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August 1, 1961

The Hockey News August 1, 1961

CHATHAM. Ont.Ted Power was named coach of the Chatham Maroons for the 1961-62 hockey season following a meeting of the Chatham Hockey Association.The group also named Tom Jaques, trainer who with the club for the past 12 seasons, as manager for next season.Power coached the team last season in the OHA senior &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Ted Power Renamed Chatham Puck Coach

<div class="byline">By GEORGE E. VANDetroit News</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02305/1723755-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Ogg, who clocks the penalties at the Detroit Olympia year in and year out, has seen a lot of players come and go. He calls Gordie Howe, shown at right with Norm Ullman, centre, and Alex Delvecchio, the greatest Red Wing of them all.</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.There are many who are essential men in sports, but fans seldom hear of them.These men rarely get their names in print, but if it happens, they&rsquo;re somewhat surprised that they should be given recognition.Sometimes they are almost apologetic as they reveal their enthusiasm for the game they are interested in. A cross section of the various activities that attract these men unveils sporting instinct in its purest form.Hockey has itg share of these essential men, men who take their leisure following the sport. It&rsquo;s their game and some of them have been at Olympia as long as Jack Adams, the veteran general manager of the Detroit Red Wings.Only members of the inner circle know Fred Pike, the timekeeper at each National Hockey League game here. Or George Ogg, who clocks the penalties. Or John Miller, who is one of the goal judges.They were there when Olympia opened its doors for the first time for the 1927-28 season. The hockey teams representing Detroit in those days were first known as the Cougars and later the Falcons. The name Red Wings came along in the thirties.Each of these men, when tapped, is a fountained of hockey history. Ogg, for example, says:&ldquo;Some like other sports, golf, bowling &hellip; you know. I like hockey. I played junior hockey in Canada with such players as Carson Cooper, Reg Noble and Larry Aurie. They became NHL stars. And there: was Taffy Abel and Ching Johnson.&ldquo;The Red Wings have the greatest in Gordie Howe, but, pound for pound, no one could beat that little Aurie.&ldquo;Howie Young, the rookie Detroit defenseman? He&rsquo;s rough and tough like Harvey Rockburn was. He can hit and he has heart. The Red Wings haven&rsquo;t had a police man for some years. Now they have one in Young. Yes, hockey&rsquo;s better. It&rsquo;s better organized, it&rsquo;s faster and the players are in better condition.&rdquo;These hockey lovers are impartial, respected men on the job. Otherwise they would not have lasted.None of the minor officials at Olympia are paid, it&rsquo;s their hobby. Once a year they are given a trip during the Stanley Cup playoffs. Others are Bill Clements, a statistician; Chuck Snedden and Bob Kennear, goal judges, and Frank Gallagher and Bob Blow are stand-ins for the timers. &#9632;

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Detroit Minor Officials Dedicted To Hockey Chores

SCHUMACHER, Ont.&mdash;Greig Hicks of the Cleveland Barons is going to be able to resume his hockey career this fall. Some time ago it appeared as though he might be through as he suffered a serious eye injury, but two operations in Toronto&rsquo;s Western Hospital have cleared up the trouble.It all started late in the American League campaign. Centering off against Providence, Hicks was struck in the eye when the puck bounced up and clipped him for two stitches. It wasn&rsquo;t thought to be serious, but two weeks later he had almost lost the sight in the eye and had to undergo an immediate operation.Early in July, the sight started to go again, and the trouble was then diagnosed as a &lsquo;leaking retina&rsquo;, forcing a second operation. The shifty centreman, who coaches a junior fastball team here, feels certain that he&rsquo;ll be able to join Jackie Gordon and the Barons at the St. Thomas training camp in September.Doug McLellan &#9632;

Hicks Recovering After Operation

MONTREAL, Que.Western fans who have been clamoring for &lsquo;big league&rsquo; hockey will get their fill this fall.In an unprecedented move, National Hockey League teams will play as many as 12 games in the Golden West during the training camp season in September and October.There is also a strong possibility the number will be increased by another six games.Three of the six NHL teams &mdash; Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs &mdash; all plan to tour the west for exhibition warm-up games prior to the start of the regular NHL campaign Oct. 11.<h2>Hawks Stay In East</h2>Chicago Black Hawks, Boston and New York will train in the East and will play all their exhibitions here in Eastern Canada.Toronto will work out at Peterborough, Ont., and Detroit holds its camp right at home in the Olympia, but both teams will shuffle West for games, although not against each other.The Montreal Canadiens are going all out for the West this year. They have shifted their training camp location from the confines of the Forum, where they have drilled for the past decade, to Victoria, B.C.It&rsquo;s a psychological move by the Canadiens&rsquo; &lsquo;brass&rsquo; to get the Habs in better playing condition away from &lsquo;home&rsquo; and to give Western Canada a personal glimpse of the once pompous Canucks.The Canadiens have also planned an extensive exhibition run through the West Coast and Prairie provinces for games that will take them across the country and back home for their NHL opener Oct. 14.They play the Vancouver Canucks of the Western League in Vancouver Sept. 26 to kickoff their exhibition slate and follow up with games in Victoria Sept. 27 against Spokane, also of the WHL, in Seattle, Wash., Sept. 29 with the WHL Totems, B.C., Sept. 30 again with Spokane as rivals, in Edmonton Oct. 2, in Calgery Oct. 3, in Regina Oct. 4 against their Junior Pats&rsquo; farm club, in Winnipeg Oct. 5 with Hull-Ottawa Canadiens their opposition, and then Fort William Oct. 9 again with Hull-Ottawa before heading into Sudbury Oct. 10 and Hull Oct. 11 on the last leg to Montreal.The Red Wings play in Vancouver Sept. 29 and in Portland Sept. 30. Toronto visits the same two cities Oct. 1 and Oct. 2 in Portland.There is also a possibility that the Wings and Leafs will meet in Winnipeg for a game although no official confirmation has been forthcoming on the plans.All in all it adds up to more big league hockey than the West has ever seen and how the public will react to these many attractions may go a long ways towards determing how ready the West Coast &#9632;

Habs Shift Puck Camp To Victoria

<div class="byline">By PETER WARREN</div>SAINT JOHN, N.B.&mdash;The cheers have died now and the world has left Gordon Arthur Drillon to himself and his memories.Today, at 48 and 230 pounds, Drillon cuts a robust figure of a man enjoying the contentedness of middle age.But a jaunt down Memory Lane with this Moncton-born ex-hockey great leaves no doubt that Gordie Drillon has known cheers and stardom &mdash; pain and derision. He became a hockey player the hard way, climbed to stardom the hard way and came down the hard way.Today, Drillon, the 1937-1938 National Hockey League scoring champ, bears the scars of his hectic years in the bigtime.He still recalls the days the fans loudly acclaimed him in Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Gardens &hellip; the times they jeered him for his supposedly-lackadaisical attitude and the day they stoned his downtown Toronto apartment. In Toronto the fickle fans voted him the most popular player in the NHL in 1939-40. Two years later they were ready to run him out of town when his goal production slumped. The feeling was so strong that he was traded to Montreal where he enjoyed what he still considers his greatest season in the NHL.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03234/1724769-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="291" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Drillon</figcaption></div>Gordie was born in Moncton Oct. 23, 1913. He played school hockey in the Hub City and later moved on to play with the Junior Athletics. In 1930 Gordie turned out with Toronto Young Rangers. He played one year with the Rangers and one year with the Junior Lions.The following season he moved to the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets and in the spring of &rsquo;35 signed with Toronto Maple Leafs.Farmed to Syracuse, Gordie got his big break Nov. 26 when the original Big Train, Charlie Conacher, broke his wrist.&ldquo;There were plenty of guys better than me, but they wanted a right winger and I wanted in,&rdquo; Gordie recalls today.Drillon scored 16 goals and assisted on 17 that season. He roomed with linemate Syl Apps in Toronto.<h2>All-Star Four Times</h2>Following his rookie season, Drillon went on to gain a berth on four NHL all-star teams, win the Lady Byng Trophy, capture the Art Ross Trophy and in 1938-39 the fans gave him 64,000 votes as he won the league&rsquo;s most popular player award. Today Drillon&rsquo;s trophy room sports the MPP award, a trophy nearly as big as the Stanley Cup.As top NHL marksman Gordie played on the big Toronto line with Bob Davidson on left wing and Syl Apps at centre.In the 1938-39 season Drillon made the first all-star team and again triggered seven goals in the playoffs as Leafs went down to Boston Bruins 4-1 in the best-of-seven series.In 1941 Gordie was still playing good hockey.&ldquo;I started off pretty godd,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;But then.Drillon rode the crest of the wave through the season. Then the Leafs hit the finals and lost the opening three games to the Red Wings 3-2, 4-2 and 5-2 in the best-of-seven series.The morning after the third game word came out:Drillon was benched.They stoned his downtown apartment that night and they jeered him on the ice afterwards. Suddenly the whole town hated the player who had been its favorite. What happened? &ldquo;I stopped scoring goals &mdash; that&rsquo;s all,&rdquo; said Gordie. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t trade on yesterday&rsquo;s performance in the NHL.&rdquo;.Drillon was traded to Montreal the following season, a season he tabs the best of his NHL career. Gordie scored 28 goals and had 24 assists that year while playing on a line with Ray Getliffe and Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, later to become a great with the New York Rangers.Drillon quit professional hockey the following season.Gordie Howe is a must as Drillon&rsquo;s greatest and he maintain &#9632;

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Ex-Leaf Drillon Great But Fans Soon Forget

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich.The 1961-62 National Hockey League season is official now in Detroit &hellip; Gordie Howe has signed for his 16th straight year.Howe is showing a little wear and tear of 15 campaigns but he&rsquo;s still the incomparable Gordie.There was a five-day visit to Detroit Osteopathic Hospital this summer for removal of a cyst on the right knee about the size of a 50 cent piece.And there was the signing ceremony in the Olympia offices. Howe and general manager Jack Adams were standing in front of the big board that details each player&rsquo;s goals, assists and total points.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s not too good,&rdquo; Adams said when a picture was about to be taken.Gordie was pointing to his line on the board that read 23 goals, 49 assists, 72 points.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll fix it,&rdquo; said Howe. And he took the &ldquo;4&rdquo; from the assists and the &ldquo;2&rdquo; from the goals and made it read 43 goals, 29 assists.However, there are no such predictions for the coming season. Adams, enthused over Howe&rsquo;s work in camp a year ago, opined that Gordie might score 50 goals. He fell a little short.Nevertheless, it was Gordie who was the big man in Detroit&rsquo;s closing stages of the season and in the playoffs &mdash; he was everywhere, scoring or setting up goals.Howe&rsquo;s exploits through his first 15 seasons are legion &mdash; the only player to score more than 1,000 points, all-time high scorer with 1,154 points including playoffs, five-time winner of the Hart Trophy as most valuable player, seven first team and five second team All-Star selections. Those are a few.Howe&rsquo;s aim still is to play 20 seasons in the NHL and he&rsquo;s 33 years old now.Howe was the first of the Red Wings to sign for 1961-62 with the opening of training camp some six weeks away. He&rsquo;s anxious to get going again.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0170/1724800-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg" title="f0001-01" width="868" height="1860"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Howe</figcaption></div>The Wings begin training a week later this year. All players are due in Detroit Sept. 8. The next day will be devoted to the press, radio and television and work starts Sept. 10.It&rsquo;s the fourth straight year of training at Olympia and the rink is going to be jammed.Not only are the Wings training at Olympia but so are Hershey of the American League, Edmonton of the Western League and Sudbury of the Eastern Pro League. Add to this some of the better juniors in the system and it&rsquo;s going to be a busy time.This is the first time here for Sudbury. The Wings formerly shared the Wolves with Toronto but now it&rsquo;s solely a Red Wing farm.ICE CHIPS: Prices have gone up upstairs at Olympia but season ticket sales are running ahead of the same time a year ago thanks to the Wings&rsquo; good showing in the playoffs going to a six-game final against the Black Hawks.But the Wings&rsquo; radio-TV plans are clouded &hellip; so far, they still don&rsquo;t have a sponsor &hellip; home games were carried last year with spot commercials but no regular sponsor and there was no television other than the playoffs which were picked up on CBC-TV.The Wings won&rsquo;t be sharing Olympia with the round-bailers this season &hellip; the National Basketball Association Detroit Pistons have moved to the city&rsquo;s new convention center-arena complex on the Detroit River.One of the popular diversions during training camp are trips to the ball park to watch the Tigers &hellip; with the Detroiters fighting for the pennant this year and the New York Yankees due in after camp has opened, one of the Wings&rsquo; biggest headaches will be trying to get enough Tiger tickets. &#9632;

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Adams Not Predicting 50 Goals But Howe Eager For 16th Season

<div class="byline">By Jim Proudfoot</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01315/1723307-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Goalie Don Simmons may yet be seen in a Maple Leafs&rsquo; uniform. Club is trying to persuade him to reconsider his retirement.</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont. Don Simmons may be in goal for the Maple Leafs next season. Leafs are pretty sure Vezina trophy winner Johnny Bower won&rsquo;t be able to work a full 70-game schedule next winter and Simmons, who became Toronto property during the 1960-61 campaign, may be the replacement. Lending support to this speculation is the fact Leafs passed up a chance to protect young Cesare Maniago in the National league&rsquo;s annual player draft last month.Maniago was drafted by Montreal Canadiens.As of now, Leafs own four goal tenders, Simmons, Bower, Gerry MacNamara and Gerry Cheevers, who helped St. Michael&rsquo;s college Majors win the Memorial Cup last season.Simmons quit hockey last year after he was replaced by Bruce Gamble in Boston Bruins&rsquo; cage. However, he remained Boston property and eventually was swapped to Leafs for Ed Chadwick. When Simmons refused to report to Leafs&rsquo; American league farm club at Rochester, Chadwick remained in Goal for Rochester, technically on loan from Bruins.Punch Imlach, Leaf&rsquo;s coach and general manager, let the deal stand because he thought he could persuade Simmons to reconsider his retirement plans.Now Leafs need Simmons, because with Maniago gone, they lack goaltending insurance. Maniago was very impressive in a seven game whirl with Leafs last spring, allowing only 18 goals. MacNamara played five games and was beaten only 13 times.Imlach is a Simmons booster and the facts suggest that 29-year-old Don is a competent major leaguer.However, the job is Bower&rsquo;s first and foremost and old John could surprise everybody by sticking for the entire 70 games again. Certainly, 1960-61 was his finest year in professional hockey. However, it would be hardly realistic for Leafs to count on him for another full season.Leafs didn&rsquo;t make many moves at the NHL meetings in June. They obtained veteran defenceman Al Arbour from Chicago Black Hawks. &mdash; Later, they traded Dave Creighton to Buffalo for Dick Gamble. Purely an AHL transaction.Leafs are trying to swing a deal with Cleveland Barons with acquisition of young Jim Mikol their major objective.In addition they have already signed Larry Keenan, top scorer with St. Mike&rsquo;s last year, and Les Kozak, 20-year-old, 185-pound right winger from Yorkton, Sask.Kozak was a standout junior with Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors two years ago, but gave up hockey to join an American religious order. He later decided against a career as a priest and returned to Toronto &#9632;

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Leafs Hope Simmons To Try Comeback As Bower ‘Stand In’

DETROIT, Mich. &mdash;Wing&rsquo;s Rookie Howie Young is the hit of the banquet circuit. The young defenseman is spending the off-season in Detroit and averaging two banquets a week &hellip; The chief question asked Young is: &ldquo;What was the reason for your spending less time in the penalty box at the end of the season?&rdquo; &hellip; Young breaks them up with his answer &hellip; &ldquo;The bus rides in Hershey. I&rsquo;m not a very good card player and the ride from Hershey to Quebec City is a long trip &mdash; I&rsquo;d lose all my money.&rdquo; &hellip; Then Young turns serious and says that defense partners Marcel Pronovost and Warren Godfrey and Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio were the big factors in his somewhat more restrained behavior &hellip; Still, Howie finished the year with 300 penalty minutes. He had 160 before leaving Hershey in January, 108 in 29 games with the Wings and 32 more in 11 playoff games for 300 in 73 games. And that figures to five hours &hellip; Jack Adams was the subject of a 90-minute television &ldquo;profile&rdquo; that delved into his early days in hockey in Michigan&rsquo;s Upper Peninsula and all the way up to the present &hellip; Adams said if he had to select his one biggest moment in hockey, it would have been the time in training camp that &#9632;

Howie Young Hit On Banquet Circuit

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont.Fast-talking Punch Imlach, hockey&rsquo;s slickest salesman, has rung up another shrewd transaction.Imlach signed a new three-year contract as general manager of the Maple Leafs. Stafford Smythe, chairman of the Maple Leaf Gardens hockey committee, confirmed that Imlach had received a boost in pay.Presumably, Imlach also will continue as coach, at least through the 1961-62 season. He became coach midway through the 1958-59 campaign, his first as general manager, and Leafs haven&rsquo;t missed the Stanley Cup playoffs since then. They were fourth in 1959, second in &lsquo;60 and second again last spring.Imlach announced that King Clancy will continue as his chief assistant.Imlach&rsquo;s three-year term constitutes unusual security for a hockey executive. It means that if Leafs decided to fire Imlach they&rsquo;d still have to pay his salary through the 1963-64 season.Since Leafs&rsquo; 1961 exit, after being eliminated from the playoff semi-finals, Imlach has been building up his supply of young players &mdash; negotiating with American league teams and signing junior players like Larry Keenan and Les Kozak from St. Michael&rsquo;s. They, along with the 1960-61 team will report to Imlach at Leafs&rsquo; Peterborough training camp in September.One of Imlach&rsquo;s first moves after signing his new Toronto pact was to announce that Jerry Cheevers, who tended goal for the champion St. Mike&rsquo;s team<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03272/1723362-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="523" height="839"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jerry Cheevers&hellip; A Future Leaf Signs</figcaption></div>last season, had come to terms with the Leafs.&ldquo;Along with Cheevers,&rdquo; said Imlach, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to have four other goalies at our Peterborough camp. They will all fight for the job. I&rsquo;ll have Cheevers, Bower, Simmons, McNamara and Ed Babiuk.&ldquo;Cheevers is one of my prime prospects,&rdquo; added the managercoach of the Leafs. &ldquo;If he doesn&rsquo;t make the Leafs he&rsquo;ll play in the American League.&rdquo;Just a little while ago sport writers said that the Maple Leafs were caught short when they didn&rsquo;t claim Caesar Maniago but now it turns out that they have five goalies.Cheevers, the St. Catharines&rsquo; born youngster who will be 20 next December, had an outstanding junior season, being particularly brilliant at Edmonton where the Majors wrapped up the Memorial Cup.In the final game at Edmonton, Cheevers came up with a spectacular effort to give St. Mike&rsquo;s the series 4-2. &ldquo;He made the big stops look easy,&rdquo; said hockey observers.Murray Armstrong, scouting the series for Denver University, said, &ldquo;I would like to get a hold of Cheevers for our club. He&rsquo;s terrific.&rdquo;Even rival coach Bus Brayshow of Edmonton said of one game, &ldquo;That Cheevers is quite a goaltender. He held them in there. He&rsquo;s got terrific reflexes. He was down on one knee once and kicked out the puck with the other foot. I still don&rsquo;t know how he did it.&rdquo;But the final word came from Punch Imlach who was an observer of the Memorial Cup final. &ldquo;Cheevers should go a long way,&rdquo; said Punch, &ldquo;he,&rsquo;s, a good boy.&rdquo;He had the second best goaltending record in the OHA Junior League last year with a 3.13 average, allowing 94 goals in 30 games. He scored two shutouts. &#9632;

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Imlach Set For Three Years; Builds With Junior Stars

KIRKLAND LAKE, Ont.&mdash;Whitey Ford may be the ace of the Yankees pitching staff but here in the North Country it&rsquo;s Larry Hillman, defenceman with the Toronto Maple Leafs who is the big mound star.Hillman pitched Kirkland Lake to the annual Northland Fastball Associaiton tourney championship by beating neighboring Richmond Hill, 6-4, in the final game.Prior to the final, Hillman tossed two shutout victories. In his title game appearance, the Leaf rearguard allowed just six hits to Richmond Hill and fanned 13.Hillman is an off-season resident of this city, his home town.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02299/1723393-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="488" height="1476"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leafs Seeking Cleveland AceDefenceman Jim Mikol of Cleveland Barons is reportedly being sought by the Toronto Leafs for this coming NHL season. Mikol is a highly-regarded youngster who scored 34 points in 70 games for the Barons last</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Leaf Rearguard Hillman Leading Fastball Hurler

MONTREAL, Que.Montreal Canadiens, without the Stanley Cup to defend for the first time since 1955, will do their fall training&rsquo; this year in Victoria.Manager Frank Selke said arrangements have been completed for the team to open its training camp in the Victoria Memorial Arena Sept. 17.The Canadiens have trained in their home rink, the Forum, for the last 10 years but Selke said this has turned out to be too much of a distraction for the team.In the last two seasons it had not been in shape when the regular NHL schedule opened.&ldquo;Gradually our players and fans came to look upon the training camp as an annual nuisance,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;with the result that the club was not ready for stiff National League competition when the last two seasons got under way.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04212/1723424-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="269" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dickie Moore</figcaption></div>The Canadiens plan to open their Victoria camp with an &ldquo;open house&rdquo; on the first day, at which fans in the British Columbia capital will be invited to meet the players.The Victoria camp will be preceded by a week&rsquo;s drill in Hull, Que., for new prospects from amateur and minor-pro ranks. Those who look good in Hull will be invited to train with the parent club in Victoria.Nine days after the opening of their camp, the Habs will open their exhibition schedule with a game in Vancouver against the Vancouver Canucks. Other games are: Sept. 27, at Victoria vs Spokane Comets; Sept. 29, at Seattle vs the Seattle Totems; Sept. 30 at Trail vs Spokane; Oct. 2 at Edmonton vs Edmonton Flyers; Oct. 3, at Calgary vs Calgary Stampeders; Oct. 4 at Regina vs Regina Pats; Oct. 5 at Winnipeg vs Hull-Ottawa Canadiens; Oct. 9 at Fort William vs Hull-Ottawa; Oct. 10 at Sudbury vs Sudbury Wolves and Oct. 11 at Hull vs Hull-Ottawa.Canadiens open their 1961-62 NHL campaign at home Oct. 14.They won the NHL title last season by finishing first for the fourth straight year but were beaten in the playoff semi-finals by Chicago Black Hawks. This shattered their unprecedented five-year grip on the Stanley Cup.Meanwhile, left-winger Dickie Moore, was resting comfortably at his home after a successful operation in which the cartilage was removed from his left knee.His doctor said the operation went extremely well and there were no complications. Club officials said he would be ready for training camp in time.Despite the injury last season Moore, the league scoring champion in 1957-58 and 1958-59, finished with 35 goals and won a &#9632;

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Canucks Set Sept. 17 To Start Victoria Camp

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01314/1723455-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wearing The &ldquo;New Look&rdquo;In response to requests what defenceman Doug Harvey will look like outside of a Montreal uniform for the first time in 15 years, here&rsquo;s a shot of the new New York playing-coach wearing a Rangers&rsquo; sweater. Harvey, signed a three-year contract to guide Blues out of NHL doldrums at a reported $25,000 per season.</figcaption></div>The New York Rangers are concerned over the physical status of their young rookie star, Rod Gilbert, who is currently recovering from a serious back injury. The youngster it appears has a bright future ahead of him.The Rangers had hoped to have the junior Ontario scoring champion in time for the start of training camp but doctors have said that he cannot hope to be ready to skate before November or even December.Gilbert last season crashed into the backboards of the rink while playing with the Rangers&rsquo; Guelph Royals junior club and seriously injured his back. He underwent surgery during the summer and recovery is slow. &#9632;

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Rangers’ Rookie Gilbert To Miss Training Camp

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK. N. Y.The Rangers, like the Democratic Party are entering a &ldquo;New Frontier.&rdquo;Armed with a fresh, free-spending philosophy and a new attitude toward the Montreal Canadiens, the New York hockey club is aiming for a more or less permanent seat in the first division.&ldquo;Money is no object,&rdquo; Admiral John Bergen, Rangers&rsquo; president, told the HOCKEY NEWS. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to give New York fans the best.&rdquo;First evidence of the new Blueshirt policy was the signing of Doug Harvey at what is believed to be the highest price ever paid an NHL coach &mdash; a three-year contract at an estimated $25,000 per year.Enthused over Harvey&rsquo;s capture, the irrepressible Admiral then declared:&ldquo;Doug will have absolute freedom of action. And I mean anyone he wants for this team we&rsquo;ll try to get, no matter what the cost.The Rangers then went to the draft meetings and coughed up $20,000 for Guy Gendron (a questionable investment) and another 20 grand for Vic Hadfield, a Chicago-owned forward.Then, in a move of more than slight courage, the management paroled popular defenseman Lou Fontinato to the Canadians as part of the Harvey deal. This, in spite of provoking the wrath of Louie&rsquo;s many New York admirers.In a parallel deal, John Hanna went to Montreal for Junior Langlois. Coupled with the Fontinato and Harvey moves, this switch of backliners proves the Montreal New York trade war is over.During the regimes of coaches Phil Watson and Alf Pike, the talent-rich Canadiens showed a distinct disdain for trading with the Rangers, while actively sending care packages to the Chicago Black Hawks.After a while, the Blueshirt brass got the feeling that, Montreal&rsquo;s managing director. Frank Selke. didn&rsquo;t like them. Meanwhile, the Hawks climbed to a point where they captured the Stanley Cup while the Rangers rode a treadmill between fifth and last place.Enter Doug Harvey. Exit, the Canadiens trade embargo.Harvey apparently broke the ice on a special one-man peace mission to Selke late in the Spring. He conferred with his former boss with the avowed purpose of wangling a player or two and wound up with Langlois and Gendron.The olive branch was further extended by Admiral Bergen who toasted NHL bigwigs en masse and Selke in particular.&ldquo;Since we (Graham-Paige Corp., new owners of the Rangers) came into hockey,&rdquo; the Admiral told the HOCKEY NEWS, &ldquo;the owners have been cooperative. Mr. Selke in particular has been very generous with us. We owe him a vote of thanks.&rdquo;The new Rangers brass also told Blueshire followers they deserve and will get a superior hockey product. This is regarded in some circles as a departure from previous Ranger regimes, who were accused of forgetting the rate-payers.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got a loyal following,&rdquo; the Admiral said, &ldquo;a following that could be much bigger if we came up with a winning team. And that&rsquo;s what we propose to do.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03169/1723493-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="525" height="518"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rearguards To Switch ColorsJunior Langlois</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04103/1723486-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="552" height="521"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Hanna</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Building Team Into Winner First Concern Says Bergen Backing Up New Player-Pilot

By STAN FISCHLERNEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;Cynical Gump Worsley, the Ranger who once said he wanted to finish his career in Springfield, appears to have won himself a starting berth in New York even before training camp opens.Worsley, the imperturbable goaltender, won a salvo of praise from rookie coach Doug Harvey which, in content, equalled all the kind words Gump received from Phil Watson in four years.&ldquo;The way Gump&rsquo;s played against me I have to say that he&rsquo;s my goalie.&rdquo; said Harvey as Fall training looms just around the corner.Last month at the Rangers&rsquo; Summer hockey school in New York, Harvey had his first look at Worsley his teammate and Worsley got his first peek at Harvey his coach.Gump had mixed emotions about Harvey&rsquo;s job as playercoach.&ldquo;Even in the minors it would be tough doing both,&rdquo; Worsley said. &ldquo;In the NHL &hellip; well &hellip; Harvey knows what he&rsquo;s got cut out for him.&rdquo;Worsley has mor than a pass the ex-Canadien also will be fronting for him at the blue line. This, Gump likes.&ldquo;You gotta like Harvey as a player. Especially when you figure we&rsquo;re going to have a rookie (likely Al Lebrun out of Guelph) on defense. He&rsquo;s going to need help and Harvey&rsquo;s the guy to give it to him.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02257/1723531-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="529" height="832"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack McCartan</figcaption></div>As usual, Worsley&rsquo;s starting job will be &ldquo;threatened&rdquo; in training camp by Marcel Paille and Jack McCartan.Conceivably. McCartan will be carried as an alternate to spell Worsley but no one expects either Paille or McCartan to oust Gump. It just never happens.RANGERABILIA: A group of New York fans already has planned an excursion to Boston for the Oct. 11th opener with the Bruins &hellip; Phil Watson&rsquo;s debut as Boston coach is as much an attraction as the Rangers &hellip; Emile Francis, Harvey, Worsley and scout Johnny Gagnon instructed at the Summer hockey school &hellip; Question to be answered next season &mdash; did his Ranger teammates make Lou Fontinato look bad or vice versa? &hellip; Another question: Has Larry Cahan matured enough to play competent NHL hockey? &hellip; One more &mdash; will Harvey consider Bob McCord and Aldo Guidolin, the two best (by vote) defensemen in the AHL, for a Ranger berth. And, if not, why not? &hellip; Kinsmen Club of Notre Dame de Grace (Harvey&rsquo;s Montreal community) named him &ldquo;Citizen of the Year&rdquo; before he same to New york.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0569/1723524-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="1069" height="1280"></div> &#9632;

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Calls ‘Gump’ Worsley His Goalkeeper

&mdash;WINNIPEG, Man.The deposed coach of the New York Rangers &mdash; Alf Pike &mdash; made Doug Harvey&rsquo;s $27,000-a-year job look that much better by saying that &ldquo;this is what the club needs &hellip; a leader &hellip; on the ice.&rdquo;&ldquo;Harvey is a great hockey player and a fine fellow.&rdquo; said the Winnipeg-bred Pike, who was fired from the New York job at the end of the 1960-61 season. &ldquo;I wish him luck &hellip; and I don&rsquo;t say that to be sarcastic.&rdquo;Pike elaborated by saying that Harvey will fit into the modern-day coaching trend &mdash; at least as far as the players are concerned. &ldquo;They seem to want a man who has played in their era. and unless you get the full backing from the front office anything else is pretty hard to put across.&rdquo;&lsquo; &#9632;

Alf Says Blues Need Doug

<div class="byline">By Ken Kenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01381/1723607-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="368" height="392"></div>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, Will V. Cote. Len Bramson,President and Publisher Vice-Pres.& Gen. Mgr. 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, 1879 Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Printed in CanadaVol. 14 MONTREAL. AUGUST 1961 No. 34&bull; ED HOUSTON will not be back as president of the Eastern Professional Hockey League for the 1961-62 season &hellip; An outstanding Ottawa lawyer, Houston was forced to resign the hockey presidency due to pressure of his expanding law practice &hellip; That means two of the four professional hockey leagues are currently seeking presidents &hellip; The American Hockey League has not found a successor as yet to the retiring Dick Canning of Providence &hellip; Canning is also a prominent lawyer and is forced to give up his hockey post due to pressure of business &hellip; Unlike Clarence Campbell of the National League and Al Leader of the Western League, Houston and Canning bandied their hockey duties on a part-time basis &hellip; Glen Skov will not be back as player-coach of the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens this upcoming season The name of the new mentor will be announced shortly &hellip; Chirp Brenchley, who has loads of experience coaching in the International and Eastern Hockey League, will pilot the Sudbury team in the EPHL &hellip; Last season he did a great coaching job with Toledo of the IHL &hellip; Johnny Crawford, 44-year-old veteran player and coach, signed a one-year contract to coach Rochester Americans &hellip; Crawford will work for his former school chum, Jack Riley, Rochester General Manager &hellip; Canadiens&rsquo; Dickie Moore is recovering from his recent knee operation. This injury was caused last February when he was checked by Boston Bruins&rsquo; bouncing blueliner Leo Boivin &hellip; Bob Armstrong, another Boston defenseman, set a course record the other day at the Sarnia Golf Club when he fired an eight-under par 61. Previous record was 62 &hellip; Bill Sweeney, last season&rsquo;s top scorer in the American Hockey League, is another hockey player who stars on the golf links during the summer months. Bill posted a seven-over par 79 to win the professional hockey players first annual tournament held at Toronto&rsquo;s Meadowbrook Club &hellip; Sid Smith, ex-Toronto captain, was the key organizer of this tournament &hellip; Most of the present and past pros living in the Toronto area competed in the event &hellip; Red Heron, Jim Morrison, Milt Schmidt and Frank Udvari tied for second place with 80s &hellip; Referee Dalt McArthur was among the competitors but left the tournament early when he received a report that the roof had been blown off his house by a tornado at nearby Maple, Ont.&hellip; Punch Imlach is a director of a Toronto soccer team. His dad was an outstanding soccer player a number of years ago &hellip; Baz Bastien successfully I underwent surgery on his right eye recently &hellip; Bastien, who is business manager of the new Pittsburgh Hornets of the American League, had the operation on the eye socket. That was the eye he lost in a training camp accident at Welland, Ont. in 1949.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02346/1723600-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="280" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Sweeney</figcaption></div>&bull; RAY MIRON, General Manager of the new Knoxville entry in the Southern Division of the Eastern Hockey League, is most optimistic about the eventual success of hockey in Tennessee &hellip;One of the best young hockey executives outside the Major Leagues, Miron has been travelling about Canada this summer lining up his team. He is determined to ice as strong a squad as possible for the new hockey fans of the Southland &hellip; Emile Francis travelled from Western Canada to New York last month to assist in a summer school conducted by the New York Rangers in Manhattan. Francis claims he still doesn&rsquo;t know where he will be this coming season &hellip; Murray Costello, who played briefly in the National Hockey League with Chicago, Boston and Detroit, was recently appointed publicity director of the Western Hockey League &hellip; After five years as a professional player, Murray retired from the game and returned to University where he graduated in 1959. He did a fine job as publicity director of the Seattle Totems of the WHL [last year &hellip; The addition of Costello to the WHL staff will enable President Al Leader to maintain closer contact with each of the individual cities in his expanding and wide-spread league &hellip; Omaha Knights pre-season ticket sales are coming along nicely and are far ahead of the same period a year ago &hellip; The Knights recently hired Gale Morey as publicity director of the team. He formerly worked for the Omaha World Herald &hellip; Bob Wilson, Chicago&rsquo;s chief scout, named his new colt Mr. Stanley Cup, which was a natural after the Hawks won the Cup last spring &hellip; Wilson was bitten by the horse bug when his boss Jim Norris presented him with a mare, Page Pug, which was in foal &hellip; Chicago&rsquo;s ace forward, Bobby Hull, plans to become a cattle rancher. He has already purchased 25 purebred Herefords &hellip; Bobby has also been spending considerable time this summer racing his speed boat over the Bay of Quinte &hellip; The Back Checker, official publication of the Minneapolis Millers Hockey Booster Club, is one of the finest hockey booklets we&rsquo;ve seen for a long time. The enthusiastic Miller fans have meetings throughout the summer and they are presently campaigning for 1,000 season tickets by the middle of October. They are well on their way, too &hellip; The Millers Booster Club won&rsquo;t be a year old until December but they already have 925 members &hellip; On August 19 they are sponsoring jointly with St. Paul a &ldquo;Hockey Night Kickoff&rdquo; at a pop concert which will also feature ice skating in the St. Paul Auditorium. The next day, Sunday, August 20th, they are staging a big picnic at one of the large parks in the area.&bull; PUNCH IMLACH would still like to get Andy Bathgate for his Toronto Maple Leafs &hellip; Imlach offered Muzz Patrick three players in exchange for Andy but Muzz frowned on the deal &hellip; Punch figures Bathgate would be a terrific asset to the Leafs &hellip; Bill Ezinicki told Hal Walker of the Toronto Telegram that he thought all NHL clubs were missing a bet when they didn&rsquo;t bring Hap Day back into hockey &hellip; &ldquo;Day is the greatest coach in hockey and always has been in my book,&rdquo; Ezzy stated &hellip; Tom Johnson, Montreal&rsquo;s veteran defenseman, thinks Doug Harvey will do a good coaching job at New York &hellip; He also thinks Lou Fontinato will help Canadiens &hellip; The good citizens of Sydney, N. S. are most excited about the possibility of having three native sons playing in the NHL during 1961-62 &hellip; That is of course if Parker MacDonald, John Hanna and Al MacNeil all stick with their respective National League teams &hellip; This would give Sydney, a city of 38,000 population, the best per capita representation in the NHL of any city in Canada &hellip; Don Marshall and Phil Goyette, of Canadiens, are partners in a bowling center soon to be opened in Montreal &hellip; Billy Hicke is an assistant golf pro in Regina during the summer &hellip; Boston&rsquo;s Doug Mohns is engaged in the real estate business on Boston&rsquo;s South Shore this summer. He also finds time to sell cars as well &hellip; Don McKenney, the Bruins&rsquo; starry center, recently purchased a home in Braintree, Mass, and also sells cars in the off season &hellip; Phil Watson&rsquo;s daughter was a recent runner-up in the Miss California contest &hellip; The new Los Angeles team in the Western Hockey League will be called the Blades &hellip; Montreal and Boston, two clubs who trained at home for the last few seasons, are taking the show on the road this year &hellip; Canadiens will train at Victoria, B. C., on Canada&rsquo;s West Coast, while the Bruins will move to Niagara Falls, Ont&hellip;. Western Canadian fans will have an opportunity of seeing plenty of NHL pre-season hockey this fall &hellip; Montreal, Toronto and Detroit will be playing games in the West this year &hellip; Chicago&rsquo;s Stanley Cup win was their first since 1937-38. Now the longest gap between Cups belongs to the New York Rangers who haven&rsquo;t won since 1940.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03270/1723593-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="257" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03199/1723586-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="276" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy Bathgate</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By VERN DeGEER (Montreal Gazette)</div>MONTREAL, Que.Muzz and Lynn Patrick, busy in off-season deals they fervently hope will lift their beloved New York Rangers and Boston Bruins out of the National Hockey League depths, have a kindly, long-memoried critic.And the memories stem from another sport.It seems that the Patrick brothers twice made outstanding contributions to senior basketball forces of Victoria, B. C. and Montreal that deprived Windsor, Ontario&rsquo;s Assumption College (now Assumption University), of Canadian court championships.Reverend Father McGee, athletic director at Assumption for many years, after a distinguished career as an athlete in his own rights, was a Montreal visitor recently.Among other incidents in the world of athletes he recalled that Assumption twice reached the Canadian basketball finals, only to be brushed aside in title series by teams which had Lynn and Muzz playing star roles.Assumption has been turning out fine basketball teams for many years. The Purples have been prominent in major Eastern Canada college circles in recent seasons. But they were closest to Canadian championship in the mid 1930&rsquo;s.&ldquo;I thought we had our first championship in a series at Victoria,&rdquo; Father McGee said, &ldquo;but those Patrick boys and a fellow named Doug Peden were a little too much for us. And a year or two later we were within reach again when the Montreal Y.M.H.A. team defeated us for the title. And the Patricks were again with our conquerors.&rdquo;Father McGee recalled that his Assumption basketball teams on several occasions were unique in sport. Assumption is of the Basilian Order, but through the years 40 to 50 per cent of the day studentshave been Protestants or Jewish.&ldquo;Our starting team for three seasons,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;was comprised of a Methodist, a Presbyterian, Church of Englander, and two Jewish boys. It was their custom to kneel on court, lock arms before each game and say a &ldquo;Hail, Mary.&rdquo;<h2>Hails From Lucan</h2>Father McGee is a product of Lucan, Ontario, a little town 20 miles north of London &mdash; made famous for its Lucan Irish Nine, a hard-nosed bunch of farm boys in the district, that set a string of records on the diamond.Father McGee has included Rochester, N.Y.; Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s College; Houston, Texas, I Amherstburg, Ontario; Windsor; and Detroit as bases for his work as a teacher, athletic director, seminary and novitiate supervisor. Currently he is at Pontiac, Michigan.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04216/1723645-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="549" height="760"><figcaption class="caption-body">Twin Terrors On The CourtMuzz Patrick</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05192/1723638-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="505" height="768"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lynn Patrick</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Well-Known WindsorCoach Recalls Patrick Brothers As Basketball ‘Spoilers’

NEW YORK, N.Y. &mdash;The New York Rangers will have to wait until 1964 to get into their new hockey rink but when they do they will be playing in the most modern ice arena in the world.Plans for the construction of a new Madison Square Garden and entertainment centre were announced jointly by the Graham-Paige Corp., owners of the present Garden and the Rangers, and the Pennsylvania Railroad.James M. Symes, chairman of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Adm. John J. Bergen, and Irving Mitchell Felt, chairman and president, respectively, of Graham-Paige, revealed the plans for the $75,000,000 project that will be built over Penn Station in midtown Manhattan.The imposing project will house a larger Garden with a seating capacity of 25,000, an auxiliary arena seating 4,000 and a rooftop ice palace, a 750-room hotel rising 28 floors, a 34-story commercial building with an 80-lane bowling center, and peripheral shopping centers &mdash; all within the confines of Penn Station which lies between West 31st and 33rd Sts. and Seventh and Eighth Aves.The site of nearly nine acres and air rights over the station facilities and tracks will be acquired by the new company &mdash; Madison Square Garden Center, Inc. &mdash; from the Pennsylvania Railroad on a long-term lease with renewal options totaling 99 years. Graham-Paige, which will own 75% of the company&rsquo;s stock, will rent the Garden, while the railroad will own the remaining 25% of the stock.The target date for completion is planned with the opening of the 1964 World Fair. Architect Charles Luckman announced engineering plans will take at least another year and two years have been allotted for construction.Garden &mdash; will be the largest indoor arena in the world and will offer 25,000 unobstructed seats. In describing the building, Luckman said it will mark &ldquo;the first use in such a large structure of a compression ring &mdash; an architectural structural system formed by steel cables imbedded in concrete.&rdquo;Bergen, in summing up, declared: &ldquo;The construction of this center puts us well ahead of Chicago and Los Angeles in the competition for conventions and trade shows.&rdquo;Bergen added that the Garden will program its usual events &mdash; basketball, hockey, ice, dog and horse shows &mdash; but he voiced pessimism concerning boxing.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll just have to go out and develop them,&rsquo; he declared, &ldquo;if the sport is to continue on a bigtime basis.&rdquo;Ned Irish, president of the Garden, was particularly pleased with the seating plans, saying: &ldquo;In the new arena 75% of the seats will be along the sides. Also, with its stadium-like construction, fans will enter the arena halfway to their seats. They&rsquo;ll either go up or down.&rdquo;The present Garden is 35 years old and would be kept in operation until the next one is ready for use. &#9632;

Rangers’ New Garden To Be Ready By 1964

OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;At least two National Hockey League players are intent on getting an education for themselves.Frank Mahovlich of Toronto Leafs and Gilles Tremblay of Montreal Canadiens, were among the 1,800 students to enroll at the University of Ottawa&rsquo;s annual summer school.Mahovlich is studying commerce in the art faculty while Tremblay, a rookie last season, plans a course in physical &#9632;

NHL Players Enroll At Ottawa University

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N. Y.Lou Fontinato, the knight errant who for six years performed feats of gallantry in New York, has left Broadway for Montreal. But Louie&rsquo;s memory lingers on &mdash; for better and worse.Ranger fans, who once worshipped Louie&rsquo;s every left jab, are divided about whether they&rsquo;re glad or sad to see the truculent defenseman go. He went to Canadiens in the deal that brought Doug Harvey to New York.Those &mdash; and they are many &mdash; who visualize Fonty the fighter blasting Maurice Richard, Jean Beliveau and others who invaded his territory, are waxing mournful over his departure.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the worst thing they coulda done,&rdquo; said Joe Sena, a baggage clerk in the nearby Greyhound bus terminal. &ldquo;Louie was the only one who did any fighting on the team.&rdquo; And fight he did.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01335/1723724-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="538" height="550"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Fontinato</figcaption></div>Imported briefly in the 1954-55 season, Louie came to stay the following year simultaneous with Phil Watson&rsquo;s advent as coach. Immediately, Louie became the Blues&rsquo; official &lsquo;policeman&rsquo;, fighting at the drop of a puck.Starved for a colorful hitter, New York fans swallowed Louie&rsquo;s antics with glee and soon he was dubbed &ldquo;Leapin&rsquo; Louie,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Rock &lsquo;n Roll Louie.&rdquo;&ldquo;He was a colorful character,&rdquo; said Dave Perlmutter, a housewares buyer from Queens, &ldquo;and a good hockey player, too.&rdquo;At first, Louie was more clumsy than good but, encouraged by Watson and his growing numbers of fans, he refined some of the rough edges (though never all) and became a respected defenceman.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s no Harvey,&rdquo; said goalie Gump Worsley, &lsquo;but if Louie doesn&rsquo;t make it, it won&rsquo;t be because his heart and soul aren&rsquo;t in it. Nobody can take that away from him.&rdquo;Fontinato never completely enamoured himself with his Ranger teammates. Some resented his big publicity build-up at what they considered their expense, others felt he was over-rated as a player and fighter.But Louie kept improving and, midway in the 1958-59 season, with the Rangers taking aim at second place, he was regarded as one of the league&rsquo;s best defenders.Later that season Louie made the mistake of his career &mdash; he got into a fight with Gordie Howe and, though he caught Howe with a number of blows, came out of it with a pulverized nose and a contorted face.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s been over the hill since that incident,&rdquo; said Marvin Resnick, a senior at Pace College. &ldquo;The team won&rsquo;t miss him. With his fight they finished fifth and sixth. I&rsquo;d rather have Harry Howell than him.&rdquo;Fontinato, denying that the Howe fight had anything to do with it, never recaptured his early form. He was a flop in the 1959-60 season but improved slightly last year. He had spurts of old-time Fontinato play but he lacked consistency.&ldquo;He was the guy to trade,&rdquo; said Ira Gitler, a jazz writer and end arena subscriber. &ldquo;Louie wore out his usefulness. I think he was terrible the last few years.&rdquo;Sensitive and highly emotional, Louie joins the Canadiens, the team he once single-handedly intimidated. Whether he stars for them or not, whether the Rangers suffer by his absence or not, this much remains a fact: during his stay, Fontinato established himself as one of the most colorful players in New York history.In 1955-56 he broke the NHL penalty record with 202 minutes. Omitted from the record books are his unforgettable jousts with Ferny Flaman, et. al.; his anguished expression upon being whistled to the cooler and his dressing room rages after a loss.Perhaps the most indelible impression of Louie was provided by Charlie Hoff, the Daily News photographer, who snapped two pictures of Fontinato at the final game of last season and the season before.In one shot, Louie is seen leaping with his back to the boards, hitting Claude Provost amidships in full flight. In last year&rsquo;s picture, Fontinato is flying through the air like a condor, ramming a helpless Bert Olmstead against the same boards.This is the Lou Fontinato New York fans will remember best. &#9632;

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Fontinato Leaves Memories Behind

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Jacques Plantes is not only a big league goalkeeper but he&rsquo;s a pretty good golfer as well.The &lsquo;Masked Marvel&rsquo; of the Canadiens&rsquo; won the club&rsquo;s recent fourth annual golf tournament at suburban Rosemere Golf Club by beating out winger Claude Provost in an extra hole playoff.Both Plante and Provost shot 83&rsquo;s to finish in a tie. Rocket Richard had an 82 and rookie Bobby Rousseau fired the best round, a 74. But neither Richard, who is now retired, nor Rousseau, an assistant pro and not a regular as yet with the Habs, qualified for the.title.New Canadiens&rsquo; rearguard, Lou Fontinato, made a surprise appearance and shot a 99. &#9632;

Plante Leading Golfer In Canadiens’ Tourney

MONTREAL, Que.Until Reg Fleming came along in the National Hockey League last season as a brash rookie, Canadiens&rsquo; Don Marshall was practically alone in his claim to be the top penalty killer in the big leagues.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03239/1723810-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="240" height="404"><figcaption class="caption-body">Reg Fleming</figcaption></div>But Marshall has a rival for the honors now in the 25-year-old Fleming, who like his Canadiens&rsquo; rival, is a Montreal boy.Fleming found his niche last season as a specialist with the Chicago Black Hawks, who won the Stanley Cup for the first time in 23 years and it goes without saying that young Fleming contributed his fair share to the coup.&ldquo;Penalty-killing is skating,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got to move. You go up the ice at an angle, never straight in because it&rsquo;s easy for the puck-carrier to shift you that way.&ldquo;Coming from the side, he&rsquo;s forced to the boards. When he stops, you stop. But you always have the stride edge on him.&ldquo;If you get caught &mdash; the man stickhandles around you or passes off &mdash; that&rsquo;s when you really have to put the head down and come back.&rdquo;Reg picks New York Rangers as the toughest club to work against a man short.<h2>Gadsby Tough</h2>&ldquo;They can really whip that puck around. Every time you look up someone else has got it. That Gadsby (defenceman Bill Gadsby) sometimes seems to be in two places at once.&rdquo;Fleming has taken his new hockey success in stride since the close of the 1960-61 campaign. He became a celebrity in his home town when he returned and there were days when Reg couldn&rsquo;t find time to get much sleep what with so many public appearances.He&rsquo;s done just about everything a hockey figure could achieve after a winning season, including making speeches (brief one&rsquo;s he adds), opening bowling alleys, dedicating laundromats, race track presentations, presiding at baseball openers and what have you.Everywhere he goes he is inevitably asked about his first Stanley Cup playoff goal, which was a big one indeed for a rookie.In the final game against Detroit Red Wings, the five-foot-eight, 185-pounder stole the puck while his club was shorthanded, swept in and scored the goal that launched Hawks to a 5-1 win.&ldquo;The goal only tied the game but it took the starch out of them and gave us the zip we needed,&rdquo; said a jubilant coach Rudy Pilous in the dressing room after the game. &ldquo;What more could you ask than to score while you&rsquo;re short handed.&rdquo;NHL fans, particularly those in Chicago, came to love the big, rugged rookie, who confessed he was jittery most every time he took the ice last season with the Hawks.Reg gave Chicago writers something to rave about last season what with his one-game 37-minute penalty record and his play-off goal.&ldquo;It was a wonderful year and I only hope that I can look forward to a few more like it,&rdquo; he said.He wouldn&rsquo;t predict another cup win for the Hawks but you only had to look at the gleam in his eye &#9632;

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New Hawk Top Rival For Title

<div class="byline">By DINK CARROLLMontreal Gazette</div>MONTREAL&ldquo;I can assure you, win or lose, nobody will fall asleep at the Bruins&rsquo; games. I had a chance to go with two other NHL clubs. I didn&rsquo;t even consider them when Boston made me an offer. I&rsquo;m making more money than I ever made in my life before. Do you think I&rsquo;m not happy?&rdquo;That&rsquo;s Phil Watson talking, of course, the guy they used to call &ldquo;Screwnose&rdquo; in Boston when he was with the New York Rangers. What they&rsquo;ll be calling him in Boston next March will depend on what he has been ante to ao witn the Bruins in the meantime. As for those two other clubs he had a chance to go with, you probably wouldn&rsquo;t be far wrong if you guessed the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Rangers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01405/1723841-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="262" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Watson</figcaption></div>Watson impressed the Boston press, which is a feat in itself.&ldquo;I want a pleasing club here,&rdquo; he told his audience. &ldquo;If you go to a hit show like My Fair Lady or Can-Can, you leave with a good feeling. I want Boston&rsquo;s hockey fans to feel the same way about our hockey club.&rdquo;Since Philippe himself had brought up the subject of Boston&rsquo;s hockey fans, a hockey writer with a long memory reminded him that he had once referred to them as &ldquo;the worst in the NHL.&rdquo;&ldquo;They are &mdash; if you&rsquo;re with the Rangers,&rdquo; Phil answered glibly. &ldquo;But for the Boston team they are the best. This is a wonderful sports town. Look at the way fans have supported the Red Sox, Bruins and the other teams. I want to make the city proud of its hockey team.&rdquo;Phil was asked what he thought of his present personnel.<h2>Plans For The Future</h2>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d say the nucleus of my team will be players like Don McKenney, Doug Mohns, Leo Boivin and Bob Armstrong.&ldquo;Dallas Smith I like very much and Cliff Pennington, the boy we got from Montreal, is a fine prospect. I think he&rsquo;ll be a real good one. I don&rsquo;t want to say much more about him now. He&rsquo;s only a rookie and I don&rsquo;t want to put any pressure on him.&rdquo;Phil indicated that he would use Don McKenney, the Bruins&rsquo; smooth centre, as his big man. In the past, McKenney has been flanked by a succession of mediocre wings. Watson intends to give him two capable mates and keep the line intact.He also pleased Doug Mohns, who was at the luncheon, by announcing that he hoped to spot him permanently on defense or left wing.&ldquo;Mohns is a key player,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to keep shifting him around. I want to put him in one spot and keep him there.&rdquo;Phil let it be known that he expects the players to report in good condition at the Niagara Falls, Ont., training camp on Sept. 10.<h2>He Doubled For Gable</h2>Lynn Patrick, the Bruins&rsquo; general manager, sometimes calls Phil &ldquo;Gable,&rdquo; and it remained for John Gillooly, the wit on the Daily Record, to ferret out the reason.It seems that Phil was a double for the late Clark Gable when Hollywood made a film with a hockey motif to be titled &ldquo;Hot On Ice.&rdquo; All the Rangers were stand-ins, and Myrna Loy was co-star with Gable. But the movie was left on the cuttingroom floor and never made the theatres.At the luncheon, Lynn showed a scar on his right knuckle, a souvenir of a fight he had with Watson in their rookie, bachelor days as Rangers. The pair shared an apartment with the Colville brothers. John Gillooly tells the story:&ldquo;One night they went out in Lynn&rsquo;s car to a house party a long jump from their lodgings. Lynn became infatuated with the girl at the piano. Watson wanted to go home. Watson left in a huff, but waited up for Lynn. When he arrived they had words. Then they started swinging. Watson leaping on the much larger Patrick using the bed as a catapult.&ldquo;It must have been a dandy. The Colvilles couldn&rsquo;t part them. Watson refused to quit. Lynn slashed his hand when he missed a shot and hit a hunk of furniture, which couldn&rsquo;t have been much harder than Watson&rsquo;s head at that.&rdquo;It was after Lynn told the story that Phil remarked that he favored a rugged, two-fisted team. &#9632;

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Watson Assures Fans Bruins To Be Exciting Even WhenThey Lose

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<div class="byline">By DOUG McLELLAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02289/1723896-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Waiting His ChanceBob McCord</figcaption></div>TIMMINS, Ont.&mdash;Big Bob McCord, Timmins born defenceman with the American Hockey League Springfield Indians, Calder Cup winners for the past two seasons, watched the annual meeting of the NHL with interest and some disappointment.He had expected to be drafted by one of the six clubs, but after completion of the draft, found &lsquo;that his name was not mentioned among the draftees. After being named the outstanding defenceman in the AHL and winner of the Eddie Shore Award, you couldn&rsquo;t blame McCord for any disappointment he may have had.The word around the Montreal meeting was that McCord had already been dealt to the New York Rangers, with whom the Indians have a working agreement, and that fact brought a ray of hope to the quiet-spoken defenceman.But then came official word from the Rangers that he hadn&rsquo;t been purchased by the club but would be given consideration at training camp. This writer wired the Rangers concerning McCord&rsquo;s status and received the following reply from Herb Goren, team publicist.&ldquo;McCord has not been purchased by the Rangers, though the club recognizes his impressive development with Springfield and will probably give serious consideration to his big league chances in training camp. Presumably, the Springfield club will train with the Rangers this fall&rdquo;Not one to give. hinjself a verbal huild-up, McCord feels that he can make the Rangers this fall. There&rsquo;s no doubt that he was tickled with the New York signing of Doug Harvey as playing coach for the coming season.When it was suggested to McCord that possibly he would team up on defence with Harvey, an eager rookie with one of the game&rsquo;s greatest alltime defenceman, Bobby merely smiled, &ldquo;now wouldn&rsquo;t that be something&rdquo;.And for him, that&rsquo;s quite a mouthful as he seldom makes much of a quote, and merely flashes a wide smile in most conversations. But don&rsquo;t get the idea that he&rsquo;s sullen and seldom speaks. It&rsquo;s just that most of his words are used in good-natured joking. He&rsquo;s the type who seldom says anything, but when he does, it&rsquo;s good for a laugh.If he does make New York this fall, the Manhattan fans are going to love him. Outwardly, he doesn&rsquo;t seem to have a care in the world and don&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;s merely out for the skate. Being named the top defenceman in the minors is proof that he knows his jop.But he&rsquo;s relaxed at all times, and is the type who would play hockey for the love of the game, although this is a warning to Muzz Patrick and Doug Harvey &mdash; he expects to get a reasonable bundle for his services.A clean-living athlete, McCord is in perfect shape all year round. For the past few summers he has worked for the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, doing jobs out-of-doors, a handsome tan resulting.To keep his legs in shape, McCord plays the outfield for the Schumacher Macmen, league leaders in the Timmins Fastball League. He can&rsquo;t be described as a smooth-fielding Willie Mays, but. h.e does get the job done. He likes to wait until the last second and then make a diving catch.At the plate, he&rsquo;s a long-ball hitter and continually carries on a conversation with both pitcher and catcher. His natural color gives the fans a chuckle. He just gets a kick out of everything he does-even when he strikes out.If he makes the National League this year &mdash; and AHL fans feel certain that he will &mdash; McCord is bound to be a Broadway hit. He&rsquo;ll be the &lsquo;Ozark Ike&rsquo; of the Bypassed in NHL DraftRangers. &#9632;

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McCord Hoping Blues To dive Him Long Look

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01357/1723958-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Peaking At The News&rsquo;&lsquo;Baz&rsquo; Bastien, new general-manager of the Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League, gets right into the &ldquo;Hockey News&rdquo; as he reads the bible of the ice game after getting go-ahead sign from doctors following surgery on his eye. Bastien lost sight of his right eye during training camp accident at Welland, Ont., in 1949. He was a top goalkeeper in his day and belonged to the Toronto Leafs.</figcaption></div>QUEBEC CITY, Que.When the Montreal Canadiens became the busy traders at the summer hockey meetings observers said the club that would benefit most from their extensive dealings would be the Quebec Aces.Neither the Aces nor the Canadiens will commit themselves on what players will be with the American League team this season, but both parties agree the Aces will be contenders at last in the AHL.The top crowd-drawing team the past two years despite the fact the team finished out of the playoffs both times, has spurred the Canadiens to lend a hand in developing the Quebee hockey situation.The appointment of former Canadiens&rsquo; star Floyd Curry was seen as the first move. Curry, who guided the Montreal Royals to two titles before the club broke up last year, is a good handler ofJust what players he will have to handle is not completely known. However, the Aces have already secured Guy Rousseau from Toronto in exchange for Norm Corcoran, who will end up in Pittsburgh. They also have acquired defenceman Moe Mantha from Cleveland on loan from Montreal and the word is that Reg Grigg, Skippy Burchell and possibly Charlie Hodge will be playing in their nets this year. If not Hodge, then most certainly Cesare Maniago, whom the Habs picked off the Toronto list in the summer draft. Burchell was previously in the league with Rochester.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02324/1723951-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="529" height="828"><figcaption class="caption-body">Back In AHLSkip Burchell</figcaption></div>The Aces are also expecting to have John Hanna, whom the Canadiens got from New York in exchange for Junior Langlois during the off-season. Hanna is a defenceman who played in the AHL last season for 18 games with Springfield before going back to the Rangers.Coach Curry has been working quietly at his Montreal home on plans for the coming season and expects to be in Quebec in late August to get things rolling for the start of training camp around Sept. 16.Many of last year&rsquo;s faces will be missing from the team notably Frank Martin, and Fleming Mackell, the deposed coach of the Aces who may figure in a player trade before &lsquo;the next season starts. &#9632;

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Quebec Expecting AHL Contender With Montreal Player Prospects

Rochester Club May Play Some Sunday Contests In Big League SettingTORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League may play a few Sunday night games in Toronto next season.Toronto&rsquo;s Sunday curfew, which previously required sports events to be completed by 6 p.m., has been removed leaving promoters with Sunday evening as a rich playing date. Leafs don&rsquo;t want to give up their traditional Saturday night games nor do they want to abandon Sunday afternoon junior hockey.Stafford Smythe, chairman of the Maple Leaf Gardens hockey committee, said he hoped to bring Leafs&rsquo; AHL farm club here for a few games, just as an experiment.Smythe feels that Rochester would pull in the Toronto crowds.&ldquo;If they are drawing well in Rochester we wouldn&rsquo;t do it but if they aren&rsquo;t supporting them down there they wouldn&rsquo;t care if we did,&rdquo; Smythe said.He said no decision would be made on the matter until &ldquo;well into the winter.&rdquo;It would be the first time an American League team ever played in the Gardens. &#9632;

Leafs Ponder Moving Amerks To Toronto Ice

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Hockey fans who remember the ice exploits of Jimmy Peters in his National Hockey League playing days will be heartened to hear that his young son, Jimmy Jr. is coming up and could follow in his father&rsquo;s footsteps.The younger Peters last season played with Detroit&rsquo;s Junior Red Wings in the Olympia hockey league and was among the team&rsquo;s leading scorers. His dad is junior hockey co-ordinator for the Red Wings around Detroit and currently a resident of the Motor City where he has a good business position. &#9632;

Another Peters Showing On Minor Puck Scene

ROCHESTER, N. Y.The American Hockey League coaching ranks were completed for the 1961-62-season with the appointment of former National Hockey League defense star, Johnny Crawford, to head the Rochester Americans.Crawford, 44-year-old veteran coach and player, accepted a one year contract as a successor to Steve Kraftcheck, who resigned the post before the close of the 1960-61 season forcing general manager Jack Riley to take the Americans to the end of the campaign.The balding, one-time Boston Bruins&rsquo; rearguard is an old hand at coaching teams in the AHL. He first came on the scene in 1950-51 to lead the Hershey Bears for two years before moving on to Providence where he remained for five seasons before being fired in favor of Phil Watson after the 1959-60 campaign.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03251/1724037-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="269" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Crawford</figcaption></div>The hiring of Crawford, an expert handler of players and one of the best liked men in hockey, was the fourth new coach in the AHL this year. Larry Regan, the former Leaf star, takes over the Pittsburgh Hornets this season in their return to the league while Floyd Curry, another ex-NHL campaigner, replaces Fleming Mackell at the helm of the Quebec Aces and Fern Flaman will run the Providence team in place of Watson after 15 years in the NHL as a top defenceman.The other American League coaching posts are unchanged. Frank Mathers will remain at Hershey although he has decided to retire from active playing. Pat Egan will go again at Springfield, Frank Eddolls at Buffalo and Jackie Gordon at Cleveland.<h2>Oldest In Service</h2>Crawford will actually be starting his eighth season as a coach, making him the senior man from point of service. His best year was in 1956-57 when he brought the Calder Cup to Providence.As a player himself, Crawford was Among the most rugged in the big leagues. He played 12 seasons with the Bruins, twice making the NHL all-star team. He had been rumored in line for many coaching jobs ni the East this season and only recently decided on the Rochester position.One of Crawford&rsquo;s major problems will be to stimulate the Americans again after they finished out of the playoffs last season for the first time. With a farm club agreement with Toronto Leafs, Crawford is likely to receive most of the NHL club&rsquo;s top castoffs and young talent, which may include such notable members of last season&rsquo;s Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s College Memorial Cup champions as Goalie Gerry Cheevers and forward Larry Keenan. &#9632;

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Crawford Becomes 4th New Ice Coach In AHL Taking Rochester Job

By JACK KINSELLA Ottawa Citizen ColumnistThey laughed when someone once predicted that Mere Man would put a satellite into orbit, or elect a woman mayor of Ottawa, but as history reveals, a lot of guys wound up choking on a chuckle.The comparison may be something less than valid, but the suspicion is that a few people will soon be starting to choke soon anent the idea of eventual major league hockey on the West Coast.&ldquo;Major league hockey on the coast is as inevitable as night follows day,&rdquo; Hal Laycoe, the eminently successful coach of the Portland team, was saying when I encountered him. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s just a matter of time.&rdquo;Western Hockey League delegates agree, and add that since it will only be a matter of time, now is as good a time as any. They admit there are a few problems, but then, baseball had expansion problems as well, and eventually they were solved.&ldquo;One of our problems,&rdquo; offered Laycoe, &ldquo;is building. But gradually we are eliminating it, and with new arenas in prospect in Seattle and Vancouver, the league would have first class buildings right around the circuit.&rdquo;Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, he said, would make a &ldquo;solid&rdquo; major league circuit.Unfortunately for proponents of a second major league, buildings should be the least of their worries. They&rsquo;re important, but finding players to fill the teams in them is even more important.Laycoe has the answer for that problem, too. Co-operation by the National Hockey League, he suggested, would solve most of the headaches regarding the gathering of players. He didn&rsquo;t say what kind of co-operation, and that could be the rub. If it parallels the pattern of baseball, i.e., each existing club making available players at a price, there could be some foot-dragging. Major league talent isn&rsquo;t exactly plentiful at the moment.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt, however, about the desire of fans on the coast for major league hockey. The Portland experience (a new all-time record by several hundred thousand last year) is just one example. I&rsquo;d wager the same thing will happen in Los Angeles and San Francisco, even though it will only be minor league hockey for a while yet.&rdquo;Laycoe went on to cite an example of the kind of fans hockey has on the coast.&ldquo;In our final game, at Seattle,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;they televised it back to Portland. After we clinched the title, it took us about an hour and a half to fly back home. Do you know there were over 5,000 people at the airport waiting for the team? It was hard to believe.&rdquo;The big secret &mdash; after the NHL&rsquo;s blessing &mdash; to another major league would have to be the building up of a farm system by the clubs involved. It won&rsquo;t be any easy chore, either.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s one thing in our favor at the start, though,&rdquo; explained Laycoe, &ldquo;and that is the fact that western fans have never seen the Richards, or Howes, or Beliveaus, and wouldn&rsquo;t be critical of us calling ourselves a major league, at least at the start.&rdquo; As matters stand now, however, the proposed circuit would have extreme difficulty getting players because every area producing talent is tied up tightly by the NHL organizations.Obviously, acceptance by the NHL, with subsequent co-operation, is a prime requisite for status. The alternative is to wait patiently or &mdash; and the thought is an interesting one &mdash; threaten a player war by becoming independent.It&rsquo;s doubtful if the thought has occurred to the NHL, but orthodoxy has had its rebels before, and could again. There&rsquo;s quite a pile of money behind some of those western clubs, and athletes have been known to be susceptible to the color green especially when it&rsquo;s imprinted on bonded paper.Anyway, it&rsquo;s an interesting prospect. Can you imagine a hockey world series between the Montreal Canadiens and the Los Angeles Blades. &#9632;

Laycoe Sees Big League Hockey On West Coast

EDMONTON, Alta. &mdash;Edmonton Flyers of the Western Hockey League announced they have traded forward Gene Achtymichuk for centre Gordon &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Howarth of Portland Buckaroos.The 29-year-old Howarth counted 18 goals and 47 assists last season.Edmonton Manager Bud Poile said the trade was made through the Boston Bruins and it was likely Achtymichuk would be sent to Portland which had a working agreement with Boston. &#9632;

Flyers Land Howarth For Gene Aclityinichnk

<div class="byline">By JEANE HOFFMAN (Los Angeles Times)</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01390/1724116-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"></div>LOS ANGELES, Calif.&mdash;You pause to wonder, sometimes, what Lyle LeBere could do if he had two hands &hellip;Lyle has only one, you see.A crane accident during a summer job on the St. Lawrence Seaway cut off his arm 4 in. below the elbow. If the crane wheel had not been turned the wrong way in the confusion, Lyle could have extricated himself with only broken bones.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s life,&rdquo; shrugged Lyle philosophically. &ldquo;At least I wasn&rsquo;t a piano player &hellip;&rdquo;<h2>Juvenile Star</h2>He was a hockey player &mdash; the best juvenile hockey player in the Province of Ontario. A trophy, awarded to him as the &ldquo;Most Valuable Player of Ontario&rdquo; in 1957, proved that.So what was a guy to do Quit?&ldquo;&lsquo;Quit?&rdquo; The 2I-year-old Lyle pronounced the word as though he&rsquo;d never heard it before. &ldquo;Why should I quit? I knew I could keep on playing hockey. All I wanted was the chance to prove it.&rdquo;He&rsquo;s had the chance in the California Hockey League, and if you want to know what he&rsquo;s proven as a goalie take a look:Backed his team, Long Beach Paramount, to the championship of the 1960-61 season with a total of only 79 goals, a 3.7 game average, well ahead of the league&rsquo;s other three net tenders.Won the Hannam Trophy as the league&rsquo;s best goalie.Beat out the U.S.&rsquo;s Olympic team goalie, Gene Gatchene, to do it.&ldquo;I like the sport too much to give it up,&rdquo; smiled good-humored Lyle, who moved here with his family recently. &ldquo;I just bolted the goalie stick onto the end of my artificial arm, and kept going. The game is more of a challenge now. I have three things to master: the artificial arm, goalie technique and hockey itself.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had to rely on my body English more. Turk Broda, one of the game&rsquo;s immortals, paid me a hospital visit and told me he figured I&rsquo;d have to play a &lsquo;stand up&rsquo; game. He thought I wouldn&rsquo;t be able to get off the ice fast enough.&ldquo;First time I went down, I&rsquo;ll admit it took three guys to get me up. But I&rsquo;ve learned to spring up, using my legs. I can handle angle shots fine. What botliers me is dropping to one knee to clear the puck in front of the net. I use my gloved hand to retrieve it because I don&rsquo;t have that much stick control.&ldquo;My main worry is that some guy, tearing down the ice, may get his stick caught and yank my arm out of my shoulder socket. I&rsquo;ve learned to twist my body and release the stump from the artificial arm in a split second.&ldquo;Occasionally, a puck will slam into the wooden arm, and give off with a hollow sound that echoes all over the arena. You should see spectators&rsquo; amazement when that happens. I&rsquo;ve played entire games without fans or rivals realizing I&rsquo;ve a wooden arm &mdash; until that puck hits it!&rdquo;Lyle, who&rsquo;s looking for a job as bookkeeper or accountant, hasn&rsquo;t let the handicap bother him off season. Guess what? He plays baseball &hellip; &#9632;

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No Handicap For Ex-Canadian

CLEVELAND, Ohio &mdash;The Cleveland Barons, bidding to regain their old American Hockey League supremacy, have indicated they will make several player changes for the 1961-62 season.One of their first moves was to secur. veteran centre Hank Ciesla from Rochester Americans in exchange for right wing Bill Dineen. The Barons also had to give up an undisclosed amount of cash to close the deal.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02326/1724147-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="273" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hank Ciesla</figcaption></div>Both players are former National Hockey Leaguers, Ciesla with Rangers and Chicago and Dineen with Detroit and Chicago.Ciesla was the leading point man for the Rochester club last year with 30 goals, 44 assists for 74 points in 70 games. The 26-year-old pivot was the ninth highest scorer in the AHL. He has been with Rochester two years after spending four seasons in the NHL.The 29-year-old Dineen counted 59 points for the Barons, including 28 goals. He formerly played with Buffalo in the AHL and had been once regarded as a sure-fire big leaguer after a great junior career with Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;sThe Barons also announced that they had turned defenceman Moe Mantha, 27, Over to the Quebec Aces on instructions from the Montreal Canadiens. The NHL club last year sent players here. This season they will hook up with the Quebec team. &#9632;

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Barons Acquire Veteran Ciesla For Bill Dineen

The American Hockey League is solid proof that former hockey players make good coaches.All eight ice pilots in the AHL are former playes who once plied their trade in the National Hockey League.Three are former Rangers, Pat Egan at Springfield, Frank Eddolls at Buffalo and Jackie Gordon at Cleveland. Two are exBruins. Johnny Crawford of Rochester and Procvidence&rsquo;s Fern Flaman.Two ex-Leafs are also numbered among the AHL coaches. Larry Regan of Pittsburgh and Frank Mathers of Hershey both were formerly with Toronto. The eighth coach, Floyd Curry of Quebec, is an ex-Montreal Canadien. &#9632;

All Eight AHL Coaches Former Stars In NHL

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01375/1724202-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="557" height="836"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Agar</figcaption></div>LOS ANGELES, Calif. &mdash;George Agar is the coach of the new Los Angeles Blades in the Western Hockey League.Agar, who piloted Victoria Cougars last season before the franchise was moved here in the westward expansion of the WHL, was named amid earlier rumors that Alf Pike, the exRanger coach, would get the job.Pike has since signed to mastermind the Calgary Stampeders in the WHL and the naming of Agar and Pike leaves only the other new league entry, San Francisco, and Vancouver Canucks, without a coach.Agar&rsquo;s appointment was confirmed by co-owners Jim Piggott of Saskatoon and Dan Reeves of Los Angeles. Piggott moved his Victoria team here after the 1960-61 season and joined forces with Reeves. The two have agreed that the team will be officially known as the &lsquo;Blades&rsquo;.Agar piloted Victoria to sixth place last year in the WHL. He is a former amateur coach who was highly successful around the British Columbia province with senior teams. &#9632;

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Agar To Coach New WHL Team In Los Angeles

SEATTLE, Wash.The man who launched the Western Hockey League on its professional sphere 11 years ago, bespectacled Al Leader, is ready to start another term as president and the challenges it presents as the WHL moves westward.Leader has been given a new three-year contract as president in a vote of confidence from the member clubs.John Moyer of Calgary Stampeders was named first vice-president and Bud Poile of Edmonton Flyers was selected second vicepresident. Harry Glickman of Portland Buckaroos was elected recording secretary and Vince Abbey of Seattle was chosen treasurer. &#9632;

Leader To Start 12th Year As WHL President

SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;President Al Leader of the Western Hockey League has announced that the 1961-62 alignment of teams will include two sections.The eight teams will be divided into a Southern division that will include Portland Buckaroos, Spokane Comets, Los Angeles Blades and San Francisco. The Northern section will embrace Seattle Totems, Vancouver Canucks, Edmonton Flyers and Calgary Stampeders.The first three teams in each section will gain admittance to the post-season with the two ultimate division winners meeting &#9632;

WHL To Be Two-Section League

<div class="byline">By DON LARSEN</div>Vancouver SunVANCOUVER, B. C.The Vancouver Canucks are not letting any grass grow under their feet in preparing for the 1961-62 hockey season.Even though they haven&rsquo;t named a coach or a manager, the Western League club has gone ahead and scored exhibition games during the training period with three National Hockey League clubs &mdash; Montreal, Toronto and Detroit.The Canadiens will play Sept. 26 followed by Detroit Red Wings on Sept. 29 and the Toronto Maple Leafs on Oct. 1.Final arrangements for the exhibitions were completed by the Pacific National Exhibition, owners of the Canucks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02353/1724281-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="287" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Art Chapman</figcaption></div>The bookings will give city hockey fans their fullest look at NHL clubs in years.To fit into Toronto&rsquo;s tight pre-season schedule, the Vancouver Toronto game will be played on a Sunday afternoon.Canadiens were able to make the appearance because this year their training camp is at Victoria, starting Sept. 17.The Canucks themselves start training Sept. 20 and they won&rsquo;t go out of town. All training will be done at the Forum.Some of the 1961-62 line-up of the Canucks was explained at a meeting of the PNE&rsquo;s hockey committee.The committee announced outright purchase of four players and the loan of three from Winnipeg Warriors, the club that will sit out next year.Purchased were Barrie Ross, Mike Kardash, Howie Hughes and Don Bamburak.Only Ross has made much of a mark as a professional. He&rsquo;s had seven seasons of it and his best year was 1958-59 when he got 32 goals and 32 assists for Winnipeg. He&rsquo;s a 25-year-old lefthanded centre.Winnipeg has also promised the loan of three young players from last year&rsquo;s roster plus the option on three juniors from Winnipeg leagues. Names were not announced.The question that was supposed to be settled is still up in the air. That&rsquo;s the issue of who&rsquo;ll run the club next winter for the PNE.The best immediate bet: Art Chapman.Chapman said negotiations have started with an NHL player to act as general manager and coach of the Canucks next year.Chapman said he would continue as manager as long as he is needed by the PNE &mdash; and he&rsquo;ll go the full season if the current negotiations with the unnamed player collapse.The New York Rangers open their training camp in Guelph, Ont., on Sept. 11 and Chapman will attend for Vancouver. He&rsquo;ll be looking for talent for the Canucks.Chapman resigned from his job as Canuck coach last spring and turned down an offer to manage the Canucks in favor of a job in Long Beach, Calif.The Winnipeg acquisitions don&rsquo;t give him much for a start of his camp. The Canucks owned only Eddie Dorohoy, Brent Macnab and Sandy Hucul before they landed their new players.Dorohoy reverted to Vancouver ownership after a sale to Winnipeg fell through last season.Chapman said he believed last year&rsquo;s captain Brent MacNab who indicated he wanted to play his hockey closer to his Saskatchewan farm, would be back with the Canucks. &#9632;

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Vancouver I ans In For Itare Treat, Canucks Secure NHL Exlaibitions

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.Coley Hall has given the Western Hockey League his word that everything is set to operate the new San Francisco franchise for the 1961-62 season and the WHL breathed a sigh of relief at the announcement.With Winnipeg out of the circuit and the &lsquo;Frisco entry up in the air, the league directors were none too happy over the sudden turn of events. But Hall reached a settlement with the rink operators here and eased their dilemma.While negotiations were not completely to his liking, Hall said in general problems were ironed out.&ldquo;We couldn&rsquo;t settle all of them,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03305/1724312-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="263" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Coley Hall</figcaption></div>I&rsquo;m ready to go although I know I&rsquo;m taking a gamble.&rdquo;The gamble: A five year agreement with the Cow Palace auditorium board in San Francisco to operate a Western Hockey League franchise. Hall must also install an icerink which will cost roughly $255,000.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve already hired an architect and an engineer to work on the ice,&rdquo; he said.Hall said the plant probably will be installed between Sept. 14 and Oct. 18, an engagement-free period for the Cow Palace.Bob McCarthy, chairman of the committee that negotiated with Hall said he believed &ldquo;all parties&rdquo; would break even in the 1961-62 season and that eventually hockey would be successful at the Palace.Hall said he will soon sign a general manager and a coach.Who they will be he refused to say.He also declined to speculate on who will coach the Vancouver Canucks, the team he was general manager of for so many years.The Canucks themselves have not yet indicated who might replace coach Art Chapman, whose contract runs out Sept. 1.Hall already has said his San Francisco club has an agreement with a National Hockey League club for players and that he has four players under contract and options to purchase seven others.The agreement between Hall and the Cow Palace management brought a happy response from WHL president Al Leader.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure I can speak for everyone in the league in saying we are very happy about it,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This assures us of the possibility of having a really substantial and orosDerous league.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Hall Completes Deal For Frisco Ice Rink

AUGUST2&mdash;Howie Young, Detroit, defense, 1937.2&mdash;Dave Balon. Kitchener, forward, 1937.2&mdash;Leo Boivin, Boston, defense,1932.7&mdash;John Offidani. Sault Ste. Marie, defense, 1931.8&mdash;Bill Gadsby, Detroit, defense, 1927.9&mdash;Larry Regan. Pittsburgh, playing-coach, 1930.9&mdash;Guy Brossard, Sault Ste. Marie, defense, 1935.10&mdash;Lloyd Haddon, Edmonton, defense, 1938.10&mdash;Grieg Hicks, Cleveland, centre,1933.10&mdash;Merv Kuryluk. Sault Ste. Marie, forward. 1937.11&mdash;Larry Popein, Vancouver, forward, 1930.13&mdash;Johnny Wilson, Rangers, forward, 1932.14&mdash;Don Chiupka, Seattle, forward.1934.15&mdash;Norm Corcoran, Pittsburgh, forward. 1931.16&mdash;Ed Diachuk, Edmonton, forward. 1936.17&mdash;Mike Labadie, Quebec, forward, 1932.17&mdash;Lou Deschene, Calgary, goaltender, 1927.18&mdash;John Sleaver, Sudbury, forward. 1934.18&mdash;Forbes Kennedy, Spokane, forward, 1935.19&mdash;Don McLeod, Victoria, defense, 1932.21&mdash;Toe Blake, Canadiens, coach, 1912.24&mdash;Normand Jacques, Kingston, goaltender, 1930.28&mdash;Roger Dejordy, Edmonton, forward, 1937.28&mdash;Andy Bathgate, Rangers, forward, 1931.28&mdash;Gordon Redahl, Winnipeg, forward, 1938.30&mdash;Guy Gendron. Rangers, forward, 1934. &#9632;

Happy Birthday

PORTLAND, Ore.The Portland Buckaroos have completed plans for training camp and also scheduled another exhibition game with a National Hockey League club, it was announced by Club General Manager Harry Glickman.The Bucks will train at a new rink in Esquimalt, British Columbia, which is practically adjacent to Victoria. Training camp will officially open on Monday, September 25, although the players will report the previous day.Portland signed a game with the Detroit Red Wings for Victoria on Saturday night. September 30. The Bucks previously had announced an exhibition game for Memorial Coliseum on Monday night, October 2, against the Toronto Maple Leafs.&ldquo;Since we will be opening our league season on the Coast, we decided to relinquish last year&rsquo;s site at Estevan. Sask., in favor of training near Victoria. They have a brand new rink in Esquimalt and the training facilities should prove ideal,&rdquo; Glickman said.The game with the Red Wings will be the first exhibition encounter for the Bucks and will give them a game under their belts before they face the Maple Leafs on home ice. Other exhibition games with Western Hockey League opponents will be arranged shortly, Glickman said, but they will all be played in Canada.The Buckaroos released their home schedule of 35 games for the 1961-62 season.The Bucks will open defense of the lester patrick of the Western Hockey League championship, with a Saturday-Sunday doubleheader at Memorial Coliseum on October 21 and 22.On Saturday night they will meet the Seattle Totems, whom they defeated in the final playoffs last year, and on Sunday they will skate against the Spokane Comets.The league will play in two divisions this year, with Portland joining Spokane and new entrants Los Angeles and San Francisco in the Southern division. Seattle, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary will comprise the Northern division. Top three clubs in each division will qualify for the playoffs and the winners in the two divisions will meet for the Lester Patrick Cup.At home the Bucks will play each team in their own division six times. They will play Seattle five times and the other teams in the Northern sector four times each.Glickman also announced a new policy for starting times. All Wednesday and Saturday games will begin at 8 p.m. and all Sunday and holiday games will start an hour earlier at 7 p.m.Glickman said this was done to accommodate youngsters at Sunday games. Because either the Bucks or their opponents are on the road on practically all Saturday nights, it was impossible to arrange Sunday afternoon games at home and still allow for travel time.&ldquo;By starting Sunday and holiday gams at 7 p.m. they will be over about 9 o&rsquo;clock and permit kids to get home at an early hour,&rdquo; Glickman said. &ldquo;We believe this policy will prove extremely popular with parents who like their kids to accompany them to our games.&rdquo; As last year, all tickets will be half price for youngsters through high school age, he added.The 70-game schedule has been snortened from 25 to 23 weeks this year. The Bucks will open and finish on the road, but they only play three games before their home opener at the Coliseum contrasted to last year when they were faced with a suicide schedule of &#9632;

WHL Champs To Play Two Gaines With NHL Teams

Portland Buckaroos Home Schedule for the 1961-62 Season;Sat., October 21 SeattleSun., &rdquo; 22 SpokaneWed., &rdquo; 25 San FranciscoSun., &rdquo; 29 Los AngelesWed.. November 1 Los AngelesSun., &rdquo; 5 VancouverWed., &rdquo; 8 San FranciscoSun.. &rdquo; 12 EdmontonWed., &rdquo; 15 CalgarySun., &rdquo; 19 SpokaneWed., &rdquo; 22 EdmontonSun., &rdquo; 26 CalgaryWed., &rdquo; 29 SeattleSun., December 3 VancouverWed., &rdquo; 6 SeattleSun., &rdquo; 10 Los AngelesSun., &rdquo; 17 EdmontonWed., &rdquo; 20 SpokaneMon., &rdquo; 25 Los AngelesMon., January 1 SpokaneSun., &rdquo; 7 San FranciscoWed., &rdquo; 10 San FranciscoWed., &rdquo; 24 EdmontonSun., &rdquo; 28 CalgaryWed., &rdquo; 31 SpokaneSun., February 4 VancouverWed., &rdquo; 7 Los AngelesSun., &rdquo; 11 Los AngelesWed., &rdquo; 28 SeattleSun., March 4 VancouverWed., &rdquo; 7 San FranciscoSat., &rdquo; 10 SpokaneSun., &rdquo; 11 San FranciscoWed., &rdquo; 14 Calgary &#9632;

Buckaroos List Home Games

SUDBURY, Ont.&mdash;Edgar &lsquo;Chirp&rsquo; Brenchley, 44-year-old former player, coach and executive. has been appointed manager-coach of the Sudbury Wolves of the Eastern Professional Hockey League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01389/1724422-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="255" height="397"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chirp Brenchley</figcaption></div>Brenchley, who guided the Toledo. Ohio Mercurys last year in the International League, will succeed Murph Chamberlain, who resigned the post after two years to accept a business position.The appointment of Brenchley was made by the Red Wings, who this season have taken over the Sudbury club lock, stock and barrel. It also came as surprise since Brenchley had recently assured general manager Andy Mulligan of Toledo that he would be returning to the IHL club for another year.Brenchley, who played for years in Eastern U.S. hockey circles, has been coaching in and around the IHL and Eastern League for some time. He took over as coach of the Mercurys Jan. 1, 1960 and guided the team to a strong finish that year.Last season the Mercurys were never below second place in the Eastern Division of the IHL, finally finishing first in the standing. But injuries hurt Brenchley&rsquo;s team and they were not the threat in the playoffs.The selection of Brenchley as the new Sudbury coach still leaves three other positions vacant in the EPHL.Hull-Ottawa Canadiens are seeking a replacement for veteran Glen Skov, who is not returning to the team. Kitchener is also seeking a successor for Frank Currie, who&rsquo;s contract will not be renewed by the Beavers and the new North Bay entry has yet to name a coach.OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;In a move that is bound to provoke surprise all a around the Eastern Professional Hockey League. Glen Skov is Inot returning Has coach of the champion HullOttawa Canadiens this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02326/1724415-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="273" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glen Skov</figcaption></div>The HOCKEY NEWS learned through a reliable Ottawa source that Skov has decided to remain in Detroit to tend to a prospering plastics business rather than attempt to take the time off to coach another year in Hull. He is a resident of Detroit.Club general manager Sam Pollock would make no comment on the situation but it was believed that Skov had been offered a one-year contract as coach only but the one-time Detroit and Chicago star insisted on returning as player-coach.Skov enjoyed a tremendous first season as coach last year in the EPHL when his star-studded Hull-Ottawa Canadiens romped through the schedule and playoffs winning 49 of its 84 games and scoring 300 goals. He personally played in 81 games.The 30-year-old Skov ended a 10year NHL career with Detroit and later Chicago when he was purchased by the Montreal Canadiens from the Hawks last summer for the sole purpose of coaching the Hull-Ottawa club.It was not known who will succeed Skov but it is likely no announcement will be made by the club until near the start of training camp. &#9632;

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Brenchley To Pilot Sudbury; Skov Out With Hull-Ottawa

OTTAWA, Ont.The Eastern Professional Hockey League is looking for a new president today with the disclosures that Edward J. Houston will not accept another term as chief of the league.Houston, a prominent Ottawa lawyer, has decided to step down as president because of the pressure of his business. Who will succeed him isn&rsquo;t known but it is expected that a successor will be named shortly at a league meeting.Houston was the first and only president the EPHL has had. He helped launch the new pro circuit in 1959. &#9632;

Houston Resigns Post As President of EPHL

FRESNO. Calif.&mdash;J. G. &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Van Rooy of Sacramento has been elected president of the California Hockey Association following the annual meeting of the group here.Van Rooy is well versed in hockey since he is also head of the Sacramento Hockey Association and a booster of the game in the State of California for many years.Following are the other appointments announced by the CHA:First Vice-President &mdash; Fred Wolf of San Diego;Second Vice-President &mdash; Charles &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Wright of Berkeley. Wright is president of the Northern California Ice Hockey Association:Secretary &mdash; Bob Alperin of Fresno;Treasurer &mdash; Bill Wallace of Sacramento;The following were elected to the board of directors:Frank Bryant of Berkeley. Frank is vice-president of the Northern California Ice Hockey Association; Julius Schroeber of the Stockton Arena & Ice Hockey team, Lodi, Calif.;Al Shaub of Long Beach. Al is president of the Greater Los Angeles Minor Hockey Association and the Southern California Junior Ice Hockey League;Bob Hannam of Pasadena, president of the Californai Ice Hockey League and a director of the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States continues as managing director and registrar;Bill Malkasian of Sacramento, who coached the Sacramento Senators at Squaw Valley last April 7, 8. 9, in the Far West Senior Open Tournament, was also elected to the board of directors.The association will hold another meeting Sept. 9 here in Fresno to discuss plans for the forthcoming. &#9632;

Van Rooy Elected Hockey Prexy For California

TORONTCT, Ont.A national coaching clinic to help rid hockey of the tendency to win at any cost was advocated by Rev. David Bauer, coach of the Memorial Cup champion St. Michael&rsquo;s College Majors, in his valedictory speech to players, school officials and guests at a recent victory dinner for both the Majors and their Junior &lsquo;B&rsquo; team, the Buzzers.&ldquo;Football and baseball have their coaching schools,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We in hockey have been loathe to share our knowledge. The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association should seriously consider a recommendation from the Manitoba branch that a coaches&rsquo; institute be formed.&rdquo;Such a clinic would reestablish the aims of hockey in view of the character development in boys, he said.&ldquo;We need to produce educated leaders to emphasize the need for strong character development in sport,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We need our aims clarified and to study the artistic techniques of the game so they may be developed to a higher point.&ldquo;Such a school would help rid the game of something which is not helping it. the tendency to win at any cost.&rdquo;<h2>RAPS LONG SCHEDLULES</h2>He flayed the long schedules which produced back-to-back games, resulting in tired players clashing in the corners and increasing the high sticking, buttending and slashing.&ldquo;But the idea is not just to better the game, but better the boys,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;After all there are greater problems than winning Memorial Cups.&rdquo;&ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t matter that I am leaving,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;It matters that the game become greater. It doesn&rsquo;t need me or any particular man. But I will give it support wherever I am.&rdquo;Father Bauer is leaving St. Michael&rsquo;s to teach at St. Mary&rsquo;s College in Vancouver.Rev. Matthew Sheedy, SMC principal, said both teams were to be distinguished not for winning but for the manner in which they won.&ldquo;It has been said that nice guys never win,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Red Kelly is a nice guy. Joe Primeau is a nice guy. They won a few times. The members of these two teams are the best example of contradiction to that phrase.&ldquo;The Majors were subjected to the toughest kind of hockey with two or three or ever four games a week. They came out on top by being men. They took everything and won. They are the best examples of fine young men.&rdquo; &#9632;

Majors’ Pilot Urges Clinic For Coaches

PORTLAND. Ore.At the last meeting of the Western Hockey League the directors decided to appoint a Publicity Director for the league to assist President Al Leader in the ever-increasing administration functions of the rapidly growing circuit.The position was awarded to Murray Costello, a former professional player in the National Hockey League with Chicago, Boston and Detroit. After five years as a professional player Murray retired from the game to return to University in Windsor Ontario, graduating in 1959.The addition of Costello to the league staff will enable the president to maintain closer contact with each of the individual cities in the expanded &#9632;

Ex-NHL Player Costello Named WHL Press Chief

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01388/1724549-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"></div><h2>ACROSS</h2>1. Chicago player shown in centre.7. Nickname of team coached by 9 across.8. Initials of Arnett of Seattle.9. An AHL coach.10. This Montreal defenseman scored five goals last season.12. Initials of Nicholson of Winnipeg Warriors.13. &ldquo;Pat&rdquo; Egan&rsquo;s initials.14. Number of goals scored by Tom Johnson last season.15. Short for first name of Hunt, newly acquired Ranger player.16. Initials of 6 down.17. Short for given name of the WHL&rsquo;s 1960-61 scoring champion.18. Pronoun.19. Sloth.20. Tyne of tree.22. Month in which Carl Brewer was born (abbr.)23. Former heavyweight boxing champion.24. Two of the Rangers answer to this name.26. Opposite to out.27. Bert Olmstead wore one on his knee last winter.28. Lou Fontinato owns one.30. Ex-N.H.L. player, Murray Costello, is publicist for this league (abbr.)31. Affirmative answer.<h2>DOWN</h2>1. A trophy won by Canadiens&rsquo; Bernie Geoffrion last spring.2. Ocean (abbr.)3. Goalie Don Simmons has been selling this (two words.)4. Initials of a Red Wing forward.5. Players&rsquo; nerves often become &mdash; before a game.6. Former Ranger netminding star.8. Mrs. Ralph Backstrom.9. Company (abbr.)11. Nationalitiy of Mrs. Ed. Litzenberger.15. Los Angeles (abbr.)18. This Canadian player is a native of Sydney, N.S.21. An N.H.L. linesman.22. Nickname of O&rsquo;Brien of Quebec Aces.24. Muzz Patrick once served in this branch of the armed forces.25. Initials of Creighton of Rochester.27. Initials of Ross of Victoria.28. Initials of Hilts, player traded to Habs by Hawks for Turner.29. Short for given name of Millar, Hershey goalie.<h2>LAST MONTH&rsquo;S SOLUTION</h2><h2>ACROSS</h2>1. Arbour5. Ha.7. Leo8. Opal9. Nels.12 R.L.13. Erickson16 Ran.17. Pen18 E.S.19. L.F.20. R.S.21. R.L22. Arm24. Oct.26. A.A.27. Chi.28. Black30. Ea.33. Durnan35. T.H.36. Dogs<h2>Down</h2>1. Alger2. Re.3. Bonin4. Ross5. Harness Racing6. All10. E.C.11. L.K.14. Ravlich15. Opera21. Rocket23. Maki25. Tied29. Lund31. Aug. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

KNOXVILLE, Tenn &mdash;The new Knoxville entry in the Eastern Hockey League has a new manager and an ice coach for the 1961-62 season.Club officials announced that Ray Miron, an experienced hockey executive, has signed a three-year contract as manager of the team and that Don Labelle, a strapping 6&rsquo;2&rdquo; defenseman from Montreal, would be the team&rsquo;s coach.Miron, an enterprising Canadian, comes here after serving in a similar capacity with Washington and Haddonfield, N.J. the past two seasons. He was the GM of the Jersey Larks, the defunct hockey club at Haddonfield in 1960-61 and has negotiated a deal between Knoxville industrialist H. D. Wynn, the club&rsquo;s president and major stockholder, and Pete Carver, owner of the Larks, to purchase players and assets from Carver&rsquo;s team,Labelle was the coach of the Larks as well last season winning 13 of his last 17 EHL games to become the hottest team in the circuit at the close of the schedule. Labelle was the first player to sign a Knoxville contract.Miron, who said the Knoxville team will train in Ingersoll, Ont., in October, announced that the new Eastern League club will play its games in a newly-constructed $6,000,000 rink in Knoxville.The team is bracketed in the loop&rsquo;s southern division with Greensboro, Charlotte and Johnstown. The rink will accomodate 5,000 fans.Miron said that Knoxville fans had already shown a tremendous desire for hockey. League entrance include posting of a $50,000 guarantee and&rdquo; this was quickly raised in a few weeks. &#9632;

Miron Manager Of EHL Entry At Knoxville

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div>INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana.&mdash;The Indianapolis Chiefs, cellar-dwellers for the 1960-61 International Hockey League season, strengthened themselves in the circuits&rsquo; first inter-league draft, by selecting three top-notch players.Danny Summers, former St. Paul captain, was the biggest name in the &ldquo;up-for-grabs-list&rdquo;. It is expected that Summers will be named Indianapolis player-coach, succeeding Ab DeMarco.The Chiefs also selected Al LeBlanc from Omaha and Ft. Wayne&rsquo;s Lloyd Maxfield. LeBlanc and Maxfield are forwards and should put some much-needed scoring punch into the Indianapolis lineup.St. Paul also lost Reg Morelli, the highly-touted centerman from Winnipeg, to the Ft. Wayne Komets. It was the only draft choice made by Ft. Wayne.Muskegon, on the lookout for a high scoring right winger, added Joe Kastelic, a perennial 30-goal man, from Ft. Wayne.St. Paul, although they had three drafted off their roster, picked up a pair from Toledo, defenseman Nelson Bullock, and goaltender Tony Parisi.The Mercs plucked Freddie Brown from St. Paul, while Minneapolis and Omaha failed to add a player.Ft. Wayne and Toledo each lost two players in the draft, St. Paul, three and Omaha one. Indianapolis, Minneapolis and Muskegon went&rsquo; through without losing anyone.IHI. NOTES &hellip; Gale E. Morey has been named publicity director for the Omaha Knights, it was announced by Gen. Mgr. Ken Wilson. The 26-year-old Morey has been Sports Information Director at the University of Omaha, since November, 1959.At the annual meeting Frank Gallagher was re-elected as commissioner. He was given a one year contract. Ken Ullyot, Ft. Wayne, was named first vice-president and second vice-president went to Ken Wilson of Omaha. Your correspondent was rehired as secretary-publicity director.The Minneapolis Miller Booster Club puts out a monthly magazine called the &ldquo;Back Checker&rdquo;. It tells about all the happenings on hockey in Minneapolis, interesting facts about the players, and other important data. The Boosters are now spearheading a drive for season tickets.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02345/1724604-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="246" height="406"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lloyd Maxfield</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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ChiefsGrab Summers As Likely New Coach

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;When the new Hockey Hall of Fame swings open its doors Aug. 26 officials hope that all 43 living members who are enshrined in the hall will be on hand for the grand opening.Included in the group are such well-known hockey names as Dit Clapper, Frank Nighbor, Eddie Shore, Aurel Joliat, Newsy Lalonde, Joe Malone, Art Ross, Fred &lsquo;Cyclone&rsquo; Ttylor, Bill Cook, Ching Johnson, King Clancy, Frank Frederickson, Paddy Moran, Duke Keats, George Hay, Frank Foyston, Herb Gardiner, Frank Goheen, Donald Bain, Frank Stewart, Frank Boucher, Red Dutton, Sylvio Mantha, Bruce Stuart, Hap Day, Milt Schmidt, Jack Adams, Tiny Thompson, Cy Denneney, Percy Le Sueur, Charlie Conacher, Syl Apps, Maurice Richard, William A. Hewitt, William Northey, Senator Donat Raymond, Lloyd Turner, Frank Selke, Claude Robinson, Conn Smythe, A. W. Pickard, Cooper Smeaton, Mickey Ion.In all there are 89 members currently in the Hall of Fame but 46 are deceased. &#9632;

Expect 43 Members At ‘Hall’ Opening

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont. &mdash;Maple Leafs have promised a new deal for junior hockey in Ontario.They announce they are withdrawing from the Ontario Hockey and plan to form a six-team Metropolitan league, which will seek eligibility to compete for the Memorial Cup.The Leaf move, which is only a tentative plan at present, was prompted by the decision of St. Michael&rsquo;s college to withdraw from junior hockey competition. Stafford Smythe, chairman of the Maple Leaf Gardens hockey committee, began planning a more sensible approach to junior hockey and developed the Metro league idea.The new league would play a 30-game schedule and teams would repesent small suburban arenas in the Toronto area, in addition to St. Mikes and Marlboros which would continue to play at the Gardens. Salaries and travelling expenses would, of course, be much lower.Mainly, it&rsquo;s a scheme to keep St. Mikes in hockey. With fewer games, less travelling and less commercialism, the school conceivably could reverse its decision. Those were the things it objected to, mainly.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll try to make it an amateur game again,&rdquo; Smythe said.What the effects of the new league would be is pure conjecture. For one thing, it figures to be an expensive proposition for Leafs. It wouldn&rsquo;t be a big drawing card. Secondly, it&rsquo;ll hurt the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league badly because Toronto clubs always have been big attractions in places like Peterborough, St. Catharines and Guelph. Thirdly, it&rsquo;ll kill the powerful Metro junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; league, which has operated in the Toronto area for more than a decade.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01380/1724659-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="572" height="584"><figcaption class="caption-body">No PromisesSam Pollock</figcaption></div>Sam Pollock, farm director of the Montreal Canadiens, said he was not prepared to make any promises at the moment to the OHA in regards to entering a junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; team.Polock said he would wait and see what develops in the next few weeks, particularly after the outcome of a planned OHA meeting in Toronto to deal with the Leafs&rsquo; plans.Rev. David Bauer, coach of St. Mike&rsquo;s Memorial Cup team, who is leaving the school to assume a post with St. Mark&rsquo;s University in Vancouver said St. Mike&rsquo;s was open to considering entering a team in such a league.&ldquo;I am empowered to say that we are not averse to entering a team in such a league if it is formed,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It will be a tremendous league, important in the development of character of future boys.&rdquo;One Maple Leaf official said the Gardens is solidly behind a six team league, expects to finance it at the beginning and hopes that the losses will not be excessive.&ldquo;We hope it doesn&rsquo;t go too high but if it costs in the neighborhood of $10,000 or $20,000 a year, it will be nothing compared to the development of players, the league and the boys&rsquo; education,&rdquo; he said.An application to form such a league will be presented to the Ontario Hockey Association as soon as details of clubs, coaches, management and equipment are ironed out.it is unlikely such a league will participate in or honor the draft rules of the present OHA junior league or the recent &ldquo;gentlemen&rsquo;s agreement&rdquo; which would have frozen all players under 16 until they reached the age where their names would be put into the junior league lottery. At the same time, it would enable Maple Leaf officials to honor commitments they have already made to young hockey stars to enrol them in St. Michael&rsquo;s College or other Toronto schools. &#9632;

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Leafs Plan Toronto Junior Loop

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02303/1724690-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Lockhart</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N. Y.Tommy Lockhart, who has been a staunch amateur hockey booster in the United States for more than 20 years, has demanded that the American team that competes in the 1962 World hockey championships be a strong one.Lockhart said that for the first time players from the top two U. S. amateur leagues, the Eastern Hockey League and the International Hockey League, will be recruited to bolster the American team at Colorado Springs, Col., the site of the tournament.&ldquo;These leagues do not come under the heading of professional even though the players get from $125 to $150 a week,&rdquo; Lockhart added.&ldquo;After all, the Canadians have been using former professionals who got back their amateur status. Some of them such as Jackie McLeod, Grant Warwick and Ike Hildebrand have even played in the National Hockey League at one time.&rdquo;The world tournament will be held in Colorado Springs March 8-18. Last year&rsquo;s competition in Geneva, Switzerland, was won by Canada with Czechoslovakia placing second, Russia third and the United States sixth.&ldquo;The addition of the Eastern and International League players should be enough to put us on par with the Canadians, Czechs and Russians,&rdquo; said Lockhart, who is also president of the Eastern League. &ldquo;The players from these leagues will have to be citizens of this country. There are enough such men to make up our entire team of 17 players. But we plan to have eight or nine from our usual sources.&rdquo;Lockhart, who serves as president of the United States Amateur Hockey Association, had earlier urged the four American teams in the National Hockey League to help produce another world championship hockey team.Speaking to hockey officials at summer NHL meeting in Montreal, Lockhart said &ldquo;we (the AHA) need your help in a lot of ways.&rdquo;He specifically asked the NHL&rsquo;s four U. S. teams &mdash; New York, Boston, Chicago and Detroit &mdash; to make players available for the American team.He pointed out that the United States victory in the Olympics at Squaw Valley had given hockey &ldquo;a tremendous boost&rdquo; in the States &hellip; &ldquo;So much that we could have used 8,000 more registration cards for amateur players this year. &#9632;

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Make Yanks Strong For World Tourney

GALT, Ont.Veteran hockey player and coach, Lloyd Roubell, will again direct the Gald Terriers this season, it was announced by club officials.Roubell will be entrusted with the task of raising a strong enough club to bring back the world hockey championship next spring at Colorado Springs, Col.Roubell, who guided Terriers to the Allan Cup last spring, returns for the 1961-62 season along with all of last year&rsquo;s executive. Roubell, a Kitchener resident is a veteran of 12 years pro experience in the American Hockey League. He has coached Terriers for two years.Dr. Ken Berkeley was returned as president and T. J. (Dubby) Duvall as vice-president. Other officers are manager Len Gaudette, assistant manager Don Hibbs, treasurer Horace Bardwell, secretary Bill Patterson and executive members Mack Brouse, Andy Memott, Joe Barradell and Bud Fraser.Terriers plan to work on fundraising projects all summer.One of Roubell&rsquo;s first acts was to issue a list of exhibition games the team will play en route to the world tournament which opens in Colorado Springs, next March 8.The Canadians leave by plane from Toronto Feb. 12 and play in Fort Wayne, Ind., the following day. They play in Minneapolis Feb. 15; Fort William Feb. 16; Winnipeg, Feb. 18; Moose Jaw, Feb. 20; Regina, Feb. 21; Calgary, Feb. 23; Edmonton, Feb. 24; Victoria, Feb. 26; and Trail, B.C., Feb. 27.Then follow games at Denver, March 2 and 3; Squaw Valley March 5; and Colorado Springs, March 6.On March 19, after the world tournament, the Canadians move into Los Angeles for their last scheduled exhibition game. They return home March 20. &#9632;

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August 1, 1961

Ted Power Renamed Chatham Puck Coach

Detroit Minor Officials Dedicted To Hockey Chores

Hicks Recovering After Operation

Habs Shift Puck Camp To Victoria