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April 16, 1960

The Hockey News April 16, 1960

<div class="image-hero"><img title="C4-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-01114/1817714-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Coach Toe Blake of the Montreal Canadiens watches play in the final series between his Habs and Toronto Maple Leafs. Blake has masterminded the Canucks to four straight Stanley Cups and is now well on his way to an unprecedented 5th. The Canadiens have never lost a playoff series under Toe, but they&rsquo;ve given his some tough moments. The first two against the Leafs left him a lot lighter scalewise.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Toe Gets A Foothold On Fifth Cup

To be held at:ROCKTON, Illinois (June 15 - June 29)TABER, Alberta (August 1 - August 15)Now you can learn hockey from the best teachers in the game today. For the 10th straight year, hockey&rsquo;s finest school with the best of supervision will be held once again For information, write:G. P. Vogan,Box 657,Moose Jaw,Sask., Canada. &#9632;

INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY CLINIC

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Former Montreal Canadiens star Bert Olmstead, now a key man in the Toronto Maple Leafs lineup, made it quite clear that he doesn&rsquo;t relish the thought of seeing his former teammates walk off with their fifth straight Stanley Cup.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s only one thing I dread,&rdquo; says Olmstead. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to open a newspaper two or three weeks from now and see a picture of that Boom Boom, Moore, Beliveau, Blake and some of the others holding a big five.&rdquo;&ldquo;They&rsquo;re a good hockey club,&rdquo; said Olmstead. &ldquo;They have depth, but they can be beaten.&rdquo; &#9632;

Olmstead Not Interested In Reading About Canucks

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-09" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09157/1817180-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hank Bassen</figcaption></div>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;Vancouver and Seattle dominated the Western Hockey League All-Star selections for the 1959-60 season. Each placed two players with Spokane and Calgary getting one each.Goalie Hank Bassen and Defenceman Brent Macnab were the Vancouver representatives, Center Guyle Fielder and Defenceman Gordie Sinclair were chosen from Seattle, Left Winger Lou Jankowski of Calgary and Right Winger Al Johnson from Spokane. Any coach would love to have this aggregation as their starting lineup.Vancouver and Seattle also placed two each on the second team. Defencemen Larry Cahan and Ralph Keller from Vancouver and Wingmen Bill MacFarland (left) and Marc Boileau (right) from Seattle. Dennis Riggin of Edmonton was selected for goal and Art Jones of Victoria for center on the second team. Winnipeg was the only club to fail to land a player on either All-Star teams but they did have the Rookie of the Year, Norm Waslowski.Guyle Fielder of Seattle polled the largest vote, 390 of a possible 420. Fielder was the unanimous selection of all votes from six cities. One city gave him second spot on all ballots. Left Winger, Lou Jankowski of Calgary, drew the next highest vote, 325&frac12;. Gordon Sinclair of Seattle drew the most votes for defencemen, 217 as against 212&frac12; by Brent Macnab of Vancouver.Each player on the first All-Star team will receive One Hundred Dollars and each player bn the second All-Star team will receive Fifty Dollars. Norm Waslowski, the leading rookie will also receive One Hundred Dollars as will Hank Bassen of Vancouver for being the leading goalkeeper and Guyle Fielder of Seattle for leading the league in scoring. Bassen and Fielder also receive Five Hundred Dollars for winning the Hiram Walker Award for being the Most Valuable Players for the past season. Bassen and Fielder tied in the voting and the sponsor duplicated the awards.<h2>Number 1 In Cage &#9632;</h2>

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Vancouver, Seattle Dominate Western All-Star Selections

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01258/1817783-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The centre of the hockey world is Montreal as the 1959-60 Stanley Cup finals opened between Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs. Top left; caught before they went on camera before the start of the second period of the second game, Camille Henry of the Rangers, Dollard St. Laurent of Chicago and Marcel Pronovost of Detroit. Top right; General Manager-Coach Punch Imlach of the Leafs shows tension after Habs take 2-0 lead in first period of second game. Middle, left; Goaler Jacques Plante gets the treatment from Leaf players Johnny Wilson (19), Frank Mahovlich and Olmstead. Plante roamed a little too far. Bottom left; Goaler Terry Sawchuk watches fan inspect stick Canadiens&rsquo; player gave to his son. Terry was in Montreal for TV work. Bottom right; ex-temmates Ted Lindsay and Howe discuss the series before going into TV room. Both were excellent in-between period guests.</figcaption></div><h2>Hockey News&hellip;&hellip;In Cup Whirl &#9632;</h2>

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BOUCHER LEADS JUNIOR WAR AGAINST CAHA

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;A proposal forwarded by commissioner Frank Boucher to Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League club owners, has suggested that ties be severed with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and a direct pro-National League affiliation be adopted.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02176/1817814-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="286" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Boucher</figcaption></div>Boucher&rsquo;s suggestions, which will be tendered at the annual league meeting in May, are briefly this:(1) that the SJHL should break away from the CAHA and receive money directly from the NHL clubs to operate along professional lines.(2) that the age limit for junior hockey should be extended by one year, from 20 to 21.Scotty Munro, the fiery Estevan Bruin manager, has been spouting the &ldquo;pro&rdquo; angle for a couple of years now, and apparently commissioner Boucher has taken up the cry and come forth with several concrete ideas.The &ldquo;dollar&rdquo; is the big push behind Boucher&rsquo;s proposals and he feels that as long as his league&rsquo;s demands are reasonable, the NHL brass may go along with the plan.Boucher emphasizes, however, that these suggestions have not been endorsed as yet by SJHL operators. They are simply ideas of his own and a few others which have been condensed into a series of proposals.A document, expounding his ideas, has been sent to all franchise holders.Boucher contends that in exchange for direct financial aid the league teams would develop players exclusively for the NHL, and all players registered for league play would be exclusive pro property.Furthermore, any player could be called up directly to the NHL after attaining his 18th birthday, and could be returned to his particular team if found not ready for play under the big top.By the time the annual NHL meeting rolls around in June, Boucher hopes to have a draft ready which would outline the limitations of financial assistance. This would be presented to said gathering, providing the SJHL approves.&ldquo;We are trying to figure out where obligations would start and finish as far as financing is concerned,&rdquo; said Boucher. Junior operators should be able to earn so much of the cost on their own.&rdquo;A suggestion is that the NHL hand over $5,000 to each junior club and guarantee losses up to another $5,000. It has also been worked out that a maximum cost of operation figure would be $28,000.&ldquo;We feel that development of players at the junior level is most important to the pros,&rdquo; Boucher continued. &ldquo;And it is also a known fact that down through the years junior operators have had trouble paying their bills.&ldquo;It is our contention that because of the pros&rsquo; need for a strong junior or minor system, they would prefer to finance us directly, rather than see teams fold year by year.&rdquo;If the deal went through in Saskatchewan, the finances would be administered by a two-man-board the commissioner, representing the league, and one man representing the NHL. Lynn Patrick of Boston has been suggested for the latter post.Under the plan, the SJHL would not be the only junior organization envolved. Out west, Manitoba and Edmonton Oil Kings would be part of it as well as the Ontario Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Association in the east.&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t know if the NHL would sponsor individual clubs or a league as a unit,&rdquo; said Boucher. &ldquo;Either way, they could place, pool or draft players as they liked once they were finished junior.&rdquo;Boucher has laid his plan at the SJHL owners&rsquo; feet and they can now &ldquo;reject it, or adopt it, working as an independant league or within the CAHA.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Wants Direct Financial Aid From The NHL

<div class="byline">By CHARLIE HALPIN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01348/1815940-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Coach Toe Blake and Vice-President Kenny Reardon discuss the first game of the playoffs after the Canadiens swept to a convincing 4-2 win over Toronto. Reardon, former teammate of Toe&rsquo;s, is director of Canadiens large farm system.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;There is a tendency on the part of hockey observers to lampoon the position of Toe Blake as coach of the four-time World champion Montreal Canadiens.Such unfair insinuations as &lsquo;push button&rsquo; coach and &lsquo;gate opener&rsquo;, are resented by Blake&rsquo;s employers.Hockey men allege Toe Inherited a &lsquo;powerhouse&rsquo; when he succeeded the late Dick Irvin in 1955. True, the Canadiens were a formidable crew when he stepped in as coach, but keeping the Habs&rsquo; confidence up all these years was another thing and no one can dispute the claim that Blake hasn&rsquo;t done an admirable job.Before the start of the Stanley Cup playoffs this season, someone asked Blake pointedly what was his biggest problem as his warriors headed into battle in search of a fifth straight cup win.&ldquo;Keeping them from becoming complacent,&rdquo; replied Blake.Toe maintains that if his prided Canadiens listened to the swirl of hullabaloo that was going about, they probably wouldn&rsquo;t have shown up for the first game of the final against Toronto Leafs.That&rsquo;s where Blake&rsquo;s position with Canadiens became invaluable.Toe&rsquo;s job was to discourage the Habs against such notions and after the NHL champs swept the first five playoff games, four over the Chicago Black Hawks in the semi-finals and one over Toronto in the finals&rsquo; opener, it appeared Toe had been successful.Canadiens have never lost a playoff series under Blake and it appeared off their superior showing in beating the Leafs 4-2 and Toronto&rsquo;s own ineptness in the opening game of the Stanley Cup finals, the skein wouldn&rsquo;t be broken this year.Bert Olmstead, the veteran Leaf who did such a commendable job helping get Punch Imlach&rsquo;s hirleings into the second straight all Canadian cup final this year, summed up the situation when he said of the Canadiens:&ldquo;They are all tough, so why try to pick out anyone of them,&rdquo; he answered when asked what players the Leafs would have to pay particular attention to in the blue-ribbon classic of hockey.Even the betting fraternity, mindful of the Canadiens&rsquo; five-game romp over the Leafs in last year&rsquo;s final, went overboard for the &lsquo;Flying Frenchmen&rsquo;. They installed the Habs as overwhelming 5-1 favorites to win it all again.The Habs breezed into the final on the wings of a four-game sweep over the Black Hawks. The Leafs limped in after an exhausting seven-games series with Detroit.It was the fourth time the Canadiens and Leafs had reached the cup final together in the past 12 years. Toronto had won twice in 1946-47 and again in 1950-51.The Canadiens, as in each of their last four winning years, had everything going for them this season again. They ended 13 points ahead of the runner-up Leafs and mustered far more firepower as they scored 255 goals, 56 more than Toronto and finished the regular schedule grind by winning 10 out of 14 games between the two rivals.Canadiens also had three 30-goal men&mdash;Henri Richard, Jean Beliveau and Bernie Geoffrion&mdash;which Toronto didn&rsquo;t have.The Leafs actually didn&rsquo;t boast any outstanding scorer this season&mdash;Bobby Pulford was high man with 24 goals and 52 points&mdash;but they displayed offensive balance, a stout defence led by veteran Allan Stanley and a nimble netminder in ageing Johnny Bower. Leafs&rsquo; blue-line defenders proved equal to any in the league.The late season addition of Red Kelly from Detroit gave the Leafs that extra &lsquo;kick&rsquo; in the stretch and in the semi-final playoffs against the Red Wings.The big question was whether or not the Leafs could make it stick just a little longer against the power-laden Habitants.Most hockey experts felt they wouldn&rsquo;t.Jack Adams, the GM of the ousted Red Wings, felt the Leafs&rsquo; only hope of getting through rested with Bower.&ldquo;They could make it interesting if Bower continued to play as he did against us. Why, we would have won the series if it hadn&rsquo;t been for him,&rdquo; opined Adams.While most everyone was ready to write the Leafs off in five and possibly four games, there was one glimmer of hope for Imlach&rsquo;s Leafs.Get the Canadiens into overtime hockey.It seems, the Habitants have no luck whatever when they were pushed into that extra period by Toronto teams.The records show that in the eight overtime games played between the clubs in the past, the Leafs won seven times.<h2>Getting The News From Ken</h2><h2>Getting The Bosses Hand</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02331/1815933-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1124" height="1392"><figcaption class="caption-body">Blake, right, gets a &lsquo;go get &lsquo;em&rsquo;handshake from General Manager Frank Selke of Les Habs. Selke has built powerhouse, put Toe in charge and all the &lsquo;break up Canadiens&rsquo; screams in the world now fall on deaf ears. Blake has been the most successful coach in NHL history.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Canucks Have Never Let Him Down In Series

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The Toronto Maple Leafs didn&rsquo;t get the best of seats for their large entourage when they played the Montreal Canadiens in Montreal last week. Each club, playing in the playoff is allotted 100 seats.One Toronto newspaper reported that President Conn Smythe of the Leafs said: &ldquo;Our poorest seat in Toronto is better than the 100 they allot us in Montreal.&rdquo;Smythe was reported to have sent a complaint to General Manager Frank Seike of the Montreal Canadiens, who said nothing could be done. The matter was also referred to NHL President Clarence Campbell.Smythe said the Leafs always give the visiting teams the best when they come to Toronto. He refered to the seats given to Leafs as in &ldquo;Nosebleed Alley.&rdquo;President Campbell said nothing could be done about the situation this season, but the complaint was lodged with him so the situation could be rectified for the future.Said Campbell: &ldquo;If you don&rsquo;t have the seats, you don&rsquo;t have them.&rdquo; &#9632;

‘Nosebleed Alley’ Seats Irk Smythe

<div class="byline">by DINK CARROLL</div>In The Montreal GazetteMONTREAL, Que.&mdash;At one stage of the semi-final series between the Toronto Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings, Jack Adams suggested that some of the older Leafs&mdash;he specifically mentioned Allan Stanley and Bert Olmstead&mdash;were showing signs of fatigue.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think they have the legs to stay with our young fellows,&rdquo; said the Wing&rsquo;s general manager.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03301/1815995-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="280" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tony Leswick</figcaption></div>This brought a sharp reply from Punch Imlach, manager-coach of the Leafs.&ldquo;We haven&rsquo;t got an injury on the club now,&rdquo; said Punch, &ldquo;and we&rsquo;re full of pep and we don&rsquo;t have to use gimmicks to keep us going during a game.&rdquo;His reference to gimmicks was a swipe at Detroit for giving its players whiffs of oxygen during a couple of overtime games.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve used oxygen during my day,&rdquo; said Punch, &ldquo;but I don&rsquo;t think much of the idea. It&rsquo;s a gimmick. It won&rsquo;t do a player any harm, of course, but its only value is that it may give him a mental lift.&rdquo;Lefty Wilson, the Red Wings&rsquo; trainer, doesn&rsquo;t agree with the Leafs&rsquo; manager-coach. Declared Lefty:&ldquo;It gets oxygen in the blood stream in a hurry when the players get back to the bench and it picks them right up.&rdquo;The Detroit players themselves were divided as to the value of taking oxygen. Said Marcel Pronovost:&ldquo;You&rsquo;re panting and you take a couple of whiffs of the stuff and you&rsquo;ve caught your breath. It helps relax you in a hurry.&rdquo;Alex Delvecchio didn&rsquo;t see it that way.&ldquo;Personally it fouls me up,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It leaves me with a knot in my stomach. Give me a cold, wet towel any time.&rdquo;It remained for Gordie Howe to come through with a droll observation.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if it helps or not,&rdquo; he drawled. &ldquo;But I know it didn&rsquo;t help Murray Oliver much. He nearly strangled. They forgot to turn the valve on.&rdquo;Punch Imlach wasn&rsquo;t hewing strictly to the line when he said the Leafs didn&rsquo;t resort to gimmicks. After the Leafs lost the opening game of the series, Punch walked to the dressing room and dropped $1,250 in cash on the floor, which represented the difference between winning and losing the series to each player. In doing so he revealed that he has a mind which runs in the same groove as that of Jack Kramer, the tennis promoter.&ldquo;Ah, money,&rdquo; says Kramer ecstatically, &ldquo;the greatest incentive there is in this world.&rdquo;We don&rsquo;t know how long the Red Wings have been using oxygen, but we do know they&rsquo;ve always been looking for something that would give them the edge over opposing teams. They used to keep a can of yogurt in the dressing room&mdash;vitamins, you know&mdash;and the players were supposed to grab a spoonful every time they passed it. Then they went in for gulping hot tea between periods.The New York Rangers have resorted to a few gimmicks in the past. There was the time when Gene Leonie, the famed restaurateur, concocted a mixture he called his &ldquo;Elixir,&rsquo;&rsquo; which was supposed to put a little more hurry-hurry in the players&rsquo; heels. Jim Burchard, veteran Gotham hockey writer, flew to Toronto with it and, oddly enough, the New Yorks won that night. But they were soon back in their old stride and nothing more was heard about the magic potion.After Ingemar Johansson flattened Floyd Patterson, Dr. Huber Grim, Seattle University team physician, attributed the Swede&rsquo;s victory to hypnotism. It seems that Dr. Grim hypnotized one of his star players, Dave Mills, prior to a West Coast Athletic Conference football game and claimed the player&rsquo;s fine performance was the result of the trance he had been in for six hours before the game.Johansson had a similar experience,&rdquo; asserted Dr. Grim. &ldquo;He was hypnotized before his fight with Patterson. While under hypnosis, he was told he would throw his right hand when there was an opening and before he was consciously aware of it. That&rsquo;s why after the fight he was unable to say that he had spotted the opening before he threw the punch that knocked Patterson down the first time.&rdquo;Johansson pooh-poohs the story, but it recalls that Frank Boucher, when he was managing the Rangers, once invited Dr. Tracey, a hypnotist, to talk to the players. It was a gimmick, of course, but strictly for publicity purposes.&ldquo;What happened was funny,&rdquo; Frank said later. &ldquo;Dr. Tracey kept saying, &lsquo;Relax, relax&mdash;just relax!&rsquo; After a few minutes of this, I look around the room and I see Tony Leswick has his eyes shut. Then I have to get rid of the doctor because the game&rsquo;s going to start in five minutes and I was afraid half of them would be asleep. As we leave the dressing room, Nick Mickosi says, You gotta be weak-minded to go for that stuff. That guy didn&rsquo;t do anything to me.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Oxygen Gimmick Just One More That Didn’t Click

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01347/1816068-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glenn Hall, Chicago (Goal)</figcaption></div><h2>The People&rsquo;s Choice&hellip;&hellip;After Final Balloting</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02279/1816061-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1163" height="1055"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Howe, Detroit (Right Wing)</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03184/1816054-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="717" height="740"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Harvey, Montreal (Defense)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04112/1816047-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="717" height="694"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Beliveau, Montreal (Centre)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0575/1816040-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="713" height="576"><figcaption class="caption-body">Toe Blake, Montreal (Coach)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0648/1816033-1-eng-US/f0003-062.jpg" title="f0003-06" width="986" height="836"><figcaption class="caption-body">Marcel Pronovost, Detroit (Defense)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0732/1816026-1-eng-US/f0003-072.jpg" title="f0003-07" width="981" height="1277"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull, Chicago (Left Wing)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hall Over Plante On News Fans’ Team

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The 13th annual HOCKEY NEWS NHL All-Star team, as chosen by THE HOCKEY NEWS readers, showed only one, what might be termed an upset, on the first team and two on the second team. Fans from across Canada, United States, Europe and even South America voted and the final tabulation produced the first team as follows:Glenn Hall, Chicago (goal) Doug Harvey, Montreal (defense) Marcel Pronovost, Det. (defense) Jean Beliveau, Montreal (centre) Gordie Howe, Detroit (right wing) Bobby Hull, Chicago (left wing) Toe Blake, Montreal (coach)The second team was comprised mostly of Montreal players. Jacques Plante in goal; Allan Stanley of Toronto and Tom Johnson of Montreal on defense; Bronco Horvath of Boston at centre; Boom Boom Geoffrion of Montreal, right wing; Dickie Moore, Montreal, left wing and Punch Imlach, Toronto, coach.Had a third team been chosen it would have been comprised of Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk in goal with Chicago&rsquo;s Pierre Pilote and New York&rsquo;s Bill Gadsby on defense. Henri Richard was the third team centre with New York&rsquo;s Dean Prentice at left and Andy Bathgate, also of the Rangers, at right wing. Sid Abel of the Wings would be coach of the third team.Fans also voted Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe as the league&rsquo;s Most-Valuable-Player and Chicago&rsquo;s Bill (Red) Hay as the NHL&rsquo;s Outstanding Rookie for 1959-60.The choice of the teams was calculated on the following method. Five points were awarded to a player with a first place vote and three to a player getting a second place vote.There are those who will argue with Glenn Hall&rsquo;s choice in goal over Montreal&rsquo;s Jacques Plante. As it turned out this was the closest contest between players on the first and second teams. The rest of the race was a runaway. Hall topped Plante by 829 points. There is no doubt that on the second half play this season Hall was head and shoulders above everyone else in the league. But Plante was a standout in the first half, when Hall was having a mediocre time of it. However, Hall&rsquo;s brilliant work at the tailend of the season, when he ran neck-and-neck with Jacques, was the turning point as far as fan votes were concerned.Doug Harvey polled the most points for defensemen, topping the other first choice, Marcel Pronovost by 574 points. And both Harvey and Pronovost almost doubled Allan Stanley&rsquo;s points and were more than double Johnson&rsquo;s. Stanley and Johnson were placed on the second team.Fans gave Montreal&rsquo;s Jean Beliveau tremendous backing over second place Bronco Horvath of Boston. He was almost double in points over the Boston star. Beliveau, of course, has been a HOCKEY NEWS all-star for as long as he&rsquo;s been in the NHL. This year he performed remarkably well, despite injury near the end of the season. He was Canadiens&rsquo; big gun in the scoring department and was favored to win the scoring race when the injury hit.Detroit&rsquo;s brilliant Gordie Howe polled more points than any other player in any position. He picked up 5,110, compared to second right wing choice Bernard Geoffrion&rsquo;s 1681. There was never any doubt about who was going to make the first team. Howe, a consistant winner was the big man for the Wings this year, despite the fact it was one of his poorest in the goal scoring department. Nevertheless, it&rsquo;s doubtful that the Detroit team would have made the playoffs had big &ldquo;number nine&rdquo; not come through in the big ones.Chicago&rsquo;s Bobby Hull was way out in front in the race for left wing honors. He was over 3,700 ahead of second team surprise choice Dickie Moore of Montreal.Fans picked Montreal&rsquo;s Toe Blake to coach the first team over Toronto&rsquo;s Punch Imlach. He was about 350 points head of the Leafs boss.The second team provided a couple of surprises, particularly on the forward line. Montreal&rsquo;s Boom Boom Geoffrion displaced Ranger&rsquo;s Andy Bathgate, as the Boomer picked up a host of points in the late voting. Dickie Moore of the Canadiens did likewise to left winger Dean Prentice of the Rangers. Moore topped Prentice by less than a hundred points. Imlach was second team coach, ahead of Sid Abel of Detroit.Fans were behind Gordie Howe as the most-valuable-player to his team. He was over 1,400 points ahead of second choice Bobby Hull of Chicago. Howe, who sparkled throughout the season, was the important man for the Wings. He played the powerplay, killed penalties and played on two and sometimes three lines during a game. Hull, the league&rsquo;s top scorer, who was voted the NHL&rsquo;s &ldquo;most-exciting-player&rdquo; by a panel of NHL writers, provided much of the spark for the Hawks. But fans felt the Hawks were a better balanced team than the Wings and the loss of Bobby certainly wouldn&rsquo;t have been felt as much as the loss of Howe by the Wings.In choosing Red Hay of the Hawks as their top rookie, the fans were divided in the feelings. Red was ahead of Detroit&rsquo;s Murray Oliver by some 2,500 points. Hay, who scored 18 goals and 37 assists for 55 points in 70 games this season, was the pivot and playmaker on the Hawks&rsquo; &ldquo;Million Dollar Line.&rdquo; He fed Bobby Hull for some of the prettiest goals of the season and was instrumental in Rookie Murray Balfour&rsquo;s great year for the Hawks. Oliver, while he scored 20 goals and 19 assists for 39 points in 54 games, didn&rsquo;t get the kind of backing many thought he would.<h2>Second Best, Say Our Readers</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0821/1816155-1-eng-US/f0003-082.jpg" title="f0003-08" width="269" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jacques Plante</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0914/1816148-1-eng-US/f0003-092.jpg" title="f0003-09" width="276" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Allan Stanley</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-1011/1816141-1-eng-US/f0003-102.jpg" title="f0003-10" width="277" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tom Johnson</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-116/1816134-1-eng-US/f0003-112.jpg" title="f0003-11" width="286" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bronco Horvath</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-126/1816127-1-eng-US/f0003-122.jpg" title="f0003-12" width="260" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dickie Moore</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-135/1816120-1-eng-US/f0003-132.jpg" title="f0003-13" width="282" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bernie Geoffrion</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-145/1816113-1-eng-US/f0003-142.jpg" title="f0003-14" width="293" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body">Punch Imlach</figcaption></div><h2>MVP</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-153/1816106-1-eng-US/f0003-152.jpg" title="f0003-15" width="527" height="535"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Howe</figcaption></div><h2>Top Rook</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-16/1816099-1-eng-US/f0003-162.jpg" title="f0003-16" width="526" height="535"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Hay</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Only Surprise In 13th Annual All-Star Team

Founded October 1st, 1947Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.,1434 Ste. Catherine Street West,Montreal 25, Que.Ken McKenzie, PublisherLen Bramson, Editor-in-ChiefWill V. Cate, General ManagerYearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth; $4.00 in the U.S.A. and Foreign CountriesEntered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, OttawaPrinted in CanadaVol. 13 MONTREAL, APRIL 16, 1960 No. 29 &#9632;

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;A stick, a pair of ropes and a weight. That&rsquo;s Murray Oliver&rsquo;s homework for the summer.Red Wings general manager Jack Adams picked up the idea to strengthen his 22-year-old center from the Boston Bruins&rsquo; Bronco Horvath.&ldquo;I saw Horvath on television explaining how he built up his arms and wrists,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;He had a stick with a rope hanging down from each end attached to a weight. He said he&rsquo;d roll the weight up and it strengthened his muscles. He said he took it with him everywhere.&rdquo;The contraption must have worked. Horvath was the league&rsquo;s second leading scorer and one of the best snap shots in hockey.&ldquo;Oliver will never weigh more than 170 to 175 pounds,&rdquo; Adams said, &ldquo;he doesn&rsquo;t have the frame for any more weight. But he&rsquo;s clever and a good hockey player and maybe this will improve him a little more.&rdquo;The slight rookie from Hamilton, Ont., centered the Gordie Howe line but he didn&rsquo;t have the physique to go into the corners and dig the puck away front hefty defensemen or forwards. Consequently, for all purposes, Howe was the line&rsquo;s center.Oliver clicked off 20 goals during the season although he was called up long after the campaign started. Adams feels a few more muscles might increase his output even more. &#9632;

Bronco Convinces Adams—Oliver Gets Wrist Builder

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06185/1816300-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg"></div>Toronto Star<h2>The Inevitable Distresses Blake</h2>As everyone is pointing out, the law of averages, sooner or later, will be invoked against Toe Blake, sorrowful skipper of Les Habs. That&rsquo;s the price the Old Lampflighter pays for the sweet smell of success. Ever since he came into the league as a coach, he&rsquo;s been lugging around the Stanley Cup. His friends keep saying he can&rsquo;t go on winning it forever&mdash;and anyway, it would be a good thing for hockey if his Habs got licked.Blake is a man who has been blessed with limited vision. He&rsquo;s less concerned over what would be a great thing for hockey than he is over what would be a great thing for Habs and Monsieur Blake. As far as he&rsquo;s able to discern, the greatest thing that ever happened to him was that he won the world series of shinny four years in a row. The second-best thing was that he won it three years in a row.Each spring, he&rsquo;s depressed by the approach of the inevitable. The longer he clutches that silver-plated length of stovepipe, the closer comes the day when he must give it up. And, so, he nurses his misery from April to April. Two score years from now, Blake will be a wreck. You can picture the man tottering toward the old age pension payoff window with that unsightly chunk of metal strapped to his back.He&rsquo;s fretting now&mdash;while he&rsquo;s plotting to win it for only the fifth successive spring. By contrast, his rink-side rival, Mr. Punch Imlach, is looser than a whip lash. The only time Punch ever saw the ruddy mug at close range, Rocket Richard was using it as a slop bucket for surplus champagne. So Imlach has no forebodings about going to the well once too often. Punch has been near the well only once, and he felt like jumping in. Les Habs cut him down in five games. This time, he has announced brashly, the loot is in the bag. Punch predicts the Canadiens won&rsquo;t even go the full seven games.<h2>Money? Habs Prefer The Trophy</h2>&ldquo;That Imlach has a lot of gimmicks,&rdquo; Blake gloomed last week. &ldquo;I thought he pulled a pretty good stunt when he went into the dressing room at Toronto and threw the money on the floor. It worked, too, eh? It wouldn&rsquo;t work for me, though. Our guys don&rsquo;t need money any more. What I might do is try throwing the Stanley Cup on the floor. All we want is the cup.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07156/1816293-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="576" height="1117"><figcaption class="caption-body">Toe Blake</figcaption></div>Part of Blake&rsquo;s dejection stemmed from a recent experience in Chicago, where his serfs blacked out the Black Hawks. After it was over, Blake couldn&rsquo;t think of a thing worthy of a complaint. He didn&rsquo;t have a man he could bawl out. This naturally got him to thinking that things were too good to last.&ldquo;Our team played probably the two best games I ever saw,&rdquo; he confessed dolefully. &ldquo;Our guys were on top of the puck so much they never gave Chicago a chance. But you should have seen them at our practice today&mdash;awful, simply awful. And there&rsquo;s Toronto, just waiting to knock us out. I hope we win a game.&rdquo;Blake has spent a miserable winter attempting to fit players like Ralph Backstrom and Bill Hicke into the jig-saw pattern of his club. This is more frustrating than it sounds. Backstrom, he feels, must be played at centre&mdash;but other centres decline to co-operate in providing Backstrom with a spot. Jean Beliveau and Henri Richard belted in more than 30 goals each. Phil Goyette got more than 20. So the &lsquo;No Help&rsquo; sign was up.This led to a rumor that Backstrom and Hicke would head for Toronto in the off-season and that Canadiens would acquire Dick Duff. Blake didn&rsquo;t say whether he knew of the story or not.&ldquo;When and if Backstrom goes to Toronto, it will be over my dead body,&rdquo; he droned, &ldquo;so it won&rsquo;t hurt much.&rdquo;Maybe, at the same time, he would loosen his grasp and let Imlach have that cup. &#9632;

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Speaking on Sport

HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;Veteran Fleming Mackell of the Boston Bruins says he has probably played his last game with the Bruins.Fleming told reporters here that he is not included in the club&rsquo;s future plans. Mackell is touring the Atlantic Provinces with a group of pro players. The only other Bruin on the trip is Goaler Don Simmons.Mackell said he doesn&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;s through as a player.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure I&rsquo;m not through as a hockey player. But if I don&rsquo;t play in the NHL I&rsquo;d like to try my hand at coaching.&rdquo;Mackell is reported to be after the job as coach of the Quebec Aces of the American Hockey League.The Boston centre said he&rsquo;d like to play again next year. &ldquo;I doubt if I&rsquo;ll be back with the Bruins next year. It&rsquo;s not that I don&rsquo;t want to play, but I guess that I&rsquo;m just not wanted.&rdquo;Asked about Mackell&rsquo;s statement, Milt Schmidt, coach of the Bruins said he didn&rsquo;t think Mackell was being considered in his club&rsquo;s plans, however the final decision was up to General Manager Lynn Patrick.Said an ired Schmidt: &ldquo;When I needed players at the end of the season he could have helped me. I lost LaBine, Bucyk and a couple of other. Mackell always complained about a groin injury. I had to go along with him if he said he couldn&rsquo;t play. But as soon as the season is over he&rsquo;s down there playing exhibition games.&rdquo; &#9632;

Mackell Says He’s Through As A Bruin

<div class="byline">BY Ken Mckenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01412/1816238-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="375" height="439"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02379/1816231-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="558" height="130"></div>&bull; MONTREAL CANADIENS have lost only one of their last 25 playoff games played at the Forum (including last Saturday&rsquo;s 2-1 win over Toronto)&hellip;The single loss in the 25 starts was on April 10, 1958, when the Canadiens bowed to the Boston Bruins, 5-2&hellip;Coach Toe Blake of Canadiens has been wearing his lucky suit throughout the finals&hellip;The lucky suit is a light brown serge which Toe happened to wear in the final game of last year&rsquo;s Cup finals&hellip;He also wore the suit in the fourth game of the semi-finals against Chicago&hellip;This Spring&rsquo;s Stanley Cup finals has been a goalkeeper&rsquo;s battle&hellip;Both Jacques Plante and Johnny Bower have played extremely well&hellip;Plante made sensational saves in the early stages of the first two games of the finals which literally broke the Leafs backs&hellip;Bower has continued where he left off in the Detroit series and he made one of the greatest saves in the playoffs when he robbed Henri Richard of a sure goal in the third period of last Saturday&rsquo;s game Richard was in all alone and had lots of time&hellip;but the blocky Bower stayed right with him and forced the Pocket to make the first move and when he did Bower was ready to make the stop&hellip;Toronto&rsquo;s power play has yet to produce a goal&hellip;which is a tribute to the ability of Don Marshall, Claude Provost and Bob Turner to kill penalties&hellip;Bob Pulford and Ron Stewart have been the penalty-killing forwards for the Leafs&hellip;Leafs use Allan Stanley and Red Kelly on the points and Ron Stewart, Frank Mahovlich and Bert Olmstead up front when they have a man advantage&hellip;Kelly&rsquo;s office attire is reminiscent of a Washington diplomat. He was noted leaving the Toronto dressing room following a game wearing a somber grey-colored homburg hat and a dark blue form-fitting topcoat.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03303/1816224-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="283" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Marshall</figcaption></div>&bull; PUNCH IMLACH said his boys would have to hustle more if they were to pull this series out of the bag&hellip;&ldquo;Hustle isn&rsquo;t everything, he said, &ldquo;but it will make up for a lot of deficiencies. Hockey is a game of mistakes. If you hustle and hurry the other fellow, you way force him into making mistakes. Then he beats himself.&rdquo;&hellip;Boston minor officials worked the games in Montreal and New York minor officials handled things in Toronto&hellip;Red Storey may be out of hockey but he&rsquo;s not forgotten. It doesn&rsquo;t matter what the city happens to be, whenever the fans think the referee has pulled a boner, they start to chant: &ldquo;We Want Storey!&rdquo;&hellip;Carl Brewer, Toronto&rsquo;s ace sophomore defenseman and the most penalized player in the NHL, is the fastest skater on the Maple Leafs&hellip;Dick Duff and Frank Mahovlich must rate close behind Brewer&hellip;Johnny Bower was asked if Tim Horton had anything to say after he tipped Henri Richard&rsquo;s shot into the net for Canadiens&rsquo; fourth goal in the opening game&hellip;&ldquo;He swore,&rdquo; was Bower&rsquo;s only comment&hellip;Billy Harris and Bob Pulford of the Leafs along with Gary Aldcorn of Detroit and Rochester&rsquo;s Bob Nevin will sail for a European holiday as soon as the playoffs are over&hellip;Someone was reminding Harris that the tangy sea air would stimulate his appetite and he&rsquo;d gain weight&hellip;&ldquo;That&rsquo;s exactly what I want,&rdquo; Harris grinned&hellip;&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care if it&rsquo;s as much as 15 pounds. I can use it.&rdquo;&hellip;Jean Beliveau is still being bothered by the groin injury he suffered during the late stages of the regular season. It has hampered him throughout the playoffs&hellip;Sid Abel, Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay and Terry Sawchuk witnessed the second game of the finals&hellip;Several members of the Rangers Fan Club motored up to Montreal from New York for the game&hellip;Tickets were almost impossible to come by and scalpers were asking as much as $40 for a pair of terrace seats.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04248/1816217-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="274" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Harris</figcaption></div>&bull; TOE BLAKE thought his team played much better in the second game than they did in the series opener&hellip;&ldquo;We skated a lot better. &lsquo;But so did they. They played pretty good defensive hockey,&rdquo; Blake added&hellip;Imlach thought Bower and Bert Olmstead played great games for the losing Leafs&hellip;&ldquo;If we can&rsquo;t score more than one goal for him, you can&rsquo;t expect him to shut them out to win,&rdquo; said Punch&hellip;He figured Olmstead played one of his greatest games for the Leafs&hellip;A fierce competitor, Olmstead sat with his head down and faield to utter a word for a long time in the Toronto dressing room following the second straight loss to the Habitants&hellip;Jacques Plante says he finds playoff hockey less nerve-wracking than regular season games&hellip;&ldquo;Playoff hockey is tighter with more attention on defensive play and all the team has to do to win is score one more goal than the opposition.&rdquo;&hellip;Plante also ventured this prediction: &ldquo;If we play against Toronto as we did against Chicago, we will also beat Toronto in four straight.&rdquo;&hellip;Plante has had nine goals scored on him in six playoff games this Spring&hellip;Staff Smythe predicts that in time hockey will have a kinescope tape which the officials will study before ruling on disputed goals, the way the stewards do when there&rsquo;s a claim of foul at the race tracks&hellip;Toronto have defeated Canadiens in two previous Stanley Cup finals&hellip;The Leafs defeated Canadiens four games to one in 1951&hellip;In 1947 they defeated them four games to two&hellip;Both times Canadiens were heavy favorites to win&hellip;Claude Provost has played well for Canadiens in the finals&hellip;Don Marshall played in place of Andre Pronovost on the line with Provost and Phil Goyette in the final period of last Saturday s game&hellip;Marshall also played with Hicke and Backstrom.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05223/1816210-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="275" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body">Claude Provost</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01368/1816355-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="557" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Adams</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;There was no joy at Olympia when the Red Wings faded out. But there wasn&rsquo;t a great deal of gloom either.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re satisfied with the season,&rdquo; general manager Jack Adams said after Toronto Maple Leafs eliminated Red Wings, four games to two, in the Stanley Cup semifinals.&ldquo;Most people didn&rsquo;t even think we&rsquo;d get out of the cellar but we made it back and into the playoffs,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;And with some breaks, we would have taken the Leafs. We outshot them in every game but the last one and had the better chances.&ldquo;Now-all we need are two players to get us up even higher. We need strength at right wing, that&rsquo;s our main concern. Johnny McKenzie played well for us but missed the last five weeks of the season with a knee injury.&ldquo;We were disappointed in Len Lunde. We thought he&rsquo;d score 15 goals or so but he only got six. He was coming on strong at the end of the year and we&rsquo;re still banking on him.&ldquo;We had a lot of young kids&mdash;seven of them had never been in the playoffs before. We kicked away a lot of games during the season but I think you can mark it up to inexperience.&ldquo;We were lucky in the draft. We got Gary Aidcorn and he scored 22 goals and we also got McKenzie. We hope we can do as well this year.&ldquo;We have no plans for trading. No one has approached us and we haven&rsquo;t given any thought to it,&rdquo; Adams said.But the master trader of the NHL wouldn&rsquo;t be adverse to swapping if need be.The Wings were the surprise of hockey for four games against Leafs. Toronto was a heavy favorite to dump the Detroiters quickly. Instead, Detroit played its best hockey of the season.But it couldn&rsquo;t last. The Wings&rsquo; main difficulty in the last half of the season was the last 20 minutes of play. They just ran out of gas. And so the season ended.Wings led Leafs, 2-1, going into the final period of the sixth game. But Leafs piled in three goals and won going away. They could just as easily had a half dozen goals as the three collected by Bobby Pulford (his second of the game), Frank Mahovlich and Dickie Duff.It was Mahovlich&rsquo;s third goal of the series and every one won a game.&ldquo;We gave it a good try,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be back next year.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Chant Goes Up In Motortown—Just Wait Until Next Year

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Although Johnny Bower has completed two seasons with the Maple Leafs, and suffered through a previous campaign with New York Rangers, there have been folks who had reservations about him as a major-league goaltender.Until the 1960 Stanley Cup semifinal between Leafs and Detroit Red Wings, that is. Bower removed the last shreds of doubt with a tremendous performance in that series, which Toronto took, four games to two.And nobody doubted that Leafs&rsquo; hopes in the Cup final against Montreal Canadiens revolved around Bower. If he continued his legerdemain, Leafs had a chance. If he faltered, they were dead.Said Jack Adams, Detroit general manager: &ldquo;If Bower keeps that up, they could go all the way. That man is phenomenal. But how long can he keep it up?&rdquo;Bower stopped more than 200 shots in the six games against Detroit. He was the deciding factor in every game Leafs won, except the last in which they produced their first sound hockey of the series.Leafs all knew that they&rsquo;d have to play much better hockey against the champion Canadiens. Moreover, they felt sure they were capable of it.&ldquo;Last spring, we were great in the semi-final against Boston, then lousy against Canadiens,&rdquo; said Larry Regan. &ldquo;This year, we were lousy in the semi-final, so maybe we&rsquo;ll be good against Montreal.&rdquo;&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t claim we played particularly well in the Detroit series,&rdquo; commented Punch Imlach. &ldquo;But every time I looked Terry Sawchuk was robbing one of our guys on a breakaway. You don&rsquo;t get those clear breakthroughs without hard work to set them up.&ldquo;Detroit didn&rsquo;t have any men busting in alone on our goal. So we couldn&rsquo;t have been playing that badly.&ldquo;Of course, I must admit that if you&rsquo;re really sharp, you click on a few of those breakaways. But Sawchuk was good. If Bower was great, so was Sawchuk.&rdquo;Toronto fans never have really warmed up to Bower until this spring. Because they&rsquo;re sophisticated observers of the sport, they&rsquo;ve been horrified by Johnny&rsquo;s unorthodox methods. He gives them fits the way he juggles shots and hurls himself hither and yon.But you can&rsquo;t dispute results, which Bower has been getting. And his spunk is there for all to see. If the only way of halting a shot was to place his kisser in front of it, there&rsquo;s no doubt Johnny would do just that.&ldquo;The old so-and-so has a heart the size of a medicine ball,&rdquo; said captain George Armstrong, after Bower stopped 62 drives in Leafs&rsquo; 5-4 victory on Detroit ice. The game lasted on into a third overtime period.Bower, who claims he&rsquo;s 35 but who may be 37, has insisted this will be his last season as a goalie. He&rsquo;s wavering now.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll decide after the playoffs are over and I have a chance to think about it,&rdquo; says John.Leafs managed to eliminate the Wings without straining themselves excessively. They played only 40 minutes at peak efficiency&mdash;the second period of the long game in Detroit, in which they overcame a 2-0 Detroit lead, and the third period of the decisive match in Detroit, in which they counted three goals to wipe out a 2-1 Wing edge and win, 4-2.Leafs wrapped things up with a doubleheader sweep over the April 2-3 week-end.Saturday&rsquo;s hero was Allan Stanley who potted two goals and added two assists and personally destroyed the Wings. There were loud boos when Chicago&rsquo;s Ted Lindsay ignored Silent Sam in choosing the three stars of the evening.Sunday, Frank Mahovlich potted the winning goal for the third time during the series. He was lying on the ice at the time and spying a loose puck, scooped it into the nets with an outstretched stick.Mahovlich and Red Kelly were the offensive big wheels for Leafs. Kelly led all scorers with nine points and was rolling in first-rate style against the team which had discarded him in February.Defenceman Carl Brewer was the other star of the series, which may be remembered as the playoff of the goals which didn&rsquo;t count.Leafs lost a goal in the first game when referee Frank Udvari stopped play before Ron Stewart shot the puck into the nets. The same thing happened to Gordie Howe in the second match.Then in the fifth game, Leafs had tow called back. First Bert Olmstead clicked on a shot which was disallowed because Ron Stewart allegedly caught the puck and dropped it on Olmstead&rsquo;s stick. Leafs insisted Stew merely had batted at Tim Horton&rsquo;s shot in self-defence.Later, Johnny Wilson took a pass-out from Kelly and flipped a shot which seemed to catch the upper part of the cage and bounce back out. The goal judge ruled it had struck the cross bar at the top of the goal and therefore hadn&rsquo;t crossed the line. No goal.Wilson never stopped claiming it was a legitimate score and photos of the play seemed to bear out his contention.However, as it turned out, the goals that weren&rsquo;t goals didn&rsquo;t really matter.Imlach called for a victory in six-games&mdash;three wins in Toronto and one in Montreal. But his was a lonely voice crying in the wilderness, for the bookmakers, the men whose business it is to know, installed Canadiens as 5-1 favorites to win the Stanley Cup for the fifth successive time.Leafs were certain, though, that they couldn&rsquo;t afford to have any scores wiped out in the showdown with Montreal Canadiens.<h2>Key Guy</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02336/1816386-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="489" height="1057"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Bower</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Punch Has Hard Task Trying To Outshout The Oddsmen

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;When it comes to off-season plans, you can&rsquo;t beat Gary Aldcorn&rsquo;s.The Detroit left winger, along with former Toronto mates Bobby Fulford and Billy Harris, sail for Europe in May.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll get back just before the start of the training season,&rdquo; Aldcorn said.Aldcorn wasn&rsquo;t making any predictions after Leafs eliminated Red Wings in six games in the Stanley Cup semifinals but he was hopeful that Leafs would upset Montreal.&ldquo;I hope those guys (Pulford and Harris) make a lot of money so I can sponge off them if I run low,&rdquo; Aldcorn grinned.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03267/1816417-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="268" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Aidcorn</figcaption></div>Outdoors work will occupy many of the Red Wings. Jerry Melnyk and Len Lunde will work as greenskeepers at an Edmonton golf course. Murray Oliver does carpenter work as does Pete Goegan, Oliver in Hamilton, Ont., and Goegan in Fort William, Ont.John McKenzie does ranch work in Nanton, Alta., and Norm Ullman is a traffic clerk in Edmonton.The businessmen are Len (Comet) Haley and Alex Delvecchio. Haley has a construction business in Edmonton and Delvecchio a sporting goods store in Fort William, Ont.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been doing construction work for nearly 10 years,&rdquo; said Haley. &ldquo;For the last two years I&rsquo;ve had my own company. I put up homes, cabins and the like.&rdquo;Seven of the Red Wings planned Florida vacations after the playoffs&mdash;general manager Jack Adams, coach Sid Abel, Gordie Howe, Jim Morrison, Marcel Pronovost, Oliver and Lloyd Haddon.Adams and Abel took in the Stanley Cup finals and some minor league playoffs before heading South.Three Wing players call Detroit their off-season home. Howe is in partnership with baseball player Al Kaline as manufacturers&rsquo; agents.Warren Godfrey recently went into business with a sport store at a large suburban shopping center and goalie Terry Sawchuk has two ventures&mdash;a garbage truck concern and he&rsquo;s going into the tavern business in May. &#9632;

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Wings Pack Up And Unpack For Summer In Various Posts

<div class="byline">by Dink carroll</div><h2>The Oxygen Gimmick</h2>At one stage of the semi-final series between the Toronto Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings, Jack Adams suggested that some of the older Leafs&mdash;he specifically mentioned Allan Stanley and Bert Olmstead&mdash;were showing signs of fatigue.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think they have the legs to stay with our young fellows,&rdquo; said the Wings&rsquo; general manager.This brought a sharp reply from Punch Imlach, manager-coach of the Leafs.&ldquo;We haven&rsquo;t got an injury on the club now,&rdquo; said Punch, &ldquo;and we&rsquo;re full of pep and we don&rsquo;t have to use gimmicks to keep us going during a game.&rdquo;His reference to. gimmicks was a swipe at Detroit for giving its players whiffs of oxygen during a couple of overtime games.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve used oxygen during my day,&rdquo; said Punch, &ldquo;but I don&rsquo;t think much of the idea. It&rsquo;s a gimmick. It won&rsquo;t do a player any harm, of course, but it&rsquo;s only value it that it may give him a mental lift.&rdquo;Lefty Wilson, the Red Wings&rsquo; trainer, doesn&rsquo;t agree with the Leaf&rsquo;s manager-coach. Declared Lefty:&ldquo;It gets oxygen in the blood stream in a hurry when the players get back to the bench and it picks them right up.&rdquo;The Detroit players themselves were divided, as to the value of taking oxygen. Said Marcel Pronovost:&ldquo;You&rsquo;re panting and you take a couple of whiffs of the stuff and you&rsquo;ve caught your breath. It helps relax you in a hurry.&rdquo;Alex Delvecchio didn&rsquo;t see it that way.&ldquo;Personally it fouls me up,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It leaves me with a knot in my stomach. Give me a cold, wet towel any time.&rdquo;<h2>The Money Gimmick</h2>It remained for Gordie Howe to come through with a droll observation.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if it helps or not,&rdquo; he drawled. &ldquo;But I know it didn&rsquo;t help Murray Oliver much. He nearly strangled. They forgot to turn the valve oh.&rdquo;Punch Imlach wasn&rsquo;t hewing strictly to the line when he said the Leafs didn&rsquo;t resort to gimmicks. After the Leafs lost the opening game of the series, Punch walked into the dressing room and dropped $1,250 in cash on the floor, which represented the difference between winning and losing the series to each player. In doing so he revealed that he has a mind which runs in the same groove as that of Jack Kramer, the tennis promoter.&ldquo;Ah, money,&rdquo; says Kramer ecstatically, &ldquo;the greatest incentive there is in the world.&rdquo;We don&rsquo;t know how long the Red Wings have been using oxygen, but we do know they&rsquo;ve always been looking for something that would give them the edge over opposing teams. They used to keep a can of yogurt in the dressing room&mdash;vitamins, you know&mdash;and the players were supposed to grab a spoonful every time they passed it. Then they went in for gulping hot tea between periods.The New York Rangers have resorted to a few gimmicks in the past. There was the time when Gene Leonie, the famed restaurateur, concocted a mixture he called his &ldquo;Elixir,&rdquo; which was supposed to put a little more hurry-hurry in the player&rsquo;s heels. Jim Burchard, veteran Gotham hockey writer, flew to Toronto with it and, oddly enough, the New Yorks won that night. But they were soon back in their old stride and nothing more was heard about the magic potion.<h2>The Hypnosis Gimmick</h2>After Ingemar Johansson flattened Floyd Patterson, Dr. Huber Grim, Seattle University team physician, attributed the Swede&rsquo;s victory to hypnotism. It seems that Dr. Grim hypnotized one of his star players, Dave Mills, prior to a West Coast Athletic Conference football game and claimed the player&rsquo;s fine performance was the result of the trance he had been in for six hours before the game.&ldquo;Johansson had a similar experience,&rdquo; asserted Dr. Grim. &ldquo;He was hypnotized before his fight with Patterson. While under hypnosis, he was told he would throw his right when there was an opening and before he was consciously aware of it. That&rsquo;s why after the fight he was unable to say that he had spotted the opening before he threw the punch that knocked Patterson down the first time.&rdquo;Johansson pooh-poohs the story, but it recalls that Frank Boucher, when he was managing the Rangers, once invited Dr. Tracey, a hypnotist, to talk to the players. It was a gimmick of course, but strictly for publicity purposes.&ldquo;What happened was funny,&rdquo; Frank said later. &ldquo;Dr. Tracey kept saying, &lsquo;Relax, relax&mdash;jut relax!&rsquo; After a few minutes of this I look around the room and I see Tony Leswick has his eyes shut. Then I have to get rid of the doctor because the game&rsquo;s going to start in five minutes and I was afraid half of them would be asleep. As we leave the dressing room, Nick Mickoski says, &lsquo;You gotta be weak-minded to go for that stuff. That guy didn&rsquo;t do anything to me&rsquo;.&rdquo; &#9632;

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<h2>FIRST TEAM</h2>GLENN HALL, Chicago (Goal) 3971 pointsDOUG HARVEY, Montreal (Defense) 4778 pointsMARCEL PRONOVOST, Detroit (Defense) 4184 pointsJEAN BELIVEAU, Montreal (Centre). 4461 pointsGORDIE HOWE, Detroit (Right Wing) 5110 pointsBOBBY HULL, Chicago (Left Wing) 4997 pointsTOE BLAKE, Montreal (Coach) 3197 points<h2>SECOND TEAM</h2>JACQUES PLANTE, Montreal (Goal) 3142 pointsALLAN STANLEY, Toronto (Defense) 2970 pointsTOM JOHNSON, Montreal (Defense) 1968 pointsBRONCO HORVATH, Boston (Centre) 2778 pointsB. GEOFFRION, Montreal (Right Wing) 1681 pointsDICKIE MOORE, Montreal (Left Wing) 1256 pointsPUNCH IMLACH, Toronto (Coach) 2745 points<h2>THIRD TEAM</h2>TERRY SAWCHUK, Detroit (Goal) 1625 pointsPIERRE PILOTE, Chicago (Defense) 1752 pointsBILL GADSBY, New York (Defense) 1154 pointsHENRI RICHARD, Montreal (Centre) 1177 pointsANDY BATHGATE, New York (Right Wing) 982 pointsDEAN PRENTICE, New York (Left Wing) 1169 pointsSID ABEL, Detroit (Coach) 1501 points<h2>MOST VALUABLE PLAYER</h2>GORDIE HOWE, Detroit 2400 pointsBOBBY HULL, Chicago 965 points<h2>TOP ROOKIE</h2>BILL (RED) HAY, Chicago 4151 pointsMURRAY OLIVER, Detroit 1335 points &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;General Manager Muzz Patrick is in the midst of one of the Rangers most intensive scouting trips.The Blueshirt boss X-rayed Springfield and Cleveland of the American Hockey League, surveyed Three Rivers of the Quebec loop and now will examine his Vancouver Western League affiliate.So far, this much can be deduced:&bull; Earl Ingarfield, Ranger-owned center at Cleveland, has pleased Muzz most and has the best chance of any minor league player of making the Ranger line-up.&bull; Springfield&rsquo;s defensemen seem to have impressed Muzz more than the forwards.&bull; If possible, Muzz will deal some of his better Springfield players for other AHLers of NHL potential.&bull; Patrick does not intend to turn pro his promising Guelph Juniors (Ratelle, Cunningham, Gilbert, et. al.) at least until the Fall.&bull; Hank Bassen of Vancouver may be the sleepers in the Ranger goalkeeping picture.The HOCKEY NEWS asked Muzz to review his scouting findings following his return from the Cleveland-Rochester series.&ldquo;I liked Ingarfield,&rdquo; Patrick said. &ldquo;He was exceptionally good.&rdquo;Other Ranger prospects on Cleveland are defenseman Aldo Guidolin and forward Ed Hoekstra. Patrick said Hoekstra was &ldquo;a year away.&rdquo;&ldquo;As for Aldo,&rdquo; added Muzz, &ldquo;he&rsquo;s good and tough but he&rsquo;s always a gambler&mdash;he goes for the puck. I wish he didn&rsquo;t but he does.&rdquo; Patrick said he liked Guidolin&rsquo;s size but not his style.Muzz said that all of Springfield&rsquo;s defensemen,&mdash;Bob McCord, Ian Cushenan, Noel Price, Ted Harris, Kent Douglas&mdash;will be eyed in training camp. It should be recalled that last Fall, a little known Springfield player, Ken Schinkel, did so well in camp that the Rangers signed him.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re all in the same boat,&rdquo; Patrick said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if any of them can help but I&rsquo;ll give &lsquo;em a look.&rdquo;Asked about Springfield&rsquo;s forwards, Patrick replied: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not overenthused about them. I&rsquo;d rather not say who has a chance.&rdquo;Muzz admitted that he is considering trading &ldquo;forwards for forwards and defenseman for defensemen&rdquo; to both minor and major league teams.One rumored deal has left wing Parker MacDonald going to the Detroit Red Wings for an unnamed forward.Regarding Vancouver, Patrick says he&rsquo;s interested in Bassen as well as burly Larry Cahan, Danny Belisle and a few other regulars.Bassen, who had an excellent season with Vancouver, will be important to the Rangers if Al Rollins retires. For without Rollins, the Blues will need goaltending depth if Gump Worsley is put on the block.Meanwhile, Guelph juniors Jean Ratelle, Rod Gilbert and Bob Cunningham did so well for Three Rivers in the Quebec League playoffs against Montreal, Patrick was under great pressure to turn them pro.&ldquo;Three Rivers wanted to have them for all the playoff games,&rdquo; Muzz said, &ldquo;but I couldn&rsquo;t turn them pro now. I don&rsquo;t know if they&rsquo;re ready to fit into our system yet. It&rsquo;s too early to tell.&rdquo;Following Patrick&rsquo;s route, this correspondent scouted Springfield and found the following players worthy of another look&hellip;Jim Bartlett, Bill Sweeney, Bob McCord, Kent Douglas an Noel Price.<h2>Good Bet</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01389/1816596-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="523" height="533"><figcaption class="caption-body">Earl Ingarfield</figcaption></div><h2>May Be Sleeper</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02355/1816589-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1136" height="1023"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hank Bassen</figcaption></div><h2>ONE YEAR AWAY HE&rsquo;S ARRIVED</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03278/1816582-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="544" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Hoekstra</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04212/1816575-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="542" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body">Aldo Guidolin</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Ingarfield Was Best Of Bunch On Ivory Hunt

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.-&ldquo;Give my regards to Broadway,&rdquo; sung Jimmy Bartlett, only Ranger-owned player with a fan club, &ldquo;remeber me to Madison Square.&ldquo;Tell all the gang on forty-ninth street that I hope to soon be there.&rdquo; Although Jimmy was slightly off-key he&rsquo;s also one of the few sopranos in hockey), his point was clear&mdash;the ex-Ranger wants to erase the &ldquo;ex&rdquo; from his title. He&rsquo;s now with Springfield.&ldquo;I wanna come back,&rdquo; the boyish left wing said during a respite in the American Hockey League playoffs. &ldquo;Ya can&rsquo;t beat the NHL money.&rdquo;Bartlett was asked what he was doing to blaze a trail back to Broadway.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m skating my bloody head off,&rdquo; he said in his own enthusiastic way, &ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t given up.&rdquo;Bartlett never achieved the eminence of Andy Bathgate or Red Sullivan but Jimmy&rsquo;s style won him a distinction no other Ranger enjoyed&mdash;he had a fan club all his own.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0699/1816658-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="278" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Bartlett</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We liked the way he hustled,&rdquo; said Frank Pugliese, a charter member of the Jimmy Bartlett Marching and Chowder Society. &ldquo;Jimmy was a hard worker, and not a bad shot or skater&hellip;but most of all he&rsquo;s just one helluva great guy.&rdquo;When the Rangers sent Bartlett to Springfield late in the season, there was general mourning in the side balcony of the Garden, heart of the Bartlett belt.Some Bartlett rooters threatened to fast until Jimmy returned.Did the fan club dissolve itself?Don&rsquo;t be silly. The troops held a dinner for their pal and even made regular trips to Springfield to see him play.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll keep the fan club going as long as Jimmy is in hockey,&rdquo; says Pugliese. &ldquo;We haven&rsquo;t stopped liking him just because he&rsquo;s left town.&rdquo;The affection for Bartlett is not confined to his fan club. Before, and after his departure, Garden fans regularly came up with &ldquo;We want Bartlett&rdquo; chants.Some observers believed Bartlett was doing a competent job with the Blueshirts before being deported.But coach Alf Pike had some doubts about that, expressing no great joy over Jimmy&rsquo;s scoring potential or penalty-killing.Barring a trade, Jimmy will be given another shot at a Ranger job next Fall. His competition is Dean Prentice, Camille Henry, Eddie Shack, Mel Pearson and a few other minor leaguers who will be invited to camp.Bartlett&rsquo;s hope is a good playoff&mdash;when this HOCKEY NEWS observer saw him, he scored two goals&mdash;so the Rangers will give him some recognition next Fall.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;m working for,&rdquo; Jimmy says, &ldquo;and I got a lotta people rooting for me.&rdquo; If he scores a hat trick or two, he may have the Ranger brass cheering also. &#9632;

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Bartlett Using Blood, Sweat And Toil To Get Back To NY

<div class="byline">by VERN DEGEER</div>In The Montreal GazetteMONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Apart from the Stanley Cup final series itself, the big topic along hockey row has to do with Rocket Richard.The Rocket is playing out his 19th season in the National Hockey League. He has piled up an amazing record. He&rsquo;s approaching 39.When does he retire?When does any athletic headliner retire?<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05143/1816627-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="278" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard</figcaption></div>Milt Schmidt, coach of the Boston Bruins was asked about this last week. Milt spent 19&frac12; years with the R.C.A.F. during the Second World war. He came up from junior ranks to join Providence Reds in 1936-37. He was 18 at the time. He was a chattel of the Boston Bruins. His first coach was Albert &ldquo;Battleship&rdquo; Leduc, ex Canadien star.&ldquo;I announced my own retirement,&rdquo; Milt said, &ldquo;and it was only after a lot of thought. It was during the 1954-55 season. The Bruins had played a game in Chicago. I was walking from the LaSalle Hotel to the railway station with Lynn Patrick. I&rsquo;ll never forget it.&rdquo;&ldquo;I said to Lynn, I&rsquo;ve decided to retire. My legs are getting older. I&rsquo;m not helping the club. I&rsquo;m getting mad at young guys who try pushing me around. I&rsquo;m losing my temper.&rdquo;What did Lynn say?He said: &ldquo;Milt, I&rsquo;m glad you said it and not me. Now we&rsquo;ll call Walter Brown (boss of the Bruins). I know what he&rsquo;s going to tell us. He&rsquo;s going to say you&rsquo;re the new coach of the Bruins.&rdquo;That&rsquo;s when Milt Schmidt retired, and that&rsquo;s when he switched to a coaching job in the N.H.L. In mid&rsquo;season of 1954-55.Coach Toe Blake of the Canadiens was asked about The Rocket.What&rsquo;s in store for him?&ldquo;That question keeps cropping up all the time and I haven&rsquo;t got the answer,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If the Rocket suddenly explodes in this series, all you guys will be writing about him.&rdquo;&ldquo;One thing I know. The Rocket has never hinted he plans to quit after this year. The decision is his own. And while you&rsquo;re asking let me tell you something. The Rocket scored 19 goals in 51 games this season. And Gordie Howe scored only nine more in 70 games.&rdquo;But getting back to the subject of an athlete announcing his retirement. What about it?&ldquo;I can only speak for myself,&rdquo; Blake said. &ldquo;I feel the average fellow in any sport is the last to admit he&rsquo;s on the road down. He has a terrific sense of pride. Guys like Apps, Reardon, Ted Kennedy and Joe Primeau quit when they were on top. The Rocket could be a couple years away from this.Why and when did Blake hang up his stick?&ldquo;I thought I had another year or two to go,&rdquo; Toe said. &ldquo;But one day I had a conference at the Forum. They told me they wanted me to go to Buffalo the next season as a coach. Dick Irvin told me. I didn&rsquo;t want to admit it, but I realized I was through. So I went to Buffalo. But I lasted only half a season as coach. That&rsquo;s another story.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Is This Rocket’s Last Blast?—He’s Not Saying It Is

<h2>Rocket, Jean Hold Record</h2>Maurice Richard and Jean Beliveau of the Montreal Canadians hold the record for the most goals in a Stanley Cup series. Richard scored 12 in nine games against Toronto and Chicago in 1943-44. Beliveau scored a dozen in 1955-56 against Rangers and Detroit. He did it in ten games.<h2>Moore Picked Up Six</h2>Dickie Moore of the Montreal Canadiens is a great playoff performer. The record book shows that he is the only player in League history ever to record six points in a playoff game. He did it against Boston on March 25, 1954 as Canadiens won 8-1.<h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Game of Sat., April 9)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01423/1816710-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="612" height="1606"></div><h2>How The Race Goes</h2><h3>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo; (Best-of-seven semi-final)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02357/1816703-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="589" height="83"></div>Thursday, March 24: Montreal 4, Chicago 3.Saturday, March 26: Montreal 4, Chicago 3 (overtime).Tuesday, March 29: Montreal 4, Chicago 0.Thursday, March 31: Montreal 2, Chicago 0.<h3>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo; (Best-of-seven semi-final)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03283/1816696-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="590" height="84"></div>Wednesday, March 23: Detroit 2, Toronto 1.Saturday, March 26: Toronto 4, Detroit 2.Sunday, March 27: Toronto 5, Detroit 4 (overtime).Tuesday, March 29: Detroit 2, Toronto 1 (overtime).Saturday, April 2: Toronto 5, Detroit 4.Sunday, April 3: Toronto 4, Detroit 2.<h3>FINAL SERIES (Best-of-seven)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04220/1816689-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="589" height="88"></div>Thursday, April 7: Montreal 4, Toronto 2.Saturday, April 9: Montreal 2, Toronto 1. &#9632;

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NATIONAl LEAGUE

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Canadiens almost duplicated their first period efforts of the first game in the second. They came out skating, jumped into a two goal lead and then held the Leafs off. The final score was 2-1 and it gave the Champions a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup final series. Just as he did in the first period of the first game, Dickie Moore opened the scoring at 1:26. Henri Richard gave Moore a goalmouth pass and Moore, standing right on the post, gave it a half-slap and the puck was in.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06131/1816786-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="274" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Beliveau</figcaption></div>Exactly four minutes and thirty six seconds later Jean Beliveau scored the second goal of the game, and it turned out to be the winner. For Beliveau it was his second winning goal in this final series. In the first game he scored the Canadiens third goal, which also turned out to be the winner.Larry Regan blasted in George Armstrong&rsquo;s pass late in the first period to put the Leafs back in the game. The time of the goal was 19:32.That was the end of the scoring in the game. The Leafs, who came on strong in the second half of the game, did everything but put the puck into the net. They had the opportunities, many of them, but were unable to do anything about it.For the second time in a row the Canadiens started strong, and after getting their lead, sat back and waited for Toronto to come to them. The Habs lacked the sharpness they showed in the Chicago series. They seemed to be feeling the effects of their week long layoff after the Hawks series.Coach Toe Blake was happy with the way his team played but he said they would have to be much better to win in Toronto.Blake complained that there was too much holding by Toronto players. But Toronto Coach Punch Imlach thought the game was well handled by Referee Eddie Powers.With a minute left to play the Leafs took Bower out of the net. Canadiens&rsquo; Claude Provost broke in all alone and put the puck into the net. The red light went on at the same time the final siren sounded. Referee Powers signaled no goal, to the dismay of the fans and Montreal players.Toronto boss Staff Smythe sumed up the second game for his Leafs.&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t spot those guys two goals and then expect to beat them.&rdquo;<h2>Second Game Statistics</h2><h3>Toronto 1 at Montreal 2</h3>(Montreal leads best-of-seven Stanley Cup final series 2-0)Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Horton, Stanley, Brewer, Baun; forwards: Pulford, Stewart, Olmstead, Kelly, Mahovlich, Regan, Harris, Armstrong, Duff, Wilson, Edmundson, James, Ehman.Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, Langlois, Johnson, Turner, Talbot; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Bonin, H. Richard, &Mu;. Richard, Moore, Goyette, Provost, Pronovost, Backstrom, Hicke, Marshall.Referre: Eddie Powers; linesmen: Neil Armstrong and Lorin Doolittle.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0973/1816779-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="1204" height="574"></div> &#9632;

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Canadiens Start Fast, Hold Leafs, Take A 2-0 Lead

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;A look down the score sheet will show that the Canadiens big gun in the first two games of the Stanley Cup finals against the Toronto Maple Leafs was Henri Richard, the swift little pivot, who sets up big brother Maurice and left winger Dickie Moore.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07105/1816817-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="281" height="486"><figcaption class="caption-body">Henri Richard</figcaption></div>The Canadiens managed to win the opening two games in Montreal by 4-2 and 2-1 scores. They scored a total of six goals. Richard scored one of them and assisted on four others. So, of the six scored the little Richard had a hand in five of them.The Richards and Moore have been a thorn in the side of the Leafs for years. Last season this trio accounted for 10 goals against Toronto, but they had a hand in 33 of the 43 the club scored against the Leafs.So scoring against the Leafs is old stuff to this trio. Moore in particular has been brilliant in the playoffs, scoring the first goal in each game. But as brilliant as he was it was little Henri doing most of the puck carrying for the line.Pocket&rsquo; Richard, now in his fifth season with the Canadiens, has scored 116 goals in 327 regular games. He has also picked up 182 assists in that time, for a total of 298 points in those 327 games. That&rsquo;s just a little less than a point a game which is nearly as good as big brother Maurice. The &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; has slightly more than a point per game since he joined the Canadiens back in 1942-43.In the first game against the Leafs it was all Henri Richard as he rode roughshod over Toronto defensemen. He was skating at his best, carrying the puck both inside and outside as he went over the blueline. He set his linemates up time and time again. And, had his mates been a little more accurate he might have added a few more points to his first game four.In the second game it was Henri&rsquo;s goal mouth pass to Moore that opened the scoring. He carried in deep on the right side, waited until Moore was in position and then fed him a pass that was perfect. Dickie had but to tap it into the open net.The Leafs have never been able to stop Henri. They&rsquo;ve tried. Both Carl Brewer and Bob Baun have made him their special targets, but so far they haven&rsquo;t been too successful. His whirlwind dashes up centre and around the defense are hard to stop. He holds off an opponent with his right arm while carrying the stick and puck with his left. He&rsquo;s little in size but his powerful arms have held off some of the biggest players in the league. &#9632;

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Player - of - the - Week

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Centre Henri Richard was the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; sparkplug in the first game of the best-of-seven Stanley Cup final series against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Canadiens won the game 4-2, to take a one-nothing lead in the series.Canadiens, after a seven day rest, came out for the first period and looked as though they were going to chase the Leafs right out of the Forum. They were skating fast, passing well and were shooting with accuracy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05165/1816748-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="274" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Henri Richard</figcaption></div>They scored three first period goals as they capitalized on Toronto&rsquo;s defensive mistakes to gain their lead. Dickie Moore, a thorn in the Leafs&rsquo; side all season long, pocked the first goal past Bower when it looked as though the play was dead. Bower trapped the puck between his feet. Then Toronto players, trying to pounce on the puck, bowled their goaler over, the puck rolling loose for Moore to poke in. Henri Richard and Geoffrion drew assists. The goal came while Gerry Ehman was serving a minor penalty.Canadiens made it 2-0 at 8:55 of the first, when Doug Harvey blasted a shot from the right point that Bower was screened on. Bob Pulford of the Leafs and Tom Johnson of the Canadiens were sitting out penalties at the time. Harvey took Henri Richard&rsquo;s pass from the boards and sunk a 40 footer.It was Big Jean Beliveau&rsquo;s second goal of the playoffs that proved to be the winner. Henri Richard was once again the playmaker. He took a Geoffrion pass and relayed it to Beliveau parked in front of the cage. He deflected the crossfire into the bottom right hand side. It looked as though it was all over but the shouting as the Hobs took the commanding 3-0 lead.But Leafs came to life in the second, after their shaky first in which they looked nervous. They scored two goals to close the gap, even though they were outshot 184. Bob Baun dented the twine at 2:27 of the middle frame as he shot from the right boards on a cross angle from about 25 feet out. It was the first goal scored on Jacques Plante in over seven periods of hockey. Armstrong and Regan drew assists.Leafs made it close when Bert Olmstead batted a bouncing puck past Plante at 17:35 of the second period. Horton and Kelly drew assists. Bert belted the puck while it was in mid-aid. He hit it from the left corner of the net and the puck sailed into the bottom right hand side.Canadiens got a break in the third when Henri Richard&rsquo;s soft shot from ten feet out deflected off Tim Horton&rsquo;s stick. Moore and Geoffrion drew assists.From then on it was a tight, close checking game.<h2>First Game Statistics</h2><h3>Toronto 2 at Montreal 4</h3>(Montreal leads best-of-seven Stanley Cup final series 1-0)Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Horton, Stanley, Brewer, Baun; forwards: Pulford, Stewart, Olmstead, Kelly, Mahovlich, Regan, Harris, Armstrong, Duff, Wilson, Edmundson, James, Ehman.Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: -Harvey, Langlois, Johnson, Turner, Talbot; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Bonin, H. Richard, &Mu;. Richard, Moore, Goyette, Provost, Pronovost, Backstrom, Hicke, Marshall.Referee: Frank Udvari; linesmen: Neil Armstrong and George Hayes.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0888/1816741-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="1207" height="602"></div> &#9632;

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Pocket’s Goal And Three Leads Champs To 4-2 Win

<h2>Indians In Finals Once Before</h2>The Springfield Indians have played in 12 playoff series, played a total of 51 games, won 19, lost 32. They have never won a AHL playoff championship, and the one time they did get into the finals they were defeated by the Hershey Bears. That was back in 1957-58.<h2>Glover Eyes Another Record</h2>Fred Glover is closing in on another AHL record. Veteran Bob Solinger has the record for the most games in the playoffs, 3.9. But Cleveland&rsquo;s Glover has already scored a three this playoff and now has 37, just two shy of the record.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01408/1816890-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="595" height="109"></div>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02386/1816883-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="594" height="113"></div><h3>TUESDAY, APRIL 5 Cleveland 1 at Rochester 4</h3>(Cleveland leads best-of-seven series 3-2)Cleveland&mdash;Goal: Mayer; defense: McAvoy, Bouchard, Needham, Guidolin, Blair; forwards: Ingarfield, Glover, Dineen Hicks, Mazur, Labadie, E. Hoekstra, Hogan, Gosselin, Stearns.Rochester&mdash;Goal: Chadwick; defense: Kraftcheck, MacNeil, Crozier, Labrosse, Mattiussi; forwards: Ciesla, Nevin, Van Impe, Migay, Hannigan, Rousseau, Creighton, Hampson, Saunders, C, Hoekstra.Referee: Lou Farelli; linesmen: Bell and Strong.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03335/1816876-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="583" height="442"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 Springfield 4 at Providence 3</h3>(Springfield loads best-of-seven series 3-1)Springfield&mdash;Goal: Paille; defense: McCord, Price, Douglas, Harris, Cushenan; forwards: Pidhirny, Cline, McCreary, Sweeney, Smith, Foley, Kilrea, Bartlett, MacDonald, Olson.Providence&mdash;Goal: Gamble, defense: L. Hillman, F. Hillman, Cherry, Woit, Ward; forwards: Beckett, Larivee, Panagabko, Yackel, Baliuk, Mickoski, Elik, Poliziani, Reibel, Ross.Referee: Art Skov; linesmen: Rodger Strong end Jack Bell.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04285/1816869-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="585" height="522"></div><h3>FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Providence 3 at Springfield 5</h3>(Springfield wins best-of-seven series 4-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05223/1816862-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="588" height="719"></div><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 9 Rochester 5 at Cleveland 3</h3>(Best-of-seven series tied 3-3)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06187/1816855-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="585" height="568"></div><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 10 Cleveland 1 at Rochester 4</h3>(Rochester wins best-of-seven series 4-3)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07175/1816848-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="584" height="633"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Take it from John B. Sollenberger, club president of the Hershey Bears. Only a handful of the club&rsquo;s player personnel is in the untouchable class.Sollenberger is &ldquo;bitterly disappointed&rdquo; over the team&rsquo;s pathetic collapse in the American Hockey League this season. When the final gong rang, the Bears were deeply mired in sixth place in the sevenclub circuit.&ldquo;With the exception of a few,&rdquo; said Sollenberger, &ldquo;the rest of the club is available for trade or sale.&rdquo;Among the &ldquo;exceptions&rdquo; Sollenberger named goalie Bob Perreault, winger Ray Kinasewich and defensemen Bucky Hollingworth and Howie Yanosik. He added &ldquo;there are two or three more.&rdquo;&ldquo;I was bitterly disappointed. I had high hopes for the team. I have only a couple of more years before I retire. I wanted that alder Cup again. When we didn&rsquo;t even finish among the first four teams to qualify for a crack at it, that made me angry.&ldquo;I have no doubt that quite a few players gave an honest effort. But I want to know what happened to the club. On paper it was a good, balanced team.&rdquo;Sollenberger said he plans to confer in the near future with Coach Frank Mathers, general manager Lloyd Blinco and business manager Baz Bastien on the subject.The club prexy dispatched Bastien to Toronto where it is hoped he can lay the groundwork for off season deals. Bastien is scheduled to confer with the brass of the Toronto Maple Leafs as well as Jack Adams, general manager of the Detroit Red Wings. Hershey has a working agreement with the Wings.&ldquo;I want to buy at least six new players and I&rsquo;m counting on Detroit to lend us at least two or three for next season. Maybe we&rsquo;ll be able to secure players through trades. That&rsquo;s our hope.&ldquo;The money is available to buy players, but I want to know who we&rsquo;re getting. Good players are hard to come by, but I have hope we can secure them.&ldquo;We need more youth on the club. That&rsquo;s fairly evident. What amazes me is, with a team that went nowhere, we still got the support of loyal fans.&rdquo; (Hershey drew 180,124 in 36 homes games.)Only five years ago when the Bears turned in a pathetic season, Sollenberger cleaned house, firing Coach Murray Henderson and expended some $70,000 for new player talent. In the next three years it paid off with a league title and two straight Calder Cup championships.Collenberger contemplates no switches among the club&rsquo;s brass which means Mathers, who in four seasons at the helm has a winning lof of 131-101-24, will in all probability be retained. Since coming here from Pittsburgh, the 33-year-old mentor was chosen twice to coach the league&rsquo;s all-star team.&ldquo;One thing, though,&rdquo; added Sollenberger, &ldquo;we&rsquo;re going to put in a few club rules. One will pertain to misconduct penalties.&ldquo;This year we had 35 misconducts, three game misconducts and four match penalties. That&rsquo;s better than six full hockey games in penalty time. That&rsquo;s ridiculous. From now on when a Hershey player draws a misconduct or match and is fined $25 or $100, whatever the case may be, he&rsquo;ll pay an equal fine to the club. Personally, I don&rsquo;t want their money and it can go for some charity. But they&rsquo;ll pay the fine to the league and club.&rdquo;The Bears, incidentally, drew a total of 1,284 minutes in penalties in the 72 game schedule. Many of its defeats can be traced to this factor.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to rebuild the defense and the right wing. We&rsquo;ll probably have to strengthen the other wing, too,&rdquo; said Sollenberger.Though no comment was forthcoming on one issue, it&rsquo;s been learned center Willie Marshall is on the trading block, providing the right deal can be made. Despite the fact Marshall scored 38 goals, he collected 17 of them against fifith place Buffalo and tailend Quebec. His defensive play left a great deal to be desired. Since he is 28 and has practically no hope of making the National League, the Bears may use him as barter for young material.Left winger Les Duff, who was a dissapointment in his fourth year with Hershey, is another whom the Bears will probably deal away. Fourteen of his 20 goals came in the tailend of the season when the club was completly out of the race for the league title and playoffs.One thing that prevented the Bears from sending ineffective players to the hinterlands, while attempting to bring up younger blood, during the season was the AHL lack of a courtesy waiver.&ldquo;This is a stupid rule,&rdquo; said Sollenberger. &ldquo;The minute we put a player on waivers in an effort to get him out of the league for a replacement the other clubs attempt to grab him for the waiver price. But there&rsquo;s nothing says we can&rsquo;t take the uniform and salary away from him until he decides he&rsquo;s going to give 100 per cent effort. And that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;ll do if it&rsquo;s necessary next season.&rdquo;Sollenberger also said he was cognizant of the voting by league coaches for their all-star team. Only four Hershey players drew a nod from the mentors. They were Perreault, Yanosik, Hollingworth and Larry Zeidel.&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t fool the coaches,&rdquo; added Sollenberger. &ldquo;They see the players home and away. Their voting was very enlightening.&rdquo;<h2>He&rsquo;ll Return</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08163/1816921-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="520" height="550"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bucky Hollingworth</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bears List “Untouchables”—There’s Plenty To Be Had

This 96-page book is jam-packed with full-length features about your favorite hockey stars&hellip;biographical sketches and pictures of over 120 National Hockey League players&hellip;birthdates and places of birth too&hellip;All at a glance!You can&rsquo;t afford to pass up the opportunity of availing yourself of a copy of this outstanding hockey publication.Pick UpA Copy At Your Favorite Newsstand Now!<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09159/1816952-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="521" height="665"></div>ONLY 50c &#9632;

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The Official National Hockey Annual—1960

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-10" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10145/1816983-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg"></div>Keeps 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.A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.Canadian Remittances $3.00 Payable by Postal, Bank or Telegraph Money Order.U.S.A. Remittances $4.00 Payable by Postal, Bank or Express Money Order<h2>PACKED FULL OF:</h2>&bull; Pictures of your favorites&bull; Summer news features&bull; Cartoons&bull; Hockey Crossword$3.00(Canada & British Commonwealth)$4.00(U.S.A. & Foreign Countries)NOW YOU CAN GET THE HOCKEY NEWS FOR JUST $3.00 for 35 hockey packed issues ($4.00 in the U.S.) GET THE INSIDE DOPE ON HOCKEY &#9632;

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Hockey In The Summer? Yes, Sir! The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By SAMUEL POMPEI</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01422/1817014-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Photography-wise, this may not seem like the perfect fit but out on the ice it is. In the background you see, left to right, Floyd Smith, Art Stratton and Harry Pidhirny, the AHL&rsquo;s top line during the early season. When the New York Rangers recalled Stratton near mid-season, Coach Pat Egan of the Springfield Indians tried for several weeks to find the perfect fit for Pidhirny and Smith and it wasn&rsquo;t until recently that Billy McCreary (front) filled in the void.</figcaption></div>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;Coach Pat Egan of the American Hockey League championship Springfield Indians needed almost a couple of months to decide on a linemate for Harry Pirhirny and Floyd Smith.But when he finally made up his mind&mdash;on Billy McCreary&mdash;he couldn&rsquo;t have made a better pick.All that Billy (the Kid) did was to score all four goals in the Tribe&rsquo;s 4-3 victory over Providence to give the Indians a 3-1 edge in the best-of-seven Calder Cup semifinal series.That triumph, on Providence ice, just about ruined the Reds&rsquo; hopes for a berth in the final round.At the start of the season, the veteran Pidhirny and the seasoned Smith were the wingers for Art Stratton and the trio was the most prolific in the AHL scoring-wise.But when the parent New York Rangers recalled Stratton, Egan tried just about everybody with Smith and Pidhirny, even at the expense of breaking up other combinations and employing Pidhirny at both center and either wing.Nothing seemed to click until the final days of. the regular season when McCreary was moved on the left lane with Pirhirny at the pivot and Smith on the right side.In the playoffs the line has been sensational.McCreary scored five goals in five games and Pidhirny had three. Smith, though not quite up to his two linemates in the scoring department, probably has been the key man.Smith&rsquo;s back checking, corner work and rugged all-around efforts have made it possible for the other pair to score consistently.After his brilliant four-goal effort, a feat accomplished only four times in the 24-year history of the AHL, McCreary had this to say: &ldquo;Where would I be without Pidhirny&rsquo;s great playmaking and Smith&rsquo;s terrific corner work and back checking. Smith does such a good job of covering that Harry and I can stay in a bit longer to do the scoring.&ldquo;Smith does all the work but Pidhirny and I are getting all the points.&rdquo;But Smith&rsquo;s efforts haven&rsquo;t gone unrecognized by his bosses, Egan and Owner Eddie Shore. Both agree that Pidhirny and McCreary need a guy like Smith to keep the line rolling.It was the first time in his professional career that McCreary had notched four goals&mdash;in a playoff game or otherwise.Speaking of four-goal Calder Cup games, the last time that the feat was achieved was two years ago by Gerry Ehman, now of the Toronto Maple Leafs.Ehman did it against the Hershey Bears in the finals in a game at Springfield. And who was Ehman&rsquo;s rightwinger in that game? You guessed it&mdash;this same Floyd Smith.That just about proves what McCreary says. &ldquo;Smith does the work and his linemates get the goals.&rdquo;Perhaps the fans who watch the games or read about these things might be inclined to overlook Smith&rsquo;s value to a club. But a couple of old shrewd hockey men like Egan and Shore have been around a bit too long to rely simply on the record book.A Springfield club has never won a Calder Cup championship and should the Indians do it this time, the late season shift could be the reason for it.<h2>A Perfect Fit &#9632;</h2>

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Big Goal Spree By McCreary And New Mates Spurs Injuns

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;While the hockey world, not excluding Cleveland&rsquo;s own proud citizenry, observed in wonderment, the Cleveland Barons skated forth against the powerful Rochester Americans and ran up three straight wins in the opening round for the Calder Cup.It appeared entirely possible that the Barons would do the impossible by knocking the Americans clean out of the post-season party in what would have been an historic grand slam for a club that finished the regular campaign in the lowly area of fourth place.But this was not to be so.After the Barons had skated to brilliant defensive triumphs on the ice of Rochester&rsquo;s War Memorial Auditorium by scores of 2-0 and 2-1, they came back to Cleveland to win a third game in wide-open style which went the Barons&rsquo; way 7-5.In these first three encounters with the team that finished second in the regular American Hockey League season, the Barons had demonstrated a degree of skill that had seldom been seen in these parts by these hands.Said a reporter to a perspiring, haggard-looking Michel Labadie after that third win in the Cleveland Arena!&ldquo;What&rsquo;s the idea of keeping yourself under wraps all winter for 72 games and then starting to show your stuff in the playoffs?&rdquo;Snorted Labadie:&ldquo;If I played this way all season, I&rsquo;d be in the cemetary now.&rdquo;But game number four proved to be the horse of another color.Their backs to the wall, in a situation where they must win or pack up and go home, the Americans led by their playing-coach Steve Kraftcheck, put on a stirring and heroic comeback by snapping up the fourth contest.Even in this one the Americans had at one point to battle from behind as they trailed 2-1 at the end of the first period.As the clubs returned to Rochester for the fifth contest, it was already a certainty that Cleveland fans had seen a remarkable exibition of playoff hockey from their favorites.Of course the trusted veterans were in their customary role of spearheading the attack. In four games Capt. Fred Glover had accumulated three goals and three assists. His playmaking center, Earl Ingarfield, had seven points; Bill Dineen, on the left flank, had five.But it was not expected scoring from the Barons&rsquo; big guns that had the experts applauding and the Cleveland fans screaming in delight.It was the overall performance of an entire squad that obviously had been hone razor sharp by Coach Jackie Gordon.Little fellows with boyish forms such as Greig Hicks and Mike Labadie, gaunt, lightweighted fellows such as Ed Hoekstra and George Gosselin were charging about with a recklessness that baffled the Americans and delighted the Cleveland partisans.Gordon, of course, faced one immense question mark in all this.Could his blue and white warriors maintain a high altitude performance long enough to pull off what loomed as a major reversal of playoff history.How long could the Barons stay-up?They appeared to have the first round sewed up.But even the Americans knew that it can be a long summer without the playoff money singing a merry tune in their jeans.<h2>Bright Star</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02357/1817045-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="548" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body">Michel Labadie</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Barons’ Fast Start Shook Rochester’s Playoff Foundation

<h2>Winner Two Time Winner</h2>Whoever wins the current play-off series between Vancouver and Victoria will join the Edmonton Flyers as the only teams to win the President&rsquo;s Cup twice in the twelve year history of the league. Edmonton won the cup in 1953 and 1955. Victoria won it in 1951 and Vancouver in 1958.<h2>Vancouver Has Edge</h2>The team ending in first place in the regular schedule has won the Championship seven times. A fourth place team has won it only once, Edmonton in 1953. On past performance first place Vancouver has a definite edge ever fourth place Victoria.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01421/1817125-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="597" height="107"></div>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02377/1817118-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="596" height="108"></div>FINAL SERIES<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03310/1817111-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="593" height="107"></div><h3>TUESDAY, MARCH 29 Vancouver 3 at Edmonton 1</h3>(Vancouver leads best-of-seven aeries 3-0)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04252/1817104-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="585" height="417"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 Vancouver 2 at Edmonton 1</h3>(Vancouver wins best-of-seven series 4-0)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05213/1817097-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="599" height="465"></div><h3>Seattle 0 at Victoria 2</h3>(Victoria win. best-of-seven series 4-0)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06191/1817090-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="598" height="360"></div><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 2 Victoria 3 at Vancouver 2</h3>(Victoria leads best-of-seven final series 1-0)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08166/1817083-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="594" height="587"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Games of Wed., March 30)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07171/1817076-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="599" height="666"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<h2>FIRST TEAM</h2>Hank Bassen, Van., Goal, 300Gordon Sinclair, Seat., Defense, 217Brent MacNab, Van., Defense, 212&frac12;Guyle Fielder, Seat., Centre, 390Lou Jankowski, Cal., Left Wing, 325&frac12;Al Johnson, Spok., Right Wing, 177&frac12;<h2>SECOND TEAM</h2>Dennis Riggin, Edm., Goal, 136&frac12;Larry Cahan, Van., Defense, 183Ralph Keller, Van., Defense, 128&frac12;Art Jones, Vict., Centre, 124&frac12;Bill MacFarland, Seat., Left Wing, 152Marc Boileau, Seat., Right Wing, 106&frac12; &#9632;

Player-By-Player All-Star Voting

STRAFFORD, Ont.&mdash;Chatham may have another edition of a Cinderella senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey team, now that they polished off the Windsor Bulldogs in the OHA finals, four-to-two in games. It will be recalled that the Chatham Maroons were tagged with that handle in 1956 when they advanced into the Allan Cup finals before faltering. A quirk in the Chatham setup is that the goalie not considered good enough for Kitchener Dutchmen in the 1960 Winter Olympic Games, Cesare Maniago, who was Kitchener property until released to Chatham, a controversial figure whose eligibility was protested by both Windsor Bulldogs and Belleville McFarlands, is now starring with the Maroons. On, the other hand, Don Head, the goalie loaned to the Kitchener Dutchmen by Windsor for the world tournament, and played in all of their games except the last one against the Russians, was the Windsor Bulldogs&rsquo; netminder when they lost out to Chatham in the OHA finals.There are still rumblings from the direction of Windsor that the Bulldogs may not be through with the Maniago case, because they insist, as did Belleville, that the Maroon twine-minder, is not eligible until after he has been examined by a doctor to be designated by the OHA. Maniago replaced Cliff Hicks, former Chatham goalie, who was pronounced as &ldquo;too sick&rdquo; to continue playing hockey, and if he could be located, the OHA ruling must be invoked. Well, they eventually located Maniago in Ottawa, but so far nothing further has been heard about a second medical examination, by a neutral doctor, as both the Windsor and Belleville clubs requested. The claim was that a Chatham doctor had declared Hicks unfit for further play this year, but the physician happened to be from Chatham, and said to be an executive member of the Chatham Hockey Club.Chatham Maroons paid little heed to the OHA ruling issued March 19, and it is doubtful if anything will come of it at this late date. This controversy over the eligibility of goalie Cesare Maniago is credited by a Chatham sports writer with being the spark that lit a fire under the Maroons. In fact, he goes on to say that &ldquo;the OHA and the teams in the league broke every rule in the books this winter, including Chatham. Kitchener was right when they said Chatham and Withby didn&rsquo;t post $2,000 performance bonds. So the season was already over when this came up and the OHA killed Kitchener&rsquo;s demands to boot Chatham and Withby out of the playoff scramble&rdquo;.Right now Hicks is said to be suffering from nervous exhaustion, credited largely to the 11-0 shellacking Windsor Bulldogs handed him in his last game as the Chatham netminder. He now is employed in Ottawa. It isn&rsquo;t likely he wants to quit his job and move his family back to Chatham. Before leaving Chatham early in March, Hicks is quoted as saying he didn&rsquo;t want to play any more hockey. It&rsquo;s hardly feasible for the Ontario Hockey Association to reverse its field at this late hour over the Maniago matter, because now that Chatham Maroons have knocked off the OHA championship, they are playing against the Rouyn-Noranda Alouettes, who defeated Maxie Silverman&rsquo;s Sudbury team for the NOHA championship, in the first round of the Allan Cup playdowns.Chatham should not have too much trouble with the Alouettes, because the northern division teams of the NOHA were never a serious threat while Sudbury Wolves, Soo Greyhounds and North Bay Trappers competed in the southern group of the NOHA. Amherst Ramblers and Hull Legionnaires will battle it out to decide which team will qualify to meet the winners of the Chatham-Rouyn-Noranda series for the eastern Canada honors. Port Arthur Bearcats and Trail Smoke Eaters clash for the western Canada championship.Incidentally, despite rumors emanating from Kitchener that the Dutchmen may not be back in senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey and might be replaced by a junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; or minor pro team, Bob Crosby, manager of the Kitchener auditorium, says he has made no attempt to obtain a berth in the Eastern Professional League, which started operations this season. &ldquo;Nor have we made any effort to get a junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; team here. We&rsquo;ve got to take a look at what the hockey situation will be next season, but so far as we are concerned any talk regarding junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; or pro teams coming here is nothing but rumor&rdquo;, he is quoted as saying.Incidentally, after the Rouyn-Noranda Alouettes eliminated Max Silverman&rsquo;s Sudbury aggregation of veterans in the NOHA finals, Max filed a protest with the CAHA, claiming six players picked up from their group by the Combines were ineligible. According to the winners of the NOHA map pick up six players from within their own league. The six players selected by the Combines are defenceman Ron Wallace and forwards Lyle Porter, Ernie Dominico and Dino Legio of Timmins and defencemen Gill St. James and Gord Onotsky of Abitibi.When informed of this, Johnny Horeck, coach of the Chatham Maroons, expressed no worry. He is quoted as saying: &ldquo;If that&rsquo;s what the CAHA says then we&rsquo;ll have to go along with it. Anyway, I&rsquo;m not worrying about the matter. My concern is winning hockey games on the ice&rdquo;.Predictions were that Chatham would not have too much trouble with the NOHA champions, now that Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie and North Bay have dropped out of senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey. Rouyn-Noranda has other ideas about that and showed that they will not be any pushovers by winning the first of the all-Ontario finals, 3-2. And as fate would have it, the winning goal was scored by Lyle Porter, Timmins, one of the six players added to the roster from within the NOHA group. &#9632;

Rouyn - Noranda Pots Holes In Maroons’ Cinderella Armor

<h2>TUESDAY, APRIL 5 Chatham 2 at Rouyn-Noranda 3</h2>(Rouyn-Noranda leads best-of-seven Allan Cup semi-finals 1-0)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01411/1817242-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="580" height="493"></div><h2>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 Chatham 2 at Rouyn-Noranda 10</h2>(Rouyn-Noranda leads best-of-seven Allan Cup semi-finals 2-0)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02331/1817235-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="588" height="854"></div> &#9632;

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What Pushover?

<div class="byline">by BOB GIORDANO</div>KELOWNA, B.C.&mdash;Trail Smoke Eaters have won the British Columbia Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; championship for the first time in eight years. The Western International League champs, eliminated the Okanagan Senior winners, Kelowna Packers six games to two, and now advance to the Western Canada finals against the Port Arthur Bearcats.The all B.C. final which opened in Kelowna, saw the favorite hometowners take two of the three games played here, but on home ice before capacity crowds well over 3,500 fans, The young fast skating Smokies played like champions, and went on to take the Packers in three straight.The Packers, favorites before the series started, ran up against a fired up Trail crew, who displayed miles of determination and a hungry attitude which spelt defeat for the Packers.The Silver City crew are truly a home-town aggregation. No less than 11 of the team members are home-town brews, who came up through the trail minor ranks. One Harry Smith is a shining example. The former Kelowna Packer defenseman was nothing short of brilliant, and came back to haunt his ex-teammates with his breath taking end to end rushes, which kept the Packers off balance. Smith&rsquo;s accurate bullet like drive from the point, was enough to gas you. He scored a number of key goals in leading his team to victory.Nicknamed &lsquo;Hurrican&rsquo; Harry, the 190 pounder who turned down a pro contact three years in a row, saw very little of the bench, having played 50 minutes each game. But you cannot say one player let them down, it was a great team victory. For Bobby Kromm, the peppery firey playing coach, its been a tremendous season. The thin winger with the matchstick legs, has been a Trail mainstay for several seasons, and this season entered the coaching circles for the first time.The lion&rsquo;s share of the credit must go to this same Mr Kromm, for the tremendous job he has done in moulding together a hockey club that will never say die.Fans throughout B. C. wouldn&rsquo;t at all be surprised if the Allan Cup returns to Trail once again&mdash;after an absence of 22-years.As this is being written the Smokies lead the Port Arthur Bear Cats two games to nothing in a best four out of seven series for the right to represent western Canada in the Allan Cup finals. &#9632;

Fired Up Smokies Douse Packers, Claim BC Crown

<h2>Lions&rsquo; Brother Act</h2>When rookies Jean Ratelle, Rod Gilbert and Bob Cunningham bowed out of Three Rivers Lions forces after the fifth game of the semi-finals series with Royals, young pivot man Chick Baton came on from Prince Albert, B.C. With brother Dave, Chick created a new brother-act in the EPHL.<h2>Laufman Gets 0. K.</h2>Always wary of Sammy Pollock&rsquo;s moves, Sudbury news hawks and hockey bugs suspected that the peppery H.-O. executive was pulling a fast one when Ken Laufman was brought in from Kitchener. &lsquo;Dutchies&rsquo; to replace Bob Attersley in Canucks&rsquo; line-up. But EPHL prexy Ed Houston ruled O. K. Pollock had Laufman on his reserve list.<h3>MONDAY, APRIL 4 Hull-Ottawa 4 at Sudbury 6</h3>(Sudbury wins best-of-seven series 4-3)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02370/1817339-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="592" height="727"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 Montreal 4 at Three Rivers 2</h3>(Best-of-seven series tied 3-3)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03338/1817332-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="584" height="544"></div><h3>FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Three Rivers 1 at Montreal 2</h3>(Montreal wins best-of-seven series 4.3)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04306/1817325-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="578" height="495"></div><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 10 Sudbury 1 at Montreal 4</h3>(Montreal leads best-of-seven final series 1-0)Sudbury &mdash; Goal: McNamara; defense: Amadio, Healey, Odrowski, Roche; forwards: Mortson, Burton, McCarthy, Sleaver, Boyer, Moore, Chevrefils, Bettio, Girard, Ubriaco.Montreal &mdash; Goal: McNeil; defense: Mantha, Thurlby, Clune, Deslauriers; forwards: Black, Sawicki, Sutherland, Burchell, Connelly, Lagace, Denis, Grigg, Sarrazin, Mosdell.Referee: Matt Pavelich; linesmen: Gordon Prenshka, Ray Traimor.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05260/1817318-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="591" height="583"></div><h2>How The Race Goes</h2>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06221/1817311-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="586" height="110"></div>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07208/1817304-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="589" height="111"></div>FINAL SERIES<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08197/1817297-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="592" height="106"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01412/1817370-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="310" height="334"></div><h2>ON THE SIDELINES</h2>&bull; ENTHUSIASM for the new deal and the new league gathered momentum as the Eastern Pro Hockey League&rsquo;s fans raised their temperature with the accleration of the playoffs.Possibly this is best expressed in a few quotes from The Sudbury Star the day after the Wolves clawed the Hull-Ottawa Canucks into submission in the seventh game of their limit-going semifinal round. The lead story by Paul Rimstead was banner-lined: &ldquo;Midnight Finally Strikes for Cinderella Habs&rdquo;.The fairy-tale theme was followed cleverly in the narrative describing the 6-4 triumph of the Wolves to win the set 4-3 in games. &ldquo;&hellip;when midnight struck Sammy&rsquo;s horses didn&rsquo;t turn into rats, and neither did the coach turn into a pumpkin. But his horses weren&rsquo;t horses any more and Sam&rsquo;s face was the color of a pumpkin as he yelled desperately at his club for two periods.&rdquo; (After a four goal outburst early in the second chukker to give Sudbury a 5-1 lead.)An unsigned piece: &lsquo;Press Box Notes&rsquo; gave attention to the number of hockey celebrities who had showed in Sudbury during the first playoff series. &ldquo;One difference between Pro hockey and the old senior brand is the number of hockey personalities that visit town.&rdquo;&hellip;Clarence Campbell, head of everything, so was EPHL chief Ed Houston, Wren Blair GM of Whitby Dunlops, Claude Ruel, young coach of Brockville&rsquo;s famed Baby Habs, and Scotty Bowman, coach of Peterborough Petes, were among those present.Lynn Patrick, who had watched Three Rivers and Royals a few days before, took in one of the Sudbury tussles in company with Ken Reardon, veep of the Montreal Canadiens.Wolves and Canadiens&rsquo; series drew 33,340 fans for the seven games. And the deciding game in Sudbury sold 6,276 tickets, making it the biggest day in the history of Sudbury arena, as Bob Scott reported in his sparkling column. This was tops for the local season, though still 400 of the record 6,666 (most the arena is permitted to hold), and the number attracted when the first Russian team toured Canada three years ago, and playoff with the Soo, six years back.It seems there are fire laws now, restricting attendance. Before this limit was put on some 7,200 jammed the arena. This was shortly after it was built.Murph ehamberlain gave due credit to Wally Boyer, who rejoined Wolves after missing three games due to an eye injury. Boyer was accidentally clipped by teammate Ernie Roche&rsquo;s stick in the third game of the series at Hull.In the dressing room after the game he made considerable fuss about Boyer and was quoted by Scott: &ldquo;That Boyer was certainly the key player in the series. Without him we would have been in trouble (in the seventh and deciding game). He&rsquo;s the free-wheeler we needed to upset them in their own end to carry the puck up the ice.&rdquo;It&rsquo;s surprising that Boyer should be such a hero in Sudbury. For last year with Royals for a while in the old QHL he made a very faint impression. This goes to show you how important one year can be in an athlete&rsquo;s career. It may be that Boyer is one of these fellows who has matured slowly in a hockey sense. Or it may be the inspirational coaching of Chamberlain. Anyway, Good Luck to Boyer and Murph. &#9632;

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AL Parsley

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;It&rsquo;s unlikely that things could have broken any better for the founders of the Eastern Pro Hockey League in its first season of operation had they engaged a Hollywood genius of letters to write a script. Not only did the league catch on in the centers of Ontario which had never before been exposed to professional hockey of any kind, but by the last few dates of its calendar crowds crept up in Montreal where Forum patrons had been somewhat aloof.Such an experienced entrepreneur as Frank Carlin had chafed quite a bit, when he was handed the slips by box office chief, Don Smith for Royals&rsquo; home games, more especially on week nights when gates were noticeably poor. And even attendance on Sundays was nothing to rave about.This was almost a season long lament with Carlin, until better returns were shown in the second and third weeks of March.For a Tuesday night contest, March 15, with Three Rivers Lions, when Gerry McNeil hung his fifth shutout of the season over the Trifluvians, there was a turnout of 2,165, Mr. Smith&rsquo;s report showed. This was the occasion when the customers were given extra-lively entertainment as Ted Hodgson, tall rearguard for the Lions, and Lulu Denis, veteran hard-driving forward with Royals, engaged in a stick swinging duel resulting in fines and a one-game suspension for both.The following Sunday, March 20, the close-out date of the schedule, there were 4,065 patrons in the seats. This was a joust between Royals and the Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds. The latter team was an outcast so far as the playoff reckoning was concerned.&ldquo;Looks like we may have hit the turn&rdquo; Carlin opined as he scanned these reports. &ldquo;The fans are coming, now, even if the game means little in the final standing.&rdquo;The T-Birds didn&rsquo;t act as if it were a meaningless outing. They went out and roundly rapped the haughty Royals 6-2. And on the same day in Hull, the scrappy young H-0 Canucks and Sudbury Wolves were having a warm-up for their playoff series to start a few days hence. That schedule curtain-dropper contest drew 4,269 customers.Not only were the customers aroused in Montreal, but two or three of the veteran writers who usually devote their column space exclusively to the NHL activities, Big Four football, the leading turf classics and other weighty matters, began to write glowing pieces about the Royals and the EPHL progress.Floyd &ldquo;Busher&rdquo; Curry, proved himself, not only a good hockey coach, but a super-salesman for the Royals and the new league as well.Curry never missed a chance to provide such scriveners as Dink Carroll, Elmer Ferguson, Red Fisher or Baz O&rsquo;Meara with an inspirational material. And these writers responded nobly. Hence the Royals and the league generally were grabbing more &lsquo;ink&rsquo; as things were warming-up for the first playoff round.So Royals and Three Rivers hit a jackpot as 8,180 clients appeared for the first Sunday playoff game in the Forum. And the following Sunday there were 7,619 on hand.As this edition of The Hockey News was headed to press 18,887 fans had turned out for three of the games in Royals-Lions semifinals in the Forum. At Three Rivers, an area of only 78,112 according to last population figures in 1956, the attendance was 11,129 for three jousts. With a seventh game to be accounted for at the Forum, the final audit promised to top 35,000 for the full complement of seven contests.And this at the same time that Montreal&rsquo;s sports populace was infected by the fever of two great Stanley Cup series&mdash;Canadiens vs. Chicago Hawks; and the Habs vs. Toronto Maple Leafs.To get back to the first paragraph of this opus: not in their wildest optimism had Edward Houston, president of the EPHL, nor any of the club leaders concerned counted upon both semifinal rounds going the full limit of seven games.&rsquo;Sudbury and the EPHL Canucks drew more than 33,000 for their hard fought series. It was possible that the total draw for the two semi-finals sets would be above 70,000 fans.<h2>Happy GM</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09191/1817401-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="526" height="538"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Carlin</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Turnstiles Click Merry Tune Hope To Seat 70M In Series

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10184/1817432-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="564" height="265"></div>APRIL 16 TO APRIL 2217&mdash;Gerry McNeil, Montreal Royals, goaltender, 1926.21&mdash;Jack Evans, Chicago, defense, 1928.21&mdash;Reg Fleming, Kingston, forward, 1936. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to You

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01408/1817487-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">General Manager Frank Selke of the Montreal Canadiens, left and Coach Rudy Pilous of the Chicago Black Hawks are caught by our cameraman in between periods of the Montreal-Toronto final. Rudy and General Manager Tommy Ivan stayed in Montreal to see their junior farm club St. Catherines Teepees play Brockville in the Eastern Canada Memorial Cup finals.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Rudy Gets A Frank Opinion

National Hockey League fans may obtain copies of the N.H.L. Final Statistics free of charge. These handy-sized record cards contain the final standing of the Clubs, the Individual Scoring Records for every player during the regular schedule and the Stanley Cup Play-offs, as well as the Goalkeepers Averages and the Penalty Records of each club.Requests should be mailed to:N. H. L. Information Bureau601 Sun Life Bldg. Montreal, Que. &#9632;

N.H.L. Statistics Available For Fans

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div>ST. PAUL, Minn.&mdash;St. Paul&rsquo;s veteran Saints and the hustling Ft. Wayne Komets started the International Hockey League&rsquo;s playoff finals, which began &lsquo;in St. Paul, April 7.The Saints bested the Minneapolis Millers, 4-2 in the best of seven series, and Ken Ullyot&rsquo;s Komets were victorious over the Louisville Rebels by the same margain.Freddie Brown and Johnny Bailey lead players in the scoring department, with Brown and Bailey tallying ten points. Bailey is ahead in goals with six and game winners with three, while Brown leads in assists with nine. Ft. Wayne&rsquo;s Connie Madigan is on top in penalties with 30 minutes in the sin-bin.The Komets Reno Zanier has a 1.50 goals against average, nine goals allowed in six games, while St. Paul&rsquo;s Glenn Ramsay is close behind with a 1.67 mark. Zanier, Ramsay, Lou Crowdis of Louisville and Minneapolis&rsquo; Marv Edwards all have one shutout.Series &ldquo;C&rdquo; commenced in St. Paul, Thursday, April 7. Other games in St. Paul were Saturday, April 9 and Sunday, April 10. The set moves to Ft. Wayne, Tuesday, April 12, Thursday, April 14, Friday, April 15, Saturday, April 16 and Sunday, April 17.Should either one of the squads win the first two games straight, the Sunday encounter in St. Paul, will be out and the clubs finish the remainder of the games in Ft. Wayne. Should the first pair of games be split, the third game will be played in St. Paul, Sunday, and the game scheduled for Friday, April 15 in Ft. Wayne, will be eliminated.The St. Paul-Minneapolis series drew 34,168 fans, while the Ft. Wayne - Louisville set attracted 20,326 paid assistance. President Frank Gallagher states that this is the best playoff hockey in the league&rsquo;s 15 year history in addition to being the most helpful to the loop&rsquo;s treasury. Gallagher has assigned Jack Paterson and Billy Clements to referee all of the St. Paul-Ft. Wayne games.It is expected that St. Paul will have no less than 7000 for each game in the finals. Both cities, Ft. Wayne and St. Paul, are really &ldquo;hepped up&rdquo; for the final round. It figures to be a thriller.<h2>Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; Ft. Wayne and Louisville</h2>The Rebels evened the set with a 2-1 victory as the series shifted &ldquo;Kentucky Way&rdquo;&hellip;Eddie Dudych scored the winner at 15:01 of the final period on a perfect relay from player-coach Ronnie Spong&hellip;Joe Kastelic scored first for the Rebs at 6:32 of the second period after taking a long pass from Spong, but Komet captain, Eddie Long intercepted a Louisville pass three minutes later to tie matters.&ldquo;A terrific team effort&rdquo;, were the words coach Ken Ullyot used as the Komets forged ahead in the series, 3-2, when Reno Zanier shut the Rebels out, 4-0&hellip;Johnny Ferguson, Bob McCuster, Len Thomson, and Lloyd Maxfield lit the red light for Ft. Wayne. The Komets scored two in the first, and one each in the final two stanzas.Ft. Wayne wrote finis to the 1959-60 season for Louisville with a thrilling 2-1 win&hellip;First two periods were scoreless&hellip;Moe Bartoli sent a blazing 60-footer past Zanier at 4:13 of the third session, but Andy Milne knocked in a Duane Rupp rebound at 15:18 and three minutes later, Art Hart pounced on one of Thompson&rsquo;s shots for the winner.<h2>Series &ldquo;B&rdquo; St. Paul and Minneapolis</h2>The round moved across river to St. Paul, where the Saints took the next three in a row to close out the series&hellip;Ramsay whitewashed the Millers 3-0 with Johnny Bailey scoring two and Howie Hughes, one, to co-star with Ramsay.With the set tied at two games apiece, Minneapolis opened the scoring in the opening period with Joe Poole scoring on passes from Murray Massier and Billy LeCaine for the only tally in the period&hellip;St. Paul came roaring back with Bailey evening up matters unassisted at: 13 and Elliott Chorley taking Aggie Kukulowicz&rsquo; pass to convert it into a score at 1:56 for a 2-1 go ahead&hellip;Chorley and Bryan Derrett tucked the puck past Marv Edwards for clinchers late in the final period.St. Paul ended the round with a 3-1 win&hellip;First period was scoreless&hellip;Howie Hughes tallied for the Saints at 12:28 of the middle stanza, but the Millers even-en the count when Bob Currie scored&hellip;Bailey put one past Edwards at 14:47 in the last period and Hughes scored in the open net at 19:55. The line of Howie Hughes, Johnny Bailey and Freddie Brown stood out the entire series.<h2>Komet Comet</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02322/1817542-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="542" height="867"><figcaption class="caption-body">Len Thomson</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Komets, Saints Square Off In IHL’s Final Cup Series

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03240/1817573-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="505" height="643"></div>&bull; ON HEAVY GLOSSY PAPER&bull; PERFECT FOR FRAMING&mdash;OR JUST PIN ON WALL&bull; IDEAL FOR RUMPUS ROOM OR YOUR DEN&bull; MAKE WELCOME GIFTSTHESE ARE READY NOW-OTHERS WILL BE ADDED LATER() Bobby Hull() Alex Delvecchio() Vic Stasiuk() Maurice Richard() Jean Beliveau() Bernie Geoffrion() Gordie Howe() Ed Litzenberger() Henri Richard() Dickie Moore() Fleming Mackell() Frank Mahovlich() Don McKenney() Doug Mohns() Tod Sloan (in Toronto uniform)() Dick Duff() Andy Bathgate() Lou Fontinato() Bill Gadsby() Ted Lindsay (in Detroit uniform)Only 50 Cents Each PostpaidPROMPT SERVICE - SUPPLY LIMITEDNational PhotosP.O. Box 248Montreal, Canada.Enclosed&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;in cheque or money order (no coins or stamps please). Kindly send me the pictures I have checked above.(Please Print)NAME&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;ADDRESS&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;.CITY&hellip;&hellip;..PROV. OR STATE&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;. &#9632;

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FULL COLOR 9x11 GLOSSY PRINTS of HOCKEY’S TOP PERFORMERS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01384/1817604-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK<h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;New York goaltender, at home at season&rsquo;s end.7&mdash;Initials of Boston forward.8&mdash;Mrs. Harry Pidhirny.10&mdash;Played for Boston on March 19.12&mdash;Alex Delvecchio&rsquo;s nickname.13&mdash;Rhode Island (abbr.)14&mdash;Month in which Doug Mohns celebrates birthday (abbr.)15&mdash;Number of penalties Don Marshall incurred in 1959-60 schedule.17&mdash;Type of tree.18&mdash;In 1950-51 Boston traded Fern Flaman to this N.H.L. team (bbr.)19&mdash;A Buffalo defenseman answers to this.20&mdash;Initials of a Red Wing forward.22&mdash;Number of games Jean Beliveau missed in 1959-60 schedule.23&mdash;Kingston&rsquo;s coach.26&mdash;Upon.27&mdash;This N.H.L. goalie is a former winner of the Red Tilson Memorial Trophy.29&mdash;Many a player has been called one.31&mdash;Given name of an N.H.L manager.32&mdash;Earl Reibel won this trophy in 1955-56.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;Played 57 games with Providence in 1958-59, called Dino2&mdash;Murray Oliver&rsquo;s second name,3&mdash;Billy Dea&rsquo;s native province (abbr.)4&mdash;Initials of a Habitant defenseman.5&mdash;Month in which Murray Balfour was born (abbr.)6&mdash;Double 14th letter of the alphabet.9&mdash;This Boston player hails from Lethbridge, Alberta.11&mdash;The&mdash;of 13 down is 6&rsquo;1&rdquo; (abbr.)13&mdash;A new member of the Red Wings.14&mdash;Jimmy Bartlett has one named Kelly.16&mdash;Warrant Officer (abbr.)21&mdash;Mrs. Bill Hay.22&mdash;One of Gerry James&rsquo; daughters23&mdash;Position played by Vancouver&rsquo;s Hank Bassen.24&mdash;Former Detroit goaltender.25&mdash;Initials of Heller, ex Ranger.28&mdash;Ron Murphy broke one in 1958-59 season.30&mdash;Ton (abbr.)<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Armstrong7&mdash;Car8&mdash;Toronto12&mdash;Hugh13&mdash;Andy15&mdash;No.16&mdash;Ont.18&mdash;Tie19&mdash;Ray.20&mdash;T.R.21&mdash;S.S.24&mdash;Crozier29&mdash;Count30&mdash;Doc32&mdash;Gus33&mdash;Gaye34&mdash;Thrill<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;Arthritis2&mdash;Margaret3&mdash;Ten4&mdash;O&rsquo;Connor5&mdash;Na.6&mdash;Gray9&mdash;OU10&mdash;Oh11&mdash;T.A.14&mdash;Donat17&mdash;Tyro22&mdash;Scout23&mdash;Medal25&mdash;Rush26&mdash;On27&mdash;Z.T.28&mdash;Roy29&mdash;C.G.31&mdash;Cen.33&mdash;G.L. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02342/1817635-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Brennan (left), Riley Mullen (center) and Harry Allen discuss the pros and cons of the multiple coaching system instituted by the Edmonton Oil Kings for the first time in Edmonton junior hockey history&hellip;Brennan, a former WHL puck-stopper, coached the goaltenders while Mullen handled the defensive platoon and Allen the forward units. Head coach Allen has the final say in all matters.</figcaption></div><h2>Brain Trust In Conference &#9632;</h2>

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Edmonton Strikes A Gusher As Oil Kings Kayo Bombers

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;The famine has ended for Edmonton Oil Kings and junior hockey in Alberta.Oil Kings, perennial underdogs in western Canada playoffs for the past six years, astounded the experts recently by eliminating the powerful Saskatchewan Junior League representatives, Flin Flon Bombers, from national competition.Bombers, representing a league which hadn&rsquo;t missed a western junior final since being re-organized in the 1956-57 campaign, were top-heavy favorites to whip Edmonton again and advance against Brandon Wheat Kings.To reach the Memorial Cup semi-finals, Oil Kings have sidelined Lethbridge Native Sons in straight games and Flin Flon. Brandon used seven games to get out of its&rsquo; own league, then easily disposed of Fort William Hurricanes.Coach Bobby Kirk and his cocksure Bombers rolled into Edmonton with a fourth SJHL title in five years under their belts and the controversial Cliff Pennington in the lineup.Oil Kings, not to be awed by press clippings, promptly spanked Bombers 8-5 and 8-3. Returning to Flin Flon, the Kings rolled to a 5-3 victory before Bombers bounced back with 10-4 and 5-4 decisions. Edmonton finished off the best-of-seven set in convincing fashion, 8-1.It was back in 1954 when Edmonton last made a splash, winning the western crown while operating in the now-defunct Western Canada League. That year they lost a title bid to St. Catherines in five games.After the Western League folded, Edmonton was left with the only junior club in Alberta, and had to join up with the Central intermediate league for competition. In the past, their intermediate associations usually left them lacking in skating and polish, and consequently they were easy prey for the Saskatchewan champions.This year seemed no different as Oil Kings were unable to reach the top in intermediate company. However, Coach Harry Allen&rsquo;s Kinglets hit their stride as junior playoff time approached, and from that point on they couldn&rsquo;t be denied.Even opposing coach Kirk of Bombers had to admit the Oil Kings were some shakes as junior contender.&ldquo;Oil Kings were extremely well-balanced,&rdquo; said the genial Bomber pilot. &ldquo;Only once did they show any signs of playing off-color. They were very consistent, showed lots of drive and plenty of hustle.&ldquo;They had power on all three lines and those three replacements they picked up from Lethbridge fitted in nicely. Their defence was adequate and their goalie outstanding. What more could you ask for in a junior club?&rdquo;Russ Gillow, an Ontario native who a year ago received a rude western reception from Bombers while in the Edmonton nets, turned the tables on his tormentors this time around.Even boastful Pennington, who toiled with Canada&rsquo;s Olympic entry and joined Flin Flon only after Canadian Amateur Hockey Association blessing, lauded Gillow as the best goalie he had ever faced in junior company.And Pennington struck for nine goals in the first four games of the series.Jack Humphries, the New York Ranger scout, thought that Edmonton would get by Brandon in the western final because they had more depth. &#9632;

Cock Sure Flin Flon Blasted From Western Junior Race Fast

In The Montreal StarIf the information will augment Canadiens&rsquo; confidence as they swing into the final round of Stanley Cup battling, they might find it nice to know that since the ancient trophy became the exclusive blue ribbon award of the National League, the team which finished as champions of the League race have won it 26 times in 41 series. This total, by the way, includes a victory scored by Victorias, who were champions of the Pacific Coast League. Otherwise, they couldn&rsquo;t have been playing for the bowl.Canadiens have won the Cup 10 times since the League was founded in 1917. On several of these occasions they were both League and Cup champions. Toronto Leafs have won the Cup eight times over the same span, but here is a painful thought: Leafs won the Cup six times out of eight when they weren&rsquo;t League title-holders. And the present series is another of those times in which they hope to repeat such previous performances. Only twice did Leafs win both League title and Cup, in 1922 and 1948. In 1922, incidentally, the Toronto team was St. Pat&rsquo;s, not Leafs, but the background was the same.There&rsquo;s quite a dollop of mathematics included in figuring these things. It was in 1926-27 that the Stanley Cup became a trophy played for only by teams of the National League. This was for the very good reason that, although it is a challenge trophy, there remained no challengers of serious calibre, the complete supremacy of the National League being long established. The Pacific Coast League, once a major body, had folded up after the 1926 series, and so the N.H.L. reigned supreme.It was just then that professional hockey went international in a big way, aided by the influx of top-ranking Pacific Coast League players. From 1926-1927, until 1938-39, the National League played in two sections with 8 or 10 teams. Over that period, the League championship was played for between the two clubs which finished first in their respective sections, this play-off being, also, part of the Stanley Cup play. In 1938-39, the League was played in one section, and the League championship automatically became the possession of the team finishing first in the scheduled race. The Stanley Cup series was a separate undertaking.<h2>There Were Surprises</h2>There have been upsets, in modern Stanley Cup play. Hockey&rsquo;s most famous modern example of Stanley Cup surprise, a jolt akin to Boston Braves famed 1914 National League and world&rsquo;s baseball series triumph, was furnished by Chicago Hawks, in 1938. Led by the former major league umpire, and N.H.L. referee, battling Bill Stewart, the Black Hawks finished third in its section, with only 37 points. It was actually only sixth in a composite standing of the eight-club circuit, being headed by Boston, Rangers, Toronto, Americans and Canadiens. But Hawks battled through doggedly, eliminated Canadiens, the final game in overtime on Montreal ice. They beat out Americans, with one of the three games of this series in overtime, too, and finally whipped Toronto&rsquo;s powerful Leafs, three games in four, to become champions.The next season, Hawks didn&rsquo;t do so well. And in mid-season, Bill Stewart, coach of the world&rsquo;s champions a few months before, was fired and replaced by Paul Thompson. So goes the life of a losing coach.This sort of thing was tradition of a sort on the Chicago hockey front. Tommy Gorman had piloted the Hawks to their first title in 1934. At the end of the season, he abruptly parted company with the Chicago team to take over management of the Montreal Forum and the Maroons.<h2>Canadiens Just Made It</h2>Canadiens&rsquo; most narrow squeak, so far as Cup entry goes, came in 1930. That season, Canadiens finished in a tie for first place, on points, with their sectional rivals, Montreal Maroons, though second in the composite standing to Boston Bruins, who had 77 points. Canadiens had won more games than Maroons, thus took first place in the section, won the League title, and the Cup by beating Chicago, Rangers, then Boston in turn. Habs played six games in 10 days in that wild finish. Canadiens repeated the following season first in their section, though second to Boston in a composite standing, but won the League title, and the Cup.Detroit Red Wings are the most consistent winners, in a way, of the Stanley Cup. They&rsquo;ve taken it six times, and each time they were League champions as well.You can&rsquo;t forecast these things, but we doubt if any Cup series, even this one, will produce a single more dramatic incident than that of 32 years ago. In that year, 1928, New York Rangers were underdogs in the public mind. They played the final series against the Maroons of that era, all games on Montreal ice. It was one of the most dramatic series of all times, with manager Lester Patrick being impressed into service as goaler for Rangers, after Lorne Chabot was injured. Rangers had won the League title previously, and in winning here, took the Cup too. &#9632;

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