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January 31, 1959
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HOCKEY CROSSWORD
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK ACROSS 1—Pictured Maple Leaf player. 5—Friend (Fr.) 8—Nickname given Murray Murdoch, ex-Ranger star (two words.) 10—Ex-Hawk, Art Wiebe, opened one when he left hockey. 11—Former N.H.L. star, Flash Hollet, hails from this province (abbr.) 13—Leo LaBine is noted for this. 15—Jack McIntyre scored his first goal of 1958-59 against this club (abbr.) 16—University degree (abbr.) 17—Initials of LaForge of Detroit. 18—What Mollie Apps calls husband SyI. 19—Sun God. 20—Month in which N.H.L. schedule opens (abbr.) 22—Pronoun. 23—Tom Johnson’s age. 26—A Chicago defenseman. 29—This N.H.L. coach is a native of Melville, Sask. 32—Name given a Ranger forward. 33—Detroit’s president. DOWN 1—Ex-Red Wing, Bob Goldham, once injured one severely. 2—This rookie had a two game trial with Chicago recently. 3—Present indicative plural of the verb Be. 4—Name given a newly acquired Hawk player. 5—Initials of Mortson of Detroit. 6—Ken Reardon’s native province (abbr.) 7—Ex-Canadien, Pete Morin, now sells this. 9—N.H.L. team with whom “Babe” Pratt first played…
Adams Says Clubs Nixed Deals, Hoping Wings Would Sink
DETROIT, Mich.— His Detroit Red Wings skidding and slumping, Jack Adams has been scorned at every way post when it comes to seeking new players. “OK, so this is our penalty for getting in the playoffs 23 years in a row and for winning the title eight times in nine years.” That’s what Adams says. He offers a strange story of intrigue within NHL circles in his analysis of the inability to make any trades. “No one wants to help us. They figure we’ve got a bad year or so coming to us. Even the ones we helped out when they were hurting now refuse to help us until they’re certain that we’re really hurting,” Adams claimed. He pointed out these examples : Wings Offered More For St. Laurent, More For Sloan Than Habs, leafs Got Jack…
Macs Add Final Touches Prior To European Hop
BELLEVILLE, Ont.— The battle-hardened Belleville Mc Farlands, Canada’s senior “A” hockey champions board a plane at Malton Airport, Toronto on Sunday, February 1. Destination, Prague, Czechoslovakia. They step from the plane at Prestwick, Scotland the next day straight into a familiar hockey team dressing room. They play the Paisley Tigers that night. The games tees off a series of 15 exhibition games for the Canadian icelane Marco Polos before they get down to the serious business of. the world tournament set for Prague March 5-15th. They will play six games in Sweden and the balance in Norway, Finland, Germany, Italy and Switzerland before arriving in Prague. Following the world tournament they will play three games in Czechoslovakia and three in Britain before proceeding home. There is a possibility of one or two games in Paris. European games…
Marcel’s Beak Busted 13th Time
DETROIT, Mich.— “Fragile, Do Not Touch.” Marcel Pronovost figures such a sign is required to prevent further damage to his nose. But knowing the demands on a National Hockey League defenseman, Pronovost knows that’ll do no good. The sturdy French-Canadian star of the Red Wings, voted to the midseason All Star team, had his nose broken for the 13th time recently. “This is a mild one,” Pronovost said with the air of a true connoisseur. “Why I was able to see of both eyes the next morning after just a few applications of hot towels. The first time I broke my nose in a hockey game my eyes were swollen shut for three days.” Marcel concedes that he hasn’t kept an accurate scrapbook on the mishaps to his nose, but he can remember most of the details. “I…
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