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December 13, 1958
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Rough, Tough Zeidel Reforms, Sheds Bad Boy Roll For Good
HERSHEY, Pa.— There’s no Lady Byng trophy in the American League, but if the circuit bosses were to introduce a similiar award “for sportsmanship and gentlemanly” conduct one of the leading candidates would be Larry (The Rock) Zeidel. the Hershey Bears’ colorful defenseman. About this time Jim Hendy. the Cleveland Barons general manager, should have gagged ou his morning coffee, while the rest of the league readers rushed for pen and paper to write letters of protest to the editors of Hockey News. Hendy has as much time for Zeidel as Scrooge had for Santy Claus. And the league fans on ly see Zeidel when he’s sitting it out in the penalty coop. But beleive it or not, Zeidel, who. some say, wrestles bears in the off-season, has been conducting himself in Lord Fauntleroy…
Punch Reeling In Pike To Get Leafs Off Hook, Into Playoffs
TORONTO. Ont.— Punch Imlach has revised that old joke about Toronto Maple Leafs having three hockey teams so that it now applies to coaches. He has one Coming, one present and one going. The Leaf general manager himself is the middle man it this modern game of musical chairs. After firing sophomore coach Billy Reay in mid-season. Punch assumed the bench duties himself, but promptly set about negotiating to make Winnipeg Warriors’ Alf Pike his own successor. And he introduced still a fourth party by appointing veteran left winger Bert Olmstead as playing coach, to act when Punch himself should be absent attending to his general managing duties. The reason for Olmstead’s appointment as an assistant was the same as the reason for Imlach shaste to replace himself as coach. “One man cannot do justice to…
Speaking on Sport
Toronto Star Members of The Select Guelph Group The emergence of Mr. Andy Bathgate as the hottest shooter in shinny is something that scarcely will rate headlines in Guelph. Hockey historians of the farm college town had Andy taped and typed all along. The only question that ever entered their minds was: “When?” They had been assured this guy just couldn’t miss. Too many members of the New York Rangers’ brain trust had risked their reputations on Andy for all of them to be wrong. Hockey’s head-hunters are like other adventurers in the field of professional sport. frequently they beat the tom-toms for a captive they’re bringing back alive—and then watch him skate like a man with bunions on both feet. In such instances, it’s professional ethics to bury the body as quietly…
Eastern OHA Sr. Set To Lei OHA-NOHA Go Their Own Way
CORNWALL, Ont.— One day last spring, the two seanior ‘A’ hockey leagues in Ontario got together to make some big moves designed at cutting the rising costs of senior A hockey that was threatening the teams with extinction. At the meeting the clubs took some big moves. They set a salary limit. They put through a rule that made professionals sit out a year after their reinstatement before being able to return to the Ontario Senior teams. Other rules all designed to cut costs included limits to what an overage junior could make and no affiliated clubs. That was last June. Here it is the first of December and a couple of the rules have already been broken or done away with. The trouble all started at an OHA-NOHA meeting last week. They had adopted…
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