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October 3, 1959

The Hockey News October 3, 1959

<h2>October</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06215/1931347-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="413" height="982"></div><h2>November</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07195/1931340-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="395" height="1231"></div><h2>December</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08189/1931333-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="435" height="1312"></div><h2>January</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09180/1931326-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="423" height="1288"></div><h2>February</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10160/1931319-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="390" height="1093"></div><h2>March</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11138/1931312-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="581" height="858"></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Western Hockey League 1959-60 Schedule

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div>NIAGARA FALLS, Ont.&mdash;The Detroit-Red Wings came to the &ldquo;rescue&rdquo; of their Hershey farm team when they sent two fastskating left wingers to the Pennsylvania club&rsquo;s training camp here.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01466/1931164-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="282" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">B. Hollingworth</figcaption></div>Dispatched to the Falls were Claude Laforge, 24, and Brian Smith, 22.LaForge played ten games with Hershey last season, scoring four goals. The Red Wings summoned him early in the campaign as a spare forward. He hit for two goals in the NHL.Smith, six-foot, 180 pounds, started last season with Edmonton of the Western League, but was seriously injured in the 21st game. He suffered a shattered knee cap and later underwent successful surgery. For awhile the injury appeared to be serious enough to threaten his ice career for good.With the addition of Smith and LaForge, the Bears now have five left wingers. The other three are Les Duff, Bob Solinger and Capt. Obie O&rsquo;Brien.Coach Frank Mathers anticipates a lively, battle between the quintet for the three jobs open at the position.&ldquo;Left wing was the only spot where we needed help,&rdquo; said business manager Baz Bastien.&ldquo;Down the middle (center) we&rsquo;re okay. We&rsquo;ve got four solid skaters in Mike Nykoluk, Willie Marshall, Hec LaLande and Arnie Kullman. On the right side there&rsquo;s Dune Fisher, Ron Hurst and Ray Kinasewich.&rdquo;Kinasewich, who scored 100 goals in three years in the Western League, was secured by Hershey in an off-season trade with Edmonton. The Bears gave up Len Haley to land Kinasewich.&ldquo;I think we have the best defensive crowd in the American League,&rdquo; added Bastien.In addition to Mathers, the backline corps consists of Bucky Hollingworth, Jack Price, Howie Yanosik and Larry (The Rock) Zeidel. Hollingworth returned to the Bears in a trade that saw goalie Gil Mayer go to the Cleveland Barons in exchange for rookie net-minder Claude Dufour and Hollingworth. Two years ago, Hollingworth, a hard-nosed defenseman, aided the Bears to the Calder Cup.The nets are well taken care of by roly-poly Bobby Perreault, the off-season bartender from Three Rivers. Perreault led the league in shutouts last season with six and had the best average with 268 goals against. It was the Perreault&rsquo;s fantastic goal tending in the playoffs&mdash;it earned him the nickname &ldquo;The Glove&rdquo;&mdash;that was a major factor in Hershey coming on from fourth spot to take the Calder mug. Only two teams have ever charged from fourth to win a cup. The first was Toronto.As for the rookies, Jacques Gagnon, the splinter winger from Chicoutimi, has the best chance of making the grade with Hershey. He knocked in 25 goals in the Quebec League last year and certainly deserves a good screening by the Hershey brass. In two short stints with the Bears he won the respect of his teammates with his aggressive, free-wheeling style.The only other fledgling in camp is Wally Boyer, who had a brief whirld last season with Hershey. It&rsquo;s doubtful, however, if the young left-winger is ready for the rugged AHL brand of hockey.<h2>Job All His</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02397/1931157-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="570" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Perreault</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Wings Early Aid Cures Early Ills In Bears Lineup

We need a coach and players for Intermediate &lsquo;A&rsquo; club. Both forwards and defensemen are needed. When applying please include references and past experience.Write: Earl Anshelm, Box 922, Hanna, Alberta, Canada &#9632;

Hockey Players NEEDED

<div class="byline">By Scott Young</div>As Seen In The Toronto Globe And MailPETERBOROUGH, Ont.&mdash;Of course, I realize this may never get into the paper, with the football writers sobbing away in every corner and crevice. But the way I look at it, a man only has to drive 90 miles northeast from Toronto to find a winning coach.Mr. Punch Imlach, who fulfils that function for Toronto Maple Leafs, is wearing his hair a little longer this year. Even so, he has very little difficulty in keeping it pushed back out of his eyes. Otherwise, the general atmosphere around the Leafs is much the same as it was when the whistle ended those final amazing minutes against Montreal in the Stanley Cup final last spring.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06222/1930606-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="543" height="822"><figcaption class="caption-body">Punch Imlach</figcaption></div>Mr. Imlach still talks three miles a minute, his conversation liberally punctuated with quotations chosen almost equally from the Bible and the novel called Lady Chatterley&rsquo;s Lover. The players still treat him as if he was their crazy uncle. It is quite a combination.Typically, Mr. Imlach has come up with a lot of mad ideas. He got into the habit of doing this earlier in his career when it was necessary to divert the public from the fact that his teams usually contained everything but hockey players.One of his fancies this year is that the players should walk to and from the rink for each workout. Mr. Imlach himself, of course, pledged that he also would walk the two miles. But what actually happens is that after each workout Mr. Imlach and his players emerge together in front of the Peterborough Memorial Arena, and part with protestations of mutual esteem, to say nothing of reflections of how bracing a good walk is on a day like this. Then Mr. Imlach walks briskly out of sight one way and hails a taxi and the players walk briskly out of sight the other way and&hellip;well, I won&rsquo;t say it. I promised.There are some honest players, of course. These, not wishing to set a bad example to the youth of the nation by letting the word get around that they are too lazy to walk from the rink to the hotel, hire standins for this purpose. One local man, a marvel of ingenuity, is hired by Dick Duff, Bert Olmstead and Johnny Bower simultaneously. He makes quick changes behind the Kawartha Lumber Company to fulfil this triple role: From high-riser shoes to his knees to make the change from Olmstead to Duff and a little whitener in his hair for Bower.Around the workouts, some things never change, Tim Daly, looking very spry considering that he is 98 years old and has not been well lately, mooches around giving the benefit of his broad experience to anyone he can pin against a wall. Mr. Imlach never stops talking.As a steady undertone, like the drone in a bagpipe, his voice may be heard under all circumstances: &ldquo;Come on Pulford, get out of the way ! Get that puck ahead ! Pull him in, that&rsquo;s the idea ! Way to go, snowshoes I Those passes are going by the net&mdash;you gotta skate to stay on this club!&rdquo;&hellip;Again, &ldquo;Come on, let&rsquo;s go!&rdquo;And (ironically, as Duff, Regan and Armstrong pass with machine-like precision and then miss the net): &ldquo;Oh, a real pretty play.&rdquo;I sat up in the stands to watch. Off and on, I&rsquo;ve been watching Leafs in pre-season training since 1949, and this camp undoubtedly has a quality that the others lacked: Imlach. No one knows yet if he can win Stanley Cups as Hap Day and Joe Primeau did, but I am one who thinks he will make quite a run at it. I see nothing so far in this camp to indicate that Leafs are anything but an improved team over last spring, when they were the second best team in hockey. &#9632;

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A Close Look

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01294/1932132-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lester Patrick, father of Boston&rsquo;s Lynn and New York&rsquo;s Muzz, gets a first hand look at his corner in hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame in Toronto. Lester, a pioneer of the National Hockey League, coached and managed the New York Rangers through some of their greatest seasons. The picture shows Lester in goal in Montreal. It happened in the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1928. Lorne Chabot was Rangers regular goaler. He was injured early in the second period of a game being played in Montreal. Patrick, although 44 years of age, donned the pads and shutout the Maroons the rest of the way. He allowed just one goal. Lester recently journeyed east to Toronto for a reunion of members of the Hall. He is now retired and living in Victoria, British Columbia.</figcaption></div><h2>Great Of Game At Hall Of Fame &#9632;</h2>

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EXHIBITION FEUDS GETTING OUT OF HAND

<div class="byline">By LEN TAYLOR</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Future tours of Europe by Canadian amateur hockey teams will be self-supporting or they won&rsquo;t be permitted.The executive of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, meeting here at the weekend, laid down this policy after a review of the situation which led to recent cancellation of a proposed European tour by the Whitby Dunlops.The Whitby trip, scheduled for November, fell through when the tour sponsors refused to guarantee enough money to pay the full expenses of the trip. Approximately 125,000 Swiss francs were needed but only 80,000 were offered.&ldquo;The time is past when we must subsidize European hockey,&rdquo; said President Gordon Jukes. &ldquo;In the future these tours must be self-supporting or there won&rsquo;t be any. At one time these trips were in the nature of missionary excursions. That era is past. Hockey is now big business in Europe and there is no reason why some small Canadian community should have to raise special funds to subsidize promoters in Europe who are making a killing out of Canadian visits.&rdquo;Jukes, who accompanied the Kelowna Packers on a tour of Russia and northern Europe last year, said the B.C. team had to pay $10,000 out of its own pocket to make the trip.&ldquo;They drew 37,000 in three games in Sweden,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;In Russia they averaged 14,000 for five games.&rdquo;&ldquo;That&rsquo;s more than 100,000 fans. In Sweden standing room was selling for from a dollar to $1.40 per person.&rdquo;The executive also decided that no future tours will be considered without prior consultation by the interested parties with the CAHA which is responsible for the tours and the only group that can authorize them through the world ice hockey federation.Jukes said this was merely underlining a rule that has always been in the book. &#9632;

Overseas Hops Must Pay Their Way Now

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Events, or rather incidents, of the past few weeks indicate National Hockey League clubs may have to revise their thinking regarding preseason exhibition games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02198/1932187-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="306" height="478"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Watson</figcaption></div>Though a necessary part of conditioning, some of the &ldquo;friendly&rdquo; matches last season and this have turned out to be minor blood lettings. There were injuries, which could have been much worse. And while rough play, to a point, is part and parcel of the game of hockey, the feeling was that the players would be well-advised to save it for the regular schedule.Following a particularly rough September game in Peterborough between the Rangers and Toronto Leafs, New York coach Phil Watson vowed: &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the last time my team will play an exhibition game against another NHL club.&rdquo;Rangers&rsquo; Eddie Shack was hospitalized after that game, with a concussion and a 10-stitch cut in his head. Bill Gadsby and Andy Bathgate also were banged up. The Peterborough fans saw 69 minutes in penalties handed out, plus a misconduct and game misconduct to Leafs&rsquo; talkative young defenceman Carl Brewer.A week later, Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks staged a little war of their own This time there were 20 minor penalties, two match penalties, a misconduct and four fighting majors. In addition a linesman was clipped while Eddie Litzenberger and Marc Reaume were engaged in a stick-swinging session.<h2>League Should Govern Games</h2>All this prompted suggestions that exhibition games should come under league jurisdiction, insofar as discipline is concerned.The Ranger-Leaf donnybrook was an opportunity for Watson and Imlach to resume their feud that enhanced the 1958-59 season.&ldquo;Those Leafs are a nice bunch of boys,&rdquo; Watson said. &ldquo;Last year they had a flock of penalties in their first so-called exhibition game with Chicago. This time it was us. Is that supposed to be hockey?&ldquo;That rough stuff was senseless. You play these games to get in shape, not to get murdered.&ldquo;Just wait till the regular NHL schedule starts and we&rsquo;ll show just how tough those Leafs really are.&rdquo;Imlach retorted: &ldquo;If Watson thinks that was rough, just wait until we meet them in league play.&rdquo;Some day, some team is going to lose a valuable player for weeks, or months, or even an entire season, in an exhibition game which, after all, counts for nothing. Then, the club bosses will ask themselves if it was really worthwhile.Supposing Litzenberger, or Bathgate, or Gadsby had been seriously injured? It could have happened, too. &#9632;

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Suggest They Be Put Under League Rule

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The 1959-60 season has arrived and the Rangers hereby resolve to turn over a new leaf&mdash;by making the playoffs&mdash;and stomp on an old one, Toronto, until Punch Imlach says uncle Phil.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02374/1930368-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="312" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Brian Cullen</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03339/1930361-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="300" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ian Cushenan</figcaption></div>Optimism radiates from Ranger headquarters like the reflection from Imlach&rsquo;s bald plate. The feeling is that the Blue-shirts are good for at least fourth place, likely higher.In an exhuberant moment, general manager Muzz Patrick freely predicted third place for his lads. On other occasions he guaranteed fourth.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m satisfied,&rdquo; Muzz said, following the Rangers training camp and safari to Los Angeles for two exhibitions at the new west coast arena.&ldquo;New York will have a contender because we&rsquo;re improved everywhere in the lineup with good new players.&rdquo; He meant Brian Cullen and Ian Cushenan.Had Muzz forgotten Black Sunday, March 22, 1959, when the Leafs shoved his Rangers out of fourth place.&ldquo;No,&rdquo; Muzz replied. &ldquo;We had that playoff berth last year but all hell broke loose in those last games. I have 20 theories about that but I haven&rsquo;t been able to decide which is right.&rdquo;Black Sunday now has been put in the bad dream category. It&rsquo;s passe as far as the Blues are concerned. With neither magic wand nor gypsy curse, Muzz predicts his club will bypass Detroit and Toronto in the NHL race.&ldquo;Merely because we have a better club,&rdquo; he explains. &lsquo;I personally can not see Toronto or Detroit any stronger but the other teams may be improved, particularly Chicago and Boston.&rdquo;<h2>Phil Counting On Cushenan And Cullen</h2>Patrick has a very soft spot for the Black Hawks, who he sees as possible contenders. And it doesn&rsquo;t sound like propaganda either.&ldquo;The Hawks have some very good boys just coming into their own this year. That Bobby Hull is one good one and Pierre Pilote and Ed Litzenberger. I had these players with me on the tour of Europe and I saw what they can do. They&rsquo;re what I call real hockey players.&rdquo;Muzz said Boston would be as tough as ever and likely improved. He ventured that a couple of good young players might boost Detroit but didn&rsquo;t hold that likely.&ldquo;I say without any qualms that Detroit and Toronto will be out of it,&rdquo; Muzz promised.His tacit comment on Montreal was enough to indicate who will finish first in Patrick&rsquo;s mind.Meanwhile, in another part of the Blueshirt office, coach Phil Watson read from another edition of the primer on optimism.&ldquo;It will be different this season,&rdquo; Phil proclaimed with the authority of Socrates. &ldquo;Frankly, one year ago at this time I was discouraged. Our club had lost four veterans in the draft and added six unproven rookies. It wasn&rsquo;t a promising setup.&rdquo;Watson also is betting on defenseman Cushenan and center Cullen to do the crane work. But that&rsquo;s not all.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re in the best physical shape ever. Bathgate&rsquo;s knee is sound, Camille Henry looks like a new man, Eddie Shack actually is playing serious hockey and Gump Worsley came without his Summer paunch.&rdquo;&ldquo;Yes, it&rsquo;s very encouraging.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01392/1930354-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="1145" height="927"><figcaption class="caption-body">General John Reed Kilpatrick, left, president of the New York Rangers, visits with Coach Phil Watson at the Rangers training camp at Stanford, Ontario. Watson predicts the Rangers will hop back into the first division on the strength of a healthier club and added players.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Phil Counting On Cullen And Cush To Hoist Blues Back Into First Division

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04260/1930399-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Among the newcomers in the Detroit line-up this season will be NHL veteran Jim Morrison. He was picked up in trade during the off-season from the Boston Bruins in exchange for Nick Mickoski. Greeting Jim at first practice are veteran defensemen Marcel Pronovost, left, and Red Kelly, right.</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Barring any changes after the current Western exhibition swing, the Detroit Red Wings will open up shop this season with seven changes in the 18-player squad.&ldquo;After what happened last spring, we had to make changes,&rdquo; Jack Adams points out with an unhappy reference to Detroit&rsquo;s lastplace finish in the 1958-59 National Hockey League campaign.&ldquo;We wanted to make even more. We tried to make trades right from the first of April, but no one wants to do any business with us. We did get two new players in trades, two in the draft, and the rest out of the minors.&ldquo;I feel that we are stronger, younger and better than last year at this time. Bodywise we are in better shape.&ldquo;Now we&rsquo;ll see how the club develops.&rdquo;Every forward line, every defense team has been revised. These were all &ldquo;paper&rdquo; changes&mdash;changes which Adams and coach Sid Abel worked out in their offices throughout the summer. At one time or another every forward was lined up with a flock of possible linemates in their paper shuffling.Perhaps the strangest note is that there have been no changes so far from the initial &ldquo;paper&rdquo; lineup.After two weeks in training camp here, the same three lines which took the ice for the opening drill were playing intact.<h2>Have Eleven Holdovers</h2>For the record, here are the revisions made in the squad roster:Barry Cullen came from Toronto in trade for Johnny Wilson and Frank Roggeveen.Jim Morrison came from Boston in exchange for Nick Mickoski.Gary Aldcorn was drafted from Toronto.John McKenzie was drafted from Chicago.Jerry Melnyk was promoted from Edmonton.Billy McNeil was retrieved from Edmonton.Val Fonteyne was purchased from Seattle.(In addition to Mickoski and Wilson, the departures from last year&rsquo;s roster are Charlie Burns who was drafted by Boston; Claude Laforge who was farmed to Hershey, and Lou Marcon who was farmed to Edmonton.)The holdovers from last season are Terry Sawchuk, Gordie Howe, Len Lunde, Norm Ullman, Alex Delvecchio, Forbes Kennedy, Jack McIntyre, Red Kelly, Marcel Pronovost, Warren Godfrey and Pete Goegan.The three set lines are formed with Ullman between Delvecchio and Cullen, Lunde centering for Howe and Aldcorn, and three new boys&mdash;Melnyk at pivot with McNeill and Fonteyne.There was a fourth line present but in the three formal scrimmages at Olympia against Edmonton this line was loaned to Edmonton. It consisted of Kennedy, McIntyre and McKenzie.Just a note about the &ldquo;fourth&rdquo; line. Neither Abel or Adams plans to keep a fourth line intact but they will keep three forwards in addition to three regular lines. Those forwards will be spot players and are the ones most eligible for farming should anyone in the farm merit immediate attention.<h2>New Man On Each Line</h2>Contesting for a position as a spot player are Warren Oliver and Stu McNeill, two young centers tagged for Edmonton; Len Haley, a 28-year-old veteran from Hershey, and Brian Smith, a sturdy winger at Edmonton.There is one or more new players on each forward line and the same trend has carried over to the defense where Morrison has been paired with the veteran Kelly.Pronovost is a fixture on the other defense team with Godfrey and Goegan alternating at the other spot.Some were surprised to learn that Marcon, who showed so well in the late stages of last season, was farmed out while Goegan, benched for his penchant for cheap penalties, remained.&ldquo;Goegan has had only 2&frac12; seasons of pro hockey. Sure he&rsquo;s awkward, but he&rsquo;s also big and rough and he commands respect when he&rsquo;s on the ice. We&rsquo;re going to give Pete plenty of time to work off the rough edges,&rdquo; says Adams.ICE CHIPS: In the three scrimmage games against Edmonton, the Wings won by 9-0, 7-2 and 7-4 scores&hellip;Of those 23 goals, Ullman got four, Howe and Aldcorn three each, Lunde, Cullen and Godfrey two each; Delvecchio, McNeill, Morrison, Kelly and Pronovost one each&hellip;The other two came from players spotted in the lineup, Haley and Stu McNeill.In the 15 days of drills at Olympia, the Wings worked out only once daily, that at 8 a.m.&hellip;Bud Poile, Edmonton general manager, handled the 10 a.m. shift with most of his players&hellip;Chief scout Jimmy Skinner worked the noon shift which included spare pros, over-age amateurs and juniors.As an experiment the public was admitted for a charge of 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children&hellip;The three scrimmages with Edmonton, although held at 8:30 a.m., averaged about 600 paid fans&hellip;On other days the attendance still ran about 200.The Wings broke camp by leaving on a 10-day, nine-game exhibition in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest&hellip;They left here Tuesday, Sept. 22 and were to return on Friday, Oct. 2&hellip;In the meantime they would play in Fort William, Winnipeg, Brandon, Calgary, Edmonton, Seattle, Spokane, Victoria and Vancouver.<h2>JIM JOINS PACK &#9632;</h2>

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Wings To Lift Curtain Sporting Seven New Birds For 60 Flight

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;After 10 days of drills Adams had every Red Wing under contract&hellip;He mailed out contracts in mid-summer and had all except six players lined up when practice sessions started&hellip;Morrison and Kelly were the last two sign, this happened when owner Bruce Norris came in to watch practice. &#9632;

All Wings Under Contract After 10 Days Of Drilling

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01391/1930468-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Three young men who are expected to carry a heavy load for the 1959-60 Leafs in their battle for a first division position are, left to right: Frank Mahovlich, Gerry Ehman and Billy Harris.</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont&mdash;Punch Imlach has voluntarily relinquished his title as hockey&rsquo;s foremost oracle.Last spring, the Maple Leaf manager-coach made good on every one of his predictions, except the last, biggest one.He goaded Leafs from last place into the playoffs, just as he said he would, and ke knocked off Boston Bruins in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, again as promised. His forecast that Leafs would eliminate the Canadiens in the final didn&rsquo;t come true but by then nobody cared. Punch was, without doubt, a miracle man.Queried about his plans for the 1959-60 season, Punch mildly and humbly said: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re shooting for a spot in the playoffs.&rdquo;The man is full of surprises. It wouldn&rsquo;t have been surprising if he&rsquo;d said he expected to finish first.Stafford Smythe, chairman of the Maple Leaf Gardens hockey committee, was less cautious. He called Leafs for second place.<h2>Bower To Share Job</h2>Imlach&rsquo;s appraisal would appear the more realistic. It is indeed true that Leafs were great during the last few weeks of the 1958-59 campaign. They swept through their last five games of the schedule to qualify for the playoffs, then played great hockey against Boston and only slightly less brilliantly against Montreal.This suggested that, next to Canadiens, they were the best team in the league. Yet it is equally true they spent 65 games of the schedule in the league&rsquo;s second division and only reached the fourth and last playoff berth by virtue of an incredible collapse on the part of the Rangers. They did their part, admitted, but they feeded the help of the clubs that beat New York for them.Yet they have the material to be second. Imlach has made a few minor improvements in last season&rsquo;s well-balanced lineup. What these changes will add up to, really, is a stronger bench.Last year Leafs had 19 men on the day-to-day roster and seldom used more than 14.First, there were the alternate goalies, Ed Chadwick and Johnny Bower. It&rsquo;s likely they&rsquo;ll share the job again this season, although both Gerry MacNamara and Cesare Maniago were impressive in training camp.On defence, Carl Brewer, Bobby Baun, Allan Stanley and Tim Horton wound up as the regular four. Noel Price and Marc Reaume seldom played. Now Al MacNeil, promoted from the Rochester Americans, looks good enough to be the spare. Since Imlach has declared he&rsquo;ll carry only five rearguards, Price and Reaume were sent to Rochester.It would be an asset if Leafs could develop a regular penalty unit, such as Canadiens and Chicago have. It would save the wear and tear on Bobby Pulford and Ron Stewart.The other steady bench sitters were Brian and Barry Cullen. Both have departed. Barry was traded to Detroit for Johnny Wilson and Brian was drafted by New York.Over the final few weeks of last season, Imlach used the same forward lines fairly steadily&mdash;Larry Regan with Dick Duff and George Armstrong, Bob Pulford between Ron Stewart and Bert Olmstead and Billy Harris centring for Frank Mahovlich and Gerry Ehman.&ldquo;Our left side looks good with Mahovlich, Duff, Olmstead and Wilson available for duty,&rdquo; Imlach analyzed recently, &ldquo;but right wing is wide open as far as I&rsquo;m concerned.&rdquo;<h2>Edmundson Looks Good</h2>Three rookies&mdash;Pat Hannigan, Bob Nevin and Billy Saunders, brought in from Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen&mdash;were shooting for right wing berths. Hannigan actually had replaced Armstrong on the Duff-Regan line, with the Big Chief dropping back onto a makeshift unit with Rudy Migay and newcomer Gary Edmundson.Edmundson, acquired from Springfield Indians, was working in very well and was conceded a good chance of cracking the lineup.Armstrong, Gerry Ehman and Ron Stewart were the holdover right-wingers.Imlach still was unhappy with the centre ice situation, even though he had Migay and Dave Creighton backing up Harris, Regan and Pulford. For that reason, he shelled out the $20,000 draft price to grab Ted Hampson from the Rangers. Hampson had been a high scorer last season with Vancouver Canucks. He fired 27 goals and 41 assists for them.Imlach borrowed some psychology from Phil Watson and set goal quotas for his regulars. None of the suggested totals required excessive improvement from any player.For example, Dick Duff is being asked to score 30. He got 29 last season. Frank Mahovlich is pegged at 25, compared to his 22 a year ago. Imlach asked 20 each from George Armstrong, Ron Stewart and Johnny Wilson, 18 apiece from Pulford and Harris and 15 each from Regan and Olmstead. He figures his defence brigade should supply 20 more among them.Skeptics, who failed to see where Leafs had improved predicted they&rsquo;d again have a tough time making the playoffs. Yet it seems they will have a better club, simply because it&rsquo;ll be deeper. Last year, Leafs had no reserve strength. If Pulford and Stewart were called upon to kill a great many penalties, their offensive punch was diminished, thereby throwing the whole team out of kilter.And they were extremely susceptible to injuries, as the playoffs proved when Regan had to favor a broken hand.NOTES: Edmundson, nicknamed &ldquo;Duke&rdquo;, got 17 goals and 27 assists for Springfield last season&hellip;When Leafs opened camp at Peterborough, Bower and Olmstead weren&rsquo;t present. Bower had permission to report late and Olmstead was a few days settling salary matters with Imlach&hellip;None of the Leafs, except Bower and Brewer, who signed two-year deals last year, were under contract at camp. Signing them was one of Imlach&rsquo;s biggest and toughest jobs at Peterborough.Camp followers were greatly impressed with the improvement in MacNeil, who was Baun&rsquo;s defence mate on Marlboro juniors; but who never has been able to make the grade with Leafs.<h2>KEY MEN IN LEAFS&rsquo; FORWARD LOOK</h2><h2>THEY&rsquo;LL SHARE DUTIES AGAIN</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02316/1930461-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1651" height="920"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Leafs have a surplus of goalers on their roster, but Johnny Bower, left, and Ed Chadwick will once again share the chores.</figcaption></div><h2>BERT&rsquo;S BACK IN TOWN</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03207/1930454-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1101" height="854"><figcaption class="caption-body">Veteran Bert Olmstead, a holdout for a few days, finally agreed on terms and sped east to camp. This will be his 12th season in the majors, second as a Leaf.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Had 19, Used Only 14 Men Last Season

Founded October 1st, 1947Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.,1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.Ken McKenzie, PublisherLen Bramson, Editor-in-ChiefWill V. Cete, General ManagerYearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth; $4.00 in the U.S.A. and Foreign CountriesEntered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, OttawaPrinted in CanadaVol. 13 MONTREAL, OCTOBER 3, 1959 No. 1 &#9632;

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">By LEN TAYLOR</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Professional hockey clubs will be asked to keep their hands off the playing rosters of all future Canadian senior teams selected to represent this country in Olympic Games competition.Officials of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, meeting here recently, said that they were not concerned about teams going to the world tournaments in the three years in between each Winter Olympics.Addition of reinstated players makes the world tournament task a lot easier for the club selected, President Gordon Jukes of Melville, Sask., pointed out.The CAHA executive, during their two-day session, discussed the situation of the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen who may lose two or three of their best players to pro ranks. Most likely to be snatched up are right-winger Bill Saunders and defenceman Dick Mattiussi.Both are said to prefer to remain with the Dutchmen this year because they want to play for Canada in the games. They are attending the camp of the Toronto Leafs and have been looking very well, according to Leaf officials.Representations will be made to the Toronto organization to have them leave the two players with the Dutchmen for this season.In addition, Jukes said, the CAHA would like to have it recognized that the lineup of all Canadian Olympic selections would not be touched during their Olympic season.Jukes said that it might be necessary to seek an alteration in the new pro-amateur agreement, which came into force this August, but that for the present he preferred to approach the matter informally.The Dutchmen will leave for Squaw Valley, Calif., scene of the 1960 Games, on Sunday, Jan. 31. They complete their schedule the night previous.They will arrive in Squaw Valley on Jan. 11 but will play an exhibition tour across Canada, possibly dipping into the northern U.S. for a couple of games, en route.Jukes said that no schedule has been worked out but that the Dutchies would probably play in each CAHA branch across Canada starting in the Thunder Bay district and concluding with a likely two-game appearance in British Columbia.&ldquo;This will help finance the trip and will give Canadian generally a chance to see their national representatives,&rdquo; he said.Games are also possible in Minneapolis and Green Bay.Two referees, to be named by the CAHA to work in the Olympics as the Canadian contribution to the officials pool, will probably accompany the team and officiate at the games which will be played under international rules.Jukes also confirmed a western Canadian tour by the Japanese Olympic hockey team. The Japs will arrive in Vancouver about Jan. 2 and play five or six games in British Columbia.They will also appear in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Thunder Bay. A maximum of 14 games is planned, mostly against intermediate and junior teams.James Dunn of Winnipeg, past president of the CAHA, is chairman of the committee handling the Japanese tour.The CAHA also worked on the coming tour of the Moscow Selects, and all-star team from the eight class A clubs in the Russian capital.Plans are being made for a 10-game visit with seven of the contests in western Canada. Games in the East, which, will be played immediately after the Russian arrival in mid-January, will have them meeting Belleville McFarlands in Montreal; Whitby Dunlops in Toronto and K-W Dutchmen in Kitchener.The western itinerary will probably begin in Thunder Bay district.Officials of the CAHA believe that these tours will help the reviving amateur hockey interest in western Canada. Jukes said that there will be a new four-team senior A league in Saskatchewan this winter, the first in many years. Teams in the circuit are Saskatoon, Moose Jaw, Regina and Yorkton.In addition a four-team junior A league is expected to operate in Alberta by the winter of 1960-61. Lethbridge has organized a junior A team this year and the CAHA has approved giving it six branch-to-branch transfer players under the special help clause of the rules for new teams. Medicine Hat is expected to have a junior club in a years time. &#9632;

Keep Hands Off Olympic Teams, CAHA Asks Pros

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01455/1930551-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="376" height="446"></div>&bull; A GREAT reunion was held in Toronto last month by the Hockey Hall of Famers&hellip;Surprisingly almost all of these old-time puck greats looked and acted much younger than is expected of men of their vintage&hellip;It had been so many years between the last meeting of many of these elderly gents that many had a tough time recognizing their former teammates and opponents&hellip;Three new members were added to the Hall of Fame. They were Jack Adams, Cy Dennenay and Tiny Thompson&hellip;How Thompson made it ahead of the late George Hainsworth will remain a mystery to me. Granted Thompson was a wonderful goalkeeper and certainly deserves a spot among the game&rsquo;s greats, but his record in no way compares to that of Hainsworth&hellip;The former Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; great played longer in the NHL than Thompson and holds two records in the Official NHL Record Book that will never be shattered&hellip;Most shutouts in a season, 22 shutouts in 44 games&hellip;and least goals against in a season, 43 goals against in 44 games&hellip;Both of these records were set in the 1928-29 season&hellip;It is a known fact that two of the members of the Selection Committee already thought Hainsworth was a member of the Hall of Fame when they voted in Thompson&hellip;They feel badly about this and hope to rectify things at the next meeting&hellip;Punch Imlach had trouble signing up members of his Stanley Cups finalists this fall&hellip;Some of the Leaf players&rsquo; confidence of last Spring has spread over the contract conference table, much to Imlach&rsquo;s annoyance&hellip;Jack Mehlenbacher, the former NHL referee, is racing a horse named Ezinicki at Hamburg, N.Y. Could the horse be named after a colorful hockey player of the same name?&hellip;Toronto&rsquo;s Billy Harris has dropped from 162 to 151 pounds&hellip;New York Rangers for a second straight year will broadcast all of their home and away games over radio.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02422/1930544-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="270" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Harris</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03346/1930537-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="296" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lorne Carr</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04290/1930530-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="298" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Simmons</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05262/1930523-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="272" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Lumley</figcaption></div>&bull; DETROIT Red Wings played six newcomers on their team during the pre-season exhibition games. They were Gary Aldcorn, Barry Cullen, Jimmy Morrison, Jerry Melnyck, Val Fonteyne and John McKenzie&hellip;Aldcorn, Cullen, Morrison and McKenzie have played in the National League before. Fonteyne and Melnyck are Western League grads&hellip;Aldcorn has been playing left wing on a line with Capt. Gordie Howe and Len Lunde. Cullen has been patrolling the right side of a line with Norm Ullman and Alex Delvecchio, Melnyck and Fontayne with Bill McNeill compose Detroit&rsquo;s third line. McKenzie teams with Jack McIntyre and Forbes Kennedy on a fourth unit&hellip;Chief Scout Bob Davidson of Toronto Maple Leafs sent out invitations to 40-out-of-town kids to attend a hockey school at Maple Leaf Gardens starting on October 12&hellip;Don Ward, 23-year-old defenseman whom Lynn Patrick drafted from Calgary of the Western League, appears to have won a defense berth with Boston Bruins. Ward impressed the Bruins&rsquo; management with his fine rushing and steady defensive play&hellip;Boston recently purchased a one-third interest in the Winnipeg Warriors of the Western Hockey League&hellip;Owner-general manager Jack Perrin visited Boston this summer to negotiate the deal&hellip;This might prove to be one of the most astute moves made by the Bruins for a long time&hellip;The Bruins won&rsquo;t name their regular goalkeeper until just before their opening game of the season against the New York Rangers&hellip;It&rsquo;s still a battle between Don Simmons and Harry Lumley&hellip;Gary Edmundson, Toronto&rsquo;s mature rookie of 27, had two brief NHL trials with Canadiens&hellip;Toledo Mercurys recently obtained defenseman Jack Higgins from the Philadelphia Ramblers in a trade for Graham Joyce.&bull; SWEENEY Schriner and Lorne Carr are both doing exceptionally well in the business world out in Calgary reported Red Dutton when in Toronto last month&hellip;Dutton, incidentally, appears to grow younger each time we see him. Red told us that one of the highlights of his sports career was attending the Hall gathering&hellip;Another former great who hasn&rsquo;t changed left the game is Ching Johnson. The bald burly Johnson the perpetual smile on his face and he must rate as one best liked players to ever take up the game&hellip;Some of the were kidding Ching that he had more hair now than played&hellip;The repartee between Lester Patrick and Art still as sharp today as it ever was and these two grand of hockey have certainly weathered the years well&hellip;particularly pleased to see Lloyd Turner, the pioneer hockey and arena manager from Calgary. It had been a good ma since they had last seen each other&hellip;Ross purchased his best Boston players from Turner&hellip;Affable Newsy got a big kick out of kidding Cyclone Taylor&hellip;Frank Fre the Hall of Famer who now resides in Vancouver, recently visit to Iceland where he received some of the highest offered by that country&hellip;One of the most scholarly perform in the NHL, Fredrickson was a noted violin playe his puck career. &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By JOHN KUENSTER</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;It seems like only yesterday, but it happened last March 4.On that date&mdash;seven Months ago&mdash;left winger Ron Murphy of the Chicago Black Hawks went down in a heap under Tim Horton of the Maple Leafs in a game at Toronto.The result: a fractured right ankle for Murphy.It was a tough break for the 25-year-old forward who had scored 17 goals as the &ldquo;solid man&rdquo; in the Hawks&rsquo; No. 2 line that included Bobby Hull and Eric Nesterenko.His play, according to coach Rudy Pilous, was a big factor in helping guide the Hawks to their first Stanley Cup playoff berth in six years.&ldquo;It couldn&rsquo;t have happened at a worse time,&rdquo; reflected Murphy.&ldquo;I felt the crunch when we went down. My leg caught underneath me.&rdquo;The Hawks went on to the playoffs without Murphy, but the absence of the slender, muscular native of Hamilton, Ont., put Pilous through a juggling act to shore up his No. 2 line.&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t kid yourself,&rdquo; he told a reporter at the time, &ldquo;we miss that guy. He was a real steadying influence for Hull and Nester.&rdquo;Now, with another season facing them, the Hawks have Murphy back in harness and Pilous feels mighty good about it.When Murphy reported to the Hawks&rsquo; training camp at St. Catharines, Ont., last month, he spun around the Memorial Arena ice as though he was in mid-season form.&ldquo;The ankle is in fine shape,&rdquo; he said.<h2>More Spirit On Club</h2>In readying for their season&rsquo;s opener against the Rangers in Chicago on Oct. 7, the Hawks once again will be counting on Murphy, a &ldquo;cool under pressure&rdquo; guy who was used in their power plays last season.During early workouts at St. Catharines, Pilous kept his No. 1 line intact, with Tod Sloan centering for wings Ted Lindsay and Ed Litzenberger.He had Bill &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Hay, a newcomer purchased from Montreal Canadiens, working between Hull and Nesterenko, with Phil Maloney at center between Murphy and Murray Balfour, another off-season purchase from the Canadiens.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s more spirit and confidence in this year&rsquo;s camp than ever before,&rdquo; said general manager Tommy Ivan. &ldquo;These fellows want to play hockey.&rdquo;Some of the regulars checked into camp overweight, but Pilous wasn&rsquo;t too worried about them getting down to normal before the start of the season.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d rather they wouldn&rsquo;t have their weight down too fine now,&rdquo; he commented. &ldquo;After three weeks&rsquo; training, I&rsquo;m sure they&rsquo;ll all get back to normal.&rdquo;Litzenberger, at 215, was five pounds over his usual weight. Defenseman Elmer &ldquo;Moose&rdquo; Vasko, checked in at 223 and had about 13 pounds to trim off his big frame. Earl Balfour, the penalty killing expert, weighed in at 203, ten more pounds than normal for him.Meanwhile, the Hawks had quite an experience trying to play their first exhibition game against the Maple Leafs in Peterborough, Ont., on Sept. 18.They left St. Catharines by bus at 4 p.m. on the day of the game. The first hitch came just outside of Toronto where a tractor-trailer sideswiped a car and spilled plywood all over the road.The traffic jam extended for ten miles and the bus was held up for almost an hour.<h2>Bus Breaks Down</h2>Just 12 miles from Peterborough, the bus threw a connecting rod and the players and equipment were left stranded on the road.For probably the first time in history a National Hockey League team hitch-hiked to the game.Thanks to the kindness of several passing motorists, the team was transported in groups to the Peterborough Arena, and a farmer&rsquo;s truck carried the equipment with property man Gunzo Humeniuk perched on top.The game finished late and arrangements had to be made to have a different bus meet the, team.The bus was an hour late in arriving, and the players had to kill time until midnight.They finally got back to St. Catharines at 5:30 a.m. the next morning.&ldquo;Despite all the trouble,&rdquo; said Pilous, &ldquo;I thought the team played well (the Hawks lost to Toronto, 3-1).&ldquo;If the old show business theory of &lsquo;bad rehearsal, good show&rsquo; holds true in hockey, we should have a tremendous season ahead.&rdquo;Joining Pilous in this wish are thousands of revived hockey fans in Chicago who promise to build the Hawks&rsquo; home attendance to near-record proportions this season.ICICLES: Ed Litzenberger, captain of the Hawks, eventually plans to make Chicago his home. The 27-year-old right winger was born in Neudorf, Sask. He worked as an insurance salesman in Chicago during the summer&hellip;Goalie Glenn Hall suffered a pulled ligament in his right knee during the Hawks&rsquo; first serious scrimmage at St. Catharines. Dennis Dejordy, netminder for the St. Catharines TeePees last season, filled in during Hall&rsquo;s absence&hellip;In addition to defenseman Murray Balfour and center &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Hay, the Hawks also purchased from the Montreal Canadiens farm system Terry Gray, right wing, 21, and graduate of the Ottawa-Hull juniors who finished last season with Rochester where he scored ten goals and 14 assists in 45 games.<h2>Leads Braves</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01412/1930637-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="512" height="1261"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Murphy</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Murphy’s Stick Key To Rudy’s Hopes For Step Up The Ladder

LONDON, Eng&mdash;Defenseman Bill Dobbyn, fromFlin Flon, Manitoba, who lost an eye in a game in Hershey last season, is going to play again. Dobbyn has signed to play for Streatham of the British National League this season.Rated a top defense prospect with the New York Rangers, Dobbyn was sent to the Buffalo Bisons of the AHL to gain further experience. In a game in Hershey he accidentally was injured by Obie O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s stick. He subsequently lost his eye.When he returned to Buffalo a night was held in his honor. He was presented with gifts and a cheque collected from the fans.Streatham officials said the disability, which ruled Dobbyn out of hockey in Canada and the United States, won&rsquo;t hamper him in Britain where play isn&rsquo;t nearly as rough.Dobbyn will double as assistant coach and will be offered a chance to take over as coach when he retires as a player.<h2>Back On Blades</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04224/1930706-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="558" height="900"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Dobbyn</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Dobbyn Signs To Play In Britain; Will Assist Coach, Take Over When He Quits

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;The saddest, most puzzling story to come out of the Detroit Red Wing camp this fall is the brief chapter which deals with Real Chevrefils.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02379/1930675-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="265" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Real Chevrefils</figcaption></div>Maybe you read the little piece in the newspaper last summer. It was an interesting one.It related how Chevrefils had been invited to the Red Wing camp by Jack Adams. In order to do this, Adams first obtained permission from the Boston Bruins who hold Chewy&rsquo;s contract.&ldquo;I still believe the boy has the ability to be an NHL player again,&rdquo; Adams pointed out at the time. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s only 27 and just three seasons ago he was good enough to score 31 goals.&rdquo;It was fitting that Detroit should give Chevrefils the chance. He was here once before, scored only three times in 42 games and was traded back to Boston. The next year was the one in which he got his 31 goals&mdash;fifth highest count in the league that season.But Chewy then went into quick declined. He failed to last either of the next two campaigns with the Bruins. A year ago he got the double shuffle in demotions, dropping deep into the Quebec league.Why the skid ?There were reports about Chevvy&rsquo;s training habits, that he had rules of his own. For him all swinging doors didn&rsquo;t open into hockey rinks.&ldquo;I told him that he has to have his weight down to 175 pounds if he wanted a chance with us,&rdquo; Adams mentioned in his original announcement. &ldquo;He said that he was over 200 pounds but would try it. He told me how much he appreciated this chance.&rdquo;<h2>Reported At 190 Pounds</h2>When the Red Wing camp opened Sept. 7, Chevrefils was on hand. His weight, unfortunately, was near 190 but there was a reason. Two weeks earlier he had dashed his foot with an ax while chopping wood. Unable to work out after that, he couldn&rsquo;t prevent his weight from ballooning.Chewy also had an explanation for his troubles last year at Boston.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know where anyone gets all those stories about me having bad training habits,&rdquo; he reasoned. &ldquo;Just ask (Lynn) Patrick. He&rsquo;ll tell you I never touch the stuff,&ldquo;My trouble was an injury to my back. I wasn&rsquo;t able to skate for a while and that got me out of shape. I just went down to the minors to skate myself back into shape.&rdquo;In his chance with the Wings, Chewy worked out with the minorleague shift where there was no pressure and where he could set his own pace. He got the bigleague treatment, however, arid was assigned to the Red Wing dressingroom.The experiment lasted just five days. Chevrefils came to Adams and told him he wasn&rsquo;t going to stay, that he was going back home.&ldquo;That boy has lost his confidence,&rdquo; Adams detailed later.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s too bad. There&rsquo;s a lot of hockey left in him but I don&rsquo;t know how anyone can get it out of him.&ldquo;I think he could play NHL hockey again if he wanted to work had enough. But he says he can&rsquo;t. He doesn&rsquo;t believe in himself any more. It&rsquo;s too bad.&rdquo;<h2>GRAND PAPPY LINE INTACT</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03307/1930668-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="1725" height="1759"><figcaption class="caption-body">The &ldquo;Pappy Line&rdquo; with Ted Lindsay at left, Tod Sloan at centre and Ed Litzenberger at right are expected to be the big producers for the 1959-60 Chicago Black Hawks. They scored 82 goals last season. Litzenberger had 33, Sloan 27 and Lindsay 22.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Chewy Fails In Comeback Attempt At Red Wing Camp

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD of The Toronto Globe and Mail</div>PETERBOROUGH, Ont.&mdash;Gary Edmunson, a minor league journeyman for the past seven seasons, has signed a National Hockey League contract with Toronto Maple Leafs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01482/1930744-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="280" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Punch Imlach</figcaption></div>And Leafs&rsquo; manager&mdash;coach George Imlach, a prognosticator of note, has proclaimed that Edmundson could be one of the more dependable players for Leafs in the forthcoming season.&ldquo;Edmundson has one of the better records in training camp,&rdquo; said Imlach. &ldquo;He plays his position well, he&rsquo;s aggressive and he looks like he could be a good scorer. I had no alternative but to sign him.&rdquo;Edmundson, a mature rookie at 27, has scored three goals in Leafs&rsquo; first three exhibition games. He scored two in that debacle in St. Catharines when Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks fought to a 5-5 tie. And his second goal, with 30 seconds to go, ensured Leafs of a tie.<h2>Plays Centre, Too</h2>Edmunson is a left-winger but he has also had considerable experience as a centreman. And Imlach, who has always expressed a fondness for rugged centremen, intends to give Edmundson a crack at that position. But, in the immediate future, he will probably employ him on a line with Johnny Wilson and Ted Hampson, a centre obtained on waivers from New York Rangers recently.Edmundson, a six-footer, weighs 185 pounds and he uses every pound with authority. He is also a resourceful checker and Leafs have done everything but appeal to central casting to locate somebody with this talent.It might be argued that Edmundson, at 27, is on the patriarchal side to break into the NHL. But Imlach points out that fellows like Andy Hebenton, of Rangers, and Larry Regan, of Leafs, didn&rsquo;t get their big league break until they were 26. And nobody has been complaining about their venerability.Edmundson became Leafs&rsquo; property in the transaction that sent Barry Cullen to Detroit Red Wings last spring. For Cullen Leafs received left-winger Johnny Wilson and minor league defenseman Francis George Roggeveen. They traded Roggeveen to Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League for Edmundson.<h2>New in Blue</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02363/1930737-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="528" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Edmundson</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Imlach Has High Hopes For Leafs 27-Year-Old Rook

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD Globo And Mail Staff Reporter</div>PETERBOROUGH, Ont.&mdash;George Imlach, unsuccessful in attempts to have players sign contracts, threatened to make public the salaries Toronto Maple Leaf players have been guaranteed.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03262/1930775-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="260" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Conn Smythe</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m willing to let the public judge if we&rsquo;re being fair to our players,&rdquo; said managercoach Imlach. &ldquo;I told several of them that I wouldn&rsquo;t hesitate to make their salaries public.&ldquo;Next week during our exhibition tour of the north (Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and Sudbury) I&rsquo;ll talk to them again. If they still aren&rsquo;t willing to sign I&rsquo;ll turn it over to the president of Maple Leaf Gardens.&rdquo;Just in case anybody hasn&rsquo;t consulted the shinny Who&rsquo;s Who recently, the Gardens&rsquo; president is Conn Smythe.Imlach had a parade of players into his quarters in the Empress Hotel here. He conferred privately with each and confessed later he had made no progress.<h2>Each Compared Notes</h2>&ldquo;Even the minor leaguers want $8,500 for the season,&rdquo; said Imlach. &ldquo;What a hope they have. I&rsquo;ve told them what we can pay. If they won&rsquo;t want to sign it&rsquo;s up to them.&rdquo;Although there were indications the Toronto players were organized in their salary demands Imlach said he had no knowledge of a united front.&ldquo;They probably compared notes,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Players always do. But if they have a ring-leader I don&rsquo;t know of one. I just hope they don&rsquo;t get around to giving me an ultimatum if they are organized. Maybe I haven&rsquo;t got through to them yet but I can be pretty tough if I have to.&rdquo;Imlach said the Leafs&rsquo; payroll was on a par with other National Hockey League clubs&mdash;Montreal Canadiens excepted. Canadiens of course are in an exclusive category. They bank their salaries and live off their bonuses.Leafs, who naturally requested to remain anonymous, said they didn&rsquo;t think their demands were oppressive or out of line. Maple Leaf Gardens, they claimed, collected an additional $150,000 or so from the playoffs, alone, last spring.The players feel it was their muscle and sined that made this bonanza possible. Therefore they would like to see a modified share-the-wealth policy.Chicago Black Hawks, who also reached the playoffs last spring after an absence of a few years, are said to be having similar problems signing players.Sometimes the sweet smell of success is intoxicating&mdash;or so the clubs&rsquo; front offices are convinced. &#9632;

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PUNCH THREATENS TO LET FANS JUDGE LEAFS’ BUCKS

PETERBOROUGH, Ont.&mdash;Punch Imlach would like nineteen signed players as soon as possible. After ten days of training he had only six signed.&ldquo;Practically all the players have been offered raises. I&rsquo;m not trying to rob any of them. But I can&rsquo;t give them the moon. Khrushchev migh object.&rdquo;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m trying to be fair but I might run out of patience. And can anybody tell me where some of these guys can find another job that will pay them $10,000 a year,&rdquo; he said. &#9632;

Most Offered Raises This Season, Says Patient Punch

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04180/1930830-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">DEAN PRENTICE</figcaption></div>STAMFORD, Ont.&mdash;Since Dean Prentice grew up, in a hockey sense, the same way Andy Bathgate did, attended the same Guelph farm team and spent as many years in the NHL, there is a feeling around Madison Square Garden that the Schumacher, Ont. native should produce in the bountiful manner that his comrade does.But the 1958-59 record shows that Bathgate tallied 40 times and Prentice 17. This hardly is in line with a 1952 opinion that Prentice was the most likely to succeed among the Guelph grads.That is why, with the NHL struggle about to begin, the New York brain-trust is working on &ldquo;Operation Prentice.&rdquo;Coach Phil Watson admittedly spent a good part of his Summer thinking about Prentice, one of his favorite hustlers. At one point Phil actually considered rupturing the standard Bathgate-Prentice combo.&ldquo;I think I&rsquo;d like to take Prentice off Bathgate&rsquo;s line this year,&rdquo; Watson said. &ldquo;Bathgate tends to overshadow Prentice and I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s good for Dean. It affects the guy&rsquo;s play.&rdquo;Watson went ahead with said plan and created a line of Prentice, Brian Cullen at center and exSpringfielder Ken Schinkel on right wing. It was one of the more effective units in training camp.A guy has a right to change his mind and later Watson re-united<h2>Better Than He Shows</h2>The only sure thing is that Watson wants more illumination from 27-year-old Prentice.&ldquo;All I know is that he&rsquo;s a better player than he shows,&rdquo; Watson said. &ldquo;When I had him playing on Dean and Andy, this time with Earl Ingarfield as the center link. This, too, was not held to be permanent. a line with Red Sullivan, he went well. Maybe I ought to put him on Red&rsquo;s line.&rdquo;If Dean goes, where does that leave Bathgate?It leaves him with either Camille Henry or Jim Bartlett on wing. Lightweight Henry excelled with Andy last season but the two need a checker to round out the line.As for Prentice, no one can accuse him of being a slouch with 17 goals except that he indicates ability to score more. In 1955-56 Dean went as high as 24. He is fearless, fast, reasonably strong. Some say he stays too wide on left wing and can&rsquo;t finish a play but that&rsquo;s up for argument.All agree however, that Dean is better than a 17-goal man.&ldquo;I think he&rsquo;s good for 25,&rdquo; says Watson unequivocally, &ldquo;but the sonofagun just doesn&rsquo;t get &lsquo;em.&rdquo;RANGERABILIA: Andy Bathgate, purportedly the highest-paid Ranger in club history, began earning his money early. The eager right winger worked overtime in training camp improving his shot&mdash;as if it needs improving&hellip;Surprise was the retention of rookie defenseman Irwin Spencer with the club after veteran Jack Bownass was dropped to Springfield&hellip;Watson was in high glee during workouts. Told by a friend that someone called him a wonderful fellow, Watson replied: &ldquo;The season hasn&rsquo;t started yet.&rdquo;&hellip;Chief camerabug award goes to backliner John Hanna, who was shooting Niagara Falls sights with his German-bought lens&hellip;Another surprise: the holdout of Lou Fontinato&hellip;No surprise dept.&mdash;Gump Worsley beats out Marcel Paille for netminding job&hellip;Gump&rsquo;s latest comment on goaltending: &ldquo;there must be a better way to make a living.&rdquo;&hellip;Well, there probably is but it isn&rsquo;t coaching, old pal&hellip;Watson threatened to cancel all future exhibition games with NHL clubs after the Leafs allegedly tried to decapitate Eddie Shack and Bill Gadsby, both of whom were injured in the tilt. Swami Punch Imlach&rsquo;s reply was that it&rsquo;s a portent of things to come. Hmmm !<h2>TOUGH LUCK GUY &#9632;</h2>

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Where To Play Prentice, Keeps Watson Sleuthing

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League have purchased thirty percent of the ownership of the Winnipeg Warriors of the Western Hockey League.In announcing the deal, general manager Jack Perrin of the Warriors said it would give his club a working agreement with the Boston Bruins and allow the Boston club to place Warrior players on the protected list for future inter-league draft dealings.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05152/1930861-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="286" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Weston Adams</figcaption></div>Perrin insisted that the new deal is not a farm club arrangement.&ldquo;The Bruins will be able to protect any of our players on their list but will still have to pay the draft price of $20,000 should they take them up to the NHL.&ldquo;In return of course we will benefit, first by having our players protected and then with Boston interests owning thirty percent of the club they will naturally be interested in maintaining a good team here. Thus more talent will be made available to us.&rdquo;Weston Adams, Chairman of the Board of the Bruins purchased stock in the club owned by J. D. Perrin, senior, father of the Warriors general manager. &#9632;

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Boston’s Weston Adams Buys Thirty Percent Of Stock In Winnipeg Club

MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;Two broken cheekbones and numerous facial cuts have convinced goaler Jacques Plante of the Montreal Canadiens that he should wear a face mask during the regular NHL season.Plante had been toying with the idea of wearing a mask for some time. He has always worn one at training camp and then discarded it when the regular season started.During last season&rsquo;s Stanley Cup playoffs he began working on a design. Last week he had a mould made of his face and the new mask was constructed from the mould. It is made of fibreglass and has slits for his eyes, nose and mouth. He tried out the new mask in practice and feels it passed the test. Jacques says he has no problems with vision. He can look down at his feet without any problems, something he wasn&rsquo;t able to do with the old type mask. &#9632;

Plante Designs Own Mask To Wear During NHL Games

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Billy Hicke, the rookie-of-the-year in the American Hockey League last season, avoided his first verbal bodycheck tossed by Coach Toe Blake but not a minute too soon.It seems young Hicke, scoring whiz of the Rochester Americans, top rookie, all-star left wing and just about everything else last year, was falling behind in the Canadiens&rsquo; training camp sessions. His performance had the Habs&rsquo; &lsquo;brass&rsquo; wondering if they had done the right thing protecting him in the NHL draft.Hicke was about to be censured by Blake when it happened. Jacques Plante&rsquo;s team edged Charlie Hodge&rsquo;s side 7-6 in a furious scrimmage.Hicke swept in to score the winning goal. &#9632;

Hicke Comes To Life In Nick Of Time

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03317/1930978-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">And while Blake talks, the players listen. Above, member of the Montreal organization are given last minute instructions before donning the uniform for their first workout. Only regular Hab in the group is Ab McDonald, fourth from left. On his right is Cec Hoekstra, who played with Rochester of the AHL last season.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The task of signing veteran Maurice Richard to a contract is probably the easiest one General Manager Frank-Selke has. Last week Richard signed to play his 18th NHL season. He huddled with Selke for less than 15 minutes.&ldquo;I never have any problems with Maurice, &ldquo;said Selke. &ldquo;I tell him what I&rsquo;m going to give him and he signs.&rdquo;<h2>&hellip;They Listen &#9632;</h2>

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“Rocket’ Easiest To Sign,” Says Selke After Huddle

<div class="byline">By CHARLIE HALPIN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01433/1930899-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Coach Toe Blake of the Montreal Canadiens greets old and new players alike at camp. Here he tells them what is expected of them as a member of the Montreal organization.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;For a hockey training camp that was supposed to be conventional in every way, the Montreal Canadiens managed to produce a few surprises once they got around to pulling on their skates.It all began with the signing of Coach Toe Blake to an unprecedented three-year contract&mdash;a move calculated to give Toe a personal vote of confidence. Previously he had been engaged on a year-to-year basis.Then Blake promptly tossed a minor bombshell into the camp by announcing that Dickie Moore, two-time all-star left wing, would be shifted to the right flank.&ldquo;Mr. Hockey&rdquo; himself, Maurice &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard, inked another contract to commence his 18th season in the NHL and dispel any reports that he might not play another year. He is 38.The Rocket joined with brother Henri and the third member of the Richardian clan, rookie Claude Richard, to form an all-brother line for an exhibition game.And finally, freshman left winger Billy Hicke, scoring sensation of the American League last season, appeared to be the only newcomer from an overall camp of 56 to catch the brass ring and win a berth with the World hockey champions despite a sub-par performance in training camp.It all represented a turnabout in events for the Canadiens and their followers, who were led to believe that nothing out of the ordinary could be expected to transpire at camp.<h2>Backstrom Leads Scorers</h2>Despite the rigors of a training program, the players appeared jovial, trim and resigned to pick up where they left off last Spring when they won a record fourth successive Stanley Cup.After a week of drills, &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard was first to sign. Tom Johnson, Bernie Geoffrion, Jacques Plante, Henri Richard, Andre Pronovost and Claude Provost followed to swell the number in the fold to seven. Both Doug Harvey and Moore balked at their initial signings, pleading more time &ldquo;to think things over&rdquo;. However, neither player was classed as a holdout.Two of the Canadiens, Jean Beliveau and Ralph Backstrom, 2nd year star, were working on holdover contracts from last season. Hicke signed during the Stanley Cup playdowns after winding up at Rochester.Signing the Canadiens has always been the personal responsibility of Frank J. Selke, managing director of the club.Blake was outwardly pleased with the Habitants&rsquo; training sessions and said as much after a workout.He singled out the &ldquo;Pocket Rocket&rdquo;, Johnson and big Ab McDonald, sophomore left winger as showing up the best in camp. Toe also had a good word for centre Ralph Backstrom, the NHL&rsquo;s rookie-of-the-year last season.Backstrom was the club pointscoring leader in training camp. He had 20 points, 14 assists and six goals. Phil Goyette was next in line with 17, followed by Henri Richard with 15, Marcel Bonin 14 and Pronovost, McDonald, Moore and Beliveau with 13 points each. The &ldquo;Pocket&rdquo; led the practice goal snipers with 10.The Habs already had one win under their belts by virtue of a 7-4 exhibition decision over a &ldquo;beefed up&rdquo; Royals team that comprised many regular members of the Canadiens.Following a three-game exhibition run that took them to Three Rivers, St. Thomas, Ont., where they met Cleveland Barons and Buffalo, the Habitants came home to flex their muscles against the rest of the National Hockey League in the annual all-star game at the Forum.It all augered well for the Canadiens as they endeavored to gain a fine edge for their first taste of NHL hostilities on home ice against Boston Bruins Oct. 8.<h2>Rooks Impress At Camp</h2>There was only one actual change in the Habs&rsquo; lineup for the start of the 1959-60 NHL merry-go-round and that was the addition of young Hicke. Several other rookies were impressive but all were released to their respective clubs. This group of future Canadiens included defenceman Jean Claude Tremblay, who went back to Ottawa-Hull of the EPHL; left wings Gilles Tremblay, also of Ottawa, and Bill Sutherland, who was returned to Montreal Royals of the EPHL; centre Cliff Pennington, a western junior star; and right winger Wayne Conally a bruising youngster from Peterborough juniors, who should make it in the very near future. Claude Richard also went back to Ottawa-Hull.After weeks of shifting players here and there, Blake finally resorted to using the Richards with Moore (back at left wing again), Backstrom between McDonald andGeoffrion, Goyette flanked by Pronovost and Provost, and Don Mar-shall, Bonin and Hicke in reserve.On the backline, it was Harvey, Johnson, Guy Talbot Bob Turner and a slightly-overweigh Junior Langlois in front of the irrepressible Jacques Plante, Vezina Trophy winner for the last four years and hockey&rsquo;s No. 1 netminder.The general feeling was the Canadiens could and would do it again.<h2>When Toe Talks&hellip;</h2><h2>From Richard To Richard To Richard</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02399/1930892-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1714" height="1017"><figcaption class="caption-body">For the first time in many years National Hockey League fans saw an all brother line perform. When the Montreal Canadiens opened their exhibition season against the Montreal Royals, veterans Maurice Richard, centre, and brother Henri Richard, right, were joined by still another brother Claude, who played left wing. Four days later Claude was shipped to Ottawa of the Eastern Professional League.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Habs To Hunt With One New Face

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The 1959-60 National Hockey League season opens officially in Chicago on Wednesday, October 7, where the home town Black Hawks play hosts to the New York Rangers. Last season the Black Hawks finished third in the N.H.L. final standings while the Rangers ended the year in fifth place.The following night, October 8, in Montreal, the Stanley Cup champion Canadiens pry the lid off the new season against the Boston Bruins. Canadiens will be seeking their fifth consecutive Stanley Cup in 1959-60.First games of the new season will be played in Toronto and Boston on Saturday, October 10. Last season&rsquo;s Stanley Cup finalists, the Maple Leafs, clash with the Chicago Black Hawks, while the Bruins oppose the New York Rangers.Detroit Red Wings play their first home game of the new season on Sunday, October 11, against the New York Rangers, while the Rangers, always the last club to open a new season at home, play their first game of 1959-60 in Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, October 14. Boston Bruins supply the opposition for this game.The 1959-60 National Hockey League season opens on Wednesday, October 7 and closes on Sunday, March 20.N.H.L. teams play games on every night of the week although only one game is scheduled for Monday, and that&rsquo;s slated for Detroit. Most popular nights continue to be Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays.There will be 11 Saturday afternoon games played in 1959-60, commencing on January 9. These games will be telecast nationally in the United States.<h2>Bruins Play Four Games In Five Days Three Times</h2>Montreal and Toronto play their home games on the same nights of the week again this season as they have for several previous years. Canadiens play 13 games on Thursday and 22 on Saturday, while the Leafs play 11 Wednesday games and 24 Saturdays. New York Rangers play most of their games on Wednesday and Sunday. They play 13 contests on Wednesday and 18 on Sunday. They also play one game on Tuesday and three on Saturday.Thursday and Sunday are the most popular evenings for the Boston Bruins. The Bruins play 10 games on Thursday and 17 on Sunday. They&rsquo;ve also scheduled two for Friday and six for Saturday. Detroit Red Wings play 9 games on Thursday and 17 on Sunday. The Wings play three games on Tuesday, four on Saturday and singletons on Monday and Friday.Chicago Black Hawks have scheduled games for every day except Monday. The Hawks play 17 times on Sunday, nine times on Wednesday, four times on Saturday, three times on Tuesday and single games on a Thursday and Friday.Each team will again play a 70-game schedule and the total number of games played in the National Hockey League totals 210. Montreal and New York each play four games in five days on four different occasions during the upcoming season. Boston plays four games in five days three times. Toronto, Detroit and Chicago each plays four games in five days on two occasions. &#9632;

Games Slated For Every Night Of The Week In 59-60 Schedule

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01467/1931047-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Goaler Jacques Plante, left, who has created something of disagreement with his coach Toe Blake over the new mask he announced he would use durIng NHL games this season. Blake said he wasn&rsquo;t sure he&rsquo;d let Plante wear it. President Clarence Campbell said the league approved.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The Decision of goaler Jacques Plante to wear a mask during regular NHL games brought words of praise from President Clarence Campbell.Plante has designed a face mask which he says he will use this season as goaler for the Montreal Canadiens, Asked whether NHL regulations permit such a thing Campbell replied that they do.&ldquo;The league completely authorized and approved masks for goalies a year ago,&rdquo; the president said.&ldquo;As far as goalkeepers are concerned, we&rsquo;re anxious for them to wear anything that will cut down injuries. After all, he&rsquo;s the most important man in our game.&rdquo;Campbell gave reasons for goalers not wearing face masks until now. &ldquo;They didn&rsquo;t want to acknowledge they would want to expose themselves to danger.&rdquo;The NHL president said that &ldquo;it&rsquo;s completely ridiculous for anyone to think a goalie who wants to wear a mask is chicken because anyone who would stand up to a 100-mile an hour projectile is no coward. No goalie has to play without a mask to prove his courage as far as I&rsquo;m concerned,&rdquo; he added.Campbell praised Plante as an original type of thinker. &ldquo;His whole approach to goalkeeping has been very professional. He has studied every aspect and developed some gimmicks of his own that are pretty wonderful. He didn&rsquo;t actually invent the nomadic goaling idea but he exploited it and made it pay off.&rdquo;Meanwhile Coach Toe Blake of the Canadiens isn&rsquo;t quite as enthused as Plante or Campbell about the mask.&ldquo;Plante has been telling me that the mask would keep him in the league long after his eyesight and reflexes stop being as sharp as they are now. But there&rsquo;s nothing wrong with his eyesight and he&rsquo;s still a young man. We&rsquo;ll have to discuss it further before I give him the okay to wear it,&rdquo; said Toe.Plante says the mask is necessary with so many deflected pucks in a game today. Blake agreed with that point, but wants to have more time to decide whether he will let him wear it.<h2>MASK MARVEL UNMASKED</h2><h2>1959-60 NHL SEASON SCHEDE</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02400/1931040-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="1377" height="1458"></div><h2>AHL SCHEDULE 1959-60 SEASON</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03320/1931033-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="1348" height="1450"></div> &#9632;

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Prexy Approves Plante’s Mask, Toe Unenthused

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The Quebec Aces were awarded a franchise in the American Hockey League but it cost the Canadian club dearly for the piece of parchment that entitles it to do battle against six U.S. rivals.Quebec made an outlay of $350,000 to become an official member of the AHL family. The transaction is believed to be the largest in the history of minor league hockey.The breakdown was: $50,000 for the franchise; $100,000 to guarantee obligations to the leagued $150,000 bond to take care of creditors in event of failure, and $5,500 in equity to the league treasurey.Added to this bundle, Quebec agreed to give each visiting AHL outfit 15 cents on a ticket with a minimum of $750 and a maximum of $1,000 to help defray travel expenses across the border.It took the AHL board of governors ten hours to arrive at its decision. And for awhile it was touch and go whether Quebec was going to land a berth.The driving force behind the club&rsquo;s entry was Lou Perini, a stockholder and who also is president of the Milwaukee Braves. A host of Quebec officials were on hand, including club president Olivia Cote.Immediately following, Quebec getting the green light, Perini said:&ldquo;We&rsquo;re delighted we gained entrance to the league. It was worth all the effort we put into the project.&rdquo;At the same time Perini and Cote added:&ldquo;Quebec fans, as well as the league, will have to bear with us for awhile until we can secure the topflight talent we need.&ldquo;When I took the Braves from Boston to Milwaukee I told the fans in Milwaukee that it would take time to field a winner. I asked them to judge us on what we do, not how we do, in order to gather a strong team. It&rsquo;s the same story here.&rdquo;But Perini and Cote both said they would strive to &ldquo;secure nothing but the best.&rdquo;Perini pointed out the league now has &ldquo;an international flavor&rdquo; and the move &ldquo;well could be the stepping stone to a second major league in hockey.&rdquo;The Braves millonnaire owner insists the sport will see a second major league&mdash;one equivalent of the National League.&ldquo;It won&rsquo;t come overnight, but the way the sport is increasing in popularity in United States we can&rsquo;t miss going into a second major league. When it happens it will be the greatest thing for the sport. Then you&rsquo;ll have a true World Series in hockey, something that will really attract the fans. At the same time, two major leagues will create controversy, which is the best stimulant in sports.&rdquo;Quebec has the largest arena of any of the AHL members with a 16,000 seating capacity.&ldquo;If the people of Quebec get behind the team there&rsquo;s no telling how far it can go,&rdquo; said Perini.&ldquo;We went to Milwaukee with a sixth place club and the first year out there we finished second. The fans enthusiasm had as much to dot with the success of the team as the players themselves.&rdquo;As one observer at the New York meetings said, &ldquo;The best thing that could happen to the AHL was Mr. Perini joining the family. He has vision, drive and know-how, three factors any organization can utilize.&rdquo; &#9632;

Perini Gives Quebec Fans Story Milwauwkee Fans Got

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The American Hockey League&rsquo;s new entrant, Quebec City Aces will have the honor of being the host team for the opening game of the 1959-60 season on Tuesday, October 6, playing the Providence Reds.With the addition of Quebec to the league, it becomes International in scope for the first time in its twenty four year history. Never before has any city outside the boundaries of the United States had a representative team. Quebec, added to the previous six teams in Buffalo, Cleveland, Hershey, Providence, Rochester and Springfield, will bring the league to seven team strength for the first time since 1952-53, when St. Louis was last a member.Providence will remain in Quebec for another game on Wednesday, October 7th, and on that night, the defending Calder Cup Champions Hershey, will also open at home against Cleveland.Springfield and Providence will stage their home openers on Friday, Octobebr 9, with the Indians playing Cleveland and with Buffalo at Providence. Buffalo and Rochester will first appear before their local followers on Sunday, October 11, when Hershey travels to Buffalo and Quebec to Rochester. Cleveland will not play in their own arena until Friday, October 23 when they entertain Springfield.With a seven team league this season, the league will play a 252 game schedule compared to the 210 games of previous seasons. Each team will play 36 games at home and a like number on the road, as the schedule for each is raised to 72 games instead of the 70 in the past. It is an evenly balanced schedule, with every club meeting its six opponents 12 times, 6 home and 6 away.<h2>Aces Have Six Sunday Afternoon Dates</h2>As in other years, the six teams of the past will have their regular traditional dates at home. Cleveland plays on its own ice on 20 Saturdays, Hershey 21 and Springfield 24. Of the Sunday at home clubs, Buffalo has 23, Providence 24 and Rochester 17.Buffalo will fill out its 36 games at home with 11 Wednesdays and a pair of Saturday games. Cleveland has 3 Wednesdays, 10 Fridays and 3 Sunday matinees. The only night Hershey plays other than Saturday is the 15 Wednesdays they have scheduled. Providence has games every night in the week except Monday, with single games on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 2 on Wednesdays and 7 on Fridays. Rochester will play on 19 Fridays in addition to their Sundays, while Springfield has 3 Wednesdays, 7 Fridays and 2 Sundays to round out its schedule.Quebec will play at home six times on Sunday, all in the afternoon, with the remainder of its games made up of 17 Tuesdays, 3 Wednesdays and 10 Thursdays. Each of Quebec&rsquo;s six opponents will make but three trips to play their 6 games in Quebec, engaging in a pair of contests on every trip.The most popular nights for the league schedule overall are Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There are three games scheduled for each of the 25 Sundays in the season, for a total of 75 Sabbath contests, while 68 games will be played on Saturdays and 43 on Fridays. In addition are 18 Tuesdays, 37 Wednesdays and 11 Thursdays. There are no Monday games.The schedule will conclude on Sunday, March 27, to be followed by the Calder Cup Playoff Championship series. The annual All Star Game break will come on Thursday, December 10, in Springfield, when the league all stars will play the Indians. &#9632;

AHL Schedule Prepared To Fit Doubleheaders In Old Quebec

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01452/1931126-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="579" height="278"></div><h2>OCTOBER 3 TO OCTOBER 9</h2>2&mdash;Don Hogan, Cleveland, forward, 1931.3&mdash;Glenn Hall, Chicago, goal tender, 1931. Andy Hebenton, Rangers, forward, 1929).5&mdash;Dean Prentice, Rangers, forward, 1932. Stan Baliuk, Victoria, forward, 1935.6&mdash;Phil Maloney, Chicago, forward, 1927.8&mdash;Art Stratton, Rangers, forward, 1935.9&mdash;Al Rollins, Winnipeg, goaltender, 1926. Arnie Kullman, Hershey, forward, 1927. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to YOU

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;Aubrey (Dit) Clapper finds himself in a unique position as new coach of the Buffalo Bisons.He is guiding the defending champions of the American League. Therefore, there is no place for Clapper&rsquo;s crew to go but down.Clapper&rsquo;s hopes, naturally, are that the Bisons will be able to dominate the AHL as they did in &rsquo;58-59 under the hand of Bobby Kirk.The squad that Clapper inherited, however, is vastly changed from that which carried the Buffalo banner so high last season.Severence of the working agreement with the New York Rangers has resulted in the departure of such blue-shirt chattels as Bill Sweeney, Bruce Cline, Marcel Paille, Jack Bownass, Orland Kurtenbach, Packer MacDonald, Gerry Foley and Capt. Ivan Invin.Toughest replacement jobs for Clapper, undoubtedly, will be in goal, where Paille performed so well, at defense, where Irwin was an All-Star, and in the penalty killing department, where Foley and MacDonald were standouts.Roy Edwards, who goaled for Canada&rsquo;s World Amateur Champions two years ago and set a high standard of play with Calgary in &lsquo;58-59, will probably succeed Paille between the pipes for the Herd.His training camp play indicates he&rsquo;ll fill the bill if the veteran Buffalo defense performs up to expectation.<h2>Hawks Cuts To Come</h2>At this writing, Irwin has refused to report to New York&rsquo;s training base for probable assignment to the Springfield Indians. He has indicated he&rsquo;ll retire. However, the proximity of his Toronto home to Buffalo might lead to a change of mind&mdash;if the Bisons can make a deal for him.Since Chicago coach Rudy Pilous has not as yet made up his mind on several players in the joint Black Hawks-Bison training camp, it&rsquo;s still to early to say definitely what duo will serve as Clapper&rsquo;s penalty killers.One strong possibility is that Billy Day and Eddie Kachur, a pair of hydrant-like hustlers, will do a fair share of such work. They did so as a unit in the late stages of last season&mdash;and effectively, too.&ldquo;Those two are skating in midseason form,&rdquo; Clapper was led to comment less than a week after the Bisons first took the ice.While the Bisons are here readying for the &lsquo;59-60 campaign, Manager Frank Eddolls, who has been something of a commuter, reports a &ldquo;very brisk&rdquo; pre-season ticket sale. In view of the Bisons&rsquo; tremendous increase at the gate a year ago, the future looks very bright.BISON BRIEFS&hellip;The 1942-43 season marked the first year the Bisons won the AHL title. There was a plucky veteran center on that team who played through the playoffs using one hand as a cast protected a dislocated shoulder. It&rsquo;s nice to see him back in hockey again&hellip;Mac Kaminsky, newly appointed coach of the St. Catherines Teepees.<h2>Big Job Ahead</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03330/1931195-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="518" height="846"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dit Clapper</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Dit’s Bisons Dotted Lightly By Returnees

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div>ST. THOMAS, Ont.&mdash;Up at St. Thomas, Ont., just a blooper shot across Lake Erie from where the Barons hold forth during the winter, Coach Jackie Gordon is whipping together a club that he hopes will break a second place jinx.Gordon has had charge of the Barons for three years, since he replaced famed Fred (Bun) Cook, and each year he has finished in second place in the American Hockey League.In 1956-57 it was a second place finish behind the Providence Reds, missing by a game and a half.In 1957-58 Gordon&rsquo;s Barons finished second to the Hershey Bears, two games out.Last year it was a second place finish to the Buffalo Bisons, a game and a half out.Barons&rsquo; boss Jim Hendy, more optimistic than usual, boldly predicts this year will bring the Barons the league title.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re stronger and I can&rsquo;t say the same for the rest of the league,&rdquo; declares Hendy.<h2>Stronger In Goal</h2>Early reports from St. Thomas indicated the Barons have been fortified well by the addition of two new players. They are Greig Hicks, a free-wheeling center from Chicoutimi, and Ed Hoekstra, obtained from the New York Rangers in the deal that sent Art Stratton to Broadway.Hicks and Hoekstra join Bob Bailey, Cal Stearns, and if necessary, Coach Jackie Gordon as members of the center corps.But Hendy is specific in his reasoning that the Barons are stronger.He&rsquo;ll run down the list for you at the drop of a puck.He&rsquo;ll tell you the Barons are stronger in goal with Gil Mayer and Don Rigazzio as against last year&rsquo;s team of Gerry McNamara and Claude Dufour.He rates Aldo Guidolin a plus sign over Bob Robertson, now at Quebec.He expects Bobby Marlow to be a better player than last year.He expects the same advantage from Michel Labadie, one of the bright stars of last season.He places a super plus mark next to the name of Hicks as against Gordon Vejprava, sold to Calgary.He rates Don Hogan as an improved player over the Hogan of a year ago.Otherwise, Hendy says he expects the club will enjoy the same solid work from the returning veterans.&ldquo;If I thought otherwise, I would have made more changes,&rdquo; he explains.These veterans include Freddy (No Kid) Glover, at age 31 playing his 13th season of pro hockey; Eddie Mazur, at 30 in his 12th season; Bob Bailey, at 28 in his eighth year; Georges Bouchard. Billy Needham, George McAvoy and Cal Stearns.What does Hendy think of the rest of the league?&ldquo;Hershey looks toughest on defense,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;but 1 expect they might have trouble scoring.&rdquo;Hendy figures Buffalo lost a good deal when the New York Rangers pulled out of that town and figures Buffalo&rsquo;s loss was Springfield&rsquo;s gain since the Rangers have an agreement with Eddie Shore now.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d figure Hershey and Rochester to give us a good deal of trouble,&rdquo; declared Hendy, &ldquo;but I think we will be able to go with any of them.&rdquo;<h2>Peps Up Barons</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04251/1931226-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="520" height="782"><figcaption class="caption-body">Greig Hicks</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Barons Cranking Up To Break 2nd Place 3 Yr Jinx

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05190/1931281-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg"></div>The 1959-60 N.H.L. Press and Radio Guide also includes Hendy&rsquo;s Who&rsquo;s Who In Hockey, and is the finest Hockey Guide published.This compact 228-page book answers every question imaginable about the National League. Gives complete professional records of every player in the National, American, Western and Eastern Leagues.Very Limited supply, so get your order in early !All This For Only $1.00 (Postage Paid) &#9632;

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The Best Hockey Guide Published

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HELLO CANADA AND HOCKEY MEN IN THE U.S.A.

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The three Ontario clubs&mdash;Kingston, Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie&mdash;have done much more than help form a new league. They are expected to hand a bonanza to their associates in the Province of Quebec.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03349/1931402-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="265" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Orval Tessier</figcaption></div>They&rsquo;ll supply rinks in Montreal, Hull and Trois&mdash;Rivieres with an abundance of lush Sunday and holiday dates. The Eastern Professional Hockey League schedule, now confirmed, grants the Royals 19 Sundays on their home ice in the Montreal Forum. Hull&rsquo;s rink gets 24 Sabbath afternoon fixtures, and in Trois-Rivieres the Lions will be enriched by 23 Sunday dates, with two Catholic Holiday bookings added.Those familiar with the old operation in the Quebec League are aware that there was generally a great fuss made over Sundays, often bitter arguments fomented in schedule making. With the three Ontario entries in the new league, unwilling to expiriment with Sunday hockey in their own rinks, this new deal is practical. The result is that the three Quebec clubs see pay ore ahead.As the dates for league openers&mdash;Oct. 8&mdash;with Royals at the &ldquo;Soo&rdquo;, and Oct. 10, with Trois-Rivieres at Kingston get closer, action at training camp all ground the circuit has speeded up.Kingston Frontenacs opened their training at Hull, Que., Sept. 26, moved on to Brockville, Sept. 30. General-manager John Carr-Harris, Director Bill Cleland and Team Manager Jack Irvine, made an exploratory trip to Boston and in the Gardens looked over the Bruins in training. Their mission was mainly focused on talks with Lynn Patrick and Milt Schmidt, G.M. and coach of the Bruins, with a view of getting some idea of talent that the Boston NHLers might be sending to Kingston.It was disclosed that two net-minders, six defencemen and 15 forwards from the Boston chain will be made available to Frontenacs.One of the net-minders is 20-year-old Normand Jacques. By the time the squad shapes up it&rsquo;s likely that Orval Tessier, the former topscorer in the QHL, who finished fifth in the defunct loop last season, with 27 goals, 29 assists&mdash;66 points, will be among the front rankers.Tessier was in Trois-Rivieres last season. The &ldquo;Fronts&rdquo; will also get Glenn Cressman, who was with Chicoutimi Sagueneens, and Skip Teal, the red-head who was a distinguished and potent scorer for the past several season with Quebec Aces. Two Negro speedesters Billy O&rsquo;Ree and Stan Maxwell are also on the list. Likewise Carl Buddy Boone.The most promising of the younger crop headed for Kingston is the tag put on &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Ouellette.Murph Chamberlain has been remarkably active in rounding up talent for Sudbury Wolves. He came up with a top-notch goaler in Gilles Boisvert, and it&rsquo;s noted that the old &ldquo;Hard Rock&rdquo; is taking Howie Young, the Quebec League&rsquo;s rugged &ldquo;badman&rdquo; under his wing in the early hustle and shuffle at Sudbury.The Wolves have been giving a good look, too, at left wingers Enio Sclizizzi, Dick Van Impe, Joe Malo and Sam Bettio. Center men under scruting are Gene Ubracco, Wally Boyer and Tom McCarthy, and for right wing there&rsquo;s Johnny Sleaver, last season at Trois-Rivieres, and Cummy Burton, who saw a lot of service with Detroit Red Wings before he was shipped to Edmonton Flyers.Recently the Toronto Leafs handed the Wolves goaler Jacques Caron, defencemen Gerry Serviss and Norm Ryder, and forward Henry Marczak, after Chamberlain made a visit to the Toronto camp at Peterborough.President Ted Boston and coach Don Grosso of the &ldquo;Soo&rdquo; Thunderbirds have also been hunting. They trekked to the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; camp at St. Catharines and grabbed a batch of talent, most of it under 24 years of age.They have goal-keepers Denis Dejordy and Claude Pronovost. The latter was known as &ldquo;Suitcase&rdquo; when he was spare goaler for NHL Canadiens and also saw a lot of duty with Royals, because of his frequent journeys. He was loaned to clubs in Quebec, Chicoutimi, Edmonton and a few more hockey points over the years.Other Sault Ste. Marie prospects are: Ike Scott, who played at right wing in England; Ted Wight, left wing from St. Catharines; Wayne Hicks, right wing, Calgary; Mervyn Kuryluk, left wing, Calgary; Milan Marcetta, center, Buffalo; and Spokane and Matt Ravlich, who caused quite a stir the latter part of last season at Trois-Rivieres. &#9632;

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NHL Clubs Send New Pro League Rash Of Talent

<h2>October</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01464/1931468-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="478" height="823"></div><h2>November</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02420/1931461-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="454" height="948"></div><h2>December</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12127/1931454-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="456" height="976"></div><h2>January</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-13105/1931447-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="452" height="1114"></div><h2>February</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1481/1931440-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="472" height="874"></div><h2>March</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1562/1931433-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="484" height="838"></div> &#9632;

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Eastern Pro League 1959-60 Schedule

<div class="byline">By HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;When any athletic team undergoes a major re-organization, the coach usually is the first to go.But not so with the Rochester Americans.Although the 1959-60 edition of the Amerks will operate under an entirely different setup (working with Toronto only instead of both Toronto and Montreal) and with a new general manager (Jack Riley has replaced Paul Bibeault), Steve Kraftcheck is being given a well-deserved second term as playercoach.When Kraftcheck signed here Aug. 24, he became the first coach in Rochester American history to return. Billy Reay handled the club in 1956-57&mdash;Rochester&rsquo;s first year in the league, and Roly McLenahan had the job in 1957-58 before Bucko McDonald, Sam Pollock and Steve all worked at it last season.If the likeable Kraftcheck is anywhere near as successful as he was in his half-season stint last season, the Amerks will be rated serious contenders for the American Hockey League championship.Steve, a long-time defensive star with the Cleveland Barons, first joined the Amerks as a player last Oct. 31 after being sent down by Toronto.<h2>Break Came In December</h2>Following the dismissal of McDonald oh Nov. 14 and the resulting naming of Sam Pollock, Montreal farm director, as interim coach, Kraftcheck was given the title of assistant coach. His duties were to run the Amerks in practice sessions while Pollock was away on other business.Then came the break Steve needed. Pollock was bedded with the flu in Montreal on Dec. 27 and Rochester had a tough home-and-home series with Cleveland that night and the next. Kraftcheck&rsquo;s charged defeated his old mates twice and split in two more games before he was signed as coach on Jan. 3.After losing five of the next eight games to drop into the cellar, the Americans rebounded with 18 victories, 6 defeats and 3 ties to finish a solid third. Kraftcheck carries a 24-12-3 coaching record into the 1959-60 AHL campaign.In addition to coaching, the 30-year-old backliner is being counted upon to do plenty of playing again. He was on the ice for more than 40 of the 60 minutes each game near the end of the season.Steve hopes he&rsquo;ll have enough capable operatives, however, so that he&rsquo;ll be able to concentrate on coaching and use himself mostly for spot duty.And if there&rsquo;s any doubt as to his ability as a player, Steve has been selected to the AHL first allstar team the past three years and made the second team four years ago.Now it&rsquo;s up to Steve to further prove himself as a coach. He&rsquo;s made a good start.<h2>On His Own</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02369/1931499-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="526" height="544"><figcaption class="caption-body">Steve Kraftcheck</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Playing Coach Kraftcheck Plans To Coach More, Play Less In Rochester Parade

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;The expanded American Hockey League began the 1959-60 season with a coaching roster consisting of Frank Mathers&hellip;Jack Crawford&hellip;Dit Clapper&hellip;Jack Gordon Pat Egan&hellip;Jack Toupin&hellip;and Steve Kraftcheck.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01452/1931530-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="296" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pat Egan</figcaption></div>That teaching talent abounds in the group is attested to by the individual records of the men.Mathers, for example, is guiding the Hershey Bears for the fourth season. While performing doubleduty as player-coach, Mathers brought the Bears down front as regular season (1957-58) champions once and playoff titlists twice (1957-58, 58-59). Hershey has earned a playoff spot each of the years he&rsquo;s been at the helm.<h2>Crawford Dean Of Coaches</h2>Gordon, who joined the coaching ranks at the same time as Mathers, has vindicated Jim Hendy&rsquo;s faith in him by grab-bing three second-place spots. His Barons, who operate independently of any NHL tieup, also copped the playoff diadem in 1956-57.Dean of the AHL bench bosses is Providence&rsquo;s Jack Crawford, who took over as the Reds leader in 1955-56. His sextet won the regular season crown that year, as well as the next, and did not finish out of the playoff until last season. His &lsquo;55-56 team also swept through the post season competition. Crawford also handled Hershey for two years.While Kraftcheck, who took over at Rochester in mid-season last winter, boasts little in the way of experience, he made a fine impresSion once given charge of the Americans.He instilled spirit into a listless team that eventually finished in third-place after a poor start.Egan returns to the AHL as Springfield leader after a five-year lapse. The muscular ex-defenseman piloted the Providence team for two seasons (1953-54, 54-55) before heading west, where he successfully handled a number of teams. &#9632;

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Coaching Roster In AHL Studded With Great Names

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03281/1931561-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg"></div>Start Now, Start Next Week! It Doesn&rsquo;t Matter You Still Get 20 Consecutive Issues For The Ridiculously Low Sum Of $2MNow Canada&rsquo;s ONLY FOOTBALL NEWSPAPERIf you&rsquo;re a football fan this is the newspaper you&rsquo;ve been waiting for. FOOTBALL NEWS has joined forces with FOOTBALL FANFARE in bringing you the best features of both papers for your enjoyment. It&rsquo;s an action-packed, 16-page explosion loaded with articles, pictures and features by the very best football writers and artists in the business.IF YOU&rsquo;RE LOOKING FOR FOOTBALL NEWS THEN READ &ldquo;CANADA&rsquo;S FOOTBALL NEWS&rdquo;! &#9632;

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EVERYBODY’S RUSHING…To Get Their Copy of Football News

<div class="byline">Al Parsley</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01451/1931592-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="298" height="342"></div>&bull; National Hockey League president Clarence Campbell sounded the note of general optimism which rapidly gained in volume when he said: &ldquo;No new hockey circuit in modern times has had more going for it at the start that the Eastern Pro-fessional Hockey League.&rdquo;The experienced sports leader and distinguished soldier was in on all the early negotiations. He might blush resentfully were the allusion to midwifery employed here in a metaphorical sense. At any rate Campbell was present at the birth of the professional hockey circuit, gave its charter governors much sound advice both on administration of a league and operation of a club with the long view to solvency and success.It was Campbell who insisted that the foundation of the new circuit be well financed and above all that great care be taken before the election of a chief executive.Campbell had a hand in this too. He tried to convince Jimmy McCaffery former leader of the defunct Ottawa Senators in the likewise defunct Quebec Hockey League to take the job. McCaffery at one time was the Que-bec loop vice-president during the long tenure of the late George Slater as chief. McCaffery declined because of his approaching retirement from a high post in Dominion Government civil service.A man of fine type was then selected, with unanimous approval of all club delegates, in Edward Houston, Ottawa attorney, skilled in executive administration, though of little previous sports background. Houston had been legal adviser to Senators on occasion and held a similar role with the Ottawa Baseball Club during an operation in the International League.To assure a strong &lsquo;war chest&rsquo; each club was asked to enter the campaign with $5,000 pledged for the league coffers. It was indicated that all six had backing from wellheeled citizens in their communities when this amount was readily subscribed in most cases.Furthermore the enthusiasm in one instance was well underlined when a slight hesitancy was noted by representatives of the Kingston Club, which almost caused consternation, just when a six team operation had seemed certain to be launched.The Kingston group had overhanging debts from the 1958-59 operation in the Senior A division of the OHA and other aggravations, and wasn&rsquo;t ready to post the $5,000 immediately.Learning of this embarrassment, Kingston&rsquo;s mayor William Wills asked for radio time. In a spirited broadcast he pleaded with sports-minded business men who were eager to see the city&rsquo;s project into professional hockey for the first time carried through, to show their enthusiasm by meeting him next morning in his office at City Hall. Seventeen responded and each subscribed $500.Then a campaign was launched to raise $25,000 by selling shares at a nominal value of $10 each to enthusiastic fans. Last week it was announced that $19,000 had been raised. It is probably well over the objective by the time this is read.The experience in Kingston points up the enthusiastic acceptance of the new professional league on all fronts. In Sudbury and Sault St. Marie, ample financial support has been assured from the outset. The &ldquo;Soo&rdquo; will get playing strength from Chicago Black Hawks, of course, while Sudbury Wolves will get talent from both Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings. Hull-Ottawa Canadiens have the assured support of local businessmen and will be unlikely to cry for help in a financial way from the parent NHL Habitants in Montreal. Then there is Montreal Royals and Trois-Rivieres Lions, well entrenched following their old operations in the Quebec League:And of course the league owes a lasting debt to Sammy Pollock, the man who did the tireless spade-work during the summer months in promoting the new league. The EPHL would never have got off the launching pad had it not been for Pollock. One of the most, farsighted men in hockey, Pollock believed after his experience in the Hull-Ottawa area that such cities as Kingston, Sudbury and Sault-Ste. Marie were ready for professional hockey, and he convinced the men who are backing the clubs in this venture of the feasible, practal possibilities. &#9632;

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ON THE SIDELINES

TOLEDO, O.&mdash;Gordie Cowan, the Toledo Mercurys&rsquo; leading scorer for the past two seasons has asked for his release in order to attend school at the University of Denver, and Andy Mulligan, general manager of the Sports Arena said he was considering filing charges of tampering against the Denver Hockey Club.&ldquo;It seems strange that Cowan should decide now to go to the University of Denver just when Denver enters the International Hockey League&rdquo;, Mulligan said.&ldquo;After all, Cowan could have gone to the University of Toledo when he played for the Mercurys if he really wanted an education,&rdquo; Mulligan declared.&ldquo;But if Cowan really wants to get an education at Denver and wants to play for the Mavericks just to pay his way through school, then we might sell him,&rdquo; Mulligan said.Cowan scored 80 points for the Mercs last year on 22 goals and 58 assists. He played in 56 games. He was ninth in the IHL in scoring and his assists were the fourth highest in the league.Mulligan pointed out that if he finds out for sure that the Denver entry in the IHL has been tampering with Cowan he would not give the veteran center his release, and that if Cowan wanted to get an education or play hockey for the University of Denver he couldn&rsquo;t stop him.&ldquo;I only hope that Cowan really is interested in an education&rdquo;, Mulligan said. &#9632;

Toledo May Charge Denver With Tampering With Cowan

GREEN BAY, Wis.&mdash;The Green Bay Bobcats, who last year campaigned in the Mid-America League, have joined the realigned Central Hockey League, General Manager Donald M. Clark announced last week.Other members of the reorganized circuit are Minneapolis, Des Moines, Rochester, Minn., and the Marquette, Mich., Sentinels, 195859 Mid-America schedule season champions.DesMoines, Minneapolis and Rochester are holdover members of the league, which stretches into four states. The Bobcats have replaced the St. Paul Capitols, who dropped out since the &lsquo;59 season ended, and the addition of Marquette restores the league to the five-team status it enjoyed during the early post-World Ward II. Rockford, Ill., and Madison, Wise., have shown interest in joining the circuit for the 1960-61 season.The Central League was organized in 1931 with Minneapolis,&rsquo; St. Paul, Duluth, Hibbing, Eveleth and Virginia, all Minnesota cities, as charter members. Shortly after World War II, Sioux City replaced Virginia, who lost their building, but dropped out six years ago and the league roster was pared to four teams when Hibbing withdrew the following year.The new lineup is, in effect, a coalition of the Midwest&rsquo;s senior hockey powers. Rochester&rsquo;s Mustangs, who have won the Central title the last five years, captured national senior honors in 1958 and were runnerup in the &lsquo;59 U.S. tourney held at the Brown County Arena while Marquette and the Bobcats finished one-two, in the Mid-American League race, the Bobcats also snaring third place in the national tournament.The league, which expects to open play the weekend of Nov. 2122, will play a 26-game schedule. Although a few mid-week games will be played, the schedule is being drafted around two-game (Saturday night&mdash;Sunday afternoon) series. Playoffs will be held following the regular season, beginning the first week in March, Clark said.With few exceptions, travel distances in the new league are modest. It is, for example, 250 miles from Green Bay to Rochester, 290 to Monneapolis and 175 to Marquette. Longest jaunts will be from Green Bay to DesMoines, and vice versa, a distance of 430 miles, and the Marquette-Des Moines excursion, over 500. &#9632;

Green Bay Joins US Central Loop With Marquette

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;Future of senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey in northern Ontario appears a bit dim right now, since the Northern Ontario Hockey Association&rsquo;s southern group has passed into history with the Sudbury Wolves and the Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds (now known as the Thunderbirds) having thrown in their lot with the newly organized Eastern Professional Hockey League, leaving the North Bay Trappers high and dry. Pete Palangio is seeking entry in the Senior Porcupine League for his Trappers, but this loop is considered no better than senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; classification, which the winners of the southern group have demonstrated for years in their NOHA playoffs with the winners of the northern group.It could be that the NOHA, combined with the OHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; clubs last season, may revert to junior hockey for the coming season.In fact, Angelo Bumbacco, who is Chicago Black Hawks chief scout in the Soo, and who operates midget and juvenile teams there, has indicated that he wants to enter a junior team. Sudbury&rsquo;s Leo Gasparini is prepared to back a junior team by himself without sponsorship from outside. It may be that North Bay will wind up with senior and junior teams, because Palangio has been promised pro sponsorship for a junior team. However, Palangio has made it clear he will organize a junior team whether or not his seniors are accepted in the Porcupine Senior League.Indications are that junior teams may also be entered by Noranda, Rouyn, New Liskeard, Kirkland Lake and possibly Pembroke, which could mean an eight-team league. In Sudbury&rsquo;s case, Gasparini has indicated that he would like to play his junior games in the Sudbury arena on Sundays, which would not interfere with pro games, but to do this he would have to depend on a silver collection at the gate, which he is prepared to do, since commercialized sport on the sabbath is not legal in Sudbury.<h2>Junior Hockey Needed In The North</h2>In any event, senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey in northern Ontario seems doomed, and one sports writer, commenting on the proposed junior setup, says: &ldquo;This surely is a right step forward. Northern Ontario needs junior hockey. And perhaps the time has come for the NOHA to break off from the OHA, and cancel this so-called junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; player draft that robs the north of many of its top players. Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey has died in the north. This may be the time for junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; to take over.&rdquo;Scanning the Soo Thunderbird entry in the new minor pro league, latest word is that Jim Farelli, John Offidani, Jim McBurney and Don McLean, of the former Soo Greyhound senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; team, have been offered pro contracts, and the former pair have signed, but the latter duo have rejected tryouts, because McBurney is quoted as saying he will very likely retire from hockey, and McLean prefers playing somewhere else the coming season.Ever since graduating from the St. Catharines junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Teepees, McLean has been wooed by the Chicago Black Hawks organization, and Bob Boston, president of the Sault Hockey Promotions, sponsors of the new pro club, has been told to sign McLean if at all possible. Despite a good contract offered him by the Hawks, which would guarantee not to promote him to a higher classification of pro hockey unless he was agreeable, McLean, like McBurney, is becoming tired of the continued grind of traveling, and seeks something that would guarantee him a good future. Yet McLean wants to use his puckchasing talents to see some of the world, and is flirting with an offer to play for Denver, Col. in the International Hockey League. In fact, a representative of the Denver club visited McLean in the Soo recently, but failed to get his signature on the dotted line. &#9632;

Northern Ontario Moguls Set To Organize Juniors

<div class="byline">By GEORGE METZGER</div>PHILADELPHIA, Pa.&mdash;Among the coaches at new posts around the Eastern Hockey League will be a familiar face, that of Edgar &ldquo;Chirp&rdquo; Brenchley. The former Johnstown and Philadelphia mentor has been signed by The New Haven Blades&hellip;Handling the Charlotte Clippers this year will be Pete Horeck&hellip;Tom Lockhart, EHL prexy and owner of the New York Rovers is expected to name Andy Branigan, Washington tutor a year ago, as his coach&hellip;This leaves the nation&rsquo;s capital job a big question mark. No word either from Greensboro, the new entry&hellip;Steve Brklacich is expected back at Johnstown while Doug Adam is entering his second year of a contract with Philadelphia&hellip;Billy Watson returns for his second shot at piloting the champion Clinton team to round out the loop&rsquo;s board of strategy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02353/1931733-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="294" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy Branigan</figcaption></div>The Philadelphia Ramblers have shifted their training camp to Hershey, which is about 100 miles from Philly&hellip;It will be the third training site in four years for the Ramblers&hellip;What will happen to the Charlotte Clippers who worked out there last year was not immediately learned&hellip;The champion Comets will train again at Whitby, Ontario, starting October 12&hellip;This will enable their general manager, Wren Blair, to keep an eye on both his teams since he holds the same post with the Whitby Dunlops&hellip;Other clubs had not announced their training camp sites at press time&hellip;Captain Ed Calhoun and center Jerry Stringle were among the first to return their signed contracts to Manager Ed Stanley of Clinton&hellip;They only ones to beat them in was their coach, Billy Watson&hellip;A familiar face will be back on the Philadelphia scene this year&hellip;The likeable Rocky Rukavina has decided to rejoin the Ramblers after playing in Canada last year to help care for his parents&hellip;Coach Adam of Philadelphia thinks Rockey might be just the spark the team needs&hellip;George Edwards, who coached a team in England after scoring 53 points with the then last place Clinton Comets two years ago, has been picked up as a free agent by Philadelphia&hellip;The Ramblers also announced that veteran utility man Bert Aikens would not return this year due to fatherhood.Word from the southland has it that the Clips are trying to peddle Bibber O&rsquo;Hearn and Gord Tottle to other EHL clubs&hellip;It was O&rsquo;Hearn, you will remember, who was part of that farce called a deal which sent him and defenseman John Brophy to New Haven for nobody&hellip;It was reported here then that it was a lend-lease job and that the two would be returned to Charlottee this season&hellip;Although it was denied then, this turned out to be correct&hellip;Pete Horek reportedly will let Les Binkley, vet Clipper cage cop for several seasons before last year, battle it out with Danny Olesevich, the man who bumped him, for the netminder post&hellip;John &ldquo;Plumber&rdquo; Craig, who has seen plenty of EHL action, will be the Greensboro General&rsquo;s cage cop&hellip;Others expected to land a place on the new club&rsquo;s roster include Brian Kilrea, Frank and Andy Milne, Bud Syverson, Reg Primeau and Stan Konrad&hellip;Owner George Davis of Philadelphia has given orders to his coach, Doug Adam, not to loose a single game to New Haven this year which is coached by ex-Philly tutor, Edgar Brenchley&hellip;This could be the start of a hot rivalry&hellip;Doug Davies, considered by many the top referee in the EHL last season, is set to return this campaign&hellip;Doug is living on Long Island and preparing to take out his U. S. Citizenship papers&hellip;Bobby Giovati, EHL official now serving in the Army, might work some games in the winter Olympics at Squaw Valley.A meeting was held in Washington September 23 to iron out all the final wrinkles and schedule before the league opens its 25th season at the end of October&hellip;<h2>Back In Harness</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03264/1931726-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="537" height="883"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chirp Brenchley</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By PAUL BELIVEAU</div>CHATHAM, Ont.&mdash;The Chatham Hockey Association held their annual meeting to elect officers for the 1959-60 season and to discuss business in general.Elected president was A. L. (Mark) Hanna, Q.C., who is taking over at the helm from Colonel Tom Weir. Col. Weir is now honorary-president along with Dr. S. Holmes.George Sherman is the new vice-president, having been elected from a directors position which he held last year. Mr. Hanna held this office last term.The new board of directors are as follows: Robert Boyes, Fred Parry, John, Langford, Bill Christian, John Stephens, Stewart Daymond and Dr. C. D. Keeley.Dr. Keeley is also team physician for the Chatham Maroon hockey club.The session opened with George Toward, secretary, reading the minutes of the last annual meeting, which was held on Tuesday, September 9, 1958.Treasurer Jack Ratcliff then followed with his report.Coach John Horeck of the Ma-roons told the gathering that he thought the 1959-60 Chatham club will be 25 per cent stronger than last season&rsquo;s squad.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve made quite a few contacts with some good hockey players and if everything goes well that is if they sign with us, we&rsquo;ll definitely be stronger than last year&rdquo;.&ldquo;And we could possibly be the youngest team in the league on average&rdquo;, Horeck said.Horeck also announced the signing of two players. They are George Montague, with Peterborough Petes of the OHA Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; loop the past two winters, and Ivan Tennant, who played with Sault Ste-arie Greyhounds last season.Montague is from Chatham, and he is the first native born Chatha-mite with the club in modern day operations.A left winger, he had an offer from North Dakota University over the weekend to attend on a scholarship. But he had already committed himself with the Maroons. Anyway, he preferred to stay here instead of taking the university offer.As for Tennant, he is a defenceman who scored eight goals and assisted on 26 others for a total of 34 points last season. He also spent 109 minutes in the penalty box.Tennant is 25-years-old, stands six feet one inch, and tips the scales at 190 pounds.<h2>Jobs Big Difficulty</h2>The singing of Montague and Tennant brings to seven the number of players acquired by the Maroons to date. The others are Joe Zorica, Joe Malo, Danny Patrick, Jim Sonoski and Bob Seymour.Horeck said that the Maroons will start practicing the first week in October.In signing players, Horeck said the biggest difficulty he has had was to find them work in Chatham. And that was one of the main reasons why Danny Blair turned professional with Cleveland Baroons.Mike Elik wants to play for Chatham this winter, and there is the possibility of Bob Chevalier staying here permanently if work can be found for both of them.Don Head wants to move here from Windsor, and there are others. Take for instance Tennant. He will attend Teachers College in London, and play hockey in Chatham.But coach Horeck said, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t like commuters. They tire themselves out too easily just travelling.&rdquo;In closing, Horeck stated that he is allowed to carry 17 players. He also mentioned that Whitby Dunlops carried 17 players, and that there was no reason why the Chatham team couldn&rsquo;t do the same.<h2>Club Made $6,887.98</h2>In Mr. Rathcliffe&rsquo;s report concerning the financial statements, the operating statement for the past fiscal year shows a new profit of $6,887.93, and that, in addition to the capital of $9,800 originally contributed by members, have a surplus of $1,095.78 after providing for all possible liabilities of which includes a special reserve of $7,500.This compares with an operating deficit for the previous year of $6,283.30, or an improvement in the operating results of roughly $13,170.In any advance estimates or budgets the possible revenues from the regular schedule can be no assurance of being in the playoffs and in any event there are always added expenses in any playoff series.The paid attendance for 26 scheduled games in 1956-57 was 62,485; for 1957-58, 58,654 attended for 30 scheduled games, and in the 1958-59 season, 5.7,501 witnessed 27 scheduled title.For three playoff games in the 1956-57 season attendance was 9,213; and in the 1958-59 season the attendance was 13,453 for five playoff games. No playoffs were held here in 1957-58.Therefore, the average per games for the regular schedule for the 1056-57 season was 2,403; the 1957-58 season 1,955; and 2,129 for the 1958-59 semester.The average for the playoffs was 3,071 for 1956-57; and 2,690 for 1958-59. The average for all games was 2,472 for 1956-57; 1,955 for 1957-58, and 2,217 for 1958-59.The summary shows that the average attendance for the past season was higher than the previous year. But it is still somewhat less than the averages reached in the year 1956-57. However, this increase in the average attendance over the last year, together with the fact that the Maroons played two more games during the past season, accounts for an increase of nearly $27,500 in gross revenue from tickets.The major expenses are, of course, the direct cost of the team including salaries of coaches, trainer and players plus the travelling and training camp expenses.During the past year the association was able to save in these costs, offset to some extent by an increase of about $4,500 in the amount paid to the Chairman Memorial Arena because of the greater total attendance.On a total income of about $96,500 the operating profit of about $6,900 is only slighly more than seven per cent and a comparatively small drop in average attendance could very quickly result in a loss.The Chatham Hockey Association is a non-profit organization and that the chief concern of the board of directors is to operate on such a basis that at the close of each year there will be sufficient funds on hand to start out the following season.The $9,800 originally subscribed by members is not sufficient to cover the investment in equipment and the pre-season expenses and it is desirable that a surplus be accumulated which, with the $9,800 capital, would total somewhere between $15,000 and $20,000.During the last two seasons it has been noted that the number of hockey enthusiasts willing or able to purchase season tickets in advance has been steadily decreasing even though the payments were plit up into two or three parts.Consequently, the association has had to operate without the assurance of substantial advance ticket sales.<h2>New League In Operation</h2>With respect to the league, the formation of the OHA-NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; with the Eastern OHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo;, the current proposal is that Windsor Bulldogs, Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen and Chatham Maroons be joined by Belleville McFarlane and Whitby Dunlops, but all final arrangements haven&rsquo;t been made as yet.It might be well to point out that, because Kitchener will have to be away for probably three weeks during the regular schedule playing in the Olympic Games at Squaw Valley, and there have also been reports that Whitby is committed to an exhibition schedule in Europe, it will necessarily be difficult to draw a well-balanced schedule.But to remain in Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; category there seemed to be no alternative to the league as at present proposed and it is hoped hockey fans will be patient if the schedule is somewhat unbalanced.In operating an amateur hockey team the regulations require a substantial percentage of the members of the team have regular work in addition to their hockey activities.And various industries in Chatham have been very helpful in fitting members of the team into their work staff and also in arranging their work schedule so that the players could be available for out-of-town games.This assistance by industry generally is very much appreciated and without such help it would be impossible for the association to operate an amateur club in Chatham.<h2>New Maroon</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01446/1931695-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="554" height="1255"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ivan Tennant</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Amazing Maroons Show Nearly $7,000 Profit In 1958-59 Operation

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01423/1931836-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK<h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Pictured Boston forward.4&mdash;Lester Patrick has often been referred to as hockey&rsquo;s &ldquo;Silver&mdash;.&rdquo;7&mdash;Al Rollin&rsquo;s second name.8&mdash;Hockey officials use these.11&mdash;Given name of Boesch, ex Leaf defenseman.12&mdash;Number of shut-outs Glenn Hall collected last season.14&mdash;Before.15&mdash;Month in which 19 down celebrates his birthday (abbr.)16&mdash;Selenium (Sym.)18&mdash;A former N.H.L. star.19&mdash;Canadiens won the Stanley Cup in this month (abbr.)21&mdash;Nickname of a Red Wing defenseman.22&mdash;Initials of Heximer, ex Ranger player.24&mdash;Sun God.26&mdash;Battalion (abbr.)27&mdash;This Maple Leaf broke a hand during the 1958-59 play-offs.29&mdash;Month in which Jim Morrison celebrates his 28th birthday (abbr.)30&mdash;First name of Aidcorn of Detroit.31&mdash;Colour.32&mdash;Name given Mazur of Cleveland.33&mdash;Most hockey players do this during the off season.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;N.H.L. team with whom Jim Morrison first played.2&mdash;This player figured in the Wilson-Cullen trade.3&mdash;Marcel Bonin was one during the play-offs last spring.4&mdash;A high scoring member of the Hershey Bears.5&mdash;Otherwise.6&mdash;Frank Boucher&rsquo;s second name.9&mdash;Nattrium (Sym.)10&mdash;Real Chevrefils shoots this way (abbr.)13&mdash;Lou Fontinato had surgery on this last February.17&mdash;Rangers snared this player from Canadiens in spring draft.18&mdash;Second name of 2 down.19&mdash;A Chicago rearguard.20&mdash;Initials of Duff of Toronto.23&mdash;Canadiens Physio-therapist.24&mdash;Short for given name of Brunel who was recently acquired by Toronto.25&mdash;Indefinite article.28&mdash;Initials of Redahl of Boston.31&mdash;Exclamation. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div>KELOWNA, B.C.&mdash;The Okanagan Senior Hockey League which has undergone a complete revamping, will kick off the &lsquo;59-60 season on October 16th, with a 48-game schedule.The four team senior &lsquo;A&rsquo; loop which camprises of Penticton Vees, Kelowna Packers. Vernon Canadians, and Kamloops Chiefs, will for the first time introduce a split schedule.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02371/1931867-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="279" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Agar</figcaption></div>In the past all teams were in the playoffs regardless of team standings, which meant of course little was at stake throughout the regular season play.It is hoped with this new plan, fans can expect keener competition throughout the four teams. The plan will operate as such.1) The team finishing fourth in the first half of the schedule, must improve it&rsquo;s position in the second or be automatically eliminated from further play at the completion of the second half of the schedule. However in the event the fourth place club improves it&rsquo;s position in the second half, all four clubs will enter the playoffs, otherwise the three top teams will play a round robin series, with points awarded in each half as follows. First (3 points) 2 (2 points) 3 (1 point) and fourth (nil). In other words a first place finish in both halvers of the schedule would give a team six points, entering the round robin series.With a drastic decrease in attendance during the past few season, directors of the League have instituted a number of concessions which is hoped will catch the eye of the paying customer, and put the league back on a sound financial operation.Training camps are expected to get underway in the early part of October, and a number of new faces will be seen when the curtain opens for the first league game.<h2>Bathgate New Vees Coach</h2>Only one change has been made in the coaching personnel. Penticton Vees have hired the services of Bernie Bathgate, a veteran pro, and amateur per former with the Penticton Vees for a number of seasons. Bernie is the older brother to the NHL&rsquo;s Andy Bathgate. Bernie replaces Pat Corburn one of the OSHL&rsquo;s outstanding defenseman, who has retired from the game.Kelowna Packers popular mentor Jack O&rsquo;Reilly will be at the helm of the packers for the fourth consecutive season, while the Vernon Canadians will again see one of the leagues greatest centreman and colorful player in 40-year-old George Agar, who will pilot the Blue and White Canadians. Agar is expected to &ldquo;again put on the uniform. At Kamloops the leagues all time great scorer and all star winger Billy Hryciuk will coach and play for the second consecutive season.A rebuilding job on one or two teams appears one of the major problems facing the League&hellip;Penticton Vees have lost a number of their last season&rsquo;s players, and the same goes for Kamloops, but both have expressed they will have several new players in camp. Kelowna Packers, who last season so successfully tourned Sweden and Russia will open camp with ten of their last years regulars, and coach O&rsquo;Reilly states four or five additional players have been contacted and expected to arrive in Kelowna on the eve of the training camp.At Vernon, the home of the &lsquo;5859 Western Canada Champions, George Agar is expected to come up with another competitive, hard fighting crew. They cagey veteran can always be counted on to give Okanagan fans a good club.Another league ruling which will go into effect this season is the number of players a team is allowed to dress for a game. &#9632;

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Okanagan League To Lift Curtain On October 16th

<div class="byline">By LEN TAYLOR</div>KITCHENER, Ont.&mdash;Players from 15 teams across Canada, including seven junior clubs, have been drafted by Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen as possible candidates for places with the Twin City club when it represents Canada at the 1960 Winter Olympics.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03322/1931898-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="278" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body">Stan Mikita</figcaption></div>Details of the draft were released following a Canadian Amateur Hockey Association executive meeting in Toronto.At its last annual meeting the CAHA approved special legislation to assist Canadian team who will play in future world and Olympic hockey tournaments.The team selected is able to name 15 players, not more than one from a club, who can be picked up without a release. This list must be filed by Sept. 1 and the drafting club has until Nov. 15 to decide on which 10 of the 15 players drafted it would like to keep.The players drafted by the Dutchmen are:Bill Kennedy, centre of the Whitby Dunlops; Marve Edwards, goalie, North Bay Trappers; Moe Benoit, defence, Belleville McFarlands; Elmer Skov, defence, Windsor Bulldogs; Mike Elik, centre, Chatham Maroons; Stan Mikita, centre, St. Catharines Teepees; Wayne Connelly, right wing, Peterborough Petes; Les Kozak, leftwinger, St. Michael&rsquo;s College Majors; Cliff Pennington, centre, Flin Flon Bombers; Terry Harper, defence, Regina Pats; Pat Adair, defence, Waterloo Siskins; Tom Stecyk, defence, Vernon Canadians; Bill Hryciuk, right wing, Kamloops; Harry Smith, defence, Kelowna Packers; Bob Rousseau, centre, Ottawa-Hull Canadiens.Not all of these players will attend the Dutchmen training camp which opened in Elmira Saturday Sept. 26. Players from western Canada will not be called in until the Dutchmen see how their player situation is after looking over candidates from closer points.Under the regulations the Dutchmen must pay the club from which the player is drafted $500 if the player is retained. The drafted man reverts to his original club in the 1960-61 season except, in the case of juniors going over-age in the meantime.A player is not obliged to report if drafted but if he wishes to join the Dutchmen his club cannot hold him up. &#9632;

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Kitchener Drafts 15 Men in Build-Up To Olympics

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<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0118/1931991-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="206" height="278"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0219/1931984-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="232" height="288"></div>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;The Winnipeg Warriors of the Western Hockey League suffered twice in one night in an exhibition game against the Detroit Red Wings recently. Not only did the Warriors absorb a 14-2 pasting by the Wings but they also lost the services of right winger Steve Witiuk for six weeks. Witiuk suffered a shoulder separation in the second period of the game when the Wings scored eight goals. &#9632;

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Warriors Lose Witiuk For Six Weeks In Exhibition

OMAHA, Neb.&mdash;Former NHL star Metro Prystai has been named playing coach of the Omaha Knights, new entry in the International Hockey League.This will be Prystai&rsquo;s first attempt at coaching. Last season he suffered a broken leg for the second time in as many seasons with the Edmonton Flyers, of the Western Hockey League.Prystai started his career with the Chicago Black Hawks, was traded to Detroit, back to Chicago and back to Detroit before being shipped to Edmonton. &#9632;

Omaha Signs Metro Prystai To Coach And Play In IHL

WASHINGTON, D.C.&mdash;The Washington Presidents of the Eastern Hockey League last week named Ray Miron as the Club&rsquo;s General Manager for the forthcoming season. Miron has been arena manager in Cornwall, Ontario, for the past nine years. A successor to Miron at Cornwall has not yet been named.The Presidents are scheduled to open their training camp in Brockville, Ontario, on October 12th. During the off season the club was purchased by New York industrialist Peter Carver. The club was owned by Lou Pieri, who also owns the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League. The Presidents expect to get help from the Reds once again this season.In 1955-56, Miron, along with Wren Blair of the Whitby Dunlops was instrumental in forming the Eastern Division of the. Ontario Hockey Association Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series. The league folded this year.Just who will coach at Washington is not known as yet. Last season&rsquo;s coach, Andy Branigan, is reported to be heading to New York to coach the New York Rangers in the EHL. &#9632;

EHL Washington Club Names Ray Miron As New Manager

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Goalkeeper Jacques Plante estounded five coaches from Newfoundland who visited the camp of the champion Montreal Canadiens last week. When he finished his exhibition Plante chatted with the visitors and gave them s&ograve;me expert advice on how to tend goal.Said Plante: &ldquo;If I can tell you anything to help your goalies, the first thing is, &lsquo;keep your eyes on the puck.&rdquo;&ldquo;Players screening me? I don&rsquo;t pay any attention to them. I look around them or stoop&mdash;I&rsquo;ve got to keep my eyes on the puck.&ldquo;Low shots directly on the net I take with my stick. If they&rsquo;re a little off the ice I try for them with either hand. When you catch them there are no rebounds.&ldquo;I have to throw my legs into a shot when the puck comes from an angle and at fairly close range. I can&rsquo;t move from one side of the net to the other fast enough.&rdquo;That&rsquo;s the advice Plante gave the visitors, then he trekked into the dressing room and showered and went to work on his new mask.<h2>Amazes Visitors</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0315/1932070-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="566" height="890"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jacques Plante</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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“Keep Your Eye On Puck,” Plante’s Advice To Kids

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