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October 8, 1960

The Hockey News October 8, 1960

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02385/1864277-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="562" height="263"></div><h2>October 8 to October 14</h2>8&mdash;Art Stratton, Springfield, forward, 1935.9&mdash;Arnie Kullman, Hershey, forward, 1927.9&mdash;Al Rollins, Winnipeg, goaltender, 1926.11&mdash;Jim Morrison, Rangers, defense, 1931. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The New York Rangers open the NHL season at home Oct. 5th full of vim, vigor and visions of a playoff berth.Following the opener with Boston, the Blueshirts zip up to Toronto Oct. 8, then to Chicago on the 9th and return home to the Gotham Oct. 11th for the most encouraging &mdash; they hope &mdash; schedule-opening in history.In the past, the Blues considered themselves in good shape if they broke even in the first four games of the season. Those were the days when the Rangers were obliged to play anywhere from three to six straight road games before opening at home.Now that this injustice has been corrected, members of the Ranger family are muttering quietly about a speedy start, perhaps two out of the first two games, over Boston and Toronto.This is conceivable as far as vice president Murray Patrick is concerned. As Muzz sees it, the Rangers are a better club than Boston (and Detroit) and are about even with Toronto. (Neither Lynn Patrick, Jack Adams or Staff Smythe were available for comment.)Patrick&rsquo;s optimism was partly justified by the late September and very early October manoeuverings of his hands.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04242/1863250-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="538" height="529"><figcaption class="caption-body">They Impressed Their Bosses At Training CampCAMILE HENRY</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05180/1863243-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="547" height="559"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDY HEBENTON</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06121/1863236-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="547" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDY BATHGATE</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0764/1863229-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="535" height="535"><figcaption class="caption-body">LOU FONTINATO</figcaption></div>The Rangers went marauding over the Canadian countryside, devastating every team in sight, particularly Toronto, and ran up a string of eight straight exhibition wins.<h2>Henry Finds His Eye</h2>However, Patrick isn&rsquo;t letting a little thing like a good training camp disallusion him. Last year the Blues led the Iced Grapefruit League with a 12-0-1 mark and finished last.What pleases most is the enthusiastic play of Andy Bathgate, Camille Henry, Andy Hebenton, Lou Fontinato, Harry Howell. Bill Gads by, John Hanna and Jack McCartan, to name a few.Bathgate has looked like the best forward in camp which is only natural since he was the best forward on the team last year&hellip; only he didn&rsquo;t play like it.Henry had the brass a mite disturbed when camp opened but he apparently has found the scoring touch and also appears ready to resume bodychecking exchanges with his elderly chum Fernie Flaman.A few worry warts had written Hebenton off as a case for an oldman&rsquo;s home at the end of last season. Andrew, who turned 31 on Oct. 3rd, resents the suggestion and bagged a few goals in training to underline his case.Another chap who was mildly rebuked for being a nice guy last year was Fontinato. Since Louie is not paid for being a nice guy on the blueline the management was hopeful that he would resume firebreathing activities this season.Louie showed signs of returning to old-time form in an exhibition game against the Maple Leafs.McCartan went down to make a save when Carl Brewer, another fire-breather, zoomed in and tried to loosen Jack&rsquo;s grip on the puck. This enraged Fontinato who waved a warning stick at the Leaf.At this point Frank Mahovlich thought this was his business too, so he elbowed Fontinato. This was the cue for stick-swinging duel between the two which eventually cost the pair $100 apiece in fines.Fontinato&rsquo;s comment was &ldquo;I was within my rights.&rdquo; Observers interpreted this as meaning that anyone who poaches on Fontinato property this winter can expect to get his ear&rsquo;s boxed.Meanwhile, last year&rsquo;s other backliners, Gadsby, Howell and Hanna, all have shown to advantage as has Olympic goaltender McCartan.Asked if he could remember ANYBODY on the team who did not look good in training camp, a Ranger spokesman replied that he couldn&rsquo;t recall that he did.That leaves only recuperating ace Dean Prentice as the soft spot on this rejuvenated team.Prentice, recovering from an operation for a torn knee cartillage, started skating this week and may be back in the lineup by November. &#9632;

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Muzz’s Early Ratings — Better Than Bruins Or Red Wings

DETROIT, Mich. &mdash; The Red Wings may be blacked out this season.The club&rsquo;s long-time brewery sponsor notified the Wings three weeks before the start of the season that it wasn&rsquo;t going to renew its option for either telecasts or broadcasts of its home games.To make is more difficult, a clause in the contract prohibits the Red Wings from engaging another brewery sponsor this season.With one week to go before the first home game, the Wings still didn&rsquo;t have a sponsor.The Red Mings wanted the sponsor to carry both home and away games on radio this season. Only home games have been broadcast in the past and a 15-minute resume was given after road games. &#9632;

Red Wings Lose TV, Radio Sponsor

<div class="byline">By DICK BACON</div><h2>There&rsquo;s Still Room For A 14% Increase At The Gate</h2>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;&ldquo;Bigger and Better than ever.&rdquo;President Clarence Campbell has used those same words in before each new National Hockey League seasons for the past four or five years.He was reminded of repetitions statements just before the new season opened and replied :&ldquo;I know it&rsquo;s beginning to sound corny but it&rsquo;s still a proven fact. Last year attendance around the league was the highest it&rsquo;s been since the 1947-48 season and in those years you could put on a midget show or a rat race and still get a crowd.&ldquo;We drew 2,400,000 last season and that was only 17,000 below the best year we ever had. Attendance was up in Boston, Detroit and Chicago and of course they sell out every year in Montreal and Toronto. The only city that was down at the gate was New York&rdquo;.Campbell is optimistic that both Chicago and New York would show increases at the gate this season.&ldquo;The National Hockey League played to 86 per cent of its rated capacity last year&rdquo;, he continued. &ldquo;That would mean that we had about 400,000 empty seats during the entire season and about 300,000 of them were in Chicago&rdquo;.The NHL president figured that if both Chicago and New York show improved performance on the ice this year, their attendance is bound to improve also.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03318/1863198-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="535" height="844"><figcaption class="caption-body">Optimistic PrexyClarence Campbell</figcaption></div>The key to the league&rsquo;s steady increase at the gate during the last five years, Campbell says, &ldquo;has been the reasonable balance of opposition&rdquo;.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care how far out in front the first place club is, as long as the fifth and sixth place clubs have a fighting chance to make the playoffs, we&rsquo;re in good shape&rdquo;.&ldquo;If we get another 100,000 increase this year it will be fine&rdquo;, Campbell said. &ldquo;And if we get an increase of 200,000 it will be fantastically fine. In only one other season, 1954-55 to 1955-56, did the NHL ever show that large an increase&rdquo;.<h2>Hopes Boost At Turnstiles Will Hit 200 Thousand Fans</h2><h3>Expects Chicago To Improve</h3>But Campbell didn&rsquo;t think it would be extraordinary if the total league attendance jumped to 2,600,000.&ldquo;After all, Chicago has the biggest potential improvement at the gate and they also have the biggest potential improvement in their team. Remember that last season they got off to a horrible start. I think they picked up only six of a possible 32 points in their first 16 games and that certainly hurt them at the gate&rdquo;.&ldquo;If the Black Hawks can break from the barrier at all decently this year, they should do very well attendance-wise&rdquo;, he added.Campbell thinks that hat if any team is going to challenge the Canadiens, it will be Chicago, a prediction shared by Montreal coach Toe Blake.&ldquo;They have almost three trophy winners on their team &mdash; (Bobby Hull, Art Ross, Bill (Red Hay, Calder; and goalie Glenn Hall was runnerup for the Vezina to Jacques Plante). Hall may be at his peak now and he is the blackbone of that team. But youngsters like Hull, Hay and Murray Balfour are all on their way up&rdquo;.&ldquo;And I&rsquo;m quite sure Alvin McDonald is going to do more for them than (Ted) Lindsay did for them last year. That&rsquo;s no rap against Lindsay, but after all, he was at the end of his career and McDonald is just starting&rdquo;. &#9632;

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Prexy Sees Everything Turning Up Rosy — All Depends On Braves

<div class="byline">By DICK BACON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0180/1864532-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Another Year, Another Camp</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;For the past two years Montreal Coach Toe Blake has fingered the Chicago Black Hawks were the team best equipped to challenge his World Champion Canadiens.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0268/1864525-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="279" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rudy Pilous</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I know I was wrong the last two years&rdquo;, says Blake, &ldquo;but I have to go along with them again this year&rdquo;.This time, much to Blake&rsquo;s chagrin, he could be right. The Hawks have a lot of boosters around the National Hockey League as they prepare for the opening of the NHL&rsquo;s 44th season. Chicago has been coming for the past few seasons and it says here that 1960-61 will be the year the Black Hawks arrive.<h2>Habs Champs On Paper</h2>On paper, only an incurable optimist can pick anyone other than the Montreal Canadiens to win their fourth consecutive NHL pennant and sixth straight Stanley Cup title. Previously under Blake, with the exception of his second year when complacency and the Detroit Red Wings dropped them to second place, the Habs have won just about as they pleased.This season it is the belief here that the Hawks have the necessary ingredients to run a neck-and-neck race with the Canadiens from here to March. Should the Canadiens, despite their lineup loaded with so-called super-stars, play anything but their best for a major part of the season, they might find themselves playing in Series &ldquo;B&rdquo; (2nd place vs 4th place) come Stanley Cup time.In back of this predicted two-team race is a potpourri of four clubs whose 1960-61 fortunes are beclouded with question marks and inconsistency. Placing Toronto, Detroit, Boston and New York all in a hat, the standings will look like this on the night of March 19:MontrealChicagoDetroitTorontoBostonNew YorkThe Canadiens easily boast the best offense and their defense is as good as or fractionally better than the fest. If that isn&rsquo;t enough to go all the way, they also possess such intangible assets as unmatched team play, confidence, experience and deep-rooted in the winning habit.Where the Habitants are most impressive is down the middle. All-Star results nothwithstanding, there are no two better centers in the game than Jean Beliveau and Henri (Little Rocket) Richard. These two scored a total of 64 goals last season while Phil Goyette, the pivot on the so-called third and checking line, chipped in with 21. And if any of this trio falters Blake can always call on Donnie Marshall or Ralph Backstrom.And in the nets the Habs have five-time Veniza winner Jacques Plante, the games most inventive, most colorful and most articulate performer.The Canadiens have considerable punch on the wings with two-time scoring champion Dickie Moore working on the Little Rocket&rsquo;s left side and Bernie (Boom-Boom) Geoffrion, another ex-scoring champ, working on Beliveau&rsquo;s right. Geoffrion&rsquo;s inability to play a full 70-game schedule raises is almost an annual certainty might prove harmful to the Hab cause this season.Beyond these two veteran allstars, the Canadian wingers are an indistinguished lot. Though Montreal may be lacking in left wing strength, they aren&rsquo;t inclided to trade for one. Instead, if the Canadiens are found lacking in capable wings this year, they more than likely will dip into their well-stocked farm system as they have in the past.The Black Hawks presented a study in futility at the beginning of last season when nothing they did seemed to work. They got off to a horrendous start, earning only six points in their first 16 games. But once coach Budy Pilous hit on putting Bobby Hull and Murray Balfour on either side of rookie center Bill(RED) Hay, it seemed to trigger a host of latent talent.In the second half of the season, paced by the &ldquo;Million Dollar Line&rdquo; of Hull-Hay-Balfour, the Hawks were the hottest club in the league over the second half. Pilous and General Manager Tommy Ivan are eagerly looking forward to the new season when this trio will have a chance to operate as a unit right from the start.The only major off-season acquisition was left winger Ab McDonald, a strapping youngster who failed to click with the Canadiens. The change of scenery had almost an immediate effect on McDonald as he proved to be one of the training camp standouts.Chicago also is hopeful Eddie Litzenberger can regain his 30-goal form and that Stan Mikita may blossom into a 20-goal sophomore.Where the Hawks are strongest is behind the blueline. Cold figures prove that the Chicago defense, featuring second all-Star Pierre Pilote, huge Elmer Vasko, Al Arbour and Jack Evans in front of Iron Man Glenn Hail in the nets, were every bit as good &mdash; if not better &mdash; than the highly heralded Montreal defense.Plante had to go down to the final game of the year before edging Hall for the Vezina and the Canadiens finished only two goals ahead of Chicago in the &ldquo;goals against&rdquo; column.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re big, strong, fast, young and willing&rdquo;, is the way Blake looks at the Hawks.Defense and Gordie Howe, another Iron Man, are the two key factors in rating Red Wings a third place club. Howe, despite a 28-goal &ldquo;off year&rdquo;, once again was named the NHL&rsquo;s most valuable performer. Teamed with youngsters such as Murray Oliver (20) and Fonteyne, this could be one of the league&rsquo;s strongest lines &mdash; both offensively and defensively.Gary Aidcorn, Norm Ullman and Alex Delvecchio are all solid performers with 20 goal seasons to their credit.Marcel Pronovost, who many consider the best defense rearguard in the game, and veteran netminder Terry Sawchuk spearhead Detroit&rsquo;s defense once again.Defense might prove the undoing of the Toronto Haple Leafs, Stanley Cup finalists the last two spring. But their inability to beat the Canadiens and an againg goalie in Johnny Bower with no proven replacement in the wings could land the Leafs in trouble.If defense is a problem in Toronto, then it&rsquo;s a crisis in Boston and New York.The Bruins, long-regarded as one of the best checking and defensive clubs in the NHL, suddenly collapsed last year. Boston marksmen, led by the high scoring Uke line of Bronco Horvath, Johnny Bucyk and Vic Stasiuk, were second only to Montreal in goals scored with 221. But Boston was scored on themselves 241 times.General Manager Lynn Patrick and Coach Milt Schmidt blame the point-hungary forwards with being the chief culprits. For instance, the Uke line scored 95 goals but they were on ice for even more goals by the opposition. The situation is almost certain to improve, but with the hot-and-cold Don Simmons in the nets, Boston&rsquo;s prospects for 60-61 are not too bright.The Rangers were even worse defensively than the Bruins, allowing a league high of 247 goals. Coach Alf Pike, beginning his first full year as Ranger bench boss, plans to stick with Gump Worsley. He also figures veteran Jimmy Morrison, drafted from the Red Wings and an improving Irwin Spencer should bolster the Blueshirt defenses.The New Yorkers still have the often brilliant Andy Bathgate and steady Andy Hebenton and an already injured all-star left winger in Dean Prentice but little else of proven scoring ability. &#9632;

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Toe Admits They Have Equipment To Stop Canucks

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins laid the groundwork for National Hockey League expansion to California when they played a pair of exhibition games in Los Angeles late last month.The shift probably is a season or two in the future but NHL executives who attended the L.A. games &mdash; league president Clarence Campbell, Toronto&rsquo;s Conn Smythe and Boston&rsquo;s Walter Brown &mdash; were greatly impressed by the reception hockey received on the gold coast.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01367/1863167-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="295" height="469"><figcaption class="caption-body">Conn Smythe</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02350/1863160-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="286" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Walter Brown</figcaption></div>The first match drew 9,861 customers and the second one was seen by 10,742 fans. And the enthusiasm among the spectators reached heights experienced hockey men never had witnessed. Every successful pass and the lightest body check were cheered to the rafters.The splendid new Los Angeles rink, with 15,000 upholstered seats and air conditioning throughout, also was noticed with favor.And of course NHL bosses have taken careful note of the box office successes enjoyed by the Giants and Dodgers since they left New York and moved west.&ldquo;This is a hockey gold mine&rdquo;, Smythe said. &ldquo;But there&rsquo;s a lot of hard work to be done before we can put an NHL team in this city.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to be a young man starting out in this town with this arena and with people as hungry for hockey as these folks&rdquo;.About a quarter of a million ex-Canadiens reside in the Los Angeles area, constituting a ready-made market.Said Campbell: The rink here is too good to be ignored. But before we can even sit down to talk, there have to be two clubs out here to economically justify a move to the coast&rdquo;.That pointed to San Francisco as the second city. There isn&rsquo;t even an ice plant in the gigantic Cow Palace right now but that wouldn&rsquo;t be regarded as an insurmountable obstacle.<h2>Would Get Players Via The Draft</h2>Now where would they get the players to man the two new teams?The answer would be a slight reduction in the league&rsquo;s overall strength. A plan that already has been discussed would be the lowering of each team&rsquo;s quota of protected players to 12. The new franchises would have first crack at those left over and in that way, each would be able to ice a reasonably strong lineup immediately. Enough, anyway, to keep them going until they could develop farm systems of their own.But it&rsquo;s still a thing of the future and so far only a matter for discussion inspired by the success of the two Los Angeles shows Sept. 20 and 22.Leafs won both L.A. games, with veteran Johnny Bower celebrating his return to the job with a pair of excellent efforts.First game ended 4-to-1, with Bob Nevin, Dave Keon, Duke Edmundson and Carl Brewer counting for Leafs. Johnny Bucyk responded for Boston.Two nights later, Leafs made it 5-to-3, with rookie Nevin counting a pair of goals. Keon got his customary one and Gerry Ehman and Ron Stewart notched the others. Don McKenney, Bucyk and Doug Mohns hit for the Bruins. &#9632;

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Coast Exhibitions Start Expansion Chatter Again

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01366/1863281-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fifth Man On Birds&rsquo; Defense PoleGERRY ODROWSKI &hellip; &hellip; Wins A Job</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Gerry Odrowski thought he was washed up in hockey before he was even 20 but the Red Wings have him tabbed as one of their finest young players.Odrowski reached his 22nd birthday on the eve of the 1960-61 National Hockey League season. And he spent it with the Red Wings.&ldquo;I thought I was finished after Toronto let me go&rdquo;, Odrowski said. &ldquo;I played a year at St. Michael&rsquo;s in Toronto and I was a forward then. They didn&rsquo;t see too much in me.&ldquo;Then Bucko McDonald asked to play for Sault Ste. Marie. I had played intermediate hockey for Bucko in Sudridge. When I got to the Soo he put me back on the blueline and I couldn&rsquo;t be happier&rdquo;.Odrowski&rsquo;s development was rapid. He played two years for McDonald and then was plucked by the Red Wings and sent to Sudbury last season in the Eastern Professional League.Gerry&rsquo;s credentials were such that he was named the EPHL&rsquo;s leading defenseman &mdash; and it was his first year as a pro. Odrowski beat out Montreal&rsquo;s highly-regarded farmhand J. C. Tremblay for the honor. It was thought that Tremblay would make the Canadiens this season but he was returned to Hull-Ottawa shortly before the start of the season for a little more experience.<h2>Recommended By Referee</h2>McDonald, one of the Notional League&rsquo;s toughest defensemen in his playing days, knew Odrowski when Gerry was growing up in Trout Creek, some 30 miles south of North Bay, Ont.And it was Howde Parker, a referee from North Bay, who recommended Odrowski to the Red Wings.The Wings haven&rsquo;t wasted time in rewarding Parker.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve already sent him a bonus for scouting Odrowski&rdquo;, said head Red Wing scout Jim Skinner.Odrowski is, in coach Sid Abel&rsquo;s words, an offensive defenseman. He&rsquo;s not particularly noted for his checking.&ldquo;In the case of an offensive defenseman, when his speed goes he slips&rdquo;, said general manager Jack Adams, adding that the other niceties of the job are learned through experience. And Odrowski, it must be remembered, has had only three years at the position.&ldquo;I always wanted to play defense and that helped when Bucko changed me. I like it much better than playing up front&rdquo;, Odrowski said.Gerry demonstrated in practice sessions that he can get the puck out of his own zone and he can pass. The inability to clear has been one of the Wings&rsquo; problems the past few seasons.And he&rsquo;s serious about his job, asking Abel&rsquo;s advice after the workouts on what to do in various situations.&ldquo;He has a lot to learn but he&rsquo;s working hard at it&rdquo;, Adams said.Adams had enough confidence in the 5-foot, 10-inch, 180-pounder to trade veteran rearguard Jim Morison to the Chicago Black Hawks for right winger Howie Glover in June. Morrison then was drafted the next day by New York.Odrowski is tagged as the Wings&rsquo; fifth defenseman.&ldquo;That doesn&rsquo;t mean he won&rsquo;t get a lot of ice time&rdquo;, said Abel. &ldquo;We plan on carrying just the five defensemen&rdquo;.The others are All-Star Marcel Pronovost, Warren Godfrey, Marc Reaume and Pete Goegan. Essentially, the Wings will be starting with two-fifths of a new defense, Reaume for Red Kelly and Odrowski in place of Morrison.Odrowski clicked off eight goals and assisted on 21 others in 57 games for Sudbury last season. His efforts in behalf of the Wolves and league honors made it a &ldquo;must&rdquo; for the Red Wings to put him on their protected list at the June NHL meeting.&ldquo;Frank Selke of Canadiens knew he didn&rsquo;t have a chance of getting Odrowski but he had nothing but good words for him&rdquo;, Adams said.<h2>Won Fifth Position</h2>Odrowski went into the Red Wing camp at Olympia fighting Lloyd Haddon for the job of fifth defenseman. The handsome Haddon from nearby Sarnia, Ont., had an edge in that he was brought up through the Detroit farm system.Haddon, also 22, is, in contrast to Odrowski, more of a checker. His professional experience was about the same &mdash; one full season and 10 games of another. He was up for eight games with the Wings last season but. was used sparingly and spent 53 games with Edmonton with three goals and 17 assists.Odrowski won out over Haddon on his skating ability.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;d get this good a chance to make the club this year&rdquo;, Gerry said. &ldquo;I thought it would be at least another year before I&rsquo;d get a good shot&rdquo;.Odrowski didn&rsquo;t say it in any way that could be construed as boastful or cocky. At the time, it was just before the Red Wings headed out to western Canada for their 10-game exhibition tour, he didn&rsquo;t feel he had clinched a job. &#9632;

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Odrowski Earns NHL Job In 2nd Detroit Trial

DETROIT, Mich. &mdash; Appearances can be deceiving and it&rsquo;s especially so in the case of Red Wing rookie defenseman Gerry Odrowski.In the Eastern Professional League playoffs last spring Red Wing general manager Jack Adams was watching Odrowski play for Sudbury. Several fans sitting by Adams were startled to see what they thought was an older man speeding along the ice for Sudbury.&ldquo;They wondered who the &lsquo;old&rsquo; guy was,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;It was Odrowski. They didn&rsquo;t believe he was only 21 then.&rdquo;Gerry is partially bald due to an illness when he was seven years old. He will have company in the NHL &mdash; Boston&rsquo;s Bob Armstrong is another of the prematurely bald players and Toronto&rsquo;s Bert Olmstead and Red Kelly have receding hairlines. &#9632;

Gerry’s Appearance Very Deceiving—Is Bald At 22

<div class="byline">By JOHN GOTTSELIG</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;The most pleasant surprise of the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; pre-season training sessions has been the play of a veteran forward.That&rsquo;s the opinion of Tommy Ivan, General Manager of the Black Hawks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04265/1863388-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="261" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tod Sloan</figcaption></div>Taking a look at two weeks of work on the Garden City Arena Ivan said &ldquo;The most pleasant surprise to me has been the play of Tod Sloan&rdquo;.&ldquo;A veteran like Sloan might be expected to take things slowly in training camp, but Tod hasn&rsquo;t. He has been one of our hardest workers and his fine play has placed him high in contention for a position which needs strengthening and is being vied for by five players, and that&rsquo;s center&rdquo;.Sloan who will be 33 come Nov. 30 has been around the National Hockey League for 11 seasons, nine with Toronto Maple Leafs and the last two with the Black Hawks. He achieved his life&rsquo;s ambition last Dec. 23 when he scored goal No. 200, and thus became the 31st player to join the select 200 Goal Club. By the end of the campaign he upped the total to 209.All but 47 of Tod&rsquo;s goals were made on behalf of the Maple Leafs. In his first season with the Hawks (1958-59) he centered for the &lsquo;Pappy Line&rsquo; which had Ted Lindsay (now retired) on left wing and Ed Litzenberger on right. They were the terror of all goalies and Sloan came up with 27 goals to go along with 35 assists. Last season, Tod played with several combinations yet managed to score 20 goals, only Bobby Hull with 39, topped him as a Hawk goal producer.&ldquo;The Slinker reported this season in excellent shape&rdquo;, said Ivan. &ldquo;He was 10 pounds under his weight of a year ago. He&rsquo;s been showing the way for such youngsters as Stan Mikita and Cec Hoekstra. He may have lost a step, here and there, but he still retains the magic with his sticks. And there&rsquo;s none better in potting goals when in front of the net. He could get 20 for us again this season the way he&rsquo;s been going to date&rdquo;.Ivan singled out other players for comment, also :&ldquo;Bob Courcy whom we acquired from Montreal and who had such a great season at Ottawa-Hull last year has been showing increased confidence around the net. I know he can score, and his record says so. All he needs is a little more confidence.&ldquo;Cecil Hoekstra has been a pleasant surprise with his checking. He might very well fill in Glen Skov&rsquo;s place on the penaltykilling with Earl Balfour. He and Earl have worked well together so far.&ldquo;Our main problem is getting another center ice man. We&rsquo;ve been trying Ed Litzenberger at that position and he&rsquo;s handled it pretty good. He played it before and there&rsquo;s no reason why he can&rsquo;t fill the bill again&rdquo;. &#9632;

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Hawks Hopes Rise Watching Slinker At Camp Sessions

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll Montreal Gazette</div><h2>The Two-Goalie System</h2>Jack Adams, veteran general manager of the Detroit Red Wings, admitted last week that the Red Wings may carry two goalkeepers this season. Terry Sawchuk is the Wings&rsquo; No. 1 goaler and the fellow behind him will be either Dennis Riggin, who has been with Edmonton for the last five years, or Hank Bassen, a draftee from Vancouver.Sawchuk, who will be 31 in December, missed 12 games last season with a leg condition, which doctors attributed to fatigue.Should the Red Wings swing to a two-goalie system they will be something less than pioneers. Years ago when Frank Boucher was coaching the New York Rangers they carried a couple of netminders, Sugar Jim Henry and Bonnie Prince Charlie Rayner.We seem to recall that Frank alternated them, not only from game to game but from period to period. It was an experiment that didn&rsquo;t work out very well and he abandoned it, returning to the practice of keeping one on the job until he showed signs of cracking when he would be replaced by the other. There wasn&rsquo;t any question of rivalry between Henry and Rayner. They were the closest of friends and partners in a camp for sport fishermen in the off-season.Years ago Conn Smythe used to get annoyed with Turk Broda, alleging that he was too fat to do a good job of goal-tending. He would bench Turk for a few games and&rsquo;replace him with another guy. One of the later was Phil Stein, who was nailed on the chin in a pre-game warmup by a shot off the stick of Billy Taylor.Turk, who was sitting upstairs with the paying customers and enjoying himself, was hastily summoned to the dressing room and was back at the old job by the time the game started.<h2>Only Hall Played Them All</h2>Only the Chicago Black Hawks came through last season without using more than one goalkeeper. Glenn Hall played the full 70-game schedule for the Hawks without relief.The goalkeeper admittedly has the most dangerous job in hockey and is under terrific pressure. Jacques Plante created a furore last season when he adopted a face mask as standard equipment. Coach Toe Blake was of two minds about the mask until Plante got hot for a long string of games.&ldquo;If he thinks it helps him, then I guess it does,&rdquo; Toe finally said.But all Plante had to do was look a bit shaky in a few games and the subject of the mask came up again. Yet Plante insisted the mask had nothing to do with shots eluding him and proved his point with his great performance in the playoffs.Boston had two goalkeepers last season in Harry Lumley and Don Simmons. Lumley worked 42 games and Simmons 28.&ldquo;I had that two-goalkeeper situation forced on me,&rdquo; Coach Milt Schmidt said after the Bruins failed to make the playoffs. &ldquo;I hope I never have to with it again.&rdquo;Early this month the Bruins traded Lumley to Winnipeg for Al Rollins, who promptly announced his retirement. Now the Bruins are reported to be trying to make a deal with the New York Rangers which would bring them Gump Worsley.<h2>The Embattled Gump Worsley</h2>Worsley is currently involved in a battle with Jack McCartan, the hero of the U.S. Olympic hockey victory, for the netminding job with the Rangers. For years Gump has been the whipping-boy of the Rangers, the fellow who was always blamed for their defeats. Once he was sent down to Springfield and astonished everybody by announcing that Eddie Shore was easy to get along with and he preferred to remain with the Springfield team rather than return to the Rangers.&ldquo;Shore never gets on my back like they do in New York,&rdquo; Gump declared. &ldquo;This is living.&rdquo;The Rangers never appreciated Gump until they saw the pucks go flying past Marcel Paille, his replacement. Gump was recalled, but it wasn&rsquo;t long before he suffered an injury that put him out of action for the rest of the season. He was replaced by Lanky Al Rollins, who gave way to Jack McCartan at the end of last season.Johnny Bower announced last spring that he wouldn&rsquo;t play another full season with the Toronto Leafs without regular relief. But the Leafs don&rsquo;t seem to have much confidence in Ed Chadwick, the fellow behind Bower, and the latter is still their No. 1 man.If a goalkeeper develops a persecution complex, it&rsquo;s easy to understand. Gump Worsley could tell you all about that. Jacques Plante remains in good mental health by declaring he&rsquo;s the best there is in the position and firmy believing it. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01431/1863357-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="357" height="412"></div>THE INTER NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded 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, President and PublisherLon Bramson, Editor-in-ChiefWill V. Cote, 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, 1879 Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Printed in CanadaVol. 14 MONTREAL, OCTOBER 8, 1960 No. 2&bull; GLENN HALL never played a better game than he did in the 14th annual NHL All-Star Game&hellip; The All-Star goalkeeper of the Chicago Black Hawks was simply phenomenal in the Stars&rsquo; nets as he thwarted Montreal&rsquo;s famed scoring power&hellip; It was Hall&rsquo;s great play that led the All-Star to the 2-1 win over the Canadiens in what many veteran observers regarded as one ot the best of these annual All-Star classics&hellip; The AllStar team that defeated Canadiens this year was a 100 percent better club than the one that was swamped by the Canucks, 6-1, a year ago&hellip; Andy Bathgate played a strong game for the Stars and looks like he&rsquo;s headed for another outstanding season &hellip; Pierre Pilote of Chicago played a standout game on defense and was selected as one of the stars of the game&hellip; Jacques Plante played an excellent game in goal for Montreal&hellip; Jean Beliveau, Dickie Moore and Claude Provost were other members of the Stanley Cup champs who stood out&hellip; Gordie Howe drew the biggest ovation when the teams were introduced between the first and second periods&hellip; Howe injured his knee in the first period when checked by Bob Turner and watched the last two periods from the press box&hellip; Sylvio Mantha, new member of Hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame, and Maurice Richard drew tremendous ovations when introduced between the second and third periods&hellip; Clarence Campbell deserves an accolade for the crisp and efficient manner in which he conducted the AllStar dinner the evening previous to the game&hellip; It was one of the fastest moving functions of its kind we&rsquo;ve ever attended&hellip; One of hockey&rsquo;s pioneer writers and a grand fellow in every way, Web Morse of the Christian Science Monitor in Boston, died last week&hellip; Webbie covered the Boston Bruins from the first and although he didn&rsquo;t write hockey as much in later years he was still a great fan and attended all the Bruin home games and many of their practices. He was a frequent visitor to the Bruins&rsquo; publicity offices&hellip; Genial Jim Hendy of the Cleveland Barons took in the All-Star Game&hellip; Hendy, one of hockey&rsquo;s really dedicated men, seldom misses any kind of a hockey function&hellip; Ed Houston, president of the Eastern Professional Hockey League, was also in attendance.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02397/1863350-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="283" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glenn Hall</figcaption></div>&bull; MONTREAL CANADIENS have had only eight captains since 1909-10&hellip; The first captain was Jack Laviolette&hellip; Next in order were Newsy Lalonde, Sprague Cleghorn, Sylvio Mantha, Toe Blake, Butch Bouchard, Maurice Richard and the newly appointed captain, Doug Harvey&hellip; Mantha and Blake hold the long range captaincy record &hellip; Each spent 10 seasons as the Habs&rsquo; skipper &hellip; Jack Adams took such a shine to a young Detroit pianist by the name of Mike Quatro that he took him out West on the Red Wings recent 10-game tour&hellip; Apparently Mike would entertain the Detroit players with his keyboard wizardy at every opportunity &hellip; Elliott Trumbull, Detroit publicist, was being kidded about this at the All-Star Game &hellip; Some of the boys wanted to know if Adams planned to install a piano in the Wings&rsquo; dressing room and have Mike play for the players between periods &hellip; Trumbull is so devoted to the Red Wings that he&rsquo;s just ordered a Corvette automobile the same color red as the Wings&rsquo; Jerseys &hellip; Terry Sawchuk has added 15 pounds since the end of last season and looks better than he has for years &hellip; Detroit will carry two goalies this year&hellip; Hank Bassen will be with the team in addition to Sawchuk &hellip; Bert Olmstead, the Saskatchewan farmer and forward of the Toronto Maple Leafs, stored 2,000 bustels of flax seed before leaving his farm to report to the Leafs&rsquo; training camp&hellip; The cagey Olmstead is waiting for the price to go up seeing as to how he isn&rsquo;t pressed for money&hellip; Bobby Hull&rsquo;s mother is still in hospital as a result of injuries received when Bobby&rsquo;s boat exploded and caught fire last summer. Mrs. Hull&rsquo;s injuries were much more severe than first expected&hellip; Dallas Smith, the 18-year-old defenseman with the Boston Bruins, has impressed railbirds at the Bruins practices and in pre-season games&hellip; Some think Smith holds the key in a way to the Bruins chances this season&hellip; If Smith continues to play well and is a bonafide success as a defenseman it will mean that Doug Mohns can play regularly at left wing&hellip; Lynn Patrick believes the most improved department of the Bruins right now is defense &hellip; Patrick may play Smith with 22-year-old Aut Erickson, which would give the Bruins the youngest defense pair in the loop &hellip; Leo Boivin, Bob Armstrong and Capt. Gern Flaman round out the Boston blueline brigade.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03321/1863343-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="241" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo Boivin</figcaption></div>&bull; MAURICE RICHARD will do considerable radio and TV work in Montreal this season &hellip; Richard now weighs close to 220 pounds &hellip; Ted Lindsay has landed his own TV show in Windsor&hellip; He will have a 15-minute show prior to each Saturday night game&hellip; Dave Keon, the fine center with Toronto St. Mikes last season, appears to have clinched a post with the Maple Leafs&hellip; Bob Nevin, a strong right winger who played with Rochester last year, also looks like he will make the Leafs this term&hellip; When Chicago Black Hawks open the season against Detroit on October 5, Glenn Hall will be playing his 351st consecutive National Hockey League game &hellip; The 29-year-old Hall is starting his fourth season with Chicago after two years with Detroit&hellip; Glenn has added a bit of weight since last season ended and he appears to be carrying it well&hellip; Rene Plante, 6&rsquo;3&rdquo;, kid brother of Canadiens&rsquo; Jacques Plante, will play right wing for the Montreal Royals &hellip; Conn Smythe rates Los Angeles as a hockey gold mine&hellip; &ldquo;This is a hockey gold mine but there&rsquo;s a lot of hard work to be done before we put an NHL team in this city&rdquo;, Smythe told Red Burnett of the Toronto Star&hellip; &ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to be a young man starting in this town, with this arena and with people as hungry for hockey as these folks&rdquo;, added Smythe&hellip; Be sure to order your NHL Press and Radio Guide early as there is a limited supply of these books.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04264/1863336-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="236" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Keon</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

MONTREAL, Que. &mdash; Rinkside fans at the Forum this year may not be seeing any new players when the 1960-61 season opens, but they will be safer.The protective plastic that shields fans at both ends of the rink has been extended along the sides of the ice. Although rinksiders won&rsquo;t have to worry about flying pucks or slashing sticks they may need a television set to see what&rsquo;s going on at the other end of the rink on their own side.Previously, fans used to lean over the boards to get a good look at the action down the ice, but not anymore. &#9632;

Forum Fans At Rinkside To See Games Through Plastic

MONTREAL. Que. &mdash; Doug Harvey, the peerless defenseman and senior player in the National Hockey League, is the Montreal Canadiens new captain.The 35-year-old boyish-looking Harvey succeeds the retiring Maurice Richard and is only the eighth Canadien ever to wear the letter &ldquo;C&rdquo; in the upper lefthand corner of his sweater.But for Harvey&rsquo;s own vote, his selection would have been unanimous. Harvey disclosed he voted for Bernie (Boom-Boom) Geoffrion. &#9632;

Hab Players Vote For Doug To Replace Rock As Captain

<div class="byline">By DICK BACON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02354/1863512-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Understudy And The StarBilly Hicke, right, who has drawn the huge task of filling Maurice Richard&rsquo;s post with the Canadiens, gets some solid advice from the old pro while enjoying a snack.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;When the Montreal Canadiens take the ice against the Toronto Maple Leafs Thursday night, Oct. 6, they will present almost exactly the same team that won an unprecedented fifth consecutive Stanley Cup championship last spring.Gone are the incomparable Maurice (Rocket) Richard (into retirement) and youthful left winger Ab McDonald (traded to Chicago), but the same powerful crew &mdash; minus any rookies &mdash; will be wearing the Blue-Blanche-Rouge and fighting to bring a fourth straight National Hockey League flag and a sixth consecutive world championship to the Forum.As coach Toe Blake puts it:&ldquo;The only change we made this year is our trainer &mdash; Andy Galley takes over for Hector Dubois who retired&rdquo;.In the Rocket&rsquo;s right wing spot alongside brother Henri and Dickie Moore will be a speedy younster who scored over 50 goals for Rochester of the American Hockey League two years ago, Billy (The Kid) Hicke. He started the 195960 season with the Canadiens, suffered an injured foot, was sent down to the minors and then finished the season with Les Habitants.&ldquo;He really hasn&rsquo;t had a chance to show what he can do&rdquo;, says Blake. &ldquo;After all, anyone who can score 50 goals in the American League ought to do pretty well in this league. He didn&rsquo;t get too much of a chance last year but this year is going to be different&rdquo;.And that&rsquo;s the main reason the Canadiens decided not to keep any of the several rookies who looked well during training camp.&ldquo;We feel that it&rsquo;s better that these youngsters are playing all the time with a minor league team than sitting on the bench in the NHL&rdquo;, Blake explained. &ldquo;First, we want to find out if some of the players we already have on the team are National Hockey League players. If they&rsquo;re not, then we know we have some talented youngsters that are ready to step in and take over. But it&rsquo;s not fair to the youngster to keep him on this team and not play him &hellip; it&rsquo;s too easv to break his spirit&rdquo;.<h2>Kids Made Vets Hustle</h2>Blake feels indebted to the rookies who turned out for the Montreal camp this year, however.&ldquo;If it wasn&rsquo;t for some of these kids, we&rsquo;d have had a real dull training camp. They made some of the veterans hustle &hellip; and some of them needed it.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03283/1863505-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="571" height="1140"><figcaption class="caption-body">Slow In Showing FormBOOM BOOM GEOFFRION</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04207/1863498-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="571" height="1170"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICKIE MOORE</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Fellas like left winger Gilles Tremblay, defensemen J.-C. Tremblay (no relation) and Terry Harper up from the Regina Juniors&hellip; Wayne Connelly, a right winger who looked so good with the Peterborough Juniors and then with the Montreal Royals in the Eastern League playoffs and young Bobby Rousseau, another junior up from the Brockville Canadiens&rdquo;.&ldquo;That Rousseau was the real surprise of the camp. He played everywhere on the forward line and did everything we asked of him&rdquo;, Blake said.Rousseau was farmed out to the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens in the EHL along with the two Tremblays. Connelly was sent down to the Royals along with Tarper.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a step up for all of them and we&rsquo;ll be interested to see how they do&rdquo;, Blake continued. &ldquo;After all, if they can&rsquo;t make the grade there they certainly can&rsquo;t make it here&rdquo;.The Canadiens were slightly lethargic in unleashing their reputed offensive power during the early part of their exhibition games. In fact, they dropped a 2-1 decision to the Hull-Ottawa farmhands and then had to struggle to down Rochester of the AHL three days later on their own Forum ice, Sept. 25.However, the following night at the new Paul Sauve Center, a standing room only crowd of more than 5,200 saw the Canadiens break out in a rash of goals and defeat the Quebec Aces, 8-1. Big Jean Beliveau, has shown signs of his late season form of last year when he was the hottest scorer in the league until he was injured and lost any chance he had of catching Bobby Hull and Bronco Horvath in the scoring race.Teamed with veteran linemate Marcel Bonin and rookie Connelly he and the 20-year-old Peterborough youngster broke out in a string of goal during the exhibitions.Blake, however, was somewhat concerned with the showing of Bernie (Boom-Boom) Geoffrion and Dickie Moore, both former NHL scoring champions. The two veteran forwards were slow rounding into form and Blake was scratching his head seeking a solution. &#9632;

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“Billy-The-Kid” Gets 1st Shot At Filling Rocket’s Big Boots

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01387/1863467-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Key Guy In Hub ChaseDON SIMMONS</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Lynn Patrick holds the opinion that the eventual position of the Boston Bruins this season will depend on the quality of their goalkeeping.On the basis of that reasoning the Bruins&rsquo; manager cites as the key figure in his team&rsquo;s plans a 28-year old goalkeeper from Monson, Mass.That&rsquo;s Don Simmons, attempting for the fourth season to establish himself as the Bruins&rsquo; full-time goalie.It was in January of 1957 that the Bruins acquired Simmons from Springfield of the American League and named him the successor to the departed Terry Sawchuk.Since then a combination of events has placed a halfdozen other athletes in the Bruins&rsquo; nets besides Simmons.Said Patrick in sizing up the Bruins&rsquo; prospects before they left on a 9,000-mile, three-week road trip, &ldquo;How high we finish this season depends on Simmons.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not one of those people who thinks a goalkeeper can make a team a winner all by himself &ldquo;, he said. &ldquo;The full year Sawchuk played here he never played better. But we didn&rsquo;t have a good team so we finished fifth.&ldquo;But we lost games a year ago which we never should have lost, which we would have won with better goalkeeping. I&rsquo;m not saying that in a critical sense, I&rsquo;m speaking from the record.&ldquo;Harry&rsquo; Lumley played most of our games last season, Simmons the rest. Now we&rsquo;re giving Don a clear crack at the job. If he can do the job he&rsquo;ll hold it &mdash; and we&rsquo;ll do all right&rdquo;.It has been no secret here that Simmons would probably be with another organization than the Bruins now had a summertime trade materialized. Patrick told hockey writers here about it when the Bruins began pre-season training.&ldquo;We were all set for a trade with New York when Al Rollins announced he was retiring&rdquo;, Patrick told the press. &ldquo;The Rangers insisted on having Rollins to back up Jack McCartan. When we couldn&rsquo;t produce Rollins the trade fell through. We would have gotten Gump Worsley. and Simmons would have gone to New York&rdquo;.<h2>Don Looks Better, Attitude Is Good</h2>Coach Milt Schmidt and Patrick have been critical in the past of Simmons&rsquo; lack of consistency. He has blinded the Montreal Canadiens one night, they say, then been blinded by some less talented team the next night.But dapper Don has been making a good try for a permanent grip on his position.The Bruins had been practicing barely a week when Schmidt praised him, saying, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never seen him look as good or bear down as hard as he has been this fall. His attitude has been very good&rdquo;.Before departing on the long trip to the Pacific Coast and back with which they have prefaced their home opening here, the Bruins optioned Simmons&rsquo; competitor to Providence. Bruce Gamble, 22, was sent to the Reds subject to immediate recall. The adjective is applicable, since the distance between Boston and Providence is only 40 miles.Gamble also created a good impression in training camp here. There&rsquo;s little doubt but that he&rsquo;s Simmons&rsquo; understudy. Should the masked veteran fail, the chunky youngster seems likely to succeed him.Some people close to Simmons figure Don is due for some good breaks, good enough for him to be the Bruins&rsquo; steady goalie. Surely, he has his share of injuries, spread over three seasons. Patrick&rsquo;s clearing of the field for him here, they feel, has given him confidence.But Simmons is playing under pressure, obviously. He has to win his status here. By naming him as the &ldquo;make or break&rdquo; man Patrick certainly isn&rsquo;t increasing the pressure, he&rsquo;s just stating a fact.The Bruins, says the manager, will finish where the goalkeeper guides them. And the goalkeeper, of moment, at least, is Simmons. &#9632;

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Lynn Fingers Simmons — From Beginning He’ll Be Guide To Boston’s End

<div class="byline">JIM PROUDFOOT (In The Toronto Star)</div><h2>How To Lose $6,000</h2>For a young man who&rsquo;s just had his pocket picked, Ab McDonald is in a cheerful frame of mind these days.When he was peddled by Montr&eacute;al Canadiens last May, the effect was the same as if a cutpurse had jostled him on a crowded street corner and lifted $6,000 from his change-purse. It&rsquo;s worth that much in bonuses each year just to be a member of Les Canadiens.The team finishing first during the National Hockey league schedule receives $1,000 per man out of the league vault. Players collect another $750 apiece for winning a Stanley Cup semi-final and can add $1,250 by helping fetch home the cup itself.All these things have become automatic for the larger-than-life Montrealers. And since management there has the engaging habit of matching league gifts like these, it can work out to $6,000 annually, even if the seat of your pants is shiny from polishing the same spot down at the end of the bench.Ab was a Montreal regular throughout the 1958-59 season &mdash; after replacing Bert Olmstead at left wing in the &rsquo;58 playdowns, thereby making him available for the Maple Leafs&mdash;and again last winter. However, as the 1959-60 schedule unravellled. Ab began to log more and more hours as a spectator and fewer and fewer as a player. By February, it was common knowledge that he was to be traded or sold in the spring. The whispers even were accurate where Ab would wind up. He was destined to go where all dispensable Canadiens go&mdash;to Chicago stadium.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01457/1863591-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="556" height="877"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ab McDonald</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Sure, I&rsquo;d heard the rumors,&rdquo; Ab admitted at the Black Hawks&rsquo; camp this week. &ldquo;I figured they were true, too. If I had to go, I preferred to go to the club we figured was the toughest in the league. At times last year, they looked like the strongest of all, but don&rsquo;t forget Canadiens were playing just well enough to stay 10 or 15 points in front. Look what happened when they met Chicago in the playoffs.&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t be telling the truth if I said I wasn&rsquo;t sorry to leave Montreal. Those cup bonuses were nice to get. I could go for another one next spring, too. What the heck, Canadiens can be beaten&mdash;but not if they&rsquo;re playing hockey. Weakness? I don&rsquo;t know of one.&rdquo;<h2>Did The Fans Drive Ab Out ?</h2>The story goes that McDonald&rsquo;s usefulness to Canadiens was affected by his unpopularity with the Forum &ldquo;fervents.&rdquo; The hostility began in the fall of 1958 when Ab displaced Marcel Bonin, a popular native son. Letters were sent to Canadiens&rsquo; owner, Senator Molson, saying people would stop consuming his ale if Marcel weren&rsquo;t returned from the minor leagues. Ab, an unspectacular digger on hockey&rsquo;s most stylish team, couldn&rsquo;t combat that kind of loyalty.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t feel I was unpopular&mdash;or popular, either,&rdquo; Ab says. &ldquo;I was nothing. Last season, I seldom got on the ice, so I couldn&rsquo;t prove I was great or lousy. I&rsquo;m not mad about that, though. Those people didn&rsquo;t get on top by making mistakes, and if they didn&rsquo;t feel they could use me, I can&rsquo;t argue too much. I could hardly expect them to sit out Dickie Moore and put me in at left wing. I&rsquo;ve just got to go to work and prove they were wrong to let me go&mdash;not to make them feel bad, but for my own good.&ldquo;Management in Montreal always treated me very well and I was happy there. Of course, it&rsquo;s easy to be good-natured when you&rsquo;re in first place.&ldquo;I suppose things could be just as pleasant in last place. But 1 doubt it. I don&rsquo;t care if I ever find out, either.&rdquo;The notion is hard to shake, although both front offices deny it, that McDonald was destined to become a Black Hawk long before Canadiens sewed up Stanley Cup No. 5 last April. Anyway, just before the other NHL clubs could get in a bid, Ab was swapped along with minor leaguers Bob Courcy and Reg Fleming in exchange for a novelty package that contained Glen Skov, who was to become playercoach of Montreal&rsquo;s Hull-Ottawa farm team, plus options to buy Lorne Ferguson, Bob Bailey and Danny Lewicki, plus cash, much of which would be reclaimed when the options were exercised.St. Catherines&rsquo; Garden City arena, where Hawks train, was familiar territory, for Ab played there with the junior TeePees in 1955 and 1956. Canadiens wanted to move him east from Winnipeg in &rsquo;55, but they were allowed only one transfer from the west for their own junior club. Leo Konyk already was with the teen-age Habs. So Canadiens were receptive when Rudy Pilous suggested they move McDonald to St. Kitts.During the intervening years, Rudy moved up to Chicago and so did Moose Vasko, who was McDonald&rsquo;s roommate on TeePee road trips.&ldquo;So it wasn&rsquo;t,&rdquo; says Ab, &ldquo;like going to play with a bunch of strangers or enemies. It was a sort of a homecoming, in fact.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Speaking On Sport

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02338/1863622-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Young Man With A BeefEDDIE SHOCK</figcaption></div>NEW YORY, N.Y.&mdash;If Eddie Shack could un-nerve NHL goaltenders as much as he distracts his employers, there&rsquo;d be more smiles on the third floor of Madison Square Garden.Shack, who is as unpredictable as a woman driver with her hand out of the window, opened the Fall season like an ambitious and sensible hockey player.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve fooled around enough&rdquo;, he said and since his tongue was not in cheek, everybody believed him.This delighted coach Alf Pike and vice president Muzz Patrick because Shack was designated as the man most likely to take Dean Prentice&rsquo;s place while the Rangers&rsquo; leading scorer recovers from his knee operation.&ldquo;Shack&rsquo;s been one of our best players on the ice so far&rdquo;. Pike said during training camp. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s skating, shooting and checking well. And he&rsquo;s listening&rdquo;.One of Pike&rsquo;s and former coach Phil Watson&rsquo;s gripes about Shack was his refusal to listen to instructions. Had Shack reformed?&ldquo;This is the year for me to do something&rdquo;, the 23-year old left wing said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s time I get into the big money and believe me, you don&rsquo;t play this game for nothing&rdquo;.<h2>Wants A Raise In Pay</h2>While Shock&rsquo;s oration seemed innocent enough, it turned out to be a clue for a sudden change in behavior. There was money on his mind.When the Blueshirts broke camp and headed for New York, Shack was not aboard. He didn&rsquo;t play in the exhibition game against Chicago in Kitchener and returned to his Sudbury home. He refused to sign a contract.&ldquo;He wants a raise in salary&rdquo;, said Patrick. &ldquo;As far as I&rsquo;m concerned he can go home any time&rdquo;.Patrick was perplexed at Shack&rsquo;s reasoning.During the 1958-59 season Shack scored a sorry seven goals and then demanded a raise in salary at camp last Fall. During the 1959-60 season, he scored eight goals, an increase of one over his previous output. Apparently, he felt that this was enough to merit an increase. But Patrick did not.Holdouts are nothing new to Patrick. In most cases, the players come to terms before the opening game. Shack is not expected to be any different&hellip; except that you never can be certain with Shack.Last year he had his bosses in such a tizzy they finally threw up their hands said &ldquo;enough&rdquo;. They disptached Shack to Detroit with Bill Gadsby in exchange for Red Kelly and Billy McNeil. When the deal misfired, both returned to Broadway.Many players including Captain Red Sullivan felt that Shack would mature this year. So did Eddie, himself, after working with Andy Bathgate and Brian Cullen during training.&ldquo;Playing with the same two guys all the time is bound to help me&rdquo;, Shack said. &ldquo;You know what to expect all the time, you get used to the other fellows and you&rsquo;re sure of getting a look at the puck, too. Not like when you&rsquo;re the odd man added to another line&rdquo;.Shack said he felt &ldquo;good&rdquo;. &ldquo;I hope and pray that this is the big year for me&rdquo;, he added. Then, he went home.The brass hopes and prays he changes his mind about holding out and plays the kind of hockey his potential promises.RANGERABILIA : So far there appears to be no radio broadcasts or the televising of any Ranger home games on the 1960-61 schedule &hellip; Gump Worsley reported to camp at a rotund 185 pounds but quickly slimmed to 176 and says he expects to be at 173 during the season &hellip; The Gump was never publicially admonished by coach Alf Pike. Quite a turn from other years when Watson was on his back&hellip; Larry Popein recovered quickly from a broken bone in his hand&hellip; If Shack balks too long, on or off the ice, the Blues may try to trade him again&hellip; Worsley continues to nix suggestions that he wear a face mask. &ldquo;The guy who wears a mask is scared&rdquo;, Gump was quoted as saying &hellip; With Worsley and McCartan on hand for practices, it looks as if TV-director Arnee Nocks will have to retire as Blues&rsquo; workout goalie &hellip; Hockey&rsquo;s drawing power in New York will be severely tested on Oct. 5th. The Rangers open the same day as the World Series&rsquo; first game &hellip; Harry Howell reportedly was the best conditioned Ranger in camp. Could be the many-muscled defenseman is ready for his finest season. Last year, Harry quietly won over critics with solid work on the backline. &#9632;

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Low Scoring Eddie Lounges At Home Waiting For Higher Wages

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;If the Chicago Black Hawks are to move up in the National Hockey League standings this year they will have to add more scoring punch.This is the appraisal of General Manager Tommy Ivan and Coach Rudy Pilous as the Hawks headed into the NHL opener against Detroit in Chicago Stadium on Oct. 5.Their goal: a minimum of 200 goals during the 1960-61 season.The Black Hawks finished third the past two seasons &mdash; scoring the same number of points, 69, both years.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01408/1863653-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="253" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Hay</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Our major aim for the coming season is to stay where we were last year in goals against and to improve in goals scored. Even an increase of five per cent would give us the 10 goals needed to reach the 200 mark&rdquo;, said General Manager Ivan.&ldquo;We feel we have made improvements toward this end during the off season. Whether we will move up in the standings or not depends on how much the other clubs have improved&rdquo;.The Black Hawks were fourth in the NHL in team scoring last season with 191 goals. They fell off early in the season when the &ldquo;Pappy Line&rdquo; of Ed Litzenberger, Tod Sloan and Ted Lindsay failed to get untracked. They picked up with the Bobby Hull-Red Hay Murray Balfour line which led the Hawk drive to its third place finish over the second half of the year. Hull, of course, topped the the league in scoring with 39 goals and Hay and Balfour each hit for 18 goals.The Black Hawk management looks for its increase in goals scored from the following areas :1&mdash;The Hull-Hay-Balfour line, which is more experienced and will be together from the start of the season.2&mdash;Ab McDonald, the big left winger obtained from Montreal in the off-season. McDonald has totaled only 22 goals in two seasons with Canadiens but has not seen a great deal of action. The Chicago management is high on his potential. McDonald has been working on a line with Stan Mikita and Ken Wharram during training camp.3&mdash;Ed Litzenberger, a 30-plus goal scorer for three seasons who dropped to 12 goals last year because of a slow start and an automobile accident which kept him out of action from mid-January until the last nine games of the season. Litz, a right winger the last three years, has been shifted to center during training camp with Ron Murphy on left wing adn Eric Nesterenko on right wing.Last year the Black Hawks allowed only 180 goals to be scored against them. This was only two more than were scored against league champion Montreal Canadiens and it wasn&rsquo;t until the final weekend of the season that Montreal goalie Jacques Plante nosed out Chicago goalie Glenn Hall for the Vezina Trophy.Chicago&rsquo;s defense corps is anchored by Hall, who was spectacular last season and particularly over the first part of the year. He was named to the National Hockey League all-star team and was third in the Hart Trophy balloting for the league&rsquo;s most valuable player award.Key defense pair for the Black Hawks is Elmer (Moose) Vasko and Pete Pilote, one of the best tandems in the league. Veterans Jack Evans, Dollard St. Laurent and Al Arbour rounded out the defense corps last season and this year the Black Hawks have had three outstanding youngsters battling them for jobs at training camp in Reg Fleming, Doug Barkley and Rino Robazza. &#9632;

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Ivan Lists Litz, Ab And Million $$ Kids Key To Bigger Things

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02374/1863691-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Much Depends On HimBobby Hull, NHL scoring champion is being counted on to carry the brunt of the Chicago attack this season. He signed His NHL contract last week after much discussion with the Chi management.Bobby was also named &lsquo;the most exciting player&rsquo; of the year last season.</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Coach Sid Abel sees more zest, more talent, more speed and more youth in the Red Wings this season.And by deduction, it should mean a higher finish for the Detroiters who just squeaked into fourth place last spring.&ldquo;Take the roster we started with last fall,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;We had Billy McNeill, Jack McIntyre, Barry Cullen, Jim Morrison and Red Kelly. All are gone now.&ldquo;This fall we&rsquo;ve added Howie Glover, Parker MacDonald, Allan Johnson, Gerry Odrowski, and Marc Reaume is with us right from the start.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03293/1863698-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="217" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">John McKenzie</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Glover has fitted in real well at right wing with Gary Aidcorn and Normie Ullman on the second line. Johnson and MacDonald have shown that they can skate and score.&ldquo;John McKenzie is flying now and healthy,&rdquo; Abel went on. The solid right winger was missed in the latter part of the season because of a knee injury. But he also was running out of gas in earlier games.General manager Jack Adams sent McKenzie to the hospital for a checkup and it was discovered that he had a low-grade undulin fever that sapped his energy. He spent three weeks getting treatments.A major development in the Wings&rsquo; plans for 1960-61 is to carry a second goalie, Hank Bassen.&ldquo;Goal doesn&rsquo;t worry me,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;If Terry (Sawchuk) doesn&rsquo;t feel good we won&rsquo;t have to rush around trying to find a goal tender at the last minute.&rdquo;Abel and Adams maintain that Sawchuk is the best goalie around &ldquo;when he&rsquo;s on.&rdquo;But Terry&rsquo;s two sessions with neuritis last season have made the Wings adopt the Boy Scouts&rsquo; &ldquo;Be Prepared&rdquo; motto.Sawchuk first was disabled on the eve of the Thanksgiving Day game. Adams spent the holiday getting Gilles Boisvert off a Cleveland Barons&rsquo; bus in New York and to Olympia in time for the game.Sawchuk missed three games that time&mdash;the Wings lost all three, two to Montreal and one to Toronto but not too much the fault of Boisvert&mdash;and then was sidelined for nine more in February. Detroit lost six of those starts.Bassen, 27-year-old Calgary native, was drafted by the Wings from New York in June. It&rsquo;s his second stint with the Wings. He originally was traded to Detroit by Chicago in 1957 in the Ted Lindsay-Glenn Hall swap and then Detroit swapped him to Springfield for Gerry Ehman in 1958.Bassen was acclaimed as the top goalie in the Western League last season, better than Detroit&rsquo;s own Dennis Riggin who stood between the Edmonton pipes. Bassen had a 2.48 goals against average for Vancouver in 69 games. He&rsquo;s played a total of 33 NHL games, all for Chicago, with one shutout and a 3.18 goals against mark.&ldquo;If it looks like Terry is getting tired, we&rsquo;ll put Bassen in for awhile,&rdquo; Abel said.Part of Abel&rsquo;s optimism for 1960-61 is the expectation that last year&rsquo;s prize new-comers, center Murray Oliver and Aidcorn, will be even better with a year&rsquo;s experience. Oliver clicked off 20 goals as a rookie and Aidcorn 22.The Wings&rsquo; prime shortcoming the past three seasons has been the inability to score. But Abel and Adams figure they&rsquo;re got the men who can find more goals.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04223/1863684-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="1147" height="987"><figcaption class="caption-body">Boardod By A FanDefenseman Pete Goegan, right talks with a Detroit fan during training camp. He&rsquo;s one of the most improved on the Wings and is expected to add heft to the defense.</figcaption></div>Detroit proved it in the exhibition season, rattling off goals by the bucketsful. Granted, they didn&rsquo;t play an NHL team in the rugged 12-game schedule, but even the strain of playing 10 games on 11 nights in 10 different cities didn&rsquo;t slow down the scoring.Abel wasn&rsquo;t set on his line combinations when the club headed out on its western tour. The only unchanged from the start of camp was the Aldcorn-Ullman-Glover line.Val Fonteyne was moved up to left wing on the No. 1 line with Oliver and Gordie Howe for his &ldquo;homecoming&rdquo; appearance at Seattle, Fonteyne responded with the &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; and then triggered two more goals the next night against Victoria at Pentiction, B.C.Tom McCarthy, second high scorer in the Eastern Professional League last season with 48 goals and 62 assists, was installed on the Howe line when camp opened and he notched two goals in the first exhibition game. He was since be sent to Sudbury of the EPHL.Fonteyne could be the surprise player of the season for Detroit. The hard-working left winger impressed the bosses with his drive and play throughout the training session.Jerry Melnyk, who centered the Fonteyne-McKenzie line, also is looked to for a steadier performance.Defense makes Adams shine more than anything else.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got some guys who can hit and who will hit&rdquo;, said Adams who was of the bust-em school himself. &ldquo;Pete Goegan will make mistakes but I think he&rsquo;s greatly improved.&ldquo;And Reaume is anxious to play. We may not have the greatest defense in the world but at least it will do some checking&rdquo;.Adams has strongly implied that some of his recent rearguards weren&rsquo;t always around when there was checking to be done or that they were in a trance when the opposition cruised across the blue line.Adams and Abel concede that Montreal is the best in the league and that Chicago is moving well. But they feel that they can pass up Toronto and stay ahead of New York and Boston. &#9632;

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Wings Defense Will Be Hit-Em One This Season

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>(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.&mdash;The King is gone, long live the Kings&rdquo; is the theme in Montreal today as Les Canadiens attempt, for the first time in 18 years, to win an NHL championship without Maurice Richard.Can Canadiens, the Kings, maintain their rule without the supreme monarch of the ice, Richard ? What effect will the Rocket&rsquo;s retirement have on the Montreal players, individually and collectively ?These are the questions confronting Frank Selke and his aides as Canadiens begin their quest for a sixth consecutive Stanley Cup.Maurice Richard was more than the greatest scorer in history, the man who personally was responsible for much of Canadiens&rsquo; supremacy in a material sense. The Rocket also played an important role as spiritual leader of the Flying Frenchmen and it is his loss in this realy which could affect the Canadiens most.He epitomized the pride of the &ldquo;Bleu, Blanc et Rouge.&rdquo; Richard&rsquo;s quest for excellence and nothing less, his gripping hatred for defeat was contagious to a point where it affected every member of the team.He was so much a part of Canadiens that it is difficult to imagine the Montreal club without Maurice Richard.Yet, potent as he was, few believe that Richard&rsquo;s retirement will leave more than a small dent in the Canadiens&rsquo; scoring machine. This was proven in the past three years when, each time the Rocket was sidelined, the champions suffered little without him.Richard&rsquo;s substitutes were Don Marshall, Bill Hicke and Ralph Backstrom. Marshall and Backstrom were effective and, because of their youth, adjusted to the swift-skating Henri Richard and Dickie Moore. Hicke was mediocre.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01442/1863750-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="283" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard&hellip; Spiritual Leader</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02375/1863743-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="263" height="476"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Beliveau&hellip; Ripe For Role</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03297/1863736-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="255" height="474"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dickie Moore&hellip; Has The Fire</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04231/1863729-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="273" height="484"><figcaption class="caption-body">Henri Richard&hellip; On His wn</figcaption></div>It is felt that coach Toe Blake would prefer Hicke or Backstrom as the Rocket&rsquo;s replacement, provided that they show promise of capability. If neither satisfy, old reliable Marshall will be called and likely will fit in as comfortably as he has in the past.In neither case will Blake have the sure-fire goal potential that the Rocket promised, but the young legs have more backchecking ability and therefore will give Moore and Henri Richard more scoring freedom than they enjoyed with the slowed-up Rocket.Because of his inimitablbe ability and personality, Maurice Richard usurped attention that ordinarily would have fallen on luminaries such as Jean Beliveau, Bernie Geoffrion, Moore and Henri Richard.With the Rocket gone, it would seem that Beliveau will be the recognized top scoring threat of the Canadiens and the man to rescue Montreal in time of crisis. At 29 and with seven years NHL experience behind him, Beliveau is ripe for the role of leader and the abuse that goes with it. But Montreal is so laden with talent, that the Geoffrions, Moores, et. al. will make the burden considerably easier for Beliveau to bear.Of interest will be the manner in which young Henri Richard emerges as an individual without his older brother on right wing. One suspects that the &ldquo;Pocket&rdquo;, already proven as a courageous competent little man, will develop into a star of his brother&rsquo;s rank. Certainly, Henri has shown that he can get along without Maurice very well.It might seem that nobody could substitute for the Rocket as team captain and leader. This is a miscalculation. Doug Harvey has the disposition and the experience to handle the role with ease.The void which Blake will have difficulty filling will be spiritual. Richard was a passionate fighter with an insatiable thirst for goals. There isn&rsquo;t a player on Canadiens, with the possible exception of Dickie Moore, who comes close to displaying these qualities.The onus will be on Blake to keep his five-time winners champing for a sixth Cup. He will have to energize Beliveau, keep Geoffrion hopping, and see to it that Plante does not get careless. At the same time, he will have to substitute for the Rocket&rsquo;s spirit.This will not be easy because humans with Richard&rsquo;s zest for winning appear only once in a lifetime.Phil Watson once summed up the feeling about the Rocket when he was asked whether he would want an elderly Richard on the Rangers. &ldquo;Sure,&rdquo; said Watson. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d put him in a glass case in Madison Square Garden and tell people to come and look at the greatest hockey player who ever lived.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Can Toe Replace Rocket’s Desire To Score And Win?

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Two cowboys who began playing in combination at the tail-end of last season have made the defense corps the Boston Bruins&rsquo; most improved department this fall.The cowboys are Dallas Smith and Autry Erickson.Smith, 18, and Erickson, 22, comprise the youngest defense combination in the National League.Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; manager, thinks they also add substantially to the Bruins&rsquo; defense strength.&ldquo;Asked to name the department in which the Bruins look the most improved, Patrick replied, &ldquo;The defense, because of Smith and Erickson.&ldquo;They played five games together last spring, after Smith came up from Estevan,&rdquo; related Patrick, &ldquo;and I felt then that they would make us stronger on defense this season.&ldquo;After watching them, and watching Leo Boivin, Bob Armstrong and Ferny Flaman, in our exhibition games this fall I&rsquo;m confident we&rsquo;re considerably stronger on defense than we were a year ago at this time.&rdquo;Milt Schmidt, Bruin&rsquo;s coach, has been rotating his five defensemen from a basic two-pairs setup.Boivin, 28, and Armstrong, 29, played as a unit a year ago, when Armstrong had his best NHL season, even though he wasn&rsquo;t named to the all-star team.Schmidt has been playing the two veterans and the two youngsters as pairs and using Flaman with any and all, as circumstances have dictated. At 32 Ferny is the dean of the Bruins.&ldquo;Flaman was a pretty tired fellow the latter part of last seasan,&rdquo; Patrick pointed out. &ldquo;After all, he&rsquo;s no longer a boy.&ldquo;But using him the way he has been Milt can get more mileage out of Ferny&rsquo;s experience and aggressiveness. He has no superior at protecting a goalkeeper when his team is short-handed.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06139/1863781-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="523" height="523"><figcaption class="caption-body">Off The BenchAutry Erickson</figcaption></div>Smith, a solidly built 187-pounder, came in from the junior East-evan (Sask.) Bruins on a look-see basis last year and played five games. The five were enough to convince most of those watching him that he has unusual ability.And only a few pre-season practices and exhibition games this fall were needed to show that his brief experience of last spring had increased Smith&rsquo;s poise and confidence.Erickson, a 180-pound from Lethbridge, Manitoba, spent most of last year on the Bruins&rsquo; bench. When his opportunity of playing regularly came he made the most of it.Boivin, the NHL&rsquo;s hardest bodychecker and Armstrong, the Bruins&rsquo; number two &ldquo;policeman&rdquo; behind Flaman, have been overshadowed slightly by the youngsters so far, but that&rsquo;s what Schmidt expected.&ldquo;The other two got the fast starts young players usually get,&rdquo; said the Bruins&rsquo; coach, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;m satisfied with the way Boivin, Armstrong and Flaman have come along. I feel as Lynn does, that we&rsquo;re definitely stronger on defense.&rdquo;The Dallas-Autry combination has given the wits a chance to show their stuff here. One points out that the only logical pass play the two can make is Autry to Dallas.Erickson acquired his name as a result of a family admiration for Gene Autry, singing hero of countless television and movie westerns. But Smith knows of no connection between his first name and the Texas metropolis which is called &ldquo;Big D.&rdquo; On the basis of the husky defenseman&rsquo;s prospective ability, however, Dallas may be delighted to consider him an adopted son shortly.The Bruins had some other promising defensemen in their training camp here, prompting Patrick to observe, &ldquo;We should be set for defensemen for the next several years.&rdquo;Besides Erickson and Smith, who have made the varsity, other young defensemen of talent include Barry Ashbee, Ted Green, Tom Thurlby, Ken Stephenson and Dale Rolfe.Green, the last player to be cut, is a 20-year old with the knack of bodychecking. He has been optioned to the Winnipeg Warriors.Ashby, Thurlby and Rolfe are with the Kingston Frontenacs of the Eastern League. Stephenson, only, 18, has returned to Winnipeg for further junior seasoning. &#9632;

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Bruins To Play NHL’s Youngest Rearguard Pair

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05174/1863819-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="559" height="865"><figcaption class="caption-body">Make&hellip;DAVE KEON</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Bert Olmstead and Johnny Bower returned to the Toronto lineup and suddenly everything fell into place. The team began to jell at last, recovered from its worrisome pre-season slump and knocked off a few impressive exhibition victories.Bower rejoined the club in time for its two-game junket to Los Angeles and he was a stickout in both games &mdash; which Leafs won by 4-1 and 5-3 scores &mdash; suggesting he&rsquo;s about to repeat his fine performances throughout the 1959-60 season.Leafs flew from Los Angeles to Quebec City and there were joined by Olmstead, who&rsquo;d been working out with Toronto&rsquo;s Rochester farm club. Olmstead promptly set up the team&rsquo;s only score in a 1-1 tie with Quebec Aces of the American league.This left defenceman Tim Horton as the only stubborn holdout. Tim established this status with a stunning and puzzling move. At Toronto&rsquo;s Malton airport, just a few minutes before Leafs&rsquo; departure for California, he informed managercoach Punch Imlach that he had decided not to accompany the team. He and Imlach hadn&rsquo;t agreed upon a 1960-61 contract at that time and still hadn&rsquo;t when this was written. Tim was resting at his Toronto home.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07113/1863812-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="559" height="853"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip;The GradeBOB NEVIN</figcaption></div>However, Imlach denied rumors he was planning to deal Horton because of these difficulties. The rumored trade had Horton going to Boston in exchange for Bob Armstrong.Imlach had attempted such a move last spring and been turned down. Besides, he said he wouldn&rsquo;t punish Horton for being a holdout when chaps like Olmstead and Carl Brewer had done the same thing, with no reprisal.Meanwhile, two rookies appeared to have caught on with Leafs. Both Dave Keon and Bob Nevin were scoring regularly during the exhibition series. At Los Angeles, Nevin got three goals and Keon one.Keon is moving up directly from St. Michael&rsquo;s college juniors. He plays centre or right wing but has been working at centre with Dick Duff and George Armstrong. Nevin, an ex-Marlboro who was with Rochester last year, has been working at right wing with Red Kelly and Frank Mahovlich.Imlach reunited his Olmstead-Bob Pulford-Ron Stewart line when Olmstead returned to the fold. &#9632;

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Coast Jaunt Clears Coast For Leafs Rooks, Fogs It For Vets

<div class="byline">By SAMUEL POMPEI</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01427/1863850-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Diamond AceJACK CAFFERY &hellip; &hellip; The Baseball Player</figcaption></div>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;The Springfield Indians are welcoming back &mdash; with open arms &mdash; Jack Caffery, the athlete with &ldquo;too many talents.&rdquo;While Owner Eddie Shore of the Tribe doesn&rsquo;t begrudge the tall fellow&rsquo;s aspirations to make good in the major leagues as a southpaw pitcher, he hopes that Caffery would stick to hockey where he&rsquo;d be a cinch to make good In the big time.&ldquo;Caffery is one of the best centers in the minors, and I&rsquo;m sure that he is NHL material, if he concentrated on the sport,&rdquo; says Eddie, who lured Jack away from the Boston Bruins organization two years ago.Jack decided to return to hockey after giving his other talent&mdash;pitching&mdash;a real fling last summer.Caffery worked his way up through the minors and last month won himself a short stay with the Milwaukee Braves of the National Baseball League.There his work, according to Manager Chuck Dressen, was most satisfactory, though not quite of major league calibre.Milwaukee, a pitching rich club, afforded Caffery little hope for a regular berth this season, especially with the Braves battling down the wire for a pennant or at least a second-place finish.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s still a year away &hellip; but he should be ready next season,&rdquo; Dressen says in appraising the speedballing hurler.This is Caffery&rsquo;s delimna.At 26, should he stick to baseball; should he stick to hockey ? Or should he play both ?He is a major league borderliner in both. A great minor leaguer in either.<h2>Will Combine Both Sports</h2>This is the way Jack puts it. &ldquo;Until I&rsquo;m convinced as to which sport affords me an opportunity to play in the major leagues I&rsquo;m going to combine both sports.&ldquo;If I make it to the NHL, then I&rsquo;ll probably stick to hockey.&ldquo;And if I make it to the big leagues in baseball, perhaps then I&rsquo;ll stick to pitching.&rdquo;Furthermore, Caffery hasn&rsquo;t yet ruled out the possibility of playing in the major leagues in both. Should he make the grade in each, then he would be the first in history to do so.Even the great Lionel Conacher &mdash; who could do most anything in sports&mdash;cannot claim such athletic distinction.Caffery decided to stay out of hockey last winter so that he might give baseball a real try. And he worked his way up through the Pacific Coast League to the Braves.But as the baseball season progressed, Caffery wasn&rsquo;t thoroughly convinced that perhaps hockey might be his stronger forte.So, now he&rsquo;s back on the blades. &#9632;

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Caffery Back In Indians Tent — Diamond Or Ice? He’ll Try Both

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;With the American Hockey League only a few days old, it&rsquo;s difficult for Frank Mathers to make any prediction on his Hershey Bears outfit.&ldquo;With the experienced personnel we have,&rdquo; said the 32-year-old coach, &ldquo;we should have a solid team.&ldquo;We have depth at every position and I think our defense should be as strong as any in the league.Working on the backline along with Mathers are Howie Young, Bucky Hollingworth, Larry Zeidel, and Howie Yanosik. Young is the only newcomer, being snagged for $10,000 from Toronto. He skated with Rochester last season.&ldquo;Young potentially could be a big man for us, but he must learn to control his temper. He won&rsquo;t do us any good in the penalty box. We&rsquo;ve had a talk with him and I think he understands.&rdquo;Hershey checked in from its training camp at the Detroit Olympia in fine physical condition. The only upset at the camp occurred when left winger Les Duff bolted the club. He was reported unhappy over his contract. He was immediately suspended.In three warm up games against the rival Cleveland Barons, Hershey came off with 4-0 and 4-1 victories, while losing one game, 8-4.&ldquo;I think we have good speed up front and some fellows who can put the puck in the net,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;One of our faults last season was we couldn&rsquo;t score.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02403/1863881-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="544" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">SuspendedLes Duff</figcaption></div>Hershey, figured as a strong contender for the league and Calder Cup title a year ago, had one of its worst seasons in club history.Mathers, who in four years with the Bears directed them to one league title and two Calder Cup trophies, believes this club is &ldquo;much stronger&rdquo; and has &ldquo;better balance.&rdquo;&ldquo;We came out of training camp in good shape and all the fellows seemed anxious to get going. They had terrific attitude in camp. If you&rsquo;ll remember the last good training camp we had we went all the way. I only hope it can happen again.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Mathers Moves To Cure Ills—Adds Goal Scorers

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03351/1863933-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Cuts Lots Of liceJACK CAFFERY&hellip; &hellip;The Hockey Player</figcaption></div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;Buffalo&rsquo;s hockey Bisons are dedicated this American Hockey League season to the motto: &ldquo;Youth Must Be Served.It was agreed before Frank Eddolls agreed to begin his third tenure as coach of the Bisons that he&rsquo;d have a young squad to work with.To find a Buffalo team with a comparable number of rookies in its lineup, you have to go back to the 1949-50 Bisons. That was the season that Paul Meger, Don Ashbee, Gordie Pennell, and the late Sid McNabney stepped right from junior at Barrie to play on Buffalo&rsquo;s forward lines.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04295/1863926-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="235" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">New In Bison FoldChico Maki</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05232/1863919-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="248" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pat Stapleton</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06196/1863912-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="257" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Vic Hadfield</figcaption></div>Eddolls is hopeful that the likes of right, winger Chico Maki, last year&rsquo;s OHA scoring champion with St. Catharines, defenseman Pat Stapleton and forward Vic Hadfield can successfully make the jump from junior competition.That is far from the extent of his first-year AHL talent, either. There&rsquo;s Gary Bergman, who made his pro debut last season at Winningpeg, as well as Wayne Hicks, a right winger from Sault Ste. Marie, to mention two.The Bisons, as this edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS goes to press, are particularly &ldquo;young&rdquo; on defense. Only Ron Ingram, starting his fifth campaign with the Herd, has more than a year in the league.Both Wayne Hillman and Rino Robazzo were freshmen a year ago, and Robazzo didn&rsquo;t put in the entire year with Buffalo.One spot where Eddolls insists upon experience is at center.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no use kidding ourselves, you&rsquo;ve got to have experienced playmakers,&rdquo; he explains. &ldquo;With a young team a certain number of mistakes are going to happen. That&rsquo;s the price of inexperience. But once you get the puck in that other end, you need a smart playmaker to set-up his wings.&rdquo;Eddolls has two such players in Larry Wilson and Phil Maloney, and, at this writing, is hoping to secure a third with National League experience.In the event all deals now pending should fall through, Eddolls may use Barry Cullen, obtained from Detroit in a trade for Pete Conacher, at center.&ldquo;Barry likes to carry the puck and has seen, a little action at center,&rdquo; Eddolls offered. &ldquo;If it becomes necessary, I&rsquo;ll try him there.&rdquo;Cullen, incidentally, missed a great deal of ice time during training camp because of a flu bug which he had a hard time clearing out of his sytem.BISONS NOTES &hellip; One-time Buffalo right winger and captain Eddie Slowinski skated several times at the Bisons Welland, Ont., training camp. He is slated to work as a linesman during the AHL season&hellip; Eddolls is impressed with Bergman&rsquo;s skating ability and is working on curbing his tendency to take too many penalties&hellip; &#9632;

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Buffalo Herds Kids Into Lineup Hoping For Repeat Of ’49-50

MONTREAL, Que &mdash;Coach Toe Blake was approached a few days before the All-Star game and told he was wanted by a sponsor to do a viedo tape commercial plugging a camera that produces instant photographs.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no fee involved but they give you a $300 camera,&rdquo; the intermediary informed Blake.&ldquo;Yeah, but isn&rsquo;t that film awful expensive,&rdquo; he shot back. &#9632;

Businessman Toe Finds It Costly To Tape Commercial

<h2>1960-61 Schedule</h2>1 Mon. Oct. 10 Edpionton at Winnipeg2 Wed., Oct. 12 Edmonton at Winnipeg3 Thur., Oct. 13 Winnipeg at Calgary4 Fri., Oct. 14 Seattle at Victoria5 Fri., Oct. 14 Spokane at Vancouver6 Fri., Oct. 14 Calgary at Edmonton7 Sat., Oct. 15 Vancouver at Spokane8 Sun., Oct. 16 Victoria at Seattle9 Mon., Oct. 17 Portland at Winnipeg10 Tues., Oct. 18 Spokane at Victoria11 Wed., Oct. 19 Edmonton at Calgary12 Wed., Oct. 19 Portland at Winnipeg13 Fri., Oct. 21 Spokane at Seattle14 Fri., Oct. 21 Winnipeg at Vancouver15 Fri., Oct. 21 Portland at Edmonton16 Sat., Oct. 22 Seattle at Spokane17 Sat., Oqt. 22 Winnipeg at Victoria18 Sat., Oct. 22 Portland at Calgary19 Sun., Oct. 23 Winnipeg at Seattle20 Tues., Oct. 25 Winnipeg at Vancouver21 Wed., det 26 Winnipeg at Victoria22 Wed.,Oct. 26 Portland at Edmonton23 Thur., Oct. 27 Portland at Calgary24 Fri., Oct. 28 Spokane at Victoria25 Fri., Oct. 28 Seattle at Vancouver26 Fri., Oct. 28 Winnipeg at Edmonton27 Sat., Oct. 29 Vancouver at Seattle28 Sat., Oct. 29 Victoria 8t Spokane29 Sat., Oct. 29 Edmonton at Calgary30 Mon., Oct. 31 Edmonton at Winnipeg31 Tues.. Nov. 1 Calgary at Victoria32 Wed., Nov. 2 Calgary at Vancouver33 Thur., Nov. 3 Edmonton at Winnipeg34 Fri., Nov. 4 Portland at Victoria35 Fri,, Nov. 4 Calgary at Vancouver36 Fri., Nov. 4 Winnipeg at Edmonton37 Sat., Nov. 5 Calgary at Seattle38 Sat., Nov. 5 Vancouver at Spokane39 Sun., Nov. 6 Portland at Seattle40 Tues., Nov. 8 Victoria at Vancouver41 Tues., Nov 8 Seattle 8t Calgary42 Wed., Nov 9 Victoria at Spokane43 Wed., Nov. 9 Seattle at Edmonton44 Wed., Nov. 9 Calgary at Winnipeg45 Fri., Nov. 11 Spokane at Victoria46 Fri., Nov. 11 Portland at Vancouver47 Fri., Nov. 11 Seattle at Edmonton48 Sat., Nov. 12 Portland at Spokane49 Sat., Nov 12 Seattle at Calgary50 Tues., Nov. 15 Spokane at Portland51 Tues., Nov 15 Edmonton at Vancouver52 Tues., Nov. 15 Seattle at Winnipeg53 Wed., Nov. 16 Edmonton at Portland54 Wed., Nov. 16 Seattle at Winnipeg55 Thur., Nov. 17 Winnipeg at Calgary56 Fri., Nov. 18 Edmonton at Victoria57 Fri., Nov. 18 Seattle at Vancouver58 Sat., Nov. 19 Edmonton at Seattle59 Sat., Nov. 19 Calgary at Spokane60 Sun., Nov. 20 Victoria at Portland, 2:3061 Sun., Nov. 20 Edmonton at Seattle62 Sun., Nov. 20 Calgary at Spokane63 lues., Nov. 22 Portland at Victoria64 Tues., Nov. 22 Edmonton at Vancouver65 Tues., Nov. 22 Spokane at Calgary66 Wed., Nov. 23 Calgary at Winnipeg67 Fri., Nov. 25 Victoria at Vancouver68 Fri., Nov. 25 Spokane at Edmonton69 Sat., Nov. 26 Portland at Seattle70 Sat., Nov. 26 Vancouver at Victoria71 Sat., Nov. 26 Spokane at Calgary72 Sun., Nov. TJ Calgary at Seattle73 Mon., Nov. 28 Spokane at Winnipeg74 Tues., Nov. 29 Calgary at Vancouver75 Wed., Nov. 30 Calgary at Portland76 Wed., Nov. 30 Spokane at Winnipeg77 Fri., Dec. 2 Calgary at Victoria78 Fri., Dec. 2 Vancouver at Edmonton79 Sat., Dec. 3 Seattle at Spokane80 Sat., Dec. 3 Vancouver at Calgary81 Sun., Dec. 4 Spokane at Portland82 Sun., Dec. 4 Victoria at Seattle83 Mon., Dec. 5 Vancouver at Winnipeg84 Tues., Dec. 6 Calgary at Edmonton85 Wed., Dec. 7 Seattle at Portland86 Wed., Dec. 7 Edmonton at Calgary87 Wed., Dec. 7 Vancouver at Winnipeg88 Fri., Dec. 9 Winnipeg at Victoria89 Fri., Dec. 9 Vancouver at Edmonton90 Sat., Dec. 10 Winnipeg at Seattle91 Sat., Dec. 10 Portland at Spokane92 Sat., Dec. 10 Vancouver at Calgary93 Sun., Dec. 11 Winnipeg at Portland94 Sun., Dec. 11 Spokane at Seattle95 Tues., Dec 13 Winnipeg at Vancouver96 Tues., Dec. 13 Victoria at Calgary97 Wed., Dec. 14 Winnipeg at Portland98 Wed., Dec. 14 Seattle at Spokane99 Wed., Dec. 14 Victoria at Edmonton100 Fri., Dec. 16 Winnipeg at Vancouver101 Fri., Dec. 16 Victoria at Edmonton102 Sat., Dec. 17 Vancouver at Seattle103 Sat., Dec. 17 Edmonton at Spokane104 Sat., Dec. 17 Victoria at Calgary105 Sun., Dec. 18 Vancouver at Portland106 Sun., Dec. 18 Edmonton at Spokane107 Mon., Dec. 19 Victoria at Winnipeg108 Tues., Dec. 20 Spokane at Calgary109 Wed., Dec. 21 Seattle at Portland110 Wed., Dec. 21 Spokane at Edmonton111 Wed., Dec. 21 Victoria at Winnipeg112 Fri., Dec. 23 Victoria at Vancouver113 Fri., Dec. 23 Spokane at Edmonton114 Sun., Dec. 25 Seattle at Portland115 Mon., Dec. 26 Spokane at Seattle116 Mon., Dec. 26 Portland at Victoria 2:30117 Mon., Dec. 26 Edmonton at Vancouver118 Mon., Dec. 26 Calgary at Winnipeg 2:30119 Wed., Dec. 28 Winnipeg at Calgary120 Fri., Dec. 30 Portland at Seattle121 Fri., Dec. 30 Spokane at Victoria122 Fri., Dec. 30 Edmonton at Vancouver123 Sun., Jan. 1 Edmonton at Portland124 Sun., Jan. 1 Spokane at Seattle125 Mon., Jan. 2 Edmonton at Victoria 2:30126 Mon., Jan. 2 Spokane at Vancouver127 Mon., Jan. 2 Calgary at Winnipeg 2:30128 Tues., Jan. 3 Seattle at Calgary129 Wed., Jan. 4 Vancouver at Portland130 Wed., Jan. 4 Victoria at Spokane131 Wed., Jan. 4 Seattle at Edmonton132 Fri., Jan. 6 Portland at Vancouver133 Fri., Jan. 6 Seattle at Edmonton134 Sat., Jan? 7 Winnipeg at Spokana135 Sat., Jan. 7 Vancouver at Victoria136 Sat., Jan. 7 Seattle at Calgary137 Sun., Jan. 8 Victoria at Portland 2:30138 Sun., Jan. 8 Winnipeg at Spokane139 Mon., Jan. 9 Seattle at Winnipeg140 Tues., Jan. 10 Spokane at Victoria141 Tues., Jan. 10 Vancouver at Calgary142 Wed., Jan. 11 Spokane at Portland143 Wed., Jan. 11 Vancouver at Edmonton144 Wed., Jan. 11 Seattle at Winnipeg145 Fri., Jan. 13 Seattle at Victoria146 Fri., Jan. 13 Vancouver at Edmonton147 Sat., Jan. 14 Portland at Spokane148 Sat., Jan. 14 Vancouver at Calgary149 Sun., Jan. 15 Victoria at Portland 2:30150 Sun., Jan. 15 Spokane at Seattle151 Mon., Jan.16 Vancouver at Winnipeg152 Tues., Jan. 17 Edmonton at Victoria153 Wed. Jan. 18 Edmonton at Portland154 Wed., Jan. 18 Vancouver at Winnipeg155 Thur., Jan. 19 Winnipeg at Calgary156 Fri., Jan. 20 Portland at Victoria157 Fri., Jan. 20 Edmonton at Vancouver158 Sat., Jan. 21 Edmonton at Portland159 Sat., Jan. 21 Seattle at Spokane160 Sat., Jan. 21 Winnipeg at Calgary161 Sun., Jan. 22 Spokane at Portland 2:30162 Sun., Jan 22 Edmonton at Seattle163 Tues., Jan. 24 Portland at Spokane164 Tues., Jan. 24 Calgary at Victoria165 Tues., Jan. 24 Seattle at Vancouver166 Tues., Jan. 24 Winnipeg at Edmonton167 Wed., Jan. 25 Calgary at Portland168 Wed., Jan. 25 Edmonton at Winnipeg169 Fri., Jan. 27 Portland at Victoria170 Fri., Jan. 27 Calgary at Vancouver171 Fri., Jan. 27 Winnipeg at Edmonton172 Sat., Jan. 28 Calgary at Seattle173 Sat., Jan. 28 Winnipeg at Spokane174 Sun., Jan 29 Calgary at Portland 2:30175 Sun., Jan. 29 Victoria at Seattle176 Sun., Jan. 29 Winnipeg at Spokane177 Tues., Jan. 31 Winnipeg at Victoria178 Tues., Jan. 31 Calgary at Vancouver179 Wed., Feb. 1 Winnipeg at Portland180 Fri., Feb. 3 Seattle at Victoria181 Fri., Feb. 3 Winnipeg at Vancouver182 Fri., Feb. 3 Calgary at Edmonton183 Sat., Feb. 4 Winnipeg at Seattle184 Sat.. Feb. 4 Portland at Spokane185 Sat., Feb. 4 Edmonton at Calgary186 Sun., Feb. 5 Vancouver at Portland 2:30187 Sun., Feb. 5 Spokane at Seattle188 Mon., Feb. 6 Victoria at Winnipeg189 Tues., Feb. 7 Vancouver at Edmonton191 Wed., Feb. 8 Vancouver at Calgary190 Wed., Feb. 8 Seattle at Portland192 Wed., Feb. 8 Victoria at Winnipeg193 Fri., Feb. 10 Portland at Seattle194 Fri., Feb. 10 Winnipeg at Vancouver195 Fri., Feb. 10 Victoria at Edmonton196 Sat., Feb. 11 Winnipeg at Seattle197 Sat., Feb. 11 Vancouver at Spokane198 Sat., Feb. 11 Victoria at Calgary199 Sun., Feb. 12 1 Winnipeg at Portland 2:30200 Tues., Feb. 14 Seattle at Vancouver201 Tues., Feb. 14 Victoria at Calgary202 Wed., Feb. 15 Victoria at Edmonton203 Fri., Feb. 17 Victoria at Vancouver204 Fri., Feb. 17 Portland at Edmonton205 Sat., Feb. 18 Edmonton at Spokane206 Sat., Feb. 18 Portland at Calgary207 Sun., Feb. 19 Victoria at Seattle208 Sun., Feb. 19 Edmonton at Spokane209 Mon., Feb. 20 Portland at Winnipeg210 Tues., Feb. 21 Vancouver at Victoria211 Tues., Feb. 21 Edmonton at Calgary212 Wed., Feb. 22 Vancouver at Seattle213 Wed., Feb. 22 Victoria at Spokane214 Wed., Feb. 22 Calgary at Edmonton215 Wed., Feb. 22 Portland at Winnipeg216 Fri., Feb. 24 Seattle at Victoria217 Fri., Feb. 24 Spokane at Vancouver218 Fri., Feb. 24 Portland at Edmonton219 Sat., Feb. 25 Vancouver at Spokane220 Sat., Feb. 25 Portland at Calgary221 Sun., Feb. 26 Spokane at Seattle222 Mon., Feb. 27 Edmonton at Winipeg223 Tues., Feb. 28 Vancouver at Victoria224 Wed., Mar. 1 Seattle at Portland725 Wed., Mar. 1 Edmonton at Winnipeg226 Fri., Mar. 3 Seattle at Victoria227 Fri., Mar. 3 Portland at Vancouver228 Fri., Mar. 3 Winnipeg at Edmonton229 Sat., Mar 4 Victoria at Portland230 Sat., Mar. 4 Calgary at Spokane231 Sun., Mar. 5 Victoria at Portland232 Sun., Mar. 5 Vancouver at Seattle233 Sun., Mar. 5 Calgary at Spokane234 Tues., Mar. 7 Seattle at Spokane235 TueS., Mar. 7 Calgary at Victoria236 Wed., Mar. 8 Spokane at Portland237 Wed., Mar. 8 Calgary at Vancouver238 Fri., Mar. 9 Portland at Seattle239 Fri., Mar. 9 Spokane at Victoria240 Fri., Mar 9 Calgary at Vancouver241 Fri., Mar. 9 Winnipeg at Edmonton242 Sat., Mar. 11 Calgary at Seattle243 Sun., Mar. 12 Calgary at Portland244 Sun., Mar. 12 Victoria at Spokane245 Mon.,Mar. 13 Vancouver at Winnipeg246 Tues., Mar. 14 Edmonton at Calgary247 Wed., Mar. 15 Portland at Spokane248 Wed., Mar. 15 Calgary at Edmonton249 Wed., 15 Vancouver at Winnipeg250 Fri., Mar. 17 Seattle at Spokane251 Fri., Mar. 17 Portland at Victoria252 Fri., Mar. 17 Vancouver at Edmonton253 Sat., Mar. 18 Victoria at Seattle254 Sat., Mar. 18 Vancouver at Calgary255 Sun., Mar. 19 Victoria at Portland 2:30256 Mon., Mar. 20 Spokane at Winnipeg257 Tues., Mar. 21 Vancouver at Calgary258 Wed., Mar. 22 Calgary at Edmonton259 Wed., Mar. 22 Spokane at Winnipeg260 Fri., Mar. 24 Seattle at Victoria261 Fri., Mar. 24 Portland at Vancouver262 Fri., Mar. 24 Spokane at Edmonton263 Sat., Mar. 25 Portland at Seattle264 Sat., Mar. 25 Spokane at Calgary265 Sun., Mar 26 Victoria at Portland266 Sun., Mar. 26 Edmonton at Seattle267 Mon., Mar. 27 Calgary at Winnipeg268 Tues., Mar. 28 Seattle at Spokane269 Tues., Mar. 28 Edmonton at Victoria270 Wed., Mar. 29 Seattle at Portland271 Wed., Mar. 29 Edmonton at Vancouver272 Wed., Mar. 29 Calgary at Winnipeg273 Fri., Mar. 31 Portland at Victoria274 Fri., Mar. 31 Spokane at Vancouver275 Fri., Mar. 31 Winnipeg at Edmonton276 Sat., Apr. 1 Vancouver at Portland277 Sat., Apr. 1 Victoria at Spokane278 Sat., Apr. 1 Winnipeg at Calgary279 Sun,, Apr. 2 Spokane at Portland280 Sun., Apr. 2 Victoria at Seattle &#9632;

Western Hockey League

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The night Maurice Richard announced his retirement, Coach Toe Blake said his two youngest children asked him where he was going when he left the house for the Queen Elizabeth hotel.I told them that I was going to resign as coach of the Canadiens and that the Rocket was going to take over in my place. They both replied :&ldquo;Good. Now may be you won&rsquo;t be so grumpy around the house&rdquo;.&ldquo;And they were serious&rdquo;, Blake added, still a little shaken. &#9632;

Blake’s. Youngsters Voice Opinions About Retirement

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;Coley Hall and Art Chapman haven&rsquo;t varied the format much over the years, and the current campaign isn&rsquo;t apt to be any different for the defending champion Vancouver Canucks.They have always built their clubs around capable net-minding, and Marcel Paille is the latest in a line of outstanding custodians.The Canucks are two-time winners of the WHL championship (only Edmonton Flyers can match them in that department), and when they haven&rsquo;t been able to get a foot inside the throne-room, they&rsquo;ve usually at least been knocking on the door.Gump Worsley, Emile Francis, Marcel Pelletier, Johnny Bower, Hank Bassen&hellip; these are some samples of the kind of talent that the Vancouver moguls always reach out for as a starting point.Chapman has a reputation for always turning out a well-coached club, capable of going a long piece with the last line of resistance always being so resistant.The last incumbent, Bassen will be spelling off Terry Sawchuk in the Detroit nets this winter. The redhead was drafted from the Western League club last June,despite a committee-room hassle wherein the Red Wings adversaries tried to make out that Bassen actually belonged to Springfield not Vancouver, and therefore not eligible for the draft.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01441/1864036-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="556" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body">Art&rsquo;s Big ManMarcel Paille</figcaption></div>In any event, the Canucks wasted no time coming into possession of a suitable replacement. Paille hasn&rsquo;t been able to stick during his various trials under the big top, but there is no questioning that he is one of the best minor league goalers in the business.The stocky netminder (5 ft. 8, 185 pounds) is expected to be with the Canucks for a few years yet. He won&rsquo;t be celebrating his 28th birthday until Dec. 8.Incidentally, one of Vancouver&rsquo;s defence veterans, Sandy Hucul will be lost to the club this year.He is a member of the Calgary City Police Force, and couldn&rsquo;t obtain leave of absence for this time around.There has been some talk of a deal being made with the Stampeders, but at last reports Gus Kyle hasn&rsquo;t been too fussy about reuniting his Hucul brother act (Freddy is his older brother). Even at Calgary, Sandy probably wouldn&rsquo;t be available for full-time hockey service, and Kyle doesn&rsquo;t want this kind of a situation if he can get out of it.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t like my guys keeping down other jobs while they are playing pro hockey,&rdquo; Kyle declares himself. &ldquo;Here in Calgary, we had a similar case with Art Michaluk playing for the Stampeders for several years in between his shifts with the Police Force. Art did a great job for us, I&rsquo;m not knocking that. We were short of defencemen at the time, and we had to go along with any kind of a deal we could get.&rdquo;ICE CHIPS &mdash; The buzz is that Seattle&rsquo;s hookup with Detroit is not long for this world&hellip; The grapevine says that their partial working agreement will be terminated at the end of the season&hellip; &ldquo;Getting a little too greedy,&rdquo; is how one hockey man described Seattle falling out of grace with the big league club&hellip; Roy McBride over at Spokane may replace Seattle in the Red Wing scheme of things, meaning that the Comets can have first crack at players Edmonton Flyers don&rsquo;t want&hellip; The Canucks are giving Chick Balon, the Saskatchewan Junior League&rsquo;s scoring champion with Prince Albert, a shot at centre. &ldquo;He was the best rookie I saw at the New York camp,&rdquo; Art Chapman comments&hellip; An early season experiment sees Gus Kyle converting Sid Finney into a left winger on a Stampeder line with another veteran, Wally Hergesheimer, and rookie centre, Jerry Esch, from Saskatoon. &#9632;

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Marcel Paille Latest In Vancouver’s Line Of Great Goaltenders

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;The red-blooded Canadian youth of today would do well to give some thought to a pro hockey defenceman&rsquo;s career for himself.Most of the major league organizations seem well enough stockedHockey News Page 11 down through their farm systems for goaltenders and attackers. But defencemen ? Well, they&rsquo;re nigh onto being a vanishing breed.The shortage was pointed up in the Edmonton Flyers&rsquo; training sessions held in conjunction with the parent Red Wings at Detroit.A major rebuilding plan had to be in the works for the Edmontonians. Two veterans, Hugh Coflin and Bud MacPherson had come to the end of the line.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01439/1864074-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="263" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hugh Coflin</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02395/1864067-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="269" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bud McPherson</figcaption></div>Coflin, the captain of the club in the last few years, had hung &rsquo;em up outright. MacPherson, who has taken over the coaching for manager Bud Poile, announced that he would hold himself in readiness only for a role of fifth defenceman.Naturally, the brass gave all the young rearguards in the camp close scrutiny. Not only just for the Flyers, but also for the Wings.The big club has been revamping its blueline corps no small amount, too. There are only two veterans, Warren Godfrey and Marcel Pronovost. It goes back only to late last season that Pete Goegan and Marc Reaume came on regular salary.Jack Adams and Sid Abel needed &ldquo;bench&rdquo;, and finally settled on 22-year-old Gerry Odrowski, up from Sudbury of the Eastern Pro League.The only other logical contender seemed to be Lloyd Haddon, and undoubtedly the Hamilton junior graduate, who was with the Flyers last year, will make it yet.To tide the Edmonton club over in experience to supply balance, centreman Warren Hynes, a one-way guy to whom Bud Poile could never quite warm up, was traded off to Hershey Bears for 28-year-old Jackie Price.Already Price has shown that he will be a handy acquisition for the Flyers, but it is a little late in the game to expect much else of him, save for perhaps the occasional call-up in a pinch.Lou Marcon and Gord Strate have had shots at major league jobs but they&rsquo;ve fallen a bit short of the mark. In fact, Strate may be beaten out of his post with the flyers, because at this writing Strate was laid up with a fractured jaw and Rich Healy, up from Sudbury, was creating a favorable impression on the folks who count.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what accounts for the lack of defencemen today, Bud Poile comments.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not just a situation peculiar to our organization, either. Everybody seems to be suffering.&rdquo;Detroit&rsquo;s western scout, Clarence Moher, who works out of Edmonton, echoes Poile&rsquo;s observation.&ldquo;Different times I&rsquo;ve talked to scouts of other clubs,&rdquo; Mo points out, &ldquo;they&rsquo;ve told me it is defencemen they can&rsquo;t find right now. Their bosses are on their necks, but no soap. They&rsquo;re just not showing up.&rdquo;ICE CHIPS &hellip; The Flyers haven&rsquo;t named a captain to succeed Hugh Coflin &hellip; Meanwhile, Chuck Holmes and Don Poile are serving as alternates&hellip; The Western League has changed its makeup of the All-Star Game this year&hellip; On Oct. 7 the defending champion Vancouver Canucks will host at the Forum against the All-Star team selected last spring&hellip; There will be a few revisions, of course, like replacing Al Johnson who went up from Spokane on draft to Detroit &hellip; In previous years, all-star teams from the coast and prairie divisions clashed in the annual game, but the league is operating as one eight-club section now&hellip; Gilles Boisvert refused to report to Spokane, so Roy McBride has decided on Carl Wetzel, up from Omaha of the International League, to do the netminding for the Comets&hellip; The Portland Buckaroos chose Estevan, Sask., for their training site&hellip; The Portland Memorial Coliseum won&rsquo;t be completed until mid-November, so the Buckaroos are opening with a month on the road&hellip; George Agar, Jim Piggott&rsquo;s new pilot for the Victoria Cougars, has been coaching at Vernon since ending his professional playing days at Calgary. &#9632;

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Best Bet For Youth? There’s Solid Lack Of Pro Defensemen

MELVILLE, Sask. &mdash; Sid Abels&rsquo; Sept. 22 visit to his birthplace of Melville, Sask., will go down in history &mdash; that was the day that Melville became a city.To honor Abel&rsquo;s homecoming as coach of the Red Wings, Melville incorporated, dedicated a hospital wing and jammed its ice rink for the Red Wing-Edmonton Flyers exhibition game. The DWings won it, 7-1, with Gordie Howe scoring a pair of goals.It was a school holiday with the children going to the town&rsquo;s two theaters to meet Red Wing players and view a film on hockey.Abel&rsquo;s parents and four brothers and a sister still live in Melville. Brothers Don and George run a cartage firm, Lawrence works for the railroad and Ray manages a lumber yard. &#9632;

Big Day For Melville When Wings Come To Their Town

FORT WILLIAM, Ont.&mdash;This may come as a surprise to many people but the fact is the Boston Bruins were every bit as good as the Montreal Canadiens last year&mdash;at home that is. Commenting on his team&rsquo;s failure to make the Stanley Cup playoffs last year, coach Milt Schmidt, after a 5-1 exhibition win over the Winnipeg Warriors, said his team was just as good as Montreal famed Flying Frenchmen in their home appearances.&ldquo;We had a terrific record at home,&rdquo; said Milt, &ldquo;but those road trips were disastrous. We won only seven out of 35. I guess you could say we were lions at home but lambs on the road.&ldquo;My big job this year,&rdquo; Milt continued, &ldquo;is to instill some confidence and fighting spirit into the boys when we&rsquo;re on the road.&rdquo;Commenting on the exhibition game against the Warriors, Schmidt said he was especially pleased with the blueline play of Ted Green of the Warriors. Bruin tryouts Orval Tessier and Billy Carter from Kingston and Hull-Ottawa in the EPHL were still question marks, he said, but would get a good chance to play in the regular schedule before any decisions were made.Milt said he is counting on a better year from his Uke Line, Bucyk, Stasiuk and Horvath, not offensively but defensively. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve got to lower their goals against record,&rdquo; moaned Milt. &ldquo;They need a lot of practice at that, they don&rsquo;t need to practice scoring.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03325/1864129-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="256" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Milt Schmidt</figcaption></div>&ldquo;It would be like taking cream away from coffee if I had to break them up because of poor defensively play,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;I sure would hate to do it.&rdquo;Both Milt and general manager Lynn Patrick are picking Boston for a playoff spot this year, but add &ldquo;it&rsquo;s going to be wide open from second to sixth,&rdquo; conceding first place to Montreal.MATT FIORITOFort William Times Journal &#9632;

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Bruins Were As Good As Hobs Last Year - At Home

<h2>October</h2>6 Kitchener at Sault6 Montreal at Hull7 Kitchener at Sudbury8 Montreal at Kingston9 Sault at Hull9 Sudbury at Montreal10 Kingston at Kitchener12 Sudbury at Kitchener12 Hull at Kingston13 Montreal at Sault14 Montreal at Sudbury15 Kitchener at Kingston16 Sault at Kitchener16 Sudbury at Hull16 Kingston at Montree18 Sudbury at Sault19 Montreal at Kitchener19 Hull at Sudbury20 Hull at Sault21 Sault at Sudbury22 Sudbury at Kingston23 Sault at Montreal23 Sudbury at Kitchener23 Kingston at Hull26 Hull at Kitchener26 Montreal at Kingston27 Kitchener at Hull27 Sudbury at Sault28 Montreal at Sudbury29 Sault at Kingston30 Sault at Hull30 Sudbury at Montreal<h2>November</h2>1 Kingston at Sault1 Hull at Montreal2 Kingston at Sudbury3 Kitchener at Sault3 Montreal at Hull4 Kitchener at Sudbury5 Sudbury at Kingston6 Sault at Montreal6 Kingston at Kitchener6 Sudbury at Hull9 Sudbury at Sault9 Hull at Kingston11 Sault at Sudbury11 Kitchener at Montreal12 Kitchener at Kingston13 Montreal at Kitchener13 Kingston at Hull15 Montreal at Sault16 Hull at Kitchener17 Montreal at Sault17 Kitchener at Hull18 Montreal at Sudbury19 Sault at Kingston20 Sudbury at Kitchener20 Montreal at Hull22 Kitchener at Sault23 Kitchener at Sudbury23 Montreal at Kingston24 Hull at Sault25 Hull at Sudbury26 Sudbury at Kingston27 Sault at Hull27 Kingston at Kitchener27 Sudbury at Montreal29 Kitchener at Montreal30 Kingston at Sudbury30 Hull at Kitchener<h2>December</h2>1 Kington at Sault1 Kitchener at Hull2 Sault at Sudbury3 Kitchener at Kingston4 Sault at Kitchener4 Kingston at Montreal4 Sudbury at Hull6 Hull at Montreal7 Montreal at Kingston8 Hull at Sault8 Kitchener at Montreal9 Hull at Sudbury10 Sault at Kingston11 Sault at Montreal11 Sudbury at Kitchener11 Kingston at Hull13 Hull at Montreal14 Montreal at Kitchener14 Kingston at Sudbury15 Kingston at Sault16 Montreal at Sudbury17 Sudbury ar Kingston18 Sault at Hull18 Kingston ar Kitchener18 Sudbury at Montreal20 Kingston at Montreal22 Sudbury at Sault25 Sault at Montreal25 Kitchener at Hull26 Sault at Sudbury26 Montreal at Kitchener26 Hull at Kingston27 Kitchener at Montreal29 Hull at Sault30 Kitchener at Kingston30 Hull at Sudbury<h2>January</h2>1 Sault at Kitchener1 Kingston at Montreal1 Sudbury at Hull3 Hull at Montreal4 Montreal at Kingston5 Kitchener at Sault5 Montreal at Hull6 Kitchener at Sudbury7 Sault at Kingston8 Sudbury at Montreal8 Sault at Hull8 Kingston at Kitchener10 Kingston at Sault11 Hull at Kitchener11 Kingston at Sudbury12 Montreal at Sault13 Montreal at Sudbury14 Sudbury at Kingston15 Sudbury at Kitchener15 Sault at Montreal15 Kingston at Hull18 Hull at Kingston19 Kitchener at Sault19 Hull at Montreal20 Kitchener at Sudbury21 Sault at Kingston22 Sault at Kitchener22 Kingston at Montreal22 Sudbury at Hull24 Kitchener at Montreal24 Hull at Sault25 Montreal at Kitchener25 Hull at Sudbubry26 Sudbury at Sault27 Sault at Sudbury28 Kitchener at Kingston29 Kingston at Kitchener29 Sault at Hull29 Sudbury at Montreal31 Montreal at Sault<h2>February</h2>1 Hull at Kingston2 Kitchener at Sault2 Montreal at Hull3 Kitchener at Sudbury4 Sault at Kingston5 Montreal at Kitchener5 Kingston at Hull7 Montreal at Sault7 Hull at Kingston8 Hull at Kitchener8 Montreal at Sudbury9 Kingston at Sault9 Kitchener at Hull10 Kingston at Sudbury11 Sudbury at Kingston12 Sault at Kitchener12 Montreal at Hull14 Hull at Montreal14 Kingston at Sault15 Kingston at Sudbury15 Montreal at Kitchener16 Hull at Sault17 Hull at Sudbury18 Kitchener at Kingston19 Sault at Montreal19 Sudbury at Kitchener19 Kingston at Hull22 Hull at Kitchener22 Montreal at Kingston23 Sudbury at Sault23 Kitchener at Hull24 Montreal at Sudbury26 Sault at Kitchener26 Kingston at Montreal26 Sudbury at Hull28 Kitchener at Montreal<h2>March</h2>1 Sudbury at Kingston2 Hull at Sault3 Hull at Sudbury4 Sault at Kingston5 Kingston at Kitchener5 Sault at Hull5 Sudbury at Montreal7 Kingston at Sault7 Hull at Montreal8 Hull at Kitchener8 Kingston at Sudbury9 Kitchener at Hull9 Montreal at Sault10 Sault at Sudbury11 Kitchener at Kingston12 Sault at Montreal12 Sudbury at Kitchener12 Kingston at Hull14 Kitchener at Montreal14 Sudbury at Sault14 Hull at Kingston15 Sault at Sudbury16 Kitchener at Sault16 Montreal at Hull17 Kitchener at Sudbury18 Montreal at Kingston19 Sault at Kitchener19 Kingston at Montreal19 Sudbury at Hull &#9632;

Eastern Pro League Schedule 1960-61

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01428/1864215-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Scoring Champ BackTom McCarthy</figcaption></div>SUDBURY, Ont. &mdash;Chew out the veterans, they deserve it, and anyway they can take it &mdash; this is an old gambit by hockey coaches who note the easy strides the proven pros take to ward off early aches and pains during the September exercises at training camp.And, furthermore, it impresses the rookies of the toughness and impartiality of their mentor.Murph Chamberlain, coach of the Sudbury Wolves of the Eastern Pro circuit, is an old hand at it. Likely he was the target for such fusilades many an autumn during his long hitch with the late Dick Irvin in both Toronto and Montreal.&lsquo;The Murph&rsquo; has been handing it out to his oldsters according to all reports. To all who bended an ear after his &lsquo;Whites&rsquo; were lambasted 6-2 by Jim Dewey&rsquo;s &lsquo;Greens&rsquo; in a squad game which fans paid to see at the Sudbury Arena, he bellowed over the shortcomings of such talented performers last season as Cummy Burton, Sam Bettio, Dave Amadio, Ernie Roche and Keke Mortson.It had been rumoured that these hombres might be looking for added earnings come contract signing time, and no doubt Chamberlain was getting in an early punch to keep the payroll within limits so the club would remain solvent. At the same time the coach was copping an easy alibi. The five former stars were on his squad in the practise game.Bettio and Mortson came in for added insults when Chamberlain said that their poor showing pointed up the great qualities of Tom McCarthy, who was their running mate last season as all three were well in the van of the new pro loop&rsquo;s scoring march.McCarthy himself came up with 46 goals, 62 assists for a 108-point tab. Bettio&rsquo;s rating was 45-56-101, though he missed three games.And Mortson, absent for 12 outings, showed 25-55-80 when the auditors made their wrap-up reports.<h2>Should Say Prayers</h2>&ldquo;They should get down on their knees and pray that McCarthy will come back&rdquo; Chamberlain was quoted by Paul Rimstead in The Sudbury Star.It is not known whether private, or silent, prayers were offered. At any rate McCarthy was shuttled back by Detroit Red Wings to Sudbury while the Wings were on their western tour.Another game, another evening, often makes a whale of a difference. For when the New York Rangers hove into town, Cummy Burton scored the only two counters as the Wolves absorbed a 6-2 shellacking.Where upon Chamberlain grudgingly admitted that Burton might not be such a bad hockey player after all. &ldquo;He might even get that raise&rdquo;, mused Murph.There were several bright spots with the rookie contingent. Cesare Maniago showed well in the nets. So well that he was sent last week to Vancouver Canucks of the WHL on orders from Toronto Maple Leafs.Maniago, 22, played for the Allan Cup champion Chatham Maroons last winter.It was significant that in the joust with Rangers, in the halfgame Maniago manned the cage, the Broadway Blues scored only two of their six tallies. They fired the other four while Ed Babiuk was tending twine.Don McGregor has been turning in a fine effort on the defence for the Sudbury forces, though veterans Ernie Roche, Dave Amadio and Jack Hendrickson are said to have near gilt-edged credentials the EPHL firing begins.Alf Cleary has looked good at center and Kenny Laufman from Kitchener also drew approving nods from the railbirds.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02347/1864208-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="511" height="802"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tough BossMurph Chamberlain</figcaption></div><h2>Not Interested</h2>Quebec Aces offered the Wolves Bob Robertson a 32-year-old, who got his start with the Ottawa Senators in the Old Quebec League when it was an amateur circuit. Robertson turned pro with Pittsburgh in the AHL in the 1949-50 season.The fact that McGregor is showing so well, and that Rich Healey was expected back from the Red Wings sort of straightened out most of Chamberlain&rsquo;s plans for the back division.A buzz was current around Montreal during the past week that Leo Amadio might be dealt to Sudbury since Murph had a slight yearning to establish a brother act. Leo, at 25, is four years older than big Dave.Healy took the swing through Western Canada with the Detroit NHL squad filling in for Gordon Strate who was ailing.Another one of last year&rsquo;s regulars also sure to be back with Wolves was right-winger Ken Girard.Wally Boyer has apparently caught on with the Rochester Amerks. And there goes the second member of Chamberlain&rsquo;s best penalty-killing pair of last season. John Sleaver the other one, has caught on on the west coast with Vancouver Canucks.While the ice was out of the Sudbury Arena when the building was booked for a big dinner staged by International Nickel Corporation, Chamberlain organized a golf game for his men. Those that didn&rsquo;t golf were ordered to walk the course anyway. &#9632;

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Chamberlain Makes Wolves Howl, Vets Feel Brunt Of His Attack

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01427/1864246-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">New Chief At KamloopsWILLIE SCHMIDT</figcaption></div>KELOWNA, B.C.&mdash;Training camps of the five team Okanagan Senior Hockey League got underway at the end of September and the beginning of October. And the coaching staff of the league have the telephone and telegraph lines buzzing. All have indicated they will head for Coast and Prairie points in all out effort to sign a number of players so desperately needed to fill the ranks of the forthcoming season.It is a foregone conclusion most of the clubs are faced with a rebuilding job as a result of many of the leagues outstandings players leaving for greener fields, or have gone into retirement.Those who will not return this season include the coach of last seasons Kamloops chiefs veteran Billy Hryciuk, the OSHL&rsquo;s all-time scoring king, who has moved to Kimberley B.C. Also leaving the squad are netminder Don Hamilton, Cliff Bristowe, Don Mathison, and Buddy Evans has transferred to the lineup of the Penticton Vees.Most severely hit has been the Kelowna Packers, where rookie coach Ray Powell is faced with replacing no less than eight of last years regulars, including two who were named to the all-star squad.These include the leagues most valuable player and all-star defenseman Andy McCallum, who has accepted a position at Powell River, and will lineup with that cities intermediate club. Greg Jablonski all-star left winger has left for Seattle training camp, Warren Hicks is at the Portland camp; netminder Art Lariviere in the Calgary camp; defenseman Gene Kimbley has returned to his Prairie home; Jack Taggart who played for the Packers last season out of Penticton, will remain in the Peach city, and veterans Orval Lavell, and Moe Young have gone back into retirement.There should be plenty of action and a lot of excitement at Penticton this winter. This will all come about when the leagues most colorful and dedicated coaches Jack O&rsquo;Reily swings into action at the helm of the Vees. O&rsquo;Reilly who for the past four seasons successfully piloted the Kelowna Packers, takes over a club who won but only five games in 48 tries last season. O&rsquo;Reilly has already contacted a number of players and will come up with a real fighting club.Little has come out from the new entry the Merritt Grandluckies. But by all reports they are ready to get started and will have many of their last years intermediates, together with a number of senior players brought in.Vernon Canadians appear to be the only club who still have the majority of last seasons squad. The biggest blow to them has been the loss of their veteran playing coach George Agar, who has stepped up into the Pro ranks as coach of the Victoria Cougars.Odie Lowe the high scoring centreman has replaced Agar. Others leaving the Blue and White are OSHL all-star netminder Jimmie McLeod presently with the Seattle Totems; defenseman Willie Schmidt, who will take over as playing coach of Kamloops chiefs; Bill Swarbrick will attend the Victoria Cougars training camp, and Frank King has gone back into retirement.<h2>SPORTS PHOTOS !</h2>Thousands of different 8 x 10 glossy photos. Ideal for your bar, den or clubroom. 60 cents each.SPECIAL OFFER10 Hockey Hall of Famers : $4.00 Send for FREE LIST.ALL SPORTS PHOTOSBox 267 Freeport, N.Y. &#9632;

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Okanagan Loop Coaches Burning Up Wires Looking For Players

<div class="byline">By BRUCE W. HOGLE</div>TRAIL, B.C.&mdash;The colorful Western International Hockey League, down to three teams, looks to its best season in years in 1960-61 for two big reasons :1. Because the Trail Smoke Easters, Allan Cup finalists last spring, have been selected to represent Canada in the World Hockey Championships in Switzerland next March; and2. Because agreement has been reached with the five-team Okanagan Senior Hockey League for an exchange of games, with all such contests to count in the respective circuits.Rossland Warriors and Nelson Maple Leafs, other teams in the WIHL, are now in the process of building the strongest teams in years mainly because everytime they can knock over the World Championship - Smokies it&rsquo;s a feather in their caps and money at the box office.Mickey Maglio has signed for a second term as playing coach of the Leafs. He will have such season performers as Lee Hyssop, Red and Fritz Koehle, Shorty Malacko, Bill Taylor, Howie Hornby and Marsh Severyn to name but a few.Rossland is now negatiating with former professional Joe Conn to again assume a playing coach role. Conn did wonders with the club last year and the executive would like to see him back. Warriors are hoping that talented &lsquo;Pinoke&rsquo; McIntyre, Harold Jones and George Ferguson &mdash; who played so magnificiently in last spring&rsquo;s Allan Cup finals with Trail that they will be going overseas with the Smokies &mdash; will line up with them (Rossland) prior to leaving for Europe.Other Warrior stalwarts who will be back include Johnny Paolone, Ray Demore, Bud Andrews, Steve Chorney, Alex Read, Archie McKinnon and Bob Haymond, plus a flock of newcomers.Playing coach Bobby Kromm of the Smokies is now negotiating with a few top amateurs across Canada to supplement the team which won the Western Canada title last season and was the only club in the west to defeat the slick Russian Selects.Former Lethbridge star Seth Martin will again be the nets with Harry Smith, George Ferguson, Don Fletcher, Gordie Robertson, Cal Hockley and Ed Cristafoli to handle blueline duties.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03352/1864308-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="575" height="888"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rossland BoundJoe Conn</figcaption></div>Besides McIntyre and Jones from Rossland, others trying out for forward positions include Norm Lenardon, Ad Tambellini, Laurie Bursaw, Gerry Penner, Ernie Secco and Kromm himself, among others.Games with Penticton Vees, Kelowna Packers, Vernon Canadians, Kamloops Chiefs and Merritt Indians of the OSHL are expected to give hockey in this area of the country a great boost.Then, too, Smokies are playing erxhibition games with such WHL professional clubs as Spokane Flyers, Portland Buckaroos and Vancouver Canucks. &#9632;

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WIHL Looking To Its Best Season In Years

<div class="byline">By Jack Thomson</div>FORT WILLIAM, Ont.&mdash;Lakehead hockey fans have seen two professional exhibition games this year. The Detroit Red Wings and their farm hands from Edmonton, played here Sept. 20th. and the Boston Bruins and Winnipeg Warriors one week later on Sept. 27th. The Lakehead boast of having players on each squad. Alex Delvecchio, and Pete Goegan with Detroit. Lou Marcon and Beaver Poile on the Flyers line up. Both general managers Jack Adams of Detroit and Bud Poile are from the Lakehead. Former Port Arthur junior Leo Boivin a five year veteran with the Bruins and rookie forward Ernie Dupuis, who played last year with the Montreal Royals and New York Rovers is on the Winnipeg Warriors lineup&hellip; It looks like junior hockey at the lakehead is going to loose three more of it hockey stars to United States college ranks. Tinker Mitrush of the Canadians and LeRoy Hogue and Johnny McCormack have been offered schoolarships by the University of Minnesota, Duluth branch &hellip; Merv &ldquo;Stubby Dubchuk, standout last year with the Intermediate Kenora Thistles, has reported to the training camp of the Sudbury Wolves&hellip; Brian McLay, returns to the Philadelphia Ramblers &hellip; Rudy Migay still has not reported to the Maple Leafs, he is still not determined as to whether he will retire this year due to business presure or not&hellip; Jr. Wilson has given every indication that he is not going back to the Quebec Aces, in the American League &hellip; Barton Bradley former pro who has played for Bellville in the O.H.A. is still undecided as to his plans for the season &hellip; General manager of the Edmonton Flyers Bud Poile told this reporter last week that the Red Wing brass were favorably impressed by young Dick Carpenter who played Intermediate last year with Red Rock they are sending him to Sudbury. Poile said the only thing against his ever playing in the National League, was his size &hellip; The Forth William Gardens have had a number of improvements this year and manager Stan Robertson is looking for a big season at the gate.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01422/1864339-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="285" height="472"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chuck Rayner</figcaption></div>The three Lakehead junior clubs hope to be on the ice about October 21st&hellip;. Kenera and Rainy River are forming a junior league and will challenge the Lakehead Winner for the Thunder Bay Championship&hellip; Ex New York Ranger star Charlie Rayner, who has coached the Kenera Thistles for the last three years will not be back at helm this year&hellip; Charlie has decided to retire &hellip; &#9632;

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News From The Lakehead

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;The immediate future of at least two members of the 1959-60 Memorial Cup champion St. Catharines Teepees in professional hockey is assured.Pat Stapleton, an all-star in the two years he played junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey in St. Catharines, has clinched a spot on the Buffalo Bisons&rsquo; defence.Chico Maki, captain of the Teepees last year, an all-star left winger and Ontario scoring champion, will also definitely start with the Bisons when they open their 1960-61 American Hockey League schedule.Decision on a third member of the Teeps, Vic Hadfield, has not yet been made.Hadfield has been impressive in training camp in Welland and while he is eligible for one more year of junior hockey, he may turn professional and hold down a spot with the Bisons.Both Coach Frank Eddolls and Manager Fred Hunt have been most pleased with Hadfield&rsquo;s play and the rugged winger could quite possibly hold his own in the tough AHL competition.Excitement is growing in Niagara Falls as Hap Emms completes arrangements for the transfer of the Barrie franchise to the border city.With a seating capacity of 3,200 and room for an additional 1,000 standing, indications are that there will be approximately 1,500 season tickets sold before the opening game in the last week of October.Emms will bring 12 hold-overs from the Boston-sponsored club which finished in a tie for second place last year, the only notable absentee being Dale Rolfe, towering defenceman who completed four years in a Flyers&rsquo; uniform during the 1959-60 season.In most cases training camps for the seven junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; teams will open as soon as the professional clubs vacate the arenas.St. Catharines started Oct. 1, just two days after the parent Chicago Black Hawks moved out. The Hawks&rsquo; chief scout Bob Wilson will have 75 boys working out in the one-week amateur camp.The Montreal Canadiens will run a similar camp in Peterborough; the Red Wings will move their amateurs into Hamilton; New York Rangers teen-agers will work out in Guelph and the two Toronto Maple Leaf-sponsored teams, St. Michael&rsquo;s and Marlboros will train in Toronto.A total of some 400 boys under 20 years of age will be trying for the 140 positions open on the seven junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; clubs in Ontario.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02334/1864370-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="517" height="1164"><figcaption class="caption-body">Missing FlyerDale Rolf</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Record 400 Players To Tryout For 140 OHA Junior Positions

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01399/1864401-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK<h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;New member of the Boston Bruins shown in centre.6&mdash;Short for given name of Hayes, N.H.L. linesman.8&mdash;Given name of McNeill, last season a Red Wing rookie.12&mdash;New Rochelle (abbr.)13&mdash;This player was recently signed by Boston.15&mdash;Short for given name of Stearns of Cleveland.17&mdash;Initials of Anderson of Vancouver Canucks.18&mdash;Initials of 14 down.19&mdash;Name given Marcon, last season with Edmonton Flyers.20&mdash;One of the Black Hawks answers to this.21&mdash;Initials of Carter, player acquired by Boston in summer draft.22&mdash;Second name of&rsquo; 13 across.24&mdash;Don Marshall&rsquo;s birthplace.26&mdash;George Armstrong seldom sleeps after one.28&mdash;Before.29&mdash;Former great, Ching Johnson, makes his home in this county (abbr.)32&mdash;Former New York netminder.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;Terry Sawchuck once played for this N.H.L. team.2&mdash;New member of the Maple Leaf organization.3&mdash;Mrs. Tim Horton.4&mdash;Initials of Gray, player who went to Canadiens from Chicago in McDonald deal.5&mdash;Number of assists Bernie Geoffrion acquired in 1959-60 playoffs.7&mdash;Given name of 13 across.9&mdash;Tellurium (Sym.)10&mdash;Initials of a Toronto defenseman.11&mdash;Same as 9 down.14&mdash;This Canadien player recently purchased a Montreal tavern.16&mdash;A member of the Black Hawks.17&mdash;What player mentioned in 8 across hopes to become.19&mdash;Position formerly played by Ted Lindsay (abbr.)23&mdash;25th & 14th letters of the alphabet.24&mdash;Initials of Stasiuk of Boston.25&mdash;A Providence forward.26&mdash;Tim Horton once fractured one.27&mdash;Mrs. Allan Stanley can do this expertly.29&mdash;21st & 18th letters of the alphabet.30&mdash;Name given Quebec Aces goaltender.31&mdash;Initials of Young, Hershey defenseman.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S SOLUTION</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Hillman6&mdash;Oar8&mdash;Morrison12&mdash;Portland13&mdash;R.A.15&mdash;O.T.17&mdash;Tar18&mdash;Nov.20&mdash;Ra.21&mdash;Les.22&mdash;Don.23&mdash;Knit24&mdash;Four26&mdash;T.M.28&mdash;Two29&mdash;Popein132&mdash;Elmer<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;Hampson2&mdash;Larry3&mdash;Mail4&mdash;Noon.5&mdash;G.R.7&mdash;Andra9&mdash;OO10&mdash;Rt.11&mdash;S.A.14&mdash;Armstrong16&mdash;Toronto17&mdash;Talbot19&mdash;Van Impe22&mdash;D.K.25&mdash;UW27&mdash;Tim.29&mdash;P.W.30&mdash;E.L.31&mdash;N.E. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The Northern Division champs, Clinton Comets, will be operating as a farm team of the Boston Bruins this season. Wren Blair, who is manager of both the Comets and the Kingston Frontenacs of the Eastern Pro Hockey League, will supply the upstate New Yorkers with a new coach and several players before the opening of the campaign.Clinton will train in Kingston, Ontario, with camp opening October 10th.Blair&rsquo;s main problems will be finding replacements for Dick Wray, Billy Watson, Ed Calhoun and Mike Kardash.Wray, the EHL&rsquo;s leading scorer the past two seasons, has retired as have Watson (who serves as player-coach for two years) and defendeman Ed Calhoun. Kardash has moved up the hockey ladder and is making a strong bid for a berth in the Western Hockey League.On the bright side, the Comets will again have Norm Defelice in the nets. A former member of the Bruins (NHL) and Hershey (AHL) Norm is one of the best goalies in the league.His brother Angie will also be returning, after successful surgery on his injured knee. Veterans Willie Pawchuk, Jerry Stringle and all-star defenseman Leon Bouchard also figure to be back for another term.Clinton&rsquo;s home opener will be Saturday, October 22, against the Charlotte club. Philadelphia&rsquo;s Ramblers will meet the Comets in Utica on October 26th, the first EHL contest to be played in this city. All told, the Comets will play 12 of their 32 home dates in Utica.Philadelphia Ramblers will play two of their home games in Valley Forge Country Club, Audubon, Pa,, this season. Coach Doug Adam and his skaters will train at the latter site with the first session scheduled for October 10th.The Ramblers, who formerly played home games on Tuesdays and Fridays, have 13 contests on Wednesdays, nine each on Friday and Saturday and one Tuesday home date. The home opener will bring the new entry, Haddonfield Jersey Larks, into the Quaker City on Wednesday, Nov. 2nd.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02352/1864432-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="583" height="684"><figcaption class="caption-body">Retiring ChampDickie Wray</figcaption></div>The Ramblers will operate as a member of the EHL&rsquo;s Southern Division in 1960-61 (replacing Washington) with Haddonfield replacing them in the Northern section.<h2>Rovers To Train in Commack</h2>Coach Lloyd Ailsby&rsquo;s Rovers will hold training camp in Commack, Long. Island this season with the boys due in Oct. 9th and skating sessions starting the following day.A new netminder will be with the New Yorkers in the person of Gilles Villemure, on loan from the New York Ranger organization. Villemure tended goal for Guelph of the Jr. &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA last season and comes to the Rovers on the recommendation of Ranger GM Muzz Patrick. He&rsquo;s small (5&rsquo;6&rdquo;), but looks like Lome Worsley and &ldquo;Gump&rdquo; starred for the Rovers in his one term with the club (194950) before going on to new heights in the NHL.<h2>Philadelphia To Play Pair At Valley Forge This Year</h2>Only one member of last season&rsquo;s club will definitly not be back. George Raineri is currently training with Providence of the AHL and &ldquo;doesn&rsquo;t figure&rdquo; in the Rovers&rsquo; plans.Minnie Menard, who missed the final weeks last year with a broken wrist, may be back. He had purchased his release before the start of the 1959-60 campaign and thus is free to make his own deal. There is talk that he&rsquo;ll join the Omaha Knights of the IHL, but Menard worked on Long Island this past summer and may decide to stick with the Rovers again this year.Sam Gregory, who came to the club in a trade from Johnstown, will be in New York (to take in the World Series) and is anxious to make the team this season. The scrappy little forward is a recent bridegroom.Also returning are John Muckier, Don Atamanchuk, Vic Petrychko, Norm Ryder and the popular Serge Boudreau. Goalies Ed Giacomin and George Wood may also attend the camp.Coach Ailsby will pick up additional players in Winnipeg before coming East. &#9632;

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Clinton Has Early Problem-King Pin Wray In Retirement

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01320/1864470-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="241" height="290"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02259/1864463-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="267" height="294"></div>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;Almost everything will be a bit strange this fall in Flin Flon, home of the Bombers and perennial pennant-winners in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.For the most part, the Manitoba mining capital will be subjected to new players and new playing surroundings.One of the few &ldquo;old&rdquo; faces connected with the entire operation will be that of coach Bobby Kirk, who returns for a second straight term. However, materialwise only four of the 1959-60 Bomber club will be back in uniform.All intensive scouting job has directed 38 outside hopefuls into Fiin Flon for the two-week training grind, and among them is Tracy Pratt, the son of one of the &ldquo;greats&rdquo; in the game. His pa, Babe Pratt, who now resides in New Westminster, B.C., was a standout defenceman during Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; hedey in the National League.Another important difference, and a treat for both player and fan alike, will be the opening of a sparkling new Arena.The steel and cement structure wTl seat 1,966 and stand more than 2.500. It will be one of the finest in the coontry for its size.SJHL Notes&hellip; Rotnnd Scotty Munro down Estevan way can afford a &ldquo;plesaed with myself&rdquo; smile these days when he reads about a few of his proteges in the prolessional ranks&hellip; As far as funnelling players directly into the NHL is concerned, Scotty has had of a Saskatchewan monopoly lately. A year ago he provided Boston Bruins with right winger Dick Messner, a powerful sort who still had one year left in junior&hellip; This fall, the man to make the big jump was 18-year-old Dallas Smith, a versatile type who is rated a &ldquo;fine catch&rdquo; by the parent Bruins.The Smith deal could give Munro one of his oft-talked-about-but-seldom-realized SJHL championships &hellip; In exchange for his starry defenceman, Scotty received a half dozen experienced Manitoba juniors &hellip; And combined with a good holdover nucleus, these newcomers figure to give Estevan a real title contender &hellip; Goalie Paul Sexsmith, who was suspended for one year during Manitoba playoffs last spring, is among the Munro acquisitions &hellip; Apparently, there is a good chance that Sexsmith will be re-instated and made available to Bruins.Doug Bentley at Saskatoon took it on the chin last week when he learned his starry left winger Bert would be turning pro with Victoria Fizzell, a 50-goal man last year, of the Western League&hellip; In Melville, where brother Don is junior coach, Detroit boss Sid Abel let it be known that Red Wings would be providing Millionaires with a bit of &ldquo;player help.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Pratt’s Boy At Training Camp With Flin Flon

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;A revived minor hockey setup in Saskatoon cut adrift it&rsquo;s first graduating class this fall when six junior Quakers attended the Chicago Black Hawk camp in St. Catherines.Once the breeding ground for numerous hockey greats, Saskatoon&rsquo;s prestige slipped badly during and immediately following the war until now the debut of Gordie Howe must be considered as the city&rsquo;s last &ldquo;name&rdquo; contribution to the big time.Six years ago &mdash; in September of 1955 &mdash; the Saskatoon Minor Hockey Association was formed and it has thrived and expanded ever since. Don Burgess was the first president and he&rsquo;s been ably followed by Bill Roberts and Grant Howard.Today, the association operates 17 teams in juvenile and midget classifications. Below that level an additional 60 clubs perform in Playgrounds, Kinsmen and Church leagues.When the program began in 1955, there was one juvenile, one midget and approximately 10 lower-class teams operating in the city.The association dumped most of its&rsquo; more promising 15 and 16-year-olds into the reorganized junior Quakers under the Bentley brothers&mdash;Doug and Max&mdash;in 1956. Most of those players remained in uniform until this spring, twice bowing in playoffs to Flin Flon Bombers.Four of the players training at St. Catharines this fall&mdash;centres Jerry Esch and Cliff Schmautz, defenceman Eddie Van Impe and right winger Don Wilson&mdash;are over the junior age limit.The other two&mdash;centre Howie Kellough and left winger Bert Fizzell&mdash;are still eligible for another season of junior.The overaged boys will report to Calgary Stampeders and Victoria Cougars of the Western League following the Chicago camp. &#9632;

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