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October 29, 1960
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Brenchley Greets 25 Prospects As Mercs Start Training Grind
TOLEDO, O.— Get in shape and a team will win more than its share of games. Coach Edgar “Chirp” Brenchley is doing his best to use this axiom for the 1960-61 season. The Mercs are currently going through pre-season drills at the Sports Arena. Brenchley and general manager, Andy Mulligan greeted about 25 players to camp, which include three goalies, six defensemen and the remainder forwards. Toledo has three exhibition games prior to the season’s opener with defending Eastern Division titleholder, Ft. Wayne. The Mercs play a home-and-home set with the Windsor Bulldogs and at Chatham. Brenchley set up some forward lines, in hopes of getting the right combination together. Hank Marczak centered the veteran line of Gerry Moore and Roger Maison-neuve, while in another, Bob Rivard, a newcomer, worked with Ted Wright at left…
News From The Lakehead
FORT WILLIAM, Ont.— All three junior clubs in the lakehead junior hockey league, began their training grinds last week at the Fort William Gardens, with the first game scheduled for next weekend, Sunday, November sixth… Mickey Hennesey has thirty boys in camp for his Fort William Canadians. Hennesey has four boys trying for the goaltending job this season, Gordie Murray, Richard Furioso. Tommy Duluca and Murray Skillen. He has also signed a number of juveniles to tryout contracts. Canadians are bringing in a couple of players from Kenora … Paul Becotte is holding the biggest training camp, with his Port Arthur North Stars club hosting close to forty hopefuls. The Stars are still trying to work out a deal with Kenora for one of their players last year, who wants to…
Speaking on Sport
A Fashion Craze Peters Out As a goal-tender, there can be no doubt of where Monsieur Jacques Plante stands. He’s up there at the head of the class. As a fashion plate, he’s had less success. Hockey had been played for more than 50 years before that day in 1954 when Kenny Reardon, now a vicepresident of Montreal Canadiens, caught up to Jacques, who was fending pucks for the Buffalo Bisons, and said: “Report to Canadiens and take along enough clothes for a week.” This isn’t to suggest Monsieur Plante has been around all that time in the same suit. But this is to recall that Monsieur Plante soon began fooling with plastic ice buckets which he hauled over his head to prevent pucks from picking out his teeth. From that crude beginning…
playing the field
The Late George Boucher “He was one of the greatest athletes I’ve ever known. He could excel at any sport he wanted to take up.” This was Frank (Shag) Shaughnessy, president of the International Baseball League, speaking of George (Buck) Boucher, who died in Ottawa last week after a six-year fight with cancer. “He was a catcher in baseball and he was certainly of major league calibre,” Shag said. “But nobody ever scouted him. I doubt if he’d have made a career of baseball, though. He wanted to play hockey, which always came first with him. He was as good a stickhandler as you will ever see. “He played football for the battery team I coached at Petewawa during the First World War. That was the team Joe Breen played on and we hadd…
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