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April 11, 1959
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Speaking on Sport
Toronto Star Habs Grabbed Bonin From Bruins MONSIEUR MARCEL BONIN always has been the best glass-eater in hockey. He could bite a chunk from a water tumbler, chew the slivers and swallow the delectable morsel as casually as you’d consume a hot-cross-bun. Bonin had other unique talents. He was the only man in shinny who had wrestled a 600-pound bear. The fact that Marcel had survived made the feat more impressive among people who knew him in the rinks. Anyone can wrestle a bear. The trick is to do it and live. Unfortunately, the unimaginative people who run hockey never considered it worth while to provide an award for players who eat glass or grapple with bears. So M. Bonin was judged solely on what he could do with a puck on the…
Warriors, in By Skin Of Teeth, Chop Down Flyers, Hone Fangs For Stamps
SEATTLE, Wash.— It’s Calgary vs. Winnipeg and Seattle vs. Vancouver in the Prairie and Coast Division. playoff finals. The Warriors, who didn’t nail down a playoff berth until the final week of the season, had a ball at the expense of the Edmonton Flyers, racking up three straight victories — 3-2, 4-1 and 5-1. It was plain murder, and especially hard for coach Tony Leswick to swallow. Tony was on top of the world during the first half of the campaign. Calgary couldn’t catch his hustlin’ Flyers and he was laughing at Stampeder boss Gus Kyle. Well, when the worm turned, it really turned. Dennis Riggin was hit in the eye by a bouncing puck, the last one fired in a practice session, and he was trough for the year. Then there was the shuttle…
Gump First Across Dotted Line—“He’ll Have To Hop To Stick”—Phil
NEW YORK, N. Y.— If Gump Worsley feels confused these days one can hardly blame him but he should be used to it by now. While coach Phil Watson was verbally lashing the goaltender with his impeccable post-season cat-of-nine-tails, general manager Muzz Patrick was liberally applying the green balm to the Gump in the form of a brand new contract for 1959-60. Now, if that sounds perplexing to you, it should. However, Monsieur Worsley and most New York fans above accustomed to opinion differences between Watson and Patrick. So, shortly after the Rangers were most unceremoniously dumped out of a playoff berth it was not the least surprising to hear Watson douse the near-portly netminder with a charge that he was “90 per cent responsible for the Rangers home stretch collapse.” For a while it…
BATHGATE NIXES OPERATION DATE FOR RIGHT KNEE
NEW YORK, N.Y.— Andy Bathgate has decided to play an ice version of Russian roulette. The Rangers record-breaking right wing has done rightabout-face and cancelled plans to have an operation on his trouble some trick right knee. Dr. Kazuo Yanigasawa was shining up his scalpel last week when Sir Andrew called a conference with the Blue bigwigs to tell them he wasn’t in favor of having a silver plate inserted in his right knee. Since Bathgate already is carrying a lode of silver in his left knee — inserted by thp Japanese doctor in 1952 — he decided he was well enough supplied with armor to survive the 1959-60 warfare. Apparently Ranger President Gen. John Reed Kilpatrick, g.m. Muzz Patrick and coach Phil Watson didn’t think Bathgate had a tinny excuse. When the Hart Trophy…
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