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December 5, 1959

The Hockey News December 5, 1959

<div class="byline">By AL NICKLESON</div><p>In The Toronto Globo And Mail</p><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Another expose in the entertainment world!</p><p>The hockey Maple Leafs may not know it, but they have a rigged line in operation.</p><p>Dick Duff admitted his part in the conspiracy last week and implicated the two others of his unit&mdash;centre Larry Regan and team captain George Armstrong.</p><p>&ldquo;We three have been holding private meetings before games of late,&rsquo;&rsquo; said Duff with no sign of remorse. &ldquo;We plan things. We figure out what we&rsquo;re going to do in the games.</p><p>Fos instance, in Boston last Sunday we met and agreed to check the Bruins out of their skates. We did, everybody did, and we won, 2-1. Even Punch (manager-coach Punch Imlach) was pleased. And the Chief (Armstrong) scored a goal. We planned that, too.&rdquo;</p><p>Duff credits these tete-a-tetee for an improvement in his play over recent National League games. Then, too, there are the prescribed vitamin pills and gallons of milk, which he never drank before.</p><h2><b>Pills, Milk Help Him</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I knew I hadn&rsquo;t been playing well this season,&rdquo; said Duff. &ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t skating and I tired a lot. For the last couple of years I&rsquo;ve had a hard time getting going in the early games. But I feel better now. Earlier, while trying to get into stride, it was drudgery. Now I&rsquo;m getting to enjoy playing.</p><p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t afford to have a bad year. They pay me pretty well and I&rsquo;ve scored more than 25 goals in each of the last three seasons. So, if I slip to 17 or so, it would mean a cut in salary.&rdquo;</p><p>As of now, Duff has five goals and as many assists. He aims to add 10 goals, at least, in the 16 games remaining before the end of December. By then Leafs will have completed half the 70-game schedule.</p><p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s say that Duff played the last four games better than the first 15,&rdquo; said Imlach. &ldquo;Right now, Armstrong, Duff and Regan are playing well.</p><p>&ldquo;We have one remaining line that&rsquo;s not clicking,&rdquo; he added, pointing to Bob Pulford, Gerry Ehman and Frank Mahovlich on the practice ice. &ldquo;Despite that, we&rsquo;re in third place.&rdquo;</p><p>Mahovlich, of course, has been the big disappointment. He has counted three goals and assisted on one for a mere four points in 19 games.</p><p>&ldquo;I had figured Mahovlich should get 30 goals this season,&rdquo; sighed Imlach. &ldquo;He had 22 last season.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02273/1679591-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="256" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Duff</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Pre-Game Big Three Meetings Aid Duff To Snuff Out Slump

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>When Forbes Kennedy was sent down to Edmonton in favor of young Murray Oliver there was some talk that the switch wouldn&rsquo;t be taken kindly by Red Wings faithfuls.</p><p>Aside from Gordie Howe&mdash;of course&mdash;Kennedy was the most popular Red Wing. He soared up and down the ice like a human buzzsaw with his hip extended.</p><p>It was always lively when Kennedy hopped over the boards. The fans loved him. But he had trouble getting the puck in the net.</p><p>Oliver, in a brief trial, has found the range with no difficulty.</p><p>After the Wings dropped a 3-2 decision at Toronto, coach Sid Abel yanked Len Lunde off the first line as center for Gordie Howe and Gary Aldcorn and inserted Oliver. Lunde had failed to score in 21 games.</p><p>The 22-year-old Hamilton product fit into the slot perfectly. His first NHL goal came in Detroit&rsquo;s jinx spot&mdash;Boston Garden&mdash;and tied the game. The Wings came out of that one with a 3-3 standoff and the Aldcorn-Oliver-Howe unit accounted for two goals.</p><p>His next test was the following night in Madison Square Garden and he counted what proved to be the winning goal in a 5-3 Red Wing decision, jabbing in Aldcorn&rsquo;s rebound.</p><p>Again, his line was the top combination for the Detroiters as Howe and Aldcorn also scored.</p><p>Oliver makes up in smartness what he lacks in physical size. He stands 5-9% and weighs 170 pounds but he triggered 33 goals for Edmonton last season, his first as a pro.</p><p>Murray was up with the Wings for a one-game tryout in 1957-58 and recorded his first NHL assist. He earned the chance after scoring 34 goals and assisting on 56 for the Hamilton Tiger Cubs and winning the league&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player award.</p><p>At Edmonton, Murray&rsquo;s 33 goals left him only five short of the Western League rookie record and he tied with another Red Wing teammate, Jerry Melnyk, for the club point honors with 67.</p><p>Like Kennedy with Red Wing fans, Oliver was a favorite in Edmonton and was named the most popular player on the Flyers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04201/1679226-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="534" height="538"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Murray Oliver</b></figcaption></div><p>Oliver&rsquo;s production helped the Wings pick up seven points in six road games while ah ice show held forth on Olympia ice and any coach would be satisfied with .500 hockey on the road.</p><p>But it was more than Oliver that caused a bright outlook as the Wings prepared for a showdown with Montreal&mdash;four games against Canadiens in a seven-game span.</p><h2><b>McNeill, Godfrey Coming Through</b></h2><p>Badly-needed firepower was coming from other sources. Billy McNeill started picking up. Warren Godfrey&rsquo;s blueline screeners were getting into the cage.</p><p>McNeill, the erratic, hard-skating forward, had three goals in 18 games. His NHL best was five in 64 games in 1956-57 and five in 35 two seasons ago. McNeill had only two in 54 outings last season before being sent down to Edmonton where he found his eye and notched 12 in as many games.</p><p>Godfrey is on his way to his best scoring season. The crew-cut rearguard rarely misses shooting on goal from the blueline but four of them have made it into the net this season, only two less than last year which was his best in seven National League seasons, four of them with Detroit.</p><p>The Wings were entirely dependent on Howe last season and Gordie had little scoring support. A more diversified offense could put the Red Wings back into the playoffs after their highly unusual absence last spring.</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS:</b> Red Wings are Gump Worsley&rsquo;s jinx club&hellip;The Gumper was injured at Olympia two years ago and after recovering was sent to Providence because Marcel Paille was doing such a good job in the New York nets&hellip;Gump made it back later in the season&hellip;and now he&rsquo;s back in the American League after Detroit beat Rangers, 5-3, in Alfie Pike&rsquo;s home debut.</p><p>Detroit entered the vital Montreal series&mdash;four games with the champions within a seven-game stretch&mdash;with the grim specter of last season looming overhead&hellip;Wings were battling for first going into a similar set last year and Montreal started them on the road to the cellar.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Detroit Gets Speedy Payoff From Kennedy, Murray Oliver Twist

<div class="image-hero"><img title="C4-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-073/1681091-1-eng-US/c4-072.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>S</span>olve your Christmas Shopping worries the easy way with a one year subscription to THE HOCKEY NEWS I It&rsquo;s a truly ideal gift FATHER &mdash; BIG BROTHER &mdash; YOUR FAVORITE COUSIN-THE BOY FRIEND-MOTHER or even the KID SISTER</b></p><p><b>ATTRACTIVE GIFT CARDS ANNOUNCE</b></p><p><b>EACH XMAS SUBSCRIPTION</b></p><p>Gift Card Instructions:<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div><p>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Bill (Legs) Fraser of Prince Albert Mintos and Howie Milford of Estevan Bruins, a pair of coaches involved in a scuffle at Estevan on Friday, Nov. 13, have been suspended for the next seven Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League games which are played between the two clubs.</p><p>The decision was announced by league commissioner Frank Boucher of Saskatoon.</p><p>Neither coach will be allowed to accompany his team to the other centre and must not direct his club in any way at home while the suspension is in force.</p><p>Each club will be obliged to deposit $100 with the league treasurer as a guarantee of proper conduct by himself and his players for the balance of the season.</p><p>For the remaining games between these clubs at Prince Albert, a neutral referee will be sent up from Saskatoon and the Mintos will pay his expenses. For the games at Estevan, a referee will be obtained from Regina and Bruins will pay his expenses.</p><p>Fraser walked along the top of the boards from his box to the Estevan coaching box and a souffle with Milford followed. Both men fell to the ice and continued to wrestle. They were ejected after three minutes of the second period.</p><p>During the fracas, players from both benches piled onto the ice and milled around the wrestling coaches.</p><p>Milford, in Saskatoon recently, was rather indignant about the whole thing.</p><p>&ldquo;I was robbed,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This guy Fraser walks 96 feet along the boards to get to me so I hit him. I had to protect myself.&rdquo;</p><p>Fraser came out of the tussle the worst off, suffering a cut tendon, several bruises, numerous cuts and a black eye.</p><p>The Minto coach claims he made the move along the boards to the Estevan box to confer with Milford about the alleged rough tactics his club was using in the game.</p><p>&ldquo;Milford hit me as soon as I got there.&rdquo; the former Ottawa Senator goaltender star said, &ldquo;and we tumbled to the ice. Bruins players jumped on us and the brawl was under way.</p><p>&ldquo;They gave me the works. One of them held my head up by the hair while another kept poking me In the face. Others slapped and punched.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Junior Coaches Fight It Out On Ice While Players Look On

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01216/1681122-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>On their great streak the Montreal Canadians downed everyone, including Goaler Glenn Hall of the Chicago Black Hawks. Ha is being pinned to the ice by Marcel Bonin while big Jean Beliveau awaits a pass. Beliveau was the Habs star in their streak that carried them away from the rest of the NHL in the standings.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Everyone Gets Downed By The Champs Sooner Or Later

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p><b>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</b></p><p>For some years now the OHA senior clubs have been complaining about the raiding tactics of United States amateur clubs, who sign players in Canada without going through the recognized formality of securing releases from their former Canadian clubs, and they also ignore getting releases from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.</p><p>The senior OHA clubs have pointed out that the U.S. and Canadian amateur hockey associations are both affiliated with the International Ice Hockey Federation, just as are the governing bodies in Europe, and as such all must respect the rights of the others regarding the transfer of players from one affiliate to the other.</p><p>George Dudley, secretary-manager of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, cited the cases of four former OHA seniors now playing in the United States without releases. The players are Minnie Menard with New York Rovers, Augie Kukolowitz and Phil Goyette with Louisville and Marve Edwards with Milwaukee.</p><p>Dudley said that Tommy Lockhart, president of the United States Amateur Hockey Association, has been unavailable for telephone calls when he attempted to bring up the matter. Menard is playing with a team with Lockhart operates in the eastern U.S. league.</p><p>It was decided that if the matter is not cleared up to the satisfaction of the Canadian clubs, the C.A.H.A. would suspend all four players, and under the agreement with the C.A.H.A. and the I.I.H.F., the American clubs are obliged to honor the suspensions.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

CAHA May Suspend Four Who Jumped To US Without Okay

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Will the Gump ever come back? That&rsquo;s the buzz in Rangerville following the summary dispatching of Lorne Worsley to Springfield for Marcel Paille.</p><p>Perhaps today, perhaps next week, perhaps never is the answer. The man with the solution is Marcel Paille. If the corpulent Quebecois plays well, Gump has had it, at least for this season.</p><p>Should Marcel go so-so, Worsley will be haled to the Gotham once again. And, if the Blueshirts flounder with Fatty, then what? It would seem that Gump would return in a jiffy, just as Eddie Shack did.</p><p>This, of course, is not the first time, Worsley was given a train ticket to the American League. In the last two years he was sent to Providence and then Buffalo but only after being injured.</p><p>The only thing injured this time is Gump&rsquo;s pride.</p><p>&ldquo;I still feel I belong with the club,&rdquo; said Worsley. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not all my fault. I&rsquo;m leaving for Springfield and they can leave me there all season. I don&rsquo;t want to move again. This moving your family all the time is no joke.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Gump Looked Nervous In Action</b></h2><p>Worsley&rsquo;s analysis was not wholly incorrect. Since the beginning of the season, in fact, even last year, his backliner sometimes treated Gump as if he had the Bubonic Plague.</p><p>Then again, Worsley himself was not perfection personified.</p><p>&ldquo;Alf seems to think the players themselves felt Gump was costing them an average of a goal a game,&rdquo; said Muzz Patrick.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02283/1679133-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="276" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alf Pike</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Gump has looked very nervous He has been falling to the ice more than ever. The other teams have been making too many cheap goals&hellip;goals I&rsquo;m sure wouldn&rsquo;t be made against Paille.&rdquo;</p><p>The is a touch-of tragic irony in the Worsley story.</p><p>Gump survived four years and 1,279 blasts&mdash;by actual count&mdash;from Phil Watson and stayed in [the big time. Alfie Pike hardly nodded, said not a word, and Gump was in Springfield.</p><p>Compounding this quirk of fate, Worsley appeared to be playing his heart out for Pike once Alfie was named coach. If the defensemen and backchecking forwards had shown the same enthusiasm, the result might have been different.</p><p>Which raises the question, why did they dump Gump?</p><p>Here is the answer: the Rangers still are within shouting distance of a playoff berth. They have time to overhaul the pacesetters. In lieu of trades, the management had to do something to shake up the club. First, they shuffled forwards, brought in a new coach, a couple of defensemen. It finally came down to the goalkeeper.</p><p>Worsle&rsquo;y departure also set the rumor machine into motion. One thought was that the recalcitrant Gump would be traded to the Bruins for Don Simmons in what might develop into an even larger deal.</p><p>Meanwhile, the Gump is gone.</p><p>The extent to which he is responsible for the Rangers&rsquo; decline will be determined in weeks to come.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Did Gump’s Mates Help Nudge Him?-He Nods And Parts

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>A couple of mature professional athletes are getting what likely will be their last chance to prove they belong in the best of all possible hockey leagues, the NHL.</p><p>For Marcel Paille, 26, a two time, part-time Ranger in the past, the New York goaltending throne is his for the asking&hellip;providing he can keep his finger in the dike&hellip;and haul Rangers into the playoffs.</p><p>&ldquo;As far as I&rsquo;m concerned the job is Paille&rsquo;s,&rdquo; said Muzz Patrick, the Blueshirt g.m. &ldquo;Unless he shows he can&rsquo;t handle it, he&rsquo;ll be here all year.&rdquo;</p><p>For Jack &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Bownass, 29, up for 35 cups of coffee last season, there will be temporary backline work at the start and, the way the Blue backline is playing, regular work before very long.</p><h2><b>Muzz Confident Bownass Can Help</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Bownass is the type of player who can give us some help, when needed,&rdquo; was Patrick&rsquo;s commentary on the large puck-carrying redhead. &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll play up to his ability even if he doesn&rsquo;t get to take a regular turn on the ice.&rdquo;</p><p>Marcel, a 5-9, 185 pound butterball, comes to New York with an albatross on each shoulder.</p><p>First, there is the rap that two seasons ago he became shell shocked after a sensational start. The &ldquo;shell shock&rdquo; bit was given wide play in the Gotham papers but there still is a suggestion that the reports were exaggerated. Last year, Marcel was up to replace an ailing Gump Worsley and blew a 4-1 lead to the Bruins. Again, the round man was strafed with invective.</p><p>Secondly, Marcel will be matching his stand-up brand of goaltending against Worsley notorious flip-flop style that dismayed many in the Garden.</p><p>Paille&rsquo;s biggest advertisement&mdash;other than his tummy&mdash;has been the act of playing goal without seeming to be the least bit perturbed about the madness around him. Even during his so-called &ldquo;rubberitis&rdquo; attack, he appeared in control of things. He also is credited with superb reflex action and supposedly recovers quickly after a shot on goal.</p><h2><i>He&rsquo;s in Blue</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01299/1679171-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="574" height="930"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marcel Paille</b></figcaption></div><h2><i>He&rsquo;s Just Blue</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03257/1679164-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="588" height="920"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gump Worsley</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Watson Wanted Paille Earlier</b></h2><p>The return of the Frenchman, especially if he is successful, will be a personal triumph for the recuperating Phil Watson who earlier in the season urged his recall from Springfield.</p><p>But the onus is on Marcel alone. Last year with Buffalo he was the all-star American League goalie. This year he was 3.25 with Springfield in the wide-open AHL. At that, he topped Worsley, who left Manhattan at 3.80, a tragic figure in hockey&rsquo;s stock market.</p><p>Bownass is another story.</p><p>At times last year, Jack indicated he had major league qualities. There was a good, hard shot from the point, some intelligent play behind the blue line.</p><p>However, the ledger also showed a conspicuous dearth of hitting power and an abundance of inconsistency.</p><p>It must be recalled that Jack was a 35-game Ranger last year. Perhaps, with more regular duty&mdash;or, maybe with this, his last big opportunity&mdash;Bownass will come through.</p><p>Neither he nor Marcel, can question the incentive&mdash;a big league contract. Now they have to fill their end of the deal&hellip;with big time play.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Muzz Scuttles Gump For Rangers Skid-” It’s Paille’s Job, If”?

<p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>EW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Marcel Paille comes back to the NHL with a better goals against average than Lorne Worsley left the big league with. However, Gump played 11 times more games in the majors than did Paille.</p><p>When Worsley left for Springfield of the AHL he had played 376 games in the NHL. He allowed 1134 goals for an average of 3.32 goals per game.</p><p>Paille, on the other hand, had only played in 34 regular NHL games before being recalled. He allowed 106 goals against in those 34 games, for an average of 3.12 goals per game.</p><p>In playoff hockey, Worsley performed in 14 games for the Rangers and allowed 65 goals against for a 4.07 goals per game record.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Gump Leaves NHL With 3.32 Goals Against In 376 Games

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Terry Sawchuk was given his papers when the Red Wings returned home after a tour of the East.</p><p>But Detroit wasn&rsquo;t dismissing its star goaltender. Terry became an American citizen.</p><p>Sawchuk is the first of the current Red Wing players to be sworn in as a United States citizen and joins two of his bosses who already have their papers&mdash;Jack Adams and Sid Abel.</p><p>Sawchuk beat teammates Gordie Howe and Red Kelly in taking the step. They are in the process known as permanent residency.</p><p>Terry is hoping he will play as well in goal as an American as he did as a Canadian.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Terry Gets Papers-As US Citizen

<div class="byline">By CHARLIE HALPIN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01298/1679281-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PHIL GOYETTE&hellip;&hellip;NO. ONE UP FRONT</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>What&rsquo;s the secret of the &ldquo;Thin Man&rdquo;?</p><p>Brain, and not brawn, that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s keeping the &ldquo;phantom&rdquo; of the Montreal Canadiens, Phil Goyette, in hockey&rsquo;s gruelling big time today.</p><p>Goyette, a David among the goliaths of the National Hockey League, has developed into one of the most dependable defensive players in the game despite his frail-looking exterior.</p><p>Phil has been rated the soundest all-round centre with the four-time world champions by Coach Toe Blake, which is saying a lot when you consider the Habs also have some pretty fair pivots named Jean Beliveau, Henri Richard, Ralph Backstrom and Donnie Marshall.</p><p>But Goyette doesn&rsquo;t overhelm his audiences like the Canadiens&rsquo; &ldquo;super stars&rdquo;, and he&rsquo;s not likely to win any plaudits as a goal scorer either. However, behind his almost lacklustre style of play revolves probably the most artistic and persistent defensive performer in the NHL.</p><h2><b>Ranked As One Of The Headiest</b></h2><p>Hockey men will confirm that virility alone will only carry a player so far. You&rsquo;ve got to be a thinker as well. Or as they say in the hockey vernacular, &ldquo;you have to be able to play with your head&rdquo;.</p><p>That&rsquo;s where the scholarly-looking Goyette excels. For he is ranked as one of the headiest centres in the NHL and he doesn&rsquo;t make much fuss going about his work.</p><p>It has been proven many time in the past that the little guys (He&rsquo;s 5&rsquo;11&rdquo; but only 166 soaking wet) invariably find the going rough. Yet they couldn&rsquo;t hold down such mighty mites of the ice lanes as Mush March, Normie Himes, Rabbit McVeigh, Aurel Joliat, and in modern times, Henri Richard, Billy Mosienko, Camille Henry and Tony Leswick.</p><p>How did such recognized &ldquo;squirts&rdquo; of hockey escape the rough going that has become part of the rigorous NHL grind? Many had certain attributes that prolonged their careers. Joliat for example, could dangle a puck on the end of his stick with such magic and dexterity that few were able to lay a glove on him.</p><p>But primarily, they were all rational thinkers on the ice and like the Habs&rsquo; &ldquo;toothpick&rdquo; centre, Goyette, they merely eluded trouble by outguessing their more frisky rivals.</p><h2><b><i>A Toothpick In Size Only</i></b></h2><p>Goyette, who will be 25 this month, is starting his third season in the NHL, and looking at his inauspicious scoring record of 22 goals, you wonder how he has lasted in the big time. Blake asked himself the same question some time back but refused to waver and today he is glad he stuck to his decision.</p><h2><b>Always A Late Starter</b></h2><p>Blake cites Goyette&rsquo;s great determination and good hockey sense as two vital factors for his presence in the NHL.</p><p>Nothing deflates a player&rsquo;s popularity quicker with the fans than a non-scorer, particularly with the Canadiens, who have so many abundant goal-getters. Goyette is much like baseball&rsquo;s Rocky Nelson&mdash;he&rsquo;s a notorious slow starter. He usually doesn&rsquo;t connect before the 15th or 16th game as he did this season scoring his first two goals on a Saturday night in Montreal when the Habs riddled the Rangers 8-2.</p><p>Four nights later in Toronto he collected two more as Canadiens shut out the Leafs 3-0, giving him a good start towards his ambition of attaining a 20-goal season.</p><p>A deft stickhandler and tenacious fore checker, Goyette didn&rsquo;t have a good year last season. His scoring production tailed off by 18 points over his 1957-58 &ldquo;high&rdquo; of 46 and he went goal-less in 10 Stanley Cup playoff games as well.</p><p>But checking and not scoring is Goyette&rsquo;s primary role with the Canadiens and he and his two wing mates, Andre Pronovost and Claude Provost, do a pretty good job of it. Billed as the team&rsquo;s &ldquo;third line&rdquo;, it has often been said they are better than some first lines in the NHL.</p><p>The Goyette-Pronovost-Provost combination is unique with the Canadiens since it is the only line that has consistently played together in the last three years. Injuries have forced Blake to do some fancy juggling of his other lines but never Goyette, Pronovost and Provost. Between them they have missed only 20 games three seasons.</p><h2><b>He&rsquo;s Tricky And Deceptive</b></h2><p>Blake has long maintained that one big reason for his team&rsquo;s success was the balance between offence and defence. To this end Goyette has done his share to create defensive stability with the club.</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t let his appearance fool you, he&rsquo;s tricky and deceptive on the ice,&rdquo; says Blake. &ldquo;He might look like anything but an - athlete, but he&rsquo;s hard. He can move out of the way quickly and most important, he&rsquo;s a smart player. Phil seldom makes a wrong move and he rarely makes a bad pass.&rdquo; commented the Habs&rsquo; coach.</p><p>Goyette&rsquo;s line actually sees less ice time than the Canadiens&rsquo; two high-powered units. They never get on for the power plays either and some games they barely work up a sweat from inactivity. Yet last season they collected 35 goals (the previous year they had 44) in league play and added another eight in Stanley Cup playoffs as the Habs won the title for an unparalleled fourth time. They also had the fewest number of goals scored against them, 24, and during the season they triggered the deciding goal 10 times in league and playoff games.</p><p>Provost shot the line into prominence last spring during the playoffs when he scored six times, four against Chicago in the semi-finals and two more as the Habs bounced the Leafs in five games for the Stanley Cup. Three of Provost&rsquo;s goals won games in the post-season round.</p><p>What team does the line favor playing against? It seems the Detroit Red Wings are their pets. They clicked for an even dozen goals at the expense of the Wings last season.</p><p>All three players came up through the Canadiens&rsquo; farm empire and stepped directly from Quebec Hockey League teams to the NHL with the Habs. Goyette was born in Lachine, a Montreal suburb, Pronovost is from Shawinigan Falls and Provost is a native Montrealer.</p><p>When Goyette signed a contract with the Canadiens, it changed the whole perspective of his life. &ldquo;It was my big thrill and I&rsquo;ll never forget it,&rdquo; he said.</p><h2><b>Just Likes Being A Hab</b></h2><p>Phil has no qualms about playing in the shadow of the team&rsquo;s &ldquo;super stars&rdquo;. Two years ago it was calculated it probably cost him the rookie award in a close battle with Toronto&rsquo;s Frank Mahovlich.</p><p>&ldquo;I just like being a Canadien,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It gives you a wonderful feeling of security to be playing with these fellas.</p><p>Goyette has a lot of sympathizers. Plenty of guys wouldn&rsquo;t mind trading places with him.</p><p>Their philosophy is it&rsquo;s a lot easier on the nerves playing with the Canadiens than against them.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Phil Short On Brawn, Long On Brain At Pivot Toe Rates Him Solid Centre On The Canucks

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Phil Goyette of the Canadiens isn&rsquo;t one of those players who goes around looking for trouble.</p><p>The even-tempered centre incurs few penalties. He was assessed only 16 minutes the past two years yet he was the central figure in one of the Forum&rsquo;s wildest free-for-alls against the Chicago Black Hawks in 1957-58.</p><p>Goyette was standing back innocently watching the rhubarb when Hawks&rsquo; Bob Bailey reached out and dragged him into the fracas. Both went wrestling to the ice.</p><p>Phil looked like a disheveled figure as he skated off after the battle with his sweater in his hand.</p><p>The impudent Mr. Bailey had ripped it from his back.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Phil’s Only Beating Came As An Innocent Bystander

<p>Founded October 1st, 1947</p><p>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.,</p><p>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Quo.</p><p>Ken McKenxie, Publisher</p><p>Lon Bramson, Editor-in-Chief</p><p>Will V. Cote, General Manager</p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealths $4.00 in the U.S.A. and Foreign Countries</b></p><p>Entered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879</p><p>Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa</p><p>Printed in Canada</p><p><b>Vol. 13 MONTREAL, DECEMBER 5, 1959 No. 10</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01366/1679381-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="382" height="442"></div><p>&bull; <b>THERE ARE</b> 21 players currently performing in the National Hockey League who are 30 or more years old&hellip;Old man of the group is Maurice Richard of Canadiens at 38. Second oldest is Johnny Bower of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Leaf goalie has let on to people for several years that he was two years younger than his actual age. He is 35 years of age&hellip;Doug Harvey of Canadiens and Ted Lindsay of Chicago are next in the age department. Both Harvey and Lindsay are 34, but the Montreal defenseman will be 35 on December 18&hellip;Lindsay, however, is second only to Richard in point of NHL service&hellip;Richard is playing his 18th NHL season while Lindsay is playing his 16th&hellip;Three players are 33 years old. They are Allan Stanley and Bert Olmstead of Toronto and Harry Lumley of Boston&hellip;Five players check in at 32. They are Phil Maloney and Tod Sloan of Chicago; Fern Flaman of Boston; Bill Gadsby of New York; and Red Kelly of Detroit&hellip;Flaman and Gadsby, along with Gordie Howe, who is 31, are playing their 14th NHL season&hellip;Others besides Howe who are 31 are Tom Johnson, Canadiens; Jack Evans, Chicago, and Nick Mickoski of Boston. Nick will be 32 in a week&hellip;Johnny Wilson, Toronto; Jacques Plante, Canadiens; Fleming Mackell and Vic Stasiuk, Boston; and Dollard St. Laurent, Chicago; are all an even 30 years&hellip;Gordie Howe is shooting for his 500th assist during regular scheduled NHL play. He has 498 right now. He started the current season with a total of 486.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02331/1679374-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="303" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Bower</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>THERE ARE</b> three Negro players in the Eastern Professional Hockey League&hellip;Stan Maxwell and Willie O&rsquo;Ree of the Kingston Frontenacs, and Johnny Utendale of the Sudbury Wolves&hellip;O&rsquo;Ree is the only Negro to play in the NHL. He played a few games for Boston during the 1957-58 season&hellip;Bill Carter of Hull-Ottawa, leading scorer in the Eastern Pro loop, has been kept off the score sheet only twice in his first 17 games&hellip;He failed to score in only six of those 17 games&hellip;Turk Broda hopes to land Brian Conacher, son of the late Lionel Conacher, for his Toronto Marlboro Jrs&hellip;The 18-year-old Conacher plays only on weekends because of his school work&hellip;Murray Oliver, Detroit&rsquo;s latest rookie candidate, has started off well. He is playing center on a line with Gordie Howe and Gary Aldcorn. He came through with timely goals on successive nights recently&hellip;Detroit&rsquo;s Jr. Wings are the only amateur team in the United States sponsored by a National Hockey League club&hellip;The Jr. Wings are quite naturally sponsored by the Detroit Red Wings. They are coached by Jimmy Peters, former forward with Canadiens, Boston, Chicago and Detroit&hellip;The club is a member of the six-team Border Cities Hockey League. The other five cities are in Canada close to the International Boundary&hellip;The Jr. Wings play every Monday night at Olympia Stadium in Detroit&hellip;Boston Bruins failed to win a game while Charlie Burns was sidelined with an injury. During his period of recuperation, Burns has been staying with Bob Armstrong and his wife. Mrs. Armstrong is a former nurse and has been preparing Charlie&rsquo;s meal in such a manner as to speed his return to the Bruins lineup&hellip;Gordie Howe figures Bill Gadsby, veteran defenseman with the New York Rangers, is the most talkative big-league player&hellip;&ldquo;At least he is always yakking at me,&rdquo; stated Howe&hellip;&ldquo;I guess Gadsby is the only defenseman who yells &lsquo;Shoot&hellip;shoot&rsquo; when you&rsquo;re moving in on him. He thinks he&rsquo;s putting you off but he&rsquo;s really helping you because that&rsquo;s what you should do&hellip;shoot. Once he shouted at me to shoot and I did and the puck went in the goal. He skated by, head down, slapping his stick on the ice, and I couldn&rsquo;t resist saying: &ldquo;Thanks a lot, Bill.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03255/1679367-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="292" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jimmy Peters</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>JACQUES PLANTE</b> is setting a sizzling pace as he goes after his fifth Vezina Trophy. In 14 games from October 22 to November 22, Plante allowed only 16 goals. During that time he was beaten for a single goal in 10 games, beaten for two goals in three games and in one game recorded a shutout. Plante is crazy about his face mask and threatens he&rsquo;ll quit hockey if they deny him his facial protection&hellip;The mask is said to cost $7.50 and is reported to be in manufacture right now to sell to youngsters across Canada&hellip;If Plante wins the Vezina Trophy this season, he will be the first goalie in history to win this trophy for five consecutive years&hellip;Bill Durnan, another Canadien goalie, won it four times in a row, same as Jacques.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04201/1679360-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="264" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Durnan</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The Rangers weren&rsquo;t playing hockey for Phil Watson and after a week of Alfie Pike the Blueshirts showed no inclination to change their habits.</p><p>But, this is another week and Alfie, the greying optimist, still has visions of a Stanley Cup playoff in Madison Square Garden. He hopes it isn&rsquo;t a mirage.</p><p>Pike&rsquo;s point is elementary. He needs a few weeks to get the feel of the NHL and his own players. In the interim, his fervent hope is that the Blues get the roll of the puck, otherwise known in Toronto as &ldquo;the Argo bounce.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had more chances,&rdquo; said Alfie reflecting on the night his troops fired 50, count &lsquo;em, 50 volleys at Terry Sawchuk and came out of it with a grand total of no goals. Alfie wonders wherin lies the justice.</p><h2><b>Shooting Is Atrocious</b></h2><p>When a club is losing, excuses are as commonplace as offsides and the Blues have come up with their share. Andy Bathgate, for one, was wearing a pair of gloves that were too large. The club in general was shooting the puck too high.</p><p>&ldquo;Our shooting has been atrocious,&rdquo; said Pike who has maintained a rare calm in the face of defeat. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;m satisfied with the way were hustling and checking.&rdquo;</p><p>Someone asked Alfie whether seasoned pros can be taught to keep their shots closer to the ice.</p><p>&ldquo;They all know how to do it,&rdquo; he replied sharply, &ldquo;they&rsquo;re just not thinking.&rdquo;</p><p>If the Ranger goaltending has been less than satisfactory, its defense has been less satisfactory than that. There has been a conspicuous lack of punch&mdash;there hasn&rsquo;t been a good fight at the Garden all season&mdash;and noticeable carelessness.</p><h2><b>Not Out Of It Yet</b></h2><p>Another vexing problem is confidence. One wonders whether the club ever got over the &ldquo;Black Sunday,&rdquo; March 22, 1959 when they blew fourth place to Toronto. At times, the Blueshirts forwards have handled the puck like it were a japanese land mine and the defense has been equally culpable.</p><p>Pike says he is sure the team has confidence. One thing is certain, the coach believes in his players.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a long season,&rdquo; says Alfie. &ldquo;You know what happened to Toronto last March, don&rsquo;t you?&rdquo;</p><p>We nodded agreement as Pike delivered a postscript.</p><p>&ldquo;But, we&rsquo;d better win some games before we get ourselves in trouble.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rangers Haven’t Switched Habits Since Alf Joined

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Why 98% of pro hockey players choose C.C.M. prolife skates with genuine Kangaroo leather Tackaberry Boots

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Bronco Horvath, Johnny Bucyk and Vic Stasiuk helpless unless played as a line? Ridiculous!</p><p>Horvath, Bucyk and Stasiuk negatives as individuals? Preposterous!</p><p>Bronco and his Busters&mdash;one for all, all for one&mdash;and nothing without each other. That fable has been preached far and wide, even Bruins&rsquo; executives joining in the chorus at times.</p><p>It was riddled last season when Stasiuk and Bucyk played 25 consecutive games without the snapshooting Horvath. The two big wings scored 18 goals between them, nine each.</p><p>But that was last season. This fall as Bronco and his Busters rolled in goal after goal the fable was revived.</p><h2><b>Twosome Were Great With Gendron On Left</b></h2><p>But Horvath and Stasiuk provided a convincing up to date rebuttal only one game after Bucyk was knocked out of the Bruins&rsquo; lineup for a month by a cross check by Montreal&rsquo;s Maurice Richard.</p><p>For their first game without the powerful left wing Horvath and Stasiuk had little Guy Gendron for a left wing&mdash;and they were great!</p><p>With the tenacious Detroit Red Wings for opposition Horvath played what was probably the best game of his three-year career here. He scored a tying goal, set up two others and made one rink-length rush through the whole Detroit team. Stasiuk wheeled tirelessly both ways and with Horvath he helped set up Gendron for a goal.</p><p>&ldquo;They showed me something tonight,&rdquo; said an admiring Lynn Patrick afterward. &ldquo;Those two went out and broke their backs. They&rsquo;ve got it.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bruins surely miss the bullish Bucyk and his all-star play, but while Horvath and Stasiuk are working they&rsquo;re virtually a line in themselves.</p><p>The Bruins had to play only a couple of games without Bucyk to demonstrate that their problem was the same as it was before he was hurt&mdash;namely, to ice another line of quality comparable to the so-called Uke Line.</p><p>Little Gendron, who plays like Bobby Mitchell where Bucyk played like Jimmy Brown, came out of a week&rsquo;s experimenting by Coach Milt Schmidt as the new playmate for Horvath and Stasiuk.</p><p>&ldquo;A French Uke,&rdquo; grinned the 156-pound Montreal native, thumping himself on the chest, &ldquo;that&rsquo;s me.&rdquo;</p><p>The unit proficiency of Horvath, Stasiuk and Bucyk is, of course, the basis for the fable that they&rsquo;re nothing as singles, but there is other evidence to the contrary.</p><h2><b>Only Played 11 Games Together In WHL</b></h2><p>Stasiuk played two seasons here before the other two arrived. He made 19 goals the first year, despite a long-time leg injury which necessitated emergency surgery. The next season he scored 24 goals.</p><p>Horvath scored 44 goals for New York, Montreal and Rochester three years ago, before being purchased by the Bruins.</p><p>Bucyk, only 24 years old now, made 10 goals as a third liner in Detroit before coming here.</p><p>There are some other fables regarding Bronco and his Busters which should be nailed down.</p><p>Fable: The Ukes played a season as a line with Edmonton of the Western League before being reassembled here.</p><p>Fact: &ldquo;We played 11 games together at Edmonton,&rdquo; corrected Stasiuk. &ldquo;The first 11 games of the 1954-55 season. Then I was recalled by Detroit. Bronk and John were brought up by Detroit for the Stanley Cup playoffs next spring but they sat on the bench.&rdquo;</p><p>Fable: The Ukes never played as a line while they were with Detroit.</p><p>Fact: &ldquo;We played a whole training period together,&rdquo; corrected Bucyk. &ldquo;That was in the fall of 1954. We happened to turn up together in a listing of lines at the start of training camp and we stayed together until we were sent to Edmonton. We had some great practices, playing against Lindsay (Ted) and Big Gordie (Howe). The way they acted, I guess we were a little too lively for them, because they sure went after us in the corners.&rdquo;</p><p>Howe still dislikes the Ukes&rsquo; activity, apparently. In a recent game in Detroit he cut down Horvath and sticked Stasiuk for six stitches without drawing a penalty.</p><p>Fable: The Ukes are so called because they&rsquo;re of Ukranian ancestry.</p><p>Fact: &ldquo;Vic and John are but I&rsquo;m not,&rdquo; corrected Horvath. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m of Croatian ancestry. Calling me a Uke is like calling a Spaniard an Italian or a Norwegian a Dane. Whoever gave us the name never asked me.&rdquo;</p><p>Fable: The Ukes bear special resentment toward Detroit because they weren&rsquo;t given a chance with the Red Wings.</p><p>Fact: &ldquo;We do not,&rdquo; corrected Stasiuk. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s ridiculous. The Red Wings had more forwards a few years ago than any other team in hockey. Jack Adams was always a square shooter with us. We&rsquo;re grateful he gave us the chance to play someplace else and we try to play our hardest against everyone.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Three Men&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01319/1679474-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="784" height="1576"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Vic Stasiuk</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;In Two</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03224/1679467-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="806" height="1590"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bronco Horvath</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Vic And Bronco, Misus Bucyk, Power +

<div class="byline">By CHARLIE HALPIN</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Goalie Jacques Plante of the Montreal Canadiens has no qualms these days about stopping pucks.</p><p>The four-time Vezina Trophy winner is operating behind the security of his much ballyhooed face mask and that&rsquo;s the way it&rsquo;s going to be from now on.</p><p>&ldquo;Every goalie should wear a protective mask,&rdquo; said Frank J. Selke, managing director of the Canadiens. Selke&rsquo;s retort came just a few weeks after a blistering shot from the stick of Andy Bathgate ripped open Plante&rsquo;s facial features for six stitches.</p><p>Plante, with Selke&rsquo;s consent, has disclosed that his mask wearing is now a permanent thing. Never again will NHL fans gaze upon his classic features during a hockey game.</p><p>One NHL goaler who wished he had heeded Selke&rsquo;s advise is Jumping Johnny Bower of the Leafs, who is opposed to the idea of putting on a mask.</p><p>The Canadiens had just about finished putting the lid on their 14th straight game without a loss&mdash;a 4-1 romp over the Leafs in Toronto&mdash;when a deflected shot cut Bower down.</p><p>The balding Toronto goalkeeper, who doesn&rsquo;t have any teeth to spare in the first place, lost one and had to have three more extracted the next day. The result was a soup diet and a few sleepless nights for Bower. Had he been wearing a mask it wouldn&rsquo;t have happened.</p><p>Other NHL puck stoppers have been thinking along the same lines these days, too. Terry Sawchuk of the Detroit Red Wings has apparently become alarmed at the increasing number of mishaps that have befallen fellow members of his profession and he told newsmen that he, too, will be wearing one in the not too distant future.</p><p>Little Gil Mayer, a 10-year goaling veteran of the American League, is another who has decided its time to start covering up against flying pucks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02289/1679505-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="279" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Henri Richard</b></figcaption></div><p>He recently visited Montreal where he conversed with Plante about the possibility of securing a mask to wear in AHL games. Mayer suffered a broken jaw from a shot in practive with the Cleveland Barons and at his age, 29, he doesn&rsquo;t want it to occur again.</p><p>Plante is adamant it won&rsquo;t happen with him again either.</p><p>&ldquo;When I take it off, I&rsquo;ll also take off my skates,&rdquo; said Plante. &ldquo;In other words I&rsquo;m wearing it from now until I retire.&rdquo;</p><p>Meanwhile, the Canadians are streaking along in the NHL race after 15 successive games without losing (13 wins and three ties). They boosted their skein last week by turning back the Leafs and then the desperate Chicago Black Hawks 3-1 on successive nights to move to within eight games of the established NHL record set by the Boston Bruins in 194041.</p><h2><b>Power Well Spread Out</b></h2><p>The old lament of who was going to stop the Canadiens was gaining momentum around the NHL, but no one had any ideas about who was going to do anything about it.</p><p>The Habs were well in front of the race with games in hand and still going strong. Their overall season record stood at 14 wins, four ties and only two defeats in their first 20 games. They had accumulated 72 goals, also tops for the league, and had only 37 scored against them.</p><p>Plante was living proof that masked goalkeepers are not hindered by the face-piece. In eight games with the protector, Jake has allowed only nine goals to move ahead of both Sawchuk and Bower in the Vezina Trophy race after trailing by as much as 16 goals early in the schedule.</p><p>The Canadiens&rsquo; new offensive leaders in the absence of injured Boom Boom Geoffrion were Henri &lsquo;Pocket&rsquo; Richard and big Jean Beliveau.</p><p>Both players poked in a pair of goals in the Habs&rsquo; latest weekend sweep to raise their respective totals to 10 and 9. The Pocket collected his two in the Chicago game and Beliveau one. At Toronto, Doug Harvey, (his 2nd), Dickie Moore (his 6th), Beliveau and Don Marshall (his 4th) scored in that order as the Habs all but ran the Leafs out of the rink.</p><p>The Canadiens haven&rsquo;t been accused of pulling rabbits out of their hats in piling up their 15-game unbeaten run but the lowly Hawks flushed five live ones when they lost to the Montrealers. Rabid Chicago fans, infamous for hurling debris and strange objects on the ice surface, came up with a new wrinkle when they tossed five scared little rabbits over the boards to harass game officials.</p><p>The Pocket&rsquo;s spectacular performance in Chicago sent Coach Toe Blake into great raptures about the smooth-skating pivot.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s going both ways in great form,&rdquo; said Blake. &ldquo;There was a time when he&rsquo;d get on the ice and I&rsquo;d be praying the other team didn&rsquo;t score a goal. Now he&rsquo;s doing tremendous work as a backchecker and scorer, too.&rdquo;</p><p>Henri now has 20 points to share the club&rsquo;s top scoring honors with Geoffrion and Beliveau, who also have compiled a like number.</p><p>The injured Boomer, nursing a severly-cut tendon, was off the crutches and back on skates and the prospects he would be back in action soon were encouraging.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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“Pocket” Real Vet As Habs Clutch Clouter

<p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ETROIT, Mich.&mdash;One of Jack Adams&rsquo; favorite stories about Gordie Howe, according to Milt &ldquo;Toronto Star&rdquo; Dunnell, concerns the final game of the N.H.L. scedule a few seasons back&hellip;Billy McNeill of the Wings needed one more goal to collect a contract bonus&hellip;Howe asked coach Jimmy Skinner to send out McNeill on his line&hellip;Gordie set up a goal for McNeill&hellip;then Ted Lindsay, who had been hampered by a bad ankle, left the bench and joined Howe on the big line&hellip;Ted also needed a goal for a bonus. Howe gave him a pass for the payoff counter&hellip;then Gordie skated to the Detroit bench and asked: &ldquo;Are there any others who need a goal for a bonus payoff?&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

They Used To See Howe In Old Davs For Bonus Payoff

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01389/1679560-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>A SPECIAL SHIFT FOR OLMSTEAD</b></h2><h3><b>Jim Proudfoot, Toronto Star:</b></h3><p><b>&ldquo;I guess he&rsquo;s the only defenceman who yells &lsquo;Shoot&mdash;shoot&rsquo; when &lsquo;Don&rsquo;t move, Gord. Just lean on me. Hold me up.&rsquo;</b></p><p>&ldquo;So thoroughly is the Maple Leafs&rsquo; Bert Olmstead carrying out his assignments this season that at least one National Hockey league team has been forced to devise special strategy for dealing with him.</p><p>&ldquo;Olmstead has made a career of checking the best right-wingers in the business, particularly Gordie Howe, Detroit&rsquo;s ageless phenomenon.</p><p>&ldquo;Any night Olmstead is giving Howe a great deal of trouble&mdash;almost any time the Red Wings play Leafs, in other words&mdash;Gordie is shifted from right flanker to centre. Then, he&rsquo;s either free of Olmstead or else Bert pursues him over, in which case one side of the rink is left undefended. Naturally, as soon as the foe adjusts to the switch, Howe moves back to his regular spot, thereby compounding the confusion.</p><p>&ldquo;Such unspoken tributes to Olmstead&rsquo;s ability are common everywhere in hockey. The fans may not appreciate him, but opposition players do. Truly it requires a hockey connoisseur to grasp his subtle talents. In a little more than a season with Leafs, he has yet to receive the acclaim he deserves.&rdquo;</p><h3><b>Gordie Howe, Detroit Red Wings:</b></h3><p><b>&ldquo;The most talkative player in the big-league 1 Bill Gadsby, defenseman for the New York Rangers.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;At least he&rsquo;s always yakking at me&mdash;kidding me. Says he&rsquo;s getting old and weary like me and we should give each other a break. If he&rsquo;s been on the ice a while and we both go into a corner, he says: you&rsquo;re moving in on him. He thinks he&rsquo;s putting you off but he&rsquo;s really helping because that&rsquo;s what you should do&mdash;shoot. Once he shouted at me to shoot and I did and the puck went in the goal. He skated by, head down, slapping his stick on the ice, and I couldn&rsquo;t resist saying: &lsquo;Thanks a lot, Bill.&rsquo;&rdquo;</b></p><h2><b>PLANTE&rsquo;S MASK AN INDIAN RELIC</b></h2><h3><b>Rex McLeod, Toronto Globe and Mail:</b></h3><p>&ldquo;That hideous false face designed by Canadiens&rsquo; Jacques Plante to preserve his profile will probably soon be standard equipment for goalkeepers in the National Hockey League.</p><p>&ldquo;Some goalkeepers, like Maple Leafs&rsquo; Johnny Bower for instance, keep insisting they will never wear a mask. This, of course, is Bower&rsquo;s 15th season as a pro and doubtless he figures it is too late to start taking precautions. Younger goalies are likely to follow Plante&rsquo;s example.</p><p>&ldquo;Goalkeepers have been opposed to masks because they suspected their vision would be reduced, their breathing impaired and their shouting range diminished. Plante, the great emancipator, has proved that these fears are silly.</p><p>&ldquo;Plante has worn his mask for seven successive games since he suffered a facial cut in a game in New York on Nov. 1. In those seven games he has been scored on ONLY eight times. He feels his game has improved because he is more relaxed. He no longer worries about a puck in the face.</p><p>&ldquo;King Clancy, Leafs&rsquo; roving assistant manager and baby-sitter, endorses a face mask for goalkeepers. He figures a mask will improve their concentration.</p><p>&ldquo;&lsquo;It&rsquo;s like the blinkers on a horse,&rsquo; &ldquo;said Clancy. &lsquo;&ldquo;The goalie has to focus on the puck. He won&rsquo;t be wondering where his defensemen are.</p><p>&ldquo;&lsquo;I remember a goalie who used to keep yelling at his defense to cover up. I told him if he was watching the puck like he was supposed to, he wouldn&rsquo;t notice his defense. That&rsquo;s where a mask might come in handy.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;&lsquo;But if the Plante type of mask is adopted for general use it is hoped it might be made more attractive. The current, crude version looks like something that was dug up in an Indian burial ground.&rsquo;&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Quotations FROM ACROSS THE NATION

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Goaler Johnny Bower, despite the fact he had three teeth knocked out by a flying puck last week, will not don a mask during regular games. However, in practice, he wore a mask for the first time last week.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m only going to wear that mask for a couple of days until my injured mouth heals. The dentist had to pull the three teeth that Don Marshall&rsquo;s shot loosened in the game against the Canadiens.&rdquo;</p><p>Asked if he gave any thought to wearing the mask in regular play he replied:</p><p>&ldquo;Not unless they order me to wear it. I don&rsquo;t like masks.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bower Looses Three Front Teeth, Still Won’t Use Mask

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<h2><b>New York Rangers:</b></h2><p>Recalled Eddie Shack from Springfield of the AHL.</p><p>Returned Billl Sweeney to Springfield of the AHL.</p><p>Returned Parker McDonald to Springfield of the AHL.</p><p>Sent Lorne Worsley to Springfield of the AHL.</p><p>Sent Noel Price to Springfield of the AHL.</p><p>Recalled Marcel Paille from Springfield of the AHL.</p><p>Recalled Jack Bownass from Springfield of the AHL.</p><p>Recalled Irv Spencer from Springfield of the AHL.</p><p>Sent Ian Cushenan to Springfield of the AHL.</p><h2><b>Detroit Red Wings:</b></h2><p>Sent Forbes Kennedy to Edmonton of the WHL.</p><p>Sent Pete Goegan to Edmonton of the WHL.</p><p>Recalled Murray Oliver from Edmonton of the WHL.</p><p>Recalled Gilles Boisvert from the Cleveland Barons of the AHL under emergency conditions.</p><p>Recalled Brian Smith from Hershey</p><h2><b>Toronto Maple Leafs:</b></h2><p>Sent Al MacNeil to Rochester of the AHL.</p><h2><b>Boston Bruins:</b></h2><p>Sent Nick Mickoski to Providence of the AHL.</p><p>Brought up Stan Baluik fro Providence of the AHL.</p><p><b>AHL</b></p><h2><b>Quebec Aces:</b></h2><p>Purchased Gary Collins from Rochester of the AHL.</p><p>Purchased Chuck Blair from Calgary of the WHL.</p><p>Traded Johnny Bailey to Sudbury of the EPHL for Norm Guimond.</p><h2><b>Rochester Americans:</b></h2><p>Sold Gary Collins to Quebec Aces of the AHL.</p><p>Sent Reg Fleming to Kingston of the EPHL.</p><p><b>WHL</b></p><h2><b>Vancouver Canucks:</b></h2><p>Sent Jim Powers to Spokane of the WHL.</p><h2><b>Seattle Totems:</b></h2><p>Traded Ed Stankiewicz to Spokane for Jim Powers.</p><h2><b>Spokane Comets:</b></h2><p>Traded Jim Powers to Seattle for Ed Stankiewicz.</p><h2><b>Victoria Cougars:</b></h2><p>Sent Don McLeod to Kingston of the EPHL.</p><h2><b>Edmonton Flyers:</b></h2><p>Sent Dave Amadio to Sudbury of the EPHL.</p><p><b>EPHL</b></p><h2><b>Three Rivers Lions:</b></h2><p>Sent Murray Wilkie to Calgary of the WHL.</p><h2><b>Sudbury Wolves:</b></h2><p>Traded Norm Guimond to Quebec Aces of the AHL for Johnny Bailey.</p><p>Returned John Utendale to Windsor Bulldogs after five game trial.</p><h2><b>Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds:</b></h2><p>Sent Rino Robazza to Calgary of the WHL.</p><h2><b>Hull-Ottawa Canadiens:</b></h2><p>Sent Claude Cyr to Cleveland under emergency conditions.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>For more than six weeks this fall young Autry Erickson sat on the Boston Bruins&rsquo; bench, his repose broken only by rare turns on defense.</p><p>But everything comes to him who waits, just as Lynn Patrick predicted, especially if &ldquo;him&rdquo; is a Bruins&rsquo; defenseman.</p><p>An injury to Ferny Flaman gave Erickson a chance to play&mdash;and pinpointed Patrick&rsquo;s ability to analyze the team of which he is manager.</p><p>In an earlier discussion of Erickson&rsquo;s comparatively inactive status, Patrick said, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll need him one of these nights, wait and see. Every year since I&rsquo;ve been here we&rsquo;ve had injuries to one or more defensemen. He&rsquo;ll be playing.&rdquo;</p><p>Flaman, the spirited Bruins&rsquo; captain trying valiantly to lead his team out of a slump, hurt himself crashing into the end boards here as the windup to a play on which he caught Toronto&rsquo;s Dick Duff on a breakaway. The husky Bruins&rsquo; leader was fortunate he wasn&rsquo;t hurt more seriously.</p><p>Into Flaman&rsquo;s place stepped Erickson, a 21-year-old blond whom Patrick drafted from Calgary of the Western League last summer. As his reflexes became sharp with work, he looked good.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think he has been spending his time on the bench daydreaming,&rdquo; opined the shrewd Patrick. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the type who is right in the game even when he isn&rsquo;t playing. He studies and remembers what he sees.&rdquo;</p><p>Milt Schmidt, Bruins&rsquo; coach, had two mobile left defensemen with whom to pair Erickson. He used the 194-pound rookie with both Doug Mohns and Leo Boivin.</p><p>&ldquo;Mohns and Boivin are our best offensive defensemen anyway,&rdquo; Schmidt pointed out, &ldquo;whereas Erickson&rsquo;s strong point is his defensive ability.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Flaman Third Man Injured</b></h2><p>Flaman&rsquo;s leg injuries made him the third Bruin to be sidelined for an indefinite period in a stretch of two weeks. First Charley Burns, the spunky young center who wears a helmet, was knocked out of the lineup with a concussion which hung a question mark against his future. Then Johnny Bucyk, the high scoring left wing, departed with a severe shoulder injury.</p><p>The only other time Flaman has ever been decommissioned as a Bruin was four years ago, when a body-check by his old pal Allan Stanley, then playing with Chicago, knocked him into the hospital with a massive charley-horse.</p><p>There was a bizarre note to Ferny&rsquo;s injury. The play was similar and the crash at almost the same spot as that where he and Dave Creighton hit during a Toronto-Bruins game in 1953, Creighton breaking his leg.</p><p><b>BEAR FACTS</b>&hellip;Lous M. Reycroft, who retired last spring after 33 years as an NHL goal judge here, was honored in a brief Garden program. Reycroft received a gold medallion from NHL President Clarence Campbell, an engraved watch from President Walter Brown of the Bruins and a clock radio from Sumner Wolley, representing the Garden&rsquo;s minor officials. Campbell came from Montreal to make one of his customary gracious presentations.</p><p>Erickson may not be rated much of an offensive threat, but his first two shots here resulted in goals for the Bruins. He put the first one into the net himself on October 11 against Montreal&rsquo;s Jacques Plante. The second skimmed off Leo LaBine for a goal against Toronto&rsquo;s Johnny Bower November 22. Some Bruins&rsquo; followers think the rookie&rsquo;s shot as hard as Doug Mohns&rsquo;.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01341/1679732-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="292" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fern Flaman</b></figcaption></div><h2><i>Gets The Call</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02308/1679725-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="532" height="538"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Autry Erickson</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Miltie Plugs Up Newest Holes In Hubs’ Leaky Boat

<p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON, Mass.&mdash;Boston&rsquo;s noisey hockey fans, noted for their scalp collecting, have been hollering for the heads of Veteran Defenseman Bob Arm strong and Forward Don McKenney since the Bruins went into a six game slump. In their winless streak, the Bruins heard hooting and booing from their fans for the first time in a long time. But Coach Milt Schmidt says they won&rsquo;t succeed in driving his two players out of the lineup.</p><p>Said Schmidt, after his club had picked up only one point in 12: &ldquo;A lot of people have pushed the panic button in Boston. They&rsquo;re hollering for wholesale changes in personnel.</p><p>&ldquo;But I haven&rsquo;t given up on this club. We&rsquo;ve been in slumps before and fought our way out of them. This time we&rsquo;ve been rocked by injuries to Johnny Bucyk, Charlie Burns and Fern Flaman. I&rsquo;m confident we&rsquo;ll start moving.&rdquo;</p><p>Toronto Maple Leaf managercoach George &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach says he&rsquo;ll take McKenney and Armstrong any time Bruins want to make a deal for them.</p><p>&ldquo;I had that Armstrong at Springfield and Bob is a solid right defenceman. He won&rsquo;t sell tickets, but he&rsquo;ll stop the attackers and that&rsquo;s a defenceman&rsquo;s main job. McKenney might be just the guy to round out our attack.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03236/1679763-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="272" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don McKenney</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Milt Backs Up Bruin Pair As Fans Holler For Scalps

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p>TORONTO, Ont&mdash;</p><p>Punch Imlach, coach and general manager of the Maple Leafs is annoyed by folks who keep harping on the subject of Leaf castoffs making good with other National league teams. He feels Leafs have pulled off enough shrewd deals of their own to more than offset any blunders they may have committed in the marketplace.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to start a battle of ex&rsquo;s&rdquo;, he says, &ldquo;but I don&rsquo;t see why every time a former Leaf scores a goal he is referred to as an ex-Leaf.</p><p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t always deal a man because we think he is a poor hockey player. He usually is moved out because he doesn&rsquo;t fit our pattern or has been out of step in our system. I&rsquo;m happy to see them do well with other teams&rdquo;.</p><h2><b>Castoffs Helping Leafs, Too</b></h2><p>Having said that, Imlach goes on to enumerate some of the castoffs who are helping Leafs establish themselves among the top NHL teams this season. Johnny Bower, Al Stanley, Bert Olmstead, Johnny Wilson, Ted Hampson, Gerry Ehman and Larry Regan all were obtained after opposition clubs apparently had discarded them.</p><p>Bower, Stanley and Olmstead were the big men for Leafs in the early part of the schedule when some of the younger players were caught in disastrous slumps.</p><p>Bower, of course, purchased in 1958 from Cleveland Barons, who&rsquo;d re-acquired him after New York Rangers decided to let him go.</p><p>Stanley came from Boston Bruins last fall in exchange for Jim Morrison, a deal Imlach engineered. Stanley, so far, has been having his best season in years and is definite all-star material.</p><p>So is Olmstead, who was drafted from Canadiens in 1958. The transaction was listed as a draft but actually was a pre-arranged purchase, made possible by the fact Leafs followed Canadiens in the draft rotation that summer.</p><p>Wilson was acquired from Detroit Red Wings in a swap for Barry Cullen last summer.</p><h2><b>Cullen Made Room For Hampson</b></h2><p>Hampson was drafted for $20,000 when Rangers dropped him from their protected list. They were able to make him available after drafting Brian Cullen from Leafs for the same price. So it was, in effect, a man-for-man swap.</p><p>Ehman flunked in a tryout with Detroit last season and Leafs took him from Hershey Bears in exchange for Willie Marshall.</p><p>Regan was offered on waivers by Boston Bruins part-way through the 1958-59 campaign. Like Ehman, he was a player Imlach had liked in minor league hockey and so he came to Toronto.</p><p>All in all, Leafs are a grab-bag team, although they also own a host of homegrown talent, featuring such men as Boddy Pulford, Dick Duff and Carl Brewer who were developed in Leafs&rsquo; own organization.</p><p>All these trades and purchases are stop-gap moves by Imlach, who, along with managing and coaching Leafs, also is trying to rebuild the farm system which began to decay about the time the Pittsburgh arena burnt down. Until he does, he has to fill the gaps by topping other sources of talent.</p><p>He has shopped wisely and built soundly. He assessed Leafs&rsquo; requirements and bought only what was needed. Men like Regan, Wilson, Ehman and Hampson have fulfilled definite needs.</p><h2><b>Reay Insisted On Olmstead And Bower</b></h2><p>Olmstead and Bower, of course, were Toronto property before Imlach arrived. Former coach Billy Reay insisted on getting them.</p><p>So you must admit Imlach has a point when he insists Leafs have picked a flock of good workmen off the discard heap.</p><p>At the same time, though, wouldn&rsquo;t you like to coach a team of Former Toronto players against the current team?</p><p>You&rsquo;d have Harry, Lumley in goal; Leo Boivin, Fern Flaman, Jim Morrison, Noel Price and Larry Cahan on defense.</p><p>At centre, you could send out Tod Sloan, Charlie Burns, Brian Cullen or Phil Maloney. Your leftwingers would be Fleming Mackell, Danny Lewicki and Gary Aldcorn and on the right flank, you&rsquo;d have Eric Nesterenko, Barry Cullen and Gerry Foley. You&rsquo;d even enjoy the luxury of a penalty-killing pair&mdash;Earl Balfour and Parker MacDonald.</p><p>And don&rsquo;t forget that you&rsquo;d have one extra advantage: desire. ExLeafs seem to take special delight in making life miserable for their</p><p><b>NOTES:</b> Sixty box seats have been added at Maple Leaf Gardens, upping the seating capacity to 12,646&hellip;When Canadiens visited Leafs Saturday, Nov. 21, there were 14,622 in attendance. That was the largest crowd at the Gardens since the fire department restricted the number of standing room customers. All time record crowd was 16,318, who saw Leafs beat Canadiens 3-0 on Nov. 16, 1946.</p><p>One reason for the big house Nov. 21 was the fact Canadiens very seldom play in Toronto on a Saturday night&hellip;Canadiens&rsquo; Jacques Plante wore his famous mask in that game. Johnny Bower, who had no mask, was struck in the mouth, cut for several stitches and eventually lost four bottom teeth (he has no upper teeth to lose). There was talk the following week about making a mask for Bower. Johnny himself, despite a long history of facial wounds, was sceptical.</p><p>Don Keenan, a standby goalie for Leafs, is playing for the University of Toronto Blues. Keenan played one game for Boston Bruins in Toronto last season. Don Simmons was in the hospital at the time and Harry Lumley, the replacement, was felled by food poisoning the day of the game. Bruins lost but through no fault of Keenan.</p><p>When Bower was injured, it was with only 12 seconds of play remaining. Gary Edmudson, without pads, went in the nets. He didn&rsquo;t face a shot (&ldquo;I have a perfect shutout record&rdquo;, he says) and even participated in one attack.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04180/1679794-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="291" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Punch Imlach</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Prof. Imlach Nixes Word Battle On Success Off Leafs Castoffs

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Look for Gerry James, backfield star of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, to join the Maple Leafs for the second half of the National Hockey league campaign.</p><p>James is interested in hockey and the Leafs are interested in him. From then on, it&rsquo;s only a matter of negotiation.</p><p>&ldquo;If James can help us, we want him,&rdquo; said manager-coach Punch Imlach. &ldquo;If he can&rsquo;t, maybe he can help Rochester, and in that case we still want him.&rdquo;</p><p>James, who expressed a desire to get back into hockey as he and the rest of the Bombers prepared for the 1959 Canadian football final, said he expected he&rsquo;d have to spend a few weeks in Rochester before he&rsquo;d be ready to return to major league hockey competition.</p><p>James played the latter part of the 1957-58 schedule with the Leafs, who finished last that year.</p><p>The next fall, he didn&rsquo;t report to Leafs&rsquo; training camp (naturally, since he was with Bombers at the time) and was placed under suspension for that reason. He then suffered a broken leg and had to give up football, as well as any thoughts of hockey. He wasn&rsquo;t able to return to full-time duty with Bombers until partway through the &lsquo;59 schedule.</p><h2><b>Punch Will Wait To Bid For Gerry</b></h2><p>Of course, he has been suspended all this time, which keeps him available, should Leafs decide to use him.</p><p>James arrived in Toronto Nov. 23 but Imlach didn&rsquo;t approach him on behalf of Leafs. He said he might after the Grey Cup game on the 28th.</p><p>&ldquo;It wouldn&rsquo;t be fair,&rdquo; Punch explained. &ldquo;If I had a team in the Stanley Cup finals, I wouldn&rsquo;t want somebody dealing with one of my players.</p><p>&ldquo;After the Grey Cup game, we may get together. We own James, for hockey purposes, and are definitely interested in finding out if he can help us. If he can, we want him.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05124/1679825-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="412" height="631"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gerry James</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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LEAFS TO RUSH JAMES TO PLAY WITH THEM OR WITH ROCHESTER

<h2><b>Abet Just Missed 200 Club</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>oach Sid Abel of the Detroit Red Wings closed out his NHL career by narrowly missing a spot in the big league&rsquo;s 200 goal club. He scored 189 goals in 610 games, all but 39 being with Detroit. Ho was with the Chicago Black Hawks as a player-coach in 1952-53.</p><h2><b>Two Coaches In The Club</b></h2><p>Two National Hockey League coaches are members of the league&rsquo;s 200 goal club. Montreal Canadians&rsquo; Coach Too Blake rammed home 235 In his day. while Boston&rsquo;s Milt Schmidt managed to flash the red lamp no fewer than 229 times in his great career.</p><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p>(Including Games Of Sun., Nov. 29)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01374/1679947-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="628" height="2506"></div><h3>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1959-60</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02310/1679940-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="614" height="462"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS:</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03240/1679933-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="600" height="170"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25</b> Boston 3 at New York 3</h3><p>Boston.&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Armstrong, Ward, Erickson, Boivin; forwards: Horvath, Gendron, MacKell, Mickowski, Labine, McKenney, Mohns, Toppazzini, Meissner, Baliuk, Leach.</p><p>New York&mdash;Goal: Paille; defense: Howell, Fontinato, Cushenan, Bownass, Hanna; forwards: Sullivan, Hebenton, Bartlett, Shack, Bathgate, Ingarfield, Cullen, Prentice. Schinkel, Popein, Henry.</p><p>Referee: Eddie Powers; linesmen: Neil Armstrong, Jack Paterson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05130/1679926-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="598" height="544"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26 Montreal 4 at Detroit 2</b></h3><p>Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, Langlois, Johnson, Talbot; forwards: Beliveau, Moore, Bonin, H. Richard, Hicke, Backstrom, M. Richard, Provost, A. Pronovost, McDonald, Goyette, Marshall.</p><p>Detroit:&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defense: Morrison, Kelly, M. Pronovost, Godfrey, Marcon; forwards: Ullman, Kelly, Delvecchio, Howe, Aidcorn, Fonteyne, Oliver, Melnyk, McNeill, McIntyre, Lunde, Mckenzie.</p><p>Referee: McArthur; linesmen: Sims, Ashley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0699/1679919-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="604" height="548"></div><h3><b>Toronto 4 at Chicago 3</b></h3><p>Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Horton, Stanley, Reaume, Brewer, Baun; forwards: Olmstead, Pulford, Stewart, Regan, Duff, Armstrong, Hampson, Harris, Erman Edmundson, Mahovlich, Wilson.</p><p>Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko, Arbour, Evans, St. Laurent; forwards: E. Balfour, Skov, M. Balfour, Lindsay, Sloan, Murphy, Hay, Litzenberger, Nesterenko, Hull, Wharram, Maloney, Mikita.</p><p>Referee: Frank Udvari; linesman: George Hayes, Hal Jackson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0777/1679912-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="600" height="618"></div><h3><b>New York 3 at Boston 4</b></h3><p>New York&mdash;Goal: Paille; defense: Howell, Fontinato, Cushenan, Bownass; Forwards: Sullivan, Hebenton, Henry, Shack, Bathgate, Ingarfield, Cullen, Prentice, Shinkel, Popein, Bartlett.</p><p>Boston&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Armstrong, Ward, Erickson, Boivin; forwards: Labine, McKenney, Mohns, Horvath, Stasiuk, Gendron, MacKell, Top pazzini, Meissner, Leach, Baliuk, Mickoski.</p><p>Referee: Matt Pavelich; linesmen: Jack Paterson, Neil Armstrong.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0860/1679905-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="596" height="594"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 Detroit 0 at Montreal 1</b></h3><p>Detroit&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defense: M. Pronovost, Kelly, Morrison, Godfrey, Marcon; forwards: Oliver, Rowe, AIdcorn, Delvecchio, Fonteyne, McNeil, Ullman, McIntyre, McKenzie, Cullen, Lunde, Smith.</p><p>Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, Langlois, Johnson, Turner, Talbot; forwards: Beliveau, Moore, Bonin, Backstrom, Hicke, McDonald, H. Richard, Marshall, Goyette, A. Pronovost, Provost.</p><p>Referee: Frank Udvari; linesmen: Neil Armstrong, Matt Pavelich.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0945/1679898-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="600" height="284"></div><h3><b>Boston 2 at Toronto 2</b></h3><p>Boston&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Ward, R. Armstrong, Erickson, Boivin, forwards: Horvath, Stasiuk, Gendron, McKensey, Mohns, Labine, Mackell, Toppazzini, Bucyk, Burns, Meissner, Leach, Buluik.</p><p>Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Stanley, Horton, Reaume, Baun, Brewer: forwards: Stewart, Olmstead, Pullford, Regan, Duff, G. Armstrong, Harris, Ehman, Mahovlich, Hampson, Wilson, Edmundson.</p><p>Referee: Dalt McArthur, linesmen: George Harper, Bruce Sims.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1034/1679891-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="598" height="542"></div><h3><b>New York 2 at Chicago 6</b></h3><p>New York&mdash;Goal: Paille; defense: Howell, Fontlnato, Gadsby, Hanna, Bownass, Spencer; forwards: Pi entice, Popein, Bathgate, Shack, Sullivan, Ingarfield, Hebenton, Cullen, Henry, Bartlett.</p><p>Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko, Arbour, Evans, St. Laurent; forwards: Hull, Hay, Nesterenko, Lindsay, M. Balfour, Sloan, Murphy, Litzenberger, Skov, Wharram, Maloney, E. Balfour, Mikita.</p><p>Referee: Eddie Powers; linesmen: Morrison, Jack Paterson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1128/1679884-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="604" height="688"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29</b> Montreal 4 at Boston 2</h3><p>Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, Langlois, Johnson, Turner, Talbot; forwards: Beliveau, Moore, Bonin, Backstrom, Hicks, Provost, McDonald, H. Richard, Goyette, Marshall, Pronovost.</p><p>Boston&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Armstrong, Ward, Erickson, Boivin; for-fards: McKenney, Labine, Mohns, Horvath, Stasiuk, Mackell, Bums, Toppazzini, K. Meissner, Gendron, Leach, Baliuk.</p><p>Referee: Frank Udvari; linesmen: George Hayes, Neil, Armstrong.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1214/1679877-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="602" height="620"></div><h3><b>Toronto 4 at Detroit 1</b></h3><p>Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Horton, Stanley, Reaume, Brewer, Baun; forwards: Stewart, Pullford, Olmstead, Regan, Duff, Hampson, Harris, Ehman, Wilson, Edmunton, Mahovlich.</p><p>Detroit&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defense: Pronovost, Kelly, Godfrey, Morrison, Marcon; forwards: Cullen, Ullman, Delvecchio, Lunde, Howe, Aldcorn, Oliver, Melnyk, McNeill, Fonteyne, McIntyre, McKenzie.</p><p>Referee: Powers, linesmen: Morrison and Pateson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-139/1679870-1-eng-US/f0008-132.jpg" title="f0008-13" width="602" height="468"></div><h3><b>Chicago 2 at New York 2</b></h3><p>Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall; defense: Arbour, Pilote, Vasko, Evans. St. Laurent; forwards: Lindsay, M. Balfour, Sloan, Murphy, Hay, Litzenberger, Skov, Nesterenko, Hull, Wharram, Maloney, E, Balfour, Mikita.</p><p>New York&mdash;Goal: Paille; defense: Howell, Hanna, Spencer, Fontinato, Bownass; forwards: Bathgate, Sullivan, Shack, Ingarfield, Hebenton, Cullen, Prentice, Schinkel, Popein, Henry, Bartlett.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-147/1679863-1-eng-US/f0008-142.jpg" title="f0008-14" width="606" height="564"></div><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p>(Standings On Wed. A.M., Dec. 2)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04181/1679856-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="598" height="190"></div><h3>Results Of Games Played Week Ending November 29, 1959</h3><p>Wed., Nov. 25&mdash;Boston 3 at New York 3</p><p>Thurs., Nov. 26&mdash;Montreal 4 at Detroit 2</p><p>Thurs., Nov. 26&mdash;Toronto 4 at Chicago 3</p><p>Thurs., Nov. 26&mdash;New York 3 at Boston 4</p><p>Sat., Nov. 28&mdash;Detroit 0 at Montreal 1</p><p>Sat., Nov. 28&mdash;Boston 2 at Toronto 2</p><p>Sat., Nov. 28&mdash;New York 2 at Chicago 6</p><p>Sun., Nov. 29&mdash;Montreal 4 at Boston 2</p><p>Sun., Nov. 29&mdash;Toronto 4 at Detroit 1</p><p>Sun., Nov. 29&mdash;Chicano 2 at New York 2</p><h3>Scheduled Games For Week Ending December 6, 1959</h3><p>Wed., Dec. 2&mdash;Montreal at Toronto</p><p>Wed., Dec. 2&mdash;Boston at Chicago</p><p>Thurs., Dec. 3&mdash;New York at Montreal</p><p>Sat., Dec. 5&mdash;Chicano at Montreal</p><p>Sat., Dec. 5&mdash;New York at Toronto</p><p>Sat., Dec. 5&mdash;Boston at Detroit</p><p>Sun., Dec. 6&mdash;Montreal at Detroit</p><p>Sun., Dec. 6&mdash;Toronto at New York</p><p>Sun., Dec. 6&mdash;Chicago at Boston<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Coach-General Manager Punch Imlach of the Toronto Maple Leafs doesn&rsquo;t-believe Jacques Plante&rsquo;s mask doesn&rsquo;t cut down his vision.</p><p>&ldquo;That grotesque mask has to cut down his vision to some extent,&rdquo; Imlach says. &ldquo;But he&rsquo;s such a great goalkeeper he overcomes the handicap.</p><p>&ldquo;Detroit&rsquo;s Sawchuk is playing fine goal, but I feel Plante is miles ahead of him and every other goalie in this game.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s tremendous at cutting down the angles and seldom gives you a soft goal. I watched him very closely in our last game in Montreal and was amazed at his perfection.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

‘Plante Miles Ahead Of All Others In League’—Imlach

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>ORONTO, Ont.&mdash;General ManagerCoach Punch Imlach of the Toronto Maple Leafs got more than he bargained for when he traded Barry Cullen to the Detroit Red Wings for &lsquo;Iron Man&rsquo; Johnny Wilson.</b></p><p><b>Imlach&rsquo;s original plan was to use Wilson strictly as a spot player. He was to relieve the regulars, kill penalties and be the all-around utility man for the club. But every time he relieved someone or went out to kill a penalty he scored a goal. He suddenly was the most potent goal scorer on the Toronto Johnny Wilson team, and he wasn&rsquo;t even a regular.</b></p><p><b>So far this season the likeable Johnny-On-The-Spot has scored nine goals, just two less than he scored in 70 games last season. He has also added four assists for 13 points.</b></p><p><b>Wilson, who now makes his home in Windsor, Ontario, scored three goals last week, as the Leafs leaped into second place, two points ahead of the Wings. The club won two and tied one. They scored nine goals, with Wilson ramming home three.</b></p><p><b>Last Thursday, in Chicago the Leafs dumped the Black Hawks 4-3. Johnny netted a pair to play the leading role in the win.</b></p><p><b>While he didn&rsquo;t figure in the scoring in the Leafs 2-2 draw with the Boston Bruins on Saturday night November 28th, he was a standout defensively.</b></p><p><b>Wilson got back to his goal-scoring ways on Sunday, November 29th in Detroit, as the Leafs whipped the Wings 4-1 to take the game and move into second place, ten points behind the Canadiens. Johnny scored one goal and once again was a star defensively as well as offensively when he was on the ice. If Johnny had a particular feeling of satisfaction last week, one could not blame him. His three goals came at the expense of his two former employers, the Hawks and the Wings.</b></p><p><b>Born in Kincardine, Ontario, Wilson is the League&rsquo;s alltime &lsquo;Iron Man&rsquo;. He has played seven complete NHL seasons without missing a game and has kept his record in tact this season. In two of his seasons he broke the 20 goal mark in scoring. His first in 1952-53 with the Wings when he scored 23 goals. He did it again in 1955-56 with the Chicago Black Hawks when he netted 24. Prior to the start of this year he had scored 121 goals in 519 NHL games.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-15/1680002-1-eng-US/f0008-152.jpg" title="f0008-15" width="276" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Wilson</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Player-of-the-Week

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>UFFALO, N.Y. &mdash; Wally Hergesheimer scored his 100th American Hockey League goal last week. Nothing to rave about, you say. Well consider the fact that he did so in just about 200 AHL games. That means he scored at a rate of one goal every two games, which is quite a feat.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01359/1680141-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="286" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>W. Hergesheimer</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Hergy, one of the smallest men in hockey, he&rsquo;s only 5&rsquo;8&rdquo; tall and weighs 155 pounds, is the second man in AHL history to score 100 goals in both the AHL and NHL. in his NHL career with both the New York Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks, he netted 114 pucks. He scored that number of major league goals in 351 games.</b></p><p><b>Hergy, a member of the Buffalo Bisons for the third year, although he did play 22 games for the Rangers last season, has scored 20 or more goals in each of his three previous years with AHL clubs. In 1950-51 in Cleveland he scored 42 goals in his rookie year. He was a unanimous choice as winner of the Dudley &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Garrett Memorial Trophy as the league&rsquo;s outstanding rookie.</b></p><p><b>In 1957-58, his first year with the Bisons, he scored 26 goals and added 21 assists for 47 points in 70 games.</b></p><p><b>Last season, in only 45 games he scored 23 goals and added 23 assists for 46 points.</b></p><p><b>Last week Hergy scored two goals for the Bisons. His 100th came against the Rochester Americans in Rochester on Friday night November 27th.</b></p><p><b>A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Wally is a graduate of the Brandon Elks, a junior club from that Manitoba city. He turned pro in 1947-48 with the Minneapolis Millers of the old United States Hockey League. He played 37 games and scored only eight goals. The next season saw him pop up in San Francisco of the Pacific Coast Hockey League, where he scored 34 goals in 70 games. He avenged his poor season in Minneapolis in 1949-50 when he banged in 43 goals in 69 games. That was the last they saw of Wally in either of those two loops. The next season he was in Cleveland and the Following five years spent under the big top with the New York Rangers. In four of his five years with Rangers he scored 20 or more goals. The 1956-57 season saw him traded to the Chicago Black Hawks for George &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Sullivan.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="byline">By ISI NEWBORN</div><p>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;</p><p>On the morning of last Oct. 29 the Cleveland Barons&rsquo; goaltender, Gil Mayer, underwent surgery in Lakewood Hospital for a broken jaw.</p><p>A teammate&rsquo;s hard slapshot, fired during a practice session, had sent a puck crashing into Mayer&rsquo;s face. X-rays showed the lower jaw broken.</p><p>Within 24 hours after the jaw was wired by Dr. Robert Edward Gneuhs, local oral surgeon, Mayer was able to go on a soft food diet.</p><p>Within several days he resumed normal eating.</p><p>And on the eighth day after his operation the stocky goalie donned a protective mask and began working out again with his teammates on the ice!</p><p>It seemed incredible. Fans and players alike were flabbergasted. This speedy return to normal living was contrary to all that they had learned to expect. Everybody knew that athletes with broken and wired jaws were usually forced to go on a liquid diet for six to eight weeks with a resultant loss of weight and energy, and then required additional weeks to regain their strength.</p><h2><b>Technique Developed At Walter Reed Hospital</b></h2><p>Everybody knew, also, that the broken jaw is usually kept immobile, making chewing impossible, during those weeks of liquid diet.</p><p>It was of particular interest in this city because Clevelanders were conscious of the broken-jaw problem. A severe jaw break suffered by Cleveland Indians second baseman Billy Martin, which may have cost the Indians the 1959 American League pennant, was still fresh in the minds of the local sports citizenry. Martin&rsquo;s mishap occurred in the first week of August in a collision with a base runner and he was finished for the rest of the baseball season.</p><p>In Mayer&rsquo;s case, his good fortune was due to a relatively new technique in surgery developed in the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C. and used by Dr. Gneuhs who added an improvement of his own.</p><p>Mayer happened to be the first prominent athlete on which Dr. Gneuhs&rsquo; procedure for a broken jaw was used.</p><p>More important, the remarkably swift convalescence of the Cleveland goalie could be of far-reaching significance in the athletic world. Henceforth, players who suffer broken jaws may not necessarily be lost to their teams for extended periods of months.</p><p>What was the advanced technique used on Mayer?</p><p>To begin with, Mayer had what is called in surgical terminology, a &ldquo;compounded cominuted fracture of the lower jaw,&rdquo; according to Dr. Gneuhs.</p><p>For the reader, here is a simple way to visualize the situation imagine that you are getting a broadside look at a ship which has been cracked open in the middle and is breaking in half. Down around the water line there are a couple of smaller cracks extending out from the main crack, resulting in a loosening of a small triangular chip.</p><h2><b>Wire Will Remain In His Jaw Permanently</b></h2><p>In the surgery, Dr. Gneuhs made a small incision in the skin on the lower border of the jaw. When the bone was exposed, he drilled a tiny hole on each side of the main fracture line. A fine stainless steel wire was then looped through the holes and tightened to hold the fracture edges together firmly&mdash;somewhat in the manner you would use in lacing a shoe.</p><p>The small loosened bone chip down below was taken out.</p><p>&ldquo;The wire will remain in there permanently,&rdquo; explained Dr. Gneuhs. &ldquo;The bone will grow over the wire and make the jaw stronger at this point of union than it was before. Also, new bone will grow to partially refill the small spot left by the removed chip &ldquo;</p><p>The procedure described thus far is the type of technique which was developped in the Walter Reed Hospital. Dr. Gneuhs, who served as an officer in World War II, graduated from John Carroll University and the Western Reserve University Dental School, trained in oral surgery at Cleveland City Hospital and later graduated from Walter Reed Hospital in plastic and maxial facial surgery.</p><p>However, the next step in the work on Mayer was where Dr. Gneuhs used his own innovation which may be destined to revolutionize surgical techniques on fractured lower jaws.</p><p>Instead of locking together the upper and lower teeth by use of &ldquo;loop wiring&rdquo; with rubber bands&mdash;the prevalent method which forces the patient to keep his teeth clenched and allows him only to sip liquids for six to eight weeks while the bone is knitting&mdash;Dr. Gneuhs followed a radically different course.</p><p>He inserted in Mayer&rsquo;s mouth an &ldquo;inter-oral splint&rdquo; which covered the teeth and gums of the whole lower jaw. This splint was like nothing more than the plate you put in your mouth when you&rsquo;ve bought a full set of lower teeth from your dentist. Made of &ldquo;acrylic&rdquo;, the same material that&rsquo;s in a dental plate, it also stays in place by suction.</p><p>This gives the lower jaw a firm support on top in much the same way that you can reinforce a broken piece of lumber by nailing down a metal brace on the top side.</p><p>&ldquo;This splint permits a unified motion of the lower jaw and permits the patient to eat normally,&rdquo; explained Dr. Gneuhs.</p><p>The splint (or plate) is fitted the same way as a dental plate. An impression of the bottom of the mouth is obtained, then the plate is ready four or five days after the surgery.</p><p>In Mayer&rsquo;s case, he underwent surgery on a Thursday and went on a soft food diet the next morning. When the splint was inserted into his mouth five days after the operation, he was able to resume normal eating. Vitamin shots were also administered.</p><p>Ten days after his surgery, Mayer accompanied Barons general manager Jim Hendy on a scouting trip to Windsor, Ont., to watch a game between Windsor and Chatham.</p><p>&ldquo;For dinner, Mayer had a big order of prime ribs of beef,&rdquo; related Hendy afterward with a chuckle, &ldquo;and he did a helluva job on it for a guy with a busted jaw!&rdquo;</p><h2><i>Wired For Sound</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1355/1680172-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="567" height="1015"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Goaler Gil Mayer of the Cleveland Barons of the AHL is caught in a moment of meditation. Notice the short incision scar on the right side of his chin where doctors performed the operation to wire his broken law together.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Medic’s New Technique Repairs Split Jaw In Days

<h2><b>Toupin In Century Club</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>J</span>ack Toupin, coach of the Quebec Aces is a member of the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Century Club, having scored his 100th goal in the league away back on January 24th. 1943, while a member of Providence. Jackie Gordon of Cleveland is the only other coach to reach the 100 plateau.</p><h2>NEW SPELLING FOR ROOK</h2><p>One of the American Hockey League&rsquo;s leading rookie candidates has revealed the correct spelling of his name, after five seasons in professional ranks. The player is Stan Baluik (UI instead of IU) of Providence. All previous record books and publicity releases have listed him as having the i before the u in his name, and he recently stated that the reverse was the true spelling. He pronounces the name &ldquo;Baa-luke.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p>(Standings On Tues. A.M., Dae. 1)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02337/1680110-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="604" height="216"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24</b> Rochester 0 at Quebec City 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03290/1680103-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="604" height="384"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25</b> Cleveland 1 at Buffalo 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04249/1680096-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="600" height="388"></div><h3><b>Hershey 4 at Springfield 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05191/1680089-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="602" height="724"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p>(Including Games Of Sun., Nov. 29)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06161/1680082-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="610" height="462"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p>Most Goals&mdash;Floyd Smith, Spr., 16</p><p>Most Assists&mdash;Floyd Smith and Art Stratton, Spr&bdquo; 26</p><p>Best Goalie&mdash;Ed Chadwick, Roch., 20, 49, 2, 2.45</p><p>Most Penalized Team&mdash;Hershey, 577 mts.</p><p>Most Penalized Player&mdash;Ron Hurst, Hers., 110 mts.</p><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07150/1680075-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="604" height="376"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26</b> Hershey 3 at Providence 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08139/1680068-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="606" height="660"></div><h3>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 Buffalo 3 at Rochester 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09134/1680061-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="598" height="500"></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 Cleveland 2 at Springfield 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10121/1680054-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="600" height="436"></div><h3>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Springfield 5 at Buffalo 0</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1199/1680047-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="614" height="444"></div><h3>Cleveland 2 at Providence 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1267/1680040-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="600" height="466"></div><h3>Hershey 3 at Rochester 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0480/1680033-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="604" height="378"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By SAMUEL POMPEI</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01373/1680203-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Discussing the Springfield Indians current club and just what help the New York Rangers can be to them are, back row: Eddie Shore Jr., vice president of the Indians and Pat Egan, Indians&rsquo; coach. In the front row General Manager Muzz Patrick of the Rangers, who have a working agreement with the Indians, and owner Eddie Shore of the Braves.</b></figcaption></div><p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>At the end of their first 16 American Hockey League games, the Springfield Indians boasted a record of 12 wins, one tie and three losses.</p><p>And that represented the Tribe&rsquo;s most spectacular getaway in nearly three decades.</p><p>Not since the 1930-31 Canadian-American League champion Indians postes a 14-2-0 record has the club shown a better mark at that point in the season.</p><p>In those days, the New York Rangers operated the Indians as a farm club. Coincidentally, the current edition of the Tribe has a working agreement with the same Broadway Blueshirts.</p><p>Back in the early days of Springfield hockey when the Indians were terrorrizing the Can-Am circuit, it was Lester Patrick who was in charge of the Rangers and giving Springfield the talent it needed to be a powerhouse.</p><h2><b>This Could Be Their Year</b></h2><p>Today, it is Lester&rsquo;s son, Murray (Muzz) Patrick, who occupies the bg swivel chair in New York and supplying the Indians with some of the material which is helping to stamp them a powerhouse.</p><p>In the early days, the Indians had an array of players which included, among others, Earl Seibert, Cecil Dillion. Ott Heller, Obs Heximer, Joe Jewra, Red Beattie, Deacon Waite, Wilf Starr, Dick Benson, Buddy Maracle and Alf Moore.</p><p>All were owned outright by the Rangers.</p><p>Today the Indians are made up of a combination of Ranger-owned Art Stratton, Bruce Cline, Parker MacDonald, Jack Bownass, Irv Spencer, Orland Kurtenbach and goalie Marcel Paille and Eddie Shore&rsquo;s Springfield-owned Flyod Smith, Harry Pidhirny, Jimmy Anderson, Brian Kilrea, Billy McCreary, Dennis Olson. Bob McCord, Don Cherry, Ted Harris and Kent Douglas.</p><p>This club, which pulled away from the pack, seems to have the perfect blend of Springfield-New York players for a possible championship team this season.</p><p>Home City fans haven&rsquo;t known a hockey kingpin since those 193031 Indians turned the trick by winning the regular Can Am title and then going on to take the playoff honors, too.</p><p>In between the two bright hockey eras, Springfield has had some interesting seasons and some lean ones, too.</p><p>But this could be the one that Springfield hockey faithful have waited for so long.</p><p>With Pat Egan, a one-time Indian defense star, as bench marshall and Eddie Shore and Muzz Patrick behind the scenes, these Indians, on the basis of early-season performances, could take all the marbles.</p><h2><b><i>Planning A Scalping</i></b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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This Looks Like Year Injun Fans Have Been Waiting 19 Years For

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>It might be wise to remember the date of Nov. 22 when, at some future date, the fortunes of the Buffalo Bisons for the 1959-60 American League season are being weighed.</p><p>For on that night the Bisons, with their leading goal scorer Larry Wilson and defensive bulwark Irvan Irwin sidelined by ankle injuries, conquered the unconquerable&mdash;Bobby Perreault&mdash;and his Hershey Bear teammates.</p><p>Perreault had shutout the Bisons six times in a 12 month span-covering two seasons. But firing enough pucks past Perreault for a 4-2 victory on the aforementioned night was not the principal reason for Coach Dit Clapper smiling proudly.</p><p>The standout performers of the game were a pair of rookies&mdash;goalie Roy Edwards and defenseman Wayne Hillman&mdash;and two veteran NHLers&mdash;Ferguson and Danny Lewicki.</p><p>In yielding only two goals for the third straight game, Edwards came up with the big saves and strengthened front office faith in him.</p><p>While the youthful netminder had not been the target of any adverse fan reaction, he was definitely on the spot as the successor to capable Marcel Paille.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02312/1680234-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="292" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Roy Edwards</b></figcaption></div><p>Hillman, who gained a chance to play regularly when Irwin was injured, had Clapper singing his praises.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s coming along real fast&mdash;and <i>I</i> think he&rsquo;ll be a tough customer for any of our other four defensemen to knock out of a regular job once Ivan is ready to play again,&rdquo; Dit said. &ldquo;Wayne really played well in that Hershey game.&rdquo;</p><p>Against the Bears, Ferguson scored only one goal and Lewicki picked up but one assist.</p><p>But each was skating with the dash and fire that Clapper was sure they would display once peak condition was reached.</p><p>Lewicki raised eyebrows a number of times as he manipulated the puck in the Hershey end.</p><p>&ldquo;He looks like the Lewicki who gave me nightmares with his breakaways back when he was starting out with Pittsburgh,&rdquo; commented Buffalo manager Frank Eddolls.</p><p>Ferguson&rsquo;s contribution, in addition to taking a regular turn on left wing, was a dogged penalty killing performance which saw him frequently break up Hershey plays with an effective sweep check.</p><p>The game left Clapper with only one question: Will all keep going at that pac.</p><p>BISONS BRIEFS&hellip;When Ivan Irwin had his ankle x-rayed followeding his recent injury, he was asked if he had ever suffered a broken leg. &ldquo;I told the doctor I hadn&rsquo;t,&rdquo; Ivan stated. &ldquo;But he had news for me. He said the x-rays showed I had chips and must have played with at least a hairline fracture sometime in the past.</p><p>&ldquo;But I guess all old defensemen must have the ankle bones chipped at one time or another and don&rsquo;t even know it.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Herd Youngsters Raise Sparkle In Dit’s Eyes

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS Harrisburg, Pa. Patriot-News Sports Writer</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Coach Frank Mathers has come up with a forward line that could easily turn out to be the most powerful outfit assembled in reecnt years in the American League.</p><p>Left to right, the Hershey Bears line is composed of wing Claude LaForge, center Willie (The Whip) Marshall and winger Dune Fisher.</p><p>Mathers, who had been wondering if he would ever locate a line that could hit the mark consistently, inserted LaForge on left wing Nov. 6 at Cleveland. The tough, 5-9 winger replaced Les Duff.</p><p>In the next seven games, the trio accounted for 15 goals and 22 assists, a whopping 37 point total! In &lsquo;the stretch the Bears won three, lost two and tied two, picking up eight out of a possible 15 points.</p><p>But on Nov. 21 Mathers got the fright of his life when LaForge was checked hard into the boards against the Buffalo Bisons here. They carried LaForge off the ice on a stretcher and for a while it appeared he was in bad shape.</p><h2><b>LaForge Has The Ability</b></h2><p>However, x-rays showed no serious damage and after four days of treatment LaForge was given the okay to rejoin his teammates who currently are on a seven game road swing.</p><p>LaForge, property of the Detroit Red Wings, has all the equipment to become a topnotch big leaguer. He&rsquo;s only 23 and packs 168 pounds on a well proportioned frame.</p><p>The Sorel, Que., native, has had a couple of whirls in the National League, but evidently didn&rsquo;t appear to be ready.</p><p>Mathers claims LaForge is a strong two-way skater, who can backcheck very well and has the speed to break quick going up ice.</p><p>What makes the line click is Fisher&rsquo;s ability to go in the corners and come up with the disc. He sets uy Marshall nicely and LaForge is no slouch about sailing into a corner against a burly defenseman to battle for the rubber.</p><p>Both Marshall and Fisher are veterans, who are clever at their jobs and their experience is certainly bound to help LaForge.</p><p>LaForge had his greatest night in the AHL against Springfield, Nov. 18, when he knocked in four goals and assisted on two more.</p><h2><b>Beefs Up Attack</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03265/1680265-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="560" height="1498"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Claude LaForge</b></figcaption></div><p>The same game defenseman Bucky Hollingworth, who has started to play up to his full capability, assisted on five goals, one short of equaling the all-time one game league record for backliners.</p><p>Mathers is now busy trying to assemble another line which can hit with some consistency and which will help to take the pressure off the big &ldquo;L&M&rdquo; line.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bears Find Formula To Beef Up Attack—His Name Is LaForge

<h2><b>Dorohoy Hits 800 Mark</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>E</span>ddie Dorohoy, Vancouver centerman, scored his 800th point Friday night Nov. 20 In Vancouver against the Spokane Comets. His 800th point camo on a passing play with Colin Kilburn and Danny Belisle who scored the goal. Of these points, 283 were goals and 517 were assists in 657 League games. In addition Dorohoy has scored 16 goals and 26 assists for an additional 42 points in 49 play-off games.</p><h2>VANCOUVER OOES 10 STRAIGHT</h2><p>Vancouver won their tenth consecutive game at home this season Friday night Nov. 20, defeating Spokane 5-3. They were within one game of their 1953-54 season record when they won their first eleven games at home, tied the 12th and lost the 13th 3-0 to Now Westminster. The Canucks also won their last two games played at homo last season which gives them a string of 13 straight victories on their home ice.</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p>(Standings On Tues. A.M., Nov. 24)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01372/1680373-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="612" height="220"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Seattle 3 at Calgary 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02329/1680366-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="588" height="596"></div><h3><b>Victoria 4 at Winnipeg 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03267/1680359-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="598" height="440"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Seattle 5 at Edmonton 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04215/1680352-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="598" height="568"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Victoria 1 at Winnipeg 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05178/1680345-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="600" height="464"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Spokane 3 at Vancouver 5.</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06160/1680338-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="610" height="634"></div><h3><b>Victoria 3 at Edmonton 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07142/1680331-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="591" height="494"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Seattle 3 at Spokane 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10111/1680324-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="596" height="536"></div><h3><b>Victoria 7 at Calgary 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1191/1680317-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="602" height="712"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Vancouver 4 at Seattle 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1281/1680310-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="604" height="558"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p>(Including Games Of Sun., Nov. 22)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08137/1680303-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="596" height="510"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09129/1680296-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="600" height="220"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p>MOST GOALS</p><p>Marc Boileau, Seattle, 15</p><p>MOST GAME WINNING GOALS</p><p>Art Jones, Victoria, 4</p><p>MOST ASSISTS</p><p>Rudy Filion, Seattle, 19</p><p>Bill MacFarland, Seattle, 19</p><p>MOST GAME WINNING ASSISTS</p><p>Ray Cyr, Vancouver, <i>4</i></p><p>MOST FIRST GOAL OF GAME</p><p>Danny Belisle, Vancouver, <i>4</i></p><p>MOST HAT TRICKS</p><p>8 tied, 1</p><p>MOST SHUT OUTS</p><p>Hank Bassen, Vancouver, 2</p><p>Al Rollins, Winnipeg, 2</p><p>MOST PENALTIES</p><p>Larry Cahan, Vancouver, 60</p><p>Frank Arnett, Seattle, 52<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By KAYE CORBETT</div><p>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>Questions &ldquo;Mr. Gus Kyle, sir&hellip;do you ever wake up sweating and screaming after dreaming your Stampeders were minus Sid Finney?&rdquo;</p><p>The dapper Irishman seems headed for one of his best seasons as a member of the red and white brigade.</p><p>With little more than six weeks gone in the Western Hockey League, shifty Sid is high up on the scoring ladder with 12 goals and eight assists.</p><p>But this is nothing new for Mr. Finney.</p><p>After moving up from the senior Stampeders in 1951, he has racked up more than 300 points since joining the play-for-play brackets in the WHL alone.</p><p>His top goal-scoring campaign was 1957-58 when he captured the WHL&rsquo;s most valuable player award with 45 tallies and 43 assists.</p><p>If you consider it a bad year, the deceptive centreman had only 29 goals last season.</p><p>But there was a reason for the &ldquo;low&rdquo; output.</p><h2><b>Played Wrong Position</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I was shifted from centre to both right and left wing to help Billy Hay (speedy youngster who now toils for Chicago Black Hawks) and couldn&rsquo;t get adjusted to one spot,&rdquo; Finney remarked.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess if you&rsquo;ve played at centre during all your career you just can&rsquo;t change to be a right or left winger overnight.&rdquo;</p><p>This year, however, Finney has been sticking strictly to the middle lane and he&rsquo;s been hitting the range with his shooting iron.</p><p>Finney, a household name around Calgary, was set to be traded this year.</p><p>Rumors were circulating along coffee row that he was in the &ldquo;dog-house&rdquo; with his boss, Kyle.</p><h2><b>Club Is Stronger</b></h2><p>Although Stamps are occupying third spot, Finney thinks this year&rsquo;s edition is stronger than last season&rsquo;s Prairie division titlists.</p><p>&ldquo;For one thing, the league is far stronger since the two divisions were dropped and made into a seven-league,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re stronger in goal and defence. All we lack up front is a centre and left winger and I hear the Black Hawks are on the way with some.&rdquo;</p><p>Appraising the Stamps, Finney said: &ldquo;Starting from goal. Claude Pronovost is a more experienced hand than Roy Edwards was. Claude has performed well in every game so far and has helped our club tremendously. Edwards was nervous at the beginning of last year but came on to play some fine goal later on in the season.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re stronger on defence and up front, these new kids, especially (Jim) Moro and (Jim) Brown, have given the club a real lift.&rdquo;</p><p>The season is still young, but what Finney has seen of it, the team to beat will have to me as everyone else thinks: Vancouver Canucks.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re going to be real rough and tough, they have plenty of pros on the club, fellows like Colin Kilburn and, of course, Ed Dorohoy, also have mixed in a fair amount of up and coming rookies. &ldquo;While they&rsquo;re tough, all the teams will be, including Spokane.</p><p>Shinny has been good to Finney.</p><p>Although he has no plans for retirement, he will go into the sporting goods business after the season with one of Calgary&rsquo;s top basketball aces, Boots Rogers.</p><p>As one man who knows hockey, Frank Currie once said: &ldquo;Sid is one of the greatest minor league performers ever.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Trail Boss</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1359/1680404-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="496" height="882"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Finney</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Old Magician Finney Keeping Kyle’s Cowboys On Win Trail

<p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>EATTLE, Wash.&mdash;Doug Barkley, Calgary, defenceman, who was suspended indefinitely recently for hitting Referee Al Paradice during the game played in Calgary, Tuesday, November 17th between the Stampeders and Seattle, will have his suspension lifted Thursday morning, December 3rd, 1959. It made a total of fifteen days and he missed five of his team&rsquo;s games. He has been fined Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) and will be required to post an additional Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) as a peace bond which will be returned to him at the end of the season if he has no further trouble with officials of the League.</p><p>Investigation revealed that Barkley did not hit Paradice with his fist, but did strike him with his forearm. This being his first trouble of any kind with a game official it is felt by this office that the punishment is sufficient. Mr. Barkley has apologized to Referee Paradice and is well aware of the consequences should it ever happen again.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

WHL Prexy Lifts Barkley’s Suspension, Fines Him $200

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div><p>CLEVELAND, O&mdash;</p><p>The Barons discovered their skates and suddenly all was serene and beautiful in the Cleveland igloo.</p><p>For six weeks the Barons had been either standing still on those steel blades or had been moving painfully slow.</p><p>Then, suddenly, at Buffalo the night of Sunday November 15, the Barons learned to skate.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01366/1680466-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="306" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jackie Gordon</b></figcaption></div><p>With sparks showering from their flying runners, and goals pouring from their war clubs, the Barons roared hard into the Bisons and walloped them, 6-1.</p><p>Coach Jackie Gordon brought them home for a week of Arena drills, working his squad through long sessions as they awaited the invasion of the league leading Springfield Indians on Friday, November 20.</p><h2><b>Paille On Wrong End</b></h2><p>Springfield proved to be a softer touch than had Buffalo as Cleveland dazzled the New Rangers&rsquo; farm hands with a 6-0 shutout. Marcel Paille, a real good goalie, was helpless.</p><p>Saturday night it was the turn of second place Providence Reds to feel the cutting edge of the Barons&rsquo; newly forged weapons of war.</p><p>Showing no letup, the Barons tore into the Reds relentlessly, firing pucks at Bruce Gamble from bell to bell. Gamble fought off some tough ones but when it was over, the Barons had another shutout, this time 7-0.</p><p>Who was in the nets for this smashing week of Barons triumph?</p><p>None other than Gil Boisvert, the 26-year-old veteran goalie on loan from the Sudbury club, courtesy of the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Boisvert, filling the big gap created when Gil Mayer was shot down with a jaw fractured in five places, grew hotter by the game.</p><p>By the time the Barons had completed their triple sweep of the week of November 15-21, Boisvert had a goals &mdash; against average of 2.50. That was virtually as good as the league-leading average of Hershey&rsquo;s Bobby Perreault.</p><p>Boisvert, of course was getting a brand of protection seldom seen by a Cleveland goalie.</p><p>The Barons&rsquo; domination of the enemy reached a peak Saturday, November 21 against the Reds when Boisvert had to make only 16 saves.</p><p>With the Barons playing a fleet, aggressive game on the heels of a home ice record of one victory in seven starts, everything looked rosier.</p><p>There were many bright spots emerging in the Cleveland hockey picture.</p><p>Michel Labadie, the low-flying Frenchman, was suddenly afire. Labadie pounded four goals in two nights, including the &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo;. The ageless veteran Cal Stearns who is paid for his defensive magic as a penalty killer and ticket promotion man, also was burning the nets. Stearns grabbed his first &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; in nine years against none other than Paille and in the league there is no tougher way to get it.</p><p>It was apparent that the Barons, if they kept up their skating lessons, were now to be reckoned with. And they still had a couple of injured aces, named Bill Shvetz and Mayer, in the hole.</p><h2><b>Back On Blades</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02289/1680459-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="544" height="620"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Joe Klukay</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Barons Score 19 In Three Games In Come-To-Life

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Unless Windsor Bulldogs and Belleville McFarlands either hit a winning stride or bolster their&rsquo; teams with new talent, the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA race could develop into a three-horse affair, because Whitby Dunnies, Kitchener Dutchmen and Chatham Maroons are bunched closely together in the three top berths and the standing there can change overnight at any time. Windsor holds down fourth place with but five wins and a tie in 13 games, while Belleville is deep in the ruck with only two wins in 15 starts.</p><p>It would appear that what Windsor and Belleville require more than anything else is new material, preferrably young capable players. These two teams engineered one deal between them, whereby defenceman Al Dewsbury, who refused to play for Belleville this season owing to financial differences, went to the Bulldogs in exchange for Denis Boucher, a forward who was drafted from the defunt Cornwall Chevs by Windsor. Jean-Paul Lamirande, member of the 1959 world champion Belleville McFarlands, now playingcoach of the Windsor Bulldogs, has also induced the veteran NHL&rsquo;er Joe Klukay to turn out, but whether these changes will have any beneficial effect on the Belleville and Windsor teams is something that will have to be left to the future. Windsor also is counting upon on having Johnny Utendale, the rangy colored forward, rejoin the club. Windsor allowed Murph Chamberlain, Sudbury Wolves&rsquo; coach in the new Eastern Professional League to give Utendale a five-game pro tryout, and the leftwinger score one goal and four assists during that time.</p><p>Whitby Dunnies seem to be fairly well set after winning seven straight games, but Chatham Maroons may complete a deal with Windsor for a forward, but the price the Maroons are asking is too expensive for Bulldog tastes.</p><p>Belleville McFarlands are hurting and have been ever since they lost goalie Gordie Bell, possibly for good, due to an eye injury he sustained. Since that unfortunate accident, Belleville has been using Cesare Maniago, one of Kitchener Dutchmen&rsquo;s netminders. But after Jan. 1, Maniago must return to the Dutchmen, according to previous agreement. Meantime Belleville is scouring the highway and byways in search of a capable goalie.</p><p>And to add to Belleville&rsquo;s woes, their Davey Jones sustained a broken collar bone during their last game in Kitchener and will be considered lost for at least a month.</p><p>Belleville questioned a referee&rsquo;s ruling when they dropped their 11th game to Chatham Maroons, when the referee awarded Chatham a goal, instead of calling for a penalty shot, when Jim Connelly was pulled down from behind on a breakaway.</p><p>Kitchener Dutchmen seem to be in fine shape for their OHA campaign, but it is another matter for their trek to the Olympic Games world tournament in Squaw Valley, Calif next February. The Dutchmen have added Mike Elik, of the Toronto Varsity seniors, and from the same team has come Ron Casey, a candidate for one of the defence berths. Bill Wylie, a veteran centre for the Dutchmen last season, who lives in Galt, but has been out with injuries, is another Kitchener prospect. Being a former pro, Wylie will not be eligible for the Olympic Games.</p><p>Kitchener officials admit that they need four or five more players, or better players, for their Olympic Games test as Canada&rsquo;s representatives, but their chief worry is where to get them. It seems a lot of the managers are loathe to part with their stars because it would jeopardize their league standing, but at a senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA council meeting in Toronto, all clubs except Chatham, have pledged one player each to the Kitchener club. Coach Johnny Horeck of Chatham did not refuse the same pledge, but stated that he could make no commitments without the approval of his club executive.</p><p>The senior OHA council also considered a movement to wipe out overtime for all scheduled games, such as the National Leagues does, but the Kitchener club was opposed and before it could be written into the regulations the vote had to be unanimous. Johnny Horeck of the Chatham club was the man to introduce the suggestion.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Three Leave Rest Behind In Senior Dash To Top Spot

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03224/1680521-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="590" height="270"></div><h2><b>NOVEMBER 28 TO DECEMBER 4</b></h2><p>29&mdash;Ian Cushenan, Rangers, defense, 1933.</p><p>30&mdash;Tod Sloan, Chicago, forward, 1927.</p><p>1&mdash;Val Fonteyne, Detroit, forward, 1933.</p><p>1&mdash;Jim Anderson, Springfield, forward, 1930.</p><p>1&mdash;Camille Bedard, Quebec, defense, 1933.</p><p>1&mdash;Willie Marshall, Hershey, forward, 1931.</p><p>1&mdash;Ed Stankiewicz, Spokane, forward, 1934.</p><p>2&mdash;Bill McCreary, Springfield, forward, 1934.</p><p>4&mdash;Myron Stankiewez, Quebec, forward, 1935.</p><p>4&mdash;Irvin Spencer, Rangers, defense, 1937.</p><p>4&mdash;Alex Delvecchio, Detroit, forward, 1931.</p><p>4&mdash;Fred Hucul, Calgary, defense. 1931.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<div class="byline">By HANS TANNER</div><p><b>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;</b></p><p>Everyone expected the talent-loaded Springfield Indians to score plenty of goals during the 1959-60 American Hockey League season, but not many people thought the Rochester Americans would be just a step behind in goal production and in the standings.</p><p>The Amerks swung into the season minus additional player help from the Montreal Canadiens, minus rookie sensation Billy Hicke (41 goals) and minus Gary Aldcorn (37 goals).</p><p>There was some grumbling among the local fans this summer when Montreal, which had owned 27% per cent of the Americans, sold out to Toronto. The Maple Leafs were thought by many to be short on talent&mdash;both of NHL and AHL calibre.</p><p>So what has happened? Rochester is off to its best start in history with 12 wins in its first 17 outings, is scoring an average of 4.35 goals per game, and has allowed only 2.53 goals per tussle.</p><p>As the season nears the one-quarter mark, no less than eight Amerk forwards are considered potential 20-goal men, with four considered having a shot at 30 goals.</p><p>Latest outburst by the Amerks were a pair of lop-sided wins on Nov. 20 and Nov. 22. Rochester blasted Providence for the third straight time here on the 20th with a 7-1 lacing, then followed up with a 6-1 rout in Quebec on the 22nd.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04165/1680552-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="312" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Stan Smrke</b></figcaption></div><p>Stan Smrke led the weekend assault with four goals, followed by Cecil Hoekstra, Rudy Migay and Billy Saunders with two each, and Dave Creighton, Howie Howitzer) Young and Guy Rousseau with one each.</p><p>Rochester fans saw one of the best fist-swinging battles in the history of the sport here when the Amerks&rsquo; Pat Hannigan and Floyd Hillman of Providence went at it on the 20th.</p><p>Only four minutes and 41 seconds of the first period had been played when the gloves and sticks were dropped to the ice. Linesmen Ed House and Norm Wooley separated the fighters three times before order finally was restored by referee Vern Buffey. Meanwhile man squared off in a supporting bout, and the other players on the ice engaged in shoving scuffles.</p><p>Floyd Hillman went the route when the penalties were handed out. He picked up a minor, a major, a 10-minute misconduct and a game misconduct for the fracas, while Hannigan matched all but the minor. Each lost $75 in automatic fines, too, in addition to being tossed out of the game.</p><p>It didn&rsquo;t take the Amerks long to snare the lead two days later in Quebec. Migay controlled the faceoff to start the game. He sent the puck back to Al MacNeil, who slammed the puck into the Quebec zones. Hannigan raced in, collared the puck and fed a pass to Migay for the score at the seven second mark.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Amerk Kids Flex Muscles, Get Club Off To Its Best Start

<h2>Denis Scores Three Winners</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>O</span>ut of the 43 games won in the first fifty played in the EPHL, 33 players scored winning goals. Lulu Denis, captain of the Montreal Royals led the parade by knocking in three. Eight others scored winning goals twice.</p><h2><b>Carter Seldom Missed</b></h2><p>Billy Carter, the EPHL&rsquo;s leading scorer from the Hull-Ottawa Canadians, was kept off the score sheet only twice in his first 17 games and off the goal scoring sheet only six times in the same number of games.</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p>(Standings On Tues. A.M., Dec. 1)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02330/1680660-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="604" height="188"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p>(Including Games Of Sun., Nov. 29)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03298/1680653-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="600" height="316"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p>Most Penalized Team&mdash;Sudbury, 326 mts.</p><p>Most Penalized Player&mdash;Cleland Mortson, Sud., and Dino Mascotto, T. R., 53 mts.</p><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04267/1680646-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="596" height="194"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24</b> Hull-Ottawa 1 at Kingston 8</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05229/1680639-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="592" height="468"></div><h3><b>Sudbury 3 at Sault St*. Marie 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06195/1680632-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="599" height="800"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26</b> O.-Hult 3 at Sault Ste-Marie 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07182/1680625-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="602" height="586"></div><h3><b>Three Rivers 3 at Montreal 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08171/1680618-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="592" height="664"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27</b> Hull-Ottawa 1 at Sudbury 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09165/1680611-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="608" height="428"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28</b> Montreal 1 at Kingston 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10159/1680604-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="602" height="292"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29</b> Sault Ste. Marie 0 at Montreal 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11140/1680597-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="600" height="466"></div><h3><b>Sudbury 7 at Hull-Ottawa 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12123/1680590-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="592" height="746"></div><h3><b>Kingston 3 at Three Rivers 9</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13102/1680583-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="602" height="760"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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EASTERN PRO LEAGUE

<div class="byline">Al Parsley</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01372/1680691-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="306" height="336"></div><p><b>ON THE SIDELINES</b></p><p>&bull; THE NOVEMBER SENSATION in the EPHL has been the performance of Trois-Rivieres Lions and general-manager Del Dugre and coach Gerry Desaulniers are modestly taking the bows.</p><p>While it&rsquo;s apparent to outsiders that the acquisition of goaler Claude Evans and defenseman Dino Mascotto put much needed glue into the back division, coach Desaulniers claims that the entire team has taken on new life.</p><p><b>Through a stretch of 12 games the Lions roared and clawed their way to seven triumphs, and steeled for two draws while taking only two setbacks. In this surge the Trifluvians trounced every club in the league and Royals got their comeuppance three times succumbing to two calsominings in the gargain.</b></p><p>In 13 games Evans permitted only 31 goals for an average of 2.3 per, while Desaulniers and Dugre were in ectasies over the performance of their &lsquo;Kid Lines&rsquo;&mdash;Mel Pearson, Leon Rochefort and Dave Balon, ages, 21, 21, and 20 respectively. Pearson is the top scorer with 14, Balon had seven tallies and Rochefort eight as the Lions came to Montreal to meet the Royals.</p><p>&ldquo;The whole team is playing well &ldquo;broke in Del Dugre who was bending an ear to the interview. Dugre formerly broadcaster on sports events, is now agent for one of Canada&rsquo;s largest breweries in the St. Maurice Valley region. He said &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a great thing for me, my first year as a hockey generalmanager, and for Gerry his first season in full charge as playing coach to be associated with such a hustling bunch of boys.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>Cheers! For Murph Chamberlain, coach of Sudbury Wolves. Not for this rugged old campaigner any of the bromides of malerkey when he talks to the gents of the Forth Estate does he hand out any of those shopworn cliches like: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll play these games one at a time.&rdquo; or: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be in there punching.&rdquo; Ndr does Murph try to bemuse the interviewer with a prediction that he has a secret plan to confound the opposition.</p><p>&ldquo;My only strategy for Friday is to win&rdquo; Chamberlain told The Sudbury Star&rsquo;s Bob Scott when quizzed about plans for the encounter coming up with Montreal Royals. We like Murph for that one. Sad to reflect, though pallies, the best the Wolves could do was get a 4-4 draw. So Murph&rsquo;s strategy didn&rsquo;t click.</p><p><b>Sudden thought: Should Kingston Frontenacs pick up a lot of &#9632;peed, now that an automobile has been named after them?</b></p><p>That 8-1 triumph for the Frontenacs over Hull-Ottawa Canadiens at Kingston, on Nov. 24 was a shot in the arm, the executive hoped, for their hirelings. The Fronts with the addition of Don McLeod and Reggie Fleming are expected to get moving on a real drive from here on, but all backers of the club in the Limestone City are inclined to keep their fingers crossed as the third period gets underway.</p><p>With some diligent research Don Soutter, columnist in the KingstonWhig-Standard, has come up with the dope that the Fronts have fared poorly in the final stanza of too many games. In 20 third periods of hockey the Frontenacs hadn&rsquo;t outscored their rivals. In actual goals the Kingston larrigans were down 21-43 in the final chapters of these contests.</p><p><b>When it was pointed out to General-Manager John Carr-Harris, that the new boys had put some life into the club, but maybe it wasn&rsquo;t enough, Carr-Harris seemed dubious about gaining more reinforcements right away. He made the sage observation: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll have to get more out of the horses we&rsquo;ve had all along.&rdquo;</b></p><p>The scoring was well-spread in the signal 8-1 victory over the H-O&rsquo;s. Orval Tessier, Stan Maxwell and Barney Kraye, bagged two apiece; with playing coach Cal Gardiner and Willie Q&rsquo;Ree firing the other markers. Bob Ellett got Canadiens&rsquo; only goal, and it marked another rare occasion when Billy Carter was shut out.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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ON THE SIDELINES

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p><b>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</b></p><p>Murph Chamberlain landed a big one when he pulled in the eighth defenceman given look-see by the Sudbury Wolves this season. David Amadio is the name, reporting at 215 pounds and six-feet-one in his socks.</p><p>Out of Glace Bay, N.S., he adds to the Maritime flavor, if any, in Mr. Edward Houston&rsquo;s Eastern Pro hockey circuit.</p><p>He&rsquo;s a younger brother of Leo Amadio, long time in the old Quebec League with Montreal Royals, Shawinigan Cataracts, Chicoutimi Sagueneens and Quebec Aces.</p><p>Leo is now with Spokane in the WHL and earlier this season Dave, tilting &lsquo;em on the back division for Edmonton Flyers, got into an embroglio with Leo, who is approaching 25. The boys made merry melee according to press accounts, indicating there is no &ldquo;fix&rdquo; or &ldquo;payola&rdquo; of any kind in hockey. The athletes take things so seriously, that even brotherly love is absent once the puck is dropped.</p><p>This may be an object lesson of sorts for the &ldquo;Quizzers&rdquo; and the &ldquo;Disc Jockeys&rdquo;.</p><p>At that Dave, must have had an advantage in reach and a big pull in the weights, Leo hardly weighs more than 170 pounds and stands around 5&rsquo; 10&rdquo; as we remember him. The Press and Radio Guide doesn&rsquo;t carry exact details.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1493/1680722-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="290" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Real Chevrefils</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Long Felt Need</b></h2><p>Coach Chamberlain has been freely quoted around the EPHL to the effect that the Wolves greatest need was bolstering in the back areas. He felt that the Wolves were scored upon far to freely, and didn&rsquo;t blame it all on his goalkeepers. The Wolves had been fortunate in high scoring forwards like Clete Mortson, Sam Bettio and Tom McCarthy, winning their games by the very logical means of scoring more abundantly than their rivals.</p><p>&ldquo;But you can&rsquo;t expect to go on getting six or seven goals every outing,&rdquo; Chamberlain reflects with soudn commonsense.</p><h2><b>Wolves At Fullstrength</b></h2><p>Dave Amadio, a Detroit Red Wings farmhand will be used regularly on the defence. Cut along the way as eight blueliners have been on Wolves&rsquo; payroll were Jean Therrien and Norm Guimond, while Jack Hendrickson has been moved from the back division up front to center wingmen Cummy Burton and Real Chevrefils.</p><p>The Sudbury club&rsquo;s playing roster was again brought to 15-man strength. It was down to 14 after rookie John Utendale was sent back to Windsor Bulldogs of the Senior OHA following a tryout.</p><p>Utendale had brought the Negro strength in the Eastern Pro loop up to three the other two are Bill O&rsquo;Ree and Stan Maxwell with Kingston Frontenacs.</p><h2><b>Robazza Goes West</b></h2><p>Soo Thunderbirds lost Dino Robazza, 22-year-old defenceman, who has been assigned to the Calgary Stampeders of the WHL.</p><p>This was one of the early moves made by Bob Wilson, the veteran Chicago Black Hawks scout who has been given a mandate to set the Sault Ste. Marie operation in order along professional hockey Unes. The Hawks have not bought the Sault team lock, stock and barrell, as was reported in some quarters. It&rsquo;s simply that the Chicago NHL-ers have a financial investment in the Soo EPHL outfit, and what&rsquo;s more important, several players in whose development they are keenly interested, want to see that things are properly handled.</p><h2><b>Flemings Joins Fronts</b></h2><p>Reggie Fleming, noted for his delight in rugged play, has joined the Kingston forces on assignment by the NHL Canadiens. He was with Rochester Americans earlier this season and should put a lot of starch in the Frontenac backdivision.</p><p>Fleming, Montreal born, was originally one of Sammy Pollock&rsquo;s finds with Canadiens juniors. He played two seasons in the old QHL with Shawinigan Cataracts, and in the 1957-58 campaign spent 227 minutes in the stockades around the loop, with the dubious distinction of league&rsquo;s badman.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Chamberlain Adds Much Needed Rearguard To Make Wolves Howl

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div><p>OMAHA, Neb.&mdash;</p><p>A thrice broken left leg abbreviated Metro Prystai&rsquo;s major league hockey career, but there is no argument that he will be putting his best foot forward this year in his freshman year as coach of the Omaha Knights.</p><p>Prystai, a native of Yorkton, Sask., spent 10 years in the National Hockey League&mdash;the early seasons with the Chicago Black Hawks and six with the Detroit Red Wings. &ldquo;Meatball&rdquo; as he is known, is confident his Knights will prove a popular addition to Omaha&rsquo;s sports scene.</p><p>&ldquo;We have a real young club,&rdquo; commented Prystai, &ldquo;but I think we have a club that no one is going to push around. The average age of our club is 22 and what they might lack in experience at this stage, -is overshadowed by their hustling and scrappy play.&rdquo;</p><p>Continuing the personable Prystai opined, &ldquo;We have not been at home too long and we haven&rsquo;t had a chance to go through to many fundamentals. The only thing I&rsquo;ve had a chance to work with the boys on is face-offs in the Various zones.&rdquo;</p><p>The Knights first line consists of Ron Tookey, (formely with the Troy Bruins) at center, Cliff Schmautz (younger brother of Arnie) at right flank, with Vern Glazier on left wing. Tookey is tied for third in the league scoring with 13 points, six of them goals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02285/1680760-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="310" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Carl Wetzel</b></figcaption></div><p>Johnny Goodwin, the second leading scorer in the IHL and leader in assists with 11 (he has five goals), centers a trio for brother Charlie Goodwin on left side and Ed Johnson on right, while right wing Dave Gordichuk and center Hawk Marczak are the spare forwards.</p><p>Prystai is gifted with a big defense corps. Bill Rawson is the only man standing under six feet tall. Rawson stands 5-10 and weight Cowan, formely with the Troy 180. Rudv Balone (6&rsquo;1&rdquo;, 190). Bob team (6-0, 185) and Fred Knippel (6-0 180) round out the blue line forces.</p><p>In goal, the Knights have one of the finest goalie prospects in the league in Carl Wetzel, a 20-year-old Detroit-born player, who last year saw duty with the Hamilton Tiger-Cubs in the Ontario Junior Hockey Association.</p><p>IHL NOTES&hellip;Frank Kuzma, Billy Short, Tony Micallef and Murray MacPberson have joined the hapless Indianapolis Chiefs in hopes of snapping them out of their douldrums&hellip;Indianapolis has lost eight straight. The record is 15 consecutive defeats&hellip;Released by coach Marcel Clements were Marc Parent, Bernie Bernaquez, and Real Trepanier&hellip;Louisville left winger, Chick Chalmers continues to lead the loop in scoring for the second straight week. Chalmers has 17 points on nine goals and eight assists&hellip;Chalmers and Denver&rsquo;s Gordie Cowan are tied with the most goals with nine&hellip;Johnny Goodwin of Omaha paces the attack in assists with 11, closely followed by Joe Kastelic of Louisville with ten&hellip;Ft Wayne&rsquo;s Andy Voykin took over the leadership in penalty minutes from Louisville&rsquo;s Ted Wright. The husky Komet defender picked up two minors, a major, a misconduct and a game misconduct. Voykin has 55 minutes in the sin-bin. Komet goalie, Reno Zanier leads the netminders with a 2.00 goals against average, including a pair of shutouts. St. Paul&rsquo;s Glenn Ramsey is second with a 2.14&hellip;The IHL yearbook will be out for sale by the end of the month.</p><h2><b>Knights&rsquo; Prince</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01368/1680753-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="526" height="658"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Metro Prystai</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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‘Meatball’ Putting Polish On Knights’ Kids In IHL Fight

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INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE YEARBOOK

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Charlotte players and fans figured that the Clippers had more than their share of injuries last season and that 1959-60 was going to be a &ldquo;return to normalcy&rdquo;.</p><h2><b>IHL STANDINGS</b> (On Thurs. A.M., Nov. 19)</h2><h3>EASTF.RN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03211/1680829-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="596" height="144"></div><h3>WESTFRN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04163/1680822-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="596" height="140"></div><p>The Clips had made a mockery of the Eastern Hockey League &ldquo;race&rdquo; in 1956-57, winning all but 13 of their 64 games and taking the crown by 30 points. In 1957-58 they were hard pressed, but a final day victory over Washington gave Charlotte its second title in as many seasons.</p><p>Yes, the &ldquo;Northerners&rdquo; had come to respect the Dixie sextet. Last season the Clippers were favored to make it three in a row. True, they had given Doug Adam to Philadelphia (so that he could take the job as player-coach), but &ldquo;Bibber&rdquo; O&rsquo;Hearn, Stan Warecki, Chucky Stuart and the rest of the crew were back. And the arrival of Gordie Tottle from the Western loop certainly had to help strengthen an already good defense corps. Denis Brodeur, a top Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; goalie was set in the nets and the &ldquo;Rebels&rdquo; were set to show those &ldquo;Damn Yankees&rdquo; a thing or two.</p><p>But, Tottle broke his wrist in the opener and was lost for over 20 games, Fred Weaver suffered an injury in training camp and never did join the club. Bill Sinnett broke his arm, not once, but twice and before it was over the Charlotte hospital list was longer than the scoring list. The Clips finished dead last, 34 points behind pace setting Clinton.</p><p>Owner Charlie Rock replaced! Andy Brown at the Helm with veteran NHL forward Pete Horeck and Pete did a job of house cleaning.</p><p>Veterans Warecki, O&rsquo;Hearn and Gerry Sullivan hung up their skates and were replaced by a pair of seasoned Eastern Canada stars, Jim Maxwell and Moe Savard. Lynn Davis was brought in to tend goal and Florent Pilote was added to the blueline corps. A couple of youngsters from the junior ranks, Jim Sonoski (St. Mike&rsquo;s) and Nick Murray (Campbellton, N.B.) completed the squad.</p><p>Savard more than lived up to his reputation in the early games. Maxwell looked good and veterans &ldquo;Wimpy&rdquo; Jones and &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Murphy also shined as Horeck&rsquo;s boys got off on the right foot, and on the road, a tough task in the EHL.</p><p>Sonoski was sinking goals as if his life depended on it and it looked as if 1958-59 was &ldquo;just one of those things.&rdquo;</p><p>Then that old hex struck again.</p><p>Savard suffered an eye injury against Philadelphia on Nov. 3rd, and, in the same game, Murray was shelved with a broken collarbone.</p><p>Last week old man hex connected with another &ldquo;two bagger&rdquo;, John Brophy suffered a deep cut in his thigh and coach Horeck took stitches in the forehead.</p><p>Pistol Pete, who has a heart as big as a watermellon, has his fingers crossed. Maybe this is it, maybe the Clippers have used up all of their bad luck in one shot. Only time will tell. Time and the 64 game schedule.</p><h2><b>Crosses Fingers</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05134/1680815-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="584" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pete Horeck</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Horeck’s Headache Grows With List Of Iniured At Charlotte

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0786/1680891-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg"></div><p><b>PRINTED ON A STURDY PAPER OF HIGHEST QUALITY GLOSS FINISH IN OUR</b></p><p><b>CALENDAR &mdash; SCHEDULE</b></p><p><b>Do you wish you had an attractive hockey calendar or might you prefer a N.H.L. schedule, or yet you may be a collector of fine color photos.</b></p><p><b>Whatever your wish may be, why choose, when you get one and all in our colorful eyecatching Calendar-Schedule.</b></p><p><b>This Calendar-Schedule is another first for Sport-Revue. It is an imposing 8 pages calendar with, amongst other items, 8 giant photos of your favorites in colors that are amazingly natural and realistic. The games of each team are conveniently printed upon their respective dates.</b></p><p><b>The management has gone out of its way to offer a Calendar-Schedule of top quality paper and finish and with a choice of photos which are frankly the cream of the crop in photography. Here is your chance to add that finishing touch to that photo album which any fan would be proud to own. Besides adding a sporting note to your apartment, these all exclusive photos also carry a detailed schedule of every team in the N.H.L.</b></p><p><b>FREE WITH EVERY SUBSCRIPTION TO &ldquo;SPORT-REVUE&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>A FRENCH MAGAZINE RENOWNED FOR THE MOST EXCLUSIVE AND SENSATIONAL PHOTOS IN HOCKEY.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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GIANT COLORED HOCKEY PHOTOS

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div><p>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Saskatoon Quakers hammered out four victories last week to climb into a. contender&rsquo;s role in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League battle for first place.</p><p>Doug Bentley&rsquo;s rugged Quakers knocked over Regina Pats, the leaders, 4-1; runnerup Prince Albert Mintos, 4-2; and the lowly Moose Jaw Canucks twice, 4-1 and 8-3.</p><p>Mintos, meanwhile, closed the gap on front-running Regina with a 6-4 conquest of Pats and a 6-3 win over Moose Jaw.</p><h2><b>SJHL STANDINGS (On Mon. A.M., Nov. 23)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06110/1680860-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="596" height="230"></div><p>The Patricas managed to retain the lead but are only one point ahead of fast-closing Saskatoon and Prince Albert.</p><p>Defending champion Flin Flon Bombers, opening a long stand at home, took a pair from Melville Millionaires to retain fourth spot, a short two points in arrears of Regina.</p><p>Probably the most satisfying victory of the week was the Quaker one in the Queen City. Coach Bentley, a former National Hockey League great with Chicago Black Hawks, has really been taking his lumps in Regina ever since he helped reorganize Quakers four years ago.</p><p>In fact, it marked the first Saskatoon triumph there in the last two years. A tie has been Quaker&rsquo;s only claim to fame in Regina.</p><p>Bert Fitzell, a powerful left winger, played a major role in the Quaker surge, running wild for 10 points in the four games, an equal number of goals and assists.</p><p>The outburst shot Fizzell, starting his second complete year with the club, into a second place tie with Gord Wilkie of Regina, one point back of leader Chick Balon of Prince Albert.</p><p>Balon, who scored twice each in wins over Regina and Moose Jaw, continues as the league&rsquo;s most prolific scorer with 15 goals and 14 assists for a 29-point total.</p><p>Fizzell and Gord Turlik of Mintos rank next in goals with 14 each. Fizzell&rsquo;s total is 28 while Turlik is tied with four others for ninth spot.</p><p>Top playmaker is Wilkie with 19 assists. Balon and Fizzell are closest with 14 apiece.</p><p>Ernie Dyda leads the Estevan Bruins with 11 goals and as many assists for 22 points, good for fifth place; Sid Garant is Melville&rsquo;s best with 21 points on 10 goals and 11 helpers and im Baird and Marcel Rochon are setting the pace for Flin Flon with 20 points each.</p><p>Rookie Art Koberinski of Regina continues to head the goaltenders with a 2.8 goals-against mark in 12 games. Gary Waugh of Saskatoon has moved into a second place deadlock with Gary Bauman of Prince Albert, each with a 3.4 average.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0014-06

Bentley’s Quakers Close Gap Between 1st and 2nd In SJHL

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01344/1680922-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Pictured Black Hawk rookie.</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of Wilson of Buffalo.</p><p>7&mdash;One&rsquo; of the Cleveland Barons.</p><p>9&mdash;The mist shut-out N.H.L. club of the 1958-59 season (abbr.)</p><p>10&mdash;Position played by ex N.H.L. star, Lorne Carr. (abbr.)</p><p>11&mdash;A former Toronto centre.</p><p>13&mdash;Shy.</p><p>15&mdash;Affirmative answer.</p><p>16&mdash;Name given a Toronto rearguard.</p><p>17&mdash;Initials of Larson, ex N.H.L. forward.</p><p>18&mdash;Mrs. Harry Watson.</p><p>20&mdash;Month in which Carl Brewer celebrates his birthday (abbr.)</p><p>21&mdash;Initials of Fonteyne of Detroit.</p><p>22&mdash;Given name of a Boston forward.</p><p>23&mdash;Initials of Erickson of Boston.</p><p>24&mdash;A Ranger defenseman.</p><p>27&mdash;Initials of Stankiewicz of Spokane.</p><p>29&mdash;Birthplace of Smith of Springfield.</p><p>32&mdash;Nickname of 31 down.</p><p>33&mdash;Initials of a Black Hawk rearguard.</p><p>34&mdash;One of the Black Hawks answers to this.</p><p>35&mdash;Nykoluk of Hershey answers to this name.</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Prior to turning pro, Edmonton&rsquo;s Stu McNeil was a&mdash;student.</p><p>2&mdash;Gordie Howe&rsquo;s daughter.</p><p>3&mdash;Short for second name of Larry Popein.</p><p>4&mdash;Anno ordinis (abbr.)</p><p>5&mdash;Bill Hicke&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>6&mdash;Initials of Needham of Cleveland.</p><p>8&mdash;Chicago purchased this player from Canadiens in June.</p><p>12&mdash;Given name of an N.H.L. referee.</p><p>14&mdash;One of the Detroit Red Wings,</p><p>19&mdash;Initials of a Ranger defenseman.</p><p>20&mdash;Of the two Cullens, Brians is the&mdash;.</p><p>23&mdash;Don McKenney of Boston was born in this month (abbr.)</p><p>25&mdash;The puck may be&mdash;without a whistle when the defending team is short handed.</p><p>26&mdash;Initials of Panagabko of Providence Reds.</p><p>28&mdash;Name given pictured player.</p><p>30&mdash;Period of time.</p><p>31&mdash;This Black Hawk played amateur hockey at Colorado College.</p><p>32&mdash;Artifical language.</p><h2><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Howe</p><p>4&mdash;Baba</p><p>7&mdash;Organ</p><p>9&mdash;Marie</p><p>10&mdash;Rt.</p><p>11&mdash;Scout</p><p>13&mdash;Syl.</p><p>15&mdash;Ode</p><p>17&mdash;One</p><p>18&mdash;Guy</p><p>19&mdash;Os.</p><p>21&mdash;S.S.</p><p>23&mdash;Ken</p><p>25&mdash;Pat</p><p>26&mdash;Balfour</p><p>29&mdash;L.M.</p><p>31&mdash;L.A.</p><p>32&mdash;Leg</p><p>34&mdash;Pratt</p><p>36&mdash;Ching</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1&mdash;Hampson</p><p>2&mdash;Worsley</p><p>3&mdash;Eric</p><p>4&mdash;B.A.</p><p>5&mdash;An</p><p>6&mdash;Autrey</p><p>8&mdash;Geo.</p><p>12&mdash;Togo</p><p>14&mdash;YN.</p><p>16&mdash;Dussault</p><p>20&mdash;G.E.</p><p>22&mdash;Strate</p><p>23&mdash;Kelly</p><p>24&mdash;N.B.</p><p>25&mdash;P.O.</p><p>27&mdash;A.E.</p><p>28&mdash;Fern.</p><p>30&mdash;M.E.</p><p>33&mdash;G.C.</p><p>34&mdash;Pi.</p><p>35&mdash;Ag.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-01

HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div><p>KELOWNA, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>The verbal battle between Kelowna Packers of the Okanagan Senior Hockey League, and Trail Smoke-Eaters of the Western International League appears far from settled as this is being written.</p><p>Central topic of this heated debate is Trail Defenseman Harry Smith, who for the past two seasons has played with Kelowna, and whose card is the property of Kelowna Packers. The other player is Warren Hicks a centreman now with the Kelowna team, whose card is held by Trail, where he played last season.</p><p>The Smoke-Eaters are asking for a straight player for player Swap, while Kelowna Officials are requesting the $250 B.C.A.H.A. branch transfer, plus the release of Hicks.</p><p>Packers contend they paid this amount for Smith to Trail two seasons back, and feel it only fair they are refunded this amount, while Hicks didn&rsquo;t cost Trail a red cent as far as transfer fees are concerned.</p><h2><b>OSHL STANDINGS (On Fri. A.M., Nov. 20)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02305/1680960-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="604" height="136"></div><h3>TOP TEN SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03277/1680953-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="604" height="326"></div><h2><b>Both Players Sitting It Out</b></h2><p>In the meantime both Smith and Hicks are sitting it out until the situation is clarified.</p><p>Both players have obtained employment other than hockey, and wish to remain in their home towns. Smith, a colorful 23-year-old two-way blueliner, is rated as one of the best in Senior Company in Canada, and has received offers from pro and amateur clubs. He was also selected as one of the players to join Kitchener for the forthcoming Olympic games at Squaw Valley California but has turned them aside in favor of the Silver City of Trail.</p><p>Hicks who played all his minor hockey in Kelowna has for the past two seasons played in the Kootenay City, and last season was one of the bright stars in the Trail lineup.</p><p>Meanwhile this is not the only issue Kelowna are involved in. Both Clare Wakshinski with New York Rovers, and Bob Bergeron with Powell River BC, remain the property of Kelowna, who they performed for last season.</p><p>Packer Officials have taken the &ldquo;sit tight&rdquo; policy and will not release either player until a satisfactory arrangement has been made between the clubs.</p><p>Nevertheless both players are violating the C.A.H.A. rule by continuing to play without being properly registered.</p><p>To date no word has been received from New York, and Powell River has refused to pay anything for Bergeron.</p><p><b>OKANAGAN FLURRIES</b>&mdash;Penticton Vees who brought Walter Peacosh in from the Western Hockey League, appear headed for a battle with Vancouver Canucks, who own Peacosh. Canucks apparently will not release Peacosh unless a satisfactory financial settlement is met. Peacosh played with the Canucks last season&hellip;</p><p>The battling Vernon Canadians, and Kelowna Packers remain tied for first place in O.S.H.L. standings, both have ten wins and five losses&hellip;Playing-Coach Billy Hryciuk&rsquo;s Kamloops Chiefs are four points back, while the rejuvinated Penticton Vees, who have come up with some close games, still are in the cellar with two wins and 13 losses&hellip;</p><p>Greg Jablonski, the big fast skatink winger of the Packers continues to lead the scoring parade with 22 goals and 13 helpers in 15 games played&hellip;Four points back is rookie Fred Gaber, a hard worker chunky winger from Kamloops&hellip;</p><p>Young Jimmy McLeod, playing his first season in Senior Company, continues to lead all goalkeepers with a 3.54 average in 15 games.</p><p>Following McLeod is Don Hamilton of Kamloops who has a goal against average of 4.76&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-02

Western Seniors In Fight For Players

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div><p>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>With seven points out of a possible eight to their credit in their last four games, Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s College Majors clung to first place in the tightly &mdash; bunched Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league.</p><p>The only Canadian high school to have an entry in top flight hockey, the Majors scored two victories over the sixth place Hamilton Tiger-Cubs, one over their intra-city rivals the Toronto Marlboros, another over Guelph Biltmores and played to a draw with Hap Emms&rsquo; Barrie Flyers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04224/1680991-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="296" height="472"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Chico Maki</b></figcaption></div><p>Once again the solid goaltending of rookie Jerry Cheevers featured the St. Michael&rsquo;s fine record.</p><p>Cheevers still holds a wide edge among regular goaltenders in the seven-team circuit with an average of 1.78 goals against in nine games.</p><p>His closest rivals, Ken Broderick of Marlboros and Dennis Jordan of Hamilton are both well over the three goals-a-game mark.</p><h2><b>Teeps 1st To Top Majors</b></h2><p>Strangely enough the only team to score a win over the Majors so far this season has been the St. Catharines Teepees, pennant winners five times in the past six years but a dismal last so far this season.</p><p>Coincidentally the Teepees&rsquo; 4-2 win against the Majors three weeks ago is the only victory registered by the St. Catharines club in its first 10 games.</p><p>Although Guelph Biltmores are tied in fourth place in the group with Barrie (behind St. Michael&rsquo;s, Marlboros and Peterboro) the freeskating Guelph club still dominates the individual scoring.</p><p>Rod Gilbert leads the way with 11 goals, 13 assists for 24 points, three more than linemate Jean Ratelle who has seven goals, 14 assists for 21 points.</p><p>Gilbert&rsquo;s 11 goals are highest in this department in the league while Ratelle&rsquo;s 14 assists tops that list.</p><p>Wayne Boddy, Peterboro&rsquo;s captain who is considered one of the top prospects in the Montreal Canadians&rsquo; farm system, is third with nine goal, nine assists.</p><p>Top marksman among the league-leading Majors is Dave Keon, in fourth place in the league with nine goals and eight assists.</p><p>However both the Marlboro and Major players are at a distinct disadvantage in the points department as half their games are played Sunday afternoons in Maple Leaf Gardens where the first two periods are played straight time.</p><p>This is one reason why, over the years, few members of Toronto&rsquo;s fine junior hockey teams, finish among the leading points scorers.</p><p>The big disappointments in Ontario junior hockey so far have been the St Catharines Teepees and the Hamilton Tiger-Cubs.</p><p>Dead last in the 1958-59 season, Hamilton officials expressed great confidence that they would be at least in the first division this year.</p><p>Thirteen of their players were held over from last season and they had the only experienced goaltender in the league, Dennis Jordan.</p><p>Jordan has been playing well but the Cubs just can&rsquo;t put the puck in the net.</p><p>After 10 games they are in sixth place, and are last in goals scored with 23.</p><p>The Teepees, for 15 years one of Ontario&rsquo;s strongest junior clubs, had considerable rebuilding to do this season with the graduation of such outstanding players as goalie Dennis DeJordy (now with Sault Ste. Marie), defenceman Wayne Hillman (now with Buffalo Bisons) and Stan Mikita (with Chicago Black Hawks).</p><p>However they still had all-star defenceman Pat Stapleton and allstar right winger Chico Maki as well as seven other players with one or more years of junior experience.</p><p>So far the Teepees have won just one of their first 10 games, a far cry from last season when they won 11 of their first 12 starts.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-04

Collegians Cling To Top Place In Tight Ontario Junior Race

<p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>T. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;With just one victory and two ties in his first 10 games as coach of the St-Catharines Teepees, Max Kaminsky has offered to resign &ldquo;if it will help the team.&rdquo;</p><p>In a surprise statement to the press, Kaminsky, who formerly coached Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League, said that he had submitted his resignation to Teepee owner Rudy Pilous.</p><p>Pilous is also coach of the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>&ldquo;I turned down the resignation,&rsquo;&rsquo; said Pilous. &ldquo;I still have every confidence in Max Kaminsky and I&rsquo;m certain that the team will come out of its tailspin.&rdquo;</p><p>Kaminsky said that this was a year which the Teepees must rebuild and said that he wanted to &ldquo;shoulder the blame&rdquo; for the team&rsquo;s failure so far.</p><p>&ldquo;If Rudy thought someone else could do the job better, I was more than ready to step aside,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>Chief problem so far for the team which has won five junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; pennants in the past six years, has been defence.</p><p>Pat Stapleton, ranked as the outstanding defenceman in Canadian junior hockey, has played well but has been unable to carry the entire burden himself.</p><p>The Teepees have scored more goals than the first place St. Michael&rsquo;s Cotllege Majors but have had 46 scored on them compared to just 16 against the Toronto club.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Pilous Turns Down Offer By Kaminsky To Quit Job

<div class="byline">By VINCE LEAH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0394/1681046-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="306" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gord Pennell</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0198/1681060-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="214" height="282"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0296/1681053-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="236" height="290"></div><p><b>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;</b></p><p>The first casualty among the junior hockey coaches this new season is Winnipeg Rangers&rsquo; Paul Platz, who handed over the direction of the last-place Blueshirts to General Manager Deno Ball after the club has lost seven games in a row. Earlier Ball had denied rumors that Platz would walk the plank but it was later reported he would be asked to get out.</p><p>A former National Leaguer with Chicago Black Hawks, Platz took over early in the 1957-58 season and took the Rangers to the MJHL playoffs twice in a row. This season&rsquo;s team made a tremendous impression in the pre-season Charlie Gardiner Memorial trophy series and then proceeded to whomp Winnipeg Monarchs, 10-1 in their first league start. Then they started to toboggan to eight straight defeats, including Sunday&rsquo;s game Gord Pennell with Ball in command.</p><h2><b>Pennell Had Signed To Play</b></h2><p>Successor to Platz is an ex American Leaguer, Gord Pennell. Pennell who has toiled with the Winnipeg senior Maroons for the past three seasons, already had lined up with Maroons and also Warroad, Minn., in the Ontario-Minnesota league. Whether he&rsquo;ll junk these commitments for his coaching duties is not known. Pennell started his career in local amateur hockey and wound up his amateur career with Barrie Flyers in the Junior OHA.</p><p>The Rangers had nine holdovers from the 1958-59 season and several bright young rookies in 16-ycar-old Bob Stoyko, Jimmy Johnson, Harry Beuckart and Roy Davidson but apart from the new kids nobody could do anything offensively. Platz felt the team needed &ldquo;two big wingers who could score goals&rdquo; but just couldn&rsquo;t find them.</p><p>In the meantime Brandon Wheat Kings are out in front with a 6-1-1 record up to Nov. 23, St. Boniface Canadiens, despite the loss of veteran defenceman Bob Donas with a shoulder separation, were hot on their heels and the 1959 Memorial cup champion Braves were in third place. A surprise 8-6 win over Braves pulled Monarchs out of last place.</p><p>Bright star for the Monarchs has been Denny Rathwell of Dryden, Ont., via Hamilton Cubs of the junior OHA. Denny was knocked senseless by Brandon&rsquo;s Keith Dickie who drew a major penalty for boarding but after a few days in sick bay was as good as new.</p><p>Top rookie of the campaign from a production point of view is Braves&rsquo; Johnny Ayotte, who has sniped ten goals in seven starts.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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