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September 1, 1959

The Hockey News September 1, 1959

WASHINGTON, D.C.&mdash;Edward C. Hall, of Arlington, Virginia, has filed a $100,000 law suit against the Washington Hockey Club, Inc., for damages he suffered when struck by a puck at a game against New Haven at Uline Arena in the nation&rsquo;s capital on December 14, 1957.In his suit, Hall, who lost an eye, claimed that a gate near the ice was left opened and thus allowed the puck to strike him.Hall was a publicist for the Washington Hockey Club at the time. He asked an additional $10,000 for his wife, Edithe for losses stemming from his injury. &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

EHL Fan Loses Eye At Game Sues Washington Team

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Big Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings took another step forward in his bid to become the National Hockey League&rsquo;s oldest active player when he signed for his 14th season with the Wings.Howe, who hopes to play 21 years in the NHL and surpass Dit Clapper&rsquo;s established record for long service, is confident he can play seven more seasons and to look at his amazing physical condition today he&rsquo;ll probably make it.The 31-year-old all-star right winger ranks second only to Montreal&rsquo;s Maurice Richard in career scoring with 418 goals. Richard has 525 goals in 17 seasons.Last season Howe was fourth in scoring with 78 points on 32 goals and 46 assists. It was his ninth year for 30 or more goals.Howe was named the league&rsquo;s most valuable player four times. &#9632;

HOWE ACCEPTS 14th CONTRACT WITH DETROIT

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;J. F. (Bunny) Ahearne, president of the International Ice Hockey Federation told the brass at the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association-Amateur Hockey Association of the United States joint convention at Detroit this year.&ldquo;Don&rsquo; let the globe down.&rdquo;Bunny is an affable Irishman, but he was deadly serious in his address. His appeal was aimed directly at North American hockey heads to promote international competition.Ahearne, George S. Dudley, secretary-manager of the C.A.H.A., Detroit Red Wings chief Jack Adams and others have indicated deep conviction that hockey is capable of softening the cold war. &#9632;

Hockey Would Soften Cold War-Ahearne

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Sid Smith, who twice won the Lady Byng Trophy and was a member of three National Hockey League all-star teams with Toronto Maple Leafs, has decided to hang up his skates for all time.Playing-coach of Whitby Dunlops when they won the world&rsquo;s title in the spring of 1958 at Oslo, Norway, and again when they won the Allan Cup last spring, Sid has been with the Dunlop organization for four years&mdash;retiring from the Toronto pro hockey emprie to &ldquo;get to work&rdquo;.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02283/1530414-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="296" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Smith</figcaption></div>Sid has announced his retirement from hockey and he reiterated that he&rsquo;s through as an active player. &ldquo;I want to spend a little more time with my family, which I can do as a coach only,&rdquo; he explained.Like all retirements, however, it doesn&rsquo;t become official until the hockey season opens and Sid stays on the sidelines.In quitting active competition, Sid has a few fond recollections of his sparkling past. In addition to two Byng trophy awards and three all-star berths, he also led the Leafs in scoring two years, twice scored over 30 goals in a season and played on two Stanley Cup winners with Toronto during his 10 years in the big time. &#9632;

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SMITH DECIDES TO QUIT GAME AS ICE PLAYER

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Two games in the new Los Angeles Sports Arena will highlight the New York Rangers&rsquo; exhibition schedule in advance of the National Hockey League season, it has been announced by Muzz Patrick, general manager.The games will be played against the Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League, a Ranger farm, on Sept. 22 and 24, and will be part of the 13 pre-season bookings before the Broadway Blues open the regular campaign in Chicago on Oct. 7.For the second straight year the Rangers will be based in Niagara, Ont., and use the rink in neighboring Stamford for their training, starting Sept. 9.Only the first of the 13 exhibitions will be played against a big league club, Toronto Maple Leafs, in Peterborough, Ont. The other games will pit the Rangers against American League and Western League competition. On Sept. 20, the New Yorkers will break camp and fly to Los Angeles to begin the Western phase of the exhibition tour.The Los Angeles Sports Arena opened its doors this summer, and the Ranger-Vancouver games will be its introduction to hockey. However, Los Angeles itself had a franchise in the old Pacific Coast Hockey League as recently as 1952. The new arena seats 16,004 for hockey. &#9632;

Rangers To Play In Los Angeles

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01174/1530892-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORDIE HOWE</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y&mdash;Quebec Aces, with the influential backing of baseball magnate Lou Perini, won their final hour struggle to gain admittance to the American Hocey League for the 1959-60 season.The directors of the six other AHL teams voted unanimously to take in the Canadian team after it had met league demands for a $50,000 entry fee, a $750 minimum guarantee for visiting clubs and other generous concessions.Perini, who operates a multimillion dollar contracting business and owns the Milwaukee Braves baseball team, was the man who went to bat for the Aces to get them into the AHL. He is a club director.The acceptance of the Aces came just one month after the AHL had turned thumbs down on both Quebec and Montreal Royals because schedule arrangements couldn&rsquo;t be worked out to the satisfaction of the other teams.Quebec becomes the first Canedian city ever to play in the AHL, launched in 1936. Other entries in the loop are Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Hershey, Providence and Springfield.Perini, President Ovila Cote, honorary president Gerard Martineau, business manager Bob Martineau and others refused to take defeat lying down. After being refused by the AHL the first time July 23, they reorganized and launched a second major appeal which was successful.<h2>Driving Force</h2>One AHL official, who wished to remain unnamed, said that &ldquo;Mr. Perini was most influential&rdquo; in getting the Aces in. Another said hockey men have come to accept and respect the little baseball executive and that he was the driving force behind the Quebec entry at the recent meeting in New York&rsquo;s Commodore Hotel.The Aces will kick off their 72-game AHL schedule Oct. 6 against Providence Reds in Quebec City. The first league game is set for Sunday, Oct. 4.Perini, who was responsible for the first shift of a big league baseball club in more than 50 years when the National League Braves were transferred from Boston to Milwaukee in 1953, carried the ball for Quebec during most of the meetings.Afterwards, he said: &ldquo;I think this league can become the second major league in hockey. There are some excellent cities in it and the best thing that could happen would be if we could get together with the National League in a World Series of hockey.&rdquo;Jim Ellery of Hempstead, N.Y., AHL publicity director and secretary-treasurer, said the league&rsquo;s franchise fee to Quebec was $50,000 immediately.The Montreal Royals withdrew their application for an AHL franchise this season but left the door open to become an entry in I96061. They will remain in the newly-formed Eastern Professional Hockey League this year. &#9632;

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Quebec City Becomes New Entry In League With Lou Perini At Bat

QUEBEC CITY, P.Q&mdash;One of the many problems confronting a hockey team entering a higher professional league, is to secure competent players.The Quebec Aces, who were recently accepted into the American Hockey League for the 1959-60 season, solved part of their woes by announcing they had purchased the contracts of all players owned by the Chicoutimi Sagueneens.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02121/1530923-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="290" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jimmy Moore</figcaption></div>The Aces had been members of the disbanded Quebec Hockey League along with Chicoutimi.Eighteen players were involved in the deal between the Aces and Paul Murdock, president of the Chicoutimi team.Among those coming to Quebec will be Jimmy Moore, whom the Sags obtained from Cleveland in exchange for Greig Hicks during the off season, Jacques Locas, Stan Smrke, Georges Roy, Gerry Glaude, Alain Caron, Michel Harvey and Leo Brassard.It is also possible the Aces will have Goalie Gerry McNeil, with Rochester last season, for the coming campaign.The Aces have not as yet announced any working agreement with an NHL team nor have they secured a coach nor a general manager. &#9632;

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ACES PURCHASE HOCKEY PLAYERS TO GET ROLLING

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Muzz Patrick, general manager of the New York Rangers, announced the club has drawn 21 weekend dates among the 35 National Hockey League games it will play in Madison Square Garden during the 1959-60 season.Eighteen of the home games are scheduled for Sunday nights, starting at 7 P.M., with another set for Saturday night at 8:30 P.M., and two on Saturday afternoon at 2 P.M. of the remaining 14, all but one will be played on Wednesday nights at 7:30. The other home game will be played on Tuesday during Christmas week, starting at 7:30.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01244/1529639-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="287" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Muzz Patrick</figcaption></div>Patrick said the Rangers will continue the early starting times because of the near-record crowds which have turned out since the club abandoned its 8:30 starting time for night games three years ago.<h2>Open With Bruins</h2>The Rangers, after opening their 1959-60 campaign in games at Chicago, Boston and Detroit, will begin their home schedule against the Boston Bruins Wednesday, Oct. 14.New York&rsquo;s two Saturday afternoon home games will be telecast (C.B.S.) as part of the league&rsquo;s weekly national TV schedule. These games will pit New York against Detroit Jan. 9 and against Chicago Feb. 6.Following is Rangers home schedule:Oct. 14, Boston; 18, Montreal; 21, Toronto; 25, Chicago; 28, Detroit.Nov. 1, Montreal; 11, Boston; 14, Detroit; 15, Toronto; 22, Detroit; 25, Boston; 29, Chicago.Dec. 6, Toronto; 13, Boston; 20, Montreal; 23, Chicago; 27, Toronto; 29, Boston.Jan. 3, Montreal; 6, Chicago; 9, Detroit (afternoon); 27, Montreal; 31, Detroit.Feb. 3, Toronto; 6, Chicago (afternoon); 7, Montreal; 17, Chicago; 21, Boston; 24, Detroit; 28, Toronto.March 6, Detroit; 9, Chicago; 13, Toronto; 16, Boston; 20, Montreal. &#9632;

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New Yorkers Set For 21 Weekend Games In Garden

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02228/1529670-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">GERRY FOLEY</figcaption></div>NIAGARA FALLS, Ont.&mdash;Everybody should have a right wing problem like the New York Rangers.Sometime last Spring, the Gotham ice critics decided that Rangers were caught in a right wing dilemma and they&rsquo;d better do something about it before training camp opens.Well, here it is September and the Blueshirt right wing situation is about where it was in April. Only thing is the brass doesn&rsquo;t consider it serious. In fact, they&rsquo;re on the verge of laughter.&ldquo;What right wing troubles?&rdquo; general manager Muzz Patrick asked quizically. &ldquo;With Andy Bathgate and Andy Hebenton I&rsquo;d say we&rsquo;re in pretty good shape.&rdquo;We paused for a moment, fetched our handy pocket adding machine. Bathgate 40 goals, Hebenton 33 goals. Hmm, 73 goals, Jack Adams should have such problems.If there is a weak spot on the Ranger front line, it might be the third right wing slot and even there Patrick isn&rsquo;t sending up emergency flares.For Muzz&rsquo;s money, sophomore Les Colwill still has the job. But coach Phil Watson has a soft spot for roly-poly Gerry Foley.&ldquo;They laughed at Foley two years ago,&rdquo; Watson recalled, &ldquo;but there&rsquo;s a lot to say for him. He works hard, he&rsquo;s a good defensive player and he&rsquo;s big and strong. I&rsquo;m going to take a long look at him.&rdquo;<h2>Colwill Has Job</h2>Patrick conceded that Foley has an &ldquo;outside chance&rdquo; for the position but Colwill has the job as of now.While putting his players through vigorous workouts here at Niagara Falls Arena, Patrick was asked about his defense, a sore spot with Gotham regulars.&ldquo;The fans are always talking about our defense,&rdquo; Muzz said, &ldquo;but it looks pretty good to me.&rdquo;That means Bill Gadsby, Lou Fontinato and Harry Howell are definite starters with John Hanna, Jack Bownass and draft-choice Ian Cushenan grappling for the remaining openings.&ldquo;Cushenan looks like the fourth man,&rdquo; said Patrick. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no reason why he can&rsquo;t do it, he has experience and he&rsquo;s big and strong. Maybe he doesn&rsquo;t have a lot of polish but I like him.&rdquo;Of course, Patrick admits that Hanna or Bownass, by reason of a good showing in camp, could oust Cushenan but this is held unlikely.Meanwhile, coach Watson has been experimenting with his forward lines. It&rsquo;s only tentative at this writing but they shape up as follows, reading from left wing to right:Dean Prentice-Brian Cullen-Andy Bathgate, Eddie Shack-Red Sullivan-Andy Hebenton, Jim Bartlett-Art Stratton-Les Colwill.That&rsquo;s just a starter. For variety, Watson could insert Camille Henry on left wing instead of Shack and move the latter to center for Bathgate and Prentice. What&rsquo;s more, he has Earl Ingarfield, Ed Hoekstra, Larry Popein, Hank Ciesla and Bill Sweeney to play around with at center.Then again, Ingarfield may wind up on right wing and Sweeney could be pivoting for his junior pal Shack.The only thing that&rsquo;s certain at the moment is the fact that New York&rsquo;s line-up is pretty mixed up.But that&rsquo;s why they have training camps, isn&rsquo;t it?<h2>High On Phil&rsquo;s List &#9632;</h2>

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Shed No Tears For N. Y. Rangers, They’re loaded’ On Right Wing With Bathgate, Hebenton Around

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bruins once again will open their home schedule with a weekend doubleheader against the New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens Saturday and Sunday nights, Oct. 10 and 11.The National Hockey League schedule just released shows the Bruins altogether play 17 Sunday night home games; 10Thursdays including the annual Thanksgiving Night date with the Rangers; two Fridays, both holidays, Christmas and New Year&rsquo;s night; three Saturday night games; and three Saturday matinees for TV.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03209/1529701-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="299" height="476"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lynn Patrick</figcaption></div>General manager Lynn Patrick said that as usual the Bruins go on a road trip after their first two home games because the rodeo takes over the Garden. But they return Oct. 29 to play the Detroit Red Wings and then have a fairly regular home slate until forced out two and a half weeks in February by the Ice Follies.The Bruins three TV games will be with Detroit Jan. 30, Montreal Feb. 13 and Detroit Mar. 12.Following is the Bruins&rsquo; home schedule:Oct. 10, New York; 11, Montreal; 29, Detroit.Nov. 1, Toronto; 8, Chicago; 12, Detroit; 15, Montreal; 21, Detroit; 22, Toronto; 26, New York; 29, Montreal.Dec. 6, Chicago; TO, Toronto; 12, New York; 20, Detroit; 25, Chicago.Jan. 1, New York; 7, Chicago; 10, Toronto; 14, New York; 17, Montreal; 24, Toronto; 30, Detroit; 31, Montreal.Feb. 4, Chicago; 7, Toronto; 11, Detroit; 13, Montreal; 14, New York.Mar. 3, Chicago; 6, Toronto; 10, New York; 12, Detroit; 13, Montreal; 20, Chicago. &#9632;

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Boston To Host Blues, Canadians In Home Starts

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Nice guys finish last, sometimes.Other times, the good people, like Andy Hebenton, Rangers&rsquo; silent, hard-working right wing, get their reward.For Hebenton it came five months after it was due.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04167/1529732-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="275" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy Hebenton</figcaption></div>A lot of people in Manhattan thought Hebenton had a right to win the Lady Byng Trophy this year. He scored eight more points than Detroit&rsquo;s Alex Delvecchio, the Byng winner, and 14 more goals to boot. Delvecchio had two fewer penalty minutes.But the vote is over and, what&rsquo;s more Delvecchio is a fine hockey player and, we&rsquo;re certain, just as many people west of the Hudson River felt he deserved the Byng.Still, there was Hebenton who played his heart out for the Blues, who not only was overlooked in the Byng voting but also missed both the first and second all-star nominations because there happen to be a couple of blokes named Andy Bathgate and Gordie Howe around. Between &lsquo;em they seem to have a mortgage on the prize.That didn&rsquo;t matter to Muzz Patrick, g.m. and general nice-fella of the Rangers.Patrick paid a visit to the Hebenton abode in Victoria, B.C., last month. When the handshaking was over, Andy found himself with a $1,000 check in his palm. It wasn&rsquo;t there when he started.&ldquo;I put it to him bluntly, just as I&rsquo;m telling you,&rdquo; Patrick explained. &ldquo;I said: &lsquo;Andy, we in New York think you&rsquo;re an award winner. Here&rsquo;s a thousand dollars from Madison Square Garden to show that we mean it&rsquo;.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Hebenton Misses Lady Byng Award But Blues Pay Off With Fat Bonus

ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;Rudy Pilous, president and general manager of St. Catharines Teepees of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A series, has announced that the contract of Harry Watson, who had coached the Teepees in 1958-59 season, would not be renewed.&ldquo;I am convinced that Harry was serious in his efforts to bring a championship to St. Catharines last year but I still feel that a change is needed,&rdquo; Pilous said.Pilous said that six or seven men would be considered for the position.Watson is a former National Hockey League star with Toronto, Detroit, Chicago and New York Americans. Including time spent in the armed forces, he was nearly 18 years in the NHL.During his career he scored 236 goals in big time hockey. &#9632;

Ex-NHL Star Harry Watson Given Bounce By Pilous As Junior Hockey Coach

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The Montreal Canadiens secured the services of Wren Blair as placement officer for their senior amateur hockey players who are not yet ready for the big jump to professional play.Blair, general manager of the former world hockey champion Whitby Dunlops, will join the organization immediately, Canadiens&rsquo; farm club director Sam Pollock said.Blair will continue with Whitby, last year&rsquo;s winner of the Allan Cup, and also as general manager of Clinton Comets of the United States Eastern League.Pollock said the appointment was needed to fit Canadien players into senior amateur play for pre-pro seasoning. Last year, Montreal sent its up-and-coming stalwarts to the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens of the OHA senior division. But with the Junior Canadiens moving into the new Eastern Professional Hockey League, Pollock had to look around for a new outlet.&ldquo;In securing Blair we believe we have the top man in senior amateur hockey today,&rdquo; he said.Meanwhile, the Canadiens announced their 35-game home ice schedule for 1959-60.Playing each of their five rivals on seven occasions, the Canadiens open at home aginst Boston Bruins on Thursday, October 8th, and close out against the same club on Saturday, March 19th.The 35 games arc divided as follows: 13 Thursdays and 22 Saturdays. All Thursday games are scheduled for 8:30 starts while the Saturday games will commence at 8:15. &#9632;

Blair Hired By Montreal Canadiens To Place Senior Amateur Players

<div class="byline">By SCOTT YOUNG</div>Toronto Globe And MallDETROIT, Mich.&mdash;&ldquo;I&rsquo;d often wondered if those guys wouldn&rsquo;t be better if they were separated,&rdquo; Jack Adams said, talking about the Cullen brothers. His Detroit Red Wings have Barry, the right wing brother, now. Bought him from Toronto in the early summer deal that sent Johnny Wilson to the Leafs. New York has Brien, the centre-man, a player who can be dazzling some nights and quite routine others.Between them they gave Toronto fans some hockey that was mediocre, some that was good, and some that was excellent. The argument always went that they were better together, although I always had thought that when they were separaed, Brian&rsquo;s effectiveness suffered more than Barry&rsquo;s.Last year both sat on the Toronto bench most of the time. And all the time Detroit was suffering from a shortage of rightwingers. At season&rsquo;s end when Detroit had finished last, the only natural-born right-wingers in camp were Gordie Howe and Billy McNeill. That&rsquo;s why Barry Cullen became important to Jack Adams, the Detroit general manager.I asked the Detroit general manager what he expected from Cullen. Thought he might loose a blast, as he has been known to do, to the effect the Toronto management had been weak in the head to keep a man of Barry&rsquo;s known goal-scoring power on the bench, etc., etc., making noises like a real hockey tycoon.Adams, who is built like an oaken cask, laughs a lot, but has a lot of acid in his makeup. Not today, however.&ldquo;For us,&rdquo; he said mildly, &ldquo;he plays the position we&rsquo;re weak in. We had nobody on the farm who could help us, and we had to get somebody. If Barry scores 15 goals for us, he&rsquo;ll have a great year&mdash;and he&rsquo;ll help us an awful lot. He&rsquo;s not a high-priced hockey player, you know. Wasn&rsquo;t getting an awful lot. I gave him a raise, because I thought he deserves one&mdash;and I got that contract back by the next mail, I think, along with a terrific letter from him. He wants to play for us, and that&rsquo;s important.&rdquo;Talking hockey in August may seem strange, I suppose. Not in our country, however. In the travelling I&rsquo;ve done recently across the country not a great number asked about the condition of other sports in our end of the land, but a great number DID ask how the Leafs would be, how long the Canadiens could stay up, other questions.Including: What had happened to the Red Wings last year (from first place in late November to last in mid-March)?<h2>Busy Making Red Wings Contender Again</h2>I asked Adams if the months since that last-place finish had given him any new ideas on why. He said not. &ldquo;A good club will disintegrate in about five years, I figure,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This one lasted a lot longer than that because most of the players were very young when we got them. But now we&rsquo;ve got to rebuild a new one. We looked at four to five hundred hockey players in building the big team a few years ago, and we&rsquo;re going to have to look at a lot in rebuilding.&rdquo;Two other matters: &ldquo;When I signed Gordie Howe the other day, I asked him if he&rsquo;d thought he had a good year&mdash;of course, 36 goals, that&rsquo;s a great year for some people! But I asked if he&rsquo;s had what he could call a good year for Gordie Howe. He&rsquo;s an honest big guy. &lsquo;No,&rsquo; he said, &lsquo;Too many dry periods&rsquo;.&rdquo;And another: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to give Chewy a go, you know.&rdquo; He meant Real Chevrefils, who once scored 31 goals in the NHL, has four children, all kinds of talent, but always has had too lavish a touch with the cup that cheers. &ldquo;Lynn Patrick and I both like him,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;Boston (Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s club) owned him last, of course. We got together in Montreal in June and we were talking and I said, &lsquo;What are you going to do with Chewy?&rsquo; He said, &lsquo;I don&rsquo;t know.&rsquo; I said, &lsquo;Want to give him another go?&rsquo; Lynn said, &lsquo;Yes, you try him.&rsquo; So we will, and I hope he makes it.&rdquo;It was pretty steamy in Adams&rsquo; office. On the walls were the plaques and awards and trophies he has won, or been awarded, in his lifetime in hockey. Pictures of Adams with famous teams or players. The scribbled note (the ink is fading now) from Clarence Campbell that forfeited a game to Detroit in Montreal on March 17, 1955, the night of the Richard riots.<h2>Could Make Wings Go</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01243/1529825-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="290" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Barry Cullen</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02203/1529818-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="281" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Real Chevrefils</figcaption></div><h2>&ldquo;All Good Teams Disintegrate In Time&rdquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03137/1529811-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1750" height="2094"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK ADAMS</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Detroit GM Sees Barry Cullen As Possible Asset Wondered If Brothers Wouldn’t Have Been Better Separated

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;For the third time in the last four years, the Detroit Red Wings have planned a training tour through Western Canada in September prior to the opening of the National Hockey League season.Nine games will be played in the space of ten days. The tour includes seven cities in the Western League plus Fort William, Ont., and Brandon, Man.Starting Tuesday, September 22 in Fort William, the Red Wings will travel through the West by plane, both charter and regularly scheduled flights. The trip concludes Thursday, October 1 in Vancouver.The excursion lakes in two American cities, Seattle and Spokane, Washington. The other five WHL stops are Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria and Vancouver.Detroit&rsquo;s top farm team, the Edmonton Flyers, will be the Wings&rsquo; opposition three times during the trip. Besides the game in Edmonton, the Flyers will tangle with Detroit in Fort William and Brandon. In the other cities, the local WHL team will engage the visitors from the NHL.<h2>Started In 1956</h2>The Red Wings inaugurated these Western jaunts four years ago in 1956 when they played four games as the final part of their pre-season training. In 1957, Detroit stayed close to home, playing its conditioning contests in several Ontario cities. The Red Wings returned to the West last year, embarking on a week-long, six-game journey after the conclusion of the local training camp at Olympia Stadium.As has been the custom for the last four years, only one preseason will be staged in Detroit. On Sunday, October 4, the Red Wings take on the American League champion Hershey Bears in a charity contest at Olympia. Sponsored by the Lions Clubs, the affair will benefit the Leader Dog School building fund.Detroit opens its 1959-60 home schedule a week later, Sunday, October 11, against the New York Rangers in a game starting at the new Sunday time of 7:00.Following is the schedule of the Wing&rsquo;s Western Tour;1&mdash;Tuesday, Sept. 22At Fort William, vs. Edmonton Flyers2&mdash;Wednesday, Sept. 23At Winnipeg, vs. Winnipeg Warriors3&mdash;Thursday, Sept. 24At Brandon, vs. Edm. Flyers4&mdash;Friday, Sept. 25At Calgary, vs. Calgary Stampeders5&mdash;Saturday, Sept. 26At Edmonton, vs. Edm. Flyers6&mdash;Sunday, Sept. 27At Seattle, vs. Seattle Totems7&mdash;Tuesday, Sept. 29At Spokane, vs. Spokane Flyers8&mdash;Wednesday, Sept. 30At Victoria, vs. Victoria Cougars9&mdash;Thursday, October 1At Vancouver, vs. Vancouver Canucks &#9632;

Set Nine-Game Training Tour Of WHL

Founded October 1st 1947Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.1434 Ste. Catherine Sheet West Montreal 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, Ottawa Printed in CanadaVol. 12 MONTREAL, SEPTEMBER, 1959 No. 35 &#9632;

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01313/1529925-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="384" height="444"></div>&bull; TURK BRODA, fabulous fatman goalkeeper of the best clubs Toronto Maple Leafs ever had, is playing the finest golf of his life this summer. He equalled a course record at Bolton recently with a 65&hellip;Broda hopes to be named coach of the Toronto Marlboro Jrs. again but thus far no announcement has been made. Maybe they&rsquo;re waiting to see what the doctors say about Broda&rsquo;s physical condition. He had to curtail his coaching efforts last season when a severe stomach ailment laid him low&hellip;Bill Dineen of the Buffalo Bisons is recovering in an Ottawa hospital from an attack of polio, the non-paralytic type&hellip;Jimmy Morrison, Boston Bruins&rsquo; defenseman, is director of the Metro Sports Council in Toronto this summer. He has been conducting a series of softball games for youngsters in the Greater Toronto area&hellip;Quebec Aces were given assurance they would be accepted into the American Hockey League weeks before the announcement was made official&hellip;They say the Aces management left no stone unturned in their efforts to become a member of the thriving American Hockey League&hellip;When New York Rangers announced the acquisition of Art Stratton, 23-year-old center and rookie sensation of Cleveland Barons last season, it brought to nine the number of centers who will battle it out at the Rangers&rsquo; training camp this month. Other centers include holdovers George (Red) Sullivan, Larry Popein, Hank Ciesla and Earl Ingarfield; plus Brian Cullen, drafted from Toronto; Ed Hoekstra, another $20,000 draftee who played at Three Rivers, Que.; and promising farm hands Bill Sweeney of Buffalo and Ted Hampson of Vancouver.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02282/1529918-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="283" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Morrison</figcaption></div>&bull; BOBBY HEWITSON reports almost 100 percent acceptance from Hall of Earners invited to attend the big reunion in Toronto on September 4 and 5&hellip;Only old-time star not accounted for is Bill Cook, the former New York Ranger right winger&hellip;Buffalo Bisons made a ten-strike in signing Dit Clapper as coach of the Bisons for the 1959-60 season. Clapper is one of the most capable and best-liked people in hockey and he should do a terrific job with the young players in the Chicago Black Hawks system&hellip;Clapper recently sold his interest in a sporting goods store in Peterborough, Ont. which made it possible for him to accept the offer&hellip;Rudy Pilous is seeking a coach for his St. Catharines TeePees Jrs&hellip;&ldquo;Have had lots of applications,&rdquo; said Rudy, &ldquo;but most just want a job. I&rsquo;m after somebody who&rsquo;d like to be a partner, even if it means losing some money&rdquo;&hellip;Guyle Fielder, greatest offensive player to perform in the Western Hockey League, has been playing in a number of West Coast golf tournaments this summer. Guyle shoots in the low 70&rsquo;s and has a four handicap&hellip;The Western Hockey League All-Star Game will be played in Edmonton on January 12, 1960&hellip;Detroit Red Wings will make their first Pacific Coast appearance this fall when they play exhibition games in all seven league cities&hellip;New York Rangers will play games in the four Canadian cities&hellip;Spokane Flyers are seeking a playing coach for next term&hellip;All of last year&rsquo;s WHL coaches will be back except Roy McBride and Tony Leswick&hellip;McBride will be a manager exclusively at Spokane while Bud Poile will be both manager and coach at Edmonton, where Leswick operated last season&hellip;Joe Lamb, former NHL star with Montreal Maroons, Ottawa, Americans, Boston, Detroit et al, won a major golf tournament at the Ottawa Hunt Club recently&hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03208/1529911-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="287" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dit Clapper</figcaption></div>&bull; STEWART McNEILL has signed his first pro contract with the Detroit Red Wings&hellip;This is noteworthy on account of Detroit having spent $5,000 to date on his medical education. Stew is a center who played so well while scoring a goal and assisting in another durins his three-game trial with Detroit near the end of last season. He had made up his mind to play pro hockey before continuing his studies&hellip;Punch Imlach and his family took a month&rsquo;s vacation during which time they visited Virginia Beach, Boston, Maine and Quebec City. They say he needed a rest&hellip;Gordie Sinclair, All-Star Seattle defenseman, has become a permanent United States citizen, immigrating this summer with his wife and three children. Gordie has joined Fielder, Rudy Filion and Bill MacFarland as Seattle residents. MacFarland is studying law after graduating with a Masters Degree in Business Administration&hellip;Admiral John J. Bergen, chairman of Madison Square Garden, is said to be a management expert.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04157/1529904-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="270" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Guyle Fielder</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Providence Reds will play the American Hockey League&rsquo;s newest member, the Quebec Aces, in the opening game of the 1959-60 schedule at Quebec City Oct. 6.AHL secretary Jim Ellery said the league completed its schedule at a meeting here at the Commodore Hotel after taking in the Canadian team.The seven-team loop will play a total of 72 games compared with 70 when it was a six-club league last season. Each team will have 36 home and 36 away games. &#9632;

Quebec Aces To Lift Lid In AHL Against Providence

KELOWNA, B.C.&mdash;What do hockey players do in the good old summer time ? Play hockey it seems.Three National Hockey League stars, Andy Bathgate and Bill Gadsby of New York Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; Phil Maloney, recently participated in a summer hockey exhibition here in which &lsquo;beefed up&rsquo; Kelowna Packers team defeated the American All-Stars 7-2.The game is an annual affair and is run in conjunction with the Kelowna international regatta and usually attracts big crowds. However only 1,800 braved heavy showers to see the midsummer hockey game at Memorial Arena, only half the number that witnessed the game the past two years.Bathgate, who like Gadsby, had returned from Europe recently after the Rangers 23-game world ice tour, was back on the blades again to score once and assist on another goal for the Kelowna team. Gadsby picked up two assists.Maloney bagged both American goals.Andy McCallum, Harry Smith, Wayne North, Mike Durban, Bugs Jones and Russ Kowalchuk scored the other goals for the Packers, who completed a tour of Russia last winter as their reward for losing the Allan Cup to the Belleville McFarlands in 1957-58. &#9632;

BATHGATE, GADSBY SPARK KELOWNA TO PUCK VICTORY

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Terry Sawchuk, Detroit Red Wing goalie and six-time National Hockey League all-star, has applied for United States citizenship.He and his family have lived in Pontiac, Mich., since 1956. Sawchuk, 29, was born in Winnipeg. &#9632;

Sawchuk Makes Application To Become Citizen of U.S.

(Toronto Globe and Mail)Albert (Battleship) Leduc&rsquo;s original equipment was an immensely genial personality, a generous portion of natural hockey ability and more than his share of Gallic wit. He has parlayed this happy combination of qualities into a modest fortune. He owns a factory which manufactures furniture and hockey sticks; he has 20 years of seniority and pension rights as a goodwill ambassador for Senator Molson&rsquo;s Breweries; he is the best-known citizen of Valleyfield, P.Q., and he owns a winter home in Florida where he spends approximately six months of each year, engaged in such arduous pastimes as selecting prospective winners at Tropical, Hialeah and Gulf Stream narks.Those persons who remember Battleship when he was gallumphing around National Hockey League rinks, in a manner which was reminiscent of a surprisingly graceful water buffalo, will agree that good fortune couldn&rsquo;t have smiled on a nicer man.Fifty-six years have silvered his hair but lovable Albert is as vigorous and gregarious as he was in the days when, in the employ of Les Canadiens, he splattered incoming forwards.Leduc was roommate and playmate of Howie Morenz in the great days of &ldquo;the Flying Frenchmen&rdquo;. He made his debut in the autumn of 1925 as the defense-partner of Billy Coutu.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t learn much from Coutu,&rdquo; says Leduc, with a shrug. Coutu was a good hockey player but it is his misfortune that he will be remembered always as the axeman who received a life suspension after an ineffectual, attempt to decapitate Hooley Smith in a Stanley Cup game between Boston and Ottawa. After Coutu&rsquo;s departure from Montreal, for Boston, Leduc partnered Herb Gardiner, who was one of the really great and all-but-forgotten defensive stars of professional hockey.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05138/1530035-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="544" height="891"><figcaption class="caption-body">HOWIE MORENZ</figcaption></div>Battleship once set a record in Toronto&rsquo;s Mutual Street Arena when, in the course of a single game, he made four trips to the infirmary for hem-stitching.&ldquo;Bert Corbeau cut me three times,&rdquo; chuckled Leduc. &ldquo;It was okay for Corbeau to cut me because, after all, he was playing for Toronto. Corbeau was a good fellow and, if he wanted to cut me, that was okay with me. I was pretty mad, though, when Howie Morenz, my own roommate, cut me, too. Twenty-two stitches in one night!&rdquo;<h2>Hooley Sported A Shiner</h2>Sylvio Mantha, who partnered Leduc on the Canadien defense after the retirement of Gardiner, was respected as a hard player who never indulged in fisticuffing.There was, however, the unsolved mystery of Hooley Smith&rsquo;s king-size black eye.Hooley was playing for Montreal Maroons and one of those famed Maroon-Canadien pitched battles erupted at centre-ice. Leduc and two other Canadien players pinioned Smith&rsquo;s arms so that he could do no damage. At the post-mortem in a neighborhood bar, they vowed that they struck no blows but Smith bitterly displayed the grand-daddy of all shiners.Later, Sylvio Mantha confided to Leduc: &ldquo;You know I never get into fights,&rdquo; said Sylvio, &ldquo;but you had his arms pinned and his face was sticking out like the Gaspe light-house. At that point, my mind went blank.&rdquo;To this day, Hooley Smith won&rsquo;t believe that Sylvio Mantha copped a sneak-punch.&ldquo;It must have been Sylvio,&rdquo; Leduc mused. &ldquo;The referee couldn&rsquo;t have hit Smith. One-of our players was sitting on the referee.&rdquo;<h2>A League Of Nations</h2>&ldquo;They called us &lsquo;The Flying Frenchmen&rsquo;,&rdquo; chuckled stout Albert, &ldquo;but they should have called us the League of Nations.&ldquo;There were a few Frenchmen on the team, of course&mdash;Leduc, the two Manthas, Wildor Larochelle and Pit Lepine. But George Hainsworth, the goalie, was English with a touch of German; Marty Burke was Irish. Herb Gardiner was Scottish. Amby Moran was Irish. Howie Morenz was German-Swiss. Aurel Joliat was Belgian. Nick Wasnie was a Pole from Winnipeg. Gus Rivers was another Pole from Winnipeg but we changed his name to Georges Des Rivieres.&rdquo;&ldquo;What about Art Gagne?&rdquo; I suggested. &ldquo;Art certainly was a Frenchman.&rdquo;&ldquo;Sure, Gagne was a Frenchman,&rdquo; agreed the Battleship, spluttering in Gallic glee, &ldquo;but didn&rsquo;t you know that Gagne couldn&rsquo;t speak a word of French? He came from Kamloops, British Columbia.&rdquo;A great fellow&mdash;old Albert, the first citizen of Valleyfield!A great fellow and, if you&rsquo;ll pardon me coining a phrase, a great credit to professional sport.Bonne chance, Albert, mon vieux.<h2>Rookie Bids For Toronto Netminding Post</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01264/1530028-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="1790" height="1452"><figcaption class="caption-body">JERRY McNAMARA</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Jim Coleman Says…

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO. Ont.&mdash;In theory, no player had a job when the Maple Leafs checked into their Peterborough, Ont., training camp Sept. 9.General manager George (Punch) Imlach refused to sign any contracts with his men before the opening camp. As coach, Punch feels this step will create a better atmosphere during the pre-season preparations.&ldquo;Last year they came to camp all signed up and played that way,&rdquo; Imlach said recently. &ldquo;This year I decided they&rsquo;d come unsigned, so they&rsquo;ll all be fighting. If a guy doesn&rsquo;t show much in camp, he&rsquo;s going to have a tough job getting a good contract. They&rsquo;ll have to be levelling.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02238/1530066-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="289" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry Wilson</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Mind you,&rdquo; Punch stated, &ldquo;what our players did last season hasn&rsquo;t been forgotten. Some of them deserve raises. Some don&rsquo;t. But what they show at training camp is going to mean a lot. There are plenty of jobs open on the Leaf team.&rdquo;Leafs had their biggest training camp in years this fall. Imlach figured on about 40 bodies, counting last year&rsquo;s Leafs, plus the halfdozen or so players who&rsquo;ll make up the nucleus of Toronto&rsquo;s Rochester, N.Y., farm club, in addition to a number of youngsters in for tryouts.Leafs, of course, have acquired complete control of the Rochester Americans. But otherwise, their farm system has been laid waste. The New Westminster and Chicoutimi teams have gone out of business.&ldquo;The first thing we have to do is get the Leafs and Rochester working properly,&rdquo; said Imlach. &ldquo;Then we can build up below that.&rdquo;Naturally, the subject of players and goaltenders came up.&ldquo;The goaltending job is wide open. We&rsquo;ll have five goalies and any one of them can win the job. There&rsquo;s (Johnny) Bower, (Ed) Chadwick, Jerry McNamara, Jacques Caron and Cesare Manioga. The guy who shows me the most wins the job.&rdquo;Imlach said that big Jerry Wilson, the centre who has been plagued with knee troubles had been asked to camp. This youngster has a fine potential and was a great junior.He has a few others in mind, too, but basically the Leafs will be pretty the same club. If Allen Stanley, for instance, finds being a year older there will be youngsters like Al MacNeill and Noel Price waiting in the wings. Punch said he also planned to experiment with Gary Collins as a defenseman.&ldquo;He played defense with New Westminster and Hal Laycoe (the New Westminster coach) highly recommended his play at that position.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Leafs’ Jobs Wide Open Says Imlach; 40 Invited To Attend Training Camp

<div class="byline">By JOHNNY GOTTSELIG</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;The continent&rsquo;s most famous arena, the Chicago Stadium, home of the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League, has undergone a complete refurbishing this past summer, both inside and out, at a total cost of $300,000.Thus, when the Black Hawks open their 34th N.H.L. campaign against the New York Rangers on October 7th, they&rsquo;ll be cavorting on a brand new hockey floor (rink). Furthermore, there is also a new look added to the exterior. The white sandstone building was given a thorough cleaning and four new stream-lined canopies added, two on Madison Street and two on Warren Avenue, above which brilliantly lit signs emblazon forthcoming attractions.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve spent well over $100,000 a year, the past five years on hockey players trying to improve the club, and now that we have a fairly representative team, the fans are beginning to support it. Therefore, we feel that the building ought to be renovated also,&rdquo; declared co-owner Arthur M. Wirtz, president of the Black Hawks.<h2>Hawk Greats Recalled</h2>Fond recollections of former Black Hawk greats came to mind as the workmen moved in bulldozers to dismember the old terrazzo floor. The feats of such favorites as the late Charlie Gardiner, Earl Seibert, Mush March, the Bentley brothers, Doug and Max, Bill Mosienko and Johnny Mariucci, just to mention a few, who performed glorious deeds on its surface and who thrilled thousands of fans as they waged stouthearted battles for the Stanley Cup.The cost of constructing the new floor (rink) alone was well over $175,000. There was more to it than just the cost of material. It required meticulous and skillful mechanical know how.The first step was to remove the old terrazzo floor. Two large bulldozers moved in to break up the 3-inch layer of terrazzo and remove the miles and miles of embedded pipe. This operation had to be performed in a most careful manner in order to preserve a 5-inch layer of cork, which was again to act as the base insulator against heat and moisture.The next procedure was the preparation of the base floor, repairing the tar-coated paper which covered the cork.Next followed the laying of the 1&frac14; inch-in-diameter pipe in a diagonal manner two inches apart and covering an area of 190 &times; 85 feet. The pipe came in 20 foot lengths and had to be electro-welded together, thus forming a comb-like network for a total length of 53,000 feet. This maze of crosspipes was then embedded in five inches of concrete.The final check showed the floor surface to be almost perfectly level.It goes without saying, the new rink should go a long way in giving players a much better surface to skate on, and certainly the old complaint of visiting teams about &lsquo;slow ice&rsquo; should no longer have any validity. &#9632;

Hawks Complete $300,000 Stadium Refurbishing Job For Coming NHL Campaign

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;The Chicago Stadium isn&rsquo;t the only National Hockey League arena to get a &lsquo;face lifting&rsquo; since last season.When the 1959-60 campaign gets under way, the people of Detroit will be seeing their hockey under the most ideal conditions available. Chief contribution to this luxury is the amazing reconditioning and beautifying of Olympia Stadium, the Red Wings&rsquo; home ice.The 32-year-old, 12 story edifics has undergone complete refurbishing within the past year. The 12,500 seats have been repaired and repainted, the vast metal ceiling has been cleaned and painted, and the surrounding parking lots have been enlarged and paved. Still to be. added to this list of varied improvements is the Herculite plate glass which will replace the protective wire fencing extention of the boards.Detroit&rsquo;s new starting time of 7:00 on Sundays will get a good test as there are 17 such Sabbath attractions on the 35-game home slate. After 33 years, the management decided to change the strating times to more closely conform with those in the other cities and to better accommodate the public.Ever since professional hockey game came to the Motor City from Victoria, B.C., in 1926, 8:30 had been game time. Besides the 7:00 Sunday get-away, weeknight games will go at 8:00 and matinees at 2:00. &#9632;

OLYMPIA GIVEN ‘FACE LIFTING’ BY RED WINGS

<div class="byline">By HAL WALKER</div>TORONTO. Ont.&mdash;Hockey in July is only for the very young&mdash;and the very eager.But in Kemptville, Nova Scotia, the very young and very eager, 232 strong, were on the blades as early as 6 o&rsquo;clock in the morning waiting for their tutors.The tutors were two Torontonians, Hank Goldup, ex-Leaf and ex-N.Y. Ranger, and Greg Currie who coaches Brampton B&rsquo;s, and who doesn&rsquo;t like to be reminded he coached Toronto Lyndhursts on their ill-fated world hockey trip a few years ago.&ldquo;Greg and I,&rdquo; recounted Goldup, &ldquo;came into the rink one morning at about 6 a.m. It was in complete darkness. I was sure I heard some noise out on the ice surface. Sure enough here were the kids skating in the dark, waiting for school to open.&rdquo;A total of 307 kids from all over the Maritimes and some from Newfoundland applied for admission to the 11-day school, which included not only actual competition, but blackboard sessions and movies. Only 232 were admitted.The Nova Scotia publicity bureau did a selling job in the U.S. on the hockey school and Goldup is convinced that a lot of American youngsters will apply for. enrolment next term. &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;if within two or three years there will be more American kids in the school than there are Canadians.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03185/1530145-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="546" height="666"><figcaption class="caption-body">HANK GOLDUP</figcaption></div>The determination of the youngsters (from ages 11 to 18) to make good reminded Currie of the little goaltender who put his nose in front of a puck and broke it, the nose that is, not the puck, and who didn&rsquo;t want to leave the ice for fear he&rsquo;d be asked to quit school.The school was planned in order to help Maritime youngsters regain some of the hockey prestige that the Atlantic coast area once owned. Currently only Forbes Kennedy of Detroit and Al MacNeil of Toronto and Rochester are in&mdash;or near&mdash;the NHL.Marlboros acquired a good prospect out of the school, 17-year-old Walter Angus MacLean, a 170-pound defenseman who was the prize of the camp. Young MacLean worked on garbage trucks to get enough money to get to Kentville from Halifax.&ldquo;No nonsense is tolerated at this camp,&rdquo; Goldup said. &ldquo;Anyone breaking rules is cut off the lists. Church parades were held and it is compulsory that the boys attend.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Maritime School Big Success For 232 Youngsters

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01335/1530211-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">A bulldozer moves in to break up old terazzo floor as Chicago&rsquo;s famed Stadium receives $300,000 refurbishing for the 1959-60 hockey season. Renovation was completed of both inside and out of arena.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02222/1530204-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="2062" height="1927"><figcaption class="caption-body">Arthur Wirtz, co-owner and president that will go into the new flooring. Wirt: the Chicago Black Hawks, examines some of the new piping rdered &ldquo;face lifting&rdquo; because of good fan support at NHL games.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03138/1530197-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="1807" height="1553"><figcaption class="caption-body">Workers roll out wire mesh to hold pipes firmly in place before concrete is poured. Altogether some 10 miles of pipe were placed under new floor, which will also serve ice shows, conventions and the circus.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0497/1530190-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="2344" height="1579"><figcaption class="caption-body">General view of the new floor after laying of wire mesh remove old complaint of NHL teams that Stadium ice was surface for 34t as completed. Cost was near $175,000. Installation of floor will w&rdquo; at various times. Hawks will be assured of good hard ice</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01286/1530183-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="1799" height="1949"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hawks&rsquo; ace right winger Eddie Litzenberger offers some free advice to construction worker as pipes are laid in place under new rink floor. Litz even brought his hockey stick along to help out.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02253/1530176-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1781" height="1581"><figcaption class="caption-body">Crews add final touches to floor to make sure it is perfectly level. Everything is in readiness for Hawks&rsquo; home opener Oct. 7 against New York Rangers. New emblazoned marquees were also added to exterior of arena.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Black Hawks To Whirl In Refurbishe Chicago Stadium This Hockey Season

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY, Pa&mdash;The Hershey Bears, intent on bolstering their ranks, closed another trade which saw the Pennsylvania outfit land a winger who scored 100 goals in the past three years.The newest addition to the Bears&rsquo; ranks is Ray Kinasewich, a 25-year-old forward from the Western League.Hershey grabbed the 5-9, 185-pounder by trading Len Haley to Edmonton.Kinasewich skated for Edmonton last season and despite a mid-season injury still managed to nail 17 goals.Prior to joining Edmonton, he was Seattle, where he knocked in 83 goals in two campaigns.Kinasewich is the third new player secured via trades. Earlier, Hershey traded goalie Gil Mayer to Cleveland for veteran defenseman Gordon (Bucky) Hollingworth and rookie goalie Claude Dufour.Haley spent two seasons with Hershey, which had drafted him from Brandon of the WHL.In his first year with Hershey, Haley scored 30 goals and assisted on 19 for 49 points. In the Calder Cup playoofs of 195758, he tallied four goals.<h2>Goal Production Down</h2>This past season, however, Haley slipped offensively, scoring only 17 goals in 59 games. He had 11 assists for 28 points. In the Calder Cup action, he notched only one goal.&ldquo;We feel that Kinasewich will help bolster the right side of our attack,&rdquo; said Bastien. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s fast, a good checker and his scoring record speaks for itself.&rdquo;The Bears, Calder Cup champs for the past two years, check into Niagara Falls, Ont., for training camp sessions in mid-September.There&rsquo;s a good chance Bastien will have another trade or two concluded before the club arrives in Canada.Reportedly on the block is team captain Obie O&rsquo;Brien, an AHL veteran of ten years.Hershey, if possible, would like to secure a couple of left wingers, but if worse comes to worse, the club&rsquo;s brass will be happy to get one strong shooter.&ldquo;We can use a good man on the left side,&rdquo; said Bastien.Player-Coach Frank Mathers claims he&rsquo;s ready to take the ice and that his broken right hand has mended nicely.Mathers suffered the injury in the height of the Calder Cup playoffs last spring.With Mathers in shape the Bears can boast one of the strongest&mdash;if not the most airtight backline line corps in the league.Along with Mathers and Hollingworth, Hershey has Larry (The Rock) Zeidel, Howie Yanosik and Jack Price. &#9632;

Secure Kinasewich From Edmonton In Exchange For Winger ten Haley

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01319/1530266-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"></div>This advertisement is not to be construed as an offering of any of the securities for sale or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any of such securities. The offering is made only by the Offering Circular.NEW ISSUE220,000 SHARES COMMON STOCK(Par Value $0.50 per Share)Offering Price&mdash;$1.00 Per ShareThe Company has been granted a franchise from the International Hockey League and is in the process of organizing a hockey team called the &ldquo;Mile High Mavericks.&rdquo; A copy of the Offering Circular may be obtained by mailing the attached coupon to:UNDERWRITERCopley and Company818&mdash;17th Street Building Denver, ColoradoCH. 4-8667Independence Building Colorado Springs, ColoradoME. 2-3588 &#9632;

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MILE HIGH HOCKEY, INC.

BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;The Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League have a new coach today and it goes without saying they have never had a man to do the job with such a renowned hockey background.The new pilot of the Herd is Aubrey (Dit) Clapper, former great defenceman and coach of the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, currently a member of Hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame.Clapper, who was named to the &lsquo;Hall&rsquo; in 1947, said at his Peterborough, Ont., home that he was offered the post by Tommy Ivan, general manager of the Chicago Black HaWks, who now control the Bisons as a farm club.&ldquo;I am really looking forward to it,&rdquo; the ex-Bruin said. &ldquo;You miss professional hockey after spending most of your life in it. We&rsquo;ll have a contending club playing in one of the finest arenas on the continent. Our training camp opens Sept. 12 in St. Catharines and our first AHL game is Oct. 4 in Buffalo.&rdquo;Born in Newmarket, Ont., Clapper moved to Hastings with his family at an early age and played in the Trent Valley Hockey League as a boy. At 14, he played junior for Oshawa, later going to Parkdale Juniors in Toronto, his last amateur club.He went minor pro with Boston Tigers in 1926-27, stepping up next season to Boston Bruins. He played 20 years with the NHL club, 10 as a right-winger and 10 more as a star defenceman. He holds the NHL record for most seasons of play.<h2>Coached Bruins</h2>Dit, who frequently made the NHL all-star team in his brilliant pro career, finished up first as playing coach for several years till he hung up his skates in 1947. He coached the Bruins for two more years and later served several years as a club director.He moved to Peterborough in 1946, is married and has a son and daughter.He and Dave Wilson were partners in a Peterborough sports goods store for 13 years. Dit disposed of his. interest in it last winter. He has been on the executive of Peterborough Petes of the OHA Junior A division for three years.Clapper will succeed Bobby Kirk at the helm of the Buffalo team this season. Kirk, who guided the Bisons to the AHL pennant last year before losing out in the Calder Cup finals to Hershey, has not been a well man for the past few years and for that reason decided to step out of the Buffalo job.Clapper is the second new AHL coach to be named recently. Pat Egan, the former NHL star, has taken over the Springfield position for Eddie Shore.<h2>Back In Game</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02259/1530297-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="566" height="1326"><figcaption class="caption-body">DIT CLAPPER</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hockey Hall Of Fame Ace Dit Clapper Named Coach Of Buffalo Bisons In AHL

VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;Coley Hall, general mannager of Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League, has acquired Bruce Carmichael, a high-scoring left-winger, from Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League.Carmichael scored 22 goals and 55 assists in the 1957-58 season with Springfield, his best year. &#9632;

Vancouver Buys Carmichael From Springfield Indians

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03196/1530352-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="302" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pat Egan</figcaption></div>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;Pat Egan, who thrilled hockey audiences here 20 years ago, is coming back to the Indians as coach for the 1959-60 American Hockey League, season.Muzz Patrick, general manager of the New York Rangers. who have a two-year-old working agreement with Springfield, announced the appointment of Egan.The one-time defenceman with the old New York Americans had been general manager and coach of the Victoria team of the Western Hockey League for the past three years.Egan performed for both the Americans and Boston Bruins in the NHL and in 1941-42 he was selected on the second all-star team defense. He twice led the NHL in penalties.He finished his hockey career in the AHL playing here with Springfield in 1939-40 and later Providence before going west to coach in the Western circuit.Egan will succeed Cal Gardner, who was playing-coach of the Indians last year. &#9632;

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EGAN APPOINTED HOCKEY COACH AT SPRINGFIELD

<div class="byline">By JIM VIPOND</div>Toronto Globo And Mail Sports EditorTORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Corbett Dennenay, Central Y&rsquo;s master manipulator of mired muscles for middle-aged men, was talking about the good old days of hockey as only an old established professional has the right.&ldquo;I remember,&rdquo; recalled the Whirling Dervish of the western ice lanes (vintage, First World War), &ldquo;sitting on the steps of a hotel in Saskatoon one night and hearing Lester Patrick state that, given a good goalie, a strong defense, and Newsy Lalonde, he would challenge any six men in hockey.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01304/1530383-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="583" height="950"><figcaption class="caption-body">LESTER PATRICK</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I hear,&rdquo; interjected a kibitzer from the sun room in a brogue strongly reminiscent of Sam Shefsky, &ldquo;that Newsy and a bunch of former hockey greats are going to be in town for Hall of Fame functions during the Exhibition. You going, Corb?&rdquo;&ldquo;Nope, I didn&rsquo;t get an invitation,&rdquo; replied the man a Vancouver journal once hailed as &ldquo;the most graceful and speediest skater of his time.&rdquo; &ldquo;I guess,&rdquo; he added, kneading his victim&rsquo;s muscles with the ferocity of a baker faced with too much dough, &ldquo;they&rsquo;ve forgotten all about me.&rdquo;And, believe it or not, the book of fame proves this member of a famous Cornwall hockey family, who plied his professional sport from coast to coast, and was also a fair handler of a lacrosse stick, has yet to make either the sports or hockey halls of fame in Canada. He long ago was awarded a place in the Minneapolis Hall of Sports Fame along with such tried athletes as Bronko Nagurski and Taffy Abel.Obviously, with the Hall of Fame project still in comparative infancy, it is only a matter of time until the selection committee nominates the little centre star who scored the goal to win a National League championship one year and the Stanley Cup another.And if the Hall of Fame committee doesn&rsquo;t get around to it soon, perhaps the railroad people would consider a citation for meritorious travel.Corb and his brother Cy (a civil service employee in Ottawa) left Cornwall at an early age to play hockey, and muck in the mines of Northern Ontario. Both made the big league. But it is of Corb we now write, not to overlook Cy as much as to get Corb&rsquo;s fists out of our lower back that we may get off the table and back to the office.<h2>Patrick Raided Team</h2>It was to Cobalt they went in 1913 to play, until a professional contract was offered by the late Eddie Livingstone. Cy joined the Ontarios, later to be known as the Toronto Blueshirts when that team was raided en masse by Lester Patrick and moved to the West Coast.Corb played for Toronto for 11 years before being traded to Vancouver for Jack Adams (who?). And thus began the Corbett chugging of the choo choo. Traded back to Toronto Pats, he moved on to Hamilton but lingered only long enough to pick up a train ticket for Saskatoon&mdash;his destination in a three-way deal in which the late Carson Cooper went to Hamilton and Aurel Joliat to Canadiens.Three years later, he was back in Toronto, his new boss, Conn Smythe. But a legal entanglement involving his contract had him back in Saskatoon a few months later. His travels had only begun. Some say he used to spend his summers humming a little parody about &ldquo;livin&rsquo; on the railroad&rdquo;.The next year Chicago bought his contract but it was only a matter of time until he hit the rails again&mdash;back to Saskatoon, trade material for four young players. No sooner had he unpacked his bag and skated out the railroad muscles than he got the call again. Babe Dye had broken a leg and they needed him back in the Windy City.<h2>Back In Old Chicago</h2>Still the railroads continued to reap a profit as once again Saskatoon acquired Corb&rsquo;s contract. And the enforced winter wanderlust soon found him returning to Chicago, to the Shamrocks, instead of the Black Hawks, this time. He stopped over to change trains for Minneapolis. After two years in which he gained Minneapolis Hall of Fame recognition, he decided to hang up his skates and stick to lacrosse. He was getting railroaditis.And so we hope hockey&rsquo;s travellin&rsquo; man of the Roaring Twenties, whose puck-chasing peregrinations boomed railroad stocks, will soon find recognition in Hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame and be invited to join other greats of his era for this summer&rsquo;s session of nostalgia. &#9632;

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Corbett Dennenay Rates Place In Hall Of Fame

WINNIPEG, Man&mdash;The Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League, who will be plenty active in Western Canada during the fall training camp season, will help the Winnipeg Warriors of the Western League open their exhibition schedule Sept., 23 here.This is a return engagement for the Wings, who won over the Warriors 2-1 last year.The Wings will bring along all their stars including Gordie Howe, Red Kelly, Terry Sawchuk, Marcel Pronovost, Alex Delvecchio and two former Winnipeg pro stars, Gary Aldcorn and Barry Cullen, both secured via the draft and a player trade during the off-season.The Warriors are also down for an Oct. 2 game here with the New York Rangers. The Rangers last appeared in the &lsquo;Peg October 1955, the year professional hockey returned to this city after a 26-year absence.The Western League home dates were released recently by the respective teams and the Warriors have drawn the Ed-monton Flyers for their first taste of action October 9. The Flyers are also the Warriors&rsquo; first Sunday home rivals, October 11 at the arena.And speaking of the Flyers, they will provide the opposition for three western exhibition games for the Detroit Red Wings. Besides playing in Edmonton September 26, the Flyers will tangle with the Wings in Fort William Sept. 22 and Brandon Sept. 24.Detroit is also booked to play in Calgary Sept. 25 against the Stampeders, Seattle, Sept. 27, Spokane, Sept. 29, Victoria, Sept. 30 and Vancouver, Oct. 1.The aRngers are also slated for games in Vancouver and Spokane. &#9632;

Red Wings To Open Season For Winnipeg Hockey Fans With Games Against Warriors

EDMONTON, Alta&mdash;The Edmonton Exhibition board of directors has invited the Russian hockey team to play here in November when the club is on a tour of Canada. The team will make the trip under the auspice of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.The Russian team will play either in Calgary or Edmonton. The team will meet the Edmonton Oil Kings, joined by players from other Alberta clubs, if it plays in Edmonton.The board also granted a request by manager Bud Poile of the Edmonton Flyers of the Western Hockey League to increase the price of hockey tickets by 25 cents across the board.The increase&mdash;raising prices to $1.25, $1.50 and $1.75&mdash;will bring prices in line with those at other league cities. &#9632;

EDMONTON BIDS FOR RUSSIANS ON PUCK TOUR

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03236/1530493-1-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 endless 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 THE HOCKEY NEWS do our utmost to see that you don&rsquo;t lose track of your favorite players during those five months that THE HOCKEY NEWS suspends weekly publication (May to September).A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.Canadian 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!

JOHNSTOWN, Pa.&mdash;Johnny Mitchell was named general manager of the Jets by the Johnstown Hockey Company, operators of the team in the Eastern Hockey League.Mitchell, who took over the post on Aug. 1, is a resident of Burlington, Ont., Canada. He succeeds Jack Riley, who resigned the position after three years to become general manager of the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League.The new GM, an American citizen, will become a permanent resident of Johnstown. He comes to the Jets with wide experience in hockey. Mitchell was a referee in the National Hockey League for five years and served nine years as business manager of the Pittsburgh Hornets in the American League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01318/1530524-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="286" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Mitchell</figcaption></div>He was assistant manager of the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League and later served four years as chief scout for the Detroit Red Wings in the NHL.During the 1957-58 and 1958-59 seasons, Mitchell was business manager of Springfield in the AHL.Mitchell is married and the father of one daughter, who is married to Glen Sonmor, the Springfield coach the past season. Sonmor plans to withdraw from hockey this fall in favor of a school-teaching career.Mitchell, the third Jets&rsquo; general manager since the Johnstown Hockey Company took over sponsorship of the team, was highly recommended for the local job by Clarence Campbell, president of the NHL. &#9632;

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Mitchell Named General Manager Of Johnstown Jets Team in EHL

GREENSBORO. N.C.&mdash;This new entry in the Eastern Hockey League became involved in a slight dispute with league officials before even signing a team.It seems Ken Wilson, general manager of the Generals, did not like a tentative schedule drawn up by EHL Prexy Tom Lockhart and Secretary Phil Thompson.The card had the Generals playing nine home games in December and six in February.&ldquo;I am unhappy over this,&rdquo; Wilson said before the meeting. &ldquo;We play a lot of home games in December, which is known as a bad month due to Christmas, and only a few in February when the pennant fight is on.Wilson and vice president Stanley Frank waged a battle at the meeting and came off with a half victory. The league moguls, in working on a new eight-team schedule, took two dates from December and gave the Generals two more in the more desirable January.In the revision, however, the Generals lost their inter-state rivals, the Charlotte Clippers, as their opening home foe on November 11. This is expected to become the biggest rivalry in the loop. The Clips were replaced by the Washington Presidents.The opening game of the season remained the same, however. The Generals will open on October 24 against the defending champion Clinton Comets at Clinton. They will play five more games on the road before opening at home.The entire schedule was not available at press time.The Generals will open training on October 10 at Niagara Falls, Ontario.Carson Bain is president of the local entry.Upon inspecting the coliseum, the other club owners and league officials had nothing but praise for it.As for the fans here in Greensboro, they seem to have caught the hockey fever. The Generals should go a long way on fan support alone. &#9632;

Greensboro GM Wins Bid For More Favorable Dates

<div class="byline">By GEORGE METZGER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02260/1530603-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOM LOCKHART</figcaption></div>GREENSBORO, N.C.&mdash;The Eastern Hockey League has added an eighth team and split into two divisions for the coming campaign.In addition to the Greensboro Generals, which were admitted to the league earlier in the summer, league president Tom Lockhart has announced that his New York Rovers will finally be ready to play this year.However, officials in the league are keeping their fingers crossed since Lockhart said the same thing last year and then just two weeks before opening night pulled his team out when the rink was not ready. At that time his &ldquo;team&rdquo; consisted of one player.Also at last month&rsquo;s meeting, Washington was readmitted. It was announced that the entry from the nation&rsquo;s capital was going to withdraw from the loop because it could not get up enough money to meet the league requirements.But along came Pete Carver, of West Orange, New Jersey, to throw his money in with Paul Rothgeb, manager of Uline Arena, home rink of the Washington club, and save the franchise.Carver had applied for his own franchise to be known as West Orange. But when he said the team would have to play half of its home games in Haddonfield, New Jersey, the owners decided against his application.The owners did not object to the fact Carver would have to play in two cities but the fact that Haddonfield is right across the Delaware River from Philadelphia and therefore in the protected area of an established team. They felt it would not be in the best interests of the league to have two teams competing for the same fans.So, after turning down the application of Carver, who is an ice rink engineer, the league moguls suggested that he throw in with the Washington interests and concrete the team in that city. He did.<h2>Player Draft Halted</h2>This staved off an expected player draft of Washington personnel. This was to come about at the meeting held in this new city in the EHL if the Washington club dropped out.Jerry DeLise, former owner of the New Haven Blades and also Washington, had applied to take over the Washington franchise but was rejected by the league.It marked the second straight year that Washington was dropped from the league only to be readmitted. Last year the franchise faultered only to have Lou Pieri, owner of the Providence Reds of the AHL, come along and take it over.The surprise announcement that the nation&rsquo;s capital would again be represented in the EHL caught Lockhart and the others unawares. A tentative seven team schedule had been drawn up.<h2>Will He Make If Stick? &#9632;</h2>

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Eastern Hockey League Welcomes New York, Washington Clubs Back To Complete Eight-Team Line-Up

This coming season will be the Eastern Hockey League&rsquo;s silver anniversary&mdash;its 25th year of action.And from all angles it is shaping up as the best of its quarter century.One of the main things in favor of a good year is the recent expansion to a healthy eight teams. Another&mdash;and probably the biggest&mdash;item going for the league is the fact that the caliber of play is at its peak.The higher class of hockey is evident over that of only three or four years. And signs indicate that the caliber is still climbing.Most observers around the league are claiming that the fans will see the best hockey yet.A few years back there were many &ldquo;bums&rdquo; around the loop, the kind of player that couldn&rsquo;t make many other teams. But nowadays, most of the 14 players on each team are top class material.This improvement has lifted the Eastern League over a few leagues that until three years ago were considered better. And the improvement is Still going on.Without a doubt, television is also helping to improve the gates. Many Amercicans never saw hockey until it went on network TV a few seasons back. This aroused their curiosity and they attended a game. That was enough for the bug to bite. This is evidenced by the addition of more cities.Yes, word from every city around league has it that the fans are looking forward to this season more than they did for any of the previous 24.Although Lockhart&rsquo;s Rovers will be playing under the name of the New York, their home rink will actually be 45 miles away from the big city in Comack, Long Island.Many people are wondering how &ldquo;Tommy&rdquo; can serve both positions as league president and team president.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll just wait and see what happens the first time League President Lockhart has to rule on a protest from. Club President Lockhart,&rdquo; said one man at the two day league meetings here,The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce welcomed the EHL entourage with a social hour and dinner at Sedgefield. The next morning the official party was taken on a tour of the new coliseum where the Generals will play their home games. &#9632;

EHL This Season To Mark 25 Years Of Ice Operations

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01317/1530682-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Cowan, second right, top point-getter on last year&rsquo;s edition of the Toledo Mercurys of the International Hockey League, was the recipient of the Most Valuable Player trophy for the 1958-59 season awarded by the Toledo Mercury Boosters&rsquo; Club. Cowan is shown receiving the trophy from Dave Madanski, Boosters&rsquo; Club president, while Frank Gallagher, left, prexy of the IHL, and Andy Mulligan, right, general manager of the Toledo team, look on. Cowan had 22 goals and 58 assists for 80 points in 56 games for Toledo.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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TOLEDO BOOSTERS’ CLUB HONORS MERCURY SCORING ACE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02276/1530713-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg"></div>Canada&rsquo;s Only Football Paper Covering the Nation&rsquo;s Pro and Amateur Football World Like a Glove.&bull; BEHIND THE SCENES PHOTOGRAPHS&bull; GAME BY GAME STATISTICS&bull; FEATURES BY CANADA&rsquo;S TOP EXPERTS&bull; CARTOONS&bull; COLUMNISTSThe all new Canadian Football News will be the finest reading material about the Canadian Football World available. It&rsquo;s new in editorial leadership. We have hired Canada&rsquo;s top photographers in each football city to take the pictures you will want to see. And wait until you see what Cartoonist Jack Reppen on the Toronto Star is cooking up for your enjoyment. Yes, if you want to know what&rsquo;s going on in Canada&rsquo;s football world pick up a copy of Canadian Football News at your local newsstand or fill in the form below and mail it with a $2.00 money order or cheque. First issue of 1959 season will be out August 1st.ONLY $ 2.00Published weekly for 20 straight weeks during football season.It doesn&rsquo;t matter when you start, you still get your 20 issues.for 20 Consecutive Issues. &#9632;

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FOOTBALL NEWS

<div class="byline">By &#x2018;CHICK&#x2019; APPEL</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-033/1530744-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="547" height="875"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL DURNAN</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-013/1530758-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="212" height="272"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-023/1530751-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="234" height="283"></div>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;Bill Durnan has been re-appointed to handle the Kitchener Dutchmen in senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA, and also for their trip to the 1960 winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley, Calif.Johnny Horeck, of course, will be back at the helm for the Chatham, Maroons, but Windsor Bulldogs, so far, have not come up with a successor to Murph Chamberlain, although Andy Bellemer turned in a fine chore when he supplanted Chamberlain at Windsor late in the season.Ike Hildebrand appears solid as the playing-coach of Belleville MacFarlands, and probably Sid Smith will remain as nonplaying coach of the Whitby Dunnies.The unsettled financial picture in Belleville senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey, so far as the city council is concerned, awaits the result of an investigation, following the disclosure that considerable civic funds had been used last year to finance the hockey club. But so far as Harvey J. McFarland of Picton, the club sponsor, is concerned, he wants to continue his sponsorship of the team bearing his name. But he is quoted as advancing certain stipulations, chief one of which, of course, is the financial aspect, and he intends to operate the team just as he does ms own successful construction business.&ldquo;It is my team and I intend running it that way. No outsider, player or otherwise, is going to have anything to do with its operation,&rdquo; says McFarland. &ldquo;I do not mind spending $10,000 or $15,000 to make the team a success. I do not want to make any money out of it. If there is anything left at the end of the season, the players will share it. But,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;the players and others will have to co-operate. I do not mind paying a decent salary to good hockey players&mdash;the golden days are over for a lot of them. If they do not want to meet my terms&hellip;&rdquo;Ike Hildebrand, the Belleville McFarlands&rsquo; playing-coach, who has been signed for next season, announces that he has signed Billy Colvin of the former Kingston Merchants senior club. Roy Partridge and Moe Savard of Kingston have been approached by the new Kingston professional club, but have not made up their minds about their future hockey careers. Another rumor had Hildebrand signing Bus Gagnon, but this has been denied. Hildebrand admits that Gagnon wants to play for Belleville, but since selling his business in Kingston he seeks future security. A good job seems to be main objective for Gagnon.Merve Edwards, the North Bay goalie, who formerly played for. the St. Catharines Teepee juniors and later accompanied the Belleville team on their safari to the 1959 world championship tourney, also wants to play for Belleville. North Bay may enter the Porcupine League, and since Edwards doesn&rsquo;t want to play for the Trappers, Belleville feels certain that he&rsquo;ll land with the Macs. Big Al Dewsbury also wants to play again for the Belleville team on a part-time basis, while Fiori Goegan is the only member of last season&rsquo;s team who has been released.Ron Muir, a Seaforth-born boy, and one of the best forwards with Cornwall Chevies of the former eastern Ontario group of the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA, will definitely try out with the Kitchener Dutchmen this season, with a trip to the Olympic Games with the Dutchies as the big lure.Although Kitchener and Sudbury will be operating in &ldquo;amateur&rdquo; and professional circuits respectively, their exhibition game in aid of Jack McMaster, young Kitchener winger, injured so badly last winter in an NOHA-OHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; game in Sudbury, is still on. Niagara Falls, McMaster&rsquo;s home town is planning another benefit game between the Cataracts and Stamford, senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; teams, and Toronto Maple Leafs have agreed to play the Dutchmen a third exhibition game in Kitchener, with the Leafs loaning the Dutchies three or four players to balance the two teams.Incidentally, George Aitken, who went to Stratford some years ago to play junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey and remained to play senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey there with the 1951-52 Allan Cup finalists, Stratford Indians, has been swapped by Chatham to Windsor Bulldogs for defenceman Bob Seymour. Leftwinger Aitken, known as &ldquo;hard rock&rdquo; when he played for the Stratford Indians, is rated in Windsor as &ldquo;a gent thoroughly schooled in the whys and wherefores of senior hockey.&rdquo;<h2>Olympic Bound &#9632;</h2>

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Durnan, Hildebrand Among Senior ‘A’ League Coaches Returning For This Season

KINGSTON, Ont.&mdash;The newly-formed Eastern Professional Hockey League has gone high-brow in lining up its coaching personnel for the initial season. It seems only men with colorful hockey back-grounds need apply.The EPHL coaching alignment was five-sixths completed when the Sudbury Wolves annuonced they had taken on former Canadiens&rsquo; star Murph Chamberlain, the Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds (they were formerly the Greyhounds) had acquired the services of Don &lsquo;Count&rsquo; Grosso, the old Red Wing ace, and Kingston named Cal Gardner, ex-Bruin and Leaf star, as their playing pilot.The Montreal Royals already have Floyd (Busher) Curry at their helm&mdash;he&rsquo;s an 11-year NHL man with Canadiens&mdash;and Three Rivers Lions have retained Gerry Desaulniers, who once had a brief whirl with the Montreal Habitants.Only the Ottawa-Hull Canadiens remain without a coach at the moment and it is expected general manager Sam Pollock will be forthcoming with a name in the very near feature. He will in all probability be a playing-coach.Chamberlain moves to Sudbury from the Senior OHA League after coaching Windsor, Chatham and Cornwall. He replaces John (Peanuts) O&rsquo;Flaherty, who coached Sudbury&rsquo;s senior team last season.Grosso got the nod at the &lsquo;Soo&rsquo; over Harry Watson and supposedly Ted Lindsay, more or less because he is a native son.Tommy Ivan, general manager of the Chicago Black Hawks, sponsors of the &lsquo;Soo&rsquo; Thunderbirds, is happy about the choice of Grosso, and has assured him of considerable player assistance. Among some of the talent listed for the &lsquo;500&rsquo; are leftwinger Fred Hilts and goalie Dennis Dejordy, members of the St. Catharines Teepees in junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; company last season, who have exceeded the junior age limit. Other graduating juniors are Ed Wright, Jim Hayward and Wayne Hillman of the east, and Ken Kuntz, Cliff Schmautz and Bill Glazier of the Moose Jaw juniors.<h2>Bison Players Available</h2>Experienced pros also available to the Thunderbirds are Norm Corcoran, Les Lillie, Milan Marcetta and Bruce Lee of the Buffalo Bisons, and Chuck Blair, Bill Burega and Matt Ravlich. Ex-Greyhounds, who are being sought to turn pro with the &lsquo;Soo&rsquo;, are Jim Farelli, John Offidani, Jim McBurney and Don McLean, but McBurney has indicated that he is planning to hang up his hockey gear, while McLean is going to play next season in Europe.Meanwhile, the sponsorship arrangements with National Hockey League teams also were concluded. Only Ottawa-Hull made no formal affiliation but it was believed they would depend largely on the Montreal Canadiens as they have in the past.Agreements reached were: Sudbury with Detroit Red Wings assisted by Toronto Maple Leafs, Sault Ste. Marie with Chicago, Kingston with Boston Bruins, Montreal with Montreal Canadiens and Three Rivers with New York Rangers.The season starts Thursday, Oct. 8 at the &lsquo;Soo.&rsquo; Other home open 10; Montreal, Hull-Ottawa and Three Rivers, Sunday, Oct. 11; and Sudbury, Monday, Oct. 12. &#9632;

Chamberlain, Grosso, Gardner Named To Coaching Posts With EPHL Clubs As New League Awaits First Season

<div class="image-hero"><img title="C0004-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-04/1530813-1-eng-US/c0004-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">EDWARD HOUSTON</figcaption></div>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;The newly formed Eastern Professional Hockey League took another progessive stride forward when it elected one of Ottawa&rsquo;s leading young lawyers to be its president. Edward J. Houston, 41, has been an active and enthusiastic supporter of team sports in Ottawa since his return to civilian life following service in the R.C.A.F. overseas which included a sojourn in a German P.W. Camp.Houston is well acquainted with the organizational ends of professional sports promotion having been solicitor for the Ottawa Athletics Baseball Club and the Ottawa Senators Hockey Club.Born in Arnprior, Ontario, he played hockey for various teams in the Ottawa Valley and later with the R.C.A.F.A graduate of the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall, Houston is now a partner in the legal firm of Mirsky, Soloway, Assaly and Houston. He is married and has a family of two boys.Houston brings to the new League an ideal combination of organizing and administrative ability together with a sound knowledge of and enthusiasm for the game which insures that the League will have excellent direction in its formative stages.The headquarters of the new league will be in Ottawa. &#9632;

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