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October 1, 1960
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“Take Me To Another Leader Like Him,” Asks Toe Blake
MONTREAL, Que. — Toe Blake, who jokingly said he was going to ask the NHL for special permission to use seven men instead of six now that the Rocket has retired, said his departure “leaves us with a big hole to fill.” “I know he wasn’t the player in recent years he used to be but nevertheless this club is losing one of the greatest inspirational players who ever lived. Tell me where I can find another leader like him?”…
Peirson To Air Hub Games
BOSTON, MASS.— Johnny Peirson of Wellesley, who played right wing for the Boston Bruins for 11 seasons, will broadcast their games over the Bruins’ radio network this season. Peirson succeeds Fred Cusick as the Bruins’ play-by-play announcer. Cusick has been named news director of Radio Station WEEI here. Peirson, who scored 153 goals for the Bruins, broke into sportscasting two years ago as the Saturday substitute for Cusick, who handled the Columbia Broadcasting System’s weekly televised games. The former right wing continued in the substitute’s role a year ago. A former resident of Montreal, Peirson joined the Bruins during the 1946-47 season after serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He retired in the spring of 1954 but made a unique comeback in the fall of 1955. Aware that the…
Selke’s Confidence May Be Challenge To Others
(Veteran New York hockey writer, Stan Fischler, has started a new feature in the HOCKEY NEWS. He will analyse the news as he takes you behind the scenes in the latest happenings in professional hockey. Read what the experts have to say.) NEW YORK, N.Y.— The decision by Frank Selke, general manager of the Montreal Canadiens, to protect every playing member of his Stanley Cup champions constitutes the most emphatic vote of confidence ever given stickhandling employees by an employer. Selke has defied the Jack Adams’“You’ve Got To Shake ‘Em Up Each Year” philosophy by coming up with the same team — with, maybe, one or two exceptions — that blitzed the NHL last season. What he has done amounts to a challenge to the other five clubs, a challenge to upset his awesome…
Busher Sees Tough Year Ahead For Royals — Counting On Hobs’ Kids To Lead The Pack
MONTREAL, Que.— The second year is going to be a lot rougher, and tougher. Such is conviction of Floyd ‘Busher’ Curry, coach of the Montreal Royals as he looks ahead to the sophomore seoson in the Eastern Professional Hockey League. The loop is out of its swaddling clothes, and so are the teams which make it up, and the boss of its first champs is far from complacent. Curry of course will be hunting his third straight title, since he coached the Royals to the champoinship of the Quebec League the season of its fade-out. He was signed to his third contract as mentor of Royals, a day or two after the training sessions began September 19. Of course he and Frank Selke, Sr., managing-director of Canadiens operations, had a general understanding, so…
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