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January 2, 1960

The Hockey News January 2, 1960

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02302/1718461-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="561" height="266"></div><h2>DECEMBER 26 TO JANUARY 1</h2>26&mdash;Ray Cyr, Vancouver, forward, 1933.26&mdash;Colin Kilburn, Springfield, forward, 1927.26&mdash;Gene Ubriaco, Sudbury, forward. 1937.26&mdash;Norm Ullman, Detroit, forward, 1935.28&mdash;Ed McQueen, Providence, defense, 1935.28&mdash;Harry Howell, Rangers, defense, 1932.28&mdash;Terry Sawchuk, Detroit, goalkeeper, 1929.30&mdash;Dave Rimstad, Edmonton. forward, 1937.1&mdash;Art Jones, Victoria, forward, 1935.1&mdash;Les Colwill, Vancouver, forward, 1935. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Happy Birthday to You

<h2>Rangers Bested Habs At Home</h2>Only the New York Rengert had the better of the Montreal Canadiens on the road last season. The Rangers defeated the Canadiens four times In Madison Square Garden. Canadiens won throe of the seven games played In New York. Canadiens scored 22 agalnst New York and the Rangers scored 23 times on the itabs.<h2>Bruins Happy In Montreal</h2>The Boston Bruins were the most successful club to visit Montreal in the 195859 season. The Bruins, in seven games played at the Montreal Forum, scored three victories over the Champions. Three games were won by the Canadiens and one was tied. The Habs scored 25 goals against the Bruins and the Bears netted 18 times against the Canadiens.<h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Games Of Sun., Dec. 27)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01388/1717818-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="660" height="3658"></div><h3>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1959-60</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0783/1717811-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="594" height="548"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS:</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0866/1717804-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="588" height="162"></div><h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Tues., A.&Mu;., Dec. 29)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02324/1717797-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="593" height="186"></div>Results Of Games Played Week Inding December 27, 1959Wed., Dec. 23&mdash;Chicago 3 at New York 0Fri., Dec. 25&mdash;New York 5 at Detroit 2Fri., Dec. 25&mdash;Chicago 1 et Boston 5Sat., Dec. 26&mdash;Chicago 2 at Montreal 9Sat., Des. 26&mdash;New York 0 at Toronto 4Sun., Dac. 27&mdash;Montreal 3 at Detroit 1Sun., Dec. 27&mdash;Toronto 6 at New York 3Sun., Dec. 27&mdash;Boston 1 at Chicago 6Scheduled Games For Week Ending January 3, 1960Tues., Doc. 29&mdash;Boston at New YorkWed., Dec. 30&mdash;Montreal at TorontoThurs., Dec. 31&mdash;Toronto at DetroitFri., Jan. 1, 1960&mdash;New York at BostonFri., Jan. 1&mdash;Detroit at ChicagoSat., Jan. 2&mdash;Boston at MontrealSat., Jan. 2&mdash;Chicago at TorontoSun., Jan. 3&mdash;Montreal at New YorkSun., Jan. 3&mdash;Toronto at ChicagoSun., Jan. 3&mdash;Boston at Detroit<h3>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23</h3>Chicago 3 at Naw York 0CHICAGO&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Arbour, Evans, Pilote, Vasko, St. Laurent; forwards: Hay, Nesterenko, Hull, Lindsay, &Mu;. Balfour, Sloan, Murphy, Litzenberger, Skov, Wharram, E. Balfour, Mikita.New York&mdash;Goal: Paille; defense: Gadsby, Hanna, Bownass, Howell, Fontmato; forwards: Bathgate, Kabel, Prentice, Shack, Sullivan, Hebenton, Cullen, Schinkel, Popein, Henry, Bartlett.Referee: Powers; linesmen: Patterson, Armstrong.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05139/1717790-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="591" height="434"></div><h3>FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25</h3>New York 5 at Detroit 2New York&mdash;Goal: Paillie; defense: Howell, Fontinato, Bownass, Gadsby, Hanna; forwards: Popein, Schinkel, Shack Sullivan, Bathvate, Hebenton, Brian Cullen, Kabel, Prentice, Henry, Bartlett.Detroit&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Pronovost, Kelly, Godfrey, Morrison, Marcon; forwards: Ullman, Delvecchio, McKenzie, Oliver, Howe, Aldcorn, Melnick, Fontaine, McNeill, Lunde, McIntyre, Barry Cullen.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06108/1717783-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="594" height="644"></div>Chicago 1 at Boston 5Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko, Arbour, Evans, St. Laurent; forwards: Sloan, Litzenberger, Murphy, Hay, Nesterenko, Hull, Mikita, Wharram, Lindsay, Skov, &Mu;. Balfour, E. Balfour.Boston&mdash;Goal: Simmons; defense: Flaman, Mohna, Armstrong, Boivin, Ward, Erickson; forwards: Horvath, Stasiuk, Bucyk, McKenney, Toppazzini, Labine, Leach, Meissner, Gendron, Mackell, Burns.Referee: Buffey; linesmen: Pavelich, Armstrong.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0951/1717776-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="593" height="573"></div><h3>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26</h3>Chicago 2 at Montreal 9Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko, Arbour, Evans, St. Laurent; forwards: Hay, &Mu;. Balfour, Hull, Evans, Litzenberger, Lindsay, Wharram, Murphy, Mikita, Skov, E. Balfour.Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, Langlois, Johnson, Turner, Talbct; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Moore, H. Richard, Bonin, Marshall, Goyette, Pronovost, Provost, Backstrom, Hicke, McDonald.Referee: Eddie Powers; linesmen: Neil Armstrong, Loring Doolittle.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1040/1717769-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="593" height="829"></div>New York 0 at Toronto 4New York&mdash;Goal: Paille; defense: Howell, Gadsby, Bownass, Hanna; forwards: Sullivan, Hebenton, Bartlett Schinkel, Shack, Henry, Popein, Cullen, Prentice, Kabel, Bathgate.Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Stanley, Horton, Baun, Brewer, Rheaume; forwards: Duff, Hampson, Armstrong, Wilson, Ehman, Edmundson, James.Referee: Frank Udvari; linesmen: George Hayes, Bruce Sims.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1134/1717762-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="588" height="566"></div><h3>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27</h3>Montreal 3 at Detroit 1Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, Langlois, Johnson, Turner, Talbot; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Moore, Backstrom, Provost, McDonald, H. Richard, Bonin, Goyette, Marshall, Pronovost.Detroit&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Kelly, &Mu;. Pronovost, Morrison, Godfrey, Marcon; forwards: Ullman, McKenzie, Delvecchio, Cullen, Aldcom, Fonteyne, Melnyk, McNeill, McIntyre, Oliver, Lunde.Referee: Eddie Powers, linesmen: Neli Armstrong, George Hayes.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1220/1717755-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="594" height="467"></div>Toronto 6 at New York 3Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Reaume, Horton, Brewer, Baun, Stanley; forwards: Duff, Armstrong, Stewart, Hampson, Harris, Ehman, Wilson, Pulford, Edmundson, Mahovlich, James.New York&mdash;Goal: Paille; defense: Bownass, Howell, Gadsby, Fontinato; forwards: Shack, Sullivan, Bathgate, Hebenton, Cullen, Kabel, Prentice, Schinkel, Popein, Henry, Bartlett.Referee: Frank Udvari; linesmen: Morrison, Bob Frampton.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1315/1717748-1-eng-US/f0008-132.jpg" title="f0008-13" width="583" height="602"></div>Boston 1 at Chicago 6Boston&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Flaman, Mohns, Armstrong, Erickson, Ward, Boivin; forwards: Bucyk, Horvath, Stasiuk, Mackell, Burns, Labine, McKenney, Toppazzini, Meissner, Gendron, Leach.Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Arbour, St. Laurent, Pilote, Vasko, Evans; forwards: Murphy, Sloan, Litzenbeiger, Lindsay, &Mu;. Balfour, Hay, Skov, Hull, Wharram, E. Balfour, Mikita.Feferee: Dalton McArthur; linesmen: Hull Jackson, Art Skov.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1410/1717741-1-eng-US/f0008-142.jpg" title="f0008-14" width="589" height="543"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAl LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCRLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Can&rsquo;t blame Brian Cullen for being bitter.When the Rangers relieved themselves of $20,000 for the 25-year-old center last Fall you heard all kinds of stories about how Brian would pivot for Andy Bathgate and Dean Prentice and what a line that would be.You heard that he was the answer To the Blueshirts&rsquo; center ice prayers, that he&rsquo;s heady, hustles, and doesn&rsquo;t drink or smoke.Brian, a studious, warm chap who speaks rapidly, heard &lsquo;em too. And, maybe that&rsquo;s why he&rsquo;s been wondering why he and the Blue-shirt bench have become close friends in the last months.Brian has a conviction that he&rsquo;s good enough to play a regular turn with the Rangers. When the Rangers unshackled him from Toronto he figured it was the break of his career.Somewhere along the way, former coach Phil Watson either found fault with Cullen, or just forgot him completely. Whatever, it was, Brian found himself in icedock.Enter Alf Pike.Since Pike was Cullen&rsquo;s coach at Winnipeg it was felt that Alf would recognize Brian&rsquo;s talents. He did but nothing happened.Then, one chilly evening last week, Pike threw the 165-pound St. Catherine&rsquo;s product on left wing with Larry Popein and Ken Schinkel. It didn&rsquo;t seem to matter that Cullen had never played left wing before. So, what happens?By the end of the period, Brian had scored a goal and set up&mdash;and we mean SET UP&mdash;two other key goals in a 6-5 win over Montreal.Cullen was tossing some talcum &bull;powder on his back when he was intercepted in the dressing room after the game.Had he given up on winning a regular berth?&ldquo;Yes, I had,&rdquo; he said quickly.&ldquo;Would you take left wing all the time, if it meant playing regularly?&rdquo;&ldquo;Tonight I felt all right. I don&rsquo;tknow how I&rsquo;d feel&hellip;I&rsquo;ve always been a centerman.&rdquo;Brian said he had no idea why Pike had used him on the port side.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s his business,&rdquo; Cullen said in a business-like way. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t tell him where to play me, I&rsquo;ll play wherever I&rsquo;m told.&rdquo;He pointed out that at left wing he has a man to watch whereas at center there&rsquo;s more room to roam.Another reporter drifted over to Cullen&rsquo;s bench between Larry Popein and Ed Shack. He asked Brian how come he played so little and by now the mild fellow replied not so mildly: &ldquo;Ask Pike, I haven&rsquo;t played regular since I&rsquo;ve been here.&rdquo;.&ldquo;I know one thing, my goals for and against record is a good one.&rdquo;Pike was sought out, found, and asked about his new find.&ldquo;He wasn&rsquo;t in shape,&rdquo; Alf declared. (It should be noted that when Pike says a player is not in shape, he doesn&rsquo;t mean he&rsquo;s not IN SHAPE, he means the player has seen little ice.)&ldquo;I worked him hard in practice and decided to use him.&rdquo;What about Cullen&rsquo;s future, is it on left wing?&ldquo;All my players are big leaguers. As big leaguers they should be able to play all positions.&rdquo;Which may explain why right wing Bathgate is now at center, center Cullen at left wing and the Rangers under Pike are moving toward a playoff berth.<h2>On His Way</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01387/1718081-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="548" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body">Brian Cullen</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Pike Schedules More Ice Time For Cullen In 2nd Half Of Year

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01384/1718662-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="301" height="330"></div><h2>ON THE SIDELINES</h2>&bull; A QUORUM ISN&rsquo;T NEEDED IN THE FORUM&rsquo;S PRESS GALLERY to get a couple of Eastern Pro Leaguers talking about their own shop. In the heat of a big league hockey struggle, or at least between periods they are comparing notes or exchanging chaff.It was in the &ldquo;Kaffee Klatch&rdquo; at one end of the choir loft the other night. Del Dugre, GM Trois-Rivieres Lions, was in town despite the fact the Lions were engaged at Kingston. They had got through early and Dugre was announcing to all within tuning range that Lions had lambasted Frontenacs 4-2 and so had pulled up alongside Royals in the standing. Royals had shot temporarily head by putting a muffler on the Wolves growl the night before up in Sudbury.Dugre took keen delight on twigging Albert Trottier of the Forum&rsquo;s publicity staff. Trottier&rsquo;s special portfolio is to beat drums, blow horns, bugles, slide trombones or any other instrument capable of sound to draw attention to Royals&rsquo; adventures, especially if they win. For Al shows symptoms of acute pain when Royals are losing.&ldquo;Royals are tied with us, but it won&rsquo;t be for long,&rdquo; said Dugre and for the benefit of French-speaking cousins who may not have understood Dugre then employed &ldquo;fran&ccedil;ais&rdquo;. Both Dugre and Trottier are gracefully bilingual.The savants of the EPHL are freely quizzed by visiting hockey executives at all times up in the Forum press row. Lynn Patrick is always present when the Bruins are playing in Montreal. Often Lynn shows up a couple of days ahead of his own club.There was the night earlier in the season when Lynn came over to the &ldquo;Kaffee Klatch&rdquo; asking if there was a ticker around that gave out-of-town scores. There is one below stairs in the Forum, none up where we were, but this agent easily solved the problem when Hector Marchand, affable, and obliging telegrapher passed by.&ldquo;Hey I Hec I Mr. Patrick here wants the score of the game at Kingston in the Eastern Pro League. Frontenacs are playing the Soo.&rdquo;&ldquo;Sure I&rsquo;ll try and get it on the wire,&rdquo; said Hector.Sure enough back he came in a few minutes, but he was discreetly quiet, and approached yours truly first instead of going to Patrick to blurt out the sad news. &ldquo;Kingston is getting beat 5-2 at the end of the second period,&rdquo; he said softly.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s rough, Lynn. Your Kingston club is behind 5-2 after two periods,&rdquo; said this scribe.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll get you the final score later,&rdquo; said Hector.&ldquo;Never mind,&rdquo; said Lynn.You see his Boston Bruins were also getting shellacked by Canadiens, and the Kingston club hadn&rsquo;t begun to flex its muscles for the power it&rsquo;s showing these days, so Mr, Patrick, from Boston, was inclined to take a dim view of life in general.After the game we were speaking of back yonder when Dugre was present, we walked down the stairs with the G.M. from Trois-Rivieres. He stood up nobly to a quick rundown on the Lions&rsquo; progress.Yes, things were merry and bright at the meeting of the three streams. About the coach, Gerry Desaulniers was doing a swell job. He had the knack of handling men, his players all liked him, the Lions were one happy family.&ldquo;But then said,&rdquo; Mons. Dugre with due emphasis, &ldquo;Gerry is such a great fellow, everybody has to like him. A fellow who can&rsquo;t gel along with this Desaulniers, well there must be something wrong with him.&rdquo; And he shrugged in typiaal Gaelic fashion. &#9632;

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Al Parsley

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01230/1719179-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk of the Detroit Red Wings gave our cameraman more to shoot at that he gave the Toronto Maple Leafs in these shots. The Leafs won the game, but it was difficult getting the puck past Terry. In the above shot he deflects the puck past his net and then watches Larry Regan go after it. Larry failed to get to it in time. In the lower picture, Sawchuk makes a save off Leafs&rsquo; George Armstrong while Warren Godfrey (5) and Marcel Pronovost (3) look on.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Mr. Zero Turns Back The Leafs

CHICAGO, III.&mdash;A reliable news source here has reported that the Rangers are about to acquire the goaltending services of Al Rollins from Winnipeg of the Western League. Rollins formerly played in the NHL with Toronto and then the Al Rollins Black Hawks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02156/1719210-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="280" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al Rollins</figcaption></div>Now 33 years old, he had an average of 3.19 in the high scoring Prairie division of the WHL last year and the year before that had a 3.14 mark with Calgary, Chicago&rsquo;s affiliate in the Western loop.A winner of both the Hart and Vezina trophies in his early NHL days, Rollins is still rated highly in many circles. The man who has gotten the Rangers interested is undoubtedly Coach Alf Pike who came to New York from Winnipeg last month as successor to ill Phil Watson. &#9632;

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Chicago Rumor Has Rollins On Way To New York Rangers

BROCKTON, Mass.&mdash;The sad story of the Brockton Hockey Club has ended with its disbanding.The Brockton team gained fame a year ago by winning the United States senior amateur championship in Green Bay, Wise., after winning the New England championship in Lewiston Me.But the Brockton story turned sad this fall when the team, lacking most of the players who were its stars last season, was humiliated in a series of exhibition games in Russia.To add to Brockton&rsquo;s woes, a national sports magazine carried an article charging Brockton players with failing to observe training rules and not being good United States representatives.In the resultant wave of controversy many of the team&rsquo;s officials and directors, some prominent citizens of this area, resigned. Lou Duhamel, the coach, also re: signed before Brockton&rsquo;s first South Shore League game last month at the Boston Arena.After the breakup many of the Brockton players joined the Estes Club of Rockland, Mass., coached by Bill Surette, a former Quebec Aces E defenseman. &#9632;

The Story Ends-Panned Brockton Team Breaks Up

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The Maple Leafs were offering up prayers of thanks to the National Hockey league&rsquo;s schedule-maker last week.A five-day layoff, Sunday to Saturday, was the best possible medicine for the ailing Leafs, who&rsquo;d lost six of the seven games they played prior to the vacation. Leafs arrived at the idle period staggering but in reasonably good shape, as far as the standings were concerned, and coach Punch Imlach was confident that during the holiday, he&rsquo;d be able to get his team back on the rails.Injuries wore his main difficulty. Imlach had only nine forwards on hand for the Dec. 20 game in Chicago. Absent were Bert Olmstead (strained knee ligaments), Dick Duff (twin charley horses), Larry Regan (broken nose and 10 stitches in face) and Ron Stewart (bruised ankle).<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01313/1717045-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="268" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Chadwick</figcaption></div>Complicating Imlach&rsquo;s dilemna was a serious problem in goal. Johnny Bower was benched after missing 28 shots during a five-game losing streak.Ed Chadwick was summoned from Rochester and was beaten nine times in two week-end games, although Leafs got a split on the double-header.Imlach couldn&rsquo;t decide whether to keep Chadwick, return to Bower or arrange a trade for a new goaltender. Bower, he said, needed a rest. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s suffering from shellshock,&rdquo; Imlach claimed.But Chad had his bad moments, too, and he was returned to Rochester.In the American league, Imlach could find one experienced bigtime goalie, Gump Worsley, and two youngsters who are considered NHL material, Bruce Gamble and Roy Edwards.So with all his troubles, plus a bad case of flu, besetting him, Imlach welcomed the five-day hiatus. During that time, he expected to get his own health back, plus that of at least Duff and Stewart. And he hoped he&rsquo;d get his goaltending situation squared away. Imlach insisted the Dec. 19 game with Detroit was a key one.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a big, big game for us,&rdquo; said Punch. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to win that one. If we can beat Detroit, we&rsquo;ll keep pace with them in second place, can afford to lose the next night in Chicago and then we&rsquo;ll have a week off to get the team straightened out.<h2>Losing Streak Not Too Bad</h2>&ldquo;Actually,&rdquo; Punch added, &ldquo;the losing streak hasn&rsquo;t been that bad. We lost six games and five of them were on the road. Naturally, I&rsquo;d rather win. But you can drop a few away from home without hurting yourself too much. As long as you can make up for it at home.&rdquo;Leafs delivered the victory Imlach wanted. By beating Detroit, 4-2, Leafs were able to keep within striking distance of them&mdash;five points back with a game in hand. Moreover, they maintained their bulge over New York, Chicago and Boston.Although the first move in Imlach&rsquo;s shakeup was the removal of Bower, the real trouble during the slump seemed to be up front, Johnny let in 28 goals during the five straight losses, but Leafs counted only nine during the same period&mdash;hardly a winning rate.And the Gerry Ehman-Billy Harris-Frank Mahovlich line, only one which escaped the injury jinx, had produced only 14 goals in 31 games.To sum up, Imlach had almost as many&mdash;and the same&mdash;problems to solve, as he had about a year ago when he took over a really bad Toronto club. Dick Duff was in a slump. So was Mahovlich. The defence was poor. The goaltending was unsteady. Etc., etc.Punch corrected them all and got Leafs into the playoffs&mdash;by the thinnest possible margin and after a desperate struggle.He has one advantage this season. Leafs were second in the league when adversity caught up to them and at writing, their horrid skid had dropped them only as low as third spot, and a very good third at that. They were 11 points clear of fifth place.NOTES: Imlach planned to use rookie Gary Edmundson more and more. Duke, as Edmundson is called, was pressed into regular service in Chicago Dec. 21 because Leafs had the minimum nine forwards. Bumping every one in sight and scoring his first NHL goal, Duke was impressive enough to merit a good shot at a first-string job. Imlach figured, his robust checking would be an asset at centre&hellip;Carl Brewer&rsquo;s puck-carrying has been a highlight of recent Leaf games. Stickhandling deftly, he now penetrates deep into the enemy zone, makes his play or takes his shot and then&mdash;this is his strong point&mdash;hustles back to his defence spot&hellip;Leafs held their annual Christmas party Dec. 22. Trainer Tim Daly, as usual, impersonated Santa Claus&hellip;Regan was to be sidelined at least 10 days with his broken nose, although he was out skating 48 hours after a Gerry James shot smashed his schnozzle. Ron Stewart also was cut down by a teammate&rsquo;s drive&hellip;It would be January before Olmstead would return to the lineup.Leafs have fallen behind Imlach&rsquo;s schedule. He wanted 20 points from their first 20 games. They got 25. He wanted 21 from the second 20. But after 31 games, they had only 34 points. In that second 20-game segment, they had only nine points in 11 games&hellip;Enthusiastic Bobby Baun got one of his rare goals against Terry Sawchuk Dec. 19. He rushed upice and, as he said later, &ldquo;Sawchuk gave me so much goal to shoot at, 1 had to give it a try&rdquo;&hellip;Leafs had Pat Hannigan up from Rochester for one game but were able to return him when Gerry James rounded into form more quickly than expected. &#9632;

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No Panic Button Yet, But Imlach Starts Scanning Minors, Just To Be Ready

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Gary &ldquo;Duke&rdquo; Edmundson of the Toronto Maple Leafs may not be a bona fide major league star, but they love him at Boston College.When Toronto practiced two days at MMcHugh Forum on the beautiful Boston College campus recently, BC undergraduates &ldquo;adopted&rdquo; the big Toronto forward.When Toronto last played the Bruins at Boston Garden Edmundson had his own rooting section of college students who bore a large sign reading &ldquo;BC Loves The Duke.&rdquo;.Punch Imlach, Toronto coach, put Edmundson on the ice once in response to the cheers of his supporters&mdash;and the Duke promptly picked up a penalty. &#9632;

Boston College Students Start ‘We Love Duke’ Club

<div class="byline">Jim Proudfoot</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;When Maple Leaf coach Punch Imlach decided to bench goalie Johnny Bower and replace him with Ed Chadwick, he set off rather complicated series of events.First of all, he called Jack Riley, manager of Rochester Americans in the American league, and informed him he&rsquo;d need Chadwick. Naturally, he&rsquo;d supply a replacement.Now he had to find the replacement.Leafs&rsquo; third-string goalie, Gerry MacNamara, was playing with Sudbury Wolves in the Eastern league. Imlach called the Sudbury team to see if MacNamara could be spared.It was a Friday. Wolves played that night, then, providentially, had a week off. MacNamara could go to Rochester and Bower would have the vacation Imlach figured he needed.MacNamara would play for Wolves that evening in Sudbury, then catch an overnight train to Toronto. Imlach would have a taxi at the station to rush him to Malton airport where he&rsquo;d catch a plane to Cleveland which was where Rochester was playing that Saturday night.Just in case MacNamara missed his connections, Bower was standing by with his gear packed and ready to make the Cleveland trip.But MacNamara showed up. Bower, instead, accompanied Leafs to Chicago that evening.And Ed Chadwick got an unexpected Christmas at home. &#9632;

Recalling Chad Set Off A Chain Reaction In System

<div class="byline">By CHARLIE HALPIN</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Jacques Plante&rsquo;s much admired protective face mask has suddenly become a sore point with the world champion Montreal Canadiens and the man raising the objections is none other than Toe Blake.It seems the Habs&rsquo; coach has some misgivings as to whether the fibre-glass mask is actually what it&rsquo;s cracked up to be.Toe hasn&rsquo;t directly told Plante to unmask, but the inference is if there is any repetition of the &lsquo;loose&rdquo; goalkeeping that accompanied the Canadiens recent 6-5 setback in New York at the hands of the lowly Rangers, then the mask has got to go.Blake, who is a conventional hockey man, earlier this season expressed opposition to Plante&rsquo;s face-piece but permitted his ace netminder to wear it after Jacques sustained a painful face injury after a blistering shot by Andy Bathgate crashed into his hose in a previous New York game.Despite the fact Plante has managed to hold his goals-against average down to normal standards, Blake still wasn&rsquo;t convniced.In recent games his suspicions became more irritated.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve said before that Plante won the Vezina Trophy as top goalie four years in a row without a mask,&rdquo; said Blake. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m wondering if he really needs it now. If the mask is affecting his play perhaps he should try to do without It.&rdquo;<h2>Not All To Blame</h2>Blake said he wasn&rsquo;t blaming Plante entirely for the loss in New York. Some of the Canadians were heavily censured by the coach.&ldquo;The whole team isn&rsquo;t pulling its weight at the moment and they&rsquo;re not checking,&rdquo; blurted the Canadiens&rsquo; pilot.Toe figured if the Habs were to start skating more zestfully again it would tend to take the pressure off Plante and eliminate the unpleasantries of making a decision on the ballyhooed face mask.&ldquo;But,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;we can&rsquo;t go along having five or six goals scored against us either.&rdquo;While Plante has come under fire in Montreal, his mask idea is spreading through hockey like the plague.Don Simmons of the Bruins is wearing one in actual league competition and it&rsquo;s a carbon copy of Plante&rsquo;s.Marcel Paille of Rangers and Toronto&rsquo;s Johnny Bower are both using the mask in practice sessions in a prelude to wearing them in NHL games. -A young University of Toronto goalkeeper climbed over the boards last week in his first league game wearing one and in another part of the city, seven moppet goalies donned masks to guard their eherubic features.In Eastern New York state, a goalie named Don Rich boasted that masks are nothing new. He&rsquo;s been wearing a &lsquo;dome&rsquo; like a jet pilot head piece with a windowed front in regular league play for the New York Rovers. And so it goes.Plante was undismayed by the storm that has blown up over his self-styled mask and assured one and all that he would continue to wear it in NHL action.<h2>Have More Pressing Problems</h2>Canadiens appear to have more pressing problems than whether Plante should or should not wear the mask. They were frantically searching for the right formula to put together some semblance of a winning streak that would last longer than two games. Earlier they went 18 in a line without a loss and looked unbeatable.But the rest of the NHL teams have caught up with them and their mastery through the past eight games has been anything but overwhelming. Their record is two wins, three ties and three defeats, still adequate to keep them on top of the league race.About the only encouraging development has been the club&rsquo;s return to their old time scoring form. In the last three games, they have rattled in 18 pucks with the goal-getting fairly well spread through the lineup. For example, in an 8-2 rout of the Leafs, the Habs had eight different scorers.Big Jean Beuiveau maintained his team scoring lead with 36 points, fourth highest in the NHL. Bernie Geoffrion and Henri Richard were close on his heels with 31 each giving the Canadiens three positions in the top eight point men.<h2>Mask Marvel Unmasked</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02297/1717124-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="553" height="823"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jacques Plante</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Now It Can Be Told: Toe Would Like Plante To Junk His Mask

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Goaler Jacques Plante of the Montreal Canadiens will undergo a series of vision tests with and without his mask.The club management decided last week that it wants to know for sure through scientific tests, whether the mask interferes in any way with Plante&rsquo;s vision. The All-Star goaler says it doesn&rsquo;t.The decision was prompted by the sudden uprise in goals scored against Plante lately. Coach Toe Blake says that &ldquo;he (Plante) seemed pleased about it when told to take the tests.&rdquo;Earlier in the dressing room Plante sat dangling the mask and talking about it.&ldquo;I can see just as well with it on as without it,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t bother me. I can see down at my feet just the same.&ldquo;Soon after I started wearing it I found myself ducking as before. Now I don&rsquo;t do it so much.&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t explain this slump of mine or the team&rsquo;s or whatever it is. With the mask, maybe I might be what you could call a trifle lazy, not intentionally so. I just don&rsquo;t know.&ldquo;I have also been playing with a slight groin injury. Maybe my reflexes aren&rsquo;t quite so sharp in using my legs. Again, I don&rsquo;t know, but I&rsquo;m sure the mask doesn&rsquo;t interfere with my vision.&rdquo; &#9632;

Plante To Be Given Vision Tests With And Without It

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The Montreal Canadiens will be at full strength for the first time in a month, in another two weeks. That&rsquo;s when veteran Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard will return to action after fracturing his left cheekbone in Detroit. It happened on the night of November 26. With less than a minute left in the game he was hit on the side of the face by the puck from a shot by Rookie Murray Oliver of the Wings.Richard had a pin removed from his cheek bone last Monday. It was inserted to hold the boone together following the fracture. He already has resumed skating but won&rsquo;t get into club scrimmages until next week. &#9632;

‘Rocket’ To Return In Two More Weeks

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01312/1717203-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">KEN SCHINKEL&hellip;&hellip;Nothing Bothers Him</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The fragile specks of snow lazily drifted down blanketing the two-family house at 22 Georgia ave, in Long Beach. Inside the downstairs apartment Ken Schinkel, his wife, Shirley, and four year old Ken, Jr., were celebrating the happiest Christmas of their lives&mdash;a yuletide in the big league.Ken will tell you his Christmas present actually was delivered in mid-September when Springfield owner Eddie Shore announced that the New York Rangers wanted to try him out for a few exhibition games.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t get too excited about it then,&rdquo; the 27-year old right wing admits. &ldquo;Shore used to tell everybody they&rsquo;re good enough to play in the NHL so I figured the Rangers would use me a little and send me back.&rdquo;That wouldn&rsquo;t have been so bad either. After five full seasons in Springfield, Ken was becoming as much of a fixture there as the Eastern States Coliseum.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a great hockey town,&rdquo; he says, and I made plenty of friends there so, naturally, I wasn&rsquo;t keen on leaving. I know if the Rangers had sent me to Vancouver I wouldn&rsquo;t have gone.&rdquo;As things developed, Ken played for Vancouver in its west coast exhibition series with Rangers. His disciplined style&mdash;up and down the wing, rugged checking and shots on goal&mdash;impressed the boss-men enough. When the Blues opened the season Oct. 7th at Chicago, Schinkel was on a line with Ed Shack and Earl Ingarfield.A rather quiet type, Ken never got excited about his big move.<h2>Two Goals In 2nd Game</h2>While fasteneing a blue Christmas ball to the tree, he bared his feelings about being buried in the minors.&ldquo;Up until last year I sort of felt I&rsquo;d be in the American League for the rest of my life,&rdquo; Ken admitted. &ldquo;Then, all of a sudden, something happened last year. I just started scoring, and things began to go right.&rdquo;When you&rsquo;re 26 years old and a hockey player by profession, you begin to think. You think about going all the way, making the top. So, Ken thought.&ldquo;I began to wonder,&rdquo; he went on, &ldquo;maybe there was a chance I looked around, Dune Fisher, Willie Marshall and, my own teammate, Gerry Ehman went up, so why couldn&rsquo;t I.&rdquo;Unlike some other NHL hopefuls, Ken did nothing spectacular in exhibition games like decapitating Lou Fontinato or scoring 10 goals in a game.&ldquo;No,&rdquo; he smiled, &ldquo;I just figured I&rsquo;d give my best, if it wasn&rsquo;t good enough, wellll&hellip;&rdquo;Schinkel&rsquo;s NHL premiere against Chicago was less than earth-moving. He had one good chance and that was stopped by Glenn Hall. Ken would rather discuss his second game at Boston.&ldquo;I got two goals,&rdquo; he said vividly, &ldquo;the first was a high shot in the corner, the second a tip-in.&rdquo;He was asked whether he had a special shot.&ldquo;No, I just try to get them on the net.&rdquo;Was he nervous?&ldquo;Nothing up here has bothered me too much. I know most of the other guys. I played against them in the minors.&rdquo;The Schinkel&rsquo;s green Christmas tree now was sprinkled with colors as Ken relaxed. Soon, the conversation got to Ken Schinkel boy.&ldquo;I was born in Jansen, Sask.,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;moved to St. Catherine, Ont. when I was five.&rdquo;When he was 17 years old and playing junior B hockey in Lindsay, Ont., Ken enjoyed one of the great moments of his life. He met Shirley. They were married in 1954 and now live in Fonthill, Ont., where Ken works for the Standard Steel, Co.After gracing the OHA Jr. League with St. Catherine&rsquo;s Teepees (along with teammate Brian Cullen), Ken played for Springfield in the Quebec League in 1953-54 and Syracuse, then an AHL entry.It was during the next Summer that Ken married Shirley. The union was greeted with joy by everyone, it seemed, but Eddie Shore.&ldquo;When Shore found out I got married, he decided to send me to Pembroke,&rdquo; Schinkel said with half a smile in his voice. &ldquo;I guess he figured a fella doesn&rsquo;t play as well in his first year of marriage&mdash;at least that&rsquo;s what he told me.&rdquo;His one-season in exile served, Schinkel was welcomed back to Springfield in the Fall of 1955. Ken says he and Shore have been good friends ever since. Shore says Ken&rsquo;s one of the best hockey players he&rsquo;s had.And, so, the inevitable question&mdash;what&rsquo;s different about the NHL?Up until last season, however, the 5-9&frac12;, 172 pounder was nothing more than a mediocre minor leaguer. Then, vah-voooom! one-by-one he began collapsing roofs over opposition goaltenders.Ken&rsquo;s explanation is that everybody on his club, including Dan Cupid&rsquo;s nemesis, Shore, suggested he shoot more. Until then, Schinkel was like a little boy building castles on the beach. He&rsquo;d always try for the pretty play only to find some mean old defenseman there to break it up.Once Schinkel got the message to shoot last Winter he was a veritable goal machine. He pumped home 43 goals, more than he collected in two previous seasons, and 42 assists.&ldquo;I might&rsquo;ve had more,&rdquo; he suggests, &ldquo;except that I also was killing penalties. You don&rsquo;t get too many scoring opportunities doing that.&rdquo;Perhaps Ken&rsquo;s best night as a professional, came last season when he scored four goals and three assists in a 14-5 rout of Cleveland and its goaltender Gerry McNamara.When Shore gave him the word to report to the Rangers Ken knew he was ready for the supreme test of a hockey player. Like teammate Andy Hebenton&mdash;also a late starting National Leaguer&mdash;Ken became a fixture in an unobtrusive way.He is so retiring that his coach, Alf Pike, had hardly noticed him until the red light went on.One afternoon, a few weeks ago, Pike was asked whether he thought Schinkel deserved top spot in rookie of the year voting.&ldquo;Schinkel,&rdquo; said Alf as if almost doubting his existence, &ldquo;is he a rookie?&rdquo;Pike was reminded that he was.<h2>BLUES&rsquo; BLUE RIBBON ROOKIE &#9632;</h2>

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Figured On Minor League Career For Rest Of His Life

&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a pretty fair hockey player.&rdquo;Alf has since changed his tune about Ken. In fact, now he sings of him in high C (for Calder Trophy).&ldquo;Ken has nine goals,&rdquo; Pike remarked, &ldquo;is there another rookie with o record like his?&rdquo;Rookie talk doesn&rsquo;t exactly move Schinkel. (Come to think of it we don&rsquo;t nkow what does.) He says he has heard no mention of his eligibility for the prize.&ldquo;If it comes, it comes,&rdquo; he says with typical nonchalance. &ldquo;That $1,000 would come in handy though.&rdquo;Since we mentioned it, Ken said he figured that Murray Oliver of Detroit, and Red Hay and Stan Mikita of Chicago were his threats for the rookie throne.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m hoping to get 20 goals this season,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;ten in the first half and ten in the second.&rdquo;This modest ambition should not upset rival backliners very much. And, speaking of rival backliners, Schinkel said none of them have given him much of a bad time so far. His one and only fight&mdash;he calls it &ldquo;a lot of grabbing&rdquo;&mdash;was with Fernie Flaman, the elderly Boston defense player.We suggested that Flaman once was known as a tough hombre. Wasn&rsquo;t Ken afraind?&ldquo;Not really. I went for the puck and hit him over the head. He hit me with his stick so I just went back at him. I knew who he was.&rdquo;Schinkel said he was on good behavior in the American League. That was a switch because his minor league penalty record was not exactly exemplary.&ldquo;Most of my fighting was in the juniors,&rdquo; he explains. &ldquo;I was the scorer so they all went after me.&rdquo;At the rate Schink is sinking &lsquo;em, the NHL bully boys soon may find out who he is. In the meantime, he is pre-occupied with learning big league skills.<h2>The Difference Is Skating</h2>&ldquo;You have to skate all the time and learn to play different guys. For instance, &ldquo;Pope&rdquo; (Larry Popein) tells me to play a certain player a certain way. Like he&rsquo;ll say, pick up Dickie Duff deep in his end because he likes to skate the puck out. And you have to get your shot away quicker.&rdquo;Other than that, it&rsquo;s a snap.Ken adds that he prefers NOT playing on Madison Square Garden ice because the small rink cramps his style. He also finds New York City a little too big for him but he&rsquo;s willing to make the small-town sacrifice to play in the NHL.As a compromise, he lives in Long Beach, a suburb Long Island also inhabited by the Jimmy Bartletts. Ken drives to the Van Wyek subway station in Queens and trains to Manhattan on game nights.It was dark now and a soft blanket of snow had covered the Schinkel home.A visiting friend picked himself up to leave.&ldquo;Happy Holiday,&rdquo; the man said.&ldquo;Merry Christmas to you,&rdquo; Ken replied. To him the words had real meaning for it was the merriest yule of his life. And one can&rsquo;t help believe that for Ken Schinkel it will be a happy hockey New Year! &#9632;

Pike Didn’t Know Ken Was Playing His First Season

Founded October 1st, 1947Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd., 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.Ken McKenzie, PublisherLen Bramson, Editor-in-ChiefWill V. Cote, General ManagerYearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth; $4.00 in the U.S.A. and Foreign CountriesEntered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879 Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawe Printed in CanadaVol. 13 MONTREAL, JANUARY 2, 1960 No. 14 &#9632;

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/f0004-01379/1717303-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div>&bull; THE GREEN BAY Bobcats are currently leading the U.S. Central Hockey League in all departments&hellip;This is the first season for Green Bav in this thriving all-United States loop&hellip;All the players, coaches and executives are American and this league is really flourishing and no doubt will be a fore-runner for similiar amateur leagues throughout the United States&hellip;Teams comprising the U.S. Central League are Green Bay, Wis., Rochester, Minn., Marquette, Mich., Des Moines, la., and Minneapolis, Minn.&hellip;Boston&rsquo;s Don Simmons plans to continue wearing a mask in NHL games, but Terry Sawchuk of Detroit has spurned the use of one&hellip;Sawchuk reportst hat the mask he had fitted to his face by Trainer Lefty Wilson definitely cut down his vision in every direction except straight ahead&hellip;Sawchuk says he will wait until they offer unlimited vision be.cre he will wear one again&hellip;Gordie Drillon, the former goa&rsquo; scoring ace with Toronto and Canadiens, was recently appointed a special sales and public relations representative for the Burma Propane Gas Company in Canada&rsquo;s Maritime Provinces&hellip;New York&rsquo;s rabid Fan Club will make another mid-season excursion in January. This time the club members will visit Toronto for a game on January 16 between the Leafs and Rangers. The following evening they will travel to Rochester to watch the Americans play the Rangers&rsquo; No. one affiliate, the Springfield Indians&hellip;Make certain you order your copy of hockey&rsquo;s newest picture and fact-filled magazine&hellip;The Official Hockey Annual for 1960 is loaded with entertaining reading that every hockey fan is sure to enjoy&hellip;Send 50 cents to THE HOCKEY NEWS, Box 248, Montreal.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02344/1717296-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="262" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Aidcorn</figcaption></div>&bull; THE ROCKET is fading&hellip;and the Jet Age arriving&hellip;according to Tommy Ivan, general manager of the Chicago Black Hawks&hellip;&ldquo;The Rocket (Maurice Richard) is slowing down, and he will be replaced by the Jet (Bobby Hull),&rdquo; Ivan reported&hellip;&ldquo;If Hull isn&rsquo;t the All-Star left winger for the first half of the season then I don&rsquo;t know hockey players,&rdquo; Ivan added&hellip;Hull won&rsquo;t be 21 until January 3 and is playing his third season with Chicago&rsquo;&hellip;He has four younger brothers playing with Belleville, Ont. Juniors, a club sponsored by Chicago&hellip;Alf Pike has the Rangers on the upswing&hellip;In the last seven games the Rangers have won four and tied two and lost one&hellip;Everyone connected with Intercollegiate hockey in the United States Northeast is singing the praises of Tom (Red) Martin, colorful defenseman with Boston College&hellip;&ldquo;Of all the players I&rsquo;ve seen,&rdquo; said Coach John Kelley, &ldquo;Tom Martin has everything the pros look for. No player compares with him in these parts.&rdquo;&hellip;A 6-2, 195-pound junior, Martin is an honor student, a first baseman in baseball and sells papers outside church every Sunday morning&hellip;One of Detroit&rsquo;s prize discoveries this season has been Gary Aidcorn&hellip;Gary scored 15 goals in 86 games in two seasons with Toronto&hellip;He scored his 10th goal in 30 games with the Red Wings recently&hellip;That&rsquo;s as many goals as he scored in 59 games with the Leafs in 1957-58.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03268/1717289-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="243" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Ivan</figcaption></div>&bull; DETROIT RED WINGS have lost only three games in 15 starts on home ice this season&hellip;The top two teams in the NHL standings on December 23, 1959, occupied the same positions on the same day a year previously&hellip;Montreal Canadiens were first in 1958 with 43 points. On December 23, 1959, they were in first place with 45 points&hellip;Detroit were second in 1958 with 33 points, while in &lsquo;59 they had 39 points&hellip;New York Rangers, who were third in 1958, slipped to sixth place on the same day a year later. Rangers point total dropped from 31 points to 22&hellip;Boston Bruins held down fourth place both years&hellip;but their number of points decreased from 31 to 25&hellip;Chicago Black Hawks held down the same fifth-place position both years and their point total also decreased. It went from 29 points in 1958 to 23 in 1959&hellip;Toronto Maple Leafs moved from sixth place in December 23, 1958 to third place on December 23, 1959&hellip;The Leafs increased their point total from 23 points to 34.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04214/1717282-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="248" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;To be or not to be&mdash;that&rsquo;s the situation with strong-legged Doug Mohns of the Bruins.The Bruins have a competent defenseman taking a turn on left wing.His name is Mohns.They also have a competent left wing taking a turn on defense.His name is also Mohns.Is Mohns at embarking on a new career, as a major league left wing?That&rsquo;s the position he played in his first three seasons with the Bruins.Or will the hard skating blond resume the career on defense to which he turned three years ago?Mohns became a defenseman in 1956 when the Bruins Heeded his speed and agility there. He was an overnight sensation, making the all-star team less than three months after taking the job.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05191/1717334-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="545" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Mohns</figcaption></div>When Milt Schmidt put Doug back at left wing last month it was also of necessity. He needed a line capable of backing up that of Bronco Horvath, Johnny Bucyk and Vic Stasiuk. Mohns, playing with Don McKenney and Leo La-Bine, provided it.In his first nine games at left wing Mohns scored eight goals. But even after the shift was several games old Schmidt was not convinced it should be permanent, saying, &ldquo;I still think he&rsquo;s better on defense.&rdquo;Was Mohns doing so well at left wing because he had become a good left wing? No, but because since he last played the position he has become a better hockey player.It was Mohns, the good hockey player, not Mohns, the good left wing, who was helping the Bruins. The speed, muscle and maturity which were needed were assets he was able to provide.But if the Bruins&rsquo; forward situation was brighter with Mohns there, not so their defense situation. The defense lacked the speed and agility which he furnishes, on both offense and defense. It also lacked tre protection against breakaways which he supplies.But Schmidt may have come upon a resolution of the Mohns situation in a game in which Doug scored a second period goal as a left wing. In the third period Bob Armstrong, acting Bruins&rsquo; captain, received a 10-minute penalty for disputing a decision which deprived Mohns of another goal.Schmidt substituted for Armstrong by dropping Mohns back on defense&mdash;and the speedster was great. The more he played the better he played. And instead of being on the ice for only two of every six minutes, he was out for two of every four.The Bruins were losing players with injuries and illness so fast while Mohns was on his scoring spree that Schmidt didn&rsquo;t have to look hard for a place to play him. That condition was a temporary one, however.One of these days Schmidt may have to come to a decision on the versatile fellow: To be or not to be&mdash;left wing, left defense&mdash;or both. &#9632;

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Left Wing Or Left Defense Or Both - Mohns On The Spot

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06157/1717372-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg"></div>Toronto Star<h2>Is Anyone Carrying A Knife?</h2>Tim Daly, who has been training Toronto teams practically from the days of Muddy York, claims authorship of so many stories that it always is hard to determine where Tim&rsquo;s memory ends and his imagination sets in. Daly has insisted, for example, he was the originator of that old kernel of corn in which a fighter is being told by his handler between rounds: &ldquo;You&rsquo;re killin&rsquo; that bum; stick in there.&rdquo; The way Daly tells it, he retorted to his trainer: &ldquo;Well, somebody&rsquo;s beatin&rsquo; the bejabbers outa me in there. You&rsquo;d better watch the referee.&rdquo;Whether it was Tim or some lesser luminary who coined the classic, is beside the point. It is. mentioned here only because it seems to have a parallel in Ted Lindsay, who always gets dishonorable mention when some person blows the whistle on the stick-fighters or the spear-carriers of the hockey ponds&mdash;as Andy Bathgate did recently.Lindsay, who paid a somewhat riotous visit to the Gardens over the week-end, has a terrible memory. He can&rsquo;t recall a single duel worthy of mention during his 16 seasons in the big league. Well&hellip;maybe one&hellip;when you jog his memory. No person ever forgets his encounter with Bill Ezinicki, in which Wild Bill was sliced for 19 stitches. Each battler was nicked $300 in fines and suspended, minus pay, for three games.That fracas accounted for only one of Lindsay&rsquo;s stitches. Yet he modestly confesses to a collection of needlework which numbers roughly 300 stitches from his chin to the top of his head. That&rsquo;s a fair amount of sewing&mdash;even over 16 years. Ezinicki inflicted one. Who nicked him for the other 299?<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07134/1717365-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="544" height="1130"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay</figcaption></div>&ldquo;A lot of them were the result of accidents&hellip;flying pucks and things like that&hellip;I don&rsquo;t recall anybody actually cuttling me up with his stick,&rdquo; Lindsay lied gallantly. &ldquo;Stitches are like goals. You get them and forget them. I don&rsquo;t believe in living in the past. It doesn&rsquo;t matter much now where I got my last stitches. It&rsquo;s more important where the next ones come from. Same thing with goals.&rdquo;<h2>The Rocket Knocked Him Flat</h2>For a few seconds on Saturday night, it must have seemed to. the rinksiders and television lookers that Lindsay would have no trouble identifying the latest lancer to draw his blood. Terrible Theodore and the Leafs&rsquo; Gerry Ehman speared and sparred with their sticks, like a couple of battlers on greasy logs in a stream. Fortunately, neither man scored. They were thumbed to the sneezer for two minutes each. The charge was illegal use of high sticks.&ldquo;He hit me on the head with his stick,&rdquo; Lindsay growled, after serving his sentence. &ldquo;I hit him back. Nothing came of it, though.&rdquo;In the Leafs&rsquo; diggings, where the gloom was as thick as a wrestler&rsquo;s ear, Ehman strove to recall what might have precipitated such an outburst. He finally decided: &ldquo;Maybe Lindsay&rsquo;s right. Coming out of the corner, I might have hit him on the head with my stick.&rdquo;With 299 stitches unaccounted for, Lindsay either has a short memory for carvers or&mdash;as Daly said it&mdash;he&rsquo;s been getting a pretty good going-over from the referees. There&rsquo;s one encounter, however, which lingers in his memory. It has nothing to do with stitches or high sticks.&ldquo;This was when I was still with Detroit,&rdquo; Lindsay recounted. &ldquo;We were playing Canadiens, and I&rsquo;d been having a little trouble with Boomer Geoffrion. Boomer and I squared off for a little fracas and Rocket Richard came in on my blind side. He nailed me with a punch that knocked me kicking. When I finally got back on my feet, I looked up at the organ loft to see if the pipe organ was still there. For a couple of seconds, I swore it must have come down on my head.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The fourth season of international hockey telecasts by the Columbia Broadcasting System will start January 9, with the game between the Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers in New York.CBS will carry a total of 11 Saturday afternoon games with Detroit as the leading attraction. The Red Wings will play in six TV games to five for the Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks and New York and one for the Montreal Canadiens.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03237/1717441-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="280" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fred Cusik</figcaption></div>The telecasts will be carried by nearly 200 stations to 48 states and southern Canada.Joe Gallagher of New York, assistant producer for the past three years will produce tre programs. A former Manhattan-University athlete, Gallagher succeeds Pete Molnar.In other changes Fred Cusick will shift from his three-year role as announcer of hockey features to that of play-by-play announcer, replacing John &ldquo;Bud&rdquo; Palmer.Cusick&rsquo;s feature work, which includes (between-periods) interviews and on-the-ice demanstrations of playing techniques and rules, reportedly will be done by Brian MacFarlane.Play-by-play announcer of Bruins&rsquo; games since 1952, Cusick is a former Northeastern University three-sports star, playing defense in hockey. He is sports director of Radio Station WEEI and holds the rank of commander in the United States Naval Reserve.MacFarlane, a native of Toronto, was an All-American hockey player at St. Lawrence University.Palmer, whose enthusiasm and energy helped the weekly hockey shows to high ratings, has conflicting assignments this winter.Detroit, Boston and Chicago will each host three TV games, two being played in New York. Montreal&rsquo;s appearance will be for a game in Boston on February 13. &#9632;

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Cusik Replaces Bud On CBS Play-By-Play

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;A la Jacques Plante isn&rsquo;t for Terry Sawchuk. Sawchuk tried a Plante-type mask in practice and didn&rsquo;t like it&hellip;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s O.K. except that I can&rsquo;t see&hellip;it&rsquo;s hot&hellip;and it pinches my face,&rdquo; Sawchuk said as he reached for his plexiglass-windshield type protector he ordinarily wears during practice.Undaunted, trainer Lefty Wilson said he would take out some of the padding and increase the size of the eye holes in the fibreglass protector.&ldquo;If I had to wear a mask during a game I&rsquo;d rather wear the plexiglass,&rdquo; Sawchuk said&hellip;however, the experimenting will continue. &#9632;

Pinches His Face, It’s Hot, Can’t See—Terry On Masks

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Christmas failed to arrive early for the Boston Bruins this winter. Not so their annual slump.A January regular on their schedule in seasons past, the slump turned up this year a month ahead of time.But unlike some of its predecessors, this year&rsquo;s slump was not expected to create any wholesale shakeups in personnel.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01333/1717410-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="302" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Armstrong</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02303/1717403-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="288" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Guy Gendron</figcaption></div>The reason for the prospective stand-firm policy was that the Bruins&rsquo; management attributed the slump to injuries.In the six-week period in which they lost a huge edge in points on the New York Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks and fell far behind Toronto and Detroit, the Bruins lost some of their few indispensables.Absentees included Charley Burns, Johnny. Bucyk, Ferny Flaman, Fleming Mackell, Doug Mohns and Bronco Horvath.The Bruins have proved in the past that they cannot win without Horvath, Bucyk, Mohns, Flaman | and other players. While they were going their worst last month they were without as many as four players at once.But in contrast to last winter, when he cut off four players in mid-season, Lynn Patrick was expressing confidence in the future and Milt Schmidt was agreeing with him.&ldquo;Once we get all our players back and they&rsquo;re in good playing condition we&rsquo;11 straighten out,&rdquo; opined Schmidt. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be on our merry way.&rdquo;Said Patrick, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not planning any shakeups. We&rsquo;ll be all right with what we have.&rdquo;Both Patrick and Schmidt absolved Goalies Harry Lumley and Don Simmons from blame for the Bruins&rsquo; losing ways. The defense squad has also excaped criticism, but Patrick has put the blast on the forwards as a group.Several times the Bruins&rsquo; mannager has said, &ldquo;The forwards don&rsquo;t backcheck. We&rsquo;ve been playing three men against five too much, with our forwards standing around and not helping out on defense.&rdquo;Along the lines of positive action there were several promising developments as the Bruins prepared to celebrate a Christmas which could have been more joyous.Horvath, suffering for two weeks with a badly bruised foot, was showing signs of regaining the timing which made him the league&rsquo;s leading scorer.Don McKenney, the streamlined center who was retarded earlier by a hip injury, was playing as he did a year ago when he scored 32 goals.Mohns, transferred to left wing in late November in a desperation move to help McKenney, seemed likely to be put back on defense at any moment. Both Patrick and Schmidt have rated blond Doug their best all-around defenseman since he became one three years ago.Guy Gendron, the middleweight left wing who came here in 1958 from New York as a penalty-killer, moved in behind Horvath as a goal-getter with a consistent pace.Big Larry Leach, given the chance to play more aften by the rash of ailments, also was showing scoring pickup.And through the trials and tribulations the light of Bob Armstrong continued to shine. Armstrong, the defenseman four other NHL teams covet, never worked harder and never played better than during the dark December here.There was no guarantee, of course, that Patrick&rsquo;s view of the Bruins&rsquo; troubles would remain tolerant indefinitely. That was his pre-Christmas view.As a matter of fact, no one here doubted for a moment but that the manager would take vigorous action if the slump stopped being a slump and became the Bruins&rsquo; level.Patrick&rsquo;s strong point as a hockey executive is that he is a doer. And somewhere in the draped confines of his office he has plans, undoubtedly, for doing, if necessary. &#9632;

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It’s Annual Slump Time, But Bruins Have No Big Changes In Mind—Yet

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04178/1717472-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY ALDCORN</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;General manager Jack Adams fan his finger down the list of draft eligibles at the National League meeting last June and stopped at Gary Aidcorn.Wings had swapped one left winger only a few hours before&mdash;Johnny Wilson and minor league defenseman Frank Roggeveen to Maple Leafs for Barry Cullen and Adams was looking for some strength at left wing.Aldcorn, a Maple Leaf product, was available for $20,000 and Adams didn&rsquo;t hesitate.Aldcorn jumped right onto Wings&rsquo; No. 1 line with Gordie Howe and he&rsquo;s second only to Howe on the team in scoring.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s real tough in the other team&rsquo;s zone,&rdquo; coach Sid Abel said of Aldcorn. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s dangerous when he&rsquo;s got the puck because he can shoot and pass. And he&rsquo;s one of the best diggers in the game today.&rdquo;<h2>Unlucky Against Old Club</h2>This was especially borne out in a three-game stretch against Chicago, Toronto and Boston with the latter two games on the road. Gary triggered three goals and assisted on a pair of others to soar from 18th to 12th in league scoring on 12 goals and 1 3 assists as Wings won two of the three.Wings played two listless periods against charged-up Chicago and were down 2-0 nearing the end of the middle stanza when Aldcorn brought them to life with a skipping 50-footer from the left boards that went past Glenn Hall.The inspired Wings tied it up and went on to win on the Aldcorn-Murray Oliver combination as Aldcorn twice set up the rookie center for third period goals and a 3-2 victory.Aldcorn whipped a pass across from the boards to Oliver who rifled in a 12-footer for the tying marker and then set up his linemate for a 15-foot kill. They were Calder candidate Olivers&rsquo; fifth and sixth goals in 14 games since joining Wings from Edmonton of the Western League.Aldcorn&rsquo;s old teammates snapped Detroit&rsquo;s December dash on the 19th in Maple Leaf Gardens with a three-goal outburst in the first period. Leafs are the only club Gary hasn&rsquo;t nicked for a goal.Wings, who had been making a habit of falling behind and then rallying for victory, couldn&rsquo;t do it that time despite goals by Len Lunde and Oliver in the second period that narrowed the edge to 3-2. Allen Stanley&rsquo;s third period goal put the game out of reach.That was Detroit&rsquo;s first defeat of the month in seven games in which Wings picked up 11 points on five triumphs and a tie.But they hopped right back on the winning side Sunday in what used to be a jinx spot, Boston Gardens.Again it was the Aldcorn-Oliver-Howe unit with Gary scoring twice after Oliver won the draw on faceoffs.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not very satisfied with my own play,&rdquo; Aldcorn said before his surge. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t get me wrong, I&rsquo;m not complaining. But I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;m scoring as much as I should.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been getting one goal out of every four or five good shots and I ought to do better. I&rsquo;ve had maybe a couple of rebounds and a couple of passout goals.&ldquo;But I used to get a lot of tipin deflections and I haven&rsquo;t hit a single one of those yet with Detroit. And I haven&rsquo;t scored on the power play even once. I&rsquo;m sure overdue,&rdquo; Aldcorn said.And what a prophet he turned out to be!Aidcorn&rsquo;s goals at Boston were, naturally, on a power play and deflection.After Jerry Melnyk tied the count at 1-1 just 33 seconds into the final stanza, Aldcorn got the range. He put Wings up 2-1 with Fern Flaman in the penalty box by ramming in Red Kelly&rsquo;s rebound.Then, only 27 seconds later, Howe blasted a long one and Aldcorn deflected it past goaler Don Simmons for a 3-1 edge. Alex Delvecchio finished up the Wing scoring before Larry Leach scored late for Bruins.The inspired Wings, rallied by an egg-throwing incident in which Terry Sawchuk was hit in the eye, thus won their second of the season in Boston in three starts&mdash;the other being a tie.That&rsquo;s the first time in three seasons Wings have been able to win twice in Boston. Prior to this season they&rsquo;d lost 14 of 16 in Beantown.Aldcorn&rsquo;s play drew critical acclaim from his teammates, especially the defensemen.Red Kelly, who knows how it is to work both positions, volunteered that &ldquo;Aldcorn is as good as Bert Olmstead or Marcel Bonin in the corners.&rdquo;Marcel Pronovost noted that husky Gary &ldquo;is good at getting his body between the defense and the puck.&rdquo;Jim Morrison observed &ldquo;all corner men are unusually strong on their feet and you notice that in Aldcorn.&rdquo;Oliver points to Aldcorn&rsquo;s help as one of the reasons for his own success.&ldquo;Both Gary and Gordie are always talking to me and telling me what I&rsquo;m doing right or wrong.&rdquo; Oliver said.Howe was next on the testimonial list.&ldquo;Gary is the best position player I ever worked with on left wing. Finding him out there is always easy. He&rsquo;s right where I expect him to be. And he&rsquo;s sure a hard worker on the ice, isn&rsquo;t he,&rdquo; Howe asked.What then is the difference in the Toronto Aldcorn and the Detroit Aldcorn?&ldquo;They say I&rsquo;m skating faster but the way Gordie works out there to set me up, I&rsquo;ve got to keep going or I&rsquo;d be awfully ashamed of myself.&ldquo;And as far as the digging is concerned, with Gordie and Mo (Oliver) carrying the puck so well, I don&rsquo;t have much else to do. I&rsquo;d look awfully silly just standing around in center ice so I might as well go in the corners and see if I can pick up any loose pucks.&rdquo;Aldcorn, in Maple Leafs&rsquo; system all his hockey life, first made the NHL in the 1956-57 season when he appeared in 22 games and registered five goals and one assist.He split the season with Rochester, scoring 13 goals and assisting on 10 in 42 games after turning pro with Winnipeg in 1955-56. His record there in 67 games was 22 goals and 12 assists.Aidcorn went out of amateur ranks in a blaze of glory. He was a mainstay on Toronto Marlboro&rsquo;s Memorial Cup champions and clicked off 49 points in 47 games.He finally spent an entire season with Leafs in 1957-58 when he notched 10 goals but then went down to Rochester last season and it was there that he honed his shooting eye, collecting 37 goals and 42 assists.Since Wings finished in the cellar last season they got first pick in the draft and they surprised several hockey men by tabbing Aldcorn and laid down $20,000 for him. Jack Adams couldn&rsquo;t have made a better choice.ICE CHIPS&mdash; Number One was a long time in coming for Len Lunde this season. The Red Wings center finally got his first goal of the campaign in the 31st game&hellip;a slap shot from the blue line that Leaf goaler Ed Chadwick fanned on. Now, only defenseman Lou Marcon is without a goal.The next night in Boston, Jerry Melnyk snapped a goal-less streak when he banged in his fourth and first in 13 games.&ldquo;I wonder how that jerk would have felt if I lost an eye,&rdquo; asked Detroit goalie Terry Sawchuk who was hit in the eye by an egg tossed from the balcony in Boston Garden&hellip;the game was delayed for 10 minutes while Sawchuk went off the ice to have the eye washed out&hellip;at least it was a ripe egy.Wings&rsquo; setback in Toronto marked Sawchuk&rsquo;s first defeat in nine games since returning from a siege of virus neuritis that sidelined him for three games.Balck Hawks failed to win a game in Olympia in 1959&hellip;but they came close. Chicago won last New Year&rsquo;s eve.One of the most pleasing aspects of Red Wing play to coach Sid Abel is the diversified scoring.&ldquo;We got 18 goals in the last six games and 11 players scored them&hellip;Murry Oliver&mdash;what a little sweetheart he is&mdash;got four and so did Gary Aldcorn. Alex Delvecchio got two and eight other got single goals&hellip;Red Kelly, Marcel Pronovost, John McKenzie, Vai Fonteyne, Gordie Howe, Norm Ullman, Jerry Melnyk and Len Lunde.&rdquo;Wings won five of those six starts.<h2>Digs Up A Storm &#9632;</h2>

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This Year And Last For Wings? Aidcorn Is The Big Difference

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div>Montreal Gaxotto<h2>Mask Or Technique?</h2>Jacques Plante, the Canadiens&rsquo; trail-blazing goalkeeper, may be happy about his fibre-glass mask, but Coach Toe Blake is frankly suspicious of it. Too many pucks have been getting past Jacques in recent games and Toe is inclined to blame the mask.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01403/1717527-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="545" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACQUES PLANTE</figcaption></div>&ldquo;He won the Vezina Trophy four years in a row without it,&rdquo; says Toe. &ldquo;Why does he need it now?&rdquo;Plante himself admits that he isn&rsquo;t as sharp as he was a while back, but he maintains vehemently that it isn&rsquo;t the fault of the mask. Something has gone wrong with his technique and if you know what it is, he will be grateful for any help you can give him.There is strong evidence to support Plante&rsquo;s claim that the mask is not the cause of his recent lapses. His netminding was of such a high order over a long stretch of games that observers around the NHL were Inclined to credit the mask with contributing to the improvement in his work. In fact, Jacques and his mask were the talk of the league, as evidenced by something Lefty Wilson, the Red Wings&rsquo; trainer, had to say when the Canadiens visited Detroit late in November.&ldquo;There is no question but that mask Jacques Plante is wearing has helped him,&rdquo; said Lefty, who used to be a goalkeeper himself. &ldquo;He has given up only 13 goals in 11 games since wearing it. I know when I got used to the plastic masks we have for practice that I made moves I wouldn&rsquo;t have made otherwise.&rdquo;Lefty added that he was fashioning a fibre-glass mask for his assistant, Dan Olesevich, the Wings&rsquo; spare goaler. If it was successful, he might make one for Terry Sawchuk.<h2>Too Many Injuries</h2>Lefty&rsquo;s tutor in working with fibre-glass was Millard Kelley, trainer of the Lions, Detroit&rsquo;s entry in the National Football League.&ldquo;He showed me how to make thigh pads and arm pads with the fibre-glass material,&rdquo; said Lefty, &ldquo;and that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re using.&rdquo;Dan Olesevich could hardly wait for Lefty to finish the mask.&ldquo;I might have saved four front teeth and some 30 stitches in my mouth if I&rsquo;d had such a mask last season,&rdquo; said Olesevich. &ldquo;I was playing for Charlotte when I was struck in the mouth with a puck with only 38 seconds to go in the final game of the season.&rdquo;It wasn&rsquo;t until Plante suffered a seven-stitch cut in the face in New York on Nov. 1 that he was allowed to wear the mask in a game. Marcel Paille, the Rangers&rsquo; goalie, was nicked for 12 stitches in the forehead two weeks ago, and Muzz Patrick, the Rangers&rsquo; g.m., was asked here recently if he was going to allow his goalers to wear masks.&ldquo;I certainly am,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re experimenting with them now, but I don&rsquo;t think the perfect one has been invented yet.&rdquo;Boston&rsquo;s Don Simmons wore one when he returned to the line-up recently after missing 13 games, and Johnny Bower, of the Toronto Leafs, has ordered one, after being opposed to it originally.<h2>It&rsquo;s Here To Stay</h2>Terry Sawchuk tried one Lefty Wilson made a few days ago in a practice scrimmage, but he wasn&rsquo;t satisfied with it.&ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t fit my face close enough,&rdquo; he told Lefty. &ldquo;It definitely cuts down my vision in every direction except straight ahead. Maybe you put too much padding in it.&rdquo;Lefty told Sawchuk that he could make the mask fit close and that he could also increase the size of the eye holes.&ldquo;That should help,&rdquo; Dan Olesevich assured Sawchuk. &ldquo;I had to have mine widened some, though I&rsquo;m still having trouble on shoulderhigh shots.&rdquo;&ldquo;Face masks look inevitable,&rdquo; conceded Sawchuk. &ldquo;Maybe they&rsquo;ll come up with a clear plastic, tinted so there won&rsquo;t be any reflection from the lights to bother you. But until they offer unlimited vision they&rsquo;re not for me.&rdquo;But Jacques Plante doesn&rsquo;t complain about the mask handicapping him in any way. He thinks he has picked up a new fault, or maybe lapsed into an old one, that is causing pucks to elude him. It seems obvious that the masks used or tried by the various goalkeepers are not all alike. It could be, as Muzz Patrick suggests, that the perfect one hasn&rsquo;t been invented yet. But it&rsquo;s a good guess that the mask is here to stay.It could also be that Jacques Plante is a bit stale, or that he&rsquo;s in one of those periodic slumps that affect all players. Such being the case, it&rsquo;s only a matter of time before he will snap out of it. &#9632;

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playing the filed

&ldquo;Cheaper by the Dozen&rdquo;NHL&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; $33.00 doz.Northland&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 30.00 doz.Professional&hellip;&hellip; 27.00 doz.OHA&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 24.00 doz.<h2>Doug Laurie Sports</h2>Maple Leaf Gardens Bldg. 458 Church Street Toronto 5, Ont. &#9632;

HOCKEY STICKS

<div class="byline">By CHARLIE HALPIN</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;When NHL referee Eddie Powers makes up his mind to do a thing, he acts promptly, even if it means throwing off 10 players at once after a fight.The culprits were the Canadiens and Toronto Leafs. The place was the Montreal Forum. And the principle was a free-for-all between both teams that so confused Powers that he thumbed everybody but the two goalkeepers into the penalty box.The hassle was touched off by a cross-check and an exchange of slashing between Jacques Plante of the Habs and Toronto&rsquo;s Billy Harris. Soon, Jean Guy Talbot was rushing to Plante&rsquo;s aid. Then Gerry James tossed one of his famous football blocks into Talbot and as quick as you can say Ingemar Johansson, everybody was in the fighting.Powers figured the only way to arrive at a suitable solution was to throw everybody off. It was believed to be an unprecedented move. The harassed scorekeeper was so befuddled that eventually NHL president Clarence Campbell was drawn into the ruckus to settle the delayed penalties.It was a spirited but typical Leaf-Canadiens struggle. Twenty four penalties were called, which wasn&rsquo;t a record but clearing the ice was and it even startled an old hockey warhorse like King Clancy who said, &ldquo;I never saw anything like it before.&rdquo;Meanwhile, Clarence Campbell, president of the National Hockey league, indicated he wasn&rsquo;t in complete agreement with referee Eddie Powers&rsquo; handling of a second-period fracas.Powers penalized every player on the ice, except the goalies. The two original scrappers received majors, the other eight got roughing minors.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to comment on the wisdom of wholesale penalties,&rdquo; said Campbell. &ldquo;But in the first place, our system just isn&rsquo;t geared for that sort of thing. Neither are our penalty boxes. Every time we have one of these mass affairs, we have a mix-up in times and delayed penalties.&rdquo;This time, Campbell, himself, was forced to intervene in the third period as Powers and the timekeeper attempted to straighten out delayed penalties. The game was delayed 20 minutes.&ldquo;No harm was done,&rdquo; said Campbell, &ldquo;except to the people who sat through it.&ldquo;The confusion arose through a conflict between two sets of rules. One rule says when a player receives two penalties (minor and major) the major is recorded first. However, when players of the same side receive coincident penalties (major and minor) the minor is recorded first. The timekeeper became confused. The referee insisted the correct rule be applied.&rdquo; &#9632;

Ice Clearing Was Unprecedented In NHL’s Modern Era

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;The Black Hawks and Toronto pranced through a scoreless first period in Chicago last week (Dec. 20) in what seemed to be building into a nice goalie battle.Glenn Hall was coming up with his usual fine and often spectacular game in the Chicago twines while Ed Chadwick looked very good in his second game with the Leafs this season as regular Johnny Bowers watched from the press box. But then things broke loose early in the second stanza&hellip;Before nine minutes had passed, the scoring ice had been broken&mdash;shattered, in fact. The Chicagos swept pucks past Chadwick four times and the Leafs counted once during a spree of less than four minutes. This looked like more than enough for any period, but things were just getting stared.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02287/1717613-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="545" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption></div>Four more goals were rung up on the Chicago Stadium scoreboard in another span of well underthree minutes as the tally at the end of the second period showed the Hawks in possession of a pretty spectacular 7 to 2 lead. Writers and officials went scrambling through the record books.The seven goals, it was found, fell just one short of the record of eight in a period racked up in the last stanza by Detroit Jan. 23, 1944, as they downed the Rangers, 15-0. &ldquo;This definitely does represent a period high for the Hawks in club history,&rdquo; pointed, up Johnny Gottselig, team publicitor.In addition to the seven successes, Chicago had 20 other shots in the second period which Chadwick was able to conquer. The team&rsquo;s total shots in the game hit 44, a club high for the season to date. Toronto was limited to just eight in the second period, but got 38 all the way so that both goalies had a very large 82 thrown in their directions in the 60 minutes.The game had several individual stars in the scoring spree, but none could have been better than Chicago&rsquo;s Bobby Hull who is becoming more sensational and successful by the day. He collected another three-goal hat trick and added two assists to move into real contention for the NHL scoring title.He was personally responsible for equalling a long-standing NHL record of points in one period. Ironically, he now shares the five point in a period total with two retired Hawks, Les Cunningham and Max Bentley.Cunningham got two goals and three assists in the third period Jan. 28, 1940, as the Hawks walloped the Canadiens, 8-1. Bentley came through with four goals and an assist on the same date three years later in the last period when Chicago toppled the Rangers, 10-1.Another Hawk, fleet Kenny Wharram, got two goals and came very close to notching the first hat trick of his National League career.<h2>Mr. James Makes His Debut</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03197/1717606-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="1118" height="1740"><figcaption class="caption-body">It was moments after the above picture was taken that Referee Eddie Powers cleared the ice in a Toronto-Montreal game recently. The battle started after Harris, under Geoffrion (5) and Plante started showing each other. Talbot moved in to help Plante, and then James ice capaded down the ice and threw as neat a tackle as you&rsquo;ve ever seen on ice. No one got hurt, not even In the above picture where Johnson is holding off James while Geoffrion, on one knee, dares him to throw one. This was James first game after his football season In Winnipeg. Canadiens won 7-2.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Braves’ Seven In One Period One Less Than Record By Red Wings

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01355/1717651-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">These are some of the men and moments that made news in Boston during the roaring fifties. Above, Walter Brown, who became president of the Bruins, General Manager Lynn Patrick and Chief Scout Hal Cotton sit in at the draft meeting that brought them Bronco Horvath from the Canadiens. On the right, Lynn Patrick and Hal Laycoe, moments before they sat down with President Clarence Campbell of the NHL, to describe the bizarre start of the Maurice Richard incident, that led to Rocket&rsquo;s suspension and subsequent riot in Montreal.</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The big hockey story of the passing decade here is that which has been written by the hockey fans of New England.The biggest development of the fleeting 1950s has been Bruins&rsquo; attendance.Early in the decade the Bruins lived a hand-to-mouth existence, their cash customers few, their future uncertain.But they-re moving into the 1960s not only solvent but prosperous.During the season which began with the fall of 1951 the Bruins played to only 245,000 people in their 35 games at Boston Garden.This season at their present pace they&rsquo;ll play to more than 450,000 people. If they do they&rsquo;ll break their attendance record for the third time in four years.Yet the Bruins haven&rsquo;t won the NHL championship, or the Stanley Cup, since 1941.Only once in the decade which expires soon have they been in contention for the championship&mdash;three years ago. They&rsquo;ve finished second only once&mdash;a year ago. Twice they were third.But since the rock-bottom days of the early &lsquo;50s the Bruins have been making progress&mdash;and their cash customers have increased in number.&ldquo;The support we&rsquo;ve had has been magnificent,&rdquo; maintains Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; manager, &ldquo;and it is definitely an incentive to the Bruins&rsquo; management.&ldquo;Our objective is a championship team, and it&rsquo;ll be our objective until we attain it.&rdquo;<h2>Trade Helped Club Move Up</h2>For the box office comeback of the Bruins there are clear cut reasons, of which these are some:The reorganization under the ownership of the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation with Walter Brown as president and Patrick, succeeded as coach by Milt Schmidt, as manager.Patrick&rsquo;s success in obtaining helpful players through trades and purchases.A judicious season ticket control program, a change to earlier starting times for all games, a highway construction program which makes the Garden accessible easily from most parts of New England.The continuous publicity support of newspaper and the promotional benefits of radio and television broadcasts.The part which Patrick has played in the renaissance of the Bruins cannot be underrated. He has donemuch with little and if he has made mistakes it has been while trying.The Bruins have benefitted by&mdash;and the public has enjoyed&mdash;the play of Patrick-acquired players like Vic Stasiuk, Sugar Jim Henry, Bronco Horvath, Ferny Flaman, Johnny Bucyk, Terry Sawchuk, Cal Gardner, Leo LaBine, Doug Mohns, Fleming Mackell, Don McKenney and Jerry Toppazzini.Besides&rsquo; the customers&rsquo; rally round the Bruins, other highlights of the &lsquo;50s include:The strong run for the Stanley Cup in 1958. The fourth place Bruins buried the New York Rangers under a blizzard of goals by McKenney, Mackell, Toppazzini and Mohns, then fought the Montreal Canadiens through six spectacular games on the goaltending of Don Simmons.The upset of the mighty Detroit Red Wings in the spring ofl953. Patrick wrapped up Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay with his &ldquo;Blanket Line&rdquo; of Woody Dumart, Joe Klukay and Schmidt, the Bruins winning the semi-final series in six games.The formation of the so-called &ldquo;Uke Line&rdquo; of Horvath, Bucyk and Stasiuk. Bucyk and Stasiuk, the two big wings and Horvath, the snapshooting center, are delighting NHL audiences with their snappy pass patterns for the third year.The strange Sawchuk case, started auspiciously by the great goalkeeper&rsquo;s acquisition from Detroit in a nine-player deal in 1955. Sawchuk showed his true talent with a fine record in the 1955-56 sea son, even though the Bruins didn&rsquo;t make the playoffs. The next winter (1956-57) with the Bruins bidding for the championship he left the team abruptly on January 15, announcing his retirement.Schmidt&rsquo;s shift to coaching in 1954 after 16 years of never sparing himself as a player.Maurice Richard&rsquo;s explosion here in the spring of 1955. The Montreal scoring star blew up after being cut by the Bruins&rsquo; Hal Lay-coe, attacking Laycoe with a stick and assaulting Linesman Cliff Thompson, subsequently drawing a suspension which led to other explosions elsewhere.The shift of pre-season training from the anonymity of Hershey, Pa., to the Garden.The Bruins&rsquo; use of Willie O&rsquo;Ree, first Negro to play (January, 1958) in the NHL and the training camp appearance here (1957) of Sven Johansson of Sweden, first European player to train with an NHL team.The signing (1958) of Ken Yackel, first United States-born and raised player to play for the Bruins since Eddie Barry (1947).The fight between New York&rsquo;s Lou Fontinato and a spectator during a nationally televised game in 1958 which resulted in the arrest of the fighters and three other Rangers.The strange deal with Toronto in 1950 in which the Bruins thought they were getting an outstanding forward but wound up with New England&rsquo;s outstanding professional golfer, Bill Ezinicki.<h2>These Men Spelled Action In Boston</h2><h2>Spectacular Milt in Harness</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02322/1717644-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1162" height="1434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Milt Schmidt provided many thrilling moments for Boston fans as a player. His popularity made him a unanimous choice to take over the club as coach.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Comeback At Gate, Hiring Of Patrick, Rocket, Stand Out

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03249/1717710-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="560" height="563"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04191/1717703-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="489" height="567"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Fontinato</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05133/1717696-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="564" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Ezinicki</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0693/1717689-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="512" height="571"><figcaption class="caption-body">Willie O&rsquo;Ree</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0765/1717682-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="526" height="534"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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They Made Life Interesting In The Hub In The Fifties

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;If you don&rsquo;t believe a change is as good as a rest, ask Veteran Johnny Bower of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Johnny had been getting bombarded from all sides, so last week General ManagerCoach Punch Imlach decided to give him a much needed rest. The Leafs called on Ed Chadwick from the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League. He stepped in for two games and Johnny watched from the sidelines.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-153/1717849-1-eng-US/f0008-152.jpg" title="f0008-15" width="295" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Bower</figcaption></div>Imlach brought Bower back to action last Saturday night against the New York Rangers. He proved that all he needed was a couple of games off to steady down his nerves. He was the outstanding figure in the game as the Leafs racked up a 4-0 victory. The shutout was Bower&rsquo;s third of the year and ranks him second in that department. Terry Sawchuk of the Wings has four.The Rangers and Leafs went right back at it in New York last Sunday night. The Leafs took a 3-0 lead and blew it. Then they came roaring back to score three themselves to take their second victory in as many nights. The win moved the Torontonians to within a single point of the second place Detroit club.While the experts have been critical of Bower this season, he, nevertheiess, has been their big gun. He started off the year in great style and was the biggest reason for the Leafs great early showing. Then injuries hit the club as first Olmstead, then Duff, then Regan and Stewart were sidelined. The club hit its first slump of the year early in December and went five straight without a win. It was then that Imlach decided to make his goaler switch. It came two games later.Despite the criticism, Bower still rates as the third best goaler in the league, if you go on averages. In 31 games he was scored on 83 times for a 2.68 goals against average. Only Jacques Plante and Sawchuk can boast better averages.Johnny has reported that this will be his last season. He says he wants to give the younger men a chance. But there are those who will tell you that comes next season, the old man of the nets will be back in action. &#9632;

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<h2>Two Reds Hit 100 Mark</h2>Two members of the Providence Reds entered the 100 goal Century Club of the league within a space of six days. Ray Ross scored his on December 6th against Rochester, and Bo Elik performed the feat on December 12th against Hershey.<h2>MARSHALL GETS FIRST MINOR</h2>Willia Marshall of Hershey had what was probably the most unusual penalty record over in hockey this season. He had 55 total minutes in penalties on a major and 5 ten minute misconducts before he was assessed his first two minute miner penalty. Three of his misconducts came in a single game on November 22nd in a game against Buffalo, and the record books fail to reveal any such previous game.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Wed., A.M., Dec. 30)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02351/1717957-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="598" height="214"></div><h3>TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22</h3>Springfield 3 at Quebec 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03303/1717950-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="584" height="520"></div><h3>FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25</h3>Springfield 2 at Providence 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04260/1717943-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="581" height="281"></div>Buffalo 6 at Rochester 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05201/1717936-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="588" height="521"></div><h3>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26</h3>Buffalo 5 at Cleveland 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06168/1717929-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="584" height="639"></div>Rochester 6 at Hershey 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07157/1717922-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="583" height="533"></div>Quebec 2 at Springfield 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08146/1717915-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="577" height="496"></div><h3>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27</h3>Cleveland 3 at Buffalo 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09141/1717908-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="595" height="709"></div>Quebec 0 at Providence 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10128/1717901-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="579" height="422"></div>Hershey 1 at Rochester 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11106/1717894-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="579" height="497"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Games Of Sun., Dec. 27)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1274/1717887-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="596" height="400"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3>Most Goals&mdash;Bill Sweeney, Spr.; Harry Pidhirny, Spr.; Ray Ross, Prov. 19Most Assists&mdash;Art Stratton, Spr., 34Most Penalized Player&mdash;Ron Hurst, Hers., 121 mts.Most Penalized Team&mdash;Hershey, 718 mts.<h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1362/1717880-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="594" height="241"></div> &#9632;

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. &ndash; Few hockey players in the history of the NHL have been criticized as much as Lome (Gump) Worsley. In his years with the Rangers his running feud with former coach Phil Watson was sure to make headlines at least once a week. And when Watson was relieved of his duties and replaced by Alf Pike, it spelled end for Gump. He was dispatched to Springfield in favor of Marcel Paille. Gump left Manhatten with the feeling that he was being ridden out of the big time by some of his teammates, his new coach and General Manager Muzz<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01373/1717988-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="281" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lome Worsley</figcaption></div>Patrick. Before leaving he reported that he hoped the Blues left him in Springfield where he and his family could at least settle down to a normal life.But it seems the only way Gump is going to be able to stay in Springfield is if he happens to suddenly forget how to play his position. There seems to be a growing rumor throughout pro hockey that Lome will shortly be back in the Rangers&rsquo; cage.That rumor stands up when you look at Gump&rsquo;s record since he went to the American League club. In 14 games he allowed only 31 goals for a 2.21 goals per game average. He racked up three shutouts as the Indians won ten, lost three and tied one in that time.Last week, once again, it was Worsley as the outstanding man in the Indians costume. He allowed only three goals against in three games as the Indians ran up three wins. They defeated the Quebec Aces 3-1 in Quebec on Tuesday, December 22. He had a shutout going for him until 16:30 of the final period when he was knocked unconscious and taken off the ice on a stretcher.On Christmas night he gave his teammates a real Xmas gift by shutting out their nearest rivals, the Providence Reds 2-0. One night later he continued his brilliant play to once again defeat Quebec, this time 3-2.If the Indians go on to win the AHL title, and they sure look as though they will, then one man, whether he&rsquo;s with the club or not, who will deserve much of the credit is Worsley.Owner Eddie Shore summed him up last week when he said: &ldquo;Worsley is the greatest morale booster inside a dressing room he&rsquo;s ever seen.&rdquo; &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div>Harrisburg, Pa. Patriot-News Sports WriterHERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Willie (The Whip) Marshall, the Hershey Bears&rsquo; high scoring center, has started to make his move on the leaders in the American Hockey League&rsquo;s individual scoring race.The 28-year-old AHL veteran started his run Nov. 18 and in the next 12 games, Marshall hit for 19 points. He struck for ten goals and nine assists.Marshall, in accumulating the point splurge, propelled himself from the also ran class to the league&rsquo;s fourth highest scorer by Dec. 15.As the campaign neared the half-way point, Marshall, showed 17 goals and a like number of assists for 34 points.It was two years ago that Marshall walked off with the John B. Sollenberger Award, emblematic of the AHL&rsquo;s top scorer. That season the thin native of Kirkland Lake, Ont., took first honors with 104 points, garnered on 40 goals and 64 assists.Also Marshall didn&rsquo;t start to catch fire until about mid-season that year, but once the former Pittsburgh Hornet went into action, he was the league&rsquo;s deadliest marksman in the stretch run. In fact, he carried his sharpshooting tactics into the Calder Cup playoffs, missing by a point of equaling the playoff&rsquo;s all-time scoring record. This effort gave the Bears their first Calder Trophy in 11 years.<h2>Club Having Scoring Trouble</h2>However, while Marshall is finding the mark, his teammates continued to have their problems locating the enemy nets and at midDecember the club was holding fifth place by a shaky margin of one point.Coach Frank Mathers, who has tried more combinations than a short order cook in an effort to recharge the Calder Cup champions, is hoping the second half will see the outfit come to life.&ldquo;All we need to do is to put three or four wins together to snap out of it,&rdquo; said Mathrs. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been in and out all season.&rdquo;At the 30 game mark, Hershey showed 11 wins, 16 losses and three ties. Eleven of the defeats came by the margin of two goals or less.Reports of possible trades were in the wind as the first of the year approached and it&rsquo;s possible the Bears may close at least one deal.Mathers, who had played only a dozen games in the first 30, returned to the lineup on defense on Dec. 19, hoping that he might be able to help the cause.<h2>On The March</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1446/1718019-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="530" height="544"><figcaption class="caption-body">Willie Marshall</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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“The Whip” Cranks Up For 2nd Half Bid In Scoring

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1532/1718050-1-eng-US/f0009-152.jpg" title="f0009-15" width="512" height="567"></div><h2>SIX REASONS WHY IT&rsquo;S BEST</h2>&bull; It&rsquo;s crystal-clear, allowing full vision&mdash;there are no blind spots. &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. &bull; Adjustable head gear assures perfect fit for men and boys. &bull; You can goal with confidence. No fear and tension when you wear this face protector. &bull; Louch&rsquo;s shatter-proof face masks are already mandatory in several leagues. &bull; Fogging is eliminated by using Crsytal-Clear Cleaner with Anti-Fog, compounded especially for this new face protector.You can get immediate delivery on men&rsquo;s and boy&rsquo;s face&middot; protectors.For an illustrated folder and the name and address of your nearest dealer in Canada or the USAWrite: D. G. LOUCH St. Marys, Ontario, Canada &#9632;

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THE BEST FACE PROTECTOR EVER MADE!

<div class="byline">Roger Barry</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The world&rsquo;s best-known hockey executive advocates the abolishing of the Winter Olympic Games.Conflicting interpretations of amateurism, says Walter Brown, is his reason.&ldquo;Some of the sports which comprise the winter program, said Brown at a college hockey luncheon at the Hotel Madison here, &ldquo;have amateur codes which cannot be reconciled easily with the Olympic interpretation of amateurism.&rdquo;Brown named hockey, figure skating, speed skating and skiing as among the sports to which he referred. His opinion, he said, was similar to that of Otto Mayer, chancellor of the International Olympic Committee.&ldquo;It may come as a surprise to those who recall the so-called feuds I&rsquo;ve had with Avery Brundage,&rdquo; said the Boston Bruins&rsquo; president, &ldquo;but I agree with Mayer, who is in favor of dropping the winter games.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02324/1718112-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="279" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Waiter Brown</figcaption></div>Brown emphasized that he does not favor the cancelling of plans for this winter&rsquo;s games at SquawValley, California, or the 1964 games at Innsbruck. He praised the Squaw Valley site lavishly.&ldquo;The Squaw Valley facilities are the best in the history of the Winter Olympics,&rdquo; he maintained. &ldquo;All the facilities are new. This isn&rsquo;t a case of improvising with existing facilities.&rdquo;Brown, chairman of the United States Olympic hockey committee, is a former president of the International Ice Hockey Federation and the United States Amateur Hockey Association. He pioneered in international hockey competition 30 years ago. &#9632;

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Brown Tells Collegians That Olympic Winter Games Should Go After Squaw

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The Governors of the American Hockey League last week backed up President Richard Canning&rsquo;s 12 game suspension of Buffalo Bison player Bob Bailey.The Bisons had appealed the ruling, but the six governors unanimously back the president. Buffalo and Springfield did not vote because their teams were involved.Bailey, constantly in hot water, was given the 12 games suspension after a game in Springfield on December 6 He was reported to have hit Springfield&rsquo;s Ted Harris under the eye with his stick, after Harris hit him on the head with his. He was given a match penalty and the suspension followed.Bailey will not return to action until January 9th. He was given the suspension because his past record is marred with suspensions and fines. He was repeatedly warned for getting into hot water. Earlier in the season Canning threatened suspension for players involved in stick swinging duels. &#9632;

AHL Governors Nix Suspension Appeal

LONDON, Eng.&mdash;There&rsquo;s a chance that Britain, once a power in International Hockey, may return to action next year.It&rsquo;s been several years since the British have entered a team in either the Winter Olympic Games or the annual World Hockey Tournament. However, efforts are being made to revive interest in a British entry.British hockey experts will get a first look at home brew players at Southampton on January 30th when the first trial game will be played. After that a team will be chosen to play against Scotland, also at Southampton sometime next February. Other games are slated for Durbam and Whitley Bay&rsquo;s both towns in Northumberland.There is doubt among Canadians involved in the game in Britain whether the trial games will produce enough British born players to form a team good enough to compete in the World Tournament.Leading the pack of young British players will be Barry Shack, son of Joe Shack, farmer New York Ranger and Ottawa Senator players, Barry learned his hockey in Britain. &#9632;

Britain May Return To The International Hockey Wars

<div class="byline">By HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Rochester American fans hung one big stocking for Christmas Eve&mdash;big enough to hold either Ed Chadwick or Johnny Bower.Whether or not Punch (I don&rsquo;t have quite enough hair to be Santa Claus) Imlach fulfilled the wish wasn&rsquo;t known at this writing.At any rate, Imlach lifted Chadwick from the Rochester goal on Dec. 18, the morning after Punch&rsquo;s slipping and sliding Toronto skaters suffered an 8-3 thrashing in Montreal.The Maple Leafs&rsquo; double-duty executive felt his own netminder, Johnny Bower, was in need of a rest. He&rsquo;d been facing lots of rubber in recent Toronto games, and Imlach, who said even before the Montreal rout that Bower was a bit shaky, didn&rsquo;t hesitate long after the debacle.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03276/1718191-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="296" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry McNamara</figcaption></div>He flashed an SOS to Amerk General Manager Jack Riley. Chadwick, the Leafs&rsquo; regular cage cop for two seasons and part of last year, was the owner of a 2.6 goals against mark in the wide-open American Hockey League.Instead of sending Bower down, Toronto officials decided on Gerry McNamara for the Rochester nets. Bower needed the rest, and he certainly wouldn&rsquo;t be resting with Rochester.McNamara, the lanky 6-2 goalie who played part of each of the previous three seasons with an AHL team, had been in the cage for league-leading Sudbury in the Eastern Pro circuit. Gerry was fourth in the regular goalie standings with a 3.7 mark for Sudbury.Now McNamara is noted as being a &ldquo;hot and cold&rdquo; goalie. He lived up to that in his first two starts for Rochester&mdash;he was cold both times.The Amerks went into Cleveland on Saturday night, Dec. 19, and quickly piled up a 4-1 lead in the first period. But before it was over, the Barons listed seven goals to down the third-place Rochester club, 7-5.Rochester played in Buffalo the following night, and again held the lead&mdash;this time a 4-3 bulge in the third period. But McNamara gave up three more tallies and the Amerks lost a 6-4 decision.Those two performances left McNamara with a poor 6.5 goals against average. His team scored a total of nine goals in two games, yet lost each game by two goals.Imlach, meanwhile, promised Riley that if McNamara was treated rougly by the opposition that he&rsquo;d have either Bower or Chadwick in the Rochester goal when the Amerks returned home to face Buffalo Christmas Night.Chadwick helped bring the Leafs out of their slump as he stepped into the nets in a 4-2 win over red-hot Detroit in Toronto on Dec. 19. And he blanked the Chicago Black Hawks for two periods in Chicago the following night. Only trouble was that he gave up seven goals in a hectic second period in which he stopped 20 other attempts.So, at this writing, it hasn&rsquo;t been determined whether the Americans will have Bower, Chadwick or McNamara in the nets for the holiday games.ICICLES&mdash;Stan Smrke continued his sensational scoring pace with a pair of goals in Buffalo on Dec. 20 to lift his total to 17. They were his sixth and seventh in his club&rsquo;s six-game road trip. Another fellow who had a pretty good road trip was Hank Ciesla. The big center came up with five goals and six assists for the trip. And Rudy Migay, the always dependable centerman, added six goals to his total on the six-game travels.The Americans lost rookie winger Billy Saunders for an indefinite period when he suffered a pulled hamstring muscle against Buffalo on Dec. 20. The youngster still was awaiting a medical report at this writing&hellip;Guy Rousseau, hustling wingman who was decked by pneumonia, has been ordered back to bed by doctors following a sort of relapse. &#9632;

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Who’s In Goals? Question Pops Up For Amerks’ Fans

The 1959-60 N.H.L. Press and Radio Guide also includes Hendy&rsquo;s Who&rsquo;s Who In Hockey, and is the finest Hockey Guide published.This compact 228-page book answers every question imaginable about the National League. Gives complete professional records of every player in the National, American, Western and Eastern Leagues.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04215/1718229-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="519" height="653"></div>Very Limited supply, so get your order in early!All This For Only$1.00(Postage Paid)<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05168/1718222-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="1145" height="577"></div> &#9632;

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NHL PRESS & RADIO GUIDE

<h2>Stamps Hold Attendance Record</h2>The Calgary Stampeders hold the record for playing before the most people at home in a season. In 1954-55 the Stamps broke all gate records by playing to a total of 187,793 in 35 league games. That season the league drew it third straight &lsquo;million attendance&rsquo; with 1,036,705 paid.<h2>WHL Once Three Divisions</h2>The present WHL was actually formed back in 1944-45, when the Pacific Coast Hockey League was organixed. Portland, Vancouver and two teams from Seattle comprised the Northern Division. Oakland and San Francisco were called the Central Division and San Diego, Los Angelos, Hollywood and Pasadena formed the Southern Division.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Tues., A.M, Dec. 20)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01386/1718344-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="601" height="214"></div><h3>TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15</h3>Seattle 7 at Vancouver 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02343/1718337-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="587" height="621"></div>Winnipeg 4 at Calgary 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03280/1718330-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="597" height="549"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16</h3>Edmonton 5 at Spokan&middot; 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04224/1718323-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="588" height="626"></div><h3>FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18</h3>Victoria 3 at Seattle 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05187/1718316-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="585" height="365"></div>Edmonton 2 at Vancouver 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06167/1718309-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="584" height="464"></div>Calgary 2 at Winnipeg 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07149/1718302-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="585" height="597"></div><h3>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19</h3>Seattle 4 at Spokane 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08144/1718295-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="582" height="523"></div>Edmonton 3 at Victoria 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09136/1718288-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="580" height="339"></div><h3>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20</h3>Edmonton 3 at Seattle 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10118/1718281-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="596" height="550"></div>Calgary 3 at Winnipeg 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1197/1718274-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="585" height="596"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Games Of Sun., Dec. 20)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1287/1718267-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="596" height="421"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1365/1718260-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="593" height="320"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3>MOST GOALSBill MacFarland, Seattle, 22MOST GAME WINNING GOALSSid Finney, Calgary, 5Art Jones, Victoria, 5MOST ASSISTSGuyle Fielder, Seattle, 29MOST GAME WINNING ASSISTSColin Kilburn, Vancouver, 6MOST FIRST GOAL OF GAMEDanny Belisle, Vancouver, 5MOST HAT TRICKSBill MacFarland, Seattle, 2Steve Witiuk, Winnipeg, 2Lou Jankowski, Calgary, 2MOST SHUT OUTSHank Bassen, Vancouver, 3MOST PENALTIESFrank Arnett, Seattle, 85Larry Cahan, Vancouver, 78 &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

WINNIPEG, Mass.&mdash;The Winnipeg Warriors refused to trade their star centre Ray Brunel to the Edmonton Flyers for three players last week.The Warriors reported that General Manager Bud Poile of Edmonton offered the Warriors Centre Forbes Kennedy, Winger Warren Hynes and Defenseman Pete Coegan for Brunel, but they turned down the bid.Brunel has been playing sensationally for the sixth place Warriors and scored 12 goals and 17 assists for 30 ppoints before the halfway mark of the schedule. He was 11th in scoring.Both Kennedy and Coegan started the season with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. Both were sent to Edmonton when the Wings recalled Murray Oliver. Hynes played with the Winnipeg club on loan from Edmonton last season. He returned to Edmonton this season.Last season Brunel scored 20 goals and added 49 assist for 69 points in 63 games. &#9632;

Warriors Nix Brunel For Kennedy, Goegan And Hynes

<div class="byline">By KAYE CORBETT</div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;In the past all upstanding members of the writing fraternity poked rapid-fire questions at hockey coaches in the same old vein.&ldquo;Sir, how long have you been in hockey&hellip;sir&hellip;where were you born&hellip;and so on and on&hellip;But times have changed.Now you look at these drawn, tortured specimens of humanity and whisper, &ldquo;Sir, how are your ulcers?&rdquo;With this in view, I slowly picked up the hotel house phone and asked the sweet-voiced operator for room 703.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1443/1718399-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="293" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Mosienko</figcaption></div>Tapping my foot in growing impatience, the voice on the other end finally gave with a brisk &lsquo;hello.&rsquo;I spoke in broken phrases that I was from TheHockey News and could he spare a few moments to talk with me.&ldquo;Sure come on up, I&rsquo;ve been expecting you,&rdquo; the voice said.I was surprised when the door to 703 was opened to see a short, pleasant looking man standing in the door-way.&ldquo;Come in,&rdquo; he said.&ldquo;Billy Mosienko, sir&hellip;and before I could even get seated on the couch, I blurted THE QUESTION!&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t got them&hellip;yet,&rdquo; the soft-speaking Mosienko replied.Probably if he hadn&rsquo;t added that YET I would have reconciled myself to covering jai-alai for the rest of my life.Mosienko, still looking like he could lace on a pair of skates and dodge his way through anybody&rsquo;s defence has been holding the coaching reins of the Winnipeg Warriors for the past month.&ldquo;I sure didn&rsquo;t expect to be coaching my teammates,&rdquo; he grinned.Mosie took on sourdough Jack Perrin&rsquo;s crew when Alfe Pike decided to make the big hop as bossman of the New York Rangers.&ldquo;I was thinking about devoting my entire time to the bowling alley business I&rsquo;m in but when Perrin was in a spot, without any coach, I thought I&rsquo;d help out and take over the club for this year anyway.&rdquo;<h2>You Feel The Aches And Bruises At 38</h2>The native Winnipegger retired from the shinny wars only a few weeks prior to Pike&rsquo;s reappointment because, as Mosie put it: &ldquo;It was getting so every club was sticking three men on me instead of bothering with the puck and I was getting bruised up plenty.&rdquo;&ldquo;When you get my age (38) you start to feel the aches and pains that the youngsters just don&rsquo;t have.&rdquo;What of next year?&ldquo;That&rsquo;s sort of unfair to ask,&rdquo; he smiled. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll have to find out if I like this job with its responsibilities and all first.&rdquo;The popular veteran started out his rise to stardom with the Winnipeg junior Monarchs before the 40s.After only one year in the training ground, the Chicago hierarchy took a keen interest in the small right-winger and shipped him off to Providence of the American Hockey League, then on to Kansas City and finally he got his big chance in 1941.The curly haired gent with the receding hairline stayed underneath the big top for 14 years where he watched many come and go but where he became a kid&rsquo;s idol and an NHL super star.Asking a stupid question, on how he liked it up there? I got a smart answer as Billy turned and with eyes beaming remarked: &ldquo;It was just great, the NHL is the class of hockey and every kid&rsquo;s dream. I&rsquo;m glad I stayed up there so long.&rdquo;Always effective on the ice lanes with his skating and stick handling ability, he seldom reverted to his fists for an alibi.<h2>Didn&rsquo;t Have Time To Worry As A Player</h2>In the 1944-45 campaign, he captured the Lady Byng Trophy as the most gentlemanly player in the circuit who also displays ability. He spent 0 minutes in the penalty box and also had a clear sheet in 1942-43 and again in 1948-49.When Perrin brought the Warrior squad to the Manitoba capital in 1955, Billy was one of the mainstays and has been up until this year when he finally hung up the blades after 19 terms in pro company.Now he&rsquo;s joined the ulcer brigade along with the Kyles, Poiles, Allens and Chapmans.&ldquo;Actually playing and coaching are two different things, he said, as I opened the door, &ldquo;When playing you don&rsquo;t have time to worry, in coaching that&rsquo;s all you ever get done.&rdquo;Mosienko has a young squad with speedsters, the likes of Ray Brunel, Gerry Brisson and Barrie Ross. The Warrior mastermind believes that Brunel and his young rearguard Gary Bergman from the Memorial Cup champion Braves have the best chances of hitting the big top&hellip;Wee Willie with a touch of philosophy says he doesn&rsquo;t really care how many games the Warriors win as long as each player gives 100 per cent effort&hellip;and when they do that they&rsquo;ll win their share&hellip; &#9632;

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No Ulcers For Mosie But He Adds ‘Yet’ To Nosey Scribe’s Quiz

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div>CLEVELAND, O&mdash;In the midst of one of the wierdest goaltender sagas ever written in the American Hockey League Barons&rsquo; General Manager Jim Hendy has been accused of &ldquo;meddling&rdquo; by an official of the Rochester Americans hockey club.Jack Riley, front office boss of the Americans, charged that Hendy had used &ldquo;devious methods&rdquo; to influence the Toronto Maple Leafs to withdraw goalie Ed Chadwick from Rochester to replace Johnny Bower.&ldquo;I know that Henry was on the phone to Toronto expounding the fine qualities of Chadwick and attempting to influence his recall,&rdquo; said Riley in an exclusive interview with the writer.Riley said he personnally had trouble enough running his own club but &ldquo;Henry seems to be able to run two hockey clubs, his own and ours.&rdquo;Riley charged that Hendy had a twofold purpose in attempting to get Chadwick out of the Rochester nets where he led the American Hockey League in goals against average for goalies who have played most of the season.He listed Hendy&rsquo;s motives as follows:1. To get Chadwick out of the nets because he was too tough for the Barons to beat. He said that Hendy had reason to assume the replacement goalie would not be as good.2. To start a chain reaction that would allow Hendy to gracefully get rid of Gilles Boisvert, who has been subbing for the injured Gil Mayer in the Cleveland goal.The chain reaction was started with the benching of Bower by Toronto. The Leafs summoned their No. 2 man to report from Rochester. That was Chadwick. With Chadwick gone, the Rochester Americans called up Gerry Me-Namara from Sudbury, Ont. It was thought that the next move would be for Sudbury to recall Boisvert from Cleveland.Riley said that while Hendy was no doubt happy with the fine job Boisvert had done for Cleveland as a sub goalie, the Cleveland general manager wanted to get out from under paying Boisvert&rsquo;s salary any longer since Mayer was now ready to return to duty for Cleveland.Hendy was particularly gratified, therefore, when his Barons socked Rochester and goalie McNamara by a 7-5 score here the night of Saturday, Dec. 19.As to Riley&rsquo;s charges, Hendy declared that he was entirely innocent of any &ldquo;devious acts&rdquo;.&ldquo;Sure I talked with Toronto and Punch Imlach and a lot of other people. I&rsquo;m on the phone a good part of every day and night, talking to hockey people.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not inclined to engage in any word battle with Mr. Riley because I think he is a fine fellow. Just let us say he became a little disturbed when they took Chadwick away from him.&rdquo;Meanwhile, with Boisvert still in the nets, the Barons were keeping a hot pursuit going from their lowly position in the standings. Boisvert was unbeaten in seven games and had put together an average of 2.38 in 13 games with Cleveland.With his recall by Sudbury imminent, Boisvert declared that he did not want to leave Cleveland.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll not return to Sudbury unless they meet my demands,&rdquo; he said.Boisvert listed his demands as &ldquo;certain financial adjustments.&rdquo;In the victory over Rochester, Capt. Fred Glover picked up two assists to tie the all-time league assist record held by Cleveland coach Jackie Gordon. The mark is 433. The veteran right wing of the Barons has already set a new alltime scoring record and is now only six goals away from establishing a new all-time goal scoring record, the mark of 319 being held by Fred Thurier.<h2>He Didn&rsquo;t Do It</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01379/1718430-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="518" height="875"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Hendy</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Jack Charges Jim With Making Life Of Riley Real Nightmare

<div class="byline">By SAMUEL POMPEI</div>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;Coach Pat Egan of the Springfield Indians has problems&mdash;three of them.He doesn&rsquo;t know which of his trio of high-powered lines to start in any given American Hockey League game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03233/1718506-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="286" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Shore</figcaption></div>&ldquo;They can all score,&rdquo; he says.The record bears him out, too.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04171/1718499-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="265" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pat Egan</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05117/1718492-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="1004" height="843"></div>With that kind of an attack, the Indians at the 29-game mark worked up a four-point lead over second-place Providence and could move even further ahead, since the Tribe has three games in hand on the Reds.<h2>No Slump Whatever Thus Far</h2>The club has had no slump whatever this season and Egan credits all three lines for the success of the rampaging Indians&rsquo; powerful attack.Although each unit has had its &ldquo;red hot&rdquo; streaks, the overall consistency of the three has been the major factor in the Tribe&rsquo;s sudden rise into prominence.The club&rsquo;s scoring production, when this was written, was 20 goals better, than that of the second best offensive club, the Reds, 125 to 105, despite the fact Providence had played three games more.And that, according to Egan&rsquo;s estimates, is quite a pace.Owner Eddie Shore of the Indians calls it one of the best offensive teams he has seen in 24 years in the American League as an owner, coach and manager.This is the club that Shore, along with Muzz Patrick, general manager of the New York Rangers of the NHL, has put together in a determined bid to bring Springfield its first Calder Cup championship in history.It could be that the Indians and Rangers will share this kind of success for some time to come since the two clubs recently agreed to extend their working agreement for another season, covering the 1960-61 campaign.Meanwhile the rival goalies in the AHL will just have to keep taking their lumps every time they face Springfield. &#9632;

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Shore Rates Tribe Among Most Powerful He’s Seen

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The Hockey News FOR THE FINEST READING ANYWHERE!

<h2>Instruction Sought</h2>Putting on a pious, innoncent face to all insinuators, Moe Mantha, defenceman of the Royals, who is geeting increasing plaudits for stellar play, resents references to &ldquo;spearing.&rdquo; &ldquo;What, me? I wish some one would show me how it&rsquo;s done,&rdquo; he says.<h2>Royals Get &lsquo;Heart Back&rsquo;</h2>In his column in The Sudbury Star, Bob Scott paid a fine tribute to Ken Mosdell, Royals&rsquo; veteran conter-man, of 15-years-pro service. &ldquo;The heart of Montreal Royals will be back in uniform tonight against the Wolves,&rdquo; is how Scott led off his piece. &middot;<h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Tues., A.M., Dec 29)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03310/1718631-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="593" height="191"></div><h3>TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22</h3>Montreal 2 at Three Rivers 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04279/1718624-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="577" height="406"></div>Hull-Ottawa 3 at Sault 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05239/1718617-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="585" height="671"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23</h3>Hull-Ottawa 3 at Sudbury 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06202/1718610-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="583" height="826"></div><h3>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26</h3>Montreal 1 at Kingston 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07189/1718603-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="582" height="569"></div><h3>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27</h3>Sudbury 3 at Three Rivers 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08178/1718596-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="587" height="643"></div>Sault 4 at Hull-Ottawa 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09172/1718589-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="589" height="906"></div>Kingston 5 at Montreal 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10166/1718582-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="591" height="942"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Games Of Sun., Dec. 27)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11147/1718575-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="592" height="292"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3>Most Goals&mdash;Orval Tessier, King., 29Most Assists&mdash;Bill Carter, H.-O., 32Most Penalized Player&mdash;Jean Gauthier, H.-O 86 mts. zMost Penalized Team&mdash;Sudbury, 421 mts.<h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12130/1718568-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="591" height="548"></div> &#9632;

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EASTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Showing a commendable line of independant thought Mr. Edward Houston, has indicated in several instances, that his administration in the Eastern Professional Hockey League isn&rsquo;t to be hampered by precedent.In a recent discussion about All-Star teams Houston, frankly announced that there would be no first half season selection of a shadow team of greats, just because this has been for years the practice in the National Hockey League. Houston didn&rsquo;t say the latter part of the previous sentence. It&rsquo;s said for him here.&ldquo;This is a new league and there have been too many changes in personnel since the first of the season to make it feasible to pick mid-term teams.&rdquo;He is calling a board of governors&rsquo; meeting in mid-January when All-Star proceedure among many other routine affairs will be ironed out.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02342/1718693-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="274" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">Floyd Curry</figcaption></div>It is expected that a free ballot among members of press and radio directly covering EPHL gameswill be taken for the nomination of All-Stars. Or Mr. Houston and his governors may decide to limit the voters to three per city, the plan employed for some years in the NHL. Still Mr. Houston wants it known that the executive of the EPHL are no &ldquo;copy cats.&rdquo;The idea behind this vote was introduced by NHL president Clarence Campbell some years ago. The franchise was put at three for city to prevent large towns with abundant newspapers and radio stations such as Montreal and New York from overpowering the centers of smaller population with a heavy partisan ballot.<h2>Decide On Trophies</h2>Trophy awards&mdash;year&rsquo;s top rookie, most valuable player, best goalkeeper, and possibly most efficient defenceman will be voted along similar lines once the EPHL plan has been adopted, at the mid-January meeting.Houston has received several trophy offers, but has courteously held all such proposals in abeyance. At this writing it seems that few if any of the old Quebec Hockey League trophies will be continued in the new league.The inclination of most of the club leaders, especially those in Ontario has been to withdraw completely from any association with the old, disbanded organization.It has been pointed out that most of the QHL trophies are unsuitable because of they are heavily engraved with Quebec Hockey League identification.Where the QHL identification is contained on plaques attached to the base of the trophy or cup these could be removed and new ones with EPHL designation attached, of course.Mr. Emile Genest, who put up his trophy, at a cost of $400 two years ago has pointed out that his award for the team finishing first over the regular run of the schedule is thus designed. He is willing that his prize be turned over to the EPHL on these conditions, with a new plaque for which he agrees to defray the tost.There is no commercial attachment to the Genest trophy and it&rsquo;s currently in possession of the Montreal Royals, and as Royals are in the new league, few complications arise there. That is provided Royals agree to turn it over to the Eastern Pro loop.There have also been offers for trophies from Sudbury and Windsor. Adam Borovich head of a family in control of the International Hotel in Sudbury has offered a trophy that would go to the playoff winner, and he has stipulated that he will consent to donate the trophy only if it is designated for this honor.Houston is looking into another offer. &ldquo;I expect to hear about another playoff trophy soon,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The question of commercialism signified by free advertising arises. We don&rsquo;t want that, we&rsquo;ll accept only trophies that will add the prestige of the league.&rdquo;<h2>Koneczny Declines</h2>After completing his five game trial with Sudbury Wolves, Ches Koneczny, veteran right winger from North Bay who played in the NOHA with Trappers, has decided to remain an amateur hockey player under the broad definition of the CAHA and the Ontario Provincial tax authorities.Though he scored three assists in his five game essay in the EPHL and made a favorable impression on Coach Murph Chamberlain, Koneczny declined contract offers extended by the Sudbury club. He&rsquo;ll be joining Kitchener Dutchies to make an effort for a place on the squad that will carry the Canadian Olympic hockey banner to Squaw Valley in February.Royals&rsquo; pre-Christmas success on the road has heartened many of their supporters in Montreal. The &ldquo;Curry-Combers,&rdquo; practically patsies to all opposition this season on the road, annexed their second win in 15-starts on tour this season, when they beat Wolves in Sudbury 4-1, then went into Hull two days later and whomped the H.-O. Canadiens 4-3. &#9632;

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No Half Season All-Star Ballets Planned In EPHL

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div>ST. PAUL, Minn.&mdash;Before training camp opened, the St. Paul Saints, current leaders in the International Hockey League&rsquo;s Western Division weren&rsquo;t figured upon to win too many games this season.The Saints had two mediocre goaltenders in camp and needed help badly in this position if they were going to improve in the standings.A week before the season opened, Ft. Wayne sold netminder Glenn Ramsay, twice the leading goalie in the IHL to the Saints&mdash;things have been brighter ever since.Apparantly Ramsay, the 24-year old resident of Gatchell, Ontario gave the Minnesotans the spark they needed as St Paul went on to win their first seven games before being defeated.Coach Freddie Shero, a veteran of all four top pro leagues has molded a team of veterans and youngsters together to where they rank as one of the powers in the IHL.On defense veterans Danny Summers and Bud McRae team with rookies Hugh Scobie and Ted Lanyon, while Minneapolis born John Newkirk, a former U. of Minnesota and U.S. Olympic team stalwart rotates on the blue line and wing.Agile Aggie Kukulowicz centers the number one line for Bryan Derrett and Freddie Brown. Derrett, who leads the loop in goals scored will be out for six weeks or longer with torn ligaments in the knee. General Manager Joe Lein is seeking a replacement.Johnny Bailey, Howie Hughes and Wayne Larkin form the second attacking unit, Larkin has connected on 14-goals, while Bailey and Hughes have scored ten each.Don Hart, who G.M. Lein terms as a &ldquo;great little competitor&rdquo; George Mylenchuk and Rene Brunel round out the squad.When asked what the key was to St. Paul&rsquo;s early season success, Lein commented, &ldquo;Everyone isworking together as a unit and that Ramsay has just been terrific. I&rsquo;d hate like the dickens to see where we would be without him.&rdquo;IHL NOTES&hellip;Omaha&rsquo;s Ron Tookey, who two years ago broke his leg while playing with Troy, ran into another bout with tough luck, this time breaking his wrist at Toledo. He is expected to be out of action for about six to eight weeks&hellip;Omaha signed defenseman Connie Neal, released by Milwaukee&hellip;Milwaukee signed winger Lome Nadeau&hellip;Toledo has switched five of its home games, originally scheduled for Columbus, Ohio to St. Louis, Mo. in The Arena. The contests include Sat. Jan. 9, Louisville vs Toledo; Sat. Jan. 16, Indianapolis vs Toledo; Sun. Jan. 17, Ft. Wayne vs. Toledo; Sat. Jan. 23, Milwaukee vs. Toledo and Tue. Jan. 26, Minneapolis vs. Toledo&hellip;St. Paul and Ft. Wayne are drawing the best at home&hellip;Three games scheduled for Cincinnati. Jan. 10, St. Paul vs. Indianapolis; Jan. 24. Milwaukee vs. Indianapolis and Feb. 7, Ft. Wayne vs. Indianapolis&hellip;League is going to make a strong bid to get Cincinnati and St. Louis in league next season&hellip;Chick Chalmers of Louisville leads league in scoring with 42 points&hellip;Aggie Kukulowisz is assist leader with 30&hellip;. Ft. Wayne&rsquo;s Con Madigan penalty leader with 118 minutes in sin bin&hellip;Ramsay of St. Paul has a 2.45 goals against average&hellip;Ramsay and Ft Wayne&rsquo;s Reno Zanier have two shutouts apiece.<h2>The Big Reason</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01380/1718724-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="554" height="644"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glenn Ramsay</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Ramsay Leads Parade As Saints Go Marching On

<div class="byline">By WAYNE BEAMISH</div>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;After several years&rsquo; absence from prairie hockey circles, the Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League was reinaugurated this year in an effort to revive amateur hockey, reminiscent of pre-war years, in the wheat province. Adding Saskatoon to last year&rsquo;s makeshift league of Regina, Moose Jaw and Yorkton, gives the loop four clubs which consist of players who draw no salaries with the possible exception of a split at the end of the season, should there be a little cash left over.Delegates from the four centres held a league meeting in mid-September in Saskatoon, at which time the executive of Jack Hamilton of Regina, president; Jack Meikle of Moose Jaw, vice president and Harvey Dryden of Regina, secretary, was elected and a 28-game schedule was draw up.It was also decided at this session, that because Yorkton does not have artificial ice, they would play a 24-game schedule with all their wins to be worth 2&frac12; points in the standing.At the time of writing, sixteen games had been played, with Saskatoon leading the loop with a record of seven wins against two losses. Moose Jaw is in second spot with four and six, Regina third with three and five, followed by Yorkton with two and three.Among the better-known players in the league are Gerry (Doc) Couture, long-time National League and Western League star, who is the playing coach of the Saskatoon Quakers, Vic Lynn, also of the Quakers, Pat Lundy of the Regina Caps, and George Hunchuk of Moose Jaw Pla-Mors.In the individual scoring statistics, Couture, Sid Puddicombe, Bill Lindsay, all of the Quakers, Wally Blaisdell of Moose Jaw, and Lundy of the Caps are leading the way, with the remainder of the top scorers made up mostly of Saskatoon and Moose Jaw players. In nine games, Couture has tallied nine goals and twelve assists for 21 points, closely followed by Puddicombe and Lindsay who have 18 and 17 points, respectively. Blaisdell has turned on the red light 11 times to lead in the goal scoring department and has added six helpers to give him a third place tie with Lindsay.Johnny Sofiak of Quakers leads the goaltenders, giving up 30 goals in eight games for a goals against average of 3.75.In the penalty department, George Hunchuck of Moose Jaw leads with a total of 24 minutes, followed closely by Al King of Regina with 20.It appears at this stage of the season that only two clubs are going to accomplish what the league set out to do, that is to get the fans interested in some real amateur sport. Saskatoon and Moose Jaw have been averaging from 2,500 to 3,000 fans per game, while Yorkton and Regina are under the 1,000 mark. However, Yorkton is small in comparison to the other-cities and Regina has to compete with a junior club that is currently riding atop the tough Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.<h2>Skate For Fun Of It</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04170/1718776-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="270" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Hunckuk</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05139/1718769-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="291" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pat Lundy</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06114/1718762-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="287" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry Couture</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0789/1718755-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="288" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">Vic Lynn</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Saskatchewan Seniors Playing For Fun And Maybe Gate Split

(On Wed., A.M. Dec. 23)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02296/1718814-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="588" height="159"></div>(All Yorkton Wins Worth 2-1/3 Pts)TOP TEN SCORERS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03220/1718807-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="594" height="320"></div> &#9632;

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SSHL STANDINGS

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

N.H.L. SCHEDULES AVAILABLE FOR FANS

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0874/1718869-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="532" height="676"></div>This 96-page book is &iexcl;am-packed with full-length features about your favorite hockey stars&hellip;biographical sketches and pictures of over 120 National Hockey League players&hellip;birthdates and places of birth too&hellip;All at a glance!You can&rsquo;t afford to pass up the opportunity of availing yourself-of a copy of this outstanding hockey publication.SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY!&hellip;ONLY 50 CENTS (Postage Paid)See a picture of every player in the National Hockey LeagueHOCKEY ANNUALP.O. BOX 248MONTREAL, QUE.Please send copies of the 1960 OFFICIAL HOCKEY ANNUAL at 50 cents each. (No stamps or cheques please).Name&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;Street&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;City&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;.Zone&hellip;.Prov. or State&hellip;. &#9632;

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THE FIRST EDITION OF THE OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY ANNUAL 1960

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01356/1718900-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK<h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Pictured Boston rookie prospect.5&mdash;Name given Smith, former N.H.L. referee.7&mdash;One of Maurice Richard&rsquo;s sons.9&mdash;One of the Providence Reds.12&mdash;Ells English (abbr.)13&mdash;Earl Reibel&rsquo;s birthplace.16&mdash;Initials of LaBine of Boston.17&mdash;How game between Montreal and Detroit ended on Dec. 6.19&mdash;Pronoun.21&mdash;Canadiens&rsquo; Ken Reardon can do this.23&mdash;Initials of Riopelle, ex Canadian forward. &middot;24&mdash;Number worn by Tom Johnson.25&mdash;Month in which Danny Lewicki was born (abbr.)26&mdash;Los Angeles (abbr.)27&mdash;Former Toronto captain.29&mdash;Name given 9 across.31&mdash;One of the Black Hawks.33&mdash;Initials of &ldquo;Scotty&rdquo; Morrison, ex N.H.L. referee.34&mdash;Mrs. Ted Hampson.36&mdash;Number of games Larry Popein missed last season.37&mdash;Name given goal scoring immortal, Stewart.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;This Calgary player was recently suspended.2&mdash;Where Detroit finished at the end of the 1918-59 schedule.3&mdash;20th & 1st letters of the alphabet.4&mdash;An injury to one has sidelined Leafs&rsquo; Bert Olmstead.5&mdash;Initials of Winnipeg&rsquo;s goalie.6&mdash;Germanium. (Sym.)8&mdash;Former hockeyist, Phil Samis, is now one.10&mdash;Floyd Curry sold this during off seasons.11Science (abbr.)14&mdash;Initials of Ingarfield of Springfield.15&mdash;Birthplace of Balfour of Chicago.18&mdash;Given name of one of Chicago&rsquo;s Balfour&rsquo;s.20&mdash;League in which 22 down once played (abbr.)22&mdash;A Red Wing defenseman.25&mdash;Former member of the Montreal Canadiens, called Pete.28&mdash;Players&rsquo; hockey boots have guards to protect these (sing.)30&mdash;Friend (Fr.)32&mdash;A drink.34&mdash;Initials of a Leaf forward.35&mdash;Initials of Smith of Springfield.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Ward3&mdash;Jack6&mdash;Fe.7&mdash;I.S.8&mdash;Valere10&mdash;Sailor12&mdash;One13&mdash;Alf15&mdash;Mar.16&mdash;D.A.17&mdash;Co.18&mdash;Ran.20&mdash;Ont.22&mdash;Ink23&mdash;Bar24&mdash;Pucks25&mdash;Blue26&mdash;A.L.27&mdash;D.C.28&mdash;Miner31&mdash;King32&mdash;S.B.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;Watson2&mdash;Riviera3&mdash;Jeer4&mdash;Ciesla5&mdash;K.S.6&mdash;Flo.9&mdash;Al11&mdash;An13&mdash;American14&mdash;Franks16&mdash;Donald17&mdash;Cobb19&mdash;Ankles21&mdash;Truck28&mdash;M.N.29&mdash;IG30&mdash;R.B. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04230/1718969-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="739" height="759"></div>Professional and top amateur hockey players insist on C.C.M., because here is the best combination of boots and skates in the world.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.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.Is it any wonder professionals and amateurs all over Canada demandC&middot;C&middot;M &#9632;

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why 98’ of pro hockey players choose CCM prolite skates with genuine Kangaroo leather Tackaberry Boots

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.-The Washington Presidents are the mystery team in the Eastern Hockey League this season. Under a new owner&mdash;Peter Carver of New York City&mdash;and with a new manager&mdash;Ray Miron of Cornwall, Ont.,&mdash;and a new coach&mdash;Rags Raglan, the District of Columbia sextet have posed question after question, some still to be answered.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02315/1718938-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="274" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Davie</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03285/1718931-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="292" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">L. Hinchberger</figcaption></div>The schedule had been set for seven teams when Washington decided to ice a club this winter&mdash;that problem was easily overcome.A manager&mdash;Miron&mdash;of top senior caliber was obtained and virtually a new club was brought in under Raglan, an ex-NHL defenseman, who rates one of the top blue linemen in the EHL this semester.Only six members of last year&rsquo;s fifth place club were back in the lineup with a balance of experienced pros, seniors and juniors graduates rounding out the squad.The team has been the most inconsistent one in the league this fall. When they&rsquo;re hot, they&rsquo;re as good as any club in the circuit. But when they&rsquo;re bad, they are Bad.The club has just snapped out of a five game losing streak, tying and winning their last two outings to hold second place in the Southern Division by three points over Charlotte.Daryl MacMillan, who played under Miron at Cornwall last year, has the spark&mdash;along with veteran Ken (Buck) Davies&mdash;to put the Presidents back on the truck.Miron, Carver and Raglan have the potential of a winner&mdash;or at least a second place club, and they&rsquo;re looking to make any changes necessary to wake the boys up.If a couple of the old timers, such as Wally Kullman, Moose Lallo and Lloyd Hinchberger can regain their style of past seasons, and kids like Jacques Caron (the goalie), Danny Patrick and Norm Doyle keep on plugging, there may be happy days at Uline Arena this season.CLINTON&mdash;Veteran Dick Wray is now the league&rsquo;s top scorer, with 38 points. He has 19 goals and a like number of assists to hold a one point edge over Philly coach Doug Adam&hellip;Wray has been hot the past few weeks&hellip;Also going well for the Comets is veteran winger Willie Pawchuk&hellip;Spider Brown scored the winner in 3-2 over Washington, Dec. 8th&hellip;Ed Giacomen doing nice job in nets for injured Norm Defelice.CHARLOTTE&mdash;Goalie Lynn Davis was married Dec. 10th&hellip;Nick Murray, who broke collar bone earlier in season, had cast removed and will rejoin Clippers in mid-January, probably as utility player&hellip;Pete Horeck off playing list now that he&rsquo;s GM and no longer coach&hellip;Moe Savard playing with helmet&hellip;He looks like one of the top players in league&hellip;Clips even, 1-1, under now coach, Gordie Tottle.GREENSBORO&mdash;Generals dropped Jac Rogers and picked up Ike Scott from Calgary of the Western League&hellip;Andy Milne hottest scorer on club in recent outings&hellip;GM Ken Wilson still not set on his club and a few more changes may take place in next week&hellip;Goalie Don Campbell fully recovered from his bout with pneumonia and playing well in nets&hellip;Bud Syerson scored ope of his rare tallies against Charlotte, Dec. 12.JOHNSTOWN&mdash;Jets on another win streak&mdash;three&mdash;since loss to Clinton Dec. 6. They have won 11 of last 13 and are far in front of Southern Division&hellip;John Lumley going well with fourt point effort in 6-5 win at Clinton, Dec. 12. Dick Roberge is team&rsquo;s high scorer with Ken Coombes, Don Hall and Lumley close behind&hellip;Sam Gregory is still the badman of club.NEW HAVEN&mdash;Veteran Blade winger Jacques LaFlamme was dropped and Jack Rogers picked up from Greensboro&hellip;Rumor has Chirp Brenchley&rsquo;s coaching job in fire with Ducky Skinner and Don Perry (a pair of former Blade mentors) as possible successors&hellip;Crowds still holding up in New Haven, but Blades are going deeper into Northern Division cellar&hellip;Gord Stratton, Yvan Chasle and Nick Donaleshun scored in 3-3 tie at Washington, Dec. 12.NEW YORK&mdash;Coach Andy Branigan back on blueline&hellip;Norm Ryder had injured finger operated on and is probably out for three weeks&hellip;Georges Ranieri saved Rovers from blitzing in Philly, Dec. 11&hellip;Clare Warkshinski scored brace in 4-3 loss to Jets, Dec. 13&hellip;Bernie Cote credited with three assists in latter tilt&hellip;Ref Doug Davies injured in same tilt and out of action for week&hellip;Jacques Allard now has nine goals in as many games since joining New Yorkers. Also picked up major for fight with Jets&rsquo; Jim Mikol on 13th.PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Doug Adam&rsquo;s 21 goals pace league. His 37 points second in EHL and Frank Kubasek&rsquo;s 33 are good for third&hellip;Reg Meserve broke team record with seven points (six assists) in 10-1 win over Rovers Dec. 11&hellip;Ramblers hit road as ice show comes into Arena over Christmas holiday&hellip;Rocky Rukavina, Vip Palladino and Garry Luyben scored two each in 10-1 rout&hellip;Vip now has equalled last season&rsquo;s total goal out put&hellip;Philly has oldest club in loop, only two men under 30.WASHINGTON&mdash;Bob Bingley on 30 day inactive list with torn chest cartilage&hellip;Rookie Tom Clark has been shifted from wing to defense&hellip;Jacques Gagne also out, with injured hand&hellip;Jean Leclerc, Ken Davies and Daryl MacMillan battling for team scoring honors. First two mentioned have 25 points, later, 24. Davies top goal getter, 12&hellip;Wally Kullman&rsquo;s 50 minutes lead team in penalty time&hellip;Presidents have added center Yves (Laurie) Laurandeau from U. of Montreal to lineup.Eastern Hockey League Yearbook is now available for 50&cent; per copy. Send to Herb Elk, NY Mirror, 235 E. 45th Street, New York 17, N.Y. &#9632;

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Hot And Cold Presidents? Some Say They May Go All The Way

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01310/1719007-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="212" height="275"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02250/1719000-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="236" height="285"></div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;With the Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit now at the halfway mark of its 48-game schedule, it becomes more and more apparent that the Hamilton Tiger-Cubs may be the team left out of the post-season playoff whirl.Six of the seven Ontario teenage teams qualify for the playoff series each year and while this fact has been criticized in some quarters, it is merely an economic necessity.It is these extra games which usually make the difference between a team finishing deep in red ink or on the right side of the ledger.Last year it was the Hamilton team which finished dead last (and out of the playoffs) but great things were predicted for the club this season.Some felt that the Cubs, with a dozen holdovers from their 195859 club might finish as high as third place.With rare exceptions the team has failed to live up to those advance notices.They have only won three of their first 20 games and have drop-pel seven points behind the sixth place St. Catharines Teepees.Even a change in coaches didn&rsquo;t help.Jerry Brown was ousted three weeks ago but his successor Farmer McFadden has not had any more success than the quick-talking Jerry.(Brown is now coaching Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds of the new Eastern Professional Hockey League.)<h2>Fans Continue Support</h2>It is a credit to the Cubs owner and sponsor Ken Soble that he has stuck with the team despite some very frustrating years.Even the fans have continued their support, indicating that if the Cubs&rsquo; do come up with a genuine contender, the old Hamilton Forum will bulge at the seams.Average attendance this year has been close to the 1500 mark, better than many teams higher in the standings.While the Cubs continue their plunge into the depths of the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; basement, the St. Catharines Teepees have shaken off their early-season troubles and are on the wings of four-game undefeated streak.Their latest triumphs included decisive victories over Peterboro (7-1) and St. Michael&rsquo;s College Majors (6-2) at home and a 2-2 draw with the third place Majors in Toronto.Max Kaminsky, whose coaching job in St. Catharines was shaky just three weeks ago, is once again on solid ground and predicts even better things in the future for last year&rsquo;s pennant winners.In first place, the Toronto Marlboros show few signs of cracking, despite a 6-5 loss in a much-publicized game in Guelph.The Dukes bounced back to trim Guelph 8-3 in Maple Leaf Gardens two nights later and took a four-point lead over the second place Barrie Flyers.The junior scoring race continues to be a two-man battle between Guelph Biltmore line mates Rod Gilbert and Jean Ratelle.Although neither were named to the first team all-stars, Gilbert is in first place in the seven-team league with 18 goals, 32 assists for 50 points.Ratelle is second with 24 goals, 23 assists for 47 points while Dave Keon of Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors is a distant third with 19 goals, 15 assists for 34 points.Jim Pappin of Toronto Marlboros is fifth with 29 points.Keen and Pappin both made the midseason all-star team, Keon at centre and Pappin at right wing.Among the regular goaltenders Jerry Cheevers of St. Michael&rsquo;s leads the list with a goal against average of 2.79. &#9632;

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Outlook Gloomy For Cubs In OHA Junior “A” Battles

(On Tues. AM. Dec. 26)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03192/1719038-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="589" height="216"></div> &#9632;

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OHA JUNIOR ‘A’ STANDINGS

ST, CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;The seven coaches in the Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league have named their first and second all-star teams at the halfway mark of the 48-game schedule.The first team lists Wayne Rutledge of Barrie in goal; defensemen Terry O&rsquo;Malley of Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors and Pat Stapleton of St Catharines Teepees; centre, Dave Keon of Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;s; right wing, Jim Pappin of Toronto Marlboros; left wing, Jaek Martin of Toronto Marlboros.The second team as Ken Broderick of Toronto Marlboros in goal; defence, Dale Rolfe of Barrie and Roger Cote of the Marlboros; centre, Jean Ratelie of Guelph Biltmores; right wing, Rod Gilbert of Guelph; left wings, Larry Jeffrey of Hamilton Tiger-Cubs.This team, with several additions, will meet the first place Toronto Marlboros in the third annual allstar game in Guelph Jan. 5.The Marlboro players named to the team will revert to their original club and will be replaced by players from other teams for the all-star game. &#9632;

Marlies, St. Mike’s Place Four On Junior All-Stars

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;Regina Pats, who had four straight victories over Flin Flon Bombers this year, lost their mastery over the defending champions and their grip on first place in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League last week.Bombers, in the friendly confines of Flin Flon, nipped Regina twice in a weekend series to grab five points and a share of the lead. Each club has 45 points.Pats had beaten Bombers twice on the first trip north and held two easy victories over the Manitoba club in games played in Regina.Bobby Kirk&rsquo;s Bombers had to take both games the hard way, scoring three times in the second period for a 4-2 victory Saturday and twice in the third period for a 3-2 decision Sunday.Prince Albert Mintos held firm to third spot by providing goaltender Gary Bauman with two shutouts&mdash;7-0 over Melville and 5-0 over Estevan. Mintos trail the coleaders by five points and sit seven points ahead of fourth-ranking Saskatoon Quakers.The home plight of Quakers continued when Melville rolled to a 7-4 victory in Saskatoon. Earlier in the week, Quakers had trounced Bruins 8-4 in Estevan with rightwinger Don Wilson scoring four goals to bring his total for three road games to 10.Quakers have the best road record in the entire league&mdash;nine wins, four losses and one tie. However, on home ice, the club is second only to the lowly Moose Jaw Canucks for losses. Saskatoon has lost 12 games to date, eight of them at home.Melville Millionaires, striving to overtake Quakers for the fourth and final playoff spot, closed the gap to three points by splitting four games. They bowed to Regina and Prince Albert but bounced back with wins over Estevan and Quakers.Scotty Munro&rsquo;s youth-laden Bruins slipped five points back of fifth-place Melville, bowing to Millionaires, Saskatoon and Prince Albert, in that order, after upsetting Regina 2-1.Last place Moose Jaw dropped its only start, the 27th in 31 games.Centre Chick Balon of Prince Albert remained nine points ahead of Regina&rsquo;s Gard Wilkie in the individual scoring race with 65 points on 29 goals and 36 assists.Wilkie&rsquo;s total is comprised of 19 goals and 37 assists, tops in the playmaking department. Mintos&rsquo; Bill Wilkes held on to third spot with 49 points, seven less than Wilkie.Don Wilson leads the goalscorers with 31 but is followed closely by Jim Baird of Flin Flon, with 30; Balon with 29; Gord Turlik of Prince Albert, the early season leader, with 28; and Gary Butler of Regina and Jake Skilnick of Melville, each with 27.Rookie netminders Joe Letcher and Art Koberinski of Regina continue to set the standard for goalkeepers. Letcher has a 2.3 goals-against average for 12 games while Koberinski boasts a 2.4 mark for 21 games. &#9632;

Flin Flon Regains Their Mastery Over Regina Pats

(On Tues., A.M., Dec. 22)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04161/1719117-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="595" height="250"></div>(Flin Flon Games Worth Pts) &#9632;

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SJHL STANDINGS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05113/1719148-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg"></div>READ!BRONCO BUSTS LOOSEandARE THE TOUGH GUYS HURTING HOCKEY?In the December issue on the newsstands now!YOU SAVE 40% WHEN YOU SUBSCRIBE&hellip;DO IT NOW! &#9632;

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January 2, 1960

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Pike Schedules More Ice Time For Cullen In 2nd Half Of Year

Al Parsley