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October 17, 1959

The Hockey News October 17, 1959

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<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The World hockey champion Montreal Canadiens often agree to donating and autographing hockey sticks, but they didn&rsquo;t expect one would land in the hands of a kin of the Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>It seems the Habitants all signed a stick that was sent to the boys&rsquo; club of St. Anselm&rsquo;s Church in suburban Toronto for a draw.</p><p>The winner: Peter Mahovlich, brother of Frank, the Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; forward and a rabid rival of the Canadiens.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Champs’ Autographed Stick Won By Younger Mahovlich

<h2><b>Sutherland Starts It Off</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>Y</span>oung Billy Sutherland of the Montreal Royals scored the first goal of the season as the new Eastern Professional Hockey League officially lifted the curtain for the season. At Sault Ste. Marie the Royals and Thunderbirds played to a 3-3 tie. The first goal came at 11:04 of the first period.</b></p><h2><b>Opener Draws Over 3,000</b></h2><p><b>The Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds and Montreal Royals played to a crowd of a little over 3,000 fans in the opener of the new Eastern Professional Hockey League season. Sault&rsquo;s first goal was scored by Don Black. The score was 3-3 with the home club getting the tieing goal at 7:36 of the final period.</b></p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p>(Standings On Mon., A.M., Oct. 12)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08190/1936894-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="589" height="181"></div><h3><b>GAMES THIS WEEK</b></h3><p><b>Mon. October 12</b></p><p><b>Hull-Ottawa at Sudbury</b></p><p><b>Wed. October 14</b></p><p><b>Hull-Ottawa at Kingston</b></p><p><b>Thur. October &lsquo;5</b></p><p><b>Three Rivers at Sault Ste. Marie</b></p><p><b>Montreal at Ottawa-Hull</b></p><p><b>Fri. October 16</b></p><p><b>Three Rivers at Sudbury</b></p><p><b>Sat. October 17</b></p><p><b>Sudbury at Kingston</b></p><p><b>Sun. October 18</b></p><p><b>Kingston at Montreal</b></p><p><b>Sudbury at Hull-Ottawa</b></p><p><b>Sault Ste. Marie at Three Rivers</b></p><h3><b>THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 Montreal 3 at Sault 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02422/1936887-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="580" height="557"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 Three Rivers 4 at Kingston 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03351/1936880-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="587" height="707"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 Sudbury 3 at Montreal 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04285/1936873-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="575" height="520"></div><h3><b>Sault 1 at Hull-Ottawa 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05243/1936866-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="577" height="547"></div><h3><b>Kingston 0 at Three Rivers 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06216/1936859-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="579" height="340"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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EASTERN PRO LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.-</p><p>Frank Mahovlich was able to restrain his enthusiasm when he was singled out as the National Hockey League&rsquo;s outstanding rookie at the conclusion of the 1957-58 season.</p><p>With candor that&rsquo;s rare in a professional athlete, the Maple Leaf prodigy said he wasn&rsquo;t especially pleased at receiving the Calder Trophy. Naturally, he was honored and naturally he was pleased to collect the $1,000 prize. However, he felt he&rsquo;d had a bad season, particularly toward the end and that perhaps, overall, he hadn&rsquo;t been quite as good as Chicago&rsquo;s flying freshman, Bobby Hull.</p><p>He would make amends, he promised. And he did in his second season, despite playing four games fewer, he increased his goal output from 20 to 22 and his points total from 36 to 49. He followed this up with a tremendous playoof effort, scoring six goals and five assists in 12 games. Until he demonstrates otherwise, he must now be ranked with the best left-wingers in the business.</p><p>Mahovlich, now known far and wide as &ldquo;The Big M&rdquo;, must be considered another Punch Imlach production.</p><p>Let&rsquo;s qualify that. Frankie came into the NHL with the greatest fanfare to greet any newcomer since Jean Beliveau. He arrived at Maple Leaf Gardens bearing a &ldquo;can&rsquo;t miss&rdquo; tag. However, aside from a two-week outburst in December, 1957, when he went on a goal jag that locked up the Calder nomination, he fell far short of justifying the predictions fo greatness. He was, to be frank about it, a loafer. He&rsquo;d make one big rush, if he got the chance, then let his linemates do the work for the rest of their shift.</p><p>That situation lasted until last January. At that time, Imlach, who was instituting his new Leaf regime, announced: &ldquo;Give me a month with Mahovlich, just a month.&rdquo;</p><p>Imlach hasn&rsquo;t revealed just what approach he used but he somehow made an enthusiastic hockey player out of big Frank.</p><p>By late February, after the month Imlach mentioned elapsed, Mahovlich began to roll. So did a line that was composed of Frank, centre Billy Harris and Gerry Ehman. They were even better in the playoffs. Ehman and Mahovlich each counted a goal in sudden death overtime and the trio totalled 14 goals in the 12 games Leafs lasted.</p><h2><b>At 21 He Has Earmarks Of A Great</b></h2><p>You may look for big things from that threesome this season. Mahovlich figures to become one of the NHL&rsquo;s biggest stars in 1959-60. And he&rsquo;s only 21, too.</p><p>The week before this fall&rsquo;s all-star game, Mahovlich was a holdout Or if not a holdout, technically, at least he had been unable to agree on contract terms with manager Imlach. But he did sign in time to qualify for the all-star game and, working with Gordie Howe on a line coaches dream about, was one of the better operatives for the selects.</p><p>Naturally, no person knows the details of that contract, which was arrived at only after lengthy negotiations involving Imlach, Frankie and Frank&rsquo;s father, Peter Mahovlich. It is rumored, however, to be a three-year deal that makes the youngster one of the better paid serfs in hockey. And if he continues to develop the way past performances indicate he will, he&rsquo;ll be worth it.</p><p>Mahovlich&rsquo;s ability, like that of a few players of the Jean Beliveau, Andy Bathgate ilk, is beyond controversy. Last spring, during a playoff game in Boston, this reporter sat with Leaf executive King Clancy among the partisan balcony fans at the Garden. The spectators rained abuse on the Leafs and on Clancy who matched every insult and every taunt they hurled his way. But when Mahovlich would go to work, there was no argument.</p><p>&ldquo;Wish we had that guy,&rdquo; said these fanatics, who&rsquo;d had nothing good to say about any of the other Leafs. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s going to be great.&rdquo;</p><p>Big Gutch, for that&rsquo;s Frank&rsquo;s nickname, was earmarked for hockey&rsquo;s big-time, way back in the early 1950&rsquo;s when he was playing tadpole hockey in the Schumacher and Timmins area. Every professional team had scouts calling around at the Mahovlich homestead to try to persuade the folks to turn the lad over to their organization.</p><p>Finally, Peter Mahovlich decided St. Michael&rsquo;s college, a parochial school in Toronto as famous for its top students as its hockey teams, was the place for Frankie. And that meant his destiny lay with the Maple Leafs.</p><p>Frank spent his first season with the St. Mikes Buzzers, a junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; team. The following term, 1954-55, he moved up to the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; majors, but got in only 25 games, tallying 12 goals and. 11 assists. The next season, still hampered by an injury bugaboo he wasn&rsquo;t to shake until he turned pro, he got 24 goals and 24 assists in 30 games. Then in 1956-57, he reached his junior pinnacle, collecting 52 goals and 36 assists and winning the Red Tilson Memorial trophy as the top player in Ontario junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey, as well as being elected all-star centre.</p><p>That spring, 1957, he joined Leafs for three games and was impressive enough, counting one goal, to merit elevating him all the way to the NHL the following season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01435/1936437-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="280" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Punch Imlach</b></figcaption></div><h2><b><i>BRIGHT LIGHTS 0N TORONTO HORIZON</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02401/1936430-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="537" height="543"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Mahovlich</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03319/1936423-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="549" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Billy Harris</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04242/1936416-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="526" height="541"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gerry Ehman</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Imlach Leaning Hard On Gatch’s Boom-Boom Stick

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01296/1937397-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Two things a goaler must do when a Rocket bears down on him. He must watch the puck and the Rocket. That is what Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk is finding out in the above picture. Richard, playing his 18th NHL season, scored in his first game against the Boston Bruins. Sawchuk is making sure it doesn&rsquo;t happen to him. He blocked the shot, kept his eye on Richard and the game wound up in a 1-1 tie. Sawchuk was the first star in the Wings&rsquo; first game.</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>The &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; In His Orbit</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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EIGHTEEN EXPERTS HAND HABS THE FLAG

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><p>MONTREAL, Que&mdash;</p><p>THE HOCKEY NEWS went to the polls this week, and came back with an old familiar story. If you ask a newspaperman, or radio or TV expert, how he thinks the race for the 1959-60 honors will go. he is certain about one thing his team will make it.</p><p>Once again 18 experts were asked and every one of them said the club which is located in the city where he works will be among the top four, when playoff time rolls around next March.</p><p>Three of the experts (outside of Montreal picked their club to finish first. Stan Fischler, The Hockey News correspondent picked the New York Rangers for first; Steve O&rsquo;Leary of the Boston American calls the Bruins to top the list, and Charles Bartlett of the Chicago Tribune, says Chicago will be on top when the season ends. The remaining 15 experts picked the powerful Montreal Canadiens to repeat for the third straight season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0430/1937466-1-eng-US/cover-042.jpg" title="Cover-04" width="267" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gary Aidcorn</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Habs In A Breeze</b></h2><p>The experts called the Montreal Canadiens to win it in a breeze. They think Chicago will be second, and Toronto a close third. They call the Boston Bruins for fourth and place the New York Rangers fifth and Detroit at the bottom of the heap. It was the first time in NHL history that they had picked the Wings to end last.</p><p>No fewer than 15 picked the Habs for first, two picked the Canadiens to finish second and one for third. All agreed that the Champs will make the playoffs.</p><p>The amazing Chicago Black Hawks were picked for second, by a large margin. One writer picked them for first, while eight relegated them to second, five feel they will end third and three are of the opinion they will make the fourth, and last playoff position. Only one expert picked the Braves to finish outside the first division.</p><p>He is Rex MacLeod of the Toronto Globe and Mail. No one picked the Injuns for last.</p><p>No one believes the Toronto Maple Leafs will finish first either, but four are of the opinion they can survive the race in second, while five put them in third, five in fourth and three put them into fifth and one in last.</p><p>Boston, once the experts&rsquo; choice as top challengers, aren&rsquo;t in their favor any more. They have been lowered to fourth, although Steve O&rsquo;Leary of the Boston American sentimentally picks them first. Two others say they&rsquo;ll end second, four say they&rsquo;ll be in third and seven call them to make the grade in fourth. Only one picks them out of the playoffs in fifth, and three say they will hit the basement this season.</p><p>The New York Rangers, despite all of Phil Watson&rsquo;s magic, and Andy Bathgate&rsquo;s poise, won&rsquo;t make it this season either. However, Watson did get to Stan Fischler, your New York Hockey News&rsquo; correspondent and Stan picked the Blues to end first. Two more feel that Watson&rsquo;s cowboys can make it to second while three give them third. It is the considered opinion of most of the experts that the Rangers will not make the playoffs. No one calls them for fourth, six relegate them to fifth (where they finished last year) and six more say they will replace the Detroit Red Wings in the cellar.</p><p>The Detroit Red Wings, once the power and the glory of the NHL, will be out of the race from the start, if you listen to the 18 Hockey New&rsquo;s experts. No one picked them in the first three positions, but three called them for fourth, seven for fifth and eight are of the opinion that the Wings are going nowhere this year.</p><h2><b>Haven&rsquo;t Seen Clubs</b></h2><p>Actually, the experts are making their choices on what they saw at the tail end of last season. Few of them had seen more than two or three clubs before they were asked to make their predictions. They have not considered what each club has added to their present roster, but have remembered what the Leafs and Hawks did in the playoffs, and how the Bruins fell to the Imlach crew.</p><p>There are many things that could prove them wrong once again. If the &ldquo;Pappy Line&rdquo; of the Hawks fails to come through, then Rudy Pilous will have to reshuffle his team. That line did the bulk of the scoring for him last year, and he&rsquo;s counting on it to carry the club again. If they don&rsquo;t, the Hawks might well slip down the ladder.</p><p>The experts pick the Leafs third, mostly on what they did in the last five games of the season and in the playoffs. Yet, they fail to realize that the Rangers lost themselves a playoffs spot, the Leafs didn&rsquo;t win themselves one. The Leafs will sport virtually the same club that eased them into a playoff position in the final 20 minutes of last season. They have added Johnny Wilson, Ted Hampson, Gary Edmundson and defenseman Al MacNeil. Can they give the Leafs the power to get them up there arly in the season? That&rsquo;s a question that will not be answered for some time.</p><p>The Boston Bruins were chosen fourth on the strength of a solid defense and one outstanding trio. They place the Hub defense second to Montreal&rsquo;s and consider Horvath, Bucyk and Stasiuk the key men in the race that will get them into fourth. If the &ldquo;Uke Lane&rdquo; fails, so will the Bruins.</p><p>New York Rangers, a club that looked like it was destined for great things not too many years ago, have been relegated to fifth place. The experts feel that the Rangers don&rsquo;t have the scoring power, nor the defense to close the gap between fifth and first, or even fourth. The story of the Rangers leans heavily on Andy Bathgate, Andy Hebenton and Bill Gadsby. Watson is hoping for great things for Brian Cullen and Ian Cushenan, but he can&rsquo;t expect the addition of this twosome, plus Ken Schinkel from Springfield to give him the necessary power to make the first division. He&rsquo;s weak on the bench, and unless Eddie Shack and Jim Bartlett come through then Mr. Watson is going to find it tough to get in there.</p><p>The Detroit Red Wings are the mystery club. Abel still has Sawchuk, Kelly, Pronovost, Howe and Delvecchio. He has added Jim Morrison on defense and Val Fonteyne, Stu MacNeill, Jerry Melnyk, Barry Cullen and Gary Aldcorn. He brought back Billy McNeill from Edmonton. At least two of the newcomers must hit the 20 goal mark for the Wings to improve. Abel got rid of Mickoski and Johnny Wilson, who scored 22 goals between them last season. Morrison tightens up his defense. Sawchuk allowed a record 209 goals last season. He was great, his defense weak. Kelly had a bad year and Abel looks to better things from the Redhead. Pronovost is at his peak and Godfrey is far from the worst in the league. On the bench he has Lou Marcon and Pete Goegan.</p><p>If Abel can get 20 goals from Aldcorn and Cullen and 15 from Fonteyne and Melnyk, then he could make the experts look very foolish.</p><p>Oh yes, the experts also picked the Montreal Canadiens for first.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Call Injuns, Leafs, Bruins For Playoffs

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The Detroit Red Wings were in the unusual position of finally being able to relax once the National Hockey League schedule got underway.</p><p>Not that the Detroiters planned to take it easy. Quite the opposite, after a sixth - place finish last season they were the hungriest of any Detroit team in years.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02200/1937435-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="275" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Abel</b></figcaption></div><p>But they also could eye the NHL pace, with its average of three games a week, as a much less strenuous assignment.</p><p>As part of his new theories and practice, Jack Adams booked an exhibition schedule which called for the Wings to play 13 games in a 17-day span. For the handful of top notchers who also took part in the All-Star Games, it meant 14 games in 17 days.</p><p>&ldquo;It sounds like a lot of hockey but I don&rsquo;t believe it was too much,&rdquo; Sid Abel replied when asked if this wasn&rsquo;t overdoing it a bit.</p><p>&ldquo;We kept alternating four forward lines all the time and we had six defensemen in some of those games. No one was overworked.</p><p>&ldquo;I agree it was tiring, but not so much because of playing hockey but because we had a run of one-night stands with bus and plane travel packed in between.&rdquo;</p><p>Abel was convinced that the team was in top physical condition without being overtrained. He also felt that the club was stronger going into the campaign than a year ago.</p><p>The Wings were perfect in the exhibition series, all against minor-league opposition. First came nine straight victories (in 10 nights) on a swing through Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Next came the one pre-season home stand, a 5-0 victory over Hershey&rsquo;s American League playoff champs. Finally there were three straight nights against clubs in the new Eastern loop.</p><p>&ldquo;I wish those games had some trade-in value in the NHL,&rdquo; Abel cracked in talking about the victory run.</p><p>The first 10 games offered a good sample. The Wings ran up a 64-19 margin in scoring and all forward lines shared in the feast.</p><p>Most pleasing was the play of the so-called rookie line <i>of</i> Gerry Melnyk-Val Fonteyne-Billy McNeill. Melnyk was getting his first chance after five years in the farm system. Fonteyne showed enough stuff in camp that his contract was purchased from Seattle. McNeill is the blond winger who has shuttled back and forth from the Edmonton farm for three seasons.</p><p>General manager Jack Adams planted them together on paper a month before camp opened, and those paper plans carried right over onto the ice. They started to sparkle in camp scrimmages and developed rapidly on the exhibition swing.</p><p>In the first 10 games, this line counted 21 goals. Melnyk was the team leader with eight. Fonteyne tied Gordie Howe for second with seven goals. McNeill had six</p><p>Compared to their 21 goals, Howe&rsquo;s line got 16 with Len Lunde adding six and Gary Aldcorn three.</p><p>The other big line was broken up by Barry Cullen&rsquo;s knee injury. Alex Delvecchio and Norm Ullman each had five goals while Cullen got two before he was hurt.</p><p>The fourth line formed for the trip came up with eight goals, five by Jack McIntyre, three by Forbes Kennedy while John McKenzie was blanked.</p><p>In addition, 12 goals came off the defense&mdash;Red Kelly and Jim Morrison three each; Marcel Pronovost and Warren Godfrey two each; Pete Goegan and Lou Marcon one each.</p><p>The most unusual note of the exhibitions was the way Detroit dominated play during the middle period. The Wings scoring margin was 12-5 in the first stanza. 32-1 in the second period and 25-13 in the finale.</p><p>Attendance averaged 5,100 on the Western trip with a high count of 6,930 at Winnipeg and a low of 3,700 in the opener at Fort William.</p><p>Howe, who has been known to kill penalties, work the power play and take double line shifts, has been given relief this season. Abel does not plan to use the veteran winger at penalty killing except in emergencies.</p><p>The penalty-killing teams, depending upon which lines are the freshest, will be Ullman-Delvecchio or Melnyk-Fonteyne.</p><p>Howe will get a special assignment on power plays, however. The No. 1 power combo will see Howe join Ullman and Delvecchio on the front line with Lunde and Jim Morrison at the point. If another line is used, Hawe will play right point.</p><h2><b>Gets His Chance</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0379/1937428-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="552" height="519"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gerry Melnyk</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Wings Showed Power In Pre-Season Games

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>elow is the points tabulation for the six NHL clubs. First place votes gave a club six points, second gave a club five, third, four, fourth, three, five, two and last one point.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01394/1935705-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="598" height="188"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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How They Placed ‘Em

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The six NHL coaches can take heart from the poll conducted by THE HOCKEY NEWS each season. Only once in the poll&rsquo;s history has an expert picked the six clubs in order of their finish before the season started.</p><p>Mel Woody of the Newark News picked the finish of the clubs in 1956-57. Since that time no one has been 100% right.</p><p>Last season Ed Fitkin, veteran CBC radio and TV broadcaster came closest. He picked the right order for the first four team but placed Detroit fifth instead of sixth.</p><p>Going back to last season, the experts picked the clubs thusly: Montreal, Boston, New York, Detroit, Chicago and Toronto. Actually they finished with Montreal first, then Boston, Chicago, Toronto, New York and Detroit.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Ed Fitkin Came Closest To Picking Them Right In ‘59

<div class="byline">LEN BRAMSON</div><p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Since everyone else is getting into the polling act, it is only fair that your editor get in his say before the door closes. How does he see the finish of the 1959-60 season.</p><p>He sees it as follows: Montreal, Toronto, Boston, Detroit, Chicago and New York.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Oops—HN Expert Gets In His Bid, Along With Rest

<h2><b>MATT DENNIS Windsor Daily Sta</b></h2><p>1 - MONTREAL</p><p>2 - CHICAGO</p><p>3 - TORONTO</p><p>4 - DETROIT</p><p>5 - NEW YORK</p><p>6 - BOSTON</p><h2><b>LEWIS H. WALTER Detroit Times</b></h2><p>1 - MONTREAL</p><p>2 - CHICAGO</p><p>3 - BOSTON</p><p>4 - DETROIT</p><p>5 - TORONTO</p><p>6 - NEW YORK</p><h2><b>MARSHALL DANN Detroit Free Press</b></h2><p>1 - MONTREAL</p><p>2 - TORONTO</p><p>3 - CHICAGO</p><p>4 - DETROIT</p><p>5 - NEW YORK</p><p>6 - BOSTON</p><h2><b>FRANK FALLON Radio WBOS, Boston</b></h2><p>1 - MONTREAL</p><p>2 - BOSTON</p><p>3 - TORONTO</p><p>4 - CHICAGO</p><p>5 - DETROIT</p><p>6 - NEW YORK</p><h2><b>STEVE O&rsquo;LEARY Boston American</b></h2><p>1 - BOSTON</p><p>2 - MONTREAL</p><p>3 - CHICAGO</p><p>4 - TORONTO</p><p>5 - DETROIT</p><p>6 - NEW YORK</p><h2><b>ROGER BARRY Quincy Patriot Ledger</b></h2><p>1 - MONTREAL</p><p>2 - NEW YORK</p><p>3 - CHICAGO</p><p>4 - BOSTON</p><p>5 - TORONTO</p><p>6 - DETROIT</p><h2><b>FRED CEDERBERG Toronto Telegram</b></h2><p>1 - MONTREAL</p><p>2 - TORONTO</p><p>3 - BOSTON</p><p>4 - CHICAGO</p><p>5 - DETROIT</p><p>6 - NEW YORK</p><h2><b>REX MacLEOD Toronto Globe and Mail</b></h2><p>1 - MONTREAL</p><p>2 - NEW YORK</p><p>3 - TORONTO</p><p>4 - BOSTON</p><p>5 - CHICAGO</p><p>6 - DETROIT</p><h2>WES MCKNIGHT <b>Radio CFRB, Toronto</b></h2><p>1 - MONTREAL</p><p>2 - CHICAGO</p><p>3 - BOSTON</p><p>4 - TORONTO</p><p>5 - NEW YORK</p><p>6 - DETROIT</p><h2><b>Montreal 1st</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02376/1935819-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="565" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Coach Toe Blake</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Chicago 2nd</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03341/1935812-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="547" height="546"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Coach Rudy Pilous</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Toronto 3rd</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04262/1935805-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="544" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Coach Punch Imlach</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Boston 4th</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05191/1935798-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="547" height="543"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Coach Milt Schmidt</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>New York 5th</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06125/1935791-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="562" height="558"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Coach Phil Watson</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Detroit 6th</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0766/1935784-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="544" height="543"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Coach Sid Abel</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>ELMER FERGUSON Montreal Star</b></h2><p>1 - MONTREAL</p><p>2 - TORONTO</p><p>3 - CHICAGO</p><p>4 - BOSTON</p><p>5 - NEW YORK</p><p>6 - DETROIT</p><h2><b>ANDY O&rsquo;BRIEN Weekend Magazine</b></h2><p>1 - MONTREAL</p><p>2 - TORONTO</p><p>3 - CHICAGO</p><p>4 - BOSTON</p><p>5 - DETROIT</p><p>6 - NEW YORK</p><h2><b>DINK CARROLL Montreal Gazette</b></h2><p>1 - MONTREAL</p><p>2 - CHICAGO</p><p>3 - NEW YORK</p><p>4 - TORONTO</p><p>5 - BOSTON</p><p>6 - DETROIT</p><h2><b>BUD PALMER CBS-TV</b></h2><p>1 - MONTREAL</p><p>2 - BOSTON</p><p>3 - NEW YORK</p><p>4 - CHICAGO</p><p>5 - DETROIT</p><p>6 - TORONTO</p><h2><b>DAVE ANDERSON New York Journal American</b></h2><p>1 - MONTREAL</p><p>2 - CHICAGO</p><p>3 - NEW YORK</p><p>4 - BOSTON</p><p>5 - TORONTO</p><p>6 - DETROIT</p><h2><b>STAN FISCHLER The Hockey News</b></h2><p>1 - NEW YORK</p><p>2 - CHICAGO</p><p>3 - MONTREAL</p><p>4 - TORONTO</p><p>5 - DETROIT</p><p>6 - BOSTON</p><h2><b>DAN MOULTON Chicago American</b></h2><p>1 - MONTREAL</p><p>2 - CHICAGO</p><p>3 - TORONTO</p><p>4 - BOSTON</p><p>5 - DETROIT</p><p>6 - NEW YORK</p><h2><b>JACK GRIFFIN Chicago Sun-Times</b></h2><p>1 - MONTREAL</p><p>2 - CHICAGO</p><p>3 - TORONTO</p><p>4 - BOSTON</p><p>5 - NEW YORK</p><p>6 - DETROIT</p><h2><b>CHARLES BARTLETT Chicago Tribune</b></h2><p>1 - CHICAGO</p><p>2 - MONTREAL</p><p>3 - BOSTON</p><p>4 - TORONTO</p><p>5 - NEW YORK</p><p>6 - DETROIT<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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How The Experts Picked ‘Em

<div class="byline">By BUD-BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01393/1935857-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GLENN HALL&hellip;&rdquo;Mr. RELIABILITY&rdquo;</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;</p><p>Reliability in a netminder has been something pretty hard to come by in the National Hockey League in recent seasons and until the arrival of Glenn Hall from Detroit two years ago, the situation was becoming increasingly crutial for Chicago&rsquo;s then floundering Black Hawks.</p><p>In general terms, of course, goaltending is not that shaky in the NHL or any other hockey circuit, but the number of men that tend the twines right through a complete schdule and the playoffs as well is remarkably small, according to established statistics.</p><p>Check the National League just last year, for example. A total of 16 goalies were used through the regular 70-game slate by the six clubs with only Hall going the route with Chicago&mdash;ample proof why he has earned the title of &ldquo;Mr. Reliability&rdquo; as a Hawk and within the NHL on the whole.</p><p>As the 170-pound, mild-muscled Hall performed through 70 regular games and then six more in the playoofs, even the champion, cup winning a Cnadiens had to back Jacques Plante up with Charlie Hodge, Claude Pronovost and Claude Cyr during the 1958-59 schedule.</p><h2><b>Has Stopped Many Pucks</b></h2><p>The Rangers also called upon four men for net duty: Gump Worsley, Bruce Gamble, Marcel Paille and for a special emergency chore, Detroit&rsquo;s assistant trainer, Julian Klymkiw. The Red Wings had to come up with Bobby Perrault as a temporary replacement for Terry Sawchuk for three games.</p><p>Boston&rsquo;s Don Simmons was replaced by the veteran Harry Lumley for 11 games and for one game by young Don Keenan while, of course, Toronto decided to pay two goalies for the season and platooned Johnny Bowers and Ed Chadwick through the entire season.</p><p>But Hall&rsquo;s &ldquo;Mr. Reliability&rdquo; title has more to it than that for among the NHL&rsquo;s present crop of netminders he stands completely alone with a record which goes all out in pointing up the true extent of his dependability&hellip;Glenn Hall has never missed a National League game!</p><p>As he skates into his sixth uninterrupted year in the big time, his third as Black Hawk goalie, Hall has 280 consecutive games behind him&hellip;280 games in which he has had more than 8,000 pucks propelled in his direction from all angles at all speeds.</p><p>How does the 28&#8210;year old Hall look at this distinction? Will this be a &ldquo;kiss of death&rdquo; article that will bring his enviable string of consecutive games to an end in the near future?</p><p>&ldquo;In the first place and mainly,&rdquo; responds Glenn, &ldquo;I have been extremely fortunate&mdash;lucky if you like&mdash;when it comes to injuries. 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;</p><p>&ldquo;No, I&rsquo;m not worrying about the end of this streak no matter when it conies. 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;</p><p>The Black Hawk are also taking a completely realistic outlook in terms of Glenn Hall and the club and organization goaltending in general. There&rsquo;s still complete confidence in the ability of the western Canada puck stopper, but there&rsquo;s the future to be considered too.</p><h2><b>Pick Up Two Goaler</b></h2><p>This became evident recently when General Manager Tommy Ivan announced the purchase of both Claude Pronovost and Ed Johnston from the Canadiens&hellip;two established professionals expected to fit into the Chicago system of farm clubs that continues to grow yearly.</p><p>&ldquo;We realized that this would be the time to take action of this sort for 1959-60 represents the first year that our St. Catherines Juniors are not sure of their netminding in terms of a proven player. In the last seven years there have been Marv Edwards, Roy Edwards and then Dennis Dejordy.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;The TeePees have been pretty fortunate over so long a span&hellip;a span that may be at an end. So we have secured Pronovost and Johnston, both comparatively young, to fit into our system now just in case goalie production slows down from our main starting point that&rsquo;s the St. Catherines team.&rdquo;</p><p>With Hall being bracked up now by Roy Edwards, Pronovost, Dejordy and Johnston, probably in that order, Chicago&rsquo;s netminding strength has more muscle than at any other time in the club&rsquo;s 33-year history. And the St. Catherines job is being sought by no less than seven teenage hopefuls and who knows?</p><p>The successor to Glenn Hall who will undoubtedly have to be found sooner or later, however, will find he&rsquo;ll be stepping into a job of no small requirements. Glenn, in effect, has spoiled Chicago fans with the best netminding for the Hawks since the days of Charlie Gardiner.</p><h2><b>Tops In Modern History</b></h2><p>Hall is the only goalie in Chicago&rsquo;s modern history going back to 1943 to give the club a goal&rsquo;s against average of less than three for two years running. Al Rollins had a 2.50 mark in 1952-53, but it soared to 3.23 the following year and 3.41 the year after that.</p><p>The two-year average registered by Hall for 140 games is 2.92 and he hopes to be able to knock that down considerably in the 1959-60 campaign. The first Hawk goalie to make an NHL All-Star squad (1957-58) since Lorne Chabot in 1934-35, Glenn has the equipment to do just that with enough help from his mates.</p><h2><b>Big Brave In Injun Teepee</b></h2><h2><b>A Tip From The Top</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02318/1935850-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1129" height="984"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Goaler Glenn Hall came Into the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings, after a sparkling minor league career. Above, Jim Skinner, his Detroit coach, gives him a few tips on how to stop the stars.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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CHI GOALER HAS NEVER MISSED A GAME IN MAJORS

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>HICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Glenn Hall, Chicago&rsquo;s veteran netminder in training here for the 1959-60 edition of the NHL club, is now in a general contracting partnership with a neighbor in his hometown of Edmonton, Alex MacAskill, who has been in the building business for 15 years.</p><p>&ldquo;Alex and I set up our partnership this summer,&rdquo; discloses Glenn, current iron man among organized hockey&rsquo;s goaltenders. &ldquo;We specialize mainly in masonry construction for business and commerce.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hall Sets Up Contracting Business With Edmontonian

<p>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;After 18 years of professional hockey, 37&#8210;year old Billy Mosienko has decided to call it quits.</p><p>&ldquo;I came to the conclusion&hellip; that I&rsquo;d stretched my career long enough&rdquo;, said Mosienko. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got enough bruises to remember it by&rsquo;.&rsquo;</p><p>The former Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; star made his announcement at Winnipeg, home of the Western Hockey League Warriors. Mosienko joined the club in 1955, after a 14 year career in Chicago.</p><p>Mosie, a five-foot eight, 160 pounder collected 258 goals and 282 assists in his big league career. He ranks seventh among all time NHL scorers. In playoff competition he scored 10 goals and four assists in 22 games. In 1952, he set a record by scoring three goals in 21 seconds in a game against the New York Rangers. In 1945 he won the Lady Byng Trophy as the NHL&rsquo;s most gentlemanly player.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Mosienko’s 18 Year Career In Pro Ranks Comes To End

<p><b>THE INTER NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p><b>Founded October 1st, 1947</b></p><p><b>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd., 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West,</b></p><p><b>Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Ken McKenzie, Len Bramson, Will V. Cote,</b></p><p><b>Publisher Editor-in-Chief General Manager</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth;</b></p><p><b>$4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries</b></p><p><b>Entered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953, at the Post Office</b></p><p><b>at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879</b></p><p><b>Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa</b></p><p><b>Printed in Canada</b></p><p><b>Vol. 13 MONTREAL, OCTOBER 17, 1959 No. 3</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01457/1935988-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="375" height="458"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02424/1935981-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="571" height="140"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>C</span>HICAGO&mdash;IF</b> the fans in this city aren&rsquo;t the most enthusiastic in the world, which I think they are, they must be the noisiest&hellip; It was a great opening night crowd on hand to cheer the Black Hawks to their 5-2 win over New York&hellip; and this game must rate as one of the most successful openers in Chicago history&hellip; The enthusias of the fans appears to have picked up where it left off last Spring in the exciting Stanley Cup playoffs between Chicago and Montreal&hellip; Red Storey was hung in effigy at the Hawks&rsquo; opener. A few rabid fans had a dummy completely dressed with a striped shirt, black trousers, real skates, and a red mop for the head toppled over which was supposed to be Red&rsquo;s&hellip; A sign above the dummy read &ldquo;Rest in Peace&rdquo;&hellip; It was in Chicago that Storey worked his last NHL game as a referee&hellip;Knowing how much Red likes a joke, I know he would have laughed longer and harder than anyone, had he witnessed the hanging here&hellip;Storey, incidentally, is doing very well as a liquor salesman since his retirement from the National League&hellip;Both Tommy Ivan and Rudy Pilous were very pleased with the showing made by their younger players such as Bobby Hull, Moose Vasko and rookies &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Hay, Murray Balfour and Stan Mikita&hellip;Hull and Mikita were the best men on the ice&hellip;Pilous was a little worried about this game as he thought his charges were short on condition&hellip; They looked anything but, and displayed a fine all-round performance. Every Hawk played but Ken Wharram&hellip;Dollard St. Laurent, who I&rsquo;d like to see play more, will be one of the Hawks&rsquo; top defensemen before the season ends&hellip;Bespectacled Al Arbour who scored Chi&rsquo;s first goal of the new season already has half as many as he scored all of last season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03348/1935974-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="292" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>D. St. Laurent</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>OWNER</b> Jim Norris flew up from his home in Florida to personally sign a few of the Hawks who were holdouts&hellip;Ron Murphy and Bobby Hull were the last to sign and they inked their contracts a few hours before game time&hellip; Lou Fontinato, Rangers&rsquo; swashbucking defenseman, missed the opener due to a knee injury. Lou injured the knee in an exhibition game in St. Paul, Minn. a few days before the NHL opener&hellip; New York Rangers will fly to all of their out of town games except four this season&hellip;All of the NHL clubs with the exception of Canadiens will be flying a lot this season&hellip;Canadiens will remain loyal to the railroads&hellip;Gen J. R. Kilpatrick, president of the Rangers, flew here for the opener, as did Dave Anderson, the well-informed writer of the New York Journal American&hellip;Other New York writers who covered the game were Lou Effrat of the Times, Leonard Koppett of the Post and Jim Ogle of the Newark Star Ledger&hellip;These gents were in Chicago for the World Series&hellip;Jack Hand and Joe Reichler of the Associated Press in New York, were also press box viewers&hellip; Dan Desmond, former hockey writer with the Chicago American and also former correspondent for THE HOCKEY NEWS, was on hand. Dan is doing very well in the publicity business now and handles the Chicago Bears pro football team among others&hellip; We ran into a lot of our hockey writing pals at the World Series press reception located at the LaSalle Hotel here, which is where all the NHL clubs stop when visiting Chicago&hellip; Lyall Smith, Detroit; John Gilooly, Bill Liston, Boston; Milt Dunnell, Scott Young, Toronto; Leo Peterson, New York were included among the many we encountered in the lavish press setup arranged by Bill Veeck and the White Sox.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04292/1935967-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="277" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lou Fontinato</b></figcaption></div><p>WE had a long talk with Bill Stewart, former NHL referee and manager and for years the outstanding umpire in the National Baseball League, while here&hellip;Bill took in the Hawks&rsquo; opener&hellip; He is now a supervisor of scouts for the Cleveland Indians&hellip; Stewart is the only United States-born coach to win a Stanley Cup. Bill served as manager and coach of Chicago&rsquo;s last Stanley Cup team&hellip;the Hawks of 1937-38&hellip;Before coaching the Hawks he spent 11 seasons as a National Hockey League referee and worked in seven Stanley Cup finals&hellip; Bill worked a total of 78 games in 1936-37&hellip; This included 68 league games and 10 playoff tilts, and remember, the clubs played a 48-game schedule in those days&hellip;This gives you an idea of how much in demand the stocky arbiter was in those days&hellip; Bill would finish the NHL season in the Spring and without a day&rsquo;s rest move over to the National League as an umpire&hellip; The Hawks have moved up their starting time from 8:30 to 8 o&rsquo;clock on week nights&hellip;This marks the first time in our memory that Detroit Red Wings were picked to finish last in the NHL&hellip; The Wings were selected for this position in our annual HOCKEY NEWS poll&hellip; The only fourth-place picks they received were by the three Detroit selectors&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05264/1935960-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="294" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Norris</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>If Maurice &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard makes a rousing comeback with the Montreal Canadiens this season, he won&rsquo;t surprise an old sparring partner here.</p><p>Milt Schmidt, coach of the Bruins, predicts a good season for Richard.</p><p>&ldquo;That is, if his ankle has healed completely,&rdquo; said Schmidt, who had his share of jams with Montreal&rsquo;s scoring star over the years.</p><p>&ldquo;Some people seem to think The Rocket is too old (38) to make a comeback, but I don&rsquo;t agree. He&rsquo;s a natural skater and a great competitor. If his ankle is completely healed he&rsquo;ll be all right.&rdquo;</p><p>Richard, Schmidt points out, has always skated with a minimum of effort, as compared to some players who make hard work of skating.</p><p>&ldquo;In my opinion the natural skater will outlast the other type, other things being equal,&rdquo; said the Bruins&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;Richard&rsquo;s age to me hasn&rsquo;t had any noticeable effect on his skating.&rdquo;</p><p>Schmidt made his comments about Richard in talking about the general outlook for the other five National League teams. He would make a comparison between his Bruins and only one of the five on the eve of the season&rsquo;s opening.</p><p>&ldquo;The only one I&rsquo;ve seen this fall is Toronto,&rdquo; said Schmidt, starting his fifth full season as boss of the Bruins. &ldquo;The experts rate Toronto highly and the Maple Leafs came a long way at the end of last year.</p><p>&ldquo;We played them in two exhibition games, winning one (3-0) and tying (1-1) the other. I rate my team as good as theirs.</p><p>&lsquo;I&rsquo;ll have to see the other teams against us at least once to voice any comparisons,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but I rate Montreal the team to beat. The Canadiens won the league championship and the Stanley Cup last season. That&rsquo;s enough to pick them as the team to beat, but besides that they&rsquo;ve added the American League scoring champion (Bill Hicke)&mdash;if he makes the team.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Wings A Question Mark</b></h2><p>Of the Detroit Red Wings, Schmidt said, &ldquo;Detroit has revised the lineup so extensively that it&rsquo;ll probably be quite a while before it&rsquo;s possible to rate them.&rdquo;</p><p>In his cautions look at the other teams, Schmidt mentioned prospective regulars of both the New York Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks as 1959-60 assets.</p><p>&ldquo;I think Cushenan (Ian, defenseman) will help New York,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s not too smooth but he&rsquo;s ag gressive. The Rangers could use some aggressiveness.</p><p>&ldquo;That young Mikita (Stan, center) can do well with Chicago if he plays,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what their plans are for him yet, but he played against us last season when he was a junior and he impressed all of us.&rdquo;</p><p>Schmidt, a member of the NHL rules committee, thinks the new rule which controls the actions of a goalkeeper in smothering or holding the puck will meet with the favor of the hockey public.</p><p>&ldquo;It seems silly to allow the goalie to fall on the puck behind the goal line with some one around,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The new rule which prohibits it will decrease the number of whistles and stops in play.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no reason why a goalie cannot make a play with his stick just as easily as any other player.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Key Guy</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06224/1936019-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="531" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Milt Sees Good Year Ahead For Rocket, Boston

<div class="byline">by Dink carroll</div><p><b>In The Montreat Gaelte</b></p><h2><b>It&rsquo;s Canadiens Again</b></h2><p>The Canadiens are the unanimous choice to finish on top of the hockey heap this season, and Coach Toe Blake takes it philosophically.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve won four Stanley Cups in a row,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and we may as well make five, especially since everybody expects us to do it.&rdquo;</p><p>The Habitants look like the loaded club all right, but many things can happen over a season. You can&rsquo;t forsee injuries and they can play havoc with a team. The Canadiens have some veterans, too, and you can never be sure how close they are to the end of the line. But they also have a number of good youngsters underneath, who can be called up in case of emergency.</p><p>How good are the other clubs? At the All-Star dinner here last week-end, King Clancy was asked how the Toronto Maple Leafs were going in their pre-season exhibition games.</p><p>&ldquo;They finished strong last season and they&rsquo;re picking up just where they left off,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If we had two guys from the Canadiens, we&rsquo;d win everything.&rdquo;</p><p>He was asked who the two guys were.</p><p>&ldquo;Plante and Harvey,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;That Plante&rsquo;s all by himself as a goalkeeper. None of the others can come near him. I&rsquo;ve heard all that stuff about him having a great team in front of him, but he&rsquo;s one of the reasons the team is great. The Canadiens are a goal-hungry bunch, and they&rsquo;re up there trying to score and make the All-Star team and win trophies. They often leave Plante alone, but he makes the save where the others don&rsquo;t.</p><p>&ldquo;That Harvey gets away with murder, but he&rsquo;s a great guy to have on your side. Give us those two and we&rsquo;d take it all.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><h2><b>The Great Revivalist</b></h2><p>It was pointed out to King that Punch Imlach, the great revivalist, was making the same kind of Billy Graham speeches that he&rsquo;d made during the playoffs last spring when he predicted the Leafs would take the Canadiens in six games.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a great guy,&rdquo; said King. &ldquo;He even had me believing it.&rdquo; Toe Blake remarked to King that all the talk last spring about the Leafs being a young club was a myth.</p><p>&ldquo;You had fellows like Bower and Stanley and Olmstead and Creighton and Armstrong playing in the Stanley Cup final series against us,&rdquo; said Toe. &ldquo;The average age of your players was probably older than ours.&rdquo;</p><p>This brought a laugh from Lynn Patrick, the general manager of the Boston Bruins, who was listening in.</p><p>&ldquo;The oldest line in hockey is playing for the Canadiens&rsquo; farm club&mdash;the Royals,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I had those guys with me when I was coaching in New Haven and they were veterans then.&rdquo;</p><p>Somebody asked Lynn what kind of a summer he&rsquo;d had.</p><p>&ldquo;I worked all summer setting up a farm system,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got the best farm system in hockey right now. All we need is the players.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;How do you think the Bruins will finish this season?&rdquo; a guy asked.</p><p>&ldquo;The writers are always picking us to finish fifth or sixth and that&rsquo;s all right with me,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I hope they do it again. Every time they do it we fool &lsquo;em.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>The Wings Lack Depth</b></h2><p>Jack Adams, general manager of the Detroit Red Wings; Tommy Ivan, the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; g.m., and Herb Goren, publicity director of the New York Rangers, were also around.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got no place to go but up,&rdquo; commented Jack Adams. &ldquo;Young Barry Cullen was looking pretty good with us, but he got hurt and won&rsquo;t start the season. Our real trouble is a lack of depth.&rdquo;</p><p>The Rangers were sure they were going to make the playoffs last spring until the club went into a tailspin, losing six of their last seven games and finishing one point behind the fourth-place Toronto Maple Leafs. Herb Goren was speechless when it happened, which is a bad thing for a publicity director. But he has recovered his voice since then.</p><p>&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;re stronger this season,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Our defense will be better with Ian Cushenan and Irv Spencer. We&rsquo;ve got two new forwards in Brian Cullen and Ken Schinkel. Cullen was with Toronto last year, as you know, and Schinkel was with Springfield. They&rsquo;ve been playing on a line with Eddie Shack. Schinkel was the second-highest scorer in the American Hockey League last season with 43 goals.&rdquo;</p><p>The Chicago Black Hawks, who finished third last season, have the same defense, but Elmer (Moose) Vasko had his-trick shoulder operated on this summer and is sound again. Tommy Ivan was asked if they had any new players.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve brought up young Stan Mikita from the St. Catharines Juniors,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You never know how kids are going to go in this league, but we consider him a good prospect.&rdquo;</p><p>Our guess as to the order of the finish: Canadiens, Chicago, New York, Toronto, Boston and Detroit<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the feild

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Two Bruins&rsquo; stars have been playing without the grotesque masks which made them look like holdovers from the famed Brinkh Gang last season.</p><p>And if Center Bronco Horvath and Defenseman Doug Mohns never have to wear the contraptions again, their feelings won&rsquo;t be hurt.</p><p>&ldquo;We had to listen to a lot of stuff last season about being afraid to take off the masks and play,&rdquo; said Horvath.</p><p>&ldquo;But we had to wear them then. Anyone who thinks wearing one is fun can try it and change his mind in a hurry.&rsquo;</p><p>Horvath and Mohns donned the specially designed masks after being injured a year ago. Under million to one circumstances both received broken jaws in the same game, one with the Toronto Maple Leafs in Toronto.</p><p>Horvath was out for 25 games, Mohns for 23 games. When both were given medical permission to resume playing, the wearing of the masks was a condition.</p><p>Horpath, a high strung fellow, complained continually at having to resemble someone from another planet on the ice. Several times the spirited center had to be ordered not to discard his mask. Mohns, more stolid, almost tossed his out the window during the Bruins&rsquo; playoff series with Toronto but yielded to medical logic.</p><p>&ldquo;I knew I was better off wearing the mask,&rdquo; said the speedy defenseman, &ldquo;but it&rsquo;s not the type thing to wear when you&rsquo;re playing a game like hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;For one thing, anything over the head and face like that is uncomfortable&mdash;hot and heavy. But the main thing is, you have blind spots. After a while you expect to be caught from a blind spot constantly. It adds a handicap to playing.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01414/1936074-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="291" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Mohns</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Bronco Missed Many Chances</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Of course if a player has to choose between wearing a mask and playing or not wearing one and not playing,&rdquo; said Mohns, &ldquo;any player would do what we did. But let&rsquo;s hope we&rsquo;re all through wearing them.&rdquo;</p><p>Does Milt Schmidt, Bruins&rsquo; coach, think discarding the masks has affected the play of either Mohns or Horvath? Yes, said Schmidt, he does.</p><p>&ldquo;I think they&rsquo;re both benefitting by not having to wear them, especially Horvath,&rdquo; said Schmidt.</p><p>&ldquo;Bronco is one of the game&rsquo;s best scorers. Ordinarily his shot is extremely accurate. But when he was wearing the mask last season he missed a great many shots I know he would have made without it. He has been putting his shots on the net this fall the way he used to.</p><p>&ldquo;Doug has looked better without his mask, too,&rdquo; said Schmidt. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s making his moves with a confidence he didn&rsquo;t have with the mask because he can see puck and the field of play better.</p><p>&ldquo;The masks were necessities,&rdquo; Milt pointed out, &ldquo;and they served their purpose, while these fellows were getting over those injuries.&rdquo;</p><p>Although the plastic disguises worn by Horvath and Mohns have been packed away by Trainer Hammy Moore with the hope he won&rsquo;t need them again, the Bruins still have one player wearing a protective device on his head.</p><p>He&rsquo;s Charley Burns, the versatile forward who wears a helmet in consequence of a head injury he sustained several years ago. Burns, a most determined young man from Toronto, has no choice, either.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Horvath And Mohns Finally Unmasked; Didn’t Like Them

<div class="byline">By CHARLIE HALPIN</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Hockey observers who watched the Montreal Canadiens decimate the All-Stars in the recent National Hockey League pre-season classic without hardly working up a sweat, came away with a similar impression.</p><p>The Habitants looked strong enough to be even better than they were last season when they won the Stanley Cup for a record fourth time.</p><p>Some even think they will go so far as to eclipse the eight&#8210;year old NHL point record of 101 set by the Detroit Red Wings back in 1950-51 when they lost only 13 games in a 70-game schedule.</p><p>With so much added &ldquo;bench&rdquo; strength this year, it is conceivable the Canadiens could win 45 games to better their 1958-59 record of 39 wins, 18 losses and 13 ties, but it will take a concentrated team effort to achieve it.</p><p>Toe Blake&rsquo;s World hockey celebrants played with all the eclat that befits their professional position when they breezed past the All-Stars 6-1 before 13,818 fans at the Forum in the 13th annual NHL &ldquo;star&rdquo; event.</p><p>Admittedly, the All-Stars&rsquo; firepower was considerably throttled by the absence of hockey holdouts Pierre Pilote, Tod Sloan and Bobby Hull of Chicago and Toronto Leafs&rsquo; Bob Pulford, Dick Duff and Tim Horton. None were signed at game time and thus ineligible to play with the &ldquo;Stars&rdquo;.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02381/1936112-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="270" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Stars Faded In Third</b></h2><p>But even with the addition of such a select group, it is extremely doubtful if they could have restrained the high-powered Canadiens, who showed more skating zest, reserve strength and scoring power than one year ago.</p><p>The All-Stars skated with the Habs for two periods but faded under a four-goal onslaught in the final session. Jean Beliveau led the way with two goals while singletons went to Ab McDonald, Dickie Moore, Henri Richard and Andre Pronovost.</p><p>Rookie Billy Hicke was spectacular for the Canadiens making quite an indent in his first allstar showing with two assists. Defenceman Doug Harvey was also a standout helping set up three Montreal scores and Goalie Jacques Plante, playing without his controversial face mask, outshone Terry Sawchuk of the All-Stars by a wide margain.</p><p>Although he didn&rsquo;t score, Maurice Richard of the Canadiens celebrated his 13th All-Star game appearance, which means lie has played in them all since their inception.</p><p>Centre Don McKenney of Boston Bruins saved the All-Stars from the ignomity of going back to their respective NHL clubs without even scoring a goal when he tallied late in the second period after the Habs had run the count to 2-0. Ed Litzenberger of Chicago assisted and along with Gordie Howe, Alex Delvecchio and Frank</p><p>Mahovlich, they were the pick of the All-Stars.</p><p>The players&mdash;obviously fearful of a pre-season injury&mdash;made it a fast and wide open affair with little of the rough body-checking and board jamming that has characterized NHL games. Referee Frank Udvari called only three penalties all evening, two against the Canadiens.</p><p>The drubbing was not the worst suffered by the All-Stars since the game was first introduced. Detroit buldgeoned a picked squad 7-1 in 1950-51 and Canadiens won 6-3 last year as well. The result of this year&rsquo;s game left the All-Stars still leading the Cup winners 54, with two ties and twice the game was played between the first and the second all-star teams.</p><h2><b>Harvey Still Key Man</b></h2><p>The resiliency of the Canadiens in the game amazed even their most staunch critics. This is supposed to be the year the Canadiens start going back allegedly because of their age.</p><p>Boston GM Lynn Patrick and George Imlach of the Leafs said it before the game. This is the year the Habs start slipping.</p><p>Well, it din&rsquo;t show in the allstar game.</p><p>The poised Canadiens looked better than ever even though they are all a&#8210;year older. Harvey at 35 and the Rocket at 38 (he&rsquo;s in his 18th NHL season), displayed no signs of deterioration. Matter of fact, Harvey showed he is still the old master behind the blue-line and without him, the Canadiens wouldn&rsquo;t be the same.</p><p>And to add a refreshing new twist to the Canadiens, there were the more younger set like Backstrom, McDonald, Hicke and a young man by the name of Jean Claude Tremblay, who may be kept off the Habitants&rsquo; defense this season, but not for long.</p><p>Tremblay spelled off injured Jean Guy Talbot in the closing training camp exhibitions and the all-star outing, but Talbot was ready to assume his position once they started playing for keeps in the NHL against first the Boston Bruins and then the Detroit Red Wings in the Habs&rsquo; initial taste of league action.</p><h2><b>Triggers Les Champs</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03309/1936105-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="540" height="1152"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Champs’ All-Star Breeze Gives Enemy Look At ‘Things-To-Come’

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y&mdash;</p><p>How&rsquo;s this for magic?</p><p>The Rangers, who couldn&rsquo;t stickhandle their way into the Stanley Cup playoffs, never the less opened the NHL season with two championship pennants in their trophy room.</p><p>Not necessarily in the order of importance, the prizes include the European tour title, which the Blues swept from the Boston Bruins and, more recently, the championship of the Iced Grapefruit League.</p><p>After 12 exhibition games, some heavy, most light, the Blueshirts wound up on top of the Grapefruit circuit with a 12-0-1 mark. The tie was a 4-4 affair with Winnipeg of the Western League at Winnipeg.</p><p>Most notable of the Grapefruit wins was a bloody 3-2 decision over the Toronto Maple Leafs which led Phil Watson to the conclusion that exhibition games with big league teams ought to be put in the deep freeze if the teams insists on out-cannibalizing each other. That was the only tilt with an NHL club.</p><p>New York outscored its opponents 74-26 on a tour that extended from Peterborough, Ont., to Los Angeles, Calif., and included bouts against Springfield, Cleveland, Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary and Edmonton.</p><p>Exhibition games have a way of deceiving. Often, the opposition is light and star players tend let up. Therefore, attention should focus on the production of lesser lights.</p><h2><b>Bartlett Big Gun</b></h2><p>The offensive star for Rangers was left Jim Bartlett, closely followed by left wing Eddie Shack. Neither did an exceptional amount of illumating last year. Bartlett had 11 goals and Shack seven in 195859.</p><p>There may be some meaning to their exhibition outbursts. Shack, particularly, is counted on to lift the third line from last season&rsquo;s depths. Perhaps he got the message. Bartlett, while originally slated for penalty-killing chores, may find himself supplanting or spelling Camille Henry on the Red Sullivan-Andy Hebenton line.</p><p>Does an exhibition championship have any significance? In baseball, it&rsquo;s rarely the Grapefruit league winner that comes out on top in the World Series. But, that&rsquo;s baseball.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04226/1936167-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="255" height="401"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Bartlett</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Blues Grapefruit Loop Champs With 12-0-1 W-L Record

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y&mdash;</p><p>The pivotal question as Rangerville celebrates the return of hockey is who&rsquo;s going to pivot for whom.</p><p>Five weeks of training, exhibitions and huddles among the brain trust has produced only one certainty&mdash;captain Red Sullivan owns the mid-lane between Camille Henry and Andy Hebenton.</p><p>After that you could close your eyes, finger a center and have an even money chance of picking the right one for the remaining combinations.</p><p>This could be most disconcerting, particularly to one Andy Bathgate, who&rsquo;s been trying to figure who his linemates will be since Sept. 9th. It &lsquo;is generally agreed along Broadway that Bathgate will shoulder the offensive burden for Rangers. Andy&rsquo;s success or, perish the thought, failure will depend largely on who centers for him.</p><p>The candidates are Brian Cullen, Earl Ingarfield, and Larry Popein. And, if things really get tough, there&rsquo;s always Bill Sweeney, Hank Ciesla and Orland Kurtenbach in Springfield.</p><p>For a while it appeared that Ingarfield had the job sewed up with Popein standing by for emergency duty. At the time, Cullen was well established as third-line pivot for Eddie Shack and Ken Schinkel.</p><p>But, when g.m. Muzz Patrick shelled out $20,000 for Cullen the thought in back of his and coach Phil Watson&rsquo;s minds was that Cullen would be their A-number-one-Yankee-Doodle-Ipsy-Pipsy-star center. However, somewhere along the way, Ingarfield worked up to the top line until the brass had the change of mind.</p><p>Following through on the brain waves, Phil inserted Cullen between Dean Prentice and Bathgate, shipped Ingarfield back to the Schinkel-Shack platoon.</p><p>The moove tickled Bathgate&rsquo;s fancy.</p><p>&ldquo;Cullen is a very smart center with a natural playmaking gift,&rdquo; Bath gate said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a good stick handler with a clever shift.&rdquo;</p><p>A spokesman for Cullen disclosed that he was delighted to have the compliment.</p><p>Still, the central problem remains unsolved. Watson likely will try both Cullen and Ingarfield during the new season&rsquo;s first month, with the better man lining up with Bathgate and Prentice. If both blow the chance there&rsquo;s still Popein who can skate between his old chums blindfolded and still make the plays.</p><h2><b>In The Race</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05152/1936198-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="532" height="538"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Earl Ingarfield</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-05

Who’s At Centre For Bathgate? Brian Sniffs Rare Air At Post

<h2><b>Hull Starts Fast</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>Y</span>oung Bobby Hull of the Chicago Black Hawks got off to a good start scoring wise for the 1959-60 season. He scored one goal and picked up two assists as the Hawks defeated the Rangers 5-2 in the opener in Chicago on Wednesday, October 7th.</b></p><h2><b>Arbour Gets First</b></h2><p><b>Defenseman Al Arbour scored the first goal of the 1959-60 NHL season against the New York Rangers on opening night in Chicago. The Hawks defenseman scored at 8:33 of the first period on passes from Hull and Nesterenko as the Braves whipped the Rangers 5-2 in their opener.</b></p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p><b>(Standings On Wed., A.M., Oct. 14)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04182/1936306-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="592" height="188"></div><h3><b>GAMES THIS WEEK</b></h3><p><b>Wed. October 14</b></p><p><b>Boston at New York</b></p><p><b>Detroit at Chicago</b></p><p><b>Thur. October 15</b></p><p><b>Toronto at Montreal</b></p><p><b>Chicago at Detroit</b></p><p><b>Sat. October 17</b></p><p><b>New York at Montreal</b></p><p><b>Boston at Toronto</b></p><p><b>Sun. October 18</b></p><p><b>Montreal at New York</b></p><p><b>Toronto at Detroit</b></p><p><b>Boston at Chicago</b></p><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games Of Sun., Oct. 12)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01484/1936299-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="599" height="1966"></div><h3><b>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1959-60</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02365/1936292-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="588" height="186"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUB:</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03264/1936285-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="591" height="164"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7 New York 2 at Chicago 5</b></h3><p>New York&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense Cushenan, Howell, Gadsby, Hanna, Spencer forwards: Bathgate, Cullen, Prentice, Shack Sullivan, Ingarfield, Hebenton, Schinkel Popein, Henry, Bartlett.</p><p>Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Pilote Vasko, Evans, St. Laurent, Arbour; forwards Litzenberger, Sloan, Lindsay, Murray Balfour Murphy, Hay, Skov, Nesterenko, Hull, Whar ram, Maloney, Earl Balfour, Mikita.</p><p>Referee: Udvari; linesmen: Hayes, Patter son</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05154/1936278-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="577" height="632"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 Boston 1 at Montreal 4</b></h3><p>Boston&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Mohns, Flaman, Armstrong, Boivin, Ward, Erickson; forwards: Leach, Gendron, LaBine, Horvath, Stasiuk, Bucyk, McKenney, Mickoski, Toppazzini, Burns, Meissner.</p><p>Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, Turner, Johnson, Talbot, Langlois; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Bonin, Moore, M. Richard, H. Richard, Backstrom, McDonald, Hicke, Goyette, Pronovost, Provost, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-06123/1936271-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="576" height="659"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 Detroit 1 at Montreal 1</b></h3><p>Detroit&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Kelly, Morrison, M. Pronovost, Goegan, Godfrey, Marcon, forwards: Ullman, Delvecchio, McIntyre, Howe, Aldcorn, Fonteyne, Melnyk, Billy McNeill, Kennedy, Lunde, MacKenzie, Stuart, McNeill.</p><p>Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante, defense: Johnson, Talbot, Turner, Langlois, Tremblay; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Bonin, Moore, H. Richard, M. Richard, A. Pronovost, Goyette, Provost, Backstorm, McDonald, Hickie, Marshall.</p><p>Referee: Dalton McArthur; linesmen: Lorne Doolittle, Jack Patterson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0764/1936264-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg" title="f0006-07" width="580" height="363"></div><h3><b>Chicago 3 at Toronto 6</b></h3><p>Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Horton, Stanley, Reaume, McNeil, Brewer Baun, Price; forwards: Duff, Armstrong, Hampson, Regan, Stewart, Harris, Olmstead, Ehman, Edmunson, Pulford, Mahovlich, Wilson.</p><p>Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Arbour, Evans, Pilote, Vasko, St. Laurent; forwards: Nesterenko, Mikita, Lindsay<sub>t</sub>Hull, M. Balfour, Sloan, Murphy, Hay, Litzenberger, Skov, Wharram, Maloney, E. Balfour.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0833/1936257-1-eng-US/f0006-082.jpg" title="f0006-08" width="595" height="740"></div><h3><b>New York 4 at Boston 6</b></h3><p>New York&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Cushenan, Gadsby, Howell, Hanna, Spencer; forwards: Ingarfield, Shack, Schinkel, Bathgate, Cullen, Prentice, Hebenton, Popein, Henry, Bartlett.</p><p>Boston&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Mohns, Flaman, Armstrong, Boivin, Ward, Erickson; forwards: Horvath, Stasiuk, Bucyk, McKenney, Mickoski, Toppazzini, Leach, Gendron, LaiBne, Burns, Meissner.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0920/1936250-1-eng-US/f0006-092.jpg" title="f0006-09" width="589" height="739"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 Montreal 4 at Boston 8</b></h3><p>Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Johnson, Talbot, Turner, Langlois, J. C. Tremblay; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Bonin, M. Richard, H. Richard, D. Moore, Goyette, Provost, Pronovost, Backstorm, Hicke, McDonald, Marshall.</p><p>Boston&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Flaman, Mohn, Armstrong, Boivin, Erickson, Ward, forwards: Leach, Labine, Gendron Horvath, Stasiuk, Bucyk, McKenney, Toppazzini, Mickoski, Burns, Meissner.</p><p>Referee: Frank Udvari; linesmen: Bob Frampton, Neil Armstrong.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-1011/1936243-1-eng-US/f0006-102.jpg" title="f0006-10" width="591" height="782"></div><h3><b>Toronto 3 at Chicago 1</b></h3><p>Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Horton, Stanley, Reaume, McNeil, Brewer Baun, Price; forwards: Duff, Armstrong, Hampson, Regan, Stewart, Harris, Olmstead, Ehman, Edmunson, Pulford, Mahovlich, Wilson.</p><p>Chicago: Goal: Hall; defense: Arbour Evans, Pilote, Vasko, St-Laurent; forwards: Nesterenko, Mikita, Hull, Lindsay M. Balfour, Sloan, Murphy, Hay, Litzenberger, Skov, Wharram, Maloney, E. Balfour.</p><p>Referee: Eddie Powers; linesmen: Hal Jackson and Geo. Haves.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-1110/1936236-1-eng-US/f0006-112.jpg" title="f0006-11" width="577" height="365"></div><h3><b>New York 2 at Detroit 4</b></h3><p>New York&mdash;Goal: Worsley, defense: Cushenan, Howell, Gadsby, Spencer, Hanna, forwards: Popein, Bathgate, Prentice, Shack, Sullivan, Ingarfield, Hebenton, Cullen, Schinkel, Henry, Bartlett.</p><p>Detroit&mdash;Goal: Sawchuck; defense: Kelly, Morrison, Goegan, Pronovost, Godfrey, Marcon; forwards: Lunde, Howe, Aldcorn, Ullman, Delvecchio, McIntyre, Melnyk, Fonteyne, W. McNeill, A. McNeill, McKenzie, Kennedy.</p><p>Referee: McArthur; linesmen: Ashley, Simms.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-128/1936229-1-eng-US/f0006-122.jpg" title="f0006-12" width="603" height="598"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Despite the success the Montreal Canadiens have had since he became their coach, Toe Blake is far from satisfied with their playing condition. He reported last week that his Champions are 70 pounds over their playing weight of two seasons ago.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no reason why this team should be 70 pounds over its playing weight of two seasons ago&rdquo;, says Blake. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re sure to be hurt by it, and a lot of the players will have to start thinking of their waistlines pretty soon&rdquo;.</p><p>Finished Toe: &ldquo;Some of the players look as if it&rsquo;s all they can do to keep skating at full speed. The rest of the league will catch up with them&rdquo;.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Blake Warns Habs To Start Getting Rid Of The Blubber

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que. The Montreal Canadiens, a club who refused to fly to and from opponent&rsquo;s rinks, have decided to take a chance. They will fly home from Boston after all games this season.</p><p>The decision to take to the air was forced on the Champs. It was a decision they didn&rsquo;t like to make. The Canadiens used to leave Boston immediately after the game, arriving home in Montreal early the next morning. The late-night Boston-Montreal train was discountinued.</p><p>The club tried to have a private car attached to the day liner, but it could not be supplied, so the railroad lost the business and the airlines gained. The Habs will now arrive home shortly after midnight.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Canadiens Forced To Take To The Air For 1st Time

<p><b><i>Bronco Horvath&hellip;&hellip; Boston Bruins</i></b></p><p><b>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The National Hockey League&rsquo;s first player-of-the-week of the 195960 season was, without a doubt, lean Bronco Horvath of the Boston Bruins.</b></p><p><b>Playing without a mask for the first time in almost a season, Horvath quickly led the Hub gang to the top of the NHL ladder in the first week of play.</b></p><p><b>The Bruins played three games, winning two and dropping their opener to the Montreal Canadiens In Montreal. In each game Horvath got on the score sheet. In three games he netted four goals and four assists for a total of eight points. His play was outstanding as the Bruins surprised everyone with their hustle and desire.</b></p><p><b>It&rsquo;s a well known fact that Coach Milt Schmidt of the Bruins is counting on his &ldquo;Uke Line&rdquo; of Horvath, Stasiuk and Bucyk to carry most of the load for the club. Last season the trio acounted for 70 of the Bruins&rsquo; 205. This amazing total, despite the fact Horvath only played in 45 games, and with a clumsy mask to boot. He tallied 19 goals in that short period and added 20 assists for 39 points.</b></p><p><b>Horvath, a native of Port Colborne, Ontario, is starting his third season with the Bruins. He was drafted by Boston from Montreal during the summer of 1957. The Habs picked him up on waivers from the New York Rangers. He quickly showed the Bruins that they made no mistake by grabbing him, as he netted 30 goals in his first season in Boston.</b></p><p><b>Horvath, often called a temperamental character by his opponents, has nevertheless become a key man in Boston&rsquo;s hopes for the 1959-60 season. If he can get through the year without injury, then the chances are that the Bruins will cause quite a few surprises this season.</b></p><p><b>Bronco turned Pro with Eddie Shore&rsquo;s Springfield Indians of the AHL in 1950-51. The 6&rsquo;, 170 pound centre played for Shore in both Springfield and Syracuse, when Eddie transferred his AHL franchise there. He was picked up by the Detroit Red Wings in 1954-55 and shipped to Edmonton of the WHL. Playing on a line with Stasiuk and Bucyk for the Flyers he led the league in scoring with 50 goals and 60 assists in 67 games. That season he was drafted by the Rangers, followed by a turn with Canadiens before the Bruins got him. It&rsquo;s unlikely that they&rsquo;ll ever led the 30&#8210;year old pivot go, either.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-138/1936385-1-eng-US/f0006-132.jpg" title="f0006-13" width="289" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bronco Horvath</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By JOHN KUENSTER</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill&mdash;</p><p>Ted Lindsay rested an elbow on the wooden rail circling Chicago Stadium ice, and idly watched the Black Hawks pepper substitute goalie Gunzo Humeniuk with practice shots.</p><p>&ldquo;How about it, Ted, can you stand the gaff for another year?&rdquo; a visitor inquired.</p><p>&ldquo;The legs are good,&rdquo; said the 34-year-old Lindsay, &ldquo;and the desire is still there&hellip;that&rsquo;s the main thing.&rdquo;</p><p>This marks the 16th National Hockey League season for the little left winger who used to team up with Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe as one of the most potent scoring duets in the game.</p><p>Now starting his third season with the revived Black Hawks, Lindsay to a great extent holds the key to Chicago&rsquo;s continued improvement that began with its Stanley Cup playoff finish last spring.</p><p>If he can&rsquo;t stand up under the strain of another full season, coach Rudy Pilous will have the same old problem of juggling lines he had last year.</p><p>Pilous started the current season with a much more stable club than he had a year ago this time.</p><p>The main reason was that he had the &ldquo;Pappy Line&rdquo; back intact: Lindsay at left wing, Tod Sloan, 31, at center, and captain Ed Litzenberger, 27, at right wing.</p><h2><b>Juggle 2nd, 3rd Lines</b></h2><p>&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t get that combination together until Nov. 1 last year,&rdquo; recalled Pilous. &ldquo;Up until then we were experimenting.&rdquo;</p><p>With his No. 1 line set, Pilous felt he could afford to juggle with his No. 2 and 3 lines at the start of the current campaign.</p><h2><b>Starts 16th</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05166/1936468-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="550" height="1129"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption></div><p>That&rsquo;s just what he did. He dropped left wing Ron Murphy from the No. 2 line and moved him in with newcomers Bill Hay, a big, rugged, redhead at center, and Murray Balfour, at right wing.</p><p>Pilous installed 19-year-old Stan Mikita at center on the No. 2 line, kept Eric Nesterenko at right wing, and shifted Bobby Hull over to left wing.</p><p>Hull, who played center last season, wasn&rsquo;t too happy with the change, but Pilous figured it would be better to move the steady, experienced Murphy in with the untried Hay and Balfour.</p><p>At the start of the season, general manager Tommy Ivan wouldn&rsquo;t make any predictions about the Hawks&rsquo; potential.</p><p>&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ve improved,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but I don&rsquo;t know how much. The other clubs have improved too, and we won&rsquo;t get a good evaluation until we&rsquo;ve swung around the circuit once or twice.&rdquo;</p><p>Ivan, of course, still ranks Montreal Canadiens &ldquo;in a class by themselves,&rdquo; and sees the Toronto Maple Leafs as a big threat.</p><p>Credit for the Hawks resurgance goes to Ivan, a man who builds gradually, but also carefully.</p><p>&ldquo;If we can keep bringing up one or two players (like Hull and Mikita) every year, we&rsquo;ll be all right,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;Right now we have two excellent defensemen in Buffalo: Wayne Hillman and Rino Robazza. They&rsquo;re not far from making the club.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got to come up with good kids,&rdquo; remarked owner Jim Norris, &ldquo;if you want to go anywhere. We were fortunate in getting Balfour and Hay&hellip;everybody in the league wanted them.&rdquo;</p><p>While Pilous started the season with a new No. 2 line, he wasn&rsquo;t sure he would keep it intact.</p><p>&ldquo;Mikita fits in well with Hull,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They give that line a lot of potency, but time will tell if it&rsquo;s the right combination.&rdquo;</p><p>Regarding the No. 3 line, he said Hay, while having only one year in professional hockey, &ldquo;is a good play maker. And, he has the size you need in that spot.&rdquo;</p><p>Hay, 6-2 and 200 pounds, was purchased from the Canadiens along with Balfour.</p><p>&ldquo;Balfour was determined to make the National League,&rdquo; said Pilous. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a good checker, and will look after the loose ends of that line.&rdquo;</p><p><b>ICICLES:</b> Ted Lindsay expects a third addition to his family come January&hellip;Owner Jim Norris was beaming over pre-season reservations. They tripled over a year ago&hellip;Norris has poured a small fortune into refurbishing the Stadium. and installing a new $175,000 rink. Twelve miles of new pipes, five inches of concrete and five inches of cork were laid on the floor of the Stadium&hellip;New canopies have been built over the entrances, the building sandblasted, and the parking lots improved.</p><p>The Hawks are high on Terry Gray, right wing acquired last summer from Montreal Canadiens. Gray, 20, was sent back to Buffalo. &lsquo;&lsquo;He wasn&rsquo;t quite ready,&rdquo; said Norris, &lsquo;&lsquo;but he&rsquo;s still a great prospect.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Braves’ Outlook For ‘60?c Terrible Ted Holds Key

<h2><b>Harvey Scores First</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>Y</span>oung Alain Harvey, ex-member of the Chicoutimi club <i>of</i> the old Quebec Hockey y League, had the honor of scoring the first goal of the season for the Quebec Aces, the newest entry to the AHL, The goal came at 3:04 of the third period against Providence.</b></p><h2><b>Fog Cancels Game</b></h2><p><b>The shortest overtime period in many years was played at Hershey in the opening game there. The Cleveland Barons and the Bears were tied 1-1 at the end of three. The clubs played 30 seconds of overtime then the game was called because of fog.</b></p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p><b>(Standings On Tues., A.M., Oct. 13)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02402/1936614-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="596" height="208"></div><h3><b>GAMES THIS WEEK</b></h3><p><b>Tue. October 13</b></p><p><b>Cleveland at Quebec</b></p><p><b>Wed. October 4</b></p><p><b>Providence at Hershey</b></p><p><b>Thur. October 15</b></p><p><b>Cleveland at Quebec</b></p><p><b>Fri. October 16</b></p><p><b>Providence at Rochester</b></p><p><b>Sat. October 17</b></p><p><b>Providence at Buffalo</b></p><p><b>Cleveland at Hershey</b></p><p><b>Quebec at Springfield</b></p><p><b>Sun. October IB</b></p><p><b>Springfield at Buffalo</b></p><p><b>Quebec at Providence</b></p><p><b>Cleveland at Rochester</b></p><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games Of Sun., Oct. 11)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03322/1936607-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="598" height="262"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04252/1936600-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="593" height="238"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6 Providence 5 at Quebec 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05194/1936593-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="590" height="666"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7 Providence 4 at Quebec 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06157/1936586-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="581" height="700"></div><h3><b>Cleveland 1 at Hershey 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07129/1936579-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="580" height="684"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 Buffalo 2 at Providence 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-08110/1936572-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="582" height="494"></div><h3><b>Cleveland 3 at Springfield 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0990/1936565-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="592" height="648"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 Quebec 3 at Hershey 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1076/1936558-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="584" height="495"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 3 at Springfield 10</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1164/1936551-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="599" height="883"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 Cleveland 3 at Providence 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1248/1936544-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="588" height="658"></div><h3><b>Quebec 0 at Rochester 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1339/1936537-1-eng-US/f0008-132.jpg" title="f0008-13" width="584" height="442"></div><h3><b>Hershey 3 at Buffalo 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1428/1936530-1-eng-US/f0008-142.jpg" title="f0008-14" width="586" height="316"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0008-02

AMERICAN LEAGUE

<p><b><i>Earl Reibel&hellip;&hellip;Providence Reds</i></b></p><p><b>PROVIDENCE, R.l. - It didn&rsquo;t take Earl Reibel long to show his scoring and playmaking prowess to American Hockey League fans. After four games Earl was leading the league with eight points, on four goals, and the same number of assists.</b></p><p><b>The Reds opened the season as a club who could finish anywhere from first to last. They showed no special power during exhibition games and gave no indication that they would be the class of the league, as they once were. But, once the season was underway it was altogether different. They proceeded to decimate their opposition. They whipped the newly entered Quebec Aces twice in a row, then overpowered the Buffalo Bisons and Cleveland Barons for four straight wins. Through it all it was Earl Reibel who was doing most of the damage. The Kitchener born pivot, down to the Reds on 24 hour recall from the NHL&rsquo;s Bostcn Bruins, scored one goal and added two assists in the first game of the season. The next night he picked up another goal. Two nights later he scored a goal and an assist against Buffalo and followed up with another goal and assist against Cleveland last Sunday.</b></p><p><b>Reibel, better known as &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; to the hockey world, and know as &ldquo;Mouse&rdquo; by his hockey mates, has performed on four NHL clubs. This is his first trip to the minors in six years. He is out to prove that he doesn&rsquo;t belong.</b></p><p><b>Dutch started his hockey career with the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series. The club was sponsored by the Detroit Red Wings. The Wings sent him to Omaha of the e old United States League when he graduated from the junior ranks. One season there and he was sent to Indianapolis of the American League. In 1951-52 he was voted the AHL&rsquo;s top rookie. He scored 33 goals and added 34 assists in 68 games. The next season he landed in Edmonton of the WHL where he led the league in scoring with 34 goals and 56 assists in 70 games. That was enough to give him a chat in the majors with the Wings. In a little more than four seasons with the Wings he had goal scoring seasons of 15, 25, 17, 13 and eight. In 1955-56 he was awarded the Lady Byng Trophy of the most gentlemanly player in the league. In 195753 he was sent to the Chicago Black Hawks and then was picked up by the Boston Bruins at the beginning of last season. Used mostly in a utility role last year for the Bruins, Dutch scored six goals and added eight assists. He has almost surpassed that figure in his first four games with the Reds.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01469/1936645-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="293" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Earl Reibel</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0008-01

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div><p>CLEVELAND, O&mdash;</p><p>With his Barons launched on a seven-game trip to open their trip to open their American Hockey League campaign, boss Jim Hendy was launching his own attack against hockey players&rdquo;who think they can squeeze blood out of a turnip&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1515/1936683-1-eng-US/f0008-152.jpg" title="f0008-15" width="286" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Hendy</b></figcaption></div><p>On the eve of their first game at Hershey, Pa., against the Calder Cup champion Bears, the Barons were deep in contract trouble.</p><p>Absent from the official roll were top stars Eddie (Spider) Mazur and Bob Bailey, left wing and center respectively, both veterans from whom the Barons were expecting much. Also holding out were Greig Hicks, and Georges Bouchard.</p><p>Already removed from the club was Bob Barlow, left wing, who had refused to sign a contract at Hendy&rsquo;s terms.</p><p>Barlow went home to Canada from the Barons&rsquo; St. Thomas, Ont. camp. There he sat for a week until Hendy, &ldquo;fed up with this nonsense&rdquo; sold him outright to the Quebec Aces, new entry in the league.</p><p>Meanwhile, Hendy was steadfast in his position.</p><p>&ldquo;I won&rsquo;t go up another cent,&rdquo; declared an angry Hendy.</p><p>&ldquo;So far as I am concerned, all the players in the American Hockey League are overpayed on the basis of what is taken in at the gate. Why the hockey clubs in this league are paying out from 35 to 50 per cent of net income in salary. How are you going to stay in business with that sort of thing.</p><h2><b>Gosselin Called Up</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Every member of this hockey club got a boost in pay this year but some of them are still not satisfied,&rdquo; stated Hendy.</p><p>With Barlow out, Hendy brought up George (Goose) Gosselin from North Bay, Ont. Gosselin, a 26&#8210;year-old left wing, played last year with the Belleville, Ont. world champions.</p><p>Meanwhile, the Barons went into regular season battle with a host of veterans and a sprinkling of fresh hands.</p><p>One of the newcomers from wrom much is expected is Hicks, a center from Chicoutimi.</p><p>Hicks was scouted last year by Chief Scout Lex &lsquo;Cook and Cook&rsquo;s enthusiastic report to Hendy caused the Barons&rsquo; general manager to acquire the player.</p><p>Coach Jackie Gordon, faced with seven games away from home at the very outset, was inclined to withhold comment until he had seen his club in action against American League foes.</p><p>Gordon and Hendy were both highly elated with the work of little Gil Mayer in the nets during the exhibition series. Mayer reached a peak of performance against the Professional World Champion Montreal Canadiens as the Barons defeated Montreal, 5-3.</p><p>In that one Mayer came up with 47 saves.</p><p>Little Gil, veteran of many years service on the league with Pittsburgh and Hershey, expresses himself as being very happy with the shot at the Cleveland goal.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m finally in a spot where I am important to somebody again,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s all I need to make me happy in this game.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Shipped Out</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1610/1936676-1-eng-US/f0008-162.jpg" title="f0008-16" width="536" height="537"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Barlow</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0008-15

Jim Snaps Barons Back In Line At Pay Wicket

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Bruins began the 1952-53 season with two big, young rookies playing defense positions.</p><p>The two were Bob Armstrong and Warren Godfrey.</p><p>This season, for the first time since then, the Bruins have also started off with two big, young rookie defensemen.</p><p>The present two are Autry Erickson and Don Ward.</p><p>But the circumstances under which Erickson and Ward have debuted in the National Hockey League are different than those under which Armstrong and Godfrey broke in.</p><p>Back in 1952 the Bruins had only two veteran defensemen, Hal Laycoe and Bill Quackenbush. Lynn Patrick, then the Bruins&rsquo; coach, paired Laycoe with Armstrong and Quackenbush with Godfrey.</p><p>The effect fo the pairing was to provide both Armstrong and Godfrey with the equivalent of playing coaches. Both thrived on the setup.</p><p>But Erickson, 21, and Ward, 24, face the difficult assignment of breaking into a defense squad consisting of four veterans. One of the four is Armstrong&mdash;Godfrey is now with the Detroit Red Wings&mdash;and the others are Captain Ferny Flaman, Leo Boivin and Doug Mohns.</p><p>When the Bruins opened their season the other night the four veterans ranked ahead of the two rookies.</p><p>And Milt Schmidt, Bruins&rsquo; coach, doesn&rsquo;t plan to use all six.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t believe it&rsquo;s practical to play six defensemen,&rdquo; said Schmidt, &ldquo;so while we&rsquo;ll probably carry six for awhile I doubt that we&rsquo;ll do so indefinitely.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Six Too Many</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Several years ago I tried using six defensemen, alternating three pairs,&rdquo; related Schmidt. &ldquo;Some of the defensemen complained they weren&rsquo;t getting enough work.</p><p>&ldquo;I dropped the system at their request and sure enough, the regulars played better. They convinced me we&rsquo;re better off with four regulars, two pairs.&rdquo;</p><p>Schmidt has been playing Mohns with Flaman and Boivin with Armstrong, as he did a year ago when injuries didn&rsquo;t disrupt the schedule. In the Bruins&rsquo; pre-season exhibitions he played Erickson and Ward as a team, after Erickson recovered from a sore back.</p><p>If Ward and Erickson have a hard row to hoe in cracking the Bruins&rsquo; lineup this season, they&rsquo;ve both made a start, at least, by impressing Schmidt with their potentialities.</p><p>Erickson, who comes from Lethbridge, Alta., Vic Stasiuk&rsquo;s home town, is a 194-pound blond whose forte is defensive skill. Oddly enough, he has drawn the Bruins&rsquo; No. 11 Quackenbush used to wear. Like Erickson, the retired all-star was a left-handed shot playing right defense and a blond besides.</p><p>Ward is from Sarnia, Ont., Arm<sub>;</sub> strong&rsquo;s home town. He&rsquo;s a 215-pounder, two inches taller (6-2 to 6-0) than Erickson. A good football and baseball player, he could have signed a pro football contract as a back several years ago.</p><p>Erickson and Ward played together in Calgary last season with Gus Kyle, a former Bruins&rsquo; defenseman, as their coach. The Bruins drafted them last summer.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re both good prospects,&rdquo; observed Schmidt. &ldquo;Right now Erickson looks very good on defense while Ward seems to be better on offense. He&rsquo;s inclined to carry the puck a little too much. They&rsquo;re both big and strong.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;So far neither one has been too aggressive, but once they&rsquo;ve gotten their feet Wet in the NHL and they know their way around I think they&rsquo;ll show more aggressiveness. They certainly have the size I like.&rdquo;</p><p>Schmidt thinks his defense squad rates second only to that of the Montreal Canadiens, and he gives the Canadiens an edge for just one reason.</p><p>&ldquo;Doug Harvey,&rdquo; stated the Bruins&rsquo; coach. &lsquo;&lsquo;He&rsquo;s the reason. I give the Canadiens an edge on defense on his ability to clear the puck out of his own zone. He doesn&rsquo;t have an equal as a passer. He rarely gives the puck away and he can put a pass on the stick of a breaking teammate like no one else can.</p><p>&lsquo;But I feel that my defense pairs are efficient ones. Mohns can move the puck and Flaman provides the steadiness for one pair. Boivin can move the puck and Armstrong is the steady fellow on the other pair. They play the game hard.&rdquo;</p><p>While keeping six defenseman, for the time being at least, the Bruins spread some other promising defensemen through their system after the pre-season training period here.</p><p>The most impressive of the others, obviously, was Larry Hillman, here for the last two years. Hillman has started the season with the Providence Reds. He&rsquo;s 22 years old and in his fifth season as a professional. But the husky youngster has never played <i>a</i> full season full-time. He may dominate the American League defense scene as thoroughly as did Armstrong when he played with Springfield two years ago.</p><p>Among the other defensemen showing well here were Dick Cherry and Bob Blackburn, also with Providence, and Barry Ashbee, now with Kingston.</p><h2><b>Grizzly Bears Of The Future</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01454/1936721-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="515" height="895"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Ward</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02428/1936714-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="543" height="870"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Aut Erickson</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-01

Veteran Defense Corps At Hub Hard Corps To Crack, Kids Find

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Can the Buffalo Bisons repeat as regular season champions of the American Hockey League?</p><p>The concensus around the league is that the Herd lost too many New York-owned players who were key figures in their &lsquo;58-59 success not to feel it.</p><p>The Buffalo management, from Owner Ruby Pastor on down, voices confidence that the Bisons &ldquo;will be in the running all the way.&rdquo;</p><p>This confidence stems from the improved status of the Chicago Black Hawks farm system from previous seasons when Buffalo solely relied upon Chicago for optionees.</p><p>A couple of seasons back, the best Chicago could offer in the way of help was four or five players of AHL caliber.</p><p>The present Buffalo roster&mdash;with the exception of five veterans-&mdash;is made up of Black Hawks chattels.</p><p>A major difference between the squad Coach Dit Clapper has under his wing and the one Bobby Kirk directed a year ago is the number of rookies.</p><p>Only center Orland Kurtenbach, who finished the season riding the bench, and the ill-fated Bill Dobbyn qualified as rookies last year.</p><p>No less than four positions were being filled by freshmen as the Clapper crew moved into the regular season.</p><p>Goalie Roy Edwards, defensemen Wayne Hillman and Rino Robazza, and forward Howie Glover made up the quartet.</p><h2><b>Kids Will Guide Herds&rsquo; Destiny</b></h2><p>Most certainly, Buffalo&rsquo;s finish this season will be greatly influenced by the development of these youngsters.</p><p>Chicago General Manager Tommy Ivan, discussing each player after the official assignment to Buffalo, pointed to the past performance chart of each.</p><p>&ldquo;Fred (Hunt) and I agree that all of them have earned a chance,&rdquo; he began. &ldquo;Edwards was outstanding in the Western League last year. Robazza showed himself to be a rugged, willing boy with promise.</p><p>&ldquo;As for Hillman, he makes good moves with the puck and may be that boy who plays better in good company. Glover, like his brother (Cleveland&rsquo;s Fred), gives no quarter and likes to play. He&rsquo;s a right hand shot but seems to fit well on the left side.</p><p>&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ll have to be patient with these fellows at first but should be getting good hockey before the season is over.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03376/1936752-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="270" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tommy Ivan</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-03

Can Herd Stay Up On Top Of AHL With Hawks’ Hands? Yes, Says Ivan

<div class="byline">By HANS TANNER</div><p>ROCHESTER, N.Y.<b>&mdash;</b></p><p>This is the most important season of Bobby Nevin&rsquo;s hockey life.</p><p>Not only will the 1959-60 American League campaign go a long way in showing what sort of shinny future is in store for the 21-year-old right winger, but his performance will have much to do with the success or failure of the Rochester Americans.</p><p>Nevin, a 6-foot, 185-pounder from South Porcupine, Ont., has the ability to become a good National League player, but didn&rsquo;t live up to advance notices last season, his first in professional hockey.</p><p>Bobby played Junior B with Weston Dukes in 1953-54 and 1954-55 before moving up to the Toronto Marlboro Juniors for 1955-56. The then 17-year-old collected 46 goals and 35 assists for 81 points to earn Rookie-of-the-Year honors with the Memorial Cup champions.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01468/1936790-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="282" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Riley</b></figcaption></div><p>He followed with 45 goals and 27 assists for Marlboros the next season, and in 1957-58 tallied 32 goals and 39 assists in 48 games plus 15 goals and 11 assists in 17 playoff encounters.</p><p>Nevin played one game with the Rochester Americans that season&mdash;looking pretty good while picking up a pair of assists.</p><p>Leaf officials expected Nevin to easily make the jump into the American League with Rochester last year, but the lanky winger didn&rsquo;t show much enthusiasm and the fans here reacted the same way towards him.</p><p>Bobby managed but 3 goals and 3 assists in 21 games for the Amerks before being shipped to Chicoutimi in the Quebec League. He regained his scoring poise there&mdash;hitting for 16 goals in 35 games.</p><p>With Rochester scheduled to operate only under the guidance of the Maple Leafs this season. Toronto officials were hard-pressed trying to find enough hockey talent with which to stock their farm club, even through Montreal sent five players who played here last season.</p><h2><b>Up To Him</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02399/1936783-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="526" height="538"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Nevin</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Hustled When Exhibitions Started</b></h2><p>Nevin was considered a must by Toronto for the Amerks. But he reverted to his somewhat lethargic play in early Peterborough, Ont., training camp sessions and did nothing to restore the Rochester management&rsquo;s faith in him.</p><p>Once the exhibitions started, however. Bobby seemed a different player. He hustled both ways and shook loose his tag as strictly a one way hockey player by checking on defense.</p><p>If Nevin&rsquo;s exhibition play carries over through the American League season, Amerk fans are going to be in for a pleasant surprise.</p><p>Bobby is at the crosscroads. A good year and he&rsquo;ll probably move up to the big time. But if he fails, he may as well find some other business.</p><p>The 1959-60 destiny of the Rochester Americans is riding with him, too. Fine play by Bobby could carry the Amerks to first place.</p><p>Yes, this is an important year for Bobby Nevin.</p><p>ICICLES&mdash;The Amerks won one, lost two and tied two in their first five exhibitions. Lone victory was scored over the Ottawa-Hull Canadiens of the new Eastern Professional League. Losses came against the world champion Montreal Canadiens and Springfield Indians, while the Americans tied Hershey and Springfield. Jack Riley, Amerk general manager, wasn&rsquo;t concerned about the exhibition record. &ldquo;We used a lot of kids and experimented with different lines,&rdquo; Riley said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d rather experiment now when you&rsquo;re not playing for those two points.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-01

Amerks Pinning Hopes On Nevin’s Lusty Bat; His Do-Or-Die Season

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>A youth movement is underway in the lair of the Hershey Bears.</p><p>The tipoff the Pennsylvania club plans to rebuild its outfit with young skaters came when Capt. Obie O&rsquo;Brien was sold to the Quebec Aces, new American League entry.</p><p>O&rsquo;Brien, who broke into the AHL with Hershey in 1951-52 and captained the club for five years, including two Calder Cup champ teams, was sold to make room for young blood.</p><p>Hershey reportedlq received better than $7,000 for O&rsquo;Brien, 6-3, 30-year-old left winger who was rated as a tremendous competitor in the clutch.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03332/1936828-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="289" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Larry Zeide</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04253/1936821-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="277" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Obie O&rsquo;Brien</b></figcaption></div><p>O&rsquo;Brien was let go with the understanding he didn&rsquo;t fit into Hershey&rsquo;s plans for the future.</p><p>&ldquo;We had to make room for two young skaters, Brian Smith and Claude LaForge, both left wingers,&rdquo; said business manager Baz Bastien.</p><p>The sale of O&rsquo;Brien was announced as Hershey broke training camp and headed for home to launch defense of the Calder mug.</p><p>In fact, six skaters who aided the Bears to their second straight Calder title last season, are among the missing. They were either sold, traded or reassigned to other leagues.</p><h2><b>Obie Kept Zeidel In Tow</b></h2><p>O&rsquo;Brien played eight season for Hershey. He was in 481 games, scored 151 goals, assisted on 252 for a 403 point total. He appeared in six Calder Cup playoffs, playing 50 games. He scored 14 goals and assisted on 28 for 42 points.</p><p>In all fairness to the lanky, likeable O&rsquo;Brien, the product of St. Catherines gave Hershey topnotch service. In the playoffs he had a knack of setting fire to the club and several Hershey performers, some of whom went on to the NHL, can lay part of their success to O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s ability to apply &ldquo;the needle&rdquo; when needed.</p><p>During last year Calder Cup pier six series with Cleveland, it was O&rsquo;Brien who kept the fiery Larry (The Rock) Zeidel under control at critical times. It paid off as Zeidel stayed out of the penalty coop and turned out to be one of the stars of the playoffs.</p><p>So much did Cleveland fear Zeidel&rsquo;s work that at one point in the series, Barons Coach Jack Gordon was seriously thinking of sticking a checking winger on Zeidel. &ldquo;The Rock&rdquo; was free wheeling all over the ice and potted three goals in the first three games.</p><p>Hershey checked into its headquarters with the following squad&mdash;Goal, Bob Perreault, Claude DuFour; Left Wing, Les Duff, LaForge, Smith; Righ Wing, Dunc Fisher, Ray Kinasewich and Ron Hurst; Center, Hec LaLande, Willie Marshall and Mike Nywpoluk. Spare forwards, Arnie Kullman, Bob Solinger. Defense, Coach Frank Mathers, Howie Yanosik, Bucky Hollingworth, Jack Price and Zeidel.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-03

Bears Seil O’Brien-To Aces, Clearing Way For Young Cubs

<div class="byline">Al Parsley</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01466/1936925-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="306" height="334"></div><p>&bull; In addition to three teams likely to bring spirited competition into older pro hockey centers in Quebec Province, the three new Ontario cities entering monied hockey competition for the first time are introducing three strong former major league personalities into the new Eastern Professional Hockey League.</p><p>From Sault Ste. Marie comes Don Grosso, pilot of the Thunderbirds. Cal Gardner shepherds Kingston Frontenacs, and Edwin Groves Chamberlain is the packleader of Sudbury Wolves. And come to think of it the last one could win for a person of ready wit, big prizes in a quizz show. How many hockey fans, old or new, without batting an eye could come up with &ldquo;Hard Hock&rdquo; Chamberlain&rsquo;s square monnicker? Too long he has been known as plain &ldquo;Murph&rdquo;.</p><p><b>In the east, too, there are not too many, that will tell you without benefit of research that Don Grosso, native son of the &ldquo;Soo&rdquo;, played nine years in big time with Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks and Boston and two more In St. Louis as a minor pro.</b></p><p>His biggest scoring record was the 1941-42 campaign in the NHL with Wings when he fired 23 goals and 30 assists for a 53 point tab that put him in third position in the overall audit for the season, behind Brian Hextall (56 points) and Lynn Patrick (54), both of New York Rangers.</p><p>After finishing off his fine nine year tour under the big tent with Boston Bruins, in 194748, Grosso was a sensational rifleman with St. Louis hitting the target for 34 goals and helping in another 47 to compile an impressive 81 points.</p><p>Gardner will be the only EPHL playing coach, who boasts long service in the NHL. Murph Chamberlain is long past active competition and in Montreal Floyd Curry has definitely announced that he&rsquo;s through as a player. Tough the former &ldquo;Honest Blocker&rdquo; of Canadiens looks just as trim and speedy as he skates in directing the team that he piloted last year to the QHL championship, as any man on the ice. He wants no more of the hurry-scurry, or head-knocking of league competition.</p><p><b>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s tough enough running a team. So many hockey games are won or lost on mistakes, that a fellow can&rsquo;t get out there and play, for fear he&rsquo;s making one or two himself. In that case, how can you chew out a man who commits one small blunder,&rdquo; Curry says.</b></p><p>Gardner, a product of Transcona, Man., was registered in the birth rolls as Calvain Pearly, which would be another stopper on a quizz show at that. He was groomed for the professional roles he so ably followed later, right in Manhattan with the New York Rovers. Then in the 1945-46 season with the N.H. Rangers he began a span of 12 seasons in the NHL, that was to take in four years with Toronto Leafs, another four with Boston Bruins, with a season sandwiched between with Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>Cal&rsquo;s last two seasons have been split between Springfield and Providence in the AHL, and in each of these campaign he was good for 24 goals. This indicates he may bring a lot of fire-power into action for the Frontenacs.</p><p>At 54, Chamberlain is probably the older statement among EPHL mentors. Grosso is 44, Gardner 45, Curry 44 and Gerry Desaulniers at Trois-Rivieres will be 31 come December 31. We must ask Sammy Pollock of Hull-Ottawa Canadiens his age next time we meet, but don&rsquo;t think he ante dates many of the others.</p><p>Chamberlain of course is better known than the other Ontario mentors in Montreal and Trois-Rivieres because of his long hitch in Montreal with Canadiens. After a start with the late Dick Irvin in Toronto where he played three seasons for Maple Leafs, a part season with the defunct New York Americans, one with Boston Bruins in 1943 he began four big seasons with the Montreal &ldquo;Habitants&rdquo;. He figured on two Stanley Cup winners and three NHL title-winning teams. A broken leg in the 1947-48 season after 30 games ended his career in big time. His best season was 1943-44 when he scored 15 goals and had 32 assists.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0011-01

ON THE SIDELINES

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL. Oue.<b>&mdash;</b></p><p>Contrasting problem faced the coaches and higher echelons of the Eastern Pro League&rsquo;s clubs as the new loop was poised to launch its first season.</p><p>In Sudbury Murph Chamberlain was on the hunt for defensemen and reached out to Montreal where Ernie Roche was obtained from the Royals just when it appeared that Frank Carlin was ready to send the veteran of nine years on pro rearguards away to Clinton, N.Y.</p><p>Chamberlain announced the Wolves were balking the waivers and were ready, even eager, to ante up the $750 waiver fee. After a phone-chat with Chamberlain, Roche agreed to the Sudbury club&rsquo;s salary terms and headed to report. The very next day The Sudbury Star carried pictures of smiling Ernie getting fitted out by trainer Garry Fletcher.</p><p>Floyd &ldquo;Busher&rdquo; Curry, Royals&rsquo; pilot, stated that he likely had one of the strongest defensive platoons in the league. He has the veterans, Wally Clune and Moe Mantha as his anchor man to work with Tom Thurlby, from Peterborough, Andre Tardiff, former Hull-Ottawa, and Lou Kazowski, one of Mickey Hennessy&rsquo;s protoges at Fort William.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07196/1936956-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="296" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Cummy Burton</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Accent On Youth</b></h2><p>Kazowski, only 18, is on a five game trial. And in signing him on the eve of Royals&rsquo; entrainment for Sault St. Marie to open the season against the Thunderbirds, Royals&rsquo; G.M. Frank Carlin, pointed out that the Montreal Eastern Leaguers are this year emphasizing the rookie motif as never before.</p><p>&ldquo;We are in business for two main objectives Carlin says: &ldquo;To win all the games we can. To developed talent for the parent NHL Canadiens.</p><p>Right-winger Reggie Grigg, last with Cornwall&rsquo;s Senior OHA entry, Yves Sarrazin, Hull-Ottawa, another right-railer; center Joe Szura, in addition to the back division boys&mdash;Thurlby, Tardiff and Kazowski make up a quota of six freshman pros.</p><p>Veterans in the cast are Ken Mosdell, Skippy Burchell, Kelly Burnett, Fern Perreault, LuluDenis. John Kowalchuk, also a forward is a third year man and Bill Sutherland a sophomore with the Royals.</p><p>Sutherland&mdash;called &ldquo;Suds&rdquo; by his mates&mdash;may become a real major league &ldquo;great&rdquo; if he can stand the wear and tear. He carries only 155 pounds on a rangy five-feet-ten chassis, but Coach Curry never fails to emphasize that Sutherland bagged 27 tallies and helped in another 16 while playing in only 47 games in rugged QHL campaign of 1958&lsquo;59.</p><p>With six rookies in the line-up Royals will hardly ever fail to comply with the EPHL regulation that three freshmen be dressed for each scheduled game.</p><p>Charlie Hodge understudy for Jacques Plante will be back to tend goals for Royals, and Curry has another worry chased. If Hodge should be called in some emergency to replace Plante in the NHL jousting Kenny Walters from Regina can step right into the Royals&rsquo; net without materially weakening the cast. Walters has in Curry&rsquo;s opinion looked just that good.</p><p>&ldquo;Our big weakness at the start is the wing positions since we have only three for each side. Joe Szura, out tenth forward is really only a center player,&rdquo; Curry stated.</p><p>The Montreal coach also pointed out that Royals&rsquo; opened their season without benefit of an exhibition game, whereas the North northwestern clubs, Wolves and Thunderbirds, had the benefit of rugged competition from big leaguers&mdash;Chicago Black&rsquo; Hawks, Toronto Leafs and Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>The Sudbury team especially had earned plenty of respect from holding Leafs to a 2-1 score and then nosing out Black Hawks 3-2.</p><p>Alf Cleary, Cummy Burton and Keke Mortson were the. scorers in the triumph over the Chicago outfit, but, Murph Chamberlain was plainly worried over the game coming up with the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>&ldquo;If Jack Adams sees some of these guys cut loose against his Red Wings he&rsquo;ll likely call one of them back to the big league club,&rdquo; Chamberlain commented last week.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0011-07

Sudbury Crew Given Good Chance To Take EPL Crown

<div class="byline">By KAYE CORBETT</div><p>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>Don&rsquo;t hang out any crying towels for the Calgary Stampeders.</p><p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t need any, thank you,&rdquo; says Coach Gus Kyle of the Western Hockey League squad.</p><p>Kyle probably wouldn&rsquo;t be blamed if he shed a few tears for the loss of two of last year&rsquo;s Prairie Division all-stars, centre Eddie Dorohoy and netminder Roy Edwards, but he is as optimistic as ever.</p><p>&ldquo;Sure it hurts, but that&rsquo;s hockey. Although we&rsquo;ve lost quite a few players, Chicago Black Hawks have helped us and there have been some real surprise packages in training camp.</p><p>The Cowboys who have a working agreement with the Black Hawks, walked off with the Prairie title in a breeze before being stopped by the fired up Seattle Totems in last year&rsquo;s finals.</p><p>Since then, Edwards has been called up by the Hawks to take over as Buffalo Bisons goaltender; Dorohoy was traded to the Vancouver Canucks young blueliners Aut Erickson and Don Ward have signed with the Boston Bruins.</p><p>With such key players missing and the league operating as one group this year, the fans expect Kyle will have his hands full producing another contender.</p><p>Kyle claims he has found an adequate replacement for Edwards in Claude Pronovost from Montreal Royals of the Quebec Hockey League.</p><p>In recent years Calgary has had better than average goaltending from Edwards and Al Rollins and Kyle says Pronovost has shown enough in practice that he&rsquo;ll be able to handle the job quite capably.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01454/1936994-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="296" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Dorohoy</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Hucul Top Man.</b></h2><p>As his top defencemen Kyle will be counting on veteran all-star Fred Hucul and Doug Barkley who toiled for Buffalo last winter. A couple of newcomers who have showed real promise in camp are Bob Wilson from the Quebec Aces and Wayne North from Kelowna Packers of the B.C. Okanagan League.</p><p>&ldquo;Wilson should be the policeman of our team, he&rsquo;s a real rough boy, also Wayne has ambitions of going to the NHL, he&rsquo;s big and strong and should-make it,&rdquo; remarked Kyle.</p><p>There&rsquo;s also a chance Rino Robazza of last year&rsquo;s squad will be back. He is currently working with the Bisons.</p><p>Up front Stamps lost considerable scoring punch when they let Dorohoy go to Vancouver and so far no replacement has been found to fill the gap between Lou Jankowski and Ron Leopold.</p><p>It may be either of two NHL veterans, Wally Hergesheimer or Norm Johnson, but Kyle hasn&rsquo;t received any word from the Black Hawks brass yet.</p><p>Centre Sid Finney, who potted 30 goals last year, will likely wind up between Merv Kuryluk, picked up from the Saskatoon Quakers and Jackie McLeod, a veteran winger obtained in the Dorohoy deal.</p><p>The third line will probably have Gordie Vejprava from the AHL Cleveland Barons flanked by Jimmy Brown from the University of Denver and Jim Moro from Vernon of the Okanagan circuit.</p><h2><b>Has The Talent</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02371/1936987-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="576" height="1069"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Claude Pronovost</b></figcaption></div><p>Kyle had no predictions on where his Cowboys would finish but said &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be tough and I know they other teams will be too.&rdquo;</p><p>Remembering Dorohoy and the saying they&rsquo;ll always come back to haunt you.</p><p>He added, &ldquo;I guess we&rsquo;ll get the most trouble from the Canucks.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-01

Kyle’s Hosses Won’t Pull Up Lame, Despite Many Empty Saddles

<p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON, Mass.&mdash;A 20&#8210;year old blond from Grand Falls, New Brunswick, has been chosen by Chief Scout Harold Cotton as the biggest surprise of the Bruins&rsquo; pre-season training period.</p><p>Gerry Ouellette, a stocky right wing, played last season with a Junior B team, the Siskins, in Waterloo, Ont.</p><p>He made such a favorable impression on the Bruins&rsquo; management here that he is starting this season with the Kingston Frontenacs of the Eastern Professional League.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the biggest surprise,&rdquo; declared Cotton. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the type who wants to get someplace and if he continues to improve as he did here, he will.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Junior B Grad Biggest Of All Bs Training Surprises

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Although Whitby Dunlops and Belleville McFarlands won the Allan Cup and the world championship the last two years and Kitchener Dutchmen are bolstering for their attempt to make it three world titles at the Olympic Games nex February, partisan Chatham fans figure their Maroons are the team to beat for the Ontario Hockey Association senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; championship, and possibly the Alan Cup as well.</p><p>Chatham was handed a solar plexus when defenceman Danny Blair accepted terms with the Cleveland Barons, thus forsaking &ldquo;amateur&rdquo; hockey. But the Maroons&rsquo; coach, Johnny Horeck, has not been Idle and has signed nine newcomers for his squad. They are goalie Johnny Albani, defenceman Ivan Tennant and forwards Joe Zorica, Bill Forhan, Danny Patrick, Jim Sonoski, George Montague, Serge Beaudroult and Bryan McLay.</p><p>His holdovers are defencemen Jack Douglas and Don McGregor and forwards Ted Powers, Gary Sharp, Fred Pletsch, Copper Leyte, Ernie Dick and Don Mills, alternate goalie.</p><p>Working out at the Whitby training camp are 28 players. Sid Smith, ex-Leaf who led the Dunnies to the world championship two years ago as playing-coach, has hung up his hockey gear, and has been succeeded by defenceman Ted O&rsquo;Connor.</p><p>Attending the Whitby practices are goalies John Henderson and Phil Burkart. Jack Donlevy has followed suit to Sid Smith by retiring as a player because it interferes with his regular employment.</p><p>On the rearguard manager Wren Blair has Alf Treen, Don McBeth, John Chasczewski, team captain Harry Sinden and coach Ted O&rsquo;Connor. Newcomers to the defence are Norm Preston, of Bowmanville, who played for Hamilton Cubs and Peterborough Petes in junior &ldquo;A&rsquo;&rsquo; ranks last season; Ted Szdlowski, who was on loan from Cornwall to North Bay Trappers, and Ed Calhoun of Blair&rsquo;s other team, Clinton Comets, of the eastern U.S. amateur team.</p><p>Up front, all but one of last year&rsquo;s team are again seeking berths on the Whit by team. They include Bobby Attersley, the perennial scoring champion of the former eastern Ontario league George Samolenko, Gordie Myles Dune Brodie, Sandy Air, Pete Babando, Bob Hassard, Whitey Young berg, Tom O&rsquo;Connor and Free Etcher.</p><h2><b>Up To Dunnies</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01453/1937049-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="556" height="1613"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tim Hook</b></figcaption></div><p>Newcomers are Tim Hook of the Clinton Comets, Garry Darling of the Peterborough juniors, Eric Pogue, former Oshawa junior; Billy Kennedy, Tom Clark of the Peterborough juniors; Art Rennick of Bowmanville, Gord Haughton, drafted from Cornwall, George Westfall and Jack Kane, who has rejected a professional contract offered him by the Springfield Indians.</p><h2>Dutchies Have 7 Newcomers</h2><p>Seven newcomer attended Kitchener Dutchmen&rsquo;s first workout, and they included Mike Elik, drafted from the Chatham Maroons for the Olympic trip; Daryl Sly, last year with Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;s Majors; Wayne Klinck and Pat Prestley, who attended Denver University and St. Lawrence College respectively last year; Don Labelle and Ron Muir, drafted from the Cornwall Chevies; centre Ron Brain of the Guelph Bilt juniors.</p><p>Windsor Bulldogs, with their new playing coach, Jean Paul Lamirande, directing traffic are due to open practice soon. Lamirande, the stocky defence standout of the last two world tournaments with Whitby and Belleville, gives the border squad strength where they needed it the most.</p><p>Lamirande attended training camp of the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs without too much success, but he is not discouraged because he has a line on several experienced players, and there may be a couple of surprise acquisitions at the Windsor training camp.</p><p>Another trade between the Windsor and Chatham clubs has become complicated, as forward George Aitken of the Maroons swapped to the Bulldogs for defenceman Bob Seqmour, may not report to the Windsor club because of job problems.</p><p>Tommy Walker, acquired from the Soo Greyhounds, has joined the Windsor club. So has veteran utility man Fred Hildebrand, while another veteran, Joe Klukay, has started working out.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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‘This Is The Year, 'Shout Chatham Fans Of Maroons

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div><p>KELOWNA. B.C.&mdash;</p><p>All four clubs of the Okanagan Senior Hockey League will open training camp this week.</p><p>An eleventh hour report from Penticton Stated newly hired playing coach Bernie Bathgate has resigned, with no reason given. The veteran centreman was to have replaced Pat Coburn, last seasons coach of the Vees. Bathgate will however remain as a player and handle the club until a successor is named. Vees&rsquo; officials state they have contacted a well known figure in Okanagan hockey circles and will release his name this week.</p><p>Although little is known on the eve of training camp openings as to what can be expected in the way of player personnels, one thing is certain and that is program sellers should have their best year.</p><p>The paying customer can be assured of a number of new faces when the league gets underway. Several players who performed in this league last season will not be back. They have either signed with another amateur club, moved up into the professional ranks, or have called it quits.</p><p>All teams in the league have felt the pinch of losing players, and with new leagues sprouting up player help has become a problem.</p><p>For instance Kelowna Packers, who last season walked away with the league race, have lost a number of their &lsquo;named&rsquo; players. These include all-star netminder Davie Gatherum a one time Detroit Red Wing chattel, who has been a main stay with the Packers for the past four seasons. He along with one of the leagues top wingers Maurice (Moe) Young have retired from the game due to pressure of business.</p><h2><b>Bergeron Moves On</b></h2><p>Defenseman Bob Bergeron, a W.H.L. veteran who came to the Packer* last season, has moved to Powell River, B.C. Young Wayne North, who is Chicago property, has won a spot on the Calgary Stampeders blueline. The league&rsquo;s all-star centerman Gerry Goyer, who scored 42 goals and fifty assists last season, has signed a professional ocntract with the Seattle Totems of the W.H.L. The third member of the Packer defense corp to depart is Harry Smith, a hard working rushing defenseman, who has been selected to join the Olympic Bound Kitchener Waterloo Dutchman. Smith however has declined the offer and will remain in his hometown of Trail, B.C., and line up with the Smoke Eaters of the Western International League.</p><p>Coach Jack O&rsquo;Reilly realizing the tremendous loss in personnel boarded a train for the Prairies and returned with some good news. While there the colorful coach inked a goalkeeper to a contract in 23-year-old Art Lariviere, at present in the training camp of Calgary Stampeders. Lariviere led the Red Deer Hustlers to the Western Canadian intermediate championship last season. A number of other players were contacted and will arrive in Kelowna during the training camp. Packers are also expecting help from Seattle Totems, with whom they have a working agreement.</p><p>Coach George Agar&rsquo;s Vernon Canadians will be minus winger Jim Moro who has stepped up into the pro ranks with Calgary Stampeders. Aggar also lost the services of veteran netminder Hal Gordon, via the retirement route, but he expects to fill the gap with young Don McLeod who has shown a lot of promise with he Vernon intermediates.</p><h2><b>Lost To Packers</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02410/1937080-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="566" height="604"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Bergeron</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Player Famine, Retirements Hits Okanagan Seniors At Camp Time

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div><p>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>A full-time commissioner, an increased schedule and the return of a Memorial Cup champion coach are expected to carry the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League to one of its greatest campaigns ever.</p><p>Frank Boucher, a former National League great who of late had been connected with western pro clubs in Brandon, Regina, St. Paul and Saskatoon, stepped into the newly-created commissioner&rsquo;s post this summer and will direct league affairs on a 12-month basis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01448/1937118-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="293" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Boucher</b></figcaption></div><p>Boucher has sweeping powers over the seven-team league, the largest west of Ontario and the most wide-spread in Canada.</p><p>In direct contrast to other junior loops, the SJHL adopted an increased schedule&mdash;60 games per team&mdash;and reduced the playoff structure from the top six to top four teams.</p><p>Last year each of the seven members played 48 games and only one missed the post-season series.</p><h2><b>Bombers Have 54 Games</b></h2><p>Flin Flon Bombers, perennial titlests, are scheduled for only 54 games&mdash;30 on the road and 24 at home. Each other club will travel into Flin Flon twice for weekend doubleheaders and a victory in the Manitoba centre will be worth 2&frac12; points.</p><p>The reduction in games at Flin Flon is an economical move as the northern mining town has poor travel connections with outside points.</p><p>Bobby Kirk, who put the SJHL into the limelight in the 1956-57 season by directing Flin Flon to the west&rsquo;s first Memorial Cup in eight years, returns to the Bomber fold this winter.</p><p>After piloting Bombers to the Canadian crown, Kirk spent one more year in Flin Flon before shifting to Buffalo Bisons of the American League for the 1958-59 campaign.</p><p>Kirk had Bisons in first place late in the regular schedule when ill health forced him to return to his Manitoba home.</p><p>The only new coaching face in the league is that of Eddie Wares, who takes over at Moose Jaw in Canucks second year. Bill (Legs) Fraser replaces Vic Lynn at Prince Albert, however, he has been at both P.A. and Melville previously.</p><p>Ex-Chicago Black Hawks star Doug Bentley at Saskatoon, Paul Bozak at Melville and Frank Mario at Regina, all will be starting third terms. Howie Milford will be back again under Scotty Munro at Estevan.</p><p>The league schedule opens Oct. 14 and winds up Feb. 25. Training camps have been under way since the first of the month and all clubs reported turnouts beyond all expectations.</p><p>Commissioner Boucher considered the heavy attendance &ldquo;most encouraging. It would seem to indicate that more boys are interested in making a career out of hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>The SJHL will be trying to regain a bit of lost prestige this year, suffered last spring when Winnipeg Braves toppled Flin Flon and went on to take the Memorial Cup.</p><p>Winnipeg&rsquo;s victory was the first for a Manitoba junior club in six years and snapped a four-year reign by the SJHL on western laurels.</p><p>Early season selections generally favor Flin Flon once again. The Bombers have always been successful and the return of Kirk and scoring champion Cliff Pennington will do little to damper their chances.</p><p>Bombers have some 11 holdovers and considering they lost only 12 games in league play last year can be considered the main contenders for the title.</p><h2><b>Back To Flin Flon</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02355/1937111-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="495" height="852"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Cliff Pennington</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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SJHL Opens Fire October 14 With Boucher As Boss

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03266/1937149-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="569" height="268"></div><h2><b>OCTOBER 17 TO OCTOBER 23</b></h2><p>17&mdash;Bob Elik, Providence, forward, 1929.</p><p>19&mdash;Don Ward, Boston, defenseman, 1935.</p><p>20&mdash;Doug Anderson, Victoria, forward, 1927.</p><p>11&mdash;Del Topoll, Spokane, forward, 1933.</p><p>12&mdash;Hugh Currie, Victoria, defense, 1925.</p><p>13&mdash;Larry Wilson, Buffalo, forward, 1930.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<div class="byline">By LEN TAYLOR</div><p>KITCHENER, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The advent of Canadian-styled amateurism may cut deeply into the chances of the United States in the 1960 Olympic hockey tournament, according to Thomas J. (Tommy) Lockhart, president of the U.S. Amateur Hockey Association.</p><p>Lockhart states that many of the best players on previous U.S. entries in world and Olympic tournaments have been lined up with a new Green Bay club organized by Don Clark, former manager of the U.S. Nationals.</p><p>&ldquo;He has them on the same basis as good Canadian clubs,&rdquo; Lockhart said. &ldquo;He has managed to find them work and they also play and get paid for it.&rdquo;</p><p>Lockhart says that Denver, a new entry in the International League, is operating on the work-and-play basis, which he sees as the shape of things to come in U.S. senior hockey.</p><p>For the 1960 Olympics, Lockhart adds, the U.S. will organize a team from college players and others discharged from the U.S. forces. Players on the Green Bay-Denver type of operation will not be eligible to try out.</p><p>The U.S. team will form and be trained at the U.S. Army Academy at West Point, N.Y. where Jack Riley, the Army hockey coach, will take over as coach of the national team.</p><p>A series of exhibition games across the U.S. will be played prior to the Olympics in Squaw Valley, Calif.</p><p>They will probably include two or three games with the Russian national team which is to train at Colorado Springs, Col.</p><p>The tour will open in Philadelphia about Jan. 17, and conclude with a series of games in the new Los Angeles arena.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Canadian-Styled Amateurism May Hurt US Chances

<div class="byline">By GEORGE METZGER</div><p>WHITBY, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The eight clubs that compose the Eastern Hockey League in this it&rsquo;s Silver Anniversary campaign all opened their training camps this week.</p><p>And competition for the 14 berths available on each come the start of the 64-game card is reported fierce from the get-in-shape resorts.</p><p>You would think the defending champions would be an exception. But not so here at the pre-season bivouac of the Clinton Comets who nailed down everything last time out.</p><p>The competition is just as wide open as in the other seven outposts.</p><p>The thing that brought this into being was the fact that at last report, Ed Stanley could ink only nine of last year&rsquo;s outfit.</p><p>Three of the remaining five are being considered for assignment by the National Hockey League teams which own them while a fourth has decided to quit for family reasons and the other is a holdout.</p><p>Instead of waiting for the Clinton camp to open here last Monday, two of the Comets&rsquo; young defensemen of a year ago, Rudy Balone and Mike Kardash, both reported to Spokane, Washington, to be farmed out by the New York Rangers, which hold rights to them.</p><h2><b>Hook At Wings&rsquo; Camp</b></h2><p>The third skater who might move up the hockey ladder is big Tim Hook, who played both forward and defense for the Comets last year when they sailed to the flag.</p><p>He has been working out with the Detroit Red Wings and may be given a job with them on one of their major farms.</p><p>As reported before, Doug MacPhee has said he will retire from hockey to spend more time with his wife and four children while Leon Bouchard, another defenseman, is a holdout.</p><p>But General Manager Wren Blair has not given up hope in enticing the five back into the fold. Especially the three being considered by the big league clubs.</p><p>Just in case, though, he has been scurrying around Canada trying to line up some top-flight players to strengthen the champs lineup&mdash;if this is possible.</p><p>&ldquo;Just because the other nine men have signed,&rdquo; he warned, &ldquo;it doesn&rsquo;t say they are assured of jobs. All the positions are wide open and will be filled with the best available men.</p><p>&ldquo;If better material shows up at camp here,&rdquo; he continued, &ldquo;we will make replacements whereever necessary to assure a top-notch club for the Clinton fans.</p><p>The others GMs around the circuit wish they had the problems Blair has of deciding between so much good talent.</p><p>One returnee who is almost assured of a job is Tricky Dick Wray. The clever left winger ran away with the individual scoring championship last season by netting 56 goals and 70 handoffs for 126 points&mdash;26 more than his nearest competitor.</p><p>Word comes from the Philadelphia Ramblers camp at Hershey, Pa., that defenseman Jack Higgins has been traded to Toledo of the International League in exchange for Graham Joyce.</p><p>Philly has also signed two veteran players as free agents. They are Aggie Kuklowicz, a center who had some work with the New York Rangers, and defenseman Norm Gustavsen, who has also played for the Rangers.</p><p>Coach Doug Adam hopes Gustavsen can take up the vacancy created when Higgins was traded away.</p><h2><b>Goes West</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04201/1937204-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="562" height="668"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Mike Kardash</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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EHL Champs Just Too Good, NHL Clubs May Take Some

<p>WHITBY, Ont.&mdash;The Eastern Hockey League is scheduled to open its 25th season next week.</p><p>However, just who is playing whom and where is not yet known since no schedule was received up until press time.</p><p>It is hoped that a complete schedule will be received in time to be published in next week&rsquo;s edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

News’ Readers Will Have EHL Schedule Next Week

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01425/1937259-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div><p><b>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Canadien player shown in centre.</p><p>8&mdash;Conn Smythe once had one which won the Queen&rsquo;s Plate.</p><p>9&mdash;The president of the WHL.</p><p>12&mdash;This is used on hockey sticks.</p><p>13&mdash;Alvin McDonald&rsquo;s native province (abbr.)</p><p>15&mdash;Some.</p><p>16&mdash;Born.</p><p>18&mdash;Initials of Redhal of Boston.</p><p>19&mdash;A Toronto goalie answers to this.</p><p>21&mdash;Tantalum (Sym.)</p><p>22&mdash;Nickname of a Ranger defenseman.</p><p>24&mdash;Gerry McNamara&rsquo;s native province (abbr.)</p><p>26&mdash;Initials of Ullman of Detroit.</p><p>27&mdash;Name given Goldup, ex N.H.L. player.</p><p>31&mdash;Whether.</p><p>32&mdash;Number of assists collected by Marcel Bonin in 1958-59 season.</p><p>34&mdash;Jacques Plante had nine of these last season (abbr.)</p><p>35&mdash;Andy Bathgate won this trophy last season.</p><p>36&mdash;Initials of a New York defenseman.</p><p>38&mdash;Initials of Davis, former N.H.L. forward.</p><p>39&mdash;An injury forced this former Canadien player into retirement.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;This former Maple Leaf player is now a school teacher.</p><p>2&mdash;Buffalo Bisons&rsquo; coach.</p><p>3&mdash;Pronoun.</p><p>4&mdash;N.H.L. club with whom Leo Boivin turned pro (abbr.)</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of Ross of Providence</p><p>6&mdash;Osmium (Sym.)</p><p>7&mdash;This player scored 30 goals for Edmonton last season.</p><p>10&mdash;Initials of Atchtymichuk who played with Canadiens it 1956-57.</p><p>11&mdash;Of (Fr.)</p><p>13&mdash;Hershey traded this goalie tc Cleveland for defensemar Bucky Hollingworth.</p><p>14&mdash;Indefinite article.</p><p>17&mdash;Former manager-coach of the Victoria Cougars.</p><p>20&mdash;Once played for Canadiens, called Lulu.</p><p>21&mdash;Jacques Plante broke one during the summer.</p><p>23&mdash;Hershey&rsquo;s new netminder.</p><p>25&mdash;Position Chicago finished in 1958-59 season.</p><p>28&mdash;Short for given name of Stratton of Rangers.</p><p>29&mdash;New Testament (abbr.)</p><p>30&mdash;Former New York rearguard.</p><p>33&mdash;Name given Boston&rsquo;s chief scout.</p><p>37&mdash;Initials of Glover of Cleveland.</p><h2><b>SOLUTION</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Stanley</p><p>8&mdash;Honey</p><p>9&mdash;Oct-</p><p>11&mdash;Or</p><p>12&mdash;Nurse</p><p>13&mdash;Jan.</p><p>14&mdash;Leo</p><p>16&mdash;Dea</p><p>31&mdash;C.C.</p><p>32&mdash;Ire</p><p>33&mdash;Yackel</p><p>34&mdash;R.B.</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1&mdash;Shoulder</p><p>2&mdash;Tor.</p><p>3&mdash;An</p><p>4&mdash;N.E.</p><p>5&mdash;Lynn</p><p>6&mdash;Yorkton</p><p>17&mdash;Oc.</p><p>19&mdash;Nov.</p><p>21&mdash;Ran.</p><p>23&mdash;Na.</p><p>24&mdash;Gas</p><p>25&mdash;G.E.</p><p>27&mdash;Jack</p><p>28&mdash;A.S.</p><p>29&mdash;Ida.</p><p>30&mdash;H.O.</p><p>7&mdash;Steel</p><p>10&mdash;C.S.</p><p>13&mdash;Joann</p><p>15&mdash;E.E.</p><p>18&mdash;Conacher</p><p>20&mdash;Vasko</p><p>22&mdash;Aces</p><p>24&mdash;G.A.</p><p>25&mdash;Gary</p><p>26&mdash;Dick</p><p>27&mdash;Jail</p><p>31&mdash;C.C.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">By VINCE LEAH</div><p>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;</p><p>Don&rsquo;t look now but The Manitoba Junior Hockey league is after another Memorial cup,</p><p>The MJHL, a surprise winner of the national crown last season when Winnipeg Braves defeated Peterborough Petes in the final, received such a filip from Braves&rsquo; success that the league has taken on a new brand of enthusiasm and organization that augers nothing but good for local junior hockey.</p><p>President this season is Bill Johnston, QC., who is deputy municipal administrator in the Manitoba government and a prominent jurist. Secretary-manager is Terry Hind, who also is business manager of the Winnipeg Goldeyes of the Northern league and regarded as one of the brightest young officials in organized professional baseball and a born promoter.</p><p>With the finest crop of junior prospects seen in these parts in many moons, teams have settled down to serious training in preparation for the league&rsquo;s seasonal inaugural, Oct. 27.</p><p>The defending national champion Braves have lost some of last year&rsquo;s squad but with two thirds of that magnificient first line, Bob Leiter and Allan LeBlanc back with goalkeeper Ernie Walkely, defencemen Lew Mueller, Ingi Ingmundson, Johnny Sutherland, forwards Teddy Knight, Ken King, newcomer Dave Kerr from Kenora, Ont., and 13 rookies in camp Coach Bill Allum is confident Braves will make another bold bid for top honors.</p><h2><b>Canucks Await Green</b></h2><p>St. Boniface Canadiens, who keep coming close season after season, still have no word as to whether Teddy Green will return from the Western league Warriors. Teddy, who as an replacement helped Braves go all the way last spring, is regarded as the finest junior defenceman in Canada.</p><p>Holdovers with the Canyens include that superb young goalkeeper, Paul Sexsmith, who looked so good in Warriors&rsquo; camp, defencemen Bob Donas and Ken Stephanson, forwards Bill Staub, Johnny Rodger, Billy Hughes, Walter Batlowski, Gerry Kruk, Wayne Stewart and such newcomers as John Manchester, Ron Munroe and Ken Riddell from Warren, Man., Willie Ducharme from The Pas, Man., Brian Strimbicki, Ron Drapack, Bill Lawrence, Jack Smyth from juvenile ranks and a promising 16-year-old goalkeeper, Brian Lunney. Stephanson is an outstanding prospect and his crushing checks in workouts forced Coach Bill Juzda to flag down his enthusiasm.</p><h2><b>56 Kids At Monarch Camp</b></h2><p>Monarchs have 56 kids in camp including returnees Ken Ingram, Rich Ulrich, Clint Smith, Ray Sawchuk, Lyle Watson, Bill Shields, Barry Ross, Ron Radon, Cam Brock, Brian Settee, but have lost their brilliant young goalkeeper from Toronto, Eric Reid. At last report he was lining up with Estevan Bruins in the Saskatchewan league.</p><p>Among the newcomers who impress are tall Blair McLeod, Dale Scott, goalie Johnny Shanski. Other lads on General Manager Hoss Nicholson&rsquo;s list includes Don Bell, Ray Gillespie, John Manley, Jim Alsip, Doug Smith, Terry Moore, Doug Jackman, Bruce Wright, Gord Taggart, Don Brewster, Gary Camppell, Bob Whitlaw, Barry Chipka, Bill Ringash, Fred Smith, Dave Anton, Keith Purdon, Boyd Kramble, Ed Sowany, Elmer Malakoff, Jim Kenning, Mark Young, Don White, Biff Homiak, Wayne Scarrow, Bob Colpitts, Gus Roy, Jim Harrison, John Lewis, Mark Girardin, Pat Boyle, Bill Howden, Dale Magnus, John Matheson, Nelson Otto, Deward Kirkness, Gary Larner, Bob McCormick, George Chapel and Cliff Peterson. All are local lads from the fast-growing Greater Winnipeg Minor Hockey association ranks.</p><p>Transcona Rangers have abandonned operations in the nearby railway centre to make their home in the Arena, but many of the faces are the same. Returnees include Don McKenzie, for the fourth season, Jeff Ball, Dave Richardson, Bob Waytowich, Gary Shaw.</p><p>A major loss was that of goalkeeper Warren Gregg who has entered the University of North Dakota and Coach Paul Platz at the moment has high school football whizz Fred Sucharski as his No. 1 goal choice. Dennis Toyne from Norwood Falcons and Tommy Gill from Earl Grey are new defencemen in camp and Platz is busy sorting out a host of draft choices and juvenile grads to fill the holes caused by graduation.</p><p>Out in Brandon,&rsquo; General Manager Jack Milford has put together a formidable side. Among the players returning from last season are young Bryan Hextall, whose dad was a New York Ranger immortal. Dunc McCallum, George Peary, Gord Rice, goalie Don Holmes, Edgar Ehrenverth, Ted Bicknell, Jack Matheson, Ron Baryluk, while among the newcomers who have stood out at George Hill from Flin Flon, of all places, and Wayne Fawcett from Swan River. The Wheaties had some goalkeeping fiffieulties and tried to make a deal fro Braves&rsquo; reserve netman, Zenon Moroz, but Zennie returned home to Transcona where he is employed by the railroad.</p><h2><b>In Trade News</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02373/1937290-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="565" height="721"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Zenon Moroz</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Manitoba Kids Start Long Trek To 2nd Memorial Cup

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-02123/1937335-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="247" height="291"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-01125/1937342-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="237" height="276"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-03118/1937328-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2354" height="1730"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Montreal Canadiens star Doug Harvey is shown chatting with Sydney Academy high school student Pat Chiasson, Montreal sportscaster Danny Gallivan and C.N. Murray, Superintendent of Dosco&rsquo;s big steel plant at Sydney.</b></p><p><b>The occasion was DOSCO-Academy Day celebrations at Sydney early last Summer. Harvey and Gallivan were guest speakers.</b></p></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0497/1937321-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2346" height="1737"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>The Lobster King. Native Nova Scotian Danny Gallivan introduced big Jean Beliveau to lobsters during a visit to the Cape Breton area this Summer. The Montreal Canadiens star was guest speaker at a banquet held by Our Lady of Fatima Church near Antigonish.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Champs’ Reps Strut Their Stuff In Nova Scotia

<p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Individual members of the Montreal Canadiens proved as proficient this Summer on the banquet circuit as on the ice lanes.</p><p>That seems to be the public opinion in Nova Scotia at least, which had visits in turn from Doug Harvey, Jean Beliveau, Maurice Richard and Phil Goyette.</p><p>All four were frankly amazed at the tremendous amount of hockey interest and knowledge that existed in the Nova Scotian towns. &ldquo;It is just like being in Montreal,&rdquo; Doug Harvey commented, &ldquo;Kids everywhere turned out at the various functions and I never signed so many autographs in all my life.&rdquo;</p><p>Harvey and Montreal sportscaster Danny Gallivan were guest speakers at DOSCO functions in the steel town of Sydney in early May. Both proved terrific ambassadors for the sport.</p><p>Cape Breton sports columnist Aubrey Keiser commented &ldquo;Doug Harvey is certainly a great ambassador for the Canadiens. He made a wonderful impression everywhere he went.&rdquo;</p><p>Harvey and Gallivan were also attractions at a dinner held by the Sackville Downs Race Track in Halifax for sports writers. It was at this session that Harvey commented that Maurice Richard was the greatest attraction ever offered by hockey. This comment received attention right across the country.</p><p>Beliveau, Richard and Goyette also visited various towns in Cape Breton where they were warmly acclaimed.</p><p>Among others who greeted the hockey stars during their Cape Breton junket were Cliff Roach, former Providence Reds and Sydney Millionaires performer, and Hamilton born Jack Fritz, for many years a defence star with the Millionaires; both are residents of Sydney.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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October 17, 1959

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