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November 8, 1958
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First Hub Scrap Was In An Exhibition With Mariucci
BOSTON, Mass.—Ferny Fla man’s first fight here was featured by the headwork of Johnny Mariucci, Bruins’ Trainer Hammy Moore recalls. Flaman was 16 and playing for the old Boston Olympics when he tangled with Mariucci, former Minnesota football player and Chicago Black Hawks’ defenseman. “We (the Olympics) were playing the Curtis Bay Coast. Guard team.” related Moore, who trained the Olympics, “and Ferny and Mariucci had? little bumping affair. “I could see Mariucci biding his time to catch up with the kid and finally he saw his chance as Ferny went into the corner for the puck. Mariucci took off for him, but Ferny was watching him out of the corner of his eye. Just as Mariucci unloaded Ferny ducked. and, Johnny went head-first, into the boards. “He finally got up steaming and, took off…
Barons Pick Up Robertson From Reds For The Defense
CLEVELAND, O.—The Cleveland Barons, short of defensmen have picked up Bob Robertson from the Providence Reds. Robertson will replace Georges Bouchard who was-injured recently. The Barons’ new defensemen hails from Islington, Ontario. and is 30 years old. The Barons mark the third AHL Club he has performed with. He turned pro with the Pittsburgh Hornets in 194950 and played briefly with Los Angeles in the Pacific Coast League. He was rein-, stated as an amateur in 195152 and joined the Ottawa Senators of the old Quebec Senior League. He turned pro again with Providence, in 1954 1955. ‘We’re really hurting at defense. and I’m sure Bob will help us. I’ve always considered him a good hockey player,” said Barons’ Caoch Jackie Gordon.…
Speaking On Sport
A Rolls-Royce Can’t Play Left Wing THE rich get richer and the poor get pizza… and the Habs, who needed help like Carter needs a liver pill, trot out a couple of hot-slots named Ralph Backstrom and Alvin McDonald. If you were making a list of all the people whom Santa Claus could brush off with one of his deepest belly laughs, the first name you’d write down would have to be that of Montreal Canadiens.. Yet, in Backstrom and McDonald they appear to have the sharpest pair of freshman shooters to hit the grand circuit of shinny this season. The Habs must meet all the trains—and sit around the bus stops watching for runaway boys with their clean socks wrapped in a bandana and slung over their shoulder on a hockey…
Tough Bruin Star Started As Forward, Switched To Defense
BOSTON, Mass.— Fern Flaman has been stepping about on defense more nimbly for the Boston Bruins this fall than he has for the past several falls. Flaman has picked up where he left off last spring, when his brilliant defense play was one of the features of the Bruins’ Stanley Cup playoff games with the New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens. Has the hard-bitten veteran found a fountain of hockey youth somewhere? Yes, in a way. Flaman is benefitting by a change in Bruins’ defense policy, just as he was sure last season he would. He has been playing more this fall than he did last fall—or the fall before that. The more he has played the better he has played. Announced Milt Schmidt before the start of pre-season training. “We’ll carry only five defensemen this season…
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