Alex Wood Takes Over Mercs’ Coaching Post From Baldwin

STOLEDO, O.— Alex Wood has been named coach of the Toledo Mercurys to succeed Doug Baldwin who resigned. Wood is no stranger to Toledo, having coached the Mercurys for two seasons1950-51 and 1951-52. He led the Mercurys to the U. S. Amateur Hockey Association Senior Open championship his first year, and went to the AHA finals the second year. He also coached at Fort Wayne and Louisville in the IHL. Wood inherits a last-place club-a club which Andy Mulligan, general manager of the Toledo Sports Arena, calls not the worst team in the league. ’We have won only four out of 20 games on the road, so far,” Mulligan said, ’and I think we should be a lot better than that.” The proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back and sent Baldwin out of the…

Player-of-the-Week

Dickie Moore……Montreal Canadiens MONTREAL, Que. — Dickie Moore, who plays right wing with the same fine ability as he does the left side, last week spurted into first place in the National Hockey League points race by picking up two goals and six assists in three games. He also leads the league in goals scored with 32 and that figure added to his 37 assists gives him a points total of 69, one more than Chicago’s Ed Litzenberger. Each year Moore is called upon to show Dickie Moore his versitility as a winger. Last season when Maurice Richard cut a tendon in his foot Moore shifted over to the right wing and continued to lead the league in scoring. Eventualily he won the honor by netting 36 goals and 48 assists for…

playing the field

Montreal Gazette The Rocket’s Status Maurice (Rocket) Richard is, as every hockey fan knows, the greatest clutch player in hockey, the man who has scored more goals in the playoffs than any other player in the history of the National Hockey League. There is a possibility that he will miss the playoffs which start in March, and that can’t help but hurt the Canadiens’ chances to win the Stanley Cup for the fourth time in a row. The Rocket suffered a fractured foot in a game in Chicago on Jan 18, and he has been hobbling around of late on a walking cast. A few days ago, he was bothered by a rash which developed under the cast and the doctors decided to remove the cast and have a look at the injury.…

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