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December 26, 1959

The Hockey News December 26, 1959

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06111/1694689-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="711" height="750"></div><p><b>Professional and top amateur hockey players insist on C.C.M., because here is the best combination of boots and skates in the world.</b></p><p>C.C.M. Prolites have keen, tough-tempered blades for long wear in fast action and rugged play. Special manufacturing techniques devised by C.C.M. ensure great strength and durability. Game-tested design lets you skate faster, longer, easier, with the very minimum of leg weariness.</p><p>Tackaberry boots guard your feet&mdash;give solid support to arches and ankles, because they are made from premium quality, stretch-resistant, scuff-resistant KANGAROO leather. Heel-to-calf protection is provided by built-in tendon guards featuring exclusive 12-ply nylon developed during the war for shrapnel protection. Moisture-proof, laminated box toes STAY hard. Here, then are boots second to none.</p><p>Is it any wonder professionals and amateurs all over Canada demand</p><p>C&middot;C&middot;M&middot;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Why 98% of pro hockey players choose C·C·M· prolite skates with genuine Kanaaroo leather Tackaberry Boots

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01221/1694920-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Cleveland Barons Freddie (No Kid) Glover holds court after breaking the all-time scoring record for the American Hockey League. He broke it when he scored his 745th point. Former Cleveland star Freddie Thurier had held it up until then. Listening to how Glover did it are, left to right: Steve Kraftcheek, player-coach of the Rochester Americans, Rudy Migay, captain of the Americans, Ian Cushenan of Springfield Indians, Ray Ross of the Providence Reds and Larry Hillman of the Providence Reds.</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>All-Time Champ Holds Court</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Player Aid On Way For Olympic Squad

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL Toronto Star</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06148/1693271-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg"></div><h2><b>Bathgate Blasts Ranger Fables</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he most popular legend in hockey this season is that the New York Rangers finally ran their whip-swinging coach, Phil Watson, out of the league. Part two of the same story is that the players helped to send goalie Gump Worsley back to the minors because they figured he was costing them a goal or two per game. They let the word seep through to management that Rangers wouldn&rsquo;t win with Gump in the net.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07125/1693264-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="523" height="670"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Bathgate</b></figcaption></div><p>On the word of Andy Bathgate, both yarns are fairy tales. If you were looking for the frankest, most outspoken member of the blueshirts, Bathgate would be your man. He doesn&rsquo;t go around popping off for the sake of attracting attention. If there&rsquo;s one thing he doesn&rsquo;t need, it&rsquo;s attention. As the all-star right winger of last season and holder of the Hart trophy as most valuable man to his team in the league, Bathgate is on the danger list of every rival coach in the NHL. But he never ducks a controversial question for the sake of standing in well with the brass.</p><p>&ldquo;The tale about the players losing confidence in Gump isn&rsquo;t true,&rdquo; Bathgate said flatly, shortly before the Blues got their winning streak of one shattered here in Toronto. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think it was Gump&rsquo;s fault we were losing. By that, I mean he couldn&rsquo;t be blamed any more than anyone else. Everybody was playing the puck. Nobody was taking out his man. The point is, though, that changes were made elsewhere in the team. Why should anyone think there was something especially significant When a change was made in the net?&rdquo;</p><p>Bathgate, himself, wasn&rsquo;t exempt in the shuffle. The game&rsquo;s allstar right winger is now playing centre ice. It&rsquo;s a move that&rsquo;s intended to conserve his gimpy pins. Andy has had a plate in his left leg throughout his big league career. There&rsquo;s a brace on his right leg to keep his knee from popping out. At centre ice, he gets greater opportunity to skate free-legged. The sudden stops and quick starts at right wing were aggravating his aches and pains.</p><h2><b>They Knew Phil Was Doomed</b></h2><p>Now about that fable which said the players gave Phil the final push, by the simple method of refusing to react to his lash: There&rsquo;s not a word of truth in it, to quote Bathgate again. If the club looked bad, it&rsquo;s because it was bad&mdash;not because it was trying to get rid of Phil, he claims.</p><p>&ldquo;At the start of the season, I didn&rsquo;t think we had strengthened enough,&rdquo; Andy said bluntly. &ldquo;The way I saw it, every one of us who had a big season last year had to repeat in order for the club to finish where it was before. And that wouldn&rsquo;t have been good enough. As everybody knows, we missed the playoffs on the final day of the season. I had been hoping we would get a little more beef at centre ice. We gained Brian Cullen&mdash;another small guy. Look at it this way: Our three centres, Cullen, Red Sullivan and Larry Popein, all weigh 155 to 165 pounds.</p><p>&ldquo;As far as Watson was concerned, we all heard he was on the way out. I don&rsquo;t think any members of the club were bitter toward Phil. We felt he was too outspoken at times, but we all knew he had the interests of the club at heart. Speaking for myself, how could I be mad at Watson? Each succeeding season was better for me during the time Phil was coach of the club.&rdquo;</p><p>Bathgate doesn&rsquo;t pretend the team had been functioning properly for Phil. Even the basic things, he admits, were being done wrongly. Defensively, the Rangers seemed capable of blowing any type of lead. Under Pike, there has been some improvement. One of the things Pike has been teaching them is that they belong in the league. Some of the players were beginning to have their doubts.</p><p>Alfie had a selling job t6 do after this game. Leading 2-1 as the third period opened, they were practically chased out of the rink by Leafs. That was because Leafs&rsquo; Punch Imlach did some propaganda work himself. Leafs were heading for a five-day junket to New York and Boston, with a chance to relax on the road. Imlach told them: &ldquo;Unless you improve in the third period, we&rsquo;ll be back in Toronto for a practice Monday morning. And bring your lunch buckets, because there&rsquo;ll be another practice in the afternoon.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By BUSTER CLEGG</div><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>When the Hershey Bears play the R. I. Reds, the defending Calder Cup champs always bring along their pet mascot, &ldquo;the jinx&rdquo;, for the game. In five games thus far, the Bears have taken Providence four times by identical 3-2 scores, two in overtime, and two in the dying minutes of the game. The Reds have managed only one win, that one coming after a long up hill struggle which looked for a while like another 3-2 victory for Hershey.</p><p>When Providence hockey fans speak of the champion Bears, they also speak of the &ldquo;jinx&rdquo;. The &ldquo;jinx&rdquo;, although sounding like the poor man&rsquo;s excuse, is quite the contrary. The Reds won&rsquo;t make excuses for their Hershey 3-2 failings. What they will do, though, is point the finger of guilt at a trio of Bear bandits; Willie Marshall, Les Duff, and Bobby Perreault. This threesome is responsible for the uncanny &ldquo;jinx&rdquo;.</p><p>The first time the Reds and Bears met this season, Oct. 15, at Hershey, the Reds overcame a 2-1 deficit on a late third period goal by Lorne Davis, and sent the game into overtime. This was when and where the &ldquo;jinx&rdquo; began. It took the Bears only 25 seconds to salt the game away as Willie Marshall slammed in a crazy, bounce shot for the win.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03270/1694101-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="507" height="855"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Perreault</b></figcaption></div><p>On Oct. 31, the Reds traveled again to Hershey, and met the same fate. With the game tied at 2-2 in the third period, Providence peppered Bear goaler Bobby Perreault with some real testers, but Bob was impregnable and the overtime came once more. This time it took Willie Marshall only 19 seconds to fire the winner for another Hershey 3-2 victory. As AHL secretary-treasurer Jim Ellery put it: &ldquo;Willie must have had an early date to keep!&rdquo;</p><p>If twice in succession wasn&rsquo;t enough, the Bears came to Providence on Nov. 10th and took another 3-2 squeeker. This time it was winger Less Duff getting into the Bears&rsquo; act as he flicked a 15 footer with less than 10 minutes remaining in the game. To make things worse, ex-Reds goaltender, Bobby Perreault, who always takes particular delight in foiling the Roosters, came up with 28 saves, sparking Hershey to another win over the Reds. After the third consecutive 3-2 Hershey squeeker over Providence, the perspiring GM of the 5th place Bears, Baz Bastien, nervously wiped his brow saying, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a good thing for us the Reds are in the league, &lsquo;cause we can&rsquo;t beat anyone else.&rdquo;</p><p>The Reds finally broke the 3-2 &ldquo;jinx&rdquo;, at least temporarily, when they edged past the pesky Bears at Providence on Dec. 26. Trailing 3-1 going into the third, and looking as if they might go down again by 3-2, the Reds made a sensational last period, nipping the Bears 4-3 when Ray Ross popped one nine seconds from the end.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Reds See Red Trying To Scratch Bears 3-2 Jinx

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The appeal of Bob Bailey&rsquo;s 12-game suspension by American Hockey League president Richard Canning was imminent as this issue of The Hockey News went to press.</p><p>Bailey, veteran right winger of the Buffalo Bisons, was suspended until Buffalo&rsquo;s game of Jan. 9 for his part in a battle with Springfield&rsquo;s Ted Harris.</p><p>It was the third suspension of Bailey&rsquo;s AHL career. He was fined $575 for punching referee Jerry Olinski during a Calder Cup playoff game in 1955 when he was playing with Pittsburgh against Buffalo.</p><p>He was suspended for the remainder of the playoffs and, following a hearing, was reinstated in time for the &rsquo;55-56 campaign.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02148/1694958-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="268" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Bailey</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Past Record Against Him</b></h2><p>A year ago, when with Cleveland, the 28-year-old Bailey was suspended for a game when he and Hershey&rsquo;s Larry Zeidel engaged in a stick swinging duel.</p><p>Canning, in announcing his decision, stated Bailey&rsquo;s past record was a factor in the length of the suspension.</p><p>Referee Art Skov, who handled the Springfield-Buffalo game in which the Bailey-Harris battle occurred, assessed the Bison player a minor penalty for cross-checking and a match penalty for &ldquo;intent to injure.&rdquo;</p><p>Harris was given a minor penalty for cross-checking and a major for fighting.</p><p>Two points concerning the battle are undebeatable. Harris clipped Bailey in the face, under the left eye, as the Buffalo player moved out of the Bisons&rsquo; defensive zone.</p><p>Bailey used his stick in retaliating, charging Harris from behind after having moved past him.</p><p>The Buffalo management, from Owner Ruby Pastor to Coach Dit Clapper, expressed surprise that Bailey&rsquo;s penalty should be of such duration.</p><p>Pastor lost no time in contacting General Manager Fred Hunt so that a notice of appeal could be filed while the league&rsquo;s Board of Governors was in Springfield for the All-Star game.</p><p>At this writing, Buffalo attorney Victor Silverstein has been engaged to represent Bailey before the board.</p><p>In the final analysis, the matter may may boil down to a question of whether the league is going to back Canning in his decisions&mdash;or find a replacement.</p><p>Canning made it known in dealing with the stick swinging battle between Hershey and Cleveland players earlier in the season that such future outbreaks would bring even more harsh suspensions than were handed out to Bears Hec Lalande, Ron Hurst and Zeidel and Barons Bill Shvetz and Aldo Guidolin. The latter two were set down for six games while the Hershey players were suspended for two games apiece.</p><p>One member of the Board of Governors, who refused to be identified, said he would voto to back Canning.</p><p>&ldquo;After all, this stick business has to be stopped and a league president has to be backed&mdash;or we&rsquo;re putting ourselves out of business,&rdquo; he said.</p><h2><b>Weilds Axe</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0361/1694951-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="527" height="536"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Richard Canning</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AHL Appeal By Herd, On Bailey Sit-Out, Expected To Be Nixed

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Stock of the Kitchener Dutchmen, Canada&rsquo;s entry in the 1960 Olympic Games at Squaw Valley, California next February was given a decided boost, when club manager Ernie Goman revealed at a meeting of sportswriters and hockey officials, including George S. Dudley, secretary-manager of the CAHA and Bill Hanley, office manager of the OHA, that the management of senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; clubs such as Whitby Dunlops, Belleville MacFarlands, Windsor Bulldogs and Chatham Maroons have offered to co-operate by supplying talent, provided they are furnished with replacements.</p><p>Wren Blair, manager of the Whitby club, will make available his ace front line of Bobby Attersley, Fred Etcher and George Samolenko and defenceman Harry Sinden, all of them with previous world tournament experience. Belleville will provide defenceman Moe Benoit. Windsor will co-operate, if the Dutchmen need a goalie or centreman, and names Don Head and Lou Bendo respectively. Chatham, under certain conditions, will kick through with defenceman Elmer Skov, leftwinger Gary Sharp and rightwinger Jimmy Connelly.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0423/1694989-1-eng-US/cover-042.jpg" title="Cover-04" width="277" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Wren Blair</b></figcaption></div><p>Tom Stecyk, a top defenceman with Vernon Canadiens, who starred for Kelowna in Moscow last year, is available for the month of February, if a replacement is supplied. A proven right winger from North Bay, Charles Koneczny is also expected to be available. Other players tabbed for insurance include stars like Gord Berenson, who was with Belleville last winter; Mike LeGace, Dave Keon, Don McLean, Laurie Langrell, John Pallenstine, and Bob White.</p><h2><b>Faced Many Obstacles</b></h2><p>Oscar Wiles, president of the Kitchener club, announces that the Dutchmen hockey club is hoping to serve Canada through a good performance in the I960 Winter Olympics.</p><p>&ldquo;We consider it a privilege and realize that it is a major responsibility to represent Canada,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;In 1956 we were fortunate to compete at Cortina, Italy, and unfortunate to lose. We appreciate being given an opportunity to make up for that failure. Any suggestion that this is merely an effort by a small group in a small Canadian city to lain a little selfish glory can only be repudiated in the strongest terns. We asked for the assignment in the full knowledge that it will be a costly financial venture for our club and realizing, from past experience, what the penalty can be for failure.</p><p>&ldquo;You are probably aware of the difficulties of lining up a team for Olympic year. We have had more of our share of problems but we anticipated them when we started and we intend to overcome them. It is our hope and expectation that you will be proud of the Dutchmen hockey club and that we shall once again make Canada&rsquo;s name a respected one in Olympic hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>To enable Canada to be properly represented at the world hockey tourney, a special committee of Twin City business and profession al men has undertaken to raise $17,000 to cover extra expenses Pointing out that other countries will draw on public funds and will lack of nothing, J. C. Anderson, committee general chairman, un derlined the fact that this is not the case with the Canadian team.</p><p>&ldquo;The money we raise,&rdquo; he explained, &ldquo;is for additional equipment; for the travelling expenses of additional and vital personnel like club doctors, trainers and others, extra baggage charges, which could run into several thou sand dollars; extra messing, extra insurance, publicity and public relations and gratuities.</p><p>&ldquo;Additionally, almost all our players are working men, many with families, and during the time they are away will not be paid Their families have to be taken care of during that time. This campaign presents a challenge to all of us. I think that we can be proud that in the past business men with Twin City firms in particular in the forefront, have res ponded generously to appeals of this sort. In 1965, for the Olympics at Cortina, we raised a similar amount of money in less than two weeks. We hope to do the same this year in a slightly longer period.&rdquo;</p><p>Kitchener club manager Ernie Goman referred to pro hockey, in. saying that &ldquo;from the start we have had unusual obstacles to face Four players of last year&rsquo;s club who were expected to form period the team this year did not get to training camp. The Toronto Maple Leafs grabbed defenceman Dick Mattiussi and right winger Bill Saunders for Rochester; Jack McKenzie, the best forward in the 1956 Games and a star at Oslo, Norway with Whitby, accepted a position in Sudbury. Jack McMaster, who scored 25 goals for us in two months, almost became a paraplegic as the result of an accident a year ago and will never play again.</p><p>&ldquo;However, in the intervening 12 months, we have screened more than 100 players. We have had many setbacks. Professional clubs have refused to co-operate by per-mitting men to play another year in amateur hockey. Some employers refused to grant leave of absence. Family reason prevented others from considering the idea. In certain cases, amateur clubs would not part with players because of local problems. Some who could have helped were not sufficiently interested in the cause. The formation of the Eastern Pro League and the demand for players in an expanding hockey field in the U.S. created a bullish market and because of exorbitant financial demands we had to forget about some players.</p><p>&ldquo;You will recall that the CAHA introduced draft legislation to help teams going to Olympic and world tournaments. Unfortunately, although we named 15 men, it produced only one player for us, Cliff Pennington, a very good prospect. Players who were turned pro Whom we had hoped to land included Stan Mikita, Saunders, Mattiussi, George. Gosselin, Norm Guimond, Dennis Dejordy, Wayne Hillman, Fred Hilts, Bob Boucher, Don McGregor, Stu McNeill, Dick Meissner, Bill Mahoney, Brian Kilrea and Norm Waslawski.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Despite this,&rdquo; concluded Go man, &ldquo;we have been competing with success in our league against teams using as many as nine reinstated professionals, plus seasoned seniors. As for the Olympics, our boys won&rsquo;t be hypocrites when they sign the Olympic oath.&rdquo; The latter was in reply to a Toronto writer, who authored five articles rapping the &ldquo;hypocrites in hockey,&rdquo; and naming only the Kitchener Dutchmen as the brunt for his criticism.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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OHA Senior ‘A’ Teams Pledge Help For Kitchener If Replacements Are Made

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Just when everything looked so bright, someone had to go and mention 1958.</p><p>Red Wings had just swept a weekend series at Montreal, 3-2, and then at home against Toronto, 4-2, with 34 hours of railroad travel thrown in.</p><p>&ldquo;My finest weekend since I came back to coach the Wings,&rdquo; Sid Abel said with a smile.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01304/1692964-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="281" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Adams</b></figcaption></div><p>After all, Detroit hadn&rsquo;t won in Montreal since last Jan. 29 and hadn&rsquo;t beaten Canadiens in 11 games anywhere. And, going into the weekend, Maple Leafs were in second place.</p><p>Bad weather cancelled flight plans to and from Montreal so in the wekend plan, Wings spent 34 hours on trains and six to eight in the arenas leaving little other time.</p><p>Another reason for the happiness was Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;s return to early season form after a bout with virus neuritis. Terry came back after a three-game absence and Wings picked up nine points in five games, winning four and tying the other.</p><p>The surge lifted Detroit back into second place, three points up on Leafs.</p><h2><b>Oliver A Big Asset</b></h2><p>Then it happened. Someone brought up December, 1958.</p><p>It was on Dec. 14, 1958, that Detroit started its head-long dash to the cellar and missed the playoffs for the first time in 21 years.</p><p>The records then was 33 points in 29 games. Now it was almost identical: 35 points in 29 games. But after Dec. 14 last season the Wings won only one of their next 15 games.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s ancient history,&rdquo; general manager Jack Adams said gruffly.</p><p>Going on what&rsquo;s happened to date. Red Wings are a more solid outfit than last season. Young Murray Oliver, with five goals in 13 games, looks like he will be an Olympia fixture for years. He&rsquo;s slipped in between Gary Aidcorn and Gordie Howe like a hot knife through butter. The Howe line has 29 of Red Wings&rsquo; 79 goals.</p><p>Detroit can match its second line of Alex Delvecchio, Norm Ullman and John McKenzie against any in the league. The trio has 20 markers.</p><p>Most pleasing to Abel and Adams in the collection of three victories in five days was that two of the games were on the road.</p><p>Sawchuk hung up his 80th National League shutout and fourth of the season as Wings beat Chicago, 2-0.</p><h2><b>Power Play Pays Off</b></h2><p>Wings had the perfect power play. Referee Vern Buffey called only two Hawk penalties and Wings cashed in on both. Howe blasted a 30-foot bullet for No. 15 and Ullman got the second.</p><p>Sawchuk thus was only one shutout shy of his entire 1958-59 output. The Hawks were his victims twice, both times in Chicago and by 2-0 scores. That made it five out of six against Chicago for Detroit this season.</p><p>The victory over Montreal was a wide-open one with 39 shots a side.</p><p>&ldquo;We really had them going in the second period,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;Jake (Jack) McIntyre had so many shots at Jacques Plante that his arms were tired.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad we&rsquo;ve only got three more games in the Forum. We chased them like we&rsquo;ve neVer done before. But we realize Canadiens have been weakened by injuries.</p><p>&ldquo;Some of the other team have to go back to the Forum four or five more times and they&rsquo;ll, find Montreal a lot tougher,&rdquo; Abel said.</p><p>A great solo effort by Gary Aid corn gave Wings the win over Canadiens. Sitting on a 2-1 lead in the middle period, Aidcorn stole the puck from rookie defenseman Reggie Fleming and sped down the left boards with Doug Harvey wrapped around him.</p><p>Just as Harvey steered Aidcorn behind the cage, Plante swept to the other side of the net, expecting Aidcorn to come out on the far side. Instead, Aidcorn flipped the puck in just before he went behind.</p><p>Detroit&rsquo;s trip back was delayed three and a half hours by icing conditions that fouled up the block sections on the rail line and the club didn&rsquo;t arrive at Olympia until an hour before game time Sunday night.</p><p>Toronto hopped off to a 1-0 lead on Bob Pulford&rsquo;s goal but Wings got it back on red-faced Johnny Bower.</p><p>Marcel Pronovost unleashed a shot from the red line and then eased off as his forwards streaked by, setting himself up on defense.</p><p>To Pronovost&rsquo;s amazement&mdash;and everyone else&rsquo;s&mdash;the red light flashed on behind. Bower. The puck went right between his skates for a 90-foot goal&mdash;longest goal on a guarded net in years at Olympia.</p><p>&ldquo;That was my change of pace shot,&rdquo; Pronovost said later. It also was his 200th regular-season point.</p><p>Sawchuk, especially brilliant in the first period, pulled his own goof when he moved out to stop the puck as it rebounded off the boards. He fanned at the rubber and it slid out to Johnny Wilson in front of the open net and Wilson nudged it over the line.</p><h2><b>First Is Fourth&mdash;Abel</b></h2><p>Red Kelly put Wings ahead for keeps and Oliver added the clincher when he rapped in Howe&rsquo;s rebound.</p><p>The defeat was especially costly to Maple Leafs who lost Bert Olmstead in the second period with torn ligaments in his knee.</p><p>Did this spree cause Wings to set their sights on first place?</p><p>&ldquo;First place for us is fourth place,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;After missing the playoffs last season our goal is to make them again. After that we&rsquo;ll take everything we can.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Big Man In Comeback</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02288/1692957-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1140" height="795"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Goaler Terry Sawchuk talks with Scout Jimmy Skinner after standout performance. Sawchuk is main reason for Wings great comeback this year, after being picked to finish in the cellar.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Solid Birds Of 1959 Shrug Off Birthday Of 1958 Flight South

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The high-flying Maple Leafs were badly winged Dec. 13 when left-winger Bert Olmstead, their leader to that point, suffered injured knee ligaments. Word Olmstead would be sidelined three weeks to a month was taken as a bitter blow by coach Punch Imlach.</p><p>Olmstead had been Leafs&rsquo; most consistently good workman and appeared headed for his best season ever. He got nine goals and 11 assists in his first 27 games.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03262/1692995-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="412" height="667"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bert Olmstead</b></figcaption></div><p>However, Leafs had been very fortunate all along, as <i>far as</i> injuries were concerned. Where Boston, for example, had lost key men like Johnny Bucyk and Fern Flaman, Leafs lost very little in man-games. Ron Stewart was sidelined two garner after breaking his jaw and Larry Regan missed one game. Bobby Baun was out six games with an infected elbow and that was the only significant injury Leafs had suffered all year.</p><p>Until Olmstead was hurt, that is. This misfortune was all the more disastrous because it happened in a game in which Leafs extended their losing streak to four games. Included in the four were losses to Chicago, New York and Boston, the three clubs below Toronto in the standings.</p><p>Two days after Olmstead was hurt, Dick Duff who&rsquo;d been in a slump anyhow, received charley horses in both legs when he crashed into the goalpost during practice. He was to miss at least one game.</p><p><b>NOTES:</b> Imlach and Duff were reported to be feuding over Duff&rsquo;s slump. Dick was benched in the Dec. 13 game in Detroit. However, any bad feelings would disperse quickly if Dick could get rolling&hellip;Last season, he got nine goals in the first half of the season and 20 in the second segment&hellip;The injuries sped up Gerry James&rsquo; conditioning program. The rugged rightwinger signed a Leaf contract&hellip;Leafs were using Gary &ldquo;Duke&rdquo; Edmundson, another toughie, more and more.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-03

Punch Picks Edmundson To Fill Big Skates Of Sidelined Bert Olmstead

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The Black Hawks&rsquo; wandering right winger, Eric Paul Nesterenko, has this season been in and out of hot water more times than probably any other skater in club history.</p><p>Erratic play that is completely unpredictable more often than not has brought General Manager Tommy Ivan and Coach Rudy Pilous to park him at the end of the bench in cold solitude on several occasions for a period or two with the hope that he might change.</p><p>Earlier in the season he was withdrawn from the lineup completely for two games for a forced &ldquo;rest away from the game&rdquo; and Ivan admitted this was another try to see if he might not have a little better approach upon returning. With &ldquo;Nester,&rdquo; however, things have been pretty much indefinite all the way.</p><h2><b>Earns Reprieves By Scoring</b></h2><p>Just a few games ago Pilous&rsquo; icy anger nearly reached up to the press box in a tough game with Montreal as Eric nearly put the puck in his own net trying to move out and seconds later flipped a neat pace to a Canadien rival. &ldquo;Well, he&rsquo;ll be out for the rest of it right now,&rdquo; said one writer.</p><p>He had no sooner gotten these words when Nesterenko got the rubber back, wheeled around Doug Harvey neatly, but then merely flopped a lazy shot at the Canuck cage. There&rsquo; were both cheers of joy and laughs of astonishment as Jacques Plante &ldquo;blew one&rdquo; and the puck trickled into the net.</p><p>Later he fed a pass to ex Montrealer Dollard St. Laurent who went the length of the ice to fire a neat goal into the corner of th Canadien cage from straight out at 25 feet. This gave Chicago a well-earned 4-4 tie and&mdash;naturally&mdash;&ldquo;Nester&rdquo; had earned another in a series of reprieves.</p><p>These two scoring points in what was the 28th Hawk game of the season increased Nesterenko&rsquo;s total for the year to six goals and 15 assists and, amazing as it may seem what with all his up and down action, he appears certain to be on the way to his best scoring year in a six-season NHL career.</p><p>He is bound to set a new personal high in assists, if nothing else, for the most he has ever achieved in a complete season before are the 18 he has been credited with each of the past two years. Thirteen goals this year will take him to the 100 mark in the National League.</p><p>A modest, farm boy-type, Nesterenko seems to carry this attitude right into the game, however, he&rsquo;s not as gentle or meek as his appearance would indicate., He knows a number of the old pro tricks as the few skaters who&rsquo;ve tried to test him well know.</p><h2><b>He&rsquo;s A Tough Guy</b></h2><p>One of the most recent to learn that Eric can more than take care of himself when the need really arises is sparkplug Vic Stasiuk of 3oston who&rsquo;s no softy either. He made the mistake of letting his stick collide with &ldquo;Nester&rsquo;s noggin to the extent of half a dozen stitches.</p><p>Bloodied mad, Eric pounced upon he high scoring Bruin and won a clear cut fistic decision before rearing briefly for a sewing job. lawk moguls only hope that some-low-someway this exact deftness when riled physically will bring Eric to assume the same sure status as a playing winger.</p><p>No matter what, however, and contrary to some reports that have bounced around, his value in a Black Hawks uniform is more sound in the long run than it might appear. Look for Nesterenko to snap out of some of his mental misfortunes and definitely move up as a strong Chicago asset this season.</p><p>Erratic, unpredictable and roaming, yes, but just as sure and more important is the fact that &ldquo;Nester&rdquo; wants to play hockey and the best way he can too!</p><h2><b>Problem Child</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04205/1693026-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="557" height="1485"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eric Nesterenko</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Nesterenko, Walking Plank, Gets Last Minute Reprieve From Rudy

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01303/1693078-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ALLAN STANLEY&hellip; &hellip;&ldquo;THEY GAVE ME A ROUGH TIME&rdquo;</b></figcaption></div><p>TORONTO, Ont.<b>&mdash;</b></p><p>Allan (Sam) Stanley, one of the more venerable workmen in the National Hockey league, finds he improves with age.</p><p>&ldquo;I think that each season has been a little better than the last,&rdquo; says Sam, whose first big-league season was 1948-49, which, excluding one year spent in the Western league, makes this his 12th NHL campaign. He&rsquo;s 33.</p><p>This steady improvement could culminate in an all-star bonus this season. Coach Punch Imlach insists that in studying the NHL situation closely, he&rsquo;s been unable to detect a defenceman who&rsquo;s playing better than Stanley. His cool competence undoubtedly has been a chief reason for the Maple Leafs&rsquo; hurry-up start this term.</p><p>Sam never has been placed on an official all-star team, although many observers claim he&rsquo;s been one of the league&rsquo;s best rearguards for years.</p><p>Toronto is the fourth, and probably last, stop in Stanley&rsquo;s rather bewildering career. He was a Ranger mainstay at Madison Square Garden for several seasons, was dealt to Chicago Black Hawks and, after two years, on to Boston Bruins, who traded him to Leafs.</p><p>It&rsquo;s practically a hockey legend that Stanley was driven out of New York by the Garden fans, who became increasingly impatient with his unrushed, deliberate style of play. He was called &ldquo;Barbara Ann&rsquo; until he heard it in his sleep.</p><p>&ldquo;They gave me a rough time, all right&rdquo;, Stanley recalls. &ldquo;Years later, one of the vultures told me how it all began. A fan of mine used to sit in the gallery and he was a really obnoxious type. He thought I was the greatest hockey player who lived and kept yakking about it till the people around him had to do something in self-defence.</p><p>&ldquo;Of course, Rangers were losing and they had to pick on somebody. After me, it was Don Raleigh.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d be lying if I said it didn&rsquo;t bother me. When the team&rsquo;s bad and there aren&rsquo;t many fans in the rink and half of them are on one guy, he wouldn&rsquo;t be human if it didn&rsquo;t hurt him.</p><p>&ldquo;Once, they sent me out to Vancouver to get away from it for a while. It was supposed to be temporary. But the night before Frank Boucher planned to recall me, I was injured. The result was I spent the entire season with Vancouver and rejoined Rangers the following year.</p><h2><b>Treated Him Wall In Hub</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like,&rdquo; Stanley said, &ldquo;to clear up one thing. It&rsquo;s been written I was hooted out of Boston the same way. That&rsquo;s not a true story. The fans in Boston treated me first-class and I enjoyed the time I spent there.&rdquo;</p><p>The Ranger brass eventually decided they&rsquo;d be doing Allan a favor by trading him and during the 1954-55 season, sent him to Chicago along with Nick Mickoski in exchange for Bill Gadsby and Pete Conacher.</p><p>Boston was the next stop for Stanley and he had two of his finest years there, he figures. He says:</p><p>&ldquo;The last season I was with the Bruins I felt I was playing very well. They used me on the power play and we went right to the Stanley Cup finals losing to Montreal.&rdquo;</p><p>Just before the 1958-59 schedule began, the Bruins swapped Stanley for Toronto&rsquo;s Jim Morrison. It&rsquo;s noteworthy, incidentally, that Boston later traded Morrison to Detroit for Nick Mickoski who now is with Providence Reds of the American league.</p><h2><b>Leafs Made A Good Deal</b></h2><p>From Leafs&rsquo; standpoint, the deal wasn&rsquo;t a long-term affair. Morrison was a good prospect but had been for years until Leafs simply gave up on him. Stanley was regarded as quickly approaching the end of his career. He was to be a steadying influence on Toronto&rsquo;s youthful and inexperienced defence.</p><p>Stanley has done that job, all right, but he&rsquo;s also gone on improving, so that he has provided Imlach with a plump bonus on a basically successful exchange. One talent he&rsquo;s acquired recently, for example, is bodychecking. He has served up more solid, yet legal thumps than the rest of the Leaf rearguard added together.</p><p>How long can he last?</p><p>&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t set any limit on how long I&rsquo;ll go on playing,&rdquo; says Stanley. &ldquo;As long as Leafs want me around, I guess. I don&rsquo;t have any definite plans for after I&rsquo;m done playing hockey.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Interested In Politics</b></h2><p>One field in which Stanley is interested and involved is politics. Prior to the 1957 Canadian federal election, he tried for the Progressive Conservative nomination in his home riding, Timmins. He missed out but campaigned actively on behalf of the P.C. candidate who was chosen ahead of him. He has continued to. work in politics every chance he&rsquo;s had.</p><p>It&rsquo;s not inconceivable Stanley might follow in the footsteps of other big-league hockey players who had successful careers as statesmen&mdash;chaps like Bucko Mc-Donald, Howie Meeker and Lionel Conacher. He qualifies nicely&mdash;he&rsquo;s well-spoken, intelligent and popular wherever he goes.</p><p>Stanley is held in very high regard by his NHL opponents. This may stem partly from the fact most of them have been his teammates at some time or other. It also springs from his reputation for sportsmanlike, yet strongly competitive, conduct on ice. Moreover, he&rsquo;s rated an expert in the various defensive skills.</p><h2><b>Cost Blues 70 Grand</b></h2><p>An example of this came up during last spring&rsquo;s Stanley Cup semi-final between Boston and Toronto. Vic Stasiuk was knocked down and slightly shaken up. After-wards, he was asked if it had been a legitimate check,</p><p>&ldquo;Are you crazy?&rdquo; Stasiuk demanded. &ldquo;It was Sam that threw it. He never checks any way but cleanly. But boy does he hit hard.&rdquo;</p><p>It was in the early 1940&rsquo;s that Sam was with a team of juvenile players who came down from Timmins to play in the Ontario provincial final in Maple Leaf Gardens. He was invited to move to Boston to play for the Olympics, a senior amateur team. He did. After one season, he joined the Canadian navy and after the war, rejoined the Olympics. Next he was loaned to Providence in the American league.</p><p>Finally, Bruins sold him to the Providence club. Two years later, New York bought him for what was at the time a tremendous outlay&mdash;players and cash adding up to something like $70,000. No movie star ever arrived on Broadway with more fanfare.</p><p>Sam naturally yearns for some of the extra rewards which come to hockey players. He never has won any, but this may be the year he clicks. As of now, he&rsquo;s a good bet for all-star consideration.</p><p>And as for the Stanley Cup, well, if Leafs win it, Stanley will be one of the major factors. He&rsquo;ll have to be. Acquired merely to plug a gap, he&rsquo;s now a vital force.</p><h2><b>Getting His Stake In Life</b></h2><h2><b>Same Guy, Different Garbs</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02250/1693071-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="579" height="900"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FROM BLUES&hellip;</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03165/1693064-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="572" height="882"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&hellip;TO INJUNS&hellip;</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04101/1693057-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="532" height="879"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&hellip;TO BRUINS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Al Recalls How New York’s Fans Drove Him From Gardens To Chi

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO, Ont.&mdash;While Allan Stanley never has played on a Stanley Cup championship team, he&rsquo;s been in the finals three times&mdash;once each with New York, Boston and Toronto.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Allan A Bridesmaid Three Times In Stanley Cup Race

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;When Al Stanley plays hockey, he concentrates on the business at hand.</p><p>Example: On Dec. 12, Leafs were playing Chicago. Sometime during the game, a skate sliced Stanley&rsquo;s thigh open. He didn&rsquo;t notice the gash, however, until after the game when he peeled off his equipment and found his stocking was soaked with blood. It took six stitches to close the wound.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Six Stitch Cut Surprised Al After Tough Chi Game

<p><b>Founded October let, 1947</b></p><p><b>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by</b></p><p><b>Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd., 1434 Sto. Catherine Street Woet, Montreal 25, Quo.</b></p><p><b>Ken McKosixio</b>,<br>Publisher</p><p><b>Lon Bramton</b>,<br>Editor-in-Chief</p><p><b>Will V. Cote</b>,<br>General Manager</p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Ratos: $3.00 in Canada and the British Common wealth; $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 26, 1959 No. 13</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01370/1693202-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><p><b>&bull; MARCEL PRONOVOST</b> scored a goal against Johnny Bower and the Toronto Maple Leafs the other night which travelled all of 90 feet. It was the longest goal scored in Olympia Stadium on a guarded goal in many years&hellip;The same Pronovost scored a 110-footer against Toronto on March 27, 1954, in a playoff game. On that occasion, nowever, me goalkeeper had been removed, and Marcel&rsquo;s looper shot was ticketed all the way&hellip;Author Andy Bathgate is happy with his switch from right wing to center. In five games with Bathgate at center, the Rangers won four&hellip;Andy is playing center between Dean Prentice on left wing and rookie Bob Kabel on right wing&hellip;And talking about Kabel&hellip;The tall good-looking youth has picked up one or more points in every game he&rsquo;s played for the Rangers. He has fitted into the New York team very well and will be a strong candidate for the rookie award from here on in&hellip;Boston Bruins are in the throes of one of the club&rsquo;s worst slumps in history&hellip;The Bruins have won only two games in their last 17 starts&hellip;Will Cote nas done a magnificent job in editing the first edition of the Official National Hockey Annual for 1960&hellip;This 96-page hockey magazine is jam-packed with lively and interesting stories on your favorite NHL players. A picture of every player in the NHL this season appears along with a thumbnail sketch of the player and his record&hellip;The Official National Hockey Annual for 1960 offers hockey fans the finest in reading matter and is a real bargain at only 50 cents a copy&hellip;The book is on sale at all newsstands across the country or may be obtained by sending 50 cents to: HOCKEY ANNUAL, Box 248, Montreal, Canada.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02335/1693195-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="286" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Kabol</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; MOST OF</b> the credit for the fine showing of the Detroit Red Wings this season is going to four veterans of the club&hellip;Four guys who have a great deal of pride and just don&rsquo;t cotton to the idea of being out of the playoffs. The four are, of course, Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk, Red Kelly and Marcel Pronovost&hellip;Pat Hannigan is the third member of his family to play with Toronto Maple Leafs. He received his chance when Dick Duff injured himself during a Leafs practice. Wonder if Pat will last longer in the NHL than his brothers Ray and Gordie?&hellip;Bob, Bill and John are the most popular first names in the NHL this season&hellip;Six National Leaguers answer to the name of Bob. They are Bob Baun and Bob Pulford of Toronto, Bob Armstrong of Boston, Bob Turner of Canadiens, Bob Kabel of New York, and Bobby Hull of Chicago&hellip;Five players are called Bill. There&rsquo;s Bill Hicke, Canadiens; Bill Gadsby, New York; Bill McNeill, Detroit; Bill Hay, Chicago; and Bill Harris, Toronto&hellip;There are also five Johns in the League and they are Bower and Wilson of Toronto, McKenzie of Detroit, Hanna of New York and Bucyk of Boston&hellip;The three Jacks in the loop might be included in the same group as the Johns&hellip;The trio of Jacks are Evans of Chicago, McIntyre of Detroit and Bownass of New York&hellip;Two NHL regulars received their first penalties of the 1959-60 season on December 13. They were Phil Goyette, Montreal center, and Marc Reaume, Toronto defenseman.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03259/1693188-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="237" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marcel Pronovost</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; BILL STEWART</b> entertained the Foremen&rsquo;s Club in Montreal last week for an hour and a half with wonderful sports stories. The former NHL referee and coach and major league baseball umpire was the guest speaker at the Foremen&rsquo;s Club December meeting and Bill travelled up from Boston for the occasion&hellip;Stewart said that Mush March, former forward great with Chicago Black Hawks, was the finest all-around small athlete he had ever seen. March was a natural at all sports and was rated one of the fastest skaters to ever perform in the NHL&hellip;March played 17 seasons with Chicago. He stood 5 feet, 5 inches in height&hellip;Hottest clubs in the NHL during the month of December have been the Chicago Black Hawks and the Detroit Red Wings&hellip;New York Rangers also came to life In December and new coach Alf Pike seems to be getting the most out of his boys&hellip;Most improved player in December has been Dean Prentice.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04205/1693181-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="283" height="355"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Muth March</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>Harry Howell owns a two by ten foot piece of acreage in the left hand corner of the Madison Square Garden dressing room.</p><p>This has been Harry&rsquo;s hockey domicile for the seven years he&rsquo;s been with the Rangers and, as far as can be determined, only a handful of visitors have ever dropped by to give Harry the token pat on the back.</p><p>It&rsquo;s been that way for the strikingly good-natured, good-looking defenseman ever since he first tried on the Blue jersey.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05182/1693233-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="554" height="612"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Howell</b></figcaption></div><p>On any given hockey night you&rsquo;ll see them gabbing with Bill Gadsby, Andy Bathgate, sometimes the goaltender, or any one of forward who has a good night.</p><p>Captain Red Sullivan always can count on an old friend-scribe who knew him from his Hershey days&mdash;yea, Red, some guys go back that far&mdash;and Lou Fontinato usually has somebody to gab with.</p><p>But, they never seem to get as far as Howell&rsquo;s corner.</p><p>Pity.</p><p>After seven years of absorbing the outrageous catcalls of the balcony, of being forced to play the wrong defense side (unknown to most) of playing the price of deliberate but intelligent play, Harry Howell emerges today as one of the better backliners in the NHL.</p><p>One does not have to solicit quotes to back this up. The transformation of Harry Howell is as obvious as the Garden marquee on Eighth ave.</p><h2><b>Pike Has Helped Him</b></h2><p>There is a fresh positiveness about Howell&rsquo;s play. In the past he would waver uncertainly about making a daring move. He carries the puck more confidently than ever and has been bodychecking as if every whomp was worth a bonus.</p><p>Perhaps it is a coincidence&mdash;we&rsquo;ll let you decide&mdash;but Howell&rsquo;s renaissance began with the advent of Alf Pike, who happened to coach Harry as a junior in Guelph.</p><p>We tried to discover whether Pike fed Harry any magic potion such as Leone&rsquo;s magic elixer or Dr. Brown&rsquo;s Celery Tonic.</p><p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; said Pike. &ldquo;Harry and I just had a good talk. We discussed maybe forty points but I&rsquo;m afraid I can&rsquo;t tell you what they are.&rdquo;</p><p>Whatever they are, man! they&rsquo;re great.</p><p>One thing Pike admitted. Howell has been occasionally switched to left defense. This has helped immeasurably because Howell is a left hand shot and, thus, is able to get off his good hard lefthanded shot without wasted motion.</p><p>When Harry plays right defense at the point and the puck comes out to him along the boards he first must dig it out, lateral it to his left side then fire. The movement has loused him up for years.</p><p>The newspaper guys still haven&rsquo;t re-discovered Harry. Maybe he has to blacken someone&rsquo;s eye to draw attention. But, for those who appreciate good, hard, determined hockey, Harry Howell already rates the applause.</p><p>At least one reporter feels this way and he dropped over to Howell&rsquo;s bench between Jim Bartlett and Red Bownass to let him know.</p><p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re the best defenseman on the club right now,&rdquo; the man said. Harry grinned broadly and you almost got the feeling he knew he was.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Pike Turns Howell Into Star Material After Secret Chat

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01324/1693330-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="539" height="548"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02294/1693323-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="546" height="563"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tom Johnson</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03229/1693316-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="567" height="613"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lou Fontinato</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04171/1693309-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="553" height="559"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fern Flaman</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05117/1693302-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="562" height="562"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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The Bad Men……Says Mr. Bathgathe

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Despite a continued flow of criticisms from both opposing players and NHL hockey writers, New York Rangers Andy Bathgate sticks to his belief that spearing in the National Hockey League&mdash;and he contends there is much of it&mdash;must go.</p><p>In an article in the January edition of True, Bathgate took some of the league&rsquo;s biggest names to task for spearing, deliberately attempting to injure and other tricks that might cause serious injury to players.</p><p>The criticisms have come from many sources.</p><p>&ldquo;Bathgate is the league&rsquo;s biggest cry baby,&rdquo; said Punch Imlach, probably wishing he had a dozen bawlers like Andy.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0677/1693375-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="281" height="476"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Bathgate</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0746/1693368-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="299" height="471"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><p>I don&rsquo;t recall trying to injure Bathgate or any other player with a spear,&rdquo; noted Bruins Fern Flaman, possibly in a temporary state of amnesia.</p><p>&ldquo;If hockey is too rough, he had better stick to golf&rdquo; said T.Lynn Patrick, general manager of the Bruins.</p><p>Says Bathgate himself: &ldquo;The whole thing has given me lots of trouble. I didn&rsquo;t write the story to get myself any publicity or to get into any squabbles but that&rsquo;s what seemed to happen.&rdquo;</p><p>Andy was most disturbed by what he fears was a &ldquo;misinterpretation&rdquo; of his statements about Gordie Howe.</p><p>&ldquo;When I called Howe mean I meant he is out to protect himself, not flatten anybody. I think I was a little too strong on Gordie in the story. I personally think Gordie is the greatest.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>He&rsquo;s The Guinea Pig</b></h2><p>Merle Bathgate said she was afraid that Andy would be tormented around the league for his first literary effort. If he was, it didn&rsquo;t show be the ice as Andy scored two goals in two games immediately after the furor.</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe I have to be the guinea pig,&rdquo; Bathgate said, &ldquo;but I just think spearing has to go. There&rsquo;s no way to protect against it.&rdquo;</p><p>Collaborating with ace New York hockey writer Daye Anderson, Bathgate &ldquo;wrote&rdquo; the story in late Summer. Since Bathgate last saw it the article&rsquo;s original title was changed and other alterations were made. However, Bathgate&rsquo;s original premise remained&mdash;that spearing must be eliminated.</p><p>Although he had ample room to backtrack, Bathgate never turned on Anderson, defended the writer to the end.</p><p>There was a touching scene in the Ranger dressing room just days after the incident when Anderson walked over to Bathgate warmly shaked his hand and said, &ldquo;Thanks for sticking with me.&rdquo;</p><p>For the first time, Andy seemed cheered and even joked about the fuss made over the story.</p><p>&ldquo;Next time I&rsquo;m going to put on a suit of armor and come out with a spear about 10 feet long and stick it into the boards.&rdquo; He grinned.</p><p>The humor was short-lived. Andy realize the immensity of his crusade. He was most sorry about bringing big names like Howe into the story but he remains most insistent about the eradication of spearing.</p><p>&ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; said Andy to this reporter, &ldquo;I would do it all over again.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Before The Storm Come Up</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0830/1693361-1-eng-US/f0005-082.jpg" title="f0005-08" width="1727" height="918"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Bathgate, left and Red Sullivan, right, talk with Montreal&rsquo;s Bob Turner, before the &lsquo;spearing article&rsquo; was in print. Andy named Bob as one of the cleanest players in the league. Sully, Andy&rsquo;s teammate and close friend, was main character in the story that led to furor In NHL.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-06

Bathgate, After 2nd Look, Sorry To Indict Gord

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Some Boston Bruins have expressed disagreement with the views of major league hockey expressed by New York&rsquo;s Andy Bathgate in his controversial magazine article, published in Canada.</p><p>Bathgate, young New York forward, reportedly complained of the &ldquo;brutality&rdquo; of the game and named Defenseman Ferny Flaman of the Bruins on his &ldquo;most wanted&rdquo; list of players specializing in &ldquo;spear-inv&rdquo;.</p><p>Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; manaper: &ldquo;If that&rsquo;s the way Bathgate feels about hockey he ought to get into professional golf. That&rsquo;s what he wants to do, anyway.&rdquo;</p><p>Milt Schmidt, Bruins&rsquo; ocach: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think the game is any rougher now than it was 15 years ago. I would have to say that about 90 per cent of spearing is accidental. I&rsquo;m surprised that Bathgate is com plaining.&rdquo;</p><p>Ferny Flaman, Bruins&rsquo; captain: &ldquo;After we quit spearing we can still play hockey. What is Bathgate going to do after he stops scoring goals? Most of the fellows he names were here before he came and I think most of them will be around after he has gone. Hockey has been a pretty good life for him. Why is he&rdquo; knocking it?&rdquo;</p><p>Bob Armstrong, Bruins&rsquo; acting captain: &ldquo;You never hear Rocket Richard or Gordie Howe saying those things. Bathgate has gotten a little better, so the opposition is going after him a little now. I&rsquo;ve never found any trouble in players who play dirty hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>Leo LaBine, Bruins&rsquo; forward: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think the league is as rough now as it used to be. You get penalties now for looking at guys&mdash;or thinking.&rdquo;</p><p>Johnny Bucyk, Bruins&rsquo; forward: &ldquo;Bathgate has a few little things himself. He has that elbow of his going pretty good.&rdquo;</p><p>A check of the records of the Bruins&rsquo; first 13 home games this season revealed that there has not been even one infraction of the rule against spearing.</p><p>The records also revealed that only nine major penalties for acts of violence had been called here, only one of which was for causing injury to an opponent.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bruins Tear Holes In Andy’s Charges; No Spearing Called

<p>MONTREAL, Que<b>&mdash;</b></p><p>Toe Blake and his star defenseman Doug Harvey admitted Montreal Canadiens have resorted to &ldquo;spearing&rdquo; at isolated times in National Hockey League play but stressed &ldquo;it was strictly for defensive purposes.&rdquo;</p><p>They were replying to charges by New York&rsquo;s all-star rightwinger Andy Bathgate in the current issue of a laage circulation magazine (True).</p><p>Bathgate says that &ldquo;unchecked brutality&rdquo; in the NHL &ldquo;is going to kill somebody&rdquo; and blasts players who use their sticks to spear opponents, singling out as worst offenders Harvey, his defense mate Tom Johnson and three other men.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0918/1693437-1-eng-US/f0005-092.jpg" title="f0005-09" width="276" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Toe Blake</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-1011/1693430-1-eng-US/f0005-102.jpg" title="f0005-10" width="286" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption></div><p>Both Blake and Harvey said Montreal, players were guilty of spearing in some instances but they were emphatic that it was necessary to defend against an illegal play pattern that New York often uses.</p><p>Said Blake: &ldquo;They like to skate into our zone against the defense and drop the puck for a teammate following right behind. Then they skate into our defenseman blocking him out of the play illegally through interference.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve been doing it for years. Our players have sometimes had to spear to fend off the interfering player and keep in the play.&rdquo;</p><p>Blake described Bathgate&rsquo;s charges as &ldquo;sour grapes&rdquo; and said: &ldquo;As <i>a</i> matter of fact Bathgate is guilty of spearing as often as anyone else in the league.&rdquo;</p><p>But the coach&mdash;gunning for his fifth consecutive Stanley Cup since taking over the Montreal reins&mdash;said that for the most part spearing in the NHL has been all but eliminated by the vigilance of the referees.</p><p>&ldquo;They don&rsquo;t hesitate to make the spearing call. A player has got to be awful, awful cute to get away with it with any consistency.&rdquo;</p><p>Harvey had just about the same thing to say.</p><p>&ldquo;Sure, we will spear on occasion. We&rsquo;ve got to when they ran interference. But I don&rsquo;t know of anyone in the league who does it maliciously or stricly for the fun of it. It&rsquo;s a defensive measure only.&rdquo;</p><p>The veteran defenseman also commented on Bathgate&rsquo;s statements recalling a near-fatal accident suffered by New York captain George (Red) Sullivan when he was speared by Harvey in a game at Madison Square Garden several years ago.</p><h2><b>Sully Skated Interference</b></h2><p>Bathgate recalls the incident &ldquo;Harvey&rsquo;s stick came up. He shoved the black-taped blade into Sully&rsquo;s gut. It looked as if Harvey was using a bayonet. In hockey we call it spearing.&rdquo;</p><p>Said Harvey: &ldquo;We played back-to-back games against New York and I had to warm Sullivan four times in the two nights about skating interference. Then I had to stand my ground, of course.&rdquo;</p><p>Along with Harvey and Johnson&mdash;who was unavailable for comment&mdash;Bathgate named Fern Flaman of Boston, Ted Lindsay of Chicago and his New York teammate Lou Fontinato as the NHL&rsquo;s spearing specialists.</p><p>League president Clarence Camp bell declined to comment on Bathgate&rsquo;s article, saying he had not read it.</p><p>But it was learned that all six NHL clubs Stipulate in their contracts that players must obtain written permission from the club executive before writing published articles. New York officials said Bathgate did this.</p><p>Failure to comply with the stipulation carries a penalty of a fine or suspension or both.</p><p>Campbell said the NHL at present has in its treasury $1,000 posted as a bond by Montreal&rsquo;s great Maurice (Rocket) Richard as a result of a literary effort by Richard in 1953.</p><p>The president said Richard &ldquo;challenged my integrity&rdquo; in articles published in a Montreal French-language weekly newspaper with the help of a ghost writer.</p><p>&ldquo;The money will be refunded to Richard when he retires, provided there are no further incidents,&rdquo; said Campbell.</p><p>Ken Reardon, Montreal Canadiens vice-president and former defenseman with the Canadiens, had to post a similar bond several years earlier for an article in a sports magazine. Reardon got the money back when he retired from active ranks.</p><p>The article appeared following a roughhouse match involving Reardon and Boston&rsquo;s Cal Gardner.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0005-09

Fingered Harvey Blames Sullivan; ‘Stood My Ground’

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02278/1693475-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Chicago&rsquo;s Tod Sloan catches up on the news on a recent trip to Toronto. It was there that he became involved in the pleyer&rsquo;s association, which ultimately led to his trade to Chicago.</b></figcaption></div><p><b>In The Toronto Star</b></p><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>When Alyosius Martin Sloan, called the Slinker at times and Tod invariably, scores one more goal, he&rsquo;ll qualify as one of the 31 most productive shooters in the history of big-league hockey. There are 30 men who potted 200 goals or more during National league careers, from Rocket Richard&rsquo;s unparalleled 531 down to Hooley Smith&rsquo;s 200. Sloanie owns a total of 199.</p><p>All but 37 of those goals were made on behalf of Toronto&rsquo;s NHL entry. Except for a one-year apprenticeship in Cleveland, Tod was a Leaf employee from the time he left St. Michael&rsquo;s college in 1946 until he was peddled to the Hawks in 1958.</p><p>Yet Leafs came perilously close to missing Sloan entirely. Later, when he chaired the Toronto local of the NHL Players&rsquo; association&mdash;a policy which ensured his departure for Chicago, or even further west&mdash;the Garden&rsquo;s bosses had ample reason to rue the day he was discovered.</p><p>Sloan&rsquo;s case was typical. The major leaguers signed up the future star almost in spite of themselves. It all happened during the latter part of World War II.</p><p>Bob Wilson, now Chicago&rsquo;s head talent scout, was running the minor sports program at the time in Falconbridge, a Sudbury suburb. He was taking a team of youngsters south to play a Toronto club in Maple Leaf Gardens. He contacted Hap Day, who was coaching Leafs at the time, and suggested he drop in and take a look at a precocious lad called Sloan. Hap, a thorough man, never passed up such tips.</p><p>Young Sloan played as if he&rsquo;d left his skate guards on. After dozing for two periods, Day got up and went home. An hour later, he got a frantic phone call. The kid had scored six goals in the third period.</p><p>Day sent a posse out looking for the Falconbridge group. They finally were discovered in a restaurant, having a late snack before driving back home. Sloan was invited on the spot to become a student at St. Mikes. His career was launched.</p><h2><b>The Farewells Were Joyous</b></h2><p>There were no tearful farewells on either side when Sloan moved his tack to Chicago in 1958. He was delighted to leave. Leaf management was jubilant to see him go.</p><p>Sloan had stirred uncomfortably under the stern yoke of authority which was clamped on the Leafs of the midfifties. Next he was severely reprimanded for making public the incentive bonuses he had coming in 1955-56, the season in which he matched the club record of 37 goals. The following year he was smitten by a series of injuries and illnesses and he bitterly resented the way his employers handled him during that period. He felt he&rsquo;d been goaded and driven beyond reason.</p><p>Relations became taut as a violin string in 1957 when Sloan and Jim Thomson helped form the league players&rsquo; association. The owners of the six NHL teams were indignant at the organization&rsquo;s very existence. They were apoplectic over some of the demands it presented.</p><p>Naturally, the moguls battled the brotherhood at every beachhead it tried to establish. They frankly hoped it would die from running up against an unyielding brick wall.</p><p>When Leafs disposed of Thomson before the 1957-58 campaign began, Sloan was left to defend the cause single-handed. Despite indifference at home and the collapse of the Detroit chapter, he somehow managed to keep the association alive in Toronto. Eventually, the brethren won a few concessions from the owners and, satisfied, have lapsed into obscurity if, indeed, the organization exists at all.</p><p>In view of what happened, Sloan wasn&rsquo;t a bit surprised to learn he&rsquo;d been transferred to Chicago. He was so content, in fact, that he compiled more points than any Leaf player last season. He may do as much again this year.</p><p>He may have one regret, however. For years, he boasted to his old friend, Bob Wilson, about his young cousin, Dave Keon, who lived in Noranda, Quebec. &ldquo;Get him for Chicago,&rdquo; Tod used to coax. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got what it takes.&rdquo;</p><p>Wilson never got around to checking Keon. And Leafs finally moved in to sponsor the Noranda team, so they could tie up the rights to Keon. Now the boy is one of the brightest prospects in the Toronto organization. He&rsquo;s big, fast, a good scorer, a good stickhandler and already he&rsquo;s displaying one family weakness all Sloan admirers will recognize: he&rsquo;s selfish with the puck.</p><h2><b>Catching Up On The News</b></h2><h2><b>Over Organized</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01394/1693468-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="552" height="559"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tod Sloan</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0006-02

Sloan Closes In On Select 200th NHL Goal Circle

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.&mdash;A check of the NHL records this week revealed that in the first 79 games this season, only three penalties were called for spearing. Boston&rsquo;s Vic Stasiuk and Leo LaBine and Detroit&rsquo;s Billy McNeill were called for the offence.</p><p>In 210 games played last season 31 minor penalties were called for spearing. Total for all offences were 4,850 minutes.</p><p>Not one player mentioned as the leading spearers in the NHL had a spearing penalty called against them. The 62 minutes were little more than one percent of the total time served.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bathgate’s Rogues Gallery Spearless In ’58-59 Season

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll Montreal Gazette</div><h2><b>The Rebuilt Red Wings</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Detroit Red Wings, the surprise of the NHL this season, are proving that hustle will carry a team a long way. The Wings defeated the Canadiens here on Saturday night December 123-2, and moved into second place in the league standings.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s hustle that&rsquo;s keeping us up there,&rdquo; commented Lefty Wilson, the Wings&rsquo; trainer, a few hours before the game. &ldquo;Everybody&rsquo;s skating and digging; they&rsquo;re not leaving it to one or two guys to get the job def. You can tell the difference between this year&rsquo;s team and last year&rsquo;s by our dressing room. It&rsquo;s a real lively place now.&rdquo;</p><p>The Wings finished in the cellar last season and most observers picked them to repeat this season. Frank Selke, the Canadiens&rsquo; general manager, credits Jack Adams, the Wings&rsquo; boss man, with the unexpected upsurge of the club.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s remarkable when a club that finished last can bounce back like this one,&rdquo; said the Canadien executive. &ldquo;The difference between Detroit and other clubs that have been in trouble is Jack Adams, a manager who knows what he wants and keeps working until he gets it. We&rsquo;ve seen a rebirth of the Red Wings.&rdquo;</p><p>But Sid Abel, coach of the Wings, is keeping his fingers crossed.</p><p>&ldquo;When we win it&rsquo;s because we skated better, carried more than our share of the play, shot better and worked harder than the other team,&rdquo; he pointed out. &ldquo;If we keep skating and hustling like we&rsquo;ve been doing, we&rsquo;ll win our share of games. But you must remember that we did pretty well in the first half of last season. It was in the second half that we bogged down.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Better Both Ways</b></h2><p>Last season the Wings scored fewer goals and had more goals scored against them than any other team in the league. They scored only 167 goals and gave up 218, which left a lot of room for improvement, both offensively and defensively.</p><p>The statistics after Saturday&rsquo;s game, their 28th of the season, reveal how greatly the Wings have improved both ways. They have scored 75 goals and had 65 scored against them. Much has been said and written about the great year Terry Sawchuk is having, but he is getting considerably more help from his teammates. The forwards are back-checking and the defense is tighter with the addition of Jim Morrison and the improvement in Red Kelly&rsquo;s play.</p><p>Sawchuk isn&rsquo;t kidding himself and he knows why his goals-against record is so much better.</p><p>&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t changed my technique at all,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The real difference between our team this season and last is the way the boys are skating in front of me. No goaler in the world can be the entire defense. The back-checking of the forwards and the teamwork of the defensemen are the most important items.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>A Promising Rookie</b></h2><p>Lefty Wilson was asked about the newcomers among the Wings&rsquo; forwards this season.</p><p>&ldquo;Gary Aldcorn has fitted in well with Howe, and Fonteyne has proved he can score,&rdquo; said Lefty, &ldquo;but the real surprise has been young Murray Oliver. There&rsquo;s a kid who may win the Calder Trophy.&rdquo;</p><p>Three years ago Johnny Mitchell, then the Wings&rsquo; chief scout, thought Oliver was &ldquo;too little and too slow&rdquo; ever to make the NHL. But the youngster has put on weight since then. He had some trouble finding the net at first, but his initial goal came against the Bruins in Boston late last month and he has followed up with more.</p><p>&ldquo;That first goal at Boston was a big thrill,&rdquo; Oliver admitted. &ldquo;I was too nervous in the other games to score. The first goal always takes you over the hump and takes the pressure off. After I got that goal I had more confidence and wasn&rsquo;t afraid to pick up the puck and go in with it.&rdquo;</p><p>If it hadn&rsquo;t been for a broken left arm he suffered in the playoffs with the Hamilton Cubs 20 months ago, Oliver might be a professional baseball player today instead of a hockey player. He had signed a contract to go to the spring training camp of the Cleveland Indians. That was a break in favor of the Wings, as Sid Abel is well aware.</p><p>&ldquo;Oliver is a real solid hockey player,&rdquo; said the Wings&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s smart and has instinctive hockey sense.&rdquo;</p><p>All in all, the rebuilt Wings are an interesting as well as a surprising team.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03189/1693530-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="579" height="1443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Murray Oliver</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0006-03

playing the field

<div class="byline">By STAN F1SCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Alf Pike apologized to the New York hockey writers.</p><p>&ldquo;If you give me a little time to get acclimatized I&rsquo;ll be able to cooperate with you,&rdquo; said the cautious New York coach. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to say the wrong thing.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01346/1693568-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="300" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alf Pike</b></figcaption></div><p>The phalanx of Gotham scribes have swarmed over Pike&rsquo;s 49th st. office like seventeenyear locusts on a daily route. They don&rsquo;t come to say hello, they want stories.</p><p>&ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t like this in the west,&rdquo; Pike explained. &ldquo;Out there the fellas wrote the stories without talking with me.&rdquo;</p><p>So far, Pike has been the antithesesi of his predecessor, Phil Watson.</p><p>Watson often would launch a peroration without so much as a drop of a hat. Pike answers questions when they are put to him. So this reporter put a few to him.</p><p>&ldquo;The Rangers are far from perfect, what are you working on these days?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Every club&mdash;even the Canadiens&mdash;are far from perfect,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;One of the things that has bothered me is the lapses. We have a lead and we blow it. That&rsquo;s something that needs work.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;What have you done to bring out the best in (Dean) Prentice?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Prentice has been playing well and hard. His trouble was that he always went to his backhand. He wandered, now he goes straight up and down.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Are you satisfied with (Lou) Fontinato?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Not exactly.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Explain, please.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s been backing up quite a bit instead of taking the man out of the play. Sometimes he backs up too far. I spoke to Lou. He knows he&rsquo;s not hitting. I think it&rsquo;s just a rut he&rsquo;s in.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Defensemen Not Hitting</b></h2><p>Everyone&mdash;well, almost everyone&mdash;knows the Rangers can score. There problem this season, as last, is keeping the puck out of their net. Pike has become well aware of the situation.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re pretty good in the enemy zone with our fore checking,&rdquo; Pike admits. &ldquo;But, in front of our own nets the situation remains precarious. I still can&rsquo;t figure out why our defensemen won&rsquo;t hit harder and more often. My body contact ideas haven&rsquo;t gotten across there.&rdquo;</p><p>Throughout the panic of late November when almost every New York scribe wrote off the floundering Blues, this observer chose to wait until Dec. 1 to give Pike a chance to get the feel of the club. Since then the Rangers have moved northward in the standings.</p><p>Pike&rsquo;s pointers are being felt among the troops.</p><p>&ldquo;No doubt about it,&rdquo; was Prentice&rsquo;s comment. &ldquo;I used to skate in circles. Pike made me stay in my own-lane both on offense and defense and wait for a scoring break. He&rsquo;s helped me a lot.&rdquo;</p><p>You don&rsquo;t expect a grizzled old pro like Bill Gadsby to wax lyrical about a new mentor (he&rsquo;s seen so many) but he did:</p><p>Now the shoe is on the other foot with the resurgence of Beliveau. Jean has notched 12 goals in the last 14 games while Horvath&rsquo;s effectiveness, hindered by a painful toe-injury, has dwindled to the extent he has beaten NHL net-minders only five times in 12 games since Nov. 15.</p><p>Hockey observers feel this is the year that Beliveau will reach the golden plateau of 50 goals and possibly make 51 to surpass the existing NHL record held by Maurice Richard of the Habs.</p><p>They point out that Beliveau, called hockey&rsquo;s greatest performer in some circles, hasn&rsquo;t opened the throttle as yet this season. They warn that when he does, he will surge into the goal-scoring lead leaving the Bruins&rsquo; &lsquo;Boanana Nose&rsquo; Horvath far behind.</p><p>There is a familiar ring to Beliveau&rsquo;s upsurge in recent weeks.</p><p>It closely follows the pattern of last season when he led the NHL in goals with 45 in 64 games. He scored 30 of them in a rousing second-half schedule onslaught that earned him an overall 91 points, five less than teammate Dicki.e Moore, who won the title for a second straight year.</p><h2><b>Reunited With Moore And Geoff</b></h2><p>Moore had it made last season when both he and Beliveau were thrust on the same line by Coach Toe Blake. Dickie couldn&rsquo;t score without an assist from Jean, and Moore invariably got the assist when Beliveau scored.</p><p>The two are back together this season on a line with Bernie Geoffrion, and as far as the Habs are concerned, the unit is the only one that is carrying its weight for the sagging world champions.</p><p>Beliveau has found the range in 16 of the Canadiens&rsquo; 30 contests this year and his biggest single game production has been two goals against Boston.</p><p>Big Jean hasn&rsquo;t even &lsquo;opened up&rsquo; yet if last year is an indication. He paced the NHL in &lsquo;hat tricks&rsquo; in 1958-59 with four and he and Rangers&rsquo; Prentice were the only players in the NHL to register four goals in a game last season.</p><p>Beliveau, who has twice led the NHL in goal production during his seven years in the circuit, is nearing his 225th big time marker. Now the fifth highest active scorer, Jean still has several good years left at 28.</p><p>Injuries have been a &lsquo;bugaboo&rsquo; with Beliveau and many have been ill-timed. Like the 1957-58 campaign when he missed 25 games when he was going great guns. The respite cost him the scoring championship.</p><p>Blake, ever mindful how injuries can remove the edge from a player&rsquo;s zest for goals, is keeping his fingers crossed that no harm befalls his scoring ace.</p><p>Toe has absolved Beliveau from iny blame for the club&rsquo;s recent nose dive after an unbeaten 18-after run.</p><p>&ldquo;We are still not skating as veil as we were earlier in the season and our lines are not funcloning,&rdquo; said Blake, who has been huffling his forwards like a man with a poker deck.</p><h2><b>Habs Star At Work And Play</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02313/1693561-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1758" height="725"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Big Jean Beliveau of the Montreal Canadiens is favored to break Maurice Richard&rsquo;s 50 goals in a season record this year. At work and play above, Jean goes to the Habs room after a game. On the right he gets his library in shape in suburban Montreal home.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0007-01

Lack Of Body Work By His Defensemen Pike’s Big Problem

<div class="byline">By CHARLIE HALPIN</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The wise money men who wagered this season that big Jean Beliveau of Canadiens would be the next 50-goal scorer to grace the National Hockey League, are breathing more leisurely these days with the giant centre currently off on a scoring binge.</p><p>Canadiens have slowed down considerably in the NHL team race but not Beliveau, who has become the most prolific and consistent goal-getter among the leading six in the NHL.</p><p>In a survey conducted in the last dozen games of each player, Beliveau has scored the most, 10 times. Dean Prentice of Rangers has counted nine, Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe seven, and Bronco Horvath and Don McKenney of Boston and Chicago&rsquo;s Bobby Hull, five each.</p><p>Although Horvath is still the glamor boy of the NHL with 21 goals, four more than Beliveau, most of his scores were attained in the early weeks of the schedule when the six-foot-three Canadiens&rsquo; star was being blanked in 12 of the first 16 games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

This May Be Season Beliveau’s Magic Stick Hits Record Fifty

<p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON, Mass.&mdash;The zip in Bronco Horvath&rsquo;s shot was demonstrated graphically in a Bruins-Toronto game here, with the help of a Toronto defenseman.</p><p>One of Horvath&rsquo;s famed snapshots was deflected by the blade of defenseman Allan Stanley&rsquo;s stick, the puck sailing into the Garden&rsquo;s first balcony, far behind and above the Maple Leafs&rsquo; goal.</p><p>Bruins&rsquo; attaches were unable to remember ever having seen a puck wind up in the balcony before.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bronco 1st To Put One In Balcony Of Hubs’ Gardens

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0762/1693699-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="567" height="269"></div><p>19&mdash;Doug Harvey, Canadiens, defense, 1924.</p><p>21&mdash;Guy Rousseau, Rochester, forward, 1934.</p><p>22&mdash;Bob Robertson, Cleveland, defense, 1937.</p><p>23&mdash;Bob Solinger, Hershey, forward, 1925.</p><p>24&mdash;Red Sullivan, Rangers, forward, 1929.</p><p>25&mdash;Larry Cahan, Vancouver, defense, 1933.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-07

Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>As far as Frank &ldquo;King&rdquo; Clancy is concerned, Bronco Horvath <i>of</i> the Bruins is entitled to a master&rsquo;s degree in spot shooting.</p><p>The slender Bruins&rsquo; center, says Clancy, is the greatest spot shooter he has seen in his nearly 40 years of hockey.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03241/1693644-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="258" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bronco Horvath</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;A fellow like Maurice Richard likes to be on the move when he makes a shot,&rdquo; said Clancy, assistant manager and former coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, &ldquo;but Horvath likes to shoot from a spot.</p><p>&ldquo;And he can do it better than anyone I&rsquo;ve ever seen.</p><p>&ldquo;He has learned to get into good shooting position out in front of the net,&rdquo; Clancy pointed out, &ldquo;and when the puck is given to him he gets his shot off immediately.</p><p>&ldquo;No moving, no windup, no delay of any kind. That&rsquo;s a hard thing to do, but this fellow is great at it.&rdquo;</p><p>Clancy names Charley Conacher, Bill Cook, Gordie Howe, Jean Beliveau, Roy Conacher and Gerry Eh-man among others capable of getting their shots off quickly, like Richard.</p><h2><b>Success Belongs To Bronco</b></h2><p>&ldquo;But like the Rocket,&rdquo; said Clancy, once a high scoring defenseman, &ldquo;they were or are players who liked to shoot on the move.&rdquo;</p><p>Horvath, in Clancy&rsquo;s opinion, is the key to the scoring success of the Bruins&rsquo; line on which he plays with Johnny Bucyk and Vic Stasiuk.</p><p>The Toronto veteran summed up his comments about the snap shooting Bruins by saying, &ldquo;He deserves a lot of credit because he has overcome a lot of handicaps to be-come a great player. He&rsquo;s on the frail side physically and he&rsquo;s no speedster but he has worked hard to make himself what he is.&rdquo;</p><p>George &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach, Toronto coach, came up with a special defense for Horvath for the last Bruins-Maple Leafs game here. Bob Pulford, Toronto center, played Horvath man-for-man at his position, with another Maple Leaf dropping-off from the side opposite play to help out.</p><p>Bronco didn&rsquo;t score against the defense, but he assisted on three goals by Bruins left uncovered by the maneuvering. All three, assists were on smart, accurate passes which brought an additional accolade from Clancy.</p><p>&ldquo;When he saw those fellows were in a position to score he passes,&rdquo; said the Toronto executive. &ldquo;He played it smart, and he also showed the mark of a good team man.&rdquo;</p><p>Horvath&rsquo;s three-assist game followed a brief vacation occasioned by a badly bruised big toe. One game later Horvath and Stasiuk were rejoined by Bucyk.</p><h2><b>Fast Men On The Draw</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04183/1693637-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="537" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05127/1693630-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="581" height="584"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Roy Conacher</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0689/1693623-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="585" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Chuck Conacher</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Clancy Lists Select Few Who Spot Shot In Bronco’s Class

<h2><b>Record For Penalty Minutes</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Montreal Canadians set a record with the Toronto Maple Leafs for the most penalty minutes in a single game back on December 9th, 1953. There was a total of 204 minutes called. There were 15 misconducts, four majors and 17 minors.</p><h2><b>Habs Three Records In &rsquo;58-59</b></h2><p>The Montreal Canadiens set three National Hockey league records last season. They scored the most goals in a single NHL season, 258. They totaled the most assists in a single season, 439 and they claimed the most total scoring points in a single season by notching 697.</p><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p>(Including Games Of Sun., Dec. 20)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01379/1693807-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="636" height="3364"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS:</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02315/1693800-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="590" height="207"></div><h3><b>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1959-60</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03245/1693793-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="593" height="547"></div><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p>(Standings On Wed., A.M., Dec. 23)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04185/1693786-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="592" height="184"></div><h3><b>Results Of Games Played Week Ending December 20, 1959</b></h3><p>Wed., Dec. 16&mdash;Boston 0 at Chicago 4</p><p>Thurs., Dec. 17&mdash;Toronto 2 at Montreal 8</p><p>Thurs., Dec. 17&mdash;Chicago 2 at Detroit 3</p><p>Sat., Dec. 19&mdash;New York 3 at Montreal 5</p><p>Sat., Dec. 19&mdash;Detroit 2 at Toronto 4</p><p>Sun., Dec. 20&mdash;Montreal 5 at New York 6</p><p>Sun., Dec. 20&mdash;Toronto 4 at Chicago 7</p><p>Sun., Dec. 20&mdash;Detroit 4 at Boston 2</p><h3><b>Scheduled Games For Week Ending December 27, 1959</b></h3><p>Wed., Dec. 23&mdash;Chicago at New York</p><p>Fri., Dec. 25&mdash;New York at Detroit</p><p>Fri., Dec. 25&mdash;Chicago at Boston</p><p>Sat., Dec. 26&mdash;Chicago at Montreal</p><p>Sat., Dec. 26&mdash;New York at Toronto</p><p>Sun., Dec. 27&mdash;Montreal at Detroit</p><p>Sun., Dec. 27&mdash;Toronto at New York</p><p>Sun., Dec. 27&mdash;Boston at Chicago</p><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 Boston 0 at Chicago 4</b></h3><p>Boston&mdash;Goal: Simmons; defense: Armstrong, Boivin, Erickson, Flaman, Ward; forwards: Mohns, McKenney, Labine, Horvath, Stasiuk, Bucyk, Burns, Toppazzini, Meissner, Gendron, Leach.</p><p>Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Arbour, St. Laurent, Pilote, Vasko, Evans; forwards: Litzenberger, Sloan, M. Balfour, Lindsay, Hay, Skov, Nesterenko, Hull, Wharram, E. Balfour, Mikita.</p><p>Referee: Matt Pavelich, Linesmen: George Hayes, Jack Paterson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05132/1693779-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="592" height="484"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 Toronto 2 at Montreal 8</b></h3><p>Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Horton, Stanley, Reaume, Brewer, Baun; forwards: Pulford, Stewart, Ehman, Regan, Armstrong, Wilson, Harris, Mahovlich, Edmundson, James, Hampson,</p><p>Hannigan.</p><p>Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, Langlois, Johnson, Turner, Talbot; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Moore, H. Richard, Marshall, Bonin, Backstrom, Hicks, McDonald, Goyette, Provost, Pronovost.</p><p>Referee: Eddie Powers; linesmen: Neil Armstrong, Dave Clutsam.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06101/1693772-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="592" height="873"></div><h3><b>Chicago 2 at Detroit 3</b></h3><p>Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall: defense: Pilote, Vasko, Arbour, St. Laurent, Evans; for-waFds: Slown, Litzenberger, E. Balfour, Hay, Skov, Nesterenko, Lindsay, Hull, Wharram, Mikita.</p><p>Detroit&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Kelly, Pronovost, Godfrey, Morrison, Marcon; forwards: Howe; Aidcorn, Oliver, Ullman, Cullen, Delvecchio, Fonteyne, Melnyk, McNeil, McIntyre, Lunde, Mckenzie.</p><p>Referee: Vern Buffey; linesmen: George Hayes, Jack Paterson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0778/1693765-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="593" height="467"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19 New York 3 at Montreal 5</b></h3><p>New York&mdash;Goal: Paille: defense: Gadsby, Hanna, Howell, Bownass, Fonteyne; forwards: Sullivan, Hebenton, Bartlett, Bathgate, Kabel, Schinkel, Popein, Prentice, Henry, Shack, Cullen.</p><p>Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, Langlois, Johnson, Turner, Talbot; forwards: Belliveau, Geoffrion, Moore, H. Richard, Hicke, Marshall Backstrom, McDonald, Bonin, Goyette, Provost, Pronovost.</p><p>Referee: Frank Udvari; linesmen: Neil Armstrong, Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0861/1693758-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="593" height="722"></div><h3><b>Detroit 2 at Toronto 4</b></h3><p>Detroit&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense Pronovost, Kelly, Morrison, Godfrey, Marcon; forwards: Delvecchio, Ullman, Howe, Oliver, Aidcorn, Cullen, Fonteyne, Lunde, Melnyk, McIntyre, McNeill, Mc-Kenzie.</p><p>Toronto&mdash;Goal: Chadwick; defense: Horton, Stanley, Brewer, Baun, Rheaume; forwards: Wilson, Pulford, Stewart, James, Regan, Armstrong, Mahovlich, Harris, Ehman, Hampson, Edmundson.</p><p>Referee: Lou Farelli; linesmen: George Hayes, Jack Paterson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0946/1693751-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="591" height="514"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20 Montreal 5 at New York 6</b></h3><p>Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, Langlois, Johnson, Turner, Talbot; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Moore, Tickle, Provost, McDonald, H. Richard, Bonin, Goyette, Marshall, Pronovost, Bacgstrom.</p><p>New York&mdash;Goal: Paille; defense: Bownass, Gadsby, Howell, Hanna; forwards: Bathgate, Kabel, Prentice, Shack, Sullivan, Hebenton, Cullen, Schinkel, Popein, Henry, Bartlett.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1035/1693744-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="591" height="793"></div><h3><b>Toronto 4 at Chicago 7</b></h3><p>Toronto&mdash;Goal: Chadwick; defense: Horton, Stanley, Reaume, Brewer, Baun; forwards: Edmundson, Pulford, James, Armstrong, Hampson, Harris,&mdash;Ehman, Wilson, Mahovlich.</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, E. Balfour, Mikita.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1129/1693737-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="594" height="772"></div><h3><b>Detroit 4 at Boston 2</b></h3><p>Detroit&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Morrison, Kelly, Godfey, Pronovost; forwards: Melnyk, McNeill, Fonteyne, Oliver, Howe, Aidcoin, Ullman, Lunde, Cullen, Delvecchio, McIntyre, Marcon, McKenzie.</p><p>Boston&mdash;Goal: Simmons; defense: Armstrony, Boivin, Ward, Flaman, Erickson; forwards: Horvath, Stasiuk, Bucyk, (McKensey, Labine, Mohns, Leach, Top-pazzini, Gendron, Bums, Mackell, Meissner</p><p>Referee: McArthur; Linesmen: Patterson, Frampton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1215/1693730-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="603" height="567"></div><div class="sidebar"><h2><b>HOCKEY CLUBS</b></h2><p>For your EQUIPMENT</p><p>Write for</p><p>SPECIAL TEAM PRICES</p><p><b>Doug Laurie Sports</b></p><p><b>Maple Leaf Gardens Bldg. &ldquo;HOME OF THE LEAFS&rdquo; 458 Church Street, Toronto 5, Ont.</b></p><p>Phone: EM. 3-9447<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Defenseman Doug Harvey, often called the greatest defenseman this game has ever seen, was the big gun for the Canadiens as they came out of the doldrums of a six game non-winning streak last week. In the half dozen games, they tied three and dropped three. Fans were beginning to worry about the big Red Machine, that was supposed to run rough-shod over everything on skates this season. They did it for 18 straight games, and then had their streak broken on December 2nd by the Leafs in a thrilling 1-0 game in Toronto. They didn&rsquo;t win again until December 17, when they got revenge from a 8-2 whipping over the same Leafs.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1310/1693838-1-eng-US/f0008-132.jpg" title="f0008-13" width="271" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption></div><p><b>It was plain to see that the Canadiens were going to shake their streak from the opening gun of this game. It was evident because back at the blueline Harvey was knocking over the Leafs like ten pins. It&rsquo;s a well known fact that as the &lsquo;Great Harvey&rsquo; goes, so go the Champions. It was never more evident than in this game. Doug led the charge offensively and defensively. He picked up one goal and added two assists for three points. He took charge, and made the Leafs play the game the way he like it, rough and fast. Saturday night, December 19 it was Harvey night again as he led the Habs to a comeback win over the Rangers. It was 5-3 this time, and he scored one goal and added an assist.</b></p><p><b>Harvey has been the Canadiens leader for many years now, but his greatness was never more in evidence than in these two games. Not only did he hand out-bruising bodychecks all night, but he was the key man in keeping things orderly in his own zone. He carried the puck out. of his own end time and time again. On the penalties he stopped rush after rush of both the Leafs and Rangers. On the power play, from where he scored his two goals, he had control of the puck from start to finish of each penalty. Harvey played a total of at least 80 minutes in the two games.</b></p><p><b>His total for the season is now five goals and 11 assists for 16 points. Harvey, after a injury filled 1958-59 is certainly the Harveys of old. There is no doubt that he is on his way to another All-Star year, either.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-13

Player-of-the-Week

<h2>Reds On The Move</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Providence Reds made three player moves during the week. They loaned the Boston Bruins of the NHL, Defenseman Larry Hillman for two games. They send Don Blackburn, to the Victoria Cougars of the WHL, and took Stan Baluik back from the Bruins. Baluik was up to replace an injured Bruins player.</p><h2>Bears Big Bad Bears</h2><p>The Hershey Bears are the real bad men of the AHL. They spent 680 minutes in the penalty box in the first 30 games this season. That&rsquo;s 329 minutes more than the next team, the Providence Reds. The Reds had totaled 451 minutes in 31 games. The Bears have a total of threenatch misconducts so far this season.</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p>(Standings On Tues., A.M., Dec. 22)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02342/1693939-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="595" height="213"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15 Rochester 2 at Quebec 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03295/1693932-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="582" height="538"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 Providence 8 et Buffalo 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04252/1693925-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="589" height="667"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19 Rochester 5 at Cleveland 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07152/1693918-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="596" height="797"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 4 at Hershey 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08141/1693911-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="589" height="704"></div><h3><b>Providence 3 at Springfield 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09136/1693904-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="590" height="742"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20 Rochester 4 at Buffalo 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10123/1693897-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="589" height="669"></div><h3><b>Hershey 2 at Providence 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11101/1693890-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="584" height="491"></div><h3>Springfield 4 at Quebec 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1269/1693883-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="593" height="567"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p>(Including Games Of Sun., Dec. 20)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05194/1693876-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="600" height="499"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p>Most Goals&mdash;Bill Sweeney, Spr., 19</p><p>Most Assists&mdash;Art Stratton, Spr., 33</p><p>Best Goalie&mdash;Ed Chadwick, Roch., 25, 64, 2, 2.56</p><p>Most Penalized Player&mdash;Ron Hers., 117 mts.</p><p>Most Penelized Team&mdash;Hershey, 690 mts.</p><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06163/1693869-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="592" height="314"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>P</span>ROVIDENCE, R.l.&mdash;The Providence Reds crept to within four points of the league leading Springfield Indians last week, by winning two and dropping one.</b></p><p><b>Leading the surging Reds was 5&prime; 9&Prime; Rudy Henry Panagabko, playing his first full season with the Reds and one half of the very successful brother combo. The other brother, Eddie, plays on a line with Rudy and veteran NHL performer Nick Mickoski.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01364/1693970-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="263" height="474"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Rudy Panagabko</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Last week the Reds defeated the Buffalo Bisons right in Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo by a 8-2 score. Rudy netted one goal and picked up two assists for a total of three points.</b></p><p><b>On December 20 as the Reds defeated the Hershey Bears 3-2 in overtime, Rudy scored two goals, the second and the winner at 2:20 of the overtime period. It was the fifth 3-2 game played between these two clubs this season and the third time a decision has been finalized in overtime. It was the first time they had dumped the Bears in overtime. The Bears have done it twice to the Reds.</b></p><p><b>Rudy will be 22 years of next March and seems to be on his way to a fine career. The husky right winger belongs to the Boston Bruins and did have a fling with them in training camp. He wants a trial with the big club because he&rsquo;s sure he can make the grade.</b></p><p><b>Last season Rudy split his time between the Quebec Aces and Providence. He started the season in Quebec and in 37 games scored 19 goals and added a similar number of assists, for 38 points. In the final 27 games with Providence he scored eight goals and added 16 assists for 24 points. Born in Nor-quay, Saskatchewan, Rudy, known as Pete to his teammates, played his junior hockey with the Humbolt Indians of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. He had his first taste of professional hockey in 1955-56 when he played three games for the Victoria Cougars of the WHL. He returned to junior for the next two seasons before turning pro at Quebec.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="byline">By SAMUEL POMPEI</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-13" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1357/1694001-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>General Manager Muzz Patrick of the New York Rangers enjoys a smile with Gump Worsley during the AHL All-Star game at Springfield recently.</b></figcaption></div><p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Lorne (Gump) Worsley had just josted his second straight shutout in nine games with the American League Springfield Indians&mdash;4-0 over the Providence Reds.</p><p>He was removing his gear in the dressing room, when someone mentioned: The Rangers beat Boston again, 4-3.</p><p>&ldquo;Good, maybe now I&rsquo;ll stay in Springfield,&rdquo; the Gumper remarked. &ldquo;I hope they keep right on winning&rdquo;.</p><p>Although Worsley, for the second time in three seasons, was shouldering much of the burden for the Broadway Blues&rsquo; failures, he isn&rsquo;t bitter at anyone.</p><h2><b>Doesn&rsquo;t Want To Move Again</b></h2><p>Now that Gump and his family are settled in Springfield, he just doesn&rsquo;t feel like moving again, not even back to New York.</p><p>His record in Springfield has been fabulous.</p><p>Is isn&rsquo;t only that the Gumper has an average of somewhere around 2.00 goals per game. Rather its the fact that he has been making that &ldquo;big save&rdquo; in almost every game.</p><p>Springfield wasn&rsquo;t running away from the pack during Gump&rsquo;s stay here simply because the Indians have a tremendous offense.</p><p>Gump has had a lot to do with it.</p><p>Besides brilliant tending, Gump also adds other assets to the Springfield club&mdash;his good nature and his enjoyable sense of humor.</p><h2><b>Great For Killing The Blues</b></h2><p>Worsley is always good for a few laughs, especially when things seem the bluest&hellip;That&rsquo;s usually when Gump can come up with his best bits of humor.</p><p>If the Rangers should run into the tough going, no doubt they do the switch in reverse&mdash;send Marcel Paille back to Springfield and recall the Gumper.</p><p>But as far as Worsley is concerned, if they leave him in the American League, he&rsquo;d be the last to complain.</p><p>And Springfield fans would be happy.</p><h2><b>Worsley And The Boss</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Great White Way Does’t Have Any More Appeal For The Gump

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Coach Dit Clapper thought he had a fairly well &ldquo;set&rdquo; club with the arrival of Phil Maloney from the Chicago Black Hawks. With Maloney shuttling passes to Wally Hergesheimer and Lorne Ferguson, Clapper felt his three lines were ready to be matched up with any in the American League.</p><p>Another trio had the recently returned to action Larry Wilson working between Bob Bailey and Dick Gamble while Danny Lewicki centered Billy Dea and Eddie Kachur.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01378/1694032-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="565" height="864"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Howie Glover</b></figcaption></div><p>Howie Glover and Pete Conacher were available for spare forward duties and the Bison defense was five strong with Ivan Irwin returning to join Capt. Gus Mortson, Ron Ingram, Wayne Hillman, and Frank Martin.</p><p>Then the dark clouds began to roll in.</p><p>Bailey became involved in the stick struggle with Springfield&rsquo;s Ted Harris which resulted in a 12-game suspension for the Buffalo right winger.</p><p>Hillman, riding in Ingram&rsquo;s car, suffered an ankle injury when the vehicle was involved in a highway accident. Wayne was gaining more and more attention by his fine play at the time he was forced out of the lineup.</p><p>Glover seized the chance to play regularly again as Bailey&rsquo;s replacement and had his best scoring night as a Bison against Hershey on Sunday, Dec. 13. He hit for two goals as the Herd skated to a 5-2 win to move into fourth place ahead of the team which defeated it in the Calder Cup playoff finals last spring.</p><p>Ferguson became a member of the walking wounded in that Hershey contest, sustaining an injury to the big toe of his left foot when he was struck by a shot in the second period.</p><p>The toe was discolored and the nail had to be punctured at the game&rsquo;s end to relieve the pressure.</p><p>On the brighter side, the game was Maloney&rsquo;s second before the Buffalo fans and his ability to manipulate a puck and set up his wings around the enemy net brought repeated cheers.</p><p>The slick working Maloney has scored two goals and assisted on three others in three games with the Bisons.</p><p><b>BISON BRIEFS:</b> The non-playing portion of the Buffalo contingent at the AHL All-Star game&mdash;General Manager Fred Hunt, Manager Frank Eddols and sports writer Dick Johnston of the Buffalo Evening News&mdash;found the&rdquo; hospitality in Springfield outstanding. Johnston, however, did experience some difficulty in filing one of his stories. He had a trick typewriter foisted upon him, making proper spelling almost impossible&hellip;Buffalo fans are getting an idea of what a goaltender in a face mask might look like. Roy Edwards now wears a plastic mask in pre-game warm-ups as well as during practices. Those who shrugged off Jacques Plante&rsquo;s idea of facial protection for goalies are beginning to admit that the wily Montreal puck stopper had the right slant when he predicted the day will come when it will be management that insists on the protectors.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Just When Lineup Looks OK, Herd Hit By Injuries

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div><p>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;</p><p>Gil Boisvert, the smiling French-Canadian who dashed in from Sudbury, Ont. on November 11 to play goal for the beleaguered Cleveland Barons, has dug in and won&rsquo;t get out.</p><p>On loan to the Barons, through the courtesy of the Detroit Red Wings, Boisvert has woven a magie charm about the Cleveland ice gang.</p><p>Through Saturday, December 18, he had played 12 games and given up 26 goals for a 2.16 average, better than that of Ed Chadwick, better than that of Marcel Paille, better than that of Lome (Gump) Worsley.</p><p>He had to be doing the job in order to keep one of the all-time great goaltenders of the American Hockey League up in dry dock.</p><p>But that is exactly what the 26-year-old Boisvert was doing. Ready to resume action was Gil Mayer, five-time winner of the Harry Holmes Trophy as the American League&rsquo;s best goaltender.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02317/1694070-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="297" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gilles Boisvert</b></figcaption></div><p>Mayer was sufficiently recovered from a badly fractured lower jaw, sustained back in October.</p><p>He was so ready that he was nibbling pucks on the sidelines in his anxiety to return to the job that was his before Eddie Mazur&rsquo;s stick sent a rubber bullet smashing into his face during a workout.</p><p>But the Barons, with Boisvert, had won seven, tied three and lost only two. They were rising in the standings after an early season series of misfortunes.</p><p>Coach Jackie Gordon was not in the mood to bust up a winning lineup, even if the Barons had to play with General Manager Jim Hendy in the nets.</p><p>Boisvert was really doing a fine job, the best job of plugging the Cleveland cage since Johnny (China Wall) Bower had frustrated the enemy. This, of course, does not include Mayer, who really never had a chance to demonstrate his skill during his nine-game tour.</p><h2><b>Has Mask But No Job</b></h2><p>Mayer was working daily in the Cleveland drills, his face protected by the custom-tailored mask built for him in Montreal.</p><p>He declared that he was very happy with the mask, claiming it was everything Jacques Plante had claimed it was.</p><p>&ldquo;I only wish I could get a chance to use it in a game,&rdquo; said Mayer.</p><p>This frustrating layoff for Mayer was annoying in still another way.</p><p>For three seasons at Hershey he had split the goaltending with Bobby Perreault, with Perreault eventually taking over completely when the Bears&rsquo; Frankie Mathers decided to abandon the alternating goalie idea. payer&rsquo;s removal from a regular goalie spot at Hershey had been started by a faulty knee that eventually was operated upon. The layoff in that instance was the first obstacle in his crack at a regular job.</p><p>When he came to Cleveland this season in the deal that sent Bucky Hollingworth and Claude (Baba) Dufour to Hershey, Mayer was elated with the prospect of once again belonging to a club that intended to make use of his proven talents.</p><p>Then came the shot that smashed his jaw. Then came a procession of replacements that included, besides Boisvert, Don Rigazio for three games and Claude Cyr for two.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04209/1694063-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="282" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gil Mayer</b></figcaption></div><p>It appeared that so long as the Barons continued successful, and so long as Detroit did not summon Boisvert as they did for a three-game stint when Terry Sawchuk was ailing, Mayer would have to view his hockey games from the grandstand.</p><p>Meanwhile, Gordon was elated with the sudden surge of his club which was playing a magnificent brand of hustling hockey.</p><p>Typical of the fine protection they were giving Boisvert was their 8-3 triumph over the Buffalo Bisons in Cleveland Saturday, December 12. It was not until 13 minutes of the first period&rsquo; had elapsed that Buffalo got its first shot at the Cleveland cage. In all the Bisons had 19 for the game while Cleveland hit Roy Edwards with 43, plus eight that he failed to get.</p><p>In this game, Capt. Fred (No Kid) Glover, the Barons great right wing, broke the all-time scoring record for the league with his 745th point, topping the former mark held by Fred Thurier.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Fill-In Gil Keeping Gil From Net Work

<h2><b>Star Gama For Jan. 12th.</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he annual All-Star game will be played in Edmonton Tuesday, January 12, 1960. It will be the members of the Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg teams against members of Spokane, Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle clubs. This will be the third meeting of the Prairie and Coast All-Strae. The Coast holds decisions in both games played, 5-3 and 6-3.</p><h2><b>Allan, Kyle Coach Stare</b></h2><p>Keith Allen of the Champion SeattleTotems will coach the Coast All-Star team and Gus Kyle of Calgary, last year&rsquo;s finalists, will coach the Prairie All-Star sextet. One goalkeeper, four defencemen and ten forwards will be selected to both teams. Proceeds of the game go to thePlayers Benefit Fund.</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p>(Standings On Tum.. A.M., Dat. IS)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01377/1694216-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="595" height="212"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8 Vancouver 3 at Edmonton 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02334/1694209-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="581" height="444"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9 Spokane 0 at Victoria 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03272/1694202-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="582" height="367"></div><h3><b>Vancouver 3 at Calgary 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04218/1694195-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="582" height="463"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 1 at Winnipeg 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05181/1694188-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="579" height="415"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 Edmonton 3 et Winnipeg 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06162/1694181-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="582" height="569"></div><h3><b>Spokane 4 at Seattle 12</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07144/1694174-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="597" height="896"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 Vancouver 3 at Spokane 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08139/1694167-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="576" height="440"></div><h3><b>Seattle 1 at Victoria 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09131/1694160-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="575" height="389"></div><h3><b>Winnipeg 2 at Calgary 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10113/1694153-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="582" height="491"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13 Vancouver 5 at Seattle 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1193/1694146-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="579" height="566"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p>(Including Games Of Sun., Dec. 13)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1361/1694139-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="595" height="426"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1439/1694132-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="593" height="315"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p>MOST GOALS</p><p>Sid Finney, Calgary, 21</p><p>Bill MacFarland, Seattle, 21</p><p>MOST GAME WINNING GOALS</p><p>Sid Finney, Calgary, 5</p><p>Art Jones, Victoria, 5</p><p>MOST ASSISTS</p><p>Guyle Fielder, Seattle, 27</p><p>MOST GAME WINNING ASSISTS</p><p>Colin Kilburn, Vancouver, 6</p><p>MOST FIRST GOAL OF GAME</p><p>Danny Belisle, Vancouver, 5</p><p>MOST HAT TRICKS</p><p>Bill MacFarland, Seattle, 2</p><p>MOST SHUT OUTS</p><p>Hank Bassen, Vancouver, 3</p><p>MOST PENALTIES</p><p>Frank Arnett, Seattle, 75</p><p>Larry Cahan, Vancouver, 74<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>The inevitable was bound to happen. During the earlier stages of the Western Hockey League whirl, unfamiliar names such as Boileau, MacFarland paced the scoring parade.</p><p>But Fielder&rsquo;s back in town. Guyle Abner waited and came on with a final splurge during the past week (Dec. 15) and rushed into a one point margin over teammate Bill MacFarland of the Seattle Totems.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1283/1694247-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="285" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Larry Cahan</b></figcaption></div><p>The perennial scoring champion&mdash;four times in a row&mdash;has 17 goals and has helped out on 21 others.</p><p>Fielder, a native of Potlach, Idaho, credited with receiving Pacific Coast League rookie award, the Dudley &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Garrett Memorial trophy, WHL most faluable player award and also holder of the league&rsquo;s scoring record looks likes he headed for the glory again.</p><p>Another teammate by the name of Marc &lsquo;The Shark&rsquo; Boileau remains in fourth spot with 37 points.</p><p>A pair of veterans, Rudy Filion of Seattle and talkative Eddie Dorohoy share third spot.</p><h2><b>Dorohoy No Problem Child</b></h2><p>Speaking of Mr. Dorohoy, his boss Chapman doesn&rsquo;t know where the so-called experts in the circuit get this bit about Eddie being a problem child.</p><p>&ldquo;He hasn&rsquo;t given me one minute&rsquo;s trouble. He&rsquo;s the first man out for practice and a hard worker. Sure he talks a lot but that doesn&rsquo;t bother me,&rdquo; said Chapman.</p><p>Spokane Comets&rsquo; hard-working winger Al Johnson is fifth with 16 goals and 17 assists.</p><p>Tied with him is Calgary&rsquo;s sneaky Sid Finney. Canucks&rsquo; Colin Kilburn is fifth with 36 points.</p><p>Finney and MacFarland race the league in goal scorink ranks having registered 21 so far&hellip;it looks like a great year for both.</p><p>Victoria&rsquo;s personable Art Jones has scored five game winning markers to lead that department while Fielder&rsquo;s 27 assists is tops among the playmakers.</p><p>Hank Bassen is making Eddie Shore look very good these days.</p><p>Mr. Shore remarked that Bassen is one of the top goalies in hockey today, not to long ago, well the freckled faced Calgarians heads the overhall goals-against average with a 2.45 record. Aside to NHL clubs&hellip;when will anybody get the brainware to grab hold of Bassen&hellip;he sure could help the likes of Rangers or the Hawks!</p><p>Following Bassen is veteran twinetender Marcel Pelletier of the Cougars with a 2.46 average.</p><p>Sin-bin honorsv?) are held at the moment by Seattle&rsquo;s Frank Arnett.</p><p>And while the former Larry Cahan Ranger rearguard has spent 74 minutes in the penalty box, he has made up for it by his smooth and authoritive style on the blueline for the west coast aggregation.</p><p>Perrennial bad man Frank Arnett has 17-minutes in the bin.</p><p><b>SLAP SHOTS&hellip;</b> Tony Leswick of the Detroit Red Wings was once considered the greatest needier of them all&hellip;but now there&rsquo;s Jack Bionda&hellip;the giant rearguard now with the Victoria Cougars, really likes to put the needle in deep.</p><p>Take for Instance the recent game that the Cougards visited the Calgary Stampeders&hellip;Stamps young rearguard Rino Robazza had just entered the sin-bin for fighting twice with Jim &lsquo;Redeye&rsquo; Hay.</p><p>Jack Bionda, considered the greatest lacrosse player in the world, skated slowly over to the penalty box and hollered to Robazza, &ldquo;Hey, kid you&rsquo;re smart, leaving your club with only two defencemen.&rdquo;</p><p>Then Bionda really got Robazza into a rage by taunting him into a fight and calling him yellow.</p><p>Rino came close to leaving the call, but changed his mind, Bionda would have loved to see the kid get more minutes in penalties.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Fielder And MacFarland Play Tag In Western Scoring Mart

<p class="dropcap"><span>V</span>ANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;The Western Hockey League lost one of its most colorful and best hockey players when Eddie Dorohoy of Vancouver suffered a compound fracture of his right leg while his team were degeating the Seattle Totems in Seattle Sunday, Dec. 13, 5-3. His loss will be a great blow to his team and the league in general as Eddie was top attraction in every city he played. Doctors estimate he will be out from twelve to sixteen weeks.</p><p>Emile Francis of Spokane and Bev Bentley of Seattle, both goalkeepers suffered injuries in the Friday Dec 11th game in Seattle. Francis dislocated his shoulder and was unable to finish the game. Bentley required several stitches above the eye when his head hit the ice in a scramble in front of the Seattle net. The game was held up 40 minutes when Francis was hurt and another 15 for Bentley.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Dorohoy And Francis Lost To Clubs For Long Period

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The hottest news along the Ontario senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey rialto is the suspension of operations by the Chatham Hockey Association after a four-year battle to stay alive. The Chatham Maroons have cancelled the remaining games of the OHA schedule, but the other four clubs in the group, Whitby, Windsor, Belleville and Kitchener, and OHA officials are expected to step into the picture, if they have not already done so before this appears in print, in an effort to assist with the organization of another group of Chathamines to continue senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey in Chatham. Earlier the other clubs announced that if the Chatham organization suspended operation of the Maroons it would not necessarily mean that Chatham would be deprived of senior hockey.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01371/1694309-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="297" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Bell</b></figcaption></div><p>Withdrawal of the Chatham Maroons is said to belowing to lack of funds. Although serious financial difficulties have been openly discussed since the first of the season, the announcement came as a blow to die-hard hockey fans. It was indicated that financial commitments of the association will be honored although the association is in the red.</p><p>The hockey association made up of promient Chatham and area residents with an interest in hockey was formed in August, 1955, when the team faced an earlier financial crisis. Under association direction, and with fiery Murph Chamberlain as coach, the Maroons moved from a last-place senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA team into Allan Cup contention. The Maroons again led the league last year, and barely missing on a second chance at the Allan Cup.</p><p>This year, the association and team encountered difficulties from the first &#2404; of the season, especially in dwindling patronage. The association asked the Community Centre Commission to agree to a reduction from 15 to 12&frac12; per cent in the commission&rsquo;s share of game revenues.</p><p>Although this request was refused at the beginning of the season, the commission indicated more recently it was prepared to re-open negotiations, in an effort to keep the team from folding in midseason.</p><p>Maroons were required at the start of the season to post a $2,000 performance bond but they failed to do so. Nor did they contribute the ten per cent of gross gate receipts to the league pool, as they were required.</p><p>At a meeting of the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; clubs in Toronto, Dec. 12, the Maroons were ordered to fulfill their bond and pool obligations or lose their league franchise. Chatham was not represented at the Toronto meeting but A. L. (Mark) Hanna, president of the hockey association, was quoted as saying the bond had not been posted because &ldquo;we didn&rsquo;t have the money.&rdquo;</p><p>Explaining why the team has not contributed to the league pool, Hanna said Maroons &ldquo;objected to the pool from the outset. We didn&rsquo;t want it.&rdquo; Hanna also added that other clubs still owe them money,, and last season Chatham contributed more to the pool than any other club. The pool was created to cover travelling expenses, officials&rsquo; pay and other administrative matters. Any surplus at the end of the season is split up among the clubs. Lorne Cook, Kingston, past president of the OHA and senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; convener, revealed at the Toronto meeting that the pool fund had approximately $4,300 in the cash box.</p><h2><b>Windsor Drawing Wall</b></h2><p>Elsewhere the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA group is progressing favorably, and good crowds are reported at Kitchener, Windsor, Whitby and Belleville. Windsor Bulldogs, having most of their home games on Sunday, are outdrawing the other clubs at the gate, but now that Kitchener voters have endorsed Sunday afternoon sports by a large majority, you can figure on the Dutchmen staging some of their games on the sabbath, as other branches of sport in Kitchener expect to do, and indications are that patronage will increase considerably.</p><p>Kitchener Dutchmen have released leftwinger Ron Muir to Belleville McFarlands. Muir, who played for the defunct Cornwall Chevies last season, was given his release for this season only, with Belleville having an option to complete the deal next winter. Belleville also holds the playing rights to Minnie Menard, who jumped to the United States and played for a New York team without securing his release and transfer. This brought a threat from George S. Dudley, secretary manager of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, that a protest would be lodged with the International Ice Hockey Federation, but Tommy Lockhart, president of the Eastern United States Amateur Hockey League and owner of the New York Rovers with which Menard was playing, avoided this action by an nouncing that he had dropped Menard as soon as he learned that the player had not complied with existing regulations between IIHF affiliates. Menard will not return to play for Belleville, so the report goes, but the McFarlands propose using him as trade bait.</p><p>Belleville is still scouting around for a goalie, because Gordie Bell has not recovered completely from a serious eye injury caused by a flying puck and Cesar Maniago is only on loan to the McFarlands from Kitchener Dutchmen until Jan. 1. Belleville would like to land goalie Marve Edwards, who was in a somewhat similar spot as Menard, for hopping to the Milrelease and transfer, but the ask-waukee club without securing his ing price is said to equal that of the National Hockey League.</p><p>Milwaukee finally paid the Kitchener Dutchmen $150 for expenses incurred by the Twin City club in the Edwards case. Edwards, now cleared to play in the United States, is reported anxious to return to the senior OHA. Apparently he found that things were not all they were pictured to be in the International League. The price now might be in the $2,000 range for a release since Milwaukee paid $1,500 to Pete Palangio, former operator of the North Bay Trappers in senior hockey, to get Edwards in the first place.</p><h2>OHA SENIOR &lsquo;A&rsquo; STANDINGS</h2><p>(On Fri., A.M., One. 18)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02294/1694302-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="590" height="158"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Chatham Fighting For Survival In OHA Senior Loop

<div class="byline">By HANS TANNER</div><p>ROCHESTER, N.Y.<b>&mdash;</b></p><p>The Rochester Americans have a serious contender for their first American Hockey League goal-scoring champion again this season.</p><p>Last year it was rookie star Billy Hicke who had the chance, but his 41 goals finished two behind Ken Schinkel of Springfield.</p><p>Stan Smrke, a 31-year-old AHL sophomore, is the man to watch this season.</p><p>As the 1959-60 campaign passed the one-third mark, Smrke owned 14 goals for the 24 games played by the Amerks. At this writing, Rochester has 48 games left, and that&rsquo;s the point in Stan&rsquo;s favor.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03227/1694340-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="540" height="598"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Stan Smrke</b></figcaption></div><p>Bill Sweeney of Springfield and Willie Marshall of Hershey each have 17 goals at this writing, but both clubs have only 43 games left to play. Runnersup are Springfield&rsquo;s Floyd Smith and Ray Ross of Providence only 41. Harry Pidhirny of Springfield has 15 goals and Michel Labadie of Cleveland is tied with Smrke at 14. Cleveland has 46 games remaining.</p><p>So, although five other American Leaguers have triggered more goals than Smrke, at this writing, Stan has enough games in hand to catch all of them.</p><p>The 5-11, 180-pound left winger has netted two goals in four different games this season. And if the saying is true about the value of a hockey player being proved on the road, Smrke measures up pretty good. He&rsquo;s made seven goals in 10 contests on foreign ice, and seven in 14 home outings.</p><p>Stan was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on Sept. 2, 1928. His first six seasons of pro hockey were spent with Chicoutimi in the Quebec League. Smrke tallied 35 goals in 1952-53 and had three straight 20-goal campaigns from 1954-55 through 1956-57. He had 20 goals in only 33 games in 1956-57 before moving up to Montreal&rsquo;s Canadiens.</p><h2><b>Stan Replace Carter in Hab Agreement</b></h2><p>Smrke played only a total of nine games for Canadiens that season and the next before coming to Rochester. Twenty goals was Stan&rsquo;s output in 63 AHL games with the Amerks in 1957-58.</p><p>For some still unexplained reason, Smrke didn&rsquo;t return to Rochester the following year, even though his 20 goals was fourth high for the club.</p><p>Stan earned himself another step up the hockey ladder with 36 goals and 32 assists in 57 games with Chicoutimi in 1958-59.</p><p>Under the agreement made when Toronto bought out Montreal&rsquo;s interest in the Amerks during the summer, the Canadiens were to return all of last season&rsquo;s players which they had here.</p><p>But Leaf officials didn&rsquo;t want Billy Carter, who currently is going great for Ottawa-Hull in the Eastern Pro League. Toronto brass finally got Montreal to send Smrke instead of Carter.</p><p>With all due respect to Carter, Amerk fans are very satisfied with the switch.</p><p><b>ICICLES</b>&mdash;Goalie Ed Chadwick would just as soon forget third periods in Springfield. Chad, playing the last half of the All-Star Game in the nets for the All-Stars, had to dig five pucks out from behind him in the third period on Dec. 10 when Springfield zipped to an 8-3 triumph over the All-Stars. Then two nights later, in a. regular league contest, Bill Sweeney beat Chadwick three times in the closing minutes to lift the Indians to a 5-3 win. But Chad did give the crowd in Springfield a thrill when he stopped another penalty shot&mdash;his second of the year. Sweeney, who had made three goals in rapid fashion, was given the try for No. 4 on the penalty shot, but Chadwick foiled him.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-03

Amerks Smirking Over Smrke’s Output

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div><p>&mdash;FT. WAYNE, Ind.&mdash;</p><p>Some people describe hockey as mayhem on ice. Others consider Ft. Wayne Komet defenseman, Connie Madigan, mayhem on skates.</p><p>Madigan, a bruising 5&rsquo; 9&rdquo; 175-pounder from Port Arthur, Ontario, is the current rage of the International Hockey League. He is a marked man&mdash;everyone is on the lookout for him.</p><p>Connie&rsquo;s coach, Ken Ullyot stated, &ldquo;I think everyone is picking on him, but he sure as h&hellip;can take care of himself. No one has whipped him yet and I don&rsquo;t think anyone will.&rdquo;</p><p>Madigan has become the &ldquo;darling&rdquo; of the Lt. Wayne fans and according to Ullyot, is one of the most popular players ever to appear in Ft. Wayne.</p><p>When Ullpyot was asked how Madigan&rsquo;s play faired, he commented, &ldquo;He is playing very well defensively and think he&rsquo;s better than in past year from what I can see.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I started my minor hockey in the Lakehead region,&rdquo; related Con, &ldquo;playing my last season in junior with the Port Arthur West End Bruins. In 1955-56 I played for the Penticton Vee&rsquo;s in the Okanagan Sr. League and the past two years in the Western International with Vernon and Nelson respectively.&rdquo;</p><p>The 24-year-old Madigan, who last season was named to the WIHL all-star team, works for the public utilities department during the off-season in Port Arthur.</p><p>Asked if he had any trouble with any of the players in the league, he replied with, &ldquo;The only guy I can&rsquo;t stand is that Ronnie Spong of Louisville. He&rsquo;s always yappin at someone. He spends more time refereeing than playing I got him once this year and if he says anything more to me, he&rsquo;ll get another dose.&rdquo;</p><p>Right then Ullyot interjected with, &ldquo;Spong should have been a soccer player&mdash;then he can do all the kicking he wants.</p><p>&ldquo;It seems to me every time we play Louisville, they antagonize us. However, they always seem to finish on the short end of the battles.&rdquo;</p><p>The battle is on. it should be a real donnybrook when the Komets travel to Louisville on New Years Day. Leo Gasparini, Louisville General Manager, stated, &ldquo;You probably have heard of the &lsquo;St. Valentine&rsquo;s Day Massacre&rsquo;, now you will hear of the &lsquo;New Year&rsquo;s Day Massacre&rsquo; when we are through with Ullyot&rsquo;s crew.&rdquo;</p><p><b>IHL NOTES:</b> Louisville&rsquo;s Chick Chalmers raised his scoring lead to 39 points, 17 of them goals&hellip;, St. Paul&rsquo;s Aggie Kukulowicz along with Chalmers went one up on Johnny Goodwin of Omaha in the assist department with 22&hellip;Madigan only incurred three minors during the week for the top penalty in minutes man with 97&hellip;A few player changes were made in the week&hellip;Indianapolis sold winger Garth Hayes to Louisville&hellip;The Rebels sent winger Ted Wright to Toledo&hellip;Toledo sold winger Paul Strasser to Ft. Wayne, signed center Eddie Busch Iplayed with Indianapolis last season), placed defenseman Ken Willey and Joe Palano on waivers and made a trade with Omaha&mdash;swapping Russ McClenaghan and Ray Dupuis for Hank Marczak&hellip;Omaha re-signed defenseman Don Busch and released Bill Rawson&hellip;</p><h2><b>Blueline Belter</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04168/1694371-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="556" height="675"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Connie Madigan</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0012-04

Louisville, Fort Wayne Clash Starts With Battle Of Words

<h2><b>Lights Out In Kingston</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen the power went off the third time, for keeps, with only seven minutes plus, played in the third period, the Sudbury Wolves-Frontenacs game on December 12 at Kingston was halted. Orders from league headquarters have not yet made clear when the remaining time will be played out.</p><h2><b>Father And Son Act</b></h2><p>When Bob Wilson, robust defenceman, was switched from Calgary Stampedors of the WHL to the Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds in a deal completed last week, the EPHL made up a father-and-son act. Bob Wilson, Sr., long time scout for Chicago Black Hawks, is also general-manager of the Soo team.</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p>(Standings On Tues., A.M., Dec. 22)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03303/1694458-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="595" height="191"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15 Hull-Ottawa 0 at Montreal 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04272/1694451-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="540" height="316"></div><h3>Sault 4 at Kingston 11</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05232/1694444-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="596" height="867"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 Hull-Ottawa 2 at Three Rivers 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06197/1694437-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="585" height="313"></div><h3>Montreat 2 at Sault 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07184/1694430-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="585" height="473"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18 Montreal 4 at Sudbury 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08173/1694423-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="561" height="474"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19 Three Rivers 4 at Kingston 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09167/1694416-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="591" height="555"></div><h3>Montreal 4 at Hull-Ottawa 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10161/1694409-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="587" height="549"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p>(Including Games Of Sun., Dec. 20)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11142/1694402-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="598" height="325"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p>Most Goals&mdash;Orval Tessier, King., 26</p><p>Most Assists&mdash;Bill Carter. H.-O., 32</p><p>Most Penalized Player&mdash;Dino Maseotto, T.R., 75 mts.</p><p>Most Penalized Team&mdash;Sudbury, 387 mts.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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EASTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The resurgence of Kingston Frontenacs in the past two weeks has caused the latest buzz in the Eastern Professional Hockey League. The Fronts established a couple of firsts in their uprising, which gave some of the coaches of rival teams a certain secret smugness, even though their own hired hands where somewhat discomfitted by the results.</p><p>All along such crystal-gazers as Murph Chamberlain at Sudbury, Sammy Pollock in Hull, Gerry Desaulniers at Trois-Rivieres and Flyod Curry, the ex-Honest Blocker of NHL Canadiens, now mentor of the Montreal Royals, have stoutly maintained that these Frontenacs were to be feared, like Cassius the villain in Shakespeare&rsquo;s classic &ldquo;Julius Ceasar&rdquo;.</p><p>The Frontenacs, doormats since the first levelling in the new pro circuit, went into Sudbury on December 9 and put a gag on the howling Wolves with a 5-1 trouncing. Next night in the Soo they scatered the Thunderbirds with an 8-1 blast from their shotguns.</p><p>In the Sudbury upset the Frontenacs established their own precedent by gaining their first triumph on foreign ice, and by roundly thumping the Sault Ste. Marie forces they became the first team to travel into the loop&rsquo;s northwest corner and win in both rinks.</p><p>The Fronts looked on the way to make it three victories in a row when they led the Sudbury forces 3-2 in the third period on Saturday of the same week in Kingston. Seven minutes and 36 seconds of the final stanza had swept by on the time-clock when the lights were suddenly extinguished.</p><h2><b>Total Darkness</b></h2><p>This was the third time during the game that that rink was darkened by power-failure. That night a heavy snow-storm with strong winds accompanying had all but paralysed traffic in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec. Power trouble was noted in several centers, though apparently the lower lake region and thousand Island sector was most seriously affected. In the iKngston rink players of both teams stripped and downned street clothes ley canale-light.</p><p>First thought when the power went off for keeps was that the 12 minutes and 24 seconds premaining to be played would be slerved up as part of synthetic &ldquo;double-header&rdquo; upon the next visit to Kingston by the Wolves, scheduled for January 19.</p><h2><b>More Frontenac &ldquo;Firsts&rdquo;</b></h2><p>But that game, indecisive though it was, didn&rsquo;t put a damper on the Fronts&rsquo; notions that they were no longer to be treated like poor relations. Next outing was at home again, the Thunderbirds their foal. Said guests were treated anything but kindly.</p><p>For playing coach Calvin Pearly Gardner, with a &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; by his own handled his mates to a rousing 11-4 victory. This was another &ldquo;first&rdquo; for Kingston. The first time they had achieved double-figures in the scoring column this season. Of course it was Kingston Frontenacs&rsquo; highest output of the campaign.</p><p>Likely Gardner and his henchmen are avoiding references to other high scores this season. They were involved in one that tops it&mdash;but, alas, on the short end.</p><p>The Kingston color-bearers were trounced 12-6 by Royals in the Montreal Forum on November 8. The Soo team were victims of a third outburst of scoring which adorns the EPHL records, a 10-2 humiliation by H-0 Canadiens at Hull on December 6.</p><h2><b>Testier Upsurge</b></h2><p>While Gardner was character of distinction in the most recent goalkeeper&rsquo;s nightare that has afflicted Denis DeJordy it should be mentioned that contributing in a big way to the Frontenacs upsurge has been Orval Tessier, the baldish winger, out of Cornwall, Ont., who has been a big production man everywhere he has played.</p><p>While the Kingston club has been prospering Tessier has taken over the goal-shooting leadership from such early luminaries as Bill Carter of Hull-Ottawa, Tom McCarthy, Sudbury, and Bill Sutherland, oMntreal Royals.</p><p>The EPHL most recent audit showed Tessier with 24 tallies. In the 11-4 holocaust of the Soo T-Birds, Tessier bagged two more markers to up his credit to 25 and 26 in the ledgers, while the Kingston team had reached a total of 123 goals in 28 games.</p><p>At this rate of progress Tessier could easily become 50-goal scorer in the first campaign the Eastern pro loop, unless he hits a period of great drought in the second half of the league schedule.</p><h2><b>Top Sniper</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02335/1694520-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="548" height="901"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Orval Tessier</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Fronts Come To Life On Tessier’s Rash Of Goals

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12125/1694551-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="513" height="579"></div><h2>SIX REASONS WHY IT&rsquo;S BEST</h2><p><b>&bull; It&rsquo;s crystal-clear, allowing full vision&mdash;there are no blind spots.</b><br><b>&bull; It fits well out from the face. The V-shaped opening at the mouth allows free ventilation and the goalie has no trouble talking to his players.</b><br><b>&bull; Adjustable head gear assures perfect fit for men and boys.</b><br><b>&bull; You can goal with confidence. No fear and tension when you wear this face protector.</b><br><b>&bull; Louch&rsquo;s shatter-proof faco masks are already mandatory in several leagues.</b><br><b>&bull; Fogging is eliminated by using Crsytal-Clear Cleaner with AntiFog, compounded especially for this new face protector.</b></p><p><b>You can got immediate delivery on men&rsquo;s and boy&rsquo;s face protectors.</b></p><p><b>For an illustrated folder and the name and address of your nearest dealer in Canada or the USA</b></p><p><b>Write: D. G. LOUCH St. Marys, Ontario, Canada</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE BEST FACE PROTECTOR EVER MADE!

<div class="byline">Al Parsley</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01377/1694489-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="304" height="337"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>ITH THE EASTERN PRO LOOP&rsquo;S schedule now well by the one third mark and driving towards the half-pole, the AllStar store is open for business. This adds interesting and animated discussion such times as people have been able to pause for breath in the midst of Christmas shopping.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s a likely &ldquo;Six&rdquo; to get the debate warmed up. For goals, Denis DeJordy, the bouncing wizard of the Soo T-Birds. Gary Blaine of the Soo, and Moe Mantha of Royals get the nod for defence. Centerman is Billy Carter, the early high scoring phenom of H.-O. Canadiens, Billy Sutherland of Royals gets the call for the leftwing and Sam Bettio of Sudbury Wolves for right-wing.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote"><b>This team was selected during a hot-stove session up in Sudbury the other day, and It&rsquo;s definite that Sudbury hockey fans can never be called &lsquo;homers&rsquo; since they&rsquo;ve picked only one man, Bettio, the personable bloke with the biondish receding hair-line who has been high on the scoring production lines since the first puck was dropped in the new league early in October.</b></blockquote><p>None in other quarters will quarrel with the choice of Bettio, at least not very vociferously. In Montreal and the Province of Quebec generally, there&rsquo;s almost general-assent to the nomination of Billy Sutherland, too. During times of stress and strain Sutherland has played other forward positions besides left wing. So if anyone had another portsider in mind, they could write &lsquo;Sudsie&rsquo;s&rsquo; name in another slot in the ballot.</p><p>What came as a bit of a surprise for Forum fanatics in the metropolis, however, was the high regard held for Mantha. Moe and his intimates, might in the true Christmas spirit, refer dissenters the Biblical quotation &ldquo;That a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.&rdquo;</p><blockquote class="pullQuote"><b>For, while Months has boon regarded at a pretty sound workman by his boss, Floyd Curry, and comes in for a few huzzas now and then from Montreal supporter, very few have fully appreciated the steady and sound service of the tall citizen from North Bay.</b></blockquote><p>Blaine, of course is an old campaigner. His previous post was right wing when he first came out of St. Boniface, Man. to tour the Quebec League. As a rearguard he functioned later, and when he first appeared on the T-Birds back division this season it was noted that he carried a spare tire in the midriff. He shed surplus readily and soon received notices for his able chores as a blocker, a studied feeder on send-off plays to his infantrymen, and one who could relieve pressure on spectacular occasion with a raid or two under his own power.</p><p>The forward line of Carter, flanked by Sutherland and Bettio needs no apologists. The trio had accounted for 63 goals in the last official release of statistics from EPHL headquarters.</p><p>There will be other nominations which will have loyal adherents. For instance Montreal&rsquo;s aficionados will contend that Kenny Mosdell is head and shoulders over every centerman in the Houston circuit; that if he hadn&rsquo;t been injured and shelved for nearly three weeks, he&rsquo;d have had the call over Carter. But it&rsquo;s the accepted code, in these selections, that only able bodied performers be chosen.&rsquo; After all a man can&rsquo;t be an &lsquo;All Star&rsquo; and thus be on call a mythical game when he&rsquo;s in the infirmary or on crutches.</p><p>DeJordy is given the call for goal because of his spectacular work since the season began. He has kept the Soo team from dropping into the league basement at a time when it was a scandal in the EPHL that the T-Birds attack lacked a wallop. It&rsquo;s been testified in cold and stark figures that the T-Birds have been consistently outshot by every opponent. Thus DeJordy&rsquo;s task has been more onerous than that of any goaler in the league.</p><p>Of course there are many other players who should get honorable mention. You&rsquo;ll hear about them before this season is out. Just try this All-Star team for size&mdash;for the present.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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ON THE SIDELINES

<div class="byline">By VINCE LEAH</div><p>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;</p><p>After a brief flurry of excitement created by a sudden surge by Winnipeg Rangers and Monarchs, Brandon Wheat Kings and St. Boniface Canadiens once again took over the command of the Manitoba Junior Hockey league. As this was written these teams once again are deadlocked for first place.</p><p>This reporter had a quick look at the Saskatchewan juniors on the week-end of Dec. 12 but obviously chose the wrong time to watch Flin Flon Bombers and Saskatoon Quakers. The Bombers, home from a long road trip, lost two in a row to Quakers and it was the first time Saskatoon junior teams have won in Flin Flon in a coon&rsquo;s age and Coach Doug Bentley of the Quakers was justifiably happy about it.</p><p>The Quakers were a solid, hardworking side but it was Flin Flon&rsquo;s team we came to watch in an effort to form a comparison with the Manitoba leaguers.</p><p>From what we saw the Bombers would have marked difficulty with either Brandon and St. Boniface and were no better than Winnipeg Braves. But the Bombers could have been leg-weary and they blew a two-goal lead in the third period of the second game to the great dismay of their loyal fans, who could have us believe we saw the Bombers in their poorest performance of the season.</p><p>Flin Flon hockey bugs also point out that two of the mainstays of the Brandon Wheat Kings are Flin Flon kids, George Hill and Wayne Gurba, while they lost Cliff Pennington, who was a Winnipegger anyway to Kitchener-Waterloo seniors. Bombers also dropped Bill Dowhan, a defenceman who promptly was converted into a wing man by Winnipeg Braves. Dowhan has been playing most ably with Braves. These four fellows would spell Memorial cup for Flin Flon.</p><p>Hill is the current scoring leader in the MJHL. His chum, Gurba, is right behind him, which is enough to excite the good burghers of Flin Flon at seeing their native sons do so well away from home. Both are after an education, though, and feel they can&rsquo;t get it making the road swings through the hinterlands of Saskatchewan with the junior Bombers.</p><h2>MJHL TOP SCORERS</h2><p>(On Friday, Dec. 11)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01373/1694582-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="594" height="272"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Leah Views Bombers: Would Have it Hard in Manitoba, He Says

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>HARLOTTE, N.C.&mdash;Veteran defenseman Gordon Tottle was today named coach of the Charlotte Clippers of the Eastern (US) Hockey League. Pete Horeck, who had been coach, has been named general manager it was announced by Clipper president Charles Rock.</p><p>Tottle, a 14-year veteran of the American and Western Hockey Leagues, has been with the Clippers since last season and was team captain this season.</p><p>The Clipper made Gord&rsquo;s debut a winning one, with a 4-3 win over Greensboro.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Charlotte Names Horeck To GM, Names Tottle To Coach

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0787/1694720-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="516" height="670"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>his 96-page book is jam-packed with full-length features about your Tavorite hockey stars biographical sketches and pictures of over 120 National Hockey League players&hellip;birthdates and places of birth too&hellip;All at a glance</p><p>You can&rsquo;t afford to pass up the opportunity of availing yourself of a copy of this outstanding hockey publication.</p><p>SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY!&hellip;ONLY 50 CENTS (Postage Paid)</p><p><b><i>See a picture of every player in the National Hockey League</i></b></p><p><b>HOCKEY ANNUAL</b></p><p><b>P.O. BOX 248 MONTREAL, QUE.</b></p><p><b>Please send copies of the 1960 OFFICIAL HOCKEY</b></p><p><b>ANNUAL at 50 cents each. (No stamps or cheques please).</b></p><p>Name: &hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;</p><p>Street: &hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;</p><p>City &hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; Zone &hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; Prov. or State &hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FIRST EDITION OF THE OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY ANNUAL 1960

<div class="byline">By JOE HOLMAN</div><p>WASHINGTON, D.C.&mdash;</p><p>One of the outstanding early season performances in the Eastern Hockey League&rsquo;s reorganized set-up, this year expanded from six to eight teams, is being credited to the Washington Presidents now skating under the sponsorship of Peter Carver of New York City.</p><p>Carver, the Presidents&rsquo; third owner and sponsor in as many years, is an internationally respected consulting engineer for the construction of ice skating rinks and has assisted in building over 100 such rinks all over the world.</p><p>The new Presidents this season have been entered in the Eastern League&rsquo;s Southern Division otherwise comprised of Johnstown, Pa., and Charlotte and Greensboro, N.C. The Norther Division is made of Clinton, N.Y., Philadelphia, New Haven and the New York Rovers of Commack. N.Y.</p><p>The Rovers and the Greensboro Generals are the circuit&rsquo;s new additions.</p><p>The Presidents finished fifth, and out of the playoffs, in the EHL&rsquo;s six team line-up in 1958-59, but automatically tied the Johnstown Jets for the Southern Division&rsquo;s lead when they won their 10th game in 15 starts by ending Johnstown&rsquo;s winning streak at four straight when they defeated the Jets in a fiercely fought game at Uline Arena, 2-1, last Nov. 24.</p><p>Much of the credit for this strong early season showing must be conceded to Clarence &ldquo;Rags&rdquo; Raglan, Washington&rsquo;s polished, and hustling, player-coach and defenseman, who formerly skated with the. Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>However, the man who actually assembled the talent that could make the Presidents a championship contender this season is Ray Miron, 36, of Cornwall, Ontario, who had managed and coached outstanding hockey teams in the Ontario area since his 23rd year prior to taking over as Washington&rsquo;s General Manager.</p><p>Ray&rsquo;s Cornwall Colts won the Quebec Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Hockey Association&rsquo;s championship in 195354 and his team have always finished in the playoffs since he entered Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; competition back in 1952.</p><p>Miron, a former president of the New York-Ontario Hockey League, has been manager of the Cornwall Community Arena for the past nine years, and general manager of the Cornwall Chevies of the Eastern Ontario Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Hockey Association for the past three.</p><p>He selected Raglan as the Presidents&rsquo; new player-coach after being impressed by Raglan&rsquo;s performance as a player and obvious qualities of leadership when &ldquo;Rags&rdquo; skated with the Kingston Merchants of the Ontario Hockey Association last season. Raglan also had played with Indianapolis and Buffalo of the American Hockey League, prior to turning to his new role of player-coach here.</p><p>Six holdovers from the 1958-59 Presidents, namely: Capt. Moose Lallo, 36-year-old veteran and Lloyd Hinchberger, defensemen; Wally Kullman and Jean Leclerc, centers; Ken &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Davies, left winger, and Steve Kuzma, right winger, have figured mightily in Washington&rsquo;s early season spurt.</p><p>Miron brought with him from the Cornwall Chevies Bob Bingley, a well rounded 30-year-old veteran defenseman, and Daryl MacMillan, a hustling and colorful six foot, two inch, 190 pound left winger, who is just 24.</p><p>Ray also acquired the services of three promising, young skaters under contract to National Hockey League teams in Jacques Caron, 20-year-old goaltender; Tom Clark, 20, a right winger, and Danny Patrick, 21, a speedy center.</p><p>Caron, six foot, one inch, 180-pound&rsquo; goalie, is owned by the Toronto Maple Leafs. Jacques, who advanced the Peterborough &ldquo;Petes&rdquo; to the finals in Canada&rsquo;s Memorial Cup Junior Series last season, appears to have succeeded from scratch this year where no fewer than six goaltenders failed to fill the bill with the Presidents in 1958-59.</p><h2><b>Devoted Men On Presidents&rsquo; Staff</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02290/1694634-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="285" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pete Carver</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03214/1694627-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="279" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ray Miron</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04165/1694620-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="272" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Moose Lallo</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05136/1694613-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="286" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Rags Raglan</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Carver, Miron, Raglan Trio Puts Washinqton Into Contender Spot

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01349/1694751-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Pictured Boston rookie.</p><p>3&mdash;Name given an N.H.L. manager.</p><p>6&mdash;Iron (sym.)</p><p>7&mdash;Initials of Spencer of Springfield.</p><p>8&mdash;Given name of a Detroit forward.</p><p>10&mdash;Doug Harvey was once one.</p><p>12&mdash;Number of goals Forbes Kennedy scored last season.</p><p>13&mdash;An N.H.L. coach answers to this.</p><p>15&mdash;Month in which Allan Stanley was born (abbr.)</p><p>16&mdash;Initials of Amadio of Edmonton.</p><p>17&mdash;Company (abbr.)</p><p>18&mdash;Team once coached by 1 down (abbr.)</p><p>20&mdash;Boston&rsquo;s Bob Armstrong makes his home in this province (abbr.)</p><p>22&mdash;Requisite for signing contracts.</p><p>23&mdash;Ex Ranger, Rene Trudel, operates one.</p><p>24&mdash;These are frozen before each N.H.L. game.</p><p>25&mdash;Colour of the Maple Leafs&rsquo; gloves.</p><p>26&mdash;Initials of a Habitant defenseman.</p><p>27&mdash;Initials of one of the Cherry brothers.</p><p>28&mdash;George Armstrong&rsquo;s father is one.</p><p>31&mdash;Nickname of a former Maple Leaf coach.</p><p>32-Initials of Baliuk of Providence.</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1&mdash;A former N.H.L. coach.</p><p>2&mdash;Canadiens&rsquo; Tom Johnson holidayed here last summer.</p><p>3&mdash;What New York fans used to do to Allan Stanley.</p><p>4&mdash;Maple Leafs received this player in exchange for Noel Price.</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of Schinkel of Rangers.</p><p>6&mdash;Mrs. Babe Pratt.</p><p>9&mdash;Name given MacNeil of Rochester.</p><p>11&mdash;Indefinite article.</p><p>13&mdash;Type of history Bob Armstrong is studying at university.</p><p>14&mdash;A former Detroit netminder.</p><p>16&mdash;Given name of pictured star.</p><p>17&mdash;Former baseball great.</p><p>19&mdash;Most hockey players have strong ones.</p><p>21&mdash;Jack Evans used to drive one.</p><p>28&mdash;Initials of Nykoluk of Hershey.</p><p>29&mdash;7th & 9th letters of the alphabet.</p><p>30&mdash;Initials of Backstrom of Canadiens,</p><h2><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Melnyk</p><p>4&mdash;M.O.</p><p>6&mdash;Ivan</p><p>7&mdash;Howell</p><p>10&mdash;Norm.</p><p>11&mdash;Lies</p><p>14&mdash;Art.</p><p>15&mdash;Bn.</p><p>16&mdash;Dec.</p><p>17&mdash;C.N.</p><p>18&mdash;One</p><p>19&mdash;Cal.</p><p>20&mdash;Rt.</p><p>21&mdash;She</p><p>22&mdash;Oliver</p><p>27&mdash;AY</p><p>28&mdash;Hebenton</p><p>30&mdash;Oy</p><p>31&mdash;R. I.</p><p>33&mdash;Indians</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1&mdash;Mohns</p><p>2&mdash;Lawrence</p><p>3&mdash;Kill</p><p>4&mdash;Mayer</p><p>5&mdash;On</p><p>8&mdash;OO</p><p>9&mdash;EM.</p><p>12&mdash;Ian</p><p>13&mdash;Stanley</p><p>15&mdash;Bentley</p><p>16&mdash;Dorohoy</p><p>17&mdash;Cahan</p><p>19&mdash;C.S.</p><p>23&mdash;I. B.</p><p>24&mdash;Vern</p><p>25&mdash;Enid</p><p>26&mdash;R.T.</p><p>29&mdash;O.H.A.</p><p>32&mdash;A.S.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">By LEN TAYLOR</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association may ask for the suspension of the U.S. Amateur Hockey Association in a quarrel over players.</p><p>George Dudley, secretarymanager of the CAHA, told Ontario senior clubs in a meeting here that he was rapidly losing patience with the USAHA because of its failure to live up to agreements with the CAHA.</p><p>&ldquo;They haven&rsquo;t paid any attem tion to our warnings on ineligible players,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It looks as if the next step is to ask for the suspension of the USAHA.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02309/1694782-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="291" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>George Dudley</b></figcaption></div><p>Presumably this would be done to the International Ice Hockey Federation of which both are members and which recognizes agreements such as those existing between Canada and the U.S. In addition the suspension might conceivably be registered with and recognized by professional hockey.</p><h2><b>Would Hurt World Tourny In 1962</b></h2><p>Since the USAHA provides U.S. national teams in world and Olympic hockey the ramifications could be very wide, especially with the U.S. playing host to the world tournament in 1962.</p><p>Dudley&rsquo;s complaint has to do with a number of senior hockey players from Ontario who are playing with U.S. clubs without releases from their Canadian teams.</p><p>Some of them have finally been suspended after repeated warnings to set their status right. But they continue to play unhampered in the U.S.</p><p>Dudley said that a case in point was that of Minnie Menard, a former Cornwall player, now with a New York club in the Eastern USHL.</p><p>This club is operated by volatile Tommy Lockhart, president of the USAHA. Despite Dudley&rsquo;s warning that Menard is ineligible and under suspension, the veteran CAHA official said, he continues to play on Lockhart&rsquo;s team.</p><p>Dudley added that he had found it almost impossible to get in touch with Lockhart by telephone.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-02

Dudley May Ask IIHA To Suspend Amerk Association In Quarrel Over Players

<div class="byline">By HAROLD M. SHAW</div><p>TOLEDO, O.&mdash;</p><p>Andy Mulligan, general manager of the Toledo Mercurys in the International Hockey League, has taken a swipe at the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association in answer to a recent blast that group sent to the United States.</p><p>The OHA has been complaining about raiding tactics of their U.S. senior U.S. counterparts and recently cited four cases of OHA seniors playing in the United States without obtaining releases.</p><p>The most recent case involves Minnie Menard, now with the New York Rovers; Augie Kuku-lowitz with St. Paul; Phil Goyette with Louisville and Marv Edwards of Milwaukee.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03280/1694813-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="288" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Mulligan</b></figcaption></div><p>However, Mulligan, long a believer in no-raid said the OHA is doing the same thing to him in. the case of Al Cleary.</p><p>Cleary was obtained last year by the Toledo Mercurys from Vancouver, a pro farm club of the New York Rangers, and he played part of the season before being sent to Chatham on loan. However, at the start of this season after a five-game pro try out, Cleary was not sent to Toledo but kept in the OHA, in violation of the player agreement between the two amateur bodies.</p><h2><b>Tried To Make A Deal For Cleary</b></h2><p>Mulligan pointed out that when the pros wanted to give Cleary a tryout this year they requested permission from Toledo because they believed the Mercurys had amateur rights to him.</p><p>Mulligan said, &ldquo;we borrowed Frank Bathgate from Windsor last year, and when the season was over we sent him right back to the Bulldogs.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;But now,&rdquo; he charged, &ldquo;the shoe is on the other foot and our property is being kept and not returned. We have telegrams from Chatham to back up our claims and at the start of this season they tried to deal with us in obtaing Cleary. When we wanted him back they ignored us completely.&rdquo;</p><p>Mulligan added that he was &ldquo;seriously thinking of filing a suit against Chatham.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-03

Toledo Boss Charges Chatham Failed To Live Up To Agreement By Using Cleary

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div><p>ST. CATHARINES. Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Toronto Marlboros continue to pace the seven-team Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit but the surprise team of the teen-age league is unquestionably the Barrie Flyers.</p><p>Given short shrift in pre-season ratings by most Ontario hockey followers, including their own Coach Hap Emms, the Flyers have been in the first division since the early moments of the 48-game schedule.</p><p>A 3-2 victory over Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s in Maple Leaf Gardens vaulted the Flyers into second place in the standing, just three points behind the leading Marlboros.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05181/1694851-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="258" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hap Emms</b></figcaption></div><p>Asked by Toronto Telegram writer Mike Armstrong what had brought about the amazingly strong showing of the Flyers this season, the personable Emms said tersely: &ldquo;a pair of contact lenses.&rdquo;</p><p>It seems that their rookie goaltender, Wayne Rutledge of Huntsville, Ont. had been missing several long shots each game early in the schedule.</p><p>&ldquo;He blew the long ones but made some fantastic stops in close,&rdquo; said Emms. &ldquo;Bill Long (Flyers&rsquo; assistant coach) and I decided to have his eyes examined.&rdquo;</p><p>The examination showed that Rutledge was short-sighted and he was promptly fitted out with contact lenses&hellip;possibly the only goaltender in top flight amateur hockey in Canada to wear glasses.</p><p>Since that time Rutledge has been well-nigh unbeatable and the Flyers have climbed into the runner-up position.</p><p>Rutledge knew that he should be wearing glasses even before he attended the Barrie camp this autumn.</p><p>However he kept the fact secret for fear that the Barrie team wouldn&rsquo;t take a chance on a goaltender who had to wear specs.</p><p>&ldquo;Now that I wear them they help me a lot and make a big difference,&rdquo; said Rutledge.</p><p>And incoming junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; forwards will agree with that statement.</p><p>While the Marlboros continue to pace the pack in the Ontario League, there are definite signs of rumblings from the rear.</p><p>St. Catharines Teepees, pennantwinners last season, have shown a marked improvement in the past two weeks with victories in four of their last five games.</p><p>This was enough to move them from dead last into sixth place, ahead of the still-slumping Hamilton Tiger-Cubs.</p><p>The Teepees included in. their triumphs a 4-2 win right in Barrie, a thumping 8-1 win over Peter-boro and a 4-2 victory over the strong Brockville Canadiens.</p><p>These wins have silenced reports that first year Coach Max Kaminsky might resign from the St. Catharines club.</p><p>With the mid-way mark in the 48-game schedule approaching, Rod Gilbert and his linemate Jean Ratelle of the Guelph Biltmores continue to dominate the league scoring.</p><h2>OHA JUNIOR &lsquo;A&rsquo; STANDINGS</h2><p>(On Thurs., A.M., Dec. 17)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04226/1694844-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="589" height="211"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Amazing Barrie Flyers Credit Contact Lenses For Successes

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div><p>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Doug Bentley&rsquo;s Saskatoon Quakers have finally solved the riddle of Flin Flon and, in doing so, enabled Regina Pats to edge back into first place in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.</p><p>Quakers, paced by a six-goal outburst from right winger Don Wilson, shocked even their most ardent fans by taking a weekend series from the defending champion-Bombers in their own back yard&mdash;7-4 on Saturday and 6-5 in overtime Sunday.</p><p>It marked the first time in four years of junior hockey that Bentley&rsquo;s charges had been able to sweep a series in the northern mining town.</p><p>Regina grabbed the lead at the last minute by nipping Prince Albert Mintos 3-2. Pats now lead Bombers by one point and are five ahead of Prince Albert.</p><p>The Flin Flon sweep was worth five points to Quakers in the unbalanced schedule and put them a like number ahead of the fifth place Melville Millionaires and five back of Mintos.</p><h2><b>Balon Still Ahead</b></h2><p>Bombers wound up an eightgame road trip earlier by spanking Quakers 7-5 in Saskatoon. Right after the game both teams left for Flin Flon and the double leader.</p><p>The Bobby Kirkled Bombers split in two other games last week&mdash;crushing Mintos 10-3 in Prince Albert and bowing 3-2 at Melville. They completed the southern swing with five victories, a tie and two losses.</p><p>Pats rung up four verdicts last week&mdash;stopping Mintos, Moose Jaw, Melville and Estevan. Mintos had a bad week, winning only one in four starts. The lone victory was a 9-6 lacing of lowly Moose Jaw.</p><p>Despite a seven-goal spree in four games by Wilson of Quakers, the. individual scoring lead remained firmly locked in the grip of smooth Prince Albert centre Chick Balon.</p><p>The Minto meal-ticket managed to pad his edge over runner-up Gord Wilkie of Regina to nine points despite the club&rsquo;s poor showing. Balon has 56 points on 25 goals and 31 assists.</p><p>Wilkie also has 31 assists which helps him to a 47 point total. However, he is being hard pressed again by winger Bill Wilkes of Mintos who has 45 points.</p><p>The successful road trip shot two Bombers&mdash;Captain Marcel Rochon and Jim Baird&mdash;near the top. Rochon picked up seven points last week to raise his total to 44, one better than mate Baird, who tallied six goals.</p><p>Wilson climbed into a tie with Baird at 43 points. Baird is now the leading sniper with 29 goals while Wilson rates second with 27. Farmer leader Gord Turlik of Prince Albert scored only once&mdash;his 26th of the season.</p><p>Ernie Dyda of Estevan, out for an indefinite period with a shoulder separation, continues as his club&rsquo;s top point man with 36, good for eight spot.</p><p>Jake Skilnick Sid Garant and Bob Bartlett are sharing the honors for Melville, each with 31 points. Skilnick has counted 24 times.</p><p>Two members of the Moose aw Canucks changed hands last week with alternate goalie Ken Baum Moving to Prince Albert and defenseman Morris Pacula joining Saskatoon.</p><p>Pacula is a graduate of Saskatoon minor ranks and return to Quakers after a year and three months with Canucks.</p><h2>SJHL STANDINGS</h2><p>(On Tues., A.M., Dec. 15)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0297/1694889-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="588" height="240"></div><h2><b>Plasters Bombers</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0199/1694882-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="502" height="854"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Wilson</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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