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November 12, 1960

The Hockey News November 12, 1960

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;A grey, striped ice pack crackled in Don Johns&rsquo; hand as he nursed it along his tender ankle.&ldquo;Does it hurt &rdquo; a guy in a long, blue raincoat asked.&ldquo;A little but it&rsquo;s not going to stop me from playing.&rdquo;It appears that nothing short of decapitation will block Don Johns from making a name for himself in this, his first season in the NHL.Nobody is saying Johns, a blond, crew-cut defenseman, is going to win the rookie-of-the-year award. But, then again, nobody says he&rsquo;s not.Anybody that has doubts ought to take a second look at this 22-year old out of St. George, Ont. (population 700, in a good year).Ranger coach, Alf Pike, who is biased &mdash; he coached Johns in Winnipeg &mdash; gives his rookie a high rating, about as high as Alf will rate anybody.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s played above all our expectations,&rdquo; says Alf. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s not nervous, makes few mistakes and when he does, he&rsquo;s aware of it and recovers quickly. I&rsquo;d call him a very intelligent player.&rdquo;The Rangers have had the odd surprise this young season but Johns has to be the most pleasant. Two months ago, when training camp opened, he was as unobtrusive as a fly in Times Square.Apparently it didn&rsquo;t bother him.&ldquo;When I reported to camp,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;I knew if I worked hard, I&rsquo;d have a chance to make this club and it worked out that way.&rdquo;If Don had asked a few other people at the time, they&rsquo;d have told him to be more realistic and settle for Kitchener or Springfield, at best.Rangers already were stocked with veterans Bill Gadsby, Harry Howell, Lou Fontinato, John Hanna and promising rookie Irv Spencer. What&rsquo;s more there were quality defensemen on Springfield&rsquo;s roster.But Don showed a talent for puck carrying and alert, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to charge all over the joint&rdquo; defensive play. Boom ! Hanna was dropped to Springfield and Johns opened on Broadway.What was the turning point ?&ldquo;I had a heckuvan exhibition game against Toronto,&rdquo; Don says. &ldquo;Got off a strong shot from the blue line with about six minutes to go. It went in, won the game for us and probably won me a job. Put it down as my greatest thrill so far.&rdquo;Pike promptly paired Johns with Harry Howell, which probably pleased as much as it did the rookie.&ldquo;For a change,&rdquo; says Howell, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m playing left defense. That&rsquo;s much better for me because I can get my left hand shot off easier. That&rsquo;s where I belong.&rdquo;What does Howell, the most veteran (nine years) Ranger, think of the kid ?<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04252/2124731-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="568" height="858"><figcaption class="caption-body">Real ComerDon Johns</figcaption></div>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s all right,&rdquo; Howell adds. &ldquo;Mature and doesn&rsquo;t get flustered. You don&rsquo;t see him make erratic moves and hardly ever gets out of position.&rdquo;Praise feels fine but nobody is kidding this rookie. He knows there&rsquo;s plenty to learn.&ldquo;Improvement ?&rsquo;he said stickhandling the question, &ldquo;I got plenty to go. Take that last Toronto game. My passes were bad &mdash; too hard and too soon. I was trying too hard to be perfect.Johns put the ice pack aside, laced his shoes and adjusted his tie. Dean Prentice, his car-pool comrade, yelled in, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re waiting for you buddy.&rdquo; &hellip; &ldquo;Cornin&rsquo;,&rdquo; Don said.He left the dressing room met his wife, Carol, and the Prentices.&ldquo;You got the rookie of the year in your hand,&rdquo; somebody said to Don&rsquo;s wife. She smiled.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll do my best to help,&rdquo; she said.&ldquo;And I&rsquo;ll take care of my end,&rdquo; said Don. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Rangers Polishing Johns As Candidate For Top Rook Badge

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The revemped Greensboro Generals have been the biggest surprise of the young season ( one-week-old ) Coach Ron Spong&rsquo;s sextet scored 18 goals in their two games, both of which resulted in on-side victories over the Philadelphia Ramblers. And, as a result of this new found power, the Generals share first place in the Southern Division with the defending champion Johnstown Jets.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01517/2125500-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="233" height="396"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pierre Gagne</figcaption></div>Billy Forhan, who was with Chatham Maroons of the Sr. &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA last season, scored four times in the Generals&rsquo; opening night 12-5 romp. His brother, Bobby (with Kitchener Dutchmen in 1959-60), chipped in with a goal and picked up four assists in the lid lifter.The Forhans and Don Carter, one of the returnees, share team scoring honors with six points each.CHARLOTTE &mdash; VeteTan Don &ldquo;Nipper&rdquo; O&rsquo;Hearn played Checkers&rsquo; first four games in place of regular netminder Lynn. Davis who was called home due to accidental death of his father&hellip; Rookie defenseman Norm Armstrong looks like candidate for league &ldquo;bad-man&rdquo; honors. He&rsquo;s received a pair of misconduct penalties already&hellip;CLINTON &mdash;Pierre Gagne scored winning tally in Comets&rsquo; 4-3 come-from-behind win over Rovers Oct. 23 &hellip; Skip Teal netted twice in same game &hellip; Comets undefeated in three outings &hellip; Jack Kane is Comets&rsquo; captain &hellip;GREENSBORO &mdash; Opening night drew crowd of 5,223 &hellip; Defenseman Pat Kelly has leg injury but will probably be able to dress for next league tilt &hellip; Honor of scoring first goal of EHL season went to Billy Forhan. He netted at 52 seconds of first period on Oct. 21&hellip;JERSEY &mdash; Larks released veteran Ken &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Davies&hellip; Don Labelle was elected team captain succeeding Davies &hellip; Jersey purchased Jerry Stringle from Clinton and have added Jacques Begin (Quebec Aces last year)&hellip; Defenseman Joe Kiss released to Muskegon of IHL &hellip; Danny Patrick missed Oct. 23 game with Johnstown because of shoulder injury &hellip;JOHNSTOWN &mdash; Remi Lesage scored hat trick against Larks in 7-2 win Oct. 23 &hellip; Marv Edwards tending goal for Jets&hellip; Dick Roberge&rsquo;s second goal of night gave Jets 5-4 overtime verdict over Blades Oct. 22&hellip; Capt-Don Hall also netted twice and rookie defenseman Bruno Talbot scored once.NEW HAVEN &mdash; Blades dropped defenseman Lloyd Hinchberger and forward Ron Rubic. &ldquo;Hinch&rdquo; is reportedly coaching in QHA &hellip; Ron Telford has retired&hellip; Nick Donaleshun out with leg injury.NEW YORK &mdash; Rovers released Rod Gaudreault, Willie Menard and Jack Boehm &hellip; Alf Cadman picked up from Johnstown and Mike LaBrosse added from Providence of AHL&hellip; Serge Beau-dreault scored twice in 4-3 loss to Clinton, Oct. 23 &hellip; Defenseman Norm Ryder, back from Portland (WHL) scored twice in 4-2 win over Larks, Oct. 22. He also added one following afternoonPHILADELPHIA &mdash; Ramblers released Rockey Rukavina who had been holdout. The popular little (5&rsquo;3&rdquo;) left wing will play back home in Kapuskasing, Ont., this year&hellip; Gord &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sampson added to defense corp&hellip; Capt. Hugh Campbell and Norm Gustavsen both under the weather with injuries&hellip; &#9632;

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Greensboro Big Surprise Of EHL After 1st Week

he Official National Hockey Annual for 1961 and the American Hockey League Year Book For 1960-61 will be ready for mailing during the last week of November or the first week of December. Readers who have sent their money for copies of these publications will be receiving them at that time. &#9632;

Attention

<h2>TWO HAT TRICKS</h2>Two &lsquo;Hat Tricks&rsquo; wore turned in the last week. Wally Hergesheimer of Calgary, scored 4 goals against Portland Thursday night October 24 and teammate Ron Leopold scored-three times against Edmonton Saturday night October 26. Both &lsquo;Hat Tricks&rsquo; were in the Calgary Corral<h2>GOALKEEPERS</h2>Goorge Wood of Vancouver loads the goalkeeper with a goals against average of 2.50 Per game followed by Lucien Dochona, of Calgary witft 2.75, and Marcel Peltetier, of Victoria with 2.85.<h3>TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25</h3>Winnipeg 2 at Vancouver 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02488/2125414-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="595" height="426"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26</h3>Winnipeg 5 at Victoria 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03415/2125407-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="589" height="435"></div>Portland 3 at Edmonton 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04339/2125400-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="589" height="459"></div><h3>THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27</h3>Portland 6 at Calgary 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05288/2125393-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="580" height="759"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06258/2125386-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="364" height="75"></div><h3>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28</h3>Spokane 3 at Victoria 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09216/2125379-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="592" height="489"></div>Seattle 3 at Vancouver 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10195/2125372-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="580" height="513"></div>Winnipeg 2 at Edmonton 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11170/2125365-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="586" height="390"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29</h3>Vancouver 3 at Seattle 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12157/2125358-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="577" height="84"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-13133/2125351-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="585" height="492"></div>Victoria 3 at Sookane 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-14105/2125344-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="588" height="570"></div>Edmonton 1 at Calqary 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1584/2125337-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="588" height="585"></div><h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Mon., A.M., Oct. 31)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01534/2125330-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="598" height="246"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Games Of Sat., Oct. 29)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07235/2125323-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="595" height="495"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08226/2125316-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="595" height="300"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By Stan FISCHER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;It&rsquo;s the annual &ldquo;do-or-die&rdquo; time in Rangerville.The Blueshirts are slated to play six of their eight remaining November dates at Madison Square Garden&rdquo;, bepinnine with a &ldquo;welcome home&rdquo; tilt against Detroit, November 9th.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0283/2126039-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="278" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gump Worsley</figcaption></div>Observers consider this the opportune time for the Rangers to fortify their chances for a fourth place berth.Nobody is saying this is the last &ldquo;do-or-die&rdquo; stretch but the feeling pervades that Alf Pikes&rsquo; light cavalry must start its playoff gallop now.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m disappointed in our start,&rdquo; said general manager Muzz Patrick, alluding to the 4-7-0 record compiled through the end of October. &ldquo;I thought we&rsquo;d get off better than that.&rdquo;In an effort to develop a winning combination, Pike tried a couple of changes &mdash; alternating goalies and alternating lines.The goalie switch involved Jack McCartan and Gump Worsley.Originally, Worsley was to be the first-string goaler with McCartan spelling, Gump every three or four games. Next, Pike tried alternating them every two games.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-01102/2126032-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg" title="f0001-01" width="2335" height="2160"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eric Puts His Best Foot ForwardEric Nesterenko of the Chicago Black Hawks does a graceful swan dive on his right skate as he fires point blank at Boston&rsquo;s Don Simmons. As Nester fires the Bruins watch, then realize that he has a clear path to their cage. Converging on Eric is Bob Armstrong (4), Johnny Bucyk, right, and Leo Boivin (20). Nesterenko missed but Hawks won.</figcaption></div>Latest gambit is a game-to-game switch. The theory is that the &ldquo;other&rdquo; goalie gets stale warming the bench for two games.The line switch saw Dean Prentice moved from his first line left wing spot with Andy Bathgate and Brian Cullen to a line with Ken Schinkel and Ted Hampson.Rookie Len Ronson replaced Prentice on the first line.Along with the annual &ldquo;do-or-die&rdquo; week, another annual occurrence was deteoted along Broadway &mdash; the epidemic of Gump Worsley trade rumors.The Worsley gossip popped up last week after McCartan played his best game as a Ranger while losing to Toronto, 3-1.McCartan looked more like a pro than ever before &mdash; but for one boo-boo when he misplayed a shot off the backboards and it resulted in a goal &mdash; and there was talk that Jack might be ready to succeed Worsley.After the game, Pike was asked whether he planned to maintain the two-goalie system.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll keep alternating them until we find out what&rsquo;s going to happen,&rdquo; he replied.This was construed as a hint that something was going to happen to Worsley.Next day, a headline appeared in a New York paper: &ldquo;Worsley Going ?&rdquo;Patrick was asked about it.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s nothing to it,&rdquo; Muzz said. &ldquo;There are no Worsley deals in the works.&rdquo;The thinking behind a Worsley trade possibility would be this: Jack McCartan is capable of playing full-time; the Rangers need center-ice strength and might get it from the Bruins or Detroit; Worsley has openly expressed dissatisfaction with the two-goalie system.However, there still remains doubt whether McCartan is capable of full-time duty. Until it is clearly established that Jack is ready, there is doubt that Worsley would be traded.Say OK for O&rsquo;Keefes &#9632;

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Say He Will Go To Detroit Or Boston Bruins

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;That current commercial about smoking more and enjoying it less could be applied in a fashion to the Red Wings&rsquo; first 11 games.The Wings have put more goals through the enemy filter but the feedback has been almost as strong.Here&rsquo;s the comparison:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02443/2124393-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="257" height="120"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03397/2124386-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="265" height="122"></div>The first 11 games last year produced six victories and three ties against a pair of defeats. This year it&rsquo;s four victories, as many defeats and three ties.And but for some exceptional goal tending by old nemesis Gump Worseley and Glenn Hall, the Wing production would have been much greater.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01463/2124379-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="261" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alex Delvecchio</figcaption></div>In two games the Red Wings fired 90 shots at Worsley and Hall. All they had to show for the work was a victory over the Chicago Black Hawks.Not that anyone was ready to decline it. But with that many shots it was amazing they didn&rsquo;t pump a dozen goals into the nets. Worsley turned aside all but three of 46 shots and only two escaped Hall out of 44.Worsley returned to the New York cage after an enforced 10-day layoff in which Jack McCartan stood in for a pair of games. The Gumper rarely was better as New York skated to a 4-3 decision.Howie Glover gave Detroit a 1-0 lead in New York but the Rangers countered with three in the middle period, one by Andy Bathgate and the other two by Andy Hebenton only 71 seconds apart, the first on a power play.Pete Goegan narrowed it in the third period but rookie Len Ronson put in Don Johns&rsquo; rebound for the eventual winner since ex-Ranger Parker MacDonald clicked with less than three minutes to play.Hall resisted the Red Wing bombardment until the second period when Gary Aidcorn collected his first goal of the season. It was the third puck the Wings put in the net but two others were cancelled, the first when referee Frank Udvari whistled play dead an instant before Hall lost control of an Aidcorn shot he had nestled to his body and the other when Norm Ullman was offside on MacDonald&rsquo;s 55-footer.Hall and the Black Hawks had just come off a bad game the night before in Toronto where they were whipped, 8-4.&ldquo;We were bad from goal out,&rdquo; Hawk headman Rudy Pilous said. &ldquo;Every team comes up with a bad game once in awhile and that was our first one this season.&rdquo;The only thing was that Hall was the only one who made a quick recovery. The swift-skating Red Wings didn&rsquo;t let the Hawks have the puck very often&mdash;they only got 19 shots at Terry Sawchuk with Bobby Hull cashing in on one with a 15-foot screener that eluded Sawchuk.It still appeared that the Chicagoans would escape with a 1-1 tie and sole possession of first place since Boston was drubbing Montreal.But with just over two minutes to play, Alex Delvecchio put the puck over the line, tapping his own rebound.Chicago had seven men on the ice at the time but didn&rsquo;t draw a penalty.Ken Wharram broke his stick in the Detroit zone trying to get the puck from Warren Godfrey who started the winning sequence.Wharram raced for the bench as Godfrey shot the puck into the Hawk end and Ullman raced in to retrieve it from the corner.Wharram still was 30 feet or more from the bench when Murray Balfour jumped over the boards to try and help defenseman Elmer Vasko.Ullman sighted Delvecchio closing in on the net and sent him a flip pass. Alex shot and Hall saved but started to go down in doing so and Delvecchio swatted at the puck again just as he collided with Vasko and Balfour. Balfour had helped Vasko&mdash;helped take him out of the play in his anxiousness.Chicago had seven men on again in the final minute when Hall was skating to the bench and a sixth attacker jumped on the ice. Hall was at the faceoff circle when his replacement already was just about at the red line. It too went undetected.&ldquo;We were shooting and we were shooting pretty well,&rdquo; general manager Jack Adams said. Adams still is trying to get the Wings to shoot lower, however.&ldquo;If you shoot about ankle high it&rsquo;s much tougher to stop,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been hitting the goal tender in the chest too much.&ldquo;That was a very big win for us&mdash;it kept us in the pack,&rdquo; Adams said. And the victory did place the Wings three points behind front runners Montreal and Chicago and one behind runnerup Toronto. &#9632;

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GA Keeping Wings From Swooping To Much Higher Perch

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;Don Simmons of the Bruins has probably done his best major league goaltending against the Montreal Canadiens, the defending National League and Stanley Cup champions.But does Simmons, on the basis of his numerous brilliant games against Montreal, downgrade the champions? On the contrary.As far as Simmons is concerned, the Canadiens are the Canadiens, no matter how many goals they&rsquo;re down.&ldquo;They never give up,&rdquo; declared dapper Don after an acrobatic 39-save display in a game with Montreal here. &ldquo;You never have them licked until the game ends.&ldquo;In this game we had them down 4 to 1 by the middle of the second period. Another team might have given up for the night then and there. But six minutes later we&rsquo;re leading by 4 to 3.&ldquo;The thing with the Canadiens is,&rdquo; said Simmons, &ldquo;that they have so many good scorers. No matter what combination (Toe) Blake (Montreal coach) puts out there, it has scorers. So there&rsquo;s never any relaxation of pressure on the other team&rsquo;s goalkeeper.&ldquo;That team can strike so fast that you can be a couple of goals ahead and bang, bang! The score is tied.&rdquo;It was appropriate that Simmons, who has played most of his best games against the Canadiens in Montreal, should come up with a Montreal-style game here.Twice earlier this season Don had been voted the outstanding player, once in Montreal, again in Toronto. His sparkling exhibition here gave him a lift and boosted the Bruins as well.&lsquo;That was one of his best,&rdquo; opined Coach Milt Schmidt-afterward. &ldquo;Actually, he has been good in almost every game this season. But this was a good time and a good place for him to come up with this one.&rdquo;If the Garden was a pleasant spot for Simmons up to that point this season, it was a less pleasant one for two goalkeeping contemporaries.Gump Worsley of the New York Rangers was potted for six goals by the Bruins here and replaced by Jack McCartan for the next game, Muzz Patrick passing on this message to hockey writers here: &ldquo;The next time we&rsquo;re back you&rsquo;ll see McCartan.&rdquo;And three nights after the Worsley debacle Montreal&rsquo;s Jacques Plante gave a shaky showing which prompted Managing Director Frank Selke to say, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re contemplating a shakeup from the goal out.&rdquo;By being unbeaten in their first five home games the Bruins tied their record for the past four year in that respect. Not since the 1956-57 season had they been unbeaten in more than five straight games at the Garden.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04301/2124424-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="269" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Simmons</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Don Tabs Habs - They Never Give Up ’Till The End

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;&ldquo;Before very long, he&rsquo;s going to be one of the real big operators in this league.&rdquo;That was coach Punch Inlach&rsquo;s recent evaluation of freshman Dave Keon, an unexpectedly impressive performer in the Maple Leafs&rsquo; first dozen games this season.When Keon was starring for Toronto&rsquo;s St. Michael&rsquo;s college junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; team, observers were unanimous in the conviction that he&rsquo;d fit in as a big-leaguer. But few of them felt he&rsquo;d leap directly to the majors at the age of 20 and immediately take over as a competent, first-string centre. But he has. There was never any thought of American league apprenticeship for Keon.&ldquo;There are a lot of differences between junior hockey and NHL hockey,&rdquo; Keon says. &ldquo;As a junior, I&rsquo;d be on the ice two or three minutes and I&rsquo;d do a lot of coasting. Up here, you&rsquo;re on for a minute and you have to go all-out every second.&rdquo;Keon has been the recipient, like all first-year men, of some &ldquo;testing&rdquo; rough treatment at the hands of rough customers like Lou Fontinato and Fernie Flaman. To date, he hasn&rsquo;t backed up a step and has actually handed out a few body blows of his own, hurling his five-foot-nine, 165-pound bulk at some of the biggest opponents in sight.&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t say the defencemen in the NHL hit harder,&rdquo; Keon says. &ldquo;But they hit better and they check better.&rdquo;Imlach&rsquo;s comment: &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t expect a rookie to carry this club. The old pros are doing the job now but just wait. In January Keon will be a good player on this hockey team. He&rsquo;s adequate now. He just needs more experience.&rdquo;A noticeable thing about Keon is his eagerness to learn.&ldquo;He listens,&rdquo; according to Bert Olmstead, who spends considerable time tutoring those of his younger teammates who are interested in that type of study. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s anxious to pick up all the knowledge he can and he puts it into use the first chance he gets.&rdquo;After Keon was the Ontario Hockey association&rsquo;s junior all-star centre last winter, scoring 33 goals and 38 assists, Leafs decided they&rsquo;d give him every opportunity to win an NHL job at their September, 1960, training camp. The youngster had worked conscientiously to overcome the one major flaw in his game&mdash;his inability or unwillingness to backcheck and forecheck&mdash;and had become a first-rate defensive player, as well as a smoothie on the attack.Dave was Leafs&rsquo; top scores in their preseason exhibition games and started the campaign as the regular centre for George Armstrong and Dick Duff. Occasionally, he was spelled off by Billy Harris.Later on, after Larry Regan was injured, Imlach even tried using Keon as a penalty-killer and was rewarded with excellent results. Keon&rsquo;s non-stop skating and talent for sizing up situations made him effective when his team was shorthanded.All this happened in a week when Leafs finally began to hit on all cylinders after a sluggish beginning. They won five out of six, including victories over the Canadiens and Chicago, who were slugging it out for first place at the time.The team looked good at every position. Johnny Bower was sharp in goal. Allan Stanley was rounding into form, which made the defence tougher. The Keon-Duff-Armstrong line was good; the Frank Mahovlich-Red Kelly-Bob Nevin line was excellent, especially because Mahovlich was beginning to blast off with displays like his hat trick against Glenn Hall; the Bert Olmstead-Bob Pulford-Ron Stewart trio was solid, despite a slow start by Pulford.Furthermore, Imlach had hit upon a power play combination that worked&mdash;Frank Mahovlich at centre between Olmstead and Nevin; with Kelly and Larry Regan on the points. And to kill penalties, he was using Regan and either Stewart or Kelly.Then, Armstrong and Regan were injured, Regan&rsquo;s was the more serious&mdash;a skate cut on one foot, which even splintered a bone. He was to be out six weeks or more. Armstrong suffered a torn rib muscle which might sideline him for three games.This threw Imlach&rsquo;s alignment out of kilter. Gerry Ebman was conscripted for right-wing duty and there was promise of a promotion from the Rochester American league club.NOTES: Mahovlich attributed his spurt to the fact the entire team was playing well&hellip; Pulford was at a loss to explain his slump but insisted it was of serious proportions&mdash;he had five points in 11 games, compared to four goals and eight assists a year ago&hellip; Olmstead&rsquo;s five points against Chicago in an 8-4 win constituted one of his biggest games ever, although not equal to the NHL record he shares with Rocket Richard, that of eight points in a single game.Bower contemplated retirement last summer but was induced to return to Leafs by a contract clause which gives him a bonus if he allows fewer than 200 goals against this season. Last year he permitted 180 in 66 games&hellip; Leafs are quite enthused about Carl Brewer&rsquo;s younger brother, Jack, who is defenceman with their Marlboro minor-midget club.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05215/2124455-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="246" height="405"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Keen</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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‘A Star By January, Keon’s Destiny As Leafs’ Says Imlach

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01462/2124486-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Czech Who Can CheckSTAN MIKITA</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, install Mikita, the scrappy forward of the Chicago Black Hawks, was born Stanislaus Guoth in Soholce, Czechoslovakia.Now in his second year with Chicago at the age of 20, he is one of the few European born players to make good in the National Hockey League.When Stan came to Canada at the age of eight he knew practically no English words. He literally learned to speak the language while playing hockey with his new neighborhood playmates in St. Catherines, Ont.&ldquo;We played street hockey all the time and the first words I learned all had to do with hockey terms. Maybe that&rsquo;s why I love the game so much,&rdquo; says Stan.Stan was born on May 20, 1940, not too long after the Germans had occupied Czechoslovakia. He was the second son of George and Amelia Guoth.In 1948, when Stan was eight years old his uncle and aunt from Canada, Joe and Annie Mikita, came to visit for several months. One day, while his mother and uncle were talking, Uncle Joe half jokingly asked if he could take young Stanislaus back to Canada with him.Just at that moment young Stan also asked his mother for something to eat.Because Mrs. Guoth was busy talking to her brother, she told her son &ldquo;No,&rdquo; he couldn&rsquo;t have anything to eat right then. When Stan started to cry his mother believed it was because her son thought she had said &ldquo;no&rdquo; to Uncle Joe&rsquo;s suggestion that the Guoth youngster go to Canada to live.It was from that point on that the Guoths and the Mikitas began thinking seriously of having ydung Stanislaus go to Canada. Conditions in post-World War II Czechslovakia were difficult and the decision was made. The Mikitas, who had no other children, adopted Stan and also Mrs. Mikita&rsquo;s niece Irene, who is now married and lives in Toronto.&ldquo;We all came back to Canada together and arrived in St. Catherines three days before Christmas in 1948,&rdquo; recalls Stan. &ldquo;About the only English I knew was that my name would be Stanley.&rdquo;As a youngster in Czechoslovakia, young Stanislaus Guoth had buckled runners onto his shoes and hit a cork with a stick on the frozen river that ran through the village.In Canada, young Stan Mikita learned the more basic fundamentals of shooting and stickhandling and avoiding a check, by slapping at a puck or ball in the streets of St. Catherines.When Stan was nine, in 1949, he was able to hold his own in the St. Catherines Legion minor league playing against boys two and three years older. At the age of 11 he began playing bantam hockey under Vic Teal.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s the man who taught me all my hockey,&rdquo; says Mikita. &ldquo;I played under him four years, in bantam and midget. He used to get after us with a broom if we didn&rsquo;t hustle. I didn&rsquo;t appreciate it then but when I started playing junior hockey at the age of 16, against boys 19 and 20 who were much bigger and heavier and more mature, I really appreciated what Vic had taught us.&rdquo;Mikita played as a right wing util his second year of junior hockey, with St. Catherines TeePees. His first coach, during the 195657 season, was Rudy Pilous, who is his current coach at the Chicago Black Hawks and the man who had followed Stan&rsquo;s play through bantam and midget and drafted him for the TeePees. After Pilous moved up to the Black Hawks, Mikita played under Glen Sommer for half a season and under Harry Watson in the 1958-59 season.It was during his second year of junior hockey that Stan began to think seriously of making hockey his career. He left school after nearly completing his junior year at St. Catherines, where he also played basketball and football. That year, 1957-58, he was on the Ontario Hockey Association all-star team and the most valuable player in the league. The next season he had a broken wrist and broken shoulder but still led the league in scoring with 38 goals and 59 assists in 45 games.That was the year the parent Black Hawks were riding high with the &ldquo;Pappy Line&rdquo; of Tod Sloan at center, Ed Litzenberger at right wing and Ted Lindsay on left wing. When Sloan was sidelined for a few games Coach Pilous and General Manager Tommy Ivan called up young Mikita.&ldquo;The first thing,&rdquo; recalls Stan, &ldquo;Rudy threw me on the ice for a faceoff against big Beliveau. I was lucky and got thejpuck. That picked me up 100 per cent. The second time out I strickhandled around Doug Harvey and I began to think maybe I had a chance of making good.&rdquo;During his brief four-game stint in the NHL that season Mikita received some advice from linemates Litzenberger and Lindsay which he still uses.&ldquo;They told me when I go in the corner to keep my stick chest high for protection. And when I throw a pass, not to watch where it goes but to watch for opposing skaters coming to take me out of the play.&ldquo;I forgot their advice in one game, against Boston, an 1 started looking around for a pass. Ferny Flaman caught me and I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;ve ever been hit so hard.&rdquo;Mikita&rsquo;s showing earned him a shot at a regular job in training camp the next fall and he turned professional and was one of three rookies to make the 1959-60 Chicago Black Hawk squad. The other two were Red Hay and Murray Balfour.The early part of the season he teamed at center with Bobby Hull on left wing and Eric Nesterenko on right wing. But nobody on the Hawks clicked the first third of the season and the squad was shaken up almost weekly. It wasn&rsquo;t until the first of the year that Coach Pilous got his lines squared away and Stan found himself centering for veteran Ted Lindsay and sophomore right winger Ken Wharram.&ldquo;Lindsay had been one of my idols as a youngster,&rdquo; says Stan. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not very big (Stan is 5 ft. 9 in. tall and weighs 165 pounds). In fact I&rsquo;m built a lot like Lindsay. And here I was playing on his line. It was a little strange at first but Ted took me in hand and made me feel right at home after a few games.&rdquo;Lindsay, once one of the greatest left wings in the league and who still holds the career high for goals scored by a left wing, was in the last season of his 16-year NHL career.&ldquo;We became the checking line for the Hawks,&rdquo; says Mikita. &ldquo;Ted set the pace and his psychology was all defensive. He went on the idea that if the other team didn&rsquo;t score the worst you could get was a tie. So we played it tight and waited for our breaks.&rdquo;With all the shifting around, with six games out because of a fractured wrist, and with the defensive approach, Stan still man aged eight goals and 18 assists for 26 points.This year Stan was put on a line with Ab McDonald, obtained during the off-season from Montreal Canadiens, and Wharram on right wing again. The trio was dubbed the &ldquo;Scotter Line&rdquo; by Hawk general manager Ivan.&ldquo;We still think defensively as a line but we&rsquo;re much more aggressive and put more emphasis on offense than last year,&rdquo; says Stan. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been together since the start of training camp and we work together as a unit. I was just a cocky kid last year. This year I&rsquo;m more confident.&rdquo;Never one to back down from trouble, Mikita is a real scrapper on the ice. But he feels his 119 minutes in penalties last season &mdash; fourth high in the NHL &mdash; was too much.&ldquo;I took a lot of stupid penalties. I&rsquo;m trying to cut down on that this year,&rdquo; he says. He was involved in seven or eight fights but only remembers the one with Henri Richard of Montreal &mdash; &ldquo;because its the only one I won.&rdquo;As a center, Mikita goes against some of the top players in the National Hockey League &mdash; Beliveau, Horvath, Bathgate, Richard. &ldquo;You have to be on them all the time and not let them get started at their own game,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;You have to be quick to pick up your check and not follow the puck too much. And you cant let up for one second or the whole team gets in trouble.&rdquo;In his play Stan is more of a puck handler and passer than a free-wheeling skater. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t stickhandle as much as I should and I probably don&rsquo;t shoot as much as I should. I don&rsquo;t have a hard shot but it&rsquo;s fairly accurate and putting it on the net is what counts&rdquo; says Stan. &#9632;

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When He Landed Only English He Knew Was Stanley

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;Stan Mikita, Chicago Black Hawk center, is still excited over the trip he made to his native Czechoslovakia during the offseason.It was the first time he had seen his parents in 12 years, as well as his older brother and a little sister who hadn&rsquo;t been born when Stan left Czechoslovakia in 1948.Stan was born Stan Gvoth in Sokolce, Czechoslovakia. He changed his name to Stan Mikita after being brought to Canada and adopted by the Joe Mikita family in 1948.On his trip, which lasted 2% months, Stan was accompanied by his adopted mother, Mrs. Mikita, and sister Irene Mikita. They made the trip both ways by boat, from Montreal to Halifax.&ldquo;It was a wonderful thing to go back and visit my parents,&rdquo; says Stan. &ldquo;I hadn&rsquo;t seen them since I was eight. My dad is 60 years old now and my mother 47. My big brother is 23 and a little sister who wasn&rsquo;t born when I left is nine.&rdquo;Stan now hopes to bring the Gvoths to North America for a visit.&ldquo;The Czechs are crazy about hockey,&rdquo; reports Stan. &ldquo;I was invited to a lot of banquets while I was there and all they talked about was hockey.&rdquo;The national Czechoslovakian team reports for calisthenics three times a week and does a lot of running the other days, all during the summer.&ldquo;The players there can&rsquo;t understand why the players over here don&rsquo;t have to report for some kind of training during the off-season,&rdquo; says Stan.The only two National Hockey League players the Czechs asked about&rsquo;were Montreal&rsquo;s great Rocket Richard&mdash;who has visited the country in the past&mdash;and Bobby Hull of the Black Hawks.&ldquo;Mostly they wanted pointers on how to play different positions and what to do in various situations,&rdquo; says Stan, who attended several workouts as well as the banquets.Other stops on Stan&rsquo;s trip, in addition to seven weeks at his home town of Sokolce, were two weeks in Prague and five days in Paris, France. &#9632;

Mikita Family Had Reunion On Stan’s Summer Trip Home

<div class="byline">By Ken mckenzie</div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYPounded Octobet 1st, 1947Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.,1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.Ken McKenzie, Un Bramson, Will V. Cote,President and Publisher Editor-in-Chief 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, NOVEMBER 12, 1960 No. 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01526/2124562-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="364" height="405"></div>&bull; THAT MUST have been some pep talk Jack Adams gave his players between the second and third periods the other night &hellip; Down 2 to 5 to the Bruins, the Red Wings scored six straight goals in the third period to win 8-5 &hellip; Adams always has been one of the best st diviner a team a pep talk &hellip; He has always been a grea admirer of Knute Rockne &hellip; Johnny Wilson was the best player Toronto had the night Jean Beliveau beat them 3-1 &hellip; No doubt the Leafs will have him back in the lineup as a regular soon &hellip; Frank Mahovlich did little for the Toronto cause against the Habs &hellip; Big M, who looks like one of the best players in the NHL on some evenings and who is possessed with an overabundance of natural ability, seems lost on the Forum freeze &hellip; Beliveau&rsquo;s three goals in the first period against Toronto on I November 3 brought his NHL total for goals scored during regular scheduled play to 250 &hellip; It&rsquo;s been some time since a Diaver scored three eoals in one period in the NHL &hellip; How many people remember the night Boom Boom Geoffrion scored five goals in a game? &hellip; The Boomer scored five and picked up an assist on February 19, 1956 as the Canadiens defeated the New York Rangers, 10-2, in Montreal&hellip; Norm Ullman scored his 100th NHL goal during Detroit&rsquo;s great comeback against Boston. He entered the game with 98 goals and scored twice during that eventful third period &hellip; Ullman has been playing great hockey for&rsquo; the Wings this year &hellip; He has picked up one or more points in every game played by Detroit this season &hellip; Ivan Dugre, president of Sherbrooke Wood Products of Sherbrooke, Que., tells me he is selling more hockey sticks this year than ever before. Orders are pouring in from all across the nation &hellip; Glenn Hall has the best record among the NHL goalies in games up to and including those of October 25. The Chicago netminder allowed 17 goals on 262 shots for a shots against per goal mark of 15.41.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02491/2124555-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="274" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Wilson</figcaption></div>&bull; ALL THE coaches in the NHL are watching closely to see how Rudy Pilous plan of having his Chicago players skate on the morning of the games they play works out&hellip; Dickie Moore had the best shots per goal record among NHL scoring leaders on October 26&hellip; Moore scored 11 goals on 31 shots for a 2.82 shots per goal average&hellip; Camille Henry of the New York Rangers, always an accurate shot, scored a goal on every 3.33 shots &hellip; Boston Bruins&rsquo; Doug Mohns had eight shots on the net and scored on three of these for a shots per goal mark of 2.67&hellip; Boom Boom Geoffrion had more shots on goal than any player up to October 26&hellip; He had 47 shots on goal. He scored on seven of these for a shots per goal mark of 6.71&hellip; Chicago&rsquo;s Bobby Hull scored six goals on 40 shots for a 6.67 average&hellip; Paddy McElroy, an usher at the Montreal Forum since the building first opened, died last week at the age of 84&hellip; Paddy was on duty at the Forum two days before he passed away&hellip; Jim Proudfoot calls Johnny Bower, Toronto&rsquo;s veteran goalkeeper, the Archie Moore of Hockey&hellip; In 1938, the year Bower joined the Canadian Army, four of his present Leaf teammates, Dave Keon, Frank Mahovlich, Bob Nevin and Carl Brewer, hadn&rsquo;t been born.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03415/2124548-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="259" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dickie Moore</figcaption></div>&bull; ERIC NESTERENKO&rsquo;S improved play this season has Tommy Ivan and Rudy Pilous pleased. Pilous credits Eric with much of the Hawks&rsquo; early success. He says : &ldquo;Eric suddenly has become a leader. He&rsquo;s one of the nosiest guys we have on the bench and on the ice he&rsquo;s shown a willingness to take charge that really has surprised me.&rdquo; &hellip; Boston Bruins haven&rsquo;t won too many games this year but in games up to October 26 they had the most accurate shots in the circuit&hellip; The Bruins averaged 27.13 shots on goal per game and 1.75 shots per goal&hellip; Toronto had the next best mark&hellip; The Leafs scored a goal on every 2.22 shots. They averaged 30.44 shots on goal each game&hellip; New York scored a goal on every 2.63 shots. They averaged 27.63 shots on goal each game&hellip; Detroit had 28.33 shots on goal per game and averaged 2.89 shots per goal&hellip; Chicago had 30.89 shots each game and scored on every 3.33 shots&hellip; Montreal averaged 33.09 shots on goal and scored on every 3.64 shots&hellip; Jack Wells, Western Canada&rsquo;s best known and highest paid sports announcer, will become sports director of Winnipeg&rsquo;s new independent TV station, CJAY-TV, when it goes on the air next month&hellip; Bob Moir, cracker jack football play by play announcer, will inherit Wells nightly TV sports show over the CBC television station in Winnipeg&hellip; All kinds of sports announcers are changing jobs in Canada lately with several Western announcers moving East.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04356/2124541-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="287" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eric Nesterenko</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL Toronto Star</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06272/2124631-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg"></div>When rangy, loose-limbed Eric Nesterenko turned pro, eight years ago, a few loose-lipped prophets predicted he would be the Charlie Conacher of the 50&rsquo;s. The forecasters shouldn&rsquo;t feel too upset about it. A lot of people also considered the Yanks a lead pipe cinch in the world series.Anyway, Nester hasn&rsquo;t disgraced them. He&rsquo;s been a useful hockey player&mdash;even if he has lost the alleged resemblance to Chas. Conacher. A lot has been said about Eric, the unpredictable, since that day when the Leafs issued his new blue and white jersey. Some of it has been muttered by coaches and managers who have found Nester&rsquo;s profound thinking as hard to follow as his goalward rushes.Rudy Pilous, a normally loquacious individual in almost any dialect, was struck dumb last summer when Eric announced his candidature for a job with the football Argonauts. It was obvious, Nester said at the time, that Pilous proposed to banish him from the Black Hawks to the minors.Rudy spluttered a few words which were intended to mean he had no such intention. Tommy Ivan, general manager of the Chihawks, voiced his bewilderment and said he couldn&rsquo;t understand how Nesterenko reached that conclusion.Eric had been a football star in high school. His willingness to give his all for the football team brought him into conflict with Stafford Smythe who was paying the bills for Marlboros&rsquo; junior hockey empire. The Marlies had signed Nesterenko to a minor pro contract in order to keep him interested. They were giving him the equivalent of a Pittsburgh farm club salary for his services as a junior.Smythe was perturbed when he discovered that Nester was risking limb and ligament for free as a high school footballer. Somehow, Smythe reasoned that a leg broken in a football game would be just as broken as if it had happened in hockey.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07215/2124624-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="535" height="1464"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eric Nesterenko</figcaption></div>So Nester&rsquo;s grid career actually ended there&mdash;with the threat of a fine if his name appeared again in the football write-ups. His adventure with Argos ended quickly, but coach Lou Agase was nice about it. He just said Nester couldn&rsquo;t help the team. So why jeopardize his career in hockey?<h2>Three Jobs and Right Wing</h2>The flight to football wasn&rsquo;t exactly new to Ivan. He followed Nester right to the door of the bus one time when the University of Toronto Blues were departing for training camp. Ivan lost out&mdash;temporarily&mdash;but the fugitive from shinny was back, in a few days, with a shoulder injury which softened him up for another pitch from the Black Hawks.When Pilous joined the club as coach, he inherited a situation which displeased him. Nesterenko was a student at University of Western Ontario. He flew from London to wherever the Hawks were playing. After the game, he planed back to the campus. Uncomprehending teammates regarded this as a high-browed by-pass of the Hawks&rsquo; sweat and blood practice sessions. While these were in progress, Nester was in the classroom.Subsequent events would indicate their error. When the studentChihawk era ended, Nester complained to Ivan about the spare time inflicted upon a hockey player. He wanted a job between games. Ivan pointed to Eric&rsquo;s U.S. visa, which permits the holder to toil only at his profession. Nester consulted with the immigration people.This year, after the brief experiment with Argos, Nester again broached the job question to Ivan. Tommy mentioned the visa again. Nester had a surprise for him&mdash;a permanent visa which he had obtained for himself. Ivan had to surrender.Now, Nesterenko works in a bank, a hotel, and the biggest furniture market in Chicago. He attends all the practices and plays right wing for the Black Hawks. Early indications have been that it could be his best season.There are a few gaps in Nester&rsquo;s schedule yet. On the long train and plane trips, he&rsquo;s idle and restless. If Ivan could get him part-time employment as a railway conductor and an airline steward, Nester probably would reward him by winning the Hart trophy. &#9632;

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Speakind on Sport

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Sixteen or so years ago, Johnny Bower, who&rsquo;s now the roly-poly goalie of the Maple Leafs, was the centre of a raging controversy in prairie hockey circles. An opposing team protested his eligibility, claiming he was much too old to be playing for a junior club, the Prince Albert, Sask., Black Hawks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05323/2124593-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="283" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Bower</figcaption></div>&ldquo;You could understand why they were confused,&rdquo; Johnny chuckles now. &ldquo;I was an army veteran, just back from two years overseas. There had to be something wrong somewhere. There was, too. The mistake had been made when I was allowed to go on active duty with the army. I was much too young.&rdquo;&ldquo;Hey, Johnny,&rdquo; a teammate yelled, disrespectfully, across the dressing room, &ldquo;which war was that? The first?&rdquo;&ldquo;Naw,&rdquo; Bower replied. &ldquo;It was the Boer.&rdquo;Last month, when Leafs were embarking on one of their airborne road trips, a U.S. immigration officer who was checking the team through, stopped Bower. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s no hockey player,&rdquo; the official protested. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s too old.&rdquo;Bower&rsquo;s age is something he&rsquo;s never been permitted to forget. The National Hockey League register says he&rsquo;ll observe his 36th birthday Nov. 8. This is generally regarded as blatant fiction, and Johnny himself, the Archie Moore of hockey, confesses he&rsquo;s &ldquo;35&mdash; going on 40.&rdquo;&ldquo;I guess It was around 1938 when I joined the army reserves,&rdquo; he recalls, creating chronological confusion which may never be unravelled. &ldquo;It was out in Vernon, B.C., and we used to train every Friday night. After war broke out&mdash;1939, wasn&rsquo;t it ?&mdash;I was in the regular army four years as a gunner&mdash;two years overseas. Never did see any action, though.&rdquo;In 1938, the year Bower first joined the battle to make the world safe for democracy and hockey, four of his present Leaf colleagues, Dave Keon, Frank Mahovlich, Bob Nevin and Carl Brewer, hadn&rsquo;t been born.&ldquo;Your age varies with the way you feel,&rdquo; Johnny philosophizes. &ldquo;Sometimes when I&rsquo;m tired, and aching in a few million places, I think this has gotta be my last season. I just can&rsquo;t take this kind of treatment any longer. Then I get feeling good, as I do these days, and I decide, hell, I can go on forever.&rdquo;The difficulty&rsquo; a visitor suggested, is that as you approach 40, the times when you feel begin to outnumber the lively days. Johnny confirmed he had made this discovery, too.He did confide, though, that experiments with vitamin pills, plus a clause in his contract which calls for a bonus if he permits fewer than 200 goals this season, have been responsible for startling rejuvenation.Last spring, Johnny experienced one of his most satisfying moments in two decades as a hockey player. He was awarded the J. P. Bickell Memorial trophy as Leafs&rsquo; most important workman. Two years earlier, he hadn&rsquo;t even wanted to come to Toronto.&ldquo;If it had been up to me, I&rsquo;d have finished my career with the Cleveland Barons,&rdquo; he admits. &ldquo;After you&rsquo;ve been in one town for a long time, you&rsquo;ve got achance of getting into some kind of business. It gets pretty late in life to start over again in a new place.&ldquo;But I was drafted. I didn&rsquo;t have a choice.&rdquo;With Leafs, Johnny, Cleveland&rsquo;s old &ldquo;China Wall&rdquo;, has enjoyed his finest, most productive hockey campaigns. He&rsquo;s happy now that he came here and when you contemplate the Leafs without him, you have to agree the benefits have been bilateral.Bower, as the Maple Leaf Gardens&rsquo; publicity office can testify, is immensely popular with Leaf supporters, who have materialized by the thousand since the team reappeared in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Johnny bought 1,000 photographs of himself last winter so that when a fan wrote in for a souvenir he could autograph a print and mail it out.&ldquo;You know,&rdquo; says Bower, with a trace of awe in his voice, &ldquo;I had to send for another thousand last summer.&rdquo; &#9632;

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’Age Varies With The Way You feel,’ Says Aging Bower

<div class="byline">Bv DICK BACON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01483/2124669-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="571" height="1077"><figcaption class="caption-body">Little Big GuyBobby Rousseau</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;One game does not a season make, usually, but as far as the Montreal Canadiens are concerned, this old truism may be proved wrong.When the 1960-61 National Hockey League season becomes a part of the record book, historians may look back on the season and point to a game the Canadiens played the the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Montreal Forum, Nov. 3, 1960, and remark:&ldquo;That was the turning point&hellip; that was the game that put the Canadiens back on the right track.&rdquo;The Canadiens were only one point behind first place Chicago entering their 14th game of the season, but the Hawks had two games hand. In addition, the Canadiens had lost five of their last seven games and had generally looked like anything but five-time world champions.Coach Toe Blake and General Manager Frank Selke considered the situation alarming enough that something had to be done. And suddenly there were repeated rumors around town that the Canadiens were in trading market. When Blake&rsquo;s words of wisdom failed to move the Habitants to bigger and better exploits on ice, Selke took over and made one of his few dressing room orations.The Canadiens proceeded to split a weekend doubleheader with the Boston Bruins, Oct. 29-30.Came Thursday night&rsquo;s game against the Maple Leafs and there was no reason to expect any change. However, the Habs went right to work and with Jean Beliveau on the scoring end of three quick first period goals, Montreal built up a 3-0 lead and went on to win, 3-1.The question arose, what special special message did Blake deliver to his team before they took the ice.&ldquo;I told them that I had received quite a few letters during the week from fans with the same advice : &lsquo;Why don&rsquo;t you (Blake) go back to coaching the same way you did for the last five seasons when you won five Stanley Cup championships ?&rsquo; &ldquo; Blake disclosed.&ldquo;So I told the players that as long as I was going back to my old way of coaching, it might be a good idea if they did the same thing &mdash; start playing like they have for the last five years,&rdquo; said the playful Canadiens pilot.Kidding aside, Blake said:&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s a one-game splurge. After all, we&rsquo;ve got the players, haven&rsquo;t we ? There&rsquo;s no reason why we can&rsquo;t show the same determination every game. I know we have the club to do it.&rdquo;For the first 13 games of the season the Canadiens have played hockey more like they thought they were playing under basketball rules &mdash; no body contact, according to Blake.The big difference in that 3-1 win over the Leafs &ldquo;was that we were hitting for a change,&rdquo; the coach added.&ldquo;What I liked best about the game &mdash; aside from the fact we won &mdash; was that we dug in out there and threw our body around. That&rsquo;s something we haven&rsquo;t done all year.&rdquo;Despite their key win over Toronto, the Canadiens let down late in the game, allowing the Leafs to score.&ldquo;It was too bad Jacques (Plante) lost his shutout, but he still played a helluva game. But after all, what we&rsquo;re looking for now is wins, not shutouts.&rdquo;Blake was concerned, however, about the sporadic play of his Habs.&ldquo;It worries me the way we play in spurts, but this team has played like that a lot. They seemed to get hot just long enough to win, but they still scare me sometimes.&rdquo;The showing of defensive veterans Doug HarVey and Tom Johnson, who had given Blake and Selke cause for concern in the early going, were standouts in Montreal win over Toronto.&ldquo;And I thought we got the best game out of (Marcel) Bonin we have all year,&rdquo; Blake added. &ldquo;And I don&rsquo;t think Harvey or Johnson have played a better game all year either.&rdquo;Bonin, demoted off the big line of Jean Beliveau and Bernie Geof-frion, was placed with Ralph Backstrom (&ldquo;who also showed signs of coming out of the doldrums&rdquo;) and Claude Provost. Rookie Bob Rousseau has taken over at left wing alongside Geoffrion and Beliveau.&ldquo;They tell me he&rsquo;s too light and too inexperienced,&rdquo; said Blake of Rousseau, &ldquo;but he&rsquo;s been doing everything we ask of him. You can&rsquo;t help but like him. On top of that, he&rsquo;s playing out of position on the left side. He&rsquo;s regularly a right winger.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03360/2124662-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="283" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tom Johnson</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Habs Shake ‘Don’t Care’ Look, Look Like Habs Of Old Again

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Of what value are the &ldquo;goals against&rdquo; statistics which are kept during National Hockey League games.In each NHL game a statistician records which players are on the ice when a goal is scored.The statistics purportedly referring to defence have been of help to opponents of the Bruins this fall.Bronco Horvath, Johnny Bucyk and Vic Sta-siuk, the Bruins&rsquo; famed Uke Line, have read regularly how they&rsquo;ve given up more goals than they&rsquo;ve been able to score.The allegation is based on the figures of NHL statisticians.And they&rsquo;ve bothered the line which, for the past three years, has been the heart, liver and lungs of the Bruins&rsquo; offense.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02446/2124700-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="250" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Vic Stasiuk</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve heard how bad we are defensively so often,&rdquo; said mild-mannered Bucyk, &ldquo;that it&rsquo;s about time someone straightened out the records. Those figures are not worth the paper they&rsquo;re written on.&rdquo;Horvath, Bucyk and Stasiuk have never tried to play the part of a checking line. They usually put so much pressure on the opposition that they&rsquo;re on offense for most of their shifts. And Bucyk is one of the best in the league at getting the puck out of his own zone.Stasiuk, a perfectionist, was obviously upset by the defensive weakness jazz in early Bruins&rsquo; games. The big right wing was overly cautious on offense.Is Bucyk right about the lack of value of the NHL records? Generally speaking, he certainly is.The goals against records, if taken individually, can have some value. As a blanket measure of a line&rsquo;s efficiency, they&rsquo;re worthless.Example :In a game here a Bruins&rsquo; defenseman intercepted a Montreal pass and fired the puck directly by Don Simmons into the Bruins&rsquo; net. The goal was charged against the Bruins&rsquo; line on the ice.Example :In a game in Detroit the Red Wings&rsquo; Jerry Melnyk took a flip shot from his own side of the red line, the puck taking a crazy bounce went by Simmons into the Bruins&rsquo; net. The goal was charged against the Bruins&rsquo; line of moment.Goals which follow intercepted passes, goals which are deflected, goals of every conceivable odd type&mdash;as well as legitimate, clean cut goals&mdash;all are charged against the players on the ice, as defensive indictments.Since the Uke Line for the past four years has been the Bruins&rsquo; only regularly organized line, since it has played more than any other, it is a percentage development for many goals to be scored while it is in action.But since the Ukes were put together in the fall of 1957, after Bucyk&rsquo;s acquisition from Detroit and Horvath&rsquo;s purchase from Rochester, no other three-man line in the NHL has scored as many goals. Not counting their goals this season. they&rsquo;ve scored 246 goals as a line here. That&rsquo;s a statistic which the NHL&rsquo;s figures men haven&rsquo;t kept. It shouldn&rsquo;t make the opposition feel too well. &#9632;

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Uke Trio Not As Bad On Defense As Stats Show

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01552/2124762-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lefty Gets Right FitRed Wing trainer Lefty Wilson fits his latest mask creation on assistant trainer and spare goalie Danny Olesevich.</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Ross (Lefty) Wilson has come a long ways from the day he set out as a trainer 16 years ago and taped a broken finger with friction tape.Now, in addition to his curing duties, Lefty is trying his hand at preventive medicine &mdash; in the form of goalie masks.The success of the venture is seen in Wilson&rsquo;s delivery list. He has made eight fiberglass masks so far including ones for Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk and Hank Bassen and a number of minor league goalefs.And Lefty&rsquo;s prices are rockbottom &mdash; only $25 a mask compared to the $300 asking price for the Jacques Plante specials.&ldquo;Last year I did a little postgraduate work and watched the Detroit Lions (National Football League) trainer Millard Kelley make some protective padding from fi-berglas. I spent three or four days with Kelley to learn how to make a shoulder protector for Marc Reaume.Then one day Ole (assistant Wing trainer Danny Olesevich) and I got the idea of trying to make a mask for Ole to wear in practice &mdash; he&rsquo;s our spare goalie.&ldquo;So I smeared vaseline on Ole&rsquo;s face and made a plaster of paris cast. I took the cast off and applied vaseline on the inside of it.&ldquo;The second step was to pour a special solution and water inside the plaster of paris cast.&ldquo;Then I waited for it to harden a bit, lifted it out and let it dry for six hours. The next step is to apply the fiberglas. It comes in bolts of cloth. Another solution goes on that while applying a layer of the fiberglas to the second cast, getting it smooth, working it to the conformation of the cast and getting all the air bubles out.&ldquo;I put five layers of fiberglas on, wait for it to dry and then cut the eye, nose and mouth holes with a drill and hacksaw and smooth off the edges and paint it.&ldquo;Finally, I put in some flannellike stripping at all the pressure points, a piece of sponge rubber at the chin and attach a baseball catcher&rsquo;s mask-type strap and that&rsquo;s it.&ldquo;The whole things weighs only eight ounces,&rdquo; Wilson said.Coach Sid Abel and Bassen became true believers in the mask during a Red Wing practice session. Gary Aidcorn deflected a bullet-like shot that caught Bassen on the side of the mask.&ldquo;They more than paid for themselves,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;If Bassen hadn&rsquo;t been wearing that mask the shot would have ripped up the side of his face.&rdquo;The force of the blow staggered Bassen and Wilson said the goalie would have suffered a fractured cheekbone if he hadn&rsquo;t been wearing the maks.<h2>Costs Only $25, He Now Has Autographed Copies Ready</h2>&ldquo;This mask is much superior to the old plexiglass,&rdquo; Wilson said. &ldquo;That one used to fog up and some times it would crack if it was left out in the cold and then took a bump.&rdquo;Both Sawchuk and Bassen wear Wilson&rsquo;s &ldquo;autograph models&rdquo; in Red Wing practice sessions although neither wear the masks during games.Getting back to Lefty&rsquo;s early days in the training business, he got his start with Omaha in the old United States League. Tommy Ivan was the coach and two of the players were Gordie Howe and Jimmy Skinner.&ldquo;We told Lefty to get himself a trainer&rsquo;s kit and all the medicines and so forth and to head out to Omaha,&rdquo; general manager Jack Adams recalled. &ldquo;He also was the club&rsquo;s spare goalie.&ldquo;Lefty went out and bought a fishing tackle box to carry his equipment. There was only one difficulty. In his rush to head west, he got on the train and left his training kit at the railroad depot.&ldquo;Then, in his first big test, Gunner Malong told Lefty he thought he had a broken bone in his hand,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;So Lefty took the only tape he had &mdash; friction tape &mdash; bound up the hand and told Gunner &lsquo;You&rsquo;re all right, get going.&rsquo; The next day the hand was x-rayed and Malong did have a broken finger !&rdquo;Lefty has become quite a bit more expert since.And, if you&rsquo;d like a mask made, Lefty just asks that you make a plaster of paris cast of your face (make sure you don&rsquo;t cover your mouth and nostrils, Wilson cautioned) and mail it to Lefty at Olympia Stadium, Detroit 8, Mich. The price is $25. &#9632;

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Lefty Wilson Puts Goaler Mask On Market—Tagged Real Beauty By Bassen And Abel

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Only Andy Hebenton can score two goals in a game (Oct. 26) have none scored against him and complain that he played a bum game.&ldquo;I always get off to a bad start,&rdquo; the bulky right wing said, &ldquo;and this year is no different.&rdquo;This produced an epidemic of double-takes from New York writers. Andy had five goals in nine games, one of the most encouraging openings for him in years.&ldquo;Yeah,&rdquo; said Andy, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;m not skating too well. I feel a little wobbly.&rdquo;Talk got back to his two-goal game. Both shots were patented Hebenton blasts from the face-off circle, 15-feet out.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01504/2124793-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="553" height="558"><figcaption class="caption-body">Slow StarterAndy Hebenton</figcaption></div><h2>Blames Bad Luck For Dip In Goals; Hopes It&rsquo;s Past</h2>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s so bad about that ?&rdquo; a friend demanded.&ldquo;Nothing, really, except that I missed a few others. The puck kept bouncing off my stick. That&rsquo;s not good is it ?&rdquo;No question, 31-year Andrew is quietly trying to erase reports that he lost his scoring touch.Last season, for the first time in his NHL career, Andy dipped below the 20-goal mark. Previously he had 24, 21, 21, and 33 goals in the 1958-59 campaign.&ldquo;That was some drop,&rdquo; Andy said mournfully, &ldquo;and you better believe that I spent a lot of days last Summer wondering about it.&rdquo;&ldquo;Any conclusions ?&rdquo;&ldquo;Bad luck is always a good alibi and one I&rsquo;d rather not resort to. But, you know as well as I do that I was hitting posts left and right last year. And when I wasn&rsquo;t hitting posts, goalies were coming up with big saves.&rdquo;&ldquo;It became exasperating.&rdquo;&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll say it did. But, have you noticed the goals I got so far, this year. These are the same kind of shots that were whacking off posts and being stopped.&rdquo;Is Andy Hebenton saying he&rsquo;s run his course of bad luck ?&ldquo;I hope so,&rdquo; he says.In another part of the Garden, coach Alf Pike couldn&rsquo;t figure He-benton&rsquo;s crack about having a &ldquo;bad game.&rdquo;&ldquo;Heck,&rdquo; said the smiling coach (Hebenton had helped beat Detroit), &ldquo;Andy is the kind of player who NEVER has a bad game. He just goes up and down his lane, day after day, doing a job.&rdquo;Pike has Andy right winging for Camille Henry at left and Earl Ingarfield at center.Henry and Hebenton are established; no need to worry about them. The question is whether Ingarfield can pivot capably for the veterans.At times Earl has sparkled, other times he&rsquo;s been blah. But, it&rsquo;s early and fitting in with Henry&rsquo;s slithery style is not the easiest thing in the world for Earl.As for Hebenton, he&rsquo;s concentrating on getting out of the habit of those two-goal &lsquo;bad&rdquo; games.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d rather score three,&rdquo; Andy said, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;ll settle for about twenty more of those &lsquo;bad&rsquo; games over the season.&rdquo;So will Pike. &#9632;

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Despite Slick Start, Hebenton Unhappy With His Production

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Charley Burns is the Rocket Richard of the Boston Bruins.On the applause meter at Boston Garden, that is.When the Bruins brought back Burns from the Kingston Frontenacs late last month, they created a huge increase in the amount of applause by Garden customers.Burn&rsquo;s status with Bruins&rsquo; fans is the reason.The first time Charley climbed over the boards in a game with the New York Rangers here, his black converted football helmet bobbing, he received the biggest hand a Bruin has received this year.&ldquo;What&rsquo;s this, Montreal ?&rdquo; wondered an onlooker, &ldquo;and whn&rsquo;c that Richard ?&rdquo;Burns sparked the Bruins to their first win of the season in his first game here, making two assists, killing penalties, centering three different line combinations.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02464/2124824-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="261" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Charley Burns</figcaption></div>In the third period Milt Schmidt, Bruins&rsquo;, coach, put the 24-year old center on the ice on a line which had Jimmy Bartlett at left wing and Jerry Toppazzini at right wing. The line clicked.In his second game here Burns, Toppazzini and Bartlett led the Bruins to a win over the Montreal Canadiens. The line&rsquo;s hustle and bustle had the customers standing up and cheering.&ldquo;How&rsquo;d you like that hand your first time on the ice ?&rdquo; Burns was asked after his season&rsquo;s debut against New York.The husky center, who doesn&rsquo;t have much to say, flushed with embarrassment and replied, &ldquo;I guess there was a little noise at that, eh ? It&rsquo;s always nice to hear the people cheering for you.&rdquo;For Burns&rsquo; second game here the Garden&rsquo;s first balcony was decorated with a &ldquo;Charley Burns&rdquo; banner at least 20 feet long with letters four feet high. At the opposite end of Garden hung another &ldquo;Burns&rdquo; sign.Quipped Leo LaBine to Burns, &ldquo;You ought to rent some of that sign space to political candidates.&rdquo;Burns, who has worn a helmet since suffering a severe head injury as a youngster, played last season for the Bruins after being purchased from the Detroit Red Wings.Schmidt used him as a penalty-killer and handyman, a role which he filled well by playing at three forward positions and scoring 10 goals.A year ago, too, Burns seemed to generate enthusiasm with Garden spectators with more regularity than most of his teammates. Why ?&ldquo;The cheers he gets are the people&rsquo;s way of showing they recognize he&rsquo;s doing his best all the time,&rdquo; opined Johnny Peirson, the former Bruins&rsquo; scoring star who is now their play-by-play radio broadcaster.&ldquo;When Charley&rsquo;s on the ice he&rsquo;s digging, digging every second. He may not have the ability of some players, but people can see he uses all he has all the time.&ldquo;There have been other fellows who have played here who have produced the same type crowd reaction,&rdquo; recalled Peirson. &ldquo;I remember 11 or 12 years ago Pete Horeck and Ed Kryzanowski used to have &rsquo;em standing up and cheertas, 200. They&rsquo;d go out there as penalty-killers or spare forwards and work their heads off.&rdquo;From a practical point of view, Burns gave evidence from the time of his arrival here&mdash;he and Gerry Ouellette drove down from Kingston in 7&frac12; hours&mdash;that he would help the Bruins.Schmidt gave him steady work as both center and penalty-killer. The Bruins hadn&rsquo;t been doing too well at killing penalties before his arrival.And the line of Burns, Bartlett and Toppazzini scored six goals in its first three games to make a decidedly unexpected contribution to the Bruins&rsquo; offense.Charley left Kingston on short notice. Several days later, his position here assured, he was joined by his bride of six months. And if the new Mrs. Burns has ever heard the adulation heaped on Richard in Montreal, she is sure, on the basis of what she hears here, to start calling her husband &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo;. &#9632;

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Burns ‘People’s Choice’ As Boston’s Go-Getter

<h2>HOWE NEEDS JUST ONE</h2>Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe needs just one more goal this season to hit the 450 mark in his career. This does not include playoff goals. He has scored 37 in 95 playoff games.<h2>LANGLOIS HAS JUST ONE</h2>Albert Langlois of the Montreal Canadiens isn&rsquo;t considered a great goal scorer by his teammates. In two seasons of play with the Habs Albert has notched just one goal. He&rsquo;s played 116 games in the NHL.<h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Games Of Sun.. Nov. 6)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01538/2124946-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="621" height="3032"></div>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02469/2124939-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="598" height="389"></div>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS :<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03385/2124932-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="595" height="189"></div><h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Wed., A.M., Nov. 9)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04302/2124925-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="595" height="196"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2</h3>New York 4 at Chicago 4New York &mdash; Goal: McCartan; defense: Morrison, Fontinato, Howell, Gadsby, Johns, Spencer; forwards Prentice, Hampson, Schinkel, Shack, Sullivan, Bathgate, Ingarfield, Balon, Hebenton, Cullen, Ronson, Henry.Chicago &mdash; Goal : Hall; defense : Pilote, Vasko, Evans, Fleming, St. Laurent, Arbour; forwards : Hall, Hay, M. Balfour, Sloan, Murphy, Litzenberger, McDonald, Nesterenko, Wharram, E. Balfour, Mikita.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05239/2124918-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="593" height="672"></div>Boston 2 at Toronto 2Boston &mdash; goal : Simmons; defense : Armstrong, Boivin, Gendron, Flaman; forwards : Horvath, Stasiuk, Bucyk, Smith, Bums, Erickson, Ouellette, McKenney, Tessier, Mohns, Toppazzini, Bartlett.Toronto &mdash; goal : Bower; defense : Horton, Brewer, Baun, Stanley, Hillman; forwards : Kelly, Duff, Nevin, Stewart, Keon, Olmstead, Ehman, Harris, Pulford Mahovlich, Wilson.Referee : Dalton, McArthur; linesmen : Neil Armstrong, Wilf Friday.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06198/2124911-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="585" height="456"></div><h3>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3</h3>Toronto 1 at Montreal 3Toronto &mdash; Goal : Bower; defense : Horton, Stanley, Brewer, Baun, Hillman; forwards : Kelly, Nevin, Mahovlich, Pulford, Duff, Stewart, Harris, Ehman, Olmstead, Keon, Wilson.Montreal &mdash; Goal: Plante; defense : Harvey, Langlois, Johnson, Talbot, Turner; forwards : Beliveau, Geoffrion, Rousseau, Richard, Hicke, Moore, Backstrom, Provost, Pronovost, Marshall, Bonin.Referee : Eddie Powers; linesmen: Neil Armstrong, Bill Friday.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07165/2124904-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="589" height="586"></div>Boston 5 at Detroit 8Boston &mdash; Goal : Simmons; defense : Armstrong, Mohns, D. Smith, Erickson, Flaman; forwards : Burns, Toppazzini, Bartlett, Horvath, Stasiuk, Bucyk, Ouellette, McKenney, Tessier, Gendron.Detroit &mdash; Goal : Sawchuk; defense : Pronovost, Goegan, Godfrey, Odrowski, Reaume; forwards : Oliver, Howe, Fonteyne, Delvecchio, Ullman, Aldcom, Melnyk, Glover. B. Smith, Johnson, Macdonald Lunde.Referee : Vera Buffey; linesmen Hayes, Hicks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-08139/2124897-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="575" height="122"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-09116/2124890-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="599" height="816"></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5</h3>Chicago 4 at Montreal 4Chicago &mdash; Goal : Hall; defense : Pilote, Vasko, Arbour, Evans, St. Laurent, Fleming; forwards : Litzenberger, Nesterenko, Murphy, Hay, Hay, Hall, M. Balfour, Sloan, Wharram, McDonald, Mikita, E. Balfour.Montreal &mdash; Goal : Plante; defense : Harvey, Langlois, Johnson, Turner, Talbot; forwards : Beliveau, Geoffrion, Rousseau, Richard, Hicke, Moore, Backstrom, Provost, Bonin. Marshall, Pronovost.Referee : Vern Buffey; linesmen : Bob Frampton and Dave Clutsam.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-10100/2124883-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="599" height="598"></div>New York 3 at Toronto 7Chicago &mdash; Goal : Hall; defense : Pilote, Vasko, Arbour, Evans, St. Laurent, Fleming; forwards : Litzenberger, Nesterenko, Murphy, Hay, Hay, Hall, M. Balfour, Sloan, Wharram, McDonald, Mikita, E. Balfour.Montreal &mdash; Goal : Plante; defense : Harvey, Langlois, Johnson, Turner, Talbot; forwards : Beliveau, Geoffrion, Rousseau, Richard, Hicke, Moore, Backstrom, Provost, Bonin. Marshall, Pronovost.Referee : Vern Buffey; linesmen : Bob Frampton and Dave Clutsam.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1187/2124876-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="591" height="834"></div><h3>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6</h3>Chicago 0 at Boston 4Chicago &mdash; Goal : Hall; defense : Pilote, Vasko, Arbour, Evans, St. Laurent, Fleming; forwards : Sloan, Wharram, Mc-Donald, Litzenberger, Nesterenko, Murphy, Hay, Hull, M. Balfour, Mikita, E.Balfour.Boston &mdash; Goal: Simmons; defense : Flaman, Erickson, Armstrong, Boivin, Smith; forwards : Horvath, Stasiuk, Bucyk, Toppazzini, Burns, Gendron, McKenney, Bartlett, Mohns, Tessier, Ouillette.Referee : Ashley; linesmen : Armstrong, Friday.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1269/2124869-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="589" height="344"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1359/2124862-1-eng-US/f0008-132.jpg" title="f0008-13" width="593" height="228"></div>New York 2 at Detroit 5New York &mdash; Goal : McCartan; defense : Morrison, Fontinato, Howell, Gadsby, Johns, Spencer; forwards : Ronson, Hampson, Bathgate, Shack, Sullivan, Ingarfield, Balon, Hebenton, Cullen, Prentice, Schinkel, Henry.Detroit &mdash; Goal : Bassen; defense : Goegan, Pronovost, Reaume, Godfrey, Odrowski; forwards,: Oliver, Howe, Fonteyne, Ullman, Delvecchio, Aidcorn, Melnyk, Glover, Smith, Johnson, Macdonald, Lunde.Referee : Udvari; linesmen : Hayes, Wicks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1442/2124855-1-eng-US/f0008-142.jpg" title="f0008-14" width="589" height="506"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAQUE

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bruins, who went more than two weeks for their first victory of the season, could have saved themselves a long wait had they just kept Charley Burns from the season&rsquo;s start. It seems that since the Bruins recalled Burns from Kingston of the Eastern Professional Hockey league, they have been a team with new spirit. It&rsquo;s hard to believe that Burns, who scored only 10 goals last season, has suddenly become the sparkplug of the team. But since his arrival the club has won three, tied, won and lost two. In six games he scored two goals and assisted on six others, besides being the club&rsquo;s number one penalty killer.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1524/2124977-1-eng-US/f0008-152.jpg" title="f0008-15" width="257" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">Charley Burns</figcaption></div>Last week, the Bruins split two games. They lost to the Red Wings 8-5 in Detroit on November 3. This was the game that saw the Wings catch fire in the third as they scored six times. Bums scored a goal and picked up a pair of assists in this game.On Sunday night, November 6, the Bruins shutout the Chicago Black Hawks 4-0. Once again it was Burnt providing the spark. He scored a goal, the third, that put the game on ice and then set up Gerry Toppazzini for the fourth.It was one of Burns&rsquo; best weeks as he scored two goals and added three assists for five points. &#9632;

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Player - of - the - Week

QUEBEC CITY, Que.&mdash;The little Gerry McNeil has caught the imagination of Quebec City hockey fans with his tremendous play in goal for the red hot Aces.The Quebec team, in their second year of play in the AHL, are the biggest challengers for Springfield&rsquo;s top spot in the loop. And just to prove they can beat the Indians when the chips are down, the Frenchmen from the Ancient City took the measure of the Braves in the Citadel last Sunday by a 3-2 score. McNeil has been the inspiration for the Aces from the very beginning. His great play has kept them in second place and within hailing distance of the Indians.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01523/2125008-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="269" height="401"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry McNeil</figcaption></div>On November 1, the Buffalo Bisons beat the Aces 4-2. Two nights later, the Aces came right back to whip the Bisons 5-2. In their third home game of the week, and before a crowd of over 11,000 the Aces defeated the league leading Indians 3-2. It was the biggest win of the year for the Indians off the score sheet until the third period. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO. N.Y.&mdash;Larry Wilson once remarked that &ldquo;hockey&rsquo;s just work, work, work once you leave junior.&rdquo;From the effort that the veteran Buffalo center has put forth the past 12 hockey seasons, playing is obviously a labor of love.Wilson, currently in his sixth campaign centering for the Buffalo Bisons, leads the American League in scoring as this edition of The Hockey News goes to press.His line, with veteran Dick Gamble and rookie Wayne Hicks on the wings, has virtually carried the entire scoring burden through Buffalo&rsquo;s first dozen Carnes.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re playing as well as any line in the league right now,&rdquo; praised Coach Frank Eddolls.&ldquo;All three are skating, working every minute. I&rsquo;ve never seen Gamble work as hard as he has been. He&rsquo;s in those corners, digging for that puck.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02496/2125039-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="293" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Wilson</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Of course, he and Larry know each other&rsquo;s style having played together so long. And Hicks has fitted in real well because he&rsquo;s a good backchecker.&rdquo;While he&rsquo;s off to the best start since becoming a Bison, Wilson has always been well-up among the scoring leaders. His lowest finish was 10th and last season he finished 5th.Twice the blond haired playmaker has led the Bisons in goals, once in assists, and twice in total points since coming from the Chicago Black Hawks early in the 1955-56 season.&ldquo;Our problem right now is to get some goals from our other lines,&rdquo; stated Eddolls. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t expect to be carried by one line. Another point is that once the other team knows it only has to stop one line to win, it becomes rough on that line.&rdquo;Aside from the Wilson line, the only other Bison who has produced any scoring punch is Capt. Phil Maloney. Defenseman Doug Barkley, with three goals, is tied with right winger Bob Courcy for fourth place among the scorers after 11 games.Bisons Briefs &hellip; Rookie defenseman Gary Bergman, who was troubled by illness almost since the start of training camp, missed three games while hospitalized for a complete check-up &hellip; Eddolls is concerned that goalie Roy Edwards tends &ldquo;to worry too much once he&rsquo;s scored on.&rdquo; &ldquo;Roy will have to adopt a more philosophical attitude like Gump Worsley&rsquo;s. Once it&rsquo;s in, the idea is to forget it and keep out any more.&rdquo; &hellip; The Buffalo coach is anxious to bolster his team with an experienced center and defenseman. &ldquo;But where do you find them?,&rdquo; he asked. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been trying since last summer and are no eloser now than we were then.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Wilson One Man Herd For Eddolls’ Bisons

<h2>BARONS LEAGUE&rsquo;S BADMEN</h2>After 43 games had been played in the American Hockey League this season a total of 1,194 minutes had been called in penalties. The Cleveland Barons were leading with 209 minutes. They are the first and only team in the 200 minutes or over bracket. Close on the Barons heels are Hershey, 192 and Quebec, 191.<h2>INDIANS BEST IN POINTS</h2>Exactly 770 points have been awarded in the AHL after 43 games. The Springfield Indians, league leaders were way in front of the rest of the pack with 154. The Indians had scored 57 goals and added 97 assists for their total. Closest to the Indians are Quebec with 44 goals and 75 assists for 119 points.<h3>TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1</h3>Buffalo 4 at Quebec 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06261/2125154-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="599" height="500"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2</h3>Springfield 6 at Hershey 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07236/2125147-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="589" height="576"></div><h3>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3</h3>Buffalo 2 at Quebec 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08221/2125140-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="607" height="572"></div><h3>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4</h3>Providence 2 at Rochester 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09215/2125133-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="597" height="302"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10200/2125126-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="605" height="294"></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5</h3>Rochester 1 at Cleveland 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11174/2125119-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="589" height="506"></div>Providence 2 at Hershey 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-12140/2125112-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="599" height="652"></div>Buffalo 0 at Sorinofield 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-13125/2125105-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="589" height="494"></div><h3>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6</h3>Buffalo 3 at Providence 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-14103/2125098-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="599" height="696"></div>Springfield 2 at Quebec 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1582/2125091-1-eng-US/f0009-152.jpg" title="f0009-15" width="583" height="531"></div><h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Tues., A.M., Nov. 8)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03442/2125084-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="599" height="232"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Games Of Sun., Nov. 6)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04377/2125077-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="599" height="468"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05301/2125070-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="599" height="324"></div><h3>PENALTY LEADERS</h3>Most Penalized Team &mdash; Cleveland, 234 mts.Most Penalized Player &mdash; Howie Young, Hers., 56 mts &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By SAMUEL POMPEI</div>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;Easy - going Marcel Paille failled in three seperate bids to make the National League but the Quebec-born goaltender deluxe apparently has found a happy home in Sprignfield where he is threatening to rewrite the American League record book for keeping the puck out of the cage.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01537/2125185-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="259" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pat Egan</figcaption></div>With four shutouts in his first 10 games the stubby Frenchman is only five away from the AHL record of nine in a season by Gordie Bell, three from his personal high of seven and has twice as many as he recorded last year in helping the Inndians with both the league title and Calder Cup.His goals against average in 10 games was a staggering 1.7 and he has rival, AHL forwards talking to themselves.Marcel has a simple explanation&mdash;in two languages, French or English&mdash;for his remarkable records.This is his version in English : &ldquo;Some nights the puck goes in the nets&hellip; and you don&rsquo;t get a shutout.&ldquo;Other nights the puck don&rsquo;t go in the nets&hellip; and you get a kind of nights then maybe you shutout. If you get plenty of this set a record.&rdquo;Who&rsquo;s to argue with the man who has four white-wash jobs and only 17 goals against in 10 games. And on three other occasions Paille has held the opposition to a meager goal.Perhaps his most noteworthy feat is shuting out one club&mdash;the Cleveland Barons&mdash;three out of three times. No other goalie in Springfield&rsquo;s long history, not even a Benny Grant, or Charlie Rayner, or Don Simmons, can,.boast of blanking the same opponent three consecutive times.Records and honors, though, mean litlle to Paille. He takes them all in stride. Matter of fact, they say that when his teammates are scoring heavily Marcel is likely to perform in a loose manner.According to his coach, Pat Egan, Paille always comes up with the &ldquo;big save&rdquo;. In the clutch he&rsquo;s unbeatable, his teammates say. The record support the above as facts, not just idle praise.While he has missed in three seperate efforts to take over the goaltending duties of the New York Rangers, who own his contract, Paille has no. complaints over playing in the Broadway club&rsquo;s farm.Matter of fact he&rsquo;s quite happy about it.The Paille&rsquo;s, his lovely wife Yolange (Begin) and their little daughter, love the surroundings very much. They make their winter. home at nearby Chicopee where a considerable number of French people live.&ldquo;Wee feel right at home,&rdquo; says Mrs. Paille, a former Quebec night club singer. &ldquo;The people are wonderful to us.. Of all the places we have been I like Chicopee best where people are human and friendly.&rdquo;She adds : &ldquo;That New York &hellip; it&rsquo;s for birds. I hope we stay here in Springfield and Chicopee.&rdquo;A few more shutouts could change that, however, especially if the Rangers continue to flounder around. &#9632;

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Paille Threatens To Rewrite Record Book For Indians

<div class="byline">By HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;Rochester American fans had one question after Johnny Wilson made his debut here.Why aren&rsquo;t the Toronto Maple Leafs in first place in the National Hockey League?Wilson, known as hockey&rsquo;s iron man for his endurance record of having played in 580 consecutive National League games, was considered excess baggage by the Leafs at the start of the present season and was ordered to report to Toronto&rsquo;s American League farm team here.Johnny felt this was an unjust request and returned to his Windsor home. He was suspended&mdash;thus ending a consecutive game string that, according to Wilson, started back in midget hockey. He had played in every game of every season with every team he ever was with until the suspension.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03389/2125216-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="277" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Wilson</figcaption></div>Finally, on Oct. 24, the 5-10, 170-pound left winger told Punch Imlach, Toronto&rsquo;s guiding hand, that he would like to get back on the payroll. Wilson reported to the Americans for one practice session before making his debut on the 28th.And what a debut it was!Dave Creighton controlled the face-off for the Americans and fired the puck into the Quebec end. Faster than you can say Patrice Lumumba, Wilson was whirling past a Quebec defenseman who acted as though he were in a state of shock. Johnny grabbed the puck off the boards, and wired a pass back to Creighton who slammed his shot past goalie Gerry McNeil after just eight seconds of play.Wilson later scored a goal and assisted on another as the Amerks snared a 7-2 triumph. But even without his goal and two assists Johnny was a standout. He literally flew up and down his left wing post, repeatedly dug the puck away from the opposition in the corners and passed brilliantly. And even more important, his hustle seemed to spread to Creighton and Duke Edmundson.Creighton certainly had not been a very sparkling performer in Rochester&rsquo;s first eight games. The veteran center had only one goal and four assists for the eight starts and boasted but one assist for his previous five outings. And Edmundson, another recent arrival from the Maple Leafs, and his best effort since joining the club. That line, barring the recall of any of the three, should do plenty of scoring in the AHL.Amerk fans were buzzing after the game regarding how powerful the Leafs must be to be able to get along without such a hustling skater. &hellip;.Last week Wilson was recalled by Leafs. &#9632;

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Wilson Back To Work With AHL Americans

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04297/2125247-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="582" height="282"></div><h2>NOVEMBER 5 TO NOVEMBER 11</h2>6&mdash;Junior Langlois, Canadiens, defense, 1934.8&mdash;Johnny Bower, Toronto, goaltender, 1925.9&mdash;Denis Olson, Kitchener-Waterloo, forward, 1934.11&mdash;Brian Cullen, Rangers, forward, 1933.11&mdash;Harry Lumley, Winnipeg, goaltender, 1926.11&mdash;Bob Kabel, Springfield, forward, 1934. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to you

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div>CLEVELAND. O.&mdash;First major appraisal of the Barons after 14 games &mdash; too many cheap penalties and too few goals.In the firepower department they were sputtering along at an average of 2.5 goals per game. On the other hand the defense was holding up well with an average of 3.00 goals per game allowed.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02466/2125285-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="547" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body">Mr. ZeroMarcel Paille</figcaption></div>But what made Coach Jackie Gordon hot under the collar was the rash of cheap penalties. The cheap penalty is the kind that gains you nothing but can lose you much. It has no value other than that of intimidation. Most of the cheap shenanigans are costly, valueless and damaging to the team that gets them.Gordon was particularly chagrined following the Barons&rsquo; loss to Providence Reds at the Cleveland Arena Saturday, October 29.The Barons went into the second period of this one all tied at 1-1. Within 34 seconds, the Barons had been hit with a double penalty &mdash; Aldo Guidolin for hooking and Con Madigan for spearing The Barons were clearly upset and within six minutes were scored on three times.Madigan&rsquo;s penalty was for a flagrant exhibition of spearing that had absolutely no connection with the core of the play which was swirling far away in another sector of the ice.Which caused Jackie Gordon to give voice to that oldest saying in the game &mdash; &ldquo;That you can&rsquo;t win hockey games from the penalty box.&rdquo;Defensively, the Barons were not having it bad. They had an &ldquo;M-M-M&rdquo; trio of Mantha, Madigan and Mikol who were new to the Cleveland colors and still of unproven quality. This trio was bolstered by the veterans Bill Needham and Aldo Guidolin. It appeared to this observer that the Barons&rsquo; major problems would not fall in the department of the defense.Goalie Gil Mayer, mask and all, does not measure up to the greatest netminders who have guarded the Cleveland nets but that is a tough comparison when you mention such as Moe Roberts, Al Rollins, and Johnny Bower. Still Mayer, who is only half a season and ten shutouts away from setting alltime league records, has the stuff to carry the Barons as far as the club is capable of going.The jaunty little 5-7, 160-pound veteran of a dozen pro seasons still has some good mileage in the scarred carcass.Still Mayer must be convinced that the end of October is not healthy time for him.A year ago, October 28, Maye caught a shot from the stick of teammate Eddie Mazur right in the face during practice and he was carried from the ice with a jaw shattered in six places.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05220/2125278-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="541" height="558"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jinx GoaleGil Mayer</figcaption></div>That led to a series of operations, plastic surgery and wiring of the jaw bones plus a number of trips to Montreal where he was fitted for a protective mask.On October 30, this year, Mayer was in the nets against the Buffalo Bisons in Buffalo&rsquo;s Memorial Auditorium when a shot from the stick of Buffalo&rsquo;s Doug Barkley deflected into the bone behind his right ear and Mayer was compelled to retire from the game in the first period.The puck hit just behind the protection of the closely fitted mask but the damage appeared to be minor. The Barons&rsquo; Les Binkley, who serves as both trainer and spare goalie, took over and held the fort well but the Barons lost out 3-2.Again it was a case of the Barons being hurt by the little penalty. Guidolin was sitting out another hooking penalty when the Bisons notched their first goal in the first period. &#9632;

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Weak Offense Cheap Penalties Keeping Barons From Gaining

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;Make an enemy of Jack Perrin and you&rsquo;re apt never to be allowed to forget it.Most ways &hellip; especially here in Edmonton where the Flyers have a direct hookup with the Detroit Red Wings &hellip; Perrin is a lone voice in the wilderness as he continues his controversial crusading against the National League and all that it stands for.He didn&rsquo;t make too many friends when he took the Canadiens and the Maple Leafs into court for turning his league champions of their maiden 1955-56 run into a last place club in the space of a single season.&rsquo;Perrin won&rsquo;t sit still until he makes the Western Leaguers see things his way and go outlaw if necessary that&rsquo;s the only means of throwing off the shackles.The volatile owner of the Winnipeg Warriors is threatening to seek a court injunction against National League telecasts coming into WHL cities on the night of a home game.&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s just see what territorial rights really mean,&rdquo; Jackson suggests. &ldquo;Why shouldn&rsquo;t they apply to television ?&ldquo;You&rsquo;re not supposed to present a hockey counter-attraction within 50 miles of any city coming under our agreement.&ldquo;Those telecasts kill you on Saturday nights and in the playoffs. And how can you dodge them if you don&rsquo;t have them blacked out ? You can&rsquo;t be ducking their games if you want to get in your schedule. You just can&rsquo;t leave out Saturdays.&rdquo;At this very moment, he has another crisis going with his threat to oust from his rink junior hockey clubbs whose National League patrons won&rsquo;t play ball with him.Jack won&rsquo;t have it that a second major league, which he&rsquo;d rather see than an outlaw circuit, is strictly will-o&rsquo;-the-wisp stuff.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not as far off as you might think,&rdquo; Perrin insists.&ldquo;When Vancouver and Seattle get their new rinks, brother, that&rsquo;ll be it. California will be claiming to get in. And junk that agreement with the National League, of course I You gotta get rid of the draft.&rdquo;But by throwing out the draft, wouldn&rsquo;t that be doing an injustice to the slaves ? They&rsquo;d be paging another Abraham Lincoln.If a player is good enough to merit a major league salary, why should the opportunity be denied him ? The draft gives a fringe player his best hope of making it to the top. If one club does not have room for him, another one might&hellip; at the $20,006 draft price.&ldquo;Now, look here,&rdquo; Perrin retorts, &ldquo;all the player needs a very mediocre lawyer, and he&rsquo;ll get the right thing done by him.&ldquo;The point is, more than the 20 grand, we want players in exchange. I think most of us would deal with the other league for any man they want, but we need players too. So we make a trade.&ldquo;Anyway, when we have these football clubs out there operating with $500,000 budgets, I don&rsquo;t think we need harbor any doubts about an ability to pay $10,000 salaries to our hockey players.&ldquo;All this is coming too, just as soon as we get those new arenas at the coast, and Edmonton can do with one too, by the way.&ldquo;Out at Vancouver, for instance, Coley Hall is more interested in a prestige league than anything else. He&rsquo;s ready to move in that direction.&rdquo;Okay, chaps, the line forms to the right. &#9632;

Perrin Rampages Over Majors’ TV In Minors’ Cities

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div>SPOKANE, Wash.&mdash;&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never seen the beat of this Spokane club,&rdquo; mused Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; vice-president Ken Reardon on his early-season visit to the Western League precincts.&ldquo;On all my different trips to this part of the country, I&rsquo;ve never seen the Comets get a single break that meant something.&ldquo;They would go right with another club until suddenly a puck would go into their net off a guy&rsquo;s skates, and break up the game. It never happened for Spokane, though.&ldquo;They haven&rsquo;t been that bad a club, either, since they&rsquo;ve gone into pro hockey. It&rsquo;s just that that guy with the black cloud &hellip; Joe Bslrtkf, or something like that Al Capp calls him &hellip; must be following them around.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1659/2125469-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="535" height="537"><figcaption class="caption-body">Could Melp OutForbes Kennedy</figcaption></div>Reardon understandably feels the pangs of some of the Comets&rsquo; disappointments. Spokane has had a bit of a tieup with Les Canadiens, though there are rumors now of the Comets supplanting Seattle in Detroit&rsquo;s affection &hellip; meaning they&rsquo;re next in line after Edmon ton has first call on minor leagu ers headed to the WHL.Better days may be ahead for the Spokane folks like manage Roy McBride and secretary Bri gadier Mel Smith.This fall they reached out for fiery Colin Kilburn as their ice general. Killy has always been a fierce competitor, and he must have got the message across last year to the Canucks at Vancouver as Art Chapman&rsquo;s deputy. Kilburn was Vancouver&rsquo;s top point-getter with 70, and they capped a wire to-wire first place finish by taking the playoffs last spring.Kilburn isn&rsquo;t the only stormy petrel that might transform the Comets into a pennant threat this year, despite a slowish start, result of&mdash;you guessed it&mdash;coming up losers in four successive squeakers.Forbes Kennedy got a mad on at the Detroit brass last year when he was farmed out to the Edmonton Flyers. He didn&rsquo;t get along with Bud Poile at Edmonton too well, either, and they came to the parting of the ways there as well &hellip; to the accompaniment of gallons of ink poured in the public prints as Kennedy told the world what he thought of the Detroit organization.When he&rsquo;s right, Kennedy has to help the Comets. For that matter, Forbes is convinced he really belongs in tha majors &hellip; only he never got a break from the Wings, he complains.&ldquo;They always made out that I couldn&rsquo;t score, and I never got anything but defensive roles,&rdquo; Forbes beefed. &ldquo;But you know, the reports on me coming out of junior hockey was that I was a helluva prospect.&ldquo;I scored 11 goals the first year I was at Detroit, and I figured to improve off that. But I never got much of a chance to.&rdquo;If Kennedy should put his mind to it, and resolve to win his way back to the majors in the postseason draft, the Comets will have to benefit in the process.And maybe things &hellip; just because they broke badly for Kennedy for a while &hellip; will take a different turn for the club that Ken Reardon has taken time out to feel sorry for. &#9632;

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Spokane Finds It Rough Going — Sum It Up As Just Bad Breaks

<div class="byline">By BUSTER CLEGG</div>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;Just when a shower of losses looked as if it would break into a torrent, the Rhode Island Reds snapped a four game losing streak with a pair of wins over the final weekend in October, and new light shows on a previously dark path.After dropping successive games to Rochester, Hershey, Cleveland, and Buffalo, and sinking into last place with only two wins in 11 starts, the Reds upended the Barons 5-2 in Cleveland on Saturday night, and returned home on Sunday to take a come-from-behind win over the Aces.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02430/2125538-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="268" height="400"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Ranieri</figcaption></div>The two victories came at a crucial time, for the Reds were deep in the AHL cellar as the weekend approached. With a four game losing streak going and spirits down, another unsuccessful weekend might have killed the season for Rhode Island hockey.instead ot despair, however, the Reds generated a spirit and hustle which pulled them out of a tough spot and put them back into the thick of things.Saturday night&rsquo;s win over the Barons was most surprising and encouraging. The Reds, who had been unsuccessful in six previous road contests this season, held the Barons 1-1 through the first period thanks to a stonewall goaltending job by sophomore Bruce Gamble.The second period brought complete reversal of form to the Reds, who had for the most part been short on luck in their first 11 games. In that session the Reds took complete command of the contest as they scored three superb goals, two of them by Zel lio Toppazzini, making a comeback with the Reds.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04234/2125531-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="568" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body">Reds&rsquo; BattlerFloyd Hillman</figcaption></div>Sunday night the Reds returned home to face the vastly improved Quebec Aces, and with a hustle and spirit they lacked in early games, they came from behind in the third period to take a well earned 3-2 victory from the Aces.The Reds, trailing by a single goal halfway through the third, came to life and displayed a bristling attack against Gerry McNeil. At 8:32 Toppazzini scored a clutch goal to knot the score at 2-2, and it was a beauty.Minutes later the revamped Reds fired the winner as rookie George Ranieri, who has played fine hockey, slapped home a rebound from the right of the crease. The goal, Ranieri&rsquo;s sixth, was enough to hold the hustling Aces for the remainder of the game and gave the Roosters their second victory in as many nights.That Sunday night game against the Aces had a sensational side attraction. In the first period fans witnessed one of the fiercest brawls in many a season. It. all began when Floyd Hillman of the Reds smothered an Aces shot. Quebec&rsquo;s Bob Barlow took an energetic swipe at the puck after the whistle, and the battle royal was on.Dick Cherry, normally mild-mannered, came to Hillman&rsquo;s aid and took on Barlow-Then Hillman became embroiled with Claude Labrosse and they went at it. Finally both clubs cleared their benches and the free-for-all was in full swing, much to the pleasure of the hungry gallery.After twenty minutes-of shirtpulling, wrestling, swinging, and struggling, referee Art Skov was able to clear the ice and begin punishing the offenders. Six playrs, three from each team, received major penalties, and all players, three from each team, re-which left no one out &mdash; were fined $25. The expenses came to over $500 in total. &#9632;

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Reds Out Of Slump — But Just In Time

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div>OMAHA, Neb.&mdash;Chick Chalmers, Omaha Knights and St. Paul&rsquo;s Jean Paul Denis lead the International Hockey League&rsquo;s scorers with twelve points after two weeks of play.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03327/2125569-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="253" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chick Chalmers</figcaption></div>Chalmers, who led the circuit in scoring with the now defunct Louisville Rebels last season, has a pair of goals and ten assists, while Denis, a veteran of many hockey wars, has scored five times and helped on seven other tallies.Toledo, Ft. Wayne and Indianapolis, are deadlocked in the Eastern Division with three wins apiece, however Toledo has played four games, Ft. Wayne five and Indianapolis seven thus far.In the Western Division, St. Paul is six points ahead of second place Omaha. The Saints have yet to lose in five outings.Ft. Wayne&rsquo;s Jim Baird and Dave Gordichuk of Omaha, top goal scorers with seven, with Chalmers&rsquo; ten assists being high in that department.Baird has a pair of winning goals to his credit. In other scoring departments, Nick Palano, Omaha defenseman leads in penalties, with a 1.80 goals per game, including one shutout.FT WAYNE &hellip; Capt. Eddie Long scored his 500th IHL point against Muskegon, in the Komets&rsquo; 10-5 win &hellip; The Komets have released defensemen Hugh Scobie and Gordon Black to make room for Dune McCallum and Don MacKenzie.INDIANAPOLIS &hellip; Off to its best start in a few years &hellip; Coach Leo Lamoureux&rsquo;s outfit has a 3-4 record, all of them on the road &hellip; It was after twelve games last season before the Chiefs won their first game.MUSKEGON &hellip; Have released Claude Tessier and John Perron &hellip; Have added Phil Golden and Jack Kiss &hellip; The Zephyrs are weak in goal and need some forward strength &hellip; Ken Hayden and Jerry Glaude, a pair of old pros playing well for Moose Lallo&rsquo;s crew.OMAHA &hellip; Warren Hicks was &#9632;

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Chalmers, Denis Big Belters In Early IHL Race

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;One entire team was fined at the rate of $50 I per man. A leading scorer in this year&rsquo;s league race, and a 45-goal man last season were put on waivers. Such were the zany moves to startle followers of the Eastern Pro Hockey League recently.Wren Blair, general-manager and coach of the Kingston Frontenacs, who is refreshingly original and daring in his operations, was the author of the wholesale jolt to the wallets of his hired help.After the Frontenacs had been plastered with an 8-3 shellacking in their own bailiwick by the Montreal Royals, Blair evidently believed that the players had not put out with the expected drive and Zeal which is needed to win a hockey game, or at least give what might be deemed an honest effort in defeat.There were only 1,800 customers at the game. So, with 14 players docked $50 each, the Kingston hockey club salvaged $700 for its treasury. It could be that the poor gate made Blair take such a mercenary action.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01513/2125624-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="259" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sam Bettio</figcaption></div>The team trailed Royals 4-1 after the first period when the fine was levied. The players tried hard in the second chukker and sliced the margin to 4-2, but Royals got a quick tally in the third and then ran away with the decision.Since the going contract rate in the EPHL is said to be $3,500 for a 70-game schedule it&rsquo;s obvious that the Frontenacs were merely playing for exercise in this one. Fifty bucks, too, is what is usually paid to juniors and other emergency employees tossed into action for one outing in Mr. Houston&rsquo;s circuit.Blair said after the game that he had never fined a team before in his life and he had the honor of leading squads to the Allan Cup and world championships.&ldquo;But after a stinking first period like that one I guess the only thing these guys understand is a fine,&rdquo; he said.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think we have a great hockey club. But we certainly don&rsquo;t have to play like that before a home crowd.&rdquo;Before Sudbury Wolves started a weekend trip, coach Murph Chamberlain sent Jimmy Moore home to Montreal with the announcement that he had been &ldquo;cut&rsquo; from the squad and told Sam Bettio to remain by his Sudbury fireside and TV set.In Montreal on the weekend Chamberlain advised The Hockey News that both veteran stars were being placed on waivers. It was thought that Moore might catch on with Montreal Royals&mdash;his closest hockey ambition.In Bettio&rsquo;s case it was figured to be trail&rsquo;s end since it is generally accepted that genial Sam will play in Sudbury or not at all.<h2>Goals Against &rsquo;Em</h2>Chamberlain told the writer that whereas Moore was at the time holding a share of the load in the close scoring race, charts had shown that lines on which he and Bettio had been playing were highest in goals &lsquo;scored against&rsquo;.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s too tough a league, now, for fellows who can&rsquo;t step along with so many lively youngsters the other club&rsquo;s are showing,&rdquo; Chamberlain said.&ldquo;While we may lose something by dropping two such accomplished and proven veterans, we&rsquo;ve got to develop younger players who have shown me that they can skate with the pack. Even though they may make some costly mistakes.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Here It Is, Another Zonv Week In EPHL

<h2>REAL ESTATE MAN</h2>Interested in Western Canada real estate ? Then talk to Gene Achtymichuk, of the Sudbury Wolves. He&rsquo;s connected with a firm in that line in Edmonton. Also in ladies wear. He and wife Lorraine have a business in that line in Fort Saskatchewan, 30 miles from Edmonton.<h2>HODGE FAVORS FALSE FACE</h2>Royals&rsquo; goaler, Charlie Hodge, slim pale face, is the only man at his trade in the EPHL who wears a mask. He followed the lead of IMHL Canadiens&rsquo; Masked Marvel, Jacques Plante. Hodge took to the mask after severe facial injuries last season.<h3>TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1</h3>Kingston 5 at Sault 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02470/2125753-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="585" height="597"></div>Hull 4 at Montreal 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03434/2125746-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="579" height="495"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2</h3>Kingston 3 at Sudbury 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04395/2125739-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="591" height="528"></div><h3>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3</h3>Kitchener 4 at Sault 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05335/2125732-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="588" height="147"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06287/2125725-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="580" height="450"></div>Montreal 0 at Hull 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09246/2125718-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="574" height="237"></div><h3>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4</h3>Kitchener 5 at Sudbury 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10235/2125711-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="586" height="777"></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5</h3>Sudbury 4 at Kingston 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11213/2125704-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="580" height="117"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12190/2125697-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="580" height="498"></div><h3>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6</h3>Sault 4 at Montreal 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-14131/2125690-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="580" height="468"></div>Kingston 5 at Kitchener 9<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-15105/2125683-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="589" height="876"></div>Sudbury 0 at Hull 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1670/2125676-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="583" height="609"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Games Of Sun., Nov. 6)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07272/2125669-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="601" height="354"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08256/2125662-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="592" height="306"></div><h3>PENALTY LEADERS</h3>Most Penalized Team &mdash; Sault Ste. Marie, 243 mts.Most Penalized Player &mdash; Guy Black, Mtl., 37 mts.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standinas On Wed.. A.M.. Nov. 9)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13158/2125655-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="607" height="192"></div> &#9632;

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EASTERN PRO LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;Rookie coach Don Abel and his Melville Millionaires have served notice that this could be their year in the Saskatchewan Junior League.Millionaires, starting a sixth term in the SJHL and still looking for a finish higher than fourth, ended the first two weeks of action hot on the heels of leagueleading Estevan Bruins, and ahead of such established centres as Regina and Flin Flon.Bruins and the Moneymen have each lost only once in eight starts, but Melville trails by a point because of an early tie with Moose Jaw Canucks. Ironically, it is the fifth-place Canucks who have been giving Millionaires most of the trouble, beating them and tying in two meetings.Earlier, coach Abel, brother to Sid Abel, head pilot with Detroit Red Wings of the National League, was quoted :&ldquo;If we can beat Estevan, then we&rsquo;ll be able to shoot for first place. If we don&rsquo;t, we&rsquo;ll concentrate on making a playoff spot, and perhaps holding on to second.&rdquo;Bruins came to Melville with a seven-game undefeated streak, and left 8-5 losers after Abel&rsquo;s hustlers had broken open a tight match with three goals in the last two minutes of play.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01509/2125784-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="277" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Chad</figcaption></div>Melville has met all six league opponents and except for Moose Jaw, where another freshman coach&mdash;Metro Prystai&mdash;is at the helm, have come through with flying colors.There is an eight-point spread between Bruins and the sixth-ranking Saskatoon Quakers, and the only club out of it at the moment is the Prince Albert Mintos, who have, dropped nine straight.A disastrous road trip was too much for coach Bill (Legs) Fraser, who called it quits alter seven games. The crowning blow came at Estevan where Bruins administered a 13-1 lacing.Fraser, a native of Ottawa and a former goaltending star with the old Senators, was starting his second straight and fourth term in the last six years with Mintos. Last winter he guided the club to a third-place finish, losing to Regina in seven games in the semi-finals.Prince Albert general manager Steve Ruznisky signed former National, American and Western League star Johnny Chad as Fraser&rsquo;s replacement. Chad, golf pro at the Lake Waskesiu summer resort for the past 13 years, is a Prince Albert resident.Also considered for the post were ex-pro Vic Lynn, who coached part of a season in 1958-59, and Grant Warwick who, the week previous, had resigned as playingcoach of the Saskatoon Senior Quakers.<h2>(SPORTS PHOTOS)</h2>Thousands of different 8 : 10 glossy photos. Ideal for your bar, den er clubroom. 60 cents each.SPECIAL OFFER10 Hockey Hall of Fomcrs; $4.00 Send for FREE LIST.ALL SPORTS PHOTOSBox 267 Freeport, N.Y. &#9632;

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Melville Gives Notice — Watch Moneymen In SJHL This Season

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div>KELOWNA, B.C.&mdash;Kelowna Packers scored an upset victory in Okanagan Senior Hockey League play over the week, end, and they did it with eight regulars and the help of two of their directors.Coach Ray Powell, and general manager Don Culley who will never see forty again, were forced into uniform when only eight players were able to make the Vernon trip.Vernon Canadians riding high on a five game win streak received a rude awakening when the underdog Kelowna Packers, victims of five defeats and one win in early season play, came up with their best effort of the season to hand Odie Lowe and company a 7-4 setback.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02411/2125815-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="269" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ray Powell</figcaption></div>Powell the one time American League smooime naa not seen action since a leg fracture sidelined him in the spring of &lsquo;58 while playing with Kelowna Packers. The 35-year-old rookie coach played a large part in Packers victory coming through with two big markers.As a result of last weeks play, three teams are deadlocked in first place. Penticton Vees, Vernon Canadians, and Kamloops Chiefs each have ten points. Kelowna Packers are next with four points, while merritt luckies are in the basement with one win in eight starts.In the individual scoring race Pentictons diminutive left winger Walt Peacosh is off to a fast start. The O.S.H.L.S. most valuable player of 57-58 has 9 goals and 14 assists for 23 points in six games.Two players are tied for second place. They are Walt Trentini of Vernon Canadians, last seasons scoring champion; and Buddy Evans of Penticton Vees, both have 15 points. Three points back is another former scoring champ in Odie Lowe the playing coach of Vernon Canadians, who has six goals and six assists.Two players share fourth place each with eleven points. They include Willie Schmidt, playing coach of Kamloops Chiefs, and Don Jakes, out of retirement, of Vernon Canadians.Hal Gordon veteran netminder from Vernon Holds a comfortable lead in the goaltenders race. In 6 games Gordon has allowed 19 goals for a 3.17 average. Following Gordon is Don Moog of Kelowna Packers with a 4.20 average in five games. Art Lariviere of Penticton Vees in five games has allowed 25 goals for a 5.00 average. John Panagrot of Kamloops Chiefs has a 2.58 average, allowing 37 goals in seven games, and Don Holmes of Merritt Luckies has allowed 50 goals in seven games for a 7.14 average. &#9632;

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Man Shortages Brings Powell Out For Game

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ATTENTION SUBSCRIBERS!

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01486/2125870-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">SOLUTION NEXT WEEK</figcaption></div><h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Toronto player shown in centre.3&mdash;Around Maple Leaf Gardens, most people regard Conn Smythe as this.7&mdash;Where many hockeyists go at the end of the season.8&mdash;One of the Cleveland Barons.10&mdash;That is.11&mdash;Of the two Cherry brothers, Don is the&mdash;.13&mdash;Position played by Bernie Geoffrion (abbr)14&mdash;Carl Brewer was born in this month (abbr.)16&mdash;Johnny Peirson is announcing via radio the home games of this N.H.L. team (abbr.)17&mdash;NH.L. club with whom Bill Gadsby first played (abbr.)18&mdash;All correct (abbr.)19&mdash;Pictured stars&rsquo; position (abbr.)20&mdash;Toronto&rsquo;s Bob Baun likes to water &mdash; during the summer.21&mdash;Initials of Sandford, former Boston Bruin.22&mdash;Denotes score between Boston & Canadiens on Oct. 8.24&mdash;Jim Bartlett partially severed one during an exhibition game last Sept.29&mdash;Initials of Toronto&rsquo;s captain.30&mdash;WHL figure known as &ldquo;The Pistol.&rdquo;31&mdash;Initials of 30 across.33&mdash;Initials of Nicholson of Winnipeg.34&mdash;Initials of Kabel of Springfield.35&mdash;A Buffalo forward<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;Calgary&rsquo;s coach.2&mdash;Detroit defenseman.3&mdash;Players often break one.4&mdash;Ounce (abbr.)5&mdash;Henn Richard required some on October 19.6&mdash;Pronoun.7&mdash;An N.H.L. coach answers to this.12&mdash;11th & 12th letters of the alphabet.12&mdash;Jacques Plante indulged in this sport last summer.13&mdash;Pictured star is one.15&mdash;Malleable white metal.20&mdash;The Johnny Bowers hire one on hockey nights.23&mdash;First name of Connelly of Canadiens.25&mdash;Initials of Dussault, ex Can-adien player.26&mdash;Short for first name of Mohns of Boston.27&mdash;Otherwise.28&mdash;Name given a Red Wing forward.29&mdash;Boston&rsquo;s Gerry Toppazzini recently guarded this.32&mdash;Initials of pictured player.<h2>SOLUTION</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Odrowski7&mdash;Leo8&mdash;Ont.10&mdash;Neil12&mdash;Do13&mdash;Visit14&mdash;Win15&mdash;Bas.16&mdash;Ran.18&mdash;N.I.19&mdash;SL.20&mdash;B.M.23&mdash;Boo24&mdash;Al.25&mdash;Sudbury28&mdash;Ref.29&mdash;Era32&mdash;Gerry34&mdash;Bassen<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;Oliver2&mdash;De3&mdash;Ronson4&mdash;Woit5&mdash;K.O.6&mdash;Indians9&mdash;Tonsils11&mdash;E.I.14&mdash;W.B.17&mdash;Arbour21&mdash;Models22&mdash;Mayer23&mdash;B.S.26&mdash;BF.27&mdash;May30&mdash;R.R.A.31&mdash;Ab.32&mdash;G.E.33&mdash;E.N. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">By VINCE LEAH</div>WINNIPEG, Mann.&mdash;The Manitoba Junior Hockey League rolled away to a rather confused and turbulent start Oct. 28.General manager Jacek Perrin of the Warriors o.k&rsquo;d the presence of Winnipeg Monarchs, sponsored by Toronto Maple Leafs and Winnipeg Rangers, sponsored by New York, after he had announced he would not allow these pro clubs to sponsor minor teams in this area &ldquo;for lack of co-operation.&rdquo; Anyway, these two teams are carrying on for the present and whether Perrin will allow them to continue without an argument next season is something else again.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02428/2125901-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="253" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ollie Dorohoy</figcaption></div>The league also lost Secretary Dave Groves who was transferred to Vancouver by his firm and the confusion was terrific. The operators were heartened by an affirmative Sunday sports bylaw which will enable amateur teams to play Sunday afternoons and charge admission. However as city council had not ratified the bylaw after it was passed the MJHL was advised to hold fire on Sunday hockey until council passed it.But nobody told at least one newspaper and the radio stations and the customers rolled up for the first Sunday game, Oct. 30 only to find it had been postponed. This is hardly the way to win friends and influence people.Winnipeg Rangers won the opening contest, defeating Brandon Wheat Kings, 4-1 before 8,000 people, mostly youngsters who picked up free tickets at local merchants, in hope of winning a free pony. Rangers looked very much like a Memorial cup contender.Brandon did not have Gerry Kell, starry St. Boniface Canadien centre. The teams had arranged a deal with four Wheat City lads going to St. Boniface for Kell but when this was written the trade had not yet been sanctioned by the Canadian brass.The Wheaties had concluded a brisk swing through Saskatchewan with moderate success, but it appears Coach Ollie Dorohoy, making his MJHL coaching debut, needs more strength behind the blueline.There is an air of optimism among the other clubs. Monarchs, under veteran coach Jim Irvin, who came out of retirement, to try and take the Regals back to old-time glory, appear better than last season and Bill Allum of the Braves, with just about everybody back from last season, isn&rsquo;t saying too much. Canadians have only four men back from last season after losing kids through graduation, the American colleges and Johnny Rodger and Paul Sexsmith to Estevan of the SJHL. Ken Stephanson, who looked good in Warrior camp, has been working out with the Braves to Manager Percy Segal&rsquo;s consternation. Est-evan. also are after him. Segal says the boy turned down an offer to sign with Warriors.This writer had the honor to attend the opening of Whitney Forum, Flin Flon&rsquo;s slick, new arena. It is one of the finest for its size in Canada, with excellent facilities for players and fans alike. It seats 1,900 with standing room for another 1,000. If and when Flin Flon reaches another Memorial cup final, the mining town has the facilities for it. &#9632;

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Manitoba Juniors Lift Curtain To Tune Of Confusion

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;After the first week of the 1960-61 Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; schedule, the Guelph Royals have lived up to their advance notices as the team to beat for the provincial title.Led by their ever-dangerous scoring combination of Rod Gilbert and Jean Ratelle, the Royals scored back-to-back victories over Hamilton Red Wings, winning 6-2 in Hamilton, then staving off a late Red Wing rally in Guelph to register an 8-6 victory.Gilbert, who placed second to Chico Maki of the St. Catharines Teepees in the final scoring last year made a spectacular start in his bid to win the points championship in this his final year of teen-age hockey.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03362/2125932-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="257" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pat Stapleton</figcaption></div>Gilbert picked up eight points in the first two games, including a sensational five-goal burst before his home fans.While the Royals, under their new coach Emile (The Cat) Francis were off and running, last year&rsquo;s Memorial Cup champion St. Catharines Teepees languised in last place, the only team in the seven-club group without a point after a&rsquo; week of competition.The Teepees, missing seven players including Maki and all-star defenceman Pat Stapleton from their Cup-winning team of 1959-60, were defeated 5-3 in Peterborough, then after building up a 5-1 lead against Toronto Marlboros in St. Catharines, suffered disastrous defensive lapses and lost 9-7.However the balance of the Ontario group was evidenced when the Marlboros were defeated 4-1 the following afternoon in Maple Leaf Gardens by the previously winless Niagara Falls Flyers.And Hamilton Red Wings, in last place the past two seasons, made it a thoroughly discouraging Sunday afternoon for more than 3,000 fans in Maple Leaf Gardens when they edged St. Michael&rsquo;s College Majors 4-3.If the junior teams continue their onslought on the goaltenders, an all-time record for total goals in one season may be registered this year.In the first seven games, 67 goals were registered, or just under an average of 10 a game.Five goals are generally considered sufficient to win a hockey game, even in the wide-open style played in Ontario junior &ldquo;A&rdquo;.However Hamilton and St. Catharines teams had the frustrating experience of scoring six and seven respectively during a single game in the first week of the schedule, yet were defeated.In comparison to the 10-goals-a-game total in junior hockey, the National League teams scored 200 times in their first 34 games, or an average slightly higher than five a game. &#9632;

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Guelph Lives Up To Advance Dope In OHA

<div class="byline">By JACK THOMSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02291/2125970-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="245" height="272"></div>VOLUME 14 MONTREAL, NOVEMBER 12, 1960 No. 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01355/2125977-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="221" height="268"></div>FORT WILLIAM, Ont.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03221/2125963-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="269" height="396"><figcaption class="caption-body">Barton Bradley</figcaption></div>Former Belleville McFarlands star Barton Bradley has signed to coach the Dryden Rockets in the Ont rio Minnesota. Bradley, native of Fort William, played eight years in the pro ranks before joing the McFarlands in 1958 when they won the Allan cup, and was with the club when they won the world title at Prague the following year. Bradley will act as a playing coach with the Rockets &hellip; The senior Fort William Beavers have lined up one exhibition trip to the States already for this year, when they will play the Green Bay Bobcats, in Green Bay on December 11th and 12th. The United States National Team will again make an appearance in the Lakehead on January 15th, meeting the senior Beavers. The Fort William Hurricanes and the New York Rangers have ended their working agreement. The Hurricanes who met with Ranger chief scout Jack Humphreys on October 20th have decided that the contract offered was not adequate and have decided not to accept the Ranger proposition. Hockey law gives the Rangers the right to freeze the Hurrican roster for one year. At the end of that year all the Hurricane players will be free of all National league ties, giving the Hurcs the right to deal with another pro club for sponsorship &hellip; Paul Becotte, manager of the Port Arthur North Stars, reports that he has just about completed the deal for goaltender Gary Doggett, with the Flin Flon Bombers of the Saskatchewan junior league. The nineteen year-old goaltender played last year with the Stars&hellip; Dave Gatherum, former Detroit Red Wing property, who has retired from hockey, took exception to a story in the October twenty second edition of the Hockey News, in which Cyclone Taylor said he tought the Europeans would overtake us in ten years. Gatherum was quite emphatic when, he said it was a lot of nonsence to even think that this could happen. Dave was in goal for Kelowna when they went to Europe, on the same tour that Taylor made of the continent&hellip; The Warroad Lakers, only American team in the hunt for the Allan Cup this year, have signed some outstanding talent for the coming season. Former Bruin star Ed Kry-sanowski, along with Chuck Lumsden, ex-American league star. Jerry Wilson, of the Toronto Maple Leaf chain, and two outstanding Winnipeg senior players in Murray Balagus, centre ice man. and goaltender Ron Gross &hellip; Intermediate hockey will be well represented from the Thunder Bay this year as seven teams will be competing for the C.J. Boyle trophy &hellip; See where former Port Arthur Bearcat star Connie Madigan has joined the pro ranks with the Cleveland Barons&hellip; &#9632;

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News From The Lakehead

<div class="byline">By BRUCE HOGLE</div>TRAIL, B.C.&mdash;The 1960-61 Western International Hockey League Season got off to a flying start with the defending champion Trail Smoke Eaters edging Rossland Warriors 5-3.Bobby Kromm&rsquo;s World Championship-bound Smokies led 1-0 after 20 minutes of play and 2-1 at the end of the second. Three unanswered tallies in the third spelled defeat for the Rosslanders.Veteran winger Norm Lenardon scored one goal and set up two others, with singles going to newcomer Dave Rusnel and veterans Jerry Penner, Ernie Secco and Cal Hockley.Lome Nadeau, still a smoothie despite his 34 years, scored one for Rossland while Hal Jones notched the other.In an exhibition game which preceeded the WIHL opener, Smokies lost a close 6-5 decision to the professional Spokane Comets but the pro team showed little lustre in gaining the verdict.As a matter of fact, Roy McBride borrowed George Ferguson and goalie Bruno Forlin of Rossland. Ferguson scored two goals for Comets and set up the winner, while Forlin played a great game between the pipes.McBride, unhappy with his goaltending problems, has now picked up Cesare Maniago of Trail. Ma-niago starred in Chatham Maroons climb to the Allan Cup last Spring.Fans have been impressed with the slick playmaking of Trail&rsquo;s newest forward, Dave Rusnel. The veteran 27-year-old centreman formerly played with Yorkton Terries, Milwaukee Chiefs and two seasons overseas.Defenceman Ed Famulak, formerly of Melville Millionaires, and winger Harvey Nash, ex-Kimberley Dynamiter, have also delighted Smokies fans.Rossland, meanwhile, has beefed up both its defensive and offensive units with the addition of Nadeau, Carl Cirullo and Danny McDougall, all Spokane residents who commute for the games.Bud Andrews&rsquo; crew showed much promise in their first game and will be a team to reckon with come playoff time.Fans in this area are looking forward to the first of a series of exchange games between the WIHL and the Okanagan Senior Hockey League. Penticton Vees and Smoke Eaters clash in the first of the &ldquo;exchange&rdquo; contests. Points will count in the respective leagues. &#9632;

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November 12, 1960

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