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July 1, 1958

The Hockey News July 1, 1958

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01307/1705707-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">One Lost, One Gained In DraftGeneral Manager Muzz Patrick of the New York Rangers, right chats with General Manager Tommy Ivan of the Chicago Black Hawks, after draft meeting. Patrick left most of 1957-58 club unprotected from draft in order to protect kids in farm system. Muzz, while a little surprised at losing five players remained unperturbed. Ivan picked up Ranger defenseman Jack Evans in draft.</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Despite the hullaballoo that the Rangers lost a third of the team when Dave Creighton, Danny Lewicki, Guy Gendron, Jack Evans and Gord Redahl were claimed in the draft, the action left the Blue brass unperturbed.&ldquo;I realized we were taking a gamble by leaving some of our regulars unprotected to make room for the younger players coming up,&rdquo; said general manager Muzz Patrick.And, therein lies the key to the move. The younger players in the Blue farm, many of them nurtured for five years, have ripened to the point where they are ready for plucking. Muzz probably would consider Hari-Kari if any of the young prizes were grabbed by another club.So, Muzzeroo had to take the chance. He put a slew of his expendables on the block, including Gump Worsley, Larry Cahan, Parker MacDonald and Gerry Foley besides those who were grabbed.Muzz confessed: &ldquo;I thought and hoped we had selected players that wouldn&rsquo;t fit into anyone&rsquo;s plans. We&rsquo;ll claim back any of them that we can.&rdquo;What about those lost?The big man, physically and otherwise, is Montreal-bound Creighton, who had a splendid season, finishing third in scoring on the Blues with 17 goals 35 assists and 52 points his all-time high and 14th in the league behind Johnny Bucyk. Creighton was the balance-wheel center of the Andy Bathgate line with Camille Henry, a whiz-bang unit at the end of the season.At 28 years he&rsquo;s no Methusalah but is was figured that since he&rsquo;d played with every club in the loop but Montreal no one would bother him. But Les Canadiens, with enough center ice talent to stock the circuit fooled everyone and claimed Creighton.The question before the house is whether Habs will attempt to move Creighton to Rochester or use him for another deal. If they try the Rochester switch the Blues undoubtedly will reclaim him. If not, it&rsquo;s bye-bye Dave.<h2>Lewicki On Way Out</h2>Addicted to the occasional moods, Creighton, nonetheless was an efficient for the Blues, maybe not the rah-rah type, nor a heavy-hitter (don&rsquo;t forget it was he who sidelined Beliveau) but his past record speaks well for itself.It is doubtful that any of the other chaps will be missed as much.Watson indicated to the writer at the end of last season that Lewicki also Montreal-bound did not fit into his plans unless he suddenly sparked as a right winger. In experiments at that post last spring Dauny was unimpressive. He could score but woefully lacked the zip-dee-doo-dah Watson wants.Jack &ldquo;Big Tex&rdquo; Evans claimed by Chicago the oldest Ranger in point of service (since &lsquo;48), was an honest, average defenseman. Big Tex had his good moments and some bad ones too. He gave the club lot of hockey. He was found expendable because of age (30) and promising prospects like Bill Dobbyn and John Hanna.Twenty-two years old this coming August, Guy Gendron was the youngest regular Blue lost in the draft. While the stocky Frenchman may prosper as a Bruin he never matured with the Blues in more ways than one.<h2>Gendron Didn&rsquo;t Develop</h2>Gendron&rsquo;s play often was as pointless as he was rugged and there were times when one thought he&rsquo;d go through a brick wall to score. Still, he showed little improvement since donning the blue shirt in 1955 and, if he succeeds in Beantown it will surprise many down Manhatcan way. The surprise is that New York didn&rsquo;t go with him another year just to make sure because of his youth. That is, he may be a late starter. But, it was a gamble and Boston moved in.A right winger, Redahl was scouted by Phil Whitson during the playoffs and impressed Phil with his size and skating ability. &ldquo;The trouble is he has to be pushed all the time,&rdquo; sail Phil. And that&rsquo;s why he was unprotected.In case you&rsquo;re thinking of dropping a tear of two for the Blues on behalf of the five-player loss, save your hankie bud. There is a slew of fine material on its way up. If, you have any doubts, drop around next month and we&rsquo;ll tell you all about it. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Draft Forces Blues To Saddle Up Kids

MONTREAL Que.&mdash; Virtually the same hockey club that has brought the Montreal Canadiens so much success of late, will represent them in the NHL run for the Stanley Cup in the 1958-59 season. However, thereLost in draft was veteran left winger Bert Olmstead, a standout defensive player last season and one of the finest left wingers ever to don a Hab sweater. Olmstead was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs.Dollard St Laurent, tough defenseman will also be among the missing when the Habs start training next September. He was sold to the Chicago Black HawksFloyd Curry another veteran of many years with the Canadiens has retired from the game and will continue to head a newly formed oil company in Montreal.Big Alvin McDonald, a star with Rochester for the past two seasons is slated to take over Olmstead&rsquo;s post while Junior Langlois, also a Rochester grad replace St. Laurent.The Canadiens will probably start with Plante in goal. Harvey and Langlois and Johnson and Talbot on defense with Turner the fifth rearguardMoore arid the Richard brothers will be together again with Beliveau centering Geoffrion and McDonald. The &lsquo;Kid Line&rsquo; of Provost. Pronovost and Goyette will return as a unit and Marshall and Bonin will be. the utility men.Canadiens drafted Dave Creighton and Danny Lewicki from Rangers and have since received Jack Evans from Chicago as part payment in the St. Laurent shift.All three were brought to Montreal for the express purpose of stocking the Rochester Americans with top talent. However, the Canadiens will find it difficult to send them to the American League. General Manager Muzz Patrick has indicated that his Rangers will reclaim any of the players Canadiens put on waivers.Of the three there is a good chance that Canadiens will keep Dave Creighton in the National League. However, he has played with every other club in the loop and it&rsquo;s doubtful that he can be used as trade bait, unless it&rsquo;s with the Rangers themselves.Oddly enough the Habs took three players from the Rangers who have always been a thorn in their side. Lewicki played his best hockey against the Canadiens and was always a stickout in the Forum. Likewise Creighton has always performed well against the Habs. Evans has never looked out. &#9632;

Only Three Changes Seen In Hah Lineup for Next Season; McDonald, Langlois Two

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04256/1706476-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Caught at the NHL&rsquo;s annual meeting in serious discussion ore Detroit&rsquo;s Red Kelly and Chicago&rsquo;s Gus Mortson. Players were in town for meeting with club owners. Mortson announced that he would retired freer the game at the end of the season but indications are that he might give it one more whirl.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Rearguards In Confab

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03249/1706352-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg"></div>You know right well that you&rsquo;ll want to know what your favorite hockey star is doing during the summer months; what players are being traded; what players are being given their unconditional release. You&rsquo;ll also be eager to find out what plans your team is making for the coming season and what players they plan to bring up next season.Just imagine 35 information-filed issues of THE HOCKEY NEWS delivered right to your door for the low price of $3.00 ($4.00 in the United States). Spare yourself of the trouble of having to pick your copy up at the newsstand by subscribing today and furthermore you&rsquo;ll be saving $2.25 ($3.25 in the United States) by taking out a subscription.THE HOCKEY NEWS features plenty of lengthy profiles on players in the summer issues and oodles of candid pictures showing that favourite puck star of yours in such poses as playing baseball, on the golf links, milking cows, pitching hay, running the store, and countless others. We at THE HOCKEY NEWS do our utmost to see that you don&rsquo;t lose track of your favorite players during those five months that THE HOCKEY NEWS suspends weekly publication (May to September).A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.Canadian Remittances &mdash; $3.00 Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order.U. S. A. Remittances &mdash; $4.00 Payable by Postal Bank or Express Money Order. &#9632;

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YOU’LL BE SORRY!

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01225/1706801-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="973" height="654"><figcaption class="caption-body">Conn Smythe, right, huddles with son Staff during luncheon given by champion Montreal Canadiens. Leafs drafted players at meeting for first time in history.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02151/1706794-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="999" height="993"><figcaption class="caption-body">General John Reed Kilpatrick, president of the New York Rangers converses with Ranger captain Red Sullivan at NHL annual meeting held in Montreal.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0363/1706787-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="976" height="1185"><figcaption class="caption-body">Coach Billy Reay of the Leafs tries, without success to dig a few players out of the pocket of New York Rangers&rsquo; General Manager Muzz Patrick.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0424/1706780-1-eng-US/cover-042.jpg" title="Cover-04" width="1541" height="994"><figcaption class="caption-body">Senator Hartland D. Molson, owner of the Montreal Canadiens, left, caught in conversation with president Walter Brown of the Boston Bruins.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-058/1706773-1-eng-US/cover-052.jpg" title="Cover-05" width="1551" height="994"><figcaption class="caption-body">Former Toronto chattels get together. Frank Mathers, playing coach of the Hershey Bears, left with Tod Sloan, centre and Jim Thomson right. Sloan was sold to Hawks recently.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-062/1706766-1-eng-US/cover-062.jpg" title="Cover-06" width="1557" height="949"><figcaption class="caption-body">Caught in a serious mood, Detroit&rsquo;s Sid Abal, left and general manager Jack Adams were cative pair in meeting rooms. Abel is allowing famous brish cut to grow back.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Ice Men Meet During The Long, Hot Summer

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Bruins satisfied a longtime yearning a year ago when they acquired a farm team with proximity to Boston.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01308/1705607-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="284" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body">Walter Brown</figcaption></div>They entered into a working agreement with the Springfield Indians of the American league.Springfield is only 100 miles from Boston Garden, where the Bruins play their home games.Next season the Bruins will have a farm team even closer to Boston. They&rsquo;ll work with the Providence Reds, also of the American league.Providence is less than half as far as Springfield, only 40 miles away.The breakup of Bruins-Springfield relations, rumored here since the end of last season, was said to be by mutual agreement despite surface benefits for both parties.The Bruins gave Springfield its first Calder Cup finalist in the team&rsquo;s history by equipping the Indians with a competent manager in George &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach, a high scoring playing coach in Cal Gardner and talented players like Bob Armstrong, Jack Cattery, Real Chevrefils, Larry Leach, Norman Johnson, Bob Beckett and Jack BiondaThe Bruins gained by having replacements near at hand when they were needed.The Bruins&rsquo; new tie with Providence was made possible by another break, between Providenee and the New York Rangers after several seasons of working together.The new Bruins-Reds affiliation is a natural one in more ways than one.Lou Pieri, owner of the Providence team, is co-owner with President Walter Brown of the Bruins of the Boston Celtics basketball team.Terry Reardon, general manager of the Reds, is a former Bruin.John Crawford, Providence coach, is a former captain of the Bruins, for whom he was an all-star defenseman. Crawford began his coaching career with the Hershey Bears when Hershey was a Bruins&rsquo; farm team. He is a resident of Centerville, Mass.<h2>Had Hookup 20 years Ago</h2>Until a short time after the Bruins-Providence tieup it seemed likely that the Reds might be looking for another coach, for Crawford was a candidate for the position Hyannis, adjacent to his home, as manager of the ice rink in The job went to another, however.The Bruins and Providence have done business together before, but not recently. More than 20 years ago the Reds provided the seasoning for some of the best Bruins&rsquo; players ever.A celebrated product of the earlier tie was a forward line composed of youngsters from Kitchener, Ontario. Taking note of their German ancestry Al &ldquo;Battleship&rdquo; Leduc, the Providence coach, dubbed Milt Schmidt, Woody Dumart and Bobbie Bauer the Kraut Line and as such they gained National League fame and fortune eventually with the Bruins.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02292/1705600-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="555" height="841"><figcaption class="caption-body">In Bs FamilyLou Pieri</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bruins Pull Out Of Injun Wigwam, Tieup With Reds

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The specialized talents of Earl &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Reibel and Guy Gendron have resulted in their acquisition by the Boston Bruins through the off-season draft.Reibel, a 27-year old center, was purchased from the Chicago Black Hawks.Gendron, 23-year old forward, was obtained front the New York Rangers.Reibel and Gendron represent more than 50 per cent of a draft investment of $55,000 by the Bruins. The remainder of the sum was used by Manager Lynn Patrick for Forwards Gordon Redahl and Dan Poliziani, drafted from Winnipeg of the Western League and Cleveland of the American League respectively.Patrick pointed to the qualifications of Reibel and Gendron as specialists in discussing their coming to the Bruins.&ldquo;Reibel in my opinion is one of the most effective point men on power plays I&rsquo;ve ever seen,&rdquo; observed the Bruins&rsquo; boss, &ldquo;and there&rsquo;s definitely an opening on our team for such a player.&ldquo;We have an outstanding point man in Doug Mohns, who plays the left side. Reibel with his low, accurate shot and passing ability, can move into the right point position and strengthen our power play.&ldquo;Just as Reibel has impressed me when we&rsquo;ve been short-handed. so has Gendron impressed me when New York has been short-handed.&rdquo; said Patrick. He&rsquo;s a hard working young fellow with plenty of stamina.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03266/1705645-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="576" height="853"><figcaption class="caption-body">Job Is CutoutJean Guy Gendron</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04208/1705638-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="540" height="558"><figcaption class="caption-body">To The PointEarl Reibel</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We have an opening for a man to team with Norman Johnson for killing penalties and Gendron can have the job if he can take it.&ldquo;Of course I&rsquo;m not counting either Reibel or Gendron out of contention for regular positions,&rdquo; emphasized Patrick. &ldquo;After all, Reibel has been an All-Star and he&rsquo;s young enough to be one again. And Gendron can win a regular job for himself as a wing if he has the stuff.&rdquo;Reibel who grew up near Coach Milt Schmidt&rsquo;s home in Kitchener, Ontario, went to Chicago midway through last winter after playing four seasons with Detroit. A little fellow, he scored 25 goals for the Red Wings in the 1954-55 season.<h2>Gendron Starred in Playoffs</h2>Gendron, also on the small side but rugged, was named the second-best New York player by the Bruins after their Stanley Cup playoff series last spring, finishing behind Dave Creighton in the voting. The Bruins bounced him around during the series as they did the other Rangers, but Gendron bounced right back.Patrick hasn&rsquo;t announced any definite plans for either Redahl or Poliziani as yet, but he has expressed a liking for both. In keeping with Bruins&rsquo; policy, they&rsquo;11 be given cracks at varsity jobs here in due time.Poliziani, 23, scored 23 goals for Cleveland as an aggressive forward. In Cleveland&rsquo;s six playoff games he scored five goals ie lead the Barons. He&rsquo;s a former teammate of the Bruins&rsquo; Larry Regan, with whom he played in Quebec.Redahl, 22 and a six-footer, scored 20 goals for Winnipeg in his second season as a professional. &#9632;

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Boston Draftees Reibel, Gendron To Win Stripes As Specialists

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05156/1705676-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">&ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Bouchard, left, president of Montreal Royals Baseball Club and former star defenceman of the Montreal Canadiens is seen here drawing one of the lucky tickets from more than 300,000 entries in the car competition organized by Champlain Oil Products Ltd., Montreal, as part of their 25th anniversary celebrations. Also seen in the picture are R. L. Dunsmore, president of Champlain, and George Smith, the company&rsquo;s advertising manager.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Butch Pulls Out A Winner Again

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The Rangers, for 32 years made to look like donkeys by a bunch of elephants, today are laughing like hyenas now that a deal has been completed permitting the Blues to play all home playoff games in New York even though the circus is in town.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02253/1705738-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="273" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gen. Kilpatrick</figcaption></div>The official word from Madison Square Garden, that the Blues and the beast will be able to share the same roof in the Spring 1959, confirms a HOCKEY NEWS story of April 26 by this writer.There are three keys to the solution of the problem. They are:Improvements in the rigging of the circus, including the use of easily removable floor mats, will enable the three rings to be wrapped up in short order and permit a hockey surface to be laid over night.Second, the fact that the circus has not been the stupendous money-maker it has in the past although it still is the Garden&rsquo;s surest big-buck.And, just as important, the Rangers, since the Muzz Patrick-Phil Watson axis took over, have been playoff-makers, consistent money-makers. They have been gaining prestige in the Gotham because of their success and the decline of other sports such as baseball.This playoff revelation is almost incomprehensible to the average Ranger fan who became so used to seeing his heroes play their championship games on the road he dared not dream there would be any improvement for fear of being accused of just that &mdash; day dreaming.Instead of finding the big Garden portals closed to them next season Ranger fans could possibly see an additional eight playoff games after the regular campaign is over. That is, the Blues would have to finish first or second, the first round would have to go seven games, and, then, if they reach the finals, the final round would have to go to seven tilts.<h2>Governors Approve 1959 Garden Playoff Dates</h2>At worst, the New York fans and players now can rest assured that if the club does reach the finals it will have an opportunity to win them on their merits with games on home ice.Just last season the Blues faced a typical circus-provoked dilemma. They met Boston in the semis, took the first game at home, lost the second at home and, then, because of those blankety-blank animules bad to finish and lose the series in Boston although they were entitled to more home games.A more grating reminder, while on the subject, is the 1950 series when the Rangers reached the finals against Detroit and had the preposterous job of playing five games in the Motor City and two on neutral ice before bowing out in a second sudden-death.General John Reed Kilpatrick, the Blues president, who can be as emotional as a galleryite, fairly burst when announcing the playoff news: &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t tell you how happy I am,&rdquo; the General said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve a good, young club which looks as if it has the ability to reach the Cup finals. Our players deserve the advantage of home ice in a final round, and our loyal fans have the right to see them in the finals.&rdquo;The Blues&rsquo; prexy added that other members of the NHL board of governors, at the annual draft meeting in Montreal, approved the dates in New York for Cup games in 1959 and&rsquo; 60 based on every situation. There&rsquo;s only one problem&mdash;the Rangers now have to make the playoffs. &#9632;

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Rangers’ Playoff Circus Ends On Happy Note

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03166/1705769-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">While NHL brass was meeting in Montreal, an all-star baseball game was played with the Montreal Canadien taking on an all-star group of athletes. Among the group were Rangers&rsquo; Jean-Guy Gendron, Boston&rsquo;s Flem Mackell and Rangers&rsquo; Gump Worsley. Gendron was drafted by the Boston Bruins but Worsley was unperturbed over the fact that he was left unprotected by Rangers. At odds with coach Watson throughout most of his pro career Gump was confident he&rsquo;d be back in Ranger goal next season, and anyone who wanted his job would find a fight on his hands. In the meantime he found</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Gump Relaxes For Camera

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01374/1705835-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="378" height="421"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1087/1705828-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="712" height="128"></div>&bull; GORDIE HOWE will be captain of the Detroit Red Wings for the 1958-59 season. He succeeds Red Kelly who held the position for the last two years &hellip; The change in captains follows the club policy of rotating the title among the players every few years&hellip; With 148 goals in 11 seasons, Kelly ranks as the highest-scoring defenseman in National Hockey League history &hellip; He rates as the fifth highest scorer of all time among Detroit players &hellip; Three Detroit players have already inked contracts for the coming season &hellip; They are Red Kelly, Forbes Kennedy and Norm Ullman &hellip; Bill Carse, elder brother of Bob and formerly with Chicago Black Hawks, is now the golf professional at the Penticton. B.C. Golf and Country Club &hellip; Fred Huber, for 17 years public relations director of the Detroit Red Wings, resigned from that position recently &hellip; He will continue in the public relations field, however, and will also be busy with radio and television broadcasts &hellip; Fred was succeeded by Elliott Trumbull &hellip; Ron Stenlund of Rouyn, Que., star member of the Michigan Tech, hockey team, was awarded the Merv Youngs Most Valuable Player Award. The award is named in memory of Youngs, long-time editor of the Mining Gazette at Houghton, Mich., home of Michigan Tech&hellip;. Newsy Lalonde, member of the Hall of Fame for both lacrosse and hockey, will referee a lacrosse game at his home town of Cornwall, Ont. on July 1 &hellip; Match is being arranged as part of the celebrations in connection with the St. Lawrence seaway.&bull; JIM HENDY is all shook up as a results of losing five valued players from his Cleveland Barons&hellip; The Barons G.M. lost Johnny Bower, All-Star goalkeeper, and Dan Poliziani, star right winger from last season&rsquo;s Barons in the draft as well as Howie Glover, brilliant-record-breaking right winger who played with Winnipeg last year and was counted on as a future star with the Barons&hellip; Two of his best defensemen from last season, Steve Kraftcheck and Pete Goegan were sold to Toronto and Detroit respectively prior to the draft &hellip; Hendy said he had to make the sale in both cases as the players were certain to be drafted &hellip; Hendy feels particularly bad about losing Glover in the draft &hellip; He would have rather made a deal with a National Hockey League team and get players, or players and cash, in return &hellip; As a result of losing his star players to the draft, Hendy expects to have a mighty tough time selling season tickets in Cleveland for next season&rsquo;s games &hellip; Billy Reay and Bob Davidson, coach and chief scout respectively of the Toronto Maple Leafs, made a quick visit to Peterborough, Ont. to look over the Leafs&rsquo; training camp setup for the fall &hellip; Spokane Flyers, recently granted a franchise in the Western Hockey League, play their games in a beautiful civic-owned Coliseum &hellip; It seats 6,000 for hockey in luxurious style &hellip; Mel Smith, secretary of the Flyers, and Roy McBryde, the manager-coach, were in attendance at the NHL meetings in Montreal last month &hellip; The Flyers averaged close to 5,000 to all their home games in the Western International League last winter, and they are expected to be a valuable asset to the Pacific Coast Division of the Western Hockey League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02339/1705821-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="280" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Hendy</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03263/1705814-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="287" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Metro Prystai</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04209/1705807-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="272" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tony Leswick</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05186/1705800-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="292" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Reay</figcaption></div>&bull; EDMONTON FLYERS next season will be built around veterans Hugh Coflin, Bud MacPherson, Metro Prystai and Tony Leswick &hellip; Tony Leswick will be back for another year as playing coach &hellip; Bud Poile, of course, is manager&hellip; Three members of last year&rsquo;s Flyers stand excellent chances of making the Red Wings in 1958-59 &hellip; They are Len Lunde, a six-foot, two inch centerman, who was top scorer on the Flyers last season with 39 goals and 43 assists; Gerry Melnyk who had 22 goals and 40 assists despite missing the last 20 games of the schedule as a result of an eye injury; and rookie defenseman Jack Hendrickson &hellip; Other players with an outside chance of making the Wings are Chuck Holmes a right winger, and left winger Frank Roggeveen &hellip; Lloyd Ailsby playing coach of the Johnston Jets of the Eastern Hockey League resigned suddenly &hellip; The Vesper, Sask, native was a very popular figure in Johnstown and folks in the Friendly City were sorry to see him leave &hellip; Steve Brklacich, who coached Washington Presidents of the Eastern League last season, has been signed as coach of the Jets for the 1958-59 season &hellip; Johnstown had their best year at the gate in 1957-58 that they&rsquo;ve had since 1950 &hellip; They drew 105,205 paids fans in 35 games at the War Memorial Arena&hellip; &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By GORDON CAMPBELL</div>Toronto Star<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06152/1705866-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="287" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Staff Smythe</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party&hellip; tra-lala. A steaming Stafford Smythe suggested after last OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; council meeting that maybe it was time the juniors grabbed their puck and took off front the CAHA.Smythe got that way after reading a CAHA amendment informing all and sundry that the national body was going to deduct 15 per cent of playoff receipts instead of 10 per cent. Calling it a &ldquo;betrayal&rdquo; among other things, the Marlboro boss declared his team would refuse to play under such conditions if it made the playoffs.&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s about time we broke away from the CAHA and ran our own show,&rdquo; he fumed. &ldquo;Where would the association be without the $40,000 the NHL gives it? Maybe we could get the big league to give us that money and make arrangements with the west for our playoffs.&rdquo;During its four-hour confab, the council kicked around a variety of things &mdash; raising the are limit to 21, a reserve list similar to the NHL, upped its schedule to 54 games and gave Guelph Biltmores a 30-day extension to decide whether to compete in 1958-59.Arnold Somerville, secretary of the Guelph club, said if the Biltmores had to give their decision now, he&rsquo;d have to say they were out.&ldquo;We just had our most disastrous year,&rdquo; Somerville stated, &ldquo;lost well over $20,000 and haven&rsquo;t been able to close our deal with New York Rangers.&rdquo;Asked what he thought of the chances of Guelph remaining in the circuit, Somerville replied: &ldquo;Very doubtful.&rdquo;In any event, Roy Mason was definitely out. Failing health apparently has caused the longtime manager and OHA pillar to call it a day.Much was said about upping the age limit to 21. Hamilton&rsquo;s Ken Soble and Barrie&rsquo;s Hap Emms claimed people want quality hockey and such a move would be good for the players, good for the gate and good for the game.Smythe led the opposition and contended it was teenage hockey and should stay that way. He would throw out all import rules.&ldquo;Give us a reserve list,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;and let us sign any players we want. If such a list was 25, including the &lsquo;A&rsquo; club, the rest of the players would be free.&rdquo;It was decided to form a committee to look into a reserve list operation. Soble, Emms and Smythe were appointed.In the schedule discussion, Marlboros and St. Mikes plumped for 48 games, four less than last year when the nomad Ottawa Canadiens played a quartet of contests with each team. The baby Habs are out for next season.Father David Bauer said St. Mikes would prefer 36 games but expected to have to play 48. He was outvoted but the Collegians may play six four-point contests,&mdash; one with each club &mdash; which would keep them at the 4 8-game level. Bauer also asked for as many Friday and Saturday games as possible.The schedule is slated to open Oct, 16 and close Feb. 25. It began Oct. 25 and ended March 2 in the past season. The early ending in 1958-59 was to allow more time for playoffs. &#9632;

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Staff Threatens To Bolt CAHA Over 5% Increase

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div>Toronto Star<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07129/1705911-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="260" height="328"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-08109/1705904-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="262" height="305"></div><h2>Fame Is Right &mdash; But Fortune?</h2>BACK ACK in 1909-1910 a hockey team was formed &hellip; This team was called the Renfrew Millionaires, and the small town of Renfrew became famous overnight &hellip; Our plan is to honor that great team which brought fame and fortune to our town &hellip; Some of the players who performed on that team and who are expected to attend are Lester and Frank Patrik, Fred (Cyclone) Taylor, Newsy Lalonde, Herbie Jordan and Bert Lindsay.&rdquo;These are pieces and parts of a letter which Jerry Layeux, manager of the Renfrew Centennial, writes by way of an invitation to sit in. Modern greats of hockey &mdash; Maurice Richard, Jean Beliveau, Ted Lindsay (son of the Millionaires&rsquo; Bert Lindsay) and several others &mdash; will be on hand, Jerry hopes, to help honor the oldsters of the Millionaires who actually were pioneers in making shinny a worthwhile career for Canadian kids.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-09103/1705897-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="554" height="827"><figcaption class="caption-body">Newsy Lalonde</figcaption></div>Does the idea have appeal? Jerry wonders. Appeal? No matter what other attraction they have in Renfrew for their big clambake. Aug. 10-16, you can wager your last ruble, Jerry, that this one will put your town on the living-room screens, over the air, and into the prints from coast to coast.Nearly 50 years have elapsed since Ambrose J. O&rsquo;Brien went into his money belt for the purpose of buying the Stanley Cup. Yet, even the youngsters of today who collect hockey cards know there&rsquo;s some affinity between the words &ldquo;Renfrew&rdquo; and &ldquo;Millionaire.&rdquo; If you had to become academic about it, you&rsquo;d have to say the Renfrew raids on the shinny palaces provide one of the liveliest chapters in the history of Canadian sport. Whether they brought &ldquo;fame and fortune&rdquo; as Jerry so glibly puts it, is something that might be open to debate. Fame? Yes. But fortune? A realistic touch for that reunion dinner would be for some historian to produce the hockey club&rsquo;s books.The Renfrew venture must have been a costly miscue&mdash;by promoters who could afford it, of course because the Millionaires failed in their mission to take home the Stanley Cup. This was despite a spending spree which startled the natives who had a deep respect for a buck.<h2>Lester Had Three Asking Prices</h2>ON one of his too-infrequent visits to Toronto, LesterPatrick recalled his own financial dealing with the operators of the Millionaires. One of the greatest amateur players of that era, Lester was working in his father&rsquo;s lumber mill at Nelson, B.C. Three telegrams came to him in one day. One was an invitation to turn pro with Montreal. Ottawa popped the same question. The third was from Renfrew&mdash;a town which Patrick remembered vaguely was somewhere in the east.Lester&rsquo;s personal choice was Montreal. So he wired the Montreal club an asking price of $1,200. Ottawa was jacked up to $1,500. To silence the Renfrew people, once and for all, he wired them and said he wouldn&rsquo;t take a nickel less than $3,000. Lester regarded that as a prohibitive price. Renfrew accepted before either Montreal or Ottawa could reply. Lester was flabbergasted. To stall off these brash bidders, he sent a second wire saying the Patricks travelled in pairs. If they took him, they&rsquo;d have to take his brother Frank &mdash; price $2,000. Back came the wire: &ldquo;Both accepted. Agree to price.&rdquo;In a way, Lester erred on the cheap side. Cyclone Taylor did much better than that. Taylor was a member of the Ottawa Silver Seven. The Renfrew bankrollers began making eyes at him. He was happy in Ottawa &mdash; until he heard the Millionaires mention a stipend of $5,250 for 10 games. Cyclone doubted there was that much money in the Ottawa mint. He signed.Newsy Lalonde was saying yeterday he didn&rsquo;t get into the rich gravy, but he did draw two salaries for one season. Newsy was with Montreal Canadiens at the time. He played with them until they were practically eliminated. Then he hopped to Renfrew. The Millionaires duplicated the salary he had received in Montreal.&ldquo;The rink held about 1,500 people, so I don&rsquo;t think the Renfrew club could have paid its way,&rdquo; Newsy recalled. &ldquo;And don&rsquo;t ask me why we didn&rsquo;t win the Stanley Cup. I don&rsquo;t know the answer. Anyway, it was a lot of fun.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO, N. Y.&mdash;A combination working agreement which guarantees" the Buffalo Bisons &ldquo;first refusal on all players&rdquo; who fail to make the New York Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks has served to whet the appetite of local fandom for the 1 958-59 American League season.The agreement between the Bisons and the two National League clubs was announced June 2nd as the hockey clans gathered in Montreal for their annual draft session.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01328/1705942-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="274" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Norris</figcaption></div>The Bisons and the Hawks had parted company less than two months earlier as Buffalo Owner-President Ruby Pastor became Convinced that the Windy City sextet didn&rsquo;t have enough surplus talent to provide his club &ldquo;with the contender want for the city of Buffalo.&rdquo;Pastor, however was excited over the prospect of being able to call upon both Rangers and Black Hawks for taient to augment the players owned outright by Buffalo.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a terrific deal for Buffalo.&rdquo; he stated, &ldquo;It took a couple of months of hard work and, believe me, it is well worth it.&ldquo;I want to emphasize that we have a written agreement that we are to have first pick of players from both the Rangers and Black Hawks. Any players who do not make the NHL clubs come to us.&rdquo;<h2>Norris Happy With New Deal</h2>Jim Norris, who handled the Chicago portion of the deal, admitted that Chicago had failed to provide Buffalo with enough talent for a winner in four years of trying.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re happy to be back in Buffalo under these arrangements, &ldquo;he commented. &ldquo;The Rangers have a wealth of young, players and I&rsquo;m positive that when these youngsters are combined wiih some of the older players the Black Hawks will send to Buffalo, the Bisons will have a well-rounded club.&rdquo;The tieup with Buffalo reportedly does not mean the end of New York&rsquo;s affilization with Providence, their AHL farm for the past three seasons.New York-owned talent on option to Providence included goalie Marcel Faille, Defensemen Ivan Irwin and Aldo Guidolin. and Forwards Eddie Shack, Bill Sweeney, Ted Hampson, Ray Cyr, Bruce Carmichael, Bruce Cline and Jim Bartlett. Additionally, the Rangers had pro players on the Three Rivers club of the Quebec League. Saskatoon-St. Paul, Vancouver, and Winnipeg clubs in the Western League.Muzz Patrick, the Rangers representative in the negotiations, &acirc;&euro;&cent;said New York will supply the Herd with a non-playing coach. Indications were that Bobby Kirk, an AHL player nearly two decades ago and coach of the Flin Elon junior club the past five seasons, would be the pick. &#9632;

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Last Place Bisons To Get First Pick In Hawk, Blues Tie

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02298/1705973-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Robby Kirk</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Rumored In Herd Corral

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03232/1706004-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">A gloomy took con changes to smiles in a matter of minutes judging by the grins in the above picture. Following the announcement that the Buffalo Bisons would be given first crack at players who failed to make the Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks, this is how our cameraman found the Herd owners. Left to right, assistant general manager Frank Eddolls of the Bisons the Pastor brothers, Sam and Ruby, owners of the Club and General Manager Mutx Patrick of the Rangers.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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All Smiles In New Deal

BUFFALO. N.Y.&mdash; Determined not to sit and merely await a windfall of players from their new-o-pa rents New York and Chicago, the Buffalo Bisons have drafted Defenseman Jack Bownass from the Montreal Royals of the Quebec League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04174/1706035-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="272" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Bowness</figcaption></div>Defense everyone agrees, was the weakest positien of the 1957-58 edition of the Bisons. Only Frank Mai tin secured recently in the trade for Ken Wharram, was considered to have had a &ldquo;goed season&rdquo; in the Buffalo blueline brigade.Bownass who has bounced around (he QHL since 1951-52 with a season with Seattle of the Western League sandwiched in. enjoyed his best season with the Royals last winter.Royals General Manager Frank Carlin praised the red-thatched rearguard &ldquo;as easily our most aggressive defenseman last season.&rdquo;&ldquo;He did everything you can expect of a defenseman well,&rdquo; lie added.The addition of Bownass and Martin gave the Herd five home-owned back liners as Capt. Frank Sullivan. Bill Burega, and Gary Blaine, who was on option to Quebec City last season, all belong to the Bisons.&ldquo;With the large number of players we&rsquo;ll have to choose from off the New York and Chicago rosters, nobody will be sure of his job until he clinches it at training camp.&rdquo; Manager Frank Eddolls commented &ldquo;However, we look for Bownass to be a top candidate as he is big-6&ldquo;1&rdquo; and 195 pounds and should be it&rsquo;s obvious that he&rsquo;s not shy when it comes to body contact able to hold his own in rough going.&ldquo;He has a background in lacrosse football, and soceer, so and that&rsquo;s something our defensemen didn&rsquo;t seem to care too much about last seasen.&rdquo;HORRIGAN. &#9632;

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Bisons Draft Bownass From Royals As First Step In Rebuilding Job

HERSHEY. Pa Tile Hershey Bears laid out 22.500 for three draft meeting in Montreal, players at the recent hockey bringing to more than $100,000 the money paid out tor hockey talent in the past three years.At tile same time, the Bears were fortunate in escaping the draft themselves. None of their (&rsquo;alder Cup championship team was plucked by tile NHL Earlier anticipating he draft of their super stars. Willie Marshall and Dune Fisher, the Beard dealt Item to Toronto and Detroit, respectively, receiving five players in exchange.Top choice of the Bears in the draft was Sid Finner. 29, property of rhe Chicago Black Hawks, who was drafted from the Calgary club, of the western League. Finney, a prolific lamp lighter, has fired 4 or more goals over the past three seasons with Calgary.Acting On the advice of chief scout Herli Mitchell, the Bears also picked up a pair of promising youngsters in the persons of Lewis Marcon, a defenseman, anti Warren Hvnes, a forward who can play either center or left wing. Marcon, whe was obtained from the Montreal Royals, and Hyues, came from Shawinigan FallsIn launching the youth movement, it was pointed out by general manager Lloyd S. Blinco that acquisition of the rookies is another step forward in Hershey&rsquo;s avoed plan to become completely self-sustaining in the hockey wars.McCRONK &#9632;

Bears Lay Out $22,500 For Trio Picked Up In The Draft

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01398/1706097-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Saint Goes WestDollard St. Laurent</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;The Black Hawks last month added some French dressing to their 1958-59 lineup as they barged through what many hockey experts had come to suspect was an impassable barrier. The purchase of defenseman Dollard St. Laurent from the Canadiens was announced as for &ldquo;an undisclosed sum.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02282/1706090-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="293" height="401"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al Arbour</figcaption></div>St. Laurent, who probably carried a price tag of $25,000 or even a little more, thus became the first Montreal blueline regular to be dispatched to another National League club in over a decade. The Canadiens have had rather fabulous success with just four rearguarding mainstays for some years now.The only other stalwarts to depart from such &ldquo;Big Four&rdquo; alignments in the past nine years were Kenny Reardon and Emile Bouchard who both retired. It was, as a matter of fact, the development of St. Laurent into a classy defender that gradually dipped the veteran Bouchard into the background.Dollard&rsquo;s departure from Montreal couldn&rsquo;t help but draw some objections &mdash; especially among the older fans who can still recall the days when any skater of fair ability with a good French name or background might be considered to have employment with the Les Canadiens as long as he wished.With the exception of the Richards and a couple of others Montreal had no players that could carry the Frenchman label much better than St. Laurent who now moves over to the Black Hawks defensive lineup that already boasts at least one other Quebec-born player, Pierre Pilote. A good friendship should come naturally.Hopes that St. Laurent and the Black Hawks management doubtless share pretty equally are that the veteran of 6 years on the Montreal blueline will be able to shake the injury jinx that has stuck to him like glue since he first replaced Bouchard in the &ldquo;Big Four&rdquo; in 1952-53.Since then, Dollard has never been able to go the entire 70 games. For several years he and Dickie Moore continuously popped up in the Bill Head&rsquo;s medical room. The last two years Dick finally shook off the injury book and the past season, of course, was the greatest of his career.<h2>Anxious To Get Arbour, Too</h2>From all appearances, St. Laurent is getting ready to make the same move and it should be all to Chicago&rsquo;s advantage. He played in 64 regular season games in 1956-57 and then last year upped his total to 65 and played in all of the Canadien&rsquo;s 10 playoff engagements.The 19 57-58 campaign also found Dollard putting together his best season scoring-wise as he ranked second only to the power-playing Doug Harvey among the Montreal defensemen. He was credited with 3 goals and 20 assists for 23 points. Dollard has always been a good rusher.In reply to talk that he had been seeking St. Laurent for some time, Tommy Ivan, Black Hawk general manager, put it this way, &ldquo;It would he easy to say that probably most anyone would be glad to go after any regular from the Canadiens.&rdquo; A point well made.&ldquo;Actually,&rdquo; Tommy continued, &ldquo;we were just as anxious to get Al Arbour, the lanky Detroit defenseman we picked up in the draft.&rdquo; With Pilote and big Elmer Vasko a pretty smooth blue line combination with the Hawks it may well be that St. Laurent and Arbour will be the other twosome.The assignments will probably not come that simple, however, tor when the Chicago training camp opens about September 15 at St. Catharines, Ont., there will likely be some other candidates like veteran Jim Thompson, bashing Ian Cushenan, sparkling rookie Wayne Hillman and possibly even Gus Mortson.Nevertheless, the Black Hawk defensive picture appears brighter and stronger that it has in years. The need to take some of the pressure off All-Star goalie Glen Hall has been realized with the chances of lessening his burden looming as now very good. &#9632;

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Braves Send An Early Smoke Signal: Arbour Saint To Lead Attack

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO. III.&mdash;Arthur Wirtz and James Norris, the men who supply the money for what&rsquo;s hoped will soon be a championship hockey contender in Chicago, have gone well over the $100,-000 mark in spending again in preparation for the approaching 1958-59 National League campaign.The Black Hawks eluded the cellar for the first time in four years last season and if the newest players come through in accord with past performances the team managed by Tom Ivan and bossed from the bench by Rudy Filous should move up one or two more notches on the NHL ladder to make the playoffs.The key newcomers in such improvement estimates are defenseman Dollard St-Laurent, late of the Canadiens, and Al Arbour, drafted from Detroit, and veteran forward Tod Sloan whom Toronto reportedly had decided to cut loose even before the end of the 1957-58 schedule.The 29-year old St-Laurent was good enough to rank as a regular with the powerful Canadiens the past six years. The tough, bespectacled Arbour was a mainstay on the Detroit defense last season and had been under the scrutiny of Ivan for at least a year. These two may improve Chicago&rsquo;s defense 50%.Sloan may be just the answer to the Black Hawks offensive machine&rsquo;s problem &hellip; the bogging down situation made its appearance much too often last year &mdash; especially right from the start of the season. Sloan has all the know how in the world and has shown he can come up with 20-goal seasons.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03193/1706135-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="547" height="1407"><figcaption class="caption-body">Has PotentialEarl Balfour</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04135/1706128-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="529" height="518"><figcaption class="caption-body">Key ManTod Sloan</figcaption></div>Probably ranging as sleepers&rdquo; among the six new candidates for the Hawks are gangly left winger Earl Balfour and right sider Howard Glover. Balfour is built along the same lines as Eric Nesterenko and the Chisago front office is hopeful this, change of scenery will work the same on Balfour as it did on Eric.After several fairly futile years with Toronto, Nesterenko gave, up on hockey and it took Ivan six months to get him to try again. He came back to average a point a game with the Hawks two years ago and last season hit 20 goals for the first time in his pro career.It has been virtually the same story with Balfour although no one has heard him talking about quitting. He seemed uncomfortable with Toronto&rsquo;s defensive style of play of the day as early as four years ago. Last season with Rochester in the American League he potted 27 goals and 58 points.<h2>Glover Big and Rough</h2>Twenty-two year old Glover came into his own last season as he turned pro with the champion Winnipeg outfit in the Western League and racked up 38 goals and 34 assists. &ldquo;And they tell me he&rsquo;s bigger and even meaner than his older brother, Fred,&rdquo; exclaims Hawk publicitor Johnny Gottselig.Rounding out the new half dozen that will be showing their wears to Chicago moguls for the first time at training camp in September is rearguard Autry Erickson, a 20-year old who starred last season with the Prince Albert Juniors out west. He got considerable praise in a two-game trial with Winnipeg.Along with Jack Evans, since dispatched to the Canadiens, the Hawks spent a total of $75,000 in the draft that brought them Balfour, Erickson and Glover. When Boston picked up center Earl Reibel in the same manner the net thus came to $60,000.Although no official figures have been released, it has been reliably estimated that at least another $50,000 &mdash; and perhaps more was needed to secure the contracts of St-Laurent from the Canadiens and Sloan from Toronto. It all adds up to over $100,000 in anyone&rsquo;s math book. &#9632;

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Sloan, Glover, Balfour Keys To Playoff Door In 100 G Hawk Shellout

<div class="byline">By ROLLY ETHIER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01350/1706173-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="539" height="841"><figcaption class="caption-body">As A PlayerEd Reigle</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02317/1706166-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="521" height="754"><figcaption class="caption-body">As A CoachEd Reigle</figcaption></div>NORTH BAY, Ont.&mdash;EDMOND (RAGS) REIGLE is one of the few Canadians in hockey with the distinction of being able to tour Europe &mdash; he does so in the course of his duties as director of the Swedish Ice Hockey Association &mdash; and get paid for his efforts.The North Bay resident recently signed another one-year contract to return to the land of Smorgasbord in the fall and continue the tack of improving the standard of play in that hockey-crazed country.In case you&rsquo;re a late arrival, Reigle is the chappie who steered the North Bay Trappers within two goals of the Allan Cup two winters ago in his rookie year in the coaching business before accepting the Swedish position.Reigle, an outstanding defenceman with Cleveland Barons for many years in the American League, is back on the scene again here now tending to his varied business interests. For Edmond is one of those rare individuals in hockey with the leadership and brains to make a success of almost anything he turns his hand to.Eddie&rsquo;s employment in Sweden was a unique one, indeed. In fact, it is probably the first such job opened to any individual in European hockey circles.He worked out of Stockholm but Eddie&rsquo;s duties took him all over the country. His work entailed supervising coaching courses, spending periods of time with first division teams, of which there are about 20, and generally acting as an advisor in educating the Swedes in the manly art of Canadian hockey techniques. And Eddie is unquestionably happy he decided to take advantage of the opportunity.&ldquo;I was an experience of a lifetime, one I&rsquo;m sincerely happy I didn&rsquo;t pass up,&rdquo; advises Ed. He also reports that the Swedish people treated lie and his wife Mary with the utmost hospitality during their stay.Reigle discloses that Swedish hockey is improving steadily, as are many other countries in Europe, and says that the potential is there for them to actually surpass our own senior hockey in Canada in another 10 years.<h2>Gosselin Tops In Eddie&rsquo;s Book</h2>&ldquo;Hockey enthusiasm in Europe is catching like wildfire,&rdquo; observes Eddie. &ldquo;The Swedish public love it and it&rsquo;s not uncommon for capacity crowds up to 17,000 to jam their way into Stockholm&rsquo;s big outdoor stadium.&rdquo; Apparently, the stadium can hold up to 18,000 if the fans stand closer together because the rinks are not equipped with seats.In his estimation, North Bay&rsquo;s own George Gosselin was the outstanding forward in the world tournament. Eddie says he was extremely proud of the way George performed. &ldquo;Sure, there were a few other forwards more colorful than George but no one did a better all-round job in all phases of the game than Gosselin.&rdquo;&ldquo;Of course, George didn&rsquo;t surprise me any with his play. I consider him one of the finest two-way players I&rsquo;ve ever watched. I coached him for a year so I was well acquainted with what he could do.&rdquo;Of Whitby Dunlop&rsquo;s bitterly-contested 4-2 win over Russia, that reclaimed thew crown for Canada, Reigle believes that if the same two teams played again the followina night Whitby would have whipped them handily by five or six goals. Like many oilier observers in Oslo. Eddie says the terrific pressure that had been built up put the Canadians off their game for three-quarters of the tussleAltogether Reigle relates that no fewer than 350 different coaches attended courses that he conducted, with about an average of 20 attending each session. And just how did Reigle hurdle the language barrier?Well, it seems that a good many of the Swedes understood enough English anyway but he had an interpreter with him anywhere he went in case he ran into trouble. By the time the season was coming to a close. Reigle had picked up enough of the Swedish torgue to make himself understood.&ldquo;What amazed me most about the Swedish hockey operation is the interest of the fans. It&rsquo;s sure refreshing to see those big crowds sitting in tor games. It gives the players and officials alike the encouragement necessary to make a success of it.&rdquo;Eddie and his wife found up their Swedish adventure with an enjoyable trip through Europe before flying home, touching down on such cities as Oslo, Vienna, Venice, Milan, Lugano, Zurich, Paris and finally London.A mighty rewarding business, this hockey, eh what? &#9632;

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Reigle Dots Contract To Teach Swedes Again

PHILADELPHIA. Pa. &mdash; The Philadelphia Ramblers, of the Eastern Hockey League, will not train at Stamford. Ontario this season as they have for the past three.Owner George Davis announced his charges will hold their preseason workouts at the Valley Forge Skating Club in nearby Audubon, Pa.He said the players will report to Doug Adam, the club&rsquo;s newly-appointed coach, approximately on October 10. Davis said the new facilities at the skating club provide for eating and sleeping quarters.Drills will be held twice daily with the public invited to attend the workouts. &ldquo;Our fans will be able to travel out to watch the practice sessions now that we are close to Philadelphia,&rdquo; Davis said. &ldquo;This way they will know just how the team is shaping up.&rdquo;The Ramblers have trained&rsquo; at Stamford since coming into the EHL three seasons ago because it was near the Niagara Falls&rsquo; home of Edgar &ldquo;Chirp&rdquo; Brenchley, who coached the team until being ousted at the end of last season.GEORGE METZGER &#9632;

Philly To Switch Training Camp To Nearby Audubon

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03244/1706228-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="291" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mathers</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N. Y.&mdash;The American Hockey League All Star Game for the 1958-59 season will be played in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on Thusday January 15, 1959. The host team, the Hershey Bears, which won the regular season championship and the Calder Cup Playoff title of the 1957-58 season, will play a team comprised of the outstanding players from the other five league clubs, Buffalo, Cleveland, Providence, Rochester and Springfield.For the first time, since: the annual all star game was innaugurated, the fans from the six league cities will decide the players who will oppose the Bears in the game. As the Hershey team for 1958-59 will participate in the game as a unit, their opponents for the game will be voted on by the league followers, to be selected from the remaining five teams only. The local fans in Hershey and surrounding areas will take part in the voting also but as in the case of the other five cities, they will choose players exclusive of the Bears. Frank Mathers, the coach of Hershey last season will of course guide his team in the all star game, and his rival mentor will be voted on by the fans just as his players will.The all star team to take part in the all star classic will have no bearing on the regular teams which as usual will be chosen by the league&rsquo;s press, radio and TV representatives at the conclusion of the regular 1958-59 season, and for which each first team player receives a league bonus of $300 and the second team $200 each. The 1958 - 59 league schedule, adopted recently, will open on Wednesday, October 8 and conclude on Sunday March 22. &#9632;

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Bears To Play AHL Stars In Hershey On January 15

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>Fisher, Marshall, Ehman And Kraftcheck Picked Up: Many Others Shifted In Trades<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04186/1706259-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="278" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Hendy</figcaption></div>BUFFALO, N. Y.American League clubs, operating on the theory that cash can&rsquo;t win hockey games, made an un-precedented number of pre-draft player trades with NHL clubs.In a sense, the NHL moguls who secured the graduating AHLers placed a stamp of approval upon the selections of the sport writers and sportscasters who picked the Canning circuit All-Star team.No less than four members of the 1957-58 American League glitter squad were bartered for, From Cleveland, Toronto took Defenseman Steve Kraftcheck. The Maple Leafs also paid a fair player price for another look at one-time chattel Willie Marshall. Detroit entered the picture by securing Gerry Ehman from Springfield and Marshall&rsquo;s Hershey linemate Dune Fisher.Still another trade saw Ken Wharram, Buffalo&rsquo;s most consistent goal-getter over the past four campaigns, re-enter the Chicago Black Hawks fold for a shot as a right winger. His previous experience with the Windy City sextet has been at center.While the AHL will miss players of the caliber of these traded, none of the clubs came away empty banded.Only in the case of Kraft-check, who was traded for young Ian Anderson, a defenseman fresh from the junior ranks, did the teams trade man-for-man. And even there, Genial James Hendy walked away with a check large enough to be negotiable for one or two more players of American League caliber.Hershey, while losing two-thirds of its high scoring Obie O&rsquo;Brien - Marshall - Fisher line, netted a total of five players in return.For Marshall, the Bears received Center Mike Nykoluk and Right Winger Ron Hurst, a pair of hard-pluggers who were with Rochester last season, along with a two-year option on Wally Boyer, a junior graduate who need only match the player ability of the man he facially resembles, Pete Langelle, to be a fine addition.<h2>Poile To Bears</h2>Secured from Detroit for Fisher&rsquo;s contract were Don Poile, who spent a large share of the 1957-58 campaign with the Red Wings, and Hec Lalande, another more than adequate AHLer.Eddie Shore, determined to return to a more active role in the sport than he played last year, received Goalie Hank Bassen, former Buffalo netminder, Dennis Olson and Billy McCreary, a pair of forwards, for his Springfield club for Ehman.Buffalo&rsquo;s price for Wharram was the rights to Defenseman Frank Martin and Right Winger Wally Hergesheimer, the two players General Manager Fred Hunt said he wished he owned when the Bisons and Black Hawks parted company, at least temporarly, in April.Just how much the AHL clubs helped &mdash; or hurt &mdash; themselves by these trades won&rsquo;t be known until the firing begins next fall.But it&rsquo;s certainty that all of them profited more than they would have by taking the $15,000 draft price each player would have gone for if the trades hadn&rsquo;t been negotiated. &#9632;

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Players, Not Cash AHL Demands

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOO</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01383/1706297-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="292" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Guyle Helder</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Johnny Bower, a 33-year-old goalkeeper with Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey League, was drafted by Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League,This was one of numerous transactions made in the annual interleague draft in which the National League selected players from the minor leagues. The AHI, was also empowered to draft-from the Western League and the QuebecLeafs, through their farm club affiliate, Rochester Americans, also drafted Howie Young, a recalcitrant defenseman who played. when not under suspension, with Hamilton Tiger-Cubs the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A series last season.Leafs also drafted Guyle Fielder, from Seattle, the leading scorer in the WHL last year. Fielder started last season with Detroit Red Wings. Leafs purchased Fielder, it was explained, tor their AHL club in Rochester.Several weeks back Leafs disclosed they were thinking withdrawing their sponsorship from the Rochester club, which they share with Montreal Canadiens. But then-efforts to locate an AHL team under their sole direction have been unsuccessful and they will continue their co-sponsorship of Rochester next seasonPreceding the draft meeting, Detroit Red Wings revealed they had purchased forwards. Gene Achtymichuk and Laforge and defenseman Bud McPherson from Montreal Canadiens. Canadiens sold these three players for an undisclosed sum. All three saw brief service with Canadiens.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02319/1706290-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="1099" height="836"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dons Blue And WhiteJohnny Bower</figcaption></div>In other drafting action Chicago Black Hawks Phased defenseman Autry Ericson, a Western Canada player just out of junior ranks and Howie Glover, a Toronto boy who Played with Winnipeg Warriors Iasi season. Glover is a former MarlboroBoston Bruins drafted Dan Poliziani. from Cleveland Barons, Rangers selected Phil Maloney from the Providence list and Canadiens exercised their draft privilege by protecting one of their own players, goalkeeper Charlie Hodge of Montreal Royals Rangers in their second pass at the draft, also claimed one of their old players, Jackie McLeod of Saskatoon.Eddie Shore owner of Springfield Indians of the AHL was the most ambitious of the minor league speculadors. He st.ent a total of $37,500 to draft five players, all from the Will Thev were goalie Hank Bassen, a confirmation of an earlier purchase Bill McFarland, of Seattle, Colin Kilburn, of Edmonton, Gary Edmundson, of New Westminster and Gord Wilson, of victoriaHershey Bears drafted three players, Syd Finney, Calgary, Warren Hynes. Shawinigan Falls and Louis Marcon. a promising Young graduateBuffalo Bisons chose Jack Bownass a defenseman of Montreal Royals, who played a few games for the NHL Canadiens last season. Rochester also drafted Guy Black, a junior from QuecheBower Voted the most valuable player in the AHL last season had been sought by Leafs earlier but he declined their offers A former goalkeeper with New York Rangers, it. is understood he will be offered a two-year contract with Leafs.He was not purchased as a successor to Leafs&rsquo; present goalie Ed Chadwick. It is planned that they will share the goaltending duties with leafs next season.Canadiens have sold regular defenseman Dollar St. Laurent to Chicago Black Hawks for an undisclosed amount of cash.No other players were involved in the deal.St. Laurent, a native of suburban Verdun who shoots left, joined the Canadiens in the 1950-51 season. He Play Pitockey 1951-1952 with the farm-club Royals of the Quebec Hoike? League and then returned to the Canadiens. staying with them until t lie Chicago deal.A tough 180-pounder who stands 5 feet, 11 inches, St.Laurent is a prize catch for Black Hawks. He will report to Chicago&rsquo;s training camp when it is set up for the 1958-59 season. &#9632;

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Leafs Draft For First Time, Wings Buy Canuck Trio

<div class="byline">By GEORGE METZGER</div>PHILADELPHIA, Pa.&mdash;Ivan Walmsley, the goalie for the Philadelphia Ramblers, is different than any other player in the Eastern Hockey League. Instead of rushing home at the end of the season, Ivan starts working in the club&rsquo;s front office.The 29-year old netminder is spending his second summer as the club&rsquo;s promotion director.The curly-haired Walmsley looked a little out of place, however, the other day. Instead of being out on the Arena ice in his pads, standing between the pipes, he was seated behind a desk in the office wearing a neat grey business suit.Ivan&rsquo;s job includes selling season tickets, selling advertising tor the game programs and just promoting the team in general.&ldquo;It was all George Davis&rsquo; (th&ldquo;It was all George Davis&rsquo; (the Ramblers&rsquo; president) idea,&rdquo; Walmsley explained. &ldquo;He told me I should start thinking about the future. And this is right up my alley.&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;m getting ready to quit playing.&rdquo; he was quick to caution. &ldquo;I think I still have four or five more good years left. I&rsquo;m not going to quit playing until it becomes work.&rdquo;Walmsley is considered by many as the best goaltender in the Eastern Hockey League, despite finishing third in goals against average.&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t forget,&rdquo; said one member of the champion Washington I residents, &ldquo;a goaltender in only as good as his defense, and Ivan had a lot ol bad luck in this department this year.&rdquo;The Rambler&rsquo;s defense corps suffered many injuries during the campaign, forcing them to go with a make-shift rear guard on many occasions.Philly&rsquo;s new coach. Dougie Adam, who played for the Charlotte Clippers the past two seasons, is another of Ivan&rsquo;s supporters. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the best in the league.&rdquo; Adam said upon taking over the team.Walmsley is one of the few Lcckey players who does not want to move up the ladder. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m in satisfied playing right here in Philadelphia.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve played a few games in the American League and actually believe it was easier up there.&rdquo; (Note: Walmsley recorded a shutout for Hershey this past season.)The affable goalie was asked if he would like to be a coach when his playing days were ended. &ldquo;No,&rdquo; came the reply. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d he satisfied with a job like I&rsquo;m doing here in the front office.Ivan spends most of his spare time during the summer, like many other hockey players, playing golf. &ldquo;I usually shoot in the low 80&rsquo;s,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but have reached the 70&rsquo;s on occasion.&rdquo; He also likes to watch major league baseball.But his off-season duties keep him fairly busy. He did find time, however, to apply for his United States citizenship papers. &#9632;

Walmsley Peddles Ducats For Phily In Summer And Winter

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;There were indications that the hockey Leafs may find drafting Johnny Bower from Cleveland a simple problem compared to signing the 33-year-old goalie.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01368/1706383-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="279" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Bower</figcaption></div>In Montreal, Cleveland general manager James Hendy presented Leafs coach Billy Reay with a photostat copy of the terms demanded by Bower who was under a two-year contract with Cleveland, the document including a cause preventing Hendy from selling or trading him without his permission.&ldquo;I told Johnny I couldn&rsquo;t protect him from the draft,&rdquo; said Hendy who put himself in the category of the poor little rich boy as he sat in his hotel with $45,000 &ldquo;but no players.&rdquo; In addition to Bower, two other Cleveland players were drafted, Dan Poliziana by Boston and Howie Glover by Chicago.To leave Cleveland, Bower wants a two-year&rsquo; irrevocable contract with a substantial amount of money &ldquo;but no more than Harry Lumley received&rdquo; plus moving expenses. He wants no part of a minor league clause and in case of injury, even at training camp, will expect to receive his full salary to the end of his two-year contract.Hendy reported that the Bower document makes it quite clear he does not want to leave Cleveland but that if drafted would insist his new contract be signed before he reported to training camp.Long an opponent of the draft system&mdash;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m dead against it. I don&rsquo;t want any league subsidy&mdash;and I have never kept a player down,&rdquo; Hendy said he only wanted a fair chance to make deals for players he developed.&ldquo;I want to make it clear that Bower is a good goalie and is in good shape, but I believe he is two years older than the record book indicates and he&rsquo;ll come awfully high for two years&rsquo; service.&rdquo;Hendy said he was resigned to the drafting of Bower and Poliziani but objected vigorously to Glover being claimed &ldquo;before we&rsquo;ve had a chance to play him in Cleveland after developing him for five years in other leagues.&rdquo;Hendy said that John Albani, goalie for Marlboros&rsquo; Memorial Cup team of&rsquo; 54 and&rsquo; 55, would be Cleveland&rsquo;s netminder next season. &#9632;

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Bower Demands 2-Year Contract, No Minor League Clause of Leafs

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02346/1706414-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Former members of the Toronto Maple Leafs got together for a reunion recently. Caught by cameraman in chit chat Harry Watson, far left, Billy Reay, present Leaf coach. Ted Kennedy, Max Bentlev and Bob Davidson, Leafs&rsquo; scout.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Ex-Leafs In Reunion

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03299/1706445-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Four National Hockey League greats posed for THE HOCKEY NEWS camera at the NHL annual meeting. Left to right. All-Star defenseman Marcel Pronovaxst, Red Kelly Fern Flaman and Don McKenney.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bruin-Wing Qet-Together

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05198/1706507-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Boom Boom Geoffrian, right of the Canadiens points a finger at big Jeon Beliveau, warning him that he&rsquo;d better stop that par golf, else,, Pair were caught on golf course in Montreal. Beliveau shoots in high 70s while Boomer is 80 shooter. Linemates in hockey seoson, they are often golf mates in off-season.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Long Ball Hitters

National Hockey League fans may obtain copies of the N.H.L. Final Statistics free of charge. These handy-sized record cards contain the final standing of the Clubs, the Individual Scoring Records for every player during the regular schedule and the Stanley Cup Play-offs, as well as the Goalkeepers Averages and the Penalty Records of each club.Requesls should be mailed to: N.H.L. Information Bureau, 601 Sun Life Bidg., Montreal, Que. &#9632;

N.H.L. Statistics Available For Fans

TOLEDO, O.&mdash;The International Hockey League granted one-year suspensions of operations to the Cincinnati Mohawks and Indianapolis Chiefs and at the same time formulated plans to merge with the Eastern League next season at a meeting of the Board of Governors at the Fort Meigs Hotel in Toledo, Ohio recently.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01382/1706569-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="295" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy Mulligan</figcaption></div>While the suspensions which were requested by both Cincinnati and Indianapolis came as a surprise the plan to merge with the Eastern League was even more unexpected.Andy Mulligan, general manager of the Toledo Mercurys, acting as spokesman for the league, contacted Tom Lockhart., president of the Eastern League, by phone in New York after the requests for suspension of operations had been granted to Cincinnati and Indianapolis.Mulligan said that Lockhart was very receptive to the plan for the merger, indicating that the Eastern League has been discussing the same subject recently. Mulligan indicated yesterday that the merger, which will be discussed at a point meeting of the two leagues on July 15 at Charlotte, N.C., has a 90 per cent chance of being adopted.<h2>Mohawks Lost $18,000 in 1957-58</h2>Although the one-year suspensions of Cincinnati and Indianapolis was surprising actually there had been movements in the past by several clubs in the IHL to try to oust the Mohawks from the league. The Mohawks, in winning the league championship the past six seasons had virtually dominated the league at will, clinching the tittle early each season and making a shambles of the competition.Represented by Howard Newstate, the Cincinnati club requested the suspension chiefly on the grounds of finances. Although an affiliate, of the Montreal Canadiens of the National League, the club found that winning hockey didn&rsquo;t pay off. The franchise operated at a loss of $18,000 last season.Indianapolis, meanwhile, suffered from a similar fate as well as difficulties in concluding arrangements with its home rink for next winter&rsquo;s play. The chiefs won the IHL playoff championship last season.At the same time Troy, which had earlier dropped out of the league because of poor attendance, expressed hope of returning to the league in view of the new proposed setup with the Eastern League. Indianapolis, too, is not altogether counting itself out either. If the club can iron out its problem with the Fair Grounds Coliseum, its home rink, it might return to the fold. &lsquo;Cincinnati definitely will not return this year.As matters now stand the four remaining teams in the IHL Toledo, Louisville, Fort Wavne and Troy &mdash; would merge with five teams of the Eastern League &mdash; New Haven, Charlotte, Clinton, Johnstown and Philadelphia. Washington, the sixth team in the EHL, has requested a one-year suspension of operating according to Lockhart, Mulligan said.Under the plans proposed by the IHL, the merged league would operate in two divisions Western and Eastern, with the winners meeting in the championship playoffs. This would necessitate each club making a respective Eastern and Western swing twice in one season. All clubs would pay their own transportation costs for long-distance trips, a proposal that Lockhart was also receptive to. Mulligan said. The season schedule would be drawn up by the respective league presidents with a 6 2-ganie slate in effect.<h2>Denver Franchise Looks Very Doubtful</h2>Frank Gallagher of Detroit, president of the IHL, said he thought that the general feeling among the owners of IHL clubs was that the merger would be a &ldquo;shot in the arm&rdquo; for hockey and would improve the club financially and competitively. He said salary and players limits had not yet been decided on.Earlier this month Denver, Colo., had applied for a franchise in the IHL. The feeling at the meeting yesterday was that the granting of a franchise to Denver would be a big &ldquo;risk&rdquo; and would involve transportation complications. A final verdict was tabled until the IHL-EHL meeting in July.Relations between the two leagues have been on a high plane in recent years. Last season the two leagues played an all-star game in Philadelphia with the IHL Stars winning 5-3. It was the first meeting between the stars of the two leagues. Player deals between the clubs of both leagues have also transpired frequently.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02320/1706562-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="285" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Lockhart</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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IHL Seeks Schedule Tieup With In 1958-59

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01381/1706631-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">You are now looking at the first radio of its hind in histroy! A POCKET SIZE PORTABLE that&rsquo;s as small as a package of chielets gum, smaller than a pack of cigarettees &hellip; small enough to fit into a man&rsquo;s shirt pocket, his breast pocket, a woman&rsquo;s purse or vanity.</figcaption></div><h2>HOW THIS AMAZING POCKET RADIO WORKS&mdash;THE SECRET IS AIR!</h2>&ldquo;At this point, you&rsquo;re probably wondering &ldquo;how in the world can portable radio possibly work without batteries and tubes?" &hellip; and how can it possibly cost so little? The answer is simple: Recently, while working on a military problem, scientists developed a new type of self-powered rectifier called a GERMA-NIUM-DIODE, the same miracle invention now being used on all radar and sonar equipment. This new invention actually generates its own power by drawing electric waves RIGHT OUT OF THE AIR just, like a magnet, and converts those waves into power-producing electricity! And it is this amazing electronic discovery that finally makes it possible for you as a civilian, to own a lifetime pocket radio that uses no batteries, no tubes, no transistors. Because instead of bulking up a radio with all sorts of expensive parts and tubes &hellip; scientists have actually condensed an entire radio power-plant into this one single part that is no bigger than a dime, that generates more power than batteries and that never wears out no matter how much you use it. Because incredible as it may seem &hellip; each time you use it it draws in more power from the air &hellip; it then feeds itself a new &ldquo;electrical meal&rdquo; &hellip; and stays just As powerful as when-it was brand new! But wait &hellip; that&rsquo;s not all!<h2>2 EXTRA FEATURES!</h2>To make sure that your ORBIT PORTABLE doesn&rsquo;t merely &ldquo;just play&rdquo; &hellip; but gives you the finest reception possible &hellip; electronic engineers have added 2 bonus features &hellip; features you&rsquo;d ordinarily expect to find only on extremely expensive hi-fi sets! First, there&rsquo;s the super distance Ferrite Loop antenna that gives your ORBIT POCKET RADIO extra clarity. Next, and perhaps even more, is the direct circuit personal earphone speaker that enables you to listen to your favorite program in complete privacy &hellip; why even in bed. without disturbing others. This feature alone will give you more hours of use and pleasure than you ever enjoyed from a radio before. And remember &hellip; it&rsquo;s yours without a single penny&rsquo;s extra cost. In other words, when you receive your ORBIT POCKET RADIO, you are not getting a toy or some flimsy gadget &hellip; but a true precision engineered portable radio that is engineered to outlast any radio ever sold in this country before! It must last forever &hellip; you must have to invest not even one cent for new parts or repairs &hellip; you can even run your ORBIT POCKET RADIO 24 hours a day each and every day of the year and still not wear it out &hellip; or it costs you nothing. Whether it be 1 year, 5 years, or even 25 years from now, we guarantee your ORBIT POCKET RADIO will still be playing with &ldquo;brand new clearness and power&rdquo; and on the ORIGINAL PARTS! Never before has there been a guarantee as strong as this!<h2>TRY IT FREE FOR 10 DAYS!</h2>Naturally, the best proof of just how sensational this ORBIT POCKET PORTABLE really is, is in your own home. That&rsquo;s why we invite you to try it free for 10 days &hellip; And if after hearing its tone and clarity &hellip; if after using the personal earphone &hellip; if after taking it and using it wherever you go, you don&rsquo;t agree this is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own this ORBIT POCKET PORTABLE that&rsquo;s unlike any portable ever sold in this country before, then simply return it and it has not cost you a cent. Yet you have tried it entirely at our expense!<h2>SPRINGTIME RUSH FOR PORTABLES IS EXHAUSTING OUR SUPPLY.</h2>This FREE-TRIAL Offer May End Any Day &hellip; SO ACT NOW! Now the price of your ORBIT POCKET RADIO on this special offer is an unbelievably low $4.95 &hellip; probably the lowest price a portable has ever been sold for in this country. And remember &hellip; With the ORBIT PORTABLE, there are no repairs, no tubes to replace, no batteries to buy; so it not only pays for itself, but in the long run saves you money too. However, at this low price, the enormous surge of orders is dwindling our supplies rapidly, and since production cannot possibly keep up with the demand once the spring season gets fully under way &hellip; this offer may not be repeated this year. Therefore, all orders will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Once our limited supply is exhausted, we will be forced to withdraw this offer, so to take advantage of this IREE-TRIAL OPPORTUNITY, send the no-risk coupon today.No Batteries. No Tubes, No Plug In THINK OF IT! No batteries to wear out &hellip; no tubes to replace &hellip; no condensers to burn out &hellip; nothing to plug in. The Result: Not only the smallest portable in the world &hellip; but the LOWEST PRICED ONE TOO! WILL LAST A LIFETIME &hellip; NEVER WEARS OUT. THE PRICE &hellip; ONLY $4.95At last it&rsquo;s here! One of the most incredible inventions of our century. One that will leave your friends and neighbors completely startled the moment they see it &hellip; the moment they hear it! For the first time ever, a LIFE TIME POCKET-SIZE PORTABLE that uses no batteries, no tubes, no transistors &hellip; in other words &hellip; A MIRACLE RADIO THAT NEVER WEARS OUT &hellip; AND PLAYS FOREVER!The secret is a built-in lifetime I power-plant; the same type now I being used by the Army and I Navy in their radar and sonar equipment.<h2>PERFECT RECEPTION &hellip; NO INTERFERENCE &hellip; SUPER DISTANCE RANGE!</h2>Here for the first time ever is a lifetime pocket-size radio that pulls in programs as sharp and clear as if you were sitting right in the broadcasting studio. A miracle of electronic science that gives you perfect interference-free reception even in fringe areas &hellip; even on boats &hellip; why even during rain and lightning storms when other radios &ldquo;stutter&rdquo; with static. Yes a completely new kind of radio &hellip; one that is so powerful and pulls in the radio signals, so strongly that it doesn&rsquo;t even have to warm up! You simply turn it on. It starts to play INSTANTLY! It&rsquo;s like carrying your favorite entertainment with you, on picnics, boat rides, on the beach, at camp, ANYWHERE!Why, it even pulls in broadcasts from miles and miles away as clear and sharp as if they were coming from next door. Yet, with all of this super-power reception, here for the first time ever is a pocket-size portable that is so small, so compact, it is not only as small as a box of chiclets &hellip; but it&rsquo;s just as light!<h2>WEIGHS SO IITTLE YCU DON&rsquo;T EVEN REALIZE YOU&rsquo;RE CARRYING IT!</h2>Just think! Here at last is a lifetime portable that is so light and takes up so little space that you can actually tuck it into the pocket of a man&rsquo;s shirt like a pack of cigarettes &hellip; or in a woman&rsquo;s purse like a compact. Yes, a fine precision-made radio that you can slip into your pocket and take to work &hellip; on trains &hellip; on planes &hellip; on boats &hellip; in stores &hellip; in ballparks &hellip; on fishing and camping trips &hellip; on vacations or picnies &hellip; yes, a lifetime pocket portable that you&rsquo;ll carry with you and enjoy day in and day out all your waking hours. Why just stop and think what this means to you. Now you can tune in your favorite radio programs anytime, anywhere. Now you can listen to the news, sports, music or weather by simply reaching into your pocket anywhere, and tuning in the local station. And remember &hellip; there are no batteries, no tubes, nothing to ever break down, wear out or burn out &hellip; nothing to ever replace or repair. In fact, it will still deliver the same power, the same clearness, same fidelity, 10, 20 or even 50 years from today because it. LAST FOREVER!<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02338/1706624-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="498" height="387"><figcaption class="caption-body">A PERFECT BEDTIME COMPANION TOO you can even enjoy your radio in bed without disturbing others. Simply use the superphonic earphone and you can listen to your lifetime portable any hour, because only you win be able to hear it.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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NOW! A Portable Radio that WORKS ANYWHERE Without Batteries, Without Tubes and Lasts a Lifetime. Fits in Pocket!

Never before in the radio business has a manufacturer dared to publish the guarantee you are about to road. When you order your ORBIT POCKET POBTABLE, we guarantee it not for a mere 90 days &hellip; not for just a year &hellip; not even for just 5 year &hellip; but FOREVER! Yes, it must deliver perfect studio clear reception &hellip; it must be completely clear of Interference at all times &hellip; it must run forever on the original parts without you ever having to invert a penny in repairs &hellip; OR WR WILL SEND YOU A BRAND NEW BADIO or refund your money completely &hellip; whichever you desire. Never in your life have you ever seen such an iron-clad guarantee. GORDESS ELECTRONICS, 140 Liberty, St., New York. &#9632;

LIFETIME GUARANTEE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="C4-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0397/1706721-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Canadiens &lsquo;Kid Line&rsquo; of Andre Pronovost. Left Phil Goyette, centre and Claude Provost, right, wait for turn at bat in benefit game. NHL Habs played all-star team with gate going to fund for retarded children. Game was great success, but Canadiens lost.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-01102/1706735-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="212" height="257"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-02100/1706728-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="236" height="269"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0482/1706714-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="1512" height="918"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pre-game strategy by Marcel Bonin, left gets nasty look from Maurice Richard, centre while catcher Jean Guy Talbot whistles merry tune. Over ten thousand people turned out to see favourite hockey tons in action at Montreal baseball stadium.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0514/1706707-1-eng-US/c4-052.jpg" title="C4-05" width="1053" height="1338"><figcaption class="caption-body">Goaler Jacques Plante. Vezina Trophy winner the 1957-58 season gets ready to hit. Plante plays first base for senior ball club in Montreat</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-069/1706700-1-eng-US/c4-062.jpg" title="C4-06" width="1041" height="923"><figcaption class="caption-body">Veteran Bert Olmstead flew in from Saskatchewan to participate in the game. It was originally slated to take place on Sunday afternoon but rain forced postponment. Two days later Olmstead was drafted by Toronto Maple Leaf.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-074/1706693-1-eng-US/c4-072.jpg" title="C4-07" width="1051" height="1283"><figcaption class="caption-body">National Hockey League scoring champion Dickie Moore checks Floyd Curry&rsquo;s injured ankle. Moore was unable to play because of injured wrist that forced him to play most of last hockey season with cast</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-083/1706686-1-eng-US/c4-082.jpg" title="C4-08" width="992" height="885"><figcaption class="caption-body">Boom Boom Geoffrion, who survived serious injury during season and came back to star in playoffs turned up looking fit for ball game. He reported feeling well and back to his normal playing weight.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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