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November 8, 1958
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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…
Penticton Brass Refuse To Release Coburn To Kelowna
PENTICTON, B.C.—Executives of the Pentiction Vs of the British Columbia Senior League have refused to release all-star defenseman Pat Coburn. Coburn had hoped to join the Kelowna Packers who will represent Canada when they tour Europe this month. The Packers, Allan Cup finalists against Belleville McFarlands last season will visit Russia on their trip.…
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…
WESTWICK
In The Ottawa Journal Punch Imlach came up with a rather curious “beet” in Toronto the other day. The new Maple Leaf assistant manager criticized the National League waiver rule for its failure to permit a big league club to send a player to the minors without first giving another club a chance at him. in this instance, the forthright Imlach, labelled three of the Leafs’ players as rating demotion to the minor leagues in what he suggested would be a disciplinary action. Imlach maintained that a major league club was at a disadvantage in being forced to keep players whom “they knew were dogging it”. To suggest, as Imlach does, “that you can t run a hockey Club without having a protected list, is an admission, or rather a charge, that simply…