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January 24, 1959
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Hendy Issues White Paper To His Players: 1st By Six By March 1st
CLEVELAND, O. — With his Barons firmly placed in third position of the American Hockey League, General Manager Jim Hendy made some sort of athletic history here by issuing a White Paper to his hockey club. The unique communique went to each member of the Barons over Hendy’s signature and called for them to nail down first place in the league by six points by March 1. The letter was not offered for publication but was intended as a private directive between Hendy and his players. This writer, however, came into possession of a copy of the letter. Here it is exactly reproduced for the benefit of Hockey News readers: JAN. 3, 1959 TO THE BARONS — Our objective by March 1, 1959 is: First place by six points!!! The above is not impossible. We play 16 of our…
Major Loop Scouts Rush For Second Look At Ken After Nixing Him First
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.— The big league scouts last year liked Kenny Schinkel because he was an “honest” hockey player. The star Springfield Indian forward was a hard skater, an untiring worker, aggressive and in general a good all-around American Leaguer. But, the ivory hunters said, he doesn’t have quite enough scoring ability. If he can click for 50 to 70 points, he could make any National League club, they agreed, because Kenny can do all the other things well enough. He scored only 38 points with the Calder Cup finalists last season so that put him at least a dozen away from the NHL. The scouts passed up the 24-year-old Indian rightwinger. And no NHL club would so much as risk the $15,000 draft price to get him. This year, the scouts have been following him around all…
Melnyk, Flyer At 24 Eyes Spot As Red Wings’ Flyer
EDMONTON, Alta.— Gerry Melnynk’s hopes are still high. The 24-year-old ace of the Edmonton Flyers has his aspirations pinned on the Detroit Red Wings. “This is my fifth year of minor pro, but I still have a chance to hit the big time yet”, commented the soft-spoken centre. Michael Gerald Melynk came up through the local Maple Leaf organization. In his last year with the junior Oil Kings he took second place in the scoring race behind Norm Ullman now with the Red Wings. Then came “Bud” Poile with the contract to play with the Flyers. This however wasn’t Gerry’s first swing at the pro circles for during the’52 to’54 era the youngster played in three encounters. In his first full season the speedster played in 69 games connecting for 43 points on 14 goals and…
HOCKEY CROSSWORD
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK ACROSS 1—Ranger player shown in centre. 6—Initials of a Red Wing defenseman. 7—Initials of Stratton of Cleveland. 8—Plays defense for Canadiens. 12—Calder Trophy winner of of 194849. 13—This man is in charge of the N.H.L’s officials. 15—Pronoun. 16—Nickname of Riopelle, exMontreal player. 18—Ken Yackel of Boston was born in this country (abbr.) 19—North East (abbr.) 20—Ton (abbr.) 21—Frank Mahovlich eats these before a game (sing.) 22—Initials of Stewart, defenseman on 194849 All-Star team. 23—Riopelle’s initials. 25—This Bruin player turned pro with Toronto. 28—Initials of Motter, ex-Red Wing star. 29—Initials of Ingarfield of New York. 30—Ed Slowinski played — hockey with Ottawa Senators. 31—McKenzie of Chicago answers to this. 32—Tod Sloan’s second name. DOWN 1—Defense coach for Cleveland. 2—Birthplace of pictured star. 3—Number of games Hebenton participated in last season. 4—A Hawk penalty killer. 5—Initials of Skov, N.H.L. linesman. 7—Henri Richard collected 52 of these last season. 9—First two letters of August. 10—Initials of Drillon, former Toronto player. 11—Denotes…
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