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October 10, 1959

The Hockey News October 10, 1959

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The Montreal Canadiens took home most of the loot at the All-Star dinner held in Montreal last week. One gentleman who wasn&rsquo;t on hand to see them receive their awards was General Manager Lynn Patrick of the Boston Bruins. Lynn was at the dinner, but when awards time came around he left the room.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been watching those guys taking home the spoils for four straight years now,&rdquo; said Patrick. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just fed up watching them do it.&rdquo;Lynn, a tough competitor as a player, is just as tough a competitor as a general manager.&ldquo;The only time I&rsquo;ll be in that room watching is when the Boston Bruins are taking home the spoils,&rdquo; he said. &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Lynn Gets Fed Up Seeing Habs Take Home The Loot

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01314/1532045-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="384" height="442"></div>&bull;THE ALL-STAR Game was Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;s 10th game in 12 days. The veteran Detroit goalie will have played 14 games in 17 days when the Red Wings play their first game of the 1959-60 NHL season&hellip;Maurice Richard, Gordie Howe and Bert Olmstead appeared to receive the biggest ovations when the players were introduced to the crowd between periods at the 13th annual All-Star Game&hellip;Close to 150 attended the dinner held on the eve of the big game&hellip;Cooper Smeaton, senior trustee of the Stanley Cup, received&rsquo; a beautiful miniature replica of the famed Cup at the dinner&hellip;Maurice Richard has the rare distinction of having played in all 13 All-Star Games&hellip;Gordie Howe has taken part in 12&hellip;These All-Star Games have averaged over 12,300 fans per game and a gross gate of around $25,000&hellip;Montreal has been the site of five of these All-Star attractions&hellip;Detroit has played hosts on four occasions, Toronto three times and Chicago once&hellip;New York and Boston have yet to stage their first All-Star Game&hellip;Doug Harvey Night will be held at the Montreal Forum on December 3&hellip;More &ldquo;Nights&rdquo; for players have been held at the Forum than in any other NHL arena&hellip;Some of the players to be so honored were Aurel Joliat, Howie Morenz, Babe Siebert, Maurice Richard, Elmer Lach, Butch Bouchard, Ken Mosdell, Floyd Curry&hellip;Jim Gordon is the new play by play announcer of the New York Rangers. Jim will air all home and away games of the Rangers this season&hellip;Elliott Trumbull, Detroit publicist, claims Val Fonteyne will be the NHL Rookie of the Year&hellip;Richard Canning, Jim Handy and Lou Pieri represented the American League at the All-Star Game&hellip;Eddie Houston, president of the new Eastern Professional Hockey League, was also in attendance.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02283/1532038-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="296" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard</figcaption></div>&bull; JACQUES PLANTE decided against wearing a face mask in the All-Star Game at the very last minute. Coach Toe Blake was just as pleased as Toe wasn&rsquo;t too enthused about the idea at any time&hellip;Six players missed the 13th All-Star Game on account of the NHL rule which forbids a player to take part in the game unless he has signed his contract for the season&hellip;The six players unsigned at game time were Pierre Pilote, Bobby Hull and Tod Sloan of Chicago and Tim Horton, Dick Duff and Bob Pulford of Toronto&hellip;Leo Lamoureux Jr., son of the former Canadiens&rsquo; defenseman, made such an impression at the Cleveland Barons&rsquo; training camp that Jim Hendy plans to give the youthful left winger a five-game tryout with the Barons&hellip;Matt Dennis has replaced the late Doug Vaughan as hockey writer for the Windsor Star&hellip;In one of the shortest and quietest annual meetings of all time, Red Maltby was reelected president of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association&hellip;Gus Bodnar, former Leaf, Hawk and Bruin, starts his third year as coach of the Toronto Lakeshore Jr. &ldquo;B&rdquo; team. The club will not be known as the Bruins this season as the former tie-up with Boston has vanished&hellip;Pat Connolly, sports director of CJCH in Halifax, rates as one of the finer hockey announcers in the country. Pat is Big League material&hellip;Only one Boston line is secure as the Bruins start the new season and that is the &ldquo;Uke Line&rdquo;&hellip;&ldquo;The Ukes are the only line from last year certain to be kept together,&rdquo; declared Coach Milt Schmidt.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03209/1532031-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="257" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Duff</figcaption></div>&bull; HARRY WATSON, former star left winger with Detroit, Toronto and Chicago, is busy these days running his fine new 20-lane bowling establishment at Markham, Ont&hellip;. Harry missed his first hockey training camp in 20 years this fall&hellip;Detroit will ice one of the youngest teams in the club&rsquo;s history this year&hellip;Vern Buffey, new NHL referee who was bought by the NHL from the Western Hockey League, is the sixth referee to move up from the WHL to the NHL in recent years&hellip;&ldquo;Punch Imlach is the first Toronto coach for a long time to work both offense and defense equally,&rdquo; observed Staff Smythe at the Leafs&rsquo; training camp&hellip;King Clancy and Hap Day worked more on defense. Joe Primeau was an offense man and Billy Reay concentrated on strength down the center&hellip;Reay, incidentally, refused the coaching job of the Quebec Aces&hellip;Jacques Plante now owns a beauty parlor&hellip;Irving Liverman, who is heading up the Doug Harvey Night, has played a leading role in the success of three &ldquo;Nights&rdquo; at the Forum&hellip;Tommy Lockhart&rsquo;s Eastern Hockey League appear headed for their greatest season in years. The league will operate with eight teams this season. The two newcomers are the New York Rovers and the Greensboro, N.C. Generals.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04158/1532024-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="297" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Watson</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01319/1533131-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="601" height="4091"></div> &#9632;

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Senior “A”OHA 1959-60 Schedule

The best hockey town in the United States OMAHA is back in business with a franchise in the International League. Players wanting to try out report to training camp which starts October 18 at St. Paul, Minn. Auditorium or contact meMetro Prystai,Coach, Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum, Omaha, Nebr. &#9632;

HOCKEY PLAYERS WANTED

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01175/1533393-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><h2>First Real Test For Vezina Champ</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02122/1533386-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="2218" height="1393"><figcaption class="caption-body">The 1959-60 All-Star game, played at Montreal, gave goaler Jacques Plante of the Canadiens his first real test of the season. The netminder was the outstanding man on the ice as he held the league&rsquo;s best to one goal while his teammates were whipping six past Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk. Above, Plante deflects All-Star McKenney&rsquo;s shot past his cage while Geoffrion and Turner keep Boston player occupied. In lower shot, Toronto&rsquo;s Frank Mahovlich upset Jacques as rookie defenseman J.P. Tremblay rushes to his aid.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Champs Expected To Gallop Faster In 1959-60

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>In The Toronto StarTORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Pre-season hockey calculations point to one obvious fact: the National league will be composed of two divisions again this season. The first flight will consist of one team the Montreal Canadiens. The second section will be composed of the other five teams, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0352/1533424-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="298" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al MacNeil</figcaption></div>At the close of the 1958-59 schedule, only nine points separated second-place Boston and fifthplace New York. And tail-end Detroit was merely four games shy of qualifying for the playoffs. The Canadiens, in a class by themselves, as they further demonstrated in the Stanley Cup playoffs, owned an embarrassing 18-poin margin over the runner-up Bruins.<h2>Won&rsquo;t Close The Gap</h2>None of the five also-rans has made the spectacular improvements that would be needed to close that huge gap.The club most folks are wondering about is the Toronto Leafs, who finished on an impressive upbeat last spring, They whizzed through five straight wins to reach playoffs, eliminated Boston in the Stanley Cup semi-finals, then performed respectably against Montreal in the finals. In some quarters, this performance was alleged to indicate Leafs had become the second-best team in the league.Could be. During the off-season, manager-coach Punch Imlach has been remedying the team&rsquo;s chief weakness: lack of reserve strength. Through their spring successes, Leafs were getting by with minimum strength: either Ed Chadwick or John Bower in goal, two defence pairs and three forward lines.Those lines most likely will be intact when Leafs open their schedule this week: Larry Regan with Dick Duff and George Armstrong, Bob Pulford between Bert Olmstead and Ron Stewart, Billy Harris centring Frank Mahovlich and Gerry Ehman. Imlach now has something behind these men, though. Johnny Wilson, acquired from Detroit, and newcomers Duke Edmundson and Ted Hampson are the spares.<h2>MacNeil Fifth Defenseman</h2>The improvement of Al MacNeil gives Leafs a fifth defenceman behind Carl Brewer, Bob Baun, Al Stanley and Tim Horton.Big things are expected of the Harris-Ehman-Mahovlich line in particular. They didn&rsquo;t really click until the playoffs last season, then got 15 goals in 12 games.Detroit has striven to strengh-then last year&rsquo;s basement tenants. They&rsquo;ve got Barry Cullen and Gary Aldcorn from Toronto, Jim Morrison from Boston for defence and Johnny McKenzie from Chicago. But once you&rsquo;ve said Gordie Howe, and added Alex Delvecchio, Terry Sawchuck and Marcel Pronovost, you&rsquo;ve pretty well told the Red Wing story.The Black Hawks have made the fewest changes of all, aside from Canadiens, who can afford to stand pat. The Hawks could be in trouble if their Pappy Line, which compiled 82 goals last year, begins to feel the effects of ad-vancing years. Ted Lindsay is 34, Tod Sloan nearly 32. Litzenberger, however is only 27 and right at his peak.Moose Vasko and Ron Murphy, hampered by injuries last season, are one hundred per cent, now.<h2>Rangers Shop Wisely</h2>Rangers, edged out by Leafs for fourth place when they went into a disastrous skid at the end of the schedule, have shopped wisely. At centre, where they were understaffed, they&rsquo;ve added Brian Cullen from Leafs and Ken Schinkel, a promising minor leaguer. And on defence, where they were thin, they&rsquo;ve picked up hulking Ian Cushenan from Chicago. Andy Bathgate (40 goals last season) will be the leader again, seconded by Red Sullivan, the industrious captain.The Bruins, who could have either Harry Lumley, a playoff star in April, or Don Simmons drafted from Detroit, and rookie Gord Meissner to make their team. Veteran Nick Mickoski will improve them defensively. The Uke line which scored 70 goals last season, despite an injury to Bronco Horvath, will be together from the start. And Bruins&rsquo; key man, rushing defenceman Doug Mohns, is in top shape after a season ruined by injuries. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By JOHN KUENSTER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03210/1531883-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">ELMER VASKO&hellip;&hellip;INJURY PRONE</figcaption></div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;Hockey was never intended for the Tea & Crumpet Society.Take it from Elmer &ldquo;Moose&rdquo; Vasko, the giant defenseman of the Chicago Black Hawks.Now in his fourth National Hockey League season, the big &ldquo;Blond Bomber&rdquo; has suffered through a welter of injuries that would make any mother shudder.The Hawks were still in training camp when Vasko picked up where he left off last season.Late in September, he incurred a ten-stitch cut on his right instep in an exhibition game with the Springfield Indians of the American League.The wound sidelined him for a week.Now, as the Hawks head for their second league match in Toronto Saturday (Oct. 10), coach Rudy Pilous is keeping his fingers crossed.He&rsquo;d like to have Vasko hale and hardy for one full season&hellip;if possible.Vasko has had his shares of bumps and bruises.Once he recounted them for this writer.&ldquo;I missed three or four games once with a broken toe,&rdquo; he recalled.&ldquo;Got 20 stitches in the lip another time when Vic Stasiuk (Boston) hit me with his stick.&rdquo;He pointed a finger to a sear near his mouth. &ldquo;That took 30 stitches&hellip;got cut with a skate in Toronto.&rdquo;<h2>Shoulder Separation Bad One</h2>These run-of-the-mill items, however, take second place to the injury he suffered a year ago this month.In a collision with rookie Charlie Burns of the Detroit Red Wings, he suffered a bone separation in his left shoulder.The injury plagued him all season.At first, it kept him out of action for a few weeks.Anxious to get him back in the lineup, the Black Hawks had him fitted with a special shoulder brace.It was a cumbersome looking thing.&ldquo;The brace restricted the movement of my arm to about nine inches&mdash;forward and backward. But it kept the shoulder from coming out when I was hit hard,&rdquo; Vasko said.It worked fine until Nov. 11 when Fern Flaman of the Boston Bruins attempted to check him into the boards at Chicago Stadium.&ldquo;Flaman caught me under the arm and lifted the brace up,&rdquo; Vasko commented.That did it. The shoulder popped out again.But, Vasko came back and did his share to lead the Hawks to the Stanley Cup playoffs before he dislocated the shoulder once more in the third game with the Montreal Canadiens.That didn&rsquo;t keep him down, however, and he played brilliantly in the fourth game (won by the Hawks), despite the pain in his shoulder.&ldquo;It hurt,&rdquo; Vasko recalled, &ldquo;but I tried not to hit with my left shoulder. Of course, sometimes I hit with it anyway, and then it hurty badly. But when you&rsquo;re in the game, it doesn&rsquo;t matter.That pretty much typifies the &ldquo;Moose.&rdquo; He goes all out.Vasko&rsquo;s parents never wanted him to take up hockey as a career.&ldquo;&lsquo;Don&rsquo;t play, don&rsquo;t play,&rsquo; they said, but I&rsquo;ve played ever since I was a kid&hellip;from bantam all the way up.&ldquo;I love the game.&rdquo;At 23, the 6-4, 215 pound native of Duparquet, Quebec, promises to be an important cog in the Hawks for years to come.He has become a favorite with Chicago Stadium galleries which thunder with shouts of &ldquo;Come on, Moose!&rdquo; whenever he takes the puck and begins his bull-like rushes up the ice.During the off-season, Vasko underwent an operation for his trick shoulder and reported to training camp sound as a dollar.Coach Pilous and general manager Tommy Ivan hope the big guy stays that way. &#9632;

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Moose Set To Shoulder Load For Braves Again

ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;One player in the Chicago tamp who has been able to sidestep the injury jinx is goaler Glenn Hall.&ldquo;I have been extremely fortunate&mdash;lucky if you like&mdash;when it comes to injuries,&rdquo; says Glenn. &ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t missed a game due to injury for 10 years since I was playing junior in the OHA with the old Windsor Spitfires.&rdquo;Glenn isn&rsquo;t worried about the possibilities of his streak coming to an end.&ldquo;It will have to end sooner or later&mdash;perhaps tomorrow, perhaps next year. I&rsquo;m not going to take the time to worry or wonder about it since there&rsquo;s plenty else to think about when the season is underway.&rdquo;Hall has played 280 regular season games in the NHL without missing one, or part of one. &#9632;

Hall’s 280 Straight Games Proves Mask Unnecessary

Can you use an eager, personable guy who is full of &ldquo;color&rdquo; and wants to get into hockey in any feasible capacity. Here&rsquo;s a versitile fellow who is really dedicated to hockey and is willing to give his all that the international sport becomes the most popular pastime the world &lsquo;round. Write:Box SZThe Hockey News1434 St. Catherine St. Room 309, Montreal, Que. &#9632;

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

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;If the Boston Bruins finished second last season while lacking two of their key players for more than one-third of their games, where are they likely to finish this season?Since the Montreal Canadiens are still in the National League the Brains are not likely to finish first. But they may finish a stronger second than they did a year ago.How well the Bruins fare seems contingent upon two developments.One is whether or not they can produce another line to complement their line of Bronco Horvath, Johnny Bucyk and Vic Stasiuk.The other is how fortunate they are in escaping injuries to their many veterans.Two years ago, until a line of Don McKenney, Fleming Mackell and Jerry Toppazzini broke out late in the schedule, Horvath, Bucyk and Stasiuk carried the Bruins on offense.Again last season, before and after the jaw injury which cost Horvath 25 games, Bronco and his Busters were the Bruin&rsquo;s meal tickets on offense again.The Horvath line is starting third season as a unit here this fall. It did not take their losing playoff series with the Toronto Maple Leafs last spring to prove to the Bruins that they need another good line to back it up.The man on whom Milt Schmidt, Bruins&rsquo; coach, is attempting to build the complementary line is McKenney, the slick center who scored 30 goals last season while playing with a half-dozen different wings.Schmidt&rsquo;s problem has been to equip McKenney with wings with whom Don can show to his best advantage. McKenney fitted between Bucyk and Stasiuk neatly after Horvath&rsquo;s injury last year, but Schmidt has only one of each of the heavyweight wings.Toppazzini, who underwent corrective surgery this summer on a knee which bothered him last winter, started and finished the pre-season training period here as McKenney&rsquo;s right wing.But at that time there was no assurance that Nick Mickoski, the veteran obtained several months ago from the Detroit Red Wings, would remain at left wing with McKenney and Toppazzini.<h2>Meissner A Natural Scorer</h2>As the Bruins finished that portion of their pre-season preparations young Dick Meissner was progressing at a rate so rapid that he was a definite candidate for a regular forward&rsquo;s job.Meissner, 19, is the 200-pound boy from Prince Albert, British Columbia, who played for the junior Estevan (Sask.) Bruins a year ago. He has fine coordination and remarkable agility for one of his bulk. He&rsquo;s a powerhouse in the corners and Harold Cotton, Bruins&rsquo; chief scout, terms &ldquo;a natural scorer.&rdquo;&ldquo;A player has to have a burning desire to score to be a good scorer,&rdquo; opined Cotton as he watched Meissner here, &lsquo;&lsquo;and Dick has that desire. Every time I saw him play with Estevan he&rsquo;d tell me before the game he was going to score a couple of goals. He did, too. When he gets close to the net he doesn&rsquo;t hesitate.&rdquo;Meissner played right wing in the practices and exhibition games here, but Schmidt also used him at left wing last spring when he toured Europe with the Bruins and played against the New York Rangers. With Mackell seemingly out of contention and Mickoski&rsquo;s status uncertain, the youngster from the west was a possibility to wind up on the line which may solve the Bruin&rsquo;s dilemna.Schmidt played three other forwards together regularly last month, as he did for the latter part of last season. He had Larry Leach centering for Guy Gendron and Leo LaBine. Another spare forward was Charley Burns, also obtained from Detroit.The Bruins&rsquo; defense is a stand-pat organization, composed of hard-bitten characters. Captain Ferny Flaman, Doug Mohns, Bob Armstrong and Leo Boivin are effective and experienced. Larry Hillman, the fifth defenseman last year, is now playing regularly with Providence. The present reserve defensemen are draftees from the Western league, Don Ward, 23, and Autry Erickson, 21.The Bruins are solid on defense and their goalkeeping is in capable hands, probably four hands. Indications are that they&rsquo;ll use both Harry Lumley and Don Simmons in goal.While injuries do not single out age, the Bruins are vulnerable to them. Generally speakink a young player will recuperate more rapidly than an older one. The Bruins have 10 players who are 28 or older, and by hockey standards they&rsquo;re older players.Montreal may be able to absorb injuries and keep winning, but the Bruins haven&rsquo;t been able to. They didn&rsquo;t hit the trail for second place last season until the fast moving Mohns and the snapshooting Horvath were back in their lineup.<h2>New Defenseman</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01245/1531852-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="536" height="538"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Ward</figcaption></div><h2>Key Guy</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02229/1531845-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="526" height="870"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don McKenney</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Milt Must Find Aid For McKenney For Bruins To Pick Up 1st Place Scent

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01244/1531969-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Right winger Andy Bathgate, rated one of the greate&raquo;t players in Rangers history, is also one of the most popular. Last season, for the third straight year, he was presented with the Frank Boucher Trophy by the New York Rangers&rsquo; fan club.</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Andy Bathgate, richest man on the Rangers, is the one player who can lead New York back to prosperity, gimpy knees willing.Alleged to be the highest paid stickhandler in New York history, Bathgate&rsquo;s hockey wealth is not equated with greenbacks but rather with talent, pure unadulterated skill. He is the Rangers.When Bathgate talked of retiring for a golfing career last February, a distraught Ranger fan put a pistol to his temple. It matters not that the pistol was of the 25 cent cap variety, the point was clear. Without Andy, the Rangers would be outshot, dead!It must be taken for granted that with 27, 30 and 40-goal seasons behind him, Bathgate can not be regarded as a flash-in-the-pan. In fact, it may be assumed that with Bathgate&rsquo;s diligence&mdash;he&rsquo;s always trying to improve himself, and often does&mdash;he may reach higher marks in 1959-60.Why, then, should there be any doubt about Andy&rsquo;s future?<h2>Has Trouble Bending Knee</h2>The answer to this question lies on a soft spot directly below Andy&rsquo;s right knee cap. If the tissues cooperate with each other for another six months, all will be honky-dory with Bathgate. But if those toughy skin fabrics act up, the Rangers and Bathgate go down.The Bathgate knees have been a problem since adolescence. The Ranger all-star right wing and NHL Most Valuable Player became afflicted with slipping kneecaps as a youth, a condition he grew up with and hockey aggrav-ated.In 1952, the Rangers&rsquo; surgeon, Dr. Kazuo Yanagisawa, operated on Bathgate&rsquo;s left knee. The heart of the operation was the insertion of a steel plate beneath the knee cap and fastened to the bone. Surgery left its aftereffects.&ldquo;Watch Bathgate closely,&rdquo; a friend pointed out and you&rsquo;ll see how difficult it is for him to bend his left knee when he turns.&rdquo;If that weren&rsquo;t bad enough, the metal plate plagues Andy off ice, too.&lsquo;&lsquo;Sitting in a movie, he some-Bathgate will be back on the startimes has to keep that left knee extended on account of the plate,&rdquo; the fried pointed out. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s awfully uncomfortable.&rdquo;Troublesome as it is, the plate has not prevented Bathgate from reaching heights he never dreamed of while crunching his way along the ice in hometown West Kildonan, Man., as a kid. All Andy can wonder is how much further he could have gone without the plate.That, perhaps, explains why Andy refused a similar operation on his right knee this past Summer. Following the hullabaloo about their starry right wing&rsquo;s knee trouble, the Ranger management suggested that Andy have it &ldquo;repaired&rdquo; as was his other limb.At first, Andy appeared enthused, or at least willing, to go ahead with surgery. However, when the season ended, he grabbed his putter and mashie, headed for the greens of hometown Vancouver.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll have no operation,&rdquo; he was heard to exclaim as he flew out of sight. &ldquo;Happy Summer to all and to all a good flight.&rdquo;One only can guess as to the results of a second operation on Bathgate but it is Andy, himself, who knows how the one plated knee feels. Apparently, it&rsquo;s lousy otherwise he wouldn&rsquo;t have turned down Dr. Yanigasawa&rsquo;s second scalpel invitation.Andy&rsquo;s reasoning must have been: &ldquo;Well, I scored 40 goals with one-and-a-half knees, why not try it again?&rdquo;So, good-natured, even-tempered board side for Rangers when the season opens Oct. 7th. This, in itself, is a victory&mdash;for hockey over golf.Last season, as many recall, Andy disclosed that he was seriously considering a golfing career. His friend and instructor Stan Loenard, encouraged Andy.&ldquo;After we played together three of four times, Stan said the way I play, there&rsquo;s a good future in golf for me,&rdquo; Bathgate admitted. &ldquo;But he knows I&rsquo;m not as good a golfer as I am a hockey player.&rdquo;<h2>Won&rsquo;t Quit Hockey</h2>With a relaxing Summer behind him, one in which he played plenty of golf and exercised his knees, Andy decided to come back to hockey. The juicy contract offerred by Muzz Patrick probably didn&rsquo;t hurt either. It&rsquo;s estimated to be about $20,000, maybe more.&ldquo;He likes his golf but he loves his hockey,&rdquo; a friend of Andy&rsquo;s said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think He&rsquo;d ever really give up hockey completely.&rdquo;Apparently, the man is right. Bathgate, barring injury, should remain a New York fixture for years. In the off-season, as he points out, there&rsquo;s still time for golf, his second-favorite sport.Now that hockey is with him, he once again is treating every trip to the rink as if it were a visit to school. The road to hockey knowledge is endless for the splendid stickhandler. Like a diligent researcher, he tries to find better ways of playing.Last year, for example, he discovered by breathing through the mouth his tongue became parched so he tried breathing through his nose and it helped.Another problem was his shot. One of the hardest in the league, it had a tendency to fly wild and high.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve learned something new about shooting,&rdquo; Andy revealed. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m opening my wrist more, just like a golf shot. It helps keep the puck lower.&rdquo;Introspection is only one of Bathgate&rsquo;s means to improvement. He also studies the moves of others and applies.&ldquo;I have been watching the way Camille (Henry) maneuvers around the nets,&rdquo; Andy said, &ldquo;and picked up a couple of pointers from him.&ldquo;But I don&rsquo;t try to copy too much. For example, some people accuse me of trying to ape Gordie Howe. That&rsquo;s not really true. I&rsquo;m not as strong as Howe so I have to make up for it in another way. One way to do it is with my shot. If I keep mixing up my shots, I can fool goalies more.&rdquo;As Bathgate&rsquo;s scoring marks soar, so does the adulation from his fans. Andy&rsquo;s sorties down ice often produce thunderous reports from the audience. Does it affect him?&ldquo;I&rsquo;m deaf to the crowd when I&rsquo;m on the ice,&rdquo; he admits. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t hear anything and I don&rsquo;t see anything but the game. That&rsquo;s all that matters.&rdquo;Now unequivocally a great, in a class with Jean Beliveau&mdash;he hates the comparison&mdash;Howe and Richard. Andy Bathgate points to the greatest season in his career.He&rsquo;s got everything going for him but the knees. And if they cooperate his limit is unlimited.Last year Andy said his goal was the most valuable player award.He got it.&ldquo;But maybe I won&rsquo;t be satisfied with that&mdash;I don&rsquo;t want to be a satisfied hockey player,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;So I&rsquo;ll have to shoot for some thing else&mdash;say a goal record.&rsquo; Okay, goalies, you&rsquo;ve been warn ed.<h2>Tops In Popularity Poll</h2><h2>A Jockeing Moment</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02204/1531962-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1733" height="1128"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy&rsquo;s popularity extends to his teammates as well. One of his greatest admirers is Eddie Shack, now in his second year with the Blues. Above, he jokes with Shack while Red Sullivan looks on.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Rangers Hopes Riding On Andy’s Knee

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, Len Bramson, Will V. Cote,Publisher Editor-in-Chief 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 10, 1959 No. 2 &#9632;

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05139/1532076-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="581" height="272"></div><h2>October 10 to October 16</h2>11&mdash;Jim Morrison, Detroit, defenseman, 1931.15&mdash;Willie O&rsquo;Ree, Quebec, forward, 1935.Hank Ciesla, Rangers, forward, 1934. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday To You

<div class="byline">By Scott Young</div>As Seen In The Toronto Globe And MailI had a sinking feeling just abaft of my tie-clip the other morning when Punch Imlach, who used to be the fighting, cocksure coach of Toronto Maple Leafs, was talking about salaries for his players this year. I had thought until that instant that the death-grip he seemed to have on his wallet was just a gag. I could imagine Imlach and the 10 leafs he hasn&rsquo;t signed sitting around at night over a few brews, laughing at how they were bamboozling the Maple Leaf Gardens&rsquo; directors into thinking that he was the proper kind of a penny-pincher to be entrusted to such a delicate job as signing players.&ldquo;Actually,&rdquo; he would chuckle (in this fancy of mine), &ldquo;you guys know how it is&mdash;we&rsquo;ll drag &lsquo;em along for a while, making &lsquo;em think we&rsquo;re at each others&rsquo; throats, and THEN I&rsquo;ll give you what you want. Or MORE, if I don&rsquo;t think you&rsquo;re asking for enough!&rdquo;And then, wagging his head like Pat O&rsquo;Brien playing Knute Rockne, he&rsquo;d bark, &ldquo;Why, and if any censored deleted so-and-so thinks I&rsquo;m giving you too much, I&rsquo;ll pay it out of my own pocket!&rdquo;Then, to me, come the dawn.Imlach said that Leafs were being offered salaries comparable to those of any other club in the National Hockey League&mdash;except Montreal Canadiens.And he DIDN&rsquo;T add, &ldquo;And if anybody thinks we&rsquo;re going to be second to the Montreal Canadiens In anything&mdash;on the ice, in the alley, or at the bank, they&rsquo;re crazy!&rdquo;How can he expect Dick Duff to be a better left winger than Dick Moore if he doesn&rsquo;t pay Duff at least $1 more than Montreal pays Moore?How can Frank Mahovlich be Toronto&rsquo;s Jean Beliveau, when Beliveau has a permanently sprained back from falling off his wallet, while Mahovlich has not?Billy Harris wants $5,000 more than he was getting last year. Why not? He has a good deal of extra expense every season in buying himself suits thick enough so that he is visible to the naked eye (and even then he often is mistaken for a long pipe-cleaner).And let&rsquo;s not have any meretricious cavil from the Gardens&rsquo; directors, either, about what is reasonable and just. Or about how bad things are in the sand and gravel, afternoon newspaper, and pickle games. Or about where else would these young geniuses make 10 grand a year.The truth is, Imlach has a responsibility to the public.A man can&rsquo;t go around awakening maidens the way he did, and then start worrying about the high cost of living. When the lights go on again all over the National Hockey League, if Imlach hasn&rsquo;t proved that he thinks Leafs are worth as much as the Canadiens, who will?So spend it as if you hod it, chaps&mdash;just like Montreal Canadiens, only more so.And if you run short, you can always borrow some from the sportswriters.<h2>As Good As Anyone</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06115/1532114-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="572" height="610"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mahovlich</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0798/1532107-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="576" height="612"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Duff</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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A Close Look

STATEMENT of the ownership, management, etc., of THE HOCKEY NEWS, a weekly and monthly paper, published in Roussos Point N.Y.The name of the publisher is Kenneth W. McKonxie; business manager, Will V. Coto, both of Montreal, Canada. Name of the editor is Lon Bramson.The publishing company is Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd., Montreal, Que., a Limited Company.There are Will V. Cote, 4884 Montclair Ave., N.D.G., Montreal, Que.; Ken McKenxie, 4226 Kingston Ave., Montreal, Quo. There are no bond holders, mortgages or other security holders.The average number of copies of each weekly and monthly issue of the publication sold and distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the twelve months proceeding the date shown it 30,000 and 9,000 copies respectively.Sworn to by Will V. Cote on the 3rd day of October, 1959.My Commission is for life.GUY D&rsquo;ARCY,Commissioner of the Superior Court,District of Montreal. &#9632;

STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>PETERBOROUGH, Ont.&mdash;Take it from one who is in a position to know: Punch Imlach of the Maple Leafs has supplanted New York&rsquo;s Phil Watson as hockey&rsquo;s toughest coach.Ted Hampson, young centre drafted by Leafs from the Ranger roster, claims it is no longer a contest: Imlach, by actual comparison, is the most relentless, merciless whip-cracker of them all.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01265/1532176-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="276" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Wilson</figcaption></div>A partial explanation for this switch is a surprising degree of mellowness displayed this autumn by explosive Phil, one-time undisputed king of the blow-tops. But Imlach, from the time he took over behind the Leaf bench partway through the 1958-59 schedule, definitely has been a top contender for the title. Understating the case considerably, Punch is the fiery type.Long before Leafs opened training camp at Peterborough last month. Imlach announced the institution of what amounted to a reign of terror. Leafs would be fit and ready for their Oct. 10 opener or Imlach would know the reason why.Examples: on-ice calisthenics and a ban on automobiles at training camp; two workouts a day, the first at 8 a.m. The scheme seemed to work out quite well: Leafs looked very sharp in earning four wins and a tie in their first six exhibition games.However, another of Imlach&rsquo;s psychological brainwaves didn&rsquo;t work out quite the way he may have planned. He refused to sign contracts with any of his players before the start of training. His idea was to have 40 hungry, eager athletes fighting for jobs.<h2>Player Demanding Too Much</h2>Instead, he wound up with 13 holdouts. With less than two weeks to go before the Oct. 10 inaugural and with only five days left before the all-star game. Imlach still had a baker&rsquo;s dozen unsigned workmen on his hands. The 13 were Bob Pulford, Billy Harris, Larry Regan, Frank Mahovlich, Dick Duff, Gerry Ehman, George Armstrong, Ron Stewart, Tim Horton, Allan Stanley, Ed Chadwick, Marc Reaume and Noel Price.Many were seeking salary increases. There was as much as $6,000 difference between what Imlach, as general manager, was offering and what the players were asking. In other cases, the players were balking at minor league con-tracts in their contracts. They wanted assurance in black and white that if they were demoted to the minors, their big-league salaries would be maintained.First players to sign up&mdash;aside from Johnny Bower and Carl Brewer, who signed two-year deals last fall&mdash;had been Bobby Baun, Bert Olmstead and newcomers Gary &ldquo;Duke&rdquo; Edmundson and Johnny Wilson.Edmundson is something of a surprise package. He&rsquo;s a castoff from the Montreal organization He had been with Canadiens in the playoffs one year, then was injured in training camp the following season.&ldquo;After that they sent me to Siberia,&rdquo; Edmundson relates. &ldquo;Cincinnati in the International league, for four seasons. Then Hal Laycoe rescued me.&rdquo;Laycoe grabbed Edmundson for his team, the New Westminster Royals, and the following year Duke was drafted by Springfield Indians of the American league. Imlach got him for Toronto in a trade for Francis Roggeveen, a de-fenceman who&rsquo;d been a throw-in in the deal in which Leafs gave up Barry Cullen to Detroit for Johnny Wilson.Imlach originally tabbed Edmundson as material for Leafs&rsquo; American league farm team at Rochester. However, the experienced rookie was so impressive with Leafs that he was given a chance of winning a first-string job.Wilson, of course, is hockey&rsquo;s new &ldquo;Iron Man&rdquo;. He now holds the NHL record of having played in 510 consecutive league games without missing one. Including playoffs, he&rsquo;s never sat out a game in 761, since breaking into bigleague hockey in 1949.Imlach stated at Peterborough that he was figuring on 20 goals from Wilson. Johnny has been a 20-goal man in the NHL before. He got 23 in 1952-53 and 24 in 1955-56.If he&rsquo;s like the rest of the Leafs, he&rsquo;ll hit new peaks under Imlach. They may, as a Toronto newspaperman expressed it recently, regard Imlach as their &ldquo;crazy uncle&rdquo;, but they play hockey for him.A player who formerly played under Imlach and now is located elsewhere in hockey once said he wished he&rsquo;d, be traded to Toronto, so he could rejoin Punch.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d do anything for that little son-of-a-gun,&rdquo; this player said. &ldquo;If he asked me to skate through the end of the rink, I&rsquo;d probably try.&rdquo;The Leafs seem to feel much the same way about Punch as a coach. But when it comes to salary discussions, they evidently don&rsquo;t feel as responsive toward Punch as general manager.Imlach, with his characteristic and contagious cockiness, was outwardly unconcerned about the holdouts. He expressed confidence that he&rsquo;d get the necessary autographs and issued some threats: revelation of the players&rsquo; salaries so &ldquo;the public will know they&rsquo;re well-paid,&rdquo; fines and suspensions. Both sides appeared immovable, as the Oct. 10 deadline approached.NOTES: Ron Stewart won the Maple Leaf golf championship, shooting a 76 over the Kawartha Golf and Country club course near Peterborough. Low net was Dick Duff&rsquo;s 72. Among the visitors, Jack Amell of the Gardens&rsquo; hockey committee and Turk Broda were tied at 76&hellip;Billy Saunders signed a professional contract and will play with one of Leafs&rsquo; minor league farm teams. He was with Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen last season and Dutchies planned to take him to the winter Olympics next February. Now they can&rsquo;t&hellip;Billy Harris was excused from a few drills by Imlach when it was discovered Wispy Willie&rsquo;s weight had declined from 162 pounds to 151<h2>New Coach Tough</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02239/1532169-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="534" height="544"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Hampson</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Punch Lifts Phil’s Crown As Whipcracker Deluxe In Opinion Of Leafs’ Rookie

PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;If and when the Pittsburgh Hornets return to the American Hockey League, it will be under the same coach who last led them to the league championship. That man is King Clancy, assistant general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs.John Harris, owner of the club&rsquo;s franchise, said that Clancy would be brought to Pittsburgh for any club that&rsquo;s put into competition. Pittsburgh has been without a team for some years. Their rink was demolished to make way for an apartment building.Just when the Hornets will get back into action depends on eventual completion of the Civic auditorium and a contract between Harris and the auditorium authority. &#9632;

Clancy To Return To AHL When Hornets Play Again

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Treading on thin ice, the Rangers open the NHL season in Chicago, Oct. 7th with four newcomers and a prayer.Replacing the departed Hank Ciesla, Les Colwill and Jack Bownass are defensemen Ian &ldquo;Crash&rdquo; Cushenan, Irwin Spencer, center Brian Cullen and right wing Ken Schinkel.Following a training period studded with surprises, the Blues also announced that rookie&mdash;almost&mdash;Art Stratton would be farmed to Springfield for further seasoning.Stratton, a center, cost the Rangers in excess of $20,000 but was found wanting during pre-season workouts. The brass felt he&rsquo;d do the club more good by getting AHL experience.Asked what Stratton lacked, a member of the Ranger front office replied:&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not that Art was bad but rather a case of his being not as good as what we have on the club.&rdquo;<h2>Ingarfield No. 1 Centre</h2>All of which means general manager Muzz Patrick and coach Phil Watson will go with the following centers: Earl Ingarfield, Red Sullivan, Brian Cullen and Larry Popein.If anyone was responsible for Stratton&rsquo;s switch it was Popein who had himself a whale of a training camp, potting goals left and right. Apparently written off before camp started, &ldquo;Pope&rdquo; won himself a return ticket to the Gotham and no worse than penaltykilling chores with Jim Bartlett.Should Popein continue flying&mdash;and this is one chappy who really can fly&mdash;there&rsquo;s even the likelihood he will be reunited on a fulltime basis with his long standing buddies Andy Bathgate and Dean Prentice.To get into the regular slot, Larry will have to keep battling because the tentative number one center of the moment is none other than Earl &ldquo;Splinters&rdquo; Ingarfield, who rode the bench so much last year he was getting to look like a knot.Both Bathgate and Prentice are almost delirious with joy with Ingarfield between them. The 25-year-old has beef and doesn&rsquo;t mind throwing it around, as Henri Richard will attest, over or under oath.Ingarfield saw so little ice last season, a fair appraisal could not be given of him. Now he is in the spotlight.After the first line, the Blues are a bit uncertain because of an unseasonable rash of training injuries.Looking better than ever, Camille Henry, left wing for Red Sullivan and Andy Hebenton, tore knee ligaments against Vancouver. If Henry recovers by the opener, he&rsquo;ll play left wing. If not, the job could fall to either Bartlett or Eddie Shack.Meanwhile, the third line, the one that is hoped to make up the slack created by last year&rsquo;s sad unit, figures to look like this: Eddie Shack at left wing, Brian Cullen at center and Ken Schinkel, another surprise package, f.o.b. Springfield, at right.Unless you&rsquo;re in the habit of sneezing at 40-plus AHL goal scorers, Schinkel should not be taken lightly. So far, he has impressed as a digging Andy Hebenton-type. Not bad for a newcomer.Moving back to the blueline, the Blues are neck-deep in defenseman. Veterans Bill Gadsby, Lou Fontinato, Harry Howell and John Hanna have returned along with Cushenan, who figured to make the club, and Spencer, who did not.Picked up from the Canadiens in the draft, Spencer, by dint of some nifty play, refused to be budged from the big team, so the brass had no choice but to hang on to him. His good fortune was compounded by Gadsby&rsquo;s and Fontinato&rsquo;s misfortune. Bothered by injury, the vets sat out some ex hibition tilts thus giving Spencer more ice time. He consumed it to the pleasure of all.Goalie Gump Worsley injured, his ankle, but not seriously enough to have him replaced by Marcel Paille, who appears destined for Vancouver, on six-hour jet recall.That leaves the Blues at the post, ready for a move northward in the standings. Much will depend on their four newcomers and, of course, the prayer.<h2>New Blue</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03186/1532238-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="536" height="542"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Schinkel</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04144/1532231-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="1764" height="1014"><figcaption class="caption-body">One half of the Rangers&rsquo; defense corps discuss the forthcoming season. Left to right, new-comer Ian Cushenan, picked up in the off-season from Chicago, John Hanna, starting his second season with the club and rookie Irwin Spencer, picked up from the Montreal Royals.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Four Newcomers Set To Polish Up Phil’s Tarnished Rangers

<div class="byline">By CHARLIE HALPIN</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Dickie Moore, who never has to think twice about putting the puck in the net, found it much more difficult making up his mind about signing his contract with the Montreal Canadiens for the forthcoming season.Scoring champion of the National Hockey League for the past two years, Moore became the last of the 200 odd Canadiens to accept terms with the defending Stanley Cup champions and the reason for his balkiness was simple. He wanted more money.The breach between the high-scoring left winger and the Canadiens&rsquo; management wasn&rsquo;t too far apart other than the fact Moore felt he was deserving of a sizeable boost in salary and he was merely holding out for his rights.<h2>Number Three In Pay</h2>It was reported that Dickie&rsquo;s demands probably would make him the third highest paid player on the club, behind Maurice Richard and Doug Harvey.Canadiens are the top salaried performers in pro hockey and the club payroll far exceeds any of the other five NHL teams. It is generally contrary to league policy to publicly disclose salaries, but it is said &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard earns $25,000, exclusive of bonuses, and he is the highest paid player on the Canadiens and in the NHL.Most of the Habitants wasted little time penning their names to contracts. Included in the group of signed players were two newcomers to the NHL, winger Billy Hicke and defenceman Jean Claude Tremblay, the latter a sure-fire candidate for a hockey berth in the near future with the Canadiens.Hicke, scoring phenom of the American Hockey League last year with Rochester Americans, finally flashed some of the form that made him the rage of the minors in 1958-59. After a disappointing start, in which he was censured by coach Toe Blake, Billy came along in the third week of training camp to practically double his goalscoring output of the first two weeks.Decision on whether or not to retain rookie Tremblay with the club depended largely on how fast defenceman Jean Guy Talbot, first club casualty, recovered from a shoulder separation suffered in training. Tremblay made the ex-hibition swing against the AHL teams in Talbot&rsquo;s place.Blake was highly enthused over Tremblay&rsquo;s performance in the training grind.&lsquo;We might have trouble keeping him off the squad the way he has been playing,&rdquo; said Blake.<h2>Blake Will Watch Rocket</h2>Big Jean Beliveau moved among the top club scorers as the result of a flurry of points picked up in the Habs&rsquo; 11-1 cakewalk past the Rochester Americans and a 5-2 decision over Three Rivers Lions of the Eastern Professional Hockey League.The Canadiens&rsquo; exhibition victory skein came to an abrupt end at St. Thomas, Ont., where a fighting band of Cleveland Barons rose to the occassion and knocked off the World champs 5-3 with a tenacious checking effort. The next night the Habs took it out on the Buffalo Bisons, 10-3.The Habs and Coach Blake weren&rsquo;t too dismayed by the Cleveland upset since Blake was still &ldquo;experimenting&rdquo; with lines to ready the club for the acid test in the All-Star game.Blake had Moore, Beliveau and Boom Boom Geoffrion playing together as a unit and the trio virtually &ldquo;scorched&rdquo; the Forum ice when they flicked in six of the 11 goals in downing Rochester. Beliveau planted three of them and Geoffrion two. Blake tossed Don Marshall in with the Richards in another formation and had Hicke playing alongside Ralph Backstrom and Ab McDonald on a line.Goalie Jacques Plante, who was still fighting club opposition to wear his new face-fitting fibreglass mask in NHL competition, had the protector on for the exhibition outings and reported he was highly pleased with the results.But club officials had other ideas about Plante actually wearing it in league games. They reasoned Jacques has been very successful these past four years without it and they were content to leave well enough alone.And the Canadiens were willing to let the Rocket&rsquo;s slow start slide by as just the usual thing with the great scoring star.Eager beavers were besieging Blake on whether he thought, at long last, &ldquo;The Great One&rdquo;, now past 18, was slowing down.&ldquo;What the Rocket does in preseason exhibition games doesn&rsquo;t mean a thing,&rdquo; said Blake. &ldquo;He never does much in games of that type. After 10 or 20 games in the league series, I&rsquo;ll be better able to give a more definite opinion on him. So far as I can see, judging by previous years, Rocket is good for at least 20 goals this season,&rdquo; said Toe.And so it went with the despots of the NHL as they moved against the Boston Bruins in their first league game intent on adding another niche to their belts by winning the Stanley Cup for the fifth successive year.<h2>In The Fold</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01336/1532276-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="548" height="560"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dickie Moore</figcaption></div><h2>New Rook And Old</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02223/1532269-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="1134" height="1154"><figcaption class="caption-body">One new face will be listed on the champion Montreal Canadiens roster this season. He&rsquo;s Billy Hicke, right, scoring champion of the AHL last season. Hicke and rookie-of-the-year Ralph Backstrom are playing on the same line this season.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Moore Has Own Views On What He’s Worth—And He Gets It

Elaborate plan were completed this past week to honor defenceman Doug Harvey of the Montreal Canadiens with a &lsquo;night&rsquo; on Dec. 3, thereby placing the seven-time all-star rearguard in some rather select company.Only seven other Montreal players were tendered such a distinction in modern time. They included Toe Blake, Bill Durnan, Maurice Richard, Elmer Lach, Butch Bouchard, Ken Mosdell and Floyd Curry.The dead-panned defenceman is playing his 12th season in the NHL with Canadiens and has been a member of five Stanley Cup winning teams. &#9632;

Elaborate Plans Set For Harvey Night On Dec. 3rd

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03139/1532331-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK MEISSNER</figcaption></div><h2>Cub In Bruin Makeup</h2>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bruins seem likely to have a 19-year-old forward in their lineup when they open their National League season this week.A survivor of the final cut in training camp personnel was Dick Meissner, who last played for a Bruins-sponsored junior team in Estevan, Sask.A 200-pound right wing, Meissner made a European tour with the Bruins last spring, playing in exhibition games against the New York Rangers.He trained with the Bruins here at Boston Garden this fall and when the squad was cut to its prospective regular-season size he was one of five new players remaining.The others were Forwards Charley Burns and Nick Mickoski and Defensemen Don Ward and Autry Erickson.Meissner is eligible for another year of junior competition. Wether or not to give it to him is a decision which the Bruins&rsquo; management has been weighing all fall.&ldquo;The question is, has he progressed as far as he can in junior competition or can he benefit by more of it?&rdquo; pointed out Milt Schmidt, Bruins&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the decision in his case.&ldquo;If we decide he cannot benefit by playing another year in Estevan the alternative is to sign him to a professional contract.&rdquo;Meissner drew praise from Schmidt for his training camp play, the Bruins&rsquo; coach measuring his comments on the youngster carefully.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been happy with the way he has picked things up,&rdquo; said Milt. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d say he was made steady improvement since we began practicing. He&rsquo;s certainly solid on his feet, a strong skater.&rdquo;The Bruins followed two weeks of intensive practice here with a six-game exhibition trip carrying them to Rhode Island, Ontario and Quebec. For the trip Schmidt chose this squad:Goalkeepers, Harry Lumley and Don Simmons.Defensemen, Captain Ferny Flaman, Doug Mohns, Leo Boivin, Bob Armstrong, Ward and Erickson.Forwards, Bronco Horvath, John Bucyk, Vic Stasiuk, Don McKenney, Jerry Toppazzini, Larry Leach, Guy Gendron, Lea LaBine, Fleming Mackell, Meissner, Mickoski and Burns.Simmons, Erickson and Mackell were all handicaped in their conditioning by injuries.Manager Lynn Patrick of the Bruins assigned the remainder of the big squad to other teams at the breakup of the camp here.Among those assigned to the Kingston Frontenacs, coached by Cal Gardner, were Goalie Normand Jacques, Defensemen Barry Ashbee and Don Anderson and Forwards Wayne Haig, George Ranieri and Gerry Ouellette.Forward Allan Nicholson, Victoria&rsquo;s leading scorer a year ago, was optioned to the Western League team now coached by Hal Laycoe.Forward Gordon Redahl, who played 18 games here last year, was sent to Winnipeg of the Western League, a new Bruins&rsquo; tie.Larry Hillman, Bruins&rsquo; leading young defense prospect of the last two years and Earl &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Reibel, veteran forward, were assigned to the Providence Reds. Others with Providence include Goalie Bruce Gamble, Defensemen Floyd &ldquo;Bud&rdquo; Hillman, Dick Cherry and Bob Blackburn and Forwards Ed Panagabko, Dan Poliziani, Bob Beckett, Ken Yackell, Pete Panagabko, Stan Baliuk, Don Blackburn and Lorne Davis. &#9632;

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Meissner—Still Junior—Fills Hub Bill

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>ST. CATHERINES, Ont.&mdash;Six good looking youngsters who overage just 21 years in age are rated by General Manager Tommy Ivan as the most likely candidates to break into the Black Hawk lineup this year or at least in the very near future. All have been showing their &raquo;tuff during Chicago training camp here.Half in the group have performed in St. Catherines with the starry TeePee Juniors of the OHA&mdash;center Stan Mikita and defensemen Wayne Hillman and Rino Robazza. The others, forwards Billy &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Hay and Terry Gray and rearguard-winger Murray Balfour were purchased from the Canadiens in June.While St. Catherines hockey followers cheer loud and long whenever Mikita takes to the ice or dazzles with a sharp play, they would prefer that he not join the Hawks or sign a professional contract just yet. He still has a good part of a season of junior eligibility ahead.Stan was a standout performer with the Teeps last season and when he was injured and sidelined late in the schedule many felt that his loss cost the club the Memorial cup. Stan was the leading Teep scorer. He became a virtual instant success in a brief trial with the Hawks last year.His departure would undoubtedly be felt by the TeePees this season despite a record turnout of over 70 candidates for the club late last month. It is still very likely, however, that he will sign that pro contract and move right into the Chicago lineup.The main question involves his physical makeup and his chances of being able to take all that he will have to in the big time. But as Ivan points out, &ldquo;Every so often a good little man like, for instance, Ted Lindsay comes along. I think Stan will be another.&rdquo;<h2>Wayne Compares To Brother Larry</h2>Hillman has now completed three years of play with St. Catherines and will probably be turned pro by the Hawks. If he doesn&rsquo;t make it up to the big club, he will probably be assigned to Chicago&rsquo;s No. 1 professional affiliate, the Buffalo Bisons of the American League.The younger brother of Larry and Floyd Hillman of the Boston organization, Wayne can be compared the easiest to Larry. He specializes in an amazing coolness under fire, but can still throw out that stiff check when needed and he has an excellent and hard shot.Robazza left his TeePee junior career behind a year ago when he signed his first &ldquo;play for play&rdquo; contract with another Chicago farm club, Calgary of the Western loop. At the time he was regarded as strictly a question mark by the Calgary coach, former NHL defensive star Gus Kyle.Rino was a big success right from the very start, however, and played a leading role in the march to the Prairie division title for the Stampeders. With 157 minutes in penalties, Robazza emerged as the No. 1 tough guy of the WHL and earned the respect of all attacking rivals.Gray, Hay and Balfour were purchased by Tommy Ivan from the Canadiens in what was considered as one of the smartest transactions of the off season. All become Chicago property before being put up for grabs in the annual NHL and intra-league drafts.Several other clubs had definitely expressed interest in the stock and promise of Balfour, no relation to Chicago&rsquo;s penalty-killing expert, Earl Balfour. He has strong desire&mdash;he lives and loves to play hockey and proved it quickly in the Chicago drills.Last season with Rochester in the American circuit he racked up 14 goals and 23 assists for 37 points as a defenseman. With such point-getting prowness in evidence, he has been switched to a wing spot in the Hawk camp and has seemingly enjoyed the switch.While not as tall and lanky as Hay and Gray, both over six feet in height, Murray is solidly built and proves it when he throws his weight around which is quite often. With 181 minutes, he was top man in penalties last year in the AHL over such reputed toughies as Larry Zeidel, Bob Bailey and Ivan Irwin.<h2>Hay Point Per Game Man At Calgary</h2>With crew-clipped red topping, Hay was one of the few members of the championship Calgary squad last year not on the overall Chicago roster. He was also one of the few Montreal chattels based so distant from the parent headquarters. He appears much like an enlarged edition of old NHLer Jim Conacher.Heading west as a pro for the first time, he held on to a pointper-game scoring average through the entire season and in the playoffs as well. A clean, but authoratative performer, he piled up 27 goals and 35 assists for 62 points over the distance.Tho apple-cheeked, Gray is one of the bigger skaters in contention for this year&rsquo;s Chicago squad. Last season was also his first as a pro. He, in fact, played only 19 games as a Montreal Royal in the Quebec League, but had one of the hottest streaks in the loop with 11 goals and 9 assists.<h2>New Injun</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01287/1532362-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="573" height="916"><figcaption class="caption-body">Murray Balfour</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Braves’ Victory Tune To Depend On Rook Brigade

<div class="byline">By Don Fleming</div>In The Edmonton JournalA word to the wise&mdash;it might do to give Gordie Howe a wide berth this winter.Some of the boys got to talking about &ldquo;hockey policemen&rdquo; during a training camp bull session a while back.The epic beating that Howe gave Leapin&rsquo; Lou Fontinato in a Ranger-Wing game last winter received vivid play.&ldquo;Fontinato was never the same after that night/&rsquo; somebody observed. &ldquo;That thrashing took all the fire out of him.&ldquo;You know, despite everything you hear about Fontinato acquiring a little polish since moving up from the Western League, his hole card is till scaring the other guys. But some fellows don&rsquo;t scare. Like Howe.&rdquo;&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell you something else,&rdquo; put in another, who wouldn&rsquo;t like to be identified at this point&hellip;for obvious reasons. &ldquo;I can see the same kind of a deal shaping up between Howe and Shack. It was brewing all last season, and if Shack thinks he can fool around with the big guy, then he&rsquo;ll have a big suprise coming.&rdquo;Shacks, who shows up with Fontinato and the rest of the Rangers at the Gardens for a pre-season joust with the Flyers recently isn&rsquo;t likely to find Howe, then, the same kind of pickings as his own coach on that memorable night during the Memorial Cup playdowns a couple of years ago.The big forward was the big gun for the Guelph Biltmores, a farm club of the New Yorkers. He had led the junior OHA in scoring over the regular run, but he was coming up empty in the playoffs.Coach Eddie Bush chewed Shack out in the dressing room between periods. Shack wasn&rsquo;t having any of this, and bruised his knuckles on his coach&rsquo;s stormy but startled pan.Last year Shack and an old pal of ours, Larry Zeidel, went to it during an exhibition game, and landed in the courts for their mad, stick-swinging fray. &#9632;

The Sports Mill

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Veteran Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens starting his 18th season in the National Hockey League is figuring on at least 25 to 30 goals this season, maybe more.Now 38 years of age, the oldest by far in the league, Richard was recently quoted as saying he thinks he&rsquo;s in for a good season.&ldquo;I think I&rsquo;ll get 25 or 30 goals,&rdquo; said Maurice, &ldquo;and if I&rsquo;m lucky, maybe 35.&rdquo;Last season Richard started out like a house on fire, but injured his foot and was sidelined for the entire second half of the season. He returned to action in time for the playoffs, but didn&rsquo;t get much work.Despite his age Richard has looked as good as ever at training camp. He has been skating right along with the younger players, zithout taking a back seat to any of them. He has been potting goals regularly and in an exhibition game in Buffalo he scored two for the champions as they defeated the AHL Bisons. &#9632;

“Twenty Five Or Thirty,” Says Richard, In 18th Year

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The hockey world was shocked last spring when from Montreal the Boston Bruins announced on the eve of the National League meetings that they had &ldquo;dropped&rdquo; Harry Lumley.Drop Lumley, the great veteran whose goalkeeping in emergency roles had been features of the Bruins&rsquo; two previous seasons?If the hockey world was shocked at the news, hockey fans in New England were both appalled and indignant.But four months later Lumley is still with the Bruins. And the Bruins are still explaining that the announcement credited to them in June was a mistake.&ldquo;We announced that we were dropping Lum,&rdquo; explained Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; manager, &ldquo;but from our protected list. That&rsquo;s what we announced. What happened to our announcement after that I do not know.&rdquo;What happened after Patrick made his announcement was that it was misinterpreted by a wire service reporter. The wire service sent a story winging over two countries that the Bruins had dropped Lumley, never mentioning that what they had dropped him from was their protected list.The Bruins, like other National League teams, had the privilege of protecting two goalkeepers from the draft. They figured that Lumley, 32, would escape being drafted for the $20,000 draft price. They figured correctly.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02254/1532490-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="536" height="878"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Simmons</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03193/1532483-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="580" height="892"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Lumley</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I was asked all summer why we had let Lum go,&rdquo; related Patrick. &ldquo;I guess I&rsquo;ve answered the question often enough to do it in my sleep.&rdquo;&ldquo;Me too,&rdquo; said Defenseman Doug Mohns, who spent the summer working at a recreation center run by Milt Schmidt in Hanover, Mass. &ldquo;We had a great many hockey fans at the place and I think every one of them had to be satisfied that the Bruins hadn&rsquo;t dropped Lum.Schmidt, the Bruins&rsquo; coach, also admitted to having received his quota of questions regarding Lumley.When the Bruins began their pre-season training at Boston Garden this fall Lumley was among those present. Soon his name was being linked in another question.Who should be tending goal for the Bruins this season. Lumley or Don Simmons, the unlucky fellow for whom he had substituted on three different occasions in two years?Patrick made no official announcement on the matter, but as the training period progressed it became evident that the Bruins would probably begin the season with two goalies&mdash;Lumley and Simmons.Bruce Gamble, the agile youngster whom the Bruins drafted from the New York Rangers early in the summer, was installed in the Providence Reds&rsquo; nets occupied for most of last season by Lumley.Any plans of Patrick and Schmidt&rsquo;s to alternate their two goalies in the early exhibition games were thwarted by an injury to Simmons. Dapper Don, who sustained multiple shoulder injuries two years ago and a hand injury and an appendectomy last season, was suffering from a recurring muscle pull.It has been several seasons since the Bruins have used two goalkeepers. They last did it during the 1954-55 season, when Sugar Jim Henry and Long John Henderson shared the job.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01320/1532476-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="316" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body">Danny Lewicki</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02260/1532469-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="288" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Dea</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03197/1532462-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="284" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Dineen</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04149/1532455-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="290" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lorne Ferguson</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05105/1532448-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="280" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glen Skov</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0681/1532441-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="309" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Wilton</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Old Master Lum Grabs Spotlight In Showdown Battle For Bruins’ Job

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;The popular guessing game of any training camp is: &ldquo;Who will be on the team when the season begins?&rdquo;A team with a National league affiliation largely must wait until the parent club decides upon its roster before it can expect definite decisions.The Buffalo Bisons, who are working solely with Chicago this seasonafter a joint agreement with the Black Hawks and New York last year, do have some players to call their own.As the training period prior to the American League opener drew to a close, it appeared that among the returnees from the 1958-59 championship club would be Bison-owned defensemen Gus Mortson and Frank Martin; center Larry Wicon and wingers Dick Gamble and Wally Hergesheimer.There were Chicago chattels, too, who from the start of the conditioningperiod figured to wear Buffalo uniforms as they did last season. Defenseman Ron Ingram, center-wingBill Dineen, left wing BllyDea, and right wing Eddie Kashur were in this category.Who then are the new faces?To start with, Roy Edwards, who earned plaudits in junior at St. Catharines; with the Dunlops in world amateur play, and Calgary in the Western League, was ticket ed for goal.<h2>Junior Grads In Camp</h2>As The Hockey News went to press, junior graduate Wayne Hillman and rugged Rino Ro-bazza were fighting for defense positions with the possibility existing both would be carriec for the early part of the campaign.Up front, Coach Dit Clapper indications were, would have: chance to add Howie Glover younger brother of Cleveland&rsquo;s cc lebrated Fred, and Terry Gray, who performed with Rochester last sea sun, to his right wing corps.Danny Lewicki, a real nemisis to Buffalo goaltenders when he played with Pittsburgh a few year back, headed the list of likely centermen. Norm Johnson, who has experience at defense as well as up front, was another slated for a Buffalo uniform with the veteran Glen Skov still a third possibility.On the left side, Clapper was hopeful of obtaining Lorne Ferguson as the HN went to press.If all the probabilities materialize, Clapper would have an 18-man squad with 14 players carrying the stamp of ex National Leaguers. That adds up to a lot of experienced talent&mdash;and the Herd will need it if it is to repeat in a race that figures to be real tight all the way.BISON BRIEFS&mdash;One day during the training camp period, Gus Mortson arose at 6 AM. He drove from St. Catharines, Ont., to Burlington, Ont., a round-trip distance of 90 miles, and helped set-up some frozen foods stands in a store. He then participated in the Bisons&rsquo; morning workout. Then, it was back to Burlington to complete his off-season affairs for the frozen food concern. A completion of the second 90-mile swing found him eating his dinner when his teammates were getting dressed for an exhibition game. Gus made it to the arena three minutes before faceoff time. And, to top off the day, he was the equal of any performer in the Buffalo lineup during the game as he took his regular turn.<h2>Buffalo Bound</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0763/1532535-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="550" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body">Norm Johnson</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0849/1532528-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="570" height="899"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Kachur</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0938/1532521-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="574" height="1490"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Gamble</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Herd To Graze In AHL With 14 Ex-Major Leaguers Leading Way

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;You would think that maybe Barons&rsquo; boss Jim Hendy was trying to scare his club into shape.Hendy fixed it so that the Cleveland Barons arrived in training camp at St. Thomas, Ont. just a few skates before they were slated for an engagement with the Toronto Maple Leafs.Following that, the Barons played the Leafs again and the New York Rangers a brace of matches.Then Hendy gave his boys a breather by sending them against the Montreal Canadiens.The Barons came through all this is fine shape. They lost all but one game but they escaped with their lives and needed no blood transfusions.Assuming that the shock treatment prescribed by Hendy has not sapped all courage and desire from his troops, the Barons were due to launch a 72-game schedule of activity in the American Hockey League with a skirmish at Hershey.What does Coach Jackie Gordon think about all this?Spoke Gordon:&ldquo;Everybody arrived in camp in good condition. We were able to make a fast start. I am very happy with the way the squad has responded in the training program&rdquo;.This was the smallest group to report to a Cleveland hockey camp ever.With only 30 players to watch, Gordon was able to draw the battle lines much more readily than he could have with a larger squad.Gordon, who has led the Barons to three consecutive second place finishes since taking over from Fred (Bun) Cook, thinks he has a stronger club than that which ran second to the Buffalo Bisons last season.Gordon likes his up the-middle situation better.He feels that Gil Mayer, acquired from Hershey, will give the Barons a better grade of goaltending than they had a year ago, when they were compelled to change goalies four times.He feels that his centers are going to give the club a firm middle.Ed Hoekstra, in from the New York Rangers, appears capable, though slow. He won&rsquo;t need be very fast to keep up with such wings as Freddy Glover and Bill Shvetz neither. No Kid Glover nor The Destroyer are able to move fast enough to lose anyone.Greig Hicks, the rookie from Chicoutimi, has won his way into Gordon&rsquo;s favor with his hustling style.Hicks is small but has some of the scat-back characteristics. He has been working between Eddie Mazur and Don Hogan.The third platoon with veteran Bob Bailey at center has Bobby Barlow and the fleet Frenchman, Michel Labadie, on the wings.Gordon&rsquo;s major problem has been to solidify his defense.He has been happy with the work of newcomer Aldo Guidolin and feels the Barons have no worry from the standpoint of ruggedness on the backline.Guidolin, together with Georges Bouchard, George McAvoy, Bill Needham and Danny Blair will permit the Barons to withstand a good deal of attacking.Gordon wasn&rsquo;t predicting the Barons would win 72 games, but he wasn&rsquo;t ruling out the possibility either.<h2>Joins Belters</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1027/1532590-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="556" height="892"><figcaption class="caption-body">Aldo Guidolin</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Future Looks Good For Gordon’s Dandies With Little Gil As Janitor

VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;Defenseman Larry Cahan, former New York Ranger, was late for the opening of Vancouver Canuck&rsquo;s Western Hockey League training camp. But he had some good reasons.Driving from Toronto through the United States a tie rod in his car broke at Superior, Wis.In an attempt to make up the time taken to fix the rod, he scooted passed a motorcycle policeman while doing 90 miles an hour. He was brought to a halt further down the road by a roadblock consisting of five police cars and six constables armed with shotguns and drawn pistols.He was put in jail and fined $100. That was $15 more than he had on him so he had to stay in jail until Canuck&rsquo;s coach Art Chapman wired him some loot.On the road again he had three flat tires. When he was changing one of them outside Spokane, Wash., his jack slipped and the car crunched down on some household goods he had removed from the trunk to lighten the load.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1121/1532628-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="290" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Cahan</figcaption></div><h2>Impresses Bears Boss</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01305/1532621-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="1134" height="1350"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ray Kinasewich</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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GO WEST YOUNG MAN, BUT CAHAN FINDS IT IS A LOT TOUGHER BY CAR THAN BY HORSE

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div>NIAGARA FALLS, Ont.&mdash;Two rookie wingers, Brian Smith and Ray Kinasewich, have impressed in workouts at the Hershey Bears training camp here and may earn a permanent berth with the veteran-loaded Pennsylvania outfit.Both are young, have good hard shots and are strong. The two products of the Western League did a capable job in an exhibition game against the combined forces of Toronto and its American League farm club Rochester. The scrap ended in a 4-4 stalemate with Hershey holding a 4-1 advantage at one stage.The Hershey brass have been shopping for rookie talent. The team hasn&rsquo;t had a fledgling in three years. The last was Len Haley, who, as a rookie, scored 30 goals and nearly captured the &ldquo;Rookie of the Year&rdquo; honors in 1957-58. Last year he played only so-so and finally was traded to Edmonton for Kinasewich.Two spots where the defending Calder Cup champs are solid are goal and defense. In the nets, Bobby (The Glove) Perreault has looked sharp and his standby, rookie Claude DuFour, is improving.The backline corps of Larry (The Rock) Zeidel, Jack Price, Howie Yanosik, Bucky Hollingworth and Coach Frank Mathers, is perhaps as strong as any minor league defense in the sport. All except Yanosik have NHL experience.During the camp drills, Mathers has been juggling his forwards. One line which may stay intact is the trio of left winger Les Duff, center Willie Marshall and right winger Dune Fisher.Centers Mike Nykoluk and Hec LaLande have pivoted for different combinations and both showed they can fit in with any pair of wingmen Mathers may finally assign them.Three skaters, who total nearly 40 years in the AHL, have been working as a unit. They are center Arnie Kullman and wingers, Capt. Obie O&rsquo;Brien and Bob Solinger.As time drew near to break camp, Mathers was still undecided on the final makeup of his squad, which launches the 1959-60 campaign on home ice against Cleveland on Oct. 7. One thing&rsquo;s certain. Mathers says he&rsquo;ll return with two goalies, five defensemen and 11 forwards.Rookie winger Jacques Gagnon, property of the Bears and who played with Chicoutimi last season, refused to report to training camp and was suspended. The Bears have been trying to sell or make some sort of a deal for the lanky winger, who had several unsuccesful trials with Hershey.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02284/1532659-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="595" height="1338"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mathers</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Kinasewich, Smith Become 1st Bear Rooks In 3 Years

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03237/1532690-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILLY MOSIENKO</figcaption></div>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;If Bill Mosienko does decide to have one more go with the Winnipeg Warriors, the major factor influencing him will likely be that It would make his run in pro hockey reach out to span an amazing 20 seasons.That&rsquo;s a breed of cat that has long since departed from the hockey scene. In these times of jazzed-up entertainment with their marathon campaigns, the machinery burns out quickly. So Mosie&rsquo;s record calls for a kingsized session of head-shaking. Though the record books are somewhat hazy going back past the early 40&rsquo;s, it&rsquo;s fairly definite that Mosienko has played more games of professional hockey than any other player in history. The little speedster is also working on his second thousand goals, which likewise puts him in a select category.<h2>Caught Him Last Season</h2>Whatever decision Mosienko comes to, we hope it will be the right one.Reports pertaining to his offseason &ldquo;collapse&rdquo; on a Winnipeg golf course are at variance, but one informant insisted to us the other day that the kidney stone operation was of a minor nature. More consequential it might be that another half a stride hasn&rsquo;t been stripped from his fleet underpining.Some of his adversaries, who had regarded the little guy as the original will-o&rsquo;-the-wisp, were beginning to catch a piece of him as the string ran out last season.It was a new experience for Mosie, and he din&rsquo;t know quite how to take it. When he was guilty of some retaliatory gestures, some of the Calgary writers and sportscasters tabbed him as a &ldquo;chippy&rdquo; player&hellip;Whatever else, then, it is to be hoped that his exit, when it finally does occur, is not tarnished.<h2>Still Going Strong &#9632;</h2>

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Mosienko Set To Start 20th Year As Professional

<div class="byline">By PAUL ROACH</div>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;Mr. Edward Houston, a prominent Ottawa Lawyer and long time hockey enthusiast was the unanimous choice of a three-man nominating Committee headed by Clarence Campbell, President of the National Hockey League recently for the Presidency of the newly-organized Eastern Professional Hockey League.The choice of Mr. Houston to head up the six team Professional Loop came after a personal recommendation by Mr. Campbell to the nom inating Committee in view of his previous experience in the organizational end of sports promotion in Ottawa.The League was finalized in late August with the general meeting of representatives from Sudbury, Three Rivers, Montreal, Kingston, Sault Ste. Marie and Hull-Canadians at the Rivermead Golf Club at Hull, Quebec. Immediately following a group of public, business and professional dignitaries were invited to a lunch sponsored by the Hull-Canadian Hockey Club at which time the new League was officially launched.Commenting later on his appointment, Mr. Houston said, &ldquo;The Eastern Professional Hockey League is to have the organizational backing that should insure success to its operation for the coming year 1959-60.&rdquo;<h2>Will Have Headquarters In Ottawa</h2>&ldquo;It is hoped that we will have the League&rsquo;s operations handled from an office on the 5th floor of the Commonwealth Building in Ottawa. We will have a part-time public relations man, a statistician and a full-time Secretary. We have given it some thought and feel that if we are going to operate like a professional team, our organization should compare favourably with the organization of the American League or the Western League. Of course we anticipate that the going will be rough for the first year. However, we. have no misconceptions as to our future plans. It will take a lot of drive and effort to make it a success. There has been good indication of the interest generated as shown in the League&rsquo;s acceptance both by Professional and minor hockey loops, alike. There are currently two successful Hockey Leagues operating in Canada. The Father of Professional Hockey, is of course, the National League. The other, the Western Hockey League has been in operation for a number of years. We sincerely hope that the Eastern Professional Hockey League can some day take its place beside these Leagues in providing a good brand of professional Hockey for the Canadian publie.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04195/1532721-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="300" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">C.S. Campbell</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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EPL Organization Setup To Compare With AHL, WHL

National Hockey League fans may obtain copies of the 1959-60 N.H.L. Schedules free of charge. These N.H.L. schedules are handy sized for the pocket and room Is available to mark in the score of each game.Requests should be mailed to:N.H.L. Information Bureau,601 Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Que. &#9632;

N.H.L. SCHEDULES AVAILABLE FOR FANS

<div class="byline">By LLOYD McGOWAN of The Montreal Star</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Floyd Curry and Frank Carlin are whipping together a pretty good team of Montreal Royals for entry in the Eastern Professional Hockey League.The loop embraces Royals and Three Rivers of the old Quebec Hockey League, Sault Ste. Marie, Kingston, Ottawa-Hull, and Sudbury Wolves.The Wolves, by the way, are coached by Murph Chamberlain, one-time fovorite with Montreal fandom when he played with Canadiens. At least, Murph will be no stranger when he brings his Sudbury Club to Montreal for the first scheduled contest on Sunday afternoon. October 10.The Royals, well-handled by Carlin and Curry, open the campaign in the new loop at The Soo on Thursday, October 8. Then The Soo comes to the Forum Freeze two days later.Remember the Soo players who came to the Forum in the days of the old Maroons&mdash;Babe Donnelly. Billy Phillips, What Walsh and the rest.<h2>Six Holdovers Signed</h2>Fern Perreault, veteran left winger (and a better golfer) signed his contract this week, according to an announcement by GM Frank Carlin.Six holdover veterans have now accepted terms with Royals, Montreal entry in hockey&rsquo;s newest minor professional league. The others who have signed on the dotted line are Kenny Mosdell, Walt Clune, Johnny Kowalkuchuk, Louis (Lu Denis and Skip Burchell.<h2>Back Again</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01319/1532797-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="556" height="1650"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wally Clune</figcaption></div>The battle to earn berths on Busher Curry&rsquo;s squad continues to be keen at the club continues its two-a-day scrimmages on the Forum Freeze. A total of 22 players are ogling positions on the club, according to Frank Carlin, the efficient GM.The Royals will have at least three new faces this season. The rules of the ECPHL stipulate that each club must employ at least three graduates of junior hockey.Some of junior grads have impressed Coach Curry in the daily drills. But Curry said that all jobs are wide open, a ready incentive for the industrious applicants.Some names unfamiliar to Forum fandom who could conceivably win jobs are Andre Tardif and Tommy Thurlby.Royals have only Wally Clune and hard-shooting Moe Mantha as holdovers on the reaguard.Carlin announced last week that Jean-Paul Denis, a very good right winger, had been released by Royals to Three Rivers Lions.&ldquo;Denis gave valuable service to us all the time&rdquo; Carlin said, &ldquo;We are sorry to see him go. But we&rsquo;re in the business to develop players for the parent Canadiens and we must make places for promising rookies.&ldquo;According to rules of the new Eastern Canada League we must carry three junior graduates and we have at least five in that category with Royals. It&rsquo;s up to Coach Curry who will stay and who won&rsquo;t.&rdquo;Curry said that he will trim his squad later in the week before the ECPHL opener against the Greyhounds at The Soo on October 8.Tardif played with Sam Pollock&rsquo;s Ottawa-Hull Canucks last year. Thurlby comes to Royals highly recommended after a good year with Peterborough in the unior CHA.The Petes were Eastern finalists for the Memorial Cup last season. Thurlby is a fast-skating defenceman, a rugged player who has a good chance to make the club.<h2>Glamour At The Forum</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03220/1532790-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="1154" height="1410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Contributing to the glamour of the NHL all-star game held at Montreal this season were Marlene Geoffrion, left, wife of the right wing star of the Canadiens Bernie, and Colleen Howe, wife of Detroit&rsquo;s great Gordie. Colleen flew in from Detroit to meet Gordie, who came in from Vancouver, where Wings were playing exhibition series. Marlene is daughter of late Howie Morenz, all-star forward of Montreal Canadiens of thirties.</figcaption></div><h2>A Chip Off The Cake</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02261/1532783-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="1176" height="1378"><figcaption class="caption-body">All-Stars Andy Bathgate of the New York Rangers, left, and Jean Beliveau of the Montreal Canadiens look over huge cake, featuring club crests at the NHL All-Star banquet held in Montreal last week. Beliveau sports a shiner on his left eye, picked up during practice session. Beliveau slapped in two goals in game, making experts predict great season ahead for him. Bathgate&rsquo;s knees, troublesome in past, are reported in great shape for coming year.</figcaption></div><h2>Terry And His Understudy</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04169/1532776-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="1166" height="1410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Caught in a rest period at Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; camp, held at Detroit, Dennis Riggen, left, and veteran Terry Sawchuk. Coach Sid Abel of the Wings called Riggen a major league goaler who is slated to replace Terry in goal when the latter calls it quits. Riggen last season starred with the Edmonton Flyers of the Western Hockey League before being sidelined by injury.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Curry Assembles Mixture of Kids And Vets For EPL Sturt

<div class="byline">Al Parsley</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01318/1532828-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="306" height="336"></div>&bull; Gerry Desaulniers will be on his own directing the Trois Rivieres Lions in the Eastern Pro Hockey loop this season, end his host of old friends in the QHL&mdash;in Shawinigan, and Montreal, besides his new base of operations&mdash;wish him well.Desaulniers, personable, gentlemanly, quiet-spoken, fully-bilingual was immensely popular wherever he employed his hockey talents as well as in the contacts he made in the insurance field in which he enjoyed modest success.He played three seasons as smooth artisan at center with the Royals before moving the Shawinigan Falls in the autumn of 1954 when Kenny Reardon took charge in the Power City as general-manager to construct a great team that captured the Quebec League championship and then placed the Shawinigan name on hockey&rsquo;s map by winning a stirring series against Bud Poile&rsquo;s Edmonton Flyers, the Western League standard-bearers, to capture the Duke of Edinburgh Trophy, which is symbolic of minor-pro championship of Canada.His move down the St. Maurice Valley to Trois-Rivieres probably would never have occured had not Shawinigan abandonned exercise of its Quebec loop franchise last season. As it was Desaulniers was accorded the blessing of his old townspeople. It might have been otherwise had the bitter rivaly prevailing in these adjacent Quebec cities in hockey been maintained.The &lsquo;on his own reference back yonder likely needs clarification. Last season Gerry was playing coach of the Lions under some supervision from Jacques Toupin, the old CAHL and AHL performer who was general-manager of the Trois Rivieres club, and for several years directed the practises of the squad and masterminded the team in league competition from the bench.Desaulniers&rsquo; appointment as playing-coach was, in some quarters, merely shrugged off. Skeptics felt that Toupin would still be running the show. But it was soon explained that Desaulners was the man in charge, should take the bows for success and receive censure if reverses to the cause occured. Yet, the fact remained that Toupin was generally close to the bench during games in Montreal and other road rinks on the road.If Toupin didn&rsquo;t openly interfere, at least he was always in the background for a word of advice and it was he who made the deals; with his many friendships in minor league centers he was able to obtain support and player-help during any crisis.Now it seems it&rsquo;s all up to De saulniers. For Toupin, a resident of Trois-Rivieres who operates a thriving tavern in that city, has moved to Quebec City where he has been appointed first general-manager of the new project&mdash;the Quebec Aces&rsquo; venture in the American League.Del Dugre, former radio broad caster, with a considerably following in the Trois-Rivieres and St Maurice Valley area, now an executive with a prosperous brewery agency in the district, is Lions&rsquo; new general-manager. The president of the club is a prosperous business man, Jean Louis Caron.It&rsquo;s unlikely either will take a hand in any part of the operations, other than administration roles.The Lions made a deal during the past week that attracted considerable comment in Quebec Province, though it may not have aroused the same interest in other sectors of the Eastern Pro Circuit. Jean Paul Denis was acquired from Montreal Royals.Now a hockey player at 35 in many cases is tagged in the &ldquo;Who&rsquo;s Through&rdquo; category. With Denis it&rsquo;s different. For one thing he&rsquo;s a hard-worker both winter and summer. Especially summers. He&rsquo;s a stevedore on the Montreal docks and it&rsquo;s this strenuous labor that&rsquo;s made Jean Paul carry 165 pounds of rocklike bone and sinew on a 5&rsquo; 8&rdquo; chassis winter after winter into the ice wars. &#9632;

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ON THE SIDELINES

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;From all accounts Gilles Boisvert, the experienced custodian who was handed to Sudbury Wolves by Jack Adams, in line with Detroit Red Wings project to give the Eastern Pro loop entry from Northern Ontario a lift, is going to have a real hassle to hold the goal-keeping job.Boisvert was expected to be first stringer, and it is on the cards that Murph Chamberlain will be inclined to go with an old hand. But Cesare Maniago, the over-age junior from Toronto St. Michaels, has been showing such a flair in practice and exhibitions that it is likely to be battle between the two twine-tenders until Chamberlain tips his mitt a few days before the new pro circuit gets underway.The Wolves are late starters. Though Montreal Royals traveled to Sault Ste. Marie to get action started in the circuit, Oct. 8, Wolves weren&rsquo;t to get going until three days later when there is six club billing on Sunday, Oct. 11. Kingston Frontenacs meet the Lions in their den at Three Rivers; the &ldquo;Soo&rdquo; Thunderbirds visit Hull&rsquo;s one year old Arena to tackle Sam Pollock&rsquo;s promoted Canadiens and Wolves make their debut in the Montreal Forum, furnishing opposition for Royals.<h2>A $64 Question</h2>There had been talk that the Wolves would get either Gerry McNamara or Ed Chadwick, both chattels of Toronto Leafs, but with the uncertainty still apparent about Gerry McNeil&rsquo;s availability to Rochester Amerks, the American Leaguers were figured to get either McNamara or Chadwick. This is taking it for granted that Johnny Bower is the No. 1 guardian with the NHL Maple Leafs.What makes the Boisvert-Maniago jousting intriguing is that both veteran and rookie have been showing with aplomb for the Wolves as mentioned a moment ago.In fact when Wolves played an exhibition against Toronto Leafs, Boisvert shut out the Stanley Cup finalists in a brilliant 30-minutes of goal-keeping. Both Leafs counters in a 2-1 triumph&mdash;bagged by Frank Mahovlich and Bob Pulford in the third period&mdash;were against Maniago.Chamberlain indicated his sentiments to Paul Patton of The Sudbury Star. &lsquo;I thought Boisvert played one helluva game. You know he&rsquo;s just getting into shape, but he&rsquo;s a good man. I don&rsquo;t know if any of these others can beat him out.&rdquo;<h2>Healey Given Scrutiny</h2>While Murph had it pretty well figured that his line-up would be chosen for the early laps of the season at least, from men who had some licks in minor pro ranks, now it appears that Richie Healey, a gritty young defenceman who played senior hockey last year in Red Deer, Alta., looms as a dark horse.In the exhibition aforesaid Healey partnered Allan Stanley when Leafs loaned six players including a complete forward line to the Wolves. And Healey didn&rsquo;t look out of place.Kingston Frontenacs, under playing coach Cal Gardner, have been busy at Hull. A previous plan to spend part of their advance training time in Brockville, Ont., has been abandonned by the Kingston club executive.The &ldquo;Fronts&rdquo; will have the popular Negro players, last year with Quebec Aces, Billy O&rsquo;Ree and Stan Maxwell. Glenn Cressman, Buddy Boone and Roy Partridge have also looked lively in the early drills, while a close look is being given to Jack Rogers, a 20-year-old forward who was with Estevan, Sask., Bruins last year.<h2>One Of The &ldquo;Merchants&rdquo;</h2>Partridge is the sole survivor of last year&rsquo;s Senior OHA Kingston Merchants so far appearing with the Frontenacs. The roll-call showed 17 cities with representatives at early workouts in Hull.Partridge was with Victoria Cougars in the WHL a few years back. He played with Nelson Bulloch, last year as a rearguard with Quebec, also wroking out with &ldquo;Fronts&rdquo; along with centerman Skip Teal, who bagged 24 tallies in 1958-59 in the QHL.New York Rangers are sending plenty of young talent to Three Rivers where coach Gerry Desaulniers doesn&rsquo;t have many old pros on hand. There&rsquo;s Don Atamanchuk, who logged 33 goals and 14 assists for Winnipeg Rangers in the Manitoba Junior League last year and Norm Doyle, who was sensational in the Metropolitan Junior League (Montreal and environs) last season and was good enough to get a tryout with Ottawa Canadiens when invited by Sammy Pollock towards the end of the season.Another youngster who has made an impression with Lions is Andre Martin. With Louisville Rebels in the International League last year, Martin was a playmaker contributing 24 assists while firing four goals. He might make it on defence with Ian Anderson who has been handed to Lions by Jim Hendy of Cleveland Barons.Ted Hodgson, a long time favorite with various clubs in the Quebec League, is also back with Lions for defence duty.Ray Mikulan, who tended the cage for Vancouver Canucks in the WHL last season, looks to be the choice to succeed Claude Evans as Lions goal-keeper though a strong bid is being made by a youngster, Les Binkley, last season with Toledo Blades in the IHL.<h2>Heading For Kingston Front</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02277/1532873-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="560" height="880"><figcaption class="caption-body">Buddy Boone</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03217/1532866-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="536" height="864"><figcaption class="caption-body">Willie O&rsquo;Ree</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04169/1532859-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="562" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glenn Cressman</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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All Out Fight For EPL Jobs On

In The Montreal StarIt was something of a mild coincidence that, facing each other over the length of the Forum ice last Saturday night, were two young gentlemen subject of very considerable controversy midway of the last NHL season.This agent had good reason to recall this controversy, because those who waste their own time and that of their employers writing unsigned letters, bombarded us with low-grade literature because we espoused the cause of Canadiens&rsquo; Jacques Plante as against Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk. in the voting to establish the All Star team&rsquo;s top goaler.Sawchuk was placed in the lead in the first-half voting, Heaven only knows why, and to our own mild indignation. In the second half, the superiority of Plante was so evident that practically everybody with a vote, cast the ballot in his favor, and he became the No. 1 All Star goaler, which is as it should be.We recall the acrimonious letters that deluged our unkempt desk at that time, particularly one which sternly urged that our out-spoken support of what we considered fair play was certainly going to turn the sentiment of all other selectors against Plante and to Sawchuk. But the selectors were not as stupid as this contributor to our wastebasket seemed to believe. For in the second half the ballotting was overwhelmingly for the agile Habitant.So we got an added bit of satisfaction Saturday night when the maskless Plante, playing a superb game, turned back the Stars with only one goal. And the beleaguered Sawchuck, in the Stars net, was scored on six times by the League and Cup champions who. in their first real game, came up flying.<h2>The Missing Stars</h2>Probably this discrepancy in goals shouldn&rsquo;t be taken as a comparative rating of the two net-minders. For Canadiens were a well-groomed machine functioning smoothly and with understanding, while the Stars must, of necessity, depend upon intuition and individual skills.Even more important, and, we believe, a matter that should be studied in the future, the All Stars were that almost in name only. There were many of the greats of the game out there, but the Toronto hockey club, which went to the Cup finals last spring, and actually won a game, weren&rsquo;t represented by any of the listed Stars and the same applied to the Chicago representatives.Fact is. the All Star team was shot full of holes because players who had been elected to All Star positions were out of action because they haven&rsquo;t signed up with their clubs. And the reason such players as Dickie Duff, Tim Horton and Bob Pulford of the Leafs, and Tod Sloan, flashy Bobby Hull and Pierre Pilotte of Hawks, who haven&rsquo;t signed up with their clubs, is that a vast gulf exists between these players and club owners in the matter of how much the athletes are worth. The divergency in the case of Sloan is $4,000, a tidy sum. Hull wants $3,000 more, and other demands are in keeping.This left All Star coach, Punch Imlach, busy filling centre-ice gaps. He got several other players to fill in, and made up a reasonably good team, though not as strong, offensively, as it might have been if some of the unsigned stars had been in the lineup, notably Sloan, Hull and Duff.We don&rsquo;t know just what can be done about these absentees. The League stand, and rightly taken, we think, is that if the players aren&rsquo;t signed they can&rsquo;t participate. Perhaps an exception could be made for the All Star game. &#9632;

ELMER FERGUSON The Gist And Jest Of It

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01314/1532928-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;When goaler Jacques Plante of the Montreal Canadiens announced that he would wear a new plastic face mask in regular NHL games this season, it caused quite a controversy. The NHL said the mask was okay to wear but Coach Toe Blake of the Canadiens didn&rsquo;t like the idea of his ace wearing the monsterous looking thing. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s nothing wrong with his eyes or his health now,&rdquo; said Blake, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know whether we&rsquo;ll let him wear it or not.&rdquo; Plante has practised with it but didn&rsquo;t wear it for the All-Star game, in which he was a standout.It&rsquo;s doubtful that Jacques will wear it this season, other than in practise sessions. Before he packs it away for the season, wo thought we&rsquo;d give HN readers an idea of what to expect in the future. Above, Plante without, and Plante with his famous mask. A couple of fractured cheekbones help decide Jacques on the deisign. &#9632;

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The Man In The Plastic Mask

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FULL COLOR 9 × 11 GLOSSY PRINTS of HOCKEY’S TOP PERFORMERS

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;The five entries in the new combined easter-western setup of the Ontario Hockey Association senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series, Whitby, Belleville, Kitchener, Chatham and Windsor, are active lining up talent for the 1959-60 season, and impetus is added by a request from Sarnia for re entry. The Sarnia application, filed with Mark Hanna, of the Chatham club, was made too late for the coming campaign, but Mr. Hanna advised Sarnia to enter a team in senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; hockey this year and then seek entry in senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; company next season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01319/1533021-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="290" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ike Hildebrand</figcaption></div>One of the surprises of the early hockey season was the deal engineered by Johnny Horeck of the Chatham Maroons, whereby goalie Don Head returns to the Windsor Bulldogs&rsquo; fold in exchange for centre Lou Bendo. Head was perhaps the top goalie in the now defunct NOHA-OHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league last season, but Horeck is quoted as not being satisfied with Head&rsquo;s performance in the 1958-59 playoffs. So he signed Johnny Albani of Sudbury, who was out of action part of last season, for the Chatham netminding chores. The only fly in the ointment is that Bendo has refused to go to Chatham, which may mean that Horeck will have to look elsewhere for another pivot.Windsor Bulldogs have also purchased Tommy Walker, former Soo Greyhound forward, now that the Soo Thunderbids have entered the new Eastern Professional League.Kitchener has succeeded in signing Bob Forhan, an experienced right winger, who has been playing for Sudbury the last three years. Forhan taught school in Sudbury, but has enrolled as an arts student at the Waterloo University in the Twin Cities.<h2>Blair Signs Darling</h2>Ernie Goman, business manager of the Kitchener Dutchmen, has lined up a series of exhibition games in Ontario and elsewhere before his team takes off for the world championship tournament in Squaw Valley, Calf. He announces that the Dutchmen would meet the Whitby Dunlops at Stouffville, Otc. 9; play the new Galt senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; entry at Galt, Otc. 12, and is negotiating for other games with the new Stratford senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; team and possibility a fourth in the new Ingersoll arena.Wren Blair of Oshawa, probably one of the busiest men in hockey today, what with his joint job of manager of the Whitby Dunlops and Clinton comets, and co-ordinator of the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; amateur framework, has bolstered his Whitby team with the addition of Gery Darling, a standout right winger with Peterborough in the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA competition last season.With Ted O&rsquo;Connor new playing-coach at the helm, the Dunnies, numbering about 30, are working out at Whitby, where Blair&rsquo;s other team from Clinton, N.Y., is also training. He has resigned goalie John Henderson and defenceman Harry Sinden, the latter sought by several pro clubs.Belleville McFarlands have signed three members of the Kingston senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; team of last season, who have been re-christened Frontenacs for entry in the new minor pro loop. The Kingston players landed by Belleville are Bus Gagnon, Billy Colvin and Ted Toppazini. Gagnon led Whitby to the Allan Cup and world title before going to Kingston.Playing-coach Ike Hilderand of the Belleville club, also has hopes of bringing Roy Partridge, big blonde forward of the former Kingston Merchants, and Jacques Caron, netminding sensation of the Peterborough junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; club, into the Belleville picture. Another member of the Belleville club inked to a contract is goalie Gordie Bell, while &ldquo;Wiener&rdquo; Brown, Floyd Crawford and Minnie Menard are ready to affix their names on the dotted line, provided the latter does not turn pro with Cleveland Barons.Incidentally, Kitchener opens the OHA schedule in Belleville, Oct. 23, and Belleville plays the return game in Kitchener the next night. Prior to leaving Jan. 31 for the Olympic Games hockey tournament at Squaw Valley Calf., the Kitchener Dutchmen complete their OHA schedule the previous night. The Dutchmen will play a 48-game schedule in the OHA, with the other four teams playing 54. Eight of the Dutchmen&rsquo;s games will be worth four points, and these games include the last eight in the schedule.<h2>Joins Dunnies</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03248/1533014-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="553" height="736"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Darling</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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New East-West OHA Senior Loop Nixes Bid By Sarnia

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div>. STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;Two referees, to be named by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, will officiate in the Olympic Games tournament, according to Gordon Juckes, Melville, Sask., CAHA president, and will probably accompany the Kitchener Dutchmen on their exhibition tour enroute to the world championships in Squaw Valley, Calif., next February.Mr. Juckes also confirmed a western Canada tour by the Japanese Olympic hockey team. The Japs will arrive in Vancouver about Jan. 3 and play five or six games in British Columbia. They will appear in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Thunder Bay, and a series of 14 games is planned, mostly against intermediate and junior teams.The CAHA has also worked on the coming tour of the Moscow Selects, an all-star team from the eight class A clubs in the Russian capital. Plans are being made for a ten-game visit with seven of the contests in western Canada. Games in eastern Canada, which will be played immediately after the Russians&rsquo; arrival in mid-January, will have them meeting Belleville McFarlands in Montreal; Whitby Dunlops in Toronto, and Kitchener Dutchmen in Kitchener.Officials of the CAHA believe that these tours will help the reviving amateur hockey interest in western Canada. Mr. Juckes said that there will be a new four-team senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league in Saskatchewan this winter, the first in many years. Teams in the circuit are Saskatoon, Moosejaw, Regina and Yorkton.In addition, a four-team junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league is expected to operate in Alberta by the winter of 1960-61. Lethbridge has organized a junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; 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 year&rsquo;s time. For years only Edmonton Oil Kings were left in Alberta junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; ranks. &#9632;

Reds, Japs Set For Big Tour

<div class="byline">By WILF SMITH</div>In The Toronto Globe And MailTORONTO, Ont&mdash;Turk Broda will return as coach of Marlboros in the 1959-60 season.The fabulous fat man, who had to step down as coach in the middle of last season because of a stomach ailment, has pronounced himself fit and ready for another campaign.John (Peanuts) O&rsquo;Flaherty, newly appointed manager of the Marlboro organization, made the announcement at a meeting here of the Ontario Hockey Association junior A council.The Marlboro coaching situation had been left undecided until Broda became certain that he could handle the job again.&ldquo;Turk feels he&rsquo;s strong enough,&rdquo; confirmed co-owner Harold Ballard. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s all we were waiting to hear.&rdquo;Broda, who coached Marlies to Memorial Cups in 1955 and 1956, was succeeded by Ray Timgren, and later Alex Davidson, last season. There had been speculation that he wouldn&rsquo;t return to the pressures of coaching.O&rsquo;Flaherty, coach of teams in the Northern Ontario Hockey Association for several years, will act as manager of Marlboros juniors as well as the club&rsquo;s minor teams, Ballard said.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02277/1533076-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="303" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Turk Broda</figcaption></div>HOCKEY CLUBSFor your EQUIPMENT Write for SPECIAL TEAM PRICESDoug Laurie SportsMaple Leaf Gardens Bldg.&ldquo;HOME OF THE LEAFS&rdquo; 458 Church Street, Toronto 5, Ont.Phone: EM. 3-9447 &#9632;

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Broda Back In Harness, Takes Marlboro Post

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div>CINCINNATI, O.&mdash;Tempers around the International Hockey League are beginning to flare.At Fort Wayne, General Manager-Coach Ken Ullyot stated, &ldquo;The St. Paul Saints must be afraid of us. Now they are even refusing to play us in an exhibition game.&rdquo;Ullyot had previously stated that he was looking forward to training in St. Paul, because of the opportunity to play some exhibition games. After receiving the schedule of games from Joe Lein, General Manager of the Saints, in which they were only scheduled to play once against Omaha, Ullyot exploded.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02244/1533169-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="284" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fred Shero</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03178/1533162-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="304" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body">Metro Prystai</figcaption></div>&ldquo;It is inevitable that they will have to play us one the season opens, but they have already refused to play us in the opener in St. Paul, which would have provided the St. Paul fans with a look at one of the better teams in the IHL.&ldquo;We were originally invited to train with St. Paul, but it appears that we are now the intruder. Unless they rearrange the scheduling of exhibition games, we will train elsewhere.&rdquo;Andy Mulligan, General Manager of the Toledo Mercurys seems to be a bit perturbed about the new Denver Mavericks tampering with one of his players, Gordie Cowan.Said Mulligan, &ldquo;It seems mighty strange Cowan should now decide to go to the University of Denver just when Denver enters the IHL. After all, Cowan could have gone to the University of Toledo when he played for the Mercurys if he really wanted an education.&rdquo;Continuing Mulligan commented, &ldquo;If Gordie 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 consider selling him.&rdquo;Mulligan said that season ticket sales were ahead of last year in Toledo, indicating that interest in hockey is high.IHL NOTES&hellip;Joe Selinger, an All-American goaltender while Michigan State and Joe Palano, Mich. State Captain, have signed contracts for the coming year with the Denver club&hellip;Selinger played in the Western Canada Junior loop a few years back. He hails from Regina, Sask., while Palano comes from Sudbury, Ont&hellip;. Fred Shero is going to coach the new St. Paul entry, while former Cleveland Baron star, Johnny McLellan is slated to lead the Milwaukee Falcons&hellip;Metro Prystai is the Omaha mentor&hellip;Bob May, former Coach of the North Dakota University team will coach the Denver Mavericks&hellip;The same crew of coaches except one are back in the Eastern setup, with Ullyot at Ft. Wayne, Alex Wood at Toledo, Leo Gasparini at Louiseville. Marcel Clements of Sudbury is the new coach at Indianapolis, replacing Max Silverman. &#9632;

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Ex-Pros McLellan, Prystai And Shero Take IHL Posts

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The Hockey News

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01291/1533231-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK<h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Maple Leaf player shown in centre.8&mdash;Detroit players sometimes consume this between periods.9&mdash;Dean Prentice was born in this month (abbr.)11&mdash;Otherwise.12&mdash;Mrs. Noel Price is one.13&mdash;Month in which Earl Balfour celebrates his birthday (abbr.)14&mdash;Two of the Boston Bruins answer to this.16&mdash;One of the Buffalo Bisons.17&mdash;Ocean (abbr.)19&mdash;Former Bruin, Bobby Bauer, was married in this month (abbr.)21&mdash;N.H.L. team with whom pictured star first played (abbr.)23&mdash;Nattrium (Sym.)24&mdash;Ken Mosdell sells this (abbr.)25&mdash;Initials of a Toronto forward.27&mdash;Name given Stewart, ex Red Wing defense stalwart.28&mdash;Initials of pictured player.29&mdash;Girl&rsquo;s name.30&mdash;Initials of O&rsquo;Connor, former N.H.L. star.31&mdash;Initials of one of the famous Conacher brothers.32&mdash;Anger.33&mdash;Played with Boston last season.34&mdash;Initials of Brunel, player recently acquired by Toronto.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;This is what 20 down had an operation upon during the summer.2&mdash;Gary Aldcorn&rsquo;s former N.H.L. team (abbr.)3&mdash;Indefinite article.4&mdash;North East (abbr.)5&mdash;First name of an N.H.L. manager.6&mdash;Metro Prystai&rsquo;s birthplace.7&mdash;Red Kelly sold this in the off season.10&mdash;Initials of Smith, ex Ranger star.13&mdash;Mrs. Noel Price.15&mdash;Ells English, (abbr.)18&mdash;Scoring champion of 1934-35 season.20&mdash;A Black Hawk defenseman.22&mdash;Nickname of new AHL entry.24&mdash;Initials of Toronto&rsquo;s captain.25&mdash;Given name of Edmundson, player recently obtained by Torronto.26&mdash;One of the Maple Leafs answers to this.27&mdash;As the result of a hockey fracas, Ken Reardon once spent several hours in one.31&mdash;&ldquo;Pete&rdquo; Conacher&rsquo;s initials.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S SOLUTION</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Burns.4&mdash;Fox7&mdash;Ira8&mdash;Signals11&mdash;Garth12&mdash;One14&mdash;Ere15&mdash;Nov.16&mdash;Se.18&mdash;Gee19&mdash;Apr.21&mdash;Red22&mdash;O.H.24&mdash;Ra.26&mdash;Bn.27&mdash;Regan29&mdash;Oct.30&mdash;Gary31&mdash;Hue32&mdash;Ed.33&mdash;Marry<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;Boston2&mdash;Roggeveen3&mdash;Star4&mdash;Fisher.5&mdash;Or6&mdash;Xavier9&mdash;Na.10&mdash;Lt.13&mdash;Nose17&mdash;Spencer18&mdash;George19&mdash;Arbour20&mdash;R.D.23&mdash;Head24&mdash;Ray25&mdash;An28&mdash;G.R.31&mdash;Ha &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Hamilton will be the host city for OHA junior hockey&rsquo;s third annual all-star game next Jan. 6.The Ontario Hockey Association Junior A council voted at a meeting here, to change the set-up for the all-star game for one year, at least.The team leading the league after games of Dec. 29 will play a team of all-stars from the other six teams in Hamilton&rsquo;s Forum. In the past, the game was played in the home rink of the team in first place.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02254/1533262-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="300" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sam Pollock</figcaption></div>The move may be the first to permanently change the all-star set-up so that the game will rotate to a different city each year. The first two games were played in St. Catharines.Although he wasn&rsquo;t at the meeting, Sammy Pollock, chief of Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; farm system, was the centre (as usual) of a mild controversy.<h2>Emms Accuses Pollock</h2>Barries Hap Emms accused Pollock of &ldquo;stealing&rdquo; a player who was on Boston Bruins&rsquo; negotiation list and apparently destined for Barrie, farm team of the NHL club.Emms blasted the practice of professional clubs of bribing minor teams with dollars to hold up releases on their players, until the pro teams received first call.&ldquo;If all the pro teams wanted to spend the money, Maple Leafs or Canadiens could tie up every junior prospect in the province that way,&rdquo; charged Emms.Marlboros&rsquo; Harold Ballard said &ldquo;if the pros could take a few dollars and pay minor teams to hold up releases, they could blanket the province.&rdquo;Guelph&rsquo;s Arnold Somerville agreed.&ldquo;I think the smart thing for us to do is to get out and let the pros run it,&rdquo; Somerville said.Emms also objected to Pollock, who operates teams in Quebec, sitting in on the OHA junior A council meetings.&ldquo;How are you going to keep him out?&rdquo; asked Marlboros&rsquo; Harold Ballard. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s listed as a director of the Peterborough club.&rdquo; Peterborough is sponsored by Canadiens.&ldquo;Well, if Pollock is going to come in to our meetings and vote, and then knock our brains out later, then I am not going to bother coming here,&rdquo; Emms concluded.Council decided to suspend discussion on the matter until Pollock could attend a meeting and defend his position. &#9632;

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Sam’s In Hot Water Before Season Starts

<div class="byline">By GEORGE METZGER</div>WASHINGTON, DC.&mdash;The Eastern Hockey League adopted a weird playoff system and appointed a new vice president at its final get-ready meeting here late last month.Putting the easiest thing first, George L. Davis, Jr., president of the Phi1adelphia Ramblers, was elected vice-president of the eight-team loop.He will replace Jack Riley, who held that position while serving as general manager of the Johnstown Jets for the past few seasons. Riley has since moved up to assume the GM job with Rochester of the American League.There were no elections for president. Tom Lockhart just keeps rolling along by devine right and default.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03230/1533293-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="268" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Davis</figcaption></div><h2>Six Teams Have Chance</h2>Now an attempt will be made to explain the playoff setup. It is thought to be the correct version, although there are several variations floating around. When a verification was asked of one league official, he quipped:&ldquo;If you find out what we&rsquo;re doing, let ME know.&rdquo;The plan is a doozey. And it could only happen in the Eastern League.Here it is as we understand it. Of course it isn&rsquo;t official since the public relations-poor and unconscious EHL never made an official release about it. It was learned by listening at a keyhole.As you know, the league added New York and Greensboro this year to expand to eight clubs. At the same time, the loop was split into two sections of four clubs each.The Northern section is made up of Clinton, New Haven, New York and Philadelphia. The Southern division consists of Washington, Johnstown, Charlotte and Greensboro.This was a step in the right direction. And you would think the EHL moguls follow through and have the playoffs stay within each division and establish a divisional champion to face each other for the league crown.But, oh no. Not Lockhart&rsquo;s League. They have to get complicated and do things backwards. Listen to this:The first place teams in each division will play each other right off the bat in a best-of-five series. At the same time, the two No. 2 clubs will play each other as will the pair of third-place finishers. Each of these will also be the best-of-five.Now with this out of the way and possibly one whole devision eliminated, the-winner of the No. 2 series will face the survivor of the third-place teams preliminary. This will be a three-game series. (Note although this is actually the semi finals and closer to the crown, the number of games drop from five to three.)While this is going on, the winner of the five-game set between the two first place teams is lolling around for about a week, getting stale.The winner fo the second-place survivor versus the third-place survivor series will then face the now-stale first placers in a seven game brace for the league championship.By the time this is settled, the teams will just be about ready to head back to camp for the following season.<h2>Eastern Items</h2>NEW COACHES: Ken Wilson, Greensboro general manager, has signed Roly McLennahan to coach the Generals in their first season&hellip;It wasn&rsquo;t learned immediately if he will play&hellip;The Washington Presidents have inked Clare &ldquo;Rags&rdquo; Ragland, former Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks defenseman, as their tutor&hellip;He will succeed Andy Branigan who moved to New York to take over the reins of the Rovers as they mark then-return to the league&hellip;That complete&rsquo;s the coaching jobs around the loop.DATELINE WASHINGTON: The big news out of the nation&rsquo;s capital is that the Presidents will operate this year as a farm club of the Montreal Canadiens&hellip;The NHL powerhouse is supposed to send about five players down for seasoning&hellip;In the front office, the Presidents have signed Ray Miron, of Cornwall, Ontario, as general manager, and Robert B. Meickie, of Washington, as business manager&hellip;Miron was boss of the Cornwall Chevies of the Eastern Ontario League last year and was president of the old New York-Ontario League of which the Clinton Comets were once members&hellip;The Presidents will open training camp on October 12 at Brookville, Ontario&hellip;THINGS WE HEAR: Word has it now that the goaltender at Greensboro will be Billy Tibbs, veteran International and Western leagues netminder&hellip;While playing with Troy and Toledo of the IHL, Tibbs played in more games and recorded more shutouts than any other cage cop in the history of the loop&hellip;Herb Elk, of the New York Mirror, is going to come out with the best year book ever for the EHL&rsquo;s 25th anniversary&hellip;He was commissioned to edit the publication again after it disappeared for three years&hellip;The Eastern League may have a publicity man someday if they keep going. &#9632;

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Six Clubs To Get Chance In EHL Playoff System Set Up By Loop

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