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December 3, 1960

The Hockey News December 3, 1960

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IN THIS ISSUE

EHL STANDINGS

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Montreal hockey fans, who have supported their club in a manner which no other sports fan can boast, may be getting ready to run Vezina Trophy winner Jacques Plante out of town, just as they have other goalers in the past.It was these same fans who chanted &lsquo;We want Bibeault&rsquo; when the great Bill Durnan had a bad night. When Gerry McNeil went sour they screamed for Plante.Who will they start screaming for now that Plante has gone sour ?This is the question at hand as Montreal&rsquo;s sporting fraternity, unable to get used to a second place team starts the &lsquo;get rid of Plante&rsquo; chant.Actually, it&rsquo;s unfair to put the blame for the club&rsquo;s poor start on Plante. He has played poorly, but so has his defense. Offensively the Habs have been as powerful as ever, but defensively they have been as leaky as a Chinese Junk in a typhoon.But no matter who else has been playing poorly, the fan only sees the puck going into the home team net, and since the goaler is the last one with a chance to stop it they seem to be of the opinion that he should be blamed if he doesn&rsquo;t. When Plante allows a goal in the Forum the boos are as loud as when Lou Fontinato steps onto the Forum ice. Cries of &lsquo;get rid of him&rsquo; and &lsquo;take off the mask&rsquo; are common from the fan who once cheered Plante&rsquo;s every move.But the question still remains. If the fans are successful in running Plante out of the Canadiens goal, who will they call on to replace him ? &#9632;

Will He Be Run Out Like Others By Fickle Fandom

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;They&rsquo;ve began separating the men from the boys in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, and Estevan, Regina and Melville have ended up wearing the long pants.The three front-runners are threatening to make a shambles of the seven-team league, and between them, have lost as few as eight games in 36 starts. Of those defeats, the clubs involved have taken care of six themselves.Estevan, the leaders by two points, have dropped close decisions to Regina and Melville. The Pats have been beaten twice by Melville and once by Estevan.The only outsider to distrub the monopoly of the &ldquo;Big Three&rsquo; has been Moose Jaw Canucks, the fourth-place club that has taken the measure of Melville&rsquo;s Moneymen on two occasions.Canucks have yet to best Estevan or Regina, while Flin Flon, Saskatoon and Prince Albert are still looking for their first victory over the top dogs.At the present rate, the spread between third and fourth positions at the end of the schedule is going to be something fantastic.Ed Lawson, the smooth-working centre for Melville, has climbed to within four points of pacesetting John Rodger of Estevan in the individual scoring race.Lawson, who is setting a fine clip of better than a goal-a-game, whipped four past Saskatoon custodian Gary Waugh last week to raise his output to 20 goals and 14 assists for 34 points.The leader for the fourth straight week, Rodger has compard 38 points on 14 goals and 24 assists. Lawson is tops in goal-scoring and Rodger is the leading playmaker. &#9632;

Two Division Race Threatens In SJHL

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01488/2130989-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK<h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Pictured Boston player, now suspended.8&mdash;Hart Trophy winner of 1943-44.9&mdash;Number of goals scored by Gerry Melnyk in 1959-60 season.10&mdash;Johnny Bower had one injured at training camp.11&mdash;Initials of a Red Wing forward.12&mdash;N.H.L. team with the most major penalties in 1959-60 campaign.14&mdash;N.H.L. club which drafted Norm Waslowski from Winnipeg last June (abbr.)15&mdash;One of the Edmonton Flyers answers to this.16&mdash;Initials of player who wears #12 for Toronto.18&mdash;Initials of a recently demoted Maple Leaf.19&mdash;An injury to this idelined 1 down earlier in season.21&mdash;Month in which 6 down was born (abbr.)22&mdash;Birthplace of Brian Kilrea of Springfield.26&mdash;Pronoun.27&mdash;Given name of Tremblay, Canadien forward.29&mdash;New Rochelle (abbr.)30&mdash;Initials of Nicholson of Winnipeg.31&mdash;Initials of a new member of the Maple Leafs.32&mdash;Toronto&rsquo;s football entry in the Big Four.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;Chicago defenseman.2&mdash;Al Rollins&rsquo; second name.3&mdash;Captain of Quebec Aces.4&mdash;Mountain (abbr.)5&mdash;Initials of a Boston Bruin.6&mdash;This Toronto player hails from Timmins, Ont.7&mdash;Ex&mdash;Bruin, Johnny Peirson, is one now.11&mdash;Initials of Ouellette of Boston.13&mdash;Initials of ex&mdash;Leaf player, &ldquo;Windy&rdquo; O&rsquo;Neill.17&mdash;Mrs. Bobby Hull is a former pro &mdash;.18&mdash;Dickie Moore missed eight of these last season.19&mdash;A Ranger defenseman.20&mdash;Pictured player&rsquo;s is 150. (abbr.)23&mdash;A WHL coach.24&mdash;Name given Red Kelly&rsquo;s cat.25&mdash;Name given one of Hershey&rsquo;s goalies.28&mdash;Hunt of Seattle answers to this.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Backstrom6&mdash;Waslowski8&mdash;Vet.9&mdash;Roy11&mdash;B.S.12&mdash;Can.13&mdash;Les.15&mdash;L.H.16&mdash;Apr.18&mdash;Flo.19&mdash;W.A.20&mdash;Her21&mdash;Fifty24&mdash;Tea26&mdash;0027&mdash;Lt.28&mdash;Laurie30&mdash;Beef31&mdash;Des.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;Bower2&mdash;Casey3&mdash;Skov4&mdash;Rest5&mdash;Meissner7&mdash;W.E.10&mdash;Ouellette11&mdash;B.A.12&mdash;Crawford14&mdash;Shor17&mdash;Fat.18&mdash;F.H.22&mdash;I.O.U.23&mdash;Yves25&mdash;Alf.27&mdash;L.B.29&mdash;I.E. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-01104/2131137-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Traffic Jam At Gardens PartySomewhere under this pile of humans is a little black thing called a puck. Photographer Turofsky of Toronto caught the jam-up in the corner of Maple Leaf Gardens. Dickie Moore, league&rsquo;s leading scorer, &lsquo;A&rsquo; wraps his arm around Toronto&rsquo;s Bob Pulford. Pinned in the corner is Marcel Bonin. Leafs won the aame 6-3.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PLANTE ON HOT SEAT IN HAB SLOWDOWN

<div class="byline">By DICK BACON</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The National Hockey League continues to be a four-team dogfight as the season nears the one-third mark. As of Nov. 25, only two points separated Montreal, Toronto, Detroit and Chicago.The expected Montreal Canadiens runaway just hasn&rsquo;t materialized as many expected. Each time the Canadiens play one or two good games their supporters figure the five-time Stanley Cup Champions may be on their way. But the best the Habitants have been able to muster is a five-game unbeaten string and a brief four-point lead.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01465/2129409-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="275" height="478"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jacques Plante</figcaption></div>Now, many observers are convinced there&rsquo;s not going to be any runaway, at least not by the Canadiens. Of course, only time will tell, but at the moment, the Canadiens don&rsquo;t seem to be scaring anybody, with the possible exception of the New York Rangers. Ironically, last year the Rangers were the only team in the NHL to play the Habs even over the season. This year they are the only team who hasn&rsquo;t beaten the Montrealers.Two big reasons are advanced for Montreal&rsquo;s failure to break lose from the pack.&mdash;They are giving up too many goals, and &mdash; They aren&rsquo;t winning on the road.The championship teams of the past five seasons were known for their strong defense and ability to win on the road.&ldquo;If we can&rsquo;t win on the road,&rdquo; says coach Toe Blake, &ldquo;we don&rsquo;t deserve to win.&rdquo;Through Nov. 25th, the Canadiens had a 10-7-4 record. Seven of the wins came on home ice and three&mdash;all against the Rangers&mdash;were registered on alien ice. Of the seven losses six were away from their friendly Forum ice and only one at home.Of the 11 games the Canadiens have played on the road, they have managed to pick up only eight of a possible 22 points and six of those were in New York against the hapless Broadway Blueshirts. In other words, outside of New York, the Habs have picked up only two points on two ties in eight games. They have dropped both their appearances in Detroit, which for years has been a home-away-from-home for the Habs. They lost one and tied one in Chicago. They lost both starts in Maple Leaf Garens and in two games in Boston, the best they could do was only a tie.This is a sharp reversal of from previous years when they were winning 16, 17, and 18 games on the road and seldom losing more than 10 or 12 during the entire 35 game road schedule.Opponents are scoring more goals on the Canadiens this season than they have ever have in the last decade or so. Different people offer different reasons. Coach Blake feels that the entire team has been off form defensively. He says the forwards haven&rsquo;t backchecked as well as they should; the defensemen can&rsquo;t get the puck out of their own end; and he isn&rsquo;t wholly happy with the play of goalie Jacques Plante.However, Blake staunchly defended Plante when the rest of the front office wanted to bench the masked netminder against Detroit recently. General manager Frank Selke and vice-president Ken Reardon favored giving Plante a rest in favor of Charlie Hodge, but Blake held out for Plante and won his point. Plante showed his appreciation by beating the Red Wings, 4-2.But even Plante&rsquo;s most partisan fans agree that the five-time Vezina Trophy winner hasn&rsquo;t shown the same form he demonstrated in previous seasons. Whatever the reason, whether it&rsquo;s his mask, slightly slower reflexes, lack of support or injuries, one thing is sure, more pucks are getting behind the 31-year-old backstop.Someone recently asked Blake if Plante&rsquo;s philosophy was the same as the baseball manager who once said :&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care how many runs they score as long as we score one more.&rdquo;&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know about that,&rdquo; replied Blake, &ldquo;but I told him I didn&rsquo;t care how many goals he let in as long as he wins the Vezina Trophy again.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Champs Only Able To Beat Rangers Away From The Forum

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02445/2129440-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Nicked It In TimeDEAN PRENTICE</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The Madison Square Garden Special Hockey Thrills Department (limited enrollment) has a new member &mdash; Dean Prentice.The energetic left wing pulled off a feat which may never be duplicated in the lifetime of readers of this article. Dean clouted home the winning goal against Boston on Nov. 16 with one second left to play.Merely scoring a goal with a second to go would be rare enough but the manner in which Prentice perpetrated his score ranks his accomplishment in a class with the Gardens top three thrills of the last decade.And, as any Ranger regular knows, they include;1&mdash;The night the Bentley Brothers were re-united. (Considered by many the greatest all-around game in Garden history.)2&mdash;Andy Hebenton&rsquo;s suddendeath goal in the 1956-57 Stanley Cup playoffs against Montreal.3&mdash;Take your pick : the Richard-Fontinato fight; the Howe-Fontinato fight; any Canadiens-Ranger game between 1956 and 1959; Jack Mc-Cartan&rsquo;s debut and McCartan&rsquo;s shutout over Chicago early this season; or any other dozen games.But none of them had &ldquo;Hollywood&rdquo; so thoroughly stamped on them as Prentice&rsquo;s goal.For, here were the Rangers trapped in last place with a five-game losing streak and trailing 3-1 in the third period.Further, there was the threat of a shakeup if the team lost.The plot began to mold into shape when Camille Henry tipped in a pass at 4:03 to put the Blues within a goal of tying. Then, Schinkel knotted&rsquo; the score at 7:17.Instead of playing for the tie, both clubs showed a surprising inclination to hammer home the winner, and were it not for some clever goaltending by defenseman, Bill Gadsby, Boston would have done just that.With the clock ticking out the final minutes, Vic Stasiuk of the Bruins forced Worsley to the left side of the cage. The puck bounced to Bronco Horvath who attempted to drive it into the yawning right hole. He surely would have scored except that Gadsby slid into the opening, like Luis Aparicio stealing second, and blocked the shot.Then, with about 25 seconds left, Worsley blocked a vicious Bruin drive by Charlie Burns which seemed potent enough to score.By this time, the 8,206 Ranger fans were prepared to offer thanks for a tie. But the Bruins charged again only to find their shot deflected into the corner.There were approximately eight seconds left when the puck slithered into the left corner of deep Ranger zone. In the next seven seconds the puck travelled 175 feet, finally nestling behind Don Simmons in the Boston nets. This is how it happened :Brian Cullen trapped the puck in deep Ranger Zone and zipped a pass to Ken Schinkel along the right boards at the blue line. Schinkel crossed the line and &mdash; instead of firing on the Bruin goal as his clock-watching teammates implored &mdash; recklessly-passed ahead to Prentice who gathered the puck at the Boston line, rounded Leo Boivin, took one step and fired from about 28 feet.&ldquo;I was too tired to take another step,&rdquo; Dean admitted, &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know how much time was left.&rdquo;The shot wasn&rsquo;t exceptionally hard but it had the daffiness of a knuckle ball as it headed for the upper left corner of the net. Simmons threw his right arm at the disk, got a small piece of it, but the puck pushed relentlessly passed him and the red light flashed. The time was 19:59.At this precise moment, the Stanford University seismograph reported an earthquake in the vicinity of Eighth ave. and 49th st. in Manhattan. Actually, it was 8,206 howling Ranger fans cheering one of the most unique plays in Garden history. &#9632;

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Prentice’s Last Second Blast Saved Many Poor Ranger Souls

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div>CHICAGO, Ill &mdash;Murray Balfour plays on a line with last year&rsquo;s National Hockey League scoring champion (Bobby Hull) and last year&rsquo;s Rookie-of-the-Year (Red Hay).But the 5 ft. 9 in., 178 pound Chicago Black Hawk sophomore right wing is far from a forgotten man.In fact in the last 11 games (through No. 20) he was the hottest scorer on Chicago&rsquo;s &ldquo;Million Dollar Line&rdquo; with 7 goals.During that same span Hull has scored 4 times and Hay 5 times.The &ldquo;Million Dollar Line&rdquo; with Hay at center, Hull at left wing and Balfour on right wing, was the best line in the NHL over the last part of the 1959-60 season, scoring 50 goals in 50 games, and leading the Black Hawk surge into third place and the Stanley Cup playoffs.This season they are a shade ahead of that pace with 23 goals in their first 20 games. Hull has 10, Balfour 8 and Hay 5.Although continuing their high-scoring ways this year the trio has had to adjust some of its tactics.Says center Hay :&ldquo;They&rsquo;re watching the whole line more closely this year. But especially Bobby. Last year Hull was the man in front of the opposing net most of the time, and I did most of my passing to him. This year both Bobby and I are looking more for Murray to pass to.&rdquo;Says league scoring champion Hull:&ldquo;They started checking our line more closely toward the end of last year. But its much tougher this year. Some nights you hardly get a chance to breathe. Boston checks real close. So do Toronto and Detroit. Montreal doesn&rsquo;t have to worry about you so much. They have too many good scoring lines of their own.&rdquo;Of the change in tactics of the &ldquo;Million Dollar Babies&rdquo;, Hull adds :&ldquo;Hay and I are going in the corners more this year. I was checked so closely and then the puck wasn&rsquo;t going in for me. Now Balfour is in front of the net more and Red and I are digging harder in the corners for the puck.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03399/2129471-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="538" height="539"><figcaption class="caption-body">Braves BlasterMurray Balfour</figcaption></div>The Hay-Hull-Balfour system is fairly normal procedure. The first man into the attacking zone goes after the defender with the puck. The next man goes for the puck. By the time the line gets possession the third man has worked for a spot in front of the net.Balfour actually scored more goals on less shots than any player in the NHL last season. He hit on 18 of 83 shots for a goal every 4.58 attempts. Had it not been for the outstanding play of Hay (who also scored 18 goals), Murray would have won the Calder Rookie Trophy as he finished second in the voting.This year he scored only one goal in Chicago&rsquo;s first eight games before his current hot streak. What happened ?&ldquo;I think I was getting jut as many shots earlier in the season,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;The puck just seems to be going in better now. They are often putting two men on Bobby and it gives me more room in front of the net. Hull and Hay have really been digging the puck out from the corners.&rdquo;Was Balfour worried when he wasn&rsquo;t scoring earlier in the year ?&ldquo;No,&rdquo; he grinned. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll only start worrying when I stop getting my chances. That will mean I&rsquo;m not hustling or getting in position like I should.&rdquo;Black Hawk Coach Rudy Pilous takes no credit for the adjustment in tactics of his prize line. &ldquo;They work together as a unit and we let them make their own adjustments, unless something is drastically wrong. But that hasn&rsquo;t happened yet,&rdquo; he said. &#9632;

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Murray Balfour Now Chi’s Red Hot Item On The Firing Line

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01464/2129502-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Making His Third Chance Pay OfPARKER McDONALD &hellip; &hellip; I WAS REALLY SURPRISED</figcaption></div><h2>Rangers Drafted Him Over Detroit In &lsquo;56-57 Season</h2><h3>New York Got First Chance And Grabbed Him From The Leafs After Dismal Year</h3>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Strange are the workings of life &hellip; and Calvin Parker MacDonald has been, discovering it.A too early shot at the big time &hellip; failure to make two National Hockey League clubs &hellip; a too high finish &hellip; an All-Star berth &hellip; and the eye of a rival general manager. All these and more have combined to make MacDonald a Detroit Red Wing.And right now, MacDonald is one of the most valuable of the Red Wings, the third NHL club he has played for.But let&rsquo;s start back in the Maritimes.Parker was born June 14, 1933, in Sydney, Nova Scotia.&ldquo;When I was a kid Sydney played for the Allan Cup and I learned watching that team,&rdquo; said Parker. &ldquo;But I left the Maritimes early.&ldquo;Unfortunately, hockey isn&rsquo;t what it used to be there. For one thing, the weather isn&rsquo;t near as cold as it is in the rest of Canada and there aren&rsquo;t many outside rinks where the youry; kids can learn,&rdquo; said Parker who returns to Sydney each summer and works in the steel mills.MacDonald caught the eye of the Toronto Maple Leafs at age 16 and he spent three years with the Marlboros before the Leafs turned him pro in 1953-54.He played the full season at Pittsburgh in the American League and registered 29 goals and assisted on 24, a good start in any league. And the Leafs figured he was ready for the NHL.&ldquo;1 was only 21 and I don&rsquo;t think my experience warranted a place with an NHL team at the time,&rdquo; MacDonald said honestly.Parker was placed on a line with Tod Sloan and George Armstrong and in 62 games had only eight goals and three assists.And so the Leafs sent him back to Pittsburgh for more seasoning. MacDonald seasoned well &mdash; he fired 35 goals and had 32 assists.But Toronto didn&rsquo;t protect him in the draft and Detroit had intentions of drafting him.However, the Wings finished in second place that season. New York was third and chose MacDonald before the Wings had their chance.So Parker packed his bags and headed to the Ranger camp.He was one of many trying to make the Rangers and wound up on a line with Hank Ciesla and Jerry Foley.&ldquo;We were the spares and fourth line,&rdquo; MacDonald said.But MacDonald spent 45 games with New York and put in seven goals. The next year, in the full 70-game schedule, his production was up only one more goal so the Rangers shuffled him off to Buffalo in 1958-59.At his third AHL stop he had 17 goals in 67 games. Then, in 65 games for Springfield&rsquo;s AHL champions last season, MacDonald netted 37 goals and 36 assists and was named All-Star left wing.Bas Bastien, general manager of the Hershey Bears who have a working agreement with the Red Wings, recommended MacDonald.&ldquo;I had heard rumors about three or four weeks before the end of the season that Detroit was interested in me but I took it with a grain of salt.&ldquo;Then a friend at a Sydney radio station called me the day of the draft and said the Wings took me. I was really surprised. I thought the Rangers might take me to camp again but I didn&rsquo;t expect to be drafted.&ldquo;I decided before camp that this would be my last chance &mdash; after all, I&rsquo;m 27 &mdash; so I gave it everything.&rdquo;Still, MacDonald again was just one of many left wingers. The big Red Wing need was right wingers.But MacDonald kept working and hustling. Again, circumstances over which MacDonald had no control, took over.Gordie Howe was hurt in the AllStar game. In early season Len Lunde, Gary Aidcorn and Brian Smith were ineffective. Then Howie Glover, the rookie right winger on the Alex Delvecchio-Norm Ullman unit, tightened up after a good exhibition season.So it wasn&rsquo;t long before MacDonald, bred a left winger, was switched to the right side and promoted to the Ullman line.&ldquo;I played right wing in Pittsburgh part of a season when someone was called up by the Leafs and they sent Danny Lewicki down so I was moved over. I think I scored about 14 goals from that side.&rdquo;And Parker, happy at the opportunity, fitted right in with Ullman and Delvecchio to form the Wings&rsquo; most dangerous line and the one that draws the assignment against the opposition&rsquo;s No. 1 line.&ldquo;They give us more defensive balance,&rdquo; explained coach Sid Abel.That&rsquo;s because Gordie Howe is teammed with Vai Fonteyne and Murray Oliver, two swift skaters and hustlers but they don&rsquo;t weigh much.&ldquo;Parker skates well, checks well, covers his man, has moxie and experience,&rdquo; said Abel.&ldquo;And he fires a good puck. Most players slap the puck today. I think Bernie Geoffrion started the trend. But few of them know where the puck is going.&ldquo;MacDonald uses his wrists and snaps his shot. It&rsquo;s much more accurate,&rdquo; stated Sid.And accurate he is. Accurate to the extent that he netted seven goals &mdash; only one below his NHL best &mdash; in just 15 games.&ldquo;I never could slap a puck,&rdquo; MacDonald said. &ldquo;I never seemed to be able to catch it right and I don&rsquo;t like it. Occasionally I might rare back and slap it if the situation is right.&rdquo;<h2>Bastien Scouted MacDonald, Adams Took His Advice</h2><h3>Blames His Early Failure On Toronto Because They Rushed Him Into Big Time</h3>Abel said that if he ever has to revamp his lifes he might put Parker back on the left side but the way he&rsquo;s playing, it doesn&rsquo;t appear that it will be soon.&ldquo;MacDonald and Allan Johnson have given us a big lift this season,&rdquo; said general manager Jack Adams. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been getting the occasional goal from our new men and it&rsquo;s made us a better club.&rdquo;At the time Adams said that, Parker had four goals. In the next four he fired in three more. Johnson had one marker. In the next three he snapped off three more.MacDonalds first goal of the year came in the first game and it earned Detroit a 1-1 tie with Chicago.His second came in a 2-1 victory over Toronto. His third brought the Wings within one goal of New York in a 4-3 defeat.But he was back on the winning line with his fourth. That one, at the 2:21 mark, touched off a six-goal third period explosion that wiped out a 5-2 Boston lead and led to an 8-5 Red Wing victory.His fifth came in another winning effort as did the sixth. The fifth came against his former team, New York, and tied the game at 3-3 with the Wings eventually winning, 4-3, after overcoming a 3-1 Ranger lead. &ldquo;It always feels good to score against your former team&rdquo;, said curly-hair Ed Parker.The sixth added the frosting in a 4-1 victory at Boston and the seventh gave Detroit a 2-1 over Montreal but the Habs fought back for a 4-2 decision.Thus four of his goals were in games Detroit won and another gave the Wings a tie. Not a bad average.Parker isn&rsquo;t quite a miracle man or one who can do no wrong. He typified the Red Wing frustration in the first two periods of the 8-5 game with Boston when his stick caught between the glass panels that surround the Olympia rink.MacDonald tugged as play headed the other way, and finally pulled the stick out.And why, with minor league seasons of 29, 35, 17 and 37 goals, hasn&rsquo;t MacDonald done better in the NHL?It goes back to the lack of experience when first brought up with Toronto and little ice time with the Rangers. He has the experience now and he&rsquo;s getting plenty of ice time.The Red Wings would like to see MacDonald copy Aidcorn who was drafted from Toronto the Summer of 1959 and then collected 22 goals and 29 assists for the Wings.And there&rsquo;s a little coincidence there. Aidcorn was All-Star left winger of the AHL when he was drafted, just as was MacDonald. And how many goals had Aidcorn scored? 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Parker Took Long Way Round To Wings

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYPublished Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd., 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25. Qua. Ken McKenzie, President and Publisher Will V. Cote, Vice-Pres. & Gen. Mgr. Lon Bramson, Editor-in-ChietYearly Subscription Ratos: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealthy $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, DECEMBER 3, 1960 No. 10<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01528/2129554-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="361" height="416"></div>&bull; BOSTON &mdash; IT&rsquo;S too bad but the Bruins are in serious trouble this year. The team has won only one of its last eight games and has dropped into last place in the National Hockey League standings &hellip; The Boston fans, who are the most loyal fans to be found anywhere, are on Coach Milt Schmidt and Manager Lynn Patrick and are giving these gents quite a razzing as the Bruins continue to lose &hellip; The poor play of the Bruins on the ice is reflected at the box office and the Bruins&rsquo; attendance is off around $22,000 already this season and could be off as much as $100,000 by the end of the season unless the team starts to play better hockey and win more games &hellip; This is really unfortunate as President Walter Brown and General Manager Lynn Patrick did a marvellous job in bringing hockey back to its pre-war and post-war popularity during the last few years, and last season the Bruins took in over a million dollars at the box office, which was a record amount taken in by an NHL club located in the United States &hellip; This year the Bruins just don&rsquo;t appear to have enough top notch players &hellip; Not enough good players have been coming out of the Boston farm system &hellip; Don McKenney and Doug Mohns were the last two players to make good with the Bruins who came off the farms &hellip; The Bruins have been fortunate the last few years by making wise and profitable draft choices. Players who came through for them in fine style &hellip; This isn&rsquo;t happening this year &hellip; Bruce Gamble, the new Boston goalie who replaced Don Simmons, has had a splendid record everywhere he has played and should develop into a solid NHL goalie &hellip; It is not Gamble&rsquo;s fault that the club is losing &hellip; The Bruins defeated Detroit 6-4 in Gamble&rsquo;s first game and the fans were cheering him at the end &hellip; It is well known in pro hockey Circles that Boston fans will stay with a losing team longer than they will in any other city. Boston is a great sports city and the fans are tops in loyalty &hellip; Let&rsquo;s hope Patrick and Schmidt can get the club back on a winning streak&hellip; and reward these faithful followers with some crowd pleasing hockey.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02493/2129547-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="283" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don McKenney</figcaption></div>&bull; DON McKENNEY is playing the best hockey of his career right now and the tall center has been Boston&rsquo;s finest player this season &hellip; McKenney is not a colorful player and many times his exploits on the ice are overlooked but he is an extremely steady player and seldom turns in a poor game &hellip; When Don scored three of Boston&rsquo;s six goals the other night against Detroit it marked his second &ldquo;Hat Trick&rdquo; since he came into the National League in 1954 &hellip; Whenever Lynn Patrick talks trade with other NHL managers (and he is doing this plenty these days) everyone wants to get McKenney. He is the one player the Bruins have that is in demand &hellip; Aut Erickson, sophomore defenseman with the Bruins, is playing the best hockey of the Boston rearguards &hellip; Gerry Cosby, the sporting goods tycoon, and myself were guests of Walter Brown&rsquo;s at the famed old Algonquin Club here one day last week &hellip; This is one of the oldest and most &lsquo;famous private clubs in America &hellip; Daniel Webster and Calvin Coolidge were both members of this historic club &hellip; Brown, who is president of the Boston Celtics as well as the Bruins, is the big wheel behind the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States. Walter has crossed the Atlantic Ocean 32 times on amateur hockey business and has attended almost every World&rsquo;s Amateur Hockey Tournament ever played &hellip; Walter informed us that the A.H.A. of U.S. will have their own Hockey Hall of Fame &hellip; Location for the Hall has not been settled as yet &hellip; John Sweeney, our favorite Boston bartender, thinks the Bruins would do better if they brought Real Chevrefils back &hellip; John is one of the better armchair coaches &hellip; Gerry Moore, hockey writer with the defunct Boston Post, is doing an excellent job as publicity director of the Boston Patriots of the AFL &hellip; Herb Ralby is doing an equally fine job with the Boston Bruins.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03417/2129540-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="277" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Walter Brown</figcaption></div>&bull; CLEVELAND BARONS hold the record for the largest crowd to ever see an American Hockey League game &hellip; 12,356 people watched the Barons play Buffalo on December 29, 1945 &hellip; This record was established during the halcyon days of Al Sutphin &hellip; Buffalo Bisons played hosts to the Barons in the second largest AHL crowd &hellip; 11,460 fans saw the Barons and Bisons play on November 3, 1940 &hellip; The third largest crowd in AHL history was 11,386 &hellip; This was set in Quebec City on November 6, 1960, when the Aces hosted the Springfield Indians &hellip; Top crowd in Hershey was set on January 31, 1953, when the Bears played Cleveland before 8,728 &hellip; Rochester&rsquo;s high was 7,501, set on March 17 against Hershey&hellip; Jack Evans says the biggest break he ever got in hockey was when the Chicago Black Hawks drafted him from New York in 1958&hellip; &ldquo;I think I&rsquo;ve been a better player since I moved to Chicago, and I picked up $3,000 extra in playoff money which I wouldn&rsquo;t have made with the Rangers,&rdquo; stated the rearguard.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04358/2129533-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="267" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Evans</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="f0004-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05325/2129592-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg"></div><h2>Tough, Rough And Respectable</h2>No man in the madcap whirl or professional hockey can spot a phony penalty more quickly than Jack Adams, who has been called &ldquo;jovial&rdquo; and &ldquo;jolly&rdquo; and &ldquo;genial&rdquo; on most of North America&rsquo;s sports sheets at some time or other. None of those nicknames was earned under the pressure of competition. Adams is a hard loser. He has been fined, rebuked and even suspended for violent reactions when he thought his Red Wings were getting jobbed.There&rsquo;s a sign in the Detroit dressing room&mdash;or used to be&mdash;that reads: &ldquo;We provide everything but guts.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s a salutation that puts professional hockey into focus for new arrivals at the Detroit diggings. They know right away, that it&rsquo;s no place for the meek and the timid.In such an atmosphere, you might expect to find the game&rsquo;s leading bad men. Penalties would be regarded as service stripes and evidence of hell-for-leather effort. It&rsquo;s startling to discover that the least-penalized club in the league, season after season, is the Detroit Red Wings.The current campaign is young, and a few five-minute penalties could change the picture, but the Red Wings are wearing their halo once more as the best-behaved outfit in a very rugged business. They have spent roughly 25 minutes less time in the jug than Montreal Canadiens whose forte is speed and finesse. Other cluos have to skate over a foe: Canadiens are supposed to have the ability to feint him out of his underwear.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06273/2129585-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="566" height="606"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Howe</figcaption></div>The Crime Incorporated team of the league is Chicago Black Hawks. The Hawks are on their way to becoming the village rowdies for the third straight season. They served 970 minutes in penalties last term, as compared to 538 for Detroit; 756 for Canadiens, the world&rsquo;s greatest hockey club. The previous year, comparative figures were: Wings 613; Canadiens 760; Chicago 915.<h2>Who Wants To Fight Gordie Howe?</h2>As far as Detroit is concerned, the crime record is more than a coincidence. Adams, who was a rough player himself&mdash;and who wants his Red Wings to govern themselves accordingly&mdash;makes a fine distinction between a useful and a useless penalty. If he&rsquo;s alert to cheap penalties imposed by referees, he also is quick to spot players who seek to cover up their own mistakes by doing things for which they are penalized.&ldquo;The fellow who pulls a boner and follows it up by drawing a chippy penalty can&rsquo;t expect much sympathy from me,&rdquo; Adams declared last week. His Red Wings were warming up for their joust with Leafs at Maple Leaf Gardens.&ldquo;I like hockey rough,&rdquo; Jack hastened to&rsquo;add&mdash;maybe fearing he might be mistaken for a reformer. &ldquo;We have the two toughest players in the game I&rsquo;d guess&mdash;Gordie Howe and Pete Goegan. When they get a penalty, you know it wasn&rsquo;t for some trivial offence which had no bearing on the play. We simply don&rsquo;t tolerate chippy penalties. Nor do we permit our players to take advantage of new referees. We have a standing fine of $100 for a player who abuses a green official. Our theory is to give new officials a chance to prove themselves. If they can&rsquo;t do it, let&rsquo;s get rid of them.&rdquo;Even when Ted Lindsay was carrying a high stick for the redbirds, it was seldom they topped the league in penalties. The 1950-51 team, on which Terrible Theodore was a star, lost only 13 games out of 70. It scored 238 goals and led all opposition in practically every department&mdash;except penalties. With 566 minutes, the Wings were the model citizens of hockey.Aside from Adams&rsquo; own rules to govern deportment and behavior, there&rsquo;s another reason you might suggest for the Red Wings&rsquo; good conduct. Since Howe established himself as the heavyweight champion of the world on skates, there have been few challengers. No person goes looking for trouble from the Wings. &#9632;

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Some hockey teams lose goalkeepers through injury or illness. The Bruins lose them through premature retirement.In January of 1957 the Bruins were making a strong hid for the National League championship. Over the preceding weeks they had been leading the Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Canadiens in a threeway fight for first place.Then, on January 15, Terry Sawchuk walked into the office of Walter Brown and told the astounded Bruins&rsquo; president he was giving up hockey. Sawchuk, who had been ill earlier in the season, didn&rsquo;t play for the Bruins again.The Bruins, shaken by the loss of their all-star goalkeeper, eventually finished third. Sawchuk was subsequently traded to Detroit and he is still with the Red Wings.When Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; manager, promoted Bruce Gamble and demoted Don Simmons, Sawchuk&rsquo;s successor, Simmons followed Sawchuk&rsquo;s example. The 29-year-old Simmons told Patrick the other day that he would not accept the demotion, even temporarily, he would not join the Providence Reds of the American League.His intention, said Simmons, was to give up hockey if the Bruins were not able to trade him to another team.The basis for his stand, he said, was that he felt he was being held responsible for the fifth place position of the Bruins. His demotion, he maintained, was not justified.So the harrassed Patrick began trade overtures to other NHL teams, with Simmons as his offer and a suitable goalkeeper in exchange as his demand.Simmons, whose plan for his immediate future was to finish a building job in Springfield, near his home in Monson, gave intimates here no reason to think he might be trying to bluff Patrick into giving him his job back.Don has been establishing his business credit rating in Springfield and delving into the building business for the past several years. He gave serious thought last spring to giving up hockey. Had the Bruins not given him clear goalkeeping field this fall, it is possible that he might not have played at all this season.Simmons defended his record vehemently in talking to hockey writers here, saying, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t say I&rsquo;ve been playing great but I think I&rsquo;ve &ldquo;been playing pretty well. If I hadn&rsquo;t been, I wouldn&rsquo;t mind going down to Providence. I would have gone down last year, for that matter, when I wasn&rsquo;t playing well.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01485/2129623-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="538" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body">Got Pink Slip&hellip;Don Simmons</figcaption></div>&ldquo;But I&rsquo;m going to stick to my decision,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I won&rsquo;t play for Providence under these circumstances. I&rsquo;m not against playing in the American League &mdash; I&rsquo;ll play anywhere. I&rsquo;d play for Springfield for the rest of my life if the money was right.&ldquo;Lynn told me he was going with Gamble and I don&rsquo;t blame him. Gamble is younger (22) and I hope he works out. But I&rsquo;m not going to Providence. If he shouldn&rsquo;t work out and I&rsquo;m called back up it&rsquo;ll be the same story all over again. If things go badly I&rsquo;ll be to blame.&rdquo;Patrick responded to Simmons&rsquo; request to be traded by contacting to NHL teams with Don sitting beside him. Neither was interest. He would, said the manager, continue his efforts to make a, deal.&ldquo;I think Don is making a mistake,&rdquo; said Patrick, &ldquo;and I told him so.&ldquo;He asked me if I didn&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;d been playing well, and I told him I didn&rsquo;t think that on a team which had won only three of 18 games anyone had played particularly well.&ldquo;I made the change because I thought it would help the club,&rdquo; said Patrick. &ldquo;It is not correct that I made the change for the sake of the fans. I changed for the sake of the Garden (Boston GardenArena Corporation, owners of the Bruins.)Simmons impromptu retirement jolted Patrick who, to this day, believes the Bruins lost a championship when Sawchuk left.&ldquo;All I&rsquo;ve had since I came here,&rdquo; sighed the Bruins&rsquo; boss, &ldquo;is trouble with goalkeepers. The only one who never gave us any trouble of any kind was of Sugar (Jim Henry).&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t know how many times I&rsquo;ve wished,&rdquo; added Patrick, &ldquo;that Sugar had been 10 years younger when we got him.&rdquo;Simmons came here in January of 1957 from Springfield in exchange for Forward Floyd Smith, Defenseman Jack Bionda and cash, the Bruins repurchasing Bionda at the end of the season. Between Sawchuk&rsquo;s abrupt departure and Simmons&rsquo; arrival, Norman Defelice played goal for the Bruins. Defelice now plays for the Clinton Comets, a Bruins&rsquo; farm team, in the Eastevan Amateur League. &#9632;

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Simmons Would Go To Reds If He Thought He Was To Blame For Bruins Slump

BOSTON, Mass. &mdash; A spearing incident has brought to light here a prospective trade between the Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs Which, may never materialize.The incident involved Dick Duff, Toronto forward being sought by the Bruins and Autry Erickson, Bruins&rsquo; defenseman.In the second period of the last Bruins-Toronto game here, Erickson struck Duff (accidently, he said) on the shoulder with his stick in a play in front of the Boston goal. Duff responded by jabbing at Erickson with his stick.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02448/2129654-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="253" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Duff</figcaption></div>Erickson, incensed, promptly discarded his stick and gloves, expecting to fight. Duff countered by stabbing Erickson in the stomach with the blade of his stick.For the remainder of the game Duff was taunted with a chant of &ldquo;Yellow! Yellow! Yellow!&rdquo; by spectators. The next day Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; manager, told hockey writers inadvertently here of his interest in Duff, rated Toronto&rsquo;s number three left wing.Said Patrick in speaking of the crowd&rsquo;s antipathy toward the little Toronto forward, &ldquo;Well, I guess there goes any possibility of my bringing Duff here.&rdquo;Patrick did not reveal the extent of any negotiations with Toronto for Duff, whose annual holdouts have supposedly annoyed Toronto officials. &#9632;

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Duff Turns Hub Cheers To Boos Fast

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;As young Bruce Gamble steps into the Bruins&rsquo; nets for National Hockey League games, he probably, makes for himself the goalkeeper&rsquo;s customary wishes.No screened or deflected shots, no injuries, plenty of skating and checking but his teammates, lots of luck &mdash; these are the things for which a goalkeeper wishes.In the case of Don Simmons, whom Gamble has replaced here, the wishes did not help much.Simmons, whom the Bruins hoped originally would fill the large skates left empty by Terry Sawchuk, may not have been the best goalkeeper in the NHL but he was surely the unluckiest.Simmons once missed nearly half a season with multiple shoulder injuries received at a time when he was playing his best ever. He missed one-fifth of another season with an appendectomy. He never did get going last year after sustaining a pre-season leg injury.This year Simmons had the misfortune to be the last line of defense for a team getting off to a bad start, a team which Jacked overall speed. Some rated the Bruins of early this season the slowest in decades.That the Bruins have been adding speed &mdash; the latest addition being Willie O&rsquo;Ree with other addition possible &mdash; is good, but for Gamble, not Simmons.Contrary to the general opinion, Simmons&rsquo; number was not up after the game in Detroit November 3 in which the Red Wings scored six goals in the third period, wiped out a four-goal Bruins&rsquo; lead and won, 8-5.Asked afterward if he blamed his goalkeeper for the stunning loss, Lynn Patrick replied, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know. I couldn&rsquo;t tell whether or not it was his fault. Everything Detroit shot went into the net. He didn&rsquo;t have a save.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03362/2129685-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="526" height="546"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip;In Favor Of HimBruce Gamble</figcaption></div>It is more likely that the game which cost Simmons his job was that in New York on November 16, which the Rangers won with one second remaining on a goal by Dean Prentice, 4-3.Even that development typified Simmons&rsquo; luck, for it was the first time in 35 years New York had won a game at 19:59 of the third period.After the painful defeat in Detroit Simmons responded with a 4-0 shutout of the Chicago Black Hawks here, but two days after losing the game in New York on the Prentice goal he was assigned to Providence and young Gamble called up.If Simmons had some bad moments this fall, so did the Bruins, but who could blame Patrick for making a change &mdash; or changes ? His team was in fifth place, one point out of sixth place. It could go higher. It could not go much lower.In addition, time was in the Bruins&rsquo; favor, for they had nearly three-quarters of the season in which to improve their status.Thus Simmons departed the Bruins&rsquo; scene leaving, as the strongest memory, his brilliance in the 1958 Stanley Cup playoff rounds with New York and the Montreal Canadiens.And even the knowledge of that brilliance was limited here, for dapper Don played his greatest games in Montreal that spring, fax from the eyes of the people who paid to see him play here over a period of five seasons. A handful of hockey writers and his former teammates are the only ones here to can give testimony in his greatest moments. &#9632;

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Last Second Goal By Blues Was Last Straw For Lynn—Didn’t Blame Any Player

HYANNIS, Mass. &mdash; The family of John F. Kennedy, president-elect of the United States, has a neighborly interest in hockey.The Kennedy rink here is a gift to the people of Cape Cod from the family of which the Massachusetts senator is a member.Costing $125,000, it was built with funds from the Joseph E. Kennedy Jr. Memorial Foundation, the charitable institution which honors the president-elect&rsquo;s late brother. The rink is now in its third year.The feature of the hockey programs here is the weekly Cape Cod Amateur League games. The senior league has been playing since earlier this fall.President of the Cape Cod League is Johnny Crawford, former captain and all-star defenseman of the Boston Bruins, who also coached the Hershey Bears and Providence Reds of the American League.A long-time resident of Hyannis, Crawford operates a flourishing paper business here. As a friend of the Kennedys he played a part in interesting them in the construction of the rink. &#9632;

Hyannis Rink Gift From Kennedy Clan

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Less than three years ago stocky Bruce Gamble went through a goalkeeping version of rags to riches.If history sees fit to repeat for the Boston Bruins&rsquo; goalkeeper this season, he won&rsquo;t be at all unhappy.Gamble played his last season of junior hockey with the Guelph (Ont.) Biltmores of the Ontario Hockey Association and it wasn&rsquo;t a particularly enjoyable one. The Guelph team finished last.But if the rest of the Biltmores were through for the year, Gamble wasn&rsquo;t. He was loaned to the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens, then a junior team, and Hull-Ottawa won the Memorial Cup, the Canadian junior championship.&ldquo;That,&rdquo; said the 22-year-old Gamble the other day, &ldquo;was going from the bottom to the top in a hurry.&ldquo;The regular goalkeeper for Hull-Ottawa became ill, as I recall, and I was his replacement. It took us 13 games to win the Memorial Cup, beating a team from Regina in the East-West final.&ldquo;You can imagine,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;how I felt after being with a team which didn&rsquo;t make the playoffs in our league.&rdquo;Playing with Gamble on the Hull-Ottawa champions were Bob Rousseau, Ralph Backstrom and Gilles Tremblay, all Canadiens of moment.Playing with the opposition from Regina were Bill Hicke, who has taken Maurice Richard&rsquo;s old position in Montreal, and Autry Erickson of the Bruins.&ldquo;Actually, I knew Bruce for years before that Memorial Cup series,&rdquo; related Erickson. &ldquo;We met first at a junior training camp seven years ago, but I went back West and he stayed East.&ldquo;In the series we had with Hull-Ottawa,&rdquo; said Erickson, &ldquo;I remember one thing. I scored a goal against him.&rdquo;Gamble came up to the Bruins from Providence, not Guelph, but there was a degree of similarity. He left a last place team in Providence, too. Had he considered the similar circumstances ?&ldquo;No, I hadn&rsquo;t,&rdquo; he confessed, &ldquo;but let&rsquo;s hope things work out the same way. I&rsquo;ll surely try my best.&rdquo;The New York Rangers signed Gamble as a professional after his Memorial Cup triumph and assigned him to Vancouver of the Western League. He led the Western League in shutouts during the 1958-59 season, making seven during the regular season and two more in the playoffs, and won the rookie award.When New York failed to protect him from the draft in 1959 the Bruins purchaesd him. He played at Providence last season and trained here both last fall and this fall.The Bruins beat the Detroit Red Wings in Bruce&rsquo;s debut here, overcoming a two-goal Detroit lead to do so. It was the 190-pound youngster&rsquo;s first big league win in three tries.&ldquo;I had losses in the two games I played with New York the season before last,&rdquo; he recalled. &ldquo;One was a 1-0 game in Detroit in which Jack McIntyre scored. The other game I played in New York and lost by 5-3.&rdquo;The team which beat him in New York ? The Bruins. Said Gamble, Prinning, &ldquo;I hope that&rsquo;s something hat doesn&rsquo;t happen again.&rdquo; &#9632;

Bruce Once Had A 2 Game Trial In New York And He Was On Losing Side Twice

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<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Talk of the Maple Leafs&rsquo; success this season generally emphasizes their veteran players : Johnny Bower, Bert Olmstead, Allan Stanley and Red Kelly.However, injections of young blood this season have substantially helped Leafs to get off to a smart start in the 1960-61 campaign. Freshmen Dave Keon and Bobby Nevin have been impressive and, better still, are improving. Newcomer Larry Hillman looks like a real find.Hillman was drafted from the Boston Bruins&rsquo; organization last summer for $20,000 and early this fall, the investment looked like a colossal waste. Hillman seldom was seen. However, an injury to Tim Horton left a defensive opening for Hillman. In true Hollywood tradition, the understudy came through brilliantly.&ldquo;I knew,&rdquo; said Hillman, &ldquo;it would take an injury to get me into the lineup. Leafs made the Stanley Cup finals two years in a row with the same defence pairs and they&rsquo;d be crazy to break them up just to get me into action.&rdquo;Explaining the off-season purchase, Leafs&rsquo; assistant general manager, King Clancy, says: &ldquo;We needed a fifth defenceman. The best one outside the NHL was Hillman so we bought him.&rdquo;Hillman, sent down to Providence Reds in the American league by Bruins, was all-star defenceman in that league and was chosen the loop&rsquo;s most outstanding rearguard.&ldquo;I figured I wouldn&rsquo;t be back in Providence,&rdquo; says Larry. &ldquo;Yet I knew Boston, Detroit and Chicago had given up on me. And Canadiens didn&rsquo;t need any help. So I suspected Toronto might grab me.&rdquo;Hillman had moved from junior hockey at Hamilton, Ont., right up to Red Wings in 1955. They gave him a thorough test and in 1957, sent him to Edmonton in the Western league.That summer, Chicago Black Hawks drafted him in the fall, he trained with Hawks. However, just before the schedule was due to open, Hawks sent him to their Buffalo farm club in the American league. However, he got to the Buffalo camp just in time to receive a message that he&rsquo;d been claimed by Boston, when Chicago tried to waive him out of the NHL. He was with Bruins until 1959, when they loaned him to Providence.NOTES: The 14,720 spectators who saw Leafs&rsquo; Nov. 19 win over Canadiens was the largest since Maple Leaf Gardens capacity was limited in 1946. Canadiens seldom play here on a Saturday but were forced out of the Forum by the Ice Capades&hellip; MLG capacity, with standees, now is 15,037&hellip; Frank Mahovlich got 16 goals in his first 20 games. Last season, it took him 70 games to total 18 goals &hellip; Larry Hillman has two brothers playing professional hockey : Floyd at Providence and Wayne with Buffalo &hellip; Keon got three points in Leafs&rsquo; 6-3 defeat of Canadiens Nov. 19, including the go-ahead marker and then potted the winner in Boston the following evening &hellip; Nevin was a competent right-wing partner for Red Kelly and Mahovlich. &#9632;

Toronto Bought Him Because They Needed Fifth Man On Defense—Larry Sparkles After He Got Chance To Play

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Maple Leafs shouldered their way into a tie for the National Hockey League oleadership Nov. 20 and managercoach PunchIm-lcah, surveying the situation, said :&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t see why we can&rsquo;t stay on top all season.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01554/2129812-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="251" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Harris</figcaption></div>Leafs had easily beaten the world champion Montreal Canadiens Nov. 19 and the following evening, added a fifth game without defeat by downing Boston. This put them even with Canadiens and Detroit, all with identical records of 10 wins, six losses and four ties.Is this indicative of an NHL upheaval ?&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said Imlach, &ldquo;it&rsquo;s a combination of things. I&rsquo;m sure now that Canadiens have slipped a bit. They&rsquo;re coming back to the rest of us. At the same time, some of the other clubs have improved. I know Chicago has. And now I see that we have. Earlier in the schedule, I was doubtful. Now I&rsquo;m certain, We&rsquo;re better.&rdquo;In what way ?&ldquo;Up the middle,&rdquo; Imlach replied. &ldquo;Our three centres&mdash;Red Kelly, Bob Pulford and Dave Keon&mdash;are better right now than any other three centres in the league&mdash;altogether, I mean. No club has three better ones.&rdquo;With 24 points, Leafs were comfortably ahead of Imlach&rsquo;s quota. He had scheduled 20 points from their first 20 games, as part of an overall plan to reach the season&rsquo;s end next March 19 with 75 points.What Leafs were developing was offensive balance. Their only weak line was beginning to pass muster : rookie Dave Keon was improving rapidly, Captain George Armstrong was back in form after missing a few games through injury and Dick Duff was showing signs of shaking the slump which has gripped him for more than one complete campaign.During penalties, Imlach was using two different pairings : Ron Stewart with Bobby Pulford or Keon with Red Kelly. And the power play had Frank Mahovlich at centre, that master playmaker, Bert Olmstead at left wing, Armstrong on the right side and a regular odefence twosome on the points. Bob Nevin sometimes replaced Armstrong.Billy Harris was available as a spare centre to take over from Keon, Pulford or Kelly, if one of them was weary from the above assignments. And ready to replace any. wingman showing signs of faltering was Eddie Shack, the recent acquisition from New York Rangers.&ldquo;Shack&rsquo;s going to be hard to keep off this club,&rdquo; Imlach said. &ldquo;What impresses me about him is that he loves&rsquo; to play this game.That&rsquo;s all he wants to do. And he&rsquo;s got the equipment&mdash;a terrific shot, especially.&rdquo;The Harris situation also pleased Imlach, although Billy himself was concerned about his lack of work. He was Leafs second highest scorer during the 1957-58 and &lsquo;58-&rsquo;59 seasons, getting 22 goals and 30, assists the latter year, and was behind only four teammates last winter. Yet Leafs couldn&rsquo;t use him.&ldquo;I can feel sorry for Harris personally,&rdquo; imlach said, &ldquo;but from the team&rsquo;s viewpoint, it&rsquo;s a good problem because it&rsquo;s Billy&rsquo;s own problem. In other words, if he wants to get back in there, it&rsquo;s up to him to prove he deserves the chance.&rdquo;However, Harris wasn&rsquo;t appearing often enough even to prove that.&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t pretend I&rsquo;m happy because I&rsquo;d sooner be playing,&rdquo; says Harris, &ldquo;but logically I can&rsquo;t complain because the team is going so well. It would be much worse, if the team was in a slump and they still weren&rsquo;t using me. Then I&rsquo;d have reason to worry.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d be willing to try playing left wing or even killing penalties, just to get a chance,&rdquo; Bill declared.There has been considerable talk of Leafs&rsquo; trading Harris. However, it&rsquo;s very doubtful whether he&rsquo;d accept a move. He makes his home in Toronto and attends the University of Toronto part-time.&ldquo;For sure, we&rsquo;ve got to have a fourth centre,&rdquo; Imlach says. &ldquo;In Harris, we&rsquo;ve got a good one.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Leafs Run Well Ahead Of Punch’s Points Program

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;John Hanna, two parts steel, two parts concrete and four parts defenseman, has return-to Rangerville in an effort to restore authority to the New York backline.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02431/2129857-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="264" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Sullivan</figcaption></div>There are those who believe that Hanna could crumble Madison Square Garden if he caught it amidships. A dozen solid bodychecks a game will more than satisfy coach Alf Pike.&ldquo;We still need more hitting,&rdquo; said Pike. &ldquo;And I&rsquo;m talking about the forwards as well as the defensemen.&rdquo;A two-year man with the Blues, Hanna was dropped to Springfield in October to make room for rookie Don Johns who excelled in training camp.After an excellent opening with Springfield, Hanna was called up to the Rangers on an emergency basic&mdash;Lou Fontinato and Jim Morrison had been injured&mdash;for the Oct. 19th game with Chicago.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03318/2129850-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="1159" height="1683"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sparkles On Leaf BluelineLARRY HILLMAN</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04216/2129843-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="526" height="528"><figcaption class="caption-body">Back On BroadwayJohn Hanna</figcaption></div>In spite of Jack McCartan&rsquo;s shutout, the people left the arena muttering about Hanna&rsquo;s robust effort.The next day Hanna was enroute to Springfield again because Fontinato and Morrison had recovered.Apparently, Hanna was not the least displeased by his second move to Springfield. His play was exceptional enough to draw raves from Ranger scout, Johnny Gagnon and Springfield coach, Pat Egan.It seemed inevitable that the Rangers would recall Hanna to beef up a backline whose only consistent hitter has. been Lou Fontinato with occasional flurries from Harry Howell and Irv Spencer.The hope is that Hanna will restore a feeling of meanness and inspire winning play as he did in that one-game stint against Chicago early in the season.Meanwhile, back at the Garden there were some interesting developments.Captain Red Sullivan, whose current agility has led observers to doubt that he will be 31 years old next month, scored his 100th goal Nov. 20th against Hank Bassen of Detroit.Another center, Teddy Hampson, has performed capably between Camille Henry and Andy Heben-ton after being elevated from penalty-killing duty.According to Monsieur Henry, Hampson&rsquo;s only problem is that he doesn&rsquo;t talk enough on the ice, a difficulty which is expected to be remedied in due time.RANGERABILIA : Detroit&rsquo;s Hank Bassen won over a lot of skeptics with an excellent goaltending exhibition on Nov. 20th. Alf Pike said it was the best he&rsquo;s seen Bassen play in seven years &hellip; Although he&rsquo;s hovering near the top ten scorers&mdash;and always seems to be&mdash;Andy Bathgate thinks he should be doing better &hellip; Andy Hebenton&rsquo;s good start can be credited in part to Camille Henry. Last year Hebby slumped while Henry was sidelined with a broken hand &hellip; Irv Spencer&rsquo;s jaw-protecting mask inspired balconyites to dub him &ldquo;Abe Lincoln.&rdquo; &hellip; A search of the records revealed that Grant &ldquo;Knobby&rdquo; Warwick was the last Ranger to score a last-second winning goal. Warwick&rsquo;s was tallied on March 18, 1945 against Toronto. Final score: Rangers 6, Toronto 5 &hellip; Rangers have been practicing occasionally at the Long Island Arena in Commack, home of the New York Rovers. Blues like the Arena&rsquo;s 200 by 85 foot rink. &#9632;

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Blues Call Hanna To Beef Up Loose Defense Brigade

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;A reporter walked into the Montreal Canadiens dressing room at the Paul Sauve arena during a morning practice last week and noticed a familiar figure bending over, lacing his skates.It was Maurice (Rocket) Richard who retired early this fall during the training camp after 18 years with the Habitants.Coach Toe Blake, who had been complaining to anyone who would listen what a poor practice he had just conducted, announced seriously :&ldquo;Things are so bad we&rsquo;ve asked the Rocket to come back.&rdquo;As the reporter left the dressing room, Richard called him back.&ldquo;You know Toe was only kidding, don&rsquo;t you ? I was just out for a skate and some exercise. Don&rsquo;t worry, I have no intention of making a comeback.&rdquo; &#9632;

No Comeback, Says Rocket Of Rumor

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Hank Bassen has moved himself into No. 1 spot in the Detroit Red Wings nets, supplanting veteran All-Star and Vezina Cup winner Terry Sawchuk.There has been no official announcement that Bassen is the top man.But all the substantiation that is needed is seen in game statistics.Since taking over between the posts Nov. 6, Bassen played eight of the next nine games. The lone might he missed, Sawchuk was bombed by the Chicago Black Hawks, 7-1.Hank&rsquo;s record for the first 10 games he played was six victories, two defeats and two ties. Sawchuk was 4-5-2 in 11 games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01506/2129919-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="281" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tarry Sawchuk</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if it&rsquo;s a case of a &lsquo;hot hand&rsquo; or what, said coach Sid Abel, &ldquo;but he&rsquo;s been doing a tremendous job and has lifted the whole team.&rdquo;And going along with the honored sports adage, the Wings aren&rsquo;t obout to break up a winning combination that sent them into a three-wav first place tie just before Thanksgiving.Bassen is a wanderer like Montreal&rsquo;s Jacques Plante and he has taken a few hefty checks when going behind the net to stop the puck.&ldquo;He makes some moves that you wonder about,&rdquo; said Abel. &ldquo;In one game there was a jam-up in front of the net and Hank couldn&rsquo;t see the puck. So he shoved around the mob and was five feet out of the crease so he could see where it was.&ldquo;At least that way he figured he&rsquo;d have a chance to make a stop but if he stayed behind the screen he wouldn&rsquo;t know where it was.&rdquo;Bassen also has slapped his defensemen in the seat with his stick when they back in too close and he constantly shouts directions.He goes far out of his cage to knock the puck out of danger.&ldquo;On our western exhibition trip we were having trouble clearing,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;Then Hank skated out, got the puck and I thought. &lsquo;My gosh. he&rsquo;s going all the way !&rsquo; &rdquo;Bassen deked one player and got the puck out of the Red Wing zone.Bassen has waited a long time for his chance to make good in the National League. He&rsquo;s hungry.Hank, who will be 28 Dec. 6 and is only three years younger than Sawchuk, broke into the NHL with 21 games in the 1954-55 season at Chicago. He was back for a dozen more the next season.Bassen&rsquo;s goals against average was 3.00 his first year and 3.50 the next with the Hawks a lastplace team both times.Bassen went back to the Western League the next season and played in his hometown, Calgary.When the Wings traded Glenn Hall and Ted Lindsay to Chicago in July, 1957, Bassen came to Detroit along with Johnny Wilson, Forbes Kennedy and Bill Preston.But the Wings had got Sawchuk back from Boston so there was no place for Bassen to go but back to minors and he spent a term at Seattle.The next summer he was traded to Springfield with Bill McCreary ond Dennis Oldson for American Hockey League All-Star Gerry Eh-man. A season at Springfield and then another at Vancouver passed before Bassen returned to the big time.Bassen was highly recommended by Edmonton general manager Bud Poile and the Wings drafted him last June from Springfield.Hank was the Western League&rsquo;s top goalie and tied with Guy Fielder as the league&rsquo;s most valuable player.In training camp Abel and general manager Jack Adams decided to keep two goalies this season.Their reasoning was that Sawchuk twice was laid up last season with neuritis. The first time &mdash; a year ago at Thanksgiving &mdash; they sent an emergency call that brought Gilles Boisvert up for three games.The next time it was Dennis Riggin for nine games.&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t want to take a chance on being caught short again,&rdquo; Abel explained in September.The choice was between Bassen and Riggin. Poile wanted Riggin to stay with Edmonton because it&rsquo;s Dennis&rsquo; home town and he&rsquo;s a favorite there.And, weighing heavily, if Sawchuk went well, Bassen would just be a practice goalie and they wanted to make sure Riggin, who then figured as the No. 2 man, would be playing regularly.But Sawchuk didn&rsquo;t start out well. Bassen got his first chance in the fourth game, a start at Boston. The Wings fell behind 3-1 and rallied for a 3-3 tie.His next start was the eighth game and Detroit dealt Toronto a 2-1 defeat in Maple Leaf Gardens on a Saturday night &mdash; a rare feat this season.Then came that wild 8-5 victory over the Bruins in Detroit. The management felt Sawchuk didn&rsquo;t look too good as the Bruins cruised to a 5-2 lead in 40 minutes although he played very well the last period.So Bassen went back in the nets the next game against New York and he&rsquo;s been tough to get out since.Although he&rsquo;s a holler guy on the ice, Bassen is quiet off &mdash; so much so that he was playing with ragged equipment.&ldquo;I noticed one day that part of his shoulder pad seam was torn,&rdquo; said Red Wing assistant trainer Danny Olesevich. &ldquo;But I thought he probably did it himself so he would have freer arm action.&ldquo;It was that way for quite awhile and then one day he asked me if we could sew it up !&rdquo;Trainer Lefty Wilson had a similar occurrence.&ldquo;I was packing the equipment when we were in New York and looked at Bassen&rsquo;s gloves. He had big holes in them !&ldquo;In one there was a big hole where his thumb stuck out. But he never complained about it. They were like a couple of rags !&rdquo;The two-goalie system hasn&rsquo;t worked anywhere else and its always been that the goalies disliked it most. They&rsquo;ve never cared for the extra rest.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02466/2129912-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1695" height="1947"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bassens Sees Game From Another AngleDetroit&rsquo;s Hank Bassen, reputed to be another wander like Jacques Plante, is caught doing just that as he rushes to get back to his cage before the Leafs fill it. Loaf in the picture is Bob Pulford. Bassen has been a Detroit standout since he replaced Terry Sawchuk.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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2nd Stringer Hank Motor City’s No. 1 Hero In Wings’ Net

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;Pat Hannigan, the personable new Ranger right wing, was telling what it&rsquo;s like to be a forgotten hockey player.He was harking back to September when he checked into the Toronto Maple Leaf camp bolstered by an impressive record from his Rochester days.&ldquo;I got the feeling right from the start that I didn&rsquo;t have much of a chance,&rdquo; Hannigan said while putting on his under shirt in the Ranger dressing room.A 5-10, 178-pound right wing, Pat had tallied 29 goals and 33 assists in 65 games at Rochester last year. He felt he rated more than a token look by Toronto.&ldquo;They put me on a line with Dick Duff and Dave Keon,&rdquo; Pat went on, &ldquo;but we didn&rsquo;t stay together long &mdash; just one game, that&rsquo;s all.&rdquo;Then, the dread axe which every uncertain prospect in training camp worries about, fell on Hannigan. He remembers it well:&ldquo;Punch Imlarh called me in and said I&rsquo;d have to improve my skating. He said he was sending me back to Rochester.How did I feel ? Well, I felt he never really gave me a chance. How could he know what I could do after only a game ? Worst of all, I began to believe that hogwash about not being able to skate.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03377/2129950-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="529" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gets A LifePat Hannigan</figcaption></div>Hannigan figured that at 24 years of-age he was doomed to a career in the minors. He adjusted his tie and read a couple of congratulatory telegrams &mdash; one from Rochester goalie, Ed Chadwick, another from his brother &mdash; and then, said :&ldquo;I went back to Rochester but I wasn&rsquo;t too upset. I liked the town and I liked being captain of the team and I figured I&rsquo;d play there a few years and everything&rsquo;d be all right.&rdquo;Two weeks ago, Hannigan was invited to Toronto for the opening of the St. Michael&rsquo;s College ice rink. A funny thing happened to Pat while he was walking down the street.&ldquo;I ran into Bill Dineen,&rdquo; Hannigan recalls. &ldquo;He cames up to me and said &lsquo;how do you like the deal &ldquo; And I said &lsquo;what deal ?&rsquo; And he said, &lsquo;don&rsquo;t you know, you&rsquo;ve been traded to the Rangers ?&rsquo; &rdquo;Hannigan&rsquo;s first reaction was that he merely was shifting from Rochester to the Ranger&rsquo;s farm team in Springfield.But, when he got home, the instructions said: &ldquo;Report to New York.&rdquo;&ldquo;I was delighted,&rdquo; Pat said. &ldquo;You&rsquo;re looking at one hockey player who doesn&rsquo;t feel forgotten anymore.&rdquo; &#9632;

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What’s It Like To Be Forgotten Man? Just Ask Hannigan

DETROIT, Mich. &mdash; When Dickie Moore of the Montreal Canadiens scored his team&rsquo;s only goal in their 3-1 defeat in Detroit Nov. 24, he equaled a little known record for the fastest 20 goals in a season.Moore&rsquo;s third period goal came in his 21st game, tying a mark set by former linemate Maurice (Rocket) Richard in 1944-45, the year the Rocket set a more illustrious mark of 50 goals in 50 games. The Rocket&rsquo;s record has never been seriously challenged, although some players have come close to scoring 50 goals In the longer 70-game schedule.Actually, Moore reached the 20-goal plateau easier than Richard in his record-breaking season. The Rocket had only 15 goals in his first 20 games but then exploded for a drive in his 21st game. Moore had 18 in his first 18, was blanked for the fourth time this season by Toronto, added his 19th the following night in Chicago in his 20th game and then added his 20th the following Thursday in Detroit.&ldquo;He hasn&rsquo;t missed many scoring chances this season,&rdquo; said coach Toe Blake in a bit of an understatement. &#9632;

Moore Running Equal To Rocket’s 50

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The Rangers came to life last week and took five out of a possible six points. Leading the Blues to their best week of the season was their number one blaster Andy Bathgate.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04304/2130134-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="281" height="430"></div>Bathgate, playing some of the greatest hockey of his career scored five goals and added one assist in a 14 goal barrage In three games by the Blues.The Rangers crawled out of the NHL basement by defeating the Boston Bruins twice last week. They defeated the Bruins 6-3 in New York Wednesday, November 23 and Andy triggered a &lsquo;Hat Trick&rsquo;.On Thursday night back In Boston Andy banged in another pair as the New Yorkers whipped the Bostonians 5-3.Last Sunday night in New York the Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks played to a 3-3 draw. Andy picked up a single assist.The big right winger now has a total of 14 goals and 12 assists for 26 points in 22 games. He&rsquo;s worked his way up to fifth In the league.Andy, a groat golfer during the off-season could make this the best season of his eighth year NHL career. His best season came In 1958-59 when he scored 40 goals and added 48 assists for 88 points. &#9632;

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Player - of - the - Week

<h2>&lsquo;RED&rsquo; SEES 200 CLUB AHEAD</h2>A 32 goal year by Len &lsquo;Rod&rsquo; Kelly of the Toronto Maple Loafs will put him into the 200 goal club. When the season started, Kelly has scored 168 goals In 864 games. This is an amazing record considering over 75 percent of those games were played by &lsquo;Red&rsquo; as a defenseman for Detroit.<h2>HULL CLOSES IN ON 100 CLUB</h2>If everything goes well for Chicago&rsquo;s Bobby Hull this season he will hit the 100 goal mark in the NHL. Ho started the year with 70 to his credit. Ho had played 210 games and scored over half of them last season when ho led the league in scoring with 39 goals and 42 assists for 81 pointe.<h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Games Of Sun., Nov. 27)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01540/2130103-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="622" height="2880"></div><h3>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02471/2130096-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="597" height="536"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03387/2130089-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="592" height="162"></div><h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Wed., A.M., Nov. 30)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05241/2130082-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="594" height="197"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23</h3>Boston 3 st Now York 6Boston &mdash; Goal &mdash; Gamble, defense : Smith, Erickson, Flaman, Boivin; forwards; Horvath, Stasiuk, Bucyk, Bums, Ouellette, Labine, McKenney, Tessier, Mohns, Toppazxini, Gendron, Batlett, O&rsquo;Ree.New York &mdash; Goal &mdash; Worsley; defense : Morrison, Howell, Gadsby, Johns, Fontinato, Spencer, Hanna; forwards : Hannigan, Sullivan, Bathgate, Ingarfield, Hebenton, Wilson, Prentice, Schinkel, Henry, Hampson.Referee : Bufley; linesmen &mdash; Hayes, Friday.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06200/2130075-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="581" height="334"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07167/2130068-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="583" height="292"></div><h3>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24</h3>Montreal 1 st Detroit 3Montreal &mdash; Goal: Plante; defense : Harvey, Langlois, Johnson, Turner, Talbot; forwards : Beliveau, Geoffrion, Tremblay, Backstrom, Hicke, Moore, Provost, Richard, Bonin, Goyette, Marshall, A. Pronovost.Detroit &mdash; Goal: Bassen; defense ; Goegan, M. Pronovost, Reaume, Godfrey, Odrowski; forwards : Ullman, Howe, Delvecchio, Oliver, Aldcom, Fonteyne, Melnyk, Glover, Smith, Johnson, Macdonald, Lunde.Referee : Frank Udvari, linesman : George Armstrong, Art Skov.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-08141/2130061-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="583" height="344"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-09118/2130054-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="585" height="167"></div>Toronto 1 at Chicago 2Toronto &mdash; Goal: Bower; defense Brewer, Baun, Stanley, Hillman; forwards: Kelly, Nevin, Mahovlich, Pulford, Stewart, Olmstead, Keon, Armstrong, Duff, Harris, Shack.Chicago &mdash; Goal: Hall; defense : Evans, St. Laurent. Pilote, Vasko, Arbour; forwards : Litzenberger, Nesterenko, Murphy, Hay, M. Balfour, Hull, Mikita, McDonald, Wharram, Fleming, E. Balfour, Sloan.Referee: John Ashley; linesmen: Hon Wick. Bill Morrison.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-10102/2130047-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="590" height="500"></div>New York $ at Boston 3New York &mdash; Goal : Worsley; defense : Morrison, Howell, Gadsby, Johns, Hanna, Fontinato; forwards : Sullivan, Hannigan, Bathgate. Ingarheld, Hebenton, Wilson, Hampson, Prentice, Schinkel, Henry.Boston &mdash; Goal : Gamble; defense : Fiaman, Erickson, Boivin, Smith, Mohns; forwards ; Horvath, Bucyk, Labine, Mc-Kenney, Stasiuk. Gendron, Toppazzini, Bartlett, Burns. Ouellette, Tessier, O&rsquo;Ree.Referee : Powers; linesmen : Hayes, Friday.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01539/2130040-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="586" height="517"></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26</h3>Chicago 2 at Montreal 4Chicago &mdash; Goal : Hall; defense : St Laurent, Evans, Arbour, Pilote, Vasko, Fleming; forwards : Litzenberger, Nesterenko, Murphy, Hay, Hull, M. Balfour, Sloan, McDonald, Wharram, Mikita, E. Balfour.Montreal &mdash; Goal : Hodge; defense : Harvey, Langlois, Johnson, Talbot, Turner; forwards : Richard, Moore, Bonin, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Tremblay, Goyette, Provost, Pronovost, Marshall, Hickie, Backatrom<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02468/2130033-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="582" height="546"></div>Detroit 3 at Toronto 3Toronto &mdash; Goal &mdash; Bower; defense : Brewer Baun, Hillman, Stanley; forwards: Mahovlch, Kelly, Nevin, Duff, Armstrong, Keon Harris, Olmstead, Pulford, Shack, Martin.Detroit &mdash; Goal : Sawchuk; defense : Goagan Pronovost, Reaume, Godfrey, Odrowski; forwards : MacDonald, Oliver, Howe, Ullman, Delvecchio, Glover. Aidcorn Fonteyns, Melnyk, Smith, Johnson, Lunde.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03391/2130026-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="581" height="543"></div><h3>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27</h3>Montreal 3 at Boston 0Metreel. &mdash; Goal : Hodge: defense : Harvey, &ldquo;Turner, Johnson, Talbot, Lanclois; forwards : Beliveau, Geoffrion, Tremblay, Richard Hicke, Moore, Goyette, Pronovost, Marshall, Hicke, Backatrom.Boston &mdash; Goal : Gamble; defense : Pieman, Mohns, Smith, Erickson, Boivin; forwards ; Horvath, Stasiuk, Bucyk, McKenney, Toppazini, Labine, Bums, Ouellette, Bartlett Tessier, Gendron.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05222/2130019-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="579" height="455"></div>Toronto 0 ot Dotroit 2Toronto &mdash; Goal: Bower; defense : Brewer, Baun, Hillman, Stanley; forwards: Mahovlich, Kelly Nevin, Dull Armstrong, Keon, Harris, Olmstead, Pulford, Shack, Martin.Detroit &mdash; Goal : Sawchuk; defense : Goegan, Pronovost, Reaume, Godfrey, Cdrowski, forwards : Macdonald, Oliver, Howe, Ullman, Delvecchio, Glover, Aidcorn, Fonteyne, Melnyk, Smith, Johnson, Lunde.Referee : McArthur; linesmen : Wicks, Armstrong.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06175/2130012-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="576" height="361"></div>Chicogo 3 at Naw York 3Chicago &mdash; Goal : Hall; defense: Arbour, filote Vasho, Evans, Fleming, St. Laurent; forwards : M. Balfour, Sloan, Murphy, Hay, Litzenberger, McDonald, Nesterenko, Hull Wharram, E. Balfour, Mikita.New York &mdash; Goal : Worsley; defense : Howell, Godsyb, Johns, Fontinato, Hanna, Spencer; forwards : Hannigan, Sullivan, Bafngate. Hebenton, Wilson, Prentice, Schiiakel, Henry, Hampson, Cunningham, Gilbert.Referee &mdash; Udvari; linesmen &mdash; Frampton, Clulean.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07134/2130005-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="578" height="587"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;The Cleveland Barons continued to hold down second place in the American Hockey league last week as they won three and lost one. Outstanding in the Barons efforts was tall Ron Attwell, the six foot 185 right winger. Last week Ron scored four goals and added four assists for eight points.Playing on a line with Freddie Glover and Bill Dineen, Attwell accounted for at least one goal in each Baron game. He scored once when the Barons lost 7-3 to Springfield.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01525/2130165-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="281" height="462"></div>He picked up his second goal of the week as they beat Hershey 4-2 on Friday night.On Saturday night he scored another goal and added two assists in a 6-4 defeat of Buffalo.Last Sunday night he duplicated his Saturday night effort of a goal and two assists as the Barons took the measure of the Rochester Americans 4-2.Attwell, who hails from Humber Summit, Ontario, is 25 years of age. He stated his career in the Montreal organization. He played for the Montreal Royals, was sent to Providence, Three Rivers, Shawinigan, Rochester. Spokane, Chicoutimi and Spokane. Last season was his best in pro hockey. He scored 20 goals and added 34 assists for 54 points for the Spokane club of the Western Hockey League. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;Stan Smrke, the American Hockey League&rsquo;s All-Star left wing and the loop&rsquo;s leading goal scorer last season with 40, saw his chances to repeat both feats crushed here early on the night of November 18.Smrke turned at the Providence blueline, collided not too hard with a pair of Reds, then fell to the ice. His left knee had been hit from the side and the ligamente were torn.The injury, which happened after only 17 seconds of action, will keep the veteran winger on the sidelines for about six weeks.With Smrks off to his best start since turning pro in 1951, the ligament injury is a serious blow to the Rochester Americans&rsquo; playoff hopes.The 32 year-old native of Belgrade, Yuoslavia, had 10 goals in the Amerks&rsquo; initial 17 starts this season. Stan had only six for the first 15 games last year when he wound up with an AHL leading total of 40.Smrke, whose 70 goals are the most any player ever has scored while wearing a Rochester uniform (he had 20 here in 1957-58 and 40 last season), had his leg put in a cast on the 19th and now is resting at his Toronto home. He probably won&rsquo;t rejoin the Americans for game duty until after the first of the year &mdash; meaning he&rsquo;ll miss at least 17 starts.The loss of Smrke broke up a line that threatened to become one of the top combinations in the American League. Big Hank Ciesla was centering Stan and rookie John MacMillan &mdash; a trio that was improving every game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02498/2130196-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="565" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body">HobblingStan Smrke</figcaption></div>With Smrke out, McMillan shifted from right wing to left and Jim Pappin, recalled from Sudbury when Toronto made the two-for-one deal with New York that cost the American Pat Hannigan and Johnny Wilson was put on the right side. Top line with Rochester now is the Vet Line &mdash; Dave Creighton at center between Gerry Ehman and Duke Edmundson. The three former National Leaguers fit together nicely and collected a total of seven goals in the first three games as a unit.Edmundson, in particular, skated better after Ehman&rsquo;s arrival from Toronto on the 12th. The Duke, who joined the Amerks on Oct. 15, had only one goal and two assists in the 11 games B.E. (Before Ehman). With Ehman on the line, Edmundson spurted for four goals and an assist in the next three games. Creighton picked up a goal and four assists, and Ehman two goal and one assists for the same span. &#9632;

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Amerks Get Sad News—Smrke Gone Six Weeks

<h2>COTE TIES PIMS RECORD</h2>Rookie defenseman Roger Cote of Rochester tied the American Hockey league single game penalty minute record on November 13 against Cleveland, when he was assessed 33 minutes. His sentences included 4 minors, a major, a ten minute misconduct and a game misconduct. Another former Rochester player, Murray Balfour now with Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League is the co-holder of the 33 minute record.<h2>INDIANS OUTSCORE FOES 2-1</h2>After the game of Saturday, November 19, the league loading Springfield Indiana enjoyed the largest spread in many seasons between goals scored and goals allowed. Ono surpassed the other by better than 2 to 1, as the Indians had tallied 99 goals themselves, while permitting the opposition only 41. The Indians wore scoring at an average of 5.21 goals per game, while their defensive average was 2.16.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Tues., A.M., Nov. 29)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03444/2130297-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="590" height="214"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Games Of Sun., Nov. 27)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04379/2130290-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="592" height="400"></div><h3>TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22</h3>Providence 5 it Quebec 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05303/2130283-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="580" height="490"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23</h3>Rochester 3 at Buffalo 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06262/2130276-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="577" height="564"></div><h3>Cleveland 3 at Springfield 7</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07237/2130269-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="576" height="680"></div><h3>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24</h3>Providence 5 at Quebec 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08222/2130262-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="572" height="680"></div><h3>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25</h3>Buffalo 4 at Rochester 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09216/2130255-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="579" height="700"></div>Hershey 2 at Cleveland 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10201/2130248-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="574" height="641"></div>Springfield 3 at Providence 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11175/2130241-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="577" height="533"></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26</h3>Buffalo 4 at Cleveland 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-12141/2130234-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="577" height="721"></div>Hershey 2 at Springfield 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-13126/2130227-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="582" height="789"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LAEGUE

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-08107/2130328-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="568" height="737"><figcaption class="caption-body">Swift StarterRay Kinasewich</figcaption></div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Ray Kinasewich, a sophomore performer in the American Hockey League, is well on his way to a great season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04299/2130335-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="227" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">John McKenzie</figcaption></div>The 27-year-old right winger from Smokey Lake, Alta., had nailed 13 goals through the first 20 games, which placed him right on the heels of the league leaders.Kinasewich, who hit for 24 last season, should top this mark without much trouble &mdash; barring injury &mdash; and easily could close out a 30 goal scorer.Prior to being obtained by Hershey from Edmonton, the 5-9, 175-pound forward, showed he had the scoring touch while skating in the Western circuit.In six WHL seasons he scored 117 goals, helped set-up 114 more for 231 points in 275 games.&ldquo;One of the big reasons for Ray getting off to a great start,&rdquo; said coach Frank Mathers, &ldquo;is he has been going in deeper and he&rsquo;s catching rebounds. At the same time he&rsquo;s getting position on the goalie.&rdquo;Much of the credit for Kinase-wich&rsquo;s excellent showing can be attributed to his linemates, Claude Laforge and center Willie Marshall.The Bears have been playing in and out hockey through the early part of the schedule, but. Mathers feels his outfit will be around when the Calder Cup playoffs are contested next Spring.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been improving as we go along we&rsquo;ve played some very good hockey at times,&rdquo; said Mathers.Hershey&rsquo;s best streak of the season was from Nov. 5 tol6 when the club won four out of five games.The parent Detroit Red Wings came through with a helping hand, assigning winger John McKenzie to the Bears. The stocky performer notched three goals within a ten day span.Furthermore, McKenzie&rsquo;s defensive play has given the club a lift. The young forward is a good checker and a fine skater.Mathers moved him in on a line with Les Duff and Mike Nykoluk and since their formation, the trio have combined for 12 points. &#9632;

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Kinasewich’s Start Adds Rosey Outlook To Bears Big Line

<div class="byline">By BUSTER CLEGG</div>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;&ldquo;Who&rsquo;s in goal?&rdquo; That was the big question which the Rhode Island Reds were asking over the November 19-20 weekend!Three startling developments took place over the hectic weekend: (1) Bruce Gamble, regular Reds&rsquo; netminder, was summonsed to help the sagging Bruins in Boston, (2) Don Simmons, Gamble&rsquo;s promised replacement, went incommunicado and balked his new assignment, and (3) the Reds recalled rookie Ed Giacomin from the New York Rovers, still not knowing if Simmons would report.The latter development turned out to be the Reds&rsquo; solution, for Giacomin was forced into action over the weekend, and turned in two sensational games for the goal-desperate Roosters.It all began on Friday when the Bruins recalled Gamble to bolster the Bruins &lsquo;netminding problems. Gamble was to report to the Hub on Saturday and thus he was allowed to play for the Providence six in Rochester Friday night.In the meantime the Reds received news that Simmons, angered at apparently being made &ldquo;goat&rdquo; of the Bruins&rsquo; problems, went into hibernation in his Agawam, Mass, home with the statement that he refused to report to the Rhody capitol.With this news in the wind, General Manager Terry Reardon gave the hurry-up call to the Reds-own-ed Giacomin in Comack, Long Island, and the 21 year old goalie was on his way to meet the club in Buffalo on Saturday night.Even a few hours before game time the Reds held out hope that the reluctant Simmons might change heart and show at the Buffalo Memorial. However, when it became apparent that Don was sticking to his guns, Giacomin, who had played only two pro games previously, was forced into action by the turn of developments.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1067/2130397-1-eng-US/f0010-102.jpg" title="f0010-10" width="592" height="884"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fills Red GapEd Giacomin</figcaption></div>Giacomin turned out to be a sensation over the weekend, for he gained a split for the Reds, who had lost three in a row before his arrival.On Saturday in Buffalo he turned in a brilliant 38 stop effort, although he was beaten by the rejuvenated Bisons, 4-0. Many of his saves were difficult, and glowing reports came from the Memorial about his performance.Sunday the Reds returned home to face the vastly improved Quebec Aces. Thanks to Giacomin, who turned away 44 Quebec tries, the Reds won it in overtime by a 4-3 margin, Ed MacQueen getting the clincher.Considered a top-flight prospect for future years, Giacomin is a slender, thin-faced youngster with plenty of time to develop into a fine goaltender.He was signed by the Reds in the 1958-59 season while he was playing amateur hockey in the Owen Sound, Ont. area. The Reds sent him to Washington in the Eastern Amateur League, then their farm, to finish out that season.Last year he divided his time between the Clinton Comets and New York Rovers, but this season he has been the lone goaltender for the Comack club.In two other professional appearances with the Reds, one last year and one this, Giacomin also turned in creditable jobs. In the final game of &rsquo;59-60, Ed defeated the Bisons 5-4 while kicking out 41. This year against Cleveland he again made 41, only to lose 3-1. &#9632;

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Don’s Nix Puts Rook In Rooster Spotlite

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div>CLEVELAND.O&mdash;When Wayne Howard Larkin was a youngster of seven romping around his home in Winnipeg. Manitoba, a fellow named Calvin Pearly Gardner was already an established hockey star of the New York Rangers of hockey&rsquo;s major league.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0983/2130366-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="266" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jackie Gordon</figcaption></div>Little Wayne Larkin was yet too young to read the sports pages in 1945 when piano playing Harry Truman was President of the United States and Max Bentley won the scoring title of the National Hockey League.He was certainly unaware that a fellow named Gardner in 16 games with the New York Rangers had already caught the eye of hockey observers everywhere by notching eight goals.And the next winter, when Wayne Larkin was still just a drippynosed kid playing shinny with a tin can on the corner lot and in the third grade at a Winnipeg public school, Gardner waa scoring 13 goals and 16 assists in 52 games with a Ranger club that finished last in the championship race.But now, in December of 1960, that same youngster named Larkin is teamed up as the linemate of that same veteran named Gardner and between them could lie the answer to whatever success is achieved by the Cleveland Barons this year.On Gardner, who says he is 35, hangs a great deal of the hope of Coach Jackie Gordon in holding together a chib that has gone to the post this season with a bushel of question snarks.Last summer, when the chance of acquiring Gardner seemed bright, Gordon waa elated.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the kind of player that could pull our club together,&rdquo; declared Gordon. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s smart, knows how to work with the youngsters, and is still a fine hockey player&rdquo;.After the Barons&rsquo; first 20 games of the season, Gordon had no reason to regret his enthusiasm. Gardner had seven goals and nine assists and stood third highest in the roster of Cleveland players.Gordon had started the season with Gardner as the playmaker for his veteran flankers, Bill Dineen and Capt. Fred (No Kid) Glover. This unit proved to be the big gun of the Cleveland attack but Gordon was faced with the task of finding the fuse on his other units. His verdict was to shift Gardner to the center post between Eddie (Spider) Mazur, a fleet left-wing who swarms down ice looking much like the entire flank of a cavalry charge, and Larkin, taking his first dip in the professional skating pool.But Gardner, the lean native of Transcona, Manitoba, who now makes his home in Toronto, is this agent&rsquo;s choice as the vital man of the Cleveland hockey club this term. As has been pointed out in previous essays in these pages, Gordon will have to make headway the hard way in this race. He has a half-dozen rookies who will take time to indoctrinate. He has some ageing veterans such as Glover, Mazur, Cal Stearns and Goalie Gil Mayer who must remain injury-free.Gardner&rsquo;s wisdom, his coolness under fire, his ability to handle the puck as a veteran playmaker &mdash; these are all vital in the Barons&rsquo; future efforts.If the job can be done from thefury of the conflict on the ice, Gardner should be a good bet to do it. He&rsquo;s like a second coach for the Barons. As Commander-in-Chief Jackie Gordon does his plotting from the side boards, Gardner can be a mighty comforting factor on the ice.Last year, Cal was the playingcoach of the Kingston, Ontario club. He scored 32 goals and 61 assists in a circuit that is not exactly a romper room.Previously, he had served as playing-coach of the Springfield Indians (1957-58). &#9632;

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Old Man Gardner, Rook Larkin Hold Key To Baron Door

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div>SEATTLE, Wash &mdash;Keith Allen can&rsquo;t suppress a shudder whenever he thinks how things might be if Rudy Filion had made his retirement stick a few years back.Year after year, it is Guyle Fielder who grabs all the headlines &hellip; and not without merrit.Whoever is assigned to Fielder&rsquo;s flanks soon blossoms into a prodigious scorer. The Fonteynes, Kinasewiches and McVies are among those who come to mind.Yet precious few hockey clubs can log much championship time, going along with just one line.That&rsquo;s where Filion comes in, even though he has been in the shadow of the Great One for these many years.His wingmen have come along a fair piece, too, since they were married up with of Rodolphe. Marc Boileau came to the Totems an unheralded rookie of 26 two seasons ago. He scored 17 goals in his freshman season, jumped to 32 last year, and at this writing was top goal-getter in the Western League this time around.Bill MacFarland was an Edmonton Flyer castoff after being widely touted following the graduation of the native Torontonian from University of Michigan. Allen converted him from a centreman to a wingman, as he did with Boileau, and since then MacFarland can be counted on regularly for the vicinity, of 35 goals a year.Mind you, defensive hockey isn&rsquo;t the long suit of this attacking unit, made up of sometimes-centremen, but they score enough goals to more than make up this deficiency.Filion was the only one of the three whom Allen kept in his native centre ice slot, and it has paid dividends.Rudy, a 33-year-old veteran of Cornwall, Ont., seems to improve with age. But nobody might ever have found that out if Seattle didn&rsquo;t come back into pro hockey after sitting out the 1954-55 season.When the Seattle operation of the early &lsquo;50&rsquo;s came to the end of the line, most of the players scattered to the four winds. Not so, Mr. Filion.He had been out there in the Seattle area for a long while, and nobody was going to move him out. Even before turning pro with Seattle in 1948, he had been playing amateur hockey with nearby Tacoma Rockets before the Pacific Coast League went honest.Filion had an out-of-season job in Seattle, and he refused to giv it up. He quit hockey six years a rather than look for a new spc to sink his roots into.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01536/2130428-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="553" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sizzling IronmanRudy Filion</figcaption></div>But a year later, new capital was uncovered to refinance the Seattle franchise, and at 28, Rudy put on the blades again.This happened to be one of the best things to happen to managercoach Keith Allen, who was into the twilight of his playing career before he escaped from Springfield and had a shot with the Detroit Red Wings as an insurance defenceman in the club&rsquo;s last Stanley Cup triumph.Seemingly getting better as he goes along, Filion had his best scoring year of his career last season with 36 goals and 49 assists.It&rsquo;s apparently not the time for the pendulum to start on its return course, either, because when the season was six weeks along, Filion made big news hereabouts.Fielder was no longer in the league lead in the points race, which just doesn&rsquo;t happen out here with eyebrows shooting up on all sides. Mr. Filion had gone out in front, and was making gestures as if he meant to stay on the head end. &#9632;

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Ancient Rudy Jumps To Top Of WHL Heap

<h2>HAT TRICKS</h2>Only one &ldquo;Hat Trick&rdquo; was turned in last week. Rookie Bert Fixxell, of Victoria, scored three times against Edmonton Friday night November 18, in Victoria, He was the first rookie to get the Hat Trick this year. Bob Solinger, of Edmonton and Ron Leopold, of Calgary, lead with two each.<h2>GOALKEEPERS</h2>Vancouver Goalkeepers load the individuals in keeping the puck out of the net. Ray Mikulan in 4 games has a goals against average of 2.25 and George Woods in 7 games has allowed 2.42 goals per game. Cesare Maniago, of Spokane, had the only shut-out of the week blanking Calgary 5-0 Sunday afternoon November 20, in Spokane.<h3>TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15</h3>Spokane 2 at Portland 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02490/2130571-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="576" height="104"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03417/2130564-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="571" height="379"></div>Edmonton 1 at Vancouver 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04341/2130557-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="579" height="412"></div>Seattle 1 at Winnipeg 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05290/2130550-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="577" height="360"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16</h3>Edmonton 3 at Portland 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06260/2130543-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="574" height="386"></div>Seattle 4 at Winnipeg 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07237/2130536-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="572" height="490"></div><h3>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17</h3>Winnipeg 3 at Calgary 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08228/2130529-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="574" height="439"></div><h3>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18</h3>Edmonton 3 at Victoria 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10197/2130522-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="577" height="545"></div>Seattle 2 at Vancouver 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11172/2130515-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="580" height="315"></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19</h3>Edmonton 2 at Seattle 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12159/2130508-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="576" height="598"></div>Calgary 3 at Spokane 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-13135/2130501-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="585" height="235"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-14107/2130494-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="573" height="141"></div><h3>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20</h3>Victoria 2 at Portland 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1661/2130487-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="587" height="548"></div>Edmonton 1 at Seattle 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1748/2130480-1-eng-US/f0011-172.jpg" title="f0011-17" width="581" height="414"></div>Calgary 0 at Spokane 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1840/2130473-1-eng-US/f0011-182.jpg" title="f0011-18" width="590" height="386"></div><h3>The Point Parade</h3>(Standings On Tues., A.M., Nov. 22)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09218/2130466-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="588" height="247"></div><h3>How The Race Goes</h3>(Including Games Of Sun., Nov. 20)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1586/2130459-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="591" height="503"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div>JOHNSTOWN, Pa.&mdash;Hockey fans in this Pennsylvania town are busily planning a night for their local idol, captain Don Hall of the Jets. The 30-year-old native of Toronto is currently playing his tenth season with the local sextet.Among Don&rsquo;s achievements are winning the scoring championships of bobth the Eastern and International Hockey League (1957-58 and 1953-54 respectively), eight straight years as an all-star (either first or second team) and being holder of the EHL&rsquo;s all-time record for most goals, assists and total points.Hall, who now makes his home in Johnstown with his wife and children, joined the EHL club in 1951-52 after playing one season with Toledo Mercurys of the EHL. He has been with the Jets ever since (except for a two game hitch with Rochester of the AHL last winter).November 23rd has been designated as &ldquo;Don Hall Night&rdquo; and a more deserving player and grand guy has never laced on blades in this league.Don works as an investment broker in Johnstown during the off-season.CHARLOTTE &mdash; Checkers picked up veteran Marcel Clements follow, ing his release by New Haven and dropped Jacques Allard&hellip; Club has won last four games, two each from Greensboro and New Haven &hellip; Bill Sinnett had two goals and pair of assists in 6-5 win at Greensboro, Nov. 12 &hellip; Wimpy Jones scored twice in Nov. 15 win over Blades.CLINTON &mdash; Comets have added former NHL Jean Paul Lamirande &hellip; Chuck Blair paced 5-2 victory over Jersey, Nov. 18, with two goals and assists &hellip; Club trails New Haven by five points in race for Northern Division lead &hellip; Leon Bouchard starring on defence again this season&hellip; Skip Teal leads Comets in scoring and Is third in league.GREENSBORO &mdash; Generals drew 6011 for Nov. 12 game with Charlotte &hellip; Billy Forhan leaves club this week for trip to Russia with Chatham Maroons &hellip; Due back in three weeks&hellip; Billy and Bobby Forhan share team scoring lead &hellip; Pierre Samsan released &hellip; Les Lilley top goal getter for Gens with nine.JOHNSTOWN &mdash; Jets dropped defenseman Ted Lebodia and left wing Stan Parker and added former Spokane Comet Buddy Bodman &hellip; Seven different players scored in 7-2 win over Rovers, Nov. 18&hellip; Coach Steve Brklacich and Philly&rsquo;s Garry Luyben fought in Nov. 13 contest &mdash; draw.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02431/2130633-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="533" height="548"><figcaption class="caption-body">To Be HonoredDon Hall</figcaption></div>JERSEY &mdash; Larks rallied for two third period goals after trailing 5-0, but still bowed to Clinton, 5-2, Nov. 18 &hellip; Team has lost six of last seven games &hellip; Don Labelle home in Montreal for treatment of Injured knee &hellip; Jerry Stringle is now playing center on line with Danny Patrick and Steve Kuzma. This trio is Jersey&rsquo;s lone scoring threat.NEW HAVEN &mdash; Jack Ropers injured shoulder in Nov. 15 game at Charlotte and returned home for treatment&hellip; Fern Bernaquez injured knee ond sat out Nov. 17 game at Greensboro, leaving Blades with 11 players&hellip; Jerry Casey scored winning goal with 33 seconds remaining at New York, Nov. 13. 4-3 game.NEW YORK &mdash; Rovers dropped Alf Cadman and picked up Jacques Allard from Charlotte &hellip; Ike Scott and Sam Gregory scorers in 7-2 loss to Jets, Nov. 18&hellip; Claude Vinet scored his first two goals of season at New Haven, Nov. 12. Scott and Serge Beaudreault also scored &hellip; Scott, Beaudreault and Don Atamanchuk scorers in Nov. 13 game.PHILADELPHIA &mdash; Ramblers ran winning streak to six before bowing to Jets in Johnstown, Nov. 13, 6-2 &hellip; Blinky Boyce acting captain while Hugh Campbell in on injured list&hellip; Art Hart scored winner in 4-3 win at Johnstown, Nov. 12. Stan Parker and Boyce also scored in come-from-behind verdict.&hellip; Line of Chuck Stuart, Parker and Boyce among league&rsquo;s top scorers. &#9632;

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Johnstown Fans Plan Night For Don Hall

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;St. Catharines Teepees, Memorial Cup champions in 1959-60, were dealt a severe blow to their 1960-61 hopes with the resignation, through illness of Coach Max Kaminsky.Kaminsky, a former National Hockey League player with Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins, led the Teepees to the Canadian junior hockey championship last season in his first term as a iunior coach.In ill health even during the playoffs last spring, Kaminsky was confined to the Buffalo General Hospital last week with a severe case of pleurisy and informed Teepee Owner-Manager Rudy Pilous that he would be unable to continue.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04235/2130664-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="257" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Max Kaminsky</figcaption></div>The Teeps were handled for a week by a St. Catharines minor hockey coach Vic Teal, a man who also coached the old St. Catharines junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Falcons in the 1946-47 season.However Teal, due to his position as engineer at Garden City Arena was unable to accept the coaching position on a fulltime basis and both Pilous and Black Hawk Manager Tommy Ivan are now screening candidates to fill the vacancy caused by Kaminsky&rsquo;s retirement.Biggest news outside of Kaminsky&rsquo;s resignation in Ontario junior hockey is the signs of revival in the camp of the Hamilton Tiger Cubs.In last place, and out of the playoffs the past two seasons, the Cubs under Coach Eddie Bush held the strong Peterborough Petes to two draws within three nights and vacated the cellar for the first time this season.Sinking to the bottom were the Toronto Marlboros, pennant-winners last year and a team which misses the rugged defence work of Roger Cote who graduated to the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League.Leading the Hamilton surge has been their forward line punch of Bob Dillabough and Lowell MacDonald.Both players are rated highly in the future plans of the sponsoring Detroit Red Wings and could be the means of lifting the Hamilton club into a contending position in Ontario junior hockey.At the other end of the league the scramble is still on for the top five positions.Niagara Falls Flyers, with an average of more than 3,000 fans a game giving then tremendous moral support, are tied with Guelph Royals in first place while Peterborough is just one point behind in third place and St Michael&rsquo;s and St. Catharines are another point oback in fourth.There is an equally torrid race on for the individual points scoring championship.Wayne Boddy, an Owen Sound boy playing with Peterborough and Murray Hall from Kirkland Lake who plays with St. Catharines, are tied for the lead each with 21 points.Wayne Rutledge of Niagara Falls holds a slim edge over Jerry Cheevers of St Michael&rsquo;s in the goals-against battle among the goaltenders. &#9632;

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Junior Champs Hunt New Leader, Illness Sidelines Kaminsky

(On Thurs.. A.M., Nov. 24)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05158/2130726-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="591" height="220"></div> &#9632;

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OHA JUNIOR ‘A’ STANDINGS

<div class="byline">By KAYE CORBETT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01518/2130602-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="538" height="570"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pivot BeautyNorm Johnson</figcaption></div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;With grid iron fever gripping the nation&rsquo;s heart-strings, strong meh like Lloyd Turner and &lsquo;Guy Kyle can be excused for shedding a few tears.Each year, the WHL (tabbed Woeful Heart League) has sent up a cry of agony from operators in centres the likes of Winnipeg, Calgarry, Vancouver and Edmonton (The Good) as the football barons successfully lure the.fans into their confines.Among the wailers are Turner and Kyle. However, Stampede Corral manager Mr. Turner Reoks on the scene philosophically remarking. &ldquo;After the Grey Cup the fans will return. So why get ulcers.&rdquo;Coach Le Gusso, meanwhile, could get ulcers just thinking too much.There&rsquo;s the attendance &ldquo;factor but this takes a back seat to a recent report from his boss, Tommy Ivan of the Chicago Blaek Hawks.The item read: Norm Johnson in on immediate recall to Chicago.Remember Norm. He used to play the center ice lanes for both the Boston Bruins and Hawks. But since coming out to the West, last season, he&rsquo;s been touted as the best rootin tootin centre in the whole dab WHL.And that&rsquo;s something pudner, considering the fact, Seattle Totems have a guy named Guyte Fielder. And what&rsquo;s more, Calgary fans are slowly forgetting the Quiet Man Eddie Derohoy.Right now the Hawks-are swinging along at a merry, pace oplaying tag with the Canadiens. Still Johnson could get the call at any moment.So where would this leave the Stamps? Well, frankly, in a pretty sorry state.Now that he&rsquo;s overcome an attitude problem, he&rsquo;s mean&rsquo;t to the Stamps what Mr. Howe does to the Red Wings or Kelly to Toronto.He&rsquo;s the clutch player and a brilliant stick-handler, penalty-killer and goal-scorer to boot.If Hawks should call, Kyle would be on the phone in a hurry to find a replacement and then a considerable amount of juggling lines.He knows he still has Finney-should Norm go, but reports say Kyle has been on a steady milk diet for the past two weeks.Slap shots : Hockey in general lags in the promotional angle and especially in the WHL &hellip; Too bad the game hadn&rsquo;t a Bill Veeck or two &hellip; Chick Baton, high scoring forward with Flin Flon Bombers last season has been tabbed for the Spokane Comets &hellip; He&rsquo;s presently toiling with the Vancouver Canuck &hellip; Speaking of Art Chapman&rsquo;s boys, there having problems in the goal-tending dept: Ray Mikulan and rookie George Wood have seen action and the next &lsquo;stopper&rsquo; likely will be 27-year-old Claude Evans from Kitchener of the EPHL &hellip; Evans moved out to leave a spot for Olympic hero Jack MacCartan &hellip; Calgary&rsquo;s Ron (Squeak) Leopold is giving Seattle&rsquo;s Rudy Filion a run for his money in the scoring derby. &#9632;

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Hawks Keep Eye On Johnson, Gus Crosses Fingers

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;They were not exactly complacent. Royals were just feeling that better days and nights were around the corner. They had gone through five of their games in the hinterlands to the Forum with an even break. They had played .500 hockey on the road picking up exactly five of ten possible points.One to go of a six game safari in foreign fields with Kingston Frontenacs in the Limestone City.Then, zowie ! They got clobbered 7-4 with Dick Meissner, recent acquisition from the NHL Boston Bruins on a scoring binge. He fired four counters into the net guarded by little Charlie Hodge. This was indeed a rough setback for the champs of the 1959-60 campaign, and first holders of the Tom Foley Memorial Trophy.It had been Royals big hope to polish off those Frontenacs and make it a very auspicious road trip, so that they would be all set to get back on the winning trail as they opened up a four game set back in the Forum.The Montreal EPHLers had been absent from their own bailiwick for more than two weeks, consequent to some lop-sided scheduling due to a long booking of the Ice Capades and other major attractions in the Forum.Come to think of it the two top teams as of last Ides of March are having a rough-go in the first two months of the bookings in the Houston circuit.While Royals have been running last steadily, Sudbury Wolves the team that Floyd Curry&rsquo;s crew nosed out in the seven game final series that went the full limit last Spring, have been jockeying between fifth and fourth, at rare times holding down the third rung, most of the early laps.And up in the Nickey Belt the malcontents among the customers have been holding their knives ready to apply same to the scalp of Murph Chamberlain.Sudbury scribes have been hinting quite broadly that if the Wolves don&rsquo;t start howling a winning tune very soon there might be deep thinking about a new coach. Those who feel they are in the know, however, discount such stories as pure broccoli. It is felt that Chamberlain has the inside track with Ted Hill, the chief stock-holder of the Sudbury Hockey Club, hence the gent who pays the bills and makes the decisions.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01515/2130757-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="523" height="849"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rookie RageWayne Connelly</figcaption></div>In Montreal there have been no alarms of similar nature over the status of Floyd Curry. The high command of Montreal Canadiens has made it known more than once that the Royals&rsquo; operation is conducted with the primary objective of player development. It&rsquo;s recognized of course that if the EPHL team making its home in the Forum can make a worthy showing, and hence attract a fair turnout to its games, it can do much towards paying for its keep. But the improvement of talent comes first.A good sign has been the steady production of Wayne Connelly, the former Peterborough junior, who showed 11 goals last audit from EPHL headquarters in Ottawa.At that time only Buddy Boone, of Kingston, and Fred Hilts of the Soo, with 14 each; Eddie Kachur, Soo, and Tom McCarthy, Sudbury, 13 each; and Cliff Schmautz, the T-Birds, with 12 tallies, were superior marksmen to Royals hustling young right-winger. And high in the assist column at 19 was pintsized Skippy Burchell of Royals, the marvel of the ages.Burchell&rsquo;s stamina and polished performance as a playmaker deluxe year after year is one of the marvels of minor professional hockey.With players like defenceman Jim Roberts, forwards Reggie Grigg, Joe Szura, Walter Bradley, Gary Mork and Guy Black steadily increasing their output Curry and his chief, G.M. Frank Carlin, have good reason for slowly fattening their optimism.Getting back to Dick Meissner it&rsquo;s interesting to toss the figures around. When he bagged four markers against Royals in that one game, Nov. 23, in Kingston, he fired more tallies in the one outing than he had completed in his previous nine. Since he joined the Kingston forces.And up in Sudbury columnist Bob Scott drew attention to the fact that when Sam Bettio scored a second period against Royals, Sam made it 250 tallies in his pro career with Hershey, Boston, Buffalo and Sudbury. &#9632;

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Curry Spots Ray Of Sunshine Brought On By Connelly Thunder

<h2>BOTH GOALIES MASKED</h2>When Royals met the Wolves In Sudbury, Nov. 18, both goaters wore masks. Charlie Hodge in the Montrealers&rsquo; net wore the same typo face protector as pioneered by NHL star Jacques Plante. Al Millar, temporarily relieving Gerry McNamara in Wolves&rsquo; citadel, wore a different typo mask, invented by Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; trainer Lefty Wilson.<h2>RONSON A SPARKLER</h2>Lon Ronson sent down to Kitchener by N.Y. Rangers on the weekend of Nov. 1920 got away to a flashing start with three goals In his second outing against Sudbury, followed by two next time out against the Soo T-Birds. Thus, as K.-W. won 6-4, a Seven game unbeaten stretch by the T-Birds at the Soo was broken.<h3>TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22</h3>Kitchener 6 at Sault 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02472/2130865-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="591" height="778"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23</h3>Kitchener 8 at Sudbury 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03436/2130858-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="589" height="652"></div>Montreal 4 at Kingston 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04397/2130851-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="592" height="751"></div><h3>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24</h3>Hull 2 at Sault 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05337/2130844-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="582" height="467"></div><h3>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25</h3>Hull 6 at Sudbury 3First Period<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06289/2130837-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="577" height="632"></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26</h3>Sudbury 5 at Kingston 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08258/2130830-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="583" height="622"></div><h3>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5</h3>Sault 3 at Hull 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09248/2130823-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="367" height="79"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10237/2130816-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="589" height="562"></div>Sudbury 0 at Montreal 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12192/2130809-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="577" height="364"></div>Kingston 5 at Kitchener 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13160/2130802-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="580" height="621"></div><h3>The Point Parade</h3>(Including Games Of Sun., Nov. 27)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07274/2130795-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="595" height="358"></div><h3>How The Race Goes</h3>(Standings On Tues., A.M., Nev. 29)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11215/2130788-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="601" height="191"></div> &#9632;

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EASTERN PRO LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK THOMSON</div>FORT WILLIAM, Ont.&mdash;The Lakehead junior hockey league is off to one of its finest seasons ever, as the three clubs, Hurricanes, North Stars and Canadians are playing at mid season form. Crowds have increased from last year, and the rail birds on the Lakehead scene say its going to be a tough fight right down the wire. In the first six games of the season, three of them went into overtime &hellip;Jack James referee in chief of the Thunder Bay held a meeting with the officials of all the senior and junior clubs to discuss the refereeing situation, and after much discussion they all agreed on eight out of the twelve officials who had been working the Lakehead games, this means that James can now only assign the eight officials picked by the club spokesmen &hellip; Barton Bradely the new head man of the Dryden Rockets, is scouting players for his club, and he seems to have lined up a couple of good prospects for their season &hellip; Red Olson, Port Arthur product who reported to the Charlotte, of the Eastern League at the start of the season, has returned home and is practicing with the senior Bearcats &hellip; Coach Moe Irving of the Port Arthur North Stars has issued orders to all his players, that any of them who suffer a misconduct penalty, will automatically receive a one game suspension &hellip; Two former Lakehead stars have been on the move in the International league, Brian McLay, who played with North Stars, has gone to Muskegon, and Connie Madigan former Bearcats is back with Fort Wayne, after a try at Cleveland &hellip; The Fort Frances Canadians may have lost two of their better defencemen from last years Western Canada championship squad, Big Bill Borlase has gone to college, and Bill Mathews, former American Leaguer, has not indicated whether he will play or not. Mathews who was an all star with the club last year, and one of their main cogs will really be missed &hellip; Carson Cook, who has officiated in the Ontario Hockey Association and the Eastern Pro circuit, has moved into the Lakehead and will probably get some work here, in the whistle toting business &hellip; Lee Fogolin who is back at the helm of the Bearcat seniors feels he is going to have a real big contender for the western senior honors this year, and if he is fortunate in landing one or two of the retiring pros he has working out with the club, he could give everyone a run-for the silverware. Warroad Lakers will be making this usual tour of American colleges this season, but Cal Marvin, the dynamo behind the Warroad club, has had to cut his extensive exhibition schedule down this year because of their entry into the Canadian senior picture &hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01511/2130896-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="256" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Con Madigan</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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News From The Lakehead

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div>KELOWNA, B.C.&mdash;Vernon Can., adians are back in the drivers seat of the Okanagan Senior Hockey League, as a result of three convincing wins in last weeks&rsquo; league action. Until then it was a battle for first place between Vernon, Penticton and Kamloops.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02413/2130927-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="285" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fred Gaber</figcaption></div>Odie Lowe and company earned first place standing, knocking off Kamloops Chiefs 4-2, Penticton Vees 6-3, and shading Kelowna Packers 6-5. Vernon has played less games than the three other clubs.In 2 games played the Vernon crew have won nine, lost three for 18 points. They lead Penticton and Kamloops, both tied for second place, by four points.Jim Middleton&rsquo;s Kelowna Packers, who came up with a big win over Penticton Vees, 7-2, in their two games last week, remain in the league basement with three wins in thirteen games.For the first time this season the league has a new leader occupying the scoring race. Penticton Vees great little left winger Walter Peacosh has been pushed out of the top spot into second place. The new leader is Freddie Gaber, who centres the high scoring Pony line of Gaber, Turple and Gannon. The 165 pound, 25-year-old sparkplug of the Chiefs has accounted for 13 goals, and a league leading 22 helpers in 12 games for 35 points. The former Medicine Hat Junior collected no less than 12 points in three games, including a nine point outburst made up of two goals and seven assists at the expense of the Kelowna Packers.The new scoring leader commenced last season with the Kamloops squad, only to revert to Senior &lsquo;B&rsquo; company after a dispute with the management.Gabers linemates Bob Gannon, and rookie Rex Turple are tied for third place each with 27 points. Gannon, a 23 year-old left winger has a league leading 19 goals, 10 markers and 17 helpers.While Hurple who came to the Chiefs from the English League has The league&rsquo;s top netminder Hal Gordon of Vernon Canadians holds a comfortable lead In the goalending race with a 3.8 goals against average in 13 games played. John Panagrot of Kamloops is next with a 4.42, followed by two Penticton netminders, Don Holmes, Art Lariviere, and Kelownas Don Moog.O.S.H.L. LEFT-OVERS &mdash; Packer blueliner Don Anderson, formerly with Kingston Frontenacs still remains on the sidelines until clearance has come through for his amateur card &hellip; Packers added two new players to their ranks. Former Packer Al Pyett has joined the defense corp, coming out of retirement, and Boris Kabatoff a local product from the minor ranks appears to have won the netminders job. In his first game Kabatoff stopped Penticton Vees 7-2. Don Moog who has been Packers regu lar netminder is one of two players in the middle of a dispute between Packers and Vees. The Kelowna club say &ldquo;No&rdquo; to a Penticton demand asking for a financial reimbursement for Moog, and say they will continue with Kataboff &hellip; Off and on again Russ Kowal-chuk, is still off and on again, Kowalchuk has not been in the Packer lineup for sometime, account &ldquo;pressure of business&rdquo;, however the big winger has appeared at two last Packer practices. &#9632;

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Vernon Canucks In OSHL Drivers Seat; Gaber Leads League

<div class="byline">By BRUCE HOGLE</div>The World Championship-bound Trail Smoke Eaters, from the waterboy to the president, have discounted a statement from Dick Warwick that Smokies will have to be strengthened by 10 ex-professionals before they compete in the World Championships.&ldquo;An utter ridiculous and stupid statement,&rdquo; exclaimed president Jim Cameron. &ldquo;Dick must be angry because we (the Smokies) turned down the offer of one of the Warwicks to play with the Smokies this year.&ldquo;I agree that we must, to a certain extent, bolster the club.and we intend to. But I think Warwick is forgetting the fact that the Yankees won the words championship last year with no super stars of any kind.&ldquo;They left the stars at home and worked at forming a compact team. We all know how successful they were and that&rsquo;s been our method.&rdquo;Cameron pointed out that Smoke Eaters have a club which is comparable with any senior club in the world.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03308/2130958-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="277" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Smith</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve won nine of our first 10 games,&rdquo; he stated, &ldquo;with the only loss being a 6-5 decision to the professional Spokane Comets. We&rsquo;ve beaten Penticton Vees twice, Kelowna Packers, Kimberley Dynamiters, Rossland Warriors and Nelson Maple Leafs.&ldquo;We have players who could turn pro tomorrow. Spokane, for instance, has been after defenceman Harry Smith; Portland has done everything to lure forward Dave Rusnel and defenceman-forward George Ferguson.&ldquo;As for additional strength, I can only say now that three former National Hockey League players have been in touch with us and want to join the club in January.&ldquo;We may not have any super stars but we do have a club which is going to bring the World Championship to Canada and that&rsquo;s what we are all interested in.&rdquo;As if to back up their president&rsquo;s claim, Smoke Eaters proceeded to down Penticton Vees for the second time this year, this time by a 6-4 score at Penticton. They previously had taken the Okanagan team 6-3 in Trail. Diminutive Pinoke McIntyre scored three goals to pace the Smokies while speedy winger Norm Lenar-don maintained his&rsquo; point-a-game pace. Lenardon has scored at least one point in all Trail games to date.Leading the scoring parade at the present time is Trail playing coach Bobby Kromm and defence man Harry Smith. Smokies dominate the scoring parade with 11 of their players in the top 13 scorers. Other top Trail point getters are Cal Hockley, Dave Rusnell, Addy Tambellini, Jerry Penner, Laurie Bursaw and Ernie Secco.Goalie Seth Martin of Trail tops all goalies with a 2.50 average.Kimberley Dynamiters agreed to the Western International Hockey League terms and are now back in the league, making it a four-team circuit, with the other members being Nelson Maple Leafs and Rossland Warriors. &#9632;

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Smokies Pour Cold Water Over Warwick’s ‘Need Aid’ Statement

<div class="byline">By HUGH TOWNSEND</div><h2>Defending Champs Pick Up Four Wins In First Weeks</h2>NEW GLASGOW, N.S.&mdash;Defending Maritime hockey champion Amherst Ramblers got off to a fast start in defence of their crown, winning their first four starts in the Nova Scotia Senior Hockey League with little difficulty.Ramblers, with another star-studded lineup to offer their fans, broke from the barrier with two victories over the Brookfield Elks, a new entry in the circuit this year. They then defeated the Halifax Wolverines and pounded New Glasgow Rangers to keep their winning streak going into the second week of action.Maurice &ldquo;Moe&rdquo; Lamirande, a native of Lac St-Jean, P.Q., who is playing his second season at left for the, Amherst club, took an early lead in the scoring race with seven goals and four assists. He registered a pair of three-goal hattricks in the first four games. A point behind with three goals and seven assists is newcomer Gilles Picard, also of the Bombers.Biggest surprise during the first week was the disappointing showing of goalie Don Uren of New Glasgow. The 25-year-old netminder from Toronto, who had been practicing with the N.H.L. Maple Leafs earlier in the season, arrived amid fanfare and press clippings that made it look like he would solve the goaltending problem that has been hurting New Glasgow for several years.However, he didn&rsquo;t pan out and was given his release after allowing 18 goals in his first two games. Local Philip Bubar, who played two games a year ago, filled in for the third tilt but allowed ten tallies. The next Ranger game, against Amherst on November 21, was postponed with league permission in order that New Glasgow has more time to import new players.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02430/2131020-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="577" height="732"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARITIME SHARPIEMoe Lamirande</figcaption></div>Meanwhile, another Ontario goalie, Ron Boomer of the Brookfield club, is playing sensational hockey for the loop&rsquo;s new entry. A native of Brampton, Boomer has had little support from his inexperienced teammates but has displayed a fine skill between the pipes. The club, lacking scorers of senior calibre, were able to pick up only seven goals in their first four games. They lost three times but managed a tie with Windsor Maple Leafs in their fourth outing.<h2>Lamirande Spark les, Leads Lead With Eleven Points</h2>The off-again on-again Cape Breton Senior Hockey League finally got its problems ironed out and the new schedule got underway on November 18. Sydney Millionaires, winners of the league lest season, and the Glace Bay Miners, opposed each other in the first two games, each winning once by a single goal margin. North Sydney Vics, still idle at the time of this writing,, are the third team in the three-club circuit.<h2>SPORTS PHOTOS !</h2>Thousands of different 8 x 10 glossy photos. Ideal for your bar, den or club room. 60 cents each.SPECIAL OFFER10 Hockey Hall of Famers : $4.00Send for FREE LIST.ALL SPORTS PHOTOSBox 267 Freeport, N.Y. &#9632;

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Amherst Ramblers Gallop To Top In Early Maritime Senior Derby

<div class="byline">By SLIM COOK</div>MEDICINE HAT, Alta.&mdash;In a number of areas across Canada hockey teams are folding everyday, particularly in the senior ranks &hellip; But there&rsquo;s a vigorous new look in the Saskatchewan senior league. A four team league was organized in &rsquo;58 on a player pool basis in such hotbeds of junior hockey as Regina, Saskatoon, Moose Jaw and Yorkton.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01357/2131051-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="269" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alex Kaleta</figcaption></div>This season something new was added when the Medicine Hat, Alberta entry was admitted to give the loop an inter-provincial flavor. For the City of Medicine Hat it&rsquo;s been the shot in the arm needed to revive the spirit that once made the Gas City second to none in sports enthusiasm. Fans in this area were ardent booster? of junior hockey when the famous Western Canada junior league flourished. Local addicts remember with pride when Vai Fonteyne, now of Detroit Red Wings, and many other fine players toiled with the Tigers. But the WCJL folded in due course and for the past few years only lukewarm reception was given the intermediate branch which succeeded it. Even the redoubtable Scotty Munro, the maesrro of the Estevan Bruins of the Saskatchewan Junior League, was unable to revive the junior game here. Scotty lasted about two months last season before almost drowning in red ink.It was with mixed feelings that a group of local men decided to make the big try again, and there were many scoffers who said the game was dead for keeps. The handful of believers persisted however, and aided by the sports minded Cantalini Family who have a corner on the hotel business in the city, the situation now looks promising, to say the least.At the time of writing, the fans have put the rush on the box office in unheard of numbers &hellip; and well they might because their hockey club, the &ldquo;Cantalini Monarchs&rdquo;, have shown surprisingly well. The Monarchs had been riding along in a first place tie with the two powerhouses of the league, Moose Jaw and Regina, prior to a weekend doubleheader on the 19th and 20th. The fast skating Moose Jaw Pla-Mors downed them twice before packed houses 7-4 and 2-0 but the fight and the promise of the &rsquo;Hat squad won them continued support.Going into the two games with Moose Jaw, the Monarchs sported the league&rsquo;s individual scorer in diminutive Vic Link, but Saskatoon&rsquo;s Jimmy Chow pushed him into the runner up spot with a three point night on Saturday, the 19th against Yorkton.Alex Kaleta, the former &ldquo;SeaBiscuit&rdquo; of the NHL, and now the City&rsquo;s Recreation Director, was persuaded to coach the team. Kaleta has a strong nucleus of local boys and several out of town players mostly from Flin Flon. &#9632;

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Medicine Hat Mad About New Entry In Senior League

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div>INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.&mdash;Ab DeMarco, former American and National Hockey League star, has been named coach of the Indianapolis Chiefs, replacing Leo Lamoureux.Lamoureux, one of the best coaches in minor league hockey, was forced to quit. He has serious complications of the liver. Doctors thought it would be best if he stepped down from the coaching ranks for this season.Leo was rushed to an Omaha hospital during a game early in November, from the illness. General Manager Mel Ross and Indianapolis Coliseum handyman, Danny Laurin ran the club during Lamoureux&rsquo;s absence.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02292/2131082-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="285" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ab DeMarco</figcaption></div>It was quite a blow to Ross and the Chiefs. Indianapolis had won four of seven road games at the start of the season, and when Lamoureux took sick, they were losers in nine of the next eleven games.Indianapolis fans will remember DeMarco as a member of the Buffalo Bisons. He, Grant Warwick and Paul Meger made up one of the greatest A.H.L. lines ever assembled. Some called the line the original &ldquo;Three Way Line&rdquo;.DeMarco has had coaching experience, leading the old North Bay Trappers in the NOHA.General Manager Ross reported, &ldquo;We had two or three men in mind for the job, but after looking into Ab&rsquo;s background, we thought he would be the most suitable for the job.&rdquo;The Chiefs have added Carl Wetzel, the Detroit, Michigan, native as a goaltender replacement during Chuck Adamson&rsquo;s &ldquo;healing period&rdquo;. Adamson suffered a cracked ankle at Muskegon. The Chiefs were using Fraser Gleeson (Muskegon trainer), Monte Reynolds and Nipper O&rsquo;Hearn between the pipes.Wetzel, a Detroit Red Wing farm hand, played last season with the Omaha Knights.Ross stated, &ldquo;Adamson will have to win his job back when he returns in three weeks.&rdquo;Center Ronnie Brain will be lost to squad for another two weeks. The Galt, Ontario, youngster is out with a broken thumb.Indianapolis picked up Don McKenzie from Ft. Wayne. DeMarco said that additional forward help will be coming in shortly.I.H.L. NOTES &hellip; Commissioner Frank Gallagher fined St. Paul&rsquo;s Johnny Bailey $50 and suspended him for two games for attacks on referee Al Paradice and Muskegon&rsquo;s Jerry Frenette&hellip; Johnny Denis of St. Paul and Omaha&rsquo;s Chick Chalmers are running neck and neck for scoring honors with 29 points each &hellip; Jimmy Baird of Ft. Wayne leads in goals with 15 and hat tricks with two&hellip; Jacques Marcotte&rsquo;s 2.50 is tops among goalies. The St. Paul goaler is &ldquo;top dog&rdquo; in shutouts with two &hellip; Nick Palano of Omaha has 114 minutes in penalties to lead in that department. &#9632;

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