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February 4, 1961
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News From The Lakehead
FORT WILLIAM Ont. — The Fort Frances Canadians last year’s Western Canada Intermediate champs are said to be interested in turning their club senior next year and forming a league with the Lakehead. Seems they feel they have the club that can do it, and with the crowds they are getting it would be profitable all round. This just may be what the doctor ordered to revive senior hockey in the Thunder Bay.… Dick Carpenter, who played with the Red Rock Royals in the North Shore Intermediate league last year, and turned pro with Hershey this season, then was farmed out to Sudbury has moved now to the Toledo Mercuries of the International League for the balance of the season. Detroit had high hopes for this lad, and still feel he…
Hendy’s Career Touched Nearly All Ice Bases
CLEVELAND, O. — Jim Hendy, who past away two weeks ago lived a ten-year reign as head of the Barons that was a particularly meritorious one. When Hendy came to Cleveland in the fall of 1949 he inherited a hockey club that had performed magnificently for former owner Al (Red Tie) Sutphin. Under Hendy the Barons won the American League title in 1949-50 and 1950-51 and again in 1952-53. They won the Calder Cup playoff crown in 1951, 1953, 1954 and 1957, the first years with Fred (Bun) Cook as coach and the last time with present coach Jackie Gordon in the masterminding seat. Here’s the squad that Hendy went into action with in his first season at the helm of the Cleveland Hockey Club. Up forward he had Bobby Carse, Johnny Holota,…
Howe Overplayed, Mahovlich Lazy, Reds I mproving — Rocket
VANCOUVER, B.C., Former Montreal Canadiens star, and all-time scoring champion of the National Hockey League, Maurice Richard, spoke freely about the NHL and its players during a visit to Vancouver to make an appearance at some minor hockey week events, last week. He talked about Gordie Howe, Frank Mahovlich, the Russians and out of shape players. “I told Gordie,” the Rocket said at a press conference, “you Stay on the ice all the time and I’ll be happy. Howe is on the ice too long. It’s hard to score goals when you’re tired.” Richard, who scored 544 goals during his 18 seasons in the NHL was 98 ahead of Howe when he retired this season and became a good will ambassador for Montreal. Howe, who this season has been taking his regular turn on we ice,…
Cleveland Hits At Torrid Pace
CLEVELAND. O. — One might have expected that the sudden departure from this life of James C. Hendy would have been a major shock to his hockey club, the Cleveland Barons. Just hours after the genial general manager and vice president of the Barons had expired at his home, the Barons gathered in the dressing room at the Cleveland Arena to make ready for a game with the Providence Reds. An eerie silence cloaked the room as the players went through the motions of putting on their equipment as if automated by some electrical impulse. From the little veteran goalie, Gil Mayer, down on the end of one long bench to Capt. Fred (No Kid) Glover, across the room and at the far end of another bench, all moved in stunned silence. This could have been…
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