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January 9, 1960
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Timing Shot, Bronco Tries To Snap Back In Shooting Match
BOSTON, Mass.— A bruised foot has cost Bronco Horvath of the Bruins the scoring leadership of the National League. And if Horvath fails to recapture the scoring position he held for more than two months, the painful injury may be the reason. The snapshooting center acquired his injury in a game in Detroit on December 5, the day after scoring his 21st goal in Chicago. In attempting to avoid a long shot by Detroit’s Marcel Pronovost, Bronk jumped into it. The fast moving disc struck him flush on his big toe. By the next night, when the Bruins played Chicago here, Horvath’s foot had balooned to the point where he couldn’t wedge it into his skate. He was unable to play. Horvath made the Bruins’ next game, although his mobility was extremely limited but a night…
Speaking on Sport
Even A Realist Can Wish Alfred George Pike once had a professional hockey team that blew 14 consecutive games—nine of them by one-goal margins. So the rookie coach of the New York Rangers is a realist—even when he sighs that he’d love to get his books on an outstanding centre or a goal-shooting right winger. Having stated his dire needs, he doesn’t wait around to see which of the rival clubs in the NHL will offer the centre or the right railer. He knows he could pass the hat without getting so much as a broken shoelace. For two broken shoelaces, they’d want Dean Prentice or Andy Bathgate. So Pike’s musings are mainly philo sophical. Meanwhile, Alfie has the game’s all-star right winger of last season, Mr. Andrew (Woodsman, Spare That Spear)…
ON THE SIDELINES
IT’S THE NEAREST approach to the Golden Rule that a turbulent sport like hockey will ever make. And the route was devious at that. Floyd “Busher” Curry maestro ®f Montreal’s Royals was asked by Charlie Halpin to pick an All Star Eastern Pro League team. It was for a piece confrere Halpin was doing for the Forum’s Sports Magazine. No restrictions were made by Halpin, but Curry made one, self-imposed. “I’ll pass up all my players, because I’ve got to live with these guys for a few more months, Curry said or words to that effect.“In the first place let me say that a hockey coach has different ideas about picking a team than a newspaperman or broadcaster. “Generally you fellows go by the statistics. With forwards and goal-keepers anyway. The reason you…
Lynn Denies He Was Offered Bobby Hull
BOSTON, Mass.—The story carried by a wire service that the Boston Bruins could have acquired Bobby Hull of Chicago last summer in exchange for Don McKenney failed to ring a bell with Lynn Patrick, Bruins’ manager. The story was circulated by United Press International after Hull made a three-goal hat trick against the Bruins for the second time this season. “If Tommy Ivan offered me Hull even up for McKenney,” said Patrick, “I don’t remember it. And if I could have gotten Hull by offering Chicago McKenney I don’t remember that, either.” Ivan, dapper general manager of the Black Hawks, has told hockey writers here on several occasions that Hull is a Chicago untouchable by either sale or trade.…
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