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September 1, 1958

The Hockey News September 1, 1958

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03263/1759020-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ivan Irwin</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

From Birds To Bisons

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02336/1758841-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="273" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lefty Wilson</figcaption></div>The year 1958 (just the first eight months) has seen three of the five non-playing members of the Detroit Red Wing family leave their jobs.First, early in January, it was coach Jimmy Skinher, who quit because of illness and turned the reins over to Sid Abel.Next, in May, it was publicist Fred Huber, who resigned Jitter 17 years to go into the free-lance public-relations field in Detroit.The latest, in August, was head trainer Carl Mattson, who resigned after 30 years on the hockey staff to concentrate on his outside business interests.There are two remaining members of the &ldquo;old guard&rdquo;. One is the boss, Jack Adams who started his 42nd year in big-time hockey and his 32nd year with Detroit when training camp opened Sept. 8. The other is chief scout Johnny Mitchell.Mattson&rsquo;s resignation came as a surprise to everyone &mdash; including himself.&ldquo;I was able to run one gas station while working with the Wings but I knew I couldn&rsquo;t handle any more,&rdquo; he explains. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s why I turned down several chances to pick up another station. Then this new deal came up suddenly and I had to make up my mind in less than a week. I decided to take it because I probably can line up some more stations shortly.&ldquo;The hardest thing I ever bad to do was to walk in and tell Mr. Adams that I had decided to quit. I&rsquo;ve been around the club so long that it was like cutting off my arm.&rdquo;Adams took the same view and call Mattson&rsquo;s loss a real blow to cur team&rdquo;.Ross (Lefty) Wilson, Mattson&rsquo;s assistant, elevated to Mattson&rsquo;s post as head trainer.Mattson joined the Olympia staff in 1929 handling sticks for visiting clubs for six seasons. He moved into the Red Wing dressing room in 1935 as assistant trainer to the late Frank (Honey) Walker, and then took over Walker&rsquo;s post, in 1947.No one ever could question Mattson&rsquo;s loyalty or industry on the job. He also became a close friend and traveling companion on the road with Tommy Ivan Jimmy Skinner and Sid Abel, the Red Wing coaches.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03262/1758834-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="1051" height="641"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ends 30 Year CareerCarl Mattson</figcaption></div><h2>Lots Of Changes</h2>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s been a lot of changes in hockey rooms since I first came up,&rdquo; he recalls. &ldquo;In the old days we had one heat lamp and damp towels to treat injuries Now we&rsquo;ve got whirlpool baths, diathermy, all other kinds of machines and gadgets plus a modern hospital to back us up for any kind of special treatment.Mattson will leave one training gimmick of his own with the Wings their habit of drinking hot tea between periods of games.&ldquo;It got started on the night of March 24, 1938. Who can forget the date because that was the night of the longest game CD record, the playoff game between us and the Maroons in Montreal when we went six overtime periods to win.&ldquo;The players were sc tired when they came back to the room period after period that I sent out for tea to refresh them a little. We bought it at the concessions that night but ever since we have brewed out own in the room. Why, we even brewed it on TV one of those Saturday afternoon games year.&rdquo;Wilson 38, moves into vacant spot after serving Mattson&rsquo;s assistant since 1951. He came here from Indianapolis after toiling as a goalie and a trainer in the Detroit system since the end of the war.Lefty was much better known to the public as Detroit&rsquo;s practice and standby goalie. A holler guy with a piercing yell painfully familiar to every referee, Wilson was a feature attraction at exhibition games when he skated out to work smoking a cigar He kept up a running chatter with every fan at his end of the rink while he kept goals out of the cage.Several times Wilson was called upon to ply his goaltending trade for keeps. That was when a goalie was hurt Terry Sawchuk a couple of times and Harry Lumley once while he was playing for Toronto in a game here. Everyone was surprised (except Lefty) at his excellent record during those formal appearances.No longer will that happen, however. With his elevation to head trainer. Lefty now will get an assistant of his own &mdash; an assistant who also came up from goalie ranks and will become the new practice and standby goalie. &#9632;

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Lefty Wilson Takes Over As Red Wings’ Trainer

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01369/1758779-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo, Surrounded By The EnemyLeo LaBine of the Boston Bruins finds himself encircled by the enemy at a recent fastball game in Northern Ontario. Laying the lumber on Leo&rsquo;s noggin are left to right: Doug Harvey, Jacque Plante, Don Marshall, Boom Boom Geoffrion and Dickie Moore. Canadiens were there to play exhibition ball game. LaBine, of course, was part of the enemy.</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Leo LaBine has the staunch backing of one hockey authority as be begins a comeback season with the Boston Bruins.The backer in his couch. Milt Schmidt.LaBine was a major disappointment to the Bruins a year ago. He didn&rsquo;t piny with his old abandon and he didn&rsquo;t score of.But the 27-year old right wing has countless well-wishers here, not the least of whom is Schmidt.There&rsquo;s no doubt in the mind of the Bruins&rsquo; coach that LaBine will bounce hack. Schmidt expects the bounce to be a big one.Schmidt predicted before the Bruins began their pre-season training here at Boston Garden that LaBine will he one of the National league&rsquo;s leading scorers.&ldquo;Leo will score 25 to 30 goals this season&rdquo;, declared Milt. &ldquo;I have complete, confidence in him.&ldquo;1 know he had a tough scoring year, but I know what that&rsquo;s like. I&rsquo;ve had them myself. The puck just wouldn&rsquo;t go in for him.&ldquo;But he never stopped hustling.&rdquo; added Schmidt, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;m sure that he&rsquo;ll get his scoring touch back if he keeps hustling. And I&rsquo;m confident he&rsquo;ll keep hustling.&rdquo;The Bruins were due to start training with a squad of 49 players, among them members of the Providence Reds, their new American league farm club. Johnny Crawford. Providence coach and former Bruins&rsquo; captain, was slated to work with Schmidt.If Milt sounded certain of LaBine&rsquo;s comeback possibilities as he completed training plans he was far less definite on the subject of his Bruins&rsquo; squad as a whole. He said he had committed himself to only one hold-ever line.&ldquo;Fleming Mackell, Jerry Toppazzini and Don McKenney played so well for the last part of last season and the Stanley Cup playoffs that I have no reason to break them up.&rdquo; he said.&ldquo;Mackell will be back at center, McKenney at left wing and Toppazzini at right wing. I&rsquo;m looking to Mackell to he the sparkplug of the team. He&rsquo;s as good as he pushes Himself to be.&rdquo;For most of the last regular season much of the Bruins&rsquo; scoring punch was provided by Bronco Horvath, Johnny Bucyk and Vic Stasiuk. Schmidt broke up the line frequently during the playoffs, at the same time forming another line of Norman Johnson. Larry Regan and LaBine.He indicated that he&rsquo;ll give Horvath&rsquo;s line an opportunity to work together again, and he expressed the conviction that young Bucyk will be much improved after his first full season of major league play.Regan, who underwent surgery on a knee this summer, will remain at left wing, the position to which he was moved late in the year.Schmidt expressed pleasure with the addition to his roster of Guy Gendron from New York. Earl Reibel from Chicago, Dan Poliziani from Cleveland and Gordon Redahl from Winnipeg All four were obtained in the draft.&ldquo;They give us four more players of major league calibre,&rdquo; ventured Milt, &ldquo;and they&rsquo;ll increase the competition for jobs among the forwards just that much more.&rdquo;A firm advocate of depth, Schmidt thinks the Bruins stronger than they&rsquo;ve been in his three previous seasons as coach.<h2>Beckett Biggest Player</h2>Biggest of the players reporting here was Bob Beckett. 202-pound forward who played for Springfield most, of last season. The smallest was Billy Forhan, the oldest Cal Gardner, veteran center who was playing coach of Springfield a year ago, when the Indians were a Bruins&rsquo; farm team. Gardner is 33.Schmidt planned two practices daily here for a period of two weeks with the squad divided for each practice, Milt directing one group, Crawford the other. The Bruins were continuing their procedure of making the practices open to the public.At the end of the month Manager Lynn Patrick and Harold Cotton, Bruins&rsquo; chief scout, will attend the Barrie training camp. Training as a potential Flyer will be Barry Ashbee, the aggressive defenseman who starred for Gus Bodnar&rsquo;s Lakeshore (Toronto) Bruins&rsquo; Junior B team last season. &#9632;

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LaBine Gets Milt’s Backing In Comeback Year

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02337/1758958-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="259" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Sullivan</figcaption></div>Logic demands that Big Ivan&rsquo; Irwin will be one of the men around whom Buffalo Coach Bobby Kirk will build his defensive forces this American Hockey League season.In the matter of stop ping enemy sorties, the Bisons were the weakest in team history last season. In the matter of performing defensive duties for the Bisons&rsquo; Providence last year. Big Ivan officially Was the best. He was the All-Star team choice with Cleveland&rsquo;s Steve Kraftcheck at defense.The link between Irwin and the Bisons is the New York Rangers, who own Ills contract and now have a working agreement with the Buffalo club.Retrospectively, It was the same Rangers who denied the Bisons of Irwin&rsquo;s services back in 1953.The Chicago-born defender was then the property of Montreal. Announcement of his option to the Bisons was all ready for release when the Rangers stepped in and offered Right Winger Ed Slowinski and Left Winger Pete Babando in return for Irwin.Buffalo, however, was not left out in the cold as Canadiens sent both forwards to the Queen City and they were key men as Frank Eddolls&rsquo; sextet swept to the regular seasonel ampionship that year.With Irwin almost certain to wear Bison colors this season, one leak in the defensive dike would appear to be plugged. But there are others. Four to be exact.Frank Sullivan, captain of the Herd in 1957-58 and a four-year veteran with the club, is capable of filling another of the leaks.Sullivan bad a poor season last winter, marking the first time since becoming a Bison that, he did not make either the first or second All-Star team.<h2>Looking Over Prospects</h2>Fully aware that his play was displeasing to his employers. Sullivan goes to camp with a &ldquo;prove yourself or else&rdquo; edict hanging over his head.Indicative of Sully&rsquo;s chances of restoring himself to high esteem was his play in the fading games of the 1957-58 campaign.&ldquo;Sullivan played his best hockey of the year in those games,&rdquo; admitted General Manager Fred Hunt. "He&rsquo;ll have every chance to show Bobby Kirk what he&rsquo;s capable of at training camp and the decision concerning his future as a Bison will be made at that time.&rdquo;A third candidate due for a long look is Jack Bownass, the Quebec League veteran drafted from the Montreal Royals ranks.Aside from these three, the candidates will come from the training camp rosters of the Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks, who also have a working agreement with the Bisons.&ldquo;Between the two National League clubs I&rsquo;m sure there is sufficient surplus defensive strength for us to come up with a solid defense," Hunt offered. &ldquo;We have our eye on a couple of fellows on each roster but we&rsquo;ll just have to wait and see whether they make it in the NHL.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Herd Eyes Irwin To Plug Gap In Defense - - If Blues Say So

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02165/1759450-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="285" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Flem Mackell</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01241/1759443-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="2127" height="2131"><figcaption class="caption-body">HN Publisher With PM At Hall OpeningPictured in front of the Roll of Honor at the Hockey Hall of Fame the Toronto Exhibition, is Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, right, with THE HOCKEY NEWS publisher Ken McKenzie second from right. Next to Ken is all-time hockey great Cyclone Taylor. Behind him is sports committee chairman Harry Price.&mdash;Photo by Turofsky.</figcaption></div>It you believe what you hear along &lsquo;Rue du la Expert&rsquo;, it is positively silly to play the 1958-1959 National Hockey League season Someone should just polish up the Prince of Wales Trophy, and put a rag to the Stanley Cup and present them to captain Maurice Richard as soon as possible. That&rsquo;s how much of a race the experts are expecting in the NHL this coming season. The Montreal Canadiens will be playing tor the exercise, they say.As ridiculous as it may seem to the experts the other five clubs will start the season And there are many who will tell you that the powerful Canadiens will get plenty of scares before its over.The consensus of opinion is, if the Habs are going to get a fight from anyone it will be the Boston Bruins, the same club they have met and defeated in the Stanley Cup final year, after year.As the six clubs started training for the coming season, there was little to talk about in the way of trades. In fact the off-season was one of the dullest ever, on the trade market. It wasn&rsquo;t until just recently that the Red Wings finally broke the silence and announced they had picked up veteran Gus Mortson from the Hawks in return for three unnamed players. That&rsquo;s keen the extent of the trading to date.<h2>Bruins Need Scorers</h2>To most it looks like an interesting season. It&rsquo;s hard to predict anything, other than the fact that the Canadiens still are the power and should wind up with the marbles. They won it hands down last season minus the services of Maurice Richard for half a season, plus Geoffrion, Beliveau and Plante for a spell. If they miss the injury hug this year they could make it the greatest runaway in history. If they do, it will be the weakness of the other clubs, not the Habs power than will do it. For everyone admits that the club ig loaded, but one look around the rest of the league tells you that there is a definite lack of great goal scorers outside the city of Montreal.The Boston Bruins, training at home, are rated the club to give the Canadiens the most trouble. They are solid in goal and with Flaman and Armstrong, plus a well Boivin to carry the defense, it will be up to Schmidt to find a little more goal scoring power. If he can do that he might cause an upset. Where he will get the extra power remains a mystery. He has Earl Reibel, drafted from Chicago and Guy Gendron from Rangers. Neither are great scorers. In fact Gendron is a penalty killer and Reibel was used solely on the power play in Chicago. Schmidt also has speedy Dan Poliziani from Cleveland and Gord Redahl from Winnipeg to aid him. However, it&rsquo;s doubtful Milt expects to get the added power from them. If he is going to get it all, it must come from Leo Labine, who had such a miserable goal scoring season in 1957-58. If Leo can net 25 or 30 goals and the remainder of the club score at last year&rsquo;s pace then watch out!The Detroit Red Wings still have Gordie Howe, Red Kelly and Terry Sawchuk. And as long as they have that trio they must be considered a threat. If not to first place, then at least to third. But the Wings depend on Howe. If he fails then the Rings&rsquo; fail. Unless they get a great year from Alex Delvecchio, Norm Ullman, Jack McIntyre, Nick Mickoski and Forbes Kennedy, they can&rsquo;t expect to challenge the Habs. Besides the Wings lost Al Arbour in the draft to the Hawks. Already weak on the blueline, the club had to pick up veteran Gus Mortson to fill the gap back there. Jack Adams and company are hoping for big things from Dune Fisher, picked up from Hershey and a couple of farm hands from Edmonton to give them a boost, if Pronovost can come up with another great year and Kelly can make a comeback and if Howe gets his 35 and Delvecchio has a good year then Sid Abel can at least count on a playoff berth.The New York Rangers got picked apart in the draft. Despite what Messrs Watson and Patrick say, no club that finished second can afford to lose four regulars and expect to improve. If will take more than one year for the Blues to mould into a challenger.The question&mdash;an old one at that of who is in goal? is still very much alive around Gothem. The Rangers training at Niagara Falls, Ontario will not divulge their plans for goal. The fact they left Gump Worsley off the protected list would lead one to believe they don&rsquo;t care for his services. Yet Gump himself says he&rsquo;ll be there when the season opensHowever, goaling, despite what Watson says, has never been a Ranger problem. He got more than adequate service from both Paille and Worsley last season. His defense was fair and he got good mileage front most of his forwards. But they&rsquo;re a small club physically and a bunch of little guys can&rsquo;t stand up to a bunch of big guys for 70 games and not expect to feel it. The Rangers petered out at the tail end of the season. Perhaps from exhaustion, perhaps not.At any rate, the experts can&rsquo;t see the Rangers in a challenging position this season. They have too many spots to fill with players with little or no experience. If Worsley or Paille stand up and it Gadsby and Howell have another great year and Fontinato continues to improve then Watson will have a fairly good defensive club. He must then start looking around for those goals that Creighton. Lewicki and Gendron gave him last season. If he gets them from Shack, Ingarfield and Bartlett then he might finish better than fourth.The Chicago Black Hawks, fifth place finishers last season, might be the dark horse club. They have the best goaler in the league, according to the experts, and with the acquisition of St. Laurent from Canadiens and Arbour from the Wings, they now have the second best defense in the league. But goal scoring is Rudy Pilous&rsquo; problem. The Hawks lost more games by one goal last season than they care to remember. The addition of Howie Glover from Winnipeg might help, likewise Sloan from Toronto. If Tod can have a good year and if Litzenberger and Nesterenko come through and Lindsay gets a few more than last season, then Rudy might upset the dope.The Toronto Mapie Leafs, with, as Stafford Smythe calls them, their college kids, ready to hustle, have a defense problem and no one can see them improving until they get some strength back there. Certainly the addition of Steve Kraftcheck will help, hut he alone is not going to do it. Billy Reay expects to use Ron Stewart up front this season. Thus he has Bower and Chadwick alternating in goal and Reaume, Kraftcheck, Baun, McNeil, Morrison and Horton in front of them. Certainly not enough experience to keep the likes of Howe, Richard, Moore, and Mackell from the door.Up front the Leafs will be hoping for some defensive aid from Bert Olmstead, drafted from the Canadiens. But Olmstead has another problem at the moment and it will be a few days before they will know if he will be okay to play this season. The Leafs must have remembered that Bert is one of the few players&rsquo; able to hold Howe in line and Howe has a field day against the Leafs every season. Likewise they will sent Bert out against former teammate Maurice Richard and exlinemate Boom Boom Geoffrion. So the key man on the Leafs this season is Bert Olmstead. Reay is hoping for big seasons from Willie Marshall, from Hershey and great seasops from Dick Duff, the Cullens and Stewart. If he gets them and Olmstead stops the opposition then &mdash; well then, who knows?So, that&rsquo;s what they&rsquo;re saying about the forthcoming season. &#9632;

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Most Clubs In Need Of More Power

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Things moved swiftly in the Quebec Hockey League immediately after Labor Day. The face-lifting began all over again, and after a summer of suspense it now appears certain that the old loop will be in business again, with four teams, one less than rode through a shaky 1957-58 campaign with severe losses reported on all financial fronts.A surprising twist was the emergence from obscurity of the Chicoutimi forces to enter a team, while the struggling Shawinigan group which had staged a high pressure sale of season tickets, saw its efforts nullified when the Cataracts&rsquo; franchise was suspended for one year.Chicoutimi Sagueneens came up with new financial support when Rollie Hebert, former general-manager and coach, and Patti Murdoch wealthy industrialist assumed outright ownership of the club&rsquo;s stock. A large syndicate formerly controlled the Sagueneens.With the return of Sagueneens the loop&rsquo;s starters when the schedule opens. October 8 at Quebec with Aces hosting Royals, are to also include Three Rivers Lions.It was the expressed desire of Andre Piche and associates who control the Three Rivers operations, to have the St. Maurice Valley territory to themselves, that apparently squelched the last bid by Shawinigan interests.<h2>Lions Want Territory</h2>Three Rivers and Shawinigan are only 30 miles apart. A-few years ago it was thought a keen high-spirited inter-city rivalry might be created within the league by the proximity of the two cities, but this didn&rsquo;t materialize. Piche believes that one team in the territory can survive economically, two can not.A meeting at Montreal&rsquo;s Windsor Hotel, September 4 confirmed the new set-up.Chicoutimi is in and with the backing of Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL. The Leafs have been casting eyes an the QHL most of the summer with a view to establishing a farm club. Their pitch towards Sherbrooke failed, when Local sportsmen who were attempting to revive the St Francis Club, failed to come working agreement with the rink owners.Leafs will be send eight or nine first class players to Chicoutimi and Sagueneens&rsquo; ranks will be filled by the best of last year&rsquo;s crew as hold-overs with the infiltration of junior talent of olass. said to plentiful in the Saguenay-Lake St. John area.<h2>Good Hockey Man</h2>Nothing is settled about a coach, though its possible that Hebert always a successful operator, might take over this chore himself in addition to running the Chicoutimi Colisee, his dual assignment for the four or five years of his previous tenure It was in the Hebert regime that the Sagueneens won their only QHL championship in the 1952-53 season.Murdoch has been associated with the Chicoutimi club for the past seven years, and in his home town is regarded as a man wealthy enough to take to hockey as a hobby, as other monied men embrace horse-racing or yachting.<h2>Show On The Road</h2>Hebert hopes to take the show on the road. He has asked the league executive&rsquo;s permission to schedule four of the Sagueueens&rsquo; home games in other cities in the district, notably Port Alfred and Jonquiere. Both towns are reported to have adequate rinks and hold great enthusiasm for hockey.In league councils it is also indicated that the Toronto and Boston NHL clubs will play exhibition games against one another in the three cities of the QHL other than Montreal.Suspension of the Shawinigan Cataracts, now implimented a second time, was a surprise and a shock in view of the great efforts put on by local hockey zealots. A season ticket subscription plan was going in high gear. One report was that 780 tickets on the fill season basis had been underwritten.This was denied by Shawinigan hockey executives who declared at the league meeting that less than 400 tickets had been pledged.Behind the promotion was Shawinigan Mayor J. A Foucher. Bernard Tremblay was president of the ticket drive, associated by Dr. L. P. Janelle, mayor of nearby St. Boniface Que., Gilles Trudel, president of the Optimist Club of Shawinigan, and representatives of 30 more service club and public spirited organizations.A Shawinigan report said that Fred Shero, who coached the Cataracts to a title last season, had accepted a position as junior coach in Saskatoon. &#9632;

QUL To Operate -- Chicks Back In

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01327/1758141-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="507" height="515"><figcaption class="caption-body">Can They&hellip;John Hanna</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02311/1758134-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="509" height="513"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Hampson</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03284/1758127-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="509" height="514"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Bowness</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04222/1758120-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="507" height="511"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Shack</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06113/1758113-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="255" height="254"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip;Replace ThemJack Evans</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0760/1758106-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="254" height="256"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Creighton</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0837/1758099-1-eng-US/f0002-082.jpg" title="f0002-08" width="256" height="256"><figcaption class="caption-body">Danny Lewicki</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0925/1758092-1-eng-US/f0002-092.jpg" title="f0002-09" width="254" height="256"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Guy Gendron</figcaption></div>NIAGARA FALLS, Ont.&mdash;Forget about Dave Creighton, Danny Lewicki, Jack Evans and Guy Gendron. The Rangers have no intentions of re-acquiring the quartet for the varsity even if they again are made available in the draft.Gentral Manager Muzz Patrick made that dear as the Blues opened training camp here Sept. 11 with a full squad of 42 veterans and rookies.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re gone.&rdquo; said Muzz, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;m not counting on getting them back. In fact, I had planned on selling a few of them for $15,000 so I can&rsquo;t say that I lost anything on the deal.&rdquo;Patrick, then, for the first time detailed his replacement program and ad-libbed a bit about his discards:&ldquo;Evans wasn&rsquo;t playing up to my satisfaction,&rdquo; Muzz explained. &ldquo;He can be easily replaced by men like John Hanna or Jack Bownass. And I&rsquo;m not counting out Ivan Irwin of Aldo Guidolin either. (Ed&rsquo;s Note: Coach Phil Watson says he is counting them out.)The thought of finding a left wing to replace Lewicki seemed to cheer Muzz more than anything.&ldquo;Why not?&rdquo; he chuckled. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got that good kid Eddie Shack. Then, there&rsquo;s Bruce Carmichael, Mel Pearson and Jimmy Bartlett. You watch that Bartlett. He&rsquo;s been around, he&rsquo;s tough, strong and can skate. I have the feeling he may be one of those types that develops late. It he&rsquo;s settled down and learned to think a little more he could be my guy.&rdquo;We suggested that the right wing crop wasn&rsquo;t exactly a bumper one and replacing Gendron might be a problem.<h2>Creighton Biggest Loss</h2>&ldquo;Nonsense! Between Bruce Cline, Les Colwill and Danny Belisle, there&rsquo;s a winger who could play on our club. They all were good last, year.&rdquo;Muzz turned serious when he discussed the loss of Creighton, highest scoring Ranger center last year.&ldquo;I was surprised to lose him and I know I can&rsquo;t, come up with anybody with Dave&rsquo;s record. But that doesn&rsquo;t mean I can&rsquo;t fill the opening.&ldquo;Offhand I can think of more than half a dozen candidates; Red Sullivan the only sure thing &mdash; Larry Popein, Hank Ciesla, Earl Ingarfield &mdash; I like him &mdash; Orland Kurtenbach, Bill Sweeney, Ted Hampson, and Bill Kennedy.&ldquo;You know, everybody seems to knock this kid Sweeney. They say he can&rsquo;t skate and all that. But that boy skates in the right place and he&rsquo;s always done what he&rsquo;s supposed to do which is to score goals and set them up Watch him.&rdquo;Muzz surprised us with a tip that he has another excellent center prospect and a rather well-known one at that &hellip; Larry Wilson, formerly with Chicago and Detroit and last, year&rsquo;s leading scorer at Buffalo.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s not a bad centerman,&rdquo; Patrick noted. &ldquo;The trouble with Larry is that he&rsquo;s been a sweep checker and puts himself out of the play a lot. If that fault can be rectified he could be a good player for us because he can do a lot of things well.&rdquo;<h2>Rooks Galore At Camp</h2>As far as the Blue brass is concerned there will be no limit on the number of rookies to make the varsity. In other words New York fans may be exposed to the biggest youth movement, since Bathgate. Prentice, Howell and Guidolin were upped from Guelph in 1952.Coach Phil Watson added that the current Ranger regime was emulating Muzz&rsquo;s father, Lester, who in 1936 dropped oldtimers and went with a flock of youngsters including Watson, Alex Shibicky, Neil Colville, Lynn Patrick and Bryan Hextall, the nucleus of great Ranger teams in the late thirties.Perhaps this will be the dawn of a new Blue era. &#9632;

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Muzz Will Rock’ N Roll With Kids And Forget The Quartet

Louie Leaps In &mdash; To Act As Peace-Maker In Ball Brawl<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05166/1758172-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="266" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Fontinato</figcaption></div>LONDAN, Ont.&mdash; Lou Fontinato, bashing New York Ranger defenseman turned to the role of peacemaker at a recent Ontario Senior Inter-county baseball game. It was a new role for Lou, who generally Starts, and quite often finishes many brawls.Fontinato, a resident of Guelph, Ontario accompanied the Guelph Merchants to London, Ontario for the final game of the season. The winner would enter the league playoffs.After the final out, the Majors players became embroiled in a tight with Guelph players. Two Guelph players were kayoed before police and Fontinato jumped in and separated the players.Guelph won the game 9-7. &#9632;

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Louie Leaps In — To Act As Peace-Maker In Ball Brawl

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-1014/1758203-1-eng-US/f0002-102.jpg" title="f0002-10" width="137" height="215"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 137px">Rudy Pilous</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;Eight exhibition tests, five against National Hockey League rivals, and an intra-squad game 90 miles northwest of Chicago form the highlights of Black Hawk pre-season activities leading up to the club&rsquo;s 1958-59 opener Wednesday, October 8, with the Rangers at the Chicago Stadium.Players, close to 50 of&rsquo; em, are slated to report Sunday, September 14, at the Queensway Hotel in St. Catharines, Ont. Black Hawk training base, for the third straight year. Actual drills will open the following morning under the supervision of General Manager Tommy Ivan and Coach Rudy Pilous.There will then be four days to &ldquo;get the kinks out&rdquo; of muscles and limbs that haven&rsquo;t been doing much with hockey for several months. This period will also doubtless be devoted to at least a start, in lineup experimentation before the first of the exhibitions Friday. September 19.This will be 150 miles around to the north side of Lake Ontario for the first of two meetings &mdash; a training camp home and home series with Toronto at Peterborough, Ont. Both the teams will then bus it back to St. Catharines for the second engagement the following evening.The first game in a home find home pair with the Rangers will take the Hawks to nearby Stamford Monday, September 22. The Chicago testees will be back in action at the St. Catharines rink against the Cleveland Barons of American League fame on Tuesday night.More practice sessions will carry through the rest of the week until the Hawk warriors journey to Syracuse tor a game with Boston Saturday, the 27th. The same teams met at the same spot two years ago and played to a 2-2 deadlock before a large, appreciative crowd rarely treated to hockey.Their only exhibition meeting with the affiliate Buffalo Bisons this year will take up Chicago&rsquo;s time the next night at Buffalo before routine, but by then very rigorous drills resume on at least Monday and Tuesday. The Hawks will host the Rangers at St. Catharines Wednesday, October 1.</div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>Reds vs Whites for Rockton, Illinois</h2>The training phase in the Ontario city will then quickly wind its way to conclusion. Chicago will play a return date with Cleveland at St. Thomas, Ont., Barons&rsquo; training quarters, Friday, October 3, and immediately after the game the team will hop a train for Chicago.Arrival in the Windy City is slated at 8 a m. Saturday. Something of a first in Chicago hockey history is on tap Saturday at 8 p.m. when there will be a &ldquo;Reds&rdquo; vs &ldquo;Whites&rdquo; intra-squad game at Rockton, Ill, a semi-resort town 90 miles north-west of Chicago at the end of a newly opened toll road.The second annual Black Hawk hockey clinic will officially present the 1958-59 edition of the team to fans and the prese at the Chicago Stadium Monday at 7:30 p.m. There will be ample time for autographs, picture-taking and conversation with Black Hawk new and old. &#9632;

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Hawks Schedule One Nite Stands To Test Braves

CHICAGO, III.&mdash;With the opening of 1958 training camp at St. Catharines, Ont., only one week away, General Manager Tommy Ivan Sept. 1 released a list, of 46 players, including 17 amateurs, who have been invited to make their tries for the Black Hawks and affiliate teams via the pre-season drills.&ldquo;You might Bay this list is still a little tentative for it&rsquo;s possible a few more names may be added before camp actually opens.&rdquo; Ivan indicated. Camp headquarters for the third straight year will be at Queensway Hotel in St. Catharines. The St, Catharines rink is directly across the street.Here are the players invited to report to Ivan and Coach Rudy Pilous September 14 with actual drills set for the following morning at 9 a. m.:Goalies &mdash; Glenn Hall, Roy Edwards*. Dennis Dejordy*.Defensemen &mdash; Alger Arbour, Ian Cushenan, Jack Evans, Ron Ingram, Pierre Pilote, Dollard St-Laurent, Elmer Vasko, Don Ward, Doug Barkley, Florent Pilote*, Grant Morton*, Bob Wilson*, Autry Erickson*, Bill Maki*, Rino Rohazza*, Wayna Hillman*.Left wingers &mdash; Earl Balfour, Billy Dea, Lorne Ferguson, Ted Lindsay, Ron Murphy, Mery Kuryluk, Ron Quinville*, Mait Ravlich*, Ted Wright*, Garth Hayes*, Doug Risley*.Centers Bobby Hull, Glen Skov, Tod Sloan. Milan Marcetta, Don McLean*, Fred Hilts*, Ed Hoekstra*.Right wingers &mdash; Bill Dineen, Howard Glover, Ed Kachur, Ed Litzenberger, Eric Nesterenko, Kenny Wharram, Wayne Hicks, John McKenzie*, Stan Makita*.* Amateurs. &#9632;

Morison, Thomson Crossed Off List Of Hawk Invitations To Fall Camp

DETROIT. Mich. &mdash; Johnny Wilson&rsquo;s first season with the Detroit Red Wings, after two years with the Chicago Black Hawks was no worse than his departing season. Johnny was traded to Chicago in the offseason of 1955 after scoring only 12 goals in 70 games.Last season, his first back with the Wings he scored only 12 goals.In one season with the Hawks, his first, he scored as many goals, 24, as he has with the Wings in his last two seasons. In his second year with the Hawks he scored 18 in 70 games.However, Wilson can set his sights on one record. He has played six straight National Hockey League seasons without missing a game. Since the 1952-53 season, the record hook shows that Wilson has played every regular season game. That&rsquo;s a total of 420. &#9632;

Johnny An Iron Man

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02266/1758313-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eight seasons ago Johnny Wilson, right joined the Detroit Red Wings after stints in Indianapolis of the American League, and Omaha of the now defunct United States League. Johnny stayed around a lot longer than two other rooks that year. One pictured above is Freddie Glover, who went to Chicago and then to Cleveland. Brother Larry went back to Indianapolis and then to Chicago before being shipped to Buffalo.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Back In His Rookie Days

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03176/1758344-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">In Chicago Johnny was united with brother Larry, right. But the pair didn&rsquo;t stay together too long. Before the season was over Larry went to Buffalo and Johnny stayed around to star. Now there&rsquo;s talk that Larry will be with the Rangers this season.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Reunited With Brother Larry

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>Bad Breaks Last Season Kept Him Off The Score Sheet For First 28 Games: Spent Off-Season Getting In ShapeDETROIT. Mich. &mdash;&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be the hungriest hockey player in the league.&rdquo;Then to make sure that he was understood clearly, Johnny Wilson quickly added:&ldquo;That&rsquo;s not just a guess &hellip; or even a promise. That&rsquo;s a fact.&rdquo;Wilson was talking like a rookie candidate, not a veteran left winger heading into his eighth season as a National Hockey League regularAnd while talking about his eighth season which will start when the Detroit Red Wings get underway Oct, 11, Wilson actually was thinking about the seventh season. No one would more like to see the 1957-58 NHL records wiped out than the stocky speedy blond winger who suffered the slump of a lifetime one year ago.What happened to Wilson last season shouldn&rsquo;t even happen to a Russian amateur. He had returned to Red Wings during the summertime in the controversial trade involving Ted Lindsay, Johnny was happy to be home and hoped for a good getaway.Hoping just as hard was general manager Jack Adams. A streak of hot scoring from Wilson might silence those local critics who had been sniping away because he had peddled Lindsay, a favorite of the fansAnd then Wilson went 28 straight games without getting a goal!That&rsquo;s exactly the thing Johnny wants no part of this season. That&rsquo;s why he&rsquo;ll be a &ldquo;hungry&rdquo; hockey player right from the first drop of the puck.Wilson and Coach Sid Abel both have some ideas about why the Windsor youngster had such a horrible start last season.&ldquo;I think I put too much pressure on myself.&rdquo; Johnny analyzes now, time giving him the ability to get the whole mess into focus from long range.&ldquo;I was coming back to the Red Wings after two seasons at Chicago and I was so happy about it that I wanted to give a real good showing.<h2>Pressure Was Real Tough</h2>&ldquo;Then there was all the publicity about me being the player to fill Lindsay&rsquo;s skates on the line with Gordie Howe. I guess it just added to the pressure &mdash; pressure that I forced on myself, because certainly no one in the organization pressured me in any way.&ldquo;Finally I got away to a bad-luck start the first few games. I had some good chances but hit a couple of posts, saw goalies make a couple of great saves and then blew a couple, too.&ldquo;I just got tighter and tighter. Mr. Adams and Jimmy Skinner both did everything they could to get me to relax but how can a guy relax when he isn&rsquo;t scoring. It reached the stage where I just couldn&rsquo;t do anything right.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01326/1758258-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="519" height="1099"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny TodayVeteran Johnny Wilson</figcaption></div>&ldquo;There was one night in New York when Alex Delvecchio sent a perfect passout from behind the net. There wasn&rsquo;t a defenseman anywhere hear me and I had all the time in the world with the goalie down on the ice. And I didn&rsquo;t even touch the puck! That&rsquo;s how bad it was.&ldquo;When that sort of thing went on for 10 games, then 15, then 20, then 25, I was wondering if I&rsquo;d ever get a goal again."&rdquo;So were a lot of other people. Finally Wilson came through &mdash; on Dec. 15 when he somehow got the puck past Marcel Paille in New York. Two games later he got another, a milestone goal this time since it was No. 100 of his NHL career.With the famine ended, there were hopes that Wilson might break loose in a wild scoring spree. It never did work out that way. Despite juggling from line to line, he had only the two goals when Sid Abel took over as coach early in January.The rest of the campaign saw only a normal output &mdash; in goals in the last 32 games. His total of 12 was just about half of what was expected from him.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve often wondered it Wilson was in the proper condition at the start of the season,&rdquo; Abel now figures. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t get me wrong. I don&rsquo;t think he was out of shape because Johnny isn&rsquo;t that kind of boy. But I&rsquo;ve been thinking that maybe he wasn&rsquo;t hard enough.&rdquo;While Abel has conducted a program to prevent that ever since the Wings opened their camp early this month, Wilson doesn&rsquo;t go along with the reasoning.<h2>Worked out a YMCA</h2>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never let myself get overweight and I always condition myself before training camp starts&rdquo; he points out.&ldquo;This year I did try a few new tricks to get ready. About a month ago I started going to the YMCA four nights a week, working with weights to strengthen my wrists had back and shoulder&rdquo;&ldquo;I played golf a lot during the summer and I know my legs were good the first day we worked out on the ice.&ldquo;Then I spent 20 minutes or so every night down in the basement shooting a puck against the wall, I bounced that rubber around plenty down there just to get a feel in my hands.&ldquo;My weight was 173 the day camp started and that&rsquo;s just three pounds over my regular playing weight.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m hoping for a much better year&hellip; my target is 25 goals &hellip; and I kinda think it&rsquo;ll be there. I know I feel looser now than a year ago.&ldquo;But I&rsquo;ll find out more about it the first week of the season. Howe and I were&rsquo; talking the other day about how good it is to get a goal or two in the first couple of games. It makes you feel that you&rsquo;re on the way, and takes the tension out of trying to score.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m going to be the hungriest hockey player in the NHL as soon as we start playing for keeps this year.&rdquo;Wilson was not eyeing any impossible target when he pegged 25 goals as his target. He did 23 one season while with the Wings and 24 another time while with the Hawks.Now 29 and owner of 110 NHL goals, Johnny has every right to expect to hit the 200-goal plateau before he gets around to retiring.If, of course, he doesn&rsquo;t have any more of those cold, cold starts. &#9632;

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Wilson Warns: Look Out For Me In’ 59

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01393/1758410-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="378" height="428"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1411/1758403-1-eng-US/f0004-142.jpg" title="f0004-14" width="668" height="123"></div>&bull; OVER 350,000 people passed through the Hockey Hall of Fame exhibit at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto this year &hellip; The Hall was officially opened by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker on August 20th&hellip; Bobby Hewitson, curator of the Hockey Hall of Fame, has done a marvellous job in lining up some of hockey&rsquo;s great mementoes &hellip; It was easily one of the finest exhibits at this great annual fair &hellip; Some of the hockey people noted at the official opening were Clarence Campbell, Conn Smythe, Frank Selke, Col. Bill MacBrien, E. W. Bickle, W. A. Hewitt and his son Foster Hewitt, Staff Smythe, Billy Reay, Bob Davison, Dit Clapper, Punch Imlach, George Hay, Joe Primeau, Jack Christie of the OHA Minor setup. Turk Broda, Lome Cook, president of the OHA, Syl Apps, Pat Patterson, Jack Roxborough, Ab Hulse, Mrs. Dick Irvin, Dick Jr. and Fay Irvin, Frank Buckland, Bill Hanley, Spiff Evans, Tim Daly, Cyclone Talor, John Taylor, Cyclone&rsquo;s son and an MP from Vancouver-Burrar, Harold Ballard, George Dudley, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Lehman, Sid Smith, Wren Blair, Bobby Attersley and many more &hellip; Bruce Norris, owner-president of the Detroit Red Wings, dropped in for a look at the Hall just prior to the official opening &hellip; Jimmy Brown, Toronto and District scout for the Red Wings, assisted Bobby Hewitson during the hours the Hall of Fame was opened &hellip; Harry (Red) Foster was also noted very much in attendance &hellip; Every member of the Hall of Fame has a most living likeness drawn of him by the very clever artist Mrs. Irma Council &hellip; One mistake in the Hall of Fame is the category in. which George McNamara is shown &hellip; He was elected to the Hull as a builder &hellip; It should be as a player, as he as never recognized as a builder, but was one ot the great players of his era.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02358/1758396-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="256" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body">Murph Chamberlain</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03282/1758389-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="279" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al Stanley</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04227/1758382-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="272" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Marc Rheaume</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05204/1758375-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="283" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Hillman</figcaption></div>&bull; HALF OF THE SIX NHL teams are training right at home this year &hellip; They are Montreal, Boston and Detroit &hellip; Lefty Wilson has succeeded Carl Mattson as trainer of the Red Wings &hellip; Carl retired from the post last month after having spent the last 23 years with the Wings &hellip; Mattson wanted to spend more time with his expanding service station in Detroit &hellip; Larry Hillman, outstanding young defenseman of the Boston Bruins, was, married recently in his home town of Kirkland Lake. Ont&hellip;. Among the well-known hockey players who attended the wedding were Ralph Backstrom. Canadiens; Dick Duff and Willie Marshall, Toronto Doug Mohns, Allan Stanley, Leo LaBine, Jerry Toppazzini and Buddy Boone, Boston; Bobby Hull, Chicago; Dennis Riggin, Edmonton; and Chester Warchol, Windsor Bulldogs; Wayne Hillman, St. Catharines TeePees; Floyd Hillman, Providence; Don Blackburn and Jerry Sullivan. Hamilton Cubs Jrs&hellip;. Allan Stanley, the No. One bachelor of the NHL, as married this summer at Blind River, Ont &hellip; Contrary to what many people thought, Toronto Maple Leafs inked Marc Reaume to a contract recently &hellip; Staff Smythe made the remark last Spring that; &ldquo;Reaume isn&rsquo;t in the Maple Leaf picture&rdquo; &hellip; This crack came the day the Leafs had their annual team picture taken at the close of the season and Reaume hadn&rsquo;t shown up. It was taken to mean that. Reaume, In view of his poor season, would be sold or traded &hellip; &ldquo;That, said Coach Billy Reay &ldquo;was just one of those statements. We aren&rsquo;t so well supplied with defensemen that we can let a young one like Reaume get away.&rdquo; &hellip; Murph Chamberlain, former star with Toronto Montreal and Boston, has formed a company to take over the franchise of the Windsor Bulldogs of the OHA Senior League &hellip; Hope Murph and his associates do better financially that his predecessors who went into receivership.&bull; MICHIGAN TECH bas scheduled 26 games this upcoming season &hellip; Head Coach John MacInnes expects one of his best season yet with the Huskies who are one of the most enthusiastic hockey teams in the United States &hellip; The New York Rangers Fan Club are malting their third annual training camp trip on September 27 and 28 &hellip; They will watch the Rangers play a game against Toronto at Niagara Falls, Ont. on the 27th &hellip; Jacques Plante will report to Canadiens training camp 10 pounds heavier than when last, season ended &hellip; Canadiens are pleased with his extra poundage.&hellip; The city-owned Quebec Coliseum hockey arena lost $251,320 over the last four years according to a recent audited statement. The Coliseum last showed a profit in 1953-54 when it cleared $48,260 &hellip; Billy Reay thinks Barry Cullen is capable of scoring 20 goals for the Leafs this season. &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

RENFREW, Ont. &mdash;Art Ross, former general manager of the Boston Bruins and one time great player was one of the guests at the recent reunion of players of the old Renfrew Millionaires.There was plenty of story telling during the session, with Ross paying tribute to the five remaining members of the Millionaires. Said Ross: &ldquo;Bert Lindsay was an outstanding goalkeeper: Herb Jordan was a Lady Byng player if I ever saw one; Newsy Lalonde, when he knocked you down he made damn sure you stayed down; Cyclone Taylor, the most wonderful player that ever lived, there&rsquo;ll never be another one like him; Lester Patrick, my old pal the piece de resistance; the most remarkable of them all."Getting back to Taylor, Ross said, &ldquo;he went by me so fast he broke the sound barrier 50 years ago.&rdquo;When it was all over Ross summed it up by saying it was a great evening, &ldquo;but I never heard so many lies in all my life.&rdquo; &#9632;

“Never Heard So Many Lies In All My Life,” Says Ross

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1317/1758562-1-eng-US/f0004-132.jpg" title="f0004-13" width="288" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Staff Smythe</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont, &mdash; The Toronto Maple Leafs will go to training camp with virtually all of their players signed to 1958-59 contracts.So far the Leafs have signed Goaler Johnny Bower, drafted from the Cleveland Barons, to a two year contract, and Steve Kraftcheck, also drafted from lhe Barons for defense, to a one year one. Other Leafs who have signed are defensemen Bob Baun. Marc Reaume, Jim Morrison, and Tim Horton and forwards Bob Pulford, George Armstrong, Brian Cullen, Barry Cullen, Bob Nevin, Gerry James and Billy HarrisRookie-of-the-year Frank Mahovlich and, Ken Girard are working on the second year of two year contractsWhen George Armstrong signed it was announced that he will remain as the Leafs&rsquo; captain.Stafford Smythe, chairman of the Leafs&rsquo; hockey committee told newspapermen that all of his forwards could Play for any club in the league, hut that the defense was the worst in the league&ldquo;We have too many university students.&rdquo; said Smythe, I wish we had a few more pros. I don&rsquo;t object to players attending college but I wish they would put the same effort into their hockey that they give lo education.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Leafs Sign Most Of 1958-59 Players

<div class="byline">By WALTER GILHOOLY</div>Ottawa JournalRENFREW Ont.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06166/1758441-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="284" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Art Ross</figcaption></div>Five of the famous hockey team that splashed the name Renfrew Millionaires in big type on the sports pages of the nation a year short of a half century ago returned here for the welcome reserved for heroes.Three hundred citizens of this Upper Ottawa town filled its Recreation Centre to pay tribute to five of hockey&rsquo;s immortals. Lester Patrick, Herbie Jordan, Fred &ldquo;Cyclone&rdquo; Taylor, Newsy Lalonde and Bert Lindsay received an ovation that each confessed was one of the finest ever accorded him.<h2>Rodden Tells Stories</h2>M. J. &ldquo;Mike&rdquo; Rodden was chief speaker for the high spot in Renfrew&rsquo;s Centennial celebrations. The sports editor of the Kingston Whig-standard. holder of the Canadian record for coaching championship football teams and a man who handled 1,187 National Hockey League games, lauded the Millionaires for their contribution to hockey while he entertained the crowd with recollections of his experiences as referee.&ldquo;No greater athletes than those you are honoring tonight ever appeared before the Canadian public&rdquo;, Mike Rodden said.&ldquo;To have known these men and watched them perform on the ice was a privilege and a lesson in sportsmanship. Like scores of great sports figures of the past they were men who could take the bitter with the sweet.&rdquo;James Maloney, QC, MLA, was master of ceremonies and Mayor Wally Stewart welcomed the guests.Art Ross, Walter Smaill and Harry Hyland, who gained their greatest hockey fame with Montretl Wanderers, and Frank Nighbor, peerless centre player with Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa, were invited from the audience to sit on the platform.Frank Patrick sent a telegram from Vancouver expressing his inability to attend the banquet.Jim Maloney, introducing the hockey greats, and Mike Rodden paid tribute to the late Senator M. J. O&rsquo;Brien and Alex. Barnet who had gathered the hockey team which had brought Renfrew into national recognition. He thanked Mayor Stewart and George Cooke, co-chairman for making the dinner a fine success. He saluted oldtimers of the Renfrew Rivers team and the Renfrew Royals of 195 7The gathering stood for a minute of silence to honor members of the Renfrew Millionaires now dead.&ldquo;In my early days as a referee&rdquo;, Mike Rodden told his audience, &ldquo;it was not uncommon to have to work alone. I recall one night being slugged by a fan in the old Mount Royal Arena. I happened to slip when I went by him again and my fist happened to catch him on the jaw. The man passed out.&ldquo;Next time I was in Montreal on a refereeing assignment five detectives picked me up and escorted me to the police station. While waiting to get out I took $67 from one detective playing poker, a game I had acquired some skill in at Queens University. Judge Lynch ordered me released and I paid $25 to get cut of appearing in court.&ldquo;I learned later he said, that the fan who slugged me and got clipped in return was a Montreal crown prosecutor.&rdquo;<h2>Plenty of Action</h2>Don Miguel took the crowd on a tour of the hockey rinks of Canada and the united States, entertaining them with tales of the nights he became target for rubbish and rotten eggs and of battles and near-battles with Irate coaches and managers. Many was the evening he got out of rinks with police escort and there were times police wouldn&rsquo;t, lake him under protection.&ldquo;Men like Cyclone Taylor, Art Ross, Frank Nighbor, Newsy Lalonde and Lester Patrick brought drama to hockey&rdquo;, said Mike, &ldquo;and made the million dollar enterprise of today possible. We should never forget them.&ldquo;The player of the old days was as good or better than the player of today. True, there are real stars in the game now but the quantity is not as large as in the past.&rdquo;He paid his respects to amateur hockey and he contended the onus was on those in charge of the game to see it was not ruined in the cradle.&ldquo;An athlete who keeps faith raid gives all he has&rdquo;, he said, should he respected for he not only entertains us but builds up our national pride. Where will you find finer athletes than those you see on this platform tonight?&ldquo;All my life&rdquo;, he said. &ldquo;I have been in sport but one of its greatest moments is now, here with you people of Renfrew and paying our tribute to some of the finest men and grandest athletes Canada has ever known. We owe a great debt to them.&rdquo;Thanking Mike Rodden, the president of the NHL Clarence Campbell said that had the exploits of the Millionaires been performed in a metropolis they might have long since been forgotten. Fashioned by a team in a community of the size of Renfrew they had captured the imagination of the country and hockey had reaped a wealth of publicity from them.Then, after being given a standing ovation. Cyclone Taylor, Newsy Lalonde, Lester Patrick, Bert Lindsay and Herb Jordan thanked the crowd for marvellous reception and the Renfrew Millionaires&rsquo; great right ended. &#9632;

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Millionaires Return For A Heroes Cheer

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div>Toronto Star<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07140/1758531-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="264" height="336"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-08118/1758524-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="274" height="317"></div>Business Is Brisk in BasementOUR hockey Leafs never had such a weak defence &mdash; nor such a strong pre-season ticket sale. Staff Smythe who, along with his shinny committee of seven, sometimes has been called Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by enemy hockey conspirators, is authority for that paradox.Staff casually mentioned the ticket sale as a fact, during a clambake yesterday at which Punch Imlach was introduced as the Leafs&rsquo; new assistant general manager. That&rsquo;s another unusual thing about Leafs: Their general manager, of which they have none, bas two assistants.The evaluation of the Leaf defence is less a fact than a matter of opinion. Smythe called his defence the worst in the league, as of last season&rsquo;s end. That&rsquo;s tantamount to damning it as the poorest in Leaf history, since this is a cellar team &mdash; another first, and strictly on merit.You can&rsquo;t finish last without having your position reflected at the box office. That&rsquo;s an old truism in sport and in the entertainment business. With Leafs, it applies in reverse &mdash; an increased clamor for tickets.Why anyone with an eye for a buck would want to climb out of the basement when it makes business so good is something that might puzzle a student of economics. It can be said Smythe is determined to climb out. Hence the frantic shopping at the rummage sales of the minor leagues. If he has managed to buy his way out, the Leaf hockey boss rates recognition as the game&rsquo;s shrewdest shuffler because there&rsquo;s nothing much in his market backet that hasn&rsquo;t been tried before by clubs in approximately the same circumstances.There&rsquo;s one exception, of course. Bert Olmstead, obtained from Les Habs, is a big leaguer, even if he&rsquo;s nearing the end of the line. But Olmstead&rsquo;s status for this season depends on the appeal court which will be asked to rule on the six-months&rsquo; sentence the veteran winger has drawn on an assault charge.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-09109/1758517-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="267" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Steve Kraftcheck</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1090/1758510-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="283" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">lohnny Bower</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1159/1758503-1-eng-US/f0004-112.jpg" title="f0004-11" width="279" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bert Olmstead</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1233/1758496-1-eng-US/f0004-122.jpg" title="f0004-12" width="276" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Guyle Fielder</figcaption></div><h2>Sloan Could Be Best of the Lot</h2>A FTER you have eliminated Olmstead, the off-season catches include: Steve Kraftcheck, whom Leafs regard as the best defence man in the American league. He had been tried before &mdash; by Rangers and Boston.Johnny Bower, rated the best of the American league goalies, was unable to hold the Ranger job. Smythe expects him to mean at least 10 extra points for Leafs in the final league standing. And that&rsquo;s on a part-time basis, since the present plan is for Bower to share the goaling chores with Ed Chadwick.The &ldquo;best in the west&rdquo; is represented by Guyle Fielder, whose history has been that he&rsquo;s a big leaguer in the minors and a minor leaguer in the majors. Fielder&rsquo;s failures in the NHL have been one of the most baffling mysteries of the business. Detroit grabbed him last year and figured he would be a sensation. After a few weeks the Red Wings gave up and shipped him back to the west, where he became a standout again.Considering the uncertainty regarding Olmstead, it could develop that Leafs gave up more than they got in the off-season shuffling. Tod Sloan, whom they sold for cash, had two bad seasons in succession. But he was a 37-goal shooter only two years ago. None of the newly acquired Leafs ever did that in the NHL &mdash; not even Olmstead. &#9632;

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01347/1758614-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens, left, receives the Lou Marsh Memorial trophy from Harry Price, Canadian National Exhibition sports committee chairman right, as Canada&rsquo;s oatstanding athlete of 1957. Richard received the trophy while Prime Minister Diefenbaker looked on. This was opening day of hockey&rsquo;s new Hall of Fame.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02315/1758607-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="1320" height="1161"><figcaption class="caption-body">President Clarence Campbell of the National Hockey League, shows a smile of approval at the exhibit of hockey trophies at the Hall of Fame. Campbell, along with many other famous hockey celebrities was on hand for the official opening of the Hall. Campbell, who has worked relentlessly for such a Hall during the past years, envisioned a Hockey Hall Of Fame in a building of its own in years to come. The new Hall shares quarters in the Sports Hall of Fame.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03248/1758600-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="2706" height="1127"><figcaption class="caption-body">On hand for the opening of the Hall of Fame were Stafford Smythe, chairman of the Toronto Maple Leafs seven man committee, left, with father Conn Smythe, next to him, Jim Brown, centre, Detroit&rsquo;s Ontario scout, who also manages the Hall, former hockey great Cyclone Taylor, second from right and Billy Reay, Leaf&rsquo;s coach on the right.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04184/1758593-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="2501" height="1353"><figcaption class="caption-body">Among the many visitors at the Hockey Hall of Fame were Mrs. Bertha Irvin, wife of the late and great Dick Irvin and daughter Fay. Photographer caught them beside photograph of the late Toronto, Montreal and Chicago coach. Mrs. Irvin sent trophy showing Maurice Richard&rsquo;s 500th puck, to Hall for display. It was presented to her by the &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; in 1957.Photos by Turofsky</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hockey Hall Of Fame Opens Its Doors

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01417/1758645-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">These are five members of Renfrew&rsquo;s famous &ldquo;Millionaires&rdquo; of 1909, the team that brought hockey fame and glory to that town. They were guests of honor at a reunion recently. Left to right, the stars are: Lester Patrick, &ldquo;Newsy&rdquo; Laionde, Bert Lindsay, H. A. Jordon, who lives in Renfrew, and Frank &ldquo;Cyclone&rdquo; Taylor.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Renfrew’s Fabulous “Millionaires”

MONTREAL, Que. &mdash; The Montreal Canadiens have signed their biggest gun to a 1958-59 contract. Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard, who celebrated his 37th birthday last August 4th, and is now the oldest player in the NHL, signed a contract last week to play his 16th season with the Canadiens.Club officials said it was the earliest signing, in Rocket&rsquo;s&rsquo; tenure with the team.The Canadiens also announced that they had signed Andre Pronovost, left winger on the club&rsquo;s kid line, and Phil Goyette, centreman on the line. The same day utility forward Don Marshall put his name on a contract. Pronovost will be starting his third year with the team while Goyette starts his second and Marshall his fifth.Earlier the Habs had announced the signing of three time Vezina Trophy winner Jacques Plante. &#9632;

Five Habs Sign Contracts For Coming 1958-59 Season

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02300/1758700-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="524" height="1124"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eyes A JobAl McDonald</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The Montreal Canadiens have five players to fill three berths that are now open because Bert Olmstead was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs, because Dollard St. Laurent was sold to Chicago and because they have put Floyd &lsquo;Busher&rsquo; Curry out to pasture.The five are Alvin McDonald from Rochester, Ralph Backstrom from the Ottawa Hull juniors and a pair of unprotected Rangers named Dave Creighton and Danny Lewicki, plus Junior Langlois from Rochester. Two must go, but who it will be isn&rsquo;t even a secret. No one knows, and no one will know until this time next month, if then.McDonald is reported to be in line for Olmstead&rsquo;s job. While Langlois is eyeing St. Laurent&rsquo;s post. That leaves Creighton. Lewicki and Backstrom fighting for Curry&rsquo;s job, which was that of a penalty killer.The Canadiens, despite rumors to the contrary insist that they didn&rsquo;t draft Creighton and Lewicki for their Rochester club. They like Lewicki for possible power-play chores and Creighton has had three 20-goal seasons and two 18-goal years in eight regular NHL campaigns. That record alone is enough to merit them keeping him around for goal scoring insurance.Backstrom looked exceptionally good &mdash; at times, when he was up with the Canadiens last season. Whether he can use his speed to oust the crafty Ranger veterans from obtaining regular employment with the Habs only time will tell.<h2>Habs in Tough Spot</h2>The Habs are in rather a tough spot with so much fine talent around. They don&rsquo;t dare put McDonald on waivers to send him to Rochester since Lynn Patrick of the Boston Bruins insists that he is one of the best major league prospects in hockey today. No doubt Lynn would snap him up, if he ever got a chance. Chances are the Hawks, Leafs. Rangers and Detroit would also grab him, at any price.While Creighton has played with every club in the league but Detroit, there is reason to believe that he too would be snapped up it put on waivers. While the Rangers say they are content to pass him by, they too would find him too attractive a hand full to just leave for someone else. The Wings would no doubt grab him and in all probability the Leafs would like to give him another try.Backstrom of course is still an amateur and they don&rsquo;t have a waiver problem with him. Lewicki could probably be placed on waivers and shipped to Rochester without too much trouble. So it boils down to the fact that the Canadiens don&rsquo;t have much of a choice in filling the three vacancies. Langlois is the only defenseman in the group and both McDonald and Creighton would be grabbed by the enemy if they had the chance. That leaves Lewicki and Backstrom to fight back. &#9632;

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Three Wide-Open Berths Face Five Wide-Open Hab Newcomers

TIMMINS, Ont. &mdash; Boom Boom Geoffrion of the Montreal Canadian, noted as one of the fastest men in hockey, is also fast behind the wheel of a car. At least that&rsquo;s what a judge thinks after Boom Boom was brought before him for speeding.Provincial Police Constable Whall told Magistrate W. Kendricks that he had followed Geoffrion travelling at a speed of 65 miles per hour.The judge fined Geoffrion $30 and costs of $9.50 or 14 days in jail after the constable related that the Habs&rsquo; star was surly &ldquo;when I gave him the speeding ticket and told me that he was a hockey star and that he could not understand English. I had to take him to Timmins to get a justice of the peace to explain the charge.&rdquo;Geoffrion was in Northern Ontario as a member of the Montreal Canadiens baseball club touring the area. &#9632;

Speedy Geoffrion Caught, Fined For Hitting 65 MPH

MONTREAL, Que. &mdash; The Montreal Canadiens, like most hockey clubs don&rsquo;t make the salary figures of their players public when they sign contracts. But speculation around here is that Maurice Richard probably received the greatest contract of his career.&ldquo;He looks better than ever,&rdquo; said General Manager Frank Selke after the &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; had signed.When asked what the price was on Richard&rsquo;s contract Selke said, &ldquo;you can bet he scored &hellip; as usual.&rdquo; &#9632;

“You Can Bet ‘Rocket’ Scored On New Contract,” Says Selke

BOSTON, Mass. &mdash; The list of players scheduled to begin practice at Bruins camp is as follows:Goaltenders: Don Simmons, Harry Lumley, Claude Dufour, Ross Brooks (A).Forwards: Bob Beckett. Don Blackburn (A), Albert Bosscha (A), John Bucyk, Buddy Boone Stan Baluik, Dick Cherry, Real Chevrefils, Bernard Cote (A), Lorne Davis, Billy Forhan, Cal Gardner, Guy Gendron, Bronco Horvath, Norman Johnson, Paul Larrivee, Leo LaBine Larry Leach, Fleming Mackell, Don McKenney, Stan Maxwell, Al Nicholson, Willie O&rsquo;Ree, Ed Panagabko, Rudy Panagabko, Dan Poliziani, Larry Regan, Earl Reibel, Gordon Redahl, Vic Stasiuk, Jerry Toppazzini, Zellio Toppazzini.Defensemen: Bob Armstrong, Camille Bedard, Jack Bionda, Bob Blackburn (A), Leo Boivin, Ferny Flaman, Floyd Hillman, Larry Hillman, Dino Mascots, Doug Mohns, Jean Picard, Allan Stanley, Bob Robertson.(A): indicates amateur. &#9632;

Forty-Nine Players To Attend Bruins’ 58-59 Camp

CHICAGO, III. &mdash; The Chicago Black Hawks have sent veteran defenseman Gus Mortson to the Detroit Red wings, for three players to be named later in the season. Mortson, former captain of the Hawks has been in the National League for 12 years.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re getting rid of some of the veterans to make room for several promising young defensemen who will be guard-in goalie Glen Hall this season.&rdquo; said Chicago General Manager Tommy Ivan.The Wings will be the third club that Mortson has played with since his NHL career began a dozen years ago. He started with the Toronto Maple Leafs, shifted to Chicago and now moves on to Detroit. &#9632;

Wings Get Mortson For Three Men

<div class="byline">By HARRY MacDONALD</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01402/1758896-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="266" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Mazur</figcaption></div>ST. THOMAS. ONT. &mdash;The Cleveland Barons, perrenial contenders in the American Hockey League, open training camp here on Sept. 15th with a compact squad of 30 under Coach Jack Gordon.The &ldquo;show me&rdquo; boys of the hockey I world will be keeping an eye on them this season, many of them naming this as the year when the Barons will be out of the playoffs for the first time since 1936-37.&ldquo;We have been counted out before and rebounded to make the finals. Let s wait until we have met each club at home and away before burying us&rdquo; commented General Manager Jim Hendy.Four of last season&rsquo;s Barons have gone to the NHL, two through the draft and two through deals to beat the draft. A fifth, Howie Glover, whose 39 goals set a WHL record for rookies last season, was drafted directly from Winnipeg, where he had been on loan by the Barons.John &ldquo;China Wall&rdquo; Bower, the American League&rsquo;s top goaler, was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs. This was a bitter, if not fatal blow, to the independent Barons. Johnny was in a class by himself as a goalie in the AHL. If Toronto gives him any kind of defense at all it is believed he will prove just as effective in the NHL.Steve Kraftcheck, Barons&rsquo; No. 1 right defenseman and top AHL point man who scored 15 goals and 34 assists during the past campaign, will be almost impossible to replace. Sieve was a unanimous choice for the first all-star team for the thud consecutive season. Billy Reay scouted Kraftcheck and told Jun Hendy Toronto intended to draft him, so to beat the draft and try to pick up a replacement. Hendy traded Kraftcheck tor Ian Anderson and cash. Anderson had been a standout on defense with Toronto Marlboros all last season.Dan Poliziani speedy right wing was drafted by Boston. Poliziani has speed to spare even for the Bruins. He makes many moves like a smart wing. He will not back down in the rough going despite his lack of weight.Pete Goegan, rugged defenseman who was sought by several clubs, was traded to Detroit near the end of last season for &ldquo;Buck" Hollingworth and cash. This was also a move by the Barons to make sure of getting a replacement for Goegan Instead of just cash.Cleveland was considerably upset by Chicago&rsquo;s drafting Howie Glover. This player had been brought along carefully by the Barons for several years. They had planned on him for this season, and had loaned him to Winnipeg for further experience. Glover had been a sensation in the WHL with his scoring, skating and ability to slug it out with his opponents.Howie set a new WHL scoring record for rookies with 39 goals, one more than Barry Cullen scored for Winnipeg three seasons ago.Immediately following the draft Cleveland went to work trying to line up replacements.A new goalie was the No. 1 objective and they signed Johnny Albani, Memorial Cup goalie with Toronto Marlboros tour seasons ago. For the past three seasons Albani has compiled an outstanding record with Sudbury Wolves.Hendy had an opportunity to secure Al Rollins of Calgary. Lou Ducliene of Saskatoon, Marcel Pellitier of Vancouver or At Millar of Quebec but passed over all of them in favor of Albani&ldquo;Albani has been on Cleveland&rsquo;s list for three years and has demonstrated through his record he has lots of ability,&rdquo; Hendy said. &ldquo;He has plenty of guts and desire and we think he will make the grade if the defense and forwards give him normal protection.&rdquo; Hendy concluded.Cleveland plans to team lip Georges Bouchard and &ldquo;Bucky&rdquo; Hollingworth as one defense combination, with Bill Needham and Gordie Tottle as the other pair. A fifth defenseman will be selected from lan Anderson. Jim Mikol and Don McGregor.At center Cleveland will have Jimmy Moore, Gordie Vejprava and Art Stratton. Stratton was &ldquo;rookie on the year&rdquo; last season with Winnipeg where he compiled an excellent record. Art has been in the Cleveland system for six years, they having acquired him when they sponsored Winnipeg Barons. He was moved along slowly with a season at St. Catharines, a year at North Bay where he was named &ldquo;rookie of the year, turned pro last season and loaned to Winnipeg.In case of injury to any of this trio Cleveland will have Coach Jack Gordon and Cal Stearns on call.On right wing, where the Barons lost Dan Poliziani to the Bruins and prospect Howie Glover to Chicago, Cleveland will have veteran all-star Captain Fred Glover and Don Hogan of last season&rsquo;s team.Jack Adams of Detroit cooperated in the Barons&rsquo; search for a right wing by selling them big Bob Bailey. The Kenora Kid who has played for Toronto, Chicago and Detroit in recent years was turned pro by the Barons and sold to Toronto at the end of the 1952-53 season. Bailey married a Cleveland girl when he played there, owns his home in Bay Village (a suburb of Cleveland made famous by Dr. Sam Sheppard) and is delighted to be back with the Barons. The Barons also purchased right wing Mike Labadie from Quebec Aces and he will be battling for a position on the club.On the left side the Barons traded their brilliant "veteran rookie&rdquo; Bo Elik to Montreal-Rochester for big Ed &ldquo;Spider&rdquo; Mazur. Mazur always been popular in Cleveland and will be teamed up with Jimmy Moore and Fred Glover to give the Barons a very dangerous&rsquo; line.Bashing Bill Shvetz and Bob Barlow will be the two other left wings with Jean Marie Cossette, purchased from Quebec Aces, ready to break into the lineup.For the past few seasons Cal Stearns has functioned as utility played and penalty killer Supreme of the Barons. But Cal has been working for the club on a year &lsquo;round basis in Ticket Promotion Sales so will only play this season in case of injury. His place will be taken by Eddie MacQueen who played defense for the Barons two seasons ago, was levied to Vancouver last season where he was used all over the forward line and for killing penalties.&ldquo;This may not be the highest scoring club Cleveland ever had,&rdquo; Hendy said, &ldquo;but it will be one of our roughest. Maybe we wont make the playoffs, but the clubs ahead of us will have a few scars to show for their victories.&rdquo; &#9632;

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“We’ll Be Rough And Tough.” Says Hendy Of Barons

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04201/1758927-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">General manager Jim Hendy (right) of Cleveland Barons has undergone a drastic remodelling on his American League squad during the past few months. Here he shows Pete Palangio, owner of the North Bay senior Trappers, a photo of his 1956-57 Calder Cup championship team and expresses hope that he has moulded together a similarly successful team for the coming season. Hendy was in North Bay for a welcomed holiday mission following a busy off-season session on the player market.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hopeful Hendy Hunting

<div class="byline">By HAROLD HEINZ</div>Of The Springfield UnionSPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;The hockey training season is upon us. Prior to taking off for their respective Canadian camps, the associated Springfield Indians and New York Rangers brass had a solidifying session at the Eastern States Exposition Coliseum recently. Out of the conference came some enlightening statements, although not concrete plans for the coming season. Most encouraging, however, was the news general manager Muzz Patrick of the National Hockey League Rangers had for the American Hockey League Tribe which has a working agreement this season with the NHL club.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05147/1758989-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="280" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Muzz Patrick</figcaption></div>As might, be presumed. Patrick is not ill a position at this stage of the game to promise any specific talent to the Indians.But the overall picture is such that Springfield need not worry about the help it is to receive from the Rangers, despite the fact the New Yorkers have another working agreement with the Buffalo Bisons of the American League.Patrick reiterated what he said earlier this summer when he tied up with the Indians after previously entering into a preliminary tieup with the Bisons. which is to say that his chief working agreement is with Springfield. He repeats that he has no specific pact with Buffalo, although he is honor-bound to help the club. &ldquo;My agreement with Shore,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;is more helpful to me player-wise than that with Buffalo, which also has the Chicago Black Hawks as an affiliate. To this end Springfield is bound to get a generous distribution of our players.&rdquo;<h2>May Be Even Split In Talent</h2>Patrick points out the Rangers will have more than 50 players for minor league distribution, 11 of whom were with the Providence Reds, with whom they had an agreement last season, and that there will be at least any even split in talent between Springfield and Buffalo.Only players already promised Buffalo are goalie Marcel Paille and coach Bobby Kirk. After that it will be a question of serving the needs of the two teams. For instance, rosters prove that Buffalo has 12 regulars from last season and that the Bisons may need only about seven players from a lush list of Chicago and New York farmouts. Even if they need more they are available. Alone, Chicago has 12 defensemen. the Rangers 10, nine centers, etc. The backlog is unlimited, according to Patrick, and Springfield and Buffalo can be furnished with left or right wingers without undue pressure.Springfield goes to camp at New Toronto. Ont., on Tuesday with a self-owned squad of some 35 and when the club&rsquo;s need* M any position are designated they can be filled. Three goalies are under contract, Claude Evans, regular netminder last season! Hank Bassen, obtained from Seattle of the Western League the Gerry Ehman deal with Detroit and Bob Senior. Bassen, an penienced netminder, was with Buffalo two years ago.The Rangers go into training at Niagara Falls, Ont. on Sept, 11 and after five or six days training wilt start to &ldquo;farm&rdquo; out some of the surplus talent, according to Patrick.Players the Rangers had with Providence in a working agreement with that club last season include: left wingers, Ed Shack, Jim Bartlett and Bruce Carmichael; centers, Bill Sweeney, Ray Cyr and Ted Hampson; right winger, Bruce Cline; defensemen Ivan Irvin, John Hanna and Aldo Guidolin, and wingers, Belisle and Mel Pearson. As among the other Ranger talent, the disposition of Irwin still remains undecided. He could play with either Springfield or Buffalo and if a deal is made he might even be with Providence.Also on the hockey scene here was Tack Toupin, former Springfield player from 1935-38 on the French Line with Marcel Raymond and Ad La France, who is coach of the Three Rivers team of the Quebec League. Three Rivers has been a farm club for Springfield and New York but under a new agreement the AHL and NHL clubs will act jointly this season in a pact with the team above the border, a move expected to be beneficial to all three organizations. With Toupin was his son Claude.Springfield started its preparations for the training this season by shipping trainer Wally Barlow to New Toronto with equipment, followed by owner Shore and coach Sonmor. The squad will return here either Oct. 2 or 3, depending on when the Coliseum is converted for practice after the Eastern States Exposition. Opening game here is with Providence on Wednesday, Oct. 8, followed by a Saturday night tilt with Buffalo. First road game will be at Providence on Oct. 12. &#9632;

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Patrick Promises Much Braves For Shore’s Injuns

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;As was predicted last month, all the former senior &lsquo;A&rsquo; &lsquo;hockey clubs are preparing to face the wire again in the 19 5859 season, hut with reduced rosters and lower budgets. In the eastern Ontario group, it will be the world champion Whitby Dunlops, the Allan Cup champion Belleville McFarlands, Kingston, Cornwall, Pembroke and Ottawa-Hull Canadiens. The western Ontario group will consist of Kitchener Dutchmen, Chatham Maroons and Windsor Bulldogs; while in northern Ontario. Soo Greyhounds, Sudbury Wolves and North Bay Trappers will be back.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01387/1759051-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="283" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bus Gagnon</figcaption></div>There was some doubt whether Windsor and Chatham in the west and Sault Ste. Marie and North Bay in the north would be back, but all seem to be fairly well set now.Windsor, perhaps was the most doubtful, because A. E. Nick Wisne, wealthy Detroit industrialist, who bankrolled the Bulldogs the last two seasons, dropped a bundle on last season&rsquo;s operations, which, according to an estimate by a Windsor writer, was placed at approximately $40,000. Wisne went into bankruptcy, and things looked gloomy for the Bulldogs. However, Murph Chamberlain, ex-NHLer, who has coached teams at Windsor and Chatham, along with Bill Butcher, owner of the Windsor arena and former sponsor of the Bulldogs, managed to interest five unnamed Windsor businessmen, and the upshot was that Chamberlain will now manage and coach the Bulldogs, while Johnny Horeck, NHL veteran and former coach of the Soo, Mich. Indians, will take over direction of the Chatham Maroons.The new Windsor club has purchased the assets of the former insolvent club, and Chamberlain lists among these assets 23 players, which means, under the new regulations, that he will have to cut ten players, in order to accommodate two juniors&rsquo; since each club in the NOHA-OHA interlocking group has agreed to a maximum roster of 15 players which must include two graduates from junior ranks.The NOHA-OHA group has also agreed to operate on a weekly total salary limit of $1,750, while the eastern Ontario group adopted a maximum weekly salary of $1,550. The latter league has also decided to carry 16 players, which means that there should be surplus talent for all clubs concerned. Chamberlain, referring to the Windsor roster, claims he&rsquo;s got a 50 per cent rebuilding job to do, because &ldquo;a lot of those old pros are going to get in shape for the first time in years, or away they go. Some of&rsquo; em aren&rsquo;t good enough any way. This club has been coining apart for two years. It seems they won&rsquo;t stay in condition and they don&rsquo;t have enough speed.&rdquo;<h2>Palangio At North Bay</h2>Up north, Pete Palangio has again taken over control of the North Bay Trappers, and is counting on the sale of 1,600 season tickets in order to finance the deal, despite the curtailed budget. He figures the Trappers will need an average attendance of 2,000 at home games in order to make ends meet.The general decision is that operational costs must be reduced in Ontario, and reduction of signed players and lower salaries is believed will be the remedy.Wren Blair, manager of the world champion Whitby Dunlops, who has also taken on the job of general manager of the Clinton Comets of the Eastern United States League, seems to have cooked up a healthy &ldquo;feud&rdquo; with his former assistant at Whitby, Wally Brabin, who now is manager of the Kingston entry.No sooner do Murph Chamberlain and Bill Butcher kiss and make up after their misunderstanding three years ago, when the former bandied the Windsor team and then went to Chatham, then another hassle develops in the eastern Ontario group. First of all, Blair is peeved because the majority of the clubs in his league decided to reduce the take from each game for the group pool from ten to eight per cent.Now Blair accuses Brabin and the new Kingston coach. Bus Gagnon, of tampering with some of the Whitby players, by offering them from $20 to $60 per week more than the Whitby club could ever afford to pay and still remain in business. Blair is quoted as saving: &ldquo;We have concrete proof that the Kingston club, through Wally Brabin and Bus Gagnon, have approached at least five players on the Whitby Dunlops.&rdquo; Kingston is reported to have lost $11,000 last season. and Blair questions how they can ever expect to break even the coming season if they are prepared to shell out that &lsquo;kind of money for talent.It is known that Kingston had &ldquo;been dickering with defenceman Harry Sinden of Whitby, but he finally signed again with Blair. Another rumor has centerman Gerry Moore traded by Kingston to Cornwall for Moe Savard. with Kingston puttiug up a bundle of cash to make the deal. From a Kingston source, however, conies word not to be too sure that the deal won&rsquo;t go as far astray as did the Kingston announcement a few weeks ago that Sinden would play there next season. &#9632;

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Seniors Set In Ontario: All In With Pay Limits

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02365/1759082-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">New Seattle Owners Gather For SessionMARVIN BURKE (left) gathers with some of the new officers of the Seattle Totems Hockey Club, new name for Seattle&rsquo;s new pro hockey deal in the Western Hockey League. With Burke, club president, are (left to right), Leo Lassen, Al Leader, WHL president, Fronk Hixon, Vince Abbey and Keith Allen, who was retained as coach of the Totems, formerly the Americans. Other members of the Totem organization, not present, include James B. Hartwig, Al H. Leoder, Jr., Douglas Mavor, George C. Newell, Gene Walby, and Tom Wimmer.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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New Seattle Owners Gather For Session

SPOKANE. Wash. &mdash; The newest addition 10 the Western Hockey League, the Spokane Flyers have tied up with the world champion Montreal Canadiens, general manager Roy McBride has announced. McBride has announced that he has signed a working agreement with the NHL Habs and that Frank Selke, general manager of the club has assured him of some first class talent. The agreement calls for the Canadiens to send a minimum of six players and a maximum of eight to the Flyers. In return the Flyers agree to sponsor two junior clubs for the Montreal organization.At the same time McBride announced that he had purchased goaler Emile (The Cat) Francis and Blinky Boyce from the Victoria Cougars. The Flyers will train in Kamloops, B.C., along with the WHL champion Vancouver Canucks. &#9632;

New Spokane Club Signs A Working Pack With Canucks

TORONTO, Ont. &mdash; Veteran, defenseman Jim Thomson has been returned to the Toronto Maple Leafs by the Chicago Black Hawks.Leaf coach Billy Reay said the 31-year old Thomson may retire. He said the Leafs would not offer him a contract. Thomson played 12 seasons with the Leafs before goin to the Hawks last year.&ldquo;He was sold to the Hawks on a one-season basis last year. Since the Hawks have returned his contract to us, I believe Jim intends retiring from hockey,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;I guess that&rsquo;s the reason the Chicago club did not take up his option for this season.&rdquo;Billy said if Jim decides not to retire, then the Leafs will try to make a deal for him. &#9632;

Hawks Ship Thomson Back To Leafs: Moy Retire Soys Recry

WINNIPEG, Man. &mdash; The Winnipeg Warriors of the Western Hockey League charged the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League for being responsible for their last place finish in the 1956-57 season.Vice-president and general manager John Perrin of tile Warriors testified in court. The Warriors are asking for $125,000 damages and repayment of $12,621 which they claim as part of an agreed 50 per cent of aggregate profit. Perrin said that the club did not show a profit that season.The Montreal and Toronto clubs have filed separate counter claims against the Winnipeg Club for $25,000 each. They also seek an accounting of net profits, claiming the club was mismanaged and this resulted in a lower net profit.Perrin said the Warriors won the WHL championship in 1955-56 and went on to win the Edinburgh Trophy. In the next season, after being sent 10 players by the Major League clubs, they lost 14 consecutive games, had more goals scored against them than any other team in the league and finished last.He attributed the poor record &ldquo;to the players sent, to us by the Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens.&rdquo;The Warriors say they made an agreement, with the NHL teams for a period of two years starting May 1, 1955, under which the NHL clubs were to keep on continuous loan to Winnipeg 15 players of Western Hockey League calibre or better.The Warriors claim that only 10 players were on loan between Sept. 1, 1956, and April 30, 1957.Perrin said six of these players were below Western Hockey League calibre. &#9632;

Perrin Claims Habs, Leafs Charges Tee Poor For WHL

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03316/1759185-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="788" height="1366"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Watson</figcaption></div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;Handsome Harry Watson, his skates now firmly nailed to the wall thereby ending a pro career which stretched back to the 1941-42 season, has been named coach of the St. Catharines Teepees of the OHA Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series.Watson, who served as player-coach of the Buffalo Bisons of the American League last season, succeeds Glen Sonmor, recently named to aid Eddie Shore at Springfield, also of the AHL.In taking over at St. Kitts, Watson remains in the Chicago Black Hawks organization, tbe team lie concluded his lengthy NHL career with and launched him on his coaching career.Rudy Pilous, who doubles as Chicago coach and St. Catharines General Manager, said the Teepee management felt &ldquo;positive that Harry will do a whale of a job for us.&rdquo;&rdquo;We don&rsquo;t see how he can be blamed for Buffalo&rsquo;s last place finish in the American League last season,&rdquo; he added.Big Harry&rsquo;s NHL career carried him from the Brooklyn Americans to the Detroit Red Wings and then to Toronto, where he gained his greatest fame as a consistent performer at left wing for 8% years.With Buffalo, Watson disappointed himself in the sense that he was not the high scorer it was expected he would be. Still, he spared himself at no time. He moved back on defense when injuries depleted the rearguard; jumped over to right wing when things were going poorly there, and didn&rsquo;t hesitate to bench himself when someone else was going well. He shouldered a tough job and never looked elsewhere when things went sour.<h2>Will Have To Rebuild Club</h2>As has been reported in The Hockey News previously, Watson was popular with the Buffalo fans, who have been wont to ride of his predecessors. Watson never heard the Bronx cheer.Many feel that the likeable Watson is best suited tempermentally for coaching youngsters. A man ot patience who is not given to emotional outbursts. Watson believes in giving a player a full show of his capabilities before writing him off &mdash; which should be to his advantage. coaching kids.At St. Catharines, Harry will have to develop a new first line to replace the graduated trio of Eddie Hoeckstra. Jackie McKenzie and Matt. Ravlich if the Teepees are again to fin&rsquo;sh atop the regular season standings. &#9632;

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Watson Hangs Up Blades - - - Will Sharpen Up Teepee Jrs

On The Sidelines<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01401/1759216-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="297" height="339"></div>A PART from all the suspense and uncertainties surrounding Quebec League affairs this summer, Sid Holstead, veteran secretary-treasurer of the loop has been harried by. illness and a narrowescape from death in a serious automobile accident.A couple of months ago he encountered severe pain from a stone in his kidney, and fought off a very grave surgical operation through medicaments. He suffered agonies which caused a great drain on his vitality, and was in sickbay for several weeks before the stone was passed.Not long after a very encouraging recovery the accident occurred. Holstead was driving his Automobile on Papineau avenue, one of Montreal&rsquo;s principal north-south arteries in the eastern section of the metropolis.While crossing Everest street he was struck mid-on by another car travelling 35 miles per hour. Holstead&rsquo;s car was crushed so badly that it was a complete wreck, and the popular hockey executive escaped badly shaken, with his glasses shattered, bruises and contusion in the torso and legs but otherwise unharmed though he suffered severe shock.His Ford Sedan was total loss, since the frame was badly bent and repairs would run to more than $2,000 according to a garage estimate.Investigation revealed that the driver of the other car responsible for the crash, had been stricken by a heart attack immediately prior to the accident. He stiffened at the wheel and was completely lacking control of his car at the moment of the impact.He is still hospitalized.And Holstead is fervently thankful that he wasn&rsquo;t killed.Jean Jacques Pichette 25-year-old leftwinger with Chicoutimi Sagueneens last winter is hoping to beat imminent unemployment caused by withdrawal of the Sagueneens from the Quebec circuit by migrating to England. Pichette has made his pitch to the Wembley Lions.Lee Hardy, playing coach at St. Moritz, Switzerland, and for some years before that with Brigthon Tigers in England, now home in Montreal was asked to check on Pichette. Hardy who does these things for his English and Europeans friends gave the Quebec-born Chicoutimi player who had a tab of 12 goals and 26 assists while drawing 19 minutes in penalties last season in 64 QHL games a good report.Shawinigan hockey fans have been taken to task by a home town writer. In a two column, 10 point article front paged in &ldquo;Echo du Shawinigan du St. Maurice&rdquo; a well-edited weekly, Lucien Guertin recently upraided sports followers in the area for their lukewarm support of the Cataracts.Reviewing the past tour season, since the Cataracts were given all-out backing by the NHL Canadiens organization, Mons. Guertin points out that in 1954-55 the Shawinigan hockey team won both QHL championship and the Edinburgh Trophy, symbolic of minor pro hockey supremacy in Canada. The following year the Cataracts finished on top but lost to Royals in the playoffs and the Montrealers went West in a fruitless quest of the Edinburgh Trophy, and last season the Cataracts finished first again, but lost out to Quebec Aces in the QHL finals.The Cataracts enjoyed great patronage in 1954-55 when there was a real revival of hockey interest. but the second season the attendance slumped&rdquo;What happened the second year? writes Mons, querously, &ldquo;Though racts were always close top. and finished first The gates fell off 25 to 30 percent. Why?&ldquo;Were the previous year?&ldquo;What did moon?&ldquo;It looks that way.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Al Parsley

TOLEDO, Ohio &mdash; The inconclusiveness of those conferences on the Mideast situation have nothing on the conferences concerning franchises in the International Hockey League these days.Another fly went into the ointment when Denver failed to post a $15,000 bond to cover transportation costs and thereby came into disfavor with the IHL Board of Governors.The governors, in a poll, vetoed the Denver bid for a franchise when Gene Clift, representing Denver interests, asked for an extension of time to post the bond. Financial matters being what they are these days, the governors felt they couldn&rsquo;t jeopardize their future&rsquo;.Andy Mulligan, general curys, said that he had been Frank Gallagher of Detroit, notified him that he needed bond. A telephone poll of the vetoed Denver&rsquo;s franchise.Meanwhile Memphis, Tenn., which has also been seeking a franchise in the IHL, contacted Gallagher through. Jim Mattson, representing Memphis business interests and said they were willing to post bond guaranteeing transportation costs. Mulligan said.Earlier this summer Memphis had been turned down when it appeared that it would not be able to complete building of a new arena in time for the season. However, Mattson said the Memphis entry will play its home games in the old State Fair Grounds Colisium if the franchise is granted. Memphis is expected to post bond some time shortly. &#9632;

IHL Turns Down Extension Bid By Denver Over $15,000 Bond

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. &mdash; Former National Hockey League player Johnny Chad has turned down an offer to coach the Prince Albert Mintos of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.Minto president Jim Sandersou said he approached Chad, who refused the offer to go into business in Prince Albert.Chad&rsquo;s background includes time with the Chicago Black Hawks, the Providence Reds and the Saskatoon Quakers of the Western League.Three former pro players were reported to have applied for the position.They include Vie Lynn, Scoop Bentley and Jim Henry.Lynn is reported to be the most likely candidate. The former NHL player finished last year with the Saskatoon-St. Paul Regals of the Western League after starting the season as coach of the Sudbury Wolves of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. &#9632;

Chads Turns Down Offer To Coach Prince Albert Club

<div class="byline">By GEORGE METZGER</div>CLINTON, N.Y.&mdash;In his first move aimed at strengthening the weak-sister entry in the Eastern Hockey League, newly-appointed general manager Wren Blair of the Clinton Comets has signed an American League player as his coach.Bill Watson, who performed for the Cleveland Barons last season, will handle the Comets&rsquo; reigns Tor the coming campaign and also hold down a center spot.Ed Calhoun, who coached the team from December to the end of the 1957-58 Season, when Jack Timmins resigned, will remain with the Comets as a defenseman.Watson, who is 30 years old, comes to the Comets with a wealth of hockey experience. It is this &ldquo;savvy&rdquo; that makes Blair think he is just the man to lead Clinton out of the EHL doldrums of last place.Before joining Cleveland last year, Watson played three years with the Sudbury Wolves of the Northern Ontario loop, a year with the Ft. Wayne Komets of the International League and three more years with the Halifax Atlantics.In every one of this total of seven years, Watson led his team in. scoring except on one occasion. He has always During his tenure with Ft. Wayne, the veteran won Player honors.<h2>Once Played For N.Y. Rovers</h2>A native of Ottawa, Watson played his junior hockey there with Montagnards and Canadiens. He had one year of junior hockey Senators in 1947 Cup finals.Watson is not a complete stranger to the Eastern League. He played with the New York Rovers in 1948.When not playing hockey, the father of three daughters, is employed by Trans-Canada Airways in Ottawa.Since his appointment last month, Watson has been busy lining up talent for the Comets, which open camp in a few weeks.The combination ot Blair and Watson is expected to give Clinton hpckey a much-needed shot in the arm. &#9632;

Blair Signs Watson To Coach Comets In EHL: Calhoun Sticks

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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 smaller than a pack of cigarettes &hellip; but it&rsquo;s just as light!<h2>Weighs So Little You 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 just 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; to ballparks &hellip; on fishing and camping trips&hellip;on vacations or picnics &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 and and flipping a switch. And remember &mdash; there are no batteries, no tubes&mdash;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, same clearness, same fidelity, 10, 20 or even 50 years from today because it LASTS FOREVER!<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02356/1759326-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="680" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">A PERFECT BEDTIME COM.PANION TOO &mdash; yes thanks to the personal earphone attachment included with your LIFETIME POUTABLE &hellip; you can even enjoy your radio in bed without disturbing others. Simply use the super phonic earphone and you can listen to your lifetime portable any hour, because only you will be able to hear it. This attachment alone would cost you several dollars with any other portable but with your LIFETIME PORTABLE it costs you not a penny extra if you take advantage of this FREE-TRIAL offer new!</figcaption></div><h2>How This Amazing Pocket Radio Works&mdash;The Secret is Air!</h2>At this point you&rsquo;re probably wondering &ldquo;how in the world can a portable radio possibly work without batteries and tubes &hellip; and how can it possibly cost so little?&rdquo; The answer is simple:Recently while working on a military problem, scientists developed a new type of self-powered rectifier called a GERMANIUM-DIODE the same miracle in vention 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 powerplant into this one single part that is no bigger than a dime, that generates more power than 1,000 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 electric power from the air &hellip; it then feeds itself a new &ldquo;electrical meal&rdquo;&hellip; and stays just as strong, just as powerful as when it was brand new! But wait &hellip; that&rsquo;s not all!<h2>2 Extra Bonus Features</h2>To make sure that your LIFETIME PORTABLE doesn&rsquo;t merely &ldquo;just play&rdquo; &mdash; but gives you the finest reception possible&mdash;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 LIFETIME pocket radio extra clarity. Next and perhaps even more important, 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 &mdash; it&rsquo;s yours without a single penny&rsquo;s extra cost. In other words, when you receive your LIFETIME POCKET RADIO yen are not getting a toy or some flimsy gadget &hellip; but a true precision engineered portable radio that is guaranteed to outlast any radio ever sold in this country before! It must last forever &mdash; you must never have to invest even one cent for new parts or repairs &hellip; you can even run your LIFETIME 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 LIFETIME 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!<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01400/1759319-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="1472" height="1090"></div> &#9632;

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From Birds To Bisons

Lefty Wilson Takes Over As Red Wings’ Trainer

LaBine Gets Milt’s Backing In Comeback Year

Herd Eyes Irwin To Plug Gap In Defense - - If Blues Say So