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April 2, 1960

The Hockey News April 2, 1960

<div class="image-hero"><img title="C4-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0488/1805340-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>K</span>eeps you informed on what&rsquo;s happening in the world of hockey during those long, hot summer days. Plan to subscribe now and make sure you&rsquo;re abreast of the hockey news. Remember, THE HOCKEY NEWS cannot be purchased on the newsstands during the summer months. So, don&rsquo;t be a news loser, subscribe now. Just fill in the form below.</p><h2><u>PACKED FULL OF:</u></h2><p>&bull; <b>Pictures of your favorites</b><br>&bull; <b>Summer news features</b><br>&bull; <b>Cartoons</b><br>&bull; <b>Hockey Crossword</b></p><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive Issues.</p><p>Canadian Remittances $3.00 Payable by Postal, Bank or Telegraph Money Order.</p><p>U.S.A. Remittances $4.00 Payable by Postal, Bank or Express Money Order.</p><p>$3.00</p><p>(Canada & British Commonwealth)</p><p>$4.00</p><p>(U.S.A. & Foreign Countries)</p><p>NOW YOU CAN GET THE HOCKEY NEWS FOR JUST</p><p><b>$3.00 for 35 hockey packed issues ($4.00 In the U.S.)</b></p><p>GET THE INSIDE DOPE ON HOCKEY<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IN THIS ISSUE

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>They laughed this season as Dick Meissner of the Bruins bustled around National Hockey League rinks with his head down.</p><p>But Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; manager, predicts he&rsquo;ll be doing the laughing next season, with Meissner playing regularly.</p><p>The Bruins&rsquo; season may have had an unpleasant ending with the team&rsquo;s failure to make the Stanley Cup playoffs for the second time in the 10 years of Patrick&rsquo;s administration. But the late-season showings of young players took some of the curse off the failure.</p><p>The younger fellows finished so strongly I&rsquo;m figuring on some of them as key men for next season,&rsquo;&rsquo; revealed Patrick as he prepared to leave on a springtime scouting trip.</p><p>&ldquo;One young fellow who has convinced me he&rsquo;s a major league right wing is Meissner. For a boy without previous professional experience (he jumped from the Bruins&rsquo; junior team in Estevan, Sask.) he made a lot of progess.</p><p>&ldquo;I thought he had the makings last fall,&rdquo; said Patrick. &ldquo;Now I&rsquo;m sure he&rsquo;ll be one of our three right wings.&rdquo;</p><p>Meissner, 20, became a regular in March when injuries decimated the Bruins&rsquo; forward squad. The more the 207-pound youngster played the better he looked.</p><p>Quipped a Bruins&rsquo; associate, &ldquo;What happens the night he and Eric Nesterenko (Chicago forward who also skates with his head down) collide head-on?&rdquo;</p><p>Snapped Patrick, &ldquo;Nesterenko won&rsquo;t get up.&rdquo;</p><p>Two more young players, 18-year-old Dallas Smith and 22-year-old Autry Erickson, featured the late-season play of the Bruins&rsquo; defense corps. Smith, another product of the Estevan incubator, stepped into the lineup with the aplomb of a veteran. Erickson looked better every time he played.</p><p>At season&rsquo;s end the Bruins&rsquo; defense group consisted of Captain Ferny Flaman, Leo Boivin, Bob Armstrong, Erickson and Smith.</p><p>Observed Patrick, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the group I&rsquo;d like to have for next season, but having Smith may take some doing. He has two more years of junior eligibility and I&rsquo;m not convinced he&rsquo;s ready for the National League yet.&rdquo;</p><p>The veteran Flaman, opined Patrick, is rated a Bruins&rsquo; asset at the age of 33. Said Patrick, &ldquo;We overworked Ferny this year. I don&rsquo;t think he can play regularly for 70 games but he still has a lot left. He&rsquo;s still two years younger than Doug Harvey.&rdquo;</p><p>Another young player finishing strongly was Larry Leach, who became a left wing for the final two weeks of the season as the substitute for Johnny Bucyk on the Uke Line with Bronco Horvath and Vic Stasiuk.</p><p>With the youngsters holding up on defense the Bruins closed with Doug Mohns playing left wing, and Mohns scored 20 goals for the first time in his seven seasons here. The defenseman-forward made 14 goals in 17 games as a left wing, six goals as a defenseman.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to play him on the wing next season,&rdquo; said Patrick, &ldquo;but where he plays depends on our defense situation.&rdquo;</p><p>Asked what he would like to add to the Bruins for next season, Patrick replied, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to get a good center, and we could use a good left wing.&rdquo;</p><p>Added the Bruins&rsquo; boss, &ldquo;I think Gerry Ouelette has a good chance of playing for the Bruins next season.&rdquo; Ouelette, 20, had an outstanding season with the Kingston Frontenacs of the Eastern League after playing in Junior B competition last year. He is a left wing from Grand Falls, New Brunswick.</p><p>Another potential source of new Bruins, according to Patrick, is the annual draft. He cited such past purchases as Bronco Horvath, Larry Regan, Guy Gendron and Charley Burns, pointing out, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve drafted every year since it has been in operation.&rdquo;</p><p>The only Bruins removed from consideration for regular work here next season so far have been Goalkeeper Harry Lumley and Forward Jerry Toppazzini. The veteran Lumley will be employed by the Bruins. Toppazzini announced his intention of retiring after the final game here.</p><p>It seems safe to assume that Don McKenney, Leo LaBine and Vic Stasiuk, all of whom had productive seasons, can be placed in Patrick&rsquo;s plans for next year.</p><h2><b>Retiring</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02332/1803844-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="544" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gerry Toppazzini</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bruins Eyeing Young Crop To Carry Load In 1960-61

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01344/1803441-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="550" height="557"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Simmons</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02327/1803434-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="566" height="895"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Lumley</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03298/1803427-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="528" height="544"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bruce Gamble</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Lynn Puts Chips On Gamble As Favorite In Goal Stakes

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT, Mich,&mdash;</p><p>Away back in the Oct. 17, 1959 issue of Hockey News, 18 experts made their annual predictions on the outcome of the National Hockey League race.</p><p>Only three Detroit-area writers had any faith in the Red Wings&mdash;Lew Walter of the Detroit Times, Matt Dennis of the Windsor Star and Marshall Dann of the Detroit Free Press.</p><p>All three gentlemen picked the Wings to finish fourth. Those were the only playoff votes cast for Detroit, a club that finished a sorry last the year before.</p><p>The 15 other seers saw the Wings either in fifth&mdash;seven votes&mdash;or last, eight votes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05175/1803575-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="241" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Morrison</b></figcaption></div><p>And of all the predictors, Dann came the closest to the final standing. He picked the four playoff teams in perfect order&mdash;Montreal, Toronto, Chicago and Detroit&mdash;but placed New York fifth instead of sixth and had the Bruins in the cellar.</p><p>No other writer picked the first four finishers in the right order.</p><p>Which brings us around to those Red Wings who fooled 15 selectors and thousands of fans.</p><p>Who could be blamed for calling the Wings a two-man club&mdash;Gordie Howe and Terry Sawchuk? Who would have thought Gary Aldcorn, picked up in the draft, would net 22 goals&hellip;or that rookie Murray Oliver would pump in 20, a feat unmatched by most of today&rsquo;s stars including rising superstar Bobby Hull or Howe.</p><p>Hull put in 13 pucks in his rookie year, Howe only seven.</p><p>Or who would have thought Jim Morrison, an off-season acquisition for Nick Mickoski, would be the man the Wings needed to plug up their defense?</p><p>The Red Wing club that finished fourth in 1960 was a far different one than the unit that was last a year ago. Only nine men who completed the 1959 campaign were around for the end of this season&rsquo;s battle.</p><p>General manager Jack Adams cleaned house after the basement finish and the results were readily evident.</p><p>The spirit of the &ldquo;new&rdquo; Wings was demonstrated in the final game of the season. The Wings faced off against Toronto a half hour earlier than Chicago&rsquo;s game at Boston.</p><p>Detroit was in fourth, one point behind the Hawks with a chance to wind up third if Chicago lost and the Wings won. But that would put them against the buzz-saw Canadiens in the Stanley Cup semi-finals.</p><p>While fans asked why go all out against Toronto and then have to play Montreal, the Wings didn&rsquo;t. They went out and bombarded Leaf goaler Johnnyy Bower with 47 shots and Bower stopped 45 of them.</p><p>Leaf general manager - coach Punch Imlach said after the game it was Bower&rsquo;s best effort of the season.</p><p>Toronto lost a two-goal lead but won, 3-2, on ex-Detroiter Johnny Wilson&rsquo;s breakaway goal with 88 seconds left in the game.</p><p>There was no letup on Detroit&rsquo;s part. The Wings played it like there was no tomorrow.</p><h2>Won The &lsquo;Must&rsquo; Game</h2><p>But the big game was played 24 hours earlier. The Wings twice saw two-goal leads vanish before Dean Prentice&rsquo;s hat trick before Alex Delvecchio and Oliver registered 42 seconds apart in the first two minutes of the final period.</p><p>That earned the Wings a 6-3 victory over New York. It was a &ldquo;must&rdquo; for the Wings. Their seven point lead of a week before had shrivelled to two points before the rush of Boston.</p><p>But Detroit had some help. The Bruins had to face Chicago&rsquo;s Glenn Hall and Montreal&rsquo;s Jacques Plante on the weekend. They were tied in the Vezina Trophy race.</p><p>And the Wings had another angle working for them. Their game with New York was the weekly televised matinee contest so Boston knew before it met Montreal that Detroit won. In order to beat out Detroit for fourth, Boston would have to down Montreal and Chicago while Detroit lost to Toronto.</p><p>Canadiens settled things in a hurry by belting the Bruins, 5-1.</p><p>And the Wings, who made 20 straight playoff appearances before being knocked out in 1959, returned to the post-season extravaganza.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Red Faced Scribes Forgot Red Wings’ Drive In HN Poll

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01254/1805371-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Without a doubt, the above action shot between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks must be rated one of the outstanding of the year. Taken by Turofsky of Toronto, it shows Leafs&rsquo; tough-guy Gerry James as he&rsquo;s toppled by Defenseman Pierre Pilote (3) of the Hawks. Other Hawk in the picture is scoring champion Bobby Hull. Referee is Vern Buffy. Glenn Hall covers up the puck before any damage is done. The Leafs scored a 1-0 win over the Hawks in a game that meant nothing to the standings but both Hull and Hall were racing for the scoring championship and Vezina Trophy respectively. Hull won, Hall lost.</b></figcaption></div><h2>James Sees Things From A Different Angle<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Rangers’ Stars On The Spot For ‘60-61

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>At least three, maybe five, Rangers are carrying troubled minds home for the summer as the hockey season ends in New York.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02173/1805402-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="269" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Hebenton</b></figcaption></div><p>Captain Red Sullivan and Andy Hebenton, both 30 years old, are wondering whether they are washed up after mediocre seasons.</p><p>Bill Gadsby, an All-Star last season but whose play ebbed in quality this year, hopes to regain his edge, if he still hat it.</p><p>Lou Fontinato, a tiger-turned-kitten, looks to 1960-61 when he can prove there&rsquo;s some of the old Rock &lsquo;n Roll left in him.</p><p>And, lastly, Andy Bathgate, who considers himself a failure despite his high scoring because he didn&rsquo;t tally when the club needed him, has to be thinking about his decline from 40 to 26 goals.</p><p>None of the five key men will admit he&rsquo;s through at least not for publication. But at least two have admitted privately that their energy is sapped.</p><p>Even those who concede they are tired, probe wishfully for a reason to hang their recovery hopes on.</p><p>&ldquo;Last summer, after the trip to Europe, I knocked myself out,&rdquo; Red Sullivan admitted. &ldquo;By the time we got through our exhibition games I was pooped. This summer I&rsquo;m goin&rsquo; to take it easy, work in a sporting goods store back home in Peterboro and just relax.&rdquo;</p><p>Once the rah-rah leader of Ranger playoff clubs, Sully was bereft of inspiration in 59-60. Perhaps he missed his wife.</p><p>&ldquo;She was expecting a baby,&rdquo; Red explained, &ldquo;so I left her home all season. That was a mistake. Il lived out of an apartment in the Bronx. It just wasn&rsquo;t a normal life for me.</p><p>&ldquo;Believe me, I think I got a lotta good hockey in me. If I&rsquo;m back next next year, you can bet I&rsquo;ll have the family in New York and I&rsquo;ll be a helluva lot better.&rdquo;</p><p>Many appraisers insist that Hebenton&rsquo;s reflexes have become dulled, that he&rsquo;s lost the speed and will to fight in the corners.</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t believe a word of it,&rdquo; says Andy. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;m a bit slower. I just had a lot of tough luck this year. I think if I&rsquo;da scored on half of the goal posts I hit, I&rsquo;d have had 30 goals. But everything went wrong, and I mean everything.&rdquo; Hebby will do construction work this summer in Victoria.</p><p>Of the five, Gadsby&rsquo;s decline was least pronounced. He contends that he was not playing badly, simply did not have an All-star season. Aisle-sitters feel that he&rsquo;s lost little of his talent. He will summer in Edmonton where he operates a golf driving range.</p><p>Lou Fontinato is a serious case. He thoroughly lacked consistency, flared up infrequently, and sandwiched the good game between many bad ones. It was either due to the after-effects of the Howe fight (Louie repeatedly denies this), the first year of marriage or as Louie puts it, a couple of injuries that prevented him from getting started.</p><p>&ldquo;Awww, it was bad,&rdquo; Louie recalled, &ldquo;real bad&rdquo;. &ldquo;You get a bad knee and you have to be careful. When you&rsquo;re being careful, you&rsquo;re no damn good. Near the end the knee got better and so did I. This summer I go back to Guelph with Marie. She&rsquo;ll have our first baby in June, I expect, and I think I&rsquo;m going to take it easy all summer and rest.&rdquo;</p><p>Bathgate, hopeful that this was merely an off-year, returns to Vancouver where he&rsquo;ll shop around for an assistant pro golf job.</p><p>Harry Howell will do office work for an oil company in Hamilton. Mel Pearson has a job lined up in Flin Flon as a machine shop helper.</p><p>Jack Bownass is mulling over a job as a freight handler on the Canadian Pacific while Ken Schinkel returns to Hamilton and a job with a steel company. Irv Spencer has a spot in Peterboro working for a brewer&rsquo;s retail store.</p><p>Dean Prentice will drive a truck for the Canadian Gypsum Co. in Guelph. John Hanna plans to return to Sydney, N.S., after recuperating from his elbow operation in New York. Brian Cullen will be a brewery P.R. man in St. Catherines.</p><p>Perfect for the role, Bob Kabel will represent an oil company in Dauphin, Man. Ed Shack, Art Stratton and Larry Popein left before being queried.</p><p>Coach Alf Pike returned to Winnipeg. From there he&rsquo;ll branch out, scouting Ranger farm clubs in Flin Flon, Regina and Fort William. He will return to New York in May to search for a house on Long Island and begin doping out drafting lists with Muzz Patrick. The latter will have returned from scouting the eastern leagues.</p><p>Then both will decide whether or not to trade the Rangers with troubled minds and inferior records.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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At Least Three Will· Be Placed On Trade Block

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Trophy Night at Olympia might better be called Gordie Howe Night.</p><p>Because when it&rsquo;s time to give out the hardware, the Red Wing captain always needs the arms of an octopus to carry home all his loot.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04233/1803472-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="294" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><p>It wasn&rsquo;t any different this year. Here&rsquo;s what Gordie picked up:</p><p>&mdash;Harry A. Gormley Trophy as leading point scorer on the team. It&rsquo;s his fifth straight and ninth in 10 years.</p><p>&mdash;Frank J. Murphy Memorial Trophy as top goal scorer. It&rsquo;s the 11th straight time on this one.</p><p>&mdash;Hockey Writers&rsquo; Association Award as Most Valuable Red Wing. The MVP is the fifth straight and seventh in the last nine years.</p><p>&mdash;Trans-Canada Airlines Trophy for the second time and it&rsquo;s been in existence only two years. Gordie won it for gaining the most points in the three star selection at Red Wing home games.</p><p>But it was the poorest goal season for Howe in 11 years&mdash;he had 28&mdash;and the first time in five years he had less than 30.</p><p>Gary Aldcorn picked up a pair of awards. The hustling left winger was given the Citron Trophy as the most sportsmanlike Red Wing and another as the most improved Red Wing.</p><p>Young Murray Oliver was selected the best rookie by the Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association.</p><p>Norm Ullman was honored by the For&rsquo;em Fan Club as the Unsung Hero of the Wings.</p><p>Goalie Terry Sawchuk was deemed by his teammates to have given the best dramatic performance after an injury and was given the Dow Award.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Trophy Night At Olympia Is Howe Night At Olympia

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;The Red Wing comeback from the cellar earned them their highest home attendance in three seasons.</p><p>The Wings drew 421,563 fans to 35 Olympia games this season, 34,000 more than last year.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Wings Gate Shows Increase Of 34 Thousand Over ‘58-59

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Stabilization of their goalkeeping situation is the Bruins&rsquo; leading project for next season.</p><p>Gone from the Bruins&rsquo; plans is the platoon system used this season with indifferent success.</p><p>Gone, too, is Harry Lumley, greatest substitute goalkeeper of recent years.</p><p>Included in the Bruins&rsquo; thoughts on the situation are two men younger than Lumler, 28-year-old Don Simmons and 21-year Bruce Gamble.</p><p>Bruins&rsquo; building of a Stanley Cup contender will be from the goal out, according to Manager Lynn Patrick.</p><p>&ldquo;A team with problems in goal can&rsquo;t get very far,&rdquo; Patrick pointed out, &ldquo;and the elimination of our goalkeeping problem is our big job.</p><p>&ldquo;Actually, we haven&rsquo;t been without a problem in goal since the 1955-56 season when Terry Sawchuk played 68 games for us. Starting with the next season, when Sawchuk left us, we&rsquo;ve had one problem in goal after another.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bruins this season used the 33-year-old Lumley in 42 games, Simmons in the other 28 games.</p><h2>Lum To Teach Kids</h2><p>In the last half-dozen games of the season, when the Bruins were striving desperately to finish in fourth place, Simmons was their goalkeeper.</p><p>But there won&rsquo;t be any more platooing, Patrick affirmed in a question and answer period.</p><p>Question: &ldquo;Are you against further platooning of goalkeepers?&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick: &ldquo;Definitely. We would not have done it this year if we hadn&rsquo;t thought it necessary.&rdquo;</p><p>Question: &ldquo;Does Lumley figure in your plans for next season?&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick: &ldquo;Yes, but not as far as playing goal regularly for the Bruins is concerned. I&rsquo;ve suggested two or three propositions to Harry and he&rsquo;s thinking them over. We&rsquo;ll be talking again.&rdquo;</p><p>Speculation here is that Patrick has offered Lumley, a great favorite, a job as goalkeeping troubleshooter and coach of young goalies for the Bruins&rsquo; organization. The hefty veteran is rated the best technician in the business.</p><p>Question: &ldquo;Does Simmons fit in your plans?&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick: &ldquo;Yes, surely. Don is still very much in our picture.&rdquo;</p><p>Question: &ldquo;What about Gamble?&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a possibility, too.&rdquo;</p><p>Questions: &ldquo;What has Gamble shown you this season.&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick: &ldquo;I saw Bruce play some fine games with Providence. In fact, I saw him play only one poor game. In the others he was very good.&rdquo;</p><p>Simmons was the forgotten man of the Bruins until the late days of the season. The reappearance of his injury jinx knocked the masked man out of the lineup early in January, at a time when he was playing well.</p><p>Put back in for the Bruins&rsquo; final push, Don came up with some games reminiscent of his sparkling play in the Stanley Cup playoffs of 1958. He was beaten only once in his last six games.</p><p>Simmons has been unlucky ever since coming here early in 1957 as Sawchuk&rsquo;s successor. It may be that dapper Don&rsquo;s bad luck has finally run out.</p><p>Gamble, an agile young fellow, was drafted by the Bruins from the New York Rangers last summer after leading the Western League in shutouts. Bruce has compiled a meritorious record with Providence, an offense-minded team.</p><p>Unlisted by Patrick but in the goalkeeping picture at longer range is Normand Jacques, another stylish youngster of 21 who had just completed his first professional season with the Kingston Frontenacs of the Eastern Professional League.</p><p>Simmons, Gamble or someone else&mdash;the identity of the Bruins&rsquo; goalkeeper for next season is uncertain.</p><p>What is certain is that there will be one goalkeeper and one only, as long as he is able to play. The Bruins are long overdue for a durable fellow of the stripe of Glenn Hall, the Chicago iron man.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Reds’ Goaler To Fight It Out With Simmons; Lumley To Get A Job In System

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;What&rsquo;s the greatest hockey territory in the country?</p><p>The Bruins this season had one of the poorest records in their history.</p><p>But more than 445,000 New England people turned out to watch a team which was an also-ran after the first two weeks of the schedule.</p><p>The Bruins broke by more than 4,000 customers their own all-time attendance record, set a year ago when they finished second.</p><p>The year the Bruins come up with a hot team, where will they have to play to accomodate the customers? Harvard Stadium?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bruins Set New Record At Gate, Despite Flop On Ice

<p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ETROIT, Mich.&mdash;It was five years ago that Red Wings experienced the victory-sweetened, nose-tingling sensation of champagne from the Stanley Cup.</p><p>Only four men are left from that club that went seven games to down the Montreal Canadiens. And the Habs have won it ever since.</p><p>The holdovers are Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk, Alex Delvecchio and Marcel Pronovost.</p><p>Gone are Ted Lindsay, Red Kelly, Bob Goldham, Bennie Woit, Jim Hay, Larry Hillman, Tony Leswick, Marty Pavelich, Glen Skov, Dutch Reibel, Johnny Wilson, Bill Dineen, Vic Stasiuk and Marcel Bonin.</p><p>There was little precedent for the Wings to taste the bubbly liquid this year&mdash;only one fourth place club in the history of the NHL won the Stanley Cup. That was the 1948-49 Maple Leafs who whipped Detroit in four straight 3-1 games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Only Four Left From Last Detroit Stanley Cup Gang

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01343/1803630-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>IRV SPENCER&hellip;&hellip;&ldquo;IT&rsquo;S JUST TALK&rdquo;</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Is there another Doug Harvey in the house?</p><p>Or, to put it the Broadway way&mdash;isn&rsquo;t Irvin Spencer of Sudbury, Ont., a latter-day Harvey?</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s just talk,&rdquo; says the 22-year-old who could pass for 15 in street clothes. &ldquo;Somebody must have thought I played a little like Harvey and kept repeating it. That&rsquo;s all.&rdquo;</p><p>But &ldquo;Spinner,&rdquo; as they call him in Rangerville, seemed to be taking the onus off himself by disclaiming any similarity to the Canadien all-star. It was as if he was saying under his breath:</p><p>&ldquo;Okay, fellas, maybe I do have a bit of Harvey in me but let&rsquo;s not go overboard until I learn a little more.&rdquo;</p><p>Even if there&rsquo;s just a teensey-weensey bit of Harvey in Spencer the Rangers will be delighted thank you. With Bill Gadsby ageing and no other extraordinary defenseman in their system, the Brueshirts look to Spencer like a cowboy to his hoss.</p><p>Fact is, the Blues, who plucked Irv out of the Canadiens&rsquo; system in last Summer&rsquo;s draft, hoped he would be good enough for the varsity last Fall.</p><p>He wasn&rsquo;t.</p><p>Spencer was on the team in name only. By NHL standards his play was atrocious. He galavanted all over the ice, was out of position more than in and nearly drove his defensemates to the booby hatch.</p><h2>Played The Puck At First</h2><p>Spencer knows he was bad.</p><p>&ldquo;When I first came up,&rdquo; he admits, &ldquo;I made one big mistake&hellip;I always played the puck. You just can&rsquo;t do that in this league and get away with it. In the juniors it&rsquo;s something else. Even in minor pro hockey you can pull some of those tricks. Brother, not here.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Those tricks&rdquo; Spencer refers to worked well in Peterboro of the OHA Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; League and Montreal of the then Quebec League.</p><p>&ldquo;I can remember the first few games in the NHL,&rdquo; he went on, stroking his fuzzy cheeks thoughtfully. &ldquo;There I&rsquo;d be with a guy skating in on me. First thing you know I&rsquo;d go after that puck and, ptoom, the guy&rsquo;d go around me.&rdquo;</p><p>Phil Watson, Ranger coach at the time, pointed out the flaw to Spencer just about the time the kid received a ticket to Springfield of the AHL.</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe I was a little miffed about being sent down,&rdquo; Irv said, &ldquo;because it&rsquo;s much better to play up here. But I figured I wanted to play regular and since the Rangers weren&rsquo;t playing me too much, Springfield would do.&rdquo;</p><p>So happened that Springfield was in first place at the time and didn&rsquo;t want to disrupt a winning combination. Spencer was advised to sit on the bench and enjoy the show.</p><p>He didn&rsquo;t enjoy it.</p><p>Pretty soon the Manhattan brass got the message&mdash;a good talent was wasting away. So. another ticket for Spencer, this time Three Rivers.</p><p>&ldquo;Cheez, did I ever feel bad when I heard that,&rdquo; the curly-haired one said. &ldquo;Funny thing, though, it turned out much better than I expected.&rdquo;</p><p>At Three Rivers, Spencer got in as much as forty minutes a game. He applied the teachings of Eddie Shore and discovered that although he had sat on the bench at Springfield he had learned.</p><p>&ldquo;Shore was after me to use a higher lie stick, to stand straighter, bend my knees and keep my head up. That way, he said, I&rsquo;d be more solid than if I crouched.</p><h2>Put Advice To Work</h2><p>&ldquo;My trouble used to be that I leaned over too much. You&rsquo;d always see me off-balance having a hard time staying in position.&rdquo;</p><p>Irv&rsquo;s mind was like a sponge. It sopped up all the advice it could and promptly transmitted it to action. Soon he was improving and, finally, the Rangers sent him back to Springfield early in February, this time to play.</p><p>This was a different kid than the one that had gone away. He lugged the puck with rare speed and grace, threw a soft lead pass and the good, hard shot he always had was better and harder than ever.</p><p>The Rangers couldn&rsquo;t call him back fast enough.</p><p>They called him back, all right, late in February, but that didn&rsquo;t automatically make him a big leaguer because Spencer was lacking one thing, the decisive factor that separates the 10-year men from the pan-flashers&mdash;the desire to fight back.</p><p>They had the word on Spencer as far as Fall training camp. Even then the gossip among veterans was that &ldquo;the kid doesn&rsquo;t throw his weight around.</p><p>And they new that the Labines and Lindsays would run him right out of the league again if he didn&rsquo;t lay down his law.</p><p>&ldquo;I never was one for fighting in any league I played in,&rdquo; Irv told us. &ldquo;One reason was I just did&rsquo;nt have to fight. I could play good defense just by playing the puck and taking it away from the other man.&rdquo;</p><p>One round-trip over the NHL route convinced him the philosophy is different in the big time.</p><p>&ldquo;If you play the puck in the NHL, they&rsquo;ll run right over you,&rdquo; he now says knowingly.</p><p>So they had the word on Spencer when he came back and they tried to run all over him. Give &lsquo;em a &ldquo;T&rdquo; for trying because that&rsquo;s about as far as they got.</p><p>Irv created an imaginary box about twenty feet long and twenty feet wide in his defensive territory. &ldquo;Anybody invades this land gets belted,&rdquo; he said to himself. It worked.</p><p>There were many invaders&mdash;Bobby Hull for one&mdash;and many who felt the venom of Spencer&rsquo;s brutal 5-10, 185 pound frame. He pounded them in the corners and he pounded them along the boards and creamed them in front of the crease.</p><p>Many, like Hull, whacked him back with equal fury. This was expected because this was the test. If the return blow could tame Spencer he was useless.</p><p>It didn&rsquo;t tame him.</p><p>He traded check for check, earned the approbation of opponents and teammates.</p><p>&ldquo;This boy is going to be a good one,&rdquo; said captain Red Sullivan with a wink that had all-star written all over it. &ldquo;He does everything well.&rdquo;</p><h2>Scored First Against Leafs</h2><p>By &ldquo;everything&rdquo; Sully means Spencer skates with great fluency; that his shot&mdash;either slap or wrist&mdash;is both accurate and hard; that his puck-carrying at this stage is better than that of many veteran defensemen and that he moves with rare swiftness.</p><p>Upon Spencer&rsquo;s NHL return he was paired with Bill Gadsby. Coincidentally, the New York defense played its best hockey of the season and the same may be said for the team.</p><p>From a coach&rsquo;s angle, there&rsquo;s a lot to like about Spencer but nothing more than his desire to learn. From month to month he itemizes his improvements, the latest being a diligent desire to stay in his position.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m also getting my shot off faster,&rdquo; he added, and just hours after he said it scored his first NHL goal March 13th against Ed Chadwick in the Toronto nets at Madison Square Garden.</p><p>How did he feel about it?</p><p>&ldquo;How did I feel?&rdquo; he repeated, &ldquo;why I got into the net faster than the puck.&rdquo;</p><p>The Irv Spencer story has just begun. There is a way about the lad that makes seasoned observers believe he will be a great one&mdash;a Harvey.</p><p>Spencer, himself, is reticent.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m still making the odd mistake defensively,&rdquo; he admits.</p><p>That is to be expected. What one wonders is whether his improvement is due to the fact that the Rangers were eliminated early in the race, making pressure light or whether he&rsquo;s a true star-to-be.</p><p>The Rangers hope they can mine a lot of gold out of Spencer&rsquo;s ore. They&rsquo;re not kidding around. They think he&rsquo;s another Doug Harvey.</p><p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; says Irv mulling over the compliment, &ldquo;let&rsquo;s put it this way&hellip;Harvey is the greatest&hellip;if I can be anywhere like him I&rsquo;ll be happy.&rdquo;</p><p>So will the Rangers.</p><h2><b>Broadway Beaut Ready To Star</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Rook Worked His Way Back From Minors Look To Irv To Fill Big Hole On Line

<p>Founded October 1st, 1947</p><p>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.,</p><p>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.</p><p><b>Ken McKenzie,</b> Publisher</p><p><b>Len Bramson,</b> Editor-in-Chief</p><p><b>Will V. Cote,</b> General Manager</p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth; $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries</b></p><p>Entered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879</p><p>Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawe</p><p>Printed in Canada</p><p><b>Vol. 13 MONTREAL, APRIL 2, 1960 No. 27</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL Toronto Star</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07153/1803782-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg"></div><h2><b>Rudy Can&rsquo;t Signal The Retreat</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>udy Pilous is a team man who would bench his brother in a pinochle playoff&mdash;but ingratitude isn&rsquo;t one of his sins. He was put to the test at the Gardens in the second to last game of the season. With his Black Hawks losing, one to nil, and the clock running out, the book called for Rudy to derrick his goalie, so he could throw another shooter into the attack. Like the drummer boy who never had learned to beat the retreat, Pilous didn&rsquo;t get around to giving his goaler the sign to retire. The reason, of course, was a G-note and the Vezina vase, both of which were at the fingertips of the Black Hawks&rsquo; elongated backstop, Mr. Glenn Hall.</p><p>The out-of-town scoreboard showed that Boston Bruins were gasping their final wheeze at Montreal. That meant the playoff nominations were closed. The only question which remained to be answered was whether the Black Hawks finished third or wound up fourth. Another story the scoreboard told was that the expiring Bruins had managed to belt a goal past Montreal&rsquo;s Jacques Plante. So Jacques and Hall were still tied for that Oscar of goaling, the Vezina trophy and the lettuce that goes with it&mdash;a cheque for one grand.</p><p>Hall kept looking for the signal. He apparently expected Rudy to lift him. Then the almost inevitable would happen. Leafs would score in the empty cage. That&rsquo;s the way this sparkling strategy nearly always works out. Ordinarily, it doesn&rsquo;t matter. The thinking of the coach naturally is that he might as well lose by two goals as by one&mdash;if he has to lose. This was a bit different.</p><p>These are some of the thoughts which must have flashed through Rudy&rsquo;s noggin in those final 60 seconds: (a) The Black Hawks, themselves, in a secret ballot, voted 18-1 in favor of Hall as their outstanding player, for an award donated by a Chicago fan club. Only other Hawk to get a vote was Bobby Hull. The assumption was that Hall voted for Hull, (b) Hall had played 69 big games in a row. This was the 69th. (c) There was no way of telling what the psychological effect on the team would be if Pilous hauled his goalie and Leafs won the Vezina and the loot for Monsieur Plante. At that time, he had no way of knowing that Jacques would do all right without Leaf help.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-08126/1803775-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="1145" height="1087"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GLENN HALL</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>How Hall&rsquo;s Status Has Changed</b></h2><p>Rudy&rsquo;s consideration for his goalie&rsquo;s bankroll is another reminder of how quickly an athlete&rsquo;s status can change in sport. Fifteen months ago, the Hawks were ready to trade Hall. The club wasn&rsquo;t winning. They suspected the goalie. Most losing clubs do.</p><p>&ldquo;Now, I&rsquo;m wondering whether it was the goalie or the team which made us so shaky at the start of last season,&rdquo; Pilous admits. &ldquo;There never was any question about our goaling this season. Hall has been tremendous. Even when we were losing 11 of our first 14 games, Glenn kept us from getting shelled. We would lose by one or two goals. It could have been by five or six. One of the differences this season is that he hasn&rsquo;t lost weight. He used to get thin from the wear and tear. This time, he has added three pounds.&rdquo;</p><p>Pilous, himself, must have shed considerable suet when the wolves were howling for his hide. Youth bailed him out after his reliable Pappy Line of last season flopped. The Pappies&mdash;Ted Lindsay, Tod Sloan and Eddie Litzenberger&mdash;popped in 82 goals during the campaign of &lsquo;58-59. Pilous would have been insane to tear the line apart.</p><p>By the end of November, Rudy was experimenting desperately. The Pappies couldn&rsquo;t get themselves untracked. On another line&mdash;Bobby Hull, Eric Nesterenko and Phil Maloney&mdash;the leading shooter was Maloney, who had been a minor leaguer for most of his hockey career.</p><p>The turning point probably came when Hawks had a game in Montreal. Lindsay was injured. Nesterenko and Litzenberger were going so poorly they were left behind, Litzenberger had been the club&rsquo;s leading scorer, with 33 goals in the previous year. Hawks still managed to tie the Habs. They&rsquo;ve been on the upbeat ever since.</p><p>The best move Pilous made was when he put rookie Red Hay at centre with Bobby Hull and another freshman, Murray Balfour. Almost immediately, Hull became a candidate for the scoring title. Hay promises to win the rookie award in a common canter. Pilous might have had that in mind, too, on that Saturday night when he declined to gamble on Hall&rsquo;s Vezina chances. Because he spends his summers on the race tracks, Pilous knows how it adds prestige to a stable to have stakes winners in the barn.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01409/1803713-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="375" height="439"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02375/1803706-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="558" height="130"></div><p>&bull; <b>WHEN THE</b> current Stanley Cup playoffs started, Montreal Canadiens were made odds-on favorites to capture their fifth straight Stanley Cup by the betting fraternity&hellip;If a gent wishes to wager on Canadiens going all the way he had to put up five dollars to win two&hellip;On the other hand, if you liked Toronto, one dollar returned five&hellip;A dollar on Detroit would have returned twelve, and one on Chicago would get you back seven&hellip;provided these clubs go all the way to the Cup&hellip;Detroit&rsquo;s 2-1 win over Toronto in the opener was quite a shocker to the Maple Leaf fans&hellip;although the 12,853 fans on hand in Toronto for this game were an apathetic throng&hellip;There wasn&rsquo;t much in the way of cheering or booing considering what an exciting game was played&hellip;Terry Sawchuk and Gordie Howe starred for the Wings in the opener&hellip;Sawchuk made many brilliant saves in the Detroit nets&hellip;Johnny Bower in the Toronto goal looked a little jittery and bobbled several shots thrown at him by the Red Wing sharp-shooters&hellip;Len (Comet) Haley who scored the second Detroit goal and what proved to be the winner had this to say after the game: &ldquo;I guess that will prove to my daughter that I get on the ice&hellip;Last time we were here I called my 7-year-old daughter, Kim, in Edmonton and told her she&rsquo;d see me the next night. She wanted to know if I was coming home. When I told her the Red Wings were playing Toronto and the game would be on TV, she replied: &lsquo;O.K. Daddy, I&rsquo;ll see you on the end of the bench.&rsquo;&hellip;I phoned home again the day before the playoffs started and she gave me that bench routine again. Now I have proof that I get bn the ice in Toronto&hellip;I waited a long time for a Stanley Cup goal. I must have travelled a million miles by bus in the minors,&rdquo; added the aging rookie&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03299/1803699-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="299" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Len Haley</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; SEVEN MEMBERS</b> of the Red Wings are engaged in their first Stanley Cup playoffs. The seven are Murray Oliver, Brian Smith, Val Fonteyne, Gary Aidcorn, Len Haley, Len Lunde and Lloyd Haddon&hellip;Only two members of the Maple Leafs are playing in their first playoffs and they are spare goalie Ed Babiuk and spare forward Ted Hampson&hellip;Stafford Smythe ordered a television camera crew to vacate the emmediate premises behind the Toronto bench during the third period of the opening game in Toronto&hellip;&ldquo;Our fans paid $5.00 for seats near that camera (it was located in the runway between the two benches) and I didn&rsquo;t think it was fair to them to be bothered. Also it wasn&rsquo;t helping the players keep their minds on the game,&rdquo; stated Smythe&hellip;When Punch Imlach was informed that Gordie Howe had played 26 minutes and 29 seconds of the first game, he had this to say: &ldquo;I hope he plays 30 minutes on Saturday night and then we&rsquo;ll see how he goes in Detroit on Sunday.&hellip;Montreal minor officials handled the games in Toronto&hellip;Bert Olmstead was tired out from shadowing Howe&hellip;&ldquo;That guy never gets tired. He&rsquo;s stronger when he should be weary than I am when I should be fresh,&rdquo; observed the hard-working Toronto left winger&hellip;Terry Sawchuk has added six pounds of late and this has made him extremely happy&hellip;Two Detroit defensemen, Jim Morrison and Marcel Pronovost, are sporting fresh stitches&hellip;Morrison had 22 stitches between his eyes and Pronovost took six in his cheek&hellip;Elliott Trumbull, Detroit publicist, is sidelined with the mumps&hellip;Al Nagler and Budd Lynch aired the games in Toronto back to Detroit.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04244/1803692-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="294" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; TWO</b> of the four coaches in this year&rsquo;s NHL playoffs never made the grade in Hockey&rsquo;s Big Top as players&hellip;Punch Imlach and Rudy Pilous were both minor league players&hellip;while Toe Blake and Sid Abel, of course, made names for themselves as two of the all-time greats of the sport&hellip;Wayne Hicks gave a creditable performance when summoned to the Hawks&hellip;Hicks, along with the balding Norm Johnson, both played for Chicago in the series opener&hellip;Three of Chicago&rsquo;s top affiliated professional clubs failed to make the playoffs this Spring&hellip;Buffalo missed them in the American League, Calgary missed them in the Western League and Sault Ste. Marie did the same thing in the Eastern Pro Hockey League&hellip;Frank Eddolls and Freddie Hunt of the Buffalo Bisons and Charley Barton and Charley Bailey of the Buffalo press and radio set attended the first Hawks-Canadiens game&hellip;Johnny Gottselig is broadcasting the third period of all games in the Montreal-Chicago round over WCFL, Chicago&hellip;This is the first time in five years that the Hawks have aired their games&hellip;Marcel Bonin is the only member of Canadiens who has seen service with another National Hockey League team. He played with both Detroit and Boston&hellip;An illustration of Canadiens power and all-around strength is when players like Ralph Backstrom, Billy Hicke and Ab McDonald can be kept off the ice. None of these boys saw service in the series opener even though Hicke and Backstrom were dressed&hellip;Backstrom, last year&rsquo;s No. One rookie, would be a phenom with any other team&hellip;No players or coach on a participating club is allowed to appear on radio or TV during the intermissions at the playoff games. This is a League rule&hellip;Toronto minor officials were in charge of the games played in Montreal&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05219/1803685-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="272" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ralph Backstrom</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Were Rangers the best lastplace club the NHL has had?</p><p>Much can be said for it.</p><p>New York had a 32 goal scorer in Dean Prentice, a 26 goal man in Andy Bathgate, name players like Bill Gadsby, Lou Fontinato, Andy Hebenton, Harry Howell, Eddie Shack, Red Sullivan and Camille Henry yet finished with the worst record in the club&rsquo;s 70-game schedule history.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06181/1803744-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="292" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alf Pike</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re not that bad,&rdquo; general manager Muzz Patrick kept insisting, although 49 points was worse than the previous 50 points of 1952-53.</p><p>Everytime the Montreal Canadiens came to town Muzz was right. Rangers were the only team to play Toe Blake&rsquo;s club even on the season, finishing 6-6-2 with the Habs.</p><p>The best that can be said for New York was that it had the talent but a series of traumas, starting with last year&rsquo;s European tour&mdash;the two teams that made the tour, Rangers and Boston missed the playoffs&mdash;ruined the Blueshirts.</p><p>A poll of the players indicated the following reasons for their demise:</p><p>The European tour pooped them out; key players were injured during training; there was dissension under coach Phil Watson; goaltending changes came at the wrong time; games were lost while adjusting to the Alf Pike system; Al Rollins was imported too late.</p><p>As a group, the Ranger players like Pike but he was no miracle worker. Not until the last month, when the club was hopelessly out of the running, did he have the team working liked meshed gears.</p><p>Thus, Brian Cullen emerged from his shell as a potent center between Andy Bathgate and Dean Prentice.</p><p>Eddie Shack was transformed from a blunderbuss to a semiblunderbuss who did some on-ice thinking, created plays and scored an occasional goal. He also became the most exciting player on the team.</p><p>Irv Spencer, teamed with Bill Gadsby, developed so rapidly that critics contend he will be an AllStar (IF he continues to improve) within three years.</p><p>Harry Howell got so good, the fans forgot to boo him.</p><p>Dean prentice played the best hockey of his life.</p><p>The worst that can be said for the Rangers is that they never won big games, that they played their best hockey when it didn&rsquo;t matter.</p><p>Therefore, one wonders whether the end-of-season spurt that lifted so many Gotham hearts can be translated to important games next season or whether it merely was the result of off-pressure moments.</p><p>Time and a few trades may tell.</p><p><b>RANGERABILLIA:</b> Interest never ebbed in Rangerville. Last game had an SRO crowd of 15,000 plus&hellip;It was a great season for writers. Plenty of news, starting with Worsley ups and downs, Watson&rsquo;s illness and later popoffs, Pike&rsquo;s entrance, Paille, McCartan, Rollins et. al&hellip;Rangers did their best to win the Vezina Trophy for Glenn Hall. In the finale against Jacques Plante, the Blues hit three goal posts in the first period and still managed three goals on the night, almost had half a dozen&hellip;Art Stratton in the doghouse. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got to learn to work for the puck,&rdquo; says Pike. &ldquo;He always wants it given to him.&rdquo;&hellip;Plante told New York writers he hoped he and Hall would finish in a tie for the Vezina, said he&rsquo;d send Hall a telegram telling him so&hellip;Oddity: in the last game fans saw the losing team play defensive hockey as Habs protected Plante&rsquo;s Vezina lead.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Rangers Have Alibis For Missing The Boat

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Coach Punch Imlach neglected no possibilities as he stoked up his Maple Leafs in preparation for the Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>He moved his team away from Toronto into relative seclusion at Peterborough and he shifted into high gear with the psychology campaign he&rsquo;d begun two weeks before the schedule ended.</p><p>After Leafs played their last regular season game in Detroit, they returned home by train, practised at Maple Leaf Gardens, then took a bus 90 miles to Peterborough, where they do their preseason training every October. They returned to the Gardens by bus just in time for the semifinal opener against Red Wings, then hustled back to their eastern hideaway, there to remain until Saturday, when the second game of the series was scheduled to be played.</p><p>Then when the playoff continued at Detroit, Leafs were quartered at a swanky hotel in suburban Dearborn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01364/1803813-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="533" height="547"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Punch Imlach</b></figcaption></div><p>Imlach said he wanted to keep his men &ldquo;away from social and family connections&rdquo;.</p><p>At Peterborough, the hotel switchboard had orders to put through no calls to the players. They were relative prisoners.</p><p>Imlach&rsquo;s idea was to keep his players minds strictly on hockey. Additionally, they&rsquo;d be able to rest much better if they were away from ticket seekers, newspapermen, fans, children, interviewers and whatever other distractions might have cropped up.</p><p>Punch didn&rsquo;t miss a trick. He placed an 11 p.m. curfew on the team. When workouts were scheduled at Peterborough&rsquo;s beautiful and modernistic arena, the players had to walk the mile or so and back.</p><p>On game day, they weren&rsquo;t even allowed to make use of the hotel&rsquo;s billiards table. Imlach felt the walking around the table might possibly tire their legs.</p><p>And of course, he continued to demonstrate his belief in hard work. Leafs practised twice the day before the March 23 playoff opener. Both drills were of the rugged variety, too.</p><p>Imlach was unable to achieve the complete solitude he&rsquo;d hoped for. When Leafs departed on their last road trip of the schedule, they left baggage in their Gardens dressing room, so they could effect a speedy departure upon returning from Detroit. The players themselves weren&rsquo;t told the location of their new headquarters.</p><p>However, word leaked out over the week-end and Imlach was forced to have reporters around in Peterborough. It wasn&rsquo;t quite as lonely as he&rsquo;d planned. But it still was mighty quiet.</p><p>Around the hotel and rink, Imlach would not tolerate anything except completely positive thinking. He planned to go all the way to the Stanley Cup and wouldn&rsquo;t listen to suggestions of anything else.</p><p>That was how his feud with the regular hockey writers from the three Toronto papers began. Twice they appeared on television shows and said they expected Canadiens to retain the Stanley Cup. If there were an upset, they said, it would be accomplished by Chicago.</p><p>This is just the sort of talk that makes Imlach explode. And he exploded, barring the three reporters in question from the Leaf dressing room and from the Peterborough arena and everywhere else he could enforce a ban.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Punch Cuts Leafs Off From World In Series

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Punch Imlach, manager-coach of the Maple Leafs, dusted off his famous crystal ball last week and revealed his playoff forecasts.</p><p>He predicted Leafs would defeat Detroit Red Wings easily in their semi-final. First, he thought the series would be decided in the minimum four games. Then he admitted Wings might possibly win one game on their home ice.</p><p>&ldquo;When we get past Detroit,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;we can beat Montreal. They&rsquo;ve done well against us in goal but they have had all the breaks so far. Everything evens up.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s up to the players and they have the desire. We&rsquo;ll win the Stanley Cup.&rdquo;</p><p>Certainly, Leafs were in excellent shape as they barreled into post-season play. They won their last three scheduled games, beating Canadiens in Montreal, Black Hawks in Toronto and Red Wings in Detroit. Johnny Bower, razor-sharp after a two-game holiday, missed only five shots in those three games.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03263/1803875-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="541" height="649"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Bower</b></figcaption></div><p>In addition, the return to action of Bobby Baun and Duke Edmundson, who&rsquo;d been injured, plus improvement, finally, in Frank Mahovlich and Gerry Ehman, combined to give Leafs the best balanced club in hockey, aside from Canadiens.</p><p>Against Detroit, Imlach could send Bobby Pulford, Bert Olmstead and Ron Stewart against Gord Howe, Murray Oliver and Alex Delvecchio. Edmundson, Gerry James and Johnny Wilson also could be used to checkmate Detroit&rsquo;s big line, too.</p><p>Then, he could counter Norm Ullman, Gary Aldcorn and Len Lunde with either Mahovlich, Ehman and Red Kelly or Billy Harris, Dick Duff and Chief Armstrong.</p><p>So no matter how the coaches juggled lines, Imlach would be sending a strong unit against Detroit&rsquo;s mixed-up third line.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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That Man Says It Once More—Leafs Cup Bound

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04194/1803906-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="266" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Rollins</b></figcaption></div><p>The Rangers have formally invited Al Rollins to Fall training camp and all indications are that the lanky one will be the Blueshirt goalkeeper next year&hellip;if he accepts the invite.</p><p>&ldquo;If he wants to come back,&rdquo; said general manager Muzz Patrick, &ldquo;we want him. All we need is Al&rsquo;s okay and we&rsquo;ll make a deal for him.&rdquo;</p><p>Both Winnipeg Warriors and Chicago Black Hawks have strings on Rollins who was on loan to the Rangers this season. But the Blueshirts don&rsquo;t anticipate difficulty in unraveling the red tape.</p><p>Patrick&rsquo;s problem is to con Rollins into coming back.</p><p>Al&rsquo;s indecision is based on demands of his hotel supply business and his family. If he moves to New York, it&rsquo;ll mean another year away from work and it&rsquo;ll mean he&rsquo;ll have to move his wife and three children to the Gotham.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s up to my wife and the powers-that-be,&rdquo; Rollins said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to talk to Bert (his wife) and my business partners and I&rsquo;ll let Muzz know my decision by May.&rdquo;</p><p>The former Hart and Vezina Trophy winner admits that Bert is a keen hockey fan and probably would want him to play for an NHL club. However, Rollins is uncertain of his business partners&rsquo; attitude.</p><p>Of one thing he is unequivocally certain&mdash;he belongs in the National Hockey League.</p><p>&ldquo;Coming back was a big kick to me,&rdquo; Rollins said in his resonant basso, &ldquo;because I proved to myself and to a lot of other people that I still could play big league hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>Rollins left no doubt about that in the Rangers final game against the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>While the Blues topped the Canadiens, 3-1, Rollins was at his classical best, deftly kicking out drives, plucking shots out of the air and calmly turning aside 39 bullets to the roar of 15,000 fans.</p><p>His competence was on the line midway in the first period when Dickie Moore threw a 15-foot bazooka at Rollins. He batted away the shot and a rebound but the second rebound fell to Maurice Richard&rsquo;s stick 15-feet in front of the net.</p><p>There was nobody between the Rocket and Rollins as the great scorer zoomed a drive at the cage. While 15,000 conceded a goal to the Canadiens, Rollins stopped the shot and brought down the house</p><p>Canadiens dented the 6-2 inch dike in the third period after he made successive superb saves on Henri Richard and Dickie Moore. Rocket Richard finally put in the third rebound without a Ranger defenseman in sight.</p><p>Minutes after the finale, Rollins plopped himself down on a dressing room bench, grinned and said, &ldquo;Well, that&rsquo;s a glorious end to a lousy career.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Are you kidding,&rdquo; a reporter said, &ldquo;you were never better. Cut out that &lsquo;lousy&rsquo; stuff.&rdquo;</p><p>There was a sheepish grin on the goalie&rsquo;s face as if he was sorry he said &ldquo;lousy&rdquo; even though he was kidding.</p><p>&ldquo;You know,&rdquo; he said, looking up, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t feel too bad, feel pretty good, in fact. In Winnipeg I was stopping 40-50 shots a game and sometimes I got tired of it. I&rsquo;d say I&rsquo;m still in good shape.&rdquo;</p><p>Home in Calgary, Rollins soon will decide whether to return or not. He knows that he had a 3.10 NHL average, better than Gump Worsley&rsquo;s 3.51 and Marcel Paille&rsquo;s 3.94.</p><p>And he knows as the Ranger players do that Jack McCartan, for all the fuss, is a minor league goalie who got lucky, got protection, and who played only four games and never was on the road.</p><p>&ldquo;I proved a point to myself,&rdquo; the lanky goalie repeated, &ldquo;I could play here.&rdquo;</p><p>Al Rollins not only proved it to himself but to the NHL and the New York Rangers. They; want him back.</p><p>Now, it&rsquo;s all up to him.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Blues’ Cord Post All Al’s To Take

<div class="byline">by Dink carroll Montreal Gazette</div><h2><b>Bronco&rsquo;s Big Pitch</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>any hockey fans in this area wanted to see Bronco Horvath win the individual scoring race in the NHL this season, feeling that he may never have the same chance again.</p><p>Bronco was 30 years of age on March 12, nine years older than Bobby Hull, who nosed him out by one point. Hull is just embarking on what promises to be a great career, and he may win the scoring championship in other seasons besides this one.</p><p>But you have to be lucky to finish on top, as the players themselves will readily admit. For one thing, there is the matter of injuries and illness. Hull played the full schedule of 70 games while Horvath missed a couple, which certainly didn&rsquo;t help his cause. He has had some big nights this season and if he hadn&rsquo;t missed those two games, it&rsquo;s possible that he would have picked up enough points to win.</p><p>But he certainly made a big pitch for the $1,000 that goes to the top scorer. He was leading Hull by one point when he was forced to leave the final game near the end of the first period with what was feared was a fractured jaw. When he learned that Hull had scored in the second period to draw even with him he left the hospital and made a dramatic return to the game in the last period. But his luck had run out and Hull picked up the winning point before the game ended.</p><p>Somehow the incident recalled another that took place here arly in the season. Bronco threw a tantrum and was banished for the rest of the game, a penalty that carries with it an automatic $75-fine. Lynn Patrick, the Bruins&rsquo; general manager, talked about in the press room at the end of the period.</p><p>&ldquo;He did that last season and I paid his fine,&rdquo; Lynn said. &ldquo;This time he&rsquo;ll pay it himself and there won&rsquo;t be a next time. If I know Bronco, he&rsquo;ll run 100 miles for $75.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>A Consolation Prize</b></h2><p>Bronco may have missed the $1,000, but he won&rsquo;t have to buy golf balls this coming summer.</p><p>The high-scoring Bruin developed a sudden Interest in golf last fall and took some lessons from Sam Videtta, professional at the Colonial Country Club at Winfield, Mass. Some months ago Videtta, who is a hockey fan, started rewarding Bronco with golf balls for goals scored. Two balls for one goal, half a dozen balls for two goals in a game, a dozen for a three-goal &ldquo;hat trick.&rdquo;</p><p>Bronco wound up with 39 goals and, as mentioned earlier, some of them came in clusters, so he may have a trunkful of golf balls by now. He plans to spend several weeks with Videtta this spring, working on his golf game. It was his teammate, Guy Gendron, who got him interested in golf.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s great for building up wrist action,&rdquo; Gendron told him. &ldquo;Golf strengthens the wrists so that you have better control of the puck. And you react quicker when you want to snap off a shot.&rdquo;</p><p>Incidentally, Gendron has been assistant pro at the Municipal course here for the last six seasons. Golf may have helped him too, as he scored 24 goals this season, his best since he broke into the league four years ago.</p><p>But it&rsquo;s doubtful if Bronco is satisfied with the golf balls. He&rsquo;s probably telling himself that if he&rsquo;d won the $1,000, he could have bought a new set of clubs.</p><h2><b>Hull&rsquo;s Great Season</b></h2><p>This has been a great season for young Bobby Hull, who is going to wind up with the scoring title and a berth on the AllStar team. He&rsquo;ll need a wheelbarrow to take home his bonus money.</p><p>Milt Schmidt, the Bruins&rsquo; coach, was asked to pick an AllStar team on a television interview here last Saturday. He named Jacques Plante, Doug Harvey, Pierre Pilote, Jean Beliveau, Gordie Howe and Hull. This is the point where we must apologize to Ken Reardon for misquoting him. He was asked on the same program to name his All-Star team.</p><p>We understood him to say that he would pick the same team as Milt, but he would name Marcel Pronovost ahead of Doug Harvey. The indignant Kenneth called not long after the paper hit the street to say that he&rsquo;d said he would name the same team as Schmidt, but he&rsquo;d choose Pronovost ahead of Pilote.</p><p>&ldquo;You could have got me killed,&rdquo; he added.</p><p>A couple of other fellows who didn&rsquo;t get any breaks this season are Jean Beliveau and Boum Boum Geoffrion. Big Jean was leading the scoring parade when he suffered a groin injury and missed 10 games. The Boomer, who won the scoring championship during the one season he managed to play a full schedule, missed 11 games.</p><p>But this isn&rsquo;t to take anything away from Bobby Hull. The husky Black Hawk has been a stickout all season, a bright new star in the hockey firmament.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the filed

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Bronco Horvath of the Bruins spent a half-hour in Massachusetts General Hospital the night of March 20, having x-rays taken of his jaw.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01434/1803975-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="281" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Charlie Burns</b></figcaption></div><p>While Horvath was absent from the Bruins&rsquo; last game of the season, with the Chicago Black Hawks, he lost the National League scoring championship to Bobby Hull.</p><p>Hull came into the game needing a point to tie Horvath and two to beat him. The blond Black Hawk gained the tie with a goal in Horvath&rsquo;s absence and the win on an assist with Horvath watching.</p><p>Horvath failed to make a scoring point but during the second period, while his jaw bruised by a fast moving puck in the first period was being x-rayed.</p><p>But during the period Charley Burns, Bronco&rsquo;s substitute, made two points, a goal and an assist, which Horvath might have had.</p><p>Horvath was struck by a snapped pass by Bob Armstrong, Bruins&rsquo; defenseman, as he skated away from the boards in the last minute of the first period. The trip to the hospital used up the between-periods intermission and the second period.</p><p>It was during his absence that Hull made his 80th point with a businesslike backhanded finish to a Chicago power play, and while he was out that Burns assisted on a goal by Vic Stasiuk and scored another on a pass from Autry Erickson.</p><p>&ldquo;What a heck of a way to lose,&rdquo; growled big Stasiuk. &ldquo;He leads the league almost all season, then loses out on the last night.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;It was a tough thing to lose, all right,&rdquo; agreed Manager Tommy Ivan of Chicago, &ldquo;but don&rsquo;t forget that Hull won it. He had to come from behind and he did.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He sure did,&rdquo; supported Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; manager, &ldquo;and in our rink, besides. I couldn&rsquo;t feel more sorry for Horvath, but Hull deserves plenty of credit.&rdquo;</p><p>Horvath received a roof-raising ovation when he returned for the third period but Bronco had only two good scoring chances. One of his deadly snap-shots was steered aside by Glenn Hall and another was arrested short of the Chicago goal by the leg of Defenseman Pierre Pilote, sprawled on the ice.</p><p>Hull made his 81st and winning point after one of his bullish rushes. He was taken into the corner by Dallas Smith, Bruins&rsquo; defenseman, making a centering pass as he was checked. Don Simmons had to cover the near post. As he did so Chicago&rsquo;s Eric Nesterenko skated in front. Hull&rsquo;s pass caromed off Nesterenko&rsquo;s skate and into the uncovered part of the net.</p><p>The head to head duel for the championship between Horvath, the skinny center and Hull, the hefty left wing, filled Boston Garden for a game without other significance and boosted the Bruins&rsquo; attendance past a record 450,000 spectators.</p><p>Both Milt Schmidt, Bruins&rsquo; coach and Rudy Pilous, Chicago coach, gave the prospective champions much more skating time than they would have received under ordinary circumstances.</p><p>Hull played an estimated 45 minutes with three different line combinations&mdash;Bill Hay and Murray Balfour, Hay and Ken Wharram and Ed Litzenberger and Nesterenko.</p><p>Horvath centered for Larry Leach and Stasiuk, Doug Mohns and Stasiuk and Guy Gendron and Stasiuk.</p><p>Horvath is the Bruins&rsquo; biggest goal-getter in 30 years with his total of 39 and the team&rsquo;s biggest point-maker in 16 years with his total of 80. And if he doesn&rsquo;t have the Art Ross Trophy, he does have the equivalent of the $1,000 which Hull will receive.</p><p>Patrick promised Bronco the $1,000 nearly a month before the schedule ended, saying, &ldquo;Anyone who has lead the league as long as you have deserves a bonus.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s something the Bruins&rsquo; manager could have said anytime up to the last night of the season.</p><h2><b>Runner-Up And The King</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02316/1803968-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="539" height="557"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bronco Horvath</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03224/1803961-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="545" height="558"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bobby Hull</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bronc, Aching Jaw And All, Watches Title Go To Hull

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04156/1804006-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg"></div><p>How would you like a neatly-bound volume of a complete season&rsquo;s Hockey News?</p><p>These attractive volumes start with the 1948-49 season and continue right up until 1958-59. Each volume contains 35 issues&hellip;30 weekly issues during the season and 5 monthly summer editions.</p><p>This is a wonderful way to keep a complete record of all hockey happenings during these 13 years. It&rsquo;s all complete&mdash;right between two covers! You can prove many points and settle lots of records&mdash;also win yourself some easy money wagering with other hockey friends.</p><p>Only $8.00 par volume (neatly bound) for each complete season&mdash;1948-49 to 1958-59.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Collectors Item For Hockey Fans Bound Volumes of The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By CHARLIE HALPIN</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Who was the impetuous individual who at the outset of the season smugly suggested that the Canadiens were dead?</p><p>A terse reminder that the 1959-60 National Hockey League schedule has now become history and the Canadiens&rsquo; domination of the league is still quite evident.</p><p>In fact very little has changed in one year with the Habs.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01386/1804044-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="270" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption></div><p>Individually, some of the Canadiens may have experienced shortcomings this past 70-game season, but on the whole the Montrealers still remained the big threat to run off with the Stanley Cup for a fifth straight year.</p><p>Turning back the hockey calendar to the spring of 1959 for those with short memories, the Habitants rolled through the NHL, with 39 wins, 91 points, 258 goals scored and a commanding 18-point pull over the second-place Boston Bruins in the final standing.</p><p>This season the so-called &lsquo;decrepit&rsquo; Canadiens finished up just as potent. They won more games, 40, had more points, 92, scored 255 goals and ended 13 points ahead of Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>Is this the record of a team that is supposed to have one foot in the grave?</p><p>Admittedly, some of the Canadiens&rsquo; super stars weren&rsquo;t as prolific as last season but there certainly wasn&rsquo;t anything disquieting about the manner in which the Habs poured on the goals. They only missed eclipsing their own NHL record set last year by a mere four goals.</p><p>No one can dispute either that the Canadiens aren&rsquo;t the most impregnable team in big time hockey.</p><p>This past season the Canadiens allowed 178 goals, 20 more than last year but it was still adequate enough to enable colorful netminder Jacques Plante to capture the V&eacute;zina Trophy for the first straight year in his brilliant NHL career after a tense stretch battle with Chicago&rsquo;s Glenn Hall.</p><p>Canadiens didn&rsquo;t have any 40 goal scorers to match Dickie Moore&rsquo;s 41 and Jean B&eacute;liveau&rsquo;s 45 last season mainly because injuries hampered both players and kept Moores production this year to 22 and B&eacute;liveau to 34.</p><p>But the talented &lsquo;Flying Frenchmen&rsquo; got some surprising performances from their lesser lights and still managed to overpower their opposition. For instance, Henri Richard ended with 30 goals and 73 points, second only to B&eacute;liveau this season in the individual team scoring race. Last year the Pocket scored 21 times and had only 51 points.</p><p>The same could be said of Bernie Geoffrion who scored eight more goals than his 22 of last season. Marcel Bonin, Claude Provost, Phil Goyette and Don Marshall all exceeded their goal output of 1958-59 and what about the amazing Rocket Richard, who missed 19 games through injuries and still managed to count 19 times&rsquo; to run his awesome lifetime record to 544 goals.</p><p>The pulsating victory in the NHL goalkeeping duel by the resourceful Jake &lsquo;The Snake&rsquo; over Hall was the highlight of the campaign for the Canadiens. No other goalie in NHL history has won the V&eacute;zina five times in succession as Plante has done. Bill Durnan once took it four times in a line and six times in a seven-year span.</p><p>Plante played in 69 of the Canadiens&rsquo; 70 games during the regular season, allowing 175 goals himself while substitute goaler Charlie Hodge gave up three others. Hall allowed 180 in playing the entire 70-game campaign.</p><p>The controversial Canadiens&rsquo; puck-stopper, who came up with a revolutionary face mask pf his own design to enhance his stature as hockey&rsquo;s most inventive performer this season, gave up the most goals of his great NHL career.</p><p>Could this be attributed to the mask? he was asked.</p><p>&ldquo;No I wouldn&rsquo;t think so, although some may have gotten by me while I was becoming familiarized with it. But the mask made little difference. I felt I was playing as well with it as without it, so why not wear it and protect myself against injuries,&rdquo; he confided.</p><p>Plante, who is 31, was supposed to be headed for antiquity with the rest of the Canadiens at the start of the season, so it was proffered by a foolhardy New York scrivener.</p><p>Time and the Canadiens have proven him wrong.</p><h2><b>A Far Reaching Predicament</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02352/1804037-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1759" height="1347"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Despite a goals against average that was higher than last season, goaler Jacques Plante of the Canadiens insists that the mask he wore throughout the season didn&rsquo;t hamper his play. He was more confident with it on, but thinks he might have let in a few soft ones when he was just getting used to it. However, he was good enough to cop his fifth Vezina Trophy in a row, to set a new NHL record. Above, Plante stretches for a loose puck as Leafs&rsquo; Billy Harris weilds in to get there first.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Who Said Habs Are Dead? Asks Scribe

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;</p><p>With Bobby Hull, Pierre Pilote and Bill Hay leading the way, the 1959-60 Black Hawks racked up more club records than any other edition since the club entered the NHL in 1926.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s exactly what we mean&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04211/1804075-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="278" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Billy Hay</b></figcaption></div><p>Most points by a Black Hawk&mdash;left wing Bobby Hull with 81 to top the previous high of 77 established in 1943-44 by Doug Bentley and tied last season by Capt. Ed Litzenberger.</p><p>Most goals by a Black Hawk&mdash;left wing Bobby Hull with 39 to better the old mark of 38 set by Doug Bentley in 1943-44.</p><p>Most points by a Black Hawk defenseman&mdash;Pierre Pilote with 45 to topple the old record of 41 set by Bill Gadsby in 1953-54.</p><p>Most assists by a Black Hawk defenseman&mdash;Pierre Pilote with 38 to better the old mark of 30 that he established himself in 1958-59.</p><p>Most points by a Black Hawk rookie&mdash;Bill Hay with 55 to beat the 51 set by Capt. Ed Litzenberger in 1954-55.</p><p>Most assists by a Black Hawk rookie&mdash;Bill Hay with 37 to top the 34 written into the books by Bobby Hull in 1957-58. (Hay came within three of the all time record of 40 set by Gus Bodnar with Toronto in 1943-44.)</p><p>The Chicago crew did just as much record-tying as setting with a major developing in the team&rsquo;s finishing record of 28 victories, 29 losses and 13 ties in third place in the NHL. It was the same record with which the Hawks wound up third exactly a year before.</p><p>Although th&eacute; 1959-60 edition scored 191 goals as compared to 197 the year before, there was a considerably larger drop in goals against-from 208 in 1958-59 to 180 the season just ended for a good numbers tribute to the work of goalie Glenn Hall and his defensemen,</p><p>The current Black Hawks got 69 points in league standings to tie the club mark of that figure set first in 1952-53 and then also equalled last season. It was the same story for the 28 victories with the mark first set a year ago and then tied this season.</p><p>While the record was never kept, club spokesmen are sure that Bobby Hull&rsquo;s four hat tricks this year represent a new mark for the club. His four-goal effort equalled earlier such achievements as Hawks by Frank Ingram, Paul Thompson, Johnny Gottselig, Max Bentley, Jim Conacher and Jack McIntyre.</p><p>Virtually unbeleivable is the fact that Bobby Hull, even though this has been just his third season with the Black Hawks, already ranks as no less than 16th among assist-getters during the club&rsquo;s entire 34-year history, His three-year total has now reached 108 in the assist department.</p><p>This places him just one behind Cully Dahlstrom, a Hawk forward of years ago. Heading the club all-time assist totals is Doug Bentley who racked up 307. He&rsquo;s trailed in order by Bill Mosienko, Mush March, Johnny Gottselig, Ed Litzenberger and Max Bentley.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-04

Bobby And Billy Had Picnic Feasting On Old Chi Records

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Rudy Pilous has never charished hockey players that may tend to steer away from bodily contact or aggressiveness that he strongly advocates as all-important for success.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03277/1804106-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="281" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Stan Mikita</b></figcaption></div><p>He&rsquo;s made this one of the strong points with his players ever since he took over the coaching reins of the Black Hawks midway through the 1957-58 campaign and the results have not exactly been tragic. This season, it so happens, marks only the second the Hawks have finished as high as third in 13 years.</p><p>They&rsquo;ve now been third two straight years under the full-time Pilous leadership. It was the 194546 campaign that was the last before that which found the club as high as third at the end of the season. And so, tough, hard play has proven a good formula.</p><p>This year was also the second straight for the team, as you might suspect, in the setting of a new, all-time Chicago penalty record. A fact like this could breed front office dismay, but not in view of the finishing success that has gone along.</p><p>The attitude, in, effect, probably begs Pilous to get all the more out of his players in rough, tough spirit&mdash;the kind that has lifted Chicago to be seen in some of the expert&rsquo;s eyes as the next coming NHL powerhouse to succeed Montreal.</p><p>This year the Hawks led the league again in the penalties in minutes department with a new club high Of 970 minutes. A year back, the club topped the league to with what then was also a new peak of 921 minutes.</p><p>Only eight NHL players served more than 100 minutes in penalties this season, but three were Black Hawks&mdash;Elmer Vasko (110), Pierre Pilote (100) and young Stan Mikita (119) who already looks like he may be another Ted Lindsay and with even perhaps more fiery vigor.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-03

Hawks Cut Loose In Penalty Minutes Too

<h2>Howe Starts It Off</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he first goal of the 1959-60 playoffs was scored by Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe. He scored at 2:38 of the first period in the first game of the best-of-seven semi-final series against the Toronto Maple Leafs. It was Howe&rsquo;s 37th NHL playoff goal.</p><h2>Boomer Needs One More</h2><p>Boom Boom Geoffrion picked up three points in the first game of the playoff series between Canadiens and the Chicago Black Hawks. His one goal and two assists gave him a total of 99 playoff points. He needs one more to hit the 100 mark. He has scored 52 goals and 47 assists in 99 games.</p><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games Of Sun., March 27)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01419/1804186-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="602" height="1104"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 Detroit 2 at Toronto 1</b></h3><p><b>(Detroit leads best-of-seven series &lsquo;B&rsquo; 1-0)</b></p><p>Detroit&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Pronovost, Godfrey, Morrison, Goegan, Haddon; forwards: Aldcorn, Ullman, Howe, Cullen, Delvecchio, Fonteyne, Melnyk, Smith, Oliver, Lunde, Haley, McIntyre.</p><p>Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Horton, Stanley, Brewer, Baun; forwards: Stewart, Pullford, Olmstead, Duff, Harris, Armstrong, Mahovlich, Ehman, Kelly, Regan, Wilson, Edmundson, James.</p><p>Referee: Frank Udvari; linesmen: George Hayes. Bruce Sims.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02353/1804179-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="594" height="415"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, MARCH 24 Chicago 3 at Montreal 4</b></h3><p><b>(Montreal leads best-of-seven series &lsquo;A&rsquo; 1-0)</b></p><p>Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko, Arbour, Evans, St. Laurent; forwards: Hay, &Mu;. Balfour, E. Balfour, Litzenberger, Lindsay, Sloan, Murphy, Skov, Nesterenko, Wharram,. N. Johnson, Hicks.</p><p>Montreal&mdash;Goal; Plonte; defense: Harvey, Langlois, T. Johnson, Turner, Tqlbot; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Bonin, Backstrom, Hicke, &Mu;. Richard, Moore, Provost, H. Richard, Goyette, Marshall, Pronovost.</p><p>Referee: Eddie Powers; linesmen: Neil Armstrong, Loring Doolittle.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03279/1804172-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="598" height="644"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, MARCH 26 Chicago 3 at Montreal 4</b></h3><p><b>(Montreal leads best-of-seven series 2-0)</b></p><p>Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko, Arbour, St. Laurent, Evans; forwards: Hay, &Mu;. Balfour, Lindsay, Murphy, Litzenberger, Skov, Nesterenko, Wharram, N, Johnson, E. Balfour, Mikita.</p><p>Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, Langlois, T. Johnson, Turner, Talbot; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Bonin, Backstrom, Hicke, &Mu;. Richard, Moore, Provost, H. Richard, Goyette, Marshall, Pronovost.</p><p>Referee: Vern Buffey; linesmen: Neil Armstrong, Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06127/1804165-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="589" height="643"></div><h3><b>Detroit 2 at Toronto 4 (Best-of-seven series ties 1-1)</b></h3><p>Detroit&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Pronovost, Godfrey, Morrison, Goegan, Haddon; forwards: Aldcorn, Ullman, Howe, Cullen, Delvecchio, Fonteyne, Melnyk, Smith, Oliver, Lunde, Haley, McIntyre.</p><p>Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Stanley, Horton, Brewer, Baun; forwards: Ehman, Mahovlich, Kelly, Stewart, Pulford, Olmstead, Duff, Harris, Armstrong, Regan, Edmundson, Wilson, James.</p><p>Referee: Eddie Powers; linesmen: George Hayes, Bob Frampton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07101/1804158-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="592" height="507"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, MARCH 27 Toronto 5 at Detroit 4</b></h3><p><b>(Toronto leads-best-of-seven series 2-1)</b></p><p>Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Horton, Stanley, Brewer, Baun; forwards: Pulford, Olmstead, Stewart, Kelly, Regan, Duff, Armstrong, James, Harris, Ehman, Wilson, Edmundson, Mahovlich.</p><p>Detroit&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Pronovost, Godfrey, Goegan, Haddon, Morrison; forwards: Ullman, Aldcom, Lunde, Cullen, Howe, Delvecchio, Fonteyne, Melnyk, Smith, Oliver, Haley.</p><p>Referee: Udvari; linesmen: Armstrong, Sims.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0884/1804151-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="601" height="893"></div><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><h3><b>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo; (Best-of-seven semi-final)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04216/1804144-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="591" height="81"></div><p>Thursday, March 24: Montreal 4, Chicago 3.</p><p>Saturday, March 26: Montreal 4, Chicago 3 (overtime).</p><p>March 29: Montreal at Chicago.</p><p>March 31: Montreal at Chicago.</p><p>April 2: Chicago at Montreal (if necessary).</p><p>April 3 or 5: Montreal at Chicago (if necessary).</p><p>April 5 or 7: Chicago at Montreal (if necessary).</p><h3><b>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo; (Best-of-seven semi-final)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05161/1804137-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="586" height="79"></div><p>Wednesday, March 23: Detroit 2, Toronto 1.</p><p>Saturday, March 26: Toronto 4, Detroit 2:</p><p>Sunday, March 27: Toronto 5, Detroit 4 (overtime).</p><p>March 29: Toronto at Detroit.</p><p>April 2: Detroit at Toronto.</p><p>April 3: Toronto at Detroit (if necessary).</p><p>April 6: Detroit at Toronto (if necessary).<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Those who saw the Montreal Canadiens defeat the Chicago Black Hawks in the first two games of the Stanley Cup semi-finals series, were impressed by the way Left Winger Dickie Moore suddenly came to life. He was skating much faster, making excellent plays, shooting well, and in general, playing great hockey.</p><p>But starring in playoff hockey is old stuff for the powerful leftie of the Champs. Twice in his eight year career he has led the National League in playoff points. Last season he picked up five goals and added 12 assists for 17 points in the 11 games it took the Canadien&middot; to win the Stanley Cup. In 1953-54 he scored five goals and added eight assists for 13 points in 11 games, to lead the league.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0969/1804217-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="259" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dickie Moore</b></figcaption></div><p>Moore started the 1959-60 playoffs as though he is determined to make it another playoff title. The Habs scored eight goals in the first two wins, and he notched three of them. He scored one in the first game when Canadiens won 4-3. His goal came at 8:45 of the last period and gave the Habs a 3-2 lead.</p><p>Last Saturday night Dickie powered his way to a pair of goals and added an assist as the Hab* took a two game lead in the best-of-seven-series. The score was a duplicate of the first game, 4-3.</p><p>This time Moore scored the first goal of the gams to get the Habs on the way to the win, and then blasted the third goal past Glenn Hall. After Chicago tied the score with a minute and two seconds to go in the final period things looked blue for the Canadiens. They came out in the overtime and almost blew it when Red Hay missed a wide open net. Moore then picked up the puck, raced down the left side and put it on Henri Richard&rsquo;s stick. Henri swerved around the back of the Chicago cage, passed to Doug Harvey on the point, who blasted a 50 foot screen shot into the cage for the winning goal.</p><p>Moore&rsquo;s scoring dropped off this season. As the league scoring champ for two year* in a row, he was expected to carry a heavy load for the club. But he started off slowly and was just coming into his own when he was injured in a head on crash with Boston&rsquo;s Leo LaBine. He was out of action for eight games, but still managed to finish 11th in the scoring with 22 goals and 42 assists for 64 points. It was the fourth year in a row he had broken into the 20 goal club. In four seasons he has scored a total of 128 goals and in his career he has notched 176.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Player-of-the-Week

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1057/1804248-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="528" height="674"></div><p><b>ONLY 50c</b></p><p><b>This 96-page book is jampacked 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!</b></p><p><b>You can&rsquo;t afford to pass up the opportunity of availing yourself of a copy of this outstanding hockey publication.</b></p><p><b>Pick Up</b></p><p><b>A Copy At Your Favorite Newsstand Now!</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Official National Hockey Annual—1960

<p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>OCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;The Rochester Americans last Sunday wound up their greatest regular season in their four year history, and they can thank goaler Ed Chadwick for their great finish. The Americans finished in second place, highest they have ever ended. They scored more goals, had more points and got tremendous goaling from Chad. He may not be too highly regarded in NHL quarters, but the American League players find him a hard target to beat.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01404/1804408-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="283" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Chadwick</b></figcaption></div><p>Last week, as the Americans clinched second, Chadwick once more had a brilliant run of games. He allowed four goals in the three the club played. He also chalked up his fourth shutout and won the Harry &lsquo;Hap&rsquo; Holmes Memorial Trophy with the lowest goals against average in the American League. He allowed 184 goals in 67 games for a goals per game figure of 2.75.</p><p>On March 23rd the Americans went into Cleveland and held the red-hot barons to a 2-2 draw. That point was enough to earn the Northern New York skaters second place in the league standings. Two night* later, back in th&middot; Rochester War Memorial Auditorium, the Amerks, with nothing at stake, went out and shutout the Barons 2-0. Then on the final night of the season they walloped the last place Quebec Aces 11-2.</p><p>The season ended on a happy note for the Amerks, who started off in poor shape. They fought the Quebec Ace* and Hershey Bears for last early in the year, but then started to pick up around December. In the second half of the schedule they were nearly unbeatable. With Chadwick holding off the opposition, the Amerks went out and racked up win after win.</p><p>There is mixed opinions about Chadwick&rsquo;s goaling talents. Some say he is good enough for the NHL, others doubt it. There is a story going the rounds right now that the Leafs will make a deal for Rangers&rsquo; Gump Worsley for next season and won&rsquo;t even give Ed a chance to win the job.</p><p>It will be pretty hard for the Toronto management to bypass the blond, 26-year-old comes next fall. His play in Rochester merits a trial at least.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>The Rochester Americans, runners-up in the American Hockey League to the powerful Springfield Indians, out-classed the entire circuit in front line individual player talent, according to the circuit coaches.</p><p>For the eighth straight year, the league coaches selected their All-Star All-Opponent club for both the Harrisburg Patriot-News and The Hockey News.</p><p>Rochester landed three players on the first team, though Springfield had a total of four on the first and second team. Three Indians&rsquo; skaters were awarded second team berths.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1459/1804439-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="258" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Chadwick</b></figcaption></div><p>The only two clubs shutout completely in the voting were the Hershey Bears and Quebec Aces, the also-rans of the seven-team loop. It was the first time Hershey failed to land a player on either the first or second club.</p><p>The coaches made their selections based on the home and away play of the players. No coach was permitted to vote for his own player, but could ballot for his own man in the individual awards. First team ballots were worth 5 points; 3 for second.</p><p>Cleveland&rsquo;s Freddie Glover was selected as the &ldquo;Most Valuable Player&rdquo;, pulling six of a possible seven votes;</p><p>Stan Baluik, Providence center, was named &ldquo;Rookie of the Year&rdquo;, while his coach Johnny Crawford was chosen &ldquo;Coach of the Year.&rdquo;</p><p>Despite the fact Crawford did not make a strong run at the league title, his fellow coaches gave him the nod because of the excellent job he did with a club that was not equal in talent with the rest of the teams.</p><p>The Ione repeater from last year&rsquo;s club was center Rudy Migay, of Rochester, who was injured late in January. He had not returned to action by this writing. Springfield&rsquo;s Bill Sweeney gave Migay stern opposition for the job, losing out by a single ballot.</p><p>Glover and Ed Chadwick, Rochester goalie, were unanimous choices. Glover, a scrappy right winger and who at 32 is one of the league&rsquo;s oldest players, has made a runaway of the individual scoring derby. He cracked the 100 point mark early in March.</p><p>The left wing job went to Rochester&rsquo;s Stan Smrke, a hardworking player and one of the league&rsquo;s top scorers.</p><p>On defense, Bob McCord, of Springfield, and Larry Hillman, of Providence, had little competition in the voting.</p><p>The second team was composed of goal Marcel Paille, Springfield; defense, Aldo Guidolin, Cleveland, and Gus Mortson, Buffalo; wingers, Floyd Smith, Springfield, and Dick Gamble, Buffalo, and center Bill Sweeney, Springfield.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Amerks Dominate All-Stars Named By Loop Coaches

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-15" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1544/1804477-1-eng-US/f0009-152.jpg"></div><h2>FIRST TEAM</h2><h2>SECOND TEAM</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1626/1804470-1-eng-US/f0009-162.jpg" title="f0009-16" width="1152" height="272"></div><p>MOST VALUABLE&mdash;Fred Glover, Cleveland (6 votes).</p><p>ROOKIE OF THE YEAR&mdash;Stan Baluik, Providence (3 votes).</p><p>COACH OF THE YEAR&mdash;John Crawford, Providence (3 votes).</p><h2>HONOR ROLL</h2><p>GOAL&mdash;Bob Perreault, Hershey (9); Gil Mayer, Cleveland (5).</p><p>RIGHT DEFENSE&mdash;Georges Bouchard, Cleveland (6); Steve Kraftcheck, Rochester (8); Howie Yanosik, Hershey (3); Ron Ingram, Buffalo (3).</p><p>LEFT DEFENSE&mdash;Claude LaBrosse, Rochester (10); Frank Martin, Buffalo (3); Larry Zeidel, Hershey (6); Bucky Hollingworth, Hershey (3).</p><p>CENTER&mdash;Phil Maloney, Buffalo (9); Larry Wilson, Buffalo (8); Earl Ingarfield, Cleveland (8); Dave Creighton, Rochester (3).</p><p>LEFT WING&mdash;Parker MacDonald, Springfield (8); Eddie Mazur, Cleveland (6); Harry Pidhirny, Springfield (8).</p><p>RIGHT WING&mdash;Danny Poliziani, Providence (6); Bob Nevin, Rochester (3).</p><p>COACHES PANEL&mdash;Frank Mathers, Hershey; John Crawford, Providence; Dit Clapper, Buffalo; Jack Gordon, Cleveland; Jack Toupin, Quebec; Steve Kraftcheck, Rochester, and Pat Egan, Springfield.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Coaches’Dream Teams

<h2>Bears Top Badmen</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Hershey Bears were the unanimous choices as the AHL bad men with one week to go in the 1959-60 schedule The Bears picked up the most minor penalties, 338, the most ten minute misconducts 35 and the most majors, 32. They also led in game misconducts with three.</p><h2>Bisons Cleanest Team</h2><p>With a week to go the Buffalo Bisons appear to be the club destined to win up the season as the cleanest team in the league. They picked up a total of 676 minutes in the first 68 games, compared to the grand total of 1,256 minutes racked up by the Hershey Bears.</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p><b>(Final Standings)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02382/1804377-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="594" height="220"></div><h3>PLAY-OFF SCHEDULE</h3><p><b>Series &ldquo;A&rdquo;&mdash;Best 4 out of 7 games</b></p><p>Wed., Mar. 30: Providence at Springfield. Sat Apr. 2: Providence at Springfield. Sun., Apr. 3: Springfield at Providence. Wed., Apr. 6: Springfield at Providence. Fri., Apr. 8: Providence at Springfield (if necessary).</p><p>Sat., Apr. 9: Springfield et Providence (if necessary).</p><p>Sun., Apr. 10: Providence at Springfield (if necessary).</p><p>Series &ldquo;B&rdquo; - Best 4 out of 7 games</p><p>Wed., Mar. 30: Cleveland at Rochester. Fri Apr. 1: Cleveland at Rochester.</p><p>Sat., Apr. 2: Rochester at Cleveland.</p><p>Sun., Apr. 3: Rochester at Cleveland.</p><p>Tues., Apr. 5: Cleveland at Rochester (if necessary).</p><p>Sat., Apr. 9: Rochester at Cleveland (if necessary).</p><p>Sun., Apr.. 10: Cleveland at Rochester (if necessary).</p><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p><b>(Final Scoring)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03331/1804370-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="592" height="320"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p>Most Goals&mdash;Stan Smrke, Roch., 40.</p><p>Most Assists&mdash;Fred Glover, Clev., 69.</p><p>Most Penalized Player&mdash;Larry Zeidel, Hers., 203 mins.</p><p>lowest Goalers&rsquo; Average&mdash;Ed Chadwick, Roch., 2.75.</p><p>Most Shutouts&mdash;Bob Perreault, Hers., 5.</p><h3><b>GOALKEEPERSs RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04281/1804363-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="601" height="239"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, MARCH 22 Buffalo 8 at Quebec 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05219/1804356-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="585" height="712"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 Buffalo 5 at Quebec 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06183/1804349-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="590" height="720"></div><h3>Rochester 2 at Cleveland 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07171/1804342-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="588" height="578"></div><h3><b>Hershey 3 at Springfield 10</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08159/1804335-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="591" height="754"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, MARCH 25 Hershey 4 at Providence 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09155/1804328-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="583" height="595"></div><h3><b>Cleveland 0 at Rochester 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10141/1804321-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="575" height="337"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, MARCH 26 Quebec 2 at Cleveland 10</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11119/1804314-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="588" height="751"></div><h3><b>Providence 4 at Hershey 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1287/1804307-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="589" height="720"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 4 at Springfield 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1375/1804300-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="587" height="757"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, MARCH 27 Hershey 4 at Cleveland 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10181/1804293-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="573" height="389"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 4 at Providence 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11161/1804286-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="585" height="674"></div><h3><b>Quebec 2 at Rochester 11</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12144/1804279-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="592" height="799"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICA LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HANS TANNER</div><p>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Ivan Walmsley must have approached the record for the shortest retirement in hockey history.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01418/1804508-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="285" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Riley</b></figcaption></div><p>The veteran Eastern Amateur League goalie announced on March 15 that he was hanging up his skates for good. He had been in the EHL for seven seasons&mdash;first with Johnstown and then with Philadelphia. His Philly Ramblers were eliminated from the Northern Division playoffs on Sunday, March 13.</p><p>On March 18, the 32-year-old Walmsley was stopping shots for the Rochester Americans in Springfield against the Indians. Now Ivan has appeared in two games for the Amerks and will stay with the club on a standby basis during the American League playoffs.</p><p>Walmsley&rsquo;s appearance in a Rochester uniform on the 18th made him the third Amerk netminder in three games. Ed Babiuk, a youngster from the Saskatchewan Junior League, replaced Ed Chadwick here on March 13 while Chad was filling in for Johnny Bower at Toronto.</p><p>Chadwick returned from the Leafs, but was injured in the March 16 game at Providence. A hard drive by Larry Hillman of the Reds caught Chad on the knee&mdash;carrying over the knee guard while Ed was down after stopping an earlier shot.</p><p>When Jack Riley, Amerk general manager, learned on the 17th that Chadwick wouldn&rsquo;t be able to play the following night in Springfield, he immediately thought of Walmsley. Riley also was in the EHL for seven years&mdash;at Washington and Johnstown.</p><p>Two telephone calls sealed the deal and Ivan hustled over to Springfield. He did a fine job as the Amerks and Indians battled to a 3-3 deadlock. Walmsley was between the pipes again the following night in Hershey, but the Bears skated off with a 4-2 decision.</p><p>Riley contacted him again on the 20th and Ivan agreed to stick with the Americans through the Calder Cup playoffs.</p><p>And just how impressed is Riley with Walmsley?</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not so sure he&rsquo;s not an American League goalie,&rdquo; the Amerk G.M. said. &ldquo;You know, it&rsquo;s a funny thing. I once recommended him to the Toronto Maple Leafs when we both were in the Eastern League. I didn&rsquo;t have any tie-up with Leafs then, and it turned out he was on Vancouver&rsquo;s list, so nothing ever materialized. Here we are a few years later&mdash;both working for Toronto. And where do you think Walmsley was born? That&rsquo;s right, Toronto. It&rsquo;s a small world.&rdquo;</p><p>Riley praises Walmsley as a good competitor and hinted that he may try to sign him for the 196061 season if Toronto decides to use Chadwick again.</p><p>Walmsley, incidentally, it will be remembered is the goaltender who received so many plaudits from the touring Russian team last year.</p><p>Ivan&rsquo;s last appearance in the AHL was two seasons ago when he subbed for the Hershey Bears and &ldquo;pitched&rdquo; a shutout.</p><p><b>ICICLES</b>&mdash;Defenseman Joe Crozier, who at the age of 31 finally played in his first National League game, was returned to the Amerks by Toronto on March 21. Joe has been in the hockey playing business professionaly since 1949 and has held about every position there is to hold&mdash;player, coach, general manager and owner.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Walmsley May Get Amerk Job If Ed Gets Leafs’ Call

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div><p>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;</p><p>The fellow with the thinning sandy-colored hair sat in his little cubicle off the Clevelands&rsquo; dressing room and declared that this hockey team right now was ready for any test.</p><p>This was John (Jackie) Gordon, for years one of this town&rsquo;s alltime silky playmaking hockey stars who is presently building himself a gold-plated reputation as a hockey coach of the same club.</p><p>Gordon&rsquo;s Barons were on the verge of nailing down a playoff spot in the Calder Cup championships after a season-long battle that was spiced with enough frustration, confusion and sinister plotting that by comparison made a Cuban revolt look as tame as a Parent-Teachers luncheon.</p><p>This was Gordon&rsquo;s fourth trip as boss of the Barons and for an uncomfortable two months after Christmas he appeared to be headed for his first failure.</p><p>Three times in three starts as Cleveland coach he had led his club to rousing finishes in second place. The first year he had taken the Barons through to the Calder Cup Trophy.</p><p>Now it was 1960 and the Barons were on the verge of being shut out of a playoff position for the third time in their illustrious 24 seasons in the league.</p><p>But as they came back from a tense, nerve-twisting eight game road excursion to once again feel the friendly home ice under their blades, the Barons suddenly sprang back into a commanding position in the battle for the playoffs.</p><p>They battered Quebec 7-1, spanked Buffalo, 6-1, trounced Hershey, 5-2.</p><p>As the Barons rebounded strongly the man who led the charge was an old familiar, battle-scarred veteran named Fred (No Kid) Glover.</p><p>On Saturday March 19 Glover mounted the attack against Buffalo with three big assists that lifted his season point total to 103 to blast the all-time Cleveland hockey point record for one season.</p><p>The previous record of 102 was held by none other than Gordon himself. He had set the mark in the 1952-53 season.</p><p>Nowhere on earth is there anyone with more respect for Glover than that which he commands from his coach.</p><p>If Gordon&rsquo;s proud record was destined to fall, as all records are, there is nobody he would rather see eclipse it than Glover, his long-time teammate, friend and irrepressible right wing.</p><p>Gordon had experienced a particularly trying season. He had watched a parade of six goaltenders come and go in the defense of his cages.</p><p>He had seen his strongest muscled, sharpest shooting center, Bob Bailey, quit the team in early season, an episode which led to Bailey&rsquo;s trade to Buffalo.</p><p>He had seen suspensions and injuries rob his organization of the talents of such players as Eddie Mazur, Bill Shvetz, Eddie Hoekstra and Aldo Guidolin.</p><p>With all this the Barons completed their road engagements with a record very near the 500 mark.</p><p>But Gordon had the benefits of some antidotes too.</p><p>The forced trade of Bailey had brought him a hard-working, hard-shooting forward named Bill Dineen. The injuries to his goalies had caused the emergence of Gil Boisvert as a top replacement. And then there was Earl Ingarfield.</p><p>When asked what was the best thing that had happened to the Barons since the season began, Gordon quickly replied:</p><p>&ldquo;When did Ingarfield arrive here?&rdquo;</p><p>In 36 games with Cleveland, Ingarfield had racked up 23 goals and 39 assists. While playing only half a season Ingarfield was among the top echelon of American Hockey League rifles.</p><p>Gordon calls the Glover-Ingan-field combination one of the best he has seen in years. Glover at right wing, Ingarfield at center and Dineen at left wing have given the Barons a forward unit as dangerous as any in the league.</p><p>Of Dingen, Gordon says that only his desire to be a hard, close checker prevents him from reaching his full bloom as a goal scorer.</p><p>&ldquo;There is no better shot in the league than Dineen&rsquo;s,&rdquo; declared Gordon. &ldquo;But since he is a devoted checker, he usually finds himself in too close to the net to shoot. If he played as a trailer, he would be murder on goaltenders.&rdquo;</p><p>At this stage Gordon happily appraises his. club as one that is ready for the big test.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re in excellent spirits and we&rsquo;re playing our best hockey of the season. We&rsquo;re ready for whatever comes.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Hard Worker</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02353/1804539-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="562" height="866"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Dineen</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Gordon Promises Tough Playoffs For Anybody

<div class="byline">By SAMUEL POMPEI</div><p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Now that Eddie Shore has his first American League championship as a club owner, he&rsquo;s determined to give the city of Springfield, one of the best towns in pro hockey, its initial Calder Cup title.</p><p>Eddie&rsquo;s Indians went berserk about mid-season to build up a lead of 12 points or so and then in February the Tribe took a home-and-home series with the Rochester Americans to practically win the regular season title in a virtual breeze.</p><p>For all practical purposes the Indians, after beating Buffalo, 3-1, on Sunday, Mar. 13, were in.</p><p>In fact, it was so easy that the Indians, despite a Rochester string of seven wins in eight games, clinched at least a tie for the title when they drew, Eddie Shore 3-3, with the Amerks on Friday, Mar. 18.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03295/1804570-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="307" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Shore</b></figcaption></div><p>They had an eight-point edge when the championship was officially clinched. The only thing which kept the Tribe from running off with the Teddy Oke Trophy was the fact that the Amerks went on that seven-out-of-eight binge.</p><p>The Springfield club won it with such ease that it has posed a serious problem to both Shore and Coach Pat Egan as the Indians entered the Calder Cup playoffs.</p><p>The team didn&rsquo;t stay sharp down to the final wire like, let&rsquo;s say the Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland and Providence clubs, who were forced to fight right down to the very end in an effort to gain either playoff berths or more favorable finishes.</p><p>Can the Indians sharpen up in time to avert possible disaster in the playoffs?</p><p>Eddie seems less optimistic than Egan.</p><p>Shore simply says: &ldquo;I hope so.&rdquo;</p><p>Egan says: &ldquo;No club can play better hockey than this one when it has to&hellip;we&rsquo;ll be sharp.&rdquo;</p><p>Springfield fans, of course, are eagerly awainting the series.</p><p>They believe that their Indians have it this time with a solid club, strong in practicaly all phases of the game.</p><p>The club has one of the best goalie in AHL history in Marcel Paille, again a strong candidate for the all-star team; defensemen Bob McCord, Kent Douglas, Ted Harris, Ian Cushenan and Noel Price; and forwards Bill Sweeney-Bruce Cline-Barker MacDonald, Harry pidhirny-Floyd Smith-Jim Barlett-Jimmy Anderson, Billy McCreary-Dennis Olson-Brian Kilrea-Gerry Foley.</p><p>McCord and Douglas could be all-star backliners. Douglas could also be the rookie award winner.</p><p>Sweeney, Cline, MacDonald, Pidhirny and Smith should also receive plenty of consideration for all-star berths.</p><p>The Springfield club has the class and they say that class will always tell in a championship series.</p><p>Springfield fans and their Indians are hoping that it tells in the Calder Cup series.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Injuns Nab Shore First AHL CrownEye First Calder

<h2>Penalties</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>F</span>or the second straight season Frank Arnett of Seattle led the individuals with th&middot; most minutes in the penalty box. This season he spent 183 minutes in the cooler as against 210 last season. Bill Burega of Spokane was second with 162 mins.</p><h2>Overtime Games</h2><p>Thirty four overtim&middot; games were played during the season with 21 decided in the overtime session. Victoria won the most overtime games, 5. Calgary lost the most, 5. Vancouver tied the most, 6. The Canucks only lost one overtime game.</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p><b>(Final Standings)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01417/1804699-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="590" height="217"></div><h3>TUESDAY, MARCH 15 Victoria 9 at Spokane 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02373/1804692-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="592" height="746"></div><h3><b>Seattle 3 at Vancouver 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03306/1804685-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="593" height="674"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 4 at Calgary 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04248/1804678-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="592" height="880"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 Spokane 6 at Victoria 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05209/1804671-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="590" height="615"></div><h3><b>Calgary 4 at Edmonton 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06187/1804664-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="591" height="620"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, MARCH 17 Calgary 5 at Winnipeg 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09153/1804657-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="588" height="673"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, MARCH 18 Spokane 2 at Vancouver 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10134/1804650-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="587" height="641"></div><h3><b>Winnipeg 4 at Edmonton 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11113/1804643-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="588" height="698"></div><h3>SATURDAY, MARCH 19 Vancouver 5 at Spokane 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12103/1804636-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="581" height="622"></div><h3><b>Seattle 3 at Victoria 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1381/1804629-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="579" height="545"></div><h3><b>Winnipeg 1 at Calgary 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1457/1804622-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="577" height="422"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, MARCH 20 Vancouver 3 at Seattle 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1538/1804615-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="583" height="415"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><h3><b>(Final Scoring)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07167/1804608-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="590" height="524"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08162/1804601-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="586" height="318"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By LARRY ROSE</div><p>VICTORIA, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>The inevitable has happened and Vancouver Canucks are Western Hockey League champions for the fourth time in 12 years, and second time in three seasons.</p><p>Coach Art Chapman&rsquo;s Canucks, leaders since early October, were extended but never threatened before clinching the league title with a 4-3 overtime victory over Seattle, March 15.</p><p>Canucks wrapped up the championship in their 67th game of the season and the only mystery therein is that it took that long.</p><p>It was 37-year-old forward Tony Leswick who put the finishing touches to Vancouver&rsquo;s runaway dash to the league title.</p><p>Leswick, who came out of retirement at the beginning of March, fired the winning goal in the overtime period to assure Canucks of a first-place finish.</p><p>Oddly enough, it was Leswick&rsquo;s first goal of the season after being picked up as playoff insurance. And what insurance! The former NHL great who was know as &ldquo;The Pest&rdquo; for his fight-provoking antics, is all Vancouver needs.</p><p>One of the steadiest Vancouver performers all season has been goaltender Hank Bassen who presently has a glossy 2.46 average and five shutouts.</p><p>Then too, a stone-wall defence of Brent Macnab, Ralph Keller, bruising but effective Larry Cahan and Dale Anderson, and Sandy Hucul afford Bassen protection any goalie dreams of.</p><p>With Leswick joining the likes of top forwards Colin Kilburn (probably the best competitor in the WHL), Orland Kurtenbach, Gordon Vejprava, Bruce Carmichael and Ray Cyr, Canucks are heavy playoff favorites.</p><p>Playoff positions have been decided with the exception of third place.</p><p>Seattle Totems have clinched second spot with probably the best balanced forward attack in the league. Rudy Filion (36), Bill Mac-Farland (34), Marc Boileau (33), Guyle Fielder (30) and Jim Powers (30) give Seattle five 30-goal men.</p><p>Victoria Cougars and Edmonton Flyers are tied for third place with identical records. Each club has one game remaining. However, both clubs had clinched playoff spots two weeks ago.</p><p>Cougars climaxed an uphill fight on March 15 by walloping Spokane Comets 9-2 at Spokane to take third place. But, Edmonton grabbed a share of the position a night later.</p><p>With goaltender Marcel Pelletier performing brilliantly, Cougars will hit the playoffs in top form. Defenceman Pete Wright, Jack Bionda, Ron Matthews and underrated Jim Hay have been leaders.</p><p>Up front, centre Art Jones leads the way with a personal high of 35 goals&mdash;13 more than last season. Linemate Gordon Fashoway is right behind with 33 while newly-acquired Paul Masnick and Gerry Goyer continue to shine.</p><p>Gordie Haworth with 27 goals and George Ford with 20 add more scoring punch.</p><p>Edmonton could be a playoff drakhorse with goalie Dennis Riggin leading the way.</p><p>Forwards Gene Achtymichuk, Roger Dejordy, Chuck Holmes, and Warren Hynes could make things rough in playoff action.</p><h2><b>Cashes In</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1626/1804730-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="569" height="891"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tony Leswick</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Leswick Uncorks Overtime Goal, Canucks Unfurl Flag

<p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;Two games of the Western Hockey League playoffs will be played in Los Angeles, California on April 6th and 7th.</p><p>In making the announcement League President Al Leader said the games will be part of the league&rsquo;s best-of-nine final series to determine the loop&rsquo;s champion. The series has been increased from a best-of-seven to accommodate the Los Angeles games without reducing the number of games to be played in the cities of the two competing teams.</p><p>Leader said that the players making the trip to Los Angeles will be guaranteed a fixed sum for the games, in addition to the regular playoff pool payments. The games are being arranged by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.</p><p>Meanwhile, the two clubs who missed WHL playoff berths, Calgary Stampeders and Winnipeg Warriors have announced that they will play two exhibition games at Squaw Valley, California on April 2nd and 3rd. The games are being promoted by an American business man and both general managers have agreed to the terms.</p><p>They also hope to play games in Los Angeles while in California.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Californians To See WHL Teams In Action

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div><p>JOHNSTOWN, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Johnstown&rsquo;s powerful Jets moved to within one game of the Eastern Hockey League finals thanks to the fine work of goalie Ed Johnston and the Jet defense corps headed by coach Steve Brklacich.</p><p>Johnston has recorded two shutouts over the Northern Division kingpin Clinton Comets to help Johnstown to a 4-3 edge in their best of nine semi-final round.</p><p>Clinton&rsquo;s Dick Wray, the EHL&rsquo;s leading scorer this season, has been held to one goal and two assists in the seven games played to date and coach Billy Watson&rsquo;s slate for the seven tilts shows only one goal.</p><p>Clinton&rsquo;s stellar netminder, Norm Defelice, zipped the Jets, 3-0, on Sunday, March 20, to keep the New York sextet&rsquo;s hopes alive. The eight game will be played in Clinton and the ninth, if necessary, back</p><p>New Haven took a 1-0 lead in the opening game of their best of three set with Charlotte on March 22. The Blades blanked the Clippers, 2-0, in this one, with Yvan Chasle and Gord Stratton notching the goals. The latter tally came on an empty cage in the final minute of play.</p><p>The winner of this series will then meet the Clinton-Johnstown victor in the best of seven finals.</p><h2>EHL Notes</h2><p>Philadelphia&rsquo;s goalie, Ivan Walmsley, has been tending the twines for Rochester of the American Hockey League. The Amerks&rsquo; regular goalie, Ed Chadwick, is out with an injury&hellip;Walmsley has played in the AHL before, with Buffalo, Hershey and Pittsburgh&hellip;George Ranieri, the Rovers&rsquo; top scorer this past Winter, went to Louisville of the International League. However, the A.H.A. of the U.S., ruled that Louisville could not use Ranieri since he was Rover property ;.. Several of the New Haven Blades journeyed down to New York to see the Rangers and Bruins play on March 16. New Haven was idle at the time, waiting the outcome of the &ldquo;Dixie Series&rdquo;.</p><p>Defenseman Leon Bouchard is Clinton&rsquo;s top scorer, with three goals and three assists, in the series against Johnstown. Fern Bernaquez and Bill Mahoney, with two each, are only other Comets to have scored more than one goal. Art Rose is Comets&rsquo; top assist man with four and Mike Kardash&rsquo;s 19 minutes give him a tie with Capt. Ed Calhoun for sin bin leadership&hellip;Wray&rsquo;s goal in March 17th game broke 2-2 deadlock for Comet victory&hellip;Dave Lucas and John Lumley were the Jet scorers in this contest&hellip;Billy Watson, Rose and Bernaquez did the scoring in March 20th game. Defelice turned aside 29 shots in recording his shutout&mdash;Captain Don Hall drove home two first period tallies in 5-0 Jet victory, March 19. Jim Mikol and Frank Dorrington scored in the middle session and Dick Roberge found the range in the third period&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Jets To Within One Game Of Landing EHL Playoff Finals

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HOCKEY PICTORIAL

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Kitchener Dutchmen s&rsquo; three pronged appeal to the Ontario Hockey Association, which was rejected by the OHA sub-committee, may be the beginning of the end for the OHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league. The OHA has come in for a lot of criticism this season, probably more than ever before, and much of it originated in the senior A group. In fact, George S. Dudley, secretary-manager of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, past president and treasurer of the Ontario Hockey Association, is quoted saying that &ldquo;it looks like the death knell of the senior group.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01407/1804785-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="283" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Wren Blair</b></figcaption></div><p>When Kitchener lost possession of the fourth and last playoff berth, because their goal average was less than that of the Belleville McFarlands, although the two teams finished in a tie for the spot in the matter of points, they lodged three complaints with the OHA. Briefly, they were charges that the Whitby and Chatham clubs had not posted their $2,000 bond as required under the senior council&rsquo;s franchise agreement; Ralph Hosking played with Whitby Dunnies, although he was still the property of the Kitchener club and therefore was ineligible to play for Whitby, and the third charge was that the method of determining what clubs would enter the playoffs, following the round-robin, was illegal because the system was adopted by four of the five clubs after the season began. &lsquo;</p><p>Both Whitby and Chatham admitted that they had not posted the required bonds, and they gave as a reason that their clubs lacked the funds. However, the OHA subcommittee decided against taking action on any of the points, although the Kitchener club was represented at the hearing by Joe Mattson, a Kitchener lawyer, who put up a strenuous argument in behalf of his clients. OHA vicepresident Ab Hulse said the roundrobin had been adopted by the league at a senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; council meeting Feb. 11.</p><p>Mr. Dudley is quoted as explaining: &ldquo;The whole thing was a matter of expediency, trying to keep the senior league going. Now at the tail end of the season we get confronted with all these lapses everybody knew were going on. It looks to me like the death knell of the senior group. We have tried all year to keep the league going in spite of many difficulties. But if you want to bring up minor technicalities at this stage we may as well give up.&rdquo;</p><p>Pending the hearing of the Kitchener charges by the OHA sub-committee, the round-robin series proceeded with the teams finishing in this order: Windsor, Chatham, Whitby, Belleville and Kitchener. The following playoff series, saw Wnidsor Bulldogs eliminate Whitby Dunnies in three straight games of the semi-finals, while Chatham Maroons and Belleville McFarlands are battling it out in the other half of the best-of-five semi-finals.</p><p>The eligibility of goalie Cesare Maniago to play for Chatham, after Cliff Hicks was declared unfit for further service, was also questioned by the Windsor and Belleville clubs, but here, too, the OHA sub-committee refused to-take any action. Both Windsor and Chatham claimed that a doctor&rsquo;s certificate verifying that Hicks was unfit for play was not satisfactory to them because the doctor in question was alleged to be a member of the Chatham club executive.</p><p>What the future holds for the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA group is anybody&rsquo;s guess right now. Kitchener, undoubtedly, is disgruntled, and in view of the admission by both Whitby and Chatham that they had not posted their $2,000 bonds, this much must be admitted&mdash;Kitchener Dutchmen had a legitimate objection. There has been talk, some of it backed by authority, that Kitchener was nursing the idea of turning to minor pro or junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey next season, and rejection of their charges by the OHA sub-committee could be the straw that breaks the camel&rsquo;s back.</p><p>The likelihood that Windsor Bulldogs and Chatham Maroons may clash in the OHA finals should rekindle the fire that always existed between the two border cities, hockeywise. Should that transpire the winners will gain the right to proceed into the Allan Cup playdowns, and probably would be favored to take it all, as the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA group qualifiers have done for the last three seasons.</p><p>But while Dudley paints his gloomy picture regarding the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA group&rsquo;s dismal future, club officials have entirely different ideas.</p><p>For instance, Wren Blair, Whitby Dunnies&rsquo; manager, says: &ldquo;The league is operating well. The calibre is the highest we&rsquo;ve ever had. Maybe it&rsquo;s too good. We&rsquo;ll be back next year. All the expediencies involved sending a team to the Olympics. They were designed to help Kitchener, not keep the league going. I&rsquo;m optimistic that we may even have one or possibly two more entries next year.&rdquo; Blair suggested that Toronto, Stratford and Sarnia might be logical entries if the OHA did a little digging and developing. &ldquo;The grapevine has it that even the Gardens (Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto) is interested in promoting a senior club. I think we should check the rumor out.&rdquo;</p><p>After his original rather gloomy picture, Mr. Dudley admits that he hadn&rsquo;t any reason for saying it. &ldquo;I just didn&rsquo;t think they were carrying on in a businesslike way. Until they do, they always will be in trouble.&rdquo; He feels the clubs are paying too much in salaries, more than some of the clubs can afford. He suggests that they fig ure how much money they can afford to pay players, then sil down and organize the clubs and the league on that basis.</p><p>He suggested further that the senior council start running teams on the same basis as the junior council with salary maximums and a system of mutual trust.</p><p>&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t run a senior team like a junior team,&rdquo; counters Blair. &ldquo;When you&rsquo;re dealing with a junior, he&rsquo;s on his way up, perhaps to the National Hockey League. You can tell him to take $60 a week or leave it. He takes it. With seniors, you even have to talk contract with the player&rsquo;s wife and family. Juniors haven&rsquo;t got wives.&rdquo;</p><p>Johnny Horeck, coach of the Chatham Maroons, says: &ldquo;Chatham will be in the league again. It may be that we should be in a lower calibre and the operations are too expensive, but this was an Olympic year and we had to weaken other clubs for Kitchener. We had no quarrels before.&rdquo;</p><p>The biggest surprise is the statement credited to Bill Butcher, president of the Windsor Bulldogs, who said: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had a good year, the best. We&rsquo;ll definitely be in again. It was a good league. The big problem was Kitchener going to Squaw Valley and making things tough for three weeks.&rdquo; This on the heels of a previous statement from Windsor that the Bulldogs wouldn&rsquo;t be back next season, because the other four clubs voted to stage a round-robin among all five clubs prior to the playoffs, which the Windsor club opposed.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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No Funeral For OHA Seniors In Sight

<h2>Pappin Becomes A Pro</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>hrough the intercession of Toronto Maple Leafs Jimmy Pappin, rightwinger from Coppercliff, Ont. was signed to a pro contract by Sudbury Wolves on the eve of the EPHL playoffs. Pappin scored 40 goals for Toronto Marlboros this season. Wolves have Roger Cote, Bill White, Jack Martin, Larry Jeffrey, Gerry Serviss and goaler Carl Wetzel on their emergency roll.</p><h2>College Star With Royal</h2><p>From Laval University, Quebec, Canadian Senior Intercollegiate champions, Michel Lagace, joined Royals for their EPHL playoff tour. He&rsquo;s a two-time leading scorer in the Rah Rah circuit, this last term with 29 goals. Though he didn&rsquo;t see much action in the early games, Coach Curry has promised Lagace more ice time.</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><h3>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08193/1804927-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="589" height="84"></div><p>(Sudbury leads best-of-8even semi-final series 3-0)</p><p>Wednesday, March 23: Hull-Ottawa 2 at Sudbury 5.</p><p>Friday, March 25: Hull-Ottawa 1 at Sudbury 3.</p><p>Sunday, March 27: Sudbury 3 at Hull-Ottawa 2.</p><h3>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09187/1804920-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="587" height="79"></div><p>(Three Rivers leads best-of-seven semi-final series 2-1)</p><p>Tuesday, March 22: Three Rivers 2 at Montreal 1.</p><p>Wednesday, March 23: Montreal 1 at Three Rivers 3.</p><p>Sunday, March 27: Three Rivers 1 at Montreal 3.</p><h3><b>TUESDAY, MARCH 22 Three Rivers 2 at Montreal 1</b></h3><p><b>(Three Rivers Leads Best-of-Seven Semi-Final Series &ldquo;B&rdquo; 1-0)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02366/1804913-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="578" height="441"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 Montreal 1 at Three Rivers 3</b></h3><p><b>(Three Rivers leads best-of-seven series 2-0)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03334/1804906-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="577" height="392"></div><h3><b>Hull-Ottawa 2 at Sudbury 5</b></h3><p><b>(Sudbury leads best-of-seven series 1-0)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04302/1804899-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="579" height="552"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, MARCH 25 Hull-Ottawa 1 at Sudbury 3</b></h3><p><b>(Sudbury leads best-of-seven series &lsquo;A&rsquo; 2-0)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05256/1804892-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="578" height="370"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, MARCH 27 Three Rivers 1 at Montreal 3</b></h3><p><b>(Three Rivers leads best-of-seven series &lsquo;B&rsquo; 2-1)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06217/1804885-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="578" height="446"></div><h3>Sudbury 3 at Hull-Ottawa 2</h3><p><b>(Sudbury leads best-of-seven series &lsquo;A&rsquo; 3-0)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07204/1804878-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="576" height="464"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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EASTERN PRO LEAGUE

<div class="byline">Al Parsley</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01408/1804958-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="307" height="340"></div><p>&bull; PROBING behind the scenes and between the lines of the latest audit of statistics from EPHL President Edward Houston&rsquo;s headquarters in Ottawa, some intriguing dissa and data is revealed.</p><p>Though Orval Tessier set new scoring records for a player in pro hockey (59 goals and 67 assists for 126 points) while toiling for Kingston Frontenacs, a last place club, the Sudbury Wolves were first with most, 310 points, justly so.</p><p>It may be regarded as significant that Montreal Canadiens scored only 255 tallies in the entire NHL season of 70 contests in repeating for their league championship. But if you want to fuss about these things the major league Habs had only 178 scored against them, and so must have presented a stouter defence and keener goal-keeping than the EPHL champs. For the Wolves were preyed upon for 283 markers, allowing a gap of only 27 between the &lsquo;For&rsquo; and &lsquo;Against&rsquo; columns, compared to Habs&rsquo; plurality of 57 on the balance sheet.</p><p><b>A remarkable thing about our EPHL champions, though is the fashion in which their scoring was shared among their triggerfingered forwards. The &lsquo;Wolfpack&rsquo; had eight men with 20 or more markers for the complete season at the final audit.</b></p><p>The high man was Tom McCarthy with 45 tallies and 108 points to finish up in second place on the last alignment behind Tessier, Sam Bettio fired 45 goals in his 101 points, Gene Ubriaco had 30 right on the nose, Keke Morrison 25, Walter Boyer 23, Real Chevrefils 23, Cummy Burton 26 and John Sleaver 20 to come just up to taw.</p><p><b>As a matter of fact, it was only by a whisker that the Wolves didn&rsquo;t make it nine larrigans with 20 or more goals to their shooting-irons. For Jimmy Moore was close to the rim with 19 goals, even though he got into action in only 48 EPHL frolics. But then if one cared to count the five markers Moore had down in Quebec in AHL competition before Jimmp moved to Sudbury, he&rsquo;d be right in there with the aristocrats.</b></p><p>There were five players in the league to collect over 100 points. In addition league leader Tessier, and the two Sudbury stars already mentioned in this pillar, Bob Courcy of Hull-Ottawa Canadiens and his teammate Billy Carter both counted 102 points. It&rsquo;s also interesting before leaving this company to mention that Tessier, McCarthy, Courcy and Carter played in all 70 of their clubs&rsquo; league contests, where as Bettio only was there only for the first-face-off in 67 outings.</p><p>Another thing, while we&rsquo;re on this figure &lsquo;bender&rsquo;, it will be recalled by none other than this intrepid old recaller that away back in October Murph Chamberlain predicted his shock trio&mdash;Bettio, Mortson and McCarthy would get him more than 100 goals. They got him 116, and Keke Mortson was laid low with separated shoulder for 12 games after heavy tumble in an encounter with Royals&rsquo; rugged defenceman, Andre Tardif, now out of action himself while recuperating from back injuries.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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ON THE SIDELINES

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>When some of the forecasters have been ready to cast a chill on their prospects to continue in the Eastern Professional Hockey League, the Three Rivers Lions proceeded to confound said critics by raising hob in the first round of the playoffs.</p><p>The Lions tumbled the proud Montreal Royals in the first two games of their best-in-seven semi-final series, with a 2-1 overtime triumph at the Montreal Forum, and made it more stinging to the haughty Royals with a 3-1 pasting at Three Rivers.</p><p>The management of the Lions recognized the coolness that&rsquo;s been spread their way, and so have taken a long look at next season themselves. They have ambitious plans.</p><p>For one thing they are after the City Fathers at Trois-Rivieres to budget $60,000 for general overhauling and improvement of the Arena. A plan calls for better, more comfortable seating so that at least 1,500 subscribers might have an inducement to lay it on the line in the early autumn with a commitment for season tickets.</p><p>It&rsquo;s understood that the inner council of the EPHL has hearkened to the complaints of some of the executives of the more affluent clubs. Said execs have protested that the Lions haven&rsquo;t been attracting customers in goodly numbers either at home or on the road.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13117/1804989-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="573" height="882"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gerry Desaulniers</b></figcaption></div><p>And so, it&rsquo;s been put up to Lions&rsquo; backers to do something to improve business, since none can gain-say that the hockey team itself hasn&rsquo;t made a brave showing in competition.</p><h2>Three Juniors Star</h2><p>Through fine co-operation from Muzz Patrick, G. M. of the New York Rangers, the Lions were re-inforced by three great junior stars in the last laps of the schedule. They came from Guelph Biltmores after the latter were eliminated in the Junior OHA playoff scramble.</p><p>Rodrigue Gilbert, Jean Ratelle and Bob Cunningham are the names. The first two are Montreal boys, now 18 and 19 years, respectively. They scored 78 goals between them in OHA competition, while Cunningham was also in the upper-brackets in production.</p><p>In their first five games with the Lions&mdash;three scheduled fixtures and two playoffs&mdash;this trio accounted for eight tallies&mdash;Gilbert four, Ratelle, three and Cunningham one.</p><p>To make room for the newcomers Coach Gerry Desaulniers benched himself, and later veteran Bob Sabourin.</p><p>Desaulniers has likely called it the end of the trail so far as playing is concerned. He has a balky knee which would require major surgery to make him completely and rapidly mobile on skates. Since he&rsquo;ll hit 32 come September, Desaulniers doesn&rsquo;t think surgery is a good idea.</p><p>While Muzz Patrick has been following the Lions in their latest adventures he has been hearing <i>a</i> clamour to turn the three prized youngsters pro. He hesitates to do this since all have one or two more seasons of junior eligibility. He&rsquo;ll likely allow them to go to the end of the road before making a decision.</p><p>Under prevailing amateur rules the three youngsters who played in three scheduled league games, can participate in five added playoff encounters without endangering their amateur status.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Lions’ Playoff Roar Perks Up Plans For Clean-Up In 1960-61

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div><p>LOUISVILLE, Ky.&mdash;</p><p>Chick Chalmers, Louisville Rebel forward, broke a pair of organized hockey records, when he scored 134 points during this past IHL season and chalked up 93 assists.</p><p>The old record was held by Tommy Burlington, Atlantic City &ldquo;Seagulls&rdquo;, during the 1941-42 campaign with 131 points and 90 assists.</p><p>Chalmers, who won the George Wilkenson Trophy as the league&rsquo;s leading scorer, played on a line with Ronnie Spong at center and Moe Bartoli at right wing.</p><p>This torrid threesome broke another league mark&mdash;the highest scoring line during one season&rsquo;s play&mdash;held by Ft. Wayne&rsquo;s Len Ronson and Norm Waslowski, last year with 277 points (109 goals and 168 assists). The Louisville trio scored 113 goals and 207 assists for 320 points. Chalmers had 41-93-134, Bartoli 48-50-98 and Spong, the Rebel player-coach, 24-64-88.</p><p>Billy Reichart, Minneapolis Miller center copped the James Gatschene Memorial Trophy for the player combining excellent playing ability with sportsmanlike play.</p><p>The International Hockey League all-star team was announced with Reno Zanier, Ft. Wayne Komet goalie leading the voting with 60 points (two points for a first place vote and one for second.).</p><p>Rounding out the first six positions were Danny Summers, St. Paul&rsquo;s hard-working captain and Ft. Wayne&rsquo;s Lionel Repka at defense, Reichart of Minneapolis at center, Len Ronson on left wing and Pierre Brillant, Indianapolis at right wing. Ken Ullyot, Ft. Wayne, was the coach.</p><p>Brilliant and Ullyot were the only repeaters from last years dream team. Ronson was selected to the second squaud last year.</p><p>On the second team, St. Paul&rsquo;s Glenn Ramsay lined up in goal, with Fiori Goegan, of Milwaukee and Connie Madigan of Ft. Wayne the rearguards. St. Paul&rsquo;s Aggie Kukulowicz was placed at center for teammate Fred Brown on right wing and Louisville&rsquo;s Chalmers on left. Fred Shero St. Paul was the coach.</p><p>Each city had five ballots (maximum total for one player being 80 points) with no one voting for his own team members. Members of the press, radio and television did the voting. Fifty-eight players figured in the voting.</p><p><b>IHL NOTES</b>&hellip;Ft. Wayne netminder Rena Zanier won the James Norris Memorial Trophy, handed to the goalie selected to the first all-star team&hellip;Johnny Ferguson, Ft. Wayne&rsquo;s husky rookie left wing walked off with winning goal honors this season, scoring ten game winners&hellip;Glenn Ramsay led in goalies average with 2.52, while Zanier had the most shutouts, seven&hellip;The Komets&rsquo; Connie Madigan had the most penalty minutes, 272, setting a new league mark, with another Komet heading the goal scorers&hellip;Len Ronson&rsquo;s 62.</p><p>Ft. Wayne broke Cincinnati&rsquo;s record for the most points in a season, 101 in 1956-57, with 102, and tied the Hawks victory total of 50&hellip;Ft. Wayne broke the record by winning a 9-4 Louisville victory on a forfeit&hellip;The reason?&hellip;Frank Gallagher, IHL prexy, told Leo Gasparini, Louisville G.M. not to play George Ranieri, who was suspended by the New York Rovers (EHL) for various reasons. Gasparini disobeyed Gallagher&rsquo;s ruling and thus the forfeiture.</p><p>Louisville has Warren Back and Graham Joyce out of the playoffs with injuries&hellip;Gallagher gave the Reds permission to pick up Gordie Cowan of Toledo and Indianapolis player-coach Marcel Clements&hellip;Minneapolis has added Milwaukee netminder, Marv Edwards for the playoffs to replace Joe Selinger who left the team to enter Denver University&hellip;On the eve of the opening round of the playoffs, the interest in all the cities is terrific&hellip;League officials think that this will be the biggest money making year ever&hellip;Ft. Wayne radio station WOWO, 1190 on the dial is expecting to broadcast all of the Komet home and away playoff games with the very personable Bob Chase at the mike&hellip;Whatever the sport, Chase does a real bangup job.</p><h2><b>New Champ</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01404/1805020-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="555" height="875"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Chick Chalmers</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Chalmers Rewrites The Book, Chalking Up Record 134 Pts

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div><p>KELOWNA, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>The Kelowna Packers are the new champions of the Okanagan Senior Hockey League.</p><p>The record book will write this series as one of the most thrilling hard fought ever seen between two Okanagan clubs since the inception of the league eight years ago.</p><p>Billed as a best four out of seven series, it took eight games before a winner was declared.</p><p>The Vernon Canadians, who captured first place in regular season play with a 19 point buldge over runner up Kelowna Packers, were heavy favourites throughout. During the season the two teams met sixteen times, and the best the Jack O&rsquo;Reilly could manage was two wins and one tie.</p><p>However as the season came to a close the Kelowna crew appeared stronger and sharper. Players like Moe Young, Mike Durban, Orval Lavell and captain Jim Middleton came into prominence with superior skating, and a great burst of hustle and determination.</p><p>Into the finals, the Packers took to the ice not cocky but very confident. They hadn&rsquo;t forgotten last season, when this same agar-crew, real underdogs, staged a tremendous comeback and eliminated the powerful Packers crew in seven games.</p><p>The finals opened on Vernon ice, and the home town crew went one up with a 6-4 overtime victory. But from there in the teams seesawed back and forth, right up until the seven game, when both teams had three wins and one tie.</p><p>An eight game was necessary and the series was shifted to neutral ice at Penticton.</p><p>As in most of the games the Canadians outplayed the Packers in the first period, and the eight game was no exception, as the Blue and White had two one lead after twenty minutes of play. It held up until the start of the third period, then the Packers machine went into high gear.</p><p>The third period was all Kelowna, as they outplayed and outscored a tied Vernon crew five goals to two. Agar and company just couldnt keep up with the fired up Orchard city crew. With time running out, the Canadians also ran out of gas.</p><p>Kelowna victories were 3-1, 3-2, 6-4, and the eight game also ended in a 6-4 score. Canadians chalked up wins of 6-4, 3-1, and 6-4.</p><p>Not only were the games a close scoring contest, but the goals for and against clearly indicates how evenly matched the two clubs were. Packers scored 29 goals while Canadians trigged 28.</p><p>One of the outstanding features of the series was brilliant goaltending by both the rookie netminders, playing their first season in Senior &lsquo;A&rsquo; competition. Former junior star Art Lariviere in the Kelowna nets, and the Fort William native Jimmie McLeod, the leagues all-star netminder, played like champions.</p><p>For coach Jack O&rsquo;Reilly of the Packers it was his second O.S.H.L. championship in his four years of coaching. The popular volcanic Irishman, who is so dedicated to the game, led the Packers to the Allan Cup finals in the 1957-58 season, and was at the helm when Packers made a successful tour of Sweden and Russian in 1958.</p><p>It was a bitter defeat for the great playing coach of the Vernon Canadians George Agar, at 42-years of age, was one of the outstanding men in the series.</p><p>Kelowna Packers now advance into the British Columbia playdowns against the Western International league representatives the trail smoke eaters.</p><p>The series which opened in Kelowna Monday, saw the Kelowna crew take a one game lead, with a 6-4 overtime victory.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Kelowna Packers Take OSHL Crown In Eighth Game

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div><p>KELOWNA, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Kelowna Packers, and Vernon Canadians made an almost clean sweep of the annual 1959-60 Okanagan Senior Hockey League all-star team, which was released this week by league president Bob Gilhooly.</p><p>The selections made by the four coaches of the league, include three from Vernon, three Kelowna players, and one from Kamloops.</p><p>The coaches were not permitted to pick their own team members.</p><p>The first team consists of Vernon rookie Jimmie McLeod in the nets. The 21-year-old Fort William native who also captured top honors in regular league play with a 3:36 average, marks his first season in Senior &lsquo;A&rsquo; competition.</p><p>On defense for the first time in his three seasons with the Kelowna Packers is Andy McCallum, while 11-year veteran Tom Stecyk of Vernon Canadians was named to the other defensive position, for the fifth straight season&hellip;</p><p>Named to right wing for the fourth consecutive season was Kamloops chiefs playing coach Billy Hryciuk. Other newcomers to the &ldquo;charm circle&rdquo; are Kelowna Packers Bill (Bugs) Jones at centre and left winger Greg Jablonski. Jablonski, and Hryciuk led the league in goals with 55 apiece.</p><p>Vernon&rsquo;s 41-year-old playing coach George Agar was named to the coaching position.</p><p>One player who was completely overlooked, was the League&rsquo;s scoring champion Walt Trentini, who came through with 108 points in 47 games played.</p><p>The one time ex-Calgary pro appeared to be a sure bet to capture all-star recognition. However he failed to catch a spot on either of the two all-star teams&hellip;</p><p>Named to the second all-star squad are Art Lariviere of Kelowna Packers in goal; defense, Ted Lebodia of Kamloops, and Willie Schmidt of Vernon. Centre Don Slater of Penticton Vees. Tied for left wing honors are Merv Bidoski of Vernon, and wait Peacosh of Penticton. Kelowna&rsquo;s Brian Roche won the right wing berth. Kelowna Packers coach Jack O&rsquo;Reilly was named coach.</p><h2><b>Pivot Star</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02318/1805075-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="550" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Jones</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Vernon, Kelowna Name Six Of Seven To League Stars

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01380/1805106-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK</b></h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p>1&mdash;Montreal player shown in centre.</p><p>8&mdash;A Chicago defenseman.</p><p>9&mdash;Linesmen use this to signal off sides.</p><p>11&mdash;Initials of Colwill of Calgary.</p><p>12&mdash;Don McKenney&rsquo;s nickname.</p><p>13&mdash;Red Kelly is one during the off season.</p><p>14&mdash;Initials of Kwong, Edmonton Eskimos&rsquo; fullback.</p><p>16&mdash;ExLeaf Wally Stanowski, played junior hockey with&mdash;Boniface Seals.</p><p>18&mdash;Period of time.</p><p>19&mdash;&ldquo;Turk&rdquo; Broda&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>21&mdash;An N.H.L. referee answers to this.</p><p>22&mdash;Harry Lumley once played goal for this N.H.L. team (abbr.)</p><p>24&mdash;Mrs. Fred Glover.</p><p>26&mdash;Johnny Bower injured one recently.</p><p>28&mdash;Initials of Smith, former New York centre.</p><p>29&mdash;Part of a hockey boot.</p><p>30&mdash;Harry Pidhirny was presented with one during his recent &ldquo;Night.&rdquo;</p><p>31&mdash;Seattle Totems&rsquo; coach.</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1&mdash;This disease sidelined Leo La-Bine in mid-March.</p><p>2&mdash;Initials of the N.H.L&rsquo;s Refereein-Chief.</p><p>3&mdash;Given name of Smith, Boston&rsquo;s rookie rearguard.</p><p>4&mdash;Number of times Jimmy Skinner coached a Stanley Cup winning team.</p><p>5&mdash;Native province of Dan polizziani (abbr.)</p><p>6&mdash;One of the Hershey Bears.</p><p>7&mdash;Few hockey players indulge in this.</p><p>10&mdash;Howie Meeker was once one (abbr.)</p><p>12&mdash;Initials of Mantha, old time Canadien star.</p><p>15&mdash;Former N.H.L. linesman, first name Doug.</p><p>17&mdash;Number of N.H.L. teams with whom Gary Edmundson has performed.</p><p>20&mdash;Floyd Curry&rsquo;s nickname.</p><p>21&mdash;Position played by pictured star (abbr.)</p><p>22&mdash;Initials of Rayner, ex Ranger netminder.</p><p>23&mdash;This Canadien player hails from Regina, Sask.</p><p>24&mdash;Initials of McNab, former Detroit forward.</p><p>25&mdash;This N.H.L. coach once played senior hockey with Flin Flon Bombers.</p><p>26&mdash;A beverage enjoyed by many hockeyists.</p><p>27&mdash;21st & 12th letters of the alphabet.</p><p>29&mdash;Initials of Currie of Calgary.</p><h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p>1&mdash;Hebenton</p><p>6&mdash;Fred</p><p>8&mdash;Moore</p><p>12&mdash;Montreal</p><p>14&mdash;N.E.</p><p>15&mdash;C.E.</p><p>16&mdash;Day</p><p>17&mdash;H.Y.</p><p>18&mdash;Oc.</p><p>19&mdash;Arm</p><p>21&mdash;H.J.</p><p>24&mdash;Dick</p><p>25&mdash;Ross</p><p>27&mdash;Three</p><p>28&mdash;Nurse</p><p>30&mdash;C.P.</p><p>31&mdash;Donna</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1&mdash;Hammy</p><p>2&mdash;Blonde</p><p>3&mdash;T.F.</p><p>4&mdash;Orlando</p><p>5&mdash;N.E.</p><p>7&mdash;D.C.</p><p>9&mdash;00</p><p>10&mdash;Rt.</p><p>11&mdash;E.R.</p><p>13&mdash;Leach</p><p>15&mdash;Cyr</p><p>17&mdash;Haddon</p><p>20&mdash;McCord</p><p>22&mdash;Joseph</p><p>23&mdash;Tor.</p><p>25&mdash;R.H.</p><p>26&mdash;Sec.</p><p>27&mdash;Ten</p><p>29&mdash;S.O.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div><p>SASKATOON, Sask.-</p><p>Controversial Cliff Pennington couldn&rsquo;t help Flin Flon Bombers capture the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League championship, but the starry winger will be in the lineup for interprovincial competition.</p><p>Bombers, without the aid of Pennington, last year&rsquo;s record-breaking scoring champion, rolled to their fourth title in five years, eliminating Saskatoon Quakers and Regina Pats along the playoff trail.</p><p>Next opposition for Bombers will come from Edmonton Oil Kings.</p><p>Pennington, who performed with Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, the Canadiens representative to the Winters Olympics, returned to the junior club on March 12 with Canadien Amateur Hockey Association blessing, intent on stepping into a best-of-seven league final against Regina.</p><p>However, league commissioner Frank Boucher moved into the picture and ruled that Pennington was ineligible for SJHL plaoffs.</p><p>From that point on the battle with Bombers and the CAHA on one side of the fence and Boucher and the SJHL on the other.</p><p>The opener of the final series had ended in a tie, and Bombers anticipated on using Pennington in the second game. Because of Boucher&rsquo;s announcement, they held back and won 2-1 anyway.</p><p>Flin Flon officials kept Pennington on the sidelines for the third game, won 3-2, but ignored a Boucher declaration and dressed him for the fourth game. Pats won, 6-0.</p><p>As a result of Pennington&rsquo;s appearance in the playoffs, Boucher levied a $2,000 fine on the Bomber club, and added that any games they took while he played would be forfeited.</p><p>Pennington and Bombers appealed to the CAHA. Meanwhile, the player saw no further action and Bombers wrapped up the series in six games with 2-1 and 3-2 victories.</p><p>The CAHA, on a telegraphic vote, favored Pennington 14-4 and therefore he&rsquo;ll continue now as a bonsfide Bomber player.</p><p>In the midst of all the bickering, Boucher announced the first and second all-star teams, with Regina players dominating the main club.</p><p>Pats, who finished second to Flin Flon in league play, placed Art Koberinski in goal, Terry Harper on defense and Gary Butler at left wing.</p><p>Other first-team members were Adam Keller, Prince Albert, defense; Chick Balon, Prince Albert, centre and Don Wilson, Saskatoon, right wing.</p><p>The second team consisted of Ed Babiuk, Melville in goal; Jim Holdaway, Flin Flon and Ed Van Impe, Saskatoon on defense; Jerry Esch, Saskatoon at centre; Jim Baird and Dick Vincent, Flin Flon on the wings.</p><p>Esch and Harper shared the Leo Parker trophy, awarded annually to the most valuable player to his team.</p><p>The rookie-of-the-year award, the Jim Leach memorial trophy, was also split between defenseman Jim Neilson of Prince Albert and centre Maurice Oftebro of Flin Flon.</p><p>Jake Skilnick of Melville earned the Beattie Ramsey trophy as the most gentlemanly player. Skilnick scored 44 goals and drew only two minutes in penalties in 59 games.</p><p>Last year, Pennington won the MVP, Badiuk took the rookie and Esch the MGP.</p><h2><b>Junior Again</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02338/1805161-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="502" height="858"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Cliff Pennington</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Toronto Marlboros are in the market for a new hockey coach.</p><p>After an association with the Toronto Maple Leaf organization which spanned a quarter of a century, Turk Broda called it quits last week following the elimination of the Toronto Marlboros from the Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; playoffs.</p><p>Broda, often ranked as the greatest &ldquo;clutch goaltender&rdquo; in history while blocking pucks for the Toronto Maple Leafs, coached one season with the Toronto Marlboros junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; team, one season as pilot of Ottawa Senators of the Quebec Hockey League and has spent the past five seasons with the Marlboros.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-01112/1805230-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="294" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Turk Broda</b></figcaption></div><p>The Dukes won the Memorial Cup the first two years (1954-55 and 1955-56) that Broda swung the gate.</p><p>Poor health, which has been plaguing Broda the past two years, prompted the resignation of hockey&rsquo;s &ldquo;fabulous fatman.&rdquo;</p><p>He missed most of last season through a stomach ailment and left the club in the hands of Manager (Peanuts) O&rsquo;Flaherty on three occasions this season through a recurrence of the same trouble.</p><p>Broda&rsquo;s resignation hadn&rsquo;t been public knowledge for more than five hours than he had a bid from Hamilton Tiger-Cubs to take over their team next season.</p><p>While not accepting the post, Broda left the door ajar by stating that he would consider the offer after a summer of rest.</p><p>One thing is certain.</p><p>The affable Turk will be missed on the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit if he does make his retirement stick.</p><h2>Super Chiefs In AHL Sprint</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-02110/1805223-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="1730" height="1331"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Springfield Indians after winning their first American Hockey League championship in the 24-year history of the circuit. In center Coach Pat Egan is shaking the hand of Parker MacDonald, one of the top players on the Tribe. In front are, left to right: Bruce Cline, Noel Price, Marcel Paille and Jim Bartlett. Rear: Brian Kilrea, Floyd Smith, Trainer Wally Barlow (rear), Billy McCreary, Dennis Olson, Bill Sweeney, Bob McCord, Ted Harris and Jimmy Anderson.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Turk Cuts All Leaf Ties After 25 Years In Fold

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Immediately after Turk Broda announced his retirement as coach of the Toronto Marlboros of the OHA Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; circuit, names to replace him started cropping up.</p><p>However, only one name has been mentioned officially by the Toronto Maple Leafs, parent club of the Marlies. He&rsquo;s former New York Ranger coach Phil Watson. It is reported that Phil can have the job is he wants it.</p><p>Others who are considered candidates for the job are Marlies&rsquo; General Manager Peanuts O&rsquo;Flaherty, Billy Reay, former coach of the Leafs, Scotty Bowman, coach of the Peterborough Petes of the OHA and former Leaf, Sid Smith.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Watson, Reay, Bowman, Smith And O’Flaherty Mentioned For Job

<div class="byline">By VINCE LEAH</div><p>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;</p><p>Canadian junior hockey&rsquo;s miracle team of 1959-60, is out of the running for the national crown and Memorial cup but all along the avenue hockey buffs still talk about the amazing Winnipeg Rangers who all but won the Manitoba championship in an inspiring series with Brandon Wheat Kings.</p><p>The Rangers, who stumbled into a fourth-place playoff spot under new coach Gordon Pennell after losing ten in a row before Christmas, carried the Wheaties to seven games before bowing out. The Cinderella blueshirts, who stunned St. Boniface Canadiens in the semifinals after losing the first two games of a best of five series, almost had the final won, too. But the Wheaties twice came from behind three-goal deficits to win the sixth and seventh games in a series which truly caught the imagination of the hockey-loving public and attracted 35,000 odd paying customers.</p><p>Rangers lose only Defenceman Don McKenzie and wingman Cam Brock for next season and promise to be a strong contender, says Pennell, right from the opening gun.</p><p>Brandon will pick up Ranger defenceman Bob Woytowich and forward Dave Richardson as replacements if the Wheaties eliminate Fort William Hurricanes as allowed by CAHA playoff rules. Woytowich and Richardson were two of Rangers&rsquo; heroes, Richardson picking up 26 scoring points in a dozen playoff games.</p><p>The Wheaties are without Defenceman Terry Bicknell who suffered a shoulder separation in the semi-finals with Braves and utility player Keith Dickie who suffered burns to his hand when he spilled lighter fluid on his fingers.</p><p>Braves&rsquo; Bob Leiter, who may have been picked up as a replacement, was lost to hockey for the balance of the season when he tore knee ligaments in his first pro game with Warriors. He was hit hard at centre icy by Edmonton Flyers&rsquo; Gordon Strate. He now has his leg in a cast.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

‘Peg Rangers Give Kings Scare In MHJHL Playoffs

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-03106/1805309-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="559" height="263"></div><h2><b>APRIL 2 TO APRIL 8</b></h2><p>2&mdash;Rino Robazza, Calgary, defense, 1938.</p><p>2&mdash;Cec Hoekstra, Rochester, forward, 1935.</p><p>3&mdash;Rudy Filion, Seattle, forward, 1927.</p><p>3&mdash;Billy Dea, Buffalo, forward, 1933.</p><p>4&mdash;Bill MacFarland, Seattle, forward, 1932.</p><p>5&mdash;John Hanna, Rangers, defense, 1935.</p><p>6&mdash;Terry Reardon, Providence, manager.</p><p>7&mdash;Bob Armstrong, Boston, defense, 1931.</p><p>8&mdash;Bob Beckett, Providence, forward, 1936.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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