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May 1, 1960
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Speaking On Sport
Debunking With The Defrosting The defrosting of the shinny cake reveals many misunderstandings, some misapprehensions. While the front offices go ‘underground’ to plot against the common foe — Les Habs, who else? — it’s a community responsibility to consider some of those erroneous impressions. For example: Next fall, when the training camps throw open their doors, it will be said that Toronto Maple Leafs, having climbed from the bottom to second slot in two tries under Punch Im-lach, are the logical heirs to the throne, when and if Monsieur Toe Blake and his merry men trip over their money bags. That is a fallacy — one which none other than Staff Smythe, a Leaf partisan, you’d have to suspect, pointed out in the gloom of that four-in-a-row rout. With Canadeins dominating the league,…
St. Paul Saints Go Marching Home With IHL Playoff Crown
ST. PAUL, Minn.— St. Paul’s determined Saints are the new International Hockey League playoff champions. They defeated the Ft. Wayne Komets four games to three to win the Joseph Turner Memorial Trophy. The Turner Trophy which was won last season by Louisville, is awarded annually by the Board of Governors of the IHL to the team winning the playoff championship. The trophy is named for Joe Turner, a Windsor, Ontario boy, who distinguished himself as an amateur goaltender in the Border Cities, 20 years ago. Turner played professional with the Detroit Red Wing organization and played one season with the Indianapolis Capitals in the American Hockey League. He was killed in Belgium during World War II, while serving with the United States Army. St. Paul won the series in the seventh game, 3-1, with…
J.C. Tremblay, MVP, Sault’s Dejordy Top Rook In EPHL
MONTREAL, Que.— The brain cells must have been spinning. Thoughtful members of the selection committee voting on the first batch of EPHL Awards needed deep concentration. In the league chock full of talent. What was a rookie? And where, in many cases, did such rookie differ from a selectee as the most valuable player? Perhaps some of the boys just wrote names on slips of paper dropped the slips in a hat, and drew out a couple. No. 1 they called MVP. No. 2 was the best rookie. At any rate here were the findings as released from headquarters in Ottawa by league president Edward Houston. Jean-Claude Tremblay, who played four or five games for Canadians in NHL competition while the EPHL was just getting off the ground early last autumn, wins the duke as…
Series Heroes In ‘58, Topper, Fiem Fade Fast In Two Years
BOSTON, Mass.— Two years ago at this time Jerry Toppazzini and Fleming Mackell were the idols of New England hockey fans — and fans farther afield as well. The Bruins in the spring of 1958 put on a whirlwind finish for fourth place. Then in the Stanley Cup playoffs they blasted the New York Rangers in the first round and played a sparkling six-game final series with the Montreal Canadiens. Sparkplugs of the Bruins’ regular-season finish and stars of their playoff games were Toppazzini and Mackell, both forwards. But events this spring state vehemently that two years is a long time. First Toppazzini, as the Bruins played their final game here, announced his retirement to concentrate on a haberdashery business of which he is part-owner in Sudbury, Ontario. Then Mackell revealed that Lynn Patrick, Bruins’ manager,…
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