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July 1, 1959

The Hockey News July 1, 1959

LOUISVILLE, Ky.&mdash;Leo Gasparini, the popular coach of the Louisville Rebels of the International Hockey League has become the first Canadian in history to be accepted into the Honorable Order of the Kentucky Colonel.The society has selected Gasparini because of the great deal of honor he has brought to the State of Kentucky with his championship hockey club, the Louisville Rebels.The Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels first began back in the year 1812 when Isaac Shelby, the first Governor of Kentucky, made his son-in-law Charles S. Todd the first Kentucky Colonel. Since then the membership roll has grown by leaps and bounds. To become a Colonel, one must be above reproach in every manner. Only the Governor of the State can commission someone a Kentucky Colonel.Down through the years the order has as members such famous names as Harry S. Truman, former president of the United States, James S. Farley, Postmaster General of the United States, movie stars such as Bing Crosby, Clark Gable and many other famous names.To be made a Kentucky Colonel is quite an honor. It is the highest honor that the State of Kentucky can bestow on a person. It is something small boys dream of. It is something that adults hope for.The Colonels are very dedicated to their fellow man. They help each other in every possible way. They do charity work. They entertain the Armed Forces. All in all they try to bring light and cheer into a world.When told that his coach had been made a Kentucky Colonel Chick Chalmers had to this say, &ldquo;I have played for a lot of coaches but Gasparini is the best of the lot. He is a real fine fellow.&rdquo;Gasparini, well liked by everybody, has made quite a name for himself in Kentucky. The remarks by Rebel center Chick Chalmers seemed to reflect the feelings of the entire Rebel Squad. Anyone who knows Gasparini is very happy about his new commission. He is well known for his friendly smile and good naturedness. Bob Woods of the Louisville Rebels Booster Club says, &ldquo;Gasparini has a heart as big as a house. They couldn&rsquo;t have made a more deserving Colonel.&rdquo;The fans of Louisville are eagerly awaiting the opening of the new 1959-60 season. Hockey in Louisville should enjoy one of it&rsquo;s greatest seasons.When informed that he had been made a Kentucky Colonel Gasparini said, &ldquo;I feel very humble and honored by all this. I will do my utmost to live up to the honor that the State of Kentucky has bestowed on me.&rdquo; &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Gasparini Becomes ‘Kentucky Colonel’

CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Omaha be came a member of the International Hockey League for the 1959-60 season. St. Paul is virtually certain of membership, while St. Louis has still to negotiate a lease for-an ice rink and complete membership requirements.Omaha posted a $5,000 bond at the annual meeting here, completing its obligations. St. Paul posted a franchise fee and will become a member upon posting a bond, while St. Louis has indicated that it needs only to make arrangements for an ice surface and it will be ready to join the IHL.The IHL now comprises five teams, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Louisville, Ky., Toledo, Ohio, and Omaha, Neb.League officials voted to form a pool from which to pay player bonuses for payoff games. Under the plan, 25 cents will be taken from each playoff ticket sold, up to the minimum number of games (the first three games in a best-of-five series and the first four games in a best-of-seven series). The money then will be divided on a 60-40 basis among winners and losers.<h2>Raise Player Limit</h2>The player limit was raised by one to 13 players, and the league voted to continue the participating pool. The pool is made up of a percentage of gate receipts and is used for league expenses.Also established was an award for each member of the league championship and runner-up teams.Elected as officers were Frank Gallagher, Dearborn, president; Howie Newstate, Cincinnati, secretary and publicity director; Mel Ross, Indianapolis, and Ken Ullyot, vice presidents; Andy Mulligan, Toledo; Bruce Clark, Omaha; Pat Egan, St. Paul; Leo Gasparini, Louisville.Gallagher announced that the league&rsquo;s attendance figure for the year, 355,691 for the five teams. He said it represented a gain for every team except Troy, which has been transfered to Greensboro, N.C., of the Eastern League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06113/1516664-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="304" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy Mulligan</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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IHL Takes In Omaha Entry As Fifth Club

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The Toronto hockey Leafs are back in the chain-store business.Agreement has been reached whereby the Leafs will buy out their business partners, Montreal Canadians, to control 55 per cent of stock in the Rochester American Club of the American League.Stafford Smythe, chairman of the Leafs&rsquo; Hockey Committee, confirmed that the board of directors of Maple Leaf Gardens had reached agreement with terms asked by Frank Selke, managing director of Canadiens.Smythe wouldn&rsquo;t disclose financial terms of the transaction, but he revealed that Canadiens will leave all their players who were with Americans last year, &ldquo;that aren&rsquo;t used by Canadiens&rdquo; on the Rochester team.While Leafs and Canadiens were partners in stocking the Rochester team with players the past few years, club operations were handled by Montreal. Under that arrangement, Canadiens&rsquo; recruits were given priority in the development program. Leafs&rsquo; rookies were dismissed.Only five Toronto-owned players were with Americans last season. These were player-coach Steve Kraftcheck, Dave Creighton, Rudy Migay, Gary Aldcorn and Al McNeil. Aldcorn was drafted by Detroit Red Wings.The transaction shifting the 27&frac12; per cent of stock owned by Canadiens to Leafs, gives the Toronto club controlling interest of 55 per cent. The other 45 per cent is owned by Rochester citizens.Canadiens are hopeful that Montreal Royals and Quebec Aces of the Quebec League, will be admitted to membership in the American League, and they will use these clubs to develop young talent.Manager-coach Punch Imlach of the Leafs said the Toronto team shouldn&rsquo;t have much difficulty in icing a strong AHL outfit.&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t say who we&rsquo;ll put in Rochester, because a lot of young players we have will have to prove they can&rsquo;t make the Leafs before. I&rsquo;ll send them down. We won&rsquo;t put any of them in Rochester until they prove to me they can&rsquo;t stick with Leafs.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01314/1516965-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="299" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Punch Imlach</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Toronto Purchases Control of Rochester Americans

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01313/1517230-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Delegates to the recent 46th annual CAHA convention in Detroit came from both east and west. Here representatives from six Canadian hockey districts pose at meetings. Standing, left to right, Leo Atwell, B.C., Ken McMillan, Ontario, Fred Page, Thunder Bay. Sitting, Earl Dawson, Manitoba, Lionel Fleury, Quebec and Jack Watson, Alberta.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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East, West Meet At CAHA Convention

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01171/1517509-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><h2>Hockey Brothers Part Company</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02118/1517502-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="1166" height="1868"><figcaption class="caption-body">One of major league hockey&rsquo;s few brother acts, Barry Cullen, left, and Brian Cullen of the Toronto Maple Leafs will go their own separate ways next season in the National Hockey League. Teammates since their St. Catharines junior hockey days, Brian was drafted by the Rangers and Barry was purchased by Detroit in exchange for Johnny Wilson, hockeys &lsquo;Iran Man&rsquo; performer.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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TRADE WINDS SEEN LIKELY TO BLOW AFTER LEAN PICKINGS IN NHL DRAFT

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0351/1517571-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="284" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Real Chevrefil</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Real Chevrefils, a one-time 31-goal scorer in the National Hockey League but in recent years something of a hockey delinquent, will get another chance to mend his ways with the Detroit Red Wings next fall at training camp.Chewy said from his Timmins, Ont., home that he planned to attend the Wings&rsquo; camp in September.In Detroit, General Manager Jack Adams of the Red Wings said, &ldquo;we have a tenative agreement to let him come to our training camp. He will be given every opportunity to make the club.&rdquo;Chevrefils said he promised Adams he would show up at the Detroit camp weighing 175 pounds. He ended last season scaling close to 200.The 27-year-old left winger spent last year and part of the previous one with Springfield of the American League after Bruins demoted him because he frequently broke training rules.Chevrefils said, &ldquo;I know I&rsquo;ve got two strikes against me. But I&rsquo;ve learned my lesson and I&rsquo;ll stick in the NHL this year.&rdquo;After four seasons with Bruins he spent part of the 1955-56 season with Detroit. He was returned to Boston the following year and had his best season in the NHL, scoring 31 goals and 17 assists. Chevrefils slumped to a nine and nine record in 44 games in 1957-58 and was shipped to Springfield.A former junior star with Barrie Flyers who completed a spectacular jump to the Boston Bruins along with Leo LaBine, Chewy has counted 103 goals during his NHL tenure. In 1956-57 he was a member of the second all-star team.Hockey men have written off the once prolific winger as a mixed up young man who has virtually thrown away a golden career in the big time. The road back will be long and hard foe Chevvy. &#9632;

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Chevrefils To Try Hockey Comeback

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>MONTREAL, Que,&mdash;As predicted in the May issue of The Hockey News, the 1959 NHL intraleague draft produced little in the way of big news. Only eight players were caught in the draft winds, and none of the eight is going toconvert a second devision club into a contender. It&rsquo;s going to take trades to do that, and white everyone talks about deals, few seem actually ready to make them.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m ready,&rdquo; said General Manager Jack Adams of the Detroit Red Wings, &ldquo;but everytime I sit down to talk trades the other guy mentions Alex Delvecchio or Red Kelly. I won&rsquo;t part with Delvecchio unless they give me what I want. And they don&rsquo;t seem to be willing to do that. I won&rsquo;t trade away Kelly. He&rsquo;s been a favorite in Detroit too long, and he still has lots of good hockey ahead of him.&rdquo;<h2>Seeking St. Laurent</h2>There is a rumor making the rounds that Adams and General Manager Tommy Ivan of the Chicago Black Hawks are close to reaching agreement on a deal for defenseman Dollard St. Laurent.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been hearing that everywhere I go. Actually I haven&rsquo;t even discussed it with Tommy. I&rsquo;d like to have the guy. I&rsquo;ve always liked him on the ice and they tell me he&rsquo;s a real gentleman off. But I haven&rsquo;t made a move to get him, and I don&rsquo;t know if I can. Tommy would want too much, I think.&rdquo;Adams said he&rsquo;d like to get St. Laurent from the Hawks to partner on the blueline with Marcel Pronovost.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d put those two together Both are French and both are colorful. They&rsquo;d bring in lots of fans from across the river in Windsor. Not only that, St. Laurent would be a great help to out club.&rdquo;Getting back to the draft, there was little left for anyone to take. The champion Canadiens disposed of all of their eligible players to the Chicago Black Hawks in the weeks preceeding the draft. They sent Murray Balfour and Terry Gray, of Rochester to the Hawks and sold Billy Hay to Chicago shortly after the season ended. Hay was with the Hawks farm in Calgary last season. All three were regarded as top draft choices. Adams admitted he&rsquo;d like to get Balfour from the Hawks.The Toronto Maple Leafs took no one and neither did the Hawks. The Boston Bruins picked up three players, so did New York and Detroit two.The Wings picked up Jack McKenzie from Chicago and Gary Aidcorn from Toronto.&ldquo;McKenzie is young and maybe he can help us,&rdquo; said Sid Abel, Wings&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;He has lots of desire and hustle and you can&rsquo;t tell about a kid like that. Aidcorn can put the puck in the net.&rdquo;The Bruins took goaler Bruce Gamble from the Rangers, Charlie Burns from the Wings and Autrey Erickson from Chicago. The latter played with Calgary last season and Gamble was with Vancouver.The Rangers grabbed defenseman Ian Cushenan from Chicago, Brian Cullen from Toronto and Irwin Spencer from Montreal. Cushenan was with Montreal last season and was sold back to Chicago. Cullen sat on the bench through most of the year while Spencer is a youngster who performed on defense for the Montreal Royals.The Boston Bruins are still in the market for trades. They too failed to get the added strength they need in the draft.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0421/1517540-1-eng-US/cover-042.jpg" title="Cover-04" width="296" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Adams</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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WINGS ANXIOUS TO MAKE DEAL FOR REARGUARD

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01239/1516350-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHNNY WILSON&hellip;&hellip;&lsquo;Iron Man&rsquo; Goes To Toronto</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The Toronto Maple Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings fired the first volley in the trading market at the annual National Hockey League meetings here but when the smoke had cleared it was one of those &lsquo;nothing&rsquo; deals.The Leafs unloaded one of their big disappointments, Barry Cullen, for Detroit&rsquo;s unproductive &lsquo;Iron Man&rsquo; Johnny Wilson and a farm hand by the name of Francis Roggeveen, a defenceman.Wilson had only 11 goals and 17 assists for 28 points in 70 games for the Wings while Cullen collected 14 points&mdash;six goals and eight assists&mdash;in 40 games.The deal for Wilson though came as something of a surprise. With the end of last season he rounded out 518 consecutive games in the NHL for a league record. His string started in the 1951-52 season with Detroit. He served two seasons with Chicago Black Hawks before returning to the Red Wings in the 1957-58 season.The Barry CulIen-for-Wilson deal was also complicated.Besides the NHL&rsquo;s ironman, leftwinger Wilson, Leafs captured defenseman Roggeveen and sent him to Springfield of the American Hockey League for centre Gary Edmundson and an unnamed player.Both Edmundson and the unnamed player will report to New Westminster Royals of the Western Hockey Leaue.Wilson was the only new addition the Leafs acquired at the NHL meetings.General-manager-coach Punch Imlach, who was signed to a new two-year contract during the meetings at a substantial raise, said that he was more or less set with his team and couldn&rsquo;t afford to draft any other players in fear of leaving others unprotected. &#9632;

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Leafs Get Johnny Wilson In Deal For Barry Cullen

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The annual National Hockey League draft has gone into the records for another year and despite the fact some eight players were exchanged by the big league teams, the draft was considered by hockey men as &ldquo;a quiet one.&rdquo;New York, Boston and Detroit divided the spoils between them with Rangers and Bruins each selecting three and Detroit two at $20,000 a throw. Toronto, Montreal and Chicago &lsquo;passed&rsquo; on every round of the draft.The Rangers, fifth-place finishers in the league last season, reached out for two defencemen.One was Irwin Spencer, of the Montreal Royals, and the other was Ian Cushenan, who played with Canadiens last season, but who was sold to Chicago a few weeks ago.&ldquo;If Spencer doesn&rsquo;t make it with my club,&rdquo; explained coach Phil Watson, &ldquo;I can still send him to the American Hockey League for another year. As for Cushenan, I&rsquo;m planning on him to play well in our small rink.&rdquo;Boston, desperately in need of new strength in the nets, drafted young Bruce Gamble from the Rangers. He played with the Vancouver club of the Western Hockey League last season. Another $40,000 went for Charlie Burns, of Detroit, and Autry Erickson, a Chicago farmhand.The last-place Detroit Red Wings plucked Gary Aidcorn from Rochester, of the American Hockey League, and John McKenzie, who played with Chicago last season.The draft call was in reverse order of the clubs&rsquo; finish in the NHL race last season. The first call was 6-5, 6-5, 4-3-2-1. There after it was a straight 6-5-4-3-2-1.<h2>Ciesla Left &lsquo;Open&rsquo;</h2>In drafting new talent, some clubs had to drop players from an over-limit protected list. Detroit left Claude Laforge and Jack McIntyre unprotected; New York dropped Hank Ciesla, Jack Bownass and Les Colwill off the list of untouchables, and Boston dropped goalie Harry Lumley.No clubs were willing to fork over $20,000 for the newly unprotected players. &#9632;

Eight Players Exchanged By Teams; Rangers, Bruins Pick Three Each As Hubs, Leafs, Hawks Draw Blank

&ldquo;Some clubs claimed that Toronto Leafs &ldquo;tied up the whole works&rdquo; in the draft. Among 18 players plus two goalies who can be protected against the draft, the Leafs securely locked up seven defencemen.Detroit Red Wings were known to be in the market for defencemen but, as one Detroit executive said, &ldquo;what the heck can we do about loosening up ourselves when one club nails down seven defencemen and can&rsquo;t possibly use all of them.&rdquo;On top of that, nobody could touch Montreal Canadians&rsquo; roster. The champs froze everybody in the protected list and took chances on farm hands. Only Spencer was grabbed. Canadiens still hang on to another top prospect, forward Bill Sutherland.Chicago Black Hawks were the heaviest losers, giving up three players in the big league draft as well as two in the inter-league selections. Last season New York lost five players in a similar situation.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04164/1516412-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="572" height="901"><figcaption class="caption-body">CHARLIE BURNS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05125/1516405-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="541" height="878"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY ALDCORN</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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To Change Hockey Livery

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The Toronto Maple Leafs gambled with Johnny Bower last season and won. They did it again at this year&rsquo;s annual National Hockey League meetings and won once more.The veteran goaltender was left unprotected during the recent NHL draft meaning that the goal-keeping hero of the Leafs&rsquo; surge into the Stanley Cup finals last spring wasn&rsquo;t worth more than $20,000&mdash;the draft price in the event a player is taken.Bower was the second Stanley Cup playoff goaler to be left off the choice list. The Boston Bruins dropped the name of 36-year old Harry Lumley just before the meetings.The Leafs also tossed Allan Stanley, well-seasoned defenceman and Brian Cullen, on the open market and came out of the draft losink only Cullen to the Rangers.Brian Cullen rode the bench through most of the past season.Besides, Bower, the 36-year-old netminder who came up from the Cleveland Barons, owned another year of a two-year contract with the Leafs.That, together with his age, was considered more than enough to discourage any other NHL club from drafting him.Detroit left Nick Mickoski and Charley Burns up for grabs; Chicago dropped the names of Lorne Ferguson, Danny Lewicki and rookie Johnny McKenzie; Boston apparently didn&rsquo;t worry about defenceman Larry Hillman and Real Chevrefils; New York gambled on goalie Bruce Gamble and Ronnie Howell, Canadiens protected all their regulars.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02223/1516450-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="304" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Bower</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03204/1516443-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="281" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Lumley</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bower, Lumley Left Unprotected In Notional Hockey League Draft

<h2>INTER-TEAM DRAFT SELECTIONS</h2>Detroit: GARY ALDCORN from Toronto Leafs. Aidcorn spent last season with Rochester in American League. A forward.Detroit: JACK McKENZIE from Chicago Black Hawks. McKenzie was a regular with Hawks last year. A forward.New York: IRWIN SPENCER from Montreal Canadiens. Spencer played with Montreal Royals of Quebec Hockey League. A defenceman.New York: IAN CUSHENAN from Chicago Black Hawks. Cushenan was sold back to Hawks by Montreal Canadiens after one season. A defenceman.New York: BRIAN CULLEN from Toronto Leafs. Cullen was regular with Toronto last season. A forward.Boston: BRUCE GAMBLE from New York Rangers. Gamble was highly regarded rookie with Vancouver of Western League last season. A goalkeeper.Boston: AUTREY ERICKSON from Chicago Black Hawks. Erickson was with Calgary of Western League last year. A defenceman.Boston: CHARLIE BURNS from Detroit Red Wings. Burns was regular with Wings last season and in running for rookie award. A forward.<h2>INTER LEAGUE DRAFT SELECTIONS</h2>Detroit: GORDON LABOSSIERE from New York Rangers. Labossiere was with Saskatoon of Western League last year. A forward.New York: ED HOEKSTRA from Chicago Black Hawks. Hoekstra was with Three Rivers of Quebec League last season but was grabbed off Calgary&rsquo;s list. A forward.Toronto: RAYMOND BRUNEL from Montreal Canadiens. Brunel was taken off Winnipeg&rsquo;s list in Western League. A forward.Boston: DON WARD from Chicago Black Hawks. Ward was with Calgary of Western League last season. A defenceman.<h2>INTER-TEAM TRADES</h2>Toronto: JOHNNY WILSON acquired from Detroit in exchange for Brian Cullen. Leafs also got rookie Frank Roggeveen.Detroit: BRIAN CULLEN acquired from Toronto in exchange for Johnny Wilson. &#9632;

How They Drafted Them

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The Rangers, caught with their trousers down in the 1958 draft, dove into the 1959 NHL player pool with a vengeance ($60,000 worth) and came up with Brian Cullen, Ian Cushenan and Irwin Spencer and the hope that any or all of the worthies would lead them back to the almighty playoffs.For those with short memories, the Rangers were dealt a larcenous blow in last season&rsquo;s draft as Chicago grabbed defenceman Jack Evans. Canadians took forwards Danny Lewicki and Dave Creighton, Boston snapped up winger Jean Guy Gendron and a promising rookie by the name of Gordon Redahl.it goes without saying that the loss of this quintet was a major factor in the Rangers ending the year out of the playoffs.But judging by coach Phil Watson&rsquo;s exuberance, the Blueshirts this year have made off with the golden eggs, which he, in turn, hopes to hatch into stars.<h2>Tabbed As Starters</h2>Here it is only July but Phil already has Cushenan and Cullen tabbed for starting berths. Drafted from Chicago, Cushenan impressed Watson in the final New York game when he blacklined for Montreal.&ldquo;He was one of the guys that beat us in that game,&rdquo; Phil recalled with a frown because it also happened to be New York&rsquo;s swan song. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s big (6-1, 195), tough and intelligent.&rdquo;The Blues were weak on defense last year. Of the back-liners, only Lou Fontinato and Bill Gadsby are definite 1959 60 starters. John Hanna, Harry Howell and Cushenan can be expected to battle for the remaining spots. That is, barring trades, also a distinct possibility.Watson darn near passed out when he saw Cullen, a center, left unprotected by the Toronto Maple Leafs and urged general manager Muzz Patrick to pen the former junior whiz.&ldquo;Cullen&rsquo;s the kind of guy I like&mdash;sort of reminds me of Red Sullivan,&rdquo; Watson explained. &ldquo;We need a fella with drive.&rdquo;Phil recalled that Cullen is the clean-living type, who according to Watson, didn&rsquo;t get along with Leaf coach Punch Imlach.A graduate of the Peterborough OHA Jr. A club, Spencer is regarded as one of the better defense prospects west of Tahiti. He is 21 years old, 5-11 and 185 pounds and one of the players the talentladen Canadiens had to leave unprotected.&ldquo;The kids reminds me of Doug Harvey,&rdquo; said Watson, adding a note of caution. &ldquo;But let&rsquo;s not go overboard, all I said is that he REMINDS me of Harvey. He tries to pattern himself after Harvey who is not a bad guy to imitate.&rdquo;Spencer has an outside chance of making the Rangers but more likely will wind up with Buffalo of the AHL. &bull;Another Ranger acquisition is Ed Hoekstra, a 6-1 center picked up from Chicago in the minor league draft. Playing for Three Rivers last year, Hoekstra was named the Quebec League&rsquo;s rookie of the year. He, too, is destined for Buffalo.In making their selections, the Rangers bypassed Nick Mickoski of Detroit, Lorne Ferguson and Danny Lewicki of Chicago and Larry Hillman and Real Chevrefils of Boston all of whom were left unprotected.New York permitted goalie Bruce Gamble and forward Ron Howell to stay uncovered and lost Gamble to the Boston Bruins.Watson was asked why he protected 26-year old Marcel Paille and not the promising 21-year old Gamble.&ldquo;We gotta go with experience, not with prospects alone,&rdquo; he replied. The management later explained that should Worsley get hurt, the Rangers would want a replacement with the maximum experience. Since Paille has played considerably more NHL games than Gamble, he got the nod.RANGERABILIA: Blues have a couple of deals pending with minor league clubs&mdash;likely Springfield and Cleveland&hellip;Cleveland left wing Art Stratton is talked of as a future Ranger&hellip;Watson unequivocally declared that left wing Dean Prentice would not be traded&hellip;Although they were unprotected&mdash;and unclaimed&mdash;Hank Ciesla. Red Bownass and Les Col-will still have a chance to make the Rangers, Watson insists&hellip;He adds that Aldo Guidolin would have to have &ldquo;an exceptionally good training camp&rdquo; to be considered&hellip;Too bad&hellip;Center Bill Sweeney has all but been guaranteed a five-game trial with the Blues when the season starts. One of his wings will be Ed Shack, his linemate at Guelph.<h2>Future Hope</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01238/1516512-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="550" height="1192"><figcaption class="caption-body">ED HOEKSTRA</figcaption></div><h2>New &lsquo;Muscle Man&rsquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02199/1516505-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1174" height="1896"><figcaption class="caption-body">IAN CUSHENAN</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Blues Got ‘Cream of Crop’ In Brian Cullen And Cushenan

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03133/1516550-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK ADAMSBRUCE NORRISSID ABEL</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0484/1516543-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="1684" height="1064"><figcaption class="caption-body">WALTER BROWNLYNN PATRICKBALDY COTTON</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Detroit, Boston Delegates Active In NHL Draft

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st 1947Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.1434 Ste. Catherine Street WestMontreal 25, Que.Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth; $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign CountriesEntered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, OttawaPrinted in Canada &#9632;

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01308/1516633-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="384" height="444"></div>JOHNNY MITCHELL has spent over 30 years in the hockey business as a referee, coach, scout and manager. He is familiar with every facet of the sport. Johnny would be a real asset for any promoter opening up new areas in the United States, as he has had plenty of experience in all phases of the operation of a hockey franchise&hellip;Fred Hume, owner of the New Westminster Royals of the Western Hockey League, has sold his franchise to a couple of Portland businessmen and the franchise will be moved from New Westminster to the Rosebud City for the 1960-61 season. The new arena in Portland is said to be a beauty and it is felt that hockey will be as popular or more so even than it was in the halcyon days of the Pacific Coast League&hellip;The National Hockey League annual meetings held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal last month attracted more people than any previous meeting in recent years&hellip;There wasn&rsquo;t much news to come out of the meeting and the reporters who were on hand to cover it were disappointed at the lack of drafting by the six N.H.L. clubs. The hockey writers along with most of the hockey public looked to see some spirited drafting and a few name players change clubs&hellip;but there were fewer players drafted this year than last and certainly no name players were left unprotected&hellip;Canadiens&rsquo; Jacques Plante has taken up golf this summer and has been playing nearly every day. He has decided to give up baseball and concentrate on golf during the summer. Jacques was a heavy-hitting first baseman in a fast semi-pro league around Montreal in other summers.WINNERS of the NHL Photo Contest in the six National League cities were Roger St. Jean in Montreal, Charles Carey in Boston, Roy Bash in Detroit, Lou Okmin in Chicago, Lou Turofsky in Toronto and Charlie Hoff in New York&hellip;Interest increased considerably in the second year of this fine contest for hockey photographers in the six NHL cities sponsored by the National Hockey League&hellip;There are three winners&hellip;first, second and third&hellip;in each city and the prize money is $100 for first, $75 for second and $50 for third&hellip;Bill Dobbyn, who lost an eye last season while playing defense for the Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League, is now working as a space salesman for the Victoria Times&hellip;Did you know that the Boston Bruins iced the puck 87 times in a single game back on January 3, 1932? The dull game ended in a scoreless draw. The Bruins&rsquo; opponents that night in New York were the old New York Americans. The night before the Americans had played in Boston and made it necessary to fumigate the building the next day by their play. Art Ross, manager and coach of the Bruins at that time, told Jim Hendy before the game that he had some one keep actual count the night before and that the Americans had iced the puck 87 times, and that he intended to have his Bruins do the same thing in New York&hellip;True to Art&rsquo;s words the Bruins iced the puck at every opportunity and instead of the fans being entertained by seeing such hockey greats as Dit Clapper, Cooney Weiland, Eddie Shore, Harry Oliver and George Owen lead thrilling rushes up the ice, they were rocked to sleep by the Bruins lofting it the length of the arena 87 times&hellip;At that time there was no anti &ldquo;icing the puck&rdquo; rule, but that summer the NHL Governors went to work and put in the rule which today prevents a team from getting the puck out of its own end by lofting it down the ice.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02278/1516626-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="308" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Shore</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03204/1516619-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="282" height="474"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mahovlich</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04154/1516612-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="282" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo LaBine</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05135/1516605-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="296" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Mitchell</figcaption></div>FRANK MAHOVLICH knocked a home run in the 16th inning to pace the NHL All-Stars to a 11-8 win over the Montreal Canadiens in an exhibition fastball game in Montreal last month for the benefit of retarded children&hellip;Leo LaBine went the route for the winners and kept the Habs well in check&hellip;Carl Brewer paced the winners&rsquo; attack with four hits in six trips to the plate&hellip;Howie Newstate of Cincinnati was recently appointed secretary and publicity director of the International Hockey League&hellip;Ken Wilson, general manager of the disbanded Troy team, will take most of last year&rsquo;s Troy team to Greensboro, N.C.&hellip;Hockey is expected to make a big hit in the North Carolina city&hellip;If it can do as well as Charlotte did during its tenure in organized hockey, everyone will be happy. &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The National Hockey League will continue to employ the conventional black rubber puck in its operations of games it was decided at the annual NHL meetings here.The Boston Bruins and New York Rangers recently experimented on their 23-game European tour with a new puck designed by Clair F. Kinney of Toronto. The puck had orange sides with the purpose of making it easier for goalkeepers to keep in view.However, both teams reported on their return from Europe that it presented a blurr on the ice and was difficult to see at times. &#9632;

New Orange Puck Failure, NHL To Stick With Black

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0797/1516719-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="569" height="1238"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACQUES PLANTE</figcaption></div><h2>Anchoring Jacques Plante</h2>A year ago, there was a mowe to change the NHL rules so that a goalkeeper would be anchored in his goal crease. It didn&rsquo;t go through, but it annoyed the Canadiens.&ldquo;It was aimed at Jacques Plante,&rdquo; Coach Toe Blake said, and it was thought up by the Detroit Red Wings. They used to score a lot of goals by shooting the puck in behind the net and having a guy come in fast to grab the rebound. Plante stopped all that by leaving his crease and intercepting the puck behind the net.&rdquo;It was pointed out to Toe at the time that there was nothing to prevent the goalers on the other five clubs from doing the same thing.&ldquo;I know that,&rdquo; said Toe. &ldquo;But Plante is faster than the other guys. He can get away with things that they can&rsquo;t.&rdquo;Now a rule has been adopted which is generally conceded to be aimed at restricting Plante&rsquo;s nomadic tendencies. If a goaler falls on the puck behind the net, he will be subject to a minor penalty. Ken Reardon, vice-president of the Canadiens, was the only one of the six-man rules committee who voted against it, doubtless feeling that any proposed changes were designed to hobble the Canadiens.That was the feeling a few years ago when a rule was adopted whereby a player serving a minor penalty was allowed to return to the ice if the team with the manpower advantage scored before his penalty was up.At the time, the Canadiens had by far the most effective power play in the league and it was suicide for an opposing team to draw a penalty when playing against them. The Canadiens frequently scored two goals, and sometimes three, while the opposition was a man short. The Canadiens fought the introduction of the rule, but it went through over their protests.It became apparent early the following season that the rule was a reasonable one. If a team draws a two-minute penalty for a minor infraction of the rules and is scored upon while playing a man short, the purpose of the penalty has already been served. To have two or three goals scored against it because of a minor infraction is unjust.In the long run, the new rule did not impede the Canadiens progress. They were the best team in the league when the rule was adopted and they have been the best team since.As for this new rule making a goalkeeper subject to a minor penalty for falling on the puck behind the goal line anywhere out of reach of the crease, its purpose is to prevent stoppages of play and unnecessary whistle tooting: To all intents and purposes, when a goalkeeper leaves his net he is just another player and won&rsquo;t be immune from the rules regarding stoppages of play.We don&rsquo;t think the rules will hamper Jacques Plante any more than it will some of the other netminders in the league. The rest of them have been copying his style in recent years, though none of them are as effective as the innovator.If we were Jacques we&rsquo;d feel flattered at introducing a technique that was so effective it sent the rules committee into action.<h2>Referees Can&rsquo;t Win</h2>Frank Boucher, the old New York Ranger, was one of a group who recently discussed the rules. He was a member of the rules committee for years.&ldquo;There isn&rsquo;t anything much wrong with the rules,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The real trouble is they aren&rsquo;t enforced.&rdquo;There was a time when it was claimed there was no uniform interpretation of the. rules. We think there is uniform interpretation now, but there isn&rsquo;t uniform enforcement.The referees will start a season going by the book and calling everything in it, which inevitably leads to complaints that the teams are playing pantywaist hockey, that there is too much whistle blowing, and that if everybody concerned isn&rsquo;t careful hockey will go the way of basketball. Where did basketball go, anyway?As a result, the referees will abandon the book for a while in favor of their own judgment and then they&rsquo;re in trouble. What they consider good judgment doesn&rsquo;t always jibe with what the coaches think is good judgment. The poor guys can&rsquo;t win.But we started this piece with Jacques Plante and we&rsquo;d better finish with him.&ldquo;I hear the Canadiens didn&rsquo;t put you on the protected list,&rsquo; a guy said to him.&ldquo;I heard that, too,&rdquo; he deadpanned. &ldquo;In fact, I read it in a Toronto paper.&rdquo; &#9632;

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playing the field

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01259/1516750-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">RED STOREY</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Red Storey is a man with the courage of his own convictions. When he declared he would never handle another game in the National Hockey League he knew from whence he spoke.The former referee-in-chief, of the NHL has flatly refused to take the initiative in restoring him to his $10,000-a-year post as No. 1 whistle blower, a position he resigned last spring over public criticism of his work by NHL President Clarence Campbell during the Stanley Cup semi-final playoffs.Storey, a member of the league officiating staff for over a decade, insists it is entirely up to the individual teams and club owners to reinstate him to his old job.Owners of the six NHL clubs had agreed at a closed session during the recent league meetings to &ldquo;leave it up to Storey&rdquo; to decide what his status with the NHL would be for next season.Under those conditions, Storey has said he definitely would not return to the league.&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t want to make the first move,&rdquo; one owner said after the meeting.<h2>Must Take Initiative</h2>&ldquo;If he wants to referee again it&rsquo;s up to him to take the initiative. If he requested reinstatement I don&rsquo;t imagine there would be any problem.&rdquo;Storey turned this down with a flat &ldquo;no.&rdquo;&ldquo;When I resigned last season I mentioned my reasons,&rdquo; he said in an interview. &ldquo;The decision of the owners to let me make the first move doesn&rsquo;t help matters. I would only be losing face and admitting I was at fault if I applied for reinstatement.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think I was wrong in resigning and I won&rsquo;t apply for reinstatement.&rdquo;Storey said he has been approached by the American and Western Hockey Leagues and said he is interested in a possible post as referee-in-chief.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll listen to what they have to say and hope that we can come to some agreement. But I&rsquo;ve also got to think of my family. It&rsquo;s not easy to leave them for an entire season, which would be necessary if I took a job with the American League.Both the AHL and WHL have been striving to establish their own system of officiating with a chief referee. In the past, the NHL has provided the American loop with its officials while the Western League has handled its own officiating system.Most of the refeeing in the AHL has been done by younger men like Matt Pavelich and Dalton McArthur, who work as many as 60 games each in the AHL and only 10 in the NHL. Senior referees, like Storey, Eddie Powers and Frank Udvari, have appeared in the AHL only infrequently, naturally spending the bulk of their time in the big leagues.But times have improved in the American League. Attendance has been good and last season, the circuit enjoyed a banner year.It&rsquo;s reached the point where the AHL has been seriously considering employing its own officials and referee-in-chief, who would conduct the league&rsquo;s games with his staff without the aid of the NHL.Storey would be the man for the job without any doubt. Since he has closed the door on his NHL career forever, he can focus his attention on the AHL, and it goes without saying he can work himself a pretty good deal to boot. They&rsquo;d be gaining a fine official, a man who knows everything there is to know about the hockey business.Ironically, if the AHL makes the move to appoint its own officials, at least one of the five remaining NHL referees will be hurt. They are Udvari, Powers, Lou Farelli, McArthur and Pavelich.Big league officials admit that there just isn&rsquo;t enough games for five active referees in the NHL.Storey, himself, regrets the situation he has placed everyone in, but he says he had no alternative.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to leave sports. I&rsquo;d like to stay in the game in some capacity, at least. I think I&rsquo;ve got something to contribute to sports.&rdquo;Storey expressed sorrow that he had to abide by his resignation from the NHL.<h2>Loser In Deal</h2>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m the big loser in this deal but there comes a time when any man has to make a stand for what he believes is right. I still think I&rsquo;m right and I&rsquo;m not interested in returning to the National Hockey League under the conditions set by the owners.&rdquo;Storey was referee for a game between the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks that erupted into a minor riot.Following the game, Campbell criticized his handling of the match. Storey resigned, stating he could not continue without the, support of the league president.Storey&rsquo;s last possible association with NHL teams was completed when he accompanied the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins to Europe on their recent hockey tour.Red handled 23 games in 26 days, a gruelling pace that literally rendered him speechless. He came back with an infected throat.Storey resides in Montreal during the off season with his wife, and two sons, both of whom are promising hockey players. He is employed by a distillery company and spends his summers playing golf and officiating at some benefit fastball games.Last season may have been one of indecision for many but for Red Storey it was the one in which he made the &lsquo;big call&rsquo; and stuck by it.<h2>Closes Book On NHL Career &#9632;</h2>

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Red Storey Rejects ‘Terms’ Of N.H.L. To Return

VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;Red Storey is interested in the job of refereein-chief of the Western Hockey League,New Westminster Royals general manager Hal Laycoe made the disclosure after returning home from Montreal. He represented Royals at the National League&rsquo;s annual draft meeting.Laycoe, member of the league&rsquo;s three-man referee committee, will present his findings to an extraordinary session of the WHL.Storey, veteran NHL referee, resigned during the Stanley Cup playoffs after being publicly criticized by league president Clarence Campbell. The incident leading to Red&rsquo;s resignation occurred during the final minutes of the sixth game of the Montreal-Chicago semi-finals.Campbell witnessed the game and the following day charged that Red &ldquo;froze up.&rdquo; Storey took this as a vote of non-confidence and resigned.Owners of the six-NHL clubs touched on the subject during the meeting and agreed to &ldquo;leave it up to Storey&rdquo; to decide his status with the league.Storey turned this down with a flat &ldquo;no.&rdquo; The American League is also interested in obtaining Red.&ldquo;I was delegated to approach Storey and see if he was interested in the job,&rdquo; said Laycoe. &ldquo;He replied, &lsquo;I definitely am&rsquo;.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02233/1516781-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="296" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hal Laycoe</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Red Pondering Western Loop Offer

National Hockey League fans may obtain copies of the N.H.L. Final Statistics free of charge. These handy-sized record cards contain the final standing of the Clubs, the Individual Scoring Records for every player during the regular schedule and the Stanley Cup Play-offs, as well as the Goalkeepers Averages and the Penalty Records of each club.Requests should be mailed to:N.H.L. INFORMATION BUREAU601 SUN LIFE BLDG. MONTREAL, QUE. &#9632;

N.H.L. Statistics Available For Fans

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01330/1516934-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Detroit Red Wing owner Bruce Norris, left, hears about recent European hockey tour of Boston-New York teams from Bruin coach Milt Schmidt during lull in NHL meetings at Montreal.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02217/1516927-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="1203" height="1110"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; delegation included president James Norris, left, and his general manager, Tommy Ivan. Hawks wore hardest hit team in hockey draft losing five players.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03134/1516920-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="1056" height="1125"><figcaption class="caption-body">Walter Brown, boss of the E Jack Adams of Detroit, In ce meetings. Tom Horgan, a Bo lights up at h in Bruins, left, and Jolly renew acquaintances at newspaperman at rightly confab.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0494/1516913-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="1134" height="1113"><figcaption class="caption-body">Punch Imlach, the general manager-coach of the Toronto Leafs, left, tells his old Quebec Aces&rsquo; confrere, Joe Crozier, how he did it, bringing &lsquo;Cinderella&rsquo; Leafs into final series.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0586/1516906-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="1077" height="1125"><figcaption class="caption-body">Toe Blake of Canadiens, left, and Rudy Pilous of Chicago, rival playoff coaches in Stanley Cup semi-final playdowns, play it all over again during NHL meetings.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0675/1516899-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="1562" height="1110"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Watson, left, of Rangers, and Milt story told by Detroit coach Sid Abel, risk looks on in background. Both Watson aidt of Boston Bruins get a kick out of while Montreal Star columnist Red Fisher a Ichmidt were on recent world Ice tour.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0736/1516892-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg" title="f0006-07" width="1106" height="1110"><figcaption class="caption-body">One-time Canadiens&rsquo; teammates, Hal Laycoe, left now GM of the New Westminster team in WHL, talks over old times with Canadiens&rsquo; starry defenceman Doug Harvey on Montreal visit.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0814/1516885-1-eng-US/f0006-082.jpg" title="f0006-08" width="1026" height="1120"><figcaption class="caption-body">Former Chicago Black Hawks hockey great Johnny Gottselig, left, spins a few yarns with John Perdue, member of the Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; publicity staff.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-096/1516878-1-eng-US/f0006-092.jpg" title="f0006-09" width="1425" height="1092"><figcaption class="caption-body">NHL president Clarence Campbell, on right makes a point after ending NHL meetings shall Dann, Detroit Free Press, left, John Toronto Star, writ is an audience of newspapermen as he Montreal. Attentive listeners are Mar-liter, Detroit News, and Red Burnett, furiously in rear.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01281/1516871-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="1148" height="1094"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gen. John R. Kilpatrick, left, president of the New York Rangers, talks shop with Hon. Hartland de M. Mohan, owner of the Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadians at NHL gathering.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02249/1516864-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1140" height="1096"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Shore, left, the owner of the Springfield Indians, appears to be having a difficult time convincing Detroit&rsquo;s Jack Adams he should send his excess talent to Share&rsquo;s AHL club.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03190/1516857-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="1038" height="1104"><figcaption class="caption-body">Boston Bruins&rsquo; scout Harold (Baldy) Cotton, left, a former Leaf player, talks with Toronto&rsquo;s young hockey executive Stafford Smythe in between meetings.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04148/1516850-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="1028" height="1118"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hockey News co-publisher Ken McKenzie, right, chats with Tom MacDougall, director of the Mont-&rsquo; real Canadiens, and former president of the now defunct Montreal Maroons.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05104/1516843-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="1110" height="1104"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ranger tub-thumper Herb Goren, in centre, has the floor in NHL meetings and among his listeners Is Johnny &lsquo;Black Cat&rsquo; Gagnon, right, former NHL star and now a Ranger scout.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0673/1516836-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="1142" height="1112"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank J. Selke confers with president Hartland Molson, right, as two pause after attending NHL meetings at Montreal. Canadians failed to grab one player at big league draft.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Camera Tells Story As Hockey Dignitar

CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;The Cleveland Barons are not waiting around to secure replacement for next season. They have already completed two deals whereby they obtained a veteran goalkeeper and a prolific centre ice player.The Barons announced that they had secured seasoned puck stopper Gil Mayer from Hershey Bears, Calder Cup champs, in exchange for Gordon (Bucky) Hollingworth and goaltender Claude (Baba) Dufour.Dufour filled in for the Barons last season during an injury to regular goaler Gerry McNamara. The latter was here on loan from Toronto Leafs and will return to the NHL club with the likelihood he will land back in the AHL with the Leafs&rsquo; newly-obtained Rochester farm club. Dufour started last season with Three Rivers of the Quebec League.The other Cleveland acquisition is centre Greig Allan Hicks, a five-year competitor with Chicoutimi Sagueneens of the Quebec Hockey League. Hicks ranked as one of the loop&rsquo;s top point men during his QHL tenure and last season climaxed his career by winning the league scoring championship.Mayer, a pro for 10 years, went to Hershey in 1956 but has played little there, partly because of injuries and because he was overshadowed last season by Bob Perreault, the Bears&rsquo; regular goalie. He played in only 19 games last season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02255/1517003-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="280" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">B. Holiingworth</figcaption></div><h2>Vet On Move Again</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03192/1516996-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="1150" height="1754"><figcaption class="caption-body">GIL MAYER</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Cleveland Grabs Netminder Mayer From Champions

SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;President Al Leader of the Western Hockey League said he had no fears about the sale of the New Westminster franchise to Portland, Ore., interests at the annual meeting.In simultaneous press conference at Portland and New Westminster, it was announced that the franchise and 10 players have been sold by owner Fred Hume, former Vancouver mayor, to a group of Portland men for an undisclosed price.The purchase would be effective for the coming season, with the Portland group aiding Hume in operating the club at New Westminster if a coming ticket sales campaign is successful, or in putting the 10 Royal players out on loan for a year if it is not.Play here would start on completion of Memorial Coliseum, now under construction. Portland has had no hockey in the several years since a former ice arena was condemned as a fire hazard.The Portland group is made up of three officers, C. Howard Lane, manager of television station KOIN-TV, Al F. Forman, theatre owner, and sports promoter Harry Glickman. Ted Gamble and Clay Brown are directors.The New Westminster announcement by Royals general manager Hal Laycoe indicated only Forman, Gamble and Lane were involved.Leader said there is little doubt that the new owners will move the club to Portland in the 1960-61 season.&ldquo;They bought the club with that express purpose.&rdquo;But he said this does not necessarily mean New Westminster will be without hockey.&ldquo;If the people there prove they will support hockey someone else will be interested in moving in with a club.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04145/1517034-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="302" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">AL LEADER</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Leader Certain Portland Will Be Given Franchise Of Hew Westminster Club

VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;Andy Bathgate of New York Rangers fired a 71 to win the Lucky Trophy in the Old-timers Hockey Association annual golf tournament.Former Ranger great Neil Colville shot a net 61 to win the Griffiths Memorial Trophy. Vancouver professional Stan Leonard had a dazzling 67 to lead the professionals. &#9632;

Bathgate Wins Golf Honors In Vancouver Tournament

HERSHEY, Pa&mdash;The American Hockey League closed the door on any new applications this season at their recent annual meeting here meaning that both Montreal Royals and Quebec Aces were left out in the. cold for this season at least.The league&rsquo;s board of governors said they would consider either or both Quebec Hockey League teams if they apply again next season, which seemed unlikely.AHL officials said they were unable to work out a satisfactory schedule for an eight-team league at this late date. Members of the Quebec delegation charged the Montreal Canadiens failed to support them in their concessions of allowing ten cents a ticket to visiting AHL teams to get into the loop.It was decided at the meeting that new entries must now make application one year in advance. A special committee was set up to study the possibility of taking in the two Canadian teams in 1960-61.The AHL will remain with its six present six clubs&mdash;Rochester, Providence, Buffalo, Hershey, Springfield and Cleveland. &#9632;

Royals, Aces Turned Down In AHL Bids

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div>Ottawa Citizen Sports ColumnistOTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;There may not have been too much action at the National Hockey League&rsquo;s draft meeting in Montreal, but there was no shortage of laughs.Muzz Patrick, in particular, had one audience in stitches as he regaled them with tales of the exhibition swing through Europe by the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins.&ldquo;I never enjoyed a trip more in all my life,&rdquo; enthused the Ranger general manager. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m telling you right now, if we go again next year, I&rsquo;ll be the first guy in line.&rdquo;One of the more amusing incidents of the junket&mdash;although probably it was far from funny at the time, which is sometimes the way it is&mdash;was Patrick&rsquo;s account of picking up of the guarantee.&ldquo;I had insisted on the guarantee being made in American dollars,&rdquo; recounted Muzz, &ldquo;and for obvious reasons.&ldquo;We agreed beforehand,&rdquo; recounted Muzz. &ldquo;I was to be real tough, and Lynn was to be the &lsquo;nice&rsquo; guy. It worked pretty well, too. Anyway, after those first few games when we scarcely drew flies, Lynn (Muzz&rsquo;s brother, who as general manager of the Bruins, also made the trip) and I began to get a little worried.&rdquo;As it turned out, they began to apply a little &ldquo;pressure&rdquo; on the promoter, who appeared to the worried Patrick brothers to be hedging just a little as the trip progressed.&ldquo;When I finally delivered the ultimatum, &lsquo;No pay, no play,&rsquo; he turned over the guarantee to me.&rdquo;That was in Geneva, and the guarantee was $70,000 in cash, mostly bills of $100 and $50 denomination. Muzz put it in hisbLynn watched me riefcase and watched it closely until the teams hit Paris.&ldquo;Yes, I watched that briefcase,&rdquo; laughed Muzz, &ldquo;and Lynn watched me. Imagine! Your own brother!&rdquo;<h2>Rewarding Experience</h2>Actually, if anyone had had larceny in mind, they&rsquo;d have come to serious grief in trying to tackle the Ranger GM. Muzz Patrick was a heavyweight boxer of no mean repute, and a rough customer in the NHL in his own day.When the two teams arrived in Paris, the money was split up each player received $1,000 above all his expenses&mdash;and according to Patrick, it was the best thing that could have been done.&ldquo;The players spent their money on side trips, and in really-seeing the continent,&rdquo; explained Muzz. &ldquo;I was really surprised, and especially with some of the players. I never thought they&rsquo;d be that interested.&rdquo;Patrick cited the case of one player, in particular, who bought a $1,500 movie camera in Germany (it was only worth $600 there) and took several zillion feet of film on the trip.&ldquo;For a lot of the players, too,&rdquo; said Patrick, &ldquo;it was an experience they&rsquo;d never have had in a lifetime. I don&rsquo;t think they missed a tourist&rsquo;s item on the whole swing.&rdquo;One interesting sidelight of the trip was a visit by Lou Fontinato and Jerry Toppazzini to Italy to see their grandparents whom they had never seen, even as youngsters.&ldquo;They got a real big kick out of it,&rdquo; said Muzz, &ldquo;and so did their grandparents. Bronco Horvath and Johnny Bucyk tried to do the same thing, but they weren&rsquo;t allowed to enter Yugoslavia and were turned back.&rdquo;<h2>Just Wrong Itinerary</h2>Although the tour was a tremendous success in many ways, in another it was a horrible flop. Financially, the promoter took a real bath.&ldquo;He said he lost only $100,000,&rdquo; said Muzz, shuddering mildly at the thought, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;d say It was closer to $250,000.&rdquo;Why did the teams fail to draw? There were a number of reasons.&ldquo;The high prices hurt,&rdquo; agreed Patrick, &ldquo;but we went to the wrong places. We got off the banana belt (i.e. the hockey circuit in Europe) and the people there just weren&rsquo;t interested. They had never seen hockey before, and we meant nothing.&rdquo;But the promoter wasn&rsquo;t discouraged at all, according to Patrick, and wants the two teams&mdash;or two other teams&mdash;to try it again next year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01299/1517137-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="492" height="790"><figcaption class="caption-body">LYNN PATRICK</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Muzz Watched Money Lynn Eyed Brother On World Ice Tour

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03231/1517199-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg"></div>You know right well that you&rsquo;ll want to know what your favorite hockey star is doing during the summer months; what players are being traded; what players are being given their unconditional release. You&rsquo;ll also be eager to find out what plans your team is making for the coming season and what players they plan to bring up next season.Just imagine, 35 information-filled issues of THE HOCKEY NEWS delivered right to your door for the low price of $3.00 ($4.00 in the United States) Spare yourself of the trouble of having to pick your copy up at the newsstand by subscribing today and furthermore you&rsquo;ll be saving $2.25 ($3.25 in the United States) by taking out a subscription.THE HOCKEY NEWS features plenty of lengthy profiles on players in the summer issues and andless candid pictures showing that favourite puck star of yours in such poses as playing baseball, on the golf links, milking cows, pitching hay, running the store, and countless others. We at THL HOCKEY NEWS do our utmost to see that you don&rsquo;t lose track of your favorite players during those five months that THE HOC KEY NEWS suspends weekly publication (May to September).A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive IssuesCanadian Remittances&mdash;$3.00 Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order.U. S. A. Remittances&mdash;$4.00 Payable by Postal Bank or Express Money Order.Fill in Form and Send Postal Note or Money Order &#9632;

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YOU’LL BE SORRY!

<div class="byline">By GEO METZGER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02278/1517168-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">PRESIDENT TOM LOCKHART&hellip;&hellip;His Big Consoern</figcaption></div>PHILADELPHIA, Pa&mdash;If the Eastern Hockey League hopes to continue its climb to a higher niche in the hockey world, it is very apparent that something must be done about the officiating.Last year there was only one good official in the whole organization and he had National League experience. The others seemed to be just out on the ice to earn their $25.The ex-NHL official, Doug Davies, appeared to be the only referee that took charge of his game. Although many fans around the league did not always see eye-to-eye with his calls, they all agreed that he knew how to control a game.While most of the other officials would quickly skate over to the penalty box, inform the penalty keeper of the infraction in a split second and then be off again by the time the penalized player skated over, Davies would give the signal in no uncertain terms, thereby letting everyone in the arena know what the call was and showing that he had no doubt about it.And don&rsquo;t think the players don&rsquo;t appreciate a &ldquo;strong&rdquo; official. Even after Davies called the only forfeiture in the 24-year history of the league against the Philadelphia Ramblers, the Quaker City club&rsquo;s coach, Dougie Adam, said of Davies: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a real fine official.&rdquo;Two other good officials in the league the year before last&mdash;the 1957-58 season&mdash;were Matty Pavelich and Phil Vitale. They, too, knew how to handle a game.But they, like many other good officials, pulled out of the EHL. Many people say it is the schedule they are given which has the men constantly on the road. They must travel from New Haven in the east to North Carolina in the south, a distance of some 2,000 miles.Other observers pin the blame for the laxed officiating at the top of the league&mdash;President Tom Lockhart. These critics say that he has not taken any steps to try and strengthen the setup. Some even go as far as to charge that it is because of poor administration that many promising officials quit the EHL.What is the solution to this problem which faces other minor leagues as well? There are several offered.One is that the two-referee system with no linesman might enable more penalties to be detected and thus the game under better control.But probably the most logical answer is for hockey to try and set up some sort of training program and farm system for referees like organized baseball has.Men wanting to be referees could go to school for a while and then be assigned to the lower leagues&mdash;such as the Eastern. Then supervisors could keep circulating around the various cities, keeping and eye on the fledgling refs, seeing that they are going well and even offering them some advice and pointing out their mistakes.It only stands to reason that these officials, who would be strivin to make the major leagues&mdash;the National and American loops&mdash;would be trying their best and would he definitely interested in working a good game, with the money angle secondary.This system would no doubt help the two main leagues, also. They would he getting well-trained officials with a few seasons of game experience under their belts.If a ref worked out well in the EHL and perhaps the International League, then perhaps he could be moved up to one of the leagues in Canada and then the Western League, finally making the big show.it seems that this plan would benefit everyone concerned, the referees themselves, the lower leagues, the big leagues and the sport itself.But one thing is certain. Something must be done.At least in the Eastern League. &#9632;

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Eastern League Must Find Answer To Pressing Officiating Problems

DETROIT. Mich.&mdash;Canadian hockey fans will have mere opportunities to see teams from foreign countries and Dominion representatives will display their talent on a great many far-from home ice surfaces in the future.This was the main theme expressed at the 46th annual Canadian Amateur Hockey Convention.With unanimous approval, the governing body of amateur hockey in Canada encouraged the promotion of expanded International competition both on the basis of organized tournaments and exhibition play.In addressing the delegates, Bob LeBel, C.A.H.A. president, and George Dudley, the Association&rsquo;s secretary-manager, spoke in glowing terms of the success of Belleville McFarlands in winning the world hockey laurels at Prague and the triumphal exhibition tour of Kelowna Packers behind the Iron Curtain during the past season.<h2>Praises Treatment</h2>Only praise was offered by LeBel as he spoke of the treatment accorded the Canadian teams both on and off the ice in European competition.As evidence that Canada will welcome foreign teams, the C.A.H.A. gave its approval to a tentative 12-game tour of Western Canada for a team from the National Skating Union of Japan Ice Hockey Association prior to the Winter Olympics Hockey Tourney scheduled for Squaw Valley, California in February 1960. Vancouver. Victoria, Kolowna, Penticton, Calgary, Regina, Kenora and Winnipeg have already started planning for the first visit of a Japanese team to the Dominion.In other action it was agreed that amateurs may now play five games on tryout basis with professional clubs without losing their amateur status. The old bylaw stipulate only three games.A discussion aimed at raising the junior age limit to 21 met with quick dissolution as it was feared that too much bargaining power would be placed by veteran juniors on their services thereby increasing costs to junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; clubs. &#9632;

International Hockey Expansion Wins Approval Of CAHA Delegates

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Thomas F Lockhart, of New York, who has guided the destiny of amateur hockey in the United States for the past 15 years, was again named president of the American Amateur Hockey Association at the annual three-day meetings held here recently.Reelected vice presidents were Walter A. Brown, Boston; Frank E. Gallagher, Dearborn, Mich., and Donald Clark, Farmington, Minn.Four new directors were named They were Robert S. Hannam president of the California Ice Hockey League and owner of the Los Angeles Canadians; Ralph Keller, Detroit; William Thayer Tutt, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Walter Bush, Minneapolis.Colorado Springs was selected for next year&rsquo;s annual meeting. &#9632;

Lockhart Named President Of U.S.A.H.A. Once Again

<div class="byline">By LEN TAYLOR</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02255/1517309-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The top three men in world amateur hockey circles were caught reminiscing at the annual CAHA convention in Detroit-Left to right, they are Bob Label, past president of the CAHA, John F. (Bunny) Ahearne, president of the International Ice Hockey Federation and Tom Lockhart, president of the United States Amateur Hockey Association. Ahearne was prominent speaker at annual amateur ice caucus.</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich&mdash;Canada may not finish any better than fourth in the 1960 Winter Olympics hockey tournament says an official whose opinion must be respected.While Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen fans control their indignation it should be explained that the opinion was offered, gratis and seriously, here by J F. (Bunny) Ahearne, president of the World Ice Hockey Federation, while attending the 46th annual convention of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.Ahearne doubts that any Canadian team playing without the services of reinstated players from pro ranks, can be considered a heavy favorite at Squaw Valley next year.&ldquo;Whitby with eight pros, had trouble beating Russia two years ago,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This past winter in Prague with 15 pros the Belleville team had all it could do to beat Russia, then lost to the Czechs and had a deuce of a time with a couple of other teams.&rdquo;Ahearne believes that the Russians, Czechs, Swedes and U.S. Nationals, will be extremely tough opposition for Canada in 1960.&ldquo;You could finish as far down as fourth,&rdquo; he said.He said that as many as 10 teams would compete. He named them as the U.S., Canada, Japan, West Germany, Russia, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Switzerland and possibly Italy.The entry list larger than originally expected, poses some grouping problems. Normally a field of 10 would mean two five-team groups in the first pool, with the top three teams from each going into the final pool.<h2>Too Tough A Grind</h2>&ldquo;That requires nine games in 10 days, which is a bit too much,&rdquo; Ahearne said.He confessed that no solution to the problem had even been considered as yet. Two groups of three teams, and one of four, with the two top teams in each going into the final pool of six, is one alternative. It would provide a maximum of eight games for two clubs, and seven for four.Ahearne conferred here with CAHA officials and their opposite number from the United States Amateur Hockey Association on-various aspects of the coming world tournaments.While the 1960 Olympics will take the place of the world tournament the Olympic hockey competition will be run by Ahearne and other officials of the world federation. They will make the draw and supervise the competition for the Olympic people.Tommy Lockhart, president of the USAHA, said that European teams coming to the U.S. may not play any pre-tournament exhibitions unless any money from such exhibitions is turned over to their national hockey federations rather than to their national Olympic associations.There was a solid-front against this up until when Czechoslovakia suddenly broke and asked for exhibitions on the required terms, They want games in Chicago, Denver and Colorado Springs.Ahearne revealed that the Russians almost wrecked the U.S, bid for the 1962 world championships which they won by a 28-12 vote over a Canadian bid. He said that the Soviet delegates pointed out that it wasn&rsquo;t proper to set dates for any more than a year ahead.After 24 hours delay it was settled that the 1961 event would go to Switzerland, 1962 to the U.S. and 1963 tentatively to Sweden.<h2>Amateur Hotkey&rsquo;s &lsquo;Big Three&rsquo; Talk It Over At Meeting &#9632;</h2>

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Britain’s Ice Chief Warns Canada Could End Fourth In 1960 Olympic Hockey

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01312/1517340-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Whitby Dunlops of the Senior OHA who took Allan Cup in 1958-59. Front row, left to right, Ted O&rsquo;Connor, Harry Sinden, Bill Hannah (Dunlop Liason officer) Sid Smith playing coach, Wren Blair, general manager, Tom O&rsquo;Connor, Bob Attersley. Centre row, Stan Way left, trainer, Sandy Air, Jack Kane, Pete Sabando George Samolenko, Jack Donlevy. Back row, Alf Treen, Don McBeth, John Chasczewski, Bobby Hansard and Freddie Etcher</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Whitby Dunions Do It Again In Winning Allan Cup

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FOOTBALL NEWS

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0378/1517402-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="556" height="567"><figcaption class="caption-body">RED KELLY</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0181/1517416-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="210" height="273"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0280/1517409-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="232" height="282"></div>TOLEDO, Ohio.&mdash;Dick Henshaw stopped by the office to talk about his Middle Atlantic Hockey School he&rsquo;s dreamed up along with a few other behind-the-scenes entrepreneurs who traffic in the preservation of hockey in Toledo.Henshaw is a 25-year-old Toleodan who has been around hockey since he was out of knickerbockers and the bug has been with him ever since. He knocked around, playing with clubs the caliber of the Toledo Barons, but he stopped dreaming of a hockey career, as a player, real early.Toledo fans know him from last season when he was the trainer of the Toledo Mercurys for a while and they remember the night he filled in for an injured Merc goaltender in a game on the road and allowed six goals in one period. It was all for hockey. Henshaw insisted then. And now this school project is all for hockey, too.The hockey program for youngsters in this country has lagged far behind other sports programs for many years. Perhaps chiefly because the game is the great Canadian pastime. Canadian players have dominated the game ever so long, and rightly so, but a project like the one Henshaw and his cohorts are planning could become an annual thing and perhaps one day give rise to an American &ldquo;white hope&rdquo; in the game. So much for nationalism in hockey.&ldquo;Right now we&rsquo;ve got 30 entries, but most of them are from out of town. We&rsquo;re hoping we can get some interest from the Toledo area. I know there is a lot of hockey interest here,&rdquo; Henshaw said.The school will be conducted at the Sports Arena from Aug. 13 through Aug. 28 and the coaching staff will be made up of three of the greatest players in the game&mdash;Gordie Howe, Leonard (Red) Kelly and Terry Sawchuck, Detroit Red Wing stars as forward, defenseman and goaltender, respectively.The school, of necessity, will be limited to 100 students. A student must be over 12 years of age.The full course is offered for $70, but students will have to provide their own equipment and arrange for their own food and lodging.According to the schedule of lessons it should be a gruelling and rewarding workout for any youngster. Classes will be conducted every day from 9 a.m. until noon and from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday drills will be from 1 to 5 p.m.&ldquo;We need about 70 entries to break even with the project,&rdquo; Henshaw said. &ldquo;We are accepting entries from all of Ohio, Michigan and southern Ontario on a first-come, first-serve basis. After we get 100 students the entries will be closed.&rdquo;Toledo has been consistently a good fan town for hockey. The Mercs certainly got first-class backing the past two seasons considering their position in the final standings. The city recreation department has stimulated pee-wee and junior hockey with a good, well-rounded program and the organization of the Toledo Amateur Hockey Commission last year also helped promote youthful interest. Detroit has conducted this school with success in past years, but throughout the rest of the country a program of this nature has been conspicuous by its absence.The fact that The Mercs will vacate the Arena the second half of next season to make room for the American Bowling Congress doesn&rsquo;t indicate that Toledo is losing interest in hockey. On the contrary, the fans will be disappointed if the Mercs don&rsquo;t come back with a strong club the following year.<h2>Turns Professor &#9632;</h2>

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Red Wings Stars To Coach At Toledo Hockey School Set For Arena Aug. 15-28

WHITBY, Ont.&mdash;The Allan Cup champion Whitby Dunlops have requested the Ontario Hockey Association to look into salary irregularities of the Kingston Merchants of last season.The request arises out of a league meeting at which the Kingston club reported that a deficit of operations made it impossible at this time to pay $2,396.12 which they owe the league pool.Manager Wren Blair of the Dunlops said the figures released by the Kingston club did not make sense. &ldquo;They claim they paid $25,000 to their arena on a 70-30 split of the gate,&rdquo; said Blair, &ldquo;and on this basis. it doesn&rsquo;t take a mathematician to know that they took in $84,000 gross, therefore leaving a revenue to the club of $59,000.&ldquo;Last fall the league set a salary limit of $1,500. No team was to exceed this gross amount. Kingston operated for 23 weeks and assuming they paid the maximum allowed of $1,550 this would show an amount of salaries paid of $35,650, All other costs of operating a hockey club are equal.&rdquo; &#9632;

Dunnies Question Kingston Club’s Payroll

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="C4-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0465/1517471-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">WREN BLAIR</figcaption></div>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;When Wren Blair, the Ajax, Ont. hockey man, first sought entry in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA series for his Whitby team, he was bluntly rebuffed by the then club owners, who felt that he was perhaps in over his head, and probably too ambitious just because his team had won the senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; OHA championship the previous year.Not to be denied his ambition, Blair organized a senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; group in eastern Ontario, and his success of the undertaking is reflected in its record since then, which must also have convinced the skeptics that he knew whereof he spoke.To say the eastern group was successful, is putting it mildly, because in three seasons of operation it has won the Allan Cup each season and added two world championships. Whitby Dunlops won the Allan Cup and world championship in 1956-57. Belleville McFarlands won the Allan Cup and world championship in 1957-58, and Whitby repeated their Allan Cup win again in the 1958-59 season just concluded, and will likely be named Canada&rsquo;s representatives in the next world tournament. Kitchener Dutchmen, of course, have been selected as the Canadian entry in the 1960 Olympic Games tourney.With a record like that, the eastern Ontario group removed any doubts as to its ability to cope with any senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; team in Canada, and much of the credit must go to Wren Blair, who first started the ball rolling towards the formation of the eastern group.In the committee room and as manager of hockey teams, Blair has left little room for doubt that he can cope with any emergency, whether in debate with rival clubs or masterminding a team on the ice. He has proven his wide knowledge of the sport and also as a public speaker, but what has impressed most people is his uncanny knack of signing the right players for the right places on his teams.Blair&rsquo;s record to date reads almost like a Horatio Alger success story. He won his first championship in the 1953-54 season when his Oshawa Truckmen knocked off the OHA senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; title. Then when the Oshawa arena was destroyed by fire, he moved the players to Whitby for the 1955-56 season, and again was successful in grabbing the OHA senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; crown, by defeating Woodstock Athletics in the fials. When his bid for entry in the western Ontario senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; group was flatly rejected, Blair organized the eastern Ontario group, which has dominated senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey across Canada ever since.The first season, 1956-57, the eastern group operated, Whitby Dunlops won the Allan Cup, and this was followed up by nomination of the Whitby team to compete for the world championship, and again Blair was the man to steer them to the title. Unable to compete for the Allan Cup that season, Belleville McFarlands of the eastern group carried on and took down the Allan Cup and were subsequently named as Canada&rsquo;s representatives in the world tourney, and again it was the eastern group champions who won the big one.Now Whitby Dunlops have again won the Allan Cup this season, and following customary procedure, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association will in all probability name them for the next world tournament, exclusive of the 1960 Olympic Games competition.But that&rsquo;s not all of the Blair saga, because he bossed a second team during the season just concluded in Clinton, N.Y., where his Comets walked off with the United States Eastern Hockey League title, and finished so far ahead of the rest of the field that it developed into no contest for the top spot. The remarkable part about Blair&rsquo;s success with the Clinton Comets is that they finished in the cellar a year ago, winning but 15 games, tying five and losing 44, for 35 points. This season they finished 17 points ahead of the second-place Johnstown Jets.Blair is also proving himself a capable hockey legislator, although there are times when he doesn&rsquo;t see eye to eye with other clubs, both in his own group and in the NOHA-OHA group. But none should question his motives, because he has been laboring diligently for the betterment of senior hockey wherever it is played. His latest suggestion is a split schedule, whereby the top three teams in the circuit would automatically make the playoffs and the fourth money berth would be determined by a playoff between teams finishing last in each half of the season. He explains his suggestion by saying the Proposal would make for an incentive to the teams as a booster for attendance in cities where a team may get off to a bad start.Blair&rsquo;s happy faculty of being able to evaluate the worth of a hockey player can be seen in the many switches he has made in his Whitby and Clinton teams. As an indication, he managed to pry Dick Wray, who makes his home in Stratford during the summer months, away for the Quebec Hockey League, and placed him with the Clinton Comets. Speaking to Blair the writer learned that he is mighty sweet on Wray, and hopes to have him back in Clinton again next season.Blair pointed out that Wray won the scoring championship of the U.S.E.H.L. by a wide margin. When it was suggested that he might sign Wray for the Whitby team, Blair&rsquo;s reaction was that Wray was such a popular player in Clinton that if Blair ever took him away from the Comets, the Clinton hockey populace would boil him in oil.<h2>Knew What He Wanted &#9632;</h2>

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July 1, 1959

Gasparini Becomes ‘Kentucky Colonel’

IHL Takes In Omaha Entry As Fifth Club

Toronto Purchases Control of Rochester Americans

East, West Meet At CAHA Convention