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October 25, 1958

The Hockey News October 25, 1958

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>In The Toronto StarDETROIT, Mich.&mdash;It will surprise you to learn that Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; greatest problem, as they get started on the 1958-1959 National Hockey league campaign is a chap named Gordie Howe.Coach Sid Abel admits this is a problem he can force himself to put up with, because Howe is either the best, the second best, or the third best, player in hockey, depending on how you stack him against Rocket Richard and Jean Beliveau.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07115/1656951-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="272" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Abel</figcaption></div>However, Sid has decided the Wings haven&rsquo;t been getting as much mileage as they should out of the skilful Mr. Howe and he spent all summer trying to figure out how to make better use of Old Blinky&rsquo;s myriad talents. Therein lay the method, he thought, to improve the Red-birds&rsquo; third-place, even 500 performance last season.Just before training camp opened here, Sid emerged from his seance with what he thinks is the proper solution.&ldquo;Last year, with Ted Lindsay gone, we didn&rsquo;t have a top left-winger to go with Howe,&rdquo; Sidney explained.Rooks Must Pay-Off&ldquo;The results were, first, that the opposition could double-team Howe on right wing and forget about the left side. Maybe you didn&rsquo;t notice it, but this couldn&rsquo;t help but reduce Gord&rsquo;s effectiveness. Secondly, the whole game was centering around Howe all the time he was on the ice. He was working every minute he was out there.&ldquo;I figured I&rsquo;d have to balance that line up so I looked over my team and picked out the next best man Alex Delvecchio. He&rsquo;ll start the season on left wing with Howe and Norm Ullman will centre them.&ldquo;Now they can&rsquo;t afford to concentrate on Howe,&rdquo; Abel chuckled. &ldquo;They can&rsquo;t ignore Delvecchio over there and that will make things easier for Gordie.&ldquo;Even though Delvecchio always has been a centre, I&rsquo;m not worried about him playing left wing. He can do it. This will be a free-wheeling, spectacular line and the only thing that will break it up is if one of our rookie centres doesn&rsquo;t come through.&ldquo;Forbes Kennedy can do the job at centre, we know. Either Charlie Burns or Len Lunde will have to be adequate as the third centre, or we&rsquo;ll have to move Delvecchio back to his old spot.&rdquo;Burns, of course, is the former Marlboro and former Whitby Dunlop who wears a helmet to protect an old head injury. The plate he carries in his skull prevented him from getting a tryout with the Maple Leafs, but after his work for Whitby in the world tournament last winter, Wings decided to give him a chance, after they got a medical green light.&ldquo;Leafs developed Ted Lindsay and Red Kelly for us.&rdquo; says general manager Jack Adams. &ldquo;Maybe it&rsquo;ll be the same story with Burns.&rdquo;Lunde is a lanky graduate of the minor pro Edmonton Flyers, for whom he totalled 39 goals and 43 assists last season.He and Burns are two of four or five rookies the rebuilding Redbirds plan to go with this year. Others are winger Gerry Ehman from Springfield, forward Claude Laforge, who was secured from Canadiens, and Pete Goegan, the uninhibited defenceman.Could Be Good or Bad&ldquo;Those new guys make us and the Rangers, who are breaking in about the same number, the question marks of the League,&rdquo; said Abel &ldquo;We could be good or we could be awful.&rdquo;&ldquo;One thing that needs to improve, and will, is our skating. Last year we had players who couldn&rsquo;t keep pace with most opposition forwards. These rookies will be able to do that, at least.&ldquo;Also,&rdquo; adds Sid, &ldquo;I look for our defence to be much better. Red Kelly can&rsquo;t have another year as bad as he did last season and I look for Gus. Mortson, whom we picked up from Chicago, to help us a great deal. Pete Goegan will improve as every game goes by Marcel Pronovost and Warren Godfrey were completely satisfactory. As for goal, I don&rsquo;t have to give it a thought. We have Terry Sawchuk. Enough said.&rdquo; &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Sid Expects Al To Give Gordie Pressure Relief

Alex Delvecchio&hellip; &hellip; Detroit Red WingsDETROIT, Mich.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04176/1657417-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="283" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alex Delvecchio</figcaption></div>Alex Peter Delvecchio is a young mon who will be 27 years of age next December 4th. He has spent seven seasons with the Detroit Red Wings and ranks third in seniority to Gordie Howe and Red Kelly. He has been a star for the Wings or on affiliate since they turned him pro back in 1950-51. But he has never quite made the super-star class.However, this might be his year. Before the season started coach Sid Abel had a problem. Without a good left winger to go along with Gordie Howe on right, the opposition could double team the Wings&rsquo; star and reduce his effectiveness., The problem was a simple on to solve. Find a player who could step into the left wing slot and take some of the pressure off Howe. After scanning his lineup, Abel decided Delvecchio was to be the man. With Alex at left and Ullman at centre Howe would have a powerful pair to skate alongside him. It would also give the Wings good scoring trio, something they locked lost season.Delvecchio responded from the beginning. While he didn&rsquo;t exactly set the league on fire in a scoring way, he nevertheless proved that he was too much of a threat to allow to roam without being thoroughly checked.In the Wings second game of the season Howe scored two goals. Alex assisted on one.But it wasn&rsquo;t until a return game with the Hawks in Chicago that Delvecchio started to roll. The Wings won it 3-1 and Delvecchio scored all three of the Wings goals. He scored one in the first, one in the second and one in the third. Two came on power plays. For Delvecchio it marked his first hat trick as a member of the Detroit Red Wings.It also looked os though Abel was right. The right guy for Howe on the left side was Alex Delvecchio. It could be that he&rsquo;ll top his record goal output this season. &#9632;

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Player-of-the-week

<div class="byline">By MAX JACKSON</div>KINGSTON, Ont.&mdash;Bep GuidolinAfter occupying the role of cellar dwellers or near basement tenants for the past: two years in the Eastern Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA grouping, Kingston appears to. have come up with a &ldquo;New Deal&rdquo; for the 1958-59 season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02297/1658017-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="278" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bep Guidolin</figcaption></div>The first move came about last July as the&rsquo; group of businessmen who operate the Kingston entry decided to hire a full time General Manager.The man selected for the job was Wally Brabin who was Assistant Manager for the Whitby Dunlops since their entry into hockey. Brabin has learned the many tricks of the trade while acting as the silent partner to Wren Blair and the, likeable Wally set about to plug the gaps in the Kingstpn armour that was so noticeable in past seasons.The initial move by the GM was to secure a Player-Coach to replace last year&rsquo;s coach Bun Cook. The reason for the chauge was that it was felt a player-coach was necessary to meet the league salary limit and &ldquo;Bus&rdquo; Gagnon (former Whitby coach and star) was offered the job but the Kingston management were unable to raise the ante needed to secure Gagnon&rsquo;s contract from Whitby. This is where the newly formed Kingston Hockey Boosters Club stepped in and purchased the contract of the new coach and Kingston&rsquo;s two most important posts were filled.After months of searching and talking by the GM and Coach the club was assembled for the first, practice of the season and the Kingston fans immediately started to talk of championship days once again.The club roster after the first ten days practice reads something like this: In goal the Limestone Crew are counting on young Lynn Davis last years netminder and the property of the Montreal Canadiens while Kenny Johnson is slated for the sub-goalie job.The blueline corps, which has been a very weak spot the past two seasons, looks very formidable with only two returnees. Veteran Joe Levandoski and young Jean Gauthier (also the property of the Canadiens) are the holdovers while the newcomers include Vejar Gendron, formerly with Chatham Maroons and Louisville Colonels; Ralph McNiff former Canadiens junior star who played with Cincinnati Mohawks last season, Vic Fildes last season with the Pembroke Lumber Kings, and Don Senior a forward with last seasons squad.Up front the Merchants have an attacking unit of Billy Colvin, last years league leading point getter, centering Gagnon and Roy Partridge&hellip;Another unit is made up of centreman &ldquo;Moe&rdquo; Savard, former high scorer with Cornwall Chevvies; and on the wings Mike Bukacheski at left and Jim Maxwell also a former Pembroke on right&hellip;A third forward unit consists of Ted Toppazzini in centre; Don Bellringer on left and former NHLer &ldquo;Bep&rdquo; Guidolin on right. Guidolin was one of the shining lights with Belleville McFarlands on their march to the Allan Cup last season and is counted on to instill alot of spirit in the Kingston squad&hellip; Another line seeking attacking jobs has Neil McDonald, former captain with the University of Michigan hockey club, in centre with Ken Linesman at right and Frank Chiarelli former Kingston and Pembroke player on left.All in all the Kingston club looks 50% stronger than last season and the other clubs in the league will have to look to some other sextet for a cellardweller.The name Merchants was selected for this years team as 23 Kingston merchants donated a like amount of money each, in order to get the club off to a flying start financially&hellip; &#9632;

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Powerhouse Being Built At Kingston By “New Dealers”

CHICAGO, III.&mdash;The Chicago Black Hawks will be without the services of Defenseman Elmer (Moose) Vasko for two weeks.Vasko injured his shoulder in Detroit, on October 16 when Hawks defeated the Wings 7-2.The club doctor, Myron T. Tremaine said the left, shoulder dislocation entailed a bone separation and torn ligaments. &#9632;

Injured Shoulder Forces Vasko Out For Two Weeks

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bruins, picked by the experts to give the Montreal Canadiens their biggest opposition this coming season ran into their biggest nemisis in Toronto last week. He is the injury bug. and at this moment he has the Bruins hanging on the ropes.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0357/1658162-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="257" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lynn Patrick</figcaption></div>Already minus Larry Regan with an eye injury, the Bruins last week lost defenseman Doug Mohns and centre Bronco Horvath with broken jaws. The Bruins lost both players in a game in Toronto which they lost 3-2. Both will be out of action tor a period of two months.For the Bruins in meant the loss of two key players. Mohns, since being switched from forward to defense has developed into one of the best rearguards in the league. He is even more effective on the Bruins powerplay. It marked the second season in a row that Mohns has suffered a broken jaw.In losing Horvath, the Bruins lost their highest scorer of last season. A 30-goal man he was counted on to lead the Bruins in their quest for the 1958-59 title. It was Horvath, along with linemates Vic Stasiuk and Johnny Bucyk that caused opposition so much trouble last season.Meanwhile General Manager Lynn Patrick of the Bruins has complained that the Toronto Maple Leafs are using equipment that has been regarded obsolete in the league. He claims that it was never inspected by Carl Voss, referee-in-chief.Coach Billy Reay admits that his players are using old equipment and that they must continue to do so until the equipment, now on order. arrives.It was back at All-Star game time that the Canadiens complained that players were using equipment not sanctioned by the NHL. That complaint followed a bodycheck by Red Kelly of the Detroit Red Wings on Boom Boom Geoffrion. The Boomer&rsquo; was injured on the play and the subsequent complaint about equipment was made.The next day NHL president Clarence Campbell ordered that each team&rsquo;s equipment will he checked by Voss, the referee-in-chief. Voss, in his various travel around the league had been able to check equipment of five clubs, but had not had a chance to do so with the Leafs.In any case the Bruins are minus their two key Play. &#9632;

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Patrick Says Leafs Using Old Padding

<div class="byline">By HANS TANNER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01209/1658131-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYVOL. II&mdash;No. 3 Entered as Second Class Matter Post Office, Rouses Point. N.Y. MONTREAL, OCTOBER 25, 1958 PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS<h2>Back In The Same Old Bin</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02139/1658124-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="251" height="403"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sam Pollock</figcaption></div>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;Overshadowing the early-season play of the Rochester Americans has been a &ldquo;quarrel&rdquo; between the &ldquo;coparents&rdquo; of the Amerks.Even before the Amerks opened their home schedule on October 12 there were rumors that Rochester probably wouldn&rsquo;t finish the 1958-59 American Hockey League season with both the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens owning part of the team.First evidence of another rhubarb (there were several such incidents last season) came to light in a story appealing in The Toronto Globe and Mail.Staff Smythe, chairman of the Maple Leafs, was quoted in reference to Rochester, as saying: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s an untenable situation. The only solution is to get an American League club of our own. We tried before, but were unsuccessful.&rdquo;He went on to say he was unhappy with the joint sponsorship of Rochester by Toronto and Montreal. He said Sam Pollock, overseer of both clubs&rsquo; player personnel with the Amerks. &ldquo;may give Montreal farmhands better treatment.&rdquo; Pollock is a Montreal organization man.Objects To Quebec Leaguers&ldquo;We already have had Gary Collins and Ken Girard rejected by Pollock,&rdquo; Smythe continued.In a telephone conversation with this writer, Staff shed more light on the situation.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have any axe to grind for Collins and Girard.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just raising issue with who Montreal has sent to Rochester. I want to get more than five Quebec Leaguers into Rochester. They (Montreal) can do better than that.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s true that their (the Canadiens) players are so good they can&rsquo;t get them waived out of the league. If they can&rsquo;t get them out, they should make a deal to get players who could be sent to Rochester. It they can&rsquo;t do it, they should pull out of Rochester.&rdquo;Paul Bibeault, general manager of the Amerks. replied tartly to Smythe&rsquo;s statements. &ldquo;How about them (the Maple Leafs) pulling out?&rdquo;Before going further, it should be pointed out that at the time of the incident, only three players on the Amerks roster were provided by Toronto. They were defenseman Al MacNeil, center Rudy Migay and winger Gary Aidcorn. Aidcorn joined the team only two days before the season opener, and Migay came in the day of the game.Collins and Girard, the other Leaf players offered to the Americans, started with Rochester last season and last through the year with a club that finished out of the playoffs.The tact that they are not back this season would tend to make the present squad appear stronger than last year&rsquo;s.And to add fuel to the flames, Toronto bolstered the Americans in their opener by sending down center Willie Marshall and defenseman Carl Brewer, a junior, for that game only. Only when Marshall and Brewer left after the game, so did winger Bob Nevin, considered a fine right wing who was supposed to stick with Rochester. Toronto officials said they recalled Nevin because of &ldquo;injuries&rdquo; on their club.In order to have a full team dressed for the second game&rsquo; of the season, in Cleveland on October 11, Pollock had to send in a junior defenseman from Ottawa to give the Amerks five defensemen and a full compliment of players. Toronto, meanwhile, had no less than eight rearguards on their squad&mdash;two of which could be sent down without waivers.The apparent indifference of Toronto to the situation here prompted several local investors to investigate the possibility of purchasing the Maple Leafs&rsquo; 27&frac12; per cent interest in the club.But Smythe would have none of that.&ldquo;If the Canadiens can&rsquo;t put real good hockey players in Rochester, why don&rsquo;t they get out? They send inexperienced players there. We send in good players. When we have to call our good men up because of injuries they point the finger at us.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know whether we can work this out. I am not interested in having Rochester people buy us out. I&rsquo;m happy with Rochester. I&rsquo;d like to buy Montreal out,&rdquo; Staff said.Rochester interests own 45 per cent of the team, with Montreal and Toronto each having 27&frac12; per cent. &#9632;

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Habs, Leafs Feud Over Rochester Player Deals

<h2>Come Thru&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01291/1656699-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="546" height="549"><figcaption class="caption-body">Danny Lewicki</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;It has always been a mystery to fans just why the Toronto Maple Leafs sent Tod Sloan, to the Chicago Black Hawks last summer. There are many opinions.Stafford Smythe, boss] of the Leafs front office gave the answer to a newspaerman last week.&ldquo;As far as I&rsquo;m concerned that (Sloan&rsquo;s part in the player&rsquo;s association was the, reason for getting rid of him), Smyth said. &ldquo;It got so I felt like a stranger in our own dressing room. You can put up with that on a first play club. On a last place club you don&rsquo;t have too.&ldquo;When you sell a player, you always take a chance that he will come back to haunt you. I didn&rsquo;t worry about Sloan anymore than I would about anyone else. He wasn&rsquo;t getting goals for us.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Smythe Admits Tod’s Part In Association Irked Him

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;If the Black Hawks achieve any degree of success in this new National Hockey League schedule there will undoubtedly be at least four words that will be used with considerable gusto more (ban just a few times&hellip; effort&hellip; desire&hellip; hustle&hellip; work.These were given as the big reasons for the club&rsquo;s early success In the first week of play by General Manager Tommy Ivan and Coach Rudy Pilous. The Chicago squad, with a 50% lineup change, tied the Rangers, 1-1. on opening night and then rolled to a pair of convincing wins over Toronto.This was the best start for a Black Hawk hockey team in several years and both Ivan and Pilous couldn&rsquo;t disguise their pleasure. &ldquo;If they can skate and play that way alt the way this year we&rsquo;ll win ourselves quite a few games,&rdquo; exclaimed Ivan.Their appraisals of the team ran something like this after the first week of the new NHL schedule and Chicago found itself perched right up there on top in the league ratings&mdash;a spot that too few Hawk squads have enjoyed in the past several years&hellip;APTER GAME 1HAWKS 1, RANGERS 1Ivan: &ldquo;I was thrilled at our overall desire and hustle despite the hot weather that undoubtedly took quite a bit out of all the men&hellip; they never let up. And realise this too we were playing our first regular game with nine new men.&rdquo;<h2>&hellip; For New Bosses</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04193/1656768-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="551" height="559"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tod Sloan</figcaption></div>Pilous: &ldquo;It was their continuous work and effort that I liked. There isn&rsquo;t a guy on this squad that I want to criticize&hellip; not a one shirked his duty and remember, we&rsquo;re going to get better.&rdquo;AFTER GAME 2 AT TORONTOHAWKS 3, LEAFS 1Ivan: &ldquo;It was a good game and I like particularly the way The Hawks dug in and didn&rsquo;t give up at any stage even though we were down a goal after two periods. They kept right on going as hard as they could and, of course, if finally payed off with our three las! period goals.&rdquo;Pilous: &ldquo;Our lines worked hard enough in the Ranger game, but Tommy and I talked it over and decided that perhaps they weren&rsquo;t jelling fast enough. So tonight we came up with three new combinations that seemed to work out quite well.Thrive On Work&ldquo;We have moved Danny Lewicki over between Ed Litzenberger and Lome Ferguson and placed Bobby Hull at center for Kenny Wharram and Ted Lindsay. Our other line has Tod Sloan centering between Eric Nesterenko and Ron Murphy.&rdquo;AFTER GAME 3 AT CHICAGOHAWKS 5, LEAFS 2Ivan: &ldquo;This team seems to thrive on work. Tomorrow we probably could give them a day off in view of the victory, but were going to have them on the ice at 10 a m. at least a good skate and then Tuesday we plan to show them a film of the Ranger game.&ldquo;We worked them twice daily throughout training camp and no one complained. We can&rsquo;t afford at this point to become too elated for there is still a long road ahead. One of the things I know Rudy will be doing will be talking about that second Leaf goal tonight when we got a little careless.&rdquo;Pilous: &ldquo;I suppose you realize that in their first two games each of the new lines accounted for at least two goals and I like our new penalty-killing pair&mdash;Glen Skov and Earl Balfour. Since they&rsquo;re not on one of the lines we can use them regularly without bothering any of our combinations.&rdquo;The 1958-59 Black Hawks will lose some hockey games and have even done so since this was written, but there will be more wins than defeats if the team continues to skate by those four words&mdash;effort, desire, hustle and work &#9632;

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Braves’ Medicine--Man, It’s Hustle And Desire

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Boston Garden has been all prettied up for the Bruins this season.The big hockey palace in the West End looks better than it has for 20 years.The Garden, after weeks of painting and refurbishing, is a color card of beige, white, blue, red, olive and green.Manager Lynn Patrick is hopeful that the Bruins will respond to their splendored surroundings.Respond, that is, with a record in their home games which will be an improvement over that of last year&rsquo;s team.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05149/1656799-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="261" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Regan</figcaption></div>Winning at home, says Patrick, is important in a lot of ways.&ldquo;Actually it, doesn&rsquo;t make much difference whether a team wins at home or away from home, as far as its over-all record is concerned.&rdquo; observed the Bruins&rsquo; guiding light, &ldquo;and I for one will be glad to accept wins regardless of where they&rsquo;re gained.&ldquo;But competition in hockey being what it. is, a team will usually play better at home than on the road. The Bruins have always been like other teams in that respect.Good Advertising, Too&ldquo;Thus if we&rsquo;re going to make a strong pitch to finish up at the top of the standing we&rsquo;ve got to do well at home. A lot better than we did last year.&ldquo;Another thing, he added, &ldquo;is that home wins produce that good word-of-month advertising. The, best Odds a team can have are fans who have just seen it win a good game. Home fans, that is, and a home game.&rdquo;The Bruins just managed to finish last season with a winning home record by beating the Chicago Black Hawks in their final game here. That gave them 15 wins, 14 losses and six ties for their 35 games here.The Bruins in their first weekend at home made a good start toward fulfilling their manager&rsquo;s hope. They rallied from a three-goal deficit to tie the New York Rangers, then beat the Montreal Canadians, Last year they had to play the Canadiens seven times here before they were able to beat them.Out of their first week of National League competition the Bruins emerged with three of a possible six points and the league scoring runner-up in Norman Johnson, the rookie center with three points.The Bruins also moved into their second week without Larry Regan, the versatile forward who was playing left wing on a line with Leo LaBine and Johnson. Regan was hospitalized with eye and head injuries by Jim Bartlett of New York in the tie game here. The incident occurred directly in front of the Bruins&rsquo; bench and the Bruins maintained that Regan had been struck by Bartlett&rsquo;s stick. Milt Schmidt Bruins coach had to be restrained from carrying his disapproval directly to Bartlett.Schmidt, who has been juggling his left wings anyway with the exception Of Don McKenney, took up the slack of Regan&rsquo;s loss for two weeks by moving Real Chevrefils onto the line with his old sidekick LaBine. He also placed Johnny Bucyk with Bronco Horvath and Vic Stasiuk, thus reviving the Bruins&rsquo; big line of a year ago, and he tabbed little Guy Gendron for relief duty for the other two left wings. &#9632;

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Hub Must Woo More Wins In Own Back Lot Before They Can Romance First

BOSTON, Mass. The most dazzling part of the opening of the National Hockey League season here was the pants worn by the Boston Bruins.The Bruins are wearing geld pants in their home games this year.The pants were displayed for the first time in a game with the New York Rangers.The bright britches were supplemented by gold jerseys with black and white piping and numbers.The Bruins made the Rangers look drab sartorially, even if the game did end in a 4-4 tie.Actually, the gold pants are the cover type. They&rsquo;re worn over the black pants which have been regulation with the Bruins for the past 35 years.Al Millar, a substitute Bruins&rsquo; goal-tender, complained last winter that he had trouble following shots made against a black pants background. Manager Lynn Patrick of the Bruins investigated the Millar complaint and found it justified.The gold pants are of Patrick design, as are the jerseys and tri-tone gloves worn by the Bruins.&ldquo;I think they brighten things up,&rdquo; maintained the &lsquo;Bruins&rsquo; Dior&rsquo;, &ldquo;and customers I&rsquo;ve talked to think so, too.&rdquo;Then he added with a sigh of resignation, &ldquo;Now that we&rsquo;ve broken the ice with these bright pants I suppose other teams will be copying them, just as they&rsquo;ve copied some of our other stylings.&rdquo; &#9632;

Bruins Bust Out With New Breeches For New Season

CHICAGO, III.&mdash;When the Black Hawks opened the National Hockey League season for 1958-59 October 8 by hosting the Rangers it marked the first, time these two teams had skated in the opener at the Chicago Stadium in 28 years. The last time was November 16, 1930.No one can deny that the NHL has gone through a countless number of changes in these nearly three decades and higher scoring has been one of the major changes in play. Be this as it may, both games wound up in the same score&mdash;a 1-all tie.This was just about the only tiling common between the two games, however, and while we are at it, here are a few of the differences between then and now&hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02275/1656737-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="372" height="649"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Gottselig</figcaption></div>There were 10 teams in action in 30&mdash;five each in the American and Canadian divisions. The season started a month later because each team had only a 44-game schedule. The 10-minute overtime was still the rule in the NHL. but didn&rsquo;t alter the outcome of the 1930 inaugural meeting.This was a summary of that first game:<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03249/1656730-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="1050" height="236"></div>Black Hawk spares Duke Dutkowski, Mush March. Art Somers, Ty Arbour, Earl Miller, Tommy Cook, Teddy Graham. Frank Ingram. Stewart Adams. Helge Bostrom.Ranger spares Frank Peters, Paul Thompson, Murray Murdoch, Butch Keeling, Bill Regan, Eddie Rodden, Gene Carrigan. Deacon Waite.Officials Goodman, referee; Ion, judge of play.FIRST PERIODGoals: none.Penalties: Somers, Thompson.Stops; Gardiner, 13; Roach, 11.SECOND PERIODGoals; none.Penalties: Regan (2), Peters, Johnson, Carrigan, major, (tops: Gardiner, 5; Roach, It).THIRD PERIODGoals: Murdoch (Keeling), 16.00.Gottselig (Dutkowski), 19.45.Penalties: Arbour. Regan.Stops: Gardiner, 6; Roch, 9OVERTIMEGoals; none.Penalties: Abel, Wentworth, Peters.Stops: Gardiner, 1; Roach, 3.Black Hawk fans are hoping that one more similiarity with the 1930 season will be forthcoming in a few months&hellip; the Chicago team finished second that season. &#9632;

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Hawks-Rangers Opener First In 28 Years, Ends The Same

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01290/1656854-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leafs&rsquo; Captain George Armstrong, minus many pounds heads for the dressing room after a hectic period</figcaption></div><h2>Reay Predicts He&rsquo;ll Make it This Season: Says Armstrong, &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve Been Expecting It&rdquo;</h2>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The second coming of the Merchant of Venice would occasion ho more surprise than has George Armstrong in cutting a few pounds of his own flesh.Always considered fit and trim at weights up to 204 pounds, the, captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs has inadvertently pared himself to 19 2 for the current NHL campaign and has consequently discovered the half step acceleration that may finally&rsquo; convert him from the Chief to the Super Chief.Since Methuselah was a toddler, Leafs have been waiting for Army to have that big season that his illustrious junior career had promised them. George tantalized them with consistently good seasons in which he averaged 16 or 17 goals. But the super star that Leafs had expected never went into orbit.This year Leaf hopes have been renewed&mdash;but this time with reason.&ldquo;It looks like George has been playing over his proper weight all these years without anyone realizing it,&rdquo; coach Billy Reay has come to suspect. &ldquo;Since he cut down, he&rsquo;s skating better and seems to have picked up that half stride that can make the difference between making the big play and missing it.No Heavy Exercise Program&ldquo;Try walking around all day with only a couple of pounds of weights on your shoulders and you&rsquo;ll be dead tired at the end of the day. It doesn&rsquo;t take much to make a big difference. And the way George is going now, I see no reason why&rsquo; this can&rsquo;t be the year he breaks into the 20-goal class.&rdquo;Army himself winces every time someone suggests he should be a 20-goal scorer.&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve been expecting that from me ever since I first turned pro,&rdquo; he recalls. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;ve never made it yet.&ldquo;The NHL is full of good juniors and good minor leaguers. But when you&rsquo;re winning scoring championships and most valuable player prizes as a junior, yon are playing against teams with only three or four top stars. In this league, you are playing against teams with 16 of the best.&ldquo;And even if I do have a 20-goal year that doesn&rsquo;t make me a 20-goal man. It takes more than one-20goal season to put you in that class.&rdquo;Army nevertheless realizes that he has never been better equipped than be is now to fulfill expectations and be initiated into the 20-plus club. And all because of that few pounds of flesh he cut.Paradoxically, the 28-year-old right winger did not tackle a heavy exercise program, tough physical labor or a crash diet in preparing his streamlined self for training camp. Indeed, he credits the absence of these recognized weight-lifting procedures with bis new zip.&ldquo;Some oilier years I&rsquo;ve worked hard all summer and come to camp tired,&rdquo; he recalls. &ldquo;A year ago, I was 218 pounds three weeks before training camp and had to go on a crash diet to take off 18 pounds before reporting. I arrived as<h2>The Super-Chief On The Right Track</h2>Loss Three Pounds&ldquo;So last spring, when I wound up the season at 195, I just took life easy and watched my weight. I didn&rsquo;t work all summer, just played a little ball, and I figured if I could maintain the same weight for the whole summer, my body would get used to the weight and I wouldn&rsquo;t be taxing myself to get Into shape. As it turned out. I lost another three pounds in the first two days of training, but I&rsquo;ve never felt better.&rdquo;It may be significant that Army staged a strong finish to the 1957-58 campaign after inadvertently working (with a capital W) himself down to the lighter weight. Although his capacity for work had been one of the few redeeming features of the last-place club through the early weeks of the campaign&rsquo;, the Chief scored only three goals in the first 10 weeks.&ldquo;He looked belter than anyone else and worked himself hard, but he just wasn&rsquo;t getting any results,&rdquo; Reay remembers.Then, after Leafs appeared to give up on George and threaten Bruins. Army began to find results, scoring 14 times in the last half of the campaign to again emerge among the top Leaf point-producers. If he had accomplished little as a scorer in the first half, he has at least worked oft the weight that seemed to anchor him.This season he is starting at full speed. Throughout training camp and the opening games of the schedule he has indicated he is still on the same frequency. And after six-and-change years of laboring, he is finally on the threshold of the&rsquo; century club. His two goals in the first two games of the season left him only three from the 100-score milestone.Carrying less ballast on lean legs that would better suit a sprinter than the husky six-foot one-inch giant that he is, George has made teammates and onlookers alike aware of his improved skating.&ldquo;Everyone tells me how. much better I&rsquo;m skating and it is encouraging because I know that half a stride can mean the difference of 10 goals&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s strange, because I really hadn&rsquo;t planned things to happenThis also fits, because Armstrong&rsquo;s entire athletic career is a sequence of events that were not planned the way they developed.It was one such unexpected turn of events that settled his selection between professional hockey and baseball as a career.The son of a Falconbridge miner, George was an outstanding two-sport athlete who decided early that proficiency in athletics would afford him his only opportunity to off set his lack of a complete education.When baseball beckoned, with George already playing professional hookey at Pittsburgh. the 20-year-old youth answered the call and tried out with Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League.Trial In AAA BaseballSt. Louis Browns of the American League were playing a benefit exhibition game in Toronto at the time and George received his big chance when he was sent in to hit against Fred Sanford.&rsquo;&rsquo;Matt Batts was catching for the Browns.&rdquo; The Chief recalls.pitch what the pitch was going to be. But I&rsquo;d heard all those stories about how the old-timers try to trick kids and upset them, so he wasn&rsquo;t fooling me.&rdquo;As it turned out. Armstrong, not Batts, fooled Armstrong. Three pitches arrived just as Batts had described them, but the skeptical Army outsmarted himself and was out on three straight strikes.&ldquo;After that, Leafs suggested I go to class C or class D Baseball, and since I was already in the equivalent of AAA hockey at Pittsburgh. I decided then and there to forget about ball and stick to hockey.&rdquo;Even George&rsquo;s hockey career had its unexpected turns. Typical of his generation, George was a Foster Hewitt radio fan who dreamed of being a Maple Leaf and fancied himself as Harvey Jackson in street shinny games at Lalconbridge.After playing with other stull promising youngsters as Tod Sloan and Tim Horton on Falconbridge and Copper Cliff minor hockey teams, George believed he was on the verge of realizing his. ambition when Leaf scout Bob Wilson discovered him at Copper Cliff and signed him to a &lsquo;C&rsquo; form.&ldquo;I thought I might wind up going to St. Michael&rsquo;s, like Horton and Sloan had,&rdquo; he recalls. &ldquo;But instead I didn&rsquo;t hear a word from Leafs way into the next fall.&rdquo;At that time, Stratford&rsquo;s Dave Pinkney was seeking player help from Toronto Marlboros and Stafford Smythe, then the&rdquo; Marlie manager, picked the obscure Armstrong out of his reserve list and offered him on loan. Proceeding to George&rsquo;s home near Sudbury, Pinkney signed the 17-year-old youngster for schooling, room board and $3 a week spending money.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d never had $3 a week in my life and it seemed like a lot,&rdquo; George says. &ldquo;So I took the $100 I got for signing the &lsquo;C&rsquo; form, bought a topcoat, a suit and a pair of shoes and set right out for Stratford, figuring the Leafs had forgotten about me.&rdquo;The trail might have ended there, for George and another junior were battling for the last place on the club right down to the final cutdown day.&ldquo;It was a tossup and I got lucky,&rdquo; he recalls.Stratford got luckier, because that year Armstrong won the OHA Junior A scoring championship with two goals in the final period of the season and added the league&rsquo;s Most Valuable player prize.Needless to relate, he was back in the Toronto system the next season, working his way up through Marlie juniors, the Marlie senior Allan Cup champions and Pittsburgh Hornets to break in with Leafs in the middle of the 1951-52 season.Always perserverent, he&rsquo;s still working his way up in the game as he cuts down in weight. &#9632;

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Leafs ’ Chief Credits Weight Drop For Speedy Getaway

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st 1947Published Weekly, except monthly May through September byKen-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.1434 Ste. Catherine Street WestMontreal 25. Que.Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth;$4.00 in the U.S.A, ano Foreign CountriesEntered as second-class matter. October 3, 1953. at the Post Officeat Rouses Point, N.T., under the Act of March 3rd. 1879 Authorized as second-class mail. Post Offlee Department. OttawaPrinted in CanadaVOL. 12 MONTREAL. OCTOBER 25, 1958 No. 4<h2>Passing the Puck</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01358/1656920-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="374" height="437"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02323/1656913-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="769" height="154"></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;&bull; LARGEST crowd in nine years was on hand to great the Rangers when they opened the 1958-59 season in New York on October 16&hellip; A crowd of 14,059 watched the Rangers play a 4-4 with Boston&hellip; Last year&rsquo;s opener in New York drew 13,595&hellip; In 1948 the season&rsquo;s opener attracted 14,262&hellip; Eddie Shack, New York rookie forward, has such a prominent nose that Goalie Gump Worsley calls him &ldquo;The Young Man with a Born&rdquo;&hellip; Jim Burchard, irrespressible hockey writer of the NY World Telegram and Sun, always refers to Shack as &ldquo;The Horn&rdquo;&hellip; Bill Chadwick, former NHL referee, is coaching and refereeing both, in the first PeeWee League organized on Long Island&hellip; Wally Hergesheimer was given a big hand when introduced at the start of the Rangers opener&hellip; Wally always was a popular player in New York and rightly so, too, as he gave the Blueshirts plenty of good hockey during the five-year tenure with the team&hellip; Hergy scored 109 goals for the Rangers, which makes him the highest goal-getter on this year&rsquo;s team&hellip; Andy Bathgate had 99 goals on the morning of October 18, and is the second highest goal scorer on Rangers&hellip; Two NHL clubs, Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks, will stop at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York this season&hellip; Boston Bruins are sporting glittering gold pants in all their home games this season&hellip; The players were whistling at each other when they tried them on for size the other day&hellip; Charlies L. (Lamie) Crovat is starting his 33rd year as one of the minor hockey officials at Madison Square Garden. Lamie is the official scorer at all Ranger home games. He broke in as a minor NY official with the Americans in 1925.&bull; RANGERS ARE in the market for another defenseman&hellip; They have two players in mind and will be satisfied if they can land either one&hellip; Shack and John Hanna have the best of their five rookies to date although Jim Bartlett looks better each game&hellip; Hap Day was presented with gold miniature of the Stanley Cup at a pre-game ceremony in Maple Leaf Gardens last week&hellip; Col. W.A.H. MacBrien made the presentation on behalf of Maple Leaf Gardens&hellip; Day was a member of seven Stanley Cup teams with Toronto&hellip; five as a coach, one as a player and one as assistant general manager&hellip; The best Toronto could do on Detroit ice in seven starts last season was one tie&hellip; Detroit won 10 and tied two in 14 games against the Leafs last year&hellip; Lou Fontinato&rsquo;s new philosophy is contained on a card he carries in his wallet. &ldquo;What is charity?&rdquo; it reads. &ldquo;It is silence when your words would hurt.&rdquo; &ldquo;The advice will save me money with referees,&rdquo; says the Rangers colorful rearguard&hellip; Eddie Slowinski will work as a linesman in Buffalo this year&hellip; Hy Buller will do the same thing in Cleveland, as will Walt Atanas in Springfield. It is nice to see former players working as linesman and referees in the various leagues&hellip; Doug Davies, dropped as a National Hockey League linesman this season, will referee in the Eastern League this winter&hellip; When Detroit opened the season in Montreal this year it was the first time since 1941 that the Red Wings opened a new season on the road.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03247/1656906-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="273" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">W. Hergesheimer</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04194/1656899-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="255" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hy Buller</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05171/1656892-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="288" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Slowinski</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06139/1656885-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="275" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Shock</figcaption></div>&bull; TWO NHL teams have new captains this season. The new leaders are Gordie Howe at Detroit and Eddie Litzen-berger at Chicago&hellip; How replaced Red Kelly and Litz replaced no one&hellip; Chicago tried an experiment last year whereby they had four alternate captains but no captain. The other four captains are repeaters. They are Fern Flaman at Boston. Maurice Richard at Canadiens, George Armstrong at Toronto, and George (Red) Sullivan at New York&hellip; George Hayes, biggest and most experienced linesman in the NHL, picked up a six stitches in his head during Toronto&rsquo;s home opener. This brought his total number of stitches since he joined the NHL in 1946 to 80&hellip; Chicago&rsquo;s Bobby Hull is the youngest player in the NHL this season with Toronto&rsquo;s Carl Brewer and Chicago&rsquo;s John McKenzie not too far behind&hellip; Hull won&rsquo;t be 20 until January 3. Brewer turned 20 on October 21 and McKenzie will celebrate his 21st birthday on December 12&hellip; Carl Voss. NHL referee-in-chief, was our first guest in our new television &ldquo;Hockey Preview&rdquo; over Station WCAX, Channel 3, Burling &#9632;

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The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-08101/1656989-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg"></div>Toronto StarBower&rsquo;s Big Boy Is A BurgerBOWER&rsquo;S Big Boy is the juiciest, tastiest, most nutritious hamburger between Winnipeg and the west coast. By the time it has been loaded with tomatoes, cheese, lettuce, relish, onions and pickles, it stands higher than a spitting cat&rsquo;s back. The meat ration is six burgers to a pound of ground steak.&ldquo;At one time, I sued to get eight burgers out of a pound,&rdquo; the creator and distributor of Bower&rsquo;s Bad Boy recalls wistfully, &ldquo;but the poundage went up, along with the price. We practically give it away for 70 cents. It&rsquo;s a whole meal, honest. Where can you get a decent meal these days for 70 cents?&rdquo;Bower&rsquo;s Big Boy is produced by Johnny Bower, proprietor of the Bower beanery in Prince Albert National park. As a sideline, Chef Bower plays goal for Toronto Maple Leafs. At this time of year, the demand for even Bower&rsquo;s Big Boy falls off in the park, so it&rsquo;s almost as automatic as the change of the season for Johnny to hang up his skillet and haul out his skates.For a man who pushes his. product of the kitchen vigorously enough to get 70 cents for a hamburger, Chef Bower does a disappointing job of selling his talents on ice. You might suggest he puts his soul into the sale of the burger because he believes it&rsquo;s the best. That could be, too. But there&rsquo;s nothing that requires an apology in his record of blocking pucks. He was on five American Hockey league all-star teams, and won the league&rsquo;s most-valuable-player award three years in a row. Yet he had a clause in his contract at Cleveland that the Barons couldn&rsquo;t sell him without his consent. When the Leafs grabbed him in the off-season draft, it took him a while to decide whether he&rsquo;d report.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0997/1656982-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="1072" height="1129"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Bower</figcaption></div>Why Wasn&rsquo;t He Drafted Before?THE doubts that assailed Johnny when Toronto drafted him went something like this: &ldquo;Why would a big-league club want me at my age (33)? I&rsquo;m no better than I was four years ago. Why wasn&rsquo;t I drafted then? Is this going to be another experience like the one I had with the Rangers? I thought I played pretty well then&mdash;but they still sent me down.&rdquo;There also was the possibility of a manoeuvre to keep him in the minors&mdash;but with some other club. If he had to remain in the minors, Johnny preferred Cleveland to any other town. That&rsquo;s where he expected to play out the string. Two previous safaris to the big league had ended unhappily. Johnny didn&rsquo;t want to go through that again.&ldquo;My goaling average was reasonably good with the Rangers,&rdquo; Johnny maintains. &ldquo;After all, it was a lastplace team. When (Phil) Watson took over, I was gone. Maybe Phil didn&rsquo;t like my style. Maybe he expected me to fight back when he bawled me out. I never talk back to a coach.&ldquo;The second time I went to the Rangers was when Gump was hurt. We lost 4-3 at Montreal. Then Toronto beat us 3-1 in New York, with the third goal going into an open net. They told me: &lsquo;Here&rsquo;s your ticket&rsquo;&mdash;never even said thanks. Well, here we go again. This time, I&rsquo;m here to stay.&rdquo;Chef Bower enjoys the challenge of catching a berth in the big league at 33. There&rsquo;s another angle. His hockey publicity has been good for business. As goalie for Leafs, he will be on the air and on the screens from coast to coast. He won&rsquo;t be able to build those 70-cent burgers fast enough when he gets back to the kitchen next spring. &#9632;

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01311/1657020-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wally Hergesheimer</figcaption></div><h2>Back To Blues</h2>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The Rangers failed to win a game in their first six starts, but Coach Phil Watson remained calm.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to get started soon. It&rsquo;s like a new ear. Sometimes it takes a while to break it in.&ldquo;We should have won our first three games, but we&rsquo;re a little weak on defense and our play didn&rsquo;t click. You have to score at least 75% of the time when the other team is a man short. That&rsquo;s why we got Wally Hergesheimer.&rdquo;Said Watson: &ldquo;Hergy&rsquo;s got the experience to help us. Some of our rookies still haven&rsquo;t, got the feel of the big league. Jim Bartlett is the only one who has shown anything.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Slow Start: “We’ll Get Going”-Phil

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Punch Imlach differs from the old doll who dwelled in the brogan in one respect&mdash;the Toronto Maple Leaf assistant manager has so many defensemen he doesn&rsquo;t know&rsquo; what to do.It was the intention of Leaf coach Billy Reay to carry only five rearguards into the current NHL campaign, but waiver rules, the unexpected brilliance of a junior and the alarming collapse of veterans has made pruning the surplus from the team&rsquo;s seven-man stock as delicate a project as heart surgery.Instead of resolving the problem, Leafs&rsquo; humiliating start of the campaign only complicated it. In scoring eight goals behind the defense, Chicago Black Hawks pointed up the weakness of the overall picture with 3-1 and 5-3 wins in a home-and-honie round. But they did the least damage to the two defensemen who could most easily be out.These would be rookie Carl Brewer, a 20-year-old Marlboro junior, and Steve Kraftcheck. American League all-star at Cleveland last season. Since Brewer started the season as au amateur on trial and Kraftcheck is on the protected list for only the first time, neither would be suject to waivers.And waivers are Leafs&rsquo; prime fear since they have not abandonned hope even on the least Promising of the aspirants.<h2>Part Of The Headache</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02282/1657058-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="532" height="536"><figcaption class="caption-body">Steve Kraftcheck</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03219/1657051-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="528" height="538"><figcaption class="caption-body">Noel Price</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We are trying to develop a farm system and bring players along.&rdquo; Imlach explains. &ldquo;If we lose players on waivers, we can&rsquo;t accomplish that. And if we can&rsquo;t get them waived to the minors, they won&rsquo;t get the proper seasoning and we still can&rsquo;t accomplish. our purpose.&rdquo;Of the seven defensemen Leafs carried to the eve of the season, Tint Horton, Marc Reaume. Bob Baun. Noel Price and Jim Morrison were all protected and could be lost in return for mere money when placed on the waiver list. Since filthy lucre cannot carry the puck or score a goal. Leafs attempted to break the traffic jam by dealing Morrison to Boston Bruins in exchange for 3 2-year-old Allan Stanley.Stanley is not subject to waivers and Imlach and acting manager Stafford Smlythe made the deal figuring that the former Bruin could be inserted in the farm system if he failed to make Leafs. But even this did nothing to reduce the surplus since both dealers were convinced Stanley could indeed help Leafs.Stanley Helps Left Side&ldquo;We are thin on left defense and Stanley can bolster that position for us,&rdquo; Imlach points out. &ldquo;He is experienced and steady.&ldquo;On top of that, Bruins used him on the power play last year, and when they were shorthanded as well as on his regular shift. He&rsquo;s an all-round player and we are short of them.&rdquo;Toronto&rsquo;s best defenseman in the opener&mdash;although far from that in Leaf&rsquo;s second game&mdash;Stanley, by living up to Imlach&rsquo;s expectations, would leave only the aforementioned Brewer and Kraftcheck available for export without waivers.Brewer, however, was the toast of training camp. Although inexperienced and light for a defenseman, the youngster showed more poise than the veterans.shots with an expert touch and blocked pucks and puck carriers extremely well.&ldquo;He looks too good to pass up,&rdquo; shrugs Punch &ldquo;And he&rsquo;s certainly not going to learn anything more in junior hockey than he has already learned.&rdquo;Instead of signing Brewer immediately, Beats employed him on the five-game trial permitted all amateurs, hoping to untangle their, problem before the fifth game elapsed.Kraftcheck, meanwhile, was scheduled for shipment to Rochester to help fulfill Toronto&rsquo;s commitment to halt stock the jointly sponsored Leaf-Canadies affiliate there. But Reay intervened, pointing out that Steve offset his lack of speed by making fewer mistakes than some of the younger players and by his contribution to the new Toronto power play.The 29-year-old former New York Ranger promptly rewarded his coach&rsquo;s faith by scoring the only Leaf goal of the season opener off the power play and by combining with Brewer to produce the best and only respectable defensive record of that disasterous weekend.If Brewer and Kraftcheck continue to prove they belong in the NHL. Imlach may have to deal off his surplus.Demotions could be made on convenience rather than merit and the Brewer-Kraftcheck combination cut anyway? But this is unlikely, unless all seven rearguards perform on a par. And since waivers are the only other alternative, Imlach would prefer to deal and obtain players than cash.Noel Price, who sat out the first two games, is the likely bait in any such transaction.&ldquo;Actually I&rsquo;d deal almost anyone on the club it I could get something that would help us more,&rdquo; Punch says. &ldquo;But me other clubs aren&rsquo;t offering anything that would make us bite.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Too Much Quantity, Not Enough Quality, Leals’ Defense Problem

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;If the Toronto Maple Leafs are ready to make a deal for a defenseman then so are the New York Rangers. At least that&rsquo;s what Coach Phil Watson of the Rangers says.&ldquo;Right now we&rsquo;re looking for another defenseman,&rdquo; said Watson. &ldquo;We think one of the other clubs will unload one of their spares soon and we&rsquo;ll be right there to grab him.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll make a trade to get one too, but not at the expense of getting rid of one of our young players.&rdquo; &#9632;

Blues Ready To Deal For Rearguard

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Walter Edgar Hergesheimer, the little hockey player with more guts than the quantity in storage tank at the Fulton Fish Market, has returned to the Rangers.General Manager Muzz Patrick called Hergy from Buffalo after coach Phil Watson said he wanted more strength on the New York power play.It was an extraordinary move because right wing Hergy is the antithesis of everything in a forward the Blue management stands for. Wally is small (5-8, 155 pounds) and old (31) as hockey players go. The Rangers go for big and young skaters.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04167/1657113-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="257" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Camille Henry</figcaption></div>Wait, though! This is not a madness move. It was well-calculated as Watson will admit.&ldquo;We must improve the power play,&rdquo; Watson explained. &ldquo;Against Detroit the other night they scored two goals while we were a man up.&rdquo;Watson&rsquo;s plan is to use Hergy solely for the power play with Camille Henry and one of the centers. In that way, a player like Dean Prentice&mdash;used as a penalty-killer and on his regular turn&mdash;will be saved from overwork.Power Play Performers Are GoneLast year the Ranger power play generally had Henry with Dave Creighton and Guy Gendron. Bill Gadsby and Andy Bathgade had the points. Gendron and Creighton are gone to Boston and Toronto, respectively, forcing a re-alignment on the Blues.It doesn&rsquo;t matter why the Rangers brought Wally back or how long he stays, what matters is that he has accomplished the near-impossible by returning to New York.For three years he was leading New York scorer tallying 26, 30 and 27 goals from 1951-52 through 1953-54.Toward the end of the 1953-54 campaign Hergy broke his leg in a game against Boston.You only expect this sort of thing from guys like Hergy. His entire life has been checkered with tragedy, immediately followed by startling recovery.In 1944, he lost the first two fingers of his right hand at the knuckles and damaged a third in a factory punch press accident. Despite the mishap, Hergy starred in junior hockey and reached the big leagues with Rangers in 1951. The farcture was slow in healing. So slow that Hergy missed the first 18 games of the next season. But he came back and in his first game scored a picture, breakaway goal on his first shot at the Boston net.Tragedy Has Followed HimHe was just rounding into shape a couple of games later when Dame (or is it Dam) Misfortune struck again. This time it was against Toronto and again a break of the same leg. That killed that season but not Hergy. He returned in 1955-56 to play a full 70 games and scored 22 goals and 18 assists. Then he was traded to Chicago for Red Sullivan.Wally had a poor year with Hawks winding up with another injury. He recovered last season, played 70 games with Buffalo and tallied 26 goals and 21 assists.When Buffalo became Ranger property this year so did Hergy. He didn&rsquo;t figure to fit into Blue plans yet there was that outside chance.There were 42 players at Niagara Falls on Sept. 11 when the Rangers opened training camp. Rookies were there fighthing for jobs and the vet Rangers had theirs to defend.The first man on the ice at Niagara Falls was the longest shot of all. He was Wally Hergesheimer and he made it again&hellip; mostly on guts. &#9632;

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Long-faced Watson Calls On Hergy For Powerplay

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Assistant General Manager Punch Imlach and Coach Billy Reay have started cracking the whip at Leaf&rsquo;s practices.During one practice Imlach needled the players from a box seat in the Gardens. Then he added insult to injury by having his lunch brought in during the practice.When one player commented, Punch retorted: &ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t eat after those two Chicago losses, so its only fair that you fellows watch me enjoy a sandwich.&rdquo; &#9632;

Poor Start Lost Punch His Appetite; It’s Back In Box

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div>(As seen in the Montreal Gazette)The Hawks Fast StartDon&rsquo;t look now, but isn&rsquo;t that the Chicago Black Hawks perched on top of the National Hockey League standings? They may not remain there long, but Manager Tommy Ivan and Coach Rudy Pilous will be able to reminisce at some future date: &ldquo;Back there in 1958 when we were leading the league&hellip;&rdquo;The Hawks beat the Toronto Maple Leafs twice and tied the New York Rangers in their first three starts, and the guy who shot boles in the Leafs was a former Leaf, Tod Sloan, who fired four goals against them. They&rsquo;ll do it every time.Sloan scored 13 goals last season for the Leafs and the latter didn&rsquo;t see fit to protect him from the draft. The Black Haw&rsquo;ks picked him up for $15,000 and he is already beginning to show his gratitude, since he hasn&rsquo;t made any secret of the fact that he wasn&rsquo;t too happy with the Toronto club for several seasons. He was a good hockey player for the Leafs away back when he was happy, and if he is happy in his Chicago surroundings he could become a good one again for the Hawks.Sometimes all a team needs to play up to its full potential is a fast start, and that&rsquo;s something the Hawks haven&rsquo;t had in years. Toe Blake was pointing out a week ago that the Hawks have some good players, but if they hoped to make a playoff spot they would have to start winning a few games from the Rangers. They haven&rsquo;t beaten them yet, but that tie looks promising.Chicago, claimed by some to be the greatest sports city in North America, was once the place that led the National Hockey League in attendance. But a long line of non-contending teams cooled off the enthusiasm. Last season the Hawks drew some good crowds, but only when the colorful and highly-publicized Canadiens were the visiting team.If the Hawks were to come up with a real contender this season, the crowds would return and Jim Norris would get some of his money back, which is something that should happen to you rather than to him. He doesn&rsquo;t need it.They Have Nine NewcomersThe Hawks have nine newcomers in their lineup this season, though five of them were in the league last year. The five are Dollard St. Laurent, Jack Evans, Al Arbour, Danny Lewicki and the aforementioned Sloan. The four rookies are Ken Wharram, with Buffalo last season; Howard Glover, who was with Winnipeg in the Western Hockey League; Earl Balfour, who was with Rochester, and Jack McKenzie, a 20-year-old youth who is making the jump direct from the St. Catharines Juniors.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01381/1657189-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="286" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eric Nesterenko</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02265/1657182-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="275" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03177/1657175-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="245" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al Arbonr</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04126/1657168-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="253" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Evans</figcaption></div>The Hawks have a good goalkeeper in Glenn Hall and they have improved the defense in front of him by adding Dollard St. Laurent; Al Arbour, who was with the Detroit Red Wings last Beason, and Jack Evans, formerly of the New York Rangers.&ldquo;We lost a lot of games by one goal last season,&rdquo; Coach Rudy Pilous remarked the last time we saw him. &ldquo;There were two other teams that had more goals scored against them than were scored against us, but we were the lowest scoring team in the league. If we&rsquo;re going to move up, we&rsquo;ll have to start getting more goals.&rdquo;Hopes To Ride With RookiesWhere are the Black Hawks going to get the necessary extra goals from?The two new experienced forwards with the club are Sloan and Danny Lewicki, who are off to a good start. Sloan, as mentioned before, already has four and Lewicki has two.Now let&rsquo;s&rsquo; look at their four rookie forwards. Ken Wharram, a centre, scored 31 goals for Buffalo in the American Hockey League last season. Howard Glover, who is a younger brother of Cleveland&rsquo;s Freddie Glover, is a big fellow and a right wing.Last year with Winnipeg in the W.H.L. he potted 38 pucks. Earl Balfour, who plays left wing, is the same guy who played 59 games for the Toronto Leafs in the 1955-56 season. With Rochester last year he finished with 27 goals. Young Jack McKenzie was an outstanding right wing with the Tee Pees last season. Bobby Hull moved up from the same team a year ago and did all right in the big league.The Hawks still have Litzenberger, Nesterenko, Skov, Lindsay and Hull. If some of the rookies produce, the Hawks could make the playoffs. Tom Walsh, the press agent for the basketball Globetrotters, was in Chicago when the Hawks opened at home against the Rangers. He was a visitor here yesterday.&ldquo;They drew 12,000 to the game and a lot of people had gone to Milwaukee for the World Series,&rdquo; said Tom. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ll draw big if they stay among the first four.&rdquo; Tom took a deep breath and then said something we don&rsquo;t believe: &ldquo;Jim Norris would. &#9632;

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Playing the field

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><h2>A Very Solid Trio</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05113/1657248-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="517" height="557"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Fontinato</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0696/1657241-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="543" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Gadsby</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0743/1657234-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg" title="f0006-07" width="497" height="525"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Howell</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Ed. Note&mdash;This is port two of a survey of the New York Rangers chances in the current NHL race. This final installment asseses the defense and goalkeepers.One would have thought the Rangers&rsquo; management was satisfied with the performance of it&rsquo;s defense at the end of last season.Had the lads not cut the goals against record by 39 from 227 to 188 from what was the worst in the league to second best? They did. And wasn&rsquo;t, it the best Blue backline effort since Muzz Patrick and Phil Watson manned Manhattan&rsquo;s battlements? It was.Yet, in spite of the achievements of Lou Fontinato, Bill Gadsby, Harry Howell, Jack Evans and Larry Cahan. the boss-men voted for a change. They left Evans unprotected in the draft and he was immediately corraled by Chicago.This does not mean the Blues made a boo-boo because, as GM Muzz Patrick pointed out. Evans did not figure in Rangers&rsquo; plans whether he was around or not.The fact remains, however, that Evans&rsquo; loss has created a gap and filling this hiatus is the most important problem as far as the New York defense is concerned. For, Evans is a player with seven full NHL seasons behind him and, if nothing else, had that experience going for him. There is no substitute for experience.Candidates for the opening were Larry Cahan, John Hanna. Bill Dobbyn, Ralph Keller, Ivan Irwin and Aldo Guidolin. The latter two were almost immediately scratched because &rsquo;the management wanted to go with the kids if at all possible. When the season opened Cahan and Hanna were picked to alternate between the fourth and fifth defense post.Eye Leafs, Bruins, HabsLast year Hanna played 48 games with Three Rivers in the Quebec Hockey League and seven with Providence in the American League. He started the semester poorly, was plagued by injuries but rallied for a strong finish. He had a good training camp and that&rsquo;s why he got the nod.Cahan played 34 games with Rangers last year as fifth defenseman. There were times when he showed something other than mediocrity but it wasn&rsquo;t enough to satisfy Watson and Patrick. However, he was deemed better than most in training camp so he remained with the club.Significant is the accord which both Patrick and Watson have regarding the fourth and fifth defenders. They agree the situation with Cahan and Hanna is not suitable to them. Muzz had his eye on Toronto&rsquo;s Jim Morrison before Boston obtained him for Allan Stanley. Muzz now has an eye out for a waiver pick.<h2>On Thin Ice</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0815/1657227-1-eng-US/f0006-082.jpg" title="f0006-08" width="513" height="550"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Cahan</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-097/1657220-1-eng-US/f0006-092.jpg" title="f0006-09" width="527" height="539"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Hanna</figcaption></div>ex-Black Hawk now with Montreal but slated to be dropped when Junior Langlois returns.Or, it could be Bobby Baun or Noel Price from Toronto. Another possibility is Bob Armstrong of Boston or Larry Hillman if Lynn Patrick will let go of him.Watson does not plan to give Hanna a full game until the rookie gets a look at all rinks. In Phil&rsquo;s words Hanna is at best a fifth defenseman. So, in the early running it appears that Fontinato will work with Howell, and Gadsby with Cahan although the combinations will be much more fluid this year than last.Gadsby Still Key ManNo matter how you shake them, there&rsquo;s nothing to show that it is a better backline than last year&rsquo;s unless Cahan suddenly finds himself or Hanna can adequately step in. These are possibilities.Kingpin of the returnees is Gadsby, the balance wheel. of the defense, first all-star and the man who helps make the New York power play. At 31 Gads is the oldest Ranger. It is possible that age will have caught up to this veteran who is starting his 12th full season in the big league. That&rsquo;s a lot. of hockey and it could be wearing on number four by now. But most hockey people will tell you that Gadsby is like Doug Harvey&mdash;he goes on and on. So, don&rsquo;t expect much less than allstar play from him again.Lou Fontinato is back. Last season was Louie&rsquo;s best since donning the Blue in 1954. He led the league in penalties, which is nothing to brag about because many were stupid infractions, still Louie was like a wall blocking shots. He roughed up the opposition and played heady hockey when he didn&rsquo;t lose his temper. This year he should be closer than ever to all-tar status if he doesn&rsquo;t actually reach that coveted rung.A large question mark surrounded Harry Howell at the beginning of last season. He was darn near booed out of Madison Square Garden the year before and Patrick was taking a big chance going with him again. Howell succeeded, playing the 26, at the prime of his career, there is no reason to doubt that Howell will be an efficient defenseman again.Examining his physical equipment, one would think Cahan is a can&rsquo;t-miss first-stringer. He&rsquo;s a good skater, absolutely fearless, has a good shot and is mighty big. What&rsquo;s more, he&rsquo;s a right defenseman which is what the Rangers need.Caban Not Serious EnoughIn spite of these assets, Cahan has given his employers good cause to keep him on the bench. He has not taken his hockey as seriously as they would like and has not shown consistent quality when they did give him a whirl. He has an appalling habit of charging out of position to nail an opponent and getting caught up ice as said player blithely skates around him. He has an affinity for cheap penalties because he often forgets discretion in favor of a body check. Going on 25 years, Larry has enough good hockey years ahead if he refines his faux pas.Very little can be said about Hanna, except that he&rsquo;s green to the big league. He&rsquo;s tough, and has other essentials except experience and a long reach needed for poke checking.It is possible that an improved Cahan could fill Evans&rsquo; shoes but the Cahan of last year would fall short of the mark. Like wise, it would take at least half a season for Hanna at his very best to equal Evan&rsquo;s, experiencewise and otherwise, so there again something is to be desired.This will then create an added burden on the goaltender be it Gump Worsley or Marcel Paille.The Gump was injured last week when Gordie Howe, tripped by Gadsby, hurtled into him in the third Ranger game of the season. He suffered a pulled left ankle muscle which will keep him out of action until at least Oct. 22 unless he makes a miraculous recovery.With Worsley in the nets, there is no goaltending problem. He went for a 2.32 average last year, his best ever and second, only to Jacques Plante&rsquo;s 2.09. The Gump, simply, is a very good big league goaltender under any circumstance.Paille, on the other hand, went great guns when he first was called up to replace the injured Worsley last year but faltered later in the campaign and, then, became so miserable he was shipped back to Providence tor Worsley. Paille&rsquo;s illness was described as &ldquo;Rubberitis. an overdose of hockey pucks.&rdquo;The trouble is, with an uncertain Blue defense now, Paille may well face the same attack. Then, what happens? Well, Worsley should be healed before anything grave develops and, then again, Paille may arrive this year as a true bigleaguer It&rsquo;s more possible than impossible.Summing up, the New York picture:There are enough 20-goal men up front to keep Watson from worrying about goals. Rookies Eddie Shack, Earl Ingarfield, Les Colwill and Jim Bartlett have enough promise to be better than those replaced&hellip; given patience. They&rsquo;ll make mistakes but they&rsquo;ll do more hitting and scoring than Foley, etc. The power play will be as good as last year&rsquo;s. Ditto the penaltykillers. The third line is weak and the third line center a problem.The defense is weaker but how much weaker depends, on Caban or his replacement. Gads-by, Howell and Fontinato are as good as any three defenders in the league but that doesn&rsquo;t mean they can compensate for Evans&rsquo; loss. Hanna Has a very outside chance of doing it. Worsley is good enough to hold up a weakened defense. Paille may not be.All things considered the Rangers have in Worsley a better goaler than Toronto and Boston and one who is as good as Detroit&rsquo;s. Montreal&rsquo;s and Chicago&rsquo;s.The Blues have better forwards than any club except Montreal and, maybe, Boston.The defense is inferior to Montreal&rsquo;s, Boston&rsquo;s, and possibly Detroit&rsquo;s. And better than Toronto&rsquo;s and Chicago&rsquo;s.Conclusion: Third place for &#9632;

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Rangers Defense Good--Until You Get To 4th And 5th Man

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Opening hockey night is a gala occasion.The Red Wings were making their 33rd start in the National Hockey League and Olympia Stadium, the huge icehouse out Grand River Ave., was lighted up for its 32nd opening.Into the building streamed the aficionados, hoping to see the Wings get away to a better start than a year ago when they lost their first three games on home ice.A total of 10.633 turned out to hail a new captain, Gordie Howe; to cheer on other old favorites such as Terry Sawchuk, Red Kelly, Marcel Pronovost. Alex Delvecchio and others; to inspect four raw rookies, Len Lunde, Charlie Burns, Claude Laforge and Gerry Ehman. and to welcome a pair of recently acquired veterans, Gus Mortson and Dune Fisher.It is doubtful if more than a half-dozen of the spectators could have identified one other new member of the Red Wing family, Julian Klymkiw. assistant to trainer Ross (Lefty Wilson). This also was Klymkiw&rsquo;s debut in NHL hockey and, attired in white slacks and white T-shirt, he hustled helpfully between the Red Wing dressing room and the bench. Known as Big Julie to the players, he admitted to being just as nervous in bis duties as the skaters were in their.Shaking So Hard. He Couldn&rsquo;t Tie SkatesBut the real tension was ahead, for Klymkiw became a player before the game was over. When he succeeded Wilson as assistant trainer, Big Julie also succeeded him as the Olympia&rsquo;s standby goalie.<h2>Stands In&hellip; &hellip; For Him</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01333/1657286-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="558" height="546"><figcaption class="caption-body">Julian Klymkiw</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02300/1657279-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="552" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gump Worsley</figcaption></div>Thus when Lome (Gump) Worsley, goalie for the rival New York Rangers, was injured in the third period and unable to return, Klymkiw got his orders to action.&ldquo;I was shaking so hard I could hardly tie my skates.&rdquo; confessed Big Julie later. &ldquo;And then when it came time to skate out and go to work&hellip;&rdquo;Anyway, it was an experience Klymkiw never will forget and he never wants to duplicate even though the possibility always is there.There was no Hollywood ending to this story. Klymkiw did not go. on and beat his own teammates and produce a Ranger victory. On the other hand, he did little worse than Worsley, the regular Ranger.It was 1-0. when Worsley was hurt and Detroit eventually won by a 3-0 count. Howe triggered a goal past each goalie while Pronvost also dented Klymkiw.&ldquo;We certainly aren&rsquo;t blaming Julie when our team couldn&rsquo;t even get a goal,&rdquo; New York general manager Muzz Patrick said later.&ldquo;In fact, he was blameless on the two that got by him, arid did you notice that all three goals were scored when our top line (Larry Popein, Andy Bathgate and Dean Prentice) was bn the ice?&rdquo;ICE CHIPS: This was the action on the play on which Worsley was hurt.Kelly and Howe broke over their own blue line together, Kelly carrying the puck&hellip; At the Ranger blue line he fed a short lead pass to Howe, who sped between the defense to take it.Bill Gadsby, New York defenseman, caught Howe&rsquo;s skates with his stick and upset the Detroiter, who catapulted into the net headfirst and crashed heavily into Worsley.Howe was up after a few seconds but Worsley lay prone&hellip; Dr. j. Donald Sheets, Red Wing team physician, made a preliminary examination on the ice, then signaled for a stretcher&hellip; Worsley wap moved, to the first aid room where the injury was diagnosed as a pulled ligament of the left leg&hellip; Worsley left the building on crutches.Gadsby drew a two-minute tripping penalty from Referee Red Storey on the play..Howe&rsquo;s, two goals came on similar plays&hellip; Each time he was going straight down the middle with the puck when he fired, the first from 30-foot range and the second from 45 feet out&hellip; Each time the. puck was home before the beaten goalie could move.Pronovost&rsquo;s goal was one carrying his special trademark&hellip; The veteran&rsquo; defenseman rushed almost the length of the ice on a solo, crossed the goal month 20 feet out and flashed home a low backhander.Terry Sawchuk made 24 saves for his shutout&hellip; It gave him string of five periods of shutout hockey&hellip; In the opener the night before at Montreal he was nicked twice in the first 10 minutes and then was flawless the rest of the way&hellip; It was a 2-0 Montreal triumph there.The opening-night, crowd In Detroit was 1.132 larger than the first night a year ago&hellip; The fact that the Wines trained at.After the opening weekend winger Jack McIntyre&hellip; was farmed out io Hershey&hellip; Detroit started its working-agreement set up with the AHL team a year ago&hellip; Three top farm hands were assigned there earlier defensemen Gord Strale and Jack Hendrickson and winger Tom McCarthy.McIntyre saw limited action in the first two games and was due for eyen less after the return of Nick Mickoski&hellip; A dislocated shoulder suffered In practice sidelined Mickoski for three weeks&hellip; McIntyre joined Detroit a year ago at mid-season&hellip; After no goals in 27 games at Chicago, he got in 41 games for Detroit.The first two games saw coach Sid Abel stick entirely with lines as set tut in training camp&hellip; This means the continued. &#9632;

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Gump Gives Out So Wings’ New Kid Stands In

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03231/1657317-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Defenseman Doug Harvey sits under his sweater in the Canadiens&rsquo; dressing room before game with Toronto Maple Leafs. With cast to his knee the All-Star rearguard is expected to be out for another ten days.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;The &rsquo;OL Debbil Injury&rsquo; a familiar face in the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; dressing room last season, poked his head into the room for the second time this season, and didn&rsquo;t pick on any small fry to sideline either. Doug Harvey the best defenseman in the National Hockey League, if not the best of all-time was his victim. He can now be seen hobbling around the Montreal Forum with a cast up to his right knee. He was hit on the ankle by a puck off the stick of Boston&rsquo;s Doug Mohns. The puck chipped and fractured a bone in the shin. Harvey will be in a cast for another week at least. He&rsquo;ll be back in the lineup in two.Coach Toe Blake got some good news from the hospital last week. Rookie rearguard Junior Langlois, injured with a shoulder separation before the season even started, is skating again and will return to action in another week.In the meantime Blake has been going with four defensemen.The loss of Harvey merely dropped the Canadiens into the same category, defensively, as the rest of the league. Without him the Halts, while losing one, winning two and tieing one. have looked anything but the world&rsquo;s champions they are.In first half dozen games this season Blake has found Out that:(1) Bert Olmstead&rsquo;s left, wing slot will be harder to fill than he first thought.(2) Playing with four lines in the National Hockey League is not all that it&rsquo;s cracked up to be.(3) Doug Harvey leaves a pretty big gap on the defense when he&rsquo;s not on the ice.Taking each item one by one. Blake never figured that Olmstead&rsquo;s left wing slot, alongside Beliveau and Geoffrion would be easy to fill. After all Bert gave some pretty good years with the club, set a record In assists for left wingers and dug the puck out. of the corners with the same ambition that a beauty contest judge tackles his job.With Alvin McDonald ready for big league work and young Ralph Backstrom just about ready, the Habs had to let Bert go. But there must have been a few occasions in this early season when he wished Olmstead was out there with Beliveau and Geoffrion.McDonald, a lanky kid, with a pretty good head and good legs hasn&rsquo;t fitted in the way Blake would have like.) him Beliveau and Geoffrion will tell you that Olmstead did the work for them and they got the glory. He did the checking, they scored the goals. McDonald has shown himself to be a pretty fair puck carrier but not a great checker.So far Blake used McDonald, Ralph Backstrom and Marciel Bonin for the position. Backstrom has looked best, at right wing with Marshall and Bonin and Bonin has looked pretty good on that line as well. But Bonin is a good checker and a hard worker. In all probability he&rsquo;ll end up with the job as left winger on the second line. That will leave Marshall, McDonald and Backstrom as the fourth, line.Blake has already admitted that he doesn&rsquo;t like carrying four lines. By the time a line gets set for a stint it&rsquo;s pretty well copied out. Whether Toe drops one forward remains to be seen. While he uses four lines, his big guns lose a turn on the ice. And while you have the Richards, Moore, Beliveau and Geoffrion on the bench you can&rsquo;t expect too many goals. It&rsquo;s possible that Toe will drop a forward, going with three lines, a penalty killing pair and five defensemen. Who he will drop up front remains to be seen.If he goes with five rearguards Blake will have to Let one go back there as well. With Langlois on the sidelines the Habs picked up Ian Cushenan from the Hawks. Their original intentions were to ship him off to Rochester when Langlois returned. But Harvey was injured and that gave Ian a chance ro get in some regular licks. He teamed with Bob Turner, and in three games, playing regularly he showed that he has plenty of ability There&rsquo;s a good chance that lan, with a little coaching from Blake and aid from the likes of Harvey and Johnson could become a real good rearguard. He isn&rsquo;t afraid to hit, carries the puck well and doesn&rsquo;t seem to be taking those foolish penalties he was famous for in Chicago.With the lack of defensemen in the Canadiens organization Cushenan must rate as the number one man, outside the immediate five the Canadiens started the season with. If he continues to improve he Could push someone right off the squad. &rsquo;In the mean time the Rangers have indicated they are in the market for a d enseman. &lsquo;Cush&rsquo; is, Watson&rsquo;s type. Big. strong and with the ability to learn. If the Habs drop-him they may find Cushenan lining, up against them in a New York sweater.So Blake has, his problems. &#9632;

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Blake Finds Olmstead’s Spot Harder To Fill Than Expected

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO. Ill.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05126/1657448-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="297" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glenn Holl</figcaption></div>Defense was a serious problem in the Black Hawk wigwam last season even though the 202 goals allowed by Glenn Hall gave him a respectable per game average of 2.88 and played an important role in earning him the rating as National League All-Star netminder.Hall displayed uncanny ability in coming up with that BIG save in the clutch as well as at countless other times. It was inevitable, however, that such playing could not continue indefinitely and when the season ended one of the first things General Manager Tommy Ivan thought about was help for Glenn.The happenings this summer bent in that direction&mdash;the acquisition of Al Arbour from Detroit, Jack Evans from the Rangers and Dollard St. Laurent from the Canadiens&mdash;gave the Hawks at least on paper what many thought would be the most improved rearguard lineup in the NHL.After Chicago&rsquo;s opening three games earlier this month the paper figuring seemed to be going along very accurately and Ivan and Coach Rudy Pilous admitted they didn&rsquo;t think they would have to be worrying much about rearguarding this season. Hall has been happy too.Only surviving blue line twosome on the Hawks from last season are big Elmer Vasko and hard working Pierre Pilote. The other Hawk duo puts Arbour beside Evans. They began hitting it off well from the first week in training. This leaves St, Lament as undoubtedly the best fifth rearguard in the NHL.It was a rare, but pleasureable fact that found Hall called upon for only 77 saves in the first three Chicago games an average of less than 26 per game. His opponents at the same time&mdash;Lome Worsley and Johnny Bowers&mdash;had 160 pucks rapped at their nets.Hall yielded only four goals in those first 180 minutes of regular scheduled competition and three of the four were tallied while the Black Hawks were shorthanded. The team was short&mdash; &#9632;

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Improved Defense Shows In Hawks’ GA Statistics

One Goal by Top Three After one week of play in the current season the three top scorers in the NHL hod netted but one goal amongst them. The top man, Litzenberger of Chicago, had seven assists. Bathgate of Rangers had one goal and five assists while Henri Richard had six assists.Rooks Shy On Goals After the first 22 gomes in the NHL only two rookies hod scored a goal. Eddie Shack, the New York Rangers rookie scored once and Len Lunde of the Detroit Red Wings had scored once.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01366/1657362-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="567" height="265"></div><h2>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYED</h2>WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 19.Wed. Oct. 15&mdash;Boston 4 at Rangers 4Thurs. Oct. 16&mdash;Toronto 3 at Cdns 4Thurs. Oct. 16&mdash;Chicago 7 at Detroit 2Sat. Oct. 18&mdash;Rangers 2 at Cdns 2Sat. Oct. 18&mdash;Boston 2 at Toronto 3Sat. Oct. 18&mdash;Detroit 3 at Chicago 1Sun Oct. 19&mdash;Canadiens 5 at Ran. 3Sun. Oct. 19&mdash;Toronto 1 at Detroit 3Sun. Oct. 19&mdash;Boston 4 at Chicago 1<h2>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK</h2>ENDING OCTOBER 26, 1968Thurs. Oct. 23&mdash;Chicago at CanadiensThurs. Oct. 23&mdash;Boaton at DetroitSat. Oct. 25&mdash;Boston at CanadiansSat. Oct; 25&mdash;Detroit at TorontoSat. Oct. 25&mdash;Chicago at RangersSun. Oct. 26&mdash;Canadiens at DetroitSun. Oct. 26&mdash;Toronto at Rangers<h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02302/1657355-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="581" height="2715"></div>WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16Boston 4 at New. York 4NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;The Boston Bruins scored four goals in the third period to come from behind to get a 4-4 tie with the winless New York Rangers. It was the Rangers home opener of the season and a crowd of-over 14,000 sat in on the game.The 4-4 tie was the second that these clubs have played this season. The Bruins opened their season in Boston anti played a 4-4 tie with the Ranger. In that game they came from behind a 3-1 lead to do it.Dean Prentice scored two first period goals, the second when Bob Armstrong was in the penalty box to give the Rangers a fat 2-0 lead.In the second Sullivan scored while his team was playing a man short. John Hanna was in the penalty box. Then Popein scored to make it 4-0 while Labine was serving a penalty.The Bruins got third period goals from Labine. Mohns, Toppazzini and Horvath. The last goal came with a minute and 33 seconds remaining.Boston&mdash;Goal; Simmons; defense: Flaman, Morrison, Armstrong, Mohns, Boivin. Hillman, forwards: Mackell, Toppazzini. McKenney, Horvath, Stajgiuk, Bucyk, Johnson, Labine, Gendron. Reibel, Chevrefils.New York&mdash;Goal: Faille; defense: Howell, Fontinato, Gadsby. Cahan, Hanna; forwards: Popein, Bathgate, Prentice. Sullivan, Hebenton. Shack, Ciesla. Henry, Colwill, Bartlett, Ingarfield, Hergesheimer.First Period1&mdash;New York: Prentice(Popein. Bathgate)&hellip;&hellip; 4.442&mdash;New York: Prentice(Bathgate&hellip;&hellip; 11.20Penalties: Labine 0.47, Fontinato 6.44, Armstrong 9.29, Hanna 6.24.Second Period3&mdash;New York: Sullivan&hellip;&hellip; 8.084&mdash;New York: Popein(Bathgate)&hellip;&hellip; 17.13Penalties: Ciesla 5.16, Hanna.55.Labine 15.37, Sullivan 18.48,Third Period5&mdash;Boston: Labine(Chevrefils, Mohns)&hellip;&hellip; 8.236&mdash;Bodton: Moline (Flaman).. 15.26 7&mdash;Boston: Toppazzini(Boivin, Gendron).&hellip;&hellip; 16.008&mdash;Boston: Horvath(Reibel. Stasiuk)&hellip;&hellip; 18.27Penalties: Flaman 5.42, Sullivan 18.27.THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16Toronto 3 at Montreal 4MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The Montreal Canadiens blew a two goals first period lead and then came back with two in the final period to, edge past a fighting Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; club 4-3.It was Dickie Moore&rsquo;s second goal of the night at 17:09 of the final period that gave the Habs their third win in four starts.The Canadiens opened the scoring in the first period when Maurice Richard took a pass from brother Hendi Richard and slid it past Johnny BowerDickie Moore move it 2-0 at 15:51 on passes from Henri Richard and Johnson. Then the Leafs went to work. At 17:25 Pulford blasted a 15-footer past Plante and at 18:11 he pulled the string on exactly the same play to even the count.Dave Creighon made it 8-2 for the Leafs in the middle frame, scoring, while Canadiens were two men short. Pronovost was serving a five minute major for fighting and Provost was in the penalty box for hooking.Boom Boom Geoffrion tied the score in the third while Tim Horton was in the penalty. box tor tripping. Then Moore. climaxed, the night with his second.Toronto.&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Brewer,&rsquo; Horton. Kraftcheck, Stanley, Resume; forwards: Olmsteao, Armstrong, Creighton. Brian Cullen. Duff, Harris Mahovlich, Pulford, Marshall, Nevin, Stewart.Montreal.&mdash;Goal: Plante, defense: Johnson, Talbot, Turner, Cushenan; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Bonin, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore. Goyette, Provost, Pronovost, Don Marshall, Backstrom, McDonald.Referee: Dalton McArthur; linemen: Georges Hayes Art Skow.First Period1&mdash;Montreal: M. Richard(H. Richard, Turner)&hellip; 8:362&mdash;Montreal: Moore(H. Richard, Johnson)&hellip; 15:513&mdash;Toronto: Pulford(Cullen, Horton)&hellip;&hellip; 17:244&mdash;Toronto: Pulfowl(Cullen, Stanley)&hellip;&hellip; 18:11Penalties; Stanley 1:47; Brewer 9:37: Pronovost, minor, major, misconduct 13:17; Mahovlich major, misconduct 13:17; Provost 20:00.Second Period5&mdash;Toronto: Creighton(Armstrong, Stanley)&hellip;&hellip; 1:36Penalties: W. Marshall 5:58; M. Richard 8:20; Mahovlich 13:29; Olmstead misconduct 13:29; Johnson 19:26.Third Period6&mdash;Mont real; Geoffrion&hellip;&hellip;6&mdash;Montreal: Geoffrion (Beliveau, H. Richaid)&hellip; 7:417&mdash;Montreal: Moore(H. Richaid. Johnson)&hellip; 17:09 Penalties: Horton 5:55.Stops:Bower&hellip;&hellip; 12 10 14&mdash;36Plante&hellip;&hellip; 11 13 12&mdash;36Chicago 7 at Detroit 2DETROIT. Mich.&mdash;The Chicago Black Hawks made it four straight without a defeat this season, by heating the Detroit Red Wings 7-2 here. The Hawks scored four goals in the final period to secure the win.Lorne Ferguson and Eric Nesterenko each scored two goals while Danny Lewicki, Dollard St-Laurent and Ken Wharram scored the others.The Hawks led 2-0 in the first and 3&mdash;1 at the end of the second. The closest, the Wings got was 2-1 when Len Lunde scored hie first NHL goal.The Hawks closed out the second period leading 3-1 and then ran up a big lead in the third. They scored one goal while they themselves were a man short.Their first goal came while Wings&rsquo; Forbes Kennedy was in the penalty box. Likewise Wings&rsquo; first goal came when Hawks Al Arbour was serving a minor.The Hawks closed out the second Terry Sawchuk despite the fact they had only 30 shots on him.Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Evans, Arbour. St-Laurent. Vasko, Pilote; formards: Sloan. Nesterenko, Litzenberger, Hull, Murphy, Skov, Lindsay, McKenzie,. Glover, Ferguson, Balfour. Wharram.Detroit&mdash; Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Kelly, Godfrey. Pronovost. Mortson, Goegan; forwards: Howe, Ullman, Delvecchio, Burnt. Fisher. NcNeill, Laforge, Lunde, Ehman, Kennedy, McIntyre, Wilson.First Period1&mdash;Chicago. Nesterenko(Pilote. Ferguson)&hellip;&hellip; 9:002&mdash;Chicago. Ferguson(Lewicki, Vasko)&hellip;&hellip; 16:36Penalties: Evans 9:47, Kennedy 8:53, Kelly 19:07.Second Period3&mdash;Detroit, Lunde (McNeill, La forge)&hellip;&hellip; 3:374&mdash;Chicago, Wharram (Hull).. 3:54Penalty: Arbour 3:23.Third Period5&mdash;Chicago; Ferguson(Litzenberger)&hellip;&hellip; 7:174&mdash;Chicago, Lewieki(Litzenberger. St-Laurent) 12:036&mdash;Detroit, McNeill(Lunde, La forge)&hellip;&hellip; 13:048&mdash;Chicago. St-Laurent(Litzenberger)&hellip;&hellip; 16:109&mdash;Chicago, Nesterenko&hellip;&hellip; 18:05Penalties: Goegan 7:57, Balfour 17:37.SATURDAY, October 18,1958New York 2 at Canadians 2New York&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Hanna. Fontinato. Howell, Gadsby. Cahan; forwards: Sullivan. Bathgate. Prentice, Shack. Ingarfield, Hebenton, Ciesla, Colwell, Hergesheimer, Popein, Henry, Bartlett.Canadians&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Johnson. Talbot, Turner. Cushenan; forwards: Goyette, Provost. Pronovost. H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore. Beliveau, Geoffrion, Backstrom, Marshall, Bonin, McDonald.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalty Bonin 17.21.Second Period1&mdash;Canadiens: Geoffrion(McDonald, Beliveau)&hellip;&hellip; 6.572&mdash;New York: Bathgate(Sullivan, Prentice)&hellip;&hellip; 16.58Penalties: Turner 2.54, Bathgate 3.26, Turner 7.35.Third Period8&mdash;Canadians: Bonin(Backstrom, Turner)&hellip;&hellip; 6.554&mdash;New York: Hebenton(Popein, Gadsby)&hellip;&hellip; 18.15Penalties; Hanna 50, Pronovost 18.15.Boston 2 at Toronto 3Boston Goal: Simmons; defense: Armstrong, Boivin, Mouison. Hillman, Flaman; forwards: Toppazzini, MacKell. Gendron. Staeiuk. Bucyk, Reibel, Chevrefils. Labine. McKenney, Johnson, Horvath, Mohns.Toronto Goal.: Bower; defense: Horton, Stahley. Reaume, Kraftcheck. Prive; forwards: Creighton, Armstrong, Olmstead, Migay.. Duff, Marshall. SteWart, Cullen, Harris, Pulford. Mahove<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03234/1657348-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="565" height="534"></div>First Period1&mdash;Boston: Toppazzini(Mackell, Flaman)&hellip;&hellip; 4.02Penalties: Labine 4.15, Mahovlich 5.49. R. Armstrong 9.50. Brewer 13.17, Reibel 14.08. Horton 15.36.Second Period2&mdash;Toronto: Stewart(Duff. Brewer)&hellip;&hellip; 4.133&mdash;Toronto: Brewer(Olmstead, G. Armstrong) 12.36 Penalties: Pulford 1.2, Labine 5.44, Horvath, Olmstead 1.4.06.Third Period4&mdash;Boston: Toppazzini(Morrison. Mackell)&hellip;&hellip; l.355&mdash;Toronto: Stewart(Duff, Harris)&hellip;&hellip; 6.49Penalties: Horvath 5.50, G. Armstrong 10.37.Detroit 3 at Chicago 1Detroit&mdash;Goal; Sawchuk; defense: Pronovost, Godfrey. Kelly. Mortson, Geogan; forwards: Ullman, Howe, Delvecchio, Burns, Wilson. Fisher. Lunde, Laforge, McNeil, Kennedy, Mickoski, Ehman.Chicago&mdash;Goal; Hall; defense: Ar bour, Evans, Pilule, St. Laurent; forwards: Nesterenko, Sloan, Murphy, Lindsay, Lewicki. Ferguson, Litzenberger, Skov, Hull. Wharram, Glover, Balfour, McKenzie.First Period1&mdash;Detroit: Delvecchio (Howe) l.482&mdash;Chicago: Litzenberger (Lewicki)&hellip;&hellip; 15.47Penalties: McNeill 4.44, Godfrey 7.54; Nesterenko 9.50.Second Period3&mdash;Detroit: Delvecchio(Howe, Ullman)&hellip;&hellip; 1.15Penalties: Arbour 0.14, Murphy 10.09.Third Period4&mdash;Detroit: Delvecchio (Howe) 5.17 Penalties: Kelly 2.54, Nesterenko 3.33. Litzenberger 6.47, Godfrey 10.42.SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1958Canadiens 5 at New York 3Canadiens&mdash;Goal: Plante: defense: Johnson, Talbot&rsquo;, Turner, Cushenan; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Backstrom, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Goyette, Provost, Pronovost, Marshall, Bonin, McDonald.New York&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Gadsby, Howell. Fontinato, Hanna, Cahan, forwards: Sullivan, Bathgate. Prentice, Popein, Hebenton, Bartlett. Ciesla, Shack, Hergesheimer, Ingarfield, Henry, Colwill.First Period1&mdash;New York: Fontinato(Popein, Bartlett)&hellip;&hellip; 0.462&mdash;New York: Hergesheimer(Henry, Gadsby)&hellip;&hellip; 8.213&mdash;Canadiens: Beliveau(Geoffrion, Johnson)&hellip;&hellip; 12.404&mdash;New York: Henry(Hebenton, Ciesla)&hellip;&hellip; 14.17Penalties: Popein 11.44, Howell15.03, Talbot 16.43.Second Period5&mdash;Canadiens; M. Richard(Geoffrion, Beliveau)&hellip;&hellip; 6.42Penalties: Shack 5.21, Popein 13.07.Third Period6&mdash;Canadiens: H. Richard(M. Richard, Turner)&hellip;&hellip; 5.507&mdash;Canadiens: M. Richard(Moore, H. Richard)&hellip;&hellip; 6.108&mdash;Canadiens: Geoffrion(Beliveau)&hellip;&hellip; 19.25Penalties: New York, bench penalty (too many men on ice) 19.06.Toronto 1 at Detroit 3Toronto&mdash; Goal: Bower; defense Horton, Stanley, Reaume, Kraftcheck. Price; forwards: Creighton. Armstrong. Olmstead, Migay, Duff, Marshall, Stewart. Cutlen, Harris, Fulford, Mahovlich.Detroit&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Pronovost. Godfrey. Kelly, Mortson, Geogan; forwards: Ullman, Howe, Delvecchio, Burns, Wilson, Fisher, Lunde, Laforge, McNeil, Kennedy, Mickoski, Ehman.First Period1&mdash;Detroit: Ullman(Ehman, Geogan)&hellip;&hellip; 1.06Penalties: Horton 1.06, Burns 12.47.Second Period2&mdash;Detroit: Laforge (Ullman). 14.213&mdash;Detroit: Kelly (Howe.).. 16.20 Penalties: Harris 2.31. team penalty.Duff 9.45, Geogan 14.59.Third Period4&mdash;Toronto: Olmstead(Armstrong)&hellip;&hellip; 1.35Penalty; Howe 9.52.Boston 4 at Chicago 1Boston&mdash;Goal: Simmons; defense: Armstrong, Boivin, Morrison, Hillman, Flaman; forwards: Toppazzini, MacKell, Gendron, Stasiuk, Bucyk, Reibel, Chevrefils, Labine, McKenney, Johnson.Chicago&mdash; Goal: Hall; defense: Albour, Evans, Pilote, St. Laurent; forwards: Nesterenko, Sloan. Murphy,Lindsay, Lewicki, Ferguson. Litzenberger, Skov, Hull, Wharram, Glover, Balfour, McKenzie.First Periodscoring: None.Penalty: Toppazzini 1.06.Second Period1&mdash;Boston: stasiuk(Johnson, Buryk)&hellip;&hellip; 5.402&mdash;Boston: Bucyk.&hellip;&hellip; 7.053&mdash;Boston: Stasiuk(Bucyk, Morrison)&hellip;&hellip; 18.50 Penalty; Pilote 15.19.Third Period4 Boston: Stasiuk (Bolvin).. 14.17.5&mdash;Chicago: Hull (Nesterenko)&hellip;&hellip; 16.26 &#9632;

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On Way To RecordRookie Defenseman Claude Labrosse of the Rochester Americans has one goal to score to tie the club&rsquo;s goal scoring record by defensemen. He scored a goal in his first four games. Junior Langlois holds the record with five.Fourteen NHL PlayersFourteen of Buffalo&rsquo;s 18 players who started the season with the club have seen action in the NHL at one time or another. Five spent the complete season in the majors last year. They are Dea. Dineen, Kachur, Foley and MacDonald.How The Race Goes<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01351/1657486-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="573" height="241"></div>The Point Parade<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02329/1657479-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="585" height="670"></div>LEADERSMost Goals&mdash;Bill Sweeney, Buff, 6.Most Assist&mdash;Bill Schvetz. Clev., Don Hogan, Clev, and Bruce Cline, Buff., 7.Most Penalized Flayer&mdash;Bill Dobbyn, Buff., 32 mins.Leading Goalie&mdash;Marcel Paille, Buff.,6, 13, 0, 2.17.Most Penalized Club&mdash;Buffalo, 110 mts.WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15Springfield 4 at Hershey 5First Period1&mdash;Sprinfield: Schinkel(Pidhirny. J. Anderson)&hellip;&hellip; 5:432&mdash;Springfield: Kilburn(McCreary, Olson)&hellip;&hellip; 6:583&mdash;Hershey; Haley(O&rsquo;Brien, Kullman)&hellip;&hellip; 8:094&mdash;Springfield: Edmundson (McCreary, Kilburn)&hellip;&hellip; 13:33&mdash;Springfield: J. Anderson (Pidhirny, Schinkel)&hellip;&hellip; 16:07Penalties: Hendrickson, (tripping) 8:29; Edmundson (board checking) 8:04; Jim Anderson (high sticking) 9:08; Dale Anderson (cross checking and 10-min. misconduct) 9:59; Strate (holding) 15:29; Schneider (cross checking) 17:54; Hurst (charging) 17:41.Second Period6&mdash;Hershey: Lalande(Price, O&rsquo;Brien)&hellip;&hellip; 16:397&mdash;Hershey: Duff(Gagnon, Nykoluk)&hellip;&hellip; 18:46Penalties: Duff (interference) 0:40; Pidhirny (tripping) 4:53; Price (trip ping) 5:43; Schneider (tripping) 6:05; Mathers (hooking) 13:02.Third Period8&mdash;Hershey: Duff(Nykoluk, Gagnon)&hellip;&hellip; 10:149&mdash;Hershey: Gagnon(Strate, Ziedel)&hellip;&hellip; 17:22Penalties: Zeidel (cross checking) 1:43; Edmundson (tripping) 4:50:Strata (tripping) 14:28; O&rsquo;Brien (holding) 19:33.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17Rochester 3 at Providence 1First Period1&mdash;Providence: Bedard(Poliziani, Leach)&hellip;&hellip; 2:542&mdash;Rochester: Balfour(Rousseau, Migay)&hellip;&hellip; 7:223&mdash;Rochester: Balfour(Rousseau)&hellip;&hellip; 11:14No penalties.Second Period4&mdash;Rochester: Labrosse&hellip;&hellip; 9:11Penalties: Balfour. Cherry, CurryThird PeriodNo scoring.Penalties: Curry, Robertson. Fleming and Elik.Springfield 4 at Cleveland 6First Period1&mdash;Cleveland: Stratton.(Hogan, Shvetz)&hellip;&hellip; 11:252&mdash;Cleveland: Vejprava(Bailey, Hollingworth)&hellip;&hellip; 12:05Penalties: Shvetz, Smith, Edmundson.Second Period3&mdash;Springfield: Sscinkel(J. Anderson)&hellip;&hellip; 15:444&mdash;Cleveland: Bailey(Vejprava, Barlow)&hellip;&hellip; 16:055&mdash;Cleveland: Shvetz(Stratton. Hogan)&hellip;&hellip; 18:56 Penalties: Bailey, Glover, Carmichael, Glover.Third Period6&mdash;Springfield: Pidhirny(Schinkel, J. Anderson)&hellip;&hellip; 0:237&mdash;Springfield: Edmundson(Smith)&hellip;&hellip; 3:428&mdash;Cleveland: Shvetz&hellip;&hellip; 10:399&mdash;Spring field: D. Anderson(F. Smith, Carmichael)&hellip;&hellip; 17:4210&mdash;Cleveland: Vejprava(Barlow, Holling worth)&hellip;&hellip; 19:53SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1958Buffalo 6 at Hershey 3First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Stankewicz. Bobbyn, Foley, Strate.Second Period1&mdash;Hershey: McIntyre(Lalande, Hurst)&hellip;&hellip; 2.342&mdash;Buffalo: Sweeney(Dineen. Kuchur)&hellip;&hellip; 15.553&mdash;Buffalo: Sweeney (Cline).. 17.214&mdash;Buffalo: Sweeney(Dobbyn, Irwin)&hellip;&hellip; 18.22Penalties: Yanosik. Hurst, Dobbyn, Cline and Dobbyn.Third Period5&mdash;Buffalo: Sweeney(Cline, Dea)&hellip;&hellip; 5.106&mdash;Hershey: Duff(Nykoluk, Yanosik)&hellip;&hellip; 13.557&mdash;Buffalo: Dea(Cline. Sweeney)&hellip;&hellip; 17.408&mdash;Buffalo: Wilson(Kachur, Barklay)&hellip;&hellip; 18.279&mdash;Hershey: McIntyre(Lalande, Yanosik)&hellip;&hellip; 19.22Penalties: Dobbyn, MacDonald and Hurst.Spring field 4 al Rochester 1First Period1&mdash;Rochester: Carter(Aldcorn. Fleming)&hellip;&hellip; 10.269&mdash;Springfield: Schinkel(J. Anderson, Pidhirny)&hellip;&hellip; 17.15 Penalties: Cherry, lidcorn, Carmichael, Harris.Second Period2&mdash;Springfield: Olson(McCreary, Cherry)&hellip;&hellip; 9.414&mdash;Spring field: McCreary(Kilburn, Sullivan)&hellip;&hellip; 19.18Penalties: MacNeil, Fleming.Third Period5&mdash;Springfield: McCreary(D. Anderson)&hellip;&hellip; 10.18Penalties: Balfour, Marcette.Cleveland 8 at Providence 4First Period1&mdash;Providence: Larivee (Bedard) 2.202&mdash;Cleveland: Bailey(Glover, Mazur),&hellip;&hellip; 9.063&mdash;Cleveland: Stratton.(Hogan, Shvetz)&hellip;&hellip; 10.224&mdash;Cleveland: Barlow(Bailey, Vejprava) 18.36Penalties: Bedard, Cherry,Second Period5&mdash;Cleveland: Moore(Glover. Mazur)&hellip;&hellip; 2.156&mdash;Cleveland: Glover(Mazur, Moore)&hellip;&hellip; 2.517&mdash;Cleveland: Hogan(Shvetz, Stratton)&hellip;&hellip; 8.128&mdash;Cleveland: Hogan(Anderson, Stratton)&hellip;&hellip; 15.409&mdash;Providence: Yackel(Gardner, Poliziani)&hellip;&hellip; 17.2410&mdash;Providence: Davis(Toppazzini, Panagabko)&hellip;&hellip; 19.26 Penalties: Cherry, Shvetz.Third Period11&mdash;Providence: Poliziani(Gardner, Yackel)&hellip;&hellip; 6.1512&mdash;Cleveland: Bailey&hellip;&hellip; 14.27 Penalties: Glover (2), Panagabko,MacQueen. Yackel.SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1958Hershey 5 at Springfield 4First Period1&mdash;Springfield: Kilborn(McCreary)&hellip;&hellip; 5.032&mdash;Hershey: Lalande.(McIntyre, Hurst).. 12.453&mdash;Hershey: Haley(O&rsquo;Brien, Mathers)&hellip;&hellip; 18.484&mdash;Springfield: Marcetta(Carmichael, Smith)&hellip;&hellip; 18.00 Penalty; J. Anderson.Second Period5&mdash;Hershey: McIntyre(Lalande, Hurst)&hellip;&hellip; 5.166&mdash;Hershey: Nykoluk (Duff) 10.307&mdash;Springfield: Pidhirny&hellip;&hellip; 13.48Penalties: Strate, Yanosik, Mathers, Mayer (misc. cond, by Gagnon), Marcetta, Hurst.Third Period8&mdash;Springfie1d: Smith(Marcetta)&hellip;&hellip; 4.149&mdash;Hershey: Nykoluk(Duff, Stankiewicz).&hellip;&hellip; 7.00Penalties: Stankiewicz, Hurst (misc. cond. for the match), Zeidel.Rochester 2 at Providence 4First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Yackel, Balfour, Al MacNeil, Bouchard, Mascotto.Second Period1&mdash;Rochester: G. Rousseau(Hoeckstra)&hellip;&hellip; 1.402&mdash;Providence: Leach,(Ross, Cherry)&hellip;&hellip; 5.463&mdash;Providence: Poliziani(Yackel, Gardner)&hellip;&hellip; 6.484&mdash;&mdash;Providence: Davis(Boone, Panagobko)&hellip;&hellip; 19.37 Penalties: None.Third Period5&mdash;Providence: Toppazzini&hellip;&hellip; 2.186&mdash;Rochester: Nevin (Fleming) 12.48 Penalty: Ross.Cleveland 3 at Buffalo 4First Period1&mdash;Buffalo: Sweeney(Cline. Dea)&hellip;&hellip; 15.502&mdash;Buffalo: Dineen&hellip;&hellip; 17.25Penalties: Stratton, Schvetz, McQueen, Needham, Irwin.Second Period3&mdash;Buffalo: Wilson(Gamble. Dobbyn)&hellip;&hellip; 10.234&mdash;Buffalo: Wilson (Kachur) 15.52Penalties: Irwin, Dobbyn, Schvetz,Anderson, Dineen (major). Dobbyn(major), Needham (major),. Bailey, Irwin, Schvetz (major).Third Period5&mdash;Cleveland: Schvetz(Mazur, Anderson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 5.036&mdash;Cleveland: Stratton(Schvetz, Anderson)&hellip;&hellip; 10.157&mdash;Cleveland: Stratton(Hogart, Schvetz)&hellip;&hellip; 17.38Penalties: Kachur, Moore, Needham, Dobbyn. &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY. Pa.&mdash;Note to American League opponents-of the Hershey Bears:The Bears have introduced the platoon system into their defense, namely, the goalie department.Coach Frank Mathers sprung the gimmick in the club&rsquo;s opening game, alternating veterans Gil Mayer and Bobby Perreault. And Mathers intends to stick with it until it backfires, which he thinks it never will.Perreault handles 30 minutes of the game, while Mayer takes ever the assignment the rest of the way. Against Providence they teamed for a 3-0 shutout as Hershey opened defense of its league and Calder Cup titles.The question is&mdash;who gets credit for the shutout? The league statistician should have a headache figuring that one out.&ldquo;Both Perreault and Mayer like it,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;And as long as it works we&rsquo;ll stick with the idea. It keeps them both. happy and there&rsquo;s lots of harmony. When you&rsquo;ve got two terrific guys like them the question of who plays when tan drive a coach silly.Will Have A Goalie Bull Pen Soon&ldquo;The only thing worrying me is the second guy going into the nets might he cold But we&rsquo;ve got that figured out we&rsquo;ll have the second guy going into the game warming-up in the small arena. A goalie&rsquo;s bull pen is what it amounts to. We&rsquo;ll have someone firing shots at him to keep him sharp while waiting to go on.&rdquo;<h2>In And Ont</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03282/1657524-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="283" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Perreault</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04241/1657517-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="516" height="400"></div>As far as anyone can determine it&rsquo;s the first time the platoon set-up was used in this league. It&rsquo;s been done in the National circuit. The most notable case was the New York Rangers, who once alternated Chuck Rayner and Sugar Jim Henry. They even changed on line shifts. Mathers won&rsquo;t go that far. Or will he?For a while it was believed that Hershey, still in need of scoring punch on the right wing. might trade one of its two crackerjack netminders. Mathers says no.&ldquo;All you have to do is check the records and see all the bad luck Hershey had with injured goalies. Look at Mayer. He was never injured in Pittsburgh. He gets sold to Hershey and he&rsquo;s only played 51 games in two years because of one injury after another. Goalies, good one that is. are too hard to find. We&rsquo;ve got two good ones and we&rsquo;ll keep them.&rdquo;Mayer is a mighty healthy athlete this time around and he&rsquo;s looked sharp in the early play. Perreault still has the cat like reflexes and his slick, fast glove hand that has broke the heart of many a forward.Off the early showing. Hershey appears to have a checking club, something that fans haven&rsquo;t seen here in years. The crop of rookies and new faces from other clubs give the appearances of a hard nose group. The first time out of the gate, they were involved in three fights, drawing a total of 40 minutes in penalties&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ve got a good checking club,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;And I&rsquo;m sure it&rsquo;s going to get tougher as we go along. Right now we&rsquo;re giving everyone a chance to make the club. We&rsquo;ve got 21 players and we won&rsquo;t cut until we&rsquo;re positive we have the Tight men.&rdquo;One of the best looking checkers among the new crowd is defenseman Gordon Strate on loan from the parent Detroit Red Wings. He&rsquo;s big (6-1, 190) and hits like a blocking back in the single wing. In addition, he has speed and isn&rsquo;t bashful about lugging the puck right into the other club&rsquo;s end.&ldquo;Strate has been impressive.&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;He could give us a big lift. We lost a fine defenseman in Bucky Hollingworth &#9632;

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Hershey Starts Two Platoon System With Goalers

Bill Shvetz&hellip; &hellip; Cleveland Barons<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05184/1657555-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="513" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Shvetz</figcaption></div>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;Bill Shvetz is one of those hockey players who never is a star, but always turns in a good game. He&rsquo;s been around the business for quite a while and is known as a hard rock veteran. At 28 he is starting his eighth pro season.In Cleveland he is known as the &rsquo;Destroyer&rsquo; for his rough, tough tactics. He&rsquo;s afraid of no one and will take on anyone. As a scorer, except for two outstanding seasons he has never been known as a great one. He is called upon to do the checking and often kills penalties.Last season in Cleveland in 67 games he scored 11 goals and added 23 assists for 34 points. The season before he scored 15 goals and 24 assists for 39 points.His two best seasons were in 1954-55 with the Montreal Royals when he scored 20 goals and in 1955-56 with Calgary when he netted 25. An idea of his roughness can be had by looking over his penalty record. His lowest in four years was two seasons ago when he spent 98 minutes in the box.This season could be the one in which Bill breaks into the all-star ranks. The way he&rsquo;s going there&rsquo;s no telling how many goals and assists he will total.Right now he is tied with Buffalo&rsquo;s Bill Sweeney for the AHL scoring honors. He has scored six goals and added seven assists for 13 points.Last week he scored two goals and an assist in a&rsquo; game against Springfield on October 17. The next night against Providence he netted himself two assists. The following night, his third game in three nights, he scored one goal and added one assists. His total for the week was three goals and five assists for eight points. &#9632;

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CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;The Cleveland Barons acquired goaler Gerry McNamara from the Toronto Maple Leafs last week. McNamara played in Buffalo in 1957-58.Cleveland marks the fourth American Hockey League Club for which the 24-year old goaler has played. He previously played with Pittsburgh, no longer in the AHL and Hershey.The Barons lost goaler Johnny Bower in the draft last season when the Toronto Maple Leafs picked him up. They turned little Johnny Albani, who last season played in the Northern Ontario Senior League, pro. Last season with Buffalo McNamara allowed 149 goals in 45 games for an average of 4.3 par game. The Bisons finished the schedule in last place. &#9632;

Cleveland Gets McNamara From Leafs

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><h2>Out To Prove Their NHL Material&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01365/1657638-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="504" height="862"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Kachur</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02304/1657631-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="521" height="853"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Dea</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03257/1657624-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="519" height="841"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Dineen</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04200/1657617-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="517" height="861"><figcaption class="caption-body">Parker McDonald</figcaption></div>BUFFALO, N. Y.&mdash;Off to their finest start in several American League seasons, the Buffalo Bisons are a determined group. Perhaps, doubly-determined is more appropriate.For several of Coach Bobby Kirk&rsquo;s crew are ex-National Leageurs still favored by youth. They are determined to make good with Bisons&mdash;and thereby earn another shot at the NHL.Billy Dea&hellip; Bill Dineen&hellip; Eddie Kachur&hellip; Gerry Foley&hellip; Parker MacDonald&hellip; all have had more than a &ldquo;cup of coffee&rdquo; in the NHL. Yet. all are too young to be dismissed as being passed their peak.All played well as the Bisons broke from the barrier quickly and became the early season pace-setters in the AHL.Dea. with three goals and four assists, shared scoring honors with teammate Center Bill Sweeney after the initial four games.Irwin Wins Friends EarlyDineen, despite missing a week of training with the Herd due to the illness of his wife in Detroit, showed class and was a constant scoring threat while sharing a center spot with rookie Orland Kurtenbach. He also killed penalties effectively.Neither MacDonald nor Foley-hit for a goal in the early games but Kirk was highly satisfied with their hustle and work as a penalty-killing duo.Buffalo fans, quick to clasp an interesting club to their collective hearts, turned out 12,000 strong (combined total) for the first two games And indications were that. crowd sizes would swell as the season progressed.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05159/1657610-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="510" height="841"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry Foley</figcaption></div>Capt. Ivan Irwin, a longtime nemisis. became a Herd hero in quick order. He capped a fine opening night performance by scoring the winning goal in overtime against Rochester..It was more his work in front of the Buffalo goal through that turned the once booing voices into cheering throngs.Defenseman Doug Barkley was the first injury victim of the campaign. He was sidelined after the second game by a pinched nerve. Jack Bownass quickly stepped into the breach and took over as a partner for Frank Martin.The Bisons presently have 6 rearguards with Dobbyn and Ron Ingram rounding out the sextet.General Manager Fred Hunt said he has no plans presently to cut the number although Kirk has dressed only four per game, preferring to have extra forwards available. &#9632;

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Once In NHL Five Bisons Hoping To Get Another Trial

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY. Pa.&mdash;Perharps the most poplar man in the Hershey Bears dressing room in a tense situation is William Henry Alexander, better known as Scotty.Scotty, serving his 13th season as the club&rsquo;s trainer, has a knack of breaking everyone up with some off-beat crack&hellip;Though he&rsquo;s never scored a goal, dozens of rookies, awed by their first whirl in the American Hockey League, would be quick to confirm the confidence Scotty instilled in them at the right moment.&ldquo;A lot of the kids will tighten up and get themselves all worked up over nothing,&rdquo; said Scotty. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s only natural. After all this league is one step away from the big time. And the rookies always are eager to make the big show. Il&rsquo;s here they get the chance.&ldquo;You&rsquo;ll never know what a pat on the back&hellip; a word of encouragement will do for a kid. It works wonders. Hockey players are no different than any other athlete. They get tense&hellip; keyed up before a big game.&rdquo;Scotty, a Toronto native, knows of what he speaks. He&rsquo;s helped train the Philadelphia Eagles, filled in as a trainer for the Harlem Globtrotters and the Philadelphia Warriors of the National Basketball circuit.Coach frank Mathers and business manager Baz Bastien are more than happy to have Scotty around.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think you&rsquo;ll find a better trainer anywhere.&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;He really takes care of the club. He&rsquo;s smart. In the playoffs a couple of year ago he devised a special double boot for goalie Gerry McNamara that kept the kid going when he might have been on the sidelines with a bum foot. Things like that count.&rdquo;<h2>Great Team Mau</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06135/1657669-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="525" height="543"><figcaption class="caption-body">Scotty Alexander</figcaption></div>Some of Sotty&rsquo;s close friends love to needle him about the night he took over the goal in Buffalo when Red Henry was injured.As Arnie Kullman once told ft, Scotty had more trouble than a one arm paper hanger with a case of the seven year itch.&ldquo;Scotty went in the net&rdquo;, laughed Kullman, &ldquo;and what do you think happened? Buffalo got the puck and with Ed Slowinski and Gaye Stewart wheeling down ice together they steam in on Scotty. Well, we turn around and take a look and the next thing everyone&rsquo;s doubled up laughing. Poor Scooty got the end of his stick caught in the net and he&rsquo;s pulling like hell to get it out.&rdquo;At this point Scotty took over the rest of the report.&ldquo;All I can see out of the corner of my eye is that big Stewart and Slowinski coming at me. Just about the time I get. the stick out of the net&hellip; woosh&hellip; the damn puck&rsquo;s whizzing by my ear. But you should have seen the glove stop I made later. Those guys forget about that, though.&rdquo;Scotty, who has trained two American Hockey League and Calder Cup champions at Hershey, lives in Baltimore in the off-season with his pretty wife, Peggy, and their lovely daughter, Bonnie.Mother His Greater FanBut one of Scotty&rsquo;s biggest fans is his mother, a very alert, and sharp witted Scotch lady, who won the hearts of the whole club a couple of seasons ago when she checked into Cleveland to watch Hershey in the Calder Cup playoffs. &ldquo;Mom, &ldquo;as Scotty calls her, amazed the press crowd with her knowledge of inside hockey.And veteran Hershey players claim Scotty must have Inheredited his sports knowledge from his wonderful mother.&ldquo;You name the sport and scotty can answer just, about any question on it&rdquo;, said Kullman. &ldquo;He&rsquo;d be a cinch to pick up all the money on the $64,000 quiz show.&rdquo;And it&rsquo;s true that Scotty lias a vast working knowledge of all sports. Time and again he&rsquo;s stumped the best they could &#9632;

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Quick-Witted Scotty Big Help To Bears’ Newcomers

Too Many JohnsWhen Spokane and Winnipeg play it will be fun for the radio announcers. Spokane has Earl Johnson and Al Johnson and Winnipeg has Red Johansen and Don Johns in their lineups.Three three Goal Men Three players scored three goals in the first week of play in the Western Hockey League. In Saskatoon Gary Blaine scored a hat trick and teammate Chorley scored two goals in one game and a single in another. Chiupka of Seattle also scored three.<h2>Fielder Takes Quick Lead In Race</h2>SEATTLE. Wash.&mdash;Guyle Fielder of the Seattle Totems took off in quest of his third consecutive Western Hockey League scoring championship by scoring seven points in his first two games, all at the expense of his former teammate. Emile (The Cat) Francis, now goaltending for the Spokane Spokes.Bill McFarland and Val Fonteyne picked up five points in the two games to give Seattle the top three marksmen in the league.Five Saskatoon Quakers each had four points, picked up in the Hub City club&rsquo;s two six-goals wins over the Winnipeg Warriors. Jack McLeod, Gordy Labrossiere, Bob Kabel, Elliott Chorley and Gary Blaine were the runners-up to the Totem trio along with Spokane&rsquo;s Frank Kubasek and another pair from Seattle, Don Chiupka and Cummy Burton.<h2>How The RAce Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03260/1657707-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="563" height="525"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04209/1657700-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="552" height="1784"></div>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10Victoria 2 at Vancouver 8First Period1&mdash;Vancouver: Maloney(Carter, Douglas)&hellip;&hellip; 0.442&mdash;Victoria: Ford(Nicholson, Hay)&hellip;&hellip; 14.51Penalties: Hay 0.30, Victoria team penalty (served by Blackburn) 0.44,Carter 1.08, Ford 3.55, McLeod 10.26 15.19, MacNab 19.39Second Period2&mdash;Vancouver: Peacosh(Maloney,. Carter)&hellip;&hellip; 2.164&mdash;Victoria: Ford (Wilkie)&hellip;&hellip; 6.36Penalties: Pearson 2.50, Maloney 15.04.Third Period6&mdash;Vancouver: Hutchison(Belisle)&hellip;&hellip; 2:59Penalty: McLeod 1:58.Calgary 0 at Edmunton 3First Period1&mdash;Edmonton: MacPherson(Oliver)&hellip;&hellip; 17:24Penalties: Coflin 1:01; Ward 9:45; Erickson 17:37.Second PeriodNo scoring.Penalties: Hilts 8:28: Edwards (served by Robazza) 9:11; Coflin 17:20; Ericksnn 1 945; Calgary team penalty (served by Robazza): 19:45.Third Period2&mdash;Edmonton: Kinasewich(MacPherson, Melnyk)&hellip;&hellip; 6:143&mdash;Edmonton: Holmes&hellip;&hellip; 11:12Penalties: Ward 4:35 and 7:37; Coflin 10:09.First PeriodSaskatoon 6 at Winnipeg 11&mdash;Saskatoon: Blaine(Robinson, McLeod)&hellip;&hellip; 14:13Penalties: Blaine 1:53; Mucul 4:03;Labrosse 7:48; Zemrau 11:06; Summers 12:45; Kuryluk 17:56.Second Period2&mdash;Winnipeg: Johns(Brisson)&hellip;&hellip; 4:093&mdash;Saskatoon: Blaine (McLeod,Robinson)&hellip;&hellip; 10:214&mdash;Saskatoon: Kabel (Blaine,Kuryluk)&hellip;&hellip; 16:485&mdash;Saskatoon: Blaine Lebossiere, Balon)&hellip;&hellip; 18:23Penalties: Kabel 5:20; Zemrau 9:08, 18:15.Third Period6&mdash;Saskatoon: Bucyk (Lilley,Robinson)&hellip;&hellip; 0:347&mdash;Saskatoon: Chorley (Kuryluk, Kabel)&hellip;&hellip; 9:23Penalties: Hucul 2:01; Folk 10:29.Marcel Pelletier had a vacation last year in Vancouver, where the Canuck defenders build a rock wall in front of their goalkeeper. It&rsquo;s back to mines in Victoria, however, and the same old story&mdash;SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11Seattle 4 at Spokane 5First Period1&mdash;Seattle: Burton(Fielder, Fonteyne)&hellip;&hellip; 15.362&mdash;Spokane: Kubasek&hellip;&hellip; 16.19Penalties: Sinclair, Kubasek, Hart,Leonard, Johnson, Boileau, Duncan,Second Period3&mdash;Spokane: A. Johnson 8.124&mdash;Spokane: C. Johnson&hellip;&hellip; 10.505&mdash;Spokane: Toppol(A. Johnson, Kubasek)&hellip;&hellip; 13.21Penalties: Lund, Arnett, C. Johnson, Kuzma.Third Period6&mdash;Seattle: Sinclair(Fielder, Kuzma)&hellip;&hellip;.547&mdash;Seattle: Leonard (Burton) 8.148&mdash;Spokane; Boyce(C. Johnson, Kubasek)&hellip;&hellip; 10.279&mdash;Seattle: Davidson (Filion) 14.23 Penalties: A. Johnson, HuntVancouver 2 at New Westminster 4First PeriodScoring: None.Second Period1&mdash;New Westminster: Hannigan(Jones)&hellip;&hellip; 5.35Penalties: Young 7.45, Powers 10.35.Third Period2&mdash;Vancouver: Douglas(Hutchinson, Cyr)&hellip;&hellip; 4.013&mdash;New Westminster: Goodwin(Jones, Van Impel&hellip;&hellip; 4.594&mdash;New Westminster: Ubriaco(McNab) &hellip;&hellip; 9.045&mdash;Vancouver: Powers(Hampson)&hellip;&hellip; 9.536&mdash;New Westminster:Creighton&hellip;&hellip; 15.51Penalties: Belisle. Young 4.24. MacNab 7.05, Goodwin 17.20, Matthews 18.22, Creighton 19.41.Edmonton 3 at Calgary 1First Period1&mdash;Edmonton: Rogeveen(Holmes, Melnyk)&hellip;&hellip; 11.04Penalties: Kinasewich 2.10, Briston 12.17, Ward 16.49.Second Period2&mdash;Edmonton: Holmes (Coflin) 10.38Penalties: Achtymichuk, Ward 17.09.Third Period3&mdash;Calgary: Chuck Blair(Finney)&hellip;&hellip; 16.284&mdash;Edmonton: Melnyk(Roggeveen)&hellip;&hellip; 16.50Penalty: Lea 5.26.Winnipeg 3 at Saskatoon 6First Period1&mdash;Winnipeg: Johns&hellip;&hellip; 8.302&mdash;Saskatoon: Labossiere(Kabel, Hucul)&hellip;&hellip; 10.203&mdash;Winnipeg: Brunel(Johns, Witiuk)&hellip;&hellip; 18.54Penalties: Hucul, Kapusta, Zemrau, Blain.Second Period4&mdash;Saskatoon: Kabel(Kukulowicz, Chorley)&hellip;&hellip; 10.315&mdash;Saskatoon: Lilley(Labossiere)17.186&mdash;Winnipeg: Ross(Kapusta, Mosienko)&hellip;&hellip; 18.14Penalties: Labossiere, Chorley. McLeod Mosienko, Folk.Third Period7&mdash;Saskatoon: Lilley(McLeod, Primeau)&hellip;&hellip; 15.188&mdash;Saskatoon: Chorley&hellip;&hellip; 19.159&mdash;Saskatoon: Chorley(Kukulowicz,. McLeod)&hellip;&hellip; 19.59 Penalties: Robinson, Johns. Mosienko.SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13Spokane 2 at Seattle 10First Period1&mdash;Seattle: Fonteyne(Fielder, McFarland).&hellip;&hellip; 1.332&mdash;Seattle: Burton (Leonard) 2.053&mdash;Spokane: Bell(A. Johnson, Toppol)&hellip;&hellip; 5.274&mdash;Seattle: Chiupka (Fielder) 15.07Penalties: A. Johnson, Chiupka.Second Period5&mdash;Seattle. Kuzma(Fielder, Fonteyne)&hellip;&hellip; 15.036&mdash;Spokane: S. Johnson (Boyce) 16.247&mdash;Seattle: Filion(Chiupka, McFarland)&hellip;&hellip; 19.08 Penalties: Boileau (2), Bell, Woit.Third Period8&mdash;Seattle. Fielder(McFarland, Sinclair)&hellip;&hellip; 4.439&mdash;Seattle: Chiupka(McFarland, Arnett)&hellip;&hellip; 6.0310&mdash;Seattle. Chiupka(Filion, MacFarland)&hellip;&hellip; 8.1511&mdash;Seattle: Leonard(Boileau. Fontyne)&hellip;&hellip; 18.2212&mdash;Seattle: Fonteyne(Burton, Fielder)&hellip;&hellip; 19.07Penalties: C. Johnson, Hart, Leonard, Duncan, Fielder, Hunt, Wolf.<h2>Vic Lynn Succeeds USIyot As Coach Of Prince Albert</h2>PRINCE ALBERT, Sask.&mdash;The Prince Albert Mintos of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League have hired former NHL star Vic Lynn as their coach-manager.Lynn played with the Saskatchewan Regals of the Western Hockey League last season. He succeeds Ken Ullyot at Prince Albert, who has taken the job as general manager of the Fort Wayne Comets of the International League.Lynn&rsquo;s application was accepted over many others for the junior job.Lynn played left wing for three consecutive Stanley Cup winners in Toronto. He also played with the Boston Bruins. &#9632;

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AMERIACAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By AL OSTROM</div>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;Frank Boucher&rsquo;s much-traveled Quakers, who now call Saskatoon their home after wandering about the league&rsquo; rite past few seasons, produced the surprise offensive punch during the Western Hockey League&rsquo;s first week of play.The Quakers, with virtually their entire roster joining in the fun, crashed open their season with 6-1 and 6-3 decisions over the defending prairie champion Winnipeg Warriors and them sent the highly-favored Edmonton Flyers &ldquo;back to the drawing board&rdquo; with a 4-2 victory.Boucher has gathered together essentially the same outfit than won only 25 games last season while dividing their home games between Saskatoon and St. Paul.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01364/1657745-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="282" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">Beb Chrystal</figcaption></div>And this year they are without all-star defenseman Bob Chrystal who, up until the middle of the second week of play, showed no signs of wanting to play in the Hub City.Gary Blaine, the converted wingman, stole the show at the opener, scoring the season&rsquo;s first hat trick. Gary potted goals No. 1, 2, and 3 for the Quakers, and. all came with the Warriors a man short.The eerie howls of the Winnipeg Wolf pack were heard immediately. The end-zone&rsquo; roamers and typewriter terrors all Joined in sniping at goalie Ray Mikulan.&ldquo;Mikulan continually stops less shots than the guy at the other end of the rink and still gets beat,&rdquo; wrote one press box observer after the 12-goal ordeal.&ldquo;Now fake Lucien Dechene,&rdquo; the report continued. &ldquo;A goalkeeper in the WHL is supposed to do what Luce does every night. It should shock no one to see him pull off those uncanny stops every time when his first line of defense fails him. Playing in a professional league, he plays like a professional goalkeeper.&ldquo;Perhaps this is unfair&mdash;comparing Mikulan to Dechene. You don&rsquo;t compare many Western League goalies to Dechene.&ldquo;After all, it was Mikulan who topped the entire league in his rookie year at Vancouver. Maybe he&rsquo;ll do it again. But last week didn&rsquo;t give him much of a head start on the job.&rdquo;Getting back to the offense, rather than the lack of defense, the Quakers might well be headed for their biggest year since the days of Worsley, Senick, Kaleta, Bentley, Chad, etc.The earliest tipoff that big things might be brewing in Saskatoon came from a city in the Coast Division&mdash;Seattle. Totem coach Keith Allen, who has had pretty fair success as a coach the past two seasons, put the finger on Saskatoon while scanning the pre-season reports from the various cities. He even went so far as to single out the key player.&ldquo;Watch this boy Bob Kabel. He&rsquo;s about ready for a big year,&rdquo; said Allen. &ldquo;Saskatoon doesn&rsquo;t appear to have a flock of stars, but they can put together three units and of course you don&rsquo;t have to conjecture about goal with Dechene on the job.&rdquo;Well, maybe the Flyers won&rsquo;t have it all their way this season after all.Especially after getting off to such an unusual start.Edmonton shut out Calgary-on opening night, 3-0, then whipped the Stamps, 3-1, in a return match at Calgary. However, the loss was protested by coach Gus Kyle on the grounds that the Flyers dressed too many men.The protest was upheld by league president Al Leader when his investigation revealed that the Flyers had 15 men in uniform, one over the limitHe gave the game to Calgary, 1-0, and wiped out Edmonton&rsquo;s three team goals. The individual records of the players, however, will not be changed. It was the first instance of such a forfeiture in league history, according to Leader.The opening week&rsquo;s biggest single game explosion was heard not in Saskatoon, however, but in Seattle, where the Totems, with Guyle Fielder and Bill McFarland each picking up five points, thrashed the Spokane Spokes, 10-2.Vancouver, another WHL club destined for king&rsquo;s row. got its home shutters shook by New Westminster, a team likened in personnel to Saskatoon&hellip; not a lot of stars, just a collection of solid performers.The Canucks started out with the youngest club in years. Hugh Currie, Brent Macnab and Phil Maloney and Ray Cyr are the only seasoned players. Coach Art Chapman is counting on this foursome to help the youngsters over the rough spots in the early going.The Royals&rsquo; Hal Laycoe, beaming at the sight of his prize rookie defenseman Howie Young, said&mdash;&ldquo;Those nose to the ice hockey players in this league bad better look up when heading Young&rsquo;s way. He&rsquo;s apt to make a mess Young made an auspacious WHL start, the ex-Hamilton junior logging eight minutes in the coop opening night.They had the Vest Pocket Rocket for 24 hours in Spokane recently.Claude, the 21-year old brother to Maurice and Henri, had tickets for Spokane, being assigned to the Spokes by Montreal general manager Kenny Reardon.&ldquo;I thought he wanted to go somewhere where his older brothers wouldn&rsquo;t overshadow him and I fully believed the Rocket wanted him to go West.&ldquo;I made plane reservations for the boy, and then the older brothers called the kid. I guess he got panicky. He speaks very little English and Spokane seemed an awfully long way from Montreal,&rdquo; Reardon said to Spokane general manager Roy McBride.&ldquo;The Rocket changed his mind.&rdquo;New Westminster opened without scoring ace Gordy Fashoway, the veteran left wingman having suffered a punctured and badly bruised left ankle in the final stages of training camp.Seattle fans, normally not given to applause for the opposition, even for an outstanding play, took exception in the case of rookie Stamp goaler Roy Edwards, who turned in an outstanding job in the nets despite the fact his club dropped a 3-1 nod.Word came to Seattle recently about a fight in Trail, B.C. They say Joe Conn, who was Danny Sprout&rsquo;s sidekick in Seattle a few years ago, staged a 15-minute donneybrook with Kelowna&rsquo;s Jim Middleton.Neither players, officials nor police could separate the two, so Marcel Pelletier had vacation last year in Vancouver, where the Canuck defenders build rock wall in front of their goalkeeper. It&rsquo;s back to mines in Victoria, however, and the same old story&mdash;<h2>A Fast Start</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02322/1657738-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="517" height="853"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Blaine</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Quakers Show Signs Of Life In Killing Off Early Enemies

<div class="byline">By FRANK ORR</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01359/1657776-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Smrke</figcaption></div>CORNWALL. Ont.&mdash;Pembroke, a name long associated with senior A hockey in Canada, has followed many other cities, like Stratford and Owen Sound, to senior extinction.The Lumber Kings threw in the sponge this week in the Eastern Division of the Senior OHA. This reduces the league roster to five teams, Whitby Dunlops, Belleville MacFarlands, Kingston Merchants, Cornwall Chevies and Ottawa-Hull Canadiens. Since Belleville is leaving for the World Tournament, the other four clubs will compete in the playoffs.The Pembroke move came as no surprise to the senior hockey operators. Wally Lenser took over the club last winter and guided them to a second place finish and the league playoff finals. He was rumoured to have dropped close to ten thousand dollars on his first venture in senior hockey.However after the season ended he said he would definitely be back in the league.He retained Bucky Buchanan as manager-coach. However Buchanan left the team this summer to take up a coaching job with Washington in the Eastern Amateur League. Then Lenser became embroiled in the now famous waiver dispute and it became evident that he was having trouble securing players to ice a team this year.The league operators called a meeting last week to find out Pembrooke&rsquo;s intentions.The day before the meeting the city council in Pembroke, which earlier bad voted to give $2,000 to the hockey club as a donation for &lsquo;advertising space&rsquo; in the program, decided to withdraw the grant.This apparently was the excuse that Lenser needed and he said that he was dropping the team. Pembroke business men Bill Higginson and Alan Seigal tried to raise the money to keep the franchise alive. They were promised player help by the other clubs but they were unable to gain the support of the fans in Pembroke and the venture was dropped.The remaining King&rsquo;s players were declared free agents and they most likely will be sought by the other clubs in the province.The league acted quickly, calling a meeting to re-organize the schedule with Pembroke missing. The clubs voted unanimously to play a fifty game schedule.<h2>Rumored For Macs Hut</h2>Another novel approach this year is in the playoff set-up. The team finishing first will have a choice of which of the other three teams they want to play in the semi-finals.Belleville will play 48 games and the other clubs will play fifty games each. To make up the games, Cornwall will meet Whitby and Hull will meet Kingston 14 times instead of twelve as they play against the others. This extra home and home set will make up the fifty games.The league also called for a meeting with the OHA-NOHA for Toronto on Saturday, Oct. 18 to discuss the salary limit. There are many rumours floating around that the teams in the OHA-NOHA are exceeding the limit.The teams have started the exhibition schedule in preparation for the opening of the season which takes place Friday October 24 when Kingston visits Belleville.The league is now a power packed circuit with the teams looking forward to some mighty keen competition. Belleville has a power packed club and Whitby has many of their championship team back in harness and they too will be a leading light. Kingston is a much-improved team with a lot of new. faces and a new administration. Hull is a slight question mark as Sammy Pollock is having some trouble getting players to sign. However the Canadiens are an organization not noted for having poor clubs and Hull should be in good shape. Cornwall remains the big question mark but they have many new and experienced players and have shown much improvement over last year.Whitby has many of their world championship club back in the fold. Long John Henderson in goal, Alf Treen, Ted O&rsquo;Connor, Harry Sinden and Don McBeth on defence and Bob Atterley, Gordie Myles, Sandy Air, Tom O&rsquo;Connor, Doug Williams and George Samolenko. Newcomers include defenceman John Chazwedki from Chatham and forwards Pete Babando, Tim Hook and Jack Kane.Belleville has added Lou Smrke to the forward corps and Rags Raglan to the defence. Both have extensive pro backgrounds. Other new faces with the Macs are Al Dewsbury and Fiori Goegan on defence with Johnny, McLellan, Frank Bathgate and Smrke rounding out the forward lines.Kingston will bring a drastically changed lineup to the league starting gate. Wally Brabin and Bus Gagnon, late of Whitby, take over as manager and playing-coach respectively. Lynn Davis is back in the nets where he starred last year. Veteran Joe Levandoski is the sole returning defencemen with Vic Fildes, Viger Gendron and Ralph McNiff the new faces. Jean Gauthier joined the club this past weekend. Roy Partridge and league scoring champion. Billy Colvin, will team with Gagnon as the first line. Moe Savard, who was with Cornwall last year, teams with Mike Bukacheski and Jimmy Maxwell, another Pembroke fugitive. Neil McDonald, Bep Guidolin and Kenny Linesmen round out the forward brigade.Cornwall is far from settled on a lineup. Gerry Devaney has the goaltending job nailed down with playing-coach Bob Bingley, Ted Szydlowski, Ray Laplante, Don Labelle and Bingo Ernst around for defence duty. Guy Henri is the only established centre now with the club. On left wing Jean-Paul Bisaillon, Ronnie Quenville and Ronnie Muir along with Jack Porter are set, Reggie Grigg, Germain Leger and Bryan McLay are the right wingers, With two more centres, the Chevies should have a much improved roster.Glenn Ramsay takes over in the Hull nets with John Longarini, Andre Tardif, Jacques Begin and Jean-Claude Tremblay forming the back-bone of the defence corps, Bob Boucher, Bob Rousseau, Gilles Tremblay, John Annable, Guy Black and Yvon Sarazen will lead the forward walls.So despite the withdrawal of Pembroke the league looks better than ever. &#9632;

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Till In Pembroke Goes Broke, Lenser Tosses In Kings’ Towel

<h2>On The Sidelines</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01364/1657807-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="295" height="322"></div>From Chicoutimi comes word that big Gerry Claude is still troubled by the spinal condition that curtailed his activity to 35 QHL games last season. When Royals made their first trip to the Saguenay. Frank Carlin reported that Claude was in the stands watching the game.Rollie Hebert, who returned to Quebec League operations this season as GM and coach of the Sagueneens. would like to have Claude with his explosive slap-shot among his rearguard cohorls again, but is loathe to offer the 225 pound giant a contract unless he&rsquo;s sure that Claude can stand up to the rigours of pro hockey competition.It would be a pity if Claude has to write finis to his glamorous hockey career, for he was one of the most compelling figures to adorn the action in the QHL rinks during the past seven seasons.One of those big fellows who put on weight readily, Claude often found it a problem when ordered to drain off the suet by stern masters during the training camp sessions.There were times when Claude had to punish himself by the most Spartan diet before he rounded into proper playing condition, but he always gave it an honest try and before the season was far advanced he&rsquo;d be a striking &ldquo;landmark&rdquo; on the defense with the Sags.He was so popular that many a regular customer in rival cities would eagerly await for Claude to wind up for one of his slap-shots. These were dramatic interludes. The big guy would crank up swiftly and bat that puck goalward. Whether the missile was guided or misguided opposing goalers ducked instinctively. The net-keepers realized whether they saw the puck or not that if it struck their bodies they might be partly protected by their armour, but they&rsquo;d take no chance that their heads might be torn off if it should be a direct hit on the noggin.And if, as happened often enough, the puck went wide of the goal and thudded against the back-boards with a rafter-shaking crash, there&rsquo;d be a mild outburst of laughter in the crowd&mdash;one might call it a ribaldry in relief.Though they&rsquo;ll miss big Gerry from the early rounds of the schedule at least, the cash customers down in the north east corner of Quebec province will still take keen delight in the antics of George Porgie Roy, roily polly strong man on the redoubts.Roy is as definitely established with the Sagueneens as the franchise. The NHL Press and Radio Guide indicates that he has played all his senior and pro hockey for the Chicoutimi club. And in seven seasons he has bagged 69 goals, a high level for a defenseman. But it&rsquo;s as a playmaker he stands out with all the efficiency marked by Doug Harvey with Canadiens.43 assists to go along with his 12 tallies, making him the top point-producer among all rearguards in the league. He had 55.Of course it must be admitted that his conduct is at times off the norm. He has a flair for low&rsquo; comedy, and loves to &ldquo;ham it up&rdquo;. His buffoonery sorely tries the patience of officials and exasperates opposing coaches who will tell you they wouldn&rsquo;t have him on their squads for all the coffee in Brazil. If Roy were foot loose and willing to play outside of Chicoutimi it&rsquo;s likely the coaches from other cities would break into a stampeders &#9632;

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Al Parsley

New QHL OfficialDoug Howie, for 33 years associated with hockey in Montreal. has been designated chief of QHL minor officials at the Montreal Forum. He staff includes goal judges, penaltytimer and the official scorer.Hoekstra ScoresFirst Ed Hoekstra of the Three Rivers Lions, their young rookie who starred for the St. Catharines Teepees of the Ontario Junior League last season scored his first pro goal against Chicoutimi on October 16 The Lions lost 2-1.WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15Montreal 2 at Quebec 4First Period1&mdash;Quebec: Bullock (Panagabko) 10.262&mdash;Quebec: Labadie(Dejordy, Leclair) &hellip;&hellip; 14.36Penalties: Taillefer 12.08, Roche15.18, Mantha 19.26.Second Period3&mdash;Quebec: O&rsquo;Ree&hellip;&hellip; 1.304&mdash;Quebec: Cossette (Teal)&hellip;&hellip; 8.29Penalties: O&rsquo;Ree 7.49, Burchell andTeal 15.47, Hillman 17.24.Third Period5&mdash;Royals: Sutherland(Gray. Burchell).. 3.046&mdash;Royals: Mosdell(Clune, J. I&rsquo;. Denis)&hellip;&hellip; 3.58Penalties: J. P. Denis two majors and misconduct 12.47, Hillman major and misconduct 12.47, Dejordy major 12.47, Crozier 14.05.THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16Three Rivers 1 at Chicoutimi 2First Period1&mdash;Chicoutimi: Caron(Roy, Allard)&hellip;&hellip; 13.16Penalties: Sabourin 7.16, Ray 18.26.Second Period2&mdash;Three Rivers: Hoekstra&hellip; 1.42Penalties: Kelly 5.50, Caron 7.21.Third Period3&mdash;Chicoutimi: Locas(Claude, Caron)&hellip;&hellip; 15.23Penalties: Caron 11.18, Corcoran14.40, Wilson 17.06.SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1958Quebec 3 at. Chicoutimi 1First Period1&mdash;Quebec: Bullock(O&rsquo;Ree, Maxwell)&hellip;&hellip; 5.10Penalties: Caron 1.13 and 13.05, Panagabko 6.32, Roy 7.57, Hillman 13.05 and 19.57.Second Period2&mdash;Chicoutimi: Attwell(Caron. Claude)&hellip;&hellip; 2.09Penalties: B. Blackburn 5.25, Smrke and Bullock 7.14, Caron 18.51.Third Period3&mdash;Quebec: Leclair&hellip;&hellip; 8.304&mdash;Quebec: Collins(Leclair, Labadie)&hellip;&hellip; 18.40Penalties: Maxwell misconduct 14.08.Royals 4 at Three Rivers 3First Period1&mdash;Royals: J.-P. Denis(Mossell, Perrault)&hellip;&hellip; 1.472&mdash;Three Rivers: Sabourin(Leclerc, Tessier)&hellip;&hellip; 14.54Penalties. Clune 3.43, 14.36, Perrault 18.29.Second Period3&mdash;Three Rivers: Leclerc(Sabourin, Cleaver)&hellip;&hellip; 2.26Penalties: Leclerc 5.05, Mantha 8.45, Kelly (two majors) 18.01.Third Period4&mdash;Three Rivers: Hoekstra&hellip; 3.065&mdash;Royals: Gray (Burchell).. 5.516&mdash;Royals: Sutherland(Gray, Purchell)&hellip;&hellip; 19.52Penalty: Wilson 11.25,Overtime Period7&mdash;Royals: J.-P. Denis (Mosdell) 0.23<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03290/1657845-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="569" height="195"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04260/1657838-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="569" height="487"></div> &#9632;

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

MONTREAL, QUE.&mdash;Ken Mosdell and Floyd Curry are &rsquo; no longer considered young prouts in hockey, but the two embarked on an arduous 72hour program last-week that would make many of the more sprightly performers shudder.The ice veterans, now regular members of the Quebec Hockey League Royals, left the city Friday for a two-game lendlease stint with the Rochester Americans to solidify the American League team.The duo played in Rochester Friday against Providence, travelled to Springfield for another game Saturday evening and hurried back to Montreal to rejoin the Royals for a Sunday night venture in Three Rivers.That constitued approximately 180 minutes of hockey in 72 hours, a pretty strenuous pace for two guys who have travelled hockey&rsquo;s byways for a combined 27-years and are still going strong. &#9632;

Mosdell And Curry Put In 180 Minutes In Two Loops

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02322/1657876-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry Desaulnaers</figcaption></div><h2>King Of The Beats</h2>THREE RIVERS. Que.&mdash;Gerry Desaulniers, playing coach of the Lions, injects the enthusiastic zeal of a first timer into his new job. Like so many hockey players approaching the twilight of a brilliant playing career Desaulniers held secret hopes that he would have a whirl at team direction before he cut all ties with the game, but he admits that he was agreeably surprised and considerably pleased when the offer to coach as well as play for the Trois Rivieres QHL entry, came his way.This occured, it need hardly be explained, because the Lions became the only team operating in the St. Maurice Valley area of Quebec province when the Sha-winigan club suspended for one year and the Quebec circuit was cut to four teams.&ldquo;Sure I was happy when Jacques Toupin decided to restrict chores to those of the general manager, and decided to go along with a playing coach&rdquo; Gerry said the other day.Under the new set-up Desaulniers has full charge of the team in practise and all strategy during the games. Toupin never goes near the bench or interferes with the line switches, or other tactics of play.Toupin does get the players however, and off Lions&rsquo; performance in early games it appears that he&rsquo;s done a good job.&ldquo;We have three pretty good lines and a fairly solid defence I may need another back-liner since I&rsquo;ve only got four now&rsquo;, and Ted Hodgson is kind of slow, which hurts us in the big rinks. But Muzz Patrick (GM. of NY Rangers) will help me out when I say the word.&rdquo; observe Toupin.He was a bit conscious at the start of the season that Royals, because of more early skating and pratice would be too far ahead of his Lions who were on ice only a bit more than a week prior to their first league game.&ldquo;If Royals are ahead of me. don&rsquo;t think things will stay that way. I&rsquo;ll be even with them by Christmas &ldquo;he opined.The Lions didn&rsquo;t catch up with Royals the first time the two teams met so far as points in the standing go. but the Trois-Rivieres larrigans were all even after 10 minutes overtime with a 2-2 score in the season&rsquo;s QHL Montreal Forum lidlifter.This was one was hard to take by Floyd Curry and his men since Royals were leading 2-1 with only 3 2 seconds of regular time remaining when Norm Corcoran knotted the score.Desaulniers lifted his goaler and the Lions ganged to the attack for the equalizer to spoil Royals&rsquo; ambitions of a three straight runaway.The Lions have Babs Dufour, former Quebec and Springfield goaler guarding their net, with Trois-Rivieres junior Gilles Vil-lemure as understudy.Three Good LinesMoe Collins, who revels in the rugged going pairs with Hodgson, while Henry Syl-verson from Calgary and Bob Wilson, product of the Senior OHA, make up the other rearguard partnership.Fast stepping Matt Ravelich, Eddie Hoestra, both from St. Catharine s Junior and Norm Corcoran a holdover, recently named team captain, make up one line.A seasoned front line trio shows hold-overs Rollie Leclerc at left wing, Bob Sabourin, center and John Sleaver, on the right side. The latter two former Quebec Aces.The third line is made up by foreman Desaulniers pivoting Gilles Thibeault, one of last year&rsquo;s Lions and Orval Tessier who has returned to the QHL after voluntary retirement the latter part of last season at his home in Cornwall, Ont. And Bob Courcy is the extra forward.While he&rsquo;s never been known to run away from trouble, Desaulniers rates merit marks as the gentlemanly type, both on and off off the ice. He&rsquo;s well-spoken, perfectly bilingual, and shows fine courtesy wherever met.Developed in the juuior ranks of Canadiens&rsquo; organization, Desaulniers has played seven seasons in the QHL, three with Royals, four with the temporarily inactive Shawinigan Cataracts for a total of 122 talies, 79 of same with the Cats in the past four seasons. His best campaign was 1954-55, the blue ribbon era in hockey at Shawini-gan when Cataracts finished, with all the laurels, winning the QHL championship and the Canadian minor pro title symbolized by the Duke of Edinburgh Trophy. Desaulniers bagged 31 goals, put 3 9 assists along-side in 61 games during the regular schedule, and had five goals, matched by five assists in 11 playoff games. &#9632;

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Lions Roar Early, Look Like A Tough Pack Under Desaulniers

OCTOBER31&mdash;Indianapolis at LouisvilleNOVEMBER1&mdash;Troy at Toledo Indianapolis at Fort Wayne2&mdash;Toledo at TroyF. Wayne at Louisville4&mdash;Toledo at Fort Wayne5&mdash;Troy at Indianapolis7&mdash;Toledo at Louisville Indianapolis at Troy8&mdash;Indianapolis at Toledo Troy at Fort Wayne9&mdash;F. Wayne at Indianapolis Louisville at Troy12&mdash;Louisville at Indianapolis14&mdash;Troy at LouisvilleFort Wayne at Toledo15&mdash;Toledo at Indianapolis Louisville at Fort Wayne16&mdash;Fort Wayne at Troy Indianapolis at Louisville18&mdash;Indianapolis at Fort Wayne19&mdash;Troy at Indianapolis21&mdash;Troy at Louisville22&mdash;Troy at Fort Wavne Louisville at Toledo23&mdash;Toledo at TroyFort Wayne at Indianapolis26&mdash;Troy at Indianapolis, Louisville at Fort Wayne27&mdash;Troy at Louisville29&mdash;Fort Wayne at Toledo Louisville at Indianapolis30&mdash;Indianapolis at Troy Fort Wayne at LouisvilleDECEMBER2&mdash;Toledo at Fort Wayne3&mdash;Toledo at Indianapolis5&mdash;Fort Wayne at Troy Indianapolis at Louisville6&mdash;Indianapolis at Fort Wayne Louisville at Troy7&mdash;Fort Wayne at Indianapolis Toledo at Louisville10&mdash;Louisville at Indianapolis11&mdash;Fort Wayne at Toledo12&mdash;Fort Wayne at Louisville13&mdash;Louisville at ToledoTroy at Fort Wayne14&mdash;Fort Wayne at Troy Toledo at Indianapolis19&mdash;Louisville at Troy20&mdash;Troy at Toledo Indianapolis at Fort Wayne21&mdash;Fort Wayne at Indianapolis Toledo at Troy26&mdash;Troy at Louisville Fort Wayne at Toledo27&mdash;Indianapolis at Toledo Louisville at Fort Wayne28&mdash;Louisville at Indianapolis31&mdash;Troy at Indianapolis Toledo at Fort WayneJANUARY1&mdash;Fort Wayne at Toledo2&mdash;Indianapolis at Louisville3&mdash;Louisville at ToledoFort Wayne at Indianapolis4&mdash;Indianapolis at TroyToledo at Louisville6&mdash;Troy at Fort Wayne7&mdash;Toledo at Indianapolis9&mdash;Troy at Louisville Indianapolis at Toledo10&mdash;Troy at Toledo Indianapolis at Fort Wayne11&mdash;Fort Wayne at Indianapolis Louisville at Troy14&mdash;Louisville at Indianapolis16&mdash;Indianapolis at Louisville Fort Wayne at Toledo17&mdash;Fort Wayne at Troy Indianapolis at Toledo18&mdash;Toledo at Fort Wayne Troy at Louisville21&mdash;Troy at Toledo23&mdash;Fort Wayne at Louisville24&mdash;Toledo at TroyLouisville at Fort Wayne25&mdash;Indianapolis at Troy Toledo at Louisville27&mdash;Troy at Fort Wayne28&mdash;Troy at Indianapolis29&mdash;Louisville at Troy30&mdash;Fort Wayne at Louisville31&mdash;Louisville at Indianapolis Toledo at Fort WayneFEBRUARY1&mdash;Toledo at TroyIndianapolis at Louisville3&mdash;Indianapolis at Fort Wayne4&mdash;Louisville at Toledo Fort Wayne at Indianapolis6&mdash;Indianapolis at ToledoTroy at Louisville7&mdash;Indianapolis at Troy Fort Wayne at Toledo8&mdash;Fort Wayne at Troy10&mdash;Louisville at Fort Wayne13&mdash;Toledo at Louisville14&mdash;Louisville at Troy15&mdash;Toledo at TroyFort Wayne at Louisville18&mdash;Toledo at Indianapolis20&mdash;Indianapolis at Toledo21&mdash;Troy at Indianapolis Toledo at Fort Wayne22&mdash;Indianapolis at Troy Louisville at Toledo24&mdash;Troy at Fort Wayne25&mdash;Louisville at Indianapolis27&mdash;Indianapolis at Toledo28&mdash;Troy at ToledoFort Wayne at IndianapolisMARCH1&mdash;Toledo at Fort Wayne Louisville at Troy4&mdash;Toledo at Indianapolis6&mdash;Fort Wayne at Toledo7&mdash;Louisville at Indianapolis Troy at Toledo8&mdash;Louisville at Fort Wayne Toledo at Troy11&mdash;Troy at Louisville13&mdash;Louisville at Toledo14&mdash;Indianapolis at Toledo15&mdash;Louisville at Troy Indianapolis at Fort Wayne17&mdash;Troy at Fort Wayne18&mdash;Indianapolis at Louisville20&mdash;Toledo at Louisville Indianapolis at Troy21&mdash;Troy at Toledo Louisville at Fort Wayne22&mdash;Toledo at Troy Fort Wayne at Louisville24&mdash;Toledo at Fort Wayne25&mdash;Troy at Indianapolis27&mdash;Toledo at Indianapolis27&mdash;Toledo at Louisville28&mdash;Louisville at Toledo Troy at Fort Wayne29&mdash;Toledo at Indianapolis Fort Wayne at Troy &#9632;

international Hockey League Schedule 1958-59 Season

<div class="byline">By GEORGE METZGER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01360/1657955-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Lockhart</figcaption></div>PHILADELPHIA, Pa.&mdash;Eastern Hockey League fans are starting to call it &ldquo;the checker league.&rdquo;And good reason, to. Teams are always jumping in and out of it.According to last reports, the EHL is back to six teams. The New York Rovers, of league president Tom Lockhart, who were &ldquo;all set to go&rdquo; at the beginning of the month, apparently weren&rsquo;t and dropped out.This happened at a meeting in New York just two weeks ago&mdash;14 days&mdash;before opening night. So, the announcing of the league&rsquo;s schedule was delayed again.The circuit is set to open its 24th season this weekend, but just who was playing whom and where were still not decided up until a few days ago.By this time, the remaining six teams could have jumped out or for that matter six more jump in. That&rsquo;s how uncertain the whole Eastern League picture is.Glad Presidents InThe club owners are now thanking their lucky stars that they admitted a Washington. At a meeting last month here, the league moguls were in favor of dropping the Washington franchise and, going with six teams&mdash;including New York.If this action was taken, the EHL would have been down to an unhealthy five clubs right now. The five &ldquo;solid&rdquo; hiembels of the league are Charlotte, New Haven. Johnstown, Clinton and Philadelphia.Reasons Are A MysteryJust why Lockhart announced his team was &ldquo;all set to go this year&rdquo; when it was not, is a mystery. Perhaps it was wishful thinking. But what ever it is called, it certainly messed up the entire league. To say nothing of the fans.The obsticle standing in Lockhart&rsquo;s way is his rink in Long Island. It is not finished. At last reports it did not even have a roof on it. But yet he reported the Rovers were &ldquo;all set to go.&rdquo;Two short weeks before the league was set to open Lockhart then reported that he could not ice a team until &ldquo;December or so.&rdquo; He then suggested that his club be allowed to enter the league when ever it was ready to.But the club owners exercised good judgement and would have none of it.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t see any harm with coming rato the league in. December,&rdquo; Lockhart said. &ldquo;We could play a split season or have the Rovers play four point games to even it out. What&rsquo;s wrong with that?&rdquo;Apparently the owners saw&rsquo; plenty wrong with it. One pointed out that the Rovers would come into the league (that is if Lockhart could find players around in December) well rested after the others had played almost a month and a half.&lsquo;The Rovers will be in at the start of the campaign or not at all,&rdquo; said George Davis, president of the Philadelphia Ramblers in summing up the sentiments of the other five owners.Actually, the Rovers had one player on its roster&mdash;Gil MacNeill who was sent there by the Philadelphia Ramblers. When it was learned that the New Yorkers would not skate this year, Dayis wired MacNeill to report to the Ramblers camp.Many observers around the league are afraid that thia whole incident will give the EHL a setback in its campaign to improve itself and its caliber of hockey.&ldquo;It ruins the fans&rsquo; belief and interest in the league,&rdquo; one of them said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s about time someone takes steps to see that nothing like this happens again.&rdquo;So, if nothing has happened in the last week, six teams&mdash;Charlotte. Washington, Philadelphia, Clinton, Johnstown and New Haven&mdash;opened the Eastern Amateur Hockey League this weekend.<h2>Roving Rover Boss &#9632;</h2>

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Lockhart Drops Bomb; Rovers Aren’t Set To Play In EHL

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01336/1657986-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div><h2>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK</h2>Across1&mdash;Detroit player shown in centre.4&mdash;Frank Selke is one for the N.H.L. (abbr.),6&mdash;Former Red Wing defenseman&hellip;8&mdash;A member of the Boston Bruins.10&mdash;Initials of a new member of the Black Hawks.12&mdash;Short for first name of Fillion, ex Habitant player.13&mdash;Hec Kilrea won one during World War 2.14&mdash;Warrant Officer (abbr.)15&mdash;Initials of Laforge who was obtained by Detroit during the summer.16&mdash;Jim Morrison had this fractured last season.17&mdash;Initials of Lewicki of Chicago.18&mdash;Organ of hearing.20&mdash;Andy Hebenton&rsquo;s native province (abbr.)21&mdash;A Toronto rearguard answers to this.22&mdash;Initials of Roberge who played last season with New Westminster.23&mdash;All players wear these.25&mdash;Contraction of over.26&mdash;Initials of an N.H.L. manager.27&mdash;Toronto acquired Allan Stanley through one.29&mdash;The &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; had this cut last, season.30&mdash;Initials of Detroit&rsquo;s Mickoski.Down1&mdash;Name given Buffalo&rsquo;s coach.2&mdash;One of the Boston Bruins.3&mdash;Halts Bob Turner likes to do this in the off season.4&mdash;Initials of Toronto&rsquo;s assistant general manager.5&mdash;Barry Cullen hails from here.7&mdash;Number of goals Bob Balm scored last season.9 Denotes scoreless tie.11&mdash;Former member of the N.Y. Rangers, called Ed.15&mdash;Mrs. Billy Reay.16&mdash;Played with the Maple Leafs last season.17&mdash;Birthplace of pictured player.19&mdash;Initials of Migay of Rochester.24&mdash;Given name of a Ranger forward.26&mdash;Number of minutes 2 down spent in the penalty box last season.27&mdash;Football players like to get these (abbr.)28&mdash;Artificial language.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWER</h2>Across1&mdash;Fisher6&mdash;Games9&mdash;Omaha11&mdash;Age12&mdash;Ron.13&mdash;Nine14&mdash;Ir.15&mdash;R.G.17&mdash;D.T.19&mdash;Ass.21&mdash;Ail22&mdash;O.T.23&mdash;One24&mdash;Bep25&mdash;asko29&mdash;Stewart31&mdash;Ow.33&mdash;Noy.34&mdash;EdnaDown1&mdash;Florida2&mdash;Stan.3&mdash;Egan4&mdash;Ra.5&mdash;Leger7&mdash;Man.8&mdash;Se.10&mdash;Mortson16&mdash;Golf pro.18&mdash;Talbot20&mdash;Steve.23&mdash;Olson26&mdash;A.W.27&mdash;Save28&mdash;K.R.30&mdash;Two32&mdash;G.A. &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword

<div class="byline">By HAROLD M. SHAW</div>TOLEDO, O.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03270/1658048-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="283" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fred Huber</figcaption></div>For the first time in its 14-year history the publicity director of the International Hockey League held a meeting to discuss mutual problems and exchange ideas.Fred A. Huber, Jr., former publicity director of the Detroit Red Wings and onetime managing director of the IHL, was in charge of the clinic which was held at the Toledo Sports Arena.Four of the five cities&mdash;Toledo, Troy, Fort Wayne and Louisville were represented at the session which lasted more than four hours.A full discussion on press, radio and TV relations with the resultant publicity occupied more than half of the meeting, while the rest of the time was spent on promotional ideas, including everything from beauty contests to special discount tickets worked through super markets.The league&rsquo;s publicity directors agreed to send each other photographs of their respective clubs and also said they would urge their coaches or other player personnel to arrive far enough ahead of the games in order to set up pre-game radio and television shows.Huber will also conduct rules clinics in Troy on Oct. 24 Fort Wayne on Oct. 26, and Toledo. Oct. 28. Louisville will also hold a similar clinic before the International Hockey League opens its season on Friday, Oct. 31, with Indianapolis at Louisville Took Komets Sign ContractsTroy and Fort Wayne will play a &ldquo;home and home&rdquo; exhibition series aS a part of the free clinics in each town, while Toledo will hold an inter-squad game to introduce its Mercurys to the fans.Four of last season&rsquo;s Komets have signed their contracts, according to Ken Ullyot. new general manager at Fort Wayne. They are Artie Stone, Eddie Long, Len Thomson and Len Ronson. All were instrumental in leading the Komets into second place in the IHL last season.Thomson wound up with 81 points to beat out Stone who had 78. Long&rsquo;s 38 goals were tops on the club and Ronson finished fourth in team scoring with 59 points on 26 goals and 31 assistStan Konrad, a 19-year-old right winger, is another newcomer who has been obtained by the Troy Bruins. Konrad finished fourth in scoring last year for Three. Rivers in the Quebec Junior Hockey League with 28 goals and 27 assists. Konrad is property of Springfield of the American League and is considered a real prospect by Eddie Shore, new owner of the Bruins.Three of last year&rsquo;s players, along with two newcomers are in the Louisville fold. They are Eddie Dudych, George Ranieri and Ron Spong from last season s Rebels, and Tom Ramsey and Moe Bartoli.Toledo&rsquo;s Mercurys have three ex-college players lined-up for Playing-Coach Doug Baldwin. The collegians are Bob Schiller, who played briefly with Toledo last season after starring for the University of Michigan on defense; Ed Switzer, a left winger from Michigan, and Harvey Flaman, who played for the University of Minnesota (Duluth Branch) last year.in goal the Mercs will have Art McIntyre, who played in the Maritime League last year and comes to Toledo via tire Detroit Red Wings. &#9632;

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Five Club IHL To Lift Opening Curtain Oct. 31

<div class="byline">By HUGH BOWMAN</div>VOLUME 12 MONTREAL, OCTOBER 25. 1958 No. 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0189/1658093-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="274" height="305"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0288/1658086-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="268" height="319"></div>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;Toronto Marlboros finished fourth in the OHA Junior A loop last season but went on to win the league championship in post-season play Whether they&rsquo;ll repeat or not this year is going to depend on how well and how fast a big rookie crop develops. As is invariably the case with a championship team, the losses through graduation are heavy; Marlboros are no exception Turk Broda, weighing just a few pounds over his playing weight, would be justified in sweating off a few ounces at viewing his list of departures. He&rsquo;s been hit hard in every department.Back of the blueline he Loses, the league&rsquo;s top goalkeeper in Len Broderick, who paced the regular netminders with a goals against average of 3.27. Off his defence go big rugged Ian Anderson and the talented Carl Brewer, Brewer is still elegible for junior but the impression he made at Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; training camp earned him a five game trial with Leafs and it&rsquo;s doubtful if he&rsquo;ll be playing any more junior hockey:Nevin Top Point GetterUp front things are just as tough. Included in the list of the late lamented are Bob Nevin, Jack McMaster, Wally Boyer, Bill Kennedy and Doug Risely. Nevin was Marlies top point getter with 71 and McMaster their top goal scorer with 35. Risely was third on the Duke&rsquo;s scoring list with 26 goals and 34 assists for 60 points. Kennedy scored 15 goals and the hard working Boyer had 11 goals and 11 assists in only 2 7 contests.There isn&rsquo;t a team in the league that that has been decimated to this extent but no one is counting Marlies out of it.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0383/1658079-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="539" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Nevin</figcaption></div>Roger Cote and Ross Morrison are back from last year to give Dukes a nucleus of experience on defence. Marlies who seem to have the knack of developing an endless supply of rugged rearguards have a couple of promising newcomers in Glen Richardson and George Walker.Up front Sonny Osborne, Jim Murchie, Bob Davidson and Don Curry are back for another whirl and they&rsquo;ve added Jack Martin from St. Michael&rsquo;s. Osborne with 17 was the top goal scorer in the group and Broda will be looking for near 20 goal performances from the rest of them this season. Jim Pappin, Jack Aldis and Alan Orcheson are among the newcomers rated a good chance of catching on.Three Goalies In CampAt the time of writing Marlies had three goalkeepers in camp. Jacques Caron, who played with Peterborough on loan from Marlies last year, was the most experienced. John Millar was in 11 games and Jimmy Cannon one with Dukes last season.Marlies usually don&rsquo;t reach their stride until after Christmas; with the player dosses they&rsquo;ve suffered it may take them a couple of weeks longer this year.While Marlies have lost more than their share of players, Peterborough Petes, a fifth place finisher last year, have a healthy share of holdovers. They lose Caron of course but still have Chuck Adamson who alternated in goal last season. Irwin Spencer, who impressed at Montreal Canadiens camp, is the biggest loss. The hard-hitting rearguard was among the best defencemen in the league last year. Jim Mikol and Ray Lamb are also over-age but Jim Dunne and Dave Besse are back.Scott Bowman who takes over the coaching reins from Ted Kennedy is expected to have about a dozen holdover in bis lineup. Youngsters like Wayne Boddy, Larry Babcock and Wayne Connelly are expected to come into their own this year and could well give the lift-lock city it&rsquo;s first, first-division club.St. Mikes lose some top talent in the departure of Bob McKnight, Tim Hook, Dick Mat-tiussi, Tom Micallef and Martin. In Dave Keon, the top rookie in the league last year, Jack Costello, Daryl Sly and Jim Sonocki they have some promising talent and could be the dark horse entry. &#9632;

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October 25, 1958

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