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April 9, 1960
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Al Writes His Tune—Won’t Play Second Fiddle To McCartan
NEW YORK, N.Y.— The immediate future of the New York Rangers is resting uncomfortably today in the ample hands of Al Rollins. If Rollins signs a Ranger contract—or even agrees to come to training camp—the Blueshirts will be able to trade Gump Worsley and beef up an anemic roster. But if, as now appears the case, Rollins vetoes a Ranger bid, the management will lose a valuable piece of barter, namely Worsley. Without goaltending security like Rollins, it is doubtful that the Rangers would put Gump on the market. When Rollins left New York last month, he was personally invited back to play with the Rangers next season by general manager Muzz Patrick. The lean goalie, who showed that he still owns the talent that won him a Hart and Vézina Trophy, said he’d mull…
Warriors’ Norm Waslowski Named Top Rookie In WHL
Norman Waslowski of the Winnipeg Warriors won the Rookie Award of the Western Hockey League for the 1959-60 season. In addition to the Rookie Trophy he will receive one hundred dollars from the league. Norm polled 257 of the possible 630 votes in the annual poll by the Sportswriters and Sportscasters of the W.H.L. seven cities. He scored 24 goals and assisted in 25 others in his rookie season with the Warriors. He scored six game winning goals and picked up the first goal of the game twice. He had one three goal “Hat Trick” and spent only 8 minutes in the penalty box. Waslowski was born in Winnipeg April 20, 1938, and played all of his junior hockey in that city. Teammate Teddy Green was next in the balloting with 108½votes.…
HN Scribe Calls Blades To Cut Up Jets In EHL Finals
NEW YORK, N.Y.— After twenty weeks of league play and three semi-final rounds of play-offs, the Eastern Hockey League has reached its climax with the Johnstown Jets and New Haven Blades meeting for the championship. Johnstown, the Southern Division leaders during the regular season, defeated the Northern Division kingpin Clinton Comets, 5-3, in their best of nine series and New Haven reached the “big series” by eliminating both Philadelphia and Charlotte. The Jets ended Clinton’s bid for a second successive crown on March 23 with a 5-1 victory at Clinton. After the teams had battled through seven games, the Jets scored in the opening period of game No. 8, John Lumley, Ken Coombes and Remi LeSage being the marksmen. Dickie Roberge netted goal No. 4 before Jerry Stringle broke through with the Comets’…
Smythe Asks Halt To Overcoaching In Pee-Wee Loops
TORONTO, Ont.— Canada’s young hockey players are too regimented, over-coached and tire of the game before they are ready to play in well-organized leagues. This was the thinking behind a resolution submitted to the Ontario Hockey Association’s Junior Council last week to be forwarded to the annual meeting of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. Il will be presented by the Marlboro Hockey Club but it received support only in principle by the other six teams. It didn’t get a seconder. Targets of the resolution are the atom and pee-wee leagues which start players as young as nine years old. A letter from Stafford Smythe, co-owner of Marlboros, said by the time a player is 14, 15 or 16 years old, he is so tired of hockey he has turned to other pursuits. The starting…
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