16.55.<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;Three Rivers: Thibault (Leclerc, Hanna)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3.445&mdash;Three Rivers: Kelly (Carter)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7.42Penalties: Bradley and Belisle 13.10.<h3>Third Period</h3>6&mdash;Three Rivers: Kelly&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4.157&mdash;Montreal: Mosdell (Denfe, Balfour)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4.308&mdash;Three Rivers: Anderson (Pearson, Belisle)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8.369&mdash;Montreal: Bradley (Mantha, Achtymichuk)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11.30Penalty: Collins 5.30.<h2>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Chicoutimi 1 at Shawinigan Falls 2</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Shawinigan Falls: Wray (Denis Faulkner)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6.53Penalties: Perreault 6.32, Shero 9.50.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Chicoutimi: Harvey (Ceurcy, Pichette)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12.41Penalty: Harvey 6.17.<h3>Third Period</h3>3&mdash;Shawinigan Falls: Hodgson (Wray, Bouchard)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12.23Penalties: Roy 7.52, 13.36.<h2>Quebec 3 Mt Montreal 4</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Montreal: Balfour (Mosdell, Denis)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1.572&mdash;Montreal: Achtymichuk&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7.523&mdash;Quebec: Sleaver (Blaine, Teal)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16.23Penalties: Hayden 3.47, Bownass 3.47, Blaine 3.05, Cossette (misconduct) 5.05, Mantha 15.41, Cherry 17.51.<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;Quebec: Sleaver (Teal, Gagnon)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11.40Penalties: Bradley 3.34. Maxwell 9.17, Gagnon 11.40. Clune 11.40, Hillman 17.22.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;Montreal: Bradley (Achtymichuk, Clune)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1.406&mdash;Quebec: Cossette&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6.537&mdash;Montreal: Achtymichuk (Bradley, Roche)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14.13Penalty: Clune 3.02 (served team penalty for too many players on ice).<h2>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Quebec 7 at Three Rivers 4</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Quebec: Sahour in (O&rsquo;Ree, Hayden)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1.182&mdash;Quebec: Hayden&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10.383&mdash;Quebec: Blaine (Teal, Sabourin)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19.18Penalties: Maxwell 1.47, Thibault, 4.44, Mascotto 18.30. Hillman 18.30. Carter 18.46.<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;Quebec: O&rsquo;Ree (Sabourin. Hajden)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9.455&mdash;Quebec: Sabourin (O&rsquo;Ree, Hayden)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10.246&mdash;Quebec: Hayden (Cherry)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16.297&mdash;Three Rivers; Pepin (Collins)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17.49Penalties: Sabourin 0.16. Blaine 13.15.<h3>Third Period</h3>8&mdash;Three Rivers: Johnsen (Belisle, Anderson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1.019&mdash;Quebec: Teal (Sleaver)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9.0110&mdash;Three Rivers: Kelly (Carter, Cleary)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11.1511&mdash;Three Rivers: Belisle&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18.25Penalties: None.<h2>Montreat 2 at Chicoutimi 10</h2><h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Chicoutimi: Pichette&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2.302&mdash;Chicoutimi: Leclair (Perreault, R. Rousseau)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4.373&mdash;Chicoutimi: Locas (Smrke, Hicks)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9.284&mdash;Chicoutimi: Perreault (Leclair, G. Rousseau)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11.05Penalties: Lund 7.44, Locas 11.48.<h3>Second Period</h3>5&mdash;Chicoutimi: Courcy (Pichette, Harvey)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1.506&mdash;Chicoutimi: Locas (Hicks, Smrke)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3.207&mdash;Chlceutlmi: Roy&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12.448&mdash;Chicoutimi: Starke (Hicks, Deslauriers)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17.289&mdash;Royal: Denis (Balfour)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18.57Penalties: Roy 5.21, Pichette 10.50, Bradley 10.50 (majors).<h3>Third Period</h3>10&mdash;Chicoutimi: Leclair (Perreault, G. Rousseau)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4.5511&mdash;Royal: Kowalchuck (Boucher, Burnett)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4.3812&mdash;Chicoutimi: Perreault (Leclair. G. Rousseau)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9.18Penalties: Bewnase 6.45 and 18.06 (major), Caron 7.32, Locas 15.11, LeClair 17.07, G. Rousseau 18.06, Lund 11.04.<h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02497/2211301-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="582" height="1059"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03461/2211294-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="586" height="390"></div> &#9632;

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>Toronto StarTORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Junior hockey attendance at Maple Leaf Gardens is down 20,000 this season and the decrease will reach 35,000 by the end of the schedule, Marlboro manager Staff Smythe told the Ontario Hockey Association&rsquo;s junior council, last week. Moreover, Smythe declared, gates in the seven-team junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league are down at least 30,000 at this Point.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01535/2211391-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="274" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Staff Smythe</figcaption></div>&ldquo;This is how much it&rsquo;s costing us to have western Canada dictate rules to us,&rdquo; Smythe stormed, criticizing the regulation which limits any junior organization to one import from west in any given season.The council was dealing with the new law which permits the western junior champions to be reinforced by replacing six players before entering the Memorial Cup playoffs. Eventually, the delegates agreed to seek the same right for the eastern winners&ldquo;They restricted us, hoping to add to them,&rdquo; Smythe said. &ldquo;But instead of building the west, they&rsquo;re killing hockey in the east. You can&rsquo;t put across a rube who&rsquo;s no good to the public and that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;ve been forced to try to do.<h2>Make Cup Hard To Win</h2>&ldquo;Hockey players are where you find them,&rdquo; Smythe claimed, contending eastern teams like his own ought to be able to shop in the west for talent.&ldquo;If they want to build teams, let them work at it. Let them come east for players. They did it before. Port Arthur got Rudy Migay the year they won, for example. The best way to protect the Memorial Cup is to make it the hardest thing in the world to win, not the easiest,&rdquo; he argued.&ldquo;At the same time, remember the shoe&rsquo;s on the other foot.&rdquo; said Jerry Brown of the Hamilton Cubs. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve got teams and customers out there, too.&rdquo;.&ldquo;They draw as few as 71 people tor a game and they&rsquo;re telling us what to do,&rdquo; Smythe scoffed.The councillors were pretty well agreed they didn&rsquo;t want the western representative picking up the six best players available and decided the best way to combat the move would be to insist on the same right for the east. Lorne Cook, OHA president, doubted any change could be made in time for this year&rsquo;s final, which will be played in the east, but &ldquo;we can try.&rdquo;The council also:Learned it had made a profit of $309.60 on the league&rsquo;s first All-Star same.Paid tribute to The Star&rsquo;s Gordon Campbell, who led organization of the game.Decided that if the Quebec hockey association wants the right to draft French Canadians in Northern Quebec who are registered with the Northern Ontario Association, the OHA will have to be granted the right to draft players in the Ottawa Valley and Thunder Bay Associations. That one just about broke up the meeting.Agreed they&rsquo;d make the quarter-final playoffs best-of-seven and one semi-final best-of-nine, if there was time and the teams were agreeable. The schedule ends March 2 and the OHA must produce a winner by April 5.Had a laugh at the expense of the Barrie Flyers&rsquo; Hap Emms, who drove all the way down to complain about refereeing, then got so involved in other discussions that he forgot to broach the subject.<h2>OHA Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02436/2211384-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="560" height="320"></div>The other, Frank Mahovlich, is the leading candidate for the Calder Trophy in the NHL. They had make a pretty fair sort of a junior line.<h2>Emms Dislike Officiating</h2>Hap Emms has joined Peterborough&rsquo;s Teeder Kennedy in putting the heat on the referees. Inconsistency is the prime beef but Emms also takes a dim view of the present junior set-up of one referee and two linesmen Hap plans to make a motion at the Junior A Council meeting to bring back the two-referee system. &ldquo;With two referees, surely one will catch most of what the other official misses, while his back is turned. Anybody can call the obvious infractions like belting another players over the. head with a stick&rdquo; stated Emms.Both system have been used in the past in the OHA junior circuit and the two-referee system is currently in vogue in senior play. One referee and two linesmen are used in the NHL.If Emms succeeds in having the refereeing system changed it will be the second major revision he&rsquo;s put across this year. He&rsquo;s already had overtime abolished. Apparently when Emms speaks, the Council listens.NOTES: Hamilton forwards Murray Oliver and Brian Smith were impressive in a trial with Detroit Red Wings. Oliver picked up an assist in Wings 9-2 shellacking at the hands of Toronto while Smith played well in that game and again the following night in Wings 3-1 revenge over the same team &hellip;Guelph Biltmores blew their big chance to overtake Barrie in the battle for the final playoff berth when they dropped a 6-2 decision in Barrie &hellip; Bilts led 2-0 before the game was hardly two minutes old but couldn&rsquo;t stand prosperity &hellip; They bounced back however to score an impressive 6-3 win over Marlboros &hellip; Bilts have won only one game on the road to date &hellip; at home in seven starts in &rsquo;58, they dropped only one contest&hellip;Marlboros scrappy centreman, Wally Boyer, is still sidelined with a shoulder separation but coach Turk Broda is confident he&rsquo;ll have him back by playoff time &hellip; Boyer was named to the All-Star team &hellip;Howie Young still with Hamilton &hellip; The controversial rearguard gave up the game at one stage this winter but returned after a couple of weeks &hellip; &#9632;

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Staff Calls West Dictation Killer For East Juniors

MONTREAL, Que. &mdash; Sam Pollock, coach, general manager and controller of just about every hockey player under the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; farm System agrees with Staff Smythe that the west is dictating to the east in junior hockey.&ldquo;The way things are set up this season, the east won&rsquo;t stand a chance in the Memorial Cup finals,&rdquo; said Sam recently, after his men outplayed Marlboros, 4-2, in the second half of the junior doubleheader at Maple Leaf Gardens.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re allowing the western champions six replacements, three from their own league, three from elsewhere,&rdquo; Sam explained &ldquo;That means they can drop their six weakest players and pick up the six best men they can find. An all-star team is what the East will be playing.&ldquo;Can you imagine what would happen if we could replace a few men in the east? Suppose St. Catharines won. then picked up Ralph Backstrom from us, Bob Nevin from Marlboros and Bruce Gamble from Guelph. It would be murder. But the eastern team isn&rsquo;t even allowed to replace an injured player.&ldquo;Well. I think it&rsquo;s a bit unfair and I&rsquo;d certainly support any move to change the plan,&rdquo; Sam concluded. &#9632;

Pollock To Support Any Move To Change Replacement Rules

<div class="byline">By HUGH BOWMAN</div>GUELPH, Ont &mdash;In the ordinary course of events there&rsquo;s not too much connection between hockey and Dixieland but the current theme song in the OHA Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit could well be, &ldquo;When the Saints Go Marching In.&rdquo; The &ldquo;Saints&rdquo; in question here being the St. Catharines Teepees and the St. Michael&rsquo;s College Majors.The team that Glen Sonmor inherited from Rudy Pilous down Stimers way is just about in the barn and cooled out. With a quarter of the schedule (13 games) remaining Teepees had a 10-point bulge over the second place Hamilton Tiger-Cubs and only a complete break-down would keep them from wrapping up the flag.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03325/2211446-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="268" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hap Emms</figcaption></div>While Teepees would appear to have the league championship virtually sewed up, the battle for the runner-up spot was wide open. For most of the season, the battle for the role of number one challenger has been a private little duel between Marlboros and Hamilton. The privacy has been interrupted by some loud noise emitting from the neighborhood of St. Clair and Bathurst Streets. Bob Goldham&rsquo;s St Michael&rsquo;s Majors who&rsquo;ve blown hot and cold most of the season were, at the time of writing, blowing hot.In their last 10 games up till February 3rd they&rsquo;d won 7 and tied one and that included a 4 game streak in which they scored 29 goals.As the clubs approached the 40 game mark St. Mike&rsquo;s had slipped by the slumping Marlboros and-were three points back of Hamilton with two games in hands.What makes St. Mike&rsquo;s bid impressive in the fact that they lost three outstanding players from last year&rsquo;s club who are still elegible for age-limit hockey. Two of them. Bob Boucher and Jack McMaster are still playing junior; Boucher with Ottawa-Hull and McMaster with Marlboros. The latter has scored 25 goals for Dukes and is their leading marksman. &#9632;

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Collegians Making Last Ditch Stand In Race To Take Second

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01512/2211484-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div><h2>Solution In Next Week&rsquo;s Issue</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Detroit player shown in centre.6&mdash;Mouth in which hockey season ends (abbr.)8&mdash;Cup won by the Whitby Dunlops. last season.11&mdash;Al Rollins&rsquo; second, name.12&mdash;They play for the Maple Leafs.13&mdash;A large deer.14&mdash;Thitials of an N.H.L. manager.15&mdash;Name given a Hab defenseman.16&mdash;Mile (abbr.)17&mdash;Initials of Hergeslieimer, ex New York star.18&mdash;N.H.L. club with whom Billy Reay last performed (abbr.)19&mdash;Native province of Real Chevrefils (abbr.)21&mdash;Indefinite article.22&mdash;Scout Johnny Mitchell&rsquo;s son-in-law.27&mdash;Mrs. Lome Worsley.28&mdash;Guinea (abbr.)29&mdash;Initials of Nicholson of Hershey Bears.SO&mdash;Bobby Hull did this in January.31&mdash;Name sometimes given Ezinicki of N.H.L. fame.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;Member of the Providence Iteds.2&mdash;Given name of O&rsquo;Ree who recently had a trial with Boston.3&mdash;A whetstone.4&mdash;Once played with Canadiens, first name Vern.5&mdash;Al Millar&rsquo;s second name.7&mdash;Initials of Ronty former M.H.L. star.9&mdash;Lutecium (Sym.)10&mdash;A Detroit rearguard answers to this14&mdash;Played for Boston in January.15&mdash;Number of games 14 down played for the Bruins.16&mdash;Pictured star was born in this province (abbr.)18&mdash;Rocket Richard was presented with one in December.20&mdash;Team with whom 23 down porfonneijalibr.)23&mdash;Two brothers from Sask, who gained fame in the N.H.L.24&mdash;North East (abbr.)27&mdash;In 1950-51 Rangers obtained Gaye Stewart from this N.H.L. (abbr.)28&mdash;Initials of Ehman of Hershey.30&mdash;Ezinicki&rsquo;s initials.<h2>Lost Week&rsquo;s Crossword Solution</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02454/2211477-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="549" height="762"></div> &#9632;

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-01147/2211598-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="286" height="292"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-02141/2211591-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="304" height="304"></div>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;While high hopes are held in Canada for the Whitby Dnnlops to regain the world hockey championship in Oslo Norway, next month, there are those who are a bit skeptical about the results, and it would seem that Wren Blair, manager of the Whitby team, which has embarked on its exhibition series in Europe prior to the world tourney, and Calvin Marsh, coach of the United States National team, another entry in the world tournament, have much different ideas of the strength of the contending teams. After two games between the United States and Canadian teams, which ended in scores of 6-2 for Whitby and a 2-2 tie, Blair was quoted as saying that he figured the United States team was more of a threat than the Russian selects, and stamped them as 20 percent better than any senior team in Canada his Wliitby team has met this season.While the United States coach probably appreciated the fine compliment, he had other ideas about the Whitby team, after absorbing a 9-0 shellacking at the hands of the Kitchener Dutchmen He is quoted as saying that the Kitchener team is five goals better any night than the team representing Canada in the world championship, which can mean but one team, these same Whitby Dunlops.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-03135/2211584-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="544" height="808"><figcaption class="caption-body">Will He Go ?Ralph Hosking</figcaption></div>These diverse opinions from acknowledged hockey authorities certainly befuddles the issue somewhat and has left the fans in state of perplexity. It might be added that the United States Nationals were defeated twice by the Fort William team and also lost to Hie Orono Bowmanville intermediate &ldquo;A&rdquo; team, although they averaged the latter reverse by wallping the intermediate team 13-4 on the larger ice surface in Rochester N.V<h2>OHA-NOHA Senior</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-04106/2211577-1-eng-US/f00c4-042.jpg" title="f00C4-04" width="577" height="270"></div>The claim is being made in some quarters that the current edition of the Kitchener Dutchmen is a stronger one, than that which was defeated 4-1 by the United States team and 2-0 by the Russian team in the Olympic. world championship tournament two years ago.Certainiy Kitchener is snowing more class in their NOHA OHA group this season than they ever did before, and are sailing along at the head of the class with a 12-point margin over the second place Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds. They have won 32 games, tied three whiling losing 13.Whitby Dun lops&rsquo; record in the eastern Ontario group, before they departed for overseas, is still more impressive, because when they played their last OH A game of this season they had a record of 27 wins and three ties in 36 games and were leading the second-place Belleville Mac Garlands by 15 points.<h2>Goman Wants Replacement</h2>Scoring-wise, Kitchener scored 200 goals and had 141 scored against them in 48 games, which averages an offensive of better, than four goals per game. In comparison, Whitby registered 197 goals in 33 games, for an average of better than five goals per game, while having 116 goals scored against them.Wren Blair must, however, be given every credit for the great showing of his team to date, nor can be he faulted for pronouncing his Whitby Dunlops as the best senior team available in Canada, in referring to the players he added to his former Allan Cup champions. Even now he is, apparently, not completely satisfied, because he is dickering lor the release of Kitchener defenceman Ralph Hosking, and Ernie Goman. Kitchener club manager, is not opposed to the plan provided he is permitted to sign a suitable replacement. Evidently Jean Paul Lamirande, Whitby&rsquo;s last addition to the roster before leaving for Europe, has not measured up to expectance. Blair did not want Hosking for the exhibition series scheduled in England and on the continent, but proposes flying Hosking after for the world championship tournament, which opens in Oslo, Feb. 28. &#9632;

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U.S. Coach Says Dutchies Five Better Than Dunnies Any Night

The following is the revised schedule of the World Hockey Championship tournament to be played in Oslo, Norway front February 28th through March 9th. The schedule had to be revised following the withdrawl of East Germany from the tournament. All times are EST.Feb. 28&mdash;Finland&rsquo;S Czechoslovaia, 8 a.m.; Norway vs Sweden, 11:30 a.m.; Poland vs Russia, 3 p.m.March 1&mdash;Canada vs Poland. 8 a.m.; Finland vs Sweden, 11:30 a.m.; Not way vs Russia. 3 p.m.March 2&mdash;Finland vs Russia. 10:30 a.m.; Canada vs Norway, 2 p.m.March 3&mdash;Poland vs Czechoslovakia, 8 a.m.; Canada vs Finland. 11:30 a.m.; Norway vs United States, 3 p.m.March 4 &mdash; Sweden vs United States. 11:30 a.m.; Russia vs Czechoslovakia. 3 p.m.March 5 &mdash; Finland vs Poland. 1 p.m.March 6 &mdash; Russia vs Poland, 4 a.m.; Finland vs Norway, 8 a.m.; Canada vs Sweden, 11:30 a.m.; Czechosiovagia vs United States, 3 p.m.March 7&mdash;Poland vs Sweden. 8 a.m.; Canada vs Czechoslovakia, 11:30 a.m.; Russia vs United States, 3 p.m.March 8 &mdash; Canada vs United States, 8 a.m.; Russia vs Sweden, 11:30 a.m.; Norway vs Czechoslovakia, 3 p.m.March 9 &mdash; Finland vs United States. 3 a.m.; Norway vs Poland. (1:30 a.m.; Sweden vs Czechoslovakia, 9:30 a.m.; Canada vs Russia, 1 p.m. &#9632;

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