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April 15, 1961

The Hockey News April 15, 1961

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div>OTTAWA. Ont. &mdash;Time was turned back 35 and more years recently in Ottawa for some of the greatest names the game of hockey has known.For the twenty-odd former greats who turned up &mdash; many others were ill or vacationing in the south &mdash; Hockey Celebrity Night was an outstanding success and the most enjoyable get-together they have had in many years.The idea of honoring the many former hockey stars who came from the City of Ottawa and the Ottawa Valley was the brainchild of Sam Pollock, general manager of the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06145/1838196-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="250" height="402"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sam Pollock</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Some of these former stars,&rdquo; said Pollock, &ldquo;have been honored by recognition in the Hall of Fame, but many have not. Yet, they were a part of a great era in hockey, and deserve some form of recognition.The form of recognition was a dinner at the Chateau Laurier, followed by an appearance as guests of the Hull-Ottawa Club for a game, and the presentation after the second period of a gold engraved watch to each former great.The amazing part of the whole affair was the fact that so many lormer NHL stars are able to call the Ottawa Valley their birthplace.&ldquo;At one time, in fact&rdquo;, said Jack Adams, the general manager of the Detroit Red Wings, &ldquo;there was something like 56 percent of all pro hockey players from the Ottawa area. It is difficult to believe, particularly when compared to today&rsquo;s situation where only one Ottawan is in the NHL.&rdquo;The list went back almost to the turn of the century.As a starter, for example, there was J. Ambrose O&rsquo;Brien, the mining magnate who formed the old National Hockey Association, which was the forerunner to the National Hockey League. Mr. O&rsquo;Brien was also the founder of the Montreal Canadiens Club.Also in that era, but unable to attend because of illness, was Bouse Hutton, a goalie with one of the famous Silver Seven teams in the early part of the century.Then there was Frank Ahearn, who was the driving force behind the great Ottawa Senator teams of the Twenties. Mr. Ahearn was unable to attend, as was Tommy Gorman, another prominent figure in hockey of that era.But many were able to come, including such great names as Frank Nighbor, the Pembroke Peach as he was called, Punch Broadbent, his right wing on that line, and Cy Denneny, his left wing.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to have that line today,&rdquo; boomed Jack Adams, &ldquo;with Jack Stewart and Jimmy Orlando behind them. They were one of the greatest lines I ever saw.&rdquo;Adams himself, of course, finished his playing career in Ottawa in 1927 with the Stanley Cup winning Senators, and in fact, mentioned that it was his biggest break in hockey.&ldquo;That cup win led to my getting the job at Detroit,&rdquo; said Adams.They weren&rsquo;t the only players from that era.Also present was Aurel Joliat, who scored 270 goals in his career, which was spent with the Montreal Canadiens.Others included Edwin Gorman, a defenceman with the same 1927 Senators, Frank (King) Clancy, who was unable to attend because of the big game in Montreal, Clint Benedict, goalie on the great Senator teams of the Twenties, Alex Smith, Frank Finnigan, Syd Howe, Harold Darragh, Bill Beveridge, and Billy Touhey, just, to mention a few more.It was the first time in many years that so many of the old-timers had been able to get together, and the result was almost like a 25-year class reunion.&ldquo;More goals were scored tonight,&rdquo; said one oldtimer, &ldquo;than in the last ten years of hockey.&rdquo;The head table guests included Lynn Patrick, general manager of the Boston Bruins, Edward Houston, Eastern League president, Adams, and Rocket Richard, Montreal&rsquo;s retired all-time scorer.Patrick and Adams stole the show with their humorous remarks during the brief speechmaking activity.Said Patrick:&ldquo;When I came to the Bruins in in 1054 they wave in fourth place After seven years, I&rsquo;ve done a tremendous job, I&rsquo;ve managed them right into the cellar.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07109/1838189-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="1004" height="1090"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ex-Hab Greats In SpotlightFormer Montreal Canadiens greats Maurice Richard and Aurel Joliat pose for cameraman showing off gold watch presented to Joliat at rece &lsquo;Old Timers&rsquo; night in Ottawa.</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Of course,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;I come from a family of hockey experts. My brother&rsquo;s team is in fifth place.&rdquo;Adams, who said he was once described by Ted Reeve as someone, who, when angry, looked like Mussolini with a sore tooth, gave a humorous account of his early days in hockey, and mentioned with mild amazement how many hockey players had come out of the Ottawa Valley in other days.&ldquo;I understand there is more hockey being played lately,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and perhaps those days will return again. It seemed in my day that there wasn&rsquo;t a team in pro hockey which didn&rsquo;t have two or three, and sometimes more, players from Ottawa.&rdquo;The list of former NHL players who were able to attend included:Jack Adams, Aurel Joliat, Cy Denneny, Punch Broadbent, Frank Nighbor, Edwin Gorman, Alex Smith, Frank Finnigan, Eddy Finnigan, Syd Howe, Harold Darragh, Joe Lamb, Joffre Desi-lets, Harold Starr, Allan Shields, Bill Beveridge, Gerry Lowrey, Fred Lowrey, Des Smith Rod Lor-rain, D&rsquo;Arcy Coulson and Sammy Godin.Coulson, speaking for the former players at the banquet, thanked Sam Pollock for his thoughtfulness, and remarked that it was a surprising, but pleasant gesture to the oldtimers.Later, at the Hull Arena, Pollock presented each oldtimer with his engraved gold watch as he was introduced to the crowd at centre ice. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Ottawa Valley Greats Honored By Canadiens

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT. Mich.&mdash;Val Fonteyne was sitting in the bus enroute to Malton Airport in Toronto.&ldquo;That shows how much the regular season series means,&rdquo; said Fonteyne.The Red Wings, 4-1 underdogs going into their Stanley Cup semi-final series against the Toronto Maple Leafs, had just eliminated the Leafs with a 3-2 victory at Maple Leaf Gardens.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02338/1837253-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="265" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Abel</figcaption></div>It was a stunned audience in Toronto. The powerful Maple Leafs had finished the season 24 points ahead of Detroit. It was the highest scoring Maple Leaf team in history. The Red Wings had beaten Toronto only twice in 14 tries.But, as Fonteyne said, it didn&rsquo;t mean a thing once the playoffs started.Instead of Toronto being the powerhouse, it was Detroit. The Wings outskated and outchecked Toronto. The Red Wing defense was near-impregnable.<h2>Howe Had Two Winners</h2>Terry Sawchuk was the Terry Sawchuk of old &mdash; brilliant. Defensemen Marcel Pronovost, Warren Godfrey, Howie Young and Pete Goegan kept the Leafs off-balance with body checks, poke checks and deflections of Leaf passes.Gordie Howe? Great.Gordie the Tireless scored three goals and assisted on four to finish as the top scorer in the series. Two of his goals were winners.As important as his scoring, was Howe&rsquo;s defensive work. He was all over the ice. One of his goals came while he was killing a penalty.Collectively it was the finest hockey played by the Red Wings all season.&ldquo;I really didn&rsquo;t know how we&rsquo;d do in the playoffs until the last game of the season,&rdquo; said coach Sid Abel. &ldquo;Then, in that one game, our defense jelled and Terry had the hot hand. I figured then that we&rsquo;d be tough.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03307/1837246-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="518" height="516"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Big HeroesGord Howe</figcaption></div>The last game was a 2-0 loss to Montreal with the second goal scored one second before the game ended and into an empty net. Montreal was moving that night and the Wings were moving too.&ldquo;We played playoff hockey. We were checking and skating. And we kept it up against Toronto,&rdquo; said Abel.After losing the opener to Toronto in the second overtime, the Red Wings ran off four straight victories to puncture the Maple Leaf bubble.<h2>Punch Was Right &mdash; But</h2>&ldquo;Well, I guess Punch was right,&rdquo; Abel chortled happily after the final game. &ldquo;It only took five games &mdash; but we were the ones that won it.&rdquo;Leaf manager-coach Punch Imlach was quoted before the series started that Toronto &ldquo;should beat Detroit although it might take us to five or six games.&rdquo;After it was all over and Imlach went to the Detroit dressing room to congratulate Abel, the Red Wing coach said: &ldquo;Thanks, Punch; your predictions helped make it possible.&rdquo;While the Wings swept the Leafs off their skates, the last game turned into a thriller when Sawchuk gave the Leafs a goal at 13.51 of the third period to narrow the lead to 3-2.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04236/1837239-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="528" height="508"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption></div>Detroit zipped to a 3-0 lead before the game was 26 minutes old. Howe scored with the Wings shorthanded at 4.26 of the first period. It was his 40th playoff goal and he was in his 100th playoff game.Then Len Lunde turned in a Howe pass at 14.11 of the same period to climax a power play and Al Johnson made it 3-0 when he whacked home Leo LaBine&rsquo;s pass from the boards at 5.27 of the second period.Toronto was disorganized and listless until Red Kelly pumped life into the Maples, with a 40 - foot screen shot during a power play at 16.11 of the second period.The Leafs started pressuring but the Wings continued to head them off. But at 12.10 of the final period, Carl Brewer was penalized for charging Fonteyne.The Wings went into their power play and the Leafs cleared the puck down the rink &hellip; on goal. Defenseman Warren Godfrey was slow going back for the puck so Sawchuk skated out some 30 feet to field the puck.Terry fired it over toward the boards. But it landed right on rookie Dave Keon&rsquo;s stick as he flashed in on left wing and Keon was behind Sawchuk in an instant and slid the puck into the unguarded net.<h2>Terry Was Named Top Man</h2>From then on, the Wings grimly hung on. They had a couple of good chances &mdash; Norm Ullman hit the post and LaBine the crossbar &mdash; but mainly it was Toronto swarming around Sawchuk with the 31-year-old veteran blocking one shot after another.When the buzzer sounded, it was Sawchuk as the game&rsquo;s No. 1 star. In three-star voting, Terry was the only player to be honored in all five games. Howe made it in four.Howe was 33 the day before the the final game against Toronto. At no time in the series did he show any evidence of age creeping up on him. Whenever there was trouble, Howe came cruising in to clear up the danger.Both Abel and general manager Jack Adams claim he never was better. The Leafs seconded the motionWhile Howe and Sawchuk ranked as the Big Two for the Wings in the semi-finals, the entire squad picked up right with them.There was another factor &mdash; the play of Vic Stasiuk and LaBine who came to the Wings in a Jan 24 trade with Boston. Stasiuk added the muscle and threat needed to make the Wings&rsquo; No. 1 line as good as any in the League.And LaBine kept Frank Mahovlich muffled while getting two goals and setting up two himself.What about the finals?&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll go with the same strategy,&rdquo; said Abel, &ldquo;skate and check.&rdquo;And the Wings&rsquo; chances for their first Stanley Cup since 1955?&ldquo;Nothing is impossible,&rdquo; said Adams. &ldquo;The boys have gained confidence with each game.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Howe And Terry Burst Cocky Punch’s Bubble

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CHICAGO, Ill. &mdash; Montreal Canadiens general manager Frank Selke made his way through the wild victory celebration in the Black Hawk dressing room to goalie Glenn Hall after the final game and said: &ldquo;May I shake hands with a thief. You killed us.&rdquo; Glenn replied: &ldquo;Thanks. But that is only part of the story, 17 other guys played just as well as I did to make this victory possible.&rdquo;Dollard St. Laurent, a Canadien castoff, said: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been waiting three years to see those Montreal characters get the short end of the stick. This has to be my biggest hockey night.&rdquo;&ldquo;Amen,&rdquo; chorused Ab McDonald, Murray Balfour. Bill Hay and Reg Fleming, the other four Canadien chattels shuffled off to Chicago by selke and Company. &#9632;

Ex-Habs Happiest Of Hawks

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0177/1838933-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">And Now For A Little Seasoning</figcaption></div>CHIGAGO, Ill. &mdash;Seconds after the Chicago Black Hawks had dethroned the Montreal Canadiens from the Stanley Cup throne, they burst into their Chicago Stadium locker room next to a sign which read : &ldquo;Next playoff champions split $54,000.&rdquo;First Hawk player into the room after the 3-0 triumph in the sixth game which ended Montreal&rsquo;s five-year Cup dynasty, was right winger Eric Nesterenko.Big defenseman Jack Evans came in with a whoop and they all reached for a soft drink of Seven-up as they filed in.Reg Fleming, only rookie on the Hawks this year, burst in with the loudest yells and whoops and began shaking hands with Bobby Hull and the two players next to him in the locker room. Stan Mikita and Ken Wharram.Co-Owner Jim Norris entered along with the players and had a &ldquo;nice going&rdquo; for them all. Coach Rudy Pilous and General Manager Tommy Ivan mixed with the boys, congratulating them.To a man, the Chicago players went to goalie Glenn Hall and shook his hand. Hall made 200 saves against Canadiens and kept them at bay on dozens of critical occasions during the series. By actions of his teammates he was acclaimed the hero of the series.There were a couple of dozen reporters and photographers jammed into the locker room &mdash; the first time all season there have been any photographers in the post-game Black Hawk locker room. But all of a sudden the flaming triumph had brought out the flash-bulb poppers.Hull and Hall were posed for the first pictures. Next it was Red Hay, Nesterenko and Hull &mdash; who had scored the final game&rsquo;s goals in that order to account for the 3-0 triumph.Someone got an Indian chief headdress and trainer Nick Garen held it over Goalie Hall&rsquo;s head for another round of pictures.In their corner, Stan Mikita and Ken Wharram called for some ice. Hall, who usually drinks hot toddies (tea) before and between periods of a game, had a big glass of milk.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think you could say that any one player was a bit better than anyone else for us,&rdquo; said Hall as reporters crowded around. &ldquo;This was strictly a team performance, the greatest one I ever have had anything to do with.&rdquo;In the fifth game of the series, in Montreal, Hall had shut out Montreal for the first time in 88 games the defending champions had failed to score a goal. He did it again in the final game by the same score &mdash; taking 135 minutes and 26 seconds of shutout hockey with him into the opening game of the final series against Detroit.Hall almost had another shutout in the third game, holding Montreal at bay until the 19 min. 24 sec. mark of the third period when Canadiens pulled goalie Jacques Plante and Henri Richard scored to send the game into overtime.During the last three minutes of the final game the Chicago Stadium crowd of 16,666 stood to a man and cheered Hall to the finish. It was one of the greatest tributes to an athlete this town has seen in many years.Back in the center of the crowded, steaming but jubilant Black Hawk locker room Rudy Pilous was surrounded.&ldquo;We tried to carry the play to Montreal in every game. That was our strategy. We were out for that first goal. The big thing was to convince our players they were a better team than Montreal. We had the hustle and desire and we were hungrier. But we also had the talent and the skills to beat them.&rdquo;At this point Norris came by with Senator Molson, owner of the Canadiens, who congratulated Pilous. A short while later Montreal Coach Toe Blake, who was fined $2,000 earlier in the series for taking a swing at referee Dalton MacArthur, came in to shake hands with Pilous. And one of the last men to leave Chicago dressing room was National Hockey League president Clarence Campbell, who stayed for a short visit with Norris, Pilous and Ivan.After it was all over and the Hawks had all gone, trainer Nick Garen commented:&ldquo;I think the best thing that happened to this club was the 5-2 beating they took in the fourth game. They had Montreal two games to one on their home ice but they didn&rsquo;t play their best hockey. They realized then they couldn&rsquo;t be lackadaisical about this thing. It seems to be a team that need a good beating every so often to wake itself up and realize it can really play good hockey when everybody tries together.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Hall Made 200 Saves Against The Canadiens

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div>CHICAGO, Ill. &mdash;&ldquo;The big thing was to convince our players they were a better team than Canadiens,&rdquo; said Chicago coach Rudy Pilous in a jammed and uproarious Black Hawk dressing room following Chicago&rsquo;s four games to two series victory over Montreal.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0266/1838964-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="279" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glenn Hall</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We played them even all season. It was a matter of making them realize they could do it in the playoffs, as well.&rdquo;This being the overall case, THE HOCKEY NEWS questioned most members of the Black Hawks as to just when each one became convinced the team could dethrone the five-time Stanley Cup champions.<h2>Were Never Deflated</h2>Capt. Ed Litzenberger: &ldquo;After the last game of the season in Montreal. They had beaten us here by something like 6-2 in their last game in Chicago a week earlier. And they were still in the thick of the battle with Toronto for first place so when we played them in the next-to-last game of the year in Montreal they were going all out. But we beat them 4-1 in their own backyard. I think then we realized as a team that we could go all the way. Even when we lost the first game of the playoffs up there by 6-2 we weren&rsquo;t deflated. We were in the game at 2-2 going into the third period and had to open up after they went ahead one goal. And they were scoring on our errors, not because they were such a great team. Then when we won the second game up there we were really on the move.&rdquo;Litzenberger, incidentally, scored the winning goal in the important 4-3 triumph in that second game.Defenseman Dollard St. Laurent, a former member of some of Montreal&rsquo;s Stanley Cup champions : &ldquo;We knew all year we had a good team. But we have to play as a unit. We don&rsquo;t have a lot of individual stars &mdash; except someone like Glenn Hall. We knew if we played together as a unit we could beat Montreal.&rsquo;&rdquo;Defenseman Jack Evans: &ldquo;After we won the fifth game in Montreal, 3-0. We outplayed them in their own Forum in a clutch game.&rdquo;Center Red Hay, who scored the winning goal in the final sixth game: &ldquo;In training camp.&rdquo;Right Wing Ron Murphy: &ldquo;We beat Montreal all year, both up there and on our home ice. The difference was in our goaltending &mdash; Glenn Hall was great out there every game.&rdquo;Left wing Bobby Hull, who led the Hawks with two goals and five assists and skated better than he has all season: &ldquo;After the second game &mdash; the one we won 4-3 in Montreal.&rdquo;Center Stan Mikita, one of the Black Hawk sparks all season and top goal-scorer for Chicago in the series with three goals: &ldquo;After the overtime game &mdash; the first game here that we won 2-1 in the third overtime. It took a lot out of both teams. We played till one in the morning. But when you win a game like that it doesn&rsquo;t take as much out of you as it does out of the other team. It must have been a real heartbreaker to lose.&rdquo;Right wing Ken Wharram, smallest man on the Black Hawks at 5 ft. 9 in. and 155 pounds and one of the speediest skaters of the series: &ldquo;After the 3-0 game in Montreal &mdash; the fifth game.&rdquo;Defenseman Pete Pilote, who shared scoring honors with Bobby Hull with one goal and six assists, with at least one scoring point in every game: &ldquo;I always thought we could beat them but after the third game here &mdash; the overtime win &mdash; it began to seem like it might come true. Then before this final game we practiced at the Rainbo Arena here and the spirits were high and I knew we would win it.&rdquo;Goalie Glenn Hall, &ldquo;Mr. Goalie&rdquo; to Chicagoans, who was the individual hero of the Black Hawk triumph with 200 saves in the six-game series and back-to-back shutouts in the final two games: &ldquo;Right from the beginning. In other years they outplayed us all during the season. This year was different. We played them even. I think we all realized we were in the same class with them. And we did it with a team performance. Everybody contributed his share.&rdquo;Right wing Murray Balfour, whose two goals accounted for the 2-1 triple-overtime victory: &ldquo;I figured all along we had a good chance to beat them. When we won 3-0 in Montreal I was convinced.&rdquo;Veteran forward Tod Sloan : &ldquo;After the second game.&rdquo;Right wing Eric Nesterenko : &ldquo;After our first win in Montreal and then the overtime victory right after it.&rdquo;Defenseman Moose Vasko: &ldquo;We were in it all the way. Even after the first game in Montreal we weren&rsquo;t discouraged.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Not A Man Felt Issue Impossible

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01355/1837208-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">As The End AppearsThis was Punch Imlach as his Leafs struggle to get into the fight against the Detroit Red Wings in the semi-final playoffs. Punch was disappointed after his best team flopped in the post season play.</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont. &mdash;&ldquo;What a lousy way to wind up the year. &lsquo;A great season, then a miserable performance when it really counts.&rdquo;That was manager-coach Punch Imlach bemoaning the fate of his Maple Leafs who, after finishing a close second during the 1960-61 National Hockey League schedule, were quickly eliminated by the fourth-place and underdog Detroit Red Wings in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Leafs won the series opener, then were trounced four games in succession by the hopped-up Detroit club.Imlach was disappointed. So were the Leaf players. And so were Leaf supporters everywhere. All of them had conceded Leafs a real chance of winning the Stanley Cup this spring after the way they battled with Montreal Canadiens right down to the finish line, winning 39 of their 70 games, scoring 234 goals and giving up only 176 and finishing 15 points ahead of third-place Chicago and 24 in front of Detroit.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05177/1837201-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="282" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mahovlich</figcaption></div>How serious, then, is Toronto&rsquo;s playoff demise to be regarded?Leaf management regards it very seriously. &ldquo;Our playoff record stinks&rdquo;, said Stafford Smythe, chairman of the Maple Leaf Gardens hockey committee. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll have to make a lot of changes&rdquo;.Staff was referring to the fact Leafs dropped eight of their last nine playoff matches &mdash; four in succession to Canadiens last spring, then four out of five this year.Smythe and his fellow committee members realize that the real payoff in hockey doesn&rsquo;t come with finishing first or second but with winning the post-schedule playdowns. In 1949, for example, Leafs were fourth but won the Stanley Cup, beating first-place Detroit in four straight in the finals.<h2>Team Simply Folded</h2>Sure, Leafs were at a disadvantage in this season&rsquo;s playoffs. Red Kelly and Bert Olmstead missed the first three games because of injuries, then played at half efficiency in the remaining two matches.But the reasons for their loss to Detroit go much deeper than that. They were missing key personnel throughout the schedule, yet kept right on winning consistently. Imlach and his aide-de-camp, King Clancy, felt certain they could win without Olmstead and Kelly. But the team simply folded in the face of the diligent, never-say-die checking of the red-hot Red Wings.There were plus factors on Detroit&rsquo;s side, too. Gordie Howe played a tremendous series, scoring the key goal in three of the victories and setting up four others. Marcel Pronovost showed he&rsquo;s the best defenceman in hockey today. Vic Stasiuk and Leo LaBine played tremendous twoway hockey. And Terry Sawchuk was at his old-time peak, although Leafs made him look good with minor-league shooting and goal-area play.<h2>Kids Let Them Down</h2>But Leaf bosses can&rsquo;t afford to regard those things as excuses, nor the Olmstead-Kelly injuries.The problems are:1. Their younger players let them down at a crucial time.2.. Their best workmen, in addition to Kelly and Olmstead, were Allan Stanley and Johnny Bower. Here you have four men on the wrong side of thirty and obviously near the end of the hockey trail. People were saying the same thing last year at this time and all four came back and repeated their excellent 1959-60 performances. Bower was even better. He won the Vezina Trophy and probably will be selected AllStar goalie and most valuable player. Olmstead scored 18 goals and 34 assists. Kelly hit 20-50.This is a shaky foundation upon which to construct a hockey club.Of the four, only Kelly can be counted on for a full season in 1961-62. The others can&rsquo;t be expected to go a full 70 games.So will there be changes?Staff Smythe vows there will.Punch Imlach says: &ldquo;We won&rsquo;t make a trade just for the sake of getting some new faces. It has to help us out.&rdquo;<h2>They Know Their Needs</h2>If Imlach could get the right men, you can be sure he&rsquo;d go for one new right wing, one new centre and at least one new defenceman for 1961-62. But with Boston Bruins and New York Rangers so hard up for personnel, the market is going to be crowded.Who will coach Leafs next season?Probably Imlach. He was unable to say if he would continue as coach and general manager but it&rsquo;s no secret he feels Leafs&rsquo; farm system needs attention after a season in which its two top professional affiliates, Rochester and Sudbury, missed the playoffs and its key junior club, Toronto Marlboros, finished last.NOTES: Possibly additions to the Leaf roster next season include Darryl Sly and St. Michael&rsquo;s college juniors Bruce Draper and Larry Keenan. After an impressive performance with Trail Smoke Eaters at the world championships Sly had a two-game American League tryout with Rochester and performed notably. Leafs will renew their efforts to sign him up.Biggest Leaf disappointments in the series with Detroit were Carl Brewer, Ron Stewart, Frank Mahovlich and Bob Pulford. Mahovlich, who got 48 goals during the regular schedule, got one against Wings. Actually, 1960-61 was a bad season for Pulford. He injured his knee Christmas Eve, didn&rsquo;t return to action until March and never did regain his old speed &hellip; Larry Hillman did a good job against Detroit when he got on the ice &hellip; Best of the n w guard for Toronto was young Dave Keon &hellip; To be fair, three other Leaf players just returned to the lineup in the early part of the Detroit series: George Armstrong, Eddie Shack and Bobby Baun &hellip; Armstrong is in the process of buying a hotel in Hamilton, Ont. &hellip; Pulford, Duff and Harris will go back to college this summer &hellip; Leafs were eliminated on a Saturday night. Baun reported to his summer job the following Monday. The same day, Bert Olmstead and family were on their way west to their farm in Saskatchewan. &#9632;

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Smythe Vows New Faces For Fallen Leafs

TORONTO, Ont. &mdash; Larry Regan announced his retirement from professional hockey after Maple Leafs completed the 1960-61 season.Regan came to Leafs in 1959 from Boston Bruins where he had won the Calder Trophy when he broke into the National League as a 26-year-old rookie. He sparked Leafs to the Stanley Cup finals in 1959 and &rsquo;60 but saw very little action this season when he was plagued by a series of injuries.Regan plans to devote all his time to a fast-growing construction business in Ottawa.Leafs&rsquo; other veterans, whose retirement is rumored every spring &mdash; men like Johnny Bower and Bert Olmsted &mdash; will be on hand when the team opens its 1961-62 training camp in Peterborough 21 weeks from now. &#9632;

Larry Regan Ends Career

<div class="byline">By VERN DEGEER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01354/1837315-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Gets A Ringside ViewWhen he joined the Chicago Black Hawks in 1959-60 Red Hay was a green kid who was being pushed around. But now he&rsquo;s a changed player who can take the bumps and dish them out. In the above picture he watches as teammate Bobby Hull and Toronto&rsquo;s Bob Baun mix it up. Other Toronto player is Larry Hillman (22). Official is Linesman Bill Fryday.</figcaption></div><h2>Making NHL Was Dream; Had To Try</h2>Bill Told Parents That He Would Quit If He Failed To Make GoodCHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Seldom have two fellow townsmen reached for the clouds of National Hockey League stardom by such devious routes as Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings and Bill Hay of the Chicago Black Hawks.Howe was a whiskerless kid of 16 when he hit the first training camp of the Wings, 17 when he made his official pro debut with O&rsquo;maha Knights the next Winter, and 18 when Jack Adams whistled him to the majors.Gordie picked hockey as a fulltime career because it had always been his dream, loved the sport, and liked the financial rewards. As a result he had only a nodding acquaintance with schoolbooks beyond the high school edges.Young Hay had the same dream but pro aspirations were delayed while he obtained an engineering degree on a Colorado College scholarship. A scholarship was a nasty word in Howe&rsquo;s school days. Or rather hockey minded U.S. college folks hadn&rsquo;t got around to a full-scale recruiting program in Canada at the time.At 25 Saskatoon-born Hay is completing his second year in the N.H.L. with a Stanley Cup final fling; winner of the Calder Memorial Trophy in 1959-60; leading scorer of the Hawks for the 1960-61 regular campaign.At 25 Howe had been in the N.H.L. eight seasons, scoring champion four successive seasons; twice Hart Trophy winner; and Stanley Cup scoring leader (1954-55). Quibblers will say Howe belongs to Floral, Saskatchewan, a six-house, two-elevator stop once listed as being four miles from Saskatoon. Today Floral is put at the edge of the Saskatoon city limits. While still being treated with three or four-cornered baby bandages, Howe move into town.<h3>Has Career In Oil</h3>As if to confuse those who insist on the Floral touch for Detroit&rsquo;s brightest flower, Pop Ab Howe, a Wisconsin product, says Gordie was born on a farm at Clavet, another Saskatoon fringe whistle pause.Bill Hay&rsquo;s burning desire to make the grade in N.H.L. competition wasn&rsquo;t shared by his-parents. After he was graduated from Colorado College as an engineer, majoring in geology, his folks pictured a career for him in the mineral and oil industries of Saskatchewan and Alberta.His dad, Charlie Hay, a versatile Saskatoon high school athlete, and later University of Saskatchewan hockey-football star, is president of Royalite Oil in Calgary. His mother is Florence &ldquo;String&rdquo; Miller-Hay, a fine athlete on the distaff side; sister of the late Earl Miller, left winger with the Chicago Black Hawks in the 1930&rsquo;s; is also a University of Saskatchewan graduate. Bill&rsquo;s older brother. Jimmy had been even more outstanding in sport in high school and college days. Also an engineering graduate (U of Saskatchewan and Tulsa), but Jimmy had dismissed pro hockey thoughts for a career in the commercial world.<h3>Toe Gave Him Advice</h3>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll never be satisfied,&rdquo; Bill told them,&rdquo; until I&rsquo;ve tried pro hockey. I want to make the N.H.L. If I find I&rsquo;m not good enough I&rsquo;ll know and get on with my engineering. But I&rsquo;ve dreamed for years of a chance to make it. I don&rsquo;t expect to be another Gordie Howe but he&rsquo;s given me the inspiration. Saskatoon has produced a lot of good hockey players. I&rsquo;d like to be counted one of them. I might be another Harry Watson (Saskatoon boy who starred with the old Americans, Detroit, Chicago and Toronto).&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02284/1837308-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1059" height="1371"><figcaption class="caption-body">Closeup On Hawk StarBill &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Hay</figcaption></div>Canadiens had an impressive crop of young candidates at the September, 1958 Forum camp. Most of them had much more rugged experience in minor pro and Eastern Canada junior competition. Young Hay caught the eye of sideliners chiefly because he towered above all the rookies, stood shoulder to shoulder with Jean Beliveau.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s green as grass,&rdquo; coach Toe Blake explained when the writer checked on our fellow townsman at the request of Pop Charlie, an old schoolmate of long standing.&rdquo; He&rsquo;s never been used to the slam-bang hockey the kids dish out in this country. That U.S. college hockey is pretty tame. It&rsquo;s going to take him two years in tough minor company to adjust his style. He has good size, handles a puck well but he&rsquo;s far behind most of the boys in other ways.&rdquo;Toe kept the lad in camp a week after other young candidates had been packed off to junior ranks or the minor pros. And because Canadiens had such a surplus of promising material coming along, while Black Hawks were screaming for help, the Habs sold Bill to Chicago for $20,000.He was placed with the Hawk farm club, Calgary Stampeders for 1958-59. He developed slowly but surely and got a thorough education in hockey the hard way.&ldquo;I soon realized what Toe Blake had told me about the necessity to forget my college tactics, defend myself at all times and learn to use my body and elbows and arms.&rdquo;Bill had 24 goals 30 assists in 53 League games at Calgary and the Hawks decided it was time for his big test.&ldquo;He wasn&rsquo;t any ball of fire,&rdquo; says coach Rudy Pilous in recalling Bill&rsquo;s early workouts in the Chicago camp. &ldquo;He still had a lot of those U.S. college hockey moves. He could handle a puck with the best of them but couldn&rsquo;t break a pane of glass with his shot. And he was pushed around a lot, because, despite his size, it was apparent he hadn&rsquo;t been used to mixing like kids get in the tough junior O.H.A.&rdquo;<h2>Dad Wanted Red To Go In Business</h2>Canadiens Sold Him To Chicago For $20,000 Following Camp Trial<h3>Most Improved In League</h3>Pilous was talking about Hay again&rsquo; during the Hawks-Canadiens series.&ldquo;Bill is the most improved hockey player in the N.H.L. He&rsquo;s getting more aggressive all the time. They&rsquo;re not pushing him around any more. He&rsquo;s taking care of himself out there. His one bad habit is too much stickhandling. He&rsquo;s got to shoot more, even if his shot hasn&rsquo;t improved much. But he&rsquo;s a good team player and he&rsquo;s good defensively as well as on offense. He can develop a shot if he works on it.Now that Bill has established himself as an N.H.L. regular, did Pilous figure the boy would be satisfied he&rsquo;d achieved his ambition, and would retire.&ldquo;I hope not,&rdquo; Rudy answered,&rdquo; He&rsquo;s a fine boy. He has good hockey brains. He can go far. He could be one of the best centres in the League.&rdquo;And among the proud rooters for Bill in the Stanley Cup series are his mother and dad and sister, visiting from Calgary.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad he didn&rsquo;t try to be a goal-tender,&rdquo; quipped Pop Charlie in Chicago.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s no job for a growing boy, the way they fire those screen shots. I had it softer than Glenn Hall, because they hadn&rsquo;t though up the slap drive in my time. But I saw a lot of pucks.&rdquo;This was by way of recalling that Hay senior played goal for University of Saskatchewan against the power-laden Toronto Granites in the Allan Cup finals of 1922-23 in Winnipeg. The Granites were as strong as several clubs in the old N.H.L. of that era and several of them, including Dune Munro, Hooley Smith, Beattie Ramsay and Eddie Rodden became major headliners.But as I started out to say, Saskatoon should be mighty proud of such illustrious Stanley Cup headliners as Bill Hay and Gordie Howe, who made the clacium glare by two different routes. &#9632;

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Hay — College Kid Proves A Point

TORONTO. Ont. &mdash; Frederick Hugh Lehman, former coach and player with the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League in the late 1920&rsquo;s died here Saturday night, April 8, in Toronto General Hospital.Lehman played goal for 18 years and appeared in eight cup finals. He originally went to Vancouver from Kitchener. Hugh was born and educated in Pembroke and lived some years on the West Coast before returning here to head a paving company.He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame for his record as a goalkeeper in 1928 for the Vancouver team in the West Coast Hockey League. There he was known as Eagle Eye Lehman. After a year with the Hawks as player and coach, he retired from sports to devote his activities to road construction.He leaves his wife, the former Annie Davey of Toronto, and two sisters, Mrs. W. Reise of Hamilton and Mrs. D. Sykes of Montreal. &#9632;

Hugh Lehman, Ex-Chi. Coach Dies In Toronto Hospital

<div class="byline">MILT DUNNELL (in the Toronto Star)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04254/1837422-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="313" height="450"></div><h2>Punch Pontiers Progress Report</h2>PUNCH IMLACH&rsquo;S PAINFUL path took him along the row of naked Red Wings. The shouting and the shooting had ceased. Now, Imlach and his faithful deputy King Clancy were mumbling: &ldquo;Congratulations and good luck&rdquo; to the victors in their birthday suits. Outside, a group of subdued and awed Leaf partisans waited for the Wings to emerge from their dressing room.&ldquo;I hated to do it to you, Punch,&rdquo; lippy Leo LaBine chirped as Imlach shook his hand, &ldquo;but you done it to us, two years ago, when I was with Boston.&rdquo;&ldquo;Yeah, and I&rsquo;d have done it again, if I could,&rdquo; Imlach retorted, continuing his journey through the camp of his conquerors.In three seasons as medicine man of the Leafs, this was Imlach&rsquo;s darkest moment. His best club of the three which he has skipped, gave him much the poorest mileage &mdash; the poorest performance, too, after it hit the playoffs.In his first try, he got to the Stanley Cup final &mdash; even beat Canadiens once &mdash; with a squad that was considered a lead pipe cinch for the cellar by nearly everyone except Imlach. Last season, he went to the last round again &mdash; but didn&rsquo;t win a heat against the Habs.This time, Punch was prepared for the big kill. Canadiens, be proclaimed, could be taken, Imlach made his prediction look good, by challenging Canadiens, right to the wire, only to have the Red Wings &mdash; a team which Leafs had &ldquo;owned&rdquo; for most of the season &mdash; knock him off in five games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05229/1837415-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="528" height="856"><figcaption class="caption-body">Punch Imlach</figcaption></div>Ironically, it looked as if Canadiens finally are to be hauled down from the totem pole. Somebody else &mdash; not Leafs &mdash; will take their place, if it happens. Imlach couldn&rsquo;t be blamed if he had all the buoyancy of a lead balloon as he took the long walk from the Detroit diggins back to his own dressing-room.Three seasons of rebuilding, patching and planning came down like a penthouse built on pipe stems. The causes? (a) Injuries to players who provided the spark which kept the machine running; (b) mediocre performance by healthy Leafs who might have taken up the slack; (c) a Red Wing club that was on the up-beat while Leafs were slumping.<h2>There&rsquo;s Trouble in the Offing</h2>BECAUSE HE&rsquo;S AN able and quick-witted character, Imlach&rsquo;s dismay will stem from his apprehension of what&rsquo;s in the future, rather than from the wreckage left by the Red Wings. He had been able to see Sid Abel&rsquo;s message on the wall for at least a week. Anyone who watched the Leafs in the second game of the series suspected they were dead ducks.Imlach has to worry about next season. Here&rsquo;s the situation he has to ponder. His best club &mdash; the product of three years of sweat &mdash; broke down when the injury blight struck two of his oldest players. Without Red Kelly and Bert Olmstead, Leafs looked as if they couldn&rsquo;t have beaten Boston.In other words, the players who likely will be the first to hang up their tack are the ones on whom the club is most dependent. To Kelly and Olmstead, you could add Johnny Bower and Al Stanley. Bower likely will be all-star goalie, maybe even Hart trophy winner, as the league&rsquo;s most valuable player. Stanley could win an all-star defence spot. Yet they&rsquo;re playing out the string..True, Leafs have some of the league&rsquo;s best young players &mdash; Davey Keon, Frank Mahovlich, Eddie Shack, Carl Brewer, Bob Nevin, to name a few. But that&rsquo;s small comfort to Punch if the firewagon won&rsquo;t run without the old firehorses.Keon provided Toronto fans with their biggest lift &mdash; just before the lights went out at the Gardens. When he trapped the puck, after Terry Sawchuk attempted to clear it up the ice, and scored in the vacated Detroit cage, the hometown whoopers went into a frenzy. In addition to putting Leafs within shooting distance of the Detroiters again, the goal seemed like retribution against Terry for robbing our marksmen.&ldquo;He outguessed me,&rdquo; Sawchuk admitted, after the game.Keon merely said: &ldquo;I figured Terry was going to shoot the puck up that side, and I was lucky enough to get hold of it.&rdquo; &#9632;

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speaking on SPORT

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st, 1947Published Weekly, except monthly May 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. APRIL 15. 1961 No. 29<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01419/1837384-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="355" height="390"></div>&bull; CHICAGO &mdash; THIS city has gone hockey mad with sellout crowds for every game and thousands being turned away. Even though the Chicago Stadium is the largest arena in the National Hockey League, it would take a building twice as large to accommodate all the people who want to see the game? &hellip; Chicago fans are optimistic that this will be the year when the Black Hawks win their first Stanley Cup since 1938 &hellip; Chicago has not had a world&rsquo;s championship sports team since 1947, and that&rsquo;s 14 years ago. The last Chicago Club to be king of its particular hill was the football Cardinals &hellip; This is the first time since 1944 that the Hawks have advanced as far as the Stanley Cup finals &hellip; This year&rsquo;s finals will be known as the Norris finals as it pits Jim Norris, co-owner and chairman of the board of the Black Hawks against his step-brother, Bruce, who is president of the Detroit Red Wings &hellip; It is also the first final between two United States clubs since 1950 &hellip; And finally it is the only time in history that the third and fourth place teams have clashed in the finals &hellip; Chicago finished in third place during the regular championship schedule while Detroit ended up in fourth place &hellip; The Red Wings are after their first Stanley Cup in six years &hellip; Sid Abel, Detroit&rsquo;s 43-year-old coach calls Chicago the roughest team in the NHL &hellip; &ldquo;By rough&rdquo;, he clarified, &ldquo;I mean physically rugged. They&rsquo;re one of the biggest teams in the League and they hit hard. If you don&rsquo;t meet them at their own hard-checking terms, they&rsquo;ll skate right over you &hellip; The Black Hawks are both the tallest and heaviest club in the NHL &hellip; While the Hawks were pleased with the opening 3-2 win, they were far from overjoyed, and figured they became a little careless in the late stages of the game&hellip; Hank Bassen played very well in goal for Detroit when he succeeded the injured Terry Sawchuk at the end of the first period &hellip; Chicago has altered its offensive pattern from the one it used in the semi-finals against Canadiens &hellip; &ldquo;I told my players to carry the puck into the attacking zone against Detroit, instead of shooting it in, stated Coach Rudy Pilous. &ldquo;Against Canadiens we realized that Doug Harvey was getting slow and we figured that we could throw the puck in and beat him to it. You can&rsquo;t do that against the Red Wings. They have some fine skaters back there. I also warned my boys to watch for that long forward pass that Detroit employs every so often&rdquo; &hellip; Dennis DeJordy, Chicago&rsquo;s fine young goalie who played with Buffalo this season, is standing by in the event that anything happens to Glenn Hall.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02386/1837377-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="282" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Norris</figcaption></div>&bull; TOMMY IVAN has been receiving congratulations from everyone for his selection by THE HOCKEY NEWS as the Top Executive for 1960-61 &hellip; The current issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL lists the Top Ten in Hockey &hellip; This is an exceptionally fine issue. Frank Mahovlich is featured on the cover &hellip; Bobby Hull&rsquo;s father is taking in the finals &hellip; and incidentally, Hull is starting to play his best hockey of the season right now &hellip; which is a pretty good time to be playing it, too &hellip; Hull&rsquo;s father put on a pair of skates and worked out with the Hawks one day &hellip; Glenn Hall&rsquo;s father-in-law is also on hand for the series &hellip; Noted former Detroit players Black Jack Stewart, Jimmy Peters and Harry Lumley taking in the games, as well as former Chicago great, Bill Mosienko &hellip; This edition of the Black Hawks is rated the finest team to ever represent Chicago in the NHL &hellip; The current squad set a new all-time record for both wins and points &hellip; This is the fourth time that Detroit and Chicago have met in a playoff series. Chicago edged the Hawks in two of the three previous meetings &hellip; Both clubs are flying back and forth between the two cities &hellip; Hockey Headquarters in Chicago is the LaSalle Hotel &hellip; while the Detroit-Leland Hotel is where everyone stays in Detroit &hellip; Wings are having tough luck with injuries to Terry Sawchuk and Marcel Pronovost, two of their key players &hellip; Pronovost&rsquo;s ankle is very sore and the ace defenseman is heavily handicapped &hellip; &ldquo;Every time I turn or dig in, it gets worse,&rdquo; said Pronovost &hellip; The Red Wings are hoping that clever Normie Ullman will start to score soon. Ullman led the club in goals this season with 28 and was second only to Gordie Howe in total points &hellip; But he has yet to score his first goal in this year&rsquo;s playoffs &hellip; Sid Abel plans to change the lines he will have playing against the Chicago units &hellip; Abel works Gordie Howe&rsquo;s line against the Bobby Hull trio &hellip; This will see two great players, Hull and Howe, checking each other. &hellip; New York minor officials Dick Williams, Lamie Crovat, Lew Hogg and Ed Aubel, along with Grant Easson of Toronto are working the first three games of the finals &hellip; Boston&rsquo;s minor officials will handle the remainder of the series &hellip; Jack Adams, Detroit General Manager, noted for his many famous pep talks made over the 34 years he has been with Detroit had this to say to his charges after the opening game &hellip; &ldquo;We lost the first game to Toronto, too, but we&rsquo;ll be back. Anybody who has as much guts as you guys doesn&rsquo;t need to worry.&rdquo; &hellip; Jim Norris was pleased with his club&rsquo;s showing in winning game number one &hellip; &ldquo;Maybe we didn&rsquo;t cover ourselves with glory in the last couple of minutes but we did win it,&rdquo; the Chicago owner remarked&hellip; Michael Wirtz, son-of Arthur Wirtz, co-owner with Norris of the Hawks, visits the Black Hawks dressing room after every game, and has developed into a very enthusiastic fan. He is learning the hockey business from Jim Norris who has the renutation of being one of hockey&rsquo;s<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03310/1837370-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="274" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Norm Ullman</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By PAT CURRAN (In the Montreal Gazette)</div>MONTREAL, Que. &mdash;Angry and disappointed over the Habs playoff elimination by the Chicago Black Hawks, Frank Selke says that at least four players will be replaced and that the other National League clubs can expect the Canadiens to play a much tougher brand of hockey next season.The little general manager refused to name those on the chopping block but said that new faces would be injected into the defence and left wing positions &ldquo;as well as at right wing when Dickie Moore goes back to the left side where he belongs&rdquo;.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01375/1837477-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="272" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Selke</figcaption></div>&ldquo;In thankfulness for winning the Stanley Cup in eight games last season,&rdquo; related Selke, &ldquo;I kept players I had intended to drop and let go Ab McDonald who would have been an asset to the club if the fans had been patient with him. But there will be some drastic changes made before next October.&rdquo;Selke said that seasoned performers and not rookies will be necessary and that they must be acquired through trades and the annual June draft.&ldquo;With the exception of one good defenseman, I don&rsquo;t feel that we have anybody in our organization who can do the job next year,&rdquo; said Selke. &ldquo;Bobby Rousseau and Cliff Pennington of Hull-Ottawa are promising players but we need more experienced men if we hope to regain the Stanley Cup.&ldquo;I can tell you another thing &mdash; the Canadiens are going to be a lot tougher next season. We have been playing nice clean hockey a little too long. In the semi-final series, the Black Hawks deliberately racked up five of our best players and not one of the Canadiens put a hand on them in retaliation. I&rsquo;m tired of hearing the fans calling our players yellow-bellies and this is going to change.&rdquo; The Habs general manager was asked about the possibilities of a switch in netminders.<h2>Plante Must Be More Serious</h2>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not contemplating any change but Jacques Plante is the only one who can really answer the question. He&rsquo;s got to take things more seriously than he did this past season. He wasn&rsquo;t up to par through the early part of the schedule but played his position better than most of the other players after he returned.&ldquo;Certainly, Plante can&rsquo;t be blamed for losing the series. I thought he blundered on Chicago&rsquo;s first goal Tuesday night and wasn&rsquo;t so good in the second game at the Forum. But you can&rsquo;t blame the goalie when his teammates are shut out for two straight games.&rdquo;Attempting to find reasons for Canadiens defeat by the Hawks, Selke said that the team was &ldquo;below par through injuries and for some unexplainable reason our fellows failed to shoot the puck. Bernie Geoffrion shouldn&rsquo;t have played Tuesday night but he wanted to get into the game so badly that we went against our better judgment and let him. Ralph Backstrom couldn&rsquo;t dress. Billy Hicke showed spunk after that head injury he suffered in the first game of the series. Jean Beliveau wasn&rsquo;t himself after that brutal check by Jack Evans against the plexiglass at the Forum.&ldquo;For the first time in the playoffs, big Beliveau failed to score a goal. This was a big factor in our defeat. Jean had scored 36 goals in 63 previous playoff games against only 37 by Gordie Howe in 95 games. Howe turned out to be Detroit&rsquo;s big gun against Toronto.&rdquo;The G.M. also pointed out the Habs lack of shooting. &ldquo;Doug Harvey had only about six shots on the net through the whole series whereas he usually has about four shots per game. And Billy Hicke might have had a couple of goals Tuesday night if he had shot the puck.&rdquo;Selke praised the Hawks for their fine team effort and Glenn Hall for excellent goaltending, however, he said that a few breaks which went against the Canadiens might have changed the outcome of the series.<h2>Didn&rsquo;t Have Determination Or Rocket</h2>&ldquo;There is no question in my mind that Guy Gendron&rsquo;s goal in the second game at the Forum was onside,&rdquo; Selke pointed out. &ldquo;Nor is there any doubt that if Don Marshall had been a Hawk, he would never have been called for hitting the puck above his shoulders on that overtime goal in Chicago.&ldquo;These things are like water over the dam. now. In other years injuries and bad breaks were overcome by sheer determination on the part of the players and the spirit instilled in them by Maurice Richard. This season, our boys didn&rsquo;t have that kind of drive. But they&rsquo;ll have it again.&ldquo;And it won&rsquo;t be long before the Canadiens regain the Stanley Cup.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Habs To Place Trade Tags On Four Regulars

CHICAGO, Ill. &mdash; Sidelined with an injured knee, scheduled to be in a cast until Friday, April 7, Bernie Geoffrion hinted as soon as he boarded the train in Montreal Monday, April 3, that he would be playing in the sixth game of the semi-final series. Coach Toe Blake said that there was little chance, physiotherapist Bill Head agreed, and Dr. Larry Hampson who had ordered the cast a week ago, said there was no chance at all.No one figured on a porter&rsquo;s knife, the daring of team-captain Doug Harvey and the determination of Geoffrion to get into the game at any cost.Sometime during the night, in the private confines of the ladies&rsquo; washroom, Harvey cut off Geoffrion&rsquo;s heavy plaster of paris cast and<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02343/1837550-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="546" height="536"><figcaption class="caption-body">Four To GoTom Johnson</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03274/1837543-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="524" height="510"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Turner</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04202/1837536-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="534" height="518"><figcaption class="caption-body">Junior Langlois</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05138/1837529-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="552" height="536"><figcaption class="caption-body">Claude Provost</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0687/1837522-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="536" height="516"><figcaption class="caption-body">Marcel Bonin</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0749/1837515-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="536" height="518"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Guy Gendron</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0833/1837508-1-eng-US/f0005-082.jpg" title="f0005-08" width="522" height="518"></div> &#9632;

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Harvey Gets Geoff To Work

<div class="byline">By GIL SMITH</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;As could be expected, trade winds are blowing strongly in the wake of the storm that saw the once mighty Canadiens grind to a shuddering halt in Chicago.Speaking in the Windy City the very night the Habs blew out against a masterful-looking band of Hawks, V.P. Kenny Reardon said: &ldquo;While there&rsquo;s been no mention from senior players regarding retirement so far, only eighteen men can be protected with the draft. I think there&rsquo;ll be a lot of serious talk about changing some players.&rdquo;Reardon&rsquo;s views were subsequently backed up by Managing Director Frank Selke, who, while naming no names, made it clear that the Hab roster is going to have a new look next season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0921/1837581-1-eng-US/f0005-092.jpg" title="f0005-09" width="263" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Gray</figcaption></div>Speculation as to just what caused the Canuck collapse has been rife since the minute the dejected band of ex-champions skated off the Chicago ice surface. Certainly there were weaknesses &mdash; some of them glaring &mdash; displayed by the Habs in the series, yet no one single factor has been blamed for their downfall. Rather, a group of problems are going to have to be solved by the Canadien Command, and it&rsquo;s obvious that some trades are going to figure in the solutions.It looks, in fact, like Habs are going to have to go far beyond their own horizons to come up with the answers to at least four vexing problems that landed them out of the Stanley Cup hunt.<h2>Need Both A Left And Right Winger</h2>The problems:(1) A good left winger for Beliveau and Geoffrion.(2) Additional goal-scoring punch on the power play.(3) A real good, hard-hitting young defenseman.(4) A good right winger for Moore and Richard.The left wing situation on the Beliveau-Geoffrion line has been a season-long thorn in the side of the Habs. Twice it appeared to have been settled. Twice it proved it hadn&rsquo;t been.Gendron was first man to have a fling at the spot this year, but after a satisfactory start he petered out, and youthful Gilles Tremblay took over. His short NHL experience wasn&rsquo;t up to it. Others were shuttled in and out. but nothing has worked.It&rsquo;d seems that what Canucks must have in this vital spot is an established NHL player with top scoring potential. And if a little speculation is in order, then Toronto&rsquo;s Dickie Duff looks from here to be the man who might fill that bill. And Habs have good trading material scattered throughout, the club to offer.Moving along to problem No. two, the series letdown of the Canadien power play was staggering, even allowing for the absence of 50-goal man Geoffrion. When power play shooters manage only two goals in two-dozen tries, as was the case with Habs, it takes no crystal ball to see that more punch must be provided.Canadiens might well make an all-out try to grab Camille Henry from the Rangers, in a move to strengthen this department. And Henry, a noted power play artist, may just be had if the bait is tempting enough.Defensively speaking, the Habs have got to find a strong young hitter. Dallas Smith or Leo Boivin of Boston Bruins fits that category. On their own team, and stretched throughout their farm system, Habs have plenty of trading strength among defense players who are perfectly capable, but do not qualify in the heavy hitting department.Perhaps the toughest nut that Canadiens have to crack, is the problem of finding a bonafide right winger capable of keeping up with the Pocket Rocket and Moore. Toe Blake has tried to solve this one in a variety of ways, not the least of which was to shift Moore himself to the starboard side, and fill the gap with another left winger.But Dickie, a left hand shot, is as effective on his own natural side as the Pocket is at centre, and these two high-calibre players rate an adequate right wing man.There is one dark horse in that race for that right wing position. His name is Terry Gray, a lumbering right winger from the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens of the Eastern Pro League. Gray, who scored 40 goals for Hull-Ottawa this season, is built not unlike Gordie Howe. Canadiens need a rugged guy to take some of the pressure off Richard and if Gray shows anything at all in training camp next September then he may get the call.As to the question of who Canadiens will put on the auction block in order to acquire the needed strength, it&rsquo;s anybody&rsquo;s guess, but why not a little more speculation?First of all, it&rsquo;s got to be tradeable strength &mdash; the kind that will make another team feel they&rsquo;re getting a fair shake &mdash; and not simply castoffs. Canadiens will have to include some fair prizes in the exchanging, and overriding any trade agreements they enter into, will be the spectre of their former property coming back to haunt them. It happened in the Chicago series. But the day when Habs can hold onto players when they don&rsquo;t happen to fit into the immediately required pattern, is a day of the past. It&rsquo;s also unfair to the players.Speculation would include Bob Turner as trade material. Likewise Tom Johnson. Both are effective, but not in the way the Habs presently require. Langlois, Gendron, Bonin, and even Backstrom and Goyette are not likely to escape consideration when auction block time rolls round. Down on the farm, Pennington, Gauthier and Connelly are players who might conceivably find a spot on other clubs.<h2>Age Catching Up To The Superstars</h2>And after five years of Stanley Cup feasting, the Canadien organization isn&rsquo;t likely to be short of additional cash to put on the line for whatever they feel they may need.Whatever finally does happen, Canucks have made it clear that they will not stand pat with a losing team. In previous years, they could rely on deep &ldquo;Bench Strength&rdquo; to carry them through when their nucleus of Superstars were made ineffective through injuries.But the bench strength doesn&rsquo;t appear to be there now. And if age caught up with Superstar Rocket Richard, then age is going to catch up with them all; and Habs must provide against the day when their top stars vanish from the scene entirely. Harvey at 36, Johnson at 34, Plante at 32, and even the Boomer and Moore already past the 30 mark, mean that the ranks of the longtime Canadien greats are being threatened.Certainly the club will go all-out to see that adequate measures are taken to restore the kind of balance the team knew in its heyday, and for the first time in years they&rsquo;re going to have to trade widely with the opposition to achieve it. &#9632;

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Champs To Scan Mil To Fill In Weak Positions

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The New York Ranger brass can be forgiven if they believe their club is laboring under a gypsy curse.Certainly the evidence indicates that witch doctors presumably employed by other NHL clubs have been giving the Blueshirts the double-whammy &mdash; even in the offseason.The 1961-62 schedule hasn&rsquo;t even been drawn up yet but the Blues have been almost assured that one of their regulars will be sidelined for part of the next campaign.That&rsquo;s Rod Gilbert, the adept right wing wizard of Guelph Royals, OHA Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; pennant winners.Gilbert&rsquo;s credentials &mdash; scoring champion and league&rsquo;s MVP&mdash;were good enough to assure him a berth on the coming edition of the Rangers. Some optimists already have recommended him for the Calder Trophy.Then, the voodoo drums began to beat around the NHL and now the Rangers are wondering whether Gilbert will be able to start the season on Broadway.The 20-year old Pat Boonish &mdash; looking Kid suffered a crack at the bottom of his spine and last month underwent an operation at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.&ldquo;The operation will keep him in the hospital for three weeks&rdquo;, said Jack Humphries, Rangers&rsquo; chief scout and president of the Royals.&ldquo;He won&rsquo;t be able to skate for at least six months and, maybe, nine. It could be he will miss a part of next season.&rdquo;The immediate consequence of the injury is that Gilbert, who scored 54 goals, 49 assists and 103 points for Guelph, will be unable to materially aid his team in the OHA Junior playoff finals.Even more dismal, as far, as Broadway rooters are concerned, is the long-range prospect that Gilbert will be absent from Rangers&rsquo; Fall training camp and opening games.<h2>Spine Crack Disclosed</h2>The Montreal native was destined to play on a line with Andy Bathgate at center and Dean Prentice at left wing. Early reports indicated that Gilbert reeks with so much class, he&rsquo;d have outshone half the Ranger squad this past season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01445/1837636-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="494" height="518"><figcaption class="caption-body">Under KnifeRod Gilbert</figcaption></div>Actually, Gilbert played one game for the Rangers early last season. His deportment was so remarkably good that New York fans hoped that Patrick would forget about sending him back to Guelph.&ldquo;I like it up here in the NHL,&rdquo; Gilbert said after some ingenious sleight-of-stick. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not worried about doing well.&rdquo;But Gilbert was grudgingly returned to Guelph where he marauded the OHA until a March 3 game.It was then that he stepped on a piece of paper, tripped and rammed into the boards. The injury became aggravated in the last week of the schedule and, finally, forced Gilbert to the sidelines.Late last month he was sent to the Mayo Clinic where the spine crack was disclosed.Gilbert&rsquo;s future will depend on his reaction to the operation. If the early prognosis is correct, he won&rsquo;t be much help to the Rangers until mid-season. In that case, the brass may choose to send him to a minor league affiliate for seasoning.If Gilbert responds quickly &mdash; and hockey players often deke the doctor&rsquo;s reports &mdash; there is a possibility that Rod will attend the Blueshirt camp.Assuming, of course, that Blues can outfeint those curses. &#9632;

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Gilbert Injury Puts Long Face On Blues’ Brass

<div class="byline">By PETER WARREN</div>FREDERICTON, N.B. &mdash;Almost the entire city of Fredericton turned out to greet Willie O&rsquo;Ree last week, as the first member of the Negro race to play in the National Hockey League flew into his home town after his first regular season in the big time.Down in the record books the disappearance of a color bar that never really existed was recorded January 18 when O&rsquo;Ree hit Montreal Forum ice with linemates Don McKenney and Gerry Toppazzini.Not a catcall or a murmur greeted O&rsquo;Ree and hockey had survived one of its stiffest tests.All season long New Brunswickers have followed, with marked interest, O&rsquo;Ree performances in the big league. When he went in for a check on nationally-televised games the hearts of local hockey enthusiasts went with him and when he scored his first goal &mdash; against Montreal in Boston &mdash; all New Brunswick greeted his performance with loud cheers.O&rsquo;Ree, a fast, hard-checking player, had an off-and-on season. But Fredericton didn&rsquo;t care how he played last week. They turned out in their thousands to greet the local boy, who learned the game on the back streets of New Brunswick&rsquo;s Capital City. O&rsquo;Ree scored four goals and assisted on 10 through the regular NHL season.<h2>Mayor Pays Tribute</h2>O&rsquo;Ree described the Fredericton welcome as &ldquo;surprisingly warm and wonderful.&rdquo;Mayor W. T. Walker, who presented O&rsquo;Ree with an engraved silver tray on behalf of the city, told the large, cheering crowd:&ldquo;Willie is a gentleman now, as he has always been. He has brought credit to Fredericton, to himself and to those who coached him.&rdquo;New Brunswick Youth and Welfare minister W. R. Duffie said he felt it a privilege to extend a welcome on behalf of the province to this young man who, he said, &ldquo;has brought tremendous credit to his heritage, his city and his province.&rdquo;&ldquo;Only he knows the odds he had to fight. Unfortunately he did not have the help he ought to have had. Let his success be an example to the youth of the province.&rdquo;Duffie presented Willie with a New Brunswick tartan shirt and tie on behalf of the provincial government.O&rsquo;Ree arrived at Fredericton City Hall at the head of a lengthy motorcade which met him at the outskirts of the city and escorted him through the principal business streets.O&rsquo;Ree, answering newsmen, ad-mitted his color had been a difficulty &ldquo;in some leagues,&rdquo; but said he thought he would be back with the Bruins next year, though he understood &ldquo;several players would get the axe.&rdquo;O&rsquo;Ree also thought his fellow New Brunswicker, Gerry (Red) Oullette of Grand Falls would be back with the Boston team next year. &#9632;

O’Ree Gets Big Welcome By His Home Town Fans

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02326/1837698-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Willie And His BoostersWillie O&rsquo;Ree, center, is welcomed home by his parents at airport building in Fredericton, New Brunswick.</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N. Y. &mdash;Abbott and Costello&rsquo;s grand old &ldquo;Who&rsquo;s On First?&rdquo; routine was pulled out of mothballs last week and given a hockey twist by the unlikely team of Messrs. Muzz Patrick and Rocket Richard.Richard apparently started the rucus when he allegedly told a French writer that he would consider coaching the Rangers &ldquo;under certain conditions.&rdquo;The story was picked up by other papers and treated seriously. There was only one catch &mdash; Richard either never said he&rsquo;d coach the Blues, or he was kidding. Trouble is, everybody regarded the Rocket story seriously.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03233/1837691-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="261" height="396"><figcaption class="caption-body">Muzz Patrick</figcaption></div>Meanwhile, back at Madison Square Garden, Patrick took a gander at the clipping which quoted Richard as being available. So did a New York reporter who promptly conferred with Muzz about the story. Then, the fun began.&ldquo;If this is true,&rdquo; said Muzz, &ldquo;then Richard has moved to the top of my list of candidates. I&rsquo;d like to talk to him.&rdquo;But the party of the first part had other ideas.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not true,&rdquo; said Richard. &ldquo;I won&rsquo;t take any coaching job for the next couple of years.&rdquo;Canadiens&rsquo; managing director, Frank Selke, then got into the act. And he wasn&rsquo;t laughing.&ldquo;If Patrick really wants to speak to Maurice, why didn&rsquo;t he talk to us before he gave out the story.&rdquo; Selke was quoted as saying. &ldquo;Maurice is under contract to us. That doesn&rsquo;t seem to have been taken into consideration in this case.&ldquo;We have plans for Maurice in our own organization. He is on our payroll and we hope to keep him.&rdquo;For a minute it appeared that Selke had voided any chance of Richard coming to New York until he significantly mentioned:&ldquo;However, if Patrick can make him a better offer than we are able to provide, I will withdraw my objections.&rdquo;Patrick had no intentions of tampering with Richard or slighting Selke. In his original statement, Muzz made it clear that before he&rsquo;d talk to Richard he&rsquo;d first confer with Selke and Senator Hartland de Molson, president of Canadiens.Unfortunately, this segment of Patrick&rsquo;s statement was deleted from the wire story.&ldquo;Muzz was merely asked a question as a result of the Richard clipping that appeared in a Montreal paper,&rdquo; a Ranger spokesman said.<h2>Rocket Started It</h2>&ldquo;Richard wasn&rsquo;t even considered up until then but when the story was mentioned to Muzz he included him as a candidate strictly out of courtesy to the Rocket. Any other response would have been an affront to Richard&rsquo;s record.&rdquo;The New York official further pointed out that Richard&rsquo;s statement that he would try to bring some Montreal players with him to New York proved the facetiousness of the Rocket&rsquo;s statement.&ldquo;If Richard could bring Canadiens players to New York, he had to go to the top of Muzz&rsquo;s list.&rdquo;Suggestions that the Richard mish-mash was a New York publicity stunt simply are humbug. The story originated in Montreal, unknown to Patrick. His reply to questions about Richard were routine courtesy answers.Richard makes $25,000 a year as good-will ambassador for Canadiens&rsquo; &ldquo;Peace Corps.&rdquo; In the past year his work in this field could be an inspiration to Dag Hammar-skold and other world leaders.Whether he coaches Rangers or not, the feeling-about the story provoked the same happy feeling in New York as the &ldquo;Who&rsquo;s On First?&rdquo; bit when it was performed. As one Ranger fan put it:&ldquo;Just thinking about Maurice Richard on the Ranger hench was &#9632;

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Muzz Explains Story; We Want Rocket Yarn Started In Montreal

<h2>2nd CHI-WINGS MEETING</h2>When the Chicago Black Hawks skated out to meet the Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup final series on Thursday, April 6, it was the second time in the history of the club that they were meeting the Wings for all the NHL marbles. They clashed in the finals in 1933-34 when Chicago won the series-A best of five games 3 to 1.<h2>A 19 Season Famine</h2>It&rsquo;s been 19 seasons since a club representing Boston. New York or Chicago has won the Stanley Cup. Last club other than Montreal. Detroit or Toronto to do so was the Boston Bruins of 1940-11. The Bruins that year defeated the Detroit Red Wings in four straight to take the Cup.<h3>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo; &mdash; GAME 6</h3>TUESDAY, APRIL 4Montreal 0 at Chicago 3(Chicago wins best of seven series 4-2)Montreal &mdash; Goal: Plante; defense: Johnson, Talbot, Harvey, Langlois, Turner, J. C. Tremblay; forwards: Goyette, Provost, Marshall., Beliveau, Moore, Bonin, Richard, Hicke, G. Tremblay, Geoffrion, Gendron.Chicago &mdash; Goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko, Arbour, St. Laurent, Evans; forwards: Sloan, Nesterenko, Murphy, Hay, M. Balfour, Hull, Mikita, Wharram, McDonald, Fleming, Murphy, E. Balfour.Referee: Eddie Powers; linesmen:Matt Pavelich and Neil Armstrong.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01396/1837743-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="564" height="401"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02362/1837736-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="574" height="103"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including game of Sat., April 8)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03284/1837729-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="574" height="559"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

CHICAGO, ILL. &mdash;The Chicago Black Hawks cut loose for three goals in the first period &mdash; two by Bobby Hull &mdash; and then held on in a bitter struggle to defeat Detroit Red Wings 3-2 in the opening game of the best-of-seven Stanley Cup final.The Hawks were the alert opportunists, opening with a tremendous burst of speed and tossing their famous checking strength against the Red Wings to jump into their big lead.The Red Wings, who lost Goalie Terry Sawchuk after the first period because of a shoulder injury, fought back savagely the rest of the way, scoring in the second period and again in the last minute of the third.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04217/1837823-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="247" height="392"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption></div>Ken Wharram scored a goal for the Hawks, in between Hull&rsquo;s pair, and Len Lunde and Al Johnson counted for Detroit. Gordie Howe, a tireless worker as ever for the Wings, assisted on both Detroit goals.Sawchuk was injured, but continued playing after a rest, before the Chicago onslaught brought three goals in less than four minutes around the midway point of the opening period.He was shaken up again later but finished out the period and was replaced at the start of the second by Hank Bassen.Detroit &mdash; Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Pronovost. Goegan, Young, Odrowski, Godfrey: forwards: Delvecchio, Howe, Stasiuk, Ullman, LaBine, Johnson, Melnyk, Glover, Fonteyne, Lunde, MacDonald, MacGregor.Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko, Evans, St. Laurent, Arbour; forwards: Sloan, Nesterenko, Murphy, Hay, M. Balfour, Hull, Mikita, Wharram, McDonald, Fleming, E. Balfour, Maki.Referee: Frank Udvari: linesmen: George Hayes and Bruce Sims.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05145/1837816-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="579" height="632"></div><h2>How The Race Goes</h2><h3>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-06101/1837809-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="583" height="81"></div>(Chicago wins best of seven series 4-2)Tuesday, March 21; Chicago 2 at Montreal 6Thursday, March 23; Chicago 4 at Montreal 3Sunday, March 26; Montreal 1 at Chicago 2 (overtime)Tuesday, March 28; Montreal 5 at Chicago 2Saturday, April 1; Chicago 3 at Montreal 0Tuesday, April 4: Montreal 0 at Chicago 3<h3>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0771/1837802-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="585" height="76"></div>(Detroit wins best of seven series 4-1)Wednesday, March 22; Detroit 2 at Toronto 3 (overtime)Saturday, March 25; Detroit 4 at Toronto 2Sunday, March 26; Toronto 0 at Detroit 2Tuesday, March 28; Toronto 1 at Detroit 2Saturday, April 1; Detroit 3 at Toronto 2<h3>STANLEY CUP FINAL SERIES</h3>(Including tame of Sat., April 8)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0860/1837795-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="566" height="75"></div>(Best of seven series tied 1-1)CUP FINAL DATESThursday. April 6: Detroit 2 at Chicago 3Saturday, April 8; Chicago 1 at Detroit 3Monday, April 10: Wednesday, April 12Friday. April 14Sunday, April 16 (If necessary)Tuesday, April 18 (If necessary)(Best of seven series tied 1-1)Chicago &mdash; Goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko, Arbour, St. Laurent, Evans; forwards: Hay. M. Balfour, Murphy, Sloan, Nesterenko, Hull, Mikita, Wharram. McDonald, E. Balfour, Fleming, Maki.Detroit &mdash; Goal: Bassen; defense: Goegan, Godfrey, Young, Odrowski, Macon; forwards: Delvecchio, Howe, Stasiuk, Ullman. LaBine, Fonteyne. Melnyk, Glover, MacGregor, Johnson, MacDonald, Lunde.Referee: Eddie Powers; linesmen: George Hayes and Bruce Sims.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1037/1837788-1-eng-US/f0007-102.jpg" title="f0007-10" width="553" height="298"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1133/1837781-1-eng-US/f0007-112.jpg" title="f0007-11" width="555" height="130"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1227/1837774-1-eng-US/f0007-122.jpg" title="f0007-12" width="576" height="129"></div> &#9632;

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Bobby Scores Two, Chicago Beats Wings 3-2 In First

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0950/1837854-1-eng-US/f0007-092.jpg" title="f0007-09" width="254" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alex Delvecchio</figcaption></div>The Detroit Red Wings evened the final series with the Chicago Black Hawks by defeating the Hawks 3-1 here on Saturday night, April 8.The Wings took a 2-0 lead in the first and never looked back. Goals by defenseman Howie Young and Alex Delvecchio put the Wings ahead before the first period was over as the Wings outskated and outplayed the Hawks all the way.The Hawks got back into the game on a 40 foot goal by defenseman Pierre Pilote in the second period. Delvecchio scored the clincher into an open net in the last minute of the game.Wings second goal came while the Hawks&rsquo; St. Laurent was in the penalty box. The Hawks got their only goal in the opening seconds of the middle period.The Wings, playing like a team of destiny outshot the Hawk 35-26 with big Gordie Howe playing a standout role. &#9632;

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Wings Pull Even In Home Opener — Take 3-1 Victory

CHICAGO, Ill. &mdash; The Chicago Black Hawks ended the era of domination of the pro hockey world by the Montreal Canadiens last week, in a display of teamwork seldom seen on a sheet of ice.It would be hard to pick out one player as a star as the Hawks drove in the Stanley Cup final series against the Detroit Red Wings. They defeated the Canadiens four games to two and then won the opener and lost the second to the Wings.Without a doubt Goaler Glenn Hall was the individual standout for the Hawks. He was magnificent as he held off the Canadiens and Wings time and time again. In the Canadiens series alone he made over 200 saves.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1323/1837885-1-eng-US/f0007-132.jpg" title="f0007-13" width="274" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glena</figcaption></div>It&rsquo;s been a long, long time since a Montreal club was shutout in back to back games but Hall did it. He was scored on in the Hawks 5-2 loss in Chicago on Tuesday, March 28 at 4:24 of the third period and didn&rsquo;t allow another goal into his net until 182 minutes and five seconds later. He blanked the Canadiens for 137 minutes and 29 seconds and then held the Wings at bay in the first game for 45 minutes and 36 seconds before the red light went on behind him once more.It was truly a remarkable performance for one of the greatest goalers in NHL history. It will go down in the annals of the NHL as a display unequalled by any other NHL netminder. &#9632;

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Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><h2>LaBine Kids Clancy About Tickets To Finals; He Needles Punch In Room</h2>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Talkative Leo LaBine was enjoying the moment to its fullest.&ldquo;Say, King, if you need any tickets for the finals, drop me a line.&rdquo;Toronto Maple Leaf assistant general manager King Clancy managed a weak smile. King had come into the Red Wing dressing room at Maple Leaf Gardens to congratulate the Red Wings after they had eliminated Toronto in the Stanley Cup semifinals.Leo also had a cheery word for Leaf manager-coach Punch Imlach.&lsquo;Sorry to do this to you, Punch,&rdquo; said Leo. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s all right,&rdquo; answered Punch, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d have done it to you if I could.&rdquo;And LaBine quickly retorted: &ldquo;This is for what you did to us two years ago.&rdquo;The &ldquo;two years ago&rdquo; referred to the semifinal round in which Toronto squeaked into fourth place the last night of the season and then ousted the second place Bruins. Leo was with the Bruins then. Now the tables were reversed. Detroit finished fourth and Toronto had finished second.While the Wings were whooping it up, there was also a note of relief. Detroit was hanging by a thread the last six minutes of the game, protecting a one - goal margin.&ldquo;Just wanted to make it interesting,&rdquo; grinned defenseman Warren Godfrey who was slow going back to pick up the puck during a Wing power play in the third period &hellip; and Toronto scored its second goal.&ldquo;The last 30 seconds were the longest I&rsquo;ve ever seen,&rdquo; said Howie Glover who was in his first NHL playoff series.Rookie Howie Young, whose crunching checks were a feature of the Wings&rsquo; play, was as excited as anyone.Young told Abel he was &ldquo;pretty rattled&rdquo; in the last five minutes of the game. He didn&rsquo;t want to risk getting another penalty &mdash; he had three in the game &mdash; and jeopardized Detroit&rsquo;s chances of winning.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01430/1837916-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="500" height="1098"><figcaption class="caption-body">RemembersLeo LaBine</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I was just as rattled as you were, so it didn&rsquo;t make any difference,&rdquo; said Sid.For Young, it was his first playoff series as a pro. Abel, one-time winner of the Hart Trophy and captain of some of the greatest Red Wing teams, was just as nervous.&ldquo;Someone in the stands threw a pack of cigarettes on the ice in front of the bench,&rdquo; Young said. &ldquo;The referee skated over and started to pick them up and I started yelling &lsquo;Hey! Hey!&rsquo;.&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t even think of his name. It was a full pack of cigarettes and I didn&rsquo;t have any in the dressing room. But I couldn&rsquo;t think of his name. Finally, one of the other guys on the bench told me who he was.&rdquo;<h2>The Leafs Were Last 4th Place Club To Win Cup: Mean Money For Wing</h2>The referee was Eddie Powers.General manager Jack Adams usually waits until the third period before his walk along Church St. But the tension was so great that Adams left the rink at the three-minute mark of the second period for his excursion.&lsquo;I wish I could have gone along with him,&rdquo; Abel said.While everyone was talking of nervousness, Jerry Melnyk had a pertinent remark. &ldquo;They were more worried than we were.&rdquo;After the game ended, Leaf goalie Johnny Bower skated over to Young and congratulated him.&ldquo;He told me to forget about that check,&rdquo; said Howie. &ldquo;That made me feel good.&rdquo;Young had charged Bower Feb. 12 and Johnny injured his knee and played only two of the remaining 14 games on the schedule.Adams hustled the Wings out of the dressing room and to the airport for the trip home but it was a case of hurry up and wait. Their chartered plane needed repairs and another had to be hauled out with a resultant half hour delay.ICE CHIPS &hellip; The Red Wing victory put them into the finals for the first time in five years and marked a strong comeback for the club that had finished in last place only two years ago.&ldquo;With this little win, I may not work this summer,&rdquo; said left winger Vai Fonteyne. &ldquo;This is more money than I made all last summer.&rdquo; The victory was worth $1,250 per man &hellip; and it&rsquo;s $750 per man more even if Detroit lost the finals &hellip; the cut per player on the Stanley Cup champion team is $1,750 &hellip; coupled with first round winnings it&rsquo;s worth $3,000 a man.And what was the last fourth place club to win the Stanley Cup? The 1949 Maple Leafs who beat Detroit in the finals &hellip; the only fourth place club to win it all since the League has been in one division. &#9632;

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Leo Won’t Let Toronto Forget Semi-Final Flop

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.It may be small solace to playoff-starved citizens of Rangerville but the final NHL ledger discloses that the Blueshirts pulled off one of the better trades of the 1960-61 season.That was the deal which catapulted dynamic 24-year-old Eddie Shack to Toronto for equally peppy Pat Hannigan, 25, and Johnny Wilson, 32. Shack and Wilson are left wings, Hannigan, a right wing.The tabulator says Shack finished the season with 15 goals and 31 points while the Ranger pair had a combined total of 25 goals and 47 points. (Wilson 1413-27, Hannigan 11-9-20).At the time of the trade, Nov. 7, Shack had one goal and one assist in 14 games, Wilson had one assist in three games and Hannigan, who had been playing for Rochester, had no NHL points.To be mercernary about it, the Blues made nine goals, six assists and 15 points on the deal and, furthermore, have a couple of worthies who figure in next season&rsquo;s blueprints.Nobody on Eighth ave. and 49th st. would have believed this last November when Shack went byebye. The feeling was that Wilson had had it and Hannigan never would have it.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02363/1837954-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="522" height="504"><figcaption class="caption-body">They Paid OffPat Hannigan</figcaption></div>What&rsquo;s more, Rangerville was a gloom town because Shack, for all his ineffectiveness, was what the trade calls a crowd-pleaser, a vitamin essential to the health of turnstiles.Shack&rsquo;s locomotive excursions up and down left wing provoked thunder in the Garden balcony and arena although Eddie invariably wound up in the corner minus puck.For all his bluster, Shack kept hinting at stardom which was the reason why general manager Muzz Patrick held on to him as long as he did.But, there&rsquo;s a limit to one&rsquo;s patience, even a general manager&rsquo;s patience and Muzz finally bade good-riddance to his unproductive (16 goals in 140 games) prodigy.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m convinced Shack will never be a good player in New York,&rdquo; Muzz explained. &ldquo;If he finds himself in Toronto, good luck. But he&rsquo;s a waste to us.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03289/1837947-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="552" height="536"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Wilson</figcaption></div>Shack unquestionably proved successful in Toronto and appears to be a future asset to Leafs but no more than Wilson and Hannigan figure to help Rangers, particularly Hannigan.At first, palefaced Pat skated as if he forgot to remove the scabbards from his blades and observers were prepared to consign him to a senior league in the Yukon Territory.&ldquo;I was out of shape and I didn&rsquo;t have any faith in myself at the time,&rdquo; Pat admitted. &ldquo;All I needed, though, was ice.&rdquo;After two months of benchwarming and occasional pinchhitting, Hannigan was blessed with a regular right wing spot on a line with Andy Bathgate and Dean Prentice. &#9632;

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Statistics Show Rangers Nine Up In Shack Trade

MONTREAL, Que. &mdash; It&rsquo;s probably true that the defeat of the Montreal Canadiens was &ldquo;a good thing for hockey and for the League,&rdquo; but after you hear it said a few thousand times it starts to grate on the ears. Let&rsquo;s admit that competition is what makes sport so interesting, and if one team dominates the League over too long a period the spirit of competition is gone.This season&rsquo;s edition of the Canadiens was not quite as good as last year&rsquo;s or several others before that. Over that span of years, the Canadiens were the greatest hockey team we have ever seen and it was a pleasure to watch them play. Fans in other cities felt the same way and packed the rinks when the Canadiens were the visiting club.They were so much better than their opposition that the fans didn&rsquo;t go to the games in the first place to see a contest. They went to admire the Canadens&rsquo; artistry and to see hockey at its best.But, as Jack Adams has pointed out many times, great teams don&rsquo;t stay great forever because the players grow older and either retire or slow up to the point where their opponents catch up to them.The Canadiens will now undoubtedly initiate a rebuilding program. They still have some great hockey players who will form the nucleus of the club, but there are some weak spots that require strengthening. There are some good youngsters in the organization who have been waiting for the chance to prove they are ready for the NHL.DINK CARROLLMontreal Gazette &#9632;

Canadiens Were Great Attraction All Around The National League

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;Jahn (Jackie) Gordon has been named general manager in charge of player personnel of the Cleveland Barons.Gordon, who has served five seasons as coach of the Barons since replacing Fred (Bun) Cook, was named to the newly created post by Thomas Roulston II, chief executive of the Barons.Gordon will also continue as coach of the club.Roulston, who was elected chief executive officer by the board of directors following the death of James C. Hendy last January, said he wanted to make it clear that Gordon was a part of the Barons&rsquo; plans and thereby eliminate any questions concerning his immediate future.Gordon has been mentioned as a possible replacement for New York Rangers&rsquo; coach Alfie Pike.While Gordon was named a member of the newly streamlined board of directors, together with his duties as player personnel chief and coach, he is still not signed, sealed and delivered to the Barons since no negotiations have yet been held on his contract.Certainly Gordon will be in line for a substantial raise in pay to compensate for his added duties. Until he has signed under the new deal the situation remains open until he signs a new contract.Gordon is now on the second year of a three-year contract signed under the reign of Jim Hendy.This puts Gordon in the same position as Hoot Evers, who recently was named general manager in charge of players for the Cleveland Indians. The Indians did not name a general manager to replace Frank Lane as such and the Barons have not named a front office man to succeed the late Hendy as such.At a special stockholders meeting held at the Cleveland Arena, Tuesday, March 4, a new board of directors was elected. The new board, numbering seven members, replaced the former board of 16 members.Also announced was the resignation of Ed F. Bang, one-time dean of America&rsquo;s sportswriters and for the last season president of the Barons.Major problem facing the Barons and Gordon is where are the players coming from for the future building of the team.Never in the long and illustrious record of the Cleveland Barons has the player bank held such a meager balance.It is Gordon&rsquo;s feeling that the Barons must make an outright affiliation with a major league club in order to obtain the kind of players that will enable the club to make a fight for contention next season.&ldquo;Our problem on the player question is immediate,&rdquo; stated Gordon, &ldquo;we can&rsquo;t be concerned as much about the future right now as we must be about the present.&rdquo;Meanwhile it was known that a group of Clevelanders still had plans for making a bid to buy the Barons. When an offer might be made remained in doubt.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01415/1838009-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="500" height="808"><figcaption class="caption-body">New BossJackie Gordon</figcaption></div>While the front office shakeup was progressing in the meeting rooms, the Barons were being rapped hard on the ice by the fancy Springfield Indians in the first round of the Calder Cup playoffs.The Barons dropped the first two games at Springfield by scores of 8-1 and 3-2 and then came home to lose the third game 4-1, and the fourth 3-1. They were through for the season.The play of the club on ice was nearly overshadowed by the manoeuverings by directors and stockholders in the back rooms.Whatever the eventual outcome of the Calder Cup playoffs this season, the Barons remained with the greatest playoff record of all time. Only twice in the 30year history of the club had they missed the playoffs.But now dawned a new era for Cleveland hockey, the fifth major phase since the first pro club skated forth here in 1929.That was the club of Harry Holmes, hungry, faced with economic problems. Then came the era of Al (Red Tie) Sutphin who built the great Cleveland Arena and made hockey a household word in this town. Then came the era of President Budd Rand and finally the colorful and headlined act of the one and only James C. Hendy. &#9632;

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Barons Elevate Gordon To Post Of Player Boss

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06193/1838127-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="550" height="250"></div>April 8 to April 148&mdash;Bob Beckett, Providence forward, 1936.9&mdash;Wayne Hicks, Buffalo, forward, 1937.10&mdash;Ron Murphy, Chicago, forward, 1933.11&mdash;Les Hunt, Seattle, forward, 1937.11&mdash;Dennis Riggin, Edmonton, goaltender, 1936.20&mdash;Norm Waslowski, Saw It Ste. Marie, forward, 1936.21&mdash;Reg Fleming, Chicago, forward, 1936.21&mdash;Jack Evans. Chicago, defense, 1928. &#9632;

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Happy birthday to YOU

<h2>Reds Had Most 20 Men</h2>A total of 42 players scored 20 or more goals during the 1960-61 season in the American Hockey League. Despite the fact they finished in the basement of the league this year the Providence Reds had more 20 scorers than any other club. They had eight men in the select circle.<h2>Four 40 Goal Men</h2>Four players scored 40 or more goals during the regular 1960-61 season in the AHL. Dick Gamble, 40; (Buffalo) Bill Sweeney, 40; Bruce Cline. 40 (Springfield); Jim Anderson. 43 (Springfield). Phil Maloney of Buffalo was closest to the mark with 37.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><h3>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02393/1838096-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="562" height="125"></div><h3>SERIES &lsquo;B&rsquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03342/1838089-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="565" height="104"></div><h3>Series &lsquo;A&rsquo; Games</h3>Wednesday, March 29;Cleveland 1 at Springfield 8Saturday. April 1;Cleveland 2 at Springfield 3Sunday. April 2;Springfield 4 at Cleveland 1Tuesday, April 4;Springfield 3 at Cleveland 1<h3>Series &lsquo;B&rsquo; Games</h3>Wednesday, March 29;Buffalo 1 at Hershey 6Saturday, April 1;Buffalo 1 at Hershey 2Sunday, April 2;Hershey 5 at Buffalo 1Wednesday, April 5;Hershey 5 at Buffalo 4 (Overtime)<h2>TUESDAY, APRIL 4</h2>Springfield 3 at Cleveland 1(Springfield wins best of seven series 4-0)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04292/1838082-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="556" height="377"></div><h2>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5</h2>Hershey 5 at Buffalo 4(Hershey wins best of seven series 4-0)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05229/1838075-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="549" height="202"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07181/1838068-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="552" height="660"></div><h3>FINAL SERIES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01429/1838061-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="574" height="128"></div>Saturday, April 8:Hershey 3 at Springfield 4Sunday. April 9:Hershey 2 at Springfield 3<h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 8</h3>Hershey 3 at Springfield 4(Springfield leads best of seven series 1-0)Hershey &mdash; Goal: Perreault; defense: Zeidel, Reaume, Mathers, Healey, Yanosik: forwards: Nykoluk, Conacher, Kinasewich, Lalande, Smith, Duff, Laforge, Marshall, McIntyre.Springfield &mdash; Goal: Woode defense: Harris, McCord, Price, Douglas, Cushenan: forwards: Olson, Schinkel, Pidhirny, Cline, Anderson, McCreary, Sweeney, Kilrea, Kabel, Caffery.Referee: Ashley: linesmen: Koy, Cor, riveau.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02363/1838054-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="571" height="683"></div><h3>SUNDAY. APRIL 9</h3>Hershey 2 at Springfield 3(Springfield leads best of seven series 2-0)Hershey &mdash; Goal: Perreault, defense: Reaume, Zeidel, Mathers, Healey; forwards: Lalande, Kinasewich, Laforge, Nykoluk, Conacher, McKenzie, Smith, Marshall, McIntyre, Duff, Yanosik.Springfield &mdash; Goal: Wood; defense: Price, Douglas. McCord, Harris, Cushenan; forwards: Olson, Pidhirney, Schinkel, Caffery, Cline, Anderson, McCreary, Sweeney, Kilrea, Foley.Referee: Skov; linesmen: Corriveau, Roy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03303/1838047-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="551" height="78"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04233/1838040-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="562" height="476"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By CHARLEY BARTON</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;The Bisons weren&rsquo;t doing much right as the Hershey Bears took a 3-0 lead in their best-of-seven Calder Cup semi-finals as this edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS went to press. Bears finally took the series in four straight, winning in Buffalo 5-4 on Wednesday, April 5.A high-scoring aggregation throughout the regular season, the Bisons were held to a goal-per-game pace as the Bears prevailed by 6-1, 2-1 and 5-1 scores. They got four in the final.In addition to losing their scoring touch, the Bisons&rsquo; defense, a problem all year long, couldn&rsquo;t keep pace with the rugged Hershey forwards.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05179/1838158-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="249" height="402"><figcaption class="caption-body">Vic Hadfield</figcaption></div>And if those two factors didn&rsquo;t present enough woes, the Bisons made things rougher for themselves through penalties.In each instance where penalties proved costly, Vic Hadfield, the Herd&rsquo;s rookie left-winger, was the man in the box.In the 2-1 overtime thriller at Hershey, the Bisons led until the 18th minute of the third period. Jack McIntyre, a former Bison, collected the equalizer and John MacKenzie put away the winner, in the third minute of the 10 minute extra session.But the Bisons, who had led from midway through the second period, found themselves in trouble early in the third period when Hadfield drew a five-minute penalty for high-sticking Claude La-Forge and drawing blood.The Bisons skated off the penalty, but it took a lot out of them, leaving them easy prey for the tying and winnng goals.Hadfield was in the box for two of the Bears&rsquo; five goals in the third game at Buffalo.However, Coach Frank Eddolls was loath to censure the youngster.&ldquo;Vic is young, and when you consider that, along with his rugged style, it&rsquo;s no too hard to understand,&rdquo; said the Buffalo pilot.The Bears were much the better club in the first and third games, and had the zip to come from behind when they had to in the overtime test.ALONG THE BOARD &mdash; Sam Pollock represented the Montreal Canadiens at the games in Buffalo, and General Manager Lynn Patrick of the Boston Bruins also was on hand &hellip; Charley Conacher came over from his Toronto home to watch his son, Pete, play for the Bears. Pete went from the Bisons to Hershey last summer in the deal which brought Barry Cullen to the Bisons &hellip; Defenseman Marc Reaume of Hershey was the dominating figure of the first three games. Reaume anchored the rugged Hershey defense and led a series of attacks with brilliant puck-carrying displays &hellip; The Bears whipped the Bisons in six games in the 1958-59 playoff final, the last time either club in the playoffs. &#9632;

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Growling Bears Claw Bisons In Playoff Series

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;Montreal vice-prexy Ken Reardon was prowling the western precincts to have a look at the Canadiens&rsquo; Regina Pats were faring along the Memorial Cup trail.Just about the same time, it was a popular debate along the coffee counters whether Toe Blake should have also been handed a suspension along with the $2,000 fine for his run-in with referee Dalton MacArthur during the series with Chicago.Reardon lashed out at suggestions that Blake should have been put on the shelf to do penance.&ldquo;Look,&rdquo; the handsome Irisher declared, &ldquo;it is the boast of the National League that we play the best hockey in the world.&ldquo;Therefore we must always make sure that we are giving that kind of a product to the fans. That&rsquo;s why we feel that fines are sufficient deterrent.&ldquo;We have to think of our obligation to the fans when we say we are the best. Also, so many of these suspensions are unfair because they penalize the rest of the club. No, I say confine the discipline to the culprit.&ldquo;Speaking of being the best hockey league in the world, we just changed our goalie rule in time. When Toronto lost the services of Johnny Bower, what if they had to put in a green kid instead of fellows who had professional experience behind them like McNamara and Maniago?&ldquo;Competitively, the games could have been a mockery if adequate replacements were not provided for in the rules.&rdquo;Say, about this Maniago whom Reardon speaks of, here&rsquo;s a kid who has suddenly been around more than somewhat.It has to be one of the more remarkable stories in sport of the year that Cesare Maniago was transformed from a castoff from the Vancouver Canucks into a Toronto Maple Leafs hero within a space of less than six months.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01428/1838227-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="506" height="1240"><figcaption class="caption-body">Set To GoCesare Maniago</figcaption></div>In fact, Cesare won&rsquo;t say so, but he gives the impression that he has been told that Bower will retire.At any rate, he has been ordered to report to Leafs&rsquo; training camp in Peterborough in September. Meanwhile, he rushed back to the Western League to do what he could to keep the playoff pay-days rolling around for the Spokane Comets.Within two seasons, Maniago has knocked around with no fewer than eight clubs, but you get the idea that he has finally straightened himself around.There have been so many ironic twists to his story that one might as well start with the 1960 Allan Cup chase when he helped Chatham Maroons beat the Smoke Eaters of his home town of Trail, B.C.Then he showed up in the nets of the defending champion Vancouver Canucks in the pre-season game against the Western League All-Stars.Said All-Star coach Keith (Seattle) Allen of the 6 ft. 3 in. 180-pound youngster: &ldquo;This kid showed me a lot of goaltending. He&rsquo;s going to be around for a long time.&rdquo;Yet after two league games, the Canuck management slipped him the pink slip. The fans loved him, but the Vancouver brass felt that maybe he wasn&rsquo;t agile enough on skates, and anyway they preferred a goalie in the New York Ranger chain by way of enhancing their major league tieup.So he popped up with the Spokane Comets, but his career took another surprising turn when he jumped the club after alternating with Gilles Boisvert for a time.But for the intervention of Spokane manager Roy McBride, the Leafs, who had the paper on Maniago, might have suspended the temperamental Latin, and Cesare might never have been around to help the injured. &#9632;

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Spokane Comets Set To Suit Up Leafs Sparkler

<h2>Jones Cops Title</h2>Art Jones, slender center of the Portland Buckaroos, won the individual scoring championship on the last day of the season with 36 goals and 64 assists for an even 100 points. He nosed out Lou Jankowski, of Calgary, by one point. Jankowski led in goals scored with 57, a new league record, and added 42 assists for 99 points.<h2>Spokane Loved Edmonton</h2>Spokane was the only club to win every game from an opponent the past season. The Comets beat Edmonton eight straight games. Calgary defeated Vancouver in 11 of their fourteen games and Edmonton beat Winnipeg ten out of 14 tries.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><h3>Final Standings</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02384/1838377-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="562" height="231"></div><h3>Playoff Schedule</h3>Tuesday, April 4thSpokane at PortlandVictoria at VancouverWednesday, April 5thSeattle at CalgaryPortland at SpokaneVancouver at VictoriaFriday, April 7thSpokane at PortlandVictoria at VancouverSaturday, April 8thSeattle at CalgarySpokane at Portland, if necessaryVancouver at Victoria, if necessarySunday, April 9thSpokane at Portland, if necessaryMonday, April 10thVictoria at Vancouver, if necessary<h3>TUESDAY. MARCH 28</h3>Seattle 3 at Spokane 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03317/1838370-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="551" height="534"></div>Edmonton 4 at Victoria 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04259/1838363-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="546" height="534"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29</h3>Seattle 2 at Portland 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05220/1838356-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="550" height="515"></div>Edmonton 4 at Victoria 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06197/1838349-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="551" height="436"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07177/1838342-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="558" height="227"></div>Calgary 3 at Winnipeg 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10143/1838335-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="569" height="509"></div><h3>FRIDAY, MARCH 31</h3>Portland 5 at Victoria 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11122/1838328-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="558" height="532"></div>Spokane 1 at Vancouver 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12111/1838321-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="553" height="413"></div>Winnipeg 2 at Edmonton 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1389/1838314-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="550" height="246"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1465/1838307-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="550" height="359"></div><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 1</h3>Vancouver 3 at Portland 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1546/1838300-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="557" height="377"></div>Victoria 2 at Spokane 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1632/1838293-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="555" height="592"></div>Winnipeg 3 at Calgary 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1725/1838286-1-eng-US/f0011-172.jpg" title="f0011-17" width="558" height="725"></div><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 2</h3>Spokane 5 at Portland 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1819/1838279-1-eng-US/f0011-182.jpg" title="f0011-18" width="557" height="823"></div>Victoria 5 at Seattle 8<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1918/1838272-1-eng-US/f0011-192.jpg" title="f0011-19" width="565" height="702"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2><h3>Final Statistics</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08172/1838265-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="565" height="532"></div><h3>Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09163/1838258-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="556" height="306"></div><h3>The Leaders</h3>MOST POINTS: Art Jones, Portland, 100.Most Goals: Lou Jankowski, Calgary, 57.Most Assists: Guyle Fielder, Seattle, 71.Most First Goal Of Game: Gordon Fashoway, Portland, 10.Most Game Winning Goals: Marc Boileau, Seattle and Ching Johnson, Spokane, 9.Most Game Winning Assists: Larry Popein, Vancouver and Bruce Carmichael, Vancouver, 12.Most Hat Tricks: Ron Leopold, Calgary, 4.Most Shutouts: Don Head, Portland, 7.Most Goals Scored With Man Adv.: Gordon Fashoway, Portland, 20.Most Goals Agnst. When Serv. Pen.: Don Ward, Winnipeg, 13.Most Min. In Penalties: Frank Arnett, Seattle, 180, Mike Kardash, Winnipeg, 179. &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<h2>BUFFALO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01418/1838457-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="586" height="765"></div><h2>CLEVELAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02338/1838450-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="579" height="727"></div><h2>HERSHEY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03261/1838443-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="575" height="562"></div><h2>PROVIDENCE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04190/1838436-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="574" height="289"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05128/1838429-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="580" height="415"></div><h2>QUEBEC</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06102/1838422-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="576" height="716"></div><h2>ROCHESTER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0784/1838415-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="574" height="727"></div><h2>SPRINGFIELD</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0870/1838408-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="566" height="566"></div> &#9632;

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American Hockey League Final Statistics 1960-61 Season

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont. &mdash;The Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; playoffs continued to run true to form with the elimination of the Hamilton Red Wings by Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors.In all playoff series played to date the team which placed higher in the standing eliminated the lower place club &hellip; exactly opposite to the situation in the National Hockey League Stanley Cup playoffs.The Red Wings, who had eliminated Peterborough in the first round, gave a more than creditable performance in their series with St. Michael&rsquo;s.After six games the Majors held a 3-2 lead in games with one tied but in the seventh start, in Maple Leaf Gardens, they (St. Michael&rsquo;s) trailed 3-0 after the first period.The reappearance of injured Bruce Draper sparked the Majors to five straight goals in the last 40 minutes and enabled them to clinch the semi-final round four games to two with one tied.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0956/1838488-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="260" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Bush</figcaption></div>Draper had suffered a slight brain concussion earlier in the series in Hamilton and was not expected to play in the seventh game.However with his club down 3-0 he got into uniform at the end of the first period and the Majors never looked back.Following the Hamilton loss, Red Wing Manager Sid Bibby announced that Eddie Bush would return as coach of the Wings in 1961-62.Under Bush&rsquo;s direction the Wings rose from the cellar into third place this season.The finals match the pennantwinning Guelph Royals against the Majors in a best-of-seven round.Guelph eliminated Niagara Falls Flyers in its half of the semi-finals.The Majors will be at full strength but Guelph will be without the services of the league scoring champion Rod Gilbert.Gilbert, rated highly in future plans of the parent New York Rangers, suffered a back injury during the series with Niagara Falls when he stepped on a piece of paper thrown on the ice by a spectator.The injury refused to respond to treatment and Gilbert will undergo an operation at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. &#9632;

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Majors Fight Way Into OHA Jr. Playoff Finals

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL (In The Toronto Star)</div>CHICAGO, Ill. &mdash;This was a night when the Indians finally licked the palefaces to a frazzle. It was New Year&rsquo;s Eve in Times Square. It was Hallowe&rsquo;en on the village green. It was a lot of things you had to see to believe. It also was the end of the longest reign which the modernized game of shinny has seen.While the firecrackers exploded and $20 hats sailed through the smokey air, and empty beer cans came cascading down from the packed galleries, the mighty Montreal Canadiens took their places among great things that have been.The humbled Habs never will be quite the same again. Other powerhouses may emerge from the wreckage, but the team that has terrorized the big league ponds for five straight years has lost its knockout punch. Corrosion has crept in. Some drastic changes will have to be made.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1047/1838519-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="274" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Harvey</figcaption></div>Two weeks ago, the Habs were whitewashed in their own rink. That was an event. It hadn&rsquo;t happened in many moons. Last week, they were skunked for the second time in four days. The Black Hawks, who inflicted the humiliation both times, actually looked as if they might repeat the performance every night of the week.The Hawks have no secret formula. They are doing the things which the Habs used to do when they were five times champions of the world. The Chicago assaults came in waves. When they lost the puck, they reversed their motors and wrecked Canadiens&rsquo; counterattacks.This was the hottest, hungriest band of Black Hawks that ever creased a scalp. At their present pace, they&rsquo;ll be tough to stop short of the Stanley Cup, which hasn&rsquo;t been in Chicago since 1938.The town is ready for its return. Hockey hysteria never hit any rink a harder belt than it did at the stadium last week. For the last couple of minutes, every mortal in the building stood on his pins screaming for a shutout. When the crestfallen Habs skated the length of the ice to congratulate their conquerors, the cheers and applause assaulted the eardrums.<h2>Still Champs in Bitter Defeat</h2>Canadiens went out like champions. Toe Blake finally discovered after six seasons, how a losing coach in a Stanley Cup campaign feels. Although bitterly disappointed, Blake offered no excuses. He could have thought of a few. His leading shooter, Boom-Boom Geoffrion, top scorer in the whole League, ripped the cast off his injured knee and tried his luck on one leg. It didn&rsquo;t work. There were numerous other wounds among the from the winners.&rdquo; Frank Selke, managing director of the fallen champions, urged when he arrived at the dressing room, where the Habs were holding their wake. His players had anticipated this request.&ldquo;Nothing wrong with me; I feel fine, except that we got beat,&rdquo; Doug Harvey claimed. Harvey has been on the limp most of the season. Dickie Moore, who has been in and out of casts and splints, echoed Harvey&rsquo;s words. &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s just say we lost,&rdquo; he gloomed.The usually effervescent Rudy Pilous, coach of the Hawks, seemed subdued by the damage he had wrought. It was a little bit as if Rudy had burned down a church. Belting the Habs from the Stanley Cup circle is a break with convention. It just hasn&rsquo;t been done in the past.&ldquo;The ice was soft and it ruined Donnie Marshall&rsquo;s chance to score on that breakaway,&rdquo; Rudy said. It was pointed out that both teams played on the same sheet. No person complained that soft ice had hampered the Hawks.If Canadiens had been the killers of yore, they would have pelted the puck past the Chihawks&rsquo; Glenn Hall in the first period while Hawks had two men in the penalty box. For a minute and 42 seconds, Chicago played Hall, Moose Vasko, Eric Nesterenko and Jack Evans against a full quorum of Habs and made them look bad.When six Canadiens couldn&rsquo;t beat four Black Hawks, there wasn&rsquo;t much hope while they were playing man-to-man &mdash; especially when one of the Hawks was Bobby Hull, most redoubtable Redskin of the Black Hawk band. &#9632;

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Canadiens Bowed Out Like Champs

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>MONTREAL, QUE. &mdash;Partisan lines are sometimes so fiercely drawn in hockey that even the men with tasks of reporting and commenting upon its activities become infected.The slur of &ldquo;homers&rdquo; can never be applied to the writers and broadcasters in the cities which make up the Eastern Pro Hockey League.These scribes and spielers so whole-heartedly recognized the sovereignity of the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens as indicated in the fashion they ran away from pursuit in the 70-game schedule that five of six positions on the First All Star team were given to members of the H-O Habs&rsquo; cast.Headquarters of the EPHL in Ottawa conducted the poll under close supervision by league president Edward Houston.The solid phalanx of journeymen who earned the tab of distinction under tutoring by Sammy Pollock and Glen Skov during the past season, was only broken at left wing by Fred Hilts of the Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds, a 45-goal man who demonstrated his full claim to earnest and honest effort by putting out in 68 of 70 games for the Soo Birds. His 38 assists which brought his point total to 83, gave him third ranking in the final statistical audit, behind Cliff Pennington of Hull and Sam Bettio of Sudbury Wolves.The scoring figures reveal few outstanding left wingers. For Hilts, with a solid vote of 30 points in first place was far ahead of the second left-wing choice, Sudbury Wolves&rsquo; veteran, Sam Bettio.The five choices of the Hull team were: goaler Ed Johnston; both defencemen, Al MacNeil; and Jean Gauthier; right-winger Bobby Rousseau, and centreman Cliff Pennington.Writers&rsquo; and broadcasters&rsquo; votes from the six cities represented in the league were compiled to make a single city nomination. Five points were awarded for first place, three for a second, and one for a third place vote.The only other unanimous selection was that of Pennington.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01419/1838557-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="548" height="550"><figcaption class="caption-body">Named To Dream TeamBobby Rousseau</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02377/1838550-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="550" height="542"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al MacNeil</figcaption></div>For the net-minding berth Johnston drew 24 points compared to 13 awarded to Gerry McNamara of Sudbury Wolves, who served in emergency roles with Toronto Leafs in a few NHL contests.The two Hull hombres on the back division also had a clear-cut majority. For Gauthier had 26 points and MacNeil 24, in contrast to 20 given red-headed Jack Bow-nass of Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers, and 18 to blond, crew-cut Pat Stapleton, of the Soo team.The closest hassle was for the right wing assignment. Rousseau nosed out Eddie Kachur of the T-Birds 17-15, and Rousseau also had keen opposition right in his own camp when Terry Gray, a quiet workman who draws few headlines, came up with 14 points.Generally the poll was a rejection of the stars of last season, and the two teams which made the final round of the 1960 Tom Foley Memorial Trophy finals.For Sudbury and Montreal squads were overlooked in the first team choices, while Kingston Frontenacs, the fourth place team in the final reckoning were completely ignored.Wolves placed McNamara on the second team along with Bettio at left wing, while Royals&rsquo; Skippy Burchell, the clever-little playmaker who wound up the season with 61 assists, made center on the No. 2 line-up.A good reason why last year&rsquo;s First Team didn&rsquo;t get recognition is that none of them were playing in the EPHL at the end of the season. Tom McCarthy finished up with Boston Bruins in the NHL, J. C. Tremblay was in Montreal with Canadiens NHL forces, while the others were playing in either the AHL or Western League.The 1959-60 No. 1 Stars: Gerry McNeil, goal; J. C. Tremblay and Moe Mantha, defence; Cal Gardner, center; Bob Courcy and McCarthy, wings.Billy Carter, of Hull-Ottawa, and Orval Tessier, Kingston Frontenacs, on last year&rsquo;s second team, were still around at the end of the EPHL schedule, but neither made first or second all stars this time.The full Second Team line-up: goal, Gerry McNamara, Sudbury Wolves; defence, Jack Bownass, Kitchener and Pat Stapleton, Soo; centre, Skippy Burchell, Montreal; right wing Eddie Kachur, Soo; left wing, Sam Bettio, Sudbury.Mr. Houston, EPHL president makes it plain that these are the only official selections. Others made by newspapers and radio stations are welcomed for their discussion and publicity value, but these choices are recognized by the league and its member clubs. &#9632;

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Hull Places Five On EPIIL All-Star Sextet

Although there has been no official announcement, it appears that the end of the line has come for Montreal Royals of the Eastern Professional Hockey League.Canadiens&rsquo; general manager Frank Selke told The Montreal Gazette as much in an interview during the long train ride from Chicago last week.&ldquo;If the decision is up to me,&rdquo; said Selke, &ldquo;the Royals will not be back at the Forum next season.&rdquo;Selke said that the minor pro club had lost an estimated $100,000 this year and that there&rsquo;s no sense in trying to give the fans something they don&rsquo;t want.&ldquo;Although Royals won their league championship for two straight years their operation cost the Forum about $65,000 a season. That&rsquo;s a lot of money in any business and I don&rsquo;t see why we should continue to throw it away.&rdquo;Selke said that Pittsburgh, with a new $17,000,000 arena to be ready soon, has invited the Canadiens to put an American Hockey League team there. The Royals considerably reinforced, may be moved to Pittsburgh.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03345/1838588-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="538" height="848"><figcaption class="caption-body">Will DecideFrank Selke</figcaption></div>Forum dates previously taken up by the Royals will be given over to junior hockey and possibly a good industrial league one night a week. &#9632;

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Selke Will Shift Royals To Pittsburgh If He Can

<h2>Trophy For Burchell</h2>Fred &ldquo;Skippy&rdquo; Burchell&rsquo;s fine season, though delivered faithfully in a losing cause, didn&rsquo;t go unrecognized. Through the thoughful-ness of G. M. Frank Carlin the small center-ice ace was presented with a trophy. The puck with which he scored his 100th roal for the Royals was mounted on trophy.<h2>Fans Kept In Order</h2>AH was quiet for the fifth game of the Kitchener-H-O Canadiens fifth game of the EPHL semi-finals. An extra police detail kept unruly tans in order. The Kitchener Beavers&rsquo; executive had asked for extra police protection when some of their players were molested in a previous playoff game.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><h3>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04313/1838647-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="575" height="98"></div>(Hull wins best of seven series 4-3) Friday, March 24;Kitchener 1 at Hull 7Sunday, March 26;Kitchener 1 at Hull 3Friday, March 31;Hull 0 at Kitchener 2Sunday, April 2;Hull 0 at Kitchener 2Wednesday, April 5;Kitchener 1 at Hull 4Friday, April 7;Hull 2 at Kitchener 3Sunday, April 9;Kitchener 2 at Hull 6<h3>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05267/1838640-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="576" height="102"></div>(Sault wins best of seven series 4-t) Friday, March 24;Kingston 1 at Sault 3Sunday, March 26;Kingston 4 at Sault 5Wednesday, March 29;Sault 4 at Kingston 3Friday, March 31;Sault 1 at Kingston 4Sunday, April 2;Kingston 0 at Sault 2<h3>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5</h3>Kitchener 1 at Hull 4(Hull leads best of seven series 3-2)Kitchener-Waterloo &mdash; Goal: McCar-tan defense: Bownass, Cherry, Chevrier; forwards: Sabourin, Stratton, Pearson, Hoekstra, McGregor, Ronson, Keller, Rupp, Balon, Hall, Rochefort.Hull-Ottawa &mdash; Goal: Johnston: defense: Gauthier, Bouchard, Hamilton; forwards: Carter, Gray, Ellett, McCreary, Skov, Pennington, McNeil. Rousseau, Annable, Laperriere, Smith.Referee: Dalton McArthur; linesmen: Jim Slater, Howie Harvey.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06228/1838633-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="568" height="615"></div><h3>FRIDAY. APRIL 7</h3>Hull 2 at Kitchener 3(Best of seven series tied 3-3)Hull-Ottawa &mdash; Goal: Johnston; defense: Gauthier, Bouchard, Hamilton, McNeil; Laperriere; forwards: Carter, Gray, Ellett, McCreary, Skov, Pennington, Rousseau, Annable, Smith.Kitchener-Waterloo &mdash; Goal: McCar-tan; defense: Bownass, Cherry, Chevrier, Keller, Rupp; forwards: Sabourin, Stratton, Pearson. Hoekstra, McGregor, Ronson, Balon, Hall, Rochefort.Referee: Vern Buffey; linesmen: Fred Harrison, Art Casterton.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07215/1838626-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="574" height="695"></div><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 9</h3>Kitchener 2 at Hull 6(Hull wins best of seven series 4-3)Kitchener-Waterloo &mdash; Goal: McCar-tan; defense: Bownass, Cherry, Chevrier. Keller; forwards: Sabourin, Stratton, Pearson, Hoekstra, McGregor, Ronson, Rupp, Balon, Hall, Rochefort.Hull-Ottawa &mdash; Goal: Johnston; defense: Gauthjer,. Bouchard, MacNeil, Hamilton; forwards: Carter. Skov, El-Lett, McCreary, Pennington, Smith, Annable, Rousseau, Laperriere, Freitag, Gray.Referee: Dalton McArthur; linesmen: Howie Harvey, and Jim Slater.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08203/1838619-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="580" height="779"></div> &#9632;

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EASTERN PRO LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK THOMSON</div>FORT WILLIAM, Ont.&mdash;Mickey Hennessey&rsquo;s Fort William Canadiens have made all the experts sit up and take notice of the Lakehead with their marvellous play in the Manitoba Thunder Bay junior final. None of the so called people in the know gave the Lakehead crew any chance against the Manitoba champions &hellip; Charlie Rayner has been offered a coaching job in the United States and from all reports will accept the job this year. I&rsquo;ve always said he was ready to coach a pro club &hellip; Warroad Lakers out to sign a playing coach for next year. Things are moving in the small Minnesota town, as they have already started a raffle program &hellip; Billy Isbell Fort William Canadiens rightwinger who lead the Lakehead in junior scoring this year has signed a &lsquo;C&rsquo; form with the Montreal Canadiens and will report to their training camp in the fall. Billy has played for the Canadiens for five years &hellip; Can&rsquo;t figure out why a good official like Ted Earley in Dryden is not given more work by the hockey officials &hellip;. There is a rumor making the rounds now that a team from Canada will make a trip to New Zealand during the summer &hellip;. Merv Dubchuk high scoring right winger of the Kenora Thistles Intermediate club has been placed on the negotiation list of the Edmonton Flyers &hellip;. Terrace Bay Superiors surprised everyone by coming off the floor to defeat the Thistles and take the Thunder Bay title. This was the first time they had ever won the North Shore title. We might add it did the intermediate hockey picture in the Thunder Bay a lot of good to have the North Shore come up with the championship. This is one of the best run leagues in Western Canada and they never quite could win that title &hellip;.. Reporters in Winnipeg are calling Fort William Hurricane goaltender Joey Bamford the number one goaltender in junior hockey in the west. Joey was picked up by the Canadiens for the finals and has played brilliantly for them. &hellip; Lakehead senior clubs will all be after the services of goaltender Gordon Dibley of the Winnipeg Maroons if he is moved to the lakehead by his firm. &hellip; Bobby Kirk, coach of the Flin Flon Bombers was a guest in the press box during the Junior finals, also Al Shaver CFRN-TV sports director who was very impressed with the work of the Canadiens. &hellip; Winnipeg Arena manager Percy Downton runs a great building in Winnipeg, and certainly gives every co-operation to the visiting press and radio. &hellip; Can&rsquo;t for the life of me figure out the so called hockey fans continue to throw garbage on the ice during the playing of a game. The PA announcers warn them each time of the possibility of injury to a player by falling and we saw it happen the other night in the Winnipeg-Nelson senior series when Murray Couch, who played last year with the Kenora Thistles fell on a piece of paper and broke his leg in two places. Although warned again the next night, fans again threw boxes and papers on the ice. There should be some penalty that can be imposed for any who are caught in the act. &hellip; The grand old man of the hockey Abbie Coo continues to rule the playoff hockey picture in Manitoba with an iron hand. Abbie is well over seventy and still looks spry and raring to go &hellip;. &#9632;

News From The Lakehead

<div class="byline">By DOUG McLELLAN</div>ROUYN, Que &mdash;The Rouyn-Noranda Alouettes won their second straight Northern Ontario Hockey Association senior A title at home and are now playing the Galt Terriers in the Provincial finals. But the Als knew that they were in a fight.It took them 15 games to turn the trick. The Als won the title I with ease, but then ran into trouble in the semi finals. They met the Timmins Flyers in a best-of-seven series and managed to win it in eight games. The Als were trailing the Flyers, who finished in fourth place 3-1 in their series at one stage. They gained the finals with a 5-2 victory, and even had to come from behind in that one so it was an uphill battle all the way.The situation was reversed in the finals which ended on Saturday night. The Als led Kapus-kasing 3-1 in games but lost two in Kap to shove the series to the limit. In the final contest, played here the Als waltzed to a 3-0 lead in the first period and appeared headed for an easy win.But then things began to happen. The GM&rsquo;s got terrific goaltending from Al Burns and they managed to score four goals and take the lead. With little more than two minutes remaining in the game, defenceman Ray Dupuis scored on a screened shot from the blueline to force the overtime. In the second period of sudden death, centrman Vai Mitchell parked one past Burns to end the series. The Als had to leave for Galt the following morning as they opened there on the Monday night.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01414/1838702-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="506" height="517"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joins AlsJohnny McLellan</figcaption></div>The Quebecers were allowed six pickups from within the NOHA and decided to add two from each club. They took wingers Nickie Rukavina and Moe Chev-refils from Kap, centreman Johnny McLellan and defenceman Lloyd McKay from the Timmins Flyers, and centreman Jerry Labelle and defenceman Jack Power from the Abitibi Eskimos.McLellan was with the Belleville Macs two years ago when they won the world tournament, Rukavina was with Philadelphia of the Eastern League last term and McKay was with Indiannopo-lis of the International League.Last year the Als lost to the Chatham Maroons in the final game of their best-of-five provincial finals and the feeling is that the current club is slightly stronger, so the All-Ontario finals, now under way, could prove interesting.NOHA NOTES &mdash; The juvenile series between the New Liskeard Cubs and the South Porcupine Gold Kings was every bit as good as expected. It went right down to seven games with the Cubs winning and gaining the NOHA finals. But the Liskeard kids did it the hard way. They had a 3-1 lead in games, lost the next two and were forced to win the series on South Porcupine ice. The series did well at the gate. Both arenas hold approximately 1,600 fans and the buildings were jammed for each game &hellip;The Espagnola juveniles pulled the surprise of the year though. For the first time in 25 seasons, a Sault Ste. Marie team won&rsquo;t be represented in the NOHA finals. Espagnola knocked off the Soo and will be now meeting the Cubs. Both towns are hot for juvenile hockey, and so the winner will do everything possible to arrange a provincial series &hellip;It has been a good season at the gate as well as on the ice for the Rouyn-Noranda Alouettes. This marks the second year that the Als have been in senior hockey, and attendance of the two-year span recently reached the 100,000 mark, according to manager Norm Connelly. Last year the club drew 60,298 customers to 33 home games at the Noranda Recreational Centre, one of the finest buildings in the country. During the semi finals this spring, the 100,000 mark was reached when they drew 40,717 fans for 28 home games. That&rsquo;s an average of 1,603 fans for 61 games&hellip; .Northern Ontario fans who watched Schumacher&rsquo;s Frank Ma-hovlich from his juvenile days, were somewhat disappointed that the big winger didn&rsquo;t score 50 goals but feel that as he&rsquo;s only 23 years of age, he may make the grade in future &hellip; While Junior B hockey hasn&rsquo;t created much of a stir within the NOHA this year, there were three clubs that were active. The South Porcupine Porkies knocked off the Cochrane Eskimos in the semifinals and are now engaged with the North Bay Trappers in the final series. Trappers lead that affair 3-1. They won the fourth game in overtime to take a Stranglehold on the series&hellip;The losing clubs in the NOHA Senior A semi finals were hard, hit by injuries. The Abitibi Eskimos, who lost to Kapuskasing in seven games, lost Gail St. James with a broken leg and Doug Towers with a broken wrist. The Timmins Flyers lost to Rouyn in eight games and while they didn&rsquo;t lose any players permanently they ran into a number of injuries. Ernie Domenico suffered a serious injury to his eye. Johnny McLellan missed two games when his cheek was cut right through, requiring ten stitches. Gordie McGinn suffered a skate cut to his foot and missed the last game. Jimmy Jackson had his thumb broken and missed three games &hellip; &#9632;

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Als Win NOHA Title In Tough Playoff Battle

<div class="byline">By HUGH TOWNSEND</div>NEW GLASGOW, N. S. &mdash;The scrappy Amherst Ramblers, the most genuine Allan Cup challengers in the Maritimes for many years, continued their march towards the top of Canada&rsquo;s senior hockey ladder with an impressive series victory over the Quebec champion Granby Victorias.The Vics came into Amherst with high hopes of going a long way in the Allan Cup trail, feeling themselves to be the strongest contenders from the province of Quebec in many campaigns. They left, realizing that the calibre of the Ramblers is much stronger than Upper Canada hockey observers apparently believed.Amherst, after rapping up the Maritime crown for the second straight year by eliminating four Maritime teams with a 14-1 won-lost record, played well against Granby, whom they eliminated three games to one. Ramblers won the series opener 5-3 in overtime before the Vics came back to deadlock the series by taking the second tilt by an identical score.It was Amherst the rest of the way as goalie Jacques Monette began to steal the show. He allowed the Quebecers only one goal in the final two matches, won by the Ramblers 2-0 and 5-1.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02328/1838733-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="540" height="526"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jacques Monette</figcaption></div>The finale ended the hard fought series on a wild and wooly note. The game erupted into a stormy melee in the last period. Included in a long list of penalties in the session were three match penalties, all of which could result in suspensions by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.The first two match penalties came together when Amherst&rsquo;s Dick Cansnick and Granby&rsquo;s Gilles Bedard tried to injure each other with their sticks. Only the prompt action by the referees kept the action from becoming a bloody scene. A few minutes later Lou Kiley of the Ramblers and Roger Picard of the Vics tangled, and after players from both teams got into the fracas, Picard received a match for knocking referee Laurie Power to the ice.The series attracted close to 9000 fans to Amherst Stadium for the four games, a rink that has had many empty seats throughout the winter, mainly because the Ramblers rarely lost a game. A crowd of 3300 saw the final contest, the largest crowd in the history of the two-year-old Stadium.Ramblers are now awaiting their next opponents for the Eastern Canada finals and the wait could be long. At the time of this writing, April 3, an Ontario series between Galt and Rouyn-Noranda was just getting ready to start.The original C.A.H.A. schedule had the Eastern finals opening on April 5. Ramblers were ready for that date but it appeared it would be at least April 10 before the round got underway. The management of the Maritime champions made a fine guarantee to the C.A.H.A. to have the next round played at Amherst. A ruling was expected shortly on where the series will be staged. &#9632;

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Amherst Surprises Granby Vics

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01391/1838764-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK<h2>ACROSS</h2>1. Toronto player shown in centre.5. Exclamation of surprise.7. Initials of a Ranger forward.8. A former New York coach.10. An ex-Canadien defenseman.13. The WHL President.14. Initials of MacNab of Vancouver.15. Before.16. Initials of Bobby Jones of golfing fame.18. N.H.L. club formerly coached by Jimmy Skinner (abbr.)19. Ex-Leaf, Hap Day, attended this university (abbr.).21. Toronto&rsquo;s John MacMillan is studying to attain this degree (abbr.l.22. The Boston Bruins played an exhibition game here last fall (abbr.l.23 Teams frequently score when they have the &mdash; man advantage.25. King Clancy was once one in the N.H.L. (abbr).26. Muzz Patrick used to be one.29. Given name of Gendron of Canadiens.31. Number of N.H.L. clubs with which pictured star has played32 Initials of Slowinski, ex-Ranger player.33. One of Turk Broda&rsquo;s daughters.35. This sometimes causes players to get misconduct penalties.36. Upon.<h2>DOWN</h2>1. This ex-Ranger defenseman is nicknamed &ldquo;Ott&rdquo;.2. Newly retired Maple Leaf forward.3. N.H.L. play-off games never end this way.4. Initials of Price of Springfield.5. Initials of Kurtenbach, Ranger rookie.6. Warren Godfrey wears one.9. Pronoun.11. Ells English (abbr.).12. Initials of Edwards, exBuffalo goalie.14. Mrs. Allan Stanley usually bakes this herself.15. Johnny Bucyk&rsquo;s birthplace.17. Cesare Maniago&rsquo;s nickname.20. Nickname of Abel, former Ranger star.24. Mrs. Lome Worsley.25. Given name of 10 across.27. Short for given name of 13 across.28. Former Red Wing forward.30. Mrs. Allan Stanley lived in this country for ten years (abbr.)33. Exists.34. Initials of Ullman of Detroit.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1. Bathgate8. Rookies10. U.S.A.12. Children14. Eel.15. Red17. VI18. Old20. Win21. Ray22. One23. A.B.25. Cotton28. Nora30. Dickens33. Year<h3>DOWN</h3>1. Bruce2. Trail3. HO.4. Gord.5. A.K.6. Timer7. E.E.9. S.B.11. Sheila13. Nevin16. Dineen18. Orland19. Dye20. Woit24. Boil25. Cake26. Tiny27. Or29. R.C.31. Se.32. H.R. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Like Floyd Patterson, the Johnstown Jets retained the title. And, like Ingemar Johansson, the New Haven Blades made a game if unsuccessful effort to dethrone the king(s).Coach Steve Brklacich&rsquo;s Jets took the final Eastern Hockey League playoff series from New Haven, four games to two. The Blades scored a 5-3 victory on home ice March 28th before bowing in New Haven the following evening by a 4-2 count.Heroes for Johnstown included goalie Marvin Edwards, who allowed 17 goals in 12 post season contests and set an EHL playoff record with four shutouts, Dick Roberge, who paced the scorers in both the regular and post season games, Leon Bouchard, a converted defenseman, who played center and scored the eventual &ldquo;championship&rdquo; goal, and Captain Don Hall, who&rsquo;s fine all around play set the pattern for the champs.The Jet defense of Coach Brklacich, Dave Lucas, Danny O&rsquo;Connor and Danny Blair gave Edwards terrific support throughout. And veterans Bobby Dawes and John Lumley more than carried their share on the offense.Ken Coombes, Buddy Bodman, Bruno Talbot and Ken Laufman, who missed most of the finals with a broken ankle, made the victory a real team effort.Manager Johnny Mitchell also rates a salute for his efforts in getting together these two championship clubs. When injuries caught the Jets shorthanded, Johnny made the right moves and came up with replacements of the highest calibre.The fans in Johnstown gave their club fine support. This area has been hit hard by unemployment, but the loyal fans still gave the Jets their support.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02348/1838802-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="546" height="532"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hot Shooters For JetsDick Roberge</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03306/1838795-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="544" height="532"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Holl</figcaption></div>New Haven had nothing to be ashamed of in defeat. Wally Kull-man&rsquo;s Northern Division champs played hard, hustling hockey throughout the year and, the semi-final series against Greensboro (a bruising set) took a lot out of them. Going through the playoffs without their top scorer, Gordie Stratton, made the task just that much harder.Gaetan Dessureault performed admirably in the nets as he had done all season. Don Davidson, the circuit&rsquo;s All-Star center, did double duty work for the Blades and Fern Bernaquez, rookie Bobby Ertel, coach Kullman, and veterans Yvan Chasle and Claude Boileau played fine hockey up front.The Blades&rsquo; hard hitting defensemen concentrated on hockey (sometimes this foursome try to emulate &ldquo;Murder Inc.&rdquo;) and showed to good advantage.As for the final two games, in the sixth contest (won by New Haven, 5-3) on March 28th, the Blades scored four fast goals and held on to cut the deficit to 3-2. The following night Dawes, Roberge, Bouchard and Hall tallied for the champs while Chasle and Davidson were the local marksmen.EHL NOTES&mdash;Goalie Edwards tagged with misconduct, March 29th &hellip; Attendance in New Haven very good throughout season and playoffs &hellip; Defenseman Murray Davison of Greensboro got a look-see at Cleveland and Philly netminder Ross Brooks tended goal in two AHL contests for Providence &hellip; Jack Rogers of the Blades marrying New Haven girl early in April &hellip; John Muckier, who ended season as player-coach of Rovers, spending summer on Long Island &hellip; Uline Arena, Washington, has expressed interest in icing EHL club next season &hellip; Jacksonville, Fla., and Knoxville, Tenn., are also strong possibilities for 1961-62 campaign &hellip; Despite rumors to the contrary, Comets will be back in Clinton again next season &hellip; Referees Doug Davies and Bob Gio-vati, who shared job in finals, did fine work under pressure.<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: $4.00Send for FREE LIST.ALL SPORTS PHOTOSBox 267 Freeport. N.Y. &#9632;

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Johnstown Retains EHL Bunting Over New Haven

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div>KELOWNA. B.C.&mdash;Will there be an Okanagan Senior Hockey League next season ?Or will Junior hockey take over from the seniors?Those are the foremost questions being asked throughout the Okanagan these days.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01314/1838833-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="279" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Gilhooly</figcaption></div>Hockey in the Okanagan is now at a standstill.The only hope for senior supremacy along the Allan Cup trail were the Vernon Canadians. But that didn&rsquo;t last long. A fired-up Nelson Maple Leaf crew eliminated them in five games, thus resting the B.C. senior hockey crown in the Western International League for the second consecutive season.The destiny of the once lucrative league will be thoroughly discussed when league prexy Bob Gilhooly brings his directors together for the annual wind-up meeting.At that meeting Gilhooly will also step down as league president.The Kelowna barrister has without question been one of the best presidents the league has had. He has been a one-man force working relentlessly, keeping the league in operation, come hell or high water.Time has come where the former pro defenseman finds it impossible to continue in the same capacity. Pressure of business has forced him to step down.Gilhooly will be sorely missed, and who will fill his boots is also another good question.President Gilhooly and his directors will no doubt throw the meeting wide open in an effort to keep the league in operation for next season.The past, present, and future will of course highlight the agenda.Last season the league kicked off with a five team circuit. Within a matter of weeks the number had dropped to two. Merritt Luckies, new entrants, called it quits after a dismal showing both on the ice and at the gate.Then the crisis began. A surprise move saw the Penticton Vees&rsquo; disband, and in a matter of days the Kelowna Packers followed the same course.That left two teams willing to continue. Immediately Gilhooly suggested the amalgamation of Penticton and Kelowna, and the league operated under a three team set-up for the balance of the season.Both Vernon Canadians, and Kamloops Chiefs can be counted on to return next season. But the big question mark lies with Kelowna and Penticton.Former Vees&rsquo; manager Gerry Dent feels there will be no senior hockey in Penticton next season. &ldquo;Dropping out this past season has hurt us. Up until that time we were drawing the best attendance of any club in the league, averaging 961 per game. Then the roof caved in,&rdquo; said Dent. &ldquo;To try and bring it back now is going to be an almost impossible task.&rdquo;Meanwhile at Kelowna, Combine coach Jim Middleton says it is too early to say anything about the future of senior hockey in Kelowna. &ldquo;We still have a number of good players who live here year round, but unless jobs are available for the four or five new players who must be brought in, we will be in trouble, said Middleton.This writer has been advised Western Hockey League, that his directors are interested in supporting a four team junior league in the Okanagan next season. Leader said the matter had been discussed at a league meeting sometime ago, and that it would again be brought up when they meet again in May. &#9632;

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OSHL Directors To Discuss The Future Of Loop

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div><h2>Zephyrs Take The Eastern Crown, Play The Sainis</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02254/1838878-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="271" height="405"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Hodgson</figcaption></div>ST. PAUL, Minn.&mdash;St. Paul&rsquo;s veteran Saints and the hustling Muskegon Zephyrs meet in the International Hockey League&rsquo;s final best-of-seven playoff series for the Joseph Turner Memorial Trophy.The Saints, victorious over Minneapolis and Omaha, in the Western Division round-robin play, open the set in Muskegon, who edged out Ft. Wayne and Toledo in the Eastern half. The last five games of the series will be played in St. Paul.Fred Shero&rsquo;s Minnesota crew, finished second in the regular season behind Minneapolis, while Muskegon, coached by the veteran Moose Lallo, ended back of Toledo and Ft. Wayne.The Zephyrs pulled one of the biggest upsets of the season, in copping the Eastern Division post-season playoff. They had to come from behind on the road to annex the crown, besting Toledo, 7-3, and tieing Ft. Wayne, 1-1.<h2>FINAL BOUND KOBIN STANDINGS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03195/1838871-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="576" height="284"></div>St. Paul is playing with 12 men, having lost defensemen Mickey Keating (bad wrist), and Ted Hodgson (knee injury) and forward Dick Bouchard with the flu. Bob Cowan, last year with the Saints, was added as a replacement.Even being shorthanded, the Saints should win the finals in five or six games. They have such established stars as Paul Masnick, Johnny Denis, Elliott Chorley as the first line and Aggie Kukulowicz, Freddie Brown and John Bailey on the second unit. Rookie Reg Morelli fills out the forward wall.Joe Lund, Bryan Berrett, Gilles Thibault and Cowan form a good defensive crew in front of goalie Jacques Marcotte.Bailey and Kukulowicz run one-two among the leading playoff scorers. Bailey has 13 points, on nine goals, and Kukulowicz has 12, with eight assists.Muskeron will be no push-over. If they continue to play the way they have in the past month or so, the Zephyrs could make things mighty rough on the Saints.Bryan McLay, who is second behind Bailey in goals, with eight, plays right wing on a trio that has Warren Back at center and Ron I Stephenson at left flank.<h2>St. Paul Wins Western Title But Lose Two Stars</h2>As predicted by this writer a few weeks ago, if the Zephyrs can get scoring out of Georges Bougie and Norm Doyle, who along with Ken Hayden, form another line, they would go a long way in the playoffs. In the round-robin series Bougie accounted for two winning goals and Doyle one.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04164/1838864-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="236" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Mickey Keating</figcaption></div>Al Baty, Stan Konrad and either Joe Morneau or Jerry Frenette help out with their checking ability. Of the four, Konrad is the best scorer.The veteran Gerry Glaude, the top defenseman in the loop, has made a real prospect out of Rod Paavola, the Hancock, Michigan, youth who played with the American National team last season. Coach Lallo and rookie Joe Kiss form the other defensive combo.IHL NOTES &hellip; Bailey scored four against Omaha, while three-goal performances were racked up in the first round by McLay, Ron Tookey and Laurie Langrell of Minneapolis.During the regular season, St. Paul took six games from Muskegon and the Zephyrs won three &hellip; It might be noted, the Zephyrs won the last three played between the squads.Besides Bailey and Kukulowicz in scoring, others in the top ten include Reg Primeau, Ft. Wayne; McLay, Langrell, Denis, Eddie Long, Ft. Wayne; Bob Goebel, Toledo and Minneapolis&rsquo; Bruce Lea, in that order &hellip; Marcotte has the only shutout to date, a 3-0 whitewash of Minneapolis, and leads in average with a 1.88 mark. &#9632;

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Muskegon Pulls Upset In IHL’s Round Robin

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;A wall full of hockey stars &hellip; free! That&rsquo;s the theme of York Peanut Butter&rsquo;s new promotion. And they expect hockey fans from six to sixty will start their collection of autographed pictures by sending in York Peanut Butter and Salted Nut labels, once their campaign gets under full sail. There are forty different pictures in the complete set, all personally autographed. Main thrust for the campaign will take place during the play-off season when hockey fever is at its highest pitch.Body-checks, face-offs, stickhandling and slap shots &hellip; all these are grist for York Peanut Butter&rsquo;s mill in their lastest series of decorated tumblers. Each tumbler carries an illustration of well-known hockey stars on the Maple Leaf and Montreal Canadien teams.In addition to hockey stars, the tumblers also feature the various signals the referees use to call penalties for &ldquo;high-sticking&rdquo;, &ldquo;holding&rdquo;, &ldquo;tripping&rdquo;, etc. The tumbler itself is the usual nine ounce size with heavy glass base and there are eighteen different tumblers in the set.The new hockey tumblers have been in distribution only a few weeks and early signs indicate that they will probably set a new record for decorated tumbler sales. &#9632;

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