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January 21, 1961

The Hockey News January 21, 1961

QUEBEC CITY, Que.&mdash;Jean Cossette is one of the smallest players in the American Hockey League. The Quebec Aces&rsquo; left winger is only 5&rsquo;6&rdquo; tall and tips the scales at 155 pounds. But, despite his size Cossette is also one of the most effective players in the loop.At 26 Cossette seems to just be coming into his own in the pro ranks. A graduate of the Three Rivers junior hockey club, Jean moved to the Quebec Aces of the Quebec Hockey League in 1955-56. In 60 games he scored 13 goals and added 25 assists for 38 points.Last season, Cossette, playing his first year in the AHL, scored 16 goals and added 24 assists for 40 points in 72 games.This season will undoubtedly be Jean&rsquo;s finest in the league. Last week alone he picked up six points, figuring in six of the Aces seven goals scored in two games.Last week the Aces split a pair of games with the Cleveland Barons.On January 10 they were defeated 4-3 in Quebec City. Cossette scored 1 goal and added two assists.On Thursday January 12 they defeated Cleveland 4-2. Cossette scored three goals to lead the Aces to win. &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;New king of the popularity parade among Maple Leaf followers is the newest Leaf, Eddie Shack.If there&rsquo;s one single thing that impresses Maple Leaf Gardens customers most, it is determined try. And whatever his other shortcomings may be, that is something Shack displays in vast quantities.Eddie, goaltender Johnny Bower and high-scoring Frank Mahovlich have received the loudest and most frequent ovations at the Gardens in recent weeks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04246/2068987-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="259" height="401"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Shack</figcaption></div>One of the biggest came when he collided with Gordie Howe in a Jan. 4 game. Howe received a 10-stitch forehead cut and a concussion. Shack received a five-minute high-sticking penalty, although movies of the incident absolved him of any wrong-doing. Howe was injured when his head struck the ice.The crowd saluted Howe, too, as he was helped off the ice. But the consensus seemed to be that Shack had again indicated he could play the kind of slam-bang, swashbuckling hockey Leafs haven&rsquo;t exhibited since the glorious days of the late 1940&rsquo;s and early 50&rsquo;s.He was getting goals and assists, as well, while working right wing on a line with Bert Olmstead and Bob Pulford, followed by Dave Keon.<h2>Must Learn To Complete Plays, Control Puck</h2>Says coach Punch Imlach: &ldquo;Shack is one of the guys who has kept us going while we&rsquo;ve had this spell of injuries. He keeps the other team guessing. They don&rsquo;t know what he&rsquo;s going to do or when he&rsquo;s going to hit them.&ldquo;He moves that puck up the ice every time he gets it. He has plenty to learn but the thing is he wants to. If he develops, he&rsquo;ll be a real good hockey player.&rdquo;The things Shack has to learn include the ability to complete plays and the technique of controlling the puck.An indication that he&rsquo;s learning was given in the Jan. 7 victory over Boston Bruins. Shack toted the puck up the right boards and despite being enveloped by powerful Leo Boivin, fought loose and laid a perfect pass on Dave Keon&rsquo;s stick in the goal-mouth. That was good for a goal.The nevt night Eddie got his 10th goal of the season and his eighth since joining Toronto in a Nov. 7 trade with New York Rangers for Johnny Wilson and Pat Hannigan. It was Leafs&rsquo; only score in a 5-1 loss at Chicago stadium.&ldquo;I seem to have more confidence in a Toronto uniform,&rdquo; says Shack, who made no secret of his pleasure at leaving Rangers and coming to the Leafs. That was aside from the economics of shifting from the NHL&rsquo;s second division into the rich section.He says he always felt out of place in New York and Ranger management probably will agree that he was a misfit.In New York, they grew impatient waiting for Shack to fulfil his tremendous potential. He has scored more goals now than he did in either of his previous NHL seasons.Shack, once he arrived in the city where he&rsquo;d always hoped to play his hockey, announced he was settling down. &ldquo;No more fooling around, playing the clown, for me,&rdquo; he said.So perhaps he plays with more determination. Still, his style is exuberant and boisterous and he leaves a trail of flattened opponents behind him. Linemate Bert Olmstead and referee Frank Udvari also have been mowed down in his gangway dashes.In the dressing room, he has rapidly made himself at home and is accepted as a member of the club. Being on a line with the authoritative Olmstead has helped in that regard. Shack became a member of the line when Ron Stewart&rsquo;s ankle was broken.Shack&rsquo;s excellent play will cause a slight problem when the talented Stewart is ready to return.It will be recalled, however, that Shack&rsquo;s natural position is left wing. He&rsquo;ll be a candidate to replace the slumping Dick Duff, unless that follow begins to play his old type of hockey. &#9632;

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Once Jeered, Ed Now Cheered As Leafs’ Favorite

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Big Jean Beliveau of the Montreal Canadiens has jumped from 12th highest goal scorer in NHL history to eighth so far this season. Beliveau started the season with 242 goals to his credit. He was 12th in the all-time list. His 17 goals this year moved him past Harvey Jackson (243), Max Bentley (245), Cy Denneny (246) and Bill Mosienko (258). Ahead of Beliveau, who&rsquo;s total is now 259 goals are Aurel Joliat (270), Howie Morenz (270), Boom Boom Geoffrion (280), Nels Stewart (324), Ted Lindsay (365), Gordie Howe (456) and Maurice Richard (544). &#9632;

Beliveau Moves from 12th To 8th as All-Time Scorer

CHICAGO, Ill.- Chicago&rsquo;s seven game winning streak between Dec. 25 and Jan. 8 broke a club record which had stood for 30 years. The old Black Hawk mark of six straight wins was set during the 1930-31 season. Members of that old-time Chicago team were goalie Chuck Gardiner; Johnny Gottselig, who witnessed win No. 7 from the Chicago Stadium press box as the current Black Hawk publicity director; and Harold (Mush) March, who was one of the linesmen in the record-setting Jan. 8 triumph in Chicago. &#9632;

Gottselig, March See Chi Snap Their 1930-31 Mark

<div class="byline">By BRUCE HOGLE</div>The Western Hockey League champion Trail Smoke Eaters, who leave at the end of this month for a 17-game European exhibition series and then the World Championships, have refused to be drawn into a controvery with Chatham Maroons over an exhibition game.Chatham, beaten almost at will during their tour of Russia last month, issued a challenge to the Smoke Eaters or their return. They also, for the last few weeks, have been claiming Smokies don&rsquo;t stand a chance either in their exhibition series or the World Championships.Smokies were all set take on Chatham&mdash;either in Trail or at Chatham&mdash;when they were advised by one of their latest imports that Chatham is not, and never was in condition.&ldquo;The import told us,&rdquo; said manager Ugo DeBiasio, &ldquo;that the Maroons did not even try to get into good physical condition before leaving for overseas. We vere also told that they are still not in top form. Because of this there would be no percentage in playing them. We want, and are seeking, games with clubs that will be a real test for us.&rdquo;DeBiasio said games had already been lined up with the professional Portland Buckaroos and Spokane Comets, both of the professional Western Hockey League, and negotiations are also being conducted to play the Winnipeg Maroons and the Moose Jaw Pla-mors.The itinerary of the Smokies, just released, TRAIL, B.C.&mdash;finds the team leaving Winnipeg January 29, arriving in Norway January 30.Their first overseas game will be Jan. 31 in Norway. They then play four games in Sweden between Feb. 1-8; one in Finland Feb. 9; three in Moscow between Feb. 10 and 15; five in Prague between Feb. 15 and 23; one in east Berlin Feb. 24; one in West Berlin Feb. 25 and one in Italy Feb. 28.<h2>Rams Beat Smokies For First Time</h2>Smoke Eaters will arrive in Switzerland March 1, two days prior to the start of the championships.They leave Switzerland March 13 and play more exhibition games in Paris and Brighton prior to returning home March 19 or 20.In games this week, East Kootenay Rams won their first game of the year when they edged Smokies 5-4 in the first game of a weekend doubleheader. Smokies won the second match 13-1. Rams now have an agreement with the Calgary Stampeders and will use Calgary&rsquo;s spare goalie, Art Lariviere, for all weekend games.In other games, Smoke Eaters maintained their supremacy over Okanagan Senior Hockey League clubs when they beat Penticton-Kelowna Combines 6-3. Combines got some measure of revenge when they won by that same margin over Nelson Maple Leafs.Nelson itself crept closer to the second place Rossland Warriors, scalping the tribe 8-4. &#9632;

Smokies Say No To Exhibition Game

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0195/2070532-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tape On Champ And Challenger</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;One of the zaniest scrambles in hockey history ensued when word seeped out about a young player Frank Mahovlich back in 1950. Detroit Red Wings thought they had him all locked up. Rudy Pilous offered to set Frankie&rsquo;s father up in business on a fruit farm if he&rsquo;d come to St. Catharines. That would have made him a Black Hawk. Alf Pike, then coach of Guelph juniors, made a trip to Schumacher on behalf of New York Rangers.But Frankie was landed for Leafs when Father Ted Flanagan, athletic director at St. Michael&rsquo;s college in Toronto, paid a visit and outlined the advantages of attending that school.(See page 3 for more of the Mahovlich story) &#9632;

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It Was Four Team Race To Get Mahovlich; Leafs Won

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;How close are the Russians to attaining NHL calibre hockey?This question inevitably protrudes following the marauding sweep of United States teams made by a young Soviet all-star team early this month.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0278/2070563-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="288" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Riley</figcaption></div>The USSR sextet, composed of skaters between the ages of 19 and 24, won all five of their games in the United States including three straight wins over the U.S. National team.The Russians topped the University of North Dakota, 4-3, the University of Minnesota, 10-2, and then outscored the Amerk squad, 24-7 over three games.A disurbing feeling that the Russian team&mdash;admittedly NOT the best the Soviet Union has to offer&mdash;represents a surge in Soviet hockey supremacy exists among many American observers.<h2>Alexandrov Good Enough</h2>Jack Riley, coach of Uncle Sam&rsquo;s &ldquo;miracle&rdquo; Olympic winning sextet, tod THE HOCKEY NEWS that the Russians are fast approaching NHL calibre.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re &rsquo;way ahead of us,&rdquo; said Riley and they&rsquo;ll continue to pick up momentum. Pretty soon you&rsquo;ll see Russia challenging Canada for the top spot&rdquo;Riley said that Ben Alexandrov of the Russian Olympic team is good enough to play in the NHL.What amazes most observers is that the Russians perfected their hockey skills in the past 15 years. Prior to that hockey was unknown in the Soviet Union but a similar game, played with a ball instead of a puck, was popular.Heretofore. Russian teams were downgraded as no match for NHL clubs because of their reluctance to check. This was due in part to international rules and in part to an ignorance of bodychecking technique.But USSR coaches have analyzed Canadian play and promulgated a new style for their teams. It was evidenced on the recent American tour.&ldquo;I was amazed at their progress,&rdquo; said Connie Pieban, coach of the 1961 American Squad. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re strong on their feet and they don&rsquo;t bowl over.&rdquo;What surprised most was the Russians&rsquo; new appetite for body-, contact.&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve learned to bodycheck,&rdquo; Pieban said. &ldquo;Our guys would go into the corner with them and they&rsquo;d come out with the puck. They&rsquo;d wear our guys out by just leaning on &rsquo;em.&rdquo;Pieban marvelled at the Russians&rsquo; precise short-passing game and their expert skating.<h2>Howe is Favorite</h2>Whether the USSR squad could match an NHL team is another question which must go unanswered until a way is found to arrange a match between arateurs and pros.One thing is certain&mdash;the Russians would be delighted to have a run at an NHL club.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to play the Rangers,&rdquo; said Nikolai Epshtein, coach of the visiting USSR six, through an interpreter, &ldquo;we could benefit very much from such a game. I&rsquo;m also sorry we couldn&rsquo;t play Denver University because there are many Canadians on that team.&rdquo;Epshtein and his players observed the Raneer eames while particularly interested in the bodychecking and the attacking plays.The man who impressed Epshtein most was Gordie Howe.When Howe&rsquo;s name was mentioned, Epshtein kissed his thumb and raised it on high in a typically Gallic &ldquo;ooh-la-la move.His maneouver indicated that Russian hockey is good but it&rsquo;s &#9632;

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Wanted To Play Blues On US Trip

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Tight hockey.In these two words, Coach Rudy Pilous and General Manager Tommy Ivan describe the reason for the Chicago Black Hawks all-time club record of seven straight victories between Dec. 25 and Jan. 8.During the stretch they beat Detroit three times, Boston twice, New York once and Toronto once.The obvious heroes have been the Mikita-Mc-Donald-Wharram line, which scored 16 of the team&rsquo;s 25 goals; and the goaltending of Glenn Hall, who recorded three shutouts and allowed only 9 goals to the opposition.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01443/2068570-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="284" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eric Nesterenko</figcaption></div>But there have been other heroes whose work was just as vital.&ldquo;Ron Murphy is the silent hero of this streak,&rdquo; commented Coach Pilous after the team&rsquo;s seventh straight win, a rousing 5-1 conquest of the Toronto Maple Leafs before 14,761 partisan Chicago Stadium fans on Jan. 8.&ldquo;We were much too loose in our play, especially the backchecking by our forwards,&rdquo; said Pilous. &ldquo;Tommy (Ivan) and I decided to start singling specific individuals out for certain responsibilities. Instead of telling the whole team to bear down, and take the chance on each one figuring the other fellow would do the job, we gave certain players specific assignments by name.&rdquo;Murphy was given the job of watching Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe for the recent home-and-home weekend series in which Chicago won two 3-0 games.<h2>Murphy Took Beating</h2>&ldquo;He was to stick with Howe and at the same time not get any penalties,&rdquo; said Pilous. &ldquo;Nobody likes to be checked tightly and they are bound to get irritated. Murphy took a real physical beating from Howe jabbing at him. But he never once retaliated&mdash;which is often what you do just as the referee looks your way. Howe got 13 shots during the two games but most of them were harmless ones because of Murphy&rsquo;s tight checking. He failed to score.&rdquo;Murphy, who plays left wing on the line with Tod Sloan at center and Eric Nesterenko at right wing, also drew the assignment of &ldquo;shadowing&rdquo; Andy Bathgate in New York and Vic Stasiuk in Boston.&ldquo;Murphy set a tremendous example for the rest of the players,&rdquo; said Pilous. &ldquo;We gave him a job to do and he did it. The others began to figure if he could help the team by doing his part they were ready to do their part.&rdquo;Murphy isn&rsquo;t the only &ldquo;shadow&rdquo; on the Black Hawk squad. Linemate Eric Nesterenko joined him with a job well done in the 5-1 triumph over Toronto on Jan. 8.&ldquo;Tommy Ivan and I called Nester in only about five minutes before the start of the game. We told him we wanted him to watch Frank Mahovlich for the night. He just said &lsquo;I&rsquo;ll do the best job I can&rsquo; and went out on the ice.<h2>Nester Tamed &lsquo;Big M&rsquo;</h2>So thoroughly did Nesterenko perform his job that Big Frank got only two harmless shots on goal all night&mdash;after having scored 9 in seven previous games against Chicago and 36 in his first 40 National Hockey League gomes this seasonDesignation of individual responsibility actually began in the Dec. 24 3-1 loss at Montreal&mdash;the game just prior to the start of the winning streak.&ldquo;We designated one man on each line to stay near the blueline on the attack,&rdquo; explained Pilous. &ldquo;We were much too loose on checking the opposing forwards. This helped us in playing better positional play. When we get our forwards to patrol their lanes we figure the defensemen can handle most of what attacks get past them, and the goalie (Hall) can take care of the rest.&rdquo;Adds Ivan: &ldquo;When you are in position on defense, you&rsquo;ll also be in good position to take advantage of the offensive breaks.&rdquo;Black Hawk Briefs &hellip; Says Murphy of his checking job: &ldquo;I try I pick him up the minute Detroit gets the puck. It&rsquo;s a tough job because he goes up and down the ice all the time &hellip; Bathgate doesn&rsquo;t carry the puck as much and I can wait for him more at the blueline. Somewhat the same as when I used to check Rocket Richard when I was with New York and we played Montreal &hellip; I took quite a beating from Howe&rsquo;s stick in the recent games. He jabs you with it when the center ice man has the puck and the referee is watching the play elsewhere.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02424/2068563-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="518" height="516"><figcaption class="caption-body">Silent HeroRon Murphy</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Nester, Murphy Silent Heroes As Injuns Ride Warpath Again

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div>CHICAGO, Ill.A pre - game pep talk by Coach Rudy Pilous may have triggered the hot streak by center Stan Mikita which has sparked the Chicago Black Hawks to a club record of seven straight victories between Dec. 25 and Jan. 8.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03381/2068625-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="242" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Stan Mikita</figcaption></div>During that stretch the little Czech-born center tallied nine goals, scoring at least once in every game. His line&mdash;with Ab McDonald at left wing and Ken Wharram at right wing&mdash;totaled 16 of Chicago&rsquo;s 25 goals during the streak.<h2>Got Good Blast</h2>Just prior to the Christmas night game Mikita was the last Black Hawk to head for the ice in Detroit&rsquo;s Olympia Stadium. Coach Pilous grabbed Stan by the shirt and began his impromptu lecture.&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve been so busy yapping like a Fox terrier this season, telling the linesmen and the referees and the public what to do at the games, you&rsquo;ve forgotten all about playing hockey. You&rsquo;ve got to concentrate on one or the other. And you&rsquo;re too good a hockey player to waste your time telling the officials how to run their end of things.&rdquo;Setting his second-year center up for the clincher, Pilous continued:&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s see you keep your mouth shut and concentrate on playing hockey and give us a good two-way effort tonight. Otherwise you&rsquo;re headed straight for the bench.&rdquo;In 33 previous games this season Mikita had scored only three goals. That night he scored the winning goal as Chicago won its first road game in 15 tries, 3-0 over the Red Wings. He hasn&rsquo;t quit scoring since, including three more winning goals during the streak.From now on, its &ldquo;Silent Stan&rdquo; Mikita. &#9632;

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Pilous Swings From Heels In Blast To Stan

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Johnny MacMillan of the Maple Leafs claims Canada&rsquo;s amateur hockey executives have been missing a good bet in putting together teams for international competition.Says Johnny: &ldquo;Some of the best Canadian players are down in the States playing for college teams. I&rsquo;m sure almost any of them would be able to get away for a couple of weeks to play for Canada&rsquo;s national team.&rdquo;Johnny himself played four seasons at the University of Denver in Colorado. Last winter, the Denver U. team, and all-Canadian squad, defeated the U.S. national team in an exhibition game. Later, the same U.S. club went to Squaw Valley and won the Olympic championship, defeating Canada.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04290/2068656-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="242" height="403"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Hay</figcaption></div>MacMillan regards this as proof of his contention.He and Chicago&rsquo;s Billy Hay are graduates of U.S. college hockey and judging from their NHL performance, they would have helped such Canadian international teams as Whitby Dun-lops in 1958, Belleville McFarlands in &rsquo;59 and Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen in &rsquo;60.MacMillan formerly played for Lethbridge Native Sons. He is 25 now and has a university degree. He attended Leafs&rsquo; 1960 training camp on a what-can-I-Iose basis and was assigned to Rochester Americans. Up as an emergency replacement, he has played usefully for Leafs, while doing an assortment of jobs&mdash;spelling off Bob Nevin and Eddie Shack at right wing, Dick Duff at left wing, and killing penalties. He is a good bet for a regular NHL job in a year or two.Proudfoot &#9632;

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Leafs’ MacMillan Says We Miss Best For World Team

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y&mdash;A guy can talk about miracles and get away with it in New York because there once was a baseball team called the New York Giants which pulled off a superhuman feat by winning pennant in 1951.And there was a hockey team from Toronto which stole a playoff berth right out of New York&rsquo;s basket in 1959, and that had people on Eighth Ave., babbling about a miracle on ice.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s why few scoffs are heard when the Rangers whisper to themselves about a miraculous jump into fourth place before the NHL season ends. There have been too many miracles in the past decade to permit a derogatory snicker.Unfortunately, time is running out on the Rangers.With less than half a season to bridge the widening gulf between fourth and fifth place, the B1ues find themselves in a compelling situation. They have to start winning like crazy. Else no miracle.On January 10 the Blueshirts were a distant 13 points behind the Detroit Red Wings and running smack into a six-game road trip.Trying to be as realistic as possible, the Blues now concede that the only team they have a chance to overtake is the Red Wings.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05208/2068687-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="535" height="519"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dean Prentice</figcaption></div>Their arrant optimism is based on two factors&mdash;the Rangers believe that, man-for-man, they have a better team than Detroit and they believe that Wing superman Gordie Howe will be less effective because of his recent head injury.&ldquo;No question,&rdquo; said Andy Bathgate, who earlier had figured Chicago was catchable, &ldquo;Detroit&rsquo;s the team we have to catch.&rdquo;<h2>Win Against Habs Saved Shakeup</h2>Brian Cullen, who was sitting nearby, nodded.&ldquo;Chicago&rsquo;s hot now,&rdquo; said Brian, &ldquo;They figure to stay strong but Detroit can be had.&rdquo;All season long the Rangers have been telling themselves that individually they are a better club than the Red Wings but collectively the Wings have proven otherwise.A considerable shake-up of the Rangers was threatened prior to the road trip but a 4-2 send-off thumping of Montreal seemed to soothe the Blue bosses.The return of Camille Henry, Dean Prentice and Brian Cullen to good health has buoyed the offense although Camille&rsquo;s broken hand has not recovered complete strength.Ironically, the weakened limb turned out to be an asset to Henry in the heartening defeat of Canadiens.Cammy received a sharp pass 15-feet in front of Charlie Hodge and tried to whip a hard shot past the Montreal goalie. But Henry only got half power on it and the puck slithered meekly toward the cage.Hodge, figuring on a blast, moved swiftly&mdash;too swiftly&mdash;and overshot the slow-moving puck which dribbled over the line.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s my knuckle-shot,&rdquo; said Henry who, injured or not, is the most consistently classy Ranger.Another inspiring sight was the energetic play of defenseman Irv Spencer who has suffered through part-time duty most of the season. &ldquo;Spinner&rdquo; corralled three assists against Montreal and indicated he could mature into a star with full-time work.Rangerabilia: Former Ranger MVP goalie, Chuck Rayner, was a New York visitor and marvelled at his successor, Gump Worsley, as well as the quality of goaltending in general &hellip; Red Sullivan&rsquo;s deke-in-deke-out goal against Montreal was something out of Max Bentley&rsquo;s book &hellip; Lou Fontinato emerged from the doghouse with a 40 foot smash past Charlie Hodge. Louie was blamed for causing an important goal against Chicago &hellip; Some observers believe the blame was ex- &#9632;

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Blues Hope For Miracle As 4th Starts To Fade

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01442/2068718-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Toronto&rsquo;s Heavy Duty ClouterFrank Mahovlich &hellip; &hellip; He Has Secrets</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont&mdash;At his present rate of production, Frank Mahovlich of the Maple Leafs will finish the 1960-61 schedule with 61 goals.That, if it happens, will be the greatest number ever scored by one player in a single National Hockey League season. It would be equivalent to baseball&rsquo;s long-awaited eclipse of Babe Ruth&rsquo;s home runs record, 60. The 50 goals &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard shot during the 1944-45 campaign are in the same category and, to tell the truth, may remain so, because the NHL timetable has been stretched frbm 50 games to 70 since Richard compiled his historic total.But regardless of how you feel about the statistics of the thing, there&rsquo;s no denying Mahovlich&rsquo;s accomplishments this season have been the most astonishing of the past decade in hockey. Suddenly grown into a mature, coordinated, clear-thinking 23-year-old, the &lsquo;Big M&rsquo; has<h2>Popularity is Astounding</h2>His popularity in Toronto is astounding. Jan. 10 was his 23rd birthday and the first mail delivery at Maple Leaf Gardens that morning contained 83 letters for him. Mobs of adoring youngsters follow him wherever he goes. The Gardens publicity department has mailed out hundreds of autographed pictures. He gets the red carpet treatment all over the city.And the question on every tongue, the one he&rsquo;s asked most often, is: will he beat Richard&rsquo;s record?Says Frank: &ldquo;Things like that mean a lot, of course. Mainly, though, I want to score as many goals as I can, and as many assists as I can, to help the team. We&rsquo;ve got a chance to go a long way this season and if I can help, I want to&rdquo;.He can help, of course.After 40 games had been played. Leafs had won 22, tied seven and lost 11. Mahovlich had scored 36 goals and had done the following:* Scored the decisive goal in four victories.* assisted in four go-ahead goals in games Leafs won.* scored the vital opening goal three times.* cancelled opposition leads in two games Leafs eventually won.In addition, he got four goals each in 7-3 and 6-1 victories and three in an 8-4 triumph and also had had five two-goal nights.The weakness of New York Rangers and Boston Bruins enhances &lsquo;Big M&rsquo;s&rsquo; chances of setting an all-time record. Twenty-one of his first 36 goals were against those teams and they don&rsquo;t figure to improve. However, he had fired nine past Chicago&rsquo;s Glenn Hall and the recent revival of the Black Hawks suggests that output may be cut down.On the other hanl, Mahovlich is such an excellent shooter, one of the best in the business, that he is less likely than most to encounter a slump.<h2>Knows More About Game</h2>NHL figures show he connects roughly one out of every four shots on goal.How does he do it?&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to tell&rdquo;, chuckles Mahovlich, and you can&rsquo;t be sure he&rsquo;s joking. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t expect a fellow to give away all his secrets.&rdquo;The Big M&rsquo;s&rsquo; background is fairly well-known. He is the son of Croatian (Yugoslavian) parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mahovlich, and was born in Timmins, Ont. He was raised in Schumacher and when he was 13 became the focal point of a stampede of major-league scouts. His father chose a Leaf scholarship to St. Michael&rsquo;s college in Toronto and at the age of 14, Frankie moved to St. Mikes, where he immediately began playing junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; hockey.During the 1956-57 season, he was up for a three-game whirl with Leafs, scoring one goal. He was promoted for good the following winter and was chosen the NHL&rsquo;s standout freshman that term. He got 20 goals.As a sophomore, Frankie made 22 goals and sagged to a disappointing 18 last season. It was generally agreed that Mahovlich was one of hockey&rsquo;s major disappointments.Not this year, though. Mahovlich dominates nearly every game he plays in. He is hockey&rsquo;s brightest star.Why the change?&ldquo;I guess&rdquo;, says Frank, &ldquo;I know a bit more about playing hockey. The team&rsquo;s going well. I&rsquo;ve been playing with regular linemates. Red Kelly and Bobby Nevin, and I&rsquo;ve been working the powerplay steadily at centre with Bert Olmstead on left wing&rdquo;.Despite &lsquo;Big M&rsquo;s&rsquo; claim, there are noticeable changes in his work. He is stronger and now has the stamina to go all-out for a 60 to 120-second shift. Where he used to carry the puck straight up the left boards, always finishing trapped in the corner, he now is sweeping diagonally into centre where he can use his muscle and his tremendous reach to overpower checkers.<h2>More Outspoken in Room</h2>He is more outspoken, more like colleague&rsquo;s errors, a part of the dressing room give-and-take that previously was a game he didn&rsquo;t play. He is an exuberant team player and a scrapper and is one of the League&rsquo;s most penalized players because of a couple of misconduct penalties.&ldquo;You aren&rsquo;t a man if you don&rsquo;t speak up when you think something wrong has been done&rdquo;, he says. &ldquo;They have misconduct penalties to straighten you out if you get out of line&rdquo;.Another factor which could be an influence is the expiration of Mahovlich&rsquo;s two-year contract at the end of the current season. Even if he doesn&rsquo;t score again between now and playoff time, he&rsquo;ll be in line for a substantial raise in pay. No player in the history of Leafs has made more than 37 goals in one year.Personally, Frank is the kind of young man you&rsquo;d like.As soon as he could afford it, he moved his family to Leaside, a Toronto suburb and still lives with his parents and his 14-year-old brother, Pete.He hasn&rsquo;t indulged in the hockey player&rsquo;s irresistible bent to drive a big, flashy car. He owns a service-azine article which gave the impression he is a profane, loudmouthed popoff. He is nothing of the kind. He is inclined to express definite opinions loudly and is easily aroused but he is first and foremost a mannerly and thoughtful young man.He&rsquo;s intelligent and eager to improve his qualifications for life outside the hockey rink. He completed four years of high school at St. Mikes and the faculty there referred to him as &ldquo;a good student&rdquo;.<h2>Worries About Future</h2>An example: Mahovlich belongs to the Toastmasters, a club for young men, who wish to develop the ability to speak in public. He recently gave his first full-length address.And he worries about his future.On what he&rsquo;s shown this season, his future could entail things like a complete revision of the NHL record book.In 1957, when Mahovlich was about to become a full-time professional, Hap Day said the &lsquo;Big M&rsquo; should stand for Moses because he was the fellow who would lead Leafs out of hockey&rsquo;s wilderness.Hap was right, as usual, but &#9632;

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At Mahovlich’s Present Rate He’ll Hit 61 Mark

TORONTO, Ont.- Frank Mahovlich scored the 97th goal of his National Hockey League career Jan. 7, midway through his fourth season. Gordie Howe had roughly 60 at the same stage in his career. Rocket Richard, of course, already had set his 50-goal record at the same point.No Toronto player ever has scored more than 37 goals (Gaye Stewart and Tod Sloan managed that) and no Leaf has won the National Hockey League scoring championship since Gordie Drillon did it during the 1937-38 season. Frank Mahovlich could accomplish both this spring. &#9632;

Frank Could Snap Leaf Famine Of Scoring Kings

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;One thing that often has bothered young Frank Mahovlich is the fact so many people pronounce his name incorrectly. Often you hear &ldquo;Mahalovich&rdquo; of &ldquo;Mahavolich&rdquo;. The correct version is &ldquo;Mahawvlich.&rdquo;Frank was first nicknamed &ldquo;The Big M&rdquo; by Stan Houston, former hockey writer for the Toronto Telegram. Now in the public relations business, Houston used to cover the Maple Leafs for THE HOCKEY NEWS.Though he was angry at the time, Frank Mahovlich laughs now about a recent exchange with Referee Vern Buffey. Mahovlich had been given a five-minute penalty and Buffey, skating past the penalty box, asked him &ldquo;How are you enjoying your rest?&rdquo;Mahovlich&rsquo;s response was unprintable. &#9632;

Writer Named Him ‘Big M’

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st, 1947Published Weekly, except monthly Moy through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd. 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West. Montreal 25, Que.Ken McKenzie, President and PublisherWill V. Cote, Vice-Pres.& Gen. Mgr.Len Bromson, Editor-in-ChiefYearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth; $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign CountriesEntered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Printed in CanadaVol. 14 MONTREAL, JANUARY 21, 1961 No. 17<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01506/2068818-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="366" height="389"></div>&bull; GORDIE HOWE has been ordered by Detroit doctors to wear a helmet for the remainder of the season &hellip; Howe didn&rsquo;t want to wear one at all but the medicos were insistent that he do so for the rest of this season at least &hellip; Charley Rayner, the former goalkeeping great with the New York Rangers, along with Mrs. Rayner were recent visitors to New York. Charley saw the Rangers beat the Canadiens and renewed many old friendships &hellip; While visiting in New York the Rayners were the house guests of Jim and Estelle Ellery, the hard-working team that keeps the American Hockey League operating &hellip; The Rayners are the godparents of the Ellery&rsquo;s daughter, Nancy &hellip; Jack Dempsey, Los Anegeles sports promoter, is bringing the Cleveland Barons and the Vancouver Canucks into the new Los Angeles Sports Arena for two games, February 1 and 2 &hellip; Don Simmons is having a rough time with Providence. The former Boston goalie allowed eight goals in one game recently and was removed before the end of the game &hellip; The Reds were finally beaten for 13 goals &hellip; How do you like this for an All-Star NHL rookie team: Goal, Bruce Gamble, Boston; Defense, Gerry Odrowski, Detroit; and Dallas Smith. Boston; Center, Dave Keon, Toronto; Right Wing, Howie Glover, Detroit; and Left Wing, Bob Nevin, Toronto.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02471/2068811-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="286" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Charley Rayner</figcaption></div>&bull; MURRAY OLIVER appears on the January cover of HOCKEY PICTORIAL in a fine four-color photo &hellip; There is also an excellent story on Oliver in this issue &hellip; Stan Fischler asks the question: Are Coaches Necessary? in the same edition of this picture-packed exciting hockey monthly &hellip; Ralph Backstrom is starting to play some great hockey for the Canadiens &hellip; Probably the fastest skater in hockey, Backstrom had a little trouble finding himself at the start of the season but in recent weeks he&rsquo;s been playing like the kid that won the NHL rookie award two seasons back &hellip; The International Hockey Pee-Wee Tournament will be held in Quebec City from February 4-11. Teams are entered from all over Canada and the United States &hellip; Milt Schmidt is trying Andre Pronovost at center &hellip; &ldquo;Pronovost has never played center before, but we&rsquo;re badly in need of a center so I&rsquo;m trying him there to see how he goes,&rdquo; stated the Boston coach &hellip; Noel Price of Springfield and Roger Cote of Rochester are married to cousins. They visit each other&rsquo;s homes, but once the game starts, all is forgotten. This was proven in the fight between the two of them on Christmas Night &hellip; Frank Mahovlich has a 14-year-old brother who has one ambition and that&rsquo;s to play with older brother Frank on the Maple Leafs &hellip; That would give the Leafs Big M and Little M &hellip; Peter Mahovlich, the 14-year-old brother, is a promising-looking performer in Toronto&rsquo;s Metro League &hellip; Freddie Hunt, Jr., son of the Buffalo Bisson&rsquo;s General Manager of the same name, is playing in the Tiny Tot League in the Buffalo Auditorium. He is 11 years old &hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03395/2068804-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="250" height="403"><figcaption class="caption-body">Murray Oliver</figcaption></div>&bull; HERB CARNEGIE has developed a Magnetic Hockey Instructional Board and Booklet which is proving to be a great boon to hockey coaches and players &hellip; Younger players as well as professionals find this Magnetic Board invaluable in learning positional hockey &hellip; Bob Goldham, former NHL star defenseman, and Coach Toe Blake of the Canadiens are both lavish in their praise of this Board &hellip; It is being used extensively by college and minor hockey league teams &hellip; Interested parties should write to Herb Carnegie at 244 Empress Ave., Willowdale, Ont&hellip;. Eliott Trumbull and the boys at Olympia are doing a great job with the new Red Wing hockey program &hellip; It&rsquo;s an outstanding job and a big improvement over previous Red Wing programs &hellip; George Armstrong, Toronto captain, thinks Mahovlich will beat Richard&rsquo;s 50 goals mark with plenty to spare &hellip; Armstrong thinks Big M will score between 55 and 60 goals &hellip; Nearly half of Mahovlich&rsquo;s counters have been key markers for the Leafs &hellip; This is another illustration of his value to the Leafs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04337/2068797-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="273" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mahovlich</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass&mdash;For the first time in many years the Bruins had no outstanding mid - season contenders for National Hockey League individual trophies.But they may have a strong second-half contender for the Calder Trophy in Bruce Gamble, their 22-year old goalkeeper.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05306/2068849-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="286" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bruce Gamble</figcaption></div>Gamble played only 17 of the first 35 games, on which the mid-season vote for the rookie award was predicted. He didn&rsquo;t figure to score heavily in the voting which dashing Dave Keon of the Toronto Maple Leafs was an odds-on favorite to lead.But the Bruins think their husky goalkeeper will get a good share of the ballots cast for rookie play during the second half of the season.&ldquo;If he keeps playing as well as he has been, he will,&rdquo; opined Leo Boivin, Bruins&rsquo; defenseman. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s doing a good job.&rdquo;&ldquo;And he&rsquo;s playing the right position to be noticed,&rdquo; pointed out Leo LaBine, one of Gamble&rsquo;s dressing room neighbors. &ldquo;The goalkeeper is the most conspicuous player on the ice. And Gamble&rsquo;s style makes him even more conspicuous.&rdquo;&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll go along with that,&rdquo; said Milt Schmidt, Bruins&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;People seem to remember the work of a goalkeeper easier than they remember what other players do. So Bruce is in a good position to start with.&rdquo;Schmidt thinks Gable deserved a high mark for consistency in his first-half half-hitch as the replacement for Don Simmons, with whom he swapped jobs, Simmons joining the Providence Reds.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think he played a bad game,&rdquo; pondered Schmidt, &ldquo;and after he got over his early nervousness&mdash;three or four games&mdash;he played quite well, on the whole. And he started the second half of the season with a couple of great games against Montreal.&rdquo;<h2>Gelineau Last Winner</h2>The Bruins think Gamble has been improving and their opinion is substantiated by others.&ldquo;He has improved,&rdquo; said Jacques Plante, Montreal goalkeeper who has won the Vezina Trophy for the past five years. &ldquo;He is very quick and alert and does things now which he did not do when he first came into the league.&rdquo;It has been more than a decade since a Bruins&rsquo; goalkeeper was a contender for the Calder Trophy, but it has been more than a decade since a Bruin&rsquo;s goalkeeper has had a fair crack at the award, too. Jack Gelineau won the trophy for the 1949-50 season.The only rookie to play goal regularly for the Bruins since then was Simmons, who stepped into the lineup in January of 1957 and played 26 games. By the time Simmons got here the 1956-57 Calder Trophy was as good as won by a Bruins&rsquo; teammate, Larry Regan.Only one Bruin seemed qualified for support in the mid-winter voting for all-star rating and trophies. Boivin, the stubby defenseman, was deemed worthy of rank with the best at his position for &#9632;

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Bs Tag Gamble Sure Fire Bet In Rook Derby

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL Toronto Star</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06262/2068887-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg"></div><h2>Fate Merely Followed the Script</h2>CALL it one of the little ironies of fate. In the current editions of Sport magazine Gordie Howe turns author&mdash;with an assist being credited to Stan Fischler, a New York sports writer. Howe&rsquo;s prose is titled: &ldquo;Nobody Can Knock Hockey To Me.&rdquo;In one early paragraph, Gordie&rsquo;s ghost writer has him saying: &ldquo;Hockey is the fastest body contact sport in the world, and the speed and force of it automatically set up slam-bang situations.&rdquo; He goes on to report: &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t fault (Eddie) Shack for checking me hard all the time. He&rsquo;s been doing it for three years, boarding me, holding me, high-sticking me.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07210/2068880-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="544" height="526"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Shack</figcaption></div>Two weeks ago, Howe encountered one of the slambang situations he had mentioned. The other man was Shack. Fate was following the script as Howe had written it. Shack crashed into the great Detroit winger. Eddie went to the penalty coop. Howe eventually went to the hospital&mdash;still dazed&mdash;with an ugly line of neat hemstitching in his forehead.It&rsquo;s doubtful that Howe will be able to fault the bulldozing Leaf right-winger this time, either. When his head finally clears, he may not even remember the circumstances. That&rsquo;s how it was the last time he suffered a serious injury&mdash;during the 1950 Stanley Cup playoffs.There were many versions of that mishap. Some of them were critical of Teeder Kennedy, the Leaf who was involved in the incident. All Howe could recall was that he plunged headlong toward the boards&mdash;and awakened in hospital.He underwent brain surgery that time. This time, he was more fortunate. He had bongo drums beating inside his skull for a few days. There&rsquo;s another neat scar on his brow, adding 10 Toronto stitches to his generous collection. It was two weeks before he was playing again. This fellow rebounds rapidly.<h2>Shack Had Something Kennedy Lacked</h2>Shack had something in his favor that Kennedy didn&rsquo;t have 10 years ago&mdash;movies of the accident. They indicate Shack didn&rsquo;t deserve the five-minute penalty he drew for high-sticking. As Howe said in his magazine piece, this was simply a slam-bang situation.Shack was making one of his typical sorties from right to left wing so he could unload a bomb from his forehand. He&rsquo;s a left-hand shot and he still likes to fire from the port side. As the Leaf crossed the blue line, Howe came over to meet him. Gordie braced himself and went into a crouch as he anticipated the collision.Shack didn&rsquo;t seem to see Howe until the last split second. Then he leaped into the air as the two bodies crashed into each other. There was some speculation in the press box over what infraction referee Dalt McArthur would call when he signalled a penalty. If he tagged Shark for charging, he was in trouble, because Shack was carrying the puck. The referee&rsquo;s ruling was that the Leaf had brought up his stick, inflicting the cut in Howe&rsquo;s head.Now, it&rsquo;s pretty well established that Shack&rsquo;s stick didn&rsquo;t cause the cut&mdash;it was contact with the ice that did the damage. Shack insisted he didn&rsquo;t carve Howe with the stick. Before television and video tape came into the rinks, he wouldn&rsquo;t have been able Jo prove it.Shack is one of those types who shouldn&rsquo;t go into a china shop. He bumps into friend, foe and neutral without malice or discrimination. One night, at the Gardens, he was blitzing out of his own zone. Referee Frank Udvari was watching the puck-carrier, who was across the ice. Shack cut the corner so finely in passing Udvari that he took the feet from under the official and dumped him on his elbow.A few minutes later, Eddie was emerging from the Leaf zone again. He crashed into Bert Olmstead. When he opens the throttle, he runs over everything that happens to be at the level crossings. His crash with Howe looked like one &#9632;

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By JACK BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01463/2068932-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Uneasy Moments&hellip; &hellip; After The CollisionRight Winger Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings is administered to by Trainer Lefty Wilson after being checked to the ice by Toronto&rsquo;s Eddie Shack. Right: he is lifted into ambulance, while General Manager Jack Adams, right, looks on. X-rays showed no serious injury.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02428/2068925-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="1369" height="873"></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Gordie Howe has joined the helmet crew of the National Hockey League.It&rsquo;s a small group, only three men&mdash;Boston&rsquo;s Charlie Buras and Detroit&rsquo;s Warren Godfrey are the other members.Howe was ordered to wear a helmet for the rest of the season after sustaining a concussion in a collision with Eddie Shack at Toronto.It&rsquo;s the second time Gordie has worn the rig. The other time was at the start of the 1950-51 season. Howe had suffered a fractured skull in the playoffs the previous spring after being checked by Toronto&rsquo;s Ted Kennedy.Howe had little to say about his episode with Shack.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03348/2068918-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="263" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Abel</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t remember anything from the time he was six feet away from me,&rdquo; Howe said.But many of the other Red Wings recalled the incident vividly and the thing that grated, was a claim that Howe injured his head when he hit the ice and that a 12-stitch gash on his right forehead was due to that.Coach Sid Abel said it was the butt-end of Shack&rsquo;s stick. Referee Dalton McArthur levied five minute on Shack for high-sticking and drawing blood.Reports from Toronto said that a film of the incident showed that Howe hit his head on the ice.<h2>Eddie Says Howe Was Out To Get Him</h2>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t see the actual collision,&rdquo; said goalie Terry Sawchuk, &ldquo;but when Gordie whirled around I could see the blood spurting then and he hadn&rsquo;t hit the ice.&rdquo;Abel, who was right across from the play that developed at the Detroit blueline when Shack was carrying the puck and Howe was moving over to check him, said that Howe was going in low and Shack did a little jump step to avoid him.&ldquo;When they hit, Gordie spun around. He didn&rsquo;t fall flat on the ice. He went down on his hands and knees and he was bleeding. Then when he tried to get up, he collapsed.&rdquo;There were several ironic touches. Abel hadn&rsquo;t intended Howe to be playing against Shack and, if that trade with New York had gone through last season&mdash;the one in which Detroit tried to send Red Kelly and Billy McNeill to the Rangers for Shack and Bill Gadsby&mdash;Shack would have been Howe&rsquo;s linemate.Shack was quoted as saying that Howe has been &ldquo;trying to get me&rdquo; for several seasons.Fleet-skating Eddie was detailed to the unenviable task of shadowing Howe when Shack was with the Rangers. There were numerous scuffles and elbow massages in the corners but nothing like a major blowup.Howe was hospitalized in Toronto for two nights returned to Detroit and checked in again at another hospital for more examinations.He started skating again Jan. 9, five days after the game, and the Wings hoped to have him back again for the Jan. 14-15 weekend against New York and Montreal.&ldquo;The last time I was cracked in the head I led the league in scoring the next season,&rdquo; Howe said. &ldquo;I hope I can start getting somewhere when I get back now.&rdquo;While sitting ifi the stands with friends watching his teammates beat Boston, a puck flew up and Ed Taube, one of his friends, grabbed for it and the puck ripped off his finger nail.Howe deftly fielded the puck and threw it back on the ice.&ldquo;Still working for the house,&rdquo; Howe cracked.And when Taube asked how did Gordie grab the puck so easily, Howe shot back with &ldquo;I&rsquo;am an old third baseman&rdquo;. &#9632;

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Mind Blank From Time He Was Six Feet Away - - Gord

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The final verdict hasn&rsquo;t been brought in yet, but most of the available evidence suggests Maple Leafs&rsquo; Eddie Shack was innocent in the injury to Gordie Howe, Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; All-Star right-winger.Howe was hospitalized after a spectacular collision with Shack during the first period of Leafs&rsquo; 6-4 National Hockey League triumph at Maple Leaf Gardens. Howe&rsquo;s injuries were listed as a concussion with &ldquo;nothing to suggest complications,&rdquo; in addition to a 10-stitch gash on his forehead.Referee Dalt McArthur gave Shack a five-minute major penalty for high-sticking. McArthur said later Shack&rsquo;s stick had come up and struck Howe when the two players crashed together.Shack denied this: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think I cut him with my stick. I know I hit him in the face with my glove. Then maybe he banged his head on the ice. I didn&rsquo;t even know who it was at the time. I just saw somebody coming at me and threw up my hand.&rdquo;Videotape movies of the incident support Shack. They show Shack&rsquo;s upraised hand strike Howe, who then loses his balance and falls heavily to the ice, striking his head.At the time, Shack was carrying the puck up right wing. After crossing the Detroit blueline, he cut into centre. Howe dropped back into the defensive zone, as he usually does, and Shack banged into him, full - speed. McArthur called the high-sticking penalty immediately.&ldquo;I thought he jumped at Gordie,&rdquo; said Sid Abel, the Detroit coach. Abel was angrier about Leafs&rsquo; sixth goal, which, he claimed, was kicked in by Frank Mahovlich &ldquo;It was plain to see,&rdquo; Abel stormed. &ldquo;He had to turn his foot to knock it in.&rdquo;Howe was too woozy afterwards to discuss the incident but he did say he knew it was Shack who&rsquo;d hit him.Shack insisted a current magazine article, in which Howe identfies him as the opponent who fouls him the most, had no connection with the Gardens crackup.&ldquo;I know about the article, all right,&rdquo; Shack said. &ldquo;But I didn&rsquo;t know it was Howe until after he&rsquo;d gone down.&rdquo;Proudfoot &#9632;

Films Show Shack Did Not Use His Lumber

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;One of the hidden reasons behind the sudden surge of the Chicago Black Hawks (seven straight victories between Dec. 25 and Jan. 8) may have been a special locked room talk by General Manager Tommy Ivan at the end of December.Just prior to that time the Black Hawks, after a whirlwind start, had won only 2 games, tied 3 and lost eight for 7 points of a possible 26.Ivan, the man responsible for rebuilding the Black Hawks from a perennial dormat in the National Hockey League to a playoff contender the yast three seasons, was hospitalized last Nov. 1 with an attack of flu. His condition was complicated later by a clogging of the aesophagus tube in his chest.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01532/2069018-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="247" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Ivon</figcaption></div>From then until Nov. 24 he was in the hospital and for the next two weeks was confined to his home in suburban Skokie, Ill.It was the first time Ivan had been sidelined in some 15 years as a coach and general manager.It wasn&rsquo;t until Dec. 11, against Toronto, that Ivan was even able to watch the Black Hawks on a limited basis and not until Dec. 27 that he attended a practice or a game on a full time basis.After Ivan&rsquo;s first look at the Black Hawks on Dec. 11 following his extended absence, a lacklustre 7-1 loss before a booing Chicago Stadium home crowd, Ivan huddled quickly with coach Rudy Pilous and they shuffled their lines for the first time since the start of training camp last September.At that time Ivan also held individual talks with some of the Black Hawk players to get their views on solving the Chicago problem.It helped some as Chicago endded a seven-game winless streak. But the Black Hawks still lacked spark and lost three more games before winning their first road game in 15 tires, a 3-0 victory over Detroit on Christmas night, Dec. 25.It was just after this that Ivan got his first full look at the Black Hawks, in practice on Dec. 27. Ivan and Coach Pilous&mdash;in whom Tommy has the utmost confidence&mdash;carefully diagnosed the Blaek Hawks troubles and decided there was a lack of good position playing on defense, a careless attitude toward backchecking, and a greediness to be in on the scoring to the detriment of protecting the goalie from enemy atacks.<h2>Threatened Mass Fines</h2>In short, the talent was there but the huste was momentarily lacking. It was then that Ivan made his move, THE HOCKEY NEWS learned from a reliable source.Prior to the home game against Boston on Dec. 28, Ivan told his slumping players in no uncertain terms in the locker room:&ldquo;Take a good look at me. I&rsquo;m the same guy you&rsquo;11 sit down with in the Quensway Hotel (In Chicago&rsquo;s training site at St. Catharines, Ont.) next fall to sign your contract. And between now and tthen I&rsquo;ll be taking a good look at the way you play for the rest of the season.&rdquo;Ivan, THE HOCKEY NEWS also learned, took the players to task for foolish penalties, especially misconducts, and threatend to give the players a club fine of $75 for each game misconduct penalty they drew. Such penalties also call for an automatic league fine of $75.The Chicago Black Hawk management would not comment or Ivan&rsquo;s reported dressing room talk.The effect this had on the players cannot be measured. There are many other factors. The play of the Mikita-McDonald-Wharram line, better backchecking by all the lines and tighter play by the defense corps, and tthe sparkling play of goalie Glenn Hall. But no doubt Ivan&rsquo;s reported speech, from a man who is not prone to sound off unless he has good reason and facts to back him up, undoubtedly played a part in the mental attitude of the players.And it remains a fact the Black Hawks have added six straight victories since that time to their Christmas Night win for a club record of seven wins in a row.Ivan is still under doctor&rsquo;s orders to take it easy. He is on a skim milk and soft foods diet and is still not able to travel with the team. He hasn&rsquo;t seen the Black Hawks play away from home since Oct. 30 in Detroit. And even for home games he does not watch every minute of the action.<h2>Still Room To Improve</h2>But the Chicago general manager is able to see enough&mdash;and have Coach Pilous fill him in on the rest of the action&mdash;to know which players are hustling and which one are merely going through the motions. He&rsquo;ll un-dougtedly remember it all, come next September in the Queensway Hotel.In fact, Ivan&rsquo;s comment after the Black Hawks won their seventh straight, a rollicking 5-1 rout of the Toronto Maple Leafs at home on Jan. 8. tended to underscore his feelings in the matter.&ldquo;They looked good tonight. They played a good game. But there&rsquo;s still lots of room for improvement by everybody.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Tom Braces Chi Loafers; He’ll Be Tougher Next Fall

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;If you&rsquo;re planning to take in a game at Maple Leaf Gardens make sure you&rsquo;re wearing a collar, tie and jacket. If you don&rsquo;t there&rsquo;s no telling just where you will end up, for Box Office Manager Henry Bolton is laying down the law to Leafs subscribers; &ldquo;don&rsquo;t wear leather jackets to our games.&rdquo;The Gardens, self - appointed fashion capitol of the National Hockey League, doesn&rsquo;t pretend to know just what its customers should or should not wear. However, it is seeking a higher standard of dress.Last week, the Gardens wrote its NHL subscribers about the matter.&ldquo;Among those attending the National Hockey League games in Maple Leaf Gardens there has been a noticeable letdown lately in the dress and general deportment of a number of people occupying the box seats,&rdquo; the letter said.Mr. Bolton said: Dress is a matter of taste but we&rsquo;d like our subscribers to wear ties and jackets. What we&rsquo;re trying to control is the leather jacket element&rdquo;.During Christmas the management noticed that some of the people using regular subscribers&rsquo; tickets wore leather jackets and &ldquo;that sort of dress&rdquo;, explained Mr. Bolton.&ldquo;We thought it was time to bring this to the attention of subscribers,&rdquo; he said. &#9632;

Leafs Drop Subscribers A Hint; Dress Up For Club

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bruins are looking to the future and will take immediate steps to insure that it will be a bright one. Convinced they are going nowhere this year, they will start giving some of their younger players more ice time to gain NHL experience.&ldquo;I had to go along with them (the older players) until I felt sure we weren&rsquo;t going anywhere.&rdquo; Coach Milt Schmidt said. &ldquo;I think now that&rsquo;s pretty definite. Now I want all the young legs I can find.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02411/2069073-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="245" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body">Vic Stasiuk</figcaption></div>Two of the immediate casualties in Milts&rsquo; revamped lineup will be Vic Stasiuk and Bronco Horvath, kingpins of Boston&rsquo;s once-potent &lsquo;Uke-Line&rsquo;. They will serve as spare forwards. From now on.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve gone as for as I can with some of the older players,&rdquo; Schmidt said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to use all the youngsters I can. They deserve a chance to get experience and develop. I&rsquo;m going to use kids like Dallas Smith and Aut Eriskson on regular shifts and try to build for the future.&rdquo;&ldquo;Dallas is only 19 and Aut is 22,&rdquo; Schmidt said. &ldquo;These are the kind of prospects we have to groom to improve ourselves. They&rsquo;ll make mistakes, I realize that. But I&rsquo;ll be patient with them. They&rsquo;ll stay in there. It&rsquo;s the only way they can get experience.&rdquo;Schmidt said he is considering bringing up some promising farmhands to replace his veterans. &#9632;

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Hub Kids To Get More lee

<div class="byline">By GIL SMITH</div><h2>The Boomer, Beliveau and Ex Bruin Accounted For 11 Of 12 Winning Goals</h2>MONTREAL, QUE.&mdash;Canadiens owe 11 out of 12 victories to three men on the team.The Geoffrion-Beliveau - Gendron combination have been responsible for bagging the winning marker that many times in the dozen victories the Habs chalked up in 17 outings since the line formed last Dec. 1st; through to their 6-3 whomping of the Rangers Jan. 8th.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03300/2069104-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="290" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Guy Gendron</figcaption></div>The only winning goaL the Big Three missed, was one rifled by Billy Hicke.Habs blew four and tied one of the other five games during the span.Pacemaker for the game-winning trio was Geoffrion, notching six of the big goals. Beliveau sniped three, and Gendron got two.<h3>Geoff Could Set Record</h3>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt about it,&rdquo; says coach Toe Blake, &ldquo;the line&rsquo;s been one of the brightest spots on the team so far. And since Gendron took over at left wing, they haven&rsquo;t been scored on much, either.&rdquo;With two-thirds of the trio currently in the League&rsquo;s top scoring bracket, (Boomer in 1st place, Beliveau sharing 3rd with Moore) the line is not only clicking as a unit, but providing some eye-opening individual performances as well.For Geoffrion this season marks the first time in his NHL career that he&rsquo;s played right wing minus the long shadow of &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard.With 58 scoring points in his kick by the time 40 games of the schedule had been played, Boom Boom stood to set a new NHL record for total points.If he stays healthy and maintains his first 40 game pace through the remaining 30 games, Geoffrion could finish the campaign with 101 total points&mdash;and become the first man in NHL history to go over the century mark in one season.Current record holder in this department is Dickie Moore with 96 points racked up in 1958-59.As for Beliveau, he&rsquo;s maintaining a rate of production that could come within an ace of matching his own 1955-56 performance, when he won the scoring title. Big Jean notched 88 points that season. With 49 points in the first 40 games of the present campaign, Beliveau can hit a total of 86 this year if he keeps up his stride for 30 more contests.But to Gendron goes the plaudits for the line&rsquo;s effectiveness as a backchecking unit.The addition of the medium sized (5&rsquo;9&rdquo; - 157 lb.) Montreal born winger to the Geoffrion-Belliveau combination has proved a bonanza for the Habs.Says Blake: &ldquo;No matter who we had on that line at the beginning of the season, we had goals scored against it. But since Gendron came in, they&rsquo;re going both ways.&rdquo;While tending to his backchecking chores, the 26 year old Gendron also came up with 14 scoring points in his first 17 games with Canucks; firing four goals and gathering 10 assists.<h3>Backchecking Very Well</h3>He may not match his 1959-60 peak performance of 24 goals and 11 assists with Boston on a point getting basis this year, but he&rsquo;s doing his backchecking job with gusto for the Habs. And he&rsquo;s well ahead of the dismal showing that marked his first 23 games with Bruins early this season, when Jean Guy garnered a meagre one goal and seven assists in 2 outings with the Hub City crew.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a good backchecker,&rdquo; says Toe, &ldquo;and he&rsquo;s playing his position well.&rdquo;The Habs can be thankful that the line has gone as well as it has. For even with their outstanding efforts, the team was able to hold onto 1st place by the scantest of margins, taking only a two point edge into the crucial Jan. 12 contest with the strong-surging Leafs.Geoffrion&rsquo;s harvest of points was being menaced by Mahavolich who was only five points off the Boomer&rsquo;s total pace&mdash;and 10 ahead of him on goals&mdash;as of the early part of January. And even Boom&rsquo;s feat of tying the &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo;s&rsquo; record of nine goals for nine games, was being challenged by Stan Mikita of the Hawks, who had seven for seven.<h2>Habs Powerful Trio Show An Improvement in The Defensive Work As Well</h2>No bright spot for the Habs either was that they took a full team, for the first time in two weeks, into a Jan. 7-8 doubleheader with the Rangers, and managed no better than an even split.This despite the fact that the two game series against New York, marked a milestone for fellows like Moore, Goyette, Harvey and Provost.Diggin&rsquo; Dickie snapped a nine game goal famine in the Jan. 8 battle with the Blueshirts, and flashed some of the form that marked his early season efforts. &ldquo;He played well in that game at New York, and went in for quite a few shots on the net,&rdquo; says Blake. &ldquo;Maybe he&rsquo;ll really start to go again now.&rdquo;It was Moore&rsquo;s 26th goal in 40 games, (plus 23 assists) and while it ended his personal famine; it was as nothing beside the famine that Phil Goyette ended the night before in Montreal, when he punched home the first counter he&rsquo;d managed from Oct. 25 to Jan. 7.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s different with Goyette,&rdquo; points out Toe. &ldquo;He hasn&rsquo;t played nearly as much as Moore for one thing. Besides Moore&rsquo;s been used on powerplays, and has had lots of work. But Goyette has excuses,&rdquo; says Toe, &ldquo;after all he did have a bad ankle. Things ought to go better for him now.&rdquo;But Canadiens, making no runaway of the League race this time, are keeping their collective fingers crossed that the bugaboo of wholesale injuries that plagued them at the start of January, won&rsquo;t break out again.They&rsquo;ll need everybody healthy to stand off the kind of competition they can expect from determined Toronto, rejuvenated Chicago, and dark horse Detroit. The return of the injured to the team&rsquo;s ranks, contributed much even to the two lonesofaie points Habs managed in that weekend duelling with New York.&ldquo;Whe we got Harvey and Provost back for the first time in those two games against the Rangers,&rdquo; says Blake, &ldquo;they both got goals, played well, and Harvey got two assists, besides.&rdquo;To the Habs, realizing there&rsquo;s not as much room at the top as they figured, all outstanding contributions are welcome.Meanwhile, sharpening their skates&mdash;and claws&mdash;for their defense of the top spot in the standings, Canucks pondered one line change as a possibility only.&ldquo;Maybe we&rsquo;ll put Bonin back with Henri (Richard) and Moore,&rdquo; mused Blake. &ldquo;If so, that&rsquo;s about the only line change planned.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Figures Show Gendron Is Right Guy For Left Side

TORONTO, Ont&mdash;For a player who is constantly on the trading block Center Billy Harris of the Toronto Maple Leafs is playing remarkably fine hockey. It&rsquo;s amazing that Billy, with the threat of being traded hanging over his head just about every day of the season, is one of the best centers the Leafs have right now. He has picked up the slack left by the injury of Bob Pulford, and Coach Punch Imlach is using his slim pivot as a regular. For most of this season Harris has been a bench warmer, getting a few minutes of play each game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0882/2069295-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="253" height="407"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Harns</figcaption></div>Last week Harris had one of his better weeks in the scoring column as he racked up two goals and added four assists for six points.The Leafs, who won two and dropped one, cut the Canadiens, margin to three points and continued to make it a red hot battle for the NHL bunting.On Thursday, January 12 the Leafs took a 6-2 whipping from the Habs in Montreal. Harris scored a goal and added an assist.On Saturday, January 14 the Leafs cut the Chicago non losing streak at eight games as they whipped the Hawks 4-1. Harris assisted on a goal.Last Sunday night the 157 pound Harris led the Leafs to a 6-4 win over the Bruins in Boston. Billy scored the goal that tied the game 3-3, assisted on Leafs 4th goal and assisted on Dick Duff&rsquo;s clincher, Leafs sixth.Harris now has a total of six goals and 19 assists for 25 points. &#9632;

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<h2>Hobs All-Star Loaded</h2>The Montreal Canadiens have placed two or more men on the first NHL All-Star team for the past seven seasons. Captain Doug Harvey has been on six of them. Jean Beliveau on five and Dickie Moore. Jacques Plante and Maurice Richard on two. Ken Mosdell, Tom Johnson and Henri Richard have each made it once.<h2>Champs Best On Road</h2>The Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs of 1959-60 had the finest road record in the loop. In 35 games the Habs won 17. lost 14 and tied four. The Leafs were almost as good on foreign ice, winning 15, losing 17 and tieing three. Next best team was Chicago with a 10 won, 18 lost seven tie record.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Wed. A.M. Jan. 18)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01484/2069264-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="558" height="185"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Games of Sun.. Jan. 15)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02446/2069257-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="588" height="2805"></div><h3>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1960-61</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03362/2069250-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="566" height="455"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04276/2069243-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="571" height="151"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11</h3>Detroit 2 at Chicago 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05192/2069236-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="555" height="350"></div><h3>THURSDAY, JANUARY 12</h3>Toronto 2 at Montreal 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-06142/2069229-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="547" height="530"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-07102/2069222-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="565" height="185"></div>New York 4 at Boston 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0964/2069215-1-eng-US/f0007-092.jpg" title="f0007-09" width="566" height="578"></div><h3>SATURDAY, JANUARY 14</h3>Boston 0 at Montreal 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1051/2069208-1-eng-US/f0007-102.jpg" title="f0007-10" width="544" height="153"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1146/2069201-1-eng-US/f0007-112.jpg" title="f0007-11" width="568" height="376"></div>Chicago 1 at Toronto 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1237/2069194-1-eng-US/f0007-122.jpg" title="f0007-12" width="562" height="413"></div>New York 2 at Detroit 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1331/2069187-1-eng-US/f0007-132.jpg" title="f0007-13" width="568" height="442"></div><h3>SUNDAY, JANUARY 15</h3>Montreal 4 at Detroit 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1422/2069180-1-eng-US/f0007-142.jpg" title="f0007-14" width="568" height="779"></div>Toronto 6 at Boston 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1517/2069173-1-eng-US/f0007-152.jpg" title="f0007-15" width="565" height="380"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1665/2069166-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="574" height="386"></div>New York 3 at Chicago 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1752/2069159-1-eng-US/f0013-172.jpg" title="f0013-17" width="572" height="548"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUENATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich&hellip;There are several things that force Jolly Jack Adams to become very much unjolly.They are players who are out of shape and the lack of staying with their check.Adams made his points as clear as possible hardly 12 hours after the Red Wings won their first home game in more than a month by beating Boston, 5-3.The next morning Adams had the players on the ice for a two hour and 45 minute workout, personally supervised the weigh-out of every player and ordered Alex Delvecchio and Gerry Odrowski onto the training bike in the dressing room and left coach Sid Abel behind to check on their weights after they pedalled&mdash;in bulky pads and all&mdash;for something like an hour.&ldquo;I seldom go into the dressing room to talk to the players,&rdquo; Adams said, &ldquo;but I have a boss too. There are times that you have to step in.&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t look good in winning that game&mdash;I&rsquo;m just thankful that we got it. Nobody looked good.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01518/2069326-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="276" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry Odrowski</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Do you know why Chicago is winning.? Because they&rsquo;re playing hockey the way it&rsquo;s supposed to be played. They&rsquo;re playing good, old-fashioned playoff hockey.&ldquo;They check, check, check, check. They stay with their man all the time and wait for the breaks and then they capitalize on them.&ldquo;They aren&rsquo;t getting a lot of shots but they&rsquo;re making good on the ones they get. They keep the pressure on, never let their man away.&ldquo;We haven&rsquo;t been doing it. We check for a period and then forget about it for the rest of the game.&ldquo;Chicago isn&rsquo;t a great defensive club. The guy in goal (Glenn Hall) has been doing a wonderful job for them. They know he can keep the puck out of the net and if they keep checking, they&rsquo;re bound to win,&rdquo; said Adams.And a check of the Hawks&rsquo; seven-game winning streak showed that Hall has allowed only nine goals&mdash;three times he blanked Detroit.Adams&rsquo; sweat-off campaign had immediate results as far as Odrowski&rsquo;s and Delvecchio&rsquo;s weight was concerned.Odrowski had pencilled in on the weight chart at 186 on the Sunday of the Bruins game and after the long ice workout and the stint on the training bike he weighed out under Abel&rsquo;s supervision at 175&mdash;a loss of 10&frac12; pounds.Delvecchio dropped seven pounds from 194 to 187.Alex had a great start this season, his best ever, and seemed easily on the way to a 30 goal season. He had 15 goals in the first 27 games. Since then, however, he hasn&rsquo;t flashed the red light in 13 starts.Whereas Delvecchio was once the club goal leader by a big margin, rookie right winger Howie Glover zoomed in with 14 in 40 games and Norm Ullman had 13.The strenuous workout, most unusual the morning after a game and especially one that Detroit won, climaxed a tough week for the Detroiters that started with a 6-4 loss at Toronto and the loss of Gordie Howe with a brain concussion.Detroit went into a Wednesday-Thursday, home-and-home set with the Maple Leafs absent defensemen Warren Godfrey and Marc Reaume.The first penalty of the game went to young Dick Healey, called up from Sudbury of the Eastern Pro League to help out during the rearguard emergency.At the time, the score was 1-1. Toronto scored with Healey off and made it 3-1 on another power play late in the period. By the time the session was over, Toronto led, 4-1.<h2>Club In A Fog</h2>&ldquo;We were in a fog,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;Gordie was hurt midway in the period and by the time they got him to the dressing room and scraped up the ice where he had fallen, our guys were just standing around. We had a five-minute powerplay and we only had one decent shot the whole time.&rdquo;Two quick goals by Glover, his second and third of the night for Detroit&rsquo;s first hat trick this season and first in some 64 games, slashed the Leaf margin to 5-3 at the end of the second period.Then came the play that made Abel more mad than anything else during the hectic night. Frank Mahovlich got his 34th goal with the third period less than seven minutes old.&ldquo;He kicked the puck into the net,&rdquo; Abel said flatly. &ldquo;His stick wasn&rsquo;t anywhere near the puck. So they get the goal and it kills our comeback.&rdquo;That one made the score 6-3 and it was too much for the Howe-less Red Wings although they did get another goal.Abel had noly two experienced defensemen for the game&mdash;Marcel Pronovost and Pete Goegan. In addition, he had Odrowski, a rookie, and Healey, playing his first NHL game.That forced extra duty on Pronovost and Goegan and Delvecchio also drew some blue line duty.The next night, with Johnny Bower sparkling as usual, Toronto won, 4-1, and Bower missed his &#9632;

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Wings’Trouble? Cheeking Poor, Overweight Players

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><h2>Pronovost, Mahovlich, Bower Also Voted To Six</h2>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Frank. Mahovlich of Toronto and Boom Boom Geoffrion of Canadiens polled the most points in the All-Star voting for the first half of the 1960-61 season. The high-scoring left and right wingmen respectively each polled 87 points out of a possible 90. Johnny Bower of Toronto with 84; Doug Harvey of Canadiens with 83; and Jean Beliveau of Canadiens with 80 were not too&rsquo; far off the pace, either.The First All-Star Team at the mid-way mark was selected as follows: Goal, Johnny Bower, Toronto; Defense, Doug Harvey, Canadiens; and Marcel Pronovost, Detroit; Center, Jean Beliveau, Canadiens; Right Wing, Boom Boom Geoffrion; and Left Wing, Frank Mahovlich, Toronto. All of these players were voted to their positions with comparative ease and had a big lead over their rival players.It was the first time that the two Toronto players, Bower and Mahovlich, had received AllStar recognition. Harvey, Pronovost and Beliveau were all members of the 1959-60 First All-Star Team, while Geoffrion was a member of the Second Team last year. Missing from last year&rsquo;s First All-Star Team are Goalie Glenn Hall; Right Wing Gordie Howe and Left Wing Bobby Hull.Following are the first and Second All-Star Teams for the first half of the 1960-61 season with the number of points compiled by each player in brackets:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02449/2069364-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="532" height="524"><figcaption class="caption-body">Poll The Most VotesFrank Mahovlich</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03365/2069357-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="534" height="522"><figcaption class="caption-body">Boom Boom Geoffrion</figcaption></div><h3>FIRST TEAM</h3>Goal, Johnny Bower, Toronto (84); Defense, Doug Harvey, Canadiens (83); Defense, Marcel Pronovost, Dertoit (50); Center, Jean Beliveau, Canadiens (80); Right Wing, Bernie Geoffrion, Canadiens (87); Left Wing, Frank Mahovlich, Toronto (87).<h3>SECOND TEAM</h3>Goal, Glenn Hall, Chicago (50); Defense, Carl Brewer, Toronto (33); Defense, Allan Stanley, Toronto (25); Center, Henri Richard, Canadiens (32); Right Wing, Gordie Howe, Detroit (51); Left Wing, Dickie Moore, Canadiens (56).If a Third Team had been selected it would have lined up as follows: Goal, Lorne Worley, Rangers (25); Defense, Tom Johnson, Canadiens (24.5) and Leo Boivin, Boston (24); Center, Norm Ullman, Detroit (25); Right Wing, Andy Bathgate, Rangers (24); Left Wing, Bobby Hull, Chicago (13).Only three players, which is the minimum, received votes for right wing. This is the first time that only three players have received votes for a position. Stanley just nosed out Tom Johnson by half a point for the last defense position on the Second Team. In naming Brewer to the other defense post on the Second Team it marked his first call to an AllStar aggregation.Points were awarded on the basis of five for a first choice, three for a second and one for a third. A unanimous choice would poll 90 points. Hockey writers, broadcasters and telecasters did the voting. The first half consisted of all games played up to and including those of December 29, 1960. A similar ballot will be issued for the second half and the players with the highest totals for the two halves will be named to the Official First and Second AllStar Teams this Spring. Players making places on the First Team receive $1,000 from the National Hockey League. Those making the Second Team pick up $500 each.<h2>2nd Team Hall, Brewer Stanley, Moore, Pocket</h2>Following is a complete list of every player who received one or more points in the balloting for the first half:Goal: Johnny Bower, Toronto, 84; Glenn Hall, Chicago, 50; Lorne Worsley, Rangers, 25; Terry Sawchuk, Detroit, 2; Charlie Hodge, Canadiens, 1.Defense: Doug Harvey, Canadiens, 83; Marcel Pronovost, Detroit, 50; Carl Brewer, Toronto, 33; Allan Stanley, Toronto, 25; Tom Johnson, Canadiens, 24.5; Leo Boivin, Boston, 24; Pete Goegan, Detroit, 20; Pierre Pilote, Chicago, 15; Warren Godfrey, Detroit, 9; Albert Langlois, Canadiens, 8; Doug Mohns, Boston, 7; Elmer Vasko, Chicago, 7; Jack Evans, Chicago, 5; Bill Gadsby, Rangers, 5; Bobby Baun, Toronto, 3; Harry Howell, Rangers, 3; Tim Horton, Toronto, 1; Jean-Guy Talbot, Canadiens, 1.Center: Jean Beliveau, Canadiens, 80; Henri Richard, Canadiens, 32; Norm Ullman, Detroit, 25; Red Kelly, Toronto, 19; Don McKenney, Boston, 3; Alex Delvecchio, Detroit, 3.Right Wing: Bernie Geoffrion, Canadiens, 87; Gordie Howe, Detroit, 51; Andy Bathgate, Rangers, 24.Left Wing: Frank Mahovlieh, Toronto, 87; Dickie Moore, Canadiens, 56; Bobby Hull, Chicago, 13; Alex Delvecchio, Detroit, 3; Camille Henry, Rangers, 1; Bert Olmstead, Toronto, 1; Dean Prentice, Rangers, 1. &#9632;

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Harvey, Beliveau, Boomer On 1st Half Glitter Team

<div class="byline">By HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;Steve Kraftcheck is truly a pro.The veteran defenseman, a first team selection in American Hockey League All-Star voting the past four seasons, was relieved of his coaching duties with the Rochester Americans on Jan. 5 and replaced for the balance of the schedule by General Manager Jack Riley.It&rsquo;s tough to be fired as a coach from any team.But it was even tougher for Kraftcheck, who then faced the decision as to whether to remain with the Amerks as a player or to ask to be traded to another club.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01503/2069402-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="290" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Riley</figcaption></div>Steve, backbone of the Kochester Backline corps, thought for only a couple of hours and after a phone conversation with Toronto&rsquo;s Punch Imlach, made up his mind. He&rsquo;d stay with the Amerks.&ldquo;I talked to Punch and he told, me I could do what I wanted. He offered to trade me anywhere I wanted to go. I&rsquo;ve thought it over. I like it in Rochester and I&rsquo;ve decided to stay,&rdquo; Kraftcheck said. &ldquo;Hockey has been my life. I&rsquo;m going to play the best I can for the rest of the season.&rdquo;<h2>Took It Like A Pro</h2>Riley, who assumed the general manager role prior to the 1959-60 campaign, was elated with Steve&rsquo;s decision.&ldquo;He took the news like the real pro that he is,&rdquo; Jack said. &ldquo;Most guys would have packed up and left in a situation like this. I&rsquo;m very happy and appreciative that he&rsquo;s going to stay. His loss certainly would have been an irreplaceable one to this hockey club. Steve Kraftcheck is a real pro.&rdquo;Kraftcheck, who had been the club&rsquo;s coach on Thursday, boarded the bus for Cleveland Friday night as just another player. And much to the credit of his teammates, that&rsquo;s the way he was treated&mdash;as one of the boys. This was a most difficult test not only for Steve who had been forced to keep a certain distance from his players while coach, but also for the players, some of whom didn&rsquo;t place Steve at the top of their hit parade.It was fitting that it should be Kraftcheck, who for years had toiled for Cleveland, who would score the winning goal on Saturday night as the Amerks grabbed off a 4-1 decision. It couldn&rsquo;t have been scored by a nicer guy.Steve, who will be 32 in March, tok over as coach of the Americans on Jan. 3, 1959, replacing interim coach Sam Pollock after Bucko McDonald had been ousted little more than a month into the &rsquo;58-59 season. Rochester teams won 78 regular season games, lost 57 and tied 11 with Kraftcheck as coach.Reason for his dismissal was that Toronto&rsquo;s parent club felt there were too many young players on this team for a playercoach to handle during games And Steve is one of those blueliners who spends 40 of the 60 minutes in action.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02476/2069395-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="538" height="522"><figcaption class="caption-body">Just A PlayerSteve Kraftcheck</figcaption></div>Riley, who last coached in the American League in 1947-48 at Washington when he was only 26, debuted quite successfully as benchmaster of the Americans.At this writing he&rsquo;s batting 1,000 with 2-for-2&mdash;both over Cleveland.Kraftcheck scored the gamewinner in the 4-1 win at Cleveland, and it was rookie defenceman Mike (The Toy Tiger) Donaldson with his first professional goal who scored the winner in a 4-2 Amerk triumph here the following night.Donaldson hadn&rsquo;t scored a goal in league play for anybody since making &ldquo;about five&rdquo; with Guelph in Junior OHA competition in 1958-59. He was blanked in 39 games with Guelph last season and hadn&rsquo;t scored a goal or an assist with Rochester in the club&rsquo;s first 36 outings. &#9632;

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Can’t Run Team And Play, Steve Given Heave-Ho

<h2>Barons Hard On Goalers</h2>A total of 20 goalers performed in the American Hockey League during the 1959_60 season. The Cleveland Barons lead the league in goalers used. They dressed no fewer than half a dozen during the year. They were Ken Walters, one game; Gil Boisvert, 24 games; John Henderson, one games; Gil Mayer, 41 games; Claude Cyr, two games.<h2>Four Baron Bad Men</h2>The Cleveland Barons had four players in their lineup in 1959-60 who spent 100 minutes or more in the penalty box. Aldo Guidolin led the team with 168 minutes, followed by Freddie Glover with 143 minutes. Defenseman George McAvoy spent 124 minutes in the cooler and Bill Shvetz was sent to the penalty box for a total of 113 minutes.<h3>TUESDAY, JANUARY 10</h3>Cleveland 4 at Quebec 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03423/2069538-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="559" height="524"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11</h3>Buffalo 3 at Providence 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07220/2069531-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="557" height="668"></div>Hershey 2 at Springfield 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08205/2069524-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="556" height="418"></div><h3>THURSDAY, JANUARY 12</h3>Cleveland 2 at Quebec 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09201/2069517-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="556" height="105"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10187/2069510-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="554" height="459"></div><h3>FRIDAY, JANUARY 13</h3>Providence 5 ot Rochester 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11162/2069503-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="567" height="806"></div><h3>SATURDAY, JANUARY 14</h3>Providence 1 at Cleveland 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-12129/2069496-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="560" height="392"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-13115/2069489-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="566" height="336"></div>Rochester 3 at Hershey 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1494/2069482-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="562" height="588"></div>Buffalo 3 at Springfield 8<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1574/2069475-1-eng-US/f0009-152.jpg" title="f0009-15" width="575" height="767"></div><h3>SUNDAY, JANUARY 15</h3>Providence 0 at Buffalo 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13150/2069468-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="560" height="409"></div>Hershey 3 at Cleveland 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-14124/2069461-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="561" height="425"></div>Springfield 2 at Rochester 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1598/2069454-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="574" height="510"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including games of Sun., Jan. 15)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04359/2069447-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="570" height="336"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3>Most Goals&mdash;Jim Anderson, Springfield, 27.Most Assists&mdash;Bill Sweeney, Brian Kilrea, Spr., 43 each.Most Penalized Player&mdash;Howie Young, Hershey, 160 minutes.Most Penalized Team&mdash;Cleveland, 669 Minutes.<h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05284/2069440-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="571" height="235"></div><h3>How The Race Goes</h3>(Standings On Wed. A.M. Jan. 18)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06245/2069433-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="564" height="212"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.-A veteran of the great Montreal Canadiens teams of the 40s, Leo Lamoureux, 45, died last week in Long Hospital here.Lamoureux was coach of the Indiana-polis Chiefs of the International Hockey League. He was forced to give up the job last November 17 when he was ordered to hospital with an acute case of hepatitis.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02446/2069624-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="270" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo Lamoureux</figcaption></div>A veteran player and coach, he began his career with the Canadiens in 1941. He was a member of the Canadiens from 1943 to 1947 and later played at Springfield, Mass, and Buffalo, N.Y.Lamoureux coached at Shawinigan, Prince Edward Island and North Bay, before becoming player-coach of the Indianapolis Chiefs in 1956. He guided Indianapolis to the IHL&rsquo;s postseason playoffs two straight years and won the playoffs in 1958.After a two-year absence, Lamoureux was hired to coach the Chiefs again this year but was forced to quit when he became ill.The former Hab rearguard was buried at Windsor, Ontario last Saturday, January 14. &#9632;

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Ex-Hab of 40’s, Lamoureux Dies

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The feud that has been brewing between the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL and Winnipeg Warriors of the Western Hockey League erupted again last week. The Leafs announced that football star Gerry James of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Western Football League, and former NHL player, will not be allowed to play for the Warriors.Jack Perrin, general manager of the Western League Warriors, said earlier he had been given perrmission by Victoria Cougars of the Western League to negotiate with James.James played for the Leafs last season, but did not report back after a football season with Winnipeg. He was placed on the inactive list.Recently Leafs gave Victoria Cougars permission to deal with James. Now, Perrin revealed he had an understanding with the Victoria club.But Perrin has been trying to stir up a war between the WHL and NHL, but apparently has succeeded only in getting NHL moguls mad at him. One he apparently made madder than most is Leaf boss Staff Smythe. &#9632;

Leafs Nix Perrin’s Bid To Sign Gerry Jamee At ‘Peg

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY. Pa.&mdash;Brian Smith one of the Hershey Bears better scorers through the early part of last season, has rejoined the club&rsquo;s ranks on loan from the parent Detroit Red Wings.Smith, who opened the season in Detroit, then was dispatched to Edmonton of the Western League, was assigned to Hershey Jan. 6 by the National League outfit.Smith was dispatched here after Wings recalled wingers Jack MacKenzie and Claude Laforge following a rash of injuries in the ranks of the big league outfit.Smith, of Creighton Mine, Ont., scored 13 goals in 39 games with Hershey last season before he was summoned to finish the 1959-60 campaign with the Wings.&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t like to see either McKenzie or Laforge go,&rdquo; said Coach Frank Mathers, &ldquo;but getting Smith in return was a big lift. I think he&rsquo;ll be able to help us in the stretch drive.&rdquo;The Bears closed the first half of the 72-game schedule in a tie with Buffalo for third place. Both had 35 points.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03372/2069679-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="238" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Brian Smith</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We played at a .500 clip through the first half and I&rsquo;d like to see us improve that record in the second half,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;Personally, I feel we&rsquo;ve got the club to finish second. No one can catch Springfield now. Even if they had a complete collapse, it would take a tremendous win streak to overhaul them.&rdquo;Defenseman Howie Young, better known as the &ldquo;Wild Man&rdquo; continues to be the world&rsquo;s most penalized player in professional or amateur hockey.The 23-year-old hell-for-leather Toronto product had amassed a staggering 158 minutes, just 55 minutes short of eclipsing the league record of 212, set in 1950-51 by Harry Dick, of Buffalo.In the games of Jan 7-8 against the Buffalo Bisons, Mathers shifted Young to a right wing spot and he caught the fancy of the home crowd with his slam-bang, bulllike rushes on the opponent net.&ldquo;The guy&rsquo;s colorful and people are starting to come to see him play,&rdquo; said Mathers, who tabbed is young &ldquo;Wild Man&rdquo; as the &ldquo;roughest player I&rsquo;ve ever seen in this league.&rdquo;Through the first 21 home games, the Bears drew 82,093 fans and indications are with the tight race from second to fifth at hand, the attendance will increase as the race heads for the wire.&ldquo;The attendance could be better,&rdquo; said Mathers, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;m hoping it is, because the crowd can help pick up the team, especially in tight games. When we won the Calder Cup and league title two years in a row, the crowd had quite a bit to do with our success. When you know the fans are with you, it does a lot for a team&rsquo;s morale.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Mathers Concedes 1st; Maps Route Into 2nd For Bruins

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;As far as Montreal&rsquo;s car thieves are concerned, no one is immune.Take, for instance, the case of Hector &ldquo;Toe&rdquo; Blake, coach of the Stanley Cup-holding Canadiens, idols of the city.Last week Blake walked out of the Forum to find that his 1956, grey-and-salmon-colored car had joined the ranks of the statistics of the Stolen Auto Squad.Late last week Det-Sgt. Aurel Labadie reported that the police were still looking for the coach&rsquo;s car&mdash;licence plates 107-735.But even though Blake&rsquo;s car is missing, there still remain Harvey, Moore, Beliveau, Richard, Geoffrion, etc., etc. &#9632;

Car Thieves Unimpressed By Names; Toe’s Is Stolen

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Willie O&rsquo;Ree is the Jackie Robinson of major league hockey, but he doesn&rsquo;t feel like a pioneer.O&rsquo;Ree is the 25-year-old forward of the Bruins who. three years ago. was the first Negro ever to play in the National Hockey League.Late last November O&rsquo;Ree became the first member of his race to play regularly in the NHL, when the Bruins promoted him from Kingston of the Eastern League.But there have been no trials and tribulations for O&rsquo;Ree as there were for Robinson when, in 1947, he became the first Negro to play major league baseball.And Willie confesses that he hasn&rsquo;t been antcipaung any.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01517/2069593-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="250" height="393"><figcaption class="caption-body">Willie O&rsquo;Ree</figcaption></div>&ldquo;To tell you the truth, I&rsquo;ve never given the matter of my race much thought as far as hockey is concerned,&rdquo; said O&rsquo;Ree, a native of Fredericton, New Brunswick.&ldquo;I started playing hockey in Fredericton when I was a little fellow, and I&rsquo;ve been playing for most of my life. I don&rsquo;t consider that I&rsquo;ve ever been handicapped because of my color.&rdquo;The only time the matter has ever come up for discussion, O&rsquo;Ree recalled, was when he played junior hockey under Phil Watson in Quebec. Watson, a wise man who had been in New York when Robinson broke in with the old Brooklyn Dodgers, thought he would spare the youngster from the Maritimes bruised feelings.&ldquo;Phil talked to me when I joined his team,&rdquo; related O&rsquo;Ree, &ldquo;and he told me that things might be different away from home. He said I would have to expect insults and remarks and that I would have to learn to ignore them. I appreciated his advice, but I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;ve ever been abused.&rdquo;The Bruins, into whose orbit O&rsquo;Ree moved in 1956 as a member of the Quebec Aces, coached by Punch Imlach, have always taken him at his hockey value. Bruins&rsquo; followers have treated him the same way, and it has been his great speed and dash which has made him a heavy favorite with customers here.O&rsquo;Ree lives the same type life as the rest of the Bruins. When the team is home he lives with a cousin&mdash;he has a number of relatives&mdash;right here in Boston. On road trips he rooms with Charlie Burns, the Detroit-born center.If O&rsquo;Ree were a member of any of the other United States teams in the NHL, he might have box office value, for New York, Detroit and Chicago all have Negro populations in the millions.By contract, the estimated Negro population of the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts is only 60,000 people. The only effect O&rsquo;Ree&rsquo;s presence has had on the Bruins&rsquo; front office operations has been in requests for pictures and stories to the team&rsquo;s publicity department.Negro athletes were no novelty hereabouts long before O&rsquo;Ree&mdash;and Robinson too, for that matter.Harvard University had a Negro football star more than 70 years ago.The first Negro to be signed by a major league basketball team was Charles &ldquo;Chuck&rdquo; Cooper of Duquesne University, by the Boston Celtics. Walter Brown, owner of the Celtics, is also president of the Bruins. The world champion Celtics include four Negroes today&mdash;Bill Russell, Sam Jones, Tom Sanders and Casey Jones. &#9632;

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No Pioneer, Says Hub Negro O’Ree

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;Balding Norm Johnson has been like money in the bank for the Calgary Stampeders &hellip; and while knocking on wood (lest the Black Hawks would reach out for him to take him back upstairs), Gus Kyle for the life of him can&rsquo;t understand why the 28-year-old Moose Jaw native still isn&rsquo;t patrolling a National League beat.Yet Johnson was just his next breath away from packing up his hockey career even before he had pulled on a pair of skates for the first time in a professional team&rsquo;s dressing room.Back in the early 50&rsquo;s, Norm was discouraged over the fact that he had been passed over by the pros several times at training camp.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01515/2069734-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="265" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Norm Johnson</figcaption></div>He was just about to call it a day with the shamateur Moose Jaw Millers, when Frank Boucher gave him an invite to the pre-season sessions of his hockey orphans, who had started out in Saskatoon the year before, then were about to move into Regina.Regina wasn&rsquo;t the answer, either, and Boucher and his &ldquo;angel&rdquo;, Saskatoon, contractor Jim Piggott, decided to give Brandon a fling. It was a struggling operation at Brandon, too, and Piggott, still chasing the will-o&rsquo;-the-wisp, has since taken up a hockey resting place at Victoria.But if they were having their troubles at the gate in their nomadic existence, Johnson was proving a welcome bright spot for Messrs. Piggott and Boucher.He scored lb goals in nis nrstv season, 1955-56, and helped out on 22 others. Then in the following campaign, he came up big with 32 goals and 46 assists.By this time, big league clubs were taking belated notice of him, and toward the end of the 1957-58 season, Boston Bruins took him up. He scored four goals in the National League playoffs, but still he didn&rsquo;t have it made.He went to Chicago in a deal the following year, which is how he has wound up with the Stampeders.And when Johnson showed up here, El Gusso counted it as perhaps the biggest single break he had in the current season.He promptly installed Norm between Lou Jankowski, a journeyman winger, who was found wanting in trials with NHL clubs in earlier years, and young Ron (Squeak) Leopold.Immediately this line became the terror of the league, and much of the credit has to go to Johnson. He got his wingers pointed in the right direction, so much so that when Johnson suffered a severe shoulder separation that knocked him out for several weeks, Gord Vejprava just stepped in and the line remained in high gear.The prolifics of Leopold and Jankowski gained further lustre in the fact that is becoming more apparent that Seattle&rsquo;s Guyle Fielder is not going to catch them in quest of his umpteenth scoring title. The net result is Jankowski may still get one last shot at a major league job, and Leopold almost certainly is going to win promotion in the Black Hawk organization.Then when Johnson was ready to return to action shortly after the New Year, a major problem posed itself for coach Kyle. He didn&rsquo;t want to break up the Vejprava-Jankowski-Leopold line that was still going so well, and there was an alternative was a natural.Kyle had been having trouble with some of his rookies, like John Kosiancic, Cliff Bristow and Jerry Esch, going in fits and starts. So he has decided to have Johnson to steady them down.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to have balance if we are going to win this league,&rdquo; Kyle confesses. &ldquo;Johnson should give it to us by settling those kids.&ldquo;Yessir, he sure was a valuable acquisition for us. It&rsquo;s hard to believe our luck.&rdquo;Ice Chips &hellip; Edmonton Flyers, who ran into a mid-season slump that added up to an all-time club losing streak of eight straight, have made a change in captain. Bob Solinger, appointed by the club management a month earlier, has been replaced as ice general by Chuck Holmes, in a player vote that was without precedent in the Edmonton camp &hellip; Bub Poile also slapped $150 in fines on six of his players &hellip; &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t like to resort to fines,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and we certainly don&rsquo;t want their money. In fact, we won&rsquo;t keep it. We&rsquo;re turning it over to the Crippled Children&rsquo;s Fund.&rdquo; &hellip; Vancouver Canucks turned Murray Wilkie loose, and Seattle snapped him up. &#9632;

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Cowboys Ready To Tab Johnson As Stamps’ MVP

<h2>Individual Scoring</h2>Ron Leopold, of Calcary, continues to set the scorinr pace with 52 points on 27 goals and 25 assists. Team and linemate Lou Jankowski added one goal the past week and now has 28, one more than Leopold. Veteran Rudy Filion, of Seattle, caught teammate Guyle Fielder in the assist column. Both have 33 to their credit.<h2>Hat Tricks</h2>Sid Finney, of Calgary, scored 4 goals against the Seattle Totems Tuesday, Jan. 4 in Calcary for his first hat trick of the season. Saturday, Jan. 7 teammate John Kosiancic hit the net three times, also against Seattle, for the first hat trick for the rookie.<h3>MONDAY, JANUARY 2</h3>Edmonton 1 at Victoria 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02469/2069905-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="557" height="425"></div>Spokane 5 at Vancouver 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03397/2069898-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="560" height="702"></div>Calgary 3 at Winnipeg 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04324/2069891-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="564" height="353"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05274/2069884-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="559" height="179"></div><h3>TUESDAY, JANUARY 3</h3>Seattle 2 at Calgary 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09207/2069877-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="556" height="598"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4</h3>Vancouver 0 at Portland 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10186/2069870-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="557" height="381"></div>Victoria 0 at Spokane 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11163/2069863-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="563" height="473"></div>Seattle 2 at Edmonton 8<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12150/2069856-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="558" height="232"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-13126/2069849-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="565" height="463"></div><h3>FRIDAY, JANUARY 6</h3>Portland 3 at Vancouver 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1498/2069842-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="559" height="457"></div>Seattle 4 at Edmonton 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1578/2069835-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="560" height="378"></div><h3>SATURDAY. JANUARY 7</h3>Winnipeg 4 at Spokane 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1655/2069828-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="558" height="432"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1744/2069821-1-eng-US/f0011-172.jpg" title="f0011-17" width="557" height="382"></div>Vancouver 1 at Victoria 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1837/2069814-1-eng-US/f0011-182.jpg" title="f0011-18" width="548" height="326"></div>Seattle 5 at Colgary 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1932/2069807-1-eng-US/f0011-192.jpg" title="f0011-19" width="568" height="732"></div><h3>SUNDAY, JANUARY 8</h3>Winnipeg 4 at Spokane 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-2021/2069800-1-eng-US/f0011-202.jpg" title="f0011-20" width="560" height="260"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02413/2069793-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="563" height="230"></div>Victoria 0 at Portland 9<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03312/2069786-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="558" height="476"></div><h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Mon. A.M. Jan. 9)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06245/2069779-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="571" height="228"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Games Of Sun., Jan. 8)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07224/2069772-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="574" height="456"></div><h3>Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08217/2069765-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="568" height="352"></div><h3>The Leaders</h3>Most Points, Ron Leopold, Calgary 52.Most Goals, Lou Jankowski, Calgary, 28.Most Assists, Rudy Filion, Seattle, 33 and Guyle Fielder, Seattle, 33.Most First Goal Of Game, Orland Kurtenbach, Vancouver, 7.Most Game Winning Goals, Danny Belisle, Vancouver, 7.Most Shutouts, Don Head, Portland, 4.Most Goals Scored With Man Adv., Marc Boileau, Seattle, 8.Most Goals Against When Serv. Pen., Don Ward, Winnipeg, 6.Most Penalties, Frank Arnett, Seattle, 111. &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;Springfield&rsquo;s pillaging and rampaging Indians from the Tepee of Eddie Shore have turned the American Hockey League race into a big nothing as they roar along with a more or less 20-point lead.In Cleveland the cries of anguish from the grandstands takes on the sound of a blood-thirsty wolf pack as the Barons totter and creak and crumble in their efforts to pound out a playoff berth.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01498/2069936-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="286" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Hendy</figcaption></div>But there are those among the viewers who can easily recall a time just 11 years ago when the Barons were pulling off the same sort of stunt now being performed by the Springfield Indians.Eleven years ago this date the Barons were first in the league with a margin of 20 points over the second place club, then Indianapolis. The Barons lead over Springfield was 21 points as the Cleveland skaters were romping along on a record of only seven losses in 42 games.Do you think the Springfield goal total which, after 41 games this season, stood at 209 was tremendous power?The Barons of 1949-50 had fired 222 goals in that many games.That was one of the most powerful hockey clubs the American League has yet seen.For example, Cleveland&rsquo;s top scorers at this writing are Capt. Fred (No Kid) Glover with 11 goals and Eddie (Spider) Mazur with 13. Otherwise the Cleveland scoring list trails badly in the league totals.At the risk of causing Coach Jackie Gordon more discomfort than he is already suffering (the Barons have lost seven of eight at this writing) we&rsquo;ll run down the list of Cleveland riflemen on that club of 11 years ago.After 42 games the Barons&rsquo; Les Douglas led the lead with 23 goals and 43 assists, Bobby Carse, 22 goals and 38 assists; Pete Leswick, 24 goals and 30 assists; Fred Thurier, 16 goals and 38 assists; Ken Schultz, 22 goals and 28 assists; Roy Kelly, 27 goals and 22 assists; Tod Sloan, 19 goals and 14 assists and Johnny Holota, woh had played only 20 games because of a broken shoulder, had fired 11 goals and had 14 assists.Also in that lineup was Tommy Williams, now on the Cleveland roster as a spare defenseman, Hy Buller, now a linesman at all games played in the Cleveland Arena and Steve Kraftcheck, now star defenseman with the Rochester Americans who was recently deposed as coach. The goalie was a guy named Johnny (China Wall) Bower.That was the season Jim Hendy made his debut as general manager of the Barons, having been summoned to Cleveland by the new ownership that had purchased the hockey club from the colorful and fabulously successful Al (Red Tie) Sutphin.<h2>SPORTS PHOTOS !</h2>Thousands of different 8 x 10 glossy photos. Ideal for your bar, den or clubroom. 60 cents each.SPECIAL OFFER10 Hockey Hall of Famers: $4.00 Send for FREE LIST.ALL SPORTS PHOTOSBox 267 Freeport, N.Y. &#9632;

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Injuns Powerful? Sure, But 1949-50 Barons Were Tops

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<div class="byline">By PETER WARREN</div>SAINT JOHN, N. B.&mdash;Senior hockey has returned to New BrunswickAnd there&rsquo;s over four thousand fans in Saint John alone who&rsquo;ll tell you it&rsquo;s returned with nothing less than a sputnik blast-off.Moncton Junior Beavers, who reached the Eastern Canadian Memorial Cup quarter-finals last year currently lead the four-team New Brunswick Hockey League merry-go-round. Saint John&rsquo;s Irving Oilers are in second spot.Saturday the Oilers, who had already lost four decisions to the pesky Moncton outfit, had 4,320 fans roaring their heads off as they streaked to a 3-2 win and outshot the Beavers with over 20 drives.It&rsquo;s been many years since over 2,000 attended a hockey game in New Brunswick and it&rsquo;s been longer still since Saint John sported a team worth its upkeep. But apparently they&rsquo;ve both arrived.Longtime Maritime great Nick Nicolle, former Nova Scotia Senior League players, Doug (Crow) Hewey and Doug MacPhee along with local talent combine to make the Oilers a powerful outfit.It was a good week, too for Caps, who currently hold up the Ches Hornibrook&rsquo;s Fredericton four-team loop foundations with only eight points from 15 starts.Hornibrook, their hard-worked manager, appealed for local talent during the week and indicated that the Caps might have to fold.&ldquo;If we can&rsquo;t give the fans good hockey they won&rsquo;t turn out and we can&rsquo;t give &rsquo;em good hockey if we haven&rsquo;t got the players,&rdquo; Honibrook said.The appeal was answered and several Fredericton veterans turned out for the Caps duel Saturday with Fredericton uniors&mdash;the Caps won a resounding 10-5 decision before the largest crowd in Fredericton this season.Rugged Ed McLellan paced the Caps attack with three goals, while Colin Ross and Mel MacKenzie pumped two apiece.One Moncton Junior, Oscar Gaudet who turned down Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; tryout offers in order to complete his education is proving his worth as a team player feeding linemate Phil Dorion and brother Gene Gaudet, so that now Dorion and Saint John&rsquo;s pesky winger, Crow Hewey share the league&rsquo;s scoring race with 42 points apiece. &#9632;

Saint John Oilers Humming Sweet Tune At Ducat Gate

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;When Billy Reay was hit with a $300 fine for his Christmas Day scuffle with referee Bruce Sims at the Montreal Forum, the hockey cognescenti was practically unanimous in the feeling that Edward Houston, president of the Eastern Pro loop had tempered justice with mercy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01494/2070039-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="248" height="401"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Reay</figcaption></div>There were few so straight-laced and so hard-hearted that they wished to see Reay treated harshly. His fine record as a player and coach in more than 20 years in the game&rsquo;s upper brackets was high in his favor. He well deserved any leniency that the powers might deem wholesome. Such was the general sentiment.If Mr. Houston had simply said that Reay was fined $300, and let it go at that. Swell. If he was impelled to hold the sentence to a low fine, with a rider that the effect that Reay didn&rsquo;t rate more drastic punishment in view of his good behavior over more than two decades, that would have been okay.But Mr. Houston took the stand that the newspapers had exaggerated Reay&rsquo;s actions after he invaded the official sanctum at the Forum, and violated the Yuletide traditions of peace and goodwill.Mr. Houston disappointed quite a few people who have been sounding trumpets and beating tom toms to laud the operations of the Eastern Pro Hockey League this past year and a half. He sought to explain his own actions by minimizing Reay&rsquo;s conduct. No alibi was necessary.It was nowhere printed that Reay had committed mayhem or grievous bodily harm. It was simply stated on the testimony of eye-witnesses that he and Sims had exchanged a few wallops, with no qualification as to their lethal damage.Why then did the League president need to infer that the cloistered rumpus had been exaggerated?At $300 for a scuffle Mr. Houston indicated that the price scale for misdemeanors or affront against one of the arbiters is much lower in the minors than in the National Hockey League.A few days before Reay was fined &lsquo;three bills,&rsquo; as the boys in the bullrings of the hockey arenas would call it, George &lsquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach of Toronto Maple Leafs was fined $200 by Clarence Campbell president of the National Hockey League, for merely making barbed remarks about referee Frank Udvari.Next they&rsquo;ll be quoting prices along with the scoring and pen alty stax and goalers&rsquo; averages it the weekly sports periodicals like THE HOCKEY NEWS.In a professional hockey caree that began in the 1939-40 season with the Omaha club in the old Reay&rsquo;s action have been notably free from turbulance.He was naver a freely penalized player. It is significant that he had as low as five penalties, a total of ten minutes in 44 games with the Montreal Canadiens in the 1945-46 campaign, and his highest mark was 48 minutes with the penalty timers in the 1949-50 season when he played 68. His complete record in the NHL Press and Radio Guide shows that his usual toll in lost time through discipline by the referees was in the 20s or low 30s total minutes for an entire season. All of which supports the assertion that Reay had a very exemplary record of behavior as a player. &#9632;

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Houston’s Stock Takes Dip After Knock At Scribes

WINNIPEG, MAN.&mdash;Plans to move forward Real Chevrefils of the Kingston Frontenacs of the EPHL to the Winnipeg Warriors of the Western Hockey League have been shelved because of injury to the former Boston Bruins&rsquo; star.The Eastern Professional Hockey League player was reported to be on his way to the Warriors under a working agreement with Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League.But General Manager Jack Perrin of the Warriors declined to comment on the report that Chevrefils was to report to Winnipeg, but said that &ldquo;if it was true&rdquo; he did not know whether The Frontenacs had a substitute in mind.Chevrefils suffered a skate gash on the bottom of his foot at the base of his big toe, as Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds defeated Kingston 2-1 Tuesday night, January 10 in a EPHL game. The&rsquo; winger is expected to be out of action for at least two weeks. &#9632;

Chevrefils, ‘Peg Bound, On Shelf For Two Weeks

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Goaler Jacques Plante, five time Vezina Trophy Winner of the Montreal Canadiens has joined the Montreal Royals of the Eastern Professional Hockey League.Plante is stepping down to the EPHL at his own request.He injured his leg earlier in the season and has never been able to get his job back because of the great work done by Charlie Hodge, who was brought up from the Royals.Plante worked in 21 games and gave up 69 goals, In 20 games Hodge gave up 44 goals.With Plante in the nets, Canadiens won 10, lost seven and tied four. With Hodge they have won 15, lost four and tied one.Plante has been working out regularly at practices with Canadiens for the last couple of weeks and asked that he be sent to the Royals to sharpen up in a regular game.There was no indication when he may return to the nets with the National Hockey League club. &#9632;

Plante Gets Habs Okay To Play With Farmclub

<h2>26 ROOKIES ELIGIBLE</h2>The Eastern Pro Hockey League Is well stocked with rookies. Well scattered through its six teams are 26 eligibles for the 1960-61 &lsquo;Freshman Award&rsquo;. Standouts in scoring are Cliff Pennington and Bobby Rousseau of Hull-Ottawa. Two Americans qualify&mdash;Tom Williams, Kingston forward, and Jack McCartan, Kitchener goaler.<h2>A NEW &lsquo;BAD MAN&rsquo;</h2>Upon departure of Bob Wilson, defenseman with the aggressive disposition to Buffalo Bisons of the AHL the EPHL &lsquo;bad man&rsquo; tag was taken over by a teammate. Matt Ravlich, of Soo T-Birds gets the dubious honors. Last reckoning Ravlich had served 85 minutes in the sin-bin.<h3>TUESDAY, JANUARY 10</h3>Kingston 1 at Sault 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02451/2070188-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="559" height="477"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11</h3>Hull 2 at Kitchener 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03415/2070181-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="559" height="387"></div>Kingston 4 at Sudbury 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04379/2070174-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="556" height="455"></div><h3>THURSDAY, JANUARY 12</h3>Montreal 2 at Sault 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05320/2070167-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="556" height="338"></div><h3>FRIDAY, JANUARY 13</h3>Montreal 4 at Sudbury 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06274/2070160-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="559" height="528"></div><h3>SATURDAY, JANUARY 14</h3>Sudbury 4 at Kingston 8<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09234/2070153-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="570" height="818"></div><h3>SUNDAY. JANUARY 15</h3>Sault 4 at Montreal 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10223/2070146-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="567" height="545"></div>Kingston 4 at Hull 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11201/2070139-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="577" height="612"></div>Sudbury 3 at Kitchener 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12181/2070132-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="570" height="515"></div><h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Wed. A.M. Jan. 18)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07259/2070125-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="561" height="185"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including games of Sun., Jan. 15)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08244/2070118-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="570" height="313"></div><h3>Leaders</h3>Most Goals, Tom McCarthy, Sud., 29.Most Assists, Cliff Pennington, H-O, 45.Best Goalie, Ed Johnston, H-O, 38, 93, 8, 2.44.Most Shutouts, Ed Johnston, H-O, 8.Most Penalized Team, Sudbury, 688 mts.Most Penalized Player, Matt Ravelich, SSM, 84 mts &#9632;

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EASTERN PRO LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div>NEW YORK, N. Y.&mdash;Manager Paul Buck and player-coach Gordie Tottle have adopted a get tough policy in order to snap the Charlotte Checkers into playoff contention.The Dixielanders opened the 1960-61 campaign on the road, always a tough undertaking. and came off with one win and a tie in four starts. They then were nipped in overtime by Greensboro in their home opener and dropped another overtimer in Greensboro for a dismal 1-4-1 beginning.Coach Tottle, a former American Hockey League great, has been patient with his players, too patient some observers believe. Now, Gord has decided it&rsquo;s time to produce or else, the or else being an early trip home.Manager Bucy has threatened fines and a shuttle service to the Dominion if his crew don&rsquo;t produce.Tottle feels this team has the capability to take the division title, and, on paper there is no reason to dispute this point.With four wins in their last five outings (the lone setback being in overtime atJohnstown), it looks like the Checkers have seen the light. They&rsquo;ve moved past Philadelphia (by one point) and trail Johnstown (the Southern Division leader) by only six points.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01490/2070219-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="288" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gord Tottle</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Get Tough Policy Quickly Snaps Charlotte Into Line

<div class="byline">By JACK THOMSON</div>FORT WILLIAM. Ont&mdash;For the second time this year the Thunder Bay Amateur Hockey Association has had to suspend a junior hockey player for conduct on the ice. Forward Earl Fecteau of the Port Arthur North Stars was suspended for three games after an incident with the referee. Previously Willie Yasinski of the Fort William Hurricanes was on the sidelines for two games&hellip;&hellip;Mickey Hennessey has piloted his Canadians to another Lakehead Junior championship&hellip;&hellip;The senior Fort William Beavers have received the reinstatement and release of John &ldquo;KO&rdquo; Kowalchuk, from the Montreal Canadiens. Kowalchuk, who played his junior hockey here will join the Beavers immediately&hellip;&hellip;Radio Station CJLX, in Fort William applied to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association for the broadcast rights of the World Championship games in Switzerland, this year. They would be sending over their hockey broadcast crew&hellip;&hellip;The United States National team, who played the Fort William Beavers here, are playing only three games in Canada this year; In Fort William, Winnipeg and Fort Frances&hellip;&hellip;Jack Williams, who is with the Nationals this year is the Brother of Tommy Williams, who was the leading scorer for the Olympic team last year. Tommy played junior with the Fort William Hurricanes, when they met the Brandon Wheat Kings in the Western Semi - finals&hellip;&hellip;Ken Reardon, Doug Harvey, Jack Adams and Gordie Howe represented their clubs at the presidents night in Fort William, honoring Stan Mack, president of the North Stars and Chris Asseff, president of the Canadians&hellip;&hellip;Canadians Billy Isbell has taken over the scoring lead in Lakehead junior from team mate Brian Latta. Isbell has scored twenty one goals already this season Fred Page, Thunder Bay president is quite disturbed at the way Manitoba is handling the release of the Winnipeg players to the Warroad Lakers&hellip;&hellip;Rightwinger Barry Hogan, of the Brandon Wheat Kings who played last year with the Hurricanes, was chosen to the right wing spot on the first all star team, in Manitoba junior half season voting Its reported former North Star junior Vern Mainville, has joined a junior club &#9632;

News From The Lakehead

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div>Ft. WAYNE, Ind&mdash;Len Thomson, Ft. Wayne Komet centerman, replaced Omaha&rsquo;s Chick Chalmers as the Internaional Hockey League&rsquo;s scoring leader, by scoring twelve points during the past week.Thomson a likeable 27-year-old native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, tallied five goals and seven assists in three games, while Chalmers, who is in a bit of slump, scored three points, in a like number of contests.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02392/2070274-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="236" height="394"><figcaption class="caption-body">Len Thomson</figcaption></div>Len, who has played with Indianapolis, Huntington and Ft. Wayne, in five IHL campaigns, has scored two or more points in his last thirteen games.Thomson&rsquo;s total is 24 goals and 50 assists in 36 games, as compared to Chalmers&rsquo; 25-40-65 in 38 frays.The Ft. Wayne forward is five games ahead of Chalmers&rsquo; recordbreaking pace of 134 points last Season and is eight games up on the Omaha centerman&rsquo;s 93 assists.Muskegon&rsquo;s Ken Hayden and Minneapolis player - coach, Ken Yackel are tied for third spot with 60 points. Hayden&rsquo;s 34 goals and three hat tricks are league highs.Completing the top ten are Bruce Lea (Mpls.), Norm Doyle (Musk.), Billy LeCaine (Mpls.), Gordie Cowan (Toledo), Joe Kastelic (Ft. Wayne) and Greg Jablonski (Omaha).The Omaha-Indianapolis trade, which has been brewing for a week or so, is now finalized, with the Chiefs sending high-scoring right winger Pierre Brillant to Omaha for veteran Bep Guidolin and an undisclosed amount of cash.The Chiefs are not giving up by any means. Although they trail third place Muskegon by 17 points in the Eastern Division, they still feel that they can catch the Zephyrs, by winning a few games in a row.Trade winds have been blowing in the Hoosier capital for over two weeks in hopes of getting additional scoring power.IHL NOTES &hellip; Hayden scored a pair of hat tricks during he week &hellip; One came against Toledo and the other against Omaha.St. Paul is drawing very well at home &hellip; Understand thatCHARLOTTE&mdash; Wimpy Jones broke 17 game scoring famine with hat trick in Johnstown Dec. 31, as Checkers won 6-2 &hellip; Jones got winner in 2-1 verdict over Jersey, Jan. 4, after Ken Murphy tied score.CLINTON&mdash; Norm Defelice recorded his third shutout of season by blanking Jersey, 11-0, Jan. 1&hellip; Comets&rsquo; 7-3 win over Greensboro at Utica, Jan. 4, kept them winin three points of New Haven.JERSEY&mdash; Jerry Frizzelle&rsquo;s second period goal in 2-1 loss at Charlotte, Jan. 4, was Larks&rsquo; 100th tally of season &hellip; Capt. Don Labelle piloted team in absence of boss Ray Miron in this tilt.JOHNSTOWN&mdash; Jets dropped 5-3 tilt at Jersey, Dec. 30 and 6-2 fray to Charlotte following night to extend losing skein to four &hellip; John Lumley&rsquo;s goal in overtime New Year&rsquo;s Day produced 5-4 win over Checkers.GREENSBORO&mdash; Generals moved to within point of Jets with 5-3 win over Philly, Dec. 31 &hellip; Road losses to Rovers (7-4) and Comets (7-3) have hurt pennant hopes.NEW HAVEN&mdash; Gaetan Dessureault&rsquo;s third shutout of campaign stopped Rovers, 3-0, Jan. 2 &hellip; Wally Kullman, Bob Ertel and Don Davidson were Blade scorers &hellip; Kullman tangled with New York fans briefly also.NEW YORK&mdash; Serge Beaudreault&rsquo;s 36 points pace Rovers in scoring &hellip; Norm Ryder injured leg during practice, Jan. 3 &hellip; Gord Turlik, Ike Scott and Jacques Allard had two goals each in 7-4 win over Greensboro, Jan. 1.PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Doug Adams has 10 points in as many games since returning to active role &hellip; Chuck Stuart is club&rsquo;s top scorer with 50 points in 26 games and is on way to new team record. &#9632;

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Thomson Moves At Torrid Tempo

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01467/2070305-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK<h2>ACROSS</h2>1. Canadien forward shown in centre.6. 21st and 5th letters of the alphabet.7. Red Kelly recently had to visit one after a severe jolt.10. The Stanley Cup winners always earn an extra portion of this commodity.11. Pictured star never played&mdash;&mdash;hockey (abbr.).12. Initials of Ullman of Detroit.13. Denotes number worn by 12 across14. Willie O&rsquo;Ree&rsquo;s club (abbr.)15. Indefinite article.16. Dick Duff&rsquo;s brother.17. Charlie Hodge was originally called in to&mdash;for Plante.18 Another name for Yale.19 Schinkel&rsquo;s initials.21. Given name of 1959-60 Byng Trophy winner.25 Initials of Tremblay, Montreal defense prospect26 Initials of an N.H.L. referee.27. In past off seasons Ralph Backstrom has been an&mdash;salesman.29. Neil Colville once coached this N.H.L. team.32 Initials of Marcon of Edmon ton.33. Pictured star does this effort lessly.<h2>DOWN</h2>1. Name given an N.H.L. coach2 Gordie Howe sustained one on January 4.3. An attack on goal.4. N.H.L. club with whom Johnn; Bucyk first played (abbr.).5. Given name of pictured star8 Tantalum (Sym.).9. Exists.11. Rangers&rsquo; Andy Bathgate is occasionally bothered by&mdash;trouble.12. Given name of Price of Springfield.13. A Black Hawk defenseman.14. This appliance helps a hockey wife when her husband has a fractured jaw.20. Dit Clapper owns one.22. Dallas Smith&rsquo;s birthstone.23. Month in which Dave Balon was born (abbr.).24. Descriptive of pictured star&rsquo;s hair colour.25. Initials of Toppazini of Boston28. Jack McCartin&rsquo;s native country (abbr.).30. Initials of Mickoski of Winnipeg Warriors.31. Initials of player who wears No. 23 for Toronto.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1. Gamble7. P.C.9. Elinor10. R.M.11. Eye13. Drill14. Ont.15. U.T.16. O.H.A.18. Nil19. No20. G.C.21. R.S.23. E.J.25. T.T.27. Souvenirs32. In33. Blonde35. Meeker<h3>DOWN</h3>1. Gendron2. Al3. Mikita4. Bn.5. Lo6. Ere7. Prentice8. C.M.12. Young17. Horton22. Stu.24. Joseph26. Miner27. Six28. V.B.29. Elik30. No31. R.D.34. R.E. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">By DOUG McLELLAN</div>ROUYN, Que.&mdash;Hockey fans in this norther Quebec area are up in arms over the decision of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association to suspend coach Stan Tallon of the Rouyn-Noranda Alouettes, leaders of the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; League, for one year after he pulled the Ais off the ice late in the second period of a game at Abitibi on December 27.The beef, as far as the Quebecers are concerned, is that Tallon hasn&rsquo;t been granted a hearing by the NOHA, and won&rsquo;t be until the next regular meeting of the Association on February 11.According to President Cliff Thomson of the NOHA, it would be too expensive to bring all executive members together before the regular meeting in February. There were hints here that possibly the Ais would fold because of the decision, but that has blown over and the team will finish the season. But it reached a serious enough point that Thomson had to warn the team that if it folded because of the ruling, each member would be suspended.<h2>Claim Puck Hit Post</h2>Tallon has three points in his defence. The incident occurred after Referees Gus Plager and Norm Corcoron allowed a goal scored by Jack Power of the Eskies, which tied the game at 2-2. The Ais claimed that the puck hit the post and did not enter the cage.Tallon took his team to the dressing room, and was warned by Plager that he only had two minutes in which to return. Referee Corcoran later went to the Ais dressing room and announced that there were only 45 seconds left.When the team didn&rsquo;t return within the two minutes, Plager ordered the puck faced off and the Eskies scored. The Ais claim that in so doing Plager didn&rsquo;t know the rule properly as there was no need to face off but merely to award the game to the Eskies.The Eskies had no sooner left the ice than the Ais returned but were told by Plager that they had been absent three and a half minutes and that the game was over. Tallon claims that the official was wrong in his time, and contends further that his team would have been back on the ice in time had Tallon not had to interfere when a few Rouyn fans went after Corcoran when he went to the Ais&rsquo; dressing room.According to rule number 76 of the CAHA rule book, Tallon&rsquo;s suspension is automatic. But the Ais feel that three points&mdash;the official&rsquo;s error in bothering to face off the puck, the error which Tallon claims was made in the time, and the fact that he had to go to Corcoran&rsquo;s aid outside the dressing room, are strongly in the coach&rsquo;s favor.In the meantime, the team is being handled by manager Norm Connolly and upon occasion by Cliff Connelly, the club&rsquo;s leading goal scorer.<h2>Hope To Get Cude</h2>One man whom the club hopes to get as coach for the remainder of the season if the suspension sticks after the February 11 meeting is Wilf Cude, former Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; netminder.Cude has been living in nearby Noranda gor the past ten years and coached midget and juvenile hockey here. A number of the present Alouette players were handled by Cude as juveniles. But Wilf hasn&rsquo;t been feeling too well for the past couple of years and to date has been reluctant to re- &#9632;

Tallon Sentence Appeal Won’t Be Heard For Month

<div class="byline">By HUGH TOWNSEND</div>NEW GLASGOW, N.S.&mdash;The possible folding of the Amherst Ramblers, the most powerful hockey club in the Maritimes since the Big Four Major Hockey League disbanded, and the release vf one of Nova Scotia&rsquo;s&rsquo; highest scorers by New Glasgow Rangers, a team that has been in the lower depths of the league for two seasons, put oddity into the Nova Scotia Senior Hockey League during the first week of January.Ramblers, a collection of some of the finest hockey players in the Maritime Provinces who are seeking the Maritime senior crown for the second successive year, are having financial troubles. Winners of 17 of their first 21 games, Ramblers have been drawing very small crowds in their own rink where they have been beating the opposing clubs regularly.The news broke on Jan. 7 when the team management announced the club would be sold or disbanded if crowds did not pick up sharply immediately. Following the announcement 1,400 turned out to see the team play last place New Glasgow but an even bigger improvement is needed to keep the high classed Amherst squad in operation.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02409/2070360-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="552" height="828"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bert Dolling</figcaption></div><h2>Dolling Release Surprise</h2>At the other end of the league New Glasgow surprised their own fans as well as those around the league by releasing high scoring left winger Bert Dalling. Stumbling in the league basement for the second straight year, Rangers are badly in need of scoring punch, yet let their highest scorer go in a move that saw the release of three players. Dalling was the highest goalgetter for the club with eight tallies in 18 games. He owns the league record of goals in a season, having registered 30 markers in the 1958-59 campaign. He fifed another 17 goals last winter, just one short of the leading total.On the ice Amherst&rsquo;s big three of Shermie White, Moe Lamirande and Frank Dorrington continued to run one-two-three in the scoring race, far ahead of the rest of the pack.Windsor Maple Leafs, in third place at the present time, are showing signs that they may be the club to give Amherst the best run for their money. A hard working Gerry Reagan, manager of the club, greatly strengthened it defensively with the signing of former pro Ernie Roche. It gives the team a defence corps of Roche, playing coach Ivan Tennant who is back from the Russian tour with Chatham Maroons, veterans Pat Powers and Jean Lavoie, and Earl Wood. With starry Charlie Mac-Tavish in the nets, the club is well balance from the blueline back.Leafs also have some fine scorers in the persons of Sammy Gregory, Ken Gribbons, Chook Smith, Bob Bowness and Jimmy Beckman. With a full lineup on the ice the Windsor club will be tough for the rest of the season. They have already beaten Amherst twice, one of the victories being the only Rambler loss of the season at Amherst. &#9632;

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Amherst May Fold Unless Fans Show

<div class="byline">By SLIM COOK</div>MEDICINE HAT, Alta.&mdash;The Moose Jaw Pla-Mors continue to lead the five team Saskatchewan Serror League, though the second place Regina Caps and the third place Medicine Hat Monarchs have them right in their sights. As of January 9th, Moose Jaw had 25 points, Regina 23 and Medicine Hat. 22. In the battle for the fourth playoff spot, the Saskatoon Quakers have a six point edge on the Yorkton Terriers with 14 points to 8.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01342/2070391-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="291" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pat Lundy</figcaption></div>The Cellar Dwelling Terriers recently suffered a terrible blow when their playing coach, Vic Krekelwitz, was killed in a car accident while enroute to a game in Saskatoon. Two other Terriers, Ed Moskal and Adam Twardowsky were seriously injured and are out for the season. It was feared that the Yorkton Club, plagued by lack of ice early in the season, would not be able to carry on after the tragic accident, but on January 8th Bill Prystai was named as the new coach. Prystai, a former player and referee, is a brother of ex-NHL Star Mtro Prystai. With the Yorkton team able to carry out its commitments in the league, the remaining 30 games of the 76 game schedule will be completed.Fans in all five centres are flocking to the games, particularly in Moose Jaw and in Medicine Hat, the lone Alberta entry, where attendance has averaged close to 1,400 per game. At the time of writing the Medicine Hat supporters have plenty to cheer about, as the first year &ldquo;Cantalini&rdquo; Monarchs appear to have a playoff position assured. The Gas City Squat&rsquo; also have two of the top scorers in the league. Vic Link continues at the top of the scoring race with 44 points and team mate Bill Thieman is in third spot with 34. Regina&rsquo;s Pat Lundy is coming on fast and has 35 points. &#9632;

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Moose Jaw Retains Two Point Margin In SSHL

<div class="byline">By FRED P. COLLINS</div>WINNIPEG, MAN.&mdash;Brandon Wheat Kings&rsquo; general manager, J. C. Milford, was unmercifully torn apart at a meeting Last week of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League.Jake, two days earlier named as the Wheat City&rsquo;s &lsquo;Sportsman of the Year&rsquo;, took it on the chin for his recent bankroll-peeling capers in an effort to bring Brandon the Memorial Cup.Milford, working with the richest treasury in the league, dug deep down a few days ago and bought defenceman Jim Neilson, from the Prince Albert Mintos, cellar-dwellers in the neighboring Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.Neilson, sure-fire NHL material, came to Brandon&mdash;for one coffee, at least&mdash;with a $2,055 price tag.Denis Ball, New York Rangers&rsquo; head scout in the province and GM with the local Winnipeg Rangers, sounded off first.&lsquo;That guy (Milford) is pricing himself and junior hockey in Brandon out of existence paying that much for one player. We could operate our own club for one season with that kind of cash,&rdquo; Ball fumed.Everything, however, became quiet a few days after the transaction had been completed when SJHL commissioner, Frank Boucher, threatened to suspend Prince Albert.Milford, some say, said goodbye to the Memorial Cup and reluctantly returned Neilson.Milford, possibly thinking that the lull after the storm wasn&rsquo;t doing hockey in these parts much good, got the ball rolling again soon after he had returned Neilson when he bought defenceman, Jim Wilcox, from OHA Toronto Marlboros, who were apparently cleaning house.Ball and the three other MJHL managers&mdash;Messrs. Bill Addison, Percy Segal and Hoss Nicholson&mdash;hit the roof.According to one rule in the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association rule book, Wilcox was definitely ineligible for transfer to Brandon.Simple enough, Wilcox could not play.&ldquo;But wait,&rdquo; said Milford as he handed this corner the same record book, &ldquo;read on.&rdquo;Read on we did, only to discover the CAHA later rules Wilcox&rsquo; transfer from the Dukes valid.Confused?Ball filed a protest with league president Charlie Joyce when Wilcox appeared in a game recently. The matter has still to be studied by the league executive.UNDER THF SHOWERS&mdash; Brandon, led by its George Hill, Barry Hogan and Ted Taylor trio, holds a slim two point edge over Winnipeg Rangers and Winnipeg Braves in the league stand face Canadiens, after a disastrous start, have made their move for a playoff berth &hellip; At this writing, they are tied with Winnipeg Monarchs in the fourth and final spot &hellip; Brandon, after winning something like 12 in a row, lost their last two Winnipeg performances &hellip; They were shocked 6-0 by Braves and 7-5 by Rangers &hellip; Brandon&rsquo;s 132 goals in 18 games tops the league in that department &hellip; Braves&rsquo; goalie, Ernie Wakely, a product of minor hockey in Flin Flon, leads the &#9632;

MJHL Nixes Brandon’s Bid To Buy 1961 Memorial Cup

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont&mdash;Which team, if any, is going to stop the rampaging Guelph Royals?That is the big question in the minds of Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; fans as the league-leading Royals continue their fantastic undefeated streak.The last time Guelph suffered a defeat was on Nov. 26 against St. Catharines Teepees and since that time they have won 13, tied four in 17 games.Oddly enough since the 5-4 win by the Teepees the defending Memorial Cup champions have only picked up two victories and are in sixth place just a point ahead of Toronto Marlboros.Although records of winning and losing streaks are not kept in the OHA office, it is believed that the longest undefeated record was established by the Galt Red Wings in the 1945-46 season.After two losses to start that season, Galt won its next 18 straight games under Coach Al Murray.The odd part of the Galt record was that although they took those 18 games, they only managed to finish in second place, three points behind the pennant-winning Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors and were eliminated by the Majors in the first round of the playoffs.St. Mike&rsquo;s with such future NHL stars on their roster as Red Kelly, Les Costello, Jimmy Thomson and Gus Mortson then went on to win the Memorial Cup.The Guelph streak has placed them in first position, 10 points ahead 6f the Niagara Falls Flyers.<h2>Gilbert, Ratelle, Cunningham Spark Streak</h2>Sparking Emile Francis&rsquo; team to their record-approaching streak has been their dynamite trio of Rod Gilbert, Jean Ratelie and. Bob Cunningham.Between them they nave scored 73 goals and picked up 99 assists for 162 points.Gilbert leads with 35 goals, 32 assists followed by Ratelle with 19 and 37, Cunningham 19 and 30.Two Peterborough players are next in line, Bob Senior having 48 points, Wayne Boddy 43.The Big Seven of junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Scoring is rounded out by Bruce Draper of St. Mike&rsquo;s and Murray Hall of St. Catharines each with 42 points.The leading goaltender is Wayne Rutledge of Niagara Falls &#9632;

Guelph Streaks Away In OHA Jr.

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02280/2070470-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="551" height="854"><figcaption class="caption-body">It&rsquo;s His OpinionBrian Roche</figcaption></div>KELOWNA, B.C.&mdash;Just how good are the Trail imoke-eaters, Canada&rsquo;s represenatives in the forthcoming world hockey championships to be held in Switzerland?That&rsquo;s a good question at this ime, and the answer may not come until next March.The Silver City crew, last season&rsquo;s runner-up to the Allan Cup, lave met with little opposition within their own four team league. Hubs like Rossland, Nelson, and he Kootenay Rams, have not supplied the answer.Last weekend, the Kelowna-Penicton combines of the Okanagan Senior Hockey League met head on with the Smokies, in an interlocking game at Trail.Up against their best competition this season, Bob Kromm&rsquo;s Smokies held on for a 6-4 win, after leading four to one at the end of the first period. Combines outscored the opposition 3-2 in the middle stanza, and both clubs failed to score in the final period.Yet as a real test for tough competition, the combines cannot be considered a good senior hockey club by an means.In two games over the weekend, the Smokies were dumped by the newly formed Kootenay Rams of intermediate calibre 4-3, but the following night, minus Rams star netminder Art Lariviere, the Smokies smothered the Kootenay boys 13-1.<h2>Club Lacked Fight</h2>Commenting on the game Combines playing coach Jim Middleton, a veteran of 13 seasons in O.S.H.L. play, said the Smokies seemed to lack to fight and drive. &ldquo;In the first period they looked like true champions, but in the next two we had them on the run. Give us a couple more minutes and we would have beaten them.&rdquo;Other Kelowna players spoke up. &ldquo;What we saw out there Friday night, would not win a title for Canada. They are a third or fourth placed club in world competition&rdquo; said veteran Packer winger Brian Roche, who has played a half dozen games against the Russians. Roche continued &ldquo;without question they need a good netminder, two more defensemen, a winger, and a centreman. Then the Smokies will give a good account of themselves.&rdquo; The Kelowna Packers of 1958 would beat the Trail crew quite decisively&rdquo;Majority of the Combine players, when questioned, expressed the same frame of mind.And the mjaority of them should be able to speak with authority. They were members of the 1958 Kelowna Packers club that played five games in Russia and won two, tied two and lost only one. In the fifth game the Kelowna team defeated the 18 best hockey players in the U.S.S.R. 5-1.With so many good senior hockey clubs falling by the side throughout the country the Trail officials have no doubt encountered difficulty in securing top-calibre players, who could meet world championship levels. &#9632;

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Those Who Know Call Smokies 4th Place World Club

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div>SASKATOON, SASK.&mdash;Suspensions and fines are are becoming an almost daily occurrence in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League as Commissioner Frank Boucher tightens his control on misbehavior by both coaches and players.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03210/2070501-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="286" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Boucher</figcaption></div>Only two weeks ago Boucher suspended owner-manager Steve Ruznisky and the entire Prince Albert Minto club for an act &ldquo;detrimental to the welfare of the league.&rdquo; Mintos were guilty of by-passing the league&rsquo;s player pool ind selling all-star defenceman Jim Neilson to Brandon Wheat Kings of the Manitoba circuit.Mintos returned to the good graces of the commissioner after they rescinded the Neilson deal and agreed to retain three other last-year players who had been ticketed for the player pool.A first-period brawl in Saskatoon between Quakers and Estevan Bruins this week resulted in an-other-wholesale distribution of fines and suspensions. The melee brought about two minors, 11 majors, one misconduct and one game misconduct penalty.Boucher fined coaches Doug Bentley of Saskatoon and Howie Milford of Estevan and suspended both for the rest of the season for all scheduled games between the two clubs. This involves five games.Milford is now barred from three league rinks. The Bruin coach will miss all Quaker games in Estevan; is through for the season in Saskatoon and because of an earlier reprimand, is not allowed to handle games in Regina.Nine players were also fined and suspended for the next game between Bruins and Quakers, which is Jan. 23 in Saskatoon.Players involved were Jim Scissons, Don Makow, Bernie Gould and Ed Melnyk of Saskatoon, and Ray McNaught, Ivan Prediger, Owen Rogers and Jim Padzerski of Estevan.In an effort to curb further trouble, Boucher also stiffened the sentences for two infractions.All players joining in a fight in the future will receive automatic match penalties and will be sent to the dressing room. The teams, however, will not play shorthanded, except for those penalties incurred by the original battlers, or any accompanying minors.Any player receiving such a match penalty will also be suspended for the next game between the two clubs involved. If there are no games remaining between the clubs, then the player will be suspended for his next scheduled game.League standings show that Regina has added to its&rsquo; first-place margin, and now leads Estevan by 13 points. Frank Mario&rsquo;s Pats have won 23 and tied four while losing only eight. Melville ranks third, four points behind Estevan.The battle for the fourth and last playoff position is tighter than ever with Flin Flon and Moose Jaw deadlocked, four points in front of Saskatoon. Still holding down the cellar is Prince Albert &#9632;

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